Michigan  Tradesman.

A d

YOL.  3.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  2,  1886.

NO.  141.

O ur  S p ecia l

Plug  Tobaccos.

EDMUND  D.  DIKEMAN,

3 butts.
1 butt.
.36
.38
.33
.35
O .30

O
G

MOXIE 
ECLIPSE

Above brands for 6ale only by

Olney, S hields & Co.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

It  will  cure  you. 

J &

% CLIMAX-

PLUG TOBACCO?
%ED T IN T  AC.

LUDWIG WINTERNITZ,
Fermentum,

STATE  AGENT  FOIi

THE  ONLY  RELIABLE

Compressed Yeast.

M anTd by Riverdale Dist. Co.

106 Kent  Street, Grand  Rapids, Michigan,

TELEPHONE 566.

Grocers, bakers and others can secure the agency for 
th e ir tow n on this Y east by applying to above address.

W H IP S A  LASH ES

AT  WHOLESALE  ONLY.

Goods a t jobbing prices to any dealer  who  comes  to 
<3>  ROYS  cfc  OO.,

us or orders by m ail, for cash.

M anufacturers’ agents,

2 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
GUSTAVE  A.  WOLF,
Over Fourth National  Bank.  Telephone  407. 

A ttorney,

COLLECTIONS

Promptly attended to throughout the State. 
References:  Hart & Amlterg,  Eaton &  Christen­

son, Enterprise Cigar Co.

FZXTCRBS  SMITH
Boots, Shoes and Slippers

Wholesale Manufacturers

DETROIT,  MICH-.

T H E —

GREAT  WATGH  MAKER,

—A N D—

J E W E L E R .

44  CANAL  STREET,

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

GX2TSSXTG ROOT.
We pay the highest price for it.  Address
Peck Bros., Druggists, Grand Rapids, Mic

BELKNAP

M ANUFACTURERS  O F

Spring, Freight, Express, 

Lumber and Farm

W A G O N S !

Logging Carts and Trucks, 

Mill  and  Dump  Carts, 

Lumbermen’s  and 

Rivef Tools.

We carry a large stock of  m aterial, and  have  overy 
iSTSpecial  A ttention  Given  to  liepairing, Painting 

facility for m aking flrst-elass W agons of all kinds.
and Lettering.

Shops on Front St.,  Grand Rapids, Mioh.

W hy don’t you m ake your own

TO THE  RETAIL  GROCER.
B aM ng  P o w d er
And a hundred per cent,  profit I  X have  made m ine for 
years.  Twelve receipts, including th e leading powders 
of the day, w ith full dix-eetions for  preparing,—the  re­
sult of 30 years’ collecting,  selecting  and  experim ent­
ing, sent for a Si postal note.  Address

C. P. B artlett.  Ualdwinsville,  X. Y.

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

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

CHEMICALS.

Orders  by H all and Express promptly at­

tended  to.

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ESpMichigan Agents Woonsocket Rubber 

Company.JgJ

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

A H. FOWLE,
FINE  W ALL  PAPERS,

House Decorator and Dealer in

Room Mouldings,

Window Shades,

PICTURES,

Artist Materials
PICTURE FRAMES,
Paints, Oil & Glass.

And  a full  line of

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

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

37 Ionia Street, South of Monroe.

A Million Dollars.

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

D EA LER  IN

Albert  Coye  &  Son,
AWNINGS,  TENTS,

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

•  Send for Price-List.

73  Oanal  St.
«TTTZDX>  tb  OO.,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE

And Full Line Winter Goods.

103  CANAL  STREET.

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

GRIND RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED CO.

71  CANAL  STREET.

PIONEER

PREPARED

PAINTS.

Order your  stock now.  Having just  re­
ceived a laige stock of the above celebrated 
brand  MIXED ^A IN TS,  we  are  prepar­
ed to fill all orders.  W e give the following

G-uarantee s

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

Hazeltine & Perkins Drag Co.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

G ra n ello ,
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.

PLUG  TOBACCO.
TURKEY £ 9

Big 5 Cants, 
" H a  4 w  
i J a i H l y  

I A  fine  revolver | 
\ w ith  each butt. \  ■

.35
A  f t

All above brands for sale only by

BULKLEY, LEMON & HOOPS

WHOLESALE  GROCERS, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICH.

&  CHRI

Agents  for a  fa ll  line  of

S. I Venal & Co.’s

PETERSBURG,  VA,

PLUG  TOBACCOS,
NIMROD,
E.  C.,

BLUE  RETER,

SPREAD  EAGLE,

BIG FIVE CENTER.

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   SALE,

A large tract of good  farming  land,  cov­
ered with valuable  timber,  for  sale  or  ex­
change for merchandise.  Also  two  steam 
mills,  40 ami  50  horse-power,  well  located 
to cut the timber on said tract, both in good 
repair and now running.  Any party having 
merchandise to exchange must give particu­
lars when writing.  For further information, 
address W.  L.  Beardsley,  Hersey,  Mich.

An Enterprising Firm.

The  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co. can  al­
ways be relied upon not only to carry in  stock 
the best of drugs, but have secured the agency 
for Dr. Pete’s 35-cent Cough  Cure, which  they 
warrant.  It  will  cure  all  Throat,  Lung  and 
Chest diseases, and has the reputation of being 
the best Cough cure ever  discovered  for Con­
sumption.

L, S. Hill & Co,
Fishing Tackle

A Specialty at

Wholesale and Retail.

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

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

h . S. HILL  A   CO.

21 Pea rl Street,  Gran d  Ra pid s, Mich.

BOGUS  BUTTER.

Laws  Enacted  for  the  Regulation  of its 

Manufacture  and  Sale.

The Department of Agriculture  has  been 
gathering some facts with reference to  but­
ter imitations.  They are of special interest 
just now,  in view  of  the  legislation  asked 
of Congress  by the  dairymen.  The  report 
says:

The laws for the protection  of consumers 
against the purchase as butter  or  cheese  of 
spurious  or  adulterated  articles  called  by 
these names may be divided  into  two  gen­
eral classes—namely:

First—Regulative  laws,  or  those  which 
require that  such  spurious  or  adulterated 
articles  shall  be  sold  only  for  what  they 
really are,  and to  secure  this  end  provide 
regulations as to marking, labeling, or other­
wise giving public notice of the true charac­
ter of the article  sold.

Second—Prohibitory laws, or those which 
forbid the manufacture of such  spurious  or 
adulterated articles or the offer of such arti­
cles for sale.

The earlier laws were of the former class, 
but a number of the more recent ones are of 
the latter.  Regulative laws are in  force  in 
the District of Columbia and  the  following 
States:  New  Hampshire,  Massachusetts, 
Rhode  Island,  Connecticut,  New  Jersey, 
Delaware,  Maryland,  Georgia,  West  Vir­
ginia,  Indiana,  Iowa,  Nebraska,  Nevada, 
and  California.  Prohibitory  laws  are  in 
force  in  Maine,  New York, Pennsylvania, 
Michigan,  Wisconsin,  and Minnesota, while 
Ohio has a law of the same  class,  but  with 
an important  limitation.

It appears that a  fair  proportion  of  this 
local legislation  lias  been  within  a  recent 
period,  Connecticut, New Jersey,  and  Iowa 
having  passed  ‘regulative  anti-butterine’ 
laws  within  the  last  two  months.  The 
main features of these laws are substantial­
ly the same,  the difference being in  the  de­
tails for carrying them into practical  opera­
tion.  Some of  the  States  have  legislated 
only with  an  eye  to  imitation  dairy  pro­
ducts, while others have covered the  whole 
subject of food  adulteration.  The  tenden­
cy to advance from regulative to prohibitory 
laws makes the States  in  which  the  latter 
have been enacted  of  more  importance,  as 
it is claimed  by  the  butterine  people  that 
the  proposed  tax  of  10  cents  per  pound 
would aifiount to practical prohibition.

The New York law is the most  elaborate 
and it is quoted in  full.  The  legal  status 
of this enactment is thus  stated.  Sec. 6 of 
the law is as follows:

No  person shall manufacture  out  of  any 
oleaginous substance or substances,  or  any 
compound of the same other  than that  pro­
duced from unadulterated milk or  of  cream 
from the same,  any article  designed to take 
the  place of butter or cheese produced from 
pure, unadulterated  milk  or  cream  of  the 
same,  or shall sell or offer for sale the same 
as an article of food.  This  provision  shall 
not apply to pure  skim  milk  cheese  made 
from  pure  skim  milk.  Whoever  violates 
the provisions of this section shall be guilty 
of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine 
of not less than §100 nor  more  than  §500, 
or not less than six  months’  or  more  than 
one years’ imprisonment,  or  both  such  fine 
and imprisonment for the  first  offense,  and 
by imprisonment for one  year for each sub­
sequent offense.

A person accused of  violating the provis­
ions of Sec. 0 having been convicted of that 
offense in the Court of General  Sessions  of 
the City and County of New York  and  the 
conviction having,  on appeal to the  general 
term of the Supreme Court  in  the  first  de­
partment,  been  affirmed  by that  tribunal, 
the case  was carried  to  the  Court  of  Ap­
peals.  The case was one  in  which  it  was 
not  charged  that  the  defendant  had  sold 
oleomargarine as  butter.  His  offense  con­
sisted in selling an article designed  to  take 
the place of butter and not made  from  pure 
milk or cream.  The  court  (Judge Rappalo 
giving the» opinion)  held  that  the  prohibi­
tory clause of the  act  was  so  broad  as  to 
cover a case in which there was  no  simula­
tion  of  butter  or  cheese,  no  attempt  at 
fraud,  and  no  complaint  that  the  articles 
manufactured  or  sold  were  unwholesome. 
This  was held to  be  an  infraction  of  the 
constitutional right  of  every citizen  to  the 
free use of his faculties in  any  pursuit  not 
prejudicial to the public  welfare. 
In  con­
clusion,  it was declared  that  the  judgment 
of the general term and of the Court of Ses­
sions should be  reversed.

This decision  would  leave  in  full  force 
the regulative laws of 1882, requiring spuri­
ous butter and cheese to be sold under their 
true names,  and prescribing certain  marks, 
brands,  etc.,  to  appraise  the  purchaser  of 
their character.  The Legislature, however, 
has since re-enacted the prohibitory  provis­
ion,  the vote to that effect being unanimous 
in one House and with  only one  dissenting 
voice in the other.

In Ohio the prohibition  does not apply to 
the manufacture and sale  of  oleomargarine 
when manufactured from beef suit and milk. 
It appears that the subject  is causing agita­
tion  in  other  countries  than  the  United 
States.  The  decrease  in  the  profits  of 
British' and  Irish  dairying  and  the  large 
amounts  of  butterine,  oleomargarine,  etc., 
imported from Holland and  elsewhere,  and 
sold as dairy butter, have paved the way,  in 
accordance with the laws of  a large number 
of the American States for the  introduction

into the  House  of  Commons  of  a  bill  to 
‘regulate the importation,  manufacture  and 
sale of butter substitutes.’ 
It defines butter 
as ‘such  article  produced  from  unadulter­
ated milk or cream, unmixed with  any oth­
er fatty or oleaginous  substance  whatever,’ 
and  margarine  or  oleomargarine  as  ‘any 
imitation of butter whatsoever,  or any com­
pound of  butter  and  animal  or  vegetable 
oil.’  Any tub or firkin containing imitation 
butter shall have ‘Margarine’ or ‘Oleomarga­
rine’ stamped or branded upon it  in  letters 
at least an inch in length.  The penalty for 
the first offense against this section is a fine 
not exceeding £20;  for  a second a month’s 
imprisonment  or  £50,  and any subsequent 
offense  six  months’ imprisonment.  Retail 
dealers are  required  to  inform  every pur­
chaser that  the  article  sold  is  margarine, 
under penalty of £10.  For the better carry­
ing of the bill into successful operation it is 
proposed  to  give  one-half  the  amount  of 
any fine to the informer by whose  evidence 
conviction is obtained.  Other countries are 
summarized as follows:

Austria—There is no law to  prevent  the 
importation of spurious butter,  but  sale  is 
regulated by the sanitary officers  of the dif­
ferent municipalities. 
If  any butters  con­
taining a deleterious mixture  are  sold they 
must be given their true  name  and  quality 
and  not  be  sold  as  butter,  otherwise  the 
goods may be  confiscated  and  the  venders 
punished with fine and imprisonment.

Belgium—There is no general law in rela­
tion  to  the  matter. 
It  is  the  subject  of 
municipal regulation.  An ordinance of the 
Communal  Council  of  Brussels  provides 
that  persons  selling  artificial  butter,  the 
color and shape of which resemble  those  of 
real butter,  shall occupy a place assigned to 
him  by the  communal  administration,  and 
his  stall  shall  bear  in  distinct  characters 
the sign  ‘artificial butter.’

Denmark—The only law bearing  directly 
upon the subject is one providing  that  arti­
ficial butter shall be packed  in  vessels  dif­
ferently  fashioned  from  those  known  as 
butter barrels or  kegs,  under  specific  rales 
proscribed by ¿he Minister  of  the  Interior, 
and shall be marked with the  word ‘Marga­
rine.’  Violations of  this  law  are  punish­
able by a fine of 200 to 2,000  kroner (§53.60 
to §536),  and by the confiscation of the arti­
cles,  of which one-half the value goes to the 
reporter of the offense in  case  he  demands 
it.  Still another check on the  sale of coun- 
terfieit butter is supplied by the control over 
all food products vested  in Health Commis­
sioners  of  the  different  towns,  which,  in 
concert witli the police,  exercise  their  au­
thority under the regulations sanctioned for 
each town by the Ministry  of  the  Interior. 
A medical man is usually attached to  these 
commissions,  and they are authorized to call 
in experts in case of need to assist  them  in 
their investigations.

France—A  bill  for  the  suppression  of 
frauds in the sale of butter  was  introduced 
in  the  French  Chambers of Deputies Aug. 
14,  1884,  by M. Julius Meline,  Minister  of 
Agriculture;  but it does not apper  from  in­
formation at hand that the measure lias  be­
come a law. 
It requires the  vender of arti­
ficial butter,  or of butter mixed with marga­
rine or other fats, to make known  the  true 
character of the article by means of  a  label 
placed on the article  itself  or  on  the  bar­
rel or other package containing it. 
It must 
also  be  correctly described  in  the  invoice 
and way-bill or bill of lading accompanying 
consignments of  it.  The neglect  of  these 
requirements is made punishable  by  a  fine 
of 11 to 16 francs and  by imprisonment not 
exceeding five days.  Art. 2  punishes  with 
imprisonment  from  six  days  to  a  month, 
and with  a  fine of  100 to 2,000 francs,  any 
one  who  by  false  declarations  on  the  in­
voice, freight-office ticket,  or  bill  of  lading 
shall have deceived or  attempted to deceive 
the purchaser.
Art. 3 imposes the maximum penalty on any 
one convicted within a year  after  a  former 
conviction.  Art. 4 provides for  the  confis­
cation of the counterfeit or adulterated arti­
cle when found ill the possession of the per­
son offering it for  sale. 
It  also  empowers 
the Judge to order the publication and post­
ing up of the judgment of  confiscation, and 
makes the same obligatory in case of  a sec­
ond offense.

Germany—The  Mark  Lane  Express  of 
Nov.  9,  1885, contains the  following:  The 
question  of  butter  manufacture  has  lately 
been  very  much  discussed  in  Germany, 
especially  in  the  Province  of  Schleswig- 
Holstein, where a law lias just been  passed 
prohibiting  the  use  of oil or  any oily sub­
stance,  except  milk  or  cream,  in  making 
butter and cheese.  Nor may either  be  sold 
cheaply or offered in the market  at  an  un­
usually low rate.  These conditions  do  not 
apply to green or skimmed milk cheese.

Switzerland—The same paper has the fol­
lowing  in  regard  to  Switzerland:  Efforts 
are being made  in Switzerland for  the sup­
pression  of  oleomargarine.  The  Council 
has decided  that  inquiries  should be made 
into the subject, and should it be found that 
oleomargarine has  become a  regular article 
of  commerce a tariff  of duties to  check its 
sale will be issued.

Italy—There has not been  any restriction 
placed upon the Importation of artificial but­
ter, and no special laws or  regulations have

been  made  concerning  its  manufacture  or 
sale.  There are very rigorous  general laws 
concerning  the  sale  of adulterated  or  un­
wholesome food.

Netherlands—The  importation, manufac­
ture or sale of  artificial butter is not prohib­
ited or regulated any in manner by law.

Portugal—There are no  legal  restrictions 
upon  the  production  or  sale  of  artifi­
cial  butters. 
‘DeMourier’s  oleomargarine’ 
is subject, on importation,  to the  same  rate 
of  duty  as  natural  butter—namely;  16.2 
cents per kilogram.  A  question  arising as 
to another  substance  presented at  the cus­
tom-house and found to  be pure margarine, 
intended for  use in the  manufacture  of ar­
tificial butter,  it was  subjected, by  a decree 
dated, Feb.  14,  1884, to  a duty  of 5.4 cents 
per kilogram.

Russia—There  are  no  restrictions  upon 
the  importation, but,  in  fact, none  is  Im­
ported.  Artificial  butter  is  manufactured 
quite  extensively,  and  there  is  no  law to 
protect  or  regulate  its  sale. 
It  may  be 
sold  as  genuine  butter  without  penalty, 
provided it does not contain any ingredients 
which are detrimental to the public health.”

How  Drummers  Make  Money.

From the New York Star.

“If I give  you  your  fare on a  street car 
and  you walk,  you  earn  that  money don’t 
you?  Just  so  with 
the  drummer.  He 
knows his  manager  will  audit  his  bill  of 
expenses if  he doesn’t run over  §4 or §4.50 
per  day.  Some  firms  let  their  men  have 
more rope  than  that,  but  §4.50 is the aver­
age.  If a drummer misses a meal he charges 
half a  dollar  for  it,  as  though  he  ate  the 
meal. 
If he  eats  a 20-cent  lunch  it  costs 
the  firm  50  cents—his  stomach  earns  the 
other 30 cents.”  The speaker  was a drum­
mer for a firm of Broadway glove importers, 
and he gave  away trade  secrects  to a Star 
young man at the Morton House.

“The fare  from  Buffalo  to  New  York, 
first-class,  is §11.25.  a  scalper ticket costs 
§7.  What is  the  matter  with  riding  on a 
scalper ticket and  charging  first-class fare? 
The  drummer  says  ‘I  deny  myself,  there­
fore I  earn §2.25.’  Of  course  that kind of 
reasoning may be  carried  too far. 
I  knew 
a traveler, Jack Cokejawof a Union Square 
house,  who put a suit of  clothes  in the first 
month’s expense  account. 
‘Here,’ said  the 
manager,  ‘we  don’t  clothe  you.’ 
‘Oh,  I 
thought  you  did,’  said  Jack  innocently. 
Not long  afterward  Jack  was in  the  city 
again.  He brought  in  another  bill of  ex­
penses. .  ‘You  don’t  see  a  suit  of  clothes 
there  now, do  you?’  said  he. 
‘No.  This 
bill is all right.  This is  the  way we  want 
to see your  expenses—all  itemized,’ replied 
the manager. 
‘But there is a suit of ciothes 
there,  all  the  same,’  chuckled  Jack.  He 
had spread the cost of the suit  like butter— 
the whole  length of  the  account.  When I 
first met Jack he was always Hush. 
In fact 
he is now, but lie is  manager.  Jack was at 
work then for a sewing machine house,  and 
had charge of  the  city  trade.  He  used to 
ask me often to dine with him, and I noticed 
lie never paid for what lie got.  We seldom 
ate twice at the same  place,  and  I began to 
think his  credit  was  monumental. 
‘Next 
time we go to  Craft’s to  dine  let’s  take all 
the boys in the office with us,’  said Jack,  as 
we  left a well-known restaurant one day.  ‘I 
don’t like the  place at all, and  I’m anxious 
to eat up what he owes me.’ ”

“Then  he  owes  you  money,”  said  I,  to 

draw Jack out.

References required.

“Yes,  they all owe me  more  money than 
I’ll ever get. 
I might  quit  work  now and 
board  around from  place to  place for  two 
years and not eat the accounts up.  You see 
I once put  an  advertisement  in  a  Sunday 
paper which read something like this:
ITMRST-CLASS  board wanted for a first-class 
1 
sewing1 machine direct  from  the factory.. 
“Well,  I  got  over  seventy-five  answers.. 
I was given the best of references—bankers, 
preachers and  doctors.  Most  of the letters 
were from boarding  house  keepers and res- 
tauranteurs.  They were  from  all  parts of 
the city.  As manager  of  the  city  trade I 
could sell  a single  machine as a  sample at 
the wholesale  price.  But  1  didn’t do that. 
I picked  out  twenty  good  restaurants and! 
boarding-houses,  and  bought  twenty  ma­
chines on my own  account  on four month’s 
time.  The wholesale price of each machine 
was §19, and the retail price §55.  Of course 
I paid §19  each  and sold  them at the retail; 
price.  At each of  the  twenty places I told 
them if they wanted a br  nil-new machine I 
would let them  have  one  direct  from  the 
office for §20, cash,  anil would take the bal­
ance out in hoard.  They  jumped  at it,  es­
pecially as the machine was one of  the best 
make, and I promised to take it back if  not 
satisfactory.  Near three restaurants I got a 
suit of rooms on the  machine  account. 
In 
less  than  two  days  I  had  delivered  the 
twenty machines,  had §400 in cash in pocket 
with four  months  in  which to pay for  the 
goods. 
I had §700 to take ont in board and 
lodging in various  parts of the  city, and as 
I say, I got tired of eating  up my profits on 
the scheme.  The §700  was  all  profit  and 
also §1 on  each  machine.  Why,  I  worked 
the same plan on  the  tailors—they  wanted 
sewing  machines. 
I could  sell  a  tailor  a 
heavy manufacturing machine for §90 which 
cost me §30—and  what an  elegant  suit of 
clothes  I  got for that  $30.’ ”

A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TO TH E

lercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  2,  1886.
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Organized at Grand Rapids October 8, 1884.

President—Lester J. Rindge.
Vice-President—Ctaas. 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 
President,  A.  M.  Wesgate;  Vice-President, 

Cheboygan.

H. Chambers;  Secretary, A. J. Paddock.

Luther Protective Association. 

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

sociation.

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

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

Merchants’ Union of Nashville,

President, Herbert  M.  Lee;  Vice-President, 
C. E. Goodwin;  Treasurer, G. A. Truman; Sec­
retary and Attorney, Walter Webster.
Lowell Business  Men’s  Protective  As­

sociation.

President, N. B. Blain;  Vice-President, John 
Giles;  Secretary,  Frank T. King;  Treasurer, 
Chas. D. Pease.

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

Cooley.

t3T~  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.
LESSONS  LEARNED  FROM  FAIL- 

* 

URE.

The  Tradesman  reproduces  an  article 
on the labor situation from an exchange this 
week and  heads  it  “Failure of  the Eight- 
Hour  Movement.” 
It  is  unnecessary  to 
state in this connection  that  the movement 
is a failure,  for  every man  who  reads  the 
newspapers—aside  from  the  fire-eating la­
bor organs—is  aware that  the agitation re­
sulted disastrously.  Three or four factories 
In this  city are  still  running  on  the eight- 
hour basis,  but both  employers  and work­
men are  dissatisfied with  the  arrangement 
and  both  are  awaiting  an  opportunity  to 
resume the old system.  There  is no manu­
facturing  center  where  the  new  order  of 
things obtains and a few  isolated examples 
throughout the country are all  the agitators 
•can point to  as the  result  of  their  efforts. 
Taking  the  country  as  a  whole,  not  one 
hundredth  part  of 
the  workingmen  are 
working with the  eight-hour  plan  and the 
indications  are  that  even  that  infinitely 
small proportion  will  decreased  instead of 
increased.

The reasons for  the  faifltre  of  the  plan 
which the mouthy labor agitators  represent­
ed  would  bring  about  the  millenium  are 
many.  First  and  foremost,  a  fair  trial of 
the new  system  revealed  the  fact that the 
majority of  the  workingmen  gained  noth­
ing from the extra hours of  idleness except 
acquiring an added  thirst  for  liquor.  The 
“Great  Labor  Jubilee”  with  which  the 
workmen ushered in the first day of May in 
this city was great only  in  the sense of fill­
ing the streets with more drunken men than 
Grand Rapids had  ever known  before; and 
it is noticeable that very few  of  the men in 
the shops  still  running  on  the  eight-hour 
basis go to their  homes when  work  ceases 
at 4 o’clock.  They tarry in  the  saloon and 
on the street corners, instead of flooding the 
reading rooms  and libraries,  as  it  was rep­
resented would  be  the case.  This  puts an 
end forever to all talk  to the  effect that the 
workmen  “need more time to improve their 
minds,”  and until there  is a  radical change 
in existing conditions that  argument will in 
all probability be shelved.

