YOL.  4.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  W EDNESDAY,  JU LY   6,  1887,

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solve to cast off all the  burdens  possible— 
and Jerry among them.

But the business instinct has  impercepti­
bly become a part of your nature, and before 
dropping Jerry you mentally weigh the pro’s 
and con’s of the transaction.  He’s an intol­
erable bore, but he’s profitable;  he tells you 
fifty odd times a year that he is one of your 
most important  customers,  which,  though 
monotonous and  offensive,  is  nevertheless 
true.  His language and  habits are  vulgar, 
but he doesn’t know it;  he is rnde  and ig­
norant, but circumstances made him so, and, 
probably, after weighing him time and again 
in the mental  balance, you will  finally con­
clude not to  unload him  on your  competi­
tors. * 
The great trouble with the Jerry Johnson 
of business is that he is too  liable to put in 
an appearance at an  inopportune  moment. 
When his propensity for boring and  irritat­
ing is at its zenith,  you are perhaps worried 
with half a dozen  annoying  matters,  and 
then his marvelous art of  torture is exhibit­
ed in all its perfection,  and if  you can send 
him away without showing  your sufferings, 
and in the same  self-complacent  mood  in 
which he entered, you have achieved a great 
victory over yourself.
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Of course, all trades and professions have 
their annoyances,  but it sometimes seems as 
if the lion’s share fell to the  merchant,  and 
lucky, indeed,  is the individual who  makes 
traffic in goods' a life-long pursuit,  if nature 
has so created him that the minor trials and 
tribulations of trade pass by

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“Like rain-drops on the placid lake,
That leave no trace behind.”

CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTION.

Its  Success  in  England—Review  of  the 

Recent Congress.

Probably one of the most  memorable cir­
cumstances in the long reign of Queen  Vic­
toria is the initation and rise  of  the  co-op­
erative  idea  in  connection with  the  trade 
and industry of  the United Kingdom.  The 
progress of institutions of this character,  as 
demonstrated at the first meeting of the Co­
operative Congress, held at Carlisle  on  the 
30th ult.,  has  been  truly  wonderful.  At 
that congress,  in  an  address  delivered  by
G.  J.  Holyoake,  we  find  the  following 
strong tribute to a system which  its  advo­
cates and promoters fully  hope  “will  turn 
the land of  England  into  a  beautiful  gar­
den,” and that “without  a  tax  on  foreign 
corn”:  “Future historians of  this  century 
will  find  it  difficult  to  name  any  social 
feature of  the  great  Victorian  reign  more 
original, more English, or  more  beneficent 
than this of co-operation.”
Certainly,  some of  the  figures  given  by 
the various speakers at the Congress in great 
part warrant this  highly eulogistic sentence 
of Mr. Holyoake.  Thus,  paraphrasing  the 
words of one of them, the co-operative  pro­
prietory of Great Britain  and  Ireland  now 
own land,  whole streets  of  dwellings,  and 
almost townships;  they  occupy  and  own 
stately warehouses in Manchester  and Lon­
don,  in  Newcastle-on-Tyne,  and  ia  Glas­
gow; they operate a bank with  transactions 
amounting to 880,000,000 a year;  they  pos­
sess over fourteen hundred  stores,  doing  a 
business  of  8150,000,000  annually;  they 
own share capital to the  amount  of  nearly 
850,000,000; they number 900,000 members, 
who makeover 815,000,000  in  profits  an­
nually;  during  tiie  last  twenty-five  years 
they have done a business of  over  81,800,- 
000,000, yielding a profit of nearly 8150,000,-
000.  They have ships on the sea,  lifeboats 
on the coast,  Aave  invested  in  canals  in 
England,  and  in  trading  companies 
in 
America.  They  own  libraries,  issue  a 
newspaper,  errect  public  fountains,  sub­
scribe to hospitals  and  charities,  establish 
science classes,  and rent or own news-rooms. 
So far, their experiments  in  farming  have 
not kept pace with those  in  manufacturing 
and trading.  Yet the  promoters  of  these 
are hopeful of ultimate success.
The proceedings  of  this  Congress  show 
that  co-operative  distribution  has  been  a 
great success in England, an enormous busi­
ness having been done and large profits dis­
tributed among  the  investors.  The  stores 
buy at the very lowest wholesale rates, give 
no credit and thus  incur  no loss  from  bad 
debts, and can sell their goods at their pur­
chasing prices,  plus the rent  of  stores  and 
pay of clerks, but the custom  has  been  to 
sell at market  rates,  and  sometimes  even 
above, in order to earn and  distribute  good 
dividends.  The  London  Grocers’  Gazette 
says:
“It is abundantly shown,  in  fact,  it  can 
hardly be denied, that the mam result so far 
achieved has been that  the  proprietors  of 
the various stores,  who are also  the  princi­
pal customers,  have  accumulated very large 
amounts of capital, and have,  at  the  same 
time, been in receipt of  bonus  or  dividend 
on  the  amonnt  of  their  purchases,  such 
bonuses in  many  instances  far  exceeding 
the gross profit  obtained  by  retail  traders 
who do a cash business on enlightened lines. 
Whence,  then, are these vast  hoards  deriv­
ed?  A practical  grocer  with  capital  and 
doing a  good  business  buys  of  wholesale 
houses  in  keen  competition  at  the  closest 
profits; these wholesale house, in their turn, 
are to some  extent  importers,  but  for  the 
most  part  they  purchase  on  the  market 
through the agents of the  merchants.  The 
Wholesale Co-operative Society is in a simi­
lar  position,  and  this  society  largely  sup­
plies the retail stores, who are  able  also  to 
buy of other dealers  and  manufacturers  if 
they  so  desire.  The  advantage  in  buying 
possessed by the  stores  over  the  first-rate 
grocer is fractional,  if  appreciable,  and  it 
therefore follows  that  the  capital  accumu­
lates out of the large profis charged  by  the 
stores to their  customers.  We  affirm  that 
grocers who are doing  the  best  for  them­
selves will be  found  to  be  working  at  a 
gross profit of 12 to  16  per  cent.  We  do 
not now refer to cases in which much  cred­
it is given, and where orders are  called  for 
and goods delivered  whenever  wanted,  for 
these conveniences the  customer  must  pay 
an  enhanced  price.  But  what  about  the 
profits of the stores?  At  a meeting  of  the

NO. 198,

North Lancashire section,  T.  Schofield,  in 
the course of reading a paper,  stated:  ‘Take 
the case of  a  leading  tradesman  who  has, 
say,  six  shops,  whose  average  sales  are 
£100 per week each,  giving a  grand  yearly 
total of £31,200.  This man is content,  say, 
with 5 per  cent,  net profit,  which  you  will 
readily admit is a rather low figure,  but for 
argument’s sake we  will  put  it  as  such. 
The yearly income  he  will  draw  from  his 
business is £1,560,  which will allow  him to 
live well and give his  children  a  first-class 
education,  and still allow him  to  put  by  a 
pretty large  sum  towards  making  a  great 
fortune.  Now,  to compete with  this  man, 
who sells a good  and  wholesome  article  I 
will assume, but is content with small  pro­
fits,  would mean a  corresponding  reduction 
by our stores,  which  would  mean  smaller 
dividends, and to my mind this is where the 
shoe would  pinch.  There  are  those  who 
are ever crying out  for  large  dividends  ir­
respective of circumstances,  and I must  ad­
mit that to pay a good dividend,  say,  from 
2s. 6d.  and upwards,  if very well,  providing 
you can educate your  members  to  the  fact 
that whatever profits  are  put  upon  their 
goods come  back  to  them,  after  allowing 
for a reasonable and  well-managed concern. 
But, mind you, I do  not  recommend  large 
dividends,  but would  prefer  to  reduce  the 
prices of our goods and put  ourselves  in  a 
position to say to  the  private  trader:  We 
can sell  as  cheap  as  you,  in  addition  to 
dividing  amongst  ourselves 
the  profits 
which hitherto we have allowed  you as  one 
man to enrich yourself with.’
“In the course of a discussion  which  fol­
lowed, Thos.  Swann  said:  ’High  dividends 
are  the  course  of  the  co-operative  move­
ment.  When  I  read  in  the  Co-operative 
News of some societies making as  much  as 
3s.  6d. on the  pound  I say  to  myself  that 
tiiey can not do it legitmately.  There  is  a 
certain limit beyond which they can not  go, 
and they ought to be  content  with  a  divi­
dend of 10 per cent.  The  wholesale  trade 
is not  an  immaculate institution,  but  it  is 
able to supply societies more  advantageous­
ly all around than any private trader.’
The  Secretary  said:  ‘It  is  a  common 
practice among those who  deal  in  special­
ties to resort to short weights and measures 
and to adulterations,  but as co-operators we 
set our faces decidedly against such dishon­
est practices.  In Preston our members com­
plained that they could get  better  butter at 
Is. 4d. to Is. 5d. at our stores,  but when the 
committee  investigated  the  matter  they 
found that what had been sold as butter was 
simply butterine, containing 75 per cent,  of 
foreign fat.
“The  proceedings  at  the  Congress,  we 
venture to think,  fully  justified  the  asser­
tion of the Bishop of Carlisle,  who,  in  his 
sermon to the delegates, stated that amongst 
other  communications  he  had  received  a 
pamphlet which asked the question:  Is  the 
shopkeeper worth preserving?’  He  replied 
in  the  affirmative.  The  honest,  wise, 
civil,  skillful shopkeeper was worth preserv­
ing,  and he would  find  that  he  would  be 
able to hold his own.”

Do  You  W ant  to  Buy  or Sell?

From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.

One of  the most  noticeable  features con­
nected with  the  business  transacted at  the 
Board of Trade daily is the  utter absence of 
interest in pork.  For about 40  days the pork 
pit  has  been  practically  deserted,  and  so 
the Inter-Ocean made  a  few  inquries  into 
the matter  yesterday.  As there is a statute 
which makes a  “corner” on pork a criminal 
matter, it was anticipated that when a sum­
mons was taken  out  against  P. D.  Armour 
on  the  allegation  that  lie was  engaged  in 
transactions  in  pork  which  violated  the 
statute,  some  facts  would  be  brought for­
ward which would let  a  little  light in upon 
this  dark  subject, because  if  a  corner  on 
wheat is  “wicked and iniquitous,” a similar 
movement on  pork is equally so.  That suit 
suddenly fell through for  want of  prosecu­
tion,  and  the  general  understanding  was 
that sufficient  interest  had been  brought to 
bear to induce such  a course being pursued. 
On  inquiry of  a  member  of  the Board  of 
Trade whether it  was  true  that while pork 
was  selling  for  815  cash,  settlements  for 
June delivery were made  at 822, he replied, 
“Yes,  it is true.”
Armour  lias  got  all  the  pork  cornered, 
and if  you want a  hundred barrels of  pork 
you can go  to  him and get them at 815,  but 
if  you owe him a  hundred  barrels  of  pork 
and go to him to  settle  because  you cannot 
get it,  he will  only  settle  witli  you at 822. 
There has been  no  trade  to amount to any­
thing at the Board since  March 5,  and from 
a public point  of  view,  absolutely  110  trade 
in pork since  May  1.  Everyone  who  had 
any pork delivered it  to  P. D.  Armour and 
received Ills check for  it,  has been absolute­
ly impossible to buy any pork of anyone ex­
cept  Armour.  There  might  have  been  a 
few isolated cases where  a  man  would sell 
some but within the past thirty days there has 
been absolutely no trade  of  importance  on 
the  Board.  Brokers  ascribe  this condition 
of tilings to a corner which  has been engin­
eered by Mr. Armour,  and  they  assert  that 
all the pork  in  the  West,  Northwest  and 
other places has been brought here and pur­
chased at a higher price than anyone outside 
of Chicago would  pay  for  it.  At the pre­
sent prices of  hogs  pork  could  be  made at 
814 a barrel  or  less, and  short  ribs,  which 
is the same as pork,  are  selling here  at 814 
a  barrel  relatively,  and  the  claim is made 
that under the  existing  corner the public is 
made to suffer.

Mr.  Floyd Should Look Out.

From the Coommercial Bulletin.

Unless  Mr.  Floyd  and  the  other  honest 
members of the  Pure  Food Commission be­
stir themselves, the  movement  is in danger 
of being  captured  to  bolster  up  a gigantic 
monopoly, engineered  by  Mr.  Thurber. 
It 
cannot be charged that  the  Bulletin is jeal­
ous at not being invited to  join the conspir­
ators to advance  the  pecuniary  interests of 
Mr.  Thurber and the scheme  to  establish a 
great grocery  trade  organ,  which  will  en­
deavor to compel jobbers and manufacturers 
to give it support, as  we  do  not  belong  to 
the class of  journals  included  on  the  list, 
being an independent  sheet  devoted  to  the 
best commercial interests of  the Northwest.
A lady clerk in a  Lansing  store  exper­
ienced a  sensation of  a highly  astonishing 
nature in her back hair, while on her way to 
dinner the other day.  She removed her hat 
with marked celerity,  and a large  and very 
lively dove-tinted mouse fell from  her head 
to the sidewalk.

♦  BELKNAP
W ap and Sleii Co.
•W A G O N S !

MANUFACTURERS OF
Lumber  and  Farm

Spring,  Freight,  Express, 

Logging Oarts  and  Trucks 

M il and Dump Carts, 

Lumbermens and 

River Tools.

We carry a large stock of material, and have 
eveir facility for making first-class  Wagons 
of an kinds.
£CT*8pecial  attention  given  to  Repairing,
Shom on Front St«, Grand Rapids, Mich,

♦ Painting and Lettering.

SEEDS

 
The Most Complete Assortment 

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

til  you  get  my prices.

ALFRED J.BROWN
^16-18 N.DimionSt„GrandRapids

Representing Jas. Vick, of Rochester.

