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G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  W E D N E S D A Y ,  M A Y   25,  1887.

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F - A X N T .

brand of

We have a full stock of this well-known 
1C IZ X S  P A I N T
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 coats 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, thus failing to   give  satisfaction, we  agree to  
re-paint th e  building  a t  our  expense,  w ith  th e  best 
W hite Lead o r  such other pain t as th e  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.

Pittsburg, Pa.

Write for prices and 8ample Card to

Wholesale  Agents,  Grand  Rapids.

Try PO L ISH  IN  A ,  best Fum itureFin- 

ish made.

PLACE to secure a thorough 
and useful education is at the 
Grand Rapids (Mich.) Busi­
ness College. write for Coir 

Ime Journal.

Address,oC. G. 8WENSBERG.

COOK  & PRINZ,
Show  Oases,

Manufacturers of

Counters, Tables and Furniture of any 

Description,  as  well  as  Designs 

thereof,  made to order.  Write 

for Prices or call and see us 

when  in  the  City.

38 West Bridge St.. Grand Rapiüs.

Telephone 374.

lu c iu s c.  w e s t,

T) A mpirmci 
I  A  I  [>■ Il  I i l  A ttorney a t P aten t Law  and Solicitor 
A  ALAJJA1  l U 0j   American  and  Foreign  patents. 
105 E. Main St.. Kalamazoo, Mich., U. 8. A.  B ranch  of­
fice, London, Eng.  P ractice In U. 8. Courts.  Circulars 
free.

Toil, Hoqolslionf k Go,
DRY GOODS

Importers and Jobbers of

Staple  and  Fancy.

Overalls, Pants, Etc.,

OUR OWN MAKE.

A  Complete  Line  of

Fancy Croctery sFancy W oodenware

OUR OWN IMPORTATION.

Inspection Solicited.  Chicago and Detroit 

Prices Guaranteed.

J U D D   tfc  O O .,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

And Full Line Summer Goods.

102 CANAL  STREET.

T. R. Eliis & Co.,
Book Binders

PAPER  RULERS,

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 i? all MicMpn Jolliers.

Realizing  the  demand for, and  knowing 
the difficulty in obtaining a FIRST-CLASS 
FIVE-CENT CIGAR, we have concluded 
to try and  meet this  demand  with  a new 
Cigar called

SILVER SPOTS

This  Cigar  we  positively  guarantee 

clear Havana filler, with a spotted Sumatra 
Wrapper, and  entirely free  from  any  arti­
ficial flavor or adulterations.

It will be sold on its merits.  Sample or­

ders filled on 60  days approval.

Price  $35  per  1,000  in  any  quantities. 
Express prepaid on orders of 500 and more 
Handsome  advertising  matter  goes  with 
first order.  Secure this Cigar and increase 
your Cigar Trade.  It is sure to do it.

GEO.  T.  WARREN  k  GO.

F lin t,  Mloh.

BELKNAP

Spring,  Freight,  Express, 

MANUFACTURERS OF
Lumber  and  Farm

W A G O N S !

Logging Carts and  Trucks 

Mill and Dump Carts, 

Lumbermens and 

River Tools.

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

Shops on Front St., Grand Rapids, Mioh,

HEMLOCK  BARK!

WANTED.

The undersigned will  pay  the high­
est  market  price  for  HEMLOCK 
•r a r e:  loaded  on  board  cars  at  any 
side track on the G. R. & L or  0. ft W. 
M. Railroads.  Correspondence  solicit- 
od*

N.  B.  CLARK,

101 Ottawa St., 

Grand Rapids.

51,53 and 55 Lyon St.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

h k æ

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

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

CIGARS
76 S. Division SI,  Grand Rapifls.

Factory No,  26, 4th  Dist.

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

year. Z

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.

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

QftAND KAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SKGH CO.

71 CANAL STREET.

STEAM  LAUNDRY,

48 and 46 Kent Street.

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

STANLEY  N.  ALLEN,  Proprietor.
W l  DO M L! PULST CUSS  WORK AND  USE  HO 

CM CALS.

Orders  by  Mail  and Express Promptly At­

tended to.

V O L .  4.
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.
Agrati for Walker’« Patent Batter Worker.

Earl Bros., Commission Merchants,

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO. 

Reference:  First National Bark.

EDMUND  I.  DIKEMAN,

G U T  WITCH

j e w e l e r

44  CANAL  STREET,

MICH

GRAND  RAPIDS.

GIANT

Secures to out-of-town  customers  the most 
careful attention and guarantees perfect sati­
sfaction.  W e are the

LARGEST HOUSE iathe STATE

DEALING EXCLUSIVELY  IN

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

--G IA N T -

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

FURNISHING  GOODS.
GIANT  CLOTHING  COMPANY,
Cor.Caial & Lyon Sts.,&ranG RapiGs
MOMCH&STONE, Flint, Mici

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

MANUFACTURERS  OF

&\  i   <,

Send for Sample Order.

POTATOES.

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

k Cl

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166 South Water S t, CHICAGO. 

Reference

Felsenthal, Gross à  Miller, Bankers.

Regular Meeting of the Retail Grocers' As­

sociation.

The regular semi-monthly  meeting of the 
Retail Grocers’ Association, held  last Tues­
day evening, was well attended.

The Committee on  Butterine reported no 

further progress and was continued.

The following communications were read 

by the Secretary:

Detroit,  May 10, 1887.
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E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: 
Dea r Sib—Your last letter did not reach 
me until just now,  or  I  should have replied 
earlier. 
It will be impossible for me  to  be 
on hand to-morrow, but  I  shall  delay  my 
trip, due next week, until the early part  of 
June, so you may look for me  for  the  first 
meeting in  June,

Yours respectfully,

E.  F echt. 
May  7,1887.

Dea r Sir—At your last  meeting you got 
some good  returns  from  the  Blue  Letter 
If you will  permit  me a space in 
system. 
your paper, I will say that the credit system 
will run out. 
I owed a firm  some time ago 
two dollars, and they sent me a Blue Letter, 
as you call it, and it was blue.  Well, I told 
my firm to pay it the next morning. 
I nev­
er  have  had  any  credit  since,  thanks  to 
Messrs.  Herrick & Randall.

Yours truly,

A  H ard W orking Man.

E. J. Herrick offered  the  following reso­

lution and moved its  adoption:

Resolved,  That the  President,  Secretary, 
Geo. Dunaven, J.  G.  Lehman  and  E.  E. 
Walker constitute a  committee  to  draft  a 
memorial to  the  Common  Council  of  the 
city of Grand Rapids, asking that a  compe­
tent  inspector  of  produce,  meats,  etc., be 
appointed,  and  that  said  inspector  have 
police authority and power to make  arrests 
when licenses have  not  been  properly  ob­
tained.

Mr. Herrick asserted  that it was time the 
Association put itself  on record as opposed 
to food  adulterations  and the  handling of 
poor fruits and decayed  vegetables, and the 
sooner action was  taken on the  matter the 
better.

President Coye called upon Mr. Hamilton, 
President of the  Michigan  Business Men’s 
Association,  who was  present, to  give his 
ideas on the subject.

Mr. Hamilton  briefly  stated that he was 
emphatically of the opinion that it devolves 
upon every grocer to set  himself  aright on 
this subject. 
It is a work  which the Asso­
ciations, as such,  should take  in  hand and 
push forward.

J.  G. Lehman  said that he  was in favor 
of  the  movement  and  it  should  have his 
hearty  support.

J. A.  Coye stated that there was  an ordi 
nance to fit the case and  that  there  would 
be but little trouble to have it enforced.

The motion was made and  carried.
Walter R.  Meech was called upon  to give 
a talk on “What Should the Consumer  Ex­
pect of the Fruit Producer?”  He responded 
pleasantly.  His remarks were more  in  re­
gard to what  the  grocer  should  expect  of 
the fruit producer.  He was of the opinion 
that farmers  should bring their  products to 
market graded in three classes,  or  at  least 
.two.  The question being asked Mr.  Meech 
what would become of  the third-class fruits 
after the best had been  picked  out,  he  re 
plied that  he  did  not  know—he  did  not 
want them,  anyway.

E. J.  Herrick  said  that  the  river  might 
or
be used as a  dumping  place  for  them,
they might be sent to  Chicago,  whence  so 
much poor stuff comes.

H.  A.  Hydom,  of  the  Committee  on 
Picnic,  moved that  next  Wednesday,  May 
25, be set apart to be devoted  to  that  pur­
pose.  He  stated that a caterer  would  fur­
nish refreshments at a reasonable rate  or 
supper for 50 cents per plate for those  who 
did not wish to bring baskets.  He  also ad 
vised that a circular invitation for  picnic 
8 o’clock and postal card for  reply  be  sent 
to every grocer, jobber and  clerk  in  Grand 
Rapids,  to every traveling man and  all  the 
sister associations.  Carried.

E. A.  Stowe moved that  a  Committee on 

Sports b^ appointed.

The chair appointed  as  such  committee 
Walter R. Meech,  Geo. Bemis and  J.  Geo 
Lehman.

Miss Jennie Kipp rendered a  violin  solo, 
♦‘Airs Varies.” with  piano  accompaniment 
by Miss Abbie Boxheimer.

President Hamilton being called upon for 
an address said that he  thanked  the  Asso­
ciation for the favors and generosity  which 
had always characterized them as  an  asso­
ciation, not only to himself,  but  toward the 
whole movement  in  Michigan.  He  stated 
that  this  body  had  given  him  more  en­
couragement and help than any other in the 
State.  Great good  has  been  accomplished 
and there is still more hope for  the  future. 
Good work cannot be done  without  organ­
ization, yet unity does not consist in simply 
forming an association.  The  tendency  of 
fierce competition is to pull men  apart  and 
to deteriorate goods.  Our  associations  are 
not to boycott, but there is no  good  reason 
why retailers should  not  get  together  and 
great  good  be  accomplished  through  the 
medium  of  harmonious  feeling.  What 
could have been done  single-handed  in  os­
tracising  the  dead-beat?  We  shall  weed 
him out root and branch,  and  it  will  be  a 
legitimate work.  The tendency In trade is 
growing broader and  stronger.  The  cash 
system is  growing  in  extent.  The  credit 
system cannot be entirely  done  away with,

but it can be curtailed.  There  should be  a 
oneness of  sympathy among  the  members 
of the different bodies. 
It is  not  wise  for 
any merchant to ignore the rights of others. 
What is best for  most  of  ns  is  generally 
best for us all.  We  have  ostracized  each 
other too  much,  been  too  selfish,  ignored 
each  other  too  much.  We  must  seek  to 
cultivate a broader spirit.

Michigan  stands  foremost  In  this  good 
work, and  we  hope  that  she  will  always 
keep to the front, the  pattern  of  all  other 
associations, the envy of the whole country.
We  cannot  always  depend  upon  man’s 
honor, but must depend  upon  state legisla­
tion and local action to  right  the wrongs of 
trade.

I would urge  upon  members  to  give  all 
possible support to  their  officers. 
It is im­
possible  for  them  to  do  any  great  work 
without co-operation.

And this  picnic  which  you  anticipate— 
nothing  will  so  cement you together  as  a 
day’s enjoyment of this nature.  Get togeth- 
often on the recreation basis.  (We are all 

humans traveling the same road.

In closing, 1 would bespeak  a  good  rep­
resentation  at  the  Flint  convention  to  be 
held  in  September. 
I  hope  that  oar  zeal 
and energy may ever be  unflagging  in  this 
good work  of  organization.  Gentlemen,  I 
thank  you most heartily for  your  kind  at­
tention.

Mrs. Ludwig Wintemitz then favored the 
company with  a  fine  piano  solo—“Polish 
Waltz.”

N. B.  Blain,  President  of  the  Lowell 
Business Men’s Association,  was  called up­
on for organization  remarks.  Upon rising, 
he casually observed that at the  meeting at 
the club rooms, in the afternoon, he had no­
ticed that Brother Hamilton frequently drew 
his hand across the bald spot on top  of  his 
head and always looked  very wise while so 
doing, and  he  was of the  firm  conviction 
that if he were  the  possessor  of  a similar 
spot  destitute  of  a  hirsute  covering,  he 
would, in all probability, be able to make as 
many happy hits as our honored  President. 
Mr. Blain’s  remarks  were short  and to the 
point, but he stated that his  silence  would 
be more eloquent than his speech.  He said 
that, although  their own  organization  was 
small, they had been able to do  much  good 
for  themselves  and  for  the  town.  Mer­
chants should, so far  as possible, patronize 
home industries.  There had been some mis­
understandings  between  their  merchants 
and  the  home  millers,  which  he  hoped 
might be adjusted in the near future.

He heartily  endorsed-the idea of  holding 
a picnic  occasionally,  for  the  purpose  of 
bringing about a feeling of  good-fellowship 
among  the members.  Personally,  he liked 
picnics and  would be  sure to  be on  hand 
next week,  Providence  and  business per­
mitting.

Amid the applause following his remarks, 
Mr. Blain  arose and  said that  perhaps he 
had  been  a  trifle  premature—he  would
attend the picnic if he got an invitation,

H. A.  Hydom—“You’ll get one.”
Misses Kipp and Boxheimer then rendered 
a lively violin solo  with  piano  accompani­
ment—“Ballet”—which was encored.

LEISURE  HOUR JOTTINGS.

BY A  COUNTRY  MERCHANT.

Written Expressly for The Tradesman.

I refer to my neighbor Jones  frequently, 
because 1 consider that individual, notwith­
standing his  want  of  eduction  and  what 
society  terms  “polish,”  a  very astute and 
successful country tradesman, whose sharp, 
practical  common-sense  has  solved  many 
of the problems which  perplex  and ■ puzzle 
the average merchant,  and whose  language 
and habits render an observation of his busi­
ness methods amusing as well a instructive. 
His  store  is,  moreover,  frequented  by  a 
class of people  as  peculiar,  in  their  way, 
as himself,  and  when  my  “leisure  hours” 
become too oppressive, I indulge  in  a little 
recreation  by  wandering  over  to  Jones’s 
establishment and watching the ebb and flow 
of his custom.
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Jones, however, with  all  his  philosophy 
and  common-sense  gets  extremely  restive 
sometimes over active competition,  and,  as 
his competitor Smith is  considerably  given 
to cutting prices, and offering  odd  and  ex­
traordinary inducements  to  Jones’s  custo­
mers, his relations with his rival are somewhat 
“strained,” and his language,  occasionally, 
when  alluding  to  that  gentleman,  would 
hardly be considered parliamentary.

I went over to Jone’s yesterday and found 
his equanimity badly  distracted  by  one  of 
Smith’s business eccentricities.

“There was a feller just in here,”  he  ex­
plained,  “who bought  ’bout  nine  shillin’s 
worth of truck, an’ after I made the change 
he wanted  to  know  if  I  wasn’t  goin’  to 
throw in a box of  pills,  ’cause  Smith  had 
told ’im he’d give  one  with  every  dollar’s 
worth of goods. 
I swan,  it  broke  me  all 
up for a minnit,  but I managed to send him 
away good nattir’d; but, of  all  the  cussed.
idiotic, ornery, d-----d cranks that ever sold
goods, Smith caps the  climax.  Why,  nex 
the infernal fool ’ll be advertisin’  a dose  of 
salts with a cigar an’ an  emetic  with  every 
paper of tobacco an’ a  blister  plaster  with 
a pound of coffee an’ a hunk of fetty with a 
bottle of hair ile.  Who’d a thought of pills 
fur a bait?  Sposin’ a  lady  comes  in  hete 
an’ says,  perlite  as  can  be,  ‘Mr.  Jones, 
»Vat’s the price of that there hair brush?’ an 
I says,  ‘That there, ma’am,  is a dollar, but 
I’ll throw you in a box of  pills  that’s  war­
ranted to wake you up at  daylight  like  an 
alarm clock?’  Wouldn’t she think I’d got to 
be a cussed lunitic?”

“Well,” resumed Jones, after  ruminating 
silently for a few  moments,  “1  dunno  but 
there’s a streak of sense  in the matter  after 
all.  Smith has got stuck on  a  lot  of  pills 
an’ he knows a  little  suthin’  ’bout  human 
natur’.  A little girl come in  here  a  while 
ago an’  says,  ‘say  mister,  ain’t  you  got 
suthin’ fur  nothin’?’  An’  if  these growed 
up folks don’t say it, they act it every  time 
they go into a store.  Lots of infernal  fools 
that don’t need physic  more’n my dog ’ll be 
stuffin’ themselves with Smith’s pills, ’cause 
they don’t cost nothin’.”
And I don’t doubt it.

The chair called on Frank  J.  Wurzburg. 
President of  the  Michigan  State  Pharma­
ceutical Association, to address the meeting. 
Mr. Wurzburg said that  he  had  frequently 
been invited to attend  the  meetings  of this 
Association, but  that this was the first time 
he had been able  to  do  so.  He  spoke  of 
adulterations  in  goods,  and  especially  in 
spices.  He  hoped  that  the  time  would 
come when  a  package  would  be  labeled 
“pure,”  and  not, for instance,  “the ginger 
contained in this  package is  pure,”  as  is 
now the rule.  He cited the  case  of  cream 
of tartar.  The powdered article is  sold  in 
some stores as low as  8  cents  per  pouhd 
when the crude crystals are 34K cents.  The 
inference can  be  drawn  as  to  the  actual 
amount of cream of  tartar bought  for  that 
price.  The tendency  is  so  toward  cheap 
goods that hardly an article of  this  sort  is 
purchased now-a-days which  is  chemically 
pure. 

Mrs. Ludwig  Wintemitz gave, by special 
request,  another  fine  piano  selection—a 
mazurka, entitled “Silver Star.”

,

J. R. Harrison,  President  of  the  Sparta 
Business  Men’s  Association,  was present, 
and upon being called on by President Coye 
for an  address pleasantly said  that  he  la­
bored under the same  impression  in regard 
to himself as did Mr. Blain—his silence was 
more eloquent than his speech.

A violin solo,  Dancla, was  rendered by 
Miss Jennie  Kipp  with  piano  accompani­
ment by Miss Abbie Boxheimer.

A rising vote of thanks was  tendered the 
ladles who had contributed the musical part 
of the entertainment, and also to the officers 
of other Associations present.

Mr. Hamilton said  that he had been glad 
to see the interest and enthusiasm.exhibited 
during  the  evening  and  hoped  that  we 
would all be stimulated thereby  to  do  fur­
ther  work  until  every  business  man  in 
Michigan has put his shoulder to the wheel. 
The State and local bodies stand committed 
to a work  destined  never  to  die,  and  we 
shall look forward to seeing this movement, 
started right here, go on and on and on. 

The meeting then adjourned.

The  “chromo”  business, 

in  its  various 
phases,  has become  on  almost  intolerable 
nuisance.  A manufacturer  will  put  some 
second or third-grade goods on  the market 
and, well  knowing  that,  ordinarily,  their 
use by the consumer would  not  extend  be­
yond the first purchase,  takes  advantage  of 
this “suthin’ fur nothin’” craving,  by  giv 
ing away some showy but  worthless  article 
to the buyer.  And, in consequence  of this 
trade in standard goods is, to  a  certain  ex 
tent, unsettled  because  of  the numbers  of 
consumers who are always  on  the  outlook 
for something new in the “chromo” line, 
know, personally, nunfbers  of people  who, 
otherwise,  are  posessed  of  average  brain 
power, who appear to  believe  that a gaudy 
picture card will flavor a cup of rank  coffee 
or that a thinly-disguised  brass  spoon  will 
add strength and fragrance to  a  weak  and 
villianous-smelling  tea  or  that  a  muddy 
looking glass dish will impart life and vigor 
to a mass of trash made up to  imitate  bak 
ing  powder.  The  “old  stager”  in  trade 
rarely lends his assistance to the  placing 
this class of goods  on  the  market,  exper 
ience, usually, having taught him that their 
sale is almost invariably unsatisfactory; but 
there are  always  enough  dealers  in  every 
community to keep the chromo seekers well 
stocked with the trash. 
I  think  however, 
that the gift enterprize business  is  decreas­
ing in country  localities,  and  I  begin  to 
hope that the day is  not  far  distant  when 
no reputable merchant will countenance the 
nuisance.

The Rev. Mr. Slimmer, the retired clergy­
man and present dry goods merchant  whom 
I mentioned in a former paper,  is  1  regret 
to say,  in  trouble  with  his  society.  The 
charge against him  is  of  such  a  singular 
character that I  feel justified in alluding  to 
the matter in these “Jottmgs.”  It  appears 
that Mr. S. and Deacon Crook went to Grand 
Rapids a few days ago,  and,  while  taking 
dinner at one of the hotels, Mr. S., as alleg­
ed  by  Deacon  C., 
remarked,  with  a 
wink, to a pretty  waiter  girl.

“Bring  me  about  three  fingers  of  cold 

tea!”

Mr.  Slimmer Is slightly  bald-headed,  and

ind lie affirms that the  winking  was  occa­
sioned  by  the  persistent  attentions  of  a 
prematurly incubated  fly.  This  section  of 
the charge has been dismissed,  but the  lan­
guage used at the time specified is  still  re­
ceiving the serious attention of the  commit­
tee.

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1 notice that several of  the  Pharmaceuti­
cal societies,  in  this  State  and  elsewhere, 
have done a very sensible thing in  refusing 
to longer distribute free  sample  bottles  of 
proprietary medicines.  Now  let  the  gro- 
cerymen combine against free sample  pack­
ages.  Within the last two months; the peo­
ple of my section have  been  supplied  with 
yeast cake s, baking powder,  roasted  coffee, 
soap, stove polish, etc.,  etc.,  free of charge 
and  in  generous  quantities. 
little 
singular to me that  every  dealer  who  dis­
tributes these articles doesn’t appreciate the 
fact that he  is  advertising  for  the  packer 
at his own expense.  This is another  phase 
of the “suthin’  fur  nothin’”  business  and 
one  which  is  eminently  satisfactory  to a 
large body of comsumers.

It’s  a 

Maxims for Merchants.

An extension to  a  merchant  convicted of 
dishonesty is  but  a fresh  impulse  to fraud, 
and granted  to one  of  habitual  neglect  is 
but to consign money to a deeper grave.

It is  not  wealth  which  is  deserving  of 
homage, but  the  virtues which a man exer­
cises in the slow pursuit of wealth, the abil­
ities so called forth, the  self-denials  so  im­
posed.

It is always possihle to gain a  knowledge 
of the principle causes of a failure if  we go 
about the investigation  in  time.  Upon the 
result of that investigation let the creditor’s 
course of action be founded.

The gradual increase of  wealth which at­
tends the accumulation of  a  man’s  savings 
is more favorable  to its preservation and  to 
the possessor’s equanimity than any sudden 
accumulation of prosperity.

Merchants can  leave  to  their  children  a 
better  patrimony  than  money.  They  can 
leave them the worth  of  a  good  example, 
good habits,  a  religious  faith, a  true  esti­
mate of the desirable things of this life.

Give us the  straightforward, fearless, en­
terprising  man  for  business,  one  who  is 
worth a dozen of those who, when anything 
is to be done, stop, falter  and  hesitate, and 
are never ready to take a decided stand.

A great merchant should be half  a states­
man.  His occupation  of  itself, when  con­
ducted on the  broadest  scale,  demands  the 
exercise  of  that  wide  and  comprehensive 
vision requisite for the operations of a chief 
minister or a general.

The facilities offered by the credit system 
to embark in mercantile  life, inducing  hun­
dreds to accept  who  are  either incapable of 
conducting business  successfully or who at­
tempt to  carry  it  on  in  locations  already 
full,  are  among  the  most  ruinous  abuses 
of the system.

It is only by a perfect knowledge of busi­
ness, by an exercise  of  tact,  judgment  and 
cautious  discrimination, coupled  with  hab­
its of industry and a  diligent observation of 
the laws of  trade and manners of men,  that 
a  young  man  can  ever  hope  to  become 
a merchant of honorable eminence.

Goods  will  not  always  sell  themselves, 
and the latest styles will  not of  themselves 
increase  your  receipts  unless aided by your 
business  abilities.  However,  with  them 
yon can secure success.

There  is  this  encouragement  about  the 
formation  of  business  habits,  when  once 
formed  they act  for  themselves.  The ac­
tions become as natural to you as breathing, 
and you  perform  them  with  equal  uncon­
sciousness.

The young man who thinks he can amuse 
or employ himself as he sees fit, at the same 
time throwing the burden of  his support on 
others, or leading a  precarious  life  on  the 
verge of debt and bankruptcy,  is a dishonor 
to his species.

Keep your store in apple-pie order.  Look 
at the samples of  every commercial traveler 
who may offer to show  them  to  you.  You 
can only improve  by it.  Yon  don’t need to 
buy from each one.  Don’t buy too much at 
j  any one time.
If  you are in  financial  trouble,  ascertain 
the whole  state  of your  affairs.  Learn ex­
actly how much  you owe.  Do  not  deceive 
yourself.  By  doing  so  you  may  awaken 
suspicions  of  dishonesty in  the  minds  of 
your creditors when  your  intentions are far 
otherwise.  ,

Plate glass,  fine show  windows  and  ele­
gant fixtures will not  alone secure  custom­
ers.  You must make  your goods attractive 
as well as the store.  And  above  all  avoid 
the creation of  an  atmosphere  both  moral 
and physical which  Is  unpleasant  to  your 
patrons.

Customers  say they have  been  in  stores 
where they have been struck with the fresh­
ness of  the  goods; the  goods  looked  as  if 
they had just come from their original pack­
ages, while in another store  the  goods  pre­
sented an old-fashioned and shoddy appear­
ance that repelled instead of attracting you. 
Now,  in  many cases,  this  difference  of  ap­
pearance is owing  entirely  to the difference 
in  the care which  the goods  have received.

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TRADE  OF  TRE  WOLVERINE  STATE.

RETAIL

X.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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WEDNESDAY,  HAY  26,  1887.

Grand Rapid» Traveling Men’» Association.
President,  L.  M. Mills!  Vice-President, S. A. Sears;  Sec­
retary  and Treasurer, Geo. H. Seymour*,  B°aril ofD i- 
rectors, H. 8. Robertson,  Geo.  F.  Owen,  J.  N.  Brad­
ford, A. B. Cole and Wm. Logie.
Hr*  Subscribers and others,  when writing 
to advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub­
lishers by mentioning that they saw the adver­
tisement in the columns of  this paper.

BEAR  THEM  IN  MIND.

A careful scrutiny of  the  vote  which de­
feated the garnishee exemption bill  in  the 
Legislature reveals the  fact  that  the  only 
members  who  voted  against  the  measure 
were either Knights  of  Labor  or  sympa­
thizers with the order.  Inasmuch as business 
men like to  know  who  their  friends  are, 
T he T r a d e s m a n  herewith reproduces  the 
names of all who voted in favor of  the bill:
Allen,  W.  A.  Baker,  Baldwin,  Bates, 
Brock,  Burr,  Cannon,  Case,  Chapman, 
Cross,  Damon,  Diekema,  Hill,  Hoaglin, 
Jones,  Killean,  Lakey,  Lincoln,  Pardee, 
Perkins, Pettit, Rentz,  Rumsey,  Simpson, 
Spencer, Tindall, Watts,  Webber.

If  the  above men are friends to fair-play 
and  the business public, it must necessarily 
follow  that those who voted against the bill 
are enemies to business men and  friends  to 
the dead-beat class.  For the information of 
the  former,  and  the  satisfaction  of  the 
latter, T he Tradesman  herewith-presents 
the names of the worthies who voted in the 
negative:
Abbott,  Baumgardner,  Bentley,  Breen, 
Crocker, Dickson,  Dillon,  Eldred,  Harper, 
Haskin,  Hoobler,  Hosford,  Manly,  Ogg, 
Powers, J. W. Robinson, Snow,  Van Orth* 
wick, Vickary,  Washburn,  F.  H.  Watson 
Wilson.

It is now in order for the  Grand Army of 
Dead-Beats, Michigan Division,  to get up a 
medal in honor  of  the  twenty-two  gentle­
men who  so  ably  and  successfully  cham 
pioued the cause  of  the  dead-beat  in  the 
Legislature.  Such a medal should have the 
number of  the  bill  inscribed  thereon  and 
should also  bear  the  magic  term  “Dead­
beat” on one side and the dead-beat’s rescuer, 
“K.  of  L.,”  on  the  other  side. 
The 
T radesman  commends  this  plan  to  the 
several thousand gentlemen occupying com­
manding positions  on  the  delinquent  lists 
of the eighty associations of  this State.

Meanwhile,  business  men  should  paste 
the above list in their hats and when the next 
Legislative election comes around—well, 
may be necessary for some of  those  whose 
names ornament the above list to remain  at 
home.

“GROCERS’  DAY.”

Wednesday promises to be a gala day  for 
the grocers of Grand Rapids, as well as  for 
several  hundred  invited  guests,  most 
whom have accepted the invitation.  About 
fifty of the largest  grocers  have  agreed  to 
close their places of  business in  the  after­
noon, in order to give  their  clerks  an  op­
portunity to enjoy  a  half  day’s  recreation 
and all the  others  are  expected  to  follow 
suit 
It is to be  hoped  that  every  grocer 
will conclude to close his doors for the  few 
hours of the picnic and thus  emphasize  the 
belief that even  grocers  have  some  rights 
which people are bound  to  respect—that 
year’s constant application  to  business en 
titles the grocer to a  half  day’s  recreation 
T he  T radesman expects to see the  picnic 
bring together  the  largest  body  of  local 
merchants ever seen at this market and  the 
beneficial results which will  follow  in  the 
wake of such  a  gathering  will  be  beyond 
computation.

Come one, come all!

