VOL.  4

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  3,  1886

A Warning.

Pain is given for the wise purpose of inform­
ing us of  the presence  of danger and disease. 
Any little  excitement  of  an  unusual  nature 
disturbs  the  balance  of  the  system, the ner­
vous  energies  are  exhausted,  and  headache 
and a hundred other disturbances  are  the  re­
sult.  Many  of  the  miseries  of  modern man 
and womanhood might be cured  and  prevent­
ed were their  approach  heeded  and  resisted, 
having  their  origin  in  derangements  of the 
liver  and blood, dyspepsia,  jaundice,  indiges­
tion, costiveness and other unwholesome  con­
ditions.  Evils of a diseased nature find  a cer­
tain cure by the use of Golden Seal Bitters.  In 
this  medicine, nature,  aided  by  art,  has  pro- 
duced & rare  combination  of  medicinal  prop­
erties, wisely adapted for the cure of  diseases 
common to mankind.  The vitilizing principles 
embodied in Golden Seal Bitters will assuredly 
cure the broken down dyspeptic.  Sold by Haz- 
eltine,  Perkins  &  Co.,  wholesale  druggists, 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 

STEAM  LAUNDRY,

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43 and 45 Kent Street.

STANLEY  N.  ALLEN,  Proprietor.
WE  DO DEV FIRST-CLASS  WORK ASD  DSE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders  by  Mail  and  Express  Promptly  At­

tended  to.
BUY  WHIPS  and  LASHES
G-.  ROYS  tfc  OO.,

OF

M anufacturers’ agents,

2 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

G et spot cash prices and have the  profits.  Orders by 

m ail prom ptly attended to.

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

CRANI) RAPIDS  CRAM  AND  SEED CO.

Tl CANAL STREET.

Only 35 Cents.

So confident are we  that  Dr.  Pete’s  35  cent 
Cough Cure will not disappoint  the  most  san­
guine expectations  of  a  single  broken-dawn 
consumptive invalid that we w arrant it.  Had 
we not the most perfect confidence  in  its  vir­
tues, we would not thiuk  of  offering  it as  we 
do.  Sold by Hazeltine, Perkins  &  Co.,  whole­
sale druggists. Grand Rapids, Mich.
The CELEBRATED  EMERY  $3  SHOE
HATCH  &  EMERY,  Chicago  and  Boston. 

MANUFACTURED  BV

D.  G.  KENYON, Traveling Salesman,

227 Jefferson Stfipet, 

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

JUST  STARTING

fill find everything they wait
OFFICE  SUPPLIES,

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Geo. A. Hall & Co.
STATIONERS,

29  MONROE  ST.,  -   GRAND  RAPIDS.

Having been witnesses of the  truly  miracu­
lous cures made by Golden Seal Bitters, we do 
not hesitate to say that there is no other  rem­
edy for blood, liver, stomach, and  kidney  dis­
eases. half its equal.

ALBERT COYE & SON,
AWNINGS § TENTS

DEALERS  IN

Horse and Wagon Covers, 

Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,

Wide Ducks, etc.

Flags & Banners made to order.

73 CANAL  ST., 

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GRAND  RAPIDS.

We have just purchased a 

Send us a Trial Order.

large invoice of

Eclipse always in stock.

Spring  Chicken,  Moxie  and 

“PLA l HOAD PLBQ”
Olney, S hields & Go.
LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ,

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

STATE  AGENT  FOB

y e a s t ?

JUUNKER Gen-As'

106 Kent Street, Grand  Bapids, Mich.

TELEPHONE  566

Grocers, bakers and others can secure the agency tor 
their town on this Yeast by applying to above address. 
None genuine unless it bears above label.

CX JSSM A2TS

MENTHOL INHALER

N E U r L A L O I A  
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 in 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.

-----ARE----

BATOR  &  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
Am erican Cigar Co.’s
Goods  can  be  obtained  only  through 
the Authorized Factory Agents.

Eaton & ChristRnson
PIONEER

77  CANAL  STREET.

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

G-uarante © :

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

Hazeltine & Perkins Brns Co.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

GRAND  RAPIDS

SEED  MERCHANTS,

Office and Warehouse:  71 Canal St.

W. T. LAM01AD1, Apit
CLOVER

— AND—

TIMOTHY

A  SPECIALTY.

F o r a n a s  c&s m x t s
Boots, Shoes and Slippers

Wholesale Manufacturers

DETROIT,  MICH.

Company.  <9PH

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

Betoap W ap Ä b C o.

MANUFACTURERS  OF

BELKNAP’S

PATENT

SLEIGHS,
Business and Pleasure Sleighs,  Farm 

Sleighs, Logging Sleighs. 

We carry  a large stock of m aterial,  and  have  every 

Lumbermen’s and River Tools.
facility for m aking first-class Sleighs of all kinds.
Shop Oor.  Front and First Sts.,  Grand Rapids.

Muzzy’s Corn Starch is prepared expressly 
for  food,  is  made  of  only  the best white 
com,  and is guaranteed absolutely pure.

The popularity of Muzzy’s Corn  and  Sun 
Gloss Starch is proven by the large sale, ag­
gregating  many  millions  of  pounds  each 
year.

The State Assayer of Massachusetts  says 
Muzzy’s Com Starch for  table  use,  is  per­
fectly pure, well prepared,  and of  excellent 
quality.

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Muzzy’s  Starch,  both  for  laundry  and 
table use,  is the very best offered to the con­
sumer.  All  wholesale  and  retail  grocers 
sell it.

FOX &  BRADFORD,
S. V. VenaUe & Co.’s

Agents for a full line of

PETERSBURG,  VA.,

P L U G   TO B A CCO S,
NIMROD,
E.  C.,

BLUE  RETER,

SPREAD  EAGLE,

BIG FIVE CENTER.
M OSBZiBT  B E O S.

And Produce.

36, 28, 30 and 33  OTTAWA  ST.,  G’D  RAPIDS.

EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN,

IH B —

—AND—

JEW ELER

44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

B O O K S ,
Statioierr & Snihes,
GUSTAVE  A.  WOLF,  Attorney.

20  and  22  Monroe  S t.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Over Fourth National Bank.  Telephone 107. 

COMMERCIAL  LAW  &  COLLECTIONS.

The Cry of the Dreamer.
I am tired of planning and  toiling,
In the crowded hives of men;
H eart weary of building and spoiling,
And spoiling and building again.
And I long for the dear old river.
Where 1 dreamed my youth away;
For a dreamer lives forever.
And a toiler dies in a day.

I am sick of the showy seeming,
Of a life that is half a lie;
Of the faces lined with scheming 
In the throng that hurries by,
From the sleepless thoughts’ endeavor,
I'would go where the children play;
For a dreamer lives forever,
And a toiler dies in a day.

I feel no pride, but pity 
For the burdens the rich endure.
There is nothing sweet in the city 
But the patient lives of the poor.
Oh, the little hands too skillful,
And the child mind choked with weeds!
The daughter's heart grown willful,
And the father’s heart that bleeds!
No, no! from the streets rude bustle,
From trophies of m art and stage,
I would fly to the woods’ low rustle,
And the  meadow’s kindly page.
Let me dream as of old by the river,
And be loved for the dream alway;
For a dreamer lives forever,
And a toiler dies in a dav,

—John Boyle O'Reilly.
EPISODE  OF  A  NOTION  PEDDLER.
A cold winter’s night found a strange load 
of us gathered about the warm fire of a bar­
room in a Northern Michigan village.  Short­
ly after we arrived  a  notion  peddler  drove 
up  and  ordered  that  his  horse  should  be 
stabled for  the  night.  After  he  had eaten 
supper,  he repaired to  the bar-room  and as 
soon as the ice was broken conversation flow­
ed freely.  Several anecdotes had been related 
and finally the peddler was asked to give us 
a story,  as men of his profession were gener­
ally  full  of  adventure  and  anecdote.  He 
was a short, thick-set man somewhere about 
forty  years  of  age, and  gave  evidence  of 
great physical strength.  He gave his name 
as Lemuel  Vinney,  and  his  home  was  at 
Grand Rapids.

“Well, gentlemen,” liecommenced, knock­
ing the ashes  from  his  pipe  and  putting it 
in his pocket,  “suppose I tell  you  of about 
the last  thing of  any consequence that hap­
pened to me.  It was about two months ago, 
one pleasant evening I pulled up at the door 
of  a small  hotel  in  a  village  in  Hancock 
county,  Indiana. 
I said  it  was  pleasant; I 
meant it was  warm,  but it  was  cloudy and 
likly to be very dark. 
I went  in and called 
for supper and had my horse  taken care of, 
and after I had eaten I sat down in the bar­
room. 
It began to rain about 8 o’clock,  and 
for a while it poured down hard,  and it was 
very  dark outdoors.

“Now,  I wanted to  be  in  Jackson  early 
the next morning,  for  I  expected  a  load of 
goods there for me, which  I  meant  to  dis­
pose of on my way home.  The moon would 
rise  about  midnight,  and I knew  that if  it 
did not rain 1 could get  along very comfort­
ably through the mud after that.  So I ask­
ed the  landlord  if  he  would  see  that  my 
horse was fed  about  midnight, as  1 wished 
to be off before 2.  He expressed  some sur­
prise at this,  and  asked  me  why 1 did  not 
stop to breakfast. 
I  told  him  that  I  had 
sold my last load  about all  out,  and that a 
new  lot  of  goods  was  waiting  for  me  at 
Jackson,  and I wanted to be there for  them 
before the express  agent  left  in  the morn­
ing.  There was a number of  people  about 
while I told this,  but  I took  little  notice of 
them, one man only attracting my attention.
I had in my possession  a  small  package of 
placards which I was to  deliver to the sher­
iff at Jackson, and they were notices for the 
detection of a*notorious  robber  named Dick 
Hardhead.  These bills  gave  a  description 
of his person,  and  the  man  before  me  an­
swered very well  to it. 
In fact,  it was per­
fect.  He was a tall,  well-formed man, rath­
er slight in frame,  and  had the  appearance 
of a gentleman,  save that his face bore those 
hard,  cruel marks which  an observing  man 
cannot mistake for  anything  but the  index 
of a villainous disposition.

“When I went up to my room I asked the 
landlord who that  man  was  describing the 
suspicious individual.  He  said  he did  not 
know him.  He had come  there  that after­
noon and intended to leave sometime during 
the next day.  The  host  asked  me  why I 
wished to know,  and I simply told him that 
the man’s countenance  was  familiar,  and I 
wished to know if I had ever been acquaint­
ed with him. 
I resolved not to let the land­
lord into the secret, but to hurry on to Jack- 
son and there  give  information to the sher­
iff,  and perhaps he might  reach  the inn be­
fore  the villain  left; for  I  had  no  doubts 
with regard to his identity.

“I had an alarm  watch,  and  having set it 
I went to 
to  give  the  alarm  at 1 o’clock. 
sleep. 
I was  aroused  at  the  proper  time 
and immediately got up and dressed myself. 
When I reached the yard I found the clouds 
all passed away and  the  moon  was shining 
brightly.  The  hostler  was  easily  aroused 
and by 2 o’clock I  was  on  the  road.  The 
mud was deep and my horse  could not trav­
el very fast, yet it struck  me  that the beast 
made more work  than was  any need of, for 
the cart was  nearly empty, my whole  stock 
consisting of about  half  a  dozen  tin  pans 
and a lot of loose rags.

“However, on we went, and in the course 
of half an hour I was  clear  of  the  village, 
and &t a short  distance  ahead  lay  a  large 
tract of forest, mostly of  great  pines.  The 
rotid run directly through this  wood and, as 
near as I  can  remember,  the  distance  was 
not far from twelve  miles.  The  moon was

in  the  east  and,  as  this  road  run  nearly 
west,  I  should  have  light  enough. 
I  had 
entered  the wood  and  had  gone,  perhaps, 
half a mile when  my wagon wheels settled, 
with a bump  and  a  jerk,  into a  deep hole.
I  uttered  an  exclamation  of  astonishment; 
but that was not  all. 
I  heard  another  ex­
clamation from another source!

“ What  could  it  be? 

I  looked  quickly 
around  but'  could  see  nothing, and  yet  I 
knew that the sound  I  had  heard was very 
close to me.  As the hind wheels came up I 
felt something roll  or  tumble from one side 
to the other  of  my wagon  and  I could also 
feel  the  jar  occasioned  by the  movement.
It  was  simply a  man  in  my cart!  I knew 
this on the instant,  You  may have noticed 
my cart  as I  came  up  tins  evening.  The 
main part  of  it  opens  behind,  and there is 
room  enough  within for quite a  party,  pro­
viding they’d stow themselves close enough. 
Of course I felt puzzled.  At last I wonder­
ed if some poor fellow  had  not  taken  this 
method to obtain a  ride.  But  I  soon  gave 
this  up, fot I  knew  that  any decent  man 
would have  asked  me for  a ride  and taken 
it  comfortably.  My  next  idea  was  that 
somebody had got  in  there  to  sleep.  But 
this passed away as quickly  as it  came, for 
no man would have  broken into my cart for 
that  purpose.  And  that  thought,  gentle­
men,  opened  my  eyes.  Whoever  was  in 
there had broken in.

“M^ next thoughts  were  of  Dick  Hard­
head.  He had  heard  me  say  that my load 
was all sold out,  and of course he  supposed 
I had  some  money with me.  And  in  this 
he was right, for I had  over §2,000. 
I also 
thought that he meant to leave the cart when 
he supposed I had reached a safe place, and 
then either creep over and shoot me or knock 
me down,  or, perhaps,  slip  out  and  ask for 
a ride,  or something  of  that  sort.  All this 
passed through my mind  by the  time I had 
got a rod from the hole.

“Now,  I never  make it a point to brag of 
myself,  but yet I have  seen  a  great deal of 
the world,  and I am  pretty cool  and  clear­
headed under difficulty. 
In a  very few mo­
ments my resolution was formed.  My horse 
was now knee deep in the mud,  and I knew 
I  could  slip  off  without  any  noise.  So I 
drew my  revolver—I  never  travel  iu  that 
country without  it—it is  a  six-barreled one 
and  sure  fire. 
I  drew  this,  and  having 
twined  the  reins  about  the  whipstock,  I 
carefully slipped  down  in  the  mud,  and as 
the cart passed on I went behind  it  and ex­
amined the hasp.  The door of  the cart lets 
down,  and  is  fastened  with  a  hasp which 
slips over a staple,  and is  then secured by a 
padlock.  The  padlock  was  gone, and  the 
hasp was  secured  in  its place  by a  bit  of 
pine  stick,  so that a slight  push from with­
in could  break  it.  My wheel-wrench hung 
in a leather  bucket on  the side of  the cart, 
and I quickly took it out  and slipped it into 
the  staple,  the  iron  handle  just «sliding 
down.
(  “Now I had  him.  My  cart  was  almost 
new,  with a stout frame  of  white  oak,  and 
made  on  purpose  for  iiard  usage,  heavy 
I did  not  believe  that 
loads,  and  service. 
any ordinary man  could  break  out. 
I  got 
onto my cart as noiselessly as I got off,  and 
then  urged  my  horse  on,  still keeping  my 
pistol handy. 
I knew that  at  the  distance 
of a mile  further I  should  come  to  a  good 
hard  road, and  allowed  my  horse  to  pick 
his  own  way  through  the  mud. 
It  was 
about 10 minutes  after  this, that I  heard  a 
motion in the  cart,  followed  by  a  grinding 
noise, as though  some  heavy force were be­
ing  applied  to  the  door.  This  continued 
some  moments,  and  then  came  a  heavy 
thump,  as  though the  sole  of  a boot  were 
applied  to  the  door. 
I  said  nothing,  but 
the  idea  struck me that  the  villain  might 
try to  judge about where I sat and shoot up 
through the  top  of  the  cart at me, so I sat 
down on the footboard.

“Of course I  knew  now  that  my  unex­
pected passenger was a villain,  for he must 
have been awake ever since  I  started,  and 
nothing else in the world  but  absolute  vil­
lainy  would  have  caused  him  to  remain 
quiet so long and then start up  in  this  par­
ticular place.  The thumping  and  pushing 
grew louder,  and  pretty  soon I heard a' hu­
man voice.

“ ‘Let me out of this!”  he  cried,  and  he 

yelled pretty loudly.

“I lifted my head up so  as  to  make  him 
think that I was sitting  in  my usual  place, 
and then asked him what  he  was  doing  in 
tjhere.

“ ‘Let me out and I’ll tell ye,’ he  replied.
“ ‘Tell me  what  you’re  in  there  for,’  I 

said.

answered.

“ ‘I got in here to sleep on your rags,” he 

“ ‘How’d ye get in?’ I asked.
“ ‘Let me out,  or  I’ll  shoot  ye  through 

the head,” he yelled.

“Just  at  that  moment  my  horse’s  feet 
struck  the  hard  road,' and I knew that the 
rest of the route to Jackson  would  be  good 
going.  The distance was  twelve  miles. 
I 
slipped back upon  the  footboard  and  took 
the whip. 
I had the same  horse  then  I’ve 
got now; a  tall,  stout,  powerful  bay  mare, 
and  you  may  believe  there’s  some  go  in 
her.  At any  rate,  she  struck  a  gait  that 
even astonished me.  She  had  had  a  good 
mess of oats,  the night  was  cool,  and  she

NO.  163.

felt like going. 
In fifteen minutes we clear­
ed the woods,  and  away we went at a great 
pace.  The chap  inside  kept  yelling  to be 
let out,  and threatened to  shoot  if  I  didn’t 
let him out.  Finally he  stopped/  and  in  a 
few moments came the reports  of  a  pistol, 
one,  two,  three,  four,  one  right  after  the 
other, and I heard the  balls  whiz  over  my 
head. 
If I  had  been  on  my  seat  one  of 
those balls,  if not two of  them,  must  have 
gone through  me. 
I  popped  up  my  head 
again  and  gave  a  yell  and  then ’a  deep 
groan,  and then I said,  ‘O,  save  me!  I’m  a 
dead man!  Then I made  a  shuffling  noise, 
as though I were falling off, and finally set­
tled down on the  foot-board,  I  now  urged 
up the old mare by giving her an  occasional 
poke with  the  butt  of  the  whip,  and  she 
went along faster than ever.

“The  man called  out  to  me  twice  more 
pretty soon after this,  and  as  he got no  re­
ply  he  made  some  tremendous  endeavors 
to break the door  open,  and  as  this  failed 
him lie made several attempts upon  the top. 
But I had no fears  of  his  doing  anything 
there, for the  top  of my  cart  is  framed  in 
with dovetails and each sleeper bolted to the 
the posts with an  iron  bolt. 
I had it made 
so  that  I  could  carry  heavy  loads  there. 
By-and-by,  after  all  else  had  failed,  the 
scamp commenced  to  holler  ‘whoa’  to  the 
horse,  and  kept  it  up  until  he  became 
hoarse.  All this time I kept perfectly quiet, 
holding  the  reins  firmly  and  poking  the 
beast with the whip.

“He  wasn’t  an  hour  going  that  dozen 
miles—not a bit of  it. 
I  hadn’t much fear; 
perhaps I might tell the truth  and  say  that 
I had none, for  I  had  a  good  pistol,  and, 
more than that, my passenger  was safe; yet 
I  did  feel  glad  when  I  came  to  the  old 
flour-barrel factory  that  stands  at the edge 
of Jackson village,  and in ten minutes more 
I  hauled  up  in  front  of  the  tavern  and 
found a couple of men cleaning  down  some 
stage horses.

“ ‘Well, old feller,’  says I, as I get  down 
and went round to the  back  of  the  wagon, 
‘you’ve had a good ride, haven't ye?’

“ ‘Who are you?’  he  cried,  and his voice 
trembled a little, too, as he  asked the ques­
tion.

“ ‘I am the man you tried to shoot,’ I told 

him.

“ ‘Where  am  I?  Let  me out!’ he yelled.
“ ‘Look  here,’  said  I ‘we’ve  come  to  a- 
safe stopping place, and mind ye I’ve  got  a 
revolver ready for ye  the  moment  ye  show 
yourself.  Now lay quiet.’

“By this time the  two  hostlers  had come 
to see what was the matter, and I explained 
it all to them.  After this I got one of them 
to  run  and  find  the  sheriff,  and  tell  him 
what I believed I’d got  for  him.  The  first 
streaks of daylight  were  now  just  coming 
up and in half  an  hour  it  would  be  broad 
In less than that time tiie sheriff 
daylight. 
come and two other men  with  him. 
I told 
him the whole  story in a few words,  exhib­
ited the hand-bills I had  for  him  and  then 
he made for the cart.  He told  the chap in­
side  who  he  was  and  that if he made the 
least resistance he’d be  a  dead  man.  But, 
mind you, the sheriff didn’t tell him the sus­
picions we had about  him.  Then I slipped 
the iron  wrench  out,  and  as I let the  door 
down,  the fellow  made a spring. 
I  caught 
him by the ankle and he came down  011  his 
face and in a moment more the  officers  had 
him.  He was the  very  man I had suspect­
ed and  his  fine  black  clothes  were  pretty 
well covered  with  lint  and  dirt.  He  was
tmarched off to the  lockup,  and  I  told  the 
sheriff I should remain in  the  town all day.
“After breakfast the sheriff came down to 
the tavern and told  me  that  I  had  caught 
the very bird; and  that  if  I  would  remain 
until the next  morning  I  should  have  the 
reward of  §200  which  had been offered. 
I 
found my goods  all  safe,  paid  the express 
agent for bringing them  from  Indianapolis, 
and then went to work to  stow  them  away 
in my cart. 
I found the bullet-holes  in  the 
top of my vehicle just as I expected.  They 
were in a line, about five inches  apart,  and 
had 1 been where I usually sit  two of  them 
would  have  hit  me  somewhere  about  the 
small of the back  and  passed  upward,  for 
they were sent with a heavy charge of pow- 
, der,  and his pistol was a heavy one.

“The next morning the sheriff  called  up­
on me and paid me §300 in gold,  for he had 
made himself  sure  that  he  had got the vil­
lain.  After an early dinner  I  set  out,  and 
liere I am. 
I’ve sold  my  load  all  out  and 
am now ready to lay up  for  the  winter. 
I 
found a letter  in  the  office  at  Portsmouth 
for me, from the sheriff of Hancock county, 
and he informed me  that  Mr.  Hardhead  is 
now in  prison for life.”

So ended the peddler’s story. 

In the morn­
ing I had the curiosity to  look  at  his  cart, 
and I found the four bullet-holes just  as  he 
had told us,  though they were now plugged 
up with vial corks.  Yinney came out while 
I was looking and showed me the  prints  of 
the villain’s feet upon the cart.  They were 
plain,  and must have been given  with great 
force.

“Aurelia,  darling,  “Yes, Arthur.”  “You 
know we are soon to  be married.”  “Yes.” 
“And we should  learn  to  be  economical in 
all  things.”  “ Yes.”  Hadn’t  you  better 
turn down the gas?”

OLD  BARBELS

Setting about a store  are  unsightly,  besides  th e  pro­
jectin g  nails on them  are dangerous  to  clothing.  The 
enterprising grocer realizes the value of handsome and 
convenient  fixtures,  and  to  m eet  this  dem and  the 
W oolson  Spic e  Co.,  of  Toledo,  Ohio,  have  designed 
th e ir

Xaion  Coffee  Cabinet,
Of which  the  accom panying  cut  gives  but  a  partial 
idea. 
In this cabinet is packed 120 one-pound packages 
of Lion Coffee, and we  offer  the  goods  a t  a  price 
enabling the grocer to  secure  these  cabinets  w ithout 
cost to himself.  They are made air-tight, tougued and 
grooved, beautifully grained  and  varnished,  and  are 
put together in  the  best  possible  m anner.  Complete 
set of casters, w ith screws,  inside  this  cabinet.  Their 
ase in every grocery, after the coffee is sold out,  is  ap­
parent;  ju st the thing from  which  to  retail  oatm eal, 
nee, prunes, hominy, dried  fruits,  bread,  ami  a  hun­
dred o ther  articles.  F urther,  they  take  up  no  more 
floor  room  than  a  barrel,, and  do  aw ay  w ith  these 
unsightly  things  in  a  store.  For  price-list  of  Lion 
Coffee  in these cabinets, see price-current in  this ua- 
per.  Read  below  wliat  we  say 
Lion  Coffee.

quality

th

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.'  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  3,  1886.

G rand Rapids T raveling Men’s Association.
President,  L.  M. Mills; Vice-President, S. A. Sears;  Sec­
retary  and Treasurer, Geo. H. Seymour;  Board of Di­
rector’s, H. S. Robertson,  Geo.  F.  Owen,  J.  N.  Brad­
ford, A. B. Cole and Wnr. Logie.

G rand  R apids  R utcliers’  Union, 

President, John Katz;  Secretary, Clias. Velite; Treas­

urer, Joseph Schlaus.

t3&~  Subscribers  and others,  when  writing 
to  advertisers, will confer a favor on  the pub­
lisher bv  mentioning that they saw the adver­
tisement in the columns of  this  papei.

The  New  York  City  grocers  have  been 
the  victims  of  a  species  of  contemptible 
persecution  during  the  campaign.  Those 
who refused  to  vote  and  work  for  Henry 
George, 
the  communistic  candidate  for 
Mayor,  have been boycotted  by the Knights 
of Labor, and  in  some  cases  the  Knights 
have gone so far  as to place  pickets around 
a grocer’s establishment,  to prevent his reg­
ular customers from trading with him.  The 
freedom which the Knights  of  Labor claim 
for  themselves  they  refuse  to  accord  to 
others. 

