Michigan  Tradesman

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  27,  1887.

NO.  188.

YOL.  4.

BELKNAP

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Lumber  and  Farm

MANUFACTURERS OF

Spring,  Freight,  Express, 

W A G O N S !

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  ilrst-cla68  Wagons 
of all kinds. 
23^"8pecial  attention  given  to  Repairing, 
Painting and Lettering.

,

Shops on Front St., Grand Rapids, Mich,

GIANT

TRADEMARK

Secures to out-of-town  customers  the most 
careful attention and guarantees perfect sat- 
sfaction.  We are the

LARGEST HOUSE in the STATE

DEALING  EXCLUSIVELY  IN

With the splendid  Tailor-Made  Clothing 
we handle the fit is as perfect as in  the  fin­
est custom work.  Send in your order for a 
Spring Suit or Overcoat and  make a  saving 
of at least one-third.

—GIANT—  •

The attention  of  dealers is called  to our 
JOBBING  DEPARTMENT.  We pay cash 
for our goods and make CASH PRICES.
With superior advantages and ready  cash 
we are enabled  not  only  to  meet  Chicago 
prices but offer you a most complete line  of

FURNISHING  GOODS.

A.  MAY,  Phophietok.

GIANT  CLOTHING  COMPANY,
Cor.Canal & Lyon Sts.,G?aii4Rapiàs
MONNICH & STONE, Flint, Mich.

MANUFACTURERS  OF

M/%  £

Send for Sam ple  O rder.

POTATOES.

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

ffl.  H.

166 South Water St., CHICAGO.

Reference

F e d s e n t h a l , Gross  & Midler, Bankers.

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., Conissioi Merchants,

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO. 

Reference:  First  National  Bank.

JSÆ

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

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

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

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

PLACE to secure a thorough 
•and useful education is at the 
Grand Rapids (Mich.) Busi- 
,  ness College,  write for Cot- 
Address,  C. G. SWENSBERG.

lege Journal.

Voit, Hemolsleisr & Go.,
DRY GOODS

Importers and Jobbers of

Staple  and  Fancy.

Overalls, Fants, Etc.,

OUR  OWN  MAKE.

A  Complete  Line  of

Fancy Crockery «Fancy? oodeni are

OIJR  OWN  IMPORTATION.

Inspection Solicited.  Chicago and Detroit 

Prices Guaranteed.

SEEDS
For the Field and Garden.

aiO alsM
71 Canal Street,

Offers for Sale all Kinds of Garden 

Seeds in Bulk.

Medium Clover,

Alsike Clover,

Mammoth  Clover,
Alfalfa Clover,
Timothy,

Red  Top,

Blue Grass,

Orchard Grass,

White Dutch Clover, 

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

COOK  &  PRINZ,
Show  Oases,

Manufacturers of

Counters, Tables and Furniture of any 

Description,  as  well  as  Designs 

thereof,  made to order.  Write 

for Prices or call and see us 

when  in  the  City.

38 West Bridce St.. Grand Rapids.

Telephone 374.

JUDD  cfc  OCX,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

And Full Line Winter Goods.

10%  CANAL  STREET.

T.  R.  E llis  &  Co.,
Book Binders
Blank  Bool  Makers,

PAPEE  EULEES,

51, 53 and 55 Lyon St.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

THE  NEW

Soap  Company.

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

the E E estciliglrt
L ittle D aisy.

A N D

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  ol 
the  best  Bath,  Lanndry  and  Toilet  Soaps 
combined now on the market.

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

person, by letter, or telephone. 
No.  57$J-5 rings.)

Shall we receive your  encouragement  by 

way of a trial order?

Respectfully,

EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN,

J E W

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j E

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44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

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. R. & I. or  C. & W. 
M. Railroads.  Correspondence  solicit­
ed.

NT.  B.  CLARK,

101 Ottawa St.,

Grand Rapids.

MUSCATINE

OATMEAL.

Best in the world.  Made by new and im­
proved process of  kiln-drying  and  cutting. 
All grocers keep it.  Put up in barrels,  half 
barrels and  cases.

MUSCATINE 

ROLLED OATS.

Made  by  entirely  new process,  and used 
by everybody.  Put up in barrels,  half  bar 
rels and cases.

For Sale by all MicMp Jobbers.
S W E E T

The Best Laundry Soap on the Market

TRY  IT 2

FOR SALE BY ALL  FIRST-CLASS  GROCERS.

MANUFACTURED  B

Oberne, Hosick &  Co

CHICAGO.

A.  HUFFORÖ,  G eneral  Agent,

Box  14. 

G rand Rapids.X

CHARLES  t.  COYE,
A. Coye & Son,

Successor to

DEALER IN

AWNINGS § TENTS

Horse and Wagon Covers, 

Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,

Wide Ducks, etc

Flags Sc Banners made to order.

73 CANAL  ST.. 

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GRAND  RAPIDS.

TH E DRUMMER DID  IT.

A Class of Honest  and  Enthusiastic  Peo­

ple W ho  Never Die.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.

All investigations  by  archaeologists  into 
the various races and their history break on 
an inexplicable influence that  seems to con­
nect  widely  different  places,  periods  and 
peoples.  They find old jars in use in India 
that the mound builders had here,  and  they 
come across Iron teaspoons in  the  primeval 
forest beds of coal.  They are astonished to 
find the gridiron of the north of Ireland fig­
uring in the social  life  of  China  three  or 
four  thousand  years  ago.  The  Bedouin 
Arab has the army  blanket  of  the  Esqui­
maux,  and iu  the  ruins  of  Pompeii  they 
come across  peanut  shells  like  what  the 
sweeper sweeps out  of  the  gallery  of  the 
theater  to-day.  Well, why is this?  Arch- 
seologists cannot tell. 
I  can.  The  myste­
rious  ubiquitous  influence  that  leaves  no 
track save the article is  simply  the  drum­
mer. 
It was the  drummer  who  did it all. 1 
He  left  those  curious  Grecian  scrolls  in 
Egypt; he carved those hieroglyphics on the 
rocks of ancient Britain;  he is tiie man who 
introduced French candy into  Herculaneum 
and stuck tiie mound builders with iron tea­
spoon.

Do you  ever  know  what  becomes  of  a 
drummer?  Not that you care,  but have you 
ever seen  a  dead  drummer? 
I  don’t  be­
lieve drummers'die. 
I believe they  simply 
talk themselves into  gas.  “Gas  thou  art, 
to gas returnest,” was written of tiie  drum­
mer. 
I have met one or two men who have 
been drummers,  but they do not  talk  much 
about it.  When  a  drummer  gets  tired  of 
talking he just  disappears. 
I  do  not  see 
how this country survives  the  existence  of 
drummers.  You go into  a  small  country 
place; you step into the  hotel;  you  find  in 
the office sixteen coats  hanging  up  on  the 
wall and sixteen valises  in  a  row  on  tiie 
floor, and  sixteen  men  sitting  with  their 
thirty-two  feet up on the stove  telling  six­
teen lies about their business and  their  ad­
ventures, all  at  one  time.  You  can’t  get 
what you want  in  that  town.  The  drum­
mers have made the store keepers buy what 
they have to sell,  and you’ve got  to  take  it 
or go without. 
It seems almost  impossible 
to believe that  a  drummer  should  ever  be 
able to disguise  his  identity.  He  is,  as  a 
rule,  aggressive and runs things.

If you see a man come into the office  of  a 
hotel and step up timidly to. the counter and 
ask the clerk if there  are  any  letters  for 
him, please,  you may know that he’s a hum­
ble private citizen  and  a  plain  guest. 
If 
you see a fellow bang open the door,  stride 
in and leave it  open  behind  him,  go  and 
hang his coat on a peg  and  jam  his  valise 
on the floor,  walk behind the counter,  take 
outall tiie letters and read the addresses from 
every box, open  the  drawer  and  look  in, 
then you’ll know it’s  a  drummer—good  for 
one  night's  lodging  and  several  drinks. 
He generally lets everybody know  that  lie’s 
sold a lot of stuff,  and  he  talks  very  loud 
about  the  fun  he’s  liad  sometimes.  But 
they told me of  one  drummer  who  called 
himself a count,  and wore a  long  fur-lined 
ulster  and  an  imposing  foreign  looking 
mustache.  He came in tiie summer  season 
md stayed a long time.  He  was  the rage; 
the  girls  fell  in  love  with  him;  the  ma­
mas admired him; lie was on the eve of get­
ting engaged to  a  haughty  San  Francisco 
belle, when a lady walked into a drug  store 
oue day and found him with  a  lot  of  sam­
ples of soap, trying to  stick  the  proprietor 
with his stock.  That  let  him  out  and  he 
disappeared.  But the profession  disowned 
him, for, as a rule, the drummer is a straight­
forward, open,  honest and enthusiastic nui­
sance.

Taxes  on Commercial Travelers Held Un­

constitutional.

The Supreme Court of the  United  States 
has rendered a decision denying the right of 
a state or a municipality to  tax  commercial 
travelers from another state on  the  ground 
that such taxation  is  an  interference  with 
interstate commerce,  and is,  therefore,  un­
constitutional.  The case in which  this  de­
cision was rendered was that of Robbins vs. 
Taxing  District  of.  Shelby  County,  Tenn. 
It appears that a state  law  applicable  only 
to the  taxing  district  in  question  was  in 
force, subjecting  “drummers”  and all  per­
sons not having a regular  licensed  place  of 
business in the district,  and offering or sell­
ing goods by sample,  to  a  tax  of  $10  a 
week or $25 a  month.  Robbins,  who  was 
.unlicensed, was engaged in soliciting orders 
in Memphis for stationery for  a  Cincinnati 
firm and in exhibiting  samples  for the pur­
pose of effecting  sales.  He  was  arrested, 
convicted and fined,  and his  conviction  was 
affirmed by the Supreme  Court  of  Tennes­
see.  The  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States has just reversed the decision  of  the 
state court, holding the tax to  be  unconsti­
tutional. 
In  its  opinion  the  court  lays 
down the following  positions;  First.  The 
Constitution gives to Congress the  power to 
regulate commerce  among  the  states,  and 
that power  is  necessarily  exclusive  when­
ever the subjects of it are national  in  their 
character or admit only of one uniform  sys­
tem or plan of  regulation.  Second.  Where 
the power of Congress to regulate is exclusive

its failure to act indicates its  will  that  the 
subject shall be left free  from  any  restric­
tions or impositions,  and any  regulation  by 
the states,  except in  matters  of  local  con­
cern only,  is  repugnant  to  such  freedom. 
Third.  The only  way  in  which  commerce 
between the states can be legitimately affect­
ed  by  state  laws  is  when,  by  virtue  of 
its police  power  and  its  jurisdiction  over 
persons and  property  within  it»  limits,  a 
state provides for the  security of life,  limb, 
health, comfort  and  property,  or  when  it 
does those things  which  may  incidentally 
affect commerce.  But in making  such  in­
ternal  regulations  a  state  cannot  impose 
taxes upon persons passing through or com­
ing in merely for a temporary  purpose,  nor 
upon property imported and not yet become 
part of the common mass, and no discrimin­
ation can be made by  any  such  regulations 
adversely  to  the  persons  or  property  of 
other states, and no regulation  can be made 
directly affecting  interstate  commerce. 
In 
the  matter  of  interstate  commerce 
the 
United States are, 
in  the  opinion  of  the 
court, but one country,  and are and must be 
subject to one system of regulations and not 
to a multitude of systems. 
It  seems  to  be 
forgotten that the  people  of  this  country 
are  citizens  of 
the  United  States  as 
well as of  the  individual  states,  and  that 
they have some rights  under  the  Constitu­
tion and laws of the former  independent  of 
the latter and free  from  interference or re 
straint from them.  To  deny  the  state the 
power to lay the tax or  require  the  license 
in question will not, the  court  believes,  in 
any  preceptible  degree  diminish 
its  re­
sources.  Goods, when brought into a  state 
in consequence of  a  sale  by  a  drummer, 
will be liable to  taxation, and as much will 
be realized as if the  tax  were  imposed  be 
fore the sale.  To  tax  the  sale  of  goods 
under such circumstances before the sale is, 
in the opinion of the court, clearly a tax  on 
interstate  commerce itself. 
If the employ 
ment of drummers injuriously  effects  local 
trade,  Congress may be appealed to to make 
such regulations as the case  may  demand, 
and Congress alone can do  this.  The  con­
fusion  into  which  the  commerce  of  the 
country would be thrown by  being  subject­
ed to state legislation on this subject  would 
be, the court says, but  a  repetition  of  the 
disorder  which  prevailed  under  the  old 
articles of confederation.

Tribute to the Traveler.

They may be classed  as the skirmish line 
of her  prosperity,  for upon  them  devolves 
the duty of advancing  to  the  front,  to  ex­
plore the field  and  report  the  position and 
condition of  trade, they are  the private sol­
diers of commerce,  whose  fidelity and  pat­
riotism  are never  doubted.  They are  ever 
advancing,  never retreating,  and, while the 
glory of success  is  seldom  accorded  them 
still they are,  like  the  well-disciplined  sol 
dier,  the prime factors of the success of tiie 
commander or principal who plans the com 
mercial  enterprises  which  they  represent 
Jack can give  no  better  illustration  of  the 
virtues  and  usefulness  of  the  commercial 
traveler than  to quote  from  an  address de 
livered recently before a  convention  of  the 
craft,  in which it  was  said of  the  commer 
cial traveler:  “I have been with him wher 
business was booming and he rode upon the 
crest  of  the  topmost  wave  of  prosperity 
and  I  have  been  with  him  when  business 
became so dull that lie approached the verge 
of innocuous  desuetude.  We  have  set 
the  smoking  room  of  the  parlor  car  and 
smoked  straight  10  cent  cigars  together, 
when the limited was Hying with  us a  mile 
a minute towards the  wife  and  little  ones 
we loved; and we have wrestled with wheel 
ing stogies together in a caboose of a freight 
train,  when  the  highest  earthly  aspiration 
of that freight train was to take first money 
in the slow mule race.  We have met at th 
depot at 2 o’clock in the morning,  when the 
model foot line  was  four  hours  late,  and 
tiie  thermometer  stood  30  degrees  below 
zero.  We have been on  the  Mississippi to­
gether when tiie steamer was lost in the fog 
and she was  36  hours  overdue  in  the next 
town, and,  besides, we have sweetly roosted 
on  a  bundle  of  shingles  from  the  going 
down of the sun  to the rising thereof,  when 
the  Ohio  river  was  dusty  and  our  little 
craft stuck ou a sand bar all night.  Y et, amid 
all  the  vicissitudes of life,  he,  Mark Tap- 
ley like, has maintained the virtue  of being 
happy under adverse circumstances.  He  is 
a  manufacturer of sunshine  and  puts  large 
blocks of it  into  circulation  that  ‘Old  Sol’ 
doesn’t know anything about.  A physician 
would  label  him  anti-dispeptic,  while  the 
florists  would  classify  him  as a  perpetual 
bloomer,  whose breezy petals begin to  un­
fold themselves early on the morning of the 
first of January, and  close  the last week in 
December.  The pathway of  this life is not 
more  thickly  strewd  with  roses  than  are 
those of the rest  of  humanity, but he has a 
better knowledge of the ways of  this  wick­
ed and windy world,  and knows better than 
his less-traveled brother  how  to  turn unfa­
vorable conditions and circumstances to  his 
advantage.  He goes  around  the  365  mile 
track smiling, with his grip in his left hand, 
while with his right he  shakes the hands of 
the  dear  people,  exchanging  little  pleas­
antries,  instead  of  unloading  his  troubles

and  personal  grievances  upon  them.  He 
has all the elements  of  a  first-class  politi­
cian,  and,  if he ever  runs  for governor,  tiie 
popularity  of  Doc.  Ames  would  sink  into 
insignificance.  If he should berechristianed | mornin 
Giifillan.  and was to make the race for Con­
gress,  the popular Mayor of  St.  Paul would 
get left,  for here is a mixer of the first mag­
nitude.”

The Insurance of the  Future.

From  the Detroit Journal.

“I don’t know anything  about  this  Cole 
insurance bill,” said T.  H.  Hinckman  this 
“but I understand  that it aims  to 
prevent  combinations  among 
insurance 
companies  and  the  making  of  rates  by 
means  of  boards  of  underwriters.  Such 
legislation does not  seem  desirable  to  my 
It is an infringement on  the  rights 
mind. 
of individuals. 
I think  that  combinations 
are bad, but if the  Legislature  can  abolish 
combinations  of  insurance  companies 
it 
may with  equal  justice  abolish  combina­
tions of manufacturers,  and for that matter 
combinations of workingmen.

“The law  might  eventually  be  of  con­
siderable benefit to  the  State.  Two  years 
ago  a  similar  bill  was  almost  passed 
through 
the  Michigan  Legislature.  The 
underwriters threatened  to  withdraw  their 
companies from the State.  This frightened 
the Senate and  the  bill  was  lost. 
If  the 
Cole bill should go  through  I  fancy  many 
of the  insurance  companies  would  with­
draw from the State.

“The cost of  running  a  stock  insurance 
company is very  large.  Managers are paid 
very high salaries,  and  agents  get  an  ab­
surdly large  proportion  of  the  premiums. 
Some of them get as much as  35  per  cent, 
of premiums for new business,  and  taking 
all the agents  and  all  the  companies  to­
gether the agents get 19 per  cent, of the  re­
ceipts.  The cost of operating an  insurance 
company averages  40  per  cent,  of  the  re­
ceipts.  The losses  last  year  averaged  60 
per  cent.  Profits  must  consequently  be 
light. 
If the board of underwriters  is done 
away with the local agents will  immediate­
ly begin to cut each other.  The  companies 
cannot stand  a cut.  Therefore they  would 
be oblidged  to  withdraw  from  the  field. 
The vacuum would soon be filled by mutual 
associations,  organized  by  merchants  and 
manufacturers  for  their  own 
insurance 
only.  They would  employ  no  agents  and 
give no  very  great  salaries.-  Being  much 
cheaper and  not  for  money  making  pur­
poses, the insurance rates  would  be  vastly 
lower.  That is how the people would bene­
fit.

“This is not a new scheme.  An  associa­
tion  of this kind was started in  New  Eng­
land  in  1835.  Twenty  have  since  been 
built up,  only  one  of  which  failed.  The 
average rate of insurance  charged  by  these 
companies is 3-10 of 1 per  cent,  as  against 
an average of  3  per  cent  charged  by  the 
stock companies.  Three  new  associations 
have recently been started  and  five  others 
will soon be started in New  York,  Boston, 
Philadelphia,  Chicago and St. Louis.  There 
are also some  sixty  fanners’  associations. 
These and similar  companies  are  destined 
to revolutionize the insurance business,  and 
at  no  distant  day.  With  or  without  the 
Cole bill,  the stock companies will be oblig­
ed to reduce their expenses,  cut down  their 
rates or be wiped out of  existence. 
I  sup­
pose the passage  of  the  Cole  bill  might 
cause us a good deal of  difficulty  for a year 
or two in getting insurance.”

Stalwart Butter.

Boarding  Housekeeper—I  want 

three 

pounds of table butter.

Provision Dealer—Here  you are,  madam. 
Here is some table butter that I can  recom­
mend. 
It is just the  thing you  want,  and 
it costs only thirteen cents a pound.

Boarding  Housekeeper—Rather  dear, 
isn’t it?  But you say it is  especially  nice. 
What is there about it that  makes  it  pecu­
liar?

Provision  Dealer  (earnestly)—Its  labor- 
saving qualities,  madam—it’s  labor-saving 
qualities.  That butter,  madam,  is perfect­
ly able to help itself without any  attention. 
You put the butter in a dish upon the table, 
and you will see it distribute  itself,  a piece 
upon the  plate  of  every  boarder  without 
missing a single one.  There is nothing  ef­
feminate  about  the  butter,  madam.  And 
it costs only thirteen cents a pound!

Reason in Religion.

Omaha g irl—Your  fa m ily   a re   U n itarian s, 

a re  they not?

New York  girl—We  were,  but  ma  and I 
have  joined  the  Episcopalians.  We like 
their forms better.

“The forms?”
“Yes; yon are up and down so much your 

dress doesn’t get crumpled you know.”

A recent decision of  the  Supreme  Court 
says that no  city  or  town  has a right to li­
cense any man to sell his wares or merchan­
dise  in  front  of  another  man’s  property. 
The street in front of  his  property or  place 
of  business  is  the  appurtenances  thereto 
and for  the especial use  of  the owner only, 
against the rights  of  all  others  except  to 
travel therein.  This decision  will result in 
shutting  out  street  venders  and  hawkers, 
unless  they  can- arrange  matters  with  the 
owners  of  the  property  before  which  they 
can expose their wares for sale.

An  Albany newspaper  tells  of  a  tramp 
who  recently  asked  a  merchant  for  ten 
cents.  The  merchant  replied:  “I  do  not 
care to give you money, but if you will step 
into this restaurant I  will  pay  for  a  steak 
and some  hot  potatoes for  yon.”  He  was 
somewhat surprised when the tramp replied: 
“Well,  sir,  I don’t want the  ten  cents  for 
victuals. 
I want to buy a  drink.  Another 
thing, you’re no  gentleman to  ask a man to 
eat meat in Lent.  That  ain’t my religion.”

The commercial  traveler is a very numer­
ous individual;  so  much  so,  that,  if  the 
American  delegation  were  to  march past a 
given point four abreast in proper time, and 
at correct distances, you would be compelled 
to stand thirty-six hours before  the  end  of 
the processiou passed you.  He  is  tiie  me­
dium  through  which  fully  40  per  cent,  of 
the business of  the United  States  is  tran­
sacted.  He is a brother of tiie lightning ex­
press and its locomotive, that literally hurls 
commerce from one  end  of this  great coun­
try to tiie other.  He  is  first  cousin of  the 
telegraph,  that  flashes through from  conti­
nent to continent.  He is a blood relative to 
telephone and caligraph,  a child of the same 
mother,  necessity,  and  just  as  useful  as 
either of them.  The  commercial traveler is 
a gentleman in dress and manner,  forced by 
the nature of  his  occupation  to  be such,  if 
not  already  so  by  inclination.  You  will 
find in liis home the elements  of  happiness 
and  of  comfort.  The  sun  shines  straight 
down his chimney.  Tiie queen of his house­
hold is worthy of  the  highest  compliments 
which man  can  best  bestow  upon  her,  tiie 
same mother.  He never  loafs  around  the 
corner and whittles up the boxes in front of 
the stores.  He never gets on  a strike, but, 
when differences arise between himself and 
his  employer, he  is  intelligent  enough  to 
know that  their  interests  are  mutual; and, 
instead of  writing for Grand  Master Work­
man Powderly,  or  tiie  executive  board  of 
the Knights  of  Labor to  come  aud  adjust 
their differences, he just  writes  “jE  Pluri- 
bus  Unum” all  over  his  face,  and,  with 
freedom’s soil beneath his feet and freedom’s 
banner  waving  o’er  him,  lie  proceeds  to 
move on the works of his  house.  They,  in 
their  turn,  recognize  that  the  interests  of 
their commercial traveler and  their own are 
one.  The result  is,  they have a conference 
in  the  back  office,  and  it’s  a  “cold  day” 
when our man  gets  left.  Generally he has 
his salary raised two or three  hundred  dol­
lars,  has  two  or  three  new  towns  on  his 
route that he has been  wanting for the past 
three years and  has  arrangements made for 
a  vacation  in  August.  The  commercial 
traveler  is  sober,  honest  and  industrious.
He is liberal to a fault.  His friends are as the 
sands of the sea.  He  is  diplomatic enough 
to keep solid  with  the  whole  world.  His 
mission  will  end  where  the milennium be­
gins.  So let the  city we  love  so  well  re­
member in her  joy and pride that  the  com­
mercial  travelers  within  her  borders  are 
part  and  parcel  of  her  prosperity;  and, 
when the happy greetings  of  the  new-born 
year are passed  around,  may  she  place one 
laurel  at  the  feet  of  the  busy  men  who 
herald supremacy to the outside world.
“ The W andering  Merchant.”

Among the great names in the mercantile 
world early in the  present century was that 
of Yincent  Nolte,  better  known  as  “ the 
wandering  merchant.”  Born  iu  Leghorn, 
he began life as a  banker’s clerk.  He gave 
the  greater  part  of  his  time  to  drawing 
caricatures and  high  living.  At the age of 
16  he  found  himself  possessed  of a ward­
robe consisting  of  twelve coats and twenty 
pairs of hose and trousers,  then just coming 
into fashion.  His  financial  standing was 
represented  by  a  tailor’s  bill to match his 
clothes.  He saw Bonaparte  at Leghorn, in 
1796; was in Paris with Wellington in 1815; 
fought  under  Jackson  at  New  Orleans,  in 
1814, and was with  Lafayette in Paris dur­
ing the revolution of  1830. 
In  his day he 
was  known  as  the  giant  of cotton  specu­
lation;  he  was  a  contracter  for  supplying 
the French army  with muskets;  he was the 
mercantile agent  in  the  United  States and 
Cuba  for  the  great  Amsterdam  house  of 
Hope & Co.;  was the agent of the Barings; 
was a translator of  manuscripts  in Venice; 
was a writer on finance and  an  editor;  and 
in whatever  he  undertook  he was success­
ful.

Patriotism and Chicory.