Just at present there  Is  a  strong  move­
ment In the  Episcopal Church  towards  the 
union  of  American Christians  in  a  single 
body.  We fear  the  proposal  is premature 
American Christendom has not grace enough 
to make it safe for  all  the  sects to be gath 
ered into one body.  Such a union would be 
followed  by  an  era  of  clerical  meddling 
in all sorts of matters with  which  churches 
and clergymen  have  no  proper  and  direct 
concern.  The  present  divisions  save  us 
from much  by playing  off  one  sect against 
another.  But  even  now,  ihe  larger  relig­
ious bodies  are  somewhat  of  a  danger  in 
politics,  and are  too often  represented  in 
tbe Legislative lobbies  by white  neckties— 
as in two  recent cases  in  New  York  and 
New Jersey.

Besides this  reason  there  is  another  for 
believing  that  tbe  day  of  union  Is  still 
somewhat  remote. 
It is, that union at pre­
sent would be tbe sacrifice of  much  that  is 
preeious  in  the  existing  religious  bodies. 
Our divisions are not  the  mere  unmeaning 
char» that the friends of  the  union seem to 
assume.  There is reason  in  them.  A sect 
lives by toe vitality of its half-truths.  And 
even these half-truths  are  worth  too  much 
to be thrown away for the  sake  of  making 
a big corporation.  Before a healthy reunion 
comes,  toe  different  denominations  must 
give some time to  the  candid  stndy of each 
other,  must  “mind  not  their  own  things 
only” but  toe  things  of  others.  For  that 
study  they  have  been  badly  prepared  by 
centuries  of  sectarian  self-assertion  and 
polemics.  T hao never  was  a  time  when 
such self-assertion was at  a lower  ebb than 
it now is.  But its disappearance  has left a 
mere vacuum of denominational indifference 
and  ignorance,  which  may  make  union 
easy, but cannot help  but make it harmful.

Mr. Clark has  not  been  deterred  by  the 
almost universal  censure  of his proposal to 
create a new university at Worcester, Mass. 
He has shown a firmness in  sticking to  his 
first  proposal,  which  makes  us  think  he 
must have come  of the considerable Scotch- 
Irish colony, which  settled  in  that city last 
century, and which—we believe—gave Judge 
Grey to the  Supreme  Bench.  He  has  all 
their staying power, and he  announces that 
If one million  be  not  enough  he  is  ready 
with  another.  As  that  commonwealth  is 
already more than supplied with educational 
institutions of a higher  grade, and  as Wofr- 
cbester,  which  already  has  an  eminent 
technological Institute, is not  big enough to 
furnish a large attendance,  we  do  not  see 
that his gift will  add  anything  to  the  re­
sources of education in Masachusetts.  Two 
millions  similarly spent  in  some  Western 
State would be more helpful  to  the country 
at large,  and  a  worthier  monument  to  the 
donor. 

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Ail  the  reputable  fire  insurance  agents 
here are in favor of  the  Cole  bill  and  the 
abandonment of  the  present  compact  sys­
tem.  Their  lips  are  sealed,  however,  as 
they have  been  given  to  understand  that 
any action taken in  such  direction  will  be 
followed by instant removal.  As the board 
system makes  the  agent  simply  a  clerk, 
amenable to every whim of  the local under­
writer, it  is not to be wondered at that  the 
agent is  restive  under  such  restraint—re­
straint whichi deprives him of every particle 
of Independence and compels him  to  aban­
don every claim to business  freedom.

Joseph Dillon is the only  Representative 
from Kent  county  who  voted  against  the 
garnishee exemption  bill.  Mr.  Dillon  has 
been badly in debt  for  several  years  past, 
yet no one  pressed  him  for  payment—let 
him take his own time,  in  fact.  Why  he 
should turn on the men who have  befriend­
ed him in the past and array himself on the 
side of the dead-beat is something no one is 
able to explain.  Mr.  Dillon will not repre­
sent Kent  county  in  the  Legislature  next 
time—not if  the  business  men  have  any­
thing to say about it.

Every Michigan  business  man  who  be­
lieves that the fire insurance business ought 
to be conducted in an  open-handed,  honor­
able manner—the  same  as  other  branches 
of industry are  carried  on—should  imme­
diately write his State  Senator,  requesting 
him to work and vote for the Cole bill, now 
before  that  body.  On  the  contrary,  the 
man who believes in perpetuating a monop­
oly more oppressive than the  tyranny  of  a 
monarch of  the middle ages  should ask his 
Senator to use every endeavor to defeat  the 
bill.

Hereafter the Knights of  Labor  and  the 
dead-beat  must  be  included  in  the  same 
category.  At the behest of  the  latter,  the 
former rushed to the defeat of the garnishee 
exemption  measure  before 
the  present 
Legislature  and  succeeded  in  killing  the 
bill. 
It now remains for  the  dead-beat  to 
repay  the  favor  by  rushing  precipitately 
into a strike or boycott.  The old adage  re­
lative to ‘ ‘birds of a feather flocking together” 
finds a capital  analogy  in  these  two  ele 
ments of society.

A certain  insurance  agent  of  this  city 
went before the Senate  Insurance  Commit­
tee and stated that  the  furniture  manufac­
turers  of  this  city  were  unanimously  in 
favor of  board insurance. 
In reply to  this 
statement, a  delegation  of  manufacturers, 
headed by John Widdicomb, will present to 
the Committee a paper signed  by  sixty-six 
of  the  sixty-eight  manufacturers  at  this 
market,  petitioning for  legislation prohibit­
ing  board  insurance.  Sic  semper  blow 
hardu8.

As a  nation, we  boast  of being  freemen 
As business men, however, we  are  subject 
to the tyranny of two of the most  grasping 
despots known to history—the -board mana­
ger and the  insurance  adjuster.  Business 
men, as a class,  are slow to act,  but the pre­
sent oppression is  likely  to  arouse  them 
from a lethargy which has cost them thous 
andsof  dollars—dollars  which  h^ve  gone 
directly into 50 per cent  dividends  for the 
stockholders of board insurance companies.

Representative Dillon  voted  against  the 
garnishee exemption  bill  and  then  started 
off for Washington on a free pass,  given  in 
consideration  of  his  not  being  on  hand 
when the vote of reducing railway fare came 
up in the House.  Yet  Mr.  Dillon  is  paid 
891 per week and mileage to  represent  his 
constitutents  during 
Legislature. 
Doesn’t this  look a little  like  dead-beatiDg 
from the State?

the 

Before the inter-state commerce law went 
into  effect,  Grand  Rapids  was  sending 
thousands  of  barrels  of  flour a  month to 
Cheboygan at a cost of 25 cents  per barrel. 
Now the railroads charge 05  cents' per bar­
rel, but our millers have found a way to cir­
cumvent them.

The Czar  on  his  throne  finds  an  exact 
counterpart in the present  board  insurance 
manager.

“Prisoner,” said a  Nevada  judge,  “what 
have you to say tepthis indictment;  are  you 
guilty or not guilty?” 
“ Before  1  answer 
the question, Judge, I’d  like  to  ask  your 
Honor if this little spectacled dude is all toe 
lawyer I’ve got?”  “ That is Mr.  Ferguson, 
sir!” responded toe Judge sternly;  “I  have 
appointed him to defend you,  as  you  seem 
to  have  no  counsel.”  “Judge,”  said  the 
prisoner, sighing  heavily,  “I’m  guilty.”— 
Chicago Times.

AMONG THE TRADE.

GRAND  ra pids  gossip.

E. Burkhardt will engage in the furniture 

business at 119 Canal  street

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Gould & Co. have moved  their  hardware 
stock from Petoskey to  this  city,  locating 
on Wealthy avenue, near East street.  They 
made  extensive  additions  to  their  stock, 
which were  furnished by Foster, Stevens &
Co. 
<;L. J. Quinn has leased the  inside store in 
the Caulfield  block,  87  Canal  street,  and 
will shortly remove his liquor business from 
94 Canal street to that location.  Mr.  Caul­
field has removed his “truck” to one of  the 
vacant  stores  in  the  Klllinger  block,  on 
Crescent avenue.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Carney—Chas. A.  Brown  has  sold  his 

general stock.

Remus—Chris. Vashan  succeeds Vashan 

Bros, in general trade.

Pierson—H. & S.  Martin,  druggists, are 

removing to New Buffalo.

Centerville—Mrs. Wm.  Granger, milliner 

has removed to  Piainwell.

Pinnebog—Alex. B. Arthur  succeeds Ar­

thur Bros,  in general trade.

Howard City—F. & R. Church succeed R. 

Perry in the meat business.

Battle Creek—Estell &  White, flour  and 

feed dealers, have dissolved.

Charlotte—Z. G.  Call  succeeds  Wood  & 

Call in the grocery business.

St. Johns—Jas.  Richardson  has sold out 

his grocery and crockery business.

Tecumseh—W.  H. Sutfin succeeds  Sutfin 

& Montague in the saloon business.

East Tawas—Yan Way & Larkin succeed 

Mrs. L. J. Fick in the hotel business.

South Haven—Culver & Butler, druggists, 

did not dissolve,  as formerly reported.

Owosso—Theo.  F.  Laubengayer  has 

bought J. F.  Laubengayer’s drug stock.

East  Saginaw—G.  M.  Wisner  &  Co., 

wholesale cigar dealers,  have dissolved.

Detroit—John P.  Becker  succeeds Jacob 
Becker & Son in the manufacture of pianos.
Piainwell—H.  H.  Steams  succeeds
Steams & Batchelder in the meat  business.
Camey—P. S.  Mumford  &  Co.  succeed 
Vanderheiden & Mumford in general  trade.
Battle Creek—W. T. Davis  succeeds Da­
vis & Robinson in the  machinery  business.
Battle Creek—Stephen B. Todd  succeeds 
Geo.  E. Hastings & Son in the  hotel  busi­
ness.

Saginaw—Katherine  Fink succeeds Fink 
&  Levison  in the  tobacco and  cigar busi­
ness.

Battle Creek—F.  J.  Hazard,  boots  and 
shoes,  has been closed  under  chattel mort­
gage.

Kalamazoo—Hale  W.  Page, of  the firm 
of Page & Kauffler,  handle  manufacturers, 
is dead.

Bonanza—C.  M. Peer, late  of  Ionia,  has 
engaged in the music  and  sewing  machine 
business.

Port Huron—H.  C.  Sanborn  has  bought 
the Globe boot  and  shoe  stock  of  H.  S. 
Ballentine.

Lansing—Tower  &  Bower  have  bought 
out the restaurant  and  confectionery  busi­
ness of C. F. Irey & Co.

Ionia—George  Adamy will  soon have his 
grocery and provision  house on West Mam 
street ready for occupancy.

Hudson—John W.  Hall,  who  has  been 
engaged in toe drug business here for twen­
ty years, has assigned to Ira Swaney.

Reed City—Baker  &  Norman,  crockery 
and bazaar  dealers,  have  added a  line  of 
jewelry, purchased  through E. K.  Bennett 
Quincy—C.  W.  Bennett  has  bought  the 
B.  N.  Sheldon  drug  stock  and  Martin 
Howard’s hardware store has  been  sold  to 
G. T. Gilbert.

Diamond Lake—The store and warehouse 
of the West Michigan  Lumber  Co.  burned 
to the ground on the 15th.  No  insurance. 
Cause of  fire unknown.

Bonanza—Stephen Haight, the Woodland 
furniture dealer, has  purchased  a  lot  here 
and will start a furniture store here,  if  the 
railroad comes this  way.

Kalamazoo—G. I.  Goodenow  and  F. E, 
Judson have  engaged  in the sale of electri 
cal supplies under the style of the  Kalama 
zoo Electrical Supply Co.

North Lansing—The  E.  D.  Kitchen boot 
and shoe stock has been sold to  T. J.  Rork 
and  F. and E. Lemon,  who  will  continue 
toe business under the firm  name  of  Rork 
& Lemon,  adding a line of dry goods.

Clinton—With the  resumption  of  active 
operations by the woolen mills come several 
business  changes.  C.  S.  Burroughs  has 
sold his drug store to  O.  A.  Sinclair  and 
has bought Kimball &  Co.’s  clothing  store 
in company with F.  D.  Lancaster.  E.  R. 
Smith is tearing down his place of  business 
preparatory to the erection  of  a  fine  brick 
block.

STRAY  FACTS.

Mason—The creditors of L. J. Ford  have 

received 27 cents on the dollar.

Saginaw  City—The  Citizens’  National 

Bank has declared a 5 per cent dividend, 
j  Dowagiac—P.  D.  Beckwith  has  taken 
half of the gas well stock,  at an expense of 
$2,500.

Alpena—Logging teams are now  running 
to West Branch  creek,  a  distance  of  fifty 
miles.

Charlotte—Seth Ketchum and  G.  Homer 
Jones will soon establish a bank at  Lexing­
ton, N. C.

Cheboygan—Mason & Carieton  have sold 
their brick  yard  to  John  Elliott,  late  of 
Fowlerville.

Muskegon—John  Torrent  &  Co.  have 
purchased  11,000  acres  of  timber  land, 
mostly covered by  hemlock,  on  Dock  and

Tom creek, and will Improve the stream for 
getting out the logs.

East Saginaw—The Dillon  Smoked  Fish 
Co. has been organized,  with a capital stock 
of $100,000.

Addison—The bank has been closed. 

It 
is understood that the  Curtiss  interest  will 
not again open the  business.

Saugatuck—Wm.  S.  Peckham,  teller  of 
the First National Bank of Lafayette,  Ind., 
will open a bank here July 1.

Mio—The affairs of  Hunter &  Son  have 
been  adjusted  and  the  firm  has  resumed 
business under the same  style.

St.  Ignace—The salt bore  of  the  Macki­
naw Lumber Co. is down between  600  and 
700 feet.  Brine has been  reached,  but  its 
strength has not yet been  tested.

Association Notes.

Morenci merchants have organized a Bus­
iness Men’s Association in accordance  with 
blanks  and  plans  furnished  by  the  State 
body.

Scottsville business  men  are  canvassing 
the idea of forming an association and have 
applied to the State body for  the  necessary 
assistance.

President  Rowell;  of 

the  Battle  Creek 
Retail Grocers’  Association,  made  the  ac­
quaintance of some of  the  Kalamazoo  gro­
cers, at their meeting last Tuesday evening.
J. L.  Willett,  Secretary of the Flint Mer­
cantile Union, writes as follows:  “Our As­
sociation is a success  in  every respect  and 
is  doing  quite  a  good  work  in  the  boom 
line.”

Hastings—Ackerson & Hayes have  about 
125,000 dozen of eggs in their packing vats, 
and will put down 25,000 dozen more.  That 
means $15,000 worth of hen fruit 

Negaunee—The Michigan Iron Bank will 
be changed to a National bank and the First 
National  Bank  is  being  re-organized  by 
Negaunee and Ishpeming  capitalists.

Flint—Burroughs,  Pierson  &  Harris, 
millers, have merged their  business  into  a 
stock company and will continue under  the 
same style.  The  capital  stock  is $70,000, 
all paid  in.

Mears—H.  Cockell  recently  traded  his 
general stock for a farm in Ohio, but before 
he had time to ship the  goods to  Ohio they 
were  attached at  the  instance of  several 
creditors.  Counter suits have been brought 
by the new purchaser  against the attaching 
creditors,

Detroit—The wholesale grocery and spice 
house of J.  H.  Thompson  &  Co.,  which 
was established about  four  years  ago,  has 
been merged  into a stock  company,  under 
the same style.  The capital stock  is  $60,- 
000, of  which  $57,000  is  paid  in.  C.  A, 
Worthington is  President  of  the  corpora­
tion, J.  H.  Thompson Secretary and  J.  M 
Thompson Treasurer. 
It is intended here­
after, as rapidly  as  possible,  to  limit  the 
business  purely  to  the  manufacture  and 
sale of  baking powders and  ground  goods, 
Negaunee—The Vermillion Pine and Iron 
Land Co. has been organized  with a capital 
of $1,500,000,  divided  into  60,000  shares 
The company  owns 20,000 acres of  Minne 
sota mineral and pine  lands, which  will be 
developed speedily.  The officers are:  Pres 
ident,  C. H. Hall,  Ishpeming;  Vice-Presi 
dent,  John  Duncan,  Calumet;  Secretary 
and Treasurer,  Samuel Mitchell,  Negaunee 
Directors,  C. H. Hall,  Ishpeming;  Samuel 
Mitchell, Negaunee;  C. S. Mitchell,  Negau 
nee;  James Foley, Negaunee;  E. Pallis,Jr. 
Milwaukee;  J. M.  Wilkinson,  Marquette 
William Chisholm, Cleveland;  J.  H. Wade 
Jr.,  Cleveland;  John Duncan,  Calumet.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Paris—Barker,  Lane  &  Co.  will  s 

start up their door and sash factory.

Wolverine—Thé  works  of  the  United 

States Veneer Co. are now in operation.

Lakeview—Wm.  Peters is building a saw 
mill with a capacity of  30,000 feet per day,
Dundee—The  paper  mill  has  been  pur­
chased by H. E. Mead  &  Co.,  of  Dayton 
Ohio.

Richmond—W.  H.  Acker  aud  Thos 
Denison have began the erection of  a  fruit 
evaporator.

Jonesville—Seventy  operatives  are  now 
employed in the cotton mills  and  the  force 
will shortly be increased.

Hudson—The  Whitney  hub,  spoke  and 
bending factory has been  purchased  by  C, 
F. DeGolyer, of Chicago.

Kalkaska—The  Smith  Lumber  Co. 

making arrangements  to  increase  the  cut 
ting capacity of  its  mill  to  120,000  feet 
day.

Benton Harbor—The output  of  the  new 
canning factory will be 60,000 cans per day 
which Is double the capacity of  the  factory 
burned last winter.

Saranac—Mr. Smith,  formerly of the firm 
of Knott, Smith & Co.,  ait Belding, offers  to 
erect a roller flour mill here,  providing he is 
given a reasonable bonus.

Coral—E. R. Ferguson has purchased the 
property of the Greenville Barrel Co.,  com' 
prising the old  mill,  the store  formerly  oc 
cupied  by  D.  L.  Shook,  and  the  house 
formerly occupied  by  M.  McMillan.  The 
mill property will be used for a foundry.

Allegan—W. J. Griffith, of  Detroit,  has 
purchased the  Bush  mill  property,  in Pine 
Plains township,  for $12,000.  The  proper­
ty comprises 1,000 acres and a well-equipped 
saw mill.  There are 1,000,000 feet of stand 
ing pine and any  quantity of  shingle  and 
lath timber.  Mr.  Griffith will put in mills 
for the manufacture  of the 
latter.  There 
are also extensive beds of  mineral paint on 
the lands,  and the new owner  will  develop 
them.

Purely Personal.

E. T. Van Ostrand,  the Allegan druggist, 

spent Sunday with friends in this city.

Homer Eaton left Saturday  for  Lincoln, 
Neb., to inspect the business  of  the  Eaton 
& Christenson  Cigar  Co.  He  is  expected 
back again Thursday.

Chas. H. Adams,  the Allegan book-seller 
and stationer, passed through the  city  Sat­
urday on his way home from  a  week’s  va­
cation in Ionia county.

F. E. Stevens, book-keeper for  Jennings 
& Smith,  spent Sunday at Chippewa  Lake, 
the guest of  Geo.  Medes. 
It  is  reported 
that he  violated the new game  law,  which 
prohibits fishing on Sunday.

John  Magnusen,  for  several  years pa3t 
prescription  clerk  for  E.  A.  Wright, at 
Pentwater,  has  taken  a  similar  position 
with  Vic.  Roussin,  a t . Ludtngton.  W. 
Kuhn,  M. D,,  succeeds to the  vacancy in 
Wright’s store.

East  Jordon  Enterprise:  At  the  last 
meeting of the Business Men’s  Association, 
resolution  was  adopted  authorizing  the 
stores to keep open  evenings as long as the 
proprietors please.

The friends of  State  Treasurer  Schuster 
will be pleased to* learn that he  has  so  far 
recovered from his  rheumatic  attack  as  to 
return home  from Mt.  Clemens,  and  that 
present indications are that he will  entirely 
recover his old-time health.

Geo. W. Bevins,  Secretary of  the  Tustin 
Business Men’s Association, writes  as  fol­
lows:  “Through the labors of our Business 
Committee, we have secured a broom facto­
ry here,  which is  turning  out  a  first-class 
broom.  We hope to secure  other  improve­
ments in the near  future.”

President Hamilton  is  a  man  of  many 
accomplishments.  For several years he has 
been known as one of  the  most  successful 
merchants in the State.  Last year  the  or­
ganized forces  of  the  State  added  to  his 
laurels  by  making  him  their  presiding 
officer.  Now he  proposes to  gain  distinc­
tion in another direction by engaging in the 
cultivation of beans on an extensive scale— 
and red kidney beans at  that!

Detroit  News:  Twenty-seven  business 
men of Evart have organized against the in­
definite credit system,  and the chronic d. b 
will soon have to emigrate.  His chances in 
Michigan are growing less every day,  as  7i 
cities and villages of  the State  have organ 
ized, with a membership of  over  2,000. 
It 
is pay up or pay cash  hereafter.  The Blue 
Letter is reported as doing  its  work  faith 
fully and well all over the  State.

Evart Review:  The Evart Business Men’s 
Association held a very  successful  meeting 
Wednesday  evening  last,  at  which  they 
completed their organization by the election 
of the following  additional  officers:  Vice- 
President,  C. V.  Priest;  Treasurer,  Frank 
Hibbard; Business Committee,  B.  G.  Col­
ton, R. A. Allured and  Geo.  W.  Minchin 
Trade Committee,  R.  J.  Ponsford,  E.  C 
Cannon  and  M.  E.  Parkinson.  There 
were also some new members added,  which 
brings the roll up to twenty-seven,  and sev 
eral firms yet to hear from.  The  Associa 
tion also voted to join the State Association 
as a body,  and thereby receive  the  benefits 
of interchange of business relations between 
the numerous local associations all  over the 
State

While at Lansing last week,  the editor of 
T he Tradesman met  President  Hughart 
of the G.  R. & I.  Railway,  who  improved 
the opportunity to express  his  approval  of 
the  local  association  idea.  “I  find  that 
your organizations will be  a  great  help  to 
us,” said Mr.  Hughart.  “For instance, our 
General Freight Agent may  want  to  com 
municate with the business men of  a  tow: 
on a matter which concerns us both.  Here 
tofore he has  been  compelled  to  select 
prominent man in a town and depend  upon 
him to impart the information to the others 
Such a course has  proved  very  unsatisfac 
tory, but It has been the only thing he could 
do.  Now—thanks to the work of Mr. Ham 
ilton, yourself and  T he  T radesman—we 
have an  association  in  every  city  and  in 
nearly every town  along  the  line  of  our 
road,  with which we can promptly communi 
cate and from which we are sure to  receivi 
a prompt reply. 
In my opinion,  there  are 
boundless possibilities in store for  these or 
ganizations and the fabric you  have  reared 
is bound  to  exceed  your  expectations  in 
every respect”

The Gripsack Brigade.

E.  K.  Bennett, representing N.  G. Levin 

sou & Co., of Chicago, Sundayed here.

A.  E.  Brownell, representing the  Arneri 
can Cigar Co., of Cold water,  put in Sunday 
at this market.

Chester J.  Shaw,  representing  Shaw & 
Thomas,  spice  grinders of  New York, was 
in town over Sunday.

Harry Hagy and wife are  celebrating the 
advent of a six-pound girl, which arrived at 
their home on Jackson street  last Friday.

Harry Bowker, formerly engaged  in  the 
manufacture of cigars at Coldwater, has en 
gaged to travel  for  Eaton  &  Christenson
Wm.  A. Rindge and  bride  have returned 
from their  wedding trip and will  be  ready 
to receive their friends  at  the  Park  Place 
after June 1.

F. H.  Lester, Indiana  representative  for 

Amos S. Musselman & Co., was  in  town 
couple  of  days  last  week, 
specialties for his customers.

looking  up 

Adolph Nessen,  who  for  several  years 
has  managed  the  clothing  department  of 
Carl E. Joys, at Manistee,  has  engaged  to 
travel for H.  A.  Newland  &  Co.,  of  De­
troit, the engagement to go into  effect June 
1.

M. J. Matthews, President of  the  Michi­
gan Tinware Co.,  spent  Sunday  in  Grand 
Rapids and left Monday for Muskegon  and 
Big Rapids.  Mr.  Matthews Is chairman of 
the National Legislative Committee  of  the 
T» P.  A. and spent some tíme while here In

preparing a report  for  the  S t  Louis  con­
vention.

Will Lamoreaux went to Caledonia  Mon­
day to arrange for a wool buyer.  On his re­
turn  home,  he tried to  beat the  conductor 
out of his fare, when that official  promptly 
put him off the train.  He arrived— over the 
ties—late in the evening.

Anyone wishing to touch Max. Mills in  a 
tender spot might  gently  enquire  how  he 
came  to  leave  one  of  his  gripsacks  at 
Bonanza on  his  last  trip  to  that  place. 
Those who are so uncharitable  as  to  think 
that it was held by the  landlord  to  satisfy 
an unpaid board bill are mistaken.

A. W.  Landon,  a traveling man living on 
Twenty-third  street,  Detroit,  committed 
suicide last Friday by taking an overdose of 
morphine.  He left testamentary  letters re­
garding the disposition of  his property and 
remains and assigning as the reason  for his 
act that he  had long been unable  to  obtain 
employment as a commercial traveler, which 
had been  his  occupation.  Besides  $3,000 
insurance on his life, he is said to  have had 
$9,000  worth  of  property  in  California. 
Coroner Lansing  inquired  into  the  matter 
and concluding that the deceased was  men­
tally unsound decided  not  to  hold  an  in­
quest.  The  family  came  originally  from 
Brockville,  Ont.  The  deceased left a wife 
and three children.

VISITING  BUYERS.

The following retail  dealers  have  visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses:
Geo. H. Rainouard, Bridgeton.
Seward McNitt & Co., Byron Center.
C. F. Williams, Caledonia.
J. N. Wait, Hudsonville.
R. T. Parish, Grandville.
R. A. Hastings, Sparta.
A. W. Fenton & Co., Bailey.
H. D. Purdy, Fennville.
Uilke DeVries, Jamestown.
S. J. Coon, Lisbon.
B. E. West & Co., Lowell.
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia.
J. Q. Look, Lowell.
E. E. Rice, Croton.
Peck & Co., Walton.
H. M.  Fuller Co., Paris.
J. D. F. Pierson, Pierson.
M. V. Wilson, Sand Lake.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
E. T. VanOstrand, Allegan.
Chas. H. Adams, Allegan.
B. J. Robertson, Breedsville.
J. E. Thurkow, Morley.
McOmber. Smith & Co., Petoskey.
L. N. Fisher, Dorr.
N. Bouma, Fisher.
A. S. Frye. Lake.
C. R. Bunker,  Bailey.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade.
A. Purchase, So. Blendon.
Farrowe & Dalmon, Allendale.
JobnKamps, Zutphen.
Sidney Stark. Allendale.
C. N. Leach, Hersey.
C. C. Tuxbury, Sullivan.
H, Coykendall, Allegan.
H. C. McFarlane. Manton.
S. A. Bush,  Lowell.
L. Cook, Bauer.
J. Omler, Wright.
J. Barnes. Austerlitz.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
G. TenHoor. Forest Grove.
Stanley Monroe, Berlin.
W. S. Root, Tallmadge.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
D. J. MoNaughton, Chapel.
G. M. Huntley, Reno.
H. Bromley,  Hesperia.
Herman Thompson, Canada Corners.
C. E. Coburn, Pierson.
J. VanPutten, Holland.
Jno. Damstra, Gitchell.
Harry Andrus, Paton & Andrus, Shelby.
Mr. Waterman, with C. Mears. Mears.
A. L. Carpenter & Co., Baldwin.
O. F. & W. P. Conklin. Ravenna.
Juistema Bros., Grand Haven.
J. Raymond, Berlin.
W. C. Murray, Lowell.
8. Sheldon, Pierson.
O. Christenson, Ryerson.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
M. M. Robson, Berlin.
Mrs. E. L. Kinney, Maple Hill.
C. H, Joldersma, Jamestown.
Thos. Cooley, Lisbon.
Hoag&Judson. Cannonsburg.
C. H. Deming. Dutton.
Geo. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
J. P. Cordes, Alpine.
C. E. Stocking, Grattan.
M. J. Howard, Englishvllle.
Herder & Lahuls, Zeeland.
G. S. Putnam, Fruitport.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
Nelson F. Miller, Lisbon.
S. Cooper. Jamestown.
B. Gilbert & Co., Moline.
H. VanNoord, Jamestown.
R. G. Smith, Wayiand.
J. V. Crandall & Son, Sand Lake.
R. McKinnon, Hopkins.
H. Topping, Casnovia.
DeKruif, Boone & Co.. Zeeland.
Mrs. P. Holmes, Edmore.
B. Burlington. Bradley.
G X X T S S X T G   R O O T .
Peck Bros., Druggists, «rand Rapids, Mich.
We pay the h ighest price for it.  Address

NOTICE.

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

Grand Rapids, May 7,1887. 

czzxmcs’s

Bug Finish!

J* A. HENRY.
A. M. A. EMERY.
193

READY FOR USE DRY.

NO MIXING REQUIRED.

Advertisements  will  be inserted under this 
head for one cent a word or two  cents a word 
for three insertions.  No advertisement taken 
for less than 35 cents.  Advance payment.
Advertisements  directing  that  answers  be 
sent in care of this office must be accompanied 
by 35 cents extra, to cover expense of postage.
TTIOR SALE—Two store  counters, three  sets 
X! 
scales,  six  teti  cans,  six spice  cans, one 
small coffee mill and two  show-cases, also ono 
delivery wagon.  All of  the foregoing will  be 
sold cheap for cash.  M.  J.  Lewis,  72  Graiid­
yllic avenue, Grand Rapids. 