________________

A State paper is  authority for  the  state­
ment  that  the Knights  of  Labor of  Battle 
Creek are talking of  starting a  co-operative 
store,  “where all sorts of  goods will be fur­
nished at  cost.” 
If  the Knights  of  Labor 
of Battle Creek are  half  as  smart  as  they 
evidently think they are,  they will never let 
their project  get further than  “talk.”

‘‘THE  CANVASSING  FRAUD.”

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

Immediately  upon  receipt  of  the  letter 
from  Frank  Ilibbard, the  Evart  druggist, 
which is given on another page of this issue, 
The T radesm an  wrote for  further partic­
ulars regarding the  person  referred  to and 
the manner in which he proposed to operate 
his  system.  The  reply  came  promptly  at 
hand,  as follows:

Agreeable  to your request,  I  interviewed 
the  local “attorney” established  by the fel 
low who secured the memberships—and the 
S3.  The person’s  name  is  C. H.  Rose and 
he is free to admit that he does  not see how 
the  guarantee  affords  the  member any ad­
vantages he did  not  already enjoy as an in 
dividual.  He says the fellow left no printed 
blanks,  rules, instructions or  papers of  any 
kind,  except  a  written  list  of  attorneys 
evidently made  up from  some  second-class 
directory.  Rose  thinks  that  he  used  the 
names of many business men  on  his certifi­
cates  (which he  exhibited  as  inducements) 
who  did  not  join  or  pay  him  money. 
I 
know that he had the names of men belong­
ing to recently organized local  associations. 
This first led  me  to  doubt  him  and  after­
wards caused him to  give  me  a wide berth 
while in town.
^ The fellow  sailed  under  the name of “I. 
E.  Loomis,’’and registered from New York. 
He was  accompanied by a lady and  a little 
girl about six years old.

Mr.  Hibbard  also  favors  The  Trades­
man with one of the certificates of member­
ship  given  those  who  are  so  foolish as to 
pay the fellow  S3, which  bears  strong evi 
dence of fraud on its face.  The advantages 
alleged  to  accrue  to  membership  in  “The 
United States Commercial Agency”  are  no 
advantages  whatever,  being  no  more  than 
are possessed by the  merchant  before  join 
iug the “Agency”—and paying the S3.  The 
scheme is about as clever as half  the  swin 
dling games played  upon  the  unwary mer­
chant,  but it does  not  possess  a  single ele­
ment to recommend  it  to  the consideration 
of any shrewd business man.

The Tradesm an would esteem it a favor 
to  be  informed  of  the  whereabouts  of  the 
man who is working the fraudulent scheme, 
as  he  moves  around  about  the  State,  and 
will endeavor to keep the  trade posted as to 
his  movements.

As will be seen  by referring  to the  com­
munication from the Secretary of the Green­
ville Business Men’s Association,  published 
elsewhere in this  week’s  paper,  that organ­
ization has takep the iniative in rendering it 
uncomfortable for the dead-beat who creeps 
into the ranks.  Such  a  step  is  eminently 
proper  and  will  secure  the  commendation 
of  every  friend  of  organization.  As  the 
cardinal  principle  of  organization  is  fair­
ness,  it is  manifestly unjust  for  any asso­
ciation  to  harbor  an 
individual  against 
whom its  weapons  would  be  turned  were 
he not connected  with  the  guild.  As  the 
tendency of  organization  is  to  elevate  the 
standard of mercantile integrity, conformity 
with  the  laws  of  self-preservation  would 
naturally dictate the expulsion of every per­
son whose presence in the association would 
have  a tendency to  bring  the  organization 
into disrepute.  The man  who is  unwilling 
to practice what he preaches should be sum­
marily dealt with.

G RAN D   R A PID S   G OSSIP.

J.  O. Sabin has engaged in the meat busi­

ness at 694 South Division street.

Bale & Crandall have engaged  in  general 
trade at Amble.  Cody, Ball & Co. furnish­
ed the stock.

E.  J.  Carrel succeeds David Arnott in the 
grocery  business  at  the  comer  of  West 
Bridge and Scribner streets.

Mrs.  F.  Chenoweth,  general  dealer  at 
Ganges,  has added  a  line  of  drugs.  The 
Ilazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.  furnished 
the stock.

Keller & Brittan have -engaged in the gro­
cery business at the corner of  East Leonard 
and  Taylor  streets.  Bulkley,  Lemon  & 
Hoops furnished the stock.

H.  Teracter,  late  with  D.  J.  Domink, 
has engaged in  the fancy goods  business at 
162  Ellsworth  avenue,  Locher  block.  P. 
Steketee  & Sons furnished the stock.

Theo.  Kemink  succeeds  Kemink,  Jones 
& Co.  in the drug  business  at  the corner of 
West Bridge street and  Broadway,  and will 
shortly remove  the  stock  to  West Leonard 
street.

The Farmer  Roller  Mill Co.  lias  given a 
trust mortgage for $21,000,  which indicates 
that the time  is  not  far  distant  when the 
establishment will be  numbered  among the 
things that were.

It is reported that M.  A.  True,  of  the  M. 
A. True Printing and Engraving Co.,  is se­
curing a settlement with his creditors on the 
basis  of  20  per  cent.  The  creditors are 
lucky to get that much.

P.  H.  Carroll  is authority  for  the  state­
ment  that  Mr. Brown,  of  the  late  firm of 
Broas, Brown  &  Co.,  shoe  jobbers  at  De­
troit,  contemplates  engaging  in the whole­
sale boot and shoe business here.

John  McIntyre,  late  with  B.  S.  Harris, 
has purchased the interest of  Lyman Noble 
in the grocery firm of Noble & Yan Yoorhis, 
at 699 South Division  street.  The business 
will be continued under the style  of  McIn­
tyre &  Yan Yoorhis.

The Grand  Rapids  Refrigerator  Co.  has 
leased the  three-story and  basement  build­
ing on Campau street, known  as the Michi­
gan Iron Works  block,  for  a  term of years 
and is fitting the  same up for  use as  a cab­
inet  shop.  The  machine  work  on the re­
frigerators  will  still  be  done  in  the  New 
Era  block,  while  the  cabinet  work  will 
be done at  the  new  location  and  the  com­
pleted goods  stored  at  H.  Leonard & .Sons’ 
wholesale store  on Fulton street.

AROU N D   T H E   S T A T E .

Clias.  D/ Watt,  grocer at Constantine, has 

sold out.

sold out.

has sold out.

has  assigned.

is closing out.

A.  B.  Stevens,  the  Detroit  druggist, has 

D.  Wilson,  general dealer at Otsego Lake, 

C.  W.  Barton,  confectioner at Big Rapids, 

J.  Davis,  hardware  dealer  at  Hillsdale, 

As an excellent illustration of  the mater­
ial benefits  which  can  be  secured  through 
concerted  effort  in  association  work,  The 
T radesm an  commends  the  action  of  the 
Lyons Business Men’s Association  in secur­
ing  the location  at that place of  the Grand 
Ledge  Chair  Co.,  a  manufacturing  estab­
lishment heretofore located at Grand Ledge, 
but which has  been  prevailed  upon  to  re­
move to Lyons  by reason  of  the  tempting 
offer held out  to  the  concern  to  locate  at 
that place.

Stone Bros., the Ionia dry goods firm,  have 
failed  again.  The  last  time  they  failed, 
they settled for 25 cents on the dollar, which 
enabled the brothers  to buy fine  residences 
and their wives to  lead  the  fashions of the 
town.  As soon as they have effected a com­
promise  this  time,  The  Tradesm an  will 
expect to learn that they have bought a brick 
block or purchased several thousand dollars’ 
worth of bank  stock.  There’s  nothing like 
failing  right,  to  get  a  good  start  in  the 
world.

Burr  Oak  organized  according  to  pro­
gramme  last  Tuesday  evening.  Wayland 
organizes  Wednesday  evening  and  Grand 
Haven  Friday  eveniug.  Tustin  organizes 
next Wednesday evening  and  Muir  the fol­
lowing evening.  Who says the work is not 
proceeding rapidly?

Greenville 

(50  members),  Sparta  (30 
members)  and Hastings (26 members)  have 
identified themselves with the  M.  B. M.  A. 
since the last report.  This  gives  the State 
organization  a  total i membership  to  date 
of  486.

C.  C.  Crego succeeds  Allen Lee in gener­

al trade at Wakalee.

P.  Garrison, grocer  at  Munson,  has  been 

closed on chattel mortgage.

Parks  &  Son  succeed  Stanley  &  Co.  in 

the grocery business  at Clio.

Daniel Shanahan,  grocer  at  Big  Rapids, 

has assigned to E.  P.  Clark.

F.  L.  Gunnison succeeds  A.  C.  Patterson 

in general trade at  Marengo

H.  Hild, Jr.,  succeeds  H.  Hild & Son in 

the grocery  business at Detroit.

E.  S.  Day  succeeds  Chas.  Olson  in  the 

grocery business at Ludington.

Frank Hulm succeeds  Anthony  Schaffer 

in the grocery business at Detroit.

Fuller & Calkins  succeed  Chas.  P.  Hunt 

in the grocery business at Jackson.

M.  M.  Elder succeeds  M.  M.  Elder & Co. 

in general trade at Spencer Creek.

Geo.  Chantler  succeeds  Chantler & Paul­

son in general trade at Manistique.  ~

Leszcynski Bros,  have  removed  their dry 

goods stock from Bay City to Oscoda.

L.  D.  Jones  &  Co.  succeed  W. S.  Jones 

& Bro.  in the drug business  at Durand.

Cook  &  Standart,  hardware  and  grocery 

dealers at Akron,  are about to dissolve.

E. L.  Bansill has purchased the hardware 

stock of F. A.  Cook & Co.,  at Bellaire.

Erdman,  Kilmartin & Tew succeed Hinds 

& Kilmartin in general trade at Orange.

I. G.  Winnie,  the  Traverse  City  grocer, 
has discharged the  chattel  mortgage on his 
stock.

CL W. Pickford succeeds Pickford & Clegg 
in  the  dry  goods  business  at  Sault  Ste. 
Marie.

Culham & Co.  succeed  Culham & Pocock 
in the boot and  shoe and notion business at 
Detroit.

M. P. Reynolds & Son, general dealers at 
Remus,  have  been  closed  under  chattel 
mortgage.

The star boot and shoe store  at  Caro  has 
been  purchased  from  C.  L.  Taggett  by 
Cleaver & White.

P. Yan Riper has sold his  drug  stock,  at 
Onondaga,  to  Dr.  W.  S.  Hart,  who  will 
continue the business.

Butters & Baldwin,  druggists  at  Luding- 
ton,  have purchased  the  drug  stock of  W. 
H.  Taylor at that  place.

Root & Finn,  two  of  Coldwater’s  young 
business  men,  have  purchased the general 
stock of Andrew  Winchester,  of Allen.

The Michigan Drug Exchange reports the 
sale of  the Dr.  J.  W.  Kirtland  drug  stock, 
at  Lakeview, 
to  C.  F.  Broden,  late  of 
Grand Rapids.

Wm.  H.  Merrittfretired from  the  grocery 
firm of Merritt & Eclcenfels,  at Manistee, on 
Oct.  20.  The business  is  continued  by  F. 
A.  Eckenfels.

Hancock & Boyce write T he Tradesm an 
as follows from  Petoskey:  “We  have pur­
chased  the  grocery and  provision  stock  of 
Rose Bros. & Co.  at 5 per cent,  less than in­
ventory value,  freight and cartage,  the pur­
chase price  being $2,000.  We  have leased 
the old location for a term of years.”

M A N U FA CTU RIN G   M ATTERS.

David C. Bradley,  of  Bangor  Furnace,  is 

dead.

Hastings’  new  roller  mill has a capacity 

of400 barrels of flour per  day.

The Mancelona  broom  factory is turning 

out 80 dozen brooms per day.

W. D.  Wing & Co.,  at  Wingleton,  are re­
building their planing  mill,  recently  burn­
ed.

Snow Bros, have removed  their grist mill 
from  Woodland,  Barry  county,  to  Lake 
City.

The  George  W.  Roby  Lumber  Co.  has 
disposed of all  its  standing  pine  and  will 
sell the mill  as  soon  as a purchaser can be 
found.

J. J.  Lyon,  D.  H.  Hessler  and  B.  W. 
Brewer have purchased the  shingle  mill  at 
Indian River,  owned by  Foss  &  Leiler,  of 
Bay City. 

_ _ _ _ _

STRA Y   FA C T S.

The Bank  of  Mancelona  moved  into  its 

new building October 25.

Fred E.  Stone  has  engaged  in  the  meat 

business at Grand Haven.

Daniel  L. Johnson,  miller  at'  Yorkville, 

was  recently burned out.

Abel A.  Brockway,  pine land and lumber 

dealer at Saginaw,  is dead.

L.  B.  Crandall,  agricultural  implement 

dealer at Ithaca,  has sold out.

Sherman & Rae,  saloon keepers at Mecos­

ta,  are offering a compromise.

J. E.  Smith succeeds  Manee  &  Smith  in 

the meat business at Eaton Rapids.

Willoughby  &  Davison  succeed  Peet  & 

Peet in the hotel business at Ithaca.

W.  S. May succeeds  Allen & May  in  the 

blacksmith business at Stockbridge.

C. L.  Gray & Co.  succeed  Gray  &  Daw­

son in the sawmill business at Evart.

Hocking & Shields succeed J.  D.  Ryan in 
the merchant tailoring business at Hancock«
Hull & Dickinson succeed Palmer & Dick­
inson in the  notion  business  at  Three Riv­
ers.

A  new  savings  bank  with  a  capital of 
$50,000 will soon be organized in East Sagi­
naw.

John  C.  Redmond  succeeds  Malany  & 
Redmond in the fruit  and  cigar business at 
Jackson.

Mittentlial  &  Strous  succeed  Holmes %& 
Stearns in the confectionery business at Kal­
amazoo.

Frost  &  Brewster,  lumber  dealers  and 
planing mill operators  at  Hudson,  are clos­
ing out.

Geo. Metz is looking up machinery for his 
new tannery at Mill Creek.  The' buildings 
will not be erected until next spring.

On  Mud  lake,  near  Sault  Ste.  Marie, 
several camps have been located for putting 
in black birch and other hardwood logs.

Mack  &  Schmid,  having  purchased  the 
wool of nearly all  the  buyers  around  Ann 
Arbor,  sold it recently .to a western  mill lo­
cated in the Mississippi valley.

A Fairfield correspondent  writes  as  fol­
lows:  Cheese factories are  receiving about 
double  the  amount  of  milk  now they did 
last  year ’at  this  time  of  the ’season, and 
eight pounds make one of cheese.

Jasper Robinson purchased a tract of land 
of the Elk Rapids Iron Co.,  on Torch  lake. 
Off the  land,  in  10  months,  he cut 12,000 
cords of wood,  440 cords  of  hemlock  bark 
and 2,000,000 feet of hardwood logs.

Hastings is to have a  second  bank.  Mr. 
C.  Beebe,  a  Kalamazoo  capitalist,  is  the 
prime mover in the matter, but the majority 
of the $5b,000 capital  is  taken by business 
men and farmers in Hastings  and  vicinity. 
A  board  of  directors  has  been  already 
chosen.

F.  C.  Beard has sold the  southeast  quar­
ter Qf section 31, Mecosta township,  to  the 
Michigan  Shingle  Co.,  of  Muskegon; 
consideration  $2,600.  There  is  estimated 
to be 1,700,000 feet of hemlock standing  on 
the tract and it is the intention  of  the pur­
chasers to put this timber  into  the  Muske­
gon the coming winter.

Furniture Facts.

C. Yietlow  succeeds  Rudolph  Kayser  -in 

the furniture business at Niles.

Carl Zoetlow  succeeds  Zoetlow & Kaiser 

in the furniture business at Niles.

See Bros,  succeed  See  Bros.  &  Cooke in 

the furniture business  at Bay City.

VISITING  BUYERS.

The following  retail  dealers  have  visited 
the market dining the past.week and placed 
orders with the various houses:
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
L. N. Fisher, Dorr.
J. Gunstra, Lament.
S. Sheldon, Pierson.
J. M. Reid, Grattan.
O. Narragang, Byron Center.
M. P. Shields, Hilliards.
J. Teisinga, Forest Grove.
J. Raymond, Berlin.
G. H. Walbriuk, Allendale.
M. M. Robson, Berlin.
Jorgensen & Hemingsen, Ashland.
W. R. Stansell, Langston.
C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville.
Newman & Esbaugh, Dorr.
John Smith, Ada.
Cole & Chapel. Ada.
L. B. Chapel, Ada.
C. A. Brott, Canada Corners.
J. Barnes. Austerlitz.
Nelson F. Miller, Lisbon.
J. W. Closterhouse, Grandville,
G. TenHoor, Forest Grove.
Wm. Karsten, Beaver Dam.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
J. C. Benbow. Cannonsburg.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
Paine & Field, Englishville.
A. S. Frye, Lake.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
N. W. Crocker, Byron Center.
M. J. Howard, Englishvillo.
C. O. Smedley, Byron Center.
A. C. Barkley, Crosby.
Stanley Monroe,  Berlin.
L. Cook, Bauer.
M. B. Nash, Sparta.
B. E. West & Co., Lowell.
J. H. Moores, Moorestown.
Hunt & Hunter, Lowell.
S. T. Colson. Alaska.
L. Perrigo, Burnip’s Corners.
J. E. Thurkow, Morley.
J. Q. Look, Lowell.
Sisson & Lilley Lumber Co., Sisson’s Mills.
E. S. Hipkins, Blanchard.
H. W. Potter,  Jenisonville.
Dr. V. Sinz, Trent.
R. B. McCullock, Berlin.
Mr. Barker, with H. B. Hatch, Hart.
Smith & Bristol, Ada.
John Giles & Co., Lowell.
A. W. Blain Dutton.
Oliver Seaman, Big Rapids.
F. A. Foote, Hilliards.
Geo. Austin, Sparta.
Chas. Brott, Canada Corners.
P. T. Cook. Reynolds,
A. Purchase, South Blendon.
L. Cook, Bauer.
Wm. Verineulen, Beaver Dam.
Mrs. Adam Wagner, New Holland.
Velzy Bros., Lamont.
Vorhoost Bros., Overisel.
J. McPherson, Lowell.
D. J. Peacock, Ashland.
Mrs. M. Burbank, Spring Lake.
John Vaneenenan,  Zeeland,
Walter H. Struik, Forest Grove.
Geo. Cook, Grove.
John Guusta, Lamont.
C. F. Soars, Rockford.
D. R. Stocum, Rockford.
M. Minderhout, Hanley.
C. S. Comstock, Pierson.
H. M. Freeman, Lisbon.
Ninehuis Bros., New  Holland.
Geo. W.  Bartlett, Ashland.

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.

ticulars, Box 172, Galesburg, Mich. 

town of 1,000 to 3,000.  Address, with par­

■ 7ANTED—To  buy  paying  drug  store  in 
17^0R  SALE—Stock of books  and  stationery.
- 
Inventories about $3,000; population, five 
thousand.  Town  growing.  For  particulars, 
address.  Eaton & Lyon, Grand Rapids;  163
w ANTED—Situation as a salesman in a gen- 
eral or grocery store,  by  a young man. 
•  . 
Two  years’  experience.  Good  recommenda­
164*
tions.  A. Littlefellow,  Martin,  Mieh. 

185*-

ANTED—A good  milliner and dress-mak- 
vv 
er—one  who  thoroughly  understands 
the business.  Good references required.  Ad­
dress L, Lock box 56, Vicksburg, Mich.  163*

groceries,  crockery,  drugs  and  jewelry. 
Price $1,500, $500 down,  balance on time.  Rea­
son for selling, poor health.  Have good trade. 
C. A. Stebbins, Lawrence, Mich. 

IT'OR  SALE—One  half  interest  in  stock  of 
■ ANTED—Situation by registered pharma­
IF  YOU  WANT—To get into business, to sell 

cist who has had  extensive  experience.
Address 
164*

Reference as to honesty and  ability. 
J. M., Box 435, Reed City, Mich.

your business, to secure additional capital, 
sale or want to buy anything, advertise in  the 
Miscellaneous Column of T h e  T radesman.  A 
twenty-five word  advertisement  costs  but 25 
cents a week or 50 cents for three weeks.

to  get  a  situation,  if  you have anything for 

167*

The CONGRESS

THE  BEST  OIL  CAN  IN  USE.

-----FOR  SALE  BY-----

Curtiss, Dunton <& Co.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
MICH.
¿txjx>i >  cfo  oo.,

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JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

And Full Line W inter Goods.

108  CANAL  STREET.

OYSTERS AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:  *

OYSTERS.

 

CLAMS.

New  York  Counts...............................................33
H. F. H. & Co.’s Selects.........................1...........30
Selects.................................................  
 
25
Anchors  ...............................................................20
....18
standard
Quohoir, $  100........................................
1  00 80
Little Neck, $100.......................' .........
Cod  .........................................................
@10 @ 7 
Haddock.................................................
Mackerel.................................................15
@20 @ 7 
Mackinaw Trout..........................
@ 3 
Perch.......................................................
Sm elts.................................................... 10
@11
Whiteflsh.......  
..................... ........

FRESH  FISH.

A  GOOD  BREAKFAST

This Coffee Cabinet Given Away.

trade- can 

Is  ALWAYS  possible when a good cup of cof­
fee  is  served.  The  grocer  who  sells  LION 
COFFEE  to  his 
invariably  se­
cure  this  result  to  them.  LION  COFFEE 
is always uniform;  contains strength, flavor and 
true  merit;  is  a  successful  blend  of  Mocha, 
Java and Rio.  Packed only  in  one-pound  air­
tight packages;  roasted,  but  not  ground;  full 
net weight,  and is never sold in bulk.

A Beautiful Picture Card
ijj  for a cabinet filled with  LION  COFFEE.

In every package.  We solicit  a  sample  order 

P

 

For sale  by  all  Wholesale  Grocers  every­

where, and by the

Woolson Spice Co.

92 to  108  Oak St., Toledo, Ohio.

It!

5

In  Car  I_ots.

Shippers looking for a better market than near-by markets 
afford will do well to write or wire us for prices before consign­
ing elsewhere.  All goods sold on arrival and remitted for. 

Commissions, 5 per cent.

C. J. BBC K ER & iriO H lffil SUT. IM S, «0.
Manniaclnrers (I FINE  L11D1Y ami TOILET  SOAPS,

OBERNE,  HOSICK  &  CO,

120 Midiigan St., Oliicago, 111.

We make the following brands:

HARD WATER, Linen, German Family, Sweet 16, White Satin, 

Country  Talk, Mermaid, it will float, Silver Brick, Daisy, 

White Prussian, Glycerine Family, 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. 
getting 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. HUFFORD, General Agent, Box 14,  GRAND  RARIDS,  MICH.

W rite m e for Prices.RETAIL  EROCERST

Do you want tef buy good, reliable SOAPS for your fall and 
winter trade?  If so,  read  the  following  low  prices,  on  my 
LEADING BRANDS  OF  SOAPS, which are  guaranteed  equal 
to SIMILAR brands of any soap maker,  for they are  time-tried 
and fire-tested.

LA U N D RY   SO A PS.

Per box.

“LATHER,” 1 lb. and 3 lb. bars, 60 lbs in box.  Similar to
A c m e . ........................................................ $3.00
“OLD  COUNTRY,” “improved,” 801 lb. bars in box.  Sim­
- 
ilar to American Family. 
Same.  5 to 10 boxes.  Ditto.  -
“UNO,” 100 12 oz. oval bars in box.  Similar to Lenox.
“CITY,” 100 12 oz. bars in box.  Similar to Town Talk. 
“WHITE  SWAN,”  100  12  oz.  bars in  box.  A  elegant 
Floating Soap, similar to Ivory.  - 
¡“QUICK  WORK,”  100  12  oz.  bars in box.  A splendid 
Labor Saving Soap, similar to Frank Siddell’s or New 
French Process. 
4.75
| “IMPERIAL  LAUNDRY,” 100 11 oz. bars in box.  Similar
2.50
to Mono, but not colored green. 
No new patent, quick, cold-made process used in their  making,  such  Soaps  have 

3.50
3.40
3.75
3.15
6.00

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proved  N. G.

TOILET  SO A PS.

YosemitC  Bouquet, White  Clover, Honey, Clipper, Glycer­
ine, etc., over 50 different varieties to choose  from, making the 
most complete line of FINE  MILLED Toilet Soaps on this Con­
tinent.

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  handle these Soaps and always find  them  exactly  as 
represented.  QUICK  SALE  and  not  to  be  excelled  by any other make of Soaps in 
price, quality, style, or stock.
Terms, 60 days or 2 per cent, off for cash in  10 days, 5 box. lots or  upwards  deliv­
ered free of freight.  Special prices on  10 to 20 or 25 box lots.
Manufactured only by

.
It. Ii. Hall. State Agent,

A I j X j S M   b

Office 141 Bates St., Detroit, Mich.

WRISLBY,

479, 481, 483 Fifth Avéfe, Chicago.

DON’T  BE  A  CLAM, but give us a Sample Order.  “Then you will smile

P E R K I N S   &
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

H E S S ,

DEALERS IN

NOS.  18»  and  124  LOUIS STREET, GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN.