,

WANTED.

Btitter, Eggs, Wool, Pota- 
.toes,  Beans,  Dried  Fruit, 
Apples  and  all  kinds  of 
#  Produce.

If you have  any  of the  above  goods  to 
ship, or anything in the  Produce line let us 
hear  from  you.  Liberal  cash  advances 
made when desired.

Earl Bros.,  Commission Merchants,

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO.

Reference:  F i r s t   N a t io n a l   B a n k ,  Chicago. 
M ic h ig a n  T r a d e s m a n , Grand Rapids.

‘  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.

,  » 1 H. 

l i m p   k  Go,

166 South Water St., CHICAGO. 

Reference

F e l s e n t h a l .  G r o s s  &  M i l l e r , Bankers.

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

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GRAND RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED CO.

71 CANAL 8TRBET.

LtJCIUS c.  w e s t ,

1 A ttorney a t P aten t Law  and Solicitor 
’of  American  and  Foreign  patents. 
105 E. Main St.. Kalamazoo, Mich., U. S. A.  Branch  of­
fice, London, Eng.  Practice in U. S. Courts.  Circulars 
free.

PATENTS;
‘ HIRTH  &  KRAUSE,

LEATHER

ft  SHOE  BRUSHES,

SHOE  BUTTONS,

SHOE  POLISH,

ings, etc.  Write  for Catalogue.

SHOE  LAOES.
Heelers,  Cork Soles, Button  Hooks, Dress­
118 Canal Street,  Grand Rapids.
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FOR SALE.

Feed mill, eighteen horse  power  engine, 
good wholesale and retail  trade.  Will  sell 
cheap.  Address  “Feed  mill,”  care  Tile 
T radesman.

*  FURNITURE TO ORDER.

Anything or everything in the 
line of Special Furniture, inside 
finish of  house,  office  or store, 
Wood  Mantels,  and  contract 
work of any kind made to order 
on short notice and in the best 
manner out of thoroughly dried 
w  lumber of  any  kind.  Designs 
^   famished when desired.

Wolverine Chair Factory,

West End Pearl St. Bridge.

EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN,

W.  R.  STEGLITZ,

Proprietor of

LEISURE  HOUR JOTTINGS.

BY A  COUNTRY  MERCHANT.

Manufacturer of the following popular 

brands:

S.&M.

CRICKET.

ROSADORA.

V.  R.  S.
Dealers  not  handling  any of above brands 
Eaton Rapids, 
-  Mich.

are solicited to Send in a trial order..

THE—

GREAT  WATCH  MAKER,

—AND—

JEW ELER

44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
MICH.
HENRY  J.  HARTMAN,

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FOUNDER,

GRAY IRON CASTINGS A SPECIALTY. 

Send for Estimates.

71 South  Front St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

Vv,  O,  Denison,
GRAND  RAPIDS, 

88,90 and 92 South Division Street, 

MICH.

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SALT  FISH

Bought and Sold by

FRANK J. DETTENTHALER,

117 Monroe St.,  Grand Rapids. 

Oysters the Year Around  _g=f

To Cipr Mm

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.

GEO.  T.  WARREN  k  CO.,

Flint,  Midi.
CSTTRCS'S

Bug Finish!

READY FOR USE DRY.

NO MIXING REQUIRED.

It sticks to the vines and Finishes the whole 
crop of Potato Bugs with one applicaiion; also 
kills any Curculio. and the Cotton and Tobacco 
Worms.
This  is  the only safe way  to  use  a  Strong 
Poison; none of the Poison is in a clear state, 
but thoroughly combined  by  patent  process 
and machinery, with material to help the very 
fine powder to  stick to  the  vines  and  entice 
the bugs to eat it, and it is also a fertilizer.
ONE POUND will 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 Bng 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 01 May 
14:  “We sold 3,100 pounds of “Bug Finish” last 
year.  It is rightly named  “Bug  Finish,” as it 
finishes the entire crop of bugs with one appli- 
catiod.  We shall not be satisfied unless we sell 
three  tons  this  year,  as  there  is  already  a 
strong demand for it.  Please send us ten  bar­
rels (3,000 pounds) at once.”
Guaranteed as represented.  Cheaper than
any other Mixture used for the purpose.

MANUFACTURED BY

ÁsMalsomiie Co., Grand Rapids.

Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

B O O K S,
S tatitw  k Srnlms,
CHARLES  A.  COYE,
A. Coy© & Son,

20  and 22  donroe St„  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

Successor to

DEALER IN

AWNINGS § 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.. 

USED TWO WATS {Si l if t
THE BEST LABOR-SAVING SOAP MADE

FULL  DIRECTIONS  ON  THE  WRAPPER.

A Vegetable Oil  Soap.  Contains  No  Rosin.

k  LARGE  “ CHBOMO ”  WITH  THREE  BAB*. 

Manufactured only by the

G. A.  SHOUDY  SOAP CO.
CLARK,  JEWELL 
CO.,

Sole Agents for Western Michigan.

GZ2TS2S2TG  ROOT.

«TXJX>Z>  rib  00.,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

And Full Line Summer Goods.

102  CANAL STREET.

STEAM  LAUNDRY,

43 and 45 Kent Street.

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

cum

Orders  by  Mail  and  Express Promptly At­

tended to.

W ritten Especially for Th e Tradesman.

There are  two  individuals  whom I  can’t 
help disliking.  One is the  customer who is 
continually  representing to  the  dealer that 
his welfare and prosperity  depend very ma­
terially  on  his—the  customer’s—good-will 
and  patronage,  and the other is the  dealer 
that takes every occasion possible  to assure 
the customer that he—the  dealer—is honest 
and immaculate.  Why  can’t  these parties 
see that they are closely approaching the in­
tolerable  bore  and  nuisance? 
If  Jerry 
Johnson  drops  cash  enough into my till to 
make him a profitable and valued customer, 
he draws heavily on  my  gratitude  by  eter­
nally elaborating  on the  fact;  and, if  Mr. 
Dayball is possessed of  all the  elements  of 
integrity, I flatter myself that I  have  suffi­
cient intelligence to discover it without Mr. 
D’s personal  explanation of  the  phenome­
non.

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Is it calculated to impress the man of even 
ordinary  capacity  with  an  exalted  idea  of 
Mr. Dayball’s  exceptional  honesty  to  hear 
that gentleman lecture on his virtues  some­
what in this style?

“I don’t suppose it hurts  Slimmer’s  con­
science to buy mixed  cotton  goods and sell 
’em  for  woolen,  or  to  cutoff  thirty-three 
inches for a yard,  but I   sell  cotton  for cot­
ton and woolen for  woolen,  and  when  you 
buy  things  here  you  get  full  weight and 
measure.  Tom (to his  clerk), did you ever 
know of any of  this  little  petty  swindling 
going on in this store?  Don’t I always cau­
tion you to give honest measure? ” etc.,  etc.
Dayball’s system of proofs resembles that 
of the  itinerant  Israelite  merchant,  who 
was  endeavoring to  sell a farmer’s  wife a 
pair of table-cloths,  but had much  difficulty 
in convincing her that they  were linen.

“Ma-dam,” he observed, “of course 1 peen 
a stranger to  you, but I geef  you my  vort 
dot de Vater  of his  Gundry vas not  more 
bardicular abowd  his  rebudashun for  troot 
dan I vas! 
I del you dose  table-cloth  vas 
linen, but you my feelings greef by dowoting 
my vort!  Now, ma-dam, I proove it to you.” 
And,  going to the door, he  called out to his 
partner, who was waiting on the wagon:
'  “E li! ”

“Vat  you vant,  Solomau?”
“You  know  dose  table-cloth  vat  vhas 
shnniggled into do gundry by  Isaac  Liver- 
stein,  vat we made such aerate pargaiu on?” 
“Like  de  pair we  soldi  de  Bresident’s 

“Yes.”
“Veil, I should  dank I  ought  to,  Solo­

vife?”

mon ! ”

“Vas not close table-cloth all linen?” 
“Efery bardigle,  so liellup me, gracious!” 
“Dere, ma-dam! 
I tole  you I  broove it! 
Nefer  again  don’d you  dowed  de  vort of 
Solomon Ilockelheimer! ”

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that 

The pronoun  “ I ” is a  highly  important 
part of speech,  and its elimination from the 
language would puzzle us terribly, but I am 
afraid that  too  many of  us,  like  Dayball, 
are too familiar with it to  always  suit our 
neighbors’ ideas of taste and propriety.  We 
are all of us more or  less  egotists, and  the 
first person,  singular,  usually occupies such 
a prominent place in our  minds that he fre­
quently obtrudes  himself  on the public in a 
manner 
the  public  deejps  pre­
sumptuous and offensive.  Still, I don’t see 
how we can properly narrate our fish stories, 
or snake  stones, or  war  stories,  without 
frequent reference to the pronoun.  If every 
individual was  prohibited by a rigid  ukase 
from alluding to  himself, the  wells of con­
versation  would  speedily  dry up  and the 
world assume an aspect of  gloom and deso­
lation.  All this  is  undeniably  true.  Let 
us,  therefore,  continue to give  our  neigh­
bors occasion to call us  bores and  egotists, 
but let us draw a line—if we are,  fortunate­
ly, possessed of a fairly reasonable  amount 
of business honor,  integrity and  morality, 
let the public discover it without  verbal as­
sistance from ourselves.
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If I don’t like Mr.  Dayball’s  4‘ style,” all 
I  have to do is to absent  myself  from  his 
place of business; but I  can’t get rid of Jer­
ry Johnson  so  easily,  and it’s a  question 
which  I  frequently  debate  with  myself 
whether I w a n t  to get  rid of  Jerry or  not. 
The fact is, that while Jerry’s habits are not 
alluring,  his shekels are.  Good  customers 
are not over-plenty  these  days, and it is an 
unwritten mercantile law to use every  reas­
onable and honorable effort to keep one when 
you get him.  But then, there’s another side 
to the  question:  you  have  learned,  with 
Longfellow, that “life is short,  and  time is 
fleeting,” and whatever may be your opinion 
about the grave not being its goal, you have 
discovered,  perhaps, after years of compara­
tive poverty,  and enforced economizing, and 
unavoidable  worriment, and  tread-mill in­
dustry,  and alternating  hopes and  discour­
agements, that you have  reached a position 
of modest  independences  but you have also 
discovered,  perhaps,  that you  are  rapidly 
•approaching  the  “sear  and  yellow  leaf’ 
season of humanity,  and that if you propose 
to extract any comfort and  enjoyment from 
life,  and  throw off  its cares and  vexations 
and  annoyments,  the time  for your change 
of programme has fully arrived, and you re­

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Carleton  H.  Mills  ruined  his business as 
the Lynn Manufacturing Co., by placing on 
record,  contrary to  express  agreement,  a 
bill of sale given  to secure  Mills, Barker & 
Barker as his indorsers.  He  says  the bill 
was not recorded until after the payment of 
the note,  and that the result was a complete 
ruining  of  his  credit.  He  has  sued  for 
810,000  damages.

was in town  a  couple  of  days  last  week. 
Mr.  Stuart is cutting out  the  large  tract of 
pine and hemlock  owned  by Arthur  Meigs 
& Co.  He swears by Arthur.

Frank J.  Lamb  recently  purchased  fifty 
feet frontage on South Ionia  street,  oppo­
site the Union depot,  for 85,500, and is now 
offered 81,000 over the purchase  price.  He 
holds the property at 87,500.

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

RETAIL  TRADE  OF  THE  WOLVERINE  STATE.

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Advertising rates made known on application.

WEDNESDAY,  JULY  6,  1887.

The trial of Jacob Sharp  for  the  bribery 
of the New York  Aldermen has resulted in 
his conviction and seems not  unlikely to be 
followed by the  summons  of  the  offender 
before  a  higher  tribunal.  The  terrible 
strain of anxiety under which  the  man has 
been living,  and the sense  of  universal  re­
probation which has dogged him,  have  de­
veloped acute diseases of the heart,  and his 
death may ensue at any  moment.  A  great 
offender against social laws  needs  an  iron 
constitution to bear up under  the  deserved 
penalties  of  his  offence.  William  M. 
Tweed  broke  down  under  exposure, 
and  Jacob  Sharp  is 
the 
same line.

following  on 

Whatever may be said  of  the  failure  of 
co-operative  distribution  in  this  country, 
the English  people seem  to have solved the 
problem  pretty  effectually. 
It  is  possible 
that the disastrous  results  attending co-op­
erative  distribution  are  due  largely to  the 
isolation of  attempts in  this  direction  and 
that when tl\e experiment is tried on a large 
scale it will meet with success.

Neither Webster  nor  any of the more re­
cent lexicographers give place  to  the  word 
“dead-beat.”  Its  derivation  seems to be a 
matter of  doubt,  no  one being  able  to ex­
plain how the prefix came to be used in con­
junction with  the  word  “beat.”  If any of 
T he  T radesman’s  readers  can throw any 
light on the subject,  such  information  will 
be thankfully received.

ignoramus  who 

The  ill-mannered 

is 
engineering the defunct  Pure  Food  Move 
ment is seeking a vindication of  his  eourse 
at the hands of  those  house  organs  which 
expousehis  cause.  So  far,  no  reputable 
journal has given  him  the  satisfaction  he 
craves.

More stores were closed  in Michigan this 
Fourth of July than ever before—one result 
of  organization.  More  leisure  is  being 
taken by business men  than  ever  before— 
another result of  organization.

The latest “ Lost Cause” is the  deceased 
Pure  Food  movement,  so-called.  Requi- 
escat in pace.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

Cadillac.

