The  Michigan  Tradesman.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  8,  1887.

NO.  194.

VOL.  4.
POTATOES.

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

Earl Bros., Conissioi Merchants,

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO. 

Reference:  First  National  Bank.

SEEDS

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

The Most Complete Assortment 

til  you  get  my prices.

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

Representing Jas. Vick, of Rochester.

T s/L

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

FOR SALE.

Feed mill, eighteen horse  power  engine, 
W ill  sell 
care  T he

good wholesale and retail  trade, 
cheap.  Address  “Feed  mill,” 
T r a d e s m a n .

F - A - I N T T .

We have a full stock of this well-known 

brand of

U I Z S S  

F 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

O n   t t i e   M a n u f a c t u r e r s ’  G u a r a n t e e :

W hen two or m ore coats of our P I O N E E R  

P A R E D   P A I N T   is applied as received in original 
tiackages, and if w ithin  three years it should  crack or 
peel off. thus failing to  give  satisfaction, we  agree to 
re-uaint  th e  building  a t  our  expense,  w ith  th e  best 
W hite Lead or  such other paint as th e  ow ner  m ay se­
lect.  In   ease  of  com plaint,  prom pt  notice  m ust  be 
given to the dealer.

T .  H .  N E V I N   &  C O ..

Mfrs. & Corroders of Pure White Lead.

Pittsburg, Pa.

Write for prices and Sample Card to

Wholesale  Agents,  Grand  Rapids.

Try PO L ISH IN A ,  best F urniture F in ­

ish made.

GIANT

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 calledSILVER  SPOTS

This  Cigar  we  positively  guarantee  a 
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.

CEO.  T.  WARREN  4  00,
H f f l H U M K l

Flint, MIoH.

LEATHER

SHOE  BRUSHES,

SHOE  BUTTONS,

SHOE  POLISH,

SHOE  LACES.
Heelers,  Cork Soles, Button  Hooks, Dress­
118 Canal Street,  Grani Rapids.

ings, etc.  Write  for Catalogue.

BY   A  COUNTRY  M ERCH A N T.

W ritten Especially for The  Tradesman.

It has always been a matter of regret with 
me that rivals in business should indulge in 
feelings  of  enmity  and  open aversion to­
wards each other.  While I may, perhaps, 
dislike  my  neighbor  for  boorishness,  or 
trickiness, or  offensive  personal  habits,  I 
claim  that  I  have  no moral  right to war 
against him,  either  secretly or  openly, be­
cause of the mere fact that he and I are both 
soliciting the same class of customers.  Of 
course, if the field in which I am laboring is 
already over-crowded and another individual 
introduces himself therein,  I do  not always 
accept the situation  with  mental  calmness 
and equanimity;  but I don’t help the matter 
in the remotest degree by immediately com­
mencing hostilities  against the  unwelcome 
intruder.  He may have been unreasonable 
and injudicious in his action, but he has vio­
lated no law nor committed  an  unpardona­
ble offense  for which I can  reasonably and 
consistently satisfy myself  that I am justi 
fled in announcing myself his implacable en­
emy.

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These reflections are occasioned by a con­
versation which I  overheard  the other day, 
between  Mr. Dayball  and a customer from 
the country.  Mr. Dayball is a competitor of 
Mr.  Slimmer  in the dry  goods  trade,  and 
what might be termed the  entente  cordiale 
between the two gentlemen has been invisi­
ble a long time—if,  indeed,  it  ever existed. 
On the occasion mentioned Mr. D.  was evi­
dently trying to sell a pair of  overalls,  and 
the question in dispute was the price.

Yes!” remarked D.,  “you  can  probably 
buy a  pair  over  to  Slimmer’s  for  fifteen 
cents  less,  but  what  are  they good for? 
Slimmer always buys the cheapest  trash he 
can find in the market.  You’d  hardly  be­
lieve  it,  but  that  day  last  week when it 
rained so hard,  a fellow who  was  walking 
home with nothing on his legs  but a pair of 
Slimmer’s overalls,  had to hide in the woods 
till dark,because he  didn’t want to be seen 
on the public  highway  dressed like a Fijee 
Islander.  Oh, yes!  Slimmer’s a model of 
honesty,  and a living  emblem  of  integrity, 
and  all  that.  He  poses  as a  temperance 
man and then forgets  himself  and calls for 
three fingers of drink as  natural as a saloon 
bummer.  What did Simms’ boy say to him 
the other  day?  Didn”,  hear,  hey?  Well, 
you see Simms got his ion in with Slimmer 
to learn the business, but it appears that he 
was pretty dull  and  awkward, and  finally 
Slimmer showed his beautiful Christian dis­
position by getting  mad at  him,  and  says, 
See here,  Simms!  You’d better go back to 
the plough and manure pile!  You’ve been 
here four weeks and haven’t learned enough 
to last you over night!’  And  Simms’  boy 
says: 
‘Oh,  yes,  I have, Mr.  Slimmer!  I’ve 
learned  that  fourteen  ounces  are a pound 
and thirty-four inches make a yard.’ ” 

There’s  a  mild  flavor  of  age about Mr. 
Dayball’s illustration  of Slimmer’s  alleged 
duplicity  and  dishonesty,  for  which I will 
leave him responsible,  and if he has as much 
difficulty in convincing  the public  that  the 
ex-preaclier is a rogue and  hypocrite as  he 
would have in persuading  me that  his lan­
guage  was  truthful,  Mr.  S.  will  not  be 
forced to rise to a personal explanation.

Conditions  of  Success to a  Retail  Grocer.
From  the Chicago Grocer.

To say this is a progressive  age is merely 
to re-affirm a trite saying,  but  every house­
keeper knows that the retail grocery  stores 
of 1837  and  those of  1887 are as  different 
fjom each other as the  Chicagos  of  those 
years.  Both have the same name and cover 
the  same  territory,  but  genius  and  good 
common  sense  have  been  evinced by the 
proprietors of both grocery, and  city,  adapt­
ing each to the tastes,  wants  and demands 
of the times.  This has been  the grand  se­
cret of  Chicago’s  growth,  prosperity  and 
present  pre-eminence  over  other  western 
cities.  But  for  the fact that  her  leading 
business minds have always aimed at adapt­
ing her goods  and  manufactures  and  the 
means of transferring them hither and thith 
er,  she would  now  have  been in  the mud 
and mire,  subject to  the  overflow of  lake 
and river,  while  she, on her  knees,  would 
have been invoking Hercules to  help her.

The vast extent of prairies on  three sides 
of her needed  agricultural  implements  to 
develop their unwasting resources  and Chi­
cago genius supplied the best  known to the 
world.  Settlers then must have  dwellings, 
out-houses and fences; 
the  great lake fur­
nished a  waterway  to  timber.  This  was 
utilized until the  bald waste  in and around 
the city soon  became  the  greatest  lumber­
yard on which the sun ever shone.  All the 
needs of both city and country were careful­
ly  considered  and  so  promptly  supplied 
from Chicago’s home or imported  resources 
that no one might be tempted to  seek goods 
from any other quarter.

Of these characteristics of Chicago’s busi­
ness men,  especially  those who have been 
leaders in the formation of  her  commercial 
character, we need not  'enter  into  any ex­
tended detail,  for we write for the benefit of 
business thinkers  who need but a hint or a 
simple clear idea on  which  to reflect  and 
ponder  in order  to grasp the  entire situa­
tion.

Now the retail grocer of the  afternoon of 
the nineteenth .century has but to study and 
practice the principles and policies of the bus 
iness men who have made Chicago the phe­
nomenal city not only of the republic but of 
the age, to secure for  themselves a  greater 
degree  of  financial  prosperity  than  they 
could gain by double  their  present  capital 
without seeking the stimulus of  such an in­
spiring example.

How shall these  characteristics of a great 
and prosperous city be made  practicable by 
an individual grocer?  Simply  by  thought, 
study and untiring  industry  to make  him­
self intimately  acquainted with  the tastes, 
wants  and  wishes  of  the  community  in 
which  he  seeks  patrons.  Laying  in  his 
stock, he will first select what  every family 
wishes,  then what lie thinks  they all need, 
and,  thirdly,  a fair supply  of  extras which 
the leaders of taste and fashion will be like­
ly  to  purchase.  These  three  classes  of 
goods he will arrange in  the order  named: 
The first within  easy  reach,  the  second so 
as to display to the best advantage their su­
perior excellence,  and the  third so as to ex­
cite and call forth  the inquiries  of the dis­
cerning persons who are always anxious for 
change and to test everything new and nov­
el.

A  Piece  of Thread.

Few people  ever  stop  to  think  of  the 
twistings  and  tamings  and  the  various 
processes  that  cotton  fiber  goes  through 
after it is taken from the  pod  before  it  is 
wound up on  a  spooi  and  ready  for  the 
housewife’s needle.  The story is told, how­
ever, in a small space in one of  the cases in 
the hall in the National  Museum  given  up 
to an exhibition of  textile fabrics.  This  is 
one of the many object lessons  in  the  mu­
seum,  which,  combined,  are  intended  to 
tell the story of  a man as he  exists  on  the 
earth.  First is shown a specimen of cotton 
in the pod just as it is picked,  without  hav­
ing the seeds removed.  Next  is  (shown  a 
specimen of the same  cotton  after  it  has 
been ginned and the black seeds have  been 
removed.  The Sea  Island  cotton  is  used 
for thread on account of  the  length  of  the 
fiber.  A sample of  the  sacking  in  which 
the cotton  is  baled  is  also  shown.  Then 
the cotton is supposed to  have  been  baled 
and shipped  to  the  thread  factory.  Here 
the first that is done with  the  cotton  is  to 
subject it to the “picker” process, by which 
the cotton from several  bales  is  mixed  to 
secure  uniformity.  During 
the  picker 
process much waste in  the  form  of  dust, 
dirt and short fibers are separated from  the 
good  fibers  by  the  picker.  Next 
the 
‘picked” cotton is wound on a  machine, in 
sheets or laps into a roll.  The next process, 
illustrated  by  a  practical  exhibit, 
is  the 
the carding  by  which the sheets  of  cotton 
are corned  or  run  out  into  long  parallel 
fibers.  The  cotton  is  next  seen  drawn 
through a  trumpet-shaped  opening,  which 
condenses it into a single strand or “sliver.” 
Then eight  such  slivers  are  run  together 
into one,  six of  the strands  thus  produced 
drawn into one; and again six of the strands 
from the last  drawing  are  combined  into 
one.  Then  comes  the  stubbing  or  fast 
“roving” process,  which  consists  of  wind 
ing the strand  and  bobbin.  Two  strands 
are twisted and again wound  on  a  bobbin 
After  a  number  of  other  twisting  and 
windings, during which the  strand  is grad 
ually reduced in size until  it  begins  to  as 
sume a thread-like appearance, two  strands 
of this fine “roving” are  run  together  and 
twisted  under  considerable  tension,  on 
bobbin  that  makes  7,000  revolutions 
minute.  Two of  these cords thus produced 
are then wound  together  on  a  spool,  and 
then twisted  from  that  to  another  spool 
The two-cord thread thus produced is trans 
fered thence  to  another  spool,  and  the 
three threads of two cords each are  twisted 
together;  forming  six-cord  thread.  One 
who has followed the process sees  the  cot­
ton transformed from a wide band  or  sheet 
of loose cotton  to  a  compact  thread  that 
will pass through the eye of a needle.  The 
six-cord thread is at last taken from a  bob­
bin and reeled into a skein,  in  \$hich  form 
it is bleached or dyed.  Then  it  is  wound 
back from the skein upon a big spool,  from 
which it  is  supplied  to  little  white  birch 
spools, from which it is  wound  in  regular 
courses, and is then ready  for  the  market. 
The machine that regulates  the  last  wind­
ing measures  the number  of  yards  wound 
on each spool.  The  spools  are  made  of 
various  sizes  to  hold  from  200  to  12,000 
yards of thread.  The  labels  that  decorate 
the end of the spool when they are sold  are 
last put on.  They are cut and pasted on by 
machinery with great rapidity.

As  I  recently  noticed  Mr.  Slimmer’s 
trouble with  his  church society, I  may  as 
well mention  that the  committee  to whom 
the matter was referred  have  reported that 
they can find no canonical  law or precedent 
which forbids  a member calling  for “three 
fingers of cold tea.”  It further reports that 
it believes Bro. S. to be entirely ignorant of 
the vileness and  depravity suggested by the 
language,  and  it  mildly  censures  Deacon 
Crook for making the  matter a public scan­
dal.

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Referring again to  the matter  of  enmity 
between business  competitors, I am glad to 
notice that a great many  of  “the  weeds of 
selfishness and hate” are being exterminated 
by the various  traders’  local  associations. 
Heretofore,  we have been too liable to form 
our estimates  of  our  neighbor’s  character 
and his  manner  of  conducting  trade  from 
the representations of the  numerous  go-be 
tween busybodys who infest every commun­
ity,  and a certain gentleman, whose blushes 
I will spare by  omitting his  name,  hardly 
imagined,  when he  commenced his work of 
organizing  the  merchants  of  Michigan  for 
the  protection  of their financial  interests, 
that he was also  inaugurating a missionary 
work of “peace  and  good-will” of no small 
proportions.

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“Pretty gqod old fellow,  after all!”  said 
Smith,  in speaking of Jones, last night after 
the meeting adjourned;  “Golightly owes me 
$30, and yesterday he bragged to me that he 
was execution-proof, but Jones has just giv­
en  me  a  pointer,  and  before  to-morrow 
night the infernal fraud  will be invited’to a 
first-class surprise party.”  .

The second issue of the White Lake Bus­
iness Exchange is as full of meat as the lim­
its of the  paper  permit.  F. E.  Jones,  of 
Montague,  who  performed  the  editorial 
work on the  second  number,  is  entitled to 
much praise.

If any article is eagerly  sought  which is 
not in the stock,  he will  make a note of its 
absence instantly,  and  order at the  earliest 
hour possible.  So soon as it arrives he will 
i n f o rm   the  inquirer.  He or she will  deem 
themselves honored by such promptness and 
thus  permanent  customers  are  often  se­
cured.  Many judicious traders beep always 
within  reach a  tablet  on  which  to  enter 
goods  asked for not in  stock, to  consider 
the propriety of supplying.

“The eye of a master  can do more  work 
than both of his hands,” is one of the wisest 
sayings of  Franklin.  The  retail  grocery, 
whether of city, town or country,  should be 
open,  swept and garnished  earlier than any 
other place of  business.  And then the eye 
of the master is a better  assurance  of  suc­
cess than a  double  supply of  clerks.  His 
presence is just as necessary  and  valuable 
as a balance wheel to a Corliss engine.  Men 
who have but a  moderate  capital, yet  who 
always give tlieir personal presence to their 
business,  seldom,  if  ever, fail,  and  those 
who do not give  that  presence  often  find 
themselves  embarassed, more or  less, dur­
ing every decade.  Personal interest in one’s 
business,  obvious to every one,  is just as in­
dispensable to success  as  personal  interest 
in religion,  for as one  person  cannot be re­
ligious  for  another,  neither  can  any one 
makela success  of  grocery  trade  without 
giving his own personal Interest and  atten­
tion to it.  All the  Chicago  men,  whether 
editors, traders,  manufacturers or  bankers, 
who  have  enjoyed  eminent  success  have 
earned it by giving their personal  ■attention 
and labors to their calling, and no trader  at 
this late day can  deem  himself  worthy of 
succdts, however great his  talents or  large 
his capital,  without  consecrating  time, tal­
ents and his best personal efforts to his bus­
iness.

Indignant  customer  (in  a  restaurant) 

Look here,  I’ve  been  waiting  here  for  the 
last  half  hour.  Waiter—That’s  nothing. 
I’ve been waiting here for the last two years, 
and I ain’t kicking about it, either.

Girls W ho Smoke.

From  th e Brooklyn Eagle.

A boy of twelve or  thirteen  years of age 
entered a well-known cigar store  on Fulton 
street,  a  few  days  ago, and  asked for a 
“package  of  the  same  kind  she  got  last 
night.”  The  wording  of the boy’s request 
struck a  bystander as  rather  strange,  and 
the proprietor evidently divined his thoughts 
for as  soon as  the boy  departed  he  said: 
“You may think it queer to  have heard the 
boy speak to me as he did,  and  then to see 
me  hand  him  a  package  of  cigarettes?” 
The gentleman  admitted  that his curiosity 
had been aroused,  and was  on the  point of 
asking who the cigarettes  were  for,  if  not 
for the boy,  when  the  tobacconist  vouch­
safed the explanation.
“There  are  more  women  in the city of 
Brooklyn who smoke  cigarettes,”  said  he, 
“than anyone not in  the  tobacco  business 
would ever dream of.  That young man who 
was just in  here is the  sou of a  well-to-do 
business man who lives in  one of  the high- 
toned houses not far from here, towards the 
Heights.  The boy is his sister’s messenger 
in his trips here for cigarettes, and purchas­
es, on an average,  a box a day for the use of 
his sister and her feminine callers.  The la­
dies are very choice in the  matter of  selec­
tion,  and can  tell a  good article  as well as 
any of the swell  young dudes who frequent 
fashionable  resorts.  They  prefer  a cigar­
ette made with a waxed mouthpiece or with 
a stiff paper end, as in their-use the tobacco 
does  not  stain  the  lips  or  get  into  the 
mouth. 
It is a funny thing to  note the va­
rious devices resorted to by the young ladies 
to get rid of the tell-tale fumes of the tobac­
co, which are bound to linger on  the  cloth­
ing and breath.  Cachous are at a great pre­
mium with  them  for  the  latter  purpose. 
Did you ever  notice  out in the  park  on a 
bright spring or summer  morning,  how the 
nurse girls delight to steal  away into a pri­
vate  nook  and  there  puff  out the richly- 
scented clouds of cigarette smoke,  ‘to keep 
off the flies and mosquitoes,’as they explain
it?  Why,  there  is  Officer--------, of  the
park police,  who  often  comes  here for his 
smokers’  articles,  who  knows  more about 
this practice among the ladies  than perhaps 
any other  one man in  Brooklyn.  He  has 
told me a  great deal  about  it, and  I have

learned a great deal from  personal observa­
tion.
“Smoking either cigars or cigarettes  will 
blacken the teeth,  of course, if the teeth are 
not properly cared for, but the  ladies  look 
out for that.  Why.  I will  venture  to  say 
that there are a number of  young  ladies of 
your acquaintance right in  this  city,  if you 
are at all well acquainted  here,  who smoke 
habitually, and you  would  never  dream of 
it.  The trade  from the  gentler  sex is  in­
creasing every day,  and before long I would 
not be surprised to see ladies smoking open­
ly—in their homes,l mean,  after dinner,  the 
same as the gentlemen do.
“In England,  nothing is thought of a lady 
smoking  a cigarette  in  the  house,  if  she 
likes, and the practice is coming into pretty 
general use in this country.  American peo­
ple are slow to  take  any  new  ideas,  but 
once a thing becomes  fashionable,  they fall 
into the wake of the leaders and follow them 
like a flock of sheep  over a fence. 
I  have 
here a curiosity in  the  way of a  cigarette, 
hich is used to quite a considerable extent 
by  ladies  in this  city. 
It is  made of the 
mildest and finest grade of Turkish  tobacco 
and the thinnest of rice paper.  These cigar­
ettes are, of course,  much  more  expensive 
than those sold in the ordinary trade.  They 
are all made‘by hand  and with great  care. 
Habitual smokers require an article of more 
strength than  this dainty smoke,  but it is a 
great favorite with the ladies.  Do I have a 
large trade from ladies?  Well,  not  strictly 
speaking,  a  large  trade;  but there are a 
great many boys sent  here  for the goods,  I 
have no  doubt,  by  the  ladies.  Messenger 
boys come sometimes, and,  again, little fel­
lows picked up in the  street.  They always 
know  what to  ask for and  have the  exact 
change to pay  for them. 
I  can  almost al­
ways tell when they  are to be used by a la­
dy. 
Is the habit increasing among women? 
The habit of  using  cigarettes  certainly is, 
but  the  habit  of  smoking,  possibly  not. 
You and I can  remember  how the  grand­
mothers of our time  used to -smoke a corn­
cob pipe with  evident  relish,  and  it didn’t 
hurt  them  any.  Why  shouldn’t  ladies 
smoke,  if they want to, as  well as  the gen­
tlemen.”

How is it Done?

From  the New England Grocer.

A reporter of the New York Herald late­
ly  visited  a  gift tea store to find out  how 
they could live aud give  away  presents  as 
valuable, 
in many cases, as the  goods pur­
chased are.  He said that he  stepped into a 
store, the leading tint of which  was Vermil­
lion.  There was nothing to distinguish the 
interior from a  crockery  store  except  the 
vermillion and a strong odor of  roasted cof­
fee.  The reporter  approached a  man who 
presided over the cash desk  and wore a po­
lo cap and a sweet smile and who proved to 
be the manager of  the concern, and  asked 
how  tea  stores  could  be  so  lavisli  with 
crockery and such tilings to their patrons.
“Some years ago,” said the wearer of the 
polo cap,  “a house in this city began giving 
away cheap chromos.  That was  the begin­
ning of the evil.  Their trade increased, for 
in those  days  people  were  ehromo  crazy. 
The introduction of glassware  and crockery 
had its origin  in the  inventive brain  of  a. 
man who is now very wealthy and is in bus­
iness on Second avenue. 
1 wish he was in. 
Jericho.  Then  began  sharp  competition. 
Each man vied with the others  in inventing 
some new ‘fake’ to catch the  foolish house­
keeper.  The  customers,  when  posted  in 
this gift enterprise  business,  became  very 
exacting. 
I  shouldn’t be  surprised  some 
day to hear a  lady asking  for a  ton of coal 
or a piano after  purchasing  five pounds of 
tea.
“With  every  purchase  of tea and coffee 
we give tickets in this way:  With one pound 
of 50-cent tea or with two pounds of 30-cent 
coffee we give one whole ticket.  This is the 
basis.  Some  articles  that  we  give away, 
such as lamps  and  clocks,  require as many 
as twenty-five full tickets.  One ticket, on 
an average,  is equal  to from 0 to 8 cents off 
the profits.”
“Your profits must be pretty large to per­
mit of such  liberality,”  suggested  the re­
porter.
“Well,  now, I  don’t  mind  telling you, 
sftice you seem anxious.  Our tea at 50 cents 
a pound  costs  us  about 21  cents,  and our 
coffee at 30 cents, when we  sell it  ground, 
stands us  about 12  cents a pound,  so, you 
see, even although we  are liberal,  we still 
make a large profit.”
“You  say  when  you  sell 
the  coffee, 
ground?”
“That’s what I said.  You  see,  chicory» 
rye and peas do not cost as much as coffee.”- 
“And where do they come in?”
“Ah!  I see you are not on to many of the- 
tricks of our trade.  Don’t  you  know that 
when we sell ground coffee nearly half of it 
is chicory, rye and peas?  Great Scott! man,, 
how do you think  we are  going to live and 
give an eight-day clock with ten whole tick­
ets?”
“But is there not a law against such adul­
terations?”
“Law!  fiddlesticks!  There is a law, also, 
compelling that man across the way to keep 
his  liquor  store  shut  on Sundays, but he,' 
does not comply, all the same.”

“Do yop adulterate your teas,  too?”’ 
“Well,  no;  that  would  not  pay.  You 
see,  we mix  coffees  and  blend  teas.  By 
blending, I mean  we  mix good,  bad  and 
middling together,  call it  some  outlandish 
combination or ‘chop,’ and ‘let her go.’”

Spiendid Stockings.

Customer—“Are these  good  stockings?” 
Clerk—“Weil,  I should say  so.  You heard 
about the railroad accident out  west  where 
only one man was saved?”  “Yes.”  Clerk 
“Well, sir, when he got  out  of  the  wreck 
all he had on was a pair of stockings of this 
make.  Six pairs?  Yes,  sir.  Cash.”

The railroad that beats the average drum­
mer is obliged to do some very smart things. 
Since  the  new  baggage  excess  regulation 
went  into  effect  the  travelers  who  have 
over 150  pounds  of  baggage  buy  several 
tickets to the point where they wish  to  go. 
They  get  the  baggage  checked  on  these 
tickets and then sell  them  at  a  reduction, 
making  money  out  of  the  transaction. 
This  is  being  practiced  very  extensively 
just now  and  works  finely.  There  is  no 
way to stop it.

It is hard to  make  a  bad  actor  or a  bad 
cigar  draw  well  without  a  great  deal  of 
puffing.

The popularity ofuMuzzy’s  Corn  and/3uu 
Gloss Starch  is  proven  by  the  large  sale, 
aggregating  many  million  of  pounds  each 
year.

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

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

POTATOES.

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

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Seeds  of  every  variety, 
both for field and garden. 
Parties  in  want  should 
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R M   TRADE  OF  THE  WOLVERINE  STATE.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  8,  1887.

The T radesm an referred recently to the 
decision of the Supreme Court of Maryland, 
affirming the decision of a lower court which 
awarded a woman  heavy  damages  against 
R. G.  Dun & Co. for injuring  her  business 
by circulating a false report relative  to  her 
financial standing.  One  of  the  judges  of 
the higher tribunal  filed a dissenting  opin­
ion, as follows:

Business methods have  changed.  Every 
department  of  human  activity  is  marked 
by progress.  There must be  a  correct  ap­
prehension of legal principles as they apply 
to a  progressive  state  of  society, 
if  we 
would keep pace with the  march of events, 
and render the common law as true and un­
erring a guide in jurisprudence to-day  as  it 
has been in the past 
It is the pride  of  the 
common law that  it  is  sufficiently  broad 
and elastic to adapt  itself  to  the  exigen­
cies of the times, and to adjust itself  to  the 
new and ever-varying  conditions  that  may 
arise in the progress of  the  age.  The  rule 
that a business man may inquire of his friend 
or his neighbor as  to  the  responsibility  of 
one who has  applied  for  credit  answered 
well enough fifty years ago,  but  it  is  alto­
gether  inadequate  to  the  present  require­
ments of trade and commerce.  The law  in 
the oft-quoted case of  Sunderlin  vs.  Brad- 
street would even suppress the prevalentprac- 
tice in business circles of employing a credit 
clerk to ascertain  and  report  the  standing 
of business men  in  the  district  which  he 
canvasses.  No man could safely answer his 
inquiries, and the clerk would not report  to 
his employer without being  liable to prose­
cution.  The  old  adjudications relied upon 
to support the  more  narrow  rule  are  the 
declarations of Judges whose  vision did not 
take  in  the  widely  different  conditions 
which prevail in the affairs of  men  to-day. 
This  doctrine  utterly  disables  the  agency 
to become  capable  of  imparting  even  the 
information which it is conceded  may  law-1 
fully be given. 
If  the  agency may furnish 
only to one  having  a  direct  interest,  how 
would any one dare to give the  information I 
to the agency, for until some one having such j 
interest has applied to the  agency  the com­
munication  is  within  the  prohibited  class? 
In my opinion, the defendants,  in  furnish­
ing information  to  subscribers  under  the 
conditions imposed,  are not  subject  to  the 
presumption  that  they  were  moved  by 
malice, and I, therefore,  vote to reverse  the 
judgment below.

One  by  one  the  roses  fall.  When  the 
Pure Food Fraud  was first inaugurated,  the 
Denver Retail Grocer was inclined  to  give 
it a quasi support.  Now that the  real  mo­
tive of the gang  is  disclosed, however, that 
journal hastens to  set  itself  aright  by  an 
emphatic condemnation  of  the  whole  sub­
ject, in the course of which it says:

This paper has been  a  staunch  advocate 
of the pure food movement  from  the start, 
and its columns have  always  been open for 
the benefit of the  cause,  but  it  makes  one 
tired to read some of the brilliant  editorials 
contributed  by editors  who  have  not  and 
would not spend a dollar  to  forward such a 
movement  We admire those journals which 
have  opposed the movement  from  the start 
fa r  more  than  those  which  are  forever 
preaching to others  what they  should  do, 
and at the same time  doing  nothing them­
selves.
If these gentlemen who  wish to sell their 
goods and to bring this pure food movement 
before the people want  advertising,  why do 
they  not  do  as  other  business  men—pay 
for it? There is such a thing as consistency.

Grand Kapids’ new police  superintendent 
gives promise of bringing  about a great im­
provement in the social atmosphere by com­
pelling liquor sellers to observe the law and 
by narrowing the  social  evil  down  to  the 
closest possible limits.  While public clamor 
is satisfied with the  arrest  and  punishment 
of the women pursuing  the  nefarious  call­
ing,  The Tradesm an  maintains  that  the 
men  who  rent  buildings  for  purposes  of 
prostitution should also be  made to feel the 
majesty of  the law.  A  public  prosecution 
of such men  as  Joseph  Martin,  who  is  a 
conspicuous offender  in this  respect, would 
undoubtedly lxave a salutary effect

A note from the President  of  the Omaha 
Bétail Grocers’ Association  states  that  the 
Chicago Grocer was never elected official or­
gan of  that  body; that  the  report  to  that 
effect was  sent  out  by  the  Omaha  corres­
pondent  of  the  Chciago  Grocer,  when  he 
was “drunk and unsound in  mind”—a con­
dition, by the  way,  which seems to be com­
mon to all the attaches of that paper.  Will 
the Grocer kindly  correct the  statement  it 
recently  made  with  such  a  flourish  of 
trumpets,  that it is official  organ of the As­
sociation in question?

