Michigan  Tradesman

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY  9,  1887.

NO.  177.

VOL.  4.

BEANS
WANTED.

Highest Market Price Paid 
for Beans, Picked or Unpicked.

W.miOBELDUtl

71 Canal Street, 

GRAND RAPIDS, 

-  MICH.

KAHN,  LOSTRO  &  CO.,

FRUITS,  PRODUCE,

A N D   G E N E R A L

Commission  Merchants,

C o n s i g n m e n t s   S o l i c i t e d .

3  NO.  IO N IA   ST.,  G R A N D   R A P ID S . 

O rders prom ptly filled.  All kinds of produce in ca r lots.
We carry a full  Hne of 
Seeds  of  every  variety, 
both for field and garden. 
Parties  in  want  should 
write to or see the

GRIND RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED CO.

71 CANAL 8TREBT.
FOR  SALE.

Six Thousand Dollar Stock of Dry Goods, 
Clothing  and  Groceries  tu  good  farming 
town in Northern  Michigan.  The  firm  has 
done the largest trade in the place, the sales 
for 1886 aggregating $60,000.  “The Trades­
man  has  investigated  the  offer,  and  can 
recommend same  as  exceptional.  Address

THE TRADESMAN, Grand Rapids.

BELKNAP

Spring,  Freight,  Express, 

MANUFACTURERS OF
Lumber  and  Farm

W A G O N S !

Logging Carts  and  Trucks 

Mill and Dump Carts, 

Lumbermens and 

River Tools.

We carry a large stock of material, and have 
every facility  for  making  first-class  Wagons 
of all kinds.
C3F“Special  attention  given  to  Repairing, 
Painting and Lettering.

Shops on Front St., Grand Rapids, Mieh,

Use

Heckers’
Standard

M anufactures.

EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN,

JEWELE

44  CANAL  STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,

STEAM  LAUNDRY,

MICH.

43 and 45 Kent Street.

STANLEY  N / ALLEN,  Proprietor.
WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 
Orders  by  Mail  and  Express Promptly At­

CHfiHCALS.

tended  to.

J U D D   eft*  O O . ,  

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

And Full Line Winter Goods.

1 0 «   C A N A L   ST R E E T .

Stop  That  Book-Keeping.

The successful merchant o f  t.o-day  is  always 
on the alert fur the latest designs to  please his jut  - 
tons.  So  we  say 
to  Merchants,  stop  t.iat 
Book-Keeping,  and  use  tlxj  T A L L IA F ^ .R k O 
Coupon Credit Book.

You have  no  idea  how  it  will  revolutionize 
your business: customers are delighted with 1 hem 
and when once used by the merchant,  they  never 
return to the old thread-worn pass book  to  pi ove 
to their patrons that they are dishonest. 
Invest  a. 
few dollars  in Coupon  Credit Books,  give  them 
a fair trial, you can easily return to the old method: 
faithful  o f  errors,  discontent  and  expense.

Sample copy  10 cts. in postage  stamps.

J. TAGLIAFERRO,
eel. 
1933  McGee  Street

K ansas  C it y, Mo.

Address

GERMAN
L   Wmtemitz,
MUSTARD.
Grand, Rapids, Mich.
MOSELX7  BROS.

1 0 6  K e n t S t. 

-WHOLE8ALE-

!  i U U l i H ]   W iU 1 *J llU |

Arid Produce.

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

M \  s m o k e

“M l   STM'  CIGAR

Manufactured by

ROPER  &  BAXTER  CIGAR  CO.,

51 and 63 W abash Ave., C h icag o .

This  fam ous  brand  is  now  handled  by  the leading 
druggists  and  grocers  of  Michigan.  In  tow ns w here 
the cigar is not handled, I am  prepared to give  th e  ex­
clusive agency to good parties, druggists preferred.

J. L. STRELITSKY,

ST A T E   A G E N T ,

128 Canal Street, 
-  Grand Rapids.
GXXTSSXTG ROOT.
We pay the highest price for it.  Address
Peck Bros., Druggists, Grand Rapids, Mich.
The CELEBRATED  EMERY  $3  SHOE
H A T C H   &  E M E R Y ,  C h icago  a n d   B oston . 

MANUFACTURED  BY

D.  G.  KENYON, Traveling Salesman,

227 Jefferson Street, 

-  

G rand Rapids, Mich.

THE  NEW

Soap  Company.

As  previously  announced,  the  trade  is 
now being supplied with Soap from this new 
factory.  Two  brands  are now introduced, 
the

Heaciliglit

A N D

Little Daisy.
Both free from adulterations of all kinds, 
and contain pure Ceylon  Cocoa  Oil,  Steam 
Refined Tallow,  Glycerine and Borax.  The 
former  is  a  first-class  Laundry Soap, and 
the latter, being fine and  milder,  is  one  of 
the  best  Bath, Laundry  and  Toilet  Soaps 
combined now on the market.

For terms, please apply to the  iactory,  in 
(Telephone 

person, by letter, or telephone. 
No. 578-5 rings.)

Shall we receive your  encouragement  by 

way of a trial order ?

Respectfully,

NOTICE  OF  DISSOLUTION.

The firm of Bode & Keeney,  of Ferry. Mich., 
has  this  day  dissolved  by  m q|ual  consent. 
H ereafter the business will  be  conducted and 
toaD aged by J. M. Keeney,  and  be  will  settle 
all accounts contracted by the firm and collect 
all bills due the firm. 
Signed, Jan. 22.1887.

E. J. BODE,
J. M. KEENEY.

LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ,
Fermentum!

STATE  AGENT  FOB

The Only Reliable Compressed Teait.

M anufactured by Rlverdale Dtst. Co.

106 Exnt Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich. 

T E L E P H O N E   566.

Grocer«, 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.

CHARLES  A.  GOYE,
A. Coye & Son,

Successor to

DEALER  IN

AWNINGS § TENTS

Horse and Wagon Covers, 

Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,

Wide Ducks, etc.

Flags & Banners made to order.

73 CANAL  ST.t 

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

POTATOES.

W e make the handling of POTATOES, 
APPLES and BEANS in car lots a special 
feature of our business. 
If you  have  any 
of. these goods to ship, or anything  in  the 
produce line, let us hear from you, and  we 
will keep you posted on  market  price  and 
prospects.  Liberal  cash  advances  made 
on car lots when desired.
Agents for Walker’s Patent Butter Worker.

Earl Bros., Coimissiom Merchants,

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO. 

R eferen c e :  F ir s t   N a t io n a l   B a n k .
APPROVED by PHYSICIANS. 

Ouslimazi’s

In  the  treatment  of  Catarrh,  Headache, 

MENTHOL  INHALER
Neuralgia, Hay Fever, Asthma, Bron­
chitis,  Sore  Throat  and  Severe 

Colds, stands without an equal.*

A ir M e n th o liz e d   by passing through the Inhaler- 
tube. in which the P u r e   C ry sta ls of M e n th o l are 
held* thoroughly applies this  valuable  rem edy  in  the 
m ost  efficient  way,  to  the  p arts  affected.  I t   s e lls  
r e a d ily .  Always keep an open Inhaler in your store, 
and let your custom ers try  it.  A  few  inhalations will 
not h u rt the Inhaler, and will do m ore  to dem onstrate 
its efficiency than a half hour’s talk.  R e ta il p r ic e  
5 0  c e n ts .  For Circulars and  Testimonials address 
H> D .  C u sh m an ,  T h r e e   R iv e rs,  M ich . 
H a z e ltin e  & P e r k in s  D r u g  C o., G’d R a p id s, 
And W holesale D ruggists of D etroit and Chicago.

Trade supplied by

L Æ

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

The popularity of  Muzzy’s  Com  and Sun 
Gloss  Starch  is  proven  by  the  large  sale, 
aggregating  many  million  of  pounds  each 
year.

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

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

A N D

DIARIES
OFFICE  TICKLERS.
CALENDARS

MEMORANDUM

FOR

1887.

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

29 Monroe St.

For Prices and term s, address

■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■  a n  d a  

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

BOOKS,

20  and  22  donne  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mioh.

•I

he whispered  again,  turning  to  me  with  a __,  . 
rath« queer smite. 
ing alone, eh?”

I was disgusted with him and  didn’t  an­

swer.

SHE HAD WINNING WAYS.

A Tale of the Road, Told by an Old “Drum­

mer” to a Young One.

B Y   W ILLIA M   M.  COOKE.

(Copyrighted, 1886, by Bacheller & Co.)

“Warm,  isn’t it?” said the drummer, affa­

bly.

I had settled myself comfortably in a  seat 
by a window, beside  my  new, pale  leather 
grip,  had assured  myself  that  my  money, 
route list, mileage book, and accident ticket 
were safe,  had glanced furtively  toward the 
reflection of my new silk traveling  cap  and 
new  duster  in  a  mirror,  and  the  Buffalo 
“sleeper” was pulling out of the station.

“Think I saw you at Brown & Jones’  the 
other day,  didn’t I?  Travel for them?” con­
tinued the drummer.

To both the questions I answered  “Yes,” 
and I also had to acknowledge, when asked, 
that this was my first trip.  He was a good- 
looking,  gentlemanlike man of thirty-five or 
so,  with wide-awake,  gray  eyes,  long  mus­
tache, and clean-shaven chin.  He might have 
passed for what he would  upon  the  street, 
but the well-worn cap and  duster,  the  um­
brella and bundle of newspapers strapped to 
the dingy gripsack,  that indescribable air  of 
ease and familiarity with which he  glanced 
about the car,  were signs not to be mistaken.
Well,  I was young and need not  despair. 

In time, I, too, would be a veteran.

Presently, .he spoke again:
“Your name is Robinson, isn’t it? Thought 
so. 
I know your  brother  very  well.  Met 
him in Chicago last month,” and then,  lean­
ing toward me, he whispered,  “Do you  see 
that girl in the seat behind me?  Take a look 
at her.  She’ll leave the train soon,  I fancy.”
Of course, I had seen her.  She was one of 
the loveliest little creatures that I  had  ever 
laid  eyes  upon.  Quite  young;  not  over 
eighteen,  I thought, with a slim, girlish fig­
ure and dark hair and great, brown eyes with 
long lashes and a complexion like a rose leaf

Had I seen her!
She was reading a  book;  twice  she  had 
looked up,  but, meeting my eyes,  hers  had 
dropped  again,  and  I  thought  she  had 
blushed,  ever so faintly.

And now  that  impertinent,  middle-aged 
drummer must needs turn  in  his  seat  and 
stare at her point blank while she read,  un­
til I felt myself growing decidedly angry.

“What a sweet, demure little thing it  is,”

“Lady in No. 9?  Stopped offatNewburg, 
sir,” was all that  the  porter  could  tell  me 
when I inquired a little later, and the drum­
mer smiled his queer smile again.

“I thought so,” he said.
A snug little party of six, all  commercial 
men, of various ages and  creeds,  had  been 
filling the car with the smoke of many cigars, 
good bad  and  indifferent,  yarns  had  been 
spun,  pocket-flasks had been circulated sev­
eral times, and one after  another  the  other 
men had slipped away to their berths.

The drummer lighted a fresh cigar, crossed 
his  legs,  blew  a  wreath  of  smoke,  and 
winked one of his gray eyes  good-humored­
ly-

“I know what you’re thinking about,” he 
said. 
‘ ‘I don’t wonder.  She is a good-look­
ing young person.  And how old would you 
take her to be?  Eighteen!  Hum!  Well— 
perhaps.  But I’m going to tell you  a  little 
story. 
I’ve never told it before.  Yes,  it  is 
about her—you needn’t fidget.

*  *  *

One afternoon in January, over two 3 ears 
ago, I was waiting for a train in the Lehigh 
Valley depot at Wilkesbarre. 
It  had  been 
snowing hard and drifting  all day  and  the 
train was about an hour behind time,  and  I 
hadn’t made a single sale in the  town,  and 
the waiting-room was cold as Greenland, and, 
altogether,  I was in a very bad humor.  Some 
one behind me asked me if I knew when the 
train for Allentown would come,  and  I  an­
swered  pretty  gruffly  that  I  was  sure  I 
couldn’t tell.  But when I turned around and 
caught the look in those two big, soft  eyes, 
I felt—well, I felt as if I had kicked a kitten. 
I needn’t describe  her  looks—they  haven’t 
changed in the least since,  and you saw  her 
tills evening.  Of course,  I  apologized then 
and explained that the  train  was  overdue; 
and  she  thanked  me  quietly  and  walked 
away.  But when,  half an  hour  afterward, 
that young woman came through the crowded 
car looking for a seat,  I confess that  I  was 
quite content to put  my  gripsack  down  on 
the floor, and make room for her beside me. 
And I had been on the road for twelve years 
and  detested  schoolgirls.  But,  somehow, 
her  eyes  and  voice—such  a  timid,  little 
voice—reminded me of a sister  I  once  had 
3Tears ago,  and  my  heart  warmed  toward 
her; and I stowed away her  satchel  in  the 
rack,  and  made  her  wrap  herself  in  my 
traveling rug,  for the car was cold, and com­
forted her generally.  And, before long,  she 
was chatting to me as unconcernedly «as if  I 
had been her U ncle John. For she had an U n- 
cle John, I heard, and had been visiting him 
and his wife at Wilkesbarre.  And her home 
lay a few miles out of Allentown. I heard all 
about that home —about papa  and mamma, 
about her brother Ben,  who was to meet her

at the station,  about her pony Jack and  her 
dog Tyro. I don’t mean that she talked child­
ishly—not at all.  She was very  grave  and 
ladylike,  and it seemed plain to me that she 
was an innocent  damsel,  indeed,  and  had 
seen but little of the world. 
It  was  really 
refreshing to hear her tell  about  a  “straw 
ride” she had been on,  a  few  days  before, 
and how they had stopped at a tavern on the 
road and danced to the music  of  a  cracked 
fiddle and had supper there.  She didn’t  re­
member exactly what they  had  for  supper, 
but she had felt so hungry and the bread and 
butter had tasted so  good.  Fancy  remem­
bering nothing  but  the  bread  and  butter! 
Well, the train  plowed  along  through  the 
snow drifts, and at last reached  the  top  of 
the grade at  Glen  Summit. 
I  wanted  the 
the little maid to get out and  sup  with  me 
at the restaurant, but she  wouldn’t.  How­
ever,  I brought her a cup  of  tea  and  some 
cold chicken or something, and she thanked 
me so prettily and looked so  contented  and 
cozy, drinking her tea, that I actually forgot 
o get anything for n»3Tself until it  was  too 
late.

“She noticed  it,  too,  and  seemed  quite 
concerned that 1 should go hungry and  was 
very gracious to me after that,  and  told  me 
about  the  church  and  her  little  Sunday 
school class at home, and about that  neigh­
bor’s son who would persist in coming to see 
her in the evening  and  bringing  her  flow­
ers,  and he was only a boy of seventeen and 
hadn’t even a mustache.

“She didn’t like boys,  she said.  No,  she 
preferred  men—they  were  so  much  more 
sensible and entertaining.

“Well, I thought, you are  either  a  very 
dangerous little coquette,  or a  most  partic­
ularly unsophisticated  young  woman;  but, 
then, I  remembered  how  very  ancient  an 
oldish-looking man of thirty-three or thirty- 
four must seem  to  a  young  girl,  and  she 
looked up at me so composedly,  that  I  felt 
quite ashamed of the thought.

“I told her some  stories  of  the  road  to 
amuse her—oh! all very proper ones, I assure 
you. 
I suit my stories to my  hearers—and 
it did me good to hear her laugh,  it  was  so 
pleasant and low.  And then, afterward,  as 
I was telling about a  bad  smash-up  1  was 
once in, on the Central—how the cars jumped 
the  track,  crossing  a  bridge,  and  went 
through to the ice below, and some oil tanks 
burst and took fire, and the burning oil  ran 
over everything,  and  the  passengers  were
»at-
er and drowned,  and  others  roasted  alive, 
'shrieking—as I told her all that,  I  say,  the 
tears actually started to the girl’s  eyes,  and 
her lips trembled,  and she caught tight hold 
of my arm,  and,  er—well, I lied.  Yes, I did. 
Gave myself three broken ribs, and kept my­
self half an hour in  the  ice-cold  water  be­
fore I was pulled out,  when she  recollected 
herself and took away her hand.

‘‘own 

,

“It had stopped snowing,  and  the  moon 
was out; but it was blowing,  and  the  drifts 
in the valley were so deep that, at times, we 
could hardly force through them;  and  once 
or twice we came to a  full  stop,  until  the 
train hands could shovel the track clear.  It 
began to look as if we might not reacli Allen­
town until after midnight, and by and by the 
little maid grew  nervous.  They*  would  be 
anxious about her at home,  she  said.  Per­
haps even brother Ben migiit think she was­
n’t coming because of the stonn,  and  drive 
home without her.  That  would  be  dread­
ful!

“I did my best,  in a fatherly way, to keep 
her spirits up,  and told her more yarns; and 
finally' persuaded her to come with  me  into 
the rear car,  so that she might look  up  the 
valley by moonlight. 
It was really  a  beau­
tiful sight—the  mountains  rising  on  each 
side of us,  covered with snow,  all sparkling 
in the moonlight—and the deep, black shad­
ows in the woods; and then, now and again, 
what seemed like a mountain stream of  fire 
running down the hillside,  from  some* fur­
nace away up above us, out of sight.

“As the train twisted aioug, I pointed out 
this tiring and that to  her,  and,  ahem!  re­
membered one or two little  Indian  legends 
of the country, fur her amusement, and,  for 
my part, nearly  forgot  my  hunger. 
I  had 
made her keep my rug  about  her,  and  was 
cold,  too; but,  upon the whole,  I don’t think 
I minded it much.  She was a good listener 
and such a sympathetic little hotly.

“And then, although she did grow drowsy 
after a  while,  she  looked  very  pretty  and 
good witli her big eyes closed and  her  pink 
cheek resting on her hand;  and,  presently, 
her head began to droop toward me,  nearer 
and nearer,  until it rested  on  my  shoulder 
and she was fast asleep.

“Now,  this was a  pretty  position,  to  be 
sure, for a steady old  traveling  man to find 
himself in; however, I looked around the car 
and saw no one I knew, so I j ust took her oth­
er hand in mine, justtokeepit warm,  all pa­
ternally,  you know,  and kept quiet.

“She slept an hour or more, only  stirring 
once to raise her head a trifle on  my  shoul­
der and curl  her  lingers  in  my  hand,  and, 
upon my word,  I was sorry when she opened 
her eyes at last.  She  opened  them  pretty 
widely,  too,  and  blushed  mightily  at  first 
and looked rather confused and said she had 
been so sleepy—she hadn’t known—and then 
we both fairly laughed outright.

“But she grew grave again, quickly, when

she found it was close  to  11  o’clock,  with 
twenty miles to cover yet.  Ben would sure­
ly have given her up and gone back.  What 
should she do if he had?

“Of course, I told her that she needn’t feel 
alarmed—that I would take  her  to  a  hotel 
where she would be perfectly safe, and would 
send word to her people in  the  morning  or 
drive her out myself.

“But she had never staid at a hotel alone, 
and didn’t like the idea,  it was evident; and 
she had heard so many stories about thieves, 
and—and she had some money—a good deal 
of money—$50! that belonged to  papa;  and 
she was frightened.  Now,  I always carried 
plenty of money with me on my trips—I had 
about  $300  in  my  pocket  then—and  had 
never lost a dollar,  and I quietly laughed  at 
her fears.  And, then, to reassure her, I told 
her of a little dodge of my own,  which  she 
might try.  This was,  before going  to  bed, 
to place the bulk of her money in one of her 
shoes and leave only some small sum in her 
pocket-book.  Then,  if a thief  should  hap­
pen into the room,  he would simply take the 
pocketbook,  and,  thinking  he  had  secured 
all,  walk off, content.

“She smiled at this,  and then,  to  get  her 
mind away from the subject,  I  showed  her 
the pictures of my boy and  girl.  They  are 
pretty children, and I am very proud of them; 
and she admired them vastly and wished she 
had them in her  Sunday  school  class,  and 
hoped that some day I might bring them  to 
see her,  for her papa would be very  glad  to 
see me if I came that way.  And so, at length, 
we ran into the Allendale depot,  and  I,  for 
one, was only half glad.
*  *  *

“Her  brother Ben was there,  after all, on 
the platform, and thanked me  quite  warm­
ly for looking after his sister.  An ordinary 
looking young fellow—reminding me a little, 
though, I thought,  of some face I  had  seen 
recently, I couldn’t recall where.

“Said lie had piri up his horse, as the road 
was too  bad  to  be  driven  back  over  that 
nigiit,  and he and his sister  would  stay  in 
town until morning.  So we climbed into  a 
hotel ’bus and rode up together  as  sociably 
as you please.

“The little girl was tired,  of  course,  and 
went to her room at once when  we  reached 
the house, and her brother followed suit be­
fore long; but first lie invited me very cordial­
ly to visit them the  next  day.  And,  then, 
when I had finished supper  and  smoked  a 
cigar* I, too,  went off to bed.

‘*1 locked my door, of course,  and tried to' 
bolt it, but, as luck would have it,  that  bolt 
wouldn’t shoot.  Something was amiss with 
the socket.  However, that troubled me very 
little.  As usual,  I left a few dollars in  my 
pocketbook,  stuffed the  rest  of  my  money 
into one of my boots, and threw them down 
carelessly by my bed and turned in.

“The porter was hammering at  the  door 
and it was broad daylight when I woke  up. 
I turned over and yawned and then I noticed 
that the door was ajar. 
I was out of bed in 
an instant.  The key  was  still  in  the  key­
hole,  but it had been turned. 
I peeped out, 
but the porter had  gone  and  the  hall  was 
empty.  Then I looked at my pocketbook— 
and that  was  empty,  too.  And  my  watch 
was missing, and my diamond pin, and  my 
gold pencil case.  Even my  sleeve  buttons 
had disappeared,  and my  cuffs  lay  on  the 
floor.
“I was a pretty angry man,  you  may  be­
lieve, but I took up my  boots,  sure,  at  all 
events, of that roll of bills I had  hidden  so 
cleverly.  My young friend,  those boots were 
empty, too. 
I had been completely cleaned 
out.
“Well,  I hunted up the landlord, and a de­
tective was sent for. 
It was  quite  evident 
that the thief had turned my key  with  nip­
pers,  and imd known Iris business well.  The 
question was if  he  was  still  in  the  house; 
and if others hail suffered as well as I.  And 
that made me think of my little  friend  and 
her $50—and then a very ugly thought struck 
me:
“How could the thief have suspected  that 
I had money hidden in my boot?
“It was such a particularly ugly and mor­
tifying  thought,  that  I  could  hardly  bring 
myself to breathe it.  Still,  1 did, at last, and 
the detective walked  away without  another 
word.  And I soon learned that  the  young 
lady and gentleman had left the house  at  7 
o’clock—it was  then  nearly  10—and  were 
not known in the town, and had  been  seen 
at the railroad depot.  Then,  young man,  I 
knew myself for an idiot of the first  water, 
and grew very sad indeed; and  I  went  and 
wired my house for more shekels.  Yes,  the 
whole  affair  was  a  plant.  Do  you  know 
what that is?  The fellow was a profession­
al thief and the girl was lus accomplice.
“I suppose there must have been  a  papa 
and  mamma*  somewhere,  confound  them; 
but the church and the Sunday school class— 
great Scott—were myths, and the pony  and 
dog Tyro and the neighbor’s son,  all myths, 
and—but  there!  that’s  enough.  And  that 
brazen little baggage had laid  her  head  on 
iny shoulder in a railroad car!
“The man  was  caught  a  week  later,  in 
Scranton, and I recovered my watch and pin; 
and I remembered then  that  he  had  stood 
beside me for a moment at the  ticket  office 
at  Wilkesbarre.  But  the  girl  escaped  in 
some way, and where my money went I never 
I was kept decidedly  low  in  funds 
heard. 
for some months after that,  I can  tell  you.
“And now, perhaps, you understand why 
that interesting young lady left  us  so  sud­
denly at Newburg.  It was the first time she 
had seen me since that evening.  And,  after 
all, perhaps it’s just as well for  you  that  I 
happened across you this trip,  eh?
“But it’s getting late and I think I’ll turn 
in.  Good night.
And,  with that,  the drummer threw away 
his cigar end and nodded pleasantly and left 
me to my thoughts.

Tie Mici» H s u

AMONG TH E TRADE.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantil« and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

Gill & Greenley succeed  Bishop & Green- 

ley in the livery business.

Dorr  joins  the

-The

State  Association 
Peddler.

I)o;:k,  Feb.  5,  1887. 

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements of 25 words or  less  inserted 
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week 
or  50  cents  for  three weeks.  Advance  pay­
ment.
Advertisements  directing-  that  answers  be 
k*  «  ^ care of this office must be accompanied 
etc"1" cents ©Atra, to cover expense of postage.

J 
De a r  Sir —Enclosed  find  $1.50,  dues  to ' 
the State^.ssociation from our Association,  | 
whicli is in a very flourishing condition. 
i 
We had good attendance at our  last régu­
lé1’ meeting and took in  two  new members,  ! 
giving  us  fifteen  members.  Hon.  F.  C.  i 
Goodman was appointed to draft up writings i 
to send  in  to  Representative  E.  N. Bates,  j 
to regulate the nuisance of peddling.  Don’t
you think that it  is a matter  that  we ought 
all to  work  at? 
thhur ! 
our  locality,  but  a  pretty  general 
pretty  general  thin
„ 
throughout  the* State. 
I  think  there  is  a 
law requiring a license,  which  could be  en­
forced if the parties were responsible.  Any 
light  you  might  give  us  on  that  subject 
will  be  thankfully received. 
I  think it is 
very important to all in trade and should be 
pushed. 

Tj’OR  SALE—Clean stock of dry goods, cloth- 
.. 
In5* hats aiid caps  and  boots  and  shoos, 
situated  at Plainweli, a lively  town  with  two 
railways.  Stock will  inventory  about  83,500. 
For  term s  of  sale,  apply  to  W. H. Hoops, at 
Buikley. Lemon & Hoops, Grand Rapids.  I7”tf
_____________
I don’t  think  it  is  only in  i  TT0 ?   SALE—Drug store. A rare chance. One- 
old-established, good
paying business.  This is  a  chance seldom of­
fered to secure so great a bargain.  Will stand 
close investigation.  An extra opportunity for 
«-? 
un‘  .-^V?r®ss k- S. Willson,  Lock  Box 
6 3, 8t. Joseph, Mich. _______  
larg 
IT'OK  SALE-A 
e  Newfoundland  dog, 
-T  eighteen  months
. 
, — - —   old,  good  watch  dog,
broken lor being  in  office  or  store.  Address 
Jos. Omler, Wright, Mich. 

Yours respectfully,

179»

i;«j*

-  . 

- 

. 

, 

F   S.  B otsfokd,  Sec’y.

