The  Michigan  Tradesman.
tint  mM anufacturers of

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  18,  1887.

eral McNulta, who has made the  reputation 
for  himself  of considering  that  a  railroad 
belongs to the stockholders,  and not  to  the 
salaried general officers.

This Country.
From the Philadelphia  Herald.

Railroad  Regulation  from  the  Standpoint 

How Italy’s  Favorite  Product  is  Made in 

Wm. H. Maher in Chicago Inter-Ocean.

THE  NEW   LAW.

of a Business Man.

MACARONI.

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VOL.  4.
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A few nights since I attended a reception 
given to the receiver  of  an  important  but 
bankrupt railroad system.  The legal advis­
er of  the  receiver,  in  response  to  a  toast, 
said that it had long been the habit in meet­
ings of his profession to drink  to  the  man 
who made is own will,  as their  best  client; 
but that this would  now  be  changed  to  a 
toast to the Inter-state Commerce  Law.

I  fancied as I listened to him that it was 
barely possible railroad men did not look at 
this law quite  so  dispassionately  as  they 
might if they were outside of its restrictions, 
and  that although  it  might  hamper  them 
and prove a drag on their  actions,  the aver­
age business man  wanted to see it honestly 
and fairly tested before it is condemned.

The  railroad  business  of  the  country, 
both in the building of the  roads and in the 
management of them,  has  been  prostituted 
and  polluted  with  fraud.  Many  of  the 
roads were conceived in  iniquity,  and  built 
only for the purpose of blackmail  and  rob­
bery.  Lines built to meet  the  demands  of 
the business of  the  country  have  had  to 
divide with lines  built  only *for  stock-job­
bing  purposess.  No  Claude  Duval  of  a 
highwayman  ever  said  in  plainer  terms, 
with his iiand on the throat  of  his  victim, 
“Stand and  deliver!”  than  have  many  of 
these roads said to tiie older roads,  “Divide 
or be ruined!”  And the older  man  was  in 
the position of the man who  said,  “I’ll  be
d-----d if I will; I’ll be d-----d  if  I  don’t.”
In either case ruin was inevitable.

immorality. 

A system of morally has grownup among 
railroad men that should  properly be called 
a  system  of 
Stockholders 
elected managers to work  for  tlve  best  in­
terests of the company,  but these  managers 
began at once to  ignore  the  company  en­
tirely, and to work only for  their  own  in 
dividual profit. 
It is  no  uncommon  thing 
in the history of railroads to  see the officers 
steal the road from the stockholders,  but no 
man loses caste for this among  honest busi­
ness men or in  society. 
is  a  standing 
joke among humorists,  when all  otlier  ma­
terial fails,  to send  the  man  to  jail  who 
stole a ham,  and send him to Congress who 
stole a railroad.  Perhaps  Congress  is  the 
appropriate place  for  such  men  in  more 
senses than one.

It 

Business men iu the centers of trade have 
been protesting  for  years  against  railroad 
managers  assuming  the  functions  of  the 
Deity.  Cities have been built up  or  pulled 
down at the sweet will or  private  interests 
of a  manager  of  freight  traffic.  Special 
rates have been given one man  which  ena­
bled him to undersell  or  overbid  his  com­
petitors, and he has thriven while they  had 
to struggle for a mere  existeuce.  The  law 
of  “addition,  division,  and  silence”  was 
rigidly  observed  between 
the  general 
freight agent  and  those  with  whom  the 
hoodie was  divided.  The  ways  of  doing 
this were manifold,  but they were effective. 
And the manager of the road  grew  rich  as 
the stockholders grew poor. 
Is  it  a  won­
der that he was soon able  to  squeeze  them 
out,  and take his  proper  rank  as  a  great 
railroad magnate?

No city in  the  West  has  suffered  more 
from this system of railroad  wrecking  than 
has Toledo.  She has seen  her  magnificant 
grain  trade  and  possibilities  of  increase? 
turned aside, that a favorite  of  some  rail­
road might be enriched, and every other house 
humbled.  Because the president of a Tole­
do railroad happened to live at  Detroit,  To­
ledo has seen her grain  switched  off  forty- 
seven miles  farther  to  Detroit,  at  Toledo 
rates, simply to  gratify  him.  Her  princi­
pal grain men have had to  pay  local  rates 
oiugrain to  Toledo,  while  a  favored  firm 
was  given  New  York  rates  pro  rata  to 
Toledo,  the difference being of itself a good 
profit to the favored firm.

In discrimination in freight from the East 
she lias  suffered,  as  have  all  cities.  He 
who knew best how to  apply  the  rules  of 
the “division and silence” was given rebates 
and  rates that overrode Ihe legitimate laws 
of business,  and made a jobbing house pros­
perous, as it was an adept in  bribery rather 
than because  of  its  business ability.  Men 
sought to have  officers  changed in the hope 
that  justice  might  have  sway  with  new 
men,  but it is  a  disgraceful  fact  that  re­
ceivers might come and receivers might  go, 
but  stealing  went  on  forever.  The  new 
men came  with  the hands of Esau, but  the 
voice was the voice of Jacob unerringly.

When General J. D.  Cox  was  made  re­
ceiver of the Wabash he found that the first 
necessary step in  the  way  of  reform  was 
the discharging of some of the  old  officers, 
and this done he demonstrated to the  finan­
cial world that the  road  was  able  to  earn 
and pay interest on its bonds.  When Judge 
Gresham,  a few months ago, took it  out  of 
the hands of men who  were  abusing  their 
trust,  he  turned  over  with  it  to  Judge 
Cooley the  very  men  who  connived  with 
and enabled the old receivers to commit  the 
wrongs which the Court  so vigorously  con­
demned, and Judge Cooley did not hold the 
office  long  enough  to  get  started  on  the 
work of  reform,  but  in  turn  handed  the 
trust, general officers and all,  over  to  Gen­

When  a  business  has  become 

so 
thoroughly honeycombed with  fraud,  what 
could the public do to  remedy  the  wrong? 
Efforts at amelioration from  State  Legisla­
tures proved abortive,  for in some  cases the 
railroad managers  owned  the  State.  Pro­
tests went  forward  from  city  and  village 
against the system of unjust  discrimination 
and the  policy  of  favoritism  and  bribery 
and at last Congress crystallized these com­
plaints into the measure for their  redress— 
the Inter-State Commerce Law.

It  aims  at 

What does the law aim at?  What does it 
the  abuse 
propose  to  do? 
that is so widespread  and  so  damnable  of 
building up one city at the  expense  of  an­
other; of diverting trade at  the  expense  of 
the public;  of  discriminating  in  rates  be­
tween men who  are  entitled  to  the  same 
treatment, and proposes to make it impossi 
ble to switch off business  from  its  natural 
courses.

That the law is faulty can not be  denied, 
nor was it to be  expected  otherwise.  The 
abuses of a generation can not be  cured  in 
one session of Congress.  But the law  is  a 
move in the right  direction,  and  embodies 
the  fact  that  there  are  abuses,  and  that 
Congress proposes to do  something  toward 
correcting them. 
I am  much  mistaken  in 
the feelings of the times if  we  do  not  see 
this law improved and made  more  efficient 
year by year.  And I  think  State  Legisla­
tures will grapple with the  abuses and ren­
der it impossible to  do  in  one  State  what 
the  larger  law  prohibits  between  States. 
It is a law founded on  justice  and  on  the 
righteous demands of the business  interests 
of the country,  and though its  enforcement 
may for awhile  produce  chaos  in  railroad 
management,  in that very fact  is  seen  the 
best evidence of the great need  of  its  pro­
vision. 
It is time  that  railroad  managers 
and  general  managers  were  held  to  the 
same rule of morals that governs  the bank­
er  and  business  man.  Better  that  there 
should be chaos among railroads for  awhile 
than that they should corrupt  the  country. 
Let us be patient with the  law;  our  hopes 
of relief are gone if this attempt  to  correct 
a flagrant abuse is of no avail
Some Faults  in  the  Omaha Organization.
When the retail grocers of  Omaha  began 
agitating organization,  several  weeks  ago, 
they sent to the editor of T iie Tradesman 
for a model constitution and  blanks,  which 
were promptly  furnished.  The  following 
letter from the  President  of  tiie  organiza­
tion shows the progress made:

Omaha,  Neb.,  May 9,  1S87.

“You give me chalk for cheese” is an old 
Italian saw that was evidently never intend­
ed to be applied to  macaroni.  You  might 
fool an Italian on chalk, but, if there is  one 
thing above another upon which  your aver­
age Neapolitan or Genoese  prides  hi|||self, 
it is his knowledge of his national dish.  lie 
knows it from its Alpha to  its Omega, and 
will tell you that its name was derived from 
the Greek Hesych,  which  means  “perfect 
happiness—bliss,”  acd  he’ll tell  you that 
macaroni is worthy of its name.

There  is  only one  big  establishment in 
Philadelphia  where  macaroni is made,  and 
that  is  located  at  Eighth  and  Christian 
streets.  There  are  several  small  places 
where the paste is made by hand, and many 
Italian families prepare their own.  How is 
it made?  The  first  thing  necessary is to 
mix and knead the dough.  For this purpose 
a large wooden bowl or  trough is required, 
the size of which is six feet in diameter and 
over one foot in depth. 
In  this a millstone 
revolves,  weighing  over  3,000  pounds. 
About 300 pounds of flour are  emptied into 
tiie bowl,  and enough water  added to make 
a thick dough.  This is spread  around  the 
inside of the bowl.  The  machinery is then 
put in motion,  and tiie  heavy  stone  wheel 
begins to revolve upon the  flour and water, 
which have been  placed in such a way that 
the weight and motion of tiie wheel are con­
tinually pressing, rolling and kneading it.

From the roller  the  dough  goes to  the 
presser.  This is an iron machine,  cylindri­
cal in form, about two  feet in  height  and 
one  and  a  half feet in  diameter,  which  is 
placed in a perpendicular position.  Tiie lid 
of the presser, which  is of  solid  iron and 
fits exactly inside of tiie cylinder, is connect­
ed with a large steel screw of immense pow­
er.  The bottom of the  presser is a  copper 
plate,  one and a half  inches  in  thickness, 
and is perforated with small  holes.  About 
100 pounds of the  dough are  put  into the 
press.  The lid is then fitted on and the ma­
chinery started.  The  immense  power  of 
the screw is now seen,  as it gradually forces 
the lid toward the  bottom.  The  effect  of 
this pressure upon the dough serves to force 
it through the  holes in  the  bottom,  from 
which it emerges in  tube-like  form.  The 
holes in the copper  plate are  filled  in the 
center,  so that the dough can only be forced 
through them around the edges, and, in that 
way, the macaroni is made  hollow.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dear Sir—I enclose you a  copy  of  the 
by-laws and constitution of the Omaha  Re­
tail Grocers’ Association.
You will, no doubt,  think us a little tardy 
in getting started,  but having  now got fair­
ly  organized,  we  commence  business  in 
earnest next Wednesday night.
Pardon the  seeming  negligence,  on  my 
part  in  not  writing  you 
sooner,  but 
until we  had  made  some progress, I  could 
make no report.
Thanking you for your interest  and  well 
wishes for  our  welfare  and  promising  to 
keep you posted in the future I am

Very truly, 

A.  F. Ross, Pres. 

T iie T radesman is pleased  to  see  that 
the form of constitution and by-laws recom­
mended by its editor  was  adopted  without 
material  change.  Considering that similar 
drafts were obtained  from  associations  all 
over the country,  the selection of tiie Michi­
gan  constitution  is  a  compliment  to  the 
State and to the men who made it.

The Omaha  organization has made a ser­
ious mistake,  however,  in fixing  the  mem­
bership dues at §1  per  month.  Such  ex­
pense is likely to serve  as  a  barrier  to  a 
large membership,  unless  tiie  Omaha  gro 
cers have  learned  a  method  of  investing 
funds  not  possessed  by  their  brethren  in 
other  parts  of  the  country.  The  Grand 
Rapids Retail  Grocers’ Association  is  able 
to maintain itself  on  monthly  dues  of 
cents, and the constantly increasing surplus 
in the  treasury  warns  the  members  that 
quarterly dues of 50 cents would  be  amply 
sufficient to meet the ordinary  running  ex­
penses.  One dollar  a  month is  altogether 
too steep.

Another action which  serves  to place the 
Omaha  organization  in  a  ridiculous  light 
is the selection  of  the  Chicago  Grocer  as 
its official organ. 
If  the need of  an  organ 
is felt, it ought to  be run  and controlled by 
the  Association, by  some  members  of  the 
organization,  or some one who  has the con­
fidence of the members—a man  whose sym­
pathies are with tiie retail trade.  The Den­
ver grocers have solved this question by  the 
publication  of  their  bright  exponent,  the 
Retail Grocer, which is owned  by members 
of  their  Association  and  whose  editorial 
columns  beat  in  unison  with  the  grocers’ 
needs and desires.  To select a house organ 
—the  servile  mouth-piece  of  a  jobbing 
house—to represent  the retail  trade looks a 
good deal  like the  archangel  delegating his 
authority to the devil.  The  Omaha grocers 
should rescind their action in this  matter or 
the other organizations  of  the  country will 
not be blamed  if they took upon the Omaha 
Association  as  the  annex  of  a  jobbing 
house.

When the larger varieties of macaroni are 
to be cut into different sizes, quantities of it 
are spread upon a  heavy  slab, and  an at­
tendant,  who is an expert  iu the work, pro­
ceeds to cut the  stock  as  required.  The 
knife used has a  blade  twenty  inches  in 
length.  The  handle  is held  firmly in the 
right hand,  while the left hand  is used as a 
lever.  So precise is the work that the piec­
es cut seldom vary the sixteenth of an inch. 
In cutting the smaller  kinds  and the fancy 
paste,  a  presser,  placed  horizontally,  is 
used,  and an attachment,  consisting of  sev­
eral short knives worked by steam, cuts the 
goods as required as they emerge.

After coming from the presses,  the maca­
roni is placed upon wooden  trays and  con­
veyed to the drying room.  It is then spread 
upon wooden  frames,  four  feet wide  and 
eight feet long.  Across the bottoms of  the 
frames a network of heavy  twine is  made, 
and upon this is spread thick  brown paper. 
The macaroni is put on  top of  tiie  paper, 
and the frame is  placed  upon a large rack 
that reaches from floor to ceiling.

As great quantities of these goods are con­
sumed,  their  manufacture  furnishes a dis­
tinct branch of trade,  which  gives  employ­
ment  to  many  people. 
In  Philadelphia 
there are several of these manufactories, the 
one here described being tiie (largest in this 
country,  and one of the  best in the  world. 
In this place alone from three to five thous­
and pounds of stock  are  made in a  single 
day,  and ready sale is found for  the  entire 
lot,  part of which is shipped to  California, 
and some even to the Sandwich  Islands.
Miscellaneous  Questions 

and  Their  An-

swers.

The Secretary of  the White

Cloud  Busi­
ness Men’s Asst dation makes the following 
enquiries:

1.  How do we go  to  work  to get up our 

delinquent list?

3.  Do we want to send  the  names of  all 
our delinquents to the State  Association or 
only those who have moved to other towns?
3.  Have we  any  right to  publish  the 
names of our delinquents in the  village pa­
per?  We  should  like to do so,  if no good 
reason stands in the way.

4.  Has the State  Association  ever made 
any move to prevent the  wholesale  houses 
selling to consumers,  such as hotels,  board­
ing houses and private families?

5.  Have we,  as an  Association,  any right 
to form or help to form other  organizations 
in surrounding towns?

ANSWERS.

1.  After the Blue Letter and  Secretary’s 
blank have been sent out,j and no  responses 
are m.ade to either  notification,  the  Secre­
tary should report the naines  of  such  per­
sons  to  the  Executive /Committee,  whose

business it is to classify  the  names  alpha­
betically and cause them to be published  in 
proper form. 
In the case  of  disputed  ac­
counts,  impartial hearings should  be  given 
both debtor and creditor,  and  a  report  on 
the case, just to all parties concerned, made 
to the Association.  On the vote of the  ma­
jority of the members present, the  name  is 
printed on,  or withheld from, the delinquent 
list.

3.  At present the State Association takes 
cognizance  only  of  persons  who  remove 
from  the j jurisdiction  of  the  Association 
which has placed  them  on  the  delinquent 
list.

3.  That is a point  of  law  which  could 
best  be  answered  by  a  lawyer.  Such  a 
course is not advised,  because  it  partakes 
too much of maliciousness.  Many  persons 
whose names are on the delinquent list'pay 
up,  to remove the stigma,  but if  tiie  names 
were printed in a newspaper  such  publica­
tion would undoubtedly settle the  accounts 
for all  time  to  come.  The  experience  of 
the older  Associationsjgoes  to  prove  that 
publication  on  the  delinquent  list  is  far 
preferable to newspaper publication.

4.  That is  wholly  a  local  matter,  and 
can be remedied by  each Association  doing 
ns the Grand  Rapids  grocers  have  done— 
circulate a  Roll  of  Honor  for  signatures, 
iind refuse to buy  goods  of  any  house  or 
traveling  man  who  makes  a  practice  of 
selling to consumers.

Certainly you have.  Every local  As­
sociation  organized  in  your  vicinity  adds 
strength to  your  Association  by  enabling 
you ; to present a  more  solid  front  to  the 
dead-beat and peddler.  Do all  you  can  to 
encourage local  organization  in  neighbor- 
towns,  and the results will  amply reply 

you for all your time and trouble.

Counterfeits.

“What do you call  this?”  asked a physi­
cian the other day of a  Detroit  Tribxine re­
porter, producing a quantity of  brown pow­
dered substance.

“Ground cinnamon,” was the  prompt re­
ply.  “Anybody  who  can  smell  ought to 
know that.”

“Well,  your  olfactories  have  led  you 

astray this time,” said the doctor.

“What is it,  then?”
“Ground  tobacco  boxes,  with a  little of 
cinnamon thrown over it to give it tiie prop­
er  flavor.  Yes, 
that’s  what  it  Is,  sure 
enough, and a little—and a  very  little—bit 
of tobacco mixed  with  the  wood. 
It was 
brought to me by a  gentleman  who said it 
had been  purchased in  a  leading  grocery 
house,  and I recognized the  lithograph  la­
bels as that of a very popular brand of  cin­
namon.

“This counterfeit almost comes up to the 

maple sugar  deception at  the State fail i. 
Detroit a few years ago.  Ever  hear of  i 
No?  Well,  it seems some  fellow  up 11a  1 
made a wager that he could  manufacture i 
substitute for maple  sugar that  would  de 
ceive the judges into awarding him the first 
premium for pure maple sugar.  He did so, 
producing the article from  cheap  grades of 
brown sugar bought in this city  and manip­
ulated under the eyes of people cognizant of 
the bet.  He carried his  certificate of high­
est merit home and  proudly  hung  it  over 
the mantelpiece in  his best  room, a tribute 
to science which  had  scored a victory  over 
the honest granger.

“I think the man who  succeeded  iu pro­
ducing a counterfeit  oyster  which deceived 
the epicures of  Paris  deserves  the  palm. 
Never heard of it?  Now,  that’s strange— 
thought  everybody  knew  it.  Yes,  a  man 
over in France—Bordeaux,  I think—is man­
ufacturing an oyster now  which is  rapidly 
supplanting the natural  bivalve.  They are 
colored by a mineral wash,  and  fastened to 
genuine shells with glue,  which dries to the 
semblance of the cartilage  that  binds  the 
natural oyster to his shell.”

The  smallest  oscillating  engine  in  the 
world has  been  made  by John  R.  Ilare, of 
Baltimore. 
It is about half  as big as a col­
lar-button, and is hidden completely beneath 
a child’s thimble.  Its bore is one-sixteenth of 
an  inch,  and  the  stroke  one-eighth.  The 
wheel, shaft and  crank  weigh eight grains, 
the  cyinder five and the standard and pillar 
twelve grains,  making the. whole weight one 
pennyweight one grain.  Run by compress­
ed air,  it makes  three  thousand revolutions 
a minute.  Mr. Hare  has  also  made an en­
gine which is covered with  an English yx1~ 
nut shell.

Germany has shown good sense  in  send­
ing M. Sclmaebeles back to France; and the 
government has shown equal  wisdom in re­
tiring him from office.  But the irreconcila­
ble section of the French people  are  deter­
mined to make a martyr of him—a  purpose 
in which he refuses to co-operate, 
lie  will 
accept  no  testimonials,  and  he  says  the 
Germans treated him very well while he was 
in their custody.  So ends  the  Sclmaebeles 
incident.

A Bay City merchant  owns a horse  that 
has done him faithful  service for 17  years, 
and never lost a day.  The  merchant is  re­
warding  him by a  summer  vacation in  a 
country meadow,  a recreation which is like­
ly to make the old stager  homesick for salt 
blocks and hard pavements.

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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.
GIANT  CLOTHING  COMPANY
Cor.Caaal&LyoaSts.,
MONNICH & STONE, Flint Mich

A.  MAY,  P r o p r i e t o r .

MANUFACTURERS  OF

  $

1C1  i
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.

Wi.  Q.  Tlompn  &  Co

160  South  Water S t, CHICAGO.

Reference

F e l s e n t h a l , G r o s s  &  M i l l e r , 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 W alker’s Patent Butter Worker«

Earl Bros., Comiissioi Merchants,

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO. 

Reference:  F irst National  Bank.

Medium Clover,

Mammoth  Clover,
Alsike Clover,

Alfalfa Clover,
Timothy,

White Dutch Clover, 

Red Top,

Blue Grass,

Orchard Grass,

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

J X J X > I >  

t f c   G O . ,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

And Full Line  Summer Goods.

103  CANAL  STREET.

T.  R,  Ellis & Co.
Book Binders

PAPER  RULERS,

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

N.  B.  CLARK,

101 Ottawa St., 

Grand Rapids.

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 Hv all Michigan Joltas.

51, 53 and 55 Lyon St.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

IMI

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

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

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

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

M anufacturers and Jobbers of

CIGARS
76 S. Division St.,  Gran! Rapids.

Factory  No,  36,  4tli  D ist.

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

GRIND RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  S IB  CO.

: i   c a n a l  s t r e e t .

STEAM  LAUNDRY,

43 and 45 K ent Street.

S T A N L E Y   N.  A L LE N ,  Proprietor.
WE  DO ONLY FIRST CLASS  WORK ADD  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders  by  Mail  and  Express  Promptly  At­

tended  to.

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KETAIIi  TiiAIIE  OF  THE  WOLVERINE  STATE

B.  A.  STOWS,  Editor,

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

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  18,  1887.

G rand R apids T raveling Men’s Association 
P resident,  L.  M. H ills;  Vice-President, 8. A. Sears;  Sec­
retary  and Treasurer, Geo. H. Seymour;  Board of Di­
rectors, H. S. Robertson,  Geo.  F.  Owen,  J.  N.  Brad­
ford, A. B. Cole and Wm. Logie.

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

In accordance with a suggestion from the 
editor of T h e  T ra desm a n, 
the  furniture 
manufacturers at this market held a meeting 
last Friday evening and selected five of their 
number to go to Lansing this  week  in  the 
interest  of  the  Cole  anti-board  insurance 
bill.  While there .the gentlemen ought also 
to turn their attention  to  another  measure 
which is of even more importance  than  the 
Cole bill.  T h e T ra desm a n refers  to  the 
measure which provides that the  Insurance 
Commissioner,  the  Attorney  General  and 
a third  member  to  be  appointed  by  the 
Governor  shall constitute  a  committee  to 
draft a uniform insurance policy, to be used 
by all insurance  companies  doing  business 
in this State. 
It is essential that  the  third 
member of the committee be a man  who  is 
not prejudiced  in  favor  of  the 
insurance 
companies and  the  Grand  Hapids  delega­
tion will do themselves and the business in­
terests of the State a service if they can irn 
press that fact on Governor Luce.  A  simi­
lar bill was  passed  by  the  Legislature  in 
1881. 
In  addition  to  Attorney  General 
Yau  Riper  and  Insurance  Commissioner 
Rowe,  Governor  Jerome  appointed  Ben 
Venior, a Detroit  insurance  agent and one 
of  the  most  servile  tools  of  the insurance 
monopoly  in  Michigan.  This  committee 
reported  a  draft which was  an  outrage on 
the business  public and the  Legislature set 
the seal of  disapproval  upon  it by refusing 
to do more  than  simply reject  it  All the 
obnoxious  paragraphs  in  the  policies  now 
in  use  were  made  binding  by law,  instead 
of  simply  contracts  as  at  present  This 
subject  has  been  admirably  treated  by the 
Canadian  Parliament,  which  has expunged 
all  the  fine-print  conditions  usually  con 
tained in policies  in this State and incorpo­
rated  such  as  are  just  to  all  parties  con 
oerned iu a special act.  This renders it un 
necessary  to  repeat  them  in  the  policy, 
which  is  nothing  more  than a bare receipt 
for the money paid.  A  dozen  policies  in 
a  dozen  different  companies  will  thus be 
governed by the same conditions,  instead of 
by the  caprices of  a dozen  different  sets of 
officers—conditions which may easily be de­
termined  by referring  to  the  act.  Such a 
system  is  working  well  in Canada.  Why 
not try it in Michigan?

Did you ever read  your  insurance  policy 
all through? 
If so,  you  will  observe  that 
under certain conditions you have no  rights 
iu the premises—that losses which you  pay 
the company to insure you against are evad­
ed by slippery  conditions  which  the  com­
pany and its insolent appraiser will invaria­
bly construe to operate against you.

J.  A.  &  J. Q.  Williams,  who  claim  to 
-do a wholesale grocery business at  Detroit, 
are now pursuing  the  dastardly  policy  of 
selling short-weight  and  badly-adulterated 
goods to fanners.  Reputable merchants who 
buy  iu  the Detroit market  should  make  a 
note of this and govern  themselves  accord­
ingly.

The  T.  P.  A.  men  of  Michigan  have 
every reason to feel proud over their secoud 
annual convention,  which was held  in  this 
city  last  week.  The  proceedings  were 
marked by a degree of  earnestness  and ag­
gressiveness seldom  seen  in  so  miscellan­
eous a gathering.

The receipts of  the  Bell  Telephone  Co. 
last year  were  83,097,000,  while  the  ex­
penses were only 8230,000.  In other words, 
every dollar expended brought in 814 in  re­
turn. 
Isn’t it  time for  the  Bell  people  to 
reduce their charges?

The Detroit Fire  and  Marine  lusurance 
Co.  has increased its capital  from  8300,000 
to 8350,000.  Yet the  insurance  companies 
claim to be doing a precarious  business and 
that without the compact system they could 
not exist.

to 

Referring 

the  exposure 

in  T h e 
T ra d esm a n of the Detroit  wholesale  gro­
cery house which  makes a practice of  sell­
ing farmers, the Watervliet Record remarks: 
“ A few days ago,  the same  wholesale  gro- 
oerymen came to  Watervliet  to  dupe  our 
farmers a second time,  but met  with  such 
poor success that they were obliged to leave 
the hotel keeper a horse to pay their  board 
bill.”

The Hilliards correspondent of  the  Alle­
gan Gazette writes as follows:  “That slick, 
smooth-tongued  chap,  that  was or  is now 
selling  groceries at  wholesale to  farmers, 
got in some of his sharp  work on  some of 
the penny wise,  pound  foolish  denizens of 
this vicinity in the way of short weight and 
inferior  goods.  He  will sell you a  staple 
article  way  down  low  and  catch you on 
something  else  every  time,  if  yon are not 
posted.”

The article on “Cinnamon,” in last week’s 
paper,  was taken  from  the  Chicago  Com­
mercial  Bulletin  and  should  have  been 
credited to that journal.

AMONG  TH E  TRADE.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  GOSSIP.

Dr.  R. Gibbs has engaged in  the  grocery 
business at  West  Chester.  Clark,  Jewell 
& Co furnished the stock.

F. Jacobi,  dry goods  and; boot  and  shoe 
dealer at Newaygo,  has added a line of gro­
ceries.  The stock was purchased here.

Bridger,  Snell & Co. have engaged in  the 
grocery  business  at  Masonville,  U.  P. 
Bulkiey,  Lemon  &  Hoops  furnished  the
stock. 

________________

J.  H. Tulip and Albert Scott have formed 
a  copartnership  under  the  firm  name  of 
Tulip & Scott and will engage  in  the  boot 
and shoe business at 87 Monroe street about 
July 1.  Mr. Tulip is uow East for the pur­
pose of purchasing goods.

£ourlay Bros.  & Co., who have  conduct­
ed a gents’  furnishing goods  establishment 
for a year  past at 39  Monroe  street,  as a 
branch  of  the  Detroit  house  of  Gourlay 
Bros., have  concluded to retire  from  busi­
ness and ship the stock back to Detroit.

Hartman & Antrim,  doing  a grocery bus­
iness on Canal street under the  style of  the 
Japan  Tea  Co.,  have  given  chattel mort­
gages  aggregating  81,983.49.  The  stock 
will inventory  about  81,000  and the claims 
of  the unsecured creditors  amount to about 
81,100. 

_________________

Perkins & Hess have  merged  the  Grand 
Rapids School Furniture  Co.  into  a  stock 
company with a capital  stock  of  8100,000, 
one-half ofjwhich has been subscribed.  G. W. 
Perkins, W. T. Hess, S. W. Peregrine, Chas. 
J. Reed and Fred Miller  have  been  elected 
a Board of Directors, which has selected the 
following officers:  President, G.  W.  Per­
kins;  Vice-President,  S.  W.  Peregrine; 
Secretary,  Chas. J. Reed; Treasurer,  W. T. 
Hess.  The accession of  more  capital  will 
enable the new company to  push  the  busi­
ness  more  than  ever  before—and  it  has 
been pushed for all it  is  worth  ever  since 
the  institution  was  inaugurated,  about  a 
year ago. 

______

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Charlotte—F. A.  Pond has sold out his 99 

cent store.

Macon—Chas. F. Clark  succeeds Niblack 

Bros,  in general trade.

Plainwell—Baxter & Co.  have  opened a 

fruit and confectionery store.

Marshall—John Welch succeeds Welch & 

Palmiter in the cigar business.

East  Saginaw—Wm.  H.  Foot succeeds I. 