Once a deputation of  wholesale dealers in 
coffee waited on Mr.  Gladstone,  presented 
their humble petition,  showing  how chicord 
imperiled the  British  constitution  and the | 
advantages which would accrue  to the reve­
nue.  The agitation ended  by an augmenta­
tion of duty on  chicory  of  100  per  cent. 
There was a very good  wire  pulled in this 
chicory  business,  which,  of  course,  Mr. 
Gladstone knew  nothing  about.  A clever 
importer of chicory  entertained the  idea of 
making a fortune at a single  stroke,  and he 
did  it. 
It  was  tiiis  importer  who  had 
bought up all the chicory lie could  find,  and 
had stored it away,  paying the old low duty. 
Then the duty was  increased  100 per cent. 
According to his own statement lie made no 
less than $350,000,  and just as much chicory 
went into an Englishman’s cup  of  coffee as 
before.

“Yes,” said Fogg,  “as  a  success  I  have 
always been a failure, but as a failure 1 have 
been an unqualified success.

GROCERS’  REFRIGERATORS,
O.  M.  WHITMAN  &  CO.,

Manufactured by

99  Bristol  Street. 

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BOSTON,  MASS.

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FRESH FISH

Bought  and Sold by

FRANK  J. DETTENTHALER,

117 Monroe St., Grand Rapids.

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For  Sale  or  Exchange.

A factory fully equipped with wood work­
ing Machinery—good Brick Buildings—am­
ple grounds—good shipping  facilities—well 
located in a thriving  City  in  Illinois—will 
be sold at a bargain,  or  exchange  for other 
property—a  rare  chance.  Correspondence 
solicited; address “Factory” this paper.

Full  outfits  for  the  Collection  Depart­
ment of a Business Men’s Association, con­
taining all the late improvements, supplied 
to order for $ 13.  The outfit comprises: 
1,000 “Blue Letter”  Notification  Sheets, 

for member's use.

500 Copyrighted Record Blanks,
500 Association Notification  Sheets, and 
500  Envelopes.
Money can be sent by  draft,  post-office 
or express order.
Fuller & Stowe Company,

49 Lyon Street, 

-  Grand Rapids, Mich.

PORTABLE A N D  STATIONARY
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From 2 to 130 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw  Mills 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft 
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts  made  for 
Complete Outfits.

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AGENTS—A. Flesch,  118  Randolph  St..  Chicago, 111. 
W illiam  M. M organ. 215  Duane St., N.  Emil  W ienert, 
Albany, N. Y.  G ardiner Bros., St. Augustine, Fla.

FODBTH NATIONAL B l l

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A.  J.  Bowne, President.

Geo.  C. P ierce,  Vice President.

H. P. B a k e r , Cashier.
CAPITAL,  -  -  -  $300,000.

Transacts a general  banking business.

Make  a  Specialty of Collections, 
of Country  M erchants Solic

Accounts
ited.

GERMAN  |L.  Winternitz,
MUSTARD. iGrand  Rapids, Mich

STEAM  LAUNDRY,

43 and 45 Kent Street.

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

CHEMICALS.

|  Orders  by  Mail  and  Express  Promptly  At- 
I tended  to.

C.  BUNTING

BUNTING
Commission

C.  L.  DAVli

&  DAVIS,
Merchants.

Specialties:  Apples and Potatoes in  Car Lots.

20 and 22 OTTAWA  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

m anufacturing  matters,

Sullivan—Klise & Son are building a new 

Formal Announcement  of  T.  P.  A. 

vention.

sawmill.

Dexter—A.  P.  Ferguson,  wagon  maker, 

To the T. P. A. men of Michigan:

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantile and Maimfacturing Interests of Hie State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  27,  1887.

G rand R apids Traveling Men’s Association.
President,  L.  M. Mills;  Vice-President, 8. A .Sears;  8ec- 
V retary  and T reasurer, Geo. H. Seymour;  Board o fln - 
rectors, H. S. Robertson,  Geo.  F.  Owen,  J.  N.  Brad 
ford, A. B. Col* and Win. Logie._________________ _
Subscribers aud others.  w^en waiting 
to  advertisers, will confer a favor on tiiepub
Ushers by m entioning that they saw the adver­
tisement in the columns of  this paper.

In the light of the  dishonorable  methods 
pursued by the insurance  companies  in set­
tling the loss ©f Messrs.  Pingree  &  Smith, 
at Detroit,  the statement of “Country  Mer­
chant” to the  effect  that a policy in a stock
company is a  “safe investment” is  open  to
criticism.  The Investment is  safe  as  long 
as the transaction  is  confined  to  the  pay­
ment of premiums, but let a  fire  result in a 
partial or total loss and  the situation imme­
diately  undergoes  a  change. 
Instead  of 
recognizing the  local  agent,  the  company 
sends on its adjuster, who is  usually an ill- 
mannered bully, wholly  devoid  of decency. 
This person delights in uttering all  manner 
of accusations against the  insured,  in brow­
beating and  contradicting,  and  in  making 
life  a burden as long as he  remains  m  the 
place.  After enduring the  follow’s  insults 
and insinuations for several days, the unfor­
tunate agrees to take several hundred dollars 
less than his policy calls  for,  for  the  sake 
of ridding himself of  a  man  who  is  little 
.  above the level of the brute.  Ail Insurance 
adjusters are not of the character above  de­
scribed,  but  fully  three-quarters  of  them 
match the description given.  Why  the  in­
surance companies employ  such men to set­
tle their losses,  is a question that has  never 
been answered.  They earn their wages,  no 
doubt,  in beating down estimates and state­
ments of losses, but they put their  employ­
ers in such  an  unenviable  light  that  the 
companies interested never afterward  get  a 
cent’s worth of insurance from  the  insured 
or any  one acquainted  witli  the  merits  of 
the case.

Trustworthy advises from Lansing assure 
The  T r a d e s m a n   that  the  advocates  of 
board insurance have concentrated  a  lobby 
there which is sure to defeat the Cole bill in 
the  Senate,  unless  prompt  measures  are 
taken by the business  men  to  offset the in­
ti uence  of the corruptionists.  As  has been 
the case when  legislation  of  this  kind has 
been  previously  undertaken, the  represen­
tatives of the insurance  monopoly are  sup­
plied  with all the financial  assistance need 
ed to  compass  the  opposition or apathy  of 
men who are  susceptible  to  bribery.  Peti 
tions will go into the Legislature this  week 
from every Business Men’s Association in the 
State,  praying for  the  passage  of  the bill 
and  individual  letters  from  representativi 
men would have a salutary effect.

The bill providing for  the  establishment 
of a Laboratory of Hygiene passed the Senate 
on April 20  and is now  before  the  House. 
All business who feel so inclined—and every 
man in  the  State  would  be  benefitted  by 
such an institution—should write His Repre­
sentative  immediately,  requesting favorable 
action on the measure.

A man who refuses  to  join an  organiza 
tion which lias  for its  principal  object  the 
building up of  the  community in which  lie 
lives is guilty of treason to the town.  Such 
a man is  always ready to  participate In  all 
benefits  secured  by  his  brethren, without 
rendering any service in return.

The Grand  Rapids  Telegram-Herald  re 
produces an article from the pen of Soliman 
Snooks, without the  slightest  reference 
T he T radesm an,  which  paid  for the con 
tribution and ought to be  entitled  to  some 
credit in sucli connection.  Such is so-called 
“metropolitan journalism.”

The W hy and Wherefore.

During the  past  six  weeks,  readers  < 
The T radesm an will have  noticed  that 
sale  of  unclaimed  government  lands  has 
been announced in the advertising columns. 
While in Reed City the other day,  the editor 
of T he  T radesm an  called  at  the  U .  S. 
Land Office and asked why this  paper  was 
given the preference over any other  journal 
in the State. 
In reply.  Register Clark said: 
“We were ordered by Commissioner Sparks 
to place the advertisement in the paper hav­
ing the largest circulation  in  this  district. 
We looked the  field  over  thoroughly  and 
fouud that T he T radesm an  was  entitled 
to that  distinction.  We  merely  followed 
instructions from Washington.”
Mr. Steele’s Rejoiner on the Calf Question.

T raverse City,  April 23,  1887.

B. A. Stowe, Grand  Rapids.
D ea r  Sir—Since  President  Hamilton 
gave my Jersey calf  such a free  ad.  in  last 
week’s T radesm an,  the  calf  has  been do­
ing  well—price  advanced  810.  Everybody 
reads  T he  Tradesm an,  except  hens. 
They will not look it over for fear of expos­
ure in their  egg  adulterations.  Found  one 
this morning full of air on one end.
Hope the time will come  when food adul­
terations will be  confined  to  Jersey  calves 
and Presidents of Business  Men’s  Associa­
tions.  Happy day then!

Yours sometimes,

. Geo.  E.  Steele.

Broker Bunting sold 1,500 cases of Harm- 
burg  canned  goods  to  Cody,  Ball,  Barn­
hart & Co. one day last week.

AMONG THE  TRADE.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

P. J.  Schroeffel succeeds the  Spa Bottling

Co. 

____________ _

Eugene Carpenter, grocer, has been closed 

on chattel mortgage.

J.  L.  Davis is  now  located  in  the  com­

mission business at 33 Ottawa street.

Herman H.  Idema  succeeds C.  Frederick 
Idema in the loan and pawn  shop  business 
at 56 Lyon  street.

I.  Gibson lias engaged in the grocery bus­
iness  at  Petoskey.  Arthur  Meigs  &  Co. 
furnished the stock.

A.  Kenyon  has  engaged  in  the  grocery 
business  at  115  Broadway.  Clark,  Jewell 
& Co.  furnished the stock.

Hedley & Son have engaged in the grocery 
business  at Wayland.  Bulkley,  Lemon  & 
Hoops furnished the stock.

M. E.  Curtiss lias  engaged  in the grocery 
business  at  Edmore.  Bulkley,  Lemon  & 
Hoops furnished the stock.

G. W.  Robinson  lias  engaged  in the gro­
cery business at Edgerton.  Bulkley, Lemon 
& Hoops furnished the stock.

Joseph McKay has  engaged  in  the  gro­
cery  business  at  Central  Lake.  Bulkley, 
Lemon & Hoops furnished the stock.

D.  C. Leggett has  put in  a  grocery stock 
on one side of  his  brother’s  drug  store  at 
Paris.  The stock was purchased here.

F.  Wingarden  and  M.  W.  Cook  have 
formed a copartnership under the firm name 
of Wingarden &  Cook and  engaged  in  the 
commission business at 30  Waterloo  street.

AROUND  TIIE  STATE.
;—E.  M.  Esselstyn,  grocer, has

Lausin 
sold out.

Battle Creek—Chas.  Binder  lias sold out 

his meat business.

Battle Creek—Robert Nevin has  disposed 

of his meat business.

Muskegon—K.  Mulder  has  bought  D 

Mulder’s grocery stock.

Coloma—R. R.  Hewson’s  general  stock 

has been destroyed by fire.

Luther—E.  A.  Hudson  has  bought  the 

meat business of E.  Morgan.

Ionia—John L.  Taylor will  shortly re-en­

gage in the grocery business.

Ann Arbor—Niles H.  Winans has bought 

J.  A.  Brown’s grocery stock.

Burnside—John G.  Bruce  &  Co.  succeed 

John G.  Bruce in general trade.

man,  has become insane and is now confined 
at the Pontiac asylum.

Evart—Mark Ardis  has sold  his  general 
stock to David  Redmond.  Mr.  Ardis  will 
continue the banking business.

Reed City—Rlckerd  &  Johnson  succeed 
C. W.  Riekerd in the manufacture  of cigars 
and the retail tobacco business.

Boyne  Falls—J.  C.  McFellin  succeeds 
McFellin & Co.  in  general  trade,  and  has 
moved the stock to Boyne City.

Hart—C.B. Williams  has  sold  his  gro­
cery stock to  C.  Slaght.  He  will  close out 
his flour and feed stock and retire from bus­
iness.

Elwell—G. A.  Keller & Son  have  moved 
their grocery and dry goods stocks to Breck- 
enridge.

Reed City—John W.  Densmore  is remod­
eling the* interior of  his store by cutting an 
archway between the dry goods and grocery 
departments.

Reed City—W.  H. Hawkins has purchas­
ed the interest of his brother in the  grocery 
firm of  Hawkins  Bros.  The  change  will 
occur May 1.

Luther—J. E.  Whiting, formerly engaged 
in the wagon making business at McBrides, 
has opened a hardware store,  with  tin shop 
in connection.

Casnovia—Johnny  Bowen,  late  of  Kent 
City,  has leased the Neff  House  and  takes 
possession May 1.  O.  H. Tuxbury,  also  of 
Kent City, will run the livery stable in con­
nection.

Hastings—Dr. J. A. Baughman and Wm. 
Buell  have  formed  a  copartnership  under 
the firm  name  of  Baughman  &  Buell  and 
purchased  the  drug  and  jewelry  stock  of 
A.  R. McOmber.

Reed  City—II.  H.  Freedman  &  Co. will 
soon remove their cigar  factory to the  new 
Stieg building,  on  the  opposite  side  of  the 
street, when they  will  increase  their work­
ing force from eighteen to thirty men.

Nashville—L.  J.  Wilson,  formerly  en­
gaged in the  grocery business  here,  but  for 
the  past  six  months  engaged  in  farming, 
has again returned  to the  grocery business 
at the same old stand.  The stock was pur­
chased at this market.

Luther—Rice R. Miner  &  Co.,  who  en­
gaged in  general  trade  about  two  months 
ago, as successors  to  the  Luther  Chemical 
& Lumber  Co.,  are  closing  out  the  stock. 
Mr.  Miner will go to Kansas City as partner 
and department manager  in  the  wholesale 
dry goods house to be established  there  by 
J. K. Burnham & Co., of Detroit.

STRAY  FACTS.

Saugatuck—A bank is  to  be  established 

Morrice—G.  W.  Mells  succeeds  D.  B. 

here.

Holmes in the grocery business.

Leonard—A.  Hazelton  &  Co.  succeed 

open a furniture store.

Muskegon—James Balbirnie  will  shortly 

Rochester—Wilson Bros,  have sold  their 

lllen Hazelton in general trade.

some business block this season.

Saline—E.  W. Walker will  erect  a hand­

flouring mill for 88,500.

Milford—P.  Bryne  succeeds  Begole,  Fox 

Onondaga—Godding  &  Wilcox  succeed 

& Co. in the lumber business.

W.  S.  Hart in the drug business.

Bronson—G. W. Watkins  succeeds  Silk- 

worth & Watkins in general trade.

Cadillac—Wm.  Kennedy  succeeds  Ken­

nedy Bros,  in the grocery business.

Detroit—J.  D. Baker succeeds J. D. Baker 

& Co.  in the book binding business.

Menominee—Mrs, E. S. Dalton has bought 

the grocery stock of Young & Dalton.

Judd’s Corners—Henry Cameron,  general 

dealer, has been closed on attachment.

Portland—W.  M.  Elder  succeeds  Elder 

Bros,  in the grocery and drug business.

Detroit—John C. Hartz succeeds Hartz  & 

Kemaglian in the hat and cap business.

Milford—Wilson &  McMahon,  dry goods 

dealers,  have dissolved, each continuing.

Wayne—Obed  Coy  succeeds  W.  W. 
Southee in the grocery and notion business.
Caro—A.  C.  Young  &  Co.,  general deal­
ers, has dissolved and gone out of business, 
Wayne—J. W. Booth,  grocer  and  dealer 
in notions,  has sold  out to Alex.  Meldrum.
succeed 
Harris & McCarthy in the grocery business.
Coloma—Vincent  &  Gammer,  grocers, 
have dissolved, Vincent &  Wright succeed­
ing.

Lansing—Goodnow  &  Field 

Alma—II. B.  Waldby & Co.  succeed  Pol- 
lasky,  Waldby & Co.  in  the banking  busi­
ness.

Jackson—Caldwell  &  Sherick  succeed 
Benj.  Caldwell in the boot  and  shoe  bus! 
ness.

Caro—A. C.  Young & Co.,  general  deal­
ers,  have dissolved  and  gone  out  of  busi­
ness.

Reed City—Baker & Norman have bought 
E.  C. Bradley’s stationery and confectionery 
stock.

Hamilton—Dangremoiul  &  Nykerk  are 
to  their  hardware 

building  an  addition 
store.

Detroit—Burnham, Stoepel & Co. succeed 
J.  K. Burnham & Co.,  wholesale  dry goods 
dealers.

East Tawas—Emerson &  Tighe,  grocer 
and feed dealers,  have  dissolved,  Emerson 
succeeding.

Battle Creek—Rupert & Estelle, flour and 
feed dealers,  have dissolved, Estelle  &  Co, 
succeeding.

Milton Junction—Geo. Reed is closing out 
his grocery  stock,  preparatory  to  retiring 
from business.

Scottsville—Higgins  &  Allen,  the  drug 
gists, will shortly dissolve partnership,  Mr, 
Higgins succeeding.

Battle  Creek—Herman  Raible.  late  of 
Kalamazoo, has taken a position  as clerk in 
J.  Helmer’s drug store.

West  Chester—Dr.  R.  Gibbs,  of  Six Cor 
ners,  will erect a building here  and  engage 
in the grocery business.

Luther—F.  C. Langerwisch has purchased 
the jewelry stock  of  F. J.  Fletcher, posses' 
sion to be given May 1.

Linden—L.  B.  Hyatt,  a  leading  business

Coopersville—John and  August  Busman 

have engaged in the meat business.

Evart—T.  W.  Atkinson  and  R.  Massey 

are about to open a cigar factory.

Casnovia—F.  E.  Ackerman  has  moved 

the Kent City Herald to this place.

Charlevoix—Jas. A.  Gellick succeeds Gel 

lick & Ingalls in the saloon  business.

Sand  Lake—Thos.  Olds  has  opened  i 

restaurant in the B. F.  Lewis  building.

East  Saginaw—Lewis  C. Slade  succeeds 

Stephens & Slade in the lumber business.

Onondaga—Geo. Murray  has  moved  his 

harness business here from Vermontville.

Casnovia—Mrs. F. II. Bunker has engaged 
in  the  millinery aud fancy goods business 
Saranac—John P.  Anderson  will  shortly 
open an agricultural  implement warehouse, 
Owosso—Smeadley&Co.,  wholesale  beer 
dealers,  have been closed  on  chattel  mort­
gage.

Muskegon—Hovey,  McCracken  &  Co. 
sawmill was the first to start up for the sea 
son at this point

Manistee—D. Turnbull,  of  Chicago,  has 
purchased an interest in the  meat  business 
of L.  N.  Roussin.

Wiiliamsburg—1The pine logs  from  John 
Torrent’s camp are to  be  taken  to  Board 
man river or a pole road.

North Muskegon—The terra cotta  works 
at Pullman have again contracted for all the 
sawdust from Gow,  Majo & Co.’s mill.

Lansing—Farrand & Rogers have merged 
their business into a  stock  company  under 
the style of  the Michigan  Condensed  Milk 
Company.

Luther—Frank  Breese  has  purchased  a 
half interest in the grain  and  6eed  busines 
of R. M.  Smith.  The new  firm  is  known 
as Smith & Breese.

Byron  Center—Agents  for  the  Detroit 
wholesale  grocery  house  which  makes  a 
practice of  canvassing  among  farmers  are 
infesting this locality.

Muskegon—A Brush  electric  light  plant 
is being put into  the  Petrie  Lumber  Co.’s 
mill.  They expect  to  run  night  and  day 
throughout the season.

Menominee—1The Doherty-Baars  Lumber 
Co. state that  this  year’s  cut  will  be  the 
largest cut ever made.  Their  mill has been 
thoroughly  repaired  and  its  capacity  in­
creased.

Rockford—Morrison  Beardslee, 

the
Waterford cider and  vinegar manufacturer, 
will put in a  power  cider  press  here  this 
fall and manufacture  several  hundred  bar­
rels for his G.  R.  &  I.  trade,  making  all 
shipments from here.

Holland—The  Waverly  Stone  Co.  has 
been  organized  with  a  capital  stock  of 
825,000, to  operate the  stone  quarries  one 
mile east of  here.  The officers  are:  Presi­
dent,  H.  D.  Post;  Vice-President,  Adrian 
Yates;  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  O.  E. 
Yates.  The  sandstone  is  pronounced  by 
experts to be the best in Michigan.

has removed to Ann Arbor.

Ypsilanti—The  dress-stay  factory  gives 

employment to seventy-three persons.

Charlevoix—F.  J.  Meech  succeeds  A. 
Buttars as superintendent of the Charlevoix 
Manufacturing Co.

Mancelona—Harvey Eastman lias  bought 
a half interest  in the  business of the  Man­
celona Handle Co.

St.  Louis—W.  W.  Starkey,  proprietor 
pail and tub factory,  is succeeded by the  St. 
Louis Wooden ware Co.

North  Muskegon—S.  H.  Gray  &  Co.’s 
mill,  which is  being  moved  from Big Rap­
ids, is nearly ready to begin operations.

Muskegon—Barker &  Akeley’s  mill  has 
been supplied with electric  lights  and  will 
run night and  day  throughout  the  entire 
season.

Fremont—J.  B.  Jewell  has  purchased 
the interest of C. H.  Cook  in  the  sawmill 
firm of  Darling  &  Cook.  The  new  firm 
will be known as Darling & Jewell.

St.  Louis—Dunham  &  Co.,  of  Stanton, 
have located here and are  prepared to man­
ufacture sewing machine  crate,  paper  pail 
racks, barbed wire reels, etc., utilizing all the 
slabs and waste lumber  from  the  mills  iu 
the  village.

Purely Personal.

“Flick” Hastings refused an offer of 

?500

for his  “Sultan” on Monday.

Frank Jewell  and  wife  are  home  from 

California,  where they spent the winter.

The grocery business must be good.  Sam­
uel M.  Lemon  is  out  witli  a  860  suit  of 
clothes.

E. Mortlock,  representing  H. Hitchcock, 
Son & Co., of Detroit,  was in  town one day 
last week.

J.  Locke, of the firm  of  Arey,  Maddock 
& Locke,  tanners  of  Boston,  was  in  town 
over Sunday.

Christian Bertsch  left  to-day  for  a  two 
weeks’  buying  expedition  in  the  eastern 
shoe manufacturing markets.

C.  E.  Olney  started  last  Thursday  for 
Thompson,  Conn.,  where  he is  spending a 
week with friends of his childhood days.

Amos.  S.  Musselman went to Hungerford 
Monday to sell the C. Tyler  grocery’  stock, 
which he recently foreclosed on a mortgage.
Harry  Gregory, late  with  Emnet  Ilaga- 
dom,  at  Fife  Lake,  succeeds B. J. Robert­
son as billing clerk for  Arthur Meigs & Co, 
Herman Spitz, of  the  Barnhart  &  Spitz 
Manufacturing  Co.,  of  Chicago, 
spent 
the  Sabbath  with  his  brother,  L.  Winter 
nitz.
W.  B. Tyler, late with  J.  W.  Schermer 
horn, at Nottawa, has taken  a  position as 
salesman with E.  P. Kidder & Co.,  of  this 
city.
B. J.  Robertson lias resigned  the position 
of billing clerk 40r  Arthur Meigs & Co. and 
has  re-engaged  in  the  drug  business  at 
Breedsville.

Wm.  and Wm. A.  Wilcox, of  the Wilson 
Manufacturing  Co., of  Garrettsville,  Ohio, 
are in the city for  the  purpose  of  investi­
gating  the  advisability  to  removing  their 
business to this place.  The remaining part­
ner,  C. L.  Wilson,  will join them to-day.

E.  Trump, the  Reed City dry goods deal­
er, leaves about May 1 for an  extended trip 
to California.  While in Denver, he will con­
sider  the  advisability  of  disposing  of  his 
real estate there,  for  which  lie  is offered  a 
handsome advance over the purchase  price.

Organization Observations.

Vermontville Echo:  The Business Men’s 
Association is  bringing  the  chronic  delin­
quent to the  realization  that it is  better to 
pay cash or go without.

The Ann Arbor  Business  Men’s Associa­
tion will erect a building 20x124, two stories 
high,  for  Bullis’ capsule  factory.  This  in­
stitution will give employment to forty per­
sons.
Waukesha,  Wis.,  merchants are consider­
ing the  idea  of  organizing  an  association 
and  have  sent  to  the  Michigan  Business 
Men’s  Association for full  particulars  and 
sample blanks, both of which have been fur­
nished.
Julius Schuster,  of Kalamazoo,  Treasurer 
of the  Michigan  Business  Men’s  Associa­
tion,  is  undergoing  treatment  for  rheuma­
tism at Mt.  Clemeus, from whicli disease iie 
lias been a great  sufferer.  Late  reports as 
to his condition are  not  as  encouraging  as 
could be desired.

The members of  the  Plainwell  Business 
Men’s Association have agreed to close their 
places of business  at  8:30  p.  m.  from May 
1 to Sept.  1 and  at  7 p. m.  from  Sept.  1 to 
May 1.  A bell will be rung at  the appoint­
ed time,  when every key will  be  turned  in 
the doors.

The Beldiug Merchants’  Association,  fif­
teen strong, lias united witli the  State body 
and the Cheboygan Business  Men’s  Protec­
tive  Union  has 
remitted  per  capita 
dues on twenty  additional  members, mak­
ing a total membership  of  sixty-one.  The 
•State body  now  comprises  1,855  business 
men,  which  number  will  probably  be  in­
creased to 3,000 by  the  September  conven­
tion, 
“Coming Events Cast  Their Shadows B e­

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fore.”

Manufacturers  of  corkscrews  and  other 
varieties of bar goods  are  flooding the drug 
trade of the  State  with  circulars  and price 
lists.  The action contemplated by the Leg­
islate lias evidently reached headquarters.