R. McKinnon, Hopkins.
F. E. Thatcher, Ravenna.
H. T. M. Treglown, Lowell.
W. H. Beach, Holland.
D. E.  Soper,  Newaygo.
Neal McMillan, Rockford.
W. 8. Johnson, Sutton’s Bay.
W. F. Stuart. Crofton.
D. Clelland, Coopersville.
N. Houma, Fisher.
DeWitt & Ridout, Spring Lake.
Chas. McCarthy,  Lowell.
Wm.J. Eddy, Rockford.
F. W. Bunker, Casnovia.
S. W. Robinson, Edgerton.
F. D. Warren, Martin.
H. W. Potter, Jenisonville.
J. P. Dwinell, Carlyle.
C. H. Joldersrna, Jamestown.
Gus Begman,  Bauer.
M. H. McCoy, Grandville.
Eli Runnels, Corning.
Jas. Massie, Greenville.
J. P. Pruim, Zeeland.
C. M. Shaw, Sparta.
W. G. Tefft, Rockford.
H. B. Hawley & Son, Westwood.
Spring & Lindley. Bailey.
Wm. Farrowe, South Blendon.
Farrowe & Dalman, Allendale.
J. Kamps, Zulphen.
P. Brautigam, North Dorr.
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade.
Frank  C.  Sampson,  Sampson  &  Drury, 
Wm.  Bell, Nottawa.
C. M. Shaw, Sparta.
R. K. McKinnon, Hopkins,
R.  S.  Smith,  Waylaud.
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
T. J. Sheridan & Co.,  WoodviTle.
M. Gezon, Jenisonville.
Wooden & Van Winkle, Casnovia.
A. C. Barkley. Crosby.
DeKruif, Boone & Co., Zeeland.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
Herder & Lahuis, Zeeland.
C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonvilie.
Childs & Carper, Childs Mill.
B. Gilbert & Co., Moline.
O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna.
Velzy Broe., Lamont.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
S. Cooper, Jamestown.
H. Van Noord, Jamestown.
W. M. Rogers, Feunville.
John Damstra, G itch ell.
J. F. Hacker, Corinth.
Den Herder & Tanis,  Vriesland.
Heyboer Bros., Drenthe.
G. Ten Hoor, Forest Grove.
J. E. Thurkow, Morley.
R. H. Topping, Casnovia.
C. E. Manley, Kinney.
Cole & Chapel, Ada.
F. A. Jamison, South Boardman.
J. T. Perham, Kent City.
J. N. Wait, Hudsonvilie.
Walker & Hewitt. Lansing.
J. Q. Look, Lowell.
R.T. Parrish, Grandville.
M. Minderhout, Hanley.
C.  F. Williams, Caledonia.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
G. H. Walbrink. Allendale.
A, A. Weeks, Grattan.
Dave  Holmes,  West  Michigan  Lumber Co.. 
Geo. Carrington, Trent,
F. B. Watkins, Hopkins Station.
R. A. Hastings, Sparta.
S. F. Frye, Crooked Lake.
Gordon Sinclair,  Bangor.
Adam Newell, Burnip’s Corners.
E. R. White, Reed City,
L. Cook, Bauer.
The Pickney  Dispatch  thus refers to  the 
latest sensible craze:  “The creamery is de­
veloping appetites  for  buttermilk.  Unless 
the management withhold  the  beverage,  it 
will be hard weaning a few when they shut 
down.”

Woodville.

In Turkey when a  man  is  found  selling 
adulterated food or drugs his ears are nailed 
to a wall.

AMONG THE TRADE.
GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

John IJprowe has  engaged in  the grocery 
business at So. Blendon.  Amos  S. Mussel 
man & Co. furnished the stock.

The Grand Rapids School  Furniture  Co, 
is so rushed  with  business  that  orders  in 
some departments have to be refused.

F.  Vallier has purchased the  fish  market 
at 23 West Bridge  street,  formerly  owned 
by T.  Visine,  and  will  continue  the  bus! 
ness.

S.  F. Frye, general dealer at Altona,  has 
opened a branch drug and grocery  store  at 
Crooked Lake.  The  Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug Co. furnished the stock.

Gregg & Co., who formerly  conducted  a 
grocery business at the comer of Grandville 
and Wealthy avenues, have closed  out their 
stock and retired from business.

P. A.  DeWitt  and  S.  S.  Ridout  have 
formed a copartnership under the firm name 
of DeWitt &  Ridout  and  engaged  in  the 
drug business at Spring Lake.  The  Hazel- 
tine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.  furnished  the 
stock.

The Grand  Rapids  Portable  House  Co, 
has lately shipped Densraiore veneer cottages 
to Paul Smith Station,  N.  Y.; Newburg, N, 
Y.;  Bay  View,  Mich.;  Macatawa  Park, 
Mich.; Fort  Worth,  Texas;  Los  Angeles, 
Cal.; San Diego, Cal.; Bedloe’s Island, N. Y. 
Puerto Cortez,  Honduras.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Bannister—Garrett  Bros,  succeed  C.  O, 

Garrett in general trade.

Hastings—Henry Withey has  bought  H, 

H.  Gill & Co.’s bazaar.

Grand Haven—D.  Gale  has  got  nicely 

settled in his new store.

Pine Creek—Chas. G. Morris succeeds  F, 

E. Riley in  general trade.

Allendale—I. J.  Quick,  general  dealer, 

did not sell out, as was reported.

Jackson—Gilzon & Toole  succeed  J.  F, 

'Shaw in the boot and shoe business.

Climax—Smith &  Cole  succeed  Warren 

Smith in the drug and grocery trade.

Chelsea—-Frank P.  Glazier succeed  Glaz 

ier,  DuPuy & Co. in the drug business.

Howard  City—O.  J.  Knapp  succeeds 
Knapp & Walsworth  in  the  grocery  bus! 
ness.

Cold water—Horace J.  Woodward  &  Son 
succeed  Horace Woodward in the dry goods 
business.

Ed more—H.  W.  Robson, 

the  Edmore 
grocer, was married on June  30  to  a  Cin­
cinnati  lady.

Eaton Rapids—C. A.  Coller  &  Co.  have 
bought out I. N.  Reynolds’  flour,  feed  and 
grocery business.

Gladwin—H. Hoffman & Co.,  dealers  in 
dry goods and  clothing,  have  been  closed 
on chattel mortgage.

Jonesville—Chas. H. TenEyck, the furni­
ture dealer,  hung himself on June 25.  Bus 
iness trouble is  given  as  the  cause  for the 
act.

Morrice—Howard &  Wells  have  bought 
the Geo. Rowell boot and shoe  and  the  S 
W. Wells grocery  stocks  and  consolidated 
the same.

Coopersville—The business men  are con 
sidering  the  advisability  of  organizing  a 
stock company to engage in the purchase of 
wheat and other farm produce.

Big Rapids—Dr. L. S.  Griswold  has pur­
chased A.  H. Webber’s interest in the  drug 
business of A.  H. Webber  & Co.  The new 
firm name will be Griswold & McGregor.

Langston—Wm. Stansell’s store and gen­
eral stock was destroyed by fire on June 27. 
The  fire  was  caused  by  a  lighted  cigar, 
which had fallen  through  a  crack  in  the 
floor.  Loss,  81,000.

Evart—M.  Belanger & Co.’s  peevy  fac­
tory was partially destroyed by fire on June 
28.  The loss will reach about 81,500.  Bus­
iness  will be  resumed in the  rink,  which 
has been purchared for  that purpose.
MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

New Era—A.  L.  Dennis  is  repairing his 

sawmill.

Lawrence—John Sebring, of Bangor, will 

start a bank here.

Muskegon—Kelly Bros,  are making 1,000 

refrigerators for an Eastern firm.

West  Bay  City—Handy  Bros,  succeed 
Handy &  Cramer  in  the  manufacture  of 
boxes.

Cadillac—Cummer & Son will extend their 
logging  railroad  three  miles  further  into 
the woods.

Oscoda—The J.  E. Potts Lumber Co. now 
has seven  railway  engines  in  the  woods 
hauling logs.

Muskegon—The  Muskegon  Car .Works 
are employing over 200 men and are crowd­
ed to their fullest capacity.

Reed City—Harvey Hawkins and  W.  W. 
Smith have formed a  copartnership  to  en­
gage in the manufacture of the I.  X.  L. bed 
spring.

Kalamazoo—The Kalamazoo  Wagon  Co. 
will put up a new factory,  250 feet  long,  65 
feet wide, and four stories  high—and put it 
up sudden,  too.

East  Saginaw—The  Condon  Safety  Car 
Heater Co. has been organized for the man­
ufacture  of  the  Condon  car  stove.  The 
capital stock is  8125,000,  with 850,000  paid 
in.

Detroit—J.  B.  Dutton  has  secured  a 
patent  for  an  automatic  grain,  flour  and 
feed scale register,  and a  company  with  a 
capital of 8100,000 has  been  organized  for 
its manufacture.  J.  B. Dutton is president, 
Frank  S.  Draper  vice-president,  Albert 
Linabury  secretary,  and  William  C.  Don­
aldson treasurer.

Detroit—Charles  G.  Smith  claims  that

STRAY  FACTS.

Marshall—A.  Cotman has  opened  a  res­

taurant.

Bay  City—N.  B.  Bradley  succeeds  the 

Bay City Buggy Co.

Hastings—Frank Beanmr will shortly em­

bark in the restaurant business.

Jackson—D. W. Wood has  sold  his  bil­

liard saloon to S. B. Robinson & Co.

Charlevoix—Henry Bennett, President of 

the Charlevoix Savings Bank,  is dead..

Big Rapids—J.  S.  Evans & Co.’s stock of 

musical instruments has been attached.

Bay City—W.  O. Clift is to  be  cashier of 
the new savings  bank,  recently  organized 
with a capital of 8100,000.

Vermontville—Hon. H. G.  Barber’s  bank 
is now open for  business.  W.  C.  Alsover 
will act as accountant and assistant cashier.
Hastings—A.  L.  Phillips,  formerly  con­
nected  with  W.  J.  Bowne’s cigar factory, 
has embarked in  business  on  his  own  ac­
count.

Pewamo—L.  L.  Trask has  sold his inter­
est in the  banking  business  of  Webber & 
Trask to Jas.  H. Ruel.  The  business  will 
be continued under  the style of  Webber & 
Ruel.

The Gripsack Brigade.

Dr.  W. J.  Carter is now on the road a por­
tion of the time for the Grand  Rapids Soap 
Co.

Anthony J.  Quist  has  engaged  to  work 
the city trade for Cody,  Ball,  Barnhart  & 
Co.

Wm. B. Tyler is now on the road  for  D. 
J. Evans  &  Co.,  working  both  city  and 
country  trade.

F. W.  Goldsmith, city salesman for L. D. 
Harris,  spent  Monday  and  Tuesday  with 
friends in Detroit.

L.  K.  Townsend is no longer on the  road 
for Ed. Telfer.  He is now very  ill  at  his 
home at Richland.

Wm. B. Edmunds leaves next week  for a 
tour  of  the Eastern  and  Middle  States  in 
the interest of Putnam & Brooks.

Will.  Jones, 

formerly with  the  Grand 
Rapids Soap Co., has gone back on the road 
for J. H.  Huyck & Co., of Chicago.

C. L. Nichols, late with H.  H.  Freedman 
& Co., has gone on the  road  for  Bulkley, 
Lemon & Hoops, selling cigars alone.

Dr.  D. S.  Hatfield,  wife and  dogs  have 
gone to Macatawa  Park to spend  the heat­
ed term.  This will be the seventh season they 
have summered at that resort.

W.  H.  Downs  and  wife  has  gone  to 
Hodunk to  spend a week with the former’J 
father.  They will  visit  friends  at  Union 
City before returning  home.

It was Frank Tilton,  traveling  represent­
ative  for W. J.  Gould &  Co.,  of  Detroit, 
who was the hero of the  osculatory episode 
at BelAing a couple of weeks ago.

Cornelius Cornsalve Crawford and  W.  F. 
Blake spent  Sunday  at  Macatawa.  They 
stole a ride from Holland by secreting them­
selves in the cabin of a sailing vessel.

N. B.  Ingersoll, Western Michigan travel­
ing  representative  for  the  Acme  White 
Lead &  Color  Works,  was  in  town  last 
Thursday  and  Friday.  He  pulled  T he 
T radesman’s latch-string.

Chas S.  Willcox has  severed his  connec­
tion with  Reid,  Murdock  &  Fischer,  of 
Chicago, and gone to  Wichita,  Kansas,  on 
a prospecting tour.  He may go on  to  Cal­
ifornia before returning  home.

W. J. Richards,  of Union  City,  was  in 
town last, week.  He is naturally very much 
elated over the designation of the T.  P.  A. 
band of Uuion City—of which he  is  drum 
major—as the National band of the  organi­
zation.

F.  R.  Miles, 

the  handsome  hardware 
drummer,  is putting in  a week  at  Detroit, 
Fenton  and  Pontiac.  Business  men  in 
those  places  having  pretty  wives  and 
daughters would do well  to  lock  them  up 
until after the invasion is over.

F. W. Grummond,  of  the  firm  of  Hull, 
Grummond &  Co.,  cigar  manufacturers  at 
Brighamton, N.  Y.,  was  in  town  two  or 
three days last week.  He is  out  this  time 
on  a  combination  business  and  wedding 
trip, liaviug married about eight weeks ago.

#  Purely Personal.

Wm. Bell, the Nottawa groceryman,  was 

in town Monday and Tuesday.

H. B.  Fairchild has the foundation up for 

his new residence on Wealthy avenue.

Oscar  1).  Fisher,  manager  for  Arthur 
Meigs & Co., has  returned  from  his  vaca­
tion at Ottawa  Beach.

G. R. Mayhew left this morning for a two 
weeks’ visit among the shoe  manufacturers 
of Boston and vicinity.

E.  Densmore,  of the Grand  Rapids Porta­
ble House Co., left last night for the Pacific 
slope,  to be gone about six weeks.