192tf

- 
a good business, and in the oest  location 
in town.  Lock box 78, Cheboygan, Mich.  193*

ITiOR SALE—A first-class meat market doing 
■OR SALE—House, tin  shop and  set of tin­

ner’s tools, in a live town with good farm­
ing  country  surrounding,  for  $800,  one-half 
cash, balance on time.  Good chance for a tin­
ner.  No other hardware or  tin-shop  in town, 
Look box 33, Elsie, Mich. 

i lOK SALE—Residence and  medical practice 

of  $3,OUO  a  year,  regular  physician  in 
wealthy town of 1,500  people:  surrounded  by 
excellent, thickly sett led farm Ing oountry with 
good  roads;  bargain  if  sold  soon.  Address 
S. 251 Grand River Ave., Detroit, Mich.  193*

193*

193

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

■OR  SALE—One  of  the  best-paying  drug 
IjloR  SALE—Stock of  general  merchandise, 

in good condition; will rent store one year 
with  privilege  of  buying;  trade  in  a  good 
healthy condition.  G. C. Willey, Summit city, 
Mich. 
193*
F OR SALE—At  a  bargain, a  grocery  stock 
situated on a good business street in this 
city.  For  further  particulars  address  CCC, 
193*
care Tradesman office. 
FOR  SALE—A  complete  stock  of  drugs, 

paints and oils; am doing a good busl ness; 
surrounded  by  a  good  farming  country. 
Reason  for  selling,  poor  health.  Call  on or 
address E. H. Stevens, Pewarno,  Micb. 
193*
T710R SALE—Store  building, residence, barn 
X   and stock  of  general  merchandise, situ­
ated ten miles from  Grar^l  Rapids, in  a good 
farming  country,  worth  $5,000.  Not  much 
competition nearer  than  Grand Rapids.  Ad­
dress. “Steven,” care of tbe Tradesman, Grand 
Rapids,  Mich. 

193*

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FOR SALE—Best  bargain  ever  offered  for 

general  stock  in growing town  in  good 
farming  community  in  Northern  Michigan. 
Stock  will inventory about  $5,000.  Sales last 
year were $80,000.  Address “The Tradesman,” 
Grand Rapids. 

IilOR SALE—Ice box, 6 feet and 3 inches high, 

3 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 Rap­
id ^ ______________________________189tf

IMPORTANT TO EVERY STORE-KEEPER— 

Every retail dealer who desires to  run his 
business on an economical  basis  should  send 
for a sample of the Sutliff Coupon System, the 
most complete  arrangement of  the kind that 
will  abolish  your  pass-books.  Tbe  best  and 
most progressive  merchants  throughout  the 
United States are now using this  system with 
the very best results.  With  this  system  you 
have  no  writing,  no  bookkeeping,  no  pass­
books.  Every sale is a cash sale and hundreds 
of  dollars  are  saved  annually  in  forgotten 
charges alone.  Having  two kinds, samples of 
both will be sent on application.  John H. Sut­
liff, Albany, N. Y. 
QODA FOUNTAIN, CHEAP—A  nearly  new 
J. W. Tuft’s Epoch. No. 707 soda  fountain 
and 2 copper  tanks,  glass  syrup  cans  and  10 
glass-lined syrup faucets, 8 glass-lined draught 
tubes, counter fountain.  Apply to A. R. Rood, 
43 Pearl street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
\ \ T  ANTED—Ladies at home or to travel with 
t V  my Improved Tailor System.  It has full
directions  and  sells  at  sight. 
Address H. M. 
Perkins, Lapeer, Mich.
191*

191-3t

197*

*  ANTED—A stock of drugs, from  $2,000 to 

$3,000  worth.  Must  be  a  good-paying 
business.  None  other  need apply. 
Address 
Lock Box 59, Fremont. Mich.
193*
W f  ANTED—A  man  having  an  established 
tt 
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. 

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Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

BO O K S,

20  and  22 

tonroe  St.,  Brand  Rapids,  Mich.

THE  NEW

Soap  Company.

AND

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

the H e a .d lig lx t
Ijittl©  D a is y .

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 aro as far as TEN POUNDS 
of plaster and Paris  Green  as  mixed  by the 
farmers.  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 tbe 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- 
soilcitated 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 sold3.100 pounds of “BugFinish” last 
year,  it is ngnuy nameu  Dug  musu,  «on, 
It is rightly named  “Bug  Finish,” as it
finishes the entire crop of bugs^with one appli-. person, by letter, or telephone. 
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.”
Guaranteed as represented.  Cheaper than 

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

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

Shall we receive your  encouragement  by 

way o f a trial order?

No. 5T8-S lings.)

.   ,.

r 

^

. 

Respectfully,

any other Mixture used for the purpose.

MANUFACUBED BY

Aiti-Kalsomme Co., M  Rapids.

m is-N ew  List.

12 

HINGES.

HANGERS.

HOLLOW  WARE.

60*10
60&10
60*10
60*10
55*10
50
28 
18

American File Association List.......dis
Disston’s ......................................... dis
New American.................................dis
Nicholson’s........................................ dis
Heller’s ................... .........................dis
Heller’s Horse Rasps........................dis
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

GALVANIZED IRON,
14 

13 
GAUGES.
HAMMERS.

22 and 24,  25 and 28,  27
15
Discount, Juniata 50©10, Charcoal 60. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............ dis 
50
Maydole & Co.'s................................. dis 
25
Kip’s ..................................................dis 
25
Yerkes  & Plumb’s............................dis 
40
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...................30 c  list 50
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40*10 
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track  50*10
Champion,  anti-friction...................dis  60*10
40
Kidder, wood track...........................dis 
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3...........................dis 
60
State....................................... .per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12 
in.  4M  14
and  longer..........................
3%
Screw Hook and Eye,  %  ...... ......... net
ÎOH
Screw Hook and Eye %......... .........net
8V4
Screw Hook and Eye  X......... ..........net
7*
Screw Hook and Eye,  %........ ......... net
7 Vi
Strap and  T ..........................
65
........dis
P ots........................................................
60
Kettles...................................
60
Spiders  .................................
60
Gray  enameled.....................
50
HOUSE  FURNISHING 
Stamped Tin Ware................. GOODS. 
75
..new  list
Japanned Tin  Ware..............
35
Granite Iron  Ware...............
35
Grub  1...................................
......$11 00, dis 00
Grub  2...................................
......  11 50, dis 60
Grub 3.................................... ........  12 00, dis 60
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...........dis 
55
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings..........
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings......
Door, porcelain, trimmings..................
70
Drawer and  Shutter, porcelain.........dis 
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s....................  40*10
Hcmacite........................................... dig 
45
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list, .dis
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s...................dis
Branford’s ......................................... dis
Norwalk’s ......................................... dis
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................. dis
Adze  Eye...................................$16 00 dis
Hunt Eye...................................$15 00 dis
Hunt’s......................................$18 50 dis 20 * 10
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled...............   dis  50
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s................................dis 40
Coffee, P. S. & W.Mfg. Co.’s Malleables ...  dis 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry A Clark’s..............dis 40
Coffee,  Enterprise..........................*....... dis  25
Stebbin’s Pattern  ............................. dis  60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine.............................. dis  60*10
Enterprise,  self-measuring............... dis 
25

KNOBS—NEW LIST.

MOLASSES GATES.

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

LEVELS.

HOES.

MAULS.

MILLS.

70

55

NAILS—IRON.

2 

Common. Brad and Fencing.

OILERS.

I  lOd 
8d  6d  4d
2*4 
1*4
$1 25  1 50  1 75  2 00 

lOd to  60d.........................................$ keg $2 15
8d and 9 d adv............................................
6d and 7d  adv............................................ 
50
4d and 5d  adv........................................
3d advance.................................................  1 50
3d fine advance.....................................  _
Clinch nails, adv........................................  1 00
Finishing 
Size—inches  )  3 
Adv. $  keg 
Steel Nails—2 25.
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent.................... dis60&10
Zinc, with brass bottom......................... dis  50
Brass or  Copper.....................................dis  50
Reaper...................................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s ..............................................  50*10
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy............................dis  30
Sciota Bench....................................... dis 50©5o
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy...................dis  30
Bench, flrstjquality............................ dis 50@55
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood__dis20*10
Fry, Acme...........................................dis 50&10
Common, polished................................ dis60&10
Dripping............................................. lb  6*4
Iron and Tinned................................dis 
Copper Rivets and  Burs.................. dis 

PLANES.

RIVETS.

PANS.

55
60

PATENT PLANI8AED IRON.

“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished. Nos. 25  to 27  0 20

Broken packs *4c $Mb extra.

ROPES.

TACKS.

SQUARES.

SHEET IRON.

TIN PLATES.

TINNER’S SOLDER.

6
6*4
60
60
GO
60
50
50
50
60
60
4ft
35
12 50 
16 00 
17 60

Sisal, *4 In. and  larger................................11*4
Manilla........................................................  1344
Steel and Iron.................................... dis
70*10
Try and Bevels................................... dis
60
Mitre  .................................................dis
20
Com. 
Com. Smooth.
$2 90
2 90
3 00 
3 0ft 
3 15 
___
3 25
All sheets No, 18 and lighter,  over 2  Inches 

Nos. 10 to 14................................$4 20
Nos. 15 to 17................................  4 20
Nos. 18 to 21................................  420
Nos. 22 to 24................................  4 20
Nos .25 to 26................................  4 40
No. 27..........................................   4 80 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, $   fi>..........................
In smaller quansities, ft  fl>...................
American, alt  kinds.......................... dis
Steel, all kinds................................... dis
Swedes, all  kinds...............................dis
Gimp and Lace..................................dis
Cigar Box  Nails................................ dis
Finishing Nails..................................dis
Common and Patent Brads.............. dis
Hungarian Nails and Miners’ Tacks.dis
Trunk and Clout Nails....................... dis
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails..........dis
Leathered Carpet  Tacks...................dis
No.l,  Refined......... .............................
Market  Half-and-half..........................
Strictly  Half-and-half..........................
IC,
10x14, Charcoal............................5 40@5 60
LX,
10x14,Charcoal.............................  7 25
12x12, Charcoal.............................  8 25
IC,
IX,
12x12, Charcoal  ............................  7 75
14x20, Charcoal.............................  5 75
IC,
IX,
14x20,  Charcoal......   ....................  7 25
IXX,
14x20, Charcoal..............................  8 75
IXXX, 14x20, Charcool.............................   10 77
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal...........................  12 56
20x28, Charcoal.............................  15 50
IX, 
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal..........................   6 50
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal...........................  8 50
DXX. 100 Plate Charcoal..........................   10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.......................   13 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50 to 6 75
Roofing, 14x30, IC........................................  5 25
Roofing, 14x20,  IX......................................   6 75
Roofing, 30x28, IC.......................................  11 09
Roofing, 20x28, IX.....................................   14 00
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne................. 5 50
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne..............  7 00
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne................11 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne............  14 00
Steel, Game.................................................60&10
OneidalCommuntity,  Newhouse’s.........dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60*10
Hotchkiss’  .................................................60*10
S, P. & W. Mfg. Co.’s............................... 60*10
Mouse, ohoker.....................................18o f) doz.
Mouse,  delusion..................................... $1 50$ doz
Bright Market.............................................  dis 67*4
Annealed Market................... 
dis  70*lu-
Coppered Market...........................................dis 62*4
Extra Bailing.........................................  dis  65
Tinned  Market.............................................. dis 62*4-
Tinned Broom.................................................09
Tinned Mattress.....................................V 1b 8*4
Coppered  Spring Steel.................................. dis 50
Tinned Spring Steel........................................dis 40*19
Plain Fence............................................ $ tt>  3
Barbed Fence, galvanized............................4 25
painted......................................3 50^
Copper...................................................new  list net
Brass..................................................... new list net
Bright..........................................dis  70*10&1§
Screw Eyes...................................dis  70*10*10
Hook’s ........................................ dis  70*10*10
Gate Hooks and  Eves................ dis  70*10*10
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled..............
Coe’s Genuine.....................................dis 
50
75
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis 
Coe’s Patent, malleable..................... dis  75*10
BirdCages............................................... 
50
Pumps,  Cistern..................................dis  70*10
Screws, now  list....................................  
75-
Casters, Bed  and Plate...................dis50*10*10
Dampers, American..............................  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes an all steel goods.d60*10*10> 
Copper Bottoms................................... 
23c-

MISCELLANEOUS.

TIN—LEADED.

WIRE GOODS.

WRENCHES.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

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al, after which the  measure will be pushed 
through  with  all  possible  dispatch.  The 
draft prepared is a  remarkably  strong one, 
combining  all  the  merits  and none of the 
defects of many previous bills of similar in­
tent, and too much  credit cannot be accord­
ed Senator Roof—who, by the way, is Pres­
ident of the Lyons Business Men’s Associa­
tion—for his  uniform  courtesy to the dele­
gation and his unselfish endeavors to render 
the bill acceptable to the State body.

* * *

The bill introduced early in the session by 
Representative  Bettinger,  prohibiting  the 
giving of  prizes  with  goods,  is  still in the 
hands of  the Committee  on State  Affairs, 
but will probably be reported this week.

LANSING  LACONICS.

In  company  with  the  President of  the 
Michigan  Business  Men’s  Association,  I 
spent three days at Lansing last week, look­
ing over legislation affecting the Association 
in particular and business  men in  general. 
It has been my good  fortune  to look in up­
on every  Legislature  for  the  past  dozen 
years and  something more  than a  cursory 
examination  satisfies  me  that the  present 
body is about  on a par  with its  immediate 
predecessors.  The labor element has a larg­
er representation  in the  House  than  ever 
before, and duty  compels  me to  state that 
the labor members,  taken as a whole,  are a 
very inferior set of  men.  To them is to be 
attributed  much  of  the  loose  legislation 
which has marked the course of  the present 
session, and at their doors must also be laid 
the defeat of several measures which would 
have resulted in the lasting good of the mass 
of the people.  How long the  voters of the 
State will tolerate such a “dog in  the  man­
ger” policy remains to be seen.

* * *

To the labor  members is to be  attributed

The  Michigan  Division of  the T.  P.  A.* 
The Michigan Division is the medium be­
tween the National T.  P. A.  and  the  local 
posts. 
It is the effective agent in the ardu­
ous and important work of organization.  It 
is a necessary factor in the  solution  of  the 
many problems which  confront  this  Asso­
ciation at every step in its  progress  toward
the defeat of the garnishee  exemption  bUi,  the end in view,  which is the elevation  and
improvement  of  the  commercial  travelers 
fathered by the Association  and  pushed by 
of this country.  And we  are  at  this  mo­
some of the  strongest  friends of  organiza­
ment surrounded by results  from  its  work 
tion in the State.  The measure was just to 
so well  done  and  so  thoroughly  complete 
all  parties  concerned  and  its  enactment 
that to us the active motor of  the Michigan 
would have caused no  inconvenience to any 
Division seems  like  the  air  we  breathe, 
honest man.  The only  class  which would 
hardly to be noticed, but the lack  of  which 
have  been in any way  affected is the dead­
would very soon be forced upon  our  atten­
beat, and at his  behest  the Knights of  La­
tion.
bor took up the cudgel,  using  every  effort 
to compass the defeat of the bill.  As an or­
der, the Knights of  Labor  pretends  that it 
does not harbor dead-beats;  but the rapidity 
with which the machinery of the order  was 
brought into  requisition to  kill a  measure 
which would affect none but dead-beats,puts 
the lie to their  pretensions in  this  respect. 

I would gladly  speak  more  definitely  of 
the great work done by the Michigan  Divi­
sion,  were it not for the  fact  that  this  as­
signment came to me too  late  to  admit  of 
more than a few brief  sentences,  in  which 
I must be very careful of my facts.

* * *

The advisability of attempting to secure a 
reconsideration  of  the  measure  was thor­
oughly discussed.  Representative Webber, 
who introduced  the bill,  was  confident  it 
could be passed, but Representative Diekeina 
advised making no attempt in that direction 
and, after consultation with other friends of 
organization in both  bodies,  it was  decided 
to defer further action in the premises until 
the next Legislature,  when the  various lo­
cal  associations  will  be  advised  to “take 
time by the forelock” by  securing  pledges 
from their candidates for the Legislature,  in 
advance  of  election.  Had  such a  course 
been taken last fall, there would  have been 
no occasion to bewail the  defeat of  the bill 
at this time.  However,  “live and learn” is 
a good motto—a truism  which  associations 
must learn to respect,as well as individuals. 

* * *

The  Cole  insurance  bill,  which  has re­
ceived much encouragement  from the  vari­
ous associations of the State,  stands a good 
show of going through the Senate,  it having 
already passed the House by a vote of near­
ly 4 to 1.  Opposition to the  compact  sys­
tem is developing in places  where board in­
surance was  supposed  to  play  no  figure. 
The antagonism of  manufacturers and mer­
chants comes as a matter of course,  but the 
temper of the farming  classes  seems to be 
on a par with that of heavier insurers.  All 
unite in opposing the  board  system,  as the 
height of tyranny.  No objection would have 
been raised to a pool of the  insurance  com­
panies,  if they had kept their  rates  within 
bounds, but the extortionate demands made 
upon the business public  and the arrogance 
and arbitrary actions of the board managers 
have set the seal of public disapproval upon 
the whole thing.

The 

insurance  companies  are making a 
big handle of the threat that they will with­
draw from  the State,  in  case the  Cole bill 
becomes a law.  They made  such a threat, 
as regards New Hampshire,  when the Leg­
islature of that State passed the valued pol­
icy law,  and  they  were  as  good  as their 
word.  The  business  interests,  however, 
managed to  survive  such a  hegira.  Busi­
ness men promptly  organized  mutual com­
panies,  making the former insurance agents 
managers of the organizations,  and  the last 
report of  the  Insurance  Commissioner  of 
that  State  shows  that  the  new  plan has 
worked more  satisfactorily than  the  old— 
that insurance has cost less money and that 
losses have been paid more promptly.  What 
better proof do we want of  the  superiority 
of mutual insurance over  the present tyran­
nical, cut-throat system?
* * *

The sentiment in favor of a  “standard in­
surance,policy” seems to be growing  arul it 
is not unlikely  that  the  Governor will  be 
asked to appoint  the  third  member of  an 
Insurance  Commission.  President  Hamil­
ton and the writer called upon His Excellen­
cy and requested him,  in behalf of the 2,000 
members of the  Michigan  Business  Men’s 
Association,  to make the  third  member of 
the Commission  a business  man.  The re­
quest  was  received  very  courteously,  al­
though the recipient  gave no  intimation as 
to what he proposed to do in the matter.

A  #
^ *

The incorporation of  the Michigan  Busi­
ness Men’s  Association and  auxiliary asso­
ciations also received considerable attention. 
Geo.  E.  Steele, of Traverse  City,  prepared 
an admirable draft  for  such a bill, but  the 
Senate Committee on Corporations, in whose 
hands  the  matter  was  placed,  suggested 
certain improvements, which were adopted. 
In such  amended  form the  bill  was then 
presented to the Committee,  which immedi­
ately  reported  the  same  favorably  to  the 
Senate,  when  that  body  ordered  the bill 
printed.  Copies of  the printed  bill will be 
distributed among the officers of  the Michi­
gan Business Men’s Association for approv-

We often hear it said,  that  only  a  few 
years ago  the  term  “traveling  man”  was 
one  of  reproach.  The  Knights  of 
the 
Gripsack  were  not  regarded  as  the  most 
exemplary citizens of their various  commu­
nities—quite the contrary.  Within  a  few 
short years a great change has taken  place. 
The  commercial 
traveler  has  improved 
vastly in the estimation of the  public,  and, 
what is  of  more  importance,  in  his  own 
estimation; for a proper  self-respect  is  the 
foundation  of  every  good  work  in  the 
hearts of men. 
I desire to say  here  that a 
large measure of  this  improvement  of  the 
travelers is directly traceable to the faithful 
efforts of  the gentlemen who have adminis­
tered the affairs of our Division.

Unlike  almost  all  other  associations 
among men, the T.  P.  A.  began,  so  I  am 
iuformed,  at  the  head.  First  was  organ­
ized the National T.  P. A.  Then came the 
State divisions,  to which  is  due  the  credit 
of forming the locals, the  ground  work  of 
the order.

Ours of  Michigan was not  the  first,  nor 
was it the last to organize.  But,  to-day,  in 
growth,  in quality of work,  in excellence of 
results attained,  it  stands  second  to  none 
in our broad  land.  For  all  this  we  are 
deeply indebted  to  the  faithful  efforts  of 
the field and staff  of  our  State  Division 
those hard-working officers who have never 
spared themselves when the interests of the 
Division called  for  their  time  and  labor. 
And we have every reason to hope  and  ex­
pect that, in the hands  of  these  able  gen­
tlemen to whom the Division  has  confided 
its interests for  the  ensuing  year,  it  will 
continue to  grow and  extend  its  influence 
for good among the  traveling  men  of  our 
State,  pressing  on  and  up  until  the  last 
commercial  traveler  on  earth  shall  feel 
sprouting  from  his  shoulders  a  pair  of 
wings,  and he sours  through  empyrean  to 
meet the plaudit of the Father,  “ Well done, 
thou good and faithful servant.”

Response by L. J. Allen  at  recent  banquet 

of Michigan Division. T. P. A.

Flint Selected as the Location for the Next 

State Meeting.

Agreeable to the call of  President Hamil 
ton,  four of the five members of  the Execu 
tive Committee  of  the  Michigan  Business 
Men’s  Association  met  in  this  city  last 
Tuesday for the purpose of selecting a place 
and date for the September convention.  In 
vitations were received from  both Flint and 
Owosso, and after a considerable discussion 
as  to  the  relative  advantages  o^ the  two 
contestants,  without  coming  to  any  con 
elusion,  it was  decided  to  accord the honor 
to Flint, on account of  the  priority of invi 
tation.  Tuesday  and  Wednesday,  Sept, 
and 7,  were selected as the dates for holding 
the convention.  The  first  session  will be 
convened at 9 o’clock Tuesday morning and 
the last session  at  1:30  o’clock Wednesday 
afternoon,  at  which  time  officers  for  the 
ensuing year will  be  elected. 
It was voted 
to ask  Hon.  Seth  C. Moffatt,  of  Traverse 
City, to prepare  a paper  on  the  subject of 
“The Business  Man in Politics;” to request 
N.  B.  Blain,  of Lowell,  to  prepare  a  paper 
on “The Duty of Local Officers,” to ask the 
Owosso Business Men’s  Association  to  se­
lect a person to prepare a paper  on “Manu 
facturing—Its  Needs  and  How  to  Obtain 
the Same.” 
It was  decided  that  all  ques 
tions submitted to the  convention  must  be 
put in writing.  The Secretary was instruct­
ed to include in the call  the following para­
graph :  * ‘Please designate one of your dele 
gation to make a one  minute  verbal  report 
of the work accomplished by  your  associa 
tion.”  Reports  were  presented,  showing 
that the work was progressing satisfactorily 
all over  the State.  The  Secretary reported 
a total membership of  1,979  and the Treas 
urer a balance of  about  $100  on  the  right 
side of the ledger.

Robert M. Floyd and son, of Chicago, will 
attend  the  grocers’  picnic.  While  here, 
they will be the guests of B. F.  Emery.

LANSING INCLINE.

Organization  of  an  Association  with 

Forty Members.

Agreeable to invitation,  President Hamil­
ton and-Secretary Stowe met a considerable 
number of the business men of Lansing last 
Thursday evening and  explained  the  aims 
and  objects  of  organized  effort.  Frank 
Wells was  made  chairman of  the  meeting 
and C. Haughawout secretary.  A resolution 
was adopted favoring  the  formation  of  an 
association  on  the  plan  proposed,  but  as 
there  were  only  about  thirty  gentlemen 
present, it was decided best to defer further 
action until the following evening, in  order 
that more members might be secured at  the 
outset.

The meeting Friday  evening  was  called 
to order by Chairman Wells, who stated the 
objects of  the gathering  and  bespoke  for 
the  movement  the  heartiest  support  of 
everyone  present.  He  then  called  upon 
President  Hamilton,  who  addressed  the 
meeting at some  length,  describing  in  de­
tail the plan of  organization  and  some  of 
the results accomplished in many cities  and 
towns.  He claimed that the Traverse  City 
merchants had curtailed the credit  business 
fully 50 per cent,  through  their association; 
that not one-tenth of  the evening  trade  is 
now done as formerly; that a  25  per  cent, 
reduction in freight rates had been  secured; 
that a considerable reduction  had  been  se­
cured from  the  Adams  Express  Co.;  that 
thousands of dollars worth of  old and  out­
lawed accounts had been collected; that the 
members have been able to prevent  making 
thousands  of  dollars’  worth  of  bad  ac­
counts;  that  the  Traverse  City  business 
man has ceased to be a slave and  has  come 
to realize that he is as free as Caesar.

Mr. Hamilton then presented  the  consti­
tution in use by most of  the associations of 
the State and Mr. Stowe explained the Blue 
Letter collection system.

Chairman Wells advised prompt action in 
the matter.  He said that all with whom he 
had conversed  were  heartily  in  favor  of 
such action,  and from all he  could  learn  of 
the movement,  it  was  worth  every  man’s 
encouragement.

Robert Robson moved that  the  organiza­
tion of a Business Men’s Association be im­
mediately proceeded with,  which was unan 
imously adopted.

On motion of  M. J.  Buck,  the  constitu­
tion and by-laws  presented  were  adopted, 
when  the  following  gentlemen  handed  in 
their names for charter membership:  Frank 
Wells,  B.  W. Long,  Crotty Bros.,  Lansing 
Paper Co., Robson  Bros.,  C.  E.  Haugha­
wout,  B.  IV  Simons,  E.  Newman,  John 
Eichle, J. W.  Barker, W.  J.  McRobert,  W. 
J.  Walker,  D.  C.  Hurd,  Lansing  Iron 
Works,  M. J. Buck, Geo. L. Davis,  W.  C 
Nesen, John Schuyder,  David  Laing,  Fred 
Schubel,  Jacob  Gansley,  R.  A.  Bailey, 
Robson Bros.  &  Dayton,  A.  L.  Field,  A. 
Turner,  H.  A.  Woodworth,  Elgin  Mifflin, 
E. R.  Merrifield,  E.  D.  Sprague,  W.  D. 
Sabin,  W.  A.  Teel,  N.  M.  Perry,  Chas  A 
Seeley, Alfred Wise,  N.  F.  Jenison,  Geo, 
H.  Dell, M. J.  Roe,  J.  R.  Esseltyn,  G.  J 
Foster,  Rowley & Stitt.

Election of officers resulted as follows: 
President—Frank  Wells.
Vice-President—D.  C. Hurd.
Secretary—Will Crotty.
Treasurer—M. J. Buck.
Executive  Committee—President,  Secre­
tary, N.  F.  Jenison,  R.  Robson,  W.  C 
Nesen.

The election of the remaining committees 

was deferred until the next meeting.

W. C. Nesen, N. J.  Roe and  Fred  Schu 
bel were appointed  a  committee  to  solicit 
membership.

The Blue  Letter  collection  system  was 
adopted for the use of  the Association  and 
the Secretary was instructed to procure  the 
printing of the same.

The editors of  the local papers  were  re 
quested to  print  the  constitution  and  by 
law’s in full,  as a matter of news.

The meeting then adjourned.
Talking  Organization at Carson  City.

Carson City, May 18,1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dea r Sir—One  of our  merchants  here 
desired me to write you and  find  what  ar­
rangements,  if  any, can be made to  organ­
ize  a  branch—or,  perhaps,  more  properly 
speaking,  to become members of an associa­
tion to protect business  men  against dead­
beats.  He said that there was  such an As 
sociation in your  city,  which  extended  to 
other  places, and  that by  writing  you we 
could find out all about the matter. 
If pos 
sible, will work up this place for you.  For 
reference,  will  refer  you  to  Carson  City 
Savings Bank or to John W. Hallett, Presi 
ident of village.  Yours,  very truly,

C.  O.  T rask.
Edmore Yearns for an  Association.
E dmore,  May 20,  188'

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dea r Sir—Please send  me  the  instruc­
tions necessary for the instituting of a Busi 
ness Men’s  Association.
Hoping we may soon be able to say to our 
sister towns,  “We are one  of  you,”  I  re­
main. 

Your truly,

Geo.  D.  Dunn.

A man with a painful expression of coun­
tenance sat on  a dry-goods boy.  “Are  you 
ill?” some one asked.  “No.”  “Have  you 
lost  anything?”  “Never  had  anything  to 
lose.”  “What’s the  matter,  then?”  “I’m 
sitting on a wasp.” 
“Why  don’t  you  get 
up?”  “Wall,  that  wuz  my  first  impulse, 
but I got to thinkin’ that I was  hurtin’  the 
wasp as badly as  he  was  hurtin’  me,  an 
concluded to sit here a  while,  ’specially  as 
I am tired. 
I thought, too, that I ought to 
be thankful, for this  is  about  the  easiest 
seat I have had lately.”  “What  have  you 
been doing that was so painful?”  “Servin’ 
on a jury in a  prohibition  town.”—Arhan 
saw? Traveller.

Organization and its Meaning.

From the White Lake Business Exchange. 

There has been, within the last few yeai^, 
tidal-wave,  world-wide in extent, of com­
bination of forces;  hardly an element of any 
extent or  magnitude but has  combined to­
gether its component parts  in some way or 
another to render  effective the will  of  the 
masses.  The object in  most of these cases 
has been to better battle a common  enemy. 
In the great  majority  of cases  this object 
has been attained to a greater or less extent.
This boom has at last struck the  business 
men of Michigan, and the  Business  Men’s 
Associations that have been founded during 
the last year have only been  limited by the 
borders of the State, and the time of the or­
ganizer,  E. A.  Stowe, of Grand Rapids, un­
til hardly a town,  or even a  village of  any 
extent, but has one.  A central or State As­
sociation has also been  organized, to which 
the local  associations  are  auxiliary  and a 
degree of system established  which is quite 
surprising.

the 

The common eneniy  which has called to­
gether this congress of  business  men with 
their millions of capital to combat is the ex­
cuse of commerce and the  Deadicus  Beati- 
bum  Creditorum  of  naturalists, a  reptile 
whose noiseless attack has bled  the  victim 
none 
less  deeply  because  of  its 
silence.  The  difference in  appearance be­
tween this slippery customer and  an honest 
man who, perchance, was hard up and heed­
ed accommodation  was not  readily  distin­
guished,  and D. B. C. of ten passed from one 
victim to another without  being discovered, 
until he had got in his bleeding work effect­
ively and often.  Having “done up” one lo­
cality, he would  spread  his  wings and mi­
grate to pastures new.