WE  CARRY A  STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL  USE.

f  * 1'ampf

« b  

n  

il

. Lamps  are  filled  direct 
by  THE  1’CMP  without 
lifting the Can.  The F ill­
ing Tube adjuitingto suit 
the h cighth  of any lamp. 
Any overflow or drippings 
are  returned  to  the  Can 
through an opening in the 
center o f th e  top.  When 
closed  the  F illin g  Tube 
enters this  opening,  pre­
venting evaporation from 
EITH EB PUMP OK 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 guarantee your  customers  Absolute Safety  and 
the Greatest Possible Convenience.

NEED ED   IN   EV ER Y   FA M ILY   W H E R E   OIL  IS  USED.

OVER  200,000  IN  ACTUAL  USE !

DON’T  BE!  HUMBUGGED 

W ith Cheap and  W orthless ’Im itations.  Buy  the  Original, the  Genuine,  Old 

Reliable  “ GOOD  ENOUGH.”

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

MANUFACTURED  BY

SEND  FOR  COMPLETE  CIRCULARS  AND  PRICE-LIST.

FOR  SALE  IN GRAND  RAPIDS  BY

- 

CURTISS, DUNTON & CO., Wholesale Paper & Woodenware, 
FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  CO., 
-  Wholesale Hardware,
Wholesale Crockery.
H. LEONARD  &  SONS, - 

W M. SEARS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

M ICH IGA N   D IV ISIO N

Travelers’ Protective Ass’n.

President—C. 8. Kelsey, B attle Creek.  ' 
Vice-President—A. F. Peake, Jackson. 
Secretary-Treasurer—Leo. A. Caro, G rand Rapids. 
Board  of Directors—E.  L.  Jones,  B attle  Creek;  C.  L. 
Zacherie, Kalam azoo;  C.  W.  Gregg,  Jackson;  L.  J. 
Koster, D etroit;  H. E. Trem ayn, Bay City. 
Sergeant-at-arm s—D. G. Grotty, Muskegon.
Caplain—Rev,  W ashington Gardner, Jackson.
Official Organ—The  Michigan  Tradesman.

MICHIGAN  DIVISION,  T.  P. A.

 

 

Meeting  of the * State  Board  of Directors.
The Board was c ailed to  order  by  L.  J. 
Koster. 
Present—L.  J.  Koster,  C.  W. 
Gregg,  C.  L..  Zacharie,  H.  E.  Tremaine, 
Leo. A.  Caro,  C.  S.  Kelsey.  Absent—E.  L. 
Jones.  The reports  of  the  last  meetings 
were accepted and  filed.  The  Board  then 
proceeded to examine the accounts  of  dele­
gates  to  the  Baltimore  Convention,  from 
this Division,  and allowed the following:
H. E. Tremaine...................................  
L. J. Koster,................................................         36 00
A. F. Peake..................... ‘.............. >...........   37  ¿0
J. W. Ailes...............................................  
M. J.  Mathews............................................ ’  36  00
H. S. Sandford................................................37  20
Geo. F.  *»wen..................................................41  95
Leo.  A. Caro.......................................’___’ ,47 90
A communication was received from Bat­
tle  Creek  Post,  donating  A.  L.  Lay’s ac­
count of §52 to the Division,  and  a  vote  of 
thanks was tendered the Post for its  gener 
osity.
C.  S.  Kelsey was allowed §50 for expenses 
to  Baltimore.
The Secretary was  instructed  to  inquire 
into the matter of an officer  of  the  Kansas 
Division,  who is mailing insurance circulars 
to  members  of  the  Association,  and  the 
Board voted to ask  the  National  Board  to 
inquire into the matter.
The  committees  appointed  by  the Presi­
dent  were  approved,  and  the name of  the 
Auditing  Committee  was  changed  to  Fi­
nance Committee.
The bill of the chairman of State Legisla­
tive Committee was audited and referred  to 
the National Secretary for payment.
The following  communication  was  then 
read:

Agents  for

AMBOY  CHEESE.

37, 39 & 41 Kent  Street.  Gjand  Rapids,  Michigan.
See  Our  Wholesale 'Quotations  else­

where in this issue and write for

Special  Prices  in  Car  Lots. 
We are prepared to male Bottom Prices on anything we handle.
A  B. KNOW LSON,
Wall Paper l Window Shades

3 Canal Street, Basement,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

-A-t  Manufacturers’ Prices.

SAMPLES  TO  THE  TRADE  ONLY.

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

68  MONROE  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

O R D E R

Our Zieader Sm oking | Our Zieader Fin e Cut 

15c per pound. 

33c per pound.

Our Zieader Skcrts,  |  Our Zieader  Cigars, 

16c per pound. 

$30 per M.

TL.o  Rest  in  tlie  W orld. ‘

Clark, Jew ell  &  Co.,

! 

| 

SOLE  AGENTS'  FOR

Dwinell, Hayward & Oo.’s Royal Java Coffee;  and 

O’Brien & Murray’s “Hand Made Cigar.”

HOGLE & CO. Jobbers  Michigan  Water  White  and 

Legal Test Oils.  Manistee and Saginaw 
Salt.  Agricultural Salt.  Warsaw  Salt; pockets, all  sizes,  and 
barrels.  West Michigan Agents for  Prussing’s Celebrated Vin­
egar  works.  Write  for  quotations.  |i ||O i / r n n i | 
llin il 
rnU uIvtuU llj  mluHi

Warehouse:  Lee’s  Ferry Dock, 

o . w .   blain &   co., Produce
Fordo ai Domestic Fruits, M on M a li, Etc.

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

pondence solicited.  APPLES  AND  POTATOES  in car lots  Specialties. 

—-----DEALERS  IN-------

E.  F A L L A S ,

Makes a Specialty of

Butter  and  Eggs,  Fruits  and  Oysters.

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

We Handle the Celebrated “ROCK BRAND” Oysters.

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

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Grand Bapids, Michigan

97

and 99 Canal Street, 

Grand  Ra pid s,  Oct.  29,  1886.

To the Officers and Members of  the  Michigan 
Division, T.  P. A.:
When,  four years ago,  I became  a  mem­
ber of this Association, it was in its infancy;
I have seen the order grow  from one to 13,- 
000  members;  I  take  no small amount of 
pride in saying that I, too,  have  added  my 
mite in this good work,  both as member and 
officer.
When  1  first  acted  as Secretary,  under 
Vice-President McCauley, this Division was 
the smallest in the Association.  I have seen 
—aye,  and  helped—it  grow  to the second 
largest.  For two years,  I  have  served  as 
an officer, have neglected my family and my 
business;  but I felt that  it  was  in  a  good 
cause—the  moral  and  financial welfare of 
the commercial  traveler.
At our last annual convention at Jackson, 
in May,  1886,  we found that the treasury of 
this Division was at a low ebb.  I personally 
promised  the  delegates-elect  that  if  they 
would advance the necessary  funds  to  pay 
their own expenses,  I would  see  them  re­
imbursed.  When in August last,  at  Kala­
mazoo,  I desired to retire from the  office of 
Secretary-Treasurer of this Division, I found 
that  there  was  not  enough  money in  the 
treasury to pay all the delegates.  My friends 
came to me  and  said:  “We  must  re-elect 
you and you must serve.”  They did re-elect 
me,  and to-day I take pleasure in stating  to 
you that we have enough money on hand  to 
pay all  debts.  This  being  the  case,  and 
feeling that my word lias been redeemed,  I 
desire on account of  pressing  business  en­
gagements to  be  relieved  from  office,  and 
herewith tender my resignation to  take  ef­
fect within ten days from date.

Yours very  truly,

L eo.  A.  Ca ro. 

. 
The communication  was laid on the  table 
for the present.  Mr. Zacharie asked whether 
the above resignation would be  insisted up­
on by Mr.  Caro,  who said,  “Yes.!’  Presi­
dent Kelsey complimented Mr. Caro  on  the 
work he had  accomplished,  and  expressed 
regret at parting with his assistance.
An adjournment was then taken  for  sup­
per,  after which it was voted that the wives 
of members only of  tiiis  Association  shall 
be eligible to membership iu the  Legion  of 
Honor.
It was voted that the Legion of Honor be 
officered  by  a  State  President,  and  State 
Secretary-Treasurer;  also a  Vice-President 
and Corresponding Secretary in each of  the 
important towns in the  State.  Mrs.  J.  L. 
McCauley,  of  Detroit,  was  elected  State
President and Mrs.  G. C.  Pratt, of Jackson, 
State Secretary.  The following local officers 
were elected:

Town. 

Vice-President. 

Mesdames. 

Secretary.
Mesdan.es.

Detroit....................................... F. T. Calker.
Gr d Rapids.Geo. F. Owen__ E. A. Stowe
Jackson.......C. W. Gregg-.... .Edwy Knight.
BattleCroek C. 8. K elsey.......E. L. Jones.
Kalamazoo. Burt Edwards.. .John  M. Ward! 
Bay City— H. E. Tremaine..Geo.  H. Shearer. 
Saginaw —  A. J. M cIntyre.. H. A.McCausland.
Flint........... J. W. Blake.........M.  E. Carleton.
A drian....... Thos. R. Allan ..E. H. Ross.
Lansing......M. B. Field....... E. K. Bennett.
Port Huron.C. M. Rowley....L. M. Sanders. 
Ypsilanti ...J. T.  Haywood..C. M. Hall.
Ann  Arbor.Robt.  Beattie.. .L. J. Fasquelle. 
Coldwater .. A. A. Howard... C.  R. Hutchinson 
B n H arbor.lra C. Travis.
St.  Jo e..................................... G. D. Bolton.
Union City.W.-J. Richardson.E. Young.
Owbsso.......Geo. W. H u rter..W. 8. Gould.
Hillsdale... W. S. Allen..........E. N. Skinner
Marshall.... John McHugh.. .Geo. M. Coles.
Io n ia ..........S.  A*. Dolan.........J. E. Pliillie.
Muskegon.  D.  G. Crotty.......W. D. Downey.
Eaton Rapids.L. J. B ertch.. ,N. Godfrey. 
Three Rivers.H. A.  Filler.  . .D. W. Thayer.
Secretary:
To the Board of  Directors of the I 
the Michigan Division, T. P. A.: f
In behalf of the members of  Post  A.,  T. 
P.  A., and of the  traveling  men  of  Grand 
Rapids,  I extend to you a cordial  invitation 
to hold your next State meeting in this city; 
and I assure you everything will be done to 
make it pleasant for you.

The following resolution was  read by the 

Fraternally  yours,

Geo.  F.  Ow e n .

The  communication  was  accepted  and 
adopted,  and  Grand  Rapids  designated  as 
the next place of meeting for the  State  Di­
vision.
After some discussion,  it  was  decided  to 
accept the resignation of  Mr.  Caro,  and  L. 
M.  Mills was elected to fill the vacancy.
The report of the Treasurer was accepted 
and adopted, as follows:

Cash from State dues, 1885-86__ «347 00

“ 

1886-87....  449 00 «796  00

“ 

RECEIPTS.
” 

‘  DISBURSEMENT*

m entary plates a t Banquet 

70 00
5 fio
1 23 
113 41 
22  92 
6 25 
20 50
  45  00
i  50

W. S. Fleming,  Detroit........
Incidentals
State Seal  ........ ........................... 
Letter Book...  ..............................
Fuller & Stowe  Company........ i.
Postage...........................................
Badges Jackson Convention......
C. S. Kelsey, printing....................
Convention  at  Jackson, compli­
Telegram s.....................................  
Expenses, Sec’y-Treas, attending 
meetings  at  Lanshig,  Battle 
Creek, Jackson and Kalamazoo  27 25
Express  .......................... ;............  
25
Sundries............. .......................’’ 
643
M. J.Mathews, f delegate to i ....  36 00
L. J. Koster,  "(  Baltimore  Ç__   18 OO
 
A. F. Peake, 
  12 20
..." 3 7  20
H. S. Sandford, 
41 65
Geo. F. Owen, 
.... 
H. E. Tremaine. 
 
  46 25
11 50
J. W.  Ailes, 
3Z 00
.... 
C.S. Kelsey. 
47 §0
Loo. A. Caro, 
... 
expense  for  Divis­
ion at Baltimore........................  
7 OO
C. L. Zacharie,  Chairman  Legis­
lative Committee.......................  23  44
C.  L.  Zacharie,  Kalamazoo Con­
vention  .......................................  
3  50
Leo. A. Caro, for services...........   100 00
lijfence  on hand..........................

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LIABILITIES.
C. S.  Kelsey...............................
L. J. Koster...............................
Jackson Post, (A. F. Peake)...

792 50 
«3 50

15 00 
18  00 
25  00 «68  00

$46 25

11 50

Leo. A. Caho, Treasurer.
The meeting then adjourned, sine die.
L eo.  A.  Ca ro,  Sec’y.

The Gripsack Brigade.

J. B.  Ward,  late of  Elkhart,  lias engaged 
to  travel for  F. J. Dettenthaler,  taking the 
Northern trade as his territory.

Jas.  E.  Wood,  late with  Dr.  G.  W.  Crou 
ter,  the  Charlevoix  druggist,  has  gone  on 
the road  for  Clias.  Wright  &  Co.,  of  De 
troit.

The Manistee  Advocate thus pays its re­
spects to Dave Smith:  Sprague, Warner & 
Co’s.  red-headed drummer,  Magenta Smith 
is  very  particular  about  the  company  he 
keeps since he  began  running with the sal 
vation army girls.  When he was  here  last 
week  he  told  us  he  did  not  travel  with 
Steve Sears  any  more.  He  is  striving  to 
lead a good, moral life now and can’t afford 
to take any chances running around with any 
one who is not like Mr.  Cseser’s wife, above 
suspicion.  The particular incident that  led 
to his  “shaking” Steve is that a  halter  was 
discovered sticking out of his pocket at  Bi 
Rapids.  He does not wish to accuse his old 
friend of having stolen  a  horse or planning 
to steal one,  but his having the halter in his 
possession was,  to say the least, suspicious; 
but,  above all, he could not overlook the of­
fence of his being so careless as to  run  any 
chance of being caught at it if he did, hence 
he “shook”  him. 
If  a  man  who  travels 
with him wants to do  any  funny business, 
he must be slick and not get caught at it.
Organization  of  an  Association  at  Burr 

Oak.

Ygreeable to invitation, the editor of T h e 
T ra desm a n met with  the business men of 
Burr Oak last Tuesday evening and assisted 
in the formation  of  the  Burr Oak Business 
Men’s Association.  The meeting was called 
to order  by  Charles  B.  Galloway, when B. 
F.  Sheldon was elected chairman and  R. B. 
Ferris secretary pro tern.  After a complete 
explanation  of  the  system  in  use  by the 
other associations  in  the  State, the  consti­
tution of the Ada  Association was adopted, 
when  the  following  gentlemen  identified 
themselves  with  the  Association:  A.  A. 
Wilcox,  B.  O.  Graves, J.  Ferris  & Son,  W. 
W. Bates, W.  H.  Wilson,  W.  R. Mathews, 
F.  W.  Sheldon,  Mrs.  S.  Milleman,  B.  F. 
Sheldon,  W.  S.  Wilier, II. M.  Lee.

Election of officers resulted as follows:
President—C. B.  Galloway.
Vice-President—A.  Wilson.
Secretary—H.  M.  Lee.
Treasurer—F. W,  Sheldon.
Executive  Committee—President,  Secre­
tary,  Treasurer,  B.  O.  Graves and  W.  H. 
Wilson.
S.  Wilier and W. H.  Wilson.

Business  Committee—B.  F.  Sheldon,  W 

A series of blanks  for  use  in  the collec 
tion  department were  adopted,  and it was 
voted  to  publish  the  constitution,  by-law 
and rules and regulations iu the local paper, 
when the meeting adjourned.

Reduced Tariff to the Saginaws.

reason 

jobbers  had 

T h e T ra desm a n asserted  several weeks 
ago that the  new  railway  connection  with 
the Saginaws was not  proving  the  bonanza 
our 
to  expect,  as 
the  rates  charged  were  sixty  per  cent 
higer  than  the  tariff  between  Detroit  and 
the Saginaws.  Sucli discrimination, coupled 
with the  disparity in  time  required  to  get 
goods  from  the  two  competing  markets 
to their destination, operated  as a  practical 
shut-out  for  this  market,  and  the  small 
amount of freight  taken  has  impelled  the 
companies  interested  in  the  new  arrange­
ment to reduce the tariff  to  the  same  rates 
enjoyed by Detroit shippers,  as follows:
First class........
Second class__
Third  class.......
Fourth  class...
Fifth class........
Sixth  class.......

.... 8

___ZD
....20 
....15 
.... 12 
....10 

These rates are maintained  to  East Sagi­
naw,  Saginaw City and Bay City, and ought 
to stimulate shipments in that direction.

L a t e r—The  Michigan  Central,  deter­
mined not to be  outdone  by the  G.  R.  & I. 
and D.  L.  & N.  Railways,  announces  a  cut 
in Saginaw rates  as follows:
First class..............................*............................. 20
Second  class........................................................ 15
Third class............................................................12
Foilrth  class.............................................  
!!io
Fifth  class...........................................................  s
Sixth class............. / ............................................  6
The Woolson  Spice  Co.,  at Toledo,  occu­
pies  a  mammoth  four-story and  basement 
building, erected especially for the  corpora­
tion  by  D.  R.  Locke,  and  is  arranging  to 
construct another building,  40x65 feet in di­
mensions and  two stories  high.  Ten addi­
tional coffee  roasters will be put in the new 
structure,  which  will give  the  company an 
daily roasting capacity of  5,200  pounds  of 
coffee.

 

“S.  J.  Henry  &  Co.”  at  Lincoln,  Neb.
The  brief  and  disreputable  career  of  a 
firm, which sailed under the name of  “S. J. 
Henry & Co.” is already known to the read­
ers of  T h e  T ra d esm a n.  After  securing 
about  §4,000  by  fraudulent  means,  it  ap­
pears that tho principal actors proceeded  to 
Lincoln,  Neb.,  where  they  repeated  their 
swindling  scheme.  The  following  letter 
from a former resident of Grand Rapids ex­
plains their method of operating at Lincoln: 

L incoln, Neb.,  Oct. 26,  1886.

F r ie n d   E a t o n—You  will 

remember 
there  was  a  new grocery on the corner up 
It was run by a party 
towards  our  house. 
named  Geo.  A.  Parson,  who  claimed  to 
have been a traveling man  for  some  Balti­
more  oyster  and  commission  house.  He 
bought  his  opening  stock  in  town,  paid 
cash,  all  around,  and  did a rushing trade, 
cut  prices  and  raised  thunder.  After  a 
while he bought a few goods  in  town  and 
ordered a pile from  outside  parties.  Then 
there came a man named Rhodes,  who  was 
around there for several days,  and on Wed­
nesday Parson went away, telling his clerks 
he was going to Chicago  and  would  return 
on  the  Monday  following.  After  he  had 
gone,  a woman  claiming to be Mrs. Rhodes 
came and  took  possession on a bill of sale. 
The city creditors all attached the stock and 
it is in the hands of the  sheriff  with  about 
twenty  attachments  on  it.  Those  parties 
had in  their possession a Bradstreet’s  book 
with Henry & Co’s,  name in it.  Rhodes,  I 
understand,  has  owned up to being a part­
ner in the firm of Henry & Co.,  and I think 
Parson is the other man.
Parson was a tough, about  30  years  old, 
a great talker and quite  well  acquainted in 
Grand Rapids.
Rhodes  is  a  slick  fellow  and  wears  a 
large  diamond. 
1  heard  last  night  that 
Mrs. Rhodes had left town,  and that he had 
not been seen all day, so it  looks as though 
we would hold the fort.

Yours truly, 

J o hn Sh ir ts.

Purely Personal.

Miss Anna  Locher,  the  lady  pharmacist, 
spent last week  among  friends  at Saranac.
M.  P.  Shields,  the Hilliards general  deal­
er,  was in town last week, the guest  of  his 
brother-in-law,  Amos S. Musselman.

Miss  Julia  Lamoreaux,  daughter  of  Dr. 
John Lamoreaux,  the Lakeview druggist,  is 
attending school at the Commercial College.
Christian Bertsch leaves this morning for 
Boston,  where  he  will  spend  about three 
weeks in search of desirable  goods  for  the 
spring trade.  He will visit New  York  and 
Philadelphia before returning.

The Lyons Association Showing Its Hand.

L yons,  Oct.  27,  1886.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

D e a r Sir—At  a  meeting  of  the  Lyons 
Business  Men’s  Association,  Monday even­
ing,  it  was  voted  to  accept  the  proposi­
tion of the Grand Ledge Chair  Co., to erect 
for  them  a §3,000  building  and  furnish a 
40  horce-power  engine  and  give  them  a 
lease for three  years.  A  committee watted 
upon them to-day to secure plans,  etc.

Yours  truly, 

D .  A .  R e y n o l d s , 
Sec’y Lyons B.  M.  A.

Ibarbware.

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full  packages.

AUGERS AND BITS.

ves\  old style......................................... dis60&10
N.  H. C. C o ..............................................disSO&lO
Douglass’................................................... dis60&10
Pierces’ ....................................... 
dis60&10
Snell’s ........................................................ diseo&lO
Cook s  ............................. 
dis40&10
Jennings’,  genuine............. ;................. dis 
25
Jennings’, imitation................................dis50&10
Spring..................................................................di8 40
R ailroad....................................  
«  13 00
~arden......................................................’net 33 00
D an d ..............................................dis  « 60&10&10
...............•.......................: .........di® 
eo&io
Call................................................... dis
30&15
D o n » ...............................................dis
Door, Sargent.........................  
60&10
dis 
Stove............... 
40
Carriage  new list................................dis 
75

............................... dis« 

BALANCES.
BARROWS.

BOLTS.

BELLS.

Wrought Barrel  Bolts.............  
dis
Cast  Barrel  Bolts........................... !.!.dis
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs........... .’.’.’.’.’.'dis
Cast Square Spring............... 
<iiR
Cast  Chain.................... 
dis
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob!!!!!":: dis
b ro u g h t Square . 
Wrought Sunk Flush.........................  dis 
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
T  F lush..................................................¿is 60&10
Ives  Door.............................................dis 60&10

............................dis 60&10

60&10
60&10
60
60
60&10
60&10
60

 

 

BRACES.

! ar£e r .................................................. dis« 
Spofford.................................................dis
Am. Ball................................................dis
BUCKETS.
Well, plain........................................... 
Well, swivel...........................

40
50
net
<
>  3 50 
4 00

BUTTS. CART.

Cast Loose Pin, figured...................... dis
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........ dis
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed,  dis 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis
Wrought  Loose  Pin..........................   dis
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip ...........dis
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned...........dis
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver 
tip p ed ................................................ di8.
Wrought Table...............
........... dis
Wrought  Inside Blind..
............dis
Wrought Brass...............
........... dis
Blind, Clark’s ..................
............dis
Blind, Parker’s...............
........... dis
Blind, Shepard’s........... ,
..........dis
CAPS.

70&10 
70&IÜ 
60&10 
60&10 
60&10 
60&  5 
60& 5
60& 5 
10&60 
10&6Ü 
75 
80 
80 
70

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

...p er  m « 85 
60 
35 
60

CATRIDGES.

Rim Fi re, U. M.C. & W inchester  new  list50&10
Rim  Fire. United  States........................ dis50&10
Central Fire............................................. dis3U&I0
CHISELS.
Socket Firm er.......................
75
75
75
75
40
20

Cold.

.......dis
.......dis
__ dis
__ dis
.......net
__ dis 40&10
__ dis

Brass,  Backing’s.
B ibb's..................
B e e r.......•............
Fenns’..................
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size..
14x52,14x56,14 x60...............
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.
Cold Rolled, 14x48..................
DRILLS
Morse’s Bit  8tock.................

60
60
40&10
60
..........$9)  28
.................  31
22
..  22
__ dis
40
— dis
40
....dis
40
.doz net «.85
__dis 20&10
....dis
*&10

EXPANSIVE b it s.

Clar’s, small, «18 00:  large, «26 00.  dig
Ives , 1, «18 00;  2, «24  00;  3, «30 00.  dig 

20

p i l e s —New List.

„ 

„„ 

12 

h in g e s .

H A SG Elij.