John Yandenbergh, of Charlotte,  was  in 
town Tuesday settling  up  with  Perkins  & 
Hess,  for whom he purchased wool at Char­
lotte.

D. Andrew Holmes, the  close  buyer  for 
the West Michigan Lumber Co.,  at  Wood­
ville, was in the city Saturday  on  ljis  way 
to a visit to his parents  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.
Fred.  Hosford, the immaculate book-keep­
er for Wm.  Sears &  Co.,  now bears a strik-* 
ing resemblance  to  Congressman Ford.  A 
visit to the barber shop was the cause of the 
transformation.

W. F. Stuart, the Crofton  general dealer,

Proprietors of

VOIGT MILLING  CO.,
Crescent Roller Mills
Crescent,  W hite Rose, 

Manufacturers of the following well 

known  brands:

Vienna, Royal Patent,

AND

ALL  WHEAT  FLOUR.

The Great Health Food.

W . end Pearl St. Bridge,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  -  MICH.

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

C IG A R S

Factory  No.  26,  4th  Bist.

?6S. Division St.,  Grand Rapids.

MISCELLANEOUS.

good  residence  adjoining  same.  Cafch  sales 

Good location for a grocery.  Inquire  of  J. T. 

Coopersville.  The  best  orchard  In  Ottawa 

property in  Grand  Rapids  or  grocery stock. 

• 

200*

Advertisements  will  be  inserted under this 
head for one cent a word or two  cents a word 
for thx-ee 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 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage,

198tf

$800;  in  Petoskey.  Will; exchange  for 
City and farm property for  sale.  Enquire  of 
J. Miller, real estate dealer, 26 Canal st. 
198*

FOR SALE—House, 2 lots and 5 acres;  price 
FOR  SALE—Well-selected  grocery  stock, 

bakery  business,  store  buildings  and 
aggregate  $18,000  per  year.  This  property 
will be offered exceptionally low  for  cash,  or 
cash and time, or will take a  small  unencum­
bered  place  as  part  pay.  Address  J.  W. 
Landes,  276  Champion  st.,  Battle  Creek. 
Mich.__________________  

ton  and  Front  streets.  Boston  Block. 
StraMn, 221 Mt. YernoniSt., Grand Rapids.  200

FOR RENT—Large store, corner  West  FuT 
FOR SALE—120-acre  farm, with  fine  house 

and other buildings,  three miles north of 
county.  Price $7,000 cash.  Address,  for  fur­
ther particulars, E. A.  Stowe,  Grand  Rapids 
Mich. 
TTIOR SALE—A  large  double  store  building 
-L 
and  general  stock of  merchandise,  con­
sisting of dry goods, boots and shoes, hats and 
caps, ready-made  clothing,  furnishing goods, 
notions,  etc.  Building  for  sale  or  for  rent 
with  fixtures.  To  anybody  wishing  to  pur­
chase the stock I will sell cheap, as I am going 
to leave in thirty days.  Address P. Lee, Spring 
Lake, Mich,________________  

dress to this office, as the  same  has been 

good running order.  Capacity 25  Mpine 
and line rollers.  For  further  particulars  en- 
quire of J. F. Clark. Big Rapids, Mich.  196tl’

groceries  at  sacrifice,  In  rattling  town. 
separate, if desired.  Exchange  for unincum­
bered  farm or  other  business.  D. & G.,  care 
Tradesman. 

■OR SALE  CHEAP—Portable  saw  mill  in 
■OR SALE—$2,500  new  stock of  drugs and 
■OTIOE—Will  “D. & G.”  please send his ad­
FOR SALE—In the fast-growing city of Mus 
FOR SALE—A big iee box, suitable  for  gro­
FOR  SALE—Fine  residence  property  on 

kegon, a choice stock of groceries, includ­
wagons.  Corner store, well located, everything 
in good shape.  Address H, lock box E, Muske­
gon, Mich. 

cer or small meot  market.  Almost  new. 

Rapids.__________________  

this request.

ing  store 

196tf

197tf

]99*

198*

B. S. Harris, 525 South Division  Street, Grand 

lumber per day.  Gang edger, saw dust carrier, 

Five dry goods stores,  one drug store.  Drugs 

mislaid.  Several  letters  await a  response to 

fixtures,  horses  and  delivery 

farming  community  In  Northern  Michigan. 

inches wide.  The  box is zinc lined and nearly 

177tf

192tf

Brundage, Muskegon, Mich. 

scales,  six  tea  cans,  six spice  cans, one 
delivery wagon.  All of  the foregoing will  be 
sold cheap for cash.  M.  J.  Lewis,  72  Grand- 
ville avenue. Grand Rapids. 

■OR SALE—The best drugstore in the thriv­
■OR SALE—Two store  counters, three  sets 
■OR SALE—Best  bargain  ever  offered  for 
■OR SALE—Ice box, 6 feet and 2 inches high, 

general  stock  In growing town  in  good 
Stock  will inventory about  $6,000.  Sales last 
year were $60,000.  Address ’The Tradesman,” 
Grand Rapids. 

2 feet and II  inches  deep and 5 feet and 2 
new.  J. C. Shaw, 79 Canal street,  Grand Rao-
ids.___________________ _ _ _______I89tf
"ITTANTED—To exchange  farm worth $2,500 
t v 
for a stock  of goods.  Address  Box  23, 
Tradesman office, 

■ ANTED—By  a  man  of  ability,  a jotTin 
wholesale or retail store, express office, 
Best of references.  Address J. M. Laberteaux, 
Benton Harbor, Mich. 
200*
W ANTED—Agents to handle the New Chem - 
leal Ink Erasing Pencil.  Greatest  nov­
elty ever  produced.  Erases  ink  In  two sec­
onds, no abrasion of paper.  200 to 500 per cent, 
profit.  One agent’s  sales amounted to $620.00 
In Six Days;  another $32.00 in two hours.  Ter­
ritory absolutely free.  Salary  to  good  men. 
No ladies need answer.  Sample 35 cents.  For 
terms and full particulars  address the  manu­
facturers, J. W. Skinner & Co., Onalaska. Wis­
consin. 
\\T ANTED  — To  exchange  a  nice  house 
” ” 
and lot in Big Rapids  for a  drug  store, 
Grand Rapids preferred.  Address  H. L. Hall, 
care Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.,  Grand 
Rapids. Mich. 
\\T ANTED—A  man  having  an  established 
” ” 
trade among lumbermen to add a  spec­
ial line and sell on commission.  To  the  right 
man a splendid chance will be given  to  make 
money without  extra expense.  Address “B,” 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

__________   197tf

201*tf

178tf

200*

or any kind of  situation  that  is  respectable. 

Mou nt Vernon street, west side, with bath 
room, closets  and  all  modern  conveniences, 
for sale for $5,000 cash, or will trade for  stock 
of general merchandise or goods in any partic­
ular line.  Address N. A. Fletcher,  Houseman 
Building, Grand Rapids.____________ I95tf

The undersigned will  pay  the high­
est  market  price  for  HEMLOCK 
BARK  loaded  on  board  cars  at  any 
side track on the G. R.  & I. or  C  & W. 
M. Railroads.  Correspondence  solicit­
ed.
small coffee mill and two  show-cases, also one 

ing city of Muskegon.  Terms easy.  C. L. 
193tf

N.  B.  CLARK,

101 Ottawa St., 

Grand Rapids

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Utility and ejcc^o^y

j S h e l v i N g -

M  A C H I N  E & Y
s, Matchers, Moulders and all  kinds 
Pla 
Wood-Working Machinery, Saws, 

Belting  and  Oils.

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S uitable:  for.  Various 
widths  or  SHELVING.
PATENTED  OCT.  19,  1887.

Manufactured by

KOCH  A.  B.  CO.

354  MAIN  ST.,

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

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

WRITE FOR PRICES.

130 Oakes St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Association Notes.

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4

4

4

;  4

4

4

%

4

4

%

Several Fourth of July celebrations  were 
conducted under the  auspices  of  Business 
Men’s Associations this year.

The editor of The T radesman  will  or­
ganize  a  Business  Men’s  Association  at 
Eaton Rapids on Thursday evening.

The Dimondale B.  M. A.  is  the  seventy- 
first organization to affiliate  with  the State 
body.  This adds  twenty  members  to  the 
list, increasing the total to 2,147.

The Holland Business  Men’s  Association 
inaugurated and carried out the 4th  of July 
celebration at that place—and the event was 
a success in  every  respect,  attracting  the 
largest crowd ever  seen in Holland.

The Flint Mercantile Union is out with  a 
quarterly delinquent sheet which rivals  the 
State sheet in  size. 
It  gives  evidence  of 
careful compilation and is worth its  weight 
in diamonds to any Flint business man.

Owosso Times:  “Secretary Lamfrom, of 
the Owosso B. M. A.,  has  been  selected to 
prepare and read a paper ou Manufacturing, 
its Benefits and How to Obtain,Them,  at the 
convention of the Michigan  Business Men’s 
Association at Flint,  Sept. 6 and 7.

The  Kalkaska B. M.  A. gave  a  banquet 
last Tuesday evening to the Charlevoix and 
Bellaire B. M. A.’s and the stockholders of 
the Detroit,  Charlevoix  &  Escanaba  Rail­
way.  A  number  of  pleasant  responses 
were made to appropriate toasts.

Detroit  News:  There  were  250  guests 
present at  the first banquet of  the  Owosso 
Business Men’s Association Friday.  Every 
body felt so well over the  affair  that  there 
remains little doubt  the Owosso casket fac­
tory will get the appropriation for which  it 
asks.
H. 

Chambers,  of the Cheboygan Business 

I, 

Men’s Association, writes President Hamil­
ton  as  follows: 
too,  rejoice  with you 
over the onward  march and grand  success 
of our Michigan  Business  Men’s  Associa­
tion.  Our local  association is in a flourish­
ing condition and every  member is perfect­
ly satisfied with the benefits  derived so far.
I do not expect to go to Flint as a  delegate 
from our  Association,  but am  pleased that 
I can go as an officer of the  State  Associa-! 
tion,  and shall  certainly be there  if  on top 
of the earth and able.  Can’t  afford to miss 
it.  There is  wealth and  happiness in such 
gatherings.

Watervliet  Record:  A  Business  Men’s 
Association  was  organized in a little town 
in Northern  Michigan,  and  shortly  after­
wards a man received what they call a Blue 
Letter,  notifying him that  unless he  made 
some preparation toward paying an account 
that had  been  standing a year or  two,  an­
other name would  shortly be  added  to the 
list of  dead-beats—which  list  was  in the 
hands of the Secretary  of the  Association. 
The man did  not feel  disposed to  pay his 
debt until he got a “good ready,”  therefore 
he stuck the  Blue  Letter in the  stove and 
thought no more about it until one  evening 
a few weeks afterwards, he went to town to 
get his boots repaired,  and  half a  pound of 
fine cut “on  tick.”  To  his  surprise,  the 
shoemaker  demanded  payment in advance, 
and  there  was not  a store in  town  that 
would trust him to the tobacco,  although he 
damned each  merchant “up hill and down” 
for refusing him credit and declared he nev­
er would trade with  them  again.  Just be­
fore he left town, he  encountered  the man 
who sent him the Blue Letter,  and was  ad­
vised to square up the  account,  and then lie 
would be  able to get  credit at any  store in 
town.  The next morning he brought Half a 
dozen chickens and a load of  stove-wood to 
town and  squared  up,  and now he  boasts 
that he  always pays  his debts  promptly at 
the appointed  time.  A few  months ago a 
gentleman  went away from Grand  Rapids 
leaving several debts  behind.  At the town 
he moved to he  could  not  obtain a  cent’s 
credit, and was advised by the merchants to 
go back  to Grand  Rapids and pay up.  He 
did so, and now he has  friends  and  credit 
among the business men of the  town where 
he resides.

President Hamilton has issued the follow­
ing address to the local associations  of  the 
State:  We are just now  elated over the in­
corporation of the Michigan Business Men’s 
Association and auxiliary bodies.  This will 
tend to solidily our organizations and give our 
work such recognition  throughout the State 
as it very justly deserves.  Our  efforts  will 
now be toward a more perfect,  uniform sys­
tem,  yet  we do not want  to  erace  the  life 
—the spirit—which has always been  appar- 
ant in the work,  giving place to mere form. 
This is too often the case and  we  would be 
delivered from it.  Wherever  an  organiza­
tion  exists upon a weak  basis,  or  where  a 
radical change is needed,  this  act  will  af­
ford a stepping-stone to re-organization and 
renewed efforts.  Each day we are  growing 
stronger and nothing but  good  awaits  our 
united  efforts.  We  have  reaped  many 
benefits  from  our  associated  endeavors. 
Personal sacrifice is needed still and  when­
ever it  has been  given,  good  results  have 
followed. 
“Hang  and  work  together,” 
says Bro. Sprague, which I consider a  good 
motto to follow.  We have the  satisfaction 
of knowing positively that a healthier trade 
sentiment exists than one year ago.  There 
is greater caution in granting,  and  less call 
for, credit, and prompter payments.  There 
is also a growing sentiment in favor  of  ear­
ly closing and many other good results from 
less than one year’s labor.  The columns  of 
our  official  paper,  T he  T radesman,  are 
replete with valuable matter  for  the  busi­
ness man and are open for the discussion of 
trade measures.  “Onward and  upward” we 
are moving.  The influence  of  2,100  busi­
ness men will be felt far  and  near.  Unite 
with us in pushing still  further by sec uring 
a charter when  ready.