“Mr. Rindge’s  suggestion relative  to the 
advisability of keeping a  railway register is 
all right,” said  H.  A.  Lamos  the other day. 
“I’ll keep the book free  gratis for nothing, 
if some one will furnish the book.”

B attle Creek,  April 21,  1887.

The annual State convention of the Mich­
igan Division  of  the  Travelers’  Protective 
Association will be held in the city of Grand 
Rapids,  on  Friday  and  Saturday,  May  13 
and 14.  The annual  State  banquet will be 
held  on  Friday  evening,  May  13.  The 
Ladies T.  P.  A.  Legion of Honor  will  also 
meet in conjunction.  The  convention  will 
open at 10 a.  m., Friday, and  that  day will 
be devoted to conventional work; Saturday to 
the election of State officers and the election 
of delegates to the  National  convention  to 
be held in June.  Ample  provision  will  be 
made for the accommodation of all who will 
be in attendance.  Staje announcement will 
be made during the  coming  week in regard 
to rates and  special  arrangements.  Repre­
sentatives from many of the State Divisions 
will be present,  including the President and 
Secretary of  the National  Association  aud 
several of the National officers.  The list of 
distinguished guests in attendance  will  in­
clude His Excellency,  Governor  Luce, Gen­
eral Russell  A.  Alger  and  ladies  and  the 
National  Senators  and  Congressmen  of 
Michigan.  All  members  and  their  wives 
are especially invited,  and all visiting mem­
bers and commercial  travelers  will  be  wel­
comed.  State Secretary Mills  will mail no­
tices of  meeting to  all  State  members,  and 
it is hoped that all will  feel  the importance 
of attending and also of  notifying the State 
Secretary at once of their acceptance,  to en­
able the  committee  to  make  estimates and 
perfect arrangements.  All communications 
can be addressed to  L.  M.  Mills,  State  Sec­
retary, 568 Weaitliy avenue,  Grand  Rapids, 
or to A.  F.  Peake,  Chairman State Commit­
tee of Arrangements,  Jackson.

L.  M. Mills, 

C.  S.  K e l s e y , 

Sec’y. 

Pres.

committees  appo inted.

The following committees  have been  ap­
pointed to  complete  the  arrangements  for 
the convention:

On Finance—Geo. F.  Owen, L.  M.  Mills, 

A.  D.  Baker.

On  Arrangements—L.  M.  Mills,  J.  N. 

Bradford,  A. B.  Cole,  Leo A.  Caro.

On  Decoration—Ed.  P.  Andrew,  C.  L. 

Love,  N.  Y.  Barclay,  C.  E.  Watson.

On Invitation—E.  A.  Stowe,  L.  M. Mills, 

Geo.  F. Owen.

On Banquet—H.  S.  Robertson,  Geo.  W. 
McKay, A.  B. Cole, Joe F.  O.  Reed, A.  L. 
Braisted.

On Reception—The  following  gentlemen 
aud their ladies:  Messrs.  W.  H.  Jennings, 
Wm. Logie, Frank H.  White,  D.  S.  Haugh, 
W.  S. Horn,  L.  C.  Bradford,  C.  I.  Peck, 
E.  E.  Wooley,  Geo.  II.  Seymour,  W.  H.  H. 
Smith,  Stephen A.  Sears,  C.  S. Wilcox.

The  hall  of  Valley  City  Council,  ou 
Waterloo street, has  been  engrged  for  the 
sessions of the convention and arrangements 
have  been  made  to  give  the  banquet  at 
Sweet’s  Hotel. 
Invitations  will  shortly 
be issued during the coming week.

The Gripsack Brigade.

Jerry Woltman  has  severed  his  cornu 

tion with Bulkley,  Lemon & Hoops.

J. T.  Avery,  with  Jennings  &  Smith,  is 
visiting  the  Upper  Peninsula  trade  this 
week.

O. P.  Pindell, President  of  the T.  P. A. 
of the U.  S.,  arrived  in  the  city  Monday, 
and will remain here several days.

A.  L.  Lay, general  traveling  representa­
tive for the  Michigan  Buggy Co., of  Kala 
mazoo,  is in town for a day or two.

J.  L.  Strelitsky, State  agent  for  “Lucky 
Star,”  started  out  on  an  extended  trip 
through Northern Michigan  Monday.

A.  W. Newark,  Cody,  Ball,  Barnhart & 
Co.’s new traveler, begins his perigrination 
in the Upper Peninsula next week.

Merchants in  towns  in  which  midnight 
trains are a  special  feature  testify  to  Dr, 
Frank  E.  Ciiase’s  admirable  penchant for 
entertaining.

It  is  reported  that  Trunk  Manipulator 
Babcock, J.  K.  Burnham & Co.’s new G.  R 
& I.  traveler is 830 poorer  by  reason  of 
bet made at East Jordan on election day.

A.  D.  Estabrook,  formerly  express  mes 
senger for the U.  S.  Express Co.,  is now on 
the road for the  Powers  &  Walker  Casket 
Co.  His  territory  lies  in  Northern Miclii 
gan and Wisconsin.

C. S. Kelsey, President of  Michigan Div 
ision,  T.  P.  A.,  spent  Monday  in  Grand 
Rapids,  assisting  the  local  committee  on 
arrangements in arranging the preliminaries 
for the coming State  convention.
'John C, Souther, for several years past gen 
eral traveling representative for  Earl  Bros, 
the  well-known South  Water  street  com 
mission merchants,  unites his fortunes with 
Alex.  Fisli & Co. on May  1.  Messrs.  Fish 
&  Co.  are to be congratulated.

D. S.  Haugh writes T iie  T radesm an  as 
follows:  “Capt. J.  N.  Bradford is  a  little
too previous in accusing me of proposing tiie 
trip  to New Orleans. 
It will be  pistols  at 
If my memory  serves me right, 
ten paces. 
it  was  Charles  Saltpork  Robinson  who 
sprung the New Orleans hegira.”

D. G.  Crotty,  the  Muskegon  flour  man, 
is gratified at tiie manner in which he is be­
ing treated by the G.  R.  &  I.  Railway,  in 
consequence of the injuries he received dur­
ing an accident ou the Luther branch.  Tiie 
company  paid all the  expenses  incident  to 
the injury  and  informed  Mr.  Crotty  that 
when he was ready to settle,  it  would  not 
be necessary for him to  invoke  the  aid  of 
the courts.  The condition of the  road  bed 
on the branch in  question  is  not  such  as 
would warrant much defense in  a  suit  for 
damages.

Importers anfl Mannfactnrers’ Apts,

D E A L E R S   IN

Crockery, China, Glassware,

Bronze Lamps, Chandeliers, Brackets, Etc.

73 & 75 Jefferson Ave.  -  DETROIT,  MICH.

SOAP

DETROIT, MIOH.,

Manufacturers of the following well-known Brands

of

S O
QUEEN  ANNE,
MICHIGAN,

TRUE  BLUE,

CZAR,

MONDAY, 

MOTTLED  GERMAN, 
SUPERIOR, 

ROYAL BAR, 

MASCOTTE,

PHCENIX,

WABASH, 

AND  OTHERS.

CAMEO,

For Quotations address

W . G.  H A W K IN S,

Lock  Box  173, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH,

Salesman  for  Western  Michigan.

TO  THE  GROCERY  TRADE  OF  MICHIGAN.

WE  take pleasure in inviting attention to the following facts :

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We  are  Sole  Agents  and Headquarters for Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Celebrated Soaps.  Freight paid on 5 box lots and upwards. 
We  are  Sole  Agents  and headquarters for Niagara Starch Works’ Laundry, Gloss and Corn Starch.
We  are  Sole  Agents  and headquarters for Finzer & Bro.’s Jolly Tar Plug Tobacco.  It is a  pronounced winner.
We  are  Sole  Agents  and headquarters for Daniel Scotten & Co.’s Hiawatha Plug Tobacco. 
We  are  Sole  Agents  and headquarters for F. F. Adams & Co.’s Brother Jonathan Dark Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco.
We  are  Sole  Agents  and headquarters for the famous Jolly  Time Fine Cut Tobacco.  Best in America to retail at  50 cts.
We  are  Sole  Agents  and headquarters for Macatawa and Mackinaw Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco. 
We  are  Sole  Agents  and headquarters for King Bee Long Cut Smoking Tobacco. 
We  are  Sole  Agents  and headquarters for Fould & Co.’s W heat Germ Meal, 32 2-lb. packages in case.  $2.80 per Case.
We  are  Sole  Agents  and headquarters for “Acme” Full Cream Cheese, Herkimer County, N. Y., make.  This brand of Cheese has
We  make  a great specialty of and handle largely Foreign and Domestic Lemons.  Special inside prices on  round  lots.
We  make  a great  specialty of and handle largely Foreign and Domestic Oranges.  Special inside prices on round lots.
We  make  a great specialty of and handle largely Confectionery and  Chewing  Gum, including Penny  Goods  of every  description.
We  are  acknowledged to be the  largest jobbers  of Domestic,  Key  W est  and  Imported  Cigars in  Michigan.
W e  are large Importers and Jobbers of Japan Teas.
W e  are large Operators in Syrups, Molasses, Rice and Canned Goods.
W e  are a good house to deal with.
W e  assure you mail orders always obtain precedence and low est possible prices.
W e  desire you w ill make our place headquarters when in Grand Rapids.

no equal.

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Please ask for prices. 
Please ask for prices. 
Please send for prices on 10 and 25 Butt lots.
Please ask for prices. 
Special prices on 10 and 25 pail lots. 
Special prices on 10 and 25 pail lots. 
Special prices on 10 and 25'pail lots.
Ask  for  prices.

See  weekly  quotations. 
See weekly quotations. 
Send  for  Catalogue. 
Please  send  for price  list.

BULKLEY, LEMON & HOOPS

VISITING  BUYERS.

The following  retail  dealers  have  visited I

MISCELLANEOUS.

t WeekaM pIaCed I heml7orm?™ S

THREE  OF  A  KIND.

Formation of Associations at Luther, Evart 

and Hersey.

The editor  of  T he  T radesm an  “struck 
his gait” again  last  week  and  the result is 
three new  organizations  enlisted  under the 
banner of Pay,  Progress and Principle.

The first town to  succumb to the destroy­
er of  the  dead-beat  was  Luther,  where  a 
meeting was  held  on  Wednesday evening. 
W.  B.  Poole acted as  chairman  and  J. M. 
Verity as secretary.  After  the  plan  of  or­
ganization had been explained, Ernest Nich- 
oson  moved that the  organization  of an as 
sociation  be  immediately  proceeded  with, 
which was  adopted.  On  motion  by Chas. 
J.  Robinson, the  constitution  and  by-laws 
presented were  adopted,  when  the  follow­
ing gentlemen signified their desire of  join­
ing the body:  W.  B. Poole,  Samuel  Buck­
ner,  Chas.  J.  Robinson,  J.  M.  Verity, 
Ernest  Nichoson,  L.  J.  Osborn,  M.  Dough­
erty and  W.  II. McQuarrle.  W.  B.  Poole 
was  elected  President,  Chas. J.  Robinson, 
Secretary  and  Jas.  M.  Verity,  S.  Buckner 
and W.  H.  McQuarrie  members  of  the Ex­
ecutive Committee.  The election of the re­
maining officers was deferred until the next 
meeting. 
The  regulation  blanks  were 
adopted and ordered  printed  and the editor 
of  the  Lance  was  requested  to  print  the 
constitution and by-laws in full  in his  next 
issue, which he promised to do.  The meeting 
then adjourned.

On Thursday evening the business men of 
Evart repeated the  programme.  The meet­
ing was held  at the Evart  House  and  was 
well  attended.  W.  M.  Davis  was  selected 
to  act  as  chairman  and  Chas.  E.  Bell  as 
secretary.  After the  usual  explanation  as 
to  aims  and  objects  had  been  made,  G. 
F. Andrus  moved  that  the  organization of 
an  association  be  immediately  proceeded 
with,  which  was  adopted.  The  constitu­
tion presented  by Mr. Stowe was  adopted, 
when  the  following  gentlemen  were  ac­
cepted  as  charter  members:  J.  H.  Voller, 
C.  E.  Smith,  G.  F.  Andrus,  Frank  Hib­
bard,  F.  S.  Soverence, W.  M.  Davis,  Fred. 
Postal,  D.  L.  Dumon,  O.  M.  Bush,  E. C. 
Thompson,  B. G.  Colton,  G.  W.  Minchin, 
Chas.  E.  Bell,  E.  J.  Terrill  and  C.  V. 
Priest.  The following officers were elected, 
the selection of  the remaining officers being 
deferred until the next meeting:

*

President—W.  M. Davis.
Secretary—Chas. E.  Bell.
Executive  Committee—President,  Secre­
tary,  C.  V.  Priest,  Geo.  L.  Andrus  and 
Frank Hibbard. 

It was voted to  accept  all  applicants  for 
membership  previous  to  the  next  meeting 
as charter  members.  The  Blue  Letter col­
lection system was adopted for  the  use  of 
the Association and the  Executive Commit­
tee was instructed to  procure  the  printing 
of the necessary blanks.  The  editor of  the 
Review was requested to  print the constitu­

tion and by-laws in his  next issue  and  the 
meeting adjourned.

On his  way home from  Evart,  the  editor 
of T he T radesm an stopped off at Hersey, 
where he was pleased to  find  that the busi­
ness men were ripe for organization. 
It re­
quired  no  argument  to  convince  them  of 
the benefits of  united effort, for  they  were 
all  subscribers  to  T he  Tradesm an,  in 
which they had read  hundreds  of testimon­
ials as to the advantages of  local  organiza- 
| tion.  An  appointment  was  accordingly 
i made for the business  men  to  meet  at  the 
hotel parlor, when II.  T.  Lewis was  chosen 
to  officiate  'as  chairman  and  Frank  L. 
j Beardsley as secretary.  After a brief state- 
i  ment of  the best  methods  to follow  in or­
ganizing,  H.  II.  Procter  moved  that  the 
Hersey Business Men’s Association be form­
ed without  delay,  which  was  adopted.  O. 
L.  Millard moved that the  constitution pre­
sented be adopted,  whicli was carried.  The 
following charter members  were  accepted: 
H.  T.  Lewis,  Frank  Procter,  John  Fink- 
beiner,  Zerah  Whitney,  O.  L.  Millard, 
Frank L.  Beardsley,  W.  L.  Beardsley, J. J. 
Faist, John Sweet and John R.  Ladd.  Elec­
tion of officers resulted as-follows, the selec­
tion of Committees  on  Business  and Trade 
Interests being deferred until the next meet­
ing:

President—O.  L. Millard.
Vice-President—H.  T.  Lewis.
Secretary—Frank L.  Beardsley.
Treasurer—John Finkbeiner.
Executive  Committee—President.  Secre­
tary, Frank  Procter,  W.  L.  Beardsley  and 
•John R.  Ladd.
The regulation blanks  were  adopted  and 
ordered printed.  The Outline was  request­
ed to print the  constitution and  by-laws in 
the next  issue,  and the  meeting adjourned.

The  Hardware  Market.

Nails have taken another drop of 15 cents 
per keg,  making a decline of 45 cents a  keg 
below the highest  price reached at  the  fac­
tory. 
Indications  point  to  a  trifle  lower 
market.  Outside of the nail business, prices 
are upwardly inclined where any change  at 
all is made,  except  in  the  case  of  pumps, 
which have  declined  10  per  cent.  Manu­
facturers  of  table  cutlery  have  all  with­
drawn their  quotations,  and  where  special 
prices are written for,  slightly higher prices 
are asfced.  The  advance  made on  locks a 
short time ago is only partially sustained.
The Business Man a Factor in Legislation.
“I think the  exemption  bill  fathered by 
the Michigan  Business  Men’s  Association 
will  go  through  the  Legislature  all  right 
and it is my opinion that the Cole bill stands 
a good show of getting through.  As a bus­
iness man,  it has  pleased  me  to see the in­
terest business men are taking in legislation 
this year,  which  I  attribute  wholly to  the 
influence  of  the  Business  Men’s  Associa­
tions.”  Such  was  the  recent  remark  of 
Representative McMillan, of  the  Northern 
Kent district.

Queries  from 

the  Land  of  Corkscrews.
The  Secretary  of  the  Retail  Grocers’ 
Association of  East Saginaw  asks the  fol­
lowing questions:

1.  Are  delinquents  amenable to the rules 
of  the  Association  for  the  collection  of 
debts contracted  prior to  date of  organiza­
tion?

2.  Are members amenable to the rules  of 
our Association,  relative  to  fines,  by trust­
ing  a  delinquent  so  declared  on  a  debt 
made prior to  organization?

3.  Should  a  party be  placed  on  the  de­
linquent list for  a défit contracted with  one 
merchant while he promptly pays others?

A N SW ERS.

1.  Yes.  More  accounts  have  been  col­
lected,  made previous  to than after  organi­
zation.  Hence the great  worth of  our  sys­
tem.

2.  Yes,  if  the debt is a  just one. 

If  the 
delinquent  should  pay or  be  published  by 
not complying witli our rules,  so should the 
merchant.  “What is sauce for the goose is 
sauce for the gander.”

3.  Yes,  if  thei'e  are  no  extenuating  cir­
cumstances.  Our  rules  are  clear  on  that 
point,  and  only  by a  united  effort  on  the 
part of  members  will  this “bad  pay”  ele­
ment be eliminated.  The moral support  of 
fellow-traders  and  business  men  si  worth 
far more  than  the  trade  of  any man  who 
has defrauded a member of the Association. 
If,  on the other baud,  the  account in  ques­
tion is disputed,  then let the decision of the 
Executive  Committee,  as  reported  to  the 
Association,  be final.
Battle Creek Grocers Alive on Organization 

B attle Creek,  April 23,  1887.

E.  A. Stowe. Grand Rapids :

D ear  Sir—Y ou  can  say  that  we  are 
bound  to  have every grocer  in the  city  in 
our  Association.  We  are  getting  much 
more friendly by coming together.  Messrs. 
Buckhout and Scoville, of  Kalamazoo,  paid 
us a  pleasant visit  on  Wednesday evening 
and told us  of  the many  advantages  Kala­
mazoo  grocers  had  secured  through  their 
Association.
We have all agreed to  close our stores  at 
8:30 p.  m. hereafter.
We have  resolved to hold a grand jubilee 
next Wednesday evening and  we  want you 
to come down and  explain  the plan to  our 
new  members.  We  will  see  that  every 
grocer in the city is on hand.

Yours truly,

R.  C.  P ark er.

The Poetical Grocer.

In reproducing  the poem  inscribed to the 
peddler,  published  in  T he  Tradesm an 
last week,  the Allegan Gazette remarks:

There is not much about the grocery busi­
ness to incline a  man to  poetry or other lit­
erature  (unless  it  be  oweds),  and  hence, 
anything of this kind produced  by the deal­
er in  provisions,  is  the  more  remarkable, 
and the more  praiseworthy. 
Irving  Clapp 
of this village appears  to  be  one  of  those 
whose gifts are not  bounded  by the narrow 
confines of his  counters,  for  at  the  recent 
banquet  of  the  Michigan  Business  Men’s 
Association he replied to  a toast “The Ped­
dler,” in unique and racy style.

The  Cheboygan  Association  Moving  for 

Another Railroad. 
Cheboygan,  April 19,  1887.

E.  A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dea r  Sir—Enclosed  herewith  please 
find  $2,  being  the  per  capita  dues  to  the 
Michigan  Business  Men’s  Association  for 
twenty new members,  increasing our  mem­
bership to sixty-one.
Also find copy of report of a special  com­
mittee  made  at  our  meeting  last  night, 
which I am authorized to request  published 
in The Tradesm an. ‘  Also  place same  in 
the hands  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Business  Men’s  Associatiod,  with 
request to aid us in this matter and  thereby 
mutually  benefit  our  respective  cities  and 
business prosperity.

Yours respectfully,
II.  G.  D ozer, 
Sec’y.’ of B.  M.  P.  Union.

The report to  which  Mr.  Dozer  refers is 

as follows:

capable  of 

Your committee,  to  whom  was  referred 
the matter of suggesting some way in which 
Cheboygan’s prosperity might be forwarded, 
beg leave to report that in tfceir opinion  the 
best way will be to  offer  something  practi­
cal  and 
accomplishment. 
Theories never built up a  town yet,  and are 
not likely to.  We need new manufacturing 
industries located in  our village,  and to  in­
duce them to  come  here  we  must  be  in a 
position to offer  competitive transportation 
facilities.  We have at present but  one line 
of railroad, but we  need another—one  that 
will open the western  markets  to what  we 
have to  sell  and to  transport  hither  what 
we wish to buy.
The distance between the G.  R.  & I.  Rail­
way  at  Levering  and  Cheboygan  is  but 
through  a  good  farming 
sixteen  miles, 
country,  and at easy grade. •
therefore  recommend 
that immediate steps be taken by this Asso­
ciation, in conjunction  with  that of  Grand 
Rapids,  to forward the  enterprise of  build­
ing  a  branch  railroad  from  Levering  to 
Cheboygan;  satisfied  that  it'  is  the  first 
thing that should be done far furthering the 
prosperity of our town.

Your  committee 

Respectfully submitted,

A.  M.  Gerow,
J.  W.  McDonald,

Committee.

PR A ISEW O R T H Y   E N T E R P R IS E .

Cheboygan,  April 20,  1887.

E, A. Stowe, Grand Uapids:
D ear Sir—At a meeting of the Business 
Men’s Association of  this place, held  Mon­
day evening last,  I  and another  gentleman 
were  appointed  a  committee  to  suggest 
something that the Association might do  in 
order to further the prosperity of  our town. 
The report we  made was  short  and  to  the 
point.  We  recommended  that  this  Asso­
ciation  correspond  with 
that  of  Grand 
Rapids,  as being  the two  most directly  in­
terested,  to use  means calculated  to  induce 
the  G.  R.  & 1.  Railway  to  build  a  branch 
from  Levering  (fifteen  miles  distant)  to 
Cheboygan,  satisfied  that that  would  more 
than anything else give us the railway  con­
nection we most need.
We now have 5,000 and upwards of popu­
lation,  and there  is  a  cut  of  upwards  of 
100,000,000 of  lumber  each year.  A  great 
share  of  our  flour  and  groceries  come 
directly  from  Grand  Rapids,  and  we  are 
convinced that if we can but get the  branch 
spoken of  it will be  a  great  benefit  to  all 
concerned.  The committee were advised to

write  you  and  ask  your  assistance  and 
direction  in 
this  matter,  as  to  the  best 
course we  should  take. 
It  was  also  sug­
gested to  ask  your  kindly offices  to  enlist 
the Grand Rapids  associations  in the  mat­
ter.
Will you  kindly  let  me  hear  from  you 
regarding the  matter  and  any  advice  you 
may give us in this  enterprise  will  be  ap­
preciated. 
A.  M.  Gerow.
T he T radesm an  is glad to see such evi­
dence of enterprise and public spirit  on the 
part  of  the  members  of  the  Cheboygan 
Association,  as  it  presages  a  degree  of 
activity which is sure to result in the secur­
ing  of new  enterprises and  the consequent 
growth of the town.

Very respectfully,

Regarding  a  branch  railway to  Cheboy­
gan,  T he  Tradesm an  is  informed  by  a 
gentleman  who  claims  “to  speak  by  the 
card”  that  in  the  event  of  the Michigan 
Central Railway constructing  a branch line 
to  Charlevoix,  the  G.  R.  &  I.  will  im­
mediately retaliate by making  a connection 
with Cheboygan.  There  has  been  a  tacit 
understanding  between  the  two  roads  for 
several years past that neither  would  enter 
the  other’s  territory.  That  agreement  is 
likely to terminate the  coming  summer  by 
tiie construction of  a Charlevoix branch  by 
the Michigan  Central,  in  which  event  the 
running of  a branch  to  Cheboygan  by  the 
G. It.  & I.  may be set  down  as a certainty.
The T radesm an will do  all that lies  in 
its power to  interest  the  jobbing  trade  of 
Grand Rapids in  the matter above  referred 
to,  and hopes to see the  effort begun by the 
Cheboygan Association  result  successfully.

The  Dodging  Delinquent—The  Red  List.

A correspondent asks:
1.  Will a delinquent pay one man and re­

fuse to pay another?

2.  What is the meaning of the “Red List” 

and who are placed thereon?
ANSWERS.

1.  Yes, but it is only a  question  of  time 
when he  refuses to  pay  the  one  who  has 
been lenient with him.  Better cut  him  off 
at once  and  join  with  your  co-workers in 
making him a “good pay” customer.

2.  The “Red List,” as used  by some  As­
sociations,  is designed for a class whom the 
Executive  Committee  will  not,  for  special 
reasons at that time, publish  as the lowest, 
or rank as the  highest  credit,  but  who are 
considered dumjerous credit.  Merchants are 
not debarred from  trusting  this  class,  but 
do so at their  own perli.

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

GRAND  RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED CO.

