VOL.  4.

Belknap VITagon & Sleigb Go.
BELKNAP’S

MANUFACTURERS  OF

PATENT

SLEIGHS,
Business and Pleasure Sleighs,  Farm 

Sleighs, Logging Sleighs.  «
Lumbermen’s and River Tools.

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

facility for m aking first-class Sleighs of all kinds.
Shop Cor. Front and First Sts., Grand Rapids.

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large invoice of

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Spring  Chicken,  Moxie  and 

FLANK ROAD PLUG”
Olney, S hields & Go.
STEAM  LAUNDRY,

Eclipse always in stock.

GRAND  RAPlbS,  MICH.

43 and 45 Kent Street.

ST A N L EY   N .  A LL E N ,  Proprietor.
WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders  by  Mail  and  Express  Promptly  At­

tended  to.

J U D D  

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And Pull Line Winter Goods.

IOa  CANAL STREET.

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O u s l i m a n ’s

WHIPS For Prices and term s, address

GRAHAM  ROYS,

G rand Rapids, Mich.

MANUFACTURED  BV

The CELEBRATED  EMERY  S3  SHOE
HATCH  &  EMERY,  Chicago  and. Boston. 
*87 Jefferson Street, 

D.  G.  KENYON, Traveling Salesman,

GUSTAVE  A.  WOLF,  Attorney.

-_____G rand Rapids. Mich.

O ver F ourth N ational Bank.  Telephone 107. 

COMMERCIAL  LAW  &  COLLECTIONS.
We carry « full  Mne of 
Seeds  of  every  variety, 
both for field and garden. 
Parties  in  want  should 
write to or see the
GRAND RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED CO.

71 CANAL STREET.

Full  outfits  for  the  Collection  Depart­
ment of a Business Men’s Association, con­
taining all the late improvements, supplied 
to order for $ 13.  The outfit comprises: 
1,000 “Blue Letter”  Notification  Sheets, 
for member’s use.
500 Copyrighted Record Blanks,
500 Association Notification  Sheets, and 
500  Envelopes.
Money can be sent by  draft,  post-office 
or express order.
Fuller & Stowe Company,

49 Lyon Street,.  -  Grand Rapids, Mich.

AND

DIARIES
OFFICE  TICKLERS.
CALENDARS

MEMORANDUM

FO B

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Now is the time  to  make  your 
selections to get what you want 
before the stock is broken.
Geo. A. Hall & Co.

29 Monroe St.

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Neuralgia, Hay Fever, Asthma, Bron­
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Colds, stands without an equal.

Air  M entholized by panning through th e Inhaler- 
tube, in which the Pure Crystal* of M enthol nrq. 
held' thoroughly applies this  valuable  rem edy  in  the 
i t   sells 
m ost  efficient  way,  to   the  p arts  affected, 
readily.  Always keep an open Inhaler in your store, 
and let your'eustom ers try  it.  A  few  inhalations  will 
n o t h u rt the Inhaler, and will do m ore  to dem onstrate 
its efficiency than a  half hour’s talk.  R etail price 
50 cents.  F or C irculars and  T estim oxiai.s address 

JH. U. Cusliman,  Three Kivers, Mich. 
H azeltine £  Perkins Drug Co.. G’d Rapids, 
And W holesale D ruggists of D etroit and Chicago.

Trade supplied by

WANTED

AT

71 Canal St., Grand Rapids.

EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN,

WANTED.

GREAT  WATCH  MAKER,

Highest Market  Price Paid 
for Beans, Picked or Unpicked.

W. T. LAMOREAUI, Agt.

71 Canal Street, 

GRAND RAPIDS, 

MICH.

JEWELER.

44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ,
Fermentimi!

STATE  AGENT  FOR

The Only Reliable Compressed Yeast.

M anufactured by Riveniate Dist. Co.

106 K ent Street, Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

TELEPHONE  566.

Grocers, bakers and others can secure th e agency for 
th e ir tow n on this Y east by applying to above address. 
None genuine unless it bears above label.

Importers,

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Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,

Wide Ducks, etc.

20  and 22  donroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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GRAND RAPIDS.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JANUARY  12,  1887.

TH E  THIRD  ANNIVERSARY.

Annual Meeting of the Traverse City Bus­

iness Men’s Association.

The third animat  meeting of the Traverse 
City  Business  Men’s  Association,  which 
occurred last  Tuesday evening,  was attend­
ed by over fifty of  the  ninety  members and 
a great deal of enthusiasm prevailed.  Frank 
Hamilton,  who had  served  the  Association 
faithfully  as  president  for  two  years, re­
fused to accept a re-election, when a spirited 
contest took place, resulting in the selection 
of Geo.  E.  Steele.  The full  complement of 
officers,  as elected,  is as follows:

President—Geo. E.  Steele.
First Vice-President—D.  E.  Carter.
Second Vice-President—J.  G. Johnson.
Secretary—C.  E.  Lockwood.
Treasurer—J.  T.  Beadle.
After the transaction of the  usual routine 
business  incident  to  the  annual  meeting, 
the meeting adjourned  to  the  Park  Place, 
where  an  elaborate  banquet  whs  served. 
Prayer  was  offered  by  Rev.  J. S.  Large, 
when the viands  were  discussed  for  about 
half an hour with a vigor characteristic of a 
a Grand Traverse appetite.  At  the conclu­
sion  of  the  repast,  Toastmaster  Milliken 
rapped  the  gathering  to  order  and  called 
upon  E.  A.  Stowe  to  respond to the  toast, 
“The State Association.”  Mr.  Stowe stated 
that • he  realized  the  fitness  of  the  toast­
master’s calling on him first, as it was invar­
iably customary to serve the common things 
first and reserve the pastry,  fruits and other 
delicacies  until the  last.  He then spoke as 
follows:

As an humble officer of the Michigan Bus­
iness Men’s Association,  1 am here  to-night 
to tender  you  the  cordial  greetings of that 
body.
We  hail  you as  pioneers  in  the work of 
organization in the West; we recognize your 
Association as  the first  organization  of  the 
kind in the State; we welcome you as one of 
the first  to  affiliate  with  the  parent  body; 
and we honored you by making  your Presi­
dent  our  President.  You,  in  turn,  have 
honored  the  State  Association, by furnish­
ing it with a presiding officer who has guid­
ed its course with singular wisdom and given 
the work of organization an impetus  which 
will be felt until every city and town  in the 
State is enlisted cAi the side of pay, progress 
and principle.  *
The idea  of  a  State  Association  was  no 
suddenly conceived idea, carelessly and has-1 
tily  put  into  execution.  As  you  already 
know,  the idea  originated with  your  Presi­
dent about eighteen months ago.  We began 
talking about the subject in our  local Asso­
ciation fully a  year  ago,  at  which  time  we 
registered  a  determination  that  the “Con­
vention City” should have the  honor of  en­
tertaining the first  convention  of  the  State 
organization.  Correspondence  with the as­
sociations then in existence satisfied ns that 
all of them favored the  project, and  we de­
cided to issue a general call  as  soon  as the 
number of associations reached  twenty-five. 
The requisite number  was  reached  August 
20th,  ou  September 1  a  call  was  issued in 
the name of  the Retail Grocers’ Association 
of Grand Rapids and on the 21st of Septem­
ber representatives of  twenty-three associa­
tions convened  at  Grand  Rapids.  Of  the 
proceedings of that  convention  and  the re­
sults which have followed  in  its  wake,  you 
are all more or  less familiar.
If I may be allowed to  speak  of  tangible 
advantages.  I will say that  we have  issued 
three notification sheets, containing  a  total 
of  147  names, and  that  we  have  written 
proof that such  publications  prevented  the 
making of  many  bad  accounts.  We  have 
ascertained the whereabouts of  thirty-seven 
fleeing debtore, eighteen of whom have paid 
accounts to debtors  whom  they intended  to 
leave in the lurch.  The other nineteen have 
been placed bn the  delinquent  list, and  the 
merchants in  the towns  in which  they live 
properly  notified  of  their  true  character. 
While the  results  accomplished  in  this  di­
rection are not  great,  we consider  them en­
couraging  and  an  earnest  of  what  can  be 
done  in  the  future  under  more  approved 
methods and more favorable  circumstances. 
The influence the  organization  has  exerted 
in  the  way  of  prompter  payments,  closer 
credits and more thorough business methods 
is seen in every town whose association has 
affiliated  with  the  State  body  and  whose 
members have endeavored to live  up to  the 
declaration of  principles  enunciated  at  the 
September meeting.  As an  instance of the 
impetus the Association  has  given local or­
ganization,  I have only to state that whereas 
it took nearly two  years  to  fonn  the  first 
twenty-five  associations,  we  have  in  three 
months since  the  State  meeting  organized 
twenty-five  associations.  The  State  hotly 
now comprises 815 auxiliary members and I 
think I am safe in saying  that  this number 
\vill  be  increased  to  1,500 ’by  the  March 
meeting.
The creation of a State  Association  indi­
cate  the  necessity of  attaining  objects too 
complex and widespread to be dealt with by 
the local  bodies.  While  the State Associa­
tion has neither the  power  nor  inclination 
to suppress  individual  agency  or  indepen­
dent  action on the part  of  any local  body, 
yet  it  affords  a  glorious  opportunity  to 
breathe new  life  into  the  business  men of 
Michigan.  By it  and  through  it  the  im­
pulses, thoughts, experiences  and  qualities 
)f the best men engaged  in  the  work  will 
be communicated to and premeate, as leaven, 
the  whole  mass.  By and  through  this ex­
change will come the interchange  of views, 
liberalizing your transactions, enlarging and 
dignifying  your  operations,  elevating  the 
morals  and  stimulating  a  spirit  of  gener­
ous rivalry among  the  whole  membership. 
By and through it  the  edge of  inquiry and 
investigation  will  be  sharpened.  By  it, 
also, public  confidence—inspired  by a faith 
in the conservatism which restrains, while it 
sustains,  organized  talent  and  industry- 
will bear golden fruit in  relieving the  busi­
ness men of Michigan of the incubus of  the 
dead-beat  and  -dissipate 
that  disparage­
ment  which,  at  times,  comes  upon  them 
from  the  invasions  of  repacious  vultures 
which  devour  their  prey  and  fly  away to 
other and newer fields.

Retiring-President  Hamilton  was  then 
called  upon  to  speak for “Onr Local Asso-

ciation,” which subject  he  handled 
following able manner:
Mr, Chairman and Gentlemen:

the

We  are  assembled  this  evening,  repre­
senting  a  large  majority  of  the  business 
men of our village,  with here  and there one 
from  our  neighboring  towns,  members  of 
of the Business Men’s  Association of Trav­
erse City.
It may be  of  interest  and  worthy  as  a 
matter of record,  that a few details connect­
ed with its inauguration,  its  aims  and  ob­
jects be outlined  and  a  resume of its worfc 
in the two years of its  existence  be  briefly 
told.
To the movers  in  the  work,  it  was  ap­
parent  that  many  classes  of  men,  much 
smaller in numbers than  in  the  mercantile 
line,  had banded together for protection and 
reform,  resulting in many  cases in the gen 
eral advancement of  knowledge  among  its 
members, cultivating a broader charity,  and 
creating  deeper  confidence  in mankind,  in 
and out of the rank  and  file.  Had  we  no 
grievances,  had we no need  for  reform,  no 
aims higher than  existed  years ago,  no sys­
tems for correction,  no  standard  to  main­
tain as a body?  This one fact was  clear  tc 
all, viz:  That all along  the line to a great­
er or less degree we were falling  victims  to 
an  indiscriminate  credit  system,  creating 
and  fostering  a  class  of  stationary  and 
itinerant delinquents,  to  the  detriment of 
the trader and of  necessity  an  injustice  to 
the  honest  and  good-paying  consumer. 
Better  pay,  curtailment  of  credit, proper 
classification of delinquents,  these  for the 
merchant, called for  other  reasons  for  or­
ganization,  aiming  for  a  broader platform 
and larger membership,  to include the  busi­
ness men of  our  city.  The  social  contact 
had already eliminated prejudice,  therefore 
followed  the  social  plank,  which  object 
alone has proven worthy of such a step, dis­
pelling many unhappy features  in the busi­
ness  man’s  life  toward  his  neighbors  in 
trade, uniting them from time  to  time;  and 
who can say but an  occasion  like this is in­
dicative of  a  higher  and  nobler  sentiment 
in trade circles?  Matters  of  business  and 
industrial ventures were  suggested of inter­
est  to  the,  public,  hence  the  membership 
clause  was  made  open  in  the  following 
words:
“Sec.  1  Any  merchant,  manufacturer, 
dealer,  or proprietor of an established  hon­
orable business who  has  resided  in  Trav­
erse City for the space of six  months and is 
a  taxpayer  shall  be  eligible  to  member­
ship.”
With the  objects  named  in  a few words 
as follows:
“The  objects  of  this  association  shall 
be to  cultivate  better  social  relations,  for 
mutual protection,  and to promote  tiie  gen­
eral interests  of  its  members  and  of  the 
Grand Traverse region.”
It. was not clear respecting the line of ob­
jects worthy to be sought, until formally de­
clared in those words  at our first State con­
vention last September.  (And here let me re­
mind,  you  that  our  organization  was  the 
first  Business  Men’s  Association  in  the 
State,  and the first to advocate  a  State  As­
sociation,  wBich now numbers an even fifty 
local organizations):
The objects of this association shall  be to 
uniteinerehants and other classes of business 
men for  reform,  development  of  industries 
and work for the general good,  and  to  pro­
mote by all legitimate means the social, mor­
al and  business  interests  of  its  members. 
Among the special objects sought  to  be  ob­
tained are the following:
1.  Inspiring confidence between buyer and 
seller by doing business on  legitimate  prin­
ciples.
2.  Shorter  hours  for  doing  business  in, 
and an honest endeavor to educate  the  buy­
er to make his purchases between 7 a. in. and 
0 p.  in.  six days a week.
3.  The proper observance  of  all  national 
holidays and more frequent intervals for rest 
and recreation.
4.  Abolishing the tendency  to  indiscrim­
inate credit and  stimulating  the  selling  of 
merchandise for ready pay.
5.  Protection  against  inferior  and  adul­
terated  goods,  short  weights,  counts  and 
measures,  fictitious  brands  and  labels  and 
misrepresentation in public and private.
6.  Maintaining a delinquent  department, 
for receiving  from  and  imparting  to  local 
associations  prompt  information  of  delin­
quents changing locations.
7.  Protection against  unjust  laws  affect­
ing business men and a  careful  scrutiny  of 
all legislation relating to the  same.
8.  To stimulate a determination to render 
the title “Business Man” a synonym for hon­
or.  firmness, probity, justice and high  nior-
als.
To The Michigan  T radesm an,  an  or­
gan of business men most heartily endorsed, 
and to its editor,  Mr.  E.  A.  Stowe,  both  lo­
cal and State bodies are indebted for  organ­
ization,  for  the  vitality  and  zeal  that  are 
everywhere apparent and for the best record 
made in any state in the Union, in rapid and 
effective work in  the  interests  of  business 
men.
From a  local  membership  of  thirty,  we 
have grown to a body of  ninety.  We  have 
indulged in no schemes,  no secrecy; we have 
no boasts to make; we cannot always  meas­
ure strength by numbers,  nor  measure  the 
good accomplished  in  mere  words.  How­
ever,  the work of our Rating  Committee  of 
seven  members,  appointed at our first meet­
ing,  proved a source  of  congratulation. 
It 
placed the intentional,  malicious delinquent 
before all business men in the rank to which 
he properly belonged; it stimulated  a  more 
wholesome  line  of  credits,  regulated  the 
abuse, encouraged the ready-pay system and 
ranked  the  honest,  prompt,  well-meaning 
man above the professional delinquent.  This 
system has  recently been  superseded by  an­
other, clearer and keener, yet possessed with 
all fairness and a just consideration  for  all. 
Rules for collecting  are  mailed  delinquent 
with bill of  purchase,  requesting  a  settle­
ment or a proper recognition of same within 
thirty days.  Upon failure  to  comply  with 
this,  the account is placed before the  Secre­
tary and Rating Committee,  who,  in  turn, 
again demand  such  recognition  as  .is  due, 
otherwise,  his name will be published among 
the  delinquent  class  as  one  unworthy  of 
credit.  Should this system be abused, prop­
er channels are open for arbitration.
Onr  Insurance  Committee  have  acled  In 
conjunction  with  others in stimulating care 
on the part of tenants  in  guarding  against 
fire, and have recommended better and more 
insurance whenever  and  wherever practica­
ble.  This matter  should  not  be  lost sight

of in the future. 
It  needs  still further agi­
tation.'  A  constant  watchfulness  on  the 
part of all to  guard  against  fire  cannot be 
too often suggested.
.  Our Freight Committee secured  under an 
annual  contract  with  the  G.  R.  & I.  Rail­
way from  Chicago, a reduction  of  from  20 
to  25  per  cent,  from  former  rates, shorter 
time in transit,  laying goods down  in Trav­
erse  City in  four  days,  when  formerly six 
days was the rule.  With another road into 
Traverse  City  we  may  reasonably look for 
closer rates and  better time.
Our  Lecture  Committee have  drawn  on 
home talent so far as they were able, giving 
to  the  public  without  cost  four  addresses 
ranking in merit  with  talent  we  pay large 
sums for.  This  feature  will  no  doubt  bef 
carried to a still  greater  success  in  the fu 
ture.
Our  Manufacturing  Committee  have  in 
vestigated our  resources  to  a  large extent, 
encouraging  by letters,  printed  matter  and 
personal  interview,  when  possible,  the es 
tablishment  of  new  industries,  however 
small.  As a partial result  of  their  efforts 
we have one  thriving  enterprise  a credit to 
our town.  The  Committee  also  secured a 
car load of whitefish and deposited the same 
in our bay last  season.  They  feel,  in com 
mon with all, the  worth and need of manu 
facturing  enterprises, necessitating  moder 
ate and  large  investments,  to  be  attracted 
here  largely  through a well-organized  and 
well-directed system  of  advertising.  This 
is a question  of  moment  to  every business 
man in Traverse City.
Our Finance Committee have to congratu­
late themselves  upon  a  liberal  balance  in 
the treasury.
Our  day  of  recreation,  July  20th,  will 
long be remembered  as one of  social enjoy­
ment,  uniting with our neighboring villages 
in  closer  bonds,  bringing  three  thousand 
people together upon common  grounds,  one 
day,  for  out-of-door  pleasure,  any occasion 
before unknown in the history of our region. 
A limited observance of special holidays and 
a  proper  observance  of  national  days  are 
right, and should be commended.
Our day for Shorter  hours  in  business is 
coming close at  hand.  Some  have adopted 
this method already, and many are  looking 
forward to it.  When the few who  are now 
opposed shall have conceded the seasonable­
ness of the demand: 
it  will  require  inde­
pendence of action  on  the  one  side  anil a 
yielding of individual  choice  on  the  other. 
A member of the British  Parliament is now 
agitating early closing by act of Parliament, 
with good prospects  of  success.  We  trust 
to the good sense of the  mercantile  profes 
sion  rather  than  agitate  legislative  enact­
ment.
As  an  Association  of  business  men,  we 
meet here to-night on tried grounds, no lon­
ger groping in the dark.  We are now com­
mitted to the  best  interests  of  our  village 
and its  inhabitants  thereof.  We  are  com­
mitted  to the work of  elevating trade from 
the smallest dealer on the corner to the larg­
est  dealer  living.  We  stand  pledged  for 
shorter hours  in  business,  giving  the mer­
chant  and  his  employee  time  for  broader 
development in and  out  of  business.  We 
stand pledged for  protection  against  adul­
terations,  short  weights,  counts  and  meas­
ures,  misrepresentation  in  public  and  pri­
vate,  unjust  laws  affecting  the  business 
man; we  stand  pledged  to  eacli  other  as 
honorable  business  men,  and  to  the  con­
sumer as men worthy of confidence.
Is* it  not,  I  repeat,  a  good  omen  when 
nine-tenths of  the  business  men  in our en­
terprising  village  can  meet  around  these 
tables  for  social  enjoyment? 
Is  it  not a 
strong  statement of a  doctrine that offers a 
solution of  difficulties  before  us? 
Is it not 
true that the  work to be  done in our  midst 
largely depends upon  the  intelligent  sym­
pathy and co-operation of business men?
We gather together from  time to  time on 
political  grounds,  with  antagonistic  meas­
ures,  divergencies  of  opinion,  running  our 
lines of action contrary to  good  fellowship, 
and  sometimes  moral  trusteeship,  we meet 
as a body at the polls and at the  grave,  fre­
quently  meet  at  our  secret  orders,  our 
churches and our social gatherings; but here 
only  do  we  meet  as business men to  move 
along the lines of pay, progress and princi­
ple.
Let us seek to inspire  trade with  an  aim 
above mere baiter,  free  it from  its bondage 
through greater powers,  “give all classes of 
business  a royal  sanction,” that  they  shall 
take  rank  and  dignity witli  all  the  work 
done by humanity in its best estate.

Attorney L.  Roberts  was  called  upon to 
speak  for  “ Our  City”  and  prefaced  his 
speech with felicitous remarks:
Mr. Toastmaster and Gentlemen:
To those who lived  here  in an  early day, 
when it took a week to get to Grand Rapids, 
Traverse City was  “Inside” and all the  rest 
of the  world was  “outside.”  And  we who 
came later  have  the  same feeling,  not  that 
we are now separated from  the  rest  o f the 
State and country,  as we were then,  but  be­
cause she has advantages over  other places, 
both present and prospective,  which,  distin- 
guuislies it from  all  of  them  and which,  to 
our minds,  gives us  the  inside track  in  the 
race.
Our  healthful  and  salubrious  climate— 
who has not  felt  its  effects, both  upon his 
system and his  pocketbook?  Our water fa­
cilities, both for pleasure and profit!  Board- 
man  Lake,  with  her  two  square  miles  of 
placid surface,  will ever furnish amusement 
for sail or oar,  while the bending river,  as it 
flows  through the  town,  separating  it  into 
three  natural  divisions,  provides  ample 
drainage for all.  Tne  broad  and  beautiful 
bay! the navies  of  the  whole  world  might 
ride upon her heaving bosom.  Her waters, 
bright,  clear, pure and sparkling,  furnish to 
Traverse  City  an  inexhaustible  supply  of 
that priceless though much slandered artiee; 
our bay,  “a thing  of  beauty and  a  joy  for­
ever,” an ever changing panorama upon and 
above  whose  gorgeous  surface  may some­
times be seen  the  mirage  only  equaled by 
that  viewed upon  Sahara’s  burning  sands; 
the  mirror for  the  fleecy  cloud,  the. bright 
sunshine  and  the  blue  arch  of  heaven; 
the  huge  cauldron  from  whose  surface 
the waves thunder  against  the  rocky  shore 
like the roar of the  mighty  sea;  and  when 
the storm is past they kiss the pebbly beach 
like the ripple of the laughing rill.  We love 
our bay as we love our home.
The growth  of  Traverse  City  has  been 
slow but sure.  “ Where can I find a house?” 
has  been  heard  much  oftener  thah  “to 
whom can I rent one?”
Again, Traverse  City  has  more  territory

NO,  173.

that  must  be  tributary  to  her,  than  any 
town in the  older  portions  of  the  State of 
twice  her  size.  The  whole  of  Leelanaw 
county,  the  northern  and  eastern  part  of 
Benzie, all of Grand Traverse,  the southern 
and eastern  portions  of  Antrim,  and  their 
people must always  find  an  outlet for their 
products and a depot for their supplies here. 
Her $30,000 school  house  and $20,000  jail, 
and her numerous  churches  show her to  be 
well toward the head of the column in relig­
ious and educational  interests.  For  manu­
facturing purposes,  her immense forests are 
at her very threshold.  To secure these man­
ufactories  it  is  only  necessary that  such a 
low rate of freights be secured as will allow 
our manufacturers to compete with those of 
other  places.  Already the competition be­
tween our bay and present railway facilities 
is such in summer  that  our  merchants  can 
compete with any north of  Big Rapids; and 
the bright prospects  of  at  least  one  more 
railway in the near fature  render  it  certain 
that all  kinds  of  hardwood  manufactories 
can be successfully carried on here.
This, with the rapidly developing farming 
interests,  with the homes  springing  rapidly 
into existence on every hill and in every val­
ley; with our  lake,  river  and  bay,  and  the 
inhabitants thereof for  pleasure  and  recre­
ation,  with.the salubrious and  healthful cli­
mate,  with  the  splendid  manufacturing fa­
cilities now  opening  before  us,  and  above 
all,  with the thorough-going,  honest,  indus­
trious business men,  we  can  well  say  that 
ours is a  city,  beautiful  for  situation,  rich 
in the broad expanse of her primeval forest, 
and whose growth and prosperity need only 
be  measured  by  the  energy,  shrewdness, 
perseverance  and faithfulness  of  her  citi­
zens.

Hon. Perry Hannah then  spoke for  “Our 

Business Men,” as follows:
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen:

It is with great  pleasure  that  I  respond 
for  the  business  men  of  Traverse  City.
There is no class of men that I have watch 
ed with greater interest  than the tradesmen 
of our  town.  They  are  nearly  all  young 
with more than  common  energy and  busi­
ness ability. 
It is their  first  venture,  and 
with the school of experience  that must act 
as guide and teacher,  I  predict  for them all 
great? success.
Traverse City has  to-day a  population of 
some 4,000 inhabitants,  with a  country sur­
rounding it of full seven-eighths of its native 
forests  still  standing  on  the  soil.  Yet  I 
make bold  to  assert  that  more  goods  are 
sold here by our merchants than in any oth­
er town of its size in the State of  Michigan.
Hannah, Lay  &  Co.  may  be  called  the 
pioneer business men in the Grand Traverse 
region. 
It is  nearly thirty-six  years  since 
they opened  up trade in  a small  cabin,  far 
less in size than  the  smallest  shop now in 
our  village, 
their  sales  not  exceeding 
?2,000 the first year.
Since that time more than 500 young men 
have grown up  and received their  business 
education  wjjtti  this  company  and  gone 
forth to engage in business on their own ac­
count. 
It  is one of  the proudest  thoughts 
of my life,  when I go back and review their 
history,  that I am unable  to recall  a  single 
instance of failure.
From the earliest dawn  of  trade in Trav­
erse City the cash system  was  adopted and 
strictly adhered  to  for  many years.  Other 
settlements  grew  up  and  readily  fell  into 
this line of  practice  until  Grand  Traverse 
became a wonder  and  shining  light  to the 
balance  of  our great State on  account of its 
cash system.
To this “pay  as  you  go”  practice, |I  at­
tribute the great  safety value  that  has car- 
led the young business men past  ftie credit 
rocks that wreck the merchant.
If we are to-day straying away from  this 
ash  principle  I  would  warn  my  young 
friends to go  back  and  review  their  early 
lessons.  No other plan  will  keep a  mort­
gage from  the  customer's  farm  and  bank­
ruptcy from your own doors.
I am drawing  near  the  afternoon  of  my 
iictive business life and as I sit in the retire­
ment of age I shall watch with  deep  inter- 
st the  business  men  of  Traverse  City as 
they push on in life’s  cares  to  make  their 
honest dollar.
I know  from a long  business  experience 
that there is but  one  honorable  road  to  a 
successful  result—make  your  word  with 
our customers equal to your bond.
Judge J.  G.  Ramsdell  then  responed  to 
the toast  “Our Agricultural  Resources,”  as 
follows:
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen:

Your President  has  requested me to res­
pond to this toast,  and  at  the  same  time 
showed  his  wisdom,  prudence  and  cor­
rect  appreciation  of  time  in  all  business 
transactions,  by limiting my remarks to five 
minutes. 
I thank  you,  Mr.  President,  for 
the honor you confer in selecting  me to  re­
present the farming interests  of  this  coun­
try at this banquet,  but  I  thank  you most 
for the restrictions you impose.
Soil,  climate  and  topography—tlje three 
conditions wliich determine  the  success  of 
general  agriculture—are  most  favorably 
combined  in  what  is  now  known  as  the 
Grand Traverse region.
The soil is rich in every  element of vege­
table growth,  so porous that underdraining is 
un necessary  and the roots of trees and plants 
have easy access in  times  of  drouth to the 
moist depths below. 
It is  so covered  dur­
ing  winter  with  a  protecting  mantle  of 
snow  that  frost  seldom  penetrates  the 
ground.  The unheaval  and  winter-killing 
of wheat and  grass  by  frost  is  unknown. 
That long.and disagreeable  period,  known 
as  “frost coming  out  of  the  ground,”  we 
wholly  escape.  As  soon  as  the  snow  is 
gone,  vegetation  readily  and  rapidly  re­
sponds  to  the  warming  rays  of  the  sun. 
The sudden transition from winter white  to 
summer  green  is  surprising  to  those  not 
familiar with our seasons and it  gives  us  a 
season for culture as early and as long as in 
latitudes many degrees further south.
Our climate is tempered  by  the open wa­
ter  surrounding  us  in  the direction of pre­
vailing winds, so that we are  exempt  from 
those  extremes  of  heat  and  cold  which 
make general farming  in  all  its  branches 
hazardous in the grain growing  states.
The storms which  sweep  over  the plains 
of the West with  such freezing  fury are  so 
tempered by the  waters  of  Lake  Michigan 
that they reach  us  comparatively mild  and 
absolutely  harmless.  Storms  which  this 
season  have raged through  Dakota,  Minne­
sota,  Wisconsin,  Iowa  and  Illinois,  reduc- 

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OYSTERS A N D   FISH .