As the Chicago Grocer seems  to  be  wor­
ried over a statement  T he T radesm an re­
cently  made  relative  to  Hoyt’s  Criterion, 
T he  Tradesm an  herewith  repeats  the 
same,  with variations,  for the benefit of the 
Grocer:  The Chicago  Grocer is the servile 
tool of a single jobbing  house; it  maintains 
an existence  by levying  blackmail; the har­
lot who walks the street is pursuing as hon­
orable a vocation as is  the  Chicago  Grocer. 
Here is a chance for a libel suit

With the Philadelphia  Grocer,  Indepen­
dent Grocer (Chicago),  Denver  Retail Gro­
cer, Baltimore  Trade  and  hosts of  other 
reputable trade journals  opposing the ques­
tionable methods  pursued by the  pure food 
hypocrites,  what  can the band of  pretend­
ers expect to accomplish?  All they care to 
accomplish is to line  their  pockets.  They 
care no more for the  movement  itself than 
the gambler does for his  cards—viewing  it 
gjnply as a means to an end.

The Philadelphia Grocer thus summarizes 
its exposure  of the meeting of hypocritical 
pretenders at New York  a  couple of weeks 
ago:

Here  was  a  pretty  kettle  of  fish—the 
whole pure food movement was  to  be  em­
bodied in a company  consisting  principally 
of two large jobbing houses,  and the respec­
tive editors of their price lists,  with the ad­
dition  of  Winter  and  Smith.  Great 
heavens,  what  a  national  and  representa­
tive body.  The pure food  humbug  has  at 
length shown Its “cloven hoof,” and it  will 
be the duty of  every  friend  of  the  retail 
grocery trade to  oppose  this  alliance , and 
see that the retailer is not  made a cat’s-paw 
for a crowd of interested  jobbers  and their 
proteges.

Two years ago the various  lodges of  the 
Knights of Labor in this city numbered 8,600 
members.  To-day  the  total  membership 
has fallen below 500 and the indications are 
that the  decrease  will  continue  until  the 
membership  is  wholly  confined  to  office 
seekers and anarchists.  As an organization 
of workingmen,  the  Knights  of  Labor has 
not fulfilled  the  promises of its  founders, 
and the order is fast  succumbing to the dry 
rot. 

.

Marshall business men are making praise­
worthy endeavors to secure the  location  of 
more  manufacturing  enterprises  at  that 
place.  They  should  organize  a  Business 
Men’s Association,  when it would  be  com­
paratively easy for them  to  act in unison in 
such matters.

AMONG TH E TRADE.

G RA N D   R A PID S   G OSSIP.

The Co-operative Supply Co., at Holland, 
has added a line  of  crockery.  H.  Leonard 
& Sons furnished the stock.

Robert Graham has  engaged  in  the  gro­
cery  business at Coopersville.  Clark, Jew­
ell & Co. furnished the stock.

Henry Wiersma has  engaged  in  the  gro­
cery business on Logan  street.  The  stock 
was purchased at this market.

A. B. Long & Sons  have started  in  on a 
proposed season’s cut of  10,000,000, having 
a good supply of logs, including old ones.

Clark, Jewell & Co. have purchased 5,000 
boxes  of  “Hector”  soap  from  the  R. W. 
Bell Manufacturing  Co., of  Buffalo, N. Y., 
which they claim  is  the  largest order for a 
single brand of soap ever  given  by a Grand 
Rapids jobbing house.

On account of the scarcity of  hard  heads 
several of  the builders are beginning to use 
the  soft  stone  quarried  at  Holland.  The 
stone  is  bluish  black  in  color,  but  turns 
white as it dries out and,  it  is  claimed, be­
comes as hard as adamant.

J. A.  Farquhar has retired from the Grand 
Rapids  Portable  House  Co.,  his  interest 
having been purchased by W.  D. and J. A. 
Pugh, of Chicago.  W.  D.  Pugh succeeds to 
the management of the business of .the con­
cern,  which is increasing at a rapid rate.

C. J. and W. H.  Andrews  have  formed 
a copartnership under the firm name  of An- 
drews & Andrews and  purchased  the  gro­
cery and drug stock of Dr.  Geo.  W.  Hoag, 
at  119  Plainfield  avenue.  The  new  firm 
has discontinued the drug  department  and 
added a line of flour and feed.

The West Michigan  Lumber  Co.,  whose 
store and general  stock at  Diamond  Lake 
were recently destroyed by  fire,  have re-en­
gaged in business.  Hawkins  &  Perry fur­
nished the groceries and  provisions and the 
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. the drugs.

McLeod & Phillips  have  engaged in the 
grocery and drug  business at  Middleton,  a 
new town  on the  line of  the T.  & A. A. 
Railway,  seven miles west of Maple Rapids. 
Cody,  Ball,  Barnhart &  Co.  furnished the 
groceries and the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug 
Co.  the drugs.

all  freights  shipped 

An important arrangement went  into  ef­
fect Monday  noon,  by  which  the  various 
railway lines deliver free  all  freight  ship­
ped in from competing points and also deliv­
er 
to  competing 
points, except  Muskegon  and Big Rapids— 
that is, the companies agree to pay  2  cents 
per hundred for the delivery  of  all  freight 
of the first four classes  and  1)4  cents  for 
the  last 
In  case  the  de­
livery is done by  the  receivers or shippers, 
they will be given an allowance  in  accord­
ance with the above arrangement.

two  classes. 

A ROUND  T H E   S TA TE.

Remus—J. D. Taylor has  opened a  meat 

Keelersvllle—Hill & Gustin  are  building 

market.

a new store.

Acme—W. S. Chandler is about to open a 

hardware store here.

dealer,  has assigned.

South Boardman—S.  W. Brown,  general 

Matherton—W. G.  Bradish  has  engaged 

in the grocery business.

Wakefield—W.  T. Potter  &  Co.,  general 

dealers, are closing out

Lake Linden—Henry Weider succeeds E. 

Brule in the harness business.

Jackson—Brown & Bigelow succeed Chas. 

E.  Humphrey in the drug buisness.

Maple City—M.  A. Densmore succeds M. 

A.  Densmore & Co.  in general trade.

Ann  Arbor—Fred.  Stimson 

Stimson Bros,  in the grocery business.

succeeds 

West  Branch—R.  H. t Cooper  succeeds 

Geo. J. Mallory in the grocery business.

Morenci—E. B. Rorick has purchased the 

Wakefield & Saulsbury hardware stock.

Custer—Watson  Carroll,  the  Ludington 

druggist, is running a branch store here.

Allegan—Jacob  Vanderhook  has  quit 
traveling on the road and  opened  a harness 
shop here.

Saranac—Bretz  &  Wadsworth  succeed 
Calvin Nash  in  the  furniture  and  under­
taking business.

Detroit—Hartubise  &  Yemier,  grocers, 
have dissolved, A. A.  Hartubise continuing. 
The style remains the same.

Petoskey—Thos. Quinlan  has  purchased 
the grocery and provision  stock of Hancock 
& Boyce and will continue the business.

Jackson—Welling  &  Burkhart  have 
bought  out  W.  R. Dodge  &  Co.’s  saloon 
business.  The latter still retain their sport­
ing goods.

Petoskey—Eugene Rose and Robt. Shafer 
have  formed  a  copartnership  under 
the 
firm name of Rose & Shafer and  purchased 
the grocery stock of W.  W. McOmber.

STRAY  FACTS.

Millbrook—Otis Smith has  sold  his grist 
mill to Chas. H. Rose, late of Traverse City.
Detroit—The  Commercial  Milling  Co. 
succeeds  Henkel & Voorhees.  The paid-in 
capital is «64.000.

Charlevoix — Manager  Crouter  has  ar­
ranged to extend the telephone system from 
Boyne City  to Boyne  Falls  and  Horton’s 
Bay.

Big Rapids—S. S. Wilcox has finally won 
his long-contested suit  against  the  Ives  es­
tate,  the  Newaygo  Circuit  Court  having 
awarded him $4,000.

Hudson—The  John W.  Hall  drug  stock 
inventories  $3,500.  The 
liabilities  are 
$3,400.  This means about 75  cents  on  the 
dollar for the creditors.

Detroit—Stanton, Sampson  &  Co.  is  the 
firm name  of  the  combination  which  suc­
ceeds Brewster & Stanton  in  the  wholesale 
furnishing goods business.

Oscoda—Shien,  Tanner  &  Carlton  are 
putting  in about 50,000 feet of norway pine 
daily' at  their  two  camps,  near  the  head 
of Yan Ettan Lake, on a half-mile haul.

Detroit—The newly-organized  Merz Cap­
sule Co.  is officered as  follows:  President, 
Paul Plessner; Vice-President, E. S. Heine- 
man; Secretary and Treasurer, S. E. Heine- 
man; Superintendent, T. C. Merz.

Detroit—E.  N.  Lightner  has  purchased 
all the stock  of  the  other  stockholders  in 
the  E.  N.  Lightner  Manufacturing  Co.,  in 
consequence  of which  the  corporation  has 
been dissolved.  Mr.  Lightner will continue 
the manufacture and sale  of  extracts in his 
own name.

Detroit—The  co-operative  bakery  has 
failed to fulfil the expectations of its found­
ers, largely through  internal  ruptures,  and 
has passed into  other  hands.  The movers 
in the matter, however,  announce their  de­
termination to  try  co-operative distribution 
again, opening this time on  Clinton  street.
Detroit—M. E. and  Frank  E.  Pollasky 
have began suit in the Wayne Circuit  Court 
against R. G. Dun &  Co.,  alleging  $25,000 
damages on account of the sending out of  a 
false statement  relative  to  their  business 
standing.  They were then engaged in busi­
ness at Alma and it is claimed the erroneous 
statement ruined their business.

Marshall—Our business  men  are  not  so 
desirous of attracting Brown & Sons, of Bu­
chanan,  to this place.  The latter offered to 
remove their  furniture  factory to  Marshall 
for $7,000 in stock  subscriptions.  A  com­
mittee went to Buchanan to  investigate the 
business, found a chattle  mortgage  on  the 
plant to its full value and that  employment 
was  given  to  only six  men.  A  report  to 
that effect dampened all the ardor heretofore 
exhibited.

M A N U FA C TU R IN G   M A TTERS.

Pittsford—Maxon  &  Weatherwax’s plan­

ing mill burned on the night of May 31.

Manistee—It is reported that C. B. Lewis 
& Son intend to remove  their  shingle  mill 
to Menominee.

Jonesville—Pierce &  McKercher  will  es­
tablish another  carriage  factory here.  The 
skating  rink will be used as  their  base  of 
operations.

St.  Ignace—The  Mackinaw  Lumber  Co. 
has a contract to  supply 190,000 ties for the 
Minneapolis,  Sault  Ste.  Marie  &  Atlantic 
Railway.

Kalamazoo—J. E. Kimble  and  Perry  A. 
Peer  have  formed  a  copartnership  under 
the firm name of J.  E.  Kimble & Co. for the 
purpose of  engaging in  the  manufacture of 
the Kimble engine.  The firm has purchased 
the den Bleyker plant and machinery.

Purely Personal.

F. J.  Dettenthaler is  spending a week  in 

the East.

Geo.  Sinclair, the Hudsonville cheese box 

manufacturer, was in town Saturday.

S. Rademaker will be  back  to his desk at 
Amos S. Musselman & Co.’s  next  Monday.
M. J. Cunningham, the Vermontville gro­
cer,  came to the  ctiy last  week  to  get  his 
chin tickled by Dr.  Evans.

Albert Retan, the Pewamo general dealer, 
was  in  town  Saturday  on  his  way  home 
from a week’s  visit  at  his  Oceana  county 
farm.

C. E.  Olney ships his horses to Thompson, 
Conn.,  this week and leaves next week with 
his family for  the  same  place,  where  they 
will spend the heated term.

Miss Maggie Huyge, formerly  in  the  re­
tail department, has been transferred to  the 
wholesale  department  at  P.  Steketee  & 
Sons’, taking the position of entry clerk.

D. W.  Archer,  the  canned  goods  king, 
spent a couple of days in  Grand  Rapids re­
cently mid contracted to furnish the j^ibers 
here a trainload of his celebrated product

E.  Densmore  is  back  from  California, 
where he left his wife at Stockton, enjoying | 
the cool breezes  which  travel  3,000  miles 
across  the  Pacific  ocean.  Mr.  Densmore 
will return to  California in  about a month.
Many of  the  younger  men  of  this  city 
will remember Jas. McKenna, who attended

school here ten years  ago.  He  left  Grand 
Rapids in 1880 and worked for  a  time  as 
book-keeper  for  the  Roscommon  Lumber 
Co.,  at ‘ Roscommon.  Then  he  started  a 
private bank at  that  place  and  dabbled  in 
pine lands—always coming out on the  right 
side.  Two years ago he opened  a  clothing 
store at Sault Ste. Marie under  the style  of 
Hynes & McKenna and  all  reports  are  to 
the effect that he is  rapidly  adding  to  his 
present snug fortune.

The Gripsack Brigade.

Isn’t it about time the Grand Rapids trav­
eling men began  talking  about  their fourth 
annual picnic?

Graham Roys is now engaged  with L.  H. 
Beals &  Son, of  Westfield, Mass., covering 
the same  territory  as  formerly—’Michigan, 
Ohio and Indiana.

Geo.  F. Owen and L. M. Mills will attend 
the National  T.  P.  A.  convention  at  St. 
Louis on June 21-24.  They  leave  for  the 
place  of  meeting  -on  the  morning  of  the 
20th.

Nashville News:  A Grand Rapids drum­
mer  by the  name  of  A.  Darriger,  lost  a 
pocket-book,  containing  $40  in  cash  and 
$200  in  notes,  between  this  village  and 
Bonanza on Wednesday.

W. G.  Hawkins was  asked  the other day 
if he thought there was room in Grand Rap­
ids  for  another  wholesale  grocery  house. 
“Yes,” said  the  wily  soap  man,  “I  think 
there is room—ground room.”

W. S. Horn,  late with  John  A.  Tolman 
& Co., of  Chicago,  has  engaged  to  travel 
for  Cody, Ball, Barnhart  & Co., taking the 
Holland  colony and  the  Pentwater  branch 
of the C. & W. M. Railway as his territory.
Byron A. Sprague has  engaged to  travel 
for the Owosso Tool  Co., of  Owosso,  for a 
year,  the engagement  to  begin  next  Mon­
day.  His territory will include the jobbing 
trade of Wisconsin,  Minnesota,  Iowa,  Ne­
braska,  Illinois and Indiana.

A jolly party sat down  to  dinner  at  the 
Kirkwood, at Detroit,  last Friday, consisting 
of  five  former  traveling  men  for  S.  A. 
Welling and one man now on  the  road  for 
Willing  &  Carhartt—W.  H.  Downs,  John 
D.  Mangum,  L.  R.  Cesna, 
John  E. 
Eacker,  Clarence  J.  Peck  and  A.  M. 
Sprague.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

land.

E. N. Parker, Coopersville.
R. Weertman, Holland.
M. Gezon, Jenisonville.
Smith & Bristol, Ada.
M. Minderhout, Hanley.
John Gunstra, Lamont.
G. P. Stark.  Cascade.
C.L. Glasgow,  Nashville.
R. E. Hastings, Sparta.
Sisson & Lilley Lumber Co.,  Sisson’s Mills.
C. C. Tuxbury, Sullivan.
W. H. Hicks, Moriey.
J.  N. Wait,  Hudsonville.
L. L. Fuller, Cadillac.
E. M. Reed, Coopersville.
C. Biotn .Hollandr--fr* — -------------------
J. B. Watson, Coopersville.
F. Shellman, Lake Vimr.
F. Crary, Big Rapids.
Geo. D. Burton, Holton.
S. H. Ballard, Sparta.
J. W. VerHoecks, Grand Haven.
J. A. Lambert, Co-operative Supply Co., Hol­
Adam Newell, Burnip’s Corners.
DenHerder & Tanis, Vriesland.
E. Medes, Coral.
L. N. Fisher, Dorr.
H. Colby & Co., Rockford.
J. E. Thurkow, Moriey.
Johnson & Seibert, Caledonia.
F. O. Lord, Grand Ledge.
M. J. Cunningham, Yermontville.
Albert Retan, Pewamo.
DeKruif, Boone & Co.. Zeeland.
Jno. Damstra, Gitchell.
Velzy Bros., Lamont.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
L. N. Fisher, Doit.
C. R. Bunker. Bailey.
G. TenHoor, Forest Grove.
S. M. Geary, Maple Hill.
C. E. Manley, Kinney.
S. Cooper, Jamestown.
H. VanNoord, Jamestown.
F. W. Bunker, Casnovia,
Herder & Lahuis, Zeeland.
C. K. Hoyt,  Hudsonville.
A. C. Barkley, Crosby.
John VanEenenan, Zeeland.
A. & L. M. Wolf,  Hudsonville.
D. J. Peacock, Ashland.
A. Purchase, So. filendon.
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.
C. E. Joldersma, Jamestown.
L. Cook, Bauer.
Prince & Rooks, Holland.
Farowe & Dalraon, Allendale.
A. B. Foote, Hilliards.
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
J. P. Cordes, Alpine.
A. T. Burnett, Cross Village.
Geo. N. Reynold, Belmont.
Robt. Graham, Coopersville.
Humphrey & Spaulding, Wayland.
Mrs. O.  F. Dewey,  Newaygo.
A, M. Church, Alpine.
Headley & Son, wayland.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
S. J. Martin, Sullivan.
E. B. Wright and Dave Holmes,  West. Mich. 
Lumber Co., Woodville.
Gus. Begman, Bauer.
D. I). Harris, Sbelbyville.
O. H. Marsh, with John Canfield, Hobart.
J. L. Alger. Petoskey.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
Percy T. Cook, Reynolds.
P. Prins, Holland.
N. Bouma, Fisher.
C. E. Pratt, Green Lake.
A. W. Blaln, Dutton.
James G. McElwee & Co., Big Rapids.
Mr. Paton, Paten & Andrus, Shelby.
G. M. Huntley, Reno.
W. H. Struck, Forest Grove.
Kerngood, Sloman &  Rosenthal, E. Saginaw. 
J. Raymond, Berlin.
O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna.
M. M. Robson, Berlin.
D. W. Shattuck, Wayland.
J. Smith, Ada.
H. Johnston, Shelby.
Williams & Kerry, Reed City.
L. A. Paine, Englishville.

the  firm.  Schmul, 

A clerk in a banking bouse celebrated the 
twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  his  connction 
with 
the  principal, 
hands him in the morning a closed envelope, 
inscribed,  “In memory of this eventful day.” 
The clerk  gratefully receives  the  envelope 
without opening it,  but on  a  gracious  hint 
from the  head  of  the  firm  he  breaks  the 
cover and finds—the  photo  of  his  master. 
“Well, what do  you think of  it?” inquired 
Schmul, with a grin.  “It’s just like  you,” 
was the reply.

The business men  of  Lapeer have struck 
the key to the  situation, and  are more than 
likely to make a trade center of  their town. 
They  are  raising  money  to  improve  the 
roads leading from  the  village  in all  direc­
tions, so that  they will  be  in  good  condi­
tion at all times of the year.

MISCELLANEOUS.

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 25 cents.  Advance payment.
Advertisements  directing  that  answers  be 
sent in care of this office must be accompanied 
by ~5 cents extra, to cover expense of postage,

i T p °K SALE—Hardware stock in the thriving 
„ 
ot  Spring  Lake,  situated  on D„ G.
H. & M.  railway  and  two  miles  from  Grand 
Haven.  Stock  will  inventory  about  $6,000.
Call on or address C. A.  Pearson. Soring Lake 
Mich. 
.sprmgDake,

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TCTOR SALE—The best drugstore in the thriv- 
JL 
ing city of Muskegon.  Terms easy,  c   L 
Brundage, Muskegon, Mich. 
’F ,05o^ALE- Dru» and grocery stock:  sales. 
f- 
$8,000  a  year;  invoice,  $3,000.  Western 
fever  only  reason  for  wishing  to soli  Will 
give a  bargain  to  right  man.  Address Pain- 
killer, care of The Tradesman,  Grand  Rapids
M ien. 
197*  *
TpOR SALE—Hardware stock in Coopersville' 
a growing town on the D., G. H. & M. rail­
way.  Stock  will  inventory  $5.000.  a   good 
chance tor someone.  Address W. R. Boynton 
Coopersville, Mich. 
196*" ’
TTOR SALE—Two store  counters, three  sets 
- 
8cales,  six  tea  cans,  six spice  cans, one 
small coffee mill and two  show-cases, also one 
?«iivei!y wa/ on‘ 
of  the foregoing will  be 
sold cheap for cash.  M.  J.  Lewis,  7#  Grand- 
ville avenue. Grand Rapids. 
"E50R SALE—Best  bargain  ever  offered  for 
general  stock  in  growing town  in  good

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£ie,boi ’ 6 feet atul 2 inches high.
, 
,  “ feet and 11  inches  deep and 5 feet a n d  2 
inches wide.  The box is zinc lined and nearll 
new.  J. C. Shaw, 79 Canal street,  Grand Rai> 
i™ ____________ ___________  
P Ar n , i i VANTED—A  Food,  ambitious 
nnn-tMwi’w i 11 
thousand dollars can buy a 
ooe-fpirfi interest in a good-paying, well estab- 
lished meroantiie business.  Call on or address 
ML* 
Stowe> Michigan Tradesman, Grand Rap- 
lqs‘ ________________ ____________  
IMPORTANT TO EVERY STORE-KEEPER- 
J-  Ever}  retail dealer who  desires to  run his 
business on an economical  basis  should  send 
*97® Bamp{e of the Sutliff Coupon System, the 
most complete  arrangement of  the  kind that 
will  abolish  your  pass-books.  The  best  and 
S°?t 
Merchants  throughout  the
Ihl ted StKte? are ?ow U8ing this  system with 
w J eZ bi 8Kfe8ult8-  Wit*  this  system  you 
have  no  writing,  no  bookkeeping,  no  pass- 
books.  Every sale is a cash sale and hundreds 
of  doliars  are  saved  annually  in  forgotten 
h n ? ra ,aKae-  .Havin*  two kinds, samples of 
Hff  ATbanj’.N. Y°" aPP1,eation’ 
& & «-

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a00***  ambitious 
?®an, with six thousand dollars, can buy a 
«"e-third interest in a good-paying,weil-estab- 
Hshed mwcantile business.  Call on or address 
fV A. Stowe> Michigan Tradesman, Grand  Rap- 
125:______ _______  
YYTANTED—Ladies at homeor to travel with 
-7 "  ..my Improved Tailor System.  It has full
Porktaa"? „and 
sight.  Address H. M.
Perkins, Lapeur« Mich. 
^   man  having  an  established 
trade among lumbermen to add  a  spec­
ial line and sell on commission.  To  the  right 
man a splendid chance will be given  to  make
2 S 5 ® S S 5 2 Utn i xi ni exPensq’  Address“  B.”
care Michigan Tradesman. 

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WANTED.

A good live man as General Agent in the State 

of Michigan for

OSGÓOD  PATENT

COMBINATION  SCALES.

For Fanners,  Manufacturéis  and Merchants.

Best and cheapest in the market for Coal, Iron 

Stock, Hay, Grain, Etc.

Specially Liberal  Propositions to General 

Agents.  Address, with reference,

OSGOOD  &  THOMPSON. 

________________  

Binghamton, N. Y.

Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

BOOKS,
S liiw rr i S i t e ,
SEEDS

20  and 22  doom St„  Grind Rividi,  Midi.

For the FieM and Garden.

4  71 Canal Street,

Offers for Sale all K inds of Garden 

Seeds in Bulk.

Medium Clover,

Mammoth  Clover,
Alfalfa Clover,

Alsike Clover,

W hite Dutch Clover, 

Timothy,

Red  Top,
, Blue Grass,

Orchard Grass,

Hungarian Grass, 
Common Millet, 

German Millet, 

Flax Seed.

Peculiarities of the Morphine Habit.
“The  morphine  trade is very  peculiar,” 
said a leading  druggist the  other day.  “I 
have probably a dozen  persons  addicted to 
the habit who buy their  supplies of me, but 
any minute  they are  liable to be piqued by 
the most  insignificant  incident and  leave 
me. 
I have patrons of  this kind who leave 
me everj’ little  while  and buy  of  another 
druggist—perhaps  in a distant part  of  the 
city.  Then all of a sudden they  come back 
to me again  as  unconcernedly  as  though 
they had been patronizing  me, right  along. 
Persons  who eat  morphine or opium  soon 
become so unlike  ordinary  humanity that I 
sometimes wonder  whether they do not be­
long to another order of beings.”
Ethel Told the Truth.

“Now, tell me, Ethel,” said a  governess, 
“what letter comes after h?”  “Please, Miss 
Parker, I don’t know.” 
“What have I got 
by the side of  my  nose?”  asked  the  gov­
erness. 
“A  lot  of  powder,”  was  Sliss 
Ethel’s startling reply.

The  Michigan  Salt  Association  has  ere 
ated  an agency at  Michigan City,  and  will 
put up a large  warehouse  there, the  inter­
state  commerce  law  having  shut  eastern 
salt out of  the western  market,  thus creat­
ing necessity for  the  best  conveniences  in 
handling the Michigan product.

“Why do you think you can be of service 
to  us?”  asked  the  Superintendent;  “have 
you ever had any experience in railroading? 
Did you ever work on  a  railroad?”  “No,” 
said the  applicant,  “I  never  worked  on  a 
railroad exactly,  but I’ve  often  done  busi­
ness on borrowed capital,  and  been  in  debt 
all  my life.”  He  was  appointed  financial 
agent right away, without examination.

In addition to  a good bank,  the people of 
Lawton  believe  they could  give  a  dentist 
and a photographer each  a  fair  amount  of 
business.

J. W. Saunders,  grocer,  Paris:  “I  am well 
pleased with the paper.  Wish you good luck.”

FRESH  FISH

Bought  and Sold by

FRANK  J. DETTENTHALER,

117 Monroe St.,  Grand Rapids.

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J3T*  O y s te r s   t h e   Y e a r   A r o u n d  

CHARLES  A.  COYE,
A. Coye & Son,

Successor to

DEALER  IN

AWNINGS j TENTS

Horse and Wagon Covers, 

Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,

Flags & Banners made to order.

Wide Ducks, etc.
GRAND RAPIDS.
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73 CANAL  ST.. 

HESTER & FOX,

Manufacturers’ Agts. for

Saw  and  Grist  Mill
M  AOHIITEr Y

Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all  kinds 

of Wood-Working Machinery, Saws, 

Belting  and  Oils.

Association Notes.

Manton Tribune:  The business men met 
Wednesday evening in regular session.  The 
subject  of  locating  manufacturing  institu­
tions in our village took up the  attention of 
the meeting, and the  reports were very flat­
tering indeed.

Denver Retail Grocer:  We lxave  just re­
ceived a copy of the  White  Lake  Business 
It is the organ  of  the Associa­
Exchange. 
tion of  that  city,  and  a  bright  paper. 
It 
will be the  means of stirring  up  the  dead­
beats in Michigan.

The bill incorporating the Michigan Busi­
ness glen’s Association  and  auxiliary asso­
ciations  passed the  Senate last  Thursday, 
and is now  before  the  House,  where the 
friends of the measure are expected to push 
it through this week.

H. M. Marshall,  President of  the  Law­
rence Business xMen’s Association, writes as 
follows:  “Our  business men have been al­
ready well paid for all cost and trouble, and 
we have just commenced.  We find it is the 
only way possible to reach many  of our de­
linquents.”

Cadillac News:  At  the  meeting  of  the 
Cadillac Business Men’s Association, a com­
mittee consisting of P. Medalie, J. H.  Plett 
andF r?dS .  Kieldsen  was  appointed  to 
consider the matter  of  a  Fourth  of  July 
celebration,  or  in  lieu  thereof,  a  business 
men’s picnic, and report at the  next  meet­
ing of the Association.

The  Kalkaska  Business  Men’s  Associa­
tion,  at  its  last  regular  meeting,  elected 
in  place 
Chauncey C.  Jencks  Treasurer, 
of Dr.  F.  R.  Boyd,  removed. 
It also voted 
so accept an invitation extended by the Bel- 
laire Business Men’s Association  to  a  ban­
quet,  given in honor of the Detroit,  Charle­
voix & Escanaba  Railway  surveyors,  who 
are now at Bellaire.