71 CANAL STREET.

•h8 Pr
orders with the various houses. 
M. V. Wilson, Sand Lake.
K. B. McCulloch, Berlin.
J. S. Marr, Spring Grove.
Gus. Begmau, Bauer.
John Gunstra,  Lamont.
Eli Runnels, Corning.
G. S. Putnam. Fruitport.
G. M. Huntley, Reno.
J. G. McElwee & Co., Big Rapids.
Dell Wright, Berlin.
S.  McNett & Co., Byron Center.
Mr. Owens, Owens & Bullis, Maple Rapids. 
Parkhurst Bros, Nunica.
Den Herder & Tanis, Vriesland.
N. Bouma, Fisher.
A. B, Foote, Hiliiards.
O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenua.
Jas. Colby, Rockford.
A. W. Blain, Dutton.
Farowe & Dalmon, Allendale.
M. Minderhout, Hanley.
Mrs. M. Burbank, Spring Lake.
L. Cook. Bauer.
M. P. Shields, Hiliiards.
J. Omler, Wright.
C.  O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
Velzy Bros., Lamont.
L. A. Paine,  Englishville.
W. S. Root, Talmadge.
G. H. Walbrink. Allendale.
G. H. Tenhoor, Forest Grove.
Jas. Barnes, Austerlitz.
J. Debri, Byron Center.
C. E. Coburn, Pierson.
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
L. T. Wilmarth. Rodney.
J. P. Cordes, Alpine.
J. E. Darrali, Clarion.
F. B. Watkins, Hopkins.
E. C. Watkins, Ionia.
N. Bouma, Fisher.
S. Cooper, Jamestown.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
Childs & Carper, Child’s Mills.
Jno. Damstra, Gitchell.
Morle.v Bros.. Cedar Springs.
L. N. Fisher Dorr. 
t
Nelson T. Miller, Lisbon.
H. VanNoord, Jamestown.
M. E. Snell, Wayland.
A. C. Barkley, Crosby.
B. Gilbert & Co., Moline.
M. Gezon, Jenisonville.
Jno. Smith, Ada.
C. W. Joldersma, Jamestown.
Aedley & Son, Wayland.
Mrs. G. Miller, Muskegon.
Newman & Esbaugb, Dorr.
Mrs. P. B. Hunsicker, Woodland.
D. D. Erwin, Newaygo.
J. V. Crandall & Son, Sand Lake.
C. K. Hoyt. Hudsonville.
D. J. Peadook, Ashland.
Smith & Bristol, Ada.
John Koopman, Falmouth.
A. G. Clark & Co., White Cloud.
J. N. Wait, Hudsonville.
Dr. E. H. Lathrop, Hastings.
Jacob Jesson. J. Jesson & Co.,  Muskegon. 
Jas. G. Johnson, Traverse City.
Narregang & Son, Byron Center.
Dr. S. J. Koon, Lisbon.
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia.
Higgins & Allen, Scottsville.
U. DeVries, Jamestown.
J. C. Beubow,  Cannonsburg.
E. S. Botsford, Dorr,
F. L. Blake, Ivoring.
C. H. Deming, Dutton.
C. H. Loomis, Sparta.
H. D. Mills, Otsego.
P. W. Travis, Otsego.
Silas Lowe, Burnip’s Corners.
E.  Conklin, Ravenna.
C. C. Tuxbury,  Sullivan.
Wm. DePree, Zeeland
Dr. E. A. Parkinson, Traverse City.
Jos. Mekay, Central Lake.
M. E. Curtiss.  Edmore.
G. W. Robinson, Edgerton.
C. Huyser, New Groningon.
H. Muvger,  Sullivan.
Mrs. J. DuBois. Freemont.
Mrs.  Q. Huyser, Holland"
F. P Hopper, Middleville.
John Spring. Spring & Lindley, Bailey.
A. Purchase, South Blendon.
Geo. A. Scribner, Grandville.
Dexter &  Noble, Elk Rapids.
W. W. Pierce, Moline.
J. Raymond, Berlin.

I for three insertions.  No advertisement  taken
I for less than 25 cents.  Advance payment.
Advertisements  directing  that  answers  be 
sent  in care of this office must be accompanied 
by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage,

I jlOR  SALE—A  complete  stock  of  drugs, 

paints and oils; am doing a good business: 
farming  countrv. 
surrounded  by  a  good 
Reason  for  selling,  poor  health.  Call  on  or 
address E. H. Stevens, Pewamo,  Mich. 
192*

FIOR  SALE—Store  building, residence, barn 

and stock  of  general  merchandise, situ­
ated ten miles from  Grand  Rapids, in  a  good 
farming  country,  worth  §5,000.  Not  much 
competition nearer  than  Grand  Rapids.  Ad­
dress. “Steven,” care of the Tradesman, Grand 
Rapids,  Mich. 

193*

IilOR  SALE—A clean stock of  groceries  and 

provisions.  Will  inventory about $3,000. 
Reason for selling, I am postmaster, and have 
o devote all my time to  the  postoffice.  C.  H. 
Gallagher, Cheboygan.

IilOR  SALE—The  “Cash  Grocery”  at  Petoa- 
key.  Present value of stock and fixtures 
$2,000.  Cash sales past year, $17,000.  Best lo­
cation in the city.  Cheap rent.  Good  reasons 
for selling.  Well established  cash trade.  Ad­
dress W. W.McOmber,  Petoskey, Mich.  190*
j "THOR SALE—Genera 
:al  stock  of  merchandise 
JD  which will be soli
>ld at a  bargain, as  owner 
has other business he must give his attention. 
Write or apply to J.  W.  Closterhouse,  Grand­
ville, Mich. 
188*

ijlOR  SALE—Exceptionally  good  business 

opening.  Wishing to leave  Owosso, 1 of­
fer for sale at a bargain my stock of dry goods, 
groceries and  boots and  shoes, which will in­
ventory $4,000 or $5,000.  Also a fruit evaporat­
or at half price.  This is a splendid chance for 
someone.  A. T. Thomas. Owosso, Mich.  187*

IilOR SALE—Best  bargain  ever  offered  for 

- 
general  stock  in  growing  town  in  good 
farming  community  in  Northern  Michigan. 
I Stock  will inventory  about  $6,000.  Sales  last 
year were $00,000.  Address " The Tradesman,” 
Grand Rapids.______________________ 177tf
! SITUATION WANTED—A person  holding  a 
k5  State  certificate, and  who for  a  number 
| of years lias been  employed in  Europe  as  as- 
: sistant druggist, but  unable to speak  English,
| would  like  employment  where  a  Holland­
speaking druggist is required.  Address,  stat­
ing terms, A. Z., office of the Tradesman.

188*

187-3t

IilOR  RENT—From May 1st., brick store  and 

basement, 21 Scribner  street,  now  occu- 
[ pied by Kilstrom & Peterson.  Good  stand for 
retail trade.  A.  Rasch, 122 Canal street, Grand 
Rapids. 
rn o  EXCHANGE—For dry  goods,  groceries, 
JL  boots  and  shoes  or  gent’s 
furnishing 
goods,  desirable  residence  lot  and  dwelling 
house at Grant  Station.  The  house  is  16x24, 
with two large  wings.  Address  C.  M.  Wood­
ward, Kalamo, Mich. 
186*
w 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 be given  to  make 
money without  extra expense.  Address “B,” 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

178tl’

Dissolution of Copartnership.

Notice is hereby given that the firm of Fred. 
D. Yale & Co. is  hereby  dissolved  by  mutual 
consent,  Fred. D. Yale  retiring,  and  that  all 
accounts due said firm must be paid to  Daniel 
Lynch, and  all  debts  owing  by said firm wilt 
be paid by Daniel Lynch.

Dated Grand Rapids, Mich., April 12,1887.
F k e d  D .  Y a l e , 
D a n i e l  L y n c h .

1 hereby give notice  that, having purchased 
the interest of Fred D. Yale, in the late firm of 
Fred D. Yale  & Co., I will continue the extract 
business at  the old  stand, 40 and 42  South Di­
vision  street, under  the  firm  name  of  Fred. 
D. Yale & Co.

Dated Grand Rapids, Mich., April 12,1887.
D a n i e l  L y n c h .
188-3t 

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  27,  1887.

Michigan  Busiuean  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.
E ^ « S v e ^ > * m u u le e —rresideirt^K iratV Ice-President, 

City;  P. ltanney, Kalamazoo;  A.  W.  W estgate,  Cne
O o m ^ ^ e  on Le^slation-W. E.  Kelsey,  Ionia!  J.  V.
C randall, Sand Lake;  J - E. Clark, Big «apids. 
Com m ittee on M embership—H. S.  Church,  Sturgis,  B.
F. Em ery, G rand Rapids;  the Secretary. 
rrn n d
C om m ittee  on  T ransportation—Jas.  A.  Coye,  gran d  
Rapids;  J.W .  Milliken,  Traverse  City,  C.  T.  Bridg
Committee* on C onstitution-W . E. Kelsey  lonla^ R. D.
Official Organ—Th e Michigan Tradesman._____________
The following local associations have mostly 
been  organized  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Michigan Business Men’s Association, and are 
auxiliary thereto:

McNaughton, Coopersville ;  t  I - Clapp, Allegan, 

Ada  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, D. F. W atson;  Secretary, Elm er Chapel.
A lba Business Men’s Association. 
President, C. R. Smith;  Secretary, P eter  Baldwin.

President, Irving F. Clapp

A llegan  Business  Men’s  Association. 
sidenM rving F. Clapp ; Secretary, E. T. \  anO strand.
B ellâtre  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, John Rodgers;  Secretary, O. J. Sotew are.
M erchant's Protective Ass’n of Big  Rapids. 
President, E. P. Clark;  Secretary, A. S. H obart._______
Boyne City  Business Men’s Association. 
President, R. R. Perkins;  Secretary, F. M. Chase.____
B u rr  Oak  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, C. B. Galloway;  Secretary, H. M. Lee.
R etail Grocers’ Association of B attle Creek 
P resident. Geo. H. Rowell;  Secretary, C.  A. Hoxsie.
Cadillac Business Men’s Association. 

President, J. C. McAdam;  Secretary, C. T. Chapin.

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. Chapman.

boygan.

Charlevoix  Business  Men’s Association. 

President, John Nichols;  Secretary, R. W. Kane.
Business  Men’s  FrJbective  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. K undinger.
D orr  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, L. N. Fisher;  Seeretary, E. S. Boteford.
I » ; ;  (irocers*  Association  of IS.  Saginaw 
B r id e n t,  K iSiard Luster;  Secretary, Chas. H. Smith

LEISURE  HOUR JOTTINGS.

BY  A   COUNTRY  M ERCH A N T.

During the last meeting of  the  Michigan | 
Business Men’s Association,  at Grand Rap 
ids, a gentleman,  whose  name  I  have  for­
gotten,  suggested mutual fire insurance as a 
solution of  the  insurance  problem,  and ar­
gued forcibly against the  arrogance and ^ex­
tortion of the stock companies.

When I look back through the long years 
during which I have helped  to  create stock 
insurance  millionaires, 
the  mutual  plan 
looks very attractive, but  then  again when 
I  recall  some "brief  but  very  exasperating 
and expensive experience with mutual com­
panies,  I  am  more  inclined  to  endure the 
evils that are visible than  “ to  fly to others 

hich I know not of.”
Of course,  no well-balanced business man 
likes to close his doors  at night without be­
lieving himself  reasonably  secured against 
loss by fire,  and  there  is  no  well-balanced 
business  man  who  has  not  cogitated  long 
and earnestly  on  what  constitutes  reliable 
and economical  insurance.

If it were a matter of  sentiment I  should 
certainly  prefer  to  patronize  the  mutual 
man.  Like Max Adler’s horse, the agent of 
the  mutual  company  is  always  “ urbane,” 
while  he  of  the  syndicate  rivals,  if  not 
discounts, the 85 a day hotel clerk in apathy, 
coldness and  indifference.  But when you 
pay  your  yearly  tribute  to  the latter, you 
may feel that  you  have,  as far as practical, 
made a safe investment,  while any transac­
tion you may  have  with  the  former lias in 
it all of the elements of uncertainty.

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It may be possible,  and  I  presume  there 
are co-operative companies  run on business 
and  economic  principles  (understand  me, 
I am in no  way  interested  in  stock  in the 
syndicate,  and  I  don’t  wish  to make  T he 
T radesm an responsible  for my opinions), 
but when I pass the office  of a mutual com­
pany,  it reminds me of  the banking institu­
tion  in  which  an  anxious  customer  was 
blandly informed  that  the  receiving  teller 
was on duty,  but that  the  paying ditto was 
transacting some business in  Canada 
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I  would  most  assuredly  like  to  escape 
from the  tentacles  of  the  stock  insurance 
octopus, but experience  has given me a ter­
rible dread of  falling  into  the  maw of the 
mutual insurance shark.

I would not be  understood  as  advocating 
the idea that the  beginner,  with  a  limited 
capitar,  should be  shut  off  from the assist­
ance that  a  judicious  credit  often  affords, 
but  I  do  protest  against  the  wholesaler’s 
leading him into  temptation, and becoming 
an accessory to a moral, if not a legal, crime. 
For the wholesaler’s  financial  affliction  in 
dishonest assignment cases  I have no tears 
to shed—my protest is  entered  for  a  busi­
ness and personal  reason  that is obvious to 
any intelligent and honest merchant.
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“ It  is  hard  to  kick  against  the”—dis­
honest bankrupt.  You  may be doing busi­
ness with a big “ B,” but if your competitor 
concludes to join the noble  d. b. order,  and 
take the 25 or 30 per cent, degree,  you must 
perforce prepare yourself for  a  long period 
of quiet and seclusion, or seek some locality 
where the order lias no members.
Illegality of  Boycotting.

The  Supreme  Court  of  Connecticut  has 
defined in plain and unmistakable  language 
the  illegality of  boycotting. 
It its  recent 
decision, confirming that of the lower courts, 
it says:
The defendants  and their  associates  said 
to the plaintiffs.  “ You shall discharge  the 
men you have in your employ and you shall 
hereafter employ only such men as we shall 
name. 
It  is  true  we  have no interest  in 
your business;  we have no  capital invested 
therein;  we  are  in  nowise  responsible for 
its success, and we do not  participate  in its 
profits,  yet  we  have  a  right  to control its 
management  and  compel  you  to submit to 
our direction.”  The  bare assertion of such 
a right is startling.  The  two alleged rights 
cannot possibly  co-exist.  One  or the other 
must  yield. 
If  the  defendants  have the 
right  which  they  claim,  then  all  business 
enterprises are alike  subject  to  their direc­
tion.  No  one  is safe in engaging in busi­
ness, for no  one  knows  whether  his  busi­
ness  affairs  are  to  be  directed  by  intelli­
gence  or  ignorance,  whether  law  and jus­
tice will protect the business,  or brute force, 
regardless  of  law,  will  control  it,  foi it 
must  be  remembered  that  the  exercise of 
the power,  if conceded, will by no means be 
confined to the matter of employing help.

SPRING & COMP AKT
DRY  GOODS

JOBBERS IN

Hosiery, Carpets, Etc.

R E M O V A L .

We  shall  remove  to  the  HOUSE­
MAN  BLOCK, corner  Pearl and Ionia 
Sts., April 15.

Curtiss  <St Dunton,

Anri

Absolute Baking Powder.

100 per cent. Pure.

M a n u f a c t u r e d   a n d   s o l d   o n l y   b y

ED,  TELFER,  Grand Rapids.

DEA LERS IN

P E R K I N S   Sc  H E S S ,
Hides, Purs, W ool & Tallow,
WM. SEARS & CO.

NOS.  123  and  124  LOUIS  STREET, GRAND  R A P ID S.  M ICHIGAN.

WE CARRY A  STOCK OF  CAKE TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USE.

Cracker  Manufacturers,

j 

Agents  for

AMBOY  CH EESE

Sole Agents for

Im porters  and.

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

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

dark and light.
bacco.
Coffees.

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

25,27 n l 29 Ionia St. sod 51,53,55,57 and 59 Island Sts.,

Grand, xiapids, Mioli.

GEO.  E.  HOW ES,

PUTRII l  I M S

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3 Ionia St.,  CRANE RAPIDS,  MICH.

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F R U IT

1887

Kastport  Business  Men’s  Association. 

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

Geo  L. Thurston. Central Lake. 

________

Klk Rapids Business Men’s Protective As’n 
President. J. J. McLaughlin;  Secretary, C. L. M artin.
F rankfort Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, Win. Upton:  Secretary. E. R. Chandler.

F lint  M ercantile  Union.

President, W, C. Pierce;  Secretary, J. L. W illett.______

Freeport  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President! Foster Sisson;  Sec'y. A rthur Cheseborough.

Fife Lake Business Men’s Association. 

President, E. H agadom  ;  Secretary, O. V. Adams.
Grand  Haven  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, Fred. D. Voss ;  Secretary, I  red A. H utty ■

R etail  Grocers’  Ass’n  of Grand  Rapids. 

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

Greenville  Business  Men’s  Association. 

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

H artford Business Men’s Association. 

President, V. K. Manley:  Seeretary, I. B. Barnes.

Hastings  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, L. E. Stauffer;  Secretary,  J.  A.  VanArman.
Howard  City Business  Men’s Association. 
Ohairman, C. A. Vandenberg;  Secretary, B. J. Lowry.
H olland  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, Jacob Van P utten;  Secretary, A. Van Duren.
H ubbardston  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, Boyd Redner;  Secretary, L. W. Robinson.

Ionia  Business  Men’s  Exchange. 

President, Wra. E.  Kelsey;  Secretary,  Fred. Cutler, Jr.
Kalam azoo  Retail Grocers’ Association. 

President, P. Ranney;  Seeretary. M. S. Seovllle.

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.

Leslie  Business  Men’s  Association. 

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

L uther  Protective  As’n. 

President, W. B. Pool ;  Secretary, Jas. M,.\ erity.

Lyons  Vusi ness  Men’s  As’n. 

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

M ancelona  Business  Men’s  Association. 

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

M anistique  Business Men’s Association. 

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

M anton’s  Business  Men’s  Association. 
P résidait, 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 Wehste

Oceana  Business  Men’s  As’n. 

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

Ovid  Business  Men’s  As’n. 

Otsego  Businef 

President, C. H. H unter;  Secretary. Lester Cooley.
Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, Jas. Osburn ;  Sec’y, S. Lamfrom.________
M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n , 
îcretary, J. F. Conrad.
s  M e n ’s   A s s o c ia tio n . 
Secretary, A. C. Bowman.
Few am o  Business  Men's  Association. 
President, Alb ert Retan;  Secretary, E. R. Holmes.__
P lslnw ell  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, J.  M. Ballou:
Petoskey  Busin*
President, Jas. Buckley:

President, M. Bailey;  Secretary. J. A. Sidle.___________
Kced City  Business  Men’s Association. 

President; C. J. Fleisehauer; Secretary, H. W. Hawkins.

Rockford  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, Geo. A. Sage;  Secretary, J. M. Spore.

St, Charles  Business  Men’s  Association. 

P resident, B. J. Downing;  Secretary, K. E. Burdick.
St. Joh n s M erchants’ Protective. 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. W illiams.

South  Board man  Business  Men’s Ass’n. 

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

Sherm an Business Men’s Association. 
President, H.  B. Stu rtev an t;  Secretary, W. Q. 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. Ê. 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 Cloud  Business  Men’s  Association 
President, P. M. Roedel;  Secretary, M. D. Hayward.
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  Rapids  B utchers’  Union. 

President, John Katz; Secretary, Chas. Velite.

I do not want to  be  understood for a mo 
uient  as  attacking  the  mutual [system  as 
applied  to  purely  agricultural or detached 
risks.  Well informed  parties have assured 
me—and I have no  proof  to  the contrary— 
that companies organized  for  farmers’ pro­
tection have run successfully,  smoothly and 
economically  for years,  but until some new 
system is devised  or  some  new legislation 
enacted,  I shall not  have the remotest faith 
Its his­
tory,  in  Western  Michigan,  at  least,  has 
been  replete  with  fraud,  defalcation  and 
robbery;  its  record  for  swindling  and ab­
sconding  officials  too  unsavory  for  an  at­
tempt at  defense,  and  witnesses against its 
past  inefficiency  and  expensiveness can be 
summoned from every city, village and ham­
let in  this section of the State.

business co-operative insurance. 

In  this  matter  I  shall  not  presume  to 
judge the future  by  the past,  and sincerely 
hope that believers in  the mutual plan may 
eventually successfully  solve  the insurance 
problem,  but  until  that  consummation  I 
shall submit#to  the  extortion of  the under­
writers’  pool, and  take  my  revenge  in un 
limited and fruitless fault-finding.

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If St.  Paul’s  remarks  regarding  kicking 
had been applied to  the dishonest bankrupt, 
they would,  it seems to me, have been much 
more  practical  and  intelligible. 
If  your 
neighbor,  who is in the same trade as your­
self, concludes to join the large and rapidly 
increasing  order  of  bankrupts,  and  force 
you into competition with goods which cost 
one-fourth as much as your own, in the lan­
guage  of  the  Irishman  at  Niagara  Falls, 
Phat's to  hinder?”  He  has  only to buy 
three or four times the stock  that  his trade 
requires,  sell  what  he  can  before  his pay­
ments become  due  and  pocket  the money, 
mortgage the  balance  to  his  wife  or  some 
other  accomplice,  and  his  creditors  will 
meekly accept the situation  and  the “ divi 
dends” which the  d. b.  is  generous  enough 
to  offer.

It is my individual opinion that there is  a 
wrong sentiment and  a  manifest neglect of 
duty among  jobbers,  regarding  the  matter 
of assignments.  No man should be allowed 
a compromise  through  the  intervention  of 
an assignee until the “ true inwardness”  of 
the transaction is plainly visible.

It sometimes looks as if there were a latent 
feeling of admiration  among our people for 
parties who succeed in consummating profit­
able business  failures.  Numbers  of them 
would  probably  sympathize  with  the  Ger 
man gentleman,  who,  when  asked how his 
son was succeeding in trade replied:

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“ Oh, dot poy Shake  vos  a gomblete fail 
ure!  He  peen  in  piziness  now  over four 
year midout his greditors loosing a cent 
vos gompletely discouraged! 
I failed more 
as a dozen times before  1  vos  as old as dot 
poy.” * 
One great incentive to dishonest failures is 
the singular readiness with which credit can 
be procured  under  almost  any  and all cir 
cumstances.  Let  nearly any young fellow 
with a fair  amount  of  “ cheek”  and,  say, 
8500,  conclude to start  in  trade and he can 
easily distinguish  himself  by  a 85,000 fail­
ure  in  less  than  18  months.  To [the ob­
server,  at least,  his  orders  are  as promptly 
filled and his custom as  eagerly solicited as

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Factory  No.  36,  4 th   Dist.

CIGARS
76 g. Division St.  M  Rapids.
LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ,
Fermentum!

STATE  AGENT  FOR

The Oaly Reliable Compressed Yeast.

M anufactured by Riverdale Dist. Co.

106 Kent Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

TELEPHONE  566.

i  Grocers, bakers and others can secure th e agency for 
th e ir tow n on this Y east by applying to above address. 

None genuine unless it bears above label.

JOBBERS IN

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AND  10,  12,  14,  16  AND  18  FOUNTAIN  STREET,
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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers 
American and Stark A Bags

IA Specialty.

ORANGES

LEMONS

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Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

BOO KS,

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

TIME  TABLES.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.
K alam azoo Division.  _
Arrive.
Leave. 

N.Y. Mail.  N.Y. Ex
Fx  a-Mail  N  Y. Mail. 
4  3 5 p m   7:45 a m ..G ra n d  Rapids.  9:45am   6:10pm
6:00 a  m 
5:55 p m   9:02 a m ..A lle g a n ...........8:28 a m
4:00 p m 
7  05 p m   10:06 am ..K a la m a z o o ...  7:30 a m  
2:20 p m 
8:30 p m   11:35 a m .. W hite Pigeon.  5:55 a m
9:45 a  m 
2  3 0 am  
6:05 p m. .T oledo............ 11:00 p m
5:35 a m 
8:30am   9:40 pm ..C leveland........6:40pm
11:10 p m
“ •50 p m   3:30 a m .. Buffalo........... 11:55 a m
40 a m   6:50 p m ..C h icag o ..........11:30 p m
I ;*U a III  O ;uu l# ui. .vuivi^v.   .........  ■ “- r  — 
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A local freight leaves Grand Rapids a t 1  p  m,  carry­
ing passengers as fa r as  Allegan.  A ll/xralns  dally  ex­
cept Sunday. 

J- W. McKennky, G eneral Agent.

Detroit,  Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING  EAST. Arrives.
tSteam boat  Express.................
(Through  Mail...........................................10:40 a m
•(Evening Express............................. 
p m
■•Limited  Express............................... 9:20 p m
tMixed, w ith  coach..........................
GOING WEST.
tM om ing  Express..............................1:05 p m
tT hrough  Mail..................................   5:00 p m
tSteam boat Express.........................10:40 p m
tMixed.................................................. 
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•N ight Express............................  
  5:10 a m

Leaves. 
6:25 a  m 
10:50 a m 
3:60 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
tDaily, 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 has a  through W agner car 
and local sleeping car from  D etroit to Grand  Rapids.
D. P o t t e r , City Passenger Agent. 

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

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WHOLESALE

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E.  A.  STOWE  &  BRO., Proprietors.

Office in E&glo Building, 49 Lyon St., 3d Floor. 

Telephone No. 95,

i Entered  at  the  Postnfflce  at  Grand  Rapids  at 

Second-class Matter. 1 _________

FIFTEEN  DOLLARS*A  WEEK.

How  a  Clerk  Supports  a  Family  on  a 

Small Salary.
From the Philadelphia Prose.

“I know there  are  men  who  are  worse 
off,” was the remark of a store clerk  a  day 
or two ago,  “and  that I ought to be thank­
ful that  I  have  good  health  and  am  in 
steady employment; but $15  is  the  closest 
possible work for a family of four  persons,
I  can  tell you,  and it makes me envious,  in­
deed,  when  I  think  how  comfortable  I 
could be if I only had $5  more. 
I  live  up 
to my wages  and cannot help it.”

