GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  18,  1886

NO.  152

VOL.  3

EDMUND 6.  DIKEMAN,

THE—

MUT  W M   MBB,

J E W E L E R

44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

G. A.K & 00.

M erchants and m anufacturers 
w ill find a com plete line of
STATIONERY,
BLANK  BOOKS

And SUPPLIES,

A t low est prices a t

GEO. A. HALL & CO’S

29  MONROE  ST.

TRY US.

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

VOIGT,

HEBJPOLSHEIXMERi

eft  CO.,

Importers and Jobbers of
STAPLE and FANCY

Dry   Good s  !
OVERALLS, PANTS, Etc., 
our  own  make.  A  complete 
Line  of  TOYS,  FANCY 
CROCKERY,  and  FANCY 
WOODEN-WARE,  our  own 
importation.
Inspecion solicited.  Chicago and Detroit 
prices guaranteed.

JUDD  eft?  OO«,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

And Full Line Winter Goods.

102 CANAL STREET.

Albert Coye  & Son,
AWNINGS,  TENTS,

DEALER  IN

Horse,  W agon  and  Stack 
Covers, Hammocks and Spread­
ers,  H a m m o c k   Supports  and 
Chairs, Buggy  Seat  Tops, Etc.

Send for Price-List.

7 3  Canal  St.

Money Rufunded.

The true remedy has at last been discovered. 
It was long known in his practice as Dr. Pete’s 
Lung Food for Consumption.  It is now called 
Dr. Pete’s 35-cent Cough Cure.  It is the safest, 
the surest and the best.  No other Cough, Cold, 
and Consumption remedy is half its equal.  We 
warrant It and will promptly refund the money 
paid  fou  it  if  a  beneficial effect is not exper­
ienced oy the time two-thirds of  the  contents 
of the bottle is used.  Sold by the Hazeltine & 
Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids. Micb.

BELKNAP

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Spring, Freight, Express, 

Lum ber and Farm

W A G O N S !

Logging  C arts and Trucks, 

Mill  and  Dump  Carts, 

Lumbermen’s  and 

River Tools.

W e carry a  large stock o f   m aterial, and  have  overy 
» " S p e c ia l  A ttention  G iven  to   R epairing, P ain tin g 

fa cility  for m akin g flrat-claaa W agon* o f a ll kind*.
and L ettering.

Shops on Frost St.,  Qnuri Rapids, Mioh.

PLUG  TOBACCO.
TURKEY .39
Big 5 Cents, 
-35
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D f t i n X y   \ with each butt. \
All above brands for sale only by

BEM .LBI0M 10PS

WHOLESALE  GROCERS, 

GRAND  RAPID S, 
MICH.
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Boots, Shoes and Slippers

Wholesale Manufacturers

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

FOX  &  BRADFORD,
S. I Venable & Co.’s

Agents for a full line of

PETERSBURG,  VA.,

PLUG  TOBACCOS,
NIMROD,

E.  C.,

BLUE  RETER,

SPREAD  EAGLE,

---- ARE-----

EATON  &  CHRISTENSON,
EXCLUSIVE  AGENTS
American Cigar Co.’s
CIGARS,

In this State for the

COLDWATER,  MICH.

Having Handled the Goods for Fifteen 
Years  with  Entire  Satisfaction  to 
Themselves and the Trade at Large. 
Dealers should remember that the
Amerloan Cigar Co.'s
Goods  can  be  obtained  only  through 
the Authorized Factory Agents.

Eaton & Christenson

77  CANAL  STREET.

No one can tell how  or when— 
accidents  by  railroad,  steam ­
boat, horse  or  carriage  travel 
and a thousand  various  ways.
The only safe w ay is to be in­

sured in the

PEOPLES

Mutual Accident Association

Insurance 

when they happen.  The BEST, 
m ost  LIBERAL  and  CHEAP­
EST  Accident 
is 
granted by the Peoples  M utual 
Accident  Association, of P itts­
burg,  Pa.  Features  new  and 
original  not  to  be  secured  in 
any  other  company.  Address
96 Fourth. Ave., 
Pittsburgh, Pa.

‘ Our Special

Plug  Tobaccos.

1 butt. 

3 butt*.

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

Olney, Shields & Co.

.36
.33
.30
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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

BUY  WHIPS  and  LASHES
Q.  ROYS  cft?  OO.,

OF

M anufacturer*’ agent*,

2 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

G et spot cash prices and have the  profit«.  Order* by 

m all prom ptly attended to.

C U S2M A2TS

MENTHOL  INHALER

NBUB ATjG-IA 
Quickly relieved  by  Cushman’s  Menthol 
Inhaler when all others  fail.  How  is  that 
possible?  Because by  inhalation  the  very 
volatile  remedy  is  carried  directly  to the 
delicate net work of nerves m the nose  and 
head,  and applied directly to the nerves, and 
so  rapidly  assimilated  that  quick relief is 
obtained. 
It will  last  six  months  to  one 
year, and the last grain is as  potent  as  the 
first inhalation.  You will find it  sells  rap­
idly.  Retail price, 50c.

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

a s We carry a full  line of 
STEAM  LAUNDRY

GRAND RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED CO.

71 CANAL STREBT.

43 and 45 Kent Street.

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

CHEMICALS.

GUSTAVE  A.  WOLF,  Attorney.

Over F ourth N ational Bank.  Telephone 407. 

COMMERCIAL  LAW  &  COLLECTIONS.
GXXT3S2TG ROOT.
We pay the highest price for it.  Address
Peck Bros., Druggists, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Im porters,

Jobbers and

R etailers of

B O O K S ,

20  and  22  Monroe  St.,  Grand  Rapidi,  Mioh.

PIONEER

PREPARED

PAINTS.

Order your stock now.  Having  a  large 
stock of the above celebrated brand MIXED 
PAINTS, we are prepared to fill all orders. 
W e give the following

O-uarantee :

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

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

A Simple Cure for Dyspepsia.

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

156

BIG FIVE CENTER.

Orders by Mall and Express promptly at­

tended to.

ON  A  LOCOMOTIVE.

Abolition of the Credit System. 

Thrilling  Experience  of  a  Traveling  Man 

While Riding in Front.

“I suppose,” said a  New  York Times re­
porter to a Chambers street  hardware sales­
man, a modest man  of  about  38 summers, 
“that in the course of your career as a trav­
eling man  you  have  narrowly  escaped  in­
stant death several hundred times.”

“No,  sir,”  he  continued,  emphatically, 
“although I have  been twenty  years on the 
road,  of  serious  accidents  I  have  known 
very few. 
I  had  one  rather  thrilling  ex­
perience  coming  out of  Chicago  once in a 
long train of fourteen cars filled with suffer­
ers after the  second fire.  We  were sweep­
ing across the prairie at  the  rate of  thirty- 
five miles  an  hour,  when a  coupling broke 
between  the  second  baggage  car  and  the 
smoker.  The  engineer felt  the shock, and 
looking  back,  saw the  trouble.  He gave a 
wild shriek on his whistle for down brakes, 
threw  wide  open  the  throttle,  and  sped 
away down  the track  as if the  furies were 
after him.  The  conductor  happened to be 
sitting just in front of  me at the time.  He 
opened  the  window  at  the  locomotive’s 
screech,  looked  out,  but  instantly drew  in 
his head,  and,  dropping  his  lighted lantern 
(it was night),  stood up in the aisle bracing 
himself between two  opposite seats. 
I tell 
you the  chalky whiteness  of  his  face was 
reflected in  every  countenance  in  the  car. 
There was no outcry,  but  everybody clutch­
ed something and waited for  the shock. 
It 
never came.  We ran along for two or three 
minutes,  which  seemed  intenninable,  and 
then the  train began to  answer  the steady 
pull on the brakes  and  gradually came to a 
halt.  Every man was out  of the  car while 
the  wheels  were still  spinning at  a lively 
gait. 
It  was  bright  moonlight,  and  we 
could  see  the  track  stretching  ahead  in  a 
straight line  for a long  distance, but of the 
engine  and  forward  cars  there  was  not a 
! trace.  They were miles  ahead, and the en­
gineer  was in  no hurry  to  slacken  speed. 
You see,  it was down  grade,  and  you can’t 
blame  a man for  wanting to  keep well out 
of the way of a dozen  loaded cars  thunder­
ing after him.  We had  time  to  see  about 
all  there  was  of  that  particular  moonlit 
prairie landscape before our engine  took  us 
in tow again,  but  nobody  complained,  you 
can guess.  That engineer’s quick judgment 
and prompt action averted a big wreck.

“Another time when my  hair  refused  to 
retain its normal position and  rose  at  right 
angles with my scalp was an  occurrence  on 
I had managed to get on the 
the Erie road. 
engine as a novel experience. 
I first discov­
ered that the motion  was  really  appalling. 
The engine throbbed and trembled as  it  ran 
rocking and plunging on the rails as if every 
moment it would leave them.  The din, too, 
was frightful.  The  fireman  aud  engineer 
yelled at each other whenever they attempt­
ed to speak,  which  was  not  often,  and  I 
simply could not gather  my  voice  in  suffi­
cient volume to  overcome  that  pandemon- 
; ium of sound.

“It was dark,  about  6  o’clock  of  a  late 
November evening.  We were climbing  the 
mountain,  and the grade was heavy and  the 
curves many.  As we thundered along com­
paratively slow I could see huge rocks  tow­
ering close to the track on  one  side,  while 
from the other  dark  chasms,  their  depths 
hidden in gloom,  yawned away. 
It  wasn’t 
cheerful,  and  the  outlook  forward  wasn’t 
much better.  The first time I  strained  my 
eyes ahead I drew back with a  sudden  start 
and clutched the  window  frame  with  both 
hands,  expecting my  hour  had  come.  To 
my  uninitiated  eyes  there  lay  apparently 
between the rails a  huge  bowlder  of  whit­
ish rock against  which  we  must  instantly 
crash, but we didn’t,  and  after  waiting  to 
discover that we were only thrashing around 
in the usual  way  I  took  more  courage  to 
look again.  The fireman was stolidly feed­
ing the insatiate furnace with  tons  of  coal! 
I looked at the engineer; he was out on  the 
engine with  his  oil-can  stepping  along  as 
composedly and easily as if he  were  walk­
ing a country turnpike; then I looked ahead. 
We had just rounded  a  curve,  and  at  the 
end of the stretch of track before  us  I  saw 
a lot of lights,  some on the track  and  some 
moving alongside.  The sight  startled  me, 
and I touched the fireman,  pointing through 
the window.  He looked quickly, then seiz­
ed the rope,  and blew  a  short,  sharp  blast 
on the whistle.  The engineer heard, glanc­
ed down  the  track,  then  sprang  inside  to 
the lever,  which  he  reversed  with  all  his 
might.

“Meantime the fireman on one side  and  I 
on the other were on the  lowest  step  ready 
to swing off at the last moment.  The engi­
neer seized my  shoulder  and  tried  to  pull 
me back,  but I jumped  just  as  the  engine 
crashed into the caboose of  a  freight  train, 
which, too long for  the  siding,  had  tailed 
over on the main  track.  My  extra  second 
or two  of  warning  had  been  of  immense 
value; our train had  slowed  up  enough 
to 
make the shock a slight  one.  The  passen­
gers got nothing more than a  good  shaking 
up, and only the  caboose  was  smashed  on 
the freight train.”

Great part of the deceptions of  trade play 
upon  the  eagerness  and  public  rage  for 
cheapness.

Correspondence Detroit Journal.

for 

responsible 

large  measure, 

Sin:  Will  you  permit  me,  through  the 
columns of your valuable paper, to speak to 
the manufacturers, merchants and  business 
men  generally  throughout  the  State  on  a 
matter which I believe to be of vital import­
ance?  It is acknowledged by all classes that 
we, as a nation,  are passing through  a  per­
iod of unusual depression in all branches of 
trade.  As one who looks at  things  calmly 
and squarely, I would ask:  Are we not,  in 
a 
this 
state  of  depression?  Are  we  not,  by 
our  mode  of  doing  business,  only  ad­
ding  fuel,  as  it  were,  to  the  great  cause 
which  is  consuming  our 
interests  and 
scattering broadcast over the land those hu­
man wrecks of former pride aud  manhood? 
1 allude to the prevailing  custom  of  doing 
business on a system of  credit.  Men,  as  a 
rule, are too prone  to slight their obligations 
on the least pretext.  Where is the  man  of 
respectability  that  cannot,  on  the  recom­
mendation of an influential friend, step into 
some of the wholesale establishments of the 
present day and purchase almost an  unlim­
ited amount of merchandise  on  the  simple 
“promise to pay.”  The goods once secured, 
he boldly launches forth on the tide of busi­
ness with bright hopes for the  future,  and, 
following  the  usual  custom, opens  an  ac­
count  with  A,  B and  C,  not only offering 
credit freely,  but,  through a false  notion  of 
enterprise  and  a  desire  to  increase  the 
amount  of  his  daily  sales,  actually  urges 
his  wares  upon  customers,  with,  very 
many times, nothing more tangible to  show 
for them than  the  name  upon  his  books, 
i  which will stand from day to  day as a glar­
ing monument to his stupidity.

After a few months  of  apparently  pros­
perous business,  stimulated by  sharp  com­
petition, he finds his stock  sadly  depleted; 
the amount of “cash” on  hond  but  a  little 
more than sufficient to keep up  the running 
expenses  of  the  concern;  and,  in this di­
lemma,  he is  compelled  to  purchase  more 
good  to  replace  those—can  we  say sold? 
No!  but rather given away.

Day after day,  he  is haunted  by  ghostly 
promises that as soon as the “wood” is sold 
Mr.  G. will straighten that  little  matter,  or 
Mr.  B.  says: 
“When  I  sell my wheat I 
will surely pay up;” until at last,  in desi>er- 
ation,  he  demands  a  settlement  by  note, 
which,  in many instances,  is  about  as  en­
couraging as an incident which was  related 
to me recently of the friend from  the  rural 
“deestricts” who,  after  being  persistently 
dunned by the merchant for years,  and  was 
finally induced to give his note in settlement, 
remarked: 
“There,  by  gosh,  that  debt’s 
paid.”  A few months,  or perhaps years, of 
manly struggle for  existence,  a  few  more 
futile  efforts  to  stem  the on-rushing tide, 
and, with a look of utter despair he sees  on 
the one hand,  a  mountain  of  debt;  on  the 
other—even  at  his  very  feet—a  yawning 
chasm which has swallowed up  its  victims 
by tens of thousands.

Now, as he looks  again  upon  that  huge 
mountain,  it not only seems  to  increase  in 
hight,  but  its very  sides  seem  to  expand, 
until at length his foothold is entirely  gone 
and he plunges headlong into the  depths of 
the pit, there to encounter the grinning  vis­
ages  and  sneering  taunts  of  A,  B and C, 
who stand complacently on the  brink,  and, 
with wagging heads and shouts of derision, 
seemingly enjoy the pitiful sight.

It is folly to assert that business in all its 
various branches and details cannot be  con­
ducted on a strictly “cash” system.  Let the 
matter be thoroughly agitated and discussed, 
not only by the press,  but  on  the  rostrum; 
in  public  debate;  on  the lecture platform; 
in the schools, and,  in  fact, everywhere,  as 
is the cause of temperance.  Let the manu­
facturers aud wholesale dealers set  the  ex­
ample by refusing to sell on any other terms. 
Let societies be  formed  by  men  who  will 
come to the front and take an  oatli—if nec­
essary—to  abolish  this  growing  evil,  the 
baneful effects of which are seen in the hag­
gard and  distorted  countenances  of  thous­
ands who are to-day crowding  the jails,  the 
penitentaries,  the  asylums,  or,  worse  than 
all,  a suicide’s grave.  Let us  awake  then, 
I say;  let us look well to our  interests,  and 
a brighter day will dawn;  a  glorious day of 
rejoicing, when

On kind intentions bent,

Man will meet his brother  man.
And say—what now not many can—
“I owe no man a cent!”

The Chicago Way.

From the Hotel World.

A grocer in an Indiana town who ordered 
his goods from  Chicago  was charged by an 
Indianapolis drummer  with a want  of  pat­
riotism  in  not  patronizing  home  institu­
tions.

“Will you give  me  ninety days  credit?” 

asked the grocer.

“Of course.”
“And  then  extend  me  thirty  days  fur­

ther?”

“Perhaps.”
“And if  I fail will  you  compromise  for 
18 cents on the  dollar and  help me beat all 
the other creditors?  That’s  what  my Chi­
cago house is doing for me, and about every 
third order they throw in a  dozen bed-cords 
or a dollar clock  as a free gift.”

The  Stuff  which  Goes  to  Make  up  the 

Daily  Papers.

New York Correspondence.

A few weeks ago 1,500 people  assembled 
in one of the largest halls we have to  listen 
to  addresses  by  Bishop  Potter,  by  Red 
Cloud,  by General  Armstrong,  principal  of 
the Hampden  Institute,  and  several  well- 
educated  Indians.  The  hall  was  packed, 
the  meeting  was  spirited,  the  addresses 
were entetrainingly instructive, and a move­
ment in the direction of  Indian  rights  was 
initiated which bids fair to have great wide­
spread national results.  The same evening 
a little foul-mouthed  tailor  addressed  per­
haps a  hundred  socialistic  agitators—men 
who were not citizens,  a majority  of  whom 
are not engaged in any occupation whatever 
except that of  agitation—in a  hall  back  of 
a  lager  beer  saloon  on Third avenue. 
In 
the papers of the city the following morning 
appeared from one-half a column  to  a  col- 
unin»of this tirade, and in one or two papers 
appeared a paragraphic allusion to the meet­
ing addressed by the  Bishop  and  his  asso­
ciates.  That  is  a  fair  illustration, not  a 
strained one,  a perfectly fair  illustration  of 
the way in which the newspapers of the city 
treat the two classes of thought and  action. 
Anything that  is  dirty,  mean,  wrong,  con­
trary to the public good, is  written  up,  de­
scribed in full length,  made piquant and in­
teresting, but  matters  which  tend  toward 
the elevation of the race,  which look  to the 
cleansing of our city,  which  take  hold  of 
the solid substantialities of the  people,  are 
passed by,  either in absolute silence or with 
paragraphic attention.

I remember many years ago, when I  was 
city editor of the New York Times and lived 
in Brooklyn,  my mother wrote me from the 
country,  where  she  was  spending  a  few 
months,  that  a  stranger  who  judged  of 
Brooklyn by what appeared under the  head 
of Brooklyn news,  would imagine that there 
was nothing in the City of Churches except 
a  city  hall,  a  few  criminal courts, police 
stations  and  a  morgue. 
In  other words, 
crime  has  the  call.  No city in the world 
surpasses New  York  in  intelligence,  in  a 
love of all that is good and pure  and  noble 
and decent and humane,  but  with  the  ex­
ception of a few idotic reports  of  sermons, 
j  with now and then a record of some English 
lecturer or Irish orator,  all the  upper  realm 
is  left  untouched.  Our  reporters  are  in­
structed  to  scent  the  carion.  They never 
bring the rose with its perfume,  or  the  lily 
with its grace, or the pansy with its  droop­
ing beauty before the public  atttention,  but 
the dead dogs of agitation and  the  swollen 
carcasses of crime,  and the offal of dirt  and 
squalor,  these are thrust before the disgusted 
eyes and under the  offended  nostrils  of  an 
amazed and outraged people.

The Earth as a Time Keeper.

A problem which is attracting to its study 
astronomers,  relates to the earth  as  a  time 
keeper.  We measure time by dividing eith­
er the  period  during  which  the  earth  re­
volves around the sun, or  tiiat  in  which  it 
turns on its own axis.  By the first  method 
we measure a year; by  the  second,  a  day. 
The earth, according  to  some  astronomers, 
is  losing  time.  Though  two  causes,  the 
sun’s  attraction,  and  the  friction,  so  to 
speak,  of the tides, the earth  each  year  re­
volves more slowly on its axes.  The specu­
lative question which these astronomers  are 
discussing is whether in the  end  the  earth 
will stop its revolution  upon  its  axes,  and 
will present  always  the  same  face  to  the 
sun.  When that event occurs,  there will be 
perpetual day hi one part of  the  earth,  and 
perpetual night in another.  But there is no 
occasion for immediate alarm.  The rate  at 
which the earth is  supposed  to  lose  time, 
only shortens the year by half a second in  a 
century.  There  are  more  than  thirty-one 
and a half million seconds in a year,  There­
fore,  if the earth ever does cease  to  revolve 
on its axis,  it will be more  than  six  thous- 
’ and million years before it will stop.

Johann Most’s Theories.

From the New York Herald.

Most’s theory of life and society is that of 
If  there  is an  under-world,  and 
a demon. 
one of its betailed and behoofed  inhabitants 
were to visit New York, he would grin with 
glee  as  he  read  this  pronunteiamento,  and 
take it to his master to be used as a thanks­
giving  proclamation.  So  far  as  we  can 
make out the  meaning of  the  writer,  he re­
jects all property rights, all  penal  law, the 
I Church, the State, and everything else which 
interferes with his doing as he pleases.  The 
ideal  of  the  anarchist  is  not a man,  but a 
tiger, a panther, and the highest conceivable 
world is a world full of tigers and panthers, 
all claws and  bloody chops.  The  theory is 
the  product  of  intellectual  imbecility, and 
the practices  advocated would  rob the hon­
est laboring man of  his  last dollar  in order 
to fill the stomach of the lazy reformer with 
stale beer.

A Binghamton,  N.  Y., cigar  manufactur­
er has brought a test case against four mem­
bers of the Cigarmakers’ Union claiming that 
by paying  his  internal  revenue  tax  he  ac­
quired the right under  the internal  revenue 
laws  to  manufacture  cigars,  and  that  the 
right so acquired  gives  him  the  protection 
of the federal law.

The W hy and Wherefore.

From the Saranac  Local.

A call has been  signed  by  nearly  every 
business man in town for a  meeting  to  or­
ganize a Business Men’s Protective Associa­
tion.  A  meeting  was  to  have  been  held 
last Monday evening, at which  time  E.  A. 
Stowe,  of  Grand  Rapids,  intended  to  be 
present.  Owning  to  this  failure  of  Mr. 
Stowe meeting the engagement, the meeting 
was adjourned until Monday  evening  Aug­
ust 16,  at  which  time  Mr.  Stowe  will  be 
present.

Thereby hangs a tale.  The editor of T he 
Tradesm an boarded the  6:30 p.  m.  train 
for Saranac,  but the hard-hearted conductor 
refused  to  stop  there,  in  eoncequense  of 
which  the  engagement  above  referred  to 
was unavoidably broken.

The Wayland cheese is no longer handled 
by W.  F.  Gibson & Co., of this city.  Order 
direct from the factory,  addressing  all com­
munications  to I.  B.  Smith,  proprietor.

LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ,

STATE  AGENT  FOR

’£ o M P ft£ s.5 § D  y e a s t ?1

M'fY d BYTHE 

- r y  

tAJUNKER  Gcn^ c!

106 Kent Street, Grand  Rapids,  M ici.

TELEPHONE  566.

Grocers, bakers and others can secure  the agency for 
th eir tow n on th is Y east by ap p lyin g to  above address 
None genuine unless it bears above label.

ORDER  OF  PUBLICATION.

IN  CHANCERY,

THE  SUPERIOR  COURT  OF GRAND  RA PIDS: 

STATE OF  MICHIGAN,
______ ___  
VICTORY CODY, Complainant, i
ANDREW  CODY, Defendant. 
}
Suit pending in the Superior Court of Grand 
Rapids, at the  City  of  Grand  Rapids,  in  said 
County, on the seventh  day  of  August, A.  D. 
1886.
In this cause, it appearing- from  affidavit  on 
flle, that the defendant, Andrew  Cody, is  resi­
dent of this State, and that process for his  ap­
pearance has been  duly  issued,  and  that the 
same could not be served for the  reason  that 
he is concealed within this  State.  On  motion 
of Frank A, Rodgers, Complainant’s  Solicitor, 
it is ordered that the  appearance  of  said  de­
fendant,  Andrew  Cody,  be  entered  herein 
within three months from the date of  this  or­
der, and in case of his appearance in this cause, 
his answer to the Bill of Complaint to be  filed, 
and a copy thereof to be  served  on  the  Com­
plainant s Solicitor, within twenty  days  after 
service on him of a copy of said Bill and  a  no­
tice of this order; and in default thereof,  said 
Bill will be taken as confessed by said Andrew 
Cody, Defendant:  And it is  further  ordered, 
that  within  twenty  days  the  Complaintant 
cause a notice of this order to be published  in 
the Michigan Tradesman, a newspaper printed, 
published and circulated  in  Baid County,  and 
that  said  publication  be  continued  therein 
once in each week for six weeks in succession, 
or that he cause a copy of this order to be per­
sonally  served  on  said  Defendant  at  least 
twenty days before the time prescribed for his 
appearance.
,   J 
Jimge of the Superior Court of Grand Rapids, 
Examined, countersigned and entered by me,
Register.

______  
Complainant’s Solicitor.

FRANK A.  RODGERS, 

CHAS.  P.  HATHBUN,

ISAAC  H.  PARRISH.

„ 

A true copy. Attest,

CHAS.  P.  RATH BUN, 
Register.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock Bark—Local  buyers  are  paying  $5 
for all offerings of new bark.  The  demand  is 
not very active.

Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay  81.50  $   lb  for 

clean washed roots.

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

ü_ 
GOOD 
(ENOUGH

Lamps  are filled  direct 
by  THE  PUMP  without 
lifting the Can.  The Fill­
ing Tube adjusting to suit 
the h eighth  of any lamp. 
Any overflow or drippings 
are  returned  to  the  Can 
through an opening in the 
center of the  top.  When 
closed  the  Filling  Tube 
enters this opening,  pre­
venting evaporation from 
EITHER PUMP OR CAN.