C. E.  Ramsey,  Secretary of the Kalkaska 
Business Men’s Association,  writes  as  fol­
lows:  “I notice  in  the  last issue  of  T h e 
T ra desm a n  the  following  item, 
taken 
from the Manton  Ti'tbune. 
‘The Kalkaska 
stave factory will remove to  Manton.  The 
credit for securing this institution is largely 
due to the Business Men’s Association.’  We 
have no doubt the  Manton  Business  Men’s 
Association is a very creditable  institution, 
but it claims a little  too  much  this  time, 
since the  Kalkaska  stave  factory  has  no 
idea of  moving.  The proprietors  do  talk, 
however, of putting in a branch  factory  at 
Manton.”

Cadillac  News:  The  Cadillac  Business 
Men’s  Association,  at  their  meeting  last 
evening,  passed a  resolution  requiring  the 
officers to have the Association incorporated. 
There are  now  fifty-six  members, and  the 
object of incorporating is to more effectually 
aid in pushing forward  the  business  inter­
ests of our city and to  promote the  welfare 
of the surrounding country.  Cadillac is not, 
and  never  has  been  properly  advertised. 
Jehn Olsen stated at the meeting that while 
on his recent trip to the  old country he saw 
many maps of  Michigan, both  in  England 
and Norway,  but Cadillac did not appear on 
them.  For a  city of  nearly  five  thousand 
inhabitants to be omittpd from the State maps 
distributed abroad  shows  great  negligence 
upon the part of  the  map  makers,  and it is 
agreed  by the  Cadillac  business  men  that 
we can issue a map of our own.

President Hamilton and the editor of T h e 
T ra d esm a n have in  contemplation  a  trip 
through  the  Upper  Peninsula  about  the 
middle of July and will  hold  themselves in 
readiness to assist in the formation of Busi­
ness Men’s Associations at St.  Ignace, Sault 
Ste.  Marie,  Marquette,  Negaunee,  Ishpem- 
ing,  Houghton,  Hancock and  other  towns, 
in case application is made for such service. 
The only Association  now  in  existence  in 
the Upper Peninsula is at Manistique, which 
is doing good work, and there ought to be at 
least a dozen organizations in  the  Lake Su­
perior district.  Business men in any of the 
towns above mentioned, or any place in the 
Upper Peninsula for that matter, are invited 
to  communicate  with  T h e  T ra desm a n 
without delay,  in case they wish to improve 
the opportunity offered to bring about  local 
organization.

countants.

Some  Points  for  Bookkeepers  and  Ac­
From the Office.
In different lines of business, the account­
ant meets  with  the  following  facts  and 
conditions at the time the books  are  to  be 
closed:
1.  A list of personal accounts that are due 
the firm which are not worthless, but which 
experience in business  and a knowlenge  of 
huuan nature teach are more or  less  doubt­
ful.  This quantity of  doubt is a loss to the 
business, and should  be  estimated  by  the 
firm in percentage figures and  shown in the 
books.
2.  There is accrued interest due  the  firm 
on past due personal  accounts  and bills re- 
ceiveable which is not shown in  the  books 
This is a resource and a gain and should  be 
shown in the books.
3.  There is secured interest  on  personal 
accounts credited and bills payable oveittie, 
which is a liability and  a  loss,  and  should 
be shown in the bopks.
4.  There is commission  due  on  consign­
ments partly sold  and  for  which  account 
sales have not yet  been  rendered.  This  is 
a gain which is not, but  which  should  be, 
shown in the books.
5.  There are charges paid and  debited  on 
consignments and joint account transactions 
which are partly sold  and  unclosed.  This 
appears, as it stands  in  the  ledger  before 
the consignment is closed,  as a  loss,  when 
it is not, and hence such charges  should  be 
canceled by a proper adjusting entry.
6.  There are charges credited but  not  yet 
paid.  Such charges appear as a gain, when 
they are not, and should  therefore  be  can­
celed by a proper adjusting entry.

The Record is the  name of a new weekly 
journal just launched at Allegan by Newark 
& Bassett.  The new comer is as  bright  as 
a  dollar,  both  editorially  and  typographi­
cally.

And Dodgers Patent Wood Split Pulley.  Large 
stock kept on hand.  Send  fur  sample  Pulley 
and  become  convinced  of  their  superiority.

WRITE FOR  PRICE3.

C H U R C H ’S

Bug Finish!

R E A D Y  F O R  U S E   D R Y .

NO MIXING REQUIRED.

It sticks to the vines and Finixtcs the whole 
crop of Potato Bugs with one ap  ilcaiion; also 
kills any Curoulio, and the Cotton aud 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  Pans  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 the past season  on  the 
State Agricultural  College  Farm  at  Lansing, 
Michigan,  and,  In  answer  to  inquiries,  the 
managers write:  “The Bug finish  gave  good 
satisfaction on garden and farm.”  Many  un- 
solicitated letters  have  been  received  prais­
ing Bug Finish.
Barlow & Star, hardware dealers at  Coldwa- 
ter, Mich., write as  follows under date oj May 
14:  “We sold 3,100pounds of “BugFinish" last 
year.  It is rightly named  “Bug  Finish,” as it 
finishes the entire crop of hugs with oneappli- 
catiod.  We shall not be satisfied unless we sell 
three  tons  this  year,  as  there  is  already  a 
Btrong demand for it.  Please send us ten  bar-I 
rels (3,000 pounds) at once.”
Guaranteed as represented.  Cheaper than

any other Mixture used for the purpose.

MANDFACURED b t

Anti-Kalsomine Co., Garnfl Rapids.

Archer’s Trophy  Corn,
W. Archer’s Early Dolden  Corn, 
D.W. Archer’s Morning Glory Corn,

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T h e  a b o v e  B r a n d s  a r e  S t a n d a r d  t h e  W o r l d  O v e r .  A s k   y o u r   .J o b b e r   f o r   t h e m   a m i  t a k e

DAVENPORT CANNING GO..

n o  o t h e r .  P a c k e d   b y

Davenport, Iowa.

Are Cheap.  You  cannot  make a mis­
take if you buy all you need for the next 
forty days at  present  prices, especially 
Lemons.  Buy only the Choicest Fruit.
Naturally, we  desire  to  be  favored 
with  your  orders.  Still,  we  all  have 
our preferences, and whether you favor 
us or another, still we  say BUY!  But 
before you  buy elsewhere, let us quote 
you prices.
Sparta and Lenawee County  Cheese.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.Clark, Jewell & Co.

We are Sole Agents  again  this season  for  the  above  Popular 
Brands of  Strictly  Full  Cream  Cheese.  Send us your orders. 

TO

We desire to call  your  attention to the

Beardsley Window  Screen,

And ask you to examine its merits and the  great  advantages it possesses over any other 

screen in the market, and so be guided in  purchasing for this season.

We  carry  the  follow­

Number

ing sizes in stock:
Opens
22 to 20
25 to 29
25 to 29
Discount 10 percent.

High
25
25
30

0
1
2

A  RUBBER “TRUST.»

The Manufacturers Form a Gigantic Com­

bination.

The New York correspondent  of the Chi­
cago Tribune thus notes the latest move  on 
the part of the rubber manufacturers:

lastly, 

to  so  control 

One of the greatest  commercial  combina­
tions of recent  years  was  effected  in  this 
city on June 1. 
It includes the entire  rub­
ber  industry  hi  America.  Several  secret 
meetings have been held during the last few 
weeks by the leading rubber  manufacturers 
of the  East  to  discuss  the  possibility  of 
forming a rubber trust,  modeled  somewhat 
after the Standard Oil Trust,  but  with  im­
provements  suggested by experience.  Thi» 
meant the control of the  manufacture of all 
rubber goods, the fixing of the market value 
of both crude  materials  and  manufactured 
articles,  and, 
the 
workmen  employed  in  the  business  that 
they will no longer be able  to  successfully 
conduct strikes as they have at times in  the 
past.  The scheme  is  the  proposition  of 
George A. Aiden  &  Co.,  of  Boston,  and 
Earle Bros., of this city,  brokers  and  deal­
ers in rubber.  The firms  are  members  of 
the New York Commercial Company, a con­
cern organized from the wreck of  the  New 
York Trading Company,  which,  up  to  its 
dissolution on account of quarrels among its 
members, was in almost  absolute citotrol of 
the market for those grades  of  rubber  im­
ported from Para.  The scheme does  away 
with the business of about 200 hundred  im­
porters and masses the buying power in the 
hands of one brokerage  house, allowing the 
other brokers to go fishing.  Besides this,  it 
fixer, the price of crude  rubber,  and  conse­
quently the returns to the  rubber cutter  for 
his labors  and the revenue to the  owner  of 
the lands. 
It also  compels  the  jobber  in 
rubber goods  to  pay  the  Trust  what  its 
managers consider a fair return on the capi­
tal and brains employed, but does  not  oust 
the jobber  altogether  from  the  trade. 
It 
leaves him to prey upon the retailer, who in 
turn will compel the consumer to stand  and 
deliver or get his feet wet.  Lastly,  it regu­
lates the pay  of  over  25,000  wage-earners 
to suit the ideas of the  Trust.  The  Trust, 
according  to the plan proposed,  was  to  be 
formed by the absolute  surrender  of  every 
mill in the country.  The Central Company 
would then be managed  by  three  trustees 
with unlimited power.  The meeting in this 
city to-day resulted in the fulfillment of  the 
grean scheme.  Representatives  of  all  the 
leading houses in the country were present. 
The  trustees  would  control  the  world’s 
market.  They could import as  much crude 
rubber as they pleased,  and after  supplying 
the wants of the combination  at  costs  and 
commissions they could hold the  remainder 
for speculative purposes,  to  the  injury  of 
the  non-combination manufacturers,  should 
there be any,  and  the  consumers.  A  gen­
tleman expressed the  fear  that  should  the 
consolation be effected the  other  importers 
might form a combination of  their  own  in 
turn  for  self-protection,  and  having  once 
gained  control  of  the  Para  market  they 
could turn the tables  on the manufacturers, 
as was done several years ago with  a  simi­
lar,  though smaller,  combination  than  the 
one proposed.  One  gentleman,  represent­
ing one of the smaller  companies,  declared 
to-night that the project  was nothing  more 
than a speculative effort on the part of Aiden 
& Co.  and the Earl Brothers to combine  for 
the purpose of floating the trust  certificates 
in Wall street, thus making the entire  rub­
ber  shoe  business  a  speculation.  Several 
concurred with Mr. Alden’s  views,  though 
a few had little faith in the practicability of 
the scheme.  The entire day was  consumed 
in these arguments  without  any  apparent 
result, but in a short supplementary session 
in the evening the reluctant and fearful ones 
were won over and the  Trust  was  formed, 
with  a  working  capital  of  835,000,000. 
Messrs.  Banigan,  Aiden  and  Meyer  were 
chosen as executive directors,  with unlimit­
ed power  and a salary of 840,000 a  year,  it 
is understood.

“He Never Sleeps.”

President Hamilton lias caused a hundred 
copies of the  paper  on  “Village  Improve 
ments,” read  at  the  March  convention  of 
the Michigan  Business  Men’s  Association 
to be printed and is sending the same out to 
every local president  in  the  State,  accom 
panied  by  the  following  pertinent  en 
quiries:

T kavekse City,  May 28,  1887.

D ear Sir—Will  you favor me with a re 
ply to any one or  all  of  the  questions  be 
low?  Association work is  on  the  advance 
every  day,  as  you  will  notice  in  T he 
T radesm an.  We have a  bright future be' 
fore us.  Our next meeting will  be  held in 
Flint.  Send us a good delegation.
1.  Do  you admit members of firms on the 
“individual” or on the firm basis?
2.  Which are  you in favor  of,  and  why
3.  Do  you  pay  your  Secretary? 
If  so, 
how much?
4.  Do  you  not  think it would be well to 
also pay him a percentage  on  all his collec 
tions?
5.  What can  you  suggest  for the good of 
local bodies?
6.  Have  you ever  had  a  social  outdoor 
gathering of your members?  The action of 
the Retail Grocers  of  Grand  Rapids is con 
ducive of  harmony and  interest.  Can  you 
see the way to  encourage  a  similar  enter 
tainment?
Please  ask  the  editor  of  your  weekly 
paper  to  print  the  enclosed  proof  for  the 
“good of the  cause,”  and  please send me 
copy of  your paper containing the  same,  if 
printed.  A reply will oblige 

Yours truly,

F rank H amilton,  Pres

How to Treat the Delinquent.

Plainw ell, June 1,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
D e a r  S i r — I  write  you  for  instructions 
in regard  to  our  list  of  delinquents.  W< 
have some and we keep a list of them with 
in ourselves,  but some of our members seem 
to think this is not the proper way of doing, 
but  that  the  name  of  every  delinquent 
should be forwarded to headquarters and be 
published throughout the State.
Please write and  explain  to  satisfy  our 
Association and oblige 
Yours,

J. A.  S i d l e ,  Sec’y. 

The only delinquents the State Association 
deals with at present  are  those  who  have 
removed from the jurisdiction  of  the  Asso­
ciation  listing  them.  Once  a  year—prob 
ably about  October  1—the  State  body will 
call on every local  organization  for  a  com 
plete list of its delinquents,  which  will  be 
compiled and published  in  book  form, 
copy  of  this  book  will  be  placed  in  the 
hands  of  every  affiliated  member  of  the 
State body.

Carson City in Line on Organization. 
Agreeable to invitation, the editor of The 
T radesm an  met the  business  men of Car- 
son  City last  Wednesday evening  and  as­
sisted them in the formation of an auxiliary 
to  the  Michigan  Business  Men’s  Associa­
tion.  S. H.  Caswell  was  selected to act as 
chairman  of  the  meeting  and C. O. Trask 
officiated  as  secretary  pro  tan.  After  a 
thorough explanation of  the  aims  and  ob­
jects of organized effort,  with  a  brief  cita­
tion  of  the  advantages  secured  in  some 
towns having  associations, F. A.  Rockafel- 
low moved that the formation  of  a  similar 
organization be immediately proceeded with, 
hich was  adopted.  On  motion  of  B. F. 
Sweet, the regulation  constitution  and  by­
laws  were  adopted,  when  the  following 
twenty-six gentlemen handed in their names 
for  charter  membership:  B. F. Sweet,  T. 
iSixon,  F.  A.  Rockafellow,-L.  S.  Clark, 
M. Jones, L. M. Lamb, E. C. Cummings, 
R.  Culver,  W.  C.  Hubbard,  Tasker  S. 
Evans, J.  P. Taylor,  H.  W.  Whitney,  L. 
A.  Lyon,  J. J. Travis, B. Tripp, A. Y. Ses­
sions,  H.  P. Sherman,  E.  White,  J.  Ten­
nant,  Isaac  Kipp,  Luther  M. Jones,  C. O. 
Trask,  J.  W.  Hallett,  L.  L. Trask, S.  H. 
Caswell, Jacob Kipp.

Election of officers resulted as follows: 
President—F. A.  Rockafellow. 
Vice-President—S. H.  Caswell.
Secretary—C. O.  Trask.
Treasurer—E.  C.  Cummings.
Executive  Committee—President,  Secre­
tary,  C.  R.  Culver,  A.  Y.  Sessions, J. -P. 
Taylor.

The election of the remaining committees 

was deferred until the next meeting.

On motion of  E.  C.  Cummings, the  Blue^ 
jetter  collection  system  w7as  adopted  for 
the  use of  the Association, and  the  Execu­
tive Committee  was  instructed  to  procure 
the printing of the same.

The editor of the local paper was request­
ed to print the  constitution  and  by-laws  in 
his next issue,  as a matter of news.

The  President  and  Secretary  were  ap­
pointed a committee  to  solicit  the  applica­
tions of those w'lio  were not  present at  the 
meeting.

The meeting then adjourned.

NOTES  BY   T H E   W A Y .

Carson  City has  struck  a  boom  and  no 
mistake.  There is not  a  vacant  house  in 
the village and  but  few  empty buildings of 
any kind.  Several new brick stores  will be 
erected  the  present  season,  and  with  the 
advent of the new railroad in July, the place 
is likely to take on metropc litan airs.

W.  S.  Barnard has  leased  Geo.  A.  Thay­
er’s empty store and will remove  his  stock 
of jewelry, news  and  notions  from  Lyons 
in about two weeks.

B. I.  Whelpley,  of Hoytville,  is consider 

ing the project of starting a brick yard.

The Carson City Creamery is turning  out 
800  pounds  of  gilt-edge butter  daily,  and 
Manager Fisher expects to increase  the out 
put to 1,000 in  a  few  days.  The  concern 
also buys and  ships  about  3,000  dozen  of 
eggs per week.

Business men of  all  parties complain bit­
terly over the  deplorably inefficient  service 
rendered  by the  present  incumbent  of  the 
postoftice.  A man who  confesses  his  ina­
bility to  “read writin’ ” is hardly the proper 
person  to  discharge  the  duties  devolving 
upon a postmaster,  and  it is  not to be won­
dered at that a strong petition has been sent 
to Washington, citing the fact that the office 
is now in such poor hands that the business 
is demoralized and praying for  the appoint 
ment of a competent officer.

B.  F. Sweet's new brick  block  will  soon 
begin to loom  up above  the foundation now 
in place.

I.  Krohn,  formerly identified  with  W.  E 
Netsorg,  at Ithaca,  has  put  in a line of dry 
goods, clothing and boots and shoes.

A New Use for Sugar. 

Experiments have  recently been made  to 
prove that sugar  is a valuable  ingredient in 
mortar and cement,  having  strong  binding 
qualities.  Equal quantities  of  finely pow 
dered lime  of  a  very  common  kind  were 
mixed with an equal quantity of good brown 
sugar,  with the addition of  water,  and  the 
result w as a cement of exceptional strength 
This has been tried  at  Peterborough Cathe 
dral,  two large pieces of stone of the broken 
tracery  of  a  window  having  been  joined 
firmly  together  by  sugared  mortal*.  The 
severest test  is  joining  glass,  which  gives 
no hold to mortar without the use  of  sand 
yet this has  been  successfully  done.  The 
fact appears to  be  certain  that  sugar  pro 
duces an extraordinary effect  on  lime when 
the latter has  been  allowed  to  fall  into 
fine powrder and  has been thoroughly slack 
ed.  Particles of  unslacked  lime  would de 
stroy the result,  because of their expansion 
which  would  make  the  mortar  lift.  The 
sugar mortar thus made  will be found to be 
as good as  Portland  cement,  and  the  only 
question,  therefore  is  one  of  cost. 
even probable that  Portland  cement  itself 
would be made much stronger  by  the  addi 
tion of sugar.  Treacle might have the same 
effect.

It 

So Say W e All.

From the Denver Retail Grocer.
It appears that  the  retail  merchants  of 
Michigan have also to  contend  against  oh 
noxious  garnishee  laws. 
If  the  Legisla 
ture of that State  is  composed of the same 
class of men who  represent  Colorado,  the 
merchants  will  not  accomplish  anything, 
The dead-beat fraternity is well represented 
here,  and  they  take  pleasure  in  framing 
laws  that  will  give  dishonest  rogues 
chance  to  defraud  merchants.  The  only 
way for merchants to  accomplish  anything 
is to see that business  men represent  them 
and not a class of political  hogs,  who  are 
bound body and soul  to  some  clique,  and 
whose only aim in life is to live  at  the  ex 
pense of the public.  Such people  have  no 
interest whatever with  honest  men.  They 
do  not  know  what  honesty  means.  We 
hope by  next  election  that  the  dealers  in 
this State will be thoroughly Organized, and 
if they are,  we can have our  garnishee  law 
repealed.

The Banking Capital of Grand Rapids.
-  A  subscriber  in  a  distant ' State writes 
to  T h e  T ra desm a n,  asking  how  many 
banks there are in Grand Rapids  and  w’hat 
the banking capital of  the city  amounts to. 
For the benefit of the  enquirer,  as  Well  as 
for the information of others who  might be 
interested in the subject,  T h e T ra desm a n 
has compiled the following  table,  showing 
the capital and  surplus of the seven  banks 
doing a commercial  business  here,  as  fol­
lows:
Capital  Surplus
Old  National Bank..................$800 000  $61000
20 100
National City Bank..................  500 000 
Grand Rapids National Bank..  500 000  100 000
Fourth National Bank.............   300 000 
26 000
3 000
Fifth National Bank................  100 000 
Grand Rapids Savings Bank..  50 000 
30 000
none
Kent County Savings Bank...  50 000 
$254 000
Total paid-in  capital....$2 300 000 
Total  surplus.................. 
254 000
Gross banking capital...$2 554 000 
It is claimed by those who have examined 
the statistics on this point that  Grand Rap­
ids has more banking capital, in  proportion 
to population,  than any  city  in the country 
—Springfield,  Mass.,  and  Portland,  Me., 
alone excepted.

It took $1,200 in casn 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 
acking  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 
orth 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 
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, Micb., and 
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 Jiver cures;  but under all  kinds  of medi­
cines I got worte 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.

Manager Telephone Exchange, Cadillac, Mich.

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M anufactured by Riverdale Dlst. Co.

106 K ent Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich 

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purposes is the Best  Brand on the  market

GRAND  RAPIDS  OFFICE,

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Telephone No.  228-2.

J.  G.  ALEXANDER,-  Agent.

G I V E   U S   A   T R I A L   O R D E R .

R. W. Culver, druggist. South Haven: 

paper is a help.”

‘Your

We  Guarantee  Satisfaction.

Independent  03. 

.

This is the poor  season  in  the  oil  busi­
ness, but the Independent Oil Co.  manages 
to keep busy all the time and the volume of 
trade is  apparently  increasing.  This  con­
dition of things  is largely due  to the super­
ior quality of  oil sold  by  the  Independent 
Oil Co., but the  fact  that  the  oil is not the 
product of the most  gigantic  monopoly  the 
world ever saw undoubtedly has much to do 
with the steady and increasing demand.

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.

For Sale  or Exchange.

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

H A R D W O O D   L U M B E R .

 

 

The furniture factories  here pay as follows 

for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run................................. 12 00@14 00
15 00@18 00
Birch, log-run........................ 
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2..............................  @25 00
Black Ash, log-run...................................13 00@15 00
Cherry,  log^run........................................25 00@35 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and 2............  
45 00@50 00
Cherry,  cull.........................................  @10 00
Maple,  log-run.............. 
12 00@14 00
Maple, soft,  log-run..............................11 00@13 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2..............................  @20 00
Maple, dear, flooring.........................  @25 00
Maple, white, selected......................  @25 Oo
Red Oak, log-run.................................  @18 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2......................... 
@24 00
Red Oak, quarter  sawed..................26 00@30 00
Red Oak. No.  1, step plank...............  @25 00
W alnut, log-run..................................  
@55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2..........................   @75 00
Walnuts,  culls....................................  @25 00
Grey Elm, log-run..............................  @13 00
White Ash, log-run.................................14 00@16 00
Wbitewood,  log-run................................20 00@22 00
White Oak, log-run............................  @17 00

W O O D E N W A R E .

...................................4  50

Standard  Tubs, No. 1...........................................6 00
Standard  Tubs, No. 2...........................................5 00
Standard Tubs, No. 3........................................... 4 00
Standard Pails, two hoop.....................................1 40
Standard Pails, three hoop................................. 1 65
Pails, ground wood 
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes................................2 25
Butter  Pails, ash..................................................2 26
Butter Ladles........................................................ 1 00
Rolling Pins......................................................  75
Potato Mashers...............................................   50
Clothes Pounders................................................. 2 25
ClothesPins......................................................  60
Mop  Sticks.............................................................1 00
Washboards, single.............................................. 1 75
Washboards, double.............................................2 25
Diamond  Market............................................   40
Bushel, narrow band........................................... 1 60
Bushel, wide band................................................ 1 75
Clothes, splint,  No. 1...........................................3 50
Clothes, splint,  No. 2........................................... 4 25
Clothes, splint,  No. 3...........................................5 00
Clothes, willow  No. 1.........................  
Clothes, willow  No. 2...........................................6 50
Clothes, willow  No. 3........................................... 7 50
Water  Tight, bu................................................... 3 75

“  haifbu.....................................2  85

BASKETS.

5 50

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MISCELLANEOUS.

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

BRACES.

BALANCES.

AUGERS AND BITS.

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

BUCKETS.
....................... . 
BUTTS. CAST.

promptly and buy in full  packages.
Ives’,  old  style.......................................... dis  60
dis 
N.  H.C. Co........................ 
60
Douglass’.........................  
60
dis 
60
Pierces’  .....................................................dis 
Snell’s .........................................................dis  60
Cook’s  ...................................................... dis 
40
Jennings’, genuine.................................dis 
25
Jennings’, imitation...............................dis50&10
Spring......................................................... dis  40
BARROWS.
Railroad.......................................... ...........$ 14 00
Garden...................................  
  net 33 00
BELLS.
Hand............................... ..............dis  $ 60*10*10
Cow.....................................................dis 
70
30*15
Call.....................................................dis 
Gong................................................dis
Door, Sargent...................................dis 
60*10
Stove......................................................dis $ 
60
Carriage  new list.................................. dis  7C&10
Plow *.......................................................dis
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.......  ......................... dis
Wrought Sunk Flush...........................dis
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush...............................................    dis  60*10
Ives’ Door...............................................dis  60*10
Barber................................................. dis $ 
40
Backus...................... 
dis  50&10
Spofford...................................................dis 
50
Am. Ball..................................................dis 
net
Well, plain.................................................... $  3 50
. 
’ 
------ 
4 00
Well, swivel
70*10 
Cast Loose Pin, figured........................dis
7Ü&10 
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed.........dis
60*10 
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..dis 
60&10 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis
60*10 
Wrought Loose  Pin.............................dis
60* 5 
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip............ dis
60* 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned............dis
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvei
60* 5 
tipped..................................................dis
60*10 
Wrought Table...................................... dis
60*10
Wrought Inside Blind......................... dis
Wrought Brass.      .............-.................dis
80
Blind, Clark’s......................................... dis
80
Blind, Parker’s...................................... dis
Blind,  Shepard’s...................................dis
Ely’s 1-10........................................................per m $65
Hick’s C. F............................................  
60
35
G. D ........................................................ 
Musket................................................... 
60
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester  new list50&10
mm  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 Slioks..................... .................. dis  70*10
Butchers’Tanged Firmer..................dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers....................dis 
20
Cold........................................................ net
Curry, Lawrence’s.............................. dis  40*10
Hotchkiss  .................................. .........dis 
25
Brass, Backing’s.......................................
Bibb’s .........................................................
B eer................... 
40*10
Fenns’.......................................................... 
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... fMb  28
14x52,14x56,14x60........................................   31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60..........................   23
Cold Rolled, 14x48............................................   23
23
Bottoms......................... 
Morse’s Bit  Stock................................. dis 
40
40
Taper and Straight Shank....................dis 
Morse’sTaper  Shank............................dis 
40
ELBOWS
Com. 4 piece, 6  in...........................doz net  $.85
Corrugated.........................  
dis  20*10
Adjustable..............................................<11$  X&10
Claris, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00.  dis 
Ives’, 1, $18 00;  2, $24 00; 8, $30 00.  dis

EXPANSIVE BITS.

CATRIDGBS.

corns.

CHISELS.

COPPER.

DRILLS

COCKS.

CAPS.

 

 

 

 

 

piles—New List.

 

18

12 

13 

HINGES.

GAUGES.

HANGERS.

HAMMERS.

HOLLOW  WARE.

00*10
60*10
dis
80&10
60*10
55&10
50

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

GALVANIZED IRON,
14 

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27
15
Discount, Juniata 50@10, Charcoal 60.
60
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ............. dis
25
Maydole & Co.’s....................................dis 
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
Kidder, wood track.............................dis 
40
Gate, Clark’s, l, 2, 8............................. dis 
60
8tate............................................ per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4*  14
3*
and  longer..............................................
10*
8cr%w Hook and Eye,  *   .................. net
Screw Hook and Eye H......................net
8*
Screw Hook and Eye  3£....................net
7*
Screw Hook and Eye,  %....................net
7*
65
Strap and  T ........................................ dis
60
P ots............................................................. 
60
K ettles........................................................ 
Spiders  ...................................................... 
60
Gray  enameled......................................... 
50
Stamped Tin Ware..................... new  list 
75
Japanned Tin  Ware.................................  
26
Granite Iron  Ware................................... 
25
Grub  1................................................$11 00, dis 60
Grub  2................................................  11 50, dis 60
Grub 3.................................................   12 00, dis 60
Door, mineTal, jap. trimmings...........dis 
55
Door, porcelain, jap.  trimmings............ 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......
55
Door, porcelain, trimmings...................
Drawer and  Shutter, porcelain.........dis
70
40*10
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s .....................
45
dis
Hemacite....................................... 
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list, .dis
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s.................... dis
Branford’s .
........................................ dis
Norwalk’s  .................................. 
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.’f, Post,  handled..................dis  50
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ................................. dis 40
Coffee,P.S.&W.Mfg.Co.’6Malleables ...  dis 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s.............. dis 40
Coffee,  Enterprise......................................dis  25
Stebbin’s P attern.............................. dis  60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine............. :...............dis”  60*10
Enterprise,  self-measuring..............dis 
25

KNOBS—NEW LIST.

