VOL.  4

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  9,  1887

TH E  JEW EL  THAT  JOHN  FOUND.
It was about five minutes after the second 
and  last  whistle  had  blown at Dart’s shoe 
factory when Annie Velga came running up 
the street,  panting and  red  of  face.  John 
Dart,  standing on  the  steps  talking  with 
two strangers,  smiled as she  came  up  and 
said in slightly surprised tones:

“You are late this  morning,  Miss  Velga 

—something never before know.”

“Yes,  sir. 

I am  sorry,  but  I  overslept 

myself.”

“Up late last  night—had  a  beau,  per­

haps?”  suggested John roguishly.

“No, sir,” retorted Annie,  promptly  and 
rather snappishly,  for,  even though  he  was 
the nephew of William Dart,  the great shoe 
man,  and  the  prospective  heir  to  ail  his 
wealth,  she considered he was taking a  lib­
erty,  especially  before  strangers.  Perhaps 
pretty and prim little Annie had some other 
reason,  too, for resenting his refaark.

“Pretty girl,” said  one  of  the  strangers 

after she had passed.

“ Yes,”  assented  John,  “and  about  the 
neatest,  quickest  girl  ever  in  the  work­
room,”  and then the stranger begau talking 
again very earnestly,  as before  Annie came 
up the steps.

“Well,” said John,  “of  course  you  may 
satisfy yourself,  but I can  tell  you  before­
hand there is not one of our girls whom  we 
do not trust. 
It  will  take  you  about  all 
day for  they  live  in  all  directions  from 
here, if you have to search their rooms.  As 
uncle says I must go with you in  that case, 
the sooner it is  over  the  better  for  me.” 
Then they all three went  up  stairs  to  the 
girls’ workroom.

“Will those who stopped at Dingus’  jew­
elry store  last  night,  on  the  way  home 
from work,  please  stand  up?”  said  John. 
Over half of  them  stood  up,  while  John 
took down  their names  and  the numbers of 
their  rooms  and  the  detectives  watched 
each face keenly.  So  far  no one was  dis­
turbed by a guilty conscience.  After ascer­
taining beyond a  doubt  that  all  who  had 
been in the store  reported,  John  announc­
ed:

“We have received  word  that a valuable 
amount of  jewelry  was  stolen  from  this 
firm last night at about the  hour  you  were 
there,  therefore suspicion  has  fallen  upon 
you, and each girl must  allow  her  room  to 
be searched if the goods are  not  previously 
found upon her person.”

So.♦ lie  search  began.  A  quiet, 

trusty 
girl,  much older  than the  others,  and  who 
had not been with  them  the  evening  be­
fore,  was appointed to conduct the personal 
investigation in  another  room.  One  after 
another left the  workroom  to  return  in  a 
few minutes declared 
innocent,  until  the 
officers were  satisfied  none  of  the  goods 
were at the  factory.

“Now,” said  John,  when  the  last  girl 
had returned,  “will each  one  of  you  give 
me your keys in  turn,  for  I  must  accom­
pany this officer  in  his  search  while  the 
other remains here.”

“Not  this  morning,”  spoke  up  Annie 
Velga, quickly,  while  the  smart  detective 
felt the jewels  in  his  grasp,  so  to  speak, 
and the reward in  his  pocket.  John look­
ed surprised—some said  he  turned  a  trifle 
pale as he looked into Annie’s Hushed, guil­
ty face,

“Yes,  of course,  this  morning,”  he  an­
swered gravely.  “What  difference  is  it, 
Miss Annie?”

“None,” answered Annie,  hastily;  but as 
Johnjtook her key, the detectivejthinking it 
best to search her room  at  once  instead  of 
in her turn,  she burst out crying  and  seem­
ed so broken  down  the  remaining  officer 
feit justified in placing her under arrest.

John  had  visited  Annie’s  room  before, 
just once,  not  many  evenings before,  He 
had taken her a book to  read  and  a  small 
basket of fruit, thinking  that as neat a way 
to begin  his  courtship  as  ,auy.  He  had 
thought as he left that  evening  it  was  the 
prettiest,  brightest little room  he  had  ever 
seen,  far exceeding any in his uncle’s grand 
mansion.  He had  little  thought  the  next 
time he climbed the stairs to  room  No.  33 
would be upon  such a  painful  errand.  He 
could not believe sweet  little  Annie  guilty 
until it was proved,  yet he climbed the steps 
unwillingly,  and with  more  unwilling  fin­
gers turned in the lock the  key  Annie  had 
surrendered.  When the door was  open  he 
stood for a  moment  irresolute.  The  room 
seemed the same,  yet not the  same  either. 
Where,  the evening he  had  called,  a pretty 
Japanese  screen  had  stood,  was  now  a 
rather  shabby  though  scrupulously  clean 
little stove,  and thereon  a  skillet  with  a 
few potatoes left from the  morning’s  meal; 
and a dainty bed, with covers  thrown  back 
and pillows airing,  was  drawn  out  where 
had stood a small book cabinet he  had  par­
ticularly noticed.  John  reassured  himself 
ho was in the right door by several little ar­
ticles on the walls, and while  the  busy  de­
tective  was  diving  around  in Annie’s one 
trunk  and  the  bureau  drawers 
looking 
for  the  lost  treasure,  John  was  looking 
around at this little  jewel  of  a  room,  a 
fairy’s  paradise  as  it  seemed  to  him. 
Across the foot  of  the  bed  was  a  dainty 
nightdress, to be sure,  made of  cheap  mus­
lin and trimmed in crochef  lace,  but  John 
did not know thé difference between  it  and

one of linen trimed  in  finest  thread.  Two | 
small slippers were set precisely  under  the 
bed and over a stool  by  their  side  was  a 
pair of red  stockings,  turned  wrong  side 
out as though to air. 
Indeed,  I  am  telling 
the truth when I tell it,  that while  the  de­
tective’s back was turned searching Annie’s 
small dish cupboard John quickly stuffed that 
pair of red stockings  in  his  coat  pocket. 
Why lie did so he could  never satisfactorily 
explain.  Then, as he sat there on  the  bed 
looking around upon  the  tidy  disorder,  it 
came across him what  was  the  reason  of 
Annie’s confusion and  distress,  for,  astute 
as mankind is generally believed  to  be,  he 
could dimly imagine  that  no  little  woman 
as neat as Annie could endure  to  have  her 
castle caught in  such  confusion.  Periiaps 
had it been the detective  alone  she  would 
not have cared; and then John  smiled  com­
placently  to  himself. 
It  was  her  neatly 
fitting dress and dainty linen collars and al­
ways  spotless white aprons that at  first  at­
tracted John’s attention; and then it was the 
pretty face,  with its pleasant smile  and  in­
dependent eyes,  that had  increased  the  in­
terest until it had culminated in his  meanly 
pocketing her red  stockings.

At last the detective gave  up  in  despair.
“She has hiden them some place else,” he 

said shortly.

John, calmly.

“She never  had  them  at  all,”  replied 

“Then what  made  her  act  so  guilty?” 
questioned the other,  almost  believing him­
self in her innocence.

“Don’t know,” answered John  laconical­
ly.  When  they  returned  to  the  factory 
there was  quite  a  confusion  and  hubbub, 
for the jewels had  been  found  by  another 
detective employed by Dingus  in  the  pos­
session of a notorious pickpocket,  who,  dis­
guised as a  woman,  had  slipped  into  the 
store  witli 
the  crowd  of  factory-girls. 
Everybody  was  glad,  and  congratulated 
Annie—even  the  smart  detective  did,  al­
though he could not help  wishing  she  had 
been so considerate as to assist  him to gain 
that  reward.  But  Anuie  could  not  look 
John  straight  in  the  face.  Poor  child! 
what feelings  would  have  been  hers  had 
she known the  enormous  bulge  in  John’s 
jacket pocket was caused by her very  iden­
tical red stockings laid out to air that morn­
ing?  John, of whom she never  dreamed  as 
other than  “Mr.  Dart,”  even  though  she 
worked faster when he came her  way,  and 
perhaps felf, more anxiety about the  smooth 
masses of light brown hair than at any other 
time?

Well,  when the  two  officers  had  gone, 
and all had  settled  to  work  again,  John 
came to Annie’s chair and said kindly:

“Miss  Annie, 

that  detective 

turned 
everything in your room in such  awful con­
fusion it will take you all day to  straighten 
it up again,  so,  if you  like,  I  have  gotten 
permission for you  to  take  the  remainder 
of the day,  and no reduction to be made.”

“Thank  you—you  are  very  kind,”  she 
murmured,  but she would not  look  at  him 
and  seemed  so  confused  that  big,  good- 
natured John turned away in pure kindness 
and let her make her escape unnoticed.

Annie  fled  homeward,  dashed  into  No- 
then 

33,  glanced  wildly  over  the  room, 
burst into tears.

“O dear! O  dear!”  she  sobbed.  “There 
was my nightdress on the bed,  and my slip­
pers,  and my bed not up—and,  O!  potatoes 
in the skillet! O, he will  think I am a regu­
lar sloven!  Why  couldn’t  it  happen  any 
other time than when  I  had  slept  so  late 
I couldn’t even eat my breakfast!  O,  dear, 
he will never like  me  again! 
lie  couldn’t 
after seeing  such  a  looking  room.”  She 
did not stop to think that her  castle  looked 
worse when  they had  left than  when  they 
entered.  Bnt as the  disorder  worried  her 
so much she could not sit still  and  cry  she 
began her task. 
It was  some  time  before 
the  detective’s  work  was  undone—every­
thing in trim order,  with the  mattress  roll­
ed up and the bed folded  against  the  wall 
like a book-cabinet and the few dishes wash­
ed, and the tiny stove blacked an0 the screen 
set around it,  and  the  one  table  covered 
with  a  gayly-embroidered  cloth,  all  of 
which  transformed  the  kitchen  and  bed­
room into a cozy little sitting-room as though 
by a fairy’s  wand. 
It  was  a  dainty  little  1 
place,  nothing  expensive,  but exquisite  in  ' 
the taste and tact  displayed.  The  prevail­
ing colors were deep red and pale  blue  and  ' 
gold, with  many  neutral  tints  blended  in  1 
the  various  bits  of  fancy  work.  On  a  1 
bracket was a bit of white statuary set on  a 
delicate matting of the tender  green  leaves  1 
of  a growing vine—the only costly extrava-  , 
gance in the room,  and  Annie  well  knew  ] 
how long it took her to save  enough to buy  ^ 
it.  She itad selected her room  for its south  1 
window,  and therein were standing two ger-  , 
anium  plants  in  full  bloom—one  a  deep  j 
double red, the  other  a  soft  single  white  1 
flower.

As Annie was viewing  tiiese  little  Iuxu-  ] 
ries with commendable  pride and gradually  1 
plucking up spirits,  she suddenly bethought  1 
her of her red stockings.  She  did  not  re-  1 
member of picking  them  up,  and,  as  she  1 
only had three pairs,  it was  important  that  t 
none of them should  be misplaced.  There-  < 
fore she began to search diligently,  and was  < 
beginning to get  tired  and  puzzled  in  the  i

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useless search, when a loud rap,  which she 
had heard once before at  the  door,  caused 
her to gian&e hastily in the  glass  and  then 
timidly open the  door  to  the  knocker. 
It 
was  noon, 
llie whistle had  blown  just  a 
few minutes before,  and,  instead  of  going 
to his  dinner,  here  was  Mr.  John  Dart 
standing at her door.

“Won’t you come in?” asked Annie  with 

a downcast face.

“That’s  what  I  came  for,”  responded 
John, honestly,  anil  in  he  walked.  Then 
he turned around, and,  taking her hands in 
his own  in the tiine-honored  and  approved 
fashion,  he said:

“I have been thinking  of  you  this  long 
while,  Annie,  and now I feel I cannot  wait 
any longer.  You are alone  in  the  world 
and I am almost so, although uncle  is  very 
good.  Let us make each other  happy,  and 
have a pretty home like  this  with”—glanc­
ing around the room—“with posies in every 
window.”

O,  of  course  Annie  said  “Yes”—who 
wouldn’t?  And  when  the  quarter  to  1 
whistle blew, John (who was very punctual) 
went from Room 33 to  the  factory  as  one 
walking on air—mayhap his empty stomach 
had something to do with the  lightish  feel­
ing,  but he never thought of that,  of course. 
Annie sat and laughed  and  cried  to  think 
how happy she was,  and spent the remaind­
er of her holiday until evening building air- 
castles until John came back  and  began  to 
put solid foundations to the same by  means 
of his pocket-kook.

They  were  married  two  months  after­
ward,  and the next day John gave his  wife 
a small bundle rolled up in white paper and 
tied with blue ribbon.  Full of wonder, Mrs. 
John  untied  the  ribbon  and  behold—her 
lost red stockings!

“Why, John!” she exclamed,  instinctive­
ly running her hand down to  the  toe.  But 
there was no holes—only two or three dain­
ty little darns, and it is safe to predict  that 
John’s socks will never suffer.

Maxims for Merchants.

From the Dry Goods Chronicle.

As a general thing, it will be found, other 
things being equal,  that  the  merchant who 
is most liberal is most  successful  in  busi­
ness.

There is not a more honorable or  a  more 
useful  member of society than a  good  mer­
chant, and there is,  perhaps,  no  occupation 
in life which is more exalting  in  its  influ­
ence.

There is no greater  mistake  that a  mer­
chant can make than to be  mean in his bus­
iness.  Always taking the  half  and  never 
returning a cent for the dollars he has made 
is poor policy.

The  man  of  business  and  the business 
man both have business to do, but the busi­
ness man is the one who  does it.  The bus­
iness  man  thinks,  moves,  acts and makes 
himself felt in the world.

It would be just as foolish to  insist upon 
doing  business  now in  the  old-fashioned 
way,  as it would be to insist upon  traveling 
with an ox team instead of  by  railroad,  to 
get news by old-fashioned stages  instead of 
having  it  brought  by  the  lightning tele­
graph.

The skill of a merchant is exhibited in the 
combination of the greatest  profit  with the 
least expense,  anil lie will  make  the  most 
money  who  calmly looks  from the begin­
ning to the end,  rather  than to be attracted 
by any intermediate point,  however  profita­
ble it may appear.

Commercial pursuits are  attractive to the 
ambitious.  They offer the hope of wealth, 
influence, ease  and  high  social  standing. 
Consequently thousands of young men, who- 
ought to remain in the country and cultivate 
the ground,  enter the cities every year to en­
gage in trade.

A merchant ought to  acquire  and  main­
tain an ease of  manner,  a  suavity of  ad­
dress and a gentlemanly  deportment,  with­
out which the finest  talents  and  the most 
valuable mental  acquirements are  often in­
capable  of realizing the  brilliant  expecta­
tions which they  induce  their  possessor to 
form.
But few merchants start  in  business  and 
fast  living  at  the  same time,  anil most of 
that few have but  short-lived  existence  in 
the credit market,  and  consequently do but 
little good or harm in a commercial point of 
view.  Nor is the number great who, upon 
entering business, erect  princely  establish­
ments for the expenditure of their own prof­
its and their creditors’ principal.

“Well,” said  the  persevering  governess, 
“I will put it in another  shape. 
If it takes 
one servant nine  hours  to  do  the  entire 
housework of one family,  how  long  will  it 
take three servants to  do it?”  Little  Nell, 
“Oil,  I can answer  that. 
I  heard  mamma 
speak of it this morning.”  Teacher,  “Well, 
how long will it  take  them?”  Little Nell, 
“Three times as long.”

The firm of  Caswell,  Hazard  &  Co.,  of 
New York  has  been  permanently enjoined 
from using the name of “Caswell”  in  their 
firm name because there is no partner in the 
firm named Caswell. 
It has been suggested 
that the firm could still retain  the  name  by 
admitting into  partnership  a  man  named 
Caswell,  even though lie  might be admitted 
only for the use of his name. 
It  would  be 
interesting to see this point tested.

STEAM  LAUNDRY,

43 and 45 Kent Street.

STANLEY  N.  ALLEN,  Proprietor.
WE  DO OXLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK A ®   USB  ®  

CUBIICALS.

tended  to.

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JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

And Full Line Winter Goods.

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GREAT  WATCH  MAM,

—AND—

J E W E L E R

44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

MICH.

BEANS
WANTED.

Highest Market  Price Paid 
for Beans, Picked or Unpicked.

W T I M M ,  Ail

71 Canal Street, 

GRAND RAPIDS, 

-  MICH.

Full  outfits  for  the  Collection  Depart­
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to order for $ 13.  The outfit comprises: 
1,000 “Blue Letter”  Notification  Sheets, 
for member's use.
500 Copyrighted Record Blanks,
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Use

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Manufactures.

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

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In  the  treatment  of  Catarrh,  Headache, 

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

A ir  M entholized b y  p a ssin g  th ro u g h  th e  In h ale r- 
tu b e , in  w hich th e  E ure  C rystals o f M enthol a re  
held* th o ro u g h ly  ap p lies th is   v a lu a b le   rem ed y   in   th e  
m o st  efficient  w ay,  to   th e   p a rts   affected.  I t  sells 
readily.  A lw ays k eep  a n  o p en  In h a le r in  y o u r sto re, 
a n d  le t y o u r cu sto m ers tr y  it.  A  few   in h a la tio n s   w ill 
n o t h u r t th e  In h a le r, a n d  w ill do m o re  to  d e m o n stra te  
its  efficiency th a n  a  h a lf h o u r’s ta lk .  R etail price 
SO cents.  F e r  Circulars a n d   T estim onials ad d re ss 

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H azeltine & P erkins D rug Co., G’d R apids, 
A nd W h o lesale D ru g g ists o f D e tro it a n d  C hicago.

G ran d  R apids, U ich.

GRAHAM  ROYS,

WHIPS F o r P rices a n d  te rm s, ad d ress
LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ,
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M an u factu red  b y  R iv erd ale D ist. Co.

106 Kent Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

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Successor to

CHARLES  A.  COYE,
A. Coye & Son,
AWNINGS 5 TENTS

Horse and Wagon Covers, 

DEALER  IN

Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,

Wide Ducks, etc.

Flags & Banners made to order.

73  CANAL  ST.. 

- 

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 Batter Worker.

Earl Bros., Comissioi Merchants,

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO. 

Reference:  First  National  Bank.

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Best in the world.  Made by new and im­
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All grocers keep it.  Put up in barrels,  half 
barrels and  cases.

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ROLLED OATS.

Made  by  entirely  new process,  and used 
by everybody.  Put up in barrels,  half  bar­
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TRY  I T S

FOR SALE BY ALL FIRST-CLASS GROCERS.

MANUFACTURED  BY

Oberne, Hosick & Co.

CHICAGO.

A.  HUFFORD,  General  Agent,

Box 14. 

G rand Rapids.

POTATOES.

W e give  prompt  personal  attention  to 
the sale of POTATOES,APPLES,BEANS 
and ONIONS in car lots.  W e  offer  best j 
facilities and watchful attention.  Consign­
ments respectfully solicited.  Liberal cash 
advances on Car Lots when desired.

Wm.  fi.  Thompson  k  Oo.,

166 South Water St., CHICAGO. 

Reference

Fedbenthal,  Gross  &  Milder, Bankers.

HEMLOCK  BARK!

WANTED.

The undersigned will  pay  the high­
est  market  price  for  HEMLOCK 
BARK  loaded  on  board  cars  at  any 
side track on the G. B. & I. or  C. & W. 
M. Railroads.  Correspondence  solicit­
ed.

N.  B.  CLARK,

101 Ottawa St., 
Grand Rapids.
GERMAN  L.  Winternitz,
MUSTARD. [Grand  Rapids, Mich

Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

B O O K S ,

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Wagon an! Sleigh Co.
W A G O N S !

Spring,  Freight,  Express, 

Lumber  and  Farm

MANUFACTURERS OF

Logging Carts  and  Trucks 

Mill and Dump Carts, 

Lumbermen’s and 

River Tools.

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

Shops on Front St., Brand Rapids, Mioh,

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

GRAND  RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED CO.

71  CANAL 8TREET.

We have just purchased a 

large invoice of

“PLANK ROAD PLUS”

Send us a Trial Order.

Spring  Chicken,  Moxie  and 

Eclipse always in stock.

Olney, Shields & Co.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

BAXTER’S  CELEBRATED

“M Y   STiK’  CIGAR

Manufactured by

ROPER  &  BAXTER  CIGAR  CO.,

61 a n d  53 W ab ash  Ave., C hicago.

T his  fam o u s  b ra n d   is  n ow   h a n d le d   b y   th e  lea d in g  
d ru g g ists  a n d   g ro ce rs  o f  M ichigan. 
In   to w n s w h ere 
th e  c ig a r is n o t h an d led , I am  p re p a re d  to  g iv e  th e   ex­
clu siv e a g e n cy  to  good p a rtie s, d ru g g ists p refe rre d .

J. L. STRELITSKY,

STATE  AGENT,

128 Canal Street, 

-  Grand Rapids.

A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TO  TH E

Mercantile and Mannfacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

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WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  9,  1887.

Grand Kapids T raveling Men’s A ssociation.
P re sid e n t,  L.  M. M ills;  V ic e -P re s id e n ts. A. S ears;  Sec­
re ta ry  a n d  T re a su re r, Geo. H. S ey m eu r;  B oard o f Di­
rec to rs, H. S. R o b ertso n ,  Geo.  F.  Ow en,  J.  N.  B rad ­
fo rd , A. B. Cole a n d  W m . Logie.
%8ET  Subscribers  and others,  when writing 
te  advertisers, will confer a favor on  the pub­
lishers by mentioning that they saw the adver­
tisement in the columns of  this  paper.

COME  TO  TH E  CONVENTION.
The special convention  of  the  Michigan 
Business Men’s Association, which convenes 
in this city next  Tuesday,  promises  to  at­
tract the largest gathering of representative 
business  men  ever  held  in  the  State and 
Tire  T r a d e s m a n  would  not  be  surprised 
if  the  assemblage  exceeded  in  attendance 
and interest any convention  of  retail  busi­
ness  men  ever  held  in  this  country.  As 
T h e  T r a d e s m a n   was the first  journal  to 
advocate organization in the West,  so Mich­
igan was the first State in the West  to  pre­
sent a Business Men’s  Association and also 
the  first  to  organize  a  State  body.  The 
growth of local  organization has been rapid 
and substantial,  no organization  formed un­
der the auspices of  the  State  body  having 
failed  to  accomplish  good  results.  With 
sixty-four local societies, of which forty-nine 
have affiliated with the  State  body,  Michi­
gan  presents  the  strongest  band of union 
existing  in  any  State  in  the  Union;  the 
greatest number of local societies;  the great­
est number  of  affiliated  organizations;  the 
largest and strongest State body.  And  un­
less T h e T r a d e s m a n very much  mistakes 
the temper of its  readers,  this  condition  of 
things will not be allowed to be  changed.

On the actions and outcome of the coming 
convention,  much  of  the future success of 
organization depends.  The character of the 
men  already  elected  as delegates,  and  the 
class  of  subjects given  in the programme, 
are  a  sure  indication  that the proceedings 
will be marked with a degree of  depth  and 
thoroughness  which  will  greatly  augment 
the reputation the Association now sustains 
as the leading organization  of  the  kind  in 
the  country.  Such  being  the  case,  it be- 
hooves every friend of  organization  to  use 
every endeavor to be present at the  conven­
tion and thus encourage a  movement whose 
wonderful strides in the past three years are 
an earnest of the further advancement which 
is sure to come with the future.

LEGISLATION  NOT  THE  THING.
To those who think that legislative enact­
ments will have any effect on  lessening the 
sale o f adulterated goods, T h e T r a d e s m a n  
commends a careful perusal of the miscella­
neous essays of Herbert Spencer. 
In them, 
lie shows how all such  efforts  by the  gov­
ernment and by local  ordinances  have been 
futile.  He cites the case of certain adulter­
ation  by  London  grocers.  The  state  at­
tempted to stop the  adulteration, but it was 
not until the London  Lancet  published an­
alyses of the  adulterated  articles  that  the 
evil was abated.

The proper way to go  at the  adulteration 
question is  to create  a  sentiment  against 
cheap and impure  goods; 
to  convince  the 
consumer that it is not economy to  buy oth­
er than  standard  goods.  Such  a  course, 
quietly adhered to,  will do away with  adul­
teration, by making it  unprofitable,  and  is 
more in  keeping  with the  character of  the 
merchant than to ask  Congress to  do what 
he ought-to do himself.

The strength of Bismarck, in his memora­
ble encounter with his  opponents in the re­
cent German elections,  apart from the great 
force of the official  influence at his control, 
has been in twTo  important  directions.  He 
was able to appeal with great  effect  to  the 
patriotic sentiment of  the  couutrj,  and  he 
represented  the  policy  of  protecting  Ger­
man interests.  These two  arguments  bore 
down hard upon all that could  lie said upon 
the other side.  He  was  able  to  point  to 
himself,  with Von Moltke and  the  Emper- 
er, as the author of  German  unity,  and  to 
denounce effectively the Socialists  who  at­
tack the present order  of  society;  the  Al- 
sace-Lorrainers,  who  would  carry  back  to 
France the territory  acquired  in  the  great 
war; and the civilian  and  doctrinaire  lead­
ers of the  Opposition,  who in  a  European 
storm could  not  be  expected  to  hold  the 
helm with  so sure a grasp as himself.  And 
apart from  this,  his  protective  measures, 
arbitrary as they have been  with  regard  to 
the rights of other countries,  have met  the 
average sense of  the  German  people,  who 
felt that they were adopted  in  the  interest 
of the  “Fatherland,”  as  against  all  other 
countries, and who  therefore recognized  in 
them a distinct and practical  home  policy, 
which was not  offered  on  the  other  side. 
That Bismarck must  now  do something  in 
return for  the  Pope’s  good  offices  is  the 
general  suggestion,  and it is  already  inti­
mated from Rome  that  Germany  has  con­
sented to act a mediator between the Italian 
Government and  the  Vatican.  The  Vati­
can’s proposal is that part of  Rome, includ- j 
ing the “Leonine City,” and a zone extend-1 
ing from the Vatican to the  sea,  by  Civita 
Vecchia, shall become  the  absolute proper­
ty the Pope.

A reader of T h e  T r a d e s m a n   asks how 
the word  “telegraph” came to be  applied to 
matches.  The enquiry was  referred to the 
Diamond Match Co., of'Detroit, and Mana­

ger Richardson writes in reply:  “The word 
‘telegraph’  was  used  many  years  ago  to 
distinguish the long, square match from the 
other styles then iii use.”  The  reply does 
not  fully  answer  the  question  and T h e 
T r a d e s m a n   would  be glad to  receive fur­
ther light on the subject.