Another reason for the failure of the eight- 
hour  scheme  was  the avidity  with  which 
the workmen acted on the  advise of profes­
sional mischief  makers  and their  manifest 
unwillingness to  listen to  the  proposals of 
their  employers.  Such  an  attitude on the 
part of the men  tended  to provoke feelings 
of hostility on  the  part of  their  employers 
—a spirit  the men  are likely to  feel in the 
future.

Finally,  the  eight-hour  conspiracy failed 
because it was foisted upon the country at a 
time when the people were not prepared for 
it and insisted upon  without  as much as an 
attempt at enquiry into the inconvenience it 
would cause or  the las# which would neces­
sarily follow in its wake.

TW O  RELICS  OF  BARBARISM.
The red flag has gone  down with  the ar­
rest and punishment of  the Anarchist  lead­
ers and its  twin  infamy,  the  boycott,  has 
been  practically abandoned  because of  the 
many  similar  opinions  expressed  by  con­
servative  judges relative to its legal status.
The latest definition of the peculiar weapon 
is given  by  Judge  Mallory, of  Wisconsin, 
who pays it his  compliments  in the follow­
ing emphatic terms:

between two or more persons  wrongfully to 
injure or  prejudice  a  third  person  or  any 
body of men, as for instance, a combination 
to injure a  man in his  trade or  profession, 
is a conspiracy, and as  such is an indictable 
offense. 
If, therefore, two or more persons 
conspire together for the purpose of boycot­
ting a man,  with intent  to injure or destroy 
his business, they  may be indicted  for con­
spiracy.

POSTPONED  PROSPERITY.

During January and February the country 
appeared to have recoiled from  its previous 
lethargy and every indication pointed to the 
most profitable season for five  years.  Bus­
iness began to move  with  old-time  energy 
and confidence  was  apparently  on the road 
to restoration.

In an evil hour  the  hands  moved  back­
ward.  Labor  asserted  itself  by  means of 
senseless agitations and  even  less senseless 
strikes—by riots and the bomb!

What is the  result?  Confidence is timid, 
business men  are  cautious,  business  opera­
tions are suspended and the  return of  good 
times,  is  delayed  at  least  a  year,  perhaps 
longer.

The question for the laboring men to con­
sider is  this,  Are they any  better  off  than 
they were before the reign of disorder?

Knights of Toil,  think of these things!

A report to the House shows that 20,747,- 
000  acres  of  American  land,  or  about the 
area of Ireland,  is owned  by alien  purchas­
ers and companies composed of aliens.  This 
is an  abuse  which  should  be  corrected by 
legislation.  English  law  makes  it  impos­
sible for aliens to transmit real estate by in­
heritance.  The  London  property  of  Geo. 
Peabody escheated to the crown at his death. 
Why not adopt the  same  law for America? 
It would not meet  the  whole difficulty,  un­
less some  similar  restriction  were  laid on 
alien corporations.

It is a matter  of  frequent  comment that 
the cheese product  of this  State is better in 
quality  this  year  than  ever  before.  This 
improvement  indicates  the  acquisition  of 
more knowledge  on  the part of  the patron 
quite as  much  as  the  possession  of  more 
skill on the part of  the  maker.  Still there 
is a chance  for  improvement  in  both direc­
tions.

big Rapids  business  men  have arranged 
to hold a  preliminary  meeting for  the pur­
pose of organizing  and  the  indications are 
that  before  another  week  has elapsed As­
sociation  No. 20  will  be  something  more 
than a mere mâtter of speculation.

An occasional advertiser of The Trades­
man sends in the following  unsolicited tes­
timonial:  “By the way the responses come 
in to my advertisement,  I  begin  to  believe 
your paper  can’t be beat  as an  advertising 
medium.”

AMONG  TH E  TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

John Ludlow succeeds G.  E.  Simmons  in 

the saloon business.

A. M.  Collins  succeeds  Miller &  Collins 
in the manufacture  of  excelsior  on Grand- 
ville avenue.

Geo.  D.  Burton & Co. have engaged in the 
drug business at Holton.  L.  D. Putnam  & 
Co.  furnished the  stock.

J.  D.  Ritzma has  engaged  in the grocery 
business  at  Grand  Haven.  Cody,  Ball  & 
Co. furnished the  stock.

Sidney Stark has engaged in general trade 
at Allendale.  Amos  S. Musselinan  &  Co. 
furnished the grocery  stock.

Hibbard Ingalls has  engaged  in the drug 
business  at  Newberry.  The  Hazeltine  & 
Perkins Drug Co. furnished the stock.

The  Belknap Wagon and Sleigh  Co. has 
just, gotten  out a fifty-six  page,  illustrated 
catalogue.  It is from the press of the Fuller 
& Stowe Company.

The first California potatoes ever received 
at this  market  came  in  last  week.  They 
are large in size  and tine  in quality.  They 
sell for 81.50  per bushel.

F. llaniville has put in a new power scour­
ing machine,  which enables  one operator to 
do as much work  as six men  accomplished 
under the old hand method.

J.  W.  Warren  has  invented  a  mineral 
paint  for  both  outdoor  and  indoor  work, 
which he  claims to be  superior to anything 
of the kind now on the  market.

Frank  Conlon,  formerly  with  C.  E. An­
drews & Co., of Milwaukee, but for the past 
two years on  the  road for B. Leidersdorf & 
Co., of  Milwaukee,  severed  his  connection 
with the latter house  on  Monday to engage 
in the produce and  commission  business at 
the  comer  of  Spring  and  Island  streets. 
Frank is  a  genuine  hustler  and  his  many 
friends among the  retail  trade  will  not al­
low him to starve to  death  in his new ven­
ture.

around  the  state.

J.  M.  Leberlent, the  Marshall grocer, has 

assigned.

L. A.  Howe has engaged in the drug bus­

iness at Lake City.

D.  R. Thralls  is  erecting  an  addition to 

his store building at Walton.

J. D. McKenna succeeds Roche & McKen­

na in the drug business at Meredith.

Dayton  D.  Clark  succeeds  Mrs.  W.  T.

purchased  F.  Salisbury’s grocery and  m eat! Dakota,  in  now  one  of  the  proprietors of
market at Harbor Springs.

the Chicago Preserving Co.,  at Chicago.

The  W.  C. Arnold  drug  stock,  at  Lud- 
ington,  is  now  in  the  possession  of  Mr.
Merriam, of  the  former  firm  of Hibbard &
Merriam.

Ann Arbor counter-jumpers will organize 

W.  A.  Severson,  formerly  engaged  in 
the drug trade at Buchanan,  has removed to 
Milwaukee to  assist in the  management of 
the Aurora  Iron  Mining  Co., which  owns 
some of the  richest  mines on  the  Gogebic

for the purpose of getting better terms from I range  in Ontonagon county, 
their employers and having the shops dosed |  Edward  White, the  Broadway grocer,
at reasonable hours.

A  Cross  Village  correspondent  writes: 
The balance of the Hough  &  Wagley stock 
of  goods  was  sold  at  auction  Wednesday 
and bid in by A. T.  Burnett.

S.  L.  Ware  will  shortly  engage  in  the 
grocery business at  Sand Lake.  The stock 
will be furnished by J. II. Thompson & Co., 
Thos. Ferguson placing the order.

A  Trufant  correspondent  writes:  A. J. 
Philo has sold the  balance of  his dnigs and 
fixtures  to  Dr.  Close & Son,  of Sand Lake. 
We understand they intend  to remove them 
to Sand Lake.

Julius Keiss, of  Caro,  successor of  Him- 
elhock & Lewenberg,  has been closed on at­
tachment.  Criminal  proceedings  are  also 
pending  against  William  B.  Lewenberg. 
The  proceeding grew  out of  alleged fraud­
ulent conveyances made by the old firm.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

T.  Rivet succeeds  C. Rivet & Bro.  in  the 

carriage making business at Bay City.

constructing  an  ingenius  representation of 
Gladstone’s  castle,  Hawarden,  about  four 
feet  long and three  feet  high.  The  work 
consists  of  a  wooden  framework, covered 
with small pieces of  cork,  and is extremely' 
clever.
H. 

II. Everard, of the firm of H.  H. Ever- 

ard & Co.,  general  job printers at  Kalama­
zoo,  and S.  A.  Gibson,  superintendent  of 
the  Kalamazoo  Paper  Co.,  were  in  town 
Friday on, their  way to  Charlevoix,  where 
they each  own  handsome  cottages.  They 
also stopped  over at  Grand Rapids on their 
way home Tuesday.

A. J.  Little,  formerly with  the H. G. Al­
len  Publishing  Co.,  but  for  the  last  six 
months  Southern  traveling  representative 
for the Art Album Co., of Battle Creek,  has 
contracted that territory with a leading New 
Orleans  house,  and has  accepted the  posi­
tion of manager of  the  installment  depart­
ment of the factory.  He  will  make Battle 
Creek his headquarters.

Whitehall  Forum:  Geo.  H. Nelson,  the 
W.  T.  Long writes The  Tradesman  as 
cigar  maker, has  formed  a  co-partnership
follows:  The Vicksburg creamery has now
with G.  C. Wehren,  of Big  Rapids,  and the j  been ¡n operation two weeks  and is turning
firm will soon enter  upon  the  manufacture 
out nearly or quite 2,000 pounds of  butter a 
of cigars  at  the  latter  place.  Mr. Nelson ! 
week.  The company is  now  organized un­
will move there.
der the  name  of  the  Vicksburg  Creamery 
Co., with W. T.  Long as President,  W. W. 
Scott,  Secretary and E.  L.  Page  Treasurer.
Putnam & Brooks carry an immense stock 
of nuts of all kinds and are prepared  to  fill 
all orders,  however large.

A  company  composed  Dr.  S.  II.  Clizbe, 
the Hon. M.  D.  Campbell, Charles T. Allen,  j 
George  Greenwood,  Samuel Kanaus, J. W.  i 
Burk and N.  W.  Sherman has  been  organ- i 
ized for  the  manufacture  of  the  Sherman | 
road cart at Coldwater.

STRAY'  FACTS. 

.

Maneelona’s  butter  dish  factory  ships a 

carload of its products every day.

C.  W. Beers succeeds Beers & Hamlyn in 

the meat business at  Bellevue.

Muclder & Allen succeed Muchler & Bax­
ter in the commission business  at East Sag­
inaw.

Mrs.  Jane  S.  Waldron  succeeds  Mrs. 
Viola Shaffer  in  the  millinery  business at 
St. Louis.

Squier & McCarer succeed Geo.  W.  Squier 
in  the  agricultural  implement  business at 
Charlotte.

J. A.  Latcha has resigned the receivership 
of the Michigan & Ohio  Railway.  He will 
be succeeded by Geo.  L.  Bradbury.

Gladwin will pay a bonus to the man who 
will  build a flouring mill there.  Last  year 
$10,000 worth  of  flour  was  retailed in the 
village.

Englemann & Babcock are building a log­
ging railroad in  Crawford  county,  10 miles 
in length, which  will  open  up about  100,- 
000,000 feet of choice pine.

There is talk of consolidating the  propos­
ed new National bank and the State bank of 
Midland,  the consolidation  to be  known as 
the First National Bank of Midland.

A Coloma  fruit  grower  sent  twenty-five 
barrels of  apples to  a Chicago  commission 
house.  Last week the Coloma fruit grower 
received $7.50 as his  share of  the  plunder.
Less than a year  ago  Sibley & Bearinger 
purchased  what  is  known  as  the  Gamble 
pine  timber  tract  in Ogemaw  county  for 
$105,000.  They recently  sold  it for $175,- 
000.

It is estimated that the strike of  the yard 
hands at Chicago  entailed a loss of  $10,000 
on the laboring men  of  Muskegon.  That’s 
the  way strikes  do  not  help  the  laboring 
classes.

Jas.  Shavalier, of the sawmill and shingle 
manufacturing firm of Stevens & Shavalier, 
at Petoskey,  was in town last Friday on his 
way to lower lake ports,  where  he will dis­
pose of a couple of cargoes of timber.

Grocers wanting cheese warranted to give 
satisfaction should sell the Wayland cheese, 
I.  B.  Smith,  proprietor.

“Fermentum” the only reliable compress­

ed yeast.  See advertisement.

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.
-To correspond with a  good, live 
XX7 ANTED—To correspoi 
VV  man,  posted  in  the
.  Dated  in  the  grocery  business, 
with  a  view  to  partnership. 
I  have  a good 
store building in a  village  needing  a  grocery 
badly.  Any grocer who has  a  small  stock of 
one or two thousand would do well  to  corres­
pond with Box 10, North Muskegon, Mich.l41tf
"\TTANTED—A position  as  book-keeper  and 
VV  general office  man  by  a  gentleman of 
large experience.  Would prefer  a  lumbering 
Arm or large manufacturing concern.  Address 
and refer to Bulkley, Lemon & Hoops.  140tf

' 

Ir'OR  RENT—Desirable brick  store  building 

in a thriving farming town, twenty miles 
from  Grand  Rapids.  Good  opening  for gro­
cery  or  general  stock.  Address  Store, care 
The T radesman. 

I40tf

ITiO R  SALE—Stock  of  general  merchandise 

;  and house and lot, on the shore  of  Grand 
Traverse  Bay,  near  rai'road.  Small  amount 
required  down.  Address  “Zero,”  care The 
Tradesman. 

145

proved.  Large  frame  house  and  barn,  and 

■NOR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—Farm  of  120 

acres in southern  Michigan, 100 acres  im­
large 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 he  Trades­
man. 

IpiOlt  SALE—A drug store.  One of the hand- 

somest drug stores in  the  State,  doing a 
splendid  business, in  a  town  of 12.000 inhabi­
tants.  Stock, etc., will inventory about $3,500. 
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 eSM A N  office. 

138tf

141

]7iOR  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. 
C. Yonker, box 1970, Muskegon, Mich. 

ITtOR  SALE—A  stock  of  groceries  and  flx- 

tures  in  a  splendid  location.  Low  rent 
and a good trade.  Will sell for cash or trade for 
good city property.  Address  No. 10,  Trades­
man office. 

138tf

142

1 

■ GENTS WANTED—For an  article  used in 

The  Grand  Haven  Lumber  Co.,  which

every house.  I can give a live man a good 
operated last winter at  Cedar Lake,  has ex- I paying job in ever^ town in^the United States.
or particulars, address with stamp, A. Retan, 
hausted the pine in that section of the coun­
Pewamo, Mich. 
try, and is now moving its entire equipment, 
including  a  logging  railroad,  to  a  tract of 
75,000,000 feet of pine near Meredith, on the 
F. & P. M.,  in Clare county.

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., Mien. 

148*

142*

Purely Personal.

IF 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 
Miscellaneous Column of The  Tradesman.  A 
twenty-five word  advertisement  costs  but 25 
cents a week or 50 cents for three weeks.

Mrs. J. L.  Manning,  of Kalkaska, was in 

town over Sunday.

L.  L.  Loveridge put in  several days with 

old friends at Coldwater last week.

John  Shields,  of  Olney,  Shields  &  Co., 
spent Sunday with  friends  in Indianapojis.

I. A. Miller,  formerly with M. C. Russell,  I 
has entered  the  employ of W.  F.  Gibson &
Co.

F.  H.  Manning, of  the  well-known wool | 
house  of  Luce & Manning,  at  Bostou, was 
in town Monday.

John  Bonney,  formerly  with S. A.  Wei- 
ling,  died last  Thursday  of  apoplexy  and | 
was buried Saturday.
D.  N.  White,  the  Petoskey grocer  and j 
baker,  was  in  town. ^londay  on  his w ay! 
home from a trip to Chicago and Kalamazoo. |
J. L.  Bradford,  manager of  the Newaygo j 
Manufacturing Co.’s store at Newaygo, was j 
in town last Thursday, for  the  second time j 
in a year.

W. A.  Stebbins,  of  the  West  Michigan 
Oil  Co.,  has  purchased  the  pleasant  resi- ] 
dence  at  663  Wealthy avenue  and  settled j 
down for life.

B.  M. DeLamater,  Secretary  and  Treas- j 
urer of the  Central  City Soap Co., of Jack- j 
son,  was in town a couple of days last week,  j 
interviewing  both  the  jobbing  and  retail; 
trade.

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MOULTON  & REMPIS,
SETTEES, ROOF CRESTING

Manufacturers  of

y / l i V

And .Jobbers  in Gray

WRITR  FOE PHICK-LIS 

54 and 56 N orth Front Street, Grand ltapids, Mich.

V A S S S .

run  (histings.

HOGLE  &  CO. Jobbers  Michigan  W ater  W hite  and 
Legal Test Oils.  Manistee and Saginaw 
Salt.  Agricultural Salt.  W arsaw  Salt; pockets, all  sizes,  and 
barrels.  W est Michigan Agents for  Prussing’s Celebrated Vin­
egar  works.  W rite  for  quotations.  yjlQ I/rp n jy   MIPU 
lYlUvIVLUUrBi mllmi

Warehouse:  Lee’s  Ferry Dock, 

B E L L   <&  C O .,
Valley  Fruit  House
And  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS,

Dealers in all kinds Country Produce & Foreign Fruits.

Reference:  Banks of East Saginaw.
CONSIGNMENTS  SOLICITED.

East Saginaw. Mich.
VON B EH R EN  & SH A FFER ,
W HITE  ASH  OARS.

Manufacturers of Every Style of

STRYKER, OHIO,

Spoon Oars made o f Best Spruce Timber* 

R0WIN6 SPOON  OARS  FOR  BOAT CLUBS  MADE TO  ORDER.

«

FULLER  &  STOWE  COMPANY,

D esisn e rs

Engravers and Printers

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

Autographs, Etc., on Short Notice.

Cards, Letter, Note and Bill Heads and other Office Stationery a Leading  Feature. 

Address as above
49 Lyon Street, Up-Stairs, Grand Rapids, Mich.
o. w . b l a in  &  co., Produce
Foraip aM Domestic Fris, Mm VeptaDles, Etc.

We handle on Commission BERRIES, Etc.  All orders filled at lowest market price.  Corres-, 
NO. 9  IONIA  ST.

pondence solicited.  APPLES AND POTATOES In car-lots  Specialties. 

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It is not  necessary for  the  indictment of j piace ¡n general trade at Beaver Lake, 
-. 

a person accused of an unlawful  act that he  Kellogg & Woodin,  grocers  at  Kalkaska,
should  have  actually  participated  in  the 
commission of it.  Every person  that coun-  have dissolved, Mr. Woodm succeeding, 
sels,  procures  or incites  others to the  com- 
mi  slon of an unlawful act is equally guilty 
with those that  actually committed the act, 
even though they may not have been present 
at its commission.  *  *  *'  An agreement

l .  Newman  succeeds  Newman  &  Miller
in  the woolen and  dress goods  business at 
Niles.

W. C. Cramer,  late  of  Coopersville,  has

”  „  

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,. 

, 

Harry  L.  Baldwin,  formerly  engaged  in j 
the printing business  in  this city, but more ■
recently engaged in the banking business in ! 20  jrnd  22  Monroe  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

BOOKS,

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

Michigan  Stale  Pharmaceutical  Association.

O F F IC E R S .

_

Grand Rapids. 

President—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
Fir6t  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 Pharmaceutical Society,

O R G A N IZED   OCTOBER 8, 1884.

O F F IC E R S .

. 

_  

President—Frank J. Wurzburg.
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild.
Board  of  Censors-President,  Vice-President 
and Secretary. 
_
Board  of  Trustees—The  President.  Wm.  H 
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  Wm.  E.  White, 
Wm. L. White. 
_   „
Committee on Pharmacy—M. B.  Kimm,  H.  E, 
Locher and Wm. E. White.
Committee on Trade  Matters—John  E.  Peck, 
H. B. Fairchild and Wm. H. Van Leeuwen.
Cttpimittee  on  Legislation—Jas.  D.  Lacey, 
Isaac Watts and A. C.  Bauer.
Regular Meetings—First  Thursday evening in 
each month.
Annual  Meetings—First  Thursday evenini 
November.
Next  Meeting—Thursday evening,  Juno 3,  at 
“‘The Tradesman” office.

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society.

Organized October, 18S3.

O FFIC ER S.

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 

month.

Jackson County Pharmaceutical Asso 

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

and C. H. Haskins.

month.
Saginaw  County  Pharmaceutical  So­

ciety.

President—Jay Smith.
First Vice-President—W. H. Yarnall.
Second Vice-President—R. Brüske. 
Secretary— D. E. Prall.
Treasurer—H. Melchers.
Committee on  Trade  Matters—AV. B. Moore, 
H.  G.  Hamilton,  H.  Melchers.  AV.  H.  Keeler 
and R. J. Birney.
Regular Meeting—Second  A\Tednesday after­
noon of each month.
Muskegon  Drug  Clerks’  Association.
O F FIC ER S .
President—Fred. Heath.
Vice-President—J. C.  Terry.
Secretary and Treasurer—L. B. Glover.^ 
Regular Meetings—Second and fourth Wednes­
Next Meeting—Wednesday evening, June 9.

day of each month.

New  Method  of  Treating  Essential  Oils.
Charles L.  Coffin, of Detroit, has received 
letters-patent for a neAv  process  or  system 
of  treating  essential  oils.  Heretofore  a 
dozen different  methods  were  employed to 
extract these  oils from  herbs  and  flowers. 
Regeants,  solvents,  distillation,  oxidation, 
were but  a few  of  these  methods and  all 
were faulty.  Where theory showed a charge 
of mint to contain  ten  ounces  of  menthol, 
practice  received  but  five,  even  with  the 
most  careful handling. 
In  separating oils 
by distillation, there  was  always a  forma­
tion  of empyreumatic  substances and a loss 
of the oils.  The basis of Mr.  Coffin’s inven­
tion is that the oxide  of  empyreumatic and 
other substances renders them less  volatile, 
and so enables the  manufacturer  to  distill 
off essential oils  mixed  with them.  To se­
cure this oxidation he  uses electrolysis and 
then distills in vacuo.  The  arrangement is 
remarkably simple  and  effective.  He first 
mixes the essential  oils to be  purified with 
enough water to form an  emulsion and agi­
tates the mixture in a  metallic churn.  The 
churn is part of  an  electric  circuit.  Elec­
trolytic  action  begins  and  an  undoubted 
separation of the oil and  impurities,  with a 
very slight oxidation  of  the  latter, occurs. 
The  mixture,  after  thorough  churning,  is 
caused to flow in  a thin  sheet over metallic 
plates.  This  exposes  the  emulsion  to the 
full power of  the  ^lectric  current  and  the 
oxidizing influence of the air.  The mixture 
is then run  into a  strong tight  vessel,  into 
which air is forced  until  a moderately high 
pressure is reached,  which is allowed to re­
main until the foreign  matters  are precipi­
tated and the oils and water  begin to separ­
ate?  The latter are then drawn off,  filtered 
and  distilled in  vacuo.  The  new  process 
seems scientifically perfect,  as it apparently 
utilizes every particle  of essential  oil. 
Its 
seeming  complexity amounts  to nothing so 
far as any difficulty  of  management is con­
cerned. 
Its  cost  is  greater  than  that  of j 
some of the old processes,  but less than that 
of  others.  Taking  into  consideration  the 
loss of oils under the  old methods,  Coffin’s 
system effects a saving of never less than 25 
per cent.,  and from that to 75 per cent.

Expecting Impossibilities.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

The deleterious  results  of  the  Anarchist 
raid on a Chicago drug store seem to call for 
the  incorporation  of  a plank  in  the  next 
Anarchist  platform  that drug  stores about 
to be gutted shall keep nothing on hand but 
first-class- whisky.

It is a pretty healthy man who can read a 
patent medicine  almanac  without suddenly 
discovering that  he is  afflicted  with  about 
150 of the 200 diseases described therein.

Removing Fixed Stoppers.