, ,  

174tf

IpOR  SALE—Two-gtory 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-
Instead  clia8e,F-  Address “Bargain,” care “The Trades-

gurucu.  1  wm sen on terms to 
suit purchaser, or will exchange for first-class 
residence in Grand Rapids;  or will take  stock 
or goods for whole or part payment.  The farm 
is worth $6,OCO.  • ». F. Conklin, Coopersville.  175
8ALL  A thirty-year old grocery stand 
in  Kalamazoo.  A two-story frame  store 
with good tenement rooms  above, and  a  good’ 
tenement house on same lot, also barn.  Three 
blocks from  M.  C.  depot.  $3,500,  part  down, 
balance m easy  payments.  Possession  given 
111 May.  J. Van Zolenburg, Petoskey. 

iw whicli will compel the peddler to bear a 
proportionate amount  Of the  burdens borne 
by  the  legitimate  merchant.  The  readers 
of  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   will  bear  witness to 
the fact that  this  paper  has  always  main­
tained that the  peddler should  not have ad­
vantages not possessed  by  permanent  mer­
chants.  The man who builds up towns and 
assists in the  development  of  communities 
should  receive  some  consideration  at  the 
hands of  the  lawmakers.  Common justice
would accord him that distinction. 
of receiving it,  however,  he is hampered by
laws which  favor the dead-beat and peddler
I11 order to do any business in a community I Hox '**’ 
a merchant  must  buy or  rent  a  store, pay
general  stock  in  growing  town  in  good
taxes on  his  store  or  stock  or  both  build  I 
tanning  community  in  Northern  Michigan.
stoic  01  stock,  or  Doth,  Duilci 
sidewalks,  school  houses and  churches and  s tock  will inventory  about  $6,000.  Sales  last
to  every  charity  which  conies  Grand I t o p tt 000’  Address “The Tradesman.”
contribute 
aioug.  How is it  with  the  peddler?  Does  t n i b s a i»  « 
,---------:------- r------ :—
SALE—Business a n d !_  _______ I ___
.  U O R   SALE—Business and store buildings at
lip nnv 
~  —
lie pay any taxes  01  rent  or  contribute  in • ** 
Walton.  As we desire to close up all out­
side  matters,  we  shall  offer  for  sale 
the 
the remotest degree to  the  support  of  the
stock,  fixtures,  store,  warehouse,  realty and
community?  Not  at  all.  And 
yet this in-  food will of our branch house at Walton.  This 
business has been established for ten years  is 
dividual is petted  by our  law  e 
lakers  and  well equipped, located at  the  junction  of  the 
Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana  Railway  and  Trav­
accorded privileges  which  merchants never 
erse City Railway, and presents  a  good  open- 
expect to possess. 
Is  there  any  justice  in 
mg for one who has a small  capital, combined 
with energy, 
lo r terms of  sale  apply  to our 
this  sort  of  discrimination  between  the 
Mr.  Leavenworth  on  the  premises.  Hannah 
Lay & Co. 
179*
legitimate  and  illegitimate  dealer?  If so, 
T h e T ra d essia n  will  present a chromo to 
TVTANTED—Every dealer  to  know  that  we 
Tf 
are  in  position  to-give  extra  induce­
the person who has the  temerity to attempt 
ments to cash  purchasers  and  would  respect­
to point it put.
fully  solicit  correspondence.  We  are  over­
stocked in tubular  lanterns  and  will  make  a 
special  price  to  dealers  wanting  any.  Also 
low  prices  on  globes,  chimneys,  burners, 
shades,  etc.,  Cummings  &  Graham,  Cor.  So. 
Division aud Fulton St. 

ÏpOR  SALE- 
IpOR  SALE—Best  bargain  ever  offered  for 

-First-class  hand  laundry  at  a 
This is a rare chance.  Address 

1U  growing  town  in  gt

KaP»ds, Mlcl 

bargain.

178*

179

A 

A 

Speaking of a  legislative  attempt  to  re­
strict the peddler to  his  proper  sphere,  re­
minds  T he  Tradesman  that  Uilke  De 
Vries, the  Jamestown  druggist, was  in the 
office one-day last  week  for  the purpose of 
bespeaking favorable mention of House Bill 
No.  142,  which was  recently  introduced by 
Representative Goodrich, of Ottawa county. 
T h e T r a d esm a n lias not yet had an oppor­
tunity to peruse the measure,  but is assured 
by Mr.  De Vries that it hits the nail square­
ly 011  the head.  Mr.  Goodricli  has been re­
quested to favor  T h e  T ra d esm a n  with  a 
copy of the  bill,  when  the  readers  of  the 
paper will be given an opportunity to judge 
of its merits.

VISITING  BUYERS.

The following  retail  dealers  have  visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses:
E. J. Terrill, Avondale.
A.  B. Foote, Hilliards.
U. DeVries. Jamestown.
A. L. Dennis, A. L. Dennis & Co., New Era 
R. A. Topping'. Casnovia.
Harry Topping'. Casnovia.
A. C.  Barkley, Crosby.
C. V. Weller, Sand Lake.
C. C.Tuxbury, Sullivan.
Otto Bros., Middleville.
N. O. Ward, Stanwood.
Dr. C. H. W’liite, Reed City.
Childs Sc Carper, Childs’ Mills.
Paine & Co., Greenville.
M. Walsh, Spring Lake.
H. Houghtaling, Hastings.
N. DeVries,  Jamestown.
J. E. Kennedy, Caledonia.
M. H. McCoy, Grandvhle.
M. W. Crocker, Byron Center.
A. B. Long & Son, Blanchard,
Mr. Paton, Paton & Andrus,  Shelby.
Crandall Bros., Monroe Center.
U. DenUyl, Jamestown.
Miss Emma S. Ellis, Casnovia.
Jorgensen & Hemingsen, Ashland.
Geo. Lentz, Croton.
P. Dies, Zeeland.
J. Damstra, Giteheli.
H. W. Potter, Jenisonville.
W. H. Struik,  Forest Grove.
G. TenHoor, Forest Grove.
G. 8. Putnam, Fruitport.
L. Mauer, Fisher.
O. F. & W. p. Conklin, Ravenna.
Adam Newell, Burnip's Corners.
A. Sc L. M. Wolff, Hudsonville.
M. M. Robson, Berlin.
D. R. Stocum. Rockford.
Wm. Black, Cedar Springs.
L. A. Paine, Eiigiishville.
A. Purchase, South Blendon.
Gus Begman.  Bauer.
J, F. Hacker, Corinth.
C. H. Demin«-,  Dutton.
John Smith, Ada.
L. Cook,  Bauer.
G. P. Stark,  Cascade.
G. H. Walbrink. Allendale.
R. H. Topping, Casnovia.
G. M. Huntley, Wright Center.
N. Bourna, Fishor.
W. 8. Root, Talinadge.
B. M. Dennison. East Paris.
Wm. Karsten, Beaver Dam.
Jas. Barnes, Austerlitz.
A. M. Church, Alpine.
S. Cooper, Jamestown.
Eli Runnels, Corning.
S. T. McLellan. DeDison.
Geo. A. Sago, Rockford.
John Kamps, Zutphen.
O. Naragang & Son, Byron Center.
Geo. Scribner, Grandville.
Smith & Bristol, Ada.
John Giles & Co., Lowell.
John J. Ely,  Rockford.
Neal McMillan, Rockford.
R. B. McCullock, Berlin.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
J. E. Thurkow, Morley.
A. & E. ‘Bergy, Caledonia.
John Cole, Fremont.
A. Norris, A. Norris & Son, Casnovia.
J. C. Scott, Loweii.
A. L. Power, Kent City.
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
Moerdyk, DeKrdif & Co., Zeeland.
Sidney Stark, Allendale.
C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville.

" t 
with $600 capital. 
novia, Mich.

ANTED—-To  buy  the  business of  a  well- 
established meat market, b 
established meat market, by young man 
‘  " ' 
Address Geo. S. Smith. Cas- 

177»
■ rANTED—Stock  in  Kent  County Savings 

Hank.  Address, stating term s demand­

ed, “Purchaser,” care “The Tradesman.”
T F   YOU  WANT—To get into business, to sell 
A  y our business, to secure additional capital, 
to  g et  a  situation,  if  you have anvthing  for 
saje or w ant to buy anything, advertise in  the 
M iscellaneous Column of T h e  Tradesm an.  A 
twenty-five word  advertisem ent  costs  b u t  25 
cents a w eek or 50 cents for th ree weeks.

S E

For ths Field aoi Garden.

71 Canal Street,

Offers for Sale all Kinds of Garden 

Seeds in Bulk.

Medium Clover,

Mammoth  Clover,
Alfalfa Clover,

Alsike Clover,

W hite Dutch Clover, 

Timothy,

Red  Top,

Blue Grass,

Orchard Grass,

Hungarian Grass, 
Common Millet, 
German Millet, 
Flax Seed.

F.  J.  BETTENTHALEfi,

117 Monroe St., Grand Rapids.

JOBBER  OF

F R E S H   M EA T S.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 
prices as follows :
Fresh  Beef, Bides..................................  4J4@ 6*4
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters..................   h  @  74
Dressed  Hogs.........................................   6  @  6 &
M utton.....................................................  @  7
harnb  ..........................................@ g 
Veal.......... .............................................. 8  @ 9 
Pork Sausage.......................................
Bologna...................................................... 
©   9 

|

FISH,

i

j

.¿ L C T I D

GAME.

Ducks  ............................................. 
a i 2 
Turkeys  .................................................   ® n  

:
I

Mail Orders  Receive  Prompt  Attention. 

See Quotations in Another Column.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY.  FEBRUARY  10,1887.

G rand Rapids T raveling Men’s Association.
President,  L.  M. Mills;  Vice-President, S. A. Sears;  Sec­
retary  and Treasurer, Geo. H. Seymour;  Board of Di­
rectors, H. 8. Robertson,  Geo.  F.  Owen,  J.  N.  Brad­
ford, A. B. Cole and Win. Logie.
|3Cr^  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 meeting  of  the  Executive and Legisla­
tive Committees  of  the Michigan  Business 
Men’s  Association  will  be  held  at  T h e 
T ra desm a n office on  Friday,  Feb.  11,  at 8 
o’clock a.  m., for  the  purpose  of  outlining 
a plan of action  for  the  present  session of 
the Legislature and  arranging  the  prelim­
inaries for the March  meeting.

In reproducing an article from this paper, 
an  exchange  refers  to  it  as  the  “Grand 
Rapids Tradesman.” There is no such a jour­
nal in existence  and  never  has  been.  As 
heretofore stated,  T h e T ra desm a n is glad 
to have any of  its  contemporaries  use  any­
thing  appearing  in  its  columns,  with  or 
without credit, but when credit is given, the 
name should  be  given  correctly.  Common 
courtesy would accord such a  request.

S. 'C.  Peer,  whose fraudulent transactions 
T h e  T ra desm a n  exposed  several  weeks 
ago,  has  skipped  out,  leaving  numerous 
small creditors to mourn Ins  loss.  But  for 
T h e  T ra d esm a n’s  exposure,  his  list  of 
creditors would have been much larger.

T h e  T ra desm a n owes  Ira O.  Green  an 
apology. 
It stated last  week  that  he  had 
“not  drawn  a  sober  breath  for  several 
months.”  The statement is incorrect.  Mr. 
Green has not  seen  a  sober  day  in  seven 
years.

1,200  STRONG.

T he  Auxiliary  M em bership  of  the  M.  B.

M .*

 

 

 

 

 
 

 
 

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

In  response to the enquiries of  the Secre­
tary of the Owosso Business Men’s Associa- 
tion,  published  in  another  column,  T h e 
T ra d esm a n herewith presents a list of the 
Associations  auxiliary  to  the  State  body, 
w ith the membership of each,  as  follows:
Grand  Rapids............................... 
nn
Oceana  .......................................... 
ik
Traverse  City........... .......... .' ‘........................  cq
Loweii..................................... ...........................
Sturgis................................................  
24
rn
Big  Rapids............................ 
Elk  Rapids............................................... 
20
G reenville..................................... 
59
8 pa rta ...................................30
H astings..................................  
\.................. 26
E astp o rt................................ 
 
10
Ada  ......................................  
 
a
White  Lake..................... 
 
57
S aran ac................  
Manton.................................................... 
13
Kalamazoo  ..............................*"**’"................  55
Coopersville.......................",***” '* " “ ..........   3^
East Jordan............................ 
.......................
Nashville............................
H olland............................................................
Grand  H aven..................!!!!..!!” ” .............
Woodland  .................. .......
T ustiu................................ 
. ..........
F re e p o rt............................................ 
 
 
Cadillac.......................................................... 
Kalkaska...............................................  
J..............*
B ellaire.................................. 
Manoelona.................................................... 
W ayland............................................................
. ..............  41
Cheboygan...................... 
Reed  City..............................................                           26
•.......................... 35
Charlevoix  .....................  
£ iie*ran ................................................................28
Kingsley..........................................   * 
l0
Petoskey  .......................................................              41
Dorr.
M uskegon.................................. ."**................  25
Owosso..............................” ” ” ” ..............go
H onorary.......................... .I.! ..! ! ." .! " ” " !.  6
It will  be  seen  from  the  above that the 
total auxiliary membership  of the Michigan 
Business Men’s  Association  is  1,208,  die 
tributed  among  38 
local  associations. 
There  are  twenty  associations whicli have 
not yet affiliated with the State body—most 
of which are of very  recent  origin—but  all 
are expected to join hands with the State or­
ganization  between  now  and  the  March 
meeting.  The  twenty  associations, whicli 
have not yet qualified for State membership 
are as follows:  Bellaire,  Boyne  City,  Burr 
Oak,  Casnovia,  Bailey  and  Trent,  Cedar 
Springs,  Detroit,  Frankfort,  Ionia,  Leslie, 
Luther,  Lyops,  Manistique,  Muir,  Ovid, 
Plainweli,  Rockford,  St.  Johns,  South 
Boardman,  St.  Charles, Vermontville.

 

The Work of a Week,

When T h e  T ra d esm a n  went  to  press 
last  week,  the  Michigan  Business  Men’s 
Association  contained a total of 1066 auxil­
iary members.  Since that time,  the follow­
ing  bodies  have  qualified  for  auxiliary 
membership:
........ ....................................  10
Petoskey  ...........................................................  4j
Dorr
" l 5  
Muskegon
26
5Q
Owosso   
H onorary................ ....................1.
l
...142
mem-

T o ta l...................................................
This gives the  State  body  a  total 

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

bership of 1,208.

Hartford Ready to Organize.

H a rtford,  Feb.  3,  1887.

E, A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

D e a r  Sir —A large majority of  our  bus­
iness men are in favor of  organizing a  Pro­
tective Association and aU we need is  some 
one to start  us  in  the  right  shape.  How 
much will it cost us to have  you  come  and 
give us a proper start?  I think we can start 
with at least  twenty members.

Yours,

F red F.  A l l e n .

J.  L.  Strelitsky,  Michigan  representative 
Roper & Baxter Cigar Co., Grand  Rapids:  “I 
think so well  of  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   that  I  will 
get as many of  my business  friends  to take It 
as I possibly can.  Hope th at  your list of sub­
scribers is increasing  as  the paper deserves.”

The Retail Grocers’ Association presented 
a memorial to the  Common  Council,  Mon­
day evening,  asking that body to strike  out 
of the amended charter the paragraph which 
prevents the establishment of a public  mar­
ket.  Aid.  DeGraaf moved that the petition 
be granted and supported his position in his 
usually vigorous  manner.  Mayor Dilceman 
stated that he realized the necessity for such 
action, and recommended that  the  petition 
be granted.  President Coye, of the Grocers’ 
Association, addressed the Council at  some 
length,  setting  forth  the  reasons  why  a 
market should be established,  when the mo­
tion was  carried  with  but  one  dissenting 
vote.  The  City  Clerk  was  instructed  to 
make the change  in  the  amended  charter. 
This  is the result  the  Association lias been 
working to accomplish for over a  year,  and 
much credit is due Mr. Coye for the admira­
ble manner in which he  has  conducted  the 
campaign.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

St.  Johns—M.  A.  Kniffen,  grocer,  has 

Detroit—Conroy  &  Co.,  grocers,  have 

sold out.

sold out.

Detroit—J. 
lias sold out.

W.  F.  Thompson,  druggist,

Monroe—John  Anderegg,  grocer  and  sa­

loon ist,  has sold out.

the jewelry business.

Manistee—J.  H.  Shannon  has engaged in 

Saugatuck—C. E.  Bird has sold  his  drug 

stock to L. A. Phelps.

Detroit—Articles of association of Walter 
Buhl & Co.,  in  a  limited  partnership  have 
been filed.  Walter Buhl,  Samuel A. James, 
I rank W.  Olds and F. E.  Rowe are general 
partners and  Frederick  Buhl  special’ part­
ner.  The  firm  will  take  the  place  of  F. 
Buhl & Co.

Alma—Pollaslcy  Bros,  are  moving  both 
their stores into  Marcus  Pollasky’s elegant 
is  56x80 
new  block.  The  new  store 
inside,  with  plate  glass  in 
front  and 
beautifully finished in  natural  wood.  The 
firm carries a  $20,000  stock  of  dry  goods 
and clothing which it  both  buys  and  sells 
for cash.

Charlesworth—The failure of  Wm.  Pea­
cock is much more complicated than  was at 
first  supposed.  The mortgage given on the 
general  stock and sawmill  proporty  in  fa­
vor  of  relatives  will,  if  foreclosed,  leave 
nothing whatever for Uie  general creditors. 
The failure may not  be  a  fraudulent  one, 
but it has a very dubious appearance.

Detroit—Geo. W.  Marshall, doing a  boot 
and shoe business,  and  State  agent  of  the 
Goodyear Rubber Co., at 143 Jefferson  ave­
nue,  has filed a $35,000 chattel mortgage.on 
his stock in faver of  the  Goodyear  Rubber 
Co.,  of  Connecticut.  Mr.  Marshall  said: 
“Collections have been  slow  and  business 
dull.  The Goodyear company are  our prin­
cipal creditors,  and  demanded  security. 
I 
wilPnot be forced to an assignment, and the 
spring trade  will  carry me  out  of  my diffi­
culties.”

Fennville—Crane  &  Son  succeed  D.  R. 

m a n u fa ctu rin g  m a tters.

Crane in general trade.

Litney in general trade.

Omena—Henry Litney  succeeds  Keys  & 

factory.

West  Bay  City—H.  P.  Chase  succeed 

up again.

Buchanan—There is talk of starting a car 

Ithaca—The butter tub factory lias stated 

Henry J.  Hartman is building an addition 

to his foundry,  16x40 feet in dimensions.

The Wolverine Chair  and  Furniture  Co. 
are advertising their assets for sale  at  auc 
tion.

Fred.  L.  Fallas has engaged in the whole­
sale fruit and produce business at  30  North 
Ionia street—Ira O Green’s old stand.

John D. Englesman  has  engaged  in  the 
grocery business at 614  Canal  street.  Bulk- 
ley, Lemon & Hoops furnished tne stock.

Miss  Emma  S.  Ellis  has  engaged  in 
the  boot  and  shoe  business  at  Casnovia. 
Rindge, Bertscli & Co.  furnished the  stock.
J.  V.  Blair,  formerly engaged in  trade  at 
Carson City, has opened a  grocery at  Ash­
ley.  Cody,  Ball, Barnhart & Co.  furnished 
the  stock.

H.  Andre & Son, who  recently  failed  at 
Jenisonville, have settled with  their  Grand 
Rapids creditors on the basis of 80 cents  on 
the dollar.  Nicholas Bourna, of Fisher, en­
gineered the settlement.

The Woolson Spice  Co.,  of  Toledo,  has 
concluded to establish a branch  house  here 
for the sale of “Lyon”  package  coffee.  L. 
Winternitz lias been engaged to map age the 
business and will carry stock  for  both  the 
wholesale and retail trade.

Jacob  Barth,  who carried on the jobbing 
ofi gents’ furnishing goods and  fancy  goods 
at this market for about  twenty  years,  but 
retired from the jobbing  trade  about  three 
years ago, has about concluded  to  embank 
in the same business again.

W.  C.  Harper,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
grocery business on  South  Division  street, 
has formed  a  copartnership  with  John  B. 
Gregg  under  the  firm  name  of  John  B. 
Gregg & Co.  and opened a  grocery  store  at 
the corner of Waterloo and  Bartlett streets.
W.  T. Lamoreaux has bought of Amos S. 
Musselman 1,800 bushels  of  the beans  for­
merly owned  by Ira  O. Green.  The  price 
paid was about 90 cents per bushel.  A year 
ago, Mr.  Lamoreaux  offered  Green  Si.50 a 
bushel for the  entire  lot,  about 3,000 bush­
els.

The report that L. J.  Rindge had sold the 
Northern  Manufacturing  Co.  property*  at 
Boyne Falls, to J.  L.  Wilkinson,  of  Hast­
ings,  was somewhat premature.  Mr. Wilk­
inson agreed  to  take  the  property  at  the 
price agreed upon, but was unable to  “raise 
the wind” when  the  time  of  payment  ar­
rived.

Geo.  Metz,  Jr.,  proposes  to  organize 

Landlord  Billings,  of  the  Park  Place 
Hotel,  at Traverse City,  was  in  town  last 
week in company with E.  W.  Marsh & Co., 
of Atlanta,  assisting in the  selection of fur­
niture and furnishings for a new hotel  now 
in process of construction  at  Salt  Springs, 
Ga.  Col.  Billings  will  manage  the  new 
hotel for the owners.  The  furniture orders 
were pretty well distributed among the vari­
ous factories.  The W.  H.  Hughes Mattress 
Co.  captured  the  contract  for  hair  mat­
tresses and P. Steketee & Sons the order for 
pillows.
 
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stock  company  to  erect  and  operate  the 
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large tannery he  has  arranged  to  construct 
at Mill Creek.  The new corporation will be 
known as the  Grand  Rapids  Leather  Co., 
and will have sufficient capital  to  enable it 
to take rank  with  the  strongest  manufac 
turing  institutions  of  the  cits’.  Work on 
the buildings will begin as soon as the’snow 
leaves  the  ground.  One  building  will  be 
330x40 feet and another will be 30x80.  The 
engine  room  will  be  of  brick.  Contracts 
have been made with  the  Werkman  Lum­
ber Co., of  Holland,  for the construction of 
twelve dwelling houses.

Hawkins & Chase, grocers.

Rockford—Hewitt &  Tefft,  grocers,  are 

succeeded by Wm.  G. Tefft.

Falmouth—L.  A.  Howe  has  moved  his 

drug stock here from Lake City.

Quincy—Shepard & Co.  succeed  John  G. 

Jackson in the grocery business.

Bangor—C.  W.  Peters  has  assigned  his 

grocery stock to Geo.  Chapman.

Manistee—Phil.  Parry  succeeds  Parry  & 

Billings in the hardware business.

Jonesville—Harris & Taylor, grocers, have 

dissolved, Walter F. Taylor continuing.

Hartford—Henry  Gleason has bought out 

the grocery business of Chas. Nicholson.

Owosso—O.  L.  Sprague has sold his drug 

stock to Dr. M.  L.  Bagg,  late of Fenton.

Vicksburg—Loug  Bros., market  proprie­
tors,  have dissolved,  S.  S.  Long succeeding.
Greenville—Geo.  Ii.  Slawson  &  Co.  suc­
ceed Geo.  It.  Slawson in the  drug business.
Blissfield—R.  G.  White & Co.  succeed H.
B.  Knight & Co.  in the hardware  business.
Three  Rivers—James  Griffith  succeeds 
Schoch & Griffith in the hardware business.
Gagetown—La Flainboy & Freeman, hard­
ware  dealers,  have dissolved, each  continu­
ing.

Blissfield—E.  Gountlet lias sold his inter­
est in the firm of E.  Gauntlet &  Co.  to  his 
partner.

Clinton—L.  W.  Kimball  &  Co.  have 
bought out the clothing business of John E. 
McCollum.

Ionia—Steel & Co.  have  sold  their  gro­
cery stock to Dye & Welch,  but retain their 
drug business.

Munising—The  boot  and  shoe  stock  of 
Geo.  M.  Williams has been sold under chat 
tel  mortgage.

Coldwater—Harry  Woodward  has  gone 
into  partnership  with his father in the dry 
goods  business.

Greenville—The  Geo.  Truesdell  bazaar 
store lias been re-opened by  H.  Leonard  & 
Sons, of Grand Rapids.

Charlotte—Brown  Bros,  have  opened  a 
clothing store in  the  building  recently  va­
cated by Cole & Jones.

Stevensville—C.  E.  Jilson&Co. have pur 
chased W.  M.  Parish’s  general  stock  and 
consolidated it with their own.

the 

Petersburg—Kohler  Bros., 

Charlotte—John Collins has purchased C.
E.  Underhill’s grocery stock and removed it 
to his store on South Main street.

Saugatuck—Geo.  Crawford lias purchased 
an interest in the  dry  goods  stock of D.  L. 
Barber and the firm name is now D. L. Bar­
ber & Co.

Saugatuck—John  Koning  has  purchased 
a half interest in the hardware stock of John 
Nies.  The  new firm  name is Nies & Roll­
ing. 

Litchfield—G.  W.  Rogers,  having  grown 
tired of the cost sales epidemic whicli is pre­
vailing  hereabouts  at  present,  has  traded 
his stock of goods for a farm.

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lumber 
merchants,  have bought  a  brick  block  and 
will  occupy  the  same  with  a  hardware 
stock.

On January 13, Dora Levs', dealer in fancy 
goods at Big Rapids,  uttered a $4,000  chat­
tel  mortgage  to  Jacob  Brown  and  other 
family friends and on the day following  as­
signed to Maurice Levy,  her brother-in-law. 
The latter failed to file his bond as assignee, 
when creditors representing $6,000 worth of 
claims employed Peter Doran to  file  a  bill, 
praying for the enforcement of  the  assign­
ment  and  the  appointment  of  a  receiver, 
which  was  granted  by the  court, Wm.  II. 
Smith  being  named  as  receiver.  This 
brought the Brown faction to  terms,  result­
ing in an offer of 25 per cent,  in  full  settle­
ment,  which was accepted.  The  stock was 
ubsequently sold to W.  II.  Conners.
Readers of T h e  T ra desm a n will remem­
ber the sharp  trick  recently played  on  his 
creditors  by  James  Dibble,  the  Bumip’s 
Corners bankrupt—how  he  paid for a farm 
by giving a chattel  mortgage  on  his  stock 
and then  moved  on  the  farm,  in  order  to 
render  it  exempt  as’  a  homestead.  “He 
laughs best who laughs last,” and it is bare­
ly possible Mr.  Dibble  will  be compelled to 
take  up  his  residence  elsewhere.  Arthur 
Meigs & Co. recently attached  the farm  for 
the amount  of  their  claim  on  the  ground 
that a pewon has no right  to  buy  a  home­
stead with  property belonging  to  his credi­
tors,  and the attachment has been sustained 
by the Circuit Court Commissioner of  Alle­
gan county.  The matter  has  not  yet  been j 
Brooklyn—J.  I).  Sheridan  &  Co.  have 
appealed  to  the  Circuit  Court,  but  T h e I
sold  their  dry  goods,  boot  and  shoe  and
T ra d esm a n is  assured  that  Arthur Meigs j grocery stocks to  Michael  Sheridan,  but re­
has “got his back  up” and  proposes  to fol 
tain  t^eir  clothing,  gents’  furnishing  and 
low the thing  to  the  court  of  last  resort. 
hat and cap business.
That  will  determine  whether  the  stat­
Freeport—Foster Sisson has  sold  his  in­
utes were constructed  wholly in  the  inter­
terest in the grocery firm of Sisson Bros,  to 
est of scallawags  or  are  so  worded  as  to
Frank Catt, who has formed a copartnership
give decent people  an  occasional opportun-  with E.  H.  Sisson and will continue the bus-
ity to obtain justice,
iness under the firm name of Sisson & Catt.

Walton—Hannah,  Lay  &  Co.  offer  their 
general  stock  and  business for  sale.  The 
business has been  established  several years 
and  been  a  source  of  much  profit  to  its 
owners.

Charlotte—C.  E.  Underhill,  the  grocery 
cutter,  is now out of business  and  “oh  the 
street.”  Such is the fate in store for  every 
merchant who persists in the  cutting  prac­
tice.

Evart—Chas.  L.  Gray* &  Co.  have  sold 
their  general  stock  to  Cairns  E.  Smith  &
Co.,  late  of  Detroit.  Gray  &  Co. continue 
in the lumber and shingle business.

Holland—G.  M.  Tubergen has engaged in 

the manufacture of brooms.

Dansville—C. B.  Minor  lias  bought  out 

Andre M.  Hall, carriage  manufacturer.

East  Saginaw—H.  P.  Smith succeeds  F. 
J.  Knapp, blacksmith  and  carriage  manu­
facturer.

Nashville—yTaylor  Bros,  have engaged in 
the  manufacture  of  table  legs and dimen­
sion  stock.

Coldw’ater—A  receiver  lias  been  asked 
for  for  the Coldwater  Manufacturing  Co., 
chair manufacturers.

Midland—Larkin & Bradley succeed John 
Larkin in general trade,  but not in the man­
ufacture of salt and lumber.

Kalamazoo—Newton &  Colby,  manufac­
turers of carriage and wagon gears,  are suc­
ceeded by the Newton Carriage  Co.,  not in­
corporated,

East  Saginaw—The  special  capital  of 
$20,000  of  C. & E.  Ten Eyck,  shingle  and 
salt  manufacturers,  has  been  renewed  to 
January 10,  1890.