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows :

OYSTERS.

.......33
New York  Counts..........................
.......28
H. F. H. & Co.’s Selects..................
.......22
Selects..............................................
.......18
Anchors  ...........................................
.......16
Standard  .......................................
.......14
Favorite...........................................
.......12
Prim e..............................................
...1  50
Selects, bulk, ft  gal.......................
...1  10
Standards, bulk, $  gal..................
New York Counts, $  100............... . . . v . ....1 25
...1  40
shell, $   100__
......................  
...  80
Clams, shell, $   100........................
fresh  fish.

Cod  .................................................
Haddock.........................................
Mackerel........   ..............................
Mackinaw Trout............................
Perch...............................................
Sm elts............................................
Whiteflsh.......................................

@10
@  1
....15 @20
@  8
@ 3
....10 @11
@ 9

Dissolution  of  Copartnership.

The firm of Cuvtiss, Dunton  A  Co.,  has  this 
day been dissolved  by mutual  consent, Eli F. 
Harrington retiring from said firm.  The busi- 
iness of the above firm  will  be  continued  by 
John L. Curtiss and  George  B. Dunton  under 
the style of Curtiss & Dunton, who  assume all 
the liabilities of said firm, aud to whom all ac­
counts are to be paid.

Curtiss, Dunton & Co.

Grand Rapids, January 8, 1887.

STOCKHOLDERS’  MEETING.

The annual meeting of  the  stockholders of 
the  Fuller  &  Stowe  Company  will be held  at 
the office of the company, 49 Lyon street, Wed­
nesday, January 19, at 7:30 p, rn.,  for  the pur­
pose of electing a  board  of  directors  for  the 
ensuing year, and for the  transaction  of any 
other business that may come before the meet­
ing. 

E. A. Stowe, Sec’y.

Absolute Baking Powder.

A nd

100 per cent. Pure.

Manufactured and sold only by

ED.  TELFER,  Grand  Rapids.

MY  ENTIRE  STOCK  OF

Notions,  Hosiery,  Furnishing 
Goods, Lumbermen’s Sup­
plies, Pants, Overalls,

ETC.

Is For Sale,

R egardless  of Cost,

To Save Expense of Moving.
S.  A   W E L L I X T C .

24  PEARL  ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

POTATOES!

CAR  LOTS  A  “SPECIALTY.”

We offer Best Facilities.  Long Experience.  Watchful  Attention.  Attend  Faith­
fully to Cars Consigned to us.  Employ  Watchmen  to  see  to  Unloading.  OUK  MR. 
THOMPSON  ATTENDS  PERSONALLY  TO  SELLING. 
Issue  SPECIAL  POTA- 
TOE  MARKET  REPORTS.  KEEP  OUR  SHIPPERS  fully posted.  OUR  QUOTED 
PRICES  CAN  BE  DEPENDED  UPON.  WE  DO  NOT  quote irregular or anticipated 
prices.  Consignments Solicited.  Correspondence Invited from  Consignors  to  this  mar­
ket.  References given when requested.

WM. H. THOMPSON & CO., Comumo
166  SOUTH  W A TE R   ST.,
P E R K I N S   <&
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

OmOAGO. ILL.

H E S S ,

DEALERS IN

NOS.  12*  and  124  LOUIS STREET.  GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN.

WE CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USE.

OLD  BARRELS

Setting about a store  are  unsightly,  besides  the  pro­
jecting nails on them  are dangerous  to  clothing.  The^ 
enterprising grocen realizes the value of handsome a n d | 
convenient  fixtures,‘ and  to   m eet  this  dem and  the! 
Woor.so*jSPlCE  Co.,  of  Toledo,  Ohio,  have  designedl 
th e ir 

*Xiioxi  Coffee  Cabinet,

Of which  the  accom panying  cut  gives  but  a  p artial! 
idea.  In this cabinet is packed 120 one-pound packages! 
of I .lo n   C o ffe e , and we  offer  the  goods  a t  a  price I 
enabling the g rocer to  secure  these  cabinets  w ithout I 
cost to him self.  They are made air-tight, tongued and I 
grooved, beautifully grained  and  varnished,  and  a re . 
put together in  the  best  possible  m anner.  Complete! 
set of casters, w ith screws,  inside  this  cabinet.  Their 
use in every grocery, after the coffee is sold out,  is  ap­
parent;  ju st the thing from   which  to  retail  oatm eal, I 
rice, prunes, hom iny, dried  fruits,  bread,  and  a  hun-1 
dred other articles.  F urther,  they  take  up  no  more 
floor  room   than  a  barrel,  and  do  aw ay  w ith  these I 
unsightly  things  in  a  store.  For  price-list  of  Lion I 
Coffee  in these cabinets, see price-current in  this p a -1 
per.  Read  below  w hat  we  say  as  to   the  quality  of | 
Lion Coffee.

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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

lercanlile and iaiiniactnrins Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY.  JANUARY  12,1887.

Grand Rapids Traveling Men’s Association.
President,  L.  M. Mills;  Vice-President, S. A. Sears;  Sec­
retary  and Treasurer, Geo. H. Seymour;  Board of Di­
rectors, H. S. Robertson,  Geo.  F.  Owen,  J.  N.  Brad­
ford, A. B. Cole and Wm. Logrie.

Subscribers and others,  when writing 
to advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub­
lishers by mentioning that they saw the adver­
tisement in the columns of  this paper.

A correspondent asks  T he  T radesm an 
what it has to say of the  numerous  scheme 
collecting agencies  now  doing  business  in 
this State, especially  the  “ National  Retail 
Commercial Agency,”  of  Bay City, and the 
“ Merchant’s  Protective  Association,”  of 
Marshall.  T he  T radesm an 
is  not  in­
clined to express an opinion  on  the  subject 
at this time,  but will say this much, that no 
private scheme posseses a tithe of the advan­
tages to be derived  from  a  well-conducted 
local organization;  that  none  of  the  local 
Associations  are  costing  the  members  as 
the  private 
much  as  memberships 
schemes;  and 
the  results  secured 
through  concerted  action—aside  from  the 
collections  made—are  frequently  of  more 
value than the collection feature.

that 

in 

Switzerland is alarmed by the  prevalence 
of drunkenness,  and  is  going  to  make  an 
experiment in the control of the liquor  traf­
fic.  The entire  retail  trade  in  intoxicants 
is to become a government monopoly.  The 
distillers are to be allowed  to sell to no one 
else,  and the retail business is  to be manag­
ed with a view to diminishing drunkenness. 
This plan is not altogether new.  Formerly 
in  Russia  the  government  managed  both 
the manufacture and the sale of liquor,  and 
the imperial eagle  was  the  sign  over  the 
door of the vodka shop.  T he Tradesm an 
does not know how the plan worked in Rus­
sia, but it seems to  be  admitted  very  gen­
erally  that  the  country  is  more  drunken 
now,  when the business is in private hands, 
than it ever was before.

The T radesm an  cordially commends to 
the other local associations of  the State the 
action of the Traverse  City Business  Men’s 
Association  in  celebrating  its  anniversary 
with a banquet and speeches.  Such an event 
lias  a  two-fold  significance—it  affords  the 
best possible opportunity for cultivating the 
social  side  of  life  and  bringing  men  to­
gether and it also  affords  business  men an 
exceptionally  good  opportunity  to  boom 
their town.  T he  T radesm an  shall  hope 
to see more of such gatherings in the future.

In  responding  to  the  toast,  “Out City,” 
at the anniversary banquet at Traverse City 
last week,  Lawyer Roberts remarked:  “Her 
$30,000 school  house  and  $20,000 jail, and 
her numerous churches,  show her to be well 
towards the head of the column  in religious 
and educational  interests.”  T he  T rades­
man  is in doubt  as  in  which  category Mr. 
Roberts places the “$20,000 jail”—religious 
or educational.

T he  T radesm an  has  already  exposed 
the crookedness of  one  Grand  Rapids com­
mission merchant  and  lias  two  others “on 
the  list” for  similar  treatment.  Affidavits 
are  being secured  which  will  substantiate 
the charges which will  be  made against the 
persons as soon as  sufficient  evidence is se­
cured to  warrant the exposures.

The man who stands aloof from an organ­
ization which includes every other reputable 
business  man in  his town  may be “wise in 
his own  conceit,” but  the  chances  are ten 
to one that in the struggle for supremacy he 
will find himself the last nian in the race.

Manistique,  South Boardman,  Boyne City 
and Plainwell  each  organized  strong  asso­
ciation’s  last  week.  This  week  Owosso, 
Chesaning and St.  Charles  are  expected  to 
fall into  line.
Monthly Report of the Michigan Division, 

T.  P.  A.

Report  of  tin*  Secretary-Treasurer  ior 

the month ending Dec.  31,  1886:

Grand Ra pids,  Jan.  10,  1887. 
membership  report.

The following names  were  added  to  our 

State membership during  the month:

13,194.  Geo. W. Dennis, Corunna.
13.213.  W. It. Woodruff, Detroit.
13.214.  Geo. W. Rowe, Bangor.
13,216.  W. H. A. Godfrey, Colon.
13,244.  W. F. Gibson, Three Rivers.
13,243.  H. P. Kane, Battle Creek.
13,249.  Wm. Sessions, Farwell.
13,300.  F.  H. MRcomber, Jackson.
13,827.  C. C. Kritzer, Newaygo.
13,336.  A. T. Hines, Jackson.
13,367.  John A. Severens, Detroit.
13,441.  F. C. Hall, Allegan.
13,454.  W. W. Tuttle. Ann Arbor, 

and six members in arrears for dues have paid 
and been re-instated.

FINANCE REPORT.

Dec. 1.  Cash on band.................................  3 5®
20.  Check from Nat’l  Sec’y-Treas.  .  6<  (X)
70 60
.  15 00
.  25 OC
.  18 (Kl
50
.  58 50
Jan. 1,1887.  Balance  on hand.................  13 00

CONTRA.
By Cash to C. 8.  Kelsey.. 
Post A, Jacks«
L. J. Koster  ..
Postage  .........

Dec. 24. 
24. 
24. 
24.

“ 
“ 
“ 

Respectfully submitted,

L.  M.  Miles,

Sec’y-Treas. Mich.  Div.,  T.  P.  A.

Get your business in  such  form  that you 

can handle it with ease.

There must be mutual confidence in trade, 

and in order to do this, mntual candor.

AMONG THE TRADE.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Friedrich Bros., dealers in musical instru­
ments, are succeeded by  Julius A. J. Fried­
rich.

Jacob Reel man succeeds Reelman & Ham 
ming in  the  manufacture of  hames  at  135 
Grandville avenue.

Cody, Ball, Barnhart  &  Co.  have  takeu 
possession of the Cornelius J. VanHalteren 
grocery stock, on South  Division  street, on 
a bill of  sale.

John L.  Curtiss and Geo. B. Dunton have 
purchased  Eli  F. Harrington’s  quarter  in­
terest in the firm of Curtiss, Dunton & Co., 
and  will  continue  the  business  under  the 
former style of Curtiss & Dunton.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

E.  G.  Hunt, grocer at Holt, has sold  out.
'  E.  W.  Swain,  grocer  at  Ashley, has  sold 
out.

C. E. Hight has bought out J. S.  Cowgill, 

grocer at Lawton.

tee, have sold out.

F. Levi & Co., clothing dealers at  Manis­

Wm. Rowe will move his drug stock from 

Manistee to Muskegon.

H. Barry succeeds  Barry & Lewis  iu  the 

drug business at Ravenna.

Van Duzer & Potts have bought out J. P. 

Warner, grocer at Decatur.

J. A. & R. D. Dyer,  boot  and  shoe  deal­

ers at Manton, have dissolved.

Smiley & Millspaugli,  druggists  at  Albi­

on,  are succeeded by,J. F. Smiley.

M.  Singerman,  dealer  in  dry  goods  and 

notions at Ludington, has assigned.

L.  D.  Buck  has  purchased  the  grocery 

business of A.  Parkhurst,  at Vassar.

Wise &  Co., hardware dealers  at  Mance- 

lona,  have sold out to White & Kiles.

Nathan  Platt  &  Co.  succeed  Nathan 

Platt, dry goods dealer at  Muskegon.

II. A.  Phinney,  general  dealer  at  Iron- 

wood, has assigned to John Berranges.

Goodenow & Beman,  dry goods dealers at 

Albion, have dissolved, each continuing.

A. Parkhurst &  Son,  general  dealers  at 
Vassar, have sold out  to  Alonzo  G.  Buck, 
Michael H. Cahalan succeeds  Cahalan  & 
Cowman,  general  dealers  at  Hubbardston.
Carson  &  Kelly,  millers  at  Galesburg, 
have dissolved,  Samuel  Carson  succeeding, 
Peter Hormuth succeeds  Hormuth & Co., 
at Cadillac, Robert Schubert  having retired, 
Thos. Hunter  &  Son, general  dealers  at 
Mio, are said to have  made  an assignment
G. J. Hill succeeds H.  C.  &  G.  J.  Hill, 
dealers in agricultural implements at Union 
ville.

H.  A.  Phinney,  dealer  in  clothing  and 
gents’ furnishing goods at Ironwood, lias as 
signed.

Geo. Walir  succeeds  Geo. Qsius & Co.  in 
the book  and  stationery  business  at  Ann 
Arbor.

John  E.  Parcel  will  move  his  general 
stock from Saranac to Casnovia  about  Feb 
ruary 1.

It is reported  that  Miss  M.  A. Mahaney, 
fancy goods dealer at  Midland,  is going out 
of business.

Frank  Smith,  general  dealer  at  LeRoy 
was presented on New Year’s morning with 
a nine-pound boy.

J.  A.  Clark  &  Co.,  general  dealers  at 
Scottville,  have  dissolved.  The  style  re­
mains unchanged.

Sewel D. Walker has engaged in  the gro­
cery  business  at  Soper’s  Corners,  eight 
miles west of Manton.

R.  P. Gustin &  Co.,  wholesale  grocers at 
Bay City, have dissolved,  R.  P. Gustin con 
tinuing under same style.

Fred.  M. Warner lias bought out the boot 
and shoe department of  P.  Dean  Warner 
general stock at Farmington.

The firm  of  Druckhamer  &  Rhode,  gro 
cers at  East  Saginaw,  have  dissolved, Jos 
epli Druckhamer succeeding.

Ionia Standard:  Ionia merchants report 
the finest holiday trade  they  have  had  for 
many years and also a remarkably large  ill 
crease in cash customers.

L. Jacoby  succeeds  C.  B.  Hirschfield  as 
manager of the  Mammoth  Clothing  House 
—owned  by  Houseman,  Donnally & Jones, 
Grand Rapids—at Allegan.

An Atlanta,  Montmorency county,  grocer 
named Hawk  has  the  honor  of  being  the 
first person  In  Michigan  prosecuted  under 
the new oleomargarine law.

Phelps, Brace & Co., wholesale grocers at 
Detroit,  have  dissolved,  Samuel  B.  Sinclair 
retiring.  The  business  will  be  continued 
under the same firm name.

G.  W  Toms has  retired from the grocery 
firm of  Lovejoy  &  Toms,  at  Big  Rapids. 
The business  will  be  continued  by  C.  B. 
Lovejoy,  as agent for liis wife.

S. J. Martin will  shortly remove  his gro­
cery' and boot  and  shoe  stock  from  Boyne 
Falls to Sullivan,  a new  station  on the line 
of the M.,  G. R. & I.  Railway.

H.  A.  Pinney, clothing merchant at  Iron- 
wood,  has made an assignment for the ben­
efit  of  Milwaukee,  Chicago  and  Buffalo 
creditors.  Liabilities,  $7,500;  assets,  $15,- 
000.

Saranac Local:  The  Hunter  &  Sargent 
hardware  stock  has  been  sold  by  the 
assignee  to  Herbert  L.  Bailey,  of  Ionia. 
Mr.  Bailey will continue  the  business  here 
for a time.

Big Rapids Herald:  Currie & Clark, who 
have been doing  a  grocery business  on  the 
North side for some  time,  have  assigned to 
Ed. Keeler for the benefit of creditors.  Lia­
bilities about  $1,200; assets  about one-half.
Manistee Times:  Moses Simon has closed 
his dry goods store and  sold  the  remainder 
of the stock to his brother, who is in the same 
business In Wisconsin.  Mr. Simon  will re-

torn to Chicago, whence he came four years 
ago.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

&

G. T. Warren succeeds G.  T.  Warren 
Co. in the manufacture of cigars at Flint.

Geo. E. Hubbard  succeeds  Jas.  C.  Avery 
& Co. in the manufacture of cigars at Grand 
Haven.

C.  E.  Brewster,  formerly  manager  for 
Gibbs Bros.,  at  Mayfield,vhas left their em­
ploy and will  devote  his  entire  time  to the 
management of his handle factory at Kings­
ley.

The Oval Wood Dish  Co., at  Mancelona, 
has  acquired a patent  in  the  shape  of  an 
oyster pail  or  candy box,  made  from  one 
piece of paper, and will engage in their man­
ufacture on an extensive scale.

The Hartzig,  Reaume  &  Scripps  Co.,  at 
Detroit, organized  for  the  manufacture  of 
fruit  preserves  and  jellies,  with  a capital 
stock of $25,000, has  been  incorporated  by 
Emery A.  Hartzig,  E. O.  Scripps,  Geo.  H. 
Scripps and Dennis J. Reaume.

C.  N.  Leach,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
manufacture of  shingles  near  Pierson  and 
more recently eugaged in  the  grocery busi­
ness at Howard City, has purchased a  shin­
gle mill near  Hersey and  will  operate  the 
same.

8TRAY  FACTS.

Thos. Merrill,  liveryman at  Muskegon,  is 

dead.

Henry C. Seath has engaged in the bakery 

business at Evart.

J. P. Fox,  saloonist  at  Pewamo,  is  suc­

ceeded by Hauck & Fox.

A. G.  Fuller has  opened  a  confectionery 

and cigar store at Shelby.

John Quinn succeeds T. H. Lavery in the 

livery business at Harrison.

L.  D. Rogers, harness dealer at Portland, 

has sold out to Wm. Worden & Co.

H.  M.  Clark succeeds Wm.  E.  Southard, 

Jr.,  in the hotel business at Muskegon.

Osgood,  Fletcher & Co., bankers at  Men- 
don, have dissolved,  Osgood  Bros,  continu­
ing.

M.  Bellanger  &  Co.  succeed  M.  Bellan- 
ger & Son, dealers in  lumbermen’s  tools  at 
Evart.

J. H.  Brohman,  of  the  firm  of  Brohman 
& Hall, meat dealers at Sault de Ste.  Marie, 
is dead.

Cheboygan Tribune:  The cedar business 
keeps  on  the  boom,  many farmers  taking 
contracts  for  getting  out  greater  or  less 
quantities.  The tie business will add many 
a dollar to the  circulating  medium  of  this 
section.

Steele  &  Titus, of  Traverse  City,  have 
just  sold  for  S.  Pease,  of  Buffalo,  2,500 
acres  of  hemlock  and  hardwood  land  on 
North  Manitou  Island.  The  purchaser  is 
G.  Paddock,  of  Milwaukee,  who  will  com­
mission Mann Bros.,  of  the  latter place, to 
locate a sawmill on the  Island and  saw out
the timber.______  

______
The Gripsack Brigade.

Phil.  Gaubatz,  with P. Leidersdorf &Co., 

Milwaukee, was in the city last ^eek.

M. B. Field, representing W. F. McLaugh-, 
lin  &  Co., Chicago,  visited  the  trade  last 
week.

Perley W. Hall has returned from  Green­
field, Tenn., where he spent a  week  or  ten 
days with his father.

Irving W. YanZandt, Michigan  manager 
for  Howard  W.  Spurr  &  Co.,  of  Boston, 
put in Sunday at this market.

Gabriel Wolff,  the  Otsego  bankrupt, has 
gone on the  road for  M.  B.  Eaton  &  Co. 
Bet  a “helluf ’a tallar” no  one  gets  ahead 
of that fellow.

Clias. B. Parmenter has engaged with the 
Gleason  Wood  Ornament  Co. for  another 
year and left  Monday for  an  extended  trip 
through the  East.

Chas.  Bow has  engaged  with  the  Giant 
Tobacco  Co.,  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  for  an­
other  year,  and  will  make  Grand  Rapids 
his headquarters.

C.  S.  Kelsey,  of  Battle  Creek,  President 
of  Michigan  Division,  T.  P.  A.,  was  in 
town Monday, for the purpose of consulting 
with State Secretary Mills.

Wm. Jones,  Wm. B.  Loveland and D.  H. 
Moore have engaged  to  travel  for  the  new 
Grand Rapids Soap Co., which  will  sell  its 
goods to the retail trade direct.

W.  S.  Barnett,  traveling  representative 
for Crippen,  Sexton & Co.,  of  Chicago,  left 
last week for  the  West.  His  territory last 
year  was  Michigan  alone.  This  year  it 
comprises  Nebraska.  Colorado  and  Wyom 
ing.

Ed.  Pike has re-engaged with  S. A.  Wel­
ling for another year, working with samples 
on  L.  R.  Cesna’s former  route.  Mr.  Cesna 
takes  the  territory  formerly covered  by J. 
H.  Eacher.

John  F.  Gill,  formerly  on  the  road  for 
Spring  &  Company, has  resumed  his  con­
nection with that house.  He will look after 
the Northern trade,  while Frank  L. Kelly’s 
territory  will 
include  the  Eastern  and 
Southern trade of the  house.

D. K.  Clink,  representing  Geo.  W.  Lud­
low & Co., of Chicago,  was in town Monday 
and Tuesday.  As chairman of the National 
Railway  Committee  of  the  T. P.  A.,  Mr. 
Clink has achieved  a  reputation  from  the 
pine trees of Maine  to  the  Golden  Gate of 
California.

Rev.  Fred.  A.  Smart,  a  member  of  the 
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Associa­
request  of  the  Association, 
tion, 
preached  a  sermon 
the  commercial 
travelers  at  the  M.  E.  Church,  corner 
Woodward  and  Harper 
on 
Sunday,  January  9th,  at  10:30  a.  m. 
Members* of  the  Association  met  at  the 
residence  of  Geo.  L.  Sampson, 
1106 
Woodward avenue,  at 10 a. m., and marched 
from there to the  church.

avenues, 

by 

to 

„VISITING  BUYERS.

The following retail  dealers  have visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses:
J .  V.  Crandall, J. V, Crandall & Son, Sand 
Lake.
Mr. Thomas, W. Thomas & Son, Bowne.
Mrs. Geo. Tom sett, Edgerton.
R. J. Side. Kent City.
Jos. P. Oordes,  Alpine.
J. C. Benbow. Cannonsburg.
Severance & Ricn. Middleville.
Mr. Hopper, Merrill & Hopper,  Fremont.
S. A. Bush, Lowell.
Spring & Lind ley, Bailey.
Hilbert & Holly, Woodland.
P. Illes, Zeeland.
O. Narreyang & Son, Byron Center.
D. W. Shattuck, Wayland.
J. G. Bain,  Petoskey.
J. W. Closterhouse, Grandville.
John Baker & Sons, Grand Haven.
M. Minderhout, Hanley.
C. F. Sears, Rockford.
Heyboer Sc Bro., Drenthe.
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia.
Neal McMillan, Rockford.
Geo. Carrington. Trent.
C. F. Williams. Caledonia.
John Kamps, Zutphen.
L. N. Fisher, Dorr Center.
Wm. Karsten, Beaver Dam.
A. & L. N. Wolff.  Hudsonville.
Velzy Bros., Lamont.
G. H. Remington,  Bangor.
A. J. McLeod, Charlevoix.
Gibbs Bros., Mayfield.
G. W. Bartlett,  Ashland.
T. J. Sheridan & Co., Woodville.
J. A. Shattuck, Sand Lake.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
Cole Sc Chapel, Ada.
L. Perrigo, Burnip’s Corners.
Geo. Harris,  Ashland.
A. DeKruif,  Zeeland,
S. J. Koon, Lisbon.
O. W. Messenger, Spring Lake.
N. £ . Vyne, Fremont.- 
A. A. Weeks, Grattan.
Severance & Rich, Middleville.
Geo. Cook. Grove.
W. 8. Root, Talmadge.
W. P. Andrus, Cedar Springs.
K. Bredeway, Drenthe.
Ninehous Bros., New Holland.
F. Vorhorst & Co., Overisil.
G. M. Huntley, Wright Center.
C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville.
Hansen Bros.. Morley.
W, W. Forrester, Pierson.
S. T. McLellan, Denison.
John Damstra, Forest Grove.
Henry DeKIine, Jamestown.
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
J. M. Reid, Grattan.
L. A. Paine, Englishville.
N. DeVries. Jamestown.
O. F. Si W. P.Conkin, Ravenna.
J. Raymond, Berlin.
Morley Bros.. Cedar Springs.
C. S. Comstock, Pierson.
H. W. Potter, Jenisonville.
P. Steketee & Co., Holland.
O. House, Chauncey.
J. B. Jewell, Fremont.
J. P. Cordes, Alpine.
Thos. Cooley. Lisbon.
J. K. Bartz, North Dorr.
C. L. Glasgow, South Cass.
J. O, Scott. Lowell.
Mr. Cole, Cole & Judson, Big Rapids.
John Omler, Wright.
J. E. Kennedy, Caledonia.
Mr. Wright, Cutler & Wright, Morley.
P. Gilbert & Co., Moline.
N. O. Ward,  Stanwood.
A. J. Provin, Cedar Springs.
L. Cook, Bauer.
A. M. Church, Alpine.
S. M. Wright, Big' Springs.
B. M. Dennison, East Paris.
Jas. Barnes, Austerlitz.
C. E* Brewster, Kingsley.
G. W. Stevens, Austerlitz.
Percy T. Cook, Reynolds.
Geo. Austin, Sparta.
Dell Wrighfr, Wright Center.
Sidney Stark. Allendale. 
*
C. N. Leach, Hersey.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
S. T. Colson, Alaska.
Peter Hansen, Hansen Bros., Morley.
Gus Begman,  Bauer.
F. A. Jenison, Manton.
L. H. Chapman,  Chapman.
J. C. Drew, Rockford.
G. P. Stark,  Cascade.
A. Purchase, South Blendon.
N  Harris, Big Springs.
G. TenHoor, Forest Grove.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
S. Cooper, Jamestown.
N. Bouma, Fisher.
L.  D.  Harris,  of  Harris  &  Marvin, 
went to  Detroit  Monday, to  be  gone  until 
Thursday.