GOOD
(ENOUGH!

OIL AND GASOLINE CAN!

Every Live Dealer Should Sell Them.

This is the Most Practical,  Large-Sized Family Can in the Market. 

It should be  an 
object with dealers, when possible,  to do away with the annoyance and frequent filling of 
small cans.  A little effort and a slight difference in the price of oil in  quantities will in-
sure you a good trade in these cans,  and 
1 bsolute Safety  and
the Greatest Possible Convenience.

guarantee your  customers

NEEDED  IN   EVERY  FAMILY  W HERE  OIL  IS  USED.

OVER  200,000  IN  ACTUAL  USE  !

DON’T  B E   HUMBUGGED

W ith Cheap and  Worthless  Imitations.  Buy  the  Original, the  Genuine  Old 

Reliable  “ GOOD  ENOUGH.”

MANUFACTURED  BY

WINFIELD  MAN’F ’G  CO.,  WARREN, OHIO.

SEND  FOB  COMPLETE  CIRCULARS  AND  PRICE-LIST.

FOR  SALE  IN  GRAND  RAPIDS  BY

CURTISS, DUNTON & CO., W holesale Paper & Wooden w are 
-  Wholesale H ardw are
FOSTER  STEVENS  &  OO., 
H. LEONARD  &  SONS, - 
W holesale Crockery.

- 

HETMAN  &  SON, SHOW  CASE

48  CANAL  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

MANUFACTUREES.

11

Dr.  W. J. Carter  is  fathering  a  project 
looking toward the  establishment of  a soap 
factory at this market\vlth a capital stock of 
$50,000.  A portion q | the stock has already 
been subscribed and no difficulty is anticipat­
ed in securing pledges for the balance.  T he 
Tradesm an  bespeaks  for  the  enterprise 
tliatjencouragement from business men which 
it deserves and  hopes  to see  the  organiza­
tion an accomplished fact.

The  Tradesm an  cordially  commends 
the constitution  and by-laws of  the  White 
Lake Business Men’s Association, published 
in another column this week,  as  a  concise 
statement of  the  aims and  objects of  mer­
cantile organizations.  Bereft of  the super­
fluous articles which burden too many Asso­
ciations, the draft  referred  to  is  likely  to 
serve as a model for many organizations yet 
unborn.

The  Real Estate World  is  the  title  of  a 
new eight-page journal, the first number  of 
which has just been  issued  by Judge C.  S. 
Edwards.  The character  of  the  venture is 
indicated by its title and  there is every rea­
son for thinking that the journal will be the 
recipient of  the patronage  it so  richly  de­
serves.

The Mancelona Herald showed commend­
able energy in getting out  a regular  edition 
the week following the conflagration at that 
place.

AMONG TH E  TRADE.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Hawkins & Perry sold the H. Yan Giesen 
& Co. grocery stock at 83 Plainfield avenue.
David Quay succeeds  Quay, Killen & Co. 
in the manufacture of  staves  and  hoops at 
Bailey  and  the  manufacture  of  barrels  at 
at Grand Rapids.

The  Grand  Rapids  Portable  House,  Co. 
has sold  one  of  the  Densmore cottages to 
Mr.  Rose  Hartwick Thorpe,  to  be  shipped 
to San Antonio, Texas.

J.  H.  Frazer  has  arranged  to  engage in 
the sawmill  business at  St. James, on  the 
Big Beaver,  having  purchased of  Hester & 
Fox an outfit with a daily capacity of 10,000 
hardwood.  ________________

The Graves Lumber  Co.  is the  name of a 
new corporation which has  been  organized 
to succeed to  the  business  of  the  Benton 
Harbor Lumber Co., wholesale lumber deal­
ers at Benton Harbor.  J. B. Graves is pres­
ident of  the company and  H.  P.  Belknap 
secretary.  _________________

Little,  Simonds &  Co.,  formerly  of  this 
city,  who  already  operate  a  large  single 
stave factory at Duluth,  and  cooperage  es­
tablishments elsewhere,  will put  up  a  sec­
ond factory  in  Grafton,  Dak.  This  latter 
shop will have a capacity  of  600  barrels  a 
day. 

________________

The Unaka  Timber  Co.,  which  is  com­
posed of Grand Rapids and Big Rapids cap­
italists, owns 80,000,000 feet  of  poplar and 
white pine  near  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  and has 
under contemplation the  erection of  a saw­
mill  near Erwin to cut the timber into lum­
ber and market  it from  Knoxville.  Henry 
B. Wetzell, of the  former  firm  of  Wetzell 
Bros.,  is vice-president of the company.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

C.  W.  Hall,  druggist  at  Henderson,  has 

sold out.

closing out.

have sold out.

O. C. Churchill,  grocer  at  Marcellus,  is 

Betts Bros.,  hardware dealers at Edmore, 

C. E.  Munroe succeeds Munroe & Ricket- 

son in general trade at Bonanza.

W.  E.  Davis succeeds  Davis  &  Hold  in 

the drug business at Grand Ledge.

A. 

J.  Petz  & Co.  succeed Petz & Scott in 

the dry goods business at Owosso.

J.  W. Murray  succeeds  Cal.  Whitney  in 

the grocery business at Laingsburg.

Fred. J. Eienburg, of Ionia, has purchased 

Dr.  Weller’s drug stock at  Fowler.

II. J. Vincelet  has  removed  his  grocery 

stock from Farmington to Elgin,  111.

C. A. Coryell  succeeds  G.  L.  Coryell  in 

the grocery business at Grand Ledge.

F.  C.  Foreman  succeeds  T.  C.  F. Fore­
man in the boot and shoe business at Grand 
Ledge.

W.  H.  Goodyear,  druggist  at  Hastings, 
has admitted  his  clerk,  Fred.  Heath,  to  a 
partnership in the business.

G. Gumbinsky & Co. have  remoyed their 
dry  goods  stock  from  Howard  City  to 
Alpena—not  Allegan,  as  heretofore stated.
Paton  &  Andrus,  general  dealers  at 
Shelby,  have  purchased  the  grocery,  flour 
and feed  business  of A.  L.  Dennis,  at New 
Era.

Lafayette A. Moon has  purchased a  half 
interest in the produce and commission bus­
iness of  E.  P. Clark,  at  Big  Rapids.  The 
style of the  new firm  is  Clark  & Moon.

Cole & Chapel, of Ada, have added a line 
of boots and  shoes to  their  dry goods  and 
groceries, making a complete  general store,
H.  P. Baldwin  2nd, of  Detroit,  furnishing 
the stock.

Monton  Tribune:  Krohn  &  Alvin,  the 
gentlemen who  are  about  to open  the dry 
gbods store  in  the  Eagle  building, arrived 
here Wednesday evening.  Their goods will 
be here in a few days.

F.  F.  Ingram  and  S.  A.  Griggs  have 
admitted to general  partnership in  the firm 
of Milbum & Williamson, wholesale and re­
tail druggists at  Detroit.  Sarah  A.  Cooley 
has  contributed  $6,750  in  the  form  of  a 
special  partnership,  terminating  Jam  1, 
1889.

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

lercantile and Manufacturais Interests of the’State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY.  AUGUST  18,  1886.

Grand Rapids Traveling Men’s Association. 
President—L. M.  Mills.
Vice-President—S. A. Sears.
Secretary and Treasurer—Geo.  H. Seymour. 
Board of Directors—H. S.  Kobertson,  Geo.  F. 
Owen, J. N. Bradford,  A.  B.  Cole  and  Wm. 
Logie.

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

p. m.

Business Men’s Protective  Association 

of Kingsley.

President,  Jas.  Broderick;  Vice-President, 
A. G. Edwards;  Secretary,  Geo.  W.  Chaufty; 
Treasurer, H. P.  Whipple.
Merchants’

Protective  Association 
Big Rapids.

President—N.  H.  Beebe;  First  Vice-Presi­
dent, W. E. Overton ;  Second  Vice-President, 
C. B. Lovejoy;  Secretary. A. S. Hobart; Treas­
urer, J. F. Clark.
W hite  Lake  Business  Men’s  Associa­

o f

tion.

President, A. T. Linderman, Whitehall;  Sec­
retary, W. B. Nicholson, Whitehall;  Treasurer, 
C. L. Strong, Montague.
Business  Men’s  Protective  Union  of 

Cheboygan.

President,  A. W. Westgate;  Vice-President, 

H. Chambers;  Secretary, A. J. Paddock.
Traverse City Business  Men’s Associa­

tion.

President,  Frank  Hamilton;  Secretary,  C. T. 

Lockwood;  Treasurer, J. T. Beadle.

Luther Protective Association. 

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

sociation.

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

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

Merchants’ Union of Nashville.

President, Herbert  M.  Lee;  Vice-President,

C.  E. Goodwin;  Treasurer, G. A. Truman; Sec­
retary and Attorney, Walter Webster.
Lowell Business  Men’s  Protective  As­

sociation.

President, N. B. Blain;  Vice-President, John 
Giles;  Secretary,  Frank  T. King;  Treasurer, 
Chas. D. Pease.
Sturgis Business Men’s Association.
President, Henry S. Church ; Vice-President 
H. L. Anthony;  Secretary and Treasurer, Wm, 
Jorn.

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

Cooley.

t3&~  Subscribers  and others,  when writing 
o advertisers, will confer a favor on the pul> 
sher by  mentioning that they saw the adver- 
isement in the columns of  this paper.

When the Grand River Valley division of 
the  Michigan  Central  Railway  was  com­
pleted to Grand  Rapids  fifteen  years  ago, 
the  management  asserted  that  the  only 
freight 
traffic  the  line  would  cultivate 
would be through  freight from  the Eastern 
seaports and local  shipments of  produce in 
the  opposite  direction. 
In  pursuance  of 
this  policy,  the  management  has  granted 
numerous  concessions to  Chicago and  De­
troit  shippers,  allowing  them to  come into 
Grand Rapids and the towns between Jack- 
son and Grand  Rapids on  unusually favor­
able terms.  On the other hand, Grand Rap­
ids has been discriminated against,  with the 
evident intention of  crushing  any  attempt 
to compete  with Chicago or  Detroit  in the 
territory  named.  Not  only  were  Grand 
Rapids jobbers placed  at tremendous disad­
vantage,  but  Grand  Rapids  buyers  were 
treated with equal injustice.  For  instance, 
the Michigan  Central  charged just as much 
to carry a hundred pounds  of  produce from 
Hastings to Grand Rapids—a distance of 32 
miles—as it did to  carry the  same quantity 
to Detroit—a  distance of  137 miles.  Such 
a policy,  rigidly adhered  to, could  not  fail 
to produce  a  feeling  of  opposition  to  the 
road, both on the part of Grand Rapids job­
bers and buyers  and  receivers and shippers 
along  the  line  of  the  road,  and  this feel­
ing has taken  form in the  establishment of 
stage  lines  and  substantial  encouragement 
for the construction of rival railroads.  Grand 
Rapids has  managed to  creep into  the for­
bidden territory by means of cross lines and 
round about shipments and  large and small 
shippers have  sought to revenge the wrong 
by favoring  lines  hostile  to  the  Michigan 
Central system.  Whether such a “let alone 
poilcy” is bringing the management to a real­
izing sense of the loss sustained or whether 
the influence of men  hostile to  Grand Rap­
ids has ceased and the  management has de­
termined  to  give  the  Second  City a “fair 
show,”  T he Tradesm an  is  unable  to an­
swer; but  the fact  remains  that  the policy 
of  the  Michigan  Central  management  to­
ward Grand  Rapids  is  being  considerably 
modified, in  consequence  of  which there is 
rejoicing all  along  the  line.  Whether  the 
new departure will  be  followed  by further 
concessions,  placing  Grand  Rapids  on  the 
same footing  as the  other  roads  have gen­
erously accorded her,  remains to be seen.

The editor of  T he  T radesm an  will be 
at the service of the  retail  trade five nights 
a week  from now  until the  State  conven­
tion of business men and hopes to be able to 
assist in the  formation of tiie fiftieth associ­
ation before the morning of September 21.

Whitehall,  Montague  and  Saranac  have 
formed associations  since  the  last  issue of 
T he Tradesm an and Elk Rapids is on the 
verge of organizing.

99

STRAY  FACTS.

Wm. A.  Hasse,  tailor  at  East  Saginaw, 

The mills at Ontonagon have  shut  down 

has sold  out.

for lack of logs.

Tobias Bergy is preparing  to  start up his 

button factory at Caledonia.

F.  F. Ward has sold his stock  of  tinware 

at Plairyvell to F.  M.  Storms.

Dart & Bigelow succeeds  H.  J.  Dart* in 

the lumber business at Concord.

Geo. D. Brown succeeds Brown & Pilcher 

in the book business at Jackson.

A.  C. Nichol  succeeds  C.  H.  Dunks  as 

proprietor of the Flint Furniture Co.  »

The Kirby-Carpenter Co. will build a brick 

store building at Menominee,  22x100.
□A  hoop factory,  employing 50 or 60 hands, 
will soon go into operation at Alanson.

I. N.  Shepard,  lumber dealer  at Shepard, 
was not burned out, as previously reported.
N.  S. Loop,  formerly engaged in  the gro­
cery business  at  Kent City,  is now running 
a temperance billiard hall at Elmira.

J. H. Gulliford has sold  his  fancy goods 
stock  at  Union  City  to  G.  E. Swarthout 
He still retains his  piano  and  organ  busi­
ness.

A  Detroit  paper  is  responsible  for  the 
statement that T. D. Stimson is tired of  his 
South Chicago location,  and has determined 
to move his planing mill back to Muskegon.
H. W.  Sage & Co. will get out 15,000,000 
feet of pine, at Sage’s lake, Ogemaw county, 
which has been run over by forest fires.  A 
dam is being built to facilitate the operation.
John Sweet, of Rodney, recently  finished 
a logging contract for O. P. Pillsbury & Co., 
begun in 1883.  He put  in  about  110,000,- 
000 feet of logs during the time  covered  by 
his contract.

T.  D.  Stimson’s  pine,  in  the  southern 
part of Barton township,  Newaygo  county, 
has been burned over,  and will  have  to  be 
logged the coming winter. 
It will probably 
be hauled over a tram road and  dumped  in­
to the Muskegon at Big Rapids.

The Gripsack Brigade.

J.  C. Watson  is  working  up  along  the 

lake shore this week.

C. B. Lamb,  the boot  and  shoe  traveler, 

put in Sunday at this market.

B. 

Dosker, city  salesman for  P.  Steketee 

& Sons, is taking a week’s recreation.

Dan. Lynch and  wife  left  Monday for a 
visit with friends at Cinncinnati and Spring- 
field.
I. 

A.  Miller,  formerly  with  M.  C.  Rus­

sell,  is now working the city trade for F. J. 
Dettenthaler.

W.  S.  Horn has gone  to  Bethlehem,  Pa., 
to assist  in the  celebration  of  his parents’ 
golden wedding.

Ben.  W.  Putnam  started  Monday  for  a 
trip through the Holland colony, going with 
his own team.

L.  A.  Caro,  secretary  of  the  Michigan 
Division T.  P.  A.,  lias resigned his position 
with Brown Bros.,  of Detroit.

F. W. Parsons, State  Agent  for  the Wil­
son & McCally Tobacco Co., of Middletown, 
Ohio,  put in Sunday at this market.

H.  J.  Craig, of Michigan City, has engag­
ed to  travel through Southern Michigan for 
Mohl & Kenning,  the engagement beginning 
September 1.

Chas.  E.  Morgan  writes  T he  T rades­
man  as follows:  “Wm.  B. Edmunds  has 
bought  the  Haugh Petoskey  house  plants 
for his coon farm at South Bend.”

A.  B.  Read, formerly  with  P.  H. Gilkey 
& Co.,  at  Richland,  lias  gone  on  the road 
for Fox & Bradford, taking as  his  territory 
the trade of  Southern  Michigan and North­
ern Indiana.

B.  Frank Emery has  been  designated by 
Wm.  L.  Ellis & Co.,  of  Baltimore,  as  their 
authorized agent  for  this  State. 
In  addi­
tion to carrying a stock here,  Frank has en­
gaged to travel two days a week.

. 

Purely Personal.

Paul G. Steketee  is  spending a couple of 

weeks at Muskegon at Macatawa  Park.

Geo. B. Dunton  and wife leave Thursday 
for a fortnight’s outing  through  the Upper 
Peninsula.

Martin  DeBoer  has  taken  a  position  as 
stock  keeper  with  P.  Steketee  &  Sons, 
wholesale department.

John M. Shields,  shipping clerk for Fred.
D.  Yale & Co.  has returned  from  a week’s 
vacation at Fruitridge.

C. C.  Wilmot  left  Monday  for  Detroit, 
where he will take  a trip around the  lakes, 
spending several days at TaWas.

William  Power  Granger  has  gone  to 
Waukeska, Wis., to test the remedial prop­
erties of the water of that resort.

The Coming State Convention.

Interest in  the  coming  State  convention 
of  the  Business  Men’s  Asssociations  of 
Michigan seems to grow  as  the date of  the 
meeting approaches.  Nearly every assoeia 
tion under the jurisdiction  of  the  meetin 
has notified  T he  Tradesm an  that it will 
be represented  by delegated  authority  and 
lay delegates will  be  present in large num 
bers from those towns not yet organized.

It  is  yet  too  early  to  outline  the  pro­
gramme which  will be observed at  the con 
vention.  The  gathering ’ will  be  called to 
order  at 9 a.  m.  on the  day of  meeting for 
the  forenoon  session,  at  which  time  the 
work  of  preliminary  organization  will  be 
effected.  An  afternoon  session, beginning 
at  2  p.  m.,  will  afford  ample  opportunity 
for  the interchange  of  ideas and  opinions, 
and that part of the work which is not com 
pleted can be finished at  the evening  meet­
ing, after which  the  gathering  will be ten 
dered a  spread at  one of  the  hotels by the 
Retail Grocers’  Association  of  Grand Rap­
ids.

Among those  who  have  promised  to  be 
present,  unless  unavoidably  detained,  are 
Smith Barnes, of Traverse City, and Robert 
M. Floyd, of  Chicago,  Mr. Barnes  is  too 
well known to the readefs of T he Trades­
man to  necessitate  an  introduction at this 
time.  Mr. Floyd  is familiar with the work 
of the Boston organizations and has thrown 
all the  influence  he  could  bring to bear to 
render  the  Western  associations  effective 
and  successful.  Every  legitimate business 
man  will  be  welcomed  at  the  convention 
and it  is  taken for  granted  that every one 
coming will be  “loaded” with  arguments in 
favor  of  a  unifed  and  harmonious  State 
league.

Notes from  the  Various  Associations.
Cal. L.  Martin,  of  Elk  Rapids,  sends  to 
T he Tradesm an for  the necessary blanks 
and data to  proceed with  the  organization 
of an Association.

Wm. Jorn,  Secretary of the Sturgis  Busi­
ness Men’s  Association,  writes  as  follows: 
“Everybody seems to  be well  pleased with 
it and I think in  a short  time we will be in 
shape to do some business.”

A  member  of  the  Big  Rapids  Business 
Men’s Association writes The Tradesm an 
as follows:  “We now have sixty-one mem- 
Tiers in  our  organization.  We  are  getting 
much  better  acquainted  with  each  other. 
Some  of  the  members  have  had  good re­
turns.”

The Sturgis Association.

Sturgis,  A ug.  2,  1886. 

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

D ea r Sir—At a meeting  of  the  Sturgis 
Business  Men’s  Association,  held  on  Aug. 
9,  there were present quite a  number, of the 
merchants of  Sturgis.  The  minutes of the 
last meeting were  read,  after  which a spec­
ial committee  reported  a  constitution  and 
by-laws, which were adopted.
The following officers were chosen for the 
coming year:
President—H.  S.  Church.
Vice-President—H.  L.  Anthony.
Secretary and Treasurer—Wm.  Jorn.
It was decided to hold a  regular  meeting 
once a month.  Other  steps  were  taken  to 
advance  the  organization,  after  which  the 
meeting adjourned.

Wm. J orn,  Secretary.

MISCELLANEOUS.

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

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new); two  counter scales;  twenty-one  feet  of 

■OR SALE—One large ice box, (lined inside,) 

one pair scales, weigh 800 pounds, (almost 
shelving  suitable  for  grocery  or  drug store, 
and other shelving;  one  2%  foot  show  case; 
one new delivery  wagon;  one  copying  press 
and patent brush;  one safe;  one  second-hand 
cneesesat'e;  thirteen  new  wooden  tea chests 
(large).  Apply to J. C.  Shaw  &  Co.,  79  Canal 
street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

ids, elegant buildings,  for  clean  hardware  or 

fruit farm adjoining city  of  Grand  Rap­
general merchandise stock.  Address  Box 65, 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 

■OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—12K  acres 
■ARTNER WANTED—To buy  half interest 

in grocery business in  one  of  the  finest 
One of the partners obliged to sell on  account 
of advanced age and very poor health.  Large 
trade  already  built  up,  and  can be doubled. 
Sales  for June,  $2,015  and  July,  $2.477.  Ad­
dress L , care T h e   T r a d e s m a n , Grand  Rapids, 
Mich. 

cities of 6,000 population in Northern Michigan. 

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sober and industrious.  Address, giving refer­

as salesman in a general store.  Must be 
ences, West Michigan Lumber Co.,  Woodville, 
Mich. 

KANTED—A  thoroughly  competent  man 
IT'OR  SALE—A hardware store with tin-shop, 

situated in best farming county in center 
About $1,500 stock all new,  no com- 
Address  G.  A.,  care  The  Trades- 

of State. 

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petition.
MAN.

157*

S.  W. Perigreen,  manager  of  the  Grand ! G Ro?her“ Irop^y°r MmVsfiuated“ on® ra?l- 
Rapids School  Furniture  Co.,  has  returned  ro®d thirty-six to eighty miles from competing 
mills in new and  rapidly  developing  farmimr
. 
from a week s sojourn at  Charlevoix. 
country  near  iumDering  markets.  Present
Adelbert L. Livingston,  with  E.  G.  Stud-  A^5er n<Ji a njiUar SS?  having other business, 

.  ,,, 

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, 

ley & Co.,  was accompanied by lus daughter 
on his trip up the lake shore last week.

A.  Webber,  salesman  for  the  Watson 
Cheese  Factory  Co.,  of  Watson,  and  D.
Miller,  maker  in  the  same  factory,  spent 
Saturday among the  jobbing  trade  at  this | 
market

156*

with  tin  shop.  No  competition.  Cause 
for  selling,  failing  health. 
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For  particulars,
write  Foster,-  Stevens  &  Co.,  Grand  Rapids! 
15a
Mich. 

chandise in growing town, with prospect 
of railroad in the near future.  Also fine  resi­
dence, if desired.  Address  O.  W. Bailey, Kal- 
amo, Mich. 

■OR  SALE—Small  stock  of  g en era l___
Ii'OR  SALE—Small clean stock  of  hardware 
IT'OR SALE—Saloon doing good  business  on 
IT'OR  SALE—A  drug  store  situated  on the 

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Stock and license will inventory $650. Address 

good business street. Rent, $30 per month. 

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Wine, care T h e  T r a d e s m a n . 

Ludwig  Winternitz  has  received a third 
wagon for his “Fermentum” yeast business, 
and will hereafter run three wagons instead 
of two.  This  addition  has  been  rendered
necessary by the  increase in  trade and will 
enable him to  deliver  the  yeast even more  f f i f 1
promptly  than  in  the  past,  enabling  mer- ! practice to be disposed of at the same time,  to 
a physician who wishes to  practice  medicine
, 
,, 
chants  to get  “Fermentum”  ahead of  any  in  connection  with  drugstore.  Competition
other yeast sold by the trade. 
l ig h t -  Addre8s “SuQ ”  c a r e  T ,IB   T r a d e s m a n .
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TF YOU WANT—To get into business, to sell 
A  your business, to secure additional capital, 
to  get  a  situation,  if  you have anything for 
sale or want to buy anything, advertise in the 
Miscellaneous Column of The Tradesman,  a  
twenty-five word  advertisement  emits  but 25 
cents a week or 50 cents for three weeks.

The Grand  Rapids  School  Furniture Co. 
has  lately received  orders for  sehool  seats 
and desks from Evart and Imlay City, Mich.;
Booneville,  Ind.; Cambridge, Mass.;  White 
River, V t; and Lock Haven,  Pa,

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Chicago & West Michigan Railway in  one

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Every sty le o f Show Cases, in w alnut, cherry, m ahogany, oak or bird’s-eye m aple on  hand or made to order 
Illustrated C atalogue and Price-List m ailed on application.  Merchants 

Best o f workm anship and low est prices. 
are invited to call and look over our line when iu the city.

OLNEY, SHIELDS  &  CO.,
W H O LESA LE
G RO CSRS,

And  IM PORTERS  OF  TEA S.

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

a t latest declines and for cash.

W e  have  specialties  in  TOBACCOS  and  CIGARS  possessed 

by no other jobbers in the city.

] y C o _ A J _ ; p i : n _ ’s

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR
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  F l m g .

The P. V. is the Finest Tobacco on the m arket.

ALSO  SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

MEXTDEXi  c&  BROS/  Celebrated  CXGAR&,

Finer quality and lower prices than any handled 

in the m arket.