55&10 
55&10 
55&.10 
55&10 
55&10 
55 & 10
28
18

13 
GAUGES.
HAMMERS.

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

American File Association  List.......  dis
D isston's..............................................   dJ8
New American........... .......................... aia
Nicholson’s ........   .... 
...............a1R
Heller’s ............. ..........'".V.V.'.V......... dis
Heller’s  Horse Rasps........ . . . .  . . .  ..dis
„  
22 and  24,  25 and 26.  27
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 
15
Discount, Juniata 50@10, Charcoal 60.
, 
_ 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ..............dis
50
dis 
Maydole & Co.’s ............... 
25
Kip’s ................................................ ";;di*
Yerkes  &  Plumb’s ........ . 
dis  40&K
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel........ 30c 
list 50
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Stop], Hand.  30 c 40&10 
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track  50&10
Champion,  anti-lrietiou.......... 
dis  60&1O
40
Kidder,wood  track............................'.’.dis 
_ 
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,  3................................dis 
««,
State....... — . . . . ....................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4
l*   14
and  longer..........................
354
Screw Hook and Eye,  *4  ....
. .net
10*
Screw Hook and Eye %__ ”
.. net
8*
Screw Hook and Eye  •*£...  "
..net
7*
Screw Hook and Eye, 
.'.’.
. .net
7*
Strap and  ^ ....................................... dis
65
.  HOLLOW  WARE.
o . 
Stamped Tin W are................
30
Japanned Tin  W are.’.!!".'.'........
25
Grauite Iron  W are......." !.!.!.!!!.!!!.! 
O ..............................................i l l  00, dis 60
Grub 
..  11  50, dis 60 
Grub 3..
...  12 00, dis 60
_  
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings........   dis
45
Door, porcelain, jap.  trim m ings...........
45
Door, porcelain, plated  trimmings
45
Door, porcelain, trimmings 
.......
45
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain.. ! '' '¿'is 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s
40&10
H um acite..........................   .  _ 
'¿jg'
45
t. 
l o c k s—DOOR.
Russell &Jrw in Mfg. Co.’s new list..dis 
45
Mallory, Wheeler &  Co.’s ... 
dis
45
Branford’s , i................. 
,iiR
45
Norwalk’s  .............................................dis
45'
_ 
LEVELS.
Stahley Rule and Level Co.’s.
• dig  70
m a t t o c k s.
Adze  Eye.....................................«16 00 dis
60 
Hunt  Eye.....................................«15 00  dis
60
H unt’s 
.......................... «18 50 dis 20 & 10
Sperry & Co.’
Post,  handled................   dis  50
„  
Coffee
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s ............................dis 40&10
Coffee,P. S.&W.Mfg. Co.’s Malleabies dis 40@10
Coffee, Landers, I  erry & Clark’s ........ dis  40@10
Coffee,  Enterprise................  
dis  25
MOLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s Pattern  .......................... 
dis
Stebbin’s Genuine.....................................dis
Enterprise,  self-measuring.. . " ! . ' . ' .'dis

MAULS.

KNOBS.

MILLS.

HOES.

,,  _  _ 

.  „  

,  ,  , 

_  

 

NAILS.

*

Common, Bra  and Fencing.
so

lOd to  60d....................... 
20
Sd and 9 d adv..................' ' v  
6d and 7d  adv..............................................
50
4d and5d  adv..'.............................. 
 
i0
3d  advance..............................!'.!!!!.'..........   1 50
3d fine  advance............................................   3 nn
Clinch nails, adv............... 
1  1—
Finishing 
Size—inches  j  3 
Adv. »  keg 
Steel Nalls—2 30.
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent....................  dis60&10
Zinc, with brass bottom ............ 
dis  50
Brass or  Copper............................. . . . ”  ".’.dis  50
R eaper....................................per gross, «12net
O lm steads.................................................   59&19

|  lOd  8d 
2*  
«1  25  1 50  1  75  2 00 

.................... 
6d ’ ‘ 4d...........
2 

OILERS.

1 %

PLANES.

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................ dis  15
Sciota Bench.............................. 
¿is  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.’.! ! '..............dis  15
Bench, first quality.............................. !!.'!dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood__ "d'is20&10
Fry, Acme....... 
................................ dis 50&10
Common, polished...................................disOO&lO
Dripping................................................$   ft 
6
Iron and  Tinned.................................... <u9 
40
Copper Rivets and  Burs........... .'dis 
60
PATENT FLANISAED IRON.
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 
9

RIVETS.

PANS.

Broken packs He $  ft extra.

ROPES.

 

 

....... 

TACKS.

12 50 
18 00 
17  50

TIN  PLATES.

SHEET IRON.

TINNER’S SOLDER.

5*
6
60 
• 60 
60 
60 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
45

All sheets No, 18 and lighter,  over 3 

Sisal, H in. and  larger.......... 
914
Maffiha...............................................................13H
_ 
SQUARES.
Steel and Iron........................................cq g
70
Try and Bevels.....................  
dis
60
M itre ........................................... ;;.::;d is
20
Com. Smooth.
Com. 
«2 75 
2 75 
2 80
2 90
3 00
nches

Nos. 10 to  14.................................. «4 20
Nos. 15to  17................................ ;;  4  20
Nos. is to 21............................. ;;;;  4 20
Nos. 22 to  24.......................'.!!.!!!  4 20
Nos .25 to 26...............................! !  4  40
No.27 
!!!!  4 60
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, $   ft..........................
In smaller quausities, $   lb......! ! ” !” !
American, all  kinds.............................dis
Steel, all kinds.............................!...!!dis
Swedes, all  k in d s.......................... 
  dis
Gimp and  Lace........................... 
i.dis
Cigar Box  Nails................................ !dis
Finishing  Nails.................................  dis
Common and Patent  B r f c d s . . . . . ’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  Hal f-and-half......... ." ..!* !" .
Strictly  Half-and-half.........................."
Cards for Charcoals, «6  75.
10x14, Charcoal...............................
IC, 
5 75
10x14,Charcoal....................................
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal............................. ’.  6 25
IC, 
12x12,  Charcoal  ...................... 
IX, 
  7  75
IC, 
14x20, Charcoal.................................  5  75
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal................................  7 25
1XX,  14x20, Charcoal................................   8  75
IXXX, 14x20, Chareool................................  10  77
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal............................  12 55
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal................................   15  50
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................  8 60
100 Plato Charcoal............................  g 50
DX, 
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 .......................................   g  75
Roofing, 20x28, IC................................. .!!!.. 11  OO
Roofing,  20x28,  IX .............................. !.!.!  14 OO
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Tome.................5 50
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne...............  7 00
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne................ 11 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal  Terne............  14 OO
Steel, Game.....................................................60&10
OneidalCommuntity,  Newhouse’s. . .. . . .dis  35 
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s..60&10
Hotchkiss’  .....................................................60&10
b, P. «  W.  Mfg.  Co.’S................... C............. 60&10
Mouse,  choker..................................... 18c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion.................................«1  50 $  doz
Bright Market........................................   dis  67*
Annealed M arket.................................dis 
70
Coppered Market......................................dis  62*
Extra Bailing............................................   qja  55
Tinned  M arket.................................!...dis  62*
Tinned  Broom........................................... ¿ f t   99
Tinned M attress............................ .." .! ! «  ft  8*
Coppered Spring  Steel..................dis 4b<&40&10
Tinned Spring Steel.................................dis 
50
Plain Fence...............................................as ft  3*4
Barbed Fence, galvanized........................ 
4*
painted.,.................. !..*..!! .” 3*
Copper............................................... new  list net
“ ra8S.................................................. new  list net

TIN—LEADED.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

rates.

“ 

 

WIRE GOODS.

WRENCHES.

a rlghtiC_-.........................................dis  70&10&10
Screw Eyes......................................dis  70&10&10
8  .............................................dis  70&10&10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes..................dis  70&10&JO
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
Coe’s Genuine....................................... dis 
60
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,’dis  75&lt>
Coe s  Patent, malleable................. dis 75&10&1U
BirdCagos................................................... 
59
Pumps,  Cistern.................................’.dis  70&10
Screws,  new  list........................................  75&19
Casters,  Bed  and  Plate................. .Vdis&O&lo&io
Dampers, A m erican.................................  40&10
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods. .60&10&5 
Copper Bottoms............................ 
«So

MISCELLANEOUS.

. _ 

FRED. D.  YALE.

DANIEL LYNCH.

SUCCESSORS  t o

FRED. D. TALE & CO.
CHAS. S. YALE & BRO.,
Mins M m , Extracts, Bluings,
GEOCERS’  SUNDRIES.
All orders addressed to the new  firm will re­

W H O LESA LE  M A N U FA CTU RERS  OF

A N D   JO B B E R S  OF

ceive prompt attention.

40 and 42 South Division St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

MICH.

* 

Order a sample case of

HONEY BEE COFFEE.

PRINCESS  BARING  POWDER,

Equal to the Best in the market.

5 9   Jefferson  ave.,  Detroit, Mich..

J. I
PURE.  I  NEW  PROCESS  STARCH.  ISW EEI-
This Starch having the  light  Starch  and  Gluten 
Orie-TliircL  Less

removed,

Can be used than any other in the Market.

M anufactured by the

FIRMENICH  MNFG. CO.

factories:  Marshalltown,  Iowa;  Peoria,  Ills.

Offices  at Peoria,  Ills.

» »

“ C A N D E E
Bnbbcr
BOOTSWITH
DOUBLE  THICK

Ordinary Rubber Boots 
always wear out first on 
the ball.  The CANDEE 
Boots  are  double  thick 
on  the  ball,  and  give
DOUBLE  WEAR.
Most economical Rubber 
Boot 
the  market. 
Lasis  longer  than  any 
otht r boot and the
PRICE NO HIGHER.
Call  and  ex­
amine  the 
goods.

in 

FOR  SALE BY

E. G. STUDLEY & CO., Grand Rapids.
Will remove to No.  4  Monroe  Street,  to 
the store now occupied by Houseman,  Don- 
nally & Jones, Nov.  15th.
Will open with the largest and finest stock 
of Rubber  Goods,  Mill  Supplies,  Fire  De­
partment Supplies, Fire  Department  Sup­
plies and Sporting Goods in the State.

TIME  TABLES.

Chicago & W est Michigan.
Leaves. 
tM ail...................................................   9:00 a m 
tDay  Express.................................... 18:50pm 
•Night Express.................................. 11:00 p iu  
Muskegon Express........................... 4:45 p m  

Arrives.
S:55 p m
9:80pm
•  5:45 a m
11:00 a m

tD aily except Sunday.

•Daily. 
Pullm an Sleeping Cars on all night  trains.  Through 
parlor car In charge of careful attendants  w ithout ex­
tra  charge to Chicago on 12:50 p. in., and through coach 
on 9 a. m. and 11 p. m. trains.

Newaygo Division.

Leaves. 
E x p ress.............................................. 3:45 p m 
Express.............................................. 8:00 a m  

Arrives.
4:60 p m
10:35 a m

A11 trains arrive and depart from  Union Depot.
The N orthern term inus of this division Is a t Baldwin, 
where close connection is  made  w ith  F. & P. M. trains 
to and from  Ludington and Manistee.

W. A. GAVETT, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J. B. Mullikkn,  G eneral  M anager.

Grand t^apids & Indiana.
GOING  NORTH.
Leaves.
Arrives. 
7:00 a m
Traverse City Express..................... 
11:30 a m  
Traverse City and Mackinaw E x ..  9:20 a m  
Petoskey and Mackinaw Express..  3:40pm  
4:55pm
7 a m  tra in  has chair car for Traverse  City.  11:30  a 
m  tra in  has chair car for Petoskey and Mackinaw City. 
4:55 p m tra in  has sleeping and chair cars  for Petoskey 
and Mackinaw.
Cincinnati  Express...................... 
F ort W ayne Express........................10:30 a ni 
Cincinnati  Express..........................4:55 p m  
Traverse City and Mackinaw Ex. .10:50 p in 
5:i5 p m tra in  has WoodrufT sleeper for Cincinnati.

7:15 a m tra in   has  parlor  chair  car  fo r  Cincinnati 

7:15 a in
11:45 a ra
5:15 p m

GOING  SOUTH.

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. 
Arrive, 
Leave.
Ex. & Mail.  N. Y. Mail. 
5:00 p m 
8:22 p i 
7:30 p i 
9:00 p i 
2:30 a 1 
8:25 a 1 
2:45 p i

Kalamazoo Division.
laii.  N. Y. Ex,
N. Y.
7:10 p m 
, m 
7:45 a m ..G ran d  Rapids.  9:45 
5:48 a in 
i l l  
A llegan...........8:25
----- 
ilam azoo ...  7:85 a  m 
4:50 p ill 
10:10 a  1 
8:25 p m
.W hite Pigeon.  5:50 a m 
11:40 ft 1
.T oledo............ 11:15 p ill  10:40 a 111
.Cleveland.......6:40 p m 
6:30 a m
.Buffalo............ 11:55 a m   11:55 p m
.Chicago..........11:30 p 111 
8:50 a 111
,ves G rand Rapids a t 1  p  m,  carry 
.ra s   Allegan.  All  trains  daily  ex 
J. W. M c K e n n e v , G eneral Agent.

it 
8:00 p
il freight
iday

Detroit,  Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING  EAST.
Arrives
tSteam boat  Express........................
tT hrough  Mail.................................. 10:40 a m
tE vening Express.....................................  3:15 p m
•Limited. Express.....................................   9:20 p in
tMixod, w ith  coach..........................
GOING WEST.
tM om ing  Express............................  1:05 p m
tThrough  Mail..................................   5:00 p m
tSteam boat Express.........................10:40 p m
tMixed.................................................
•Night Express..................................   5:10 a m

Leave 
6:25 a m 
10:50 
3:50 p m 
10:55 p m 
11:00 am
1:10 p ill 
5:05 p 111
7:45 a m 
5:35 a III
tD aiiy, Sundays excepted.  ‘Daily.
Passengers taking the 6:25  a m   Express  m ake  cloi 

connection a t Owosso for Lansing,  and  a t  D etroit  for 
New  York,  arriving  there  a t  10:30  a m the following 
morning.  The N ight Express has a through W agner car 
and iocal sleeping car from  D etroit to Grand  Rapids.
D. Potter,’ City Passenger Agent. 

Geo. B. R eeve, Traffic M anager Chicago.

Michigan Central.

DEPART.

ARRIVE.

D etroit Express.................................................................. 6:15 a m
Day  Express......................................................................  1:10 p m
•A tlanticExpress......................................................10:10 p m
M ixed.................................................................................   6:50 a m
•Pacific  Express..............................................................   6:00 a m
M ail............................. J.............................................  3:00pm
Grand  Rapids  E x p re ss...;....................................10:15pm
M ixed..........................................................................  5=15 p m
•Dally.  All other daily except Sunday.  Sleeping cars 
run on A tlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from  
D etroit.  P arlor  cars run  on  Day  Express  and  G rand 
Rapid» Express to  and  from   D etroit.  D irect  connec­
tions made a t D etroit w ith all through trains E ast over 
M. C. R. R., (Canada S outhern Div.)

Chas. H. No r r is, General Agent.

Dettoit, Mackinaw & Marquette.

Going West. 

Going East.

11-45 a m  9:05 a  m. .G rand Rapids.  6:00 a m  5:05pm
10:30pm  6:50a m ..S t. Ignace.......8:30pm  
6:00am
1:36am
9:40pm   3:56 a  m. .S eney..............5:15pm  
7:00 p III  12:40 p m !  M am uette 
5  2:15pin 
9:30am  
8:00am   12:60 p m ( M arquette”   (  2:00 a m  
6:10pm
8:30am  
l:40pm ..N egaunee....... 1:25am  
5:32pm
8:50 a m   1:55 p m. .Ishpem ing---- 12:58 a m  
5:20 p m
6:30 p m. .H o u g h to n —   9:20 a m
5:50 p m. .H a n c o c k ....... 9:01 a m
6:36 p m .. C alum et.........8:15 a m

Mixed tra in  leaves St. Ignace  a t  7 a m ;  arrives  Mar­
quette 5:30 p m ;  leaves M arquette 7 a m :   arrives St. Ig­
nace 6:56 p m. 
Gen. Pass, and Ticket  Agent, M arquette.

E. W, ALLEN",

FOR  SALE  BY

STRONG. Clark,  Jewell  &  Co,
SURE.
C A R Y  <& LOVSRXDGS,

L.  L.  LOVE RIDGE.

L.  M.  CARY.

GENERAL  DEALERS  IN

Fire and Burglar Proof

l A F E i

Combination and Time Locks,

11 Ionia Street, 

dr;

HESTEIR.  <&  FOX,

S A W  AITS G R IS T   M IS S   M A C H IN E R Y ,
Send  for 
C atalogue 

and 
Prices

m a n u fa ctu rers’  a g e n t s  fo r

ATLAS

ENGINE 
WORKS
IN D IA N A P O LIS .  !N D .f  U .  S .  A .
___________M A N U F A C T U R E R S   O F
STEAM ENGINES a BOILERS.
Carry Engines and  Boilers in Stock 

for  immediate  delivery.

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

Saws, Belting and Oils.

130  OAKES  ST..  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Pulley and become convinced of their superiority.

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

RIND6E, BERTSCH & CO,
BOOTS  AND  SH O ES.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

AGENTS FOR THE

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, 

- 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

POTATOES.

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

STATE  AGENTS FOR

Agents for Walker’s Patent Butter Worker.

Reference;  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK.

157 S. W ater St., d iicago, 111.

EARL  BROS.,  Commission  Morchants.
F. J. LAMB & CO.
D. D. Mallory & Co.’s  .
DIAMOND BRAND OYSTERS
Also  Fruits and Country Produce.
FULLER & STOWE COMPANY,

D eslsners

E n g rav ers an d  P rin te rs

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.

A.  M ERCA NTILE  JO U RN A L, PU BLISH ED   EA CH  

W EDN ESD AY .

K.  A. STOWE  &  BKO., Proprietors.

Office in E&gle Building, 19 Lyon S t., 3d Floor. 

Telephone No. 95.

{. Entered  at  the  Postofflce  at  Grand  Rapids  as 

Second-class Matter. 1

WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  3,  1886.

SOLIMAN  SNOOKS

Relates  His  Experience  at  the  Pharma­

ceutical Convention.

Ca n t  H ook Co rners,  N ov.  1,  1886.

My Dear Tradesman :

D e a r  Sir—I don’t know but it is getting to 
be rather an  old chestnut down there; but I 
promised in my last to tell  about the rest of 
thé Pharmaceutical convention.

I was  surprised  at  the  splendid  exhibit 
made in the hall.  In fact,  I think as a pure 
pharmacy exhibit, it was ahead of  anything 
I saw in that line at the Centennial.

We circulated around the hall  about four­
teen times  and  every time  around I took a 
drink  of  first-class  wine  from  a  pleasant 
chap at the right  hand,  as  you went in. 
It 
was a good sample. 
I really liked  it better 
than a sample dose of  castor  oil  that  man 
gave me up in  the other  end of  the  build­
ing.

Mrs. Snooks  got  several  presents—three 
bottles  of  perfume,  a  spatula,  a  cake  of 
soap and a porous  plaster.  She is  wearing 
the latter at present  in  the  place of  a  new 
seal-skin  what-you-may-call-it  I  promised 
to  get  her.  A  capsicum  plaster  is  very 
warming and much cheaper.

We saw a wonderful carrot on exhibition.
It looked  like  a  person  without  any  head 
with his  hands  and  feet  whittled  off  to  a 
point. 
If it had been  red instead of yellow 
I should have  thought  it  was  a  dead-beat.
I might mention several  other  things,  but I 
must hurry on.

At 1:30  p. in.,  standard  time  we all filed 
out with our ribbons on our vests in a strag­
gling  procession  for  the  depot. 
I heard a 
lady at the corner say,  “This is the smartest 
looking lot  of  ministers  I  have  seen yet.” 
She evidently thought  we  were  the  minis­
terial convention or  sy-nod  that  met at the 
same time.  By .the way,  I  understand  that 
it’s a  cold  day  when  Grand  Rapids  don’t 
have from one  to three conventions meeting 
there at  the  same  time.  No  wonder  they 
get mixed.  We got  on  the  cars  and  were 
whirled,  at the dizzy  speed  of  half  a  mile 
per hour,  to  the  Anti-Kalsomine  grist mill.
I did not think much of that, owing to a lit­
tle accident I met  with. 
I  happened to get 
under a spout and  down  came about a peck 
of stone flour  on  my silk  hat  and  into my 
north-east coat pocket*.  After that I passed 
for a miller.

Then we  were  conveyed  per  train to the 
plaster beds,  where we witnessed a blow up 
witli a hundred pounds of  dynamite.  That 
is powerful stuff,  but I cannot  help but  ob­
serve  that  the  blowing  up  I  got  for  not 
wanting to  have all  my pockets  and hands 
and  my  hat  filled  with  sample  rocks, 
was more powerful. 
I  managed  to  get  off 
with only about fifteen  pounds  of  precious 
stones, which is better than some did.  One 
poor drummer was loaded down  with about 
seventy-five pounds of samples when we got 
back to the train.

In the evening  we  went  to  the  show. 
We  had  two  preserved  seats  right  back 
of  the  head  fiddler  where  we  had  a  good 
view.  Mrs.  Snooks  said  she  wondered 
if  I  wouldn’t  have  secured  seats  a  foot 
or  so  nearer,  if  it  had  not  been  for  the 
railing around the band.  Women are never 
satisfied.  She would  rather  be  back in the 
dress  circle  where  she  could  see  the  hats 
and bonnets.  All I cared for  Was  the play 
and it was  a  scrouger. 
It  was  all about a 
chap that came to the city and  lost his wife 
and two kids, and  bought  out a  restaurant 
and run it.  He was  an  hone3t, candid  old 
farmer  and  did  not  understand  city ways. 
I think he would make a good candidate for 
governor  on  an  off  year.  Any  how,  the 
time he had in that  hotel  and restaurant,  a 
getting  tangled  in  the  dumb  waiter  and 
speaking tube  and  stuck  on  the  fly  paper 
and everything  was  enough  to make a dog 
laugh. 
I bursted three buttons off my vest, 
and Mehitable said she was actually asham­
ed to have me  haw haw so loud.  Bless her 
heart—what is  a  man  to  do  when  he sees 
something funny?  Bust himself holding in 
I suppose.  When the old chap on the stage 
chloroformed the cheese and nailed it down, 
I fell clean off my chair and pretty near had 
a  stroke  of  appleplexy. 
I  guess  all  the 
pharmacists enjoyed it, for  I  noticed a grin 
about six inches wide on all their faces.

Take  it  all  in  all  I  never  had  such  an 
all-fired  good  time  in my  life,  and  I hope 
the next convention will be as good.  I don’t 
know  though.  That  Petoskey  is  a rather 
nice  place, but, like  the  Corners,  it  is  not 
so rushing  as  Chicago  and  Grand Rapids. 
This is no taffy.

I have  been  pretty busy  lately writing a 
story about the time I kept a haunted  store 
several  years ago. 
It will be a ghost story. 
I will send you a sample chapter soon.

Yours truthfully,

So lim an Snooks, 
General Dealer.

Baby  carriages  are  being  exported  to 

Europe in large numbers.

Bicarbonate  of  potassium is  a new  rem­

edy for diphtheria.

Wood  pulp  pails  34  a  dozen.  Curtiss, 

Dunton & Co.

1

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ORDER  A  SAMPLE  CASE

Arctic Manufacturing Co.

Packed 
with 2 doz.  10  inch  Oblong  Glass 
Dishes  Assorted  Colors  for  $8.40.

We Guarantee the above Baking Powder to give Entire Satisfaction.

n-TI ATVTP  R A PID S,  MI OH.

2 doz.  1  lb.  cans  in  case 

JE N N IN G S’

Flavoring  E x tracts
JENNINGS & SMITH, G’d Rapids, Mich.

Are acknowledged the best, being pure and made 

from the Fruit.

OYSTERS!

4

W e  commenced  handling  Mills  & 
Robinson’s  Oysters  on  October  1st. 
The goods w ill be canned in Baltimore, 
and we  think  them  superior  to  goods 
canned in Detroit or  Grand  Rapids,  as 
they are canned the same day they  are 
shucked,  and  not  laid  around  exposed 
to the air for days before they are  can­
ned.

Eaton  A  Christenson

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

JOBBERS  IN

DRY  GOODS,

AJST3D NOTIONS,

83  Monroe  St..

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers 
American and Stark A Bags

3  IA Specialty.

GET THE  BEST.
WM. L. ELUS  &  CO.
BRAND

Our Oysters are packed only at Packing House.  W e do not cater for Slack Filled 
or cheap Bulk Trade, better known as Fresh  Water  Snaps;  but  handle  nothing  but 
choice Salt Sea Stock.  A Trial will Convince You.  Prices from  Baltimore  or  Grand 
Rapids  furnished  on  application.

W e carry a large stock of

S ea  and  Xaake  Pish,  in  Packages.

Consignments of Game Solicited.

87 OASfAXi ST. 

Manager.

B.  F.  EMERY,

The Traveler’s Latest Trick.

••Train Talk”  in Chicago Herald.

PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY

E IN' GI IsT E S

From 3 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw Mills 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft 
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts made  for 
Complete Outfits.

W ,  O.  D en iso n ,
-  MICHIGAN.
GRAND  RAPIDS, 

88,90 and  93 South Division  Street, 

Ffll & BSADFOffl,
ip m sB i

WHOLESALE

Full Line Key W est Goods in Stook.
Full Line of all Staple Plugs Kept in Stock.

Sole Agents for Celebrated

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

tilla, Our Nickle,  The Rats, 

Fox’s Clipper.

“Saw  a new trick  out  in  Iowa the other 
day,” said  a  traveling  man.  “I was  stop­
ping at a little station on the Northwestern, 
and the hotel was close to the railroad track. 
The  through  passenger  trains  don’t  stop 
there. 
In  the  party  sitting  outside  after 
dinner was a drummer who  had  a fine gold 
watch,  with a case of  extraordinary weight. 
He said it was the heaviest watchcase made, 
and the strongest.

“ ‘There is a funny thing about this watch 
of mine,’  he said;  “it  so  strong  that  I can 
put it on the railroad  track and  let  a  train 
run over it  and it  will  not  be damaged in 
the least.’

“ ‘Right on the rail?’  queried  one of  the 

v

party. 

“ ‘Yes,  I’ll place it right on the top of the 
rails where the  wheels  run,  and it won’t be 
hurt a  particle.’