KAHN,  LOSTRO  &  CO.,

FRTJITS,  PRODUCE,

AND  GENERAL

Commission  Merchants,
3  NO.  IONIA  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS. 

Consignments Solicited,

Orders prom ptly filled.  All kinds of produce in car lots.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements of 25 words or  less  inserted 
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, 
or  50  cents  for  throe weeks.  Advance  pay­
ment.
Advertisements  directing  that  answers be 
sent in care of this office must be accompanied 
by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage, 
etc. 
__________________
YTTANTED—Situation  by  a  young  man  in 
W   general or grocery store.  Can give good 
reference as to honesty and  ability.  Also  has 
a recommendation from last place  of employ­
ment.  Address  P.  O.  Box  112,  Middleville, 
Mich. 

1 
office. 

Bank.  Address, stating terms demand­

ed, “Purchaser,” care “The Tradesman.”

eery store in this city.  Address “P," this 

IpOR  SALE—Interest  in  a  well-paying  gro- 
■ ANTED—Stock  in  Kent  County Savings 
■OR  SALE—Two-story brick building, 24x60, 

with clean grocery and meat stock  (wood 
business in connection) on  principal  business 
street  of  thriving  Northern  town.  Terms, 
$5,000, half down, balance on time to  suit pur­
chaser.  Address “Bargain,” care “The Trades­
man.”

172-3t

173*

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‘  good paying patronage.  Living rooms in 
connection with store.  Rent reasonable.  For 
terms, address Box 465, Big Rapids, Mich.  174*

I ¡'OR  SALE—Small stock of groceries,  with a 
I ¡'OR  SALE—A two-story store, 22x58,  almost 

'  miliar  with  the  coffee  and  spice busi- 
388, who can make bills and sell goods to city 
ade.  Address No. 10, care “The Tradesman ’

1  new, second floor done off  and  tenanted. 
Sell goods in store if desired.  Good  place  for | 
dry  goods  and  groceries. 
In a  good  farm­
ing country.  For  particulars,  address  C.  E. 
Clapp, Martin, Allegan Co., Mich., where  store j 
is  located. 
\ \ J  ANTED—A graduate in pharmacy .who can 
W  
speak German, at a  leading  West  Side
drug store.  Apply a t 1The Tradesman” office.
171-3t
■TANTED—Energetic young man who isfa- 
ness.
trade,
office.
I ¡'OR  SALE—First-class  hand  laundry  at a 
ST'OR SALE—A first-class water power at Lee 
IT'Olt  SALE—The  best  and  most  complete | 
ITiOft  RENT—Desirable corner store, in  good : 

.  drug store in the thriving city  of  Muske-! 
gon.  Terms easy.  Address C. L. Brundage,  79 
W. ave., Muskegon, Mich. 

in a pardner to build a grist mill on same pow- ■ 
er.  Address D. J. Dokey, Lee, Mich. 

1 
residence locality, suitable for grocery or ! 
general trade.  Good living rooms  over  store. 
Rent, reasonable.  Enquire at 83 South Division 
street, Grand Rapids. 

1  Station on C. & W. M. R. R., or would take 

1  bargain.  This is a rare chance.  Address 

Box 33, Big Rapids, Mich. 

169tf

176*

173*

173

171

IF YOU  WANT—To get into business, to sell 

your business, to secure additional capital, 
to  get  a  situation,  if  you have anything for 
sale or want to buy anything, advertise in  the 
Miscellaneous Column of The Tradesman.  A 
twenty-five word  advertisement  costs  but 25 
cents a week or 50 cents for theee weeks.

£

I OFF

This Coffee Cabinet Given A w a y ..

A  GOOD  BREAKFAST

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 aqd 
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 Qard
In every package.  We solicit  a  sample  order 
for a cabinet tilled with  LION  COFFEE.

trade  can 

For sale  by  all  W holesale  Grocers  every­

where, and by the

Woolson Spice Go.

92 to  108  Oak St., Toledo, Ohio.

Michigan  Busin?**  Men's  Association. 

President—F rank H am ilton, Traverse City.
Fi a t  Vice-President—Paul P. M organ, Monroe.
Sefîrad Vice-President—E. J. H errick, Grand  lï >pids. 
Secretary—E. A, Stowe, G rand Hapids.
Ti  usurer—Julies Schuster, Kalamazoo.
E:Scutive Comtoittee—President, F irst Vice-President, 
Secretary, N. B. Blain and W. E. Kelsey.
Com m ittee on %,ade Interests—Smith Barnes, Traverse 
City;  P. Ranney, K alamazoo;  A.  W.  W estgate,  Che­
boygan.
Comm ittee on Legislation—W. E.  Kelsey,  Ionia;  J.  \ .
Crandall, Sand Lake;  J. F. Clark, Big Rapids. 
Comm ittee on Membership—H. S.  Church,  Sturgis;  B. 
F. Em ery, G rand Rapids;  the Secretary.

A<la  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, D. F. W atson;  Secretary, Elm er Chapel.
Allegan  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, Irving F. Clapp ; Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.

Bellâtre  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, John Rodgers;  Secretary, G. J. Noteware.
Merchant’s Protective Ass’n of Big  Rapids. 
President, N. H. Beebe;  Secretary, A. S. H obart.

Boyne  City  Business Men’s Association. 

President, R. R. Perkins;  Secretary, F. M. Chase.

Burr Oak  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, C. B. Galloway:  Secretary, H. M. Lee.
Cadillac  Business  Men’s As’n. 

President, A. W. Newark;  Secretary, t. C. McAdam.
Cedar Springs  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, T. W. Provin;  Secretary, L. H. Chapman.
Charlevoix  Business  Men’s Association. 

boygan.

President, John Nichols;  Secretary, R. W. Kane.
Business M en’s  Protective  Union  of  Che­
President, A. W. W estgate;  Secretary, H. G. Dozer.
Coopersville  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, E. N. P arker;  Secretary, R. D. McNaughton.
Retail Grocers’Trade Union As’n of Detroit. 
President, John Blessed;  Secretary, H. K undinger.
Dorr  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, L. N. Fisher;  Secretary, E. S. Botsford.

Kastport  Business  Men’s  Association. 

Geo. L. Thurston, C entral Lake.

_____________________________________ s 

President,  F.  H.  Thurston,  C entral  Lake;  Secretary, 
• 
E lk Rapids Business Meu’s Protective As’n, 
President, J. J. McLaughlin;  Secretary, C. L. M artin.
Freeport  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, Foster Sisson;  Sec'y, A rthur Cheseborough.
Grand  Haven  Business  Men's  Association. 
President, Fred. D. Voss;  Secretary, Fred A,. H utty.

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Retail  Grocers’  Ass’n  of Grand  Rapids. 

President, Jas. A. Coye;  Secretary, E. A. Stowe.

Greenville  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, L. W. Sprague;  Secretary, E. J. Clark.

Hastingtf Business  Men's  Association. 

President, L. E. Stauffer;  Secretary,  J.  A.  VanAnnan.

Holland  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, Jacob Van P utten;  Secretary, A. Van Duren.
Ionia  Business  Men’s  Protective  Ass’n. 
President, Wm. E.  Kelsey;  Secretary,  Fred. Cutler, Jr.
Kalamazoo  Retail Grocers’ Association. 

President, P. Ranney;  Secretary, M. S. Scoville.

Kalkaska Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, A. E. Palm er;  Secretary, C. E. Ramsey.
Business Men’s Protective As’n of Kingsley. 
President, Jas. Broderick:  Secretary, Geo. W. Chaufty.

Leslie  Business  Meu’s  Association. 

President, Wm. H utchings:  Secretary, M. L. Campbell.
Lowell  Business  Men’s  Protective  Ass’u. 
President, N. B. Blain;  Secretary, F rank T. King.

Luther  Protective  As’n.

President, W. B. Poot;  Secretary, Jas. M.Verity.

Lyons  Business  Men's  As’n.

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

Manceiona  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, W.  E. W atson;  Secretary, C. L. Bailey.

Manton’s  Business  Men’s  Association. 

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

Muir Business  Meu’s  Association. 

President, L. Town;  Secretary, Elm er Ely.
Grocers'  Ass’n  of  the  City  of  Muskegon. 
President, H. B. Fargo;  Secretary, Wm. Peer.

Merchant’s  Union  of Nashville. 

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

Oceana  Business  Men’s  As’n. 

President' W .£ . Thorp;  Secretary, E. S. Houghtaling-

Ovid  Business  Men’s  As’n.

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

Petoskcy  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President. Jas. Buckley;  Secretary, A. C. Bowman.

Plaiuwell  Business  Men's  Association. 

President. M. Bailey;  Secretary, J. A. Sidle.

Reed  City  Business Men's Association. 
President, C. J.  Flcischauer; Secretary, H.W . Hawkins.

Rockford  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, Geo. A. Sage;  Secretary, J. M. Spore.
St.Johns M e r c h a n ts ’ Protective Association. 
President, H. L. K endrick;  S ecretary,C. M. Merrill.
Business Men’s Protective Ass’n of Saranac. 
President,  Geo. A. P otts;  Secretary, P. T. W illiams.

South  Boardman  Business  Men’s Ass’n. 

President.  H. E. Hogan:  Secretary, 8. E. Niehardt.
Sparta  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, J. R. H arrison;  Secretary, M. B. Nash.
do. Arm and K. Jordan Business Men’s As’n. 
President, A. E.  Pickard;  Secretary, John Leng.

Sturgis  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, H enry S. Church;  Secretary, Wm. Jorn.
Traverse  City  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, Geo. E. Steele;  Secretary,C. T. Lockwood.
Tustin  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, G. A. Estes;  Secretary, Geo. W. Bevins.

W a y la n d   Business  Men’s  Association. 

President. E. V,’.  Pickett;  Secretary, H. J. Turner.
W hite  Lake  Business  Men’s As’n. 

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

B. Nicholson, W hitehall.
Woodland  Business  Meu’s  Association. 

Pres ¡Tient. John Velte;  Secretary, I. N. H arter.

Retail  Dealers’  Commercial  Agency.

W. E. Cooper, A ctu a ry  Grand Rapids.

Grand  Rapids  Butchers’  Union, 

President, John Katz;  Secretary, Chas. Vellte.

Good Words Unsolicited.

J. W. Davis  &  Son,  general  dealers,  Mack­

inac:  “It is too good to drop.”

E.  H.  Deatsman  & Co., general dealers,  Se- 
bewa:  “We like T h e  T r a d e s m a n  very much.”- 
John Long,  druggist,  Vicksburg:  “I  bave 
^  more papers than I can read, but I  must have 

T h e  T r a d e s m a n .”

Dr. N. P. Blakeslee, druggist, Elmira:  “ T h e  
T r a d e s m a n  is a good  paper,  especially  since 
adopting the Latin  quotations.”

Barcus  Bros.,  saw  manufacturers,  Muske­
gon:  “Thanks  for  not  stopping  the  paper 
when  our  subscription  expired.  We  would 
not like to miss one number of it.”

H.  J.  Pettys,  general  dealer,  Watervliet: 
“The Tradesman is a very good paper.  I am 
taking a number of papers and I thought that 
N  I would pay up and stop it,  but  I  find  that I 

can’t get along without it,”

Association Notes.

When Fife Lake gets ready  to  organize, 
the editor of The  Tradesm an  would  like 
to make appointments for Elmira  and Alba 
on the some trip.

T he T radesm an  acknowledges  the  re­
ceipt of  the first  delinquent  sheet  of  the 
Cadillac  Business  Men’s  Association, con­
taining eleven  names.

A note from Geo.  Chantier announces the 
organization  of  an  association  at  Manis- 
tique,  and  the  statement  that  full particu­
lars will be forwarded  shortly.

Judging from the subjects now under con­
sideration  by the  Allegan  Business  Men’s 
Association,  that  organization  is  working 
the  “village improvement feature” for all it 
is  worth.

The thirty-four members  of  the  Cadillac 
Business Men’s Association swing  into  the 
fold  of  the  State  Association  this  week, 
which  increases  the  auxiliary  membership 
of the latter body to 849.

A  Cross  Village  correspondent  writes: 
We would like to see a Business  Men’s  As­
sociation organized  here.  Petoskey has or­
ganized.  Harbor Springs will, undoubtedly, 
and then is our chance.

T he  T radesm an  acknowledges  the  re­
ceipt of an invitation  to  attend  the first an­
nual  convention  of  the  Betaii  Merchants’ 
Association of New  York,  which  convenes 
at Albany this  afternoon.  But  for  the  or­
ganization of an association in another  part 
of the State,  T he  Tradesm an  would  en­
deavor to send a representative.

Owosso  Times:  Our  business  men  will 
hold a meeting on Thursday evening for the 
purpose of forming a Business  Men’s Asso­
ciation.  The object  of  this  Association is 
to  “discourage”  professional  dead-beats, 
whose names  will be  published weekly and 
who  will,  of  course,  be  unable  to  obtain 
credit  thereafter.  All  engaged in  mercan­
tile business  in  the  city  are  invited  to  be 
present.

Petoskey  Record:  We  understand  that 
A.  C.  Bowman,  Secretary  of  .the  Business 
Men’s Association, was  directed to  furnish 
the  Democrat  and  Record  with  a copy  a 
of the constitvtion for  publication.  A  copy 
was furnished the Record, but none furnish­
ed the Democrat.  All right, gentlemen, we 
are very happy to know that you  believe all 
democrats to be honest,  and do  not  need  to 
be warned of the wrath to come.

Plainwell  Independent:  The  Plainwell 
Business Men’s  Association  was  organized 
Friday night with  a  membership  including 
the heaviest dealers in  tiie  village. 
Its ob­
jects are the promotion  of  a  better  under­
standing among business men, concerted ac­
tion  in  securing  manufacturing  and  other 
benefits,  the collection of  old  accounts,  etc. 
E.  A.  Stowe,  editor  of  T he  Michigan 
T radesm an,  was present and  aided in the 
OQganization.

A Dorr  correspondent  writes  as  follows: 
The Dorr Business  Men’s  Association  met 
on Wednesday evening  last.  The  lheeting 
was lively and interesting.  Two new firms, 
Levitt & Dann  and  Sommer  &  Herp,  were 
admitted  to  membership,  making a total of 
thirteen firms now in the Association.  Sev­
eral matters of interest  to  dealers were dis­
cussed and were all pleased with the working 
of  the order.  The next regular meeting will 
be held the first Wednesday in February.’

Referring  to  the  anniversary  banquet  at 
Traverse City, ex-President Hamilton writes 
as follows:  Our people are loud in praise of 
the banquet,  with not a word of fault.  The 
only complaint—if,  indeed,  it can  be  called 
such—is that it never had been done before.
1 think every member will  unite with me in 
saying that it was the leading  event  in  the 
business circle  of  Traverse  City, especially 
marked for its entire  harmony, dignity  and 
business character.  Your  presence and ad­
dress  have  been favorably commented upon. 
The mere  fact  of  our  connection  witli  the 
State body has given  us  greater  confidence 
—a very  prominent  character—identifying 
us with fifty Associations in the  State,  who 
are “moving on” in the good  way.

Manton  Tribune:  There  was  a  good  at- 
tenance at the  Business  Men’s  Association 
meeting  last  Wednesday  evening, and  an 
increased interest in the  Association  mani­
fested.  The  impression,  at  first,  was  that 
all poor families  were  to  be  left  to  perish 
witli hunger and cold, and all the  dishonest 
were  to  be  similarly  hung,  through  the 
Workings of this Association, but as months 
have now passed since  the organization was 
perfected,  and  not  a  ease  of  distress  or 
hanging lias come to the notice of  the  com­
munity,  there seems to  be  a  better  feeling 
existing.  The  stubborn 
that 
through the instrumentality of this Associa­
tion the poor man’s circumstances have been 
bettered and the rogue’s moral condition un­
injured. 
It is not the object of this Associ­
ation to distress anyone,  but  instead  to  aid 
the unfortunate and protect themselves.

facts  are 

A Bonanza correspondent  of  thè Saranac 
Local writes  as follows:  Dr. M.  Crane, H. 
F.  Miner & Son and  Frank W.  Clark & Co. 
have joined the Business Men’s Association 
at Woodland,  and all the others are  expect­
ed to.  They now have  members enough so 
they  can  join  the  State  Association,  and 
this Association,  while it puts all  the dead­
beats  in  the  country before  the  public  in 
their true light} gives the honest men of the 
country a still  better  standing, and  it  will 
not  only  put  the  business  men  on  their 
guard against trusting those who never pay. 
but also the farmers can see by running over 
the  dead-beat  list  who  are  not  worthy of 
credit.  All members are fined §10 for  sell­
ing a man or woman  reported on  the list as 
a dead-beat on credit, or giving credit in any 
manner,  so  when  one  reports  him  he  is 
down,  amd the  business  men  in  the  State 
are united in bringing dead-beats to time.

Plainwell in Line on  Organization.

In response to an Invitation from the bus­
iness toen of Plainwell, the  editor  of  T he 
Tradesm an  met them last  Friday evening 
to  talk  over  the  subject  of  organization. 
M.  Bailey  was chosen  to  act  as  chairman 
and J. A.  Sidle was selected to  act  as  sec­
retary pro term.  At the  conclusion  of  Mr. 
Stowe’s explanation of the aims and objects 
of organization,  H.  W.  Chamberlain  moved 
that the  organization  of  an  association be 
immediately  proceeded  with,  which  was 
adopted.  The  constitution  presented  in 
The  Tradesm an  of  Dec.  39  was  then 
adopted,  when  the  following  gentlemen 
handed in their names' for  charter  member­
ship:  M.  Bailey,  Chamberlain  Bros.,  W. 
W. Woodhams,  Geo.  Scales,  Graves  &  Es- 
ley, Machamer &  Spencer, J. A.  Sherwood, 
E.  Putnam,  Carroll  &  Robertson,  O.  B. 
Granger & Co., W.  H.  Hine,  J.  H.  Wagner 
& Bro.,  Bliss  &  Owen,  D.  P.  Hopkins, J. 
A. Sidle and H.  D.  Storms.

Election of officers resulted as follows:
President—M.  Bailey.
Vice-President—Geo. Scales.
Secretary—John Sidle.
Treasurer—H. D.  Storms.
Executive  Committee—President,  Secre­
tary,  Treasurer,  W.  W. Woodhams  and  E.
A. Owen.
Business  Committee—H.  W.  Chamber- 
lain,  W.  W.  Woodhams and J.  D.  Wagner.
The blank system of the South Boardman 
Association was  adopted for the  use of  the 
collection  department  and  the  Executive 
Committee  was  Instructed  to  procure  the 
printing of the same.

The  Secretary was  instructed  to  request 
the editors of the local papers  to  print  thp 
constitution of the Association in their next j 
issues.

E. A.  Owen,  H.  W.  Chamberlain  and  O.
B.  Granger were appointed  a  special  com­
mittee to wait on the other  business men of 
the place and solicit  their  applications  for 
membership and the meeting adjounied.

Association  Work  at  Allegan.

From the Allegan Gazette.

The  Business  Men’s  Association  is  dis­
cussing the matter of  electric lights  for the 
village.  Several of  our merchants  contem­
plate the use  of  gas,  and  it  is  desired  by 
others that an electric light  plant  be  intro­
duced.

M.  O.  Walker,  who last season conducted 
a  fruit  evaporating  establishment  in  this 
village,  is  desirous  of  forming  a  co-opera­
tive company for the purpose of operating a 
creamery, canning and drying and cider and 
jelly factory.  He solicits loans  from  those 
willing  to  accept  7  per  cent,  with  good 
security,  to the amount of  SB, 000 to §5,000, 
and  proposes to give  employment  to  25  to 
100 persons.  No donations are asked.  Al­
legan  people  have  listened  with  favor  to 
less  advantageous  propositions.  Let  the 
rural districts be  heard  from.  The  matter 
is a  subject  of  discussion  by  the  Business 
Men’s Association, and more  will  be  heard 
of it.

The Executive  Committee,  consisting  of 
H.  F. Marsh. J.  B.  Streeter,  E.  C.  Reid,  B. 
B. Sutphin and S.  S.  Dryden,  and all  mem­
bers of the old Allegan Improvement  Asso­
ciation,  will meet at  H.  B.  Peck’s  office  on 
the 10th to consider the question of winding 
up the affairs of the  Association  and  turn­
ing over the'surplus money  in  the hands of 
the Treasurer to the Allegan Business Men’s 
Association,  which is organized on a broader 
platform  and  is  more  capable  of  carrying 
out the objects for  which  the  Improvement 
Association was organized.  Let  there  be a 
goodly attendance.

More  State  Lists  Wanted—A Question of 

Choice.

Coopersville,  Jan.  4,  1SS7.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

Dear S ir—At  an  adjourned  meeting of 
our Business Men’s Association,  it was sug­
gested that the  Secretary write  you and see 
what  you  would  furnish  fifty Notification 
Sheets,  whenever  they  are  issued,  so  that 
each member could.have a sheet.
I wish to-enquire in regard  to putting de­
linquents on the dead-beat  list.  After  the 
expiration of fifteen  days and  after the sec­
ond notice,  is it left optional witli the party 
sending such notices to refer the delinquent 
to the  Executive  Committee  or  not,  as he 
chooses. 

Yours truly,
R.  I).  McN avoiiton,  Sec’y.

In  reply  to  Mr. McNaughton’s  first  en­
quiry,  The T radesm an  would  state  that 
the March meeting  of  the  Michigan  Busi­
ness Men’s Association will,  without doubt, 
instruct the  State  Secretary  to  secure  the 
printing of a sufficient quantity of the State 
lists to furnish one  to  each  auxiliary mem­
ber,  instead of  each  local association,  as at 
present.

Regarding  .the  second  question,  T he 
T radesm an is inclined to the  opinion that 
any creditor ought to have  the  privilege  of 
withholding a debtor’s  name  from  the  de­
linquent list,  providing  he thought such ac­
tion would  enhance his  chances  of  getting 
his pay.

Cadillac Joins  the  State  Association.
Cadillac,  Jan.  8,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

D ea r  Sir—Our Business Men’s  Associa­
tion is now  in  a  flourishing  condition,  and 
desires  to join  the State Association.  En­
closed please find initiation  fees  for thirty- 
four members,  §8.40;  also our first Notifica­
tion Sheet.’  Wlia’t is the cost  of  supplying 
our  Association  with  State  Association 
Sheets for each member?
Respectfully,

J.  C.  McA dam,  Sec’y.

Acknowledgements.

The Tradesm an  acknowledges  the  re­
ceipt of a handsome  bird’s-eye  maple  table 
ornament in the shape  of  a diminutive roll­
ing pin, the gift of  President  Frank  Ham­
ilton; also a basket  of  Grand  Traverse  ap­
ples, from the orchard  and  hand  of  Judge 
Ramsdell,, 'whose  fruit  farm  at  Traverse 
City is the marvel of all beholders.

Cline’s  Portable  Heaters.!

We wish to  call  your  attention  to  CLINE’S  PORTABLE  FOOT  HEATERS  and i 
AROMATIC,  CARBONIC,  COMPOSITION  FUEL, especially adopted for Street  Cars. | 
Carriages,  Cabs,  Sleighs,  Buggies,  Wagons, Offices and individual use in and  out  doors;! 
being something entirely new to the public!  But in the short time  of  three  months  last I 
fall, there were made about twenty-five thousand,  all of which were sold and  gave  entire j 
satisfaction.  The cost of the stove is very  low,  ranging  from  §1.50  to  §5,  being  made [ 
from Tin and Galvanized Iron.  We also make a Register Heater,  to  take  the  place  of  a ! 
Furnace in  Heating Small Rooms, especially Bed-Rooms, can also  be  used  in  the  finest 
Carriages with perfect Safety and in the summer the same can be used as a  ventilator by 
removing the fire pan.  Our Aromatic,  Carbonic Composition Fuel  is  so  cheap,  within | 
the reach of everyone,  in boxes containing 25 and 50 days’ supply, just think of it, to keep { 
your feet and body warm all day at 2c,  without any additional fuel to be put in the  stov 
when once started requiring no  attention for 10 or 15 hours!  so simple,  so cheap and used 
without  Danger!  No  oil,  no  smoke,  no  blaze,  no  offensive  odor  and  has  been 
thoroughly tested and patented in the United States, England and Canada, under the fol­
lowing dates:  November 10,  1885, March 81,  1886, April 10,  1886, June  15,  1886.

No. 1, 6x8, Office Heater

For  Clerk’s,  Book-keepers,  Salesladies  and  for one and all 
that wish to keep sole and body warm.
Tin  .......................................................................... §1.75 each
Galvanized Iron......... .............................................. 3.25  “

No. 2, 6x10,

For Wagons,  Cabs, Sleighs and Carriage  Drivers,  will 
keep your ftet, warm all day for 2 cents.
Tin  ................................................................ §2.00 each
Galvanized  Iron....................................'___8.00  “

No. 3, 8x8, Round Cabinet Heater,

For Ladies,  especially used in parlors, witli perfect  safety  and  will 
not soil the finest fabric.
T in ....................................................................................... §1.50 each
Galvanized Iron.................................................................. 3.00  “

No. 4, Carriage Heater,

Can be used for warming four persons at pne 
time;  placing the feet on the incline  top,  so 
as  to  ride  with  perfect  ease  and  safety. 
Made from the very best galvanized iron. 
Price........... ................   ............... §5.00  each

M.°.  3

NP.  4

LIBERAL  DISCOUNT  AT  THE  TRADE.

Gentlem en:

After using your Heaters and Fuel in our carriages last winter,  we cheerfully  say  the 
same gave our patrons such good satisfaction that they all compared  the  carriage  with  a 
comfortable room, and still more can be said as the heat was of great benefit to the carriage, 
keeping the same always dry and free from dampness.  Therefore, we  shall continue  the 
use of your Heaters and Fuel in the future.  Respectfully yours,

P.  P.  D emakis,  2,971 State St.,
B.  McNeil,  2,911 State St.,
C.  G.  H ohman & Co.,  2,449, 2,451 and 2,453 State St.,
D.  B.  Qu in l a n,  Undertaker and Livery 3,119 State St.,
Jos.  Chalifoux,  Undertaker and Livery,  25 Blue Island Ave.