The editor of T h e  T r a d e s m a n   assisted 
in the formation of four  Associations  last 
week and has calls from sixteen other cities 
and  towns in  the  State.  The  amount of 
work  incident  to  the  convention  of the 
State  organization  will  compel him to de­
cline  any  appointment  for  this  or  next 
week, but after that he hopes to resume his 
gait—four new Associations a week.

One by one our cherished  ideas  are shat­
tered to atoms.  We have been accustomed 
to pay a high price for Bermuda  onions un­
der the supposition that the  fragrant  escu­
lents came from that Island.  Ex-Governor 
Jerome,  who is now sojourning in Bermuda, 
writes that onions are not grown on  the Is­
land at all, all those  consumed there  being 
imported from New York.

Five  new  Associations  have  affiliated 
with the State body  since  the  last  report, 
as  follows:  Vennontville,  21  members; 
Hartford, 33 members;  Ionia,  50 members; 
Leslie,  20 members;  Sherman,  10 members. 
This swells the State  membership  to 1,467 
and  gives  the  parent  organization  for­
ty-nine of the sixty-four local bodies now in 
existence in the State.

A Detroit hardware  dealer  was  recently 
fined $10 and costs for selling  a revolver  to 
a  ten-year-old  boy.  Merchants  should  re­
member that the new law  imposes a penal­
ty of not less than $10  fine  upon  any  per­
son who shall  sell,  give  or  furnish  any 
firearm to a juvenile  under 13 years of age, 
and govern themselves accordingly.

Merchants’ should beware of  a fraudulent 
collection scheme at East  Saginaw,  known 
as the  Standard  Commercial  Agency. 
It 
possesses no advantage over the majority of 
schemes of a similar  nature,  and  should be 
given a wide berth by  merchants  who  lay 
any pretensions to fairness and  justice.

The Michigan Salt Association is now sel­
ling salt at 50 cents,  the  lowest price in the 
history of the country.  When  it  comes  to 
shipping  the staple  a  couple  of  hundred 
miles,  the freight  amounts  to  as  much as 
the salt.

The Mt.  Clemens  Business  Men’s  Asso­
ciation has been organized under the consti­
tution prepared by the  officers of the Michi­
gan Business Men’s  Association at their re­
cent meeting.

AMONG  TH E  TRADE.

G R A N D   R A P ID S   G O S S IP .

N.  B.  Clark has bought and  shipped over 
2,000 cars of hemlock bark  during  the past 
year.

Hiram Madden, grocer on Stocking street, 
has been closed under  chattel  mortgage by 
Eaton & Christenson.

The  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug Co.  is 
putting up a complete drug stock for Dr.W. 
II.  Andrews, of Fennville.

Wynhoff & Heering is the style of the new 
firm which has engaged in the  grocery bus­
iness at 21 Grandville  avenue.

E. W.  Bowker has  retired  from  the  pro­
duce  and  commission  business,  the  premi­
ses being absorbed by Bunting & Davis.

Fox & Bradford have sold their wholesale 
cigar business to H.  H.  Freedman & Co., of 
Reed City,  who will continue  the  business 
under the firm name of  H.  H.  Freedman & 
Co.  Jas.  Fox  will  manage the busineea.

A R O U N D   T H E   S T A T E .

Adrian—H.  A  Ringman, 

jeweler,  has 

Lawrence—W.  E.  Bass,  hardware dealer, 

sold  out.

has sold out.

St.  Louis—S.  C.  Burgess  is  fitting  up  a 

boot and shoe store.

closed by creditors.

dry goods business.

Alpena—C.  L.  Kittridge & Co. have been 

Kalkaska—A.  E. Palmer is closing out his 

Sheridan—F.  R.  Messinger,  general 

dealer,  has  sold  out.

Onsted—Lee  Wilson  &  Son,  general 

dealers, hav§ sold out.

Howell—Geo.  W.  Brooks,  grocer,  has 

been closed by creditors.
.Greenville—D.  C.  Carlin succeeds H. Sea­
man in the grocery business.

Pierson—H.  & S. Martin, dealers in drugs 

and groceries,  have assigned.

Jamestown—II. Van Noord has purchased 

the general stock of N.  DeVries.

Williamston—Scott  L.  Webber  succeeds 

C. E.  Lockwood in general trade.

Pinckney—Mr.  Brown  will  move  his 

hardware stock here from Dexter.

White Cloud—S.  B.  Mullen,  grocer,  has 

been closed under chattel mortgage.

Lapeer—Smith &  Simes  succeed  Greehe 

& Rulison in the clothing business.

Muskegon—Maul  Bros.,  grocers,  have 

been closed under chattel  mortgage.

Walton—Lardie &  Son  have  bought the 

general stock of Hannah, Lay & Co.

Durand—Chas.  C. De Camp  succeeds W. 

H.  Putnam in the hardware business.

Colomo—W.  Ryno  & Bro.  are preparing 

to build an addition to their drug store. 

Big  Rapids—Cole  &  Judson,  hardware 

dealers,  have dissolved,  each continuing.

Onondaga—R.  P.  Dayton  has  moved his 
hardware stock  here,  from  Dansville, and 
will continue the business.

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Linden—R. R.  Britton  has  sold his dry 

goods and grocery stock to Joseph Wise.

Morenci—Campbell  Bros.  & Co.  succeed 

D.  S.  Salisbury in the dry goods business.

Otsego—Chas.  E.  Stuck  and  Edgar  J. 

Rose will shortly open a hardware store.

Northville—J. J.  Thompson  is arranging 

to build a brick block the coming season.

Whitehall—Andrew  Kragstad  succeeds 

Kragstad & Berg in the grocery business.

Cheboygan — Wm.  Longmaid  succeeds 
Longmaid & Clark in the  harness business.
Burlington—Zimmerman & Banford  suc­
ceed Henry W atkins* Co. in  general tiade.
Daggett—Geo.  W.  Bush,  general  dealer 
and saw mill  operator,  has  been  attached.
Cassopolis—Pollock  &  Robinson  suc­
ceed  Pollock Bros,  in the grocery  business.
Ithaca—Lewis  &  Yost  succeed  J.  H. 
Seaver in the dry goods  and  grocery  busi­
ness.

Plymouth—C.  A.  Pinkney succeeds Pink­
ney & Chaffee in the drug and grocery busi­
ness.

Charlotte—Barber  &  Foreman  succeed 
Barber,  Green & Co.  in the  hardware  bus­
iness.

Lowell—Loop & Morgan,  hardware deal­
ers,  have  dissolved,  Morgan & Smith suc­
ceeding.

Manton—A. G.  Goodson  has  moved  his 
drug and grocery stock to  this  place  from 
Kalkaska^

Allegan—J. P. Visner  has  arranged  to 
engage in the sale of paints, oils  and build­
ers’ hardware.

Saranac—Almira A.  Lester has bought a 
half interest  in the  general  stock of R. F. 
Bonfoey,  and  the firm name is now Lester 
& Co.

Detroit—W.  II.  Sullivan has retired from 
the firm of S. K.  Taft & Co.,  boot and shoe 
dealers.  The business will be continued by 
S.  K.  Taft under the same firm  name.

Detroit—The style of  the  wholesale' gro­
cery  firm  of  Beatty,  Fitzsimons  &  Co., 
composed  of  P.  Fitzsimons  and J.  V.  Mo­
ran, has been changed to Moran,  Fitzsimons 
& Co.

Bangor—C.  W.  Peters,  the  grocery  and 
crockery  merchant,  has  effected  a  settle­
ment with all  his creditors  on  the  basis of 
25 per cent,  cash,  the  funds  having  been 
furnished by a syndicate of  his own towns­
men.  Mr.  Peters  will  continue  business 
on a cash basis.

Detroit—Parke,  Davis  &  Co,  are  build­
ing a brick addition  to  their  manufactory, 
60x100 feet in dimensions  and  four  stories 
high.  The first floor will  be  used  entirely 
for shipping purposes,  the second  floor  for 
offices and the third  and  fourth  floors  for 
storage.  The cost of  the building complete 
will be $40,000.

M A N U F A C T U R IN G   m a t t e r s .

Blaine—Geo.  Fair  succeeds  Fain  *   Me 

Knight in the foundry business.

Saginaw City—The stock in the proposed 

woolen mill has not all been taken.

Lansing—L.  Price & Co.  have bought the 

lumber business of F- I.  Moore & Co.

Pinconniug—W. G.  Cogswell will  manu­

facture 20,000,000 shingles this  season.
Rawsonville—Roberts  &  Rodgers 

suc­
ceed Marvin & Roberts  in the milling busi­
ness.

East Saginaw—Hamilton  & Mitchell suc­
ceed  Hamilton,  McClure & Co.  in the man­
ufacture of lumber and salt.

Battle Creek—The  Dowel Manufacturing 
Co.,  manufacturers of  dowel pins,  has been 
closed under chattel  mortgage.

Dundee—J.  Ambler & Co.,  late  of  Alle­
gan,  expect to  start  their  new  paper  mill 
this week.  They  will  make  straw  wrap­
ping paper only.

Tecumseh—The Tecumseh Lumber  Co.’s 
business has been  transferred to the Ohio & 
Michigan Coal & Manufacturing Co.,  which 
has a capital stock of $50,000; paid in, $19,- 
200.

E.  L.  Jones,  of  Battle Creek,  has started 
out on the road after two months of enforced 
idleness,  by reason  of  severe  illness.  He 
still represents John A.  King & Co., of Chi­
cago.

Detroit—The Frost  Lumber  Co. 

is  the 
name of a new  corporation,  with a  paid-up 
capital of $200,000, formed for the  purpose 
of engaging  in the manufacture  and sale of 
lumber.

West Bay Cit^—T. F.Langstaff has bought 
W.  H.  Malone & Co.’s mill and will operate 
it during the coming season.  The mill was 
built in 1872,  and has an annual capacity of 
about 12,000,000 feet.

Dowagiae—J.  A.  Lindsay &  Co.,  lumber 
dealers,  have bought the real estate and gen­
eral lumber stock of Defendorf & Amstrong 
and will move  their  sash,  door  and  blind 
factory to Findlay,  Ohio.

Fife Lake—A man named Wood has been 
swindling the people about here,  by  buying 
hardwood for shipment,  and paying for it in 
bogus  checks,  thus  showing  himself to be 
harder Wood than that he pretended to buy.
Mancelona—The  Oval  Wood  Dish  Co., 
whose extensive  works  were  recently de­
stroyed by fire,  exhibit  commendable enter­
prise by ■ announcing  that  new and  better 
works, will be  in  operation  within  sixty 
days.

Muskegon—S.  F.  Hofstra,  who  intends 
moving to Florida,  says that he  purposes to 
locate at Funiak Springs, in  the  vicinity of 
Pensacola,  where he will go into  the manu­
facture of lumber.  He will ship the product 
to Pensacola by rail,  and  thence by  sea  to 
market.

Kalamazoo—The  milling  firm  of  D.  B. 
Merrill & Co.  has been  merged into a stock 
company,  with a paid-up  capital  of  $100,- 
000,  to be known as the Merrill  Milling Co. 
The incorporators are D.  B.  Merrill,  C.  H. 
Bird and D.  H.  Haines,  who  will  act  as

President, Secretary and  Treasurer,  respec­
tively.  The property of the company  com­
prises three grist  mills  here  and  one  at 
Plainwell.

F U R N IT U R E   F A C T S .

Remus—Wm.  Kidd  has  opened  a fumi- 

ture store.

Jasper—M.  W.  Prude  succeeds  S.  L. 
Blackmer  in  the  furniture  business.  Mr. 
Blackmer will remove to  Milan,  Ohio,  and 
engage in business.

S T R A Y   F A C T S .

Ousted—Peter Long  has sold  his saloon.
Reed City—Mrs. II.  Gilbert,  milliner, has 

sold out.

St.  Johns—F.  W.  Blackmore,  the  meat 

dealer,  has sold out.

the laundry business.

Northville—F.  I).  Adams has engaged in 

Union City—Business  men  are agitating 

the subject of boring for  oil.

Albion—Cady & Parsons have engaged in 

the merchant tailoring business.

East  Saginaw—Alex  S.  Smith  succeeds 

Smith & Henry,  harness dealers.

Detroit—Frank A. Muer  succeeds  Muer 

& Traub in the manufacture of cigars.

Nashville—S.  Weber & Son  have opened 

an agricultural implement warehouse.

East  Saginaw—Alexander  S.  Smith suc­
ceeds Smith & Henry in the  harness  busi­
ness.

Belding—W.  A.  Knott  *   Co.  succeed 
Knott,  Smith  &  Co.  in the grist mill busi- 
iness.

Bay  City—G.  E.  Van  Syckle,  dealer  in 
musical  instruments  and  sewing machines, 
has sold out.

Elmira—The Antrim  Iron  Co.’s kilns are 
turning out an average of  18,000  bushels of 
charcoal per month.

Coldwater—Geo.  W.  Harding  succeeds 
Walsworth & Gripman  in  the  agricultural 
implement business.

Detroit—Clark,  Vinton & Co.  succeed W. 
G. Vinton & Co.  and  Nuppeneau  &  Clark 
in the building business.

Good Harbor—W.  S.  Johnson  &  Co.,  of 
Sutton’s Bay,  have purchased S. P. Boston’s 
general stock and the latter has retired from 
business.

Kalamazoo—The Upjohn Pill and Granule 
Co.,  which  was  started  by  the  late  Dr. 
Henry  Upjohn,  has  been  purchased  and 
re-organized  by  a  number  of  Kalamazoo 
gentlemen who  purpose to  greatly increase 
the  facilities.

Bronson—The business men of  the  town 
have formed a stock company,  with  $100,- 
000 capital,  one-half paid  in,  for  the  pur­
pose of boring for  oil.  The  new  corpora­
tion is known as the Bronson Industrial Co. 
J.  S.  Conover is President  and A.  B.  Clark 
Secretary.

Detroit—The  first  quarterly  report  of 
George H.  Burt,  assignee of  Charles Broas, 
the insolvent  boot  and  shoe  dealer,  shows 
the amount of  cash  assets  received  to  be 
$1,637.42;  merchandise as  appraised,  $38,- 
000.37, which is  mortgaged for  $35,750.76; 
accounts,  $22,106.96;  notes  $1,464.10;  one 
pair  of  horses  and  harness,  $200.  The 
amount of cash received for stock above the 
amount  of  mortgages,  $5,651.74;  on  ac­
counts,  $12,074.40;  notes,  $450.74.  The 
sum  of  $2,265.48  was  paid  to II.  D.  Perry 
on  a  mortgage  on  Drummond  Island,  and 
other  disbursements  amounting  in  all  to 
$2,750.15; leaving on  hand,  accounts,  $9,- 
070.48;  notes,  $1,975.44,  and  cash,  $17,- 
041.95.

East Saginaw Grocers Determined to Stand 

Together.

Agreeable to invitation,  the editor of T he 
T r a d e s m a n   met about thirty of  the retail 
grocerymen  of  East  Saginaw  last  Friday 
evening,  explained.the system in use by the 
reputable  Associations  of  the  State  and 
related  the  advantages  which  had  been 
secured through organization by the grocers 
of Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo.  Richard 
Luster  was chosen to act as  chairman  and 
Chas.  H. Smith as  secretary.  The  matter 
was thoroughly discussed in all its bearings, 
when it was decided  to  proceed  with  the 
formation of a Retail  Grocers’  Association. 
The secretary was instructed to issue postal 
cards to every grocer in the city,  requesting 
his presence at a meeting this evening,when 
the organization  will be completed and offi­
cers elected for the ensuing  year.

Hartford Joins  the  State  Body.

H a r t f o r d,  Mar.  2,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
D e a r   S ir—Enclosed  please  find  postal 
note  for $3.30,  being  per  capita  dues  for 
thirty-three members, to unite our organiza­
tion with the Michigan Business  Men’s As­
sociation.  Please  send  reduced  rate  cer­
tificates for four  representatives to the next 
meeting,  to be  held  at  your  city  March 15 
and 16;  although there  may  not  more than 
two  attend.  We  have  now  thirty-three 
members,  and have only been organized one 
week.  Those who have sent out  Blue Let­
ters are very much  pleased  with the result.

Very  Respectfully,

Purely Personal.

Silas Kilboume,  the Grand Haven fish kit 
manufacturer,  was in town  Monday,  inter­
viewing the trade.

John Buchanan,  formerly book-keeper for 
the Union Furniture Co.,  is  now  employed 
in the same capacity with the Grand Rapids 
School Furniture Co.

White Cloud Ready to Organize. 

W h i t e   Cloud,  Mar.  3,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

De a r  Sir—The merchants  of this  place 
all seem in favor of forming an Association. 
What night do  you  think  you  could  come 
up?  Please advise and oblige

Yours,  M.  D.  H a y w a r d .

Associations Affiliated with the State Body. 
The following  comprises  all the local as-
sociations  w hich  have  affiliated  w ith the 
M ichigan B usiness Men’s  Association  up to 
the present time:
Grand  Rapids....................................................... 119
Oceana  ............................................................ 
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Traverse  City......... .............................................  89
Lowell...................... .............................................  48
Sturgis.....................
Big  Rapids..............
7U
Elk  Rapids..............
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G reenville.............. .............................................  59
Sparta...................... ............... .............................HO
H astings..................
îitî
E astport..............
...........................................  10
Ada  ..........................
White  Lake............
57
Saranac  ...................
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Manton..................... .............................................  13
K alam azoo............
.........................................   45
Coouersville............
si
East Jordan............................................... 
Nashville...................................... 
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H olland...................
.............................................  37
0 1 Aliti  1 iil \ c il .«••••
................. ...........................32
Woodland  ..............
...........................................   IS
Tustin......................
...........................................   13
Freeport  ...............
.............................................  14
Cadillac................... .............................................34
Kalkaska.................
B ellaire................... .............................................  13
...................À............ 
M ancelona..............
23
W avland.....................................................  
2Ï
Cheboygan...  .
...........................................  41
lteed  City................ .............................................26
Charlevoix  ............
A lleg a n ...................
î£8
K ingsley.................
........................................... io
Petoskey  ...............
.............................................  41
Dorr..........................
M uskegon..............
w5
Owosso..................... .............................................  50
Hoyne City..............
Plainwell................. .............................................24
Rockford  ...............
Casnovia.................
12
7
So. Boardman.........
Muir...................... :.
.............................................  10
Verm ontville.........
Hartford.................
...............................;..........33
Io n ia ........................ .............................................  50
Leslie.........................
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Sherm an.................
Honorary ................

Total............................. 1,467

Monthly Report of the Michigan Division, 

T. P. A.

Gr a n d  R a p id s,  March 1,  1887.

42  00

r e c e i p t s .

Feb.  1.  Cash  on  hand........................ 12 00
from National  Sec’y ..30 00

19. 

“ 
Total receipts

EX PE N D IT U R E S.

Feb.  1.  Transfer o f State records..  2  50
4.  Expressage on records........ 
80
8. 
45
blanks......... 
10.  Telegram to President.......  
35
19.  Printing stationery..............16  80
“  400  Stamps............................  8 00

“ 

Total expenses................... 
Balance on hand................ 

28 90
13  10
The  following  new  members  have been 
added to the State  membership  during  the 
month:

14,130.  S. E.  Wise, Battle Creek.
14,141.  Jos. Burns, Detroit.
14,165.  Elmer Cowles,  Battlo Creek.
14,302.  J. D.  Vivian,  Battle Creek.
14,204.  T. McK.  Hull, Jackson.
14,207.  W. E. Cheever. Ypsilauti.
14,247.  F. H. Goadby. Graud Rapids.
14,136.  F. M.  Holland, Ann Arbor.
14,164.  A. H. Horton,  Bay City.
14.181.  Nathan Judson, Lansing.
14.182.  S. J. Ball. Detroit.
14,291.  G. L. Lowe, Detroit.
14,231.  L. Vanliipor,  Pokagon.
14,308.  T. C. Langeley, Grand Rapids.
Five  members  in  arrears  for  dues have 
paid and been re-instated.
We have had 500 circular  letters  printed 
aud mailed during the month  to  employers 
of commercial travelers in Michigan, putting 
forth the benefits  of  our  Association,  and 
soliciting membership.

Respectfully submitted,

L.  M.  Mil l s,  Sec’y-Treas.

The Gripsack Brigade.

Wm.  Dodds is on the road for  the  Moses 

Wagon Co.,  of Lapeer.

C.  L.  Nichols  and F.  T.  Blakeslee  will 
continue with the new firm of Fox & Freed­
man.

W. J.  Richards,  the Union  City grip car­
rier,  announces  the  advent  of  a  twelve 
pound boy at his house.

E.  E.  Ilewett,  formerly  engaged  in tlia 
grocery business at Rockford,  is now on the 
road for F.  J.  Lamb & Co.

Geo.  F.  Owen  and  II.  E. Mosely  were 
two of a party of eighteen who were snowed 
in on the Traverse City branch from  Satur­
day,  week before last,  until  Tuesday after­
noon.  The boys were well  taken  care  of 
by neighboring farmers  and  some of  them 
published a card of thanks in  the  Traverse 
City Herald, concluding as follows:  “And 
last,  but not least,  we wish  to  express  our 
most  sincere  appreciation  to  Grandma 
Slight—Ood bless her honest old soul.  May 
her pathway for the few remaining years be 
a  pathway  of  roses.  Grandma,  your 
chuck was bully!  And  should 
it,  in the 
course of our  meanderings,  be our lot to be 
caught again  in a snow  blockade, may it be 
close to your humble  cottage.”

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The Hardware Market.

The market is generally  quiet,  although 
the tendency is firm.  Bar iron is not likely 
to go higher, prices having evidently reached 
the limit.

Logs to the amount of 25,000,000 feet will 
be brought from  the  nortli  shore of  Lake 
Huron,  this year,'for  sawing  in  Michigan 
mills.

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Tuscola  Druggists  Organized.

F a ir g r o v e, Mar.  5,  1887.

F.  W.  Wurzburg, Grand  Rapids:
D e a r   S ir—Your  communication  to  E. 
A.  Bullard,  of  Vassar,  is  before  me.  He 
wishes me to state to you that  in answer to 
a call from him, the druggists of this county 
met at  Vassar on  Feb.  24,  formed  an  As­
sociation 
to  be  known  as  the  Tuscola 
County  Pharmacentical  Society,  adopted  a 
constitution and  elected  the  following 
fleers:

Présidant—E.  A.  Bullard,  Vassar.
Vice-President—C.  Reece,  Caro.
.Secretary—C.  E.  Stoddard,  Fair Grove.
Treasurer—Wm.  Parks,  Reese.

Yours,

C.  E.  S t o d d a r d,  Sec’y.

MISCELLANEOUS.

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

ÎJ10R  RENT—Good and beautiful location on 

the lake  shore  in  Emmet  county,  for  a 
business requiring $600 or $800 capital.  For in­
formation  address  Gideon  Noel.  Good  Hart, 
Mich. 

183*

IjlOR SALE—'Two-story frame store  building 

in good, lake shore town.  Splendid open­
ing for grocery or general business.  Property 
now  brings  in  $60  per month  rent.  Address 
182
“Johnson,” care T h e   T r a d e s m a n . 

IHOR  SALE—A well-selected stock of grocer­

ies  and  crockery,  situated  at  Plainwell. 
Stock will.inventory  about  $1,500.  Apply to 
Arthur Meigs  & Co.,  Grand  Rapids, or  W.  H. 
Hine, Plainwell, Mich. 
182*

doing good business in  best  location in a 
thriving Northern Michigan railway town.  Ad­
188*
dress “J unction,” care T r a d e s m a n . 

IjlOR  SALE—Drug, book and stationery store 
f ilOR SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—For a stock of 

hardware  or  general  merchandise,  12 
acres  fruit  and  garden  farm  adjoining  city 
limits.  Elegant  buildings, etc.  Address  Box 
65, Grand Rapids. 
TBOR  SALE—General stock of drygoods, gro- 
-L 
ceries,  boots  and  shoes,  crockery,  etc., 
situated in live railroad town near Grand Rap­
ids.  Stock will inventory about $4,000.  Reason­
able terms to responsible parties.  Trade good. 
Address  No.  51,  ‘ Tradesman”  office,  Grand 
Rapids. 
TjlOR  SALE—Well-selected general  stock,  lo- 
*  
eated at a place tributary to a large farm­
ing trade.  Stock will  inventory  about  $6,000. 
Address for full particulars, “I. J.,” care “The 
Tradesman.” 

178tf

181*

181*

 

ini

ltltf

fjlOIi  SALE—A thirty-year old  grocery stani 

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 in easy  payments.  Possession  given 
in May.  J. Van Zolenburg, Petoskey. 
C l OR  SALE—Two-story brick building, 24x60, 
4   with clean grocery and meat  stock  (wood 
business in connection) on  principal  business 
street  of  thriving  Northern  town.  Terms, 
$5,000, half down, balance on time to  suit  pur­
chaser.  Address “ Bargain,” care “The Trades­
m a n /^  
TCI OR SALE—Best  bargain  ever  offered  for 
general  stock  in  growing  town  in  good 
farming  community  in  Northern  Michigan. 
Stock  will inventory  about  $6,000.  Sales  last 
year were $60,000.  Address “The Tradesman,” 
Grand Rapids. 
TA^ANTED—Situation as clerk in  a  drug  or 
* * 
drug and book store, by the  undersign­
ed,  a  registered  pharmacist,  and  member of 
the Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Associa­
tion.  Care  and  precision  exercised  in  com­
pounding prescriptions.  Satisfactory referen­
ces given.  Gideon  Noel. Good  Hart. Mieh.  183*
"YAT"ANTED—A  good  second-hand  medium- 
*  * 
sized soda fountain in good  running or­
der, with generator  preferred.  Want  to  buy 
at once  for  cash.  Address  H.  Ingalls,  New­
berry, Mich. 
W  A NT E [)—Small stock of drugs in  g o o d   lo- 
cation in  railroad  town.  Place  where 
good physician is needed preferred.  Address, 
Box 66, Maple Rapids, Mich. 
TTjT"ANTED—A  man  having  an  established 
»  '* 
trade among lumbermen to add  a  spec­
ial  line and sell on commission.  To  the  right 
man a splendid chance will lie  given  to  make 
money without  extra expense.  Address “ it,” 
eare Michigan Tradesman. 

177tf

J78tf

182*

181*

■JANTED—Stock  in  Kent  County Savings 

Bank.  Address, stating terms demand­

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

I F  YOU  WANT—To get into business, to sell 
1  your business, to secure additional capital, 
to  get  a  situation,  if  you have anything  for 
sale or want to buy anything, advertise in  the 
Miscellaneous Column of T h e  T ra d e s m a n.  A 
twenty-five word  advertisement  costs  but  25 
cents a week or 50 cents for three weeks.

