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Michigan  Tradesman 7 9

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  23.  1886.

MR.  SMART  VISITS  TH E  CITY. 

Wm. H. Maher, in the American Grocer.

Solomon  Smart,  of  New Portage,  Ohio, 
dealer in  general  merchandise  and country 
produce, had been in  business  three years, 
but had  never,  until  the  present  occasion, 
visited the city where the  large share of his 
purchases came from.

Going to the city was something to which 
he had long looked forward.  He had dreamt 
of it when  he  was  a  clerk; he  had eagerly 
questioned the  traveling  men  about it,  and 
his  old  employer  always  told  marvelous 
tales  when  he  returned  from  his  annual 
trip.

When  the  old  man  died,  and  Solomon, 
assisted by his father-in-law, was enabled to 
buy  the  stock,  he  began  to  arrange  for  a 
business trip to the city, but somehow every 
plan he made was interferred with and came 
to naught. 
It was  a  source  of  great grief 
to him that he could not carry out his plans.
“If I could only get  to  Toledo,” he often 
said to  his  wife,  “I  could  save  at least 10 
per cent,  on prices,  and I  could pick up job 
lots of things at big discounts.  All the job­
bing houses  have odds  and ends  that they 
are willing to sell at anything  they can get, 
in  order to get  rid  of  the  stuff. 
I hate to 
buy of drummers. 
It costs  piles of  money 
to keep them on the road,  and the men that 
buy of them have to  pay it.”

Solomon,  as  may  be  supposed,  was  not 
popular with traveling men.  His contempt 
for  them  was  expressed  openly,  and  his 
opinion  of  their  being a curse  to retailers 
was  usually the  first  thing  he  told  them 
after he had  looked at  their  cards.  Some 
them argued the matter with him.  Some of 
the more  independant  members of the pro­
fession told him he was a  blank  fool.  But 
those who called  regularly  let him  say his 
say and tin n  squeezed an order out of him, 
keeping their opinion of him for use outside 
his store.

His peculiar opinion of traveling salesmen 
was not his only peculiarity.  Most ofi  “the 
boys” on the road mentioned him as “Smar- 
ty,  Smart,” because of certain tendencies he 
had of making reductions in prices, of mark­
ing off charges for  cartage or  boxing, or of 
returning goods because he had changed his 
mind after buying them.

Solomon  didn’t  intend  to  be  mean;  he 
fancied  he  was  only  standing  up for  his 
rights,  and  if  he  occasionally took a  little 
more than his own  conscience told him was 
his  “rights,” he  soothed  that by  saying to 
himself that the house wanted to sell him so 
mighty bad they would stand it.

Let a man be constituted as  Solomon was 
and  his  “smartness”  grows  on  him.  He 
has an  idea that  every house he  buys of  is 
trying to get unfair  advantage of  him, and 
that he must present a bold front or  he will 
be imposed upon.  He always magnifies his 
importance  as  a  buyer  and  fancies  every 
order he sends in is  met  with a hand organ 
and treated to champagne.

So when he  finally saw  his  way clear to 
making  the  long-wished-for  visit,  some of 
his pleasantest  anticipations  were the wel­
comes he  expected  from  the  heads of  the 
wholesale houses,  and  invitations he would 
receive to  dine and  wine  with  them.  But 
he did not propose that they should pull the 
wool over  his eyes.  He  would show them 
he  was  no  “greeny,”  and  that  he  knew 
what was what.

He carried two  large  empty valises with 
him to bring home  as  much  as  possible as 
baggage, and when he reached the city hotel 
late in the  evening the  clerk  sized him up 
as easily  and  as  accurately  as  if  he  had 
known him for ages, and sent him to one of 
the poorest rooms in the house most uncere­
moniously.

The next morning, bright  and  early, Mr. 
Smart started out to do  business.  His first 
call was on a hardware  man with whom he 
had  done  considerable  business, and from 
whom he was sure of a warm welcome.  He 
was met  by a  pleasant  young  man  whose 
manner 'seemed to  ask,-  What is  your busi­
ness?  He asked for Mr. Braun.  Mr. Braun 
was not down  yet, lu t  would be in a short 
time.  Would he wait?  No; Solomon didn’t 
propose to wait.  He was there on business 
and must  attend to his  business.  Perhaps 
the young  man  could  wait  on  him?  No, 
indeed; Solomon,  didn’t come  to town to be 
waited on by clerks.  Perhaps he would call 
again, but he said it with a doubtful tone as 
if  he was not sure that  he would  patronize 
a house  where  the  proprietor  didn’t  get 
around earlier in the morning.  Then again 
he was  somewhat  indignant  that the clerk 
should not have  known  him,  and when he 
was asked  to  leave  liis  name  he  went off 
saying it was no matter.

Then  he  called at Sikkor’s  wondering if 
any one would be  in there.  Was  Mr.  Sik- 
kor in?  No; did  he  want  to see  him per­
sonally?  Personally!  He  wanted  to  see 
him on business,  of  course.  He  would not 
be at the  store that  morning, hut  Mr. Bir- 
den was  at the  desk,  yonder,  if he  would 
do.  Well,  it is good to find  one  proprietor 
in;  and  he  moved  over  to  Birden’s desk, 
where that gentleman was busy opening the 
morning’s  mail.  He looked  up at  the ap­
proach  of  Smart,  said  “Good  morning,” 
and  waited  for  Solomon  to  tell  his  busi­
ness.

“This is Mr. Birden?”
t“Yes,  sir,” pleasantly. 

j

Solomon rather expected him to have said 
“This is Mr.  Smart,” and  to  have held out 
his arms,  so he was somewhat disconcerted. 
“I buy goods of your house occasionally.” 
“Yes?  Whereabouts is your place?” 
“North  Portage.”
“North Portage,  eh.  What is the name, 

please?”

“Smart.”
“Yes?”  Solomon could see that he might 
as well have  said  Smith,  so far as Birden’s 
seeming to  recall it was  concerned,  and he 
began to get angry.

“How is  trade,  Mr.  Smart?”
“Rather dull,  just at  present.”
“Sorry to hear that; hope it will improve. 
You have a  memorandum  for  some of our 
goods,  Mr.  Smart?  Let  me  call one of the 
men to wait  on  you.  Church, look  here.” 
And before Solomon  had  time  to open his 
mouth  he  was  introduced to  Church,  who 
shook  hands  with  him,  linked  his  arm 
through his,  and  had  him  half  way to the 
sample  room.  They were  getting on  well 
till Church  asked;  “Let me  see,  Mr Smart, 
where is your place?”

“North  Portage,”  said  Solomon  in  his 
crispest manner.  No  one  seemed to know 
him,  or to remember him five seconds.

“Oh,  yes,  North  Portage.  Waite  goes 
there.  Waite’s a good fellow; you like him, 
don’t you?”

“I’d like  to  have  him  stay  at home, 

never want to see a drummer.”

“Is that so?” and  Church  looked  at him 
in mild surprise.  “Well, what shall we start 
on first?”

Solomon wasn’t prepared  to start on any 
thing. 
It wasn’t at all  the  way he had ex­
pected to get  started.  He didn’t like being 
pushed from one  proprietor to another, and 
then to a mere clerk,  and  to  have that man 
take it for granted that he was going to buy 
without  any coaxing or  figuring.  He  was 
disappointed.  He expected to  have bought 
a bill here,  but  there  were  other  stores of 
the same  kind in  Toledo,  and  he  believed 
he’d punish these fellows  for their  indiffer­
ence by going somewhere  else.  Good idea 
He would act on it.

He 

told  Church  that  he  guessed  he 
wouldn’t leave an order just then; maybe he 
would come  in again.  Church  coaxed him 
a  little  then,  but it  was  too  late.  Sol­
omon was  bound to  go,  and  off lie  started 
for a notion house.

The  proprietor  was  in  the office, shook 
hands  with  him,  asked  about  trade  and 
crops and finally proposed to show him some 
goods.  This was  more to  Solomon’s taste, 
and he bought readily,  but he was disgusted 
to see  that the  prices  were  no lower  than 
the traveling  man  had  sold  them at.  He 
mentioned  this  to  Shaw.  “Lower?  Of 
course not, we can’t  ask  you  one  price in 
Toledo and another in  North Portage.  My 
man  carries my  stock into  your store,  lets 
you see  the  goods, quotes  you  prices  and 
posts you.”
“But his  expenses  are  big; it  costs you 
nothing to sell me now.”
“His expenses  come  out  of  my pocket; 
not out of yours. 
I  would be  mighty glad 
if traveling men were  done  away with; but 
it would be a saving to me,  not to you.”
This rather staggered  Solomon,  for it up­
set one of his hobbies.  As he was finishing 
and about to say  ‘good-bye’ to Mr. Shaw, he 
saw the book-keeper whisper  into that gen­
tleman’s ear and turn away.
“By the by, Mr.  Smart,  my  book-keeper 
tells me he  has  had  some  correspondence 
with you over  little  deductions  made in re­
mittances.  Those little  things are very an­
noying, and,  while  the  amount  in  dollars 
and cents is nothing,  still business  ought to 
done in a business way.”

Smart began to feel very hot.
“The book-keeper tells me that  your last 
bill ran  nearly two  months  over time, and 
that you  not  only refused  to  pay interest, 
but did not pay express on  your remittance. 
Now,  Mr.  Smart,  this  is  not  right.  Our 
place of business is Toledo; not North Port­
age; our bills are due here,  not there; and if 
we allow  them to run  sixty days  after due 
we are loaning 3*011 mone3\   and ought io be 
paid for the use of it.”
“I don’t get interest from my customers,” 
said Solomon.
“That is 3’our business  and  theirs.  You 
do not sell  them  on a  jobber’s profit.  We 
deal with  you  as  a  business  man and in a 
business way.  I think I know just how you 
feel,” said Shaw, pleasantly; “when I began 
business I felt  the  same  way. 
I squeezed 
every cent  I could from  the  men I bought 
from;  but  I discovered  it was  poor policy.
I saved a few  cents,  and lost  the good will 
of the  house  whicli  was  worth dollars. 
I 
speak  of all  this  in  a  kindly way, and to 
avoid future misunderstandings.  Don’t you 
think of  anything  else?  No?  Well, good 
bye, I’m  glad  you  called  and  hope  to  do 
more with  you in the  future.”  And before 
Solomon knew it he was bowed out.
But he was boiling  with  rage.  He  was 
particularly  angry  with  himself.  He  had 
stood there  and  taken the  lecture as if  he 
was a boy. 
It  was  in  his  mind to cancel 
the order  just given  Shaw, but that gentle­
man  had  dismissed  him  so  politely  and 
smoothly that he  hadn’t  had  time to do it.
It had never seemed possible to him that he 
could have listened to such a lecture as that 
without giving  back as good  as he got,  and
then send the  man  and his goods to -----,  a
place where  there  is  no  insurance against 
fire.
In no very happy frame of  mind his next 
call was on his dry goods house.  Mr. Keen 
met him,  when  he  introduced  himself,  de­
cidedly coldly.  Solomon began to think he 
would go to some other house with his order 
rather  than  leave  it  here.  But  before he 
could make a move to go out Mr.  Keen ask­
ed,  “Is there anything I can do for you?”

“I don’t know as there is.”
“Our Mr.  Goodnow did  not  stop  at your 
plaqe the other day because of your habit of

NO.  144.

returning goods.  While  we  would be glad 
to do busiuess  with  you, we  cannot  allow 
anyone the privilege  of  ordering goods and 
then  returning them  at  our  expense,  if he 
happens to change his mind. 
I  do  not try 
to make  Eastern  houses  shoulder  my mis­
takes,  if I make any in ordering goods and I 
don’t see why I should bear  your burdens.” 
“Why don’t you  send  what  I  order?  I 
didn’t  order  the  blue  print  I returned the 
other day.”
“Mr.  Goodnow is  very  positive that you 
did order it. 
It is always  possible  that the 
small sample he  carries  with  him  appears 
differently to a man than the goods do when 
seen in the whole piece.  And a man might 
occasionally be expected to make a mistake, 
as you did the other day when you wrote to 
us to send 3 011 three gross of  corsets, when 
you  intended,  you said  afterward to  order 
but three dozen.  But in the  last three bills 
bought  of  Goodnow  3'ou  have  sent  hack 
goods,  and it is not  possible  that  he made 
such mistakes.  Then you deduct from bills 
though made out at prices agreed upon.” 
“The last cambrics were billed half a cent 
too high,” said Solomon.
“Then 3011 shouldn’t have  ordered them. 
The time to make  prices  is  when  3*011  are 
buying.  We  have a price  for every article 
in our stock;  if  you  ask us  we will give it 
to you, and then you  are at  liberty to order 
or not,  as you think best; but if you send us 
an order for cambrics and say nothing about 
the price you have no right to express  them 
back to us because  our  price  happens to be 
different from what 3*011 had expected.  You 
could have learned our price before ordering 
ami not  having  done  so  3*011  ought  to  be 
man enough  to stand to  3*our  own action.” 
“You  claim  to  sell  as  low  as  anyone, 
don’t you?”
“We do, and are ready to quote our prices 
so they can  be compared  with others  when 
called upon  to  do  so.  But  we  all cut oc­
casional^* for reasons of our own, and I pre­
fer to make prices  when selling  goods, not 
after  they are  delivered.  Some  time  ago 
you  returned  by  express  a  few  trinkets. 
You knew  that  Mr.  Goodnow  would  be at 
your place  in a  short  time, and  you might 
easily have  waited  until  seeing him  before 
returning  the  goods,  but  you  evidently 
thought you were punishing  us  anil  show­
ing  your  grit  by whacking  them  back by 
express. 
I asssure  you  it does  not add to 
your reputation as a business man.  I thought 
I would  mention  these  points  to  you  be­
cause they are  important  in  our  relations, 
and unless the men 3*ou buy from feel pleas­
antly toward  you  there  is  every reason  to 
suppose that you will be the loser.”
“I guess I can buy all the goods I want,” 
said Solomon;  “I’ve not  been  troubled that 
way yet.”  And he walked off with  a surly 
“Good day.”
He had never bought but  one  hill  of the 
other  dry  goods  house,  and  did  not  like 
their traveling man; but now he would have 
bought of old Nick rather than buy of Keen. 
He went over  to  Keeler’s  and  again intro­
duced himself (the task was  getting as dis­
agreeable as it  was  monotonous)  saying he 
wanted to buy some goods.  The gentleman 
made  an excuse to go to the desk for a  mo­
ment, and Solomon  knew  it  was to consult 
the reference book  as to his  standing; hav­
ing found that satisfactory  he  proceeded to 
show  him  through the  stock.  The  goods 
were not nearly so much  to his taste as was 
Keen’s  stock,  but  he  bought  lightly*,  and 
considered that he was punishing Keen.
After dinner he  called  again at the hard­
ware store,  arid this time  found  Mr. Brann 
there.  He was  greeted  cordially  when he 
gave  his  name,  but  imagine  his  feelings 
when,  after  a  few  remarks,  Braun  said: 
“What’s the matter with  you  people down 
at North  Portage  about  axes?  We  wrote 
you that four  of the  last  six 3*011  returned 
were in  no  way covered  by warrants; some 
were  broken  in  solid  steel,  some  were 
ground thin  and  had  to bend,  and one had 
never  been  even  out  of  3*our  store.  We 
can’t  ask  any  factory  to  take  hack  such 
goods from us, it wouldn t be right, and  we 
don’t make  enough  profit  on a  dozen axes 
to stand suclj,loss.”
“If you give a warrant you ought to stand 
up to it.”
“We do stand up to it every time; and we 
do a good deal more than that.  But you do 
not stand  up to it.  You  take  back  goods 
not covered  by a warrant  and expect  us to 
stand the loss.”
“ Well,  if my customers  bring  them back 
I must take them or lose their trade.”
“That’s 3*our business, not mine. 
I don’t 
care what you take back or do not take, but 
I object to your taking  them  back and then 
shifting  all  the  burden  over  to  us.  We 
have charged your  account  with the cost of 
making these axes good.”
“Well,  that’s  the  last  time  3’ou’ll  ever 
have a chance to do that.”
“We can’t help  that; right  is right. 
It’s 
a  small  affair, but  the  thing  has  to  stop 
some  time, and  it  had  better  be  stopped 
now.”
Solomon  pulled  out  his  wallet,  “How 
much is my balance here?”
Braun turned him over to the book-keeper 
who took his money and gave him a receipt, 
is  he walked  out he  did  not  hear  the re­
mark of Braun to the  clerk:  “He is one of 
those smart Alecks that  has to be sat down 
on  occasionally,  but  I  guess I gave  him a 
lesson.”
He bought his hardware of another house; 
he bought his  groceries  of  a  new  firm; he 
did not  buy any boots  or  shoes  at all,  be­
cause  the  clerk  did  not  take  hold of him 
just right, and  he reached  home  the  next 
morning a tired,  soured and disgusted man. 
lie told his wife he had been a fool to spend 
money when he might have  stayed to home 
and bought of traveling men.  “I tell you,” 
said he,  “a man’s  a  mighty  sight  more in­
dependent when  buying  in  his  own store. 
The drummers  are red  hot  for  orders,  and 
you can squeeze  them  down.  Then you’ve 
got  your  stock  to  look  at,  and see  costs, 
etc., and the men feel  you’re doing  them a 
favor to give them an order; but, by George, 
they  think  they are  doing  you  a  favor to 
sell you in their own stores. 
I am done go­
ing to  town.”
I saw Mr.  Smart a few  weeks  ago,  and 
he gave me this report of his trip:  “I learn­
ed something,” he  added;  “I believe  I can 
make more money by having  the wholesale 
houses  my friends  than  I  can  by making 
them mad at me, and now we get along first 
rate.  I guess Keen is one of the best friends 
I’ve got,  but I was all-fired mad at him that 
time,  I tell you.  And  what  made  me  the 
hottest  was  that  I felt  the  old  man  was 
right.”

1 . l i   i l l  

... 

\

Albert  Coye  &  Son,
AWNINGS,  TENTS,

DEALER  IN

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

Send for Price-List.

78  Canal  St.
JUDD  cfe  CO.,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE

And Full Line Winter Goods.

102  CANAL STREET.

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

ORAN» RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED CO.

71 CANAL STREET.

EDMUND  D.  DIREMAN,

I i A W X   V A S E S .

And Jobbers in Gray Iron Castings.

W R ITE  FO R   PR ICE-LIST.

54 and 56 North Front Street, Grand Rapids, Midi.

Grranello,
MERCHANT

TAILOR,

LEDYARD  BLOCK,

107 Ottawa St.

Suitings for Manufacturers,

Suitings for Jobbers, 

Suitings for Retailers,

•

Suitings for Traveling Men, 

Suitings for Clerks,

g 

JEW iE P L .

44  CANAI,  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

A X D

Overcoats for Everybody.

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

SUPERIOR  WORK  AND  THE  PROP­

ER  STYLE  FOR  THE WEARER.

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

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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

lercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the Slate.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23,1886.

Grand  Rapids  Dairy  Board  of  Trade
President—Aaron Clark.
Vice-President—F. E. Pickett.
Secretary and Treasurer—E. A. Stowe.
Market  days—Every  Monday  atternoon  at  1 

Big Bapids.

p. m.
Merchants’  Protective  Association  of 
President—N.  H.  Beebe;  First  Vice-Presi­
dent, W. E.  Overton ;  Second  Vice-President, 
C. B. Love joy;  Secretary. A. S. Hobart; Treas­
urer, J. F. Clark. 
Traverse City Business  Men’s Associa­

_____

tion.

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

sociation.

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.

par-  Subscribers  and others,  when writing 
o  advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub- 
sber by  mentioning that they saw the adver- 
isement in the columns of  this paper.______

The recent  sale  of  Hannah,  Lay & Co.’s 
entire pine possessions and mills and a por­
tion of their  dockage  facilities at  Traverse 
City  to  a  syndicate  represented  by  John 
Torrent, of  Muskegon,  notes  the first  step 
in the withdrawal from this State of  a firm 
which  has  probably  done  more  than  any 
other  to  develop  the  wilderness  and  sup­
plant the  forest  with a  hardy  and  thrifty 
population.  TnE  Tradesm an  has  it  on 
the  best of  authority that  the  sale of  the 
firm’s pine  will  be  gradually  followed  by 
the disposal of their hardwood  and farming 
lands, their grist  mill and  mercantile busi­
ness,  their  boats  and  dockage.  Mr. Han­
nah, upon whom  has devolved  the manage­
ment of the firm’s immense  interests in this 
State,  begins to feel the  weight  of  advanc­
ing years,  and  having  accumulated  a  for­
tune variously estimated at from one to two 
million dollars,  has  wisely  concluded to re­
linquish the exacting  demands of  an active 
business life and remove  to Chicago,  where 
there are abundant opportunities for invest­
ments  which  yield  handsome  returns. 
If 
any man  ever  deserved  to  spend  his  last 
days in  peace  and  happiness, Mr.  Hannah 
is  certainly  entitled  to  sudi  distinction. 
His sendees to his  State  and the locality in 
which lie lived  will  never be appreciated at 
their true worth  and it will  be left  for the 
chronicler  to record the  tireless energy,  the 
vaulting ambition and the unassuming char­
ity which  rendered  Perry  Hannah  a  man 
among men.  _______________

The demise  of  the  Detroit Commercial, 
after an unsuccessful struggle of three years’ 
duration  to  obtain  a  foot-hold,  leaves the 
field in this State entirely to  T he T rades 
m an.  While  the  Commercial  was  never 
able to secure over 300 subscribers  and was 
published at  a  loss  of  $2,000  a year,  T he 
T radesm an  lias  been  a financial  success 
from the outset  and  now carries  over four 
thousand names  on its  subscription  books, 
The  difference  between  the  patronage ac 
corded  tlie two mediums  may be attributed 
wholly to  the  different  means  adopted by 
the  journals in question.  The Commercial 
scoffed at the retail trade and fawned at the 
feet of the  jobber.  T he  T radesm an, on 
the other  hand, espoused  the  cause of  the 
retail dealer and  accepted the  patronage of 
the  jobber  on  a  business  basis—that  of 
legitimate results.  The failure of the Com­
mercial and the  success  of  T he  T rad es­
man furnish abundant proof of the fact that 
the retailer  appreciates an  organ at its full 
worth and will invariably accord it a  gener­
ous support,  while the  jobber  will not long 
throw’ away money on a  journal  which has 
few friends among the retail trade.

A peculiar charge  to a  jury was recently 
made by Judge Barrett, of  New  York.  A 
German  beer wagon  driver  left a  union to 
which lie belonged, whereupon the driver of 
another beer  wagon  called  him  a  “scab.” 
In retaliation he stabbed the man in the leg. 
He was  arrested  on a  charge of  malicious 
injury to person,  but Judge Barrett’s charge 
was so strong in favor of  the  prisoner that 
the jury acquitted him without leaving their 
seats.  The Judge held that “the  man who 
would attempt to injure another’s  character 
or his standing among his friends  and asso­
ciates  by applyi  tg  offensive  epithets  puts 
himself on a level with  a  highwayman and 
ought to be treated  as  a  criminal  and  out­
law.  Whatever weapon the man who is as­
saulted has  at hand he is justified in using. 
Any man has  a right,  in the eye of the law, 
whatever  the  union  may  have  thought, to 
work for whoever he pleases.  We have not

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yet come to it that the law  of  the unions  is 
superior to the law of the land, and that the 
trades unions  or  Knights  of  Labor  can le­
gally dictate  to a man  to give up  the work 
by which he supports his family.”

The purchase of the entire plant and bus­
iness of the Alabastine Co. by the Anti-Kal- 
somine Co. for  the  round sum of  $150,000 
brings to mind  the  boast of  Freeman God­
frey,  to the effect that  there is more money 
in the wall finish business than in any other 
legitimate undertaking under the sun. ‘ ‘If one 
of my traveling men can sell $1.10 worth of 
goods at an expense of $1, and the man who 
buys the  goods pays  the  bill,  I am  money 
ahead,” is a common remark  of  the  vener­
able president of  the Diamond Wall Finish 
Co.  Manager Church,  of the new company, 
has never been  known to express  a similar 
opinion, but his rapid advance  from a  com­
monplace  position, financially  speaking,  to 
the  rank  of  a  capitalist,  points  its  own 
moral.