CHICAGO,  ILL.

FOSTER,STEVENS & 00.

O E i X S I l A I j   A G E N T S ,

10 and 12 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Ibarbware.

The Hardware Market.

Nails are firm at  the recent  advance  and 
a further advance is  looked for shortly. 
It 
is most  too  early in the  year  to  note  any 
radical changes in quotations,  as few manu­
facturers have yet  taken  definite  action as 
to the  course  they will  pursue  during  the 
fore part of the  season.  Jobbers  generally 
are putting in large  orders  as  they  realize 
that  hardware,  at  the  present  prices,  is 
cheap,  and that witli the continued advances 
made in raw material,  there is a pretty good 
prospect for all kinds of  hardware  holding 
their own,  at least.

The  Hardwood  Lumber  Market.

Maple is dull.  The market for maple and 
ash has been so well  supplied  for  the  past 
few months that it has caused  a  depression 
in prices.  The  demand  for  quarter-sawed 
oak is  getting  better  supplied  and  prices 
have declined to nearer  the  actual worth in 
proportion to log-run bastard sawed.  Quar­
tered is worth from  §26 to §30 per  M  feet. 
As white oak is now  used by  some  of  the 
manufacturers 
tills  market,  T iie 
Tradesm an adds that wood  to  its  quota­
tions this week.

at 

Annual  Meetings.

Peninsular Novelty Co.—January 17. 
Fuller & Stowe Company—January  19. 
Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.—January

12.

Delegates  of  the  various  local  associa­
tions in  Pennsylvania  will  meet  at  Pitts­
burg on tiie 18th for the purpose of forming 
a State Association.

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

The furniture factories  here  pay as  follows 
for dty stock:
Basswood, log-run..............................12 00® 14 00
Birch, log-run........................................... 15 00@18 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2.............................  
@25 00
Black Ash, log-run.............................   @13 00
Cherry,  log-run........................................25 00@35 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and 2................................45 00@50 00
Cherry,  cull..............................................  •  @10 00
Maple,  log-run..........................................12 00@14 00
Maple, sort,  log-run................................11 00@13 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2....................  @20 
00
Maple, clear, flooring............... 
Oo
@25 
Oo
Maple, white, selected.............  
@25 
Red Oak, log-run.......................   @18 
00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2............... 
@24 00
Red Oak, quarter |sawed..................36 00@38 00
00
@25 
Red Oak, No.  1, step  plank..... 
Walnut, log-run............................. 
  @55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2.........  
 
@75 00
 
Walnuts,  culls..........................   @26 
00
Grey  Elm, log-run.................... 
@13 
00
White Ash,  log-run........................... 14 00@16 00
Whitewood,  log-run................... 
  @23 00
White Oak, log-run..................  @17 
00

.... 

“ 

“ 

COAL AND  BUILDING  MATERIALS.
A. B. Know Ison quotes as follows:

Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
l  00
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
85
130
Louisville Cement,  per bbl..................  
Akron Cement per  obi........................  
l  30
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl....................... 
l  30
Car lots 
..................... 1 05@1  10
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  25@  30
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
175
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
3 50
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
2 50
Fire brick, per  M.................................. §25 @ *35
Fire clay, per bbl................................... 
8 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, ear lots. .§6 75@6 00
Anthracite, stove ana nut, oar lots..  6 00@6 25
Cannell, oar lots.......'....................*... 
Ohio Lump, car lots............................3 10@3 25
Biossburg or Cumberland, oar lpts..  4 50@5 00 
Portland  Cement.................................3 50@4 00

COAL.

@6 00

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full  packages.

AUGERS AND BITS.

 

Ives’,  old  style......................................... dis60&10
N.  H. C. Co............ .............-.....................dls60&10
Douglass’................................................... dis60&10
Pierces’ ........................ 
dis60&10
Snell’s ........................................................ dis60&10
Cook’s  .......................... 
dis40&10
Jennings’,  genuine.................................. dis 
25
Jennings’, imitation................................dis50&10
Spring.........................................................dis 
40
Railroad....................................................... § 13 00
Garden....................................................... net 33 00

BALANCES.

BARROWS.

 
 

 

BELLS.
 
 

BOLTS.

Hand..............................................dis  § 60*10*10
Cow.................  
dis 
60*10
Call.................................................... dis 
30*15
Gong................................................. dis 
25
60&10
Door. Sargent.................................. dis 
Stove......................................................dis § 
40
Carriage  new  list...................................dis  7C&10
Plow  .......................................................dis  30*10
Sleigh Shoe................................ 
dis  70*10
Wrought Barrel  Bolts...........................dis 60*10
Cast  Barrel  Bolts........ ........................dis  OO&IO
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs.......................dis 
60
Cast Square Spring................................ dis 
60
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............... dis 60*10
Wrought Square.....................................dis 60&10
Wrought Sunk Flush............................. dis 
60
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush.....................................................dis 60*10
Ives’ Door.............. 
  dis  60*10

 

 

 

 

 
BRACES.

' 

 

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, CAST.

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

40
Barber.......................... ........*..............dis* 
Backus......................................................dis  50*10
Spofford............................. 
dis 
50
Am. Ball...................................................dis  net
Well, plain..................................
Well, swivel................................................. *  350
4 00
Cast Loose Pin, figured.........................dis  70*10
Oast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed_____ dis  70*10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis  60*10 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  60*10
Wrought  Loose  Pin..............................dis  60*10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip............. dis  60* 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned............. dis  60*5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvei
tipped.................................................dis  60* 5
Wrought Table...........•......................... dis  10*60
Wrought  Inside  Blind.........................dis  10*60
Wrought Brass....................................... dis 
75
Blind,Clark’s.........................................dis 
80
Blind, Parker’s....................................... dis 
80
Blind,  Shepard's.....................................dis 
70

CAPS.

 

CHISELS.

 
CATRIDOE8.

Ely’s 1-10................................................. per m *65
Hick’s C. F............................................  
60
G. D........................................................ 
35
Musket......................  
 
60
Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester  new  list50&10
Rim  Fire, United  States......................... disSO&lO
Central Fire.............................................. dis30&10
Socket Firmer.........................................dis 
75
Socket Framing......................................dis 
75
75
Socket Corner.........................................dis 
75
Socket Slicks...........................................dis 
Butchers’Tanged  Firmer.................... dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers......................dis 
20
Cold..................... 
net
Curry, Lawrence’s.......  ...................... dis
Hotchkiss  .............................................dis
Brass,  Racking’s............................... ........
Bibb’s ..........................................................
B eer.............................................................
Fenns’..........................................................
Planished, 14 oz cut to size......................1
14x52,14x56,14 x60....................................
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.....................
Cold Rolled, 14x48.......................................
Morse’s Bit  Stock........................ 
Taper and Straight Shank..................dis
Morse’B Taper  Snank..........................dis
Com. 4 piece, 6  in.............................doznet
Corrugated.............................................dis
Adjustable............................................dis

lb  28 
..  31 
..  23 
..  23
dis
40
40
40
*.85
20*10
4*10

ELBOWS.

COPPER.

DRILLS

COMBS.

40*10

COCKS.

 

EXPANSIVE BITS.

Claris, small, *18 00:  large, *26 00.  dis 
Ives’, 1, *18 00 ;  2, *24 00;  3, *30 00.  dis 

20
25

piles—New List.

 

12 

........ 

HINGES.

HANGERS.

HOLLOW  WARE.

American File Association  List........dis  60*10
Disston’s ................................................ dis  60*10
New  American.......................................dis  60*10
Nicholson’s.............................................dis  60*10
dis  55*10
Heller s 
Hellers  Horse Rasps........................... dis  50* 5
28
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 
18

GALVANIZED IRON.
22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27 
14 
15 
Discount, Juniata 50@10, Charcoal 60. 

13 
GAUGES.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s 
50
dis
HAMMERS.
May dole * Co.’s .....................
25
...dis 
Kip’s .......................................
25
...dis 
Yerkes  &  Plumb’s................
..dis  40*10 
Mason's Solid Cast  Steel.......■............. ... ......m
..30c list50
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel. Hand. .30 c 40*10 
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood t rack  50*10
Champion,  anti-friction.......................dis  60*10
Kidder, wood  track.............................. dis
40
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3..............................dis
60
State................... .......................perdoz,net,2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  44  14
and  longer..............................................
3*
Screw Hook and Eye,  4   ............. . . . net
105484
Screw Hook and Eye X ......................net
Screw Hook and Eye  X ......................net
747*
Screw Hook and Eye,  X.................   .net
Strap and  T ......................................¿ia
65
Stamped Tin Ware....................................
30
Japanned Tin  Ware..............................
Granite Iron  Ware............................. 
25
Grub  1  ..............................................*11 00, dis 60
Grub  2...............................................   11 50, dis 60
Grub 3.................................................  12 00, dis 60
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.......... dis
45
Door, porcelain, jap.  trimmings...........
45
Door, porcelain, plated  trimmings....
45
Door, porcelain, trimmings...................
45
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain.........dis
70
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s .....................
40*10
Hemacite..........................  
¿is
Russell & Irwin Mix. Co.’s new list, .dis 
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s........ ..........dis 
Branford’s .....................
..........dis 
Norwalk’s  .......................
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .. ................ dis  70
Adze  Eye.....................
60
Hunt Eye..................
60
Hunt’s....................•................. *18 50 dis 20 & 10
Sperry * Co.’f, Post,  handled. ...............  dis  50
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s............... ........... dis 40*10
Coffee, P. S. & W.Mfg. Co.’s Malléables dis 40@10
Coffee, Landers, Ferry *Clark’s........dis  40@10
Coffee,  Enterprise................... ................ dis  25
Stebbin’s Pattern  .................... ................ dis  70
Stebbin’s Genuine....................
...............dis  70
Enterprise,  self-measuring...
...............dis  25
NAILS—IKON.

LEVELS.
MATTOCKS.

MOLASSES GATES.

*16 00 dis 
. *15 00 dis 

MAULS.
MILLS.

LOCKS—DOOR.

KNOBS.

45
45
45

HOES.

Common. Bra  and Fencing.

lOdto  60d...............
...... V keg *2 35
8d and 9 d adv............................
6d and 7d  adv............................ .................. 
50
4d and 5d  adv............................
3d advance................................. ..................   1 50
3d fine  advance.........................
3 00
Clinch nails, adv....................... ..................   1 75
Finishing 
6d
Size—inches  f  3 
2 
Adv. »  keg 
Steel Nails—2 50.
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent.....................dis60*i0
Zinc, with brass bottom..............................dis  50
Brass or  Copper.................................... ....dis  50
Reaper..................................... per gross, *12 net
Olmstead’s ...............................................  50*10

...............  
)  lOd 
4d
14
*1 25  1  50  1  75  2 00 

OILERS.

8d 
24 

 

PLANES.

Ohio Tool Co.'s, fancy...............'............... dis  15
Sciota Bench................................................. dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................dis  15
Bench, first quality......................................dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... .dis20*10
Fry, Acme...............................................dis 50*10
Common, polished...................................dis60&10
Dripping............................................... $  tt> 
6
Iron and Tinned........................, ...dis 
40
Copper Rivets and  Burs..................... dis 
60
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 
9
“B” Wood’s pat. planished. Nos. 25  to 27 

PATENT  FLANISAED IRON.

RIVETS.

PANS.

Broken packs 4 c $  tt> extra.’

Sisal, 4  in. and  larger...................................  94
Manilla............................................................   134
Steel and Iron.........................................dis 
70
Try and Bevels....................................... dis 
60
20
Mitre  .....................................................dis 
Com. Smooth.  Com.

SHEET IRON.

SQUARES.

ROPES.

3 25
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 2  Inches

 

 

TACKS.

Nos. 10 to  14....................................*4 20 
Nos. 15 to  17..................................   4 20 
Nos. 18 to 21..................................   4 20 
Nos. 22 to 24...... 
4 20 
Nos .25 to 26.........................  
  4 40 
No. 27..............................................  4 6) 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, <gl  lb............................ 
In smallerquansities, «p  lb.............. 
American, all  kinds....:.................... dis
Steel, all kinds...................................... dis
Swedes, all  kin ds................................dis
Gimp and  Lace.................................... dis
Cigar Box  Nails...................................dis
Finishing  Nails.  ................................. dis
Common and Patent  Brads............... dis
Hungarian Nails and Miners’ Tacks.dis
Trunk and Clout Nails.......
...dis
Tinned Trunk and’Clout Nails..........dis
Leathered Carpet  Tacks....................dis
TINNER’S SOLDER.
No. 1,  Refined...............................
Market  Half-and-half................
Strictly  Half-and-half................

*2 90
2 90
3 00
3 05
3 15

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

TIN  PLATES.

 

rates.

TIN—LEADED.

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.
10x14, Charcoal...............................  5 75
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal...............................  7 25
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal....................................   6 25
IC, 
12x12, Charcoal...............................  7 75
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal...............................  5 75
IC, 
14x20,  Charcoal...............................  7 25
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal...............................  8 75
IXX, 
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool...............................  10  77
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal............................  12 55
20x28, Charcoal...............................  15 50
IX, 
DC, 
100 Pfate Charcoal.................................  6 50
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal.................................  8 50
DXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.................................  10 60
DXXX,  100 Plato Charcoal.............................   12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50  to  6 75 
Roofing, 14x20, IC......................  
5 25
Roofing, 14x20,  IX.......................................   6 75
Roofing, 20x28, IC.........................................  11  OO
Roofing, 20x28,  IX.......................................   14  00
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne.................5 60
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne..............  7 00
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne................ 11 00
IX, 20x28, choico Charcoal  Tertie............  14 OO
SteeUGame................................................... 60*10
Omdda;Communtity,  Newhouse’s..........dis  35
la Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60*10
Hotchkiss’
.60*10
S. P. *  W.  Mfg.  Co.’s.
.......................60*10
Mouse, choker...........
................ 18c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion........
.............*1 50 V doz
Bright Market.......................................   dis  674
Annealed Market.................................dis 
70
Coppered Market................................. dis  624
Extra Bailing............................................  dis  55
Tinned  Market.......................................dis  624
Tinned  Broom..........................................¡pn>  09
Tinned Mattress.......................................$  Jb 84
Coppered Spring  Steel...... ........... dis 40@40*10
Tinned SpringSteel................................. dis  60
Plain Fence............................................. $  H> 34
Barbed Fence, galvanized..............................   4
painted................................... 34
Copper............................................... new  list net
Brass.................................................. new  list net

TRAPS.

WIRE.

“ 

WIRE GOODS.

Bright..............................................dis  70*10*10
601 
Screw Eyes......................................dis
60
0* 10*10
Hook’s ............................................ dis
40*101 
0* 10*10
- go I  Gate Hooks and  Eyes..................dis  70*10*10

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WRENCHES.

M1SCSLLAN EOUS.

Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
Coe’s Genuine....................................... dis 
60
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis  75*10
Coe’s  Patent, malleable..................dis 75*10*10
50
BirdCages................................................... 
Pumps,  Cistern....................................dis  70*10
Screws, new  list........................................ 
80
Casters,  Bed  and  Plate.................... di850&10&10
Dampers, American............................. 
  40*10
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods. .60*10*5 
Copper  Bottom s..................................... 
23c

«   ftCBBCANTlLX  JOURNAI,, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

K.  A.  STOWE  &  HKO., Proprietors.

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

Telephone No. 95,

t Entered  at  the  PoetoMce  at  Grand  Rapid»  <ps 

Sceond-ctag» Matter. 1

WEDNESDAY,  JANUARY  12,1887.

TH E  THIRD  ANNIVERSARY.

[Continued from page 1.] 

ing  the  temperature 
in  those  countries 
from  16  to  30  degrees  below  zero  have 
failed to reach zero with us.
The land rising as  it  does  from  three to 
six hundred feet above the level of  the lake 
on the  wader-sheds  between  the  bays  and 
the lakes and the principal  streams,  leaves 
large tracts sloping toward the water where 
neither  vernal nor autumnal  frosts are ever 
harmful.
These three  favorable  conditions  of soil, 
climate and topography render  this country 
capable of raising the widest range of veget- 
table  productions.  We  can  raise  to  the 
greatest  perfection  the  earlier  varieties  of 
every  grain,  vegetable  and  fruit  grown 
north of the latitude of Washington.
Perhaps  there is  no  country of  the same 
extent on  this  continent  where  so  great a 
variety of  the  necessaries  and  luxuries of 
the table can  be so  easily and  successfully 
raised  as  in  the  Grand  Traverse  region. 
Our  cereals  are in quality equal  to the best 
and in acreage  an  average  yield  with  the 
balance of the State.
Our  vegetables  of  all  kinds,  the  genus 
Cucumfs excepted,  are  superior  in  quality 
to and more productive in  yield  and  better 
in  keeping  qualities  than  those  grown  in 
any  other  State  of  the  Union.  And  our 
fruits of every kind  and  variety  from  the 
early strawberry to  the late  keeping apples 
are nowhere excelled  in  either  flavor, qual­
ity, beauty or productiveness.
Yet,  notwithstanding  these  superior  ad­
vantages  we  cannot  compete  in  the  open 
markets of  the world in the raising for sale 
of any of these products.
With our small farms  and  fields  encum­
bered with stumps, the labor to the acre and 
to the bushel is far  more  expensive  in  the 
production of grain of all kinds than it is on 
the Western plains,  or  the  older  timbered 
countries,  where  farm machinery  driven by 
horse or steam power can be used to best ad­
vantage. 
In the matter of hay and  vegeta­
bles, their ponderous nature  and  expensive 
freightage  preclude  their  profitable  ship­
ment, while the prohibitory express charges 
and exhorbitant water freights  deprive  the 
fruit grower of all profit in the  shipment of 
his crop.  What the agricultural interests of 
this country most need,  and  must  have  to 
prevent its premature decay, is either a home 
market, or cheaper and  better  facilities  for 
shipment to distant markets.
With our vast tracts of hardwood  timber, 
unequaled anywhere in quality or  quantity, 
having Grand Traverse  bay as their natural 
outlet; with an inexhaustible supply  of  the 
purest salt within a thousand feet of the sur­
face—there is no place that offers the facili-. 
ties for the profitable manufacture  of  every 
product of hardwood timber,  from stump  to 
finish, that are afforded at the heads of  the 
Grand  Traverse  bays.  Millions  of  capital 
are lying idle in the  banks  of  the  country 
awaiting opportunity  for  profitable  invest­
ment.  Make known to the owners  of  this 
capital the  opportunities  here  offered  and 
satisfy them that they will be cordially wel­
comed by every business man  in  the  coun­
try,  and there is no reason  why the shore of 
our bay should not,  in a few  years,  be lined 
with factories converting the workable  tim­
ber into the manufactured product, using the 
unworkable portion for the  manufacture  of 
charcoal iron,  and the refuse of the mills and 
factories for the  manufacture  of  salt—em­
ploying thousands of  men  and  affording  a 
profitable home market for the  products  of 
the garden,  the  orchard,  the  field  and  the 
forest.
In the economy of  civilized  life there'are 
no conflicting interests  when  the  interests 
of  all  are  rightly understood.  The farmer 
is  necessary  as  the  foundation  support of 
all other  industries  The  manufacturer  is 
necessary to the farmer  to  supply him  and 
his, and the merchant  and  carrier  are nec­
essary to both  in  distributing the  products 
of each.  Labor is  necessary to  capital,  for 
without labor capital must waste and decay. 
Capital  is  necessary  to  labor,  for  without 
capital labor must idle and want.  It is only 
when one taking advantage  of  a temporary 
power encroaches  upon  the  just  rights of 
another to extort more than its just share of 
the joint increment, of  all that the  harmon­
ious “hum  of  industry” is  thrown into dis­
cord.
Like warp and woof our destiny is woven fast, 
Linked in sympathy like the keys of  an organ 
Pluck one thread and the web ye mar;
Break  but  one  of  the thousand  keys  and  a 

vast.

these 

Through all will  run.

The  mere  mention  of 

paining jar 
Gea E.  Steele then responded to the toast 
“Our  Hardwood  Forests,” in  the following 
pat remarks:
Mr. President and Gentlemen •
It  can  hardly  be  expected  that  in  the 
midst of this banquet,  one could talk about 
the hardwood forests of Northern Michigan, 
to the pleasure or instruction  of  any.  The 
need will be for a more piquant  sauce  than 
this, to  regulate  the  gustatory  forces  and 
prevent headache.
forests 
brings to mind the brave pioneer  who,  per-' 
haps,  all alone, firmly  braces  his  feet  and 
starts a chip on one side of the first  tree  on 
the comer of his forty acre chopping.  Yes,
I say, brave, because  that  is  the  kind  of 
stuff such characters are made  of,  and  that 
is the kind of work they have to  do.  Or,  I 
seem to hear the  shouts  of  the  raisers,  as 
the  men  inside  the  building  pull  at  the 
ropes,  and those  outside  man the fallowing 
poles and the long,  heavy skids,  and  at the 
final top out,  repair to the  wagon  to spread 
their  dinners  of  pork  and  beans,  brown 
bread,  maple sugar and wild gooseberry pie, 
which the good wife at  some  distant" cabin 
had prepared as well as  her  limited  larder 
would allow.  The weary  cattle  are left to 
browse, and the  men  expatiate on the kind 
of “shakes” to be used for  a  roof—the  one 
who  has  carried  up  his  corner  best—the 
next arrival expected in the colony—the site 
for  the  school  house,  and  the  route for a 
road to Hannah,  Lay & Co’s.  These all dis­
cussed,  the plans are made for an  extensive 
“slashing,” forty acres to be “girdled”;  and 
by another year the great fires are raging in 
every direction,, the log house  is like a veri­
table Phoenix,  but,  instead  of  rising from 
its ashes,  seems to rise out of the  midst  of 
a thousand blackened log8»  and  all  around 
the adjoining forest has been  made a stand­
ing and deadened waste.  This is a true pic­

from 

ture  of  Northern  Michigan  pioneering 
twenty-five years ago Or less, and  indeed  is 
still practically  exhibited  in  some  towns. 
We are happy to say  that  such  destruction 
has mostly ceased and that  owners of hard­
wood  lands  now  realize  that  every  stick 
must be made use of to some good purpose. 
Attention  is  now  more  than  ever  before 
turned toward our  extensive  and  valuable 
rorests of hard  timber,  and  many  articles 
are  now  made 
them  heretofore 
brought  from  other  states  or  made  from 
other woods.
If any one has formed  an  idea  that  this 
part of  the  State  is  one  vast  pine  forest, 
interspersed,  he 
with  arid  sand  plains 
should  be  better  informed. 
It  is  not  too 
much to say that Manistee county has  849,- 
214.58 acres, 4-8 of  the  hardwood  class,  or 
those not distinctively pine; Wexford,  866,- 
058.70 acres,  5-8  fanning;  Missaukee,  362,- 
798.23  acres,  6-8;  Grand  Traverse,  279,- 
002.14 acres, 6-8; Benzie,  204,133.83  acres, 
7-8;  Leelanaw,  195,881.60,  7-8<  Kalkaska, 
359,144.48  acres,  4-8;  Antrim,  306,552,28 
acres,  8-8, or nearly all without pine  lands; 
Charlevoix, 247,099.30  acres,  7-8;  Emmet, 
272,954.57  acres,  7-8,  or  a  total  in  these 
counties  of  2,959,902.51  acres,  averaging 
three-fourths of the farming land class.
We  cannot  enumerate  properly  among 
the hardwood but a few  species  such as su­
gar maple,  (the soft maple on low wet lands 
also),  rock  and  white  elm,  basswood, 
(though  not  a  hard  wood),  beech,  white 
ash,  black ash, cherry,  large  yellow  birch, 
sometimes  oak.  The nut bearing trees are 
absent, except beech.  As having  commer­
cial value  and  present  interest  there ’ is  a 
vast amount of good hemlock,  white cedar, 
tamarack, poplar.  There are many varieties 
that  might  interest  the  land  looker,  but 
have no special value.  Here  we  find  tim­
ber of immense size on our  best  lands,  and 
a larger body of it than in almost  any other 
of the states  over  an  equal  area. 
It  does 
not require any  imagination  to  lead  us to 
believe that it is to be rapidly  utilized,  and 
the most  remote  tracts  opened  up.  Who 
would have  said  a  few  years  ago  that  it 
would be possible now to sell  hemlock  logs 
in the Manistee,  high up in Wexford  coun­
ty?  Or what did we  use  to  think  about  a 
black  ash  or  cedar  swamp,  only  curses? 
•How  long  ago  was  it  you coxdd sell birch 
burls or birch logs?
the  one 
word profit.  Millions  of feet, not  marvel­
ous forests.  Dollars  and  dimes,  not  dis­
cussions in esthetics.  How,  then, shall the 
most be made of our forests?  First, there is 
the  steady  and  increasing  demand  for  all 
that can be made up, from a piece of lumber 
to a clothes pin.  This demand should re-act 
on the manufacturer  and  cause  him  to use 
up all the products drawn to his mill.  If he 
cannot do  this  thoroughly,  a  community of 
manufactures should  grow  up  so  that  one 
will take what the other leaves. 
It is great 
waste of power, for instance, as well as tim­
ber, to throw away every l% xl%  piece in a 
handle factory.  When  so  far  produced, it 
should be made to pay something and  there 
are a thousand things it could be made into. 
So  the  waste  in  discolored  heart  wood of 
basswood  and  maple  should  be  turned  to 
use, where color is of no importance.  When 
this is done,  it will  react  upon  the  farmer 
who has the  timber to cut  and «ell, and in­
stead  of  his  being  docked  because  every 
piece is not  just  such  a  color  or  size,  his 
whole  load  will  be  of  some,  if  not equal, 
value.  The great loss in  this business now 
resembles' the  waste  by  fire.  When  it  is 
stopped the  day will  spring  in  with  bles­
sings to every  man  who  owns  or  handles 
our grand and varied hardwoods,  and  when 
these lands are cleared  and  turned to  good 
account, then this part of Michigan need sigh 
no more.

The  question  centers  around 

Toastmaster Milliken  then  dismissed the 
gathering  with a few  pleasant remarks and
the most marked social event  of  the  Trav-
erse City Business Men’s Association passed 
from reality to history.

“Fox” Cigar.

FOX  &  BRADFORD,

EX CLU SIV ELY

WHOLESALE

76  South Division St., 

Grand Rapids, 

-  Mich.
top That  Book-Keeping.

The successful merchant of to-day  is  always 
the alert for the latest designs to please his pat- 
is .  So  we  say 
to  Merchants,  stop  that 
lok-Keeping,  and  use  the  TAL.LIAFERRO 
upon Credit Book.
Yo-x have  no  idea  how  It  will  revolutionize 
ur business; customers are delighted with them, 
d when once used by the merchant, they  never 
urn to the old thread-worn pass book  to  prove 
their patrons that they are dishonest 
Invest  a 
v dollars  in Coupon  Credit Books,  give  them 
air trial, you can easily return to the old method; 
thfui  of  errors,  discontent  and - expense, 
"»ample copy to cts. in postage  stamps.

* 
J. TALLIAFERRO, 

Address

K ansas  C ity, Mo.

¡3  McGee  Street. 