The Chemist and Druggist  has  gathered 
from various  sources  a  list of  Avell known 
methods for getting fixed stoppers from bot­
tles, which  are  well  worth  preserving  in 
in this collated form:

When a stopper is found to be immovable, 
it may be loosened  by gripping the  neck of 
the bottle firmly in  the left  hand;  applying 
the thumb at same time with a firm upward 
pressure against one side of the head of the 
stopper,  and  smartly  tapping  the  opposite 
side with the  handle  of  a spatula  or other 
suitable  piece  of  wood.  The force  should 
be  applied  in  the  direction  of  the  longer 
axis.  The operation  may  often  be  expe­
dited by placing a drop of oil or other liquid 
—according to the nature of the contents of 
the bottle—on  the  line  at  the  junction of 
the  stopper  and  the  neck  of  the  bottle; 
when the stopper is  tapped  a minute space 
is momentarily formed, into which the liquid 
slips,  and  so  gradually  gets  between  the 
stopper and the  neck  of  the  bottle, and al­
lows of the former being  easily withdrawn.
Another  method  is  to  use  a  stopper ex­
tractor.  This  can  easily be made  out of  a 
block of wood three  inches  square and two 
inches  thick,  by cutting  a  hole  through its 
center large enough to receive the Read of a 
stopper of a forty ounce wide-mouthed shop 
round.  The use of the  above  is preferable 
to  pulling  out  two  drawers,  sticking  the 
head  of  the  stopper  between  them,  and 
twisting the bottle round, as the latter meth­
od has a tendency to mark the shop fittings, 
which does  not  improve  their  appearance. 
To apply the extractor,  it  is placed over the 
stopper  and  grasped  firmly  in  one  hand 
while the  neck of  the  bottle is  held by the 
other.  A gentle, but firm and steady,  twist 
ing motion is then used,  care being taken to 
keep both hands  moving  in the same plane 
but in opposite  directions. 
If  the pressure 
be applied too  vigorously or  spasmodically, 
or if the lines of the directions of  the oppo­
site forces  be not  quite  parallel,  there is a 
danger  of  wrenching  off  the  head  of  the 
stopper or breaking the neck  of  the bottle. 
If either or both  of these  methods fail,  the 
application of heat may be tried.  This may 
either be  induced  by  friction, by means of 
a string passed around the  neck of  the bot­
tle and  drawn  rapidly  backAvard  and  for­
ward,  the bottle being held fast meanwhile, 
or it may be  applied  by  dipping  the comer 
of a towTel in hot water, squeezing and wrap­
ping it round the neck of the bottle,  and re­
peating this  at  short  intervals.  When the 
glass has sufficiently expanded,  the  stopper 
should be  immediately removed,  and not be 
inserted till the  bottle  has cooled.  By one 
or other of these  methods,  or a combination 
of them, together  with  patience  and perse­
verance,  the most  intractable  stopper  may 
be drawn.

Miscellaneous  Drug  Notes.

The published proceedings of the last con­
vention of the Michigan Pharmaceutical As­
sociation are now in the bindery and will be 
mailed to those  entitled  to  them  within a 
fortnight.

Victims of  the cocaine  habit are reported 
nearly as  often as  those who are  slaves to 
morphine.

A dose of oil of  bitter  almond, mistaken 
for  essence  of  Jamaica  ginger, caused the 
death  of  a  woman  at  Denton,  Texas, last 
week.

\. woman at  Jackson  recently died from 
the effects of  a  solution  of  corrosive subli­
mate used by mistake as an alcohol bath.

The Virginia State Board of  Pharmacy is 
busy registering  dniggists  who come under 
the provision of the  law.  Over  500 certifi­
cates have been granted.

Edward A.  Sayre  has  resigned  his  posi­
tion  as  president  of  the  National  Retail 
Druggists’ Association, to  accept a position 
with  Messrs.  Seabury & Johnson  of  New 
York.

A singular explosion  recently occurred in 
a  drug  store  at  Stockton,  Cal.,  from  an 
empty paint barrel that had remained in the 
store  for  several  years.  The  sun  shone 
through a skylight upon it,  and,  it being air 
tight, covered on the inside with'paint, gen­
erated  gas,  and  when  it was  struck, with 
the intention of breaking it up, an explosion 
followed  which  was  heard  for  blocks 
around.

Snuff for the Complexion.

A reporter for the  New York Sun  stood 
in an up-town  cigar store when a  stylishly 
dressed young woman  came  in  and  asked 
for  a  “quarter’s  worth  of  Scotch  snuff.” 
She had  a  decidedly pretty face, but  when 
she opened  her  mouth  the  pleasing  effect 
was  spoiled,  her  teeth  being  a  brownish 
fellow.  She  left  the  store  without  once 
looking around.

There was a time,” said the dealer, “and 
not so many years ago, either, when we sold 
large quantities of snuff.  No  tobacco store 
of any pretension  carried  less than  four or 
five kinds of snuff.  The coarse  black snuff 
and Cook’s  yellow  snuff  had  the  greatest 
sale.  Now very few  carry  any  but Scotch 
snuff, and  the  only customers  we  have to 
speak of are young women and girls.”

“Why,  what in  the world  do  they want 
of snuff?” asked  the  reporter  in  astonish­
ment.

“They  chew  it  for  their ’complexion. 
They also place the stuff inside of the upper 
lip and  keep it  there  for a  long  time. 
It 
makes  their  teeth  yellow,  but  they say it 
clarifies their  complexion.  We  have quite 
a trade on that account.”

Equal  parts  of  collodium,  tincture  of 
iodine and ammonia water are said by Prof. 
Burggrseve  to  constitute  an  instantaneous 
remedy for lumbago; to  be  applied  widely 
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Squills, white (Powd 35c).......................  
Valerian, EngUah (Powd 30c)........  
Valerian, Ven^bnt (Powd 28c)... 
Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)............. . 
Bird, mixed in lb  packages...........  
Canary,  Smyrna.............................  
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  20c). 
Cardamon,  Aleppee....................... 
Cardamon, Malabar........................  
Celery........................................................ 
Coriander, Dest  English......................... 
Fennel.............................................. 
15
Flax, clean.................................. 
3v@
4  @  4(
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3(4).................. 
Foenugreek, powdered.................. 
7  @  s'
4(4®  51
Hemp,  Russian............................. 
10'
Mustard, white  Black  10c)............ 
Quince.............................................. 
75
Rape, English..................................  
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Worm,  Levant.................................
14
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SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’wool, carriage.......2 25
@2 50 
Nassau 
do 
do 
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2  00 
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Velvet Extra do 
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1  10 
Extra Yellow do 
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do 
85 
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do 
Grass 
do 
65 
Hard head, for slate use................
75
Yellow Reef, 
.................
1  40
M ISCELLANEOUS.
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.2L $  gal__
2 30 
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
1 50
Anodyne Hoffman’s.......................
50
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........!
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........  
12
Annatto  1 fl> rolls.................. 
45
2(4®  3!
........... . ........................... 
3  @  4
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
Annatto,  prime.............. 
45
Antimony, powdered,  com’l. . . . .   4 (4® 
5
6  @  7
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
Blue  Soluble...................  
50
2 75
Bay  Rum, imported, b e
s t
\ 
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 
2 00
Balm Gilead  Buds.............*........ 
40
2 00
Beans,  Tonka............................... " , 
Beans,  Vanilla..................!.!.!.’..  7 00  @9 75
Bismuth, sub  nitrate...................  ’ 
2 30
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)..................  . 
50
Blue V itriol............................... ..* 
e@  7
9@lo
Borax, refined (Powd  11c)...."’."" 
2 25
Cantharides. Russian  powdered. 
Capsicum  Pods. African............... 
is
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d... 
22
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do 
14
Carmine, No. 40.............................. 
400
Cassia  Buds............................... . . ” * 
14
Calomel.  American.............." ” "!! 
75
Chalk, prepared drop...................*" 
5
Chalk, precipitate English........ .. 
12
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................  
g
Chalk, white lump.............................................2
Chloroform,  Squibb’s................................. 125
Colocynth  apples........................... 
eo
1 50
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts!! 
1 76
cryst... 
Chloral do 
Chloral 
do  Scherin’s  do  ... 
J 90
1 7a
Chloral do 
crusts.. 
Chloroform.............................. 
@  47
Cinchonidla, P. & W..*!!!!!!!! 
15  @  20
Cinchonidia. other brands..........".!! 13  @  18
Cloves (Powd 25e)............................  23  @  25
Cochineal...................................... 
49
Cocoa  Butter..................... ."........... 
40
Copperas (by bbl  lc)..............!!.!!’! 
2
Corrosive Sublimate.......... 
’ 
70
Corks, X and XX—40 off  list 
Cream Tartar, pure powdered...
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 lb box
Creasote.................  
 
50
24
Cudbear,  prime....................!!!!!!!!! 
Cuttle Fish Bone.............................................. 20
Dextrine...................................... ..... 
43
1  10
Dover’s  Powders.................!!!!.".! 
Dragon’s Blood Mass........... . . . . . 
50
Ergot  powdered............................. 
05
Ether Squibb’s..........................  
" 
4  49
Emery,Turkish,all  No.’s!.!!!.!’! 
8
Epsom Salts (bbl. 1%).....................  
2  @  3
Ergot, fresh..................................." "  
5q
60
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ____ !!!.!! 
Flake white...................................  
44
15
Grains  Paradise.................... !!!.!!.! 
Gelatine,  Cooper’s .................. !!!!!!! 
90
Gelatine. French..................... 
45  @  70
Glassware, flint, 70 & 10, by box 60 & 10 less
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  ca nnet.............................  
42  @  47
Glue,white......................................  16  @  28
Glycerine,  pure...........................!’." !!’.  16  @ 20
Hops  (4s and (4s.............................. 
25®  40
Iodoform 
40
indiero.....................................!!.".!’..".! 85  @1 no
Insect Powder, best  Dalmatian...  35  @  40 
Insect Powder, H.. P. & Co., boxes 
@1 00
Iodine,  resublimed........................  
4 00
Isinglass,  American..................... 
4 50
Japonica........................................... 
7
London  Purple.............
Lead, acetate........................!!!!!!*
Lime, chloride, ((4 s 2s 10c & (¿s iio)
Lupuline...........................................
Lycopodium...................
Mace........................................!!!!!!
Madder, best  Dutch___....!!"!!*
Manna, S.  F.....................................t
Mercury............................
Morphia, sujph., P.& \V..7.7.  »  oz
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s........
Moss, Iceland.......................... 7$i ft
Moss,  Irish.............................
Mustard,  English................. .!.!.!.
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 lb  cans..!.!!
Nutgalls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1..............................
Nux  Vomica...........................!.!.!!
Ointment. Mercurial, (id.........!!!!
47  @
Paris Green.................................... 
Pepper, Black  Berry............ !!!!!.
Pepsin...............................................  
2
Pitch, True Burgundy............ ,.„ !
Quassia............................................  
6  @
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W............ft oz  70  @
Quinine,  German............................  60  @
Red  Precipitate........................ » f t
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................
4  so
Strychnia, cryst............................. 
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  74  ®  78
Saffron, American.  .......................
35 
Sad  Glauber.............................
®  2
Sal Nitre, large cryst.....................
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst........... . . 
"9
Sal Rochelle...................................... 
33
Sal  Soda.................................... 
’’  2  a   2(4
Salicln..............................................! 
2 15
Santonin........................................... 
g 50
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch.......... 
35
Soda Ash [by keg 3c]...................... 
4
Spermaceti.......................................  
43
4(4®  5
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s __  
Soap, White Castile......................... 
44
........................ 
Soap, Green  do 
47
Soap, Mottled do 
........................ 
9
Soap, 
do 
.......................  
44
Soap, Mazzinl..................................  
44
Spirits Nitre, 3 F..............................  26  ®  28
Spirits Nitre, 4 F.............................   30  ®  32
Sugar Milk powdered.....................  
35
Sulphur, flour.................................. 
3(4®  4
Sulphur,  roll....................................  
Tartar Emetic...................................................60
Tar, N. C. Pine, (4 gal. cans 
doz 
2 70
Tar, 
quarts in tin........... 
140
Tar, 
pints in tin............. 
85
25
Turpentine,  Venice................ »lb  
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........  
55
7  @  8
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 
Bbl  Gal
m 
Whale, winter........................................   70 
75
Lard, extra.............................................   55 
60
Lard, No.  1.............................................   45 
55
Linseed, pure raw................................   37 
40
Linseed, boiled.....................................   40 
43
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained..............   70 
90
Spirits Turpentine................................   38 
43
No. 1 Turp  Coach..................................1  10@1  20
Extra  Turp............................................4  60@1  70
Coach Body............................................ 2  75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture............................1  00@1  10
Extra Turk  Damar........................ 
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp.
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Red Venetian............................  144
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........  134
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  154
Putty, commercial..................  2(4
Putty, strictly pure..................   2(4
Vermilion, prime  American..
Vermilion, English..................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red strictly pure...........
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
Whiting, white Spanish.........
Whiting,  Gilders  ......................
White, Paris American...........
Whiting  Baris English cliff..
Pioneer Prepared  fa in ts......
Swiss Villa Preparer  Paints..

Lb 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2(4® 3 
2(4® 3 
13@16 
58@60 
16@17 
7® 7(4 
7® 7(4 
@70 
@90 
1  10 
1 40 
1 2001 40 
1  00O1  20

OILS.

ILLU M IN A TIN G .

L U B R IC A TIN G .

Water White....................................................ID*
Michigan  Test................................................ 10%
Capitol Cylinder.............................................36(4
Model  Cylinder.............................................. 31(4
Shield Cylinder...............................................26(4
Eldorado  Engine........................................... 24(4
Peerless  Machinery.......................................22(4
Challenge Machinery.....................................20(4
Paraffine  .........................................................20(4
Black. Summer, West Virginia...................10
Black, 25® to 30®........................................... 11
Black, 15® C.  T...............................................11(4
Zero.................. 
...........................................113

......  J

15

15
10

WHOLESALE

Druggists!

42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 8g, gi,

93 and g5 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS  AND JOBBKRS OF

&10I
IBS.

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Elejant  Pharmaceutical  Prepara­

tions,  Fluid  Extracts  and 

Elixirs

GENERAL WHOLESALE AG NTS FOR

Wolf, Patton & Co. and John L. 

Whiting, Manufacturers  of 

Fine Paint and  Var­

nish Brushes.
THE  CELEBRATED

ALSO  FOR  THE

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

Horse Brushes.

WE  ARE  SOLE  OWNERS  OF

Weatlierli’s Michigan Catarrh Care

Which is positively the best Remedy 

of the kind on the market.

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

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

WITHERS DADE & CO.’S
Sour Mash  and  Old-Fashioned 

Henderson Co., Ky.,

Hand-Made, Copper- 

Distilled

W H I S K Y S .

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

W e are also owners of the

¡sis’  Favorite  Rye,

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

U liK B n islF In V IiR

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

Patent  Medicines,
Hazeltine 

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

Mail  orders  always  receive  our special 

& Perkins 

Drug Co.

 

1 55® 1 60

Some Human Nature.

From the Boston Budget.

Another story from  the  school-room may 
not  be  out  of  place  here.  A  boy brought 
his teacher  some  very beautiful and sweet­
smelling spring flowers  the  other morning, 
for which she  thanked  him  very kindly as 
she placed them in a tumbler of water upon 
her  desk. 
In  the  course  of  the  morning 
the  youthful  giver  held  up  his  hand  and 
said: 
“Please,  ma’am,  can  I  wet  my
sponge?”  “No,”  said  the  teacher,  “not 
just now.”

The boy,  however, was persistent; he ap­
parently thought  he  was  entitled  to  some 
especial favor,  and  he  repeated his  request 
in a loud tone.  The teacher,  however,  said 
“nay” the second time more  decidedly than 
the first, and at this the petitioner gave vent 
to his anger as follows:  “Say, teacher, you 
know the flowers  I  brought  you  just now; 
I only lent ’em to  you; I  didn’t give  ’em to 
you to  keep.”  There  was  a  good  deal of 
human nature in this.  Children of an older 
growth sometimes  show  a  similar  disposi­
tion.

The Drug Market.

Business is good  and  collections are fair. 
Quinine is  very dull at  the recent  decline. 
Opium  is  very  weak  and  lower.  Cubebs 
are excited and are now  held at SI.35.  Oil 
of cubebs has advanced in sympathy.  Other 
articles in the drug line are about steady.

A  large  number  of  teaspoons  on  being 
measurei-  showed  an average  capacity,  ac­
cording the  Wcstei'n  Druggist, of  80 min­
ims.  A  spoon  which  held  80  minims  of 
water,  when filled up to its edge, was found 
by  actual  experiment  to  hold  40  minims 
more of  water,  or  2 fluid  drachms,  without 
running  over.  This  affords a  good  argu­
ment for the  use of measuring  glasses.

The Hoboken  druggist, Am Ende,  whose 
in  compounding  a  prescription 
mistake 
caused  the death of two  young women,  has 
been  acquitted  professionally by  the  State 
Druggists’ Association.

“Fermentum”  the  only  Reliable  Com­

pressed Yeast.  See advertisement.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

Advanced—Cubebs;  oil  cubebs. 
Declined—Opium;  linseed oil.

AC ID S.

Acet ic, No.  8.................................... 
9  @
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040)........  30  @
35  @
Carbolic...................................  
 
Citric.................................................   70  @
Muriatic 18  deg...............................  
3  @
li  @
Nitric 36 deg.................................... 
Oxalic...............................................   10  @
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................  
3  @
Tartaric  powdered........................   50  @
Benzoic,  English....................$) oz
Benzoic,  German..........  ...............  12  @
Tannic..............................................   12
@

AM M ONIA.

Carbonate.................................lb
Muriate (Powd. 22c).........................
j* qua 16 deg or  3f............................
• Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................

38@42 
40 
1 75 
45

@1  35

13  @

35®
80®

BALSAMS.

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

BARKS.

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

B E R R IE S.

Cubeb  prime (Powd 1  40c)............
Juniper.............................................
Prickly Ash......................................

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 lb boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............
Logwood, bulk (12 ana25 S> doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 fl>  boxes)...............
Lgowood, (4s 
do
do 
Logwood, (4s 
...............
Logwood, ass’d  do 
...............
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

FLO W ERS.

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

GUMS.

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  20c)..................
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)..........
Ammoniac.......................................
Arabic, powdered  select...............
Arabic, 1st  picked..........................
Arabic,2d  picked............................
Arabic,  3d picked............................
Arabic, sifted sorts.........................
Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35c)...
Benzoin............................................
Camphor..........................................
Catechu. Is ((4 14c, J4b 16c)............
Euphorbium powdered..................
Gaibanum strained.........................
Gamboge...,....................................
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
Kino f Powdered, 30cl............. .......
Mastic..............................................
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd $4 50)...............
Shellac, Campbell’s .........................
Shellac,  English..............................
Shellac, native.................................
Shellac bleached..............................
Tragacanth  ......................................

1 80
3 00

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.
YTtT ANTED—To exchange house and lot (with 
IT  barn) and physician's practice In a town 
of 800 inhabitants for drug stock in some good 
location.  Real estate valued  at  $1,500.  Prac­
tice about $2,000 per year.

ants.  Doing business of $15 per day.

State, on R. R., in  town  of  1,100  inhabit­

1  western part of State, doing* fine business. 

IX) R SALE—Stock of $2,000 in central part of 
I7MJK  SALE—Fine  stock  of  about $3,500,  in 
Can be bought on very reasonable terms.
ÏX)R  SALE—Stock of $2,500 in central part of 
State doing flue business  can  be  bought
for $2,000 on very reasonable  terms, 
Must be
sold on account of other business.
JT'OK  SALE—Stock of about $1,000 in town o f 
800 inhabitants.  Very desirable  location 
for small capital.
IpOR  SALE—Stock of $1,400 in  midst of  fine 
JTOR  SALE—Stock of $3,600 in  town  of over 

J  2,000 inhabitants on two  railroads  can  be
Doing bus- 
bought on very reasonable terms, 
iness  of  over  $6.000  per  annum, 
Good
rounding country.

farming country  and doing fine business, 

can be bought at some discount for cash.

■ LSO many other stocks, the  particulars  of 

which we will furnish free on application.
TT’O  DRUGGISTS  desiring  to  secure  clerks 
L  we will send the  addresses  and  full  par­
ticulars of those on record free on application.

CUSH  M AIT’S

MENTHOL INHALER

f 8

Headache Quickly Relieved

By Using Cushman’s Menthol Inhaler.
It acts as by  magic,  the  Mentholized  Air 
penetrating directly to the  nerves  affected. 
Carry it with you. 
It is  convenient  to  use 
at any time.  No liquid to drop or spill.  It 
is cool and  refreshing,  taking  the  place  of 
the smelling bottle.  Durable  and  cleanly; 
will last six months to a year.  All druggists 
should keep the Menthol  Inhaler. 
It  sells 
at sight.  Retail price 50c.

THE  OLD  RELIABLE

Perry  Davis  Pain  Killer,

Established 1840.

All Druggists Should Keep It.

20
30
®1  00

30
HERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

Hoarhound..................................*...................25
Lobelia...............................................................25
Peppermint...................................  *...............25
Rue..................................................................... 40
Spearmint  ........................................................ 24
Sweet Majoram................................................35
Tanzy................................................................ 25
Thyme...............................................................30
Wormwood......................... 
25
IR O N .

 

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

LEA VES.

Buehu, short (Powd 25c).................  13  ®
Sage, Italian, bulk 04s & (4s, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   33  ®
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva  Ur si...........................................
Beliedonna.......................................
Foxglove...........................................
Henbane...........................................
Rose, red................................................. 

4 00 
20

65

50

2

LIQ U O R S.

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

@2 50 
®2 00 
@1 50 
®1 75 
@3 50 
®6 50 
®2 00 
®2 50

M AGNESIA.

Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz...........  
Carbonat e, Jenuing’s, 2 oz........... . 
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution.... 
Calcined.......................................... 

22
37
2 25
65

 

O IL S .

Almond, sweet.................................  45  ®  50
45
Amber,  rectified.............................. 
Anise........................................................ 
Bay $   oz......................................... 
50
Bergamont..............................................  
Castor................................................  1 42®1 60
Croton.
1 75
Cajeput............................................
Cassia...............................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella.......................................
Cloves...............................................
1 50 
Cod Liver, N. F....................... #  gal
1 20
Cod Liver, best.........................
1  50 
Cod Liver. H., P. & Co.’s, 16
6 00 
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................
9 50 
Erigeron...........................................
1 60
Fireweed...........................................
2 00 
Geranium 
oz...............................
75 
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
35 
Juniper wood..................................
50
Juniper berries...............................
2 00 
Lavender flowers, French.............
2 01 
Lavender garden 
.............
1 00 
Lavender spike 
.............
90 
Lemon, new  crop............................
3 00 
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.......................
2 75 
Lemongrass......................................
80
Olive,  Malaga..................................
90®1  00 
Olive, ‘‘Sublime  Italian  ...............
2 75 
Origanum, red flowers, French...
1 25 
Origanum,  No. 1............................
50
Pennyroyal,
100
Peppermint,  white.........................  3 90@4 00
Rose  $   oz......................................... 
8 00
65
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $1  50) 
2 76
Salad, $   gal...................................... 
Savm.................................................  
1 00
Sandal  Wood, German.................. 
4  50
Sandal Wood, W. I .... ?..................  
7 00
Sassafras........................... 
45
Spearmint.......................................  
@7  60
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 

|  

. 

 

 

PRICES  TO  THE  TRADE:

Small Size........................  
25 
Medium  Size..............................  60 
Large size....................................100 
Killer.  Get th e Genuine.

Beware Of Im itations.  There is but One Pain 

Per Bottle.  Per Doz.
180
3 60
730

J.  N.  Harris & Co., Ltd., Cincinnati, O.

 

P roprietors for the Southern and W estern States. 

For Sale by all Medicine Dealers.

Allen's Lung Balsam

The Great Remedy for Curing

Coughs, Colds, Croup,

COITSTTMFTXOXT,
And  Other  Throat  and  Lung  Affections.
U r W e   c a ll  y o u r  a tte n tio n   to   th e   f a c t t h a t  th e  old 
S ta n d a rd   R em edy,  ALLEN’S  LUNG  BALSAM,  is  now  
p u t u p  In th re e  sizes—36 cen ts, 60 c e n ts a n d  SI p e r b o ttle .
Small...  ....................  ...............$1 75 per dozen
Medium.......................... *...........  8 50 
Large  .............................j .........   7 00 
J.  N.  Harris & Go., J.td., Cincinnati, O.

“
“

12@14 
37@40 
22 
3 00 
28

POTASSIUM .

Blcromate.................................#  lb
Rromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk.......
Prussiate yellow............................

ROOTS.

Alkanet............................................
Althea, cut.......................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, In (4s and (4s....
Blood (Powd 18c).............................
Calamus,  peeled.............................
Calamus, German  white,peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  15c).........................
Ginger, African (Powd 14c)........   11
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached...........
Golden Seal (Powd 26c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
! Ipecac, Rio, powdered...............*..
j JaJap,  powdered..............................
i  Licorice,  select (Powd 15).............
Licorice, extra select......................
link, true.........................................
Khei, from select to  choice..........1 00
ithei, powdered E. I........................1 10
Khei, choice out  cubes..................
I  Khei, choice cut fingers................
Serpentaria......................................
Seneka ..............................................
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras.................
Sarsaparilla,  Mexican.............

A. MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHER) EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

E.  A .  STO W E  &  H liO ., P ro p rieto rs.

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

Telephone No. 95.

[.Entered  at  the  Postofflce  at  Grand  Rapids  as 

Semndrclass Matter. 1

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2,1886.