There are so many men in various occupa­
tions who live up to very  much  larger  sal­
aries that some curiosity  was  expressed  as 
to how the $15-a-week  clerk  managed  not 
to live beyond his,  and yet  support  a  wife 
and two little children,  aged  four  and  six 
respectively.  He  explained  in  a  general 
way:

“I am not going to tell you  how  I  mar­
ried on twelve dollars a week,  and  boarded 
until my second ctiild was  born,  and  then 
got a raise of wages to $15.  That’s neither 
here nor  there.  What  I  discovered  was 
that people did not like children in a board­
ing-house,  and I began to  wonder  what  on 
earth I was  to  do.  However,  my  wife’s 
uncle came  to  our  rescue.  He  suggested 
we should take a  little  house  way  down­
town,  and  he  would  furnish  it  for  us. 
There are plenty of five or six  roomed  resi­
dences  at  the  extremes  of  the  city,  on 
streets which are perfectly  respectable  and 
genteel,  and the  rent  only  $10  or  $12  a 
month.  1 got one for  $2.50  a  week—two 
bedrooms, kitchen,  parlor,  sitting-room and 
bathroom.  Uncle George  was  as  good  as 
his word,  but it took  all  the  hundred  odd 
dollars I had saved while  boarding  to  buy 
kitchen things and linen and a picture or so 
for  the bare  walls.  Then  we  went  into 
housekeeping in real earnest.

“Now,  you  must  understand  that  poor 
people like us have to live for  the  sak^of 
living.  The  wife  must  be  able  and will 
ing to wash all the clothes, do all the house 
work, bake the  bread  and  be  handy  with 
her needle in the  way of  making  over  old 
clothes  for  the  children.  The  husband 
must walk  backwards  and  forwards  from 
his work; must drink and smoke either  not 
at all or only on rare occasions,  and find all 
his amusement and  happiness  in  his  chil 
dreu and wife.  It is very much like slavinf 
for a crust and a  sup,  lots  of  people  say 
and no doubt you  have to  be  born  with  a 
temperament which can be  cheerful in pov 
erty. 
I think I was.  But  to  go  back  to 
my housekeeping.

“Coal and light cost me $1 a week,  sum 
mer and  winter  together.  We  only  have 
two fires—one in the kitchen and one in the 
sitting-room in winter, and one is always out 
when possible.  Our kitchen  is  very  com' 
fortable,  so we often sit there.  Bread costs 
us 50 cents a week—that is  the  flour,  etc. 
costs  about  that  amount.  Our  milk  bill 
runs up into 70 cents, as our children  want 
a glass or so at meals.  Butter  and  grocer­
ies never  exceed  $2,  vegetables  $1,  and 
meat another  $2.  Then  we  use  about  50 
cents for eggs.  As for clothes,  I  put  my 
self down for $50 a  year,  including  boots 
I buy serviceable things, and I always wear 
my oldest  about  the  house.  Another  $50 
clothes my  wife  and  children,  with  $20 
more for  their  hats  and  shoes.  Then 
want $20 a year  for  doctor  and  medicine, 
and my expenditure per week  will  foot  up 
as follows:
Rent..............................................................  $3.50
■Coal and  light.............................................. 
1.00
Bread.................................................................... 50
Milk  ..............................................................  
70
2.00
Butter and  groceries............................... 
Meat..............................................................  
3.00
Vegetables...................................................  
1.00
Eggs.............................................................  
.50
Clothes per  year  for  husband
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wife and twochildren, includ- 
ing boots and hats.................. 
$120 ^ 
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Doctor and medicine.................. 
Sundries per year....................... 
16 j

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$13.20
“As you will see by the table, I still  have 
$1.80 left out of my $15,  even  after  allow­
ing $16 for  sundries,  which  I  have  made 
that sum so as to balance my figures.  That 
$16 represents wear  and tear  of  furniture, 
breakage,  some  little  luxury',  say,  on  a 
birthday or wedding  anniversity,  an  extra 
pair of shoes and  a  hundred  other  wants. 
The $1.80 over,  sometimes a quarter less or 
more,  according as  the  week  goes,  is  the 
fnnd out of which I  pay  20  cents  a  week 
insurance,  buy  a  little  beer  and  tobacco, 
and an occasional trifle  for  my  wife  My 
wife will tell you  that  we  waste  nothing. 
Of course we  never  get  the  best  parts  of 
meats.  Sh%buys soup  and stewing  pieces, 
and only a small roast or  a  piece  of  steak 
or chops for Sunday.  She does a good deal 
of baking in the way of cakes for  the  chil­
dren,  and they seem to  thrive  all  right  on 
plenty of mush,  rice or bread and molasses. 
We sometimes get a little country  life,  be­
cause  I  have  relatives  who  own  a  large 
farm in Delaware,  and a bank  belonging to 
the babyr supplies us  with  junkets  to  the 
park now and then and a visit  to  a 10-cent 
theater.  By the way,  I have not mentioned 
ice.  We manage to get  on  without  it  ex­
cept on very warm days in  summer,  as  we 
have a cool deep cellar to our house,  When 
we must  iiave  ice,  it  comes out  of  “ sun­
dries.’ ”

Men’s Wigw’am Slippers,  heeled........................ per doz.  $11  00
Boy’s 
9  M
Ladies’ 
9  90

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Youth’s Wigw'am Slippers,  heeled...................... per doz.  $7  50
Misses’ 
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Child’s 
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Men’s Tennis Bals.................................................................. $0  94
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Clover,

if you want to buy

Timothy,

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Peas,

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Kingsford’s Oswego CORN STARCH for Puddings, 

Custards, Blanc-Mange, etc.

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

WILL PLEASE YOU EVERY TIME

ALWAYS  ASK  YOUR  GROCER  FOR  THESE  GOODS.

DO  YOU WANT  jSL

If so, send for Catalogue and Price-List to

S. HETMAN 8c EON,

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GERMAN  COFFEE,
Best  Package  goods  on  the  Market

-THE-

Manufactured by

TOLEDO SPICE CO., TOLEDO, OHIO.

Order Sample Case of your Jobber.  See quota­

tions in  Price-Current.
See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else- 

where in this issue and write for

Special  Prices  in  Car  Lots. 
We are prepared to M e Bottom Prices on anything we handle.
A. B KNOWLSON,
F. J. LAMB & CO.

3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich.

STATE  AGENTS FOR

D. D. Mallory & Co.’s

D IM M )  BRAND  OYSTERS
Also  Fruits  and  Country  Produce.
FULLER  &  STOWE  COMPANY,

E ngravers and Printers

Designers

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  Featuia

A ddress as above 

%

49 Lyon Street, Up-Stairs, Grand Rapids, Mich.

ORDER

Our Xieader Sm oking 

15c per pound.

Our Xieader Sbcrts, 

Our Xieader Fine Cut 

33c per pound.

Our Xieader  Cigars, 

16c per pound.

$30 per M.
Tli©  Best  In  tlie  W orld.

Clark, Jewell & Co,

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

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

O’Brien & Murray’s “Hand Made Cigar.”

In  Ordering a Supply of the

Arctic BaMn Powder

Do not forget to  ask for

Deaf and Dumb Alphabet Rules 
also Comic Cards  for Adver­
tising.

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IMPROVED  ä
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P O W D ER
Arctic Manufacturing Co., Grand Rapids,
THE  HOME  YEAST  CAKE.

Has now  STOOD  THE  TEST 
TEN  YEARS, and  has  always 
given  entire  satisfaction. 
It 
has never been connected with 
any  schemes  to  help  its  sale, 
but has  enjoyed  a  steadily in­
creasing demand each year.

SOLS PROPRIETORS.

Absolutely the Best and Purest ever put upon the Market.

SBIjliS o n   it s   m e r it s .

The Home Yeast Cakes are put up in two sizes  (packages)  cartons.

No.  1.  Large size, 36 packages, or cartons,  per case,  $1.50.
No. 2.  Smaller “  36 
1.00.

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THE  HOME  YEAST  CAKE  CO.

X.  B.—Ask your wholesale grocer for the HOMK  YEAST  CAKE.

BULK  VS.  PACKAGE.

A Writer  who  Considers  H. G. B. Selfish 

and Bigoted.

Kalamazoo,  April 21,  1887.

B. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

to  buy  what  pleases 

D kak  Sir—I  have  been  favored  with 
copies  of  your  valuable  paper  containing 
communications pro and con on  the  merits 
of bulk and package coffee.  If nothing had 
been added to the article of  H. G. B., there 
would have been nothing which we consider 
worthy  of  notice.  He  gives  no  argument 
for one as against  the  other,  but  gives only 
a  few  personal  reasons  which  are  of  the 
most selfish kind. 
It  is  the  height  of  im­
pertinence  for  him  to  determine  and,  as 
with authority, to say “package coffee must 
go,” because he cannot control profit out  of 
it to  his  satisfaction.  He  apparently over­
looks the fact  that  all  jobbers  would  not 
agree  with  him,  that  consumers  will 
continue 
them 
and  that  the  manufacturer  will  surely 
satisfy any reasonable  demand.  He  seems 
to be a sore-head middleman or jobber.  He 
may talk for  himself  alone, or  only  for  a 
small section of territory.  We do not know 
who he is,  but he is far from  exercising the 
authority he assumes.
H. G.  B. appears to be a very opinionated 
person, as his  language  will  show.  What 
he claims for argument is  simply  what  he 
represents  as “The  retailers  fighting  each 
other on them to  the  death,  making  them 
leaders,  cutting and slashing, and often sell­
ing at a loss.  The  jobber is  compelled  to 
‘follow  suit,’  and the  result  is  nobody but 
the manufacturer makes  any  money,” and 
“the main reason  why package  coffee  will 
«id ought to  be  retired  is  on  account  of 
the ruinous competition on  it.”  But this is 
no good reason.  So far as  the manufactur­
er and  consumer  are concerned,  it  is  non­
sense.  Again, he says,  “There  are  two  or 
three reasons why package  goods  will  and 
ought to have a ‘hard  row to  hoe;’  one  is, 
that putting coffee up  in packages is an un­
necessary expense.”  This  is  a bright idea, 
no doubt, but it  is  no  argument,  so long as 
it continues to “hoe  the  row.”  The  same 
kind of  argument  has  often  been  urged 
against middlemen  and  jobbers themselves 
and  as  vigorously discussed, but they have 
survived.
H. G. B. also adds,  “There are other rea­
sons why both jobber and retailer are bound 
to discourage  package  coffee,  but  these are 
the main  ones, and, in my opinion, are en­
tirely sufficient to enlist  the  careful  atten­
tion of  the reader.  Again, he  says,  “This 
much-talked-of advantage (referring to seal­
ed packages to retain the  strength and  aro 
ma) is, in my opinion, much  more  imagin­
ary than  real.”  And,  once  more:  “But, 
t»i my opinion, they must and ought to go.’ 
All of his arguments are reduced to opinior 
begotten of selfishness.
The  advantages  of  package  goods,  al 
though  not fully,  are  sufficiently  given  ii 
the  communications  of  Ii.  M.  and  W.  in 
your  issue  of  April  0.  They  speak  for 
themselves.  The writer is  more  interested 
in the communication  of Iiobt. J.  West,  of 
April 13, because lie  condescends  to use ar 
gument. although much  of  it  is misplaced 
Did the reader ever see an empty sugar bar­
rel put out in  the  sun  on a warm day that 
did not draw dies?  Now,  such is our friend 
West, and he’s a hummer.  There are some 
men who are always ready to air themselves, 
enter into any discussion to advertise them­
selves  and  shove  their  probosces  into  all 
kinds of sweets,  whether in or out of place; 
and  it  is therefore  well  to know  what  in­
terest  controls  any  man's  opinion.  Mr. 
West,  as we understand it,  although he was 
too modest to say so,  is  a  manufacturer  of 
small coffee roasters,  suitable for grocers to 
roast their own  coffee  in.  That  is  where 
the rat is that is  so  fragrant  to  him.  We 
would like to,  but do  not  dare,  touch upon 
the propriety of grocers roasting  their  own 
coffee. 
It has nothing to do with  the ques­
tion immediately in hand.  Neither  has the 
quality of coffees.  Choice  grades  of  Aden 
mocha have never been  put  up as  package 
goods, and, therefore,  are not under consid­
eration.  All of his allusions to  these  mat­
ters are to air  his  superficial  knowledge in 
that direction, and have  nothing to do’with 
the question as to  whether  it  is  better  to 
put  up  coffee  in  packages, as  is  now  be­
ing  done,  or  to  serve  the  consumer  with 
bulk coffee of corresponding  grades.  Any­
thing foreign to this is out  of  the question.
There are two considerations  to which he 
refers, which  are  to  the  point—“the  pro­
tecting quality of  paper”  and  “bulk  coffee 
loses its identity once it is in the hands of the 
retailer.”  Our friend West claims too much 
when he  asserts that paper is  not  air-tight 
especially such paper as coffee wrappers are 
usually made of.  They  may  not  be  prop­
erly sealed  and  sometimes  may  be  imper­
fect; but if our friend  West  were  to oe  en­
closed in an  envelope  made  of  such  paper 
and  properly sealed up,  in  a short  time  he 
would not be worth  much for selling  coffee 
roasters  or for  giving  sound  argument,  be­
cause the air could  not reach  him and there 
would  be little  chance  for even  his  aroma 
to escape. 
If  he will take an empty bag of 
such paper, without a pin hole in it, and in­
flate it and see to its being  properly sealed, 
he will be astonished to find what a  perfect 
protection it might  be.  To  broadly assert, 
therefore,  that  coffee so  packed will not be 
impervious  to  atmospheric  influence longer 
than that exposed  in  bulk  is  to  defy com­
mon sense.  He  simply does  not  want  to 
believe  what  is  reasonable.  But  package 
coffee does not need to be  placed on a shelf 
—dummies will do for  that purpose and the 
package  need  not  be  more  exposed  than 
bulk goods,  when the  best  results would be 
obtained.  We believe  that  bulk goods will 
deteriorate more in  one  week than package 
goods will in six months, if treated with the 
same  consideration.  Again,  would  our 
worthy friend dare to stake  his  reputation, 
if he lias any,  that bulk  coffee does not lose 
its identity in  the  hands of  the retailer, or 
even the jobber or manufacturer,  so  far  as 
the  purchaser  is  concerned?  He  tries  to 
make capital of this,  by insinuating against 
W.  to  curry  favor  with  the  retailer  and, 
perchance,  sell some offended grocer a small 
coffee  roaster.  His  wicked eye  is  on  the 
business side.  There is  nothing  so  patent 
as that the package with the name and trade 
mark, whether  it  be  Lion Ariosa,  XXXX 
or what not, is  a  sure  guarantee  that  the 
consumer gets  the very best  goods of  their 
kind for the  money.  What  is  the  use  of 
any man placing his  name on goods  but as 
a guarantee?  Bulk  goods  have no guaran­
tee.  The greater the  competition,  the  bet­
ter for the consumer in quality and  value of 
the package. 
It matters not what the grade 
or quality of  coffee  they  may  cover,  these 
endorsed packages  have been  the means by 
which the coffee  trade has  been  developed 
during the last twenty years beyond reason­
able computation,  and have made this coun- 
tiy  the largest  coffee  consuming country in

the world.  The  confidence  of  the  people 
has been secured,  and  in  nearly all the iso­
lated sections of  our  country roasted  coffee 
is in demand,  while formerly  it was  green. 
And the endorsed package has had nearly all 
to  do  with  the  change. 
In  conclusion,  1 
will say that I am not  a  roaster  of  coffees 
and do not sell  them  or  roasters  but  will 
sign myself 

Consumer.

DOWN IN IIOOSIKRDOM.

F.  H.  Lester, who has sent The T rades­
man dozens  of  subscribers  from  Indiana, 
writes from Orland:
Indiana merchants like your paper.  They 
say  T he  T radesm an  is  the  only  trade 
journal in  the  country that  dares  take  up 
the  subject  of  package  coffees.  All  unite 
in saying  that  an  outspoken  policy is  the 
proper method to conduct  an organ for bus­
iness men.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars  are  without  a  change.  Bio 
coffees  continue to advance, and the manu­
facturers of  package  goods have  advanced 
their price %c.

Potatoes have  sustained  an  unusual  ad­
vance during  the  week,  the  fact  that  the 
principal markets of the country are bare of 
good stock having just been disclosed.  _

Hides, Pelts and Furs.

Hides are low in  price, on  account of be­
ing  undesirable  in  quality.  Wool  is  dull 
and sluggish.

OYSTERS.

FRESH  FISH .

OYSTERS AND  FISH.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows 
New York Counts...............................
H. F. H.& Co.’s Selects........................
Anchors  ...............................................
Black  bass............................................................10
Rock bass............................................................   4
Perch.....................................................................  4
Wall-eyed  pike...................................................  7
Duck-bill  pike....................................................   7
Sturgeon...............................................................  6
Sturgeon,  smoked................................................ 8
Trout.....................................................................  0
Trout, smoked.....................................................10
Whiteflsh........ ....................................................  0
Whiteflsh, smoked.............................................. 10

PROVISIONS.

The  Grand Rapids Packing & Provision  Co. 

PORK  IN   BARRELS.

quote  as follows:
Mess, new............................................................. 17 50
Short Cut, clear................................................... 16 50
Extra clear pig, short cut................................. 17 50
Extra clear, heavy.............................................. 17 50
Clear quill, short cut..........................................17 60
Boston clear, short cut.................................17  50
Clear back, short cut....................................17 50
Standard clear, short  cut, best..................17 50
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN  BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy.................................
medium...............................
“ 
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lig h t....................................
Short Clears, heavy.................................
do.  medium...............................
light.....................................
do. 
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLAIN
“ 
16  lbs...................................... 1214
“ 
12 to 14 lbs.............................. 1294
**  picnic  ...................................................  9/4
“  best  boneless..................................   . .11
Shoulders.........................................................  814
boneless.........................................  9
Breakfast Bacon, boneless............................1014
Dried Beef, extra............................................10
ham  prices........................... ....13

Hams, average 20  fts............................  .......12

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BEEF IN BARRELS.

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

Tierces  ....................................................  
714
7%
30 and 50 lb Tubs...................................... 
3 ft Pails, 20 in a  case.............................. 
8
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case............... i ............  
794
7*4
10 lb Pails. 6 in a case.............................. 
20 ft Pails, 4 pails in case....................... 
"  796
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 lbs...........   8 50
Boneless,  extra..............................................11 50
Pork Sausage...................................................  714
Ham  Sausage.................................................. 11
Tongue  Sausage........................................... 
9
Frankfort  Sausage.........................................  8
Blood  Sausage.................................................   6
Bologna, straight............................................   6
Bologna,  thick..................................... 
6
Head  Cheese....................................................   6
In half barrels...............................................   3 00
In quarter barrels.........................................  165

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

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HIDES, PELTS  AND  FURS.

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

HIDES.

Green .... $  ft 554@  6  Calf skins, green 
Part cured...  7  @  714  or cured—   7  @  8 
Fullcured....  754®  8  Deacon skins,
Dry hides and 
A piece.......20  @50

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

SHEEP PELTS.

FURS.

WOOL.

Old wool, estimated washed $  ft........25  @26
Tallow......................................................  3  @314
Fine washed $  ft 25@26|Coarse washed.. ,20@24
Medium  ............. 27@30|Unwashed............ 
2-3
Bear  .................................................... 10 00@25 00.
4 00@  6 00 
Beaver................
75@ 1 00 
Badger................
50@  75
Wild Cat...............
20 
10@  
House Cat...........
1 00@  1 50
Fox, red...............
3 00@ 5 00
“  cross...........
1 00@ 1 25
“  gray ...........
4 00@  8 00 
Fisher..................
3 00@ 6 00
L ynx....................
20®  60 
Mink....................
75@ 1 00
Martin................
5 00® 8 00
Otter....................
4(-@  90
Coon.  ..................
@  90
Skunk..................
2 00® 3 00
Wolf.....................
@ 
12 
Muskrat, winter.
06®  08 
fall........
@  16 
spring... 
5®  25

These prices are for prime skins only.

Deer,  $  ft

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OILS.

ILLUMINATING.

Water White...................................................  1154
Michigan  Test.................................................1054
Ethaline............................................................1254
Ruby.................................................................12

LUBRICATING.

Gasoline............................................ ...............1154
Capitol Cylinder.............................................36)4
Model  Cylinder...............................................3154
Shield  Cylinder...............................................2654
Eldorado  Engine............................................23
Peerless  Machinery.......................................20
Challenge Machinery.....................................19
Paraffine  ..........................................................2054
Black. Summer, West  Virginia....................9
Black, 25° to 30°........................................... 10
Black, 15® C.  T.............................................. 11
Zero..................................................................1254

FIELD  SEEDS.

Clover,  mammoth..................................4 25@4 50
“  medium.....................................4 25@4 50
Timothy, prime.......................................1 90@2 00

Garden Seeds a Specialty.
in Michigan.  Don’t Buy un­

The Most Complete Assortment 

til  you  get  my prices.

ALFRED J.BROWN
16-18 N. DivisionSt.,GrandRaBids

Representing Jas. Vick, of Rochester.

Groceries.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Therite  prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.

AXLE  GREASE.

Crown  ....................  80
Frazer’s ................. 
90
Diamond  X ...........   60
Modoc, 4  doz..........2 50

Paragon  ................ 2 10
Paragon 25 ft pails.  90 
Fraziers,25ft pails. 1 25

“  2  “ 
1  “ 

BAKING  POWDER.
Acme, )4 ft cans, 3 doz. case.. ..
54 ft 
....
....
2 ft  “ 
B ulk...............................
Princess,  54s...............................
54s...............................
Is...............................
bulk...........................
Arctic, 54 ft cans, 6 doz. case...

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BLUINO

............................12 0(1
Victorian, I ft cans, (tall,) 2 doz..................2 00
Diamond,  “bulk,” .........................................  
15
25
Dry, No. 2............................................ doz. 
45
Dry, No. 3............................................doz. 
35
Liquid, 4 oz,.......................... 
doz. 
Liquid, 8 oz......................................... doz. 
65_
Arctic 4 oz.........................................$   gross 3 50
Arctic 8  oz...........................................................  7 20
Arctic 16 oz.......................................................12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box......................................2 00
 
Arctic No. 2 
3 00
Arctic No. 3 
.................................. 4 00

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BROOMS.

o. 2 Hurl...............1  75 Common Whisk___  90
No. 1 Hurl__ 2 00@3 25 Fancy Whisk..........1  00
No. 2Carpet...........2 25 Mill...........................3  75
No. 1 Carpet........... 2 50 Warehouse  ............ 2 75
Parlor  Gera...........3 00

CANNED FISH .

Clams. 1 ft. Little Neck............................... 1  10
Clam Chowder,  3 ft.....................................2  15
Cove Oysters, 1  ft  standards.....................   90
Cove Oysters, 2 ft  standards....................  1 75
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic.....................................1  75
Lobsters, 2 ft, picnic.................................... 2 65
Lobsters, 1 ft star.........................................2 00
Lobsters. 2 ft star..........................................3 00
Mackerel, 1ft  fresh  standards.................1  45
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards,.................5 25
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 ft................ 3 50
Mackerel,3 1b in Mustard.............................3 50
Mackerel. 3 ft  soused............................. 
.3 50
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river........................1  70
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river........................3 00
Sardines, domestic 54s................................. 6@7
Sardines,  domestic  54s..............................  10® 12
Sardines,  Mustard  54s...................................9@11
Sardines,  imported  )4s................................12@13
Trout. 3 ft  brook......................................  
  4 

CANNED FRUITS.

1 26@1  80

Apples, gallons, standards.........................3 25
lackberries. standards..............................  90
Cherries,  red  standard................................1 10
DamBons........................................................ 100
.............................. 1 25
Egg Plums, standards 
Gooseberries...................................................95@1 00
reen Gages.standards2ft.......................1 25
Peaches, Extra Yellow...............................1 75
Peaches, standards..................................... 1 55
Peaches,  seconds........................................ 1 45
Peaches, pie.................................................. 1  10
Pineapples, standards................................ 1 40
Pineapples, Johnson’s sliced.....................2 60
Pineapples, Johnson’s, grated..................2 75
Quinces..........................................................115
Raspberries,  extra...................................... 1 25
red......................................... 1 35
Strawberries  .................................. . 
Whortleberries............................................   90
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay................................2 00
Beans, Lima,  standard...............................   75
Beans, Stringless, Erio...............................   90
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked.................... 1  70
3om,  Archer’s Trophy...............................1  15
Morning  Glory.................................3  10
Acme............. ........................  ..........
Maple Leaf.........................................
Excelsior............................................1 20
Onondaga.......................................... 1 35
Darby.................................................1 60 
Osborn............................................... 1 00
New  Process..................................... 1 00
Bartlett............................................. 1  10
Peas, French.................................................1 50
Peas, extra marrofat............................1  20® l  40
Peas,  soaked.................................................   75
Early June, stand.......................1 50@1  75
sifted...............................2 00
French, extra flue...............................20 00
Mushrooms, extra  fine..............................20 00
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden.................................1 00
Succotash, standard.................................80@1  30
Squash......................................................... 1 00
Tomatoes, standard brands......................1 20
Hchigan full  cream............................ 1354®14
York  State, Acme.................................  ®
Wilbur’s  Premium..35IGerman Sweet.......... 23
Sweet........251 Vienna Sweet  ...........22
B’kf’tCocoa 45 Baker’s ......................37
Cocoa-theta42 Runkles’ .................... 35
Vanilla Bar 281

CHOCOLATE.