T I E   S

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MANUFACTUREES’  AGENTS  FOR

F O X ,

S A W  M ID  GRIST

m a c h u t e b . " ? ,

Send  fer 
C atalogu e 
.  P rices 
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ENGINE 
WORKS

INDIANAPOLIS.  IND.f  U.
__________ M A N U F A C T U R E R S  O F

STEAM ENBIHE8&

Carry Engines and Boilers in Stock 

(or  immediate  delivery.

Saws, B elting and Oils.

BAKING  POWDERS

W ith Presents.

I

FAMILY, 1 lb. cans, 2 doz. cases, at $4.50

With each Can apiece of Decorated China 

all large pieces, and of same value.

FAMILY,  1 lb. cans, 2 doz. cases at $4.25
FAMILY, 1 lb. cans, 2 doz. cases at $4.00

With each can a half-gallon Glass Pitchers.

$2.50

Dish.  Assorted Colors.

With each can a  Hob  Nail  Oblong  Berry 
SILVER SPOON, 3-4 lb. can, 4 doz. 

cases at 
With each can, a piece  colored  glass  Tea 
Set.

Arctic Manufacturing Co., Grand Rapids.
G.  R.  MAYHEW,
11 M s  Goodyears & Wooisoctt.
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Heel and Tap Overs,  “ 

Lumbermen’s  No Heel Overs,  Meyers F,  List $1.25
1.40
1.25
1.65
1.65
1.65
1.25

63c
70c
63c
83c
83c
86c
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66c
G.  E.  Mayhew,  Grand  Eapids.

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S o le  A gents fo r

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

BULKLEY, LEMON & HOOPS,
W holesale  G-rocers.
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.

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

Q rand R a p id s, M idi.

25,27 and 29 Ionia St. and 51,53,55,57 and 59 Island Sts.,
FULLER & STOWE COMPANY,

D esig n ers

E ngravers and P rinters

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.

Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds of W ood-W orking Machinery, 

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

Pulley and become convinced of their superiority.

130  OAKES  ST..  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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 anythin we handle.
A. B. KNOW LSON,
W M  SEA RS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

3  Canal Street, Basement,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

A gents  fo r

AMBOY  CHEESE

37, 39 & 41 Kent  Street.  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.
T T A T V R T g   A .  M A B T r i M ;

W h o le sa le  D ea lers In

33  NORTH  IONIA  STREET, 

• 

MICH.

m A w n   RAPIDS, 

RIDGE, BERTSCH & CO,
BOOTS  A2TD  SH O ES.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE  DEALERS IN

AGENTS  FOR THE

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

-  Grand Rapids, Mich.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, 
SNOW-SHOVELS,
SLEDS,
FIRE-KINDLERS,
FOR  SALE  BY
Curtiss, D unton ! Co.

O R D ER

Our Leader Smoking I Our Leader Fine Cut 

15c per pound, 

| 

33c per pound.

Our Leader Skcrts,  Our Leader Cigars, 

16c per pound. 

$30 per M.
The  B est  In  th e  W o rld .

| 

, Jew ell &  Co.,

SOLIS  AGENTS  FOR

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

O’Brien & Murray’s “Hand Made Oigar.”

<& LO VERIDGE,

L.  L.  LOVKRIDGK.

GENERAL  DEALERS  IN

Fire and Burglar Proof

Combination  and Time Locks,

Il loia Street, 

- 

Grani Rapids, Mici.

Wall Paper 1 Window Shades

At  M anufacturers’  Pirtoes.

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

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

68  MONEOE  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

BUSINESS LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of  Last Resort.

IN D E F IN IT E   L IE N .

A lien of contractors and laborers for work 
done in the construction  of  a  railroad,  al-* 
though of indefinite duration, is subject to the 
common law presumption of payment arising 
from the lapse of twenty years,  according to 
the decision of the  Supreme Court of Penn­
sylvania, in the case of Hayes vs. Bald Eagle 
Yalley Railroad Company et al.

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Rubi
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 
in  the  market. 
Lasts  longer  than  any 
other boot and the
PRICE NO HIGHER.
Call  and  ex­
amine  the 
goods.

FOR SALE BY

E.  G.  STUDLEY  &  CO.,

N o. 4  Monroe St., Grand Rapids.

Largest and finest stock m the S tate of

Rubber Goods,  Mill Supplies, Fire Depart­

ment Supplies and Sporting Goods.

M O S Z S Z aZ ^   B R O S .

-WHOLFSALE-

And. P rod u co.

26, 28, 80 and 32  OTTAWA  ST..  G’D  RAPIDS.

BAXTER’S  CELEBRATED

The  accompanying  illustrations  reprents  the
Boss Tobacco  Pail  Cover.
It will fit any pail, and keep  the  Tobacco  moist 
It will pay for itself in a short time.
You cannot afford to do without it.
For particulars, write  to

and fresh until entirely used.

ARTHUR  MEIGS  &  CO.

W h olesale Grocers,

SOlo  A gents,

77 to 83 SOUTH  DIVISION  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

This famous brand is now  handled by the 
leading druggists and  grocers  of  Michigan 
In towns where  the  cigar  is not handled,  ] 
am prepared to give the exclusive agency to 
good parties, druggists preferred.

J.  L.  STRETITSKY,

STATE  AGENT,

128 Canal StTeet, Grand Rapids

TIME  TABLES.

Chicago & W est Michigan 

t 
Leaves.
tM ail....................................................  9:10am
¿Day  Express.....................................12:80.pm
•Night Express...................................11:00 p m
Muskegon Express..............................5:00 p m

A n i 
3:55 p m 
9:45 p nr 
5 -.45 a  m 
I t :00 
l

tO aily except Sunday.

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

Newaygo Division.

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

All train s 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.

Arrives

4:50 p m
10:30 a m

W. A. Gavett, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J. B. Mulliken,  General  Manager.

The Standard of Excellence
KINGSFORDS

Kingsford’s Oswego CORN STARCH for Puddings, 

Custards, Blanc-Mange, etc.

T I I E   P E R F E C T I O N   O F   Q U A L I T Y .

STATE  AGENTS FOB

A L W A Y S  A SK   YOUR  GROCER  FOR  T H E S E   GOODS.

D. D. Mallory & Oo.’s

WILL  PLEASE  YOU  EVERY  TIME ?
F. J. I jA M B   & / CO.
DIAMOND BRAND OYSTERS
Also  Fruits and  Country Produce.
OBERNE,  HOSICK  &  CO.,

Manufacturers of FINE  IAUNMY aM TOILET  SOAPS,

X 20 Mloliigan St., Oliicago, 111.

W e m ake the following brands:

HARD WATER, Linen, German Family, Sweet 16, W hite Satin, 

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

W hite Prussian, Glycerine Family, Napkin, Royal.

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

Mixed tra in  leaves St. Ignace  a t  7 a m ;  arrives  Mar- 

'quette 5:30 p m. 
Gen. Pass, and Ticket  Agent, M arquette. 

I

E. W. Allen,

A. HUFEO RD, General A gent, Box  14,  G R A N D   R A R ID S,  MICH.

W rite m e for Prices.

C ITY   RA ILR O A D   COM PANY— REA SO N A B LE 

R EG U LA TIO N .

Where a contract of  a  railroad  company 
with a city required  the  company  to  carry 
passengers over two sections of its  line  for 
one fare,  a rule  of  the  company  requiring 
passengers to keep and show undetached by 
them coupon  tickets  as  vouchers  of  their 
right to continue on the car beyond  a  given 
point was held to be a reasonable rule.

P A R T N E R S H IP -----PR IO R IT Y ----- L IE N — CROPS.
In the case of Alexandre  vs.  McCan  the 
New Orleans Court of Appeals  held  that  a 
sugar boiler,  employed by  a  planting  part­
nership to take off crops,  was entitled  to  be 
paid out of the proceeds of the crop, as  part­
nership  assets,  in  preference  to  the  reim­
bursement to a partner  of  his  advances  to 
the partnership,  irrespective  of  any  other 
lien or privilege which the  law  might  give 
him in the crops produced in part by  his la­
bor.

b a n k e r s ’  l i a b i l i t y .

Where the holder of a draft  instructs  his 
banker to collect the money  due  on  it  and 
hold the same until called for, and the bank, 
in  violation  of  such  instruction,  pays  the 
same to another by crediting it to the latter’s 
account,  it will be liable to  the  person  for 
whom it made  the  collection,  according  to 
the decision of the Supreme Court of Illinois.

IN T E R E S T — R A TE  W H E N   NOT  S P E C IF IE D .
On December 1,  1877, certain  notes  were 
made in  Georgia,  which,  after  stating  the 
principal,  contained  the  further  provision 
“ with interest after maturity at 10 per cent, 
per annum,  interest to be paid annually; oth­
erwise to  become  principal,  for  value  re­
ceived.”  The  Supreme  Court  of  Georgia 
held that, in counting the interest upon inter­
est, the proper rate was 7 and not 10 percent., 
the latter rate not being specified in the writ­
ing.

LA N D LO RD   A ND  TE N A N T —IN SU RA N CE.
The Kentucky Court of  Appeals  held  in 
the case of Temmenetal. vs. Sayre etal. that 
a tenant authorized by his landlord to insure 
the rented property And deduc$the premiums 
paid from the rent,  had no authority  to  in­
sure the property for the benefit of his  own 
creditor,  and that, the property having  been 
burned,  the landlord  and  not  the  tenant’s 
creditor was entitled to the proceeds  of  the 
insurance, although the poliey provided that 
the loss,  if any,  should be payable to the lat­
ter,  as the creditor was bound to know  that 
the tenant was acting against the interest of 
the landlord in allowing the insurance to  be 
taken in this way.

A SSIG N M EN T— P R E F E R E N C E S  

V A L ID IT Y .
A debtor in failing  circumstances  cannot 
make a general assignment of all his proper­
ty for the benefit  of  all  his  creditors,  and 
provide in the deed of assignment  that  cer­
tain enumerated creditors shall first be  paid 
in full,  and after they  are  so  paid  that  all 
other  creditors  shall  be  paid  ratably.  So 
held by the Supreme Court of Indiana in the 
case of  Henderson  et  al.  vs.  Pierce  et  al. 
The court held that,  where a deed of assign­
ment was made in pursuance of  the  statute 
regulating voluntary assignments for the ben­
efit of creditors,  and  directed  that  certain 
creditors be preferred,  the deed might be ad­
judged invalid so far  as  it  made  provision 
for preferences,  and yet  upheld  as  a  valid 
general assignment for the benefit of all  the 
assigned creditors.

He W as Married and Hungry.

From the Detroit Free Press.

Customer—Have  you  any canned corned 

beef?

Anything else?

Fancy  Grocer—Best  kind,  Mr.  Blank. 

“Any canned tongue,  already boiled?” 
“Yes.”
“Canned chicken,  already cooked?” 
“ Yes.”
“Let’s see.  They  don’t  put  up  broiled 

beefsteaks, do they?”

“Oh, no!”
“Nor roast beef?”
“No.”
“By the way,  what are  these—look  like 

fried potatoes?”

“That’s what they  are—Saratoga  chips.” 
“Well,  I’ll take a bushel of them.  Hello! 

What’s that?”

“Canned corn-beef hash.”
“Just the thing; gimme  a  lot.  Got  any 

baked beans?”

brands.”

are these used?”

“ Yes,  Boston baked beans, three different 

“Let's see what else  there  is here.  How 

“Those are soup essences,  and need noth­

ing but thinning with hot water.”

“Well,  I’ll try these,  and  throw  in  a  lot 
of other things  you  think  good,  no  ifiatter I 
what, only so that they’re cooked.  I’m tired 
of starving.”

“Is your mother,  sick,  Mr.  Blank?”
“No; she’s well, but I don’t  live with her 

.now,  I’m married.”

çflOM WATER ; Fft£E F/fnu

A T   TH IS

P.

Every can wrapped in colored tissue paper with 
»

signature and stamp on each can. 

JOBBERS  IN

DRY  GOODS,

-A J N T D   N O T I O N S ,

8 3   Monro©  St.,

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

G B A N D   R A P ID S,  MICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers  j  A 
American and Stark A Bags 

( A OjJuulflllji

JOBBERS OF

O Y ST ER S,

And Manufacturers of

CANDY.

NEW  PROCESS  STARCH.  I3WEET
This Starch having th e  light  Starch  and  Gluten 
Oxxe-TTiircl  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.

FOB SALE BY

STRONG Clark, Jewell &  Co.

SURE.

GOING  NORTH.

Grand Rapids & Indiana.
Arrives. 
Traverse City Express.................
Traverse City and Mackinaw  Ex
9:20 a m
Cincinnati  Express........................   7:30 p in
Petoskey and Mackinaw Express..  3:40 p m
Saginaw Express................................11:25 a in
10:30 a  in.

“ 

“ 

 

Leaves 
7:00 a m 
11:30
5:05 p m 
7:20 a  m 
4:10 p m

Saginaw express runs through solid.
7 a m tra in  lias chair ear for  Traverse  City.  11:30 

7:15am
5:00 p in
7:15 a  in train   lias  parlor  chair  ca r  for  Cincinnati 

m tra in  has chair car for Petoskey and Mackinaw City 
5:05 p m tra in  has sleeping uud chair cars  for Petoskey 
and Mackinaw.
going  sou th.
Cincinnati  Express.......................... 
F ort W ayne Express........................10:30 a m
Cincinnati  Express..........................  4:40 p m 
Traverse City and Mackinaw Ex.. 11:00 p n 
5:00 p m tra in  has Woodruff sleeper for Cincinnati.
Muskegon,  Grand Rapids  & Indiana. 
Leave. 
Arri
7:25 a 111....................................................................   9:15 a
l:00pill..........................................................   1:00 pm
5:20 p m ....................................................................   7:10 p m
Leaving tim e a t  Bridge street  depot 7 m inutes later 
C. L. Lockw ood, G en’l Pass. Agent.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. 
Leuv
Arriv 

Kalamazoo Division.

Ex. A Mail.  N. Y. Mail.
N. Y. Mail.  N. Y. Ex 
4:35pm   7:45 a m. .G rand Rapids.  9:45am
6:10 p m 
5:55 p m  
9:02 a 111. .A llegan...........8:28 a in
5:00 a m  
7:05 i> m  10:06 a m .. Kalamazoo ...  7:30 a m  
4:00 p in 
8:30 p m  11:35 a  m. .W hite Pigeon.  5:55 a m
2:20 p m 
5:05 p m. .T oledo........... 11:00 p in
2:30 a m 
9:45 a  m 
8:30 a m  
9:40 p in. .Cleveland...... 6:40 p m
5:35 a m
3:30 a m. .Buffalo........... 11:55am  11:10pm
2:50pm  
5:40 a  m  6:50 p m. .Chicago..........11:30 p m  
6:50 a m
A local freight leaves Grand Kapids a t 1  p  m,  carry 
ing passengers as far as  Allegan.  All  trains  daily ex 
cept Sunday. 

J. W.  McKkxxky, General Agent.
Detroit,  Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING  EAST.
Arrives
tSteam boat  Express........................
¿Through  Mail...................................10:40 a m
¿Evening Express.............................   3:15 p m
•Lim ited  Express.............................   9:20 p m
tMixed, w ith  coach..........................
going w e st.
tM ornlng  Express...........................   1:05 p m
¿Through  Mail..................................   5:00 p m
¿8team boat Express.........................10:40 p in
tMixed.................................................
•Night Express..................................   5:10 a m

Leaves. 
6:25 a in 
10:50 a m 
3:50 p m 
10:55 p m 
11:00 a in
1:10 p m 
5:05 p m
7:45 a m 
5:35 a m
tDaily, Sundays excep,ted. 
Passengers taking the  6:25  a m   Express  m ake  close 
connection a t Owosso for Lansing,  and  a t  D etroit  for 
New  York,  arriving  there  a t  10:30  a in the following 
morning.  The N ight Express has a through W agner car 
and local sleeping car from  D etroit to Grand  Rapids.
D. Potter, City Passenger Agent. 

‘ Daily.

Geo. B. Reeve, Traffic M anager Chicago.

Michigan Central.

DEPART.

ARRIVE.

D etroit Express........................4.............................   6:15 a m
Day  Express......................................................................  1:10 p m
•A uantic Express..................................................... 10:10 p m
M ixed.................................................................................   6:50 a m
•Pacific  Express..............................................................   6:00 a m
M ail.............................................................................  3:00 p
Grand  Rapids  Express........................................... 10:15 p m
Mixed .
5:15 p m
•Daily.  All other daily except Sunday.  Sleeping ears 
run on A tlantic and Pacific Express train s to and from  
D etroit.  P arlor  cars run  on  Day  Express  and Grand 
Rapids Express to  and  from   D etroit.  Direct  connec­
tions made a t D etroit w ith all through trains E ast over 
M. C-  K. R., (Canada Southern Div.)

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

D. W. J ohnston, Mich. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids.
O. W. Rugoles, Gen’l Pass, and Ticket Agt., Chicago.

 

Detroit, Mackinaw & Marquette.

Going West. 

7:00am   6:50 a  m. .St. Ignace........ 8:90 p m  
12:20 p m   9  40 a m. .S eney...............5:15 p m  
$  2:15 p m  
6:30 p n i  12:40 p m )  M 
12:60 p m { Mar<luette ••  \  i.o o p m
1:40 p m. .N egaunee.......1:25 p m
1:55 p m ..Ish p em in g ....12:58 p m 
5.30 p m . .H oughton ....  9:20 a m
5:50 p m. .Hancock  ..........9:01am
6:35p in ..C a lu m e t.........8:15am

tt 

Going East.

5:55 p n
12:35 p m
7:00 a m  

Turning the Tables.

From Good Housekeeping.
He sat at tbe dinner table 
With a discontented frown—
“The potatoes and steak were underdone.
And tbe bread was baked too brown.
The pie too sour, the pudding too sweet,
And the roast was much too fat;
The sonp so greasy, too, and salt.
Sure ’twas hardly fit for the cat.”

good

“I wish you could eat the bread and pies 
They are something like, and  ’twould  do  you 

I’ve seen my mother make;

Just to look at a loaf of her cake.”
Said the smiling wife, “I’ll improve  with  age, 
Just now I’m but a beginner.
But your mother has come to visit us,
And to-day she cooked the dinner.”
The Adulteration of Spices.

From the N. Y. Express.

The men in the  wholesale  and retail gro­
cery trade of this city are excited at the dis­
covery of a new  adulterant  in  the  market. 
An offer from Italy to  a  responsible  house 
to  supply it  with  a  substance  called “pep 
perette” at a cheap rate  for  the  purpose of 
mixing with black and white pepper, there 
by greatly reducing  the cost,  has led  to the 
exposure.  Good  pepper  has  recently been 
quoted in the  Liverpool  market at  from 21 
to 30 cents  per  pound,  wholesale  or  fjom 
$400 to $600 per  ton,  while  the  adulterant 
has  been  offered  at  £8  or  $40  per  ton, 
freight paid to  Liverpool  and  2}£ per cent, 
off for cash.  This difference  in  price  fur­
nished a great  temptation,  especially when 
the adulterant is guaranteed  to  absorb  the 
piquancy of  the  pepper  with  which  it  is 
mixed and  thus defy detection  in  any ordi­
nary way.  An  investigation  of  the  matter 
has led to the  discovery that this  new pep- 
perette is nothing  more  than  ground  olive 
kernels.  As the  Italian  olives are  used in 
large numbers for  the  making  of  olive  or 
salad oil,  the refuse  after  the oil is pressed 
out  has  heretofore  been  found  almost,  if 
not  quite,  valueless.  An  experiment  was 
made with  the  kernels,  and  it  was  found 
that  when  ground  they greatly  resembled 
ground  pepper. 
It  was  then  ascertained 
that,  when mixed  with  pepper,  the ground 
olive kernels would so absorb  the  peculiar­
ities of the genuine article that the  mixture 
could  not  be  detected.  By a  process  the 
color of the adulterating matter can be made 
very light,  so as to agreed with the shade of 
the whitest of the peppers, also dark enough 
for the ordinary black  pepper.  The  manu­
facturers of  this vile  stuff,  in their  private 
communications to  the trade—for they take 
the  precaution  to  make  their  communica­
tions confidential, guaranteeing that  no one 
else in the trade shall know that any special 
house is among their  dealers—say that  the 
pepperette is warranted to consist of a pure­
ly vegetable substance,  and to contain noth­
ing deleterious, and consequently in no way 
detrimental to the health.

Of  course  olive  kernels  are  vegetable, 
but it is not at all  likely that  consumers  of 
pepper will feel inclined to  sprinkle ground 
olive kernels voluntarily over  the food  they 
eat.  Many persons use pepper in ale espec­
ially in cold  weather.  Such  an  adulterant 
would certainly l>e  deleterious  to  health if 
clinging to the  inner  mucous lining of  the 
stomach,  kidneys  and  connecting  canals. 
Autopsies  have  already  shown  that  the 
drinking of pure pepper  in  ale  is  not  the 
most healthy for the  human  system.  How 
much worse must it be  when  the  spice  is 
mixed with so vile  a  substance  as  ground 
olive  kernels.  Of  course  the  respectable 
portion of the trade  know that by using the 
the  adulterant  they are  jeopardizing  their 
reputation  for  supplying  pure  spices,  and 
therefore decline  to  deal  with  the  Italian 
house for the preparation offered by it.  Yet 
it is not unlikely that  some  dealers may be 
found ready to make a few dishonest dollars 
by using  the  vile  adulterant, and try to se­
cure a trade by selling  pepper  much  under 
the cost at which tbe pure article can be ob­
tained in the wholesale market.

But pepper is not  the  only spice  that has 
been  found  to  have  adulterations.  When 
ground it is difficult to trace  the  deception. 
The wooden nutmeg is nothing to the tricks 
that have been detected  with ground spices.
It is said by one who has had a good oppor­
tunity for  knowing,  that  thousands of tons 
of burned  and ground cocoanut  shells  and 
other foreign substances  have been flavored 
with essential oils and  then  sold  for  pure 
spices. 
In fact it has become a regular bus­
iness to manufacture and sell these  impuri­
ties.  Dishonest traders, taking advantage of 
their facilities for mixing the pure and good 
with valueless trash, are enabled  to  under­
sell the honest dealers, caring little whether | 
in doing so they are ruining the digestion of 
men, women and children, all of  whom use 
spices at this season of the year. 
It is only 
the high priced  spices  that are  found to be 
adulterated,  for  the  matter  is  now  being 
closely  investigated  by  the  various  State 
Boards of Health.

Furniture Facts.

Carl  Zoetlow,  furniture  dealer  at  Niles, 

has sold out.

The Detroit  Seating  Co.  has  organized, 
at Detroit, with a capital stock of $50,000,  for 
the  manufacture of furniture, and has been 
incorporated  by  Henry  C  Harf,  Fred  D. 
Standish, James  D.  Standish,  William  C. 
Colburn,  Ogden C. Clark and John G. Rum- 
ney. 

______  

_______

Miscellaneous Dairy Notes.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar is up  nearly  %c  from  last  week’s 
quotations,  the  advance  being  occasioned 
by the  exceptionally  large demand.  Pack- 
haps coffees  have also advanced %c.  Near­
ly  everything  else  in  the  grocery  line  is 
moving  upward,  which  gives  ground  for 
the belief  that the grocer  who keeps a good 
stock of staple goods is sure to make money 
on the advance in prices.

Candy  is  steady,  with  fair  demand. 
Oranges  are in good supply  and  steady  in 
price. 
It is claimed that the largest half of 
the Florida  crop  is  already  marketed  and 
that arrivals  will be more scattering  in  the 
future.  California  shippers  are  now  be­
ginning to market some of the earliest vari- 
ties.  The  lemon supply is fully equal to the 
demand and prices area shade lower.  Nuts 
are  steady  at  former prices.  Peanuts  are 
held with a firm grip and will be  no  lower. 
Figs  are  steady.  Dates  show  a  decline. 
Oysters  are  scare  and  high,  with  no  pros­
pects of any improvement at present.

A Frank Confession.

From the New York Sun.

Merchant  (to  applicant  for  a  job)—Do 
you  know  anything  about  figures,  Uncle 
Rastus?

Uncle Rastus—Yes,  sah.
Merchant—Well,  if I were to lend you $5 
and you promised to pay me $1 each month, 
how much would  you owe  me at the expir­
ation of three months?

Uncle Rastus—Fi’ dollahs,  sah.
Merchant—I’m  afraid  you  don’t  know 

much  about figures.

Uncle  Rastus—No,  sah,  but  I  specs  I 

knows all ’bout Uncle Rastus.

“The  Michigan  Tradesman.”

From the Allegan Gazette.

This  publication,  conducted  by  E.  A. 
Stowe, at Grand Rapids, has taken  a decid­
edly  front  seat  among  other  journalistic 
ventures of that city.  Of a charmingly neat 
typographical  appearance,  it  is  each  week 
filled with the most  acceptable  information 
to  both  tradesman  and  manufacturer.  A 
close perusal  ol  its  columns  by merchants 
would save the readers many dollars yearly. 
It is a recognized  authority among business 
men, and has been made so by close, persis­
tent, and intelligent work.  One  dollar  in­
vested in a year’s subscription will  save the 
dealer many hard  days’ work. 
It  is  not a 
paper devoted to hints,  but  one  devoted  to 
information that is worth money.

Open no more accounts  than  your capital 

will  warrant.

LUMBER, LATH  AND SHINGLES'.

Uppers, 1 inch..................................per M $44 00
Uppers, 1%, 1% and 3 inch.........................
46 00 
Selects, 1 inch..............................................
35 00 
Selects, 1J4,1% and 2  inch........................
38 00 
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................
30 00 
Shop, 1 inch...............................................
20  00 
Fine, Common, 114,1% and 2 inch...........
25 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet  ...
15  00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet........................
16 oO
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................
17  Ô0
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 18 feet.......
15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................
16 00 
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................
17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet.......
15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................
16 00 
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet..........................
17 00 
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet.......
12 00 
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................
13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 im, 20 feet........................   14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................
13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................
14 00 
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......
11  00 
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................
12 00 
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet.........................
13 00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls,  al
widths and  lengths.......................... 8 00
9  00 
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in
33 00 
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch............................. .
’JO
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths........................   15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  12 00
No. 2 Fencing. 16 feet.................................  12 00
No. 1 Fencing. 4  inch.................................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  12 o<l
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B..................  18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................  14 50
9 00
evel Siding, 6 inch,  Clear.....................   20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12.12 to 16 ft............  11 00
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B ...................  36 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..........................   29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.. No. 1, common..  17 00
Dressed Flooring 6 in.. No. 2 common 
  14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00 additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C..........................   26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. I  com’n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com’n  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
3  10
X X X 18 in.  Thin.....................................  
3 00

Eevel Siding,¿i inch. No. 1  Common__  

i XXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles............. 

XXX 16 in................ r............................ 
o. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18fin.  Shingles. ........... 
 

  2  75
1  75
No.2or 5 in. C. B. 16  in......................  
l  40
Lath  ....................................................   1  75® 2 00
D, Quay quotes as follows, f. o. b. at  Bailey:

COOPERAGE.

STAVES.

“ 

HEADS.