F. Yarnell in the drug business.

St.  Louis—Greely  Bros,  succeed  M.  D. 

Richardson in the hotel business.

Big Rapids—M. B.  Bincomb  succeed  L. 

L.  Osgood in the grocery business.

Jackson—Alva D. Welling succeeds Wel­

ling Bros,  in the’grocery business.

Lansing—F. J.  Sindlinger succeeds A. T, 

Engelhart in the grocery business.

Manistee—Wm.  Crosby  succeeds  F.  E, 

McCarron in the restaurant business.

Fenton—F. A.  Bosworth succeeds A.  W. 

Herrick as proprietor of  the  “Fair.”

Hesperia—C. N.  Young has sold his book 

and stationeiy stock to Asa Mattison.

Manistee—Davis & Skytte succeed Ander­

son & Skytte  in the clothhig business.

Lyons—W.  S.  Barnard  will  shortly re­

move his jewelry stock to Carson City.

Pent water—Nelson  &  Kopf  have  sold 

their table slide factory' to Jas.  S. Bird.

Marine City—II. A. Sorg &  Co.  succeed 

Sorg & Humphrey in the drug business.

Sand  Beach—Smith  &  King,  furniture 

dealers,  have dissolved, King  succeeding.

Hastings—Geo.  K.  Beamer  succeeds  J  

H.  Beamer & Co.  in the grocery business.

Edgerton—G. W.  Robinson succeeds Sco- 

ville & McAuley in the grocery business.

Jaekson—C.  F.  Binder  &  Co.  succeed 

Dettman & Binder in the meat business.

Jackson—Welling  &  Burkhart  succeed 
W.  R. Dodge & Co. in the  saloon business 
Detroit—Tlios.  Currie  &  'Son  succeeds 
Trim,  McGregor & Co. in the coal  business.
O’Donnell—P. S.  Heney  & Co.,  grocers, 
have dissolved,  J.  E.  Edwards  succeeding.
Orange—Tew,  Kilmartin  & Tew succeed 
in  general 

Erdman,  Kilmartin  &  Tew 
trade.

Kalamazoo—Christopher Pelgrim succeeds 
Pelgrim &^on  in  the  confectionery  busi­
ness.

Leonidas—Cleveland  &  Hoffman succeed 
Norman  A.  Cleveland  in  the  blacksmith 
business.

Owosso—Parkill & Son  have  sold  their 
branch drug stock at West  Owosso  to Geo. 
L.  Lusk.

Ithaca—S. A.  Lyon  lias  bought  out  the 
restaurant and confectionery business of  L. 
A. Westbrook.

Riverdale—O. O.  Osborn  has  sold a half 
interest  in  his  drug  business  to Mr. Hud­
son.  The new firm name is Osborn & Hud­
son.

Petoskey—W. T.  Latham  has  sold  his 
livery stock to Levi  Herrick.  Mr. Herrick 
has rented the bam  and will  continue  the 
livery business.

Lake City—Wood  &  Walton  have  sold 
their general  stock  to  LeBar  & Cornwell, 
of Cadillac.  Mr.  Wood  will  continue  in 
ttie hardware bnsiness.

Cheboygan—M. J. Kesseler has  sold  his 
furnishing goods and  barber  shop  to  Geo. 
Connor,  and  will  engage  in  the  grocery 
business with his brother.

Big  Itapids—The  assets  of  Frank  A. 
Lange amount to 85,306.91,  and the liabili­
ties  aggregate  86,502.15.  This  indicates 
about 80 cents on the  dollar.

Lakeview—E.  R.  Saxton,  ex-treasurer of 
Lakeview township,  and a prominent  mer­
chant  of  the  village,  sold  his store  last 
week,  pocketed  the  proceeds and  myster-

iously  disappeared.  Creditors and attach­
ments await his return.

West Chester—O.  F.  Conklin  and  Geo. 
B. Sabin  have formed a  copartnership  un­
der the firm name of O. F.  Conklin  &  Co. 
and engaged in general trade.

Charlevoix—Alick  Rosenthal  has  pur­
chased his father’s interest in the dry goods 
and clothing stock of Rosenthal & Son, and 
will continue  the  business  under  his  own 
name.

Detroit—Articles of association of the De­
troit  Co-operative  Mercantile  Association 
were filed on the 14th.  John  F.  Duncan is 
President, Wm. F.  Abrams, Vice-President, 
John H. Leys,  Treasurer.  Andrew W.  Vi­
cars, Secretary’, Albert Busch, Thos. M. Do­
lan and Bell R.  Finlayson,  Auditors.  The 
capital stock is 825,000, in shares of 85 each. 
The Association will manufacture  and  sell 
by wholesale,  food, clothing and other com­
modities*  The stock now paid up is 8600.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Morley—A.  W. Dodge’s  clothes-pin  fac­

tory is running full force.

Mendon—Wm.  Dutton  succeeds  C.  M. 

Cosier in the manufacture of  cigars.

Three  Oaks—The  Warren  Featherbone 

Co.  is establishing a large  corset factory.

Centreville — H.  C.  Campbell  succeeds 
Campbell &  Wilson  in  the  manufacture of 
cotton batting.

Mason—C. A.  Yocum  succeeds  Witbeck 
& Yocum  in  the  manufacture  of  agricul­
tural implements.

East  Saganaw — E.  Germain  succeeds 
E.  Germain &  Bro% in the lumber and plan­
ing mill business.

Allegan—Joseph Ambler has sold his pa­
per mill at Dundee and has  returned to the 
management of his woolen mill here.

Saginaw—The  Williams  &  Perrin  Co. 
succeed Williams & Perrin in the  manufac­
ture of agricultural  implements,  carriages, 
etc.

Detroit—The  National  Bucket  Co.  has 
filed incorporation papers.  The  authorized 
capital stock is 812,000, of which 810,000 is 
paid in.

Muskegon—W. F. Wiselogel’s  new plan­
ing mill will have a capacity of 100,000 feet 
of lumber per day.  The mill contains eight 
machines.

Otter Lake—The window  screen  works 
would like to  remove to Flint,  for a  bonus. 
The latter place has the matter  under  con­
sideration.

Marshall—Edgerton  Bros,  have signed a 
contract with the city for the  establishment 
of a  coffin  factory.  They  are  given  six 
months to get in running order.

Kalamazoo—Scudder &  Bird  propose  to 
put up about 75,000 cans of corn,  and about 
the same  amount  of  tomatoes this season. 
Little attention will be paid to  small  fruits 
this year.

Monroe—Adam  Lehr  has  bought  the 
Monroe Pump Co.  of  Jas. York.  The  lat­
ter still continues  the  manufacture of  sash 
aud blinds.

Morley—Henry  Strope  has  purchased 
the Quackenbush  shingle mill at  Pleasant 
Corners,  six miles  northwest  of  town, and 
has already begun operations.

STRAY  FACTS.

Elk Rapids—The  business  men have for 
some time been talking up the inducements 
to be offered  a bank which will locate here.
Flint—The businessmen have raised 810,- 
000 by subscription to be spent in an explor 
iug expedition down  below to look for nat­
ural gas.

The Gripsack Brigade.

A.  D.  Baker’s nine  pound  boy  is  doing 
finely.  Ad.  contemplates  naming  him 
Hardware Baker.

Duff Jennings, representing the Dingman 
Soap Co., of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  was  in town a 
couple of  days last week.

The Auburn Paper Co. has engaged Ch^. 
B. Bedford to represent that  house  to  the 
trade along the G. R. &  I.

D. E.  McVean,  formerly  with  Arthur 
Meigs &  Co.,  has  engaged  to  travel  for 
Bulkiey,  Lemon & Hoops.

L.  Wells  Baldwin,  representing  M.  E. 
McDowell & Co.,  of  Philadelphia,  was  in 
town a couple of days last  week.

J. Arthur  Retd,  Secretary  of  Jackson 
Post, T.  P. A., was  married on the 10th to 
Miss Abbie Staats,  a well-known  and high 
ly esteemed lady of Jackson.

A commercial  traveler wishing  to  take a 
rise out of  a clergyman,  who  occupied  the 
same  compartment,  asked  him  if  he  had 
ever heard that in Paris as often  as a priest 
was haDged a  donkey  was  hanged  at  the 
same time.  The victim of  the  joke replied 
in  his  blandest  manner: 
‘¡Well, then, let 
us  both  be  thankful  that  j§e  are  not  in 
Paris.”

Purely Personal.

Ludwig  Winternitz  has  returned  from a 

business trip to Chicago.

P.  C.  Bailey,  formerly of  Elk  Rapids,  is 
now prescription clerk for  Dr.  P.  H.  Galla­
gher, at Hancock.

Geo.  L. Medes,  formerly of  this  city but 
now located at  Chippewa Lake,  spent Sun­
day with his best girl here.

Frank E.  Leonard and Fred. H.  Leonard, 
of H. Leonard  &  Sons,  spent  Saturday  in 
Chicago  and Sunday in Grand Haven.

S.  Rademaker, book-keeper  for  Amos  S. 
Musselman & Co.,  is  spending a fortnight’s 
vacation with friends near Milwaukee.

M. B.  Church,  Manager of the Alabastine 
Co. and Anti-Kalsomine Co.,  left last night 
for a business trip to Troy and Albany.

D. D. Harris’ n§w cheese factory at Shelby- 
vllle  is  18x50  feet  in  dimensions.  For 
cheesemaker, he has imported a man of  ex­
perience from Pennsylvania.

Association Notes.

The Allegan Business Men’s  Association 
will furnish  trees  at  a  nominal  price  to 
those of the  residents  who  will  set  them 
out and care for them.

The Flint Mercantile  Union  is endeavor­
ing to secure the passage of an ordinance by 
the city council,  compelling  all peddlers to 
pay a yearly license of 825.

The  Executive  Committee  of  the  Mich­
igan Business Men’s Association meets here 
to-day for the  purpose, of  selecting the date 
and place of meeting of the September  con­
vention.

At the next meeting of  the  White  Lake 
Business Men’s Association,  the  subject  of 
inviting the Oceana County Business  Men’s 
Association to participate in  a  picnic  with 
the former organization will be discussed.

Here is a chance for  the  Business  Com­
mittees of  our  local  associations  to  show 
their metal.  A. J. Brown & Co.,  furniture 
manufacturers at Buchanan,  will move their 
business to any good  town  giving  them  a 
82,000  bonus.  They  employ  twenty-five 
men.

The  business  men of  Bancroft  have or­
ganized a Business  Men’s  Association  for 
the purpose of furthering  public  improve­
ments and  attracting  manufactories to the 
village.  Through the efforts  of  this Asso­
ciation,  a cheese  factory  is now in process 
of erection.  A site  for  fair  grounds  and 
racing park have been secured.

W.  G. Shane,  Secretary of  the Sherman 
Business  Men’s  Association,  writes as fol­
lows:  “Our  Association is now beginning 
to boom.  One of our members says he has 
already collected enough outlawed accounts 
with the Blue Letter to  pay his dues to the 
Association^*«: twenty-five years.  We are 
more than pleased with the Association and 
think there is lots of chance for  good work 
in many directions.”

J. A.  Sidle,  Secretary of  the  Plainwell 
Business  Men’s  Association,  writes as fol­
lows:  “Our Association is in good  running 
order and growing in numbers and influence. 
We have thirty-three  members in good and 
regular standing,  and  hope  soon to be able 
to report  that  we include  every  business 
man in town.  The Blue  Letter  collection 
system is doing its work in fine shape.”

T h e T ra d esm a n  acknowledges  the  re­
ceipt of the first issue  of  the  White  Lake 
Business  Exchange,  a  praiseworthy  semi­
monthly journal gotten  up under the auspi­
ces of the White Lake Business  Men’s  As­
sociation.  Briefly  stated, 
the  objects  of 
the  publication  are  as  follows:  “To  ac­
quaint the outside world with  the  advanta­
geous locations we  have to offer to new en 
terprises; to advertise our  business;  and  to 
give all chronic,  eighteen  karat  dead-beats 
hell !”  The  current  Issue  contains  the 
names of the officers  and  members  of  the 
Association,  the  constitution of the organi 
zation, the business  cards  of  some  of  the 
members and two pages of interesting  mat­
ter relating to organization,  local  and  gen­
eral,  most  of  which  T h e  T ra desm a n 
will reproduce.  The  idea  is  a  novel  one 
and T h e T ra desm a n hopes to see the  ex­
ample set by White Lake  followed by other 
associations.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

City.

L. W. Cole, Petoskey.
Jas. Buckley, Buckley  & Daggett, Petoskey. 
Silas Loew, Burnlp’s Corners.
Sid. V. Bullock,  J.  C.  Scott  &  Co.,  Howard 
Geo. A.  Sage, Rockford.
Huizenga & Son, Eastmanville.
L. F. Davoll, Boyne Falls.
John Gunstra, Lamont.
G.  W. Robinson, Edgerton.
M. Gezon, Jenisonville.
John Giles A Co., LoweJl.
Smith & Bristol, Ada.
G. N. Reynolds. Belmont.
Fred Morley, Morley Bros,, Cedar Springs.
C. H. Joldersma. Jamestown.
R. T. Parrish, Grandville.
J. W. Mead, Berlin.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
G. C. Baker, LaBarge.
J. P. Cordes, Alpine.
Dr. R. Gibbs, West Chester.
Olander A Anderson,  Cadillac.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
H. Rice. Alpine.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
Wm. Karsten, Beaver Dam.
A. C. Barclay, Crosby.
C. C. Tuxbury, Sullivan.
G. S. Putnam, Fruitport.
E. Troll,  Belding.
L. Creighton, Nirvana.
Gus. Begman, Bauer.
S. T. McLellan, Dennison. 
Cole & Chapel, Ada.
S. Frost, Stanton.
J. D. Edwards, O’Donnell.
W. W. Forrester, Pierson.
T. W. Farvin, So. Boardman.
J. F. Hacker, Corinth.
A. D. Martin, Otia.
R. L. Willlett, Altona.
J. G. McElwee & Co., Otia.
N. Bouma, Fisher.
A. G. Clark & Co., White Cloud.
Adam Newell, Burnlp’s Corners.
E. E. Rice, Croton.
Neal McMillen, Rockford.
8eward McNitt A Co., Byron Center.
J. D. F. Pierson, Pierson.
M. V. Wilson, Sand Lake.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
Stanley E.Parkill, C.P.Parkill & Son, Owosso. 
Ben. E. West & Co., Lowell.
8. Biteley, Biteley Siding.
C. F. Braden, Lakeview.
J. N. Wait, Hudsonville.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
E. S. Botsford, Dorr.
Dr. A. Hanlon, Elk Rapids.
A. DeKruif, Zeeland.
H. C. McFarlan, Manton.
J. Damstra,  Gitchell.
Velzy Bros. Lamont.
L. Cook, Bauer.
J. Gunstra, Lamont.
G. C. Huntington & Co., Cedar Springs.
L. A. Paine, Englishville.
O utler A Lauster, Ionia.
DenHerder A Tanis, Vriesland.
W. A. DeHart, Vickery ville.
Wm. Karsten, Beaver Dam.
F. Dodge, Big Rapids.

^

Good  Words  Unsolicited.

Edgar & Allyn,  general  dealers,  Dushville: 
“ We think “The Tradesman” a  very  valuable 
paper.”

Frank  Weaver, grocer, Manton:  “It  is  the 
best paying article  I have In the store.  I could 
not do business without it.”

Cornell  &  Griswold,  general  dealers,  Gris­
wold:  “We  like  your  paper  very  much.  It 
saves us money every  week.”

J. A. LeBeau, grocer,  Forest  Hill:  “Think 

it a good one.”

/

When They Are Wanted.

From the White Lake Business  Exchange.

An errbr exists in the minds of some sim­
ple yet honest people  regarding  the aim of 
the Business Men’s  Association. 
It  is not 
to put up prices or agree  to  charge  certain 
prices for certain  goods.  Such  tilings are 
not discussed.  Neither  is it to hamper any 
person who will make an effort  even to pay 
his debts. 
In fact,  particular pains is taken 
to keep the names off  the  dead-beat  list of 
all who try to do the square thing;  but when 
they won’t, then we  want ’em  on the  list, 
for “they never will be  missed.”

Tired of Trifling.

From the Omaha  World.

“Well,  I am happy at last,”  said  a clerk 
in an up-town dry goods  store,  “in  having 
succeeded in impressing my employer  with 
the fact that I am  personally  honest.  For 
about a month  now he has  been  placing a 
dollar bill at intervals  somewhere about the 
store after he closes at night,  and  which I 
would find in the morning. 
I picked  them 
up time and again and handed them to him, 
but the other morning  I nailed  one to  the 
floor instead of  handing it to  him as usual. 
Now there are no more dollar bills placed on 
the  floor,  and he seems  to be  convinced of 
my honesty.”

MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements  will  be  inserted under this 
head for one cent a word or two  cents a  word 
forthree insertions.  No advertisement  taken 
for less than 25 cents.  Advance payment.
Advertisements  directing:  that  answers  be 
sent  in care of this office m ust be accompanied 
by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage,

191*

F OR SALE—A good  m eat  business  in South 

Western Michigan, market fixtures, meat, 
tard. slaughter honse and ice house full of ice, 
one team, wagon, buggy and  sleigh.  A.  Bar­
man, Buchanan, Mich. 
OODA  FOUNTAIN,  CHEAP-A  nearly  new 
KZ7  J. W. T uft’s Epoch. No. 707 soda  fountain 
and 2 copper  tanks,  glass  syrup  cans  and  10 
glass-lined syrup faucets, 3 glass-lined draught 
tubes, counter fountain.  Apply to A. R. Rood, 
43 Pearl street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

191-3t

F OR  SALE—House, tin  shop and  set of tin­

ner’s tools, in a live town with good farm ­
ing  country  surrounding,  for  8800,  one-half 
cash, balance on time.  Good chance for a tin­
ner.  No other hardware or  tin-shop  in town. 
Lock box 22, Elsie, Mich. 

193*

I jlOR SALE—Residence and  medical practice 

of  $3,000  a  year,  regular  physician  in 
wealthy town of 1,500  people;  surrounded  by 
excellent, thickly settled farm ing country with 
good  roads;  bargain  if  sold  soon.  Address 
S. 261 Grand River Ave., Detroit, Mich.  193*
TATANTED—A stock of drugs, from  $2,000 to 
$3,000  worth.  Must  be  a  good-paying 
t t 
business.  None  other  need  apply.  Address 
Lock Box 59, Fremont. Mich. 
192*

IilOR  SALE—One  of  the  best-paying  drug 

stores in the  city,  Stock  will  inventory 
about  $4,000.  Terms  cash  or  its  equivalent. 
Address Pharmacist, care Tradesman. 

192

F oR  SALE—Stock of  general  merchandise, 

in good condition; will rent store one year 
healthy condition.  G. C.  Willey, Summit city, 
Mich. 

with  privilege  of  buying;  trade  in  a  good 

192*

192*

situated on a good  business  street in this 
city.  For  further  particulars  address  CCC, 
care Tradesman office. 

F OR SALE—At  a  bargain, a  grocery  stock 
I IOR  SALE—Seven  Room  House,  plastered 

and well finished, good  brick cellar, good 
well and two lots 50 x 142 ft.,  only  two  blocks 
from business center of  Dayton, Tennessee, a 
thriving city of 3,500inhabitants, 3« miles north 
of Chattanooga,  on  theC. S. R. R.  Also  two 
lots, 50 x 150 ft., at  Tunnel  of  E. T., Va. & Ga. 
R. R.  Prettiest suburb of  Chattanooga.  Will 
sell on easy term s or excbange  for real estate 
or  merchandise  in  or  near  Grand  Rapids. 
George A. Deitz, Dayton,  Tenn. 
191*

F OR  SALE—A  complete  stock  of  drugs, 

paints and oils; am doing a good business; 
farming  country. 
surrounded  by  a  good 
Reason  for  selling,  poor  health.  Call  on  or 
address E. H. Steveos, Pewamo,  Mich. 
192*
LIOR SALE—Store  building, residence, barn 
A. 
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. 

19a*

177tf

I IOR SALE—Best  bargain  ever  offered  for 

general  stock  in growing  town  in  good 
farm ing  community  in  Northern  Michigan. 
Stock  will inventory  about  $6,000.  Sales  last 
year were $60,000.  Address “The Tradesman,” 
Grand Rapids. 

old,  first-class,  well-established  grocery 
business.  Best location  in city of Grand Rap- 
191*
ids. »Address Tiie Tradesman. 

F OR  SALE—Stock, fixtures  and  lease of an 
F OR  SALE—Ice box, 6 feet and 2 inches high, 

2 feet and 11 inches  deep and 5 feet and 2 
inches wide.  The  box is zinc lined and nearly 
new.  J.C. Shaw, 79 Canal  street,  Grand Ran- 
ids.___________________ -____________ i89tf
\\T 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. 
11DINNER  WANTED—A rare  opportunity of- 
JL 
fered for a first-class tinner, plumber and 
pipe-fitter.  A man of good mechanical ability, 
good habits, polite,  industrious, reliable, with 
first-class references, considerable experience, 
who desires to make a place for himself in the 
near future, with a chance to  have a business 
of his own with our  patronage  and  good-will 
back of it.  Such a man would find it to his in­
terest to communicate with or visit  us within 
the next thirty days.  The Hannah & Lay Mer­
cantile Co., Traverse City, Mich. 

178tf

191

Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailors of

BOOKS,

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

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.

0B M Z A T II  OOTFITS.

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: 
x,ooo “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.
Filler & Stowe Company,

49 Lyon Street, 

-  Grand Rapids, Mich.

HARDW OOD  LUMBER.

The furniture factories  here  pay  as  follows 
for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run...............................12 00&14 00
Birch, log-run.......................................15 oo@l8 00
Birch, Nos. 1 aud  2.............................   @35 00
Black Ash, log-run...............................13 C0Q15 CO
Cherry,  log-run....................................25 00@35 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and 2........................... 45 00@50 00
Cherry,  cull......................................... 
@10 00
Maple,  log-run..................................... 12 00©14 00
Maple, soft,  log-run............................ll 00@13 00
Maple, Nos. la n d 2..............................  @20 00
Maple, clear, flooring.........................  @25 On
Maple, white, selected.......................  @25 On
RedOak, log-run.................................  @18 UO
@24  00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2......................... 
Red Oak, quarter  sawed..................26  00@3t> 00
Red Oak, No.  1, step  plank............... 
@25 00
Walnut, log-run..................................   @55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2..........................  
@75 00
Walnuts,  culls....................................   @25 00
Grey  Elm. log-run.............................  
@13 00
White Ash,  log-run............................. 14 00@16 00
Whitewood,  log-run............................20 00@22 00
White Oak, log-run............................  ©17  00

WOODEN W ARE.

Standard  Tubs, No. 1.......................................6 00
Standard  Tubs, No. 2.................................... . . 5  00
Standard Tubs, No. 3...................................... ¡4 00
Standard Pails, two hoop.................................l 40
Standard Paiis, three hoop............................. l 65
Pails, ground wood 
...................................4  00
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes............................2 00
B utter  Pails, ash..............................................2 50
Butter Ladles..........................................            1  00
Rolling Pins................................................  .  75
Potato  Mashers...................................................50
Clothes Pounders....................................... . ..’2 25
ClothesPins.............................................  
go
Mop stocks....................................... ;..;;; .i oo
Washboards, single.................................“ “  .1  75
Washboards, double..................... 
S6
Diamond  M arket............................................  40
Bushel, narrow band...........................................l 60
Bushel, wide band................................................ i 75
Clothes, splint,  No. 1........................................... 3 50
Clothes, splint,  No. 2........................................ !!4 25
Clothes, splint,  No. 3......................................*5  00
Clothes, willow  No. 1...................................... ...5 50
Clothes, willow  No. 2...........................................e 50
Clothes, willow  No. 3.................................1 ” 7 50
W ater  Tight, bu.........................................11! 3 75

BA SK ETS.

 

“ 

half bu...................................... ..'.a 85
MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock Bark—Tanners all have  large  sup­
plies.  Dealers are paying $5 for good bark.
Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay  $1.50  $   lb  for 
clean washed roots.
Rubber Boots and Shoes—Local jobbers  are 
authorized to offer standard goods at  40  and 5 
percent, off, and second quality at 50 per cent 
off

I b a r b w a r e .

f i l e s —New List.

 

12 

net

HINOE8.

HANGERS.

and  longer................................. 

GALVANIZED IKON,
22 and  24,  25 and 26 
14 

American File Association  List........dis  scaio
Disston’s     ......................................  ... dis  80 St 10
New  American..................................... dis  60A10
Nicholson’s............................................dis  uo&io
Heller s ..................................................dis  56410
so
Heller’s  Horse Rasps..........................dis 
„  
27 
Nos. 16 to 20, 
28
13 
List 
15  w
Discount, Juniata 50@10, Charcoal 60
GAUGES.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... dis 
50
HAMMERS.
Maydole & Co.’s ....................  
Si
dis 
Kip s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . dis 
26
Yerkes  A  Plumb’s..................  
40
dis 
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel.....  ..............39 c [j8t 50
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel. Hand . .30 c 40A10
Bam Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track  50A10
Champion,  anti-friction.......................dis  60A10
Kidder, wood  track ...............................dis 
40
Gate, Clark’s, l, 2, 3............................... dis 
60
state - ■•••••■ ■■■■■•■....................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  1*  in.  4u   14
3^
Screw Hook and Eye,  t t .................net 
iou
.......... „gt 
gS
Screw Hook and Eye 
Screw Hook and Eye  £ ............  "  net 
7%
Screw Hook and Eye,  %............... 
Strap and  T ...................................'.'.'dis 
65
»
HOLLOW  WAKE. 
P o ts............................................................. 
«j
K ettles...........................................
Spiders  ......................................
Gray  enameled................................................... 50
Stamped Tin Ware.....................new  list 
75
Japanned Tin  Ware.................. 
26
Granite Iron  W are.............................................26
£ ru£  J .............................................$11 00, dis 60
“ ruJ> „•*................................................  11 50, dis 60
° rubd.................................................   12 00, dis 60
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings..........dis 
55
65
poor, porcelain, jap.  trim m ings........  
Door, porcelain, plated  trim m ings.... 
55
Door, porcelain, trim m ings.................. 
55
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain........dis 
70
40&10
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s ..  .. 
H em acite............................. 
'/.'dis 
45
Russell A Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list.. dis 
55
Mallory, Wheeler Sc Co.’s ..................   dis 
55
Branford’s ................  
dia 
rh
Norwalk’s  ........................" . . " " " " . ‘idis 
55
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....................dis  70
Adze  Eye..................................... $16 00 dis 
80
Hunt Eye..................................... $15 00  dis 
60
Hunt »............................*.......... $18 50 dis 20 A 10
Sperry A Co.’s, Post,  handled.................  dis  50
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s .................................. dis 40
Coffee, P.S. A W.Mfg. Co.’sMalleabies  ..  dis 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry A Clark’s ............  dis  40
Coffee,  Enterprise... 
.........................."dis  25

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

KNOBS—NEW  LIST.

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

LEVELS.

MAULS.

m il l s .

HOES.

MOLASSES OATES.

Stebbin’s Pattern  ................................dis  60A10
Stebbin’s Genuine.................................dis  60&10
Enterprise,  self-measuring.................dis 
25

n a il s —IRON.

6d

OILERS.

Common. Brad and Fencing.
—•

....$  keg $2  15 
25 
50
1 50

lOdto  60d................. 
8d and 9 d adv........
6d and 7d  adv..........
4d and 5d  adv
3d advance.............
3d fine  advance__
Clinch nails, adv... 
)  lOd 
Finishing 
Size—inches  f  3
Adv. W keg 
$1 25  1  50  1  75  2 00 
Steel Nails—2 25.
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent..................... disBOAlO
Zinc, with brass bottom ............................dis  50
Brass or  Copper.................................. .! . .dis  50
Reaper................................ ...per gross, $12 net
Olmstead 8 ...............................................   50&10
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fgney.....................  
dis  30
Sciota Bench 
.................................... .'. dis 50©55
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy....................dis  30
Bench, flrstfquality................................dis50@55
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood__ dis20&10
Fry, Acme................................................dis 50A10
Common, polished................................   .disOO&lO
Dripping..........; .....................................$  ft  6W
Iron and Tinned........................ 
dis 
55
Copper Rivets and  Burs......................dis 
60
“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27  9 20

PATENT FLANISAED  IKON.

PLANES.

RIVETS.

PANS.

 

Broken packs He $  lb extra.

These  prices  are  for cash  buyers,  who  pay 

BELLS.

BOLTS.

BRACES.

BUCKETS.

60
60
60
60
60

BUTTS, CAST.