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

5 and 7 Ionia Street,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

1» 1 lb. cans, 60 eras in a case, price 85c per lb. or  $17.50  per  case.  W ith  every  case  we  give

Drugs & flftebicines

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STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARM ACY.
One Year—F. H. J. V anEm ateBay City.
Two Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Three Y e ars—James Vernor, Detroit.
Four Y e ars—Ottmar Eberbach. Ann Arbor. 
Five Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
President—Ottmar Eberbach.
Secretary—J acob Jesson.
Treasurer—Jas. Vernor. 
Next meeting—At Lansing,  November 2.
"  Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.
President—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
First  Vice-President—Frank  J.  Wurzburg,
Sw<mdd\^c£president—A. B. Stevens, Detroit. 
Third Vice-President—Frank Inglis, Detroit. 
Secretary—S. E. Parkell, Owosso.
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—Jacob  Jesson,  Geo. 
Gundrum. Frank Wells, F. W.  K.  Perry  and
Local Secretary—Will L. White, Grand Rapids 
Next  place  of  meeting—At  Grand  Rapids, 

Tuesday, October 12,1886.

Grand Rapids Pharm aceutical Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER 9,1884.

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President-Frank J. Wurzburg. 
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
»
- Bp Ä “ 'vi~-Pre.Men«
BMrt8S r S ' f c « - T h e   P r e se n t,  Wnu  H. 
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  Wm.  E.  wmte, • 
Wm. L. White. 
Committee on Pharmacy—M. B.  Kimm,  H.  K.
T/iohpr and WTY1. E, Whlt6«
Com m it^ on Trade  Matters-John  E.  Peck, 
II. b . Fairchild and Wm. H. Van Leeuwen. 
Committee  on  Legislation  Jas.  D.  Lacey, 
Isaac Watts and A. C.  Bauer. 
.
Regular Meetings-First  Thursday evening in
.__
each month. 
Annual  Meetings—First  Thursday evening in 
November. 
„  ai
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  Sep.  £,  at 
•‘The Tradesman” office.__________ .

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D etroit Pharm aceutical Society.

Organized October, 1883.

President-A. F. Parker.
First V ice-P resid en t—F ra n k  Inglis.
Second Vice President—J. Ç. Mueller.
Secretary and Treasurer-A. W.
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer—H. McRae 
Annual Meeting—First Wednesday in June- 
Regular  Meetings—First  Wednesday in each

month. 

________ _

Jackson County Pharm aceutical A sso­

ciation.

President—R. F. Latimer.
Vice-President—C. D. Colwell.
Secretary—F. A.  King.
Treasurer—C has.H um phrey. 
Board of Censors—Z.  W.  Waldron, C.  E.  Foot
,  _T____ .  _
Annual Meeting— First Thursday in November. 
Regular  Meetings—First  Thursday  of  each |

and C. H. Haskins.  _  

month.______ ________________________

Saginaw  County  Pharm aceutical  So- ! 

. 

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The Drug Clerk.

| From the National Druggist.

The drug clerk sat behind the case.
Wondering how long he must wait 

With hi£ head drooping down.to  his  knee, 
To compound the day’s last recipe.

All the day long he has plodded 
First to put up a prescription,

From the case to the long counter s end, 
Tnen to the wants of a boy attend.

No matter how busy he be
He must stop to wait on the boy 

In preparing the mixture for cramps,
Whose mother has sent him for  stamps.

Then quick to the case he returns,
Only to be hurried away again,
To sell a cure for an old  tooth 
That has given a lady great pain.

Thus he is is kept running about.
And employing his spare moments 

Waiting on those who suffer from ills,
In increasing the store’s stock of pills.

When he has worked with the pestle 
His master then blandly tells him 

From early morn until dark,
’Twould be well to be grinding  some bark.

And when the pill stock is full,
There’s always something to be done 

And all the bark in the store is ground, 
Which until then had not been found.

If he has made all the tinctures.
He then the cases must polish.

Put up all powders he may require,
For the customers’ eyes to admire.

And while he thus wonders and thinks.
He is aroused from his revery 
By the man who comes rushing in 
And wants to see the directory.

When late at night the doors are  locked. 
He thinks that now he can at  last 

And he sinks exhausted to his bed.
Find fitful rest for his aching head.

But not so for this weary clerk.
For as soon as his eyes are closed 

With more trials than tongue can tell,
He is awakened by the night-bell.

Quickly- he dons his scant attire,
Ever ready to wait on the sick.
But mad he is when no one’s there,
As it was only a bad boy’s trick.
Again he trudges back to his bed,
Hoping now to rest until the  morn,
But soon the night-bell calls him up 
To sell a cure for a woman s corn.
All through the night he has no rest,
Being troubled by one and the other, 
Some want oil—some, paregoric—
While others come only to bother.
Work all day and no sleep at night 
Is the poor drug clerk’s pitiful lot,
And he wonders if he’ll have rest 
When  this  dreary  world s  battles  ari 

fought.

Even in his sleep the drug clerk dreams
Of the sign that is ever in sight, 
‘Prescriptions carefully  compounded 
At all hours of the day and night.

Miscellaneous  Drug  Notes

ciety.*

Aniline oil is now employed as a local an­

President—Jay Smith.
First Vice-President—W. H. Yarnall.
Second Vice-President—R. Bruske, 
Secretary-D. E. Prall.
Treasurer—H. Melchers.
Committee on Trade  Matters—W. B. Moore, 
H.  G.  Hamilton,  H.  Melchers.  W.  H.  Keeler
aiRegiifarMeeting—Second  Wednesdayafter-
noon of each month.___________ _ _ _ _ _ _
M uskegon  Drug  Clerks’  Association.
President—Fred. Heath.
Vice-President—I. C. Terry.
Secretary and Treasurer—L. B. «loyer. 
Regular Meetings—Second and fourth Wednes­
Next M e e t i n g —Wednesday evening, Aug. 2 o .
Oceana  County  Pharm aceutical 

day of each month.

aesthetic.

Soap and honey are  said  to  be  excellent 

excipients for pills of comphor.

Hops picked  in  1885  are  selling  for  40 

cents per pound in New York State.

Two druggists  were  recently arrested  in 

New York City for counter prescribing.

A Kentucky syndicate  proposes to comer 
the market  for  free  Bourbon  whiskies  of 
1879 to 1883.

The Philadelphia  Board  of  Pharmacy is 
preparing to prosecute  unlicensed druggists 
of that city.

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The New York Peppermint Crop.

In an interview with the Buffalo Express,

It is  claimed  that over  500 patent  medi­
cines  are  bom  annually,  and  that  490  do 
not outlive the first year.

The great demand  for  menthol  that  has 
arisen during  the  last  two  or three  years 
has caused  a great  increase in  the cultiva­
tion of peppermint in Japan.

The Committee  of  the  National  Whole­
sale Druggists’ Association  on  Mutual  In­
surance has  decided  to  let  the matter rest 
for the  present.

ciety.
President-F. W. Fincher. 
Vice-President—F. W. Van Wickle. 
Secretary—Frank Cady.
Treasurer—E. A. Wright. 
Downfall  of a Proprietary Medicine  King.
All the personal  effects  and  property  of 
R.  M.  Kennedy,  of  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  were 
sold by the sheriff last week,  and  the  event 
winds up one of the most  remarkable  busi­
ness careers ever known.  He is or was  the 
proprietor of “Carboline,” the hair restorer, 
Napathalin leaves are  now  introduced in 
and the medicine  known  as  “Seven  Seals 
Germany as a substitute for [camphor in the 
or  Golden  Wonder.”  For  many  years  he
perservation  of  goods  from  moths.  The
Ywk and^s^rell^nown to the'm ajorit^of I sprinkling  of  powdered  crystallized  naph- 
T he  m agnitude  thalin on articles  of  apparel  has  many m-
I  
the wholesale  trade  there.  The magnitude 
conveniences;  hence,  the  idea  to  manufac­
of his real estate  operations  also  made  his 
ture the  leaves,  containing  about  fifty per 
name a  household word in Pittsburg  where 
cent,  of  naphthalin,  bo  applied  as  to pre­
he transformed farms on the  outskirts  into 
vent it from falling off  when  the leaves are 
beautiful  villages  and  erected  numberless 
bent or touched by hand.  Each leaf weighs 
cottages to be sold on the installment  plan. 
about half an ounce.
Had he confined his business to  proprietary 
medicines and real eatàte his millions would 
not today  be  scattered  to  the  winds. 
In 
one  transaction  with  the  U.  S.  Govem-
ment he made a clear profit of $22,500  from  H.  G.  Hotchkiss is reported as saying: 
a matter  which  experienced  building  con- 
tractors would not touch and  who  consider-  county 
ed him foolish. 

“The avreage  crop  per  year  in  Wayne 
is  between  80,000  and  100,000 
pounds,  and  yields  on  the  average  about
Some years ago he engaged in oil specula-  twenty pounds to the acre in a good season 
tions and for  a  time  was  very  successful.  This  year  the  crop  will  be  much  smaller 
But luck changed,  and on one occasion  dur-  than  usual,  owing  to  the  late  planting, 
ing a visit to Oil  City  he  dropped  $55,000  necessitated by floods  which  occurred  early 
into the market inside  of  two  hours.  His I ¡a  the  spring.  Although  there  is  an  in 
oil investments cost him hundreds of  thous-1 crease of  acreage  over  last  year  the  crop 
ands of dollars and brought about  his insol-1 looks poorer than  it  has  for  many  years 
ency.  Personally Mr. Kennedy was a  man  Seven-eighths  of  the  whole  crop  in  the 
of aftiable manners, a friend  of  everybody,  WOrld is raised in Wayne  county,  and  that 
taking every occasion to do a  good  turn  to I principally in the towns of Lyons,  Arcadia, 
his friends  and  acquaintances.  To-day  he  p aimyra, Sodus and Wolcott.  A large pro 
is  living  in  London,  England,  and  his I portion of the oil is exported. 
In  1879  the 
friends say that not many years will  elapse  yleid was  the  largest  ever  known,  aggre 
gating 150,000 pounds.  This year it will be
until “Bob” Kennedy is on top again. 
He went to Pittsburg some  20  years  ago  hardly  one-third  of  that.  The  market  is 
and started a small place on  Fifth  avenue,  now at a standstill, owing to  the  uncertain 
selling  cheap  jewelry.  He  started  out  a Uy of the  growing  crop.  Last  year’s  crop 
corps of boys who  handled  prize  packages  ig neariy an  marketed.  The  average  price 
of candy.  This  was  practically  his  start.  pai<i  for  the  ia8t  three  months  has  been 
Next  he  drifted  into  the  patent  medicine  from §3.75 to $4 per pound for the crude oil 
business,  and by his great business capacity  In 1879  was down to $2. 
I  have  known 
soon got to be known as  one  of  the  patent  the market to jump $1 per pound  in  a  sin
medicine  kings  of  the  country.
gle day.  One farmer last year brought  into
one of the leaders  in  the  use  of  printers  I our refinery a common  sleigh  load,  which, 
ink, and when the money began to  flow  in  when  measured,  was  found  to  be  worth 
he let it go wholesale,  using  not  only  col-  $4t000.  You can see from  this  how  much 
rnnns but pages of advertising  space  in  the  money there is in peppermint” 
leading papers of the country,  his advertise- 
~~
ments being a revelation  to  modern  adver- 
“I  see  you  have  a  new  doctor  at  your 
tisers.  His  income  from  his  preparations  house.”  “Yes,  my wife won’t have anyone 
at one time amounted  to  $150,000  per  an-  else now,  since Smooth tongue made his first 
um clear.  Of the money, nearly nine-tenths  prescription for her.”  “Why,  did it do  her 
w a s   thrown into  advertising,  and  as  a  re-  so  much  good?  What  was  it?  Well, 
suit the name of R. M. Kennedy  has  reach-  you know,  she had headache,  or  neuralgia, 
ed about every village  and  hamlet  on  this j or something of that kind, and went to  him
for a prescription; he looked at her, gave her 
continent.  When he  began  to  realize  on
some stuff, but told her she would never get 
his returns and count his cash, Mr. Kennedy, 
well until she had a new bonnet.  That set­
at one stage of  his  career,  could  sign  his 
tled him as our family docter for life.”
check for a cool $1,000,000.

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SEEDS.

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

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do 

do 
do 
do 

do 
do 

Mustard, white  Black 10c).
Quince..................................
Rape, English.......................
Worm, Levant.................................
SPONGES.
Florida sheens’ wool, carriage...... 2 25
do 
Nassau 
do 
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. . . .
do 
Velvet Ext  do 
.......
Extra Ye  *  do 
do 
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Grass 
do 
do 
,for slate use................
Hard ? 
.................
Yellow Reef, 
MISCELLANEOUS.
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.15) <p gal.... 
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
Anodyne Hoffman’s .......................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution............
Annatto 1 ft rolls............................
Alum.........................................  ’j? ft  2)4®
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
3  ®
Annatto, prime...............................
Antimony, powdered,  com’l........  
4)4®
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
6  ®
Blue  Soluble....................................
2
Bay  Rum, Imported, best.............  
2
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s . 
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................
2
Beans,  Tonka..................................  
Beans, Vanilla.................................7 00 @12
Bismuth, sub nitrate.....................  
2
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
6®
Blue V itriol.................................... 
Borax, refined (Powd  lie).............  
9i
Cantharides.Russian  powdered.. 
2
Capsicum  Pods. African...............
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ...
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do  ...
Carmine, No. 40.......:...................... 
Cassia  Buds......................................
Calomel.  American........................
Chalk, prepared drop.....................
Chalk, precipitate English............
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................
Chalk, white lump..........................
Chloroform,  Squlbb’s .................... 
Colocynth  apples............................
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts..
cryst...
Chloral 
Chloral 
Scherin’s  do  ...
Chloral 
crusts..
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Chloroform...................................... 
Cinchonidia, P. &  W........*............  15  ®
Cinchonidia. other brands.............  
9  ®
Cloves (Powd 27c)............................  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 ft box..
Creasote............................................
Cudbear, prime...............................
Cuttle Flan Bone.............................
Dextrine...........................................
Dover’s  Powders............................
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................
Ergot  powdered..............................
Ether Squibb’s ..........................   ...
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s.............
Epsom Salts (bbl. IX).....................  
Ergot, fresh......................................
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake white......................................
Grains  Paradise.............................
Gelatine, Cooper’s ..........................
Gelatine. French  ............................  45  _
®
Glassware, flint, 70 & 10, by box 60 & 10 less 
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis....
Glue,  cannet..................................   12  ®
Glue.white.......................................   16  ®
Glycerine, pure...............................  16  ©
Hops  )4b and \ s .............................. 
25®
Iodoform $   oz.................................
Indigo...............................................   85  @1
Insect Powder, best  Dalmatian...  35  ®
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Insect Powder, H.. P. & Co., boxes 
Iodine,  resublimed......................... 
4
Isinglass,  American.......................  
]
Japonica...........................................
London  Purple...............................  10  ®
Lead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride, ()4s 2s 10c a )4s 11c)
Lupuline...........................................
Lycopodium..................>................
Madder, best  Dutch.....................  
Manna, S.  F......................................
Mercury............................................
Morphia, sulph., P. & VV........$  oz  2 15©
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s ........
Moss, Iceland............................$  ft
Moss,  Irish......................................
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........
Nutgalls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vomica....................................
Ointment. Mercurial, %d...............
Paris Green....................................... 
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
Pepsin...............................................
Pitch, True Burgundy....................
Quassia  ............................................  
6  ©
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W........... ft oz  65  @
Quinine,  German..............................  60 ©
Red  Preoipitate.......................ft
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................
Strychnia, cryst..........................
Silver Nitrate, cryst..................
Saffron, American.  ................
Sal  Glauber................................
Sal Nitre, large cryst................
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst..........
Sal Rochelle................................
Sal  Soda.......................................
Salicin.........................................
Santonin....................................
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch...
Soda Ash [by keg 3c]...............
Spermaceti.................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s
Soap, White Castile..................
Soap, Green  do 
..................
Soap, Mottled do 
..................
Soap, 
do  do 
..................
Soap, Mazzini............................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F .......................
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................. 
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur, flour................................... 
Sulphur,  roll....................................  
Tartar Emetio..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, )4 gal. cans  V doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
Tar, 
pints in tin...............
Turpentine,  Venice................ ft
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand............
Zinc,  Sulphate................................ 

12)4®

do 
do 

18 ®

®

66

2

4)4®

®
w
3)4®
3®

OILS.

7  ®
Bbl
Whale, winter......................................  70
Lard, extra...........................................  55
Lard, No.  1...........................................  46
Linseed, pure  raw..............................  42
Linseed, boiled..................................   45
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained............  70
Spirits Turpentine.............................   38
No. 1 Turp  Coach.................................. 1 10@1 20
Extra  Turp............................................1  60@1  70
Coach Body............................................2 7fi®3  00
No. 1 Turp Furniture............................1 00@110
Extra Turk  Damar...............................1 56@1  60
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp.....................   70®  ’r’1

VARNISHES.

PAINTS

Bbl
Red Venetian............................  Hi
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........   H£
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  13£
Putty, commercial..................  2)4
Putty, strictly pure..................  2)4
Vermilion,prime American..
Vermilion,  English..................
Green, Peninsular
Lead, red strictly pure.. 
Lead, white, strictly pur 
Whiting, white Spanish.
Whiting,  Gliders'
White, Paris American...........
Whiting  Paris English cliff..
Pioneer Prepared  I aints 
Swiss Villa Prepare* Paints..

OILS.

ILLUM INATING.

LUBRICATING.

Water White...................................................
Michigan  Test.................................................10)i
Capitol Cylinder............................................. 38)4
Model  Cylinder................................................31$
Shield Cylinder................................................28)4
Eldorado  Engine............................................23
Peerless Machinery......................................«0
Challenge Machinery.....................................1»
Paraffine  ................. .........................:....30)4
Black. Summer, West Virginia....................  8
Black, 25° to 30®..............................................»
Black, 15° C.  T................................................10
Zero.................. 
......................................«-».H

WHOLESALE

Druggists!

42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91,

93 and 95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS  OF

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Elegant  Pharmaceutical  Prepara­

tions,  Fluid  Extracts  and 

Eliiirs

GENERAL WHOLESALE  AGNTS  FOR

W olf, Patton & Co. and John L. 

W hiting, M anufacturers  of 

Fine Paint and  Var­

nish Brushes.
THE  CELEBRATED

ALSO  FOR  THE

Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manu- * 

facturers of Hair, Shoe snd 

Horse Brushes.

WE  ARE  SOLE  OWNERS  OF

Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Cure

Which is positively the best Remedy 

of the kind on the market.

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

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

WITHERS DADE & CO.’S

Henderson Co., Ky.,

Sour  Mash  and  Old-Fashioned 

Hand-Made, Copper- 

D istilled

W H IS K Y S .

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

W e are also owners of the

,1

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

;;lGins, Branfties & Fine Wmes.

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,
Hazeltine 

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

Mail  orders  always  receive  our special 

& Perkins 

Drug Co.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

Advanced—Anise seed;  cantharides. 
Declined—Nothing.

ACIDS.

Acetic, No.  8.................................... 
9  @  10
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040)........   30  @  35
Carbolic............................................   35  @  88
Citric.................................................  75  ®  80
Muriatic 18 deg...............................  
3  @  5
Nitric 36 deg........ ..........................  
11  @  12
Oxalic...............................................   10  @  12
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................  
3  @  4
Tartaric  powdered.........................  50  ®  53
Benzoic,  English....................$  oz 
18
Benzoic,  German...........................   12  ®  15
Tannic..............................................   12  ®  15

AMMONIA.

Carbonate.................................V 1b  12  ®  14
Muriate (Powd. 22c)......................... 
14
Aqua 16 deg or  3f............................ 
3  @  5
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................ 
4  ®  6

BALSAMS.

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

 

BARKS.

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

 

38042
,  *0
1 40
45

11
18
13
14
15
10
1~
20
18
30
12

BERRIES.

Cubeb  prime (Powd 1  15c)..........  
®1  10
8  @  7
Juniper............................................. 
Pricklv#Ash......................................  50  @  60

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 lb boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............  
Logwood, bulk (12 ana 25 ft doxes). 
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes).... 
do 
Lgowood, )4s 
............... 
do 
Logwood, )4s 
............... 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
............... 
Fluid Extracts—25 $1 cent, off list.

FLOWERS.

12

27
37)
9
13
15
14

Arnica...............................................   12  ©  15
Chamomile,  Roman....................... 
25
Chamomile,  German.....................  
30

GUMS.

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................ 
Aloes, Cape (Powd  20c)..................  
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).......... 
Ammoniac........................................ 
Arabic, powdered  select............... 
Arabic, 1st picked..........................  
Arabic,2d  picked............................  
Arabic,  3d picked............................ 
Arabic, sifted sorts......................... 
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 28c)... 
Benzoin............................................  
Camphor........................................... 
Catechu. Is ()4 14c, J4B 16c)............ 
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
Galbanum strained......................... 
Gamboge........................................... 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............. 
Kino [Powdered, 30ol...................... 
Mastio............. ................................. 
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 
Opium, pure (Powd $4 40)............... 
Shellac, Campbell’s......................... 
Shellac,  Engl
Shellac, native.................................
Shellac bleached..............................
Tragacanth......................................  30
HERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

60®  75
 
12
50
28®  30
'•**
90
85
70
56
15
5£®55
25®  27
13
35®  40
_ _   80
80®  90
35
20
1 25
40
3  10
25
20
30
®1  00

Hoar hound.......................................................25
Lobelia...............................................................25
Peppermint................................... 
25
Rue..................................................................... 40
Spearmint........................................................
Sweet Majoram................................................ j®
Tanzy................................................................ 25
Thyme...............................................................*5
Wormwood.........................  ..........................

 

Particular  Where  She Worked.

“I have a thoroughly competent  girl who 
wishes a good  place,” said  the  agent of an 
employment office recently; but she is pretty 
high-strung,  and wants things her own way. 
Will you see her?”

“Yes,” said the  weary looking woman in 

search of a servant.

The gifted and determined appears.  She 
is as well-dressed as her would-be mistress, 
and has an Fm-as-good-as-you-are air about 
her.  Before  the  lady  can  say a  word the 
girl asks:

“How many in family?”
“Three.”
“Keep a second girl?”
“No.”
“Master at home for lunch?”
“No.”
“Set tubs?”
“Yes.”
“Collars and cuffs laundried out?” 
“Sometimes.”
“Furnace?”
“Yes.”
“Who tends it?’
. “The girl usually.”
“Extra pay for that?”
“No, not usually?”
“Have much company?”
“No,  very little.”
“Any children?”
“Yes, one child.”
“How old is the child?”
“Two years.”
“Humph!  Bad age.  Boy?”
“Yes.”
“Do you get the meals on wash-day?”
“I help always.”
“Dofi’t do clear starching, I reckon?”
“No, I do not.”
“What kind of a range?”
“Arlington.”
“Humph! Don’t  like  it. 

Is  there gas in 

the girl’s room?”

“Yes.”
‘ ‘Carpet-matting?”
“Carpet.”
“What days do I have out?
“Thursday and Sunday afternoons.” 
“That all?”
“Yes.”
“Well,  I don’t think the place would suit 

me. 

I’m a little particular where I go.” 

And out  she flounced.
A botanist has  estimated  the  number oj 
seeds in some of the common  weeds of  the 
United States, as follows:  Shepard’s purse, 
37,500  per  plant;  dandelion,  12,108;  wild 
pepper  grass,  18,400;  wheat  thief,  7,000; 
common  thistle,  65,366;  camomile, 15,920: 
butter weed,  8,587;  rag  weed,  4,366; com­
mon  purslane,  388,800;  common  plantain, 
42,200; burdock,  38,068.

It is said that the fine and aromatic tobac­
co of  Cuba  is  growing  scarcer  every year, 
and that its  degeneration  is  due  to the ex 
haustion  of  the  land  and  the  abuse  of 
Peruvian guano as a fertilizer.  The United 
States produces  yearly  200,000,000 pounds, 
and  to make cigars 7,000,000 pounds of  to­
bacco for fillers are bought in Cuba.

IRO N.

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

LEAVES.

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

LIQUORS.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye..............1  75
Whisky, other brands...................110
Gin, Old Tom...................................1  35
Gin,  Holland...................................2  00
Brandy.............................................1  75
Catawba  Wines..............................1  25
Port Wines...................................... 1  35

MAGNESIA.

Carbonate, Pattlson’s, 2 oz...........
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution—
Calcined...........................................

OILS.

4 00 
20

65

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

®

Almond, sweet................................  45
Amber,  rectified.............................
Anise.................................................  
Bay V  oz......................................... 

1  80
BO

 

 

1

B0

do 
do 

¿5
00
35
75
J I®
1 20
1  B0
6 00
8  50
1 «J
2 uu
75
35
2  00
2 01
100
90
- BO
3 00
°0
9001 00
2 75

Croton...............................................  
Cajeput............................................  
Cftssift «•••••................... 
 
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)....... 
Citronella........................................ 
C lo v e s...............................• ••••• 
Cod Liver, N. F ......................*(• gal 
Cod Liver, beat......................... 
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................  
Erigeron........................................... 
Fireweed........................................... 
Geranium <1  oz.......................•—  
i Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 
Juniper wood......................  
Juniper berries...............................  
Lavender flowers, French.............  
Lavender garden 
.............  
Lavender spike 
.............. 
Lemon, new crop............................ 
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.......................  
Lemongrass.........................  
Olive,  Malaga..................................  
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  ............... 
Origanum, red flowers, French... 
Origanum,  No. 1................ 
Pennyroyal...................................... 
100
Peppermint,  white.........................  3 4003 60
Kosc  V OZ..•••••••••••••••••••••••• 
o 00
65
Rosemary, French  (Flowers  $1 50) 
2 75
Salad, V  gal...................................... 
S&V1Q ..............................  
1 W
Sandal  Wood, German.................. 
4 50
Sandal Wood, W. 1..........................  
7 00
Sassafras........................................... 
45
q&nsy................ .............................4 00  ©4  £0
Tar (by gal 50c).................................  10  ® 12
Wintergreen....................... . • • • •. 
2 10
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $4.00)....... 
;  11
Wormseed.......................................  
* 00

1 25

B0

 

POTASSIUM.