Red oak flour bbl. staves...............M 
@  6  00
@  5 25
.......................... 
Elm 
M 
@21  00
White oak tee staves, s’d and j’t.M 
“  M  19 50@22 00
White oak pork bbl.  “ 
Produce barrel stavfes....................M  @ 4 75
Tight bbl. and h’ds to match.........M  @17 60
Tierce, dowelled and circled, set__  
15@  16
“ 
Pork, 
“ 
.... 
12@  13
Tierce  heads,  Bquare...............$  M  23 09@26 90
Pork bbl. " 
“ 
...............%) M  19 00@21  00
Produce barrel, set............................ 
@  4
Flour 
“  ........................... 
“ 
@  4%
Cull  wood  heading..........................\   3%@  .3%
White oak and hickory tee, 8f’t.  M  11 00@12 50 
White oak and hickory  “  7%f’t. M  10 00@11 00
Hickory  flour  bbl..........................M  7 00@ R 25
Ash, round  “ 
“  ......................... M  6 00@ 6  75
Ash, flat racked, 654 f’t..................M  3 75@ 4  50
Coiled  elm.........................................  3 00@
10
White oak pork barrels, h’d rn’d.M 
1  oo@  110
White oak pork barrels, machine..
85®  95
White oak lard  tierces....................
1  15® 1 25 
Beef and lard half  barrels.............
75®  90
Custom barrels, one  head...............  1 00@  110
Flour  barrels................................... 
30@  37
25®  28
Produce  barrels............................... 

B A R R ELS.

H O O PS .

WOODENWARE.

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

Standard  Tubs, No. 1..................................... 5 25
Standard  Tubs, No. 2................ .............  .. ” 4 25
Standard  Tubs, No. 3................................. . .3 25
Standard Pails, two hoop.....................................1 25
Standard Pails, three hoop..................................1 50
Pails, ground wood 
  4  00
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes................................2 00
Butter  Pails, ash.......................................... .2 50
Butter Ladles.......................................................1 00
Rolling Pins...............................................  .  75
Potato Mashers......................  
gq
Clothes Pounders....................................... . . .2 25
ClothesPins.............................................).**’  gq
Mop Stocks............................................. '. . ’..*1  00
Washboards, single........ -......................!!!!'. .1  75
Washboards, double...........................  
” 2 25

 

Nearly 100 tons of limburger cheese were 

made at Marine City last year.

Albion Recorder:  Not to be  outdone  in 
the matter  of  enterprise, J.  H. Ott  has  de­
cided to add a creamery outfit to his already 
extensive  business.  He  has  ordered  the
necessary machinery and expects  to have it  Giothes, willow  No. 8..........................................,8 On
in operation by about the first of April

BA SK ETS.
Diamond  Market..............  
44)
Bushel, narrow band..................................... ....I 60
Bushel, wide band........ ................................. !t  75
Clothes, splint,  No. 1........................................... 3 50
Clothes, splint,  No. 2........................................... 4 25
Clothes, splint,  No. 3........................................ ..5 00
Clothes,willow  No. 1...................................... 600
Clothes, willow  No. 2......................  
[7 00
Water  Tight, bu.......
75
..2 85

“  halfbu...

“ 

 

 

 

B F L A J S T D

W h o l e s a l e   D e p o t ,

B. F. EMBRY,
-  Grand Rapids.
37 Canal St., 

STATE  MANAGER,

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—The best winter varieties are scarce 

at $2.75®$3 V bbl.

Beans—Country hand-picked  command $1.15 

¥  bu., and city picked  $1.40.

Beets—40c 19 bu.
Buckwheat—254c $  1b.
Butter—Michigan  creamery  is  in  good  de­
mand  at28@30c.  Dairy  is  in  tair  demand at 
20c.

Cabbages—$4®$5 19 100, according to  size.
Carrots—30c $   bu.
Celery—Grand Haven  or Kalamazoo, 20@25c 

Cheese—Fall stock of Michigan full cream is 

19 doz.

firm at 13%@14c.

Cider—1254c $  gal.
Cranberries—Choice  Bell  and  Bugle  and 
Cape Cod are  scarce at $9.50  $   bbl.  Jerseys? 
$ 3 $  bu.

lb; 

Dried  Apples—Evaporated,  12@14c 

quartered and sliced, 654@7c $  lb.

Dried Peaches—Pared, 15c.
Eggs—Scarce  and  high.  Strictly fresh  are 
hard to get,  readily  commanding  22®24c  and 
pickled  and cold storage stock are In good  de­
mand at 20c.

Grapes—Malagas, Q$5 $  keg.
HoneyA-Dull at 9®llc
Hay—Bailed  Is  moderately  active  at  $15 
per ton  in two and five ton lots and  $14 in  car 
lots.

Onions—Good stock  readily commands $3.25.
Potatoes—Buyers are paying 35c at this mar­
ket aifd towns within convenient shipping dis­
tance of this market.
Pop Corn—254c 79 lb.
Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Jerseys, $4 $  bbl.
Squash—Hubbard, 2c $  1b.

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

Wheat—lc higher.  City  millers pay 78oonts 
for Lancaster and 75  for  Fulso  and  Clawson
Corn—Jobbing generally at 46@47c  in 100 bu 

lots and 42®43c in carlots.

Oats—White, 38c in small lots  and  32@33c  in 

car lots.

Rye—48®50c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 $  cwt.
Flour—Lower.  Patent,  $5  $   bbl.  in  sacks 

and  $5.20  in  wood.  Straight,  $4  $   bbl. 
sacks and $4.20 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $3.75 ¡p bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $13  $  ton.  Bran, $13 
79 ton.  Ships, $14 $  ton.  Middlings, $15 $  ton 
Corn and Oats, $18 

ton.

“  %ft 
“ 
“ 

Acme*, h  1b cans, 3 doz. case...............
...........

BA K IN G   PO W D ER.
“  2  ”
2 lb  “  1  “
B ulk................
Princess,  %s................
............. .
Is..................
bulk.............

Arctic, % 1b cans, 6 doz. case.............

. .  .

44 
** 

“ 
“ 

“  % 
y» 
“ 
» 
1 
“ 
5 

“ 
“ 
» 
“ 

4
2
2
1

*
*

....... 
85
.........   1  60
.......3 00
....... 
25
.......  1  25
.......2 25
.......4 25
28
....... 
....... 
45
....... 
75
.......1 40
.......2 40
....1 2  00
.......2 00
....... 
15

B L U IN G .
 

Victorian, l fi) 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.........................................ft  gross 3 50
Arctic 8  oz...........................................................  7 go
Arctic 16 oz................................................  
12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box............................... 2 00
...............................   3 00
Arctic No. 2 
ArotioNo.3 
4.00
 

“  “ 
“  “ 

BROOMS.

No. 2 Hurl...............1  751 Common W hisk....  90
No. 1 Hurl— 2 00@2 25 Fancy Whisk.......... 1 00
No.2Carpet...........2 25 Mill...........................3 75
No. 1 Carpet...........2 50 Warehouse  ............ 2 75
Parlor Gem........... 3 00|

CANNED  F IS H .

Clams, 1 1b, Little Neck................................1  10
Clam Chowder,  3 1b..................................   .2  15
Cove Oysters, 1  1b  standards............... 90@1 00
Cove Oysters, 2  1b  standards....................  1 75
Lobsters, 1 1b picnic........................................... 1 75
Lobsters, 2 1b, picnic......................................... 2 65
Lobsters, 1 1b star..............   
2 00
Lobsters. 21b star.............k...................... /.3 00
Mackerel, lib  fresh standards........................1 50
Mackerel, 5 1b fresh standards....................... 5 25
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 1b......................7 25
Mackerel,3 1b In Mustard............................ 7 25
Mackerel. 31b  soused........................................7 25
Salmon, 1 1b Columbia river.............................1 60
Salmon, 2 1b Columbia river............................ 2 80
8ardines, domestic Ms................................. 7®8
Sardines,  domestic  54s............................   10@12
Sardine^,  Mustard  54s.................................  10
Sardines,  imported  Ms...............................   12
Trout. 31b  brook.................................. 
  4  CO

CANNED F R U IT S .

Ipples, gallons,  standards..............................3 25
Blackberries, standards..............................  90
Cherries,  red  standard.....................................l 10
Damsons............................................................. 1 00
..........................!. 1 25
Egg PHims, standards 
Gooseberries..............................................95®! 00
Green Gages, standards ¡¡lb........................125
Peaches, Extra Yellow........ ...................... 2 00
Peaches, standards........................................... 1 60
Peaches,  seconds...............................................1 45
Pineapples, standards.......................................1 40
Pineapples, Johnson’s sliced...........................2 60
Pineapples, Johnson’s, grated........................2 75
Quinces...............................................................1 15
Raspberries,  extra...........................................1 20
Strawberries  ................................................1  25
Whortleberries.........................................!  90

CA NN ED V EG ETA BLES.

Asparagus, Oyster Bay...............!..............2 50
Beans, Lima,  standard...............................   75
Beans, Stringless, Erie..............................  90
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked...........................1 60
Coro,  Archer’s Trophy........
..........1  00
Morning  Glory..........
............1  00
Acme............................
............1  10
Maple Leaf..................
........... 1  00
Excelsior.....................
........... 1  00
Peas, French..........................
........... 1 50
Peas, extra marrofat...........
....1  20@1  40
Peas, soaked..........................
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden...........
........... 1 CO
Succotash, standard.............
........85@1  10
Squash....................................
........... 1 00
Tomatoes, standard brands.
............1  05
CH EESE,
Michigan full  cream.........
York  State, Acme..................
CHOCOLATE
.........35,Vienna Sweet

Baker’s ..................... 37'German  Sweet...........23
Runkles’
Schepps, Is......
Is and
54s............................
Is in tin  pails.........
.......
54s 
Maltby's,  Is..........................
Is and  54s ...........
54s.........................
Manhattan,  pails................
Peerless  .............................

@26
@27
@2754
@2854
@2354
@24
@2454
@ 20
@18

COCOANUT.
54s.

..1354@14
@ 14

“ 
“ 
“ 
" 
“ 

“ 

* 

R io....

J a v a ........
O. G.Java. 
Mocha  __

Green. 

CO FFEES 

|

Roasted.

.15  @17 ¡Rio................ 16 @18
.17  @19 Golden Rio.. .18 @20
.15  @17 i Santos...................20
..........16
¡Maricabo..........]I8@20
... 23@25 ¡Java..................555® 26
.20  @22 IO. G. Java__ 23 @25
..........23 ¡Mocha........... 27 @28
COFFEES--P A C K A G E .

H ID E S. PELTS  A N D   FURS.

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

H ID ES.

Green__ $  ft 554®  6
Part cured...  7  @  754
Full cured 
  754®  8
Dry hides and 
kips............  8  @12

Calf skins, green
Deacon skins,

or cured__ 7  @9
V piece.......20  @50

SH E E P  PELTS.

 

FU R S.

W OOL.

Old wool, estimated washed fi ft........25  @28
Tallow......................................................  3  @ 35,
Fine washed 19 lb 25@28ICoarse washed.. ,20@24 
Medium  ............ 27@30| Unwashed............. 
2-3
Bear  .....................................................10 00@15 00
Beaver.................................................   4 00®  6 00
 
Badger.......................................... 
 
50®
W ildcat.................................................  
House Cat............................................... 
io@  20
Fox, red..................................... 
1 0G@ 1 40
“  cross................................... 
 
 
gray...................................... 

Fisher...................................................  4 00®  8 00
Linx......................................................  3 00® 8 00
Mink.......................  
Martin.................................................   l 00® 1 50
Otter....................................................   5 00®  8 00
Coon...................................................... 
4(@  1 00
Skunk...................................................  1 00® 1 10
Wolf................ ....................................   2 DO® 3 00
Muskrat,  winter................................. 
is®  14
■ 
06®  08
fall......................................... 
Deer,  $  1b................................................ 

These prices are for prime skins only.

30®

5®

“ 

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OILS.

ILLU M IN A T IN G .

L U B R IC A T IN G .

Water White..................................................
Michigan  Test............................................ 
Gasoline........................................................
Capitol Cylinder...............................
Model  Cylinder........................................
Shield  Cylinder........................................
Eldorado  Engine..................................
Peerless Machinery.............................
Challenge Machinery.................................
Paraffine  .................................................
Black. Summer, West Virginia...  ....” .
Black, 25°  to 30®.......................
Black, 15® C.  T.................................
Zero.................. 

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

1054
il
36J4
3154
2654
23
20
19
30549
10
11
125%

FRESH  MEATS.

  6  @  7

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 
prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides..................................   414®  654
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters.............. 
Dressed  H ogs........................................  654®  534
Mutton,  carcasses................................   554®  6%
Spring Lamb...........................................  @654
Veal..........................................................  754®  854
Pork Sausage...............................•.........  @ 7
Bologna.............................................. 
@ 3
Fowls.........................................................9  @10
Spring Chickens..................................... 10  @11
Ducks  ....................................................   @ll
Turkevs  ............................... 
/an@11

MISCELLANEOUS.

Henflock Bark—Tanners all have  large  sup­

plies.  Dealers are paying $5 for good bark.

Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay  $1.50  19  ft  for 

clean washed roots.

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

F IE L D   SEEDS.
Clover,  mammoth.........................
medium............................
.Timothy, prime.........................

4 50 
4 50 
2 00

60 fts 100 lbs 300 fts 
19314 
1934

x x x x ..................
Arbuckle’8  ..........
I)ilworth’8 ...........
Standard  .............
German................
Lion.......................
Lion,  in  cabinets.
Magnolia...............
Royal.....................
Eagle.....................
Silver  King..........
M èxican...............
CRACKERS

75® 1 00

19% 1944
197* 19&
19%
m19%
19%
20%
19%
18%
19% 19%
24
AND  SW EET  GOODS.

X  XXX

3  00® 5 00

18%
19
24
18
fMb
654

88

1154
954
1554

854

454

454

554
7

Kenosha Butter................
Seymour  Butter...............
00®  1 25
Butter.......................... .......
Fancy  Butter....................
8.  Oyster...........................
Picnic..................................
Fancy  Oyster.....................
Fancy  Soda........................
City Soda........ 1. .................
Soda  ....................................
Milk.............................
Boston............................... .
Graham .............   ..............
Oat  Meal.............................
Pretzels, hand-made..........
Pretzels...............................
Cracknels............................
Lemon Cream.....................
Sugar Cream.......................
Frosted Cream....................
Ginger  Snaps...................
No. 1 Ginger Snaps...........
Lemon  Snaps.....................
Coffee  Cakes......................
Lemon Wafers....................
Jumbles...............................
Extra Honey Jumbles.......
Frosted Honey  Cakes .j ...
Cream  Gems......................
Bagleys  Gems....................
Seed Cakes..........................
8. &  M. Cakes...................
60 foot Jute.
40 Foot Cotton

1254
854

1354
1154
1254
1354
1354
1354
1254
854
CORDAGE. 
1  00
50 foot Cotton... .1 60 
foot J u te .......1  25
60 foot Cotton....!  75 
.1 50  172 foot Cotton__ 2 00

D R IE D   FR U ITS— FO R EIG N .
Citron.......................................................22  @  25
Currants..  .......................................  
@ 654
Lemon Peel........................................@  14
Orange Peel..................................;____  @  14
Prunes, French,60s...............................  @ 954
Prunes, French, 80s..................... ,  ....  @ 9
Prunes, Turkey,  new............................  @ 6
old..............................  @554
Raisins, Dehesia..................... ..............  @3 go
Raisins, London Layers.......................  @2 50
Raisins, California  “ 
.......................  @2 10
Raisins, Loose Muscatels.....................   @190
Raisins, Ondaras,  28s...............................9  @954
Raisins.  Sultanas..................................   @ 344
Raisins,  Valencia, new  ........................  7  @ 75%
Raisins,  Imperials./............................   @3 20
Lemon.  Vanilla.
1 40
2 50
4 00
5 00
1 50
2 75 
7 50
15 00 
1 65 
4 25
6  00

Jennings’ D. C.,2 oz.
4 oz.
60Z...... 
80Z................................. 8 50
No. 2 Taper...................1 25
“ 
....: .. ..176
No. 4 
54 pint, round.........4 50
8 00
“ 
I 
“ 
No. 3 panel.................... l 10
“ 
No. 8 
............... 2 75
No. 10  “ 
............. 4 25

...ÿd oz.  1 00 
...1 50
2 60

FLA VO RING EX TRACTS.

 

 

WM.L. ELLIS & CO.

G r o c e r ie s .

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

These prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages..

A X LE  GREASE.

Crown  .................  .  80 Paragon  __ ........ 2 10
Frazer’s ................  
90 Paragon 251b pails.  9C
Diamond  X ...........   60 Fraziers.25 ft pails. 1  25
Modoc, 4  doz..........2 50

'

“ 

*‘ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Cod, whole..................... H*..................... ,4
Cod, boneless...............„.................... 
5®644
g a iib u t .........................................................9@io
Herring, round.  54  bbl.........................  @2 50
Herring .round,  54  bbl..............................  1  35
Herring, Holland,  bbls.............................h   00
Herring, Holland,  kegs.............................  @70
Herring, Scaled............................................   @»*1
Mackerel, shore. No. 1,54 bbls..................  10 00

12 ft kits 

MATCHES.

“ 
“  10  “ 

Trout, 54  bbls...............................  
“  10ft  kits..................... . 
White, No. 1,54 bb ls...................
White, No. 1,12 ft kits................
White, No. 1,10 ft kits................
White, Family, 54 bbls................
kits.....................

..........150
...............1  25
No. 3.54 bbls...............................775
5 no
‘ 
........1  00
........7 25
........1  40
......l S
......4  00
........  70 -
Grand  Haven,  No. 8, square..........................l 00
Grand Ha/en, No 9, square, 8 gro..................1 20
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor...................."1 75
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, parlor...................... 2 25
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round..........................l 50
Oshkosh, No. 2...............................................   \ 00
Oshkosh, No.  8............................. 
...............1  sn
Swedish...........................................75
Richardson’s No. 8  square................. ****** i go
...............!l 50
Richardson’s No. 9 
Richardson’s No. 754, round............. ! ! .! ! .  1 00
Richardson’s No. 7 
...................... .!l 80
Black  Strap................................................  15@17
Cuba Baking................... ............ ,25@28
Porto  Rico...................  
24@30
New  Orleans,  good...................................!!28@34
New Orleans, choice.....................................44@50
New Orleans,  fancy.............................. 
52@55

MOLASSES.

do 
do 

Rolled Oat8,bbl....5 50ISteel  cut,  bbl........ 5 50
“  54  bbl...3 00

54 bbls. 2c extra

OATMEAL.
“  54 bbl.3 00  “ 
“  cases 3 251
PICKLE8.

“ 

PIPES.

Medium ...................................................  @6 50
54 bbl...... ;.................................  @3 50
Small,  bbl............................................... 6  50@7 00
Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross...........   @2 25
Imported Clay, No. 216,254 gross........   @1 85
American T.D.......................................   75@
90
Choice Carolina......654
6
Prime Carolina......654
Good Carolina....... 4
Good Louisiaua......5
Table  .......................6
DeLand’s pure........ 654! Dwight’s ................... 5
Church’s  ................ 5  ¡Sea  Foam..................654
Taylor’s G. M........ .5 
leap Sheaf.................5

Java  ................. 
P atna........................654
Rangoon.......................  @554
Broken..............3%@3%
Japan........................754

SALERA TUS.  *

RICE.

54c less In 5 box lots.

SHORTS.

Our  Leader..............16 Hiawatha.................... 22
Mayflower................23 Old Congress...............28
Globe..........................22 May  Leaf....................22
MuMi Ear................... 2i|Dark............................20

SY RUPS.

Corn,  barrels  ............. '...............   ....... 
Corn, 54 bbls............................................ 
Corn, IÖ gallon kegs 
Corn, 5 gallon kegs
Pure Sugar, bbl...................................... 
Pure Sugar, 54 bbl..................................  

25@27
27@29
@30
@32
23@35
25@37

SN U FF.

“ 

@

“ 
“ 

Lorillard’s American Gentlemen
Maccoboy....................
....................
Gall & Ax’ 
Rappee.......................!.'.!!!.  @  35
Railroad  Mills Scotch..........................   @  45
Lotzbeek  ....................................@1  30
Japan ordinary.............................................18@20
Japan fair to good............................ 
25<a30
 
Japan fine......................   
" " 35I 45
Japan dust................................................ 
15@20
Young Hyson...........................................’. !30@50
GunPowder..................................................35® 50
Oolong ....? ............................................ 33@55@6C
Congo................................................. 
25@30

TEA S.

 

VIN EGA R.

10
jg

White Wine.................................. ^ o T
Cider..............................................  08 
York State Apple......................... 
M ISCELLANEOUS.

do 

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

Bath Brick imported.. 
90
do 
American..
Burners, No. 1 .............
1 ¿0 
do  No.  2.............
1 50
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand.
_   ~ 
_ 
7 36
C]ream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.............   @25
Candles, Star
@11
Candles.  Hotel.......................................   @12
Camphor, oz., 2 ft boxes. 
@35 
Extract Coffee, V.  C.. 
@80 
Felix
@1  20
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps...........................  @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps....................... 
Gum, Spruce....................................... 
Hominy,« b b l ................................*.  @3 00
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails................................. 
4@ 4 54
Pearl Barley...........................................  24i@ 3
Peas, Green  Bush................................... 
(ai 15
Peas, 8plit  Prepared..................... ” "  @ 3
Powder, Keg..............................................   @4 00
Powder, 54  Keg.........................................   @2 25
Sauerkraut............................................4  qo@4 50

<a.is
30@35

CANDY.  FRUITS A N D   NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

* 

SALT.

60 Pocket, F F   Dairy................
28 Pocket................ . ..............................
1003 ft  pockets..................................
Saginaw or Manistee................ .
Diamond C..............................................
Standard  Coarse.........................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags__
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........
American, dairy, 54 bu. bags..........
Rock, bushels.........................................
Warsaw, Dairy, bu.  bags..........!'.!!!"

•2  10
1 95
2 35 
85
1 45 
1 25

70

do 
do 

STICK .
„  
Standard, 25 ft boxes..........
Twist, 
..........
Cut Loaf 
M IXED
„  
Royal, 25 ft  pails...............
Royal, 2001b bbls................
Extra, 25 ft  pails................
Extra. 2001b bbls........... .. *
French Cream, 251b pails!!
Cut loaf, 251b  cases.
Broken, 25  1b  pails.....................
Broken, 2QP 1b  bbls...............

854® 9 
@ 9 
@10
@ 9 
@ 8 
@10 
@ 9 
@115 
@10 
@10 
@ 9

SA UCES.

@2  00 
@  70 
@  80 
@1 25 
@1 50 
@  90 
@1  20 
@3 50 
@2 20

Parisian, 54  pints..................................
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................
Pepper Sauce, green  ............................
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring.............
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ..................[
Halford Sauce, pints......................... '.*
Halford Sauoe, 54 pints.................
SO APS.
Acorn ............
3 85| Extra Chicago Fam-
Master................ ..4  O0|
ily .......................  2
4  OO 
New Process, 1 ft..
3  85  N ankin_____  
i
New Process, 3 ft..
3 96i Towel................
.4
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
3 70|TT.  G....................... .3 45
Big Five  Center
3 85 Mystic White........ .4 65
Niokel.................
3 451 Saxon  Blue.......... 2 60
Shamrock..........
3 15|Palmer’s, 100 bars. .5 50
Blue Danube__
.4 25
2 551 
London  Family.
2 30lStar...............
.3 75
SPIC E S.
Ground. 
•  Wholo.

75  “

94

« 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

STA RCH.

“  3 ft 
“ 

b u lk ............................

TOBACCO— F IN E  C U T - IN   PA 1L8.

Corn  ....................................

Muzzy, G loss, 1 ft  packages.......

Pepper................16@25|Pepper..................  @20
Alispice — ........12@15 Allspice................  8@10
Cinnamon...........18@30!Cassia....................10@11
Cloves  ...........   . .15@25;Nutmegs,  No. 1..  @60
G inger................ 18@20iNutmegs,  No.
@50 
Mustard........... ..15@30i C loves.............
@28
C ayenne............. 25@35l
Kiiii. ^ford’s Silver Gloss, 1 ft pkgs.  ..
“  6 ft boxes...
“  bulk  ...........
Pure, 1 ft pkgs..................
Corn, 1,  ft pkgs..................
Royal. Gloss, 1 ft packages..................

“ 
“ 
.............
bulk...............................
“  Corn, 1 ft packages................
Firmenich, new process, gloss,  11b ..
3 ft....
“ 
61b ....
“ 
“ bulk, boxes or bbls 
“  corn. 1 ft...............

®  7 
@ 75% 
@ 654 
@ 554 
@ 7 
@ 531% 
@   4 @ 6 
@ 53!£ 
@ 554 
@ 4 
@ 6 
® 5% 
@554 @ 654 
@   4 ® 6
SUGARS.
Cut  Loaf.......................... ..................
@  6314 
c u b e s....................................
@ 654 
Powdered.......................... ” •” **’ * * \ *"
@ 85i 
Granulated.  Standard..............* “ ” *
@ 654 
Confectionery A ..................................
©  534 
Standard A ....................................
@ 554 
No. 1, White Extra  C........... .!.!...
@5 31 
No. 2, Extra C.......................
5  @ 554 
No.3 C.................................. . 
............
© 434 
No. 4 C.................................. ...........***"
© 454 
New Orleans, in  hds..........
454® 474
Cherry................... ..60
1 Crosscut.................... 35
Five and  Seven__ ..45
1 Old Jim....................... 35
Magnet....................
i Old Time.................... 35
Seal of Detroit.......
.60
1 Underwood’s Capper 35
Jim  Dandy.............
.38
Sweet  Rose............... 45
Our  Bird................
.28
Meigs & Co.’s Stunner35
Brother  Jonathan.
.28
.  Atlas.................... 
36
Our Block.................60| Royal Game.............” i38
Jolly  Time............... 40|Mule Ear......................65
Our  Leader...............33 Fountain...............   *  74
64
Sweet  Rose..............32l01dCongress.... 
May  Queen..............65!Good Luck.......... 
52
Dark AmericanEagle67i Blaze Away.
__ 35
The Meigs.................60; Hair Lifter..........'.
...30 
Red  Bird...................50 Hiawatha...........
....65 
State  Seal.................60{Globe................
....65 
Prairie Flow er........ 65 Bull  Dog..........**
...*57 
Indian Queen...........60lCrown  Leaf
....66 
May Flower..............70 Hustler...............
....22
Sweet  Pippin.......... 451 
*Delivered.
s m o k i n g
Our  Leader..............lSiUnit
...30 
Old Vet.......................30! Eight  Hours.
...24 
Big Deal.
...30 
Ruby, cut  plug........35 B
...15
Navy Clippings........26¡T
...........................24
Leader...................... lSIDuke’s  Durham.........40
Hard  Tack................32!Green Corn Cob Pipe 26
D ixie......................... 28; Owl.  ................ 
1«
Old Tar.......................40iRob Roy...............'
Arthur’s  Choice.......22j Uncle  Sara..............
Red Fox...................26| Lumberman........
Gold Dust................. 26: Railroad Boy...........
Gold  Block................30i Mountain Rose........
Seal of Grand Rapids  ¡Home Comfort  .
(cloth)..................25 Old Rip.....................
Tramway, 3 oz.
401 Seal or North Caro-
Miners and Puddlers .28
;ina, 2  oz.................43
Peerless  ................... .24
Seal of North Caro­
Standard.................... 20
lina, 4oz...................48
Old Tom......................18
Seal of North  Caro­
Tom & Jerry..............24
lina, 80Z ......................... 45
Joker..........................25
Seal of North  Caro­
Traveler.................... 35
lina, 16 oz boxes__ 42
Maiden....................... 25
King Bee, longcut.. .22
Pickwick Club.......... 40
Sweet Lotus............... 32
Nigger Head..............26
Grayling.................... 32
Holland____________
Seal Skin....................30
German......................15
Red Clover.................32
K. of  L ............... 42@46
Good Lu  k.................26
Honey  Dew..............25i Queen  Bee.................. 22
Star 
.................  39iSplendid..................   38
Old Solder................. 37 Red Fox.................     40
Clipper  7...................34IBig  Drive....................40
Cornerstone............ 34 Chocolate  Cream....40
Scalping  Knife.......31
Nimrod......................35
Sam Boss..................   34
Big Five Center.........33
N e x t.........................29
Parrot........................42
Dainty......................44
Buster........................35
Old  H onesty.....  ...40
Black Prince..............35
Jolly Tar.................. .32
Black  Racer..............35
Jolly  Time............... 32
Climax  ......................42
Favorite.................. 42
Acorn  ........................39
Black  Bird............... 32
Horse  Shoe............... ¡16
Live and Let  Live.. .32
Vinoo......................... 34
Quaker......................28
Merry War.................23
Hiawatha.................42
Ben  Franklin............33
Big  Nig.................... 37
Moxie........................34
Spear Head..............39
Whole Earth............ 32
liawatha................ 42
Crazy  Quilt..............32
Mu8selman’s Corker.30
P.  V.......................... 40
Eolipse  .......... 
ao
Spring Chicken....... 38|Turkey____
.39
2c. less in  hree butt lota

J Hack Jack.................33

Lucky 
Boss 
wo  Nickel.