The Owosso Association Gives a Banquet.
The  Owosso  B.  M.  A.  celebrated  the 
completion of the first half year of its exist­
ence and the inauguration of  the  new  offi­
cers by giving a banquet last Friday evening. 
The event  was  graced  by the  presence of 
over 200 ladies  and  gentlemen,  including 
visitors from  surrounding  towns,  and  was 
a red letter occasion  for  all  who  attended. 
The  members  of  the  Association, are  so 
elated over  the  success  of  their  first  at­
tempt  in the  entertainment  line  that  they 
propose to repeat  the banquet again  in  the 
winter.  The following literary programme 
was carried out after the  toothsome  viands 
had been demolished:

patrick,  Owosso.

Oar  City  Fathers—Hon.  W.  M.  Kil­
Our  Neighbors—J.  M.  Fitch,  Corunna.
The  Commercial  Traveler—  Geo.  W. 
Noble, Buchanan.
The Business Man as a Benefactor—Hon. 
A. B.  Clark, Morrice.
Music—‘ ‘America. ”
Doctoring  Merchandise—Hon.  Colin
McCormick, Owosso.
Business Habits  of  the  Antediluvians — 
C. P. Parkill, M.  D.,  Owosso.
Relations of the Lawyers to  Other  Busi­
ness Men—Hon J.  W. Turner,  Owosso.
The Grace of Grit—Rev.  Geo. H.  Wilson, 
Owosso.
Benediction—Rev.  Dr.  Conover, Owosso.
Ex-President* James  Osborn  performed 
the difficult duties of toastmaster in  a  very 
acceptable rnanne.

secretary lamfrom’s report.

Owosso, July 2,  18S7.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dea r Sir—At the  last  regular  meeting 
of Ithe Owosso B.  M.  A.,  I  rendered  the 
following report of  receipts  and  disburse­
ments.
From 56  memberships...........................   $56 00
From quarterly dues..............................   52 00
From 6*aio of  Hlue Letters.....................   3 02
Total  receipts....... — ........................$111 02

receipts.

DISBURSEMENTS.

For postage............................................  $600
For dues to State A ssociation................  5 05
For books and stationery............ i........  
5 10
For printing............................................  17  85
For copying............................................ 
1 00
For ringing closing bell.........................  
150
T otal...................................................   $36 60
Balance on  hand...................................  74 52
I have sent out 329 of the last notification 
sheet.  Seventy-seven  persons  thus  ad­
dressed paid up,  seventeen letters  were  re­
turned,  228 names were  put  on  the  delin­
quent list and  seVen  were  withheld  from 
the list  for  reasons  deemed  good  by  the 
Executive Committee.
The Association  has  lost  two  members 
by death—M. C. Sayer,  on February 6, and 
Ex-Treasurer J.  F. Laubengayer on  March 
22.
The following officers  have  been  elected 
to serve for the ensuing six months:
President—W.  A. Woodard.
Vice-President—H.  W.  Parker.
Secretary—S. Lamfrom.
Treasurer—J. M.  Terbush.
Executive  Committee—President,  Secre­
tary, Treasurer, James  Osbum  and  E.  A. 
Todd.
Committee  on  Advertising  and  Manu­
facturing—Charles Lawrence,  N. C.  Payne 
and L.  E.  Woodard.
City  Improvement  Committee—H.  W. 
Parker,  C.  S.  Williams and G.  F.  North.

Yours truly,

S.  L amfrom,  Sec’y.

How to Treat the  Responsible  Delinquent 

—Association Reciprocity.

H ubbardston, June 27,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

Dea r Sir—Where  a man  is responsible, 
but  fearfully  slow  pay,  lias a member any 
right to send him a Blue  Letter, and  report 
him as a delinquent,  if he does not pay after 
due notice.
Two  names  reported  in  our  delinquent 
list,  but not published on the State list,  live 
the saute distance from Carson City they do 
from  here.  They  have  been  reported  at 
home  as  dead-beats,  but  their  credit  has 
been good and  now they can  go  to  Carson 
and get credit  until  they are  reported from 
there,  just  because  their  P.  O.  address  is 
Hubbardston.  They  also  live  but  a  little 
further from  Maple  Rapids  than Carson or 
Hubbardston.  They can  swing  around the 
circle  for  several  months. 
It  seems  as 
though this is uot just.
We took in two new  members at our  last 
Yours,
meeting. 

L.  W. Robinson,  Sec’y.

The  Tradesman can see no reason why 
the Blue Letter should not sent  to  persons 
who  are  responsible,  as  such  notification 
gives  no  intimation  of  a  delinquent  list. 
The  last  blank,  however,  which  gives  the 
delinquents the alternative of  paying or be­
ing  classed  as  dead-beats,  should  not  be 
sent to men who are responsible,  as the law 
provides a  remedy in  such  cases. 
Instead 
of  the  regulation  blank,  another  form  of 
notification could be sent  such  persons,  in­
forming them  that failure  to  comply  with 
the demand for payment will  subject  them 
to  the  annoyance  of  being  placed  on  an 
“Undesirable  Credit”  list.  Such a list has 
been in use  by the  Traverse  City  Associa­
tion for  some  time  and  has  worked  very 
advantageously. 
It is  the  first  step in the 
direction of a complete rating system, which 
will eventually be adopted in this State—by 
which system the  retailer will have as thor­
ough knowledge of  the  habits and standing 
of his customers as the jobber  now  has  of 
the  retail trade.

Regarding  the  writer’s  second  enquiry, 
The T radesman would advise  Mr. Robin­
son to report to  the  State  Association  the 
persons referred to,  when their  names  will 
be placed on  the  State  list  and  from  that 
list  transferred  to  the  Carson  City  list. 
This is the proper method to head  off  such 
delinquents  and will be found to work very 
advantageously.

T he  T radesman  would  suggest that it 
would be an excellent idea for the Pewamo, 
Hubbardston and  Carson  City Associations 
to  hold  union  meetings  occasionally  and 
talk over such points as are of mutual inter­
est—including the standing  and  character­
istics of  men who are in the habit of trading 
at more than one  of  the  towns in question. 
Such meetings have  resulted in  much good 
at several places in the  State  and  there  is 
no reason why the places  above  referred to 
should not secure the same benefits.

Acknowledgment from  the  Author  of the 

Cole BUI.
Lansing, June 28,1887.

E. A. Stowe,  Sec’y  Michigan  Business  Men’s 
Association:
Dea r  Sir—Permit  me  to  thank  you, 
through T he Michigan  T radesman,  for 
your timely assistance in the passage of the 
Anti-compact insurance bill.  But for  your 
aid,  it would probably  have  been  destined 
to the same defeat  it  had  received  in two 
former Legislatures.  You came to  the res­
cue,  and by interesting  others  in  the  pas­
sage of the biU, succeeded in bringing  such 
pressure to bear  on  the  Senate  that  they 
could not help ignore the fact that  business 
men through the State were looking to them 
for relief from the tyranny of foreign insur­
ance  companies.  The  Governor has prob­
ably  ere  this signed the  bill,  which  will, 
in my judgment, when  it  takes  effect,  rid, 
the State of one of the most tyrantical  com­
pacts ever organized in this country.
I wish also to thank the business  men  of 
Grand Rapids for their united effort in help­
ing along the good  work.  Messrs.  Widdi- 
comb  and  Yan  Asmus  have  my  special 
thanks. 

Yours very truly,

M.  T.  Cole.

Good Report from Evart.

E vart, June 28,  1887.

E. A. Stowe. Grand Rapids:
Dea r Sir—Enclosed please find 80  cents 
for  eight  new  members,  which  makes  us 
thirty-five in all.  We now  have  our Asso­
ciation in good  working  order and we have 
received great benefit already.

Yours, 

C. E.  Be l l,  Sec’y.

A venerable-looking old  man  applied  for 
a pint of California brandy last  week  at  a 
druggist’s, stating that he  wanted it  to  re­
vive the color of a work  of  art.  “Ah,  that 
is for a mechanical purpose,” paid the clerk, 
“and here it  is.”  The old man  signed  for 
the liquor according  to  the requirements of 
the law, and, paying for  it,  started  toward 
the  door.  Before  departing,  however,  he 
faced about,  and, with a droll expression on 
his countenance,  said:  “It is to  revive one 
of  the  old  masters.”  Too  late  the  clerk 
realized that the old man  regarded  himself 
as an old master.

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

J. E. Wa lk er,

W H I P S

ADDRESS

GRAHAM  ROYS,  -  Grand Rapids, Mich.

What do you think of this?  While in conver­
sation  with  Wm. M. Dale,  one of  the largest 
druggists  in  Chicago,  we  were  surprised  to 
learn that he had sold over one and a half mil­
lion of Tansill’s  Punch 5c. cigars  and that the 
quality gets better all the time.  The  demand 
continues to increase.  Let us tell you, if you 
want to sell a cigar  that your  customers  will 
be pleased with, the sooner you order Tansill’s 
Punch the better .—Independent Grocer.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

fl.  LEO N AR D   l  SONS,
Mason's Porcelain Lined 
FRTJIT  JA R S,

HEADQUARTERS  FOR

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P in ts......................................................................Per gross $10.00
Quarts.................................................................... 
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PRICES.

CLARK, JEWELL T   GO.
Wholesale Grocers,

GRÄND  RÄPID8,  MICH-

MOSELEU  BROS.,

WHOLESALE

Fruits, Seeds,  Oysters & Produce,

ALL  KINDS  OF  FIELD  SEEDS  A  SPECIALTY.

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

toes, will be pleased to hear from you.

26,28,30 

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Bi.  F  A  I .  l j  A  8 ,

Makes a Specialty of

Butter  and  Eggs,  Fruits  and  Oysters,

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

We Handle the Celebrated “ROCK BRAND” Oysters.

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

217 and 219 Livingstone Street, 

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Grand Rapids, Michigan,

P E R K I N S   Sc  H E S S ,
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

DEALERS IN

NOS.  128  and  124  LOUIS STREET, GRAND  RAPIDS. MICHIGAN.

WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL  USE.
J.  T.  BELL  CO.,

Wholesale  Fruits  and  Produce,

EAST  SAGLINAW,  MICH.

G, G. 11.1/OIGT  1  CO.

Proprietors of

Star Roller Mills.

Manufacturers of

“Our Patent,”

“Star,”

“Calla Lily,”

“Golden Sheaf,” 

“Our  Fancy.”
Rye Flour,  Granulated Meal, 
Bolted  Meal,  Bran  Mid­

dlings and Screenings.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
-  MICH.
Cold  Storage.
W e are prepared  to  receive  from  Mer­
Butter, Cheese and Eggs,

chants and others consignments of

for COLD  STORAGE.  W e  have  one of 
the best Cold Storage Houses in Michigan. 
Solicit  Correspondence.  Rates  made  for 
long or short time.
Office with Cheney & Anderson, under Fourth 

GRAND  RAPIDS STORAGE  CO. 

National Bank.

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

The furniture factories  here pay as  follows 
for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run...........................12  00@14 00
Birch, log-run.................................. 15  00@18 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2...........................   @25 00
Black Ash, log-run..................... .... .13 0O@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, clear, flooring.......................  @25 Of)
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
Walnut, log-run................................  @55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2........................   @75 00
Walnuts,  culls.................................   @25 00
Grey Elm, log-run..............................   @13 00
White Ash,  log-run......................... 14  00@16 00
Whitewood,  log-run........................20  00@22 00
White Oak, log-run.......................  .  @17 00

WOODENWARE.

..................................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 25
Butter Ladles....................................................1 00
Rolling Pins..................................................  75
Potato Mashers............................................  50
Clothes Pounders..............................................2 25
Clothes Pins..................................................  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, Bplint,  No. 1........................................3 50
Clothes, splint,  No. 2........................................4 25
Clothes, splint,  No. 3........................................5 00
Clothes, willow  No. 1........................................5 50
Clothes, willow  No. 2........................................6 50
Clothes. willow  No. 3........................................7 50
Water  Tight, bu............................................... 3 75
half bu........................................2 85

BASKETS.

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Ibarbware.

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GAUGES.
HAMMERS.

f i l e s —New List.

American File Association List....... dis  oo&lO
Disston’s ........................................... dig  60&10
New American...................................dis  60&10
Nicholson’s.........................................dis  60&10
Heller’s ...........................................dis 
55&10
Heller’s  Horse Rasps........................dis 
50
Nos. 16 to 20,  22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27 
28
15 
18
List 
Discount, Juniata 50@10, Charcoal 60. 

GALVANIZED IRON,
14 

12 

h i n g e s .

HANGERS.

HOLLOW  WARE.

HOUSE  FURNISHING GOODS.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..........dis 
50
Maydole & Co.'s................................ dis 
25
Kip’s ............................................... dis 
25
Yerkes  &  Plumb’s..........................dis 
40
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel.................... 30 c list 50
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track  50&10
Champion,  anti-friction................. dis 
60&10
Kidder, wood track.........................dis 
40
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3......................... dis 
60
State.........................................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4*4  14
and  longer..........................................  
3*4
Screw Hook and Eye,  *4  .................net 
10*4
Screw Hook and Eye %.....................net 
8*4
Screw Hook and Eye 
.................... net 
7*4
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.................net 
7*4
70
Strap and  T ....................................dis 
60
Pots........................................................ 
Kettles...................................................  
eo
Spiders  .................................................. 
60
Gray  enameled...................................... 
50
75
Stamped Tin Ware....................new  list 
Japanned Tin  Ware..............................  
25
Granite Iron  Ware................................ 
26
Grub  1............................................$11 00, dis 80
Grub  2............................................  11 50, dis 60
Grub 3.............................................   12 00, dis 60
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings..........dis 
55
65
Door, porcelain, jap.  trimmings..........  
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings...... 
55
Door, porcelain, trimmings..................  
55
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain........dis 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s....................  40&10
Hemacite...........................................dis 
45
55
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list.. dis 
55
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s...................dis 
Branford’s ......................................... dis 
55
Norwalk’s ......................................... dis 
55
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..................dis  70
Adze  Eye..................................$16 00 dis 
60
Hunt Eye..................................$15 00 dis 
60
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.’sMalleables ...  dis 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s...................dis 40
Coffee,  Enterprise....  ...........................dis  25
Stebbin’s Pattern  ............................. dis  60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine............................. dis  60&10
Enterprise,  self-measuring.............. dis 
25

LEVELS.
MATTOCKS.