One of the objects of the  local  and State 
associations of Victims is to get this  insect 
‘on the list,” and that they are rapidly suc­
ceeding the local and  State  lists  is  ample 
proof, and within the next  year,  at  present 
rate of  progress,  a  stranger  in  any  town 
In the State  asking  for  creditorum,  will 
see the merchant slip to his  desk  for a mo­
ment and  upon his  return  will be  able to 
give a very  decided  answer,  provided the 
applicant is “on the list.”

Not  that  this is the only object,  by any 
means, of these associations.  But if it were, 
it would be ample,  and the end would sure­
ly justify the means.

The Fanner W ho Saved His Boots. 
‘Down  near  Sheridan,  111.,  the  other 
day,” said a commercial traveler,  “ I  heard 
a story about a farmer living in that  neigh­
borhood.  He is a man  of about fifty years, 
and worth  $75,000  clear  and  easy.  Last 
week he was out plowing, and coming across 
a big stone which had bothered  him a good 
deal in past years, concluded to get it out of 
the way.  Finding it too  large to  move all 
by himself,  and  being  too  stingy  to  hire 
help, he started in digging a  big  hole right 
beside the stone,  intending  to tumble  the 
domick in it and  thus get  rid of  the  nui­
sance.  This was a  shrewd plan,  but it did 
not work very well.  Just as the farmer had 
got the hole about dug,  and as he was peck­
ing away  under the  edge of  the  stone to 
make it roll in easier  when he got ready to 
push it, the infernal  rock slid into the hole 
all by itself,  and nailed the farmer fast.  He 
was  badly  hurt,  both  of  his  legs  being 
crushed, and he was compelled to remain in 
that position,  suffering  terribly,  for several 
hours.  Finally a man  passing  along  the 
highway heard the injured  man’s  cries and 
rushed to his  assistance.  Being  unable to 
get him out  alone, he  hastened  after help, 
and in half an hour  three or four men were 
gathered about the sufferer.  After sizing up 
the stone and noting the difficulty of remov­
ing it,  they came to the conclusion  that the 
only way to get him  out was to  loosen the 
dirt a little  behind  him and then pull him 
out by  main  force.  They  tried  this,  but 
found the task a harder one  than  they had 
bargained for.  The big  stone  was  resting 
on the farmer’s cowhide boots  and  holding 
him so fast that they couldn’t  pull him out.
“ ‘We’ll have to cut your  boots  off,’ said 
the men,  ‘and then we’ll get  you  out in no 
time.’

“ ‘For God’s  sake,’  replied  the  farmer, 
don’t cut those boots. 
I only  bought  ’em 
last week,  and paid  $1.50  for ’em.  Don’t 
cut my boots.’

“Well,  they didn’t cut his boots, but sent 
for some laborers,  a pair of  horses, chains, 
timbers and  shovels,  and by  working two 
hours managed to save the man’s life.  The 
bill  which  the  poor  farmer  had  to  pay, 
greatly to his disgust, was  $21.50.  But he 
saved his boots.”

Evart to Join the State Body.

E vakt, May 19,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dea r Sir—I  have the  honor  to  inform 
you that the circular you mailed  to  my  ad­
dress, relating to our Association  becoming 
auxiliary to the  State  body,  was  duly  re 
ceived and I  presented  it  to  the  Associa­
tion, which decided  by  vote  to  join  the 
State body at once.
Please inform me how to  proceed to con 
elude the matter. 

Yours truly,
C. E. Bell,  Sec’y.

In a millinery advertisement in the Mont­
morency County Index a  very  clever  error 
crept in.  The word was  spelled  “million- 
ery.”  The  editor  had  probably  just  pur­
chased a new bonnet for  his  wife  and  the 
word had  evidently  been  running  in  his 
mind.

For  Sale or Exchange.

A factory folly 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.

It took $1,200 in caso and  twelve years of In­
tense suffering before I learned, that $2 worth 
of Tiger Oil would cure me.  None but a wire- 
bound  constitution  and  a  determined  will 
could ever live  through  twelve years of such 
racking  pain  and  misery,  without  a  single 
week of ease, as I did,  before I began  to take 
Tiger Oil about a year since.  I used  about $2 
worth altogether,  which I took a  teaspoonful 
in a tumbler of  hot water  three  times a day, 
which quickly relieved and I believe it has per­
manently  cured  me,  as  the  immediate  past 
eight  months I have  not had a sign of my old 
disease, which the doctors called  Bright’s Dis­
ease of the Kidneys—which  is  death—Gravel, 
Inflammation of the Kidneys and Bladder, and 
a number of other diseases;  but they all failed 
to do more than quiet the suffering for a short 
time,  although I doctored  with the  best doc­
tors I could find in  Marshall, Ohio,  Pittsburg, 
Pa., New Albany, Ind.. Chicago, 111., St. Louis, 
Mo., Detroit, Saginaw and Bay City, Mich., and 
a great number of other cities;  and when not 
under a doctor’s care took dozens  and dozens 
of all kinds of greatly advertised patent kidney 
and liver cures;  but under all  kinds  of medi­
cines I got worse and worse till I began to take 
Tiger Oil as above stated.  To say it cost $1,200 
in the twelve years is far too low, but the $2 in 
Tiger Oil which cured me is more than it took, 
as I used some for other  general  purposes in 
my family.  But my case is only one in thous­
ands who are spendingtheir money for naught 
—but  suffering  and loss  of time—who  might 
be cured with Tiger Oil.

J. E. Walker,

Manager Telephone Exchange, Cadillac, Mich.

HARDWOOD LUMBER.

The furniture factories  here pay as follows
for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run........................ ..12 00014 00
Birch, log-run................................ ..15 00018 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2........................
025 00
Black Ash, log-run........................ ..13 00O15 00
Cherry,  log-run............................. ..25 00085 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and 2..................... ..45 00050 00
Cherry,  cull...................................
©10 00
Maple, log-run.............................. ..12 00014 00
Maple, soft,  log-run..................... . .11 00013 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2...... v...............
020 00
Maple, clear, flooring....................
025 Oo
Maple, white, selected..................
025 On
Red Oak, log-run...........................
018 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2....................
024 00
Red Oak. quarter  sawed.............. ..26 00030 00
Red Oak, No.  1, step plank...........
025 00
W alnut, log-run.............................
©55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2.....................
©75 00
Walnuts,  culls..............................
©25 00
Grey Elm, log-run........................
013 00
White Ash, log-run....................... ..14 00016 00
Whitewood,  log-run..................... ..20 00022 00
White Oak, log-run.......................
@17 00
WOODENWARE.
Standard  Tubs, No. 1....................
Standard  Tubs, No. 2....................
Standard Tubs, No. 3....................
Standard Pails, two hoop..............
Standard Pails, three hoop...........
Pails, ground wood 
.................
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes.........
Butter  Pails, ash..........................
Butter Ladles..............................
Rolling Pins.................................
Potato Mashers...........................
Clothes Pounders........................
Clothes Pins.................................
Mop Stocks...................................
Washboards, single.....................
Washboards, double.....................
Diamond  Market........................
Bushel, narrow band..................
Bushel, wide band.......................
Clothes, splint.  No. 1..................
Clothes, splint,  No. 2....................
Clothes, splint,  No. 3....................
Clothes, willow  No. 1..................
Clothes, willow  No. 2..................
Clothes, willow  No. 3
Water Tight, bu..........................
“  half bu..................

....6 00
....5 00
....4 00
....1 40
....1 65
....2 00
....2 25
....1 00
. . .   75
....  60
£  2ft
....  60
....1 00
....1 75
....2 25
....  40
....1 60
....1 75
....3 50
....4 25
....5 00
.... 5 50
....6 50
7 ft(l
....2 85

BASKETS.

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Ibarbware.

 

 

 

dis

dis 

dis 

BELLS.

BOLTS.

BRACES.

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, CAST.

AUGERS AND BITS.

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

BALANCES.
BARROWS.

promptly and buy in full packages.
Ives’,  old style....................................... dis  60
N.  H. C. Co............................................. dis  60
Douglass’........................ 
60
Pierces’ ..................................................dis  60
Snell’s ..................................................... dis  60
Cook’s  ...........................  
40
Jennings', genuine................................ dis  25
Jennings’, imitation.............................disoO&lO
Spring......................................................dis  40
Railroad............................................... $ 14  00
Garden............................................... net 33  00
H and...........................................dis $ 60*10*10
Cow................................................ dis 
70
Call................................................ dis 
30*15
Gong..............................................dis 
25
Door, Sargent................................dis 
6C&10
Stove................................................... dis $ 
60
Carriage  new list...............................dis  7G&10
Plow  ...................................................dis 
50
Sleigh Shoe......................................... dis
Wrought Barrel  Bolts....................... dis
Cast  Barrel Bolts...............................dis
Cast Barrel, brass knobs................... dis
Cast Square Spring.......................... dis
Cast Chain  .....................................dis
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob.............dis
Wrought Square......   ..................  
Wrought Sunk Flush......................... dis
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush............................................... dis  60*10
Ives’ Door...........................................dis  60*10
40
B arber................................................dis $ 
Backus..........................................  
dis 50*10
Spofford.............................................. dis 
50
Am. Ball..............................................dis 
net
Well, plain...............................................$  3 50
Well, swivel............................................. 
4 00
Cast Loose Pin, figured..................... dis  70*10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........ dis  70*10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis  60*10
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint, .dis  60*10
Wrought Loose  Pin..........................dis  60*10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip...........dis  60* 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned...........dis  60*5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvei
tipped............................................. dis  60* 5
Wrought Table...................................dis  60*10
Wrought Inside Blind...................... dis  60*10
75
Wrought Brass...................................dis 
Blind, Clark’s..................................... dis 
80
Blind, Parker’s...................................dis 
80
Blind,  Shepard’s................................dis 
70
Ely’s 1-10............................................ per  m $65
60
Hick’s C. F ......................................... 
G. D.................................................... 
35
Musket...............................................  
60
Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester  new list50&10
Rim Fire, United  States....................... dis50&10
Central Fire...........................................dis30*10
Socket Firmer.....................................dis  70*10
Socket Framing................................. dis  70*10
Socket Corner.....................................dis  70*10
Socket 81ieks.......................................dis  70*10
Butchers’Tanged Firmer..................dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers................... dis 
20
Cold.....................................................net
COMBS.
40*10
Curry, Lawrence’s............................. dis
25
Hotchkiss  ......................... 
COCKS.
60
Brass, Racking’s..................................... 
Bibb’B..................................................... 
60
B eer...................... 
40*10
Fenns’.....................................................  
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size....................$  tt>  28
14x52,14x56,14 x60......................................  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  20*10
Adjustable......................................... dis  M*10
30
Clar’s, small. $18 00; large, $26 00.  dis 
Ives’, 1, $18 00; 2, $24 00; 3, $30 00.  dis 
25

EXPANSIVE BITS.

CATRIDGES.

CHISELS.

ELBOWS*

COPPER.

DRILLS

CAPS.

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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,  ami 
heat sad-irons as well as  your range.
No. 0,'oneburner, width of flame IV*
inches..........................................$1 25
No. 1. one burner, width  of  flame 3
inches...................................... 
  1  80
No. 2, two  burner,  widtli  of  flame
each 3 inches  ..............................   2 50
No. 3.-two  burner,  width  of  flame
each 4 inches....................................  3 50
No. 3V*. three burner, width of flame
each4inches.... .........................   4  50
No. 2, double stove, double burners
3 inches.............................................   5 25
No. 3, double stove, double burners
♦ inches..............................................  7 50
No. 3V4, double store, three burners
4iaches.............................................   9 50

Discount 50 per cent.

SANDS’  PATENT  TRIPLE  MOTION

WHITE  MOUNTAIN  FREEZERS.

dis

8 

4 

2 

3 

No Zinc in contact with  Cream.  W arranted to freeze 

Cream In one-half the time of any other Freezer. 
The Leading Ice Cream Freezer of the World.

12 

10 

15 

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 12,09  14.00 17.00 23.00 28.00 each 
We claim superiority by  having  th e  TRIPLE  MOTION, w hich is 
attached only to  the “W hite M ountain” Freezer.
The Can is  turned by the Inside Beater, while th e  Outside  B eater 
revolves in an opposite direction to the Can, and  a t th e  sam e  tim e 
the Inside Beater is turned opposite to th e Outside B eater, thus pro­
ducing three sim ultaneous  m otions,  which, of  course, thoroughly 
beats the Cream, m aking it sm ooth and fine  groinedj  No lum ps in 
“ W hite M ountain” Cream.
The  Beaters are M alleable Iron and T inned.  They are light, easy 
to handle and clean.  The Cans are  m ade of  th e best quality of Tin 
P late and  will  la st  fo r  years.  The Tube are  W ater-proof, bound 
w ith heavy galvanized Iron Hoops.  The  G earing, and all Irons at- 
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 FIR8T-CLA8S in every respect.

Echoes from Pennsylvania.

, 

Percy F. Smith and Henry Daub, who rep­
resented the Retail Merchants’  Association 
of Pennsylvania at the March convention of 
the Michigan Business  Men’s  Association, 
made the  following  report  at  the  recent 
State convention at Harrisburg:
The Michigan Business  Men’s State  As­
sociation is one of the  most  representative 
bodies  that it has  been our  pleasure to sit 
with  in a long time.  Two  hundred  dele­
gates from all parts of that great and grow­
ing State met in Grand Rapids on March 15 
and 16, and transacted business of the most 
vital importance to the trade of  the  North­
west,  and  notably  Michigan.  The  enthu­
siasm was intense  and the amount of work 
brought to an issue would do  credit to  any 
organized body, old or new, in the  country.
The proceedings throughout  were  harmon­
ious, and we predict will  more  thoroughly 
cement the local  associations  and  solidify 
the movement than  any  previous  conven­
tion.  The  President’s  address, full of ad­
mirable suggestions, was  acted upon in de­
tail, and every item  of  note  adopted  and 
made of binding effect.
Every local  association was called  upon 
for a report  as to  how the  organization  is 
working and the  reports  were of the most 
flattering character, the  results  already at­
tained having exceeded the  most  sangume 
expectations.  Collections  are easily made; 
credits are being  curtailed  rapidly;  whole­
salers are  being  enlightened  and  are  dis­
covering that  the  retailers  are  in  earnest 
and want nothing but what  is  right;  trade 
fellowship is being developed; better  prices 
secured, without any concerted action; early 
closing is steadily growing  in  favor;  cities 
and towns are being  improved  and  manu­
factories planted, and  even  railroads  regu 
lated somewhat by the efforts  of  the  bus! 
ness men. 
,
The proceedings  may  thus  be  summed 
up:  Shorter hours for  the  merchant;  it  is 
possible to  do  a  cash  business;  insurance 
rates on property are too high;  accounts are 
never out-lawed—they may be collected  for 
20 years back; as soon as a person  fails  to 
pay when he promises to do so,  he ought to 
be reported as a delinquent;  a  wife  should 
not be trusted who becomes  a  custodian  of 
her husband’s  prosperty  to  allow  him  to 
evade  the  payment  of  debts;  cutting  in 
prices is never justifiable; a lawyer is a busi­
ness man; merchandise must be sold  oi\ its 
merits,  and without prizes  or  gifts  in  any 
shape or form.
One local association  secured a reduction 
of 15 cents per hundred on freight rates.
One delegate  said  they  had  200  delin­
quents reported, but  before  the  time  came 
around to publish the  list  193  had  settled 
up. 
K in g ls e y  had no success until  they  join­
ed hands with the State  Association.
The convention decided to ask  the  State 
to enact a law to check the sale  of  adulter­
ated goods; also to enact the New York law 
on the subject of weights and measures.
A resolution was adopted  that  the Asso­
ciation put itself on record as  unqualifiedly 
in favor of  goods  of  standard  purity  and 
strength, full  count,  full  weight  and  full 
measure, aud  that  we,  as  business  men, 
agree to practice what we preach  by  refus­
ing to handle any goods  not up to the stan­
dard. 
The influence of this  convention  will  be 
felt in  Michigan  until  every  trade  abuse 
is remedied and business in general  is  con­
ducted on a boarder basis.
The  convention  attracted  the  largest 
gathering of retail business  men  ever  held 
in this country,  but  it  must  be  borne  ini 
mind that the representation was  one  dele- ] 
gate for every ten members.  Our represen­
tation is one for every hundred  or  fraction
„ 
thereof. 
idle  curiosity, 
but to participate in the benefits to be deriv­
ed from such  an  interchange  of  opinions 
and the high  character  of  the  papers  and 
reports presented,  as  well  as  the  discus­
sions held, fumisli abundant proof  that  the 
proceedings  were  remarkable  in  point  of 
scope and  thoroughness.  A  singular  fea­
ture of the occasion  was  that  no  one  who 
was assigned a topic or report failed  to  re­
spond,  which is certainly an unusual  occur­
rence. 
.....  .
Many of the  papers  presented  exhibited 
deep study and research,  and  will  be  pro­
ductive of further thought and discussion.
Your  delegates  were  received  with  en­
thusiasm and cheers  and  by  a  unanimous 
vote,  notwithstanding  an  earnest  protest, 
were compelled to sit on the platform  with 
the President  during  the  sessions  of  the 
convention.  The  Pennsylvania  Associa­
tion was thanked by  resolution for sending 
delegates and your  committee  were elected 
to honorary membership in the  State Asso­
ciation of Michigan.
The  retail  merchants  of  Grand  Rapids 
tendered  the  delegates  a  banquet,  which 
was one of the most pleasant  features of the 
convention.

They did not  come  from 

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M ichigan  B ust neats  Men’«  A ssociation. 

President-Frank Hamilton, Traverse City.

fiAfiretarY—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

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F. Emery, Grand 

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Official Organ—TH* MicmoaM Tsapksmam. 

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Grand  H aven  B usiness  M en’s  Association. 
President, Fred. P. Voss;  Secretory, F red A. H utty.

R etail  Grocers’  A ss’n   o f Grand ^ p i d s .  
R e sid e n t, Jas. A. Coye;  Secreta ry , E- A. Stowe.--------
G reenville  B usiness  Men’s  A ssociation. 
¿»resident, L. W. Sprague;  Secretary, E. J. Clark.-----
H artford B usiness Men’s A ssociation. 

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

Hnstimr*  B usiness  Men’s  Association.

Stauffer;  Secretary.  J.  A.  VanArmau

H ersey B usin ess M en’s ¿ « “ claMon.

resident, O  L. M illard; Secretary, F rank L. Beardsley
H oward  City B usiness  M en’s A ssociation 
r^ îrm M h  R.  A■ V andenberg;  Secretary, B. J. Lowry.

Hjihluardston  B usiness  Men’s  A ssociation. 
g a S m g y B U a r ,   secretary, L. W1Robingon:_

Ion ia  B usiness  Men’s  E xchange. 

Presiden^W m . K.  Kelsey ;  Secretary.  Fred. C utler, Jr.

g . i nm« n« Botali Grocers’ A ssociation.

P la id e n t. P- Ranney,  Secretary. M. S. Scovine-

K alkaska  B u s i n e s ^ e ^ s   A s s ^ ^ tio n . 

President. A. E. Palm er;  Secretary. C. E. Bamgey.

K in gsley  B usiness  Me n’* E ^ ^ s t e r  
President.C. H. Camp; Secretary. Chas. E. Brewster.
Lawrence B usiness M en’s A ssociation. 
President, H. It. Marshall;  Secretary, C. A. Stebblns,

Emilie  B usiness  Men’s  A ssociation. 

President. Wm. Hutchings;  Secretary. M. L. Campbell.
L ow ell  B nslness  Men’s 
President, W. B. Blaln-  Secretary. Frank T. King.

L uther  B nslness  M en’s  A ssociation. 
President, W. B. Pool;  Secretary. Chas. J. Robinson.

Lyons  ’Business  Men’s  As’n. 

President, A. X. Roof ;  Secretary, P- A. Reynolds.----
M ancelona  B usiness  Men’s  A ssociation 

President. W. E. Watson;  Secretary. C. L- Bailey.

M anistique  B usiness Men’s  Association. 

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

M anton’s  B usiness  M en’s  A ssociation. 

Presldqpt, F. A. Jenison;  Secretary, R. Fuller.
G rocers’  A ss’n  o f  th e  City  o f  M uskegon 
President. H. B. Fargo;  Secretary. Wm. Peer.

Preside” ^ tortSt M. uS: Secretary, W alter W ebster

h f n p p h U n i o n   o f   N w liv llli* *  

M uir  B nslness  Men’s  A ssociation. 

President, Simon Town;  Secretary. L. A. Ely.

Otsego  B usiness  M en’s  A ssociation. 
President,XM. Ballou;  Secretary, J. F. Conrsd.-----

Oceana  B usiness  M en’»  A«’n.  _ 

President. W. E. T horp;  S ecretary■ E. S. Houghtallng.

Ovid  B usiness  Men’s  A s’n. 

President, C. H. H unter;  Secretory. Lester Cooley.
Ovomo  RuitneM   Men’»  A ssociation. 

P résident.¿a». O ubmn;  8ec*y,8. Lamfrom.

P etosk ey  B usiness  M en’s  A ssociation. 

President. Ja i. Buckley:  Secretary. A. C. Bowman.

Pew am o  B usiness  M en’s  A ssociation. 

P r e s id e n t. Albe rt R etan;  Secretary, E. R. Holme«.

P la in w ell  B usin ess  M en’s  A ssociation. 

President. M. Bailey;  Secretary. J. A. Sidle.
M erchant’s U nion P rotective A ssociation o f 
P r^ td e n t, G. c. Metoel ;  Secretary, 8. L. Merrlam.
President, C. I- Flelsch an e r; S ecretary, H. W. Hawkins.

R eed  C ity  B u sin ess M en's A ssociation . 

P ort  H uron.

R ockford  B u sin ess  M en’s  A ssociation. 

A. Sage;  Secretary. J. M. Spore.

os  r h srlM   B usin ess  Men’s  A ssociation.

Secretary, E. E. Burdick.

St. J o h n s M erchants’ P rotective A ssociation. 
President, H. L. Kendrick;  Secretary, C. U. Merrill.___
Musine** Men’s P rotective Ass’n o f Saranac.

A. P otts;  Secretary, P. T. W illiams.

t

S

  H

flnntH  Board m an  B usin ess M en’s A ss’n. 

 Secretary, 8. E. NiehardL

Æ
do  A r m a n d « . Jordan B usiness M en’s A s’n. 
5 2 ^ ™  ? r °  Loreday; Secretary, C. W. Sutton. 
« b e r m an  B usiness Men’s A ssociation.
President,*Ha R. S tu rte ra n t;  Secretary,W , G. Shane.

~ 

T 

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Nnsrta  B usiness  M en’s  A ssociation. 

President, J. B~ Harrison ;  Secretary, M. B. N a s h .----

ipmcnsf » •  —— 
Sturgis  B usiness  Men's  A ssociation. 

President; Henry 8. Church;  Secretary. Wm. Jo m .—  
Traverse  City  Business  M en’s  Association 
President.Geo. E. Steele:  Secretary.C-T. Lockwood.
T ustln  B usiness  Men’s  A ssociation. 
President; G. A. Estes; Secretary, Geo. W. Bevins.
V en n o n tv ilie  B usiness  Men s  A ssociation 
p e d a n t .  W. H. Benedict;  Secretary, W. E. Holt.

W atervllet B usiness 

P r e s i d e n t .   H. Peirce;  Secretary, F. H. Merrlfleid.
-----»Vay land  Jt usin «**  Men’s  A ssociation.
President. E. W.  Pickett; Secretary, H. J. Tomer.
“  W oodland  B u sin ess  M en’s  A ssociation.
P resident, John Velte;  Secretary, I. N. H arter.
W h ite Cloud  » M fn e s s jS e n ’s  A ssociation

Rondel :  S ecretary, K. D. H ayw ard
'i&EZSSJBä'VSSh. W

B. Nicholson, W hitehall.

Some  Objects  of Association  Work. 
From the White Lake Business Exchange.

The objects of the Business  Men’s  Asso­
ciation are many.  Our space is too  limited 
to  explain  at  length,  but 
its 
leading principles may be  of interest.

some  of 

To establish a cash  system  is  one  of  its 
leading  features.  Before  its  accomplish­
ment a grand  revolution  in  business  must 
be  brought  about.  This  means  earnest, 
persevering work by those who see  the  im­
portance of the movement.

The plan of compelling men to work one, 
two or four weeks before receiving  pay  for 
their work must be changed, and the  labor­
er paid daily for his work.  By the  present 
unjust plan the laborer is compelled to seek 
credit until  pay  day  or  starve.  The  mer­
chant is therefore compelled  to  do  a  credit 
business or be branded a heartless man.  So, 
partly  from an anxiety to  do business,  and 
partly  from  sympathy, 
the  credit  sys­
tem becomes universal.  Through  this  sys­
tem all branches of  trade  are  preyed  upon 
by unscrupulous men who  buy  upon  credit 
but  never  pay.  Merchants  all  over  the 
country  have  large  sums  deposited  with 
this class of  men,  and  such  as  these  have 
become a stench in the nostrils of the trade.
The outcome is organized associations  all 
over the country to establish a cash system. 
Business men of  every  class,  you  can  but 
see the importance  of  this  wise  step.  We 
ask  your  hearty  co-operatioD.  Laboring 
men,  you  can  at  once  see  the  advan­
tages it will bring to you, therefore  we  ask 
your united  efforts,  that,  as  a  community 
and as a state, we may rest upon  a  system 
that shall be a blessing to all.

H. A. Spink.

The New York Holiday Law.

The  general  understanding  of  this  new 
law Is that  it decrees a cessation of  all bus­
iness  on  Saturday  afternoons.  As  a  fact 
the new statute does not  approach the labor 
question  even  by  implication. 
It  is “An 
act to designate the holidays to  be observed 
in the acceptance and  payment  of  bills  of 
exchange,  bank  checks  and  promissory 
notes and relating  to  the  closing  of  public 
offices,” and goes  no further  than  the  title 
in any of  its  provisions. 
It  will  facilitate 
the granting of  a half  holiday on  Saturday 
by allowing banks to close at  12  o’clock  if 
they choose, and permitting business houses 
to  grant  the  asked-for  concession  without 
fear  of  an  unlooked  for  protest.  But  it 
gives  no  employee  any  right  to  demand 
such  freedom  for  Saturday  afternoon, and 
not even by a hint  requires  an  employer to 
concede the  half-holiday except  as  a  pure 
act of grace,  or through an agreement which 
shall regulate the pay by the  hours  of  ser­
vice. 
It adds  a  new  holiday to  be  called 
Labor Day, for the first Monday in  Septem 
her.  But neither on this or  any other holi 
day of the year is  it  unlawful  for  an  em 
ployer  to  require  service  of his hired help 
whether clerks or  laborers.  Sunday is  the 
only day of  rest  provided  for by  statute 
The other holidays are  only rendered possi 
ble by the law which regulates the handling 
of  bills,  notes,  drafts  and  checks,  so  that 
the man of business may rest  if  he  chooses 
and not otherwise.  There  is  no  provision 
in the law of this  State  exempting  anyone 
in private service from labor on auy so-called 
holiday or half-holiday of the whole year.

HESTER&FOX,

Manufacturers’ Agts. for

89V  art  Grist H I

.  Q g l W B S ?
i t s
Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all  kinds 
of Wood-Working Machinery, Saws, 

Belting  and  Oils.

And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley.  Large 
stock kept on hand.  Send  for  sample  Pulley 
and  become  convinced  of  their  superiority. 

WRITE FOR PRICES.

130 Oates St.. Grand Rapids, Mich

SEEDS

FOB.  EVERYBODY.

For  the Field or  Garden.
Clover,

If you want to buy

Timothy,

Hungarian,
Millet,
Orchard  Grass,
Kentucky Blue,
Seed  Oats,
Barley,
Peas,

Red Top,
Rye,

Onion,

Ruta Baga 
Wurzel,

Mangle

or 

Write or send to the

Anythini in the Line  of  SEEDS,
S e e d   S to re ,
W. T. LAMOREAUX.
F01T! ETIOML M SI

71  CANAL  ST.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A. J.  Bowne, President.

Geo. C. Pierce, Vice President.

H. P. Baker, Cashier.
CAPITAL,  -  -  -  $300,000.

Transacts a general banking business.

o f Country Merchant» Solicited.

M ake  a  Specialty o f C ollections.  A ccounts 

SEEDS

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

The Most Complete Assortment 

til  you  get  my prices.

ALFRED J.BROWN
16-18 N. Division St., Grand Rapids

Representing Jas. Vick, of Rochester.

grame & company
DRY  GOODS

JOBBERS  IN

H osiery, C arpets, E tc.

051

1

i— The  accompanying  Ulustrations  represents  the

Boss Tobacco  Pail  Cover.
It will fit any pail, and keep  the  Tobacco  moist

and fresh until entirely used.

It will pay for itself in a short time.
You cannot afford to do without it.
For particulars, write  to

A R T H U R

W h o le s a le   G r o c e r s ,

SOlo  A gents,

77 to 83ISOUTH  DIVISION  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

m .