MOLASSES GATES.

LOCKS—DOOR.

dis
70

MATTOCKS.

LEVELS.

MAULS.

MILLS.

HOES.

 

 

NAILS—IRON.

Common, Brad and Fencing.

 

2 

2* 

OILERS.

8d  6d  4d
1*

I  lOd 
$1 25  1 50  1 75  2 00 

lOdto  60d............................................ $  keg $2 15
8d and 9 d adv.....................................  
26
 
50
6d and 7d  adv................................................ 
75
4d and 5d  adv................................................ 
3d advance........................................ 
 
1 50
3d fine advance........................................... 
2 25
Clinch nails, adv...........................................  1 00
Finishing 
Size—incheB  j  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
Seiota Bench...................................................... dis 50@55
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy..................... dis  30
Bench, flrstlquality.......................................... dis 50@5a
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood__ dis20*10
Fry, Acme.......................................................... dis 50*10
Common, polished...........................  
Dripping................................................ #  lb 
Iron and Tinned...................................dis
Copper Rivets and  Burs...................... dis 
60
A” Wood’spatentplanished,Nos.24to27 10 20 
B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27  9 “

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

dis60&10
6*

PLANES.

RIVETS.

PANS.

Broken packs * c 
ROPES.

lb extra.

 

SQUARES.

Sisal, *  in. and  larger...................................  11*
Manilla.............................................................  13*
70&10
Steel andiron........................................dis
60
dis
Try and Bevels................................ 
20
Mitre  .....................................................dis
SHEETIRON.Com. Smooth.
Com 
$2 90
Nos. 10 to 14.................................. $4 20
2 90
No9. 15 to 17..................................   4 20
3 00 
Nos. 18 to 21..................................   4 20
3 05 
Nos. 22 to 24..................................   4 20
3 15 
Nos .25 to 26..................................   4 40
3 25
No. 27 ..............................................  4 60
inches
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 2 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, 
lb............................
In smaller quansities, $   lb.....................
American, all  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
N o.l,  Refined...........................................
Market  Half-and-half............................
Strictly  Hali-and-half............................

TINNER’S SOLDER.

12 50 
16 00 
17 50

TACKS.

TIN  PLATES.

 

 

 

6

TRAPS.

TIN—LEADED.

i d i i n t i t v   K f iw h n n  s p ’fl 

10x14, Charcoal..............................5 40@5 60
10x14,Charcoal...............................  7 25
12x12, Charcoal...............................   6 25
12x12, Charcoal................
14x20, Charcoal..................
14x20,  Charcoal...............................  7 25
___ ’ 
14x20, Charcoal...............................   8
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool...............................   10
1XXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal............................  12 55
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal...............................   15  50
  6 50
100 Plate Charcoal................... 
DC, 
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................  8 60
DXX. 100 Plate Charcoal............................  10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal........................   12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50  to 6 75
Roofing, 14x20, IC.........................................   6 »
Roofing, 14x20,  IX .......................... 
Roofing, 20x28, IC.........................................  11  00
Roofing, 20x28, IX .......................................   14  00
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne....................... 6 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
OneidaiCommuntity,  Newhouse’s...........dis
A in
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60*10
Hotchkiss’  .....................................................60*10
S, P. & W.  Mfg.  Oo.’s ...................................60*10
Mouse, choker..........................................18c  doz
Mouse,  delusion.................................$1 50  doz
Bright Market........................................   dis  87
Annealed Market..............................................dis 70*10
Coppered Market..................................... dis  62*
Extra Bailing............................................   dis
Tinned  Market.........................................dis  62*
Tinned Broom...........................................$ $
Tinned Mattress.................................. 
Coppered Spring Steel........................... dis 
50
Tinned SpringSteel.................................dis 40*10
Plain Fence................ 
V
Barbed Fence, galvanized........................  
4
Copper........................... 
new  list net
Brass................................................... new list net
Bright..............................................dis  70*10*10
Screw Eyes................... 
dis  70*10*10
Hook’s  . ............................................dis  70*10*10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes....................dis  70*10*10
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
Coe’s Genuine........................................ dis 
50
75
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis 
Coe’s Patent, malleable.....................dis  75*10
BlrdCages...............................................
Pumps,  Cistern.....................................dis  70*10
Screws, new  list...................................«... „ „ J i
Casters, Bed  and  Plate................... dis50&10&10
Dampers,American.................- ...........^   40
Forks, hoes, rakes an all steel goods.d0O*lO*lO 
Copper Bottoms.....................................  
?3c

 
painted...................................3

W IRE GOODS.
 

MISCELLANEOUS.

WRENCHES.

fMb 8*

W IRE.

“ 

 

 

List
$5.00
5.00
5.00

s

i

• THE  BEST.”

The Beardsley Swing Center Screens ha\ e 

these advantages over all others:

1.  The center being a swinging door, ob­
viates the necessity of  removing  the screen 
to clear the room of flies,  to throw out or re­
ceive any article through the  window, or to 
open and close the blinds.

2.  They are made adjustable by movable 
wings on either  side, and may  be instantly 
fitted  to  any  window  without  cutting  or 
pounding.

3.  The  frames  are  made of  kiln  dried 

lumber, and are nailed and glued.

4.  The wire cloth is from the  celebrated 
Wick ware Bros.’ factory, of Courtland,N. Y.

5.  They are the best finished of any.
6.  They are so well made and are so sim­
ple in operation that the liability  to get out 
of order is entirely obviated.

The success this screen met with the past 
season has convinced us that it will take the 
lead in the future.  We shall be pleased to 
correspond with the trade.
For particulars address

n .

F.  J.  LAMB  A  CO,

W HOLESALE  DEALERS IN

F e u it s  and  V eg eta bles,

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese,  Etc.,

8  am  10  Ionia  stm t  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

SPECIAL  ATTENTION  GIVEN  TO  FILLING  ORDEES.

The Standard of Excellence

K I N G S F O R D ’S

and fresh until entirely used.

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

Kingsford’s Oswego CORN STARCH for Puddings, 

Custards, Blanc-Mange, etc.

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

WILL  PLEASE  YOU  EVERY  TIME!

A LW A Y S  ASK  YOUR  GROCER  FOR  T H E S E   GOODS.

ARTHUR  MEIGS  &  00.

W holesale Grocers,

SOlo  Agents,

177 to 83 SOUTH  DIVISION  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,

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

^

P resident—Frank H am ilton, Traverse City.
F irst Vice-President—Paul P. M organ, Monroe.
Second Vic6*Pr68id^Dt“ fl. J. H trrick. 6 m n d  llftpids. 
Secretary—E. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids.
TrAurarer—Julius Schuster, Kalamazoo. 
Executive Comm ittee—President, F irst Vice-I resident, 
Secretary, N. B. Blain and W. E. Kelsey.
Com m ittee on Trade Interests—Sm ith Barnes, Traverse 
C ity;  P. Ranney, K alam azoo;  A.  W.  W estgate,  Che- 
boyfraxi. 
, 
Com m ittee on Legislation—-W. E.  Kelsey,  Ionia;  J.  v.
Crandall, Sand Lake;  J. F. Clark, Big Rapids. 
Com m ittee on M embership—H. S.  Church,  Sturgis;  B.
F.  Emery, G rand Rapids;  th e Secretary.
Com m ittee  on  T ransportation—Jas.  A.  Coye,  Grand 
Rapids;  J.W .  Milliken,  Traverse  City;  C.  T.  Bridg-
C onifiittee on Constitution—W. E. Kelsey,  Ionia;  R. D. 
Official O rgan—THic Michigan Tradesman.

McKaughton, Coopersville;  I. F. Clapp, Allegan,

..  . 

,  

T

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

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

President, D. F. W atson;  Secretory, Elm er Chapel.

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

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

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

B e l d i n g   M e r c h a n t s ’  A s s o c i a ti o n . 
Pre«ident, H. J. Leonard; Secretary , J. M. E arle-

B e l l a i r e   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s   A s s o c ia tio n . 
President. John Rodgers;  Secretary, G. J. Note ware.
B u r r   O a k   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 

President, B. O. G ravos;  Secretary, H.  M. L e e ._______.
M e r c h a n t ’s   P r o t e c t i v e  A s s ’n  o f  B ig   R a p i d s , 
President, E. P. Clark;  Secretary. A. S. H obart.

B o v n e   C ity   B u s in e s s  M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 

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

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

President, J. C. Me Adam;  Secretary, C. T. Chapin.

C a s n o v ia ,  B a i le y   a n d   T r e n t   B .  M .  A . 
President. H. E. Heflueltine;  Secretary, E. Farnham .
C e d a r 's p r i n g s   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 
President. T. W. Proyin;  Secretary , L. H. Chapman.
C h a r l e v o ix   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n  
President. John Nichols;  Secretary, R. W. Kane.-----
C o o n e r s v ille   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 
President. G. H. Watrous;  Secretary, W. R. Boynton.
B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  P r o t e c t i v e   U n io n   o f   C h e ­
President. J. H. Tuttle;  Secretary, H. G. Dozer.
R e t a i l  G r o c e r s ’ T r a d e  U n io n  A s ’n  o f  D e t r o i t . 
President, John Blessed;  Secretary, H. K undinger.
D o r r   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s   A s s o c ia tio n . 
President, L. K. Fisher;  Secretary, E. S. Botsford.
» « t a i l   G r o c e r s ’  A s s o c ia tio n   o f   K .  S a g in a w . 
P la id e n t,  R ifcard Luster;  Secretary, Chas. H. Smith.

b o y g a n .

K d m o r e  B u s in e s s   M e n ’s A s s o c ia tio n . 

President. H. W. Robson ;  Secretary, W ■ S. W hittlesey.

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

PresldentT F.  H.  Thurston,  C entral  Lake;  Secretary, 
Geo. L. Thurston. Central Lake.___________________
E l k  R a p i d s  B u s in e s s  M e n ’s P r o t e c t i v e  A s ’n . 
President. J. J. McLaughlin;  Secretary, C. L. Martin.

E v a r t  B u s in e s s  M e n ’s A s s o c ia tio n . 
President, W. M. Davis;  Secretary, Chas. E. Bell.

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

President. Wm. U pton;  Secretary. E. R. Chandler.

P resident. W, C. Pierce;  Secretary, J. L. W illett.

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

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

P residentTFosterSisson;  Sec’y,A rthurC heseborough

F if e  T a k e  B u s in e s s  M e n 's  A s s o c ia i id n . 

P resident, E. H agadorn;  Secretary, O. V. Adams.
G r a n d   H a v e n   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n  
P resident, Fred. D. Voss;  Secretary, Fred A. H utty.

R e t a i l   G r o c e r s ’  A s s ’n   o f  G r a n d   R a p i d s . 

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

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

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

H a r t f o r d   B u s in e s s  M e n ’s A s s o c i a ti o n . 

P resident, V. E. Manley;  Secretary, I. B. Barnes

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

'President, John K rum er;  Secretary. P. W.  Kane.

H a s tin g s   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 

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

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

P resident, O. L. M illard; S ecretary,F rankL . Beardsley
H o w a r d   C ity  B u s in e s s   M e n ’s A s s o c ia tio n  
•Chairman. C. A. Vandenberg;  Secretary, B. J. Lowry.
H o l l a n d   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 

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

■ Ionia  B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  E x c h a n g e . 

P resident. Wm. E.  Kelsey;  Secretary,  Fred. Cutler, Jr
■ K a la m a z o o   R e t a i l  G r o c e r s ’ A s s o c i a ti o n . 

P resident, P. Ranney;  Secretary. M. S. Scovllle.

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

¡President, A. E. Palm er;  Secretary, C. E. Ramsey.

K in g s le y   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 
President, C. H. Camp; Secretary, Chas. E. Brewster.
L a n s i n g  B u s in e s s  M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n . 

President, Frank Wells;  Secretary, W ill Crotty.

L a w r e n c e   K u s in rtw  M e n ’s A s s o c ia tio n . 
President. H. M. Marshall;  Secretary. C. A. Stebblns.

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

¿President, Win. Hutching»;  Secretary, M. L. Campbell. 
L o w e ll  B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  P r o t e c t i v e   A s s ’n . 
¡President, X. B. Blain-  Secretary, F rank T. King.

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

P resident. W. B. Pool;  Secretary. Chas. J. Robinson. 

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

¡President, A- K. Roof;  Secretary, D. A. Reynolds._____
M a n c e lo tia   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c iâ t io n . 

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

M a n is ti q u e   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c ia tio n .

P resident, F. H. Thompson;  Secretary, E. K. P it._____

M a n  U n i’s  K u s in e s s   M e n ’s  A s s o c i a ti o n .

P ré s id â t. F. A. Jenison;  Secretary. R. Fuller.________
Grocers’  A s s ’n   o f   t h e   C ity   o f   M u s k e g o n . 
President, H. B. Fargo:  Secretary. Wm. Peer.
.  Merchant’s  Union of Nashville. 
President, H erbert M. Lee;  Secretary, W alter W ebster 
Muir  Business Men’s Association.
Otsego  Business  Men’s Association.

President. Simon Town;  Secretary. L. A. Ely.________ _

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

P resident, W. E. Thorp ;  Secretary, K. S. H oughtaltng.

O c e a n a   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s   A s ’n . 
Ovid  Business  Men’s As’n. 

P resident, C. H. H nnter;  Secretary. Lester Cooley.
Owosso  Business  Men’s Association. 
Petoskey  Business  Men’s  Association. 

P resident. Jas. Osburo;  Bec’y, S. Lam from.
President. Jas. Buckley:  Secretary. A. C. Bowman.
P e w a m o   B u s in e s s   M e n ’s   A s s o c i a ti o a . 
P resident. Albert R etan;  Secretary, K. R. Holmes.
Plain well  Business  Men’s Association. 
President, M. Bailey:  Secretary, J . A. Sidle. 
Merchant's lJiilon Protective Association of 
President, Q. C. MeUei ;  Secretary, 8. L. Merriam.

Port  Huron.

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

President, L. T. W ilm arth; Secretary, R.E. McCormick.
Reed City  Business Men’s Association. 
President, C. J. Fleischauer; Secretary, H. W. Hawkins.
Rockford  Business  Men’s Association.
President, Qeo. A. Sage;  Secretary. J. M. Spore._______
St. Charles  Business  Men’s Association. 

South  Boardman  Business Men’s Ass’n. 

President, B. J. Downing;  Secretary, K. E- Burdick.
St. Johns Merchants’ Protective Association. 
President, H. L. Kendrick;  Secretary, C. M. Merrill. 
Business Men’s Protective Ass’n of Saranac. 
President, Geo. A. P otts;  Secretary, P. T. W illiams.
President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, S. E. Niehardt. 
do. Arm and K. Jordan Business Men’s As’n. 
President, P. C. Loreday ; Secretary, C. W. Sutton.
Sherman Business Men’s Association. 
President, H. B. Bturtevant; Secretary, W, G. Shane. 
Sparta  Business  Men’s Association.
President, J. R. H arrison;  Secretary, M. B. Nash.______
Sturgis  Business  Men’s Association. 
President, Henry 8. C hurch;  Secretary, Wm. Jorn. 
Traverse Citv  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President.Geo. E. Steele:  S ecretary,C. T. Lockwood.
Tustin  Business' Men’s  Association. 
President, G. A. Estes ;  Secretary, Geo. W. Bevins. 
Vermontville  Business  Men’s  Association.
President, W. H. Benedict;  Secretary, W. E. Holt.____
Watervliet Business Men’s Association. 
Wayland  Business  Men’s Association. 
Woodland  Business Men’s Association.
P resident, John Velte ;  Secretary, I. W. H arter._______
White Cloud  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President, P. M. Roedel;  Secretary, M. D. Hayward.
White Lake Business  Men’s As’n. 
President, A. T. Liaderman, Whitehall  Secretary,  W. 

P resident, H. Peirce;  Secretary, F. H. Merritield.
President. E. W.  Pickett;  8eeretary, H. J. Turner. 

B. Nicholson, W hitehall.

ADIEU  TO  AN  OLD  FRIEND.

W ritten Especially for The Tradesman.

Companion of my youthful days,

My friend and  servant true,

Great is my pain, yet I must say 

To you a last adieu.

Though thou hast helped my life preserve— 

And faithful over been.

And gratefulness you most deserve.

If help could favor win;

And, though you’ve held the greatest trust 

But ne’er the power abused.
And with me oft divided crust,
When other friends refused—

Yet, know you that mankind forgets 

Past favors of true friends,

And heart of flint against them sets 

When benefactions end.

And hence, when you no longer can 

Such favors render me,

The base ingratitude of map 

Proves his hypocrisy.

And casts you off for those untried—
And, though it pains me,  I decide 

I know them false, forsooth—

To say—Adieu, Old Tooth.

—M .  J. W r i s l e y .

As W e Look At It.

From the American Grocer.

“A teller of a suburban bank, who has to 
make use of  the  liorse-cars  going  to  and 
from his place of business, and who prefers 
an airy outside berth  on  the front platform 
to  a seat and the stifling atmosphere on the 
inside of the  car,  was  enjoying  his  daily 
trip the other morning  and engaged in con­
versation with the driver.  The talk  finally 
drifted to the hqurs demanded by  their  re­
spective callings.  “What are  your  hours? 
asked the driver, of the manipulator  of  the 
national  currency.  “Thunder!”  came the 
emphatic  comment.  “You  must  have  a 
hard  master to make you crowd a big day’s 
work into five  hours.  Why,  my  company 
gives me fourteen  hours  in  which  to  do 
mine.”

In these days of  complaints  about  every 
thing from business to pleasure it is refresh­
ing to come across such a story as the above, 
showing a more  cheerful  frame  of  mind. 
We hear much  about  oppression  of  labor, 
of corruption  by  corporations  and  of  the 
grinding power of the rich; let  us  cultivate 
the happy faculty of occasionally remember­
ing our  blessings.

There  is  economical  truth  in  the  car- 
driver’s talk. 
It is  not  always  an  advan­
tage to crowd a day’s work in a  few hours; 
it is often of no benefit to our health, to our 
happiness, or to our pockets.  Look  at  our 
ancestors; they were hale and hearty in spite 
of their long hours of labor and their  mani­
fold discomforts, because they lived natural 
lives and did not attempt  to  crowd into ten 
years the work of a life time.  We  too  of­
ten forget that  it  is  persistency,  even  if 
plodding,  which  accomplishes  our  ends. 
Nowadays,  if a young man  does  not  get  a 
fortune together before he is thirty years of 
age,  or at least attempt to get it, lie  is  pro­
nounced  “slow ”  If  life  consists  in  the 
abundance of things which we have,  and  in 
that only,  then is  the  modem  strain  upon 
our  health  and  conscience  justified.  But 
who is willing to judge  of life so narrowly? 
If such there  be,  let  him  descend  to  the 
brutes,  his equals.

But  is  not  money  necessary?  Surely. 
And is it not right  to  strive  for  it?  Most 
certainly; but the other  view  is  often  lost 
sight of in our busy modern life.  To a cor­
rect view of the subject we must bring both 
into the field of vision.

Have  we  suggested  a  great  problem? 
Yes; but  if  there  was  no  problem,  there 
would be  no  linman life.

Detecting  Adulterations in  Flour.

Prof. Nessler  recommends the  following 
method for detecting the  presence  in  flour 
of barytes, gypsum,  fine sand or chalk.  A 
thin  paste  is made of  flour which it  is re­
quired to test witli ten  parts  weight of wa­
ter to one part of flour,  and  then the  same 
quantity by measure of sulphuric acid is ad­
ded little by little, stirring the paste well all 
the time.  The fluid  becomes  heated  more 
or less in  proportion as  the acid  is  added 
quicker  or  slower,  and  in  every case the 
pure flour  dissolves  perfectly, or, at least, 
so far that no  sediment  is formed;  while 
the  barytes,  gypsum  and  sand  fall to the 
bottom of the vessel  used and  can there be 
easily detected. 
If the flour is adulterated 
witli chalk,  the fluid will  effervesce as soon 
as the acid is  added, as  the  carbonic  acid 
contained in the  chalk  is  expelled  by the 
stronger sulphuric  acid, while  the  chalk is 
changed to gypsum, which gradually settles 
on the bottom of the  vessel.  By  this pro­
cess the adulteration of  flour with  two per 
cent, of mineral matter has been repeatedly 
detected. 
It should be remarked that if the 
acid is slowly  added,  the  fluid  remains al­
most colorless,  while the  color  becomes a 
dark brown if the  same is  quickly  poured 
in. 
In the  former case,  the  flour is more 
perfectly  dissolved  and  the  fluid  becomes 
more transparent,  so  that  the  undissolved 
mineral  substances can be more  easily dis­
covered.

Adam Forepaugh and the  Grocer.

Adam Forepaugh always travels with  his 
show and he even purchases the  provisions 
for  his  employes’  meals.  He  caters  en 
route for all the attaches of  the circus,  the 
performers,  musicians  and  business  staff 
dining in a  special  car  and  the  laboring 
force  in  a  camp  on  the  show  grounds. 
While in this city, recently,  he purchased  a 
quantity of provisions from a grocer, telling 
him to charge them to “ the steward  of  the 
Forepaugh  show.”  When  he  had  com­
pleted bis purchases,  he said:  “Isn’t  there 
something in this for me?” the  remark  be­
ing instigated by the fact that the  stewards 
of hotels, steamboats,  etc.,  are  frequently 
bribed by those  of  whom  they  make  pur­
chases.  The grocer quietly  handed  him  a 
$2 bill and then extended the account to  be 
marked correct  by  the  supposed  steward. 
The circus manager wrote upon  it;  “O.  K., 
Adam Forepaugh.”  The grocer gazed upon 
it and then  looked as though he wished the 
earth would open and swallow  him.  Fore­
paugh said nothing and walked away.  But 
he held on to the $2 note.

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

SEEDS

FOR  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

on 

Write or send to the

Anything in the Line  of  SEEDS,
Seed Store,
W. T. LAMOREAUX.
FORTH NATIONAL BAM

71  CANAL  ST.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A. J.  Bowne, President.

G e o .  C.  P i e r c e ,  Vice President.

CAPITAL,

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

Transacts a general banking business.

M a k e - a   S p e c i a lt y  o f  C o ll e c t io n s .  A c c o u n t s  

o f  C o u n t r y  M e r c h a n t s  S o lic ite d .

EDMUND B.  DIKEMAN,

THK—’

GREAT  WATCH  MAKER

—AND—

J E W E L E R

44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

HEMLOCK  BARK!

WANTED.

The undersigned will  pay  th e high­
est  m arket  price  for  HEMLOCK 
BARK  loaded  on  board  cars  a t  any 
side track on th e G. R. & I. or  C. & W. 
M. Railroads.  Correspondence  solicit­
ed.

N.  B.  CLARK,

101 Ottawa St., 

Grand Rapids.

ASK YOUR JOBBER
Inbuilt Oi  Co.’s

FO R

KEROSENE

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.
THE  NEW

Soap  Company.

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

HeacLliglrt

AND

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

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

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

Shall we receive your  encouragement  by 

way of a trial order ?

Respectfully,

Best  in  the  Market  for the  Money.

HONEY  BEE  COFFEE!
PRINCESS  BAKING  POWDER,
BEE MILLS’ SPICES

EQUAL  TO  TH E  BEST  MADE.

Absolutely  Pure.

L.  D.  Hi A RRIS,

W holesale Dealer in

WRAPPING  PAPER,

PAPER  BAGS, 

OF ALL  KINDS,

BERRY  PAILS,

ICE  CREAM  PAILS,  WOODEN  BUTTER  DISHES 

WHITE  AND  MANILLA  WAX  PAPERS, 
TWINES,  CLOTHES  LINES,  ETC.
33  NORTH  IONIA  STREET,

G R A X T D   R A P I D S .  

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2 C X C H .

J.  T.  BELL  «So  CO.,

Wholesale  Fruits  and  Produce,

BAST  ©AamAW ,  MICH.

JOBBERS  IN

DRY  GOODS,

A N D  3ST0TI03STS,

83  Monroe  St.,

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

GRAND  R A PID S,  M ICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers 
American and Stark A Bags

IA Specialty.

X>0  YOU WANT  A

If so, send for Catalogue and Price-List to

S. HETMAN & SON. 18 Canal St. Grani B ais.
We  are  settled in  our  new  store  in 
the Houseman  Building1  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 of 
making.
Our  paper  stock  is  complete.  We 
handle everything  in this line.  When 
in the city call and see us.
Respectfully,

CURTISS  &  DUNTON.

L. M. CARY.

<& LOVERtDCE,

L . X .  L O V K R I D G E .

GENERAL  DEALERS  IN

F i r a   a n d   B u r g l a r   P r o o f

Combination and Time Locks,

Il loia Street, 
F A L L A S ,

■■ 

Grand Rapids, Miel.

Makes a Specialty of

Butter  and  Eggs,  Fruits  and  Oysters.

~  . _  —. 
TW mmt-  nn/l  P o v afiil  A H ü n tin n .
Cold Storage in Connection.  All Orders  receive Prompt and Careful Attention. 

— 
We Handle the Celebrated “ROCK BRAND” Oysters.

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

ah  / \ _ j  

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217 and 219 Livingstone S treet, 

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Grand Rapids, M ichigan

SPUING & COMPANY
DRY  GOODS,

JOBBERS  IN

i

I 

Hosiery, Carpets, Etc.

DETROIT  SOAP  00,

DETROIT. MIOS..

%C>\

! Manufacturers of the following well-known Brands

of

S

  O

  - A -   3P   S

QUEEN  ANNE, 
MICHIGAN, 
, 

CZAR, 

TRUE BLUE, 

MONDAY, 

MOTTLED  GERMAN,
SUPERIOR,

ROYAL  BAR,

MASCOTTE,

CAMEO,

PHCENIX,

WABASH, 

AND  OTHERS.

C.  C.  BUNTING.

BUNTING  &  DAVIS,

C.  L .  D A V IS .

Commission  Merchants.

YOUR ETTE IS O^UGHT

For Quotations addressW. G. HAWKINS,

Lock  Box  173, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

Salesman  for  W estern  Michigan. 

ORDER

Specialties:  Apples and Potatoes in Car Lots.

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

«THE

O u r   L e a d e r   S m o k i n g  

15c per pound.

O u r   L e a d e r   F i n e   C u t  

33c per pound.

«t h e

BULKLEY,  L10 H  HOOPS, GraMBajiita, as, i »32

A   M ERCA NTILE  JO U RN A L, PU B L ISH ED   EA CH  

W EDN ESD AY .

E. A. STOWE & URO., Proprietor«.

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

Telephone No. 95.

[Entered  at the  Poetofflee  at Grand Rapide  a« 

Second-close Matter A

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  8.  1887.

SOLIMAN SNOOKS.

Muskegon  and  Grand  Rapids  . Grocers 

Cross Bats Thirteen Years Hence.
Cant Hook Corners, June 2,  1887. 

Editor Tradesman:

Dear  Sir—Several  parties  seem  to  be 
interested in looking  into  the  future.  At 
least,  I should think so from some letters  I 
have  received  since  1  first  consulted that 
cycometrix.

Trying to peer into the dark future seems 
to be a  failing  or  a  virtue,  I hardly  know 
which, of  human  nature  the  world  over. 
By not knowing wliat was going to happen,
I lost nearly one hundred  thousand  dollars 
one year  on  wheat  options.  Yes,  wheat 
went up 20 cents and I  did  not  have  any.
1 presume you have been in the  same  posi­
tion many a time,  Mr.  Editor.

In order to  help  people  out,  and  make 
their hind-sight in  some  measure  equal  to 
their foresight,  I have just been  to  consult 
that  cycometrix  again. 
I  gained  quite  a 
lot of knowledge, but it did not come  up  in 
weight to the scolding  I  got  from  Mrs.  S.
The fact is,  Mrs.  Snooks  kicks  against 
my consulting lady cycometrixes in the inter­
est  of  science. 
It was all  in  vain  that  1 
explained to her that  it  was  necessary  to 
obtain  the  latest  news  possible  for  Tiie 
Tradesman—she could not see it.  That’s 
always the way with the feinalejsex.  They 
don’t grasp onto the true  aspfect  of  things.