“ ‘Bet you the cigars  you dassent do it.’ ”
“The proposition was promptly accepted, 
and the whole crowd present included in the 
payment of the wager, no  matter  who lost. 
In  a  few  moments  a  train  was  seen  ap­
proaching,  when  the  owner  of  the  watch 
went out to the track, put  his time-piece on 
the rail, and then walked  back  to the hotel 
porch and  resumed  his  chair  as  cool  as a 
cucumber.  The train  came  thundering on, 
and the crowd got excited.  They stood with 
open mouths,  and thinking what a shame it 
was that an infernal fool  should put such a 
fine watch on  the  rails  to have it  smashed 
into  smithereens.  When  the  locomotive 
struck the spot  where  the  watch  had  been 
placed the crowd  groaned  and  fancied they 
could see bits  of  gold flying along witli the 
dust.  But the owner of the watch sat quiet­
ly smoking  his  cigar,  and  as  soon  as  the 
long train had passed,  he walked out readi­
ed down and picked  his  watch up from the 
side of the rail,  as  perfect as if  it had been 
in his pocket all the time.

“ ‘You  see,”  he  said,  as  we  all  lighted 
fresh cigars  at  the  other  fellow’s expense, 
‘there is no  danger  in  this  trick  providing 
you place it near the edge of the rail,  where 
the wheels have  worn  the  face  smooth so 
that the slightest disturbance will cause it to 
slide  off  inside  the  rail.  The  watch-case 
is oval, and that leaves  an  opening  for the 
air to get under. 
If the  jar  of  the rail did 
not cause the watch to fall  off  the pressure 
of the air from  the  approaching  train sure­
ly would.  I have performed that little trick 
hundreds  of  times  and  never  met with  an 
accident.  One  day a  fresli  traveling  man 
from St.  Louis,  saw me do it and he at once 
declared  that  that  was  nothing—anyone 
could do that.  So  he  went  out  in front of 
another traiu and  put his watch on the rail. 
After  the  train  had  passed  he  found  his 
watch about forty rods up the track.  It was 
about as big as  a  saucer  and  as  thin  as a 
piece of light cardboard.  He  had made the 
fatal mistake of putting his  watcli  near the 
end of  a rail  and  so nicely  balanced  upon 
the  top  of  the  rail  that  it  didn’t  fall  off. 
This trick  is  just like  any other,  you want 
to know how to do it.”

The Future of Oleo.

From tfce New York Market Journal.

Considerable curiosity prevails  in  regard 
to the prosperity of oleomargarine when the 
new law shall take  effect.  The  question, 
plainly stated,  is,  when  people  know  what 
they are buying,  will they  take  oleomarga­
rine?  Opinions differ;  some profess  to  be­
lieve that the articie cannot  stand  upon  its 
merits,  but will die  a  speedy  death,  while 
others,  who are unprejudiced and who have 
equal opportunities for forming correct con­
clusions, reason something as follows:  Oleo­
margarine must now be nationally recogniz­
ed as a legitimate article of trade which may 
be as openly and honorably dealt in as lard, 
butter or molasses.  Its former patrons, such 
as boarding houses,  restaurants,  etc.,  will 
continue to buy it and increase in  numbers. 
It will be kept in stock by many  merchants 
who have never before handled it, and being 
easily  obtainable,  its  general  consumption 
may  naturally  be  expected  to  rapidly in­
crease.  No product  of  modern  times  has 
been so extensively advertised as oleomargar­
ine.  The  national  controversy,  both  ¡here 
and in Europe,  in  regard  to  its  merits,  as 
compared with butter,  have widely educated 
the public in regard to them.  Multitudes of 
reading people have  been  made  aware,  by 
the printed statements of  scientific  men  of 
high  character, 
two  products 
were equally wholesome and nutritious,  and 
that, by the exercise of  the  three  senses— 
sight, smell  and  taste—it  is  difficult  even 
for experts to distinguish the one  from  the 
other.  But  probably  the  greater  demand 
for the article will come less from  the read­
ing and wealthy people, than from the work­
ing classes,  who will be influenced by price. 
Many of the latter  have now  a  vague  .pre­
judice agaiiist it from the attacks made upon 
it, which they do not fully understand. 
If, 
however,  the quality  of  the  oleomargarine 
put upon the market is kept at a high stand­
ard  of  purity  and  excellence,  and  proper 
measures are taken to enlighten  the  public 
in regard to it,  these  prejudices  will  soon 
pass away,  and its use  become popular  and 
extensive.  We  have  much  mistaken  the 
character, enterprise,  energy  and  resources 
of the manufacturers  and  dealers  in  oleo­
margarine and its kindred  products,  if,  un­
der the present condition  and  prospects  of 
the industry, they sit quietly down and per­
mit themselves to be squelched.

that 

the 

Wood  pulp  pails  84  a  dozen.  Curtiss, 

Dunton & Co.

OYSTERS,.

JO BBERS  OF

And Manufacturers of

CANDY.

Sole Agents for

Importers  and

BULKLEY, LEMON & HOOPS,
W holesale  Grocers.
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Celebrated Soaps. 
Niagara Starch Co.’s Celebrated Starch. 
“Jolly  Tar”  Celebrated  Plug  Tobacco, 
Jolly  Time”  Celebrated  Fine  Cut  To­
Dwinell,  Hayward  &  Co.’s  Roasted 
Thomson  &  Taylor’s  Magnolia  Coffee. 
Warsaw Salt Co.’s Warsaw Salt.
“ Benton ” Tomatoes, Benton Harbor.
“ Van  Camp ”  Tomatoes,  Indianapolis. 
“Acme ” Sugar Corn, Best in the World.
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.

dark and light.
.  •
bacco. 
Coffees.

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

25,27 and 29 Ionia St. ail 51, 53, 55,57 and 59 Island Sts.,
S.  HEYMAN  & SON, SH0WmS

G-randL napids, Midi.

a™

48  CANAL  STREET.  GRAND  BAPIDS,  MICH.

76 South Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

Or d er Sa m ple  M by Ma il .

Every can wrapped in colored tissue paper with 

signature and stamp on each can.

Every style of Show Cases, In w alnut, cherry, m ahogany, oak or b ird’s-eye m aple on hand or made to order. 
Illustrated Catalogue and Price-List mailed on application.  M erchants 

Best of w orkm anship and lowest prices. 
are invited to call and look over our line when iu the city.

Manufactured by the

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

R A LEIG H ,  N.  O.

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M ICK.,

Wholesale agents for the

STATE OF MICHIGAN.

T h is  is  the  only  authorized  Z .  of  Za. 
Sm oking  Tobacco  on  the  market.  The 
stock  of  this  corporation  is  all  owned  by 
the Z . of  Za.  A ssem blies  in  the  TT. S.,  and 
every member  w ill  not  only  buy  it  him- 
self, .but do his utmost to  m ake  it  popular. 
Dealers w ill therefore see the  advisability 
of putting it in stock  at  once.  W e   w ill  fill 
orders for an y quantity at following prices, 
usual  terms:

2 0Z.46;  4 OZ. 44;  8 0Z.43;  16 OZ. 42.
ARTHUR MEIGS & GO.,
Wholesale  Grocers,

77, 79,81 id  83 Sfidtii Division St., Grand Rapids, Mick

S S C Z S E S ’  S 2 X.7 -HAXSX2TG  B U C K W H E A T . 

Boxes holding 20  5  pound packages, 

v 
Discount-On lots of 25 boxes or more, 50 cents per box.

40  21-2  “ 
32  3 
“ 

$4.50 
$4.50
$4.30

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SYRUPS.

Our  Leader..............161 H iaw atha.................... 22
Mayflower .................23 Old Congress.............. 23
Globe......................... 22LMay  Leaf....................22
Mule E ar...................231 D a rk ............................ 20
24®26
Corn,  barrels  ...................................
26@28
Corn, 4  bbis.......................................
Corn,  10 gallon kegs..........................
@30
@31
Corn, 5 gallon kegs............................
Pure  Sugar, bbl.................................
28020
Pure Sugar, 4  bbl...........-..................
26@30
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen..
Maecoboy........................
Gail & Ax’ 
.......................
Rappee............................
Railroad  Mills  Scotch.....................
Lotzbeck  ................ .........................
Japan ordinary.................................
Japan fair to good............................
Japan fine..........................................
Japan dust.........................................
Young Hyson....................................
GunPowder................ ......................
Oolong....................................... .......
Congo.................................................

SNUFF.

TEAS.

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VINEGAR.

White W ine..................................
C ider................ ‘ ...........................
York State Apple.........................
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bath Brick im ported.....................
American.....................
do 
Burners, No. 1 .................................
do  No.  2.................................
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand.......
Cream Tartar 5 and IQ 1b cans.......
Candles, Star....................................
Candles.  Hotel.................................
Camphor, oz., 2 1b boxes................
Extract Coffee, V.  C....................  .
F elix....................
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps................
.  .........
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. 
Gum, Spruce....................................
Hominy, $  bbl.................................
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails..........................
Pearl  Barley.
Peas, Green  Bush__
Peas, Split  Prepared.
Powder, Keg...............
Powder, 4   K eg..........
Sage  .......................... .
Sauerkraut  ................

do 

30 gr. 
08 
08

..  @ 5 5
@  44 
@ 3 5  
@ 4 5  
@1 30
........ 18@20
........ 25@30
........35@45
.........15@20
........ 30@50
........ 35@50
.  33@55@6C 
.......25@30
50 gr. 
10 
10 
16

... 

90
75
100
1  50
7  *»5
@25
@11
@12
@35
@80
@25
@35
...  J0@35
@3.
@4
@  34 
@1 25 
@ 24 
@4 00 
@2 25 
@  10 
@5 00

M ic h ilg a n   B u s in teas  M e n ’s   A s s o c ia n o n.

Presideirt—Frank Ham llton. Traverse City
F irst Vice-President—Faul P. Morgan, Mon
8ecoiid VIce-Presldent--E. J. H errick, Graiid Rapt
Sucri>tarj1—E. A. Stowe,, Grand Rapids.
Treaisurer—Julius Sehu ster, Kalamazoo.
[dent,
Exec
Sec
Comimittee on Trade In terests—Smith Bariíes, Traverse
City;  F•. Ranney, Kalimnazoo;  A.  W.  We stgate, Che-
1km
r£an
mittèe on Legislation—W. E.  Kelsey, Ionia; J.  V.
Comi
mdn.11, Sand Lake; J. F. Clark. Big Rapids.
is;  B.
Comi

ee on Member:ship—H. S.  Church,,  Sturg

try, N. B. Blair1 and W. E. Kelsey.

■President, F irst Vicse-Presi

ds.

id Rapids

Durr <»ak Business Men’s Association. 

President, C. B. Galloway:  Secretary, H. M. Lee.
Merchant’s Protective Ass’n of Ilig  Raplfls. 
President, N. H. Beebe:  Secretary, A. S. H obart.
jo. Arm anti K. Jordan Business Men’s As’n. 
President, A. E. P ickard;  Secretary, John Leng.
Business  Men’s  Protective  Union  of  Che­
President, A. W. W estgate;  Secretary, H. G. Dozer.

boygan.

Merchant’s  Union  of Nashville. 

President, H erbert M. Lee;  Secretary, W alter W ebster.

White  Lake  Business  Men’s As’n. 

President,  A. T. Linderm an, W hitehall;  Secretary,  W. 

B. Niclioison, W hitehall.

Business Men’s Protective As'nof Kingsley. 
President. Jas. Broderick;  Secretary, Geo. W. Chaufty.
Kalamazoo  Retail Grocers’ Association. 

President, P. Ranney;  Secretary, M. S. Scoville.
Lyons  Business  Men’s  As’n. 

President, A. K. Roof;  Secretary, D. A. Reynolds.

Retail Grocers*  Ass’n  of Grand  Rapids. 

President, E. J.  Herrick ;  Secretary, E. A. Stowe.
Grocers’  Ass’n  of  the  City  of  Muskegon. 
President, H. B. Fargo;  Secretary, W m .'Peer.
Retail Grocers’Trade Union As’n of Detroit. 
President, John Blessed;  Secretary, H. Kundinger.

Lutiier Protective As’n. 

President, W. B. Poot;  Secretary, Jas. M.Verity.
Lowell  Business  Men's  Protective  Ass’n. 
President, N. B. Blain;  Secretary, F rank ^  King.
Cadillac  Business  Men’s  As’n. 

President, A. W. Newark;  Secretary, J. C. McAdam.
Sturgis  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, H enry S. Church;  Sew etary, Win. .Torn.
Traverse  City  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, F rank H am ilton;  Secretary, C. T. Lockwood.
Ionia  Business  Men's  Protective  Ass’n. 
President, Wm. E.  Kelsey;  Secretary,  Fred. Cutler, Jr.
Business Men’s Protective Ass’n of Saranac, 
President,  Geo. A. P otts;  Secretary, P. T. Williams.
Elk Rapids Business Men’s Protective As’n. 
President, J. J. McLaughlin;  Secretary, 0. L. Martin.

Oceana  Business  Men’s  As’n. 

President, W. E. Thorp;  Secretary, E. S. Houghtaling.

Manton’s  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, F. A. Jenison;  Secretary, R. Fuller.

Hastings Business  Men’s Association. 

President, L. E. Stauffer;  Secretary,  J.  A.  VanArman.
Coopersville  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, E. N. P arker;  Secretary, R. D. McNaughton.

Holland B usiness Men’s Association. 

President, Jacob Van P utten;  Secretary, A. Van Duren.
G r e en v ille   B u sin e ss  M en's  A sso c ia tio n . 

President, L. W. Sprague;  Secretary, E. J. Clark.
Ada  Business Men’s Association. 
President, D. F. W atson;  Secretary, Elm er Chapel.

Ovid  Business  Men’s  As’n.

* President. C. H. H unter;  Secretary, Lester Cooley.

Organization Notes.

T he  Tradesm an requests secretaries of 
local associations to  send in  full  reports of 
all  meetings,  and  other  association news, 
for publication.

L.  N.  Fisher,  the Dorr general dealer,  re­
cently called at T he T radesm an  office  to 
say that lie was  determined  to  have an as­
sociation at his place.

The first notification  sheet  of  the  M.  B. 
M.  A.  was issued November 1 and has been 
forwarded to all  local  associations  entitled 
to the. valuable information  conveyed there­
in.

The  Spayta  Business  Men’s  Association 
meets Thursday afternoon for  the  purpose 
of receiving the Lisbon  merchants  into  the 
fold,  as the latter  cannot  get  away  in  the 
evening.

Sparta  Sentinel:  The  Sparta  Business 
Men’s  Association  at  their  meeting  last 
week,  decided  to  close  their  stores  at 7:30 
p. m.  each evening  except  Saturday,  when 
they will close at 8 o’clock.

The  Chicago  Commercial  Bulletin  re­
prints from T h e   T r a d e s m a n   tiie constitu­
tion of the Ada Business Men’s Association, 
prefacing the same with the following com­
plimentary remarks:  “It is a new compila­
tion,  the  result  of  great  experience on the 
part of its authors,  and  is a model  that can 
be  profitably  copied,  witii  any  alteration 
rendered  necessary by  local  circumstances, 
by any  new  organization  of  similar  views 
and purposes.  We reproduce this document 
not only as an answer to various subscribers 
requesting information  on  the  subject  but 
as the best possible exposition  of  the ends, 
and the  means  of  accomplishing  the  same 
of their business men’s associations.”

President  Hamilton  writes  as  follows: 
“I am actually surprised  at  the  course  or­
ganization is running. 
It  is  a  big  field  to 
cover,  even now,  and what it  may result  in 
is beyond telling.  Our efforts  in  the  work 
are certainly apparent  to even  the little vil­
lager  in  the  remotest  corner. 
I  feel  that 
Northern Michigan ought  to be coming into 
line  a  little  faster,  and  if  you  feel  that  I 
could render  any  service  in  that  line  will 
gladly coincide with  your  suggestion, made 
some time ago, relating  to  my going out on 
missionary  trips  similar  to  your  own. 
I 
feel  that  personal  contact  would  throw 
much  light  upon  the  subject  for  me  and 
stimulate further action.”

Candy is in  good  request  and  prices  are 
steady.  Chestnuts  are  scarce  and  higher. 
New figs are  in  better  supply  and  a  little 
lower in price.  The quality of  best  grades 
is  fine.  Bananas  are  plenty  and  cheap. 
Only  Jamaica  oranges  are  in  market  and 
prices are about the same.  Floridas will soon 
arrive  and promise  a  good  crop.  Lemons 
arc  good  and  cheap.  Foreign  nuts  are 
steady.  Peanuts are  a  shade  lower.  The 
new crop is said to be good.

Information  Wanted.

From the President of the Lowell Business 

Good  News from  the  Greenville  Associa­

$  doz.

President Hamilton has addressed the fol­
lowing letter to the presidents of the various 
local Associations:

T raverse City,  N ov.  1,  1880. 

D ea r*Sir —I would be very glad to  have 
your reply upon some points connected with 
your local association work.  We  are desir­
ous of ascertaining  the  good  accomplished 
by each union, and,  too,  errors as well, that 
we may at our next  meeting adopt  the  one 
and discard the other. 
I  also  want  to  ask 
you to make any suggestions to  me relative 
to local or State work,  now or at any future 
time. Be kind enough, if you will, to forward 
a  set  of  blanks  and  constitution  used  by 
your association,  stating  if  they meet  your 
wants and in which direction they have pro­
duced the best results,  viz., by effecting set­
tlements or by preventing the solicitation of 
credits.  Nearly all the organizations at first 
went  to  extremes,  ours  was  conservative, 
others too  radical; we  aimed  rather  to cur­
tail all credits and  I  lxope  that  will  be the 
battle cry at  our  March  meeting.  Do you 
admit  members  outside  of  the  mercantile 
line?
*  What  other class of  work has j our asso­
ciation accomplished.  We have secured re­
ductions in freight, opened  a  lecture  field, 
secured a good  enterprise  and  have  other 
projects on foot.  Where do you favor hold­
ing our next meeting?  Have you joined the 
State  Association?  Hoping  to  hear  from 
you, 
,
President  Mich.  Business  Men’s  Associa­

Frank  H amilton.

1 am yours truly, 

tion.

tion.

Greenv ille,  Oct. 28,  1880.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
D ea r Sir—At the special meeting of our 
Association held last evening,  the following 
new members joined:
B.  H.  Packer,  Miller & Paine, S.  R.  & A. 
B.  Stevens,  John  Bowyer,  A.  I.  Bliss,  J. 
H.  Edsall,  T.  R.  Shepard,  D.  Silverthorn, 
E.  Roosa,  J.  Callaghan,  C.  R.  Kirkbride, 
Geo.  Slawson,  Hanson  &  Beardsley,  John 
H- Passage,  Gibson Bros.,  T.  B.  Inkley, A. 
O.  Derby,  W.  Knapp,  Jas.  H. Mills  & Son, 
Nelson  &  Crittenden,  John  Avery  &  Son, 
W.  L.  Hayden.
This gives us a total  membership of fifty. 
The Association  voted  to  join  the State 
Association,  and I herewith enclose five dol­
lars per capita dues.
The  following  Business  Committee  was 
elected—R.  F.  Sprague,  Wm.  Bradley and 
D. Jacobson.

The following by-law was adopted:
Any member of this Association who shall 
be reported  as  a  delinquent shall stand ex­
pelled from  this  Association,  except  in the 
case  of  disputed  accounts,  which  shall  be 
referred to the  Executive Committee for in­
vestigation  and  report,  which  report  shall 
be acted upon by the Association.
The usual system of  notification  and col 
lection blanks were adopted.

Respectfully yours.

Secretary Greenville  Business  Men’s  Asso 

E.  J.  Clark.

elation.

The Canvassing Fraud at Evart.

E vart,  Oct.  27,  1886.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
D ear Sir—Seeing your letter from Char­
levoix reminds me that  on  my  return  from 
the Business Men’s Association, on Septem­
ber  22,  bent  on  organizing  an  association 
here,  I  found  that  during  my  absenee  in 
Grand  Rapids  your  Canvassing  Fraud for 
an  alleged  national  association  had  been 
here and secured the names of  almost every 
business man in town at S3 per head by dis­
playing certificates of membership from the 
leading business men  of  nearly every town 
in the State.  The list included many whom 
I knew in Sturgis  and  also  in  Ludington. 
Three dollars entitled them  to  membership 
for one year,  but I noticed  that  the Sturgis 
certificates  bore  the  date  of  1884  and  he 
could  not  account  for  their  not  being  re­
newed.  Other towns bore  still older dates. 
He claimed  to employ a  collector  in  every 
town to give the  collection  of  accounts his 
undivided attention and keep a book  of  all 
migratory dead-beats.  His collector at this 
place had engaged to teach a district  school 
before canvassing-fraud had left town.  He 
had his wife  with  him  and  staid  in  town 
several days and seemed to be enjoying life. 
I have heard  of  no  collections  being made 
or  efforts  to  collect,  but  do  not  suppose 
money would be refused,  if offered.
If  this will save aijy man in the State $3, 
you are  welcome to use it.

Respectfully, 

F.  H ibbar d.

Smith  Barnes  on  the  Subject  of  Early 

Closing.

Tr a v er se City,  Oct.  27,  1886.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Iiapids:
Dear S«k—On my return, I find your let­
ter  of  the  12th  inst..  in which—at  the in­
stance of Mr.  Hamilton—you request  me to 
adopt the initiative in “setting the ball roll­
ing” for early closing and short hours.
We are now opening at 7 a.  m.  and  clos­
ing at 6 p.  m., but  with  the  duties  incum­
bent upon me,  I feel  that it  is  more than I 
can consistently do, in  justice to myself,  at 
the present time to  prepare  such a paper as 
would be satisfactory to either.
My business  record  for  the  past  several 
years has been in accordance  with the prin­
ciples advocated.
Earnest effort, close  application,  the  best 
quality of brain,  mental  and  physical  con­
dition adequate to the  meeting of  a miscel- 
I laneous patronage and  serving the  joint in- 
| terests of buyer and seller, can only come as 
a result of shorter hours and more complete 
relaxation of body and mind.
The  present  pressure  of  correspondence 
is so great you  will excuse  so short a reply 
| to your valued favor.

Yery faithfully yours,

S.  B a r n es.

Will  Be W ith You November io.

T ustin,  Oct. 28,  1886.

{  E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: 
j  D ea r  Sir—“Please  tally  one  for  Tus­
tin.”
At a meeting  of  our  business  men  held 
I last evening,  it was unanimously voted that 
j  we do organize at once  and  the  writer was 
requested to ascertain  what  night  you  can 
I be with us after election is over.
Kindly  advise  me  when  you  can  come. 
The sooner the better.

Yours respectfully,

Geo.  W.  B ev in s.

The Invitation is Accepted.

Wa y la n d,  Oct. 30,  1886.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

De a r   Sir —Come  and  help  us  organize 
next Wednfesday evening.  We are anxious­
ly waiting for you.

Respectfully yours,

E.  W.  Pickett.

Men’s Association.

Lowell,  Oct.  36,  1886.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dea r S ir—Enclosed please find the peti­
tion from onr business men to the Superinten­
dent of the D., G. H. & M. Railway.  I did not 
try to get a long list of names but only went 
to our business men.
I received a card  from you,  notifying me 
of the semi-monthly meeting  of  the  Retail 
Grocers’ Association, but was not able to at­
tend.  Should  be  very glad  to  meet  with 
you when it is convenient for me.
Our Association  is  doing  nicely and  we 
are better pleased  with  its  wordings  every 
day.

With kind regards I remain

Vety respectfully yours,

N.  B.  B l a in.

Rubber goods have advanced  in the East, 
but local jobbers have not yet changed their 
quotations.

COUNTRY  PRODUCE. 

,

Apples—Good  shipping stock of eating var­
ieties is in  fair demand  at  $1.50@$1.75  $   bbl. 
Cooking apples command $1.26®$ 1.50.

Beans—Dry, handpicked, $1.40@$ 1.50 $  bu. 
B e e ts-^ e  $  bu.
Buckwheat—3@34c $  lb.
B utter—Michigan  creamery  is  in  good  de­
mand  at24@26c.  Dairy is in active demand at 
18@20c.

Cabbages—$3@$3.50 $  100, according  to  size, 
¿arrots—45c $   bu.
Celery—Grand Haven  or  Kalamazoo, 15@20c 

18c.

Cheese—October  stock  of  Michigan  full 

cream is firm at 124@13c.

Cider—10c $  gal.
Cranberries—Choice Cape  Cod  command  $8 
$   bbl.  Jerseys,  $2.50  $   bu.  Home  grown, 
$1.75®2 $  bu.

Dried Apples—Evaporated, 84c 

ft;  quar­

tered and sliced, 3@34c $  ft.
Dried Peaches—Pared, 15c.
Eggs—Scarce.  Jobbers  pay 16c  and sell for 

Grapes—Catawbas  command  6c;  Niagaras, 

11c;  Malagas, $4.50@5 $  keg.

Honey—Easy at 12®13c.
Hay—Bailed  is  moderately  active  at  $15 
per ton  in two and five ton lots and  $14  in car 
lots.

Onions—Dry are firm at $2  $   bbl.
Potatoes—Dealers  are  offering  2o@30c.
Pop Corn—24c $  ft.
Peppers—Green,75c  10 bu.
Sweet  Potatoes—Balti mores, $2 $   bbl.;  Jer­

seys, $2.50®2.75 $  bbl.

Squash—Hubbard, 2c $  ft.
Tomatoes—40@50c 1? bu.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS. 

W heat—2c higher.  City millers  pay 73 cents 
for Lancaster and 70  for  Fulse  and  Clawson.
Corn—Jobbing generally at 46@47c  in 100bu. 

lots and 42®43c in carlots.

car lots.