The man who  sells, or  attempts  to  sell, 
tainted  meat  is  punished  by  law.  Why 
should not  the  punishment be  extended to 
the  man  who  sells,  or  attempts  to  sell, 
tainted butter?

AMONG  T H E   TRADE.

IN   THE  CITY.

Will Barry has engaged  in the drug busi­
ness at  Coral.  The  Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug Co. furnished the stock.

Frank Locher  has  engaged  in  the  drug 
business  at  Westphalia.  The  stock  was 
furnished by the Hazeltine  & Perkins Drug 
Co. 

________________

R y n o  & Knight have  removed  their drug 
stock  from Ottawa street  to Coloma,  where 
Dr. Ryno will resume the practice of his pro­
fession. 

___________

Wm. H.  Sigel succeeds Braginlon & Sigel 
in the grocery business at  36 West Leonard 
street.  Mr. Braginton  contemplates  locat­
ing in Iowa.

Local wool buyers—'whose  operations ex­
tend pretty much all  over  the State—assert 
that fully three-fourths  of  this  year’s  clip 
has already been marketed.

Henry J. Hartman,  in addition to his reg­
ular work,  is getting  out washing  machine 
castings for Sebewa parties  and step ladder 
astiugs for an Otsego  manufacturer.
A. Johnson  &  Son,  grocers  at  82  South 
Division street, have  sold  their  stock  and 
fixtures to J.  C.  Shaw & Co., who have con­
solidated them with their  stock at 79 Canal 
street.

D.  Seegmiller,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
grocery business at the comer of  West Ful­
ton  and  Gold  streets,  has  engaged  in  the 
grocerj’ business  on  Cherry street.  Olney, 
Shields & Co.  furnished the  stock.

H.  B.  Huston,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
hardwere  business  at Chase,  and  Mr. Her- 
endeen, formerly engaged in the  same busi­
ness at Kent  City,  have  joined  hands and 
engaged in the hardware  business on South 
Diviision street.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Wm. Hintz succeeds Wm. Ilintz & Co. 

general trade at St.  Ignace.

Austin Travis, jeweler  at Muskegon,  has 

been closed under chattel mortgage.

E. G. Hunt, formerly engaged  in the gro­

cery business at Jackson, is now at Ionia.

Geo.  Guyles,  of  the  firm  of  Guyles  & 
Nash, general dealers  at  Norwood,  is dead 
Holcomb  Bros,  succeed  Forsyth  &  Hoi 
comb in the hardware business at Bay City, 
Geo. R. Baker, formerly  engaged  in  the 
drug  business at  Bfeedsville, but  now the 
proprietor of a drug  store  at  South Evans 
ton,  Ills., is the  happy father of a bouncing 
boy.  He writes that “mother and child are 
well and father ditto.”

C.  G.  Bode,  of Chicago,  has sold his one 
half interest in the firm of  Bode & Keeney 
sawmill  operators  and  general  dealers  at 
Ferry, to  E. J. Bode, of  Ferry.  The  firm 
name will remain the same  as before.  The 
new firm will assume all  liabilities and col 
lect all debts of the old firm.

Manistee Times:  G. F.  Parsons, of  Ne­
braska,  and E. R. Welsh,  of  this city,  have 
purchased the hardware store of J. A. John­
son.  Mr.  Parsons will  remove to tliis city, 
and the new firm will continue the business 
at  the  old  stand.  Mr.  Johnson  is  going 
more heavily into  the  wholesale  feed  and 
provision business.

STRAY  FACTS.

Mrs.  I. A.  Tory, 'milliner  at  Cold water, 

has been closed oil chattel mortgage.

N.  B.  Clark is shipping  25  car  loads  of 

hemlock bark from Cadillac every week.

Gregory  &  Dunham,  saloon  keepers  at 

Nashville,  have assigned to J.  E.  Barry.

Moses Hammacher succeeds C. W.  Hath­
away in the  restaurant  business at  Luther.
A.  Freslil & Co., manufacturers of casket 
draperies  at  Detroit,  have  dissolved  part­
nership.

James Ecker& Co.  succeed Mason, Ecker 
&  Co.  in  the  plaining  mill  business  at 
Lowell.

Mucliler & Allen succeed Muchler & Bax­
ter in the produce and  commission business 
at East Saginaw.

H. D.  Purdy has  sold his  meat business, 
at Sparta, to Edward Snyder, who will con­
tinue the business.  Mr.  Purdy will remove 
the business to Fennville.

J. W.  Cook has  sold  his  interest  in the 
grist mill business of  J.  W.  Cook & Co., at 
Fennville, to  the  remaining  partners,  and 
will remove to California.

The  Cutler  &  Savidge  Lumber  Co.  is

building a logging railroad, eight miles long, 
just  northwest  of  Stanton,  and  is  getting 
ready to log its tract of pine in that locality.
From January 1 to June 9 J. M. Weather- 
wax shipped from  his mill  at  Fish  Creek, 
near  Stanton,  416  car  loads  of  lumber 
and shingles—a good showing for a railroad 
mill in an off year.

Miscellaneous Dairy Notes.

The new creamery at  Pipestone  will  be­

gin operations about July 1.

T he  T radesm an  is  indebted  to  I.  B. 
Smith, the  Wayland  cheese  manufacturer, 
for as fine Young a America  cheese as ever 
came to  this  market.  Competent  authori­
ties pronounce  the quality of the  cheese to 
be .unsurpassed.  W.  F.  Gibson  &  Co.  are 
sole agents for Wayland cheese at this mar­
ket.

C. N. Shaw,  of  Petoskey,  has  formed a 
stock  company at Cadillac,  to  manufacture 
his Grant freezers.  The  company have the 
exclusive right for  the  United States.  Mr. 
Shaw is a stockholder and  will superintend 
their manufacture.

The  inhabitants  on  South  Manitou  Is-

Rockford Register:  The Courtland cheese 
factory  near  Courtland  Center  is  now  in 
running order and the first cheese will be cut 
June 26.  Mortimer Austin,  the  proprietor,
land report  the  water  in the  lake 18 to 20  reports  the  business  as  working  in  good 
inches  higher this spring than common.  A  shape.  He  lias  engaged  an  experienced 
similar  phenomenon  has  been  observ ed at  hand  in the  business,  and  says  lie expects 
the other end of the lake.  There  is a theo-  to place as good a cheese on  the  market as 
ry that the bed of the lake is rising. 

| is made anywhere.^

Redmond’s Opera H ouse Drawing.

The doubling up of  the  duty on  logs ex­
ported from Canada  to  the  States  reduces 
the value of  the holdings of  Michigan men 
in the Spanish river district,  it is estimated,
$1,750,000; that  is,  if  all the  logs included 
in  the  limits,  thus  owned,  were  cut  and 
sent over  the line,  the  export  tax on them 
would be that much  more  than was figured
on  when the  purchases  wore  made.  The 
Cheboygan Lumber Co.  alone  holds pine in 
a  company has  been  formed  In Chicago 
the Algoma district  on  which  the increase  to bring tea direct from China by the North-
of duty would amount to $150,000.

Tickets  for  the  drawing  of  Redmond’s 
Grand Opera House are  going  off  like  hot 
cakes  and  those  who  expect  to  secure  a 
chance to own a $90,000 opera house for $2 
should procure their tickets  without  delay. 
The drawing is in the hands of  the  leading 
citizens of the Valley City.

ern and Canadian Pacific roads.

______ ___________

Detroit Doings.

The Acme White Lead and  Color  Works 
is now working five times as much  machin­
ery as on January 1, and  has  just executed 
lease for the three floors  and basement  of 
brick building to  be  erected  immediately 
to  the  south  of  the  present works.  The 
new building will be 50x100 in size and will 
increase the present floor space 166 per cent.
It will be occupied by the packing, shipping 
and printing departments and the office.

The Detroit Commercial, which  has  pur­
sued a somewhat checkered career for nearly 
three years,  has finally succumbed to the in­
evitable.  The Commercial was never a suc­
cess,  financially,  having failed to secure the 
good will of the retail trade or the confidence 
of the advertising public, botli  of which are 
essential  to  the  complete  success  of  any I 
newspaper venture.  The Commercial's fail­
ure is to be attributed wholly to the unfitness 
and peculiar proclivities of R. C. Wilby, who 
fathered the paper from the  beginning  and 
infused into it a  spirit  of  non-interest  and 
unconcern which liis  subsequent  associates 
were unable to counteract.  Up to the pres­
ent time,  no arrangement has been  made to 
satisfy the  unexpired  subscriptions  of  the 
three hundred  merchants  who  invested $1 
apiece in the  paper.

The suit for infringement of  trade  mark 
brought against W. J.  Gould &  Co.  by Cor­
bin, May & Go., of Chicago,  was  dismissed 
by Judge Brown on the 15tli.  The Chicago 
firm claimed that  in  1879  they  introduced 
and have since largely dealt in  a  partieulau 
quality  of  uucolored  pan-dried  tea,  which 
they called the  “Tycoon,” obtaining  a  pat­
ent on that  name  as  a  trade mark.  They 
accused  the  defendents  of  palming off on 
the  public  a  worthless  tea  by  using  this 
trade  mark,,  slightly  altered  so as to read 
Tycoon chop tea.”  Two lawyers came here 
frem  Chicago  to  argue  the case.  Lawyer 
George  S.  Hosmer  defended  Gould & Co. 
He showed that if the Chicago firm obtained 
any patent on the name  “Tycoon,” the pat­
ent  was  void,  because  teas  had been sold 
under  that name all over the  United States 
for the past 20 years.  It is a word common­
ly used in trade.  The word “chop” means 
the  same  thing  as  when we say a crop  of 
wheat or a clip of wool. 
It is a  “chop”  of 
tea.  The defendents claimed that  only 100 
chests of “Tycoon chop”  tea were imported 
for their trade,  and  that  when  legal  pro­
ceedings  were  commenced  by the Chicago 
firm they recalled several  consignments,  so 
that 80 chests are still  on hand and unused. 
“While they have advertised a greater num­
ber  of  chests  for  sale,  it  is a custom for 
merchants to similarly exaggerate in their ad­
vertisements,  and in point of fact they have 
never had in their possession or  offered  for 
sale any but the 100 chests so marked.”  On 
hearing Judge Brown’s decision, the Chicago 
lawyers took an appeal to the United States 
Supreme Court.

tro u b le from  W et Salt.
B rutus,  Mich., June 19, 1886. 

Editor Michigan  Tradesman:
D ea r Sir—In your issue of June 9 ,1 see 
a communication in regard  to  wet  salt. 
I 
purchased some fine barrel salt between two 
and  three  months  ago. 
I  let it lie at  the 
freight  house, where  it  was perfectly dry, 
for  nearly  six  weeks,  then  put  it  in  my 
store  and  it  has  drained  brine  so‘that 
it  would  run  a  puddle  on  the  floor  and 
still  continues  to  do  so  and  it  is so wet 
it will soak a paper sack so it will all fall to 
pieces. 
I am glad to see the  question  agi­
tated, as I do not think the salt is  properly 
drained.  The  last  barrel  I  opened  had 
drained until it was not over two-thirds full, 
and it looks to me that cheap salt was mak­
ing poor salt, the same as matches.

Respectfully yours,

H.  W.  Morford.

Wood oil is now made on a  large scale in 
Sweden from the refuse  of  timber cuttings, 
and forest  clearings,  and  from  stumps and 
roots.  Although it cannot  well  be burned 
in common  lamps on  account of  the heavy 
proportions  of  carbon  it  contains,  it  fur­
nishes a  satisfactory light  in  lamps' espec­
ially made  for it,  and in  its natural state is 
the cheapest of all illuminating oils.  Thirty 
factories produce  about  40,000  liters of the 
oil daily.  Turpentine, creosote, acetic acid, 
charcoal, coal-tar oils and  other  useful sub­
stances are also obtained from the same ma­
terials as the wood oil.

L.  Wintemitz sells the  best and cheapest 

vinegar ever handled at this^market.

Every grocer and cheese buyer is cordially 
invited  to  visit  the  Wayland  factory  and 
inspect the system and  cleanliness observed 
in every detail.

“Fermentum”  the  only  Reliable  Com­

pressed Yeast.  See advertisement.

Dissolution of Copartnership.

Notice is hereby  Riven  that  the  copartner­
ship heretofore existing between J.  W.  Brag­
inton and Wm. H. Sigel under  the  firm  name 
of Braginton & Sigel is  this  day  dissolved,  J. 
W. Braginton retiring.  All  accounts  due the 
late firm must be paid io Wm. H. Sigel, and all 
debts owing by the firm will  be  paid  by  Wm. 
H. Sigel, who will continue the business at the 
old  stand. 
Dated, Grand Rapids, June 21,1886. 

J. W. BRAGINTON,
W. H. SIGEL.
145*

&  C M

its

Agents  for a  fall  line  of

S. V. M ile  & Co.’s

PETERSBURG,  VA.,

FX.TTG  TOBACCOS,
NIMROD,
E.  C.,

BLUE  RETER,

SPREAD  EAGLE,

BIG FIYE CENTER

M ISCELLANEOUS.

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 he 
sent in care of this office must be accompanied 
by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage 
etc
■YTTANTED—A man who understands cutting 
VV  meat and  can  make  himself  generally 
useful about a store.  Must come  well recom 
mended.  A good position for  the  right  man 
Address  West  Michigan  Lumber  Co.,  Wood- 
ville, Mich. 

144tf

IX)R  SALE—Portable steam saw-mill in  pe 

feet, running ’order.  Capacity  35.000  feet 
per day.  Will be sold at a bargain or will trade 
for  real  estate.  Address  Lock  Box  289,  Big 
Rapids, Mich. 
T *7 ANTED—Situation  as  book-keeper  or 
VV 
cashier by o young lady  of  experience 
Have no  objection  to  going  out  of  the  city 
Best of references furnished.  Address  No. 
care T h e  T r a d e s m a n . 
146*

144tf

1 

Good  references  furnished 
Falk, Big Rapids, Mich.

cist by a man  of  extended  experience
Address  W.  B 
146*

■ ANTED—Situation as registered pharma 
IX)R  SALE—A  drug  store  situated  on  the 
’  Chicago & West Michigan Railway in  one 
of the finest fruit and farming counties in  the 
State.  Stock of  $1,500  or  under,  Also  a  fine 
practice to be disposed of at the same time, to 
a physician who wishes to  practice  mediejne 
in  connection  with  drug store.  Competition 
light.  Address "Sun,” care T h e   T r a d e s m a n
143tf

IX)R SALE  OR  RENT—In  the  fast-growing 

’  village  of  Paris,  north  of Big Rapids, 
two-story  frame  double  store,  75x43,  with 
stone cellar, 24x23.  Will  sell  cheap  for cash 
or  on  easy  terms,  or  rent.  Building can  be 
easily converted into  a  hotel.  Will  also take 
merchandise or city property in pay.  Address 
145*
Box 11, New Era, Oceana Co., Mich. 
'ITTANTED—To correspond with a  good, liv 
VV  man,  posted  in  the  grocery  business 
with  a  view  to  partnership. 
I  have  a good 
6tore 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.Ultf
YYTANTED—A position  as  book-keeper  and 
VV  general office  man  by  a  gentleman  of 
large experience.  Would prefer  a  lumbering 
firm or large manufacturing concern.  Address 
and refer to Bulkley, Lemon & Hoops.  140tf

ITiOR  RENT—Desirable brick  store  building 

: 
in a thriving farming town, twenty miles 
from  Grand  Rapids.  Good  opening  forgro- 
! eery  or  general  stock.  Address  Store, care 
T h e   T r a d e s m a n . 

I40tf

145

IX)K  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 
T r a d e s m a n . 

i X)R  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—Farm  of .120 

’  acres in southern  Michigan, 100 acres  im­
proved.  Large  frame  house  and  barn,  and 
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 h e   T r a d e s ­
m a n . 

IX)It  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  inareasing. 
No  paint  and  oils  carried  in  stock.  Owner 
wishes to go  into  manufacturing  business  at 
once.  Address, for full particulars, Aloes, care 
TRADeSMAN office. 

138tf

144

' 

a  GENTS WANTED—For an  article  used in 
every house.  I can give a live man a good 
paying job in every town in the United States. 
For particulars, address with stamp, A. Retan, 
Pewarno. Mich. 
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 T h e  T r a d e s m a n .  A 
twenty-five word  advertisement  costs  but 25 
cents a week or 50 cents for throe weeks.

148*

Depot for  Independence  Wood  Split  Pulley.  Largt 
stock kept on hand.  Send  for  sample  pulley  and  ih* 
come convinced of their superiority.  Write to r prices
130 OakesJSt., 
-  Grand Rapids, M idi

jgfA Tallahassee merchant  who began busi­
ness over three  years ago  has  not  been ab­
sent from his store a single  day,  often hav­
ing his mid-day meal sent to him.

I& 1 lb. cans] 50 cans in a case, price 35c per lb. or  $17.50  per  case.
f e   s w i p t e j g a s f  ►

m t Ä g f  M o s a i c  T a t ì t o  

NEAL'S  CARRIAGE PAINTS,

Seven beautiful shades.  Just the  thing  for  repainting  old 
buggies.  Varnishing not  necessary.  One  coat  for  old  work. 
Dries with a beautiful gloss.  An old buggy can be repainted at 
a cost not to exceed one dollar.  A rapid seller.  Packed  in  as­
sorted cases.  Every case has accompanying  it ample advertis­
ing matter.

A.cme White Lead & Color Works,

s o l e  m a n u f a c t u r e r s .  D e t r o i t ,   M i d i .

Order a sample case of

HONEY BEE COFFEE.

PRINCESS  BAKING  POWDER,

Equal to the Best in the market.

Wholesale 
I, 

Grocers,

&

59  Je fferso n   av e., D etroit, lÆtoh.

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.

Agents for Walker’s Patent Butter Worker.

Reference:  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK.

1 5 7   S .   W a t e r   S t . ,   C h i c a g o ,   1 1 1 .

EARL  BROS.,  Commission  Merchants.
Amos S. Musselman
W holesale  Grocers.
MUSSELMAN’S CORKER  PLUG  AND RUM CIGARS.

Successors to Foi, Musselman & Loveridee,

AGENTS  FOR

The best and most attractive goods on the market.

Send  for  Sample  B utt.  See  Quotations  in  P rice-List.

PORTABLE A N D  STATIONARY

ENGINES

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

A1!

Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

BOOKS,

20  and  22  Monroe  St.,  Qrand  Rapids,  Mich.
HESTER  St  FOX,

Manufacturers’  Agents for

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

kinds of W ood-W orking Machin­

ery, Saws,  Belting and Oils.

W -  O,  Denison,

88,90 and 92 South  Division  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  M ICHIGAN.

WHOLESALE

Pull Line Key West Goods in Stock.
Full Line of all Staple Plugs Kept in Stock.!

Sole Agents for Celebrated

L.  O.  B.,  American  Field,  Pan- 

tilla, Our Nickle,  The Rats, 

Fox’s Clipper.

76 South Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Exclu l iv e l y   Who lesale.

Order Sam ple M by Ma il.
With  every  case  we  giv^ 

>y, Leipon  & Hooj

©rugs & íTDebicines

STATE  BOABD  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.
Next meeting—At Detroit, July t>.

Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

OFFICERS.

^   . 

.  _  _, 

Grand Rapids. 

President—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
First  Vice-President—Frank  J.  Wurzburg, 
..
Second Vice-President—A. B. Stevens. Detroit, 
Third Vice-President—Frank Inglis, Detroit. 
Secretary—S. E. Parkell, Owosso.
Treasurer—Win. 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  oi'  meeting—At  Grand  Rapids, 
Tuesday, October 12,1886. 
____
Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER 9,1884.

OFFICERS.

President—Frank J. Wurzburg. 
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer_Henry B. Fairchild.
Board  of  Censors-President,  Vice-President
BoardSo ftru stees—'The  President,  Wm.  H. 
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts.  Wm.  E.  White,
Wm. L. White. 
Committee on  Pharmacy—M. B.  Kimm,  n .  b.
Locher and Wm. E. White. 
,
Committee on Trade  Matters—John  E.  Peck, 
H. B. Fairchild and Wm. H. \  an Leeu^en. 
Committee  on  Legislation  Jas.  D.  Lacey, 
Isaac Watts and A. C.  Bauer.
Regular Meetings—First  Thursday evening in
Annual  Meetings—First  Thursday evening in
T  1 
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening, July  1,  at 
________

November. 
“The Tradesman” office. 

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Detroit Pharmaceutical Society. 

Organized October, 1883.

OFFICERS.

President—A. F. Parker.
First Vice-President-Frank Ingas- 
Second Vice President—J. Ç. Mueller. 
Secretary and Treasurer—A. W. Allen. 
Assistant Secretary a“d treasurer—H. McRae 
Annual Meeting—First Wednesday in June. 
Regular  Meetings—First  Wednesday  in each 
month. 
_______ _________________
Jackson County Pharmaceutical Asso­

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

and C. H. Haskins. 

month.
Saginaw  County  Pharmaceutical  So­

v  
,

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ciety.

President—Jay Smith.
First Vice-President—W. H .l arnall.
Second Vice-President—R. Bruske. 
Secretary—D. E. Prall.
Treasurer—H. Melchers.
Committee on  Trade  Matters—W. B. Moore, 
H.  G.  Hamilton,  H.  Melchers,  W.  H.  Keeler
.__. . ___
and R. J. Birney. 
Regular Meeting—Second  Wednesday after­
noon of each month. 
____
Muskegon  Drug  Clerks’  Association.

_ 

_ 

OFFICERS.
President—Fred. Heath.
Vice-Presidentr-J. C.  Terry.
Secretary and Treasurer—L. B. Glover. 
Regular Meetings—Second and fourth Wednes- 
Next Meeting—Wednesday evening, June <s>.

day of each month.

CAUG HT  BY  “CURE  ALLS.”

Interesting  Facts  as  to  the  Trade in Pat­

ent Medicines.

From the Chicago News.

“As singular  as  it may appear,” said the 
dapper retail  drug  clerk,  “fully  four-fifths 
of the  persons  who  purchase  patent medi­
cines are cranks.”
“How’s that?”
“Well,  listen. 

If there  should appear in 
the papers of to-day an  attractive advertise­
ment of some new article in the patent med­
icine line, 1 don’t care what special complaint 
it proclaimed to eradicate,  I know fully one 
hundred and fifty people who would  within 
the  next three  days drop in  this  store and 
buy a bottle of the  new  remedy. 
I  would 
be  willing  to  bet  that  that  many  bottles 
would be disposed  of within the  prescribed 
limit of time.”

“Do you  mean  to  tell me  that  a person 
having  liver  trouble  would  pay any atten­
tion to a remedy for  heart  disease?”  asked 
the scribe.

“That’s  just exactly  what  I  wish to im­
press upon  your mind.  There’s  where the 
crank symptoms come in.  To be sure,  most 
of the new patent medicines  introduced are 
regular cure-alls.  They purport to be spec­
ial remedial  agencies for  all  sorts  of inter­
nal disorders.  They are  very certain  to be 
efficacious in the  dissipation of  every kind 
of organic  disease,  especially the  stomach, 
liver and kidneys.  Now,  most  of  the peo­
ple  whom  I  refer  to  as  patent  medicine 
cranks  are  simply  hypochondriacs.  They 
imagine themselves the victims of perpetual 
disorders.  They  won’t  go  to  a  reputable 
physician  and be  thoroughly examined,  be­
cause they seem to be  under the impression 
that the doctor doesn’t know as much about 
their trouble  as  they  do  themselves,  so as 
soon as they read an advertisement of a new 
remedy they  are  dead  sure  to  give  it  a 
trial.”