PLUG.

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FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.
,

FRUITS

.......18
.................... 
.................... 
.................... 
........ 14

Lemon  Drops............................ 
Sour Drops..................................   ............
Peppermint  Drops.....................'.............  @13
Chocolate Drops............................ 
j*
"* 
H MChocolate  Drops........... "!"!!!"* 
18
Gum  Drops  ...........................  
jq
Licorice Drops................................................. 22
A B   Licorice  Drops......................  
 
m
Lozenges, plain................................................ 14
Lozenges,  printed................... 
" 
15
Imperials..................................  
 
14
Mottoes........................... . . “ *“ *............. 
15
Cream  Bar.....................                
12
Molasses Bar........... .................................. 
]2
Ca ram e Is............................................................is
Hand Made Creams
Plain  Creams.......................... .
16
Decorated  Creams............. .........
20
String Rock............. ...............
13
Burnt Almonds................
Wintergreen  Berries........ !.!”
FANCY—IN  BULK.
Lozenges, plain In  pails.............
@1154 
Lozenges, plain in  bbls...............
@1054 
Lozenges, printed in pails........
@1254 
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..........
@1154 
Chocolate Drops, in pails........
@1254 
Gum  Drops  in pails..................”
@ 654 
Gum Drops, in bbls.............
@ 554 
Moss Drops, in  pails................
@10 
Moss Drops, in bbls  ................  ..'
@ 9 
Sour Drops, in  pails.................. 
^
@12
Imperials,in  palls................. 
..........  @12*4
Imperials  in bbls..:  ....................""*  @n*|
Bananas  Aspinwall..............................
Oranges, California, fancy.. ........ ..
Oranges, California,  choice.......
Oranges, Jam aica, bbls..........
Oranges. Florida............................'.” ".3 50@4 00
Oranges, Valencia, cases.......
Oranges, Messina...............
Oranges,  Naples..................................
Lemons,  choice................ ^3 50@3  75
Lemons, fancy....................................... 
<»4  00
Lemons, California.........................’*" 
3 15
Figs, layers, new,  19 1b.........................ll*4@ig '
Figs, Bags, 50 ft.....................  
a «
"" 
Dates, frails do  ............... 
.............  
gu
Dates, & do  d o ....................................  @
Dates, skin........................... .............  w  **
Dates, H  skin............... ....................
Dates, Fard 101b box W  lb. . . ............  @iq
Dates, Fard 50 ft box #  ®>............@ 8*4
Dates, Persian 50 ft box % ft 
........   7*4@  8
Pine Apples, $   doz...................."
. ,  
Almonds,  Tarragona........................... 19
Ivaca................... ".” " " !!l8
California.............
Brazils..........................
Chestnuts, per bu.......!...........
Filberts, Sicily................................... . . ill
Walnuts,  Grenoble.......................... !!..!! 15

Barcelona............. ..................
Marbo....................
French....................
California................  
Missou*"'

........ 13
Pecans,  Texas, H. P......................  ! ” . 10
Cocoanuts, 19 100

@20
@18%
.12  @121
@12 
@  9 
@17 
13*
@17
@14
r i ............................................   @   9
@ 5  50
PEANUTS.
¥   ft.................... .........  4  @   4%
d o ....................
@ 4 %
......... 
d o   ........... ..
@   5
......... 
i.d o   ..................
......... 
@ 5 %
d o   ...................................... 
@   6
-------  5% @   6

Choice 
Fancy H.P. do 
Choice White, Vi 
Fancy H P,.  Va 
H. P.Va.............

NUTS.

......... 

do 

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PROVISIONS.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co. 

quote  as  follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

 

 

Mess, Chicago  packing.....................  
n   75
Mess, new.........................................!!....  12 25
Shortcut,new................... 
to  7g
S. P. Booth, clear..................... . .ÜÜÜ.Ü .B  75
Clear,  A. Webster, n ew ............. **** **** * 13 75
Extra clear nig, short cut................ 
14  qq
Extra clear, heavy........................  
14 09
Clear quill, short  cut............................
..14 00 
Boston clear, short cut.................. "..,
.14 25 
Clear back, short cut................
.14 25 
Standard clear, short  cut, best!."  !.!
.14 59
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN  BOXES
Long Clears, heavy...............................
medium......................!!!!
lig h t.................................
Short Clears, heavy.............................
medium...................
light....................................

“ 
do. 
do. 
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLAIN.
Hams, average 20  fts..................................... h

16  fts.............................. !!!!.'ll*i
12 to 14 fts..................... 
" i l k
“  picnic  ...................................................... 714
“  boneless...................................................9*4
“  best boneless...................... 
mu
Shoulders..................................  
.................  7?/
Breakfast Bacon, boneless!!!!!!!!!!.!..!!!!  9
Dried Beef, extra................................. ! ..! ” .! 9
12

ham  prices...............!.!!!..! 

6&
6&
6%

“ 
“ 

LARD.

8k
67».

Tierces  .............
30 and 501b Tubs
LARD IN TIN PAILS.
20 ft Pails, 4 palls in  case...............
31b Pails, 20in a case.................].!
6 1b Pails, 12 in a case......................
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case..................!
BEEF IN  BARRELS.
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts........  
7  75
Boneless,  extra..............................................43 qo
Pork  Sausage.................................  .. 
714
Ham  Sausage................................ 
-w
Tongue  Sausage...................... .,* ,“ ****""  ™
Frankfort  Sausage....................... .............. 
g
Blood  Sausage.................................... “ * ’**’  0
Bologna, straight....................... !!..................g
Bologna,  thick............................... .*  * 
........g
Head Cheese...................................g
_ 
In half barrels........................................ 
In quarter barrels................... . . . . . . . . 

8AU8AGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.
 

3 gn
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PIGS’  FEET.

. 

f   Drugs él flftebirines

State  B eard o f Pharm acy. 

One T ear—Jacob Jenson, Muskegon.
Two Tear»—Jam es Vornor, Detroit.
Three Tear#—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor. 
F our Tear»—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
f ire  Tear»—Stanley E. Parkell, Owosso.
resident—O ttm ar  Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jenson.
T reasurer—Jag. Vernor.
Next Meeting—At G rand Rapid», M arch 1.

Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  A»»’n. 

President—F rank J. W urzburg. G rand Rapids.
F irst Vice-President—Mrs. C. w . Taylor, Loomis. 
Second Vice-President—H enry Harwood, Ishpeming. 
Third V ice-President—F rank lnglis, Detroit. 
S ecretary—8. E. ParkiU , Owosso.
T reasurer—Wm. Dupont, D etroit.
Executive Com m ittee—Geo. W. Crouter, J. G. Johnson, 
Local Secretary—Guy M. Harwood, Petoskey.
N ext Place of M eeting—A t  Petoskey, July 1*, 13 and M.

F rank W ells, Geo. Gundrnm  and Jacob Jesson.

Grand  Rapids  Pharmaceutical Society.

OBOANIZBD  OCTOBER  9,1834.

President—Geo. G. Stekettee.
Vice-President—H.  E. Locher.
Secretary—F rank H. Escott.
T reasurer—H enry  B. Fairchild.
Board of  Censors—President,  Vice-President  and  Sec-
B oan^of Trustees—The President.  John E. Peck,  M.  B. 
Klmm.W m. H. VanLeeuwen and O. H. Richmond, 
wen, Isaac W atts, Wm. E. W hite and Wm.  L.  W hite. 
Com m ittee on Trade M atters—John E. Peck, H. B. Fair- 
child and Hugo  Thum.
Com m ittee  on  Legislation—R.  A.  McWilliams,  Tlieo.
Kemlnk and W. H. Tibbs. 
C om m ittee on Pharm acy—W. L. W hite, A. C. B auer and
R egular  Meetings—F irst  Thursday  evening  in  each 
A nnual Meeting—F irst  Thursday evening in November. 
Next Meeting—Thursday evening, Feb. 3, a t The Trades­

m onth. 

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.

.

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man office.

Saginaw  County  Pharmaceutical  Society.
President—Jay  Smith.
F irst Vice-President—W. H. T arnall.
Second V ice-President—R. Bruske.
Secretary—D. E. Prall.
T reasurer—H. Melchers.
Com m ittee on Trade M atters—W. B. Moore, H. G. Ham­
R egular  Meetings—Second  W ednesday  afternoon  in 

ilton, H. Melchers, W. H. Keeler and  R. J. Btrney. 
each m onth.

Detroit  Pharmaceutical  Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER, 1883.

President—A. F,  P arker.
F irst Vice-President—F rank  lnglis.
Second Vice-President—J. C. Mueller.
Secretary and Treasurer—A. W. Allen.
A ssistant Secretary and T reasurer—H. McRae. 
A nnual Meeting—F irst W ednesday in June.
R egular Meetings—F irst W ednesday in each  m onth.
Jackson  County  Pharmaceutical Ass’n. 

Haskins.

President—R. F. Latim er.
Vice-President—C. D. Colwell.
Secretary—F.  A. King.
Treasurer—Chas. E. Hum phrey.
Board of Censors—Z. W. Waldron', C. E' Foot  and C. H. 
Annual Meeting—F irst Thursday in November. 
R egular Meetings—F irst Thursday in each  m onth.
Muskegon  Drug Clerks’  Association. 

President—I. C. Terry.
Vice-President—P. VanDiense.
Secretary and Treasurer—Geo. L. LeFevre.
R egular‘Meetings—Second  and  fourth  W ednesday  of 

each month.
Oceana County Pharmaceutical Society. 

President—F. W. Fincher.
Vice-President—F. W. VanWickle.
Secretary—F rank C#dv.
T reasurer—E. A. W right.

é

Mason  County  Pharmaceutical  Society. 

President—F. N. Latim er.
Secretary—Wm. Heysett.
Treasurer—W. H. Taylor.
Meetings—Second W ednesday of each month.

Beware of Soap  Powders.

From the American Analyst.

Soap powders have lately made  consider­
able  headway  against  lauudry  soaps,  and 
we are informed by good  authority that the 
sale of  laundry  soaps  has  fallen  off  over 
twenty-five  per  cent. 
If  this were merely 
of  commercial  importance,  we  should not 
deem it worthy of notice, but when we con­
sider  that  this  crowding  out  of  laundry 
soaps is due to causes which  are  doing  in­
calculable  injury  to  the  public it becomes 
our duty  to  raise  a  warning  voice.  Soap 
powders owe  their  success to the large pro­
fits they enable the manufacturer to pocket, 
and to the worse feature that  they  cater  to 
the laziness of servants and slovenly house­
keepers by  cleansing  clothes  without  rub­
bing,  but of course,  at  the  expense  of  the 
fabric. 
It  is  only  necessary to show how 
soap powders are made to put careful house­
keepers  on  their  guard.  To  every  250 
pounds  of  curd  soap  made  as  alkaline 
as possible,  are  added  from  15  to  20  per 
cent of caustic  soda  (good  lauudry  soaps 
hold only from 5 to  7  per  cent,  of  caustic 
soda),  which as soon as  finished is run into 
vats,  when from 450  to  -500  )K>unds of sal- 
soda is added  by  raking the mass together. 
This,  when cooled,  hardens  and  is  ground 
up,  making  the  ordinary  soap-powder  of 
the  market.  Many  a  man  has  wondered 
why  his  linen  wears  out  so  rapidly,  A 
perusal  of  this  paragraph,  with the remark 
added that caustic and  salsoda  both,  when­
ever  present  in  a  soap  in  excess  of  the 
small proportion whleh the  grease will neu­
tralize.  act  upon  the  fabric  by  eating  the 
fibres just as acid  dropped  upon  the  same 
fabrics would do,  will explain  all.  Our ad­
vice to housekeepers is  to  strictly  prohibit 
the use of all soap powders.

Salicylic Acid as a Preservative.

The use of this  valuable preservative  and 
antiseptic lias  of  late  been  the  subject of 
much  adverse  comment  and  criteism  in 
French  scientific  circles.'  The  controversy 
has been  taken  up  by  the  German  press, 
and a recent issue of a leading  journal con­
tained an able  editoral,  in  which,  after re­
viewing its value as  a  means  of preserving 
articles of food and preventing fermentation, 
the  author  refers  to  its  commendation  at 
various periods by  the  highest  medical au­
thorities in France,  and reproduces a declar­
ation published  in  March,  1881,  over  the 
signatures  of  twenty-one  leading  physi­
cians,  professors and managers of hospitals, 
etc.,  in Paris,  who"  stated  that  ‘the uijp of 
salicylized  beverages and food,  as was then 
customary  and  increasing  in favor,  should 
not only be  permitted  by  city  authorities, 
but that  in many  respects  it  was to be ac­
cepted as an evidence of progress.”

Of the many opinions affecting the use of 
salicylic acid as a preservative in beverages, 
no two  seem  to  agree. 
Its  prohibition  in 
France  has  been  heralded  and  favorably 
commented  upon  by  its  advocates,  while 
the opponents of  this  official  interdict  can 
scarcely find terms sufficiently  caustic  con­
demning  its  promulgation.  Between  the 
warring  scientists,  chemists,  physicians— 
real and bogus—it is sincerely  hpped  some 
positive knowledge concerning the  use  and 
abuse  of  salicylic  acid,  as  employed  in 
drinks and food,  will  be  definitely  agreed 
. upon one of these days.

The  Drug  Market.

 

 

 
 

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Iodide 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

............................... C... 

The formation of a new pool of  the man­
ufacturers  has  resulted  in  an  advance  of 
iodine  and  its  preparations  about  50  per 
cent. 
Iodine, which was quoted at $2.75 on
the 5tli in st,  and iodide  potash,  which .was 
quoted at $2.45,  have advanced to $4 for the 
first,  and  $3@$3.25  for  the  latter.  A ll 
other  preparations  have  advanced  propor­
tionately,  being  quoted  as  follows, 
in­
clusive:
Ammonium,  Iodide...................................... $6.09
............. :.......................... 47
“ 
Arsenio 
.......................................67
Cadlutn 
........................................ 50
Calcium 
........................................ 47
Copper 
.74
................................... 
5.23
Iodoform 
“ 
44
Iron, 
.......  
42
syrup....................................... 61
*• 
.......................................36
Lead, 
“ 
Magnesium, Iodide.............................................72
“ 
Manganese, 
.97
“  Green...................................34
Mercury, 
“  Red.....................................37
...................................  L74
“ 
Silver, 
“ 
Sodium, 
............„.................... .  3.98
........................................35
" 
“ 
8ulphur, 
“ 
................’. ...................  
.52
“ 
.............................. .57
Zinc, 
Insedl powders has again advanced, being 
now  38@40c.  The  French  government  Is 
manufacturing  a  new  explosive,  in  which 
carbolic  acid  is  an  important  factor,  and 
has  made  large  contracts  for  crude  acid. 
This,  together with short supplies here,  has 
advanced  the  article  to  40@45c.  Very 
much higher prices  are  looked  for  in  the 
spring,  when the demand is large for  disin­
fectant purposes.  Glycerine has  again  ad­
vanced,  being now quoted  at  25)^c  in  fifty 
pound cans  and  28@30c for smaller quanti­
ties.  Oil  cubebs,  in  sympathy  with  the 
berries,  has  advanced 
to  $11@$11.50. 
Canary seed is very  firm,  and an advance is 
looked for soon,  as it is being  sold  in  New 
York  at 
importation. 
Buchu 
leave|  are  scarce  and  hardening 
in price.

leSte  than  cost  of 

The  Cultivation  of  Licorice  in  California.
A farmer in California, who is  extensive­
ly  eugaged  in  the  cultivation  of  licorice, 
writes as follows to the Crescent City Drwj 
and  Trade  Review:

The licorice plant?'is  hardy  and  easy  to 
raise,  and when you once get it  started it is 
there for all time. 
It will  grow  on  almost 
any kind of soil, but will  give  the  best  re­
sults in low, moist land. 
If it is overflowed 
even for a month at  a  time  it  will  do  no 
harm;  and,  once  it  is  fairly  started, stock 
cannot injure it. 
It  is  cultivated  as  corn, 
planted in  drills,  in  rows  four  feet  apart, 
and, once  started,  all  the  cuttings  needed 
can be easily raised.  The best time to trans­
plant the root is  from  Christmas  to  April, 
and the crop can be gathered any time from 
October  to March;  when gathered it should 
be  put  on  high  dry  ground  in  piles, and 
turned over several times,  but mus# in  dry­
ing be kept from  frosts,  as that injures  the 
delicate flavor of the  roots.  Cold  weather, 
while the plant is still  in  the  ground,  does 
not injure it,  as is shown by the fact that  it 
has been grown where the  temperature has 
been  as  low  as  25  degrees  below  zero. 
Where frosts prevail  after  the  gathering  it 
should be dried slowly under sheds.

Organization  in  Otsego  County.

E lmira,  Jan.  5,  1887.

F. J. Wurzburg, Grand Rapids:
Dea r  Sir—Some  weeks  ago  I  received 
from you a circular,  stating  that  I was  ap­
pointed a committee to work up1 the  matter 
of  local organization  among  the  druggists 
of this  county.
I delayed purposely  until  after  the  holi­
days,  thinking it best  to  do  so.  And  now 
I hardly know how to begin.
What is to be gained?  What are  the  in­
ducements  for  organization? 
I  write  to 
you for pointers, that  I  may  be  the  better 
able  to  present  the  objects  favorably  tq 
other  druggists. 
I,, have  obtained  Grand
Rapids  and  Detroit  constitutions  and  by­
laws  and  the  price-list.  The  price-list  in­
cludes only proprietary articles.  Mr.  Escott 
say8 drugs vary too much in price to admit of 
being listed;  but up  here,  so far as I know, 
only two articles (proprietary) vary in price, 
“Safe Cure”  and  Kennedy’s  “Discovery.” 
True,  it'  would  be  desirable  to  put  these 
goods on a paying basis;  but it  is  impossi­
ble.  as grocery men  sell  them  at  any  price 
to draw customers.

Very truly  yours,

N.  P.  B la k k si.ek,  M.  D.

Aromatic Remedies. 

*

From the Boston Journal of Chemistry.

The aroma of red cedar is  fatal  to  house 
moths; the aroma of black walnut  leaves  is 
fatal to fleas. 
It is a matter of common ob­
servation that persons engaged in  the  busi­
ness of making  shingles  from  odoriferous 
cypress timber in malarial districts are rare­
ly,  if  ever,  affected  by  malarial  diseases, 
and that persons engaged  in  distilling  tur­
pentine do not  suffer  from  either  malarial 
diseases or  consumption. 
It  is  said  that 
when  cholera  was  epidemic  in  Memphis, 
Tenn.,  persons  working  in  livery  stables 
were entirely exempt  from it. 
It is affirm­
ed that  since  the  distruction  of  the  clove 
trees on the island  of  Ternate,  the  colony 
has suffered fr<5m  epiedemjes  unknown be­
fore; and  in  times  when  cholera  has pre­
vailed in London and Paris,  those  employ­
ed in the perfumery  factories  have escaped 
its ravages.

Borax  in  Soap.

Much popular  error  exists  about the use 
of borax in soap.  A little borax will soften 
hard water,  but only to the  extent to which 
the quantity of  borax  used  is  soluble  and 
any excefcsiwjp quantity  of  borax,  either  in 
the  soap  or  in  the  water,  will  set  dirt. 
Borax cannot be put in a boiled soap before 
the salt is used,  as it will wash  out  just  as 
glycerine does.  A concentrated  solution of 
borax can be crotched  in  after  the  soap is 
made and the salt water has run off; then  it 
will stay.  After all,  borax in soap is  a  de­
lusion,  and  only  gratifies  a  whim.  Any 
well-made  soap  is  just  as  good  without 
borax.

Maxims for Merchant.

From the Dry Goods Chronicle.

In commercial  life  there are as many op­
in  other 

portunities  of  doing  good  as 
spheres.

Never make any  alteration,  even  of  the 
most  trivial  character,  in any bill,  note or 
check.

In order to make  business  pay,  there  is 
nothing  like  having  a  moderate  but  well 
selected stock and small expenses.

Keep your  accounts  well  in hand,  watch 
them.  Order fairly for your  wants.  Keep 
your stock moderate and in good shape.

The knowledge required for  a  successful 
pursuit of your calling  has  the  first  claim 
upon yon in the matter of self-education.

The  general  discontent  with  moderate 
means and safe and honorable  profits is the 
most prolific source of commercial  demoral­
ization.

Let every trader put the questions to him­
self:  Am  I  keeping  within  the  limits  of 
my capital?  Is there  villainy  somewhere? 
Where?
>  The secret of finding good  partners  is  in 
training them and letting them have a  large 
share of the management  while  you  are on 
the spot.

The average gains in trade in which large 
fortunes are made are  lower  than  those  in 
which gains are slow, though  comparative­
ly sure.

The longer I  live  (says an old merchant) 
the more I  am  convinced  that  a  compact, 
economically managed  business is the most 
profitable.

Have  your  busiuess 

thoroughly  under 
control  by  keeping  light  stocks.  Light 
stocks, with  light  expenses,  will  win  the 
day  every time.

The laboring classes  of  all  civilized  na­
tions have been and are poor,  notwithstand­
ing the fact that  nearly  all  wealth  is  the 
production of labor.

There can be no real  over  production un­
less a large  surplus  remains  after  all  the 
people  have  been  fully  supplied  with the 
necessaries find comforts of life.

Be careful not to exceed  your  means,  to 
keep  strict  accounts,  and  not  to  allow 
wealtli to go from you  without  clearly  un­
derstanding why and how it does so.

To take in a partner with  power  of  dis­
missal is a  duty  many  merchants  owe  to 
their families,,  for if death should overtake 
them their business would be closed. 

The productiveness of capital,  like  every 
other  mortal  thing,  has  its  laws  and  its 
limits,  the transgression  of which is visited 
by penalties as severe as they are sure.

Just stop and  think  for  a  moment  how 
many  dollars’ worth of goods will have to be 
sold to obtain the money to make up the loss 
of a $30 or $40 account.  Computing the net 
profits at  fifteen  per  cent.,  between  $200 
and $300 worth  of  goods  will  have  to  be 
sold for cash to make it up.

'

A  Good  Appointmeiit.'

The  appointment  of  Stanley E.  Parkell, 
of Owosso, to the position of member of the 
State Board of Pharmacy in place  of  F. H. 
J. Van  Emster,  of  Bay  City, whose  term 
expired January  1, will be  particularly  ac­
ceptable  to  the  pharmacists  of  Michigan, 
and especially so  to  the  younger  element, 
which  has  heretofore  been  ignored  in  the 
composition of the Board.#  Mr.  Parkell is a 
“hustler,” in all the  term  implies,  and  his 
appointment  will  do  much  to  dispel  the 
distrust with which  certain portions "Of  the 
drug trade view the actions of  the  Board— 
distrust engendered quite as much by ignor­
ance of the law and the proper  functions of 
the Board rs anything else.  Tiie T rades­
man  is  glad  to  be  able  to  commend  the 
Governor’s action in this  matter  and  hopes 
that all his appointments will be equally ac­
ceptable.

To W hom  the Credit is Due.

The  Detroit  News  says  that  Stanley E. 
Parkell,  the  Hewly-appointed  member  of 
the Board of Pharmacy,  was  not personally 
known  to  Governor  Luce,  who  appointed 
•him solely on the  unanimous  recommenda­
tion of the other members of the Board.
G X 27SS27G  R O O T .
We pay the highest price for it.  Address
Peck Bros., Druggists, Orand Rapids,Midi.

Mills &  Goodman, Props.

357 South  Union St.,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.'

store.  Will pay good  salary for  right  man or 

will sell part interest in stock if desired.

registered Pharmacist to take charge of 

■  ANTED—A  graduate  of  Pharmacy  and 
IpOR SALE—Stock of  about $1.200 in town of 

450  inhabitants.  No  other drug  store in 
six miles.  Physician’s  practice  will  be given 
free if store  building is  also  bought.  Doing 
good business.  Terms liberal.

IX)R SALE—Stock of $1,400 in town of 800 in- 
1  habitants in Eastern part of  State.  Rea­
son for selling, poor  health.  Doing good bus­
iness.
FOR 8ALE—Stock of about  $2,000 well locat­
IpOR  SALE—Part interest  in  stock of about 

ed on one of principal  business streets in 
Grand  Rapids.  Doing fine business.  Reason 
for selling, poor health.

'  $5,000  in  good  growing town of  1,800  in­
habitants or will sell whole stock  at good  dis­
count.  Reason for selling  proprietor is  prac­
ticing  pliy8ician  and  cannot  attend  to  both 
store and practice.

IpOR  SALE—Stock  of  about  $4,000  in  town 

of about 2,000 inhabitants in western part 

of State.  Will exchange for good farm.
'OR  SALE—Bankrupt  stock  of  about  $700 

can be bought at large discount.
LSO—Many  other  stocks,  the  particulars 
.  of which we will  furnish  on  application.
'T'O  DRUGGISTS-Wishing to  secure clerks 
JL  we will furnish the  address  and full  par­
ticulars of those on our list free.

M ichigan Drug Exchange,

357 South Union St., 

- 

Grand Rapids.

WHOLESALE PRICE 0URRSVT.

Advanced—Iodine, iodide potash,  iodoform, 

glycerine, carbolic acid, insect powder.

ACIDUM.

 

 

 

 

 

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BACCAE.

CORTEX.

FteURUM.

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

AMMONIA.

BALSAMUM.

EXTRACTUM.