„ _.  HARRIS,

VCHiolesale D ea ler In

W R A P P I N G   P A P E R ,

OF ALL  KINDS,

PAPER  BAGS, 

BERRY  PAILS,

ICE  CREAM  PAILS,  WOODEN  BUTTER DISHES 

WHITE* AND  MANILLA  WAX PAPERS, 

TWINES,  CLOTHES  LINES, ETC.
38  NORTH IONIA  STREET, 

f f B  A w n   B A P i n a .  

MICH.

B O W E S .

JOBBER  IN

Foreign and Domestic Fruits.

SPECIALTIES a

Oranges, Lemons, Bananas.

3  l ortli* S t.,  G R A N S   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .
T h e  S t a n d a r d  o f  E x c e lle n c e
KINGSFORD’S
“Silver
Gloss”

P U K E  

A N D

.55

i f

M X

r<*»£l5*i

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 .

W ILL  PLEASE  YOU  EVERY  TIM E!

ALWAYS  ASK  YOUR  GROCER  FOR. TH ESE  GOODS.

C.. C.  B U N TIN G

BUNTING  &  DAVIS,

C.  L. DAVIS.

C om m ission  M erch an ts.

Specialties:  Apples and Potatoes in Oar Lots.

20 and 22 OTTAWA  ST,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

JENNESS  &  McCURDY,

Importers and Manufacturers’ Agents,

dealers  in

I

Bronze Lamps, Chandeliers, Bractets, Etc.

73 & 75 Jefferson Ave. DETROIT,  MICI.
Wholesale Apnts tor Dnield’s Canadian Lamps.

■ILLBR'S PATIT CASE TILL  A l SALE  K f f l l
“THE CASHIER”
, Simple! Durable!  Indispensable

i  Cheapest, most reliable cash system.over 
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.

MANUFACTURED AND SOLD BV THE PATENTEE,

I. M ILLER, 

-  XTHAOA, KT. Y

O *

« B f m B R tK

MICHIGAN

P E R K I N S   &  H E S S ,
Hides, F u r s , Wool & Tallow,

DEALERS IN

NOS.  1*8 and  1*4 LOCI“  STREET. GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN.

WE CABBY  A STOCK OF  CAKE TALLOW FOB MILL  USE.

Tl» l i e u  M m

▲  MTCHCANTII.E  JOURNAL,, PUBLISHED BACH 

WEDNESDAY.

E.  A. STOWE A  HRO., Proprietors.

Office in Eagle Building, 49 Lyon 8t., 3d Floor. 

Telephone No. 95.

I Entered  at the  PostoJIce  at Grand Rapid#  a» 

Seetmd-euue Matter."]

WEDNESDAY.  MAY  25,  1387.

BUSINESS  LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of  Last Resort.

L IA B IL IT Y   FO B   F A L S E   R EPR ESEN TA TIO N S 

TO  M ERCA N TILE  A G EN CY .

A case of  interest to  business  men  was 
lately decided by the United  States  Circuit 
Court for the Western  District of  Wiscon­
sin, that, namely,  of Kellogg et al. vs. Pow­
ers.  The  defendant,  in  April, 1885,  pur­
chased the interest of a  partner in a firm of 
which he was  a  member.  At  the  request 
of  the  Bradstreet  Mercantile  Agency  he 
made a statement of his financial condition, 
in which he stated that his assets amounted 
to 88,500 and his liabilities to 82,400.  Short­
ly afterward the plaintiffs’  traveling  sales­
man called upon the defendant to solicit his 
order for goods,  when the defendant  volun­
teered the statement that he had  purchased 
the interest of  his partner  and had  made a 
statement to the Bradstreet  Company,  and 
he gave a small order to the salesman.  The 
latter sent the order to his  house with a letr 
ter  giving the  substance of  the defendant’s 
statement to him.  The  plaintiffs, upon re­
ceipt of the letter,  called  upon  the  Brad­
street Company for a copy of the statement, 
and,  relying upon the same,  filled that  and 
subsequent orders.  The plaintiffs afterward 
made  other  inquiries  as to  the  financial 
standing of the defendant,  and the answers 
thereto seemed to corroborate  the statement 
made by the  defendant  to  the  Bradstreet 
Company. 
In  February  of  the  following 
year the defendant  failed, and  it  then  ap­
peared that the  statements  made by him to 
the Bradstreet Company and to others were 
false.  The  plaintiffs  thereupon  brought 
suit  against  the  defendant  for  obtaining 
goods  under false and fraudulent represent­
ations,  and had him  arrested.  The defend­
ant contended that he  had  made no  repre­
sentations to the  plaintiffs or their  agents,. 
and that therefore he was not liable  in  the! 
.action.  The  court, 
in charging the  jury, 
following the  decisions of  the New  York 
Court of Appeals  and of  the  Michigan Su­
preme Court, said that a person  furnishing 
information to a mercantile  agency in rela­
tion to his own  circumstances,  means and 
pecuniary  responsibility  can have no other 
motive  for  so  doing  than  to  enable  the 
agency to communicate such information  to 
persons who may be interested in obtaining 
it for their guidance in giving  credit  to the 
party;  and if a merchant  furnishes  to such 
an agency a willfully false statement of  his 
circumstances or pecuniary ability,  with in­
tent to obtain a standing and credit to which 
he knows that he is not justly entitled, and 
thus to defraud  whoever  may resort to the 
agency,  and in  reliance  upon  the false  in­
formation  there  lodged  extend a credit to 
him; there is no reason why his  liability to 
■any party defrauded by those  means should 
not be the  same as if he had made the false 
representation directly to the party injured. 
The  plaintiffs  recovered  judgment  in  the 
case.

Pacific  Coast  Salmon.

This  industry  has,  for the  last  two or 
three years, been an  exceedingly  profitable 
one od the Pacific coast.  Last year was the 
year of the pool, managed by Wm. T. Cole­
man & Co.,  that resulted in very large prof­
its for the syndicate.  Some  600,000  cases 
were controlled,  and prices  were  advanced 
$1 a case.  This  year  salmon  opened $1 a 
case higher than the  ppenir.g  prices of last 
year,  and 750,000  cases Lave  been  sold al 
prices  that will  realize a  very  handsome 
profit to the earner.  The principal  operat­
ors have been again Messrs. Coleman & Co., 
who claim to have sold between 400,000 apd 
500,000 cases already.  They will control on 
commission  consolidated  packs of  the Sa­
cramento river and Alaska, besides the pro­
duct of some fifteen canneries on the Colum­
bia river and the  principal  outside  packs. 
This concentration has  enabled prices to be 
firmly  maintained,  and it is said that at no 
time in the past has the salmon-packing in­
dustry of the Pacific coast been upon a more 
substantial financial  basis.  Great prepara­
tions are being  made for the  present  seas­
on’s pack,  but the fish have hardly yet com­
menced to run. 
It is estimated that  from 
1,000,000 to 1,250,000 cases  of  salmon will 
be put up on the Pacific coast.

The Wall-Paper Pool.

Reports are  current  that  the  wall-paper 
pool is in danger of dissolution.  The cause 
appears  to  be  that  establishments outside 
the pool will not agree with  the  pool  as to 
a policy.  The official pool  year  ends  June 
30,  1887. 
It  is  stated,  however  that  the 
pool is  already practically  broken  and that 
rates  are being cut.  As four  of  the  most 
popular  non-pool  concerns  refuse  to  be 
bound any longer, many believe that an am­
icable settlement is out of the question.

No one  becomes an artist  in  any profes­
sion without study and  practice.  You  will 
never become an  artist  in  selling  goods in 
any  other  manner.  Therefore,  study  your 
failures, study  your  customers; study your­
self and know all about  the goods  you han­
dle.

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

CHARLES  A.  COYE,

Successor to

A. Coye & Son,

DEALER IN

AWNINGS S TENTS

Horse and Wagon Covers, 

Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,

Flags & Banners made to order.

Wide Ducks, etc.
GRAND RAPIDS.
- 

73 CANAL ST.. 

TIME  TABLES.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.
Arrive.
Leave. 

Kalamazoo Division.

Ex. & Mail.  N. Y. Mall. 
N.Y.M ail.  N .Y .Ex
1:35pm   7:45am ..G randR apid«.  9:45a m   5:16p m
5:55 p m   9:02am ..A U egfan............... 8:28 a m   5:00 a m
7:05pm   10:00 a m ..K alam azoo...  7:30 a  m 
4:oOpm 
8:80pm   11:35 a m .. W hite Pigeon.  5:55 a m   2:20pm
2:30 a m   5:06 p m ..T o le d o ............... 11:09 p m   0:45 a m
8:30 a m   9:40 p m. .Cleveland............ 6:40 p m   5:35 a m
2:5C p m 
3:30am ..B uffalo............11:55a m   11:40pm
5:40 e. in  8 :»>•/ p m. .Chicago..............11:30 p in  1:50 a m
A iocal frilg i t leaves G rand Rapid« a t 12:5C pm ,carry­
ing passengers as fa r as  AUegxn.  All  train s  daily  ex­
cept Sunday. 

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

GOING  BAST.

ooixo WBST.

t  
Arrives.
tSteam boat  Express.......................... 6:25 p m
tT hrough  Mail...................................10:40 a m
tE vening Express.............................   3:25 p m
"Lim ited Express............................... 6:50 a m
tMixed, w ith  coach.
tM om lng  Express............................  1:05 p m
tT hrough  Mail.................................. 6:00 p m
tSteam boat Express........................10:44 p m
tMixed..................................................
"Night Express.................................   5:25 a m

Leaves. 
6:30 p  IU 
10:50 a  in 
3:50 p  m 
6:50 a m 
11:00 a m
1:10 p m 
5:10 p m 
10:45 p m 
7:46 a m  
5:40 a m
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  "Dally.
Passengers taking th e 6:60  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 th e following 
m orning.  The N ight Express has a through W agner car 
and local sleeping car from  D etroit to Grand Rapids.
D. P otter, City Passenger Agent. 

Geo. B. Reeve, Traffic M anager Chicago.

tD aily except Sunday.

Chicago & W est Michigan.
Leaves. 
tM ail.......................................................9:10 a m 
tD ay  Express......................................12:30 p m  
"Night Express....................................11:00 p m  
Muskegon Express.................   ....... 5:00 p m  

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

Newaygo Division.
Leaves.
E x p re ss.............................................. 3:45 p m
E xpress...............................................  8:00am

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

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

Detroit, Mackinaw & Marquette.

Going W est. 

Going East.

7:00am   8:00 a m .. St. Ignace....... 8:40pm  
5:55pm
12:20pm  11:05 a m. .S eney ..............5:15pm   12:35pm
2:30 p m ) M 
5:30 p m  
1  2:05 p m  
7:00 a m  
4:00pm ) ala^ u e l 1 "   (  1:55pm
4:35 p m. .Negaunee....... 1:25 p m
4:45 p m ..Ishpem ing....12:55 p m 
8:00 p m . .H oughton ...  9:25am
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.

Grand Rapids & Saginaw Division.

DEPART.

Saginaw Express.....................................................   7  8 0 a m
Saginaw Express.....................................................   4  00 p  m
G rand Rapids  Express...........................................11  35 a  m
G rand Rapids  Express...........................................10  30 p m

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

A RRIVE.

PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY

E N  G I N  Hi S

From 2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boi! »rs, Saw Mills 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft 
ing,  Pulleys  and  £1 oxes.  Contracts  made  for 
Complete Outfits.

W .  O,  D en iso n ,

83,90 and 92 South Division Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS. 

‘  - 

MICH.

ORANGES

LEMONS

1865

P R E -E X IS T IN G   D EB T.

One who buys at a  voluntary  sale  from 
bis debtor and pays no  money,  but credits 
the amount of the consideration upon a pre­
existing debt,  is not n bona  fide  purchaser 
for value according to  the  decision of  the 
Texas Supreme  Court in  the case of Over- 
street vs.  Manning.

4H
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CQ

E IG H T   TO  P U T   SIGNS ON L E A S E D  PR EM ISE S.
The question was lately  presented in the 
Hew  York Supreme Court whether a tenant 
.has the right to use the  outside  wall of the 
premises  demised to  him  for  advertising 
purposes,  a question  not before  decided in 
Hew York State.  The  question  arose up­
on an application by the tenant of a portion 
•of a building in  New York  city for  an in­
junction to prevent the  landlord from eras­
ing certain decorative*  signs  which the ten­
ant had had painted  upon the outside  wall 
•of his portion of  the  building.  The  court 
.held that the injunction  should issue,  inas­
much as it was  shown  that the  paintings 
•did not extend beyond the  premises  leased 
'to the tenant, and there were no restrictions 
as to signs in the lease.

Largest Check Ever Drawn.

In the negotiations made a few years since 
’by the English Government for 880,000,000, 
the successful contractors were  the Messrs. 
Rothschilds; and having  been  supported by 
subscriptions  of  friends, 
they  were,  of 
course, recognized as the acting firm in that 
important transaction. 
In  paying  the  first 
deposit toward this amount to  the  Govern­
ment,  the check they drew was for  the sum 
of  $6,000,000.  This  bank  check  was 
probably  the  largest  ever  drawn  at  once 
by one private banking house.

If your customers know that  your  goods 
come from houses  known to  be at  the head 
of the trade,  they will  have  confidence that 
they will prove as  you  represent  them,  for 
they naturally reason that such  houses  did 
not gain their reputation  by selling  shoddy 
.articles.

PUTNAM & BROOKS

WHOLESALE

GANDY

AND

FR U IT

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1887

PEA NUTS
OYSTERS
THE OLDEST.  THE LARGEST.  THE BEST.

The  best o f Testimonials from every  State and  Territory,

CO

PORTER IRON ROOFING CO.
J.  T.  BELL  <&  CO,,

CINCINNATI

W holesale  F ruits  and  Produce,

BAST  SAG INAW ,  MICH.

FRUITS A. S. SPANGLER A CO.
il Merctat!

PRODUCE,  HUTS,  BERRIES,  ETC. 

Consignment» Solicited.

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

Our Leader Smoking 

O va Leader Fine Ghat 

15c per pound.

33c per pound.

Our Xae&der Skcrts, 

Our Leader Cigar«» 

10c per pound.

$30 per M.
Tlx©  B est  in   tlx©  W o rld .

Clark, Jewell &  Co.

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

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

O’Brien & Murray’s “Hand Made Cigar.”

PUP,E

PROCESS  STARCH. SWEET.
This Starch having the  light  Starch  and  Gluten 
O n © - T l i i r c l   L ess

removed,

Can be used than any othor in the Market.

Manufactured by the

FIRMENICH  MNFG. CO.

Factories:  Marshalltown,  Iowa;  Peoria, Ills.

Offices at Peoria, Ills.

FOR  SALE BY

STATE  AGENTS FOR

STRONG. I  Clark,  Jewell  &  Co. 
|  s u r e .
F. J. LAMB & CO.
D. D. Mallory & Co.’s

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

Engravers and Printers

D e s i g n e r s

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

Autographs, Etc., on Short Notice.

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

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

In  Ordering a Supply of the

Do not forget to  ask for

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

-THE-

F011

POWDER
Arctic Manufacturing Go., 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.

SOXiS  PROPRIETORS.

D E T R O IT   S O A P   0 0 ,

DETROIT. MICH..

M anufacturers  of the following well-known Brands

ofO -A. I3

QUEEN  ANNE, 
MICHIGAN, 

TRUE  BLUE, 

CZAR, 

MOTTLED  GERMAN,
SUPERIOR,

ROYAL  BAR,

MONDAY, 

► 
For Quotations address

PHCENIX,

WABASH, 

AND  OTHERS.

W . G.  HAW KINS,

Lock  Box  173, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

Salesman  for  W estern  Michigan.

MASCOTTE,

CAMEO,

And.

A bsolute  B a k in g  Pow der.

lOO pr cent. Pure.

Manufactured and sold only by

ED.  TELFEE,  Grand  Bapids.
WM. SEARS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

A gents  fo r

AMBOY  CHEESE'

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

BULKLEY, LEMON & HOOPS

JOBBERS  OF

.  70 
.  50 
.  50 
.  50

L.  C.  B.................... Rega Espicial.......... 858
El Captain General.Cone.  Esp...............60
El  Primero............. Cone. Fina..................56
“ 
..............Panatelas................... 65
............. Rega Princessa.. . . .   68
“ 

SEED  AND  HAVANA  10-CENT  CIGARS.
Mackinaw  ............. Londras Grande.
Twisters.................... 
Chacer........................ 
The Fox...................... 

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“ 
“ 
DOMESTIC  NICKEL  CIGARS.

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When......................Londras Grande...  .835
Cassia........................Flora Cordova........35
Spanish Tuck...........Renia Victoria....... 35
First  Degree...........Conchitas............... 35
Panatalla................ (B.  L.  &  H .)..........35
Town  Talk.............Ciggaro...................33
Young America... .Bag  Dad.................  25
Great  Scot...............Bendaro...................32
Our  Block...............Conchitas,  extra...  25
Now......................... 
22
’..2 0
Boodle...................... 
New  Fashion..........  
25
La Attractiva..........  
25

Atlas.........................Conch itas...................25
Gents’ Companion. .Concha  Hindoo.. . .   35
Donny  Brook.......... 
. . . .   25
Belle of  the  Rink..Florde  Corvado....  25
25
Big Chief..................Bag Dad......... . 
Jim Fox’s Clipper. .Concha.......................25
Select......................  
22
Elite  Gem...............  
Away Ahead...........  
Our Emblem...........  
“ 
Legal  Tender.......... 
“ 
No Name................. 
“ 
“ 
KEY  WEST  CIGARS.

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

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. ..  .Sublime..................875
Snugglers.
. . .  .Con. Especail.........60
LosCastellos...........Opera Reina............ 60
............Con.  Selectos.......... 65
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Los  Castellos......... Londras Grande....  7o
Estrelle de Ora....... Sublime......................60
La Modesta.............Operas  Renia.......... 65
Coronet  Boquet... .Londres  Chica.. . . .   60

IMPORTED  CIGARS.

Golden  Eagle..........Lilliputanos.......... 8  75 i Matilda.....................Royales................. 100
B elinda.................. Operas...................   801 Flora de, T. &  F .. .Rothschilds........... 125

Old  Judge...............500 in a  box........ 84  25! Sweet  Caporal........   “ 
Satin Straight C ut..  “ 

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

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4  25

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 from date.

BULKLEY, LEMON & HOOPS, Grand Rapids.

JOBBERS  IN

DRY  GOODS,
AND NOTION'S,

80  M onroe  St.,

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

GRAND  BAPIDS,  MICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers  j  A  Cnppjoltu 
( A ujlublullj.
American and Stark A Bags 

DO  YOU  W ANT

If so, send for Catalogue and Price-List to

i  HETMAN 1  SON,

T H E   GROCERS*  PICNIC.

B vny  Indication  Points  to  a  Big  Gath­

ering.

Agreeable to  instructions, * the  Secretary 
lias issued the  following  invitation  to  the 
members of the Association  and  all  sister 
associations:

Grand Rapids,  May 18,1887.

Dkak Sir—At the meeting of  the Retail 
Grocers’ Association,  held  last  evening,  it 
was voted to hold the annual  picnic  of  the 
Association at Reed’s Lake,  on  Wednesday 
afternoon  and  evening,  May  25,  begin­
ning  at  8  o’clock.  All  grocers,  whether 
members  of  the  Association  or  not,  all 
fJwrtra, all  jobbers,  all  traveling  men  and 
all members of  sister associations  are  cor- 
*«»ny invited to  join  us  on  this  occasion 
— h make our first annual  picnic  an  event 
long to be remembered.
The Street Railway Company has granted 
flw  Association  the  use  of  the  regular 
fin d , and the caterer will furnish  lunch  or 
supper to those who do not wish  to 
indulge in a basket picnic.  The Committee 
on Sports has provided  sufficient  diversion 
to  render the  occasion  thoroughly  enjoy­
able.  The Association makes no charge for 
anything connected  with  the  picnic,  and 
the Committee  on  Arrangements  will  see 
fla t no extortion is practiced by anyone.
I t is to be hoped that every grocer  in  the 
city will improve this  occasion  to  take  a 
h»if holiday and give his family and  clerks 
the same advantage.  Those who can  come 
axe requested to notify the Secretary  imme­
diately, on the enclosed postal card.
Come one, come all!  And don’t forget to 
bring the ladies and children.

H. A. Hydorn,
Milo G; Randall,
A. J. Elliott,
L.  WINTERN ITZ, 

Committee on Arrangements.

The following agreement  was  circulated 
by L. Wintemitz, who readily  secured  the 
appended signatures:
We,  the  undersigned  grocers  of  Grand 
Rapids, agree  to  close  our  stores  at  1:30 
o’clock on Wednesday,  May^  25,  1887,  for 
the purpose of attending a picnic to be held 
at Reed’s Lake on that afternoon.
Herrick & Randall, E.  E.  Walker,  Hor­
ton  &  Perkins,  Bemis  Bros.,  Goosen  & 
Uaane, Arthur Meigs & Co., Cornelius Fox, 
Q. W. Pettit, B.F. Emery,  Walsh & Spoon, 
J. C.  Shaw,  E.  M. White & Co., A. Rasch, 
Geo.  W.  Thayer.  John  Killean,  John 
Qpnihg, J. P. Thomson, H.  A.  Hydorn, F. 
H.  Emery,  J.  Geo.  Lehman,  Amott  & 
Carrol, J. McDonald, Rademacber  &  Kon- 
kle,  Chas.  Pettersch,  M.  P.  Hedges,  A. 
Dunneback,  Leonard Kipp,  Hascher Bros., 
Schmidt  Bros.,  Rebentisch  Bros.,  J.  A. 
Stratton,  Peter Gabriel, W.  E.  Knox,  C. C. 
Comstock,  Philip  Kusterer,  P.  Wendover, 
O.
Thos.  Keating,  Winchester  &  Sours, 
Emmons,  Vrindenier & Vryburg.

BASE  BALL.

Recognizing that base  ball  is  the  most 
popular game of the season, the Committee 
on Sports has arranged  for  a  match  game 
on the occasion of the picnic,  to  be  played 
by picked  nines—proprietors  on  one  side 
and clerks on the othor.  The place assigned 
each participant is as follows:

Proprietors—James Coye,  catcher; A. G. 
Wagner,  pitcher;  J.  Geo.  Lehman,  short 
stop; Mat Schmidt,  1st base;  Ed.  Winches­
ter, 2d base; Fred  Perkins,  3d  base;  F.  J. 
Dettenthaler,  right  field;  E.  J.  Herrick, 
center field; A.  W. Bemis,  left field.

Clerks—Chas. Whitcomb, catcher;  C.  C. 
Hetrick, pitcher;  Clyde Tucker, short stop 
Homer Clap, 1st  base;  W.  A.  Collins,  2d 
base; J. D. Chilver,  3d  base;  J.  C.  Cole, 
right field.  W.  J.  Creed,  center  field;  J 
Hughes, left field.

Umpire—Robert  M.  Floyd.  Scorer—O 

C. Shults.

The Committee also announces that other 
amusements will be provided,  such  as  foot 
ball, fat men’s race,  lean  men’s  race,  foot 
race, tub  race,  tug of  war, etc.  The  trav 
riing  men  are  expected  to  furnish  ma­
terial  for  a  lying match.

COMMITTEE  ON  RECEPTION.

Chairman Hydorn, of  the  Committee  on 
Arrangements,  announces 
the  following 
Committee on Reception:  E.  J.  Herrick, 
W- H. Lawton, G.  S.  Clark,  John  Sours, 
CL H. DeGraaf.  These  gentlemen will see 
to  it that  all  representatives  from  outside 
towns are made to feel at home.

t h e y ’l l  a l l   b e   t h e r e.

The way the postal card responses to  the 
Invitations sent [out  are  coming  in  gives 
« m y  indication of  a  large  and  successful 
gathering.  All agree to  close  their  stores 
«ml be on  hand  with  their  wives,  babies 
and clerks.

, A  Cheboygan  Branch  of the  G.  R.  &  I.

Railway.

At the instance of the Improvement Com­
mittee  of  the  Cheboygan  Business  Men’s 
Jtaaociation, the editor of The T radesman 
afJleri on President Hughart, of  the  G.  R. 
Jk J. Railway, to ascertain  whether a mern- 
yyi»l presented to him in person  by **  com­
mittee  from  the  Association  would  have 
»Tty weight in securing  the  construction  of 
»branch line of railway to that  place.  Mr. 
Hughart received his caller very graciously, 
<]Mt asserted that all the money his company 
gionW  raise  the  present  season  had  been 
pledged to  two  other  enterprises,  one  of 
-Which is the construction of a  branch  from 
JUlk&ska to Elk Rapids.  Mr. Hughart  re­
b o o ted  the  writer  to  thank  the  business 
» mwi of Cheboygan (for  the  interest  mani- 
JSested In the branch referred to, and said he 
.hoped that his company would he in a posi- 
ftb n   to  make  an  affirmative  answer  to 
»»other request of the  kind  later on.

The business men  of  Cheboygan  should 
ODt give  up  hopes  of  eventually  having 
direct rail connection with Grand Rapids.

Deny  the  Statement.

J .  A. & J. Q- Williams, of  Detroit,  write 
«XgE  Tradesman, denying  the  statement 
jghTinhrd last week to the effect  that  their 
la m e  makes a practice of selling  goods  to

The  Grocery  Market.

Business  and  collections are  both  good. 
Coffees are up a full cent and the  manufac­
turers  have  raised  the  price  of  package 
oods in  like  proportion.  Sugars,  after  a 
comparatively stationary market for several 
weeks, have taken on an upward  tendency, 
granulated and all  soft  grades  having  ad­
vanced from  %  to  3-16c  on Saturday  and 
Monday.  The  impression  is1  that  even 
higher  prices may be  looked  for.  Canned 
apples have advanced about 15c  per  dozen. 
Cheese  is  lower,  being  now  quotable  at 
12@12Kc.

Oranges are in  good  supply  and  prices 
are firm.  Lemons  are higher,  with a brisk 
demand.  Bananas are scarce and higher.

John W. Closterhouse and A.  J.  Arnold 
have retired from the  Grand  River  Valley 
Creamery,  at  Grandville.  The  business 
will be continued under the  same  style  by 
J. B. Horton.

Henry Pelgrim,  of  the firm  of  Pelgrim 
Bros., cheese  manufacturers  at  New  Hol­
land, was in town last Saturday, making his 
first sales for the season.

COUNTRY PRODUCE.

Apples—Good trait is scarce,  readilF  bring 
ng $3@$3.50 per bbl.  Fancy, $4.

Asparagus—30@35c per doz. bunches.
Beans—Country hand-picked are held at $1.15 
$  bu., and city picked  are  in  fair  demand at 
$1.50.
Butter—Creamery is in good demand  at 22c. 
Dairy is slow sale and weak at 15@16c.

Cabbages—New, $4.50 per crate.
Carrots—35c $  bu.
Cheese—Handlers pay 11c and hold at 12c.
Cucumbers—7C@75 $  doz.
Dried Apples—Evaporated, 15c $  lb; quarter­

ed and sliced, 6®7c $  lb.

Dried Peaches—Pared, 15c.
Eggs—Jobbers are paying  9@10c and selling 

for He.

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

is  moderately  active  at  $14 

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

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

per crate.  Spring, 15c $  doz.

Parsley—25c $  doz
Peas—$2 $   bu.
Potatoes—Handlers  are  paying  75c  for  all 
good varieties and holding  at 90c.  New readi­
ly command $1.75 per bu.

Pop Corn—214c $  lb.
Pieplant—2c ^  lb.
Plants—Cabbage or Tomato, $1.25 per box of

200.

Rutabagas—$1 $ bbl.
Radishes—30-35c ^  doz.
Spinach—75c$ bu.
Strawberries—$3.50@$3.75 per  24 qt case  for 

good to choice.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

String Beans—$1.75 $  box.
Tomatoes—$1.60 ¥  box.
Vegetable Oysters—25c $  doz.
Wheat—Steady.  City  millers  pay  87  cents 
for Lancaster and 84  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 
oar lota.
Rye—48@50c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 #  cwt.
Flour—No change. Patent,$5.10# bbl.in sacks 
and  $5.20  in  wood.  Straight,  $4.30 # bbl. in 
sacks and $4.50 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.40 #  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14 #  ton.  Bran, $14
ton.  Ships, $15 # ton.  Middlings, $16 $ ton.
orn and Oats, $17  $  ton.

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S uitable  for,  various 
|BWIDTHS  OF  SHELVING. 1

PATENTED  OCT.  19,  1887. 

Manufactured by

KOCH  A.  B.  CO.

354  MAIN  ST.,

PEORIA.  ILL.
Liberal  discount  to  the  trade, or  parties 
first  putting up these brackets in any local­
ity.

f '  _  A Lv £
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C Y L IN D E R   O IL  grant'd RAPIDS. M

Full Line oí

We make a specialty of

ZTJHSZA Olid,

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

GRAND  RAPIDS  OFFICE,

INTO. X C anal  S t ,  

Telephone No. 228-2.

J.  G.  ALEXANDER,  Agent.

GIVE  US A  TRIAL  ORDER.

We  Guarantee  Satisfaction.

Still at the Front.

TteTndeperiJfeBt  Clf  Co.  ifii  bouhfi'  to 
keep at  the  front.  Their  Oil  is  used  in 
every hamlet, town arid city along  the  line 
of the G. R. &  I.  Railway. 
It  is  rapidly 
taking the place of monopoly oil, which has 
so long been forced  upon  the  retail  trade, 
whose  sympathies  are  wholly  with  anti- 
monopoly oil, as well as with  anti-monopo­
ly methods  in business matters. 

;

Tiger Oil  challenges the  world of  medi­
cines for an equal to cure  diseases  in  m an 
or beast.

PROVISIONS.

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

The Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co. 

quote  as follows:
Mess, new...................................................16  50
Short Cut, clear.......................................... 15  j0
Extra clear pig, short cut..........................17  00
Extra clear, neavy..................................... 17  00
Clear quill, short cut................................. 17  00
Boston clear, short cut.............................. 17 00
Clear back, Bhort cut..................................17 00
Standard clear, short  cut, best. 
...........17 00
DRV  SALT MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy..............................
medium............................
lig h t.................................
medium................ 
light................................ 