“How many bottles will they buy?”
“Well,  I think of the  150  crank  custom­
ers we have I  can  safely  estimate  an aver­
age  sale  of  three  bottles  to  each  individ­
ual.  Of course  they don’t  buy them  all at 
once.  They take them  one  after  another. 
The patent-medicine makers of  the country 
fully understand  this  peculiar phase of hu­
man  nature  and  they  speculate on it.  Let 
me give you an idea  of  the  possibilities for 
wholesale swindling offered those who want 
to go into  the  business.  Here’s  a  man or 
set of men  who  raise  a  certain  amount of 
capital, usually representing a generous fig­
ure.  They secure some cheap, simple, harm­
less formula, the  ingredients  of which  are 
known to act on the liver and kidneys.  They 
rent extensive  premises  in  some  big town

and begin the manufacture of a new remedy 
for the cure of  all  affections  of  the organs 
named.  They order a  vast quantity of bot­
tles,  perhaps  of  a  peculiar  shape, and the 
best lithographic establishment  in the coun­
try is also supplied with an order for ornate 
and attractive wrappers and chromatic cuts. 
Then  they at once  begin  the  manufacture 
of  the  new  medicine.  Frequently  weeks 
and even months  are  consumed  in  getting 
their preparation  ready for  the market. 
It 
is not until  they have  crowded  their ware­
houses  full  with  packages  ready for  ship­
ment that they begin  to  introduce to public 
notice their medicine.  This  introduction is 
generally arranged so that it will be univer­
sal,  the newspapers  everywhere coming out 
on the  same  day with  the  same  advertise­
ment.”

“But,  suppose a  demand  upon  the drug­
gist is made at once, how will the customers 
be supplied?” inquired the reporter.

“That’s, just what I expected  you’d ask,” 
replied the  drug clerk,  “and  I’ll show  you 
now what I  meant, when I referred  to  the j 
fact  that  the  patent  medicine  men  knew 
what to speculate on.  Long before the rem­
edy is advertised each druggist is visited by 
an agent who shows him the goods and tells 
him what the  manufacturers  propose doing 
in the way of inviting public attention to it. 
He then asks for an  order,  which is usually 
promptly given, because every druggist as I 
have shown,  can calculate  pretty closely on 
what he is  bound  to  sell  to  regular crank 
customers.  For  instance,  our  people,  who 
are  sure  to  have  150  applications  for the 
new medicine  as  soon  as  it is  advertised, 
and  knowing  the  average  sale  to be three 
bottles  to  an  individual, can  with  perfect 
safety order  forty  dozen.  The  retail price 
of  the  goods  is  generally  $1 a  bottle,  and 
when this  is the  case  we  can  hardly ever 
buy it for less than $8 a dozen, which leaves 
us the fair profit of $4 a case,  or 5160 when 
the forty  dozen order is  disposed of.  Now 
this store is  but one  of  many  hundreds in 
the city.  To be sure,  there  are very few of 
them who have upon their list as many pat­
ent-medicine  cranks as we have.  But  just 
for the sake of illustration let me give you a 
glance at  the  possibilities.  We’ll  say that 
in Chicago there are  1,000 drug  stores  that 
sell  patent-medicines.  Now,  the  smallest 
of these  will  have at  the  least  five of the 
crank customers  I have  spoken of.  Let us 
put the average for the 1,000 stores at twen­
ty.  Calculating that  each  druggist will or­
der what he  knows  he  can  dispose of, the 
agent for the new medicine is pretty sure to 
carry away with him  from  this  city  alone 
orders for 60,000 bottles or 5,000 dozen.  He 
should be satisfied with this,  shouldn’t he?”
“Well,  I should  think  so,” remarked the 
scribe.  “But can  you  give  me any idea of 
the profits of the manufacturers?”

“I’m coming  to that. 

It’s a big  problem 
and can only be solved for localities.  Some 
years ago I  was  in the  employ of a firm in 
New  York  organized  for  the  purpose  of 
making and introducing a new patent medi­
cine.  They had  a  big  capital  and  spared 
nothing in  the  way  of  expense  in  giving 
their  goods  a  fine  send-off.  They  were 
months in preparing  their  medicine for the 
market, and when all was  ready they flood­
ed the  country  with  huge  advertisements. 
The  stuff  sold  for 58 a  dozen  and I know 
the firm made a clear profit  of 55  on  every 
dozen  sold,  after  counting  in  all  the  ex­
penses attached.  As we just now calculated 
a sure sale of 5,000  dozen in  this city alone 
for any new remedy  elaborately introduced, 
you  can  readily  see 
the  profits 
to  the  manufacture  on  such  sale  would 
amount  to  the  goodly  sum  of  525,000. 
Chicago 
is  only  one  city—a  big  one, 
to  be  sure—but  when  you  come  to  take 
all the towns and  cities in  the country pro­
vided with more or less drug stores that sell 
patent medicines you may form  some indis­
tinct  idea  of  what  the  possible  universal 
profits are.  The  New York  firm I alluded 
to,  in whose  employ I  was,  didn’t continue 
in existence over  a  year.  They turned  the 
winning cards  on the  first  deal,  and when 
they cashed in were  perfectly satisfied with 
the divvy. 
It’s a sure-thing game, provided 
there is plenty of capital to back it and pro­
per people selected to manage it.”

that 

The Drug Market.

Gum arabic has advanced 5 cents a pound 
and oil cloves 15 cents.  Oils  lemon,  berga- 
mont and orange are very firm  and  tending 
higher.  Quinine, opium  and  morphine are 
very low,  with  no  prospects of  any higher 
prices at present.  For  insect powder there 
is a  brisk  demand  and  higher  prices  are 
probable.  Canary and  hemp  seed are very 
firm and hardening in price.

A Philadelphia  business  man  advertised 
for an errand  boy recently,  and  among the 
replies  received was the following:  “I am 
a strong well  educated  young man of eigh­
teen good  family best  of  reference  can be 
given.”  Another:  “I think I could fill your
want in --------of  to-day  to a T.  Drop me
a note  and i will  call and  you can form an 
opinion as to my imagination.”

G.  C.  Gardner,  who  helped  himself  to 
mercury pills  in  W. B.  Falk  &  Co.’s drug 
store  at Big Rapids  under  the  supposition 
that he was getting quinine pills, has caused 
Falk’s arrest  on  the  charge  of  permitting 
the sale of  drugs  in  his  store  by a  person 
not a pharmacist.  The case is on call June 
28.

The manufacture  of  solid  carbonic  acid 
gas has become a settled industry in Berlin. 
It is put up in  small  cylinders,  and if  kept 
under pressure will last some  time—that is, 
a cylinder one and one-half  inches iff diam­
eter and two Inches long will take five hours 
to melt away into gas.

Foolishness of the Eight Hour Strikes. 

From the Detroit News.

The  return  to  ten  hours  by  the  Grand 
Rapids factories is but  another  evidence of 
the futility or such ephemeral efforts at amel­
ioration as the workingmen  have made this 
season.  With a few very slight exceptions, 
every strike of  the  season  has been a blun­
der of fearful cost  to  those who engaged in 
it,  and the condition of the working men on 
the  whole  is  worse  to-day than it  was oa 
the first of April. 
It is a  hard  saying,  and 
one which many working men resent, but it 
is an absolutely true  one, nevertheless,  that 
the price of a human  being  is  affected only 
in the same way as  is the  price  of a hog— 
by the  conditions  of  supply  and  demand; 
and  the longer the  workingmen continue to 
ignore  this  inexorable  law,  the  longer the 
price of a human being  will continue to ap­
proximate the priee  of  a  hog.  They must 
go to the root of the evil, or continue to fail. 
The root of it is in the soil.  Until they tear 
up from the  soil  the  human  laws  that  ex­
clude them from  their free  and equal share 
in it, they will  struggle in  vain against the 
forces  which  render  all their efforts futile. 
So long as money can control the soil, man, 
who needs the soil to live,  will be  the slave 
of those who have money.  Not all the dec­
larations  of  independence,  the  free  consti­
tutions,  the eight-hour laws,  the republican 
institutions,  so-called, the  strikes, the  boy­
cotts that could be enacted, made or ordered 
from  now till  doomsday will  help them,  so 
long as the  land  of  the  country  is  at the 
merdy of greed,  and competition.

Dr.  W.  H.  Andrews  has  sold  his  drug 
stock  at  Fennville  to  a  gentleman  from 
Sparta  and  will  remove  to  California,  in 
hopes  of  securing  immunity from  the  in­
flammatory rheumatism, which has rendered 
life  almost unbearable  for  several  months.
W. B. Falk has  sold  his  interest  in the 
drug  house  of  W.  B.  Falk &  Co.,  at Big 
Rapids, to his father-in-law,  H. R. Hawley, 
heretofore  the  silent  member  of  the firm, 
and the latter is now in possession.

Mills &  Goodman, Props.

. 

MICH.
GRAND  RAPIDS,
WANTED—Registered  drug  clerks,  either 
pharmacists or assistants,who are sober, 
honest,  industrious  and  willing  to  work on 
moderate salary.
WANTED—To exchange house and lot (with 

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.

iness which could be very much increased.

’  of fine farming region.  Doing good  bus­

1.000.  Doing business of not less than $20
per day.  Can be bought at  large  discount or 
will exchange for good property.

IT'OR  SALE—Stock of about $1,800 in town of 
IT'OR SALE—Stock  of  about  $2,000 in midst 
IpOR  SALE—Small  stock  of  about  $700 on 
1 
lake shore and railroad.  Cap  be  bought 
very cheap.
IT'OR SALE—One of the handsomest stores in 
the State.  Well located in Grand Rapids. 
. 
Stock about $4,000.
IT'OR  SALE—Stock of about $7,000,  centrally 
. 
located in Grand Rapids.  Doing business 
of $15,000 per year.
IT'OR  SALE—Stock of $6,000,  well  located  in 
.  Grand Rapids.  Will  sell  whole  stock  on 
liberal terms, but would prefer to sell half in­
terest for cash.
IT'OR SALE—Dentist office in town of 800 can 
’  be bought very cheap.  No other  dentist 
within ten miles.
A LSO many other stocks, the  particulars  of 
which we will furnish free on application.
rr'O  DRCGGISTS  desiring  to  secure  clerks 
L  we will send the  addresses  and  full  par­
ticulars of those on record free on application.

CTJSXZMA2TS

MENTHOL  INHALER

OATAimS.

For  the  treatment  of  this  disease,  the 
Menthol Inhaler is without  doubt  superior 
to  any  other  known  remedy  or  device. 
There  is  no  irritating  fluid or powder  ap­
plied to the already diseased membrane.  On 
the  contrary,  mentholized  air  produces  a 
cool,  soothing sensation through  the  head, 
with a feeling of instant relief,  and  by con­
tinued use the duration of the  relief will be 
gradually extended and a final cure effected.
All druggists should keep the Menthol In­
haler.  Retail price 50 cents.

THE  OLD  RELIABLE

Perry  Davis  Pain. !

Established 1840.

All Druggists Should Keep It.

PRICES  TO  THE  TRADE:

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

Beware of Imitations.  Ther£ is but One Pain 

Per Bottle.  PerDoz
180
3 60
7 20

J.  N.  Harris & Co., Ltd., Cincinnati, O.
Proprietors for the Southern and Western States. 

For Sale by all Medicine Dealers.

Allen’s Lung Balsam

The Great Remedy for Curing

Coughs, Colds, Croup,

C02TSTTMFTX02T,
And  Other  Throat  and  Lung  Affections.
tSrWe  call  your  attention  to  the  fact that the  old 
Standard  Remedy,  ALLEN’S  LUNG  BALSAM,  is  now 
put up in three sizes—2a cents, 60 cents and $1 per bottle.
Small.............................................$1 75 per dozen
Medium........................................  3 50 
Large  ...........................................  7  00 
J.  N.  Harris & Co., Ltd., Cincinnati, O.
§ S M S ti i s   ■  1  S l l I .

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WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

Advanced—Gum arabic, oil cloves, cloves. 
Declined—Nothing1.

ACIDS.

Acetic, No.  8....................................
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040)........
Carbolic............................................
Citric.................................................
Muriatic 18  deg...............................
Nitric 36 deg....................................
Oxalic...............................................
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................
Tartaric  powdered.........................
Benzoic,  English....................TP oz
Benzoic,  German............................
Tannic..............................................

AMMONIA.

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

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.........................
W ahoo..............................................
Soap  ground....................................

BERRIES.

Cubeb  prime (Powd 1 30c)............
Juniper.............................................
Prickly Ash.................................

EXTRACTS.

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

JfLOWERS.

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, 548 16c)............
Euphorbium powdered..................
Galbanum strained.........................
Gamboge...........................................
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
Kino r Powdered, 30cl.....................
Mastic..............................................
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd $4 40)...............
Shellac, Campbell’s .........................
Shellac,  English..............................
Shellac, native.................................
Shellac bleached..............................
Tragacanth............  .......................

9  @  10 
30  @  35 
35  @  38 
75  @  80 
3  @  5
11  @  12 
10  @  12 
3  @  4
50  @  53 
18
12  @  15 
12  @  15

@ 1  25 
6  @  7
50  @  60

13  @  15 
25 
30

60®  75 
12 V)
28®  30 
90 
90 
85 
70 
65 
20 
50®55
25®  27 
13
35®  40 
80
80®  90 
35 
20 
1 25 
40 
3  10

20
30
30  @1 00

HERBS—IN  OUNCE  PACKAGES.
Hoarhound..............................................
Lobelia......................................................
Peppermint..............................................
Rue.............................................................
Spearmint...............................................
Sweet Majoram........................................
Tanzy ........................................................
Thym e......................................................
Wormwood..............................................

IRON.

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

LEAVES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c).................  13
Sage, Italian, bulk()48 a Ms, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................  33
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva  ITrsi...........................................
Belledonna........................................
Foxglove...........................................
Henbane...........................................
Rose, red............. .............................

.30

65

LIQUORS.

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........................... 
Brandy................................................... 1 75
Catawba  Wines.................................... 1 25
Port Wines.............................................1 35

2 00

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

MAGNESIA.

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

6 00

Almond, sweet............................... 
45  ®  50
45
Amber, rectified.............................. 
Anise.................................................  
1  80
Bay 
50
oz.........................................  
3 00
Bergamont.......................................  
Castor................................................  1  42® 1  60
Croton...............................................  
1  75
Cajeput............................................  
75
85
Cassia................................................ 
Cedar, commercial (Pure 75c)......... 
35
75
Citroneila........................................ 
1  65
Cloves................................................ 
Cod Liver, N. F........................#  gal 
1 20
150
Cod Liver, best......................... 
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 
Cubebs, P. & W ........ ...................... 
9 50
1 60
Erigeron........................................... 
2  00
Fireweed........................................... 
Geranium  $   oz...............................  
75
35
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 
Juniper wood..................................  
50
Juniper berries...............................  
2 00
Lavender flowers, French.............  
2 01
Lavender garden  do 
................ 
100
90
Lavender spike 
................ 
do 
2 50
Lemon, new crop............................ 
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.......................  
2 75
80
Lemongrass...................................... 
Olive,  Malaga.......  ......................... 
90®1  00
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  ............... 
2 75
1 25
Origanum, red flowers, French... 
Origanum,  No. 1............................ 
50
1  00
Pennyroyal...................................... 
Peppermint,  white.........................  3 90®4 00
Rose 
oz......................................... 
8 00
65
Rosemary, French (Flowers $1 50) 
2 75
Salad, $   gal...................................... 
Savin.............................................  
100
Sandal  Wood. German.................. 
4  50
Sandal Wood, W. 1..........................  
7 00
Sassafras........................................... 
45
Spearmint.......................................  
@7  50
Tansy............................................... 4 00  ®4 25
Tar (by gal 50c).................................  10  ®  12
Wintergreen................................. 
2 25
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $4.00)....... 
3 50
Wormseed........... •..........................  
2 00

 

POTASSIUM.

Bicromate.......................... . 
18 tt> 
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... 
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............  
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk....... 
Prusslate yellow.............................. 

ROOTS.

12® 14
37®40
22
3 00
28

Alkanet............................................  
20
25
Althea, cut........................................ 
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s.....................  
17
33
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 14s and )4s__  
12
Blood (Powd 18c).............................. 
20
Calamus,  peeled.............................. 
35
Calamus, German  white, peeled.. 
Elecampane, powdered..................  
20
10
Gentian (Powd  15c)......................... 
Ginger, African (Powd 14c)............  11  ®  12
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached...........  
17
Golden Seal (Powd 25c).................. 
20
20
Hellebore, white, powdered.......... 
Ipecac, Rio, powdered..........................  
Jalap, powdered.............................  
•  30
Licorice,  select (Powd 15).............  
18
Licorice, extra select.....................  
20
Pink, true......................................... 
80
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00  @1 50
Rhei, powdered E. 1.........................1  10  ®1 20
2 00
Rhei, choice cut  cubes................ 
Rhei, choice cut fingers................  
2 25
65
Serpent aria...................................... 
60
Seneka.................................... 
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras:...............  
43
Sarsaparilla,  Mexioan.................... 
20

 

1 20

 

 

 

•

2

do 

2  ® 

SEEDS.

do 
do 

®  40
15

MISCELLANEOUS.

do 
do 
do 
do 

l   10
50
1  10
8
3

do 
do Scherin’s  do  ... 
do 

60 
2 75 
2  00 
40 
2 00 
®9 75 
2 30 
50
6®  7
9®10 
2 25 
18
14
4 00

15
Squills, white (Powd 35c)............... 
25
Valerian, English (Powd 30c)........ 
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)__  
20
15
Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)............... 
Bird, mixed in fl> packages...........  
5  @  6
4  @  4)
Canary,  Smyrna..................... 
... 
15  @  18
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  20c). 
Cardamon,  Aleppee....................... 
1  10
i 25
Cardamon, Malabar........................  
Celery....................... *....................... 
15
10
Coriander, Dest English................. 
Fennel.............................................. 
15
Flax, clean.......................................   33l£@
4  @  4)
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3)4).................. 
Foenugreek, powdered.................. 
7  ®  8
Hemp,  Russian............................... 
4)4®  5)
10
Mustard, white  Black 10c)............. 
75
Quince.............................................. 
6  ®  7
Rape, English..................................  
Worm,  Levant................................. 
14
SPONGES.
Florida sheens’ wool, carriage......2 25  ®2 50
do 
Nassau 
....... 
2 00
. . . .  
do 
110
Velvet Ext 
do 
Extra Ye 
.......  
85
do 
Grass 
65
.......  
,for slate use................  
Hard’ 
75
................ 
Yellow Reef. 
140
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.21/$ gal__  
2 30
1 50
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
60
Anodyne Hoffman’s....................... 
27
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........  
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........  
12
Annatto  1 B> rolls............................ 
45
Alum.........................................  $o>  2K<®  3)
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
3  ®  4
Annatto, prime...............................  
45
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ......
4)4® 
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
6
®
Blue  Soluble....................................
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s.
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................
Beans,  Tonka..................................
Beans, Vanilla.................................7 00
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.....................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue V itriol....................................
Borax, refined (Powd  11c).............  
Cantharides,Russian  powdered..
Capsicum  Pods, African...............
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ...
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do  ... 
Carmine, No. 40............................... 
Cassia Buds.....................................  
Calomel. American................................. 
Chalk, prepared drop...................... 
5
12
Chalk, precipitate English............ 
8
Chalk,  red fingers........................... 
Chalk, white lump........................... 
2
Chloroform,  Squibb’s .................... 
1  25
Colocynth  apples....................................  
1 50
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
1 76
cryst... 
Chloral 
1 90
Chloral 
Chloral 
1 75
crusts.. 
<®  47
Chloroform...................................... 
Cinchonidia, P. & W......................   15  ®  20
Cinchonidia. other brands.............   12  ®  15
Cloves (Powd 25c)............................  23  ®  25
Cochineal.................................................  
Cocoa  Butter........................................... 
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................  
Corrosive Sublimate................................ 
Corks, X and XX—40 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered....... 
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 fi> box.. 
Creasote..................................................... 
Cudbear, prime.......................................  
Cuttle Fish Bone...................................... 
Dextrine...................................................  
Dover’s  Powders............................ 
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................   . 
Ergot  powdered...................................... 
Ether Squibb’s................................. 
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s ............. 
Epsom Salts (bbl. 1%).....................  
Ergot, fresh.............................................. 
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P .......................  
Flake white.............................................. 
Grains  Paradise...................................... 
Gelatine, Cooper’s ................................... 
Gelatine. French............................  45  ®  70
Glassware, flint, 70 & 10, by box 60 & 10 less
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  cajinet..................................   12  @  17
Glue,white.......................................   16  ®  28
Glycerine, pure...............................  16  ®  20
Hops  54s and )4s.............................. 
25®  40
Iodoform $) oz...............................  
Indigo...............................................   85  ®1  00
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  35  @  40
@1 00
Insect Powder, H., P. & Co., boxes 
Iodine,  resublimed............... 
00
Isinglass,  American.............. 
50
Japonica........................................... 
7
London  Purple...............................  10 ®  15
Lead, acetate.................................... 
15
Lime, chloride, ()4s 2s 10c & )4s 11c) 
8
Lupuline................................. 
00
Lycopodium....................................  
50
Mace.................................................  
50
Madder, best  Dutch.....................  
12)4®  13
Manna, S.  F ...................................... 
75
60
Mercury............................................  
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........¡|j) oz  2 25®2 50
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s........  
40
Moss, Iceland............................^  B> 
10
12
Moss,  Irish...................................... 
Mustard,  English............................ 
30
18
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 0>  cans........  
Nutgalls............................................  
23
Nutmegs, No. 1................................. 
60
10
Nux  Vomica.................................... 
Ointment. Mercurial, )4d............... 
45
Paris Green....................................  
18 @  26
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................  
18
2 
Pepsin.....................................  
50
Pitch, True Burgundy.................... 
7
Quassia............................................  
6  ®  7
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W........... lb oz  70  @  75
Quinine,  German............................  60  ®  65
Red  Precipitate........................ $Mb 
85
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................. 
28
Strychnia, cryst........ ...................... 
1 60
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  74  ®  78
35
Saffron, American..........................  
®  2
Sal  Glauber...................................... 
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.....................  
10
Sal  Nitre, medium cryst............... 
9
33
Sal Rochelle...................................... 
Sal  Soda............................................ 
Salicin.....................................  
15
50
Santonin................................  
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch.......... 
35
4
Soda Ash [by keg 3c]...................... 
48
Spermaceti.......................................  
4)4®  5
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s__  
Soap, White Castile......................... 
14
Soap, Green  do 
......................... 
17
Soap, Mottled do 
......................■.. 
9
11
Soap, 
......................... 
do  do 
Soap, Mazzini..................................  
14
28
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ..............................  28 ® 
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................   30 ® 
32
Sugar Milk powdered.....................  
35
Sulphur, flour...................................  3M®  4
Sulphur,  roll.................................... 
Tartar Emetic..................................  
60
2 70
Tar, N. C. Pine, )4 gal. cans  $  doz 
Tar, 
quarts in tin.......... 
140
85
Tar, 
pints in tin.............  
Turpentine,  Venice...................... B> 
25
Wax, White, 8. &  F. brand............ 
55
Zine,  Sulphate................................. 
7  ®  8
Bbl  Gal
75
Whale, winter......................................  70 
60
Lard, extra...........................................  55 
55
Lard, No.  1...........................................  45 
40
Linseed, pure  raw..............................  37 
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............................................1 60@1  70
Coach Body............................................2 75®3  00
No. 1 Turp Furniture........................... 1 00@1  10
Extra Turk  Damar...............................1  55® 1  60
70®  75
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp.
PAINTS
Lb 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2)4® 3 
214® 3 
13@16 
59®60 
16®17 
7® 7* 
7® 7*i 
@70 
@90 
1 10 
1 40 
1 20® 1 40 
1 00@1 20

Bbl
Red Venetian............................  114
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........  114
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  114
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  Paris English cliff..
Pioneer Prepared  T aints.......
Swiss Villa Prepare*  Paints..

2  ®  2)4
2 
6 

VARNISHES.

3®  3)4

do 
do 

OILS.

4 
1 

l 

 

 

OILS.

ILLUMINATING.

LUBRICATING.

Water White.................................................... 1114
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.......................................... 
Zero............. . 
............................................ 13

11)4

9 î 3

WHOLESALE

Druggists!

42 and 44  Ottawa Street and  8g,  g i,

93 and gs  Louis Street. 