Bicromate..........................v • •, 5? ® 
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... 
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............  
Iodide, cryst. ahd  gran, bulk....... 
Prussiate yellow.............................. 

J2@14
37@40
22
3 00
28

ROOTS.

 

Alkanet............................................
25
Althea, cut.......................................  
17
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s.....................  
33
Arrow, Taylor’s, in )4s and )4s—  
¿2
Blood (Powd 18c).............................. 
Calamus,  peeled......................  
20
35
Calamus, German white, peeled.. 
20
Elecampane, powdered..................  
10
Gentian (Powd  15c)......................... 
Ginger, African (Powd 14c)............  11  ®  12
17
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............ 
Golden Seal (Powd 25c)..................  
20
Hellebore, white, powdered.......... 
20
Ipecac, Rio, powdered. 
Jal_alap,  powdered.
Licorice,  select (Powd 15).............
Licorice, extra select.....................
Pink, true........................................
Rhei, from select to  oholce..........1 00
Rhel, powdered B. 1........................110
Rhei, ohoipe cut  cubes..................
Ethel, choice out fingers................
Serpentmria....................................
Sursapiriila,  Hondurus...........
SarsapUrilla,  Mexican....................

in Grand Rapids.  Will either sell or rent 

Mills &  Goodman, Props.
IT'OR  SALE—Small stock of $500 well located 
WANTED—Registered  drug  clerks,  either 

’ 
building.  Good location for physician.

pharmacists or assistants,who are sober, 
honest,  industrious  and  willing  to  work  on 
moderate salary.
YTTANTED—Partner with from $1,000 to $3,000 
VV 
to  take  part  interest  in  fine  stock  in 
growing town of about 1,800 inhabitants.  Must 
be live business man and capable of taking en­
tire charge of store.

ip{
i b

Reason for selling, other business.

small town.  Doing good paying business 

about $4,000 infown of about  2,000 inhab 

1 
gion.  Average daily sales  not  less  than  $20, 

. 
itants.  Will sell on  easy  terms  or  exchange 
for good improved real estate.

-Fine stock of about  $5,000, we
located in Grand Rapids.  Doing business
of $15,000 per year.  Can be  bought  at  liberal 
discount if taken before Oct. 1.

inhabitants, in midst of  fine  farming  re 
Will sell at liberal discount  or  will  exchange 
for good property.

I70R  SALE—Stock of drugs and groceries of 
FOR  SALE—Neat  stock  of  about  $500 
Fo r  s a l e
IX)R SALE—Stock of $1.800 in  town  of  1,000 
Fo r ____________
«ASO—Many  other  stocks,  the particulars 
•cm M R »
p l f t M i

of which we will furnish  on  application.
r | o   DRUGGISTS—Wishing to  secure  clerks 
A  we will furnish the address and  full  par­
ticulars of those on our list free.

SALE—Fine  stock  of  about  $4,000  in 
town of about 4,000 inhabitants.  Will sell
vn of t

either at inventory or estimate.

D IA R R H E A 8 *
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Congress.  We don’t  need a  hardware con 
gress, a druggists congress, a crockery deal­
ers congress, and  so on.  What we  want is 
a congress of all the  mercantile  interests of 
the State fof the protection  of  trade in gen­
eral  and  for  the  spread  of  that  mutual 
knowledge of which each  one can pick up a 
little and  transmit it  to  the  general  head­
quarters.

Boys,  lets extend the hands of  friendship 

and brotherhood all over Michigan.

Yours fraternally,

Soliman  Snooks,

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

L ater—Just as I was mailing this letter, 
I received The  T radesm an  with  the call 
for a State  convention  at  Grand Rapids on 
September 21tli.  You  can bet  your hat old 
Sol. will be on hand bright and early.

S.  S.

PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY

E N G I N E S

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

A  MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

E .  A .  ST O W E   &  URO., P ro p rieto rs.

Office in Eagle Building, 49 Lyon St., Sd Floor. 

Telephone No. 95.

I Entered,  at  the  Postofflce  at  Grand  Rapids  as 

Secondrctass Matter. 1

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18,1886.

SOLIMAN  SNOOKS.

Association Work in and  Around the Cor­

ners.

Ca nt H ook Corners,  Aug.  12,  1886. 

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

D ear Sir—Just to let  you know that we 

are alive up  here,  1 write  this.

Trade has  not been  up to  the  average of 
the month  corresponding  to  the  same time 
last year.  Some  think  the  labor  troubles 
are to blame and some think it is the drouth. 
I guess it is both of them combined.

This country seems  to  be  in  the fix of  a 
man  with  congestion  of  the  brain.  The 
man has got plenty of blood,  but it is in the 
wrong place. 
It has all settled in his head. 
We have dead  loads of  money in the coun­
try, but it has settled, or  congested into the 
banks and rich  men’s  pockets  in the East. 
How in Sancho is it to be got  out and made 
to circulate down at the toes and up through 
ancles,  legs  and  the  rest  of  the  political 
economy,  I don’t know.

And  I  don’t  know  of  anbody  that  does 

know.

We had this  matter  up for discussion be­
fore  the  last  meeting  of  the  Association, 
but we  was  no  nearer a solution  when we 
got through than before.

Our Protective  Association is  prospering 
and  nearly every  merchant in  the  country 
belong to it now.  We  have  made  it  quite 
sultry for  the  D. B.’s.  We  may  not  sell 
quite so many goods as  before,  but we have 
them on the shelves and not in our books.

At a pinch a grocer can  eat his  stock and 
wash himself with his soap, while the drug­
gist can fizic himself with his salts and com­
pound cathartic pills.  But as  an  article of 
sustenance,  or a medicine a  book account is 
a mighty unsatisfactory thing.

«  Some folks  don’t  like  it,  though,  for  in­
stance,  Jack Scrubbs was in  yesterday aftei 
his mail.  He  just moved  back to the  Cor­
ners last week. 
It was  the first  time I had 
seen him since his return and I said:
“Hello, Jack, back agin,  are you?”
“Yes,  Squar,  I am.”
“Where have  you been  hanging out late­

ly?”

W ,  O,  D en iso n

88,90 and 92 South Division Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN

TIME TABLES.
Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves. 
9:00 a m
tMail..
+Day  Express..................... 12:50 p m
•Night  Express...................11:00 pm
Muskegon Express.............   4:45 p m

Arrives 
3:55 p m 
9:30 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 
12:50  p.  m.,  and through coach  on 9 a.  m. and 
11 p. m. trains.

Ex

NEWAYGO DIV ISIO N .

Leaves.  Arrives.
Express................................... 3:45 pm   4:50 pm
Express................................... 8:00 a m  10:35 a m
All trains arrive and depart from Union De 
pot.
The Northern terminus of  this Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection is made with 
F. &  P. M. trains to  and  from Ludington and 
Manistee.

W. A. G a v e t t , Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J.  B.  Mclliken,  General  Manager.

Grand  Rapids  A  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.Arrives.  Leaves. 
Traverse City and Mack. Ex.8:45 a m  9:05 a m 
11:4ft a m
Traverse City and Mack.Ex. 
Traverse City and Mack.Ex. 7:40 p m  11:10 p m
Cadillac Express..................3:40 p m  5:05 p m
9:05 a m and 11:45 a tn trains have  chair cars 
for Mackinaw and Traverse City.
11:10 p m train has a  sleeping car  for  Trav­
erse City and Mackinaw.
Cincinnati  Express...........   5:40 am   7:15 am
Fort Wayne  Express........ 10:25 a m  11:45 a m
Cincinnati  Express...........   5:05 pm   5:30 pm
Trav. City and Mack  Ex... 10:40 p m 
7:16 a m train has parlor  chair  car  for  Cin­
cinnati.
5:30 p in train has Woodruff sleeper  for Cin­
cinnati.

GOING  SOUTH.

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

Detroit, Maokin&c  A Marquette.
Going East.
Going West.
a. m.
p. m.
p. m.
a. m.
Ì0:30
6:50....St. Ignace....... ...  8:30
6:00
2:56
9:40__ Seney............
...  8:15
7:00
9:30
j  2:15 
8:00
12:50[ ” Marquette •  ••
•  <  2:00
6:10
8:35
1:40__ Negaunee  ....
...  1:25 
5:32
8:50
1:55__ Ishpeming  ...
...12:58
5:20
10:00
3:05__ Republic......... ...11:50
4:10
...11:50
3:10__ Michigamme.
10:00
4:10
4:10__ L’Anse  ........... ...10:40
5:30__ Houirhton....... ...  9:20
5:50__ Hancock.......
...  9:01
6:35__ Calumet........... ...  8:15

(KALAMAZOO  DIV ISIO N .)

Mixed train leaves  St. Ignace  at 7  a. m.,  ar­
rives Marquette 6:30 p. m.;  leaves  Marquette 
7 a. m., arrives St. Ignace at 5:55 p. m.
Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent, Marquette.
Lake Shore A Michigan Southern.
Arrive.
N. Y.  N. Y.
Ex. and  N. Y. 
Mail.  Mail. 
Mail.  Ex.
p. rn.  a. m. 
a. m.  p. m.
5:00  7:45 Dp. .Grand Rapids.. .Ar 9:07  7:25
9:02..... Allegan....................   7:55  8:10
0:10 
10:05..... Kalamazoo...............   7:00  5:00
7:05 
8:40 
11:40..... White Pigeon...........  5:50  3:25
a. m.  p. m. 
p. m.  a. m.
5:10..... Toledo...................... 11:15  10:40
2:30 
9:40..... Cleveland.................  6:40  6:30
8:25 
a. m.  p. m.
p. m.  a. m. 
3:30..... B uffalo.....................11:56  11:55
2:45 
a. m.  p. m. 
p. m.  a. m.
5:40  8:00........ Chicago............Lv  11 30 
8:50
A local freight leaves Grand Rapids at 1 p. m., 
carrying passengers as far as Allegan.
All trains daily except Sunday.

E. W. ALLEN,

Leave. 

J. W. McKenney, General Agent.

Detroit, Grand  Haven A  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

GOING WEST.

Leaves.
Arrives. 
tSteamboat  Express..........6:20 am  
6:25 am
tThrough  Mail....................10:15 a m  10:60 a m
tEvening  Express...............3:15 pm   3:50 pm
•Limited  Express.................6:25 p m  6:30 p m
tMixed, with  coach...........  
11:00 a m
tMorning  Express..............   1:05 p m  1:10 p ra
tThrough  Mail....................  5:00 pm   5:10pm
tSteamboat Express..........10:40 p m  10:45 p m
tMixed..................................  
7:45 am
•NightExpress.....................  5:10 am   5:35 am
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  *Dai!y. 
Passengers  taking  the  6:25  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
The  Night  Express  has  a through  Wagner 
Car and  local  Sleeping  Car Detroit  to Grand 
Rapids.

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

“Oh, all around  the  sap bush. 

I’ve been 
living  at  Grumbleton,  Crosscut  Comers, 
Muskegon,  Grand  Rapids,  Big  Rapids and 
I even tried Kalamazoo.”

“Why,  bless  my  soul,  how  you  have 

moved around.”

“Yes,  and its all on account of these con­
founded  mercantile  piratical, robber  assso- 
ciations,  too.”

“What!  Ain’t you  a little  off  your burr, 
Jack?  what have they got to do with you, I 
should like to know?”

“They have  got lots  to do  with me—lots 
and  slathers.  They  have  a  tendency  to 
distroy confidence and that boutiful trust  in 
human  natur, that  enables a fellow  to ran 
a grocer bill.”

“Well, yes,  as  you  say,  Jack,  the  ten­

dency may be that way.”

“Of  course  it  is.  Why,  I  used  ter  get 
along tip top, when I  struck  a  new  town, 
till I got in debt all  around  among the gro­
ceries, dry goods stores and drug shops, and 
then all I had to do was to skip out for pas­
ters new, as  the poet  says,  and  do it  over 
agin.  But now, dam  me,  if  I  can  get any 
credit  at  all.  Everywhere  I  went, 
that 
blamed old bill of Bilsons  and that  old out­
lawed account of  Dr.  Kobb’s starred  me in 
in the face.”

“That was pretty  tough,’’ says  I,  “but if 
you  had  paid  these  old  bills,  your  name 
would not have got onto the D.  B.  list”

“Of  course  not,  but,  thuuderation, how 
did 1 know  they was  goin to  git up such a 
robber scheme?

I tried changing  may name  to Barkins at 
Muskegon,  but  some  chap came  along and 
give me away  while I  was  trying to get my 
cheek put up for a small bill of groceries.  I 
intended  to  pay  the  grocer,  too,  so  you 
needn’t grin,  old Snooks.”

“Oh  yes,  I  don’t  doubt  it,” says  I.  “I 
know how the  racket  is  worked;  you  pay 
the first two  or three little  bills,  so to get a 
bigger crack at the man next time.”

Stubbs went  away  mad,  saying  that  no 
one in the  Association  should “get any  of 
his money.”

At our last meeting, the question of form­
ing a State Congress of  mercantile  associa­
tions was brought up.  Why not  have one? 
Now-a-days everything has a Congress. The 
base-ballists, the  bee-keepers,  the  brewers, 
the  bakers,  spiritualists,  womans-rightists, 
pokerists,  seven-upists  and  so on ad infin­
itum   hy  faluturn  conglomeratum.  So  I 
don’t see why  we  should  not. 
If  we  can 
suckseed in getting the whole State into one 
compact homoginius  combination,  I think a 
lot of fellows that I know of will have to go 
to work at  something to make a  living,  in­
stead of getting it on trust.

The only thing,  seems to  me,  is the ques­
tion whether  it is  best  to  start it  now, or 
wait until there are  more  local associations 
to co-operate. 
It  might  be  better to  wait 
until next winter, perhaps, seeing that many 
new associations are  starting this  summer.
One thing I  am not  in favor of,  and that 
is in each line of business having a separate

VON BEHREN & SHAFFER,
W H IT E   A SH   O A RS.

Manufacturers of Every Style of

STRYKER, OHIO,

m ;
«■—

_________

Spoon Oars made o f Best Spruce Timber. 

________R0WIH6 SPOON OARS FOR  BOAT CLURS  MADE TO OROER.

ORDER  A  SAMPLE  CASE

ill “Ifll Nifl”

Packed  2  doz.  1  lb.  cans  in  case 
with 2 doz.  10  inch  Oblong  Glass 
Dishes  .Assorted  Colors  for  $8.40.
Arctic Manufacturing Co.

We Guarantee the above Baking Powder to give Entire Satisfaction.

GHAKTD  R A PID S,  MIOH.

jExnrxiTG S’

Flavoring1  Extracts
JENNINGS  &  SMITH,  G’d Rapids,  Mich.

Are acknow ledged th e best, being pure and m ade 

from  the F ruit.

m

D I R E C T I O N S  

We have cooked the com  in this can 
sufficiently. 
Should  be  Thoroughly 
Warmed (not cooked) adding  piece  of 
Good Butter (size of hen’s egg) and gill 
o f fresh  milk  (preferable  to  water.) 
Season to suit when on the table. None 
genuine unless bearing the signature of

CHILUCOTHE  ILL
a t   t h i s "eH0 *

Every can w rapped in colored tissue paper w ith 

signature and stam p on each can.

B X J Y

Fresh Roasted Coffees

AXTD  INCREASE  YOUR  TRADE.

We have the following varieties in stock from which to select:
Javas, 
IMIooTieis, 
O eylons, 
G uatem alas,Santos, 
IbAexicsins,  an d  Rios.
All bought for their Une roasting and drinking qualities. 

Oarracas,  .
A£s,ra,oa,rtoos,
C osta R icas,

G ive m e a trial order.

L. M. CARY.

C A R ?  A LOVERZDCS,

L .  L .  L O V E K ID G E .

GENERAL  DEALERS  IN

F ire and Burglar Proof

¡A FE i

Combination and Time Locks,

11 Ionia Street, 

Grand Rapids, Mici.

NEAL’S  CARRIAGE  PAINTS,

Seven beautiftil shades.  Ju st the  thing  for  repainting  old 
, 
buggies.  V arnishing not  necessary.  One  coat  for  old  work. 
Dries w ith a  beautiftil 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 accom panying  it am ple advertis­
ing m atter.

SOLE  MANUFACTURERS.  D etroit, M lcll.

Acme White Lead & Color Works,
F. J. LAMB & CO.,
Fruits,  Vegetables,

WHOLESALE DEALERS  IN

Butter, Bggs, C heese, Etc. 

W holesale Agents for the Lim a Egg Crates and Fillers.

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

PUTNAM & BROOKS
Wholesale Manufacturers of

PURE  CANDY!

ORANGES,  LEMONS, 

BANANAS,  FIGS,  DATES, 

TSTiats,  E tc .

Im porters  an d

BULKLEY, LEIHON  & HOOPS,
"Wholesale  Grocers.
“Jolly Tar” Plug Tobacco.
Daniel Scotten & Co.’s “HIAWATHA” 
Plug Tobacco.
Lautz. Bros. & Co.’s SOAPS.
Niagara STARCH.
Dwinell, Howard & Co.’s Royal Mocha and Java.
Thompson & Taylor Spice  Co.’s “ Mag­

Royal Java.
Golden  Santos.

S o le  A gents fo r

4 6   OTTAW A  ST.

ABSOLUTE  SPICES.
“JOLLY  TILAE”  F in e  Orat,
T

nolia ” Package Coffee.
SOLE  PROPRIETORS

Dark and sweet, w ith plug flavor, the best goods 

on the m arket.

Michigan  Central.

DEPART.

ARRIVE.

Detroit Express.............................................  6:15 am
Dav Express...........................................  1:10 p m
•Atlantic Express...................................10:10 p m
M ixed............................................................... 6:50 am
•Pacific  Express............................................. 6:00 am
M ail........................................................... 3:00 p m
Grand  Rapids Express......................... 10:15 p m
Mixed 
...................................................... 6:15 pm
•Daily.  All  others  daily  except  Sunaay. 
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. B. R. (Canada 
Southern DivJ

Ch a s. H. N o r r is .  Gen’l Agent

is fine.

Buy your baskets where they grow.
W e have ju st began to  pick  ours  and  the  crop 

MARKET,  BUSHELS,  PEACH  and  GRAPE 
Baskets at very low prices.
CURTISS, DUNTON  & CO.

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.

25,2? and 29 Ionia Stand 51,53, 55,57 and 59 Island Sts.,

Q-rand. R a p id s, Mloh,

BUSINESS LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of Last Resort.

DISMISSAL  OF  EMPLOYEE.

The English Court of Appeal has affirmed 
the decision of the Queen’s  Bench  Division 
of the High Court of  Justice  in the case of 
Pearce  vs. Foster,  holding  that a  commer­
cial  firm  could  discharge  their  principal 
clerk for speculating in stocks.

SALE  OF  OLEOMAKGA1UNE.

Upon  an  indictment  for  the  selling  or 
offering for sale of oleomargarine unmarked, 
the  Supreme Court  of  Oregon  lately  held 
it was not necessary to prove  any overt  act 
of offering it for sale in an unidentified con­
dition,  but  that  the  mere  possession  of it 
and placing it in a store  with other  articles 
held for sale was sufficient to warrant a jury 
in finding  that  the  same  was  offered for 
sale.

FRAUD  OX  CREDITORS 
TICE.

PURCHASE— -NO­

Where an insolvent and failing  merchant 
makes a sale of  his stock of  goods with the 
purpose of defrauding his creditors,  and the 
purchaser has no notice, actual of  construc­
tive,  of  the  fraud at  the  time  of  the pur­
chase, but subsequently, and before the pay­
ment  of the entire consideration of the pur­
chase has actual notice of  the fraud, he can 
only be protected to the extent of the money 
actually  paid  or  the  security  or  property 
actually  appropriated  by  way  of  payment 
before  notice.  So  held  by  the  Supreme 
Court of Kansas.

AGREEMENT  RELATING  TO  UNPATENTED 

INVENTION.

A  partner  persuaded  his  copartner  to 
agree to pay the expenses of experiments to 
perfect an invention  made  by  a third  per­
son in  consideration  of  a  share  in the re­
sults.  The firm  paid  the  expenses of  the 
experiments,  and  afterward the  first-men­
tioned partner  and  the  inventor  took out a 
patent for the invention in their joint names 
to the exclusion  of the  other partner.  The 
New York  Court of  Appeals  held that the 
copartner could  maintain an  action to com­
pel his associate to carry out the agreement. 
The court further held  that  the  agreement 
was not  void under the  United States stat­
ute requiring  every  patent  or  any  interest 
therein to be  assigned  by an  instrument in 
writing on  the  ground  that  the  agreement 
related to an inchoate invention not perfect­
ed or patentable  at the time  the agreement 
was made.

NEGOTIABLE  INSTRUMENT.

The following instrument wasjlately con­
strued  by the  Supreme Court of  Vermont, 
viz:  “Two  years  from  date for  value re­
ceived I promise to pay J. S. King or bearer 
oneounceof gold.”  The court held that this 
was not a negotiable note,  but a simple con­
tract for the delivery of  merchandise.  The 
court said:  Although  it has  long been set­
tled  in  this  State  that  a  written  contract 
having the usual form of a promissory note, 
but payable in some  specific article,  may be 
treated as a promissory  note  as to the form 
of  declaring  upon  it,  and the  necessity of 
proof of  consideration,  and  in  some  other 
respects  yet  such  an  instrument is not ne­
gotiable  because not  payable  in money.  * 
*  *  The  instrument  declared  upon  was 
not  even a  promise  to  pay a given  sum in 
specific  articles. 
It  stands  for  considera­
tion, upon the question of  the sufficiency of 
the declaration,  under  the demurer thereto, 
as  though  it  were  a  promise  to  pay  one 
bushel of wheat  It is but a promise to pay, 
that  is  deliver,  a  certain  article  of  mer­
chandise, definite in amount  Because gold 
enters  into  the  composition  of  money  we 
cannot assume  that  an  “ounce  of  gold” is 
money, or that it has a fixed  and unvarying 
( value.  The contract  in question lacks,  not 
only  the  quality  of  negotiability,  but  cer­
tainty and  precision as to  the amount to be 
paid.  Upon failure to perform,  there would 
be no definite  specified  sum due,  as in case 
of a promissory note.

“ Modest” Knights.

George Frederic Parsons  in Atlantic Monthly.
What success by  the  Knights  of  Labor, 
as  at  present  led  and  organized,  would 
mean for the public generally  may  perhaps 
be conjectured  pretty  accurately  from  cur­
rent events. 
In Lynn,  Mass.,  for  example?, 
the Knights undertook  to  compel  a  whole 
class of tradesmen to  close  their  stores  at 
six o’clock in the evening.  The  majority— 
to their discredit,  be it  said—abjectly  sub­
mitted  to  this  impudent  command.  They 
had their  reward.  The  Knights  naturally 
proceeded  further.  They  demanded  next 
that the tradesmen  submit  their  tariffs  of 
retail prices,  to  the  end  that  their  profits 
should  be  regulated.  Fortunately,  one 
man in Lynn, George Tarbox,  was  an  old- 
fashioned American  citizen.  He knew  his 
rights,  “and,  knowing,  dared  maintain.” 
He refused to obey the  early-closing  orders 
of the Knights of Labor.  They  threatened 
him with the boycott.  He  appealed  to  the 
public.  The  latter  promptly  responded, 
and the feeble  folk  who  had  bowed  their 
necks to the yoke of the new tyrant  gather­
ed courage to rebel against  the  demand  for 
the regulation of their  price-list.  The  les­
son of this episode is important.
♦ Owing to the diminishing supply of white 
oak contiguous to the Great  Lakes for ship­
building purposes, maple and beech, or some 
other kinds of  hardwood,  will  have  to  be 
used as a substitute for oak.

HAVE  YOU  BOUGHT  YOUR

R U B B E  R  S I
G.  R.  MAY HEW,
THE  GROCERS:

O rstncfi.  R a /p id s ,  LÆioli.

If not, Correspond with

ELE’

L A U R E L   S O A P
ZS  TH E  B E ST   N ICK EL  B A R

FRED. D .  YALE.

D A N IEL LYNCH.

SUCCESSORS  TO

FID . D. YALE A CO.
(THAR. S. YALE & BRO.,
Bating Powders, Extracts, Bluings,
GEOCERS'  SUNDRIES.
All orders addressed to the new  firm will re­

WHOLESALE  MANUFACTURERS  OF

AND  JOBBERS  OF

ceive prompt attention.

40 a n d  42 South D ivision S t.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

t 

MICH.

It  gives  you  the  Best  Scheme  Ever 
Offered.  Every G-rocer should avail  him­
self of this chance to sret an excellent
SINDER  MODEL  SEWING  MACHINE>

W ith all attachments, gratis, and make a 
profit that will pay you  better  than  any 
other Soap in the Market.
BULELE!,  LEMON  &  HOOPS
RIND6E. DEUTSCH  & CD,

Sol©  A gen ts  for  G rand  R apids.

For easy Ironing use “ Electric Lastre’” 
Starch.  It is all prepared for immediate 
dm la O n« P o u n d  P aclu u res, which | 
go aa far aa two pounds of any other Btarch.
Ask  your  Grocer for  it.
Tie Electric Lustre Staici Co.
2 0 4  F ranklin 8 t.v  New Y ork.

JOHN  CAVXJTXEXiS 

Wholesale Agent,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

H )r\>  (B o o b s.

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.”

W IDE  BROW S COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 9-4. .17 
IPepperell, 104.......19
Androscoggin, 7-4. .134 Pepperell, 114....... 23
Pepperell,  7 4 .,__ 13  Pequot,  74............ 144
Pepperell,'8-4.........15 
¡Pequot,  84........... 16
iPequot,  94........... 18
Pepperell,  94 .........17 

CHECKS.