Coldwater—The  Coldwater  Manufactur­
ing  Co.  has  been  consolidated  with  the 
Coldwater Road Cart Co., and will continue 
under the latter  style.

Ferry—Burrows & Jones  have  leased the 
Powers’ sawmill and will  put  in machinery 
for  the  manufacture  of  cedar  shingles 
Fogg & Hightower  will  have  charge of tin 
business.

Muskegon—The  Gilbert & Bennett  Com 
pany  is  the  name  of  a  new’  corporation 
formed for  the purpose  of  engaging  in the 
manufacture  and sale of lumber.  The cap 
ital stock of the concern is  $10,000,  all paid 
in.

STRAY  FACTS.

Lyons—Broom factory in prQspect.
Holland—R.  E. Werkman has begun wort 

on his new dock.

Reed City—R.  Reiners,  baker and confec­

tioner, has sold out.

Constantine—Wm.  McKee succeeds R. D. 

Merritt in the hotel business.

Kalamazoo—J. P.  Woodbury has sold his 

Minnesota pine for $105,000.

Baldwin—Edward  Irwin  succeeds  C. F. 

Leasia in the saloon business.

Nashville—Kimmel & Ward  have  moved 

their livery from Vermont ville.

Evart—Wm. J. Mcllwain succeeds Mitch­

ell & Son in the meat business.

Traverse  City—John  Kelley 

Johu H.  Clune in the hotel business.

succeeds 

Ypsilanti—P.  W.  Ross  is  succeeded  by 

O. B.  Bradley in the bottling business.

Bronson—A receiver has  been  asked  for 
in the care of Warren & Banker, hotel keep­
ers.

Ovid—T. u.  Broadbent & Co.,  flour  mill 
proprietors, are  succeeded  by T.  C.  Broad- 
bent & Sons.

Nirvana—N. E.  Sargent has a contract to 
furnish 10,000 telegraph poles for the West­
ern Union Telegraph Co.

Cadillac—F. A.  Diggins & Co.  have  pur­
chased  the  D.  E.  McIntyre  band  sawmill 
and  will  operate  the  same  to  its  full  ca­
pacity.

Muskegon—Pat.  J.  Connelly has  retired 
from  the  plumbing  firm  of  Connelly  & 
Bourdon.  The business will  be  continued 
by Geo. W.  Bourdon.

Purely Personal.

L.  Winternitz went  to  Toledo  last  week 

C.  Walther,  of Bucyrus,  Ohio,  lias  been 
his  brother-in-law,  Christian 

on business.

visiting 
Bertsch.

John  A.  Brumineler,  formerly  engaged 
in the grocery business, lias entered the em­
ploy of  Alfred J.  Brown.

Dr.  Y.  Sinz,  the  Trent  merchant,  sends 
T h e  T ra d esm a n  a  handbill  recently  cir­
culated in that vicinity,  informing the farm­
ers that they can buy  their  groceries of the 
“Farmer’s Wholesale  Grocery Co.,” of De­
troit,  at wholesale prices.  Detroit seems to 
be cursed with  a  superabundance  of  these 
disreputable establishments,  which nothing 
but legislative action will  prohibit.

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OLD  BARBELS

Setting about a  store  are  unsightly,  besides  th e  pro­
jecting nails on them  are dangerous  to  -Nothing.  T he4^ 
enterprising grocer realizes the value oi handBome andfri 
convenient  fixtures,  and  to  m eet  this  dem and  the! 
Woolson  Spick  Co.,  of  Toledo,  Ohio,  have  designed! 
I
th e ir 
Xiion  Coffee  Cabinet,]

Of which  the  accom panying  cu t  gives  but  a  p a rtia l| 
idea.  In this cabinet is packed 120 one pound packages 
of L i o n   C o f f e e ,  and we  offer  the  goods  a t  a  price 
enabling the grocer to  secure  these  cabinets  w ithout! 
cost to himself.  They are made air-tight, tongued and! 
grooved, beautifully grained  and  varnished,  and  aref 
put together in  the  best  possible  m anner.  Complete] 
set of caster's, w ith screws,  inside  this  cabinet.  Their E 
use in every grocery, a fter the cofTee is sold out,  is  ap-1 
parent;  ju st the thing from   which  to   retail  oatm eal, I 
rice, prunes, hom iny, dried  fruits,  bread,  and  a   bun -1 
dred o ther  articles.  F urther,  they  take  up  no  m ore I 
floor  room  than  a  barrel,  and  do  aw ay  w ith  these] 
unsightly  things  in  a  store.  For  price-list  of  L io n  I 
Coffee  in these cabinets, see price-current in  this pa-1 
per.  Head  below  w hat  we  say  as  to  the  quality  of] 
Lion Coffee.

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This Coffee Cabinet Given Away.

A

trade  can 

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

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

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^   I!  In every package.  We solicit  a  sample  order 
8 
PJBEl!

For sale  by  all  W holesale  Grocers  every-

" i  where, and by the

!KED  " 92 to  108  Oak St., Toledo, Ohio.

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TIME  TABLES.

Chicago & West Michigan.

tM ail.....................
+I)ay  E xpress.... 
««Night Express... 
Muskegon Exprès 
•"Daily.  W ally 
Pullm an Sie

Ai rlv<
3:55 p in 
0:15 p ill 
5:45 a ill 
11:00 a ill
Through
parlo r  car in charge of care ful attenulaniIs \vithuHit  «!X*
tra  cllarge te» Chicago on 12 ;50 p.m ., lind \thi•outgh coa ch
on 9 ui. m. anicl 11 p. in.. train*

Leave*. 
......................   9 1 0am
................................12:20  p   ill
............................... 11:00  p   III
.......................... 6:00 p m
ept Sunday.
lavs on all night  trains

New aygo G iv is ! (ill.
I,.cave

Expr«egg.......
Expr«¿ss.

A:rrivt
4:50 p m
10:30 a in
All trains strrive an d’dëpâi t from 1Cnion 3Depot
The North«irn term i nus of this diviision is a t Malawiin,
whene close <’onnectkin is  made  w ith  if. & P. M. trai ns
to ail'J fruin :Ludingtcio and Manistee

45 p m
.. . . . . .   8 :jOO a m

W. A. Gavktt, Oen’l Pass. Agent.
J.  IS. JIullikkn,  General  M anager.

Grand Rapids & Indiana.

GOING  NORTH.

i City Express............
Tra
> City and Mackinaw
Cincinnati  Express.................
Petoskey and Mackinaw Expr 
Saginaw Express......................

E x ..  0:20 a m

Leaves. 
7.00 a m 
11:20 a. m
5:05 p ni 
7:20 a  m 
4:10 p m

Saginaw-e xpress runs through solid.
7 a m train  lias chair car for  Traverse  City.  11:20  a  j 
m train has chair ear for Petoskey and Mackinaw City. 
5:05 p in tra in  has sleeping and chair ears  fo r Petoskey 
and Mackinaw.
GOING  SOUTH.
Cincinnati  Express.......................... 
F ort W ayne Express........................10:30 a m  
Cincinnati  Express.........................   1:40 p m  
Traverse City and Mackinaw Ex. .11:00 p til 
5:00 p m train has Woodruff sleeper for Cincinnati.
M u sk eg o n ,  G rand  R a p id s  *   In d ia n a . 
Leave. 
Arrive.
7:25 a m ....................................................................  9:15am
1:00 p m ....................................................................  1 :00 p m
5:20 p in ....................................................................  7:10 p m
Leaving tim e a t  Bridge street depot 7 m inutes later.
C. L. Lockwood,lie n ’l Pass. Agent.

7:15 a in train   has  parlor  chair  car  for  Cincinnati. 

7:15 a  m  1
11:45 a  in
5:00 p m

] 

K alam azoo  Division.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.
Leave. 
Arrive.
N. Y. Mail.  N. Y. Ex.
Ex. & Mail.  N. Y. Mail. 
0 :10 p m 
4:35 p in 
7:45 a ni. .G rand Rapids.  9:45 a  in
5:00 a in 
9:02 a m. .A llegan.......... 8:28 a  m
5:55 p m  
4:q0 p m 
7:05 p m   10:00 a ni..K alam azoo...  7:30 a m  
8:30 p m  11:35 a m. .W hite Pigeon.  5:55 a m
2:20 p m  
9:45 a m 
2:30am   5:06 p m. .T oledo............ 11:00 p m
5:35 a  m
8:30 a m  
9:40 p ni,.C leveland.......6:40 p m
3:30 a m. .Buffalo............ 11:55am  11:10pm
2:50 p m  
5:40am   6:50 p ill. .Chicago...........11:30pm 
6:50am
A local freight leaves Grand Rapids a t 1  p  ni,  carry­
ing passengers as far as  Allegan.  A11  trains  daily  ex­
cept Sunday. 

J. W. JIcKexnet, G eneral Agent.
Detroit,  Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING  EAST.

Arrives.

(Steam boat  Express..
(Through  Mail............
♦Evening Express.......
“Limited  Express.^....

.........’..’..10:40 a m
.....................  3 : 15 p 111
.....................  9:20 p m
IOINO WEST.
.................... 1:05 p m
(M orning  Express___
.....................5:00 p m
(Through  Mail............
.................... 10.40pm
(Steam boat E xpress..,
“N ight Express............ ..................  5:10 a in

Leaves. 
6:25 a m 
10:50 a m 
3:50 p m 
10:55 p m
11  (Vi il rn
1:10p m  
5:05 p m

5:35 a  m
W aily, Sundays excepted.  “Daily.
Passengers taking the  6:25  a m   Express  make  close 
connection a t Owosso for Lansing,  and  a t  D etroit  for 
New  York,  arriving  there  a t  10:30  a  m the following 
m orning.  The Night Express has a through W agner car 
and local sleeping car from D etroit to Grand  Rapids.
D. Potter, City Passenger Agent.

Geo. B. Reeve, Traffic Manager Chicago.

 

 

 

ARRIVE.

Michigan Central.
DEPART.
.............................. 
6:15 a m
ro it Express.......
......................................... 
1:10 p in
■  E x p r e s s .................
ss............................................................. 10:10 p m
lantic Express... 
........................................................  6:50 a ill
e d ........................
s...........................................  
6:00 a in
cifle  Express__
....................................  3:00 p m
.................................... 10:15 p ni
nd  Rapids  Expr« 
5:15 p m
ed
lily.  All other daily except Sunday.  Sleeping cars 
an  A tlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from 
oit.  Parlor  ears run  on  Day  Express  and  Grand 
d* Express to  and  from   Detroit.  Direct  connec- 
i made a t D etroit w ith all through trains East over 
. R. R., (Canada Southern Div.)
W.  J o h n s t o n . Mich. Pass. Agt., Grand  Rapids.
W. R u g g i. e s , Gen’l Pass, and Ticket Agt., Chicago.

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

 

 

 

Detroit, Mackinaw & Marquette.

Going W 
00 a m  
12:201 
5.30 p in

Going 
..  8:30 p in  
6:50 a m ..St. Ignace 
..  5:15 p m 4 
0 :40 a  in. .Stmey ....
5  2:15 p m
12:50 p ill [ Mar<l'u‘ttt 
(  2:00 p 111 
I  "ipin
1:40 j> m. .Negaunee.
1:65 p m. .Ishpem ing__ 12:58 p ni
9:20 a m
) p m. .Houghtoi 
) p m. .Hancock
0:3;> p m. .Calumet
Mixed train  1eaves St. Ignace

s. and Ticket  Agent, M arquette

es  Mar- 
I.LEN,

¡m3

Smoke ihs “LC.B.

EXCLUSIVELY

76 South division St., 

Grand Rapids, 
-  Mich.
“ CANDEE
R u b b e r
BOOTS
DOUBLE .THICK 
BALL

WITH

Ordinary Rubber Boots 
always wear out first on 
the ball.  The CAKDEE 
Boots  are  double  thick 
on  the  ball,  and  give
DOUBLE  WEAR.
Most economical Rubber 
Boot 
the  market. 
Lasts  longer  than  any 
other boot and the
PRICE KO HIGHER.
Call  and  ex­
amine  the 
goods.

in 

PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY
E   1ST  G l- 1  IST  ID  S
From 2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Bollere, Saw Mills 
Grist  Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft 
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts  made for 
Complete Outfit«.

FOR  SALE BY

E.  G.  STUDLEY  &  CO.,

No. 4 Monroe St., Grand Rapids.

Largest and finest stock in tile State of

Rubber Goods, Mill Supplies, Fire Depart­

ment Supplies and Sporting Goods.

OILS.

Hr;

W.  O,  Denison,
GRAND  RAPIDS, 

88,90 and 92  South Division Street,

MICH.

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W ater W hite...............  .................................  11%
Michigan  Test................................................ 10%

ILLUMINATING.

LUBRICATING.

Gasoline........................................................... 11 Hi
Capitol Cylinder....................................... 
364
Model  Cylinder.............................................. 314
Shield  Cylinder................, ............................ 264
Eldorado  Engine...........................................23
Peerless  Machinery.......................................30
Challenge Machinery......................... 5........1$
  204
Paraffine  .................................................. 
Black. Summer, West Virginia......................9
Black,26® t o 30®...................................  
..10
Black, 16® C.  T ............. ...............................11
Z ero............  
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KELSEY’S  CLAIMS.

Admirable  Exposition  of  the  Aims  and 

Objects of the T. P. A.

To tbe  jobbers,  m anufacturers  and  commer­
cial travelers  of Michigan:
G e n t l e m e n —Tbe officers  of  the  Michi­
gan  Division, Travelers’ Protective Associa­
tion of  the U. S.,  desire to present for your 
earnest  consideration  the  aims and objects 
of our National organization and the results 
already  accomplished:
As  commercial  travelers, directly  aiding 
by our labors all freightage  and transporta­
tion lines,  we claim  as  a  reciprocal benefit:
1.  Free  transportation  on  ‘250  pounds 
sample baggage.
2.  The issuance of  5,000  mileage  books, 
with  corresponding  excess  baggage  books, 
good over entire railroad systems.
- As  representatives  of American commer­
cial industries,  we demand: 
o.  The abolishment of all  unjust and un­
constitutional enactments known as “Drum­
mer taxes.”
4.  Security  to  all  property  invested  in 
manufacturing enterprises  and  the  encour­
agement of all measures which will advance 
our commercial interests and increase Amer­
ican manufactories.
5.  Organized effort to reduce the expenses 
of selling goods.
0.  Elevation of the commercial and moral 
standing of the traveling fraternity.
To the accomplishment  of  these  objects, 
the Travelers’ Protective Association stands 
pledged,  and in view  of  these  great results 
—to  be obtained only by strength  of  num­
bers  and  unity of  action—we  earnestly  ap­
peal to all commercial travelers to strength­
en our hands by joining in membership.
To the employers of commercial salesmen 
we look for  encouragement  and  hearty co­
operation. 
In our earnest endeavors to  im­
prove the condition of our  fraternity and to 
establish for  the  traveling  salesman  a Na­
tional  character  for  integrity, sobriety and 
gentlemanly deportment, we  merit your ap­
proval and support.
As an indication of  tbe  work  already ac­
complished,  we call  your  attention  to  the 
following  concessions  already granted  and 
in successful operation :
An allowance of  300 pounds  sample bag­
gage free  on  the  Pennsylvania* and  Balti­
more & Ohio Railways.
The issuance of 2,000  milage  books  and 
corresponding  excess baggage  books on the 
Peidmont Air Line and the  Atlantic  Coast 
Line Railways, embracing almost the entire 
railway system of six Southern States.
The  granting  of “week  end  tickets” on 
all  (with  one  exception)  of  the  principal 
railroads  operating  in  Michigan;  also  the 
Baltimore  &  Ohio,  Chicago,  Hamilton  & 
Dayton and  the  entire  Pennsylvania  Rail­
way system,  west of Pittsburg.
The Introduction of the “James Bill,” for 
the abolishment of  the so-called  “Drummer 
Tax,”  now  pending  in  Congress,  largely 
due to the efforts of  the  Travelers’  Protec­
tive Association,  and we ask the united sup­
port of all citizens in its passage.
The standing menace  of  the present  and 
future to American industries, in the propo- 
gation and spead of  socialistic, communistic 
and  anarchist  doctrines,  demands  an  em­
phatic protest, and as a National association 
of working men we denounce in unmeasured 
terms  as  false  in  principle,  treasonable in 
utterance  and  revolutionary  in  effect,  all 
such  teachings  as destructive  to the inter­
ests of domestic industry and of labor.
□ We call especial attention to  the fact that 
as an organization of working  men we have 
never interfered with  the right  of  individ 
ual contract nor  sought  an  abridgment  of 
our hours of labor; and  in  the  power  con­
ferred by a National organization,  with em 
bodied principles for self  advancement, and 
a  constitutional  provision  for  suspension 
and expulsion from  membership for  misdo 
meanor, intemperance and kindred offenses, 
we increase the  efficiency  of  the salesman, 
add to the value of his services, and furnish 
a security to the employer  which can  be of- 
ferred from no’ other source.
It is, then, of vital importance to employ­
ers, as well as to the Association, that every 
traveling  salesman  in  their  employ be  en 
rolled in membership.  To this end,  we en­
close applications  for  membership,  thereby 
enabling all who are  in  sympathy with  the 
objects  of  our  organization  to  aid  in  This 
great work,  by transmitting the applications 
of all commercial travelers in  their  employ 
to the Secretary-Treasurer  of  the Michigan 
State  Division—L.  M. Mills,  568 ^Wealthy 
Ave.,  Grand Rapids.  A list of all respond­
ing to this appeal will appear in T h e Mich­
ig a n  T ra desm a n  (State  official  organ) 
and in the American Commercial Traveler, 
the official organ of  the  National  Associa­
tion. 

0.  S. K e l s e y ,

L.  M.  Mil l s, 

Secretary-Treasurer.

President.

Monthly Report of  State  Secretary  Mills.

Gra n d R a pid s,  Feb.  5,  1887.

W. C.  Lovejoy, Cedar Springs.
C. H. Cooke,  Detroit.
J. B. Judson, Lansing.
D. E. Glass, Detroit.
F. H.  White, Grand Rapids.
John Tetaple, Detroit.
L. E. Marry, Sturgis.
W. K. Anthony. Detroit.
F. W. Haines, East Detroit.
Gurdoft McLean. Vernon.
J. H. Smith, Jr., Lansing.
F. Ei Beck, Detroit.
L. N. Silver,  Detroit.
E. P. G raw, Bay City.

To the Members of Michigan Division,  Travel­
ers Protective Association:
Gen tl em en—I have the honor to present 
herewith the report of the  Secretary-Treas­
urer for the month ending Jan.  31,  1887: 
Fifteen new members  have been added to 
the State membership as follows:
13,474.  G. W. Albrecht, Bellaire.
13,564.
13,654.
13.667.
13,723.
13,783.
13.888. 
13,891. 
13.543. 
13,566. 
13,666. 
13,709. 
13,771. 
13,841.
13.889.
Eleven members in arrears for  dues have 
paid and been  reinstated.
The  receipts  and  expenditures  for  the 
month were  nothing.
The  entire  Pennsylvania  lines,  west  of 
Pittsburg, operated  by the  following  com­
panies,  have granted  oiir Associatian week­
end tickets, on sale  at  their  principal  sta­
tions:
the 
Pennsylvania Co. ;  Pittsburg,  Cincinnati  & 
St.  Louis.

Chicago,  St.  Louis  &  Pittsburg; 

Respectfully submitted,

L.  M.  Mil l s,  Sec’y-Treas.

The Gripsack Brigade.

W.  F. Blake,  the  Chicago  tea  salesman, 

was in town Saturday.

C.  L.  Nichols,  of Muskegon,  has engaged 
to  travel  for  Fox  &  Bradford,  taking the 
territory  formerly  covered  by  Cass.  Brad- 
I ford.

C.  B.  Lamb,  Michigan  representative for 
Adams & Ford,  the Cleveland boot and shoe 
manufacturers,  was  in  town  a  couple  of 
days last week.

O. A.  Perry,  traveling  representative for 
the Detroit Safe Co.,  will  remove his fami­
ly from Detroit to this  city  about  April  1,
I taking up his residence on Center street.

Association Notes.

President Hamilton telegraphs as follows: 
Good  meeting. 

Frankfort  organized. 
Twenty members.  Call from Sherman.

A Woodland  correspondent  writes:  The 
Business Men’s Association  has  just  com­
pleted its first dead-beat list and it is a very 
long one.

Cadillac  Express:  The  Business  Men’s 
Association  of  Kalkaska  lias  become  all 
warmed up over the  prospect of a new rail­
road through that town.  Good  hint for our 
Cadillac Association.

State  Treasurer  Schuster  writes  from 
Kalamazoo: 
I am glad to learn of the  con­
stant  growth  of  our  State  Association. 
The meetings of our local organization  con­
tinue harmonious and satisfactory.

Charlevoix  Journal:  At  the  meeting of 
he Business Men’s Association  on Tuesday 
evening it  was  decided,  with  but  one  dis­
senting  vote,  to  close  all  stores  at  7:30 p. 
m.,  standard  time,  commencing  next  Mon­
day evening and continuing until May 1.

N.  B.  Blain,  President of the Lowell Bus­
iness  Men’s  Association,  pulled  T iie 
T ra desm a n’s latch-string last Wednesday, 
Mr. Blain proposes to re-organize the Lowell 
body and get it  on  a  more  modern  basis. 
The Association has done  good work in the 
past and is capable of  even  better  work  in 
the future.

Traverse City Journal:  Frank Hamilton, 
President.of  the  Michigan  Business  Men’s 
Association,  and  Geo.  E.  Steele,  President 
of the Traverse  City Business  Men’s  Asso­
ciation,  went  to  Frankfort  Thursday to or­
ganize an association there.  Northern Mich­
igan towns are  alive  to their  interests,  and 
are well represented  by  these  associations.
Geo.  W.  Chaufty,  Vice-President of the 
Kingsley Business Men’s Association, writes 
T h e   T ra desm a n  as  follows:  We  have 
our Association  in  good  shape  now.  We 
have added several amendments to our con­
stitution.  They  are  very  Blue  Laws. 
I 
think we now have  the  most  thorough  or­
ganization  in  the  State—one  which  will 
stand  like a rock.

Kalkaska Leader:  An ex-subscriber  who 
left here in arrears to the extent of a  year’s 
subscription,  writes us that he will remit as 
soon as possible  and  hopes  that  we  won’t 
send him such a disgusting letter  as  lie  re­
ceived from another  party whom  he  owed. 
That disgusting letter was  probably one  of 
those.Business  Men’s  Association  blanks. 
They draw like a mustard plaster.

The Merchant’s  Mail  thus  pays  its  re­
spects to President Hamilton:  Associations 
are bringing to  the  front  some  men  with 
original ideas. 
It will  be  strange  if  with 
all this talent the Business  Men’s  Associa­
tion movement should not  succeed.  Frank 
Hamilton,  of Traverse City,  has gotten up a 
system "for  finding  out  a  person’s  credit 
that is exceedingly  practical  in every sense 
of*tlie word.  We do not know Mr.  Hamil­
ton.  Wish we did,  as it is just such  work­
ers and original thinkers  that  we  want  to 
know more of.

President Hamilton writes  as follows rel­
ative to the collection system  in use  by the 
Traverse  City  Association:  * What  do  you
th in k ? -----------------has  paid  his  bill  of
ten  years’  standing  and  three  years’  dun­
ning by constant application of this system. 
I find many do  not  avail  themselves  of the 
use  of  these  blanks.  Those  who  do  a 
cash business have no  need.  We aim to do 
a cash business  and will  venture the  asser­
tion that the small accounts  upon our books 
to-day—the first  of  our fiscal year—are less 
in proportion to  the  amount  of  our  capital 
stock  than  nine-tenths  of  the  business 
houses  in  Michigan.  To  us,  this  system 
has been of use in collecting stale accounts, 
so much so that, for the  first  year  since we 
began business,  we have  had  a  credit  bal 
ance in our annual profit  and  loss  account, 
to  close  into  our  standing  profit  and  loss 
account. 
In short,  instead  of  charging  up 
sundry spall accounts  to  profit and loss we 
had none and our collection of old  accounts 
gave us a credit.  This  system  witli  us has 
stimulated  greater  care  and  watchfulness. 
This is what I claim it should do with every 
merchant.  One  who  will  not profit in this 
direction,  but  who  will  spasmodically  let 
down the bars and  then  put  them up again 
—who 'will rely upon  this  power  to  collect 
further  questionable  and  forced  credits— 
should be deprived of  this or any other sys 
tern. 
I will take occasion  to  speak further 
upon this point at the March convention.

President Hamilton’s Opinion.

T r a v e r se Cit y ,  Feb.  4,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand  Rapids:

D e a r  Sir—Hardly knowing  whether  or 
not you considered my note on  C.  E.  Ram­
sey’s letter the answer you desire to publish, 
I will  repeat  a  little  more  fully  my  Own 
opinion in regard  to questions  No.  2 and 3, 
in his letter  of  January  26. 
I  think  that 
each active  resident  partner  of  a  firm, or 
company,  to  become  an  active  member, 
should  pay a  membership  fee  and  regular 
dues,  ¿’or  a  firm  of  two  or  three  repre­
sentative men in an  association to  have but 
one ballot is hardly justice  to  either  of  the 
parties.  Suppose  two  members  of  a firm 
were at variance  on an  important matter to 
be voted upon,  how would they decide  who 
-should cast the ballot?  To  me there seems 
to  be  but  one  solution,  as  named  above. 
Then each member can collect  his  personal 
as well as firm accounts with the system we 
adopt
Mr. Ramsey’s  reply to  question  No.  1,  1 
think the correct one.
Regarding the  meeting  of  the  Northern 
Associations,  I  am  unable,  at  present,  to 
say anything definite,  save that Ramsey and 
I thought to start a scheme to keep railroads 
at proper distances and our business men at 
home during snowy weather.

Yours, 

F r a n k H a m ilto n.

John  DeJonge, Zeeland:  “The paper  is  all 

Allan F. Little, druggist and general  dealer: 
“I highly appreciate your  paper  and  make it 
my standard for  reference.”

right.”

COOPERAGE.

D. Quay & Co. quote as follows, f. o. b, Bailey : 

s t a V k s.
“ 

“

“ 

“ 

** 

...M
M
i’t.M
“  M
...M
...M
$  M
M

.......
Elm 
White oak tee staves, s’d and 
White oak pork bbl. 
Produce barrel staves..........
Tight bbl, and h’ds to match.
h e a d s .
Tierce  heads, square............
Pork bbl. “
Produce barrel, sot................
Flour 
“  ................
Cull  wood  heading................

@  6 25
@ 5 25
@20 00
@18 00
@ 4  50
@17  50
@20  00
@18 00
©  4
@  44
©  34
t.  M 10 00© 12 00
ft. M 9 00® 11 00
...M 6 00©  7  00
...M 5 50©  6  00
...M 3 50@ 4 50
oo®  a  oo
White oak, pork, hand made...............1  00® 1  05
lard tierces, hand made.. .1  15© 1 25
Beef and lard, 4  bbls., 
...  75©  90
Custom, one head.................................. 1 06@1  10
Flour  ......................................................  30®  35
Produce  .................................................  25®  30

White oak and hickory  **  7!
Hickory flour  bbj................
Ash, round  “ 
“ .................
Ash, flat racked, 64 f’t ........
Coiled  elm .............................
BARRELS.

Spring & Lindley quote as follows:
“ 

HOOPS.

•* 

“ 

“ 

c 

W O O D E X W A K E .