AUGERS AND  BITS.

promptly and buy in full  packages.
Iyes\  old style.........................................dis 
N.  H. C. Co............................
........dis 
Douglass’..
...........................................dis 
Pierces’  ... 
_
dis 
Snell’s . . , ....................................................dis 
Cook’s  .......................................................dis
Jennings’,  genuine...............
...... dis
Jennings’,  imitation.............
............dis50A10
BALANCES.
Spring......................................
............dis 
40
BARROWS.
R ailroad......................................................$  14  00
Garden........................................................net 33 00
H an d ..............................................dis  $ 60&10AI0
Cow....................................................dis 
70
C all....................................................dis 
30&15
G ong................................................. dis 
25
60A10
Door, Sargent..................................dis 
Stove......................................................dis $ 
60
Carriage  new  list................................dis  7C&1U
Plow 
.dis
Sleigh Shoe.
..dis
Wrought Barrel  Bolts........................dis  w   60
Cast  Barrel  Bolts................................dis 
40
40
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs....................dis 
Cast Square Spring............................. dis 
60
40
Cast  Chain............................................dis 
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............ dis 
60
Wrought Square................................. dis 
60
Wrought Sunk Flush..........................dis 
60
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
F lu sh ..................................................dis  60A10
Ives’ Door..............................................dis  60&10
B arb er.................................................. d isf 
40
Backus...................................................dis  50A10
Spofford.................................................dis 
50
Am. Ball................................................ dis 
net
Well, plain.................................................. $  350
Well, swivel................................................. 
4 00
Cast Loose Pin, figured__ .♦................dis  70&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed...,. .dis  70&I0
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed, .dis  60&10
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  60&10
Wrought  Loose  P in........................... dis  60AIÜ
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip ...........dis  6U&  5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned...........dis  60A 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvei
tip p e d .......................  .......................dis  603c 5
Wrought Table..................................... dis  60&10
Wrought  Inside  Blind........................dis  60&IÜ
75
Wrought Brass......................................d is 
Blind, Clark’s........................................ dis 
80
Blind, Parker’s ..................................... dis 
80
Blind,  Shepard’s .................................. dis 
70
Ely’s 1-10................................................ per m $ 65
60
Hick’s C. F ...........................................  
G. D........................................................ 
35
Musket................................................... 
_  60
Rim Fire, U. M.C. A Winchester  new  Hst60A10
Rim  Fire, United  States....................... disSOAlO
Central Fire.............................................. dis30A10
Socket Firm er......................................... dis 70A10
Socket Fram ing...................................... dis 70A10
Socket  Corner................................. __ dis 70A10
Socket Slicks.................................... . ..dis 70A10
Butchers’Tanged  Firm er............. ...dis
40
Barton’s Socket  Firm ers............... .. .dis
20
Cold....................................................__ net
Curry, Lawrence’s .......................... ...dis 40A10
Hotchkiss  ....................................... .. .dis
26
Brass,  Racking’s.............................
60
Bibb’s ...............................................
60
B e er................   ...............................
40A10
Fenns’...............................................
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size........... ..........«Mb  28
..  31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60..........
..  23
Cold Rolled, 14x48............................
..  23
Bottoms............................................
..  23
Morse’s Bit  Stock.......................... ...dis
40
Taper and Straight Shank............. .. .dis
40
Morse’s Taper  Shank..................... ...dis
40
Com. 4 piece, 6  in ............................ doz net $.85
Corrugated....................................... __dis 20A10
A djustable....................................... ...dis W&1Ü
' 
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 0o.
30
Ives’, 1. $18 00 ;  2. $24 00;  3, $30 00.
26

COPPER.
14x52,14x56,14 x60................

EXPANSIVE BITS.

CATRIDGKS.

CHISELS.

ELBOWS.

COMBS.

DRILLS

COCKS.

fils
dis

CAPS.

r o pes. 

•

TACKS.

sq u a r es.

SHEET IKON.

TIN  PLATES.

6
«K
60
60
60
60
50
50
50
50
50
45
85

Sisal, H in. and  larger..................................   u y t
Manilla............................................................... 13^
Steel and Iron.........................................dis  70A10
60
Try and Bevels........................................dis 
Mitre  .....................................................dis 
30
Com. Smooth. Com.
...........$4 20
$2 90
............  4  20
2 90
..........  4  20
3 00
..........  4  30
3 05
...........  4  40
3  15
_
__ 
8 25
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 2  inches 

Nos. 10 to  14........
Nos. 15 to  17........
Nos. 18 to 21........
Nos. 22 to  24........
Nos .25 to 26........
No. 27.................... 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEBT ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, «I  lb..................
In smaller quansities, «1  B>...........
American, all  kinds.......................
...dis 
Steel, all kinds.........................
. ..dis 
Swedes, all  kinds  ..........................
.. .dis
Cigar Box  Nails.............................. . ..dis
Finishing  Nails.  .......................
.. .dis
Common and Patent  Brads.......... .. .dis
Hungarian Nails and Miners’ Tacks.dis
Trunk and Clout Nails.............
...dis
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails__ .. .dis
Leathered Carpet  Tacks............... .. .dis
T IN N E R ’S SOLDER.
No. 1,  Refined..................................
12  50
Market  Half-and-half...............................  
16 00
Strictly  Half-and-half............................... 
17 50
10x14, Charcoal........................ 5 4C@5  60
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal...................................  7 25
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal..................................  6 35
IC, 
12x12, C harcoal................................  7 75
IX, 
IC, 
14x30, Charcoal..................................  5 75
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal.......  .......................   7 ¿5
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal..................................  8 75
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool................................   10 77
IXXXX, 14x29,  Charcoal.............................  12 55
20x28, Charcoal...............................   15 50
IX, 
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal..............................  6 50
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal..............................  g 50
DXX.  IDO Plate Charcoal............................   10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.........................  12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1  50  to  6 75 
Roofing, 14x20, IC..............................................  5 25
Roofing, 14x20,  IX ...............................  
 
Roofing, 20x28, 1C..........................................  H OO
Roofing,  20x28,  IX .................................... 
14 00
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne.....................   5 60
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne.............. 7  00
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne................ 11 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal  Terne...........   14 00
Steel, Game.....................................................60A10
OneidalCommuntity,  New house’s ........... dis  36
Oneida Community, Hawley A  Norton’s  60A10
Hotchkiss’  .................................................... 60A10
S, P. A W.  Mfg.  Co.’s ...................................60A10
Mouse, choker........................................18c W doz
Mouse,  delusion.................................$]  50 ft doz
Bright M arket.................................................  dis 67V4
Annealed M arket....................  ..........dis  70Alo
Coppered Market.................................... dis  62‘4
Extra Bailing................ 
dis  66
Tinned  Market..................................................dis 62H
Tinned  Broom...........................................$  fi>  09
Tinned Mattress......................  
..«Mb  8H
 
Coppered  Spring Steel.......................... dis 
50
dis 40A10
Tinned Spring Steel........................  
 
Plain Fence...............................................  y ib   3
Barbed Fence, galvanized
.4 25 
painted...........
.3 50 
Copper.......................................
.new  list net 
Brass  ............................. ...........
.new  list net
WIRE GOODS.
B right.......................................
.......dis  70A10A10
Screw Eyes................................
...... dis  70A10A10
Hook’s .......................................
...... dis  70A10A10
Gate Hooks and  Eves...........
.......dis  70A10A10
WRENCHES.
Baxter's Adjustable,  nickeled...............
50
Coe’s Genuine.........................................dis 
75
I Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis 
Coe’s Patent, malleable........................dis  75A10
50
Bird Cages................................................... 
| Pumps,  Cistern......................................dis  70&10
1 Screws, new  list........................................ 
75
¡Casters,  Bed  and  Plate....................disfiOAlOAIO
Dampers, A m erican................................. 
40
j Forks, hoes, rakes an all steel goods . dflOAlOAIO 
23c
1 Copper Bottoms...................................... 

MISCELLANEOUS.

TIN—LEADED.

rates.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

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T.  P.  A.

Pull Rep6rt  of the  Annual  Convention *of 

Michigan Division.

The second annual  convention  of  Michi­
gan Division,  T.  P. A., convened  at  Royal 
Arcanum hall,  in this city, Friday morning, 
May 13.  President Kelsey  called  the con­
vention to order,  when Mr. J.  Mathews  in­
troduced John  P.  Faure,  President  of  the 
New York City Post,  and  J.  H.  Lempert, 
Vice-President of  the  Buffalo  Post.  Both 
gentlemen  took  seats  on  the  platform  on 
the invitation of the President
On motion of L.  J.  Koster,  a  committee 
of three was appointed to draft suitable res­
olutions to forward  to  the  Legislature,  fa­
voring the bill reducing railway fare to  two 
cents a mile,  The chair appointed  as  such 
committee,  L.  J.  Koster,  M.  J.  Matthews 
and W.  S. Gould.
L. J. Allen,  C.  L.  Zacharie and  Geo.  W. 
Noble were appointed  Committee  on  Order 
of  Business,  and  Geo.  F.  Owen,  M.  J. 
Matthews and A.  F.  Peake  Committee  on 
Resolutions.  The  first-named  Committee 
promptly presented its report,  when  Presi­
dent Kelsey read his annual address,  as fol­
lows:
In  again  greeting  the  members  of  the 
Michigan Division on the occasion  of  their 
third annual convention,  I desire to express 
my  personal  gratification  that  even  under 
adverse circumstances,  so many of our State 
membership are in attendance at  our  open­
ing session.
I regret  to  make  the  sad  announcement 
that since our last annual meeting  two  val­
ued  members  of 
this  Division  have 
been  summoned  from  our  midst  by  the 
hand of  death—Brothers  Eli  L.  Jones,  of 
Battle  Creek,  and  Louis  II.  Gainsley,  of 
Tecumseh. 
It is eminently fitting  that  ap­
propriate action be taken be by this conven­
tion,  expressive  of  its  sorrow,  and  as  a 
tribute of  respect  to  the  memories  of  the 
deceased.  I therefore  recommend that  this 
convention set apart a limited time at its af­
ternoon session for such memorial exercises.
The State Treasurer’s report indicates  no 
State debts, and a cash balance on hand and 
in the National treasury.
The Secretary’s  report  gives  the  present 
status of State membership.
The chairman of  the Legislative Commit­
tee reports the general result  accomplished, 
in accordance with the general detail of leg­
islative work,  as given out by the  National 
chairman,  in tiie pledging of  Congressional 
nominees to the repeal of the drummer  tax.
The chairman of the Railroad  Committee 
announces an advance of  mileage rates and 
the withdrawal of  week-end  tickets  on all 
railroads operating in  Michigan, except the 
Grand Trunk system and D.,  L.  & N.
The chairman of the Press Committee re­
ports uniform  courtesies  extended  by  the 
State press.
The chairman of the Hotel Committee re­
ports no complaints against hotels or inves­
tigations  ordered.
The chairman of the Bus and Baggage Com­
mittee reports uniform rates of one fare for 
round trip  prevailing on  nearly  all  lines 
throughout the State and  reduced rates for 
the transportation of baggage.
The chairman of the Relief Committee re­
ports no cases for relief.
Among the  several  subjects  which  will 
claim the consideration of this convention, I 
call attention to the  Inter-State  Commerce 
Bill as first in  importance.  The  effect  of 
this measure on the  commercial  travelers, 
independent of its disastrous effect on inter­
nal trade and  industries, 
lias been to  add 
the enormous sum of §125,000 to their daily 
expenses.  Whether  this  is the result of a 
forced interpretation on the part of the rail­
roads is not specially a subject for consider­
ation.  The fact  remains  that the effect of 
the  measure  takes  from 
the  commercial 
travelers a larger  sum  daily  than the law 
could possibly benefit any  State in the  Un- 
ion for six months.
The action of  the  convention  should be 
based on this proposition:  Do  the best in­
terests of the commercial fraternity demand 
an enforcement of  the  law,  a  modification 
of its provisions,  or a repeal of the bill?
The incorporation of  a National  Bureau 
of Employment,  with the  President of  the 
National  Association  in  charge,  deriving 
from its (if successful)  operation a  revenue 
to the  National  Association,  which  shall 
eventually make it not only  self-supporting 
but a means of  accumulating  a  fund,  be­
sides guaranteeing  employment  to  worthy 
members.
E.  A.  Stowe, J.  W.  Palmer  and  A.  L. 
Lay were  appointed  Committee  on  Presi­
dent’s  Address.
The Committee onTransportation report­
ed a resolution favoring  the passage of  the 
bill reducing railway  fare,  which was  dis­
cussed at  some  length and  adopted.  The 
Secretary was  instructed to  telegraph  the 
resolution to the House of  Representatives.
Several verbal reports were received from 
standing committees,  all of which were uni­
formly favorable.
The Committee on President’s Address re­
ported as follows:
Your Committee on  President’s  Address 
would respectfully report that they have ex­
amined the address of the  presiding  officer 
and feel impelled to commend  its spirit and 
earnestness.
Regarding  the  recommendation  as  " to 
memorial  exercises  on  our  two  departed 
members we  would  respectfully  report  in 
favor of setting apart a half hour during the 
afternoon session,  at  such time  as the pre­
siding officer may  direct,  for  memorial  ad­
dresses.
The suggestion as to the  inauguration  of 
a National  Employment  Bureau is so new 
to us,  and has received so little  thought  on 
the part of your committee,  that  we do not 
feel competent  to pass an  opinion  on  the 
subject.  We can see, however,  how such a 
Bureau,  properly  managed,  could be made 
advantageous  to  the  Association,  and we 
recommend that the same be referred to the 
National convention.
The subject  of the  inter-commerce  law 
we recommend  to be referred  to the  Com­
mittee on Transportation.

Respectfully submitted,

E.  A.  Stow e,
J. W. P ax.mek,
A.  L.  Lay.

The report of  the Secretary and Treasur­
er showed  583  members in good  standing 
and §70.79 in the  treasury.  The  detailed 
statements  in the  report have  appeared in 
T h e T k ad esm an in the monthly reports of 
the Sec’y-Treas.  The Secretary  accompan­
ied the report by the  following  general ob­
servations:
The past year has been one of activity and 
usefulness,  and  had  our labors not  been 
blighted by the deadly  simoon  which  has 
proved  so  fatal  to  American  industries, 
they  would  have been  crowned with  suc­
cess.  However, our Association has steadi­
ly advanced,  and in point of usefulness and 
effectiveness,  has  attained  a  prominence 
and  recognition  at  the  hands of-  leading 
railway officials that we had  hardly  hoped 
for.  Our  claims  upon  legislative  bodies 
have been intelligently, persistently and ef­
fectually urged by our untiring State Legis-

lative Committee,led by our National chair­
man, who, we are proud to  say, is a Michi­
gan man.  The lightly-falling ballots  chose 
men who were  favorable to our  claims re 
garding  the  James  bill and the  TJ. S.  Su 
preme Court,  urged thereto by our petitions 
for redress,, has decided the infamous drum­
mer  tax  law  unconstitutional.  Leading 
trunk lines require a  membership in one of 
our Associations as a condition for  the pur­
chase of mileage at  reduced  rates.  During 
the year,  not an instance of violation of our 
contracts with railroads has been brought to 
notice,  and it is not hoping too much  to be­
lieve that, ere long,  we shall receive the de­
sired  concessions  now  withheld  by some 
railway lines.
The duties incumbent upon  this office re­
quire much more time than I have been able 
to devote thereto and  much  more  effective 
work might have been accomplished by some 
member Whose time was not so  fully  occu 
pied. 
I trust you will  consider my derelic­
tions of duty the result of inability  and not 
from disinterestedness.
Of our worthy President it is unnecessary 
for me to  speak,  as every  member of  our 
Association is cognizant of  his  unflagging 
zeal and the earnest, effective  work  which 
has characterized his  official  and  personal 
efforts for the advancement of  our Associa­
tion during his occupancy of the highest of­
fice in our State Association.
The action of principal  trunk lines in re­
quiring a  membership in this or  similar as­
sociations to be a requisite for  obtaining re­
duced mileage and excess  baggage  permits 
has been a great incentive to joining our Di­
vision, and our  State  membership  has in­
creased materially  during  the past  month, 
as will be seen in  our  monthly  report  for 
April in our official organ,  T h e  Mich ig a n 
In this  connection,  I  wish 
T ra d esm a n. 
to acknowledge our obligations  as an Asso­
ciation,  and  myself  as an  officer,  to  Mr. 
Stowe for the many  favors  and  courtesies 
extended to us.  He has always  been ready 
and willing to devote his time and  columns 
to our interest,  and his outspoken editorials 
have ever been on the side  of, and in  sym­
pathy with,  our brotherhood.
In retiring from my  office at  the close of 
this  year,  I  wish  to  extend  my sincere 
thanks  to  our  President,  Vice-President, 
Board of Directors, Chairmen of State Com­
mittees and all members who  have so kind­
ly and promptly  responded to my  calls for 
assistance and  information  required in the 
discharge of my official duties.
I trust  that the  year  before us  may be 
richly laden with success and  prosperity to 
us as an Association.

A FTERN OO N   SESSION.

that  it  still  be 
recommend 

After prayer by Rev.  Chas.  Fluhrer,  the 
presiding  officer  announced  that the next 
half hour would be devoted to memorial ex­
ercises of deceased  members.  Geo. F.  Ow­
en presented brief  biographical  sketches of 
Eli L. Jenes and  l-ouis  R.  Gainsley,  pre­
pared by  Secretary  Mills,  a  resolution  of 
condolence from the Committee  on  Resolu­
tions,  the action taken by the  State  Board 
of Directors and a letter from the  family of 
the*  late  Mr.  Gainsley.  The  resolutions 
were adopted and  the  Secretary  instructed 
to forward copies of same to the families of 
the deceased  members.  President  Kelsey 
paid a feeling tribute to both  members  and 
L. J.  Allen spoke of his friendship for  Mr. 
Allen.
M. J.  Matthews spoke in favor of  the re­
organization of the T.  P. A. on the  plan of 
local  posts,  making  the conventions  dele­
gated bodies,  from the local posts up.  John 
Faure, of New York City,  spoke in favor of 
the same subject, holdingffhat such a change 
would be necessary  before two more  years 
had elapsed.  The speaker paid an eloquent 
tribute to the traveling man,  asserting  that 
the time has come when  the traveler’s grip­
sack  has come to be  of more  value to  the 
merchant than the counter in  his store.
M. J. Matthews  presented  the  following 
resolutions, which were unanimously adopt­
ed:
Resolved,  That this  Association  hereby 
recognize and express its appreciation of all 
favors granted to its  members  during  the 
past year by the  several  railroads  in  the 
State  of  Michigan  and  especially  to  the 
Grand Trunk system and the  Detroit,  Lan­
sing & Northern Railway,  for continuing  to 
grant mileage books to the  members  at the 
rate of two cents per mile,  since the  Inter- 
State act became a law.
Resolved—That  this  convention  hereby 
recognize the obligations it is under to  T h e 
Mic h ig a n  T ra d esm a n  for  its  fair  and 
impartial reports of the  proceedings  of our 
State Division and Board  of  Directors  and 
recommend 
recognized 
the  official  organ  of  the  Associa­
as 
tion 
and 
the  members  to 
support  it  by  a  liberal  subscription  list.
Resolved—That  the  fundamental  princi­
ple  of 
the  growth  of  the  Association 
through the medium of local posts  has  our 
approval  and  endorsement  and  that  the 
delegates to the National  convention  from 
this  State  be  and  are  hereby 
instruct­
ed to favor legislation tending  to  this  end 
and recommend  for  their  Association  the 
plan to  be submitted to  the annual meeting 
of the National Association by C.  L.  Pease, 
of Columbus,  Ohio.
L. J. Koster called upon National  Secre­
tary Stone,  who responded as follows:
1 know of no topic which  affords a broad­
er field for thought than that which has not 
only had its effect upon our Association,but 
upon the  whole  country.  By  one  act  of 
Congress, 
the  concessions  granted to our 
Association by fifty-eight roads  were swept 
away.  Not only in this did it affect us, but 
it had the effect of  increasing the  price  of 
mileage and decreasing the  amount of bag­
gage.  The corporations claim  that the law 
compels them to do this,  which,  if I can in­
terpret the twenty-second section,  is a  very 
slim excuse,  as it states  that this  law shall 
not apply to mileage or excursion rates; and 
the action of one road in still selling mileage 
at $20 should be  evidence  enough that the 
other roads  could  have  continued,  if .they 
had felt so inclined.  The question,  “What 
action shall be  taken to remedy  the evil?” 
arises.  Shall a class  who  spend  annually 
over three hundred million  dollars for trav­
eling,  and who  hold the  freights  in  their 
hands submit  to this unjust discrimination? 
I have  given  this  subject  much  thought 
and have come to  the  conclusion  that  the 
action of the Illinois  Division  is  the  best 
method to adopt.  The  State  President  of 
Illinois called a meeting  of  the  merchants 
and manufacturers of Chicago and  laid  be­
fore them the  actions  of  the  railways and 
the difference  it cost them the ensuing year 
for  traveling  expenses. 
It  so  thoroughly 
aroused  them  that  they  held  an  indigna­
tion  meeting.  They  formed  themselves, 
into  an  association 
to  be  known  as 
the Merchants and  Manufacturers’ Associa­
tion of Chicago.  Resolutions were adopted 
condemning  the  actions  of  the  railways, 
and a committee was appointed  to  present 
to them a resolution  requesting  the  return 
of  mileage  at $20 and 250 pounds  of  bag­
gage, or a 5,000 mile book. 
If they do  not 
comply four roads will be selected on which 
to ship all freight.  This  Association  has

been organized  for  business,  having  com­
plied with the  laws  of  the  State,
I must  again  congratulate  Michigan  for 
not  being  behind,  for  I see by yesterday’s 
papers  that  the  Merchants  and  Manufac­
turers’ Exchange of Detroit has adopted res­
olutions which practically declare a  boycott 
against the Michigan Central for its  refusal 
to  sell  1,000  mile  tickets  at  $20.  This 
action wras taken because  the  company  re­
fused to join in a friendly  test  case  to  de­
termine the latter’s right to sell  1,000  mile 
tickets to commercial travelers. 
If  we fail 
in this,  there is  only  one  other  course  to 
pursue,  and that is work for  the  repeal  of 
the law.
Michigan  Division  should  feel  justly 
proud,  having one  road  to  be  the  first  to 
grant us concessions and the only  road  to­
day selling mileage at $20.
As an Association,  we  have  one  of  the 
grandest opportunities to build an organiza­
tion  which  shall  reflect  credit  upon  its 
members.  As  a  fraternity  over  200,000 
strong,  doing four-fifths of  the  entire busi­
ness of the country, do  you  think  we  can 
not wield influence?  You  must  remember 
that upon you depends much of  the success 
of  your  employers.  So does  the  Associa­
tion depend  upon  you. 
In  unity  there  is 
strength.  We  are  dependent  upon  our 
united efforts to  make  our. Association  a 
success and one which we may be proud of.
Our Association has also been formed for 
the purpose of elevating the position of  the 
commercial traveler, both socially and moral­
ly,  and to prove that he can be a  gentleman 
and a Christian and an ornament to society. 
In conclusion, allow me to  thank  you  and 
your officers on  behalf of  the National As­
sociation for the interest manifested by  the 
Michigan  Division  during  the  past  year, 
and for the cordial  welcome  you  have  ex­
tended to me.
Geo.  F.  Owen  announced  that  Hon.  M. 
H.  Ford was in the hall and moved that  he 
be  invited to address  the convention.  The 
motion  was  unanimously  adopted,  when 
Mr.  Ford made  a  ringing  address  on  the 
inter-state commerce law,  stating  that  the 
first act he proposed to take on  the  assem­
bling of  the Fiftieth Congress was to intro­
duce a bill repealing all clauses  relating  to 
passenger traffic and  the  “long  and  short 
haul” clause.  The speaker was frequently 
applauded and  sat  down  amid a  storm  of 
applause.
President Kelsey  made  a  brief  address, 
stating that* the National convention  would 
probably inaugurate a vigorous campaign in 
favor of the repeal of the law.
L. J. Allen Spoke  of  the  demoralization 
incident to the  passage  of  tbe  law,  when 
Mr.  Ford asserted that the law  was  uncon­
stitutional and would so be declared by  the 
courts.  He did not think it best  to  repeal 
the whole law,  but  to  so  amend  it  as  to 
make  it  acceptable  to  all  sections  of  the 
country.
Geo.  F. Owen presented the report of the 
railway committee,  which was adopted.
Secretary  Mills  called  attention  to  the 
fact that he had plenty of  constitutions and 
blank applications and for the  members  to 
govern themselves accordingly.
On motion of M. J. Matthews, the officers 
of the T.  P. A.  Legion of Honor were  con­
tinued for another year.
Several  communications 
absent 
members were read and placed on file.
M. J.  Matthews,  Geo.  W.  Noble  and  E. 
A.  Stowe were  appointed  a  committee  to 
determine the proper apportionment  of  the 
delegates to the National convention.
It was decided to proceed to  the  election 
of officers the first thing Saturday  morning, 
and L. J.  Koster,  C.  L.  Zacharie and J.  B. 
Rue were appointed a committee On creden­
tials.
President Kelsey called M.  J.  Matthews 
to the chair and  moved  that  the  delegates 
to the St.  Louis convention be  instructed to 
urge the inauguration  of  a  Board  of  Em­
ployment  by  the  National  Association, 
whiejh was adopted.  The meeting  then ad­
journed.

from 

TH E  BA N Q U ET.

The banquet at ¡pweet’s Hotel in the even­
ing was  by no  means  the  least  enjoyable 
feature  of  the  convention.  The  spacious 
dining hall was thrown open about 9 o’clock, 
when the exercises were opened with prayer 
by Rev.  Chas.  Fluhrer.  The  T.  P.  A. or­
chestra  then  rendered  a  choice  selection, 
when Hon.  M.  H.  Ford  delivered  the  ad­
dress of welcome, which  was  responded  to 
by President Kelsey.  Governor  Luce  then 
addressed the assemblage in his usual pleas­
ing manner,  when the  viands were discuss­
ed for the  space  of  half  an  hour,  during 
which  time  the  T.  P.  A.  orchestra  dis- 
coused sweet  music.  When  the  wants  of 
the inner man had  been fully  satisfied,  the 
following toasts were  offered  and responed 
to by the persons named:
Our National Association—John P. Faure, 
New York City.
Our State Division—L.  J.  Allen,  Battle 
Creek.
Loyalty  the  Test  of  Citizenship—Hon. 
Clarence Bennett, Jackson.
Michigan  and  Her  Possibilities—G.  W. 
Noble,  Buchanan.
Commercial Legislation—M. J. Matthews, 
Detroit.
American Industries—Their Development 
a Guarantee of  National  Prosperity—Hon. 
J.  C.  Burrows,  Kalamazoo.
The Business Men’s Association of  Mich­
igan—Frank Hamilton,  Traverse City.
Poem—“Reminiscences”—L.  M.  Mills, 
Grand Rapids.
Our Invited Guests—G. W. Albrecht,  Bel- 
laire.
Our Hosts—A.  L.  Lay, Battle Creek.
The Ladies—Stanley  E.  Parkill,  Owosso.
The party then  dispersed,  wrell  satisfied 

with the evening’s entertainment.

SA TU RD A Y   M ORNING’S  SESSION.

On  re-assembling  Saturday  morning,  the 
Committee on Apportionment recommended 
the election of seven  delegates  to  the  Na­
tional convention as follows:  Detroit,  Jack- 
son, Battle  Creek, Kalamazoo,  Grand  Rap­
ids, Saginaw,  Buchanan.  The  report  was 
adopted.
The  Committee  on  Credentials  reported 
in favor of  allowing  all  members  in  good 
standing a vote, which was adopted,
A  resolution favoring  the ¡Baker  substi­
tute for  the  Manly bill,  providing  for  the 
reduction of railway rates,  was adopted and 
the  Secretary  instructed  to  forward  the 
same  to  the  Railway  Committee  of  the 
House of  Representatives.
Election of officers being  then  in  order, 
an informal vote for President  gave  a  ma­
jority for C. S. Kelsey.  Mr. Kelsey declin­
ed  to  accept  the  office.  Geo.  W.  Noble, 
who received four  votes for  the same  posi­
tion,  declined to  stand  as  a  candidate and 
requested his friends to vote for  some older 
member.  A  formal  vote,  however,  gave 
him a  clear  majority, when the ballot  was 
made formal and the election declared unan­
imous.  Mr. Noble accepted the election with 
a ringing  speech,  when  the  following  offi­
cers were unanimously elected:  Vice-Pres­
ident, A. F.  Peake; Secretary  and  Treasur­

er,  L. M. Mils; Board  of  Directors,  C. W. 
Gregg, L. J. Koster,  Geo.  F.  Owen,  C.  L. 
Zacharie,  Stanley  E.  Parkill; Sargeant-at- 
Arms,  D.  G.  Crotty;  Chaplain, Rev.  Chas. 
Fluhrer.
The following gentlemen were elected del­
egates  and  alternates, respectively,  to  the 
National  convention:  Detroit—L. J. Kos­
ter, J. W.  Ailes: Jackson—C.  W.  Gregg, J. 
W.  Palmer;  Battle  Creek—L.  J. Allen,  A. 
L.  Lay;  Kalamazoo—C.  L.  Zacharie,  W. J. 
Richards;  Grand  Rapids—Geo.  F.  Owen,
L.  M.  Mills;  Saginaw—Stanley  E.  Parkill, 
H.  E.  Tremaine;  Buchanan—Geo.  W. 
Noble,  John  Pruym.  C.  S.  Kelsey,  who 
goes to the convention by virtue of his office 
in the National Association, was selected to 
arrange a route and reduced rates.
The  retiring  President  then  called  the 
newly-elected  President  to  the  chair,  who 
accepted the  trust  in  a  few  well-chosen 
words, appealing to the  members  to tender 
the officers their hearty co-operation.
Stanley E.  Parkill  declined  to  serve  on 
the Board  of  Directors, on  account  of  his 
inability to do the  work  justice,  when  W.
S.  Gould, of Owosso, was  elected  to fill the
vacancy. 
f
On motion of A.  F.  Peake,  the  thanks of 
the convention  were  tendered  the T.  P. A. 
band of Union City for their attendance and 
the band was recommended  to the National 
body as a National T.  P.  A. band.
The date  and  place  of  the  next  annual 
convention was referred to the Board of Di­
rectors.
A vote of  thanks  was  tendered  Mrs. L.
M. Mills for her faithful services  in  behalf 
of the Division;  also  to  Mrs.  E.  A.  Stowe, 
for unkijown causes.
A vote of thanks was tendered  the  ladies 
for their attendance on the convention.
On  motion  of  C.  S.  Kelsey,  votes  of 
thanks  were  tendered  those  railway  com­
panies which extended  reduced  rates to the 
delegates; to the Morton House and Sweet’s 
Hotel, for entertaining  the  wives  of  dele­
gates free; to the Eagle Hotel, for entertain­
ing the band  at  reduced  rates; to  landlord 
Johnson, for his  sumptuous banquet; to the
T. P. A.  band of  Union City,  for  its  atten­
dance  and  music;  to  Governor  Luce  and 
other invited  guests,  including  the  officers 
of the National  Association,  for  their pres­
ence, advice  and  addresses;  to  Rev.  Chas. 
Fluhrer,  for  his  uniform  kindness; to  the 
Grand  Rapids  traveling  men  and  jobbing 
trade,  for  providing  the  means  of  enter­
tainment;  to  Geo.  F.  Owen  and  L.  M. 
Mills, for bearing the brunt of the prelimin­
ary arrangements for the convention; to the 
retiring officers, for their fidelity and perse­
verance in  behalf  of  the  Division;  to  the 
local press, for  its  reports  of  the  conven­
tion; to the  Owashtanong  Club,  for  tender­
ing the delegates the privilege of  its rooms; 
to all others who in way contributed  to  the 
pleasure or success of the convention.
On  motion  of  A.  F.  Peake,  Secretary 
Mills was voted $50 for past services.
The convention then adjourned.
New  applications  were  received  during 
the convention from  the following  persons: 
O. A.  Perry, A.  B. Adams, Thos. Ferguson, 
Geo.  S.  Escott,  Grand  Rapids;  Thos.  A. 
Parish, Grand  Haven;  Silas  H. Lynn,  Un­
ion City;  H.  R.  Whitman,  Detroit;  J.  E. 
French, Buchanan.