Economy, oz.......... 
¡Park Mills, No. 100.15
Park Mills, No. 50..10  Prodigy, o z..........8)4
Park Mills, No. 60. .11  Otis Apron...........  8)4
Park Mills, No. 70.. 13  Otis  Furniture.....8)4
Park Mills, No. 80. .13  York, 1  oz.............9)4
Park Mills, No. 90. .14 

| York. AA, extra oz. 124

Plain. 

OSNABCROS.

i 

Plaid.

PRINTS.

SILE SlA S.

BLEACHED COTTONS.

Alabama................ 64 {Alabama.....................6)14
Georgia..................  84!Augusta...................6%
Jewell  ....................8  Georgia...................... 64
Kentucky  .............   84 Louisiana...............  6)4
L ane.......................84 Toledo........................64
Santee....................74l
Avondale,  36........   8)4
Gilded Age............... 7)4
Art  cambrics, 36...  94 
Greene, G  44  .....  54
Androscoggin, 44..  7)4 
Hill, 44....................  74
Hill, 7-8....................  64
Androscoggin, 54. .124
Ballou, 44...............  64
Hope,  44.................. 64
Ballou, 54...............  6
King  Phillip  cam­
bric, 44.................. 94
Boott, 0 .4 4 ...........   84
Boott,  E. 5-5...........   7
Linwood,  44..........  74
Lonsdale,  44............7)4
Boott, AGC, 44.........94
Boott, R. 34..........  54|Lonsdale  cambric. 104
Blackstone, AA 44.  6 4¡Langdon, GB,44...  84
Langdon, 46........... 11
Chapman,X,4 4 ....  54
Conway,  44........... 64
Masonville,  44.........74
Cabot, 44................ 64
New York Mill, 44.104 
New Jersey,  4 4 ....  8 
Cabot, 7-8................   6
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  74 
Canoe,  34...............  4
Domestic,  36..........  74
Pride of the West..104 
Dwight Anchor, 44.  8)4
Pocahontas,  4 4 ....  74
Davol, 44...............  8
Slaterville, 7-8........   64
Fruit of Loom, 44..  7 )£
Woodbury, 44.......... 54
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  64!Whitinsvllle,  4 4 ...  6)4 
Fruit of  the Loom, 
¡Whitinsville,7-8....  6
cambric,  44......... 11  |Wamsutta,44........... 94
Gold Medal, 44..  ..  6 4 : Williamsvilie, 36...  84
Gold Medal, 7-8.......54!
Crown.....................174 Masonville  S...........11
No.  10__ ■.................11  1 Lonsdale.................   94
Coin..........................10  ¡Lonsdale A .............. 14
Anchor.....................15  ¡Victory  0 ................  54
Victory J .................  64
Blackburn............   8
¡Victory  D...............  84
Davol......................14
London...................1341 Victory  K................104
Paconia...................13  \ Phoenix A ................ 194
Red  Cross...............  74|Phcenix  B............... 104
Masonville TS........ 8  ¡PhoenixXX..............5
Albion, solid........... 54 ¡Gloucester................54
Albion,  grey............ 6  Gloucestermourn’g.64
Allen’s  checks........54 Hamilton  fancy....5
Ailen’s  fancy..........54  Hartel fancy.............54
Allen’s pink...........5 4  Merrimac D..............6
Allen’s purple......... 54 Manchester...............6
American, fancy__54 ¡Oriental fancy..........54
Arnoldfancy............ 6  ¡Oriental  robes..........64
Berlin solid.............5 
| Pacific  robes..............6
Cocheco  fancy........6  ¡Richmond..................54
Cocheco robes......... 64 Steel River................ 54
Conestoga fancy__ 6
Simpson’s ................ 6
Eddystone...............6
Washington fancy..5 
Eagle fancy............. 5
Washington blues.  5
Garner pink.............54
Appleton  A, 4-4__ 6  ¡Indian Orchard, 40.  7
Boott  M, 4-4...........   74ilndian Orchard, 36.  6
Boston  F, 4-4..........  6)4 ¡Laconia  B, 7-4.........13
Continental C, 4-4..  64 Lyman B, 40-in.........9
Continental D, 40in  7%.Mass. BB, 4-4..........5)4
Conestoga W, 4-4...  6)4 Nashua  É, 40-in....  74 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  4 4 -Nashua  R, 4-4........ 6)4
Conestoga G, 30-in.  5
Nashua 0,7-8..........  6
V a a k l i a   A  
f l A tin o tn n a   U  
ft 
O
Dwight  X, 3-4........ 44
Newmarket N ........ 54
Pepperell E, 40-in..  84 
Dwight Y, 7-8............54
Pepperell  R ,4-4....  6)4 
Dwight Z, 4-4............54
Pepperell  0 , 7-8....  54
Dwight Star, 4-4__ 6
Dwight Star, 40-in..  7 
Popperei!  N, 3-4__ 54
Enterprise EE, 36..  44
Pocasset  C, 4-4.......64
Great Falls E, 4-4...  64 Saranac  R...............  6
Farmers’ A, 4-4.......5 4 1 Saranac E.74
Amoskeag.............7
Amoskeag, Persian 9
styles....................
Bates...................  6
Berkshire.............   8
Glasgow,  fancy__
Glasgow,  royal—   64  White Mfg Co, stap  64 
Gloucester, 
new 
¡White Mfg Co, fane 74 
Plunket..................  7Vï|  Earlston__~.__ .' 74
Lancaster.............
Langdown........... .  7 ¡Greylock, 
Renfrew,  dress... .  9 1  styles  .................. 104
Androscoggin, 7-4. .15 ¡Pepperell.  10-4...... 0 0
Androscoggin, 8-4. .16 ¡Pepperell,  11-4....... 24
Pepperell,  7-4...... 15 {Pequot,  7-4............. 16
Pepperell,  8-4___..17 ¡Pequot,  8-4............. 18
Pepperell,  9-4___..19 ¡Pequot,  94............. 20
Atlantic  A, 4-4.......6 4 ¡Lawrence XX, 4-4..  64
Atlantic  H, 4-4.......64 ¡Lawrence XXX 40.  74
Atlantic  D, 4-4.......5 4 ¡Lawrence LL,4-4...  5
Atlantic P, 4-4..........  5 Newmarket N.......... 54
Atlantic LL, 4-4__ 44 Mystic River, 4-4...  54
Adriatic, 36.............   74 Pequot A, 4-4..........  64
Augusta, 4-4...........   6 4 ¡Piedmont,  36..........6
Boott M, 4-4.............  6 ¡Stark AA, 4-4........... 64
Boott FF, 4-4..........64 Tremont CC, 4-4....  44
Graniteville, 4-4__ 54 Utica,  4-4.................. 10
Indian  Head,4-4...  64 Wachusett,  4-4.......64
Indiana Head4o-in. 1141Wachusett, 30-in...  54 

standard.............  7 4 ¡White  Manf’g  Co,
7 (Gordon...................
dress

i Johnson  ManfgCo,
Bookfold..............124
Johnson  ManfgCo,
dress  styles.........104
dress 
¡Slaterville, 
styles......................8

WIDE  BLEACHED COTTONS.

HEAVY BROWN  COTTONS.

FINE  BROWN  COTTONS.

DOMESTIC OINOHAMS.

'U L iti 

ü 

TICKINGS.

Amoskeag,  ACA... 17  ¡Falls, XXX............ 154
Amoskeag  “ 4-4.. 134 Falls,  BB............... 114
Amoskeag,  A........114 Falls,  BBC, 36........ 194
Amoskeag,  B ........11  Falls,  awning........19
Amoskeag,  C........ 104¡Hamilton,  BT, 33..  94
Amoskeag,  D..........10 Hamilton,  D ............ 94
Hamilton,  H..........84
Amoskeag,  E........  94
Hamilton  fancy...  84
Amoskeag, F..........  9
Methuen AA...........114
Premium  A ,4-4.... 17
Premium  B........... 16
Methuen ASA.........164
Extra 4-4..................16
Omega A, 7-8...........104
Omega A, 4-4.......... 134
Extra 7-8..................144
Omega ACA, 7-8.... 13
CCA 7-8................... 134
Omega ACA, 4-4___15
CT 4-4.......................14
Omega SE, 7-8.........34
RC 7-8.......................14
BF 7-8...................... 16
Omega SE, 4-4.........37
Omega M. 7-8  ......23
AF4-4...................... 19
Cordis AAA, 33...... 14
Omega M, 4-4.......... 25
Cordis ACA, 33...... 15
Shetucket SS&SSW 114
Cordis No. 1,33...... 15  ¡Shetucket, S & SW.13
Cordis N o.3........... 14  Shetucket,  SFS  ...13
Cordis  No. 3........... 13  Stockbridge  A ........7
Cordis No. 4........... 114 Stockbridge fancy.  8
Falls, XXXX..........1841
Washington__
S. S. & Sons__

SOFT  CAMBRICS.
...  441 Royal  Globe__ ...  44
...  44
GRAIN  BAGS.
... 1441 Am oskeag........ ...14)4
.  .204!
...  6 4 jOtis CC............... ...  9
...12  ¡Warren  AX A ... ...11
Everett blue..........13
...12  ¡Warren  BB....... ...10
...11 
¡Warren CC........ ...  9
...10  ¡York,  blue........ ...124
Manville........... 4)4@5  jS. S. »»Sons....... 4\@ 54
Masonville.......54@8)4 ¡Garner.............4)4 @64
Red  Cross...............  64 ¡Thistle Mills............  6
Berlin......................  6  Rose..........................   84
Garner....................   7  i
Brooks.......'.............50  ¡Eagle  and  Phoenix
Clark's O. N. T...... 55  Mills ball sewing.30
J. a P.  Coats..........55
Green  &  Daniels...35
Stafford...................25
Willimantic 6 cord.55 
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 
Hall & M anning....38
Charleston ball sew 
Holyoke.................. 25
ingthread........... 30
Merrick...................55

PAPER  CAMBRICS.

SPOOL COTTON.

Stark A...

W IGAN8.

DENIMS.

CORSET JEA N S.

Arm ory.,...............  7  ¡Kcarsage...................6)£
Androscoggin.......74 Naumkeagsatteen.  6)4
Canoe River...........   54  Pepperell  bleached 84
{ Clarendon........... 5@54 ¡Pepperell sat...........  8
j Hallowell  Imp.......5)4 Rockport....................64
Ind. Orch. Imp.......54 Lawrence sat...........   6
I Laconia..................  7  I

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Equal to the Best in the market. 

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Wholesale 

MANUFACTURERS AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

5 9   J e ffe rs o n   a v e .,  D etro it, M ich.. 

114 and 16 Pearl Street, 

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

THE  BEST  IN  THE  MARKET.

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Order a case from your Jobber.

See Quotations in Price-Current.

Frobach has discovered a method of  mak­
ing sugar without crushing or  pressing  the 
canes.  The cane is cut into  strips  aud  the 
water is extracted by alcoholic vapor, which 
leaves the  saccharine  to  be  dissolved  into 
liquid.  The alcohol and  sugar  are  filtered 
out  by  means  of  lime  and  chalk. 
It  is 
claimed that  this  process  of  manufacture 
will  add  one-third  to  the  production  over 
and above any process now in use.

(Groceries.

ids.

Retail Grocers’ Association of Grand Rap­

President—Erwin J. Herrick.
First Vice-President—E. E. Walker.
Second Vice-President—Jas. A. Coye. 
Secretary—E. A. Stowe.
Treasurer—B. 8. Harris.
Regular  meetings—First  and  Third  Tuesday 
Next meeting—Tuesday evening. Sept. 7.
Grocers’  Association  of the  City  of Mus­

Evenings of each month.

kegon.

President—H. B. Fargo.
First Vice-President—Wm. B. Keift.
Second Vice-President—A. Towl.
Secretary—Wm. Peer.
Treasurer—John DeHaas.
Regular meetings—First and third Wednesday 
evenings  of each month.
Next meeting—Wednesday evening, Aug. 15.
Kalamazoo Retail Grocers’ Association.

President—P.  Ranney.
First Vice-President—O. K. Buckhout.
Second Vice-President—Hugh Beggs. 
Secretary—M. S. Seoville.
Treasurer—J ulius  Schuster.
Regular  Meetings—Second  and  fourth Tues­

days of each month.

TW IN  TOWNS.

Whitehall and Montague Bound Together 

with Fraternal Ties.

Agreeable to  an invitation  received from 
the  business  men  of  Whitehall  and  Mon­
tague, the editor of  T ile  T r a d e s m a n   met 
with twenty-two representatives of  the var­
ious branches  of  retail  trade at  Whitehall 
last  Tuesday  evening  and  explained  the 
aims and objects of the thirty odd organiza­
tions  now  flourishing  in  this  State.  The 
meeting was called to order by H. A. Spink, 
who briefly stated the objects of the gather­
ing.  Geo. J. Moog  was  elected temporary 
chairman and G.  W. Frost temporary secre­
tary.  At the conclusion of Mr.  Stowe’s ad­
dress,  which  lasted  about  an  hour,  H.  A. 
Spink moved  that  the  organization  of  an 
association be proceeded with.  The motion 
was thoroughly discussed in all  its bearings 
and adopted  unanimously by a  rising  vote.
J.  F. Benton moved  that a  committee of 
three be  appointed  to  draft  a constitution 
and  by-laws, which  was  adopted,  and  the 
chair appointed as  such  committee Messrs. 
Spink, Benton and Redfern.

Mr. Spink was  appointed  a committee of 
one to visit Montague and  solicit the co-op­
eration of the merchants of that place.

After a long  and  enthusiastic  discussion 
relative to the scope of  the proposed organ­
ization, which was  participated  in by A.  T. 
Linderman,  Hans  Marshall,  D.  Skeels, J. 
F. Benton,  Geo. J. Moog,  Jas. J.  Gee  and 
others, the meeting adjourned  until the fol­
lowing evening.

SECOND  MEETING.

In response  to  an  urgent  invitation,  the 
editor of  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   remained over 
at Whitehall another day for the purpose of 
ab ating the committee  in the drafting of a 
constitution  and  by-laws,  which  was  pre­
sented at a  largely attended  meeting in the 
evening and adopted, as follows: 

CONSTITUTION.

We,  the  undersigned  business  men  of 
White  Lake  and  vicinity,  recognizing the 
necessity for concerted action, hereby agree 
to associate themselves together for the pur­
pose  of  fostering  a  more  social  feeling 
among the  members of  the trade;  keeping 
a blacklist of dead beats  who prey upon the 
trade; regulating the  peddling nuisauce and 
the reformation of other abuses affecting the 
trade.

B Y -L A W S .

ARTICLE  I— NAME.

The name  of  this  organization  shall  be 
the  White  Lake  Business Men’s  Associa­
tion.

ARTICLE  II— MEMBERSHIP.

Any firm or individual  doing a legitimate 
retail business may become a member of this 
Association  by paying to  the Secretary the 
sum of SI  membership fee  and  agreeing to 
pay 25 cents  quarterly dues  in advance and 
any assessments which may be voted by the 
Association to meet expenses.

ARTICLE  III— OBLIGATION.

Every person  or firm becoming a member 
of this Association shall be honorably bound 
to conform  to the rules, regulations and by­
laws.

ARTICLE  IV— NON-PAYMENT  OF  DUES.
Any  member  of  this  Association  who 
shall  neglect or  refuse  to pay his  dues, or 
any assessment ordered  by the Association, 
for three  months  after  such  sum  becomes 
due, shall thereby forfeit his membership.

ARTICLE  V— OFFICERS.

The officers of this Association shall con­
sist  of  a  President, Vice-President, Secre­
tary and Treasurer, and  an Executive Com­
mittee of five members,  of  which the Presi­
dent,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  shall  be j 
three.  These officers  shall  be  elected  an­
nually by ballot  and  shall hold  office until 
their successors are elected.

ARTICLE  VI— DUTIES OF  OFFICERS.

Section 1—The President shall  preside at 
all meetings,  if present;  in his  absence the 
Vice-President.
Section 2—The Secretary shall  receive all 
money due the Association from any source 
and pay the  same  to  the  treasurer, taking 
his  receipt  therefor;  keep  a record  of  all 
meetings; conduct  all correspondence under 
direction of  the Executive Committee; keep 
a list of all members in a book  provided for 
the  purpose  and  notify  all  committees  of 
their appointment.
Section 3—The Treasurer shall receive all 
monies  from  the  Secretary, giving  his  re­
ceipt  therefor; pay all bills  when approved 
by the Executive Committee  and report the 
condition of the  treasury when  required by 
the Executive Committee.
Section. 4—The Executive Committee shall 
have  charge  of  the  delinquent  lists; shall 
provide rooms for the Association; audit all 
bills; examine the books and accounts of the 
Secretary and  Treasurer and  make a semi­
annual report of  the financial  condition  of 
the Association.

ARTICLE  V II— COMPENSATION.

No compensation for service shall be paid 

any officer, except the Secretary.

ARTICLE  V III— MEETINGS.

Section 1—The annual meeting of the As­
sociation shall  be held the  second Tuesday 
of each August.
Section 2—The regular .meeting of the As­
sociation shall be  held on the first and third 
Tuesday of  each month.  Special  meetings 
shall be called by the President on the writ-

■  SELECTED
WINTER  WHEAT,
M U IR  PROCESS.

ten request of five members.  Five members 
shall constitute  a quorum  for  the  transac­
tion of business.

ARTICLE  IX— ORDER OF  BUSINESS.

1.  Read mg minutes of the last meeting.
2.  Admission of members.
3.  Reports of committees.
4.  Reading of correspondence.
5.  Unfinished business.
7.  New business.
8.  Election  of  officers  and  appointment 
9.  Report of Treasurer.
10.  Adjournment.

of committees.

ARTICLE  X— AMENDMENTS.

This Constitution and By-laws may be al­
tered or  amended  by a  two-thirds  vote  of 
those  present at  any regular  meeting,  pro­
vided a written notice  of  such alteration or 
amendment has been presented  at  the pre­
ceding regular meeting.

RULES  AND  REGULATIONS.

Rule 1.  The  special aim of this Associa­
tion is to facilitate  the  collection of  doubt­
ful  accounts  and  other  debts  by  fair  and 
honorable  methods,  and  to  guard  against 
the extending of  credit to  debtors f6und on 
investigation to be unworthy of it.
Rule  2.  The  Association  emphatically 
asserts that it  hopes to collect  all debts due 
the members  without publicity,  and  that it 
neither desires nor intends, in any instance, 
to permit its  members  to  intentionally an­
noy or  to persecute  any person indebted to 
members of  the Association.
Rule 3.  That  no  injustice  may be done 
to, or  advantage  taken  of,  any  debtor, by 
any individual  member of  the Association, 
it shall be the duty of every member to send 
by mail a  sealed  circular  letter,  issued  by 
the Association, to  the debtor,  setting forth 
these facts,  to-wit:  That the person named 
in  said letter is  indebted to  the member or
the firm therein named in the sum of $-----,
that  the debtor is granted  fifteen days from 
date entered on said  letter  in which to  pay 
the debt,  or to  satisfactorily arrange for  its 
payment; that, if after the expiratftm of the 
fifteen  days thus  granted, the  debtor shall 
have failed to pay or failed to have arranged 
for payment the member shall report him to 
the  executive  committee,  which  committee 
shall  thereupon place  his name  on the de­
linquent list; except disputed accounts which 
shall be referred to  the  Executive  Commit­
tee  for  investigation  and  report, which re­
port  shall  be  acted  upon  by the Associa­
tion.
Rule 4.  The  circular  letter  sent  to  the 
debtor  shall  be enclosed  in  the  authorized 
envelope of  the Association on which  shall 
be printed,  “If  not  be called  for  in  ten 
days  return  to  the  White  Lake  Business 
Men’s  Association,” and  the  non-return of 
any  circular  letter  thus  mailed,  shall  be 
deemed sufficient evidence that  the said let­
ter was received by the debtor addressed.
Rule 5.  Any  member  trusting  a  man 
whose name  appears on  the  delinquent list 
shall be fined $10.

The constitution  was  adopted  with con­
siderable  enthusiasm,  after  which a motion 
was made to  adjourn  to  meet in Montague 
the  following  evening  for  the  purpose of 
electing officers, which was adopted.

After  tendering  Mr.  Stowe  a  vote  of 
thanks for his assistance in  the work of or­
ganization,  the meeting  adjourned.

THIRD  MEETING.
W h i t e h a l l ,  A u g .  18,  1886.

E. A. stowe, Grand Rapids :
D e a r  S i r —In  response  to  your  request 
to give  you  some  idea  of  our  proceedings 
and success, I would  say that  a  large dele­
gation of us went to Montague last  evening 
and had a  very  interesting  and  successful 
meeting.
The  people on  that  side  seemed  to  get 
bravely over their diffidence or indifference, 
whichever it was, and  came  in with  us al­
most  universally to  form  one  Association. 
The officers elected were:  *
President—A.  T.  Linderman,  of  White­
hall.
Vice-President—Geo.  R.  Hancock,  of 
Montague.
Secretary—W.  B.  Nicholson, of  White­
hall.
Assistant Secretary—E. L. Dodge, of Mon­
s
tague. 
Treasurer—E.  L.  Streng, of Montague.
Executive Committee—A.  T. Linderman, 
Whitehall;  W.  B.  Nicholson,  Whitehall; 
E.  L.  Streng,  Montague;  Geo.  J.  Moog, 
Whitehall; F.  E. Jones,  Montague.
There was a great deal of talk on the dead 
beat question and  with the  election of  offi­
cers  we were  kept  beyond  our  usual  late 
hour.  We  meet  again  Tuesday  next  on 
this side.  The meetings are to be alternated 
between Whitehall and Montague.

Very truly, 

G e o .  W.  F r o s t .

The Largest Yet.

Cody,  Ball & Co., the  pioneer  wholesale 
grocery house, recently made a sale of fifty- 
eight chests of# tea to a single  purchaser to 
be delivered at one  time.  This  is  claimed 
to be the largest single sale of tea ever made 
at this market,  and  reflects  much credit on 
the house handling  the  order, as well as on 
the salesman  taking the  order—the veteran 
Gus. Sharp.

FOX & BMDFOBD
FOX  St BMDFOBD,

WHOLESALE

Full 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.
E x c l u s i v e l y   W h o l e s a l e .

O r d e r   S a m p l e   M   b y   M a i l .

S P U R IC S

C O F F E E

Guaranteed  absolutely  P u r e ,  H i g h e s t  
G r a d e ,  C u l t i v a t e d  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  ft>  pink  paper bags,  1 lb foil 
lined cartoons, and 2 lb  tins by  all  leading 
Retail Geocers.

HOWARD  W.  SPTJRR  &  CO., 

Importers, Roasters and Paokers,

BOSTON.

We have got out  a  new  bushel  and half 
bushel basket  which  is  hooped like  a pail 
and is perfectly smooth outside  and  in. 
It 
is  so  tight  that  it  can  be  used  to  water 
stock out of. 
It is made of black ash staves 
and is a very slick thing.

Our agents will carry a sample  once  over 

the  road.

C u r t i s s ,  D u n t o n  & Co.

WH EM

Contains the Germ and G luten of 
Selected W inter W heat.
W ill cook in  FIVE  m inutes  as 
thoroughly  as  O at  Meal  w ill  in 
Two Hours.
IT  IS  NOURISHING.

IT  IS  HEALTHFUL.

FOR SALS  BY

IT  IS  ECONOMICAL.
JOHN CAULFIELD
CODY, BALL & CO.

AND

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

These prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.

Paragon................ 2 10
Paragon 25 3b pails.  90 
Fraziers,2 5  B> pails. 1  25

AXLE GREASE.

BAKING  POWDER.

Challenge...............  SO
Frazer’s................. 
90
Diamond  X ...........   60
Modoc, 4  doz......... 2 50
Princess,  %s.....................................v
“  %s..........................................
Is............................................
“ 
bulk.......................................
“ 
Arctic, % 9) cans, 6 doz. case.............
............
.............

“ 
** 

•*  %  “ 
“ 
“  % 
“ 
“ 
1 
“ 
5 
“ 

i 
3 
2
1

1  40
.................. 2 40
.12 00
..  2 00
15
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“ 
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CANNED FISH.

“ 
“ 
BROOMS.

Victorian, 1 lb cans, (tall,) 2 doz...
Diamond,  “bulk,”...............
BLUING.
25
. ..doz.
Dry, No. 2....................... .................. doz
__ doz.
Dry, No. 3.......................................... doz
45
35
... doz.
Liquid, 4 oz,........
__ doz.
Ö5
Liquid, 8 oz........................................doz.
Arctic 4 oz.........................................$1  gross 3 50
Arctic 8  oz...........................................................  7 20
Arctic 16 oz....................................................   12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box....................................  2 00
3 00
Arctic No. 2 
Arctic No. 3 
4 00
No. 2 Hurl.............. 2 OOlParlor  Gem............. 3 00
No. 1 Hurl...............2 25 Common Whisk__   90
No. 2Carpet...........2 50 Fancy  Whisk...........1 00
No. ICarpet...........2 76|Mill............................ 3 75
Clams, 1 9>, Little Neck.................. ........... 1 35
.. .2 00
Clams, 2 9». Little Neck...................
Clam Chowder,  3 9»......................... ............3 15
Cove Oysters, 1  9)  standards........ . ...95@1 00
Cove Oysters, 2  9)  standards........ ..........  1 75
.............................. 1 75
Lobsters, 1 9) picnic.  .
...2 50
Lobsters, 2 9>, picnic........................
.. ,2 CO
Lobsters, 1 9> star.............................
Lobsters, 2 9> star........................................ 3 00
Mackerel, 19)  fresh  standards___........... 1 20
Mackerel, 5 9> fresh standards...... ........... 4 00
. ..3 00
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 9)__
Mackerel,3 9) in Mustard............... ........... 3 (HI
Mackerel, 3 9>  soused..................... ........... 3 00
Salmon, 1 9> Columbia river.......... ........... 1 60
Salmon, 2 9> Columbia river.......... ........... 2 40
Sardines, domestic %s................................ 7@8
12
Sardines,  domestic  %s..................
Sardines,  Mustard  %s.....................
12
14
Sardines,  imported  %s..................
Trout. 3 9)  brook............................. ........   4 00
Apples, 3 9) standards.....................
00
Apples, gallons,  standards...........
10
Blackberries, standards................ .
Damsons........................................... ........... 1 00
Egg Plums, standards 
...................... 1 20® 1 25
Green Gages.standards2&>................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 25
Raspberries,  extra........................... 1  20@1 30
Strawberries  .....................................1  1C® l 25

O
........... 1

CANNED FR U ITS.