MONNICH & STONE, Flint, Mici.

m a n u f a c t u r e r s   o f

S e n d   f o r   S a m p l e   O r d e r .

AGENTS  FOR  THE

M e n   Drm  Eiciiie.

ness.  Terms spot cash.

well located in  Detroit.  Doing  fine  busi­

375 South Union St., Grand Rapids.
Standard  Petit Ledger.
■ DR  SALE—Desirable  stock  of about $3.000 
WANTED—At  once  a  8c 

tered Pharmacist.  Als 
Pharmacists and  Aecountai
YTTANTED—To  exchange  farm  and  timber 
VV 
land for drug stocks.  Also  good  farm­
ing lands in Dakota  for exchange.
TpOR  SALE—Very  desirable  stock  of  about 
*- 
$3,500 in town  of  about  2,000  inhabitants
(county  scat)  in  Illinois.  Doing  very  good 
business.

ìdanavian  regi8- 
• other registered

inhabitants 

$4,500  in  town  of  4,000 

in 
Southern  Michigan.  Doing  a  very  fine  busi­
ness.

■ R  SALE—Very  desirable  stock  of  about 
F
F

DR  SALE—Bankrupt  stock  of  about  $700 
can be bought very cheap.
)R  SALE—Stock of about $1,200 in lumber­
ing town.  Doing good business.

■pOR  SALE—Stock of about  $1,400  in town of 
800 inhabitants  in  eastern  part  of  State. 
Reason for selling, poor  health.
A  LSO—Many  other  stocks,  the  particulars 
■“ -  of which wo will  furnish  on  application.

K   DRUGGISTS—Wishing  to  secure clerks 

we will furnish the  address  aud  full  par­

ticulars of those on our list  free.
TTJ  E  HAVE also secured  the  agency  for  J. 
VV  h . Vail & Co.’s medical publications and 
can  furnish  any  medical  or  pharmaceutical 
works at publishers’ rates.

Michigan Drug Exch -.nge,

357 South Union St., 

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Grand B&pids.

I. B.  B a r n e s,  Sec’y.

to T h e T r a d e s m a n .

CHANGE OF FIRM.
Notice is hereby given that the  stock  and 
accounts of the firm of Fox & Bradford have 
been purchased by  H.  H.  Freedman  and 
W. A.Higbee,who will continue the business 
under the firm name of  II.  H.  Freedman & 
Co.  All accounts due the late firm must be 
paid to H.  H. Freedman & Co., who bespeak 
for themselves a continuance of  the patron­
age accorded the old firm.

H,  II.  F r e e d m a n   & Co.

“ Resurrecting  Lost  Accounts.”

H a st in g s,  Mar.  4,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

D e a r   S ir—At  the  regular .meeting  of 
the Hastings Business  Men’s Association on 
March 3. one delegate was appointed  to  at­
tend  the convention of  the  State  Associa­
tion.
Everything  is  moving  along  all  right, 
with a lost account occasionally  resurrected 
and saved,  to  the  great  satisfaction of  the 
creditor,  who  rejoices more  over  one  such 
account saved than  ninety  and  nine which 
are safe.  Some few, by staying out, make it 
a  little  disagreeable,  but  we  are  going  to 
live  it down. 

Yours,

J.  A.  V a n A km an

FRUITS A . D. SFAKGXÆ B.  <&  CO.

PRODUCE,  NUTS,  BERRIES,  ETC.

200 and 202 North Washington Ave., East Saginaw, Mich.
OLD  BARBELS

F Ü i U u   JUJ

Consignments Solicited.

S e ttin g  a b o u t a  s to re   a re   u n s ig h tly ,  b esid es  th e   p ro ­
je c tin g  n a ils on th em  a re  d a n g e ro u s  to   c lo th in g .  The , 
e n te rp ris in g  g ro ce r rea liz e s th e  v alu e o f h an d so m e nndfi 
c o n v e n ie n t  fix tu res,  a n d  
to   m ee t  th is   d em an d   th o l 
W oolson  Spic e  Co.,  o f  Toledo,  O hio,  h a v e   d e sig n e d ! 

th e irXiiozi  C offee  C abinet,

O f w hich  th e   aceo m p an v  
n g   c u t  g iv es  b u t  a   p a rtia l j 
id ea. 
In  th is  c a b in e t is pi 
eked 120 one-pound p ack ag es 
o f l.lon  Coflee, an d  we 
o ffer  th e   goods  a t   a   price 
e n a b lin g  th e  g ro ce r to   sei 
u re  th ese   c a b in e ts  w ith o u t! 
co st to  him self.  T hey art: 
m ad e a ir-tig h t, to n g u ed  andjj 
g rooved, b e a u tifu lly  g rail 
cd  a n d   v a rn ish e d ,  a n d   are 
p u t to g e th e r in   th e   b est
jo ss ib ie   m an n e r.  Com plete 
se t o f c a ste rs, w ith  screw s,  inside  th is   ca b in e t.  T h eir | 
use in e v e ry  g ro ce ry , a fte r  th e  coffee is sold o u t,  is  a p ­
p a re n t;  ju s t th e  th in g  fro m   w hich  to   re ta il  o a tm e a l, 
rice, p ru n es, h o m in y , d rie d   fru its ,  b rea d ,  a n d   a   h u n ­
d red  o th e r  a rtic le s.  F u rth e r,  th e y   ta k e   u p   no  m o re 
floor
>m  th a n   a   b a rre l,  an d   do  aw a y   w ith   th ese  I 
u n s ig h tly   thinp 
in  a   sto re.  F o r  p ric e -list  o f  d o n  [ 
C o  f le e   in  tin 
b in ets, see p ric e -c u rre n t in   th is  p a ­
p er.  R ead  below   w h a t 
ns  to   th e   q u a lity   o f I
Lion Coffee.

This Coffee Cabinet Given Away.

A  GOOD  BREAKFAST

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

A Beautiful Picture Card
In every package.  We solicit  a  sample  order 
for a cabinet filled with  LION  COFFEE.

trade  can 

For sale  by  all  Wholesale  Grocers  every­

6*1 Iffi V

where, and by the

Woolson Spice Go.
B IR T H   Sc  TCPLA-TJSIE,

92 to  108  Oak St., Toledo, Ohio.

Hides,  Fuis  «14  Tallow,

DEALERS  IN

_____ 

I rom pt  returns  m ade  on  Consignm ents«

X13 Canal St., Grana Rapids.

E.  E _A_ I_. X-, -A. S,
'

Makes a Specialty of 

Butter  and  Eggs,  Fruits  and  Oysters

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

We Handle the Celebrated “ROCK BRAND’’ Oysters.

No. I Egg Crates  for Sale.  Stevens’ No. 1 patent fillers used.  60 cents each,

97

and 99 Canal Street. 

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Grand Rapids, Michigan

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Association Notes.

COOPERAGE.

Association.

Hopkins Station is anxious to organize an 

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

•* 

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Association.

STAVES.
Red oak flour bbl. staves..
...M
Ironwood has organized a Business Men’s ! 
.................
Elm 
...M
White oak tee staves, s’d and j ’t.M
l’t.M
tt  n  Q*  11 
White oak pork bbl. 
. 
“  M
ü .  C.  Stoddard will  represent  the  Reed  Produce barrel staves.........
...M
...M
Tlght bbl* and h’ds t” ”^ itch-
City B. M. A.  at the convention. 
Cadillac  Express:  ‘‘The  Business  Men’s j  Tierce  heads, square.............\
$  M
$  M
Association is a benefit to all honest  men.”  Produce barrel, set.
E.  J.  Childs and A. J.  Dole  will come to 
the Mate convention with  credentials  from I 
the Bellaire B. M  A 
I 

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@  3 25
@20 00
@18 00
@ 4  50
@1»  eoi
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@18 00 1
@  4
@  4*4
@  3*4
oa£ and hickory tee, 8f’t.  M  19 00@12 00|
White oBk and hickory  *•  7*4f’t.M  9  00® 11  00 !
Hickory  flour  bbl
6 00®  7  00  Kin’s
Ash, round  “ 
**.................
30®  6 Off 
ft  íuv»   s   i«  
Ash, flat racked, 6*4 f ’t ..!. *.
3 Soit  4  50 
Colled  elm .................... .........
5 00®  3  te
BA RR ELS.

Francis Goodman and E.  S.  Botsford will 
represent the Dorr Business Men’s Associa­
tion at the State meeting.

hon(v**  ............
h o o p s .

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MERCANTILE  UNION.

Flint  Business  Men  to  Organize  Under 

That  Title.

‘

S° 

tion.

D.  F. Watson,  President  of  the Ada B.
M. A.,  writes:  “All our members consider 
the Association a success.”

W.  A. Brigham, Secretary of the Woolson 
Spice Co.,  of Toledo,  has  accepted an invi­
tation to be present at the State convention.
Jas.  Osborn,  S.  E.  Parkill, H. W. Parker,
N.  B. Payne and C. J.  Stuart will represent 
A.  at the  State  conven­

From the Flint Journal, March 2.
j  The meeting of business  men of the city,
| held at the Common  Council  chamber last 
evening,  was quite well  attended by  those 
| who signed the call for the meeting, and the 
| initiatory steps were  taken  for the  organi­
zation of an association of the business men 
of the city.
It was expected that Mr. Stowe, of Grand 
Rapids,  who lias  had  considerable  experi­
ence in the organization of these associations 
throughout  the  State,  would be present to 
assist and give some pointers in the  organi­
zation here last evening, but  when the hour 
came for his  arrival he  failed  to put in an 
appearance, much to the disappointment  of 
those  present.  Not to be set back in this 
j manner,  however,  and  in order to further 
the move, those present proceeded to form a 
j temporary  organization, 
talk  the  project 
| over, and adjourn to another time, when Mr. 
i  Stowe will be present and a  permanent  or- 
! ganization perfected.
J.  K. Montrose was  called  to the  qhair, 
and J.  R.  Wicks was chosen Secretary.  The 1 O i v n w n   r  m 
objects of the meeting,  as  well  as  those o f1 
the proposed  association,  were  explained 
and discussed.  Mr. Wicks had been in cor­
respondence with the Business  Men’s Asso 
ciation of Traverse City, which,  by the way, 
is considered one of the  best  organized  in 
the State,  and had secured from it a copy of 
the  constitution and by-laws of the Associ;: 
tion,  which  were read,  and fully  set forth 
most all the points and benefits of  these or­
ganizations.
Considerable  interest  was manifested by 
those present at  the  meeting  last evening, 
and the organization  will  be  completed as 
soon as possible.  The  benefits  to  be  de 
rived from such  an  organization  and  the 
united efforts of the business men of the city 
are such as should  interest every merchant, 
as well as each resident of  the  city,  and  a 
hearty co-operation  should  be had from all 
business men.
The special requirements  for membership 
will probably be that the  applicant shall be 
a merchant, manufacturer or  dealer of hon­
orable  standing,  with a  residence  of  six 
months or a year in  the  State,  a  tax-payer,
and shall pay a small membership fee  tothe  froth the Ionia Business Men’s Exchange. 
Association.  All this,  however, will be reg- 
...
ulated by the  constitution  and  by-laws of L)1P 
the Association. 

A. W.  Newark,  C. H.  LeBar,  L. J.  Law 
and J.  H.  Plett have  been elected delegates 
to the  State  convention  by  the  Cadillac 
Business Men’s  Association.

The White Lake Business Men’s Associa­
tion sends as delegates to the State  conven­
tion A.  T.  Linderman,  of  Whitehall,  and 
C.  L.  Streng,  of Montague.

The Petoskey Business Men’s Association 
has undertaken the job of  closing  the gam­
bling houses in  that  town  frequented  by 
boys and young men.

Secretaries who have not  yet  applied for 
reduced rate certificates for their delegates to 
the State convention,  should  do so without 
delay.

The  Cheboygan B.  M. A.  is  considering 
ine 9ues“ on ot extending  the  scope  of the
In talking over a name for  the  organiza-  or£anization so as to take a  hand in  public 
tion,  the title of the “Flint  Mercantile  Un-  improvements  in  the way of  encouraging 
ion” was suggested,  and it is  probable  that  new industries
the association will be known as such. 
t  a 
.....................
‘A“ 
The meeting was adjourned to  Thursday 
®ecre arj of tbe Elainwell B 
evening of this week,  to be held at the same 
A » writes:  “We are  in  good  ruunin 
rlac®’.and  which time it is  expected that | order and some good has  already been done
Mr.  Stowe will be present and assist in per­
ill the way of making collections.  The As 
fecting the organization
sociation is still growing.”
.  S.  A.  Keyes,  formerly engaged in trade at
~ 
failure to put in an  appearance  at the busi-  Omeno,  ias gone to ^   Ayr>  Iowa,  where 
ness men’s meeting last night  caused 110 lit-  be will engage in trade.  Mr. Keyes will or
tie disappointment,  was  seen  at  the Sher­
ganize an Association  at  his new  home on 
man House this morning.  Said he: 
“An 
the same plan advocated by  T h e  T r a d e s 
accident to the train out  of  Grand  Rapids 
m a n,  having been  furnished  the necessary 
delayed us so long  that when  we  reached 
blanks for that purpose.
Duraind the train for  Flint  had  gone,  and I 
had to wait until 11 o’clock  before  another 
East  bound  train  came  along. 
I tried to 
reach Flint by telegraph,  but  it  was no go, 
as the operator at the other  end  of  the line 
bad gone home. 
I don’t see  why a city the 
size of Flint  shouldn’t have a telegraph op­
erator on duty all night, anyway. 
I  leave 
for Battle Creek  this mornihg to  assist  in 
the organization of a Business  Men’s Asso­
ciation to-night,  and will return  to Flint In 
time to be present at the adjourned meetin 
of business men to-morrow evening—that is, 
provided my train doesn’t meet with another 
accident.

The Business Men’s Association of Lyons 
held a  meeting  to  consider  what  action 
should be taken for mutual welfare and  for 
the restoration of the village.  A condoling 
letter was received from the  Muir  Associa 
tion and a resolution  to  push  aiiead  and 
make the town better than ever  was gener 
ally expressed.  The  shaking  up  the  vil 
age received lias infused new  life  and  ac­
tivity into the  people.

Fred.  Cutler,  Jr.,  R. H.  Bedford,  A.  S 
Wright,  W.  W.  Williams  and G.  F.  Phelps 
are the delegates  to  the  State  convention

L A T E R — I IE   M IS S E D   C O N N E C T IO N .

\r,.  v   a 

1T1 

,, 

, 

T I IE   B A L L   S E T   R O L L IN G .

Programme  for  the  State  Convention, 

March  15 and  16.

Dikeman.

T U E S D A Y ,  9   O’C L O C K   A .  M.

1.  Call to  order  by President  Hamilton.
2.  Prayer by Rev. A.  li.  Merriam.
3.  Address of  welcome  by  Mayor  E.  B. 
4.  Response in behalf of Association by
5.  Address of President.
0.  Report of Secretary.
7.  Announcement of Committee  on  Cre­
8.  Reports of delegates.
9.  Answers  to  Queries  and  opening  of 

A counter attraction  prevented a large at­
tendance of the business  men  on  Thursday 
evening,  but the editor of T h e T r a d e sm a n  
managed to escape delay  on  that  occasion 
and was present  to give  the aims  and ob­
jects of organized effort.  W.  C. Pierce was 
selected to act as chairman and  J.  N. Blake 
as  secretary.  At  the  conclusion  of  Mr. 
Stowe’s  explanation  of  the  advantages of 
united action,  Samuel  Moffett  moved  that 
the  organization  of  an  association,  to  be 
known as the  Flint  Mercantile  Union,  be 
immediately proceeded with.  The  regula­
tion  constitution  and  by-laws  were  then 
adopted,  when  the  following  gentlemen 
handed in their names for  charter  member­
ship:  Samuel Moffett, A.  D. Alvord,  L.  C. 
Hedden, L.  E. Phelps,  Pierce  &  Wicks,  J. 
C.  Croui, Chas.  L.  Carman,  Flint  Cabinet
Creamery Co., S.  Mathewson,  H.  II.  Gay & I Q ^ tto u  Box  t0  Queries  and  °PeninS  of 
Co.,  Geo.  E.  Childs. 

1.  Report of Committee on Credentials.
3.  Report of delegates continued.
3.  Report of Committee on Legislation.
4.  “The Village Improvement Feature in 
Our  Local  Associations”—W.  W.  Warner, 
Allegan.
“Cutting  Prices  anti  the  Result”—F. 
H.  Spencer,  Saranac.

dentials, Programme and  Resolutions.

T U E S D A Y ,  1 :3 0   O’C L O C K   1*.  M.

Question Box.

0  * 

I 

T U E S D A Y , 

„
i :3 0   O  C L O C K ,  1*.  M .

On motion,  Samuel Moffett, W.  C.  Pierce, 
S.  Mathewson,  Chas.  L.  Carman,  J.  C. 
Croui,  Chas. T.  Bridgman and F.  H. Pierce 
were selected to act as a  soliciting  commit­
tee, with 
instructions  to  secure the signa­
ture  of  every  business  man  in  the city, 
when the Union  will be  completed  by the 
election of officers and the  establishment of 
permanent quarters.

The editors of the  local  papers  were  re­
quested to publish the  constitution  and by­
laws of the Union.

A vote of thanks was tendered Mr.  Stowe 
for  his  assistance  and  the  meeting  ad- 
ourned.

Ionia Joins the State Association.

I o n ia, Mar.  2,,1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grahd Rapids:

D e a r   S ir—The  Ionia  Business  Men’s 
Exchange,  formerly  Ionia  Business  Men’s 
Protective Association, is now in good work­
ing  order.  At  our  regular  meeting  held 
last evening we formally  adopted the revis­
ed and  improved  constitution  and  by-laws 
under which the  Exchange  will  no  doubt 
prosper,  many  of  the  defects  of  the  old 
constitution and by-laws  of  the  old  Asso­
ciation having been  omitted.  We  at  pres­
ent number fifty members, and per  instruc­
tions received at last night’s  meeting,  I en­
close  you  $5, being  the  requisite  amount 
>f  per capita tax to join  the State Associa­
tion—fifty strong.  We look  forward to the 
State Convention  with  much  interest,  and 
expect that the  Ionia  Business  Men’s  Ex­
change will be well  represented,  having  at 
our last night’s meeting  elected  five  dele­
gates to this convention, all of  whom  have 
expressed their  intention  of going.  Under 
the  constitution,  we  are  entitled  to  five 
delegates and W. E.  Kelsey goes as a inem- 
of the State  Executive  Board  which  gives 
us a total of six  delegates  and  if  nothing 
happens  we  will  be  there  a  half  dozen ! 
strong. 
I

F r ed  C u t le r,  Jr.  Sec’y. 

Yours,

1.  Reading of Correspondence.
3.  Report of Committee  on  Trade  Inter- 
Report  of  Committee  on  President’s 
4.  Answers  to  Queries  and  opening  of 
Adjourned to banquet,  tendered by the 

ests.
Address.
Question Box.
Retail Grocers’ Association.

W E D N E S D A Y ,  9   O’C L O C K   A .  M.

“Competition 

1.  The Legality of our Collection System.
2.  “Material Benefits of  Local  Organiza­
tion”—W.  E.  Kelsey,  Ionia.
in  Business” — O.  F. 
Conklin,  Coopersviile.
4.  “Relation of the Banker  to  the  Busi­
ness  Public”—C.  A.  Hammond,  Traverse 
City.  ,
5.  “Compromises  and  What  They  Lead 
Co”—E.  A.  Stowe,  Grand Rapids.
6.  “Look out  for  Tares”—Paul  P.  Mor­
gan,  Monroe.
Answers  to  Queries  and  opening  of 
Question Box.

W E D N E S D A Y ,  1 :3 0   O’C L O C K   I*.  M .

1.  “Shorter  Hours  for  the  Merchant”— 
Jas.  Osburn,  Owosso.
2.  “Is it Possible to do a Cash Business?” 
—N.  B. Blain,  Lowell.
3 .  “The Business Man in  Politics”—Jas. 
A.  Coye,  Grand Rapids.
4.  “Does it  Pay  to  Sell  Goods  for  Fun 
Instead of  Profit”—Julius  Schuster,  Kala­
mazoo.
5.  “Effect  of  Labor  Organizations  on 
Trade”—Robert M.  Floyd,  Chicago.
6.  Can our Collection System be Improved 
Upon”—L.  W.  Sprague,  Greenville.

Like3  ‘‘ The  Tradesman.”

N. B. Blain,  President  of the Lowell Bus­
iness Men’s Association, makes the following 
pleasant reference to this paper:

By some  means  unknown  to  me,  I have 
failed to get  T h e  T r a d e s m a n   this  week 
and wish  you  would  send  me  one,  as it is 
almost  impossible to do  without  it.  Lux­
uries can be  dispensed with,  but the  neces­
saries of life we must have.

EX PA N SIV E B IT S.

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

f i l e s —New List.

American  File Association  List  .. 
dis
Disston’s ................................................'¿¡8
New  American.................   ................... riiB
Nicholson’s ....... 
Heller’s .....................V".’“ ................d ii
Heller’s  Horse ~Rasps.
. .dis
XT 
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

27
j5
Discount, Juniata 50@10. Chareoal 60.
, 

g a l v a n i z e d  i r o n .
J4 

22 and  24,  25 and 26, 

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

g a u g e s .

13 

12 

„„ 

60&10
60&10
60&10
60&10
55&10
50

_  

,   .  

• • •  •

HANGERS.

HAMMERS.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ..............d:s
50
, ,  
25
Maydole & Co.’s .........................................dis 
Ye’rkes  &  Plumb’s.'.'.'.'.'.'........................‘¡Ho 
40
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel.........3o 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 60&10
40
Kidder, wood  track................................  dis 
H IN G E S .”
„   x 
Gate,Clark’s, 1,2,  3...........................‘....d is  
60
sta te .        ....... 
.....................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in  4U • 14
’and  longer.................... 
ou
lo2
Screw Hook and Eye,  *   ..." '.V. .'.'  .'net 
not  ml
berew Hook and Rye 
Screw Hook and Eye  %... 
...............net 
7?/
Screw Hook and Eye, 
net 
7H

, 

30

HOLLOW   W ARE.

_ 
Stamped Tin Ware................
2 oo
Japanned Tin  Ware......... ’
» «,
Granite  Iron  Ware............ .
7 nn
„  
HOES.
Grub  1..............
..«11  00, dis 60 
Grub  2...................... .............
..  It  50, d is60 
Grub3.............................
12 00, dis 60
KNOBS— NEW   L IS T .
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.......
55
.dis 
Door, porcelain, jap.  trimmings.
Door, porcelain, plated  trimmings..'.’.’.'
Door, porcelain, trimming’s ....................
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain__ . . dis
70
Picture, H.  L. Judd &  Co.’s..
40&10
H em acite............................  .  ..........  dis
45
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list..d is 
55
gr,
Mallory, Wheeler &  Co.’s . .. 
dig 
Branford’s ........................................ .".".'dis 
55
r, gy
Norwalk s .................................................dis 
55
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .....................dis  70
2 rr
Adze  Eye........................................«16 00 dis 
60
Hunt  Lye........................................«15 00  dis 
60
Hunt’s.
........................ «18 50 dis 20 & 10
Sperry & Co.’f, '
ost.  handled............
dis  50
_  
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s..
. dig 40 
Coffee, P. S. & W.M fg. Co/sMafleabies
dis 40 
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s .........
dis 40 
Coffee,  Enterprise............................
dis  26
MOLASSES  GATES.

LOCKS—:DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

LEV ELS.

MAULS.

M ILLS.

Stebbin’s Pattern  ..................................dis
Stebbin’s Genuine......................... .".""dis
Enterprise,  self-measuring........      .dis

60 A10 
60&1Ü

NA ILS— IRO N .

Common. Bra  and Fencing.
™d t°   ®0d  • .......................................... $  keg «2 60
8d and 9 d adv........................................ 
¡¿5
6d and 7d  adv.................... . . 
50
4d and 5d  ady...................75
3d  advance.  ............................1  50
3d fine  advance...............................................  3 00
Clinch nails, adv........................................... 
4  75
6d  4d............
Finishing 
Size—inches  (  3 
2 
Adv. $  keg 
Steel Nails—2  75.
O ILEB S-
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent.
Zinc, with brass bottom__
Brass or  Copper................. .
Reaper..................................
Olmstead’s .......................

...................dießO&lO
......................dis  50
..................... dis  50
. per gross, «12 net 
....................   50 A10

1  lOd  8d 
2% 
«1  25  1  50  1  75  2 00 

14

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.................................dis  30
Sciota Bench............................... . .dig 50®55
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.. 
..dis  30
Bench, firstjquality.................................dis 50®55
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood__ dis20&10
Fry, Acme 
.......dis 50&10
Common, 4
.  . »dis6ü&10
Dripping...............................
6 y2
....$ &  
Iron and  Tinned.................................... dis 
60
Copper Rivets and  Burs................. . .dis 
60
“A ” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished. Nos. 25  to 27  9  20

PATENT  FLA NISAED  IRON.

olished__

RIVETS..

PANS.

Broken packs y*c $  lb extra.

RO PES.

. 

„„ 

SQUARES.
................................... dis
..................................dis
................. 
dis
SH EET IK O N .
Com. Smooth.

Sisal, H in. and  larger....................................   iou
Manilla.
•  13K
Steel and Iron... 
70X10
Try and Bevels.. 
6020
Mitre  .................
„  
Com. 
Nos. 10 to  14................... 
*4  20
«2 90
Nos. 15 to  17..........................4 20
2 90
Nos. 18 to 21....................................    420
3 00 
Nos. 22 to 24............................420
3 05 
Nos .25 to 26.............................  
4  4fl
3  15 
No. 27.................................................  4 60
3 25
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over  2 
inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SH EET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, $   lb.............................
In smallerquansities, $   fl>.
TACKS.
American, all  kinds..............................dis
Steel, all kinds..................................... "dis
Swedes, all  kinds..........................".'.'"dis
Gimp and  Lace............................... .." .'dis
Cigar Box  N ails.....................................dis
Finishing  Nails..................................... 'dis
Common and Patent  Brads......  
  dis
Hungarian Nails and Miners’ Tacks!dis
Trunk and Clout N ails.......................... dis
Tinned Trunk and Clout N ails... !!!!dis 
Leathered Carpet  Tacks..................... dis
No. 1,  Refined.........................................
Market  Half-and-half............!!!!!" !"
Strictly  Half-and-half...................!.!!!!

T IN N E R ’S  SOLDER.