IMPORTERS  AND JOBBERS  OF

Sffeflioiuos, dismicals, 

Paints, Oils, Yarnislies,

14

75

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Elegant  Plarmacentical  Prepara­

tion!!,  Fluid  Extracts  and 

60

Elixirs

GENERAL  W HOLESALE  AGNTS  FOR

40
Wolf, Patton & Co. and John L. 
40
70

Whiting, Manufacturers  of 

50
24
20
12

65

Pine Paint and  Var­

nish Brushes.
THE  CELEBRATED

Pioneer Prepared Paints.

ALSO  FOR  THE

50
60
Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manu­
14
15
facturers of Hair, Shoe snd 
90

Horse Brushes.

WE  ARE  SOLE  OWNERS  OF

Weatherly’s Micligan Catarrh Care

40

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  U N SU R PA SSED   FACIL­
ITIES for meeting the wants of  this  class 
of buyers W IT H O U T   DELAY and in the 
most  approved  and  acceptable  manner 
known to the drug trade.  Our  special  ef­
forts in this  direction  have  received  from 
hundreds or our customers the  most satis­
fying recommendations.

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

WITHERS DADE & CO.’S

Henderson Co., Ky.,

Sour Mash  and  Old-Fashioned 

Hand-Made, Copper- 

Distilled

WHISKYS.

W e not only offer these  goods  to  be ex­
celled by NO OTHER K NO W N  BRA ND  
in the market, but superior  in  all  respects 
to  most  that  are  exposed  to  sale.  W e  
G UARANTEE 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

D r if ts ’  Favorite  Rye,

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

Gins, Brandies & Pine Wines.

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

such asPatent  Medicines,

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

Mail  orders  always  receive  our special 

Hazeltine 

& Perkins 
%\  Drug Co.

S

protected.  The omission of the comma had 
the  effect,  however,  of 
the 
word  “property”  by 
the  adjective  “ag­
ricultural,” and this interpretation  was  ap­
plied  by  the  court,  which  followed  the 
printed copy of the statute.

limiting 

“Fermentum” the only reliable compress­

ed yeast.  See advertisement.

BINDERS’  TWINE
We have a basement full.

B X J Y T

Fresh Roasted Coffees

AND  XXTCRHASE YOTO TRADE.

1

Gurtiss, Dunton & Co.

P E R K I N S  
HESS,
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

DEALERS IN

NOS.  182  and  124  LOUIS  STREET, GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

WE  CARRY  A STOCK OF  CAKE TALLOW  FOR MILL  USE.______________

E.  FALLAS,

Butter and Eggs, Lemons and Oranges,

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

Makes a Specialty of

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

- 

No. 1 E g g  Crates  for Sale.  Stevens’ No. 1 patent fillers used.  50 cents each. ^

where in this issue and write for

97  and 99 Canal Street, 
Grand Rapids, Michigan
See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­
Special  Prices in  Car  Lots. 
We are prepared to mate Bottom Prices on anything we handle.
A. B. KNOWLSON,
RINDGE 8ERTSCH & CO.,
BOOTS  AND  SHOES.

3  Canal Street, Basement,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

MANUFACTURERS AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Carracas,

We have the following varieties in stock from which to select:
Javas, 
IMIoo!h_a,s,  A^araoetitoos,
Oeylons,  Costa Rioas, 
GrTAettemstlets, Santos, 
h£©2cio£in.s,  etnd. Rios.
All bought for their fine roasting and  drinking qualities.

Give  us  a  trial  order.

46  OTTAWA STREET.

Importers  and

TELFER.  <ft  BROOKS,
ABSOLUTE  SPICES. ’
BULKLEY, LEMON & HOOPS,
W holesale  Grocers.
“Jolly Tar” Plug Tobacco.
Daniel Scotten &  Co.’s “HIAWATHA” 
Plug Tobacco.
Lautz. Bros. & Co.’s SOAPS.
Niagara STARCH.
Dwinell, Howard & Co.’s ?oyaf Mocha and Java.
Thompson & Taylor Spice  Co.’s  “ Mag­

Solo Agents for

Royal Java.
Golden Santos.

v

A.  MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

W EDNESDAY.

E.  A. STOWE  &  BRO., Proprietors.

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

Telephone No. 95,

[Entered  at  the  Postofflce  at  Grand  Rapids  as 

Second-class Matter .1

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  23,  1886.

A Drummer’s Wish.
I wish I had a line of goods 
And every merchant wanted.

That no one ever had,
And wanted awful bad.

I’d send the trade a little card,
And tell them “I’m in town,’
And if they wanted any stuff,
They’d better come right down.

I’d treat them as they treat me now;
And when they came around to call,

I’d make ’em feel quite "dizzy;’
I’d say, “I’m very busy.”

“I guess you’d better come  again,”
“If you don’t want these goods of  mine, 

I’d say to some 1 know—
You take your traps and go.”

“When am I going out?”
My house won’t ship you any goods. 

Well, what is that to you?
Your pay is most too slow.”
1 could wish, and wish in vain,
Until I was blind and sore—
For such a wi6h could never be,
So 1 shall wish no more.

BUSINESS LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of Last Resort.

L IFE   INSURANCE  POLICY— D EFA ULT.
A policy of  life  insurance  provided  that 
“ the non-payment of a note given for a pre­
mium when due shall be an abandonment of 
the contract with the same effect as the non­
payment  of  the  premium  for  which  it  is 
given,  without notice to the parties interest­
ed or tender of the note,” and  a  note  given 
for a premium provided that, if not  paid  at 
maturity, it should be  void.  The  Superior 
Court  of  Kentucky  held  that  under these 
provisions the failure to pay the note at ma 
turity was an abandonment of the  contract 
just as the failure to pay the premium when 
due would have been if no  provision  for an 
extension had been made  by  the  execution 
of the note,  and that it  was  not  necessary 
for the company to return the note  or  give 
notice to the insured.

CHECK— ^ACTUAL  CASH  PA Y M EN T.”
In  the  case of McGinnis vs. Farrelly  the 
United States Circuit Court for the Southern 
District of New York held that the delivery 
before the filing of the  certificate of  special 
partnership, by a party intending to become 
a special partner to the general partners,  of 
a check payable to their order, drawn  upon 
a bank where he had funds to meet  it,  was 
not  “an  actual  cash  payment,”  such  as 
would  entitle  him to  protection  under  the 
New  Jersey  statute.  The  court  said:  A 
check  is  but  an  order on a depositary,  di 
recting  him  to  pay  a  certain  sum  to the 
payee or bearer.  The drawer can  intercept 
its payment at any time  before  actual  pay­
ment or acceptance by the drawee. 
It does 
not  furnish  to  the  payee  a fund which is 
subject to his exclusive control. 
It  may be 
regarded by mercantile usage  as  equivalent 
to a  cash  payment;  it  may  be convertible 
immediately into money, but its  delivery to 
the general partners is not  the  payment  in 
actual  cash  which  is  contemplated by  the 
statute.
ISSUANCE  OF  CERTIFICATES  OF  DEPOSIT.
The issuing of certificates  of deposit by a 
national bank is not illegal within the mean­
ing of the section of  Revised  Statutes  for­
bidding national banks  to  issue  any  other 
notes to circulate as money than such as are 
authorized by the provision  of  the  statute, 
according  to  the  decision  of  the Supreme 
Judicial Court of Massachusetts in the  case 
of Hunt vs. Appellant from decree of Judge 
of Probate.  The  court  said:  “If  the  Re­
vised Statutes of the United States  forbade 
the issue of any other notes whatsoever!ban 
such as were therein authorized it would be 
difficult to hold this certificate  to  be  legal. 
But assuming that it might  fall  within  the 
general designation of a note,  it  cannot  be 
considered as a note intended to circulate as 
money within the meaning  of  the  statute. 
It  requires  to  be indorsed. 
It was under­
stood not to be payable until a certain future 
date.  The form of the instrument  and  the 
incidents above mentioned show that it was 
not intended to circulate as  money between 
individuals and between government and in­
dividuals  for  the  ordinary purposse  of so­
ciety.
CRIMINAL  LAW — INJURIES  TO  PROPERTY.
The importance which a punctuation mark 
sometimes assumes was illustrated in a crim­
inal  case  recently  tried  in  Texas.  Two 
Knights  of  Labor,  Murray  and Anthony, 
were  tried  and  convicted  of  “killing” an 
engine during the Southwestern  strike,  the 
conviction being had under article 683 of the 
Penal Code, which  imposed  a  penalty  for 
willfully and mischievously injuring  or  de­
stroying “any growing fruit, corn,  grain  or 
other agricultural product  or  property  real 
or personal.”  The Texas Court of Appeals 
set aside the conviction on the  ground  that 
the article in question was  restricted  in  its 
operation  to  injuries  done  to agricultural 
products or property. 
It is said that in the 
codification of the criminal statutes  a  com­
ma was inserted after  the  words  “agricul­
tural products”  but that  this  was  omitted 
by a printer’s error.  The  general  opinion 
was tha  under the statute as i$ was  under­
stood to stand in  the  original  draft  of  the 
code, other than  agricultural  property  was

For easy  Ironinguse  “ Electric Lustre*'I 
Starch.  It is all prepared for immediate I 
nee in O ne P o u n d  P a ck a g e« , which F 
go aa far as two pounds of any other Starch.
Ask  your  Grocer   for  it.
The Electric Lnstre Starch Co.

204 Franklin St.t  New York.,

JOHN CAULFIELD 

Wholesale Agent,

GRAND  RAPID S, 

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MICH.

TIME  TABLES.
Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves.
1-Mail............................................... 9:00 am
IDay Express......................12:50 p m
♦Night  Express...................11:00 p m
Muskegon Express.......................4:45 pm

Arrives, 
4:00 p m 
8:55 p m 
5:45 a m 
11:00 a m
♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night  trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  at­
tendants without extra charge to Chicago on 
1:00 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.  m. and 
10:40 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO DIVISION.

Leaves.
Express................................. 3:50 p m
Express.................................  8:00a m■ 

Arrives. 
5:20 p m 
10:50 a m
All trains arrive and depart from Union De-
PThe Northern terminus of  this Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection is made with 
F. &  P. M.  trains  to and  from Ludington and 
Mflilli StC6.J. H. Ca r p e n t e r ,  Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J.  B.  M u l l i k e n ,  General  Manager.

-

Detroit, Maokinae  & Marquette.

* 

Going1 West. 
Going East.
7:30 p m........... Hougbton...................8:30 a m
3:00pm ,D......Marquette  ............ A,  1:00pm
2:05 pm , A ...... Marquette..............D, 1:40 pm
10:40 a m ...........Seney...........................   4:50 pm
7:45 a m ...........St.  Ignace...................   8:15 pm
6:15a m ........... Mackinaw  City...........9:30p m
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,

Leave. 

(KALAMAZOO  DIVISION.)

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

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

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

OOING NORTH.Arrives.  Leaves
11:30 a m 
5:05 pm 
7:00a m
7:16 a m 
5:30pm 
11:45 a m

GOING  SOUTH.

All trains daily except Sunday.

SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

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

GOING WEST.

GOING EAST.Arrives.
Leaves. 
6:25 am  
tSteamboat  Express............6:20 am
10:50 am  
^Through  Mail.....................10:15 a m
3:50 p m 
tEvening  Express...............3:15 pm
6:30 p m 
♦Limited  Express.................6:25 p m
11:00 am
tMixed, with coach...........
1:10 p ra 
tMorning  Express.....................  1:05 pm
5:10 pm  
tThrougn  Mail....................  5:00 
p m
10:45 p m 
tSteamboat Express...........10:40 p m
7:45 am  
tMixed..................................
5:35 am
♦NightExpress...........................   5:10 am
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily. 
Passengers  taking  the  6:25  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at
10:00 a. m. the following morning.  _
The Night  Express  has  a  through Wagner 
Car and  local  Sleeping  Car Detroit  to Grand 
Rapids.

D. Potter, City Pass. Agent. 
Geo. B. Reeve, Traffic Manager, Chicago.

Miohifran  Central.

DEPART.

ARRIVE.

Detroit Express............................................... 6:15 am
Dav Express...........................................  D10 p m
♦Atlantic Express...................................10:10 p m
Mixed  ......................................................  6:50 am
♦Pacific  Express..............................................6:00 am
M ail...................................................
Grand  Rapids  Express.................................10:15 pm
...................................................... 5:16 pm
Mixed 
♦Daily.  All  others  daily  except  Sunday. 
Sleeping cars run on  Atlantic  and Pacific Ex­
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor cars run  on Day Express  and Grand 
Rapids Express to and from Detroit.
Direct connections made  at Detroit  with all 
through trains  East  over  M. C. R. R. (Canada 
Southern DiyJ 

.
Chas. H. Norris,  Gen’l Agent

„ ■- 

AGENTS FOR THE

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, 

-  Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

WHOLESALE DEALERS  IN

Butter, Bggs, Olioese, Etc. 

Wholesale Agents for the Lima Egg Crates and Fillers.

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

ORDER

Our Leader Smoking 

15c per pound.

Our Leader Slacrts, 

Our Leader Fine Cut 

33c per pound.

Our Leader Cigars, 

16c per pound.

$30 per M.
Tlie  Best  in  tHe  W orld.

Clark, Jewell & Co.,

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

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

D I R E C T I O N S  

We have cooked the com in this can 
«ufflciently.  Should  be  Thoroughly
Warmed (not cooked) addin«  piece ot 
Good Butter (size ofhen’segg)andgiU 
of freih  inilk  (preferable  to  water.) 
Season to suit when on the table. None
--------- —------
OCUOU W »U.»  n  u v u  
genuine unless bearing the signature ot

CHIUICOTHEIU-^^  ^
a t   t h i s

Every 

wrapped in colored tissue paper with 

signature and stamp on each can.

nolia ” Package Coffee.
SOLE  PROPRIETORS

“J'OLjIL'V  TILilE”  Fine Cut,

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. Rapids, Midi.

PUTNAM &  BROOKS
Wholesale Manufacturers of

PURE  CANDY !

ORANGES,  LEMONS, 

BANANAS,  nOS,  DATES,, 

IISTu/ts,  E t c .

L.  M.  CARY.

C A R T <& LOVERXDGE,

L.  L. LOYER1DGE.

GENERAL  DEALERS  IN

Fire and Burglar Proof

Combination  and Time Locks,

11 Ionia Street, 

- 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

THE  BEST

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

g)rg  (Boobs.

WIDE  BROWN COTTONS.

The following quotations are given  to show 
relative values, but they may be considered, to 
some extent, “outside prices,” and  are  not  as 
low as buyers of reasonable  quantities can, in 
most  instances, obtain  them  at.  It  will pay 
every  merchant  to  make  frequent  visits  to 
market, not only in  respect  to  prices,  but to 
keep posted on  the  ever-changing  styles and 
fashions, many of which are never shown  “on 
the road.”
Androscoggin, 9-4. 17 Pepperell. 104.
Androscoggin, 74. 1354 Pepperell, 114.
Pepperell,  74...... 13 Pequot,  74—
Peppereli,  84.......
Pequot,  94__
Pepperell,  9-4.......
C K S.
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Economy, oz........
Park Mills, No. 50. 10 Prodigy, oz__ ....  854
....  854 
Otis Apron__
Park Mills, No. 60. 
Otis  Furniture
....  854
Park Mills, No. 70.
Park Mills, No. 80. 13 York,  1  oz.......
....  954
Park Mills, No. 90. .14 York, AA, extra oz.1254

....19
....22
....1454
15 Pequot,  84__ ....16
__ 18
17
CHE

11
12

OSNA1 L'K G S.

Plain.

PRINTS.

SILESIA8.

Phoenix X X ....

FINE BROWN  COTTONS.

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

.  * V%
CHET COTTONS.

Plaid.
Alabama............... 654 Alabama........ __ 634
Augusta........
Georgia................
85*
::::  IS
Georgia..........
8
Jewell  .................
....  634
854  Louisiana.......
Kentucky  ...........
L ane..................... .  8v<aToledo...........
....  654
Santee..................
BLEA
854|Gilded Age—  
Avondale.  36----
954 Greene, G  4-4 
Art  cambrics, 36 
Hill, 4-4............
Androscoggin, 4-4..
Androscoggin, 5-4. .1254 Hill, 7-8.
Hope,  4-4................  654
BaDou, 4-4
6  ¡King  Phillip  cam-
Ballou, 5-1...............
854  brie, 4-4................954
Boott,  0.4-4...........
7  I Lin wood,  4-4.........   754
Boott,  E. 5-5..........
9541 Lonsdale,  4-4......... 73ü
Boott, AGC, 4-4.......
554  Lonsdale  cam brio. 1054 
Boott, R. 3-4..........
654 Langdon,GB,4-4...  854
Blackstone, AA 4-4 
554 Langdon,  46........... 11
Chapman, X, 4-4—
654 Masonville,  4-4.........754
Conway,  4-4...........
654 New York Milt, 4-4.1054 
Cabot, 4-4................
6  ¡New Jersey,  4-4__ 8
Cabot, 7-8................
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  754 
Canoe,  3-4...............
Pride of the West. .1054
Domestic,  36..........
Dwight Anchor, 4-4 .  854 Pocahontas,  4-4—   754 
Davol, 4-4...............  8  Slaterville, 7-8........ 654
¡41 Woodbury, 4-4........ 554
Fruit of Loom, 4-4..
-8..  634  Whitinsville,  4-4...  634
Fruit of Loom,
Whitinsville, 7-8__ 6
Fruit of  the  Loom,
Wamsutta, 4-4........ 954
WilliamsviUe, 36...  854
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..  65*
Gold Medal, 7-8...... 55* l
Crown..........
....1754 Masonville  S...
...11
Lonsdale........
...  954
No.  10..........
. . . 1 1
...14
__ 10 Lonsdale A .......
....15 Victory  O........ ....  554
Anchor...........
Victory J ........
Blackburn — ..... 8
...  654
.... 14 Victory  D......
...  854
Davol...........
London......... .....1254 Victory  K...... ....1054
__ 12 Phoenix A ...... ....1954
.......  754 Phœnix  B...... ...1054
..  5
Masonville TS. .......8
Albion, solid........... 554 ¡Gloucester............... 554
Albion,  grey........... 6  Gloucestermourn’g.654
Allen’s  checks........554 Hamilton  fancy— 5
Ailen’s  fancy..........554 Hartel fancy............554
Allen’s pink.............65i 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
Eddystono...............6  W asnington fancy.. 5
Eagle fancy.............5  Washington blues.  5
Garner pink.............5541
Appleton A, 4-4__ 6  ¡Indian Orchard, 40.  7
Boott  M, 4-4........... 754 Indian Orchard, 36.  6
Boston F, 4-4..........634‘Laconia  B, 7-4..........13
Continental C, 4-4..  654;Lyman B, 40-in.......9
Continental D, 40in  734:Mass. BB, 4-4..........  554
Conestoga W ,4-4...  654'Nashua  E,40-in....  754
Conestoga  D ,7-8...  4=4iNashua  R ,4-4........654
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  5  (Nashua 0.7-8..........  6
Dwight  X, 3-4........   434 Newmarket N ........ 554
DwightY,7-8..........  55J Pepperell E, 40-in..  634
Dwight Z,4-4..........  554|Pepperell  R ,4-4....  634
Dwight Star, 4-4....  6  Pepperell  0,7-8....  534 
Dwight Star, 40-in..  7  Pepperell N, 34—   554
Enterprise EE, 36..  434 Pocasset  C, 44.......  634
Great Falls E, 44...  654 Saranac  R...............  6
Farmers’ A, 44.......  554lSaranac E.................754
Amoskeag............... 7
Amoskeag, Persian 9
Bates.........................6
Berkshire.............   6
Glasgow, fancy—  
Glasgow,  royal—   654 
Gloucester, 
new
Plunket.
Lancaster...........
Langdown..........
Renfrew,  dress..
Androscoggin, 74. .15  1Pepperell.  10-4.......22
Androscoggin, 84 .16 Pepperell,  11-4....... 24
.15  1Pequot,  7-4............. 16
Pepperell,  7 4 ....
Pepperell,  84— .17 Pequot,  8-4............. 18
.19  1Pequot,  9-4............. 20
Pepperell,  9 4 ....
.  654 iLawrence XX, 4-4. 6*
Atlantic  A, 44...
Atlantic  H ,44... •  6)4 Lawrence XXX 40 V*
.  5fi Lawrence LL, 44.. 5
Atlantic  D, 4-4...
Atlantic P, 44— .  5 Newmarket N .......
.  4% Mystic River, 44.. 534
Atlantic LL, 44..
644
.  T/4 Pequot A, 44........
Adriatic, 36..........
6
Augusta, 4-4........ ..  654 Piedmont,  36........
654
.  6 Stark AA, 4-4........
Boott  M, 44........
Tremont CC, 4-4... 444
. 
Boott  FF, 44.......
Utica,  4-4.............. 10
.
Granite ville, 4-4..
Indian  Head, 44. ..  6M Wachusett,  44— 654
Indiana Head 45-in. 1154 ¡Wachusett, 30-in..
i>*
Amoskeag,  ACA. ..17 Falls, XXX............ 1554
Amoskeag  “ 4-4..1254 Falls,  BB............... H54
Amoskeag,  A __ .  1154 Falls,  BBC, 36....... 1954
Amoskeag,  B __ ..11 Falls,  awning....... 1«
Amoskeag,  C__ ..1054 Hamilton,  BT, 32. «54
Amoskeag,  D — ..10 Hamilton,  D........
954
Amoskeag,  E — ..  954 Hamilton,  H ........
854
Amoskeag, F ....... ..  9 Hamilton  fancy..
854
Premium  A, 44.. ..17 Methuen AA........ 1154
Premium  B........ ..16 Methuen ASA....... .1654
Extra44............... ..16 Omega A, 7-8........ .1054
Extra 7-8............... ..1454 Omega A, 44........ • 1254
CCA 7-8................ ..1254 Omega ACA, 7-8... .13
CT 44 .................... ..14 Omega ACA, 44... .15
RC 7-8.................... ..14 Omega SE, 7-8....... 24
BF7-8.................... ..16 Omega SE, 44....... .37
A F44.................... ..19 Omega M. 7-8.......
Cordis AAA, 32... ..14 Omega M, 44........ .25
..15 Shetucket SS&SSW 11H
Cordis ACA, 32..
Cordis No. 1,32... . .15 Shetucket, S & SW.12
Cordis  No. 2........ ..14 Shetucket,  SFS  .. .12
Cordis  No. 3........ ..13 Stockbridge  A __ .  7
Cordis  No. 4........ ..1154 Stockbridge fancy .  8
Falls, XXXX....... ..1854
Washington........ ..  454 Royal  Globe........ .  454
S. S. & Sons.......... .  454i Crown.................... .  454
American  A ....... . .1434¡Amoskeag........... .14314
Stark A ................
Boston................ ..  654 .Otis CC.................. .  9
Everett blue....... ..12 1 Warren  AXA....... .11
Everett brown.. ..12 ¡Warren  BB.......... .10
..11 Warren CC........... .  9
Otis  AXA..........
..10 ¡York,  blue........... .1254
Otis BB...............

Johnson  ManfgCo,
Johnson ManfgCo,
Slaterville, 
dress
White Mfg Co, stap 634 
White Mfg Co, fane 754
1541  Earlston.................754
Gordon......................7
G rey lock, 

Bookfold..............1254
dress  styles.........1054
styles....................  6

standard.............  7541 White  Manf’g  Co,

HEAVY BROWN  COTTONS.

styles  .................. 1054

WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS

styles....................

DOMESTIC GINGHAMS.

.20541
DENIMS.

SOFT  CAMBRICS.

GRAIN  BAOS.

TICKINGS.

dress

PAPER  CAMBRICS.

WIQANS.

Manville...........43405  IS. S. A Sons....... 4340554
Masonville...... 5540654 ¡Garner..............4340554
Red  Cross...............  654 ¡Thistle Mills............  6
Berlin..................... 6  Rose...........................  654
Garner....................7  I
Brooks....................50
Clark’s O. N. T.......55
J .t P .  Coats..........55
Willimantic 6 cord.55 
WiUimantic 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew
ing thread........... 30

SPOOL COTTON.
agie  a 
Eagle  and  Phoenix
Mills ball sewing.30 
Green  A  Daniels...25
Stafford.................25
Hall A Manning__ 28
Holyoke................. 25

CORSET JEANS.