.................................  4  00

Standard  Tubs, No. 1........................................... 5 75
Standard  Tubs, No. 2...........................................4 75
Standard  Tubs, No. 3...........................................3 75
Standard Pails, two hoop.....................................1 35
Standard Pails, three hoop..................................1 60
Pails, ground wood 
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes................................2 00
Butter  Pails, ash..................................................3 50
B utter Ladles........................................................ 1 00
Rolling Pins............. ...'....................................   75
Potato Mashers...............................................   50
Clothes Pounders................................................. 2 25
ClothesPins.................. 
60
Mop Stocks..................... -.................................1 00
Washboards, single.............................................. 1 75
Washboards, double.............................................2 25
Diamond  M arket............................................  40
Bushel, narrow band........................................... 1 60
Bushel, wide band................................................ 1 75
Clothes, splint.  No. 1........................................... 3 50
Clothes, splint,  No. 2........................................... 4 25
Clothes, splint.  No. 3...............................■__ 5 00
Clothes, willow  No. 1...........................................5 50
Clothes, willow  No. 2...........................................0 50
Clothes, willow  No. 3...........................................7 50
W ater  Tight, bu................................................... 3 75
“  h a lfb u ...........................................2 85
D A B D ir O O D   L U M B E R .

BASKETS.

“ 

 

 

 

The furniture factories  here  pay  as  follows 

@25  00
@13  00
45 00@50 00
@10 00

for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run...................................12 00@14 00
Birch, log-run...........................................15 00©18 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2.............................. 
Black Ash, log-run.............................  
Cherry,  log-run........................................25 00@35 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and 2.........  
Cherry,  cull......................................... 
Maple,  log-run......................................... 12 00@14 00
Maple, soft,  log-run................................11 00@13 00
Maple, Nos. la n d 2..............................  @20 00
@25 0o
Maple, clear, flooring......................... 
Maple, white, selected.......................  @25 0o
Red Oak, log-run................................. 
@18 00
@24 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2......................... 
Red Oak, quarter  sawed....................... 26  00@30 00
Red Oak, No.  1, step plank............... 
@25 00
W alnut, log-run..................................   @55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2..........................   @75 00
Walnuts,  culls....................................  @25 00
Grey  Elm, log-run.............................  
@13 00
White Ash, log-run............................14 00@16 00
White wood,  log-run..........................   @23 00
©17 00
White  Oak, log-run............................ 

“ 

“ 

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

1  00
Ohio White Lime, per  bbl.................... 
85
Ohio White Lime,* car lots.................... 
Louisville Cement,  per bbl.................. 
130
Akron Cement per  Dbl......................... 
1  30
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl......................  
1  30
Car lots 
..................... 1  05@1 10
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  35©  30
1 75
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
3 50
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
2 50
Firo brick, per  M.................................. $25 @ $35
Fire clay, per  bbl..................................  
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .$5 75@6 00 
Anthracite, stove and  nut, car lots..  6 G0@6 25
Cannell,  car lots................................... 
@6 00
Ohio Lump, car  lots............................  3 10@3 25
Blossburg or  Cumberland, car lots..  4  50@5 00 
Portland  Cement.................................  3 50@4 00

COAL.

BELLS.

BOLTS.

BRACES.

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, CART.

AUGERS AND BITS.

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

BALANCES.
BARROWS.

promptly and buy in full  packages.
Ives’,  old style...........................................dis  60
N.  H. C. Co................................................. dis  60
Douglass’.....................................................dis  60
60
Pierces’  .....................................................dis 
Snell’s ......................................................... dis  60
Cook’s  ...................................................... dis 
40
Jennings’, genuine................................... dis  25
Jennings’,  imitation...............................dis50&10
Spring..........................................................dis  40
R ailroad...............................................$  14 00
Garden.............................................. net 33 OO
H an d ...............
. .dis  $ 60*10*10 
Cow..................
60&10
...dis 
C all..................
30*15
...dis 
O ong...............
..dis 
25
Door. Sargent.
60*10
...dis 
Stove.....................................................dis $ 
40
Carriage  new  list.................................. dis  7G&10
Plow  ...................................................... dis  30*10
Sleigh Shoe..............................................dis  70*10
Wrought Barrel  Bolts.......................... dis  60*10
Cast  Barrel  Bolts...................................dis  60*10
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs......................dis 
60
Ca6t  Square Spring............................. dis 
60
Cast Chain..............................................dis  60*10
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob...............dis  60*10
Wrought Square.......  ......................... dis  60*10
Wrought Sunk Flush.............................dis 
60
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
F lush.................................................... dis  60*10
Ives’  Door............................................... dis  60*10
40
B arber..................................................dis $ 
Backus..................................................... dis  50*10
Spofford...............................................   dis 
50
Am. Ball.................................................. dis 
net
Well, plain...................................................$  3 50
Well, swivel.................................................  
4 00
Cast Loose Pin, figured.........................dis  70*10
Cast 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  P in.................  
dis  60*10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip .............dis  60* 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned.............dis  60*  5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvei
60*  5 
........ dis
Wrought Table.........................
10*60 
........dis
Wrought  Tnsido  Blind...........
........ dis
10*60
Wrought Brass.........................
........ dis
........ dis
Blind, Clark’s ............................
Blind, Parker’s .......................
........ dis
Blind,  Shepard’s.....................
.......dis
Ely’s 1-10....................................
....p e r m $ 65 
__  
60
Hick’s C. F ...............................
G. D............................................
Musket......................................
60
CATRI DOES.
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester  new  llst50&10
Rim  Fire, United  States........................dis50*10
Central  Fire.............................................dis30&10
Socket Firm er............................ ..........dis 70*10
Socket  Fram ing......................... ..........dis 70*10
Socket  Corner............................ ..........dis 70*10
Socket Slicks.............................
70*10
........ dis
Butchers’ Tanged  Firm er........ ........ dis
40
Barton’s Socket  Firm ers..........
........ dis
20
..........net
Cold..............................................
........ dis 40*10
Curry,  Lawrence’s ................   .
Hotchkiss  .................................. ........ dis
25
Brass, (Backing’s.......................
60
Bibb’s .........................................
60
Beer . !.........................................
40*10
Fenns’.........................................
60
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size....... .............79fi>  28
14x52,14x56, 14 xUO................
..  31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60...
..  23
Cold Roiled, 14x48.....................
Morse’s Bit  Stock....................
........ dis
Taper and Straight Shank........ ........ dis
Morse’s Taper  Shank...............
........ dis
Com. 4 piece, 6  in .....................
Corrugated................................. ..........dis
A djustable.................................
........ dis

CHISELS.

20*10
4 * 1 0

ELBOWS.

tipped

COMBS.

DRILLS

COCKS.

40
40
40

CAPS.

 

EXPANSIVE BITS.

Claris, small, $18 00;  large, 926 00. 
dis 
Ives’, 1, $18 00 ;  2, $24 00 ;  3, $30 00.  dis 

files—New List.

12 

HINGES.

HANGERS.

and  iouger...

HOLLOW  WARE.

60&10 
60*10 
60*10 
60&10 
55*10 
50* 5

American File Association  List........dis
Disston’s ................................................dis
New  American......................................dis
Nicholson’s ............................................ dis
Heller’s .................................................. dis
Heller’s  Horse Rasps...........................dis
Nos. 16 to 30, 
List 

GALVANIZED IRON,
14 

13 
GAUGES.
HAMMERS.

22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27
15
Discount, Juniata 50@10, Charcoal 60. 
50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .............. dis
Maydole & Co.’s .....................................dis 
25
25
Kip’s .......................................................dis 
40
Yerkes  &  Plumb’s ...........................   ..dis 
Mason's Solid Cast  Steel...................... 30 c list 50
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track  50*10
Champion,  anti-friction......................dis
80*10 40
Kidder, wood track..............................dis
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3.............................. dis
State............................................per doz, net, £
Screw Hook an * ~ i 
ap, to 12  ib.  44  14
Screw Hook and Eye,
3.  4   .. ...............net
Screw Hook and Eye 
5 
. ...............net
Screw Hook and Eye 
J  * .... ...............net
Screw Hook and Eye
3*  % ... ...............net
Strap and  T ..................................... dis
Stamped Tin Ware....................................
Japanned Tin  W are...............................
Granite  Iron  Ware.................................
Grub  1.........................................
....$ 11 00, dis 60
Grub  2.........................................
__   11  50, dis 60
Grub 3.........................................j
....  12 00,d is60
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings............dis 
60
Door, porcelain, jap.  trim m ings...........  
60
60
Door, porcelain, plated  trim m ings....... 
Door, porcelain, trim m ings.................... 
60
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain.......... dis 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s.....................   40*10
45
H em acite..........................  
dis 
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list..dis 
60
Mallory, Wheeler &  Co.’s........... .......dis 
60
Branford’s .............................................. dis 
60
Norwalk’s  ...................... 
dis 
60
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....................dis  70
Adze  Eye..................................... $16 00 dis 
60
Hunt  Eye..................................... $15 00 dis 
60
H unt’s ................ ....................... $18 50 dis 20 & 10
Sperry & Co.’f, Post,  handled.................  dis  50
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s .................................. dis 40
Coffee, P. S. & W.Mfg. Co.’s Malleables ...  dis 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s ...............dis  40
Coffee,  Enterprise..................................... dis  25
Stebbin’s Pattern  ................................dis  60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine................................dis  60*10
Enterprise,  self-measuring................dis 
25

LEVELS.
m a t t o c k s.

KNOBS—NEW LIST.

MOLASSES GATES.

MAULS.
MILLS.

LOCKS—DOOR.

HOES.

30

 

n a il s —ir o n ;

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

.  keg $2 50

lOdto  60d.......
8d and 9 d adv............................
6d and 7d  adv..........  ...............
4d and 5d  adv............................
3d  advance.................................
3d fine  advance.........................
Clinch nails, adv.......................
i  lOd  8d 
Finishing 
6d
24
Size—inches  J  3 
$1 25  1  50 
Adv. $  keg 
1  75
Steel Nails—2 65.
OILERS.
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent.
Zinc, with brass bottom __
Brass or  Copper................ .
Reaper..................................
Olmstead’s ..........................
PLANES.

................... dis60*10
..................... dis  50
..................... dis  50
.. per gross, $12 net 
.....................   50*10

PANS.

RIVETS.

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

Broken packs 4c $1 lb extra.

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.................................disOO&lO
lb  6
Dripping................................................... $1 
60
Iron and  Tinned.....................................dis 
Copper Rivets and  Burs......................dis 
60«
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 37 10 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 
£>
.  
Sisal, 4  in. and  larger............................... ..  1Ô4
Manilla.............
..  134
Steel and Iron.. ....................................dis
70
Try and Bevels. ....................................dis
60
Mitre  ..........•... ....................................dis
20
Com. Smooth. Com.
$2 90
2 90
3 OO
3 05
3 15
3 25
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 2 Inches

Nos. 10 to  14__ ............................$4 20
Nos. 15 to  17__ ............................  4 20,
Nos. 18 to 21__ ............................  4  20
Nos. 22 to 24__ ............................  4 20
Nos .25 to 26.... ............................  4 40
No. 27................ ............................  4 60
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
K H R F .T   7 îT C f
In casks of 600 Ibs, 
¿>..........
In smaller quansities, $   lb...

SHEET IRON.

SQUARES.

ROPES.

TACKS.

Gimp and  Lace.. 
Cigar Box  Nails. 
Finishing  Nails..

.dis
.dis
.dis
.dis
.dis
.dis
.dis
.dis
.dis
.dis
.dis

60
60
60
60
50
50
50
50
50
45
35
12 50 
16 00 
17  50

L

TINNER 8 SOLDER.
No. 1,  Refined..................................
Market  Half-and-half....................
Strictly  Half-and-half...................
Cards for Charcoals, $6
10x14, Charcoal..................
10x14,Charcoal..................

TIN  PLATES. 

rates.

TIN —LEADED.

14x20, Charcoal........
14x20,  Charcoal.......

5 75
1C,
IX,
.  6 25
1C,
IX,
,  6 75
1C,
IX,
.  7 35
IXX,
8  75
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool................................  10 77
  13 55
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal..................... 
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal................................  15 50
100 Plate Charcoal............................  6 50
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................   8 50
DX, 
DXX,  100 Plate Charcoal............................   10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.........................  12 50
ltedipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1  50  to  6 75
Rooting, 14x20, IC.........................................  5 25
Rooting, 14x20,  IX .......................................   6  75
Rooting, 20x28,1C.........................................  11  00
Rooting,  20x28,  IX ................................ 
14  OO
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.................  5 50
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne...............  7  00
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne.................11 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal  Terne............  14 OO
Steel. Gamp.....................................................60*10
Oneida’Communtity,  Newhouso’s ........... dis  35
Oneida 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 ¡g doz
Bright Market...................................................dis 674
Annealed Market.................................dis 
70
Coppered Market.............................................. dis 624
Extra Bailiug............................................   dis  65
Tinned  M arket..................................................dis 624
Tinned  Broom........................................... $  ib  09
Tinned M attress........................................$  lb 84
Coppered  Spring  Steel..................dis 40@40*10
Tinned Spring Steel............................. 
dis  50
Plain Fence....................................................lb  34
Barbed Fence, galvanized...............................   4
painted.....................................34
Copper...............................................new  list net
Brass.................................................. new  list net

TRAPS.

WIRE.

“ 

WIRE GOODS.

WRENCHES.

B right...............................................dis  70*10*10
Screw Eyes...................................... dis  70*10*10
Hook’s .......... '................................. dis  70*10*10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes....................dis  70*10*10
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
MISCELLANEOUS.
 
Bird Cages..................................... 
50
Pumps,  Cistern...............<.................... dis 
70
Screws,  new  list.............................  
75
Casters,  Bed  and  Plate..............dis50*10*10
Dampers, A m erican....................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods.60*10*10 
Copper  Bottoms............................. 
?3c

 

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[Entered  at  the.  Pogtofflee  at  Grand  Rapid»  ae 

Second-cla88 Matter. 1

WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY  9,  1887.

H iclilgan  Buttiuess  M en’s  Association.

President—F rank H am ilton, Traverse City.
F irst Vice-President—Paul P. M organ, Monroe.
Second Vice-President—E. J. H errick, Grand Kapids. 
Secretary—E. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids.
Treasurer—Julios Schuster, Kalamazoo.
Executive Comm ittee—President, F irst Vice-President, 
Secretary, N. B. Blain and W. E. Kelsey.
Comm ittee on Trade Interests—Smith Barnes, Traverse 
City;  P. Ranney, Kalamazoo;  A.  W.  W estgate,  Che-
Comm ittee on Legislation—W. E.  Kelsey,  Ionia;  J.  V.
Com m ittee on Membership—H. S.  Church,  Sturgis ;  B. 

Crandall, Sand Lake;  J. F. Clark, Big Rapids. 
F. Em ery, G rand Rapids;  the Secretary.

Ada  Business  Men’s Association. 
President, D. F. W atson;  Secretary, Elm er Chapel.
A llegan  Business  Men’s  Association. 

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

B ellaire  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, John Rodgers;  Secretary, G. J. Noteware.
M erchant’s Protective Ass’n of Big  Bapids. 
President, N. H. Beebe;  Secretary, A. S. H obart.

Boyne  City  Business Men’s Association. 

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

B u rr  Oak  Business  Men’s  Association. 

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

President, A. W. N ewark;  Secretary, J. C. McAdam.
Casnovia,  Bailey and T rent  B.  M.  A. 
President, H. E. Hesseltine;  Secretary, E. Fam ham .
Cedar Springs  Business M en’s  Association. 
President, T. W. P rovin;  Secretary, L. H. Chapm an.
Charlevoix  Business  Men’s Association. 

boygan.

President, John Nichols;  Secretary, R. W. Kane.
Business  Men’s  Protective  Union  of  Che­
President, J. H. Tuttle;  Secretary, H. G. Dozer.
Coopersville  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, E. N. P arker;  Secretary, R. D. McNaughton.
R etail Grocers’ Trade Union As’n of D etroit. 
President, John Blessed;  Secretary, H. Kundinger.
D orr Business Men’s  Association. 
President, L. N. Fisher;  Secretary, E. S. Botsford.

President,  F.  H.  Thurston,  C entral  Lake;  Secretary, 

East port Business  Men’s  Association. 
Geo. L. Thurston, Central Lake.
Klk R apids Business Men’s P rotective As’n. 
President, J. J. M cLaughlin;  Secretary, C. L. M artin.
F reeport Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, F oster Sisson ;  Sec’y, A rthur Cheseborough.
G rand  H aven  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, Fred. D. Voss;  Secretary, Fred A. H utty.

R etail  Grocers’  Ass’n  of G rand  Rapids. 

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

G reenville  Business  Men’s  Association. 

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

H astings  Business  M en’s  Association. 

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

H olland 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.
Kalam azoo  R etail Grocers’ Association. 

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

K alkaska  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  Men’s  Association. 

President, Wm. Hhtellings;  Secretary, M. L. Campbell.
Lowell  Business  Men’s  Protective  Ass’n. 
President, N. B. Blain;  Secretary, Friink T. King.

L u th er Protective  As’n.

President, W. B. Pool;  Secretary. Jas. M. Verity.______

Lyons  Business  Men’s  As’n. 

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

M ancelona Business  Men’s  Association. 

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

M anistique  Business Men’s Association. 

President, F. H. Thompson;  Secretary, E. N. Orr.

M anton's  Business  Men’s  Association. 

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

M uir Business  Men’s  Association. 

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

M erchant’s  Union  of N ashville. 

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

Oceana  Business  Men’s  As’n. 

President, W. E. Thorp ;  Secretary, E. 8. H oughtaling.

Ovid  Business  Men’s As’n.

President, C. H. H unter;  Secretary, Lester Cooley.
Owosko  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, Jas. Osburn;  Sec'y, 8. S. Lamfrom.

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

P l a i n  w e ll  B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 

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

R eed City  Business Men’s A ssociation. 
President, C. J. Flelschauer; Secretary, H. W. Hawkins.

R o c k f o r d   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 

President, Geo. A. Sage;  Secretary. J. M. Spore.
St. Jo h n s M erchants’ Protective Association. 
President, H. L. Kendrick;  Secretary, C. M. Merrill.
... ............ —--------- ---------—....—A-------------
Business Men’s Protective Ass’n of Saranac. 
President,  Geo. A. P otts;  Secretary, P. T. W illiams.

South  Board m a n   Business  Men’s  Ass’n. 

President, H. E. Hogan ;  Secretary, S. E. Niehardt.
So. A rm  and E. Jo rd an  Business Men’s As’n. 
President, D. C. Loveday;  Secretary, C. W. Sutton.
Kparta  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, J. R. H arrison;  Secretary, M. B. Nash.

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

W ay land  Business  Men’s  Association. 

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

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

B. Nicholson, W hitehall.
W oodland  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, John Velte; Secretary, I. N. Harter.

G rand  K apids  B utchers’  Union, 

President, John Katz; Secretary, Chas. Velite.

8.  8.  Morris  &  Bro., pork  packers,  Muske­

gon: "Valuable paper.”

TH E  BANNER  TOW N.

Interesting Meeting  of  the  Traverse  City 

Business  Men’s  Association. 

T r a v e r se  Cit y ,  Feb. 2,1887.

D e a r   Sir—At 

the  meeting  or 

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
the 
Traverse City Business  Men#  Association, 
held last evening, the following  new  mem­
bers  were  elected:  Dr.  T.  A. Thompson, 
Dr. Miss A. Rosenthall, E.  K. Kneeland, J. 
W.  Zimmerman,  R. N. Connine  and  A.  H. 
Brinkman.
A long list of  delinquents  was  presented 
by the Actuary  and  referred  by  motion  to 
the Rating Committee.
Quite an interesting talk was  entered  in­
to regarding a railroad  to  Charlevoix,  what 
we should do and what  we  might  do.  On 
motion  of  Mr.  Hannah,  T.’T.  Bates.  F. 
Hamilton and Geo. E.  Steele were  appoint­
ed a committee to confer  with  the  citizens 
of Charlevoix and invite them to  turn  their 
attention towards  Traverse  City with  their 
railroad project and connect with the  G. R. 
& I. and C. & W. M.  Railways.
C.  A.  Hammond  gave  a  talk  regarding 
the poor people of  the  village  and  recom­
mended that a committee of four be appoint­
ed to solicit subscriptions and  that  a  com­
mittee of  three  be  appointed  to  distribute 
the same.  On  motion  of  T. T. Bates,  the 
chair appointed as  Soliciting  Committee C. 
A.  Hammond,  M.  Winnie,  J.  Wilhelm and 
E.  W. Hastings, and  as  Distributing Com­
mittee C. K. Buck, J.  W. Hilton and J. W. 
Milliken.
The President then appointed  his  stand­
ing committees for the ensuing year  as  fol­
lows:
Executive—Geo.  E.  Steele,  S. C. Despres, 
J.  W.  Milliken,  C.  A.  Hammond,  J.  A. 
Moore,  C.  K. Buck and E.  N.  Carrier.
Rating—J.  A.  Moore,  S.  E.  Wait,  F. 
Hamilton,  E.  W.  Hastings,  Wm.  London, 
M. E.  Haskell  and L.  Roberts.
Transportation—C. K.  Buck,  M.  Winnie 
and T. R. Bently.
Finance—E. N.  Carrier,  F.  Freidrich,  C. 
Wilhelm,  E.  McNamara and C.  W. Ashton.
Insurance—H.  Montague, J. Wilhelm and 
C. R. Paige.
President Steele then read his annual  ad­
dress, as follows:
Members of the Traverse City Business  Men’s
Association:
Ge n tl em en—On  assembling  this  even­
ing, to put  in  operation  the  machinery of 
the new organization for the year,  or, as we 
might say,  to see how the new  officers  will 
“turn  the  crank,”  one  of  the  important 
matters before us is the  question  of  mem­
bership. 
In the Constitution,  under the II. 
article, we find that the “objects of this As­
sociation shall be to  cultivate  better  social 
relations, for mutual protection and to  pro­
mote the general interests  or  the  members 
and of the  Grand  Traverse Region.”  Now 
these are all  worthy objects.
1.  The  social  relations  of  business men 
are now quite as essential  as  their business 
relations, or,  to  put  it  in  different  form, 
their business relations should at  the  same 
time be social.  Time was when this  state­
ment would be taken with  much  allowance 
and business men having places on opposite 
sides  of  the  street  would  spend  a  large 
share of their time in watching  with  covet­
ous  eyes  the  patrons  and  success  of  the 
one across the way, or in attempting to spoil 
his business.  This, to say little,  is  not the 
best way,  but on  the  contrary,  the  princi­
ple in general would add most to their  suc­
cess to help one another.
2.  The mutual protection  the Association 
affords may extend  in  various  ways.  One 
is to guard from the adventitious dead-beat, 
who knows he can’t pay,  and  never intends 
to pay,  and  to  caution  the  ones  who  are 
willing to pay if they have it, against stand­
ing to a  counter  and  trading  till  they  are 
tired, or to  hurry up the pay after the goods 
are gone.  But another  very important pro­
tection,  it seems to us,  is that which give us 
goods as they are  represented  to  be—first, 
from the wholesale  merchant  and,  second, 
out,  of the hands of the retail  merchant—to 
these people who are  being  made  the  tar­
gets for the sharp duns which  the  Associa­
tion sends out.  This Association  would do 
well to look to the matter  of  adulterations, 
to the short weights and measures  imposed 
upon merchants, and the consequent tenden­
cy to shove off the same kinds of imposition 
on to the public.  We should not fire off  all 
our guns on the poor man who owes  a  debt 
at the store or the shop or the doctor’s office. 
This would be a very poor object, if this was 
all,  to array the business  men  of  Traverse 
City in line of battle.  We can first see that 
those who buy get goods of such quality and 
quantity as represented,  and then  the  pro­
cesses of collection can  go  on  with  a  fair 
face behind them.  To the end that  such  a 
worthy object  be  accomplished,  so  far  as 
we are able to do for it,  we recommend that 
a committee be chosen at this meeting  who 
shall go  right  to  work  on  the  subject  of 
adulterations, and  make  a  report  at  some 
length at our next meeting and  keep at tills 
work until we  get  a  result.  This  can  be 
made  very  instructive,  and  the  business 
men of Traverse City, I aui  sure, can  show 
their customers that  they  mean  to  expose 
fraud in every way.  What  say  you,  busi- 
busines men? 
Is not that a right principle?
3.  We are to promote  the  general  inter­
ests  of  our  members  and  of  the  Grand 
Traverse  region.
These are good objects, but we think that 
section I. of the next article knocks the good 
It  says  that “auy merchant, 
all out of it. 
manufacturer,  dealer, manager or proprietor 
of  an  established,  honorable  business, 
who has resided  in  Traverse  City  for  the 
space of six months and is a tax payer, shall 
be eligible to membership.  Now  we  opine 
that he has never  resided in  Traverse City, 
if he resides in this vicinity—or  should  lie 
not be a merchant, or  manufacturer—but, 
we  will  suppose, a  hard handed,  straight­
forward,  industrious farmer—we can see no 
reason why,  if  he  wishes,  that  lie  cannot 
become a member and have  the  advantages 
of  this  Association.  We  would  do  very 
much more by so changing the  constitution 
as to admit those who  for  no  good  reason 
are now excluded.  This should be attended 
to at the present meeting,  and  the  objects 
and membership of the  Association  should 
be made more harmonious, jand  the  admis­
sion of members be more  general.
On motion of  F.  Hamilton,  a  committee 
of three was appointed by the  chair  to  in­
vestigate  the  matter  of  adulteration,  as 
recommended  by the  President,  consisting 
of S. Bams, S.  E.  Wait  and C.  K. Buck.
On motion of T.  T.  Bates,  the  chair  ap­
pointed S.  C. Despres,  J.  Wilhelm  «nd  E. 
Lardie  a  special  committee  to  revise  the 
constitution.

The meeting then adjourned.

C. E.  L ockwood* Sec’y.

Right  You  Are.
From the Denver Retail Grocer,
The continual harping on  the  subject  of 
pure food is about as effectual as Mrs. Part­
ington’s  endeavor  to  sweep  the  Atlantic 
ocean  from  her  door  during a tidal wave, 
with a broom.

W r ite  m e   fo r  P r ic e s.

We make the following brands:

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Importers  strid

W hite Prussian, Glycerine Family, Napkin, Royal.

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

OBERNE,  HOSICK  &  CO,

Country  Talk, Mermaid, it will float, Silver Brick, Daisy, 
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  the  country.  Send  for  a  sample  order.  We 
pay all railroad and boat freights.  Our goods are not in Michigan Jobbing houses.

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W holesale  Grocers.
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Celebrated Soaps. 
Niagara Starch Co.’s Celebrated Starch. 
“Jolly  Tar”  Celebrated  Plug  Tobacco, 
Jolly  Time”  Celebrated  Fine  Cut  To­
Dwinell,  Hayward  &  Co.’s  Roasted 
Thomson  &  Taylor’s  Magnolia  Coffee. 
Warsaw Salt Co.’s Warsaw Salt.
“ Benton ” Tomatoes, Benton Harbor.
“ Van  Camp ”  Tomatoes,  Indianapolis. 
“Acme ” Sugar Corn, Best in the World.
In addition to a full line  of staple groceries, we are the 
only house in Michigan which carries a complete assortment 
of fancy groceries and table delicacies.

SNOW-SHOVELS,
.  SLEDS, 

FIRE-KINDLERS,
FOR  SALE  BY

dark and light.
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TO TH E TROPICS.