However,  I collared the  following: 

(E x tractsfrom  T h e T radesman of Ju u e  1,1900.)
The baseball  game  Friday  last between 
the  Muskegon  Grocers  and  the  Grand 
Rapids Grocers came off at the fair  grounds 
in  splended  shape.  Will  Peer  and  Will 
Keift, of the Muskegons,  had each a  thumb 
taken off.  Brooks of the  home  club,  had 
.  his left ear removed and Geo.  Lehman  had 
his nose moved  one inch to the right.  The 
lightning catcher, Jimmy  Coye,  allowed  a 
ball  to  pass  him  in  the  sixth  inning, 
which passed through  an  inch  board  and 
•demolished a part of the grand stand.
The small boy that was hit by a  foul  tip 
is yet alive  and  may  recover,  Davis,  of 
Kalamazoo umpired the  game  in  his  new 
patent steel-plated  suit  and  38  caliber  re­
volvers. 
18;  Grand 
Rapids,  17; errors—Grand  Rapids 43; Mus­
kegon,  45.
After the game  a  splended  supper  was 
served to the rival  clubs  at  the  Coloseum. 
Grand Rapids would have tied  Muskegon 
in the game last Friday had it not  been  for 
the new rule,  giving a base  to  a  batter  for 
the  pitcher’s  winking  at  a  girl  on  the 
grounds.  However,  The  Tradesman 
will admit that for  a  town  of  only  75,000 
inhabitants Muskegon turns  out  a  credita­
ble nine.
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Score—Muskegon 

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Merchants visiting this  city  and  having 
friends on the hill,  will be pleased to  learn 
that the “cable road,” projected in  1885,  is 
at last finished and ready to  transport  pas­
sengers.  The  road  will  be  extended  to 
Ramona  soon, 
thus  affording  additional 
traveling facilities to the 8,000 people resid­
ing there.

We are out one day late this  week on ac­
count of the  disarrangement of  our  forms 
from the tremendous  explosion  of  natural 
gas that demolished a block on Fulton street 
Monday.  Up  to our  going to  press, only 
twenty-three  bodies  have  been  recovered 
from the ruins and but three of  the wound­
ed have died.  The clerk who was wounded I 
by a flying  brick in  the sixth  story of  the 
liazeltine & Perkins  Drug Co.  building,  is | 
in a fair way to recover.

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We intended to give our readers a full re­
port  of  the  Northern  Michigan  Business 
Men’s Congress,  in this issue,  but the storm 
and cyclone  yesterday  tangled  up all  the 
telephone  wires to  Marquette,  except  the 
underground  w ire to ’Phone  117,451,  which 
was in use all night on orders.

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Stiggins,  the  grocer,  who has been doing 
business in this city at the comer of  Forty- 
ninth avenue and South Division street,  left 
for Canada  Saturday  night.  But  little of 
his 6tock is left, but his  creditors are badly 
left.  He  has  been a  notorious  cutter  of 
prices  and  did  not belong to the  Associa­
tion. * 
Walter R.  Meech,  the Grand Rapids gro­
cer who had his left foot badly  smashed by 
having accidentally let the  Michigan  Busi­
ness Men’s Association  dead-beat book fall 
upon  it a few  dayc ago,  Is now  able  to be 
about with the aid of  a crutch.

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I have  several  other  items,  Mr.  Stowe, 
but I will  keep  them,  as  they  will  not get 
■old and rusty for some time yet  The rail­
road  graders  have  struck  the town at last 
and three saloons  were  opeued  yesterday. 
If I am not very much mistaken the Comers 
are  going  to  boom  this summer.'  No gas 
yet in our well and we are  down to  the^m- 
t todiluvian sandstone.  The report telephoned 
to you that we had struck salt, was  errone­
ous. 
It has  since  transpired  that  we are 
sinking our well where Bilson used to emp­
ty his pork  barrels.  So  Saginaw  can  yet 
keep her shirt on.

Yours boomingly,

Sou man  Snooks,

Gen. Dealer,  P. M. and J.  P.

The  State  Notification  Sheet  for June, 
which was sent out  to  all  auxiliary  mem­
bers last week,  contains the  most  valuable 
information yet sent out by the  State body. 
The warning list embraces  over 100 towns, 
representing  reports from  over thirty local 
Associations.

JENNESS  &  McCURDY,

Importers and Manufacturers’  Agents,

DEALERS  IN

I I ,  lit!

Bronze Lamps, Chandeliers, Brackets, Etc.

73 & 75 Jefferson Ave. DETROIT,  MICH.
■Wholesale Agents for M eld's Canadian Lamps.

order at once.  Special Offer until June 15,1887.  Send for Circulars.

Every Merchant in want of a perfect and complete Check System, should place his 

HILLER’S PATENT CASH TILL HID SALE RECORDER.
WM. SEARS & CO.

o. B. MILLER., 

ITHACA, N. T.

- 

Cracker  Manufacturers,

Agents  for

AMBOY  CHEESE.

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

THE OLDEST.  THE LARGEST.  THE BEST.

The  best o f Testimonials from every  State aad Territory,

CO

PORTER IRON ROOFING CO. CINCINNATI
LEMONS
ORANGES

1865

W HOLESALE

C A N D Y

AND

FRUIT

1887

PEA NUTS

OYSTERS

GEO. E.  HOWES,

JOBBER  IN

Foreign  and  Domestic  Fruits,

8PBOIAX.TIB8 :

Oranges, Lemons, Bananas.

3   I o n i a .   S t . ,   G X I A 2 T D   R A P I D S ,   M I C H .

And

Absolute Baking Powder.

100 p r   cent. Pure.

Manufactured and sold only by

ED.  TELFER,  Grand Rapids.

BULKLEY. LEMON  & HOOPS

JOBBERS  OF

SEED  AND  HAVANA  10-CENT  CIGARS.
L.  C.  B....................Rega Espicial..........$58 I Mackinaw  ..............Londras Grande..
El Captain General. Cone.  Esp................. 60 ! Twisters....................  
El  Primero.............Cone. Fina.................. 50 I Chacer........................ 
..............Panatelas................... 05 j The Fox...................... 
“ 
“ 
............. Rega Princessa........ 68 1

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

Londras Grande 
Flora  Cordova. 
Reñía Victoria.
Conchitas........
(B.  L.  &  II.).. 
Ciggaro..
Bag  Dad. 
Bendaro.. 
Conchitas,

x tra

W hen...........
Cassia.................
Spanish Tnck... 
First  Degree..
Panataila...........
Town  Talk.......
Young America.
Great  Scot.........
Our  Block.........
Now.................
Boodle...............
New  Fashion.. 
La Attractive..

Snugglers.................Sublime................... $75  Ix>s  Casteilos.......... Londras Grande.
Estrelle de Ora....... Sublime............
Con. Especail..
La Modesta.............Operas  Renia..
Los Casteilos...........Opera Reina...
Coronet  Boquet... .Londres  Chica.
............Con.  Selectos..
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IMPORTED  CIGARS.

Golden  Eagle.........Lilliputanos
Belinda  ................. Operas.........

.$  75 
.  80

Matilda....................Royales..................100
Flora de,  T.  &  F .. .Rothschilds...........   125

Old  Judge...............500 in a  box.
Satin Straight C ut..  “ 

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CIGARETTES.

Sweet  Caporal.

.$4  25 
.  7  00

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

tances.
lowed on bills paid within 30 day/s from date.  ,

O u r   L e a d e r   C i g a r s ,  

O u r   L e a d e r   S k c r t s ,  

16c per pound.

$30 per M.
Tlx©  Best  lix  tlx©  W orld.

Clark, Jewell & Co.,

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

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

O’Brien & Murray’s “Hand Made Cigar.”

PURE.  I  NEW  PROCESS  STARCH.

SWEET.
This Starch having the  light  Starch  and  Gluten 
One-Tliird.  Less

removed,

| Can be used th an  any other in th e M arket.

Manufactured by the

FIRMENICH  MNFG. CO.

Factories:  Marshalltown,  Iowa;  Peoria,  Ills.

Offices at Peoria,  Ills.

STRONG. I  Clark,  Jewell  &   Co. 

FOR  SALE  BY

1“ SURE.

FULLER  &  STOWE  COMPANY,

Designers

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

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.

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POWDER

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POWDER
Arctic Manufacturing Co., Grand Rapids.

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

S O L S   F H O F H Z S T O S . S .

MOSELEY

4  25

WHOLESALE

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.

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FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Cod, whole.. i........................................
Cod, boneless....................................... .
H alibut.................................................
Herring, round,  %  bbl.......................
Herring .round,  %  bbl.......................
Herring, Holland,  bbls.......................
Herring, Holland,  kegs.....................
Herring, Scaled....................................
Mackerel, shore. No.  1, % bbls..........
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No. 3, %bbl8.......................
Sardines,  spiced, %s............................
Trout, %  bbls.................................
10 lb  kits....................................
White, No. 1, % bbls__ >.....................
White, No. 1,12  lb kits.........................
White, No. 1,10 lb kits........................
White,Family, % bbls.....................
kits..............................
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Lemon.
Jennings’ D. C.,2 oz...............f} doz.  1
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4 oz...........................1
“  6oz...........................2
“  8oz...........................3
**  No. 2 Taper.............1
“  No. 4 
** 
..............1
**  % pint, round......... 4
“  1 
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9
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No. 3 panel............... 1
“  No. 8 
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................ 2
............... .4
“  No. 10  “ 
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square.............
Grand Ha ven. No 9, square, 3 gro. 
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor....!.
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, parlor__ !  "
Grand Haven,  No.  7,  round..........
Oshkosh, No. 2............................. "
Oshkosh, No.  8.........................!! !! ”
Swedish...............................!!!!!!!!!!
Richardson’s No. 8  square! !!!!!!!!’
do  __ !.........
Richardson’s No. 9 
Richardson’s No. 7%, round! ! ! ! ! !
Richardson’s No. 7 
do 
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Woodbine. 300..................... ....!!!!!!!
Black  Strap..................................
Cuba Baking.................!.!.!!..............
Porto  Rico........................ !!!!!!!!!
New  Orleans, good............!.!.!!..!.
New Orleans, choice..............!!!!!!!!!
New Orleans,  fancy...................!!!!!".
ROLLED
Barrels...................5 75 Barrels..........
Halt barrels.......... 3 00 Half barrels.
Cases............ Jl 25@3 25: Cases............
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Medium....................
Small,  bbl................  

“  % bbl.................. «...!!!.........
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“  % bbi.............. !...!.!!!!!!!!*■;

% bbls. 2c extra 

m o l a s s e s.

OATMEAL 

MATCHES.

PICKLES.

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PIPES.

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Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross
Imported Clay. No. 216,2% gross’"
American T. D ........... . 
RICE.
Choice Carolina......7 
ijava
Prime Carolina......6  Patna
Good Carolina....... 5% Rangoon ....
Good Louisiana......5% Broken.
Table  .......................5% ¡Japan
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SALERATUS.
DeLand’s pure....... 5% | Dwight’s
Church s  ...............5 
Taylor s G. M......... 5  ¡Cap Sheaf...

iSea  Foam
%c less in 5 box lots.

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8%@ 9% 
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1  75 
11  00 
65075 
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20  00 
3 CO
2 50
6 50 
10©  12 
5 50
85
7  50 
1  10 
1  00
3 75 
75

Vanilla. 
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4  25
1 
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5 
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1 75
3 00
9 00
1 85
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7 00
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..1 00 
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..1 00 
..1 50 
..1 00 
..1 50 
..1 15
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28034
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PLUG.

.25
.35

&Q.............

. .39 Moxie.

Eye  Opener............25;Blue  Blazes
Pauper  ..................... 31 Capper.......
Peach  Pie..................3i'Jupiter  ....
Star 
................. .37 Night Cap..
Old Solder.................37  Splendid ....
.  38 
Clipper  ..................... 34|RedFox___
..40 
Cornerstone.............34;Big  Drive............
..46 
Scalping  Knife........34;Chocolate  Cream
..40 
Sam Boss..................  34 Nimrod............
..35 
Next  .  .......................29 Big Five Center
..33 
Jolly  Time................32 Parrot  .............
..42 
Favorite.................. 42  Buster............
..35 
Black  Bird...............32  Black Prince..
. .35 
Live and Let  Live  ..32 Black  Racer..
. .35 
Quaker.......................28 Climax  ...........
..42 
Big  Nig.....................37 j Acorn  ............
..39 
Spear  Head.............. 37¡Horse  Shoe...
..37 
P.  V........................... 36|Vineo..............
..34 
Spring Chicken.......36 Merry War___
..26 
Eclipse  ......................30 Ben  Franklin
..32 
Turkey..........
..34 
Q. 
....24 Black Jack 
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..32
Lark.............
.. ..22 Musselman’sCorker.30
SMOKING
Yum  Yum................ 30!Pure............
.......15
Our  Leader........... :. 15!Star..............
.......20
Old Vet.......................30 Unit  ............
.......30
Big Deal..................... 27; Eight  Hours
.......24
Navy Clippings........ 26 Lucky
.......80
Leader.......................ISjTwo  Nickel
24
Hard  Tack.................30 Duke’s  Durham!!!  40
D ixie.......................... 26 Green Corn Cob Pipe 26-
Old Tar..................... .49|Owl!......... 
.16
Arthur’s  Choice......22 Rob Hoy........
.24
Red Fox.................... 26  Uncle  Sam..
.27
Gold Dust................. 26  Lumberman
Gold Block............... 30  Railroad Boy.............
Seal of GrandRapids  Mountain Rose.!!..! !is
....... 25
Miners and Puddlers.28 Old Rip................      60
Peerless  ....................24 Seal or North Caro-
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Standard...................20 
Jna,2  oz... 
Old Tom.................... 18  Seal of North  Caro-’
Tom & Jerry............ 24 
lina,4oz.... 
43
ipker...........
Seal of North  Caro­
Traveler................... 35
lina, 8 oz...............  45
Maiden...................... 25
Seal of North  Caro-’ 
Pickwick Club......... 40
lina, 16 oz boxes...  42 
Nigger Head.............26
King Bee, longcut.. .22
Holland.....................22
Sweet Lotus..............33
German.....................15
GrayUng.
.32
Honey  Dew..............25) Seal Skin.......
.30
Colonel’s  Choice.......15 Red Clover.......
.32
Queen  Bee................22  Good  Luck.
.26
Blue  Wing................301 Navy__
.30
SNUFF.
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen
“  Maccoboy.........
Gail & Ax’ 
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Rappee..............
Railroad  Mills  Scotch.......
Lotzbeck  ............................
TEAS.
Japan ordinary 
Japan fair to goo<
Japan fine..........
Japan dust........
Young Hyson...
GunPowuer.......
Oolong...............
Congo.................

(cloth)................. 25;  Home Comfort 

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50 gr. 
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30 gr. 
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VINEGAR

BOGUS  BUTTER.

The National Law Supplemented by State 

Legislation.

The  following  act  passed  the .Senate 
about two  weeks  ago  and  was  passed  by 
the House last Friday.  As Governor Luce’s 
sentiments on the subject are well known,  it 
goes without saying  that  the  bill  will  re­
ceive the  signature  of  the  Executive  and 
become a law:

S e c .  1.  The People of the State of Mich­
igan enact, That any person who knowingly 
sells, or offers for  sale  as butter,  any  oleo­
margarine,  butterine,  or  other  article  or 
substance  resembling  butter, and not made 
exclusively  from  milk  or  cream,  and  of 
which the oil or fat of animals not produced 
from  milk  is a  component  part,  shall  be 
deemed  guilty of  a  misdemeanor,  and  on 
eonviction thereof shall be fined for each such 
offense, not less than  one  hundred  dollars 
nor more  than five  hundred  dollars,  and by 
imprisonment in  the  county  jail  or  State 
house  of  correction  and  reformatory  at 
Ionia, not less  than six  months and not ex­
ceeding three  years, or  by  both  such  fine 
and imprisonment in the  discretion  of  the 
court
Sec.  2.  The proprietor  or  keeper of any 
hotel,  restaurant  eating  saloon,  boarding 
house,  or  other  place  where  food  is  fur­
nished to persons  paying for the same, who 
shall  knowingly  place  upon  the  table, or 
use or permit to be used in the preparing of 
any food  to be used in  such  place, or to be 
sold to any person,  any oleomargarine, but­
terine, or other  such  substance  resembling 
butter, described in section one  of  this  act, 
shall be deemed as selling and as offering for 
sale as butter, of such substance resembling 
butter, within the  meaning  and intent  and 
contrary to the  provisions  of  this  act, and 
liable and subject to the penalties prescribed 
for such offense.
Sec. 8.  The presence of such oleomargar- 
ne, butterine, or other substance resembling 
butler,  in any such  place  before  mentioned 
where food is sold or  furnished  to  persons 
paying for the  same, shall  be  evidence  in 
any court before which any person violating 
the provisions of this act may be brought for 
examination or trial, that  such  person  has 
sold and offered for sale as butter, such sub­
stance resembling  butter:  Provided never­
theless, that if the  proprietor  or  keeper of 
such  store,  hotel, eating  saloon,  boarding 
house or other place hereinbefore mentioned, 
shall have placed on  the  outside  door, and 
conspicuously hung in the center, and placed 
on the walls  of  any  store, or  room  where 
food is sold  or  furnished,  a  white  placard 
on which is printed  in  black  ink,- in  plain 
roman letters of not less  than  three  inches 
in length, and not less  than  two  inches in 
width the words,  *'‘Oleomargarine or butter­
ine sold  or  used  here,”  and  shall,  at  all 
times, keep the same exposed in  such  con­
spicuous places as to be readily seen by any 
and all jtersons  entering such store or room 
or rooms, he shall  be  deemed  to  have com­
plied with the  provisions  of  this  act,  and 
not to have sold or offered for sale such ole- 
margarine, or butterine or  other  substance 
resembling  butter,  contrary  to  the  intent 
and letter of this act

The Status of the Dead-Beat.
F . E. Jones in W hite Lake Business Exchange.

The third class never pays. 

Apparently customers of retail dealers do 
not understand-the necessity of paying their 
bills promptly.  Some are forgetful,  others 
are indifferent and still others are  dyed-in- 
the-wool dead-beats.  The first two of these, 
if they really understand the  importance of 
paying, would do  it  cheerfully  when  due. 
These classes are honest enough and  when 
made to understand that it  is  really  neces­
sary for the merchant to have his  pay  will 
stir themselves to get it
I,  however, 
am confident that there is only a  small  per 
cent  of  delinquents  who  can  be  really 
classed  as  dead, beats.  The  White  Lake 
Business Men’s  Association  does  not  pro­
nounce  a  man  a  dead-beat  until  he  has 
shown himself to  be  one—body,  soul  and 
breeches; and when  one  is  ferrited  out  I 
think you will say no merchant should trust 
him.  No merchant should  delude  himself 
with the  phantom  hope  that  “perhaps  he 
I  assert  that  a  man  who 
may pay me.” 
will beat your neighbor will  beat  you,  and 
you will find after trial that I am  right. 
If 
he pays you one bill it  is  only  because  he 
considers  you  greener  pasture  than  your 
neighbor,  whom he only beat  the  first bill. 
I say that if a dead-beat pays at all it  is be­
cause he expects to get there in better shape 
in the future; he will  get  your  confidence, 
and then your goods, and finally will  laugh 
because you did not have  sense  enough  to 
know that he was a  scoundrel.
The merchant who trusts  such  criminals 
not only does himself an injury  but4 at  the 
same time is damaging others,  as  he  is  en­
couraging this class  of  people  to  continue 
their robbery.  There is  nothing  that  suc­
ceeds like success, and if  you  trust  a  pro­
fessional dead-beat,  his  success  stimulates 
him to other confidence games.
The object of this organization is to force 
this class of people to work or starve.  It is 
the duty  of  every  honest buyer to help  us 
carry  into  effect 
idea,  since  it  is 
tiie 
reality 
suffers,  as  the  merchant 
to 
add to the selling price of  his goods  in  or­
der to cover his loss.  Hence,  do  not con­
demn the merchant,  but join hands  to  help 
him drive from your midst this blood-sucker 
of your hard-earned wages.

buyer  who 

is  obliged 

honest 

this 

in 

No Necessity for the Law.

W o n  the Independent Grocer.

The questionable,  to say nothing  of  the 
ridiculous, position which some of the  pure 
food headlights have placed  themselves  in, 
has done more to dampen the ardor of west­
ern retail grocers than all the force  of  pre­
vious arguments has done to enlist  their co­
operation.  The  Orocer  has  taken  the 
trouble to ascertain the  feeling  among  the 
retail grocers of Chicago,  and the  universal 
belief seems to be that there is no  necessity 
for any stringent laws to  be  enacted  that 
wtil regulate  the  sale  of  food  products. 
The belief entertained seems to be  that  the 
passage of such laws will only  work  disas­
trously  upon  every  retail  grocer  in  the 
eountry and that  blackmailers  will  get  in 
their work and make  the  transacting  of  a 
legitimate business thoroughly  uncomforta­
ble for all those engaged m it.
We must acknowledge  that the recent ac­
tion of the so-called pure food  advocates  in 
New York  has dampened our desire to lend 
any aid to the cause while some of the  pre­
sent appointees are in  charge.  They  have 
demonstrated the fact that they are incapable 
of handling the affair honestly and that their 
own personal mercenary  ends are their sole 
desire in the matter.

The  lumber  output  from  the  Saginaw 
river  has  decreased  steadily  for  the  past 
three years, while the shipments of shingles 
and lath have increased heavily.

The  Grocery  Market.

Hard sugars are a trifle  weaker  and  soft* 
sugars  are  correspondingly  firmer.  Rice 
continues to advance and coffee has climbed 
about a cent higher than  a  week ago,  pack­
age coffee having been advanced 1 j^c.  Pep­
per is up lc and nutmegs about 3c.  Canned 
apples,  com and tomatoes continue  to grow 
firmer,  as  the  supply  in  sight  decreases. 
Other articles in the grocery  line  are  with­
out material change.

Oranges are plenty and prices are a shade 
lower.  Lemons are in good supply and the 
market remains about steady.  Bananas are 
fine in quality and the  supply for  the past 
week has been fully equal to the demand.

New potatoes are not coming in  so freely 
as  was  anticipated  and  reports  from  the 
South are to the effect that the acreage  this 
year is nowhere near a fair  average,  owing 
to the fact  that  the  low  prices  prevailing 
the past three seasons  have  left  no  margin 
for  the  grower.  This  fact,  coupled  with 
the  present  scarcity  of  old  stock,  gives 
ground  for  the  statement  that  Michigan 
people  will  see  no  cheap  potatoes  until 
the early crop is marketed.

B. M. A. Banquet at Bellaire.

A  banquet  was  given  by  the  Bellaiare 
Business  Men’s  Association  at  that  place 
last Saturday evening in  celebration  of  the 
completion  of the D.,  C. & E. Railway sur­
vey to that place.  The  banquet  was  held 
at the  Inter-Lake  House and was  attended 
by the business men of that place and invit­
ed  guests  from  the  surrounding  towns. 
Hon. Roswell  Leavitt  made  the address of 
welcome, which was  responded  to by H. S. 
Beardslee.  After  the  edibles  had been de­
molished,  the following  toasts  were offered 
and responeed t o ,   Geo.  W.  Albrecht officiat­
ing as toastmaster:

Central Lake.
Drake,  Kalkaska.
laire.
—A. D.  Cruikshank, Charlevoix.
riman, Bellaire.
Owen,  Bellaire.

The  Accepted  Time—F.  H.  Thurston, 
Business  Men’s  Associations—Alf.  G. 
Village  Improvement—C. S. Guile,  Bel­
Detroit,  Charlevoix &  Escanaba  Railway 
From Whence Came You?-Ajohn A. Har- 
What  Came  You  Here  to  Do?—S.  B. 
Sand—Geo.  L.  Thurston,  Central  Lake.
The Press—J. N. Tinklepaugh, Kalkaska.
The Off Ox—C. E.  Densmore, Bellaire.
Bellaire and Its Additions—W. S. Mesick, 
Rising  Generation  of  Our  Place—Prof. 
Sinews of War—A.A.Bleazby, Kalkaska.
Mossbacks—W. W. Johnson,  Snowflake.

Mancelona.
J.  B. Allen,  Charlevoix.

Linseed  Oil  Advancing.

From the Oil, P aint and Drug Reporter.

As will be seen by reference  to our  regu­
lar market report,  linseed oil  continues  to 
advance, but is not yet at a  point  satisfac­
tory to either home or western crushers, and 
indications are rather  strong  for a still fur­
ther strengthening  of values,  as the wants 
of consumers  increase and the seed  market 
becomes a more  important  element  in the 
situation.  Crushers  claim that the present 
season has been  unprofitable  and that con­
sumers were the only parties benefited.  Tha 
low prices were, of course, to be attributed to 
the course of the seed  market,  but it is ar­
gued that oil has ruled relatively lower than 
seed,  which is probably  accounted for from 
the fact that  considerable  oil was  carried 
over from the  previous  season by  western 
crushers,  and this surplus continued to have 
a depressing  effect upon  the market.  The 
natural reaction,  however,  set in about one 
month ago, owing to the cessation of  offers 
by crushers in the West  who  concluded to 
hold their product  rather  than  sacrifice it. 
This feeling spread  rapidly and,  although 
there  is no  concert of  action  in the  West, 
crushers seemed to have  come to a  mutual 
understanding  by  common  consent.  Pro­
duction has been curtailed by  several  mills 
closing,  and  there is  an  opinion  that the 
supply of oil is not  much in  excess of  the 
regular demand.  The most  noticeable fea­
ture of the  market  for  some  months has 
been the  absence of  sharp  competition or 
the  cut-throat  policy  which  marked  the 
course of events  previously.  There is a de­
sire to hold for  higher  prices,  and  future 
business is not encouraged.
The latest development in the West is re­
ported to be a crusade  against  middlemen, 
and crushers are said to quote  better prices 
for five barrels  than for  orders of  fifty or 
more barrels.  They will find out their mis­
take,  if this policy  is  pursued,  as  the time 
has not  arrived, if it ever  does, for  doing 
business direct  between  manufacturer and 
consumer.  The jobber is a  necessity to all 
branches of trade,  and any attempt to crush 
him will meet with  dismal  failure,  as  the 
public mind is not  ready to  accept  such a 
radical  change without a better  substitute, 
and this is not offered in the  present  deal­
ings between manufacturers and consumers. 
It should be stated,  however,  that the feel­
ing against middlemen in the West, or else­
where for  that  matter, is  confined  within 
very narrow  limits,  and that the  proposed 
change has only been on trial without being 
adopted anywhere.

Frauds in Raisins..

From the New York Commercial  Bulletin.

We referred some time  since  to  the  un- 
mercantile practice of  mixing  Malaga  rai­
sins. 
In exposing  the  “crooked  goods”  a 
halt was brought about for a  time,  but  the 
method has again  been  introduced by some 
in the trade, and the system is  now  carried 
so far  that  even  “fresh  arrivals”  of two- 
crown loose are  opened,  part  of  the  con­
tents taken out and old,  loose and  seedless 
substituted.  The packers in  Malaga  suffer 
by this deception, as buyers .when  ordering 
what are  known  as  reliable  brands,  open 
their goods,  poor  quality  shows  up,  and 
naturally they suppose the packers in Spain 
are to blame,  when,  on  the contrary,  the 
manipulation is done in this market

Retail Grocers’ Association.

The regular semi-monthly meeting of  the 
Retail Grocers’  Association, which  will  be 
held this  evening, promises to be unusually 
interesting.  Emil  Fecht,  the  well-known 
caricaturist,  will  show  what  can  be  done 
with the  crayon,  when  handled  with  the 
trained  hand  of  the  skillful  artist,  and 
Alfred J. Brown will speak on “The Advan­
tages  of  a  Commission  House  Market.” 
Other interesting features are also promised 
by the Committee on Entertainment

FIREWORKS

I have been  designated  by 
the  Standard  Fireworks  Co., 
of New  York, as  Sole  Agent 
for this territory,  and carry a 
nice line of these goods.  Send 
for  catalogue  and  price  list 
before buying.
Alfred J. Brown,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

W H I P S

ADDRE8S

GRAHAM  ROYS,  -  Grand  Rapids, Mich.

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

Manufactured by

q9  Bristol  Street. 

- 

BOSTON, MASS.

AGENTS—A. FJeBch,  118  Randolph  St.,  Chicago, III. 
W illiam   M. M organ, 815  Duane St., N.  Em il  W ienert, 
Albany,  N. Y.  G ardiner Bros., St. A ugustine, Fla.

TIME  TABLES.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

K a la m a z o o   D iv isio n .

Arrive.

Leave. 
N. Y. Mail.  N. Y. Ex
Ex. & Mall.  N. Y. Mail. 
6:15 p m
1:35 p m  
7:15 a  m. .G rand Rapids.  9:15 a m  
5:00 a m 
5:55pm   9:02 a m .. A llegan...........8:28am
1:00 p m 
7:05pm   10:06 a  m ..K alam azoo...  7:30 a  m 
2:20 p m 
8:30pm   11:35a m ..W h ite Pigeon.  5:55a m
9:1ft a in 
2:30 a m  
5:05 p m. .T oledo............ 11:00 p m
5:35 a HI
8:30am   9:10 p m. .Cleveland....... 6:10pm
ll>10pm
3:30 a m .. Buffalo........... 11:55am 
2:50pm  
5:10 a m  
6:50 p m. .Chicago..........11:30 p m  
6:50 a m
A local freight leaves Grand Rapids a t 12:50 pm .carry­
ing passengers as l'ar as  Allegan.  All  train s  daily  ex­
cept Sunday. 

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

GOING  BAST.