LOCAL  A RRA N G EM EN TS.

The  entertainment  fund  was  raised  by 
Geo.  F.  Owen  and  L.  M.  Mills  and  to 
these gentlemen is due  the  success  of  the 
convention,  so far as local arrangements are 
concerned.  That  more  interest  was  not 
manifested in the event  by. .Grand  Rapids 
traveling men is a source  of  regret.  How­
ever, no two men could have  been  selected 
who  would  have  accomplished  the  work 
done so successfully as  Messrs.  Owen  and 
Mills.

The Typical Traveling Tourist.

From the Grand Rapids Leader.

The traveling men of Michigan have been 
here the past two days.  Pleasure,  sociabil­
ity and the promotion of their own interests 
have been  the  attractions  and  business  a 
secondary  consideration.  Grand  Rapids  is 
a place that occupies a warm corner  in  the 
hearts of the commercial tourists.  They all 
like to  come  here.  They are  fond  of  fhe 
hospitality of the town,  of  the  cordiality of 
the people, of  the  excellent  business  that 
meets  them,  and  the  many  resources  for 
having a good time.  They are fond of com­
ing  here  to  spend  Sundays.  They  have 
faith in the  hotel  menus  and they have ap­
preciative  eyes for the charms  of  the  city, 
both feminine and landscape.  The fame of 
Grand Rapids  can  largely be  attributed  to 
the high position she occupies  in the minds 
of  the  tourists.  They  travel  everywhere 
and they carry the good tidings abroad  that 
the Valley City is a busy,  progressive, bust­
ling,  enterprising  and  rapidly  growing 
town,  where good care is taken of the stran­
ger and  a hearty  hand  is  extended  to  all 
who come,

The traveling men  are gentlemen,  intelli­
gent  and  enterprising.  Those  who  travel 
to-day may  to-morrow  be  partners  in  the 
houses  they represent.  Many  of  the  best 
known merchants commenced  life  as  tour­
ists and by their ability won the esteem and 
respect of their employers  until  they  were 
given a share of  the  business  they  helped 
materially to build up.  The drummers as a 
class  are  no  longer  bummers.  Of  course 
there are black  sheep in the  flock,  but  the 
respectable travelers are as anxious to weed 
out the disreputable  members  of the frater­
nity as  anybody,  in fact  more  so.  A  man 
whose actions  reflect  discredit  on  the pro­
fession injures them all and  the  sooner  he 
is disposed of  the  better.  The  merchants 
who employ traveling  men  no  longer  send 
out those who  occasionally  become unrelia­
ble.  The typical tourist of to-day is a bright, 
energetic  young  fellow,  well-dressed,  with 
business in both  eyes  and  the  interest  of 
his  house  at  heart,  thoroughly self-reliant, 
able to look out for himself  (except in Wal­
ter Ridgely case) under  any circumstances, 
good natured, fond of  stories  and  connois­
seurs of beauty.

Hides, Pelts and Furs.

Hides are stagnant.  Calf  skins have not 
been  so  low  for  years.  Pelts  are  quiet. 
Wool is  generally quiet, comparatively few 
purchases  having been made to date.  Buy­
ers are paying  25(g) 26c,  and  a  trifle higher 
price for some choice lots.

Buy your Bug Finish of Curtiss & Dunton.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

BDTTERINE DEPARTMENT.

Geo. P,  Gifford, Jr.,  Manager.

We desire to  inform  the  readers of T h e 
T ra d esm a n  that  we  have  renewed  our 
wholesale license for sale of Butterine from 
May 1,  1887, to May 1,  1888.

Our friendship for  these  goods  prompts 
us to continue their sale,  for we  know the 
products of the  factories  whose  goods we 
sell  are  of  the  best—nothing  but  pure, 
wholesome articles used in  their  manufac­
ture—being subject to the closest investiga­
tion whenever desired by  dealer or consum­
er, by  analysis  or  otherwise.  The  preju­
dices formerly existing against Butterine or 
Oleomargarine are fast  fading  away.  We 
predict the justly earned reputation of these 
goods as wholesome food products will con­
tinue to grow in favor,  when  coming from 
the best factories of  Chicago,  whose  goods 
are known the world over as standard.  The 
intelligent  public  are  top  broad  in their 
views to be influenced  against  this  whole­
some food product,  when  manufactured by 
the large and reliable houses that  comprise 
the list of Chicago factories of to-day.

We solicit your  valued  orders, and  will 
furnish  you  reliable  goods  at  reasonable 
prices—quality  being  guaranteed  satisfac­
tory.  These goods will keep fully as nice in 
warm weather as butter will.  One  fact we 
may add—you  will  very  seldom  find any 
rancid Butterine.

We believe  Oleomargarine  has a mission 
on earth, and has  come to  stay,  for  it will 
show to the  consumer  that  it  will  at all 
times take its  place  in stores  and  market 
houses on equal footing  with  the  majority 
of natural butter.

Consumers are not  obliged  to take out a 

license.

Very respectfully yours,

Hawkins & Perry.

Grand Rapids,  May 12,  1887.

C H U R C H 'S

Bug Finish.!

READY FO R USE DRY.

NO M IXING REQUIRED.

It sticks to the vines and Finishes the whole 
crop of Potato Bugs with one applicaiion; also 
kills any Curculio, and the Cotton and Tobacco 
Worms.
This  is  the  only  safe  way  to  use  a  Strong 
Poison; none  of the  Poison is in a clear state, 
but  thoroughly  combined  by  patent  process 
and machinery, with material to help the very 
fine powder to  stick  to  the  vines  and  entice 
the bugs to eat it, and it is also a fertilizer.
ONE POUND will go as far as TEN POUNDS 
of plaster and  Pans  Green  as  mixed  by  the 
farm ers.  It is  therefore  cheaper,  and  saves 
the trouble and danger  of  mixing  and  using 
the  green,  which,  needless to say,  is danger 
ous to handle.
Bug Finish was used the past season  on  the 
State Agricultural  College  Farm  at  Lansing, 
Michigan,  and,  in  answer  to  inquiries,  the 
managers write:  “The Bug finish  gave  good 
satisfaction on garden and farm .”  Many  un- 
solicitated  letters  have  been  received  prais­
ing Bug Finish.
Barlow & Star, hardware dealers at  Coldwa- 
ter, Mich., write as  follows under date oj May 
14:  “We sold 3,100 pounds of “Bug Finish” last 
year.  It is rightly named  “Bug  Finish,” as it 
finishes the entire crop of bugs with one appli- 
catiod.  We shall not be satisfied unless we sell 
three  tons  this  year,  as  there  is  already  a 
strong demand for it.  Please send us ten  bar­
rels (3,000 pounds) at once.”
G uaranteed as represented.  Cheaper than

any o th er M ixture used for the purpose.

MANUFACURED b y

Anti-Kalsoiine Co., Grand Rapids.

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

H e a c L l i g l x t

L i t t l e   D a i s y .
Both free from adulterations of all kinds, 
and contain pure Ceylon  Cocoa  Oil,  Steam 
Refined Tallow,  Glycerine and Borax.  The 
former  is  a  first-class  Laundry Soap, and 
the latter, being fine and  milder,  is  one  of 
the  best  Bath, Laundry  and  Toilet  Soaps 
combined now on fhe market.

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

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

Shall we receive your  encouragement  by 

way of a trial order?

Respectfully,

MILLER'S PATENT CASH TILL  AND SALE  REGISTER.

T H E  C A S H Z E E ’

o iÇ ,

Cheapest, most reliable cash  system ever 
introduced into store or office. 
It is an ac­
curate record,  safe deposit  for money and 
a detector of error or wrong.  It commends 
itself at sight, and is  endorsed  and  highly 
recommended by all who have  it is use. 

Send for circulars and  testimonials.
ITHACA, IST. Y.

MANUFACTURED AND SOLD BY THE  PATENTEE,

C. B. MILLEB.

Wall Paper l Window Shades

At  Manuflaoturors’  P rices.

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

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

68 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS.

JENNESS  &  McGURDY,

Importers and Manufacturers’  Agents,

D E A L E R S  i n

Bronze Lamps, Chandeliers, Brackets, Etc.
73 It 75 J É H  in . DETROIT.  ICE.

lilia li Anils fir D lllli i C alili Luis.

Hardware Jobbers,

FOSTER, STEVENS  &  GO.,
GRAND RAPIDS.
10 AND 12 MONROE  STREET, 
SUMMER  GOODS.
The Only Perfect and Snccessfnl
VAPOR  STOVE

Headquarters for

- 

Send for Circulars and Dis­

counts.

In order to avoid the inconvenience 
and discomfort of an over-heated kit­
chen during  the  summer,  and  the 
daily trouble of  building a  fire, pur­
chase a “Summer  Queen,”  which is 
lighted  and  ready  for  use in a mo­
ment,  and  will  do  your  cooking, 
broiling,  roasting  and  baking,  and 
heat sad-irons as well as  your range.
No. 0, one burner, width of llame 15-4
inches.........................................  . .f l  25
No. 1, one burner, width  of  flame 3
inches........ .....................................  1  80
No. 2, two  burner,  width  of  flame  _ 
(
each 3 inches..................................   2 50 
.
No. 3, two  burner,  width  of  flame
each 4 inches.................................  3 50  ps
No. 35-4. three burner, width of flame 
fef:
each 4 inches..................................   4  50  ¡¿g
No. 2, double stove, double  burner’s
3inches...........................................   5 25
No. 3, double stove,  double burners
4 inches...........................................   7 50
No. 3V*. double stove, three burners
4 inches.................................................  0 50

Discount 50 per  cent.

SANDS’  PATENT  TRIPLE  MOTION

WHITE  MOUNTAIN  FREEZERS.

2 

3 

4 

No Zinc in contact witli  Cream.  W arranted to free.,- 

Cream in one-half the tim e of any o th er Freezer. 
The Leading lee Cream Freezer of the W orld.

8 

12 

15 

10 

20 

6 
Discount 60 per cent.

Price List (White  Mountain  Hand Freezer  with  Crank.)
25  Qts.
$3.75  4.50  5.50  7.00  9.00  12.00  14.00  17.00 23.00 28.00 each 
We c l a i m  superiority by  having  the  TRIPLE  MOTION, which U 
attached only to the “W hite M ountain” Freezer.
The Can is  turned by the Inside Beater, while the  Ontsido  Beaten 
revolves in an opposite direction to the Can. and  a t the  same  tim e 
the Inside B eater is turned opposite to the Outside Beater, thus pro­
ducing three sim ultaneous  motions,  which, of  course, thoroughly 
beats th e Cream, m aking it sm ooth and tine  grained;  No lumps in 
“ W hite M ountain” Cream.
The  Beaters are Malleable Iron and Tinned,  They are light, easy 
to  handle and clean.  The Cans are  made of  the best quality of Tin 
Plate and  will  last  fo r  years.  The Tubs a re  W ater-proof, hound 
w ith heavy galvanized Iron Hoops.  The  G earing, and all Irons a t­
tached  to  Tub, are galvanized to prevent rusting.

W arranted perfect  in every particular, and in reality th e “ W hite  M ountain”  Is  th e  only  Freezer  m anufac­

tured to-day th a t is FIRSl’-CLAS* in every respect.

We have cooked the com in this can 
sufficiently.  Should  be  Thoroughly

Season to suit wlien on the table. None 
genuine unless bearing the signature of

’Tj ^ ^ ^ chillicothe
  AT  THIS

^

Every can wrapped in colored tissue paper with 

signature and stamp on each can.

The Standard of Excellence

K I N G S F O R D ’S

P U R E

A N D

i f

“S ita
Gloss”

I— 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.
j  W holesale Grocers,

SOlo  Agents,

77 to 83IS0UTH  DIVISION  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

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!

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

M ic h i g a n   B u s in e s s   M a n ’s   A s s o c ia tio n .

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, G rand Rapids.
T reasurer—Julius Schuster, Kalamazoo.
Executive Comm ittee—President, F irst \  ice-Presldent, 
Secretary! N. B. Blain and W. E. Kelsey.
Comm ittee on Trade Interests—Smith Barnes, Traverse 
City;  P. Ranney, K alam azoo;  A.  W.  W estgate,  Che-

Coium ittce on Legislation—W. E.  Kelsey,  Ionia;  J.
Crandall, Sand Lake ;  J. F. Clark, Big Rapids. 
Com m ittee on M embership—H. S.  Church,  Sturgis;  B,
F. Em ery, G rand Rapids;  the Secretary.
Comm ittee  on  Transportation—Jas.  A.  Coye,  Grand 
Rapids;  J.W .  Milliken,  Traverse  City;  C.  T.  Bridg- 
m an, Flint. 
.  D  n
Comm ittee on Constitution—W. E. Kelsey,  Ionia;  K. D.
McNuughton, Coopersville ;  I. k. Clapp, Allegan, 
Official O rgan—The Michigan Tradesman.

_   „   , 

_ 

The following local associations have mostly 
been  organized  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Michigan Business Men’6 Association, and  are 
auxiliary thereto:

A d a   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 

President, D. F. W atson;  Secretary, Elm er Chapel.
A l b a  B u s in e s s  M e n ’s A s s o c ia tio n . 
President, C. R. Sm ith;  Secretary, P eter  Baldwin.

A lle ir a n   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 

P residentflrving F. C l a p p ;  Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand
R e t a i l   G r o c e r s ’  A s s o c ia tio n  o f
President. Geo. H. Rowell :  Secretary, John P. Stanley

K e ld i n g   M e rc h a n ts *   A s s o c ia tio n . 
President, H. J. Leonard; Secretary, J. M. Earle.

B e l l â t r e   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 
President, John Rodgers:  Secretary, G. J. N otew are^
B u r r   O a k   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 
President, B. O. Graves:  Secretary. H.  M. Lee.------------
M e r c h a n t ’s  P r o t e c t i v e  A s s ’n  o f  B ig   R a p i d s  
President, E. P. Clark:  Secretary. A. S. H obart

B o y n e   C it y   B u s in e s s  M e n ’s A s s o c ia tio n . 
President, R. R. Perkins;  Secretary, F. M. Chase.-------

C a d i lla c  B u s in e s s  M e n ’s 

President, J. C. Me Adam;  Secretary* C. T. Chapin.-----
C a s n o v ia ,  B a i l e y   a n d   T r e n t   B .  M .  A . 

President. H. E. Hesseltine;  Secretary, E. Farnham .__
C e d a r   S p r in g s   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s 
President. T. W. Provin:  Secretary, L. H. Chapm an.
Charlevoix  Business M en’s Association. 

President, John Nichols;  Secretary, R. W. Kane.
C o o p e r s v il le   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio u  
President. G. H. W atrous;  Secretary, W. R. Boynton.
B u s i n e s s   M e n ’s  P r o t e c t i v e   U n io n   o f   C h e  

b o y g a n .

President, J. H. Tuttle;  Secretary, H. G. Dozer.
R e t a i l  G r o c e r s ’T r a d e  U n io n  A *’n  o f  D e tr o i t.
President, John Blessed;  Secretary, H. Kundlnger.
D o r r   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s   A s s o c ia tio n . 
President, L. N. F isher;  Secretary, E. S. Botsford.
R e t a i l   G r o c e r s ’  A s s o c ia tio n   o f   E .  S a g in a w . 
President,  RW iard Luster;  Secretary, Chas. H. Sm ith.

E a s t n o r t   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 

r   n :  Thurston,  C entral  Lake;  Secretary, 

P reS

Geo. L. Thurston. Central Lak-

E l k  R a p i d s  B u s in e s s  M e n ’s  P r o t e c t i v e  A s ’n . 
President. J. J. McLaughlin;  Secretary, C. L. M artin.

E v a r t  B u s in e  
President, W. M. Davis

>s M e n ’s A s s o c ia tio n . 
Secretary, Chas. E. Bell.

F r a n k f o r t   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 
President, Wm. Upton;  Secretary. E. R. Chandler.____

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

F l i n t   M e r c a n t i l e   U n io n .

F r e e p o r t   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 

President, Foster Sisson;  Sec’y, A rthur Cheseborough.

F i f e  T a k e  B u s in e s s  M e n ’s A s s o c ia tio n . 

P resid en t E. H agadorn;  Secretary, O. V ■ Adams.______
G r a n d   H a v e n   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s   A s s ^ i a t l o n .  
President. Fred. 1>. Voss;  Secretary, Fred A. H n ttj.------

R e t a i l   G r o c e r s ’  As 
President. Jas. A. Coye;  F

,’n   o f   G r a n d   R a p id * , 
n o ta ry , E. A. Stowe.  ____
G r e e n v i l l e   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 
President, L. W. Sprague;  Secretary, E. J. Clark.-------

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

H a r t f o r d   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 
Hastings  B u s in e s s   M e n 's   A s s o c ia tio n . 

President. L. E. Stauffer;  Secretary,  J.  A.  \ anArman.

H e r s e v  B u s in e s s  M e n ’s A s s o c ia tio n . 

P resident, O. L. M illard : Secretary, F rank L. Beardsley
H o w a r d   C ity  B u s in e s s   M e n 's  A s s o c ia tio n . 
Chairm an, C.  A.  Vajrdenberg;  Secretary, B. J. Lowry.
H o l l a n d   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 

President, Jacob Van P utten ;  Secretary, A. t  an Puren.
H u h h a r d s t o n   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 
President. Boyd Redner;  Secretary, L. W ■ Robinson.__

I o n i a   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s   E x c h a n g e  

President, Wm. K.  Kelsey ;  Secretary.  1 red. Cutler, Jr.

K a la m a z o o   R e t a i l  G r o c e r s ’ A s s o c ia tio n . 

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

K a l k a s k a   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 

President. A. E. Palm er:  Secretary, C. E. Ramsey.

K in ir s le v   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 
P r e r il“ ?   C  H. cam p; Secretary, Chas. E. Brewster.
L a w r e n c e  B u s in e s s  M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 
President. H. M. M arshall;  Secretary, C. A. Stebbins.

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

President, Wm. H utchings;  Secretary. M. L. Campbell.
L o w e l l  B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  P r o t e c t i v e   A s s ’u . 
President, N. B. Blain-  Secretary, F rank T. King.

L n t l i e r   B u s in e s s   M e n 's   A s s o c ia tio n . 
President, W. B. Pool:  Secretary. ChaR. J. Robinson.

L y o n s   V u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s ’n . 

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

M a n c e lo n n   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 

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

M a n i s t i q n e   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 

President, F. H. Thom pson;  Secretary, E. N. Orr.

M a n to n ’s  B u s in e s s   M e n 's   A s s o c ia tio n . 
President, F. A. Jenison:  Secretary, R. Fuller._______
G r o c e r s ’  A s s ’n   o f   t h e   C it y   o f   M u s k e g o n . 
President, H. B. Fargo:  Secretary. Wm. P eer.________

M e r c h a n t ’s  U n io n   o f   N a s h v ill e . 

P resident, H erbert M. Lee;  Secretary, W alter W ebster

M u i r   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s   A s s o c ia tio n . 

President, Simon Town:  Secretary. L. A. Ely.________ _

O ts e g o   B u s in e s s   M e n 's   A s s o c ia tio n . 

President. J. M. Ballon:  Secretary, J. F. Conrad.______

O c e a n a   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s’n . 

President, W. E. Thorp;  Secretary. E. 3. H oughtallng.

O v id   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  .As’n . 

President, C. H. H unter;  Secretary. Lester Cooley.
O v ro sso   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 

President, Jas. Osbum ;  See’y, S. Lamfrom.

P e t o s k e y   B u s in e s s   M e n 's   A s s o c ia tio n . 

President, Jas. Buckley:  Secretary. A. C. Bowman.
P e w a in o   B u s in e s s   M e n 's   A s s o c i a ti o n . 

President. Albert R etan ;  Secreta ry, E. R. Holmes.

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

President, M. Bailey:  Secretary, J. A. Sidle.___________
M e r c h a n t 's  U n io n   P r o t e c t i v e  A s s o c i a ti o n  o f  
President, G. C. Meisel :  Secretary. S. L. Merriam._____
R e e d   C it y   B u s i n e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c i a ti o n . 

President, C. J. Fieisehauer; Secretary, H. tv ■ Hawkins.

P o r t   H u r o n .

R o c k f o r d   B u s in e s s   M e n 's   A s s o c ia tio n . 
President, Geo. A. Sage;  Secretary, J. M. Spore._____
S t. C h a r l e s   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 

President, B. J . Downing;  Secretary, E. E. Burdick.
S t  Johns M e r c h a n t s ’ P r o t e c t i v e  A s s o c ia tio n . 
President, H. L. K endrick;  Secretary, C. M. Merrill.
B u s in e s s  M e n ’s P r o t e c t i v e  A s s ’n   o f  S a r a n a c . 
President.  Geo. A. P otts;  Secretary, P. T. W illiams.

S o u th   B o a r d m a n   B u s in e s »  
President, H. E. H ogan;  Secretary,
d o . A r m  a n d   K . J o r d a n   B u s in e s s  M e n ’s  A s ’u . 
President, D. C. Loveday;  Secretary, C. W. Button.

M e n ’s  A s s ’n . 
I. E. N iehardt.

K h e r m a n   B u s in e s s  M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 
President, H. B. S turtevant;  Secretary, W . G■ Shane.
S p a r t a   Business  M en’s  Association. 

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

S t u r g i s   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 
President. H enry S. C hurch;  Secretary, Wm. Jom .
Travers«  C ttv   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A n n o t a t i o n . 
P resident. Geo. E. Steele ;  Secretary, C. T■ Lockwood. 

T u s t i n   B iM in w «   M e n ’»  A s s o c ia tio n .

President. G. A. Estes-,  Secretary, Geo. W. Bevins.____
V e r m o n t v i l l e   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s   A s s o c ia tio n . 
President, W. H. Benedict;  Secretary, w   E- Holt.

W a te r e d  l e t   B u s in « * *  M e n ’» A » » o e ia tio n . 

President. H. Peirce;  Secretary, F. H. M errifleld. 

W a v la n d   B u s in e s s   M e n ’»  A s s o c ia tio n .

President. E. W.  Pickett;  Secretary, H. J . Turner.____

W o o d l a n d   B a s in « » »   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n .

President, John Velte;  Secretary, I. N. H arter._______
W h i t e   C lo u d   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n , 
President.  P. M. Roedel;  Secretary, M. D. H ayw ard.

W h i t e   L a k e   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s ’n . 

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

B. Nicholson. W hitehall.

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agin on the strate, I’ll punch yer  d—d ould 
head,  law or no law;  an’ if I ever come into 
yer dhirty, stinkin’ little hole  agin,  ye  can 
kick me  till  ye  git  yer  pay.  Yes,  yer 
h-a-a-r-d up,  Snooks,  av coorse ye are;  but 
ye’ll be a d—d sight li-a-a-r-der up before ye 
git a  cint  owt  av me,  ye  impident  ould 
fraud.”

O’Toole reminds me somewhat of the beat 
who, after an angry altercation with an im­
portunate  creditor,  closed  the  argument 
with:

“See here!  You  needn’t  be  puttin’  on 
any of your  infernal  airs over me.  1 owe 
enough in this town to buy your measly old 
store,  goods an’ all.”

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*

When I started this  article I  labored un­
der the impression that I could readily show 
up the d.-b., so  that he  could be  detected 
and guarded against  in most of  his  multi 
form disguises. 
I proposed to describe him 
in his various grades  from  the “sponge” to 
the unetious expert who subsists generously 
and luxuriously at the expense  of  a confid­
ing public;  but, on reflection,  I find the sub­
ject too intricate, 
too  voluminous  foifone 
paper,  and,  moreover,  1 suspect  it  is some­
what too convolute for  the  ordinary brain. 
At all events,  I will postpone its discussion 
for future  study and  research,  but—I  sin­
cerely hope—not for  further  practical  ex­
perience. 

F. H.  S p e n c e r .

Practical  Experience.

Applicant—Do  yer  want  a  foreman  in 

this bakery?

ience with pies?

Proprietor—Have  you  had  much  exper­

Applicant—NoJbut I ihink  I could  learn 
I’ve  been  boiler-iron  inspector  at 

quick. 
the Quintard Iron Works for five years.

Proprietor—Take off  your  coat and go to 

work; you’ll do.

Massachusetts  is  enjoying  a  first-rate 
scandal, in connection with the  division  of 
one of her  towns.  A  number  of  wealthy 
citizens,  some of them Mugwumps, were in­
terested in a proposal to  cut  off  a  part  of 
the town of Beverley, and to organize it as a 
new town under the name of Beverley Farms 
Thereupon they raised a sum of money, out 
of all relation to the legitimate expenses  of 
the transaction, and entrusted this to a law 
yer not of  the best repute to lobby their bill 
through the Legislature.  He had no proper 
use for the money,  much  of  which  he  ad 
mits having pocketed.  But he was thought 
by his  rich  and  respectable  employers  to 
be using it  to  buy  votes  and  break  down 
the  opposition to the division.  The  people 
of  Beverly  who  opposed  the  division  got 
wind of the transaction and exposed it.  So 
the  residents  of  Beverly Farms  are  having 
themselves  exposed  as  green horns in pub 
lie  business  and  cynical  despisers  of  the 
honesty of the legislators of the State.

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W ritten Expressly for T h e  T r a d e s m a n .

It is a dull, dismal, dreary, depressing af­
ternoon.  The stores and streets are desert­
ed and the only sounds that break  the still­
ness are the ceaseless  pattering of  the rain 
on the front windows  and  the  monotonous 
ticking  of  the  clock.  The  four  chairs 
around  the  stove  are  teuantless  and the 
usual puddle of  expressed  nicotine is con­
spicuous by its absence.  Even  the  box of 
free snioking tobacco has lost its attractions, 
and the little girl  who  enquires  for  adver­
tising  cards  with  hourly  regularity  is  in­
dulging in a half-day’s vacation.

I sit at  my  desk,  idly  contemplating a 
worn and dingy  blank  book.  The  ink of 
its first entry is dim with age, while the last 
writing is black and staring.

That little volume is a  record of  human 
frailty, faithlessness and folly. 
It tells of 
wrong and  fraud  and  rascality and  false­
hood  and ingratitude and moral  depravity. 
It awakens  recollections  of  broken vows, 
self-upbraidings,  abortive  resolutions  and 
unkept  promises. 
It  is  my  “Dead-Beat 
Book.”
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* 

*

When I look back through  the long vista 
of years to the days when I  was  forced to 
deprive myself and  family of  many of the 
comforts of life,  that the d.-b.  m ij^t  walk 
in purple and fine linen;  and when I reflect 
upon the almost innumerable ways in which 
I have been coaxed and cajoled  and  lured, 
and bribed  and “bamboozled”  and  bullied 
into adding name after name, and dollar af­
ter dollar, to the melancholy list;  and when 
I mentally estimate the  “demnation  total” 
that I have  “blown  in” to  the  delectable 
tribe,  the object which actuated  me when I 
began  this  article  rapidly  evaporates. 
] 
proposed to pos^ as a sort of  business  phi 
losopher, and set  myself  up as a  monitor 
for younger traders, and warn the  business 
neophyte against the tricks  and stratagems 
and devices of the betc noir  of  all  trades 
men, but a little  self-communion  speedily 
convinces me that an individual who openly 
confesses to years of gullibility and creduli 
ty would be  regarded  as a  very  untrust 
worthy teacher, and I can  only  suggest my 
experience as a warning,  and assure the be 
ginner in trade that he will need all his res 
olution, acuteness and common-sense to cir 
cumveut the tireless,  persistent,  ingenious 
remorseless and ubiquitous dead-beat.

The  merchant  who  transacts  a strictly 
cash business is a curiosity in  the  business 
world, but he is the only one  who  success 
fully resists  the  assaults of  the  enemy in 
qiMistion. 
I  have  known  one  or  two of 
these  phenomena  during  my  life,  but  I 
strongly suspect that  even  they were occa­
sionally victimized in  the name of  “chari­
ty.”

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* 

*

I sometimes  think  that  dead-beatism is, 
to a certain extent, hereditary.  1 have  fol­
lowed several severe cases back through two 
and three generations,  and have little doubt 
that a curious and  interesting  study  could 
be made of  the  sublect.  Political  econo­
mists have traced the  taint  of  crime  and 
prostitution  back  through  dozens  of  the 
criminals’ and prostitutes’  ancestors.  Now 
let political economists tackl^ the d.-b. 

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In many respects the professional d.-b.  is 
worse than the  professional  criminal,  for 
the latter evinces some  courage in violating 
the law and taking chances in  being caught 
in its  meshes,  while  the  former—like  a 
sneak and a  poltroon—uses  the  law  as a 
shield for his rascality. 
I  have  far  more 
respect for the burglar who enters  my store 
at night  and  carries  away  fifty  dollars’ 
worth of property than 1 have  for the beat 
who takes advantage of my  confidence and 
plunders me of a like amount.

To compare the d.-b. and the highwayman 
would be doing a gross injustice to the man 
of the road.  The latter has been known, in 
numerous instances,  to rob the rich to assist 
the poor,  and if a  circumstance  of  this na­
ture was ever  placed  to the  credit of  the 
beat it ha9 escaped my notice.

I will venture to say that  Snooks,  who is 
trying to  support a sick  wife  and  two or 
three small children on the profits of  a few 
dollars’ worth of peanuts, candy  and tobac­
co, has ten times as long a  delinquent  list 
as Jones, who is rated at 825,000.  This is 
not because the beat wants  to  discriminate 
between the two men,  but  because  Jones 
has about ten times  the  ability  for “spot­
ting” frauds that poor Snooks  has.