KNOBS—NEW LIST.

MOLASSES OATES.

MAULS.
MILLS.

LOCKS—DOOR.

HOES.

NAILS—IRON.

Common, Brad and Fencing.

OILERS.

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

lOd to  60d.........................................ft keg $2 o5
26
8d and 9 d adv............................................ 
6d and 7d  adv.........   ................................  
50
4d and 5d  adv............................................ 
75
3d advance.....................................................  1 50
3d fine advance............................................  2 25
Clinch nails, ad v...!.......................................   1 00
Finishing 
Size—inches  )  3 
Adv. «  keg 
Steel Nails—2 15.
Zinc or tin. Chase’s Patent.................... dis60&10
Zinc, with brass bottom...................   .... 
Brass or  Copper..................................... dis  50
Reaper...................................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s . 
.........................................   50&10
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.............................dis  30
Sciota Bench....................................... dis 60@55
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy................... dis  30
Bench, flrstjquality............................. dis50@55
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood__dis20.Sc 10
Fry, Acme........................................... dis 50&10
Common, polished................................ dis60&10
Dripping..............................................f* lb  6*4
55
Iron and Tinned.................................dis 
Copper Rivets and  Burs...................dis 
60
“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27  9 20

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

PLANES.

RIVETS.

PANS.

Broken packs *4c # lb extra.

ROPES.

dis  60

BELLS.

BOLTS.

BRACES.

TACKS.

BUCKETS.

BARROWS.

BALANCES.

SQUARES.

BUTTS. CAST.

SHEET IRON.

TIN  PLATES.

AUGERS AND BITS.

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.
Ives’, old style...............................................dis 60
N.  H.C. C o...................................................dis 60
Douglass’........................................................dis 60
60
Pierces’  .................................................dis 
Snell’s ............................................................ dis 60
Cook’s  .................................................. dis 
40
Jennings’, genuine..............................dis
Jennings’, imitation............................dis50&10
Spring.............................................   ...dis 
40
Railroad.................................................. $  14 00
Garden.................................................. not 33 00
H and.......................................... dis  $ 60&10&10
Cow................................................ dis 
70
Call................................................ dis 
30&15
Gong............................................ dis
Door. Sargent...............................dis
60 A 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. B all.............................................dis 
net
Well,plain...............’............................... $  3 50
Well, swivel.............................................  
4 00
Cast Loose Pin, figured.....................  dis  70&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed..........dis  70& 10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..dis  60&10
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint, .dis  60&10
Wrought  Loose  Pin........................... dis  60&10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip............dis  60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned............dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvei
tipped...............................................dis  60& 5
Wrought Table...................................dis  60&10
Wrought Inside Blind........................ dis  60&10
75
Wrought Brass.................................... dis 
Blind, Clark’s.......................................dis 
80
Blind, Parker’s.................................... dis 
80
Blind, Shepard’B..................................dis 
70
Ely’s 1-10............................................. per m $ 65
60
Hick’s C. F......................................... 
G. D.................................................... 
35
Musket............................................... 
60
Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester  new list50&10
Rim  Fire, United States....................... dis60&10
Central Fire...........................................dis30&10
0&10
Socket Firmer.....................................dis
Socket Framing..................................dis
Ü&10
Socket Corner.................................... dis  70&10
ro&io
Socket Slicks......................................dis
Butchers’Tanged Firmer................dis
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers................. dis
20
Cold.................................................... net
Curry,  Lawrence’s................ ....... ... dis 40&10
Hotchkiss  .................................... .. .dis
25
60
Brass, Racking’s...........................
60
Bibb’s ............................................
40&10
B eer..............................................
60
Fenns’............................................
Planished, 14 oz cut to size.......... .......«lb  28
..  31
14x52,14x56,14 x60.......................
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.........
..  23
..  23
Cold Rolled, 14x48..........................
..  23
Bottoms.........................................
Morse’s Bit  Stock........................ ...dis
40
40
Taper and Straight Shank............ ... dis
Morse’s Taper  Shank.................... .. .d is
40
Com. 4 piece, 6  in.......................... doz net $.85
Corrugated........................................dis 20&10
Adjustable.................................... ...dis X&10
30
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00.
26
Ives’, 1, $18 00 ; 2, $24 00; 3, $30 00.

6
6*4
60
60
60
60
50
50
60
50
50
45
35
12 50 
16 00 
17 50

Sisal, *4 in. and  larger..................................11*4
Manilla........................................................  13*4
Steel and Iron.....................................dis  70&10
Try and Bevels....................................dis 
60
Mitre  .................................................dis 
20
Com. Smooth.  Com.
$2 90
2 90
3 00
3 05
3 15
3 25
All sheets No, 18 and lighter,  over 2  inches

Nos. 10 to 14.................................$4 20 
Nos. 15 to 17................................  4 20 
Nos. 18 to 21................................  4 20 
Nos. 22 to 24................................  4 20 
NOS .25 to 26 ................................  4 40 
No. 27 ..........................................   4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, $   lb............
In smaller quansities, $  lb......
American, all  kinds.......................... dis
dis
dis
Steel, all kinds................................... dis
Swedes, all  kinds...............................dis
dis
Gimp and Lace........................
dis
Cigar Box  Nails................................ dis
dis
.dis
Finishing Nails..................................dis
Common and Patent  Brads..............dis
.dis
(iis
Hungarian Nails and Miners’ Tacks.dis
Trunk and Clout Nails.......................dis
dis
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails..........dis
dis
.dis
Leathered Carpet  Tacks...................dis
TINNER’S SOLDER.
No.l,  Refined..............................
Market  Half-and-half.................
Strictly  Half-and-half.................
10x14, Charcoal............................5 40@5 60
IC,
10x14,Charcoal.............................  7 25
IX,
12x12, Charcoal.................................   6 25
IC,
12x12, Charcoal...........................   7 75
IX,
14x20, Charcoal.............................  5 75
IC,
14x20,  Charcoal.............................  7 25
IX,
14x20, Charcoal.............................  8  75
IXX,
IXXX,  14x20, Charoool.............................  10 7T
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal...........................  12 55
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal.............................  15 5t>
DC,  100 Plate Charcoal...........................  6 50
DX,  100 Plate Charcoal...........................   8 50
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......................................  5 25
Roofing, 14x20,  IX ....................................   6 75
Roofing, 20x28, IC......................................  11 00
Roofing, 20x28, IX....................................   14 00
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne......................5 50
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne..................   7 00
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne.................... 11 Ofi
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal  Terne...........  14 (X>
Steel, Game................................................ 60&10
Oneida/Communtity,  Newhouse’s.......... dis  35
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 V doz
Bright Market.............................................   dis 67*4
Annealed Market.............................. dis  70&lo
Coppered Market...........................................dis 62*4
Extra Bailing..........................................  dis  55
Tinned  Market..............................................dis 62*4
Tinned  Broom...................................... $Mb  09
Tinned Mattress......................................»lb 8*4
Coppered Spring Steel..................................dis 50
Tinned Spring Steel....................................... dis 40&1O
Plain Fence............................................ fi lb  3
Barbed Fence, galvanized................................4 25
painted.....................................3 60
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&1O
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled..............
Coe’s Genuine.....................................dis 
50
75
Coe’s Ptent A gricultural, wrought, dis 
Coe’s Ptent, malleable..................... dis  75&1G
50
BirdCages............................................... 
Pumps,  Cistern..................................dis  70&10
75
Screws, new  list..................................... 
Casters, Bed  and Plate...................disoO&lC&lO
Dampers, American..............................  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes an ail steel goods.d0O&lO&lO 
Copper  Bottoms....  ............................ 
23c

MISCELLANEOUS.

TIN—LEADED.

WIRE GOODS.

EXPANSIVE BITS.

WRENCHES.

CATRIDGES.

TRAPS.

CHISELS.

ELBOWS.

COPPER.

WIRE.

rates.

DRILLS

COMBS.

COCKS.

dis
dis

CAPS.

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

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and fresh until entirely used. 

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

MEIGS  &  00..

W holesale Grocers,

SOlo  Agents,

77 to 83 SOUTH  DIVISION  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Wholesale  Grocers.
„ Lemons

IMPORTERS  OF

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

‘Acme” Herkimer Co. Cheese, Lautz Bros. 

Soaps and Niagara Starch.

Send  for  Cigar  Catalogue  and 
ask for Special Inside Prices 
on  anything  in  our  line.

FULLER  &  STOWE  COMPANY,

Engravers and Printers

Designers

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

Autographs, Etc., on Short Notice.

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

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

L .  M .  C A R Y .

CART A LOVERIDGE,

L. L. LOVERIDGE.

GENERAL  DEALERS  IN

71 X 9  and Burglar Proof

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of Last Resort.

HOMESTEAD—INSUBANCE  MONEY.

According to a recent decision of the Ken­
tucky Court  of Appeals,  where a debtor  in­
sures  his  homestead  and  it  is burned* the 
insurance  money  not  exceeding  $1,000  is 
exempt from the claims of creditors, just as 
the homestead was exempt.

INSURABLE INTEREST.

The holder of  a valid policy of  insurance 
on his own life may assign or dispose of the 
same as  he  may of other  choses  in  action 
where there  is  nothing  in the terms of the 
policy to the contrary,  and it may be enforc­
ed by the assignee, although he  has  no  in­
surable interest in the life  of  the  assignor. 
So held by the Supreme Court of Mississippi 
in the case of Murphy vs. Red.
LIFE  INSURANCE—INSURABLE  INTEREST.
Where a person obtains  a  policy  on  his 
life of his own  accord,  and  pays  the  pre­
mium himself,  he  may, if  he desires, make 
the policy payable to one  who has no insur­
able interest  in  his  life.  So  held  by  the 
Supreme Court of Illinois in the case of the 
Bloomington Mutual Life Benevolent Asso­
ciation vs. Blue.
MONEY DEPOSITED TO  CREDIT OF TRUSTEE.
Where trust funds are  depdsited  in  bank 
to the credit of  a trustee  as  such, and  the 
trustee dies, the bank cannot  be  compelled 
to pay such funds to any but  the  real  own 
ers of them or one duly authorized  to repre 
sent them,  and the executor  of  the  trustee 
is not  such  a  representative.  So  held  by 
the Supreme Court of South Carolina in the 
case of Gary vs. People’s National Bank.

“ n e c e s s a r y ”  p u r c h a s e   o f  h o u s e .
The purchase of a  house is a “necessary” 
within the meaning of the Kentucky statute, 
if  the purchase  is  reasonable,  considering 
the wife’s estate  and  rank  in  society, and 
the wife’s  general estate  may be  subjected 
to the payment of a  note  executed  by  her 
and her  husband for  the  purchase  money. 
So held by the  Kentucky Superior  Court in 
the case of  McKee vs. Hays.

n o t ic e   o f  n o n -p a y m e n t .

Notice of non-payment of a note indorsed 
by a copartnership  is  sufficiently served on 
the firm when sent  through the  post  office 
to what was  its  place  of  business  at  the 
time when the note  was  given,  in  the  ab­
sence of knowledge on the part of the holder 
of removal.  So held by the Supreme Judic­
ial Court  of  Massachusetts, in  the case  of 
Importers & Traders’ Bank vs.  Shaw.  The 
court also held in this case  that  knowledge 
of  removal  was  not  to  be  inferred  from 
knowledge that the indorsers had failed and 
assigned to one who  was  winding up  their 
affairs for the benefit of  the creditors at the 
former place of business, and that the notice 
would be sufficient to hold a member of  the 
firm even if the  holder  knew  that  he  was 
absent, but had a residence in a neighboring 
town.

NOTICE OF PROTEST.

The  Maryland  Court  of  Appeals  lately 
held, in the case of Seldner vs. Mount Jack- 
son  National  Bank, that a partner  had the 
-ight,  after the  dissolution  of  partnership, 
jO waive demand and notice  of  protest of a 
note  upon  which  the  firm  was  indorser. 
The court  said that the  dissolution  of  the 
partnership  did  not  revoke  the  partner’s 
authority to  adjust, liquidate  and settle the 
partnership  affairs,  and  added:  To  waive 
demand and notice and to settle  accounts is 
but to arrange the  terms upon which an ex­
isting liability shall become perfect without 
further proof. 
In  doing  this  he  does  not 
make a new  contract, but  acts  within  the 
scope of a continuing authority.  There is a 
broad  distinction  between  a  waiver  under 
such circumstances and a promise by a part­
ner made after the dissolution to pay a debt 
barred by the  statute  of  limitations.  The 
mere waiver of demand and notice does not, 
as  we  have  said,  create  a  new  liability, 
whereas to permit a partner to renew a debt 
barred by the statute as  against  his  copart­
ners,  by an  acknowledgment  or  promise to 
pay made after  the dissolution,  would be to 
create a new liability.

M ich ig a n   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 

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President-Frank Hamilton, Traverse City.
First Vice-President—Paul P. Morgan, Monroe.
Second Vice-President^-E. J. Herrick, Grand Rapids. 
Secretary—£• A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer—Julius Schuster, Kalaniazoo. 
Executive Committee—President, First Vice-President, 
Secretary* N. B. Blain and W. E. Kelsey.
Committee on Trade Interests-Smith Barney Traverse 
City;  P . Kanney, Kalamaxooj  A.  W.  Westgate,  l-no-
CominUtee on Legislation-W  E.  Kelsey  lonia; J.  V.
_ 
Crandall, Sand Lake;  J. F. Clark, Big RaP^8- 
Committee on Membership—H. S.  Church,  Sturgis;  B.
F. Emery, Grand Rapids;  the Secretary. 
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Committee  on  Transportation—J as.  A.  Coye,  grand 
Rapids;  J.W.  Milliken,  Traverse  City;  C.  T.  Brldg-
Committee1 on Constitution—W. E. Kelsey,  Ionia;  R. D.
Official Organ—Th e Michigan T radesman.________ ____
The following local associations have mostly 
been  organized  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Michigan Business Men’s Association, and are 
auxiliary thereto:

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

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A d a  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n .