WANTS  A  BOYCOTT.

Snooks  Determined  to  Avail  Himself  of 

Its Advantages.

Cant H ook Cornees, May 29,  1886. 

Editor  M i c h i g a n  T r a d e s m a n  :

D ear Sir—I have  just got  back  from a 
two  days’  fishing  excursion  over  to  Mud 
Lake, so I will "drop you a line.

I caught  49 bull  heads,  18  punkinseeds, 
31 suckers and five black  bass.  Bilson was 
along,  too,  and we had  a  pretty good time. 
There was seven of  us in the  gang and we 
had six loaves of bread,  2 hams and six gal­
lons  of  Druggist’s  Favorite  Rye.  Bilson 
said he  didn’t  know “what in  thunder we 
was going to do with so much bread.”

You might wonder who takes  care of our 
business  while we  merchants go off fishing. 
But the  fact  is,  Stowe, we  liain’t  got  any 
business  to  attend  to.  These  confounded 
strikes have  knocked to North Carolina  tar 
•out of every kind of  business  up  this way.
I don’t pretend to say how they have done 
it,  but the trouble seems to be a sort of want 
of confidence.  Every  one  who  has  got  a 
nickle hangs on to it, for fear he will not be 
able to catch  on  to another one  very soon. 
Then besides all that, a great  many fellows 
are most afraid to  buy anything  for fear of 
violating some late,  or some  old back num- 
1 ber boycott.

1 saw' a chap named Sam  Cranson yester­
day looking about  town trying  to purchase 
some supplies for his family.  Sam belongs 
to four or five labor  unions and  is a Knight 
of the Grand  Panjandrum, or  something of 
the kind.  He came  into  my store and was 
going  to  buy a  sack  of  flour, but  he  dis­
covered,  by  referring  to  a  large  sheet of 
paper he  carried  in  a  roll  under his  arm, 
that “Pratt’s  White Rose  Patent” was boy­
cotted.  That  settled  it  He  said  to  me, 
“Dam  my  scalp,  Snooks,  if  I  liain’t  eny 
most  starved  to  death—for I  nor  the  old 
woman hain’t had no bread for two weeks.” 
A No.  8 pair  of  shoes he  wanted for the 
old lady I  also failed to sell  him, for  come 
to look,  he “had ’em on the list.”  But one 
thing  is  certain,  Bro.  Stowe,  if  this  thing 
keeps on,  and that  is, that  the  list of boy­
cotted things will get so  big that  each man 
will have to take around a  book  about  the 
size the  Encyclopedia  Brittanica,  and that 
will make to average man sick of the whole 
thing

Some men  are  alw'ays  ready to  take ad­
vantage of any popular  excitement to make 
money.  For  instance,  only  last  week  a 
chap with a tall,  late style  plug  hat, 9 inch 
cuffs and terrible  tight  pants, called on me 
and presented his card:

G.  S H A  R P.

G e n e ra l W e ste rn  B o y co ttin g  

G en eral  A g en t f o r th e  
A d v e rtisin g  C om pany.

“Anything in  my line  to-day?” said  the 
chap briskly, as I slowly perused  the above 
card.

“Well,” said I, as  I  politely showed him 
a nail keg  to set  on,  “I  don’t  really know 
as I catch onto this snap.  What is it?”

“Why,  my dear sir, have you never heard 
of us?  Why all the  lading  merchants are 
patronizing  us  now.  Our  terms  are  very 
low’ indeed.  Here is our price list.”

Plain boycott for one week, $10.  Ditto, with 
a  hint that  the  subject  should  be  hung:, $20. 
Extra  boycott,  $25.  Double  extra  boycott, 
waranted for two months, $50.

“This last pays the best, Mr. Snooks, even 
if it is a little more expensive at first.  Why, 
one firm  in Detroit  made  over a  thousand 
dollars in 3 weeks by one  of  our double ex­
tras and a woman In New' York  has made a 
clean twenty thousand  out  of a boycott our 
firm placed  for her  six weeks  ago,  and all 
she had was a bake shop to begin with.”

“That sounds all right my friend,” said I, 
as  I  mixed  up  a  small  tumbler  of  cough 
drops,  from a bottle marked  Sp.  Y in.  Ga l. 
“But I don’t understand how your snap can 
apply to me.”

“You  don’t?  why,  my  dear  sir,  I  will 
little

you.  Now  you  put  up  a 

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W holesale  Grocers.
MUSSELMAN’S CORKER PLUG AND RUM CIGARS.
F. J. DETTENTHALER,
OYSTERS & FISH,

Sen d  for  Sam ple  B utt.  See  Quotations  in  P rice-List.

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- 

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

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Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers  (  1  QnnninlfTT 
American and Stark A Bags 
( A wJJuuluiLj.

Wall Paper § Window  Shades

At  M anufacturers’  P rices.

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

House and Store Shades Made to Order.
Nelson  Bros.  &  Co.

68  MONROE  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

JENNINGS’

Flavoring Extracts!
JENNINGS  &  SMITH,

MANUFACTURED  BY

Props. Arctic Manufacturing Co.,

GRAXTD  RAPIDS,

MICH.

WATER'

proprietary  medicine,  I  noffibe.  Well, we 
get a boycott put on it saying

‘Boycott Snookses Eradicater.  Tell your 
friends not to use it.  Boycott any one that 
has had his liver cured by it this spring.’ 
“This will be copied  by  all the  labor pa 
pers and,  in fact, nearly  every  paper in the 
country will do as much as to say:

‘Snookses Liver  Eradicator  is suffering a 

Boycott.’

“Well,  the result is that about ten million 
persons who never heard  of  it  before  will 
hear of ‘Snookses Eradicater’ and the orders 
will pour in like  hot  shot  from all over the 
country.”

“Jemyma I” says I,  “is that a fact?” 
“Fact,  why it is all fact.  Just look at it 
There are,  we  will  say, 50,000 drug  stores 
within our jurisdiction.  Well, just suppose 
some Knight of Labor calls at each of  these 
stores, just to see if the  druggist is keeping 
the  prohibited  article.  This  alone  will 
cause 40,000  druggists  to order  from 1 to 6 
bottles each from  their jobbers,  so to ‘have 
it on hand’ when called for again.  Do  you 
tumble?”

“I do, I  do!”
So, Bro.  Stowe,  if  you  should happen to 
hear that I  was getting  too  purse-proud to 
notice common folks, you may know that it 
was on account of my being

Your Boycotted Friend,

Soliman Snooks,

G. D.,  P. M. & J.  P.

P.  S.—I  forgot  to  say  that  Mrs.  S.  and 
the  baby  are  well. 
I  tell  you  what,  that 
boy is  going to be one  of  the smartest and 
brightest chaps in  the  State.  You  see, he 
is a union of the deep  philosophical,  analy 
tical nature of his father,  with the vivashus 
and reherchy disposition of his mother.  S.

TIME TABLES.
Chicago A West Michigan.

Leaves.  Arrives,
TMail..................................... 9:00 am   4:30 pm
tDay Express..................... 12:35pm   9:25p m
♦Night  Express..................10:40 pm   5:45 am
Muskegon Express.............   4:20 pm   11:20 am
♦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 D IV IS IO N .

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

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

Going West. 
Going East.
7:30 p m...........Houghton................... 8:30 a m
3:00 p m, D......Marquette  ............ A,  1:00 p m
2:05 pm, A......Marquette..............D,  1:40 pm
10:40 a m ...........Seney........................ .  4:50 pm
7:45am...........St.  Ignace...................  8:15pin
6:15am...........Mackinaw City...........9:30pm
6:00 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, Houghton 
& Ontonagon Railroad, for  all  Lake  Superior 
points. 

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

A. WATSON,
E. W. ALLEN,

Lake Shore A Michigan Southern.

(KALAMAZOO  D IV ISIO N .}

Leave. 
Arrive.
Ex. and  N. Y. 
N. Y.  N. Y
Mail.  Mail. 
Mail.  Ex.
a. m. 
a. m.  p. m.
p. m. 
4:40 
7:50 Dp.. Grand Rapids... Ar 9:50  7:15
5:58 
9:07.......Allegan.....................  8:32  6:58
6:55 
10:05.......Kalamazoo................  7:80  5:00
9:50 
11:40.......White Pigeon...........   5:50  3:30
a. m. 
p. m. 
p. m.  a. m.
4:15 
5:10....... Toledo........................ 11:15  10:40
9:30....... Cleveland.................   6:40  6:30
8:20 
a. m.  p. m.
a. m. 
p. m. 
2:40 
3:30....... B uffalo..................... 11:55  11:55
a. m. 
p. m. 
p. m.  a. m.
5:40
8:00........Chicago............Lv 11 30 
8:50
A local freight leaves Grand Rapids atlp. m., 
carrying passengers as far as Allegan.
All trains daily except Sunday.

J. W. McKenney, General Agent.
Grand  Rapids A  Indiana.

GO ING NORTH.

Arrives.  Leaves 
Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  9:20 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:30 am   11:30 a m 
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac  Ex  4:10pm 
5:05pm
7:00 a m
G’d Rapids & Trav. City Ac. 
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 
7:15 am
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  5:05pm  5:30pm
Mackinac & Ft. WayDe Ex.. 10:30 a m  11:45 am  
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.10:30 p m

GOING  SOUTH.

All trains daily except Sunday.

SLE EPIN G  CAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

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

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Detroit, Grand  Haven A  Milwaukee.

G O IN G  W EST.

GO ING EA ST.Arrives.
tSteamboat  Express............6:20 a m
^Through  Mail............................10:40 am
tEvening  Express...............3:40 pm
♦Limited  Express.......................  6:25 pm
tMixed, with coach...........
TMorning  Express..............   1:05 pm
+Througn  Mail....................  5:00 pm
tSteamboat Express...........10:40 p m
tMixed..................................
♦NightExpress...........................   5:10 am
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  *Dailv. 
Passengers  taking  the  6:25  a.  m. 

Leaves. 
6:25 am  
10:50 a m 
3:50 p m 
6:30 p m 
11:00 am
1:10 p ra 
5:10 pm  
10:45 p m 
7:45 am 
6:35 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. Potter, City Pass. Agent. 
Geo. B. Reeve, Traffic Manager, Chicago.

Miohigan  Central.

D EPA R T.

 

 

A R R IV E .

tDetroit Express............................................. 6:00 am
tDav Express................................... ....12:45 pm
♦Atlantic Express...................................10:40 p m
tWayFreight.......................... ;..............  6:50 am
♦Pacific  Express............................................. 6:00 am
tM ail..........................................................3:30 p m
tGrand  Rapids Express............................... 10:35 pm
Way Freight.................  
5:15 pm
tDaily except Sunday.  »Daily.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific 
Express.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. m.,and  Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room oar attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at 10:35 p. m.
.a i___ ___   Cbas. H. Norris. Gen’l Agent

a t   t h i s

Every can wrapped in colored tissue paper with 

signature and stamp on each can.

BUIKLEY, LEMON 4 HOOPS,
"Wholesale  Grocers.

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

S o le A gents fo r

“JoUy Tar” Plug Tobacco.
Daniel Scotten &  Co.’s “HIAWATHA” 
Plug Tobacco.
Lautz. Bros. & Cods SOAPS.
Niagara STARCH.
Dwinell, Howard & Co.’s Royal Mocha and Java.
Thompson & Taylor Spice  Co.’s  “Mag­

Royal Java.
Golden  Santos.

nolia ” Package Coffee.
.  SOLE  PROPRIETORS

“J O L L Y   TUM IE”  F in ©   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 St. and 51,53,55,57 and 59 Island Sts.,

G-rand. XiapicLs, M idi.

PUTNAM & BROOKS
Wholesale Mannfactnrers of

PURE  CANDY!

ORANGES,  LEMONS. 

BANANAS,  HGS,  DATES, 

USTu-ts,  E to .

WM. SEARS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

A gents  fo r

A M B O Y   C H E E S E -  

*

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

ABSOLUTE
S P I C E S .  

Warranted to be Pure Goods.
T ELFER   &  BROOKS,

M anufactured  Only  by

46 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids.

h .  M.  CARY.

C A R ? <& LOVERIDGE,

L.  !..  LOVERIDGE.

GENERAL  DEALERS  IN

F ire and Burglar Proof
i
i A
Combination and Time Locks,

E

F

l

11 Ionia Street, 

Grant! Rapids, Mich.

J

TWINES,

CORDAGE, 

W00DENWARE.

Wool Twine, Binders’ Twine, Tarred  Felt, 

Tarred Board, Building Board, Etc.

LYON  SO?., 

-  G R A N D   R A P ID S .

SPRING  &

COMPANY,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Faney

DRY  GOODS,

Manufactured by the

SMOKING  TOBACCO,
National l of L. Co-operative Macco Co.,
Arthur  Meigs  &  Go.,

R A L E IG R ,  UT.  O.

GRAND  R A PID S,  MICH.,

Wholesale agent3 for the

STA T E  O F M ICHIGAN.
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:
20Z.46;  4 OZ.44;  80Z.43;  160Z.42.
ARTHUR MEIGS & CO.,
Wholesale  Grocers,
1 1 79,81 and 83 Sontb Division St, Grand Rapids, MM.

Creditors’ Objections to Compromise.
The ordinary objections made by creditors 
to accepting an  offered  compromise, which 
relate to acts  antecedent to  failure,  may be 
summed up as follows:

1.  Should have  stopped  before  so  much 
was lost,  as could then have  made a larger 
dividend.

2.  Should not have  made so  much  confi­

dential indebtedness.

3.  Being insolvent a  year  ago,  as the ac­
counts  show,  should  have  stopped  then 
when did  not owe so  much.

4.  Have made no money on  him as  other 
creditors have,  so  cannot  afford to  lose on 
that  account.

5.  My debt ought to have been made con­

fidential.

6.  Ought to have  known  when  the debt 
wras created that it would not be paid at ma­
turity,  and is therefore guilty of fraudulently 
contracting it.

7.  Deception by false statements of means 

and ability to pay.

8.  Owes me more  than  usual,  or more in 

proportion to others.

9.  Has not satisfactorily accounted for the 
losses by which,  it  is alleged, became bank­
rupt.

10.  Don’t believe can pay the amount pro­
posed,  and  at  subsequent  failure  matters 
•wall be still worse.

11.  The time for paying compromise is too 
remote;  would  prefer  something  less  in 
shorter time to waiting so long.

12.  Has  shown to  be  unprincipled  since 
failure; not  to  be  trusted  to  settle up the 
estate.

The  foregoing  objections  refer  more es­
pecially  to  the  peculiar  circumstances  at­
tending the indebtednesss to the  individual 
creditor,  and do  not  impute  dishonesty, or 
the concealment, or  unjust  deprecation  of 
assets, or the  making of  fictitious or  nom­
inal  indebtedness. 
In  other  words,  they 
presuppose an  ordinarily  honest and legiti­
mate failure.

Butter,  Bad  and  Bogus.

A dairyman writing  to  The Ohio Famwr 
ventures to  express  an  unpopular opinion, 
not complimentary to keepers  of  cows  nor 
creditable to the grocery trade, namely, that 
the low quality of most butter found  in  the 
markets  has  made  possible  the  fungus 
growth of bogus product:
“Examine, some morning, the pails of milk 
drawn  from  stabled  cows  throughout  the | 
United States.  How much  of  the  milk  is 
even  tolerably  free  from  hairs,  dandruff, 
dust of dried  excreta,  etc.?  Don’t  tell  m e1 
you strain it out. 
It has no business  there 
at all.  Examine it with a good microscope. 
Can you find one pint of such  milk  that  is 
I’ve known chunks  of  hardened— 
clean? 
ugh!  thrown from the can at the cheese fac­
tory. 
I  breakfasted  with  a  friend  who 
drank at his meals,  milk, bought of a neigh­
bor.  Suddenly stopping as  he  noticed  the 
fine sediment in the bottom  of glass,  he  ex­
claimed,  ‘Wife,  what is  this?  There’s  too 
much milk for commercial fertilizer and  too 
much  manure  for  milk!’  Grocerymen  are 
as  much  in  fault  as farmers.  They don’t 
grade butter.  They pay the same for grease 
ns for butter,  dump  it  into the same box or 
firkin. 
In twenty-four hours the gilt-edged 
Is  tainted  as  badly  as  the  grease.  Then 
they hold it on speculation  until  they  have 
to sell.  Result,  a  lot  of  dead  and  decay- 
producing  stuff  fit  only  for  cremation—it 
‘smells to heaven.’  Then the farmers  bear 
all the blame.  Butter is  a  perishable  pro­
duct and  should  be  graded  on  its  merits, 
sold  on  the  market  immediately and con­
sumed while new.  Don’t howl  for  legisla­
tive protection until you have reformed but­
ter-makers  and  dealers.  That  alone  will 
kill bogus butter.”

Whatever may be thought of  the  opinion 
set forth  in  the  closing  paragraph  of  the 
above,  a study of the  market  reports  from 
week to week must tend to impress the fact 
that  under  present  conditions  the  only 
chance for profit in butter-making is by way 
of improvement of quality.

Dairy Boards of Trade.

From the Michigan Dairyman:

The growing importance  of  the dairy in­
terests  of  the  Wolverine  State  renders it 
necessary for  both  cheese  and butter  pro­
ducers  to avail themselves  of  the most ap­
proved methods for placing their goods on the 
market.  The time has gone by when Mich­
igan can  consume all  the  creamery  butter 
produced within her  borders and  no incon­
siderable port ion of her cheese product finds 
a  market in other states.  Up to the present 
time,  the only means of  communication be­
tween  buyer  and  seller  have  been  by the 
post  or  personal  visits, and  much  dissat­
isfaction  has  necessarily  resulted  from 
such  antiquated  methods.  Michigan  hav­
ing recently attained  the distinction  of  be­
ing a “Dairy  State,” it is  now  proposed to 
adopt the same system  used by other states 
prominent in the  dairy business in  attract­
ing buyers  from  all  parts  of  the country. 
With this end in view,  it has  been  deemed 
desirable to establish a series of Daily Boards 
of  Trade in this State,  the  first  step in this 
direction having been taken by the dairymen 
in and around Grand  Rapids, who will meet 
next  Tuesday  for  he  purpose  of  talking 
over the situation.  Jackson  promises to be 
the next place to  secure a Board  and Flint 
will probably not be far  behind in the race. 
There are now  enough  dairy products ship­
ped out of  the  State to  warrant  the estab­
lishment  of  half a  dozen  Boards  and  the 
probability is that  the  time  is  not  far dis­
tant when  every dairy  locality will  be rep­
resented by a market of its own.

MATTINGS,

O IL  CLO TH S

®TO.,  ETC.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

GO  TO

FOR

Fig-s, Dates,

ETC.

Grand Rapids,

M ichigan.

THE  BEST  IN  THE  MARKE

The so-called peanut factories of Norfolk, 
Va.,  handle and put on the market a million 
and a half  dollars’ worth  of  peanuts  each 
year.  The  factory  is  simply  a  cleaning, 
polishing,  and  sorting  establishment,  and 
the work is all done  by machinery.

Order a case from your Jobber.  See Quotations in Price-Current.

Br\>  (Boobs.

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

W ID E  BROW N COTTONS. 

Androscoggin,84. .17  [Peppered, 10-4!...,..19
Androscoggin, 74. .13541 Peppered, 11-4      .22
Pepperell,  7-4........13  Pequot,  7-4............ 1454
Pepperell,  8-4........15  Pequot,  8-4............ 16
¡Pequot,  9-4............ 18
Peppered,  9-4........17 

Economy, oz..........
Park Mills, No. 50.. 10 
Park Mills, No. 60.. 11 
Park Mills, No. 70. .12 
Park Mills, No. 80.. 13 
Park Mills, No. 90.. 14

CHECKS.

Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz............... 854
Otis Apron...............854
Otis  Furniture.........854
York, 1  oz.................954
York. AA, extra oz.1254 
| 

Plaid.

Plain. 

OSNABURGS.

PR IN T S .

bric, 4-4........ 

BLEACHED COTTONS.

DOM ESTIC GINOHAM S.

F IN E  BROW N  COTTONS.

I Whitinsville, 7-8....  8

Alabama................   654 Alabama...................634
Georgia..................  854¡Augusta.................  634
Jewell  ....................  8  Georgia..................   654
Kentucky  ............. 854! Louisiana.................  634
L ane.......................  854¡Toledo....................  654
Santee....................  7541
Avondale,  36........   854
Gilded  Age............... 754
Art  cambrics, 36...  954 
Greene, G  44 
. . .   55»
Androscoggin, 4-4..  7}»
Hid, 4-4....................  754
Androscoggin, 54.. 1354
Hid, 7-8......................654
Ballou, 4-4.  ...........   654
Hope,  4-4.................. 654
Ballou, 54...............  6
King  Phillip  cam­
954
Boott, 0 .4 4 ............  854
Boott,  E. 5-5...........
Linwood,  4-4..........  754
Lonsdale,  4-4............734
Boott, AGO, 44.......  954
Boott, U. 34..........  554  Lonsdale  cambric. 105%
Blackstone,A A 44.  654 Langdon,GB,44...  854
Chapman, X, 44__ 55* Langdon, 46............. 11
Conway,  44...........   654  Masonville, 44 .......  754
Cabot, 4-4................   654  New York Mill, 44.1054
Cabot, 7-8................   6
sey,  4-4 
Canoe,  34...............  4 'Pocasset
,  P. M. C ..  754
Domestic,  ¡16..........  73» Pride of the West.. 1054
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.  854 Pocahontas,  4 4 ....  754
Davol, 44...............  8  Slaterville, 7-8........ 654
Fruit of Loom, 44..  734 ¡Woodbury, 44 ........   554
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  6341 Whitinsville,  4 4 .,.  634 
Fruit of  the  Loom, 
..11  IWamsutta, 44__ .  854
cambric,  44...
Gold Medal, 4-4..
..  6541 Williamsville, 36.
.  854
Gold Medal, 7-8..
..  5541
Crown................
..1754 Masonville S....... 11
.. 11  Lonsdale.............
No.  10................
•  954
Coin....................
14
.. 10  Lonsdale A ..........
Anchor...............
..15  ¡Victory  O...........
.  554
Blackburn ........
..  8  ¡Victory J .............
.  634
..14  ¡Victory  D...........
Davol..................
.  854
..12541Victory  K...........
London...............
.1054
..12 
iPhœnixA ...........
Paconia.............
.1954
Red  Cross..........
..  754 Phœnix  B...........
-1054
Masonville TS.........  8  ¡PhcenixXX.......
Albion, solid........... 554¡Gloucester................554
Albion,  grey........... 6 
lGloucestermourn’g.654
Allen’s  checks........554  Hamilton  fancy__ 5
Aden’s  fancy..........554  Hartel fancy............554
Allen’spink............. 55i Merrimac D..............6
Allen’s purple..........554 Manchester..............6
American, fancy__ 554 Oriental fancy.........554
Arnold fancy........... 6  ¡Oriental  robes.........654
Berlin solid................5  [Pacific  robes............6
Cocheco  fancy....... ‘.6  Richmond................. 554
Cocheco robes..........654 Steel River................554
Conestoga fancy... .6  Simpson's................. 6
Edd vstono................6  W asnington fancy.. 5
Eagle fancy..............5  Washington  blues.  5
Garner pink.............5541
Appleton  A, 44__ 6  ¡Indian Orchard, 40.  7
Boott  M, 4-4...........   734 Indian Orchard, 36.  6
Boston  F, 44..........  634 Laconia  B, 74........ 13
Continental C, 44..  654 Lyman B, 40-in.......8
Continental D, 40 in 7341 Mass. BB, 4 4 ..........  534
Conestoga W, 44...  634jNashua  E, 40-in....  754
Conestoga  D,7-8...  434¡Nashua  R,44..........634
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  5  Nashua 0,7-8..........6
Dwight  X, 34........   434 Newmarket N ........ 554
Dwight Y ,7-8..........554)Peppered E, 40-in..  834
554 Peppered  R ,44 ....  634
Dwight Z, 44..
Dwight Star, 44__ 6
Peppered  0 , 7-8__ 534
Dwight Star, 40-in..
Peppered  N ,3-4....  554
Enterprise ÉE, 36..  434¡Focasset  C, 44.......6)4
Great Falls E,44...  654|Saranac  R...............6
Farmers’ A, 44.......  554¡Saranac E...............734
Johnson  ManfgCo,
Amoskeag 
Amoskcag, Persian 9
Johnson ManfgCo,
styles....................
Bates.......................6
Slaterville, 
dress
Berkshire.............   6
Glasgow, fancy__
White Mfg Co, stap 634 
Glasgow,  royal__ 654
Gloucester, 
new
White Mfg Co, fano 754
standard.............   7541 White  Manf’g  Co,
Plunket..................  754  Earlston...............754
Lancaster...............  7  Gordon....................7
Langdown............. 7  Grey lock, 
Renfrew,  dress....  9 
Androscoggin, 74. .15  IPepperell.  104.......22
Androscoggi n, 84.. 16
Pepperell,  114.......24
Pequot,  74............ 16
Peppered,  74.........15
Pequot,  84.............18
Peppered,  84.........17
Pequot,  94.............20
Pepperell,  94.........19
Atlantic  A, 44.......  654;Lawrence XX, 44.. 63»
Atlantic  H, 44.......654¡Lawrence XXX 40.  734
Atlantic  D, 44.......  534 Lawrence LL, 44... 5
Atlantic P, 44........  5  Newmarket N........ 554
Atlantic LL,44__   434¡Mystic River, 44... 534
Adriatic, 36.............   754lPequot A, 44..........634
Augusta, 44...........   654¡Piedmont,  36..........6
Boott  M, 44...........   6  Stark AA, 44..........  654
Boott  FF, 44..........  654 Tremont CC, 44__ 434
Graniteville,4 4 ....  534 Utica,  44................ 10
Indian  Head, 44...  634 Wacbusett,  44 .......  654
Indiana Head 45-in. 11541Wachuset t. 30-in...  534 
Amoskeag,  ACA... 17 Fads, XXX........... 1554
Amoskeag  “ 44.. 1254 Fads,  BB............... 1154
...1154 Fads,  BBC, 36....... 1954
Amoskeag,  A.
....11
Amoskeag,  B.
....1054 Hamilton,  BT, 32. 954
Amoskeag,  C.
....10 Hamilton,  D ........
Amoskeag,  D.
954
....  954 Hamilton,  H____ 854
Amoskeag,  E.
....  9 Hamilton  fancy.. 854
Amoskeag, F ..
Premium  A, 44__ 17 Methuen AA........ 1154
....16 Methuen ASA....... 1654
Premium  B ...
....16 Omega A, 7-8........ 1054
Extra 44..........
Extra 7-8........
....1454 Omega A, 44........ 1254
13
CCA 7-8...........
....14 Omega ACA, 44... 15
CT 4-4...............
....14 Omega SE, 7-8....... 24
RC 7-8...............
...1 6 Omega SE, 44....... 27
BF 7-8...............
....19 Omega M. 7-8....... 22
A F44..............
Cordis AAA, 32 ....14 Omega M, 44........ 25
Shetucket SS&S8W 1154
Cordis ACA, 32
Shetucket, S & SW 12
Cordis No. 1, 32 ....15
Shetucket,  SFS 
. 12
....14
Cordis  No.2...
....13
Stockbridge  A __ 7
Cordis  No.3...
....1154 Stockbridge fancy 8
Cordis  No. 4...
Falls.XXXX..
....1854
SOFT  CAMBRICS.
Washington...
....  454 Royal  Globe........
454
Crown.................... 454
S. S. A Sons__
GRAIN BAGS.
American  A.. — 1434 Amoskeag........... 1434
Stark A ............
..  .2054
....  654 Otis  CC..................
9
Boston...........
....12 Warren  AXA....... 11
Everett blue..
Everett brown ....12 Warren  BB.......... 10
9
....11 Warren CC...........
Otis  AXA.......
....10 York,  blue........... 1254
Otis BB............
PAPER  CAMBRICS.
Man vide.......... 434 @5 S. S. A Sons...... 4340554
Masonville__ 534@634 ¡Garner.............4 34 ©654
6
Red  Cross....... ......   654 ¡Thistle Mills..........
Berlin............. __ 6
Rose.......................
654
Garner ........... —   7
Brooks................... 50  I Eagle  and  Phoenix
Clark’s O. N. T...... 55  f  Mills bad sewing.30
J. & P.  Coats......... 55  Green  A  Daniels...25
Widimantic 6 cord.55  Stafford..................25
Williinantic 3 cord.40  Had A Manning__ 28
Charleston ball sew 
Holyoke........... ....25