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The difference in the bearing  of  the beat 
when he is trying to defraud  you,  and after 
he concludes that he  has  depleted  you all 
you will possibly permit, is amusing as well 
as disgusting.  Let us suppose that O’Toole, 
who belongs to the  tribe, has  concluded to 
victimize Snpoks.  His manner in approach­
ing the operation is  deferential  and almost 
obsequious.f  He will perhaps remark:

“Ah, Mr. Snooks! 

gant stock y \ have here,  an’ 
tidy an’ clane^as a parlor.”

iefo

It’s a  nate  and  illi- 
yer  store’s as 

To all of wiich Snooks will  assent 

with

pleasure. 

I

“Av there’M a mon in Michigan that I be- 
lave wouldn’t wrong a poor fellow,  it’s yer- 
self,  Mr. SnooKS,  an’  its many a  dollar ye 
get from the  bye’s  because av  it—” and so 
on, until  poon  Snooks is  wheedled  out of 
what—to  him-iis an amount  of  considera­
ble moment, 

In a few day a one  of  Snooks’  periodical 
financial  epresfions  occurs,  and,  meeting 
O’Toole, he  hufybly  begs  for a  little aid. 
Witness O’Toole^ metamorphosis:

“Look-a-here,  'Snooks!  Av ye  dun  me

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BUSINESS  LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of  Last Resort.

U SE   O F  WORD  “ N A T IO N A L”   BY  STA TE 

B A N K .

In the case of  People  ex  rel.  Hunt,  At­
torney-General,  vs.  National Savings Bank, 
the Supreme Court of Illinois declares  it  to 
be a matter of very serious doubt  whether a 
state bank doing business exclusively under 
the laws of a state could legally  adopt  the 
word  “National” as  part  of  its  corporate 
name.

T E L E G R A P H IC   M ESSA G E— M IST A K E .
In the case of Western  Union  Telegraph 
Co.  vs.  Richman,  recently  decided  by  the 
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 
it appear­
ed that a telegraph message was incorrectly 
sent to the plaintiff,  who, doubting  its  cor­
rectness,  asked  the  operator  whether  he 
had  not  made  a  mistake.  The  operator 
said that he had asked  back  and  had  re­
ceived word that the  message  was  correct. 
The plaintiff did not ask to  have  the  mes­
sage repeated.  The  court  held  that  there 
was  no  contributory  negligence  on  the 
part of the receiver, and  that  he  could  re­
cover damages against  the  company  under 
the evidence.

T R A D E -M A R K — T H E   WORD  “ K A IS E R ”   NOT 

E X C L U SIV E .

The question as to the right  to the exclu­
sive use of the word  “Kaiser”  as  a  trade­
mark in  connection  with  mineral  waters 
was  lately  raised  in  the  United  States 
Circuit Court at New York  in  the  ease  of 
Luyties  vs.  Hollender.  The  plaintiffs,  it 
appeared, had registered  the  word  “Kaiser 
as a trade-mark for natural  mineral  water. 
Their bottles were labeled  “Kaiser  Water. 
Schwallieims.”  They sought to  enjoin  the 
defendants  from  selling  mineral  water  in 
bottles  labeled  “Kaiser  Water.  Schwal- 
heims.”  The court dismissed  the  bill  for 
an injunction,  holding that, inasmuch as the 
water so sold had for a long  while  been  an 
article of trade in the hands  or  others,  and 
had been called by  the  same  name,  there 
was no right to  the  exclusive  use  of  the 
word  “Kaiser.”

E X PR ESS  COM PANY’S  L IA B IL IT Y — LOSS  OF 

PA C K A G E .

The Supreme Court of  Pennsylvania  re 
cently affirmed a judgment of the  Philadel­
phia Court of Common  Pleas,  sustaining  a 
verdict  for  the  plaintiff  in  the  case  of 
Holmes vs.  Adams  Express  Co. 
In  tjiis 
case the plaintiff got a verdict  for  the  full 
value of a lost package,  although  no  value 
over 850 had been  assigned  to  it  and  al­
though  the  plaintiff  offered  no 
further 
proof of negligence  on the part of the com­
pany than the non-delivery of the  package. 
The Supreme Court said, 
in  giving  judg­
ment in the case: 
If goods are  lost  or  in­
jured while it the  custody  of  an  express 
company,  in the absence of evidence  which 
rebuts the presumption of negligence it will 
be presumed that the loss or injury was  oc­
casioned by the company,  and it will be lia­
ble for the actual value  of  the  goods. 
In 
the present case no  explanation  was  given 
for the failure to deliver the goods.  So  far 
as it is proved they may still be in the hands 
of  the  company  and  withheld  from  the 
•owner.

Some Sensible Suggestions.

The substitute  for  sugar,  saccharine,  ap­
pears from the comparative meager accounts 
of it to be a substitute  only for  the  taste of 
sugar. 
It must be  remembered  that  sugar 
is some more than a condiment,  and that its 
food value,  although not  large,  is an appre­
ciable  quantity. 
It  is  just  here  that  the 
chemist’s art  has  so  far  generally  failed. 
They may produce,  from  inorganic or  dead 
compounds,  substitutes  for 
the  taste  or 
smell,  but their compounds are almost neces­
sarily stable  and  resist  the  action  of  the 
chemical laboratory of the  digestive system 
to break  them  up into fuel  and food. 
It is 
suggested  that  saccharine  may be used  to 
increase the sweetness of  glucose and allow 
its substitution  for  cane  sugar.  The prac­
ticability of the scheme  depends  simply  on j 
the commercial production of  the new prin­
ciple.  Glucose,  in  spite  of  the  denuncia­
tion it receives,  is  as  good  a food  stuff  as 
cane sugar,  if not better.  Prohibitory laws, 
similar to those passed  forbidding  the  sale 
of  oleomargarine,  may attempt  for  a  time 
to prevent the public from  reaping the ben­
efit of such discoveries,  but  all  such s]>ecial 
trade laws will  utterly  fail,  if  the  process 
prove practicable.  So high an  authority as 
Professor  Remsen,  of  the  Johns  Hopkins' 
University,  in  whose  laboratory and  under 
whose direction saccharine  was discovered, 
states his disbelief  in  the  commercial  suc­
cess of  the manufacture  of  saccharine  for 
this  purpose.  Less  well  informed  people 
must wait and  see  what  the  German  firm 
which has now  started  the  manufacture cf 
the substance will be able  to  do.  As  sac­
charine is admitted to be 230  tunes  sweeter 
than cane sugar, a very small  amount  of  it 
may b« expected to go a long ways,  and the 
price may be  correspondingly  high  without 
rendering its use as a  condiment  impractic­
able.

L ist of A ssociations Affiliated w ith the State 

Body.

 

The following  comprises  all the local a s 
sociations  which  have  affiliated  w ith the 
Michigan Business Men’s  Association  up to 
the present time:
Grand  Rapids.....................................................119
Oceana  ......................................................... ;..  66
Traverse  City.....................................................  89
Lowell.............................................................     48
S turgis................................................................  24
Big  Rapids.........................................................   70
Elk  Rapids................ t ......................................   20
G reenville..........................................................  59
Sparta..................................................................  30
H astings.............................................................  44
E astp o rt.............................................................  10
Ada  ......................................................... 
6
White  Lake........................................................  57
Saranac..............................................................   22
Manton.......................................................-........18
Kalamazoo  ........................................................  55
Coopersville....................................................    45
East Jordan..........................................................24
Nashville.............................................................  9
H olland............................................................   37
Grand  H aven...................................................... 45
Woodland  ..........................................................  18
Tustin..............................: .............................. ..  13
F reep o rt.............................................................  14
Cadillac................................................................ 48
Kalkaska.............................................................  36
B ellaire..............................................................   13
M ancelona.........................................................   23
W ayland.............................................................  21
Cheboygan.........................................................   61
Reed  City...........................................................  26
Charlevoix  ..........................................................35
A llegan..............................................................   61
Kingsley.............................................................  10
Petoskey  .............................................................41
Dorr.....................................................................  17
Muskegon  .........................................................   25
Owosbo................................................................  |0
Moyne City.........................................................   J7
Plainwell..................................... 
24
Rockford  ...........................................................   26
Casnovia.............................................................  12
So. Boardman....................................................   7
Muir.....................................................................  10
Verm ontville....................................................   21
H artford.................................. 
33
Io n ia ...................................................................  50
Leslie.....................................................................20
Sherm an............................................................   11
Frankfort  ............................................................25
Cedar  Springs.....................................................27
Battle  Creek......................................................  ]3
Burr Oak.............................................................  12
White  Cloud......................................................  H
Flint........................... 
74
East  Saginaw.......................................................54
Belding................................................................  16
Pewamo................................................................ 14
Hubbardston  ......................................................21
W atervliet........... .............................................  8
Howard  City........  ..................................  
21
L uther...................................................................21
Lawrence.............................................................. 24
H onorary...........................................................   6
Total............................1,977

 

 

 

The universal sale  of  “Tausill’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 Enqland Grocer.

CHARLES  A.  COYE,

Successor to

A. Coye & Son,

DEALER  IN

AWNINGS i TENTS

Horse and Wagon Covers, 

Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,

Flags &  Banners made to order.

Wide Ducks, etc.
GRAND  RAPIDS.
- 

73  CANAL  ST.. 

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.
Arrive.

K alam azoo  Division.

Leave. 

N. Y. Mail.  N. Y. Ex
Ex. & Mail.  N. Y. Mail. 
6:15pm
4:35pm   7:45 a  m .. Grand Rapids.  9:45 a m 
5:55pm   9:02 a  m. .A llegan...........8:28 a m  
5:00am
7:05pm   10:06 a m .. K alam azoo...  7:30 a m 
4:oOpm 
8:30pm   11:35 a  m. .W hite Pigeon.  5:55 a m  2:20pm
2:30am   5:05  p m. .T oledo..............11:00pm  9:45am
8:30am   9:40  p m. .Cleveland.......... 6:40pm   5:35am
2:50 p m   3:30 a m. .Buffalo...............11:55 a m   11:40 p m
5:40am   6:50  p m. .Chicago............ 11:30pm  6:50am
A local freight leaves Grand Rapids a t 12:50 pm ,carry­
ing passengers as fa r as  Allegan.  All  train s  daily ex­
cept Sunday. 

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

GOING  EAST.

Arrives. 
tSteam boat  Express.........................   6:25 p m  
tT hrough  Mail.................................... 10:40 a in 
tE vening Express...............................  3:23 p m  
•Lim ited  Express...............................  6:50 a m  
tMixed, w ith  coach.......................... 
G O IN S W EST.
tM om ing  Express.............................  1:05 p m  
tT hrough  Mail....................................  5:00 p m  
tSteam boat Express...........................10:40 p m 
tMixed.................................................. 
•N ight Express....................................  5:2i a m 

Leaves.
6:30 p m
10:50 a  m
3:50 p m
6:50 a m
11:00 a m
1:10 p m
5:10pm
10:45 p m
7:45 a m
5:40&m
tD aily, Sundays excepted.  *Daily.
Passengers taking the  6:50  a m   Express  m ake  close 
connection a t Owosso for Lansing,  and  a t  D etroit  for 
New  York,  arriving  th ere  a t  10:30  a  m the following 
m orning.  The N ight Express has a through W agner car 
and local sleeping car from  D etroit to G rand  Rapids.
D. Potter, City Passenger Agent, 

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

Chicago & West Michigan.

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

tD aily except Sunday.

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

At rives.
3:55pm

9:45 p m
5:45 a m

N ewaygo Division.

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

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

Arrives.
4:50 p m

10:30 a m

W. A. G a v e t t , Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J. B.  M u l l i k k n ,  G eneral  Manager.

Detroit, Mackinaw & Marquette.

Going East.

Going West. 

7:00am   8:00 a m. .St. Ignace.......8:40pm  
5:55pm
12:20 p m   11:05 a m. .S eney..............5:15 p m   12:35 p m
7:00am
J  2:05pm  
5:30pm   2 :3 0 p m )M 
4:00 p m | » a rq u e tte ..  |   1;65 p m
4:85 p m .'.N egaunee.......1:25 p m
4:45 p m. .Ishpem ing... .12:55 p m 
8:00 p m. .H oughton ...  9:25 a m
8:20 p m. .H a n c o c k ....... 9:00 a m

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

tt 

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

E. W. Allen,

Detroit, Lansing  &  Northern.

G rand R apids & Saginaw  Division.

DEPART.

Saginaw Express.....................................................   7  30 a m
Saginaw Express.....................................................  4 00p  m
Grand Rapids  Express...........................................11  35 a  m
Grand Rapids  Express...........................................10  30 p m

All trains arrive a t and depart from  Union depot. 
Trains ru n  solid both  ways.

ARRIVE.

PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY

E   3ST O - 1 3ST  E  s

From 2 to 130 Horse-Pow.  r,  Boiler«!, Saw  Mills 
Grist Mills, Wood Workitig  Mnchinery,  Shaft 
ing,  Pulleys  and  f-oxes.  Contracts  made for 
Complete Outfits.

SEED
B...........

AND  HAVANA  10-CENT  CIGARS.
.. .Rega Espicial......... $58 | Mackinaw  ..............Londras Grande___ 70
. . . .  50
. . . .  50
. . . .  50

Twisters................. 
Chacer..................... 
The Fox................... 

L.  C.
El Captain General.Cone.  Esp...............60
El  Primero.............Cone.  Fina..................56
“ 
............. Panatelas.................65
............. Rega Princessa.......... 68
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
NICKEL CIGARS.

DOMESTIC

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

When......................Londras Grande____$35
Cassia......................Flora  Cordova............35
Spanish Tuck......... Renia Victoria........... 35
First  Degree...........Conchitas...................35
Panatalla.................(B.  L.  &  H.).
Town  Talk............. Ciggaro......................33
Young America... .Bag  Dad.................25
Great  Scot...............Bendaro......................32
Our  Block................Conchitas,  extra...  25
22
Now............................  
20
Boodle......................... 
New  Fashion.______  
25
La Attractiva.........  
25

“ 
“ 
“ 

 
 
 
 

“ 

35  Big Chief.................Bag Dad.
.Concha.

Atlas........................Conchitas....
Gents’ Companion. .Concha  Hindoo
Donny  Brook.......... 
“
Belle of  the  Rink..Florde  Corvado
Jim Fox’s Clipper.
Select.............
Elite  Gem.. ..  
Away Ahead..
Our Emblem.. 
Legal  Tender.
No Name.......

“ 
KEY  WEST  CIGARS.

“ 

Snugglers................ Sublime....................$75
............... Con. Especail.............60
Los Castellos...........Opera Reina...............60
............Con.  Selectos.......... 65
“ 

“ 

Los  Castellos........Londras Grande....
Estrelle de Ora......Sublime.................
La Modesta............ Operas  Renia...........65
Coronet  Boquet... .Londres  Chica., - . .  60

25

IMPORTED  CIGARS.

Golden  Eagle.........Lilliputanos...........$  751 Matilda.....................Royales..................100
Belinda  .................Operas....................  80 | Flora de,  T. &  F .. .Rothschilds............  125

Old  Judge...............500 in a  box....... $4  25 1 Sweet  Caporal.........   “ 
Satin Straight C ut..  “ 

“ 

CIGARETTES.
.......  7  00 |

We do not charge any Cartage.
We do not pay Freight or Express Charges.
We sell and deliver all goods F. O. B. Grand Rapids.
We do not allow  Express  charges or  Exchange  on  Remit­
Terms, invariably, 60 days.  Two per cent,  cash discount al­
PLEASE  SEND  US  A  TRIAL  ORDER.

tances.
lowed on bills paid within 30 days firom date.

“ 

........4  25

L.  D.  HARRIS,

W  J io le sa le  D e a le r  in

HANSWAUS»

CHASTE  R A PID S, 

- 

MICH.

33  NORTH  IONIA  STREET, 

DO  YOU  WANT  A

W ,  C.  X> ohIb on,

88,90 and  »2 South  Division  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS. 

- 

MICH.

111

W H OLESALE

CANDY

A N D

FR U IT

1887

PEA NUTS
OYSTERS
THE OLDEST.  THE LAKGEST.  THE BEST.

The  best o f Testimonials firom every  State  and  Territory,

CO

fi

PORTER IRON ROOFING CO. CINCINNATI

O H I O .

J .   T .   5 E I _ i I _ i   <&  C O . ,

Wholesale  Fruits  aijd  Produce,

EAST  SA aiN AW ,  MICH.

A. S . SPAXTCZÆR  <&  CO.

PRODUCE,  NUTS;  BERRIES,  ETC. 

Consignments Solicited.

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

JOBBERS  IN

DRY  GOODS,
-a j s t o   i s r o T i o n s r s ,

8  3   M onroe  St.,

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

G R AN D   RAPID S,  MICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers 
American and Stark A Bags

{A Specialty.

THE  HOME  YEAST  CAKE.

Absolutely the Best and Purest ever put upon the Market.

SEXiLS OUST  ITS  MERITS.

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

No.  1.  Large size, 86 packages, or cartons,  per case,  $1.50. 
1.00.
No.

Smaller “  36 

“ 

“ 

“ 

ORANGES

LEMONS

1865

If so, send for Catalogue and Price-List to

HETMÁN & EON,

ARCTIC

NINETEEN  HUNDRED.

TIME  TABLES.

BULKLEY, LEMON  4  HOOPS

PURE.

JOBBERS  OF

NEW  PROCESS  STARCH.

SWEET.
This Starch having the  light  Starch  and  Gluten 

removed,

O n _ e - T 2 i i r c i   L e s s

I Can  be used than  any other in  the Market.

M anufactured by th e

FIRMENICH  MNFG.  CO.

Factories:  M arshalltow n,  Iow a;  Peoria,  Ills.

Offices  at  Peoria,  Ills.

FOR  SALE  BY

STRONG. j  Clark,  Jewell  &  Co.
F. J. LAMB & CO.

SURE.

STATE  AGENTS FOR

D. D. Mallory & Co.’s

DIAMOND  BRAND  OYSTERS
Also  Fruits  and  Country  Produce.
FULLER  &  STOWE  COMPANY,

Engravers and Printers

D esigners

Engravings and Electrotypes of Buildings, Machinery, Patented Articles, Portrait^ 

Autographs, Etc., on Short Notice.

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

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

ORDER.

Our Leader Sm oking 1 Our Leader F in e Cut

15c per pound.

33c per pound.

Our Leader Shorts,  |  Our Leader Cigars, 

16c per pound. 

$30 per M.
Til©  Rest  in   tlio  W orld.

Clark, Jewell & Co,

| 

SOLE  AGENTS  FO R

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

O’Brien & Murray’s “Hand Made Cigar.”

In  Ordering a Supply of the

Arctic Balina Powfler

Do not forget  to  ask for

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

¡Fed:

K a k í n g
POWDER
Arctic Manufacturing Co., Grand Rapids.

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.

SOUS  PROPRIETORS.

SOAP

DETROIT. MIOR.,

Manufacturers of the following well-known Brands

s o

of

QUEEN  ANNE,
MICHIGAN,

TRUE  BLUE,

CZAR,

MONDAY, 

MOTTLED  GERMAN, 
SUPERIOR, 

ROYAL  BAR, 

MASCOTTE,

CAMEO,

PHCENIX,

WABASH, 

AND  OTHERS.

For Quotations address

W .  G. HAW KINS,

Ill

f

THE  HOME  YEAST  CAKE  CO.

------- M A N U KA CTU RED   B Y -------

OFFICE  AND  SALESROOM.

26 & 28 River St.,  Chicago, 111

Lock  Box  173, 

N.  B.— Ask your wholesale grocer for the HOME  YEAST  CAKE.

Salesman  for  Western  Michigan.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  M IC K *

/

This Week's  Meeting  of the  Retail  Gro­

cers'  Association.

The meeting of  the Retail Grocers’ Asso­
ciation will be exceedingly interesting if the 
following is any criterion:

Grand  Rapids, May 16,  1887. 

“ Realized More than the Cost.” 

Howard City, May 10,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dear Sir—The treasurer of our Associa­
tion has been instructed to  forward to  you 
the necessary  amount to entitle  us to  the 
benefits of the State Association, twenty-one 
members having paid the fee at our meeting 
two weeks ago.  The Blue Letter system of 
collecting old  accounts is  proving to be an 
excellent thing with us and the  most of  us 
have realized a great deal  more  benefit al­
ready than it has cost us to organize, besides 
the satisfaction derived therefrom.
Yours very truly,*  B. J.  Lowry,  Sec’y.

The Independent Oil  Co.’s anti-monopoly 
flag  still floats  proudly on  the  breeze  and 
anti-monopoly  oil  continues  to  meet  the 
same cordial reception  at  the hands  of the 
retail  trade  which  marked  its  advent  at 
this market.  Manager  Marston  reports in­
creasing sales as  the weather grows warmer 
and the days longer,  an  almost  unheard-of 
circumstance.  Those  who  have  not  yet 
handled Independent oil  can  ascertain  the 
address  of  the  company  in  an  advertise­
ment on another page.

, 

, 

. 

_____  

PROVISIONS.

p o r k   i n   b a r r e l s .  »

quote  as  follows:

The  Two  Extremes.

The Grand Rapids Packing  & Provision  Co. 

‘‘This pair of good shoes  for $1,”  was a 

do. 
do. 
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  P L A IN .

sign that attracted the attention of a report-1 Mess, new.. ..
i  „  I  (Short Chit.. P.lf»!
er as he walked down Washington  street a 
few mornings ago.  As the shoes, to all ap­
pearance,  seemed to be worth  many  times 
their advertised  price the  reporter  stepped 
in and asked the  proprietor  how he  could 
afford to sell such a  shoe at  such a  cheap 
price.'

.......17
.......15 50
Short Cut, clear...............................
....17  50
E xtra clear pig, short c u t.............
.......17 50
E xtra clear, heavy..........................
.17 50 
Clear quill, short  c u t.....................
.17  60
Boston clear, short c u t..................
Clear back, short cu t.................................... 17 50
Standard clear, short  cut, best..................1<  50
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN   BO XES.
8%
Long Clears, heavy.................................
8%
medium.............................
8%9
lig h t..................................
Short Clears, heavy.................................
9
medium..............................
9
light....................................
11%
Hams, average 20  lbs............................ 
16  lbs...................................... 12%
12 to 14 lbs.............................. 12%

Dear  Sir—The  regular  meeting of  the 
Retail  Grocers’  Association,  which will  be 
held to-morrow evening, promises  to be un­
usually interesting.  After the regular order 
of  business  has  been  dispensed  with, the 
following programme will be observed:
1. Violin Solo—“Airs Varies” .................Danda
Miss Jennie  Kipp,  with  Piano  accompani­
m ent by Miss Abbie Boxheimer.
2. Address.  By Frank Hamilton, President of 
the Michigan Bnslness Men’s Association.
8. Piano Solo___ ____Mrs. Ludwig Winternitz
4. Violin  Solo—“Ballet"..................... ...Danela
Miss  Jennie  Kipp,  with  Piano accompani­
m ent by Miss Abbie Boxheimer.
5. Address.  By N. B.  Blain,  President of the 
Lowell Business Men’s Association.
6. Piano Solo...............Mrs. Ludwig Winternitz
1. Violin Solo.............................................Danela
Miss  Jennie  Kipp,  with  Piano accompani­
m ent by Miss Abbie Boxheimer.
8.  Analyses of  all samples  of Ginger  brought 
to the meeting, by Edward Telfer.
All  receiving  this  invitation,  whether 
Cheap!” answered the  proprietor laugh­
members  of the Association  or not, are re­
ing,  “why,  that is the most  expensive shoe 
quested  to  be present.  Retail Grocers not 
Moreover, it  is the
______ _____ 
yet  members  of the  Association  are  cor-
we have in the  house.
dially  invited  to  avail  themkelves  of  this I mogt  expensive  shoe in all Boston.  That 
opportunity  to  hand  in  applications  for I 
nrHl  k0 
t>s
membership.  The  Association  now  m-  shoe sells for $1. 
eludes  all  the  grocers  in  the  city  except  uppers are made out of  the  very  cheapest 
and its 
about  twenty, and  it  earnestly  desires the j sor^ 0f  leather,  generally  rotten,
co-operation and support of  that twenty
One good wet-
“ 
■
7%
Association is an  event  not  likely to be re-  ting will make the whole  shoe  fall to piec- | Tierces 
Tierces  ...................................................
30 and 50 ft T u b s.................................... . 
‘ %
peated again for. some time, and the officers I es.  But my trade  demands it.  There  are 
trust that every member will  be on  hand to  always persons who buy a  thing, no matter ]
8
3 1b Pails, 20 in a case............................ . 
7?s
hear what the gentlemen have to say 
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case.............................
I whether they want it or not, simply because 
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case............................
7%
[they  see  it  advertised  as  cheap.  Then, 
20 ft Pails, 4 pailB in  case.....................
again, there  is  that  much  larger  class of
E xtra Mess Beef, warranted 200 lbs.., .......8 50
persons who believe in handsomely clothing I B o i i e l e s s ^ e x t ™ ^ ^ ^ .^ .^ ^ .. .. ! !  50
| their barkeepers while  they  themselves go I por^ sausage.............................................T %
in rags.  These people  invariably  buy that 
!'. '■ ‘ *. ’.!' '• '•' ‘  9
shoe, and then go  and spend  what  would | Frankfort  Sausage............. :..................... 8
Blood  Sausage..................................................   8
get them a  really good * shoe in  whisky or
Bologna, straight.............................................   8
Bologna,  thick.............................................. 
beer. 
I  say  frankly  that  no  SI  shoe is 
Head  Cheese.....................................................   8
worth buying.  There is no greater mistake 
In half barrels...............................................   6 00
that persons can possibly  make than to buy
In quarter barrels........................................  1  80
excessively  cheap  goods.  But, of course,
are  this idea of getting good things can be,  and 
that  his  company  will  get  judgment  in I very often is, carried too far.  Very many 
court  without  costing  the  merchant  one  persons,  and some who can  really ill afford 
cent  and  that  they  are  collecting  75  per
to <Jo so,  pay $10 and $12 for a pair of shoes. 
cent of  all claims  in  their  hands  to-day.
No shoe can be made that is worth over $7. 
Their  claims  are  so  extravagant  that  I 
All over that  amount is  profit,  and  giving 
think the thing aNspide. 
If  so, write them 
up hard and oblige.
$12 for any  shoe on  earth  is just  simply 
Yours truly,
throwing away $5._________________

B. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dear Sir—A  tough  young  man,  wear
ing a summer cravat and  hailing  from  the 
Valley City, is working  this  burgh  in  the 
interest of  the “Merchants’  Dispatch  Col-1
--------- 

Eicnic  ...................................................  »
9
est boneless...................................  • .11
Shoulders...............................................
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................. ........ 10%
........ 10
ham  p rices..................... ........ 13

Come, and bring your ladies with you.
E. A.  Stowe,  Sec’y, 

Probably  Another  Fraudulent  Collection 

The  presence of  the  officers of  the State. 

Be sure and bring samples of  ginger.

soles are almost all paper.

Holland, May 14, 1887,

It is worth 50 cents,  l

LARD IN   T IN   P A IL S .

B E E F  IN  BA RR ELS. 

IL L U M IN A T IN G .

Agency.

1  1'. 1'. !'. 1 

P IG S ’  F EE T.

OILS.

LARD.

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L U B R IC A T IN G .

W ater W hite..................................................
Michigan  Test..................................................1”%
Ethaline............................................................
R uby.................................................................
Gasoline............................................................
Capitol Cylinder..............................................g8*
Model  C ylinder....,.......................................
Shield Cylinder................................................26H
Eldorado  Engine............................................
Peerless  Machinery.......................................
Challenge Machinery...................................... 1»
Paraffine  ............................................ 
Black. Summer, West Virginia......................»
Black, 26° to 30°.............................................JO
Black, 15°  C.  T ................................................JJ,
Z ero...................................................................... 13 w

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

HIDES.

G reen....«  lb 5%@ 6  ICalf skins, green 
P art cured...  7  @  7%|  or cured....  7  © 8 
Full cured....  7%@  8*  Deacon skins,
V piece.......20  @50
Dry hides and 

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

SH E E P  PELTS.
Old wool, estimated washed $  lb........25  @26
Tallow............... 
..................................   8  @ 3/4
Fine washed $  lb 25@26|Coarse washed.. .20®24
2-3
Medium

.27@30| Unwashed__

W OOL.

OYSTERS.

OYSTERS  AND  FISH. 
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 
New  York Counts-----  ..
H. F. H.& Co.’s Selects....
FRESH  FIS
Black  bass............................
Rook  boss.............................
Perch...... ...............................
Wall-eyed  pike....................
Duck-bill  pike.....................
Sturgeon................................
Sturgeon,  smoked...............
Trout......................................
Trout, smoked.....................
W hitetlsh............................
Whitefish. smoked...............
Brook  T ro u t......................
Frogs’  Legs, per dozen.......

__ 38
__ 35

............... 6
......  8
...............  9
.................10
__ 9
.............10
............... 50
........25@65

FIE L D   SEEDS.

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

FRESH  FISH

Bought  and Sold by

FRANK  J. DETTENTHALER,

117 Monroe St.,  Grand Rapids.

Oysters  the  Year  A round

REFRIGERATORS,
O.  M.  WHITMAN  &  CO.,

Manufactured by

09  B ristol  Street. 

- 

BOSTON, MASS

8

P. W. Kane,

Pres. Holland B. M. A.

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

ward.