Brief Glimpses of St.  Croix,  St. Kitts  and 

Martinique.

logwood, 

From the Traverse City  Herald
We were well on our way  to  the  Wind­
ward  Islands  before  we  began  to  realize 
that we had started out on a voyage  of  five 
weeks or more.  A nipping southeast  wind 
swept  across East River as the  BarracoxUa 
swung  out  of  her  dock.  As  we  passed 
through the narrows, Staten Island and  the 
Bay  Ridge  shore  looked  chill  and  deso­
late,  the trees  gaunt  and  leafless.  On  the 
second day of the voyage delightful summer 
weather greeted  us.  We  discarded  wraps 
and overcoats.  The change  had a plfcisant 
effect upon the spirits of the ship’s comí auy, 
and  the  passengers,  yielding  to  its  in­
fluence, became more  sociable  and  affable. 
Mrs. Sigourney  truly  says,  “Two  things 
alone break  the  monotony  of  an  Atlantic 
trip.  Sometimes, alas,  we  ship a sea,  and 
sometimes sea a ship.”  On  the  third  day 
we were busily occupied  in  shipping seas, 
and making voluntary offerings to Neptune. 
On the fourth day we  donned  our  summer 
apparel and reclined during  the  entire  day 
on  the  open  deck  in  our  steamer  chairs.
The  Carribeau .or  Windward Islands  lie 
about 1,500 miles in  a  southeasterly  direc­
tion from New York, so that vessels  bound 
for St. Croix enter the  Gulf  stream  nearly 
100  miles  from  Sandy  Hook,  across  this 
mystic “river of the sea” and  then  passing 
midway  between  Charleston,  S.  C.,  and 
Hamilton, the capital  of  the  Bermuda  Is­
lands, enter the tropics fully 1,000  miles  to 
the eastward of the most southern  point  of 
Florida.  On the afternoon of the sixth day 
of our voyage land was in sight.  We pass­
ed close to Sombrero,  on  its  leeward  side, 
within a quarter of  a  mile  of  the  landing 
place.  Anguilla was  thirty  miles  and  S t 
Martius fifty miles  distant.  Then came St. 
Croix,  lying like an emerald on  the  bosom 
of an almost  transparent  ultramarine  blue 
sea.  We  gradually  neared  its  roadstead, 
dropped  anchor,  fired  our  first  gun,  and 
waited the arrival of the health officer, after 
wliicli we were permitted  to take the ship’s 
beat and be rowed  on  shore  at  Frederick- 
stadt,  lying at the  western  end  of  the  is­
land,  which lies  in  latitude  18 °  north,  or 
some  26°  farther  south 
than  Traverse 
City.
On landing,  we took carriages  and  drove 
over the island for four hours,  on  most  ex­
cellent roads,  through  avenues  of  stately 
cocoa  trees,  intermingled  with  the  royal 
palm,  mango, 
tamarind,  lime, 
lemon,  and cotton  tree—with  its  immense 
bole eight feet  in  diameter—among  roses, 
chrysanthemums,  and  a  large  variety  of 
flowers  and  flowering 
shrubs,  passing 
numerous  plantations  of  sugar  cane,  in 
squares of 150 or mo're  acres,  standing  six 
to  seven  feet  high,  with  their  blossom 
plumes  waving eight  to  eleven  feet  above 
the ground,  making a panorama of delicate 
green,  rendered  most  attractive by its con­
trast with the very  dark  green  of  the  in­
digenous  trees  intermingled.  The  princi­
pal industry is the cultivation of sugar cane, 
but owing to the  extremely low price of su­
gar,  it is a profitless industry. 
In our drive 
we passed several  sugar  mills,  now  lying 
idle,  awaiting the maturity  of  the  cane,  a 
month or  two  hence;  meeting  everywhere 
the  ubiquitous  negro,  black, 
stalwart, 
strong and comfortable looking—the women 
and girls carrying everything,  from  a  quart 
tin can to an immense  basket of clothes, or 
a pall  of  water,  on  their  heads,  walking 
with a firm,  stately,  easy, graceful tread.
Almost every available foot of land is un­
der  cultivation.  The  soil  is  fertile.  An 
avenue in one place ten miles long,  bordered 
with the cocoa and palm,  as  straight  as  an 
arrow,  connects  the  town  with  Christian- 
stadt, the Danish capital of  the  island,  St. 
Croix being a Danish  possession.
We called on one of our fellow passengers 
at the “Mountain,” ami  were  compelled  to 
sit  at his generous board  and  break  bread 
with him.  We found his  somewhat  baron­
ial home,  near the center of his four planta­
tions,  150 feet  above  the  sea,  shimmering 
one and one-half  miles  away;  to  the  edge 
of which his  possessions  extend,  with  his 
sugar mills in the  distaucc  like  landmarks 
amid the sea of waving green.
In  passing at different  places  we  found 
cocoa nuts hanging  on  the  trees  forty  to 
sixty feet above the road,  looking like huge 
green eggs aloft, close  under  the  feathery 
tufts that covered the top of the slender tree, 
stem looking, like  a  big  tough  whip-stock 
with a bunch of green  plumage  at  the top. 
The  whole  panorama of this gem of an  is­
land,  a little world by  itself,  is  one  which 
delights the eye and enchants the senses  of 
one who comes from the frozen land  of  the 
north,  witli here a temperature  of  80 °  on 
the 17th of December.  New sweet potatoes, 
yams,  cucumbers,  etc.,  are  found  in  the 
open market in abundance.
One feature is especially pleasing  and in­
structive—ono from  which  we  Americans 
might and should  learn  a  lesson—the  uni­
versal,  uniform  civility  and  spontaneous 
politeness  to  every  one,  and  the  gentle 
modulation of the voice.
At 5 p. in.  our parting salute  was  given, 
anchor hoisted and  we  sailed for St.  Kitts, 
where  we arrived the next morning at day­
light.
Our view,  looking towards the land  from 
the decks of the  Bnrracouta  at  sunrise  on 
the morning of our arrival at St.  Kitts,  was 
extremely beautiful and  inspiring,  a  scene 
not  easily  to  be  forgotten.  Towards  the 
south the grand  symmetical  cone of Nevis, 
rising from the sea behind the narrow strait, 
stands out bold and clear  against  the  sky, 
making a landscape  of  surpassing  beauty. 
After a stay of twelve  hours  at  St.  Kitts, 
we steamed out of the harbor and,  taking  a 
southerly course, resumed our  voyage.
We scarcely had timé to repeat the names 
of the  islands  in  their  order  before  they 
faded from our sight.
The Barnmmta coasted  along  the  west 
coast of Gaudaloupe, then  passing a cluster 
of small islands came again to the open sea.
Shortly  after  our arrival in the harbor of 
St.  Pierre,  Martinique,  we  went  on shore. 
The language of the people of Martinique is, 
of course,  French.  High  up  on  the  hills 
grow the mountain  palms (Euterpe Montar 
rui), which,  although not so tall or stalwart 
as some of their kind,  exceed  them  all  in 
beauty and strength.  They are the sentries 
at the gates  of  the  impenetrable  primeval 
forests where gigantic  tree-ferns,  thirty  to 
forty feet long, flourish,  spreading out deli­
cate,  lace-like leaves  of  wonderful  size,  so 
broad,  so long,  that  a  man  on  horseback 
can find shelter from the sun  beneath  their 
shadow.  Here, too,  are  the  curious  liana 
trees,  from  which  depend  long,  delicate 
fibres resembling  cordage,  reaching down­
ward from  the  branches  until  they  touch 
the earth,  then,  taking  fresh  root, support 
their parent  trunk,  like  shrouds  that  stay 
Hie masts  of  great  ships. 
I  will  not  at­
tempt to  describe  the  bewildering  display

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of the marvelous and  luxuriant  vegetation, 
for every turn in the road  as  we  ascended 
higher  and  higher,  leaving  the  cultivated 
lands and fallow pastures behind  us,  as  we 
penetrated deeper into the  high  woods,  re­
veals scenes that to our  delighted  imagina­
tion seemed to surpass in grandeur  and  en­
chantment all we had  looked  upon  before.

S.  B a rn es.

Regular Meeting of the Retail Grocers’ As­

sociation.

The regular semi-monthly meeting  of the 
Retail Grocers’ Association, which was held 
last  Tuesday  evening, «was  fairly  well  at­
tended.  C.  C.  Comstock applied  for  mem­
bership in the Association and was accepted. 
The Secretary read several names of persons 
who had removed to Grand Rapids and were 
delinquent in the  towns  from  which  they 
had moved,  which information will be  pub­
lished on the first Notification Sheet  of  the 
Association,  which will be  issued on Febru­
ary  15.

Collector  Cooper  reported  the  collection 
of $1,199 since his last  summarized  report 
He also tendered his resignation as collector 
of the Association,  which  was  referred  to 
the Law Committee.

On motion of E.  E.  Walker,  2,000  “Blue 
Letter”  Notification  Sheets  were  ordered 
printed, the same to be furnished  the mem­
bers for a cent apiece in lots of twenty-five.
On motion of M.  C. Goossen, 500  Record 
Blanks were ordered printed, to be distribu­
ted gratuitously to buyers of the “Blue Let­
ter.” 
.President Coye  stated  that  the  question 
of entertaining the State Association  at  its 
March meeting should soon  receive  the  at­
tention of the  Association  and  the  matter 
was made the special order  of  business  for 
the next  meeting.

ft

The President stated that  the  revision  of 
the city charter was now  being  undertaken 
by an attorney and at the completion of  his 
labors the proper pressure would be brought 
to bear, at Lansing, to secure the legislation 
desired.

The presiding  officer  also  called  the  at­
tention of the  Association  to  the  courtesy- 
accorded the organization  by  Mayor  Dike- 
man, in refusing to  grant  licenses  to  ped­
dlers  handling  goods  conflicting  with  the 
grocery  business.  He  recommended  that 
any member having a  grievance  report  the 
same to the Mayor,  who would  do  all  that 
lies in his power to remedy the same.

The Secretary presented the  draft  for  an 
amendment  to  the  present  garnishee law, 
prepared by President Kelsey,  of  the Ionia 
Business Men’s Association,  and  requested 
an expression of opinion on the matter.  All 
seemed to be strongly in  favor  of  the  pro­
posed measure and when  it  comes  up  for 
action,  at  Lansing, the  postal  authorities 
will be compelled to put  on  extra  pouches 
to carry the letters which Grand Rapids will 
send to her  representatives,  requesting  fa­
vorable action in the premises.
The meeting then adjourned.

“Ring  Out  the  Old,  Ring  in  the  New.”
Having used  the  thread-bare  expression, 
“I will call on you on or about,” for several 
years past, many of  the  traveling  men  are 
seeking new modes of  expression  and  fre­
quently they vary the monotony of their ad­
vance notices with comic illustrations.  One 
of the  most  original  forms  T h e  T r a d e s­
m an has seen for some  time  was  received 
by some  of  the  cigar  manqfacturers  here 
this week,  as  follows:

De a r   Sir—I  am  on  my way by forced ! 
marches to your city, and providing that the 
walking is good,»and  the  weather  not  too 
utterly inclement,  I  shall arrive there about 
March 1,  when  “I trust”  (because its  fash­
ionable)  that you will be  anxiously waiting 
to look through my assortments of Sumatra 
and llayana. 
I hope that this  epistle  will 
succeed in  touching  your  sympathetic  na­
ture to such an  extent,  that  you  will  feel 
guilty of having robbed this preserving  and 
Job-likè  Commercial  Tourist,  should  you 
not  wait  to  see  his  wares,  before  closing 
any contemplated purchases in my line. 
Through business and jesting, each in its turn, 
I strive  to be worthy the dollar I earn.

Yours very sincerely,

E.  S.  D ick erson.

WM. L  ELLIS & CO.

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Designers

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

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Verm ontville in  Line  on  the  O rganization 

Question.

Agreeable to invitation, the editor ofT uE  
T ra desm a n  met the business men  of  Ver- 
montvilla last Friday evening,  for  the  pur­
pose of explaining the aims  and  objects  of 
organized effort.  W.  H.  Benedict  was  se­
lected to serve as chairman of  the  meeting 
and W.  E.  Holt as secretary.  At  the  con­
clusion of the explanation above referred to, 
it was unanimously resolved to proceed to the 
organization of an association  and  the  fob 
lowing constitution was adopted for the gov­
ernment of the body:

P K E A H U L K .

W h ERE AS, com pariso:n of id eas a n d  m oth oda iand 'eon-
c e rt o f  a e ti o n   a r e  neicossary to  th e  well b ein g  o r an y
conniiiunity* a n d
m’s Associa-
tio n  iwill ace o m pli *h th ese o bject*;  th«•reft>re 
ont-
o f  V
v ille ian d  v iein ity , iJu ly  ;assem bled on Fe bruiary 4l,18K7, do
hereljy org a nize  iHirse Ives  in to   such an A ssociation,
a n d  a d o p t th e  c o n stitu tio n  a n d  by-law s follow ing: 

W h: EUE AS, W e b<i lievi» t h a t a  Busines
R esolved-- T h a t we,

8 Me
th e   b u siness  nten

'erra

C O N ST IT U T IO N .

ARTICLE 1.— NAMK.

The n am e o f th is  o rg an iz a tio n  sh a ll b e th e   V erm ont­

v ille b u sin ess M en's A ssociation.

ARTICLE II.—OBJECTS.

The o b jects o f th is  A ssociation sh a ll b e as follow s:
1.  To  e n c o u ra g e   w ell-directed  e n te rp rise s;  to   p ro ­
m ote th e   p ro p e r  p ro g ress,  e x tc n tio n   a n d   in cre a se   o f 
th e  tra d e  o f  th is  c ity .
2.  To in cre a se  a c q u ain tan c e sh ip  a n d  fo ste r th e  h ig h ­
e st com m ercial  in te g rity  am o n g   th o se  e n g a g ed  in th e
v ario u s liuíes oiL’basine‘ss repr<esented.
J actioni  a g a in st d isc rim in ât ions
3.  To ta k e c tnicer!
is  compìallies.
by railw ay and1 expri
ttle-
4.  To iniductî  CQUilialile  in?t r a n c e   :
m eats.
ated
5.  To seicure im m unlitv fro m  in ferio j
goods, sho r t  w<figli fi­ co u n ts a n d   me:tsu res,  fictitio u s
b r a n d s iim l la b els an d m isrepirescn talio ii in  public a n d
p riv a te . 
lioc­
of  b e tte r  co
in fiuence lei] d a tio n  in fa v o r  <
C.  To
orni.
tio n  law tifl'oi d in g  iinore safeily to crei lito rs in  gem
giitard :ag ain st unneee•ssary ext elisions o f ei•edit
th ro u g h  th e   imterch an g e  o f  in ­
to  u n  wo•rtli«y p<¿I-SOllí
fo rm a ti on gainled by- £•X pc rien ee an d   ot herw ise.
8.  To nuaiu titin a  (jo 1 lectio n d e p a rtm e n t  fo r  th o coi-
lectio n  <of doul itful a counts íin d  th e  b lac k listin g  o f th e
dead -b eats w ho p rey  u pon b u siness m en.
ARTICLE HI.—MEMBERSHIP.

rate s  a n d   ye
"and a d u lte r

A ny A nn o r in d iv id u al d o in g   a n   h o n o rab le   b u sin ess 
m av  becom e  a  m em b er o f th is A ssociation on th e  two- 
th ird s   vote  of  th e   m em b ers  p re se n t  a t   a n y   re g u la r 
m eetin g ,  by  p a y in g   to   th e   S e c re ta ry  th e   sum   of  81 
m em b ersh ip  fee, a n d  a g re e in g  to  pay 25 c e n ts q u a rte rly  
dues in a d v an ce, an d  a n y   assessm en ts  w hich  sh a ll  be 
voted by th e  A ssociation to  m ee t  expenses.

ARTICLE IV.—OBLIGATION.

tl ei

E v e ry  person  o r Arm b ecom ing a  m em b er  o f th is  As-
ound to c o n fo rm   to th e

socia tit n d iali >e bonoi ab ly
rules , r *giila tio is an d  hy-law
An y *lei n b er >f th is  Assoein tio n  vdio Khali ueglei t o r
SSI len t  ordered by
refu: e o i
such  sum s be-
th e
oci
COllli: due, sh all th ere b y fo rfè t  his nein b e rsh ip .

ARTIC LE v.—s ON-PA Y MENI OF PUKK.
»ay hi s  dues, >r  a n 4
a tion fo r t h r ¿e m o i t h s a ftc
ARTICLI v i.— ÍFIPICT.R8
Til o me ers of th is  A SI o d a ti on sh till

¡onsist o f a  1 re  ti­
Vice-Pr •sidont, el Seer titary a ï rea su re r, an ll a n
iden
»f  fiVt m ei ibe rs,  o f w hich th e
Exec ut: ve Com n itte e
P res de n t S eert ta r  y an i T rea su re r shf 11 be th re e ; an d
a  Bu «mesh Com n itte e  of Ih re e inem be •s.  These offlcers
shal b€ <**ectcd annual] y by b a llo t and sh all  h o ld « m ee
u n ti

suce essors ai•e elee ted.
ARTIC:l e VII.-■4büTIÏ 8 OK IFF ICKUS.
in  h s absen *e, the Vice-Prt- sidont.

if p r esc n t
th e  A ssociation  from  
th e  T re asu re r, takini 
orrt o f nil m eetin g s; 
a  list o f all m em bers 
pose;  an d  n o tify  all 
S ection  3—The  T r 
from  th e  Secret 
b ills w hen ap p ro v ed   b 
re p o rt th e  c o n d itio n   o 
m eetin g .
Section  4—The  Ex 
c h a rg e  o f th e  collect!« 
tio n  an d   p u b licatio n  < 
vide ro o m s fo r th e   As: 
am in e th e   books  an d  
T re asu re r p rev io u s to
He
m it
g ro wth  an 1 w ell-bt in g o f Veri no ntv ill«*; to  U
ble in dueem entsT o secar • th e  Joc ttii n of m il
and jth e r
any neede
an e
ra te s

Sec tiim —The Presidc u t she 11 pro sid i: a t all m eet; ngs,
Sec ticm 2—The S ecretary  sh til re t eiv o a ll  m oney du e
an y  so u rce a n d   p ay   th e   sam e  to  
; h is r e c e ip t th e re fo r;  k eep   a   rec- 
•oniluct all  co rresp o n d en ce;  keep 
iu a  book  p ro v id ed   fo r  t h a t  pur- 
o m m itte es of th e ir  a p p o in tm en t, 
u su re r  shall  receiv e  a ll  m onies
g iv in g  h is rec e ip t thi
.  an d  
ru la r
r  th.
jcu tiv e  C o m m ittee  s h a ll  h av e 
in d e p a rtm e n t  a n d   th e   eom piia- 
f th e  d e lin q u e n t lis ts ;  sliajl  pro- 
loeiation;  a u d it all  b ills  a n d   ex- 
a e eo u n ts  of  th e   S e c re ta ry   an d  
each  a n n u a l  m eetin g .
th e   Bus ine* s  Com-
look  Hi te r   « 11  on tt4ers p e rta in 1>K to   th e
1 possi-
ictorios
im prov •men ts;  a id to endeavi>r ti secu re
conce** ions n fre gì t, ex p ress and insur-
ARTIC LF. VIII.—CO HI ESS ATION.

ion —It  shal b e t

•refor; 
m m ttt 
each   i

îe dut V of

th e   E: 

i c  to

cuti*

s, ff

lai be paid an y officer,

N o iomp en satio n fo r be r vi ct

exc

»t t h t Secreta v .

ARTICLE IX.—MF.ICTIÍ

tio n

Sc e tion 1—Tho  1im ua 1  met til »g of  th e Asse»elation
sh a 11 be he id on th • first Fridii y >f aeh  Ja n u a r r.
Tile  1egulH r   mec•tin g s o f  th e Vsst» d atio n
St
sh all be ht Id on th i first F rid a y o f e ich m o n th . Special
1 res id en t on th e w ritten
mecit m gs h all bo i ailed by th
re q u e st of live m em bers.

ARTICLE X.—ORDER OF BUSINESS.
1.  R ead in g  m in u tes o f th e  la s t m eetin g .
2.  A dm ission o f new  m em bers.
3.  R ep o rts o f sta n d in g  c o m m ittees.
4.  R ep o rts o f special co m m ittees.
5.  R eading o f correspondence.
0.  C o m m u n icatio n s from  S ta te  A ssociation.
7.  C o m m unications from  local associations.
S.  U n fin ish e d   b u s in e s s .
9.  New business.
10.  E lectio n  o f officers  an d   a p p o in tm e n t  o f  co m m it­
11.  R e p o rt of T re asu re r.
12.  A d jo u rn m en t.
This  c o n stitu tio n   an d   by-law s  m ay   be  a lte re d   o r 
am en d ed   by  a   tw o -th ird s v o te  of th o se  p re se n t a t an y  
régulai- m eetin g ,  p ro v id in g   a   w ritte n   n o tice  o f  such 
a lte ra tio n   o r  a m e n d m en t  h a s  been   p rese n ted   a t   th e  
p ro ceed in g  r e g u la r m eeting.

ARTICLE XI.—AMENDMENTS.

tees.

ARTICLE  XII.—BY-LAWS.

By-law s  n o t in co n flict w ith   th is c o n stitu tio n  m ay  be 
e stab lish ed  fo r th e  g o v e rn m e n t  o f  th e   A ssociation  on
;nt a t any  ses-
th e
slon.

of th e  m em b ers pres 
B Y -L A W S .

■ th ird s  i

Five m em bers 
sa ctio n  o f b asin

ARTICLE I.—QUORUM, 
sh a ll c o n stitu te  a  q u o ru m  fo r th e  tra n -
ARTICLE II.—EXPULSION.

A ny m em b er o f th is  A ssociation w ho sh a ll  b e  p laced 
o n  th e  d e lin q u e n t list sh all  sta n d  ex p elled  fro m  th e  As­
so ciatio n ;  a n d  an y  m em b er d o in g  a n y  a c t  w hich ten d s 
to  b rin g  th e   A ssociation in to  d isp u te  sh a ll  be  expelled 
b y  th e  tw o -th ird s v o te o f th e   m em b ers  p re se n t  a t   an y  
re g u lu r m eetin g .

R U LE S  A N D   R E G U L A T IO N S .

R ule 1.  The special  aim  o f th is  A ssociation- is  to   fa ­
c ilita te  th e  co llectio n  o f  d o u b tfu l  a cco u n ts  a n d   o th e r 
d eb ts  by  fa ir  an d   h o n o rab le   m eth o d s  an d   to   g u a rd  
a g a in s t th e  ex te n d in g  o f c re d it to  d e b to rs fo u n d  o n   in ­
v e stig a tio n  to  be u n w o rth y  of it.
R ule 2.  The A ssociation e m p h a tic a lly   a sse rts t h a t it 
h opes to  co llect all d eb ts due th e  m em b ers w ith o u t p u b ­
lic ity , an d  th a t it n e ith e r d esires o r in ten d s, in   a n y   in ­
stan ce. to  p e rm it its   m em b ers  to  in te n tio n a lly   an n o y  
o r  p ersecu te  a n y   p erson  in d eb ted  to  m em b ers o f  th e  
A ssociation.
R ule 3.  T h a t no in ju stic e  m ay  be done  to, o r   a d v a n ­
ta g e   ta k e n   o f  a n y   d eb to r,  by a n y  m em b er o f th e   As­
so ciatio n , it sh all be th e  d u ty  o f  e v e ry   m em ber, b efo re 
re p o rtin g  a  p erso n  to  th e  A ssociation a s  a   d e lin q u en t, 
to  send him  th e  first official n o tificatio n  sh eet, know n as 
th e  •‘b lu e L e tte r,” s e ttin g  f o rth  th e  fa c t  t h a t   h e  owes 
th e  w rite r a  s ta te d  sum  a n d  t h a t he  is  g ra n te d   fifteen 
d ay s from   th e  d a te  e n te re d  on su c h  le tte r  in   w hich  to 
p a y  th e  d eb t, o r to  s a tisfa c to rily   a rra n g e   fo r  its   p a y ­
m en t;  th a t if a fte r  th e  e x p ira tio n   o f  th e   fifteen   d a y s 
th u s  g ra n te d , th e  d e b to r sh all  h av e failed  to  p a y   o r  to 
h a v e  arra n tre d  fo r p a y m e n t  th e   m em b er  sh a ll  re p o rt 
him  to  th e   S e c re ta ry  (g iv in g  in each  ease h is fu ll nam e, 
o ccu p atio n  an d  p lac e  o f residence),  w hen  th a t  officer 
sh a ll  m ail  h im   th e   second  official n o tificatio n  sh eet, 
s e ttin g  fo rth  th e  fa c t t h a t h e is in d eb ted  to  th e  m em b er 
nam ed  in th e  sum  sta te d , an d  th a t u nless h e p ays, o r a r­
ra n g e s to  p ay  th e  a m o u n t w ith in   ten  d a y s h e  will he re­
po rteil to  th e  E x ecu tiv e C o m m ittee a s a  d e lin q u e n t; an d  
in  th e  ab sen ce o f e x te n u a tin g  circu m stan ces, th a t C om ­
m itte e   sh a ll th en  p lace th e   d e b to r's  n am e  o n   th e   De­
lin q u e n t L ist.
R ule 4.  The second c irc u la r le tte r sen t to  th e   d e b to r 
shall  b e enclosed in th e  a u th o rize d  en v elo p e o f  tl 
so eiatio n , on w hich sh all be p rin te d ,-"If n o t  called   fo r 
in  ten  day s,  re tu rn  to  th e   V erm o n tv ille Business Men 
A ssociation,” an d  th e  non  re tu rn  of  an y  c irc u la r le tt 
th u s   m ailed   sh a ll  be  deem ed  sufficient evidence t h a t 
th e  said le tte r  w a s receiv ed  by th e  d e b to r addressed.
Rule 5.  D isputed ac co u n ts  sh a ll  be  in v e stig a te d   by 
th e  E x ecu tiv e  C o m m ittee, w hose  r e p o rt  on  th e   sam e 
sh a ll  be acted   upon by th e  A ssociation.
Rule 0.  A ny m em b er tru s tin g  a  m an  w hose n am e a p ­
p e a rs on th e  D elin q u en t L ist sh all be lined $10.

The following gentlemen then  announced 
their names for charter membership: W.  II. 
Benedict,  W.  M.  Bale,  A.  Alderman,  M. J. 
Cunningham,  Jas.  Fleming,  W. E. Holt, C. 
M.  Ambrose, J. C. Walsh and Stiles &  Ack-

Election of officers resulted as follows:
President—W.  II. Benedict.
Vice-President—C.  M.  Ambrose.
Secretary—W.  E.  Holt.
Treasurer—W.  M.  Bale.
Executive  Committee—President,  Secre­
tary,  Treasurer, E. U. Stiles andM. J. Cun- 
ningham.

The election of  the  Business  Committee 

was postponed until the next meeting.

The Executive Committee was  instructed 
to  procure  the  printing  of  the  necessary 
blanks for the use of the  collection  depart­
ment.

The editor of the Vermontville Echo  was

ATTENBERG S CIGARS

Hazel Kirke 
La Rosa Celeste 
Sweet Catawba J

10 cents. 
5 cents.

Having  secured  the  Sole  agency  for  S. OTTENBERG  & 
BROS.’  Celebrated  Cigars,  I  take  pleasure  in  recommending 
them to the Trade, as the Finest and Best

5  a n d  lO  G e n t  O ig a -rs

Ever placed on the Market.  They are made of the Finest Qual­
ity of Imported Tobacco without artificial  flavor.
G IV E   T H E M   A   T R IA L ,

I will send to any responsible first-class  dealer a sample of 
these Cigars on trial, to be returned  if not  satisfactory, within 
60 days.  We send advertising m atter with above Cigars.

M orris

SOLE  AGENTS

H. T reusch,
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

COrFEES—PACKAGE.

60 fts 100 fts 300 fts
............. 19 % 1954  1934
...............19»
1954  1934
19?s
1954
1954
1934
1954
2054
1954
18?4
1954

.1954

German, in  bins...
L ion........................
Lion,  in  cabinets..
Magnolia................
Royal.......................
Eagle.......................
M exican................
60 foot Ju te .......1  00 
¡50 foot Cotton —  1  60
72 foot J u t e .......  1  25  60 foot Cotton— 1  75
40 Foot Cotton___1 50  172 foot Cotton.... 2 00

CORDAGE.

CRACKERS  AND  SWEET  GOODS.

X  XXX

5P»
654

754

455

854

455

554

7
. 7
7
7

7
8
8
1154
»54
1554

8
8
8
1254
854

Kenosb a B utter. 
Seymour  Butter
B utter................
Fancy  B utter...
S.  Oyster...........
Picnic................
Fancy  Oyster...
Fancy  Soda.......
City Soda...........
Soda  ................ .
Milk
Boston 
.............................................
G raham ...............................................
Oat  Meal............................................
Pretzels, hand-made................
P retzels......................................
Cracknels..................................
Lemon Cream............................
Sugar Cream.............................
Frosted Cream..........................
Ginger  Snaps............................
No. 1 Ginger Snaps..................
Lemon  Snaps............................
Coffee  Cakes.............................
Lemon W afers..........................
Jum bles......................................
E xtra Honey Jum bles................
Frosted Honey  Cakes................
Cream  Gems.....................................
Bagievs  Gems................................
Seed Cakes........................................
8 . &  M. Cakes..................................
C itron....................................................
C urrants..............................................
Lemon Peel.........................................
Orange Peel........................................
Prunes,  French, 60s........................
French, 80s........................
@  8
French, 110s and 120s.
@  7
Prunes, Turkey................................
Raisins, Dehesia.......'............................ 3 50@5 00
Raisins, London Layers...........................  @2 50
Raisins, California  “ 
.......................1  50@2 00
Raisins, Loose Muscatels.....................1  70@1  96
Raisins, Ondaras, 28s............................9  @954
Raisins, Sultanas....................................   @ 854
Raisins,  Valencia, new  .......................  7  @  754
Raisins,  Imperiale....................................   @3 00

1354
1154
1254
13V4
1354
1354
12 V%
854
00 @  25
@ 654
@  14
@  14
.12 @1254
.10 @1054

DRIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN.