CHEESE.

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Schepps, Is..............................................  @25
Is and  54s ...............................   @26
5is............................................   @27
Is in tin  pails.........................  @2754
54s 
@2854
Maltby’s,  Is............................................   @2354
Is and  54s...................  .......  @24
54s...........................................  @2454
Manhattan,  pails..................................   @20
Peerless  .................................................   @18
60 ft s 100 tbs 300 fts

COFFEES—PACKAGE.

Lion...............................
Lion,  in  cabinets........
X X X X ............................ ............. 2196 2154  21 'A
Arbuckle’s  ..................
............. 2196 2154  21)4
Dilworth’s ....................
Standard  .....................
German........................
German, in  bins..........
Magnolia.......................
Royal.............................
Eagle.............................
M exican.......................

2196
2154
21)4
2154
2154
2096  20
............. 2154 2054  20
18 
18
............. 18
Roasted.

COFB'EES.

21)4
22

Green.

Rio............... 18  @1954

Golden Rio...17  @18 Golden Rio..
@20
Santos........... 16  @17
Maricabo................ 18 Maricabo__ ...21@22
Java............. .  .  @28
J a v a ................   @20
0. G. Java... .29  @30
O. G.Java........  @25
Mocha  ....................23 Mocha.......... .27  @28
50 foot Cotton__ 1 60
60 foot Jute.......1  00
60 foot Cotton__ 1  75
72 foot J u te .......1  25
72 foot Cotton__ 2 00
40FootCottou— 1 50

CORDAGE.

CRACKERS  AND  SWEET  GOODS.

X  XXX  $ ft
654

754

7
7

454

854

5
5
5
5

554
7

4)4
5

7
8
8
1154
954
1554

8
8
8
1254
854

Kenosha Butter...........
Seymour Butter..........
Butter............................
Fancy  Butter............... ...........  
S.  Oyster.......................
Picnic............................
Fancy  Oyster............... ............ 
Fancy  Soda.................. ........ 
City Soda.......................
Soda  .............................
Milk...............................
Boston..........................
Graham.........................
Oat  Meal.......................
Pretzels, hand-made...
Pretzels.........................
Cracknels.....................
Lemon Cream...............
Sugar Cream................ ............ 
FroBted Cream.............
Ginger  Snaps............... ...........  
No. 1 Ginger Snaps__
Lemon  Snaps...............
Coffee Cakes..,..........
1354
Lemon Wafers...........
Jumbles........................
1154
Extra Honey Jumbles
1254
Frosted Honey  Cakes
1354
Cream  Gems...............
1354
Bagleys  Gems...........
1354
Seed Cakes..................
1254
S. &  M. Cakes.............
854
..22  @  25
Citron..........................
Currants........... .....................................  @6
Lemon Peel.................................... . 
@  14
Orange Peel............................................   @  14
Prunes, French, 60s...............................  @13
French, 80s...............................   @10
French,  90s..............................  @7
Prunes, Turkey......................................  @6
Raisins, Dehesia....................................3 50@5 00
Raisins, London Layers.......................   @2 50
....................... 1 50@1 90
Raisins, California  “ 
Raisins, Loose Muscatels.....................   @1 50
Raisins, Ondaras, 28s............................  8J4@  854
Raisins. Sultanas.................................   854® 9
Raisins,  Valencia, new.........................  654® 6M
Raisins,  Imperials.................................  @3 00
Prunes, Bohemia..................................  
5)54

DRIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN

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f

FISH.

Cod, whole.....................................................5@5*4
Cod, boneless.............................................. 554@654
H alibut.....................................................854@1C54
Herring, round.  54" bbl.........................  @2 00
Herring .round,  54  bbl...............................  1  75
Herring, Holland,  bbls.............................11  00
Herring, Holland,  kegs..........................   75®  80
Herring, 8caled........................................... 18@20
Mackerel, shore, No. 1,54 bbls..................  10 60
“ 
.........   1  50
...............1  25
“ 
No. 3, 54 bbls................................6 50
Sardines,  spiced, 54s.................................... 10@12
Trout, 54  bbls............................................... 6 (O
“  101b  kits............................................   95
White, No. 1,54 bbls....................................7 50
White, No. 1,12  ft kits.................................1  10
White, No. 1,101b kits.................................1  00
White, Family, 54 bbls................................ 3 50
kits......................................  75

“ 
“  10  ** 

121b kits 

“ 
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

“ 
“ 
** 

** 

“ 

54 
1 

Lemon.

“ 
“ 
“ 
1 40
“ 
2 40
*• 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Vanilla.
Jennings’ D. C., 2 oz...............$  doz.  1 00
1  6C
4 oz............................1 60
2 65
“  6 oz............................2 50
4 25
“  8 oz............................3 50
5 00 
“ 
No. 2 Taper......... 125
1  75
............. 1 75
No. 4 “ 
“ 
3 00 
pint, round..................4 
“ 
9 00
18 00 
“ 
“
..........9 00
No. 3 panel..........1  10
“ 
1  85 
No. 8 ** 
...............2 75
“ 
5 00 
“ 
No. 10 “ 
...............4 25
7  00
MATCHES.
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square........................   96
Grand Ha /en, No 9, square, 3 gro...................... 1 15
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor...........................1 75
Grand  Haven,  No. 300, parlor.......................... 2 25
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round.............................. 1 50
Oshkosh, No. 2.................................................1 00
Oshkosh, No.  8.................................................1 50
Swedish............................................................   75
Richardson’s No. 8  square........................... 100
.............................150
Richardson’s No. 9 
Richardson’s No. 754, round..........................1 00
Richardson’s No. 7 
............................1 50
Woodbine. 300........................................................ l 15
Black Strap................................................... 16@18
Cuba Baking..................................................25@28
Porto  Rico.....................................................24@30
New  Orleans, good......................................28@34
New Orleans, choice.....................................44@50
New Orleans,  fancy.....................................52@55

MOLASSES.

do 
do 

> 

54 bbls. 2c extra

I 

...  3 00 

OATMEAL 

“  54  “ 
*•  cases 2 25@3 25| 

ROLLED  OATS
Muscatine, bbls__ 5 50 Muscatine, bbls__ 5 50
** 
....3  00
“  cases 2 25@3 25
PICKLES.
Medium........................*.......   ...............  @7 00
54 bbl.............................................  @4 00
Small,  bbl...................................................  @8 50
54 bbl..............................................   @4 75

“ 
“ 

54  “ 

PIPES.

00

RICE.

Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross............  @2 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,254 gross........   @1  75
American T.D...........................................  @ 75
Choice Carolina.......654|Java  .................  
Prime Carolina.......554 P atna.....................r .554
Good Carolina....... 454  Rangoon........................ @554
Good Louisiana......5  Broken...............354@3)4
Table  .......................6  Japan........................ 7
DeLand’s pure........554¡Dwight’s ................... 5
Church’s  .................5  Sea  Foam..................5)4
Taylor’s G. M..........5  ICap Sheaf..................5

SALERATUS.

6

54c less in 5 box lots.

“ 

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................ 
28 Pocket................................................. 
1003 ft  pockets.......................................  
Saginaw or Manistee............................ 
10 bbl. lots........  
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........ 
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags.... 
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........  
American, dairy, 54 bu. bags............... 
Rock, bushels......................................... 
Warsaw, Dairy, bu.  bags.....................  

“ 

2  i5
2  10
2 25
75
70
80
3  15
75
20
21
40

SAUCES.

SOAPS.

Parisian, 54  pints..................................   @2  00
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................  @  70
Pepper Sauce, g reen ............................  @  80
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring.............   @1 25
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........  @1 50
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................  @  90
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts........ .,...........  @120
Halford Sauce, pints............................  @3 50
Halford Sauce, 54 pints.........................  @2 20
Acorn......................3 851 Extra Chicago Pam-
Master  .................... 4  00 
ily .........................2 94
New Process, .1  ft..3 85 Napkin.................... 4  75
New Process, 3 lb..3 96|Towel......................4  75
Acme,  bars........... 3 55 White  Marseilles..5 50
Acme,  blocks.......  3 05!White Cotton  Oil..5 50
Best  American__ 2 93|Railroad................. 3 50
Circus  .................... 3 70 U.  G..............................3 45
Big Five  Center.. .3 85 Mystic White.......... 4 66
Nickel.....................3  45 Saxon  Blue............ 2 60
Shamrock.............. 3  15 Star..............................3 75
Blue Danube.........2 55 ¡London Family___ 2 30
 
Allspice............................................... 
Cassia, China in mats............................ 
7
It
“  Batavia in bundles.................. 
“  Saigon in rolls..........................  
42
Cloves, Amboyna..................................  
30
“  Zanzibar....................................  
29
Mace Batavia................................................ 
65
Nutmegs,  fancy.................................... 
No. 1....................................... 
60
No. 2.......................................  
55
Pepper, Singapore,  black.................... 
18
w hite..................  
29

SPICES—WHOLE.

“ 
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“ 
SPICES—PURE  GROUND.

“ 

“ 

*• 

“ 
“ 

Allspice.........................................................  
Cassia,  Batavia............................................. 

and  Saigon................... 
“ 
Saigon...................................... 
*• 
Cloves, Amboyna.........................................  
“  Zanzibar.......................  
 
 
Ginger, African..................................... 
 
**  Cochin............................... ,.......  
Jamaica.................................... 
“ 
Mace Batavia................................................ 
Mustard,  English..................................  
and Trieste.............. 
Trieste..................................... 
Nutmegs,  No. 2...................................... 
Pepper, Singapore black............................  
white.....................  
“ 
“  Cayenne...................................  
STARCH.

25
45
34
12
15
22
20
22
25
60
35
25
Muzzy, Gloss, 48 ft boxes, 1  ft  pkgs...  ® 5)4
48“ 
“ 
...  @554
  @4
40 ft 
“ 
72 ft crates, 6 ft boxes..  @ 6)4
“ 
**  Corn, 40 ft boxes, 1 ft pkgs__   @ 6
1ft 
20 ft 
@6)4
“ 
“ 
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1 ft pkgs__   @7
“ 
“ 
6 ft boxes...  @754
“ 
*•  b u lk ...........  ® 654
Pure, 1 ft pkgs...................   @ 554
Corn, 1  ft pkgs...................   @7
Royal, Gloss, 1 ft packages..................  @ 544
“ 
© 4
“  Corn...........................................  @6
Firmenieh, new process, gloss, 1ft__   @554
“ 
3 ft....  @554
“ 
  @ 6)4
6 ft 
“ bulk, boxes or bbls  @ 4
“  corn. 1 ft................  @6
corn.......................................  @ 6

Niagara,  gloss.......................................   @ 554

bulk...............................  

“  3ft 
“ 
“  bulk 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

SUGARS.

Cut  Loaf.................................................  @  696
Cubes......................................................   @ 6%
Powdered....................................... 
  @  6%
Granulated,  Standard.........................  6 06® 654
Confectionery A....................................   @554
Standard A........ .................:.................   @ 594
No. 1, White Extra  C............................  554®  514
No. 2, Extra C.........................................  5  @5*4
No. 3 C......................................................  @454
No.4 C.....................................................  @494
No.5C......................................................   @454
25@27
Corn,  barrels  .... * .............................. 
Corn, 54 bbls............................................ 
27@29
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...............................  
@30
@32
Corn, 5 gallon kegs................................. 
Pure Sugar, bbl.....................................  
23@85
Pure Sugar, 54 bbl................................... 
25@37
TOBACCO—FINE CUT-IN PAILS.

SYRUPS.

Uncle Tom.................37|Cinderella...................25
What Is It?................ 25 Hi  There.....................30
Cherry.......................60 Red Cap...................... 55
Five and  Seven........ 45 CrossCut.....................36
Magnet.......................26]Old Jim........................35
Seal of Detroit..........60 Old Time.....................30
Jim Dandy................ 38 Underwood’sCapper35
Our  Bird....................25 Sweet  Rose................45
Brother  Jonathan.. .27 Meigs & Co.’s Stunner35
Jolly  Time................ 36 Atlas............................35
Our  Leader...............33 Royal Game................38
Sweet  Rose.............. 32jMule Ear.....................65
May  Queen.............. 65 Fountain.....................74
Dark AmericanEagle671 Old Congress..............64
The Meigs..................60|Good Luck..
Red  Bird................... 50 Blaze Away................ 35
Prairie F low er........65jHair Lifter..................30
Indian Queen...........60|Hiawatha....................62
May Flower.............. 70 G lobe.......................... 65
Sweet  Pippin...........45 Crown  Leaf................ 66
Hustler.....................22 Sunset......................... 35
Bad Boy.....................361
Our  Leader............... 16
Mayflower.................23
Globe...........................22
Mule Ear.................... 23

Hiawatha...................22
Old Congress..............23
May  Leaf...................22
Dark...........................20

SHORTS.

PLUG.

50

SMOKING

Eye Opener...............251 Blue  Blazes..............  25
Pauper  .....................31 Capper........................85
Peach  Pie..................8t Jupiter  .......................25
Star 
.................39 Night Cap.....................22
Old Solder..................37¡Splendid...................  38
Clipper  ..................... 84|RedFo-Y.......................40
Cornerstone.............34,Big  Drive....................40
Scalping  Knife........34 Chocolate  Cream___40
Sam Boss..................  34 Nimrod......................35
N e x t..........................29 Big Five Center..........33
Jolly  Time................ 32 Parrot..............:........42
Favorite  ....................42 Buster........................ 85
Black  Bird................32 Black Prince...............35
Live and Let  Live...32 Black  Racer............. 35
Quaker.......................28 Climax  .......................42
Big  Nig.....................37¡Acorn  ........................ 39
Spear  Head.............. 39 Horse  Shoe................ 37
P.  V.................. >....... 36 Vinoo......................... 34
Spring Chicken........36 Merry War..................28
Eclipse  ..................... 30 Ben  Franklin.............32
Turkey.......................39 Moxie.......................... 34
Q. & Q..........................24 Black Jack..................32
Lark........................... 22 iMusselman’s Corker. 30
Yum  Yum................30 P u re............................15
Our  Leader.............. 15 Star..............................20
Old Vet...................... 30 Unit  ............................30
Big Deal.....................27| Eight  Hours..............24
Navy Clippings........26 Lucky  .........................30
Leader...................... 15 Two  Nickel.................24
Hard  Tack................36 Duke’s  Durham........ 40
D ixie......................... 26; Green CornCob Pipe 28
Old Tar...................... 40 Owl.  .......................TT.16
Arthur’s  Choice......22; Rob Roy.......................24
Red Fox.....................26! Uncle  Sam........: ___ :27
Gold Dust................. 26 Lumberman...............25
Gold  Block................30: Railroad Boy...............36
Seal of Grand Rapids  Mountain Rose..........]8
(cloth)..................25 Home Comfort............25
Miners and Puddlers.28 Old Rip...................... 60
Peerless  ....................24; Seal of North Caro-
Standard ....................20  Una, 2  oz..............  48
Old Tom...................20 Seal of North  Caro-’ ’
lina, 4oz....................48
Tom & Jerry............ 241 
Joker......................... 251Seal of North  Caro-
Traveler...................35 
lina, 8 oz....................45
Maiden.......................25 Seal of North  Caro-
Pickwick Club.........40 
lina, 16oz boxes....42
Nigger Head............ 26 King Bee, longcut...22
Holland.................... 22 Sweet Lotus.................33
German.................... 15 Grayling..................... 33
K. of  L........ .... ,42@46 Seal Skin....................30
Honey  Dew..............25 Red Clover................. .'33
Colonel’s  Choice.......15 Good  Luck..................28
Queen  Bee............... 22 Navy........................!"3Q
Blue  Wing2..............301
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen........................ 72
**  ;  Maccoboy.......... :................  ©  55
„ 
Gail & Ax 
©  44
Rappee.................................  @  35
“ 
Railroad  Mills  Scotch..........................   @  45
Lotzbeck  ...............................................   @1 30
Japan ordinary............................................18@20
Japan fair to good.......................................25@30
Japan fine......................................................35@45
Japan dust.................................................... 15@20
Young Hyson...............................................20@45
GunPowder...................................................... 36® 50
Oolong.....................................................33@55@6G
Congo............................................................ 25@30
60 gr.
w ,  ..  w . 
10
Cider..............................................  08 
York State Apple......................... 
jg
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bath Brick imported............................ 
American.......................... 
Burners,  No. 0..........................  

90
do 
75
©70
do  No. 1..................................................so
do  No. 2........................................ 
90
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand.............   @7  70
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.
@25 
Candles, Star............................
@11 
Candles.  Hotel.........................
@12 
Camphor, oz., 2 ft boxes........
@35 
Extract Coffee, V.  C...............
@80 
F elix............
@1  20 
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps........
@25 
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. 
...
@35 
Glim, Spruce............................
30@35 
Hominy, $  bbl........................
@3 00 
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails..................
5  @ 554 
Pearl  Barley............................
294© 3 
Peas, Green  Bush..................
@1  15 
Peas, Split  Prepared.............
@ 3 
Powder, Keg............................
@5 OO 
Powder, 54  Keg.......................
@2 75 
Sage  .........................................
@  1» 
Sago  ........................................
© 7 
Tapioco.................................. .
@  7

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

VINEOAR.

30 gr. 

SNUFF.

TEAS.

do 

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CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

do 
do 

FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.
 

STICK.
Standard, 25 ft boxes.............................   8*4® 9
.............................   ®  9
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
®io
MIXED
Royal, 25 ft  pails....................................  @  9
Royal, 200 ft bbls....................................  ©  8
Extra, 25 ft  pails....................................  ®io
Extra. M0 ft bbls....................................  @  9
French Cream, 25 ft pails.....................   @115^
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases...............................   @10
Broken, 25  ft  pails.................................  @|©
Broken. 200 ft  bbls................................. 
© 9
Lemon  Drops............................ 
  @12-
Sour Drops.................................................  @13
Peppermint  Drops..................................   ©13
Chocolate  Drops.......................................  
14
60
18
H M Chocolate  Drops.............................. 
Glim  Drops  .............................................. 
10
Licorice Drops........................................... 
22
A B  Licorice  Drops................................. 
12
Lozenges, plain......................................... 
14
Lozenges,  printed....................................  
15
14
Imperials................................................... 
11
Mottoes...................................................... 
if,
16
Cream  Bar.................................................  
12
Molasses Bar.............................................. 
12
Caramels..................................................... 
18
35
Hand Made Creams..................................  
18
Plain  Creams............................................  
16
20
Decorated Creams.................................... 
String Rock................... 
 
13
Burnt Almonds...................................... 
22
70
Wintergreen  Berries............................... 
14
Lozenges, plain in  pails.......................
Lozenges, plain in  bbls.........................
Lozenges, printed in pails....................
21
Lozenges, printed in  bbls....................
Chocolate Drops, in pails.....................
Gum  Drops  in pails.............................
Gum Drops, in bbls...............................
Moss Drops, in  pails.............................   9
Moss Drops, in bbls  ..............................
Sour Drops, in  pails.............................
Imperials, in  pails.................................
Imperials  in bbls.................................
Bananas  Aspinwall...............
)ranges, California, fancy...
)ranges, California,  choice..
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls..........
Oranges, Florida.....................
Jranges, Valencia, cases.......
Oranges, Messina....................
@3 75 
Oranges, OO.............................
@3 75 
Oranges, Imperials
@ 4  50
Lemons, choice..................................... 4 25@4 50
Lemons, fancy,
@4 50
Lemons, California...............
Figs, layers, new,  $  ft..........
@15 @  8 
Figs, Bags, 50 ft.....................
Dates, frails do  ....................
®> 554 
Dates, 54 do  d o ....................
@ 654
Dates, skin.............................
Dates, 54  skin.........................
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft...
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  ft__
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $  ft.
Pine Apples, $  doz...............

@11*4
©10&
@1254
@1154
@1254
@ 654
© 554
@10
@ 9
@12
@1254
@1154
50@3 00

95s@10 
@ 8
7  @754

FANCY—IN  BULK.

FRUITS.

........ 10

 

“ 
“ 

NUTS.
Almonds,  Tarragona........
Ivaca..................
California........
Brazils.................................
Chestnuts, per bu..............
Filberts, Sicily....................
Barcelona...........
Walnuts,  Grenoble...........
Sicily..................
French...............
California..........
Missouri.............

“ 
“ 
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“ 
“ 

Cocoanuts, $  100.....................
PEANUTS.
Prime  Red, raw  $   ft...........
Choice 
do  ............
Fancy H.P. do 
do  ........... .
Choice White, Va.do  ............
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ...........
H. P. Va..................................

do 

..1754@18
@17
@17
@10
. ,1054®11
@ 9
..15  @17
15
11

...8  @  9

50@6 00
@ 4 
@ 454 
434® 5 
@ 5)4 @ 6 
594® 6

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling
prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides......................... ........  554® 754
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters........ ........   754® 9
Dressed  Hogs............................... ........   @ 7
Mutton........................................... ........ 8  © 9
Lamb  ............................................ ........  8 @ 9
Veal................................................ ........ 7  @754
Pork Sausage............................... ........   @ 8
Bologna......................................... ........   @ 6
Fowls.............................................. ........ 12  @13
Ducks  ........................................... ........   @
Turkeys  ........................................ ........ 12  @13
Lard,  kettle-rendered................ ........  @8

NOTICE.

To Restore  Lands to the  Public  Domain.
Pursuant to instructions from the  Commis­
sioner of the General Land Office, dated March 
8.1887, the following  lands will be  restored  to 
the public domain and become  subject  to set­
tlement and  entry  as  other  unoffered  public 
lands, and rated at $2.50 per acre.  That on the 
25th day of April, 1887, at  2  o’clock p. m.,  said 
lands will be subject to entry.

The lands to be restored are as follows:

NORTH  O F BASK  LIN E  AND  W EST  O F  MICHIGAN  PRINCIPAL

MERIDIAN.

“ 
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PARTS  OE  SECTION 

SEC
All Of............................... 
1
............................. 
3
...............................  11
...............................  13
...............................  15
...............................  23
27
35
W54  of  ne)4, nw)4  and
3
e54  of  8w)4..................
5
All o f...............................
7
W54  ne*4,  se)4  of  ne54
and s54..........................
9
Sw)4 of nw)4 and s54 — 11
13
All ot...............................
15
E54 of ne54 and se)4.......
N54 of  ne)4  and  n)4  of
17
nw)4.............................
19
All o f..............................
W54 of se54,ne54 andw54 23
E54 of nw)4 and  «54....... 25
35
All o f.............................
Nw)4, n54, sw)4  and n54
25
of se)4..........................
S54  o f........  ......................... 31
33
AÌÌ of  .............................
35
W54 of nw)4....................

TOWN
34
34
34
84
34
34
34
34
34
35
85
35
35
35
35

35
35
35
35
35
36
36
36
36
36

RANGE  ACRES
642.75 
4 
I 
631,63 
4 
640.00 
4 
640.00 
640.00 
4 
640.00 
4 
640.00
4 
640.00
4
640.00
4
335.78
4
4
643.20
621.82
4
440.00
4
360.00
4
640.00
4
4
210.00
160.00
4
96.17
4
560.00
4
400.00
4
506.56
320.00
320.00
311.85
640.00
80.00
12.426.66

4
4
4
4

U. S. Land  Office,

Reed City, Mich., March  It, 1887.
H.  C.  Mitchell, 

Nathaniel Clark,

Register.

Receiver.

Reed City, Mich., April 13,1887. 

All  action  under  restoration  ordered  by 
Hon. Commissioner, Wm. A. J.  Sparks,  letter 
of March 8.1887, is suspended until further or­
ders,
W. H. C. Mitchell, 

Nathaniel Clark,

Register.

Receiver.

The universal sale  of  “Tansill’s  Punch” 
5-cent cigar  is  proof  of  its  extraordinary 
merit.  The  live  dealer  will  always  avail 
himself of an  opportunity  to  make money. 
The  “Tansill’s  Punch”  is  unquestionably 
the most profitable cigar to  handle, as dem­
onstrated by the testimony of  their  numer­
ous agents located in every state  and  terri­
tory.—New England Grocer.

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—Good  fruit isjscarce,  readily  bring­

ing  $3@$3.50 per bbl.  Fancy, $4.

RutalBagas—$1 $  bbl.
Beans—Looking up.  Country  hand - picked 
are  held at  *1  $  bu., and  city picked  are  in 
fair demand at $1.30.

Beets—45c $  bu.
Buckwheat—254c $  lb.
Butter—Not so scarce.  Jobbers are now pay­

ing 17c. and selling for 18c.

Cabbages—90c $  doz.
Carrots—35c $   bu.
Celery—No good stock in market.
Cheese—Fall stock of Michigan full cream is 

firm at 13!4@14c.

Cider—1214c $  gal.
Cucumbers—$1.20 $  doz.
Dried Apples—Evaporated, 13c $  ft: quarter­

ed and sliced, 6@7c $  1b.

Dried Peaches—Pared. 14c.
Eggs—Jobbers  aro  paying  10c  and  selling 

for ll@ll54c.

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

per ton  in two and  five  ton  lots  and  $13 
car lots.

is  moderately  active  at  $14 
in 

Lettuce—16c $  lb.
Maple Sugar—10c $  lb.
Onions—Old  stock,  85c.  $   bu.  Bermudas, 

$2.75 per crate.  Spring, 20c $  doz.

Parsley—25c $   doz
Peas—$2 $  crate.
Potatoes—Buyers are  paying 50-55c  for  Bur­
banks  and  55-60c  for  Rose and  White  Star. 
Southern Rose, $5 $  bbl.