Oats—White, 38c in small lots  and 32@33e  in 
Rye—48@50c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 $  cwt.
Flour—Lower.  Patent,  $5  10  bbl.  in  sacks 
and  $5.20  in  wood.  Straight,  $4  10  bbl.  in 
sacks and $1.20 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.7510 bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14*$ ton.  Bran, $12 
$  top.  Ships, $13 $  ton.  Middlings, $15 $  ton. 
Corn aHd Oats, $18  $  ton.

COOPERAGE.

 

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STAVES.
“ 

D. Quay quotes  as follows, f. o. b. at  Bailey: 
Red oak flour bbl. staves...............M  @ 600
@  5  25
Elm 
M 
White oak tee staves, s’d and j ’t.M 
@21  00
White oak pork bbl. 
“  M  19  50@22 00
Produce barrel staves....................M  @ 4  75
Tight bbl. and h’ds to m atch........ M  @17  00
HEADS.
Tierce, dowelled and circled, set__  
15®  16
•  *’ 
Pork, 
" 
“  —  
12®  13
Tierce  heads,  square...............$  M  23  09@2B 00
“ 
Pork bbl. “ 
...............$  M  19 00@21 00
Produce barrel, set............................ 
@  4
Flour 
*’ 
@  44
“  ............................ 
Cull  wood  beading............................  354®  34
White oak and hickory tee, 8 f’t. 'M  11  00@12 50 
White oak and hickory  “  74f’i- M  TO 00@11 00
Hickory  flour  bbl.........................M   7 00®  8 25
Ash, round  “ 
“  ......................... M  6 00® 6 75
Ash, flat racked, 64 f t ..................M  3 75®  4 50
Coiled  elm .........................................  3  00®  7 CO
White oak pork barrels, h’d m’d.M  1 00@  1  10 
85®  95
White oak pork barrels,m achine.. 
White oak lard  tierces....................  1  55® 1 25
Beef and lard half  barrels.............  
75®  90
Custom barrels, one  head...............  1 CIO® 1  10
Flour  barrels.................................... 
30®  37
Produce  barrels............................... 
25®  28

BARRELS.

HOOPS.

W OODENW ARE.

 

 

 

Standard  Tubs, No. 1..................................... 5 25
Standard  Tubs, No. 2..................................... 425
Standard  Tubs, No. 3..................................... 3 25
Standard Pails, two hoop...............................1  25
Standard Pails, three hoop............ i .............1 50
.................................  4 00
Pails, ground wood 
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes..........................2 00
B utter  Pails, ash............................................2 50
Butter Ladles.................................................. 1 00
Rolling Pins..............................  
75
Potato Mashers........................................... 
  50
Clothes Pounders............................................2 25
Clothes Pins......................................................  60
Mop Stocks.......................................................1 00
Washboards, single........................................ 1 75
Washboards, double.......................................2 25
Diamond  M arket............................................   40
Bushel, narrow  band..................................... 1  60
Bushel, wide band.......................................... I
Clothes, splint,  No. 1..................................... 3^50
Clothes, splint,  No. 2..................................... 3 75
Clothes, splint,  No. 3..................................... 4 00
Clothes, willow  N o .l....................................600
Clothes,willow  N o.2.....................................TOO
Clothes, willow  No. 3.....................................8 On
W ater  Tight, bu........... ..................................3
h alfb u ..................................... 2 85

,  BASKETS.

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OILS.

ILLUMINATING.

LUBRICATING.

Water W hite...................................................  114
Michigan  Test................................. *.............104
Capitol Cylinder............................................. 3654
Model  Cylinder...............................................314
Shield  Cylinder...............................................264
Eldorado  Engine............................................23
Peerless  Machinery.......................................20
Challenge Machinery.....................................lg
Paraffine  .........................................................2q4
Black. Summer, West  Virginia....................  q
Black. 25°  to 3 0°............................................  S
Black, 15®  C.  T ...............................................1
Î0
Zero...................................................................1'

HID ES. PELTS AND  PURS. 

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

HIDES.

G re en ....$  ft  7@  74 
Part  cured...  8  @  84
Full cured 
  84®  9
Dry hides and 
k ip s...........   8  @12

Calf skins, green
or cured__7  @ 9
Deacon skins,
•  $  piece......20  @50

SHEEP PELTS.

Old wool, estimated washed $  ft....... 25
@28 
Tallow.....................................................   3
@ 34
Fine washed $  ft 25@28iCoarse washed.. .20@24 
Medium  ............. 27@301Unwashed............ 
2-3

WOOL.

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 

prices as.follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides..................................  5  @ 6
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters..................   5  @ 64
Dressed  Hogs......................................... 54®  5%
Mutton,  carcasses.................................   @5
Spring Lamb............................ .............  @6
veal......................................................... i 74® 8
Pork  Sausage.........................................  @ 8
Bologna..................................................   @ 6
Fowls........................................................  @ 9
Spring  Chickens....................................   @11
Ducks  ................................................ i‘ .  @13
Turkeys  ............................................/ . I I   @12

<3rocerie8.

WHOLESALE  PEIOE  CURRENT.

These  prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.

AXLE  OREASE.

Crown 
Frazer’s ................. 
Frazer
Diamond  X ............
Modoc, 4  doz........

2 50!

SOlParagon  ...
90 Paragon25ft pails.  90
60 Fraziers,261b pails. 1  25 

BAKING  POWDER.

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2 
2 
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54 
4  
1 
5 

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Abme, 4  ft cans, 3 doz. case..................
4«> 
..................
..................
21b 
B ulk ............................................
Princess,  54s............................................
4 s .............................................
Is ..............................................
bulk.........................................
Arctic, 4  ft cans, 6 doz. case.................
.................
........ .
................
.................
Victorian, 1 ft cans, (tall,) 2 doz...........
Diamond,  “bulk,” ..................................
Dry, No. 2........................................... doz.
Dry, No. 3........................................... doz.
Liquid, 4 oz,.................... 
doz.
Liquid, 8 oz.........................................doz.
Arctic 4 oz............................
Arctic 8  oz...........................
Arctic 16 oz............................
Arctic No. 1 pepper box__
“  __
Arctic No. 2 
“  __
Arctic No. 3 
BROOMS.

BLUING.

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DRIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN.
 

.. 854@ »4

C itro n ............................ 
@  24
Cuvrants..............  
64®  6%
Lemon Peel.............................................  @  14
Orange Peel.............................................  ®  14
Prunes, French,60s................................124®
Prunes, French, 80s...........'...................84®
Prunes, Turkey..
@ 44
Rnisius, Dehesia................
, . . . .   @3  50
!  Raisins, Loudon Layers... 
......   @3 00
....   @2 10
I  Raisins, California  “ 
...
......   @2 50
__ 2 10 !  Raisins, Loose Muscatels..
Raisins, Ondaras,  28s........
___  @104
Raisins.  Sultanas...............
......   @ 794
Raisins,  Valencia, rtew  ... 
Raisins,  Im perials.............
.......  @3 20
....1  00
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square........
Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 gro................ 1 20
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor..
........ 1  75
|  Grand  Haven,  So.  3:i0, 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 
I  Richardson’s No. 74, round..........................1 00
|  Richardson’s No. 7  do 
.............................. 160
j  Black  Strap..................................................15@17
Cuba Baking..................... j..........................25@28
Porto  Rico.....................................................24@30
New  Orleans,  good......................................28@34
I  New Orleans, choice.......................... 
44@50
j  New  Orleans, fancy.................................... 52@55

.  4' 25 
28 
45
!  1  40 
.  2  40 
•12 00 
.  2 00 
15

*  MOLASSES.

85 
1  60 
3 00

MATCHES.

gross 3  50
r  20
..  i 00
00
3 00
4 00

4  bbis. 2c extra 

OATMEAL.
Rolled Oats, bbl__5 75¡Steel 
“  4  bbl.3  00  *’ 
**  cases  3 251
PICKLES.

-  
“ 

cut, bbl......... 5 50
“  4  b b l...3 00

No. 2 H url..........
No. 1 H url..........
No. 2Carpet...........2 50
No. 1 Carpet...........2

00 Parlor  Gem..........
Common W hisk...
Fancy  Whisk.......
Mill........................

3 00 
90 
1  00 
3  75

CANNED FISH .

Clams,  1 ft. Little Neck...............................1  65
Clam Chowder,  3 ft......................................2 20
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  standards...............95@1 00
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards....................  1 75
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic..................................... 1  75
Lobsters, 2 ft, picnic....................................2 65
Lobsters, 1 ft sta r........................................ 2 00
Lobsters. 2 ft sta r........................................ 3 00
Mackerel, lib  fresh  standards..................1  40
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh  standards..................5 25
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3  ft................3 00
Mackerel,3 ft in M ustard........................... 3 00
Mackerel. 3 ft  soused..................................3 00
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river...................... 1  70
Salmon, 2 1b Columbia river...................... 2 85
Sardines, domestic 4 s ................................7@8
Sardines,  domestic  4 s ..............................  10@12
Sardines,  Mustard  4 s .................................  12
Sardines,  imported  4 s.  ............................ 
  14
Trout. 3 ft  brook.............................. 
4  00

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CANNED FRUITS.

Apples, 3 1b standards.................................  75
Apples, gallons,  standards........................2 00
Blackberries, standards.............................1  10
Cherries,  red  standard...............................   95
.........1  00
Damsons......................................
..1 20@1 2 
Egg Plums, standard? 
...........
.. 1 20@1 2
Green Gages, standards 2 ft__
........ 1 90
Peaches, Extra Yellow.............
........ 1  60
Peaches, standards..................
........1 25
Peaches,  seconds.......................
........ 1 50
Pineapples, standards...............
........ 2 60
Pineapples, Johnson’s sliced...
Pineapples, Johuson’s, grated.
Q uinces.......................................
25
....1  20@1 30 
Raspberries,  ex tra....................
....1   16® 1  25 
Strawberries  ..................... .—

CANNED .VEGETABLES.

Asparagus, Oyster Bay.............
Beans, Lima,  standard.............
Beans, Stringless, Erie.............
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked...
Corn,  Archer’s Trophy.............
**  Morning  Glory...............
“  Acme.................................
“  Maple Leaf.......................
“  Excelsior..........................
Peas, French...............................
Peas, extra m arrofat................
Peas, 6oaked...............................
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden................
Succotash, standard..................
Squash.....................................
Tomatoes, standard brands__

CHEESE.

Michigan full  cream ................
York  State, Acme.....................
CHOCOLATE.

........... 3 00
............75@85
............  95
............1  65
............ 1  00
........ \  00
........... 1  00
...........   90
.......... 1 00
............1  60
....1  20@1  40
" ‘.!"!.‘85@90
........ 75@1  20
.......... 1 00
........... 1  05

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COCOANUT.

Baker’s ..................... 37iGerman  Sweet...........23
Runkles’ ............. ,...35¡ViennaSweet  ...........22
Schepps, Is.................................... .........  @25
Is and  4 s ....... : ......................  @26
4 s .............................................   @27
Is in tin pails..........................  @274
 
48 
@284
Maltby’s,  Is.......................................  @234
Is and  4 s ...................  
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4 s ...........................................  @244
Manhattan,  pails..................................   @20
Peerless  .................................................   @10

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Green.

Roasted.

COFFEES—

Rio............... U4@1S R io............... ... 12@16
..........15 Golden Rio.. .. .10© 18
Golden Rio.
14  @15
18
Maricabp__ ..........13 Maricabo__ ..........18
Jav a............. .  .24® 28
J a v a ............ .. ,20@25
.. .22 O. G. Java... ..........26
O. G. Java..
Mocha..................... 26
Mocha  .......
PACKAGE.
60 lbs 100 lbs 300 lbs
............. 16 7b 16%  16%
16%  16%
............. 16 ?a
16%
16%
164
164
17%
164
15*3
16 Vis  16/8
21 
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X X X X ........
Arbuckle’s
Dilworth’s .
Standard  ..
G erm an__
L ion............
M agnolia...
Royal..........
Eagle..........
Silver King.
M exican__
¡50 foot Cotton__ 1  60
60 foot Ju te .......1  00 
72 foot J u t e ....... 1 25  60 foot Cotton__ 1  75
40FootCotton__ 150 
|72footCotton__ 2 00
X  XXX  $ f t
64

CRA.CKEH8  AND  SWEET  GOODS.

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CORDAOE.

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M edium..................... ............................   @0 00
4  b b l........................................  @3 50
Small,  bbl..............................................   @7 00
Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross............  @2 25
Imported Clay, No. 216,24 gross........   @1  85
American  T. D.......................................   75®  90
Choice Carolina......64 ¡Java  ..................
Prime Carolina......54 P a tn a .........................54
Good Carolina....... 5  ¡Rangoon............f>4@54
Good Louisiana......5 
jBroken...............34@34

RICE.

SALERATUS.

DeLand’s pure....... 5 4 'Dwight’s ....................64
Church’s  ................ 54jSea  Foam..................54
Taylor’s G. M.........54lCfip Sheaf.................. 54

4o less in 5 box lots. 

s a l t .

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................  
28 Pocket................................................. 
1003 ft  pockets.......................................  
SaginRw or  Manistee............................ 
Diamond  C.............................   *......... 
Standard  Coarse.................................... 
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........ 
Ashton. English, dairy, 4 bu. bags__  
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........, 
American, dairy,  4  bu. bags...............' 
Rock, bushels......................................... 
Warsaw, Dairy, bu. bags.....................  

2 25
2 15
2 35
85
1 45
1 25
75
2  75
70
25
28
40

SAUCES.

Parisian, 4   pints..................................   @2  00
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................   @  70
Pepper Sauce, green..................... . 
@  80
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring.............   @1 25
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........  @1 50
Catsup,Tomato,  pints..........................  @  80
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ......................  @1 20
Halford Sauce, pints................................  @3 50
Jlalford Sauce, 4  pints.........................  @2 20
Acorn ....................
M aster..................
ily __ W!.............. 2 9i
New Process, 1  1b. .3  851 Napkin.................... 4  75
New Process, 3  ft..3 96 Tow el..................... 4  75
Acme,  bars.......... .3 55!White  Marseilles.. 5 50
Acme,  blocks....... 3 05!White Cotton  Oil.. 5 50
Best  American... .2 93|Railroad................ 3 50
Circus  .................. .3  70|U.  G......................... 3 45
Big Five  Center.. .3  851 Mystic White...........4 65
Nickel.................... .3 45i Saxon  Blue........... 2  60
Shamrock............. .3  151 Palmer’ 8,100 bars.. 5 50
Blue Danube........ .2 55| 
4  25
London  Fam ily... .2 30!

SOAPS.
.3 851Extra Chftago Fam 
.4  00 

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SPICES.

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©  54
@ 54

P epper................16@25|Pepper..................  @18
Allspice..............12@15jAllspice................   8@10
Cinnamon...........18@30 Cassia................... 10® 11
Cloves  ...........   .. 15@25 Nutmegs,  N o.l..  @60
G inger................16@20 Nutmegs,  No. 2..  @50
Mustard.......... ... 15@30 Cloves  ..................  @25
C ayenne............ 25@35i
Muzzy, Gloss, 1 ft  packages............... 

“  boxes...................... 

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**  bulk..................................  @ 4
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Firmenlch, new process,gloss, lib __   @ 54
3 ft__   @ 54
6 1b__   @ 64

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“  corn. 1 1b................  @ 6
Electric  Lustre......................................  @3 20
Royal,  corn............................................  ©  6
gloss, 1  ft  packages................   @  54
  @ 34
Niagara, laundry,  bbis........................   @  3?®
boxes.....................   @  4
gloss, 1  l b ...........................  
@ 54
corn.........................................  @  6
Quaker, laundry. 56ft............................  @4 50
Cut  Loaf.................................  ............  @  64
C ubes........................................................64®  64
Pow dered...............................................   64®  64
Granulated,  Standard..........................  @ 64
Confectionery A ....................................   @ 54
Standard A ..............................................  @ 54
No. 1, AVhite Extra  C............................  @ 54
No. 2, Extra C.........................................  54@  54
No. 3 C..................................   .................  @ 5
No. 4 C...........   ......................................  44®  44

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TOBACCO—FINE CUT—IN  PAILS.

Five and  Seven........45|CrossCut..................... 35
Magnet.......................25 Old Jim ........................ 35
Seal of Detract..........60 Old  Time.....................35
Jim  Dandy................38 Underwood’s Capper 35
Our  Bird................... 28 Sweet  Rose................ 45
Brother  Jonathan.. .28 Meigs & Co.’s Stunner35
Our Block..................OOiAtlas............................35
Jolly  Time................40[Royal Game................ 38
Our  Leader...............33iMule E ar.....................65
Sweet  Rose.............. .12  Fountain..................... 74
May  Queen.............. 65 j Old Congress...............64
Dark AmericanEagle67¡Good Luck................ 52
The Meigs................. 60jBlaze Away................ 35
Red  Bird................... 50 Hair L ifter..................30
State  Seal................. «0 H iaw atha....................65
Prairie F low er........65[Globe.......................... 65
Indian Queen...........60 Bull  Dog....................*57
May Flower.............. 70 Crown  Leaf................ 66
Sweet  Pippin...........45'H u stler.......................22

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♦Delivered.

84
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124
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Kenosha B utter......................... 
Seymour  B u tte r....,...............  
B utter......................................... 
Fancy  B utter............................ 
S.  Oyster....................................  
Picnic......................................... 
Fancy  Oyster............................ 
Fancy  Soda...............................  
City Soda.................................... 
Soda  ........................................... 
Milk............................................  
B oston............................. — ,. 
G raham .....................................  
Oat  Meal.................................... 
Pretzels, hand-made................
Pretzels......................................
Cracknels..................................
Lemon Cream............................
Frosted Cream__ :...................
Ginger  Snaps............................
No. 1 Ginger  Snaps..................
Lemon  Snaps............................
Coffee  Cakes.............................
Lemon W afers..........................
Jum bles............. .......................
Extra Honey Jum bles.............
Frosted  Honey  Cakes.............
Cream  Gems.............................
Bagleys  Gems..........................
Seed Cakes.................................
S. &  M. Cakes............................
Cod, whole.................................
Cod, boneless...........................
H alib u t......................................
Herring, round,  4   bbl...........
Herring .round,  4   bbl...........
Herring, Holland,  bbis...........
Herring, Holland,  kegs................ , ...........75@80
Herring, Scaled............................................  @20
Mackerel, shore, No. 1, 4   bbis..................7  50
..........125
..............1 05
No.'3.  4  bbis.............................. 3 25
Shad, 4  b b l............................................2 25@2 50
Trout, 4   bbis................................................5 50
“   10 ft  kits............................................   90
White, No. 1 ,4  b b is....................................6  00
White, No. 1,12  ft kits.................................  90
White, No. 1,10 ft k its.................................  80
White, Family, 4  bbis.................................2 15
kits......................................  45
Lemon.  Vanilla.
1 40
“  4 oz...............................1 50  2 50
“  6 oz...............................2 50  4 00
“  8 oz.............................. 3 50  5 00
“  No.  2 Taper................ 125  150
“  No. 4 
2  75
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..........9 00  15 00
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“  No. 8  *♦ 
4 25
“  No. 10  “ 
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SMOKING
Our  L eader............lniUnit 
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Old V et......................30 Eight  Hours
Big Deal.................... 27| Lucky
Ruby, cut  plug....... 3f
Boss
,26jTwo  Nickel..........
Navy Clipping 
Leader
Duke’s  Durham..

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114 Hard  Tack...............
26
OOO
94 Dixie ......................... 28; Owl............................ 16
154 Old T ar.......  ............ 40; Rob Roy....................
26
A rthur’s  Choice__
22jUncle  Sam...............
28
84 Red Fox.................... 261L umborman  ............ 25
Gold  Dust................ 261 Railroad Boy........... 38
Gold  Block.............. 30 M ou ntain Rose........ 18
Seal of Grand Rapid
Home Comfort........ 25
(cloth)................ 25|01d  Kip..................... 60
134 Tramway, 3 oz........ 401 Seal of North Caro-
114 M iners and Puddlers .281  Lina, 2  oz............... 48
124 Peerless  .................. 24¡Seal of North  Caro-
134 Standard .................. 20! 
lina, 4oz................ 48
134 Old Tom.................... 18 Seal of North  Caro-
134 Tom &  Jerry ............ 24! 
lina, 8oz................ 45
124 Joker......................... 25; Seal of North  Caro-
84 T raveler.................. 86| 
lina, 16oz boxes... 
42
25!King Bee, longeut..
22
...84@ 44 Pickwick Club........ 40'Sweet Lotus............. 32
.......5@64 Nigger  Head........... 26'Grayling.................. 32
.  ...  9@10 H olland.................... 22[Seaf Skin.................. 30
.2 75@3 00 G erm an.................... 15iRed Clover............... 32
. 1  50@1  75 K. of  L  ...............42@46 Good  Luck............... 26
....11  OO Honey  Dew............. 25|Queen  Bee............... 22
Star 
..................39 ¡Trade Union.............*36
Old Solder. .. : ........... 37 Labor Union.............*30
Clipper  ..................... 34 Splendid...................  38
Corner Stone.............34  Bed Fox.......................42
Scalping  K nife........34 Big  Drive....................42
Sam Boss.................   34lPatrol.........................40
N e x t............. .  ........ 2!) Jack Rabbit................35
D ainty.......................44|Chocolate  Cream___39
Old  Honesty.............40iNimrod.......................35
Jolly T ar................... 32 Big Five Center..........33
Jolly  Time................32 P a rro t.........................42
F av o rite................... 42| B u ste r.........................35
Black  Bird................32! Black Prince...............35
Live and Let  Live...32|Black  Racer............. 35
Quaker...................... 28 Climax  .......................42
Bull  Dog.................*36|Acoru  ........................39
H iaw atha..................42| Horse  Shoe................ 36
Big  Nig.....................37 V inco.......................... 34
Spear Head.............. 39 Merry W ar..................22
Whole E arth.............32 Ben  Franklin.............32
Crazy  Quilt.............. 32 Moxie.......................... 34
P.  V ...........................40 Black Jack ..................38
Spring Chicken........38 H iaw atha...................42
Eclipse  ....................30 Musselman’s Corker.30
Turkey.......................391
♦Delivered. 
2c. less in three butt lots.

** 
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.................4 25 

Jennings’ D. C.,2 oz...............$  doz.  1 00 

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Putnam  &  Brooks quote as follow s:

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STICK.
Standard, 25 ft boxes.........................
84® 9 
Twist, 
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9  @ »4 
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Cut Loaf 
@10
MIXED
Royal, 25 ft  pails...............................
@ 9 
Royal, 200 ft bbis...............................
@ 84 
Extra, 251b  pails...............................
@10 
Extra, 200 ft bbis...............................
@ 94 
French Cream, 251b pails................
@12 
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases..........................
@12 
Broken, 25  1b  pails............................
@104 
Broken, 200 ft  bbis............................
® 94
FANCY—IN   5 ft  BOXES.
Lemon  Drops............................................  @13
Sour Drops.....................
@14 
Peppermint  Drops.......
@14
Chocolate Drops...........
15
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H M Chocolate  Drops..
18
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Gum  Drops  ..................
10
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Licorice Drops...............
A B   Licorice  Drops..
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12
Lozenges, plain.............
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15
Lozenges,  printed........
16
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Im perials.......................
..........  
15
M ottoes..........................
15
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Cream  Bar.....................
13
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Molasses Bar..................
13
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Caramels........................
18
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Hand Made Creams.......
..........18@19
Plain  Creams................
.......... 
17
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Decorated  Creams........
20
String Rock....................
........ 13@14
...  .  20©22 
Burnt Almouds.............
Wintergreen  Berries...
15

FANCY—IN  BULK.

Lozenges, plain  in  pails...1..................   @12
Lozenges, plain in  bbis................ ........  @11
Lozenges, printed in pails....................  @13
Lozenges, printed in  bbis....................  @12
Chocolate Drops, in puils.....................   @124
Gum  Drops  in pails.............................   6  @ 64
Gum Drops, in bbis............................... 5  @  54
Moss Drops, in  pails.............................   @10
Moss Drops, in bbis  .............................  @  9
Sour Drops, in  pails.............................   @12
Imperials, in  pails.................................  @124
Imperials  in  bbis.................................  @114

FRUITS

Bananas  Aspinwall...................................1  00@2 50
Oranges, California, fancy..................
Oranges, California,  choice................
Oranges, Jamaica, bbis.............................. 7 G0@7 50
Oranges, Florida.  .................................
Oranges, Valencia, cases......................
Oranges,  Messina..................................
Oranges,  Naples....................................
Lemons,  choice...........................................4 G0@4 50
Lemons, fancy.......................................
Lemons, California..
Figs, layers, new,  $  ft.......................
.  15@18
Figs,  Bags, 50 ft  .................................
@  6
Dates, frails do  .................................. .  © 5
Dates, 4  do  do  .................................
©  6
Dates, skin...........................................
Dates, 4   skin......................................
Dates, Fard 101b box $   ft..................
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  ft..................
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $  ft.............
Pine Apples, $   doz............................