Aeeticum.........................................___ 
8®  10
Benzoicum,  German.....................___  80®1 00
Carbolicum...................................... ....  40®  45
Citricum.......................................... ......   70®  75
Hydrochlor.....................................
----- 
3®  5
Njtrocum..................................
......   10®  12
Oxalicum.........................................-----  10®  12
Salicylicum..................................... ....1   85®2  10
Tannieum......................................... ....1   40@1 60
Tartaricum........... ......................... ____ 50®  53
Aqua, 16 deg....................................
3®  5
18  deg....................................
4®  6
Carbonas.................................................  12®  14
Cbloridum....................................... ___  12®  14
Cubebae (po.  1 5o............................___1 50@1  75
Juniperus  .......................................
6®  7
Xanthoxylum................................ ......   25®  30
Copaiba............................................ ....  45®  60
Peru...................................................
@1 50
Terabin,  Canada...................................   38®  40
Tolutan............................................ ....  45®  50
Abies,  Canadian............................. ___ 
18
Cassiae  ............................................----- 
11
Cinebona Flava...............................
18
Euonymus  atropurp.....................
30
Myrica  Cerifera, po.......................___ 
20
Prunus  Virgini...............................___ 
12
Quillaia,  grd.......................................... 
12
Sassfras  ..................•...................... ......  
10
U lmu b..........................................................
12
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)......................... 
10
Glycyrrhiza Glabra........................
___  24®  25
....  83®  36
po........................................
Hacmatox, 15 fi> boxes.................... .... 
8®  9
Is..................................
@ 12
V4s  ............................... :...  @  13
@  15
148  ...............................
Carbonate Prccip............................----   @  15
Citrate and Quinia..........................
©3 50
Citrate Soluble.................................___  @  80
Ferrocyanidum Sol.........................
@  50
Solut  Chloride.................................
----   @  15
Sulphate, com’l,  (bbl. 75).....................   1)4®  2
pure.......................................   @  7
Acacia,  1st picked.................................  @1 00
“  2nd  “ 
 
“ 
“ 
“  Sifted  sorts..................................   @ 65
’*  p o ................................................   75@l 00
Aloe, Barb,  (po. 60)...............................   50®  60
“  Cape, (po. 20).................................  @  12
“  Socotrine,  (po. 60).......................  @  50
Ammoniac  ............................................   25®  30
Assafoetida,  (po. 25).............................   @  15
Benzoinuui............................................  50®  55
Campborac............................................  24®  27
Catechu, Is,  (Vis,  14; 14s, 16)................   @  13
Eunhorbium,  po....................................  35®  10
Gafbanum...............................................   @  80
Gamboge, po.....................  
75®  80
Guaiacum, (po. 45)..................'.............   @  35
Kino,  (po. 25)................  
  @  20
Mastic......................................................  @1  25
Myrrh, (po. 45).........................................  @  40
Opii, (po. 4  75).........................................  @3 50
18® 25
Shellac....................................................
bleached.................................... 25® 30
Tragacanth ............................................
30® 75
iie k b a —In ounce packages. 
Absinthium  ...........................................
25
Eupatorium  ...........................................
20
25
Lohelia  ........... .......................................
Majorum  ..............................................
28
23
Mentha Piperita....................................
25
“  V ir............................................
Rue  ..........................................................
30
Tanacetum,  V. 
Thymus. V .......
25
MAGNESIA.
...  55®  60
Calcined,  Pat...
Carbonate,  Pat................... .
...  20®  22
...  20@  25
Carbonate,  K. & M...............
...  35®  36
Carbonate,  Jennings...........
OLEUM.
Absinthium........................................... 3 50@4 OO
Amygdalae, Dulc..................................   45®  50
Amydalae, Amarae.............   ...............7 00@7 50
Anisi  ......................................................2  00@2  10
Auranti Cortex......................................  @2 50
Bergamii................................................ 2 00®2 75
Cajiputi  ............................................  
.  @  75
Caryophylli............................................  @2 00
Cedar..............................  
35®  65
Chenopodii............................................   ®1 50
Cinnamonii............................................   @  75
Citronella  ..............................................  @  75
Conium  Mac...........................................  '35®  65
Copaiba...................................................  @  80
Cubebae...............................................9 50® 10  <0
Exechthitos........... ................................  90®1  00
Erigerou.................................................1  20@1 30
Gaultheria.............................................2 30@2 40
Geranium, 5...........................................  @  75
Gossipii, Sem, gal..................................   E5®  75
Hedeoma...............................................    90® l  00
Juniper!..................................................   50®2 00
Lavendula..............................................  90®2 00
Limonis..................................................1 75@2 25
Lini, gal..................................................   42®  45
Mentha Piper............. ...........................3 0U@3 75
Mentha Verid........................................6  00@7 00
Morrhuae,  gal.......................................   80® 1  00
Myrcia,  5.................................................  @  50
Olive.......................................................I 00@2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal. 60)...........................  10®  12
R icini......................................................1 42@1  60
75® 1  00
Rosmarini..................... 
Rosae,  ?..................................................  @8 00
Succini  ...........................................  ..... 
40® t5
Sabina.....................................................  Ottbi  00
Santal.....................................................3  50© 7 00
Sassafras.................................................   45®  50
Sinapis, ess, *.........................................  @  65
Tiglii........................................................  *@1  60
Thym e....................................................   40®  50
opt................ .'.............................  @  60
Theobromas............................................  15®  20
Bichromate............................................   72®  14
Bromide.................................................   36®  40
Chlorate, (Po. 22)....................................  20®  22
Iodide..............................................  .....3 00®3 25
Prqssiate.......................... 
25®  28
RADIX.
Althae  ....................................................   25®  30
Anchusa.................................................  15®  20
Arum,  po...............................................   @  25
Calamus...................................................  20®  50
Gentiana,  (po. 15)..................................   10®  12
Glychrrhiza,  (pv. 15).............................   16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,  (po. 35)................   @  30
Hellebore,  Alba,  po..............................  15®  20
Inula,  po.................................................  15®  20
Ipecac, po.............................................. l  oo® 1  10
Jalapa,  pr...............................................   25®  30
Maranta,  Vis..........................................   @  35
Podophyllum,  po..................................   15®  18
Khei  ........................................................  75S1  0O
“  cut..................................................   ©1 75
“  p v ...................................................  75® l  35
Spigelia  .................................................  60®  65
Sanguinaria, (po. 15).............................   @  10
Serpentaria............................................  45®  50
Senega....................................................   60®  60
Sniilâx, Officinalis,  H...........................  @  40
“  Mex.........................  @  20
Scillae,  (po. 35).............................
10® 12
Sympioearpus,  Foetidus, po__
@ 25
Valeriana,  English,  (po. 30).......
@ 25
German.....................
15® 20
Anisum, (po. 20)............................
'  @ 17
Apium  (graveolens)....................
12® 15
4® 6
Bird, Is............................................
Carui,  (po. 20)...............- ..............
12® 15
Cardomoni.......................; ............
1  00@1 25
Coriandruin................ t ...............
10® 12
Cannabis  Sativa.........................
S)4@ 4
-75@l 00
10® 12
1  75@1 95
@ 15
6® 8
3)4® 4
3)4® 4
4  @  4)4
5® 6
8® 9
8®
9

Foeniculum..................
Foenugreek, po...........
Lini................................
Lini, grd, (bbl, 3)..........
Phalaris  Canarian......
Rapa.............................
Sinapis,  Albu..............

POTASSIUM.

SEMEN.

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SPONGES.

Frumenti,  W.,  D. & Co..........................2  00@2 50 !
Frumenti, D. F. R....................................1  75@2 00 i
Frum enti........................................  
10@1 50
  1 
Juniperis Co.  O. T.................................. l  75@1  75 i
Juuineris  Co.......................................    .1 
76@3 50
Saacnarum  N. E...............  
75@2 00
1 
Spt. Vini Galli.........................................1  76@6 50 ;
vini Oporto....................  
....1   26@2 00 1
Vini  Alba.................................................1  36@2 00 !
Florida sheens’ wool, carriage.......2 25  @2 50
do 
Nassau 
do 
2 DO
........ 
Velvet Ext  do 
do 
1  10 
...........  
........ 
ExtraYe 
' d o  
85 
do 
..... 
GraBS 
do 
65
do 
,for slate use................  
Hard ’ 
75
Yellow Reef, 
l  40
.................. 
A3ther, Spts Nitros, 3 F ..........................   28®  28 i
ASthor, Spts. Nitros, IF .........................  30®  32 *
Alumen...................................................  2)4®  3)4 *
Alumen,  ground, (po. 7)......................  
3®  4,
Annatto  ................................. 
 
 
 

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@ 90

Antimon!,  po__ .............................. 
4®  $
Antimon! et Potass  Tart.....................   56®  60
Argent!  Nltras,  5..................................   ®  68
Arsenicum ........................... 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud..................................   38®  40
Bismuth  8.  N .........................................2 15@2 20
Calcium  Chlor,  Is, 04s, ll;  M , 12)....  @  9
Cantharides  Russian, po.....................  @2 25
Capsici  Fructus, a f................. 
@  15
Capslci Fructus, po...............................  @  16
Capsici Fructus, B, po..........................   @  14
Caryophyllus,  (po.  35)..........................   30®  33
Carmine, No. 40......................................  ®3 75
Ct ra Alba, S. &  F..................................   60®  55
Cera Flava..............................................  2t@  30
Coccus....................................................   @  40
Cassia Fructus.......................................   @  15
Centraria................................................  @  10
Cetaceum.......  ......................................  @  50
Chloroform............................................  38®  40
Chloroform,  Squibbs............................  @1  00
Chloral Hydrate  Cryst........................ 1 50® 1  76
Chondrus................................................  10®  12
Clncbonidine, P. & W............................  13®  15
Cinchonidine,  German......................... 
9®  14
Corks, see list, discount,  per cent__  
40
Creasotum..............................................  @  60
  @  2
Creta, (bbl. 75).............. 
Creta  pr«p.............................................. 
5®   6
Creta, brecip....................................... ;. 
8®  10
Creta Rubra............................................  @  8
Crocus........   .........................................   25®  30
Cudbear...................................................  @  24
Cupri Sulph............................................ 
6®  7
Dextrine.................................................  10®  12
Ether Suiph............................................  68®  70
Emery, all  numbers.............................   ®  8
Emery, po...............................................   @  6
Ergota^Opo. 60).......................................   50®  60
Flake  White..........................................   12®  15
Galla........................................................  @  23
Gambier................................................. 
7®  8
Gelatin, Coopor......................................  @  15
Gelatin, French......................................  40®  60
Glassware flint, 70&10 by box.  60A10, less. 
Glue,  Brown..........................
.... 
9® 15
....  13® 25
30
Grana  Paradisi..............................
....  @ 15
H um ulus.......................................
....  25® 40
Hydrarg Chlor.Mite.....................
----  @ 75
Hydrarg  Chlor.  Cor.....................
....  @ 65
Hydrarg Oxide Rubrurn...............
....  © 85
Hydrarg Ammoniati....................
....  @1 00
Hydrarg Ungucntum...................
@ 40
Hydrargyrum  ...............................
65
Ichthyocolla, Am  .........................
....1 25® 1 50
Indigo..............................................
....  75® l 00
Iodine.  Resubl...............................
....4 00®4 10
Iodoform.......................................
....  @5 15
Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod.............   @  27
Liquor Potass  Arsinitis................ . 
10®  12
Lupuline  ..................................
...  85@1 00
Lycopodium.............................
...  55® 60
Macis..........................................
...  60® 65
Magnesi *. Sulph, (bbl. 1)4).......
2® 3
... 
Mannia. S. F...............................
...  90® 1 (X)
Morphia.  S, P. A W..................
.. .2 35@2 60
Mosehu- Canton.......................
...  @ 40
Myristica. No. 1.........................
@ 60
Nux  Vomica,  (po. 20)..............
@ 10
Os.  Sepia...................................
...  18® 20
...  @2 (X)
Pepsin Saae, H. & P. D. Co__
Picis Liq,  N. C.. V%  galls, doz..
@2 70
Picis Liq.,  quarts.....................
@1 40
Picis Liq., pints........................
...  @ 85
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80)................
@ 50
Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22)  ...............
@ 18
Piper  Alba, (po. 35)..................
@ 35
Pix  Burgun...............................
...  @ 7
Plumbi  Acot..........................................   14®
Potassa, Bitart, pure............................  @  40
Potassa,  Bitart.com............................  @  15
Potass  Nitras, opt................................. 
8®  10
Potass  Nitras......................................... 
7®  9
Pulvis Ipecac  etopii........................... 1  10®1  20
Pyrethrum, boxes, H. & P. D. Co., doz.  @1  00
Pyrethrum, pv....................  
38®  40
Quassiae.................................................  
8®  10
Quinia, S, P. &  W..................................   65®  70
Quinia. S, German.................................  60®  65
Rubia Tinctorum..................................   12®  13
Saccbarurn  Lactis, pv..........................  @  35
Salacin................................................... 2 15@2 25
Sanguis Draconis..................................   40®  50
Santonine...............................................   @4 50
Sapo,  W..........*,......................................  12®  14
8®  10
Sapo,  M................................................... 
Sapo, G....................................................   @  15
Seidlitz  Mixture................. 
@  28
Sinapis....................................................   @  18
Sinapis,  opt............................................  @  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  Do.  Voes................   @  35
Snuff, Scotch,  Do. Voes.......................  @  35
Soda Boras, (po.  10)............................... 
8®   10
Soda fit Potoss Tart...............................  33®  35
Soda Carb........................................ 
2® 2yt
 
Soda,  Bi-Carb.
4®  6
Soda,  Ash............................
3®  4
Soda  Sulphas.....................
@  2 
Spts. Ether Co....................
50®  55 
Spts.  Myrcia Dom.............
@2 00 
Spts. Myrcia Imp...............
@2 50 
Spts. Vini Hect, (bbl.  2 25).
@2 35 
Strychnia, Crystal.............
@1 30
Sulphur, Subl.........................................  2)4® 3Yt
Sulphur,  Roll.........................................  2)4® 3
Tamarinds.............................................. 
8®  10
Terebenth  Venice.................................  28®  30
Theobromae...........................................  @  40
Vanilla  ............. ..................................:9 00®16 00
Zinci  Sulph.........................................
7®  8
Gal
76
60
55
41
44
90
47
Lb
2® 3
2® 3
2® 3
2)4® 3
254® 3
13® 16 
65®70 
(6@17 
7® 7)4 
7®  7)4 
®70
«
 
1 40 
1  20® 1  40 
1 00@1 20

Red  Venetian..........................
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles.......
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda........
Putty, commercial................
Putty, strictly pure................
Vermilion, prime  American.
Vermilion,  English................
Green, Peninsular..................
Load, red strictly  pure..........
Lead, white, strictly pure....
Whiting, white  Spanish.......
Whiting,  Gilders’....................
White, Paris American..........
Whiting  t>a’',s English cliff  . 
Pioneer Prepared  J aints  ... 
Swiss Villa Prepare'  Paints.
VARNISHES.
No. 1 Turp  Coach.....................
Extra  Turp........... ...................
Coach  Body...............................
No. 1 Turp Furniture.. 
......
Extra Turk  Damar..................
Japan Dryer, No. 1  Turp........

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

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

Bbl
70
55
45
38
41
70
42

Bbl
1*
Ut

PAINTS

OILS.

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Or.  Laparle’s  Celebrated  Preparation, Safe  and 
Always  Reliable. 
Indispensable  to  L A D I E S . 
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WHOLESALE

Druggists!

42  and 44  Ottawa Street and  8g,  gi,

93 and 95  Louis Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS  OF

M A N U FA CTU RERS  OF

Elegant  Pharmaceutical  Prepara­

tions,  Flaii  Extracts  and 

Elixirs

G E N E R A L   W H O LESA LE  A GNTS  FOR

Wolf, Patton & Co. and John L. 

Whiting, Manufacturers  of 

Pine Paint and  Var­

nish Brushes.
THE  CELEBRATED

ALSO  FOR  THE

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

Horse Brushes.

W E  A R E  SOLE  OW NERS  OF

Weatherly’s Michip Catarrh Care

Which is positively the best Remedy 

of the kind on the market.

W e  desire  particular  attention  of  those 
about purchasing outfits for new  stores  to 
the fact of our  U N SU R PASSED   F A C IL ­
ITIE S for meeting the wants of  this  class 
of buyers W IT H O U T   D E L A Y  and in the 
most  approved  and  acceptable  manner 
known to the drug trade.  Our  special  ef­
forts in this  direction  have  received  from 
hundreds or our customers the  most satis­
fying recommendations.

W e give our special and  personal atten­
tion to the selection of choice goods for the 
DRUG T R A D E  O N LY, and trust we merit 
the high praise accorded  to us for so satis­
factorily supplying the wants of our custom­
ers  with  PU R E   GOODS  in  this depart­
ment.  W e CO N TR O L and are the O N LY  
AU TH O R IZE D   A G E N T S for the  sale of 
the celebrated

WITHERS DADE&CO.’S

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,

Sour Mash  and  Old-Fashioned 

Hand-Made, Copper- 

Distilled

WHISKYS.

W e not only offer these  goods  to  be ex­
celled by  NO O TH E R  K N O W N   B R A N D  
in the  market,  but superior  in  all  respects 
to  most  that  are  exposed  to  sale.  W e 
G U A R A N T E E  perfect and complete satis­
faction and where this  brand of  goods  has 
been once introduced  the  future  trade  has 
been assured.

W e are also owners of the

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

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

Patent Medicines,

Etc.,  we invite your correspondence.

Mail  orders  always  receive  our special 

and personal attention.

Hazeltine 

& Perkins

Drug Co.

NEW  ENTERPRISE.

The  GRAND  RAPIDS  SOAP  CO.
respectfully hows to the  general trade,
and presents her two first-born  as can­
didates for public favor.  The names of 
the  bantlings  are  HEADLIGHT  and 
LITTLE  DAISY.

•

"We guarantee our product to  be  ab­
solutely  pure,  containing  no  rosin,  or 
other  adulterations,  and  equal,  if  not 
superior to the best brands on the mar­
ket.

Our salesmen will call upon the trade 
during  the  month  of January  with  a 
line  of  samples,  and  we  bespeqk  for 
them kind recognition and trial orders. 

Very respectfully,

Grand Rapids Soap Go.

FACTORY COR.  HILTON & FIFTH AVE.

was instructed to procure the printing of the 
same.

A  vote of thanks was tendered Mr. Stowe 
for his presence  and  assistance,  when  the 
meeting  adjourned  until  Monday  evening, 
January  17.

A   Question of Expense.

Fife Lake, Jan. 6,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

D e a r  Sir — I was in  your office last week, 
but did  not  find  you in.  Some of the mer­
chants here would like to know the expense 
of keeping up a Business Men’s Association. 
I,  for one,  am ready at  any time  and  think 
the balance of them will be by a few encour­
aging  words from  you,  or  something  near 
what the running  expenses  of  the  associa­
tion would be. 

Yours truly,

E .  H a g a d o r n .

In reply to  the  above,  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  
would say that nearly all* the  local  associa­
tions in Michigun are able to maintain them­
selves on the basis prescribed in the Plainwell 
constitution— that is,  an  expenditure  on the 
part of each member of $2 the first year and 
$1 each year thereafter.  The expense  is so 
trifling,  as  compared  with  the  results  ac- 
complised,  that it is really a  matter  of  se&- 
ondary consideration.

Good  News from  Manton.

Manton,  Jan.  6,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

D e a r   S ir — We  had  a  very  interesting 
meeting of the Manton  Business  Men’s A s­
sociation last evening,  with  an  almost  full 
representation.  Three new firms knocked at 
the’ door for  admission.  Much  good  is be­
ing  done  by  the  organization  and  all  the 
members express themselves as well pleased 
with  the  results  up  to  the  present  time. 
Several delinquents  have  been  referred  to 
the Executive Committee.
Respectfully,

R in a l d o  F u l l e r , 

Sec’y Manton B.  M.  A.

GERMAN  L.  Wintemitz,
MUSTARD. I Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
E 2ST G I N E S

P O R T A B L E  A N D   S T A T IO N A R Y

From 2 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 ,

88,90  and  92 South  Division  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

Organization  of  an  Association  at  Boyne

City.

The business men of  Boyne  City  met by 
appointment  last  Thursday evening  to lis- j 
ten to an explanation  of  the  system  in use 
by the fifty-one  other  local  associations  in 
the State and  an  exposition  of  the results 
secured  through  organized  effort  in  other 
communities.  The editor of T h k  T r a d e s­
m a n  was  present  for  that  purpose,  and at 
the conclusion of  his address,  it was unani­
mously decided to  proceed  with  the  work 
of organization.  The following representa­
tive business men then handed in their names 
for  charter membership:  R.  R.  Perkins  & 
Co., A. J. Beardsley, Chase  &  Mclntire, J. 
C. Schaub,  C.  C. Batcheller,  Robert  Craw­
ford,  W. J.  Lewis  &  Co.,  Fred.  Helfrich, 
Wm. Gardner, J. L.  Handy and R.  S.  Hub­
bard.

A. J. Beardsley moved that  the  constitu­
tion,  by-laws and  rules  alul  regulations  of 
the “Plainwell” Association be  adopted for 
the government  of  the  organization,  which 
was carried.

Election of President being then in order, 
W. J. Lewis moved that  the  Secretary cast 
the unanimous ballot of the Association for 
R.  R.  Perkins,  which  was  adopted.  The 
remaining officers were elected in like man­
ner,  as follows:

Vice-President—J.  L. Handy.
Secretary—F. M. Chase.
Treasurer—A. J. Bieardsley.
Executive  Committee—President,  Secre­
tary, Treasurer, C. C. Batcheller  and  Wm. 
Gardner.
Business Committee^-W.  J  Lewis, R.  R. 
Perkins and Peter F.  Mclntire.

The Bellaire system of blanks was adopt­
ed for the use of  the  collection  department 
and the Executive  Committee  was instruct- 
ted to secure the  printing  of  the necessary 
quantities of each.

The  Secretary was  instructed  to  request 
the editor  of  the  local  paper to publish the 
constitution and by-laws of  the Association 
in  his  next  issue,  and  the  meeting  ad­
journed.  *

Regular Meeting of the Grand Rapids Re­

tail Grocers’ Association.

The regular semi-monthly meeting of  the 
Retail Grocers’ Association, which was held 
last  Tuesday  evening,  was  well  attended. 
After the acceptance of  one  new  member, 
Frank Dyk, the State notification sheet was 
read,  as  was  also  a “Blue  Letter,”  which 
was adopted by the Association.  This sheet 
is a form which is optional for  the grocer to 
send before reporting  the  delinquent to the 
Actuary, stating that the account is past due, 
and that  the  grocer’s  connection  with  the 
Association  is  such  as  will  necessitate .a 
settlement.

The  matter  of  increasing  the  initiation | 
fee and dues was then discussed.  President 
Coye reported that  the  estimated  expenses 
for the ensuing year would be $240 and that 
the present  schedule of  dues would  not be 
sufficient  to  meet  this.  This  estimate in­
cluded the printing of  a  delinquent  list  in 
book-form twice  a  year,  with  blank  leaves 
for the addition of new names, and the issu­
ing of a notification sheet  every two weeks, 
containing all the  information  in the  State 
notification sheets and  such other  informa­
tion  as  may  be  reported  at'  the  previous 
meeting.  After some discussion it was vot­
ed not to  increase  the  initiation  fee  until 
March,  in order to get  as  many  new  mem­
bers as possible before that time.  The dues 
were  raised  to  25  cents  per  monJi,  com­
mencing With the first of January.

Jas.  Farnsworth  mentioned  the  custom 
of the former firm of  Walker & Farnsworth 
in  treating  applicants  for  credit.  Appli­
cants  were  invariably asked:  “Where  do 
you  work?”  and  “Where  did  you  trade 
last?”  If they chose  to answer these ques­
tions, it gave the firm  an opportunity to  as­
certain their  truth, and  the  questions  pre­
vented many unworthy persons from obtain­
ing credit.

The meeting then adjourned.

Organization  of an  Association  at  South j 

Boardman.

Agreeable to invitation,  the editor of Tire j 
T r a d e s m a n  met thebusiuess men of South j 
Boardman  last  Wednesday evening for the 
purpose of  explaining  the aims and objects 
of  organized  effort  among  business  men. 
E.  Murray was  selected to  act as  chairman 
of  the  meeting  and  Chas. E.  Murray  was j 
chosen  to  officiate  as  secretary.  After  a j 
thorough explanation  of  the  points  above 
referred to and a  general  discussion  of the 
subject,  W.  W.  Peck moved that the organ­
ization  of  an  association  be  immediately 
proceeded  with,  which was  adopted.  The 
same gentleman moved that the “Plainwell” 
constitution be adopted for the  government i 
of the body, which  was  also  earned.  The 
following gentlemen then  joined  the Asso­
ciation,  handing in  the  initiation  fee and a 
year’s dues  in  advance:  H.  E.  Hogan,  W. | 
W.  Peck & Co., Dr.  S.  E.  Niehardt,  T.  P. 
Sfiuert,  E.  Murray, T. A.  Jamison, Chas. E. 
Murray, J. H. Murray.

Election of officers resulted as follows:
President—H.  E. Hogan.
Vice-President—E.  Murray.
-  Secretary—S. E.  Niehardt.
Treasurer—T.  P.  Shuert.
Executive  Committee—President,  Secre­
tary,  Treasurer,  W.  W.  Peck  and  J.  H. 
Murray.

On motion of  J.  H.  Murray,  the election 
of the  Business  Committee  was  postponed j 
until the next meeting.

The  blanks  of  the  Bellaire  Association 
were adopted for  the  use of  the  collection | 
department  and  the  Executive  Committee

H SCKEH S’  SZX.F-XIAISXXTG  BU CK W H EA T.

Boxes holding 20  5  pound packages, 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

40  21-2  “ 
32  3 
“ 

“ 
« 

$4.50 
$4.50
$4.30

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

Order a sample case of

HONEY BEE COFFEE.

PRINCESS  BAKING  POWDER,

Equal to the Best in the market.

Wholesale

Grocers,

6 9   Jefferson,  awe.,  Detroit, Mich..

In  Ç2ar‘ Lots.

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. BECKER i  CO, 10021 I lM S U l LOOIS, « 0.
O. W. BLAIN & CO., P n ta
Foreip  and  Domestic  Fruits, S o itta  Vegetables, 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.

9 7   and 99  Canal Street, 

- 

Grand Rapids, M ichigan

HIRTH  <&  TCFLA-TJSE,

DEA LERS  IN

P ro m p t  r e tu rn s  m a d e   on  C o n sig n m en ts.

1X8 Canal St., G-rana Rapids.

H ides,  F urs  and  T allow ,
HOGLE & GO. Jobbers  Michigan  W ater  W hite  and 
Warehouse:  Lee’s  Ferry Dock, MUSKEGON, MICH.
OIL & GASOLINE CANS,

Legal Test Oils.  Manistee and Saginaw 
Salt.  Agricultural Salt.  W arsaw  Salt; pockets, all  sizes,  and 
barrell.  W est Michigan Agents for  Prussing’s Celebrated Vin­
egar  works.  W rite  for  quotations.

"WitlL  W o o d   Jaclt.ot,

LATEST  IMPROVEMENTS  FOR  1887.

2 . LEONARD A SO N S,

OnANÜ  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Manufactured by the  Adams &  W estlake  Mfg. Co.,  Chicago.

117  Monroe  St.,  Grand  Rapids.
JOBBER  OF

F.  I   DETTENTHALER,
OYSTERS,
F ISH

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c a m t t .

Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention.

See Quotations in Another Column.

Also Grand Rapids A p t for Cleveland Baking Co.’s

C rackers and Cookies.

Full Stock on Hand at all Times.