Pop Coru»-254c $  ft.
Pieplant—4c $  1b.
Parsnips—$1.75 per bbl.
Rutabagas—$1 $  bbl.
Radishes—35-40c $  doz.
Spinach—90c$ bu.
Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys $i 50 $   bbl.
Strawberries—30c $  qt-
String Beans—# 1.75 $  box.
Tomatoes—$1.50 $  box.
Vegetable Oysters—30c $  doz.
Wheat—Steady.  City  millers  pay  78  cents 
for Lancaster and 75  for  Fulse  and  Clawson.
Corn—Jobbing  generally  at  45c  in  100  bu. 
lots and 40c in carlots.
Oats—White, 36c in small lots  and 30@31c  in 
car lots.
Rye—48@50c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 $  cwt.
Flour—No change. Patent,$4.80$ bbl.in sacks 
and  $5.00  in  wood.  Straight,  $4.00 $  bbl. in 
sacks and $4.20 in  wood.

grains and milling products.

Meal—Bolted, $2.40 $  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $13  $  ton.  Bran, $15 
$ to n .  Ships, $15 $  ton.  Middlings, $16 $  ton. 
Corn and Oats, $17  $  ton.

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FRUITS

PRODUCE,  NUTS,  BER R IES,  ETC. 

Consignments Solicited.

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

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OLD  BARRELS

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

Lion  Coffee  Cabinet

Of which  the  aceompt 
idea.  In this cabinet i 
of Lion Coffee, and 
enabling the grocer to 
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leeuro  these  cabinets  w ithout] 
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lined  and  varnished,  and  are 
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This Coffee Cabinet Given Away.

A  GOOD  BREAKFAST

Is  ALWAYS  possible when a good cup of cof 
fee  is  served.  The  grocer  who  sells  LION 
COFFEE  to  his  trade  can 
invariably  se 
cure  this  result  to  them.  LION  COFFEE 
is always uniform;  contains strength, flavor and 
true  merit; 
is  a  successful  blend  of  Mocha 
Java and liio.  Packed only  in  one-pound  air 
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  orde 
for a cabinet filled with  LION  COFFEE.

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For sale  by  all  Wholesale  Grocers  every 

where, and by the

Woolson Spice Go.
OTTENDERffS  CIGARS.

92 to  108  Oak St., Toledo, Ohio

10 cents. 
Hazel Kirke 
La Rosa Celeste}
Sweet CatawbaJ 5 cents.

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

5   a n d  l O   O e x v t  C i g a r s

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

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

SOLE AGENTS

XX. Treusch,
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Brugs & ílfoebicines

State  Board  of Pharm acy. 

One Y ear—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Two Y ears—Jam es Yernor, Detroit.
Three Years—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor. 
Four Y ears—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
Five Years—Stanley K. P arked, Owosso. 
P resident—O ttm ar  Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
T reasurer—Jos. Vernor.
Next M eeting—At D etroit, Ju ly  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. 
Third Vice-President—F rank lnglis, D etroit. 
Secretary—8. E. P ar kill, Owosso.
Treasurer—Win. Dupont, D etroit.
Executive Com m ittee—Geo. W. C router, J. G. Johnson.
Local Secretary—Guy M. Harwood, Petoskey.
Next Place of Meeting—At  Petoskey, July 12, IS and li.

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

Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical  Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER  9, 1881.

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President—Geo. G. Stekettee.
Vice-President—H.  E. Locher.
Secretary—F rank H. Escott.
T reasurer—H enry  B. Fairchild.
Board of  Censors—President,  Vice-President  and  Sec­
retary . 
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Board of Trustees—The President,  John E. Peck,  M.  B. 
Kimm.W m. H. VanLeeuwen and O. H. Richmond, 
wen, Isaac W atts. Wm. E. W hite and Win.  L.  W hite. 
Com m ittee on Trade M atters—John E. Peck, H. B. Fair- 
Child and Hugo  Thum.
Com m ittee  on  L eglslation-R .  A.  McWilliams,  Theo.
Kemink and W. H. Tibbs. 
Com m ittee on Pharm acy—W. L. W hite, A. C. Bauer and 
Isaac W atts. 
.
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R egular  Meetings—F irst  Thursday  evening  in  each 
m onth. 
.  „  
Annual Meeting—F irst Thursday evening in November 
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  May  5, 
a t  The 

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T r a d e s m a n   office.

D etroit  Pharm aceutical  Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER, 1883.

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President—A. F.  Parker.
F irst Vice-President—F rank  lnglis.
Second Vice-President—J. C. Mueller. 
Secretary and Treasurer—A. W. Allen.
A ssistant Secretary and T reasurer—H. McRae. 
Annual Meeting—F irst Wednesday in June.
R egular Meetings—F irst Wednesday in each  m onth.
Central  M ichigan  Druggist«’  Association, 
President, J. W. Dunlop;  Secretary, R.  M. Mussel!.
B errien  County  Pharm aceutical  Society. 
President, H. M. Dean;  Secretary, H enry K ephart.

Clinton  County  D ruggists’  Association. 

President, A. O. H unt;  Secretary, A. S.  W allace.

•Jackson  County  Pharm aceutical  Ass’n. 

President, R. F. Latim er;  Secretary, F.  A. King.

Mason County  P harm aceutical  Society. 

President, F. N. Latim er;  Secretary, Wm. H eysett.
Mecosta  County  P harm aceutical  Society. 
President, C. H. W agener;  Secretary, A. H. W ebber.

Monroe  County  P harm aceutical Society. 

President, S. M. Sackett;  Secretary, Julius Weiss.
M uskegon  County  D ruggists’  Association, 
President, W. B. Wilson;  Secretary, Geo. W heeler.

M uskegon  D rug  Clerks’  Association. 

President, I. C. Terry;  Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre.
Newaygo  County  Pharm aceutical  Society. 
President, J. F. A. Raider; Secretary, N. N. Miller.

Oceana County Pharm aceutical Society. 

President, F. W. Fincher;  Secretary, F rank Cady.
Saginaw  County  Pharm aceutical  Society. 
President, Jay   Sm ith;  Secretary,  D. E. Prall.
Shiawassee County P harm aceutical Society
Tuscola County Pharm aceutical Society. 

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

A  DOLEFUL  DRUGGIST.

He Tells of His Benefactions to Humanity 

and Bemoans  its  Ingratitude.

“Oh, yes, drugs have come down in price 
a great deal in the last  year  or  two,”  said 
au  up-town  dispenser  of  health-restoring 
compounds,  as he glanced sadly at the price 
list in front of his door.  “The  bottom  has 
fallen out  of  everything.  Not  only  stan­
dard drugs but proprietary  medicines  have 
been so reduced In price that there is scarce­
ly any profit  left  in  the  business.  Medi­
cines that we  used  to  get  SI.25  for  now 
sell for 75 cents; dollar medicines go for  50 
or  05  cents;  25  cent  compounds,  for  15 
cents,  and  so  on.  Of  course,  that’s  all 
right for the  public,  but  how  about  us? 
Nobody stops to think that,  besides  supply­
ing drugs and medicines,  saving lives at  all 
hours of the night,  spreading health  broad­
cast,  by  dispensing  pure  soda  water  and 
other things for which we  get  some  little 
return,  we are an  indispensable public  con­
venience in ways that never bring us  a cent 
of  profit.  For  instance,  here  and . every­
where else, except  down  town,  everybody 
who waits for a street car waits for  it  in  a 
drug store.  Everybody who wants  to  bor­
row a newspaper or get  a light  for  a  cigar 
or look at a directory or use a telephone or in­
quire about the  family  who  moved  away 
from the house three blocks  away,  year be­
fore last or put up  a free  advertisement  or 
write  a  postal card goes straight for a drug 
store.  Then look at  tlie  people  who  save 
doctors’ bills.  They come in here,  describe 
their symptoms,  tell how sick they  are  and 
want to know what to do about it.  We tell 
them to soak their feet,  wear  woolen  socks 
and take a dose  of  salts  or  whatever  else 
they need,  and they  thank  us  and  buy  a 
postage stamp.  Why,  I’ve  spent  half  an 
hour at a time telling a man wiiat to  do  for 
a sore throat or the gout and then  seen him 
go away without  spending  a  cent.  This 
sort of thing goes on all the  time.  We  are 
continually giving  people  information,  ad­
vice and all kinds  of  accomodation. 
It’s  a 
little tough to run that kind  of a charitable 
institution on  a  profit  of  eight  cents  on 
every dollar  bottle  of  medicine  you  sell. 
It’s no wonder  we  make  the  sarsaparilla 
syrup for the soda water  fountain by shak­
ing  an  empty  sarsaparilla  bottle  over  a 
bucket of water.  We would be  justified  in 
doing worse things than that,  I think.”

Queer Prescription.
LuDINGTON, April  18,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand  Uapids:

Dear Sib—Enclosed please  find  a  sam­
ple  of  prescriptions  like  we have  to  com­
pound  in  this  part  of  the  country.  We 
quite  often  receive  some  which  are  just 
as  good  as  this,  but  the  “Argonomol” 
and  “Oiel of Oil” takes my fancy.

Yours truly, 

Subscriber.

The prescription referred to is as follows:
Argonomol...................................................I Auns
Oil of Speyk.......  ...................................... 1  Auns
Oiel of Lider.................................................1 Auns
Amonie.........'..................  .........................1 Aung
Oiel of oil..................................................... 1 Aung
It is estimated  that  there  are  cultivated 
and distilled  annually in  the United States 
about  15,000  tons  of  peppermint  plants, 
yielding about 100,000  pounds  of  essential 
oil.

,  ♦

/

A  DRUGGISTS’  LICENSE.

The Situation  Assuming  a  More  Hopeful 

Aspect.

In answer to the call  referred  to  ’in  last 
week’s  paper,  the following  representative 
druggists met  at  Lansing  last  Tuesday to 
consider the best method  to  adopt  to  fore­
stall inimical legislation:  T.  II.  Hinchman, 
Jas.  Yernor,  Frank  lnglis  and  Wm.  Du­
pont,  Detroit; Frank  J.  Wurzburg,  Geo. G. 
Steketee,  John  E.  Peck  and  J.  W.  Hay­
ward, Grand Kapids; Geo. W. Crouter, Char­
levoix;  G. M. Harwood,  Petoskey;  JaS| G. 
Johnson,  Traverse  City;  Geo.  Gundrum, 
Ionia;  Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon; S.  E.  Par- 
kill,  Owosso; Geo.  McDonald,  Kalamazoo; 
Frank Wells,  Lansing.  An  informal meet­
ing was  held  at the  Hudson  House  in  the 
forenoon,  when committees  were appointed 
to prepare a  memorial and series of  resolu- 
tiofls.  The former committee made the fol­
lowing report at an afternoon meeting, held 
at Pioneer Hall,  which was adopted:

in 

It having come to the  knowledge  of your 
memorialists that legislation is in contempla­
tion by  your honorable  body having  for  its 
object the restriction and increased taxation 
of  the liquor  traffic; and  they  having  also 
learned that some  of  your  members  favor 
the including of all pharmacists among those 
to be so taxed, respectfully ask your consid­
eration  of  tlie  following  reasons  why the 
members  of  this  class  should  be  exempt 
from the burdens  and  the  opprobrium such 
action  upon  your  part  would  cause.  We 
hold pharmacy to be an honorable business, 
and second to no other in  its  importance to 
tlie community. 
In its practice,  high char­
acter,  skill  and  education  are  more  neces­
sary than similar qualities are  in  any  other 
business.  That throughout  the country the 
standard of knowledge  and  ability in  those 
who practice its arts has been greatly raised 
during  tlie  past  few  years  by  means  of 
schools,  large and  numerous  organizations, 
and extensive and valuable  literature devot­
ed to its scientific progress.
That Michigan stands pre-eminent among 
the  States 
the  adoption  by  her 
pharmacists of the means just  named to se­
cure  for  themselves  and  their  patrons  all 
tlie  benefits  which  the  latest  advances  in 
knowledge and science  can confer.  As  an 
evidence of this,  we point  to  the  school  of 
pharmacy at Ann Arbor, an institution just­
ly celebrated throughout the country for the 
high character of its work,  the reputation of 
its graduates and its  valuable  contributions 
to  professional  literature,  the  alumni  of 
which form a  large  and  yearly  increasing 
proportion  of  the  druggists  of  our  State. 
We  also  call  your  attention  to  the  State 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  au  organiza­
tion which  in  three  years  has  united  700 
reputable pharmacists  of  Michigan  into  a 
society having  for its  object  tiie  promotion 
of  all  means  for  increasing  professional 
knowledge among its members.
Through the efforts of  this Association,  a 
law was secured three  years ago  restricting 
the practice of pharmacy,  in  all who should 
thereafter  join  its  ranks,  to  those whom a 
rigid examination  might  show  to  be quali­
fied, and we voluntarily assumed all the ex­
penses which this law  entailed.  These  are 
evidences  which  show  more  clearly  than 
any words we  might  use  the  character and 
aims of this large portion of the pharmacists 
of Michigan.  Their influence will yearly be 
felt more and more,  and we believe the time 
is not far distant  when  iucompetency shall 
be  banished  from  our  ranks  and  tlie  in­
fluence of professional  character  and  pride 
overcome almost  wholly tendencies  to  evil 
practices.  The existence of this profession­
al pr de has  been  manifested  and will con­
tinue to be in efforts to  induce Congress  to 
relieve us from the effect of that unjust relic 
of tlie war,  the law whicli  classes  us  as li­
quor dealers and taxes us accordingly.  We 
are loth  to believe  that this  stigma is again 
to be placed upon us by our own State with­
out the reason that  dictated this  course  by 
the general government—the  income which 
it would produce.  The effect of such a step 
upon pharmacy would  be  disastrous in  tke 
extreme.
Few  self-respecting  persons  would  en­
gage  in  a business classified by tlie laws of 
the State with tlie dram  shop  and  the  sa­
loon.  Many of  the  most  honest  of  those 
already engaged  in  the  business  would  be 
obliged to  increase  their  liquor business to 
at least an extent which would enable them 
to pay the tax from  the  profits  of  such in­
crease.  The  moral  influences  which  now 
restrain many of  the less  honest  would  be 
removed,  and  no  barriers  would  exist  to 
prevent the gratification of  a thirst for gain 
in the most shameless manner.  Uniting  an 
honorable calling with an  ignoble one  will 
have the double effect of dragging down the 
former  and  of  rendering the  practices con­
nected with  the  latter more general and re­
spectable.
Should It not be  for  the  purpose  of wise 
legislation to keep both where they properly 
belong?  The one  a  business  founded  on 
scientific  knowledge  and  cultivation neces­
sary to the  life and health of every member 
of the  community; the  other,  a  calling car­
ried on for the most selfish purposes, abhor­
red by good  men  everywhere  and minister­
ing to destruction and death.  To unite these 
two by legal sanction would be a disgrace to 
the virtue and  intelligence  of  an enlighten­
ed age and people.  The  mere thought that 
the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Michigan 
could be guilty of sucli an unwise act seems 
to us a libel  upon their  character and judg­
ment.  For those among  our  number,  few 
as we believe them to be,  who prostitute an 
honorable profession for  gain,  regardless of 
results,  we  have  only  indignation  to  ex­
press.  We  shall  welcome  any legislation 
which will  compel  such to appear  in  their 
true colors.  A saloon under a garb of phar­
macy is no less a saloon,  and should receive 
from the law  and  from  public  opinion  all 
the  restrictions,  penalties  and  obloquy  to 
to which its true character  entitles  it.  We 
earnestly protest against  being  regarded  as 
brethren  of this class  or held in any degree 
responsible  for  the  disgrace  which  their 
hypocrisy and  evil  practices  have  brought 
upon our profession.

Though it may be regarded  as  difficult to 
distinguish always between  the  pharmacist 
and the impostor,  yet we believe that,  when 
the attempt  is  seriously attempted,  it  will 
be found comparatively easy.
The drug saloon  is  as  well  known  in a 
conmuyiity as the  saloon,  the  difference  in 
the two being only in the appearance.
But, were  the difficulty  even  greater,  or 
were  it  impossible  to  so  distinguish,  we 
submit that no  rule of  ethics would justify 
the punishment of a large class of reputable 
citizens,  because a portion  of  their  number 
were charged with  practices  detrimental  to 
the welfare of the community.  To the pos­
sible claim that  a  druggist  need  not  be  a 
liquor  seller,  we  reply  that  there  are  but 
few among our number who  would not wil­
lingly relinquish the traffic  if  it were possi­

ble. 
It is a fact«  beyond  our  control,  that 
alcohol  in  some  form  enters  into  a  very 
large proportion of  medicinal  preparations. 
Its uses  in  manufacturing  and  the  arts are 
also extensive,  while physicians depend up­
on  pharmacists  for  liquors  for  the  sick, 
whose qualities can be vouched for in precise­
ly the same manner that other medicines are 
vouched for.  Hence  to  banish  alcohol and 
its  varied  combinations  form  drug  stores 
would be, iiqthe present  condition of  medi­
cal science,  impossible.
Commending the above  facts to your con­
sideration,  your  memoralistte  pray  your 
honorable body not to take a  step  likely  to 
drive many honorable  men  from  the  busi­
ness of pharmacy and prevent  others  from 
entering it,  and presenting to those  who re­
main tlie strongest  possible  inducement  to 
become in  fact  what  your  action  would 
make them in  law.  Such  a  course  would 
not only be of incalculable in j ury to th$ cause 
of temperauce,  but would be  an  act  of  in­
justice unparalleled,  we believe,  in  the his­
tory of legislation in Michigan.

Frank  Wells,  Lansing,
Jacob Jesson, Muskegon,
T. H.  H inchm an,  Detroit,
Geo. McDonald,  Kalamazoo,
G.  W.  Crouter,  Charlevoix, 
Committee.

The following resolutions,  embodying  in 
outline such provisions  as  would  be  satis­
factory ft) the druggists of  the  State,  were 
adopted:

IVhereas,  It has been brought to  the  no­
tice of this  meeting  that  some  action  is 
about to be taken by the Legislature looking 
toward a change in the present  liquor  law, 
whereby  pharmacists  may  be  classed  and 
taxed as saloon keepers, and
Whereas,  A tax of any importance would, 
in our opinion,  simply result in driving  out 
of the profession of pharmacy  the more  re­
spectable members,  causing  the  others  to 
become saloon  keepers  in  self  protection, 
and
IVhereas,  It is deemed by pharmacists en­
tirely unnecessary to  inflict  a  punishment 
upon the innocent majority,  in order to pun­
ish the guilty few,  it is therefore
Resolved,  That  the  following  measures, 
whereby it may be  possible  to  reach  and 
tax tlyose pharmacists  who  are  willing  to 
degrade their profession  by  selling  liquors 
for other than medicinal purposes arid in di­
rect violation of the laws of  the  State,  be 
declared the sense of  this  meeting  and  be 
transmitted by the secretary thereof  to  the 
members of the Legislature:
That we consider the present  law  ample 
and sufficient, but as  not  being  enforced. 
We recommenced that a  State constabulary 
be  appointed for  the  enforcement  of  the 
said law,  for the first violation  thereof,  the 
person so convicted to  pay,  as  a  penalty, 
the amount of  the  regular  saloon  license; 
for the second violation, the  registration  as 
a pharmacist to be ordered  revoked  by  the 
State Board of  Pharmacy,  and  the  person 
so convicted shall be inelligible  for registra­
tion in this State for a term of five  years.
Your  committee  respectfully  report  the 
foregoing preamble and resolutions for your 
consideration.

J am es V ernor,  Detroit,
John E.  Peck,  Grand Kapids,
Geo.  G.  Steketee, Grand Rapids, 
Geo.  Gundrum,  Ionia,
Frank Inglis,  Detroit,

Committee.

The House Committee on  Liquor  Traffic 
was then requested to meet  the  delegation, 
which request  was  granted,  and  an  infor­
mal discussion  followed,  participated  in by 
every member of  the Committee.

Of course,  no  expression  was  given  by 
the Committee  as to the attitude  the  mem­
bers would  take on  tlie  subject,  but  every 
delegate went home well  satified  with  the 
work accomplished.

Meetings of  the  Republican  majority  in 
the House were held  several  evenings  last 
week,  but  no  agreement  has  yet  been 
reached,  nor  is  an  amicable  arrangement 
likely to be reported.  The present situation 
is  clearly  defined  in  the  following  letter 
from  tlie  chairman  of  the  Committee  on 
Legislation of the M.  S.  P.  A .:

Lansing,  April 23,  1887. 

Frank J, Wurzburg, Grand  Kapids:
Dear Sir—I waite  you a  few lines  this 
morning to give you the result of the caucus 
last  night,  which,  I  presume,  you  are  as 
anxious  to  learn  as  1  was.  Our  friends 
were stimulated  for  the  contest,  and  upon 
motion to  make  the  action  of  the  caucus 
binding upon all,  seven of them arose to de­
part.  Argument followed,  and the fault  of 
the bill proposed, in  its  application  to  the 
drug trade made so  forcible that  the  head­
long and reckless majority hesitated.  At a 
late  hour  tlie  caucus  adjourned  without 
action,  subject to the call of  the chairman. 
This result is far  more  encouraging than  I 
dared to hope when I  wrote you last night, 
and inspires* me with a belief that no liquor 
bill will receive a  caucus sanction. 
If  this 
can be avoided,  our chances for justice  will 
be  greatly  improved. 
For  partisan  in­
fluence, dictating how  members shall  vote, 
will be substituted individual judgment and 
sense  of  right.  Certainly our cause is  yet 
in danger,  but tlie prospect is much brighter 
than yesterday. 

Yours truly,

Frank Wells.

The  Drug  Market.

There  are but  few  changes to  note  this 
week.  Trade is reported dull in  the  East, 
with no speculative demand.  Trade in this 
line here is  excellent,  exceeding  in  amount 
any previous year.  Citric  acid  is very dull 
and still tending lower in price,  with hardly 
any  demand.  Carbolic  acid  is  firm  and 
with usual  consumption at  this season will 
be higher.  Quinine  is  very  dull.  Stocks 
are large aud demaud  light.  German  in 100 
oz.  cans  is  at  present  quoted  at  47Kc. 
Opium  has  again  declined.  Latest  cables 
from Smyrna reporta strong market,  though 
the reports  on  the crop  are  so  variable  at 
this time that no fair deduction can be made 
as to the probable output,  although favoring 
a larger  amount  than  has  been  predicted. 
Morphia is weak  and  a  decline  is probable 
very soon. 
Ipecac root has again advanced 
and  is very  firm.  Canary and  hemp  seed 
are a trifle lower for round orders.  Canada 
balsam fir continue^  scarce  and high.  Oils 
cassia and anise are  firmer and likely to ad­
vance.  Oils  peppermint,  wiutergreen  and j 
sassafras are weak.  Cloves  are in a strong : 
position  and  likely  to  be  higher.  Other 
spices are unchanged.

Ground pepper  is  said  to  be  adulterated 

with ground olive stones.

Minor Drug Notes.

Iodoform and colomel are  said  to  be  in­

Oil of rose is said to  be  adulterated  with 

compatible.

spermaceti.

Hydrogen  peroxide  is  recommended  in 

whooping-cough.

est starch granules.

Canna has tlie largest  and  rice the small­

About  500  new  drug  stores  have  been 
started  in  Indiana  during  the  past  two 
years.

Twenty-eight of  the states and territories 
have  laws  governing  the  practice of phar­
macy.

Chemists found only  50 per  cent,  of  the 
amount of quinine in pills manufactured by 
a Rochester,  N.  Y.,  firm that they claim for 
them.

The members of the Nebraska State Phar­
maceutical Association claim that they have 
a larger  per  cent,  of  the  druggists  of  the 
State  in  attendance  at  the  meetings  than 
any similar association.

A Philadelphia  physician  prescribed cry- 
sophanie acid,  and stated  that chrysarobin 
was not wanted.  The  druggist  is now try­
ing to get the doctor  to  explain  the  differ­
ence between the two articles.

A physician was  attending  an  Irishman 
recently and asked  his  wife if  her husband 
had  any  movement  of  the  bowels.  “Oh, 
yes,” she said,  “he had a  ‘change of  inside 
yesterday.
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m ost  efficient  way,  to  th e  p arts  affected.  I t  sells 
readily.  Always keep an open Inhaler in  your store, 
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not h u rt the Inhaler, and will do m ore  to dem onstrate 
its efficiency th an  a h alf hour’s talk.  K etail price 
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Trade supplied by

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5,000 inhabitants in eastern part of  State. 

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m o   DRUGGISTS—Wishing to secure clerks 
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- 

Grand Rapids.

TIGER  OIL.

What J.  A. Crookston Has to Say While in 

the Tiger Den.
Cadillac,  Jan.  24,  1887.

Well,  Doctor,  I am  around again,  but my 
It is the 
wife had to use a lot of Tiger Oil. 
most wonderful medicine  I  ever knew. 
It 
surpasses everything  else.  During  my se­
vere sickness of pleuro-pneumonia, when my 
pulse ran up to 130 and  my  temperature to 
104° the pain was so excruciating that noth­
ing would relieve except  Tiger  Oil,  which 
never failed.  The physician  gave but little 
hope of my recovery,  but through his atten­
tion and the constant  application of  Tiger 
Oil  I  pulled  through,  and  am  gaining 
strength by using  Tiger  Oil,  which I know 
is doing  me  good,  and  will do  good  to all 
who use it properly; for of all medicines that 
I have ever known in over  forty  years’ ex­
perience as a  retail and  wholesale druggist, 
I have never known of a single  one to be m 
any way as good as Tiger Oil for the cure of 
so many different kinds of diseases.  There 
seems no limit to  its  power  over  disease. 
Therefore,  knowing as 1 know of Tiger Oil, 
I do but my duty in  recommending it to all 
my fellow men as publicly as  possible,  that 
they may have the benefits of  such a valua­
ble medicine as Tiger Oil  has  proven itself 
to be wherever  it has  been  used,  both for 
man or beas;. 
Of the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co., 

J. A.  Crookston,

Grand  Rapids.