CANNED FRUTT8—CA LIFO RN IA .

Lusk’s.  Mariposa.
2 00
2 00
180
2 00
2 20
2 25

Apricots..................................... 2  25 
Egg Plums..................................2  10 
Grapes....................................... 185 
Green Gages...............................2  10 
Pears............................................2  25 
Quinces.......................................2 50
Peaches.......................................2  35 
CANNED VEGETABLES.
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.............  ............ 
75
Pumpkin, 3 lb Golden................................. 
75
Succotash, standard.................................75@1  40
Squash...........................................................1 00
Tomatoes, standard brands.......................1 15
Michigan  full  cream............................  8® 8%
Baker’s ..................... 37lGerman Sweet.......... 23
Runkles’ ................... 35| Vienna S w eet.........
ScheD D S. Is..
“ 
“  %8.
Maltby’s,  Is.
“ 
“ 

Is and  %8...
% s.......................
Manhattan,  pails........

@25
@26
@27
@23%
@24
@24%
@18

Is and  %s__

CHOCOLATE.

COCOANUT.

CHEESE.

COFFEES.

Green.

Roasted.
R io...............
Golden Rio.. ........ 12 Golden Rio.......
S a n t o s   ..
Maricabo__ ........ 13 Maricabo..........
J a v a ...........
. ,20@25
........24 O. G. Java........
O. G. Java...
........ 25 Mocha...............
Mocha  ........
COFFEES—PACKAGE.

...9@12 Rio.................... 7@15
.T 16
T7
...17
Java.................. i4@28
...24
• • • Ml)

..  13 S a n t o s  _ ..

5
7

14

21

9%

7%

5
5
5
5

CORDAGE.

CRACKERS  AND  SWEET  GOODS.

60 lbs lOOfts 300 tbs
13%
X X XX...........................................14%  14 
13%
Standard  ...................................... 
137b  13%
Dilworth’s .................................... 
Lyon.............................................. 
13%
Arbuckle’s  ........... ;.....................14%  14 
German...........
13%  13%
............... 
...............13%  13 %  13%
Magnolia..........
21
............... 
Silver King__
...............1«
M exican..........
............... 
12%  12%
Royal.................
...............13%  13!%  13%
Eagle................
60 foot Jute__ .  1 00 |50 foot Cotton.  . .1  60
72 foot J u te __ . 1 25 ¡60 foot Cotton... .1  75
40Foot Cotton....1 50 ¡72foot Cotton... .2 00
X  XXX  ¥5»
6%

KenoshaButter......................... 
Seymour Butter............................... 
Butter................................................  
Fancy  Butter............................ 
4%
S.  Oyster............................................ 
Picnic................................................. 
Fancy  Oyster............................ 
4%
Fancy  Soda...............................  
4%
City Soda....................................  
Soda  ..................................................  
Milk.................................................... 
Boston.................................................... 
Graham..................................................  
Oat  Meal................................................. 
Pretzels, hand-made............................ 
Pretzels...................................... 
Cracknels..............................................  
7% 
Lemon Cream............................ 
8%
FVosted Cream..........................
7%  8%
Ginger  Snaps............................ 
No. 1 Ginger Snaps.................. 
7%
Lemon  Snaps............................ 
12%
Coffee Cakes.............................. 
8%
13%
Lemon Wafers.........................
Jumbles......................................
11%
Extra Honey Jumbles.............
12%13%
Frosted Honey  Cakes.............
13%
Cream Gems.............................
13%
Bagievs  Gems..........................
Seed Cakes.................................
12%
8%
S. &  M. Cakes............................
@60
Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth.....................
Cod, whole................................................. 3%@4%
Cod,Boneless..................................................5®6%
Halibut........................................................... 9®10
Herring, round.  %  bbl.........................2 00@2 25
Herring .round,  %  bbl............................. 1 25
Herring, Holland,  bbls............................. 11 00
Herring, Holland,  kegs..............................75®80
Herring, Scaled.............................................20®25
Mackerel, shore, No. 2, % bbls..................5 25
“ 
...........  so
“ 
...............   60
No. 3, % bbls..........  ..................3 25
121b  kits...........................  60
“
“  10  “ 
............. .............  50
Shad, % b b l............................................2 25©2 50
Trout, %  bbls.........................................3 50®3 75
“  10 lb  kits............................................   70
White, No. 1, % bbls.................................... 5 75
White, No. 1,12 lb kits.................................  90
White, No. 1,10 lb kits.................................  80
White, Family, % bbls................................. 2 15
P in ts..............................;.....................  @ 9 50
Quarts......................................................  @10 50
Half Gallons............................................ 
@13 50
Disk cap, quarts.....................................  
@11 00
“  %  gals.....................................   @14 00

“ 
“  10  “ 

FRUIT  JARS— MASON.

12 lb kits 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

FISH .

8%

“ 

DRIED  FRUITS—DOMESTIC.
Cherries, pitted, 50 9)  boxes..............
Egg plums, 25 9)  boxes.......................
Pears, 25 9> boxes................................
Peaches,  Delaware. 50 fi> boxes........
Peaches, Michigan...............................
Raspberries, 50 9» boxes.....................
DRIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN.
Citron....................................................
Currants...............................................
Lemon Pfeel...........................................
Prunes, French, 60s............................. 12%@
Prunes, French, 80s.............................. 8%@
Prunes, Turkey.........................................   @4%
Raisins, Dehesia.......................................   @3 00
Raisins, London Layers..........................   @2 75
Raisius, California  “ 
...........................  @2 25
Raisins, Loose Muscatels.........................  @2 00
Raisins, Ondaras, 28s............................  @12%
Raisins,  Sultanas......................................  @ 
Raisins, Valencia..................................
Raisins,  Imperials....................................   @2 85
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square.............................. 1 00
Grand Ha/eu, No 9, square, 3 gro......................1 20
Grand Haven,  No. 200,  parlor...........................1 75
Grand  Haven,  No. 300, parlor...........................2 25
Grand Haven,  No.  7,  round..............................1 50
Oshkosh, No. 2...................................................... 1 00
Oshkosh, No.  8...................................................... 1 50
Swedish............................................................   75
Richardson’s No. 8  square............................ 100
.............................. 150
Richardson’s No. 9  do 
Richardson’s No. 7%, round................................1 00
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
.............................. 150
Black Strap...................................................15@17
Cuba Baking..................................................25@28
Porto  Rico.........................................    
24@30
New  Orleans, good......................................28@34
New Orleans, choice.....................................44@50
New Orleans,  fancy.....................................52@55

MOLASSES.

MATCHES.

% bbls. 2c extra.

PICKLES.

OATMEAL.
Steel  cut................ 5 50[Rolled Oats, Acme.5 75
Steel Cut, % bbl 
3 00 Rolled Oats, Acme.3 00
Rolled  Oats...........5 75: Quaker, 4S 9>s.........2 25
Rolled Oats, %bbl..3 Ot Quaker, 60 9>s.........2 85
Rolled  Oats, cases.3 25 Quaker bbls............ 6 25
RolledOats.Shields’3 251
Medium...................................................  @5 00
“  % bbl.........................................  @3 00
Small,  bbl...............................................   @6 00
Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross...........   @2 25
Imported Clay, No. 216,2% gross........   @1  85
American T. D.......................................   75®  90
Choice Carolina......6%|Java  ..................
Prime Carolina......5% P atna.........................5%
Good Carolina.......5  ¡Rangoon............5%@5%
Good Louisiana......5  ¡Broken. 
.........3%@3%
DeLand’s pure....... 5%!Dwight’s ....................5%
Church’s  ................ 5%¡Sea  Foam..................5%
Taylor’s G. M.........5%[Cap Sheaf...................5%

SALERATUS.

PIPE S.

RICE.

%c less in 5 box lots.

SALT.

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................ 
28 Pocket................................................. 
100 3 9) 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, % bu. bags.................... 
Rock, bushels..............................................  
Warsaw, Dairy, bu. bags.................y.. 
.....................  

“  %  “ 

“ 

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

25
28

45
25

SAUCES.

Parisian, %  pints..................................   @3  00
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................   @  70
Pepper Sauce, green.............................   @  80
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring.............   @1 25
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........   @1 50
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................   @  80
Catsup, Tomato, quarts  .....................   @1 20
Halford Sauce, pints............................  @3 50
Halford Sauce, % pints.........................  @2 20

SOAPS.

New Process, 1  9>..3 96:Extra ChicagoFam-
New Process, 3 9)..3 85 
ily .........................3 94
Acme,  bars............3 75 Napkin.....................4  75
Acme,  blocks.......  3 22|Towel......................4  75
Best  American__ 3 OSjWhite  Marseilles..5 60
Circus  ....................3 75 White Cotton  Oil..5 60
Big Five  Center.. .3 90 Shamrock............... 3 30
Nickel......................3 45 Blue Danube..........3 95
Gem......................... 3 35 London  Family__ 3 60

Ground. 

SPICES.

Whole.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

boxes

s t a r c h .

Pepper................16@35|Pepper..................  @18
Allspice.............. 12@15 Allspice................  8@10
Cinnamon........... 18@30ICassia....................10@U
Cloves  ................ 15@251 Nutmegs,  No. 1..  @60
Ginger................16@20:Nutmegs.  No.2..  @50
Mustard...............15@30!Cloves  ..................23@25
Cayenne.............25@35l
Electric  Lustre......................................  @3 20
Royal,  corn............................................  @ 8
gloss, 1  lb  packages................   @ 5%
@ 3% 
@ 3% 
@ 3% 
@  5% @ 6 
@4 50

Niagara, laundry,  bbls..............
boxes ............
gloss, 1  9).....................
corn...............................
Quaker, laundry, 569)..................
Cut  Loaf.......................................
Powdered......................................
Granulated.  Standard.......................... 6  44®  6%
Confectionery A ....................................   6  @  6>
Standard A ........
.................  @  5%
No. 1, White Extra  C.
................   5%@ 5%
No. 2, Extra C.............
........... 
5%@  5%
No. 3C........ ..................
................   5  @ 5%
No.4 C..........................
...............  4%@ 47s
Corn,  barrels  ........ 
32@26
24@27
Corn, % bbls............................................ 
Corn,  10 gallon kegs...............................  
@39
Corn, 5 gallon kegs................................. 
1 35
22@28
Pure Sugar, bbl...................................... 
Pure Sugar, % bbl..................................  
24@28
Pure Sugar  5 gal kegs..........................  @1 50
TOBACCO—FINE CUT-IN PAILS.

SYRUPS.
 

SUGARS.

@

 

Jim Dandy............... 38|01d Time......................35
Our  Bird...................28 Underwood’s Capper 35
Brother  Jonathan.. .28 Sweet  Rose............... 45
Our Block.................60 Meigs & Co.’s Stunner35
Jolly Time............... 40 Atlas............................ 35
Our  Leader..............33 Royal Game.................38
Sweet  Rose..............33 Mule Ear......................85
May  Queen..............65|Fountain......................74
Dark AmericanEagle67 Old Congress..............64
The Meigs.................60 Good Luck...................52
Red  Bird...................50 Blaze Away.................35
7
State  Seal........ ........ 60 Hair Lifter..................30
8
Prairie Flow er........ 65 Hiawatha...................65
8
Indian Queen...........60 G lobe...........................65
11%
Bull  Dog..................*57 May Flower............... 70
Crown Leaf..............66'Sweet  Pippin..............45
15%
♦Delivered.
SMOKING
Our  Leader..............15
Unit
.30
Old Vet......................30
Eight  Hours..............34
Big Deal................
Lucky  ....................... 30
Ruby, cut  plug.......35
Boss  ...........................15
Navy Clippings........26
Two  Nickel............... 34
Leader......................15
Duke’s  Durham....... 40
Hard  Tack................32
Green Corn Cob Pipe 26
D ixie..........................28|Owl......................... ".. .16
Old Tar...................... 401 Rob Roy.......................26
Arthur’s  Choice.......22|Uncle  Sam................. 38
Red Fox.....................26 ¡Lumberman...............25
Gold Dust................. 26¡RailroadBoy...............38
Gold Block............... 30: Mountain Rose............18
Seal of Grand Rapids  I Home Comfort..........25
(cloth)................. 251 Old Rip.........................60
Tramway, 3 oz.........40 Seal 01 North Caro-
Miners and Puddlers .281  Lina, 2  oz.................48
Peerless  ....................241 Seal of North Caro-
Standard. 1................30! 
lina, 4oz....................48
Old Tom.................... 18[ Seal of North Caro-
lina, 8oz...................45
Tom & Jerry..........,.24! 
Joker......................... 25| Seal of North Caro-
Traveler...................35 
lina, 16 oz boxes___ 42
Maiden......................25 King Bee, longcut.. .22
Pickwick Club.........40i Sweet Lotus.................32
Nigger Head............ 26IGrayling.......... ..........32
Holland.....................22 Seal Skin......................30
German.................... 151 Red Clover.................. 32
K. of  L................ 42®46iGood Luck.................28
Honey Dew..............25'
Dainty...................... 44|Trade Union............. *36
Old  Honesty............ 40 Labor Union..............*30
Jolly Tar...................32 Splendid....................  38
Jolly Time................32 Old Solder....................40
Favorite...................42 Red Fox....................... 42
Black Bird............... 32 Big  Drive....................42
Live and Let  Live.. .32 Patrol........................ 40
Quaker......................28 Jack Rabbit.................35
Bull  Dog..................*36 Chocolate  Cream....39
Hiawatha................. 42 Nimrod...................’...36
Big  Nig.....................37 E.C...............  
38
Spear Head..............39 Spread  Eagle............. 36
Wkole Earth............ 32| Big Five Center..........33
Crazy  Quilt..............32jParrot.........................42
P.  V ..........................4 0 Buster........................35
Spring Chicken.........38
Black Prince..............35
Black  Racer..............35
Eclipse  ......................30
Star............................ 39
Moxie........................34
Black Jaok.................32
Climax  ......................42
Acorn  .....................  .39
Hiawatha..............  ..42
Horse  Shoe............... 36
Musselman’s CorkeK 30 
Turkey................... 1.38
2c. less in three butt lots.
•Delivered.

PLUG.

 

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Lemon.  Vanilla.
Jennings’ D. C., 2 oz...............¥  doz.  1 00 
1 40
2 50
“  4 oz.............................. 1 60 
“  6 oz............................ 2 50 
4  00
“  8oz.............................. 3 50  5 00
“  No. 2  Taper................1 25  150
2  75
“  No. 4 
7  60
“  % 
9  00  15 00
“ 
“  No. 3  panel...........110 
1 65
“  No. 
“ 
.2 75 4  25
..........4  25 6
“ 
“  No. 

............... 1  75 
pint, round.4 50 

« - 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

r‘ 
l-  “  “ 

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10 

 

SHORTS.
.. 16| Hiawatha...
33
. .23l01d Congress ........... 23
..22'May  Leaf...
..21 Dark...........
............20
TEAS.
__ 1S@20
__ 25@30
__ 15@20
__ 3Q@50
..._.35@50

@
Our  Leader..........
@ 12 Mayflower...........
@ 20 Globe.....................
© 15 Mule Ear...............
@ 28
@1-Vi Japan ordinary...
@ 23 Japan fair to good
© 23 Japan dust...........
Young Hyson.......
@
@ 14 GunPowder..........
Congo....................
Lorillard’s American Geutlemen.......
Maceoboy............................
Gail & Ax’ 
..........................
Rappee....................!!” "!.
Railroad  Mills  Scotch..........................
Lotzbeck  ...........................................| _ <
30 gr.

SNUFF,

VINEGAR.

“ 
“ 

“ 

9

MISCELLANEOUS.
American.....................

White Wine..................................   08
Cider..............................................  os
Bath Brick imported............................
do 
Burners, No. 1 .....................................”
do  No. 2......................................
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 lb cans.............
Candles, Star......................................
Candles,  Hotel.........................
Extract Coffee, V.  C............. . 
.  . .
F elix....................
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................
Gum, Rubber200 lumps...............
Gum, Spruce...................................Y ..\\
Hominy, $) bbl.............  
 
!!!!!!!!!!
Jelly,in309>  pails................
Pearl  Barley...............................
Peas, Green  Bush....................
Peas, Split  Prepared.................            '.
Powder, Keg..................................
Powder, %  Keg..................... ................
Sage  ....................................

do 

®  55 
@  44 
@  35 
@  45 
@1 30
50 gr. 
10 
10
90 
75 
1  00 
1  50 
7 70 
@25 
@11 
@12 
@80
@25 
@35 
30@35 
@10 
@  4 
2%@ 3 
@1 25 
@ 2%  
@3 00 
@1 90 
@  10

CANDY. FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

^  

MIXED

STICK.

FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN  5 lb BOXES. 

_ 
, 
«
Standard, 25 9) boxes............... 
Twist, 
n H  
....... 9 @ 9%
Cut Loaf
..........................  @10
Royal,
0 ,  9
i9>  pails.................................... 
ifi fK KKU 
.......*  V  U
¿5,  o.
Royal, 200 9) bbls.....................  
Extra, 25 9> pails................  
.............. 
ghtn
Extra, 200 9) bbls................ ................... 
^  9t4
French Cream, 25 9) pails.....................12
^ 1^2
Cut loaf, 25 9>  cases................. 
Broken, 25  9) pails..................  ............in  ®in2
Broken,200 9>  bbls...............II"” “ *.:.  @ ftw
^ 
1
Lemon Drops.................... 
a,*»
Sour Drops................................... 
¡»14
Peppermint  Drops..........’ ’" ................   a u
j*
 
Chocolate Drops.................... 
H M Chocolate  Drops....!!.".".".*............ 
is
Gum  Drops  ............................ .""!........... 
in
Licorice Drops................. !!!!!!!
w
..! ................. 
A B Licorice  Drops.. 
Lozenges, plain...................... 
 
15
Lozenges,  printed.................. " .............. 
jb
Imperials................................... 
i*
Mottoes.............................!!..................... 
je
Cream  Bar....................... .!!!.'!."..............I3® u
Molasses Bar.................... 
....................
Caramels.............................. !!!!!!!!!!!!!' 
18
Hand Made Creams.............!  .................. nubia
Plain  Creams........................ " ................  **4?
ai
Decorated  Creams............... 
 
String Rock............................!!!!!.".......... 
14
Burnt Almonds..................... 
oftaaa
Wintergreen  Berries..........!!.!  !!*!.’.!  ^ 1 5
Lozenges, plain in  pails....................  12  @12%
Lozenges, plain In  bbls.........................n   @441?
Lozenges, printed in pails....................  @13
Lozenges, printed in  bbls....................  @12
Chocolate Drops, in pails......................12%@13
Gum  Drops  in pails.......................... ”  6  @ 6%
Gum Drops, in bbls.............  
..........5  a s «
Moss Drops, in  pails................!...........  @10
Moss Drops, in bbls.....................  
Sour Drops, in  pails.................'...........   @12
Imperials, in  pails.................. 
12%@13
Imperials  in bbls.......................!'.!' !" ll%@12
_ 
Bananas  Aspinwall............................. 2 00@3 50
Oranges, California, fancy...............
Oranges, California,  choice........
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls........................
Oranges, Florida.........................
Oranges,Valencia, cases!!!!!!!.’.*."’
Oranges, Messina...............................
Oranges,  Naples........... ." ...................
Lemons,  choice............. .
Lemons, fancy..................!
Lemons, California........ .!
Figs, layers, new, 
9)......
Figs, Bags, 50 9>..................
Dates, frails do  ................
Dates, % do  d o ................
Dates, skin..........................
Dates, %  skin.....................
Dates, Fard 10 9) box $   9).
lb..........
Dates, Fard 50 9) box 
Dates, Persian 50 9) box $  9)__
Pine Apples, 11 doz.............................
PEANUTS.
_  
Prime Red,  raw %}  9)...........................  4
Choice 
d o ............... 
!!!!!.
Fancy H.P. do 
d o ........ ...!!!!!!!!!
Choice White, Va.do  ..........................
Fancy H P.. Va  d o ............. .. " ’!
H. P.Va...................................................
Almonds,  Tarragona............................
Ivaca.......................................
California............................ 15
Brazils....................................................   g
Chestnuts, per bu............................!.!
Filberts, Sicily........................................11
Barcelona...............................
“ 
Walnuts,  Grenoble............................ 
“  Marbo.....................................
French....................................
“ 
California...............................  @12
“ 
Pecans, Texas, H .P .......................................   9 @13
“ 
Missouri................................ 8%®  9
Cocoanuts, $  100....................................  @ 5

...........   8%@ »@ 8
@ 4% 
@ 5 
@ 5% 
@ 5% 
@  7% 
@ 7
@16 
@16 
@16 
@ 8%

■ 12%@16 
@ 6% 
©4%

*  '  @ 9%

@10
@16%

FRUITS

@8 50

NUTS.

do 

“ 
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PROVISIONS.

PORK  IN   9ARRELS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provision  Co. 

quote  as  follows:
Mess, Chicago packing, new......................... 10 75
Short Cut, new................................................12 50
Back, clear, short  cut.................................... 13 75 /
Extra family clear, short cut.....................J3 00»
Clear,  A. Webster, n e w ............................. 13 73
Extra clear pig, short cut....................  .. ..13 7a
Extra clear, heavy......................................... 14  00
Clear quill,short  cut.............................. .*...14 00
Boston clear, short cut.................................14 00
Clear back, short cut....................................14 00
Standard clear, short  out, best.................. 14 25
DRY  SALT  MEATS— IN  BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy................................. 
6%
6%
medium.............................  
“ 
lig h t..................................  
“ 
6%
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
7
medium.............................. 
do. 
7
light.................................... 
do. 
7
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  PL AIN.
Hams, heavy.....................................................13
“  medium...................................................13
“ 
ligh t........................................................13
“  picnic  ...................................................  8%
“  bonelegs.........................................  ....10
•  “  best boneless.........................................11
shoulders, sweet pickle.................................  8
boneless.........................................
Breakfast  Bacon............................................

clear....................................   8%
“ 
“  boneless..............................  9
Dried Beef, extra.............................................10%
ham  prices................................. 13%

“ 

“ 

“ 

LARD.

7 y3

7%
8

BEEF IN   BARRELS.

LARD IN  TIN  PAILS.

Tierces  .......................................................... 
30 and 50 9» Tubs...................................... 
50 lb Round Tins, 100 cases........................... 
20 9» Pails, 4 pails in  case.......................  
3 9) Pails, 20 in a case.............................
5 9) Palls, 12 in a case.............................. 
10 9) Pails. 6 in a case................................... 
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 lbs...........   8 50
Boneless,  extra..............................................13 00
SAUSAGE— FRESH AND SMOKED.
Pork  Sausage..........................................
Ham  Sausage...........................................
Tongue  Sausage......................................
Frankfort  Sausage.................................
Blood  Sausage..................................
Bologna, straight............................{....
Bologna,  thick.........................................
Head  Cheese............................................
In half barrels................................................  3 50
In quarter barrels..................................

PIG S’  FEET.

704
7%

7%

OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettent haler quotes as follows:

OYSTERS.

FRESH  FISH . 

New  York  Counts..............................................40
f
Selects.....................................................  @35
Cod  .........................................................  @10
Haddock.................................................  
<@ 7
Mackerel................................................. 15  @20
Mackinaw Trout....................................  @  5%
Perch........................................................  @  3
Sm elts................................................... 10  @11
Whiteflsh..........  ...................................  @ 6

OBEENE,  HOSICK  &  CO.,

I n i t t m  Ol M E   L1DNDBI ffll TOILET  SOAPS,

X 20 MloHigan JBt., O liioago, HI.

We make the following brands:

HARD W ATER, Linen, German Fam ily, Sweet 16, W hite Satin, 

Country  Talk, Mermaid, it w ill float, Silver Brick, Daisy, 

W hite Prussian, Glycerine Fam ily, Napkin, Royal.

Our  HARD  WATER  Soap can be  used  in  either  hard  or  soft  water,  and  will go 
(Trade  mark,  girl  at  pump.)  We  are 
one quarter farther than any  other  Soap  made. 
setting orders for it now from all parts  of  the  country.  Send  for  a  sample  order.  We 
pay all railroad and boat freights.  Our goods are not in Michigan Jobbing houses.

A. HUFFOBi), General Agent, Box 14,  GRAND  RARIDS,  MICH.

Write me for Prices. 

__________________ _
E .   F   A   L i   L   A   S ,

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

9 7   and 99 Canal Street, 

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Grand Rapids, Michigan

o. w. b l a in  & co., Prodnci
Foreign a i Domestic Fruits, Sonta M a is, Etc.

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

We handle on Commission BERRIES, Etc.  All orders filled at lowest market 

pondence solicited.  APPLES AND  POTATOES in car lots  Specialties. 