“ 
“ 

These  prices  aje  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay j  Herring. Holland,  kegs 

promptly and buy iu full packages

requested to print the  constitution  and  by­
laws of the Association in his next  issue.

A vote of thanks was tendered Mr.  Stowe 
for his assistance in effecting  the  organiza­
tion and the meeting adjourned.

T he  Grocery  M arket.

Sugar is about  a  sixpence  lower  than  a 
week ago, other articles in the  grocery  line 
being without marked  change.

The  woodenware  manufacturers  have 
succeeded in reviving  their  pool,  the  first 
result of which is an advance of 50  cents  a 
dozen on all grades of tubs and 10  cents on 
pails.

Oranges  are firm  and  somewhat  higher. 
The arrivals of lemons  continue  light  and 
prices  are  well  maintained.  There  is  no 
change of note in the nut market.

Owosso Joins  the State Body.

Owosso, Feb. 5,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
D e a r  Sir —At our first  regular commun­
ication convened last  evening,  the  question 
of annexing  our  organization  to  the  State 
I Association was brought  up.  After a short 
discussion,  it  was  unanimously  carried  as 
predicted  In  my  former  letter.  Hence 
please find enclosed  N.  Y. draft  for SO—$5 
for per capita dues on fifty members and $1 
for  subscription for  The  T ra desm a n for 
onp year to my address.
I am authorized by the Association to ask 
you  the following questions:
1.  How  many Associations  in  Michigan 
belong to the State  Association?
2.  How  many  members  belong  to  each
Association  which is  auxiliary to State As­
sociation? or,  in  other  words,  how  many 
members  belong  to  the  State  Association 
at  present? 
Please  answer  at  your  earliest  conven­
ience.
We are  now  ready for  action  and  have 
everything in fine shape.

,

Yours very truly,

S.  L amfkom,  Sec’y.

Mr.  Lamfrom  will  fiml  the  information 
he was instructed to  obtain  in  another col­
umn of this week’s paper.

A  Q uestion of Law .
F if e   L a k e,  Feb.

1881

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
D e a r Sir —If not  trespassing  too  much 
on your time,  I would like your decision on 
the following:
A gives his check,  on  a certain  bank,  to 
B.  B gives it to C.  C  presents  it  at  the 
bank and the bank refuses to honor it,  as A 
lias no funds there.  Two days later A fails. 
and his accounts are placed in the  hands  of
D.  As  the  bank  refuses 
to  honor  the 
check.  C returns the check  to  B.  B  gives 
it to E,  who owes A.  E forwards  it  to  I) 
in payment  of  his  account.  1)  returns  it, 
saying he cannot accept it.
Now,  can D  compel  E  to  pay  cash  in­
stead? 

Yours,

D e a l e r .

If the case is as stated  by  “Dealer,”  the 
check given by A never had  any  value,  as 
there  was  no  money  in  the  bank 
to 
cover it.  Not having any value,  E  cannot 
compel D to accept it in the payment  of  an 
account.

Good N ew s from  M uskegon.

M uskegon,  Feb.  5,1887.

E. A. Stowe. Grand Rapids:
D e a r  Sir —It  is  with  pleasure  I  write 
you that we had a very interesting  meeting 
last night  and  concluded to go in the State 
Association,  starting  out  with  twenty-five 
members, wbo paid  in  their  fees.  Please 
find $2.50 enclosed. 
I  think  we  will  get 
a good many more, but thought best to send 
you this now in order to  have  a representa­
tion at the State meeting in March.  Please 
notify me how long time  we  have  to  send 
our. money for membership  to  State  organ­
ization.
We will  hold  our  next  regular meeting 
on Friday evening and  if  it  is  convenient 
for you to be present, we would  like it very 
much.
Mr, Kieft and  myself  were  appointed  a 
committee  last  night  to see all the dealers 
in the city and try to get all  to  join  the or­
ganization.

Hoping to hear from you I remain.

Yours truly, 

Wm.  P e e r ,  Sec’y

A  Surmise.

“You know a scene occurs in  Hamlet,  in 
which Polonius asks the Prince  what  he is 
reading  and  receives  the  reply  ‘Words, 
words,  words,’ said a literary  traveler  to  a 
friend.”
“Yes.”
“Well, what do you  suppose  Hamlet was 

reading?”

“The Congressional Record,  I reckon.”
E. B. Sunderlin, general  dealer, Palo: 
the best of the kind I ever have seen.”

’It is

COUNTRY  PR O D U C E.

Apples—The best winter varieties are scarce 

a t $3@$3.25 $  bbl.

Beans—Country hand-picked command $1.15 

$  bu., and city picked  $1.50.

Beets—40c fi bu.
Buckwheat—2540 $  lb.
B utter—Michigan  creamery  is  in  good de­
mand  at28@30c.  Dairy  is  in  tair  dem andat 
20e.

Cabbages—$4©$5 $  100, according to size.
Carrots—30c $   bu.
Celery—Kalamazoo, 25c  $  doz.
Cheese—Fall stock of Michigan full cream is 

Arm at 1354@14c.

Cider—1254c 
Cranberries—Choice  Bell  and  Bugle  and 

gab

Cape Cod  are  steady  at  $9 $  bbl.

Dried  Apples—Evaporated, 

quartered and sliced, 6@654c 
Dried Peaches—Pared, 15c.
Eggs—More  easy.  Strictly  fresh command 

ll@12c 
ft.

i9  f t; 

26@27c.

Honey—Dull at 9@13e
Hay—Bailed  is  moderately  aotive  at  $15 
per ton  in two and live ton lots and  $14  in  car 
lots.

Onions—Good  stock  is  scarce,  readily  com 

manding $3.25 $  bbl.

Potatoes—Buyers are paying 35c@40c  at this 
m arket and towns within convenient shipping 
distance of this market.

Pop Corn—254c ip f t .
Squash—Hubbard, 2c $  lb.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

Wheat—2c higher.  City  millers pay 80 cents 
for Lancaster and 77  for  Fulse  and  Clawson.
Corn—Jobbing generally at 46®47c  in lOObu. 

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—Higher.  Patent,$5.20 ^9 bbl.  in  sacks 
and  $5.40  in  wood.  Straight,  $4.20 $   bbl. in 
sacks and $4.40 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.75 $  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $13  $  ton.  Bran, $14 
$  ton.  Ships, $14 $  ton.  Middlings, $15 $  ton. 
Corn and Oats, $18  $  ton. 

,

PROVISIONS.

The  Grand Rapids Packing  &  Provision  Co 

quote  as  follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

.......12  50
.......13  50
.......13 50
.......13 50
.......14 50
...... 15 00
.......15 00
.......15 00
.......15 00
.......15  50
.......15 50

Mess, Chicago  packing.........................
Mess, new...............................................
Short Cut, new.......................................
S. P. Booth, clear..................................
Clear,  A. Webster, n e w .....................
E xtra clear pig, short cu t....................
Extra clear,heavy.................................
Clear quill, short  c u t.............................
Boston clear, short c u t........................
Clear back, short cut............................
Standard clear, short  cut, best..........
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN  BOXES
Long Clears, heavy...............................
, 
medium............................
lig h t.................................
Short Clears, heavy.............................
medium............................
ugui...............................

“ 
“ 
do. 
ao. 
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN.
Hams, avei age 20  fts........................ ........... H Í4
16  fts........................ ........... 1154
“ 
12 to 14 fts ............... ........... 11«
“ 
“  picnic  .......................... .......... ...........   8
“  boneless.............  ..................
“  best  boneless.......................... ............10
Shoulders...........................................
Breakfast Bacon, boneless............... ...........   9
Dried Beef, extra............................... ...........   9
bam  prices.................... ........ .12

“ 
“ 

“ 

LARD.

BEEF IN BARRELS

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

«54
Tierces  .................................. ............
6%
30 and 50 ft T u b s................................. • •• 
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case.........................
7>4
* *8
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case......................... ... 
?
]01b Pails. 6 in a case........................ ... 
20 ft Pails, 4 pails in case.................. ... 
««
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 lbs............  7 50
Boneless,  e x tra .................................. :......... 13 00
Pork  Sausage...................................................  714
Ham  Sausage...................................................  714
Tongue  Sausage...........................................
Frankfort  Sausage.........................................  8
Blood  Sausage.................................................  6
Bologna, straight............................................  6
Bologna,  thick.................................................  6
Head  Cheese....................................................   6
In half barrels...............................................   3 00
In quarter barrels.........................................  1  65

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

PIGS’ FEET.

HID ES. PELTS  AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

HIDES.

Green .... f) ft  554@  6  Calf skins, green 
Part  cured...  7  @  754  or cured....  7  @ 9 
Full cured....  7 H@  8  Deacon skins,
Dry hides and 
$  piece.......20  @50

k ip s...........   8  @12

SHEEP PELT8.

(Groceries.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

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

AXLE  GREASE.
......  SOlParagon............3 10
90Paragon25fi>palls.  90
... 
__   60 Fraziers, 25 fl> pails.1  25
___2  501
BAKING  POWDER.
•*  2  “ 

“ 

1

“ 

Acme, 54 ft cans, 3 doz. case...........
54 ft 
...........
2 ft  “
B u lk .......................................
Princess,  548.......................................
548....................................
Is ............. ..........................
b u lk ......................................
Arctic, hi ft cans, 6 doz. case...........
...........
...........
...........
...........
Victorian. 1 lb cans, (tali,) 2 doz —
Diamond,  "bulk.” ....................................... '■ 

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

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54 
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Dry, No. 2............................................doz. 
25
45
Dry, No. 3............................................doz. 
35
Liquid, 4 oz,........................................doz. 
Liquid, 8 oz......................................... doz. 
65
Arctic 4 oz.........................................gross 3  50
Arctic 8  oz...........................................................  7 20
Arctic 16 OZ........................................................................  12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box.............. 
  2 00
Arctic No. 2 
3  00
4 00
Arctic No. 3

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Common W hisk...

No. 2 H url__ ........1  75
No. 1 H url.... Ì  00@'i 25
........ 2 25
No. 2 Carpet.. 
........ 2  50
No. 1 Carpet..
Parlor  Gem.. ........3 to)

90 
00 
.3 75

CANNED FISH .

.............1  10
Clams, 1 ft. Little Neck................
............. 2  15
Clam Chowder,  3 ft.......................
...... 90@1 00
Cove Oysters,  1  ft  standards.......
...........   1 75
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards.......
..............1  75
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic.......................
............. 2 65
Lobsters, 2 ft, picnic.....................
..............2  00
Lobsters, 1 ft sta r..........................
..............3 00
Lobsters. 2 ft sta r..........................
..............1  50
Mackerel, 1ft  fresh  standards...
..............5 25
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh  standards...
..............3  50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 f t..
Mackerel,3 ft in M ustard.............
.................3  50
..............3 50
Mackerel. 3 ft  soused....................
............. 1  60
Salmon, 1 1b Columbia river........
............. 2 80
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river........
Sardines, domestic J4b................................. 6@7
Sardines,  domestic  54s...............................  10@12
Sardines,  Mustard  54s................................. 10@i2
Sardines,  imported  5is................................12@16
Trout. 31b  brook......................................  
  4 

CANNED FRUITS.

CANNED VEGETABLES.

Apples, gallons,  standards.........................3 25
Blackberries, standards.............................   90
Cherries,  red  standard................................1  10
Damsons........................................................ 1  00
Egg Plums, standards 
.............................. 1 25
Gooseberries................................................... 95@1 00
Green G ages.standards2ft...................... 1 25
Peaches, Extra Yellow.............................. 2 00
Peaches,  standards.....................................1  60
Peaches,  seconds........................................ 1 45
Peaches, pie..................................................I 20
Pineapples, standards................................ 1 40
Pineapples, Johnson’s sliced.....................2 60
Pineapples, Johnson’s, grated................. 3 75
Q uinces........................................................ 11*}
Raspberries,  ex tra...................................... 1 25
red..-...................................... 1 35
Strawberries  ................................................1 2a
W hortleberries............................................   90
Asparagus, Oyster Bay................................3 00
"leans, Lima,  standard...............................  75
Jeans, Stringless,  E rie..  ..........................   90
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked......................1  70
Corn,  Archer’s Trophy................................1  15
*•  Morning  Glory................................. I  10
“  Acme................................  
“  Maple Leaf..........................................1  10
“  Excelsior.............................................1  20
“  Onondaga......................................... 135
“  D arby..................................................1  50
“  O sborn................................................1 00
“  New  Process.......................................1  00
“  B a rtle tt...............................................1  10
Peas, French..................................................1  50
Peas, extra m arrofat—   ....................1  20@1 40
Peas,  soaked.................................................   71
Early June, stand.......................1 50@1
sifted.................................... 2 00
French, extra fine.................................... 20 00
Mushrooms, extra  tine...................................... 20 00
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden.................................1  00
Succotash, standard.......................................80@1 30
Squash............................................................1  00
Tomatoes, standard brands........................1  15
Michigan full  cream ............................ 13H©14
.  @14
York  St ate, Acme.......................  .. 

CHEESE.

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CHOCOLATE.

Wilbur’s  Prem ium ..351 German  Sweet..........23
Sweet........25 Vienna Sweet  .......... 2
B’kf’tCoeoa 45! Baker’s .....................3'
........35
Cocoa-theta 42 Itunkles’ . 

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COCO AN UT.
Sehepps,Is................................
Is and  54s..................
548...............................
Is in tin  pails...........
54s 
...........
Maltby’s,  Is...............................
Is and  548...............
54s............................
Manhattan,  pails....................
Peerless

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@25
@26
@27
@2754
@2854
@2354
@24
@2454
@30
@18

WOOL.

ft........25  @28

Old wool, estimated washed 
Tallow......................................................  3  © 3>4
Fine washed 49 ft 25@28!Coarse washed.. .20©24
Medium  ............. 27@30!Unwashed. .......... 
2-3
. 165i@17 R io............... .16  @18
Bear  .................................................. .10 00@15 00 Golden Rio. ..17  @19 Golden Rio.. .18  @20
4 00®  6  00 Santos........ ..15  @17 Santos.......... .......... 20
B eaver...............................................
..........16 Maricabo__ ...18@2l
75® 1 00 Maricabo...
B adger............................................... . 
Java............. .  ,25@26
50®  75 J a v a ..........
... 26@30
Wild Cat..............................................
10©  20 O. G. Java.. . .28  @30 O. G. Java... .25  @29
House Cat.......................................... . 
.  1 00®  1  25 Mocha  .......
.......23 Mocha.......... .27  @28

R io .............

Roasted.

Green.

FURS.

“  cross..........................................
“  g ra y ........................................... .  1 00©  1 26
F isher..........  ................................... .  4 00®  8 00 x x x x .......
Linx.................................................... .  3  00®  8 00
30®  60 Dilworth’s .
M ink................................................... . 
.  1  00®  1  25 Standard  ..
M artin...............................................
O tte r................................................... .  5 00®  8 00 G erm an__
Coon...................................................... 
4C@  90
90®  1 00
Skunk................................................... 
Wolf......................................................  2 00® 3 00
Muskrat,  w inter................................. 
12®  14
06@  08
fall......................................... 
Deer,  f) ft................................................ 

5®

These prices are for prime skins only.

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FISH .

Cod, whole............................................... 4  @4*4
Cod, boneless..................................................5@654
H alib u t...................................................  ...  9@iC
..  @2  75
Herring, round.  54  bbl........
........   1  35
Herring .round,  14  bbl..........
.......11  00
Herring, Holland,  b b ls.......
........ 75®90
Herring, Scaled..........
@20 
Mackerel, shore, No. 1,54 bbls..
.8  00®  10  00
.......  1 50
“ 
1 2 » kits 
........ 1  25
“  10 

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No. 3.54 bbls.......................
Sardines,  spiced, 54s...........................
Trout, 54  bbls.......................................
“  10»  k its.................................. .
White, No. 1,54 b b ls...........................
White. No. 1,12 lb kits........................
White, No. 1.10 lb kits........................
White, Family, 54 bbls........................
“ 
ki$s............................
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
Lemon

“ 

Jennings’ D. C.,3 oz...............^  doz.  1 00
“  4 oz............................ 1  50
“  6 oz............................ 2  50
“   8 oz.............................3  50
“  No. 3  Taper............. 125
“  No. 4 
............. 1 75
“  V4 pint,  round..........4  50
“
“ 
..........»00
“  No. 3  panel..............1  10
“ 
“  No. 8 
................3 75
“  No. 10  “ 
................4 25

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MATCHES.

io@ i2

........ 5  00
.........1  00
........ 6  75
........1  00
........   90
........ 3 50

Vanilla.
1 40
2 50
4 00
5  00
1  50
2  75 
7  50
15 00 
1  65 
4 25
6  00

Grand  Haven.  No.  8, square........................1  00
Grand Ha.'en, No 9, square, 3 gro................1 20
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor.....................1  75
Grand  Haven,  No. Uu©, parlor.....................2 25
Grand  Haven,  No. 7,  round........................1  50
Oshkosh, No. 2................................................ 1 (X)
Oshkosh, No.  8................................................ 1 50
Swedish................................................. ..........   75
Richardson’s No. 8  square...........................100
Richardson’s No. 9 
.............................150
Richardson’s No. 754« round......................... 1  00
Richardson’s No. 7 
............................1 50
Woodbine, 300............................................90® 1  10
Black  Strap.................................. .*..............16@18
Cuba Baking..................................................25@28
Porto  Rico.....................................................24@80
New  Orleans,  good......................................28@34
New Orleans, choice.....................................44@50
New Orleans,  toncy.................................... 52@55

MOLASSES.

do 
do 

Y  bbls. 2c extra 

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14 bbl.3 001 
“  cases 3 251

Rolled Oats, bbl__ 5  50'Stecl  cut, bbl..........5  50
“  54 b b l...3 00

OATMEAL.
“ 
FICKLES.
...... 5 00@5 50
M edium.................................
.......  _  @3 25
“  V4 bbl.......................
____5 50@5  75
Small,  bbl...............................
PIPES.
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

00

RICE.
Java  ..........
■ 6541 514
'4k! Rangoon... 
:<3  1[Japan........

(Broken.

6

....  @554

Table  ..................
DeLand’s pure........ 554 j Dwight’s .......
Church’s  ................ 5  Sea  Foam 
Taylor’s G. M..........5  ¡Cap  Sheaf__
54c less in 5 box lots. 

SALERATUS.

SALT.

«,

1 

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15

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28
40
20

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SOAPS. 

SAUCES.

1  45 
1 25

Ground. 

s t a r c h .
3ft 

.  @20 
.  8@10 
.10® 11 
.  @60 
.  @50 
.  @28

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

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....................
....................
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 Sauce, 54 pints.......................
A corn......................3 851 E xtra Chicago Fain-
Master  ....................4  00 
ily .........................2 94
New Process, 1  f t . .3 85|Napkin.................... 4  75
New Process, 3  ft..3 iHfTowel......................4  75
Acme,  bars........... 3 55 White  Marseilles..5 50
Acme,  blocks.......  3 05! White Cotton  Oil..5 50
Best.  American__ 2 93|Railroad................. 3 50
Circus  .................... 3 70:U.  G......................... 3 45
Big  Five  C enter...3 851 Mystic White..........4 65
Nickel......................3 45 Saxon  Blue........... 2 60
Shamrock............... 3 15 Palmer’s, 100 bars..5 50
Blue Danube..........2 55 
..4 25
2 301 S ta r........................ 3 75
London  Family 
s p i c e s .
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Whole
Pepper................ 1H@351 Pepper............
Allspice...............12@15jAUspice...........
Cinnamon........... 18@30iCassia..
No.
Cloves  ................ 15@25;Nutmeg!
No.
G inger..........,__ 16@20|Nutmegi
M ustard...............15@30jCloves  ................
C ayenne.............25@3o!
® 5% 
Muzzy, Gloss, 48 ft boxes, 1  ft  pkgs...
“  48“  “ 
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@ 554 
@ 4 
40 ft  “  b u lk ............
“ 
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" 
@ 654 
1 ft pkgs___
“ Corn, 40 ft boxes, 
@  6 
@  6>4 
“ 
“  20  ft 
....
l f t   “ 
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@ 7 
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1 ft pkgs —
“  6 ft boxes...
©  754 
*•  b u lk ........ ..
@ 654 
Pure, 1 ft pkgs...................
@ 554 
@ 7 
Corn, l f t  pkgs...................
Royal, Gloss, 1 ft packages..................
@ 534 
@ 4 
bulk..............................
@ 6 
Corn  ...........................................
Firmenieb, new process, gloss, l f t —
@ 554 
% 
3 ft 
@ 554 
® 654 
“  
6 f t . . . .
@ 4 @ 6
" balk, boxes or bbls
“  corn. 1 ft...............
@  634 
Cut  Loaf...............................................
@  654 
C ubes......................................'...............
® 654 
Powdered...............................................
®  fl'a 
Granulated,  Standard..........................
@  5% 
Confectionery A ....................................
@@ 5?6 
Standard A ..............................................
No. 1, White E xtra  C............................
@  554 
No. 2, Extra C.........................................  5
@ 434 
No. 3 C......................................................
@ 454
No.4 C
4%®  4J4
New Orleans, in  hds....................
25@2I
Corn,  barrels  .......................................
27®29
Corn, 54 bbls............................................
©30
Corn,  10 gallon kegs...............................
©ri
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.... ...........................
23@36
Puro  Sugar, bbl......................................
25@3’
Pure Sugar, 54 bbl..................................
TOBACCO—H N B  C U T -IN   PAILS.
C h erry ......................BOlCrossCut......................35
Five and  Seven........ 45 01dJim ........................35
Magnet....................... 35 Old Time.................... 30
Seal of D etroit.........60|Underwood’sCapper 3f
Jim Dandy................38 Sweet  Rose.................46
Our  Bird....................25 Meigs A Co.’s Stunner36
Brother  Jonathan...27!A tlas• -•
Jolly  Time............... 36i Royal Game.................38
Our  Leader....................33 Mule Ear................65
Sweet  Rose....................«rij Fountain........... ...74
May  Queen................ 65i Old Congress............ 64
Dark American Eagle67| Good Luck........
The Meigs..................60 Blaze Away „....
Red  Bird...................50! Hair L ifter...................30
Prairio F lo w er........65j H iaw atha................... 65
Indian Queen........... BOiGlobe..........................65
May Flower..............70|Bull  Dog.
Sweet  Pippin...........45ICrown  Leaf................66
H u stler.....................22!
Our  Leader.............. 15iUnit  ............................30
Old Vet........................ 30  Right  Hours.............24
BigDeal........................... 27 Lucky  ..................30
Navy Clippings........ 26 Two  Nickel................24
L eader.....................15 Duke’s  Durham......... 40
Hard  Tack.........32 Green Corn Cob Pipe 26
D ixie................................... 28 Owl..................... 16
Old T ar............................40 Rob Roy.................26
A rthur’s  Choice.......22 Uncle  Sam..................28
Red Fox...................... 26 Lum berm an.........
Gold D ust................... 26! Railroad Boy............. 38
Gold  Block................30j Mountain Rose............18
Seal of Grand Rapids  Home Comfort..........25
(cloth)................. 25 Old Rip.........................60
Tramway, 3 oz..........40 Seal or North Caro-
lina, 2  oz................ 48
Miners and Puddlers.28| 
Peerless  ....................24 Seal of North Caro-
Standard ....................20 
lina, 4 oz...................48
Old Tom.................... 20 Seal of North  Carq-
Tom & Jerry ............ 24 
lina, 8oz....................45
Joker......................... 25 Seal of North  Caro-
T raveler..................35 
lina, 16 qz boxes. ...4!
Maiden.....................25 King Bee, longcut.. .f
Pickwick Club.........40 Sweet Lotus.................32
Nigger  Head..................26 Grayling
H olland...............'..22 Seal Skin.......................30
G erm an........................15 Red Clover............... 82
K. of  L ....................42@46 Good Lu  k..’...........26
Honey  Dew..............25 Queen  Bee.:  ..............22
Colonel’s  Choice..... 15

SMOKING

SUGARS.

BTRUPS.

............. ..  39 Splendid............. ...  38
Star 
Old Solder............. ... IT  Red Fox............... ....40
....40
Corner Stone........ .. .34 Chocolate  Cream ....40
Scalping  K nife... .. .84 Nimrod  ............... ....35
Sam Boss............... ..  34  Big Five Center.. __ 33
...29 P a rro t................ ....42
N e x t....................
.. .32 B u ste r................ ....35
Jolly T ar.............
Jolly  Time........... .. .32  Black Prince....... ....35
F av o rite............... ...42  Black  Racer....... ....35
.. .32 Climax  ............... ....42
Black  Bird..........
.. .30
Live and Let  Live . .32 Acorn  ................
Quaker................
.. .28 Horse  Shoe........ ....37
.. .42 V inco.................. __ 34
H iaw atha...........
...37jMerrv W ar.......... ....26
Big  Nitf...............
...39 Ben  Franklin__ .. .32
Spear  H ead........
p.  V ................
... 40  Moxio..................
.. .38  Black Jack .......... __ 82
Spring Chicken..
Eclipse  ...............
...30 Musselman’sCor. ier.30
SHORTS.
.. .16| Hiawatha...........
22
.. .23: Old Congress....... ....23
22
.. .22 May  Leaf...........
.. ,28| D a rk .................... ....20
SNUFF.

Our  Leader........
Mayflower..........
Globe....................
Mule E ar.............

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Lorillard’s American Gentlemen.
Maccoboy.......................
Gail & Ax’ 
..........
..........
Rappee.......... 
Railroad  Mills  Scotch...  .............
Lotzbeck  .........................................

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TEAS.

Japan ordinary......
Japan fair to good..
Japan fine................
Japan dust...............
Young Hyson..........
GunPowder.............
Oolong.....................
Congo.......................

®  55 
@  44 
@  35 
@  45 
@1 30

.... 1S@20 
....25® 30 
.... 35®45 
.... 15@20 
.... 20@45
__ 35® 50
33@55@6C 
.... 25©30
50 gr. 
10 
10 
16

30 gr. 
08 
08

White Wine
C ider..............................................
York State Apple........................
m iscellaneous.
Bath Brick Im ported..................
90
do 
American..................
Burners, No. 1 .............................
1 00 
do  No. 2.............................
1  50
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand........... 7 60@7 7O
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.............
@25
Candles, Star......................................
@11
Candles.  Hotel.....................................
@12
Camphor, oz., 2 ft boxes...................
@35
Extract Coffee, V.  C...
@80
F elix .........................
©1 20
Gum, Rubber  100 lumps.....................
@25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.............
@35
Gum, Spruce....................................
30@35
Hominy, 4? bbl.............
@3 00
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails...............................
4@ 454
Pearl  Barley.....................
254® 3
Peas, Green  Bush...............................
©1  15
Peas,-Split  Prepared..........................
@ 3
Powder, Keg.......................................
@5 OO
@2  75
Sage  ....................................
®  15
Sauerkraut  .......................................... 4 50@5 OO

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CANDY. FRUITS AND  Nil rs .

Putuam  & Brooks quote as follows

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

Standard, 25 1b boxes............................ 854®  9
Twist, 
@ 9
..................
Cut Loaf 
©10
Royal, 25 ft  pails..................................
®  9
Royal, 200 ft bbls.................................. .  ©  8
Extra, 25 ft  pails..................
@10
Extra, 200 ft bbls..................................
@   9
French Cream, 25 ft pails....................
@1154-
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases.............................
@10
Broken, 25  ft  pails...............................
@10
Broken, 200 ft  bbls...............................
@ 9

FANCY—IN  5 ft  BOXES.