13 50 
16 00 
17  60

T IN   PLATES.

o 75
.................   8  75
..................  10  77
..................  12 55
..................  15  50
.................   6 50
..................  8 50
.................   10 60
.................   12 50
add 1  50  to  6 75

Cards for Charcoals, «6  75.
IC, 
10x14, Charcoal.......................
IX, 
10x14,Charcoal...................!'.!!!!!!
IC, 
12x12, Charcoal.......................
IX, 
12x12,  Charcoal  .........................
IC, 
14x20, Charcoal.........................
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal...................'.'..'!!
IXX, 
14x20, Charcoal.....................
14x20, Charcool
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal__
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal..........
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal.......
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal.......
DXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.......
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal...
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plat 
Rooting, 14x20, IC.............................
Rooting, 14x20,  IX ....................'...!'.!
8 75 
Roofing, 20x28, 1C....................!!!!!!!
11 00 
Rooting,  20x28,  IX .................. !!!!!!!
14  00
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne...
.  5 50 
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne..
.  7  00 
IC, 20x28, choico  Charcoal Terne...
.11 00 
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal  T erne..
14 00
Steel, Game......... 
.................................60&10
OneidaJCommuntity,  Newtaouse’s .........dis  36
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60&10

T IN — LEA D ED .

TR A PS.
. 

rates.

dis 

WIRE.

Mouse,  choker.......................................... 18c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion.................................. $1 5 0 $  doz
Bright Market....................................................  dis 67*4
Annealed Market............................ 
70
Coppered Market.................................................dis 62*4
Extra Bailing...............................................  dis  65
Tinned  Market......................................   dis  62*4
Tinned  Broom..................................!.".!. S  lb  09
09
Tinned Mattress
....... $B> 8*4
Coppered  Spring Steel.........
50
.......dis 
Tinned Spring Steel................
.......dis 4C&10
Plain Fence..............................
.......$ » 
3
Barbod F ence,galvanized...
................4 40
painted.........
.............3 65
Copper........................................
. new  list net 
Brass...............................
.new  list net

“ 

W IR E GOODS.

 

W RENCHES.

Bright.................................................dis  70&10&10
Screw Eyes.......................................... dis  70&10&10
J*°°ks  ............... 
dis  70&10&10
Gate Hooks and  E yes..................... dis  70&10&1Q
Baxter's Adjustable,  nickeled................
Coe’s Genuine..........................................dis 
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis 
Coe’s  Patent.  tn n .n o a tiIo  
Coe’s  Patent, malleable................
MISCE LLAN SO US.
BirdCages.........................................
Pumps,  Cistern.................... 
.
Screws,  new  list..........................”
Casters,  Bed  and  P late..............
Dampers, American

..dis
.disñü&lO&lo 
40

50
75 
Ain  b>e m u
d i s   75&10

“ 

Spring & Lindley quote as follows:
“ 

vv tute oak, pork, hand made............... 1  00@1  05
lard tierces, hand made.. .1  15®t 25
Beef and lard, *4 bbls., 
“  >ti  75®   yy
Custom, oue head............................... jo
Flour 
Produce

“  • 

30®
25©

 

 
 
 

W OODEN W ARE.
Standard  Tubs, No. 1....................... 
g 7g
Standard  Tubs, N o.2.......................................4  75
Standard  Tubs, No. 3....................................... 3  75
Standard Pai Is, two hoop..........." .................. j  35
Standard Pails, three hoop...........”  “  | ..........j  gy
Pails, ground wood 
.....................!!.".!!."! '4  00
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes..................... 
Butter  Pails, ash................................... 
Butter Ladles....................................... 
Rolling Pins......................................... 
~g
Potato  Mashers................. .!!!!!!" !" ’ .........   50
. . . .................*>  ¡>5
Clothes Pounders............ 
ClothesPins....................................... 
J3y
Mop Stocks........................................... 
1  no
Washboards, single............ ............................... 1  7*
Washboards, double__ ! ! ‘ ' ' ' ' '  ¡>  ¿5
Diamond  Market....................................  
4Q
Bushel, narrow band................!......................l  60
Bushel, wide band........................ . )................4  -g
Clothes, splint.  No. 1.......................................q  in
Clothes, splint,  No. 2............ ’ ’ 7 ’ ..................4
Clothes, splint,  No. 3.........” ........................... nn
Clothes, willow  No.  1.................... 
Clothes, willow  No. 2................................ 
Clothes, willow  No. 3.......... 
Water  Tight, bu......................... 

BA SK ETS.

 
“  h a lfb u ........................... 
HARDW OOD  LUM BER.

g  go
7  gn
.3 ’¡ö
 

 

 

The furniture factories  here  pay  as  follows 
for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run.......
....................12 00® 14 00
Birch, log-run................
....................15 00@18  00
Birch, Nos. 1 and  2.......
...................  
@25 00
Black Ash, log-run.......
...................  
@13 00
Cherry,  log-run............
....... ............25 00@35 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and  2...
....................45 00@50 00
.......... 
@10 00
Cherry,  cull........................................
Maple,  log-run.................
....................12 00@14 00
Maple, soft,  log-run..............
....................11  00@I3  00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2..............
@20 00
................ 
Maple, clear, flooring......................
@25 00
...................  
Maple, white, selected.........
...................  
@25 Oo
Red Oak, log-run..........................|
...................  
@18 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and"...........
  @24  00
.................. 
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 
@13 00
White Ash,  log-run............................. 14  oo@ie 00
qm  nq
Whitewood,  log-run....................... 
White  Oak, log-run........................ @47 oy

“

“ 

.... 

COAL  A N D   BUILDING   M ATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

Ohio White Lime, per  bbl.......
1  00
Ohio White Lime, car lo ts." .!
85
LouisvilleCemeni,  per bbl..
130 
Akron Cement per  bbl............
1  30 
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl.........
1  30
Car lots 
....1   05@1  10 
Plastering hair, per b u ..
----  25@  30
Stucco, per bbl.......................
1  75
Land plaster, per ton................
3 50
---- 
Land plaster, car lots.......... .. ’
2 50
Fire bnek, per  M...................
—  «25 @ «35 
Fire clay, per  bbl................, *"
---- 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .«5  75@G 00 
Anthracite, stove and  nut, car lots..  6  00@6 25
Cannell,  car lots..................... 
tafi nn
Ohio Lump, car  lots.................W .*  3  10@3 25
»lossburg or  Cumberland, car lots..  4  50@5 00 
Portland  Cement.....................  ...........  3  5q@4  qo

COAL.

Ibarbware.

, 

AUGERS AND B ITS.

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full  packages.
,  
60
Ives ,  old  style..........................................dis 
60
N.  H. C. Co.................................................dis 
Douglass’.................................................... dis 
60
60
Purees 
....................................................... dis 
»“ell’* ......................................................... dis 
60
Cook s  ......................................................... dis 
.  40
25
Jennings ,  genuine..................................dis 
Jennings’,  imitation...................... . . . . . . dis50& 10
„  
Spring.......................................................... dis 
40
„   „  
Railroad.........................................................«  14 00
Garden ......................................................... net 33  OO

BALANCES.

BARROW S.

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BELLS.

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BOLTS.

BRACES.

BUCKETS.

............................... 60&10&^

00&10
60I&10
40
50
net
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F lu sh ............................................... 

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G onsr......................................'.'.'.".'dis 
Door, bargent.................................. dis
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Stove...........................................
Carriage  new  list 
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Plow  ................................... . . . ”
Sleigh Shoe...................
Wrought Barrel  Bolts!
Cast  Barrel  Bolts.....................
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs.......

............ dis «
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®Suare »P nng............................... dis
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Wrought Barrel, brass  knob.! 
Wrought Square....................... 
Wrought Sunk Flush..............  
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  knob
Ives’ Door........................................... dja
Barber.......................................................dis « 
“iPei^Srd..................................................... dis 
Am. Ball.....................................................dig 
Well, plain................................... 
Well, sw ivel...................................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........................'...d is  eOAtlO
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip ..............dis  60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned..............dis  60&  5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
dis
60&  5 
dis
Wrought Table............................>it' 
60&10 
Wrought  Inside  Blind.......... . . .  . . .  dis
60&10
Wrought Brass....................... 
"dis
Blind, Clark’s ........................  
dis
Blind, Parker’s ........................ 
dis
Blind,  Shepard’s ....................... . . .. . ..dis 
70
Ely’sl-10........................................ ..  m « 65
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Musket...................................................... 
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Rim Fire, IT. M.C. & Winchester  new  list50&10
Rim  Fire, United  States.............. 
dis50&10
Central Fire.................................................dis30&10
Socket Firmer.......................................... dis
70&10 
Socket Framing.........................  
dis
70 A10 
Socket  Corner.................................”  “  ‘dig
70&I0 
Socket Slicks.............................. .'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'dis
70&10 
Butchery’ Tanged  Firm er.. . . . . . . . . . . dis
40 
Barton’s Socket  Firmers.............. 
dis
20

tip p ed ........................... 

BUTTS. C A S T ........................

CA TRIDG ES.

C H IS ELS.

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COCKS.

dis  40&10
Curry,  Lawrence’s ....... .........  
Hotchkiss  ............................................... dis 
25
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Brass,  Racking’s ........................  
Bibb’s .......................................................................¿¡y
Bteer ............................................................"   40&10
Fenns
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size...................... w b>
14x52,14x56, 14 x60...............................
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60................!
Cold Rolled, 14x48..............................!!!.!!!!!!
Morse’s Bit  Stock..................................dis
Taper and Straight Shank....................dis
Morse’s Taper  Shank...................... 
Com. 4 piece, 6  in ............................. doz net  «.85

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I would respectfully call your atten 
tion to the fact that  I  am  handling  a 
complete line of

GARDEN  SEEDS.

Representing the well-known house 
of James  Vick,  of  Rochester,  anyone 
wishing Seeds in  large or small quan­
tities can obtain  them,  true  to  name, 
by  placing  his  order  with  us.  Mr. 
John A. Brummeller, who has been in 
the  Seed  business  for  years, is  now 
with us in this new department.

Hoping you will favor us  with your 
orders, which  will  have  our  prompt 
attention, I am

Very respectfully yours,

ALFRED  J.  BROWN,  Seedsman,
aŒt-AJKTD  R-A.FIIDS,  MICH.

16  and  18  North  Division  St.,

Wall Paper

At  Manufacturers’ Prices.

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

House and Store Shades Made to Order. 
N elson  Bros.  &  Oo.

68  MONROE  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

The Battle Creek Grocers in Line.

Pursuant to invitation,  the editor of  T h e 
T badesm an met the grocerymen  of  Battle 
Creek last Wednesday evening for  the  pur­
pose of assisting in the formation  of  a  Re­
tail Grocers’ Association.  R.  C.  Parker was 
selected to act as chairman  and  A. J. Keys 
as secretary.  At the conclusion  of  an  ex­
planation of the aims and objects of  organ­
ized effort, with a recital of  the  advantages 
secured by Associations in other towns, Geo. 
H.  Rowell moved that  the  formation  of  a 
Retail  Grocers’  Association  be  proceeded 
with, which was adopted.  F. H. Mott moved 
that the constitution and by-laws  presented 
by Mr. Stowe be adopted for the government 
of the Association, which was adopted, when 
the  following  gentlemen  handed  in  their 
names for clxarter membership: R. C. Parker, 
G. Gerould, Geo. H.  Rowell, Austin &  Co., 
S. W. McCrea, L.  A.  Fagan, A. J. Keys, C. 
A. Hoxsie, J. C. Halladay, F. H. Mott & Co., 
Frank Willard, H. E. Merritt & Co.,  J.  W. 
Landis.

Election of officers resulted as follows:
President—Geo.  H. Rowell.
Vice-President—R.  C. Parker.
Secretary—C.  A.  Hoxsie.
Treasurer—Chas. Austin, J r .'
Executive  Committee—President,  Secre­

tary, Treasurer and Thos. Jennings.

J.  C. Halladay moved that the election  of 
the Committees on Business  and  Trade  In­
terests be deferred until  the  next  meeting, 
which was carried.  G. Gerould moved that 
the collection blanks presented by Mr. Stowe 
be adopted, and on motion of J. C. Halladay 
tiie Executive Committee was  instructed  to 
procure the printing of the same.

The Secretary was requested to furnish the 
local papers with reports of the organization 
of the  Association,  when  the  meeting  ad­
journed for one week.

Good Report from Lowell.

L o w e ix ,  Feb. 26,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

D e a r  Sir—At  the  last  meeting  of  our 
Business Men’s Association,  we elected  the 
following named gentlemen to represent our 
Association at the State meeting: J. Q. Look, 
C. G.  Stone, O. C. McDannell, S. W. Taylor, 
S.  E.  Morgan and J. B. Yeiter.  We elected 
live new members,  which entitles  us  to  six 
delegates.  There seems to be  a  good  feel­
ing among the members,  and  while  we  are 
well pleased witli our success in the way  of 
collections,  we are not satisfied to stop with 
that,  but  expect  to  be  benefited  in  many 
ways.  There are only two or three firms in 
town now that have not united with us.  At 
that meeting,  we elected what we called  an 
Improvement Committee, consisting  of  ten 
members,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  look 
after the manufacturing interests of the town 
and do what they can to induce manufactur­
ers who are  looking  for locations  to  settle 
here, and do whatever else they may to ben­
efit  the  place.  We  are  getting  some  very 
good factories here—one,  a  cutter  factory, 
that already has contracts for 18,000  cutters. 
It has an annual capacity  of  about  24,000. 
If not the largest, this is one of  the  largest 
in the world, which speaks well for Lowell. 
We are now agitating the question of water 
works, and there are many other matters  of 
importance whicli will  receive  attention  in 
due time.
Hoping that our State meeting  may  meet 
our highest expectations and that great good 
may  come  through  the  organization,  I  re­
main 

Very truly yours,

N.  B.  B l a in ,  Pres.

Otsego Organized.

Agreeable to call, the business men of Ot­
sego met at D.  A.  Drew’s office last Monday 
evening for the purpose of talking  over  the 
subject of  organization.  J.  M.  Ballou  was 
selected  to  act  as  chairman  and  J.  M. 
Eaton  as  secretary.  The  editor  of  T h e 
T r a d e s m a n  explained the aims and objects 
of  organized  effort,  when  C.  A.  Barnes 
moved that the formation  of  an  association 
be  immediately  proceeded  with.  The  reg­
ular constitution and by-laws  were  adopted 
for the government of the Association, when 
the  following  gentlemen  handed  in  their 
names for charter membership: J. M. Ballou, 
R. Monteith,  C.  I.  Clapp,  Conrad  Bros.,  C. 
H. Adams,  D.  A. Drew, Barnes & Williams, 
J.  M.  Eaton,  P.  W.  Travis.

Election  of  officers  resulted  as  follows:
President—J. M. Ballou.
Vice-President—C. H.  Adams.
Secretary—J.  F.  CoDrad.
Treasurer—R. Monteith.
Executive  Committee—President,  Secre­
tary,  Treasurer,  C.  A.  Barnes  and  C.  I. 
Clapp.

The election  of  the  Business  Commitee 

was deferred until the next meeting.

The editor of the Otsego  Union  was  re­
quested to publish the constitution  and  by­
laws  in  liis  next  issue,  when  the  meeting 
adjourned for two weeks.

In Union There is Strength.

V e b m o n t v il l e,  Feb. 28,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids :

D e a r  S ib—Enclosed please  find express 
money order for ©2.10,  for  which  give our 
Business Men’s  Association a  place in  the 
State ranks.  You will notice that our mem­
bership has more  than  doubled  since you 
were here.  We are organized for business 
and are already beginning to see that in un­
ion there is strength.

Fraternally,

W.  E.  H olt,  Sec’y.
DISSOLUTION  NOTICE.
The  copartnership  existing  between  Klaas 
E. VanderLinde and  Corneills  D eJongh,  Jr., 
under  the  firm  name  of Van der Linde & De 
Jongh, has this day been dissolved by  mutual 
consent, Klaas E.  VanderLinde  retiring.  All 
debts due to and against the firm  will  be  set­
tled by  Corneills  DeJongh, Jr., who will  con­
tinue the business at the old  stand.
Klaas  E.Van der Linde, 
Corneilis  De J ongh, J r.

Muskegon, Feb. 25, 1887.

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

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WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  9,  1887.

M ichigan  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President—F rank H am ilton, Traverse City.
F irst Vice-President—Paul P. Morgan, Monroe.
Second Vice-President—E. J. H errick, G rand Rapids. 
Secretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer—Julius Schuster, Kalamazoo.
Executive Comm ittee—President, F irst Vice-President, 
Secretary, N. B. Biain and W. E. Kelsey.
Com m ittee on Trade Interests—Sm ith Barnes, Traverse 
City;  P. Ranney, Kalamazoo;  A.  W.  W estgute,  Che­
boygan.
Comm ittee on L egislation—W. E.  Kelsey,  Ionia;  J.  V.
Crandall, Sand Lake;  J. F. Clark, Big Rapids. 
Com m ittee on M embership—H. S.  Church,  Sturgis;  B. 
F. Em ery, G rand Rapids;  the Secretary.
The following local associations have mostly 
been  organized  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Michigan Business Men’s Association, and  are 
auxiliary thereto:

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

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

B ellaire Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, John Rodgers;  Secretary, G. J. Noteware.
M erchant’s Protective Ass’n of Big  Rapids.
President, N. H. Beebe;  Secretary, O. D. Glldden.______
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.
R etail  Grocers’ Association of B attle Creek 
President, Geo. H. Rowell;  Secretary, C.  A. Hoxsie.

Cadillac  Business  Men’s  As’n. 

President, A. W. Newark;  Secretary, J. C. McAdam.
Casnovia,  Bailey  and  T rent  B,  M.  A. 
President, H. E. Hesseltine;  Secretary, E. Farnham .
Cedar  Springs  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, T. W. Provin;  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.»

Eastport  Business  Men’s  Association. 

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

Geo. L. Thurston, Central Lake.

E lk Rapids Business Men’s Protective As’n. 
President, J. J. M cLaughlin ;  Secretary, C. L. M artin.
F ran k fo rt  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, Wm. Upton;  Secretary, E. R. Chandler.

F reeport  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, F oster Sisson;  Sec’y, A rthur Cheseborough.
Grand  Haven  Business  Men’s  Association, 
President, Fred. D. Vobs;  Secretary, Fred A. H utty.

R etail  Grocers’  Ass’n  of Grand  Rapids. 

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

G reenville  Business  Men’s  Association. 

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

H artford Business Men’s Association. 

President, V. E. Manley;  Secretary, I. B. B arnes.

Hastings  Business  Men’s  Association. 

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

Holland  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, Jacob Van P utten;  Secretary, A. Van Duren.

Ionia  Business  Men’s  Exchange. 

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.  _

Kingsley  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, C. H. Camp; Secretary. Chas. E. Brewster.

L e s lie   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 

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

L uther  Protective  As’n.

President, W. ]i.  Pool;  Secretary, Jas. M. Verity.

Lyons  Business  Men’s  As’n.

President. À. 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. Jenison;  Secretary, R. Fuller.________

M uir  Business  Men’s  Association, 

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

M erchant’s  Union  of Nashville. 

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

Oceana  Business  Men’s  As’n. 

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

Ovid  Business  Men’s  As’n.

President, C. H. H unter;  Secretary, Lester Cooley.
Ow'osso  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, Jas. Osburn ;  Sec’y, S. Lamfrom.___________

Otsego  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, J. M. Ballou;  Secretary, J. F. Conrad.

Petoskey  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, Jas. Buckley;  Secretary, A. C. Bowman.

Plaim vell  Business  Men’s  Association. 

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

R eed City  Business  Men’s Association. 
President, C. J.  Flelsehauer; Secretary, H. W. Hawkins.

Rockford  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, Geo. A. Sage;  Secretary. J. M. Spore._____
St. Charles  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, B. J. Downing;  Secretary, E. E. Burdick.
St.Johns M erchants’ P r o t e c t i v e  Association. 
President, H. L. Kendrick;  Secretary, C. M. Merrill.
Business Men’s  Protective Ass’n of Saranac. 
President, Geo. A. P otts;  Secretary, P. T. Williams.

South  Board man  Business  Men’s  Ass’n. 

President, H. E. H ogan;  Secretary, S. E. Niehardt.
do. Arm  and K. Jo rd an  Business Men’s As’n. 
President, D. C. Loveday ;  Secretary, C. W. Sutton.

Sherm an  Busine«« Men’« Association. 
President, H.  B. B turtevant;  Secretary, W. G. Shane.

Sparta  Business  Men’s  Association.

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

Sturgis  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, Henry B. Church;  Secretary, Wm. Jom .
Traverse  City  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, Geo. E. Steele;  S ecretary,C. T. Lockwood.
Tustin  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, G. A. Estes;  Secretary, Geo. W, Bevins.
Vermont ville  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, W. H. Benedict;  Secretary, W. E. Holt.

W ayland  Business  Men’s  Association. 

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

President, A. T. Linderm an, W hitehall ;  Secretary,  W, 
B. Nicholson, W hitehall.____________ ______________
W oodland  Business  Men’s  Association. 

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

Grand  K aplds  B utchers’  Union. 

President, John Katz; Secretary, Chas. Velite.

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Pound cans, 2 doz. in  case for $8.  Given with each 
can,  a  large  Hob  Nail  Oblong  Berry  Dish, as­
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10 oz. cans, tall, 3 doz. in case for $7.75.  With each 
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Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of  Last Resort.

IN SU RA N CE  PO LICY — D E A T H   BY  SU IC ID E.
Suicide is not a deatli “in violation of the 
criminal laws,” so as to  avoid  a  life  insur­
ance policy,  according to the decision of the 
New York Supreme Court.  The court took 
the view that while the  attempt  to  commit 
suicide was made a crime  by the New York 
Penal  Code,  suicide  or  the  successful  at­
tempt to commit was  not so. 

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D E B T — R EL IN Q U ISH M EN T  OF  PA R T .

Though a promise by a creditor to forgive 
or relinquish part of his  debt  on  the  pay­
ment of the other part in  money is  without 
consideration and void, yet where a creditor 
agrees to relinquish a part of his debt on re­
ceiving a new or an  additional  security  for 
the balance, or where  he  agrees  to  receive 
a chattel of less value than his debt in satis­
faction of the same, his  promise  will  have 
the support of a good consideration and will 
be held valid.  So held by the  New  Jersey 
Court of Chancery. 

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SA L E  O F  STOCK  IN   P A R T N E R SH IP .

In  the  case  of Mobley et al. vs. Morgan, 
the  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania  held 
that in the case of a  breech  of  contract  for 
the purchase of stock in  a  limited  partner­
ship occasioned by the seller’s refusal to ac­
cept the stock,  the seller  is  not  compelled, 
where  the  stock  has  no  known  market 
value,  to sell it on  the  market  for  the best 
price obtainable and  measure  his  damages 
by the difference between  the price thus ob­
tained and the  contract  price,  but  may  re­
cover from the purchaser the price agreed to 
be paid for the stock with interest from  the 
time of the breach.

F IR E   IN SU R A N C E— IN C R E A SE   OF  R ISK .
Where the class of hazards  annexed  to  a I 
lire insurance policy was  not  found  in  the 
record the Maryland Court of  Appeals  held 
that it would not assume as a matter of fact 
that the mere change in the  machinery of  a 
flouring mill from the burr to the roller pro­
cess was  such  an  alteration  as  would  in­
crease  the  risk,  and  that  such  a  change 
would not avoid  the  policy  under  a  clause 
providing that the  policy  should  cease  and 
be of no effect if  the  property  was  altered 
or used for  carrying  on any  business which 
would increase the risk  unless  it  were  by 
consent  of the company.

A SSIG NM EN T 

FOR  CRED ITO RS— P R E F E R ­

EN C ES.

Where a limited partnership made  an  as­
signment, which was void by reason of con­
taining preferences,  and thereafter made an 
assignment in  compliance  witji  the  statute 
regulating assignments, the New York Court 
Court of of Appeals held that the  latter  as­
signment was valid,  and that an attachment 
subsequently sued out  by a  creditor  of  the 
partnership, on the ground that by the  first 
assignment the members of the partnership, 
had assign«! all the property of the partner­
ship, with intent to hinder, delay and defraud 
creditors,  and give prefences,  was not main­
tainable.

CONTRACT  IN   R E ST R A IN T   O F  T R A D E .
In  the  case  of  Mandeville  vs.  Harman, 
lately decided by  the  New  Jersey Court  of 
Chancery, it appeared that the defendant, in 
consideration  of  his  employment  by  the 
plaintiff,  a physician,  as his assistant,  for  a 
certain period, covenanted not  to engage  in 
the practice of medicine  or  surgery  in  the 
city of Newark at any time after  the  snak­
ing of the contract  After the expiration of 
the period limited in  the  contract,  the  de­
fendant rented  an  ofiice  in  Newark,  with 
the  intention  of  establishing  himself  in 
practice there.  The plaintiff applied for an 
injuncion to restrain him, but Vice-Chancel­
lor VauFleet denied  the  application,  hold­
ing that the covenant in question was unrea­
sonable and void.

D E A T H   W H IL E   V IO L A T IN G   T H E  LA W .
A certificate  of  insurance,  provided  that 
if the insured  should  “die  while  violating 
any  law,”  all  rights  under  the  certificate 
should be forfeited.  The insured,  with  an 
accomplice, went  into  the  treasury depart­
ment of tin; state and by means of intimida­
tion forced an  official  to  give  him  $500  of 
money belonging to the state.  On trying to 
escape with  the  money,  after  having  left 
the department,  he was killed  by  a  police­
man.  The Supreme Court of Nebraska held 
that,  as the insured had obtained the money 
and was endeavoring to escape when he was 
killed,  he was not at the instant of his death 
violating any law,  and there was no forfeit­
ure of the  certificate.

Plain Talk About the Boycott.