Cabbages-New, $4.50 per crate 

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

Apples—Good  tru it is scarce,  readily  bring 

The “agency” above referred to  is  prob­
ably on a  par  with  the  many  fraudulent 
Asparagus—30@35c per doz.  bunches. 
concerns  which  have  heretofore  been  ex 
Beans—Looking up.  Country  hand-picked 
posed  by  The  T radesman.  Just who is 
are  held at $1.15 ¥  bu., and city picked  are  in 
conducting the alleged “agency” it has been
fair demand at $1.50.
impossible to  ascertain,  but  the  notorious I  Butter—Creamery is in good demand  at 23c 
Harry Brooks  is  connected  with  the  con-1 Dairy is slow 6ale and weak at I6@l7c, 
cem, which is all that honest men  want  to 
know about I t  Brooka ¡8 a notorious Brief, 
full  cream   is  in  (air Oc
having jumped bail a short  time  ago  on  a j mand  Bt  i3@i3^ c,  The  tendency  is  down- 
charge of  obtaining goods under  false  pre-
»tenses.  He  was  then  operating  a  swin­
dling collection scheme iu  connection  with 
a  shyster  named  Roby  and  obtained  a 
watch  of  a  man  by  promising, to  put  a 
claim into a  judgment,  which  he  did  not 
do.  Any  concern  which  tolerates,  or  is 
managed by such a character is not  entitled 
to a particle of confidence by business  men.
Swindling collection schepies are  coming 
to be about as thick as mosquitods  in  sum­
mer.  The moral  will  readily  be  appreci­
ated by business  men,  which  is—organize 
a n  association, collect your own  accounts, 
and steer clear of  all the  devises  invented 
by shyster lawyers  and  recognized  thieves 
to entrap the unweary. 

Dried Peaches—Pared, 14c.
Eggs—Jobbers are paying  9@10c and selling 
for 11c.  Quotations are likely to go  lower be 
fore the end of the week.

Parsley—25c $   doz 
Peas—$11» %  bu.
Potatoes—Shippers  are  paying65c  for Bur­
banks  and  White  Star,  and  70c  for  Rose 
and Hebron.  New, $1.50 per bu.

Lettuce—14c $  lb.
Maple Sugar—10c $  lb.
Onions—New, $1.50  $   bu.  Bermudas, $2.25 

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

Cucumbers—7C@75 $  doz.
Dried Apples—Evaporated, 13c $  f t; quarter­

Honey—Good demand a t 10@13c.
Hay—Baled 

per crate.  Spring, 15c $  doz.

ed and sliced, 6@7c $  ft.

is  moderately  active 

in 

•

*0%
AGENTS—A. Flesch,  118  Randolph  St..  Chicago, 111 
William'M. Morgan. 215  Duane St., N.  Emil  W ienert, 
Albany, N. Y.  G ardiner Bros., St. A ugustine, Fla.

at  $14 Iders  promptly.

We  are  settled in  onr  new  store  in 
the Houseman  Building  and  have got 
everything to suit us.

We are adding new lines to onr Wood- 
enware  stock every few, days, and it is 
now nearly complete.  We have s< veral 
cars of Binders’ Twine  and  can  fill or- 

We bought a large lot of  Brushes at 
auction and have just got them in.  We 
can sell them for  less  than the  cost of 
making.
Our  paper  stock  is  complete.  We 
handle everything  in this line.  When 
in the city call and see us.
Respectfully,

CURTISS  &  D U N T O N .

The Wholesale  Grocery  Peddlers  May 

Come to  Grief.

Hopkins  Station, May,14,  1887.

B. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dear  Sir—We  are  just  now  infested 
with  the  Detroit  traveling  leech,  who  is 
I am  told 
selling groceries to the farmers. 
that they make a delivery  here  next  week 
of a car-load.  They represent  J. 
&  J. 
Q.  Williams, of Detroit  Of course there is 
no way to stop  this  damned  fraud,  but  I 
loam that they are selling tobaccos.  Now, 
in all probability, they are sharp  enough to 
have a license,  but  I  propose  to  know  if 
they have one for this district  or township, 
or not, and as a favor,  will you  find  out at 
the revenue office and le.t me know  if  they 
have one.  My opinion is that  they  should 
have a wholesale license.  They  delivered 
at  Byron  yesterday.  Of  course,  if  they 
have a license, all O.  K.; but,  if  not,  why 
then the dance  opens.  Perhaps  they  may 
"  hnvp a license  taken  out  for  some  other 
town—one of the salesmen taking it out  in 
his name,  but the delivery to be made here 
I  wish you would give me any points which 
you are able to—amount of license  and  all 
you may know in regard to the sublect.

Respectfully, 

F.  B.  Watkins.

Such  a  thing  as  a  wholesale  tobacco 
license is not known—the  wholesaler  pays 
the same tax as the retailer,  $2.40 per year. 
The men who  have  been  selling  goods  to 
farmers—with the exception  of  Jos.  Was­
son, of Hoytville, who has had  “deliveries” 
at  Wayland  and  Middleville—have  no 
licenses and an officer  of  the  revenue  de­
partment will go to Hopkins Station to-day 
to interview the men who have  been  doing 
business illegally.

The attention of the retail trade is hereby 
directed to the cigar advertisement of Bulk- 
ley, Lemon &  Hoops, on  another  page of 
this  week’s  paper.  A  reporter  of  Tiie 
T radesman  was shown  through their ci­
gar department a day or  two ago, and  can 
say,  without  any  exaggeration,  that  the 
house iu question has the  largest and finest 
line of cigars to be found  anywhere in  the 
State.  Messrs.  Bulkley,  Lemon  & Hoops 
yian deserve great credit for being  the  first 
wholesale grocery house in Michigan to lead 
off with a cigar  department,  separate  and 
distinct  from the  other  branches of  their 
- business.  Such  enterprise  deserves  more 

passing notice.

Buy your Bug Finish of Curtiss & Dunton.

(Bvoceries.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

These  prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.

AX LE  OREASE.

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

.  80 
90
..  60 
.2 50

Paragon  .................2 10
Paragon 25 lb pails.  90 
Fraziers,25 lb palls. 1  25

BA K IN G   PO W D ER.

“ 
“ 

4 
2 
2 
1 

“ 
“ 
“ 

% 
% 
1 
5 

“  2  “ 
“  1  “ 

85 
1 60 
3 00
1  25 
.  2 25 
.  4 25 
28 
45 
. 
75
.  1  40 
.  2  40 
12  00 
.  2 00 
. 
15

Acme, % lb cans, 3 doz. case..................
“  % lb 
.......  ........
2 lb 
“ 
..................
B u lk ............................................
Princess,  %s...........................................
“  %s.............................................
Is...............................................
“ 
bulk..........................................
“ 
Arctic, % lb cans, 6 doz. case.................
.................
.................
.................
.................
Victorian. I lb cans, (tall,) 2 doz...........
Diamond,  “bulk.” . . . : ............................
Dry, No. 2.......................................... doz.
Dry, No. 3..........................................doz,
Liquid, 4 oz,......................................doz
Liquid, 8 ............................................ doz
Arctic 4 oz.........................................V  gross 3 oO
Arctic 8  oz......................................................  7 20
Arctic 16 o z ...................................................  1*00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box..........................  
Arctic No. 2 
Arctic No. 3 

25
45
35
65

BLU IN G

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BROOMS.

No. 2 H url...............1  75]Common W hisk—   90
No. 1 H url... .2 00@2 25 Fancy  W hisk.........1 00
No. 2Carpet........... 2 25 Mill................................ 3 75
No. 1 Carpet........... 2  50 Warehouse  ............ 2  75
Parlor Gem........... 3 001

CANNED  F IS H .

Clams, 1 lb, Little Neck............................... 1  JO
Clam Chowder,  3 lb.........................  ..........-  15
Cove Oysters, 1  lb  standards.....................   90
Cove Oysters, 2  lb  standards....................  1  75
Lobsters, 1 lbpicnio......................................1  75
Lobsters, 2 ft, picnic.................................... 2  65
Lobsters, 1 ft sta r......................................... 2  W
Lobsters. 2 1b sta r......................................... 3  88
M ackerel,lib  fresh  standards........ ......... 1  45
Mackerel, 5 1b fresh  standards..................5 2o
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 ft................ 3  50
Mackerel,3 1b in M ustard............................3 50
Mackerel. 3 1b  soused........... j. t.  .............. 3 50
Salmon, 1 1b Columbia river.......................1  70
Salmon. 2 1b Columbia river........................3 00
Sardines, domestic %s..................... ’.......... 6@7
Sardines,  domestic  %8..............................  10@12
Sardines,  Mustard  %.................................... 9@11
Sardines,  imported  %s.............................*12@13
Trout. 3ft  brook........ t .............................  4 00

CANNED F B U IT 8 .

“ 

Apples, gallons,  standards.........................3  25
Blackberries, standards.............................   80
Cherries,  red  standard............................... 1  10
Damsons........................................................J  88
Egg Plums, standards 
.............................. 1  15
Gooseberries..........................1......................
Green Gages, standards 2 1b.......................1  la
Peaches, Extra Yellow............................... 1  75
Peaches, standards......................................1  55
Peaches,  seconds.........................................1  45
Peache8,pie...................................................1  10
Pears..
....... 1  10
..........1 35
Pineapples, standards...................
..........115
Quinces........................................
..........1 25
Raspberries,  extra.......................
red..........................
..........1  35
Strawberries  ................................
.......... 1  20
Whortleberries.............................
..........  80
CANNED V EG ETA BLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay........................... 2 00
Beans, Lima,  standard....... ...................  75
Beans, Stringless, Erie...........................   90
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked..................1 70
Corn, Archer’s Trophy........................... 110
**  Morning  Glory............................. 1 05
“  Acme................1............................
“  Maple Leaf....................................
“  Excelsior.......................................1 20
“  Onondaga..................................... 1 85
“  Darby...........................................1 SO
“  Osborn..........................................1 00
“  New Process.................................1 1»
“  Bartlett........................................1  10
Peas, French....................................... • - A 50
Peas, extra marrofat........................ 1 20@l_4U
Peas, soaked...........................................    75__
“  Early June, stand....................1 50@1 75
sifted........................... 2 00
“ 
“  French, extra fine.......................... 20 00
Mushrooms, extra fine.........  ................. 20 00
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden..............................1 00
Succotash, standard............................. 80@1 30
Squash................................................... J 00
Tomatoes, standard brands....................1 10
CH EESE.
Michigan full  cream.........................  13®13%
York State, Acme................
CHOCOLATE.
Wilbur’s  Premium..351 German Sweet.........23
Sweet.......25 Vienna Sweet  ..........22
B’kf’tCocoa 45 Baker’s ................... 31
Cocoa-theta 42 Runkles’..................35
Vanilla Bar 281

“ 

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COCOANUT.

 

 

 

“ 

Schepps, Is........................................

Is and  %s...........................   @26
% ........................................   @27
is in tin pails......................  @27%
%s 
@28%
Maltby’s,  Is.......................................  @23%
1b and  %s..........................  @24
%s..................... 
  @24%
Manhattan,  pails..............................   @20
Peerless  ...........................................   @J8
Bulk..................................................  @16

L ion..............................................
Lion,  in  cabinets.......................
X X X X ,.,......................................|4%
Arbuckle’s  ..............................24?»  24%  24
Dilworth’s ...............  
 
Standard  .............;iii.............. 
German................................... 
German, in  bins....................... 
Magnolia................................... 
Royal........................................  
Eagle.......................................24 
Mexican................. — ...........18 

CO FFEES— PACK AGE.60 ft8100 fts 300 fts 
24 24%
24%  24%
24%
24
**
24%
24
23%  22%
23  22%
18 
18
Roasted.

c o f f e e s .

 

Green

R io.................... 19@21
Golden Rio....... 19@21
Santos............... 20@21
M aricabo...........19@20
J a v a .................30@22
O. G. Ja v a .........23@26
Mocha  .................... 24

R io...................20@21
Golden Rio......2C@21
Santos..............21 @23
Maricabo.........22@25
Java.................2r>@26
O. G. Jav a.......26@28
M ocha................28@30

CORDAGE.

60foot Ju te .......1  00 
72 foot J u t e __ _ 1 25
40 Foot Cotton— 1 50

|50 foot C otton.... 1 60
60 foot Cotton__1  75
ï foot Cotton__2 00

CRACKERS  AND  SWEET  GOODS.

X  XXX

$ 1b 
6%

8%

5%

4%

1
7
7
7

4%
5

7
8 
8
11% I
9%
15%

Kenosha B utter—
Seymour B utter...
Butter.....................
Fancy  B utter........
S.  Oyster.................
Picnic.....................
Fancy  Oyster........
Fancy  Soda............
City Soda....................................
Soda  ..........................................
Milk............................................
B oston.......................................
G raham ......................................
Oat  Meal....................................
Pretzels, hand-made.................
Pretzels......................................
Cracknels..................................
Lemon Cream............................ 
Sugar Cream.............................. 
Frosted Cream..........................
Ginger  Snaps............................ 
No. 1 Ginger  Snaps.................. 
Lemon  Snaps............................
Coffee  Cakes..............................
13%
Lemon W afers..........................
11%
Jum bles......................................
12%
E xtra Honey Jum bles.............
13%
Frosted Honey  Cakes.............
13%
Cream Gems.............................
13%
Bagleys  Gems..........................
12%
Seed Cakes........................ .
S. k   M. Cakes............................
8%
............................................................ 18 @  —
Citron
C urrants...................................................  ®  @ 8$
Lemon Peel............................................   @  "
Orange Peel........ ...................................  @  14
Prunes, French, 60s...............................  @10
French, 80s...............................  @  ^
French,  90s....................:........  @7
Turkey......................................  @  j*
Bohemia..................................   «vaRBnn
Raisins, Dehesia....................................« 00@5 00
Raisins, London Layers.......................  @f ¿0
Raisins, California  “ 
...................... } ®0@1 90
Raisins, Loose Muscatels.....................140@1 50
Raisins, Ondaras, 28s..............................|%@ 8%
Raisins.  Sultanas...................................   8 
@  6% 
Raisins,  Valencia, new. 
@3 00
Raisins, Im perials...

DRIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN

12%
8%

“ 
“ 
•• 
“ 

@ 8%

FISH.

........ 5@5%
Cod, whole.........................................
Cod, boneless...................................... ----5%@6%
...8%@ 9%
H alib u t..............................................
..  @2 90
Herring, round,  %  bbl....................
........   1  76
Herring .round,  %  bbl....................
.......1100
Herring, Holland,  bbls....................
....  75©  80
Herring, Holland,  kegs..................
........17@18
Herring, Scaled.................................
........   20 00
Mackerel, shore, No. 1, % bbls.......
.......3 CO
........ 2 50
No. 3, % bbls.................... ..........6  50
Sardines,  spiced, %s........................ ..........1C® 12
Trout, %  bbls.................................... ..........5 50
“  10 ft  k its................................. ..........  95
White, No. 1, % b b ls........................ ..........7  50
White, No. 1,12  1b kits..................... ..........1  10
White, No. 1.101b kits..................... ..........1  00
White, Family, % bbls..................... ..........3 75
kits.......................... ..........  75

“  121b kits
..  10 

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FLA VO RING EXTRACTS.

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MATCHES.

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

Lemon. Vanilla.
1  6C
“  4 oz...............................1  50  2 65
“  6 oz.............................. 2 50  4 25
“  8 oz.............................. 3  50  5 00
“  No. 2 Taper................1  25 
1 75
“  No. 4 
3 00
................1  75 
“  % pint, round.............4  60  9 00
18 00
..........9 00 
“ 
“
“  No. 3 panel.................1  10  1  85
2 75 
“ 
“  No. 8 
5 00
“  No. 10 
7  00
“ 
4 25 
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square.........................  95
Grand Haven, 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 90
Oshkosh, No.  8..................................................1 50
Swedish............................................................   75
Richardson’s No. 8  square............................ 100
Richardson’s No. 9 
............................150
Richardson’s No. 7%,  round......................... 1 00
Richardson’s No. 7 
............................150
Woodbine. 300....................................:............ 1  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 

3 00
4 00

2 00

% bbls. 2c extra

OATM EAL 

I 
%  “ 
...  3 00 
cases 2 25@3 25] 

RO LLED   OATS
Muscatine, bbls__ 5 50 Muscatine, bbls__ 5 50
“  %  “ 
....3  00
“  cases 2  25@3 25
@7 00 
@4 00 
@ 8  AO 
@4 75

M edium.................................  ............
% bbl......................................
Small,  bid............................................
% bbl....................................

P IC K LES.

P IP E S .

R IC E .

@2  00 
@1  75 
@  75

Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross.......
Imported Clay, No. 216,2% gross__
American T. D....................................
Choice Carolina......6% ] Java  .................. 
5
Prime Carolina.......5%  P a tn a .................. 
5%
Good Carolina........ 4%  Rangoon..........   @4%
Good Louisiana.......5  Broken..............3  @3%
Table  .......................5 
[Japan........................5%
DeLand’s pure........5% ¡Dwight’s ........
Church’B  ................ 5  Sea  Foam__
|Cap Sheaf___
Taylor’s G. M..........5 

SALERATUS.

...5
...5%

%c less in 5 box lots.

SALT.

SO APS.

SA UCES.

%  “ 

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

2  15 
2  10 
2 35 
75 
70 
80 
3 15 
75 
20 
21 
40 
20

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................
28 Pocket.................................................
100 3 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, % bu. bags...............
Rock, bushels........................................
Warsaw, Dairy, bu. bags.....................
...............
Parisian, %  pints..................................
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................
Pepper Sauce, green.............................
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring.............
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................
Catsup, Tomato,  q u a rts .....................
Halford Sauce, pints............................
Halford Sauce, % pints........................
A coln......................3 85| Extra Chicago Fam-
M aster....................4  00 
ily .........................2 94
New Process, 1  lb..3 85|Napkin.................... 4  75
New Process, 3 ft..3 96 Towel......................4
Acme,  bars............3 55 White  Marseilles..5 50
Acme,  blocks.......  3 05|White Cotton  Oil..5  50
Best  American__ 2 93| R ailroad................. 3 50
C ircu s.................... 3 70 U.  G......................... 3 45
Big Five  C enter...3 85 Mystic White..........4 65
Nickel......................3 45 Saxon  B lu e.,..✓
...- 60
Shamrock............... 3 15 S ta r......................... 3
Blue Danube..........2 55|London  Family__ 2 30
6
Allspice...................................................
6*
Cassia, China in m ats............................
ID
Batavia in bundles..................
40
Saigon in rolls..........................
28
Cloves, Amboyna..................................
Zanzibar....................................
60 
Mace B atavia.........................................
65 
Nutmegs,  fancy....................................
60 
No. 1......................................
51 
No. 2......................................
11 
Pepper, Singapore,  black....................
29
w hite..................
10 
Allspice...................................................
11 
Cassia,  Batavia.....................................
25 
and. Saigon..................
42 
Saigon......................................
32 
Cloves, Amboy n a ..................................
31 
Zanzibar.......................  ........
10 
Ginger, African........................ .............
15 
Cochin.......................................
18@32 
Jam aica....................................
0 
Mace Batavia.........................................
Mustard,  English..................................
20
“ 
and Trieste.............
Trieste....................................
_________________________ _______ 
Nutmegs,  No
Pepper! Singapore black.....................  
white...................... 
“ 
Cayenne..................................
STARCH.

** 
S PIC E S— PU R E  GROUND.

60
3u@2I
32

SPIC E S— W HOLE.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

1 1b 

201b 
“ 
“ 

Muzzy, Gloss, 481b boxes, 1  1b pkgs...  @ 5%
“  31b 
“  48“ 
...  @5%
“  b u lk ...........   @ 4
“ 
401b 
“  721b crates, 6 1b boxes..  @  6>
Corn, 401b boxes, 1 ft pkgs___   @ 6
** 
“ 
“ __   @  61.
*•  6 1b boxes...  @7%
“  b u lk ............  @ 6%
Pure, lib  pkgs..................  @5%
Corn, lib  pkgs..................  @
Roval, Gloss, 1 lb packages..................  © 5%

Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1 1b pkgs....  ©

“ 
“  6 ft.... 

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

@ 4
C orn...........................................  @ 6
Firmenich, new process, gloss, 1ft—   @5%
3 1b__   @5%
@  6^
bulk, boxes or bbls  @  4
corn. 1 f t..............  @ 6
Niagara,  gloss.......................................   @
c o rn .......................................   @ 6
Cut  Loaf............................ .................. 
©  8!
C ubes....................................... -............   @ 8;
Powdered...............................................   © «;
Granulated,  Standard..................... .  6 06@ o
.
Confectionery A ............................... • 
© 
Standard A ..............................................  @
No. 1, White Extra  C............................  5%@ 5%
No. 2, E xtra C.........................................  5  @5%
No. 3 C..................  .................................  @ *

SUGARS«

SYRUPS.

Corn,  barrels  .......................................  
Corn, % bbls............................................ 
Corn,  to gallon kegs...............................  
Corn, 5 gallon kegs................................. 
Pure  Sugar, bbl...................................... 
Pure Sugar, % bbl..................................  
TOBACCO—FINE C U T -IN  PAILS.

35@‘J7
2*@~»
@;|0
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"@35
25@3t

Cinderella
Uncle Tom.................37
Hi  There.................... 30
What Is It?.................25
Red Cap......................55
C tferry....................... 60
CrossCut....................35
Five and  Seven.........45
OldJim ....................... 35
Magnet....................... 26
Old Time....................30
Seal of Detroit........ .60
Underwood’s Capper 35
Jim Dandy.................38
Sweet  Rose............... 46
Our  Bird.................... 26
Meigs & Co.’s Stunner35
Brother  Jonathan...27
A tlas...........................35
Jolly  Time.................86
Royal Game...........38
Our  Leader............... 33
Mule E ar.................... 65
Sweet  Rose............... 32
Fountain.................... 74
May  Queen............... 65
Dark AmericanEagle67 Old Congress............ 64
The Meigs................. 60 Good L uck................62
Red  Bird?................. »¡Blaze Away................ ifi
Prairie F lo w er........ 66 Hair L ifter................. 30
Indian Queen...........60 H iaw atha....................62
May Flower..............70 Globe  ..........................
Sweet  Pippin...........45 Crown Leaf.................66
H u stler.................... 22 Sunset..........................35
Bad Boy.................... 361
Our  Leader..............16
Mayflower................23
Globe
lu'.e E ar...

H iaw atha.................. 22
Old Congress.............23
May  Leaf........
20

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SHORTS.

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...25|Blue  Blazes.............  25
Eye  Opener........ .
...31 C apper........................36
Pauper  ...............
.. ,3i ¡Jupiter  ........ 
26
Peach  Pie...........
..  37 Night Cap.................. 22
Star 
........... .
...37 Splendid..................   38
Old Solder............
... 341 Red Fox......................40
Clipper  ...............
. .34 Big  Drive...................40
Corner Stone.
Scalping  Knife........34 Chocolate  Cream ....40
34 N im rod.....................36
Sam Boss
, .29 Big Five Center........33
N e x t.....................
.32 P a rro t........................42
Jolly  Time............
.. .42 B u ste r........................35
Favorite  .  ...........
...32|Black Prince..............36
Black  Bird...........
...32IBIack  Racer..............35
Live and Let  Live
,. .28|Climax  ..................... 42
Quaker................ .
...37 Acorn  __ :............... .39
Big  Nig................
...37 Horse  Shoe............... 37
Spear  Head..........
...36 V inco......................... 34
P.  V .......................
. ..36 Merry W ar.................26
Spring Chicken ...
...30 Ben  Franklin............32
Eclipse  ................
...39 Moxie......................... 34
Turkey..................
. ..24 Black Jack .................32
Q. 
&Q......
Lark.......................
... 22l Mu s s elm an’s Corker. 30
SMOKING
Yum  Yum .................30; P u r e ........................... 15
Our  Leader...............15 8 ta r .............................20
Old V et.......................30! Unit  ........................... 30
BigDeal......................27 Eight  Hours.............. 24
Navy Clippings....... 261Lucky  ......................... 30
L eader......................15;Two  Nickel................. 24
Hard  Tack................ 30 Duke’s  Durham........40
D ixie..........................26 Green Corn Cob Pipe 26
Old T ar.......................49 Owl...............................jg
A rthur’s  Choice.......22 RobRoy...................... 24
Red Fox.....................26lUncle  Sam..................27
Gold Dust..................26 Lum berm an...............26
Gold  Block................30 Railroad Boy...............36
Seal of Grand Rapids  I Mountain Rose.......... 18
(cloth)..................25 Home Comfort........... 26
Miners and Puddlers.28 Old Rip.......................to
Peerless  ....................24¡Seal or North Caro-
Standard...................20 
lina, 2  oz..................48
Old Tom....................20 Seal of North  Caro-
lina, 4oz....................48
Tom & Jerry .............241 
Joker......................... 25]Seal of North  Caro-
T raveler...................35 
lina, 8oz....................45
Maiden......................25 Seal of North Caro-
Pickwick Club.........40 
lina, 16 oz boxes___ 42
Nigger Head............ 26 King Bee, longcut..  .22
H olland.................... 22 Sweet Lotus.................32
G erm an..................... 15 G rayling.....................32
K. of  L  ...............42@46 Seal Skin.....................30
Honey  Dew...............25  Red Clover.................32
Colonel’s  Choice.......15 Good  Luck..................26
Queen  Bee................ 22  N avy...........................30
Blue  WingS...............30t
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen....... 
70
Maceoboy....'.....................   @  55
Gail & Ax’ 
@ 44
Rappee.................................  @  35
Railroad  Mills  Scotch..........................   @  45
Lotzbeck  ...............................................   @1 30
Japaù ordinary.............................................18@20
Japan fair to good........................................25@30
Japan fine................................................... ].35@45
Japan dust.....................................................15@20
Young Hyson. 
..20@4T
G unPow der...
..........35@50
Oolong...........
...33@55@6C 
Congo.............
........ .25@30
50 gr. 
10 
10 
16

White Wine........................
C ider.......................................
York State Apple.........................
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bath Brick im ported............................ 
90
American............................. 
75
Burners,  No. 0........................................  @70
80
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F elix ...........................  @120

Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand.................  @7 70
Cream T artar 5 and 10 ft cans.................  @25
Candles, Star..........................................   @u
Candles.  Hotel.......................................   ©12
Camphor, oz., 2 1b boxes.......................  @35
Extract Coffee, V.  C..............................  @80
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  ©«a
Gum, Rubber 200 lum ps.......................   @35
Gum, Spruce...........................................  30@35
Hominy, $  bbl.......................................   @3 00
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails.................................5  @  5%
Pearl Barley .......................................... 2%@  3
Peas, Green  Bush. 
@1  16 @ 3 
Peas, Split  Prepared.
Powder, Keg...............
@5 00 
Powder, %  Keg..........
76 
Sage  ............................
@  15 
Sago  ............................
@ T @ 1
Tapioco.......................

CANDY. FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

Putnam  & Brooks quote as follows: 

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FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY— IN   5 1b  BOXES.

........ 8%@ 9
........   @9
............... ........   @10
.........  ® 9

STICK .
Standard, 251b boxes....................
Twist, 
....................
Cut Loaf 
M IXED
Royal, 25 ft  pails..........................
Royal, 200 ft bbls...........
Extra, 25 ft  pails..........................
Extra. 200 ft bbls.......................... ...........  
@ 1 0
........   @9
French Cream, 25 ft palls.....................   @11%
I Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases...............................  @10
Broken, 25  1b  p a i l s ............................................. 
@ 10
Broken. 2001b  bbls................................. 
@ 9
Lemon  Drojis.
@12
Sour Drops.
@13
Peppermint  Drops__
@ 1314
Chocolate Drops..........
H M Chocolate  Drops.
18
Gum  Drops  ...............\
10tm
Licorice Drops.............
A B   Licorice  Drops..
12
Lozenges, plain............
14
Lozenges,  printed.......
15
Im perials.....................
14
M ottoes........................
15 
Cream  Bar....................
12 
Molasses Bar................
12  
18 
Caramels.......................
Hand Made Creams__
18
Plain  Creams...............
16 
Decorated  Creams.......
20
13 22
String Rock..................
Burnt Almonds...........
Wintergreen  Berries..
14
Lozenges, plain in  pails.......................  @11%
Lozenges, plain in  bbls................ . 
@10%
Lozenges, printed in pails....................  @12%
Lozenges, printed in  bbls....................  @11%
Chocolate Drops, in pails.....................   @12%
Gum  Drops  In pails..............................  @6%
I Gum Drops, in bbls...............................   @ 5%
Moss Drops, in pails............................. 9  @10
Moss Drops, in bbls  ..............................  @9
Sour Drops, in  palls.............................   @12
Imperials, in  pails.................................  @12%
Imperials  iu bbls................................. 
@11%
Bananas  Aspinwall.............................. 2 00@3 60
Oranges, California, fancy................... 4 00@4 25
Oranges, California,  choice................. 3 75@4 OO
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls.........................
Oranges, Florida....................................
Oranges, Valencia, cases.....................
Oranges, Messina................................... 4 00@4 26
...  @
Oranges, OO.............................
.. * 4 25@4 50 
Oranges, Im perials.................
...3 75@4 00 
Lemons, choice........................
@4  OO
Lemons, fanev........................
Lemons, California................
..10 @15 @ 8 
Figs, layers, new,  $  ft...........
Figs,  Hags, 50 ft.......................
@ 5% 
Dates, frails d o .....................
@ 6%
Dates, % do  d o .....................
Dates, skin...............................
Dates, %  skin..........................
9%@10
Dates, Fard 101b box $   ft....
Dates, Fard »  ft box $  ft.....................   @ 8
Dates. Persian 50 ft box $  ft...............  7  @7%
Pine Apples, $  doz.............................   2 00@3  OO
Almonds,  Tarragona............................17%@18
Ivaca....................................   @17
California...........................  @17
Brazils.................................................... 9  @10
Chest nuts, per bu ..................................
@11 
Filberts, Sicily....................................... 10
@ 9 
Barcelona...............................
@17 
Walnuts,  Grenoble...............................15
15 
Sicily.......................................
French....................................
11
California..............................
@14 
Pecans, Texas, H. P .............................10
Missouri................................8  _
@  9
Cocoanuts, $  100................................... 5 50@6 00
PEANUTS.
Prime  Red,  raw  $   ft............................  ®  4
Choice 
d o ............................  @ 4%
Fancy H.P. do 
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Choice White, V a.d o ............................  @5%
Fancy H P ,.V a   do  ............................  @ 0
H. P .V a.....................................................5%@  6

FRUITS.