Bookfold..............1334
dress  styles.........1054
styles....................  6

|  styles  ...................1054

Fads,  awning....... 19

W ID E  BLEACHED COTTONS.

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

SPO O L COTTON.

WIQANS.

DENIMS.

T IC K IN G S.

dress

ing thread...........30  |

CORSET JE A N S .

Armory..................  7  jKearsage...................634
Androscoggin.......  7 54 Naumkeag satteen.  634
Canoe River...........   554¡Peppered  bleached  834
Clarendon............. 5@53£ Peppered sat.........  8
Hallowed  Imp.....  534  Rockport.................. 654
Ind. Orch. Imp.......  654 Lawrence sat..........  6
Laconia..................  7  I

W as Sure  He  Could  Pay.

“Gentleraeu,”  urged  a  merchant  at  a 
meeting of his creditors,  “give me one week 
more, and I will be  able to  pay  you  all in 
full.”

“What assurance can  you  give us,” they 
demanded,  “that we will be paid at the end 
of that time?”

“My store  is to  be  boycotted  to-morrow 

morning.”

(Sroceries.

firocers’ Association ot the City of Muskegon.

O F FIC E R S .

.

_ 

_  _   .. 

President—H. B. Fargo.
First Vice-President—Wm. B. Kent.
Second Vice-President—A. Towl.
Recording Secretary-Wm. Peer.
Financial Secretary—John DeHaas.
Board of Directors-^). Lambert, W. K McKen 
zie, H. B. Smith, Wm. B. Kelly, A.  low i  ana
E. Johnson. 
Towl
Finance Committee—Wm.  B. Kelly,  a . 
and E. Johnson.
Lam-
Committee  on  Rooms  and  Ltbrarj-^.
bert, H. B. Smith and W. 1. McKenzie. 
Arbitration  Committee—B.  Borgman.  Garrit
Wagner and John DeHaas.
Complaint  Committee—Wm.  B.  Lmft,  U-  A. 
Boelkins, J. O. Jeannot,  R.  S.  Miner  and L.
Law*Oommittee—H. B.  Fargo,  Wm.  B.  Keift 
and A. Towl. 
Transportation Committee—Wm. B. Kent, An
drew Wierengo and AA m. Peer. 
.__
Regular meetings—First and third Wednesday 
evenings  of each month. 
,
Next meeting—Wednesday evening, June ...
RETAIL  GROCERS’ ASSOCIATION 

{4>

T, 

OF  GRAND  RAPIDS.

ORGANIZED  NOVEMBER  10, 1885.

President—Erwin J. Herrick.
First Vice-President—E. E. Walker.
Second Vice-President—Jas. A. Coye. 
Secretary—Cornelius A. Johnson.

dorn and A« J* Elliott. 
m o n d  and Wm. H. Sigel. 
M  J. Lewis and A. Rasch. 
Martin C. DeJager and A. G. AVagner. 

H. Sigel, A. J. Elliott, Henry A. Hydorn  and
Finamie^Committee—W. E.  Knox,  H.  A.  Hy- 
«
Room Committee—A. J. Elliott,  Eugene  Rich­
T?ai-nawnrth
Arbitration  Committee—James  Farnsworth,
__
Complaint  Committee—J.  George  Lehman, 
Collectors-^-Cooper & Barber, 69  W aterloo  St.,
Annual meefings^Second Tuesday in Novem-
Regular  meetings—First  and  Third  Tuesday 
Next meeting—Tuesday evening, June

Evenings of each month.

Kalamazoo Retail Grocers’ Association.

.
President—P.  Ranney. 
First Vice-President—O. K. Buckhout.
Second Vice-President—Hugh Beggs. 
Secretary—M. S. Scoville.
.  Tnes-
Treasurer—Julius Schuster. 
Regular  Meetings—Second  and  fourth  lues 
days of each m o n t h . _______________

Ate Bullheads for Trout.

A good story comes  to The Tradesman 
from Newaygo, which involves a gentleman 
named Coats and a former resident of Grand 
ltapids  in the  person of  David  L.  Stiven. 
Coats,  it appears, claims to be a great sports­
man,  particularly  priding  himself  on  his 
knowledge of  fisli  and  fishing. 
Indeed,  it 
is  a  common  remark  that  “Coats  thinks 
that what he doesn’t  know  about  fish isn’t 
worth knowing.”  He  recently spent a day 
in whipping  a neighboring  stream  and re­
turned  at  night  with  quite  a  string  of 
speckled  beauties.  He  arranged  with the 
cook at the  restaurant where he  boarded to 
serve  him with  trout for  supper, while the 
remainder of  the  boarders  had  to  content 
themselves  with  bullheads.  Before  Coats 
took  his  seat  at  the  table,  Stiven  went 
around to the former’s place and exchanged 
fish  platters, greatly  to  the  amusement of 
those  who  witnessed  the  exchange.  On 
taking his  seat,  Coats  held  up  one of  his 
fish and  reproached  the  other  boarders on 
their misfortune in  being  compelled  to re­
gale themselves on common bullheads.  He 
then  proceeded  to  devour  his  fish  on the 
supposition that  they  were  trout,  and  the 
appearance of  the facts in  the case in The 
Tradesman will be  the first intimation he 
has received  that  he  was  the  victim  of a 
conspiracy.
The Lowell Association in Working Order.

Lowell, May 28,1886.

Editor  Michigan  Tradesman:
Dear Sir—Mr. N. B. Blain kindly hands 
me yours of  the 16th  inst. 
In reply would 
say,  that  the  name  of  our  organization  is 
“The  Lowell  Business  Men’s  Protective 
Association.”  The  constitution  is pattern­
ed after the Ionia Association and the class­
ifications of delinquents are the same.  The 
officers are as follows:

President—Norman B.  Blain.
Vice-President—Jno.  Giles.
Secretary—Frank T. King.
Treasurer—Chas.  D.  Pease.
Executive  Committee—A.  W.  Weekes, 
W.  R.  Blaisdell,  J.  Q.  Look,  R. G.  Bost- 
wick,  H.  T. M.  Treglown  and  Chas. Mc­
Carty.
The workings of  the Association are giv­
ing satisfaction, not  only  to  the  members 
but the few business men who are not mem 
bers.
If there is any further  information  m re­
gard to our Association jor its workings that 
you wish,  I will be  pleased  to furnish it to 
you. 

Respectfully Yours,

Chas. Quick, Acting Secretary.

The  Grocery  Market.

Business is  good  and  collections  are ex­
cellent.  Sugars are easy and  are  probably 
good value at  the figures  named this week, 
as the  advent  of  the  berry season renders 
higher prices  inevitable.

Oranges are  scarce  and  higher  in price. 
Lemons are steady in  price  and in good de­
mand.  Bananas  are  steady  and  fine  in 
quality.  Pine apples are not  plenty in this 
market.  Nuts are  steady and in  moderate 
request.  Best grades  of  Virginia  peanuts 
are higher in Virginia.

Hides,  Pelts  and  Wool.

Hides are without change.  Pelts are dull. 
Tallow is  unchanged.  Wool  is  beginning 
to move freely,  being nominally quotable at 
20@22 cents.

Some of T he T radesm an’s  readers may 
have  inferred  that  the  recent  decision  of 
Judge Brown in the United  States Court at 
Detroit, reported  in  T he  Tradesm an  of 
May 19,  was inimical  to  the  Central  City 
Soap Co., of  Jackson.  Such  was  not  the 
gage.  The  Judge  held  that  the  plaintiff, 
the  Summit  City  Soap Co., of F t  Wayne, 
in the suit age  ust  the company named,  did 
not have the  exclusive  right  to  the use of 
the name “Anti-Washboard” and dismissed 
the action with costs to the plaintiff.

Jobbers never have any  of  the  Wayiand 

/ cheese come back on their hands.

Maxims for  Merchants.

From the Dry Goods Chronicle.

The merchants who  profit  least by inter­
views are often those who are most inclined 
to resort to  them.

A good merchant  is  very  watchful  over 
both himself  and  others, to  prevent things 
from  being  carried  against  his  sense  of 
right in moments of lassitude.

American business  affairs are full of fail­
ure. 
In laying down  plans  for the organi­
zation of the  same, there is  hardly ever al­
lowance enough made for failure.

Councils are  the  fly-wheels  and  safety- 
valves of  the  machinery  of  business.  By 
their means the  motion is  equalized  and a 
great force is applied with little danger.

When a merchant has to communicate the 
motives  for  an  unfavorable  decision,  he 
should  study how to  convey them  so as to 
give  the least  pain and to  insure  the least 
discussion.

A merchant should  take  care  to  consult 
occasionally with  persons  of  nature  quite 
different  from  his own,  as to  very few are 
given  all  the  qualities  requisite  to form a 
good man of business.

Credit is founded on the  trust reposed by 
one man in another,  and it  presupposes the 
existence  of  thorough  honesty  and  good 
faith,  with  a  reputation  for  punctuality in 
the fulfillment of all engagements.

The moment that  you  fix a qualification, 
whether of  age,  of  length of  service, or of 
the possession of money,  you do something 
which,  at some time or  other  will  prevent 
your making  choice of the best man.

Concessions and compromises form a very 
important part of mercantile life.  The for­
mer may be looked upon as distinct defeats. 
In making  the  latter,  you  never  gain any­
thing by concealing  your  views  or  wishes.
The  primary qualities  for a good  organ­
izer of business are ardour, forethought and 
imagination, and existing with them  an un­
wearied  interest in  details  and a power of 
massing them  together,  and of  marshalling 
them as a general does his battalions.

The habit of .thinking  for  himself is one 
which may be  acquired by the  solitary stu­
dent.  But the habit of deciding for himself, 
so indispensable  to the  merchant,  is not to 
be gained by study. 
It is a thing  that can­
not  be  fully exercised  until  it  is  actually 
wanted.

The best  agents for  merchants to employ 
are those who  have  a  strong  sense  of  re­
sponsibility.  A man possessed of the latter 
will grudge  no pains, will  pay attention to 
minute tilings,  and will  prefer to be consid­
ered stupid  rather  than  pretend  to under­
stand his orders before he does so.

, Combination Stores.

From the Grocer and Canner.

The great stores of the future will  be the 
combination  stores.  All  experience 
in 
wholesale  or retail trading sustains the cor- 
reemess  of  the  proposition. 
It  has  been 
shown that only the great houses with their 
numerous  departments,  hundreds  of  em­
ployes and all facilities which  concentrated 
capital  calls  to  its  use,  can  sell  the  best 
goods  at  lowest  prices.  They  buy  direct 
from manufacturers or  producers,  are man­
ufacturers  themselves,  or  direct  importers 
of the  raw material or  manufactured goods 
made  in  foreign  markets.  They  have re­
duced the  first  cost  of  their  stock  to  the 
minimum, and can afford to turn their goods 
on a margin of profit  which  would scarcely 
meet the running  expenses  of  the  smaller 
ind less advantageously equipped establish­
ments.  Their great and general  prosperity 
is known to  the  commercial  people of  the 
entire country,  and  the  uniform  success of 
operations conducted on thte scale indicated, 
points to the  combination  store as the store 
of  the future. 
In  a  San Francisco  house, 
representative of  the  advanced idea in mer­
chant trading, additions to its already num­
erous  departments  are  constantly  being 
made,  and the field of trade broadens before 
its enterprise with every passing season.

The  house  has  now  its  comprehensive 
general grocery department,  which  includes 
all the well-known specialties of Eastern or 
foreign  manufacturers;  its  tea, coffee  and 
spice departments, where all  grades  of  the 
famous brands of  Japanese  growth may be 
sampled,  where coffee,  direct from the Cen­
tral American plantations, may be examined 
in every condition,  from  the  natural  state 
to perfect  preparation  for  use, where new 
stocks of all the spices, in original packages 
from  the Spice  Islands, are  constantly be­
ing received.  It has its tobacco department, 
where  some of  the  finest  domestic  cigars 
and cigarettes are manufactured, and where 
all the  popular  brands  of  imported  cigars 
and Eastern  manufactured  plug and smok 
ing  tobaccos  are  always  in  stock.  The 
stocks of  the Eastern  concerns  are  of like 
variety and extent.  These great houses are 
constant  advertisers  in  the  leading  trades 
journals of the  country,  and  by this means 
have let the trading public know of the great 
advantages  they  are  enabled  to  present 
through  a  plan  and  scale  of  operations 
which have proved  perfect  success  for the 
combination store.

He Wanted It Stopped.

“I see they are trying to  put a stop to all 

betting in New York.”

“I’m glad of it.  Betting  is  a  pernicious 

practice. 

I hope they will stop it.’4 

“But they can’t do it.”
“Can’t do it? 
I’ll bet you 850  they can.”
The Cincinnati grocery clerks have organ­
ized a clerk’s  association, the  principal ob­
ject being to secure the early closing of gro­
cery stores.  The membership now numbers 
132 clerks.

Putnam  &  Brooks  are  headquarters  for 
fire-works  and  fire-crackers.  , Early  pur­
chases advised.

6

4

«

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.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICII.

FR E D .  D.  YALE.

D A N IE L   LY NCH .

SUCCESSORS  to

FID. D. YALE 4 CO.
CHAS. S. YALE & BRO.,
Baking Powders, Extracts, Blniis,
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, 

- 

MICH.

Starch.  It la all prepared for Immediate 
nee in One Pound F a cia l« « » , which 
go aa far a» two pounds of any other otaren.
Ask your Grocer for it.
Tie Electric Lustre Starcl Co,

JOHN C A U U X SX D  

Wholesale Agent,
I

~ 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

BULL  DOG
Tobaccos.
TRADE  UNION

-----AND-----

LABOR  UNION,

The largest amount of good tobacco for the 

least money.

AND  EXTRA  GOOD

F I 3 S T E   O T J T S

These goods are all UNION  MADE,  and 
each box is duly  stamped  with  the  Union 
Label.  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.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

These  prices  are  for  cosh  buyers,  who  paj 

promptly and buy in full packages.

D R IE D   FR U IT S— DOME!
Apricots, 25 ft boxes....................
v i  Cherries, pitted, 50 ft  boxes.......
Egg plums, 251b  boxes...............
Pears, 25 ft boxes........................
Peaches,  Delaware. .'0 ft boxes. 
Peaches, Michigan...

r 

-FOREIGN.

15
!  1 40 
,.  2 40 
.  12 00 
.10 00
2 DO
15

©  14
10„ _
©
©
© 4 Vi 
©3 25 
@2 75 
@2 40 
©2 00
@13

Paragon..........-  • -2 10  Raspberries. 50 ft boxes.
-------------------
Paragon25 ft pails.  901 
DRIED  FRUITS
Fraziers,25 ft pails. 1  25
Citron...............................
Currants........... :.............
Lemon Peel.....................
Orange Peel............................ 
Prunes, French, 60s...............................
Prunes, French, 80s..................................
Prunes, Turkey......................................
Raisins, Dehesia....................................
Raisins, London Layers.......................
Raisins, California  “ 
.......................
Raisins, Loose Muscatels.....................
............................. „ „ .......................  
Raisins, Ondaras, 28s.
Raisins’, Sultanas..................................
Raisins, Valencia..................................   ©19’*
Raisins,  Imperials.................................  ©® 99
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square.............................. 1 00
Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 gro......................1 ~p
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor......................1
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, parlor...........................- -a
Grand Haven,  No.  7, round...........................1 50
Oshkosh, No. 2..................................................*00
Oshkosh, No.  8..................................................1 50
Swedish........ .....................................................
Richardson’s No. 8  square.............................100
Richardson’s No. 9 
............................ J j*)
Richardson’s No. 7Vi, round................................1 00
Richardson’s No. 7 
.............................150
Black Strap...................................................15®17
Porto  Rico.....................................................-4©^9
New  Orleans,  good......................................28034
New Orleans, choice.....................................44©?0
New Orleans,  fancy..................... 
52@5o
Vi bbls. 2c extra.

25
doz.
45
doz.
35
doz.
65
doz.
$)  gross 3 50
7 20
12  00 
2  00
3 00
4 00

MOLASSES.

matches.

do 
do 

@
@@  20 @  15 

@  28 
@12*4 
@  23
21

SHORTS.

TEAS.

........161 Hiawatha................... 22
25 ; Our  Leader 
........ 23 Old Congress..............23
12 I Mayflower.
........ 22! May  Leaf...................22
Globe..........
........ 23! Dark...........................20
Mule Ear...
Japan ordinary......................................18©20
Japan fair to good...................................... ~a@30
Japan fine.....................................................“5@4o
Japan dust................................................... l*j@20
Young Hyson.........................................*¡@50
GunPowder............................................... --3o©50
Oolong............................................ 33®55©t5C
Congo.................................................... ®0S)O
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen.......  ©  72
Maccoboy..-...................  ©  55
©  44 
Gail & Ax’
©  35 
Rappee................
@  45 
Railroad  Mills Scotch..........
@1 30
Lotzbeck  ...........................
VIN EGA R.
50 gr. 
10 
10

30 gr. 
08 
08

SNUFF.

“ 

White Wine..................................
Cider.............................................
M ISCELLANEOUS.
Bath Brick imported.....................
American.....................
do 
Burners, No. 1 .................................
do  No. 2.................................
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand.......
Cream Tartar 5 and i01b cans.......
Candles, Star....................................
Candles,  Hotel.................................
Extract Coffee, V.  C.......................
F elix....................
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps................
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps................
Gum, Spruce....................................
Hominy, $  b b l...............................
Jelly, in 301b  pails..........................
Pearl Barley.................................. .
Peas, Green  Bush.........................■
Peas, Split  Prepared....................
Powder, Keg...................................
Powder, Vi  Keg..............................
Sage  ................................................

do 

1 25 

1 00 
1 50
15@25 
@12 Vi 
@14 
©80 
©25 
@35 
30@35 
©3 50 
© 4 Vi 
2«@ 3 
@1 25 
© 3 
@3 00 
@1 90 
©  18

a x l e   g r e a s e

Challenge...............  60
Frazer’s................. 
»0
Diamond  X ............  60
Modoc, 4  doz..........2 50

baking  powder.
Arctic, % 1b cans, 6 doz. case—
h  
“ 
•—
*4  “ 
1  “ 
5  “ 

Silver Spoon. 50  cans  ...... • -   ■
Victorian. 1 lb cans, (tall,) 2 doz.
Diamond,  “bulk,” .......................

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

* 
1
2 
1 

“
“

BLUING.

“ 

CANNED FISH.

“ 
* 
BROOMS.

Dry, No. 2......................................
Dry, No. 3.....................................
Liquid, 4 .....................................
Liquid, 8 .......................................
Arctic 4 ........................................
Arctic 8  .......................................
Arctic 16 oz................................................
Arctic No. 1 pepper box...........................
Arctic No. 2 
..........................
Arctic No. 3 
..........................
.3 00 
No  2 Hurl 
.......2 OOiParlor  Gem —
90
No. 1 Hurl!............. 2 ^Common Whisk
No. 2 Carpet...........2 50 Fancy  Whisk..........1  00
No. 1 Carpet...........2 75|Mill............................°  ™
....1  30 
Clams, 1 ft, Little Neck......................
....2  00 
Clams, 2 ft. Little Neck....................  ■
...2 15 
Clam Chowder,  3 f t ......................
....1 00 
Cove Oysters, 1  ft standards...........
...  1 75 
Cove Oysters, 2 ft  standards..........
....1  75 
Lobsters, lf t  picnic............................
....2  50 
Lobsters, 2 ft, picnic..........................
....2  00 
Lobsters, 1 ft star...............................
....3  00 
Lobsters, 2 ft star  . ........ - - • ...........
....1  10 
Mackerel, lf t   fresh  standards........
....4  25
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards........
..........3 00
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 f t .......
..........3 00
Mackerel,3 ft in Mustard..................
..........3 00
Mackerel, 3 ft  soused.............
... 1 45@1 50
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river..
..........2 35
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river..
..........7@8
Sardines, domestic « 8 ...........
.........  L2
Sardines,  domestic  *4s.............................
......  12
Sardines,  Mustard  *4..................................
14
Sardines,  imported  « 8 ...............................
Trout. 3ft  brook................................ —   4 uu

canned fruits.

Apples. 3 ft standards..........
..2 00@2 20
Apples,gallons,  standards..
........ 1  10
Blackberries, standards.......
........   95
Cherries,  red  standard........
........ 1  00
Damsons.................................
..1 20®1 25 
Egg Plums, standards 
.......
.  1 20©1 25
Green Gages, standards 2 f t .
........ 1 90
Peaches, Extra Yellow........
........1 60
Peaches, standards..............
........ 1 25
Peaches,  seconds..................
........ 1 50
Pineapples, standards.......
........2 60
Pineapples, Johnson’s sliced...
rrated.
Pineapples, Johnson’s,
....1  25 
Quinces
..1 20@1 30
Raspberries,  extra........................... I  7 $ |t ™
Strawberries  .....................................1

CANNED F R U IT S —C A L IF O R N IA .

Egg Plums...............
Grapes.....................
Green Gages...........
Pears...............  .......
Quinces....................
Peaches....................