The annual report of the Bureau of Labor 
and Industrial Statistics of  Wisconsin,  con­
tains the following reference to the infamous 
weapon of organized labor:
The boycott seems to me to be but a mod­
ified form of the business of  the  highway­
man. 
It is,  I think, on  the  wane through­
out the Union, certainly in Wisconsin.  Jjet 
it go.  The  sooner  it is  buried beyond re­
surrection the sooner will  toilers free them­
selves from another enemy.
I notice,  however, a change  of  tactics in 
those who favor and manage  boycotts. 
In­
stead  of  organizing  against  business men 
and manufacturers in such  a  manner  as to 
be guilty of conspiracy as freely as formerly, 
they  now  boycott  persons — ostracising, 
hounding and maltreating such  members of 
their organizations as  cannot  be  fully  con­
trolled.  We have had but  little  of  that in 
Wisconsin, though in other  states it has be­
come  an enormity.
Some unionists claim that boycotting ^ven

in its extreme form is a “principle.” 
It is 
not  a  principle,  but a low and  passionate 
form of revenge.  There  is  not  a shred or 
shadow of principle in It or near it.
It is true that men may, as  individuals or 
in a body, refuse to buy any given article or 
refuse to work for an  obnoxious  employer, 
but on general  principles  boycotting  is  a 
dangerous  instrument  of  warfare. 
It is a 
two-edged sword that may be used by either 
party.
Suppose  manufacturers  shoiild  band to­
gether to deprive union men of shelter, fuel, 
food,  clothing and labor,  for the purpose of 
enforcing  some  rule,  regulation  or price. 
Such a course would indeed be more  appal­
ling in its results, but not a more outrageous 
violation of common  sense,  common  right 
and common law than  the  boycotts  which 
have been instituted against the  goods,  fac­
tories,  business  and reputation of  employ­
ers.
If laboring men wish to continue  boycot­
ting,  let them boycott  drunkenness, boycott 
loud-mouthed  agitators,  boycott  charlatan 
leaders and  mountebanks who care nothing 
for labor except to use it for selfish  purpos­
es;  boycott  dissipation  and  extravagant 
habits—boycottthem always and everywhere; 
strike  against  them,  drum  them  out  of 
camp.
Instead of tearing down and crippling the 
factories  of  your  neighbors  wherein  you 
earn  your  daily  bread and which build up 
your  communities,  boycott  every  foreign- 
made article that could as well  be  made on 
American soil.

GZ2TSS2TG HOOT.
ay the highest price for it.  Address
We ps
Bros.. Druggists, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Peck

SEEDS

For the Fieli ani Garden.

71 Canal Street,

Offers for Sale all Kinds of Oarden 

Seeds in Bulk.

Medium Clover,

Mammoth  Clover,

Alsike Clover,

Alfalfa Clover,
Timothy,

White Dutch Clover, 

Red  Top,

Blue Grass,

Orchard Grass,

Hungarian Grass, 
Common Millet, 
Flax Seed.

German Millet, 

TIME  TABLES.
Chicago & W est Michigan.

Leaves.
fM ail...................................................   9:10 a m
tDay  Express.............................................12:30 p m
•N ight Express...................................11:00 p m
Muskegon Express......................................5:00 p m

Ai rives. 
3:55 p m 
9:45 p m 
5:45 a m  
11:00 a m
•Daily. 
Pullm an Sleeping Cars on all n ight  trains.  Through 
parlor car in charge of careful attendants  w ithout ex­
tra  charge to Chicago on 12:50 p. m .,and through coach 
on 9 a. m. and 11 p. m. trains.

tDaily except Sunday.

Newaygo  Division.

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

Arrives. 
4:60 p m 
10:30 a m
All trains arrive and depart from  Union Depot.
The Northorn term inus of this division is a t Baldwin, 
where close connection is  made  w ith  F. & P. M. trains 
to and from  Ludington and Manistee.

W. A. G avktt, Gen'l Pass. Agent.
J. B. M u l l ik k n ,  General  M anager.

CKHNO  NORTH.

Traverse City Express 
Traverse City and Mackinaw Ex
ity and 31« 
Cincinnati  Express... 
Petoskey and Mackina 
Saginaw Express.........

Grand Rapids & Indiana.
Arrives.
9:20 a in
.................   7:30 p m
Express..  3:40 p in
..................11:25 a m
. .10:30 a m.

Leaves. 
7:00 a m 
11:30 a m
5:05 p m 
7:20 a m  
4:10 p m
S ag in aw  ex p ress ru n s  th ro u g h  solid.
7 a in train  has chair car f*«r  Traverse  City.  11:30  a 
in tra in  has chair car for Petoskey and Mackinaw City. 
5:05 p m train  lias sleeping and chair cars  for Petoskey 
and Mackinaw.
Cincinnati  Express......................................  
Port W ayne Express........................10:30 a m  
Cincinnati  Express..........................4:40 p m  
Traverse City and Mackinaw Ex. .11:00 p m 
5:00 p in tra in  has W oodruff sleeper for Cincinnati.
M uskegon,  G rand  liapids  &  Indiana. 
Leave. 
Arrive.
7:25 a ill......................................................................  9:15 a m
1:00 p m ......................................................................  1:00 p m
5:20 p m ......................................................................  7:10 p m
Leaving tim e a t  Bridge street  depot 7 m inutes later.

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

11:45 a m
5:00 p m

GOING  SOUTH.

C. L. Lockw ood, G en’l Pass. A gent.

7:13 a m

K alam azoo  Division.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.
Leave. 
Arrive.
N. Y. Mail.  N. Y. Ex.
Ex. & Mail.  N. Y. Mail. 
6:10 p m
7:45 a m. .G randR apids.  9:45 a m 
4  35 p m  
5:00am
9:02 a m .. A llegan...........8:28am  
5:55pm  
4:fl0pin 
f :05 p m   10:00 a m. .Kalamazoo ...  7:30 a m 
2:20 p m
8:30 p m   11:35 a m. .W hite Pigeon.  5:55 a m 
2:30am  
5:05 p m. .T oledo.............11:00pm 
9:45aiil
5:35 a m
8:30 a m   9:40 p m. .Cleveland.......6:40 p m  
2:50pm   3:30 a ill..B uffalo............ 11:65am 
li:1 0 p m
5:40 a m  
6:50am
6:50 p m. .Chicago.......... 11:30pm 
A local freight leaves G rand Rapids a t 1  p  m,  carry ­
ing passengers as fa /a s   Allegan.  All  trains  daily  ex­
cept Sunday. 

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

GOING  EAST.
Arrives. 
tSteam boat  Express........................ 
tT hrough  Mall.................................... 10:40 a m  
tEvenlng Express..............................   3:15 p m  
•Lim ited  Express...............................  9:20 p m 
tMixed, w ith  coach.......................... 
GOING WEST.
tM orning  Express.............................  1:05 p m  
tT hrough  Mail...................................   5:00 p m  
tSteam boat Express.................................10:40 p m
tMixed.................................................  
•N ight Express..................................... 5:10 a m  

Leaves.
6:25 a m

10:50 a m
3:50 p m

10:55 p m
11:00 a m

1:10 p m
5:05 p m

7:45 a m

5:35 a m

tD aily, Sundays excepted.  *Daily.
Passengers taking the  6:25  a m   Express  m ake  close 
connection a t Owosso for Lansing,  and  a t  D etroit  for 
New  York,  arriving  there  a t  10:30  a  m the following 
morning.  The N ight Express haB a through W agner car 
and local sleeping car from  D etroit to Grand  Rapids.
D. P o tt e r, City Passenger Agent. 

GKO. B. Reev^ , Traffic M anager Chicago.

Michigan Central.

DEPART.

a rr iv e.

D etroit Express.................................................................. 6:15 a m
Day  Express.....................................................................   1:10 p m
•A tlantic Express..................................................... 10:10 p m
M ixed....................................................................................6:50 a m
.....................  4:00 a m
•Pacific  Express----
...................  3:00 I
M all.
Grand  Rapids  Express........................................... 10:15 p in
M ixed.................................................................................   5:15 p m
run on A tlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from  
Detroit.  P arlor  cars run  on  Day  Express  and  Grand 
Rapids Express to  and  from   Detroit.  Direct  connec­
tions mode a t D etroit with all through trains E ast over 
M. C. R. K.. (Canada Southern Div.)

•Dally. All other dally except Sunday.  Sleeping cars

D. W. J ohnston. Mich.  Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids.
O. W. H i g g l e s , Gen’l Pass, and Ticket Agt., Chicago.

7:00 a in 
12:20 p m
5:30 p m  

Detroit,  M ackinaw &  M arquette.

Going East.

Going West, 
---- 
—  - 
6:60 a  m. .St. Ignace. 
9:40 a m   .S eney.......
j M arquette

5:55pm
...  8:30pm  
...  5:15 p m  12:35 p m
(  2:15 p m 
7:00 a m
•  \ 2:00pm
1:40 p m .'.Negaunee.1:25 p m
1:55 p in..Ishpem ing....12:68 p m
6:39 p m. .H o u g h to n _9:20 a m
5:60 p m, .Hancock  ......... 9:01am
6:36 p m . .C alum et.8:15 a m

Mixed train leaves St. Ignace  at  7 am :  arrives  Mar- 
uette 5:30 p m. 
ten. Pass, and Ticket  Agent, Marquette.

E. W. Allen,

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

and fresh until entirely used.

ARTHUR  MEIGS  &  00.
W holesale Grocers,

SO lo  A g e n t s ,

77  to  83  SOUTH  DIVISION  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

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Custards, Blanc-Mange, etc.

THE  PERFECTION  OF  QUALITY.

WILL  PLEASE  YOU  EVERY  TIME!

ALWAYS  ASK  YOUR  GROCER  FOR  THESE  GOODS.

FULLER & STOWE COMPANY,

Engravers and Printers

Dosignors

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

Autographs, Etc., on Short Notice.

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

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

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83  Monroe  St.,

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sufficiently.  Should  be  Thoroughly
Warmed (iiot cooked) adding  piece 
Good Butter (aize of hen's egg) and ggill
Season to suit when on the table. None 
genuine unless bearing the signatureot

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signature and stamp on each can.

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PEA NUTS

QYSTERS

where in this issue and write for

See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­
Special  Prices in Gar  Lots. 
We are prepared to take Bottom Prices on anjtM i we handle.
A. B, K N O W L SO N ,

3 Canal Street, Basement,  Grand Rapicjs,  Mich.

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W H O L E S A L E   G R O C ER Y   H O U SE

Cor. Ionia and Louis Sts., Grand Rapids.

n r   MICHIGAN.

Regular  Meeting  of  the  Retail  Grocers’ ;

A ssociation.

There was a fair attendance at the regular | 
meeting of the  Association,  held  Tuesday | 
evening,  March 1.

John E.  Killean’s name was presented for ; 

membership,  and was  accepted.

E.  E.  Walker reported the progress made 
by  the  Entertainment  Committee,  in  ar- j 
ranging for the entertainment of  the  State 
convention.  The  report  wras  adopted  and 
the Committee  instructed  to  continue  the 
work.

A bill  from  Taylor  &  McBride,  for  an 
opinion in regard to  expunging  the  olause 
in the city charter relative to public market, 
was ordered paid.

The President was  instructed  to  appoint 
delegates  to  State  Association,  including 
himself as one.

The  Secretary  submitted a  new blank to j 
be sent to the  delinquent  by the  Secretary, 
after  the  expiration  of  the  fifteen  days 
granted by the Blue Letter, notifying him  to 
to  arrange for the payment  of  the  account 
to  the  grocer,  or his name would be put on 
the  delinquent  sheet  of  the  Association. 
On motion of  E. J.  Herrick,  it was adopted 
and the Law Committee  was  instructed  to 
arrange for the printing of  the same.

On motion of  E. J.  Herrick,  the  resigna­
tion of Collector Cooper  wTas  accepted,  and 
the Secretary was  instructed  to  notify him 
of its Acceptance.

Treasurer  Harris  reported  the  receipts 
since last report as SI.75,  giving  a  balance 
on hand of  $26.25.

The meeting then adjourned.
President Coye has announced the follow­
ing as  delegates  to  the  State  convention: 
E. J.  Herrick,  E.  A. Stowe,  E.  E.  Walker,
B. F. Erntery,  B.  S.  Harris,  II. A.  Ilydorn,
C.  L.  Lawton,  A.  Raseh,  Thos.  Keating,
Jas.  Farnsworth,  Harry  DeGraaf,  Jas.  A. 
Coye. 
Interesting Meeting  of  the  Traverse  City 

^ ______

______ 

Association.

T r a v e r se Cit y ,  March 3,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
D e a r  Sir—At the regular meeting of the 
Traverse City Business  Men’s  Association, 
held Tuesday  evening,  the  following  new 
members were elected:  G. M.  Chase,  0 . 1'. 
Carver,  A.  W.  McElcheran  and  W. J.  Par­
ker.
The Committee  on  Revising  of the Con­
stitution reported and  submitted an amend­
ment to Section  1 of Article 3  and  on  mo­
tion of F. Hamilton, the report was adopted.
The  Itail  Road  Committee  reported  as 
not through with their work as yet and  was 
instructed to take as long a  time  as  neces­
sary.
S.  Barnes,  chairman of the Committee on 
Alterations,  read a very  able  and  interest­
ing paper,  which  was  ordered  printed  in 
both the Traverse  City  papers  and  a  vote 
of thanks given  Mr.  Barnes and the rest of 
the Committee.
J.  A.  Moore,  chairman  of  the  RatinS 
Committee,  reported  as  to  the  progress 
of  the  new  form  of  collection  blanks 
and  suggested  that  the  Secretary  be  em­
power«!  to  have  access  at  any  time  to 
all notification books  held  by  members  of 
the Association.  A  motion  to  that  effect 
was adopted.
After reading  the  official  notice  of  the 
meeting of State Assocition, to  be  held  at 
Grand Rapids  March  15 and 16,  the follow­
ing members were  chosen  delegates,  with 
power to substitute any member satisfactory 
to  the  President:  Geo.  E  Steele,  C.  A.  , 
Hammond,  S.  Barnes,  E.  W.  Hastings,  C. 
K. Buck,  S.  C.  Despres,  E.  L.  Sprague,  S. 
E. Wait,  D.  E.  Carter,  C.  E.  Lockwood.

Yours truly,

C.  E.  Lockw ood,  Sec’y.

W hat Constitutes a Business Man.

Ce d a r   S p r in g s,  Mar.  1,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
D e a r  S ir—We wish to know as  an  As­
sociation what constitutes  a  business man; 
or,  in other words,  where the dividing line 
shall be drawn on those  wishing to become 
members. 

Yours  truly,

L.  II.  Ch a p m a n ,  Sec’y.

The Traverse City Business  Men’s Asso­
ciation defines a business  man to be “a per­
son who is a tax-payer  and  has  an  estab­
lished place of business.”  T h e T r a d e s m a n  
will see that the question is brought up before 
the State  convention  next  week,  in order 
that more light may be  thrown  on the sub­
ject. 
“ Getting  in  Shape  to  Do  Good  Work.”

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L e s l ie ,  Mar.  4,  1887.

E. A. Stowe. Grand Rapids:
D e a r   Sir—At the  last  regular  meeting 
of the Leslie  Business  Men’s  Association, 
it was decided to unite  with  the  State  As­
sociation.  We  are  getting  in  shape to do 
good  work.  We  have  a  membership  of 
twenty, and although  there is some opposi­
tion, as there always is,  we  feel  a strength 
that must and will be of  weight in bringing 
to time that  class  who,  like  leaches,  prey 
upon the earning  community.
Enclosed  find  two  dollars  for  initiation, 
dues. 

Yours,

B.  M.  Go u l d,  Sec’y pro.  tern.
The  Grocery  Market.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

A. B. Johnson,  Lowell.
A. M. Weston, Harbor Springs.
N. F. Miller, Lisbon.
Juoob Jesson.J. Jesson & Co., Muskegon.
S. E. Parkill, C. P. Parkill & Son, Owosso. 
Geo. McDonald,  Kalamazoo.  ,
Jas. Vernor,  Detroit.
Ottmer Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
A. D. Martin, Utica.
Wm. Rose, Bass  River.
R. S. Shiffert, Bridgton,
Martin Gezon, Jenisonville.
John Koopman, Falmouth.
C. N. Hyde, Rockford.
J. J. Gee. Whitehall.
M. H. Wheeler, Cedar Springs.
Mrs.  M. Burbank,  Spring Lake.
Dr. H. C. Peckham, Freeport.
B.  Rankins.  Lamont.
Wm. G. Telft, Rockford.
L. E. Benson &  Co., Woodland.
Geo. C.  Townsend, Baldwin.
J. G. McElwee & Co., Big Rapids.
T. J. Smedley. Byron  Center.
D. N. White, Petoskey.
Mr.  Kerry, Williams & Kerry, Reed City. 
Farrowe & Dalmon, Allendale.
Payne B. D., Tusiin.
E. E.  Barrett, Luther.
E. C. Brower, Fife Lake.
G. R.  Woodward, Summit City.
E. S. Botsford, Dorr,
Staples & Covell, Whitehall.
Dr. John Graves, Wayland.
E.  E.  Rice, Croton.
N. DeVries,  Jamestown.
J. N. Wait, Hudsonville.
R.  B. McCullock, Berlin.
Geo. E.  Harris,  Ashland.
Sidney Stark, Allendale.
A. Purchase, South Blendon.
John Gunstra, Lamont.
A, W. Blair, Dutton.
M. Minderhout, Hanley.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
John J. Ely,  Rockford.
N.  Bounin, Fisher.
Den Herder & Tunis,  Vriesland.
Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
A. M. Church, Alpine.- 
Nelson  F.  Miller, Lisbon.
S. J. Koon,  Lisbon.
N  Harris, Big Springs.
Jas,Colby, Rockford.
Cole & Chapel, Ada.
Walling Bros.. Lamont.
H.  W. Potter, Jenisonville.
Henry Harding, Bridgeton.
J. W. Closterhouse, Grandville.
A. & L. M. Wolff. Hudsonville.
J. Raymond, Berlin.
C. H. Deminur.  Dutton.
M. M. Robson, Berlin.
John Smith, Ada.
G. H. Walbrink. Allendale.
L. A  Paine, Englishville.
O. F. & W. P.Conkin, Ravenna.
H. De Kline, Jamestown.
F. Booustra, Drenthe.
S. Cooper, Jamestown.
J. F. Hacker. Corinth.
G. N. Reynolds. Belmont.

Remarkable  Showing  by  the  Charlevoix 

Association.

Ch a r l ev o ix,  Mar,  4,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

D e a r  S ir—I enclose our  first  list of de­
linquents.  We  do  not  fully  understand 
what the State  Association  proposes to do 
in publishing the delinquent lists of the dif­
ferent  local  organizations,  but so far as I 
have talked with our members we are of the 
opinion that the  State  Association  should 
publish in full each month the lists of delin­
quents reported to it by the  local  organiza­
tions,  and then  distribute  this  bulletin to 
each local organization,  so that  each  mem­
ber  thereof  could have a copy.  This  will 
involve considerable  labor  and outlay,  but 
we think the results  would  justify  all the 
trouble and expense. 
I suppose this matter 
will receive-attention at the special  meeting 
this month.
The collection department gives universal 
satisfaction.  Out of two or three hundred 
notices sent by our  merchants,  only  eight 
have failed to respond.  One  man  came to 
me and settled his  account  after his  name 
had been passed on and given to the printer 
and I got there just in time to  have it taken 
out of the forms,  as  it was then set up.
We expect to be  represented at the meet­
ing of the State Association.

Yours respectfully,

li.  W. Kane,  Sec’y.

HIDES. PELTS  AND  FURS.

Perkins & Hess pay as follows: 

HIDES.

G reen__ *©1 R>  554®  8
Part cured...  7  @  754
Fullcured__   7H@  754
Dry hides and

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

Calf skins, green
Deacon skins,

or cured__  7  @  8
V piece...... 20  @50

s h e e p  p e l t s .

WOOL.

Old wool, estimated washed $  9».........25
@28 
@ 354
Tallow.........................................................  3
Fine washed 5P 5» 25@28!Coarse washed.. ,20@24
Medium  ..............27©30|Unwastaed............  
2-3
FURS.
10 00@15 00 
Bear  ......................................
4  00@  6 00 
B eaver...................................
75@  1  00 
B adger.......* ........................
50@  75
Wild Cat............................... .
House Cat.............................
10®  
20 
1  00®  1  25
Fox,  red.................................
3 00®  5 00 
“  cross.............................
1  00®  1 25
“  gray .............................
4  00®  8 00 
F isher...................................
3 00®  8 00
Linx........................................
30®  60
M ink........................ ........
1  00®  1 25
M artin..................................
5 00®  8  00
O tter......................................
90
4(@ 
Coon.  ...............................
90®  1  00
Skunk....................................
2 00®  3 00
W olf.......................................
12® 
14
Muskrat,  w inter.................
06®  08
fall.........................
Deer,  $  ft..
5®  25

These prices are for prime skins only.

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COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—The best winter varieties are scarce 

at $2.57 $  bbl.

Ruta Bagas—$1 $  bbl.
Beans—Country hand-picked  command $1.15 

$  bu., and city picked  $1.50.

facets—10c $  bu.
Buckwheat—2J4c ¥  $>•
Butter—Michigan  creamery  is  in  good  de­
mand  at28@30c.  Dairy is in active demand at

Cabbages—$3@$5 $  100, according to  size.
Carrots—36c $   bu.
Celery—Kalamazoo, 28c 
Cheese—Fall stock o f Michigan full cream is 

doz.  Scarce.

firm at43)4@14c.

Cider—12)ic $  gal.
Cranberries—Choice  Bell  and  Bugle  and 

Cape Cod  are  steady  at $9.50 

bbl.

Dried Apples—Evaporated, 8c $  lb;  quarter­

ed and sliced, 6c $1 lb.

Dried Pfeaches—Pared. 13c.
Eggs—About the same as  a  week  ago, Lent 
having brought with it a  strong  consumptive 
demand.  Jobbers pay 1254c and sell for 14c.

Honey—Good demand at  10@13c.
Hay—Baled 

per ton  in two and five ton lots  and  $13.50 
car lots.

is  moderately  active  at  $15 
in 

Onions—Good  stock  is  scarce,  readily  com­

manding $1.25  $  bu.

Potatoes—Buyers  are  paying 40©45c  at this 
market and towns within convenient shipping 
distance of this market.

Pop Corn—2)4c 
Squash—Hubbard, 2c $  lb.

lb.

g r a i n s   a n d  m i l l i n g   PRODUCTS.

Wheat—Lower.  City  millers  pay  78  cents 
for Lancaster and 75  for  Fulse  and  Clawson.
Corn—Jobbing g e n ia lly  at 48@47o  in 100bu. 

lots and 40®42c in carlots.

Oats—White, 40c in small lots  and  32@33c  in 

car lots.

Rye—48@50c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 $  cwt.
Flour—Higher.  Patent, $5.20 $  bbl.  iu  sacks 
and  $5.40  in  wood.  Straight,  $4.20 $4  bbl. in 
sacks and $4.40 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.75 $  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $13  ip ton.  Bran, $14 
^  ton.  Ships, $14 $  ton.  Middlings, $15 ip ton. 
Corn and Oats, $18  $1 ton.

PROVISIONS.

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The  Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co. 

p o r k   i n   b a r r e l s . 

d r y   s a l t  m e a t s — i n   b o x e s .

quote  as  follows:
Mess, new .................................................................18 50
Short Cut, new ........................................................ 18 00
S. P. Booth, clear...................................................18 00
Extra clear pig, short cu t...................................20 00
Extra clear, heavy..............................  
Clear quill, short  cu t............................................20 00
Boston clear, short cu t........................................ 20 00
Clear back, short cu t............................................20 00
Standard clear, short  cut, best.........................20 00
Long Clears, heavy..............................
medium..........................
“ 
lig h t...............................
“ 
... 
Short Clears, heavy.............................
medium..........................
do. 
... 
light.................................
do. 
... 
PLAIN.
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR
..........12
Hams, avei age 20  lbs..........................
“ 
16  lbs..........................
............ 1254
12 to 14 9)8.................
“ 
............ 12 ?4
“  picnic  ........................................
................954
“  best  boneless..........................................11
.  9

b on eless.............................

Breakfast Bacon, boneless................ ............1054
Dried Beef, extra................................. ............  »54
ham  prices..................... ............ 1254

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854
8>4
9 
9 
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LAUD.

b e e f  i n   b a r r e l s .

LARD  IN  TIN  PA IL S.

Tierces  ..................................................
30 and 50 9> Tubs....................................
754
3 lb Pails, 20 in a  case...............................  
5 !b Pails, 12 in a case................ ...............
754
10 lb Pails. 6 in a c a se ...............................  
20 lb Pails, 4 pails in  case........................  
854
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 lbs............  8 00
Boneless,  e x tr a .............................................. 12 00
SAUSAGE—FRESH  AND  SMOKED.
Pork  Sausage.............................................
Ham  Sausage..............................................
Tongue  Sausage........................................
Frankfort  Sausage...................................
Blood  Sausage...........................................
Bologna, straight...................................... .
Bologna,  thick...........................................
Head  Cheese...............................................
In half barrels..................................................  3 00
In quarter barrels........................ ..................  1  C5

p i g s ’  f e e t .

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 
prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides....................................   554®  654
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters.......
54
Dressed  H ogs..............................
?i@  754 
Mutton..........................................
@  754 © 8 
Lamb  ...................................... .
V e a l.........................................
@   9 @ 8 
Pork  Sausage..............................
@ 6 
Bologna........................................
Fowls.............................................
i  @11 
Chickens......................................
@12 
Ducks  ............................................
@ 13 
Turkeys  .................................................  .11
@12

MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock Bark—Tanners all have  largo  sup­

plies.  Dealers are paying $5 for good bark.

Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay  $1.50  $   lb  for 

clean washed roots.

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

FIELD   SEEDS.

Clover,  mammoth..
**  m edium .... 
Timothy, prime.......

@4 50 
@4 50 
2  10

OTTENBERG’S CIGARS,
10 cents. 
Hazel Kirke 
La Rosa Celeste 
Sweet Catawba 5 cents.

Business  continues  good  and  all classes 
of goods continue to grow firmer.  Grocers 
having surplus funds  can  hardly  buy  any­
thing which will not advance on their hands.
The  fruit  market  is well  supplied and 
prices are about steady  and  reasonable for 
this season  of  the year.  Nuts  are  about 
steady at last week’s prices.  Peanuts  are 
remarkably firm. 

______

Miscellaneous Dairy Notes.

Vaughan & Johnson  will  resume  opera­
tions at their creamery,  at Lapeer,  April  1. |
The Hartford Creamery Co.  has  engaged! 
Oscar S.  Switzer  as  butter  maker  another] 
season. 

_____
Hides, Pelts and Furs.

Hides are firmer and prices  may go high­
er than present quotations.  Pelts and wool j 
are slow  and  lower.  Furs are in fair de- j 
mand for March sales.

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,rxd IO Cent Cigars

Ever placed on the Market.  They are made of the Finest Qual­
ity of Imported Tobacco without artificial  flavor.
GIVE THEM A TEZAL.

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 matter with above Cigars.

Morris H. Treusch,
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

SOLE  AGENTS 

Groceries.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

These  prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay

prom ptly and buy in  full packages.