Corres­
NO.  9  IONIA ST.

P E R K I N S

Sc  H E S S ,
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

DEALERS IN

 

NOS.  122  and  124  LOUIS  STREET, GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN.

WE CARRY A  STOCK OF  CAKE TALLOW FOR  MILL  USE.

HOGLE  &  CO. Jobbers  Michigan  W ater  W hite  and 
Legal Test Oils.  M anistee and Saginaw 
Salt.  A gricultural Salt.  W arsaw   Salt; pockets, all  sizes,  and 
barrels.  W est M ichigan Agents for  Prussing’s Celebrated Vin­
egar  works.  W rite  for  quotations.  Ai||Q|/rpAM  MIPU 
lYlUuIvLuUli J IfllUMl

W arehouse:  Lee’s  Ferry Dock, 

FULLER  &  STOWE  COMPANY,

D esig n ers

Engravers and Printers

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

Autographs, Etc., on Short Notice.

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

Address as above
49 Lyon Street, Up-Stairs, Grand Rapids, Mich.

JOBBERS  IN

DRY  GOODS,
.AJSTID N O T I O N S ,

83  M onroe  St.«

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers 
American and Stark A Bags

Ba,hers  j A Specialty.

J.  T.  BELL  A  CO.,

Saginaw  Valley  Fruit  House
And  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS,
Dealers in all kinds Country Produce & Foreign Fruits.
East Saginaw, Mich.

Reference:  Banks of East Saginaw. 
CONSIGNMENTS  SOLICITED.

N E

S T

E R   Sc  E O X ,

MANUFACTURERS’  agents  for

S A W  JLXTD CRIST MILL  M ACHINERY,
Send for 
Catalogue 

Jg ATLAS »

ana 
Prices-

I N D I A N A P O L I S .  ! N D M  U .  S .  A .
_________ MANUFACTURERS  OF
[STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS..
[Carry  Engines and  Boilers in Stock | 

for  immediate  delivery.

» lift,-i.

Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds of Wood-Working Machinery, 

Saws, Belting and Oils.

And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley.  Large  stock  kept  on  hand.  Send  for  sample 
Write tor Prices. 

.  Pulley and become convinced of their superiority.

130  QAKE8  ST..  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Spotter—V.

On Deck, out for your fall trade,  I suppose. 
Yes, I reckon it must be kind o’ quiet  now. 
All these folks that’s been spendin’  the  4th 
away from home and takin’ their little vaca­
tion  is  probably  hard  up.  No,  I  didn’t j 
have any lay off this year.  Been too busy.

Bad  time  for  conductors?  Oh,  that’s 
played, you know.  These old timers aint a 
knockin’ down  any.  This  coupon  system 
and the round trip tickets and mileage books 
sort o’ took people to buyin’ tickets,  and  so j 
you see there aint as much cash handled  as 
of old.  Do I know  Joe?  Well,  I  should 
say so.  Greatest Pedro player in the world. 
Ail he  wants  is  three  Grand  Rapids  men 
and a deek  of  of  cards  and  Joe  is  there. 
Cheat?  Hem!  well,  sir,  the  innocent  look 
of surprise that will come over that  colored 
individual’s countenance,  as  he  is  accused 
of sneekin’ an ace or king  from  the  bottom 
of the pack,  would make a dog groon.

I have heard said that Joe once got into  a
game just after leavin’M---- , coming south,
and played  until  they  blowed  for  Bridge 
street depot.

Old  Cap?  Who  don’t  know  old  Cap? 
“God bless my soul,” he says,  and folds his 
fat hands on  his  aldermanic  protuberance. 
“God bless my soul, how are you?”  Smart 
as lightning is the old gentleman,  and it’s a 
cold  day  when  he  can’t  find a seat in the 
chair  car  for  one  of  the  “boys.”  I have 
seen him set down and hold  a  serious  con­
versation with a minister and  in  five  min­
utes he would be in the smoking room, tell­
ing the gang a yam that would  scarcely  do 
service as a Sunday school tale.  They  say 
Cap. used to sleep in  the  old  car,  and  one 
day, or rather one night,  he was  up  to  the 
“Park” rather  late,  and  on  coming to the 
car found  himself  locked  out.  Mad!  He 
always did say that it would be a  cold  day 
when he got left.  Well, the ice in Traverse 
Bay froze a foot that night.

Not long ago, an old gentleman got on the 
north bound train at Sturgis,  and  when  the 
conductor  came  aloug  to  gather  up  the 
tickets the old man was leanin’ his head  on 
the seat in front of him  asleep.  He  shook 
him, but as he appeared to pay no attention, 
and  some  one  said,  “His  friend  has his 
ticket and is in the smoker,” the  conductor 
left him and went on.  He found a party in 
the smoker who said  he had  aided  tiie  old 
man  in  getting  aboard,  but he hadn’t  his 
ticket—it  was  in  his vest pocket.  So  the 
conductor  went  back,  and  finding the old 
man asleep yet,  took  his  ticket  out  of  his 
pocket. 
It  being  for  Kalkaska,  and  the 
train crew changing at the Rapids, he merely 
punched it and placed it back in  the  man’s 
pocket.  As he turned  to  leave,  some  one 
said  to  him,  “I  think  that  man’s dead!” 
Well, sure enough,  on examination,  he was 
found to be  dead—heart  disease.  He  was 
about 70 years old,  and was going from one 
son’s house in  Coldwater  to  another  son's 
in Kalkaska.

But  about  the  saddest  sight I ever  saw 
was a woman going to  her  home  out  East 
in  answer  to  a  telegram  that  her mother 
was dying. 
I felt sorry for  her.  She  had 
never traveled before,  you see, and she  was 
all. alone.  Her husband  couldn’t  leave  his 
farm,  on account of it’s  being  harvest,  and 
she had to recheck her trunk  twice,  and,  I 
declare,  the  poor  creature  nearly worried 
the conductor and  brakeman  and  the  pas­
sengers within ear shot half to  death.  Get 
off here,  do you?  I thought you  only  sold 
to jobbing trade?  See you again.

Leo.  A.  Caro.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

Geo. W. Bevins. Tustiu.
Eli Runnels, Corning:.
Brett Bros., Ashton.
Wm. Jones, Forest, Ont.
M.  V. Wilson, Sand Lake.
M. Minderhodt, Hanley.
R. Weertman, Zeeland.
A. W. Blaiu, Dutton.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
C. N. Leach, Leach A King, Howard City.
W. W. Forrester, Pierson.
C. F. Williams, Caledonia.
F. C. Stone, Cedar Springs.
H. DeKline, Jamestown.
J. A. Shattuck, Sand Lake.
J. H. Megargle, Big Rapids.
Geo. Scribner, Grandville.
J. P. Cordes, Alpine.
G. P. Stark, Cascade.
Carrel A Fisher, Dorr.
P. Steketee & Co., Holland.
C. G. Jones, Olive Center.
D. H. Decker, Zeeland.
John Giles A Co.. Lowell.
Voorhorst & Co.,  Overisel.
John Kamps, Zutphen.
Mrs. J. Hovingh, Grandville.
L. Yallier, Fremont,
O. D. Chapman,  Stanwood.
D. D. Harris, Shelbyville.
Cole & Chapel, Ada.
M. W. Thompson, Nunica.
Woodruff A Monk, Saranac.
H. W. Potter, Jennisonville.
C. O. Cain, Sparta.
A. D. Martin, Otia.
Mr. Emmons, Eddy A Emmons, Grattan.
G. W. Stevens. Austerlitz.
N. Bouma, Fisher.
Winegarden & Peterson, Grand Haven.
Dell Wright, Berlin.
Hewitt & Teft, Rockford.
Will  Jeannot,  P.  Jeannot  &  Co.,  Diamond 
H. Harding,  Jamestown.
J. C. Townsend, White Cloud.
John Spring, Spring A Lindley, Bailey.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
John W. Mead, Berlin.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
John GunBtra, Lamont.
Wm. Karsten, Beaver Dam.
Stanley Monroe, Berlin.
Nelson F. Miller, Lisbon.
A. C. Barclay, Crosby.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
Dingman & Mitchell, McBrides.
Livingston  Cook, Bauer.
E. Conklin, Coopersville.
Chas. Demming, Dutton.
A. E. Landon, Nunica.
H. Colby A Co„ Rockford.
F. W. Foster, Newaygo.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
J. C. Scott, Lowell.
O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna.
D. W. Shattuck, Wayland.
J. W. Closterhouse, Grandville.
Paine A Field, Englishville.
J. Yan den Bosch, Zeeland.
John Smith, Ada.
Henry. DeKline, Jamestown.
OBborn Bros., Hartford,
J.  F. Mann, Lisbon.
Mrs. J. Debri, Byron Center.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
C.  S. Comstock, Pierson.

Lake.

Big Rapids Bits.

N. H.  Beebe will  soon be  doing business 
again at the corner of Michigan avenue  and 
Maple streeet,  as the old building  has been 
undergoing quite extensive repairs.
A.  S. Hobart & Co.  are closing  out  their 
entire stock at cost,  with  a view of locating 
elsewhere.
A.  R. Morehouse,  who  is  about  closing 
out his mill cut near Rodney, has purchased 
the W.  W. Demming saw and  shingle  mill 
and a large tract  of  pine  located  some six 
miles north of Woodville.  The West Mich­
igan Lumber Co.  will  take  the entire cut of 
the mill.  Mr.  Demming expects to make a 
large purchase of pine in  Missouri.
Cole & Judson,  the  hardware  men,  have 
rented the store  just vacated by A.  Sachem 
& Sons and will  remove  their  stock  to the 
same some time during the week.

The State of Trade.

From the Boston Commercial  Bulletin.

The condition of trade in some  circles  is 
well illustrated by the answer of an  Italian 
fruit  peddler  on  State  street,  who, when 
asked,  “How is  business?” replied:  “Alla 
money I maka  on  peanut  I  lose  on  dam 
bannana!”

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.
Apples—Red Astricans, £1.25@$2 

bbl.,  ac­

cording to quality.

Beans—Dry, handpicked, f  1.40 TP bu.
Beets—New, 80c TP bu.
Blackberries—Wild, 4Vic TP qt., Lawton, 7c TP 

qt.
Butter—Michigan  creamery  is in better de­
mand. at  17@18c.  Dairy  is  looking  up  some­
what, being more firmly held at 12@13c.

Cabbages—£3@£4 $  100, according to size.
Carrots—15c $   doz.
Celery—Grand Haven  or Kalamazoo, 20@25c 

$  doz.

Corn—Green, 10c TP doz.
Cucumbers—14c TP doz.
Cheese—June  and  July  stock  of  Michigan 

full cream is in active demand at 8@8)4c.

Dried Apples—Quartered  and sliced, 3@4c.
Dried Peaches—Pared, 15c.
Eggs—Jobbers pay 10c and sell for He.
Grapes—Ives, 6c 
Honey—Easy at 12@13c.
Hay—Bailed is dull at £15 per ton  in two and 

lb.

five ton lots and £14  in car lots.

Muskmelons—£1 $1 doz.
Onions—Dry, £2.50 TP bbl.
Pears—California Bartletts, £4 $  box.  Home 

grown, £ 8  TP  bbl.

Peaches—Home grown, £2@2.50  bu.
Plums—California, £1.75 TP box.
Pop Corn—2c TP ®>.
Potatoes—Home grown, 65c TP  bu.
Squash—Crookneck, 4c $ K>.
Tomatoes—Acme, £1.50 TP  bu.
Watermelons—Georgia. 16@17c apiece.
Whortleberries—£2.50 TP  bu.

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

Wheat—No change.  City millers pay 73 cents 
for Lancaster and 70  for  Fulse  and  Clawson
Corn—Jobbing generally at 42@43c  in 100bu 

lots and 35®38c in carlots.

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

car lots.

Rye—48@50c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay £1.25 $  cwt.
Flour—No  change.  Patent.  £5.30  TP  bbl.  in 
Backhand  £5.50  in  wood.  Straight,  £4.30  TP 
btoh inraaofes and £4.50 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.75 $  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, £14  TP  ton.  Bran, $11 
$  ton. . Ships, £14 $  ton.  Middlings, $15 TP  ton. 
Corn asd Oats, $17  TP ton. 
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COAL  AND  BUILDING  MATERIALS. 
A. B. Know Ison quotes as follows:
Ohio White Lime, per  bbl....................
Ohio White Lime, oar lots....................
Louisville Cement,  per bbl..................
Akron Cement per  bbl.........................
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl......................
Carlots 
Plastering hair, per bu.........................
Stucco, per bbl.......................................
Land plaster, per ton............................
Land plaster, car lots............................
Fire brick, per  M...................................$:
Fire clay, per bbl.....................................
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots.. $5 
Anthracite, stove and  nut, ear lots..  6
Cannell,  car Jots...................................
Ohio Lump, car lots.........................  
Biosshurgor Cumberland, car lots..  4 
Portland  Cement........................  
FRESH  MEATS.

1  00 
85 
1  30 
1  30 
1  30 
05@1  10 
1
25®  30
1 75 
d 50
2 50 
25 @ $35
3 00
75@6 00 
00@6 25
@e 00
10@3 25 
3
ftm> 00 
50@4 00

COAL.

3

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the trade selling

prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides........................ ......5 @ 6)4
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters.........
@ 7)4
Dressed  Hogs................................. .......6 @ 6)4
Mutton,  carcasses......................... .......6 @  6)4
Spring Lamb.................................. .........8 @ 9
7 @   8
Veal................................................. . .. 
Pork Sausage.................................
@   8
Bologna........................................... .......6 @ 0V4 
@11
Spring Chickens............................ .......16 @17
Ducks  .........................................
Turkeys  .....................................
WOODEN WARE,
Standard  Tubs, No. 1..................
Standard  Tubs, No. 2..................
Standard  Tubs, No. 3..................
Standard Pails, two hoop............
Standard Pails, three hoop.........
...............
Pails, ground wood 
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes........
Butter  Pails, ash........................
Butter Ladles..............................
Rolling Pins.................................
Potato  Mashers...........................
Clothes Pounders........................
ClothesPins.................................
Mop Stocks...................................
Washboard#, single.......................
Washboards, double.....................

...5 25
...4  25
...3 25
....1 50
,..  4 00
...2 00
...2 50
,...1 00
,...  75
...2 25
....  65
...1 75
...2 25

BASKETS.

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

....  40
,...1  60
...1  75
...3 50
...3 75
...4 00
...6 00
...7 00
....8 Oft

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HEADS.

STAVES.

................... 4 

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

at  Grand  Rapids.
Red oak flour bbl. staves.............M  6 00®  6 50
Elm 
.............M  5 00® 5 50
White oak tee staves, s'd and j’t.M  22 00®25 00 
White oak pork bbl.  “ 
“  M  19 50®22 00
Produce barrel staves............. . 
4 25® 4 50
I  Tierce, dowelled and circled, set_ 
15®  16
I  Pork, 
“  —  
12®  13
” 
I  Tierce  heads,  square............ YP M 23 09®26 00
Pork bbl. “ 
...............¥  M  19 00@21 00
I  Basswood, kiln dried, set’. ..............   414®  4%
I  Cull  wood  heading.........................   3)4®  3%
i  White oak and hickory tee, 8f’t.  M  11 00@12 50 
!  White oak and hickory  “  7V£f’t. M 10 00@11 00
Hickory  flour  bbl...........................M  7 00®  8 25
j Ash, round  “ 
“  __ ,  ................ M  6 00®  6 75
Ash, flat racked, 6% f’t.................. M  3 75® 4 50
| Coiled  elm.........................................  8 00®  7 CO
' White oak pork barrels, h'd m’d.M  1 00®  1 10 
85®  95
'  White oak pork barrels,machine.. 
White oak tard  tierces....................  1  15® 1 25
;  Beef and lard half barrels............. 
75®  90
Custom barrels, one  head............. .  1 00® 110
t Flour  barrels.................................. 
30®  37
'  Produce  barrels..................... ......... 
25®  28

BARRELS.

HOOPS.

fôarbware.

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full  packages.

BELLS.

BALANCES.
BARROWS.

AUGERS AND BITS.
Ives’,  old  style......................................... dis60A10
 
N.  H.C. Co................... 
diseo&lO
Douglass’................................................... disOOAlO
Pierces’ ....................................... 
dis60A10
Snell’s .........................................•............. dls60A10
Cook’s  ............................. 
dis40A10
Jennings’,  genuine..................................dis  *25
Jennings’, imitation................................disoOAlO
40
Spring.........................................................dis 
Railroad............................................... 
$  13 00
Garden............................................. 
  net 33 00
Hand..............................................dis  $ 60A10A10
oo A10
Cow...................................................dis 
30&15
Call....................................................dis 
Gong................................................. dis 
25
Door, Sargent..................................dis 
69A10
Stove......................................................dis $ 
40
Carriage  new list................................dis 
75
Plow  ~ ................................................dis  30A10
Sleigh Shoe........................................... dis 
75
Wrought Barrel  Bolts........................dis  60&10
Cast  Barrel Bolts................................dis  60&10
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs...................dis 
60
Cast Square Spring.............................dis 
60
Cast Chain........................................... dis  60A10
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............ dis  60A10
Wrought Square.......  .........................dis  60A10
Wrought Sunk Flush..........................dis 
60
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
,  Flush................................................. dis  60A10
Ives’ Door.............................................dis  60A10

BOLTS.

BRACES.

40
Barber..................................................d isf 
Backus..................................................dis  50A10
Spofford................................................ dis 
50
Am. Ball............................................... dis 
net
Well, plain....................................................$  3 50
Well, swivel................................................. 
400

BUCKETS.

BUTTS. CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured......................dis 
70A10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........ dis  70A10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis  60A10
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  60A10
Wrought  Loose  Pin.......................... dis 
60A10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip..........dis 
60A 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned..........dis 
60A 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
S0A 5
tipped............................................... dis 
Wrought Table....................................dis 
10A60
10A60
Wrought  Inside  Blind.......................dis 
75
Wrought Brass....................................dis 
Blind, Clark’s........................................dis 
80
Blind, Parker’s ....................................dis 
80
Blind,  Shepard's.................................dis 
70

CAPS.

CATRIDGES.

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

__ per  m $ 65
60
.... 
35
60
Rim Fire, U. M. C. A Winchester  new  list50A10
Rim  Fire, United  States......................... dis50A10
Central  Fire.............................................. dis30A10
Socket Firmer......................................dis 
75A10
Socket Framing...................................dis  75A10
Socket  Corner......................................dis  75A10
Socket Slicks................................. 
dis 75
Butchers’Tanged  Firmer........... . . . . dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers........ ...........dis 
20
Cold.......................... .............................. net

CHISELS.

 

COMBS.

Curry,  Lawrence’s.........................  
Hotchkiss  .............................................dis 
Brass,  Racking’s.......................................  
60
Bibb’s .....................................................  
60
Be er -t-.........................................................   40A10
Fenns.........................................................  
60

COCKS.

25

 

die 40A10

COPPER.

d r i l l s

e l b o w s .

Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... » a   28
14x52,14x56,14 x60.........................................  31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60..............," "  "  «1
Cold Rolled, 14x48.................................  
19
Morse’s Bit  Stock.............................. dis 
40
Taper and Straight Shank................ . dis 
40
Morse’s Taper  Shank......................... dis 
40
Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................doz net  $.85
Corrugated...........................................dis  20A10
J4A10
Adjustable.......................................... dis 
20
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, £26  00.  dis 
Ives’, 1. £18 00 ;  2. £24 00 ;  3, £30 00.  dis 
25
American File Association  List.......dis  55A10
Disston’s ...............;.............................. dis  55A10
New American.................................... dis  55A10
Nicholson’s ..........................................dis 
55A10
Heller’s .................................. ..............dis  55A10
55A10
Heller’s  Horse Hasps.........................dis 
28
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 
15 18

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

g a l v a n i z e d   i r o n ,
14 

EXPANSIVE BITS.

f i l e s —New List.

12 

13 
GAUGES.
HAMMERS.

 

HOES.

h i n g e s . 

h a n g e r s .

HOLLOW  WARE.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s........... dis 
50
Maydole A Co.’s ..................................dis 
25
Kip’s ....................................................dis 
25
Yerkes  A  Plumb’s............................. dis 
40A1G
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel....................30 c  list 50
Blacksmith's Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 o 40A10 
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track  50A10
Champion,  anti-friction...................dis 
60A10
Kidder, wood  track........................... dis 
40
•
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3............................dis 
60
State............................................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4)4  14
and  longer.............................................. 
3)4
Screw Hoo* and Eye,  %  .................. net 
10)4
Screw Hook and Eye %............. .......net 
8)4
Screw Hook and Eye  X....................net 
7)4
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.................. net 
7)4
Strap and  T .......................................dis 
65
Stamped Tin Ware............................. 
30
 
Japanned Tin  Ware................................. 
25
Granite Iron  Ware..................................  
25
Grub  1  .............................................. $1100, dis 60
Grub  2...............................................   11  50, dis 60
Grub3....................................... .........  12 00, dis 60
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.........dis 
45
Door, porcelain, jap.  trimmings...........  
45
Door, porcelain, plated  trimmings....... 
45
Door, porcelain, trimmings.................... 
45
Drawer and  Shutter, porcelain.......dis 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd A Co.’s......................   40A10
dis 45
Hemacite....................................  
LOCKS—DOOR.
45
Russell A Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list, .dis 
Mallory, Wheeler A  Co.’s...................dis 
45
Branford’s ........... 1............................. 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 50 dis 20 A 10
Sperry A Co.’s, Post,  handled.................   dis  50
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s ............................dis 40A10
Coffee, P.S. AW.Mfg. Co.’s Malleables dis 40@10
Coffee, Landers, Ferry A Clark’s ........dis  40@10
Coffee,  Enterprise....................................... dis  25
Stebbin’s Pattern  ...................................... dis  70
Stebbin’s Genuine.................................... ..dis  70
Enterprise,  self-measuring.......................dis  25

LEVELS.
m a t t o c k s .

MOLASSES GATES.

MAULS.
MILLS.

KNOBS.

 

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

 
 

lOdto  60d............................................$  keg $2 10
25
8d and 9 d adv................................................ 
6d and 7d  adv................................................ 
50
4dand5d  adv.........................  
76
3d advance....................................................   1 50
3d fine advance.......................... 
3 00
Clinch nails, adv...........................................  1  75
Finishing 
Size—inches  }  3 
Adv. »  keg 
Steel Nalls—2 20.
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent......................dis60A10
Zinc, with brass bottom.............................. dis 50
Brass or  Copper...........................................dis 50
Reaper..................................... per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s .................................................   50A10

1  lOd 
$1 25  1  50  1  75  2 00 

8d  6d  4d
1)4

OILERS.

2)4 

2 

NAILS.

PLANES.

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.................................dis  15
Sciota Bench................................................ dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy....................... dis  15
Bench, flrstquality......................................dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood__ dis20A10
Fry, Acme............................................... dis 50A10
Common, polished.............................    .dis60A10
Dripping....;...........................................TP lb
■ Y? 1b
6
40
dis
Iron and Tinned.................................... dis
dis
60
Copper Rivets and  Burs.....................dis

RIVETS.

PANS.

PATENT FLAN1SAED  IRON.

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

Broken packs )4c $  lb extra.

ROPES.

Sisal, )4 in. and  larger..................................   9)4
Manilla...............................................................13)4
Steel and Iron........................................ dis 
70
Try and Bevels.......................................dis 
60
Mitre  .....................................................dis 
20
SH EETIRO N.Com. Smooth.  Com.

SQUARES.

All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 2  Inches 

TACKS.

Nos. 10 to  14....................................$4 20 
Nos. 15 to 17 ..................................   4 20 
Nos. 18 to 21..................................   4  20 
Nos. 22 to 24 ..................................   4 20 
Nos .25 to 26..................................   4 40 
No. 27..............................................  4 00
wide not lees than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, TP  lb............................ 
In smaller quansities, TP 
.....................  
American, all  kinds.............................dis 
Steel, all kinds.......................................dis 
Swedes, all  kin ds................................ dis 
Gimp and  Lace.....................................dis 
Cigar Box  Nails................................... dis 
Finishing Nails.....................................dis 
Common and Patent  Brads................dis 
Hungarian Nails and Miners’ Tacks.dis 
Trunk and Clout Nails......................... dis 
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails...........dis 
Leathered Carpet  Tacks.....................dis 
No. 1,  Refined..........................................  
Market  Half-and-half............................ 
Strictly  Half-and-half............................ 

TINNER’S SOLDER.

$2 75
2 75
2 80
2 90
3 00

5X
6
60
60
60
60
50
50
50
50
50
45
35
12 50
16 00
17 50

TIN  PLATES.

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.

 

TRAPS.

TIN —LEADED.