TANSY  CAPSULEC

Send  4  cents  for  Sealed Circular.

1  THE  LATEST  DISOOVEBY.  W  
Or.  Laparle’s  Celebrated  Preparation, Safe  and 
¡Always  Reliable. 
Indispensable  to  L A M B S . 
CALUMET CHEMICAL CO.,  C lIc m u K S .
GXXTSSXTG ROOT.
We pay the highest price for it.  Address
Peck Bros., Druggists, Grand Rapids, Mich.

ACIDUM.

Aceticum..................................
Benzoicum,  German...............
Carbolicum...............................
Citricum....................................
H.vdrochlor...............................
Njtrocum  ...................................
Oxalicum..................................
Salicylicum...............................
Tannicuin..................................
Tartaricum...............................
AMMONIA.
Aqua, 16  deg..............................
18  deg.............................
Carbonas....................................
Chloridum.................................
Cubelme (po.  1 75.....................
Juniperus  .................................
Xanthoxylum..........................
BALSAMUM.
Copaiba........... ..........................
Peru............................................
Terabin,  Canada.......................
Tolutan......................................

BACCAE.

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c o r t e x .

Abies,  Canadian.......................
Cassiae  ......................................
Cinchona Flava.........................
Eaonymus  atropurp...............
Myrica  Cerifera, po................
Prunus  Virgini.........................
Quillaia,  grd..............................
Sassfras  ....................................
Ulmus..........
Ulrnus Po (Ground  12)....................

“ 
“ 
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FERKUM.

EXTKACTUM.

10
Glycyrrhiza Glabra........................ ....  24® 25
po................................. —   83® 35
Haematox, 15  boxes.................... .... 
8® 9
Is.................................. ..  .  @ 12
Vis  ...............................
@ 13
ks  ............................... ....  @ 15
Carbonate Precip............................ ....  @ 15
Citrate and Quinia..........................
©3 50
Ciucate Soluble................................ ....  @ 80
Ferrocyanidum Sol.........................
@ 50
Solut  Chloride.................................
@ 15
Sulphate, com’l,  (bbl. 75)...............
....  1)4© 2
pure.................................
@ 7
Barosma........................................... ....  25© 30
Cassia Acutifol, Tinnivelly........... ....  20© 25
A lx....................... ....  35® 50
Salvia officinalis, )4s and  )4s __ ....  10© 12
Ura  Urei...........................................
8® 10

FOLIA.

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GUMMI.

 

 

 

 
 

 
 

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Acacia,  1st picked.......................... 

2nd  “ 
3rd 
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Aloe, Bari),  (po. 60).................. 

“ 
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“  p o .................................................  75@1 00
50©  60
“  Cape, (po. 20)........................ 
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“  Socotriue,  (po. 60).......................  ©  50
Ammoniae  .............m............................   25©  30
Assafoetida,  (po. 30).............................   ©  15
Benzoinum............................................  50®  55
Gamphorae............................................   25©  28
Catechu, Is,  (*4s,  14; &s, 16)................   ©  13
Euphorbium, po....................................  35©  10
Galbanum...............................................   @  80
Gamboge, po...........................................  75©  80
Guaiacum, (po. 45).................................  @  35
Kino,  (po. 25).................................. 
  ©  20
Mastic......................................................  @1 25
Myrrh, (po. 45).........................................  ©  40
Opii, (po. 5 76).........................................4 00®4 10
Shellac...................... .............................   18©  25
“  bleached....................................  25®  30
Tragacanth............................. 
30®  75
herba—In ounce packages.
Absinthium  ........................................... 
35
20
Eupatorium  ........................................... 
25
Lobelia  ................................................... 
Majorum  ...............................................  
28
Mentha Piperita....................................  
23
25
“   V ir..!........................................ 
R u e .........................................................  
30
Tanacetum,  V ........................................ 
22
Thymus. V ............................. 
 
25
MAGNESIA.

Calcined,  Pat.........................................  55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat......................................  26®  22
Carbonate,  K. & M .............................   20®  25
Carbonate,  Jennings............................  35®  36

 

 

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Absinthium.............................................4 50@5 00
Amygdalae, Dulc..................................   45®  50
Amydalae, Amarae................................7 00@7 50
Anisi  .......................................................2 00@2  10
Auranti  Cortex......................................  @2 50
Bergamii.................................................. 2 00@2 75
Cajiputi  .......................................  
Caryophylli............................................   @2  00
Cedar........................................................  35®  65
Chenopodii............................................   @1 50
Cinnainonii............................................   85®  90
Citronella  ..............................................  @  75
Conium  M ao.........................................  35®  65
Copaiba..................................................   @  80
Cubebae..............................................11  00® 12 00
Exechthitos............................................   90® 1  00
Erigeron........................................... 
.4 20@1 30
 
Gaultheria...............................................3 00®2 10
Geranium, ?.................................
M  @ 75
Gossipii, Sein, gal.......................
.  55® 75
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.  15© 20

Myrcia,  5...............................................
Olive......................................................
Picis Liquida, (gal. 60)........................
R iciui....................................................
Rosmarini............................................
Rosae,  Ç.................................................
Succini  ...........................................  ...

S in a p is ,  e ss,  ? ...........................................
T i g l i i .............................................................
T h y m e .........................................................
o p t ..................................................
T h e o b ro m a s ...................’..........................

Mentha Piper.

Lavendula 

..

“  

POTASSIUM.

B ic h r o m a t e ...............................................
B r o m i d e ............................. ...................
C h lo ra te , (P o . 22)..............................
I o d i d e .................................. ........................
P r u s s i a t e ...................................................

RADIX.

A lth a e   ..................................................
A n c h u s a ..............................................
A ru m ,  p o ..................................................
C a la m u s .......................................................
G e n tia n a ,  (po. 15)............................
G ly c b rrh iz a ,  (p v . 15).......................
H y d r a s tis   C a n a d e n ,  , po. 33)..........
H e lle b o re ,  A lb a ,  p o .............................
I n u la ,  p o .....................................................
Ip e c a c , p o ...................................................
J a la  p a ,  p r ...................................................
M a ra n ta ,  )4 s .............................................
P o d o p h y llu m ,  p o . . „ ..........................
K hei 
.............................................................

Sanguinaria, (po. 25).....................
Serpentaria....................................
Senega............................................
Smilax, Officinalis, H ....................
Mex...........
Scillae,  (po. 35)...............................
Symplocarpus,  Foetidus, po.......
Valeriana,  English,  (po. 30)........
German.......................

“ 

** 

“ 

Anlsum, (po.22).. 
Apium  (graveóle 
Bird,Is................

Cannabis  Sativa......
Cydonium..................
Chenopodium  ..........
Dipterix  Odorate__
Foeniculum..............
Foenugreek, po........
Lini.............................
Lini, grd, (bbl, 3)___
Phalaris  Canarian...
Rapa..........................
Sinapis,  Albu...........

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SPIRITU S.

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Juniperis Co.  O. T.................................1 75@1 75 i
Juni peris  Co.......................................... 1 7G@3 60 i
Saacnarum  N. E...................................1 75@2 00 !
Spt. Vini Galli.................... ..............1 76@8 50 '
Vini Oporto.........................................1  25@2 00 I
Vini  Alba........................................ l 25@2 00

MISCELLANEOUS.

.¿Ether, Spts Nitros, 3 F.......................
.¿Ether, Spts. Nitros, 4 F .....................
Alumen.................................................
Alumen,  ground, (po. 7).................
Annatto  ...............................................
Antimoni,  po.......................................
Antimoni et Potass  Tart....................
Argent!  Nitras,  j .................................
Arsenicum............................................
Balm Gilead  Bud.................................
Bismuth  S.  N .......................................
Calcium  Chlor,  Is, 04s, 11;  J^s, 12)...
Cantharides  Russian, po....................
¡Capsici  Fructus, a f.............................
i Capsici Fructus, po.............................
I Capsici Fructus, B, po.......................
j Caryophyllus,  (po.  35)........................
Carmine. No. 40....................................
Ct ra Alba, S. &  F.................................
Cera Flava............................................
Coccus  ...................................................
I Cassia Fructus.....................................
Centraria..............................................
Cetaceum..............................................
Chloroform...........................................
Chloroform,  Squibbs..........................
Chloral Hydrate  Cryst.......................
Chondrus  ..............................................
Cinchonidine, P. & W.................." ...
Cinchonidine,  German.......................
! Corks, see list, discount,  per cent...
Creasotum............................................
Creta, (bbl. 75).......................................
! Creta  prep............................................
Creta, precip........................................|
Creta Rubra...........................................
Crocus  ...................................................
Cudbear....................................
Cupri Sulph.................................... .
Dextrine................ ,.............................
Ether Sulph................*..........................
Emery, all  numbers............................
Emery, po..............................................
Ergota. (po. 60)................. • .............. "
Flake  W hite...\..................................
Galla......................................................
Gambier...............................................
Gelatin, Coopor.............................. * .*
Gelatin, French....................................

© 90
© 30

Glue, White.......................
Glycerina..................................
Grana  Paradisi.........................
H um ulus..................................
Hydrarg Chlor. Mitt  ...............
Hydrarg Chlor.  Cor................
Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum..........
Hydrarg  Ammoniati...............
Hydrarg Unguentum...............
Hydrargyrum..........................
Ichthyocolla, Am  ....................
Indigo.........................................
Iodine,  Resubl..........................
Iodoform...................................
Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod .
Liquor Potass  Arsinitis..........
Lupuline  ..................................
Lycopodium.............................
Macis...........................................
Magnesia, Sulph, (bbl. 1)4).......
Mannia, S.F...............................
Morphia,  S, P. & W..................
Moschus Canton...................
Myri8tica, No. 1.........................
Nux  Vomica,  (po. 20)...............
Os.  Sepia....................................
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Co__
Picis Liq,  N. C„ Vt  galls, doz..
Picis Liq.,  quarts.....................
Picis Liq., pints.........................
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80).................

Pix  Burgun........

Potassa,  Bitart, com..........................
Potass  Nitras, opt...............................
Potass Nitras.....................................
Pulvis Ipecac  et opii..........................
Pyrethrum, boxes, H. &P.D.C0., doi
Pyrethrum, pv.....................................
Quassiae......................................
Q u i u ¡ a, S, P. &  W..................... .
Quinia, S, German....................... . ” ”
Rubia Tinctorum.................................
Saccbarum  Lactis, pv.................
Salacin..........................

Sapo,  M................................... ..'
Sapo, G.....................................
Seidlitz  Mixture......................
Sinapis.........................................
Sinapis,  opt.......................! .! .!!
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  Do. Voes...!
Snuff, Scotch,  Do. Voes...........
Soda Boras, (po.  10)....................
Soda et Potoss Tart..................
Soda Carb..................................
Soda,  Bi-Carb........................... .]
Soda,  Ash................................... '
Soda  Sulphas.............................!
SptSvEther  Co............................
Spts.  Myrcia Dom.....................

Strychnia, Crystal..

Tamarinds.............
Terebenth  Venice.
Theobromae..........
Vanilla  ..................

Bbl
Ik
Ik
lk
2k
2)4

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

PAINTS

Rod Venetian.......•..................
Ochre, yeliow  Marseilles.......
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda........
Putty, commercial.................
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..........
Whiting  Paris English oliff.. 
Pioneer Prepared  I aints  ... 
Swiss Villa Prepare!  Paints.
VARNISHES.
No. 1 Turp  Coach....................
Extra  Turp.............................
Coach Body............................. .
No. 1 Turp Furniture.............
Extra Turk  Damar.................
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp.......

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WHOLESALE

Druggists!

42 and 44  Ottawa Street and 8g, 91,

93 and 95 Louis Street. 

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS  OF

aud Druggist’s

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Elegant  Pharmaceutical  Prepara­

tions,  Fluid  Extracts  and 

Elixirs

GENERAL WHOLESALE AGNTS  FOR

Wolf, Patton & Co. and John L. 

Whiting, Manufacturers  of 

Pine Paint and  Var­

nish Brushes.
THE  CELEBRATED

ALSO  FOR  THE

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

Horse Brushes.

WE ARE  SOLE  OWNERS OF

Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Cure

Which is positively the best Remedr 

of the kind on the market.

We  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.

Wine and Lipor Denartment

We give our special and  personal atten­
tion to the selection of choice goods for 
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

W H IS K E Y .

We 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.  We 
GUARANTEE perfect and complete satis­
faction and where this brand of  goods 
been once introduced  the  future  trade  h— 
been assured.

We are also owners of the

Druggists’  Favorite  Eye,

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

We 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 

D ru g C a

PAINT.

We have a full stock of this well-known 

brand of

M I Z E S   f a x x t t
and having sold It for over SIX YEARS can 

recommend it to our  customers  as  be­

ing a First Class  artiole.  We sell it

On  th e  M anufacturers’  G uarantee:

W hen tw o orm ore coats of our PIO N EER  P R E ­
PARED  PAINT  is applied as received In original 
packages, and if w ithin  three years it should  crack or 
peel off, thus failing to  give  satisfaction, we  agree to 
re-paint  the  building  a t  our  expense,  w ith  the  best 
W hite Lead o r  such other paint as the  ow ner  may se­
lect.  In  case  of  com plaint,  prom pt  notice  m ust  bo 
given to the dealer.

T.  H.  NEVIN  &  CO..

Mfrs. & Corroders of Pure White Lead.

Pittsburg, Pa.

Write for prices and Sample Card to

Wholesale  Agents,  Grand  Rapids.

Try POLISHINA, best Furniture Fin­

ish made.

134  to  142 East Fulton St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

GASOLINE  STOVES.

Quiiolc 2s/Leed, ISTo. Y 7 S .

In   Patten te S la is  w l 1 M  Tiimlnts.

Has  two  burners  under the  oven  and  two  on  top  of 
stove, all supplied with gas  from a  single  generator.  A 
wash boiler can be set in place of oven when desired.  The 
oven is large and its top is useful as a  heating  surface to 
keep things warm.  All Quick Meal Stoves are provided 
with Patent  Safety  Attachment  which  not  only  extin­
guishes all the flames but closes every  Burner before the 
tank can be filled.

WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

t
iitor, « y

i r

i

Peerless aniT Horizontal Ice Cream Freezers,

Mamifaoturers o f tlx©

Leonard CleanaUe Dry Air Refficerators and Creameries.

SEND  FOR  CATALOGUE  OF  SUMMER  GOODS.

0

REFRIGERATORS

Gooch.  Feerless

ICE  CREAM  FREEZER.

SIMPLE, CREAI 
With Crank, 3 Quart L;

' ANI>  PERFECT.
it,  each................ §> 4  50
5 50 
7 00 
9 00 
12  00 
30 00 
25 10 
30 q0 
35 00 
40 00 
45 00

“ 
** 
“  

e 
8 
10 
Wheel 14 
“  
18 
“  31

Discount,  50 and 10.

icm

The Drummer’s Soliloquy.
From the Boot and Shoe Recorder.

To sell, or not to sell, that is the question:
Whether 'tls nobler in a man to suffer 
The flat denials of o’er-drummed dealers;
Or to take one’s samples into his cramped store,
And, by exposing, sell them—to talk—to bluff 
Galore;  and by an order say we end 
The headache, and the thousand ghastly jokes 
We fain must list to—'tis a consummation 
Devoutly to be wished.  To bluff—to sell—
To sell—perchance “on note; ’  aye there 8  the
For in that sale of goods what things may hap,
When we our order home by mail have sent.
To countermand—There’s the Bradstreet,
That make’s such havoc in one s order book.
For who would try to 6ell his goods to men.
Chattel mortgaged, all poor men surely,—
In love with other goods—or those who claim 
Bxclusive sale, and cruelly would spurn 
5he intrinsic merit of your samples shown 
When all your pains may bei knocked edgeways 
B y Dun or Bradstreet?  Who  would  pick and 
’Twixt great and small of the stores he sees.
But that the dread of something he may learn.
The  "turned-down”  order  at  whose  baneful
...
sight 
The drummer cusses, try how he will.
And  makes  him  wish  he d  sold  the  man he
Than fly to those be knew not of.
Thus credit doth make cowards of us all,
And thus our native gift of persuasion 
Is  hindered  with  the  thought 
Is  this man
Andsa?les that might have reached four figures 
Thus handicapped.their columns dwindledown 
And scarce are worth the entry.
Regular  Meeting  of  the  Retail  Grocers 

choose

. 

, 

. 

Association.

At the regular  semi-monthly  meeting  of 
the Retail  Grocers’  Association  of  Grand 
Rapids last Tuesday evening, Willis E. But­
ler, of Mill Creek, applied  for  membership 
and was accepted.

A unanimous vote of thanks was tenuered 
Irving W.  Tan Zandt for his contribution to 
the badge fund of the recent  State  conven­
tion.

The Committee on Constitution made  the 
following report, which  was  accepted  and 
adopted:
Your  Committee on Revision of the Con­
stitution would respectfully report that they 
have  had  the  matter  under  consideration 
and would recommend that they  be allowed 
further  time as the officers of the M. B.  M.
A. are preparing new forms for  both  State 
and  local  constitutions and we think it de­
sirable  to  defer  reporting  until  we  canjf 
recommend  a  draft  thoroughly  in  accord 
with the ideas of the State body.

E.  A.  Stow e,
E.  J.  Hekrick,
B. F.  Emery,

Committee.
The Committee on Entertainment  report­
ed that an instructive programme  had  been 
prepared for  the  evening  hut  the  partici­
pants failed to put in an appearance.

J.  L.  Strelitsky  gave  an  interesting  dis­
sertation on the culture of  tobacco  and  the 
manufacture of  cigars,  claiming  that  the 
$35 cigar of to-day  is  better  than  the  $50 
cigar  which was sold for the five years suc­
ceeding the war.

J.  P.  Thompson  called  attention  to  the 
fact that a man is peddling butterine from a 
market basket on the streets..  He is selling 
the stuff for 15 cents a  pound,  and,  when 
pressed,  admited that  it was butterine.  A 
Buys,  the Fulton street  grocer,  said  that 
the man had been  peddling in his neighbor­
hood, as also said M. C. DeJager, of Grand- 
ville  avenue.  A  committee  composed  of |
J. P. Thompson,  E.  J.  Herrick  and  L. 
Wintemitz was appointed to wait upon  the 
U.  S.  Revenue  collector  and  ascertain 
whether the man has obtained a government 
license,  and also to wait on  the  City  Clerk 
in regard to his having a city license.

President Coye then called  for  voluntary 
testimonials as to the efficiancy of the  Blue. 
.Letter, which request was  responded  to  as 
follows:

Geo.  Dunaven—I sent out two  Blue  Let­

ters and got my money before sun-down.

J.  Geo.  Lehman—I  sent  out  five.  Got 

my money on one the same day.
M. C. Goosen—1 am in $4.50.
B.  F. Emery—1  sent  tw'o  out and  heard 

from both of them.

J. A.  Coye—I got my money  in  full  in 
one day,  in consequence of having  sent out 
three.

The President called the attention  of  the I 
members to the fact that an association  hail 
been formed at Goshen,  Ind.,  and  that  it j 
was meeting with good success.
The meeting then adjourned.

How to Treat the “ Off-Horse.”

Boyne City, April 19,  1887.

B. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
D ea r Sir—Our  Association  still  holds 
its  own  and  our  last  meeting  developed 
considerable interest.  Three new members j 
were received,  one from  Boyne  I alls,  one 
from Advance and one from  Horton’s  Bay. 
So you see that while  we  are  not  growing 
much in our own  town,  we  are  spreading 
out to other  places—enlarging  our  borders 
as it were.
The general topic at  the last meeting was 
early closing  and  the  absolute  need  of  a 
place of amusement  for  those  who  would 
be,  60 to speak, turned out of  doors  before 
bed-time.  A good reading room was suggest­
ed, accompanied with games,  such as check­
ers,  dominoes,  peg  boards  and  many 
light  but  amusing  games  of  that  kind, 
books,  daily,  weekly  and  monthly  papers, 
e tc »The Association seems to look forward to 
general  improvement  and  public  benefits 
and we think we can do a great deal in  this 
line with little outlay financially.
What does T he T radesm an  advise  the 
Associations to do with  business  men who 
refuse to join, claiming that they  get  more 
trade?  Should the Association take any ac­
tion in such cases?

T he T radesm an’s idea  of  treating  the 
man who thinks it is cunning to  remain out 
of the  Association  is  to  let  him  severely 
alone.  He may flourish for  a  time  like  a 
green bay tree—on the  patronage  of  dead­
beats—but he soon  tires  of  such  methods 
and slips unobserved  into  the  Association 
by the back door.

Any butter will lose its fine  flavor by be­
ing frozen, just the  same as  when  it gets 
overheated in the summer.

No.  172, with Tin Oven  21Kxl8xl3>£,
No.  172,  “  Russia Iron Oven, 21Jixl8xl3K...............................................................................
No.  173 is same Stove with three burners on top instead of two.  With  the two burners under 
No. 173, with Tin Oven, 21&xl8xl3K

the oven,  it has five burners, all supplied with gas from a single generator.

Crating 30c net.

xl8xl3M  (Discount on Gasoline Stoves. 30 perctQ,

LIST
S19  00

21  00 
23  00

This is the best and  most powerful  of the  cheap  Oil  Stoves.  It has 

two 4-inch wicks, and is made in first-class style.

XTST  PRICE.

Single Gem Oil Stoves, each. 
Donble  “ 

“

.$1  85 
.  4  00

The Reddy Oil Stoves, per doz...................................$0  90
“  Iron Clad  “ 
.................................. 9  50

** 

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

and fresh until entirely used.

ARTHUR  MEIGS  &  00.

W holesale Grocers,

SOlo  Agents,

77 to 83 SOUTH  DIVISION  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,

Miller’s Pat. Gash T ill and Sale Register

M anufactured  and  Sold  Only£by  Patentee,

O. B. MIIxIaBB., 

ITHACA, N.Y.
Office of Sam’l  Mo ffett, Grocer.

Flint, Mich., Nov. 36,1886.

G. B. Miller, Ithaca, N. Y.:
Dear Sir—Enclosed please find New V ork 
draft to pay for “Cashier,”also for one doz. 
Rolls Paper, which please  forward at  once 
by Am. Express.
It took me some time to arrive at the con­
clusion that your  “Cashier”  was the one 1 
wanted,  but  now, after  having had  it in 
practical use for some time,  I will frankly 
admit  "this  is  the  thing  I  long  have 
sought,” and  possibly  I might  justly  add 
the other line of this verse, but  will  leave 
that for others, in need, to imagine.

Yours, etc.,

Sam’i.,  Mo ffe tt.

S H O W   -  C A S E S .

Dealers  w i l l  
find  it  to their 
advantage 
t o 
c o r r e s p o n d  
with  us,  as  we 
are in the  posi­
tion to make  À 
No.  1  goods  at 
the  lowest pos­
sible prices. 
C o r re sp o n d ­
ence 
solicited 
from  the  job­
bing trade rela- 
tivetopremium 
cases.
AMERICAN  SHOW  CASS  WORKS,

2 7  Lais.© Street, Oliloago.
H I R T H   «&  EFt-A-TTSE,

! and

H ides,  Furs  and  T allow ,

DEALERS  IN

X X 3 Canal St., Grana Hapids.

P r o m p t   r e t u r n s   m a d e   o n   C o n s ig n m e n t s .

E.  F A L L A S ,

Butter  and  Eggs,  Fruits  and  Oysters

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

Makes a Specialty of .

We Handle the Colebrated “ROCK BRAND” Oysters.

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

217 and 219 L ivingstone Street, 

- 

Grand Rapids, M ichigan.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

RINDGE, BERTSCH 4  GO,
BOOTS  AND  SHOES
BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

AGENTS FOR THE

Best  in  the  Market  for the  Money.

HONEY  BEE  COFFEE!
PRINCESS  BAKING  POWDER,

EQUAL  TO  THE  BEST  MADE.

BEE  MILLS'  SPICES

A bsolutely  P ure._________

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L.  M.  CARY.

CARY <& LOVERIDGE,

L.  L.  LOVERIDGE.

GENERAL  DEALERS  IN

Fire and Burglar Proof

Combination and Time Locks,

11 Ionia Street, 

•• 

Grand Rapids, Micii.

H E S T E R .

 

<&  F O X ,

SAW  AND CRIST U L L  MACHINERY,

MANUK ACTUItKKS’  AGENTS  FOB

A T L A S   works

INDIANAPOLIS.  IND.,  U.  S. A.

M A N U F A C T U R E R S   O F 
r w l M C M

ICcrry Engines and Boilers InStock 

for  immediate delivery.

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

Saws, Belting and Oils.

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

Pulley and become convinced of their superiority.

130  OAKES  ST..  GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

METAL  B R A N D
R E A D Y   R O O F I N G

TWO  AND  THREE PLY

Waterproof, Durable and Economical,

OVER  7,500,000  SQUARE  FEET APPLIED IN 1886.

Curtiss & Dunton,

14 and 16 Pearl Street, 

-  Grand Rapids, Mich

ORAND RAPIDS,

MICH.