AXLE  GREASE.

flOlParagon 25 9» pails

2  10
Crown  .....................  ROlParagon
«0
Fraz ar’s .................  
Dianloud  X ............  HOlFraziers, 25 9» pails 1  25
Modi>c, 4  doz.......... 2  50l
BAKINO  POWDER.
•
Acm
.......
“
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.........
11 B u lk ...................................
Princess,  548...................................
54s...................................
Is....................................
bulk...............................
Arctic, 54 9> cans, 6 doz. case__

54 9) 
2 9» 

2  “  
1  “  

“  
“  

“  
“  

* 
‘ 
* 

“
4i
“

54 
Ì 
5 

“  

“  
“  

4
2
1 

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Victorian, 1 9) cans, (tall,) 2 doz.
Diamond,  “bulk,” ..............
BLUINC
Dry, No. 2..............................
Dry, No. 3.............................
Liquid, 4 oz,..........................
Liquid, 8 oz...........................
Arctic 4 oz............................
Arctic 8  oz............................
Arctic 16 oz............................
Arctic No. 1 pepper box... 
Arctic No. 2 
Arctic N o.3 
...

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BROOMS.

... doz.
25
.. .doz.
45
...  doz.
35
. ..doz.
05
... $   gross 3  50
7  20
.................   112 00
2 00
3  00
4 00

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

No. 2H url................1  75iCommon W hisk___  90
No. lH u rl__ 2  00@3  25j Fancy W hisk............I  00
No. 2Carpet............. 2 25.Mill................................. 3 75
N o.lC arpet..............2 50|Warehouse  ............ 2  75
Parlor  Gem............. 3 00i

CANNED  FISH .

Clams, 1 lb. Little Neck..................................1  10
Clam Chowder,  31b........................................ 2  15
Cove Oysters,  1  lb  standards................90® 1 00
Cove Oysters, 2  5b  standards.....................  1  75
Lobsters, 1 lb picnic....................................... 1  75
Lobsters, 2 lb, picnic......................................2  65
Lobsters, 1 lb star...........................................2 00
Lobsters. 2 lb star...........................................3 CO
Mackerel, 1 lb  fresh  standards...................1  50
Mackerel, 5 lb fresh  standards...................5 25
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3  lb.................3 50
Mackerel,3 1b in Mustard.............................3 50
Mackerel. 3 lb  soused....................................3 50
Salmon, 1 9» Columbia river........................1  70
Salmon, 2 lb Columbia river........................3 00
Sardines, domestic 548..................................6@7
Sardines,  domestic  54s...............................   10®12
Sardines,  Mustard  54s...................................  9@Il
Sardines,  imported  54s..................................13@13
Trout. 31b  brook.................................. .......  4 00

CANNED FR U ITS.

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Apples, gallons,  standards......................... 3 25
Black berries, standards...............................  90
Cherries,  red  standard................................ 1  10
Dam sons.......................................................... 1  00
............................... 1  25
Egg Plums, standards 
Gooseberries...................................................... 96@1 00
Green  Gages, standards 2 lb........................1  35
Peaches, Extra Y ellow ................................ 2 (X)
Peaches,  standards....................................... 1  60
Peaches,  seconds...........................................1  45
Peaches, pie.....................................................1  20
Pineapples, standards..................................1  40
Pineapples, Johnson’s sliced... 
60
Pineapples, Johnson’s, grated...
.............. 1  15
Q uinces...........................................
Raspberries,  extra.......................
.................. 1  25
re d ............................
.................. 1  35
Strawberries  .................................
......... 1  2£@1  80
W hortleberries.............................
..................   90
CANNED  VEGETABLE
Asparagus, Oyster Bay................
."...............2  00
Beans, Lima,  standard................
..................  
75
Beans, Stringless, Erie.................
..................   90
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked__
.................. 1  70
Corn,  Archer’s Trophy...............
.................. 1  15
“  Morning  Glory.................
.................. Î  10
**  Afimo  ..
. . . 1   15
..............1  10
“  Maple Leaf..........................
“  Excelsior.............................
..............1  20
..............1  a5
“  Onondaga ..........................
..............1  50
“  Darbv  ...................................
“  Osborn .................................
..............1 0 0
..............1  00
“  New  Process......................
.............. 1  10
“  B artlett...............................
Peas, French...................................
..............1  50
Peas, extra  marrofat...................
....... 1  20@1  40
Peas,  soaked...................................
75
“  Early Juno, stand..............
....... 1  50©  1  75
sifted............
“ 
.......................2  00
. ..2 0   (X)
“  French, extra tine..............
Mushrooms, extra  flue..........   ..
.................... 20  00
..............1  00
Pumpkin, 3 9» Golden...................
Succotash, standard....................... ..............80@1  30
Squash.............................................
..............1  00
Tomatoes, standard brands.......
.................. 1  20
Michigan full  cream ............................. 1354®14
York  State, Acm e................................... 
®14

CHEESE.

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CHOCOLATE.

Wilbur’s  Premium.. 351 Germ an  Sweet...........23
Sweet...........25 Vienna Sweet  ............22
B’k f’tCocoa 45 Baker’s ........................ 37
Cocoa-theta 42 Runkles’ ...................... 35
Vanilla Bar 281

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COCOANUT.

Schepps, Is...............................................   @25
Is and  54s.................................  @26
“ 
54s...............................................  @27
“ 
is in tin  pails............................  @2754
" 
@2854
“ 
54s 
Maltby’s,  Is...............................................  @2354
“  Is and 
©24
548.............................................   @2454
Manhattan,  pails....................................   @‘30
Peerless  ....................................................   @18

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COFFEES.

Green.

R io .................. l«54@17
Golden R io...17  @19
Santos.............15  @17
Maricabo..................16
J a v a .................. 25@30
O. G .Java___28  @30
Mocha  ..................... 23

Roasted.

R io .................. 16  @18
Golden R io.. .18.,  @20
Santos....................... 20
Maricabo........... 18@31
Java..... ..............25@26
O. G .Java___25  @29
M ocha...  ___27  @28

19
19

609)8 100 9)8 300 9)3

COFFEES— PACKAGE.
...................................19
...................................18

19
19
18)4
18)4
18?4

X X X X .............................
Arbuckle’s  .....................
Dilworth’s ......................................
Standard  ........................................
Gorman........................ ..................
German, in  bins............................
L ion..................................................
1854
Lion,  in  cabinets........................
1914
Magnolia..........................................
1854
Royal................................................
17 % 17?¿
Eagle............................................... 1854
18)4
1554
M exican..........................................
1754
60 foot  Ju te.......  1  00  150 foot Cotton___ 1  60
72 foot J u te ........  1  25  60 foot Cotton____1  75
40 Foot Cotton___1  50  172 foot Cotton___ 2  00

CORDAGE.

CRACKERS  AND  SWEET  GOODS.

x   x x x   $n>
654

454

854

454

554

5
5
5

Kenosha Butter.......................... 
Seymour  Butter........................  
Butter...........................................  
Fancy  Butter.............................  
S.  Oyster......................................  
P icnic.
Fancy  Oyster........................
Fancy  Soda............................
City Soda.................................
Soda  ........................................
M ilk..........................................
B oston ....................................
Graham...................................
Oat  Meal................................
Pretzels, hand-made............
P retzels...................................
Cracknels...............................
Lemon Cream........................
Sugar Cream..........................
Frosted Cream.......................
Ginger  Snaps........................
No. i Ginger  Snaps.............
Lemon  Snaps........................
Coffee  Cakes..........................
Lemon W afers.......................
1354
Extra Honey Jum bles..............
13)4
Frosted Honey  Cakes..............
13)4
Cream  Gems...............................
13)4
13)4
Bagleys  Gems............................
Seed Cakes...................................
12)4
8)4
S. &  M. Cakes.............................
Citron....................................................... TO @  25
Currants.................................................. .  6 @ 6)4
@  14
Lemon P eel.............................................
©   14
Orange P eel.............................................
Prunes,  French, 60s............................... .12 @13)4
French, 80s............................... .10 @10)4
@ 8
French, 110s and  120s............
@  7
Prunes, Turkey......................................
.8 50v£5 Uü
Raisins, Dehesla....................................
@2 50
Raisins, London  Layers:.....................
Raisins, California  “ 
.......................
@1  50
Raisins, Loose Muscatels.....................
Raisins, Ondaras,  28s............................ .  9 @ 9)4
@  8)4
Raisins.  Sultanas...................................
Raisins,  Valencia, new  ....................... .  7 ©   7)4
©3 00
Raisins,  Imperials.................................

DR IED  FRUITS— FOREIGN. 

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FISH .

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Cod, w hole.....................................................454@554
Cod, boneless.................................................... 554@7
H alib ut................................................ .  .  . .9@1C54,
Herring, round,  54  bbl..........................  @3  25
Herring .round, 
bbl.................................  1  75
Herring, Holland,  bbls................................11  00
Herring, Holland,  kegs................................75@80
Herring, Scaled...............................................  @24
Mackerel, shore, No. 1, 54  bbls...................  10 W)

12 ft kits 
10 

“ 
...........150
.................1  25
“ 
No. 3.  54 bbls.................................7  75
Sardines,  spiced, 5 4 s........... '...................... 10@12
Trout, 54  bbls...................................................5  50
10 9)  k its...............................................  98
White, Nq. 1,54 b b ls...................................... 7  00
White, No. 1,12  9) kits....................................1  10
White, No. 1,10 lb kits................................... 1  00
White, Family, 54 bbls................................... 3 50
kits........................................  75

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FIAVORIXG  EXTRACTS.

Jennings’ D. C., 2 oz................$  doz.  1  00 
"  4 oz..............................1  50 
“  6 o z..............................2  50 
“  S oz..............................3  50 
“  No. 2  Taper............. 1  25 
1  75 
“  No. 4  “ 
“  54 pint, round........... 4  50 
“
“  “ 
9 00 
“ No..3  panel....................1  10 
“  No. 8  “ 
.................2 75 
.................4 25 
“  No. 10  “ 

Lemon.  Vanilla.
1  40
2  50
4  00
5 00
1  50
7  50

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MATCHES.

Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square......................... 1  00
Grand H a/en, N o 9, square, 3 gro.................1  20
Grand  Haven,  No.  200.  parlor......................1  75
Grand  Haven,  No.  3u0, parlor......................2 25
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round......................... i  50
Oshkosh, No, 2...................................................1  00
Oshkosh, No.  8................................................... 1  50
Swedish................................................................  75
Richardson’s No. 8  square.............................100
Richardson’s No. 9 
............................. I  50
Richardson’s No. 754, round...........................1  00
Richardson’s No. 7 
............................. 1  50
Woodbine, 300...............................................90© l  10
Black  Strap...................................................... 16®] 8
Cuba Baking.................................................... 25@28
Porto  Rico........................................................24@30
New  Orloans,  good.......................................,28®34
New Orleans, choice.......................................44@50
New  Orleans,  fancy.......................................52@55

MOLASSES.

do 
do 

54 bbls. 2c extra

2 75
15 00
1 65
4 25
6 00

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ROLLED  OATS 

OATMEAL
Muscatine, bbls

 

PIPES.

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501 Muscatine, bbls__ 5 50
....3  00 
eases__ 3 25
M edium ..............................  
@7  00
54 bbl............................................  @4 00
Small,  bbl..................................................   @8  50
54 bbl............................... , ...........   @4 75
Imported Clay 3 gross............................2 25®i 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross............  @2 25
Imported Clay, No. 218,2*4 gross.........  @1  86
American  T. D.........................................   75®  90
Choice Carolina...... 654! Java  ................... 
Prime Carolina...... 654 ¡Patna.......................... 554
Good  Carolina........4541 Rangoon.......................... ©5)4
Good Louisiana...... 5 
¡Broken................3!»@354
Table  ........................ 6 
¡Japan..........................7
DeLand’s pure........5)i'Dwigbt’s .................... 5
Church’s  ................. 5 
Taylor’s  G. M..........5  ¡Cap Sheaf...................5

¡Sea  Foam...................5)4

SALERATUS.

RICE.

6

5aC less in 5 box lots.

SALT.

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60 Pocket, F F  Dairy.............................  
28 Pocket.................................................... 
1003 9)  pockets.......................................... 
Saginaw or  Manistee.............................  
10  bbl. lots........  
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......................  
....................... 

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SAUCES.

2  10
195
2  35
75
70
1  45
1  25
75
2  75
70
33
28
40
20

SOAPS.

Parisian, 54  pints....................................   @2  00
Pepper Sauce, red  sm all......................   @  70
Pepper Sauce, green  .............................   @  80
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring..............  @1  25
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring.........  @1  50
©   90
Catsup, Tomato,  pints............................ 
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .......................  @1  20
Halford Sauce, pints.............................  
@3 50
Halford Sauce, 54 pints................, ........ 
©2 20
A corn......................3 85¡Extra Chicago Fam-
M a ste r .....................4  00 
ily ...........................2 94
New Process, 1  lb..3  85 Napkin......................4  75
New Process, 3  9)..3 96 T ow el.......................4  75
Acme,  bars............3 55 White  M arseilles..5 50
Acme,  blocks.......  3 05! White Cotton  O il..5 50
Best  American.
. .2 93! Railroad..................3 50
Circus  ................
. .3  70 U.  G.......................... 3  45
Big Five  Center
. .3 85 Mystic White.......... 4  65
Nickel..................
..3 45 Saxon  Blue........... 3 60
Shamrock...........
..3  151Palmer’s, 100 bars..5 50 
Blue Danube__
75  “ 
..4 25 
London  Family__ 2 30lStar .
.............. 3  75

Ground.

SPICES.

Whole.

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40 9> 

©  654 @ 6 @ 654 

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@  594 
©  554 
“  b u lk ..................
@  4 

16@35| P epper.................   @20
12@15i A llspice................  8@10
18@30 Cassia................... 10© 11
15@25jNutmogs,  No. 1..  @60 
16@20jNuttnegs,  No. 2..  @50 
15@30 Cloves  .
....  @28
5@35|
STARCH.

Pepper
A llspice... 
Cinnamon.
Cloves  __
Ginger __
Mustard... 
Cayenne  ..
Muzzy, Gloss, 48 lb boxes, 1  9)  p kgs...
4 8 “ 
...
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72 lb crates, 6 lb boxes..
“ 
“  Corn, 40 9) boxes. 1 9) pkgs___
“  19>  “ 
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Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1 9> pkgs__
“  6 lb boxes...
“  b u lk ..........
Pure, 1 9) pkgs.................
Corn, 1  9> pkgs....................
Royal. Gloss, 1 lb packages...................
bulk.................................
Corn  .............................................
Firmenieh, new process, gloss, 19)__
3 9)....
“ 
6 9)....
“ 
“  bulk, boxes or bbls 
1“  corn. 1 9)................
Cut  Loaf...................................  ............
Cubes  .........................................................
Powdered..................................................
Granulated,  Standard............................
Confectionery A ......................................
Standard A ................................................
No. 1, White Extra  C........................   5
No. 2, Extra C...........................................   5  @ 5
No. 3C .........................................................  @ 4
No. 4 C........................................................ 
@  4
No. 5C .........................................................   @454
New Orleans, in  hds...............................   454© 454
SYRUPS.
Corn,  barrels 
.......................
25@27
27@29
Corn, 54 bblB............................
Corn,  10 gallon kegs..............
@30
Corn, 5 gallon kegs................
@32
Pure  Sugar,bbl.....................
23@35
2o@3t
Pure Sugar, 54 bbl..................

@ 7 
@  754 
@ 654 
@ 554 
@  7 
@ 554 
©   4 ® 6 
@ 554 
@  554 
@ 654 
@  4 @ 6
@ 6% 
@  654 
©  654 
@6 06 
©  55s 
@  554 
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SUGARS.

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TOBACCO— FINE C U T -IN   PA IL S.

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PLUG. 

C herry........................60|Hi  There......................30
Five and  Seven.........45 Red Cap........................55
Magnet........................ 25|Cross Cut......................36
Seal of Detroit.......... 60]Old Jim ......................... 35
Jim  Dandy................. 38|Old  Tim e......................30
Our  Bird.....................25 Underwood’s Capper 35
Brother  Jonathan.. .27|Sweet  Rose................ 46
J oily  Tim e................. 38| Meigs & Co.’s StunnerSo
Our  Leader................33 A tlas.............................35
Sweet  Rose............... 33  Royal Game.................38
May  Queen............... 65 Mule Ear......................65
Dark AmericanEagle67 Fountain..................... 74
Tho M eigs...................60 Old Congress............... 64
Red  Bird.....................50 Good Luck...................52
Prairie F lo w er.........651 Blaze Away................. 35
Indian Queen............60|HairLifter...................30
May Flower............... 70 H iawatha.....................65
Sweet  Pippin............45! G lo b e........................... 65
H ustler...................... 221 Crown  L eaf.................66
Pau per  ...................... 31 Capper..........................35
Peach  P ie...................31 ¡Jup iter.......................26
Star 
..................39 Night Cap......................22
OldSolder...................37 Splendid....................   38
Clipper  ...................... 34  Red F ox........................40
Cornerstone............. 34Big  Drive................  ..40
Scalping  K nife........ 34 Chocolate  Cream___40
Sam Boss...................  34 N im rod....................... 35
N e x t ........................... 29 Big Five Center.......... 33
Jolly T a r .................. 30 P arrot..........................42
Jolly  Tim e.................32 B u ster..........................35
F avorite.................... 42 Black Prince................35
Black  Bird.................32 Black  Racer................36
Live and Let  L ive.. .32 Climax  ....................... 42
Quaker........................28 Acorn  ..........................39
H iawatha...................38  Horse  Shoo................. 37
Big  N ig......................37  V in co............................34
Spear  H ead...............39 Merry War................... 26
P,  V .............................36 Ben  Franklin..............32
Spring Chicken........ 36 M oxie............................34
Eclipse  ...................... 30 Black Jack...................82
Turkey........................391 Musselman’s Corker. 30
Our  Leader...............16! Hiawatha.....................22
M ayflower.................23 Old Congress................23
Globe...........................22 May  L eaf.....................22
Mule Ear.................... 23|Dark............................. 20

SHORTS.

SMOKING

Our  Leader.............. 15lUnit  ..............................I
Old V et.......................30  Eight  Hours...............!
Big D eal..................... 27! Lucky  ..........................;
Navy Clippings........26 Two  N ickel................!
L eaner........................ 15  Duke’s  Durham........
Hard  Tack................. 32 Green CornCob P ip e!
D ixie............................28 Owl................................
Old Tar........................40 Rob Roy.......................:
Arthur’s  Choice.......22; Uncle  Sam..................
Red F ox...................... 26 Lum berm an...............!
Gold  D ust...................26 Railroad Boy...............;
Gold  Block.................30; Mountain Rose...........
Seal of Grand Rapids 
¡Home Comfort..........
(cloth)...................25 Old Rip.........................1
Tramway, 3  o z..........40 Seal oi  North  Caro-
MinersandPuddiers.28  Lina, 2  o z.................
Peerless  .....................24¡Seal of North  Caro-
lina, 4oz....................
Standard................... 20 
Old Tom.....................20¡Seal of North  Caro-
lina, 8 oz
Tom & Jerry.............24j 
Joker................
Seal of North  Caro-
T raveler.........
— 35j 
lina, 16 oz boxes__
Maiden............
... .25 King Bee, longeut...
Pickwick  Club 
__ 40 Sweet Lotus................
Nigger  Head..
__ 26| G rayling.....................
H olland...........
.. ..22 Seal Skin.....................
German...........
__ 15 Red Clover..................
K. of  L ............
42@46|Good Lu  k .................
Honey  D ew ...
Queen  Bee.................
Colonel’s  Choice......15
Lorillard’s Amorican Gentlemen
Maecoboy......................
Gail & A x’ 
.....................
Rappee...........................
Railroad  Mills  Scotch...................
Lotzbeok  ..........................................

SNUFF.

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Japan  ordinary__
Japan fair to good.
Japan tine...............
Japan dust..............
Young  Hyson.........
Gun Powder............
O olong.....................
Congo......................

. .. .  18@20
.......25©30
.......35@45
.......15@20
___ 20@45
.......35@50
33©55@6C 
----25@30

30 gr.

................  08
..............  08

¿A NEGUS.

I ranu. 
cans.

White W ine.................
Cider.............................
Yoi^i State Apple.......
MISCEL
Bath  Brick im ported.
American.
Burners, No. 1 ............
No.  2............

do 
do 

do 

Cream Tartar 5 and  10 9)
Candles, Star...................
Candles.  H otel................
Camphor, oz., 2 9) boxes
Extract Coffee,  V.  C__
Felix  ..
Gum, Rubber  100 lumps 
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps
Gum, Spruce...................
Hominy, fi  bbl................
Jelly, in 30 9)  pails.........
Pearl  Barley...................
Peas, Green  Bush.........
Peas, Split  Prepared...
Powder, K eg...................
Powder,  54  K eg..............
Sage  .................................
Sago  .................................
T apioco............................

CANDY.  FRUITS  AND  NUT: 
Putnam & Brooks quote as follow s: 

do 
do 

FANCY—IN  5 It) BOXES.

STICK.
Standard, 25 9» boxes...............................
Twist, 
...............................
Cut Loaf 
.......................
MIXED
Royal, 25 lb  pails......................................
Royal, 200 9> bbls......................................
Extra, 25 9)  pails......................................
Extra, 200 9> bbls.......... .*.........................
French Cream, 25 9> p a ils... -................
Cut loaf, 25 9)  cases.................................
Broken, 25  9>  pails.... .*.........................
Broken, 200 9)  bbls...................................
Lemon  Drops.............................................
Sour Drops..................................................
Peppermint  Drops..................................
Chocolate Drops........................................
H M Chocolate  Drops.............................
Gum  Drops  ................ ...............................
Licorice Drops...........................................
A  B  Licorice  Drops.................................
Lozeng-es, plain.................... .....................
Lozenges,  printed....................................
Im perials....................................................
M ottoes.......................................................
Cream  Bar..................................................
Molasses Bar...............................................
Caramels......................................................
Hand Made Creams..................................
Plain  Creams.............................................
Decorated  Creams....................................
String Rock................................................
Burnt Almonds....................................
Wintergreen  Berries......................
FANCY—IN  BULK.
Lozenges, plain in  pails........................
Lozenges, plain in  bbls..........................
Lozenges, printed in pails.....................
Lozenges, printed in  bbls.....................
Chocolate Drops, in pails......................
Gum  Drops  in pails...............................
Gum Drops, in bbls.................................
Moss Drops, iu  pails...............................
Moss Drops, in bbls................................
Sour Drops, in  pails..............................
Imperials, in  pails...................................
Imperials  in  bbls..................................
Bananas  Asplnwali...............................
Oranges, California, fancy.........
Oranges, California,  choice.......
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls...............
Oranges, Florida............................
Oranges, Valencia, cases............
Oranges, Messina..........................
Oranges, OO....................................
Lemons, choice.............................
Lemons, fancy................. . ...........
Lemons, California......................
Figs, layers, new,  $  9).................
Figs,  Bags, 50 9>.............................
Dates, frails  do  ............................
Dates, 54 do  d o ............................
Dates, skin......................................
Dates, 54  skin.................................
Dates, Farcl 10 9» box 
lb...........
Dates, Fard 50 9> box 
9)............
Dates, Persian 50 lb box ^  lb.......
Pino Apples, $   doz.......................
Almonds,  Tarragona...................
Ivaca............................
C alifornia...................
B razils..... 
...................................
Chestnuts, per bu..........................
Filberts, Sicily...............................
“ 
Barcelona........................
Walnuts,  Grenoble......................
“ 
Marbo............................
“ 
French....................
“ 
California.....................
Pecans,  Texas, II. P .....................
“  Missouri...........................
100............................
Cocoanuts, 
PEANUTS.
Prime  Red,  raw 
1b...................
Choice 
do  ...................
do  ...................
Fancy H.P. do 
Choice White, Va.do  ...................
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ...................
H .P .V a ...........................................

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NUTS.

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10
10
16

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90
1 00
1  50
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@11 
@12 
@35 
@80 
@1  20 
@25 
@35 
30@35 
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@  5 
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@1  15 
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@2  75 
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3 50@3  75 
3 25@3 50
2 00@3 50 
5 50©6 50
@3 25 
.@3 25
3  25@4 25
@4 50

10  @15

954® 10 © 8 
7  ©  75

1754© 18 
@17 
@17 
1154@12
1054@ ll 
©   9 
15  @17 
1254 
11
12  @ 16 
10  @14 
©   9 
5 50@6 00
@ 4 
©  454 
4511©  5 
©   554 
6  @  6)4 
6  @ 6)4

OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

F. J. Detteuthaler quotes as follows :

New  York  Counts............................. ................. 33
...28
H.  F. H. & Co.’s Selects.....................
S elects.................................................. ................. 22
Anchors  ............................................... ................. 18
. . Hi
Standard  .............................................
Favorite..............................................
................. 14
P rim e.................................................... ................. 13
Selects, bulk, $1  gal..........................
..............1  50
Standards, bulk, $) gal...................... ..............1  00
... 1  2T»
New York Counts, ^   UK)...................
shell, $   100........ ..............1  40
Clams, shell, $   100............................. ..............  80
FRESH  FISH.
Cod  ......................................................
Haddock...............................................
Mackerel.............................................
Mackinaw Trout...............................
Perch....................................................
Smelts  ................................................
W hiteflsh...........................................

@10
©   7
... 15  @20
@ 8
©   3
...10  @11
&  9

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OILS.

ILLUMINATING.

LUBRICATING.

---------  11)4
..............10)4
..............11)4
....  ....3634
..............31)4
..............26)4

Water W hite......................................
Michigan  T est...................................
Gasoline...............................................
Capitol Cylinder...............................
Model  Cylinder.................................
Shield  Cylinder.................................
Eldorado  Engine.............................
Peerless  Machinery.......................... ..............20
..............19
Challenge Machinery......................
Paratline  ...........................................
..............20)4
..............   »
Black. Summer, West  Virginia...
10
Black, 25° to 30° 
Black, 15° C.  T .................................
..............11
Zero......................................................
12U.

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IDrugs & flftebicines

Stole  Hoard  of Pharm acy.

One Y ear—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Two Years—Janies  Vernor, Detroit.
Three Y ears—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor.
F our Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Five Years—Stanley E. Parkell, Owosso.
President—O ttm ar  Eberbach.
Secretary—Jaeob Jesson.
T reasurer—Jas. Vernor.
Next M eeting—At D etroit, July 5 and 6.

M ichigan  State  P harm aceutical  Ass’n. 