Arrives. 
tStcam boat  Express........................  6:25pm  
(Through  Mail.................................. 10:10 a m  
tEvening Express.............................   3:25 p m  
•Lim ited  Express.............................   6:00 a m 
tMixed, w ith  coach.......................... 
GOING  WEST.
tM om ing  Express...........................   1:05 p m  
tT hrough  Mall..................................   5:00 p m  
(Steam boat Express........................10:10 p m 
tMixed.................................................. 
•N ight Express..................................   5:25 a m  

Leaves.
6:30p m
10:50 a m
3:50pm
6:50 a m
11:00 a  m
1:10 p m
5:10 p m
10:15 p m
7:15 a m
5:10 a m

tD aily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily.
Passengers taking the 6:50  a m   Express  m ake  close 
connection a t Owosso for Lansing,  and  a t  D etroit  for 
New  York,  arriving  there  a t  10:80  a  m th e following 
morning.  The N ight Express has a through W agner car 
and local sleeping car from  D etroit to G rand  Rapids.
J am. Campbell, City Passenger Agent. 

Geo. B. Reeve, Traffic Manager.Chicago.

Chicago & W est Michigan.

tM ail...........................................
(Day  Express...........................
•N ight Express..........................
Muskegon Express.................

Ai rives. 
3:16 P  m 
9:15 p m 
5:15 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 12:30 p. m., and through coach 
on 9:10 a. m. and 11 p. m. trains.

Leaves.
...  9:10 a m 
...12:30 p m 
...11:00 pm 
5:00 p m

tD aily except Sunday.

N e w a y g o   D iv is io n .

Leaves.
E x p ress.............................................. 1:05 p m
Express................................................  8:25 a m

Arrives. 
1.20 p m 
10:20 a m
All trains arrive and d epart from  Union Depot.
The N orthern term inus of this division is a t Baldwin, 
w here 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. Mulliken,  General  M anager.

Detroit, Mackinaw & Marquette.

Going West. 

7:00am   8:00 a m. .St. Ignace....... 8:40pm  
12:20pm  11:05 a m. .S eney................5:15pm
2:30pm l  MaPn„„tte 
5:30 p in 
1 2 :0 5 p m  
4:00pm $ “ arq u en e ..  }  1:65 p m
4:35 p in..N egaunee....... 1:25 p m
4:45 p m. .Ishpem lng__ 12:55 p m
8 :0 0 p m ..H o u g h to n ...  9:25am
8:20pm ..H ancock  .......9:<
Mixed train  leaves St. Ignace  a t  7 a  : 

guette 6:30 p m.
Gen. Pass, and Ticket  Agent, M arquette.

Going East.

5:55pm
12:35 p m 
7:00 a in

i ;  arrives  Mar- 
E. W. Allen,

Detroit, Lansing  &  Northern. 
G r a n d  R a p i d s  &  S a g in a w  D iv is io n .

* 

DKPABT.

Saginaw Express.....................................................   7  3 0 a m
Saginaw Express.....................................................  4  10 p  m
Grand Rapids  Express.......................................... 11  25 a m
G rand Rapids  Express...........................................10  30 p m

All train s arrive a t and dep art from  Union depot. 
Trains run solid both  ways.

AKKIVE.

Michigan Central.

Grand Rapids Division.

DEPART.

ARRIVE.

D etroit Express.......................................... 
6:15 a m
Day  Express........................................................................1:10 p m
•A tlantic Express..................................................... 10:10 p m
Mixed 
..........................................................................6:50 a m
•Pacific  Express................................................................ 6:00 a m
M ail................................. ....................................... , 3 :00 p m
Grand  Rapids  Express................................................... 10:15 p m
Mixed .......................................................................5:15p m
•Daily.  All other dally except Sunday.  Sleeping cars 
ru n  on A tlantic and Pacific Express train s to  and from  
Detroit.  P arlor  cars ru n  on  Day  Express  and Grand 
Rapids Express to  and  from   D etroit.  D irect  connec­
tions made a t D etroit w ith all through train s E ast over 
M, C. K. R., (Canada Southern Div.)

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

The Spanish  tobacco  monopoly  will  be 
taken up by a syndicate of foreign  and  na­
tive bankers,  assisted by the  Bank of Spain 
to form a company with a capital of several 
millions sterling,  to which  under  the  law 
voted by the cortes,  a  lease  of  ten  years 
will be adjudicated on  June  6.  The  con­
tract will  begin to run from July 1.

Thirty log trains run daily  on the Macki­
naw division of the  Michigan  Central road.

COUNTRY  PRODUCK.

Asparagus—25@30c 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  fair demand  at 22c. 

Dairy is in better demand at 14®15c.
Cabbages—New, $2@$3 per crate.
Cheese—Handlers pay  c and hold at  o.
Cucumbers—50 $  doz.
Dried Apples—Evaporated, 16c ¥  lb; quarter­

ed and sliced, 6@7c $  B>.

Dried Peaches—Pared. 15c.
Eggs-Jobbers are paying 10%@llo and selling 

for 11%®12%C.

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

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

is  moderately  active  at  $14 
in 

Lettuce—12c ft lb.
Maple Sugar—10c $  lb.
Onions—New,  $1 

ft  bu.  Bermudas,  $2 

per crate.  Bunch, 15c $  doz.

Parsley—25c $   doz
Peas—$1 ^  bu.
Potatoes—Handlers  are  paying  75c  for  all 
good varieties and holding  at 90c.  New readi­
ly command $1.75 per bu.

Pop Corn—2%c ® lb.
Pieplant—2c $  lb.
Plants—Cabbage  or  Tomato, 75c per box of
200.
Radishes—15@20c $  doz.
Spinach—5Ccft bu.
Strawberries—The late rains have  increased 
the Michigan crop at least one-fourth  and the 
market  is  flooded  with  home-grown  truit, 
large in size and fine in flavor, which  are sell­
ing at 7@9c per quart, but will go considerably 
lower before the end of the week.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

String Beans—$1.50 $1 bu.
Tomatoes—$3. $  bu.
Wheat—Steady.  City  millers  pay  87  cents 
for Lancaster and 84  for  Fulse  and  Clawson.
Corn—Jobbing  generally  at  45c  in  100  bu. 
lots aud 40c in carlots.
Oats—White, 36c in small lots  and 30@31c  in 
car lots.
Rye—48@50c ft bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 $  cwt.
Flour—No change. Patent,$5.l'0ft 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 
ft ton.  Ships, $15 $  ton.  Middlings, $16 $  ton. 
Corn and Oats, $17  ¥  ton.

PROVISIONS.

 

 

11

“ 
“ 

8%
8%

lb s........  

** 
“ 
do. 
do. 

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

The Grand Rapids Packing &  Provision  Co. 

• 
Hams,average20 

quote  as follows:
Mess, new.......................................................16  50
Short Cut, clear.............................................16  50
Extra clear pig, short cut........................... 17  00
Extra clear, neavy........................................ 17  00
Clear quill, short  cut................................... 17  00
Boston clear, shortcut__ i..........................17  00
Clear back, short cut....................................17 00
Standard clear, short  cut, best..................17 00
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN  BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy.................................
medium..............................
lig h t..................................
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
medium.............................. 
light.!...-................................. 
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  PLAIN.
16 lbs...................................... 11%
** 
“ 
12 to 14 lbs.............................. 11%
“  picnic  ...................................................  8
“  best boneless........................................ 10%
Shoulders.........................................................   7%
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.............................10
Dried Beef, extra............................................10%
ham  prices.................................13
7
1 %
7%
7?»

Tierces  ..................................................... 
30 and 50 lb Tubs...................................... 
3 lb Pails, 20 in a oase.............................. 
5 lb Pails, 12 in a case..............................  
10 lb Pails. 6 in a case................................... 
20 lb Pails, 4 paijp in case............................  
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 lbs...........   8 (X)
Boneless,  extra..............................................12 00
Pork Sausage__ v..»i...................  
7%
Ham Sausage..............................'......... .....11
Tongue  Sausage.............................................  
9
Frankfort  Sausage.........................................  8
Blood  Sausage.................................................   6
Bologna, straight.............................................  6
Bologna,  thick................................................... 6
Head  Cheese....................................................   6
In half barrels...............................................   3 00
In quarter barrels.........................................  1 65

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.
 

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

BEEF IN BARRELS.

PIGS’  FEET.

LARD.

“ 

OILS.

ILLUMINATING.

 

LUBRICATING.

WaterWhite....................................................  11*6
Michigan  Test..................................................10%
Et haline..........:................................................ 13%
Ruby....................... 
12%
Gasoline............................................................. 11%
Capitol Cylinder.............................................. 36%
Model  Cylinder...............................................31%
Shield  Cylinder...............................................26%
Eldorado  Engine............................................23
Peerless  Machinery.......................................20
Challenge Machinery..................................... 19
Paraffine  ........................................ 
Black. Summer, West  Virginia......................9
Black, 25° to SfF5............................................10
Black, 15° C.  T ............................................. 11
Zero....................................................................12%

HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

HIDES.

Green.... K lb 5%@  6  Calf skins, green
Part cured...  7  © 7%  or cured__ 7
Full cured....  7%@  8% Deacon skins,
Dry hides and 
A piece.......10

kip s............  8  ©12

©  8 
©30

SHEEP PELTS.

Old wool, estimated washed ft lb........25
©26 
Tallow.....................................................3
© 3%
Fine washed $  lb 22@251 Coarse washed.. .26©28 
Medium  ............. 27@30| Unwashed............16©22

WOOL.

OYSTERS.

FRESH  FISH .

OYSTERS AND  FISH.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
Fairbaven Counts.......  .....................................40
Black bass...............A........................................  9
Rock  bass.............................................................  4
Perch.....................................................................  4
Wall-eyed  pike...................................................  7
Duck-bill  pike....................................................   7
Sturgeon.................................................................6
Sturgeon,  smoked................................................8
Trout................ 
9
Trout, smoked..................................................... 10
Wbiteflsh........ .................... 
9
Whiteflsh, smoked.............................................. JO
Brook  Trout..................... 
50
Frogs’ Legs, per dozen............................... 25066

 

 

 

 

FIELD SEEDS.

Clover,  mammoth.................................  ©4  25
“  medium....................................   ©4 25
Timothy, prime......................................  @1 90

P E R K I N S   <&  H E S S
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

DEALERS IN

NOS.  12*  and  194 LOUIS STREET. GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN.

WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL  USE.

G roceries.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

These prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 
promptly and buy in full packages.

AXLE GREASE.

Crown  ....................  80IParagon.................2 10
Frazer’s................. 
90 Paragon 25 lb pails.  90
Diamond  X ...........   60 Fraziers,25 lb pails. 1 25
Modoc, 4  doz..........2 oOi

BAKING  POWDER.

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

“ 
“ 

“  % lb 
“ 
•• 

.......
•*  2  “ 
21b  “  1  “ 
........
Bulk..................................
Princess,  %s..................................
“  %s..................................
Is.................................
M 
** 
bulk...............................
Arctic, % lb cans, 6 doz. case.......

"  % 
“  % 
“ 
1 
** 
5 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

4
2
2 
1 

“ 
“ 

BLUING

.......
..  ..
Victorian. 1 lb cans, (tall.) 2 doz.
Diamond,  “bulk.” .........................
Dry, No. 2....................................... ..doz.
Dry, No. 3....................................... . .doz.
Liquid, 4 oz,..................................
. doz.
Liquid, 8 oz..................................... ..doz.
Arctic 4 oz...................................... -V  gross 3 50
Arctic 8  oz......................................
...  7  20
Arctic 16 oz....................................
12 00 
Arctic No. 1 pepper box.............
..  2 00 
Arctic No. 2 
.............
..  3 00 
Arctic No. 3 
.............
.  4 00

25
45
35
65

“ 
•* 

“ 
“ 
BROOMS.

No.2Hurl...............1  75j Common Whisk...,.  90
No. lH url__ 2 00@2 25 Fancy Whisk...........1 00
No. 2 Carpet...........2 25 Mill..............................3 75
No. 1 Carpet...........2 50 Warehouse  .............2  75
Parlor  Gera...........3 00)

CANNED FISH .

Clams, 1 lb, Little Neck...............................1  10
Clam Chowder.  3 lb.........................  . . . __ 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 CO
Lobsters, 2 lb star.........................................3 00
Mackerel, 1 lb  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 B> Columbia river.......................1  70
Salmon. 2 lb Columbia river...................... 3 00
Sardines, domestic %s................................ 6©7
Sardines,  domestic  %s........................ 
10@12
Sardines,  Mustard  %s................................9@11
Sardines,  imported  %s........... .................. 12© 13
Trout, 3 lb  brook........................................  4 00

CANNED FRUITS.

Apples, gallons, standards.............
.......3 75
Blackberries, standards.................. .
.......  80
Cherries,  red  standard.....................
.......1 20
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 ..............................................
.......1 15
Raspberries,  extra..........................
.......1 25
red.............................
.......1 a5
Strawberries  ....................................
.......1  20
Whortleberries................................
.......  80
CANNED VEGETABLES.
.......2 00
Asparagus, Oyster Bay....................
Beans, Lima,  standard.....................
Beans, Stringiess, Erie........ '.....................   90
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked......................1 70
Com,  Archer’s Trophy................................1 40

“ 

8%

7%
714

“ 

“ 

“  Morning  Glory...............
“  Acme..................................
“  Maple Leaf........................
“  Onondaga........................................... 135
“  Darby..................................................1 50
“  Osborn................................................ 1  39
“  New  Process...................................... 1  15
“  Bartlett  ..............................................1 10
Peas, French.................................................l 50
Peas, extra marrofat.....  ....................1 20@1 40
Peas,  soaked...............................
“  Early June, stand.......................1 50©1 75
sifted............................... 2 00
“ 
“  French, extra flue...............................20 00
........ 20 00

Mushrooms, extra  fin e...'............ 
Pumpkin, 3 lb Golden.........................  
1 
Succotash, standard.......................................80@1 30
Squash............................................................1 00
Tomatoes, standard brands........................1 20
Michigan full  cream..............................  10©11
York  State, Acme.................................  @11%
Wilbur’s  Premium..35!German Sweet............23
Sweet........25 Vienna Sweet  ...........22
B’kf’tCocoa 45 Baker’s ......................37
Cocoa-theta 42 Runkles’ __
.......35

“ 
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CHOCOLATE.

CHEESE.

 

COCOANUT.

“ 

Schepps, Is...........................................
Is and  %s............................
“ 
“  %s.........................................
“ 
Is in tin  pails.....................
“  %s 
......................
Maltby’s,  Is.........................................
“ 
Is and  %s..........................
% s../..................................
“ 
Manhattan,  pails...............................
Peerless  ..............................................
Bulk......................................................

©25
©26
@27
©27%
©28%
@23%
©24
©24%
@20
@18
@15
60 lbs 100 lbs 300 lbs

28
28%

COFFEES—PACKAGE,
Lion................................................ 
Lion,  in  cabinets....................... 
X X XX.......................................... 2*%  28%  28
Arbuckle’s  .................................. 28?»  28%  28
Dilworth’s .................................... 
Standard  ...................................... 
German......................................... 
German, in  bins..........................  
Magnolia.......................................  
Royal.............................................. 
Eagle..............................................28%  28%  28
M exican....................................... 18 
18

28%
28
28
28%
28
27%  26%
18 
COFFEES. Roasted.

Green.
R io.................. .
Golden Rio....
Santos.............
Marieabo........
J a v a ...............
O. G. Java........
Mocha  ............

20%

22@24
33025
23@25
23@24
23@25
24027
25©26

Rio....................26@27
Golden Rio.......27@28
Santos...............24©27
Marieabo..........26@27
Java..................26031
O. G. Java........27@33
Mocha...............3 ¡@32

60 foot Jute... 
72 foot Jute ... 
40Foot Cotton.

CORDAGE.
1 00  150 foot Cotton__ 1 60
1 25  60 foot Cotton__ 1  75
1  50  172 foot Cotton__ 2 00

4%

5%
7

7 
7 
7 
7

5
\5
5
5

7
8
8
ll%
15%

X  XXX  $tt>

CRACKERS  AND  SWEET  GOODS.
Kenosha Butter..................................... 
Seymour Butter....................... 
Butter......................................... 
Fancy  Butter............................ 
S.  Oyster....................................  
Picnic......................................... 
Fancy  Oyster............................ 
4%
Fancy  Soda.............................. 
5
City Soda................................................. 
Soda  ........................................... 
Milk............................................  
Boston.......................................  
Graham...................................... 
Oat  Meal........................................ 
Pretzels, hand-made................. 
Pretzels..................................................  
Crack nels..................................  
Lemon Cream............................ 
Sugar Cream.............................  
Frosted Cream...................................... 
Ginger  Snaps............................ 
No. 1 Ginger  Snaps..................  
Lemon  Snaps............................ 
Coffee Cakes.............................. 
Lemon Wafers..........................  
Jumbles...................................... 
Extra Honey Jumbles.............. 
Frosted Honey  Cakes.......... 
Cream Gems.............................. 
Bagievs  Gems..................... . 
Seed Cakes................................. 
S. & M. Cakes........................................  
DRIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN.
Citron......................................................19  ©  22
Currants...................................................5%@  6
Lemon Peel............................................   @  14
Orange P ee l..........................................  ©  14
PruneB, French, 60s...............................  @10
“ 
French, 80s...... 
@8
French,  90s..............................  ©  7
“ 
*•  Turkey.....................................   @ 5
Bohemia..................................  
5
“ 

8
’-8
8
12%
8%

Raisins, Dehesia....................................3 50@5  00
Raisins, London Layers................... 
@1  80
Raisins, California  ** 
.......................  @1 66
Raisins, Loose Muscatels.....................1 40© 1  50
Raisins, Ondaras, 28s............................8%@  8%
Raisins, Sultanas...................................  8  @ 8%
Raisins,  Valencia, new........................  @ 6%
Raisins, Imperials........ ........................  ©3 00

13%
11%
12%
13%
13%
13%
12%

• 

 

 

. 

“ 

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“ 

“ 

“ 

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, „ 

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SALT.

SOAPS.

“ 
t “ 

“  %  “ 

SPICES—WHOLE.

2 00@2 25 
l 90©2  15

80 
3 15 
75 
20 
21 
40 
20

11
15
25
42
32
31
10
15
18©22
70
20

„„  _  
60 Pocket, F F  Dairy
28 Pocket................ V.Y.Y.V."
100 3 lb  pockets...............!.!!!!.........
Saginaw or Manistee..!!!!!!!.!..!! 
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags 
Ashton. English, dairy, 4 bu. bags. 
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags
American, dairy, % bu. bags..........
Rock, bushels
Warsaw, Dairy, bu.  bags...!!!!!!!
................
_  
SAUCES.
Parisian, %  pints...............
@2  00
Pepper Sauce, red  small.......
0   70 
Pepper Sauce, green..................... ’.!
@  80 
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring.......
@1 25
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring.. .
01 50 
Catsup, Tomato,  pints.....................
©  90 
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ............
@1  20
Halford Sauce, pints
...... .............................  @3 50
Halford Sauce, % pints.........................  ©2 20
■Acorn......................3 85: Extra Chicago Fam-
Master....................4  00 
ily .........................2 94
New Process, 1  B>..3 851 Napkin...................4  75
New Process, 3  Ib..3 96jTowel......................4  75
Acme,  bars........... 3 55 White  Marseilles..5 50
Acme,  blocks.......  3 05| White Cotton  Oil..5 50
Best  American— 2 93¡Railroad ..
..3 50 
Circus  ....................3 70 U.  G...............
..3 45 
Big Five  Center...3 85 Mystic White.
..4 65 
Nickel...................... 3 451Saxon  Blue..
..2 60 
Shamrock................3 15 Star....................
.  3 75 
Blue Danube...........2 55: London  Family.
..2 30
Allspice..........................   ..................
6%
Cassia, China in mats........................
6%lu
“  Batavia in bundles...............
“  Saigon in rolls.......................
40
Cloves, Amboyna...............................
28
“  Zanzibar.................................
Mace Batavia.....................................
60
Nutmegs,  fancy.................................
70
No. 1...................................
65
No. 3...................................
60
Pepper, Singapore,  black................
17%
w hite...............
29
SPICE8—PURE  GROUND.
Allspice...............................................
Cassia,  Batavia..................................
“ 
and. Saigon...............
”  Saigon  ...................................
Cloves, Amboyna...............................
“  Zanzibar....................... 
...
Ginger, African..................................
**  Cochin....................................
Jamaica.................................
“ 
Mace Batavia......................................
Mustard,  English...............................
and Trieste..........
Trieste.................................
Nutmegs,  No. 2..................................
Pepper, Singapore black..................
white..................
Cayenne...............................
STARCH.
Muzzy, Gloss, 48 lb boxes, 1  lb  pkgs.
“  48 “ 
“  3 1b 
.
“  bulk.......
“ 
401b 
“  72 lb crates, 6 lb boxes
“  Corn, 40 lb boxes. 1 lb pkgs..
lib   “ 
..
“ 
“ 
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1 lb pkgs..
** 
6 lb boxes.
“  bulk  ......
Pure, 1 lb pkgs............
Corn, 1  lb pkgs...............
Royal, Gloss, 1 lb packages...............
bulk...............................
“ 
“  Corn.......................................
ss,gloss, lib__
31b....
6B>....
Ik, boxes or bbls 
rn. 1 lb...............

© 5% 
O 5% 
O 4 
O   6% 
O 6 
O  6%
O 7% 
O   6% @5% 
O  7 
@5% 
© 4 © 6 
@ 5% 
© 5% 
©  6% 
© 4 © 6 
@ 5% @ 6
Cut  Loaf............................
© 6% 
Cubes.................................
@ 6% 
Powdered..........................
© 6% 
Granulated,  Standard...
@6.19 
Confectionery A ...............
© 5% 
Standard A ........................
O 5% 
No. 1, White Extra  C.......
O 5% 
No. 2, Extra C....................
5%@ 5% 
No. 3 C................................
©  4% 
No.4C.................................
©  4% 
No. 5C.................................
© 4%
SYRUPS.
Corn,  barrels  .......................
25@27 
Corn, % bbls............................
27029 
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...............
@30 
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................
©32 
Pure  Sugar, bbl.....................
23@35 
Pure Sugar, % bbl..................
25©37
Uncle Tom............:..371Cinderella...................25
What Is It?............... 25  Hi There....................30
Cherry......................60  Red Cap....................55
Five and Seven......... 45 CrossCut...................35
Magnet......................25|01dJim...............  
36
Seal of Detroit...........60
Old Time....................30
Jim Dandy.................38
Underwood’s Capper 35
Our  Bird.................... 25
Sweet  Rose............... 45
Brother  Jonathan...27
Meigs & Co.’s Stunner35
Jolly Time.................36
Atlas...........................36
Our  Leader............... 33
Royal Game............... 38
Sweet  Rose............... 32
Mule Ear.................... 65
May  Queen............... 65
Fountain.................... 74
Dark AmericanEagle67
Old Congress..............64
The Meigs...................60
Good Luck.................62
Red  Bird.................... 50
Blaze Away............... 35
Prairie Flow er........ 66
Hair Lifter.................30
Indian Queen........... 60 Hiawatha................... 62
May Flower.............. ..70 G lobe.......................65
Sweet  Pippin...........45|Crown  Leaf................ 66
Hustler.....................22 Sunset..........................35
Ba$ Boy.....................351
Our  Leader..............16|Hiawatha....................22
Mayflower................23  Old Congress..............23
Globe........................22  May  Leaf...................22
Mule Ear................... 23|Dark........... ................20

Niagara,  gloss. 
corn.

TOBACCO—FINE C U T -IN  PA1L8.

Flrmenich, new proo

20fi> 
“ 
“ 

SHORTS.

6%
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

9%

8%

7%

8%

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

CANDY. FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

BOXES.

White Wine.....................
Cider...................................
York State Apple............!.
MISCELLANEi 
Bath Brick imported.. 
American..
do 
Burners,  No. 0.............
do  No. 1..............
do  No. 2..............

do 

Condensed Milk, Eagle brand 
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 fi> cans
Candles, Star.......................
Candles.  Hotel...............!."
Camphor, oz., 2 lb boxes.!!
Extract Coffee, V.  c ..........
F elix.......
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps 
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.
Gum, Spruce.......................
Hominy, $)  bbl..............!.!!
Jelly.in 30 lb  pails.........
Pearl Barley......................!
Peas, Green  Bush...
Peas, Split  Prepared ....".!
Powder, Keg.......................
Powder, %  Keg.......
s a g e ..........................!!!!!!!
Sago  ....................................
Tapioca................. !!!!!"’ ”
Cocoa  Shells, bulk.!..........

STICK.
„  
Standard, 25 lb boxes..........
do 
Twist, 
..........
! !
Cut Loaf  do 
MIXED
Royal, 251b  palls...............
Royal, 200 lb bbls................
Extra, 25 lb  pails................
Extra. 200 lb bbls.................
French Cream, 25 lb pails..
Cut loaf, 25 lb  cases...........
Broken, 25 lb pails.............
Broken. 2001b  bbls.............
FANCY—IN  5 lb
Lemon  Drops.......................
Sour Drops............................
Peppermint  Drops.............
Chocolate Drops..................
H M Chocolate  Drops........
Gum  D rops.........................
Licorice Drops.....................
A B  Licorice  Drops..
Lozenges, plain...................
Lozenges,  printed...............
Imperials.............................
Mottoes................................
Cream  Bar............................
Molasses Bar........................
Caramels...............................
Hand Made Creams.............
Plain  Creams.......................
Decorated  Creams...............
String Rook..........................
Burnt Almonds....................
Wintergreen  Berries..........
Lozenges, plain  in  pails___
Lozenges, plain in  bbls.......
Lozenges, printed in pails.. 
Lozenges, printed in  bbls.. 
Chocolate Drops, in pails...
Gum  Drops  in pails...........
Gum Drops, in bbls.............
Moss Drops, in  pails............
Moss Drops, in bbls  ............
Sour Drops, in  pails...........
Imperials, in  pails...............
Imperials  in bbls.................
FRUITS.
Bananas 
..............................
Oranges, California, fancy. 
Oranges, California,  choice
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls.......
Oranges, Florida..................
Oranges, Valencia, cases...
Oranges, Messina.................
Oranges, OO..........................
Oranges, Imperials.............
Lemons, choice...................
Lemons, fancy.....................
Lemons, California.............
Figs, layers, now, 
lb........
Figs, Bags, 501b....................
Dates, frails do  ..................
Dates, % do  d o ........   .......
Dates, skin............................
Dates, %  skin.......................
Dates, Fard 10 0> box $   lb.. 
Dates, Fard 50 lb box $  lb... 
Dates. Persian 50 lb box ft lb 
Pine Apples, ft doz.............
NUTS.
Almonds,  Tarragona..........
Ivaca.....................
California...........
Brazils..................................
Chestnuts, per bu................
Filberts, Sicily.....................
Barcelona.............
“ 
Walnuts,  Grenoble.............
Sicily.....................
“ 
French..................
“ 
“ 
California.............
Pecans, Texas, H. P............
“  Missouri...............
Cocoanuts, f! 100..................
PEANUTS
Prime Red, raw  fl  lb..........
Choice 
d o ..........
Fancy H.P. do 
d o ..........
Choice White, V a.do..........
Fancy H P,.  Va  d o ..........
H. P. Va.................................

do 

“ 
“ 

FANCY—IN  BULK.

90
75
@70
80
90
@7 70 
@25 
©It 
@12 
@35 
©80 
@1  20 
@25 
©35 
30@35 
@3 00 
5  ©  5% 
2%@ 3 
@1 15 
© 3 
@5 00 
@2 75 
@  15 
© 7 
O 7 
©  4

8%@ 9 
© 9 
©10
© » 
@ 8- 
@10 
@ 9 
@1 1% 
@10 
@10 
© 9
@ 12
@13
@13
14
1»
10
12
14
15
14
15 
1 2  
12: 18-
16 
1» 
2013
14

@11%.
@10%.
@12%
@11%
@ 12%
..  @ 6%
..  @ 5%
..  9  @10 
© 9 
@12 
@12% 
@ 11%
. .1 7503 50
.. 
04 00
-.  ©3 75

..........  
04 00
..........  ©
..........4  0004 25
..........3 5003 75
..........4 00@4 50
.10 @15 @ 8 
@ 5% 
O   6%.

..........9%@10
.......... 
@   8
........   7  @ 7%
........   2 00@3 OO
........ 17%@18
..........   @17
........   @17
..........  @ 9
@10 
@ 9 
.15  @17 
15 
11
.10  @14 
.8  ©  9 
.5 50©6 00-
.  @ 4
@ 4%
.  4%@  5 
@5% 
@ 6 
.  5%@ 6

FRESH MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 
prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides.................................... 5%@  7%
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters....................b%@  9
Dressed Hogs.........................................   ©  e%
Mutton.......................................................7%@  8
Lamb  spring...........................................  @12%
Veal.................. .......................................  7  @ 7%
Pork Sausage..........................................   @ g
Bologna...................................................  
©  6
Fowls...................................................... 12  @13
Ducks  .....................................................  @
Turkeys  ..............................................   .12  @13
Lard,  kettle-rendered.............................................7%@8

B ru g g  & flftebicines

State  Board of Pharmacy.