@12
@13
@13
14
18

union  Drops...............
Sour Drops....................
Peppermint  Drops__
Chocolate Drops..........
H M  Chocolate  Drops.
um  Drops  ................
icoriee Drops........... .
\  B  Licorice  Drops..
ozenges, plain...........
ozenges,  printed.......
m perials.....................
M ottoes........................
Cream  Bar....................
Molasses Bar................
Caramels.......................
Hand Made Creams__
Plain  Creams...............
Decorated  Creams.......
String Rock..................
Burnt Almonds__ ___
Wintergreen  Berries..

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FRUITS

@1154
@1054
@1254
@1154
@1254
© 654
@ 554
@10
@  9
@12
@1254
@1154

FANCY—IN  BULK.
Lozenges, plain  in  palls.............
Lozenges, plain in  bbls...............
Lozenges, printed in pails..........
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..........
Chocolate Drops, iu pails...........
Gum  Drops  in pails....................
um Drops, in bbls.....................
Moss Drops, in  pails....................
Moss Drops, in bbls......................
Sour Drops, in  pails....................
Imperials, in  pails.......................
Imperials  in bbls.........................
Bananas  Aspinwall....................
Oranges, California, fancy........
Oranges, California,  choice.......
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls...............
Oranges, Florida..........................
Oranges, Valencia, cases............
Oranges, Messina.........................
Oranges,  Naples..........................
Lemons,  choice............................
Lemons, fancy.............................
Lemons, California.....................
Figs, layers, new,  V ft................
"igs, Bags, 50 ft............................
Dates, frails  do  ..........................
Dates, 34 do  d o ..........................
Dates, skin....................................
Dates, 54  >kin...............................
Dates. Fard 10 ft box V  f t....................  954@10
Dates, Fard 50 ft box V B>..........
Dates. Persian 50 ft box $  ft................  7
Pine Apples, 
doz.............................
@18
Almonds,  Tarragona............................
@18
Ivaca......................................
@17
C alifornia............................
Brazils..................................................... 11!«@12
Chestnuts, per bu..................................
Filberts, Sicily........................................1054@11
Barcelona.................»............  @  9
@17 
Walnuts,  Grenoble...
Marbo........
French.......
California..
Pecans,  Texas, H. P..
Missouri__
Cocoanuts, V 100........

@4  OO 
@3 60
2 50@3 75 
@5 50
2 o04^2  i5
3 75@4 00
4 25©4 50
.10 @15 
@   6 
© 554 
©  654

12  @16 
11  @14 
_@  9 
5  50®6 00

@ 854 
© 754

NUTS.

1254

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PEANUTS.

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Prime  Red,  raw  $   ft............................  @4
Choice 
do  .............................   ©  454
Fancy H.P. do  do  .............................  i&@  5
Choice White, Va.do  ............................  ©  554
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ............................  6  ®  65*
H. P .V a...................................................  6  @  «14

O Y ST kKS  AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaier quotes as follows: 

OYSTERS.

New  York  Counts.......  .....................................33
H. F. H. & Co.’s Selects..................................... 28
Selects..................................................................22
Anchors  ...................................  
13
Standard  ............................................................. 16
Favorite................................................................ 14
P rim e........................ 
12
Selects, bulk, 49  g&l.........................................1  50
Standards, bulk, 49 gal...................................1 00
New York Counts, 4H  10O........... .................... 1 25
shell, 49  IK)....................... 1  40
Clams, shell, 49  100...........................................  80

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FRESH  FISH.
Cod  .......................
Haddock............... "4 ............
Mackinaw T rout.. 
Pftrnji.....................
Smelts  ..................
W hiteflsh........  
.

15

@10
(£& 7
®  8 
® 3
........... 10 @11
@ 9

M I S C E L L A N E O U S .

Hemlock Bark—1Tanners all have  large  sup­

plies.  Dealers are paying $5 for good bark.

Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay  $1.50  4?  B>  for 

clean washed roots.’

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

FIE 1
Clover,  mammoth.
.........................  
Timothy, prim e...................................... 

4  85
medium....................................4  85@5 00
2  10

iD   S E E D S .

IDruos éttoeòicines

State  ltoard  o f  Pharm acy. 

One Y ear—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Two Yearn—Jtunes Vernor, Detroit.
Three Y ears—O ttm ar Eberbaeh, Ann  Arbor. 
F our Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
F ire  Years—Stanley E .T arkell, Owosso. 
President—O ttniar  Eberbaeh.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
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T reasurer—Jas. Vernor. 
Next Meeting—At G rand ltapids, March 1 and 2.

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M ichigan  State  P harm aceu tical  Ass’n. 

President—Frank J. W urzburg, Grand ltapids.
F irst Vice-President—Mrs. C. W. Taylor, Loomis. 
Second Vioa-President—H enry Harwood, lshpem ing. 
Third-Vice-President—F rank Inglia, Detroit. 
S ecretary—S. E. P arkill, Owosso.
Treasurer—Win. Dupont, D etroit. 
Executive Com m ittee—Geo.  W. C router, J. G. Johnson, 
Local Secretary—Guy M.  Harwood, Petoskey.
Next Place of M eeting—At  Petoskey, July 12, IS and H.

■  ,
F rank Wells, Geo. G undruin and Jacob Jesson.

Grand  R apids  Pharm aceu tical  Society.

ORGANIZE!*  OCTOBER  9, 1884.

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P resident—Geo. G. St^kettee.
Vice-President—H.  E. Locher.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
T reasurer—Henry  B. Fairchild. 
Board of  Censors—President,  Vice-President  and  Sec-
Boardroit Trustees—The President,  John E. Peck,  M.  B. 
Kimm. Win. H. VanLeeuwen and O. H^Richmond. 
wen, Isaac W atts. Wm. E. W hite «ndW ra.  L. \ \  hite. 
Com m ittee on Trade M atters-John E. Peck, H. B. ra lr-
C o m m itt^  " S e l i f i o n - R .   A.  McWilliams,  Theo.
C o m m o n  S a m ™ - W .  L. W hite, A. C. Bauer and 
.
R egular  Meetings—F irst  Thursday  evening  in  each
A im ualM eeting-Fi rst  Thursday evening in N ovem ber 
N ext  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  Mar 
.8,  a t  THE 

Isaac W atts. 

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Tradesman office.

Saginaw   C ounty  Ph arm aceu tical  Society.
P resident—Jay  Smith.
F irst Vice-President—W. H. Y am all.
Second Vice-President—K. Bruske.
Secretary—D. E. Prall.
T reasurer—H. Melchera. 
Com m ittee on Trade M atters—W. B. Moore, H. G. H am­
R egular  Meetings—Second  W ednesday  afternoon  in 

ilton, H. Melchera, W. H. Keeler and  R. J. Bim ey. 
each m onth.

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D etroit  Pharm aceu tical  Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER, 1888.

President—A. F.  Parker.
F irst Vice-President—F rank Inglis.
Second Vice-President—J. C. Mueller.
S ecretary and Treasurer—A. W. Allen.
A ssistant Secretary and Treasurer—H. McRae. 
A nnual Meeting—F irst W ednesday in June.
R egular Meetings—F irst W ednesday in each  m onth.
Jackson  C ounty  Pharm aceu tical  Ass’n.

President—R. F. Latim er.
Vice-President—C. D. Colwell.
Secretary—F.  A. King.
T reasurer—Chas. E. Hum phrey. 
Board of Censors—Z. W. W aldron, C. E- Foot  and C. H.
.
A nnual Meeting—F irst Thursday in November. 
R egular Meetings—F irst Thursday in each  m onth.
M uskegon  D ru g  C lerks’  Association.

Haskins. 

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

each month.

M ecosta  County  Pharm aceu tical  Society.
President—C. H. W agener.
Vice-President—Nelson Pike.
Secretary—A. H. Webber.
T reasurer—C. A. Fellows.

Oceana County Pharm aceu tical Society.

P resident—F. W. Fincher.
Vice-President—F. W. VanWickle.
Secretary—F rank Cadv.
T reasurer—E. A. W right.

Mason  County  Pharm aceu tical  Society.

President—F. N. Latim er.
S ecretary—Wm.  Heysett.
T reasurer—W. H. Taylor.
Meetings—Second Wednesday of each month.

Clinton  C ounty  D ru ggists’  Association.

President—A. O. Hunt.
Vice-President—A. S. Fildew.
Secretary and Treasurer—A. 8. W allace.

Mbnthly  Meeting  of  the  Grand  Rapids 

Pharmaceutical Society.

At the  regular  monthly  meeting  of  the 
Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society,  held 
at T h e  T r a d e s m a n   office  last  Thursday 
evening,  Geo  M.  Matthews  and  Geo.  F. 
Whitfield  applied  for  membership.  The 
applications were  referred to a special com­
mittee,  consisting of Messrs.  Peck,  Locker 
and Kimm.

Frank  J.  Wurzburg  presented  a  letter 
from A.  B.  Stevens,  relative  to  the  fortli- 
•coming  National  Formulary, 
requesting 
suggestions  or  additions  by  March  15. 
The matter was referred  to  the  Committee 
on Pharmacy,  with instructions  to  comply 
with the request within the  time  specified.
The price of the new catalogue was placed 
at  Si  dollar  per  copy.  Other  association 
desiring copies of the same can obtain them 
on the basis of 50 per copy in  paper  covers 
and 75 cents in cloth.

Frank  II.  Escott  was  requested  to  an­
nounce at the  next  meeting  a  subject  for 
-discussion at the succeeding  meeting.

The  Society  then  adjourned  for  two 

weeks.

“ Iadinem atased.”

The conglomerate  title  published  under 
the above head  in  last  week’s  paper  was 
meant to stand for “Iodide  of  Potassium.” 
The price offered for the first  correct  solu­
tion was won  by Will.  L.  White,  of Grand 
Rapids.  who  telephoned  in  a  correct  an­
swer before half  the  edition  of  that week 
was mailed.  The  order  in  which  the  re­
plies came were as follows:

1.  Will.  L.  White,  Grand Rapids.
2.  Fred.  E.  Stephens. 
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:>.  F.  A.  Hennesey,  Charlotte.
4.  E.  C.  Bond,  Muskegon.
5.  II.  Walsh,  Holland.
0.  S. M.  Snow,  Ludiugton.
7.  Geo.  McDonald.  Kalamazoo.
8.  S.  M.  Vinton,  Leetsville.

Valuable  Publication.

The Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society 
lias now in press the largest  and most com­
plete catalogue of  proprietary articles  ever 
issued by a  local  organization.  The  work 
has  been  compiled  with  great  care  and 
is  being  printed  in  a  thoroughly  artistic 
manner.  A limited number of copies  have 
been printed with the title page  left  blank, 
which will be furnished to other local  asso­
ciations wishing same for 50 cents per copy, 
bound in  paper,  and 75 cents in  cloth.  So­
cieties wishing  to  take  advantage  of  this 
offer would do  well  to  communicate  with 
the Secretary of the Grand  Rapids Pharma­
ceutical Society without delay.

Shiawasse County Druggists.

The druggists of Shiawasse county met at 
Owosso last week and effected a  temporary 
organization.  They will meet again  at  the 
same  place  on  Thursday  evening  of  this 
week,  for the purpose of completing  the or­
ganization.

The Drug Market.

The advances reported  last week have all 
been maintained and some articles have fur­
ther advanced.  Opium lias  again advanced 
25 cents  and  morphia  15  cents,  with pros­
pects  of  higher  prices  for  both.  Carbolic 
acid is  again  marked  up.  Foreign  brands 
are about out of market and  none is coming 
forward,  and it is safe to predict an advance 
of 75 cents  per  pound  very soon.  The ad­
vance in the price  of  Salacine  to  $4.60,  re­
ported last week, wras  followed next day by 
a jump to $12.  There  is  very  little  stock 
of the article in New York and that  is con­
trol led  by  a  few  holders.  Cubeb  berries 
have  again  advanced.  Higher  prices  are 
probable for  cuttle bone,  as  stocks are very 
small and the new catch  will  not come into 
market before June or July.  Insect powder 
is  constantly  advancing.  Present  quota­
tions  are  for  pure,  uncolored.  Adultered 
and high colored powder  can be  bought for 
30  to  35  cents,  but  is  almost  worthless. 
Balsam copaiba supplies  come in very spar­
ingly  and  at  higher  prices.  Oxalic  acid, 
sassafras,  borax, oil sassafras and oil worm- 
wood  have  all  advanced.  Quinine  seems 
low, with present high prices and ready sale 
for  barks.  The  tendency  is  decidedly up­
ward and prices  will rule  higher  this  year 
than last.  Cinchonidia  has  been  neglected 
for a long time  and lias  ruled low, but now 
is active  and  advancing  in  sympathy with 
quinine.  Senna  leaves,  gum  tragacanth, 
ipecac root, canary seed, hemp seed,  Italian 
anise  seed,  American  saffron,  rape  seed, 
cardamom seed and oil lemon are all tending 
upward and are likely to  be  quoted  in  the 
advance list next week.

It may be  thought  by  some  that  the ad­
vances are too  rapid  and  will  not  be  sus­
tained,  but it should  be  considered  that we 
are recovering from a  long  depression  and 
that values are coming up to a more natural 
level. 

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Found a Mare’s Nest.

Peculiar  allegations have  been  preferred 
against County Druggist  Murphy,  at Chica­
go.  He was employed to do the buying of the 
drugs for  the  county  hospital,  and  recent 
disclosures show that all the purchases came 
through  the  Chicago  Pharmaceutical  Co., 
which was  composed of Mr. Murphy  alone. 
The  “Co.”  kept  no  stock  and  did  no gen­
eral business, confining its operations wholly 
to buying and rebilling to the county.  Enor­
mous  discrepancies  have  been  discovered 
between the prices at which the goods  were 
billed to the company  and  those  at  which 
tile latter billed them  to  the  county.  For 
instance,  chlorate  of  lime  was  bought  at 
S}4 cents and billed to  the  county  at  12K 
cents; sal-soda  was bought at 
cents and 
billed at accents;  borax  Was bought at 6% 
cents  and  billed  at  10%  cents;  aqua  am­
monia was bought at 2% cents and  billed at 
4% cents; oil  of  bergamot  was  bought  at 
$2.30 and billed at  $3.65;  common  chloro­
form was bought at 40 cents  and  billed  as 
Squibb’s ehloroform at $1.25;  iron and  qui­
nine was bought at $3.15 and billed at $4.50; 
four-ounce  boxes  costing  $2.12  were  bill­
ed  at  $4.12;  wafers  costing  $4.75  were 
charged  at  $7.50;  Epsom  salts  bought  at 
2% cents were billed at 4% cents; one dozen 
gallon packers which cost $1.48 were  billed 
at $2.90; linseed meal costing 2% cents was 
charged at 4% cents.

When  the  mare’s  nest  was  discovered, 
Mr.  Murphy  suddenly  concluded  that  the 
condition of Ills  health  demanded a change 
of climate.

The  Adulteration  of  Mustard.

A well-known English chemist,  in speak­

ing of the adulteration of mustard,  says:

It seems to be supposed that the presence 
of a certain amount of wheat Hour is desira­
ble and even necessary in  mustard,  for  the 
purposes  of  consumption;  allowing  this, 
that no standard exists as to the  amount  of 
flour which may thus  be  present,  and  that 
indeed the purchaser has no  cause  for com­
plaint under the circumstances,  I  regret  to 
find  myself  compelled  to  point  out  such 
fallacies as these.  Apart from the common 
mistake that mustard cannot be used a as con­
diment  without  being  mixed  with  flour,  it 
must  be  remembered  that  mustard  is  re­
quired for other purposes;  and that if a pur­
chaser  asks  for  mustard  lie  is legally en­
titled to get it,  and not a  mixture of it with 
other substances added in such  proportions 
as those who prepare to see fit.
Power of  the  Iowa  Commission  of  Phar­

macy.

Last December,  the  Iowa  Commissioners 
of Pharmacy were about to  revoke  the  cer­
tificates of two  registered pharmacists  who 
iiad  violated  the  law,  when  an  injunction 
was issued agaiust them and action stopped. 
The  injunction  was  given  on  the  ground 
that the commission had not sufficient juris­
diction in the case.  Last week the  injunc­
tion was dissolved,  and  the  commissioners 
allowed to proceed in their  execution of the 
law.

Belladonna in Sterility.

The  various  medical  journals  just  now 
contain  communications  in  regard  to  the 
good results of belladonna,  in  altering  con­
ditions  of  the  female  generative  organs 
which prevent conception,  so that  pregnan 
cy may  result.  Pills  containing  extract of 
belladonna,  in %-grain doses, three times  a 
day,  are  recommended  for  the  relief  of 
of ovarian neuralgia  and  amenorrhoea,  ac­
companied by sterility.  Of course,  concep­
tion  will not follow the use of the belladon­
na alone.

Chloroform vs. Ether.

In  England,  during  1885, 

there  were 
twelve deaths attributable to the use of chlo­
roform,  and but three to ether.

Several  cases  of  poisoning  from  anilin 
pencils have been  reported  within  the  past 
few years.

Definition of medicine  (by a French  scof­
fer):  What is medicine?  The art of killing 
people without offending  the police.

Cats  and  Catnip. 

Correspondence National  Druggist.

to 

is  a 
a  neighbor 

In the drug store of Budd Bros.  & Hutch­
ison,  in this place,  is an  herb-case  contain­
ing forty-eight  drawers.  All  of  these  are 
filled  with  pressed  herbs  of  different 
large  cat  belong­
kinds.  There 
ing 
that  comes 
into 
the store frequently to  hunt mice.  The cat 
came in a few evenings ago, but on this  oc­
casion did not seem to be on a mousing tour, 
but jumped on the counter  and  from  there 
to  the  herb-case,  and,  after  resting  and 
seeming to meditate  for a while,  reached its 
paw to the second row of  drawers from  the 
top,  and,  in  its  effort  to  bring  out  the 
drawer selected,  lost its balance and  fell  to 
the floor.  This mishap  did  not  disconcert 
it in the least, but back to  the  counter  and 
from them to the herb-case it went  again in 
a hurry,  and with its paw,  brought  out  the 
drawer containing catnip.

This strange action on the part of  the  cat 
attracted the attention of those in the store, 
whereupon  the  druggist  removed 
three 
drawers to the counter.  The cat  was placed 
upon  the  counter  and  passed  from  one 
drawer to another, until it came to its favor­
ite catnip, where it remained and seemed to 
enjoy  the  aroma  arising  from  the  same. 
Since the evening referred  to, whenever the 
cat comes into the store  it insists upon rest­
ing on the herb-case,  and,  if  driven  away, 
will  return 
immediately.  This  strange 
action on the part of the cat can be vouched 
for by a number of the business men in  our 
town. 

,

Gillespie,  Ills.

Fighting  Fire  W ith Fire.

From the Western Drug  News.

A short time ago a druggist  in one of our 
medium cities became aware that his neigh­
boring dry goods dealers  were  about .to  in­
terfere with the fancy goods  branch  of  his 
business.  He  studied  the  situation  care­
fully as a business man,  went to New York 
and laid in a supply,  with an especial refer­
ence to a fight,  being particular to have sala­
ble  gpods,  first-class  in  every  particular. 
On his return home he  used  equal  skill  in 
getting ready his  display,  and  liberally ad­
vertising good,  well-selected  stock,  and  at 
as  low  prices  as  could  be  possibly found 
elsewhere.  As a natural conseqence, it was 
his goods that supplied  the  demand,  while 
those of his  neighboring dry  goods  dealers 
remained shelved,  and,  in  the end, went in­
to the hands Of  the  consumer  through  the 
hands of the druggist.  He,  by his business 
tact and schrewdness,  held the trade  where 
it belonged;  and  the  whole  drug  trade  of 
that city owed a  debt  of  gratitude  to  this 
one man for his bravery and business  skill.

No Change in a  Drug Store.

From the Elmira Gazette.

“Take  my  advice  and  when  you  get  a 
prescription  put  up  at  a  drug  store never 
ask how much it is,” said one gentleman  to 
another,  the other day.

“Why not?” he continued.
“Because the clerk will  ‘size  you  up,’  as 
the boys say,  guess  how  much  money  you 
have got,  and charge you your pile.”

‘ ‘What do you advise?”
“Just this.  When the urbane compound­
er of  medicine  hands  forth  your  prescrip­
tion, just look wise and lay down a quarter. 
Now the chances are that the  drugs  in  the 
preparation don’t cost over a dime.  He will 
look  at  the  quarter,  study a  minute,  and 
then make  up  his  mind  that  he  lias  been 
foolisli enough to sell you the same dose for 
25 cents at some past time, and he’ll  take it 
and not say a  word.  Lay  down  a  dollar, 
however,  and it will be just the  same.  No 
change.  Try it and see.”

Cuticura ointment is said to be  composed 
of petrolatum, colored green with analin  (or 
possibly copper),  a  little  carbolic  acid and 
perfumed with some essential oil.

Mills &  Goodman, Props.

miles.  Good reason for selling.

'  habitants.  Doing good business.

town.  No  other  drug’  store  withiu  five 

375 South Union St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
fX)R  SALE—Stock of about 500  in  Northern 
IÌ80R SALE—Stock of $1,700 in town of 800 in- 
IpOR  SALE—Stock of about $1,800 in town of 

1,000 inhabitants in eastern part of  State. 
Will  give  liberal  discount  for  cash  or make 
good terms.
17M)R SALE—Stock of about $4,000 in towu of 
. 
4,000 inhabitants.  Will  sell  either  at  in­
ventory or estimate.
},X)R  SALE- Stock of $4,500 In  town  of  4,000 

population.  Sales $10,000 a  year.  Clean 
stock.  Four drug stores in  town.  Reason for 
selling, other business in  Southern  Michigan.
A LSO—Many  other  stocks,  the  particulars 
f which we will  furnish  on  application.
V I7E  HAVE also secured  the  agency  for J. 
V V  H. Vail & Co.’s medical publications and 
can  furnish  any  medical  or  pharmaceutical 
works at publishers’ rates.

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■M)  DRUGGIS 

.  we will fur 
ticulars of those

TS—Wishing  to  secure clerks 
lish the  address  and full  par- 
on our list free.

Michigan Drug Exchange,

357 South Union St., 

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Grand Rapids.

LOCAL  SOCIETIES

Desiring copies of the new  catalogue of the 
Grand  Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society  can 
obtain the same on the basis of 50 cents per 
copy in paper covers and 75 cents  in  cloth. 
Address  FRANK  H.  ESCOTT,  Sec’y, 

Gra n d R a pid s,  Mic h.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

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BACCAE.

ACIDUM.

AMMONIA.

BALSAMUM.

Advanced—Gum  opium,  gum  opium-  po., 
morphia, salacine, carbolic acid, insect powder, 
balsom  copaiba,  oxalic  acid,  sassafras  bark, 
cinchonidia. P. & W., cinchonidia,  German, oil
sassafras, oil wormwood, cubeb berries, blood 
root, blood root,  po.
Declined—Pink  root,  serpenia  root, senega 
root.
A cetieum ...............................................  
8®  10
Benzoicum,  German............................  8U@1 00
Carbolieum............................................   55®  60
C itric u ii.................................................  70®  75
H ydrochlor............................................ 
3®  5
N itrocum .........................................—   10®  12
Oxallcum ............. '.................................   11®  13
Saffcylicum............................................1  85©2  10
Tannicum............................................... 1 40@1  60
T artaricum ............................................   50®  53
Aqua, 16  d eg.........................................  
3®  5
18  deg........................................... 
4®  6
Carbonas.................................................   12®  14
Cliloridum..............................................  12®  14
Cubebae (po.  1 75.................................. 1 85@2  10
Juniperus  ............................................ 
6®  7
X anthoxylum .......................................   25®  30
Copaiba...................................................  50®  55
Pnmi 
Jftll  nn
4Ó
T olutan............................................... ..  45® 50
18
Abies,  Canadian.................................
11
Cassiae  ...............................................
18
Cinchona Flava..................................
30
Eaonymus  atropurp.........................
20
Myrica  Cerifera, po..........................
12
Prunus  Virgini..................................
12
Quillaia,  grd.......................................
12
Sassfras  ..............................................
12
Ulmus..................................................
10
Ulmus Po (Ground  12).......................
..  24® 25
Glycyrrhiza Glabra...........................
..  83® 35
po....................................
8® 9
Haematox, 15 B> boxes..........*...........
Is......................................
.  @ 12
13
kfl  ..........................................
@ 15
@ 15
Carbonate Precip...............................
@3 50
Citrate and Quinia.............................
@ 80
Citrate Soluble....................................
@ 50
Ferrocyanidum Sol............................
Solut  Chloride.................................... ..  @ 15
..  Hi® 2
Sulphate, com’l,  (bbl. 76)..................
@ 7
pure....................................
B arosm a.............................................. ..  38® 40
Cassia  Aeutifol,  Finnirdly............... ..  20® 25
Alx.......................... ..  35® 50
Salvia officinalis,  lis and  14s........... ..  10® 12
8® 10
Ura  Ursi.............................................. .. 

KXTHACTUM.

FERRUM.

CORTEX.

FOLIA.

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GUMMI.
2nd 
@ "0
.............................
@ 80
3rd 
.............................
@ 65
Sifted  sorts..........................
p o ..., ............................................ ..  75@l  09
Aloe, Barb,  (po. 60)............................ ..  50® 60
@ 12
r  “  Cape, (po. 20)..............................
© 50
“  Socotrine,  (po. 60)....................
Aminoniae  ......................................... ..  25® 30
Assafoetida,  (po. 30)..........................
@ 15
Benzoinum ................................................... ..  50® 65
Cam phorae................................................... ..  24® 2J
Catechu, Is,  (Yts,  14; &s, 16).............
@ 13
Euphorbium,  po........................................ ..  35® 10
..  © 80
Galbauum ......................................................
..  75® 80
Gamboge, po.....................   .............
Guaiacum, (po. 45)............................
@ È
Kino,  (po. 25)......................................
..  @ 9
©t 2o
Mastic...................................................
Myrrh, (po.45)............................ .................. ..  @ 40
.. 3  7o03 85
Opii, (po. 5 25)..............................................
Shellac............................................................. ..  18® 25
..  25® 30
bleached......................................
..  30® 75
Tragacanth .................................................
25
Absinthium  ................................................
Eupatorium  ..............................................
20
25
Lobelia  .........................................................
28
Majorum  .....................................................
23
Mentha Piperita......................................
25
“  V ir .................................................
30
R u e .................................................................
Tanaeetum,  V ..........................................
25
Thymus. V ...................................................

h e r b a —In ounce packag-¿8.

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MAGNESIA.

Calcined,  P a t.............................................
Carbonate,  P a t.................................
Carbonate,  K. &  M..........................
Carbonate,  Jennings.......................

OLEUM.

Absinthium.......................................
Amygdalae, Dulc.............................
Amydalae, Am arae..........................
Aitisi  .................................................
Auranti  Cortex.................................
Bergamil........................... ........
Cajiputl  ....................................
Caryophylli...............................
Cedar...........................................
Chenopodii  ...............................
Cinnamon!!........... ...................
Citronella  .................................
Conium  Mac..............................
Copaiba.....................................
Cubebae  ....................................
Exechthito3...............................
Erigeron.......................... •........
Gault h eria................................
Geranium, 5...............................
Gossipii, Sein, gal.....................
Hedeoma....................................
Juniperi......................................
L a v e n d u l a ..........................
Lim onis.....................................
Lini, gal.....................................
Mentha Piper............................
Mentha Verid............................
Morrhuae,  gal..........................
Myrcia,  5....................................
Olive...........................................
Picis Liquida, {gal. 50).............
K ic i n i...................................................
Rosm arini.................................
Rosae,  5......................................
Succini  ......................................
Sabina.........................................
Santal.........................................
Sassafras....................................
Sinapis, ess, j ............................
T iglii...........................................
T hym e........................................
opt..................................
Theobromas...............................
POTASSIUM.
Bichrom ate...............................
Brom ide....................................
Chlorate, (Po. 23).......................
Iodide........................ ...........’...
P ru ssiate ..........................   .  ..