Lusk’s. 
....2 25
........ 2 10
........ 2 10
........ 2  10
. 
....  2 50
* 
........... 2 50
................ 2 35
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay...................
Beans, Lima,  standanl...................
Beans, Stringiess, Erie.. •_..............
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked........
Corn,  Archer’s Trophy..................
“  Morning  Glory....................
“  Acme......................................
“  Maple Leaf......................
“  Excelsior...............................
Peas, French........... ........................
Peas, Marrofat, standard, Erie....
Peas  ........................ 
.................
Peas, Fink, Dwyer & Co.............. .
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden.....................
Succotash, standard.......................
Squash...................  .......................
TomatoeB, standard brands..........

CHEESE.

Mariposa. 
2 00
2 00 
1  80 
2 00 
2 20

...3 00 
...  80 
....  95 
....1 65 
....1 00 
....1  00 
....1 00 
....  90 
....1  00 
....1  65 
....1 50 
....  70

...75@1  40
....... 1  00
.1  15@1 20

Michigan  full  cream............................b
Half skim............................................... ...
Skim ........................................................d
Raker’s .................37*4¡German Sweet.
inkles’ ....................35! Vienna Sweet  .

CHOCOLATE.

COCO AN UT.

Schepps. cake box................................
*4s.........:............................
Maltby’s 1 ft  round...............................
assort  ,....................................
*48.......
Manhattan,  pails

** 
“ 
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C O FFEES.

@1154 
@10*4 ® 6
.......23

@27*4
©28
@26
@27
@28
@ 20

Green.

R io......................9@12
Golden Rio..............12
Santos......................1J
Maricabo.................13
J a v a .................20^25
O. G. Java............ -24
I Mocha  ....................25

Roasted.

R io......................7@15
Golden Rio..............16
Santos......................17
Maricabo.................17
¡Java.................. 24@26
[O. G. Java............... 24
¡Mocha......................25

CO FFEES—PACKAGE.

60 fts 100 fts 300 fts
XXXX...................... .............. 1374 13« 13«13/8
Dilworth’s ................
13V613%
Lion  .........................
Arbuckle’s  ...............
German....................
Magnolia................... :::::::::-is « 13*4 13
21
Silver King...............

13/813^
13&

r. .. . . . . . . . m

CORDAGE.

i foot Jute.......1 00  ¡50 foot Cotton.

ot J u te ....... 1 25  60 foot Cotton... .1
40 Foot Cotton__1 50  172 foot Cotton— *-
X  XXX
?

CRACKERS  AND  SW EET  GOODS.

.1  60
00

4*4

4*4
4*4

Kenosha Butter........................
Seymour Butter....................... 
Butter..................................
ancy  Butter.................• —
Oyster..............................
Picnic..................................
ancy  Oyster.....................
ancy  Soda........................
City Soda....................................
Soda  ...........................................
tilk............................................
Boston.......................................
ra h  a m ..............................................
Oat  Meal...................................
Pretzels, hand-made...............
Pretzels..................... ...............
Cracknels..................................
jemon Cream.................................. ..
Frosted Cream....................
*4
Ginger  Snaps.....................
No. 1 Ginger  Snaps...........
Lemon  Snaps.....................
Coffee Cakes.......................
Lemon Wafers...................
Jumbles..............................
Extra Honey Jumbles......
'rosted Honey  Cakes-----
Cream Gems.....................
Bagievs  Gems..................
Seed Cakes........................
S. &  M. Cakes....................
F IS H .

$   lb6*4

8
8
11*4
9*4
15*4
8*4

13*4
11*4
12*4
13*4
13*4
13*4
12*4
8*4

8*4
8*4
12*4
8*4

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

...  ©65 
Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth......
.3*4@4*4 
Cod, whole......................................
.. .5@6*4 
Cod,Boneless..................................
...  9@10 
Halibut........ .................................
00@2 25 
Herring, round.  *4  bbl................
...1   10 
Herring .round,  54  bbl................
-.1 1   00
Herring, Holland,  bbls..............
Herring, Holland,  kegs.............................°9@»5
Herring, Scaled.......
U n ..« in rr 
...5 50 
Mackerel, shore, No. 2, *4 hblSL-..
80
...  60 
» 
- .
...3 50 
No. 3, *4 bbls..........  .......
—.  62 
.  **  121b  kits..............
—.  55 
...........................
...2 50 
Shad, *4 b b l......................................
50@3 71 
Trout, *4  bbls..................................
...  75 
...............................
. —5 85 
White, No. 1, *4 bb ls.......................
...  80 
White, No. 1,12 1b kits....................
...  70 
White, No. 1.101b kits....................
...2 25
White. Family, *4 bbls....................
FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

“  10  “ 

•*  10  “ 

10 

“  

“  

Jennings' D. C.,2 oz........
“  4oz........

“ 

Lemon.  Vanilla.
1 40
....»  doz.  1 00
2 50
..............1  60
4 00
.................. 3 50
6 oz.....................
5 00
. — .3 50 
8 oz.....................
1 50
.„.1 25 
No. 2 Taper...  .
....1 75 
2  T5 
......
No. 4 
r‘ 
....4 50 
7 60
*4 pint, round - .
....9 00
15 00 
f  
I 
“ 
...
1 65 
No. 3 par hi........
4 25
No. 8 
r  .................? 75
6 00
NO. 10  “ .................*25

OATMEAL.

PICKLES.

Steel  cut.................5 OOlRolled Oats, Acme.5 7o
Steel Cut, Vi bbl... .2 75|Kolled Oats, Acme.3 00
Rolled  Oats............5 75|Quaker, 48  fts........ 2 25
Rolled Oats, V4bbl..3 «   Quaker, 60 fts........ 2 85
Rolled  Oats, cases.3 25 Quaker bbls........... 6 25
RolledOats,Shields’3 25|
Medium.................................................. 4 50©4
>i barrels........ .........................
Small........................................................
Imported Clay 3 gross..........................
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross...........
Imported Clay, No. 216,254 gross........
American T. D.......................................
Choice Carolina.......6*41 Java  ..............
Prime Carolina...... 5*4 P atna............
Good Carolina........5  !Rangoon.......
Good Louisiana...... 5  ¡Broken.
DeLand’s pure........5*4! Dwight’s ........
Church’s  ................ 5«!Sea  Foam —
Taylor’s G. M......... 554!Cap Sheaf....

50®®o 00
25@3 00 
©2 25 
@1 85 
75©  90

. .5«@5y4 
. .3«@3*4

SALERATUS.

PIPES.

RICE.

« c less in 5 box lots.

SALT.

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy.......................... .
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.  bags.......
American, dairy, *4 bu. bags.............
Rock, bushels.......................................
Warsaw, Dairy, bu.  bags....................

SAUCES.

@2 00 
Parisian, *4  pints.................................
©  70 
Pepper Sauce, red  small...................
©  80 
Pepper Sauce, g reen ..........................
@1 25 
Pepper Saufe, red  large ring...........
@1 50 
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring.......
©  80
Catsup, Tomato,  pints........................
.............   @1 20
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ....................
...........  
©3 50
Halford Sauce, pints..........................
.............. 
@2 20
Halford Sauce, *4 pints.......................
■SOAPS.
96 Napkin.................... 4  85
New Process, 1  ft.
85 Towel......................4  75
New Process, 3  lb.
75 White  Marseilles..5 60 
Acme,  bars..........
22 White Cotton  Oil..5 60
Acme,  blocks.......
08¡Shamrock............... 3 30
Best  American...
75 Blue Danube
Circus  .................. 
Big Five  Center...3 90 London  Family
Nickel..................... 3 45l Gem...................
Wholo.

Ground. 

SPIC E S.

,

“ 

__ 12@1

Pepper................ 16@25|Pepper.
Allspice. 
Allspice__
...18@30 Cassia... 
Cinnamon..
. ,15@25 Nutmegs 
Cloves  .......
.. ,16®20 Nutmegs 
inger .......
...15@30 Cloves  .. 
Mustard__
.. ,25®35l
Cayenne  ...
STARCH.
Electric  Lustre...........
Niagara,  Laundry.............
Niagara, gloss....................
Niagara, corn.....................
Royal,  corn........................
laundry..................
Quaker, laundry, 56ft........
SUGARS
Cut  Loaf.............................
Powdered............................
Granulated.  Standard.......
Confectionery A................
Standard A..........................
No. 1, White Extra  C........
No. 2, Extra C.....................
No. 3 C.................................
No. 4 C.................................
No. 5 C..................................
SY RUPS.
Corn,  barrels  .....................
Corn, *4 bbls..........................
Corn, 10 gallon kegs.............
Corn, 5 gallon kegs...............
Pure  Sugar, bbl....................
Pure Sugar, *4 bbl................
Pure Sugar  5 gal ketrs........

@18
.............  8@10
..........10@1l
No. 1..  @60 
No. 2. .*  @50 
........... 16@18

@3 20 
■J54@ 4© 554
© 654 
©  5*4 
4  ©  5 
@4 50
©  754 @ 7% 
6?s© 634 @ 6% © 654

6  @   6*g
534© 57» 
5*4© 5?s 
5*4© 5?a 
47«@ 5

22@26 
24®27 
@29 
1 35 
22@26 
24@28 
@1 50

CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

do 
do 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

STICK.
.............................   @ 9*4
......................10  @10*4
MIXED

Standard, 25 ft boxes.............................   @ 9
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
Royal, 25 ft  pails....................................  @ 9
Royal, 200 ft bbls....................................  © 8*4
Extra, 25 ft  pails....................................10  @10*4
Extra, 2001b bbls....................................  © 9*4
French Cream, 251b pails.....................   @1254
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases...............................  @12*4
Broken, 25  ft pails................................ 10  @10*4
Broken, 200 ft  bbls.................................  © 9*4
FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.
.... 13@14
Lemon  Drops....................................
....  @14
Sour Drops.........................................
....  @14
Peppermint  Drops..........................
15
Chocolate Drops............................... __  
18
H M Chocolate  Drops..................... __  
10
Gum  Drops  ......................................
¡23
.... 
Licorice Drops..................................
12
A B  Licorice  Drops......................... ....... 
15
Lozenges, plain................................. ....... 
16
Lozenges,  printed............................ ....... 
Imperials........................................... ....... 
15
Mottoes.............................................. ....... 
15
Cream  Bar......................................... .......13®14
Molasses Bar...................................... .......13@14
Caramels............................................ ....... 
18
Hand Made Creams.......................... .......18@19
17
Plain  Creams.................................... ....... 
Decorated  Creams............................ ....... 
20
14
String Rock....................................... ....... 
Burnt Almonds................................. .  ..  20@22
....... 
15
Wintergreen  Berries.....................
FANCY—IN  BULK.
Lozenges, plain in  pails.................. -.12  @12*4
Lozenges, plain in  bbls................
...11  @11*4
@13
Lozenges, printed in pails.............
...  @12
Lozenges, printed in  bbls.............
...12*4@13
Chocolate Drops, in pails...............
Gum  Drops  in pails
©   6* 
5  @ 5*< 
Gum Drops, in bbls.......................
Moss Drops, in  pails.....................
@10 
@ 9* 
Moss Drops, in b b ls......................
Sour Drops, in  pails.....................
@12 
12*4@13 
Imperials, In  pails.........................
11*4@12
Imperials  in  bbls..........................
Bananas  Aspinwall.....................
Oranges, California, fancy..........
Oranges, California,  choice........
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls................
Oranges, Florida.  ........................
Oranges, Valencia, cases.............
Oranges, Messina........................
Oranges,  Naples..........................
Lemons, choice........... ................
Lemons, fancy.............................
Lemons, California.....................
Figs, layers, new, 
ft................
Figs, Bags, 50 ft.............................
Dates, l'raits do  .......................... .
Dates, 54 do  d o ..........................
Dates, skin....................................
Dates, *4  skin...............................
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft..........
Dates, Fard 501b box $  lb............
Dates, Persian 501b box 19 1b.......
Pine Apples, 
doz.....................
PEANUTS.
Prime  Red,  raw  19  1b...........................   4
Choice 
d o ............................
Fancy H.P; do 
do  ............................
Choice White, Va.do  ............................  5
Fancy H P,. Va  do  ............................
H. P. Va...................................................
NUTS.
Almonds,  Tarragona........
Ivaca..................
California........
Brazils................................
Chestnuts, per bu..............
Filberts, Sicily...................
Barcelona...........
Walnuts,  Grenoble..........
Marbo...............
French.............
California........
Pecans,  Texas, H. P ........
Missouri...........
Coeoanuts, ^  100...............

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

FRUITS

do 

“ 
** 

.15 @16 
@15 
@15 
© 9
.11*4@12 
.10  @11 
.14*4® 15
!  8  @11 
@12 
.  9  @13 
.8*4©  9 
@4 50

. .6 00@6 25 
. .6 25(0)6 50 
..4  50@5 00 
-. 12*»@16 
..7   @ 7*4 
® 454 
..  © 5

...2 50@4 00 
...4 75@5 00 
...4 50@4  75

©to
8*4©  9 
@ 8
! 25@2 50

PRO VISIONS.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co. 

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

SMOKING

.65 Sweet  Pippin... 
70!

Our  Leadei*.,........... 33,01d  Time.....................35
Our Block..................60! ITnderwood’s Capper 3a
Yura  Yum fv...........25 Sweet  Rose................ 45
Sweet  Rose............. 32i  Meigs & Co.’s Stunner35
May  Queen..............65!  Atlas...........................jj“
Jolly  Time................40|  Royal Game............... 38
Dark AmericanEagle67 Mule Ear....................65
The Meigs.................62  Fountain.....................*4
Red  Bird...................50  Old Congress..............M
State  Seal.................60|GoodLuck...................52
Prairie F low er........ 6ojBlaze Away.......  — 35
Indian Queen.......... 60 Hair Lifter...................30
Bull  Dog................. *57!Jiin Dandy.................38
Crown Leaf............ 66|0ur  Bird..................... 28
Hiawatha.................62:Brother  Jonathan...28
..45
Globe  .............
May Flower... 
^Delivered.
........15|Unit  ........................... 30
Our  Leader-
........ 30 Eight  Hours..............24
Old Vet..........
........27 Lucky  ........................30
Big Deal........
........ 35 Boss  ..............-v......... 15
Ruby, cut  plu
Navy Clippings........ 26 Two  Nickel............... 24
Leader...................... 15 Duke’s  Durham........ 40
Hard  Tack................32 Green Corn Cob Pipe 26
D ixie......................... 28 Owl.  ............................16
Old Tar...................... 40| Rob Roy.......................26
Arthur’s  Choice.......22iUncle  Sam................. 28
Red Fox.....................261 Lumberman...............25
Flirt.......................... 28 ¡Railroad Boy................38
G old Dust................. 28! Mountain Rose............18
Gold Block............... 30; Home Comfort............25
Seal of Grand Rapids  ¡Old Rip. -......  ........ 60
(cloth)..................25 Seal or North Caro-
Tramway, 3 oz.........40  Lina, 2  oz - . —...........48
Miners and Puddlers. 28i Seal of North Caro-
lina, 4oz................... 48
Peerless  ....................24 
Standard.................. 20 Seal of North  Caro-
Old Tom....................18  Una, 8 oz 
- ...........45
Tom & Jerry.............24iSeal of North  Caro-
lina, 16 oz boxes.... 42
Joker...........
Traveler....................35! King Bee, longeut.. .2
...32
Maiden...........
...32
Pickwick Club 
-.30
Nigger Head..
Honand.«.......
i-26
German
K. of  L.

55 j Sweet Lotus —.
¡ri-.40iGrayling........
........ 26 Seal Skin.........
........ 221 Red Clover.  -
..lôjGood  Luck..—
__ 42®46!Honcy  Dew..

PLU G .

..................... 36i Patrol...............
...............37 Jack Rabbit--

36
Trade Union...
Quaker.......................
Labor Union............ *30
Bull  Dog................. *36
Splendid..................  38
Hiawatha................42
Old Solder...................40
Jolly Tar................... 32
Money........................44
Jolly  Time................*•
R ed lex......................42
Favorite................... 42
Big  Drive................. .40
Black  Bird................32
Seal of Grand Rapids 40
Live and Let  Live — .32'
.................... 40
Punch 
38
Big  Nig 
Spear Head..............39| Chocolate  Cream— 44
Old  Honesty............ 40 Nimrod.......................40
Whole Earth............ 32|E. C. -...........................»
Crazy  Quilt..............32jSpread  Eagle.............38
y ........... ................40| Big Five Center.........83
Spring Chicken........m  Parrot........................ 42
u 0xie 
...............34 Black Prince.............. 35
Blackjack............... 32 Black  Racer............... 85
Musselman’sCorker.JOiClimax  .....................42
Turkey......................301 Acorn  ..........................40
Dainty  ......................44IHorse  Shoe—........3 6
2c. less in three butt lots.
•Delivered. 

PO RK   IN   BARRELS.

quote  as follows:
Mess, Chicago packing, new..................
Clear,  S. P. Booth..................................
Short Cut, now.....................................   .
Back, clear, short  cut............................
Extra family clear, short cut..............
Clear,  A. Webster, new  .......................
Extra clear pig, short cut....................
Clear quill, short  cut............................
Boston clear, short cut.........................
Clear back, short cut............................
Standard clear, short  cut, best...........
DRY  SALT  MEATS— IN   BOXES.
long Clears, heavy...............................
medium.............................
light
Short Clears, heavy... 
medium, 
light

“ 
“ 
do. 
do. 

...11 00 
....11 00 
....12 50 
....12 00 
.... 12 50 
....12 75 
....12 75 
-..Id  00 
....13 00
__ 13 00
....13 25

6

. 
. 

CANVASSED  OR  PL A IN

LAUD.

ligh t......... -

LARD  IN   TIN   P A IL S .

.........9«
Hams, heavy..........................................................
........ 10
“  medium.......................................
........10«
.............................
“ 
........  9
Boneless  Hams......................................
.......6*4
Breakfast  Bacon..................................
Dried Beef, extra quality.................... —10*4@12
Dried Beef, Ham pieces................................ . .  12*4@14
............6«
Shoulders cured  in sweet pickle.........
6«
6«
30 and 50 ft Tubs...............................................
8«
501b Round Tins, 100 cases.........................
20 lb Pails, 4 pails in case...........................
6
7
3 1b Pails, 20 in a ease....................................
87»
5 1b Palls, 12 in a case.....................................
6«
101b Pails, 6 in a case ....................................
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts.. ............8 50
Boneless,  extra.................................................. ............13 OO
SAUSAGE—FR ESH  AND SMOKED.
Pork Sausage............................................
Ham  Sausage............................................
Tongue  Sausage.......................................
Frankfort  Sausage.................................
Blood  Sausage.
Bologna, straight.......
Bologna, thick.
Head  Cheese............................
P IG S ’  FEET.
In half barrels..............................................   3 50
In quarter barrels.

B E EF IN   BA RRELS.

• 
. 

FRESH  MEATS. 

Mohrhard  quotes  the trade  selling 
John
prices as follows:
5*4© 7*4
Fresh  Beef, sides............
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters..,.............   8  @ 9
Dressed Hogs......................................... 5*4© 5^
Mutton,  carcasses................................. 6  © 7
Spring Lamb...........................................  @11
V e a l...................................................................6  ©   6*4
Pork Sausage........................................7  @ 7
Bologna................................................... 6*4© 7
Fowls....................................................... 11  @12
Tlimlra
Turkeys  .................................................12  ©IP-

OUT  AROUND.

News and Gossip  Furnished  by  Our  Own 

Correspondents.

Hersey.

J. Sweet is having his skating rink build­
ing moved onto Main  street.  He will raise 
the roof ten feet and fit  the  building up for 
a hotel.

South  Manitou.

John J.  Gunn and B.  C. Green have form­
ed a copartnership  and  engaged in the pur­
chase and  sale of hemlock bark.
L.  F.  Sheridan,  of  Glen  Arbor, has  been 
buying potatoes on  the Island.  He bought 
several  hundred  bushels,  paying  25  cents 
per bushel.

Shiloh.

Shiloh has seventy-three inhabitants, hav­
ing received one accession by a birth in Post­
master Brown’s family.
T. R. Compton  &  Son  have  engaged  in 
the manufacture of  flat  hoops for the apple 
barrel trade.

Jackson.

Aldrich & Phillips succeed to the business 
E.  M.  Marsh  has  bought  the  furniture 
Martin & Giddings succeed Martin & Boy- 
A.  C.  Cowherd  has  sold  out  his  paper 
Clias.  L.  Pierce succeeds W. N.  Ilartupee 

of the Standard Broom Co.
stork of R. E.  Strong & Co.
lan in the drug business.
box business.
& Co.  in the hardware business.

Traverse  City.

Hannah,  Lay & Co.’s  new  dock is nearly 
completed.
Three hundred and twenty thousand cubic 
feet of square timber has been shipped from 
this  point this season.
Seven new phones have been added to the 
exchange during the past week.

Cadillac.

A good  move  in  the  right  direction has 
been made by many of  our merchant, who 
have  entered  into  a  mutual  agreement  to 
close  their  places  of  business  at 8 o’clock 
p.  m. on and after June  1,  excepting Satur­
days, Cummer  and G.  It. & I. paydays  and 
the  day  before  a  national  holiday.  The 
places  not  included  are  groceries,  drug 
stores  and  meat  markets, but  it  is hoped 
that  they,  too,  may  take  this  advanced 
sttep.  The  agreement  will  be  in  force 
three months and  will  undoubtedly be con­
tinued  after  that  time,  if  the  plan works 
satisfactorily.

Failure of the Eight-Hour Movement.

From the Chicago Current.

The  eight-hour  movement  failed.  No 
man  really knows  why.  Possibly  its  de­
feat was due to the throwing of the Chicago 
bomb.  Certainly  that  crime  made  a  re­
sumption of work at any price almost a pub­
lic necessity.  Men were in no mood to dis­
cuss  the right and  wrong of any  question,, 
much less one that  touched  their  pockets. 
With the  going  back  to  work,  which was 
necessary,  of course, the workingman aban­
doned his cause.  If eight hours eventuated, 
the  concession  came  voluntarily  from  the 
employer,  and  could not last  in the face of 
overwhelming  competition  by more greedy 
or less capable  manufacturers.  The  dyed- 
in-the-wool  “boss”  or  man-driver,  whether 
rich or poor,  has chuckled his voice register 
down an < ctave in celebrating the surrender 
of Labor, and the peaceable philosopher has 
been equally glad when he has reckoned the 
blessings of peace.  Why  did  not  the men 
ask for nine hours at nine hours’ pay? That 
is a mystery the Current has tried in vain to 
solve.  Probably they  reserved  nine hours 
for  a  hoped-for  compromise.  The  eight- 
hour movement  came  on  blindly. 
It  was 
like  a tidal  wave; it  was  from  the bottom 
upward; it roiled the- waters so that no man 
could see clearly; no prophet could forcast its 
length,  strength or duration. 
It  has ended 
as do nine out  of  ten movements that orig­
inate the same  way, for  they  may succeed 
only by revolution.  Against the  success of 
the eight-hour idea was ranged phalanx after 
phalanx  of  the  upper classes  of  society. 
Nearly  every man  in  America  who works 
less than  ten  hours a day  vowed  that the 
principle was wrong. 
In  fact,  we  remem­
ber that  the  eight-hour  attempt of  twenty 
years ago came nearer  success—did not soil 
itself  with  the  odium  of  the  classes  that 
woit:  short  hours.  Now  Labor  has  gone 
back;  he  has  signed  a  pledge  to  rat  his 
union,  and* he  half  believes  he  has  done 
wrong in the past.  With  this  penitent at­
titude good  Capital  is  half-pleased,  though 
still  very angry, and a working arrangement 
is  effected  only  through  the  escape-valve 
of a right valiant pursuit of anarchists.  Let 
the bomb-thrower reap his whirlwind!  The 
very ones he helped so much  will  blot  him 
out  if  that  shall  be  possible.  Meanwhile 
the good and  the bad of  Europe flow in, an 
uninterrupted  stream,  and  the  reason why 
wages were ro high twenty years ago is that 
since that time  seven  million laboring pair 
of  hafd  hands  have  come  from  the  Old 
World,  helping  to  do  the  work of this na­
tion.  Wages must fall.  There  is no other 
hope for American  labor.  But the hours of 
labor ought  to shorten,  or the Republic will 
be a flat failure,  like  all  European Govern­
ments.  There is,  it seems, little force from 
beneath society.  Let Mind now set to nine 
hours.  Let there  now be  Agitators among 
millionaires!

He Wanted the Job.

New boy—Say, boss, going to shut up yer 

store now?

Hardware Dealer—Yes; right away.
New boy—Do you shut up everything?
Hardware Dealer—Yes, everything.
New boy—Say,  boss, can  I  shut  up  the 

knives?