Armory..................7  ¡Kearsage.....................64
Androscoggin.......  754 Naumkeagsatteen. 634
Canoe River...........   554 Pepperell bleached 854
Clarendon.............5@5?4 Pepperell sat......... 8
Hallowell  Imp....   534 Rockport...................654
Ind. Orch. Imp.......  554 Lawrence sat..........6
! Laconia..................7  I

Always on Hand.

Belated Citizen—Can you give me a ticket 

to the grand stand?

Ticket Seller—Yes,  sir.
Belated Citizen—Is it a good seat?
Ticket Seller—It’s not a seat, it’s a ticket.
Belated  Citizen—Haven’t  you  any  seats 

left?

Ticket  Seller—No,  we  have  nothing left 
but  tickets.  That’s  something  we  never 
run short of.

W eak Spots in a Grocery Store.

H. W. 8. & Co.’s Confidential Market Report.

Are there any weak spots about your bus­
iness?  Do you know whether there are any 
or not? 
If you don’t feel sure on this ques­
tion, you should begin an  investigation  im­
mediately in all departments.  Is your store 
as neat and attractive as you  can  make  it? 
How are the windows? 
Is the  glass  clean 
and inside free from cobwebs, dust  and  lit­
ter?  Have you a good  display of attractive 
goods in the  windows,  and  do  you  change 
them often to give variety to the eyes of the 
passer by,  and that the  goods  may  not  be­
come shopworn?  Is the arrangement of the 
goods and fixtures in the store such as make 
the transaction of your business  as  conven­
ient as possible,  and  with  a  due  regard  to 
economy  of  space?  Have  you covers for 
the barrels to prevent waste and protect the 
contents  from  dust  and  dirt?  Are  your 
show barrels and baskets clean  and attract­
ive,  and have you some pretty cans for teas, 
coffees, etc? 
If yes,  are they clean  or  cov­
ered with fly specks  and  dust?  How  is  it 
about those shelves?  Have  the goods been 
moved and the dust and  dirt  been  brushed 
off lately,  and  have  you  a lot of merchan­
dise  there  that  has  been on the shelves  a 
lo^g time?  Do you when replenishing your 
stock upon the shelves, put the fresh  goods 
in front and sell them first,  thus letting  the 
old stock grow older,  or do you put  the  old 
goods to the front and dispose of them so to 
keep all your stock  fresh  and  nice?  How 
much old truck have you under that counter 
that should be overhauled and either thrown 
into  the  waste  barrel  and  got  out of the 
way,  or  put  out  for  sale  at  some  price 
which  would  clear  it  up and give you the 
money  to  use  in  your business?  Haven’t 
you boxes around containing odds and ends 
of merchandise that have been tucked away 
from time to time and neglected,  to the det­
riment of the goods and the waste of capital?
If so, get them out and expose the goods for 
sale at prices which will  induce  purchases, 
telling the people just what the stuff is,  not 
trying to pass it off as first-class and  fresh.
How  much  dirt  is there in behind  those 
barrels? or does the sweeper move them oc­
casionally  and  keep  cleaned  up  around 
them?  How about the floor?  is  it  so thick 
with  the  accumulations  of  molasses drip­
pings and all sorts of sticky substances that 
the wood is scarcely discernable?  or do you 
have it nicely scraped  up  occasionally?  A 
little sprinkling of scouring sand  keeps  the 
dirt all scoured off by the action of the feet. 
Are your scales  cleaned  in  good  style  and 
the bear ,s scoured up,  or are you obliged to 
get  d >wn  close  to  them and squint to see 
wh^.t the figures are?

Now what do you say about the refrigera­
tor?  Does it emit such a sour and offensive 
odor  when  you  open it that you dislike to 
go  there,  or  is  it  often  scrubbed out and 
kept as sweet and clean as is  demanded for 
the  receptacle  of  the  most  delicate goods 
you  sell?

There  is  the  pork  barrel,  is  the  brine 

sweet, always, so the pork tastes right?

Is the surrounding of the  molasses  lilids. 
clean, or is the  floor all covered  with drop­
pings from careless handling or unavoidable 
droppings?  Have the  dripping  pans  been 
washed out lately,  or are  they  half  full  of 
molasses?  and the measures,  are they a dis­
gusting sight for a customer to  see,  or have 
they been washed frequently?

These are some  conundrums,  and  if  you 
can’t  answer  them  satisfactorily  it would 
seem for us a proper thing for you to inves­
tigate them,  for all these points are of inter­
est to the thorough-going retail grocer,  who 
desires  to  conduct  his  business  on  cor­
rect principles.

If any man thinks there is not much wort 
to be done in a retail grocery  store,  let  him 
just  read  through  the  foregoing,  and  re 
member there are numberless points in con­
nection with the care  of  a  store  not  men­
tioned in this article,  and this only refers to 
■the care of the  stock  and  fixtures,  making 
no  reference  to  the purchase, sale  and de­
livery of goods.

Neatness and order are the first requisites 

■of a properly conducted grocery store

Too Late.

“I left a little  check  for  $10,000  among 
.the wedding gifts,” said  the  girl’s father to 
his prospective  son-in-law,  “and  after  the 
-ceremony is over we will quietly  tear it up, 
.See?  That’s the style now-a-days, George.” 
“ Y-e-es,”  hesitated  George,  “that’s  the 
.style,  but I’m  afraid it’s  too late  to tear it 
up,  now.”
“Why?”
“Because I went  douui  to  the  bank and 

got it cashed.” 

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A New Orleans  druggist  has contrived 

■drug case  in  which is  kept  all the  deadly 
poisons  in  use  for  compounding  prescrip 
lions.  The device is worked by  electricity 
Whenever  the  case  is  opened  an  alarm is 
sounded by an  electric  bell,  attached to the 
upper portion,  which will not  cease ringing 
until the case is closed.  It was suggested to 
him  by the  many  mistakes  made  by drug 
gists in compounding prescriptions in which 
poison  was used  for  a drug  similar in ap 
pearance.  The apparatus precludes all pos­
sibility of a poison  being  used  without the 
person  in  attendance  becoming  aware that 
the deadly drugs are being handled.

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

“Fermentum”  the  only  Reliable  Com 

pressed Yeast  See advertisement 

Smoke the celebrated  “American  Field. 
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JFox & Bradford, sole agents. 
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JOBBERS IN

DRY  GOODS,

.AJSTID NOTION'S,

8 3  Monroe  St.,

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers 
American and Stark A Bags

A Specialty.

SPRING

COMPANY

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS,
CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

OIL  CLOTHS

ESTO-,  ESTO.

0 and 8 Monroe Street,

Grand Rapids,

GO  TO

FOR

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Fig’s, Dates,

ETC.

Manufactured  by the

SMOKING
Saldai K. of L Co-opratne Tobacco Co,
Arthur  Meigs

K A L i a i a i i ,   3sr.  o .

GHAUT)  RAPIDS,  MICH.,

Wholesale agent3 for the

STATE OF IMCIOHIGLAJST.
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 Will fill orders for any quan­
tity at following prices, usual  terms:
2 OZ. 46:  4 OZ. 44;  8 0Z.43;  16 OZ. 42.
ARTHUR MEIGS Í  CO,
Wholesale  Brootrs,

11,19,81 and 83 South Dimon St., Brani Rapids, Mici.

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(Groceries.

Grocers’ Association of the City of Muskegon.

OFFICERS.

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President—H. B. Fargo.
First Vice-President—Wm. B. Keift.
Second Vice-President—A. Towl.
Recording Secretary—Wm. Peer.
Financial Secretary—John DeHaas.
Board of Directors—O. Lambert, W. 1. McKen­
zie, H. B. Smith, Wm. B. Kelly, A.  Towl  and 
E. Johnson. 
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Finance Committee—Wm.  B. Kelly,  A.  Towl 
and E. Johnson.
Committee  on  Rooms  and  Library—O.  Lam­
bert, H. B. Smith and W. L McKenzie.
Arbitration  Committee—B.  Borgman.  Garrit 
Wagner and John DeHaas.
Complaint  Committee—Wm.  B.  Keift,  D.  A. 
Boelkins, J. O. Jeannot,  R.  S.  Miner  and L. 
Vincent. 
Law Committee—H. B.  Fargo,  Wm.  B.  Keift 
... 
and A. Towl. 
Transportation Committee—Wm. B, Keift, An­
drew Wierengo and Wm. Peer.
Regular meetings—First and third Wednesday 
evenings  of each month.
Next meeting—Wednesday evening, June lb.
R E T A IL   G RO CERS’  A SSO C IA TIO N  

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

ORGANIZED  NOVEMBER  10, 1885.

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President—Erwin J. Herrick.
First Vice-President—E. E. Walker.
Second Vice-President—Jas. A. Coye.
Secretary—Cornelius A. Johnson.
Treasurer—B. S. Harris.
Board of  Directors—Eugene  Richmond,  Wm. 
H. Sigel, A. J. Elliott, Henry A. Hydorn  and 
W. E. Knox. 
Finance  Committee—W. E.  Knox.  H.  A.  Hy­
dorn and A. J. Elliott. 
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Room Committee—A. J. Elliott,  Eugene  Rich­
mond and Wm. H. Sigel.
Arbitration  Committee—James  Farnsworth, 
M. J. Lewis and A. Rasch.
Complaint  Committee—J.  George  Lehman, 
Martin C. DeJager and A. G. Wagner.
Collectors—Cooper & Barber, 69  Waterloo  St., 
Eagle Hotel block. 
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Annual meetings—Second Tuesday in Novem- 
focr* 
Regular  meetings—First  and  Third  Tuesday 
Evenings of each month.
Next meeting—Tuesday evening, July 7.

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Kalamazoo Retail Grocers’ Association.

President—P.  Ranney.
First V ice-President—O. K. Buckhout.
Second Vice-*President—Hugh Beggs. 
Secretary—M. S. Scoville.
Treasurer—Julius  Schuster.
Regular  Meetings—Second  and  fourth Tues­

days of each month.

JULY  FOURTH.

How  the  Day  Will  be  Observed  at  the 

Corners.

Cant H ook Corners, June 19,  1886.
Mr.  E d i t o r — We are  all  well.  When 

say we, I  mean  the  baby, myself  and  Sol. 
For, of  course,  the  baby  is  up to  date the 
boss,  so to  speak, of  the  household. 
I am 
in receipt  of an  invitation  to  the traveling 
men, picnic, but fear I will  be  unable to be 
present.  However,  Soliman  will  be  there 
in all his  glory and  has  already challenged 
Joe Iieed and Will Edmunds  to a foot race, 
yi  mile and back, for the gate money and a 
tin watch.  We are  going  to  celebrate the 
Fourth  in  becoming  style.  Rest  assued, 
Cant Hook Comers never takes a back seat, 
Yesterday the  Judge (Soliman,  you  know) 
put  on  his  white  plug  hat (the  one Cass 
Bradford  gave  him)  and  went  out  with a 
subscription paper to raise funds to buy fire 
works with.  The  following  is  a complete 
list:
Soliman  Snooks.............................................$1.09
P.  Bilson.........................................................   1-09
Peters & Hook.....................................................08
Jim Fell................................................................
Geo. Seymour...................................................... 25
Geo. McKay..........................................................1»
Total.........................................................$2.93
This sum  was at once  turned over to Me 
Kay,  who agreed  to  send  a box of assorted 
fire works.

The following is the order of the day: 

COME ONE! 

COME  ALL!!

The Glorious Fourth.  Remember your 

Country.

Cant  Hook  Corners  Celebrates  this Year, 

The Sixth Anniversary.

PROGRAMME.

Procession,  9 a. m.
Head  of  procession  will  form  at  Dam

longue street and will march at 9:10 a. m 
the morning,  sharp, to the cemetery.  There 
will be present three brass bands, consist ing 
of three pieces each,  The Knights  of  Ease, 
The Assorted Fellows of Phem and the Queer 
Fellows.

Hon. Sam Mud will be orator  of  the day 
and  will  deliver  his  famous  address  on 
“Snow  and 
the  Hot 
Weather.”

its  influence  on 

Judge Soliman Snooks will deliver an ad 
dress on “Babies  and  their bearings on the 
Drug Market.”

Dancing  in  two  large  boweries.  “Let 

Mirth have its Sway.”

By special  arrangements  Yankee  Robin 
son  and  Geo.  Owen,  assisted  by  W.  G, 
Hawkins,  will give an  exhibition of trained 
dogs and horses.

Fire Works in the Evening.
A fine lot  of fire  works have  been made 
expressly  for  this  occasion  and  a  Profes 
sional Fire Works  Exhibitor  will  come di 
rect from New York  to  see that all is done 
right.

Remember this is F ree.
Soda water and ginger beer,  also crackers 

and cheese, for sale at the usual places.

You may be  sure  we  will  have  a  large 
crowd.  Soliman  has  sent  for  one  extra 
cheese and two  barrels  of  crackers and we 
are going to run an ice cream stand.
Yours Patriotically,

Mehitable  Snooks.

(Widow Spriggs that was.)

The Rich and the Poor.

W. Donovan in the Chicago Current.
A wealthy employer lately said  to a com­
plaining  workman:  “I  have  grown gray 
in the  service of  these  works  in  trying to 
keep  business in  motion and  furnish work 
and  reasonable  wages  to  our men; and in 
the present depressed  markets it is  no easy 
undertaking.”  A glance  at  the two men’s 
faces would  convice  one  that  the  brown­
haired  laborer  was  far  happier  than  the 
gray-haired employer  at  the time of the in­
terview.  This  was  true  only  in  time  of 
trouble.

It is  clear  to  many that,  aside  from the 
luxury  of  travel  and  the  benefits  of finer 
home surroundings, there  is much  truth in 
the statement that riches,  to the  possessor, 
are  the  cause  of  as  much  anxiety as  the 
ant of means is to the  poorer people; that 
the burdens and the  benefits  of  wealth are 
nearly  balanced, 
that  the  rich  are  ever 
troubled by the threats of evil and the hatred 
that so often  worry and menace  their lives 
and property;  for  even  their  sleep  is  dis- 
turbad by the  burglar,  and  their  walks are 
beset by highwaymen and their children are 
stolen as a means of villainous blackmail.

This was the story of Girard who when re­
minded of his great possessions and possible 
pleasures,  replied that  his  board and cloth­
ing was  his  only  payment  for  the care of 
his  property. 
It  is  the  same  reply  that 
Astor  made of  his  long  troubled career in 
getting a start in life,  and  making and con­
trolling  his  riches.  Stewart’s  career  was 
even more to be dreaded.  Even his  lifeless 
body was not permitted  to  rest  after labor.
So far the glances are  only at  the men of 
large fortunes,  and  nothing  is  seen of  the 
inside rivalry between the little and the lar­
ger leaders in the  list of great  money own­
ers.  The inside hiftory would  reveal  jeal­
ousy,  contention  and  rivalry  wholly  un­
known to the less burdened livers on small­
er incomes.

But  over  and  above  all  this  is  another 
phase of riches just coming into notice,  and 
not before  well  considered. 
It  is  the fact 
that the wealthy are unpopular!  Strange as 
it sounds, the very wealthy are almost hated 
by men of the world as we find them.

The  attention  of  men  is  drawn  to  the 
methods of  money-making  so  firmly,  and 
the lights are turned  on  so powerfully that 
no  man  gets  credit  for  owning  in  reality 
much more than  the  average  can  accumu­
late  by  honesty.  All  vast  fortunes  from 
lumber  or  iron,  drygoods  or  land  specula­
tions—and  especially sudden fortunes from 
ailroading, stock jobbing, comers on wheat 
and wool,  and  the  like,  are  viewed  by the 
poor and the  masses  together very much as 
stealings of the rich,  and the want of popu­
larity of the  wealthy with  the people of to­
day  is  traceable  to  this  hatred  of  their 
means employed to reach their fortunes.

In this  our  age is  peculiar.  Ever  since 
the  election  of  Lincoln,  the  elevation  of 
Grant, and the rise of the multi-millionaires, 
there has  been  a  growing  pride in the pro­
gress of  the  former  class,  and a dislike for 
the latter.  The  rich  and  the poor care lit­
tle  for  each  other,  but the  masses  respect 
and honor  the progress  of  genius  or good­
ness by every  legitimate  means.  The rich 
dote on  the burden of property and the com­
forts of cottages; the poor make faces at the 
means employed by their wealthy neighbors 
to acquire property and neither agree on the 
correct estimate  of  the  other.  They never 
will  agree.  The  old-fashioned  farm  life 
and ranch  life of  Abraham,  of  Job,  and of 
Solomon,  with  their  herds  of  cattle  and 
horses, their flocks of  sheep,  their  harvest­
ing by hand and com raising is no longer in 
fashion;  their  sandals  are  put  aside  for 
French  heels; their  hillside huts  are  unfit 
for our  workmen’s homes,  their  clothing is 
too meager,  their style  is too ancient.  We 
have a newer world  and  a  stronger compe­
tition.  We can’t help it; it is ours to enjoy, 
ours  to  race  after,  ours  to  win  or lose or 
look upon with serene indifference.

Will Organize On June 23.

Sturgis, Mich., June 18,  1886. 

Editor Michigan Tradesman:
D ea r Sir—We have  held  our  prelimin­
ary meeting, elected  a  chairman  and a sec­
retary, and  have  written  for  copies of the 
Ionia and Lowell  associations’  constitution 
and by-laws for the purpose of a permanent 
organization.  Could you come and help us? 
And,  if  so,  when  can  you  come, and  how 
much will be your charge?  Our dealers are 
all  unanimously in  favor  of  the  organiza­
tion.  We  would  like  to  start  off  in good 
shape and with no flaws.

Yours in the Cause,

H.  S.  Church,  Chairman.

Purely Personal.

B.  Frank Emery laid abed last week with 
a felon,  swearing like  a pirate for  pastime.
Ben.  W.  Putnam  went to Chicago Satur­
day night for  a  visit  of  mingled  business 
and  pleasure.

S. A.  Welling went  to  Detroit  Monday, 
where he will spend two or  three days with 
his  daughter,  Mrs.  H.  B.  Carhartt.

John Caulfield  wants  to  sell  out  again. 
This is the three hundred  and twenty-ninth 
time he has decided to sell out, but he means 
business this time.

The  Grocery  Market.

The  downward  movement  in  the  sugar 
market has  been stopped  by the advance of 
beet sugar in England and the failure of the 
tariff bill,  which  has had a  tendency to im­
prove the price of raw native sugar.  S prices 
are  quiet,  but  pepper  is  slightly  firmer. 
Canned goods are  quiet.  Rice is nominally 
dull.  Other articles  in the  grocery line are 
about  steady.

Candy 

is  without  change.  Nuts  are 

steady.  Fruits are advancing.

Organization in Indiana.

Geo.  S. Megee,  formerly a grip  carrier in 
this State  and for a time  located at  Grand 
Rapids,  but now a grocer bold at Rushville, 
Ind., writes T he T radesm an that  he  has 
read so much about the grocers’ associations 
in Michigan that he is determined to organ­
ize the  grocers of  his  town,  which  will be 
the first move made in  that  direction in In­
diana.

All honor to the  pioneer  organizer of the 

Hoosier State!

BULL  DOG
Tobaccos.
TRADE  UNION

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

LABOR  UNION,

The largest amount of good tobacco for the 

least money.

AND  EXTRA  GOOD

FI3STE  OTJTS

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.

SPURNS

^TBAOtr-

S  

Ride of

COFFEE

Guaranteed  absolutely  P ure,  H ighes 
Gr ad e,  Cultivated coffee,  and free from 
any mixture with the rank acid coffees grown 
on uncultivated  lands,  which  cause  dizzi­
ness,  indigestion,  sleeplessness, etc.
Sold  in  1  tt>  pink  paper bags,  1  ft> foil 
lined cartoons, and 2 ft) tins by  all  leading 
Retail Geocers.

H O W A R D   W .  S P U R R   &  CO., 

Importers, Roasters and Packers,

BOSTON.

FRED. D. YALE.

DANIEL LYNCH.

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FB I. D. YALE 4 CO.
OH AS. S. YALE & BRO.,
, Marts, Bings,
GROCERS’  SUNDRIES.

WHOLESALE  MANUFACTURERS  OF

AND JOBBERS OF

SUCCESSORS  TO

All orders addressed to the new  firm will re­

ceive prompt attention.

40 and 42 South Division St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICW.

DRIED  FRUITS—DOMESTIC.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

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54 
54 
1 
5 

AXLE  GREASE.

BAKING POWDER.

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DRIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN.

promptly and buy In full packages.

Challenge...............  80 Paragon  ................ 2 10
90 Paragon 25 ft pails.  90
Frazer’s................  
Diamond  X ...........   60 Fraziers, 25 ft pails. 1  25
Modoc, 4  doz..........2 50

...............................  1  25
............................... 2 25
Hs.................
Is.................. .................................4 25
28
........................  
bulk.............
Arctic, 54 ft cans, 6 doz. case....................... 
to
....................... 
tQ
.......................  1  4C
.......................2 4C
.....................   12 0C
Victorian. 1 ft cans, (tall,) 2 doz..................2 00
15
Diamond,  “bulk,” ....... ................................. 

Apricots, 25 lb boxes.............................   @  25
Cherries, pitted, 50 ft  boxes................   @  12
These prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay |  Egg plums, 251b  boxes.........................  @  20
Pears, 25 lb boxes..................................   @  15
Peaches,  Delaware, 50 lb boxes..........  @  28
Peaches, Michigan.................................  @1244
Raspberries. 50 lb boxes.......................  @  23
Citron......................................................  ®  21
Currants.............  .................................  @7
Lemon P eel...........................................  @  14
Orange Peel............................................  @  14
Prunes, French,60s.............................. 1254®
Prunes, French, 80s...............................844®
Prunes, Turkey......................................  @ 444
Raisins, Dehesia....................................  ©3 25
Raisins, London Layers.......................  @2 75
Raisins, California  “ 
.......................  @3 40
Raisins, Loose Muscatels.....................   @3 00
Raisins, Ondaras,  28s............................  @13
Raisins, Sultanas..................................   @944
Raisins, Valencia...................., ............   @1044
Raisins,  Imperials....................•...........   @3 00
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square.. A.......................1 00
Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 grq.................1  20
Grand Haven,  No,  200,  parlor...;............... 1  75
Grand  Haven,  No.  3oO, parlor__ V.............. 2 25
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round..........4. ........... 1 50
Oshkosh, No. 2.................................. A...........100
Oshkosh, No.  8............................................. 
Swedish.................................................. 1........  75
Richardson’s No. 8  square..................\ ___1 00
Richardson’s No. 9 
...................... 1 50
Richardson’s No. 744. round..................... \ ..l  00
Richardson’s No. 7 
.......................A .l 50
Black Strap...................................................15B17
Cuba Baking................................................. 2a@f8
Porto  Rico.....................................................24®:»
New  Orleans, good......................................28@3f|
New Orleans, choice.................................... 44@50
New Orleans,  fancy.................................... 52@55

25
Dry, No. 2...........................................doz. 
45
Dry, No. 3...........................................doz. 
35
Liquid, 4 oz,.......................................doz. 
Liquid, 8 oz........................................ doz. 
65
Arctic 4 oz.........................................$   gross 3 50
Arctic 8  oz...........................................................  7 20
Arctic 16 oz....................................................   12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box....................................  2 00
3 00
A wHn Nn  3 
Arctic No. 2 
4 00
Arctic No. 3

No. 2 Hurl....................2 00
No. 1 Hurl....................2 25
No. 2Carpet............2 50
No. 1 Carpet............2 75

Parlor  Gem........... 3 00
Common Whisk__   90
Fancy  Whisk........ 1 00
Mill.......................... 3 75

CANNED FISH.

MOLASSES.

MATCHES. 

BROOMS.

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SHORTS.

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TEAS.

VINEGAR.