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PEANUTS.
Prime  Red,  raw  $   1b........................
Choice 
do  .........................
Fancy H.P. do 
do  ........................
Choice White, Va.do  ........................
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  .........................
H. P. Va...............................................
Almonds,  Tarragona.........................
Ivaca..................................
California........................
Brazils.................................................
Chestnuts, p e rb u ..................................
Filberts, Sicily....................................
Barcelona............................
Walnuts,  Grenoble............................
Marbo....................................
French..................................
California.............................
Pecans,  Texas, H. P ..........................
Missouri.............................
Cocoanuts, $  100................................. •  @>  6V&

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.  6  @ 64
.  5%@  6
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PROVISIONS.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provision  Co.

quote  as  follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

Mess, Chicago packing, new.............
........10 00
Mess, new............................................
........ 11  50
Short Cut, new....................................
........13 OO
Back, clear, short  c u t.......................
........13 75
Extra family clear, short  c u t..........
........ 13 OO
Clear,  A. Webster, new  ..................
........ 14 OO
Extra clear pig, short c u t................
Extra clear, heavy.............................
........ 14 00
Clear quill, short  cu t.........................
Boston" clear, short c u t..................... ..........14 50
Clear back, short cut.........................
........ 14 50
Standard clear, short  cut. best...  .

DRY  SALT MEATS—IN  BOXES.

6%
6%

Long Clears, heavy............................
m edium .........................
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Short Clears, heavy............................
do. 
medium.........................
do.  >.  light...............................
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN.
Hams, average 20  fts......................... ........... 11
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16  fts........................ ........... 114
12 to 14 fts................ ........... 12
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boneless.................................. ............10
“  best  boneless..........................
..........11
Shoulders............................................
Breakfast Bacon, boneless............... ............9 4
Dried Beef, extra............................... ........... 9
ham  prices.................... ............12

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Tierces  ...............................................
30 and 50 ft T u b s.................................
501b Round Tins, 100 casos.................

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

64
6%
6%

BEEF IN BARRELS.

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

201b Pails, 4 pails in  case..................
6%
3 lb Pails, 20 in a case.........................
74
5 1b Pails, 12 in a case.........................
74
101b Pails. 6 in a case........................ ... 
7
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts. ..........8 00
Boneless,  ex tra.................................. ..........12 OO
Pork  Sausage.................................  ...............
Ham  Sausage...................................................
Tongue  Sausage...........................................
Frankfort  Sausage.........................................
Blood  Sausage.................................................
Bologna, straight............................................
Bologna,  thick.................................................
Head Cheese....................................................
In half barrels................................................  3 50
In quarter barrels.........................................

FIGS’ FEET.

Brags ¿tflftebicines

Sta1 o  Hoard  of Pharmacy. 

O ne T ear—F. H. J. VanEmHter, Bay City- 
Two Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
T hree Y ears—Jam es Veruor, D etroit.
F our Years—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
Five Years—Geo. McDonald. Kalamazoo. 
President—O ttm ar  Eberbach.
S ecretary—Jacob Jesson.
T reasurer—Jas. Vernor.
Next Meeting—At Lansing. November 2.

Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Ass’n. 

President—F rank J. W urzburg. G rand Rapids.
F irst Vice-President—Mrs. C. W. Taylor, Loomis. 
Second Vice-President—Henry Harwood, Ishpeming. 
Third V ice-President—F rank Inglis, Detroit.
Secretary—S. E. Parkil), Owosso.
T reasurer—Win. Dupont. Detroit.
Executive Com m ittee—Geo. W. Crouter, J. G. Johnson, 
Local Secretary—Guy M. Harwood, Petoskey.
Next Place of Meeting—At  Petoskey, July 12.13 and 14.
Grand  Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society. 

F rank Wells, Geo. G undrnm and Jacob Jesson.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER  9, 1384.

President—F rank  J. W urzburg.
Vice-President—Wm. L. W hite.
Secretary—Frank H. Eseott.
T reasurer—H enry  B. Fairchild.
Board of Censors—President,  Vice-President  and  Sec- 
ret&ry. 
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B o a r d  of Trustees—The President,  Win.  H.  Van  Leeu- 
wen. Isaac W atts. Win, E. W hite and Win.  L.  W hite.
C om m ittee on Pharm acy—M. B.  Kimin,  H.  E.  Locher 
and Win. E. W hite.
Com m ittee on Trade M atters—John E. Peck. H. B. Fair- 
child and Wm. H. Van Leeuwen.
C om m ittee on Legislation—Jas. D. Lacey,  Isaac W atts 
and A. C. Bauer.
R egular  Meetings—F irst  Thursday  evening  in  each 
m onth. 
Annual Meeting—F irst  Thursday evening in November.
Next Meeting-*-Thursday evening, Nov.4, a t The T r a d e s ­
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Detroit Pharmaceutical  Society'.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER, 1883.

President—A. F.  Parker.
First Viee-Bresident—F rank  Inglis.
"Second Vice-President-4-J. C. Mueller.
Secretary and T reasurer—A. W. Allen.
A ssistant Secretary and Treasurer—H. McRae. 
Annual Meeting—F irst W ednesday in June.
R egular Meetings—F irst W ednesday in each  m onth.
Jackson  County  Pharmaceutical  A ss’i i.

President—R. F. Latim er.
Vice-President—C. D. Colwell.
"Secretary—F.  A. King.
T reasurer—Chas. E. Hum phrey.
B oard of Censors—Z. W. W aldron, C. E’ Foot  and C. H. 
Annual Meeting—F irst Thursday in November. 
R egular Meetings—F irst Thursday in each  m onth.
Saginaw  County  Pharmaceutical  Society.

Haskins.

F irst Vice-President—W. H. Y arnali.
Second V ice-President-R . Brüske.
Secretary—D. E. Prall.
T reasurer—H. Melchers.
Com m ittee on Trade M atters—W. B. Moore, H. G. H am­
R egular  Meetings—Second  W ednesday  afternoon  in 

ilton, H. Melchers, W. H.  Keeler and  R. J. Bim ey. 
each month.

Muskegon  Drug  Clerks’  Association.

President—I. C.  Terry.
Vice-President—D. A. Schumacher.  *
Secretary and Treasurer—L. B. Glover.
R egular ‘Meetings—Second  and  fourth  W ednesday  of 
Next Meeting—W ednesday evening. Oct. 27.

each month.

Oceana County Pharmaceutical Society. 

President—F. W. Fincher.
Vice-President—F. W. VanWicklc.
Secretary—F rank Cady.
T reasurer—E. At W right.

DRUG  QUOTATIONS  IN  LATIN.

How  They  are  Regarded  by  the  Trade.

Gra n d R a pid s, Oct. 28,  1886. 

Editor Mic h ig a n T radesman:
D e a r  Sir—We  hope  by  all  means  that 
you will  permanently adopt  your  new  de- 
parture in giving  drug  quotations in Latin. 
It lias many advantages to  recommend it. 
Druggist are more familiar with the Latin 
names than the English, because their labels 
are  all. or  nearly  all,  in  Latin.  The  few 
names in  the  list  not  generally known  by 
the Latin name can be learned quickly from 
the U.  S. D., and that is an  argument in its 
favor,  as  druggists  will,  in  many  cases, 
learn the  Latin  name  to  some  drugs  they 
never happened  to learn the Latin  name of 
before.  We can  think  of  some  other  ad­
vantages too obvious to  mention.

Welcome the new departure,  say we.

Very respectfully,

O. H.  R ichmond & Co.

ITS  v a l v e   t o   t h e   a p p r e n t i c e .

Grand R apids,  Oct.  29,  1886.

E. A. Stowe. G rand Rapids:
D ear Sir—Your valuable  paper  came to 
hand as usual  this  week  and I  notice  the 
drug  quotations  are  in  Latin.  This  is  a 
mow in the right direction  and  one  which 
any  practical  druggist  ought  to  approve. 
The  apprentice  who  lias  been  in  a  drug 
store,  say  two,  three  or  six  months,  will 
probably not  know  the  meaning of  this or 
that word and will turn  to his Dispensatory 
for an aqswer.  He will  then  find  the En­
glish  word:  also  the  German,  French  and 
Spanish translation. 
It will thus  prepare a 
student  to  become  thoroughly  acquainted 
with the names of  the  drugs written in dif­
ferent languages  and  know  their  meaning 
and what they are at sight.

Yours respectfully,

T h e o .  K e m i n k .

B E T T E R   TH A N   E V E R .
Grand  Rapids,  N ov.  2,  1886.

E. A. Stowe. Grand Rapids:
D ea r Sir—You have  done  a good many 
good  things  for  the  drug  trade,  but  you 
never did us a better service than  when you 
changed  your  drug  quotations  into  Latin. 
Your  journal  was  worth all  it  cost before 
the  change.  Now  it  is  worth  twice 
its 
price. 
W i l l   L.  W i^ t e.

Yotirs traljf,

A  COO PE US VI LI. E  O PINION.
.   CO O PEK SV IL LE,  Oct. 27,  1886.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dear Sir—I suppose  your  price  list of 
-drugs is for the especial benefit of druggists. 
That being the case,  I  see  no  objection  to 
the medical name being  used  instead of the 
common name. 

Very respectfully,

C.  E.  B l a k e l e y .

FROM  TH E  F R E E P O R T   H ER A LD .

T h e   M i c h i g a n   T r a d e s m a n   now  gives 
its  drug quotations in Latin.  This is a de­
sirable feature and will demand a more gen­
erous support of  that  excellent  publication 
from the drug trade.

PORK  IN  GREEK.

Chas. S.  Robinson,  the  well-known  pro­
vision traveler,  says the drug  quotations  in 
Latin are “no  good,”  and  that  unless  tjie 
thing is stopped he will see to  it  that  pork 
and hams are quoted in Greek.

FAVOR  THE  CHANGE.

J.  Q.  Look,  of Lowell;  S.  E.  Young,  of 
Edmore;  and Dr. John Lamoreaux, of Lake- 
view—all well-known  druggists—favor  the 
change from English to  Latin.

The Drug Market.

German  quinine  is  advancing.  Linseed 
oil is off 2 cents. 
Iodine and Iodide of pot­
ash  have  sustained  another  decline.  Oil 
cubebs  has  advanced,  in  sympathy  with 
-cubeb berries.

Quinine Pills.*

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Are Druggist  Benefited  by Local Associa­

tions?

“Sam Bucus” In Nashville Drugman.

I say that they are.  and I think that every 
reasonable man will agree with  me  in  this 
assertidli.  The  advantages  derived  from 
such associations are many and  varied. 
In 
the first  place,  we are  all  engaged  in  the 
same calling and  it  naturally  follows  that 
whatevter affects one in a general  way  must 
affect the others,  more or  less,  and  does  it 
not seem more like the proper thing that we 
should pull together,  rather  than that  each 
should  pull  in  a  different  direction?  By 
our meeting together once or twice a month 
we become acquainted with  each  other,  we 
rub off the rough corners,  and-will soon  be­
gin  to  regard  our  neighbor  more  in  the 
light of a friend than an enemy.  When you 
become well acquainted you will be surpris­
ed how often you will find yourself thinking, 
“Well, my neighbor Jones is not half so bad 
a fellow as 1 thought he was; I really like the 
man since I have come to know him.  Can it 
be true that he said all the ugly things about 
me that Brown told me he said?  He  don’t 
seem to me now  to  be  that kind of a man.
I hated to let  that  dollar bottle of medicine 
go  at  75  cents  and  lose  that  quarter,  for 
times are mighty dull and rents do not come 
down any,  but Brown said Jones would sell 
it to him at that,  but he would rather buy it j 
of me,  if I would let him have it at the same 
price.”

The next bottle of medicine Brown wants 
he goes to Jones’ store and calls  for it.  He 
asks what is the price of it.  He  knows  as 
well as you do,  but asks the question  as in­
nocently as if it was the first bottle  he  had 
ever seen.  Jones tells him the  price is one 
dollar. 
“Holy  Horrors!  One  dollar? 
Why your neighbor only asks  me  75  cents 
for it.  You druggists  must  make an awful 
profit on your medicines. 
I do all my trad­
ing with you, but I see I will have to change 
houses,  if  this  is  the  way  you  treat your 
friends—want  .to  make  your  living  off  of 
them, do you?” as though you  could expect 
to make  it voff  your  enemies.  He  is  your 
enemy, the worst one you have,  because  by 
his  misrepresentations  to  you,  he is beat­
ing you out of your just  profits and causing 
hard feelings to spring up between you  and 
your neighbor,  with whom  you are not well 
acquainted. 

Now,  by  coming  together  in  our  local 
associations,  we learn  to  know  each  other 
better; will  feel  more  kindly  toward  each 
other;  can  tell  Mr.  Brown  “I know what 
you  are  saying  about  my  neighbor  is  not 
true,  for I have  his  word  that  he  will not 
sell medicine for less than  it  is  marked  to 
sell at.”  We will  feel  more  like  brothers 
than enemies.

* 

*

The cutting of prices does not  do  any  of 
us any good. 
It does not create any greater 
demand for the medicines—we  do  not  sell 
any  more  by  it. 
If you cut the price your 
neighbor will soon  hear of it,  as in the case 
cited  above,  and  will  of  course  meet  it. 
You  seldom  gain a customer by it, because 
the parties who run from store to store  will 
not  be  satisfied  if  you  should  sell  them 
goods at half their real value.  They would 
want  to  go  to  another  store  next  time, 
thinking  they  would  do  still  better.  By 
cutting we only lose the profit that we all need 
so much and should be  laying  up  now  es­
pecially,  and you cause your neighbor to  do 
the  same.

An evening  spent once or twice a month, 
or  even  oftener,  in  attending  your  local 
meetings, 1 think could be made both pleasant 
and profitable in more  ways than we would 
at first imagine.  By  writing  short  essays 
ou our mode  of  making  the  different  pre­
parations of the pharmacopoeia, or any other 
subject that may suggest  itself, and by par­
ticipating in the  discussions  that  come  up 
from time to time,  we can improve ourselves 
in  writing  and composition,  learn to speak 
without embarrassment,  and  to express our 
thoughts in intelligent and proper language. 
Many of us are young men; do not let us ou 
that account be at all backward  in  express­
ing ourselves on any  and  all  subjects  that 
come  up.  What  one  says  may  suggest 
something to another that he perhaps would 
never have thought  of. 
If  we  go  wrong, 
then we  have  the  council  of  older  heads 
with  us,  who can set us on the right track 
again by giving us the  benefit  of  their  age 
and  experience. 
I  think  every town with 
three or more drug stores should  organize a 
local association and think they would soon 
find it pleasant as well as  profitable to hold 
their meetings regularly and let every mem­
ber make it his special duty to be present at 
these meetings. 
I also think that the mem­
bers of all the local Associations should be­
come members of the State Association, and 
by their attendance at meetings of the same 
help to make it a grand success and an hon­
or to our State.

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
Thursday evening marks the close  of  the 
second  year of  the Grand Rapids  Pharma­
ceutical Society and the beginning of a third 
year under  very  auspicious  circumstances. 
The year  just  closed  has  not  been  with­
out  incident,  but  the  organization  enters 
upon a third year stronger in point of mem­
bership and influence  than  at any period in 
its history.

Frank J. Wurzburg,  who  has  faithfully 
served  the  Society as  President  since  its 
inception,  feels  impelled  to  relinquish the 
position to some other member, as the duties 
devolving upon the position of  President of 
the M. S. P. A.  require  all  his  spare  time.  I 
Frank  Eseott,  who  has  written  Secretary 
after his name for two  years,  is likely to be 
retained for a third term, as he has executed 
the duties of the office in a satisfactory man­
ner.

Query  No. 26.  What  is  the  best  excip­
ient (1)  for  uncoated  quinine  pills,  (2)  for 
such are to be gelatin-coated?
'  Much has been written in regard to excip­
ients  for pill masses,  and  the  efforts  made 
by nearly all writers  is to  find  a  single ex­
cipient which will meet the requirements of 
all  cases.  Little  or  no  information  has 
been advanced by pill manufacturers with a 
view of enlightening the benighted pharma­
cist. 
In an attempt  to  answer  this  query 
the writer can  speak  with  the  experience, 
the  benighted  pharmacist  and  the 
botp_ 
may 
icturer, having  made  uneoated  pills 
for stock,  and  also  gelatin-coated  pills  for 
market.  Under  the  light  of  such  exper­
ience, I regard the question of excipients as 
a very simple one.  In the matter of quinine 
pills,  the best excipient I  have  ever  found 
for  uneoated  pills,  after  trying  all  which 
have been  recommended  by others,  is  sim­
ple  syrup,  U.  S.  P.  When  used  alone  it 
makes a soft  plastic mass,  which  is  easily 
rolled out and hardens in a short time.  The 
pills can  be  kept  for  any  length  of  time 
without impairing the solubility.  Uneoated 
pills of quinine after having been kept for a 
year in my dispensing department have been 
found to show  their  effect  on  the  system 
when taken,  as quickly as quinine  adminis­
tered in powder.  A  number  of  test  cases 
having been tried  to  prove  it. 
I am  satis­
fied in offering  it  as  a  conclusion. 
If  the 
dispenser  desires a  small  pill,  combination 
of about  five per  cent, of  po.  tartaric  acid 
with the quinine  before  adding  the  excip­
ient will give an  entirely satisfactory result 
without impairing  the  therapeutic  effect of 
the pill. 
In either case the syrup should be 
carefully added  in  small  quantities with a 
free use of the pestle.  The mass  works up 
easily,  and when the  operator  thinks  from 
the granular appearance  of  the  same,  that 
it needs just a few drops more to give it the 
proper  consistence,  if,  instead  of  adding 
more he will knead  a few  minutes  longer, 
and then take the  mass in  his  hand it will 
soften and  become  plastic  and  be  ready to 
roll  out  in  good  shape.  The  pills  when 
made  will  retain  their  form  nicely.  The 
presence of any excess  of  syrup gives a re­
sult which  is  unsatisfactory.  Section  two 
of the  query is answered by stating that the 
same excipient  gives  the best  result  in  all 
cases. 
It has  been  my  custom  to  add  60 
grs.  of  po.  gum  arabic  to  every  ounce  of 
quinine employed, to  give a  greater  adhes­
iveness to the mass.  When  it  is  intended
to coat the pills,  larger  masses  are  usually 
made at one operation,  and the  gum  arabic 
seems to give  a  mass  which  will  hold  its 
plasticity  for  a  longer 
time.  Glycerin 
should  never- be  used  as  an  excipient  for 
any pill which is  to  be  gelatin  coated, and 
is not  satisfactory  for  uneoated  pills.  On 
general principles simple  syrup can  oftener 
be used as au excipient for  pill masses than 
any other substance  which has  come  under 
my notice,  especially for  pills  which  are to 
be gelatin coated.

*  Paper read by fchas.  W. Holmes, at  the  re­
cent meeting of the N. Y. State  Pharm aceuti­
cal Association.

Muskegon Drug Clerk’s Association.
Muskegon,  Oct.  21,  1886.

The first regular meeting in Oct. was held 
at the Arlington on  the  18th  inst.,  with  a 
fair attendance.  Owing  to  the  lateness of 
the hour before a quorum  could  be formed, 
the regular  routine  of  business  was  tran­
sacted and  aside  from  the  appointment of 
W. E.  LeFevre  and  D.  A.  Schumacher to 
prepare papers,  to  be read four  weeks from 
daté, nothing of  importance  was  done  and 
the meeting adjourned.
The second and last October meeting was 
held the 27th,  all  the  members  being  pre­
sent excepting  one.  The  President  called 
the  meeting  to  order  and  appointed  E.  C. 
Bond as  critic.  After  the  reading  of  the 
minutes of  the last  meeting,  the  following 
subjects were submitted:
No.  1.  Does  the  process  of  decolorizing 
Tr.  Iodine  lessen the effect of  the prepara­
tion.
No. 2.  Does a tincture  derive  all the vir­
tues of the drug from which it is made?
No.  3.  What is the difference between oil 
cinnamon and oil cassia?
The questions formed  the  chief  topic  of 
discussion  during  the  meeting.  After  ap­
pointing  O. A. Lloyd,  and  T.  llpyt  to pre­
pare papers to he read four weeks from date, 
the critic’s report was heard and the meeting 
adjourned. 

The next meeting will be held Nov.  10.
L.  B.  G l o v e r ,  Sec’y.

1
Yours respectfully,
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The  Louisiana  rice  crop is a quarter  less 

than last year,  but the quality is superior.

Out bf 28,000 Jews  in  Amsterdam  10,000 

are occupied in the diamond trade.

fOUGHS, GOLDS 
u   &  SORE THROAT,

In their Various Forms,

Are so frequent in this Changeable Clim ate, and no  of­
ten lay the foundation of disease, th a t no  one who has 
a proper regal’d for health should be w ithout

Allen’s Lung Balsam
CONSUMPTION.
Allen's Lung Balsam

For  the  cure  of  this  distressing  disease,  there fias 
been no medicine y et discovered  th a t  can  show  more 
evidence of real m erit than

M others will find it  a safe  and  sure  rem edy  to  give 

th e ir children when affiicted w ith croup.

It Is Harmless to the Most  Delicate Child.
Recommended by m inisters,  physicians  and  nurses, 
in fact by everybody who has given it a  good trial.  Di­
rections accom pany each bottle.  Call for A L L E N ’S 
L U N G   B A L S A M ,  and shun  the  use  of  aU  cough 
rem edies w ithout m erit and an established reputation.
As an Expectorant,  It  Has  no  Equal.

For Sale by all Medicine Dealers.

Price«  25  cents and 91 per bottle*

J. N. HARRIS & CO., Ltd., Props., Cincinnati, Ohio.

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ACIDUM.

OLEUM.

AMMONIA.

BALSAMUM.

Aloe, Barb,  (po. 60)................

Advanced—Oil cubebs,  gum  arabic,  golden 
Declined—Iodine, iodide potash,  oil  croton, 

seal root, German quinine.
linseed oil. 
A ceticum ................................. ............. '  8®
10
Benzoicum,  German............. .............  80@1  00
Carbolicum............................. .............   30® 35
Citricum 
................................. .............  70® 75
H ydrochlor.............................
5
N itrocum ................................. .............   10® 12
O xahcum ................................. ................   10© 12
Salicvlicum............................. ................ 1  85®2 10
Tannicum................................. ................ 1  40@ l  60
T artaricum ............................. ................   50® 53
Aqua, 16  deg............................ ................  
5
6
18  deg............................ .............  
Carbonas..................................
................
14
Chloridum........... ..................
.............   12® 14
BACCAE.
Cubebae  (po.  1  10.................... ............. 1  1U@1 20
7
Juniperus  ............................... ...........  
X authoxylum ........................ .............   25® 30
Copaiba.................................... .............   48® 50
P eru........................................... .............  
@1 50
Terabin,  Canada..................... .............   38® 40
Tolutarf.................................... .............   50® 55
CORTEX.
Abies,  Canadian.....................
18
Cassiae  ....................................
11
Cinchona Flava.......................
18
Eaonymus  atropurp.............
30
Myrica  Cerifera, po...............
20
Prunus  Virgini.......................
12
Quillaia,  grd.............. ............
12
Sassfras  ..................................
lo
Ulmus.......................................
12
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)...........
10
EXTRACTUM
Glycyrrhiza Glabra................ .............  24® 25
po..  .................... .............   83@ 35
Haematox, 15 5) boxes........... .............  
8® 9
38....................  ... .............  
© 12
© 13
54s  ....................... .............  
@ 15
ha   ....................... .............  
FERB.UM.
Carbonate Precip.................... .............  
@ 15
Citrate and Quinia..................
Citrate Soluble......................... .............  
,  © 80
Ferroeyanidum Sol................. .............  
© 50
Solut  Chloride......................... .............  
© 15
Sulphate, com’l,  (bbl. 75)....... .............  154© 2
7
pure......................... .............  
©
GUMMl.
Acacia,  1st  picked.................. .............  
@ 9.)
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2nd 
.................. .............   @ 85
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3rd 
.................. .............   @ 75
Sifted  sorts............... .............   ® ÖU
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p o ............................... .............   © 90
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..........  50® 60
“  Cape, (po. 20).................. .............  
© 12*
“  Socotrine,  (po. 60)........ .............   @ 50
Ammoniae  .............................. .............   25® 30
Assafoetida,  (po. 25)............... .............  
© . 15
Beuzoinum ............................. .............   50© 55
Cam phorae.............................. .............24®
27
Catechu, is,  (54s,  14;  ^ s, 16).. .............  
© 13
Euphorbium,  po..................... .............   35(i& 10
@ 80
............. 
Gamboge, po............................ .............   75® 80
Guaiacum,  (po. 45).................. .............   @ 35
Kino,  (po. 25)............................ .............   @ 20
Mastic....................................... .............   @1 25
Myrrh, (po. 45).......................... .............  
® 40
Opii, (po. 4  50).......................... .............   ©3 00
Shellac...................................... .............  18® 25
bleached..................... .............   25® 30
Tragaeanth ............................. .............  30® 75
wh e r b a —In ounce p ickages.
Absinthium  ........... ................
25
Eupatorium  ........ ...................
20
25
Lobelia  ...................................
Majorum  .............. '.................
28
Mentha Piperita.....................
23
Y i r ..............................
25
R u e ...........................................
30
Tanacetum,  V .........................
Thymus. V ...............................
25
MAGNESIA.
Calcined,  P a t.........................................  55®  60
Carbonate,  P a t.....................................   20®  22
Carbbnate,  K. & M...............................  21%)  25
Carbonate,  Jennings.............................  35®  36
Absinthium............................................. 3 50@1 00
Amygdalae, Dulc..................................   45®  50
Amydalae, Amarao................................ 7 00®7 50
Anisi  .............  
; .................................. 2 (J0@2  10
Auranti  Cortex.......".................................  @2 75
Bergami!........... .....................................2  25  3 00
Cajiputi  .................................................   @  75
Ot^ryophylli................................................  ®1 75
G q ä a r ................................................  35®  65
Chenopodii  ................................................  @1 50
Cinnamomi.............................................   @  75
Citronelia  ..............................................  ®  75
Cqnium  Mac............................................  35®  65
Copaiba....................................................  ®  80
C ubebae.................................................. 8  50@9 U)
Exechtliitos............................................   90®l  00
Erigeron................................................ ..1  20@1 3d
G aultheria...............................................2 3U@2 40
Geranium, 5........................................... 
@  75
f,5@  76
Gossipii, Sem, gal.................................... 
lledeoma.................................................   9.;@1  00
Juniper!................................................. 
5G@2 00
L avenduiu. . . : .......................................   90@2 00
Lim onis....................................................2 25@2 75
Lini, gal...................................................  42®  45
Mentha Piper..........................................3 00j»3 75
Mentha Verid..........................................6 00@7 00
Morrhuae,  gal.......................................   80@i  (¡0
Myreia,  5.....................................................  @ 50
O live......................................................... I 00@2 75
Pieis Liquida, (gal.  5d)...........................   10®  12
R icini........................................................1  42®1 60
Rosm arini..............................................  65®1  50
Rosae,  j ...................................................  @8  00
Suceini  ......................................................  
Sabina......................................................  90® i  00
Santal....................................................... 3 5U@7 00
Sassafras..................................................   45®  50
  ®  65
Sinapis,  ess, z...........   ................. 
 