10x14, Charcoal..................... ;........  5 75
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal................................  7 25
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal....................................  6 25
IC, 
12x12, Charcoal.............................  7 75
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal...............................   5 75
IC. 
IX, 
14x39,  Charcoal....................................._7 25
IXX, 
14x20, Charcoal...............................  8  75
IXXX,  14x20, Chareool...............................  10 77
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal............................  12 55
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal...............................  15 50
DC,  100 Plate Charcoal............................   0 50
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................  8 50
DXX,  100 Plate Charcoal............................   10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.........................  12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50 to 6 75
Roofing, 14x20, IC.........................................  5 25
Roofing, 14x20,  IX .................  
6 75
Roofing, 20x28, IC.........................................  11  00
Roofing, 20x28,  IX......................................... 14 00
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.................5 50
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne...............7 00
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne................ 11 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal  Terne.............   14 00
Steel. Game................................................... 60A10
Oneida*Communtity,  New house’s..........dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley A Norton’s. .60A10
Hotchkiss’  ....................................................60A10
S, P. A W.  Mfg.  Co.’s ................................. 60A10
Mouse, choker....................................... 18c TP doz
Mouse,  delusion.................................$1 50 $  doz
Bright Market.......................................   dis  67)4
Annealed Market.................................dis 
70
Coppered Market...................................dis  62)4
Extra Balling............................................  dis  55
Tinned  Market....................................... dis  62)4
Tinned  Broom..........................................YPfi>  09
Tinned Mattress.......................................$  lb  8)4
Coppered  Spring  Steel...... ........... dis 40@40A10
Tinned Spring Steel.................................dis 
50
Plain Fence...............................................TP H>  3)4
Barbed Fence, galvanized............................... 4%
painted.................................... 3%
Copper...............................................new  list net
Brass..................................................new list net
Bright.............................................. dis  70A10A10
Screw Eyes...................................... dis  70A10A10
Hook’s ........................................ 
  dis 70A10A10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes...................dis  70A10A10
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
Coe’s Genuine................   ....................dis 
60
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis  75A10
Coe’s  Patent, malleable.................dis 75A10A10
Bird Cages..................................................  
50
Pumps,  Cistern....................................dis  70A10
Screws,  new  list.......................................   75® 10
Casters,  Bed  and  Plate.................... dis50A10A10
Dampers, American.................................  40 A10
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods. .60A10A5 
Copper  Bottoms.......................................  
'Sic

MISCELLANEOUS.

WIRE GOODS.

WRENCHES.

W IRE.

■  “ 

LUMBER. LATH  AND SHINGLES.

The Newaygo Manufacturing Co,  quote f. o. 

b. cars  as follows:
Uppers, 1 inch..................................per M $44 00
Uppers, 1)4,1)4 and 2 inch.........................  46 00
Selects, 1 Inch..............................................  35 00
Selects, 1)4,1)4 and 2  inch........................   38 00
Fine Common, 1 Inch.................................  30 00
Shop, 1 inch.................................................  20 00
Fine, Common, 1)4,1)4 and 2 inch...........   25 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet__   15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet........................   16 q0
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet........................   17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 10 feet........  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 In., 18 feet..........................   10 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20feet..........................   17  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 In., 20 feet........................   14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........  11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet.........................  13 W)
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls,  al
widths and  lengths.......................... 8 00 
9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in ............................  33 00
C Strips, 4 or 0 Inch....................................  27 90
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths.............. 
 
  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet........ 
12 00
No. 2 Fencing. 10 feet.................................  12 On
No. 1 Fencing, 4  Inch.................................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  Inch.................................  12  q0
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B..................  18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................  14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common__  
9 00
Bevel Siding,  6 inch,  Clear.....................   20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12.12 to 16 ft............  11  00
£1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B....................  36 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..........................   29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.. No. 1, common..  17 00
Dressed Flooring 6in.,No. 2 common__   14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. £1 00 additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C..........................   26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com’n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in.. No. 2  com’n  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, £1 00 additional.
( XXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............  
3 10
3 00
■{XXX18 in.  Thin.....................................  
2 76
( XXX 16 in................................................. 
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
1  75
No. 2 or 5 In. C. B. 16  in.............................  
140
Lath  .....................................................  1 75® 2 00

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

The furniture factories  here  pay  as  follows 
for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run.............................   @13 00
Birch, log-run.......................................15 00®18 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2.............................  
®25 00
Black Ash, log-run.............................   @13 00
Cherry,  log-run................................... 25 00@36 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and 2........................... 45 00@50 00
Cherry,  cull......................................;. 
@10 00
Maple,  log-run.....................................13 00@15 00
Maple, soft,  log-run............................12 00@14 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2............................  @20 00
Maple, clear, flooring.........................  @25 Oo
Maple, white, selected.......................  @25 Go
Red Oak, log-run.................................  @18 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2................ 
@24 00
 
Red Oak, quarter  sawed..................  @35 00
Red Oak, No.  1, step  plank............... 
@25 00
Walnut, log-run..................................  
@55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2..........................   @75 OO
Walnuts,  culls....................................  @25 00
Grey  Elm, log-run..............................  @13 00
White Ash,  log-run.............................14 00@16 00
Whitewood,  log-run..........................   @23 00

HIDES. FELTS AND  FURS.

Perkins A Hess pay as follows:

H IDES.
8 

Green — Y9 B>  7® 7)4[Calf skins, green
Part cured... 
Fullcured 
Dry hides and 

or cured__ 8  @10
Y? piece.......30  @50

  8&@ 8)4 Deacon skins.

kips...........   6  @ 8  j

SHEEP PELTS.

Old wool, estimated washed YP lb........22  @27
Tallow......................................................  3  @ 3)«

Fine washed $  1b 25®2S|Coarse washed.. .20®34 
Medium  ............. 27@30;Unwashed.......... 
3-8

WOOL.

EONARD &  SONS

PRICE  LIST.  CROCKERY  DEPARTMENT.  PART  12.

Terms 60 days;  2 per cent, discount for cash in ten days on approved credit.  To enable our custom ers to depend on our stock of English W hite Granite  W are,  we  print  for  th is  w eek 
th e assortm ent of crates w hich we carry in stock and can ship on receipt of order.  Prices in first column are for W edgwood or Johnson Bros.’ best W hite G ranite in  Original  Grates,  and  in 
th e second column for W edgwood & Co.’s sam e grade repacked to  order in any quantities.  Mail orders solicited and given prom pt personal attention.

67

08

6 0

7 0

71

7a

Net Price List

it

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

8  “ 

Bakers, 5  incb..................................  

Butters, Individual..........................  

Chambers,9 open..*..........................  3 40 

Coffees,  handled............................... 
unhandled......................... 

6 
“ 
7  “ 
,  “  8  “ 
Bowls, No. 36,  1 pint......................... 
......................... 

85 
..................................   1 06 
.................................  1 38 
....................................   1 91 
71 
“  No. 30, Vt  “ 
85 
“  No. 34,  quart........................   1 06 
31 
5 in.  Covered.....................   3 83 
Cassaroles, 7 incb.............................   5 10 

Orig-  Pepack- 
inal 
ing: 
Crates.  Prices. 
$  doz.
$  doz. 
95
1  19
1  43
a  14
79
95
1 19
34
4 38
5 70
..............................  5 74  6 41
3 80
9 covered.........................  5  10  5 70
99  1  11
85 
95
4 99
Covered Dishes, 7..............................  4 46 
5 70
8..............................  5 10 
Dishes, 8 inch....................................  1 06 
1  19
I 43
....................................  1 38 
....................................  1 91 
3 14
3 56
....................................   3 10 
9 03
Ewers and  Basin, 9..........................   8 08 
Fruit Saucers, 4 in...........................  
33 
36
Scollops, Nappies,  6........................ 1 06 
1  19
7..................... 
138 
143
8 14
8.........................  1 91 
Pitchers, No. 36................ i ..............  106 
119
1 43
No. 30.................................  1 38 
No. 34...............’................  148 
166
3 85
No. 12.................................  3 55 
4 28
No.  6  ..............................  3 83 
53
  48 
65
58 
69 
77
89
80 
95
85 
71 
79

“  6  “  Tea............................ 
7  “  Breakfast............... 
•*  Dinner.....................  
Teas, handled, any  size.................. 

Plates, 5 in. or P ie...! .............. 

“ 
9  “ 
“  10  “ 
*•  13  “ 

“  unhandled,  “ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
*• 

“  8 

“ 
“ 

“ 

•• 

 

 

 

L ist of A ssorted G rates in

Wedgwood & Co.’s W hite 

Granite W are.

Assortment No. 220.

38 doz. Plates, 6,5;  3,6;  14,7; 3,8 flat; 2,7deep. 
6  “  4 inch Round Fruit Saucers.
10 Dishes, 4,4:  4,13:  2,14, square.
18 Bakers, 3,5;  6, 6;  6, 7;  3, 8,  square.
30 Scollops, 6,5;  6, 6;  12,7; 6,8 square.
4 Covered Dishes, 2,7;  2 ,8.
2 Sauce Boats.
3 Pickles,
6 Sugars.
18 Bowls. 3,34;  13,30;  3,36.
36 Sets Teas, 18 handled;  18 unhandled.
3  “  handled Coffees.
18 Pitchers, 6,12;  3,23;  9,  36.
3 Pairs 9 Ewers and Basins.

\  6 Covered Chambers.

6 Mugs 36.

£ 13.0.0
For prices original crates see 1st column.
Assortment No. 65  Oval.
deep.

36 doz. Plates,  5,4;  4,6;  13,7;  3, 8, flat;  2,7, 

Wedgwood  &  Go.’s 

Square Pattern.
Assortment No.  305.

“ 

Butters, 5 inch.

20 doz. Plates, 5,5;  2 ,6;  12,7:  1, 8.
6  “  4 in. Fruit Saucers.
3  “  square Individual Saucers.
21 Platters, 3,8;  3,9;  6,10;  6,11;  6,12.
18 Bakers, 3,6;  6, 7;  6, 8;  3,9.
48 Scollops, 12,3;  6,5;  6, 6;  13,7;  12,  8,  square.
4 Covered Dishes, 2,7;  2 ,8.
2 
2 Sauce Boats.
3 Pickles.
2 Tea Pots.
4 Sugars 34.
4  Casseroles, 2, 7;  2,8.
34 Pitchers, 3,6;  6.13;  3,24;  6,30;  6,36.
33 sets St. Denis Teas, 18 handled;  15  unhand, 
9  *’  Minton Hand Teas.
24 Bowls, 6,34;  12,80;  6,36.
6 Mugs 36.
24 Oyster Bowls, 30.
13 Chambers, 6 open;  6 covered, No. 9.
6 pairs No. 9 Ewers and Basins.

6  “  Fruit Saucers 4 inch.
34 sets Teas, 9 handled, 15 uneandled.
3  “  Handled Coffees.
15 Dishes. 3. 8;  3, 9;  3,10;  3,11:  3,12.
30 Bakers, 6, 6;  4, 7;  6, 8;  4,9.
34 Scollops, 6,5;  6, 6;  6, 7:  6, 8.
1 Sauce Tureen Complete.
6 Covered Dishes, 3, 7;  3,8
2 Sauce Boats.
2 Pickles.
4 Cov’d Butters.
3 Tea Pots.
6 Sugars.
6 Creams, 34.
24 Bowls, 6, 34;  12, 30;  4, 34;  6, 30;  6. 36.
34 Pitchers, 4,6;  4,13;  4.34;  6, 30;  6, 36.
6 Pairs 9 Ewers and Basins.
6 Covered Chambers, 9s.
6 Soap Slabs.
6 Mugs 30

£i4.Xx.o
For prices original crates see 1st column.
Assortment No.  139.

24 Pairs No. 9 Ewers and Basins.
18 Covered Chambers 9.
18 Uncovered Chambers 9.
54 Bowls, 15, 34;  30, 30;  12, 36.
25 doz. Plates, 5,5;  20,7.
36 Sets Teas, 9 handled;  37 unhandled.

£ i4-13-7
For prices original crates see 1st column.

ASSORTMENT  NO.  275. 

W edgwood & Co.

30 doz. Plates, 6,5;  30,7;  4,8.
24 Bakers, 6, 6;  12, 7;  6, 8.
30 Bowls, 6.34;  12, 30;  12,36.
17 Chambers, 12 open;  6 covered, No. 9.
36 Scollops, 12,6;  12,7;  12,8, square.
6 doz. 4 inch Fruit Saucers.
45 sets Teas, 21 unhandled;  24 handled.
34 Oyster Bowls, 30
6 pairs 9 Ewers and Basins.
18 Platters, 6, 9;  6,10;  6, 11.
3 doz. Individual Butters.

For prices Original Crates see 1st column.

£ 14.19.10

ASSORTMENT  NO.  262. 

W edgwood & Co.

60 pairs 9 Ewers and  Basins.
45 sets Handled Teas, St. Denis  or  Minton. 

For prices Original Crates see  first  column.

£ 14.0.0

For prices Original Crates  see  first  column.

£*5-5-9

100 doz. 7 in. Flat Plates.

W edgwood & Co.’s W hite 

Granite W are.

Assortment No.  144.

23 doz. Plates, 5,5;  2, 6:  12,7;  2,8flat;  2,7deep. 
6  “  4 inch Fruit Saucers.
2  “  Ind. Butters. 
r
23 Platters, 3, 8;  3.9;  6,10* 6,11;  3,12;  2,14.
18 Bakers, 3, 6;  6, 7;  6, 8;  3,9.
51 Scollops, 12,3;  6,5;  6, 6;  12, 7;  12, 8;  3,9.
4 Covered Dishes, 2, 7;  2,8.
2 Sauce Boats.
3 Pickles.
2 Covered B  tt  rs, 5 inch.
4 Casseroles, 2,7;  2, 8.
2 Tea Pots, 24.
4 Sugars, 24.
24 Pitchers, 3,6;  6,12;  3,24 6,30 ;  6, 36.
42 sets, 12 hand;  30 unhand.
38 Bowls. 6,34;  20,30;  12,36.
6 Mugs, 30.
6 pairs 9 Ewers and Basins.
18 Chambers, 6 covered;  12 open.

£ 16.1.2

For prices Original Crates see first column.

70 doz. Square Scollops, 20,5;  15,6;  15, 7;  15, 8; 

Assortment No.  229.
£ i5-5-o
Assortment No. 266.
15, 9.
£ 20.0.0
Assortment No. 264.
.
£ 15.0.0
Assortment No. 263.

180 sets Unhand. Teas, St. Denis. 

14 doz. No. 9 Covered Chambers.
45 sets Handled Minton Teas.

£ 17.2.0
Assortment No. 265.
15 doz. No. 9 Open Chambers.
45  “  doz. Unhandled St. Denis Teas.

£ i 3-7'0
Assortment No. 260.

75 doz. 4 inch Square Fruit Saucers.
50  “  Square Ind. Butters.
50  “  3 inch Square Bakers.
50  “  3  “ 
**  Dishes.
3  “  5  “  Covered Butters.
18 sets Hd. St. Denis Coffees.
18  " 

“  Minton 

“

£3i-5-6

Johnson  Bros.’  English 

W hite Granite W are.
Diamond E Assortment.

30 doz. Plates, 6.5;  20, 7;  4, 8.
24 Bakers, 6, 6;  12.7:  6. 8.
30 Bowls, 6,24;  12.30:  12,36, St. Dennis.
18 Chambers, 12 open;  6 covered, 9.
36 Scollops. 12,6;  12, 7;  12, 8, square.
6 doz. 4 in. Square Fruit Saucers.
34 sets Teas, 24 hand, 21 unhand.;  V\ St. Dennis 
and H Minton.
24 Oyster Bowls, 30.
6 pairs 9 Ewer and Basins.
3 doz. Ind, Butters.
18 Platters, 6,9;  6,10:  6, 11.
Johnson  Bros.*  W hite 

£ i 4.xg.io

Granite  W are.

Diamond I Assortment.

“ 

“ 

“ 

12.

Ind.  Butters.

3, 6;  6, 7;  6, 8;  3, 9.

21 doz. Plates, 5, 5;  2,6;  12,8;  2.8.
6  *•  Square 4 inch Fruit Saueeas.
3  *• 
21 Platters, 3, 8;  3,9:  6,10;  6, 11; 
18 
18 Scollops, 12,3;  5,6;  6, 6;  12,7 
4 Covered Dishes. 2, 7;  2,8.
2 
Butters, 5 inch.
2 Sauce Boats.
3 Pickles.
2 Tea Pots,
4 Sugars. 24.
4 Casseroles, 2, 7;  2,8.
24 Pitchers, 3, 6;  6, 12;  3, 24;  6.30;  6,36.
33 sets  Teas,  18  handled;  15  Unhandled,  St. 

8,  square.

Dennis.
Handled Teas, Minton.

9 
24 Bowls, 6,24;  12, 30;  6, 36.
6 Mugs, 36.
24 Oyster Bowls, 30.
12 Chambers, 6 covered;  6 open, 9.
6 Pairs 9 Ewers and Basins.
Johnson  Bros.’  W hite 

£15.8.6

Granite  W are.

Diamond A Assortment.

42 doz. Plates, 9,5;  3,5;  30, 7.
6  “  4 in. Fruit Saucers,  square.
36 Bowls, 12,24;  12, 30;  12, 36.
60 sets Teas, 30 haudied, 30 unhandled.
48 Scollops. 6,5;  12, 6;  12,7;  12, 8;  6,9,  square. 
15 Pitchers, 3.12;  6, 30;  3, 36.
6 pairs 9 Ewers and  Basins.
12 Chambers, 6 covered, 6 open, 9s.

£16.12.10

Ass’d G rate Burgess & Goddard 

Diamond X English W hite 

G ranite W are.
22 doz. Plates, 4.5;  4,6;  11, 7;  3.  8.
1 doz. Soup Plates, 7 inch.
6  *•  4 inch Fruit Saucers.
24 sets Teas, 6 hand., 18 unhandled.
15 Dishes, 1,7;  2, 8;  8, 9i  3 ,10;  3, 11;  3, 12.
16 Bakers, 4,5;  4 ,6;  4, 7;  4, 8.
24 Scollops, 6, 5;  6. 6;  6, 7;  6, 8.
4 Covered Dishes, 2, 7;  2,8.
1 Sauce Boat.
2 Pickles.
4 Covered Butters, 5 in.
2 Tea  Pots.
6 Sugars.
6 Creams, 24.
15 Bowls, 3,24;  6,30;  6,36.
24 Pitchers, 4, 6;  6,12;  4,24;  4,30;  4. 36.
4 Pairs No. 9 Ewers and Basins.
6 Covered Chambers, 9.
6 Soap  Slabs.
6 Mugs, 30.

£xx.i2.o

For prices Original Crates,  seo  first  column.
Ass’d  Package  Diamond  K 

Thirds, W hite  G ranite 

W are.

9 doz. 5 Inch  Plates.......

Bakers.

No. 36 Bowls.....................
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No. 30  ** 
No. 24 
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No. 9 Covered Chambers.

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6 *  4 in. Fruit  Saucers............. ..  25
*  5 in. Covered  Butters...
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D ishes........ ..3 20
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*  8 in. 
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% ‘  pairs No. 9 Ewers and Basi as6 60
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K *  10 in.
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‘  11 in. 
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*  12 in. 
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2 84
34 sets Handled St.  Denis Teas... ..  31
18
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*  5 in. Scolloped  Nappies__
*  6 in. 
4  7 in. 
*  8 in. 

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Package....

Sold by the package only.

151

3 24 
10  00 
3 60

4 00
1  50
1 50
1  60
80
90
2 20
60
76
1  00
1  40
25
40
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8  16
4  68
2  00

Points for Retailers.

“Vhell,  I can’t make him fit on my screen- 

From the Dry Goods Chronicle.

A judicious  reticence  is  consistent  with 

door.’”

perfect truthfulness.

Every trader has a clear right to the  mar­

ket price of his commodities.

“Saleableness” in a  merchant’s  vocabula 
ry should be  a  synonym  for  “serviceable­
ness.”

If you have facilities and  valuable  stock, 
your name  ought  to  be  before  the  public 
every day.

An  attractive  appearance  in  business 
premises and in arrangement of goods gives 
a fair vantage ground in competition.

To ticket  goods  at  a  higher  price  than 
that which they bear at  a  neighboring  shop 
is to refer your customers to  that  shop, not 
only for the one article but for other articles, 
too.

An  open,  honest  manner,  available  to 
every one in trade, differs widely in its mor­
al quality from the trick of decoying  custo­
mers by acting deceptively upon  their  blind 
eagerness for a wonderfully cheap article.

Whoever was the first to invent  the  trick 
of a “leading article” in trade,  or the first to 
introduce  that  trick  into  a  neighborhood, 
played his own conscience as false as he play­
ed his customers and his brother tradesmen.
A tradesman has as much right to  sell  an 
article at cost price or below it  as  to  make 
his  customers  a  presant  at  Christmas,  so 
long as he does  not  indemnify  himself  at 
their expense by charging all  the  more  for 
something else.

“Your account, though  a  poor  one  this 
year,  is quite satisfactory,” said a jobber  to 
a  retailer,  “as  you  are  steadily  reducing 
stock and expenses,  and this,  I am persuad­
ed, will shortly enable you to send better or­
ders and remittances.”

An  honest  rivalry  in  meeting  public 
wants is as noble in competitors as it is ser­
viceable to the community, but to  resort  to 
sly manoeuvres, which treat the public  as  a 
prey to be caught by a bait, and  your  both­
er tradesmen as natural enemies,  is  unman­
ly and unmerchant-like.

No merchant with any pretention to  hon­
esty can  practice  on  his  customers,  much 
less expect any of his employees to practice, 
a degree of deception  which,  if  attempted 
on  himself  by  the  self  same  employees, 
would bring down on the culprit a storm  of 
indignation, and  if  repeated,  would  entail 
their dismissal.

H 
From the Detroit Free Press.

Couldn’t Make It Work.

He slid quietly  into  a  Jefferson  avenue 
hardware store yesterday  forenoon,  unroll­
ed a paper on the counter,  and,  as  he  held 
up a patent door-spring,  he said:

“I buy him two days  ago  und  I  like  to 

exchange him for a vhetstone.”

“What’s the matter?”

“Why,  that’s  the  easiest  thing  in  the 
world.  See here:  This end screws  on  the 
door and that end on the casing.?’

“I  tried  him  dot  vhay  und  he  doant 

vork.”

“ When it is on you  take  this  metal  pin 
and turn the spring.  See the holes  there?”
“I  does  dot  vhay  und  my  screen-door 

flies open.”

“You turned the wrong way.”
“I  turns  him  eafery  way.  Sometimes 
der door vhas wide open,  und  all  der  flies 
in Michigan go in; und  sometimes  he  vhas 
shut oop so  tight  I  cant  get  in  my  own 
house. 
I begin on him in der morning, und 
I doan’ leave  off  till  night,  but  he  won’t 
wdrk right.”

“That’s  curious.  What  tools  did  you 

have?”

“I use a hammer,  und a screw-cfrifer, und 
a  coal-shisel,  und  saw,  und  auger,  und 
crow-bar,  und  lots  of  more,  but  he  doan’ 
spring for me.  My wife works at him,  too, 
und my hired man he lose half a day, und I 
vhas discouraged. 
I guess I trade  him  for 
a vhetstone.”

“Well, I’ll exchange  with  you,  but  I’m 

sure I can show you how to adjust it.”

“I guess I doan’ try any  more.  You  see 
my life  vhas  short,  und  I  can’t  spare  so 
much time mit machinery. 
If I gets a vhet­
stone I doan’ haf to screw him on  nor  turn 
him round.  Dere vhas no pins  or  ratchets 
in his stomach.  He vhas all right both ends 
oop.  Maype he doan’ keep  oudt  flies,  but 
he makes no trouble for me.”

The  exchange  was  made  and  the  man 
went away light-hearted,  calling  back  from 
the door:

“I can make oudt a  vhetstone  all  right, 
und I vhas oblidged mit you.  A  vhetstone 
winds oop only one vhay.

O R D ER

Our Leader Sm oking 

15c per pound.

Our Leader F in e Cut 

33c per pound.

Our Leader Shorts,  Our Leader Cigars, 

16c per pound. 

$30 per M.
Til©  B est  in   til©  W o r ld .

Clark, Jewell & Co.,

SOLE  AGENTS  FOB

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

where in this issue and write for

See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­
Special  Prices in Gar  Lots. 
We are prepared to M e Bottom Prices on anything we handle.
A. B. KNOWLSON,
POTATOES.

3 Canal Street, Basement,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

W e m ake the handling of POTATOES,  APPLES and BEANS 
in car lots a special feature of our business.  If you have any of 
these goods to ship, or anything in the produce line, let us  hear 
from you, and w ill keep you posted  on  m arket  price  and  pros­
pects.  Liberal cash advances m ade on car lots when desired.

The Enterprise Had a Good Start.

In the speculative days following the  war 
several  Milwaukee  capitalists  organized  a 
railroad company, projected a line two  hun 
dred and twenty miles  long,  and  came  to 
New York  to  secure  capital.  A  party  to 
whom they were  referred  listened  td  their 
project and asked:

“Have you secured the right of  way  yet, 

made a survey, or estimated the costs ?” 

“No.”
“Thar  you haven’t any railroad ?”
“Not any actual railroad,  but  we’ve  been 
paying ourselves salaries for  the  last  three 
months,  and that’s a good start, you know.”
Every grocer and cheese buyer is cordially 
invited  to  visit  the  Wayland  factory  and 
inspect the system and  cleanliness observed 
in every detail.

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

Reference:  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK.

Agents for Walker's Patent Butter Worker.

157 S. W ater St., O liioago, m .

EARL  BROS.,  Commission  Merchants.
W 1  SEARS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

A gents  fo r

AMBOY  CHEESE.

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

Manufactured by the

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

RAT .EIGH,  TV.  O.

GRAND  R A PID S,  MICH.,

Wholesale agents for the

STATE OF MICHIGAN.

T ills  is   the  only  authorized  Z .  cf  L. 
Sm oking  Tobacco  on  the  m arket.  The 
stock  of  th is  corporation  is  a ll  owned  by 
tke K  of L.  A ssem blies  in   the  TJ. S.,  and 
every m em ber  w ill  not  only  buy  it  him ­
self, but do h is utm ost to  m ake  it  popular. 
D ealers w ill therefore see the advisability 
of putting it in  stock  at once.  W e  w ill fill 
orders for an y quantity at follow ing prices, 
u su al term s:
2 0Z.46;  40Z.44;  8 0Z.43;  16 oz. 42.
A R T H U R «  & CO., 
Wholesale  Grocers,

77, 79,81 anil 83 M  D im  St., GraM Rapids, Hick