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8fc
do. 
834
do. 
834
 
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLAIN.
.....1114
■ 
16  lbs...................................1334
t 
12 to 14 lbs............................12
1  picnic  ...............................................   834
t  best boneless................................  . .1034
Shoulders....................................................   714
Breakfast Bacon, boneless..........................10
Dried Beef, extra.........................................  934
ham  prices...............................1214

Short Clears, heavy................ 

Hams.average20  lbs............. 

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LARD.

BEEF IN  BARRELS.

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

7
Tierces  ................................................. 
'36
30 and 50 lb Tubs................................... 
734
lb Pails, 20 in a case............................ 
9> Pails, 12 in a case............................ 
734
10 lb Pails. 6 in a case...........................  
734
20 lb Pails, 4 pails in case...................... 
714
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 tbs...........  8 00
Boneless,  extra.......................................... 11 50
Pork Sausage...............................................  J
Tongue  Sausage.....................'..................  9
Frankfort  Sausage......................................  8
Blood  Sausage..............................................  6
Bologna, straight........................................   0
Bologna, thick.............................................  6
Head Cheese..-............................................   6
In half barrels...........................................  3 00
In quarter barrels............ 41....................   160

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

PIGS’ FEET.

OILS.

ILLUMINATING.

 

 

LUBRICATING.

Water White...............................  
JJH
Michigan  Test.............................................10)6
Ethaline....................................................... J3H
Ruby.............................................................
Gasoline....................................................... 1J34
Capitol Cylinder..........................................3614
Model  Cylinder...........................................3134
Shield Cylinder........................................... 3634
Eldorado  Engine........................................ 23
Peerless Machinery....................................20
Challenge Machinery..................................19
Paraffine  ..................................................... 2034
Black. Summer, West Virginia............ —   9
Black. 25® to 30°........................................10
Black, 15® C.  T...........................................H
Zero.............................................................12 3*

Feakins* ÂësspayasfoBows: 

HIDES. PELTS AND PUBS.
v 
Bints.Calf skins, green 
or cured....  7  1 
#  piece...... 10

Deacon skins,

Green . . . . •  *  S34® 6 
Part cured...  7  @ 734 
Full cured....  734@  8)4 
Dry hides and
kips...........  8  @12  l

• 

SHEEP PELTS.

Old wool, estimated washed #  ft»....... 25  ©26
Tallow......... ........... ............................  3  ©334
Fine washed #  lb 25@26|Coarse washed.. .20@24 
Medium  ............ 27@30| Unwashed........... 
2-3

WOOL.

OYSTERS.

FRESH  FISH.

OYSTERS AND  FISH. 
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 
New York Counts..............................
H. F. H.& Co.’s Selects..................... ;.
Black  bass................................- ........
Rock bass................................. ..........
Perch...................................................
Wall-eyed  pike...................................
Duck-bill  pike....................................
Sturgeon..................................... .........
Sturgeon,  smoked............... ..............
Trout...................................................
Trout, smoked....................................
Whiteflsh  ...........................................
Whiteflsh, smoked..............................
Brook Trout.......................................
Frogs’ Legs, per dozen.......................

FIELD  SEEDS.

Clover,  mammoth.
**  medium;.. 
Timothy, prime__

@4 25 
@4 25 
©1 90

FRESH  FISH

Bought  and Sold by

FRANK  J. DETTENTHALER,

117 Monroe St.,  Grand Rapids.

ESP”  Oysters the Year Around 

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

Manufactured by

09  Bristol Street. 

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BOSTON, MASS,

AGENTS—A. FI eso h,  118  Randolph  St..  Chicago, 111 
W illiam M. Morgan, 215  Duane St., N.  Emil  W iener 
Albany, N. Y.  G ardiner Bros., St. Augustine, Fla.

We  are  settled in  Our  new  store  in 
the Houseman  Building  and  have got 
everything to suit us.
We are adding new lines to our Wood- 
enware  stock every few days, and it is 
now nearly complete.  We have several 
cars of Binders’ Twine  and  can  fill or 
ders  promptly.

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

CURTISS  &  DUNTON

OLD  BAKBELS

Setting about a  store  are  unsightly,  besides  th e  pro­
jecting nails on them  are (jfLngerous  to  clothing.  The| 
enterprising grocer realizes th e value of handsom e and 
convenient  fixtures,  and  to  m eet  th is  dem and  th e 
Woolson  Spick  Co.,  of  Toledo,  Ohio,  have  designed 

th e irZsion  Coffee  Cabinet,
Of which  th e  accom panying  cu t  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 to him self.  They are made air-tight, tongued and 
grooved, beautifully grained  and  varnished,  and  are 
put together in  the  best  possible  m anner.  Complete 
set of casters, w ith screws,  inside  this  cabinet.  Their 
use in every grocery, a fter th e coffee is sold out,  is  ap­
parent;  ju s t th e 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 a n   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 pa­
per.  Read  below  w hat  we  say  as  to  th e  quality of 
Lion Coffee.

This Coffee Cabinet Given Away.

A  GOOD BREAKFAST

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

92 to 108 Oak St., Toledo, Ohio.

8 F F E 1

;o* bined

(Sroceries.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

These prices  are  for  cash  buyers, who  pay 

promptly and buy in fall packages.

A X L E   GREASE.

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

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

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Acme, 34 lb cans, 3 doz. case.......................
34 lb 
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B ulk............................................
Princess,  14s....................................  ......
Ha..................................... ......
Is.................................................
hulk.:.........................................
Arctic, 34 lb cans, 6 doz. case.....................
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Victorian. 1 lb cans, (tall,) 2 doz___  ........
Diamond,  “bulk.” ......................................
Dry, No. 2............ ..........................doz.
Dry, No. 3....................................... doz.
Liquid, 4 oz,..-................................ doz. 
35
Liquid, 8 oz.....................................doz. 
65
Arctic 4 oz......................................#  gross 3 50
Aretic8  oz....................................... 
7 20
Arctic 16 oz................................................   12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box............................... 2 00
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3 00
Arctic No. 3 
**  ...............................4 00
BROOMS.
No. 2Hurl..............1  75 Common Whisk—   90
Fancy  Whisk........ 1 00
No. 1 H url....2 00@2 25
Mill............................. 3 75
No. 2 Carpet...........2 25
Warehouse  ........... 2 75
No. 1 Carpet...........2 50
Parlor Gera...........3 00
Clamad 1 lb, Little Neck.............................110
Clam Chowder.  31b...................................2 15
Cove Oysters, 1 lb standards....................  90
Cove Oysters, 2 lb standards..................   1 75
Lobsters, 1 lb picnic...................................1 75
Lobsters, 2 lb, picnic................................. 2 65
Lobsters, 1 lb star........................... :........ 2 00
Lobsters. 2 lb star......................................3 00
Mackerel,lib fresh standards................ 1 45
Mackerel, 5 lb fresh standards................ 5 25
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 lb...............3 50
MackereL.3 lb in Mustard..........................3 50
Mackerel. 3 lb  soused............................... 3 50
Salmon, 1 lb Columbia river.....................1  70
Salmon. 2 lb Columbia river.........   ......... 3 00
Sardines, domestic 34s...............................6@7
Sardines,  domestic  34s............................ 10©12
Sardines,  Mustard  34s..............................9©11
Sardines,  imported  34s.................................12® 13
Trout. 3 9)  brook....................................   4 00
Apples, gallons, standards......................3 40
Blackberries, stahdards...........................   80
Cherries, red standard............................. 1 10
Damsons.................................................... 1 00
Egg Plums, standards 
........................... 1  15
Gooseberries..............................................  85
Green Gages, standards 2 lb.................... 1 15
Peaches, Extra Yellow............................1 75
Peaches, standards..................................1 55
Peaches,  seconds.....................................1 45
Peaches, pie..............................................1 10
Pears......................................................... 1  10
Pineapples, standards............................. 1 35
Quinces......................................................115
Raspberries,  extra..................................1 25
red .....................................1 35
Strawberries  ............................................1  20
Whortleberries........................................   80
Asparagus, Oyster Bay............................2 00
Beans, Lima,  standard......................... 
  75
Beans, Stringless, Erie.............................  90
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked.................. 1 70
Cora,  Archer’s Trophy............................1 30

CANNED VEGETABLES.

CANNED FRUITS.

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Lemon.

*•  12 lb kits 
“  10  ** 

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FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

White, No. 1,10 lb kits........
White, Family, 34 bbls........
kits............

Cod, whole................................................. 5®5*4
Cod, boneless.........................................534 @6 34
H alibut 
............................................834© 934
Herring, round.  34  bbl.......................  ©2 90
Herring .round,  34  bbl................................   1 75
Herring, Holland, bbls...........................11 00
Herring, Holland,  kegs........................   75©  80
Herring, Scaled......................................... 17@18
Mackerel, Shore, No. 1,34 bbls.................  30 00
2 50 
6 50
10® 12 
5 50 
95
7 50
1  10
1  00
3 75
75
Vanilla.
1 6G
2 65
4 25
5 00
175
3 00
9 00
......... 8 00  18 00
18a
5 00
7 00
Grand Haven,  No. 8, square.......................  95
Grand Ha ran, No 9, square, 3 gro.............. 1  15
Grand Haven, No. 200,  parlor........* .........l  75
Grand Haven,  No. 300, parlor...................2 25
Grand Haven,  No. 7,  round......................1 50
Oshkosh, No. 2............................................ 1 00
Oshkosh, No. 8.............................................l so
Swedish........................................................  75
Richardson’s No. 8  square.........................1 00
Richardson’s No. 9 
.......................... 150
Richardson’s No. 734. round....................... l 00
Richardson’s No. 7 
..........................l 50
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

Jennings’ D. C.,2 oz..............$  doz. 1 00 
“  4 oz..........................1 50 
“  6 oz..........................2 50 
“  8oz..........................3 50 
“  No. 2 Taper.............125 
“  No. 4 
............ 1 75 
“  34 Pint, round.......... 4 50 
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“  No. 8 
.............. 2 75 
“  No. 10  “ 
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MATCHES.

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34 bbls. 2c extra

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OATMEAL 

“  34  “  ...  3 00 
“  cases 2 25@3 25| 

ROLLED  OATS
Muscatine, bbls.... 5 50 Muscatine, bbls.... 5 50 
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“  cases 2 25@3 2i
Medium...............................................  @7 00
34 bbl......... : ..........................   @4 00
Small,  bbl............................................  @8 50
34 bbl.......................................   @4 75

PICKLES.

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RICE.

Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross...........  @2 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,234 gross........  @1 7f
American T. D.. . .............................  @  7;
Choice Carolina......6341 Java  ................  
534
Prime Carolina......6  P atn a.......................534
Good Carolina.......534 Rangoon..........   @434
Good Louisiana...... 534 Broken.............3  @334
Table  ..................... 634 Japan......................534
DeLand’s pure.......5?^  Dwight’s .................. 5
Church’s  ............... 5  Sea  Foam................ 534
Taylor’s G. M.........5  ¡Cap Sheaf............... 5

SALERATUS.

34c less in 5 box lots.

8ALT.

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy.......................... 
28 Pocket............... .............................. 
1003 9) 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, 34 bu. bags.............. 
Rock, bushels...................................... 
Warsaw, Dairy, bu. bags.................... 

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70
80
3 15
75
20
21
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Morning  Glory..............................
Acme...............................................
Maple Leaf......................................
Excelsior........................................1 20
Onondaga.......................  ..............1 35
Darby............................................. 1 50
Osborn...........................................1 00
New Process..................................1  15
B artlett......................................... 1  10
Peas, French........................ , ...................1 60
Peas, extra marrofat......................... 1 20©1 40
Peas,  soaked..............................................  75
Early June, stand.....................150@175
sifted.............................2 00
French, extra Use.............................20 00
Mushrooms, extra fine.............................. 20 00
Pumpkin, 3 0) Golden.............................. 1 00
Succotash, standard....................................80@1 30
Squash.....................................................1 00
Tomatoes, standard brands....................1 l0
Michigan full  cream..........................  12@1234
York State, Acme.......................... 
Wilbur’s  Premium..351 German Sweet......... 23

CHOCOLATE.

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CHEESE.

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Sweet....... 25 V ienna Sweet
B’kf’tCocoa45 Baker’s ........
Cocoa-theta 42 Runkles’ ...................35
Vanilla Bar 28|

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Is and  34s..............................  @28
34s..........................................  @27
is in tin pails.......................   ©2734
34s 
.......................  @2834
Maltby’s,  Is.........................................  @2334
Is and  34s...........................   ©24
34s........................................  @2434
Manhattan,  pails................................  @30
Peerless  ..............................................  @18
Bulk.....................................................  @15
COFFEES—PACKAGE,60 lbs 100 lbs 300 0)8

Lion............................................ 
Lion,  in cabinets....................... 
XXXX...................................... 2594  2534  25
Arbuckle’s  ...............................2594  2534  25
Dilworth’s .................................. 
Standard  ................................... 
German...............   ............... 
German, in  bins
Magnolia........
Royal..............
Mexican........
Green.

2634
25
25
25
2434  «394 
2534  25
18 
18
Roasted.

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............ 18

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CORDAGE.

734
634
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CRACKERS  AND  SWEET  GOODS.

...20@2l
19@21 Rio............
Rio
...2C@21
Golden Rio— 1«@21 Golden Rio.
...21@23
Santos............ 20@21 Santos........
Maricabo........ 19@20 Maricabo... ...22@25
.  .25©26
J a v a .............. 20@22 Java...........
...26@38
O. G. Java...... 23@26 O. G. Java..
....24 Mocha........
...28©80
Mocha  ...........
.  1 00 50 foot Cotton.... 1 60
60foot Jute...
72 foot Jute ... .. 1 25 60 foot Cotton__1  75
40Foot Cotton. ...1 50 72foot Cotton... .2 00
$9>
634
5

Kenosha Butter.......................
Seymour Butter............................  
Butter............... •'....................  
Fancy  Butter..........................  434
S.  Oyster......................................... 
Picnic............................................. 
Fancy  Oyster..........................  434
Fancy  Soda.............................  5
City Soda.................................
Soda  ..............................................  
Milk................................................ 
Boston....................................
Graham...................................
Oat  Meal.................................
Pretzels, hand-made...............
Pretzels..............................
Cracknels................................
Lemon Cream.......................... 
7 
Sugar Cream .........................  7 
Frosted Cream........................
Ginger  Snaps..........................  7 
No. 1 Ginger  Snaps.................  7
Lemon  Snaps.......................... 
6)4
Coffee Cakes..................................  
13)4
Lemon Wafers.........................
11) 4
Jumbles...................................
12) 4 
Extra Honey Jumbles............
1334 
Frosted Honey  Cakes............
1334 
Cream Gems.................. ........
1334 
Bagievs  Gems........................
1234
Seed Cakes..............................
834
S. & M. Cakes........................
Citron................................................. 19  ©  22
Currants..:........................................ 6  @634
Lemon Peel.........................................  &  «
Orange Peel.........................................  ®  «
Prunes, French, 60s.............................  @10
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French, 80s.............................  @6
French,  90s..........................  @ 7
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*•  Turkey...................................  @ 6
“  Bohemia................................ 
5
Raisins, Dehesia............................3 50©5 00
Raisins, London Layers...................._  @2 10
Raisins, California  “ 
.....................1 50@1 90
Raisins, Loose Muscatels....................1 40@1 50
Raisins, Ondaras, 28s......... ................834® 834
Raisins. Sultanas................................  8  @834
Raisins,  Valencia,new......................  @634
Raisins, Imperials..............................   @3 00

DRIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN.

8
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8
12)4

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SAUCES.

SOAPS.

SPICES—WHOLE.

ily ........................... 2 94

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

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SPICES—PURE  GROUND.

Parisian, 34  pints................................
Pepper Sauce, red  small....................
Pepper Sauce, green...........................
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring............
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........
Catsup, Tomato, pints........................
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ....................
Halford Sauce, pints..........................
Halford Sauce, 34 pints.......................
Acorn.....................3 851 Extra Chicago Fam-
M aster....................4 00 
New Process, 1  9)..3  8o|Napkin...................4
New Process, 3 9). .3 96 Towel.................... 4
Acme,  bars...........3 55 White  Marseilles..5 50
Acme,  blocks......  3 05| White Cotton  Oil..5 50
Best  American__2  93iRailroad....................3 50
C ircus...................3 70 U. G....................... 3 45
Big Five  Center...3 85 Mystic White......... 4 65
Nickel.................... 3 45 Saxon  Blue...........2 60
Shamrock..............3 15 S ta r....................... 3 7
Blue Danube.........2 55; Loudon Family__ 2 30
Allspice...............................................
Cassia, China in mats..........................
“  Batavia in bundles.................
“  Saigon in rolls........................
Cloves, Amboyna................................
“  Zanzibar.................................
Mace Batavia......................................
Nutmegs,  fancy.................................
No. 1...........l......................
No. 2...................................
Pepper, Singapore, black..................
white..................
Allspice...............................................
Cassia,  Batavia...................................
and, Saigon.................
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*•  Saigon...................................
Cloves, Amboyna................................
“  Zanzibar.....................   .......
Ginger, African...................................
“  Cochin....................................
Jamaica.................................
“ 
Mace Batavia......................................
Mustard, English................................
and Trieste......... .
Trieste.................................
Nutmegs, No. 2.......................*».........
Pepper, Singapore black....................
white....................
Cayenne................................
STARCH.
Muzzy, Gloss, 48 9) boxes, 1 9) pkgs...
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“ Corn, 40 9) boxes. 19> pkgs____
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Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 19> pkgs....
“  6 9» boxes...
“  b u lk ...........
Pure, 19) pkgs.................
Corn, 1  9) pkgs.

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@534 @ 4 
“  b u lk ................
@© 6 
© 63 
19)  “ 
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@ 734 
@ 634 
@ 534 
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Royal, Gloss, 1 9> packages.................  @ 53£
@4© 6 
@ 5% 
@ 534 
© 634 @ 4 
© 6
Niagara,  gloss....................................   © 514
corn....................................   @6

“  C orn.......................................
Firmenieh, new process, gloss, 19>—
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6 9>....
“ bulk, boxes or bbls
“  corn. 19>...............

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SYRUPS.

Cut  L o a f . .......................................   @ 6*4
Cubes..................................................  @ 6?6
Powdered............................................  @  8%
Granulatejd, Standard....................... 
@634
Confectionery A.................................   © 574
Standard A..........................................   © 514
No. 1, White Extra  C..........................  534® 5,'»
No. 2, Extra C......................................  534@ 6)4
No.3 C..................................................  @ 4%
No. 4 C................... 
@414
No.5C..................................................  @4?»
Corn,  barrels  ....................................  
25@27
Corn, 34 bbls......................................... 
27@29
Corn, 10 gallon kegs............................. 
@30
@32
Corn, 5 gallon kegs..............................  
Pure Sugar, bbl................................... 
23@35
Pure Sugar, 34 bbl................................ 
2o@37
TOBACCO—FINE C U T -IN  PAILS
Cinderella.................25
Uncle Tom................37
Hi There.................. 30
What Is It?................25
Red Cap.................... 55
Cherry......................60
CrossCut...................35
Five and Seven........45
OldJim......................85
Magnet......................35
Seal of D e tro it..^  .60IOld Time..................30
Jim Dandy............  38 Underwood’s Capper 36
Our  Bird................. 26 Sweet  Rose................45
Brother  Jonathan.. .27 Meigs&Co.’sStunner35
Jolly Time..............36 Atlas.......................... 35
Our  Leader.............33 Royal Game................38
Sweet  Rose.............32!Mule Ear................... 66
May  Queen............ 65 Fountain.,................. 74
Old Congress.............64
Dark AmericanEagleO
Good Luck................52
The Meigs................. 60
Blaze Away..............35
Red Bird...................50
Hair Lifter.........   ...30
Prairie Flow er........ 65
Hiawatha................. 62
Indian Queen...........60
Globe....................... 65
May Flower.............. 70
Crown Leaf..............66
Sweet  Pippin...........45
Sunset.......................35
Hustler .................... 22
Bad B oy..................35
Our  Leader..............16
Mayflower................23
Globe....................... 22
Mule Ear...................23

Hiawatha................. 22
Old Congress.............23
May  Leaf......... ....... 22
D ark.........................30

SHORTS.

PLUG.

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SMOKING

Eye Opener............. 35; Blue  Blazes.............  25
Pauper  ....................31 ¡Capper...................... 35
Peach P ie .............. 31 Jupiter  .....................25
8tar 
37 Night Cap..................22
Old Solder.................37¡Splendid..................  38
lipper  ................... 34|KedFox.....................40
Cornerstone............34;Big  Drive..................40
Scalping  Knife....... 34 Chocolate  Cream....40
Sam Boss.................  34!Nimrod.................... 35
.m pig  rif ü v/cuiur........
33
Jolly Time............
.32;Parrot  .....................
,42jBuster..............
Favorite  ...............
Black  Bird............
.321 Black Prince............
.32 Black  Racer............
Live and Let Live. 
Quaker..................
.28 Climax  .........
.37|Acorn  ...........
Big  Nig.................
Spear Head..........
.37¡Horse  Shoe..............
P.  V...
..3H| Vinco.......................
Spring Chicken__ ..36jMerry War...............
Eclipse  .................
..30 Ben  Franklin...........
.39 Moxie.....................
.24
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Lark..

j Mountain Rose.........

Black Jack................82
Musselman’s Corker. 30
um  Yum............... 30!P u re ..........................jjj
Our  Leader..............15 S ta r........................... 20
Old Vet..................... 30 Unit  .........................30
Big Deal........:..........27 Eight  Hours.............24
Navy Clippings........26|Lucky  ...................... 30
Leader..................... 15 Two  Nickel............... 24
Hard  Tack__ *........36 Duke’s  Durham. ... .40
Dixie........................26 Green Corn Cob Pipe 26
Old Tar..................... 40 Owl.  ..........................pj
Arthur's  Choice...... 22 Rob Hoy.....................34
Red Fox....................26 Uncle  Sam.................27
Gold Dust.................26 Lumberman..............25
Gold Block...............30! Railroad Boy..............35
Seal of Grand Rapids 
(cloth).................25Home Comfort...........25
Miners and Puddiers.28;Old Rip..................... 60
Peerless  .................. 24 Seal of North Caro-
Standard..................20  Zina, 2  oz.................48
Old Tom....................20 Seal of North Caro-  •
Tom & Jerry............241 
lina, 4oz.................. 48
Joker...................... .25'Seal of North  Caro-
IZraveler..................35 
lina, 8oz.................. 45
Maiden.....................25 Seal of North Caro-
Pickwick Club.........40! 
lina, 16 oz boxes___42'
Nigger Head............26 King Bee, iongcut.. .22
Holland......... ..........22 Sweet Lotus...............32
German................... 15 Grayling.................... 33
K. of  L............... 42@46 Seal Skin..................30
Honey  Dew.............25¡Red Clover................ [33
Colonel’s Choice......15 Good Luck................25
Queen  Bee............... 22 Navy.................' 
30
Blue  Wing2.............301
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen..
Maccoboy.....................
Gail & Ax’ 
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Rappee..........................@  „
Railroad  Mills Scotch........................   ©  45
Lotzbeck  ............................................ 
30-
Japan ordinary......................................... 18@20
Japan fair to good..................................   25@30
Japan fine..................................................,'35@45
Japan dust................................................. 15@30
Young Hyson............................................ 20@45
GunPowder..............................................36© 50
Oolong.................................................3o@55@6C
Congo........................................................ 25@30
50gr.
_ . . .  
30gr. 
Cider..........................................   08 
10
jg
York State Apple....................... 
m is c e l l a n e o u s .
Bath Brick imported..........................
90
do 
Burners, No. 0....................................
@70
do  No. 1..................................
80
do  No. 2................................. "*
90
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand......... . .
@7 70 
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 9> cans............
©25 
Candles, Star.......................................
@11 
Candles.  Hotel...............................” ”
©12 
Camphor, oz., 2 9) boxes.................. ..
@35 
Extract Coffee, V. C........................
©80 
Felix........................
@1  20 
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.....................
©25 
......
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.....................  
@35
Gum, Spruce.........................................   30@35
Hominy, ¥  bbl.......................................   @3 OO
Jelly, in 30 9>  pails..............................   5  © 534
Pearl Barley....................................... s \&  3
Peas, Green  Bush..................................  @1 15
Peas, Split  Prepared.............................  @ 
Powder, Keg...........................................  @5 00
PowdeP, 34  Keg......................................  ©2 75,
S age.......................................................  © 15
Sago  .......................................................  @ 
Tapioco..................................................  @ 

American.....................

VINEGAR.

SNUFF.

t e a s .

do 

70

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CANDY, FRUITS AND-NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

do 
do 

FANCY—IN  5 lb BOXES.

STICK.
Standard, 25 9> boxes...........................   834® 9
...........................   © 9
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
©10
MIXED
Royal, 25 9> pails.................................   @ 9
Royal, 2001b bbls..................................  © 8
Extra, 25 9> pails.................................   ©10
Extra, 200 9> bbls.................................   @9
French Cream, 25 lb pails....................  @113
Cut loaf, 25 9) cases.............................  @10
Broken, 25 t> pails..............................   ©10
Broken, 200 lb  bbls..............................   @ 9
Lemon  Drops.........................................  @12
Sour Drops.............................................   @13
Peppermint  Drops.......  .....................   @U
Chocolate Drops....................................  
14
H M Chocolate  Drops...........................  
18
Gum  Drops  ........................................... 
10
Licorice Drops.......................................  
22
A B Licorice  Drops..............................  
12
Lozenges, plain...................................... 
14
Lozenges,  printed.................................  
15
Imperials............................................... 
14
15
Mottoes.................................................. 
12
Cream  Bar.............................................. 
Molasses Bar..........................................  
12
Caramels................................................. 
18
Hand Made Creams................................ 
18
IK
Plain  Creams......................................... 
Decorated Creams.................................  
20
13
String Rock............................................ 
Burnt Almonds...................................... 
22
Wintergreen  Berries....................
14
FANCY—IN  BULK.
Lozenges, plain in pails.................
@ ll)i 
Lozenges, plain in  obis..................
@1034 
Lozenges, printed in pails..............
@1234 
Lozenges, printed in  bbls.............
@1134 
Chocolate Drops, in pails...............
@1234 
Gum Drops  in pails.......................
© 634 
Gum Drops, in bbls.............................
© 534 
Moss Drops, in pails........................... 9
@10 
Moss Drops, in bbls.............................
@ 9 
Sour Drops, in  pails...........................
@12 
Imperials, in  pails..............................
©1234 
Imperials  in bbls.............................. .
@1134
....
Bananas  Aspinwali...........................2 5C@3 50-
Oranges, California, fancy.................  @4 00
Oranges, California,  choice...............   @3 75
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls.......................
Oranges, Florida................................
Oranges, Valencia, cases....................
Oranges, Messina................................  @4 25
Oranges, OO....................................... .  @
Oranges, Imperials............................4 25@4 50
Lemons, choice...................................  @3 75
Lemons, fancy................................... 4 00®4 50-
Lemons, California.............................
Figs, layers, new,  ¥ lb.......................10  @15
Figs, Bags,509)..........................  
Dates, frails do  .....................................  © 534
Dates, 34 do  do  .................................   @ 634
Dates, skin..........................................
Dates, 34  akin......................................
Dates, Fard 10 9> box 
9>..................   934@10
Dates, Fard 50 9) box  9>...................  @8
Dates, Persian 50 9)box $19)...............  7  @ 734
Pine Apples, 33 doz...........................   2 00@3 (XA
Almonds,  Tarragona...........................1734@18
@17 
@17 
@ 9
©10 
“ 
© 9 
@17 
• “ 
15 
“ 
11
“ 
Pecans, Texas, H. P ........................... 10  @14
“  Missouri..............................8  @  9
Cocoanuts, V 100................................. 5 o0@6 OO
PEANUTS.
Prime Red, raw  <p  9>..........................  @  4
Choice 
do  .........................  ©  434
do 
Fancy HJ*. do 
do  ...........................4%@  5
Choice White, Va.do  ..........................  @534
Fancy H P„  Va  do  .........................  @  6
H .P.V a.................................................544®  6

Ivaca.
California............
Brazils.................................
Chestnuts, per bu...............
Filberts, Sicily.....................
Barcelona...... .......
Walnuts,  Grenoble..............
Sicily....................
French..................
California........... .

FRUITS.

NUTS.

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FRESH MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 
prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides................................  534®  734
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters.................  834© 9
Dressed Hogs......................................   @ 634
Mutton.................................................  734® 8
Lamb spring.......................................   @1234
V eal................................................... 7  ©  734
Pork Sausage......................................   @ 8
Bologna................................................  © 6
Fowls...... .-...........................................12  @13
Ducks  .................................................  @
Turkeys  ...........................................  .12  @13
Lard,  kettle-rendered........................  7)4@8

3

7
7

©  8

WH0LSSALX  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Opium, opium po., cocoa  butter. 

ACIDUM.

BACCAE.

AMMONIA.