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FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 
prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides...................................5%@  7%
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters..................   7%@ 9
Dressed Hogs.........................................   @ 7
M utton........................................................8 @ 9
L a m b ......................................................   8 © 8
Veal.............................................................7 @ 7%
Pork Sausage.........................................   @ 8
Bologna...................................................   @ 8
Fowls......................................................... 13 @13
Ducks  .....................................................  @
Turkeys  ..................................................13  @13
Lard,  kettle-rendered..........................   @  8>

200.

Pop Corn—2%c $  ft.
Pieplant—2c $  ft.
Parsnips—50c $  bu.
Plants—Cabbage or Tomato, $1.25 per box of

Rutabagas—$1 ¥  bbl.
Radishes—30-35c $  doz.
Spinach—75c$ bu.
Strawberries—$3.75@$4  per  24  qt  case  for 

good to choice.

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

String Beans—$1.75 $  box.
Tomatoes—$1.50 $  box.
Vegetable Oysters—26c $  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 lbts.
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.

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

OLD  BARRELS

’Setting about a  store  are  unsightly,  besides  th e  pro­
jecting nails on them  are dangerous  to  clothing.  The 
enterprising g rocer realises th e value of handsome and 
convenient  fixtures,  and  to  m eet  this  dem and  the 
Woolson  Spice  Co.,  of  Toledo,  Ohio,  have  designed 
th e ir
L i o n   C o f f e e   C a b i n e t ,
Of which  th e  accom panying  cut  gives  b u t  a  p artial 
idea.  In this cabinet is packed 120 one-pound packages 
of Lion Coffee, and we  offer  th e  goods  a t  a   price 
enabling the grocer to  secure  these  cabinets  w ithout 
cost tojiim scif.  They are m ade air-tight, tongued and 
grooved, beautifully grained  and  varnished,  and  are 
put together in  th e  best  possible  m anner.  Complete 
set of casters, w ith screws,  inside  this  cabinet.  Their 
use in every grocery, a fter the coffee is sold out,  is  ap­
parent;  ju s t the thing from   which  to  retail  oatm eal, 
rice, prunes, hom iny, dried  fruits,  bread,  and  a  hun­
dred other  articles.  F urther,  they  take  up  no  more 
floor  room  th an   a   barrel,  and  do  aw ay  w ith  these 
unsightly  things  in  a   store.  For  price-list  of Lion 
Coffee  in these cabinets, see price-current in  this p a­
per.  Read  below  w hat  we  say  as  to  th e  quality  of 
Lion  Coffee.

. CV.UN.P Ev?  O I L  GRANT!' RAPIDS, M

Full Line of

We make a specialty of

B T J R 2 K A   O I L ,

Which  for  Farm  Machinery  and  general 
purposes is the Best  Brand on the  market.

GRAND  RAPIDS  OFFICE,

X o .   X  C a n a l   S t .«

Telephone No. 228-2.

J.  G.  ALEXANDER,  Agent.

GIVE  US  A  TR IA L  ORDER.

%

We  Guarantee  Satisfaction.

This Coffee Cabinet Given  Away.

A  GOOD  BREAKFAST

trade  can 

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

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

For sale  by  all  Wholesale  Grocers  every­

where, and by the

Woolson Spice Co.

92 to 108 Oak S t, Toledo, Ohio.

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ODE  OF  WELCOME. 

The  Michigan

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

Advanced—Bloodroot,  oil  pennyroyal, gum 
Declined—Cubeb beans,  buchu  leaves, can­

opium.
tharides, oil sassafras.

Florida sheens’ wool, carriage......3 25  @2 50
2 00
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Nassau 
Velvet Ext  do
1  10
85
Extra Ve  *  do
66
Grass 
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Í Hard 1 
! Yellow Reef. 
1  40

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• D r u g s  &  f l f t e b i c i n e s

State  Board of Pharmacy. 

One Y ear—Jacob Jenson, Muskegon.
Two Y ears—Jam es  Vernor, Detroit.
Three Years—O ttm ar Eberbaeh, Ann  A rbor. 
F our Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
F ire  Years—Stanley E. Parkell, Owosso. 
President—O ttm ar  Eberbaeh.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
T reasurer—Jas. Vernor.
Next Meeting—At D etroit, July 5 and 6.

Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Ass’n. 

P resident—F rank J. W urzburg, G rand Rapids.
F irst Vice-President—Mrs. C. W. Taylor, Loomis. 
Second Vice-President—H enry Harwood, Ishpem tng. 
Third Vice-President—F rank IngliB, D etroit. 
S ecretary—S. E. P arklll, Owosso.
T reasurer—Wm. Dupont, D etroit. 
Executive Committed—Geo. W. C router, J. G. Johnson, 
L ocal Secretary—Guy M. Harwood, Petoskey.
Next Place of Meeting—At  Petoskey, July It, IS and 14.
Grand  Rapids  Pharmaceutical Society. 

.
F rank W ells, Geo. G undrum and Jacob Jesson.

OKOASIZED  OCTOBER  9, 1884.

President—Geo. G. Stekettee.
Vice-President—H.  E. Loeher.
Secretary—F rank H. Escott.
B oartU^ I^ ? so r^ P io S d e n t,^ V ic e-P re sid en t  and  Sec-
B oard'of Trustees—The President,  John B. Peck,  M.  B. 
Kimm.W m. H. VanLeeuwen and O. H. Richmond, 
wen, Isaac W atts. Wm. E. W hite and Wm.  L.  W hite. 
Com m ittee on Trade Matter»-—John E. Peck, H. B. F air
Com m ittee ’on^Legislation—R.  A.  McWilliams,  Theo.
O om m ltte^on P h a r m ^ y - W . L. W hite, A. C. B auer and
RegiSar'Meetings—F irst  Thursday  evening  in   each
A nnual M eeting-F irst  Thursday evening in November 
a t  The
N ext  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  June  2, 

Tradesman office.

Detroit Pharmaceutical  Society. 

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER, 1888.

President—A. F.  Parker.
F irst Vice-President—Frank  Inglls.
Second Vice-President—J. C. Mueller.
Secretary and Treasurer—A. W. Allen.
A ssistant Secretary a-iAdTrea^urcr—H- McRae. 
Annual Meeting—F irst Wednesday in June.
R egular Meetings—F irst W ednesday in each  m onth.
Central  Michigan  Druggists’  Association. 
President, J. W. Dunlop;  Secretary’. R.  M. Mussell.
Berrien  County  Pharmaceutical  Society. 
President, H. M. Dean;  Secretary, H enry K ephart.

Clinton County  Druggists’  Association. 

President, A. 0 . H unt;  Secretary, A. 8.  W allace.

Jackson County  Pharmaceutical  Ass’n. 

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

Mason County  Pharmaceutical Society. 

President, F. N. Latim er;  Secretary, Wm. Hey sett.
Mecosta  County . Pharmaceutical  Society. 
President, C. H. W agener;  Secretary, A. H. W ebber.

Monroe  County  Pharmaceutical Society. 

President, S. M. Sackett;  Secretary , Julius Weiss.
Muskegon  County  Druggists’  Association, 
President, W. B. W ilson;  Secretory’, Geo. W heeler.

Muskegon  Drug Clerks'  Association. 

President, E. C.  Bond;  Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre.
Newaygo  County  Pharmaceutical  Society. 
President, J. F. A. R aider; Secretary, N. N. Miller.

Oceana County Pharmaceutical Society. 

President, F. W. Fincher;  Secretary, Frank Cady.
Saginaw  County  Pharmaceutical  Society. 
P resident, Jay   Sm ith;  Secretary,  D. E. Prall.
Shiawassee County Pharmaceutical Society
Tuscola County Pharmaceutical Society. 

P resident, E. A. Bullard;  Secretary, C. E. Stoddard.

Minor  Drug  Notes.

The Austrian Pharmacopoeia  is  being re 

Turkey  red  is  now  manufactured  from

vised.

castor beans.

The proposed pharmacy law in California 

failed to pass the Legislature.

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a  Winnipeg  druggist  is  a  member  of  a 

party in search of the North pole.

The  Pennsylvania  State  Pharmaceutical 
Association meets at Philadelphia, June 14
It has been announced  that  the  Chicago 
Drug  Clerks'  Journal  will  materialize  in 
in June.

The Philadelphia boy who stole a  vial  of 
strychnine pills and ate them will never  re­
peat the operation.

It is said that liquid vaselin is being used 
^  to adulterate codliver  oil,  and  that  it  may 

lie discovered by not being saponifiable.

Frank Iliggins,  a  Des  Moines  druggist 
has been fined $100  and  costs for  conduct 
ing a drug  store,  without  being  a register 
ed  pharmacist.

The monopoly in the sale  of  drugs  is  to 
be abolished in the  large  towns  of  Russia 
A  It  is  only  temporarily  maintained  in  the 
^  small towns and districts.

The Illinois State Pharmaceutical Associ 
ation meets at Chicago on  June  14.  Deca 
tur was first selected, but  the  druggists  of 
that place respectfully declined.

Sweet potato alcohol is an  article  of  ex 
port  from  the  Azores.  The  sweet  potato 
yields more alcohol  at  less  cost  than  any 

•toother tuber or any of the cereals.
^   On  an  average,  1,000  pounds  of  wood 
will produce about 30  pounds of  crude ina 
•terial,  which will make 18 pounds  of  cam 
phor and 12 pounds of camphor oil.

The  May  meeting  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
Pharmaceutical Society  was  omitted,  as  a 
half dozen of the leading members  were  at 
^   Lansing, fighting the proposed liquor law. 
Fluid extracts are to be introduced in  the 
W  
new edition of the  Russian  Pharmacopoeia, 
now in the hands of a committee assembled 
At St.  Petersburg for the revision of the  old 
one.

The  Iowa  druggists  meet  at  Waterloo 
May 11,  12 and 13,  and the Nebraska  drug­
gists meet  at  Omaha  May  10,  11  and  12.

f ’he Missouri pharmacists hold their annual 

onvention at Sweet Springs on June 21,  22 
and 23.

Ergot was first described in medical works 
of the  sixteenth  century,  but was  probably 
long  before  known. 
Its  specific  physiol­
ogical  properties,  however,  were  first fully 
understood  and  appreciated 
in  modem 
¿lines.

The  Detroit  delegates  to  the  Petoskey 
«Convention of the Michigan  State  Pharma­
ceutical Association will  go  and  return  by 
boat  Secretary Parkill has  the  programme 
for  the  convention  nearly  completed,  and 
expects to issue the same before June 1.

Scene at a hotel  table—Traveling  man to 
a railroad official:  “Will  you  kindly  pass 
the butter?”  It.  O.  “I should be very glad 
.to,  my dear sir,  but  under  the provisions of 
Vfte  inter-state  commerce  law,  we  are  not 
Allowed to pass anything.”  T.  M.:  “Theni 
why do  you  allow  our  legislators  to  ride | 
free?” 
It.  O.:  “ We  are expressly permit- 
.ted to pass our employees.”

Thrice  welcome, brother travelers, to our city 

BY L. M. MILLS.

With outstretched hands  we  greet you, and if 

To express the kindly feeling  we  all  do  bear 

We tru st th at by our actions, you’ll know  our 

in the vale:

in words we fail

to you,

hearts are true.

round our board

and by word.

And ye, far-famed, honored guests who gather 

And kindly give  encouragement, by  presence 

This thought bear with you, as from  here you 

hasten home again.

On memory’s* golden tablet your  counsels e’re 

The constant turning  wheel  of  time  another 

Upon the dial  of  our life, and now, methinks,

To pause upon  the  threshold of  this, another 

remain.

year doth tell

’tia well

year.

And  pluck  from  memory’s  gleanings  some 

thoughts our way to cheer.

The drummer’s  life is  a  weary one, with little 

And  social  joys  and  pleasures  our  calling 

For  duty rules  our  brotherhood  with strong, 

comfort fraught,

yieldeth not;

relentless sway.

dates call away.

And far from home  and  loved ones her  man­

And Competition ever, by her imperious reign.
Demands  a constant warfare our standing to 

From earliest light of morning  till latest hour 

We’re bearing forth the banners of commerce 

m aintain;

of night

in our might.

ises so bright

And now the Inter  Commerce act, with prom­

To overcome injustice and monopoly  to right,
Has turned prosperity’s  golden  day  into  the 

And  industry and  commerce  note  their  fast 

deepest gloom,

approaching doom.

This, too, our traveling brotherhoodi with iron 

bands enchains,

For when  the  welcome  day  draws near, that 

brings us home again,

Our week-end tickets  it forbids  by this decree 

And Sabbath  finds us  wandering far from the 

so  wise (?)

homes we prize.

early  morn,

Our cherished wives  and  babies on  Monday’s 

We bid good-bye and  from  them  by  the  first 

train we are borne;

And through  the  long  and  weary  week  this 

thought our hearts doth cheer 

That Saturday night will bring us to home and 

friends so dear

Oh, ye, who frame our country’s laws, and for 

Strive ever to restrain the wrong, and mercy’s 

Hear now the drummer’s  earnest prayer—and 

our country’s weal

influence feel,

may we ask aright—

run Saturday night.

Give us, we  pray, this trifling  boon—a  home- 

We  are  guarded  by  God’s  mercy  and  care 

along our way,

For accident and danger attend us all the day 
And  safely  here  we’ve  all  been brought  on 

this, our festal eve,

The pleasures  of  our brotherhood to give and 

to receive.

come hands

Did I say all? Alas not all, for some whose wel 

With  joy were  clasped  in days  gone  by, and 

bound with friendship’s bands,

Whose  hearts  and  voices  ever  were  on  the 

Who strove to lead the erring ones from dark­

side of right,

ness into light,

toilsome way,

hath made a stay;

Have sunk  beneath  their  burden  along  life's 

And sorrow,  dark, unbidden  guest, with some 

And  out  from  homes  and  loved  ones  our 

brothers have been  borne,

On  that  last  earthly  journey,  whence  none 

e’er return.

emulate,

Their memories  let  us  cherish,  their  virtues 

Their cheering faces  ne’er forget;  their  way 

was ever straight

By duty’s line unwavering, their purpose ever 

true—

They  were  ever  prompt  and  willing  sweet 

charity’s work to do.

Thislesso'i  death doth teach  us, of  life’s  un­
That ever ready should we be. both to our God 

certain span,

When comes the order from above the journey 
’
We go  prepared, unfalteringly, our  final  trip 

long to take, 

and man;

to make.

to state,

up to date.

tion meet

retreat.

And when  the  Master bids us  our  last  report 

And closed is life’s  great  ledger and  balanced 

Oh, may our earthly  stewardship his approba­

And give us  joyful entrance to heaven’s blest 

The  Drug  Market.

Trade in this line is reported very  active, 
with  prices  well  maintained.  Citric  and 
carbolic acids are again hardening  in  price. 
The  latter  has  been  advanced 
in  price 
abroad and will be higher.  Balsam copaiba 
is  a  trifle  lower.  Cantharides  has  de­
clined.  Cubebs are still tending downward 
and  will  be  lower.  Buchu  leaves  have 
about reached old prices and are  very  dull. 
Cuttle  bone  is  weak  and  tending  lower. 
Senna  leaves  are  firm.  We  caution  the 
trade  against  gum  arabic  offered  at  low 
price, as it is adulterated with gum Senegal. 
Oil anise and  cassia  are  very  firm  at  the 
advance  reported  last  week  and  will  be 
higher.  Oil pennyroyal has advanced.  Oil 
peppermint  is  declining.  Oil  sassafras  is 
lower.  Opium is again tending upward,  it 
is advancing in Europe,  owing to  rumored 
damage  to  crop  by  drouth.  Morphia  is 
very  firm.  Qninine,  although  firm, 
is 
steady  in  price. 
Iodide  potash  is  scarce 
and  higher  prices  are  probable.  Cloves 
have again advanced.  Balsam tulu is tend 
ing upward.  Blood root  is very scarce and 
high; extreme prices are  looked  for.  Tur­
pentine is lower.

The Kentucky State  Pharmaceutical  As 
sociation will  meet  at  Louisville,  May  18 
and 19.

Business  Men’s  Associa­

tion.* 

.ri

A few days ago  a  message  came  to  me 
from your worthy President,  inviting me  to 
be present with  you  this  evening  and  re­
spond to the toast,  the  Michigan  Business 
Men’s Association.
Next  to my home no earthly tie do I love 
more than this Association.  Not  because I 
can look into the  faces  of  the  children  of 
this body  and  recognize  the  parent—one 
can’t always do that, you know—but because 
I claim a one-third interest in it,  and to  my 
good Brother Stowe here I award the  other 
two-thirds,  and all the grand children.
Humanly speaking, we place a value upon 
people and things for  what  they have done 
and can do  for  us.  What this Association 
has done for the business men of  Michigan 
in less than  twelve  short  months  has  en­
deared it to the hearts of over two thousand 
intelligent and as fair-minded men as  exist 
It has,  we  believe,  won  the 
in our State. 
respect  of  all  square-dealing,  progressive 
men. 
I ask you, gentlemen of  the  Travel­
ers’  Protective  Association,  could  you, 
fifteen  months  ago,  with  here  and  there 
an exception,  point  to  a  local  body  any­
where  in  the  State  organized  under  our 
banner? while to-day  I can assure you  that 
our Secretary lias  enrolled  seventy-five  or­
ganizations.
We point with pride to this rapid growth, 
but this is not the measure of  our work nor 
the  hidden  leaven.  Show  me  the  place, 
gentlemen, where you delight to  show your 
wares and I will point you to  an  organiza­
tion there,  whose members you are learning 
to regard as safe men to do  business  with. 
Show me the place where you  cannot  urge 
your goods upon a man beyond a safe  limit 
for  yourself  and  your  house,  and  I  will 
point you to a man who is imbued with As­
sociation principles, and  if  not  a  member 
of such a body for the reason that no organ­
ization exists,  he will be the first to embrace 
such an opportunity  for  the  promotion  of 
his and his  neighbors’  interests.  Show me 
the place where an organization  exists  and 
I will show  you  the  place  your  members 
will find less controversy and more sociality 
among  the  trade.  Ruskin  says  that  “a 
community imbued with a  certain  spirit  is 
sure to  find  the  architecture  in  which  to 
best express itself.”  Builders are we  upon 
the  spirit  of  protection,  social  and  trade 
elevation, which  spirit  has  not  been  dor­
mant  for years,  but  not  until  now  “fitly 
framed together.”
Permit me to say in behalf  of  the Michi­
gan  Business  Men’s  Association  that  we 
recognize  your  position  in  the  work  to 
which we are committed as being  equal,  if 
not more responsible,  than ours—a  respon­
sibility which this vast army of retailers are 
asking you to  assume.  You  represent  to 
the retailer daily,  hourly even,  millions  in 
trade where we represent thousands  to  our 
consumers.  You  represent  not  only  su­
perior capital but a  broader  spirit  of  mer­
cantilism.  You represent the tone and the 
standing of  your respective  houses,  whose 
doors the retailer may have  never  entered 
You carry,  if you will,  the  retailers’  trade 
aud confidence from house to house  as  you 
enter  other  houses—confidence  that  will, 
sooner or  later,  if  coupled  with  integrity 
and zeal, build for you a broader reputation 
and  a  fortune  which  the  retailer  hardly 
dares  hope for.
Our  Association  recognizes  with  deep 
gratitude the helping hands extended in  or­
ganization.  Many kind  words  of  encour­
agement  to  the  retailer  in  unorganized 
towns to “start an  association”  have  come 
from  you  all  with  heart  and  soul.  We 
offer you  a  helping  hand  in  your  work, 
which  to  you  means  protection,  progress 
and principle, as  does  ours;  and  may  we 
work onward and upward,  stimulated  by  a 
noble endeavor to  build  the  walls  around 
us and not between us.  ‘
Allow me to offer  a  few  kindly  sugges­
tions,  asking  in  return  the  same  kindly 
office when such an  opportunity  is  offered 
you as I have had  given  me  this  evening: 
Educate your trade to buy the best goods. 
Educate  your  trade  to  discountenance 
gifts and schemes,  as  they  are  a  travesty 
upon a man’s honesty.

The Artificial Quinine  Humbug.

The British and  Colonial  Druggist  has 
investigated Dr.  Hewett’s  claims as an arti­
ficial quinine  manufacturer,  and arrives at 
the following conclusion:

The net outcome of all the inquiries made 
is wliat  seems to  be  conclusive  evidence 
that Hewett is not making artificial  quinine 
here or elsewhere;  that he  has never  made 
any;  and that he has  received  considerable 
sums of money  for the right to  participate 
in the profits of a business with which, hav­
ing pocketed  the cash,  he  refuses to  pro­
ceed.  This supplies the  motive,  the appar­
ent absence of  which  prevented  denuncia­
tion of Hewett in the  earlier  stages of  his 
career as a  “discoverer.”

A Dorr correspondent writes to a local pa­
per:  “Farmers should beware and not  buy 
their groceries from the Detroit peddlers, as 
they are regular frauds  when you  come to 
pay for the goods.  They are working some 
of their sharp tricks in Byron  and Dorr.”

NOTICE.

The  copartnership  heretofore  existing  be­
tween the undersigned and carried  on  under 
the name of Emery &  Co., has  this  day  been 
dissolved by m utual  consent.  It will  be  con­
tinued  under  the  same  name  by  A.  M.  A. 
Emery. 
9 

Grand Rapids, May 7,1887. 
APPROVED by PHYSICIANS. 

J* A. HENRY".
A. M. A. EMERY.
192

O usH m an’s

MENTHOL  INHALER

In  the  treatment  of  Catarrh,  Headache, 

Neuralgia,  Hay Fever,  Asthma, Bron­

chitis,  Sore  Throat  and  Severe 

Colds, stands without an equal.

Air Menthollzed by passing through the Inhaler- 
tube, In w hich th e Pure Crystals of Menthol are 
held' thoroughly applies this  valuable  rem edy  In  the 
m ost  efficient  w ay,  to   th e  parts  affected.  I t  sells 
readily.  Always keep a n open Inhaler in your store, 
and le t your custom ers try  it.  A  few  inhalations  will 
not h u rt th e Inhaler, and will do m ore  to dem onstrate 
its efficiency th a n  a h alf hour’s talk.  Retail price 
50 cents.  F er Circulars and Testimonials address 

H. D. Cushman, Three Rivers, Mich 

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., G’d Rapids, 
And W holesale D ruggists of D etroit and Chicago.

Trade supplied by 

„

V iciip   Drug  M ango.
375 South Union St.,  Grand Rapids.
Standard  Petit Ledger.
sistants who are sober, industrious  and 

AKTED^Hegistêrêd^hafmac^ 

AGENTS  FO R   TH E

willing to work. 

____  ________

e ‘

i ;  ,

town.

state. 

state.  Liberal discount.

Will exchange for good farm. 

inhabitants  in  western  part  of  state 

5,000 inhabitants.  No other drug store in

of  800  Inhabitants,-  ih  centrar  part  of 

of  1,000  inhabitants  in  eastern  part  of 

F OR  SALE—Stock  of about  $5C0 in town of 
F OR  LALE—Stook  of  about ^jJ^OOUlh^own 
F OR  SALE—StocK  of  $2,500, in 'town  of 800 
F OR SALE—Stock  of  about  $1,800,  in  town 
IHOR  SALE— Stock  of  $4,000,.  in  tow n  of 
F OR  SALE—8to6k  of  $6,000.  well located in 
F Olt  SALE—Stock of  $3,000; in  town of  1.000 
ALSO—Many  other  stocks,  the  particulars 

Grand Rapids.  W ill sell whole stosk, but 
would  prefer  to  sell  half  interest  to  party 
capable of  taking charge of  entire business

about  4.000  inhabitants.  Will  sell  either 

inhabitants in western part of state.  Av 

by estim ate or inventory.

! 

- 

Grand Rapids

TIGER  OIL.

357 South Union St., 

erage daily sales about $25.

Michigan Drug Exchange,

What J.  A.  Crookston Has to Say While in 

H. Vail & Co.’8 medical publications and 
can  furnish  any  medical  or  pharmaceutical 
work at publishers’ rates

of which we will  furnish  on  application
m o   DRUGGISTS—Wishing to secure clerks 
JL  we will furnish the  address  and full  par 
ticulars of those on our list  free.
W E  HAVE also secured  the  agency  for J 

Educate  your trade to not over-buy.
Educate your  trade  to  do  a  closer  cash 
business.
Educate your trade to demand full  count, 
weight aud  measure,  and  you  have  done 
more to avert the evil which brings  the  re­
tailer to sorrow than all others  combined.
I should be  ungallant  if  I  did  not  pay 
tribute to you,  gentlemen,  for  the  kindly 
courtesy you  have  shown  your  wives  and 
sweethearts  in  bringing  them  here  this 
evening.  In this respect you are in advance 
of  our associations,  which  have  for  some 
reason debarred the ladies from  the  enjoy­
ments of such an hour.  We are  not,  how­
ever,  so unmindful of their daily  protection 
as  you. 
In  our  associations  we  embrace 
them—as members—and because we assume 
to offer the lady in business  the  same  pro­
tection as we enjoy, because we  would  not 
shut our doors to  a  woman  in  trade  who 
had been beaten out of  an honest dollar  by 
a  miserable sneak and who  appealed to the 
organization for help to collect  that  dollar, 
some one has branded  us  an  “Association 
Well,  Doctor,  I am  around again,  but my 
of Milliners.”  1 would  give more for what 
wife had to use a lot of Tiger Oil. 
It is the 
is upon the  head  of  any  lady  here  than 
most wonderful medicine  I  ever knew, 
It 
what is within the  head  of  the  man  who 
surpasses everything  else.  During  my se­
would  refuse  a  woman  trade  protection. 
vere sickness of pleuro-pneumonia, when my 
Shame on the man who uttered such a slur! 
pulse ran up to 130 and  my  temperature to 
Shame  on  the  association  which  upholds 
104° the pain was so excruciating that noth­
a  man  who  refuses  protection 
to  the 
ing would relieve except  Tiger  Oil,  which 
woman  where  the  law  will  not  protect! 
never failed.  The physician  gave but little 
Shall we draw the  line at sex or color?  So 
hope of my recovery, but through his atten­
long as a  business woman  seeks  protection 
tion and the constant  application of  Tiger 
against  the  confirmed,  deliberate  and dis­
Oil  I  pulled  through,  and  am  gaining 
honest  debtor;  so  long  as  the  woman  in
strength by using  Tiger  Oil, which I know 
more cases than she has credit for stands at j is doing  me  good,  and  will do  good  to all
the helm,  the more skillful pilot of the two, 
who use it properly; for of all medicines that 
and  directs  the  man’s business through the 
I have ever known in over  forty  years’ ex­
shoals of  mercantile  traffic;  so  long as she 
perience as a  retail and  wholesale druggist, 
is liable to  be  the sole one responsible with 
I have never known of a single  one to be in 
many dependent upon her,  so long shall the 
any way as good as Tiger Oil for the cure of 
protecting  hand  of  the  Michigan Business 
so many different kinds of diseases.  There 
Men’s Association be extended to her in the 
seems no limit to  its  power  over  disease. 
same spirit of cordiality with which the fra­
Therefore, knowing as 1 know of Tiger Oil, 
ternal hand  is  extended  to  the  Traveler’s 
I do but my duty in  recommending it to all 
Protective Association of  Michigan;
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 beasj.  < 
J. A.  Crookston, ’ 
Of the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co., 

the Tiger Den
Ca d il l a c, Jan.  24,1887. 

♦Response by Frank  Hamilton at banquet of 

Travelers’ Protective Association.

Muskegon Drug Clerk’s Association.
Mu skegon,  May 13,  1887.

Grand  Rapids.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
D e a r  Sir—The  Muskegon  Drug Clerk’s 
Association held its regular meeting on May 
10 and elected the following  officers  for the 
third term:

President—E.  C.  Bond.
Vice-President—L.  B.  Glover.
Secretary  and  Treasurer—Geo.  L.  Le­

Fevre.
All papers  were laid on  the table until  the 
next meeting,  which  will  be  held  on Mon­
day. 

Geo.  L. L e F e v r e,  Sec’y.

The Stanton  creamery,  at Stanton,  begun; 
operations  April 25.  The  plant  belongs to 
a  gentleman  named  Evans,  who  lives  in 
Western New York.

T ANSY  CAPSULEv

Send  4 cents  for Sealed  Circular.

I   THE  LATEST  DISCOVERY,  w
Or.  Laparle'a  Celebrated  Preparation, Safe  and 
Always  Reliable. 
Indispensable  to  L A D IE S. 
CALUMET CHEMICAL CD.. CMciga.'gS.
GX2TS2C2TG HOOT.
We pay the highest price for It.  Address
Peck Bros., Druggists, Grand Rapids, Hick.

ACIDUM.

A ccticum ....................................
Carbolicum .
C itricum __
Hydrochlor . 
Nitrocum 
, 
Oxahcum  ... 
Salicylicum. 
Tannicum... 
Tartaricum
Aqua, 16 deg... 
18  deg...
Carbonas..........
Chloridum.......
Cubebae (po.  1
Juniperus  .__
Xanthoxylum  .

AMMONIA.

*• 

8® 10
.  80@1 00 i
.  45@ 50!
.  60® 65  i
3® 5
.  10® 12 i
.  11@ 13 i
.1  85@2  10
. 1  40@1 60
.  50® 53
3® 5
. 
4® 6
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.  11@ 13
.  12® 14
..1  20® 1 25
6® 7
..  25® 30
60
@1 50
..  50® 55
..  40® 45

CO R TE X .

BALSAMCM.
P eru..............................................
Terabin,  Canada.........................
a ta n ........................................
Abies,  Canadian.........................
Cassiae  .......................................
Cinchona Flava..........................
Eaonymus  atropurp.......  .....
Myrica  Cerifera, po..................
Prunus Virgin!....................—
Quillaia,  grd...............................
Sassfras  .....................................
Ulmus...........................................
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)...............
E X TR A C TO R .
Glycyrrhiza Glabra...................
p o ............................
8®  9
Haematox, 15 lb boxes..............................  
Is..............................................  @ 12
........................................   ® 13
54s 
548 
................................. 

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83®

 

FER R U M .

Carbonate Precip..................................   @  15
Citrate and Quinia.................................  ®3  50
Citrate Soluble...............   .....................  ®  80
Ferrocyaniduin Sol...............................   ©  50
Solut  Chloride........................................  ®  15
Sulphate, com’l,  (bbl. 75).....................   154®  .  2
pure.......................................  @  7

“ 

F O LIA .