President, D. F. Watson;  S e c re ta ry , Elmer Chapel.
A lb a  B u sin e ss M en’s A sso c ia tio n . 
President, C. R. Smith;  Secretary, Peter Baldwin.

A lle g a n   B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A sso cia tio n . 

President?Irving F. Clapp; Secretary, E. T. VanOBtrand
R e ta il  G rocers’ A sso c ia tio n  o f B a ttle  C reek  
President.Geo. H. Rowell:  Secretary. John P. Stanley

B e ld in g   M erch an ts’  A sso cia tio n . 
President, H. J. Leonard; Secretary, J. M. Earle.

B e lla ir e   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, John Rodgers;  Secretary, G. J. Noteware.
B a r r   O ak  B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A sso cia tio n . 

President, B. O. Graves;  Secretary, H  .M. Lee.
M erch an t’s P r o te c tiv e  A ss’n  “ f B lg   R sp id s 
President, E. P. Clark;  Secretary. A. S. Hobart.____
B o y n e   C ity  B u sin e ss M en’s A sso cia tio n . 

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

C ad illac B u sin e ss M en ’s A sso c ia tio n . 

President, J. C. McAdam;  Secretary, C. T. Chapin.
C arson C ity B u sin e ss M en ’s A sso cia tio n . 
President, F. A. Rockafellow;  Secretary, C. O. Trask.
C asn ovia,  B a ile y   an d   T ren t  B .  M.  A . 
President. H. E. Hesseltlne;  Secretary, E. Famnam.
C edar  S p rin gs  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso c ia tio n  
President, T. W?Provin;  Secretary, L. H. Chapman.
C h a rlev o ix   B u sin e ss  M en ’s A sso cia tio n . 

President, John Nichols;  Secretary, R. W. Kane.
C oo p ersv ille  B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A sso cia tio n  
President. G. H. WatronB;  Secretary, W. R. Boynton.
B u sin e ss  M en’s  P r o te c tiv e   U n io n   o f  C he 
President, J. H. Tuttle;  Secretary, H. G. Dozer.

b o y g a n .

JDim ondale  B u sin e ss M en’s A sso cia tio n . 

President,  T. M. Sloan;  Secretary, N.H. Widger,

D orr  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A ssociation . 
President, L. N. Fisher;  Secretary, E. S. Botsford.
R e ta il  G rocers’  A sso c ia tio n   o f  
President,  Richard Luster;  Secretary, Chas. H. Smith

E d m ore B u sin e ss  M en’s A sso cia tio n . 

President, H. W. Robson ;  Secretary, W. S. Whittlesey

E astp ort  B u sin ess  M en ’s  A sso cia tio n . 

President? F.  H.  Thurston,  Central  L a k e ;  Secretary, 

Geo. L. Thurston. Central Lake.

H ik  R a p id s B u sin e ss M en’s P r o te c tiv e  A s'n , 
President, J. J. McLaughlin;  Secretary, C. L. Martin.__

E v a rt B u sin e ss M en ’s A sso cia tio n . 
President, W. M. Davis;  Secretary, Chas. E. Bell.

F r a n k fo r t  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 

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

President, W. C. Pierce;  Secretary, J. L. Willett.

F lin t  M erca n tile  U nion . 

President, Foster Sisson;  Sec’y, Arthur Cheseborough.

F r e e p o r t  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
F ife  L a k e B u sin e ss M en ’s A sso cia tio n . 

President, E. Hagadom;  Secretary, O. V. Adams.
G rand  H a v en   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A ssociation . 
President, Fred. P. Vosa;  Secretary, Fred A. Hntty.

R e ta il  G rocers’  A ss’n  o f  G rand  R ap id s. 
G r e en v ille   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
H artford  B u sin e ss M en’s A sso c ia tio n . 

President, Jag. A. Coye;  Secretary, E. A. Stowe.
President, L. W. Sprague;  Secretary, E. J. Clark.
President, V. E. Manley;  Secretary, I. B. Barnes.
H o lla n d  B u sin e ss M en’s A sso c ia tio n  
President. John Krumer;  Secretary, P. W.  Kane.

H ersev  B u sin e ss M en ’s A sso cia tio n . 

H astin g s  B u sin ess  M en’s  A ssocia  
President. L. E. Stauffer;  Secretary,  J.  A.  Va
President, O. L. Millard; Secretary,Frank Beardsley 
H o w ard   C ity B u sin e ss  M en’s A sso cia tio n . 
•Chairman, C. A. Vandenberg;  Secretary, B. J. Lowry.
H o lla n d   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, Jacob Van Putten;  Secretary, A. Van Dnren.
H u b b ard ston   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso c ia tio n  
P re sid e n t, Boyd Redner;  S e c re ta ry , L. W. Robinson.

I o n ia   B u sin e ss  M en’s  E x ch a n g e. 

President. Wm. E.  Kelsey;  Secretary,  Fred. Cutler, Jr.

K a la m a zo o   R e ta il G rocers’ A sso c ia tio n  

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

"L eslie  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A ssociation . 

K a lk a sk a   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President. A. E. Palmer;  Secretary, C. E. Ramsey.
K in g sle y   B u sin ess  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, C. H. Camp; Secretary, Chan. E. Brewster.
L a n sin g  B u sin e ss M en’s A sso cia tio n . 
President, Frank Wells;  Secretary, Will Crotty.
L aw ren ce B u sin e ss M en ’s A sso cia tio n . 
President, H. M. Marshall;  Secretary, C. A. Stebblns.
President. Wm. Hutchings;  Secretary, M. L. Campbell 
L o w e ll  B u sin e ss  M en ’s  P r o te c tiv e   A ss’n  
President. N. B. Blain:  Secretary, Frank T. King.
L u th e r   B u sin ess  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, W. B. Pool;  Secretary, Chas. J. Robinson.
President, A. K. Roof;  Secretary, D. A. Reynolds.
M an celon a  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n  
President. W. E. Watson;  Secretary. C. L. Bailey.
M an istee B u sin e ss M en ’s A sso cia tio n . 
President, C.  D. Gardner;  Secretary, H. W. Leonard.
M a n istiq u e  B u sin e ss M en’s A sso cia tio n . 
M an ton ’s  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 

President, F. H. Thompson;  Secretary, E. M. Orr.
President, F. A. Jenlson;  Secretary, R. Fuller.
G rocers’  A ss’n  o f  th e   C ity  o f   M u sk egon  
President, H. B. Fargo;  Secretary, Wm. Peer.
President, Herbert M. Lee;  Secretary, Walter Webster

M erch an t’s  U nion  o f  N a sh v ille . 

L yon s  b u sin ess  M en’s  A s’n. 

M u ir  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 

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

O tsego  B u sin e ss  M en's  A sso cia tio n . 

President, J. M. Ballou;  Secretary, J. F. Conrad.
O ceaua  B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A s’n. 
President, W. E. Thorp;  Secretary, E. S. Houghtallng
O vid  B u sin e ss  M en's  A s’n. 
President, C. H. Hunter;  Secretary. Lester Cooley.
O w osso  B u sin ess  M en's  A sso cia tio n . 
President, Jas. Osbum;  Bec’y, S. Lamfrom.________
P e to sk e y   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, Ja». Buckley;  Secretary, A. C. Bowman.
P e w a m o   B u sin ess  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 

President. Albert Retan;  Secretary, E. R. Holmes.

P la in w e il  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 

F o r t  H u ron .

R o d n ey  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 

President, M. Bailey;  Secretary, J. A. Sidle.
M erch an t’s U nion P r o te c tiv e  A sso c ia tio n  o f 
President, O. C. Meisel ;  Secretary, S. L. Merriam.
President. L.*T. Wllmarth; Secretary, R.E. McCormick
R e e d   C ity   B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A sso c ia tio n . 
President, C. J. Fleischauer; Secretary, H. W. Hawkins
B o ck fo rd   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, Geo. A. Sage;  Secretary, J. M. Spore.
St. C h arles  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, B. J. Downing;  Secretary, E. E. Burdick
St. J o h n s M erchants’ P r o te c tiv e  A sso cia tio n  
President, H. L. Kendrick;  Secretary, O. M. Merrill. 
B u sin e ss M en ’s P r o te c tiv e  A ss’n o f  Saranac 
President, Geo. A. Potts;  Secretary, P. T. Williams.
S ou th   B oard m an   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A ss’n. 
President, H. E. Hogan;  Secretary, 8. E. Nlehardt
So. A rm  and E . J o rd a n  B u sin e ss M en’s A s’ 
President, D. C. Loveday;  Secretary, C. W. Sutton.
S h erm an  B u sin e ss M en’s A sso cia tio n . 
President, H. B. Sturtevant;  Secretary, W. G. Bhane.
Sp arta  B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, J. R. Harrison;  Secretary, M. B. Nash.
S tu rg is  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, Henry S. Church;  Secretary, Wm. Jom. 
T raverse  C ity  B u sin ess  M en ’s  A sso cia tio n  
President. Geo. Ê. Steele-.  Secretary,  L. Roberts.
Tustin  Business Men’s Association. 
President, Q. A. Estes; Secretary, Geo. W. Bevins. 
Vermontville  Business  Men’s  Association 
President, W. H. Benedict; Secretary, W. E. Holt.

President, H. Peirce;  Secretary, F. H. Merrifleld

W atervîïët Business Men’s Association 
W ay la nd  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President. E. W.  Pickett;  Secretary, H. J, Turner.
—Woodland  Business Men’s Association. 
President, John Veite;  Secretary, 1. N. Harter.
W h ite   C loud  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n  
President,  P. M. Roedel;  Secretary, M. D. Hayward-
W h ite   L ak e  B u sin e ss  M en ’s A s’n. 

President. A. T. Linderman, Whitehall  Secretary, 

B. Nicholson, Whitehall.

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The Pincushion of Honor.

From the Merchant Traveler.
A young commercial traveler  was  riding 
on the cars in the vicinity of Grand Rapids. 
There were few people riding  in  the  same 
coach with him,  but  he  noticed  a  very old 
lady who seemed to have passed the allotted 
span  of  life,  and  a  younger  woman, tired 
and travel-stained,  and accompanied by two 
peevish, restless little ones, who were never 
still for a moment.
The old lady was  unattended  and  sat  by 
herself, seemingly oblivious  of  all her sur­
roundings.  The mother, with her children, 
occupied  double  seats.  She  looked  worn 
out with fatigue. ‘ The young man sat com­
fortably in the rear of the coach and read or 
amused himself with bis thoughts.
But when an  opportunity  came  for  him 
to be of service, he improved it.
He closed the  window  for  the  old  lady 
who feebly thanked him.  He gave the tire­
some children some  picture  cards  to  keep 
them out of mischief.  He told them stories 
and gave them innumerable drinks of water 
from  the  tank  near  by,  while  their  tired 
mother caught  a  nap.  He  divided  an  or­
ange among them and  prepared another for 
the old lady,  who declared it tasted cool and 
grateful.
Before they reached the station where the 
young  man  was  to  leave  the  train, and 
while he  was getting  his  satchel down, the 
old lady beckoned him to her.
“My son,” she said,  in a quavering voice, 
“I live at Grand  Rapids; perhaps  you  have 
I am  the old  lady who  sent 
heard of me? 
300 pincushions out to  the  Soldiers’  Home 
there. 
I am now eighty-three years old and 
all I do  is  to  make  pincushions  and  give 
them  away  to  deserving  people.  Young 
man, I have watched  you and  here is  your 
pincushion.”
It was a  homely  little  round  of  paste­
board, but that  young man  declares he will 
never part with it as long as he lives.

A Lesson  in Economy.

From the Detroit Free Press.
“Hulloa!  What kind of  a  thing  is that 
you have there?”  gruffly  inquired  the  gro 
cer.
“It is my new bonnet,  if  you please,” re 
plied his other half with a pout.
“Your new bonnet,  eh? 
It’s too bad you 
didn’t have it made of tin.”
“Had it made of tin!”  The  idea.”
“Not a  bad  one  at  all, my  dear.  For, 
don’t you see, after  it was  out  of fashion I 
could remove the  trimmings, put  a  handle 
on it and use  it  in  the  store  for  a  sugar 
scoop.  There is nothing like knowing how 
to economize.”

townsman,  the  Rev.  Timothy Tinker, who 
opened  these  exercises  to-day.  He  was a 
poor  boy  with  no  family  and  no  salary. 
To-day, my dear boys,  he enjoys a salary of 
three hundred  a  year and has a family con­
sisting of a wife and nine beloved  children. 
[Cheers]  Look at Flint, the boy that some 
of  you  remember,  doubtless.  He  used  to 
fool away his time on  the  play ground,  and 
what is his fate?  The last I  heard  of  him 
he was pitching for  the  Chicagos for a pal­
try 2 thousand a  year, and  could only work 
half the year at that.  And mark this!  He 
has  a  family  of  only  two.  Think  of  itl 
[Bang!]

Now,  I  come  to  the  Great  American 
Eagle.  Under  our  constitution, no  4th  of 
July is complete  without  him.  Ladies and 
gentlemen,  when 
the  American  Eagle 
screams, the British  Lion  curls his tail and 
—and goes to sleep.  Yes,  my  dear hearers, 
and so do the other animals.