85®2 10
40@1 60

Aceticum..............................................   8® 10
Benzoicum,  German............................  80@1 00
Carbolicum......................................... 
  45® 50
Citricum...............................................  00® 65
Hydrochlor...........................................   0®  5
Nitrocum..............................................  10® 12
Oxalicum..............................................  11® 13
Salicyllcum.......................................... 1 
Tannicum............................................. 1 
Tartaricum..........................................   50® 53
¿
Aqua, 16 deg..........................................  3®
«  18  deg..........................................  4®  6
Carbonas...............................................   11®  13 ]
Chloridum...........................................  
  12® 14
Cubebae (po.  1  25................................1 
20® l 25
Juniperus  ............................................ 
6® 7
Xanthoxylum......................................   25® 30
Copaiba...........................................  
Peru.....................................................  @1 50
Terabin,  Canada...................................  50® .55
Tolutan.................................................  40® 45
Abies,  Canadian.......................i......... 
18
Cassiae  ............................................... 
11
Cinchona Flava................................... 
18
Eaonymus  atropurp......   ................. 
30
20
Myrica  Cerifera, po...........................  
12
Prunus Virgin!................................... 
Quillaia,  grd.................................... 
12
Sassfras  .............................................  
' ■
Ulmus.................................................. 
12
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)........................  
10
Glyoyrrhiza Glabra.............................  24®  25
po....................................   83®  35
Haematox, 15 B> boxes........................   8®  9
is.................... 
@  12
Ms  ....................................  ®  13
Ms  ....................................  ®  15

KXTRACTUM.

BALSAMUM.

CORTEX.

“ 
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55® 60

do 

MISCELLANEOUS.

SPONGES.
......
do 
. . . .
do 
do 
.......
do 
........
,for slate use...............
...............

Florida sheens’ wool, carriage...... 2 25
Nassau 
do 
Velvet Ext  do 
ExtraYe  *  do 
Grass 
do 
Hard ’ 
Yellow Reef. 
.¡Ether, Spts Nitros, 3 F .......................
Ait her, Spts. Nitros, I F .....................
Alumen...............................................
Alumen,  ground, (pe. 7).....................
Annatto  .............................................
Antimoni,  po......................................
Antimoni et Potass  Tart....................
Argent! Nitras,  5................................
Arsenicum....................................... ..
Balm Gilead  Bud................................
Bismuth S.  N......................................
Calcium  Cblor, Is, (Ms, 11;  Ms, 12)__
Cantharides  Russian, po....................
Capsici Fructus, af.............................
Capsid Fructus, po.............................
Capsici Fructus, B, po........................
Caryophyllus,  (po.  36)........................
Carmine. No. 40...................................
C< ra Alba, S. &  F ................................
Cera Flava..........................................   26®
Coccus ........................................
Cassia Fructus...........................
Centraria..................................
Cetaceum..................................
Chloroform................................
Chloroform,  Squibbs.................

Cinchonidine,  German..............
Corks, see list, discount, per cent....
Creasotum.................................
Creta, (bbl. 75).............................
Creta  prep......... .......................
Creta, precip..............................
Creta Rubra...............................
Crocus  .......................................
Cudbear......................................
Cupri Sulpb................................
Dextrine......... ..........................
Ether Suiph...............................
Emery, all numbers..................
Emery, po................................. .

Galla.................
Gambler...........
Gelatin, Coopor. 
Gelatin, French. 
Glassware hint,' 
Glue,  Brown__

Grana  Paradisi..............
H um ulus.......................
Hydrarg Chlor. M itt__
Hydrarg Chlor.  Cor......
Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum.
Hydrarg Ammoniati__
Hydrarg U nguentum__
Hydrargyrum...............

50® 60

Iodoform ................................
Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod.

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WHOLESALE

Druggists!

4a and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91,

93 and 95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

DllilGiliCHN]!, 
Psiils, Oils, Varnlsties,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Slept  Phannacentical  Prepara­

tions,  Fluid  Extracts  and 

Elixirs

GENERAL WHOLESALE  AGNTS FOB

Wolf« Patton & Co. and J o h n  I* . 

Whiting, Manufacturers  o f  

26® 28
30® 32
2M@ 3M3® 4
55® 60
4® 5
55® 60
@ 68
5® 7
38® 40
2 15®2 20
@ 9
@2 no
© 15
@ 1»
@ 14
30® 33
@3 75
50® 55
26® 30
@ 40
@ 15
@ 10
© 50
38® 40
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.1 60@1 75
10® 12
15® 20
9® 15
40
.  © 50
•  @ 2
.  5® 6
.  8® 10
.  @ 8
.  25® 30
.  @ 24
6® 7
.  10® 12
.  68® 70
■  @ 8
.  @ 6
.  se® 60
.  12® 15
.  @ 23
.  7® 8
.  @ 15
.  40® 60
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.  9® 15
.  13® 25
.  23® 26
.  © 15
40
.  ® 75
.  @ 65
.  @ 85
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.  @ 40
.  @ 65
.1 25® 1 50 
.  75@l 00 
.4 00@4  10
.  @5  15
.  @ 27
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.  60® 65
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Drugs & flftebicines

State  Board  o f Pharm acy.

One Y ear—Jacob Jeaaon, Muskegon.
Two Years—Jam es  V em or, D etroit.
Three Years—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor. 
F our Y ears—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
Five Y e a rs —Stanley E. Parkell, Owosso. 
President—O ttm ar  Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob J  esson.
T reasurer—Jas. Vemor.
Next Meeting—At D etroit, July 5 and 6.

M ichigan  State  P harm aceutical  A ss’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 ing. 
Third V ice-President—F rank Inglls, D etroit.
Secretary—S. E. ParkiU , Owosso.
T reasurer—Wm. Dupont, D etroit.
Executive Comm ittee—Geo. W. C router, J. G. Johnson, 
Local S ecretary-G uy M. Harwood, Petoskey.
Next P lace of M eeting—At  Petoskey, Ju ly  li, IS an d U .

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

Grand  R apids  P harm aceutical Society. 

ORGANIZED OCTOBER #, 18**. 

P resident-G eo. G. Stekettee.
Vice-President—H.  E. Locner#
Secretary—F rank H. Escott.
i S ^ ^ ^ p S ^ V i o e - F r e r i d e n t   and  S ec
Board of Trustees—The President,  John E-Peck.  M.  B. 
Kinim  Win. H. VanLeeuwen end O. H. RicnmoiKL 
wAn  liaac W atts  Wm. E. W hite and Wm.  L.  W hite. 
Com m ittee on Trade H atters—John E. Peck, H. B. Fair-
Com m ittee  o S ^ s T t i o n - R .   A.  McWilliams,  Theo.
C o m " »  ^ a rm a lc y —W . L. W hite, A. C. B auer and
R egiilar^geetlngs—F irst  Thursday  evening  in   each
A ^ua* M eeting-F irst Thursday
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  June  2,  a t  Thr 

Tradesman office. 

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

D etroit P harm aceutical  Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER, 1S8S.

__

President—A. F.  Parker. 
F irst Vice-Prestdent—F rank Iarfi*- 
Second Vice-President—J. C. Mueller.
Secretary and Treasurer—A. W. Allen.
A ssistant Secretary andTr® aaurei^—H . McRue- 
Annuni Meeting—F irst W ednesday in June.
R egular Meetings—F irst W ednesday in  each  month.

Central  M ichigan  D ruggists’  A ssociation. 
President, J. W. Dunlop;  Secretary, R.  M. Mussell.
B errien   County  P harm aceutical  Society. 
President, H. M. Dean;  Secretary, H enry K ephart.

Clinton  County  D ruggists’  A ssociation. 

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

Jackson  County  P harm aceutical  A ss’n. 

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

M ason  County  P harm aceutical  Society. 

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

M onroe  County  Pharm aceutical  Society. 
President, 8. M. Saekett;  Secretary, Julius Weiss._____
M uskegon  County  D ruggists’  A ssociation, 
President, W. B. W ilson;  Secretary, Geo. W heeler.

M uskegon  D rug  Clerks’  A ssociation. 

President, E. C.  Bond;  Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre.
N ew aygo  County  Pharm aceutical  Society. 
President, J. F. A. Raider; Secretary, N. N. Miller.

Oceana County P harm aceutical Society. 

President, F. W. Fincher;  Secretary, F rank Cady.
Saginaw   County  P harm aceutical  Society. 
President, Jay   Sm ith;  Secretary,  D. E. Frail._________
Shiaw assee County Pharm aceutical Society
Tuscola County P harm aceutical Society. 

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

Should  Worm-Eaten  Drugs  be  Used  for

Making Pharmaceutifal  Preparations.

OTTO A.  WALL,  M.  D.,  PH.  G.

The subject of insects  injurious to  dried 
and prepared vegetable or animal substances 
has never received the  attention its import­
ance demands,  possibly  because  any single 
individual’s risk of loss is  not  sufficient to 
take the labor and time that is necessary for 
the pursuit  of  a  study  so  comparatively 
new.

The money 

interests  involved are  enor­
mous,  as  all kinds of  organic  substances 
are subject to injury from the  depredations 
of these minute but numerous foes.

Already while still living,  vegetables and 
animals are  threatened  with injury and of­
ten are totally  destroyed by  these pests;  it 
is only necessary to remind one of the wide­
spread  devastations  of  the  vineyards  by 
Phylloxera,  or the extensive  destruction of 
forest timber by certain  bugs,  which, both 
In the larval and  perfect  forms,  burrow in 
the wood of the living trees  until  these are 
completely  destroyed  and millions of  dol­
lars’  worth  of  lumber  rendered  unfit  for 
use.  The wood in our buildings  and ships, 
furniture and wood-work of all kinds, dried 
parts of plants such as drugs  or  herbarium 
specimens, dried animal  substances such as 
furs or woolen clothing,  tapestries, carpets, 
upholstering,  animal  drugs or  stuffed mu­
seum specimens,  all are liable  to  the same 
injury and ultimate destruction.

The study of the  animal foes of  growing 
vegetation lias  been  carried on to a certain 
extent at the expense of various governments 
for the protection of the  agricultural  inter 
ests, but the 6tudy of the  insects  injurious 
to the other (bjects  enumerated  above has 
mainly been  left to  individual  enterprise. 
The study of the foes of dry drugs which is 
of especial interest to  us  pharmacists  has, 
by this  means,  been  almost wholly neglect­
ed.  During last year,  it Is true, a  valuable 
■contribution to our knowledge bn  this sub 
ject was published by M. Lojander, of Stras- 
burg,  in the Archives de Pharrnacie, which 
gave much  information,  and  has  probably 
stimulated  others to pay more  attention to 
this subject.  But even  this paper, while it 
gives us a few  dozen  names of  vegetarian 
insects, tells us but little in  regard  to pro­
tecting ourselves against  loss,  which, after 
all,  is the  main  utilitarian  object of  this 
study.  M.  Lojander  says that “our means 
of defense  afainst all  these pests  are  yet 
very weak and  insufficient,  because,  until 
now,  but little attention  has been  given to 
the subject”  He proceeds to  mention  the 
use of camphor  and  chloroform  vapor, but 
admits that  these  incommode  the  insects 
and they soon recover;  heating,  when the 
nature of the drug  permits, he  th’nks  the 
best method  of  destroying  these  insects, 
their larvae,  and ova,  and  mites,  and there­
fore the best means of  protecting  and pre­
serving our drugs  when these  little  beings 
have once made their appearance.

Meanwhile the  destruction  goes on, and 
«very pharmacist  lias a smaller  or  greater 
number  of  packages  of  drugs 
ruined 
The  question  arises,  what,
-each  year. 

thing  we  can  properly  do 

these 
if  anything,  can  we  do  with 
Is  the
drugs  when  thus  worm-eaten? 
only 
to 
throw  them  away, or  can they  be used ii 
making pharmaceutical preparations?  This 
question was suggested to my mind,  when I 
read the following in a paper recently  pub­
lished in one of the pharmaceutical journals:
“Another syrup  largely used,  especially 
in quinine  mixtures,  is  syrup  of  licorice. 
Take  six  ounces of  your  old  worm-eaten 
stick licorice.  The  licorice is yet good, on­
ly the starch eaten out.  Break it into small 
pieces and pack in  conical  percolator, with 
alternate layers of  cotton  or  straw;”  then 
follow directions to percolate  and make the 
syrup.

The above quotation contains a statement 
which is absurd on the very face of it.  Ex­
tract of licorice is so intimately  mixed with 
the starch, and  the grains of  the latter are 
so completely  embedded In  the  extractive 
matt«:, that it would be absolutely impossi­
ble for an insect or mite to get at the starch 
without at the same time eating the extract. 
Moreover, the  insect,  small as  It is,  is yet 
microscopic as compared with the microsco­
pic size of  the  starch  grains.  This is  at 
once apparent on merely  examining the di­
ameter of a hole made  by such an  insect in 
the  stick  licorice.  But  the  insects  are 
probably just as fond of the  sweet  extract 
as the average small boy,  and the probabili­
ty is that they eat the starch merely because 
they don’t  know how to get at the  extract 
without  also  eating  it.  This  statement, 
then,  was  probably  an error  based on the 
recollection of what  takes  place in  worm- 
eaten jalap  tubers. 
In  this  drug we find 
parenchyma cells filled with starch, measur­
ing about 1-500 inch in transverse diameter, 
and a  little  more in  length;  and  among 
them, isolated  in  groups  of two or  three, 
resin cells about 1-225 inch in transverse di­
ameter and occasionally  up to 1-120 inch or 
more in length.  These  latter  contain no 
starch,  but only resin,  and they are shunned 
by the insects,  which live in  jalap,  so that 
all  the  resin  remains in the most  honey­
combed worm-eaten  jalap;  and,  therefore, 
weight for weight,  the  worm-eaten jalap is 
more  valuable  than the  fresh  and sound. 
But such worm-eaten  jalap is only good for 
making resin of  jalap and  not for  makin 
abstract of  jalap, nor  powdered  jalap, or 
tincture, or fluid extract, for several reasons. 
If we make no  allowance  for the  loss  of 
weight by being worm-eaten  these prepara 
tions would be too  strong,  while  whether 
we make these  preparations  with or with­
out proper  allowance  the  finished product 
will contain not only the  extractive  matter 
and resin of  the jalap,  but the  extractive 
matter of the insects,  larvae, ova, and excre­
ments as well.  These  latter  are  not very 
appetizing, but we  might be told  that this 
cannot hurt the patient, for he doesn’t know 
it.  Well, the patients will soon know it,  if 
such formulae  become at all common in our 
periodicals.

I remember a revolt,  when  at college,  Oil 
account  of  “worms”  (larvae) in  our soup 
which had been prepared with  pearled bar­
ley.  The argument of the principal that he 
could not be  expected to  throw  away the 
pearled barley merely because it contained a 
few worms, and that, besides, “these worms 
are nourishing, anyhow,” did not  convince 
these boys, and no soup containing  pearled 
barley was eaten  during the  remainder  of 
that session,  A strike of  this kind  on the 
part of the public  who  become  aware,  in 
any way,  that worm-eaten drugs  were used 
by any pharmacist would not prove pleasant 
to the latter.

In making  resin  of  jalap,  probably no 
contamination of the finished  product  with 
the insects and their  excrements can  occur, 
and  the  use  of  the  worm-eaten  drug is, 
therefore, perhaps not so objectionable.

But there is another point.  The  insects 
are not necessarily without physiological ac­
tion on the patients.  The irritating proper­
ties  of  arnica, 
in  producing  eczematous 
eruptions in some cases,  or  vomiting, when 
taken  internally,  have  been  ascribed  by 
some to the little insect which is sometimes 
found  in  the  drug  (Trypeta  Am iclvora. 
Lana). 
It is true that this has been denied 
by others,  but it is at least quite likely that 
some of these insects, 
their  larvae, ova, or 
excrements, may have some effect to nause­
ate the patient or render the medicine offen­
sive. 
If they  have, their  presence is posi­
tively Injurious.

But insects may prove injurious in anoth­
er way, 
indirectly.  There  may  be  some 
that, instead of eating  only or  mainly  the 
starch, prefer to eat the active  ingredients, 
or constituents of the drugs, thus deteriorat­
ing them in medical value much more  than 
in proportion  to  the  weight  actually  con­
sumed.  The  medicine  would,  in  such  a 
case,  fail to act with sufficient energy.

There is no doubt that in many  cases the 
remains of a worm-eaten  drug are  in every 
regard as active and good as  while  sound. 
In other cases,  by eating out the inert mat­
ter,  the  strength  may  be increased, as in 
jalap, and perhaps in ginger. 
In other cas­
es, the drug may  have an  altered  action, 
either because the  active  principles are at­
tached  by  preference,  or,  as  in  angelica 
root,  because the  spongy condition of  the 
worm-eaten drug allows the more  ready es­
cape of the volatile oil on which the activity 
depends;  or, perhaps the readier oxidation of 
the volatile oil and consequent  change to a 
less active resto;  or,because the animal sub­
stances themselves are irritant,  purging, di­
uretic, or in any other  way active, and this 
activity is added to that of  the drug  itself. 
Even when perfectly bland, the preparations 
are not appetizing;  and as little as we want 
our  cooks  to  use  up  all  old  food-stuffs, 
merely fishing out the  cockroaches,  should 
we expect our patients to take  preparations

in which these offensive  animal  substances j 
are contained? 
j
When  drugs  become  worm-eaten  they 
should be thrown away, unless, indeed, they 
may be utilized for the  manufacture of iso­
lated principles by processes which preclude 
all possibility of the presence of  the extrac­
tive matter of the insects  and  their  excre­
ments in the finished product.

The idea of using old,  worm-eaten  food­
stuffs would  not be  tolerated by a  refined 
community,  and a  restaurateur  of whom it | 
was known that his  materials and  kitchen j 
would not bear  inspection in  this  regard, 
would deservedly lose his customers.  The 
same should be  true  of  pharmacists.  Be­
sides, if  the  use of  worm-eaten  drugs is 
urged on the  score of  economy,  it is an ar­
gument which applies  equally well in favor 
of all cheap and inferior goods.

We  can  control the  destruction of  our 
goods to a great  extent by  judicious  pur­
chase of suitable quantities for use within a 
reasonable  time, and by careful  packing of 
what we have on hand;  but a still  greater 
step in the solution of this  question will be 
made when it becomes  a common  practice 
to work up our  crude drugs  into fluid  ex­
tracts while they are  still fresh,  and  then 
use these fluid  extracts to make  the  other 
pharmaceutical  preparations  that  may be 
required.

A Patent Medicine  Forger  Sentenced.
Judge Mitchell of  Philadelphia last week 
sentenced  J. Richardson  Parke, convicted 
of selling spurious  patent  medicines  with 
forged labels, to six months’  imprisonment 
from the date of his commitment, March 24.
Albert Fetters,  a confederate  of  Parke, 
was discharged,  and Jeremiah  Opdyke,  an­
other  confederate,  was  held on a charge of 
larceny,  brought against him by Parke.

Last year the  druggists of  that city sus­
pected that the  medicines  sold by Parke at 
his place, 240 South Tenth  street, were not 
what they were represented to be.  A meet­
ing of representatives of the  leading  firms 
was held and  detectives  were employed to 
purchase bottles of the medicine.  The con­
tents of  these  bottles  were  found  to be 
worthless imitations of the real preparations. 
Opdyke  was  supposed to be a compounder 
of this stuff,  and Fetters was  understood to 
be interested in it as well.

Through the agency of the detectives, Op­
dyke  gave  sufficient  evidence  to  convict 
Parke. 
It was  arranged by the  detectives 
that a man  named  Wiltbank,  a  dealer in 
pateat  medicines, on  Fifth  street,  below 
South,  should make Fetters and Opdyke be­
lieve he wanted the medicines for use in his 
business.  Interested persons were hid in the 
store and saw Fetters deliver the  medicines 
and overheard what he said about them.

On their evidence Fetters was arrested and 
warrants were issued for Parke and Opdyke. 
Fetter and Opdyke  were tried  first.  They 
pleaded guilty and  their  sentence  was de­
ferred until after the  conviction of  Parke. 
In the course of the trial  Opdyke  testified 
to having used the most disgusting materials 
in the preparation of the spurious goods.

Parke, 

to  invalidate  his  testimony,  or 
from revenge,  preferred a charge of larceny 
against him,for which he is now held to an­
swer.

-  A  Chinese  Anaesthetic.

A curious account of a Chinese anaesthetic 
is given in Rouv. Remedes  (April, p.  165). 
It appears that Dr.  W.  Lambuth  mentions 
in his third annual  report  of  the  Soocliow 
hospital,  an experiment made,  at  the  sug­
gestion  of  a  Chinese  doctor,  with  this 
preparation.  A substance resembling wax, 
but  harder,  and  semi-transparent,  in  the 
form of a tablet,  was cut  into  small  pieces 
and  digested 
in  water  for  twenty-four 
hours,  together with a  small,  white,  woody 
excresence.  The  liquid was then found by 
Dr.  Lambuth  to  passess  well  marked  an­
aesthetic properties. 
It  was  found  that  a 
numbness of the lips and  tongue  was  pro­
duced, and that the finger immersed  in  the 
solution for  some  minutes  could  then  be 
pricked with a needle without any  pain  be­
ing felt.  The tablet was described as being 
the juice of  the  eyes  of  a  frog. 
It  was 
probably  the  substance  obtained  by  the 
Chinese by placing a frog iu  a  jar contain­
ing flour and irritating the animal,  when  it 
exudes a liquid which  forms  a  paste  with 
the flour.  This is then dried and made into 
cakes bearing some  resemblance  to  button 
lac. 
If the anaesthetic property  be  due  to 
the frogs’ excretion, and  not  to  the  white 
woody  excresence  above  mentioned, 
the 
fact suggests the possibility  of  the  animal 
using  the  secretion to deaden  the  pain  to 
which it might be subjected by its  enemies.

Opium in the East.

From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.

An agreement has been arrived at by  the 
Opium Commission which sat at Hong Kong 
last year in pursuance of  the Chefoo agree­
ment of 1876 and  the  additional  article  of 
1885.  The scheme which  forms  the  basis 
of the agreement,  and  which  is  approved 
by her Majesty’s government,  is  that  Hong 
Kong undertakes to  introduce  a  law  pre­
venting the import and export of raw opium 
in less quantities than  one  chest  and  ren­
dering illegal the possession of  raw  opium 
less than one chest, except by a person who 
farms the prepared-opium privilege,  on the 
condition that  China  makes  a  similar  ar­
rangement  with  Macao,  and  that  Hong 
Kong may repeal the law if  it  is  found  to 
work detriment to the  revenue and trade of 
the  colony.  The  customs  stations  near 
Hong Kong and  Macao  will  be  under  the 
Inspector-General of  Foreign Customs, and 
an officer of  foreign  customs  will  be  sta­
tioned at Kooloon,  in  Chinese territory who 
will be empowered  to  issue  opium  clear-

ances at the new rate, and  investigate com­
plaints by juuks against native  customs  or 
cruisers.  The Hong Kong government  has 
the right to be represented at  such  investi­
gations.  Junks  trading  between  Chinese 
ports and Hong Kong will  be  charged  the 
same  dues  as  those  between  China  and 
Macao, and be subject only to  dues payable 
at ports of  clearance  or  destination.  This 
applies to all goods,  and  not  opium  only, 
and will greatly benefit trade. 
It  is  hoped 
that the scheme will put an end  to  the  so- 
called blockade, a source  of  constant  com­
plaint to merchants. 
It is rumored that the 
law will  be  opposed  by  the  local  opium 
merchants,  but the  general  opinion  seems 
favorable

The  Drug  Market.

Trade  continues  active,  with  but  few 
changes to note.  Opium,  on  the  strength 
of  a  material  advance  abroad  (equal  to 
30c@40c),  has  rapidly  hardened  in  price 
here and up to $4.50 is asked  to-day.  Over 
100 cases changed  hand  in  New  York  in 
two days.  Higher  prices  are  looked  for 
this week.  Powdered opium  has  also  ad­
vanced.  Morphia  commands  a  premium 
over  manufacturers’  prices  from  outside 
hands in New York and an  advance  by  P. 
& W.  is  looked  for  every  hour.  Quinine 
is steady, with light demand for the season, 
although the low prices showed no alteration. 
Citric acid  is very firm.  Balsam copaiba is 
easier.  Balsam tolu  is  advancing.  Cocoa 
butter has advanced and is very firm.  Cam­
phor  gum  continues  scarce  and  high. 
Canary seed is easier.  Hemp seed  is  firm. 
Oil wintergreen is advancing.  The  alcohol 
market is unsettled.

Reduced Rates for Petoskey.

At tlie meeting of  the  passenger  agents 
of the various railway  lines  in  the  State, 
held at Detroit last Friday,  delegates to  the 
Petoskey convention of  the Michigan  State 
Pharmaceutical  Association  were  granted 
one and one-third fare, the  same  as  previ­
ous years.  Persons intending to go  to  the 
convention  must  obtain  reduced  rate  cer­
tificates of  Secretary  Parkill,  the  same  as 
heretofore.

Berrien  County  Pharmaceutical  Society. 

Berrien  Springs, May 16,1887. 

The secohd meeting of the Berrien County 
Pharmaceutical Society will be  held  at  St. 
Joseph Wednesday, June 1.
It will be to your  interest  to  attend,  as 
important  matters  will  come  before  the 
society. 

Yours truly,

H enry K eph art,  Sec’y.

Mint Growers  on  Dementholized  Oil. 
The  following  resolution  was  recently 
adopted by the Mint  Growers’  Association 
of  Florence,  St. Joseph county:

W h e r e a s,  Menthol  is  being  extracted 
from peppermint  oil  to  some  extent,  and 
parties iu New York State-ire  endeavoring 
to exalt their product by Circulating  reports 
to druggists to beware of Michigan oil,  that 
it is all dementholized, etc-; and 
W h e r e a s,  We know  that  such  reports 
do not apply to the general grower  of  pep­
permint in Michigan,  therefore 
Resolved,  That we deem such reports un­
just to the mint grower; that we will  make 
every effort to put our oil in  the  market  in 
prime condition;  that  no  member  of  this 
Association shall extract menthol, nor  deal 
in  menthol  or  dementholized  oil  in  any 
manner whatever.

Minor  Drug  Notes.

Florida is  coming to the  front as an opi­

um-growing district.

Extract of whale is said to be more  valu­

able medicinally than extract of beef.

It is claimed that arsenic wafers are made 

for the accommodation of arsenic eaters.

The  Canada  Pharmaceutical  Journal 
shows that some of the laudanum  labels di­
rect too large doses of that popular prepara­
tion.

The  Druggists'  Bulletin  reports  an in­
stance of gross adulteration of seidlitz pow­
ders with effloresced glauber salt, substitut­
ed for the rochelle salt of the  genuine  arti­
cle.

The Virginia Pharmaceutical Association 
refused to accept  ladies as members at a re­
cent meeting.  This is the  first  association 
in  the  country  which  has  taken  such  a 
stand.

state.

AGENTS  FOR  THE

375 South Union St., Grand Rapids.
Standard  Petit Ledger.
» ANTED—Registered pharmacists and as­
sistants who are sober, industrious and 

willing to work.
T710R SALE—Stock  of about  $500 in town of 
-L  800  inhabitants.  No other drug store in 
town.

about  4.000  Inhabitants.  Will  i

of  000  inhabitants,  in  centra)  part  of 

FOR  LALE—Stock of about  12,200,  in town 
FOR SALE—Stoca  of *2,500, in  town  of 8u0 
inhabitants  in  western  part  of  state. 
Will exchange for good farm.
I710K SALE—Stock of about  *1,800,  in  town 
.  of  1,000  inhabitants  in  eastern  part  of 
state.  Liberal discount.
17K)R SALE — Stock  of  *4,C00,  in  town  of 
sell either
- 
by estimnte or inventory.
FOR SALE—Stock  of *6,000,  well located in 
ITIOR SALE—Stock of *3,000, In town of 1.000 
. 
inhabitants in western part of state.  Av­
erage dally sales about *25.
A1Lso—Many  other  stooks,  the  particulars 
l  of which we will furnish  on  application.
r p o   DRUGGISTS—Wishing to secure clerks 
X   we will furnish the  address  and full  par­
ticulars of those on our list free.

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

■ E  HAVF, also secured  the  agency  forT.

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

Michigan Drug Exchange,

367 South Union St.« 

- 

Grand Rapid*.

  18® 25

ferrum.

Carbonate Predp................................  ®  15
Citrate and Quinia..............................   ©3 50
Citrate Soluble...................................  @  80
Ferroeyanidum Sol.............................  ®  50
Solut  Chloride.....................................  ®  15
Sulphate, eom’l,  (bbl. 75)....................  1M@  2
pure.....................................  ®  7

“ 

FOLIA.

Barosma...............................................   13® 15
Cassia Aoutifol, Tinnivelly..................   20@ 25
Alx.............................  85® 50
Salvia officinalis, Ms and  Ms...............   10® 12
Dra  Ursi................................................  8® 10

“ 

** 

GUMM1.

 

 

 
 

 
 

Aloe, Barb,  (po. 60).......................... 

Acaoia, 1st picked..............................   @1 00
2nd  “ 
®  90
•* 
3rd 
@  80
“ 
“ 
Sifted sorts.........................   @  65
“ 
** 
po............................................   75@t 00
“  Cape, (po. 20)..............................   @  12
“  Socotrine,  (po. 60).......................  @ 50
Ammoniae  ...........................................  25® 30
Assafoetida,  (po. 30).............................  ® 15
Benzoinum...........................................  50® 55
Osmphorae..........................................   25® 28
Catechu, Is,  (Ms,  14; Ms, 16).................  @  13
Euphorbium, po...................................  36®  40
Gafbanum.....................  
  @  80
Gamboge, po........................................      75® 80
GuaJacum, (po. 45)...............................   ®  35
Kino, (po. 25).........................................  ®  20
Mastic..................................................  ®1 25
Myrrh, (po. 45)...................................... 
40
Opii, ;po. 5  75;.......................................4 25®4 35
Shellac.............................................  
bleached...................................  25® 30
Tragacanth...........................................  30® 75
herba—In ounce packages.
25
Absinthium  ........................................ 
20
Eupatorium ........................................ 
Lobelia  ............................................... 
25
Majorum  ............. 
28
 
Mentha Piperita...................... 
23
 
 
B6
M  V ir...............................  
Rue  ............... .......... ..........<.............  
80
Tanacetum,  V ,.,.,...... ....................* 
23
Thymus. V ..,.,.............  
25

“ 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Magnesia.