Our  Leader..............161 Hiawatha....................22
Mayflower................23 Old Congress...............23
Globe......................... 22 May  Leaf....................22
Mule Ear...................23|Dark............................20
Japan ordinary........... ................................. 18@20
Japan fair to good........................................25©30
Japan fine.......................................................35@45
Japan dust.....................................................15@20
Young Hyson................................................30@50
GunPowder...................................................35® 50
Oolong..................... 
33@55@6C
Congo...........................................................   25@30
Lorillavd’s American Gentlemen.. v .
@172 
Maccoboy............................
@155 
®  44 
Gail & Ax’ 
..........................
Rappee................................
@  35 
Railroad  Mills  Scotch..........................
@  45 
Lotzbeck  ...............................................
@1 30
50 gr. 
30 gr.
White Wine..................................   08
10 
Cider..............................................  08
10
Bath Brick imported............................
95
American............................
do 
Burners, No. 1 .......................................
1  ¿0
do  No.  2........................................
1 50
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand.............
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.............   15@25
Candles, Star...................
@1244 
Candles.  Hotel................
@14 
Extract Coffee, V.  C___
@80 
F elix..
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps 
@25 
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps
@35
Gum, Spruce...........................................  30@35
bbl.......................................   @3 50
Hominy, 
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails.................................  @444
Pearl Barley...........................................2%@ 3
t eas, Green  Bush.................................  @1 25
eas, Split  Prepared............................  © 3
owder, Keg...........................................  @3 00
Ppwder, 44  Keg......................................  @1 90
Sa’lge  ........................................................  @  18

MISCELLANEOUS.

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1 25 

Clanfis, 1 lb, Little Neck.....................................1 35
Clams, 2 lb. Little Neck......................  
2  00
Clam Chowder,  31b...........................................3 15
Cove Oysters, 1  tt>  standards............... 95@1 00
Cove Oysters, 2  lb  standards....................  1  75
Lobsters, 1 »picnic...................................... 1 75
Lobsters, 2 lb, picnic.....................................2 50
Lobsters, 1 S> star.............................................. 2 00
Lobsters. 2 lb star..........................................3 00
Mackerel, 1 »   fresh standards...................110
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards.......................4' 25
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 ft......................3 00
Mackerel,3 ft in Mustard................................. 3 00
Mackerel, 31b  soused........................................3 00
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river................ 1 45@1 50
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river........................2 35
Sardines, domestic 448................................. 7@8
Sardines,  domestic  44s.............................. 
12
Sardines,  Mustard  44s.................................  13
Sardines,  imported  448...............................   14
Trout. 3ft  brook.......................................   4 00

CANNED FRUITS.

Apples, 3 1b standards.................................  75
Apples, gallons, standards..................2 00@2 20
Blackberries, standards...................................1 10
Cherries,  red  standard...............................   95
Damsons.................................................
Egg Plums, standard? 
....................... 1 20@1 25
Green Gages, standards 21b................ 1 20@1 25
Peaches, Extra Yellow.................................... 1 90
Peaches, standards...........................................1 60
Peaches,  seconds.............................................. 1 25
Pineapples, standards...................................... 1 50
Pineapples, Johnson’s sliced...........................2 60
Pineapples, Johnson’s, grated....................... 2 75
Quinces..................................................■ ■••1
Raspberries,  extra............................1 20@1- 30
Strawberries  ......................................1  1C@1 25

CANNED FRUITS—CALIFORNIA.

Apricots....................................2  25 
Egg Plums................................ 3  10 
Grapes.......................................2  10 
Green Gages.............................2  10 
Pears................ 
2 50 
Quinces..................................... 2  50
Peaches.....................................2  35 
CANNED VEGETABLES.

Lusk’s.  Mariposa.
2 00
3 00
1 80
2 00
2 20
« 2o

Asparagus, Oyster Bay.....................................3 00
Beans, Lima,  standard...............................   80
Beans, Stringless, Erie...............................   95
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked...........................1 65
Com,  Archer’s Trophy.....................................1 00
Morning  Glory.......................................I 00
Acme........................................................ 1 00
Maple Leaf.........................................  90
Excelsior..................................................1 00
Peas, French.......................................................1 65
Peas, Marrofat, standard, Erie........................1 50
Peas  .............................. 
70
Peas, Fink, Dwyer & Co............................ 
<o
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden..............................•_  75
Succotash, standard................................75@1  40
Squash........................................................
Tomatoes, standard brands................1  15@1  20

 

 

Michigan  full  cream............................  © 944

CHEESE.

CHOCOLATE.

Baker’s ..................3744 ¡German Sweet
Runkles’ ....................35|Vienna Sweet

COCOANUT.

Schepps. cake box.................................
44s............................................
Maltby’s 1 ft  round...............................
assort  ......................................
44s........ .....................................
Manhattan,  pails...................................

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COFFEES

.......2S
@2744@28
@26
@27
@28
@20

Green.

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

Roasted.

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

COFFEES—PACKAGE

x x x x ...................................
Dilworth’s ...............................
Lion  ...................................................  
Arbuckle’s  ..................................13
German...............................
Magnolia..............................
Silver  King.........................
16
M exican.......................................16

60 lbs 100 fts 300 fts
1354 
13 3* 
1354
1374 1334 13%

13% 1334
13%
1354
1844
1354 13
13
21
21

CORDAGE.

OO
$  ft 
644
5
5
5
5

60 foot Jute.......  1 00  150 foot Cotton—
72 foot J u te ....... 1 25  60 foot Cotton—
40Foot Cotton... .1 50  172 foot Cotton....: 
X  XXX

CRACKERS  AND  SWEET  GOODS.

844

444

_ 744

444
444

744
744
744

Kenosha Butter.........................
Seymour Butter............................... 
Butter................................................. 
Fancy  Butter............................... 
S.  Oyster............................................ 
Picnic................................................. 
Fancy  Oyster............................... 
Fancy  Soda.................................. 
City Soda............................................ 
Soda  ...........................................
Milk............................................
Boston.......................................
Graham......................................
Oat  Meal....................................
Pretzels, hand-made................
Pretzels......................................
Cracknels..................................
Lemon Cream............................... 
Frosted Cream..........................
Ginger  Snaps............................... 
No. 1 Ginger  Snaps..................... 
Lemon  Snaps............................
Coffee Cakes..............................
Lemon Wafers..........................
1344
Jumbles....................  ...............
1144
1244
Extra Honey Jumbles.............
Frosted Honey  Cakes.............
1344
1344
Cream  Gems.............................
1344
Bagleys  Gems..........................
1244
Seed Cakes.................................
844
S. &  M. Cakes............................
Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth.....................   @60
Cod, whole.................................................344@444
Cod,Boneless.................................................6@644
H alibut..................... :....................................9@10
Herring, round,  44  bbl.........................2 00@2 26
Herring .round,  54  bbl.............................1 10
Herring, Holland,  bbls.............................11 00
Herring, Holland,  kegs..............................80@95
Herring, Scaled............................................ 20@22
Mackerel, shore, No. 2, 44 bbls..................5 25
...........  80
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No. 3, 44bbl8.............................. 3 25
**  121b  kits..........................   60
’  “  10  “ 
 

“  121b kits 
“  10  “ 

Shad, 44 b b l............. ..............................2 25@2 50
Trout, 44  bbls.........................................2  75@3 00
 
White, No. 1,44 bbls....................................5 50
White, No. 1,12 1b kits.................................  75
White, No. 1,10 ft kits.................................  70
White, Family, 44 bbls.................................2  15

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FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

,2 oz...............doz.
1 00
4 oz.......................... .1 60
6 OZ................................. .2 50
8 OZ................................. .3 50
No. 2  Taper........... .1 25
No. 4 
........... .1  76
Vt pint, rojind........ .4 50
.9 00
No. 3 panel.lì...... 1  10
“ 
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No. 8 
No. 10  “ 
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Lemon.  Vanilla.
1 40
2 50
4 00
5 00
1 50
2  75
7 50
15 00
1  65
4 25
6 00

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OATMEAL.

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PIPES.

Steel  cut................ 5 00! Rolled Oats, Acme.5 75
Steel Cut, 44 bbl__ 2 75:Rolled Oats, Acme.3 00
Rolled  Oats........... 5 75 Quaker, 48 lbs.........2 25
Rolled Oats, 44bbl..3 00 Quaker, 60 lbs........2 86
Rolled  Oats, cases.3 25 Quaker bbls............ 6 25
RolledOats,Shieids’3 35|PTPlfT.FQ
Medium.................................................. 4 50@4 75
44 barrels................................2 50@2 75
Small...........................................................  @3 00
Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross...........   @2
Imported Clay, No. 216,244 gross........  @1 85
American T.D.......................................   75®  90
Choice Carolina...... 644! Java  .................
Prime Carolina...... 544 Patna........................ 544
Good Carolina........5  Rangoon........... 55i@5?i
Good Louisiana...... 5 
| Broken...............354@354
DeLand’s pure........554 ¡Dwight's....................544
Church’s 
............. 544 Sea  Foam..................544
Taylor’s G. M......... 544:Cap Sheaf.................544
44c less in 5 box lots.

SALERATUS.

RICE.

SALT.

60 Pocket, F -F  Dairy............................ 
28 Pocket.................................................  
10031b 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, 44 bu. bags............... 
Rock, bushels......................................... 
Warsaw, Dairy, bu. bags.....................  

SAUCES.

Parisian, 44  pints..................................
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................
Pepper Sauce, green  ............................
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring.............
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .....................
Halford Sauce, pints............................
Halford Sauce, 44 pints.........................

SOAPS.

2 25
2 15
3 35
90
1 45
1 25
75
2 75
70
25
28
45

@2  00 
@  70 
@  80 
@1 25 
@1 50 
©  80 
@1  20 
@3 50 
@2 20

Acme,  bars.
Acme,  blocks.......
Best  American..
Circus  ................
Big Five  Center..
Nickel........
Gem...........

..3 85 fly ..................... ..2 94
..3 Î5 Napkin................ ..4  75
.  3 22¡Towel.................. ..4  75
..3 08 White  Marseilles ..5 60
. .3 75 White Cotton  Oil ..5 60
..3 90 Shamrock........... ..3 30
..3 45 Blue Danube....... ..2 95
..3 35 London  Family....2 60

Ground.
Pepper.............
Allspice............
Cinnamon........
Cloves  .............

SPICES.

Whole.

16@25 Pepper................ @18
12@15 Allspice............... 8@ll
18@30 Cassia.................. 10@ll
lf>@25 Nutmegs,  No. 1.. @60
16@20 Nutmegs,  No. 2.. @51
15@30 Cloves  ................ 16@18
2o@3o

STARCH.

** 

SUGARS.

SYRUPS.

SMOKING

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@3 20
Electric  Lustre
Royal,  corn............................................  @  6
gloss, 1  ft  packages.................  @544
“  boxes..............................  @344
Niagara, laundry,  bbls........................   @ 3%
boxes.....................   @3%
gloss, 1  1b............................... 
@ 5
corn..........................................  @ 6

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

Quaker, laundry, 56Tb............................  @4 50
Cut  Loaf................................................   @ 7J4
Powdered..............................................   @ 754
Granulated,  Standard..’.......................  © 6'3
Confectionery A ....................................6 18@ 654
Standard A ..............................................  @  654
No. 1, White Extra  C............................  S.’s® 6
No. 2, Extra C........
s®  5%
No. 3 C
s@ 544
No.4C....................................................   544®
No.5C......................................................474®
Corn,  barrels  .......................................
Corn, 44 bbls............................................
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...............................
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................
Pure  Sugar, bbl......................................
Pure Sugar, 44 bbl. . .~ ..........................
Pure Sugar  5 gal ke@..........................
TOBACCO—FINE C U T -IN  PAILS.
Our  Leader.............. 33|01d Time..........
Our Block..................60 Underwood’s Capper 35
Yum  Yum................25|Sweet  Rose................ 45
Sweet  Rose.............. 32i Meigs & Co.’s Stuuuer35
May  Queen..............65 Atlas............................35
Jolly  Time................40 Royal Game................ 38
Dark AmericanEagle67 Mule Ear....................65
The Meigs................. 62 Fountain..................... 74
Red  Bird...................501Old Congress...............64
State  Seal................. 60|GoodLuck..............
Prairie Flow er........ 65iBlaze Aw ay..............35
Indian Queen...........60 Hair Lifter.................. 30
Bull  Dog..................*57 Jim Dandy.................38
Crown  Leaf..............66|Our  Bird..................... 28
Hiawatha................. 62 Brother  Jonathan...28
G lobe........................65 Sweet  Pippin.............4i
May Flower..............70|
♦Delivered.
Unit  ...........................30
Our  Leader............... 1
Eight  Hours..............24
Old Vet....................... 30
Lucky  ........................30
Big Deal......................27
Boss  .......................... I
Ruby, cut  plug.........35
Two  Nickel............... 24
Navy Clippings.........26
Duke’s  Durham....... 40
Leader........................15
Green Corn Cob Pipe 26
Hard  Tack.................32
Owl..............................16
D ixie...........................28
Rob Roy......................26
Old Tar....................... 40
Arthur’s  Choice.......22iUncle  Sam................. 28
Red Fox.................... 26lLumberman...............25
Flirt.......................... 28 ¡Railroad Boy................38
Gold Dust................. 26 Mountain Rose............18
Gold Block............... 30|Home Comfort............25
Seal of Grand Rapids  ¡Old Rip.......................60
(cloth)................. 25}Seal of North Caro-
lina, 2  oz...................48
Tramway, 3 oz.........40i 
Miners andPuddlers.28 Seal of North Caro-
Peerless  ....................24| 
lina, 4oz................... 48
Standard...................20, Seal of North  Caro-
Old Tom....................18 
lina, 8 oz....................45
Tom & Jerry.............24: Seal of North  Caro-
Joker.........................25! 
lina, 16oz boxes....45
Traveler...................35|King Bee, longcut..  .25
Maiden......................25|Sweet Lotus.................32
Pickwick Club..........40 Grayling.....................32
Nigger Head.............26 Seal Skin.....................30
Holland..................... 22 Red Clover.  ...............32
German.....................15 Good Luck..................26
K. of  L................ 42@46|Honey  Dew............... 25
Trade Union............*36
Quaker....................... 28
Labor Union............ *30
Bull  Dog...................*36
Splendid..................   38
Hiawatha...................42
Old Solder.................. 40
Jolly Tar.................... 32
Money . ...................... 44
Jolly  Time.................32
Red Fox......................42
Favorite.................... 42
Big  Drive...................40
Black Bird.................32
Live and Let  Live.. .32: Seal of Grand Rapids 40
Punch........................ 36 Patrol..........................40
Big  Nig.....................37 Jack Rabbit................38
Spear Head.............. :»! Chocolate  Cream— 44
Old  Honesty.......  ...40jNimrod.....................40
Whole Eartn.............32iE.C...............................38
Crazy  Quilt.............. 32| Spread  Eagle.............38
p.  v . ..........................40! Big Five Center..........33
Spring Chioken........38| Parrot........................ 41
Eclipse  ..................... 30: Buster........................35
Moxie........................34jBlack Prince...............35
Blackjack................82)Black  Racer...............85
Hiawatha..................42 Star............................. 39
Musselman’s Corker.30 Climax  ..................... 42
Turkey.......................39 Acorn  ........................ 40
Dainty.......................44|Horse  Shoe................ 3«
♦Delivered. 
2c. less in three butt lots.

PLUG.

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STICK.
........... 
MIXED

  CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS.
Putqam & Brooks quote as follows:
\
Standard, 251b boxes.............................  844® 9
Twist, 
....9   @944
Cut Loaf 
.........................  @10
@ 9 
Royal, 25 B>. pails....................................
@ 844 
Royal, 200 ttMibls....................................
@10 
Extra, 25 ft  ptiils....................................
@ 944 
Extra, 2001b b^ls.................."!...............
@1244 
French Cream,^ 1b pails......................12
@1244 
Cut loaf, 25 ft  craes...............................
@1044 
Broken, 25  ft  paMs................................. 10
@ 944
Broken, 2001b  bbte.................................
@13
Lemon  Drops.......a .................  ..............  „ _
Sour Drops................ t..............................  @14
| Peppermint  Drops.
............................  @14
Chocolate Drops........ \ . ........................... 
15
H M Chocolate  Drops.).......................... 
18
Gum  D rops................... a........................ 
10
22
Licorice Drops...............A ........................  
A B   Licorice  Drops.. 
12
....................... 
Lozenges, plain..................... 
*. 
15
Lozenges,  printed............. .>.....................  
16
Imperials............................. 1.................... 
15
Mottoes.................................. ; .................  
15
Cream  Bar.................................  
13@14
Molasses Bar................................ 
13@14
Caramels......................................a ...........  
18
Hand Made Creams................................. 18® 19
17
Plain  Creams.....................................  
Decorated  Creams..............................v ... 
20
String Rock........................................... V.. 
14
Burnt Almonds..................................   \   20@23
Wintergreen  Berries.............................1. 
15
Lozenges, plain in  pails.......................lzy @1244
Lozenges, plain in bbls........................ 11  {@1144
Lozenges, printed in pails.................... 
)@13
Lozenges, printed in  bbls....................  @12
Chocolate Drops, in pails......................1244@¿3
Gum  Drops  in pails............................. 6  @1644
Gum Drops, in bbls...............................  5  @p44
Moss Drops, in  pails.............................   @1®
Moss Drops, in bbls............................... 
<a, 95f^
Sour Drops, in  pails.......
Imperials, in  pails................................ 1254@13
Imperials  in bbls.......................... .  ..  Il)i@l2
Bananas  Aspinwall............................. 2 00@3 00
Oranges, California, fancy..................
Oranges, California,  choice...............  5 50@6 OO
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls.........................
Oranges, Florida....................................
Oranges, Valencia, cases.....................
Oranges, Messina..................................
Oranges,  Naples....................................
Lemons,  choice.....................................7 00@7\50
Lemons, fancy.......................................  
V
Lemons, California...............................  
S
Figs, layers, new,  $  1b..........................12H@16  >
Figs, Bags, 50 ft.....................................   @  6V4
Dates, frails d o ....................................  @ 45i
Dates, 54 do  d o ....................................  @ 5
Dates, skin..............................................
Dates, V4  skin.........................................
Dates, Fard 10 ft box ^  ft....................  @10
Dates, Fard 501b box $  ft.....................   854@  9
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $ lb ...............  @ 8
Pine Apples, 
doz.............................   2 25@2 50
PEANUTS.
Prime  Red,  raw  5P  1b............................  4  @454
Choice 
do  .............   ..........  @ 5
Fancy H.P. do 
do  ..........................   @ 554
Choice White, V a.do............................  @ 554
Fancy H P..  Va  do  ............................  @ 8  \
H. P. Va...................................................  7  @ 754
Almonds,  Tarragona...........................15  @16
Ivaca......................................   @15
California............................14  @15
Brazils.................................................... 8  @ 9
Chestnuts, per bu..................................
Filberts, Sicily.......................................1154@12
Barcelona.............................. 10  @11
Walnuts,  Grenoble.............................. 1454@15
Mar bo.....................................
French..................................   8  @11
California...............................  @12
Pecans,  Texas, H. P ............................. 9  @13
Missouri................................854@  9.
Cocoanuts, $  100...................................4  75@ 5

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PORK  IN  BARRELS.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provision  Co. 

quote  as follows:
Mess, Chicago packing, new.........................10 00
Clear,  S. P. Booth.........................................11  00
Short Cut, new............................................... 11  00
Back, clear, short cut...................................12 50
Extra family clear, short  cut..................... J2 OO
Clear,  A. Webster, n e w ..............................12 50
Extra clear pig, short cut............................12 75
Extra clear, neavy.........................................12 75
Clear quill, short  cut.................................... 13 00
Boston clear, short cut.................................13 00
Clear back, short cut....................................13 00
Standard clear, short  cut, best..................13 25
DRY  SALT CHEATS—IN  BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy................................. 
6
6
medium.......................... .. 
lig h t..................................  
6
654
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
medium.............................. 
654
light....................................  
654

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SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLAIN,
Hams, heavy....................................................10
“  medium.............................................. 1054
ligh t...............  
“ 
1054
“  picnic  ............. 
754
bonelegs................................................. 9
“  best boneless......................................10

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LARD IN TIN PAILS.

boneless.........................................

Shoulders, sweet pickle.................................  654
Breakfast  Bacon............................................   734
“ 
854
“  boneless..............................9
Dried Beef, extra.. f .......................................1154
ham  prices................................. 1354
Tierces  ..................................................... 
654
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30 and 501b Tubs...................................... 
501b Round Tins, 100 cases.....................  
634
201b Pails, 4 pails in  case.......................  
654
7
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case.............................. 
5 1b Pails, 12 in a case..............................  
674
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case.............................. 
634
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts...........   8 50
Boneless,  extra.............................................13 00
Pork Sausage...................................................
Ham  Sausage...................................................
Tongue  Sausage...........................................
Frankfort  Sausage.........................................
Blood  Sausage.................................................
Bologna, straight.................................... . 
Bologna, thick.................................................
Head  Cheese....................................................
In half barrels...............................................   3 50l
In quarter barrels.........................................

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

BEEF IN BARRELS.

PIGS’ FEET.

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OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

OYSTERS.

FRESH  FISH.
 

New  York  Counts.............................................40
Cod  ..................... 
@10
Haddock.................................................   @  7
Mackerel................................................. 15  @20
I Mackinaw Trout....................................  @  6
Perch........................................................  @  4
Smelts....................................................10  @11
Vlhlteflsh............................  ..............1.  @ 7

£

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T U T T .K T l.1 3 V   L E M O N

The Gripsack Brigade.

Duff Jennings, representing the Dingman 
Soap Co., Buffalo, N.  Y.,  was  in  town last 
week.

Geo.  F.  Owen  left  yesterday  for  Balti­
more, to  attend  the  annual  convention  of 
the T.  P. A.

J.  D. McLean, of Pittsburg,  was  in  town 
a  couple  of  days  last  week,  introducing 
“Laurel” soap.

D.  C. Underwood  spent  Sunday at Elmi­
ra,  selling  corner  lots  and  organizing  a 
national bank.

W.  J.  Jones,  formerly  of  the  firm  of 
Kemink, Jones & Co.,  is  now  working the 
city trade for Telfer & Brooks.

Members of the T.  P.  A.  living  at  Flint 
have organized  a  local  post. J . K. Blake is 
president and M.  S.  Carlton secretary.

Samuel M.  Lemon is  taking L.  L.  Loom­
is’ territory this week, while Loomis is sell­
ing a stock in another part of the State.

Clias.  M.  Falls went to Chicago last night 
to  spend 
the  week  in  the  house—Gray, 
Kingman & Collins—fixing  up his samples.
L. Wells Baldwin,  general  manager  for 
M. E.  McDowell  &  Co.,  selling  agents  for 
Blackwell’s Durham,  put  in  Sunday at this 
•market.

Carson  Manley,  formerly  with  W.  E. 
Overton,  at  Big  Rapids,  later  with  John 
Cole, at Fremont, has  engaged to travel for 
the Gunn Hardware Company.

The boys attached to  the  Diamond  Wall 
Finish Co. presented Ed.  P.  Andrew  with 
a plug hat on the occasion  of  his  severing 
his connection with the establishment.

D. E.  McVean,  formerly  traveling  sales­
man for Clark, Jewell & Co., succeeds Fred.
R. Smith as Southern Michigan  and North­
ern Indiana  traveling  salesman for  Arthur 
Meigs & Co.

Ed. P. Andrew,  formerly  with  the  Dia­
mond Wall Finish Co., has engaged to travel 
-for S. A. Maxwell & Co., of Chicago, taking 
the entire trade east of the G. R.  &  I-  and 
south of the F.  & P. M. Railways.  He will 
carry four trunks and start out on his initial 
trip July 6.

A.  F.  Peake writes  T he T radesman as 
follows from Petoskey:  “I understand that 
some of my T. P. A. friends have written you 
relative to  a soap purchase I recently made 
at this  place.  All I  have  to  say is  that I 
did not buy in  jobbing  quantities,  as  Rich­
ards and Howard did.”