The Hardware Market.

Business is good  and  collections are fair. 
Nails are  a  trifle  weaker.  Barbed  wire is 
weak.  Other articles in the  liardware  line 
are about steady.

The Gripsack Brigade.

B. Dosker is working the city trade for P. 

Steketee & Sons.

D.  S.  Haugh  has  been  spending  a  fort­

night among the Upper Peninsula trade.

Cary & Loveridge are now represented on 
the  road  by  O.  A.  Perry  and  Wm.  Van 
Zee.
Frank Michmerhuizen is  now on the road 
for  P.  Steketee  &  Sons,  seeing  his  trade 
every three weeks.

D. E. McDowell,  general  agent  for  the 
Wassail  Fire Clay Co.,  of  Columbus,  Ohio, 
was in town a couple of days last week.

Dwight  K.  Hulbert,  for  several  years a 
wool  buyer at  this market,  is  now on  the 
road,  selling flour for a Winona, Wis., mill.
Wanted—A dog.  Must  be  one  that  can 
live  without  eating  and  be  proof  against 
neighbor’s bullets.  Apply  to  Yalda  John­
ston.
L. W.  Atkins,  general traveling represen­
tative  for  Ileavenrich  Bros.  &  Co., of De­
troit, put in a  couple of days at this market 
last week.

Charley  Robinson  went  frogging  with 
John Perry last  Friday and  had  almost as 
good luck as  he  did  on  his  fishing excur­
sion the week previous at Mecosta and Man- 
ton.
One of  the  boys  came  in  Saturday and 
said the  farmers through his  territory were 
so  busy 
that  trade  was  extremely  dull. 
When asked what  the  farmers were doing, 
he said they were thrashing their ties.

W. P. Townsend  is  the  happy possessor 
of a full-blooded rat  terrier  weighing  only 
a pound and ten  ounces.  This  knocks out 
Geo.  Owen  and  every  other  dog  fancier 
within  the  knowledge  of  T he  Trades­
man.
T iie T radesm an  is  requested  to call a 
meeting of the traveling men of Grand Rap­
ids, to be  Held  at  T he  T radesm an office 
Saturday evening, June 12,  for  the purpose 
of making preliminary arrangements for the 
third annual  picnic of  the  fraternity.  Let 
there be a general attendance.

Bulkley,  Lemon &  Hoops  have  engaged 
in the fish canning business.  As  yet,  oper­
ations are  not conducted  on a  large  scale, 
but 
increase.  L.  L. 
Loomis inagurated  the  new  departure last 
week by catching  twenty-two  perch at Fre­
mont and packing them in ai^oyster can.

the  business  may 

Pittsburg  Chronicle:  “I^^tice  that all 
the differences of the  drummers  have been 
settled,”  remarked  McSwilligan. 
“The 
drummers?” replied Squildig.  “There have 
been no differences with  them  that I know 
of.”  “No!  Well, I  certainly saw a  head­
ing,  ‘Brass  Men  in  Harmony,’  but  didn’t 
read the article.”'

D.  E.  Steams  writes  as  follows  from 
Albany,  Oregon:  “Please  send  me  copies 
two  last  number  of  T he  Tradesm an  to 
Los Angelos,  Cal.  This is a great  country 
for snow-capped mountains and other grand 
scenery,  but when  it  comes  to living,  give 
me Michigan  “straight” in  mine.  Sprinkle 
a  little  hydrant  water  on  those  papers  to 
make ’em smell home like.”

The first annual convention  of the Michi­
gan Division,  T.  P.  A., which  was  held  at 
Jackson last Friday and Saturday  was well 
atttended.  Grand Rapids being  represented 
by  Geo.  F.  Owen  and wife,  Leo.  A.  Caro 
and wife,  and several others.  C.  S.  Kelsey 
was put in nomination for State  President, 
and the following were elected  delagates to 
the Baltimore convention:  51. J.  Matthews, 
Louis  J.  Koster,  J.  L.  Macauley,  Tlios. 
Madill,  Detroit;  S.  II.  Sanford,  A.  F. 
Peake,  Clias.  W.  Gregg,  Edwy  Knight, 
Jackson;  Geo.  F.  Owen,  Leo A.  Caro,  A. 
A.  Hufford,  Grand  Rapids;  D.  G.  Crotty, 
Muskegon;  E.  L. Jones,  Battle Creek;  II. 
E.  Tremain,  Bay  City;  Clias.  Rosenberg, 
Bay  City;  M.  B.  Field,  Lansing;  W.  J. 
Richard,  Union City.

An  Aljiena  correspondent  writes:  Not 
since the  more  or less  indefatigable  Dave 
Beattie feasted on a chicken  frame at Clias. 
Golling’s  festive  board  has  Alpena  been 
favored with a more enjoyable incident than 
was afforded by the recent visit of the obese 
pants manufacturer, Sam Friedenberg.  Sam, 
as everybody knows,  is as fond of a joke as 
a duck is fond  of  water and  he never loses 
an  opportunity to indulge  his  j)encha.nt in 
this respect.  One of  his customers  here is 
surrounded by a  couple  of  assistants  who 
are  about  as  nervous  as  they  make  ’em 
Sam took keen  delight  m the going  up be­
hind these individuals and  scaring them  so 
they  literally  jumped  out  of  their  boots. 
After he had tried that  game  several times 
and was about to  repeat it  again,  some one 
sung out  “Hit him!” and  the  next moment 
Sam.  was gasping for breath  and somewhat 
sore from the concussion.  He soon realized 
that he was the  victim of a  conspiracy and 
he  spent  two  days  in  trying  to  find  the 
author of his  misfortune,  but his search re­
sulted as disastrously as the  attempt to find 
the man who struck Billy Patterson.
Lenawee County Dairy Notes.

G.  B.  Horton is  receiving  10,000  pounds 
of milk at his  home factory.  Rufus Baker 
and B.  E.  Peebles  are  getting  about  8,000 
pounds each.

More  cheese  was  manufactured  in  this 
county  in  May,  this  season,  than  ever be­
fore.

C.  D.  West  is making butter this season, 
having bought a creamery.  He markets liis 
butter in Detroit.

Good Words Unsolicited.

C. L.  Hasbrouck,  drugist,  Mention:  “Good 

paper.”

very much.”

good paper.”

Albert C. Gowdy, grocer, Stetson:  “I  like it 

Harvey  Grattan,  grocer,  Delta:  “A  very 

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

novia.

N. Bourn a, Fisher.
Dell Wright, Berlin.
Mr. Paton, Paton & Andrus, Shelby.
A. Ball, Morley.
Mr. Tanis, DenHerder & Tanis. Vriesland. 
John Dem8tra, Forest Grove.
H. Andre & Son, Jennisonville.
L. Cook, Bauer.
A. F. Harrison, Sparta.
H. M. Harroun, McLain.
M. Heyboer & firo.,  Drenthe.
Mrs. Mary Hammond,  Plainwell.
Wm. Karsten, Beaver Dam.
Mrs. Anna Mulder, Spring Lake.
J. D. Ritzeuia, Grand  Haven.
Miss Mary E. Snell, Wayland.
Walter Struik, Forest Grove.
C. O. Smedley, Byron Center.
M. P. Shields, Hilliards.
John Kamps, Zutphen.
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.
A. Purchase, South  Blendon.
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade.
Siduey Stark, Allendale.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
A. C. Adams, Ashton.
A. Norris, Norris & Son, Casnovia.
J. B. VanOrt, Holland.
N. O. Ward, Stanwood.
W. W. Bass, Lawrence.
O. B. Granger, Plainwell.
Paine & Field, Englishville.
Herbert  Hazeltine,  Hazeltine  &  Son,  Cas­
H. B. Irish, Lisbon.
J. Grutter,  Grandville.
W. F. ltice,  Alpine.
John Whitefora. Lake City.
John Gunstra,  Lamont.
Capt. Wm. Rose, Bass River.
M. Minderhout, Hanley.
Hugh Beggs,  Kalamazoo.
Gaylord & Pipp, Howard City.
D. N. White. Petoskey.
I. B. Smith, Wayland.
M. Koorman, Grand Haven.
G. S. TenRoor, Forest Grove.
Jas. Toland, Ross.
A. Wagenaar, New Holland.
J. J. Wiseman. Nunica.
D. H. Decker, Zeeland.
Dr. V. Sinz, Trent.
J.  H.  Woodward,  J.  H.  Woodward  & Co., 
Wm. Yarger, Freeport.
N. Brayton, Freeport.
Jas. Shavalier, Stevens  &  Shavalier,  Petos­
Miss Belle Miller,  Shelby.
Herder & Lahuis, Zeeland.
Moerdyk, DeKruif & Co., Zeeland.
John Schölten, Overisel.
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg. 
C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville.
Jacob Heerenga, East Saugatuck.
J. F. Hacker, Corinth.
G. W. Bevins, Tustin.
Hibbard Ingalls, Newberry.
Neal McMillan. Rockford.
Severance & Rich, Middleville.
Wm. McMullen, Wood Lake.
H. M. Freeman, Lisbon.
Geo. F. Cook, Grove P. O.
C. O. Smedley, Byron Center.
C. S. Comstock, Pierson.
E. I. Hewes.oNewaygo.
Paine & Field, Englishville.’1 
W. S. Root, Tallmadge.
Geo. Lentz, Croton.
J. W. Closterhouse, Grandville.
G. W. Stevens, Austerlitz.
A. C. Barkley, Crosby.
C. O. Bostwick & Son,  Cannonsburg.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
Wm. Karsten, Beaver Dam.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
Wm. Borst, Vriesland.
C. Hage, Grandville.
O. Sanders, Rockford.
H. Campbell, Hudsonville.
H. A. Croger, Cascade.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
Stanley  Monroe, Berlin.
J. Ornler, Wright.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
It is claimed that the popular drink of the 
future will  be  milk  charged  with carbonic 
acid gas.  Milk so charged keeps well.

Frankfort.

*

key.

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.
Apples—Entirely out of market.
Asparagus—35c per doz. bunches.
Beans—Local buyers pay 50e@75c  $   bu.  for 
unpicked  and  hold  ordinary hand-picked  for 
81.10@fl.15.

Beans—String,  f  1.75  for % bu. crate.  Wax, 

f2.25 $  % bu. crate.

Beets—New, 40c $  doz. bunches.
Butter—Michigan  creamery  is  in  poor de­
mand at 17@18c.  Dairy is a drug on the market 
at 12@14c.

Butterine—Solid packed is weak at 14c.
Cabbages—S4 per crate  of about fifty heads.
Cabbage Plants—35c  100.
Carrots—25c $   doz.
Cucumbers—05c  doz.
Cheese—April  and  May  stock  of  Michigan 

cheese is in good demand at ll@UlAc.

Dried Apples—Quartered and sliced,  3®3Vic. 

Evaporated, 6V4@7c, according to quality.

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

bers pay 9@lUc and sell for 10@10V4c.

Honey—Easy at  13@14c.
Hay—Bailed Is dull at f  14 per ton  in two and 

five ton lots and f  13 in car lots.

Lettuce—12c 19 ft.
Maple Sugar—7@8c.
Mint—Out  of market.
Onions—Green, 12@25c $  doz. bunches.  Ber­
mudas,  $2.75 ty Ru. crate.  New  Orleans, $2.50 
per IVt bu. sack or $4.50  bbl.
Peas—Green. $1.50 $  bu. box.
Pop Corn—Choice new commands  2V4c  $   ft 

and old 3c $  ft.

Potatoes—Old stock is completely played out. 
New Memphis are in  good  demand  at  $2  per 
bu. sack.  New California command $3^2 bu. 
sack.

Pieplant—lc 14 ft.
Poultry—In  fair  supply.  Fowls  sell  for 
10@10V4c; turkeys, 12c.  Ducks are out of mar- 
k©t#

Radishes—18c $  doz.
Spinach—70c fi bu.
Strawberries—Ohio  and  Illinois  berries  are 
in  good  demand  at  $5@$6  14 2 bu. stand  and 
Michigan  berries  are  grabbed  up  as  fast  as 
they  come  in  at  $214 box of 16 qts.  There  is 
every  indication  that  prices  will  go  much 
lower before the week is out.

Tomatoes—Florida, too high for this market.1
Tomato Plants—40c $4100.

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

Wheat—Lower.  The  city  millers  pay  as 
follows:  Lancaster,  79;  Fulse,  76c;  Clawson, 
76c.

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

lots and 3S@40c in carlots.

Oats—White, 40c in small lots  and 34@35c  in 

car lots.

Rye—48@50c 14 bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.26 If cwt.
Flour—No  change.  Fancy Patent, $514 bbl. 
in  sacks and  $5.25 in  wood.  Straight, $4.20  14 
bbl. In sacks and $4.45 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.7514 bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $13  1? ton.  Bran, $12 
14 ton.  Ships, $1314 ton.  Middlings, $131* ton. 
Corn aHd Oats, $17  14 ton.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock  Bark—Local  tanners  are  paying 
$4.75  per  cord  for  old bark, and making con­
tracts for new bark on the  basis  of  $5.50 per 
cord, delivered, cash.

Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay  $1.75  1!  ft  for 

clean washed roots.

Allen Brewer, general dealer, Frankfort:  “It 
is a good paper and worth all you  ask  for it.”
A.  M.  LeBaron,  general  dealer,  Levering: 
“Cannot get along without The Tradesman.”

Rubber Boots and Shoes—Local  jobbers  are 
authorized to offer standard goods at 35  and 5 
per cent, off, and second quality at 35,5 and 10 
per cent off.

The  Red  Flag.

“Yes,” said a  husband  sadly,  “my wife 
is a devotee of the red flag.  The very sight 
of one arouses her to a  high pitch of excite­
ment.”

“Surely she cannot have any sympathy in | 

common with such cutthroats.”

“Yes,  she has.”
“What, Anarchists and Socialists?”
“No, auctioneers.” 

*

Exceeding the Limit.

Prisoner—He said he didn’t believe in the 
eight-hour  system;  your  Honor,  and  so  I 
struck him.

Magistrate—You  want  eight  hours,  do 

you?

Prisoner—Yes,  your Ilonoi1.
Magistrate—I can do  better  than that for 

you. 

I’ll give you ninety days.

PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY

E N G I N E 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.

"hah:***&$£>*

W ,  O,  I> enlaon,

88,90  and 92 South  Division  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

H ESTE R   &   FOX,
Saw and Grist Mill  Machinery,
Planers,  Matchers,  Moulders  and  all 

M anufacturers’  Agents for

kinds of Wood-Working Machin­

ery, Saws, Belting and Oils.

Depot fo r  Independence  Wood  Split  Pulley.  Large 
stock kept on hand.  Send  for  sample  pulley  and  be 
e6n*e convinced of th e ir superiority.  W rite for prices 
ISO Oakes St., 
-  Grand Kapids, Midi.

“ 

“ 

COAL  AND  BUILDING  MATERIAL». 
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follow !
Ohio White Lime, per  bbl.................
1  00
Ohio White Lime, car lots................
85
Louisvillo Cement,  per bbl...............
1  39
Akron Cement per  obi.....................
1  30
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl...................
1  30
Car lots 
..................
.1  05©1  10
Plastering HRir, per bn.....................
.  2 5©   30
Stucco, per bbl....................................
1  75
Land plaster, per ton.........................
d  59
Land plaster, car lots........................
. 
2  50
Fire brick, per  M...............................
.$ 2 5  @  $35
Fire clay, per bbi...............................
3  00
Anthracite, egg aud grate, car lots. $5  75®  6  00
6  l.O®6  25
Anthracite, stove and  nut, car lots.
Cannell,  car lots.................................
@ 6  (,0
Ohio Lump, car  lots..........................
3  10@o  25
H loss burg or Cumberland, car lots.
4  50® 6  00
Portland  Cement...............................
3  50@4  00
OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

COAL.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotea^as follows:

OYSTERS.

FR ESH   F IS H .

New York  Counts............................. ...............40
Cod  ......................................................
@ 10
@7
Haddock..............................................
Mackinaw Trout.................................
@ 6
@4
Perch....................................................
"Smelts.................................i ................ ..1 0   @11
Whiteflsh............................................
@ 7

COOPERAGE.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

HEADS.

STAVES.
“ 

Ouay, Killen &  Co,  quote  as follows, f. 0. b.

at  Grand  Rapids.
Red oak flour bbl. staves.............M 6  50®   7  00
........... .M 5 50®  6 00
Elm 
White oak tee staves, s’d and j’t.M 20 00@23 00 
“  M 18 50@20 00
White oak pork bbl. 
Tierce, dowelled aud circled, set__  
15@  16
“ 
Pork, 
" 
.... 
12®  13
Tierce  heads,  square...............$4 M 23 09@26 90
Pork bbl. “ 
...............$  M  18 00@20 00
Basswood, kiln dried, set........... 1__  
4@  454
White oak and hickory tee, 8f’t.  M 11 00@12 50 
White oak and hickory  “  7V£f’t.M  10 00@11 00
Hickory  flour  bbl......................... M  7 00® 8,25
“  ......................... M  6 25®  7 00
Ash, round  “ 
Ash, flat racked, 6Vi f t ................. M  3 50® 4 25
White oak pork barrels, h’d m'd.M  1 00®  1 10
85® 
White oak pork barrels,machine.. 
95
White oak lard  tierces...................  1  15® 1 25
Beef and lard half  barrels.............  
75®  90
1 00® 1 10
Custom barrels, one  head............ 
Flour  barrels.................................... 
30®  37
Pro¿uce  barrels................ .............. 
23®  25

BA RR ELS.

H O O PS .

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

The furniture factories  here  pay  as  follows 
for dry Btock:
Basswood, log-ruu..............................  @13 00
Birch, log-run................   ..................16 00@20 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and  2.............................   @25 00
Black Ash, log-ruu.............................   @13 00
Cherry,  log-run................................... 25 00@30 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  an¿ 2...........................45 00@50 00
Cherry,  cull......................................... 
@10 00
Maple,  log-run............................. 
15 00@17  00
Maple, soft,  log-run........................... 12 00@14 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2.............................. 
@20 00
Maple, clear, flooring........................  
@25 Oo
Maple, white, selected.......................  @25 0q
Red Oak, log'-run................................. 
@18 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2...... 
@22 00
Red Oak. No.  l.step  plank............... 
@25 00
Walnut, log-run...................................  @55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2..........................   @75 00
Walnuts,  culls................ 
@25 00
Grey  Elm, log-run..............................  @13 00
White Ash, log-run............ » ..........14 00@16 00
Whltejfood,  log-run................ 
  @23 00

 

 

 

 

Ü

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.

AUGERS AND BITS.

BELLS.

BALANCES.
BARROWS.

Ives’,  old  style........................................distí0&10
N.  H. C. Co.............................................. dis80&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
Rand..............................................dis  $ 60&10&10
Cow.................................................. dis 
60&10
Call.................................................. dis, 
3Ü&15
Gong................................................dis 
25
Door, Sargent................................ dis 
60&10
40
Stove......................................................dis $ 
Carnage  new list................................dis 
80
PJow  ......................................................dis  30&1C
Sleigh Shoe........................................... dis 
75
Wrought Barrel  Bolts........................dis  60&10
Cast  Barrel  Bolts................................dis  60&10
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs................... dis 
60
Cast Square Spring............................. dis 
60
Cast Chain —   ................................... dis  60&10
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............ dis  60&10
Wrought Square.................................dis  60&10
»> rought Sunk Flush..........................dis 
60
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
...................................................dis  60&10
T 
Ives  Door.............................................dis  60&10

BOLTS.

BRACES.

Barber..................................................d isf 
40
Backus..................................................dis  50&10
Spofford................................................ dis 
50
Am. Ball................................................dis 
net
Well, plain...................................................$  350
Well, swivel.................................................  
400

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured......................dis 
70&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........dis 
J&10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..dis  60&10 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  C0&10
Wrought  Loose  Pin...........................dis 
60&10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip.......... dis 
60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned.......... dis  60&  5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tipped......................  ....................... dis  60& 5
Wrought Table.................................... dis 
10&60
10&60
Wrought  Inside  Blind.......................dis 
Wrought brass............................ 
75
dis 
Blind, Clark’s....................................... dis 
80&10
B ind, Parker’s ....................................dis 
80&10
Blind,  Shepard’s................................. ¿is 
70

CAPS.

Ely’s 1-10. .............................................per  m $65
Hick s C. h .............................. 
«0
35
Musket................................................... 
60

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CATRIDGE8.

CHISELS.

Him Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester  new  list50&10
Rim  Fire, United  States......................... ¿isó0&10
Central Fire.............................................. disSO&lO
Socket Firmer......................................dis  75&10
Socket Framing.................................. [dis  75&10
Socket Corner...................................... dis  75&10
Socket Slicks........................................dis 
75
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer..................dis 
40
Barton’s Socket  Firmers................... ¿is 
20
Cold........................................................net

COMBS.

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

COCKS.

C O PPER .

12 

.....

dis 

D R ILLS

ELBOW S.

EX PA N SIV E B ITS.

files—New List.

22 and  24,  25 and 26,

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

Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................
ft  28 
...  31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60................
Cold Rolled, 14x48............................. .[[.........   49
Morse’s Bit  Stock.............................   dig 
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 
V6&10
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26  00. 
20
Ives’, 1. $18 00 :  2, $24 00 ;  3, $30  00.  dis
American File Association  List.......... dis  55&10
Disston’s ................................................. dis  55&10
New  American....................................... dis  55&10
Nicholson’s..............................................dis  55&10
Hefler’s 
................................................dis  55&10
Heller s  Horse Rasps............................ dis  55&10
Nos. 16 to 20, 
28
List 
18

GA LVANIZED  IRO N ,
d 26,  27
13 
14
i 
15
Discount, Juniata 50@10, Charcoal 60. 
rcoal 60.
GAUGES.
Stanley Kule and Level Co.’s.
...... dis
50
HAMMERS.
Maydole & Co.’s.......................
...... dis
25
Kip’s .........................................
...... dis
25
Yerkes  &  Plumb’s ................
.......dis
40&1G
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel....... 
.......30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 e 40&io 
HA NG ERS.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co.
., Wood track 50&10
Champion,  anti-friction.......
................ dis 60&1Ü
Kidder, wood  track...............
................ dis
40
H IN G ES.
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3.............
................ dis
60
State.....................
—  per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and i
12  in.  4V4  14
aud  longer.......
354
Screw Hook and 1
................ net
10V4
Screw Hook and Eye %..........
................ net
8V4
Screw Hook and Eye  \
.................net
7V4
Screw Hook and Eye,  %................
................ net
7V4
Strap and  T .................
65
...............dis
HOLLOV
rA R E.
Stamped Tin Ware.......
30
Japanned Tin  Ware...
Granite Iron  Ware__
25
Grub  1  ..............................................$11 00, dis 60
Grub  2...............................................   11 50, dis 60
Grub 3.................................................  12 00, dis 60
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...........dis
45
dis
Door, porcelain, jap.  trimmings__
45
Door, porcelain, plated  trimmings.......
45
Door, porcelain, trimmings..
45
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain.........dis
dis
70
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s
40&10
Hemacite...........................  
dis
.dis
45
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.'s new list, .dis
45
dis
Mallory, Wheeler &  Co.’s .................... dis
dis
45
Branford’s ..........................
.dis
45
Norwalk’s ............................
dis
45
LEV ELS.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s....................dis  70
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.’s Malléables  dis 
Coffee, Landers, Ferry &  Clark’s ........ dis
Coffee,  Enterprise.......................................dig  25

LOCKS— DOOR

MATTOCKS.

MAULS.

KNOBS.

M ILLS.

HOES.

MOLASSES GATES.

Stebbin’s Pattern.......................................dis  70
Stebbin’s Genuine.......................................dis  70
Enterprise,  self-measuring.......................dis  25

N A ILS.

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

lOdto  60d....................  ..................... $  keg $2  15
8d and 9 d adv...............................................  
25
6d and 7d  adv................................................ 
50
4d and 5d  adv................................................ 
75
3d advance....................................................   1  50
3d fine advance...........................................  3 00
Clinch nails, adv...........................................  175
Finishing 
Size—inches  |  3 
Adv. ^ keg 
Steel Nails—2 SO.
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent......................dis60&i0
Zinc, with brass bottom............................. dis  50
Brass or  Copper.......................................... dis  50
Reaper..................................... per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s .................................................   50&I0

I  lOd  8d 
2V4 
$1 25  1 50  1 75  2 00 

6d  4d
2 
1V4

O IL E R S.

PLA N ES.

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 50&10
Common, polished................................  ,dis60&10
Dripping................................ 
R IV E T S.
Iron and Tinned.....................................dis 
Copper Rivets and  Burs.....................dis 

PANS.

 

 

40
6Q‘

V

PATENT FLANI8AED IRON.