Calcined,  P a t,,..,,,............... . —
65®  60
Carbonate,  P at.................  
§0®  22
Carbonate,  K. & M.............................  20®  25
Carbonate,  Jennings..........................  35®  38

 

 

OLEUM.

 

 

 

Absinthium....................................    4 50®5 00
Amygdalae, Dule................................  43®  50
Amyaalae, Arnarae..............................7 00® 7 50
A n isi....................*..............................2 15®2 25
Auranti Cortex..;..............................   @2 50
Bergamil...............................................2 00@2 75
Cajiputi  ...........................  
90@1 00
Caryophylli......... ...............................  @2 00
Cedar...................................................   35®  65
Chenopodii.........................................  @1 50
Cinnamonii.........................................  90®1  00
Citronella  ...........................................  @  75
Conium  Mac......................................   35®  65
Copaiba...............................................90®  1 00
Cubebae.......................................... 10 00@lo 50
Exechtkitos.........................................  90® 1 00
Erigeron.............................. 
1 2Q@1  30
Gaultherla........................................... 2 00@2 10
Geranium, S..............................................   ®  75
Gossipii, Sem, gal................................  55®  75
Hedeoma.............................................   90® 1 00
Juniper!...............................................  50@2 00
Lavendula...........................................  90@2 00
Limonis................................................2 2a@2 35
Lini, gal...............................................  42®  45
Mentha Piper.......................................3 00@3 75
Mentha Verid.......................................5 50@6 00
Morrhuae,  gal.....................................  80® 1 06
Myrcia,  l .............................................   @  50
Olive.....................................................I 00@2 75
Picis Liquids, (gal. 50)........................   10®  12
Rleinl  ...................................................1 43@1 60
Rosmarini...........................................  75@1  00
Rosae,  l ...............................................  @8 00
Succini  ............................................... 
40®45
Sabina..................................................  90® l 00
Santal................................................... 3 50® " 00
Sassafras..............................................  45®  50
Sinapis, ess, 5.....................................  
  @  65
Tiglii....................................................  @1 50
Thyme.................................................  40®  50
opt............................................  @  60
Theobromas.................-.......................  15®  20

“ 

POTASSIUM.

Bichromate........................................  72®  14
Bromide..............................................  42®  45
Chlorate, (Po. 22).................................   20®  22
Iodide................................................. 3 00@3 25
Prussiate............................................  25®  28

RADIX.

A lthae................................................
Anchusa.............................................
Arum,  po............................................
Calamus...............................................
Gentiaua,  (po. 15)................................
Glycbrrhiza,  (pv. 15)...........................
Hydrastis Canaden,  ,po. 33)...............
Hellebore, Alba,  po...........................
Inula, po.............................................
Ipecac, po........................................... 2
Jalapa, pr............................................
Maranta,  Ms.......................................
Podophyllum,  po................................
Rhei  ....................................................
“  cut...............................................
“  p v ...............................................
Spigelia  ......... ....................................
Sanguinaria, (po. 25)...........................
Serpentaria.........................................
Senega................................................
Smilax, Officinalis, H..........................
Mex.....................
Scillae, (po. 35)....................................
Symplocarpus,  Foetidus, po..............
Valeriana,  English,  (po. 30)...............
German.............................

“ 

“ 

“ 

25®  30 
15®  20 
@  25 
20®  50 
10®  12 
16®  18 
@  25 
15®  20 
15®  20 
50@2 60 
25®  30 
@  36 
15®  18 
75<§1 00 
@1 75 
75@1 85 
48®  63 @  20 
35®  40 
60®  55 
@  40 @  20 
10®  12 
@  25 
@  25
im   20

8EMEN.

Anisum, (po.22)...................................  @  17
Aplum  (graveolens)...........................   12®  15
Bird, Is..................................................... 
4®  6
Carui,  (po. 20)......................................  12®  15
Cardamom..........................................1 06@1 25
Cori and rum.........................................  10®, 12
Cannabis  Sativa............... :................   3® '  4
Cydonium............................................  76@1 00
Cnenopodium  .....................................  1(@  12
Dipterlx Odorate.................. .............1 75@i 85
Foenlculum.................. ......................  @ 15
Foenugreek, po........................... ......  6®  8
Lini............................................... ......3M@  4
Lini, grd, (bbl, 3).......................... ..  ..  3M®  4
Phatarls Canarian....................... ......  3X®4M
R apa............................................ ......  5®  6
8®  9
.......  
Sinapis,  Alba..............................
.......   8®  9
Nigra.............................

“ 

SPIRITU S.

Frumenti,  W., D. & Co...............
....... 2 00@2 50
Frumenti, D. F. R........................
....... 1 75@2 OC
Frum enti................................... ........1 10@1 50
Juniperis Co. O.T.................
......1 75@1 75
Juniperis Co...............................
........ 1 75@3 50
Saacharum  N. E.........................
........ 1 75®2 00
Spt. Vini Galli.............................
......1 75@8 50
Vini Oporto.................... ........
....... 1 26®2 00
Vini  Alba.........
....  1 26®2 00

 

 

 

 

8©
7®

Moschus Canton...........................
Myristica, No. 1.............................
Nux  Vomica, (po. 20)....................
Os. Sepia.......................................
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Co..........
Picis Liq,  N. C.. M  galls, doz........
Picis Liq.,  quarts...... ...................
Picis Liq., pints.............................
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80).....................
Piper Nigra,  (po.22).....................
Piper Alba, (po. 35).......................
Pix Burgun...................................
Plumb! Aoet...........................
Potassa. Bitart, pure....................
Potaasa.  Bitart, com....................
Potass  Nitras, opt..............................
Potass Nitras............................... 
Pulvis Ipecac etopii............ . 
........1  10@1 20
Pyrethrum, boxes, H. &P. D. Co.« doz.  ©1 oo
Pyrethrum,pv...................... 
48®  53
Quassiae........................................,,       A®  io
Quinia, S, P, &  W................................  6i>@  63
Quinia. 8, German.................  
48®  SO
Rubia Tinctorum................................  12®  13
Saccharum  Lactis, pv........................   @  35
Salaoin................................................   @4 50
Sanguis Draconis................................  40®  50
Santonine............................................  ©4 50
i2@  14
Sapo, W............................................... 
Sapo,  M....................................
8® io
Sapo, G......................................
@ 15
Seidlitz  Mixture..................... .
@ 28
Sinapis......................................
@ 18
Sinapis,  opt..............................
@ 30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  Do. Voes__
@ 35
Snuff, Scotch,  Do. Voes......... .
® &5
Soda Boras, (po. 10).........   ......
8® 10
Soda et Potoss Tart..................
33® 35
Soda Carb.................................
2® 2M4® 5
Soda,  Bi-Carb...........................
Soda, Ash............... , ................
3® 4
Soda  Sulphas...........................
@ 2
Spts. Ether Co..........................
50®  55 
Spts.  Myrcia Dom...................
®2 00 
Spts. Myrcia Imp.....................
@2 50 
Spts. Vini Rect, (bbl. 2 10).......
@2 25 
Strychnia, Crystal...  ..............
@1  30 
Sulphur, Subl...........................
2M@ 3M 
Sulphur,  Roll...........................
2M® 3 
Tamarinds................................
8®   10 
Terebenth  Venioe...................
28®  30
Theobromae..............................................45  ® 50
Vanilla  ............................................. 9 00@16 00
Ziaci  Sulnh..............................
7®  8
Gal
75
68
58
43
46
60
45
Lb
2® 3 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2M® 3 
2y® 3
13® US 
55® 58 
16® 17 
6® 6M 
6® 6M @70 
@90 
1 10 
1 48 
1 20@1 40 
1 00@1 20

Bbi
Red Venetian.......................... 
ly
iy
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........ 
ly
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda.........  
Putty, commercial.................  2M
Putty, strictly pure.................  2M
Vermilion, prime American..
Vermilion, English.................
Green, Peninsular..................
Lead, red strictly  pure...........
Lead, white, strictly pure......
Whiting, white Spanish.........
Whiting,  Gilders ....................
White, Paris American...........
Whiting  Paris English oliff..
Pioneer Prepared  I aints  ....
Swiss Villa Prepare»  Paints..
VARNISHES.
No. 1 Turp Coach.....................................1 10@1 20
Extra  Turp..............................................1 60®1 70
Coach Body..............................................2 75®3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture...............................1 00@1 10
Extra Turk  Damar..................................]  55@1 60
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp....................  70®  76
APPROVED by PHYSICIANS. 

Bbl
Whale, winter...........................
70
Lard, extra..............................
63
Lard, No.  1.......................................   63
63
Linseed, pure raw.................. ......
46
Linseed, boiled................................  43
43
Neat’s Foot, winter strained...
50
Spirits Turpentine...........................   40
40

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ITIES for meeting the wants of  this  claw 
of buyers WITHOUT  DELAY and in ths 
most  approved  and  acceptable  m«n—» 
known to the drug trade.  Our  special  ef­
forts in this  direction  have  received  from 
hundreds or our customers the  most satis­
fying recommendations.

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

WITHERS DADE & CO.’S

Henderson Co., Ky.,

Sour Mash  and  Old-Fashioned 

Hand-Made, Copper- 

Distilled

W H ISK EY .

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

W e are also owners of the

.!

In  the  treatment  of  Catarrh,  Headache, 

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

Colds, stands without an equal.

A ir Mentholized by passing through the Inhaler- 
tube. in which the Pure Crystals of Menthol are 
held' thoroughly applies this  valuable  rem edy  in  the 
m ost  efficient  way,  to  th e  p arts  affected.  It sells 
readily.  Always keep an open Inhaler in your store, 
and le t your custom ers try  it.  A  few  inhalations  will 
n ot h u rt the Inhaler, and will do m ore  to  dem onstrate 
its efficiency th an  a  h alf hour’s talk.  Retail price 
SO cents.  F er Circulars and Testimonials address 
H. D. Cushman, Three Rivers, Mich. 
Trade supplied by
Hazeitine & Perkins Drug Co., G’d Rapids, 
And W holesale D ruggists of D etroit and Chicago.

T ANSY  CAPSULES

I   THE  LATEST  DIBCOVEBY.  W
Or.  Laparle’s  Celebrated  Preparation, Safe and 
Mwaye  Reliable.  Indispensable  to  LAjDIJCS. 
CAlttMiT CHEMICtL CO.. Chicago. Mention 
thU paper.

Send 4 cents for Sealed Circular.

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

Gins, Brandies & Fine Wiifts.

W e call your attention to  the  adjoining 
list of market quotations which we  aim  te 
make as complete and perfect  as  pnnnililo 
For special  quantities  and  quotations o s 
such articles as do not appear  on  the hMh 

such asPatent Medicines,

Etc., we invite your correspondence.
Mail  orders  always  receive  our 
and personal attention.

H azeitine 

&  Perkins 

DrngGdk

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

$  doz.  V gross.

Rules.

SOLIMAN SNOOKS.

w k  Opinion  on  the  Liquor  Law 

-Boring

for Gas.

Cant H ook Cobnebs,  May 20,1887.

■Ottor Tradesman:

P tiR   Sib—I  have  before  me  the  full 
amt of the new liquor  law as passed by the 
House, so I can  know  what  I  am  talking 
«bout.  Take it all in all, it is a pretty good 
Saw, perhaps as  good  as  we  could  expect 
«'under all  the  circumstances.  The  tax  on 
anloooists is  pretty  high, to  be  sure, but if 
it 
to  lessen  the  number  of  saloons, 
On» ones  who  do  pay  it  will  probably do 
enough more business to make them whole.
As to druggists, I for  one  am  glad  that 
uw  bill is a binding one  and  if  it  becomes 
a  law I  hope  every  druggist  in  the  State 
wUl live  up to  it  square-toed.  The  worst 
tumble, heretofore, has been that the major 
ity  would not  live up  to  the  law,  so  that 
Uiww  who  did,  lost  trade  by  it.  It 
Stonge fact, but every druggist knows it to 
lie so, that  the majority of people and more 
ladies, are offended when  we ask 
ttam  their name and what they want liquor 
for.  They will stare  at  you  and  say “Do 
you  think  I  want  to  get  drunk?  Wei 
never mind, I can get it over to Bilson’s.’
The first one  to  get  mad  at  me  when 

opened a liquor book was a minister’s  wife 
who  was  the  Secretary  of  our  Women’r 
Christian Temperance Union.

But under this  new law she will have 

Another  thing—the  ladies,  bless  their 
A mt  unbusinesslike  hearts—are  the  first 
one» to send a boy  or  girl  on a  dead  run 
go the nearest drug  store  for  an  ounce  of 
alcohol to rub on Willie’s leg, where he hurt 
It foiling out of a tree; or a couple of ounces 
o f brandy, for a terrible  gripe  she  had just 
discovered in  her  internal  machinery, and 
Mm never thinks of sending along a written 
aider, so that the  druggist  can  legally sell 
it to a minor.
-think of it   She will be obliged  to  uncurl 
Hmnwif long enough to roll off  the  bed  and 
imnt, through three bureau draws for paper, 
and two sewing machine drawers for a pencil 
and  then  probably the  dear  creature  will 
getnp an order dated  wrong  and otherwise 
not according to law.  But  in  case  she has 
od children or  they are  at  school, and  she 
«ants to send by her 17 year  old  hired  girl 
for it then we  must  let  her  die, for  she is 
not the parent or guardian.  But live or die, 
we  must go  according  to  law, or  up  goes 
handle  with  a  $500  fine.  We
<mr pump
must all follow  the  law, brothers, and then 
if people  get  mad  at  one, they can  do  no 
tatter with another.

Preserve These  Advertisements for

Future Reference. 

Duplicate

Copies  of  Our  Tinware  Price
W hisk  Broom.

$  gross. 
10 60

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ivory 

hurl 
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V doz.  f
No. 80 Whisk Broom black h’dle..  90
“  •.  180
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..  180
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No. 100
.................................. ....  2 00
No. 60
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..  4 00
No. 30
Sweeping Broom.
Child’s Toy Sweeding Broom........  90
No. 3 Sweeping Broom.................2 00
2 25 
No. 2 
2 50
No. 1 
2 75
No. 6 
3 00
No. 8 

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Bixby’s Best 3 doz. in box No. 4.  .  45
Royal Polish or Dressing.  92

Base  Balls.

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League 

IX  L Base  Ball.............................  38
Bully Boy Base Ball.....................   45
“  .....................  46
OK 
Young America Base Ball............   80
Boston Club 
......   ...  1 75
.............2 00
Dollar  Dead 
First Nine 
............. 4 00
American Association Base  Ball.. 8 00 
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No. 3  Solid Gray Rubber Balls....  35
No.4 
No. 6 
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No.6 
“  ••••120
No. 8 
No. 9
85
2 inch Hollow Fancy Colored........ 
...................................... 1 25
2*4“ 
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...... 200
3
 
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....... 210
•*  Foot Ball................. 4 00
5  « 
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6
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No.O Brass Ebony Handle..  ........  40
No. 2  “ 
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8 oz. Bright S’l or T’nd doz  pkgs 12.. 
10 oz.  “ 
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$  case 
100 doz. 
10 00 
12 00

30 foot Jute Cloth Line. 
60  “ 
**  • 
1 2 0 ...........................•

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5 00
io ee

1 75

Curry Combs.

$  doz.

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

No. 3 Can Openers..........................  25

Fry Pans.

$  gross. 
4 40 
I 
9 50
85

2 90

4 50 
11 50

Ç doz.  «P gross. 
....  89
..  .  1 75 
....  2 00 
....  2 25

8 inch Acme Fry Pans...........
No. 2 
.................................
4 
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Fly Fans.
Mechanical Fly Fans each  1 75
Gimlets.

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Iron Head Nail  Gimlet................. 
18
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30
Wood  “ 
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“  spike 

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Glue.

Le Pages Glue with  Brush............ 
85
Handy Clue  Pots..................... . .  2 40

Hammers.

Cork Screws.

Garden City Cork Screw...............   40
No. 3226 Pocket Cork Screw.........   96

Playing  Cards.

No. 218 Squeezer...........................   58
No. 0 Steamboat............................. 
J®
No. 9 Plain Tally Ho.....................   1 50
No. 9 Gilt 
“  ......................2 25
Hard Rubber Combs.

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5 40 
11 00

2 75
3 60

4 75
8 00 
10 50

4 25 
10 00

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4 80

No. 522—7ft inch.

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43  E
88 ‘

No.  500,  6  inch  Dressing  Combs
 

metal backs.................. 

 
 

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No. 500,  7  inch  Dressing  Combs
metal backs............................. 
N o. 520,6 inch Dressing Combs.... 
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622, 7ft inch 
589 8 
:: 
600,7ft 
“ 
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—  * 5  
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164,118, Fine Combs.................  550 
40. 
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33 
or
168,12 
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1129.4, Pecket Comb...............   4S
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1128.5, 
616.7. Barber 
68
Chandelier  Hooks.
No. 92ft inch with plate...............   53
3261ft 3 inch with plate...........  7®
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410,6 
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410,8 
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47®
4 1 0 ,1 0 ........................ 
4 1 0 ,1 2 .................... 
...........  2 00
Cage Hooks and Springs.

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Bird Cage Hooks screw or swing..  45
to bang up.........   85
40

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Egg Beaters.
Flesh  Forks.

No. 00 Acme Egg  Beater..............  72

3 Prong 15  inch  Flesh Forks.

8  00 !

60

7 00

No. 8 Coppered Tack Hammer....  25
••••  32

247 
25 Tack Claw on end of Wood

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handle.................................   42

2 Tack claw on  end of  Wood

handle.........   .....................   78
12 Atz eye Full size.................  89
1 Atz Eye Full Sized Pl’shd...  2 00

Hatchets.
 
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400 Toy Hatchet......................  37
475  “ 
85
Hardware Sundries.
14 Flat Iron Stands Coopered.  36
19 Garden Trowell.................  28
302 Cover lifters...................  
30
17 Tea or  Coffee Pot Stands..  32
6 inch Garden Trowels Ebony Hdl  75 
2ft 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 $  box 60
Pocket Alcohol Stoves.................. 2 25
Flower Pots Brackets  Swinging..  1 50
Glue Pots....................................... 2 40
Ice Breakers No. 40....................... 1 50
Ice Hatchets................................. 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.
1  Jute  Jumping  Rope  with 
handle................................... 

I No.

Handles........................ .......  40

No. 5  Jute  Jumping  Rope  With
No.  4  Jute  Jumping  Rope  With
Key  Rings.

Handles................................  75

No. 5900 Asst. Sizes Split Spiral...  15
Magic Puzzle.................................   45
Knife and Fork Boxes.
Wood with Tin Camera...................   80
Tin Japaned  No. 1...........................  89
Wicker oblong Nq. 8302 ...............  2 50
Fancy 
*1  7489.................10 50

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

Poppers.

10 00

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1 quart Round................................... 1 00
1  “  Oblong...................................1 00
2 
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Potato Mashers Wire.
No. 11 Wire Masher.......................  33
.......................  78
Pins.

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4 50

8 50

1 50 
5 25

9 50
10 50

4 00 
8  00

9 00

No. 4 Adamantine Pins...................   14

 
 

 
 

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BB Ne Plus Ultra 
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F3ft  ** 
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SC 
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MC 
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SC 
..............  78
M. C , ....................... .................   85
No. 3 Daisy Safty Pins..................
3 Lindsays Safety Pins........... 
2 
 
3 Original................................ 
2 
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 

30
25
30
30
35

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Brilliant Hair Ornaments.

No. 4 Brilliant Hair Ornaments.

List of Last W eek

Sent  on Application.

Asst Case  9 doz Covered  Slate  V 
Wooden Ware.

case  S8 25

asgüiÆM

¥  doz  <p gross

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13 inch Maple Bowl6. 
.................  75
15  ............................ 
1 38
1 7 ..................................................2 20
19  “ 
......................2 50
Assorted 4 each 15,17,19 in. packed
together..................................2 00
Clothes  Pins.
Packed in 5 gross boxes V box  60
Potato Mashers.

 

 

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No. 1 Wood Potato Masher...........  39 
Toy 
38 
Toy Rolling Pins...........................   39 
Full size Rolling Pins loose h’dle.  83 
Towel Racks 3  arm  13  inch  long
40
Cherry...................................
Towel  Racks 3 arm  13  inch  long

Walnnt.................. ..............   44
Hat Rack 7 pin cherry..................   46

3 85 
5 60

4 50
4 50
4 50
9 50
4 50

5 CO

1 foot Boxwood Pocket.................  54
2  “ 
.................  72
** 
Carpet Sweepers.

** 

$  doz.  $  gross
6 50 
8 65

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

8 
2 Crown Jewell 

Grand Rapids 
Or any other  stylo  made  by  the 
Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co. packed 
in boxes of ft or 1 doz lots.
Screw  Drivers.

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Sewing Machine Screw Drivers...  34
5 inch Full Size 
...  47

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Fire Shovels.

No. 80 Vulcan Fire Shovel............  38
130 Tin Hdle  “ 
............  »5
56 20 inch  Hollow Handle......   75

Spring Balance.

No. 10  Spring Balance  weighs  24

pounds.................................   80
No. 51  Spring  Balance  weighs  50
pounds................................. 2 00
Sprinkling  Cans.

9 50

U S!

2 quart Patent R ose......................2 25
4 quart Patent  Rose.....................  3 00
 
6  “ 
4 00
8 
5 00
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10  “ 
.................... 8 00

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School Bags.

13 inch Manilla School Bags.........   75
14  “ 
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School Slates.
6 x 9  Common  Slate  ..................  
; 6ftxl0 
8  xl2 
5  x 7Noiseless  “  Covered..
7  xll
9  xl3 
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6 x 9  Double 
7  xll 
Asst Case 8ft  doz  Common  Slates 

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99 case  $3 85

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

90 

10 50

36

10 50

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

Tooth  Picks.
Double pointed Soft Wood  Tooth
Double Pointed Hard Wood Tooth

picks doz boxes  48c  100 boxes  13 75 

picks doz boxes  56c  100 boxes  $4 25

MOSELEY

W H O L E S A L E S

Fruits, Seeds,  Oysters & Produce,

ALL  KINDS  OF  FIELD  SEEDS  A  SPECIALTY.

If you are in Market to Buy or Sell Clover Seed, Beans or Pota­

toes, will be pleased to hear from you.

26.28.30  A  32  Ottawa Stmt,

Best in the  Market  for the  Money.

HONEY  BEE  COFFEE!
GO PRINCESS  RAKING  POWDER,
BEE MILLS’  SPICES

EQUAL  TO  THE  BEST  MADE.

A losolu tely  Pm*©-

L. M. CARY.

C A R ? <& LOVERZSGS,

L.  L.  LOVEKIDGE.

GENERAL  DEALERS  IN

Fire and Burglar Proof
1
Combination and Time Locks,

A

B

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F

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11 Ionia Street, 

Grand Rapids, Micl.
M ETA L  B R A N D
R E A D Y   R O O F I N G

TWO  AND  THREE PLY

Waterproof, Durable and Economical,

OVER 7,500,000  SQUARE  FEET APPLIED IN 1880.

Curtiss & Dunton,

M X O B e

I think that law ought  to be  amended so 
to allow folks to send by the hired girl, or. a 
district messenger boy,  in  a case  of  life or 
ibith  There ought also to be a section de­
fining the law as  to  whether a barn-raising 
am be called “mechanical purposes” or not.
I  respectfully call the  attention of  the hon- 
«r«hiA Senate to these little matters.

I see by the papers that Grand Rapids has 
«truck gas at last  after  going  down  pretty 
near to the old Silurian conglomerate, or the 
preadomite brimstone, or  something of that 
tinH.  I don’t exactly  catch  on  to  all  the 
learned terms indulged in just now by met­
ropolitan journals.  All  1  can  understand 
is  the Trenton  lime stone, which  I suppose 
dames from Trenton, N. J.  At any rate,  it 
w ill be a big thing for Grand Rapics  if  the 
gas is a fact.

A  syndicate'  of  oppulant  capitalists, 
nm ng whom  your correspondent  is  prom­
inent,  have  formed  a  corporate  company 
with a capital of  $100,000,  fifty  dollars  of 
-which is paid in, to bore for  gas at the Cor­
ners.  They have now got down twenty-five 
feet, six of which is Michigan muck.  They 
struck  four  feet  of  Ohio  lime, then 
they struck seven feet of Posev county clay, 
aw«  they struck  for  wages.  As  soon  as 
this little  matter is  adjusted  by an  assess­
ment on the capital stock,  we  shall proceed 
downwards  into  the  bowels  of  the  earth 
^itpr  anything we  can  find.  We  are  not 
w ay allfired particular  what, provided  it  is 
something we can turn  into  money, unless j 
It la a  brimstone  factor}'.  That  would  be | 
an indication we would not fancy.

I  have another piece of news, Mr. Editor. 
*iw  graders have got  within seven miles of 
e »  Corners with the  railroad and  the  iron 
1b laid  within  twenty-one miles.  A party 
wf axe men came through  on  the  line  yes­
terday and cut a  hole  through  Smikes’ or- 
dhard,  north of  the  grave  yard,  amid  the 
socbunations of the  entire town.  The days 
o f the old Cant  Hook stage are  numbered.

Yours boomingly,

Soliman Snooks,

General Dealer.

y h « t  Does  Down  W eight  Amount  To?
It looks  innocent  enough  to  give  down 
reB|ght when considered in reference to such 
pprtieniftr weighing, but  it  is the aggregate 
of foe great number of  down weights given 
wherein lies the mischief.

It is a loss of from 1  to 4  per  cent, on all 

Or a loss of  from 10  to  40  per  cent on 

Or »loss of from 26  to  100  per  cent  on 

.Bales.

gross profits.

net profits.

For what do you do business?
Is It for  personal  profit,  or to give down 

weight? 

__

Don’t dread  competition.  Meet  it  man- 
fniiy when it  comes.  Accept  it  smilingly 
I t will make you put forth  your  best  ener­
gies.  That will  not  prove  a  misfortune, 
but redound to your good.  Buy your goods 
.«gtit  attend  to  your  business  closely and 
well and you need fear no ill result.

LUDWIG  WINTERN1TZ,
AGI YOUR JOBBER
Fermentimi! m äA Oil Co.'s

STATE  AGENT  FOB

FOR

30

3 25

RIHDGE, BERTSCH & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

AIT D

The Only Reliable Compressed Yeast

M anufactured by Rivcrdale Dist. Co.

106 Kent Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

TELEPHONE  566.

*  Grocer*, baker* and other* can secure th e agency for 
th e ir tow n on thi* Yea*t by applying to  above address. 

None genuine unless it bears above label.

GERMAN  |L.  Winternitz,
MUSTARD. I Grand  Rapids, Mich
MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER

106 Kent St.

No 

The  m ost practical 
hand  R oaster  in  the 
world.  Thousands in 
use—giving  satisfac­
tion.  They are simple 
durable and  econom­
ical. 
grocer 
should  be  w ithout 
one.  Roasts  coffee 
and  pea-nuts  to  per­
fection.
Send  fo r  circulars.

.Robt.S.’West,

ISO Long St., 
Cleveland, Ohio

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Gilt  Edge,

Lily White,

Harvest Queen,
Snow Flake,

W hite Loaf, 
Reliance,

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Gold Medal, 
Graham.
Buckwheat  Flour.  Rye  Flour,  Granulated 
Meal,  Bolted  Meal,  Coarse  Meal,  Bran,. 
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Write for Prices.

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If your Jobber does  not han­
dle INDEPENDENT  OIL, send 
your orders direct to  the  office 
of  the  Company,  156  South 
Division St., Grand Rapids.

HIRTH & KRAUSE,

l e a t h e r

SHOE  BRUSHES,

SHOE  BUTTONS,

SHOE  POLISH,

SHOE  LAOES.
Heelers,  Cork Soles, Button  Hooks, Dress­
Grand Rapids.

118 Canal Street,

ings, etc.  Write  for Catalogue.

SEEDS
For tie M a id  Garden.
aid M is Seen

71 Oanal Street,

Offers for Sale all Kind» of Garden 

Seeds in Bulk.

Medium CHover,

Mammoth  Olover,

Alsike Olover,

Alfalfa Olover,
Timothy,

W hite Dutch Olover, 

Red Top,

Blue Grass,

Orchard Grass, 

Hungarian Grass, 
Oommon Millet, 
Flax Seed.

German Millet, 

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

AGENTS FOR THE

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, 

THE HOME TEAS!  CAKE

Absolutely the Best and Purest ever put upon the Market.

SELLS ON  ITS  MERITS.

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

No. 1.  Large size, 36 packages, or cartons,  per case,  $1.50.
No. 2.  Smaller “  36 
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THE HOME YEAST  CAKE  CO.  a e ^ s S ^ T & . m
C A S E S

N. B.__Ask your wholesale grocer for the HOME YEAST CAKE.

Dealers w ill 
find  it to their 
advantage 
t o 
c o r r e s p o n d  
with  us, as we 
are in the posi­
tion to make A 
No.  1  goods at 
the lowest pos 
Bible prices. 
C o r r e s p o n d  
ence  solicited 
from  the  job 
bing trade rela­
tive to premium 
cases.
AMBBJOAIT  SHOW  CASE  W OEES

3 7  L a ite Street, OHioago.
alogue and prices. 

HIRTH  <8c  KBLA.TJSE,

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DEALERS  IN

!  Furs  9oa.d  Tallow,

P rom p t retu rn s m ad e  on C onsignm ents.

1 1 8  o a n a l S t, O rana R a p id s.

33.  F A L L A S ,

Makes a Specialty of

Butter  and  Eggs,  Fruits  and  Oysters.

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

We Handle the Celebrated “BOCK BRAND” Oysters.

No  1 Egg Crates for Sale.  Stevens' No. 1 patent fillers used.  60 cents each.

817 and 818 Livingstone Street, 

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Oread Rapids, Michigan.