A.  A.  Howard  writes  T he T radesman 
as follows!  “It looks as if A. F.  Peake, of 
Jackson,  State  agent  for  DeLand  & Co.’s 
salaratus and baking powder,  was going in­
to the  prize  soap  business,  as  he  recently 
purchased the  article in  large quantities on 
the streets of Petoskey.”

The  T radesman will  reproduce its ros­
ter of the traveling  men  of  Grand  Rapids 
next week.  The preparation of  the list in­
volves considerable extra labor and if  those 
who have lately changed houses will kindly 
send in the names of  their  present  connec­
tions  the  accuracy of  the  list  will  be  as­
sured.

Dan Jerrue,  proprietor of the Commercial 
hotel, at  East  Jordan,  conducts  about  as 
clever  a  house  as  the  traveling  men  meet 
this side of the  heavenly shore.  At the sug­
gestion of  the  fraternity  he  has increased 
his rates  from 81.50 to 82 per day,  which is 
Relieved  to  be  the first case of the kind  on 
record.

Messrs.  Robertson, Robinson and Warner, 
committee on sports for  the  coming picnic, 
will meet  again in  the  side  room of  The 
T ra desm a n oftice Saturday evening for the 
purpose of  perfecting  the  amusement pro­
gramme.  One of the features  of  the reun­
ion will be a  male quartette  made up from 
thr ranks of the brigade.

Charley Robinson  and  Geo.  Owen  went 
fishing on the Jordan last  Sun-Monday  and 
were richly rewarded for the time expended 
Charley took his usual ducking,  He seems 
to take to water as naturally as a fish and a 
little  more  practice  wilt  enable him to do 
the man-fish act in the  museums  and  side 
shows.  No options on that deal.

D.  E.  Stearns,  general  Western traveling 
manager for the Broadhead Worstead Mills, 
of Jamestown,  N.  Y.,  has returned from an 
extended trip  to Puget Sound and Southern 
California.  He will  seek a few  weeks rest 
at his  cottage at  Macatawa,  when he starts 
•out again for a run through Illinois.

W.  J. Richards,  general  traveling  repre­
sentative  for  I.  S.  Yan Deusen &  Sou,  of 
Passiac  City,  N.  J.,  was  in  the  city  last 
week and pulled  T he  T radesman’s latch 
string.  Mr, Rickmls  is a living witness to 
the extensive soap  purchase  recently made 
by  A.  F.  Peake,  at  Petoskey,  and  in  all 
probability shared a portion of  the glory at­
tending the occasion.

Plainwell Indcjiciulcut:  C. B. Lamb has 
engaged with a boot and shoe house to tiav- 
el  in  Minnesota  and  Wisconsin,  and  will 
sell  his  entire  housekeeping  outfit  at auc­
tion.  Mrs.  Lamb will go to  Cleveland and 
remain thereuntil C. B.  decides on a central 
town  in  his  new  territory  to  make  their 
home.  Mr. Lamb is one of the best and jol- 
liest  of  men,  and  both  himself  and  wife 
have  added  materially to the  social life of 
Plainwell during their residence here.  Their 
departure is deeply regretted.

Charley Robinson’s numerous city friends 
have lately noticed that he is frequently fol­
lowed along the street by an ungainly look­
ing' purp of the feminine persuasion.  Those 
who have enquired after the pedigree of the 
animal  have l>een  assured that it  is a full- 
blooded St.  Bernard, and is  valued at about 
8100.  The  canine  was  a  present to Char­
ley from a leading merchant of South Board- 
man, and  facts  have  lately  come  to  The 
T radesman office which  give good ground 
lor the belief that  Charley is  the  victim of
is  dog

is as far  removed from  St.  Bernard  as  she 
is from terrier and that the South Boardman 
gentleman gave the  animal  away to get rid 
of her.

A  Belding  correspondent  writes  as  fol­
lows:  The Belding man  who  sent you the 
“roast” on J.  B.  Evans in last week’s paper 
ought to be  furnished  a  free  ticket  to the 
infernal regions.  As a matter of fact, Evans 
did not try to abduct the  girls.  They went 
of  their  own  accord—asked  him  to  take 
them  riding as  he  was  starting  out  for a 
drive—which  he  did. 
Instead  of  taking 
them  back to  the  hotel,  however, he con­
ceived the idea of dropping them a mile out 
of town  as a joke,  in consequence of which 
they were  compelled  to walk  back to town 
through  the  sand.  The  girls  won’t  ask 
Evans to take  them  riding  again,  but they 
do not  talk  as  though  they cherished any 
resentment against the genial Doctor.

Messrs. Sears,  Logie  and  Hawkins,  the 
locating committee for the third annual pic­
nic of the  Grand  Rapids  traveling fratern­
ity,  went to Reed’s Lake last  Saturday and 
selected  the  North  end  of 
the  pavilion 
grounds for picnic purposes.  Arrangements 
were  made  for  tables,  benches,  ice  water, 
hot water  and  tea and  coffee for those who 
wish  to  partake  of  basket  refreshments, 
while those who  prefer  to buy  their meals 
outright can be accommodated  at the pavil 
ion.  The  indications  are  that  fully  two 
hundred couples  will  attend  the picnic and 
everything which will  conduce  to the com 
fort and  pleasure of  the  occasion is  being 
provided  for.  The  final  meeting  for  the 
purpose of perfecting  all arrangements will 
be held at The Tradesman office Saturday 
evening.  All  traveling q|en interested  in 
making the  picnic a  success  are invited to 
be  present.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

certain pattern  of  stove  or  range made  by 
us that it will pay us to change our methods 
of doing  business,  and  build  new  patterns 
to suit the whims of this customer.  Rather 
it be your object to find out what the ma­
jority of our customers want, and when you 
make a  suggestion  have  it based  upon the 
opinion of the majority.

Make it a rule to present your orders in a 
business-like way, so that any inexperienced 
clerk can copy and enter them intelligently.
See that all orders  are  signed,  so  that, if 
necessary, the  foundation  for  the  transac­
tion is in a legal form.

Do not skip over your territory because it 
inconvenient  for  you  to  make  certain 
small towns.  Your trade cau be better held 
by working the  territory up for  all  there is 
it,  and  giving  sufficient  time  for  each 
town,  rather than skim ahead with the hope 

taking large orders in the next town. 
Never allow a customer  to  remain unsat­
isfied as to the good  qualities  of a stove or 
range after you have left him.

If  any  complaint  is  made,  see  that  the 
customer is satisfied  before  you  leave,  that 
nothing for which we  as  manufacturers aie 
to blame is left undone.  In all cases of this 
kind the reputation of a stove or range is at 
stake, and it is your prrt, as our representa­
tive, to see that the  customer  is thoroughly 
satisfied.

Do not make  special  concessions to meet 
special whims of every dealer you meet, but 
rather  in  considering  complaints  that  are 
made by the trade,  reason  with  yourself as 
to whether it would be safe to establish such 
precedents as they wish  you  to  make, and 
carry them through the entire business.

Never allow yourself to talk  dispaiaging- 
ly of the  goods  of  other  houses.  Depend 
upon the merits of  the  goods  you  are sell­
ing,  and  the  ability of  your  house to keep 
pace with  the  times,  rather  than  resort to 
denunciations of your competitors’ goods.

Never tell a lie.  Tell your customers the 
truth, although  you lose a sale,  and  if  you 
can establish a confidence in them it will be 
more profitable than any temporary gain  in 
the way of  making a  sale  through misrep­
resentation.

Try to keep  posted  on what  competitors 
are  doing, but  keep  your  information  for 
our own benefit, and do  not  discuss  your 
competitors’ goods or methods.

In making suggestions regarding changes 
in  patterns, etc.,  always  remember,  if  you 
are traveling for a house that has more than 
one  representative  on  the  road, that what 
may please your section of  the country may 
not please the section  of  your brother trav - 
eler,  aud  that  you  cannot  consistently ad­
vise the house to do  anything in the way of 
going to expense which will not benefit their 
entire trade.

Keep your  house  thoroughly posted as to 
your  whereabouts, so  that  they  can  reach 
you every day either by mail or telegram.

These are general instructions which every 
stove salesman would do  well to observe as 
thoroughly as possible,  if he wishes to meet 
with the success that has crowned the efforts 
of those who have been the  most successful 
in this department of the stove business.

rection, Ionia.

•*-

Mr. Johnson, Johnson & Seibert,  Caledonia
F. C. Stone, Cedar Springs.
Henry DeKline, Jamestown.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
J.M. Keeney, Bode & Keeney,  Ferry.
Adam Newell, Tustin.
J. W. Cook, Fennville.
C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville.
A. C. Barclay, Crosby.
John Demstra, Forest Grove. 
G. TenHoor, Forest Grove.
H. Caller, Muskegon.
Wm. Black, Cedar Springs.
R. G. Smith, Wayland.
Wm. Hudson, Vriesland.
Johnson & Seibert. Caledonia.
I. B. Smith, Wayland,
Barling & Roberts, Sparta.
C. Durkee, Altona.
Mr. Wright, Cutler & Wright, Morley.
S. S. Dryden, A llegan.___
Mr. Furber, Furber & Kidder, Hopkins.
Will Pipp, Pipp Brothers, Kalkaska.
N. O. Ward, Stanwood.
C. V. Nash, Bravo.
Cole & Chapel, Ada.
G. N. Reynolds. Belmont.
John Gunstra, Lamont.
J. W. Verhocks,Grand Haven.
E. B. Joice, Cannonsburg.
E. W. Cooley, Ionia.
John Vinkelmulder, Graudville.
J. H. Bullement.Grandville.
J.M. Wagenaar, Zeeland.
Geo. Glick, Freeport.
F. G. Thurston, Lisbon.
Geo. Scribner, Grandville.
John Smith. Smith & Bristol, Ada.
Thos. Cooley, Lisbon.
C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville.
Adam Newell. Tustin.
Stanley Monroe, Berlin.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
C, w . Armstrong, Bowen’s Mills.
Neal McMillan, Rockford.
Lowell Furniture Co.,  Lowell.
Hutty & Dickinson, Grand  Haven.
R. G. Beckwith, Bradley.
Sisson & Billy Lumber Co., Sisson's Mill.
C. E. & S. J. Koon,  Lisbon.
E. T. Vbn Ostrand. Allegan.
Naragang & Son, Byron  Center.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
J. H. Moores. Moorestown.
U. DeVries. Jamestown.
W. A. DeHart, Vickeryville.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
John Kamps, Zutphen.
H. M. Harroun, McLain.
A. Purchase, South Blendon.
R. J. Side, Kent City.
Conrad Bros., Otsego.
Sidney Stark,  Allendale.
M, P. Shields,  Hilliard.
Mr. Spring, Spring & Lindley, Bailey.
Mr. Crawford, Benson &  Crawford. Saranac 
Kanter & Son, Holland.
D. B. Galentide, Ilftiley.
W. N. Hutchinson, Grant.
J. C. Scott, Lowell.
C. S. Comstock, Pierson.
Lon A. Pelton, Morley.
B. Gilbert & Co., Moline.
Hoag & Judson. Cannonsburg.
LaDeu & Baldwin, Coral.
Wm. DePree, Zeeland.
H. J. Chapman,  Middleville.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
C. Miller A Son, Saugatuck.
J. W. Robinson,  Stetson.
Wyngarten & Peterson,  Grand  Haven.
N. Bourn«., Fisher.
G. P. Stark,  Cascade.
G. H. Remington.  Bangor.
I). S. Randolph, Harbor Springs.
A. C. Oorneil, Big Rapids.
A. B. Long & Son, Blanchard.
E. C. Watkins. Warden  State  House  of  Cor

Some Suggestions to Stove Travelers.
Kindly remember at all times that you are 
engaged to sell  our  goods,  upon our terms, 
and  at  our  prices,  without  reference  to 
terms,  goods,  or  prices  you  may  hear are 
being  offered  by  other  houses.  You  are 
paid a salary by us  to  perform our work in 
our way, and not to sell goods  on the terms 
or  prices  offered  by  other  houses, who  do 
their business  in  a  different  manner from 
what we do ours.

Do not write  us  that  legitimate competi­
tors  are  doing  anything  which  you  could 
not prove in a court of law they were doing. 
Do not take hearsay, but  when  you make a 
statement to us  be  certain it is based  upon 
absolute fact.

For the same  reason  that  a nice  sample 
room or nice sample  stoves are attractive to 
a dealer,  the appearance  of  the  representa­
tive who sells the  goods  should be  as good 
as he can make it.

Iu talking business,  at  all  times be cour­
teous and business-like,  and confine  talk to 
business  as  much  as  possible,  and  not  to 
matters which are not  germane to business. 
There is a timé for  talking  everything,  and 
it  is  unwise  to .mix  base  ball,  preaching, 
horse  racing,  or  discussions  regarding  the 
crops, with stove  selling.  Each  have their 
place and should be talked of it their place.
Do  not  imagine  that  because  some  cus­
tomer in your section  is  not  pleased with a

99

Good Words Unsolicited

F.  J.  Clark,  general  dealer, Lacota 

the paper very much.”

Maul Bros., grocers, Muskegon:  “We do not 
want to miss any copies of  T h e Tradesman.”
G. S. Burnett, general dealer, Collins:  “I am 
well  pleased  with  the  paper  aud consider it 
well worth the money, and  more, too.”

Hides, Pelts and Wool.

Hides have  taken  a  strong  upward turn 
and are active  and  firm.  Pelts  are firmer. 
Wool is higher and excited, 
fallow is firm 
at the advance.

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.
Asparagus—30c per doz. bunches.
B e a n s—L ocal b u y e r s pay 50c@75c  $   bu.  for 
u n p ic k e d   an d   b old   o rd in a ry   h a n d -p ick ed   for 
$1.10@$1.15.

Beans—String, $1 $  bu.  W ax, $1.50 $  bu. 
Beets—New, 25@30c IP doz. bunches.
Butter—Michigan  creamery  is  in  poor de­
mand at 13@14c.  Dairy is a drug on the market 
at 6® 8c.

Cabbages—$1@$3 $  crate, according  to size. 
Carrots—25c IP  doz.
Cherries—$1.50@$2 $  bu.
Cucumbers—35c $  doz.
Cheese—May  and  June  stock  of  Michigan 

full cream is in fair demand at8@9c.

Dried A pples—Quartered  and sliced, 3@3&c. 

Evaporated, 6tf@7o, according to quality.

Dried Peaches—Pared. 15c.
Eggs—Somewhat scarce.  Jobbers  pay  10V6 

@11 and sell for 11V4@12.
Gooseberries—5c $  qt.
Honey—Easy at 13@14c.
Hay—Bailed is dull at $14 per ton  in two and 

five ton lots and $13 in car lots.

Lettuce—7c IP ft- 
Maple Sugar—7@8c.
Onions—Green,  12@16c  IP  doz.  bunches. 

Southern, $3 IP bbl.

Parsley—25c IP doz.
Peas—Home grown, 75c®$l  $  bu.
Pop Corn—2c ft ft.
Potatoes—Southern  command  ?2.50@$3  ft 

bbl.
Poultry—In  fair  supply.  Fowls  sell  for 
10@10V4c; turkeys, 12c.  Ducks are out of mar­
ket.

Radishes—15c IP doz.
Raspberries—Black and red are held  at  10@ 

12c $  qt.

Spinach—50c ft bu.
S tra w b e rrie s—H o m e g ro w n  com m a n d  5@7c., 
T o m a to e s—S o u th er n , $1.25 ft b o x .
Turnips—40c ft bu.

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

Wheat—No change.  The city millers pay  as 
follows:  Lancaster,  78;  Fulse,  75c;  Clawson, 
75c.
lots and 35@38c in carlots.

Corn—Jobbing generally at 42@43c  in 100 bu. 

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

car lots*

Rye—48@50c ft bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 $  ewt.
Flour—No  change.  Fancy Patent, $5 ft bbl. 
in  sacks and  $5.25 in  wood.  Straight, $4.20  ft 
bbl. in sacks and $4.45 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.75 ¥  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $13  ft ton.  Bran, $12 
$  ton.  Ships, $13 $  ton.  Middlings, $13 $  ton. 
Corn and Oats, $17  ft ton.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock  Bark—Local  tanners  are  taking 
all offerings of new bark on the basis of $5 per 
cord, delivered, cash.

Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay  $1.75  ft  ft  for 

clean washed roots.
Rubber Boots and Shoes—Local  jobbers  are 
authorized to offer standard goods at  15  and 5 
per cent, off, and second quality at 35, 5 and 10 
per cent off.

‘Like

Ibarbware.

These  prices  are  for cash  buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full  packages.

AUGERS AND BITS.

BALANCES.
BARROWS.

Ives’,  old style........................................ dis60A10
N.  H. C. Co...............................................dis60A10
Douglass’..................................................dis60& 10
Pierces’ .................................... ............... disfiOAlO
Snell’s .......................................................dis60A10
Cook’s  ...................................................... dis40A10
Jennings’,  genuine................................ dis_  25
Jennings’, imitation..............................disáOAlO
Spring.......................................................dis 
40
Railroad..................................................... $  13 00
Garden......................................................net 33 00
BELLS.
Hand....................................
. .dis  $ 60A10A10 
Cow....................................... .
60A10
...dis 
30A15
...dis 
Call.......................................
..................
Gong............... 
. ..dls 
25
Door, Sargent.....................
60A10
. ..dis 
BOLTS.
Stove...................................................... dis $
40 
Carriage  new  list................................ dis
80 
Plow  ......................................................dis
30&1C 
Sleigh Shoe............................................dis
75 
Wrought Barrel  Bolts........................dis
60A10 
Cast  Barrel Bolts................................dis
60A10 
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs....................dis
60 
Cast Square Spring............................. dis
60
Cast Chain........................................... dis
60&10
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............ dis
60Ä10
Wrought Square................................. dis
60A10
Wrought Sunk Flush..........................dis
60
Wrought  Bronze  aud  Plated  Knob
Flush..................................................dis
60&10 
Ives’ Door.............................................dis
60 A10

BRACES.

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

BUCKETS.

BUTTS. CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured........................dis
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed.........dis
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed, .dis 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis
Wrought Loose  Pin............................ dis
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip............ dis
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned........... dis
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tipped..................*................ ............dis
Wrought Table......................... ........... dis
Wrought  Inside  Blind........... ........... dis
Wrought Brass......................... ........... dis
Blind. Clark’s............................ ............dis
Blind. Parker’s.......................
........... dis
Blind,  Shepard’s..................... ............dis
Ely’s 1-10............................................... per m $ 65
Hick’s C. F............................................  
60
35
G. D........................................................ 
Musket................................................... 
60

70A10 
70&10 
60A10 
60A10 
60&10 
60A 5 
60A 5
60A 5 
1Q&60 
10A60
80A10 
80A10 
70

CAPS.

CATRIDGES.

Kim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester  new listSOAlO
Rim  Fire, United  States......................... disoOAlO
Central  Fire.............................................. dis30A10
Socket Firmer..................................... dis 
75A10
Socket  Framing.................................. dis  75A10
Socket Corner......................................dis  75A10
75
Socket Slicks........................................dis 
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer................. dis 
40
Barton’s Soeket Firmers...................dis 
20
Cold....................................................... net

CHISELS.

COMBS.

Curry, Lawrence’s................   ............dis  40A10
Hotchkiss  ............................................dis 
25
Brass,  Hacking's.......................................  
60
Bibb’s .........................................................  
60
B eer.............................................................  40A10
Fenns’........................................................ 
60

COCKS.

 

COPPER.

 

 

DRILLS

ELBOWS.

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

Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... »  ft  2!
31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60..........................   21
Cold Rolled, 14x48............................................   11
Morse’s Bit  Stock...............................dis 
41
Taper and StraightShank..................dis 
41
Morse’sTaper  Shank..........................dis 
41
Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................doz net  $.81
Corrugated...........................................dis  20A10
Ad j ustable............................................dis  M &10
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26  00.  dis 
20
Ives’, 1. $18 00 ;  2. $24 00;  3, $30 00.  dis
American File Association  List.......dis
Disston’s .............................................. dis
New American.................................... dis
Nicholson’s...........................................dis
Heller’s ................................................ dis
Heller’s  Horse Rasps.........................dis
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

22 and 24,  25 and 26,  27
15
Discount, Juniata 50@10, Charcoal 60. 

GALVANIZED IRON,
14 

files—New List.

EXPANSIVE BITS.

55A10 
55&10 
55&10 
55&10 
55 A10 
55A10

12 

13 
GAUGES.
HAMMERS.

50

HOES.

HINGES.

HANGERS.

HOLLOW  WARE.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............ dis
Maydole & Co.’s ...................................dis
Kip’s .....................................................dis
Yerkes  &  Plumb’s.............................. dis  40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel..................... 30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40A10 
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track  50&10
Champion,  anti-friction.....................dis  60A10
Kidder, wood track.............................dis 
40
Gate, Clark’s, l, 2, 3.............................dis 
60
State............................................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4^4  14
and  longer.............................................. 
3V4
Screw Hook and Eye,  V%  .................. net 
10V4
Screw Hook and Eye %..................... net 
84
Screw Hook and Eye 
..................... net 
74
Screw Hook and Eye,  %....................net 
74
Strap and  T ........................................dis 
65
Stamped Tin Ware.................................... 
30
Japanned Tin  Ware................................. 
25
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
Door, porcelain, jap.  trimmings...........  
45
45
Door, porcelain, plated  trimmings....... 
Door, porcelain, trimmings.................... 
45
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain.......... dis 
70
Picture, H. L. J udd & Co.’s .....................   40&10
Hemacite..................................... 
dis 45
LOCKS—DOOR.
45
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list, .dis 
45
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s......................dis 
Branford’s ..............................................dis 
45
Norwalk’s .............................................. dis 
45
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s....................dis  70
Adze  Eye..................................... $16 00 dis 
60
Hunt Eye..................................... $15 00  dis 
60
Hunt’s ........................................$18 50dis20 & IQ
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled................   dis  50
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s............................dis  40A10
60
dis
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’sMalleables  dis
60
.dis
Coffee, Landers, Ferry A  Clark’s ........dis
...dis 25
Coffee,  Enterprise.........................
MOLASSES GATES.
__dis 70
Stebbin’s Pattern  ..................................... dis
....dis 70
Stebbin’s Genuine.................................
,.. .dis 25
Enterprise,  self-measuring................
Common. Bra  and Fencing 

MATTOCKS.

LEVELS.

MAULS.

KNOBS.

MILLS.

One Century’s Harvest of Democracy.
The record  of  the  Republic  is thus sum­
in 

med  up  by  Mr.  Andrew  Carnegie 
“Triumphant Democracy.”

1.  The majority of  the  English-speaking 

race under one republican flag,  at peace.

2.  The nation  wnich is  pledged by act of 
both  parties  to  offer  amicable  arbitration 
for the settlement of international disputes.
3.  The nation which  contains  the small­
est proportion of illiterates, the  largest pro­
portion of those who read and write.

4.  The nation  which  spends  the least on 
war and  most on  education; which  has the 
smallest  army and  navy,  in  proportion  to 
its population and  wealth,  of  any maritime 
power in the  world.

5.  The nation which provides most gener­
ously during  their  lives  for  every  soldier 
and sailor Injured in  its cause, and for their 
widows and orphans.

6.  The nation in  which the  rights of the 

minority and of property are most secure.

7.  The  nation  whose  flag,  wherever  it 
floats over sea  and  land,  is the symbol and 
guarantor of the equality of the citizen.

8.  The nation  in  whose  Constitution no 
man suggests  improvement;  whose laws as 
they stand are  satisfactory to all citizens.

9.  The nation which has the  ideal Second 
Chamber,  the  most  august assembly in the 
world—the American Senate.

10.  The  nation  whose  Supreme Court is 
the envy of  the  ex-Prime  Minister  of  the 
parent land.

11.  The nation whose Constitution is “the 

COAL AND  BUILDING  MATERIALS.
A. B. Know Ison quotes as follows:
Ohio White Lime, per  bbl.................... 
Ohio White Lime, car lots....................
Louisville Cement,  per bbl.................. 
Akron Cement per  Dbl......................... 
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl......................  
Plastering hair, per bu...............
Stucco, per bbl.......................—
Laud plaster, per ton..................
Land plaster, car lots..................
Fire brick, per  M.........................
Fire clay, per bbl.........................