President—Frank J. W urzburg, Grand Rapids.
F irst Vice-President—Mrs. C. W. Taylor, Loomis. 
Second Vice-President—Henry Harwood, Ishpeming. 
T hird Vice-President—F rank Inglis, Detroit.
Secretary—S. E. P arkill. Owosso.
Treasurer—Wm.  Dupont, D etroit,
Executive Committee--Geo.  W. Crouter, J. G. Johnson, 
Local Secretary—Guy M. Harwood, l’etoskey.
Next Place of Meeting—At  Petoskey, July 12, IS and It.

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

Grand  Kaplds  pharm aceutical  Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER  9, 1884.

.  _  ,   _   „  

P resident—Geo. G. Stekettce.
Vice-President—H.  E. Locher.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
T reasurer— Henry  B. Fairchild.
Board of  Censors—President,  Vice-President  and  Sec­
retary. 
, , 
„   r.
Board of Trustees—The President,  John E. Peck,  M.  B. 
Kimin. Wm. H. VanLceuwen and O. H. Richmond, 
wen  Isaac W atts. Wm. E. W hite and Wm.  L.  W hite.
Comm ittee on Trade M atters—John E. Peck, H. B. Fair- 
child and Hugo  Thum. 
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Comm ittee  on  Legislation—R.  A.  McWilliams,  Theo. 
Kemink and W. H. Tibbs. 
Com m ittee on P harm acy—W. L. W hite, A. C. Bauer and 
Isaac W atts. 
_ 
Rc^ulftr  Meetings—F irst  Thursday  evening  in  enen 
m onth. 
A nnual M eeting—F irs t  T h u rsd ay  ev e n in g  in  N oveinber.
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  March  3,  a t  The 

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T ra d e sm a n office.

D etroit  Pharm aceutical  Society. 

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER,  1883.

President—A. F.  Parker.
First Vice-President—F rank  Inglis.
Second Vice-President—J. C. Mueller.
Secretary and Treasurer—A. W. Allen.
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer—H. McRae. 
Annual Meeting—F irst W ednesday in June.
Regular Meetings—F irst W ednesday in  each  m onth.
Saginaw  County  Pharm aceutical  Society. 
President, Jay   Sm ith;  Secretary,  D. E. Frail.

Jackson  County  Pharm aceutical  Ass’n. 

President, R. F. Latim er;  Secretary, F.  A. King.
IJerrien  County  Pharm aceutical  Society, 
’resident, H. M. Dean;  Secretary, H enry K ephart.
Tuscola County Pharm aceutical Society, a 

President, E. A. Bullard;  Secretary, C. E. Stoddard.

Clinton  County  D ruggists’  Association. 

President, A. 0. H unt;  Secretary, A. S.  W allace.
Mecosta  County  P harm aceutical  Society. 
President. C. H. W agener;  Secretary, A. H. W ebber.
Mason  County  Pharm aceutical  Society. 

President, F. N. Latim er;  Secretary, Wm. H eysett.

Oceana County Pharm aceutical Society. 

President, F. W. Fincher;  Secretary, Frank Cady.

Monroe  County  Pharm aceutical Society. 

President, S. M. Sackett;  Secretary, Julius Weiss.
Shiawassee County Pharm aceutical Society

Muskegon  D rug  Clerks’  Association. 

President, I. C. Terry;  Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre.

T he  D rug  Market.

The surprise of the week is  the  demoral­
ization in  German  quinine.  A drop of 8 
cents in three days,  from a firm and advanc­
ing market with a good  demand,  was  very 
unexpected.  A decline in the price paid for 
barks at the last  London  sale and  the ab­
sence of any speculative demand  are  given 
as the cause.  Some  large  dealers  do  not 
think this weak feeling is  warranted by the 
facts and look for an early reaction.  Opium 
has again  advanced 1,0 cents  per pound,  is 
very firm and will likely go  higher.  Mor­
phine is being sold at a premium of  5 cents 
per  ounce  over  the I’.  & W. price in New 
York.  The  manufacturers  will  accept no 
new orders and are  busy  filling  contracts. 
We look for another advance in this  article, 
in sympathy with opium.  Carbolic  acid  is 
selling freely at full prices,  and  no  further 
advance is probable at present.  The  price 
of insect powder is well sustained, the pres­
ent price for  ground  .only  paying  present 
cost  of  Howers. 
Cubebs  remain  high. 
There are some poor lots offering below our 
quotations, but XXX  stemless  are  scarce. 
Gum camphor is very firm and hardening in 
value.  Senna leaves have further advanced 
abroad.  Balsam 
tolu is weak  and  lower. 
Oil anise lias declined.  Oil  peppermint is 
firm.  Mace and nutmegs are  higher.  Lin­
seed oil is very firm and  another advance is 
probable  soon.  Oil  wintergreen  has  de­
clined  10 cents per pound.

Parkill’s P lan.

Secretary Parkill,  who was in the city last 
week as a member  of  the State  Board  of 
Pharmacy,  makes a novel  suggestion  rela­
tive to the method of going to the  Petoskey 
convention  of  the  M.  S.  P.  A.  next  July. 
He proposes that  all  members  going to the 
convention  from  the  southern half of the 
State meet the G.  R.  & I.  train which leaves 
Grand Rapids about noon. 
Instead of  go­
ing through to  Petoskey,  he  suggests that 
tlie entire party proceed to Traverse City in­
stead,  arriving there on  Monday  evening in 
time for supper,  and taking  the  boat  next 
morning for Charlevoix  and  Petoskey,  ar­
riving at the place of meeting about 3 o’clock 
in the afternoon.  Mr.  Parkill suggests that 
the  usual  Tuesday  session  be  dispensed 
with,  in order that those  who  cannot leave 
home Monday can get to  Petoskey  in  time 
by arriving there on the  Wednesday  morn­
ing  train.  The  suggestion 
is  worthy  of 
careful consideration,  and  Tiie  T r a d e s­
m a n is pursuaded that the Association would 
do well to adopt it.
Likes  the  Drug P a g e —“ Peculiar  Orders.” 

E v a  rt,  Mar.  3,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand  Rapids:
D e a r   S ir — T h e  d ru g   p ag e 
in  
th e   la s t 
number  o f  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  
is  w o rth   a  
y e a r’s subscription.
It  contains 
I, too,  have  a  scrap  book. 
many  amusing  and  peculiar  orders  and 
calls,  which would  be  appreciated  by your 
readers,  but I don’t  approve  of  giving the 
name of the druggist in connection with the 
printing of them, for this reason:  He stands 
in the same relation  to  his  patrons that the 
physician  does.  Their  ailments  are  their 
secrets,  imparted  to  the  physician  in  con­
fidence.  Their  errors  are  made  in  ignor­
ance,  and the printing of them in connection 
with a druggist’s name  locates  the  parties 
and brings them before the  public  in a way 
that  causes  them  to  sliuu  that  dealer,  as 
they would a physician who talks too much. 
If at  some  future  time  you  wish  to  look 
over my scrap book aiid  use  it in a  general 
way,  you are welcome to it.

Respectfully,

F.  H ib b a r d .

ACCURACY  AND  DISPATCH.

The Best Methods  so  Secure  Them  in  a 

, 

Drug Store.

> S. A. D. Shephard before Massachusetts  Phar­

maceutical Association.
“Never be idle; if your  hands  cannot  be 
usefully employed, attend  to  the  improve­
ment of your mind.”  “Eternal  viligence is 
the price of liberty.”  These  are  both  old 
sayings,  but like some  othei;  good  things, 
the older  they • are  the  better  they  prove 
themselves to be,  and truly in no place  can 
the value of these sayings be  better  shown 
than in a retail drug store.

Visit one store and you find  the  proprie­
tor or his  clerk  sitting  down  waiting  for 
customers,  perhaps reading a dime  novel or 
a trashy illustrated newspaper; look into his 
back room,  into his cupboards and drawers, 
and you will probably find  dirt  and  disor­
der; and if you wait  in  the  store  awhile, 
you will be likely to find  that his customers 
are few.  Visit another store,  you  find  the 
proprietor or his  clerk  busy  about  some­
thing,  his bottles are clean and  bright,  his 
preparations clear and  attractive in appear­
ance,  and probably his customers numerous. 
In no place is the  result  of  constant  vili­
gence,  industry  and  attention to business 
more apparent than in the drug store; there­
fore,  make it the first rule of the shop never 
to be idle.

It is surprising to find how  many  things 
a man will find  that  need  his  attention  if 
he only looks for  them.  We  need  not  be 
cleansing and arranging  goods all the time; 
there should  be - opportunity  regularly  to 
read the trade journals, etc.,  and  thus keep 
abreast of the times.  To my mind there  is 
no rule of the store so important as this one: 
never be idle; because so many other things 
naturally  lead  from 
It  will  be  the 
means of opening up many new  methods of 
work and lines of thought and action.

it. 

Second  to  this  is  system.  This  word 
should stand out boldly everywhere  in  the 
drug store,  not exactly  in  written  charac­
ters,  but in the arrangement of  every  shelf 
and glass case and in every  day’s work.  A 
certain day and  time  for  this  duty  will 
make it easy ami  keep  the  store  in  good 
trim,  whereas,  if a man waits till  lie thiuks 
the store needs cleaniug,  it  is  not  always 
easy to do it,  and  the  store  is  dirty  about 
half the time; but regularity brings the mat­
ter right in spite of our natural laziness,  for 
we are all creatures  of  habit,  and  a  good 
habit is almost as strong as a  bad  one. 
It 
would be hard to carry this idea  of  system 
too far.

There is one direction  in  which a system 
is  specially  applicable to our line of goods. 
Let  the  alphabetical  arrangement prevail 
whenever  it  can  be  introduced  into  the 
store, 
it  will  materially  assist 
in keeping  things  straight,  for  you  will 
then acquire the habit of looking  for A and 
B at the left of the line and W and Z at the 
right every time.

and 

Again,  much trouble comes  from  getting 
out of goods. 
It is safe to say that no  man 
can be implicitly relied upon to make an en­
try on the want book every time  lie  should 
do so.  How then can we help this trouble? 
Have a stock-book and  have  some  one  go 
over the stock  some  particular  day  every 
week.  This course wil^ be  found  a  great 
benefit to the store in more than  one  way., 
themselves. 
Again,  keep  poisons  by 
It will save 
This rule should be inviolable. 
many an  accident. 
It is  very  easy  in  any 
store to arrange some separate place  for  all 
the  commonly  used  poisons,  laudanum, 
morphine,  arsenic,  strychnine, prussic  acid, 
corrosive sublimate and others  that  we  all 
could mention,  and if  it  could  possibly  be 
done,  let them be so arranged that it will be 
an effort to get at them.

There is another very  valuable  rule,  but 
it catmot be fully carried out in every store, 
for there are many stores in  which  there  is 
frequently but  one  person  in  attendance. 
This rule is to have a second person compare 
the prescription with the person who has put 
it up.  Let the person who put up the recipe 
tell  over from memory just the articles  and 
the amount of the same that he  put into the 
bottle,  box  or  package,  while  the  other 
looks over the recipe and sees if  he  is  cor­
rect.  Persons  who  have  never  put  this 
rule into practice for a series  of  years  will 
be more than  surprised  at  its  usefulness, 
especially in regard  to  numbering  recipes. 
Perhaps the best thing as to the  numbering 
of prescriptions is to use an automatic num 
bering stamp.  Those who have used  these 
stamps claim great things for them,  and all 
old druggists will bear  witness  to  the  fact 
that it must be a great comfort to  have  the 
feeling that your  recipe  file  is  absolutely 
correct in its numbering and that  the  num­
bers are all  plain and  distinct.

Another 

rule.  Never  compound  any 
preparations  from memory, no matter  how 
well you may think you know the  formula. 
It is safer to have  the  printed  or  written 
formula before the eye. 
It  is  much  better 
to be sure than sorry.

Another  little  suggestion.  When  you 
have taken  a  bottle  from  the  shelf,  have 
used it,  and are putting  it back in its place, 
keep your hand on it,  while  you  read  the 
label,  thus bringing  your  attention  closely 
to that particular bottle.  Some say they al­
ways look at the bottle after they  have  put 
it on the shelf and see that the  liquid  is  in 
motion.  This habit ie good but not so good 
as the other; for  instance,  in  the  case  of 
powders, crystals,  or  solids  generally,  the 
i first rule holds  good—the  second  is  of  no
i use.
I Again.  When  there  are  two  prescrip­
tions going into the same family at the same 
time,  arrange  that  the  two  packages  in 
which they are contained shall be markedly 
different in  outward  form  or  appearance.

For instance, two recipes  each  for  twenty 
pills, put one into a  round  box,  the  other 
into a square box, or one in  a  box  smaller 
than the other.  The same witli  mixtures— 
one in a round or oval bottle,  the other in  a 
square bottle; else  make  difference  in  the 
size of the bottles, even if one bottle  has  to 
be a little larger than necessary to hold  the 
liquid.  Use  also  colored  bottles—bine, 
amber or green,  for  all  preparations  to  be 
used only externally.  This is  an  excellent 
rule.  The roughened blue bottles are grand 
things for poisons, but we all put  up  many 
recipes where we might not think it wise to 
send the rough bottle on account of a sensi­
tive customer; but the  blue,  French,  square 
presciption bottle is so  really  attractive  in 
appearance that it can be used very general­
ly and it is wise to nse it for all washes, etc.
Pharmacists  have  for  generations  been 
complaining,  with  good  reason,  that  the 
physician is deserving of censure because he 
does not write his preserptions legibly.  Let 
us not be guilty of the same fault and write 
our labels illegibly.  A  neat,  plainly-writ­
ten,  distinct label on a  package  is  itself  a 
first-class advertisement for the store.  Cus­
tomers notice it with  pleasure.  Remember 
in such writing the flourish which  indicates 
fancy penmanship has no place.

In closing these few words on methods of 
work,  I would emphasize the  two  thoughts 
—Never be idle and Be systematic  in every­
thing.

A n im u s  of  R epresentative  Cannon.
T h e  T ra desm a n  noted  last  week  that 
a bill had  been introduced  in the House  by 
Representative  “Cameron,”  providing  for 
the  repeal  of  the act  known  as  the  Phar­
macy Law-  The facts  were  obtained  from 
the  Legislative  Journal,  but  the  Jowrnal 
should have named Mr. Cannon—not “Cam­
eron”—in such connection.

the  gentleman 

With a view  to  ascertaining  the  animus 
of 
in  the  matter,  T h e 
T ra desm a n  requested a Lansing friend to 
interview  Mr.  Cannon  on  the  subject,  and 
he reports the result in the following words:
I saw Mr. Cannon, per your  request.  He 
said he thought the present law a monopoly, 
because it  prevented a man  from  engaging 
in the drug  business without first  going be­
fore a Board and  answering  a lot  of  ques­
tions which  would  never  come  up  to  him 
in the  practice  of  his  business.  He  cited 
the case of Dr. D.  L.  Dumon, of Evart, who 
attempted to  engage  in  the  drug  business 
at  that  town, but  was  refused  goods  until 
he had either passed an examination or em­
ployed a registered pharmacist.  I hold that 
a man who is  qualified,  ought to  be  able to 
dispense drugs without  having to submit to 
so much  red  tape,  and  I  shall  do  all  that 
lies  in  my  power  to  emphasize  that  idea.
Hoping to get more inside information on 
the subject,  T h e T ra desm a n wrote to two 
merchants  of  Evart,  one  of  whom  was  a 
druggist.  The  druggist failed to reply,  but 
the other gentleman wrote that Mr.  Cannon 
evidently introduced the bill at the dictation 
of Dr.  Dumon,  who  has  been  trying to get 
into  the  drug  business  for  months,  but 
hasn’t sullicient  knowledge  of  the business 
to enable him to  pass an  examination.  He 
recently ordered a line  of  goods,  but  as he 
was  not  quoted,  the  jobber  refused  to fill 
the  order.  Next  he  received a copy of  the 
Pharmacy Law. 
Ilis venture will not war­
rant  the employment of  a registered  clerk, 
consequently  his  desire  to  see  the  present 
law  repealed.

T h e T ra desm a n has received assurances 
from  several  members  of  the  Legislature 
that there is no possibility of  Mr.  Cannon’s 
bill  going  through;  that it  will  not  receive 
a  favorable  report  from  the  committee  to 
which it was  referred;  and  that  the  senti­
ment in  the  Senate  is  strongly in  favor of 
the continuance of the present law.

Berrien  County D ruggists U nited.

B er r ie n  Spr in g s,  March 5,  1887.

E. A. Stowe. Grand Rapids:
De a r She—The  meeting of the druggists 
of Berrien county,  which  occurred  at  this 
place on Wednesday,  was  largely  attended 
and all were in favor of the formation of an 
association,  which  was  accomplished under 
the style of the Berrien County  Pharmaceu­
tical Society.  The election of officers resulted 
as follows:

Three Oaks.
St.  Joseph.
Springs.

President—H.  M.  Dean,  of Niles.
First  Vice-President—O.  Churchill,  of 
Second  Vice-President—Lee  Wilson,  of 
Secretary—Henry  Kephart,  of  Berrien 
Treasurer—J. A.  Ames, of Niles.
The next  meeting  will  be  held  at  St. 
Joseph on the first Wednesday in June.
Our druggists  are  as  follows:  Dunning 
& Weiiner,  Fred Hopkins, John Bell & Co., 
A. J.  Kidd and  Porter Fitz  Gerald,  Benton 
Harbor;  A.  II.  Scott,  E.  S.  Curran,  Wilson 
&  Howard,  Geo.  S.  Ricoby,  St. Joseph; 
Cass  De  Armond  C.  H.  Lamb,  Dayton; 
Henry Kephart, John  Reiber,  W.  F.  Bul­
lard,  Berrien Springs; Timothy  Smith,  Ber­
ger & Shoemaker,  Galien;  Wm.  H.  Keeler, 
Wm. F.  Runner,  Leroy H.  Dodd,  Buchan­
an; Geo.  R.  Weed,  Alonzo  Bennett,  New 
Buffalo;  Joseph  W.  Wyeth,  O.  Churchill, 
Smith & Baum,  Three Oaks; B.  Hinchman, 
Sawyer;  Eugene  Sias,  Walter  A.  Ward, 
Eau Claire; C.  W.  Gelson,  Coloma;  S.  D. 
Waldon, Watervllet;  E.  G.  Waldron, B. M. 
Dean & Son, J.  H.  Ames,  Colby & Griffith, 
Niles; Burt Brown,  Stevensvilie.

Yours, 

H enry Ke p h a r t,  Sec’y.

K  Muir A gain.

B enton  H arbor,  Feb.  34,  1887.

E. A.  Stowe, Grand Rapids:
D ea r S ir—I  noticed  in  your  T r a d e s­
man of the 33d  a  prescription,  and inquiry 
from you as to the  meaning  of  “K Muir,” 
or “KMurr,” or “K Mini.”  Translated,  it 
means Kalium Marias  or  Chloride  of  Pot­
ash.  This  remedy,  or  Chloride  of  Soda 
(common salt),  is often added  to  stimulat­
ing liniments,  especially in veterinary  prac­
tice. 

Very respectfully,

II.  V.  T utton, M.  D.

L ow ell D ruggists Should  U nite.

Ben.  E. West is  working up the  subject 
of local organization among the druggists of 
Lowell,  with good prospects of success.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

Advanced—Gum opium, nutmegs, mace. 
Declined—Balsam  tolu,  oil  anise,  German 

quinine, oil wintergreen.

ACIDUM.

A ceticum .....................................................  
8® 10
Bcnzoicum,  German................................  8U@1 00
Carbolicum.................................................  65® 60
C itricum ......................................................  70® 75
Hydrochlor ...........................................  
N itrocum ....................................................   10® 12
..  11®  13 
O xalicum ...............................................
.1  85@2  10 
Salicylicum ..........................................
..1  40®l  60
Tannlcum...............................................

 

3® 5

AMMONIA.

“ 

3® 5
Aqua, 16  deg......................................... .. 
4® 6
18  deg..........................................
Carbonas................................................. ..  vm 14
.  12® 11
Chloridum.............................................
Cubebae (po.  1  75................................. .. 1  85@2 10
0@ 7
Juniperus  .............................................
X anthoxylum ...................................... ..  25® 30

BACCAE.

BAL8AMUM.

Copaiba.................................................. ..  50® 55
@1 50
Peru........................................................
Terabin,  Canada.................................. ..  38® 4*1
T olutan.................................................. ..  40® 45

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian...................................
Cassiae  ..................................................
Cinchona Flava....................................
Euonymus  atropurp..........................
Myriea  Cerifera, po............................
Primus  V irgini..............: ....................
Quillaia,  grd.........................................
U lm us.....................................................
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)........................

EXTR ACTUM .

18
11
18
30
20
12
12
12
10

Glycyrrhiza Glabra............................. ..  24® 25
po...................................... ..  83® 35
8® 9
Haematox, 15 ib boxes........................ .. 
@ 12
Is........................................
@ 13
548  .....................................
548  .................................... ..  @ 15

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

FERRUM.

Carbonate Precip................................. ..  @ 15
Citrate and Quinia...............................
Citrate Soluble...................................... ..  @ 80
@ 50
Ferrocyanidum Sol..............................
Solut  Chloride...................................... ..  @ 15
..  154® 2
Sulphate, com’l,  (bbl. 75)...................
@ V
pure......................................

“ 

FOLIA.

.

B arosm a................................................ ..  38® 40
Cassia Acutifol, Tinnivelly................ ..  20© 25
A lx ............................ ..  35® 50
Salvia officinalis, 54s and  54s............ ..  10® 12
8® 10
Ura  U rsi................................................ .. 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

GUMMI. 
@1  00
Acacia,  1st  picked...............................
© 90
“ 
...............................
2nd 
@ 80
“ 
3rd 
...............................
..  @ 65
Sifted  sorts..........................
“ 
p o ............................................. ..  75@l  00
“ 
..  50® 60
Aloe, Barb,  (po. 60).............................
© 12
“  Cape, (po. 20)............................... .. 
..  @ 50
“  Soeotrine,  (po. 60)...................
..  25® 30
Ammoniac  ..........................................
@ 15
Assal’oetida,  (po. 30)..........................
..  50® 65
B enzoinum ..........................................
..  24® 27
Camphorae.................................
© 13
Catechu, Is,  (54s,  14;  54s, 16).............. .. 
Euphorbium,  po................................... ..  35(tò 10
..  @ 80
Gaibanum.............................................
..  75® 80
Gamboge, po........................................
@ 3d
Guaiacum,  (po. 45).............................
@ 20
Kino,  (po. 25).................   ...................
@ 40
Myrrh, (po.45)......................................
Opii, (po. 5 50)........................................ ..4  00@4  10
Shellac................  ................................. ..  18® 25
..  25® 30
bleached.................................
..  30® 75
Tragacanth ..........................................
heuua—I11 ounce package
25
Absinthium  ........................................
20
Eupatorium 
....................................
25
Lobelia  .................................................
28
Majorum  .............................................
23
Mentha  Piperita.................................
25
V ir ..........................................
30
R u e ........................................................
22
Tanaoetum,  V ....................................
2b
Thymus. V ...........................................
..  55® 60
.  28® ÍÍ2
..  20© 25
..  35® 30

Calcined,  P at......................................
Carbonate,  P at...................................
Carbonate,  K. & M............................
Carbonate,  Jennings........................

MAGNESIA.

“ 

“ 

OLEUM.

Absinthium .........................................
..4  50@5 01
..  45® 50
Amygdalae, D ulc...............................
Amydalae, Amarae............................ ...7   00@7 50
Anisi  ..........................................................2  U0®2  10
Auranti  Cortex........................................  @2 50
öergam ii..............................  
2 00@2  75
Cajiputi  ............................................... 
®   75
. 
Caryophylii............................................... 
®3  15
Cedar...........................................................  35®  65
®1  50
Chenopodii  ............................................... 
Cinnamonii...............................................  @  75
®  75
Citronella  .....................................  
 
Conium  Mac.............................................  35®  65
Copaiba........ ............................................   @  80
Cubebae........................................... ...12  00@13  00
Exechthitos............................................... 
'J0@l  00
Erlgeron........•............................................ 1  20@1 30
G aultheria..................................................2  10@2 20
Geranium,?............................................. 
@  75
Gossipii, Sem, gal....................................   E5@  75
Hedeoma.......................... 
00@l  00
Juniperi...........................................  
  50@2 00
Lavendula.................................................  90@2  00
L im onis.......................................................2 25@2 35
Lini, gal.....................................................   42®  45
Mentha P iper..
......................................3 00®3 75
Mentha Verid.............................................6 00@7 00
Morrhuae,  gal..........................................  80® 1  00
M y r c ia ,;................, ............................... 
®  50
O live.............................................................I 00@2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal.  50)............................  10®  12
R icin i...........................................................1  42@1 60
R osm arini..............■.................................   75®l  00
Rosae,  5.....  
®8  00
 
Succini  ....... .............................................. 
<0@45
Sabina.........................................................  90@l  00
Santal.......................................................... 3 50® 7 00
Sassafras....................................................  50®  60
Slnapis,  ess, ; ...........................................   @  65
T iglii........................................................... 
®1  50
T h ym e........................................................  40®  50
opt..................................................  @  60
Theobromas.......................................  
15®  20

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POTASSIUM.

. . . .   72® 14
Bichrom ate..............................................
. . . . .   42® 45
B rom ide................................................. 
Chlorate, (P o . 22)............................... __   20® 22
Iodide.................................................. .. ..3 Ot®3 25
P ru ssiate............................  ............ ....  25® 28

RADIX.

A lth a e ................................................. -----  25® 30
A nchusa............................................. . . . .   15® 20
@ 25
Arum,  po........................................... ----- 
Calamus............................................... ....  20® 50
12
Gentiana,  (po.  15).............................
10®
. . . .  
. . . .   16® 18
Glychrrhiza,  (p*v. 15)............................
@ 30
Hydrastis  Canaden,  (po. 35)............
Hellebore,  Alba,  po............................. . . . .   15® 20
__   15® 20
Ipecac, po................................................... . . . . 1   60@1 70
. . . .   25® 30
Jaiapa,  p r ..................................................
@ 35
Marauta.  548............................................. ----- 
. . . .   15® 18
Podophyllum,  po..................................
Rhei  ............................................................. . . . .   75<§ 1 00
“  cu t......................................................
«D
“  p v ...................................................... ___  75@1  35
. . . .   50® 55
Spigeiia  ....................................................
@ 20
Sanguinaria, (po. 25)............................ ----- 
Serpentaria........................................ ....  40® 45
Senega................................................ ....  50® 55
@ 40
Smilax, Officinalis,  H ......................
M ex................. . . . .  
@ 20
Scillae,  (po. 35)................................... ....  10® 12
@ 25
Svmploearpus,  Foetidus, po.......
. . . .  
@ 25
Valeriana,  English,  (po. 30).......... . . . .  
German.......................... ....  15© 20

** 

“  

** 

SEMEN.