* 

B arosm a.................................................   1>@
Cassia Acutifol, Tinnivelly..................  20®  25
A lx..............................  35®  50
Salvia officinalis, 54s and  54s...............  10®  12
Ura  Ursi.................................................  
8®  10
*

GUM M I. 

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Acacia,  1st  picked.................................  @1 00
2nd 
“ 
3rd 
 
“ 
Sifted  sorts.................................  ® 65
“ 
“  
p o ................................................  75@l 00
Aloe, Barb,  (po. 60)...............................   50®  60
“  Cape, (po. 20)....................................   @ 12
“  Socotrine,  (po. 60)..........................   @ 50
Ammoniac  ............................................   25@  30
Assafoetida,  (po. 30)...............•..............  @  15
Benzoinum ..............................................  50® 55
Cam phorae..............................................   25® 28
Catechu,Is,  (54s,  14; 54s, 16)...........  
  @  13
Euphorbium, po......................................  35®  40
Galbanuin...............................................   @  80
Gamboge, po............................................   75® 80
Guaiacum, (po. 45).................................  @  35
Kino,  (po. 25)............................................  @  20
Mastic......................................................  @1 25
Myrrh, (po. 45).........................................  @  40
Opii, ipo. 5  40;........................................ 4  10@4 20
Shellac......................................................   18® 25
bleached......................................  25® 30
T ragacanth..............................................   30® 75
herba—In ounce packages.
Absinthium  ........................................... 
25
20
E upatorium ........................................... 
25
Lobelia  ................................................... 
Majorum  ...............................................  
28
Mentha Piperita....................................  
23
25
“  V ir............................................  
30
R u e .........................................................  
Tanacetum,  V .......................................  
22
Thymus. V ..............................................  
25

“ 

M AGNESIA.

Calcined,  P a t.....................'................  55®  60
Carbonate,  P a t.......................................   20® 22
Carbonate,  K. & M.................................  20® 25
Carbonate,  Jennings..............................  35® 36

OLEUM .

  @ 15

15  Grana  Paradisi.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

® 90
® 80

Hydrarg Chlor. M ite __
Hydrarg Chlor.  Cor.......
Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum .
Hydrarg  Ammoniati__
Hydrarg U nguentum __
H ydrargyrum .................

G alla...........................................
G am bler....................................
Gelatin, Coopor.........................
Gelatin, French.........................
Glassware flint, 70&10 by box. 
Glue,  Brown.............................

Cinchonidine,  German.....................
Corks, see list, discount,  per cent..
Creasotum ..........................................
Creta, (bbl. 75).....................................
Creta  prep..........................................
Creta, precip.......................................
Creta Rubra.........................................
C rocus.......................................
Cudbear.........................t.....................
Cupri Sulph.........................................
D extrine............................................
Ether Suiph........................................
Emery, all  num bers.........................
Emery, po............................................

Æther, Spts Nitros, 3 F ........................   20®  28
Æ ther, Spts. Nitros, I F .......................  30@  32
A lum en...................................................  254® 354
Alumen,  ground, (po. 7).......................
3® 4
Annatto  .................................................
55® 60
4® 5
Antimoni,  po.........................................
55® 60
Antimoni et Potass  T art.....................
® 68
Argenti  Nltras,  5..................................
5® 7
Arsenicum..............................................
Balm Gilead  Bud..................................
38® 40
2  15®2 20
Bismuth  8.  N .........................................
Calcium  Chlor,  Is, ()4s, 11;  5^8,12)__
@ 9
@2 no!
Cantharides  Russian, po.....................
Capsici  Fructus, a f...............................
@ 15
@ 16
Causici Fructus, po...............................
@ 14
i Capsici Fructus, B, po..........................
30® 33
Caryopbyllus,  (po.  35)........... ?.............
@3 75
Carmine. No. 40......................................
60® 55
Cera Alba, S. &  F ..................................
28® 30
Cera Flava..............................................
@ 40
Coccus  ....................................................
Cassia Fructus.......................................
® 15
@ 10
! C entrarla...............................................
@ 50
I Cetaceum ...............................................
38® 40
I Chloroform............................................
@1 00
Chloroform,  Squibbs............................
1  60@1 75
10® 12
15® 20
9® 15
40
@ 50
@ 2
5® 6
8® 10
@ 8
25® 30
@ 24
6® 7
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.  55® 60
.  60® 65
. 
2® 3
90@1  00
Morphia,  S, P. & W............................
.3 15@3 35
Moschus Canton.................................
.  @ 40
Myristica, No. 1...................................
.  @ 65
Nux  Vomica,  (po. 20).........................
.  @ 10
Os.  Sepia..............................................
.  15® 18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Co..............
@2 00
Picis Liq,  N. C.. 54  galls, doz...........
@2 70
Picis Liq.,  quarts...............................
@1  40
Picis Liq., pints..................................
.  @ 85
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..........................
.  @ 50
Piper Nigra,  (po.22)..........................
.  © 18
Piper  Alba, (po. 35)............................
.  @ 35
Pix  Burgun.........................................
.  © 7
Plumbi  A cet.......................................
.  14® 15
Potassa, Bitart, pure........................
■  @ 40
Potassa,  Bitart, com........................
.  @ 15
Potass  Nitras, opt.............................
. 
8® 10
Potass  N itras.....................................
7® »
. 
..1  10@1  20
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Pyrethrum, boxes, H. & P. D. Co., doz. 
)z.  @1  00
Pyrethrum .pv.......................................   48®
..  48® 53
Quassiae.................................................   8®
8® 10
.. 
Quinia, S, P. &  W.....................
..  58® 63
Quinia. S, Germán.................................  48®
..  48® 60
Rubia Tinctorum..................................  
í&í
..  12® 13
Saccharum  Lactis, pv.............
..  @ 35
Salaci»...................................
..  @4 50
Sanguis Draconis.....................
..  40® 50
Santonine..................................
Sapo,  W...................................................  12®
..  12® 14
.  __  
Sapo,  M...................................... 
_
8® 10
.. 
Sapo, G.....................................................  @
..  @ 15
Seidlitz  M ixture.......................
...  @ 28
...  @ 18
Sinapis,  opt...............................
..  © 30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  Do. Voes...
..  @ 35
Snuff, Scotch,  Do. Voes..........
..  @ 35
Soda Boras, (po.  10)................
.. 
8® 10
Soda et PotossTart..................
35
Soda Carb..................................
2® 2)4
... 
Soda,  Bi-Carb............................
... 
4®
Soda,  Ash..................................
... 
3®
Soda  Sulphas...........................
...  @
Spts. Ether  Co..........................
..  50® 55
Spts.  Myrcia Dom...................
...  @i  00
Spts. Myrcia Im p.....................
...  @2 50
@2 25
Spts. Vini Beet, (bbl.  2  10)......
Strychnia, Crystal...  .'...........
©1  30
Sulphur, Subl............................
..  2)4® 3)4
Sulphur,  Roll.......................... .
...  2)4®  3
Tam arinds................................
... 
8® 10
Terebenth  Venice...................
...  28® 30
Theobrom ae............................
...  @ 40
..9 00@16 00
Zinci  Suloh.
... 

Lycopodium

Iodoform

7®

OILS.

Bbl
Whale, w inter............................
.  70
Lard, extra................................
.  63
Lard, No.  1...........................................  63
.  53
Linseed, pure  raw.. ..*............
40
.  43
.  50
.  40

PAINTS

Absinthium ....,.....................................4 50@5 00
Amygdalae, Dulc....................................   45® 50
00@7 50
Amydalae, Amarae
7   GiVTil?  fill
A 
J o i n  a   A v M n n A A  
..........2  15@2 25  Sinapis
A n is i.....................
50
A u rant i  Cortex...
........ 2 00@2 75
Bergamii...............
..........   9C@1  00
Cajiputi  ...............
..........   @2 00
Caryophylli..........
..........  35®  65
Cedar.....................
..........  @1  50
Cbenopodii..........
..........  90@1  00
Cinnam onii..........
..........  @  75
Citronella  ............
..........   35®  65
Coniura  Mac........
..........  90®  1  00
Copaiba................
___10 00® 10 50
Cubebae ...............
..........  9Ü@1  00
Exechthitos..........
..........1 20@1  30
Erigeron...............
..........2 00@2  10
G aultheria...........
........   @  75
Geranium, 5..........
..........  55®  75
Gossipii, Sem.gal.
..........  90® 1 00
Hedeoma...............
..........  50®2 00
Juniper!.................
..........   9Ü@2 00
Lavendula ............
..........2 25@2 35
Lim onis................
..........  42®  45
Liiii, gal................
..........3 00®3 75
Mentha Piper.......
..........5 50@6 00
Mentha "Verid.......
..........  80®1 00
Morrhuae,  gal__
..........  @ 50
Myrcia,  5...............
..........I 00@2 75
O live.....................
..........  10®  12
Picis Liquida, (gal
..........1 42@1  60
R iclni....................
..........  75@1  00
Rosm arini...........
..........  @8 00
Kosue,  5.................
40©45
.......... 
Succini  .................
........   90@l  00
Sabina....................
.. 
..3 50®7 00
Santal....................
..........  15®  50
Sassafras...............
Sinapis, ess, 5.......
T iglii.....................
T hym e..................
opt.............
Theobromas..........

50).

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75
68
58
43
40
60
45
Lb 
2® 3 
2®  3 
2® 3 
2*4® 3 
2*@ 3 
13® 16 
55@58 
16@17 
6®  0)4 
6®  6*4 
@70 
@90 
1  10 
1 49 
1 20@1  40 
1 00@1 20

No. 1 Turp  Coach........................................1  10@l 20
Extra  Turp..................................................1  00@1 70
Coach Body................................................. 2  75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture................................. 1 00@1 10
Extra Turk  Damar.....................................1  55@1 60
Jap(in Dryer, No. 1  Turp.....................   70®  75

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PO TASSIU M .

Bichrom ate.
B rom ide__
Chlorate, (Po,
Iodide..........
Prussiate  ...

Bbl
Red Venetian............................  Iff
65 Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........  144
@ 
@1  50 ,  Ochre, yellow  Bermuda........   13Ü
40® 
50  Putty, com m ercial.................  2)4
@  60 I  Putty, strictly pure.................  2%
20  Vermilion,prime American..
15® 
Vermilion, English..................
I  Green, Peninsular....................
72®  14 j  Lead, red strictly pure__
42®  45 j  Lead, white, strictly
,  Lead, white, strictly pure-.....
20®  22  Whiting, white  Spanish..........
3 00@3 25 I  Whiting,  Gilders  .....................
25®  28 j  White, Paris American...........
Whiting  Paris English cliff..
A lth a e ....................................................   25®  30 !
A nchusa.................................................  15®  «0 !  ^W1S8 v Ula rre p a rf'  Famt8<
VARNISHES. 
Arum,  po...............................................   @  25
Calamus...................................................  20®  50
Gentiana,  (po. 15)..................................   10®  12
Glychrrhiza,  (pv. 15)..............................  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,  ,po. 33).................  @  25
Hellebore,  Alba,  po..............................  15®  20
Inula,  po..............................  
15®  20
Ipecac, po............................................... 2 50@2 00
Jalapa,  p r...............................................   25®  30
Maranta,  (43........................................ 
  @  35
Podophyllum,  po..................................   15®  18
Rhei  ........................................................  75© 1  00
“  cu t...................................................  @1 75
“  pv .-.................................................  75@1 35
Spige.ia  .................................................   48®  53
Sanguinaria, (po. 25).............................   @  20
Serpentaria...........................................    35®  40
Senega....................................................   50®  55
Siuilax, Officinalis, H ............................  @  40
Mex.......................   @  20
Scillae,  (po. 35).......................................   10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Foetidus, po...............  @  25
Valeriana,  English,  (po. 30).................<  @  25
Germ an..............................’  15®  20
Anisum, (po. 22)........ , ...........................  @  17
Apium  (graveolens)..............................  12®  15
Bird, Is........................ 
4®  6
Carui,  (po. 20)......................................  
  12@  15
Cardamom...................................;......... 1  00@1 25
Coriandrum....................  
10®  12
Cannabis  Sativa....................................  
J®  4
Cydonium....................................... 
75@1 00
Chenopodium  .......................................   10®  12
Dipterlx Odorate..................................1 75@1  85
Foeniculum............................................   @  15
Foenugreek, po........... ,■........................  
6®  8
Lini.................................  
3H@  4
Lini, grd, (bbl, 3)...................................   3)4®  4
Phalaris  Canarian............................... .  33i@4)4
5®  6
R a p a ........................................................ 
Sinapis,  Albu......................................... 
8®  9
N igra...................................... 
8®  9

brand of

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ZP-AJJKTT.

F A I N T
M X  Z E D  
and having sold it for over SIX YEARS can 

recommend it to our  customers  as  be­

ing a First Class  article.  We sell it

On the  Manufacturers’  Guarantee:

W hen two or m ore coato of our PIONEER PRE­
PARED PAINT  is applied as received in original 
packages, and if w ithin  three years it should  crack or 
peel off, tnus failing to  give  satisfaction, we  agree to 
re-paint  th e  building  a t  our  expense,  w ith  the  best 
W hite Lead or  such o ther pain t as the  ow ner  m ay se­
lect.  In  case  of  com plaint,  prom pt  notice  m ust  be 
given to the dealer.

T. H.  NEVIN & CO..

Mfrs. & Corroders of Pure White Lead.

We have a full stock of this well-known 

Write for prices and Sample Card to

Pittsburg, Pa.

SPIRITUS.

Frumenti,  W.,  D. &Co.........................2 
Frumenti, D. F .R ..................................1 
F ru m en ti....................................... /.....110@1  50
Juniperis Co.  O. T ................................ 1 
Juniperis  Co.................................... 
 
Saacharum  N. E .........................  
 
Spt. Vini  Galli.......................................1 
Vini Oporto............................................1 
Vini  Alba....................... !.....................1 25@2 00

00@2 50
76@2 DC
75®1 75
1 75@3 50
75@0 50
26@2 00

1 75@2 00

Wholesale  Agents,  Grand  Rapids.

Try PO LISH IN A,  best Furniture Fin­

ish made.

■ I

WHOLESALE

Druggists!

4a and 44  Ottawa Street and 8g, 91,

93 and 95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS  OF

Drugs, ffiediciues, G&emicals, 
Pais, Oils Jam sles, 

and Druggist’s 

Sundries.

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Elept  Fiiamacentical  Prepara­

tions,  Fluid  Extracts  and 

Elixirs

GENERAL WHOLESALE AGNTS FOR

Wolf, Patton & Co. and John L» 

Whiting, Manufacturers  of 

Fine Paint and  Var­

nish Brushes.
THE  CELEBRATED

ALSO  FOR  THE

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

Horse Brushes.

WE ARE  SOLE OWNERS OF

Weatherly's Micliip Catarrh Care

Which is positively the best Remedy 

of the kind on the market.

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

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

WITHERS DADE & CO’S.

Henderson Co., Ky.,

Sour Mash  and  Old-Fashioned 

Hand-Made, Copper- 

Distilled

WHISKEY.

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  has 
been once introduced  the  future  trade  has 
been assured.

We are also owners of the

Druggists’  Favorite  Eye,

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

Dins, Brandies & Fine Wines.

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

such asPatent  Medicines,

Etc., we invite your correspondence.

Mail  orders  always  receive  our speda 

and personal attention.

Hazeltine 

& Perkins 

Drug Co.

Preserve These  Advertisements for

Copies  of  Our  Tinware  Price 134  to  142 Bast Fulton St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Duplicate

Future Reference. 

Curry Combs.

Fry Pans.

doz.  ft gross.

List of Last Week

Sent  on Application.

Asst Case  9  doz  Covered  Slate 

case  S8 25

Wooden Ware.

$  doz 

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75
 
1  30
..........................2 20
 
2 50

13 inch Maple  Bowls....................... 
15 
17 
19 
Assorted 4 each 15,17,19 in. packed
Clothes  Pins.
Packed in 5 gross boxes V box  60
Potato Mashers.
No. 1 Wood Potato Masher...........
Toy 
............
Toy Rolling Pins.............................
Full size Rolling Pins loose h’dle. 
Towel Racks 3  arm  13  inch  long
Cherry......................................
Towel  Racks 3 arm  13  inch  long
W alnnt....................................
Hat Rack 7 pin cherry....................

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40

5 00

4  50

8 50

1 50 
5 25

9  50 
10 50

4 00 
8  00

16

No.  2  Ju te  Jum ping  Rope  With
H andles..................................
No.  4  Ju te   Jum ping  Rope  With 
H andles...........   ............: ___
Key  Rings.

40

No.  5900 Asst. Sizes Split Spiral... 
15
Masric Puzzle.......................................  45
Knife and Fork Boxes.
Wood with Tin earners..................... 
80
Tin Japaned  No. 1.............................  
89
Wicker oblong No. 330 2................   2 50
Fancy 
“  7489..................10 50

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Mouse Traps.

Oblong 2 boles..................................  35
Round 4 holes..................................   70
No. 3 spring catches them alive...  1  50

Poppers.

10 00

*“ 

1 quart Round..................................1  00
1  *»  Oblong..................................1 00
2  “ 
..........................I.. 2 10
Potato Mashers Wire.
33
78

No. 11 Wire Masher......................... 
......................... 
Pins.

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BB Ne Plus Ultra  “  ......................  
...................... 
F354  “ 
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MC 
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F 314  Eureka Toilet Rolls...............  
SC 
............... 
M. C , ......................... ................... 
No. 3 Daisy Safty Pins....................

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18
35
40
45
48
70

78
85

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3 Lindsays Safety Pins...........  
2 
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3 Original................................... 
2 

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Lyon Hair Pins in oz pkgs 18 $  lb.
Royal Hair Pins Asst Boxes..........  45
Shell Hair Pins  or  Ornaments.
No. 51 or 48 Shell Hair  Ornaments  25 
25

10 

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$  doz.  $  gross.

8 inch Acme Fry Pans.................... 
No. 2 
4 
5 

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Fly Fans.
Mechanical Fly Fans each  1  75
Gimlets.

Iron Head Nail  Gimlet.................. 
Wood  “ 
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/ ................ 

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1  75
2  00
2 25

18
30
45

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Glue.

Le Pages Glue with  B rush...........  
85
Handy Glue  P ots............................  2 40

Hammers.

4 50
11 50

8 00

8  50

4 80

5 50
5 00
7 20

8 25

2 75
2 85
3 30
3 60
4 15
5 50
7 50
8 50

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32

No. 8 Coppered Tack H am m er__  
247 
.... 
25 Tack Claw on end of  Wood
handle....................................  
2 Tack claw on  end  of  Wood
handle....................................  
70
12 Atz eye Full size..................  
89
1 Atz Eye Full Sized Pl’shd...  2 00

42

Hatchets.
M 

400 Toy H atchet....................... 
475  “ 
........................ 

37
85
Hardware Sundries.
14 Flat Iron Stands Coopered.  36
19 Garden  Trowell.................. 
28
302 Cover  lifters.....................  
30
32
17 Tea or  Coffee Pot  Stands.. 
6 inch Garden Trowels  Ebony Hdl  75 
254 inch Door Stops, Rubber T’pd.  30
Bird Cage  Springs..........................  
40
Plyers.......................................... 
 
33
No. 6 Pincers....................................   34
Wire  Nippers................................... 
34
Compasses........................................   32
3 Hook Ward Robe Hooks.............   38
Jack Chair 12 yds in boz 
Pocket Alcohol Stoves.......................... 2 25
Flower Pots Brackets  Swinging..  1  50
Glue Pots................................................. 2 40
Ice Breakers No. 40..........;.............1 50
Ice  H atchets...........................................2 00
Ice Tong No.  2.................................  1  80
Ladies Floral Tools No. 1...............  2  00
Coat  Hangers................................  
  29
Pot Chain  No. 1...............................  
72
Police  Whistles...............................  
48
Jumping Rope.
Rope  with

box 60

No.

1  Juto  Jumpin 
handle.............

30

3 60

4 75

8  00 
10 50

4 25 
10 00

8  50

3 25

Rules.
H*4! I-1 iM N iM

1 foot Boxwood Pocket.................. 

54
Carpet Sweepers.

$  doz.  $  gross.
6 59 
8  65

34

80

9 50

No. 5 Bissell Carpet Sweeper........ 17 00
.......... 20 00
19 00
24 00

8 
2 Crown Jewell 

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Grand Rapids 
Or  any other  style  made  by  the 
Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co. packed, 
in boxes of 54 or 1 doz  lots.
Screw  Drivers.
Sewing Machine Screw D rivers...
5 inch Full Size 
Fire Shovels.
No. 80 Vulcan Fire Shovel.............
130 Tin  Hdle  “ 
.............
56 20 inch  Hollow Handle.......
Spring Balance.

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25
30
30
35

No. 10  Spring  Balance  weighs  24
pounds.................................... 
No. 51  Spring  Balance  weighs  50
Sprinkling  Cans.

pounds....................................  2  00

2 quart Patent  Rose  ....................... 2 25
4 quart Patent  Rose.......................  3  00
“ 
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8
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10  “ 
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School Bags.
13 inch Manilla School Bags.......... 
14  “ 
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School Slates.

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85

Coat and Hat Rack Combined The
latest 10c leader  out.............  

90

10 50

Brilliant Hair Ornaments.

No. 4 Brilliant Hair Ornaments.

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........
654x10 
8  xl2 
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5 x 7  Noiseless  “  Covered
7  Xll
9  xl3 
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7  x ll 
Asst Case  854  doz  Common  Slates 

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No. 6 Udel Towel  Roller................   89 

10  50

Tooth  Picks.
Double  pointed Soft Wood  Tooth

picks doz boxes  48c  100 boxes  93  75 

Double Pointed Hard Wood Tooth

picks doz boxes  55c  100 boxes  f  4  25

Whisk  Broom.

V doz.  $  gross.
io ea

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No. 80 Whisk Broom black h ’dle.. 
No. 60 
No. 100 
No, 50 
No. 80 

90
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Sweeping Broom.
Child’s Toy Sweeding Broom........   90
2 oo
No. 3 Sweeping  Broom..................
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No. 2 
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No. 1 
No. 6 
 
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No. 8 
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Bixby’s Best 3 doz. in box No. 4.  ,
Royal Polish or Dressing,
Base  Balls.

5  40 
11 00

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45
46
80
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..............2 00
.......... 4 00

I X  L Base  Ball...............................  
Bully Boy Base Ball.......................  
O K  
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Young America Base Ball.............  
Boston  Club 
Dollar  Dead 
First  Nine 
American Association Base  Ball..  8 00 
“  ..12 00
No. 3  Solid Gray Rubber Balls—  
35
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N o.4 
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80
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“  .. .. 1 5 0
85
........ 125
%“ ..............2  00
..............210
4 00
..................  6 50
..................9  00

Foot Ball.............. 
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No. 0 Brass Ebony Handle.............  
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No.:

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8 oz. ffright S’l or T’nd doz  pkgs 12., 
10 oz. 
13.

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60  “  
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120 
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70

$   case 
luO doz. 
10 00 
12 00

5 00 
10 G0

GERMAN
L.  Wintemitz,
•a /TTTP(rri  a  -r> *r-\ 
JYLU b i A K JJ.¡Grand  Rapids, Mich

10G K ent St*

MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER

$  doz.  $  gross.
4  40 
9 50

38
85

No. 80 Curry Combs......................... 
.......................  
No. 20 
Can Openers.

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40 
96 

Cork Screws.
Garden City Cork Screw................  
No. 3226 Pocket Cork Screw.......... 
Playing  Cards.
No. 218 Squeezer.............................. 
50
No. 0 Steamboat...............................   65
No. 9 Plain Tally H o.......................  1  50
No. 9 Gilt 
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Hard Rubber Combs.

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grocer 
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of Wood-Working Machinery, Saws, 

Belting  and  Oils.

SOLIMAN SNOOKS.

A Glimpse of Thirteen  Years  into the Fu­

ture.

Ca n t H ook Co bnebs,  May 12,1887. 

Editor Tradesman:

D e a r  Sib—Summer has at  last put in an 
appearance,  with  its  concomitants of  ice 
cream,  soda water,  Sunday-school  picnics, 
lawn dresses, lawn  mowers and  festive la­
ger beer.  The last named exhilarating com­
pound of hops, aloes, and aqua hipumpagin- 
is seems to start off this season  with its us­
ual eclaw, notwithstanding the  threatening 
legislation at Lansing.

The greatest  trouble I  have to  contend 
with in writing to you is  the fact  that  my 
comments on news of the day  are quite apt 
to be behindhand.  For instance, to-day the 
papers will all be full of some exciting mat­
ter, like the Dakin  case, but  by the time I 
get it wrote up  and my  letter  gets to you 
and  gets  printed the  next  Tuesday,  the 
thing has got to be an old  chestnut  and the 
Hon. gentleman has retired to  private  life, 
and may be, for aught  I  know,  wrestling 
slabs in a saw  mill or shoveling  salt in the 
third city of Michigan.

For the purpose of  avoiding this trouble, 
I have been  at some  expense  to  consult a 
noted  cycometrist or cycloneatrix, or cyclo- 
patrix—I  forget  the  exact name she calls 
herself—who has just stuck up  her shingle 
at the Corners.

She is a  buttermilk-and-rose-leaf  blond, 
with blue eyes and a well-turned—but come 
to think this. has  nothing to  do with  the 
case.  What I want to get at is the  import­
ant fact that she projected her ego, or some­
thing of the kind,  into the  future and gave 
me extracts from T h e Mic h ig a n T r a d e s­
m an  of  May  11,  1900.  Although  only 
thirteen years ahead, we can see  that many 
changes will have taken place in the  mean­
time.

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FIFTEEN  YEARS.

T h e T ra d esm a n  points  with  pride to 
the splendid  organization of  business men 
in this State,  embracing, as it  does, every 
city , village and hamlet in  this great  com­
monwealth.  We can hardly realize the fact 
that about fifteen years ago the  first  move 
was made in this great work.  We are sure 
that our  twenty-seven  thousand  and  odd 
subscribers will agree with us  that the ben­
efits received thus far compensate, a  thous­
and-fold for the  expense  and  labor.  But 
much yet remains to be done.  We  call the 
attention of the Committee  on  Legislation 
especially to the disgraceful tea  and  coffee 
law  passed  by  the  last  Legislature. 
It 
should be repealed.  We would ask, by what 
light does a bare  majority of  fanatics,  be­
cause they hold that coffee  and tea are  in­
jurious,  pass a law to tax the dealer in these 
articles $1,000?  It is an outrage.  The Sl,- 
500 tobacco  tax  was  bad  enough,  to  say 
nothing of the $500 tax  for  selling  butter 
made from any cows other  than  short-horn 
Durhams, but this  coffee  and tea  law caps 
the climax. 
It is a direct menace to the lib­
erties of the people.

POI.ICEMAN  CRUSHED.

Patrolman No.  1,467 lost  his life  yester­
day forenoon while attempting to  force his 
way to the bar at the Coloseum.  The  vast 
crowd attempted to make  room for the vic­
tim to lay down and  die,  but it  was a  fail­
ure, so he was  forced to  die  standing  up. 
The T ba desm a n  has.often  called  atten­
tion to the fact that Grand Rapids needs an­
other saloon.  One is not  enough for a city 
of 200,000  inhabitants.  Our  law  makers 
should reduce the saloon tax,  at least as low 
as $10,000, and fix  the bond  at a lower fig­
ure,  say a million,  in order to enable others 
to engage in the business.  Only last week 
a poor woman  was  trampled to death at a 
saloon in Detroit, while  attempting to pur­
chase  an ounce  of paregoric  for her  sick 
child.  This again emphasizes the claim we 
have always made, that druggists should be 
allowed to sell mixtures  containing alcohol.

SENT UP.

The Hon.  N.  McMillen, a  veteran  phar­
macist of  Rockford,  passed  through  this 
city yesterday en  route  for  Jackson.  He 
goes  for a  year, that  being the  minimum 
sentence for his offence.  Our  readers  will 
remember that Mr.  McM.  was  convicted of 
wdiing a pint of  bed-bug  poison  and  the 
prosecution  proved  that the  mixture  con­
tained spirit.  Mr. McM.  anticipates a glad 
reunion with the 273 other druggists now in 
the institution.

KETIBED.

Hibbard,  the Jackson druggist,  retired to j 
the county  house last week.  This  leaves  a | 
fine opening for some enterprising  pharma-  j 
cist who thinks he can run a drug store and j 
make a living  without  getting  into  State ! 
prison.

A bill  was introduced on Monday by Ilep. 
Goldstein,making it a penal offenseJo raise, 
eat or sell pork or  lard in  this  State.  On 
motion of Rep.  O’Donahue,  the fifth section 
was amended  so as to prohibit the use of any 
kind of meat on Fridays.  A  strong  lobby 
of butchers and farmers  start for  Lansing 
to-day to oppose the bill.

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This lady lias promised me more items in 

the near future.

T h e  T ra d esm a n his just arrived,  and I 
notice  the  “Leisure  Hour  Jottings”  are 
good, as usual.  I always read them  first.  I 
am glad my humble efforts called out the re­
marks they did from  “Country  Merchant.” 
In regard to my orthography,  I  must admit 
that Webster and I disagree  on  some minor 
points;  but I have slept  with a dictionary 
under ray  head  and wrote  with one on  my 
knee for three years past,  and  I hope  I am 
slowly gaining on  it.  I  trust  brother  “C. 
iff.”  will  make  due  allowance.  As  for 
grammar,  I was  put  through  about  three 
terms in  a log  schoolhouse  in  my  gentle 
youth,  at  “I love,  you  love,  they love,  she 
loves, he loves,” but I think  four  years of 
fighting, In  the  “late unpleasantness” sort of 
knocked it all out of  me,  for I never  could 
make a practical  application of any part of 
it except “ I love” and * ‘she loves.”

Yours hopefully,

So lim * n  Snooks,

We  have  removed  to  the  HOUSE­
MAN BLOCK, corner Pearl and Ottawa 
Streets.

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Hides,  Furs  and  Tallow,

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