1  00
1 ;**
1  ■'
\ 30
25®  30
1 75 
3 50
2  to
$25 @ $35
3 00

COAL.

Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .$5 75@6 00 
Anthracite, stove and  nut, car lots..  6 00@6 25
Cannell, car lots................................... 
00
Ohio Lump, car lo ts................ ;•••••  ,
Blossburg or Cumberland, car lots..  4  ou@5 00 
Portland  Cement.................................  3 50@4 00

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling
..  5  @  7 
.8   @9 
..  5H@ 5% 
..  6  @ 614 
@10 
..  614® 7 
..7   @714 
..  654® 7 
..11  @12
::i2  @i4

prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides........................
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters........
Dressed  Hogs...............................
Mutton-,  carcasses..................... .
Spring Lamb...............................
Veal..............................................
Pork Sausage..............................
Bologna.........................................
Fowls.................."........................
Ducks  .........................................
Turkeys  ......................................
COOPERAGE.

Quay, Killen &  Co,  quote  as follows, f. o. 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’daud j’t.M  20 00@2i 00
hlil 
**  M 18 50S&20 00
White oak pork bbl. 
“  M  18 50@20 00

STAVES.
“ 

“ 
.ii* 

** 
“ 

 

Tierce, dowelled and circled, set—  
15®  16
“ 
Pork, 
“ 
12@_ 13
.... 
Tierce  heads,  square...............$  M 23 09@26 90
...............$  M  18 00@20 00
Pork bbl.“ 
Basswood, ki In dried, set...; ............ 
4@  iyt

“ 

“ 

HEADS.

HOOPS.

most perfect  piece  of work ever  struck off I white oak and hickory tee, 8 f’t. 
at one  time  by  the  mind  and  purpose  of  white oak and hlckory “  7H  * 
man,” according to  the  present Prime Min­
ister of the parent land.

M  11 00@12 50 
M  10 00@ll 00
Hickory  flour  bbl...........................M  7  00® 8 25
“ ...........................M  8 ~5®  i  00
Ash, round  “ 
Ash, flat racked, 6^4 f’t.................. M  3 50®  4 25

BARRELS.

12.  The nation  most  profoundly conserv­
ative of what  is good,  yet  based  upon the 
political equality of the citizen.

13.  The wealthiest nation in the world.
14.  The nation  first  in public  credit and 

in payment of  debt.

15.  The  greatest  agricultural  nation  in 

world.

the world.

world.

16.  The greatest manufacturing nation in 

17.  The  greatest  mining  nation  in  the 

The  Hardware  Market.

Business  continues  good.  Nails  are  a 
trifle  lower,  but  are  firm  at  the  decline, 
Strip  hinges  will  shortly  be  advanced. 
Glass is firm  at  the  advance.  Screws  are 
weak.  Carbed wire is  off  a  little.  Other 
articles  in  the  hardware  line  are  about | 
Steady«

 

NAILS.

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

White oak pork barrels, h’d m’d.M  1 00@  1  10 
85®  »5
White oak pork barrels, machine.. 
White oak lard  tierces....................  1  15®  1 25
t5®  90
Beef and lard half  barrels............. 
Custom barrels, one  head...............  1 00®  1  10
Flour  barrels.................................... 
30®  3i
Produce  barrels.......  .....................  
23®  2o

keg $2 m
lOdto  60d.
25
8d and 9 d adv...............................
6d and 7d  adv................................................ 
60
4d and 5d  adv..................... 
¡o
3d advance.....................................................  1  50
3d fine advance........................................... 
3 00
Clinch nails, adv...........................................  1  75
Finishing 
Size—inches  |  3 
Adv. $  keg 
Steel Nails—2 30.
Zinc or tin, Chase’sPatent....................dis60&l0
Zinc, with brass bottom..............................dis  50
Brass or  Copper......................................... dis  50
Reaper......................................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s .................................................   50&10

I  lOd  8d 
24 
$1 25  1 50  1 75  2 00 

The furniture factories  here  pay  as  follows 
for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run.............................  
80
Birch, log-run...........................................18 00@20 00
©-» 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2.............................  
Black Ash, log-run.............................   @13 00
Cherry,  log-run........................................25 00@30 00
Cherry! Nos. 1  and  2................................45 00@50 W)
Cherry,  cull......................................... 
@10 00
Maple, log-run............................. 
13 00®15 00
Maple, sort,  log-run................................12 00@14 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2..............................  @20 00
Maple, clear, flooring.........................  @25 Oo
Maple, white, selected.......................  @25 On
RedOak, log-run.................................  @|g 00
@22 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2......................... 
Red Oak, No.  1, step  plank............... 
@25 00
W alnut, log-run............................. 
  @to 00
........ I  @75 0 0 ,--------------------r
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2.
..........  @26 00  Dripping........ i.......................................V®
Walnuts,  culls....
@13 00 
.......... 
, White Ash. log-run............................14 00@16 00  Iron and T^nneM. 
...........................dls
Whitewood,  log-run.........................  
@33 001  Copper Rivets abd  Burs....................dls

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 aud Level Co.’s, wood— dis20&10 
Fry, Acme...............................................dis 50&10
Common, polished..........................   .. •^dlsOO&lO

\  RIVETS.

6d  4d
2 
14

PLANES.

OILERS.

PANS.

firn

*  Vi

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

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

Broken packs 4 c ¥  ® extra.

ROPES.

SQUARES.

Sisal, 4  In. and  larger...................................  ,f}f
Manilla............................................................18*»
Steel and Iron........................................ dis
TryandBevels...................................... dis
Mitre  .....................................................dis 
SHEET IRON.Com. Smooth.

™
Com. 
$2 75 
2 75 
2 80
2 90
3 00
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 30 inches 

Nos. 10 to 14.................................. $4 20
Nos. 15 to  17..................................   4-0
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.
SHEF.T ZINC.
In casks of 600 fts, »   ft...........
In smaller quansities, $   ft —
dis
American, all  kinds.................
dis
Steel, all kinds..........................
.dis
Swedes, all  kinds  ....................
.dis
Gimp and  Lace.........................
.dis
Cigar Box  Nails.......................
.dis
Finishing Nails.  ..................................dis
.dis
Common and Patent  Brads............... dis
.dis
Hungarian Nails and Miners’ Tacks.dis
.dis
Trunk and Clout Nails.........................dis
.dis
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails...
.dis
Leathered Carpet  Tacks...........
TINNER'S SOLDER.
No. 1,  Refined........................................... 
Market  Half-and-half.................... 
Strictly  Half-and-half.....................
Cards for Charcoals, $6

5K
6
60
60
60
60
50
50
50
50
50
45
35
12 50
12 50
15 00
“
16 50

TIN  PLATES.

TACKS.

rates.

TIN—LEADED.

5 75
10x14, Charcoal.................................  5
IC, 
7 £5 
10x14,Charcoal.................................
IX, 
.  6 25
12x12, Charcoal....................
IC, 
12x12, Charcoal  ..............................   7 75
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal.................................  5 75
IC, 
14x20,  Charcoal................................  7 25
IX, 
1XX,  14x20, Charcoal................................   8  75
IXXX, 14x20, Charcool................................  10  77
IXXXX, 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 add 1 50  to 6 75
.  525 
Roofing, 14x20, IC...............................
6 75 
Roofing, 14x20,  IX..............................
.  11 00 
Roofing, 20x28, IC...............................
.  14 00
Roofing, 20x28,  IX .............................
..  5 50 
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne....
..  7 00 
IX, 14x20,choiceCbarooal  Terne...
..11 00
1C, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne..
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal  Terne.............  14 00
Steel, Game.....................................................60&10
ieida|Communtity,  Newhouse’s ..........dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60A10
Hotchkiss’  .....................................................60A10
P. A W.  Mfg.  Co.’s...................................60A10
Mouse,  choker....................................... 18c »  doz
Mouse,  delusion.................................$1 50$ doz
WIRE.
........ dis  674
Bright Market.....................
.......dis 
70
Annealed Market.................
..........dis  624
Coppered Market................
...........   dis  55
Extra Bailing.......................
..........dis  624
Dinned  Market....................
............» f t   09
Dinned  Broom.....................
............» f t  84
Dinned Mattress..................
...dis 40@40A10
Coppered Spring  Steel......
Tinned Spring Steel.................................dis  50
Plain Fence...............................................$  ® 34
Barbed Fence, galvanized...............................44
painted....................................3%
Copper...............................................new  list net
Brass..................................................new  list net
70 A10 A10 
Bright.......................*.....................dis
70A10A10 
Screw Eyes...................................... dis
70A10A10 
Hook’s .............................................dis
70A10&10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes..................dis

WIRE GOODS.

TRAPS.

WRENCHES.

Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled........ .
Coe’s Genuine................   ....................dis 
60
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis  75A10
Coe’s  Patent, malleable................ dis 75A10A10

MISCELLANEOUS.

BirdCages................................................... 
50
Pumps,  Cistern....................................dis  70A10
Screws,  new  list.......................................   75@10
Casters,  Bed  and  Plate.................... dis50&10&10
Dampers, American.................................  40&10
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods..60A10A5 
Copper  Bottoms.......................................  
21c

LUMBER. LATH  AND SHINGLES.

The Newaygo Manufacturing Co,  quote f. o 
b. cars as follows:
per M $44 00
U ppers, 1 inch........................
..........  46 00
Uppers, 14,14 and 2 inch...,
..........  35 00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................
........   38 00
Selects, 14,14 and 2  inch........................
........   30 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................
.....  20 00
Shop, 1 inch.................................................
........   25 00
Fine, Common, 14.14 and 2 inch...........
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet—
15 00
16 n0
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet........................
17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet........................
15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......
16 00 
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.......;................
17 00 .
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet........................'
15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 aud 16 feet........
16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................
17 00 
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet..........................
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......
12 00
13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet........................
14 00 
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet........................
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......
12 00
13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet........................
14 00 
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................
11  00 
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16  feet........
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................
12 00
13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet.........................
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls,  al
9 00 
widths and  lengths..........................8 00
33 00 
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in ............................
27 90
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................
15 OO 
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths........................
12 00 
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............
12 0q
No. 2 Fencing. 16 feet.................................
15 00 
No. 1 Fencing. 4  inch.................................
i2 QÒ 
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............
20 00
18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B..................
14 50 
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................
9 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common—
Bevel Siding,  6 inch.  Clear.....................
20  00 
11  00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16 ft............
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
36 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B....................
29 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..........................
17 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common..
14 00
Dressed Flooring 6 in., No. 2 common—
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1  00  additiinal.
35 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..
26 OO
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C..........................
16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com’n 
14 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in.. No. 2  com’n 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
( XXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............  
3 10
3 00
J X X X 18 in.  Thin............. '....................... 
2 75
XXX 16 in.................................................... 
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles................ 
1 <o
140
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in.............................  
Lath  ....................................................   1 75® 2 00

WOODENWARE.

Standard  Tubs, No. 1.........................................5 50
Standard  Tubs, No. 2.........................................4 50
Standard  Tubs, No. 3..................................... 3 50
Standard Pails, two hoop.................................. 1 25
Standard Pails, three hoop...............................1 50
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes............................. 2 00
Butter  Pails, ash............................................... 2 50
Butter Ladles..................................................... 1 00
Rolling Pins.........................................................1 00
Potato Mashers...............................................   75
Clothes Pouuders.............................    
Clothes Pins..................  ..."............................  65
Mop Stocks.......................................................... 1 25
Washboards, single............................................1 75
Washboards, double..........................................2 25

BASKETS.

I Diamond  Market............................................  40
Bushel, narrow  band........................................ 1 60
I Bushel, wide band............................................. 1 75
Clothes, splint,  No. 1..............................  
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..........................  

 

HIDES, PELTS  AND  FURS.

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

HIDES.

Green__ »  ft  6@ 6&|Calf skins, green
Partcurea...  7H@ 8 
Full cured 
Dry hides and 

or cured—   8  @10
»  piece.......20  @50

  814@ 9>£ Deaoon skins,

kips............  6  @ 8  I

SHEEP PELTS.

i Old wool, estimated washed $  f t ..........20  @35
I Tallow............................................... -Y  3  @ 354

WOOL.

| Fine washed $  ft 26@28iDnwashed............ 
' Coarse washed.. .20@24|

2-3

<&  HOOFS,

2 25

3 50

8 00

ft

É O N A R D   &  S O N S ,

!

PRICE  LIST.  HOUSEHOLD  IDEF.A.iFtTIMiEISrT.  PART  9 .

Terms Cash.  Sixty days or 2 per cent, discount for Cash in ten days, on Crockery and Glassware.  We present a few Specialties in English Decorated 
I  Dinner Sets from leading Factories.  Merchants will do well to carry a line of goods on this order, as the people constantly demand more and more; need not 
|  keep very much, because we carry so many patterns in open stock, and are glad to keep up the assortment for you, and sell in any quantities.  Perhaps  the 
i  very best decorated line now is WEDGE WOOD  &  CO.’S  LUSTRE  BAND which we would be pleased to quote.

/

Dark Green Lucerne. 

104 Pieces,  39.50.

Brown Chatswortk. 
Pink Chatsworth. 
104 Pieces,  310.50.

DnsnsnEiR.  se t s,

Printed  on  Ivory  Body,  New  Square  Shape.
1 doz. Dinner Plates,
4 Platters. 1 each 8,10,12,  14,
1 Pickle, 1 Bowl,
1 Butter Dish and Cover, 
1 doz. Handled Teas.

104 Piece Set is Composed of 
1 doz. Breakfast Plates. 
1 doz. Individual Butters, 
1 Covered Dish 
1 Water Pitcher, 
1 Cream,

1 doz. Pie Plates,
1 doz. Fruit Saucers,
2 Bakers, 8,  1 Boat,
1 Casserole and Cover. 
1 Sugar,

102 Pieces,  316.75.

DINNER  SET  NO.  1052,

Decorated with

Fine Pink and Grey Flowers, with Gold.

1 doz. Pie Plates,
1 doz. Tea Plates.
1 doz. Breakfast Plates, 
1 doz. Fru. Saucers,
1 doz. Ind. Butters,
3 Platters, 8,10,13,
1 Sugar, 1 Cream,

102 Piece Set Contains
3 Bakers  8,
1 Boat,  1 Pickle,
1 Covered Dish,
1 
Casserole,
1 
Butter,
1 Slop Bowl.
13 Handled Teas,

“ 
“ 

12 Dinner Plates, $2 extra.

This pattern is carried in open stock and  any  pieces  wante 

can be furnished.

Blue  Japanese. 
104 Pieces,  39.50.

102  Pieces,  318.75.

Dinner Set IsTo. 1 0 2 ©,
Fine  Blue  and  Grey  Flowers, with  Gold.  New 

Decorated With

“Windsor” Square Shape.
(See list of 102 piece set to the left.)

12 Dinner Plates, with above Set $2.25 extra.

We carry this pattern in open stock, and  can  furnish  any  articles  de­

sired at proportionate prices.

102 Piece Set, $11.00.

LAHORE.

“BROWN  LAHORE” DECORATION ON IVORY BODY.
A fine, soft, conventional decor, manufactured by T. & B. BOOTE, ENGLAND, and is 
recommended as the MOST SMOOTH, PEBFECT AND  PLEASING  MEDIUM-PRICE 
SET on the market.  Also  carried in open stock with a complete assortment  constantly 
on hand. 

12  8 in. Dinner Plates with above Set $1.60 extra.
The following BAKING POWDERS 
have  no  LOTTERY  SCHEME  CON­
NECTIONS:

Each can has a present of equal value.

Family “1  Nail” Bail Powder.

1 lb. cans, tall, packed 4 doz.  case  with  4 
doz.  10  in.  oblong  Glass  Dishes,  assorted 
colors

FOR  $1 6 .0 0 .

10 oz. cans, tall, packed 4 doz. in case, with 

1  doz. sets Colored Glass, 4 piece each

FOR  $1 0 .0 0 .
Powder to give entire satisfaction.

We guarantee the  above  brands  Baking 

O H A N D   H . A P I 3 D S ,   M I C H .

Arctic Manufacturing Co.
OLNEY. SHIELDS  A  CO.,
W HOLESALE
GROCERS,

And IMPORTERS  OF TEAS.

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

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

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

L£o.AJL;piri.'s Peavey Flug.

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

ALSO  SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

MSXTDBX. A BROS.’  Celebrated  CIGARS,

Finer quality and lower prices than any handled 

in the market.

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

5  a n d  7  I o n ia  S tr e e t , 

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g r a n d   R a n id n

SEINE  PATTERN.

DECORATED  TOILET  WARE.

Plain Printed Sets composed of

1 Ewer and Basin, 1 Covered Chamber, 1 Soap and Cover, 1 Mug, 
1 Slop-Pail and Cover—making 11 pieces,  in  Brown,  Pink,  Blue 

1 Small Pitcher, 1 Brush Vase—making 9 pieces, and 
and Green  Colors.

9 Pieces, Seine Pattern, per set, $2.75.
11 
$ 5.00.

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Tea Sots in C3-roat "Variety.

Plain Print. “Victor,” 56 pieees, 6ee cut above, per set............................................................... $3.50
“  “Brazil,” 56 pieces.  New square shape.  Per set.................................................... $3 00

Both above patterns in Brown, Pink, Blue and Sea Green  Decorations...................

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Barbed Wire.

From the Industrial World.

Despite  the  hard  times,  the  cessation of 
trade during the late strikes, and the gener­
ally unsatisfactory price  of  cereals, there is 
a steady and extensive demand for barb-wire 
fencing.  The  very cheap  price at which it 
has of late been offered has been a real boon 
to farmers, and  the  popularity of this kind 
of fencing is maintained.  Barb-wire is pre- 
. eminently the fence of the people. 
Its use­
fulness is unquestioned,  and its elements of 
portability, ease of construction into a fence, 
its durability,  its  strength,  and its  protec­
tive  qualitives  are  the  marked  features 
which  have  commended  it  to  consumers. 
The variety of  styles in  which this fencing 
is now put upon the market meets the views 
of  purchasers,  and  fills  every  measure  of 
their  requirement.  No  invention  of  the 
present  day  is  more  pre-eminently a  com­
mon-sense and  practical one  than this. 
It 
supplied a  need  that  fanners,  particularly 
in this country,  hail  felt for  years. 
It was 
a real Godsend to the settlers on the treeless 
lands  of  great  sections  of  the  West  and 
Northwest, and as an element  in faciliating 
agriculture throught this country it has been 
of  incalculable  importance.  The  demand 
for barbed wire has by no means reached its 
zenith. 
It is the  product  of  the future  as 
much as of  the  present.  Having  once  en­
tered into the conditions of American farm­
ing,  it will  ever  remain  an  important fac­
tor. 
It must so remain,  because it fulfills a 
mission that no  product  lias yet  been able 
to fill, that of  supplying  a  durable,  easily 
constructed, and  thoroughly efficient  fence 
at a price far  beneath the  cost  of  common 
lumber  fencing.  The present market value 
of barbed wire is  abnormally  low,  and,  de­
spite the  closeness  of  money  matters,  it is 
really a desirable  purchase.  The hardware 
trade  has  been  greatly  benefited  by  this 
invention,  as  a large  share of  the  product 
passes into consumption  through the hands 
of  the  local  hardware  dealer. 
It  being  a 
new product he has  had  another  profitable 
branch  added to  his trade,  and  the  really 
wise dealer  will  cultivate  it  to its  utmost 
extent, for  it  is  a  brancii  that  by proper 
work  can  be  enlarged  almost  indefinitely. 
Much of the  opposition  against those oper­
ating under the  patents for  making barbed 
wire has died out.  The wholesome decision 
of  the  courts  has  given  a  stability  to the 
course  of  manufacture  which  was  sadly 
needed at one  time.  There  is no good rea­
son  now why  peace  and  harmony  should 
not  reign  throughout the  whole  barb-wire 
industry.

The Danger of Centralism.

From the Chicago Current.

The  employers  of  the  American  can 
do  better by the working  man than can the 
Knights of j^abor.  There  is  a  danger that

the union man,  in his contest  with Capital, 
will accept  conditions from  Labor  that  he 
would spurn with horror if  they were offer­
ed by Capital. -  It must be remembered that 
the General Government  itself  rarely inter­
feres  with a man’s  freedom  of  action. 
It 
does not,  in time of  peace,  send  a Walking 
Delegate to order the tailor from  his bench, 
or  to  prevent  trains  from  running.  The 
time was when men quit work because they 
had no pay; then  it came  to  quitting work 
when the men  suffered a  lesser  grievance 
now men cease  working  when  some  other 
man, or some other  union,  has a  grievance 
against  some  other  employer. 
It  is  not 
difficult to see that  society would  be impos 
sible should  a prolonged  industrial reign of 
terror make its advent.  Workmen, it is be­
lieved, will  not  hand  over their  own  and 
their employers’ interests  to a body  of men 
who may easily be moved by rival interests. 
Liberty of thought and action are what have 
made  America—built  our  railroads,  tele­
graphs, cities, and our Brooklyn bridge. 
It 
is a good scheme—this  liberty.  But a Cen­
tral Board whose fiat would stop or start, as 
it might be  pleased or  displeased  with the 
conduct of a certain branch of  manufacture 
or  traffic,  would  in  effect  be  Russia  con­
summated  with  hollow  names.  As  it  is, 
under  Jay Gould,  we  have our freedom left 
to criticise his  methods,  and  to  hope that 
the ways by which he has made the most of 
his money and power will gradually become 
impracticable  for  imitators. 
In  labor  and 
capital  as  well  as  in  politics,  we  must al­
ways stand out  well  against  too much cen­
tralism.  The inevitable in the way of Gov­
ernment  railways, telegraphs, and  whisky 
seems full of evils.  Let  that  suffice.  The 
federal scheme  of  a  good  union  in  every 
trade  is a  natural  one.  The  endeavor  to 
abolish trades unions and supplant them with 
a body of Knights of  Labor is  like abolish­
ing our  counties and  States. 
It is  restric­
tive of liberty.  The employers ought to en­
ter the lists and offer the unions better terms 
than that.

Doubtful  Ownership.

Smith—I say, Brown, did I leave my um­

brella at your place last  night?

Brown—You left an umbrella, Smith,  but 

I don’t know whether its yours or not.

Texas  has  a  new  industry.  The  Clear 
Creek Crab Canning  Company has been or­
ganized in Galveston county,  and is doing a 
big business in catching  and canning crabs. 
The  shells  are  removed  entire  except the 
claws,  ground  in  a  mill  and  shipped  to 
France,  where  they  are  manufactured into 
a dentifrice.  The oil  that  arises  from the 
vats where  the crabs  are boiled  is  used in 
making  soap,  and  is  said  to  be  equal  to 
cocoanut  oil for  this  purpose.  The  crabs 
themselves are  packed  in  five  gallon cans, 
and are reckoned good.

WM. SEARS <& CO
Cracker  Manufacturers,

A g e n t s   f o r

AMBOY  CHEESE.

37, 39 & 41 Kent  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,
|iflP| C  0.  Hi!  Jobbers  Michigan  W ater  W hite  and 
llU u L E   w   U U l  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.  ifl||(i|#rnnil  111 fill 
IVIlluIvtbUNi  IvlluHi

Warehouse:  Lee’s  Ferry Dock, 

V O N   B E H B E N   &   S H A F F E R ,

STRYKER, OHIO,

Manufacturers of Every Style of

WHITE  ASH  OARS.

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Spoon Oars made of Best Spruce Timber.

BOWIHS SPOOM OARS  FOR  ROAT CLUBS MADE TO ORDER.

FULLER  &   STOWE  COMPANY,

Engravers and Printers

D e s i g n e r s

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. blain & co., Produce
Fortlo ni Ditslic Fruits, H in   Tiptalte, Bit

-D EA LER S  IN-

We handle on Commission BERRIES, Etc.  All ordfers filled at lowest market price.  Con*»«- 
NO.  9  IO N IA   ST,

pondence solicited.  APPLES  AND  POTATOES  In car lots  Specialties. 