@ 18
Anisum, (po.22)........................... ...
. . . .  
. . . .   1 2 ® 15
'Aplum  (graveolens).......................
4® 6
B ird,Is................................................. .... 
Carui,  (po. 20)..................................
. . . .  
1 2 ® 15
Cardamoni................................
.1  <M)@1  25 
.  10®   12 
Coriandrinn.............................
.  354® 
4 I
Cannabis  Sativa......................
.  75@1  00 j 
Cydonium.................................
.  10®   121 
Clienopodium  ........................
Dipterix  Odorate...................
.1  75@l  85 i 
Foeniculum ............................
©   15 1 
. 
8 I
6® 
Foenugreek, po.......................
.  354®  4  i
Lini.............................................
.  354®  4  :
L ini grd, (bbl, 3).....................
Phalaris  Canarian.................
.  454® 
5  j
R ap a..........................................
6
5®  
. 
9
Sinapis,  Albu..........................
. 
8® 
. 
8®  
9
N ig r a .......................
HPIKITU3.
Frumenti,  W.,  D. & Co.........
Frumenti, D. F. R...................
F rum enti.................................
Juniperis Co.  O. T .................
Juniperis  Co............................
Saacharum  N. E .....................
Spt. Vini  G alli.......................
Vini Oporto.............................
Vini  Alba.................................

.2  00@2  50 
. 1  75@2  OC 
.1  10@1  50 
.1  75® l  75 
.1  75@3  50 
.1  75@2  00 
.1  75@6  50 
.1  25@2  00 
1  25@2  00

“ 

SPONGES.

Florida sheens’ wool, carriage...... 2 25  @2 50
2 00
do 
Nassau 
Velvet Ext  do 
1  10
Extra Ye 
do 
86
Grass 
do 
65
Hard? 
75
Yellow Reef, 
1  40

.......  
. . .  
........  
......... 
.forgiate use.................  
.................  

do 
do 
do 
do 

do 

MISCELLANEOUS.

 

.«Ether, Spts Nltros, 3 F ...................
26® 28
ASther, Spts. Nffroa, I F .................
30® 32
A lum en...............................................
Alumen,  ground, (po. 7)............
3®
4
Annatto  ....................................................  55®
55® 60
Antimoni,  po......................................
4®
5
Antimoni et Potass  Tart.................
85® 60
Argenti  Nit ras,  j ...............................
@ 68
Arsenicum ...........................................
5® 7
Balm Gilead  Bud...............................
38® 40
Bismuth  S.  N ......................................
15@2 20
o
Calcium  Chlor,  Is, (V4s,  11;  548, 12).
®
Cantharides  Russian, po.................
@2 25
Capsici  Fructus, a f............................
® 15
Capsici Fructus, po............................
® 16
Capsici Fructus, B, po.......................
® 14
'to® 33
Caryopbyllu8,  (po.  35).......................
Carmine, No. 40...................................
® 3 75
C< ra Alba, S. &  F ...............................
50® 55
'if® 30
Cera  Flava...........................................
Coccus  ..................................................
@ 40
Cassia Fruetus....................................
® 15
Centrarla.............................................
@ 10
Cetaoeum .............................................
@ 50
Chloroform........................................
38® 40
Chloroform,  Squibb»........................
® l 00
Chloral Hydrate  Cryst.....................
60®1 75
Chondrus  .............................................
10® 12
Cinchonidine, P. & YV........................
15® 20
Cinchonidine,  German.....................
12® 17
Corks, see list, discolint,  per  cent.
40
Creasotum...........................................
@ 50
Creta, (bbl. 75)......................................
@ 2
Creta  prep...........................................
5® 6
Creta, precip........................................
8® 10
Creta Rubra..........................................
@ 8
Crocus  ..................................................
25® 30
Cudbear.................................................
@ 24
Cupri Suiph..........................................
6®
7
D extrine....................................................  10®
10® 12
Ether Suiph........................................
68@ 7C
Emery, all  numbers........................
@ 8
Emery, po...........................................
6
©
Krgota. (po. 60)...................................
50® 60
Flake  W hite......................................
12© 15
G alla............................... ;..................
@ 23
G am bier.............................................
7® 8
Gelatin, Coopor.................................
® 15
Gelatin, French.........................................  40®  60
Glassware Hint, 70&10 by box.  60&10, less.
Glue,  Brown..............................................  
9@  15
Glue, W hite................................................  13®  25
G lycerina....................................................2554®  30
Grana  Paradisi......................................... 
®   15
H um ulu»...................................................   25®  40
Hydrarg Chlor. Mite.................................  @  75
Hydrant  Chlor.  Cor.................................  @  65
Hydrarg Oxide Rubruin.........................   @  85
Hydrai'.:  Ammoniati.............................   @1  00
Hydran. Unguentutn...............................  @  40
Hydrargyrum .......... ................. 
  @  65
Icnthyocoiia, Am  .................................. 1  25@l 50
Indigo.........................................................  75®l  00
Iodine,  Resubl.........................................4 00@4  10
Iodoform ..................................................   @5  15
Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod...............   @  27
Liquor Potass  A rsinitis.........................   10®  12
Lupuline  ..................................................  85@1  00
Lycopodium ..............................................  55®  60
Maeis............................................................  60®  65
Magnesia, Suiph, (bbl. 154)...................... 
2®   3
Mannia. S. F ................................................ 
90@1 00
Morphia,  S, P. & W.................................2  85®3  10
Mosehus Canton.......................................   @  40
Myristiea, No. 1.........................................  @  65
Nux  Vomica,  (po. 20)..............................   @  10
Os.  Sepia.....................................................  20®  23
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Co....................   @2  00
Picis Liq,  N. C.. 54  galls, doz...................   @2 70
Picis Liq.,  quarts........................................  @1 40
Picis Liq., pm ts...........................................   @ 85
Pii Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..........................„..
@ 50
Piper  Nigra,  (po.22)..............................
@ 18
Piper  Alba, (po. 35).................................
® 35
Pix  Burgun...............................................
© 7
Plumbi  A cet.............................................
14© 15
Potassa, Bitart, pure.............................
@ 40
Potassa,  Bitart, com .............................
Potass  Nitras, opt...................................
8@ 10
7® Gì
Potass  Nitras...........................................
Pulvis Ipecac  et opii.............................
10® 1 20
Pyrethrum, boxes, H. JfcP.D.Co., doz.
@1 (10
Pyrethrum, p v.........................................
48® 53
Q uassiae....................................................
8® io
Quinia, S, P. &  W....................................
70® 75
Quinia, S, German...................................
60® 65
Rubia Tinetorum.....................................
12® 13
Saccharum  Lactis, p v ............................
@ 35
Salacin.......................................................
@5 50
Sanguis Draconis....................................
40® 50
Santonine..................................................
@4  50
Sapo,  W......................................................  12®
12® 14
Sapo,  M.............................................
8<& 10
Sapo', G...............................................
@ 15
Seidlitz  M ixture.............................
@ 28
@ 18
Sinapis...............................................
@ 30
Slnapis,  opt......................................
Snuff,  Maceaboy,  Do.  Voes.........
@ 35
Snuff, Scotch,  Do. V oes...............
@ 35
8® 10
Soda Boras, (po.  10)........................
Soda et PotossTart........................
33<£è 35
2® 21/2
Soda  Curb.........................................
Soda,  Bi-Carb...................................
Soda,  A sh.........................................
3©
4
Soda  Sulphas..................................
Spts. Ether  Co...............................
50® 55
Spts.  Myrcia  Dam..........................
©2 00
Spts. Myrcia Im p............................
(&2 50
Spts. Vini Rect. (bbl.  2  25)............
@ 2 35
® i 30
Strychnia, Crystal..........................
2H@ JL/
Sulphur, Subì...................................
i
Sulphur,  Roll..................................
Tamarinds........................................
8® 10
Terebenth  V enice..........................
28© 30
Theobrom ae....................................
@ 40
Vauilla  .............................................
06® 16  00
Zinei  Suluh......................................
8
7®
bl  Gal
*0
75
60
>5
:5
55
Linseed, pure  raw............
4»
43
46
Linseed, b oiled ....................................   43
3
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained..
>0
80
Spirits Turpentine.....................
50
14

Whale, winter.

OILS.

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  pure............
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
Whiting, white  Spanish...........
Whiting,  Gilders’......................
White, Paris American............
Whttiug  Paris English cliiT..
Pioneer Prepared  I a in ts __
Swiss Villa Prepare*  Paints..
VARNISnES.
No. 1 Turp  Coach......................
Extra  Turp.................................
Coach  Body.................................
No.  I Turp Furniture...............
Extra Turk  Daniar...................
Japan Dryer, No. 1  Turp.........

1 *  
H4 
H i  
354 
254 

Lb
2 ®  3
2® 3
2 ®  3
254©  3
m  244®   3
13©  Hi 
58®ti0 
16©17 
6® 654 
6®  654 
@70 @00 
1  10 
l  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

FURNITURE FINISH

Make Old Furniture 

Look Like New.

DIRECTIONS  FOR  USE:
First  remove  all  dirt  and 

grease, then apply

POLISHINA

with  a  cotton  cloth,  and  rub 
down until dry.

The Best Furniture Finish  in 
the market.  Try  it, and  make 
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

GRAND  RAPIDS.

\<V

k F M I

WHOLESALE

Druggist»!

42  and 44  O ttaw a Street and  89,  91,

93 and  g5  L ouis Street. 

IMPORTERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

Drugs, ffiediemes, Giiemicals, 
Paints, Oils, YaruisliBS, 
anO riiist’s

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Elepit  Phannacentical  Prepara­

tions,  fluid  Extracts  and 

Elixirs

g e n e r a l w h o lesa le  a gn ts  for

Wolf, Patton & Co. and John L. 

Whiting, Manufacturers  of 

Fine Paint and  Var­

nish Brushes.
THE  CELEBRATED

Piore Prepared Pauls.

ALSO  FOR  THE

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

Horse Brushes.

WE ARE  SOLE  OWNERS OF

Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Care

Which is positively the best Remedy 

of the kind on the market.

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

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

WITHERS DADE & CO.’S

Henderson Co., Ky.,

Sour Mash  and  Old-Fashioned 

Hand-Made, Copper- 

Distilled

WHISKEY.
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

Favorite

•i
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.

AFTER  THOUGHTS.

Pleasant  Recollections  of 

a  Trip  to  the

Tropics.

From the Grand Traverse Herald.

river—its 

British Guiana, lying  between  latitude  1 
and 8% degrees north of the equator at  the 
mouth  of  Essiquibo 
capital 
Georgetown—Is  a  second  edition  of  Hol­
land.
Georgetown,  the  principal  city  in  the 
Province of Demarara,  is protected by a sea 
wall of miles in  extent,  to  keep  the  high 
tide from overflowing the  lands.  The  sur­
face is perfectly flat and drained with canals 
from which the water is pumped out  as  oc­
casion requires to keep  the  land  above  the 
water.  The soil is  a  vegetable  mould,  the 
deposit of  centuries  brought  down  by  the 
river,  and  is  marvelously  fertile.  Sugar 
cane, the principal  product,  grows  luxuri­
antly and it is said  that  Demerara  has  the 
largest,  finest  and  most  improved  sugar 
plantations in the world, using vacuum pans 
and centrifugal dryers, by which  the  sugar 
is  relieved  of  its  syrup  more  completely 
than by any other process,  giving Demerara 
the preference over West India raw  sugars. 
Plantations run from 800 to  3,000  acres  in 
extent.
Georgetown is a town of some 40,000 peo­
ple, and  is  laid  out  at  right  angles,  with 
broad streets of  asphalt  and  crushed  coral 
rock like Washington streets,  sidewalks  of 
the same, houses of  wood,  painted  white, 
with green  blinds  or “jalosies.”  Venetian 
blinds of fixed  slats  hung  at  the  top  and 
swung out from the bottom at  an  angle  of 
about 30 degrees, and held there by a wood­
en brace, thus excluding the sun and admit­
ting the light  and  air.  The  effect  of  the 
buildings in white  set  amid  the  perpetual 
green is to a New Englander  a  forcible  re­
minder of a transplanted New England  vil­
lage in June.  The  citizens  are  noted  for 
their generous hospitalities.
One of the  important  and  growing  pro­
ducts of the lower West Indies is the cacao, 
an ovate, oblong, tree’s  fruit,  sharped  like 
a  small  musk-mellon,  with  a  seed  pulp 
about 1)4x3 inches, containing a  number  of 
brownish seeds about one-half  by one  inch 
in length.  These seeds,  when  ripe,  are  re 
moved, put into sacks,  shipped  to  commer­
cial cities like New York  and  London, and 
there  ground 
into  a  flour,  mixed  with 
certain proportions of  arrowroot,  made into 
a  paste,  dried  into  forms  and  furnished 
through the dealers for our  breakfast tables 
under  the  name  of  chocolate,  broma  or 
cocoa.
Another queer tree  fruit or product is the 
“calabash” of gourd structure,  shaped  like 
a water melon and gathered as desired, from 
3 to 15 inches in  length.  The  larger  ones 
are used for water vessels, while the smaller 
ones are used for smaller  domestic utensils, 
or dyed and decorated for  ornamental  arti­
cles.
The cassava  root,  a  bulbous  root  plant, 
furnishes,  when  ripe  and  crushed  into  a 
paste  and  dried,  a  very  palatable  flour, 
somewhat  like  arrowroot,  which  makes  a 
nutritious bread much used by  the  natives.
Plantain,  a  species Jof banana,  grows  in 
abundance  in  the  forests, or  is  cultivated 
on  the  plantations,  and  constitutes,  with 
rice,  fish, cassava  bread,  and  sugar  cane, 
the principal food of the  natives,  on  which 
they  keep  fleshy  and  are  able  to  perform 
arduous labors.
The governor  of  Demerara  gets  .$35,000 
per  year,  making  the  cost  to  every man, 
woman and child in the Province, 33>y cents 
for his support, whereas the  great  State  of 
New York  pays  for  its  Governor’s  salary 
one-tenth of one cent to each person,  as  in­
dicated above.  The general tax  of  Guiana 
averages about 7 per cent, on  the valuatian.
I was not a ware, and there are others who 
may  not  know,  that  Martinique  has  the 
honor of being  the  birth-place  of  the  Em­
press Josephina in 1703,  where  at  the  age 
of 16 she married the Viscount Beauharnais 
and  removed  to  France.  Left  a  widow 
with two children, at the age of  28,  she  af­
terwards  married  Napoleon  Bonaparte  in 
96.  The site of her  birth  is  marked  to­
day by a  monumental  statue  near  Fort du 
France.  Her  daughter,  Ilortense,  after­
wards became Queen of Holland.
The celebrated statesman,  financier,  gen­
eral, diplomat  and  jurist,  Alex.  Hamilton, 
was born on the island Nevis  in 1757.  Left 
an orphan at  the  age  of  10  years,  he  was 
placed in a store at St.  Croix at  the  age  of 
12,  quite to his disappointment.  At the age 
of 17 years,  through the aid of  his  friends, 
he was sent to school at Elizabethtown, New 
Jersey,  thence  to  Kings  (now  Columbia) 
College,  where by his  assiduity, ability and 
thorough knowledge of English and French, 
he began to make  himself  known,  and  be­
came a power in the colonies,  and continued 
to be in the state until  his  untimely end  in 
the duel which was provoked by Aaron Burr 
in 1804.
The West Indies were for  a  long term of 
years a subject of disputed title between the 
European powers,  and when  terms of peace 
were  made  they  were  the  “small  coin” 
thrown into the balance of kings in  the  ad­
justment.  Here were  fought  some  of  the 
most bitterly contested naval battles  of  the 
17tli ceutury, out  of  which  England,  with 
her  usual  pertinacity  and  monied  power, 
came out the owner  of  the  larger  share  of 
the islands.
To-day they are each  in  their  varied  and 
individual  beauty  literally  “Gems  of  the 
Ocean,”  as  they  lie.  between  the  restless 
and relentless Atlantic  ocean  on  the  east, 
and the Caribbean sea on the  west,  with its 
history of untold and  unredressed  cruelties 
committed  against  the  confiding  Caribs— 
native owners of the islands, driven to their 
death  over precipices into the sea which has 
since carried their names  and  which  sings 
its  requiem  over  their  unsepulchered  re­
mains. 
The CELEBRATED  EMERY  $3  SHOE
HATCH  &  EMERY,  Chicago  and  Itoston. 
227 Jefferson Street, 

D.  G.  KENYON, Traveling Salesman,

MANUFACTURED  b y  

S.  Ba r n e s.

i 

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Grand Rapidi«, Mich.
PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY
33 N- G I N E S
From 2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw  Mills  I 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft  ! 
ing.  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts  made  for i 
Complete Outfits.

L S MM

o   dead  mans  alley

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^ 8

SOLIMAN SNOOKS.

His Observations  on  Floods  and  City 

Water.

Ca n t  H ook  Corners Mar.  2,  1887. 

Dear Tradesman :

Since my last letter the  ice  has  gone out 
of the big jam on  Potter’s  Run  to  such an 
extent that it is thought the  grist  mill  and 
cooper shop can be saved.  But it  was  too 
late to save the  schoolhouse  (A)  and  the 
bridge on Furlong street (see map enclosed), 
which were undermined by  the backing  up 
of the water  from  the  Goose  Pond.  The 
bridge on Damlongue street was saved by the 
presence  of  mind  of  Deacon Potter,  who 
drove a sled stake at  each  end in  the nick 
of time.  The water has fallen  two feet in 
the cellar of the Grand  Tavern,  so that  the 
beer kegs can now be arrived at  sufficiently 
to keep the Corners lively.

It has also been ascertained  that  the red­
headed hired girl,  that was supposed to have 
been drowned down in there while going af 
ter potatoes was not there. 
The stage left 
the Comers at the hour the girl disappeared 
and it is now supposed  that  she  was on it. 
The  fact  that a  tall  man in rubber boots 
named Smith,  that used  to  travel  for Fox, 
Musselman &  Loveridge,  and a young man 
named  Will  McGraw,  from  Detroit, hap­
pened to leave on the same  stage,  is not re­
garded  with  suspicion  by any one who is 
confidentially  acquainted  with  the parties 
aforesaid.

I noticed when I was  down to  your  city 
last week that the Grand is behaving hisself 
pretty  well  there,  notwithstanding  his 
pranks further up.  It is well,  because,  with 
dirty driuking  water,  measles  and  every­
thing, Grand  Rapids  is  having  about  all 
she can stand. 
I brought home a sample of 
the city water when I was  down  there  last 
week. 
I  did  not  drink  any  water while 
there, but I made a very  careful analysis of 
the water yesterday,  which  resulted  as fol­
lows:
Grand Rapids plaster......................................2.32
Sulphuretted Hydrogin.................................. 3.14
Old Tom Gin.......................................................  1.06
Ext.  ABhheapabus...........................................   7.57
Tinct.  Barnyardum........................................  13.21
Dishwaterus..........................  ..........................  1.85
Soap  Suds......................................... 
76
Soldiers’ Home............................................... traces
Sundries...............................................................15.82
H2 O.-----Opt.......................................... indications
It is not with a  view to causing a rush to 
Grand Rapids this summer, as a great health 
resort, 
that I  publish the  analysis of this 
noted mineral water.  No,  my dear Mr. Ed­
itor,  it is more with the  view  of  warning 
my brother merchants,  who  are not used to 
strong  drink, 
to  take a  big  drink  before 
leaving  home.  Good  water  is  a  mighty 
valuable thing for folks that  drink it,  but it 
is highly questionable  whether the prohibi­
tion amendment will  get  much  support at 
Lyons,  Ionia and other  points  where  they 
have enjoyed a surfeit  of  cold  water  this 
spring.

My  brother-in-law  was  telling  me, the 
other day,  when I was  down  there,  about 
how he went out to visit some friends in the 
country a while ago.  They had a splendid 
well on the farm,  and John  had looked for­
ward  for  some  time  to  the  pleasure he 
would have in drinking from it!  But it was 
all in vain that he drank and drank, until he 
must have taken in  something  like  half a 
barrel.  He could not satisfy himself.  He 
wended his way back to the city  and  sadly 
drew a glass from his  own  faucet  of  city 
water,  raised the pearl-white  liquid  to  his 
lips and turned it down.  With  a  sigh  of 
satisfaction, John smacked  his  lips,  pulled 
down his-vest and exclaimed,  “Ah!  Sarah 
Jane, that touches the spot. 
I  can  under­
stand  now  what  it was  that I have  been 
missing for the past week.  Yes, I see now; 
it was the soul-satisfying,  tax-paying, rneat- 
and-drink-together, Grand  Rapids  city wa­
ter.” 

Yours Aquaously,

S o lim a n  Snooks.

J upson,  “That is  a  fine  painting you’ve 
got there,  Smith.”  Smith,  “ Well,  I Hatter 
myself that it  is,  you know.”  Jupson,  “It 
it one of the old  masters,  do  you  think?” 
Smith,  “ Weil, I ain’t exactly sure, but I am 
going to have the  opinion  of  a  friend  on 
that  point  to-day.”  Jupson,  “Indeed! A 
cannoisseur?”  Smith  “I  should,  say  so! 
Why,  man,  he’s  been  in  the  tea  business 
six years  and  handled  thousands  of  pic­
tures.”

W.  O,  Denison,
GRAND  RAPIDS, 

88,90 and 92 South Division Street, 

MICH.

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Order Sample Case of your Jobber.  See quota­

tions in  Price-Current.

f.

117 Monroe St., Grand Rapids. H .  L E O N A R D   &   SONS,
J.  DETTENTHALER,

134 to 140 East Fulton Street.

BIRD  CAGES.

B ro il, nr M u   Bini  Gans.

JOBBER  OF

t à l l i

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PISH,

A3XTD

GAME.

Mail Orders  Receive  Prompt  Attention. 

See Quotations in Another Column.

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

HeacLliglrt

AND

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  lactory,  in 
(Telephone 

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

Shall we receive your  encounigement  by 

way of a trial order?

Respectfully,

ASSORTED  PACKAGES.

We sell the Celebrated  “J e w e t t” Bird Cage, to the exclusion 
of all inferior makes, and an experience  of  many  years assures 
us that this is the safest policy.
The prices are now lower than most cages in the market, and by 
taking these goods you get the most  pleasiug  cage in every re­
spect made in America.  All  fitted  with  Jewett’s Patent Self- 
Locking  Hook,  and  Patent  Seed and Water Fount,  of which 
there are no equals,  and which can be found on no other cage.

Fifty  Cent Cages—Latest Patterns.

CASE  h .  l .  2.

1 Box containing 4, 7 in. Round 4—6 x 8 Square.

4, 7H in.  “ 
4, 8 in. 
“ 

4—7 x 9 
“
4—754x754  “

Total, 2 doz. cages at $4.40...........................................................

No charge for box.

CASE  H.  L.  3.

Containing 12 Assorted Cages.  One-half Round, one-half
Square.  Average price, each, 53c.  Total.......................

No charge for box.

CASE  H.  L.  4.

Containing  12  Assorted  Cages,  each  one  of  the  latest
Square Shape.  Average price, each 66?ic.  Total.......

No charge for box.

CASE  H.  L.  5.

Containing 24 Assorted Cages, eleven of them are the lat- 
estpatterns, round cages, and thirteen  of  them  war­
ranted to be the very best selling square cages.  Aver­
age price each, 68c.  .Total..................................................

8  80

6  36

8 00

Above cut represents nest of 5  cages,  with  sliding bottoms, 
which can be removed to clean, made of bright wire,  and patent 
Feed Cup Holders.

No. 1... ...16 

No. 2 ... ...18 

No. 3 ... ...20 

No. 4 ... ...21J4 

inches  .. ...  9J4 in ch es.... ..17 inches__ __ each  $  85
i   00

...1054 

...19 

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“

“

“

“

“

...12 

...13*4 

“

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...21 

...23 

...25 

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1 35

1  fif)

2 00

No. 5 . .. ...2354 

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... ...15 

Prices on Extra Cage Trimmings.

Cage Hooks, to screw  in w all................................................per doz.  45c

to swing around.

Fancy, to hang up.

Cage Seed Cups, or  Fountains....................

Bird Baths, Nested Flint Glass, two sizes 

16  32

Mocking Bird Baths, opal.............................

45c

65c

45o

45c
51 50
40c
45c

3 00

Open  Stock  Cages.

We also carry a complete .assortment of  these beautiful cages 
in open stock,  and guarantee to make  the  bottom prices if you 
wish to sort up your stock.  Complete catalogue furnished free 
on application.

Willow Bird  Nests.

Cage Springs...............................................

Adjustable Brass Cage  Screens, No. 1.

H E S T E R   <3c 

F   O   I X ,

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and 
Prices*

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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 rite for P rices. 

130  OAKES  ST..  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

W M . S E A R S  & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

Agents  for

A M B O Y   CHEESE.

Our Leader Sm oking 

Our Leader F ine Cut 

O R D E R

15c per pound.

Our Leader Skcrts, 

16c per pound.

33c per pound.

Our Leader Cigars, 

$30 per M. 
t i r o   W o r l d .

Tlio  Best  in

C lark, Jew ell  &  Co.,

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

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

O’Brien & Murray’s “Hand Made Cigar.”

PURE. J   NEW  PROCESS  STARCH.  1SWEET-

removed,

This Starch having the  light  Starch  and  Gluten 
One-Tiiirci  Less

i Can be used than any other in the Market.

FIRMENICH  MNFG. CO.

M anufactured  by  th e

F actories:  M arshalltown,  Iow a;  Peoria,  Ills.

Offices  at  Peoria,  Ills.

FOR  SALE  BY

Clark,  Jewell  &  Co.

SURE.

37, 39 & 41 Kent Street.  Grand Rapids,  Michigan.

STRONG.

ORDER  A   SAM PLE  OF
OUR PURE  SMOKING TOBACCO,  - 
ON  TIME  FINE  CUT, 
UNCLE  TOM  “ 
-
NOX ALL 
« 
CINDERELLA “ 
IRON  PRINCE  CIGARS,  -

-
-

- 

'■

15c
-  60c 
37c
-  35c 
25c
$35 per M

59  Jefferson  ave.,  Detroit, Mich..

"J

GERMAN  COFFEE,
Best  Package  Goods  on  the  M arket.

------- THE-------

Manufactured by

TOLEDO SPICE CO., TOLEDO, OHIO.

And.

Absolute Baking Powder.

100 per cent. Pure.

Manufactured and sold only by

ED .  T E L F E R ,  Grand  Bapids.
L.  D.  H A R R IS,

W holesale Dealer in

33  NORTH IONIA  STREET,

GUARD  R A PID S,

MICH-