One Y ear—Jacob Jenson, Muskegon.
Two Years—Jam es  Vernor, Detroit.
Three Years—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor. 
F our Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
Five Y ears—Stanley E. P arkell, Owosso. 
President—O ttm ar Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jessou.
T reasurer—Jas. Vernor.
Next Meeting—At D etroit, July 5 and 6.

M ic h i g a n   S ta t e   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   A s s 'u .

President—F rank J. W urzburg, G rand Rapids.
F irst Vice-President—Mrs. C. W. Taylor. Loomis. 
Second Vice-President—Henry Harwood, Ishpemlng. 
Third Vice-President—F rank lnglis, D etroit. 
S ecretary—». E. P a r kill, Owosso.
Treasurer—Win. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive Com m ittee—Geo. W. Crouter, J. G. Johnson, 
Local S ecretary-G uy M. Harwood, Petoskey.
Next Place of M eeting—At  Petoskey, July 18,13 and 14.

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

G r a n d   R a p i d s   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty . 

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER  9,1884.

_ .  „ 

President—Geo. G. Stekettee.
Vice-Presidentr-H.  E. Locher.
Secretary—F rank H. Escott.
T reasurer—H e n r y   B . Fairchild. 
Board of  C ensors—President,  Vice-President  and  Sec-
Board'of T rustees-T he President,  John 
Peck,  M-  B. 
Kimm.W m. H. VanLeeuwen and O. H. Richmond, 
wen, Isaac W atts. Wm. E. W hite and W m.  L.  W hite. 
Com m ittee on Trade H atter«—John E. Peck, H. B. Fair-
Comm ittee  o ^ S l a t 'i o n - R .   A.  McWilliams,  Theo.
C om m itteeon P h arm lcy -W . L. W hite, A. C. B auer and
R egidar'M ertings—F irst  Thursday  evening  in  each
A nnuai^ieeting—F irst  Thursday eveningin November 
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  July  7,  a t  THE 

Tradesman office. 

__________ _

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER, 1883.

President—F rank  lnglis.
F irst Vice-President—F. W. R. Perry.
Second V ice-President-J. J.  Crowley.
Secretary and Treasurer—F. Rohnert.
A ssistant Secretary and  Treasurer—A. B. Lee. 
Annual Meeting—F irst W ednesday in June.
R egular Meetings—F irst W ednesday in  each  m onth.

C e n t r a l   M ic h i g a n   D r u g g i s t s ’  A s s o c ia tio n . 
President, J. W. Dunlop;  Secretary, R.  M. Musseli.
B e r r i e n   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty . 
President, H. M. Dean;  Secretary, H enry K ephart.

C l i n t o n   C o u n ty   D r u g g i s t s ’  A s s o c ia tio n . 
President, A. 0 . H unt;  Secretary, A. S.  Wallace^_____
C h a r l e v o ix  C o u n ty  P h a r m a c e u t i c a l  S o c ie ty  
President, H. W. W illard;  Secretary, Geo. W. Crouter.

I o n i a  C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l  S o c ie ty . 
President, W. R. C utler;  Secretary, Geo. Gundrum.

J a c k s o n   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   A s s ’n . 
President, R. F. Latim er;  Secretary, F.  A. King._____
M a s o n   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty . 

President, F. N. Latim er;  Secretary, Wm. H eysett.
M e c o s ta   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty , 
President, C. H. W agener;  Secretary, A. H. W ebber.

M o n r o e   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty . 
President, S. M. Sackett;  Secretary, Julius W eiss/
M u s k e g o n   C o u n ty   D r u g g i s t s ’  A s s o c ia tio n  
President, W. B. Wilson;  Secretary, Geo. W heeler.

M u s k e g o n   D r u g   C le r k s ’  A s s o c i a ti o n , 

»resident, E. C.  Bond;  Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre.
N e w a y g o   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty . 
President, J. F. A. Raider; Secretary, N. N. Miller.

O c e a n a  C o u n ty  P h a r m a c e u t i c a l  S o c ie ty . 

President, F. W. Fincher;  Secretary, Frank Cady.
S a g in a w   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty  
President, Jay  Sm ith;  Secretary,  D. E. Prall.
S h ia w a s s e e  C o u n ty  P h a r m a c e u t i c a l  S o c ie ty

T u s c o l a  C o u n ty  P h a r m a c e u t i c a l  S o c ie ty . 
President. E. A. Bullard;  Secretary, C. E. Stoddard.

THE  LAST  CALL.

Secretary  Parkill’s  Final  Appeal  for  the 

Petoskey Convention.

physicians.

This summer meeting of  the  Association 
promises  to  be  the  most  eventful of any 
since its  organization.
Petoskey is  situated in the center of  the 
summer resort region of Northern Michigan 
and is too well known to  need  description. 
Ample  arrangements  have  been  made for 
the entertainment of members  who  attend 
and a glance at  the programme  will assure 
yfu that the sessions of the meeting will be 
interesting and profitable.
Invitations have been  extended to promi­
nent  pharmacists  of  other  States to meet, 
with us.
We  have  now  eight  hundred members. 
We should have double  that number in this 
State, containing three thousand  druggists. 
The Association has proved its value  by its 
works,  and we ask every  member to consti­
tute himself a committee  of one to bring in 
new members.
The follow ing  questions  will be brought 
up for consideration and  discussion at  this 
meeting:
Mutual fire insurance at  reasonable rates.
The retailing of goods by wholesalers.
The  selling of  drugs by  wholesalers  to 
Needed legislation.
Formation and  benefits of  local  associa­
Shorter  hours  for  druggists  and  drug 
Cutting in  prices.
Publication of prices in daily papers,  and 
many others of interest and importance.
Members  can  obtain  regular  excursion 
tickets,  good  until  October,  at  all  points 
connecting  with  the  G. R.  & I.  Railway. 
Members unable to get these  tickets can se­
cure  the  usual  limited  excursion  rate by 
-sending to the Secretary for a certificate.
A special invitation is extended to the la- 
«dies to meet  with  us.  We  hope  that  as 
many members as can will bring their fami­
lies with them.
Hotel rates have been reduced as follows:
Arlington,  $2;  regular rate,  S3.
Cushman,  SI.50;  regular rate,  S2.
Occidental,  SI.50;  regular rate,  S3.
Other hotels, Si.
In order that we may know liow many to 
provide for,  will you  kindly  notify the Se­
cretary by postal  if  you  intend to be pres­
en t  ’ 
Owosso,  Mich.

S t a n l e y   E.  P a b k i l l ,  Sec’y,

tions.
clerks.

Annual Meeting of the Detroit Society.

Detroit, June 2,  1887.

U. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dear Sir —As  you  are  kind enough to 
publish the list  of officers  of  the  different 
pharmaceutical societies, I write to give you 
the latest in regard to  ours.  We  held our 
annual  meeting  on the  evening of June 1, 
when we elected the following officers:
President—Frank lnglis.
First Vice-President—F. W.  R.  Perry.
Second Vice-President—J.  J. Crowley.
Secretary and Treasurer—F.  Rohnert.
Assistant Secretary and  Treasurer—A.B. 

Lee. 

XXX’

Ionia Druggists in Line.

The  druggists  of  Ionia  county  met  at 
Ionia recently and organized an  association 
on the same plan as the Grand Rapids Phar­
maceutical  Society.  Officers  were  elected 
.as follows:  President,  W .  R.  Cutler; Vice- 
.President,  M.  Steele;  Secretary, Geo. Gun- 
.drum.

PROPRIETARY  MEDICINES.

Their Use  Declared  both  Proper  and  Ex­

pedient.

From the Medical Register.
Repeated  attempts have  been  made dur­
ing the past  few  months  to  dissuade the 
medical  profession from using or  ordering 
any form  of  proprietary  medicines.  The 
country lias been flooded with private circu­
lars and  reprints  of lengthy  articles,  con­
demning all  proprietary  medicines  as un­
scientific  and  unreliable,  and  stigmatizing 
physicians who employ them as being either 
lazy or incompetent, as well as flagrant vio­
lators of the code of ethics of the  American 
Medical  Association.  These  charges  are 
serious,  and demand  earnest  consideration. 
If they are true, the medical  profession has 
been humiliated by its  most  eminent mem­
bers;  if  they  are  untrue, their instigators 
cannot be too promptly or too  severely con­
demned.
What are proprietary  medicines?  Under 
this term are included all  medicinal prepar­
ations,  whether  in pill,  powder  or  liquid 
form, which are known by a special name, or 
for which superiority in purity, palatability 
or facility of administration  or of  assimila­
tion is claimed by their  manufacturers.
Are  they  unscientific?  They  are  not» 
Many of them  contain.only  one  medicinal 
agent, incorporated in an  agreeable vehicle. 
Others are composed of  a  number of  drugs 
of the same class, but  clinical  observation 
and  physiological  experimentation  have 
shown that  better  results can be  obtained 
from a combination of synergistic  remedies 
than from the  continuous administration of 
any one  alone,  and no one  will  deny that 
the value  of a prescription  increases  with 
its palatability  and ease  of  administration 
and  assimilation.  Many  persons  cannat 
tolerate cod-liver oil in its  purity, but reaui- 
ly take any of the  elegant  emulsions  that 
are now offered for sale.
Are they unreliable?  Our own experience, 
and that of every  physician  who  has  em­
ployed the standard  preparations of Ameri­
can pharmaceutical  ingenuity,  are a  sufti 
cient refutation of that insinuation.  They 
are reliable.  Nohe but the purest and fresh­
est drugs are  employed in  their  manufac­
ture, and the utmost  care is taken at  every 
stage to prevent  any of their  virtues  from 
being  lost  by  evaporation  or  otherwise. 
Careful assays  are,made from time to time, 
and no package is placed  upon the  market 
unless  its  strength  is  above  the required 
standard.
Is  their  use in  violation of  the code of 
ethics of the American Medical Association? 
It is not.  They  are  not  patent or  secret 
remedies.  The number and amount of their 
active constituents is known, and the dose of 
each can be  accurately  regulated. 
If it is 
compatible with  the  dignity of the  profes­
sion to order the compound  cathartic  pills 
or the compound syrups of  the U.  S. Pliar- 
macoepia,  it is equally  allowable  to  order 
the pills,  syrups,  emulsions  and other pre­
parations  which  have  been  introduced  by 
firms whose ability,  ingenuity and integrity 
cannot be questioned.
Proprietary  medicines,  however,  like all 
good things, are liable to  be  abused.  The 
avarice  of  some  manufacturers  may  lead 
them, after  having won  the  confidence of 
the profession, to advertise  their specialties 
as panaceas  for  all forms  of  disease. 
In 
this event  the  duty of  every  physician  is 
clear,  and the corrective is in his own hands. 
Until then,  all forms of  elegant  pharmacy 
may be prescribed  when  indicated,  regard­
less of the  impertinent  dictation  of  those 
who are actuated by  envy,  malice or disap­
pointed cupidity.

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
At the June meeting of the Grand Rapids 
Pharmaceutical  Society,  held  at  T h e 
T ra desm a n office last  Thursday  evening, 
President Steketee  presided  and  Secretary 
Escott officiated as scribe.

Dr.  Geo. F.  Whitfield  and Geo.  M.  Mat­
thews  were  elected  to  membership in  the 
Society.

F. J. Wurzburg brought up the subject of 
druggists selling liquor to minors, and with­
out making the proper register  required  by 
law.  He suggested  that  the  new  law  on 
the subject  be  printed  on  slips  of  paper, 
with a blank order  for liquor  on the  oppo­
site side.  Then when people send  children 
to the druggist for liquor, without an order, 
the druggist can hand them such a slip, which 
explains why  the  order  can  not  be  filled 
until a  regularly-signed  order  is  received. 
After a considerable discussion of  the  sub­
ject, it was voted to  refer the  whole matter 
V> the Committee on Legislation.

The Secretary was  instructed  to  send  a 
complimentary  copy  of  the  price-book  to 
Secretary  Gundrum,  of  the  newly-formed 
Ionia association, after  which  the  meeting 
adjourned.
The  Retailer  as  a  Factor  in  the  Rebate 

Plan.

From the Oil, P aint and Drug Reporter.

The  letters  addressed  to  Geo.  A.' Kelly, 
as chairman of the Committee on Proprietary 
Goods of the Wholesale Druggists’ Associa­
tion, should  dispel t any doubts  which  pro­
prietary medicinemen  may have entertained 
as to the general  approval  of  the  contract 
plan by wholesale druggists or  of  their  de­
sire for its continuance. 
Inasmuch  as  the 
plan  was designed  to  protect  the  jobbing 
trade from its own follies,  and affecteft only 
the wholesale prices of  goods,  it  would  be 
reasonable to assume  that the  strong senti­
ment in its favor which lias  been  shown  to 
exist among those  to whom  it  directly  re­
lates,  would be sufficient to  insure  its  per­
petuity,  if these  be  the  only considerations 
affecting proprietors.  But just at this point 
the retailer promises to make himself a fac­
tor in the system,  and it is  a  question  how 
important  a  one  he  may  become.  The 
theory which was advanced at the inception 
of the contract system,  that  it  was  broadly 
opposed to the interests of retailers, has been 
proved  fallacious. 
Its  only  defect  from 
their standpoint must be  one  which  is  re­
garded  as  a  defect  by  jobbers  as  well— 
namely, that it  permits  a  retailer who  can 
afford to  buy the  quantity direct, to  obtain 
the full discount that  is allowed  to the job­
ber.  This puts into the  hands  of  the  few 
who can buy most of the  leading  articles in 
full quantities, the  power  to undersell, and 
that  at  a  profit, their  smaller  competitors 
who,  buying  less  than  the  quantity,  or 
through the jobber,  get  only  a  part  of  the 
discount  To meet this a number of smaller 
retailers must combine and  order the  quan­
tity through one of their number, afterwards 
dividing the goods and  all sharing  the  full 
discount  Where this is practicable  the re­
tailer has no  fault to find, but the  jobber is 
c u t o f w h a t  be regards as rig h tfu lly  belong­
ing to him  a s a  d istrib u to r.  B u t w here this 
“ com bine” can n o t  be  w orked,  fh e  average

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a  Physician,

TH E  SMART  DRUGGIST.

It  is,  perhaps,  pre-  a8 j ’d g0 0jf wjtb it.” 

should it become  necessary  to  consider  it, j s],e i,ad tried them all.  The clerk,  howev- 

It is probably  upon this  theory that  a  mo- j iea8t pretend to some  knowledge  of  medi- 

retailer  is quite  likely to  feel  that  if  there j 
were  free  trade  in  proprietary  goods  his | 
Doctors Folks Who Can’t Afford 
shrewdness  as  a  buyer,  upon  which  he  How 
prides  himself,  would  place  him  on  an i 
To be successful in these times a druggist 
equality with his larger competitor,  without 
the  necessity  of  buying  equal  quantities, j  must  be  something  of a  physician, or  at 
tion  was  introduced  at  the  New  Jersey j cine. 
i t  js  no  longer  sufficient  that  he 
Pharmaceutical  Association’s  meeting  last j  should  compound the  prescriptions of doc- 
week,  declaring the  contract  plan  to be in-  tors;  he must be able to  prescribe as  well, 
iinical to the  interests  of  the  retailer.  To  Few realize the number of  persons who ap- 
be sure the  measure  was  tabled,  but if  the  piy  to  him  each  day  for  remedies.  The 
sentiment which it  represents  is  in the air,  Writer was sitting in a drug store on a lead- 
there is no telling  when  or  where  it  may  ¡ng street in an eastern city  recently,  wait- 
materialize again.  Should it become general  jng for a prescription  to be  made up,  when 
it must raise in the mind of the proprietor a  an 0jti woman entered and  approaching the 
question as to which  interest—the jobber or ; couuter said in a husky voice: 
the retaUer—he can best afford  to  serve, or j 
“Can’t you tell me what’ll  cure this trou- 
whether the present system can  be so modi-  ble i  have in mv throat?  Seems sometimes 
fied as lo serve  both. 
mature  to  raise  this  question  now,  butj  Numerous  remedies  were suggested, but 
the interests of  jobbers  will  be  so  vitally  er<  who was  experienced in  the  business, 
involved that it  is not  untimely for them to ; wa8 equal to  the  occasion.  He  began by 
have  a  thought  as  to  what  their  attitude  asking,  doctor-fashion,  the exact nature of 
should be  toward  the retail and proprietary  her ailment,  nodding  his  head  wisely  at 
interests, between which they unfortunately  each answer she gave him.  When" she had
stand.  We believe the course of proprietors 
finished,  he said,  in a confident manner:
is likely to  be  one  of  increasing  liberality 
“I  guess  we  can  fix you all right.  Be 
toward the retail  trade,  and the  self-protec­
seated one  moment,  and I will  mix you a 
tion of the jobber will therefore compel him 
medicine  that will  make you feel ten years 
to study the means necessary  to  retain  his 
younger.”
fair share in the distribution  of  proprietary 
He then  poured a variety  of fluids  from 
goods.  Already he has  reason to  complain 
several bottles on the  shelves  into a phial, 
because retailers  who  buy  jobbing  quanti­
shook  them well together,  adjusted a label 
ties are not compelled to  sign  the  contract, 
with writteu directions as to how  the medi­
and if there be any further concessions to the 
cine should be  taken,  wrapped it in paper 
retail trade on  the  part  of  proprietors,  the 
and handed it to the old  lady,  who  walked 
value of the plan to jobbers will be seriously 
out of the store  with an air of  great  satis­
diminished,  unless  there  be  corresponding 
faction.
modifications in the  terms  affecting jobbers 
“That old lady  is  a  type of  many  who 
solely, which shall still give them an advan­
come here every day,” he observed. 
“I do 
tage as distributors.
not  know  why they place  so much  confi­
dence in the  judgment  of a  druggist,  but 
Charlevoix  County  Pharmaceutical Asso­
they do, nevertheless.  The practice of phy­
sicians  must  suffer  by it.  Why,  there is 
one old gentleman  who never thinks of go­
ing to a  regular  practitioner  to  cure  his 
gout, but  whenever an  attack  approaches, 
limps around here and takes  whatever pre­
scription we give  him  witli  perfect  faith. 
Of course, a  druggist can  tell,  by  the pre: 
scriptions  he  compounds  for  physicians, 
what is good to give in  many  cases, but he 
cannot be  expected to make a  diagnosis of 
disorders and recommend the  proper  reme­
dies.
“In cases where people are poor and can­
not afford to pay a doctor’s bill, we are only 
too willing to do the best we  can for  them. 
A great many such people  depend  entirely 
upon our  judgment,  except in extreme7cas­
es.  But those who can afford the expense 
should go to a regular practicing physician.”

ciation. 

,

From  th e C harlevoix Journal.
Pursuant to call, the druggists of  Charle­
voix  county  met at  Dr.  Crouter’s  office, 
Charlevoix,  Wednesday,  June 1, to organ­
ize  a  county  pharmaceutical  association. 
The following druggists were present:
H.  W.  Willard,  L.  C.  Madison,  F.  C. 
Warne, Geo. W. Beaman, of  East  Jordan, 
H.  H.  Eaton, of Boyne  Falls,  F.  G.  Ilines, 
Perry Weed, G.  W.  Crouter,  G. W.  Wilson, 
of Charlevoix,  John M.  Harris, of Ironton, 
E.  F. Allen,  of Boyne.
The following  officers  wore  elected  for 
the ensuing year:
President—H.  W. Willard.
Vice-President—F. G.  Hines.
Secretary—G. W.  Crouter.
Treasurer—Perry Weed.
The President,  Vice-President and Secre­
tary were constituted a Board of Censors.
Board of Trustees—H. W. Willard,  F.  C. 
Warne,  H.  H.  Eaton,  E.  F.  Allen,  L.  C. 
Madison.
Committee on Pharmacy—G. W. Beaman, 
J.  M.  Harris,  G.  W.  Wilson.
Committee on Trade  Matters—E.  F.  Al­
len, G.  W.  Beaman,  F.  G. Hines.
Committee on Legislation—G.  W.  Crou- 
ter, F. C.  Warne, E.  F.  Allen.
the 
The  constitution  and  by-laws  of 
Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical  Ssciety were 
*
adopted. 
Future annual  meetings  will be held ther 
first  Monday  in  June; 
regular  monthly 
meetings to be held on the first  Tuesday of 
each month,
Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Associa­

tion.

Arrange your business so as to attend  the 
next meeting of the  Michigan  State  Phar­
maceutical  Association  at  Petoskey,  July 
12,  13 and 14,  1887.  Take a rest from your 
work during  the  heated  July  days,  and 
meet with us for a season of rescind enjoy­
ment among the famous summerresorts  of 
Northern  Michigan.
If good entertainment,  an interesting and 
instructive meeting,  and  jolly  companions 
can make it pleasant and profitable for you, 
wre can guarantee you a good time.
Reduced fares on all railroads can  be  ob­
tained by sending  to  the  Secretary  for  a 
certificate.  The  Detroit  and  Cleveland 
Navigation Co. give  special  reduced  rates 
from Detroit to Petoskey and  return.
But for the timely  and  earnest  work  of 
this Association,  Michigan druggists  would 
be classed  and  taxed  as  saloon  keepers. 
It costs but one dollar a year to  keep  up  a 
membership—surely a  small return for  the 
benefits you receive through  this  organiza­
tion.
We want every druggist  in  the  State  to 
join and as many  as  possible  to  meet  at 
Petoskey with us.
Application for membership furnished on 
request,  by

Sta n l e y  E.  P a b k il l,  Sec’y, 
Owosso,  Mich.

Minor  Drug  Notes.

Gelatin is now  recommended  as an oint­

ment base.

The French proprietor of  a brand of pat­
ent cough lozenges advertises’by telegraph.
A new acid has been  identified in the hu­
man  urine  called  urrhodinic  acid,  which 
darkens with alkalies.

A high license bill before the  Pennsylva­
nia  Legislature  may  cause  the  druggists 
some trouble if it becomes a law7.

The Governor of Pennsylvania has signed 
the bill to regulate the pratice of pharmacy, 
sale of poisons and to prevent  adulterations 
in drugs and medicinal preparations.

It is reported  that all  the  distilleries in 
the country are to be controlled  by  a Trust 
instead of  operating a  pool,  and  that  the 
work of concentration is now going on.

The New York Health Board’s  attention 
was called to the sale of a fluid  for  writing 
on glass.  One person got a little of it upon 
one of her forefingeis and so bad a sore had 
resulted that the finger had to be amputated. 
Dr. Cyrus Edson had the fluid analyzed aud 
found  that it was  composed of  fluor  spar 
dissolved  in  sulphuric  acid. 
Its sale was 
stopped  and  dealers  warned  that  further 
sales, unless the fluid was labeled “poison,” 
would cause their arrest.

A resident of Philadelphia  bought  a box 
of pills and  placed  it in the tail  pocket of 
his coat.  He had forgotten about the pills 
while  enjoying  himself in the  woods  last 
Sunday, and  the  rattling of  the pellets in 
the box produced  a sound  that he  mistook 
for the rattle of a snake.  As he  was about 
to run, a large Shepherd dog  caught him by 
the pantaloons,  and  to release  himself  he 
made the animal sick with a club, for which 
he was arrested  and fined  on  complaint of 
the owner of the dog. 
, He will never carry 
pills in his coat tail again.

How He Killed  Rats.

The electric  light  works  were  overrun! 
with rats until  the  superintendent  had  a 
happy thought.  To wires attached to dyna­
mos he fastened bits of meat  and  scattered 1 
them about  The  rates  smelled  the meat, ] 
nibbled, and—good-by, rats!

Kalamazoo to Organize.

Geo.  McDonald favors T ive  T ra desm a n 
with a  copy of the circular  he  has  sent to 
every druggist  of  Kalamazoo  and vicinity, 
as follows:

K alam azoo,  May 31,  1887.

Q e a r   Sir—On  March  11  you  received 
from me a circular suggesting the advisabil­
ity of  the  formation  of  a  Pharmaceutical 
Association for Kalamazoo and vicinity, and 
soliciting your co-operation.
It gives me pleasure to inform you that  a 
sufficient  number  of  favorable  responses 
have been received in  reply to  the  circular, 
to justify the calling of  a  meeting  for  the 
purpose of organizing such  an  association. 
The meeting will  be held  in the  hall of the 
“Knights of the Maccabees” in this  city  at 
2:30 p. m. on  Friday June*’Id,  1887.  Your 
attendance is cordially solicited.
Yours respectfully.

Geo.  McDo n a ld.

The Drug Market.

Trade  continues  active  and  prices  are 
about  steady,  with  only a  few  changes  to 
note.  Opium is very  firm  at  the  advance 
and  prospects  are  for  higher  prices.  An 
advance is also expected  iii  morphia  every 
day.  A premium  over  the  manufacturers 
price of 10 cents is still asked in New York 
in large lots.  Quinine is  steady and  with­
out  change.  Gum  camphor  is  extremely 
scarce and is held very firm by outside hold­
ers,  while manufacturers decline  all  orders 
and can hardly fill contracts.  Trieste must­
ard seed lias advanced,  on  account  of small 
crop.  Oil anise has advanced  and  is  very 
firm.  Ginger add  nutmegs  are  advancing. 
Cuttle boue,  and  buchu leaves  are  tending 
lower.

Michigan  in Hoosierdom.

President  Wurzburg  has  designated Geo, 
G. Steketee as delegate to the Indiana Phar­
maceutical  Association  from  the  Michigan 
State  Pharmaceutical  Association.  Mr 
Steketee left yesterday for Richmond, where 
the convention is to  be held  to-day and  to

The New Poison.
From Life.
Would-be  suicide—Gimme 
ttiree  cents 
worth of milk, quick !
Dealer—\«ery sorry,  sir,  but  1  can’t  let 
you have it without a doctor's  prescription.

AGENTS  FOR  THE

375 South Union St., Grand Rapids.
Standard  Petit Ledger.
TATANTED— Registered pharmacists  and as- 
sistants who are sober, industrious  and 
r f  
willing to work.

town.  Average sales, $15.

300  inhabitants.  No other drug stdte in 

F OR SALE—Stock of about $1,250 in town of 
F OR  SALE—Stock of about 23,500 well locat­
F OR SALE—Stock of  about  $500  in town of 
the place.  _____________________________ *

ed  in  Detroit.  Doing  good  business. 
________

800 inhabitants.  No  other  drug  store in 

Reason for selling, family affairs. 

1,300 population.  Doing good  business.
population.  Average daily sales, $2».
Grand Rapids.
town of 350 inhabitants.
inhabitants.

TOR  SALE—Stock of about $3,500 in town of 
TOR SALE—Stock of $3,600 in  town  of  2,200 
TOR  SALE—Stock  of  $400  in  suburbs  of 
TOR  SALE—Stock  of  $1,500  in 
northern
m olt  SALE—Stock  of  $1,300  in  town  of 350 
D 
SilOR SALE—Stock ot aoout $o,00j  in town of 
‘  5,000  inhabitants.  Average  daily  sales
about $40.
A LSO—Many  other  stocks,  the  particulars 
of which we will furnish  on  application.
S O  DRUGGISTS—Wishing to secure clerks 
we will furui8h the  address  and full  par­
ticulars of those on our list  free.__________
TTjTiOlAVK also secured  the  agency  for J. 
▼ v  H. Vail & Co.’s medical publications and 
can  furnish  any  medieal  or  pharmaceutical 
work at publishers’ rates.

M ichigan D rug Exchange,  '

357 South Union St., 

- 

Grand Rapid».

Florida sheens’ wool,carriage......225  @350
Nassau 
do
2 00
Velvet Ext  do
1  10
85
Extra Ye  *.  do
Grass 
do
65
Hard ’ 
75
Yellow Reef. 
1 40

,f or slate use.............
MISCELLANEOUS.

do
do
do
dc

do

Emery, all  numbers. 
Emery, po..................
Flake  w hite__
Galla..................
Gambier...........
Gelatin, Coopor.

Glue, White.
Grana  Paradisi..
Hydrarg Chlor.Mite  ..........
Hydrarg Chlor.  Cor..........
Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum__
Hydrarg Ammoniati..........
Hydrarg U nguentum..........
Hydrargyrum.....................
Ichthyocolla, Am  ...............
Indigo....................................
Iodine, Resubl.....................
Iodoform.............................

Æther, Spts. Nitros, IF ...
Alumen...............................
Alumen,  ground, (po. 7)..,
Antimoni,  po....................................
Antimoni et Potass  Tart................
Argent!  Nitras,  l ..............................
Arsenicum.........................................
Balm Gilead  Bud.............................
Bismuth  8.  N ....................................
Calcium  Chlor,  Is, (Hs, 11;  las, 12).
Cantharides  Russian, po................
Capsid  Fructus, a f..........................
CapBlci Fruetus, no.  .. 
Capsid Fructus, B, po. 
Caryophyllus,  (po.  35).
Carmine, No. 40...........
Cira Alba, 8. &  F........
Cera Flava....................
Coccus  ..........................
Cassia Fructus.............
Centrarla......................
Cetaceum.....................
Chloroform,  Squibbs.......................
Chloral Hydrate  Cryst....................
Chondrus  ...........................................
Ci nc tumid i ne, P. & Vf.......................
Cinchonidine,  German....................
Corks, see list, discount,  per cent.
Creasotum.........................................
Creta, (bbl. 75)....................................
Creta  prep............. ...........................
Creta, precip......................................
Creta Rubra.......................................
Cudbear.