T iglii...........................................................  
«öl 60
T hym e................................................... 
40®  50
opt..............................................  @  60
Theobromas.................................. .........   15®  20
Bichrom ate............................................  72®  14
  36®  40
B rom ide............................................. 
Chlorate, (Po. 22)....................................  20®  22
Iodide............................................... 
2 40@2  50
P ru ssiate ....................  . 
...............  25®  28
A lth ae............. : .....................................  25®  30
A nchusa.................................................  15®  20
Arum,  po.......................................... 
  @  25
Calamus...................................................  20® 
.50
Gentiana,  (po. 15)..................................   10®  12
Glychrrhiza,  (pv. 15)...............................  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,  (po. 30)................   ®  25
Hellebore,  Alba,  po.............................   15®  20
Inula,  po.................................................  15®  2Ü1
ipecac, po.................................................1 00® 1 10
Jalapa,  p r...............................................   25®  30
Marauta,  )4s..................................\  
  @  35
Podophyllum,  po...........................' 
  15®  18
Rhei  ........................................................  75glUoi
“  cu t...................................................  @1  75 I
“  p v ...................................................  75®1  35
Spigelia  .................................................  60®  651
Sanguinaria, (po. 15).............................   @  10 I
Scrpentaria................... 
45®  50
Senega.......................... . ........................  50®  60
Smi lax, Officinalis, H ............................  @ 40
Mex.......................  @  20
Scillae,  (po. 35).......................................   10®  12
Sytnploearpus,  Foetidus, po...............  ®  25
Valeriana,  English,  (po. 30)................   @  25
Germ an...............................  15©  20
Anisu.n, (po. 20).....................................   @  17
Apiuin  (graveolens).............................   12®  15
Bird, Is........................................    
4®  6
Carui,  (po. 20).........................................  12®  15
Cardomom...............................................1  0<'@l 25
Coriandrum............................................ 
8®  10
Cannabis  Sativa....................................  354®  4 j
Chenopodium  .......................................   10®  121
Dipterix Odorate.......................».........1  90©2 00 j
Foeniculum....................  
@  15
Foenugreek, po...................................... 
6®  8 I
Lini...........................................................  354®  1 i
Lini, grd, (bbl,  3)....................................  354®  4 I
Phalaris Canarian.................................  354®  4 |
R a p a ........................................................ 
5@  6 j
8®  9
Sinapis,  Albu......................................... 
N igra....................................... 
8® 
9
Frumenti,  W.,  D. & Co..........................2  00@2 50
Frumenti, D. F. R................................... 1  75@2 0C |
F ru m en ti................................................ 1  10@1 50 |
Juniperis Co.  O*. T %...............................1  75@1 75 I
Juniperis  Co............................................1  75@3 50 j
Saacharum  N. E .....................................1  75@2 00 !
Spt. Vini  G alli....................................... 1  75@0 50 I
Vini Oporto............................................. 1  25@2 00 I
Vini  Alba................................................ 1  25@2 00 !
Florida sheens’wool, carriage.......2 25  @2  50 
j
do 
Nassau 
2 00
■Velvet Ext  do 
1  10 
j
ExtraYe  •  do 
85 
j
i
65 
Grass 
do 
Hard I 
75
Yellow Reef. 
1  40 
j
JBther, Spts Nitros, 3 F ........................   20®  28
yEther, Spts. Nitros, I F .......................  30®  32
Al union.................................................   254® 354
Alumen,  ground, (po. 7)..................... . 
............................................   55®  60
Annatto   

........ 
do 
. . . .  
do 
do 
.......  
do 
........ 
.for slate use................  
................  

MISCELLANEOUS.

POTASSIUM.

SPIRITUS.

SPONGES.

SEMEN.

RADIX.

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3®  4 1

40® 15

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do

Antimoni,  po...............................
Antimoni et Potass  T art...........
Argenti  Nitras,  j ........................
Arsenicum.....................................
Balm Gilead  Bud........................
Bismuth  S.  N ...............................
Calcium  Chlor,  Is, (54s, 11;  5*8,1
Cantharides  Russian, po...........
Capsici  Fructus, a f.....................
Capsici Fructus, po.....................
Capsici Fructus, B, po................
Caryophyllus,  (po.  30)........
.Carmine. No. 40...................
Ci ra Aiba, S. &  V ................
Cera Flava............................
Coccus  ..................................
Cassia Fructus.....................
Centraria,.............................
Cetaceum .............................
Chloroform..........................
Chloroform,  Squibbs..........
Chloral Hydrate  Cryst......
Chondrus .............................
Cinchonidine, P. & VV..........
Cinchonidine,  Germ an......
Corks, see list, discount,  per cent
Creasotum ...............................
Creta, (bbl. 75)..........................
Creta  prop...............................
Creta, precip............................
Creta Rubra.............................
Crocus  ........  ..........................
Cudbear....................................
Cupri Sulph.............................
D extrine..................................
Ether Sulph.............................
Emery, all  num bers...............
Emery, po.................................
Ergota. <po. 60)........................
Flake  W hite............................
G alla.........................................
G am bler..................................
Gelatin, Coopor.......................
Gelatin, French.......................
Glassware Hint, 70&10 by box.  60
Glue,  Brown.............................
Glue, W hite...............................
Glycerina..................................
Grana  Paradisi.........................
Hutnulu8  ..................................
Hydrarg Chlor. M ite................
Hydrarg  Chlor.  Cor................
Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum ..........
Hydrarg  Ammoniati...............
H y drarg U ngu e ntu m ...............
H ydrargyrum ..........................
Ichthyocolla, Am  ....................
Indigo.........................................
Iodine.  Resubl..........................
Iodoform.  5...............................
Liquor At sen et Hydrarg Iod.
Liquor Potass  Arsm itis..........
Lupuline  ..................................
Lycopodium.............................
Macis...........................................
Magnesia. Sulph, (bbl. 1)4).......
M anila, S. F ...............................
Mori Mia,  S, P. & W..................
Mos< ‘ins Canton.......................
Myristica, No. 1........................
Nux  \ omiea,  (po. 20)...............
Os.  Sepia....................................
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Co__
Picis Liq,  N. C.. 54  galls, doz..
Pieis Liq.,  quarts.....................
Picis Liq., pints........................
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80)................
Piper Nigra,  (po. 22)  ...............
Piper  Alba, (po. 35)..................
Pix  Burgun...............................
Plumbi  A cet.............................
Potassa, Bitart, pure...............
Potassa.  Bitart, com...............
Potass  Nitras, opt....................
Potass  N itras...............................
Pul vis Ipecac et opii................
Pyrethrum, boxes, H. &P. D.Co.
Py rethrum, pv .............................
Quassiae.................................
Quinia, S, P. &  W..................
Quinia. S, German................
Rubia Tinctorura..................
Saccbarum  Lactis, pv..........
Saiacin....................................
Sanguis Draconis..................
Santonine...............................
Sapo,  W .................................
Sapo,  M..................................
Sapo, G....................................
Seidlitz  M ixture....................
Sinapis....................................
Sinapis,  opt............................
Snuff,  Maceaboy,  Do. Voes.
Snuif, Scotch,  Do. Voes.......
Soda Boras, (po.  10)...............
Soda et Potoes T art...............
Soda Carb...............................
Soda,  Bi-Carb........................
Soda,  Ash...............................
Soda  Sulphas...'...................
Spts. Ether  Co.......................
Spts.  Myreia  Do in................
Spts. Myreia Im p..................
Spts. Vini Beet,(bbl.  2 25)...
Strychnia, Crystal................
Sulphur, Subl.........................
Sulphur,  Roll........................
Tam arinds.............................
Terebonth  Venice................
Theobrom ae..........................
Vanilla  ..................................
Zinci  S ulph..:.......................

OILS.

less.

4® 5
55® 60
@ 68
5® 7
38® 40
2  15@2 20
@ 9
@3 25
© 15
@ 16
@ 14
26® 28
50® 55
2t@ 30
© 40
@ 1%
@ 10
@ 50
38® 40
@1 00
l  50® 1 75
10® 12
13® 15
m 14
40
© 50
5® 6
m 10
© 8
-d'il»
@ 24
1C® 12
68® 70
© 8
Or,
6
50® 60
12® 15
@ 23
7® 8
@ 15
40® 60
9® 15
15® 23
© 15
25® 40
@ 75
@ 65
@ 85
@1 00
@ 40
@ 65
1  25® 1 50
75@1 00
®3
@ 50
® 27
10® 121
85®1  00
55® 60
50® 55
2® 3
90@1 00
@ 40
10
18® 20
©2 00
(§12 70
@i 40
© 85
(ò\ no
© 18
© 35
© 7
14© 15
@ 40
@ 15
8® 10
7® 9
1  10® 1 20
©l 00
33® 35
8® 10
65® 70
52® 60
12® 13
@ .35
2  15®2 25
40® 50
@1 50
12© 14
8® 10
@ 15
@ 28
@ 18
@ 30
@ 35
$>, 35
8® 10
33® 35
2® 2>/4
4® 5
3® 4
@ 2
50© 55
@2 00
© 2 50
@2 35
©1 30
2)4® 0-4
2)4®
1
8®
10
© 40
00© 16 00
7® 8
Gal 
75

2 10@2

Whale, winter............................
Lard, extra.................................
Lard, No.  1................................
Linseed, pure  raw ....................
Linseed, boiled........................
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained..
Spi rits Turpentine....................

PA r NTS

Red  Venetian............................
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........
Putty, com m ercial..................
Putty, strictly pure..................
Vermilion, prime  American.. 
Vermilion,  English..................
Green,  Peninsular....................
Lead, red strictly  pure...........
Lead, white, strictly p ure.......
Whiting, white Spanish..........
Whiting,  Gildersf.....................
White, Paris American...........
Whitinv  Paris English cliff  .
Pioneer Prepared  I a in ts __
Swiss Villa P reparf  Paints..
VARNISHES.
No. 1 Turp  Coach.....................
Extra  Turp...............................
Coach Body.................................
No. 1  Turp Furniture...............
Extra Turk  Damar..................
Japan Dryer, No. 1  Turp........

4  

Bbl 
70 

Bbl
ISi
1^
2K
2*

40 
40 
70 
42 

43
46
90
47
Lb
2®  3
3®  3
2®  3
3)4®  3
2?4@  3
13®16
65®70
16® 17
7®  7)4
7®  7)4
@70
@90
1  10
1  40
1  20@1  40
1  00©1 20

..1  10® 1  20
..1  60® 1  70
.2  75@3  00
.  1  00@1  (0
.. 1  55@1  60
..  70®  75

GX2TS2SXTG HOOT.
We pay the highest price for it.  Address
Peck B r o s ,,  Dniggiuls, fen d  Rapids, Midi.

M i l i s   &  Goodman, Props.

357 South Union St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

YTTANTED—Registered  drug  clerks,  either 
YV 
pharmacists or assistants,who are sober, 
honest,  industrious  and  willing  to  work  on 
moderate salary.
TJlOR SALE—Stock, store and lots amounting 
to about $1,800 in an inland  town.  Doing 
good paying business.

R  SALE—Stock of about $2,000  on  one  of 
the best business streets of Grand Rapids. 
Doing good business.  Reason for selling, poor 
health.

fJOR  SALE—Stock qf about $1,100 in town of 
about 700 inhabitants.  Good  chance  for 
good live man.
FOR  SALE—Part interest in  stock  of  about 
$5,000 in towu  of  l,80o  inhabitants.  Pur­
chaser m ust be good druggist  and  capable  of 
taking entire charge of store.
F OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—For good farm.
Stock  of  drugs  and  groceries  of  about 
$4,000 in town of 1,900 Inhabitants.  Good  loca­
tion.
FOR  SALE—Small  stock  of  about  $.500  in 
town where sales could be doubled by con­
stant attention to business.  Present owner is 
practicing physician and cannot attend to both.
TiOR  SALE—Stock of $1,700 in growing town 
. 

of 800 inhabitants.  Good location.

■LSO—Many  other  stocks,  the  particulars 

of which we will  furnish  on  application.
T O   DRUGGISTS—Wishing to  securé  clerks 
J-  we will furnish the  address  and  full  par­
ticulars of those on our list free.

Druggists!

42 and 44  Ottawa Street and 89, 91,

93 and 95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS  OF

Wolf, Patton & Co. and John L. 

Whiting, Manufacturers  of 

Fine Paint and  Var­

nish Brushes.
THE  CELEBRATED

Piofloer Preiiarei Famie.

ALSO  FOR  THE

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

Horse. Brushes.

W E   A R E  SOLE .OW NERS  OF

Weatiierly’s licM pn 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.

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

WITHERS DADE&C0.’$

Henderson Co., Ky.,

Sour Mash  and  Old-Fashioned 

Hand-Made, Copper- 

Distilled

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

We are also owners of the

Druggists’  Favorite  Rye,

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

Gins, BrauOies & Fine Wines.

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

such asPatent Medicines,

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

Mail  orders  always  receive  our special 

Hazeltine 

& Perkins 

Drug Co.

IMPORTERS  OF

HOLIDAY  GOODS.  H. LEONARD  &  SONS Foreign  and  Domestic Toys.

JOBBERS  OF

Nos.  134,136,138 and 140  Fulton St.,  Comer  Spring  St,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

p p l j p p

NOTE  CAREFULLY a few specialties 
taken at random  from  our  sample  room, 
from which, however, you can get  but  the 
slightest ideaof the staple every day sellers 
we carry constantly in stock which will well 
repay the slight expense incurred  in  visit­
ing this city and making a personal  exam- 
amination and selection from  our immense 
assortment,  gathered  from 
leading 
European and American  Manufactories.

the 

OUR  LINE  INCLUDES

English Printed, 56 piece Tea Sets.
American Decorated Handsome Tea Sets.
German  and  French  and  English  China  Tea 
English Printed, 102 piece Dinner Sets all Styles.
English Moss Rose Gold Band Dinner Sets.
Fine Pink and Gray Flower Dinner Sets, American 

Sets.

Decoration.

Special Importation of  English  Decorated  Toilet 
Elegant  New  Styles  American  Toilet Sets, well- 

Sets.
covered, decoration.

neys.

Side Lamps.

Taylor & Knowles’ White Granite.

T. & R. Bootes’ Fine English Semi-Porcelain.
Wedgwood & Co.’s, Johnson  Bros.’,  and Knowles, 
The Famous “Pearl Top” Flint Glass Lamp Chim­
The Cheapest “Lift Wire” Lantern on  the Market.
The  Meteor  and  Brilliant  Kitchen  and  Factory 
World-Renowned “Rochester” Founts  and Lamps.
The “Impervious” Red Family Oil  Can, % all  wood.
Tin,  Jappanned  and  Brass  Trays,  all  at  new 
Rogers Bros.’s 1847 Knives, Spoons and Forks.
Wm. Rogers’ No. 12 Knives, Spoons and  Forks.
The Beautiful and New  “Agata”  Art  Glass,  Dew 
Drop,  Pine  Apple,  Amberina,  and  Pomona  Table 
Glassware, in all the new colors.
Sixty-Five--Count them-Sixty-Five Varieties Rich 
Gold, will not tarnish, Library Lamps and Pendants, 
with and without Prisms.

prices.

w m

mmtito!

MHWlf. I

a Barns 10*5

w

Our H ew  Salesroom  and Office:

T w o Blocks from TJnion Depot.

TO  THE  TRADE:

W e respectfully call  your  attention  to  the  removal  of our  busi­
ness headquarters to the new block as shown above, where  you  will 
find a finer and larger assortment of Holiday  Goods  in  all  the  best 
selling branches than has ever been shown in the State.
Our new salesrooms have been prepared with special reference to 
our constantly increasing trade, requiring larger facilities  for  receiv­
ing, packing and shipping goods, and we are able to  present  a  com­
plete stock of

China Holiday Goods. 
Patent and WAshable Dolls and I China  Decorated  Cups  and 

I China Decorated Tea Sets.

Bisque  and  China  Dolls  and ¡Rich Bohemian Vases.

! 
Heads. 
Bargains in Toys for Five, Ten &
Heads. 
Wood, Tin & Mechanical Toys. |  Twenty-Five Cent Counters.
All p is  Imported bj is Especially for oir new aid Exclusive Wholesale Stores.

Saucers.

. 

At this season of the year, we take  es­
pecial pride in  exhibiting  a  complete  and 
carefully selected s 
of  profitable  and 
desirable  Holiday  Goods.  Goods  which 
find ready sale, make an attractive display, 
and are used  in  every  home  in  the  land. 
The items displayed on  our  sample  tables 
are actually too numerous to mention.  W  
can  only  ask  you  to  call,  examine  our 
, goods, and  compare  our  prices  with  any 
¡House, East or West.

OUR  LEADERS  ARE

Fancy Tinted Vases in all new  and  novel  shapes.
Fancy Hand Painted Vases and Rich  Glass  Orna­
Low Priced Glass, China and Silver Vases in great­
Novelties in Moss Covered Flower  Decorated  and 

ments.
est variety.
beautiful English tinted glass.

Plush and Hand Painted  Mirrors  for 25c, 50c and 
Ladies’  and  Gentlemen’s  Decorated  Cups  and 

$1 Counters.

Saucers.

China Figures, Toys, Mugs, Pitchers, Etc.
China Plate Sets, Bread and Milk  Sets  and  Fruit 
Plates.
German Lava  Tobacco  Boxes  Cigar  Stands  and 
Fancy  Ornaments.
The Absolutely Non-Breakable Iron Toys, such  as 
Iron Trains, Butcher Carts, Coal Carts, Donkey Carts,
| and Two-Horse Surreys.
Iron Money Banks and Safes to retail  at all prices.
Tin  Locomotives,  Trains,  Animals,  Stoves,  Kit­
chens, Musical Toys, Swords, Guns, Tops, Pails,  and 
Rattles to please the boys.
I  Decorated  Tea  and  Dinner  Sets  in  fine  display 
I boxes, Dolls in all the forms, shapes,  styles  and  va- 
| rieties of doll life to please the girls.
Wood Tool Chests,  Horses,  Furniture,  Checkers, 

| Dominoes, Guns, Chairs, Tables, Games, Etc.

MoLoughlin Bros.’s A. B. C. and  Children’s  Books 
j for 2c, 5c, 10c, 15c, 25c, 35c, 50c, 75c, and $1 Counter. 
I  Hill’s Celebrated Blocks, all sizes and prices.

THE  BEST

THE  MARKET.

POSTAGE  ON  A  WILD  CAT.

Live Stock Not  to  be  Sent  by Mail, Even 

in New Mexico.

From the Guntown, N. M., Special.

The postmaster here  died a year ago and 
much trouble has  been  experienced in find­
ing a new  one  who  would  be  satisfactory 
and competent.  At length  the  people con- 
cludtd to  petition  for  the  appointment  of 
Sim  Duff,  who  keeps  a  saloon here.  As 
the request for Duff’s  appointment  was  al­
most unanimous  it  was  supposed  that  he 
would get the place, but after a while a gro­
cer  named  Beebe  was  appointed.  That 
made everybody  mad.  To  get  even  with 
all hands  the  citizens  held  a  meeting and 
put up a job which was  some  time  in com­
ing to a head.  One day last week old  Her­
rick Price,  who used to  live  in  Tennessee, 
drove  up  in  front  of  Beebe’s  place,  and 
yanked  a  young  wildcat out  of his wagon.
• The beast was frisky  and  ugly,  but appar­
ently not dangerous.  On  his  collar  was  a 
card bearing the address:
To the  President  of  the  JTnited  States  from 
the  grateful  Democratic  citizens  of  Gun- 
town, N. M.: 
A natural curiosity.  Democratic from tip to 
tip.  Feed  him  and  treat  him  arently.  He  is 
used to luxury.
Pulling the beast  into  the  postoflice,  old 
man Price asked what  the  postage  on  him 
would be.  Beebe opened  a  book  and  pre­
tended  to  read.  At length  he  stammered 
out something  to  the  effect  that  it  would 
probably be about 10 stamps.  Price bought 
the stamps,  stuck  them  on the cat’s collar, 
and turned him over to the postmaster, with 
an injunction to be careful of him.

_  

,, 

. 

,

That  afternoon  when  the  mail  carrier 
came along he refused to  take  the  animal. 
Beebe swore that  he  should,  whereupon  a 
fight ensued, and while it  was  in  progress 
the  wildcat  got  mad  and.ran into the gro­
cery,  where  he  crawled  under  a  counter. 
When Beebe and the mail  carrier  had  set­
tled their differences, the  former went after 
the cat, but was  soon  warned  by  the  ani 
mal’s demeanor that intimacy with him was 
not safe.  By this time the town was on the 
outside watching the fun.

At  length  they hit upon the plan of put 
ting a big leather mail bag near the cat with 
a piece of meat in it.  The  plan  worked  to 
perfection,  and  a  few  minutes  later  the 
crowd  in  front  had  the  pleasure of seeing 
the driver and  Beebe  emerge,  carrying  the 
bag  containing the compliments of the citi 
zens  of  Guntown.  To  simplify  matters 
Beebe had attached  to  the  bag  a  card  on 
which the mall carrier had written:
: ................i WILLD C ATTINCIDE.

POA8T PADB.

When the bag bad  been  deposited  in  the 
wagon and the driver  had  whipped  up  his 
horses and vanished,  the  citizens  called  on 
Beebe and congratulated him on his success 
in  his  new  place.  Then  all  hands  went 
away and awaited developments,

M smät

These came when a special agent arrived, 
deposed Beebe,  and  commissioned  Duff  as 
postmaster.  He  said  it  was  a  choice  of 
evils, but that in  a  town  like  this  it  was 
necessary to have a man who knewT th i  dif­
ference between fourth-class matter and live 
stock.  When the wildcat in  the bag reach­
ed Santa Fe nobody  would touch the beast, 
and at length, on the advice  of citizens, the 
mail carrier threw  the  whole  outfit  into  a 
cistern,  from which the bag and the defunct 
wildcat  were  fished 
the  next  morning. 
Duff is now doing  the  honors  here  for  the 
United States  government,  and  everybody 
is happy except Beebe.

Better be Definite.

From the Detroit Free Press.

A Detroiter who  was working  across one 
of the  northern  counties  with a horse  and 
buggy this  summer,  met  a  fanner  on foot 
and asked him how far it was to Greenville.
“Which one?” was the query,  after half a 

minute spent  in reflection. •

“Why I didn’t  know  that  there  was but 

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one Greenville.” 

“Didn’t you?  There’s  one  in South Car­
olina,  a second  in  Kansas,  a  third in  Ohio 
and a fourth in  Iowa.  Which  one  do  you 
want to go  to?”

“The nearest one.”
“Well,  that’s about seven miles off.  Next 
time you inquire  for  Greenville  you  better 
name  the State.  Got any tobacco?”

“Which tobacco do you want?”
“Why, I didn’t  know as  there was  more 

than one tobacco.”

“Oh, yes there is.  There’s  plug tobacco, 
fine  cut,  shorts  and  smoking.  Which  do 
you want?”

“Wall, I’ll take plug.”
“I haven’t  got  any.  Next  time  you in­
quire for  tobacco  you'd  better  mention the 
kind.”

The two looked at each other for a minute 

and then separated for life.

Roofing Felt.

We shalll be out with  an  ad  next  week 
for two and three  ply roofing felt.  Exactly 
the thing that the Centennial buildings were 
roofed with.

Anybody can put it  on  and it  makes the 
best roof in the  world.  Can  furnish  sam 
pies next week.

Curtiss, Dunton & Co.

No St. Paul  relics  for  him:  “Have  you 
heard of that interesting  case down East of 
a woman who was cured of paralysis by the 
miraculous power  of  a  relic  of  St.  Paul?” 
“Yes, I  have,  but  I’m  from  Minneapolis 
and I wouldn’t touch a relic of St. Paul with 
a ten foot pole.”

Mother:  “And  do  you  think  the  good 
Lord will look  out  for  my  son,  who is  on 
the  vast  deep?”  Parson: 
“Pardon  me, 
Mrs. Harper, I   never  talk  shop  outside of 
the church.”

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