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

Broken packs Vic ^ ft extra. 

r o p e s . 

„

Sisal, H In. and  larger..................................   8Vi
Manilla.............................................................  13VÍ
Steelandlron........................................ dis 
70
Try and Bevels.......................................dis 
60
Mitre  .....................................................dis 
20
„  Com. Smooth.  Com.

SHEET IRON.

SQUARES.

All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 30 inches 

Nos. 10 to 14.....................................$4 20 
Nos. 15 to  17 ..................................   4  20 
Nos. 18 to 21...................................   4 20 
Nos. 22 to 24...................................   4 20 
Nos .25 to 26...................................   4 40 
No. 27..............................................  4 60
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
ft............................. 
In casks of 600 lbs, 
In smaller quausities, $   lb..................... 
TACKS.
American, all  kinds.............................dis 
Steel, all kinds.......................................dis 
Swedes, all  kin ds...............•...............dis 
GimpandLace..............................  ...dis 
Cigar Box  Nails................................... dis 
Finishing  Nails..................................... dis 
Common and Patent  Bra¿s................dis 
Hungarian Nails andMiners’ 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............................ 

TINNER’S SOLDER.

TIN  PLATES.

$2 80
2 90
3 00
3 10
3 20

5Vi
6
60
60
60
60
50
50
50
50
50
45
35
12 50
15 00
16 50

rates.

TIN—LEADED.

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.
10x14, Charcoal...............................  5 75
IC, 
10xl4,Charcoal...............................  7 25
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal...............................   6 25
IC, 
12x12, Charcoal...............................  7 75
IX, 
14x20,Charcoal...1. ..........................  5  75
IC, 
14x20,  Charcoal...............................   7 25
IX, 
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal................................  8 75
IXXX, 14x20, Charcool...............................  10 77
1XXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal............................  12 55
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 ad¿ 1 50 to 6 75 
Roofing, 14x20, IC..............................................  5 25
Roofing, 14x20,  IX............................................   6 75
Roofing, 20x28, 1C.........................................  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, Game.....................................................60&10
Onei¿a;Communtity,  Newhouse’s..........¿is  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s..60&10
Hotchkiss’  .....................................................60&10
S, P. & W.  Mfg.  Co.’s...................................60&10
Mouse,  choker............. ..........................ISc  doz
Mouse,  delusion.................................$1 50 ¥  doz
Bright  Market.......................................   dis  67V4
Annealed Market.................................dis 
70
Coppered Market................................... dis  62Vi
Extra Bailing............................................  dis  55
Tinned  Market.......................................dis  62Vi
Tinned  Broom..........................................$JJb  09
Tinned Mattress.......................................¡g ft  8Vi
Coppered Spring  Steel..................dis 40@40&10
Tinned Spring Steel................................. dis  50
Plain Fence...............................................$  1b 3Vi
Barbed Fence, galvanized............................... 4Vi
painted.................................... 33f
Copper............................................... new  list net
Brass................   ...............................new list net
Bright..............................................dis  70&10&10
Screw Eyes......................................dis  70&10M0
Hook’s ............................................ dis  70&10&10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes..................dis  70&10&10

WIRE GOODS.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

“ 

WRENCHES.

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

BirdCages............................................... . 
50
Pumps,  Cistern....................................¿is  70&10
Screws,  new  list.............................   75@10
Casters,  Bed  and  Plate..............disóO&lü&lO
Dampers. American.......................  40&10
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods. .60&10&5 
Copper  Bottoms.............................. 
21e

LUMBER. LATH  AND SHINGLES.

The Newaygo Manufacturing Co, quote f. o. 
b. cars  as follows:
Uppers, 1 Inch..................................per M $44 00
Uppers, IV4, lVi and 2 inch........................   46 00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35 00
Selects, IV4,1 Vi and 2  Inch.........................  38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  30 00
Shop, 1 inch.................................................  20 00
Fine, Common, 1J4, lVi and 2 inch...........   25 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet  ...  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  16 pO
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet........  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20feet..........................   17 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet........................   14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........  11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet........................   13 00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls,  al
widths and  lengths..........................8 00  9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in ............................  33 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................  27 90
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths..........................   15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet.................  12 00
No. 2 Fencing. 16 feet................................. 
  12 00
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch...................................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch...................................  12 q0
Norway C an¿ 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__  
9 00
Bevel Siding,  6 inch,  Clear.......................   20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16ft............  11 00
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B....................  36 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..........................   29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common..  17 00
Dressed Flooring 6 in.. No. 2 common__   14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00 ad¿itiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in.,A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooriftg, 4 in., C..........................   26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com’n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com’n  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
( X X X 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............  
3  10
■(XXX18 in.  Thin.............77.................... 
3 00
2 75
( XXX 16 in........, ...................................... 
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
1  75
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 18  in.............................. 
1  40
Lath  ....................................................   1  75® 2 00

HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

HID ES.

@10
@50

|Calf skins, green

Green__ W ft  @ 6 
Parteurea...
  8
Full cured 
Dry hides and 
kips............  6

7@ 7V4|  or cured__ 8
@  8Vi Deacon skins,
$  piece.......20
@  8
SH EEP  PELTS.
Old wool, estimated washed 
ft.... ..20  @22
Tallow.................................................. ..  2V4@ 3
Fine washed $  1b 2®@22jUnwashed.......... 
Coarse washed... 18@22|

W OOL,

2-3

WOODEN WARE.

Standard  Tubs, No. 1......................... ............5 50
Standard  Tubs, No. 2......................... ........... 4 50
Standard  Tubs, No. 3......................... ........... 3 50
Standard Pails, twohoop................ ........... 1 25
Standard Pails, three hoop............... ........... 1 50
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes............. ............2 00
Butter  Pails, ash............................... ............2 50
Butter Ladles...................................... ........... 1 25
Rolling Pins......................................... ........... 1 00
Potato Mashers.................................. ...........   75
% ‘Î5
Glothes Pounders...............................
Clothes Pins......................................... ...........   65
Mop Stocks................ ......................... ............1 25
Washboards, single............................ ........... 1  75
Washboards, double.......................... ............2 25
Diamond  Market............................... ...........   40
Bushel, narrow band......................... ........... 1 60
Bushel, wide band.............................
Clothes, splint.  No. 1......................... ............3 50
Clothes, splint,  No. 2......................... ............3 75
$  
Clothes, splint.  No. 3........................ ............4 00
Clothes, willow  No. 1......................... ........... 6 00
Clothes, willow. No. 2......................... ............7 00
Clothes, willow  No. 3............. .......... ............8 00

BA SK ETS.

1b 6

P R IC E   LIST.  H O U SEH O LD   DEF^LHLTÜÆEISrT.  P A R T   r7.

Terms Gash.  Thirty days allowed on approved credit.  On^per cent, discount for Cash in Ten Days.  We present a few more specialties from our Household Department stock, showing 
a staple, regular line of rapid sellers that will find their place in every PROGRESSIVE  MERCHANT’S store.  In addition to the immense variety of goods shown in these  last  42  columns,  we 
carry the LARGEST  STOCK and  GREATEST  VARIETY  of Glassware and Crockery shown in the State.  WE  MEET  ALL  COMPETITION  AT  HOME  OR  ABROAD.

87

38

3 8

1 00

4 00
4 30

5 09

5 25

9 25

4 25

4 35

4 25

Memorandum Books.

$  doz.  Gross.

GROCER  OR  GENERAL  STORE 
PASS  BOOK.  16  to  18  leaves,
printed leatherette cover..........  10 

No. 9%, Leatherette cover, 6x3%  in.
50 leaves, opens on  the  end.  A
staple............................................   35 
No. 37%.  Same style, 6%x4  inches.  38 
No. 504, open on  side,  fancy  cover,

48 leaves, size 6x3%.....................   42 

No. 665, open end, imitation alligator 
cover, splendid ruled stock, size
6x3%, 36 leaves..............................  45 

No. 654, same  style  as No. 665,  only

containing 72 leaves.....................  80 
Students’ Exercise Books.

No. 49, Students’  Note  or  Exercise 
Book.  8%x5%, 36  leaves,  black
printed leatherette  cover..........  37 

No. 47% Students' Note  or  exercise 
book.  8%x5%, elegant black and 
gold colors, on  assorted  covers, 
blue,  black  and  red, 32 leaves, 
open  end,  fine  white  ruled pa­
per .................................................   40 

No. 540,Student’s composition book, 
open  sides,  finest  grade  white 
paper, black and gold covers, 12
leaves,  8%x7.....................  
 
No. 546, Students’composition book, 
open side, finest grade white pa­
per, 
imitation  alligator  skin 
cover, bright colors.....................   80 

38 

 

9 25
Lead Pencils-“Eagle Pencil Co.”
These  are  Standard  Goods,  and  will  be 

found much below the regular prices.
Eagle,  Assorted,  6  kinds  in box,  1
doz. each style, per  box.............  

Perfection, cedar, rubber inserted.. 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

red, 
black, 

. . 1 4  
. . 1 4  
Plain Cedar, round, 6  in .....................  08 
7  in .....................  09 
hexagon,7 in.................  09 

« 
“ 

“ 

1 25
$  doz.  Gross.
13  140
1  50
1  40
85
1  00
ICO

Keeping Store for Money.

From the American Storekeeper.

If  two  or  more  merchants  in  the same 
town, or at competing points,  cannot  agree 
like men to stop cutting and  to  sell staples 
at  a  living  profit,  it  will  pay  any one  of 
them to stop the  practice  short  off, and  to 
step out,  alone,  if need  be,  in  the  path  of 
keeping  store  for  money.  No  live store­
keeper need be forced into “marking-down” 
by the unbusinesslike example of  his  com­
petitors.  There are  other ways of keeping 
trade.  Customers  whose  trade  is  worth 
having  are  bright  enough  to  appreciate, 
when told,  that they cannot  get  something 
for nothing,  and that the merchant who pre­
tends to deal with them  on  that  basis  has 
sinster designs on their pocket-books. 
It is 
better to stop cutting and unprofitable  sell­
ing  by  consent  and  agreement,  and  an 
earnest  effort  to  establish  such  an under­
standing is advisable, but it is well  to  stop 
it anyway.

Another  Strike  Averted.

The  striking  mania  reached  the  thirty 
girls  at  work  in  Will  Lamoreaux’s  bean 
picking  establishment  the  other  day.  A 
committee of three waited upon the proprie­
tor,  and,  as  they  entered  the  office,  he 
asked:

“Is it a strike?”
“That  depends.  We  have  come  to  de­
mand,  not  increased  pay or  shorter  hours, 
but the removal  of  the  paint  on  the  win­
dows,  so that we can flirt with the  boys  in 
the house opposite.”

“Are you determined?”
“No flirt, no stay.”
“Your demand  is  granted.  Go  back  to 

your beans.”

And  that  afternoon  the  paint  was  re­
moved and the girls sang the  songs  of  vic­
tory.

W hat He Wanted.

“I want,” he said,  as  he  helped  himself 
to a light lunch of  cheese,  “ ten  pounds  of 
sugar,  a pound of tea and a  dozen lemons.”
“You know what I told you,  Mr.  Slugg,” 

said the grocer.

“I recall the  insult  perfectly, Mr.  Soper; 

but this time I want to pay cash.”

He  got  his  goods, and  was walking  to­
ward the door with  them,  when  the  grocer 
said:

“Here you, Slugg,  I thought  you wanted 

to pay cash?”

“So  I  do,  rejoined  the  other;  but,  un­

fortunately, I can’t.”

Stationary  and  Paper  Depart­

ment.

All  goods  warranted  first-class standard 
quality on our usual low scale of prices and 
may be relied upon  as  “every-day sellers.”
W riting  Paper  and  Envelopes.
3 lb Note “Excelsior” per ream........  —  
39
“ 
................  
51b  “ 
60
“ 
61b  “ 
................. 
72
................   1 20
10 lb Letter 
“ 
10 lb Foolscap  “ 
.................  1 30
No. 5 XX Envelopes,  White,  250  in  box, 
good,  heavy  quality,  positively  no 
poor envelopes in our stock. 

—   115

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

No. 6, XX.  Same quality....................125
NO. 69, 5s, EXTRA  WEIGHT, white, $  M  1  20 
NO. 69,6s, Extra weight, white..........$  M  1 50

W riting Tablets.

fldoz.  Gross.
2,40

4 00

8 50

No. 1x2.  Pencil tablets, 3x6 inches.  22 
No. 456.  Manhattan  tablets,  with 
beautiful  chromo-lith  cover,
ruled, 6%x9 in...............................  35 

No. 266.  MANHATTAN TABLETS, 
with  same  rich  chromo  cover,
ruled  8x11%  inch........................   72 

GARDEN CITY, No. 0, note size, 60 
sheeta  extra  heavy  paper  and
extra quantity in  each...............  35

GARDEN  CITY, No.  100.  6x10  in.,
in  each,  contains 

80  sheets 
double the quantity in No. 0—   70 

GARDEN  CITY. No. 00,  8x10  inch,
120 sheets.  This is the very larg­
est ten cent size offered  in  any 
market.  Fine  quality paper...  70 

GARDEN  CITY  No.  36.  For  pen 
and ink.  Fine glazed  ruled  pa­
per.  80 sheets in  each  tablet..  70 

“FAVORITE” Letter  size,  for pen

and ink, with blotter 8x10..........  70

“FAVORITE”  Foolscap,  for  pen 
and ink,  with  blotter, 6ize  8x12 
inch...............................................   70

Points for Retailers.

Good,  shrewd  dealers  never  have under­

paid clerks; they know better.

Be polite to  your  employees. 

If  your  business  be  prosperous,  clerks 
should always be  sharers in  its prosperity.
It is  their 
right, and yet it will be received  as a favor.
There  are  three  qualities  that  may be 
named as essentials in a good clerk—hones­
ty, ability and politeness.

There is as much responsibility in impart­
ing your own business secrets as in keeping 
those of your neighbor’s.

Be polite to your customers.  If you don’t 
they will go away  from you  to  some  more 
sensible trader who is polite.

The primary character  of  any  dealer  is 
discernible in trifles,  for in them,  as  a rule, 
he acts almost unconsciously.

A dealer who fails  in business  from evi­
dent misfortune,  not only merits, but gener­
ally  receives,  kind  and  liberal  treatment 
from his creditors.

To get extended, liberal views, you should 
consult with persons who differ from you in 
disposition,  circumstances  and  modes  of 
thought.

Gratuities, kind  words  and  a  manifesta­
tion of interest in his welfare go  farther to­
ward making a good  clerk  than a thousand 
business precepts.

The dealer who  is  habitually  unpunctual 
is in a fair way to  destroy all  confidence in 
himself and to estrange the friendship of his 
best  customers.

Do not confine,  your  politeness merely to 
customers who buy  goods  and  pay money, 
but extend  it  also  to  agents  who  come to 
solicit  orders  or  to  receive  money  pay­
ments.

Habit of  mistrust is the torment of  some 
dealers. 
It taints  their business and social 
life.  They expect people to  show the same 
aspect to them  at  all  times,  which is more 
than human nature can do.

Many  dealers,  doubtless,  feel  the  wants 
and miseries of  their  fellow men  tenderly, 
if not deeply, but this feeling is  not of  the 
kind to induce them to exert themselves out 
of their own small circle.

All men of business justly insist that their 
clerks  shall  be  honest,  and yet  there  are 
many of them  who  overlook the  fact  that 
the  treatment  given to  their clerks  is any­
thing but  consistent with  thorough honesty 
in themselves.

John  Helm, of  Burdickville,  who'  is  en­
gaged in  a  commission  house  at  Chicago, 
vrites from the latter place to the Leelanaw 
Enterprise  advising  fanners  to  plant  no 
iose  potatoes  this  year.  He  says  plant 
Jurbanks,  Peerless,  anything white, but no 
nore Rose.
“Fermentum”  the  only  Reliable  Com- 
»ressed Yeast  See advertisement.
Smoke the celebrated  “American  Field.” 
fox & Bradford, sole agent».

Putnam  &  Brooks  are  handling  large 
quantities of oranges  and  lemons.  Orders 
for car lots or less given  prompt  attention.
“Silver King” coffee is all the rage.  One 
silver  present  given  with  every  1  pound 
package.

AGENTS FOR THE

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

14 and 1.0 Pearl Street, 

-  Grand Rapids, Mich.

3 00

3 25
4 00
3 75

Lead Pencils—Continued.

$  doz.  Gross.
1 25
1 75
1 75
1 75
1 85

34

4 00

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black 
red 

11
Hexagon, red, polished.....................
Express, natural finish, rubber tips 15
15
15
16

Crown, hexagon,  red.........................
Mercantile, round, rubber  inserted
with screw in nickel  cap...........
No. 313 “Dixon”  round,  rubber  in-

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serted with screw  in nickel cap. 25

Ladies, small, natural color, square

5 40
l 00
5 00
Per box of 100.
20
35
40

$  doz.  Gross.
4 80
5 25
7 50

8 75
13 00

Ladies, 

small,  rosewood 

color,

square nickel  tip......................... 28
Carpenter, 9 inch, with rule.............
35
Red and Blue, hexagon, best kind.. 32
The  Propelling  Pencil.  (Lead  can

be drawn in when not  in  use).. 70

No. 112, bone handle propelling lead
pencil, nicely put up half dozen
in display box............................... 46
Slate Pencils, wood  covered...........
10
Scholars’ Companion, five articles.. 45
Slate Pencils,  grey, 5%  in., pointed

“ 

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“  union wrapped, 7 in.“

7 in.,
Slates.

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Common School, Lehigh, 6x9...........

42
6%xl0....... 46
8x12..........
65
Noiseless, covered  with  bright red
felt, bound with black  cord, im-
possible to be removed, 5x7....... 75
Same,  7x11...........................................1  15
9x13........................................... 50
6x9, double...............................
00
Labels and Mdse. Tags.

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Gummed Labels, for marking goods.
Put  up  100  labels  in  one  box.
Price per dozen  boxes............... 60

Merchandise String Tags, for mark-
ing  goods.  10  bunches  of  100
each 
in  paper  box.  Size—F.
small, per  box.............................. 50
Size—G, Medium, per box..........
60
Size—N, large, per box...............1 00

4:0

Papeterie.

Only two styles at  present,  but  the  very 

$  doz.  Gross.

best for the money.
No.  2450,  fancy  chromo  boxes,  24 

sheets and envelopes  to  match  84 

No. 2365.  Elegant chromo box, with 
colored  silk trimming,  contain­
ing finest  quality  cream-tinted 
ruled  paper  and  envelopes  to 
match, two sizes.......................... 2 25
Rubber and Base Balls.

No.  3  Grey  Rubber,  a  larger  size

than is usually offered, 5 inches  34 
No. 5 Grey Rubber measures 5% in.  65 
No. 6 
extra large, 6% in.  80 
Fancy Leather Balls, 4  pcs.  leather 
assorted colors, one of  the  best
summer  sellers............................  36 

•* 

Base Balls, large 8 in., 2 pieces.  The

National Regulation Stamp.......  46 

Base  Balls,  Dime  Leader.  The 
“Young America”  is  without  a 
peer  as  a  10c  ball, and price is 
uneipialled, 
inches,
weight 4%  ounces.......................  80 

size  8% 

Base Balls.  The “Boston League,” 
a  “quarter'*  largest  size, 9 in.,
5 oz. Dead Ball.  No one touches 
this price, and our  goods  are of 
the most superior quality..........1  75

Pins.

4 00
7 50
9 00

4 25

5 25

9 50

Attention!  Here’s  Bargains.  War­

ranted best goods.
No. 4, Adamantine, full  count........  
No. 3, 
........  
No. 2,. 
Nickle Pins, gilt edge,  12  papers in

Per pack of 12 papers.
14
16
18

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box, BB...............................$  box  35
40
45
48

Same, F 3%...............................  
“ 
Same, S. C...................................  “ 
Same, M. C................................. 
“ 
$  doz.  Gross.

Nursery No. 2, nickle plated safety, 
best kind, 12 on a paper.fo. gross
in a  box............................... ......... 
Nursery  No. 3. Same........................  

22
25

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

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Butter, HS&sjs, C beese, Etc. 

Wholesale Agents for the Lima Egg Crates and Fillers.

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

E.  F A L L A S ,

Makes a Specialty of

Butter and Eggs, Lemons and Oranges,

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

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

- 

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

97  and 99 Canal Street, 
Grand Rapids, Michigan
P E R K I N S   <&  H E S S ,
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

D E A L E R S  IN

N O S.  1 2 2   a n d   1 2 4   L O 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.

where in this issue and write for

See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­
Special  Prices in  Car  Lots. 
We are prepared to male Bottom Prices on anything we handle.
A  B. KNOWLSON,
RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO.,
BOOTS  AXTD  SHOES.

3 Canal Street, Basement,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

41

Hair Pins.

LION, i  lb papers, six assorted sizes, 
crimp  and  plain  in  package.
Price per  lb..................................  
ROYAL  CABINET,  partition  box,
100  pins  of  4  assorted  sizes  in 
each.  Assorted color “Mikado” 
boxes.  A bargain for a “nickle” 
per  dozen...................................... 
Sundry Staples.

18

45

$  doz.  Gross.

CROCHET  HOOKS. 

12  assorted

sizes fine bone hooks on card.. .3 0  

3 50

BRASS  CUSPIDORE  ASH  RE­

CEIVER ........................................  89  10 50

POCKET  FOLDING  MIRRORS.
Fancy  paper,  double  hinged
back, good  plate, 2%x4...............  46 
SAME, only very  large, 3%x5..........  75 
ZINC  POCKET  MIRROR,  with

hinged  handle..............................  35 
TACKS, 8 oz., retinned, pat.  boxes.  14 
TACKS, 10 oz., 
15
No.  1  TOY  WATCHES,  1  doz.  on

“ 

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frame, stem  winders..................  36 

No.  3  TOY  WATCHES,  1  doz.  on

frame, stem winders..................  75 

INK, black, 3  doz.  bottles  in  wood

box  ................................................  33 

Combs, 6% inch, swage  back,  clear
 
Combs, 7%  inch,  swage  back,  clear

horn......................................... 

75 

horn  ..............................................  89 

Combs, 6%  inch,  plain  back,  clear

42

New Reduced Prices.

It  keeps  us  busy  trying  to  reduce  our 
prices as fast as the manufacturers do theirs, 
but we are determined  to  “get  there”  and 
here give our customers  the  benefit  of  the 
latest reductions in our stock.

“ 

“ 

2  “ 

Pocket Rules, 1 foot, brass  bound..  54 
..  72 

$1 doz.  Gross.
6 50
8 65
Bright twisted wire tea pot stands..  85  10 00
Pint Pieced  Cups..................
6Quart stamped milk  pans.
Coffee Pots, 1  quart.............
Victor Sifters......................................1  70 
Oval Frame Mirrors.

20 00

5 40
8 50

4 00

Our prices have  been  squeezed  down  to 
bed rock and you can make  no  mistake  in 
buying a line or these at  the  price  quoted. 
We will sell any quantity but in buying less 
than  one-half  dozen  of  a  size,  we  must 
charge for boxes, contrary to our  custom  in 
this department.

4 25

m m

8 50

3 75

8 50

10 00

horn ...j^ ^ ...................................  36 
4 25
See column 24 for complete stock Combs.
A Big Drive—A Screw Driver.
“Here’s a state of things”  when we 
can  offer  a  10  inch  warranted 
b e s t   c a s t   s t e e l   screw driver, 
positively no  ordinary  quality, 
but  each  one  warranted,  with 
brass ferule,and polished handle, 
put up in strong boxes of 6 each, 
at this price..................................   47 

5 60

American Plate, 7x9..........................
8x10.......................*.
9x12........................
10x14........................
10x17........................
12x20........................
13x22........................
14x24........................

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Each size packed one-half dozen in box. 
All sizes German Plate Mirrors in stock.

3 25

O R D ER

Our Leader Sm oking 

15c per pound.

Our Leader F in e Cut 

33c per pound.

Our Leader Skcrts, 

Our Leader Cigars, 

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

16c per pound.

$30 per M.
TLo  B est  in   tlie  W o rld .

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

Clark, Jewell & Co.,
POTATOES.

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

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

Agents for Walker’s Patent Butter Worker.

137 S. W ater St-, Chicago, in ,

EARL  BROS.,  Commission  Merchants.
OLNEY. SHIELDS  A  CO.,

And  IM PORTERS  OF  TEA S.

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

at latest declines and for cash.

by no other jobbers in the city.

We  have  specialties  in  TOBACCOS  and  CIGARS  possessed 

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

MxxAJpin’s P e a v e y  Flvig.

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

ALSO  SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

EOSZTDSL  <&  BRO S/  Celebrated  CXGAHS,

Finer quality and lower prices than any handled 

in the market.

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

(  5 and 7 Ionia Street, 

- 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