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RADIX.

A lth ae ...............*.......................
A noli u s a ....................................
Arum,  po..................................
Calamus......................................
Gentiana,  (po. 15).....................
Glychrrhiza,  (pv. 15)................
Hydrastis  Canaden,  (po. 35)...
Hellebore,  Alba,  po................
Inula,  po....................................
Ipccao, po..................................
Jalapa,  p r .................................
Maranta,  lis .............................
Podophyllum,  po.....................
Rhel  ..........................................
“  c u t......................................
“  PV......................................
Spigelia  ....................................
Sanguinaria, (po. 25)................
Serpentaria........... ...................
Senega.......................................
Smilax, Officinalis,  H ..............
Mex..........
Scillae,  (po. 35)..........................
Symplocarpus,  Foetidus, p o .. 
Valeriana,  English,  (po.30)...
Germ an..................

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SEMEN.

60
..  20® 22
..  20© 25
..  35® 36

.12

..4 00@4 50
..  45® 50
..7 00@7 50
..2 00®2 10
@2 50
! 00012  75 
@  75 
®2  15 
35®  65 
@1  50 
®  75 
®  75 
35®  65 
®  80 
00® 13  00 
90® l  00
1  20@1  30
2 30@2 40
@  75 
55®  75 
9C@t 00 
50©2 00 
90@2 00
2 25®2 35 
42®  45
3 00®3 75 
6 00@7  00
80® 1  00 
®  50 
l 00@2  75 
10®   12 
1  42®1  60 
75®1  00 
@8  00 
40@45 
90® 1  00 
3 50@7 00 
50®  20 
®  65 
■ @1  50 
40®  50 
@  60 
15®  20

....  72®  14 
....  36®  40 
....  20®  22 
....a  flfl@3 25 
----  25®  28

...  25®  30 
...  15®  20 
®  25 
...  20®  50
...  10®  12
...  16®  18
®  30 
...  15®  20
...  16@  20
...1 40® 1  50
...  25®  30
®  35
...  15®  18
...  75<§t  00
@1 75 
...  75®1 35 ! 
...  50®  55 i 
@201 
40®  45
... 
50® 55
... 
@  40 |
@  20 l
...  10®  12 !
@2 5  
@2 5  
15®  20.

... 

Auisum, (po. 20)......................................  
  @ 17 |
A pi u m  (graveolens)...............................   12® 15
Blrd, Is.......................................................  
4®  6
Carili,  (po. 20)...........................................  12® 15
Cardamoni...............................................1 00@1  25
Coriandrum..............................................  10®  12
Cannabis  Sativa....................................  3V4®  4
Cydonium......................................... 
Chenopodium  .........................................   10®  I#
Dipterix  Odorate....................................1 75@l  So
Foeniculum................................................  @ 15
Foenugreek, po........................................  
6®  8
Lini...........................................................  3i4@  4
Lini, grd, (bbl,  3)....................................  3^@  4
Phalarls  Canarian.................................  4J4@  5
R a p a ............................................  
 
8®  9
Sinapis,  Albu......................................... 
8®  9
Nigra  ...................................... 

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SPIRITUS.

Frumenti,  W.,  D. & Co..........................2 00@2 50
Frumenti, D. F. R................................... 1 75@2 00
F ru m en ti................................................ 1 10@1  50
Junipeais Co.  O. T ..................................1 75®l  75
Juniiieris  Co............................................1 76@3  60
Saacharum  N. E ................ 
1 75@2  00
Spt. Vini  Galli........ ...............................1  75@6 50
Vini O p o r t o . . . . . ...................1  25@2 00
Vini  Alba................................................ 1 26@2 00

WHOLESALE

42 and 44  Ottawa Street and 89, gi,

Druggists!
ats, u m iu
Pains, Oils, Vaniste,

IMPORTERS  AND JOBBERS  OF

93 and 95 Louis Street.

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Elegant  Pharmaceutical  Prepara­

tions,  Finii  Extracts  ani 

tirs

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

Wolf, Patton & Co. and John L. 

Whiting, Manufacturers  of 

Fine Paint and  Var­

nish Brushes.
THE  CELEBRATED

ALSO  FOR  THE

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

Horse Brushes.

W E  A R E   SOLE  OW NERS  OF

Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Cnre

Which is positively the best Remedy 

of the kind on the market.

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

tm t

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

WITHERS DtDE&OO.’S

Henderson Co., Ky.,

Sour Mash  and  Old-Fashioned 

Hand-Made, Oopper- 

Distilled

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

W e are also owners of the

Druggists'  Favorite  Rye,
Rios, Brandies & Fine Wises.

Which 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 asPatent  Medicines,

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

Mail  orders  always  receive  our special 

Hazeltine 

& Perkins 

Drug Co.

10® 12
85@1 (10
55® 60
60® 65
2® 3
90@1  00
60@2 85
@ 40
@ «0
@ 10
23® 25
@3 00
@2 70
@1 40
@ 85
@ 50
@ 18
@ 35
vi#
14® 15
@ 40
@ 15
8® 10
7® 9
10®1 20
@1 00
45® 50
8® 10
70® 75
65® 70
12® 13
@ 35
@12 00
40® 50
@4  50
12® 14
8® 10IE
(0*
I •) 
28
@
@ 18
@ 30
® 35
@ a-.
8® 10
33® 35
2® ZY»
4® 5
3® 4
VÍV
50® 55
@2 00
@2 50
@2 
fr .\ * 35
30
2*@
VA
2M@ 3
8® 10
28® 30
@ 40
00@16 00
7® 8
Bbl  Gal
75
60
56
41
44
80
50
Lb 
2® 3 
2®  3 
2® 3 
2H@ 3 
2X@  3 
13@16 
68@60 
16® 17
6® 6 Yt
6® 6V4 
@70 
@90 1  10 
1  40 
1 20@1  40 
1 00@1 20
...1 10@1 20 
. ..1  60@1  70 
..2 75@3 00 
..  1 00@1  10 
...1  55@1  60 
...  70®  75

SPONGES.

Florida sheens’ wool, carriage... ..2 25  @250
Nassau 
do
2 00
Velvet Ext  do
1  10
Extra Y*5  »  do
85
Grass 
do
65
Hard ' 
75
Yellow Reef, 
1  40

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

do
do
do
dc

.. 
.. 

do

MISCELLANEOU

cent.

jEther, Spts Nitros, 3 F __
ASther, Spts. Nitros, I F ...
A lum en...............................
Alumen,  ground, (po. 7)...
Annatto  ..............................
Antimoni,  po.....................
Antimonl et Potass  T art..
Argent!  Nit ms,  3...............
Arsenicum..........................
Balm Gilead  Bud...............
Bismuth  8.  N .....................
Calcium  Chlor,  Is, (54s, 11;  ^s, 12).
Cant harides  Russian, po 
Capsici  Fructus, af 
Capsici Fructus, po 
Capsici Fructus, b, po...
CaryophylluB,  (po.  35)...
Carmine, No. 40..............
O ra  Alba. S. &  F ...........
Cera Flava.......................
Coccus  ..............................
Cassia Fructus................
C entraria.........................
Cetaceum ........................
Chloroform.....................
Chloroform,  Squibbs 
Chloral Hydrate  Cryst
Chondrus .....................
Cinchonidine, P.& VV..
Cinchoniaine,  German 
Corks, see list, discount,  per 
CreasotuSn ...
Creta, (bbl. 75)
Creta  pr«p........
Creta, precip__
Creta Rubra.......
Crocus  ...............
Cudbear.............
Cupri Sulph
D extrine..................
Ether Suiph.............
Emery, all  numbers
Emery, po................
Ergota. (po. 60)........
Flake  White
G alla................
G am bier..........
Gelatin, Coopor 
Gelatin, French 
Glassware Hint, 70&10 by box 
Glue,  Bro.vn...
Glue, W hite__
G lyceriua........
Gratia  Paradisi
Hum uluR.......................
Hydrarg Chlor. Mite__
Hydrarg  Chlor.  Cor__
Hydrarg Oxide Rubrurn 
Hydrarg  Ammoniati...
Hydrarg U nguentum ...
H ydrargyrum ..............
lchthyocolla, A m ........
Indigo.............................
Iodine,  Resubl...............
Iodoform .......................
Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg lot 
Liquor Potass  Arsinitis..
Lupulinc  ..........................
Lycopodium.....................
Macis..................................
Magnesia. Sulph, (bbl. 1*4)
Mannia. S. F.......................
Morphia,  S, P. &W ..........
Moschus Canton...............
Myristica, No. 1................
Nux  Vomica,  (po. 20)...........
Os.  Sepia.................................
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. I). Co..
Picis Liq,  N. C.. Yt  galls, doz
Picis Liq.,  quarts..................
Picis Liq., pints.....................
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80).............
Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22)  ............
Piper  Alba, (po. 35)...............
Pix  Burgun............................
Plumbi  A cet..........................
Potassa, Bitart, pure...........
Potassa,  Bitart, com...........
Potass  Nitras, opt................
Potass  N itras...........
Pulvis Ipecac et opii...........
Pyrethrum, boxes,  H. &P. D
Pyrethrum, pv.......................
Quassiae.................................
Quinia, S, P. &  W..................
Quin in. S, German................
Rubia Tinctorum ..................
Saccharum  Lactis, pv ..........
Salacin....................................
Sanguis Draconis..................
Santonine...............................
Sapo,  W..................................
Sapo,  M..................................
Sano. G....................................
Setdlitz  Mixture....................
Sinapis....................................
Sinapis,  opt............................
Snuff,  Maceaboy,  Do. Voes.
Snuff, Scotch,  Do. Voes.......
Soda Boras, (po.  10)...............
Soda et PotossTart...............
Soda  Carb...............................
Soda,  Bi-Carb........................
Soda,  Ash...............................
Soda  Sulphas........................
Spts. Ether  Co.......................
Spts.  Myrcia  Dom................
Spts. Myrcia Im p..................
Spts. Vini Rect, (bbl.  2 25)...
Strychnia, Crystal.. 
..........
Sulphur, Subl........................
Sulphur.  Roll........................
Tam arinds.............................
Terebenth  Venice................
Theobrom ae..........................
Vanilla  ..................................
Zinci  Sulph............................

OILS.

Co., doz.

Whale, winter......................................  70 
Lard, extra...........................................  55 
Lard, No.  1...........................................  45 
Linseed, pure  raw .............................   38 
Linseed, boiled  ...................................  41 
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained...........   50 
Spirits Turpentine.............................   44 

Bbl
1«
1*
IX
8*
2*

PAINTS

Red Venetian.........................
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles....
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda.......
Putty, com m ercial...............
Putty, strictly pure..............
Vermilion, prime  American
Vermilion,  English...............
Green, Peninsular................
Lead, red strictly p ure.......
Lead, white, strictly p u re...
Whiting, white Spanish.......
Whiting,  Gilders’..................
White, Paris A metacan.. 
Whiting  fa rts English cliff 
Pioneer Prepared  I aints  .. 
Swiss Villa Prepare*  Paints 
VARNISHES
No.  1 Turp  Coach..................
Extra  T urp...........   ........
Coach Body........................
No. 1 Turp Furniture......
Extra Turk  Daniar..........
Japan Dryer, No. 1  Turp.

FURNITURE  FINISH.

Make Old Furniture 

Look Like New.

grease, then apply

DIRECTIONS  FOR  USE:
First  remove  all  dirt  and 

POLISHINA  j

with  a  cotton  cloth,  and  rub; 
down until dry.

1 00

The Best Furniture Finish  in 
the market.  Try  it, and  makej 
5® 6
your old Furniture  look  Fresh 
and New.
Ask your Druggist, Furniture Dealer, Grocer 
or Hardware Store  for  POLISHINA.  If .they 
do not have it, send 25 cents for a bottle to

M M ir lisD r iC o .

GRAND  RAPIDS.

l Œ Ï M Q V - A X

J.

The firm of S. A.  W e l l in g ,

------ <K)PY.------
24 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich.,

Has this day been discontinued. 

Its assets (stock, 
accounts, fixtures, etc.) have been transferred to, and its obligations assumed by W el lin g  
& Ca r h a r t t,  Detroit,  Mich., who alone are authorized to collect all accounts due said firm.
Thanking you for the patronage so kindly bestowed upon me, and  trusting  you  will 
continue the same with the new concern, I am,  Respectfully Yours,
J a n u a r y 31. 
24 Pearl St.,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

S. A. WELLING.

BTTSIiNESS  OHLAJtTOE.
I have discontinued business at 117 Griswold St., Detroit,  and have  sold  and  trans­
ferred my stock,  accounts, etc., to Welling & Carhartt,  139  Jefferson Ave., who  are 
authorized to make all collections due me.
Hoping you  will extend your favors to the new concern as you have so  kindly  done 
to me in the past, 
J a n u a r y 31. 
117 Griswold St., Detroit, Mich.

I am, Your Obedient Servant,

HAMILTON  CARHARTT.

------COPY.------

CONSOLIDATION.

Having  purchased the stock, accounts, etc.,  of  S.  A.  Welling,  of  24  Pearl  St., 
Grand Rapids, Mich., and of Hamilton Carhartt, of 117 Griswold St.,  Detroit,Mich., 
and removed the same to the large and commodious four-story building,

No.  139  JEFFERSON  AVENUE,

we beg leave to inform the trade that we have added to these stocks an  immense  line  of 
Spring Furnishings and Notions,  purchased direct  of  the  manufacturers,  and  are  in  a 
position to take care of your trade better than ever before.
We shall manufacture our  own  PANTALOONS,  OVERALLS,  JACKETS,  SACK 
COATS and WORKING  SHIRTS in a manner we firmly bylieve  to  command  your  ad­
miration.  Our whole aim is to be not unworthy a fair consideration at your hands.

Very Respectfully,

m   S

S

r

»

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,

  m . o h .  WELLING  &  CARHARTT.

PRESENTS  WITH

BAKING  POWDERS

Order a Case.

W hite  Star  Baking  Powder.
Decorated China given with each can

Pound cans, 2  doz. in  case  for  $9.  A  large  piece 

Fam ily  Baking  Powder.

Pound cans, 2 doz. in  case for $8.  Given with each 
can,  a  large  Hob  Nail  Oblong  Berry  Dish, as­
sorted colors.
Silver  Spoon  Baking  Powder.
10 oz. cans, tall, 3 doz. in case for $7.75.  With each 
can,  choice of a quart Pitcher, 8 inch  Nappy,  7 
in. Comport.  All Mikado Pattern, Crystal Glass.

Arctic Manufacturing Go., Grand Rapids.
ISWEBI-
PDBE-1  NEW  PROCESS  STARCH. 

removed,

This Starch having the  light  Starch  and  Gluten 
O r x e -T tiir c L   L e s s

Can be used than any other in the Market.

M an ufactu red b y  th e

FIRMENICH  MNFG. CO.

Factories:  M arshalltow n,  Io w a ;  Peoria,  Ills.

Offices  at  Peoria,  Ills.

STRONG

FOR  SALE  BY

Clark,  Jewell  &  Co.
E.  V .A. I_i I_i .A. S,

Makes a Specialty of

SURE.

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. I patent fillers used.  50 cents each.

97  and 99 Canal Street, 

- 

Grand Rapids, Michigan

ORDER

Our Loader Smoking 

Our Leader Fine Out 

15c per pound.

33c per pound.

Our Leader Shorts, 

Our Leader Cigars, 

16c per pound.

$30 per M.
Tlxo  Best  lxx  tlxo  W orld.

Clark, Jewell & Co.,

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

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

O’Brien & Murray’s “Hand Made Cigar.”

PERKINS  &
D E A L E R S  IN HESS,
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

NOS.  1 2 2   a n d   1 2 4   L O U IS  S T R E E T ,  G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H IG A N .

WM. SEARS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

Agents  for

AMBOY  CHEESE.

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

where in this issue and write for

Special  Prices in  Car  Lots. 
We are prepared to make Bottom Prices on anything we handle.
A  B. KNOWLSON,

3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich.
HESTER  &  FOX,

SAW  AXTD CRIST MILL MACHINERY,

m a n u f a c t u r e r s ’  a g e n t s   f o r

Send for 
Catalogue 

ana 

Prices*

A T L A '

ENGINE
WORKS

INDIANAPOLIS.  IND„  U.  S. A.
___________M A N U F A C T U R E R S   O P
STEAM  EN&INES& BOILERS.
Carry Engines and Boilers In Stock 

for  immediate delivery.

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

Saws, Belting and Oils.

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

Pulley and become convinced of their superiority.

W r ite   fo r  P r ic e s. 

1 3 0   O A K E S  S T ..  G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

OIL & GASOLINE CANS,

Wit lx  W ood  JacLLot,

LATEST  IMPROVEMENTS  FOR  1887.

THE

THE

3, 5  and  10 
Gal. Size.

WITH or WITHOUT 

JACKET.

H. LEONARD <& SO N S,

GHAND  HAPIDS,  MICH.

Manufactured by the Adams & Westlake Mfg. Co., Chicago.

Order a'tample case of

HONEY BEE COFFEE.

PRINCESS  BAKING  POWDER,

Equal to the Best in the market.

59  Jefferson  ave.,  Detroit, Mich..

.  Wholesale 
I, 

J.E.
RIND6E. BERTSCH t CO.,
BOOTS  A N D   SH O ES.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Grocers,

AGENTS  FOR THE

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

♦  road history of the country. 

TH E NEW   REGULATION  OF  RAIL-

ROADS.

The  enactment  of  the  Cullom-Reagan 
bill as a law begins a new  era  in  the  rail- 
It is true  that 
the bill is not a finality, but it  commits  the 
nation definitely to  the principle of railroad 
regulation,  and  in  this  form  or  in  some 
other that principle will  be  applied.  This 
bill will  furnish  a  fulcrum  for  the  enact­
ment of  supplementary  measures  more  or 
less stringent as  the  operations of this one 
show to be desirable. 
It will serve  also  as 
a fulcrum to the friends, of  similar  legisla­
tion on the part of the States.  And  finally 
it  will  result  in  placing the entire control 
of railroad and similar traffic  in  the  hands 
of Congress, by an amendment  to  the  Na­
tional Constitution.

All this is satisfactory enough, but the bill 
itself is not satisfactory. 
It is  not  for  one 
reason because it is simply  legislation,  and 
has no firm basis in amendment to the Con­
stitution.  Congress should  not  have  been 
satisfied to legislate up to the  limits  of  its 
power. 
It should have  appealed to the na­
tion to have those powers  extended,  so that 
an efficient and just regulation  of  the- rail­
roads might be made  possible.  This bill is 
open to evasions, because  it  regulates  only 
such  traffic  as  crosses  State  lines. 
It  is 
certain  to  press  unequally  upon  different 
lines,  wherever there is not  a  parallel  and 
exactly  similar  regulation  by  the  States. 
Better have asked for  the  whole  power'to 
deal with the question,  than attempt  to  ex­
ercise half-power in a way which cannot  be 
efficient or equitable.

The bill is objectionable because it embod­
ies the results of popular  but  unreasonable 
clamors,  as well as of  intelligent  study  of 
the problem. 
Its prohibition  of  pools,  the 
device  by  which  the  railroads  have  been 
averting a cut-throat  competition  injurious 
both to them and  to  the  public,  is  an  in­
stance of  the  former  element 
It  is  true 
that the bill will not succeed  in  preventing 
pooling. 
It  only  will  substitute  more 
secret and informal understan4ings for pub­
lic  engagements and thus diminish the pub-! 
lie  security  against  unfair  combinations. 
What was needed  was  that  every  pooling 
arrangement  should  be  submitted  to  the 
commissioners the bill creates, and  then  to 
vest in them the power to annul it  Under the 
bill they can suspend this clause,  and  they 
may be able to use the power of  suspension 
to secure the positition of arbitrators in this 
matter  between  the  railroads  themselves, 
and between the  railroads  and  the  public. 
That will be the best  outcome  of  Clause  5.
But  it  is  Clause  21  which  excites  the 
greatest  amount of opposition,  as being the 
most likely to create  trouble. 
It  is  aimed 
at the practice of  making  short  hauls  pay 
for the losses on  long  hauls. 
It  does  not 
require  charges  proportional  to  distance, 
but it forbids a railroad to  charge  as  much 
for a short haul as it does for a  longer  haul 
over  the  same  ground  and  in  the  same 
direction.  How this will  work  is  a  prob­
lem which practice  must  solve.  The  talk 
of needing a judicial  decision  to  determine 
its operation is idle.  Our own notion of its 
workings is as follows:  Let us suppose that 
a railroad has as many stations as there  are 
letters in the alphabet,  A and  Z  being  the 
two termini,  and the  distance  between  the 
several stations being equal as they  always 
tend to be.  Such a railroad  will  naturally 
divide its line into  sections,  with reference 
to competitive  points  and  State  lines. 
If 
we designate the dividing points by capitals 
our alphabet will then stand thus:

AbcdeFghi j KlmnoPqrstU vwxyZ.
It then  will  fix  its  freight  charges  for 
each section at substantially the same rates, 
with a merely nominal charge  for  the  dif­
ferences  between  the  stations  within  the 
section—say one cent for  every five tons or 
less for each station that is passed. 
In this 
way it will comply  with  the  letter  of  the 
law, and yet avoid anything like proportional 
charges.  By no  possible  arrangement  can 
the road be compelled  to  give  short  hauls 
the same terms as long,  under  such  an  ar­
rangement. 
In fact it may give them much 
worse than it now does.  And it is just this 
clause which  will  be  found  inadequate  to 
abolish  an  abuse  of  railroad  power  from 
which the country suffers  more  than  from 
any other

It is true that very large  hauls  from  the 
West will have to  pay  more  heavily  than 
they now do.  But  this  is  eminently  fair, 
although it is surprising to find the Legisla­
ture of Minnesota  demanding  the  passage 
of a bill which must have  this  ‘effect.  The 
fact is that the Granger  states  have  set  an 
example in this matter  whose  imitation  in 
our national legislation cannot  but  deprive 
them of the unfair  advantages  given  them 
in  the  economy  of  railroad  management. 
And it is just that they should lose this.

OUR  RELATIONS  W ITH   CANADA.
The recent  action  of  the  Senate  is  the 
most  positive  assurance  yet  given  of  the 
seriousness of the  people  and  government 
of the  United  States  in  their  attitude  to­
ward the fisheries question. 
If  the  corres­
pondence of the State Department  had  not 
convinced our Canadian  neighbors  on  this 
point, nor the  language  of  the  President, 
nor the report  of  Secretary  Manning,  nor 
the several measures  proposed and discuss­
ed in Congress,  nor the expressions  of  our 
newspapers,  it is to be  presumed  they  will 
see in the unanimous vote of  the Senate for 
a retaliatory bill some evidence  of  earnest­
ness.

The truth is, and we trust  our  neighbors

will open  their  eyes  to  the tact,  that  the 
policy  of  the  Dominiou  during  the  last 
twelve-month,  with  regard 
to  American 
fishermen and American  vessels  connected 
with the fisheries,  has been  simply  intoler­
able and unbearable.  That it would be per­
manently endured, or  that  it  would  effec­
tively serve as a means of compelling  us  to 
make commercial concessions to  which  we 
were disinclined,  could only have  bear  im­
agined by some  one  very  ignorant  of  the 
temper and judgment of the United  States. 
It was therefore inevitable that  some  such 
step  as  this  would  soon  be  taken.  The 
conservatism that had until now delayed  it 
was itself a contribution to the  present un­
animity, and our neighbors may rest  assur­
ed that from this time  out there will be en­
ergy and firmness in the action of the Unit­
ed States fairly to be measured by  the  pro­
visions of the Edmunds bill.

It is quite true that the question  at  issue 
is very largely one of fact,  and  that in deal­
ing with this the  Canadian  newspapers,  so 
far as their recent expressions h^ve been re­
ported,  and  those  of  London  also,  have 
taken  the ground that there ar£no facts in 
favor of the United States.  This is  an  un­
worthy evasion, and one that will not avail in 
the presence either of the  proofs  offered  in 
the  correspondence  of  the  State  Depart­
ment,  or  of  Senator  Frye’s  catalogue  of 
cases.  The  Dominion  authorities 
them­
selves are perfectly  aware  what  the  facts 
are, and  when  Mr.  Foster,  challenged  by 
Mr.  Frye’s speech,  set  out  to  rebut it,  he 
found his readiest answer  in  the  assertion 
that our seizure of a Canadian vessel in  the 
North Pacific for  sealing  was a worse out­
rage than any committed by his officers on our 
fishermen.  Mr. Foster very well knew that 
a calm  analysis of the cases of treaty viola­
tion and of the law  of  good  neighborhood 
would be altogether to his disadvantage.  So 
far as  the  facts are concerned we are  ready 
at any time to  show  them,  for  they  form 
our case. 
If they did not  constitute a cata­
logue of injuries  and affronts  put upon  us, 
we should not  be  now  giving  attention  to 
the matter,  and demanding reparation  from 
the Dominion.

And this is precisely  what  we  hope  the 
people of Canada,  apart  from  the  officials 
who  have  projected  and  maintained  the 
system  of  injuries  and  affronts  will  wnk 
hope,  consider  in  a  reasonable 

temper.
The United States has  not  the  least  in­
clination to quarrel with  Canada,  in the ab­
sence of good  reason.  The  lack of excite­
ment here,  which  the  London  newspapers 
take as evidence that the Senate’s  action  is 
mere buncombe, arises simply from this ab­
sence of fundamental  ill-feeling.  There is, 
of course,  a constitutional  distrust, if not  a 
lack of love,  among us for the ruling classes 
of Grôat  Britain,  but  as  to  our  northern 
neighbors  we have no reason to think them 
bent upon  our  commercial  subjugation,  or 
likely to make serious attacks  upon our in­
dustrial integrity.

Wiiat  is  therefore  sincerely  desired  by 
the Americans is that this whole matter may 
be fairly and intelligently  brought to settle­
ment.  The true adjustment of it would  be 
that which would dispose at once of  all  the 
causes of rivalry and  irritation contained in 
the commercial relations of  the  two  coun­
tries.  A plan of commercial  union  would 
do this, at a single  stroke,  and,  while  en­
larging the prosperity  of  both  the  United 
States  and  Canada,  would  cement  the 
friendly relations which  naturally  ought  to 
subsist.

A  bill  is  now  before  the  Pennsylvania 
Legislature which proposes to appoiut State 
examiners to examine into the  business not 
only of State banks,  organized  under  char­
ters acquired under the law, but  of  private 
banking firms also.  This must strike every­
body as  a  very surprising  measure.  Why 
pry into the affairs  of  private  bankers  any 
more than private dry goods houses  or  gro­
cery stores? 
If it be said that the  question 
of their claim to credit is a  matter  of  con­
cern to those who deposit  funds with them, 
it is true, also, that so is  the condition of  a 
merchant important to those who trust him. 
The State has a right,  no  doubt,  to  follow 
and watch the corporations which it creates, 
but it has no right  to  lay  private  business 
open  to  public 
in  order  to 
subserve merely private interests.

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The next few years are  likely to  witness 
much “labor  legislation”—that  is,  legisla­
tive enactments ostensibly in the interest of 
the laboring man,  but really in  the  interest 
of the dead-beat  and  idler.  The  Business 
Men’s Associations will also endeavor to se­
cure the enactment of more effective  collec­
tion laws,  but if the organizations  are  able 
to  stem  the  tide  of  the  loose  legislation 
above  referred  to,  they  will  have  accom­
plished  a  good  work—a  work  which  will 
warrant their continuing  in  existence  long 
after the present so-called “labor movement” 
has become a thing of the past.

A  Grinding  Monopoly.

“How’s  matches?”  she  asked  as  he 

weighed out the  sugar.

“Only a cent a box, ma’am.”
“How many in a box?”
“Three hundred.”
“Dear me, how they do tuck it on to poor 
folks!  However,  I  suppose  you’ll  allow 
half a cent  on  every  empty  box  returned.”

Couldn’t  Help  Being Rich.

From The Judge.

“Is  it  true  that  the  father  is  so  very 
wealthy?”  said  DeJones,  referring  to  the 
daughter of a Wall street magnate.

“I’m not sure,  but  I  guess  he  must  be,” 
replied DeSmith,  “for he has already failed 
three times.”

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