26® 28
30® 32
2*4@ 3*4
8^
4
55® 60
4® 5
55® 60
@ 68
5® 7
38® 40
2  15@2 20
@ »
@2 to
© 15
@ 16
© 14
30® 33
@3 75
50® 55
28® 30
.  @ 40
@ 15
•  @ 10
@ 56
38® 40
@1 00
.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
.  56® 60
.  12® 15
.  @ 23
7® 8
. 
7  ® 15
.  40® 60
less.
. 
9® 15
.  13® 25
.  23® 26
.  @ 15
.  25® 40
.  © 75
.  @ 65
@ 85
@1 00
:  @ 40
@ 05
.1  25® 1 50
.  75®1 00
.4 00@4  10
.  @5  15
.  ® 27
.  10® 12
.  55® 60
Macis............................................
.  60® 65
Magnesia, Sulph, (bbl. 1)4)........
. 
2® 3
Mannia, S.F.................................
90®1 00
Morphia,  8, P. & W....................
.3 15@3 35
Moschus Canton.........................
•  © 40
Myristica, No. 1..........................
@ 65
Nux  Vomica,  (po. 20)................
.  @ 10
Os.  Sepia......................................
.  15® 18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Co.......
@2 to
Picis Liq,  N. C.. H  galls, doz...
.  @2 70
Picis Liq.,  quarts.......................
@1 40
Picis Liq., pints..........................
.  © 85
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80).................t
.  @ 50
Piper Nigra,  (po.22)..................
.  @ 18
Piper  Alba, (po. 35)....................
.  @ 35
Pix Burgun.................................
.  @ 7
Plumbi Acet...........................................  14®  15
Potassa, Bitart, pure............................  @  40
Potassa,  Bitart, com............................  @  15
Potass  Nitras, opt.................................... 
8® 10
Potass  Nitras............................................ 
7®  9
Pulvis Ipecac et opii............................1  10@1  20
Pyrethrum, boxes, H. &P. D. Co., doz.  ®1  00
Pyrethrum, pv.......................................   48®  53
Quassiae. „ ... 
Quinta, S, P. &  W...................................  58®
Quinta. S, German.................................  48®
Rubia Tinctorum...................................  12®
Saccharum Lactis, pv..........................   @
Salacin....................................................   @3
Sanguis DraconlB..................................   40®  50
Santonine.
®4 50 
Sapo,  W.......................................
12®  14 
Stipo,  M......................................
ie  
8® 
Sapo. G ...........................................
®   15 
Seidlitz  Mixture........................
28 
Sinapis.........................................
18 
@
Sinapis, opt.................................
30 
®
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  Do. Voes__
35 
Snuff, Scotch,  Do. Voes...........
35 
Soda Boras, (po.  10)....................
10 
Soda et PotossTart....................
33®
35 
Soda Carb...............................................  
2@
¡V4
Soda,  Bi-Carb............................................  4®
Soda, Ash..................................................   3®
Soda  Sulphas.........................................  @
Spts. Ether Co.......................................   50®  56
Spts.  Myrcia Dom.................................  @2 00
Spts. Myrcia Imp....................... ;.........  @2 50
Spts. Vini Rect, (bbl.  2  10)....................  @2 25
Strychnia, Crystal.................................  ®I  30
Sulphur, Subi.......................................... 2V4@ 3*4
Sulphur,  Roll.........................................  2)4® 3
Tamarinds................................................  
8® 10
Terebenth  Venice.................................  28®  30
Theobromae........................................... 50  @  55
Vanilla  ................................................. 9 00® 16 00
7®  8
Zinci  Sulph............................................... 
Bbl  Gal
75
68
58
45
48
60
45
Bbl
Lb 
Red Venetian...........  .................  1*
2® 3 
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........   1)4
2® 3 
Ochre,yellow  Bermuda.........  134
2® 3 
Putty, commercial..................   2)4
2*4® 3 
Putty, strictly pure..................  2*4
234® 3 
Vermilion, prime  Amerioan..
13@16 
Vermilion,  English..................
55® 58 
Green, Peninsular....................
I6®17 
Lead, red strictly  pure...........
6® 6V4 
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
6® 6*4 
Whiting, white Spanish.......
@70 
Whiting,  Gilders’.....................
W h itiiu r  O iM tivc’
@90 
White, Paris American...........
1  10 
I Whiting  Paris English oliff..
1 46 
I  Pioneer Prepared  fa in ts.......
1 20® 1 40 
1 00® 1 20
Pwiss Villa Prepare*  Paints..
VARNISHES.
No. 1 Turp  Coach.................................. 1  10® I  20
I Extra  Turp.......................................... 1  60@1  70
Coach Body............................................2  7o@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture...........................1 00® 1 10
Extra Turk  Damar............................... 1  56@1 60
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp.....................   70®
APPROVED by PHYSICIANS.

Whale, winter........................................  70 
Lard, extra............................................   63 
Lard,No.  1............. '............................  63 
LinBeed, pure  raw............................... 
42 
Linseed, boiled....................................   45 
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained............  50 
Spirits Turpentine...............................   40 

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PAINTS

OILS.

 

 

O u s l i m a n ’s

WHOLBSJlLB  p r ic e  cu rren t.

brown  mustard

Advanced—Gum  camphor, 

’• 

.... 
.... 

ACIDUM.

seed, oil anise.
. 
8®  10 i
Aceticum ..................................
.  8001 00 \ 
Benzoicum,  German— ........
.  450  50 j 
Carbolicum............v ................
.  60®  65 j 
Citricum  ...................................
. 
80  5
Hydrochlor...............................
.  10®  12 
Nitrocum..................................
.  11®  13 
Oxalicum..................................
.1  85®2  10 
Salicylicum...............................
.1 40®1 60 
Tannicum..................................
.  50®  53
Tartaricum........... ...................
3®  5
Aqua, 16 deg....................................
4®  6
18  deg....................................
Carbonas........................................... ....  11®  13
Chlorid um ........................................ ....  12®  14
....1  10®1  15
Cubebae (po.  115..........................
m   7
Juniperus  .......................................
....  2;5®  30
Xahthoxylum...............................
i8@  53
Copaiba............................................ .... 
Peru................................................... __   @1 50
....  50®  55
Terabin,  Canada............................
Tolutan ............................................ ....  40®  45
18
11
18
30
20
12
12
12
12
10

Abies,  Canadian............................
.... 
Cassine  ...........................................
Cinchona Flava...............................
Eaonymus  atropurp..................... __  
Myrica  Cerifera', po".......................
Prunus  Virgini............................. __  
•.•• 
Quillaia,  grd..................................
.... 
Sasstras  .........................................
Vlmus...............................................
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)..................

BALSAMUM.

CORTEX.

BACCAG.

EXTRACTUM.

Glycyrrhiza Glabra.......................
po...............................
Hat mat ox, 15 fi> boxes..................
Is.................................
V4s  .............................
)48  ..............................

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

....  24®  25
8®  9
.... 
@ 12
®  13
@  15

FERRUM.

Carbonate Precip.......................... __   @  15
©3 50
Citrate and Quinta.........................
@  80
Citrate Soluble...............................
@  50
Ferrocyanidum Sol.......................
__   @  15
Solut  Chloride...............................
....  1V4®  2
Sulphate, com’l,  (bbl. 85).............
__   @  7
pure...............................

“ 

FOLIA.

Barosma.........................................
Cassia Acutifol, Tinnivelly..........
A lx....................
Salvia officinalis. V4» and  V4s.......
Ura  Urei.........................................

•* 

“ 

....  12®  14
....  20®  25
....  35®  56
....  10®  12
... 
8®  10

GUMMI.
@100
Acacia, 1st  pickod.........................
.......  @  90
2nd  “ 
.........................
“ 
......................... .......  @  80
3rd 
“ 
•* 
Sifted sorts..................... .......  @  05
** 
p o ...................................... .......  75@l 00
•* 
Aloe, Barb,  (po. 60)...................... ....  50®  60
“  Cape, (po. 20)......................... __   @ 12
••  Socotrme,  (po. 60)...............
....  25®  30
Ammoniae  ....................................
Assafoetida,  (po. 30)..............................
50®  55 
Benzoinum............................................
30®  33 
Camphorae....................... . ..................
®  13 
Catechu, Is,  04s,  14:148,16).................
35®  10 
Euphorbium, po....................................
®  80 
Galbanum...............................................
75®  80 
Gamboge, po— ....................................
@  35 
Guaiacum-ipo. 45)..............................
®  20
Kino,  (po.25)...........................................  —
®1 25
Mastic................................................. . 
Myrrh, (po.45).........................................  ©  40
Opii, tpo. 6 00;.........................................4  40@4 50
Shellac.....................................................  18®  25
“  bleached....................................  25©  30
Tragacanth............................................   30®  75
Absinthium
Eupatorium.......
Lobelia  ...............
Majorum  ............
Mentha Piperita.
“  V ir........
R u e ......................
Tanacetum,  V ... 
Thymus. V ..........

h e r b a —In ounce packages. 

.................................. 
! *.’ .*.’ ! .* .*.’ ‘ ‘ ! ‘ ! .* * * ! ! ! * 
MAGNESIA.

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

30
23
25

OLEUM.

.......4 50@5 OO
Absinthium....................................
Amygdalae. Dulc..........................
.......7 00@7 50
Amydalae, Amarao........ ..............
Auranti Cortex............................. .......  @2 50
Bergami!......................................... .......2 00@2 75
Cajiputi  .............................   ........ ...  .  90@1 00
Caryophylli.................................... .......  @2 00
Cedar............................................... .......  35®  65
Chenopodii.................................... .......  @1 50
Cinnamomi.................................... .......  90®1  00
Citronella  ......................................
Conium  Mac.................................. .......  35®  65
Copaiba.......................................... .......»0®  1 00
Cubebae  ......................................... . . . 9   50@10 0)
Éxechthitos.................................... .......  90@1 00
Erige ron......................................... .......1 20@1 30
Gaultheria...................................... .......2 00@2  10
Geranium, l .................................... ........  @  75
G ossi pii, Sem, gal.......................... .......  55®  75
Hedeòma......................................... .......  90®1 00
Juniperi........................................... .......  50@2 00
Lavendula ...................................... .......  90@2 00
Limonis........................................... .......2 25®2 35
Lini, gal........................................... .......  42®  45
Mentha Piper................................. .......2 75@3 6J
Mentha Verid................................. .......5 50@6 UG
Morrhuae,  gal............................... .......  80@1 00
Myrcia,  \ ......................................... .......  @  50
Olive............................................... .......1 00@3 75
Picis Liquida, (gal. 60).................. .......  10®  12
Ricini.......................... *................. .......1 43@1 60
Rosmarini...................................... .......  75®1  00
Rosae,  5........................................... .......  @8 00
40® 46
Succini  ...........................................
Sabina.............................................. .......  90® l 00
..3 50@7 00
Santal..............................................
Sassafras......................................... .......  45®  50
Sinapis, ess, 5................................. .......  @ 85
Tlglii............................................... .......  @1 50
.......  40®  50
Thym e............................................
.........   @  60
opt.......................................
Theobromas.................................... ___   15®  20

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POTASSIUM.

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

RADIX.

A lthae....................................................   25®  30
Anchusa.................................................   15®  20
Arum,  po...............................................   ®  25
Calamus...................................................  20®  50
Gentiana,  (po. 15)..................................   10®  12
Glycbrrhiza,  (pv. 15)..............................  16®  18
Hydrastis Canaden,  ,po. 33).................  @  25
Hellebore,  Alba,  po...............<............   15®  20
Inula, po.................................................  15®  20
Ipecac, po...............................................2 60® 2  60
Jalapa,  pr................................................  25®  30
Maranta,  )4s...........................................  @  35 !
Podophyllum,  po..................................   15®  18
Khei  ........................................................  75S1 00
“  cut...................................................  @1 75
“  p v ...................................................  75®1 35
Spigelia  .................................................   48®  531
Sanguinaria, (po. 25).............. 
®  20
Serpentaria............................................   35®  40
Senega....................................................   50®  55
Smilax, Officinalis, H............................  ®  40
. 
Mex.......................  @  20
tkdllae,  (po. 35).......................................   10®  12 i
Symplocarpus,  Foetidus, po...............  ®  25
Valeriana,  English,  (po. 30)................   ®  25 1
German........... ..................   15®  20 !

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SEMEN.

In  the  treatment  of  Catarrh,  Headache, 

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

4® 

Colds, stands without an equal.

Anisum, (po. 22)......................................  ®  17
Apium  (graveolens)..............................  12®  15 i
6 j
Bird, Is..................................................... 
Carui,  (po. 20).........................................  12®  15 I
Cardamom............................................... 1 00®l  25 I
I  A ir  Mentholized by passing through the Inhaler- 
|  tube, in which the Pure Crystals of Menthol are 
Coriandrum............................................   10®  12
Cannabis  Sativa....................................  d®  4
|  held7 thoroughly applies this  valuable  rem edy  in  the 
m ost  efficient  way,  to  4he  parte  affected.  It sells 
Cydonium...............................................   75® 1  00
1 readily.  Always keep an open Inhaler in your store, 
Cnenopodium  .......................................   1G®  12
j  an a le t your custom ers try  It.  A  few  inhalations  will 
Dipterix Odorate....................................1 75®l 85
I  not h u rt th e Inhaler, and will do m ore  to dem onstrate 
Foeniculum............................................   ®  15
I  Its efficiency than a half hour’s talk.  Retail price 
|  SO cents.  P er Circulars and  Tkstixohials address 
Foenugreek, po...................................... 
6®  8
H. D. Cushman, Three Rivers, Mleh. 
Lini...........................................................  3Vi®  4
Lini, grd, (bbl, 3)...................................... 3Vi®  4
Phalarls  Canarian................................   334® 1)4
Rapa........................................................ 
6®  6
Sinapis,  Albu......................................... 
8®  9
Nigra..........1.........................   11®  1?

[ Bsieltlne St Perkins Drug Co., G’d Rapids, 
|  And W holesale Druggists of D etroit and Chioago.

Trade supplied by

*• 

SPIRITU S.

Frumenti,  W.,  D. & Co........................2 00@3  50
Frumenti, D. F. R............. ....................1 75®2  00
Frumenti...............................................1 10®1  50
Juniperis Co.  O. T................................ 1 75@1  76
Juniperis Co............................................1 7G@3 50
Saacnarum  N. E....................................,1 75@2 00
Spt. Vini Galli.........................................1 76®6 50
vini Oporto....%........................ 
Vini  Alba...............................................  1 25©2 00

 

 

 

T ANSY  CAPSULES

I   THE  LATEST  DISCOVERY.  M  
Dr.  Laparle’s  Celebrated  Preparation, Safe and 
always  Reliable.  Indispensable  to  LADIES. 
CALUMET CHEMICAL CO., CMeago.«?.

Send 4 cents for Sealed Circular.

1 25®2 00

WHOLESALE

Druggists!

4a and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91,

93 and 95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS  AND JOBBERS OF

M A N U FA CTU RERS  OF

Elegant  Pharmaceutical  Prepara­

tions,  Fluid  Eitracts  aid 

Elixirs

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

Wolf, Patton & Co. and John L*. 

Whiting, Manufacturers  of 

Fine Paint and  Var­

nish Brushes.
THE  CELEBRATED

ALSO  FOR  THE

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

Horse Brushes.

W E  A R E   SOLE  OW NERS  O F

Weatherly’s MicMgai Catarrh Care

8® 10
Which is positively the best Remed7: 

of the kind on the market.

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

Wiue anfl Lipor D p tm t

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

WITHERS DADE & CO.’S

Henderson Co., Ky.,

Sour Mash  and  Old-Fashioned 

Hand-Made, Copper- 

Distilled

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

W e are also owners of the

D n o W   Farsnte  En,

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

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

such asPatent  Medicines,

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

Mail  orders  always  receive  our epeds 

Hazeltine 

& Perkins 

Drug Co*

PRESERVE  these  ADVERTISEMENTS 134  to .142 Bast Pulton St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
Brown Dresden.

Moss  Rose.

BRIGHTEN

ENGLISH TOILET SETS

FOR  FUTURE  REFERENCE.

Your Stock

BUSINESS  LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of Last Resort.

A SSIG N M EN T  F O E   CRED ITO RS.

A provision in  a  general  assignment  for 
creditors, giving the assignee  authority  for 
the better performance of  the  trust to com­
plete unfinished work,  and  to  pay  the  ex­
penses of such completion prior to the  pay­
ment of all debts and liabilities provided for 
in  the  assignment,  does  not  render  the 
same void, according to the decision  of  the 
New York Court of Appeals.

M A R R IED   W OMAN.

The purchase price of  property  acquired 
by an agent in the name of  a  married  wo­
man is considered as paid out of  her funds, 
although the agent  drew  on  the  husband 
for the  same,  where  the  evidence  shows 
that the check  was  indorsed  by  the  hus­
band, to be paid out  of  his  wife’s  money, 
and that she herself directed her  banker  so 
to do, and that it was thus  done.  So  held 
by the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

CONTRACT  R E S T R A IN IN G   T R A D E .

A butcher  sold  out  his  business  to  an­
other, covenanting not to “carry on  the  re­
tail business on his own account or  operate 
any butcher  business  except  a  wholesale 
butcher business within the corporate limits 
of the city.”  He afterward opened  a  gro­
cery store, but failed and sold out to a third 
party, by whom he  was  employed,  among 
other things, to buy meats for the store and 
to cut and sell meats. 
It appeared  that  in 
consequence of this arrangement  the  party 
with whom the covenant was made lost cus­
tomers.  Vice-Chancellor Bird,  of  the New 
Jersey Court of  Chancery,  granted  an  in­
junction  restraining  the  covenantor  from 
carrying on  the  business,  holding  that  he 
had violated his covenant.

C E R T IFIC A T E   OF  D EPO SIT.

According to the decision of  the Wiscon­
sin Supreme Court,  a  certificate of  deposit 
issued by a banker in the  ordinary  form  of 
such instruments is  in substance  and  legal 
effect a negotiable promissory note,  and the 
statute  of  limitations  commences  to  run 
upon it from the date of  its  issue,  without 
the necessity of  any  demand  of  payment. 
The authorities are not  entirely  agreed  re­
garding the latter proposition, the courts  of 
some States holding that the statute of lim­
itations begins to run only  on  presentation 
of the certificate  for  payment.  The  latter 
view is held by  the  courts  of  New  York, 
Maryland and Vermont, while the courts of 
Michigan and California  sussain  the  posi­
tion of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
S A L E   BY   SAMPLE—R E JE C T IO N   OF  G ObD S.
A quantity of shoes were sold by sample, 
part of them being received  by  the  vendee 
on the 11th of  the  month  and  part  on  the 
18th.  Some of the shoes were  sold  by  the 
vendee,  and several pairs were  returned  as 
defective.  Upon  examination  the  shoes 
were found inferior to the  sample,  the  de­
fects not being discoverable on an  ordinary 
inspection.  On the 25th of the same month 
the  vendee  notified  the  vendor  that  the 
goods were inferior, and asked what  dispo­
sition should be made of them. •  The vendor 
notified the vendee that no reduction  would 
be made, whereupon the latter  returned the 
shoes to the vendor.  The Superior Court of 
Kentucky held that the  jury  were  author­
ized to conclude that  the  examination  and 
rejection were  made  within  a  reasonable 
time, and, that  such  being  the  case, 
the 
vendee was not deprived of  the right of  re­
jection by the fact that  he  had  placed  the 
goods in his  store  for  sale,  and  had  sold 
some of them.

Gold Band !  Sprig

I YTfM

Both  of  the  above 
patterns  carried  in 
open stock.  Both have 
gold  edges  and  han­
dles and are of the fin­
est English goods.
102 piece Dinner Set, Moss 

Rose, 

-  List price,  $14.50

129 piece Dinner Set,  Moss 

Rose, 

-  List prise, 

20,00

102 piece Dinner Set,  Gold 

Band and Sprig, list price  12.00

129  piece Dinner Set,  Gold 

Band and Sprig, list price  15.90

102 piece Dinner Set, Lustre 

Band and Sprig, list price  8.75

129 piece Dinner Set, Lustre 

Band and Sprig, list price  14.50

This  pattern  is  the  latest 
low price style in the market. 
There is nothing so good as it 
offered  by  any  other  house.
Try a sample package of it, 
as per our Catalogue, or a few 
sets  alone  as  samples.  We 
will  sell  any  number  of 
pieces.

DINNER  SETS.

102 Pieces,  -  List Price,  $12.00 
129 
16.50

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Write for Special  Prices.

WITH NEW GOODS

We  show  herewith  our  latest  importa­

tions in new patterns of

Decorated Crockery

for TEA  and  DINNER  SERVICES.  Pat­
terns which will freshen up all  stocks, and 
at prices  which are  greatly  reduced  from 
those  of any  previous  season.  These  re­
present

“F IjORAL  V IEW ”  PATTERN
Ten Piece Sets Consist  of  Complete  Set without  Slop Jar. 

Twelve Piece Sets include Slop Jar.

‘Daisy,”

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W rite to us for Special Prices.

10 pcs., List price, 
12  “ 
10  “ 
12  “ 
10  “ 
12  “ 

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$3  OO
5  50
3  00
5  50
4  00
7  00

DETECT PUBCHASES 

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of our Mr. Leonard who has just  returned  Handsomely Decorated ‘Waverly’
from English markets. 
The  list  prices  named  serve  only  as  a 
guide, as w© give liberal  discounts  to bona 
fide retailers of our lines. 
If you have not 
received our  CROCKERY  CATALOGUE, 
we shall be glad  to  forward it on  applica­
tion, and would: be especially glad to show 
our  immense  assortment  in  our  Fulton 
Street  Stores. 

GOLD  EDGE.
NEW  SQUARE  SHAPE. ON  STONE  PORCELAIN  BODY.

> —■ 

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t

This rich pattern is carried in open  stock  and can be sold in any  quantity. 

It is an 
entirely new style with fine yellow and pink flowers,  and is the nobbiest and neatest pat­
tern out for 1S87. 

100 piece Dinner Set, List price, $20.

We  also  have  this  pattern in Assorted  Fackages,  containing 2 sets,  and would be 

.  _  . 

_  

. 

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pleased to quote same.

A

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S H O W   -  C A S E S .

Dealers w i l l  
find  it  to their 
advantage 
t o 
c o r r e s p o n d  
with  us,  as  we 
are in the  posi­
tion to make  A 
No.  1  goods  at 
the  lowest pos- 
>  siblc prices. 
' Cor res po nd­
ence 
solicited 
from  the  job­
bing trade rela- 
tivetopremium 
eases.
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AMERICAN  SHOW  CASH  WORKS,
Send for Catalogue and prices. 
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27 XjalKO Street, OLicago.

THE  HOME  YEAST  C U E

Address
Auuress 

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____ 

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. L  Large size, 36 packages, or cartons, per case,  $1.50.
No. 2.  Smaller “  36 
1*0®*

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

THE  HOME YEAST  CAKE  CO.  26& ^
RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO,
BOOTS  AITS  SHOES.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE  DEALERS IN

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

AGENTS FOR THE

14 and 16 Pearl Street. 

-  Grand Rapids, Mich.

METAL  BR A N D
READY  ROOFING

TWO  AND  THREE  PLY

Waterproof, Durable and Economical,

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

Curtiss & Dunton,

aHAND RAPIDS, 

- 

-  MIOH.

a  policy  of 

issued,  but  was 

L IF E   IN SU R A N C E  PO L IC Y — CONDITION.
An important decision has just been  ren-I 
dered by Judge Key,  in  the  United  States 
Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, 
in the case of Yonge vs.  Equitable Life As­
surance Company  of  New  York.  Yonge, 
it appears, made application to the company 
for 
insurance  for  $3,000. 
A  policy  was 
not 
presented at the place of business of  the in­
sured until two weeks after its date.  When 
the policy was  ready  for  delivery  it  was 
learned that the  insured  was  sick,  and  al­
though a premium was tendered,  it was  re­
fused.  Five weeks after the  insured  died, 
the policy being still  in  the  hands  of  the 
local agent of the company.  The  company 
contested the claim for  the  amount  of  the 
policy,  for the reason  that  the  application 
for insurance contained  a  clause  providing 
that the first premium must be  paid  during 
the life and  good  health  of  the  insured. 
Judge Key decided in favor of the plaintiff, 
holding  that  the  policy  went  into  fordfe 
when the application was accepted  and  the 
policy issued; that  the  clause  upon  which 
the  company  based  its  contention  was 
waived by the fact  that  the  agent  of  the 
company had given the applicant indulgence 
as to the payment of the premium,  and that 
the company was responsible for  the  delay 
in the delivery of  the policy,  which was oc­
casioned by an error on the part of the com­
pany’s medical examiner.

CO RPO RA TE  F R A N C H ISE .

the  charters  of 

The Supreme Court  of  Ohio  lately  ren- j 
dered an important decision in the  cases  of | 
State ex  rel.  Attorney-General  vs.  Cincin-1 
nati. New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway, j 
and same  vs.  Cincinnati,  Washington  & 
Baltimore Railway.  The proceedings were 
in the nature  of  a  quo  warranto  brought] 
to  forfeit 
the  compa-l 
nies.  The  petitions  charged 
the  com-j 
panies  with  conspiracy  with  the  Stan- j 
Hard  Oil  Company  and  its  various  agen 
cies to build up  that  monopoly  and  crush | 
out its competitors,  by  numerous  acts  of 1 
u n la w fu l  discrimination in freight  rates  on 
petroleum oils,  such as charging  exorbitant 
nod  extortionate  rates;  suddenly,  without 
notice, raising rates  that  had  been  given 
and relied and acted upon;  making discrim­
inations, amounting  in  some  Instances  to 
243 per  cent,  difference  in  favor  of  the 
Standard Oil  Company  and  against  other 
shippers, and many other violations  of  the 
rights of shippers under the laws governing | 
common carriers.  The companies interposed 
demurrers to the petitions, thus raising  the 
question whether the  facts  alleged  consti­
tuted abuses  of  their franchises by the cor-1 
porations, and whether  the  quo  warranto 
proceeding was the proper remedy  in  such 
cases.  The  Supreme  Court  overruled  the 
demurrers  interposed  by  the  companies, 
thus holding in effect that the facts  alleged 
constituted abuses and misuses  of  the  cor­
porate franchises;  and that,  if  the  allega­
tions  were  supported  by  evidence, 
they 
would render the charters of  the companies 
liable to forfeiture.

OUR  LEADING  BRANDS:

Roller Champion,
Matchless,

Gilt  Edge.

Lily White,

Harvest Queen,
Snow  Flake,

White Loaf, 
Reliance,

OUR  SPECIALTIES: 

Meal.  Bolted  Meal.  Coarse  Meal,  Bran, 

Gold Medal, 
Graham.
Buckwheat  Flour,  Hye  Flour,  Granulated 
Ships. Middlings, Screenings, Corn. Oats, Feed. 
Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Write  for Prices.

G E R M A N   |L.  W i n t e r n i t z ,
MUSTARD . I Grand  Rapids, Mich
MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER

No 

The  m ost  practlca 
hand  R oaster  in  the 
world.  Thousands in 
use—Riving  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.

RoM. S.West,

1 5 0   L o n g   S t., 
Cleveland, Ohio.

O R G A S M   OUTFITS.

Full  outfits  for  the  Collection  Depart­
ment of a Business Men’s Association, con­
taining all the late improvements, supplied 
to order for $ 13.  The outfit comprises: 
1,000 “Blue Letter”  Notification  Sheets, 
for member’s use.
500 Copyrighted Record Blanks,
500 Association Notification  Sheets, and 
500  Envelopes.
Money can be sent by  draft,  post-office 
or express order.
Fuller & Stowe Company,

4P Lyon Street, 

-  Grand Rapids, Mich.

GROUND

COFFEE

The  Only  Popular  Brand  cf

PURE  GROUND  COFFEE

Is  now  being  sold  all  over  the  United  States.

Packed in New Style!  Elegantly Decorated!

50 lb. Tin Drums, (like above cut) price 17 cents per lb.  Also packed in 200 
lb. Barrels, 16 cents per lb. 
In 1 pound  pasteboard  Cartoons, 100 Cartoons 
in box, 17 cents per lb.  No charge  for  packages.  We deliver the  Coffee  in 
500  lb.  lots  and  over.  Terms  60  days, 2 per cent, off  for  cash.  Send for  ^
samples.

QUAN

CHICAGO,  ILLINOIS.