Epluribu8 TJnum Sic Sempea Tyrannis— 
Spirltus frumentl—Hydrargrum Cum fer- 
um—Non  Commitimus—et  Captandum 
vulgare,  says Virgil and I  agree  with  him 
and close.

[Long continued  cheering  and  a fusilade 
of firecrackers, during which the seat at back 
of platform  tipped  over, precipitating eight 
Vice-Presidents  and the City Marshall over 
backwards into a brush heap.  Great excite­
ment as I leave the  grounds.]

SEEDS

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Binder’s  Twine. 
Bug  Finish,

Curtiss & Bunion.

D W  Archer’s Trophy  Corn,

D.  W. Archer’s Early Golden  Corn, 
D.W. Archer’s Morning Glory Corn, 
D.W.Archer’s Red GoatTomatoes

Medium Clover,

Mammoth  Clover,

Alsike Clover,

Alfalfa Clover,

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Timothy,

Red  Top,

Blue Grass,

Orchard Grass,

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

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A. J.  Bowse, President.

Geo. C. Pierce,  Vice President.

H. P. Baker, Cashier.
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WEDNESDAY.  JULY  6,  1887.

SOLIMAN  SNOOKS

His  Maiden Attempt  at a  Fourth  of July 

Speech.

Cant Hook Corners, July 4,  1887. 

Editor Tradesman:

Dea r Sir—I will write  up  our  celebra­
tion in time for next  week. 
I  send this by 
the hand  of  the  gentlemanly  stenographer 
whom  you sent up to  report  my speech for 
your paper.  We  are  about to march to the 
grove.  Good-bye till next week. 
ORATION  DELIVERED  BY  HON.  SOLIMAN 

Sol.

SNOOKS  AT  CANT HOOK  CORNERS, 

JULY 4,' 1887.

speaker's stand, which is heard at times.] 
Feller Citizens:

[N. B.  A  small  canon  is  located  near  the 
Mister  President,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen, 
I rise on this auspicious occasion to—ah— 
to remark—that  is  to  say—ah—to  make  a 
few remarks on this great occasion.  [Bang. ] 
It  becomes  my  pleasing  duty  to  address 
you on this, the anniversary of our great and 
glorious  [Bang!]  independence.

Brothers and sisters—I  mean  feller  citi­
zens—why  are  we  here?  Why  do  I  see 
about me this congerie  of  beauty? 
[Wav­
ing of  handkerchiefs]  and this collection of 
intelligence? 
It  is be­
cause  our  glorious  forefathers fought  and 
bled and died for  us  something like a  hun­
dred and ten  years ago,  that  we, their chil­
dren  might enjoy  the  [Bang!]  great privil- 
age of doing as we have a mind to.

[Waving  of  hats] 

Old England wanted to tax us, fellow cit­
izens.  Think of  it!  She  wanted  to  put a 
tax on our  tea,  our  tobacco,  our  matches, 
our  locomotives,  our  palace  cars,  our  cant 
hook handles  [groans]  our—our—well,  sev­
eral things.  But we kicked.  Yes, we kick­
ed, fellow  citizens, and  forever  established 
our inviolable right  to  tax  everything our­
selves at 40 per cent, advalorum.  [Hurrah!] 
When I walk up to the  Captain’s office to 
pay my little 25  dollar  liquor  tax  and  my 
tobacco tax and things of  that kind,  what a 
satisfaction  it is to me  to  reflect  that  this 
money  don’t  go  into  the  pockets  of  any 
effete monarchies  of  Europe,  but  wends its 
way to Washington to  help swell the treas­
ury  surplus.  Yes,  fellow  citizens,  this— 
{Here the speaker was  interrupted  for  ten 
minutes by a dog tight under the platform.] 
As I was  about  to  remark  when  Potter’s 
bull pup  pitched into Ed. Smikes’ pug,  this 
great country does her own taxing now, and 
we  [bang!]  burn  more  powder every 4th of 
July in  celebratin’  our  independence  than 
the British and our forefathers both  burned ! 
during the revolutionary war.  As for killed | 
and wounded,  I don’t spose  the  hull  bilin’ I 
of ’em during the  war  amounted to half  as j 
many as has been busted up since by cannon, 
rockets, mines, giant firecrackers, etc.

Ah! my  fellow  citizens,  cast  your  eyes j 
over this broad  country,  and  what  do  you j 
see? 
[Rats!]  What  do  you  observe? 
[Bang!]  You see on every hand the toiling 
refugees  from  the—from—from  the  alms­
houses of old Europe,  who  have  sought  a 
place under  the  glorious  stars  and  stripes j 
[Cheers]  where  they could  work  for  fifty 
•cents a day and invest half  of  that  in  city l 
lots.  Some of  our  granger statesmen can’t 
see the good of  putting  on a heavy  protec-1 
tive tariff to raise American wages and then 
allow  foreign  pauper  labor  to  come  over 
here to lower ’em again.  Such people don’t 
understand  reciprocity.  Reciprocity is like 
a teeter—first you go up,  up,  up,  and  then 
you  go  down,  down,  downy. 
I 
believe in  reciprocity on  the  codfish  ques­
tion, too.  The codfish  is a bird that shouid 
have  a  free  pass  everywhere,  in  spite  of 
any inter state commerce law.

[Bang!] 

C.  C.  BUNTING.

BUNTING  &  DAVIS,

C. L. DAVIS.

Commission  Merchants.

Specialties:  Apples and Potatoes in  Car Lots.

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

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AGENTS  FOR THE

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Feller  citizens,  when  we  look at foreign 
* countries and see  the troubles they are har­
ing, 
the  Irish  refusing  to  pay  rent,  the 
Czar going  about  with  a  boiler  iron  over­
coat on,  Turkey expecting to  be roasted  for 
thanksgiving, the Pope  inviting free Amer­
ican citizens  over  to  see  him,  when  they 
have not got time to spare,  etc.—I say that, 
when we look  at all this,  we can appreciate 
the  great [Bang!]  blessings  that  we enjoy. 
Our  abundant  crops,  our—our—er—why,' 
our  Legislature  adjourning  week  before 
last and other blessings  I  can’t  just  call to 
mind at  present. 

[Cheering.]

Industry is the  sheet  anchor of our insti­

tutions.  What says the poet?
How aoth the little busy bee 
Improve each shining hour.
And gather glucose all the day 
From every opening ilowerV

[Chestnuts!  Pull down your vest!]
This labor  question  don’t  seem  to strike j 
the popular [Bang!]  fancy here,  but I w ant! 
to just enquire if anyone  in this crowd ever I 
knew the busy bee to go  loafing  around sa- j 
loons  and  billiard  rooms  during  harvest? j 
Does  the  busy  bee  ever  stop  to  enquire j 
whether  honey  will  bring  ten  cents  or j 
twenty cents a pound before he goes to work? I 
Not much,  feller citizens.  He keeps pegging ! 
away, only  stopping  incidentally  to  insert ! 
his stinger into the small  boy  where it will 
do the most  good.

My  young  friends,  I  cannot  let  this op-1 
portunity pass  to  [Bang!]  call  your atten­
tion to the importance of  setting your mark I 
thigh in the industrial  world.  Look  at  the 
examples  around  you!  See  your  fellow'

OUR  LEADING  BRANDS:

Roller Champion,
Matchless,

Gilt  Edge,

Lily W hite,

Harvest Queen,
Snow Flake,

W hite Loaf, 
Reliance,

Gold Medal, 
Graham.
Buckwheat  Flour,  Rye  Flour,  Granulated 
Meal,  Bolted  Meal,  Coarse  Meal,  Bran, 
Ships, Middlings, Screenings, Corn, Oats, Feed. 

OUR  SPECIALTIES: 

'

Write for Prices.

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

COOK  &  PRINZ,
Show  Cases,

Manufacturers of

We are now  prepared to fill

on hand and have a large selec­
tion of material  for use in  odd 
sizes and shapes.  Liberal  dis­
count to the trade for cash.
38 West Bridp St.. Grad Rapids.

Telephone 37L

P0 1 1

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.

SOLE PROPRIETORS.

F.  J.  LAMB  A

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

F e u it s   a n d  V e g e t a b l e s,

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese,  Etc.,

8  Mi  10  Ionia  SteiBt  BRAND  RAPIDS.  H U .

SPECIAL  ATTENTION  GIVEN  TO  FILLING  ORDERS.

COUNTRY  PRODUCJS.

Apples—Illinois fruit is held at 45c  per  box 

and $3.59 per bbl.

**

Beets—40c V doz. 
Beans—Country hand-picked are held at $1.30 
bu.,  and  city  picked  are  in  fair demand 
and scarce at $1.60 © $1.75.
Butter-Creamery is in good demand and fair- 
firm at  18c.  Dairy  is  in  better  demand 
12 ©14o.
Cabbages—New, $4 per crate.
Carrots—50c 11 doz.
Cauliflower—$1 $  doz.
Celery—Grand Haven, 35c V doz.
Cheese—Jobbers pay 6%  @ 7c "for  Michigan 

full cream and sell for 7)4@8c.

Cucumbers—40 $  doz.
Dried Apples—Evaporated, 16c 11 ft j^uarter- 
and sliced, 6©7c $ lb.
Dried Peaches—Pared, 15c.
Eggs—Jobbers  are  paying 12c  and  holding 
14c.
Honey—Fair demand at 10@13c.
Hay—Baled 

is  moderately  active  at  $14 
in 

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

Onions—New,  $1 $  bu.  Bunch,  15c $  doz. 
Parsley—25c $   doz 
Peas—76c $   bu.
Potatoes—New, $3 per bbl.
Pop Corn—'¿YtC $  lb.
Radishes—12@15c 1* doz.
Raspberries—Black $1.25 per 16 qt. case. 
Spinach—3Cc?l bu.
String Beans—$1.25 $  bu.
Tomatoes—$3 $  bu.
Turnips—75c $  bu.
Wax Beaus—$1.50 per bu.
Watermelons—$30 per 100.
Whortleberries—$3.50 per bu.
Wheat—Lower.  City  millers  pay  81  cents 
for Lancaster and 78  for  Fulse  and  Clawson.
Corn—Jobbing  generally  at  45c  in  100  bu. 
lots and 40c in carlots.
Oats—White, 36c in small lots  and 30@31c  in 
car lots.
Rye—48@50c $ bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 $  cwt.
Flour—No change. Patent,$5.C0$ bbl.in sacks 
and  $5.20  in  wood.  Straight,  $4.30 $ bbl. in 
sacks and $4.50 in wood.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS. 

Meal—Bolted, $2.40 $ bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14  #  ton.  Bran, $n 
_  ton.  Ships. $15 $  ton.  Middlings, $10 $ to4. 
Corn and Oats, $17  $ ton.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock Bark—Tanners at this market  are 
paying $5  for  all offerings of good bark.
Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay  $1.50  $   ft  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 60 per cent 
off.

FRESH MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 
prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides................................... 5 © 614
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters..................   7 © 8)4
Dressed Hogs......................................   © 614
Mutton..................................................  7 © 714
Lamb spring......................................... 11 @12
Veal.....................................................   714© 8
Pork Sausage...................... 
© 8
Bologna.................................................  _ @6
Fowls.................................... 
12  @13
Ducks  .................................................. „  ©
Turkeys  ..............................................12  @13
Lard,  kettle-rendered........................   714@8

 

HIDES. PELTS AND FURS.

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

Green__ft ft 514©  6
Part cured...  7  © 714 
Full cured—   714©  8)4 
Dry hides and 

kips...........  8  ©12

HIDES.

Calf skins, green
Deacon skins, 

or cured__ 7  @8
ft piece...... 10  ©30

SHEEP PELTS.

@26 
Old wool, estimated washed $  ft.......25
© 314
Tallow.................................................  3
Fine washed $  ft 22@251 Coarse washed.. .20@28
.16©:
Medium  ............ 27@321Unwashed.

WOOL.

TIME  TABLES.

Detroit, Lansing  &  Northern.

Grand Rapids & Saginaw Division.

DEPART.

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

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

ARRIVE.

Chicago & W est Michigan.

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

Ai rives.
3:65pm
9:45pm
5:45 a  m
11:00 a m
•Daily. 
Pullm an Sleeping Cars on all n ight  trains.  Through 
parlor car in charge of careful attendants  w ithout  ex­
tra  charge to Chicago on 12:30 p. m ., and through coach 
on 9:10 a. in. and 11 p. m. trains.

 
tD aiiy except Sunday.

Newaygo Division.

Leaves. 
E x p ress................................................. 4:05 p m 
Express.................................................. 8:25 a m  

All trains arrive and depart 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. Gavktt, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J. B. Mulliken,  G eneral  M anager.

Arrives.
4.20 p m

10:20 a m

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. 
Leave. 
Arrive.

Kalamazoo Division.

N. Y. Mail.  N .Y .Ex
Ex. & Mail.  N. Y. Mail. 
6:15pm
4:35pm   7:45 a m. .G rand Rapids.  9:45 a  m 
5 -.00 a m 
9:02 a m. .A llegan...........8:28am
5:55 p m 
4:00 p m 
10:06 a m .. Kalamazoo ...  7:30 a  m 
7:05 p m 
2:20 p m 
11:35 a  m ..W hite Pigeon.  5:55 a m
8:30 p in  
9:45 a m 
5:05 p III. .T oledo............ 11:00 p m
2:30 a  m 
5:35 a m 
9:40 p in..C leveland.......6:40 p m
8:30 a m 
11:40 p m 
3:30 a  m ..B uffalo............11:55 a m
2:50 p m 
50 a  m
  6:50 p m ..C hicago........... 11:30 p m
___ 
5:40 a m
A local freight leaves G rand Rapids a t 12:50 pm ,carry­
ing passengers as far as  Allegan.  All  train s  daily  ex­
cept Sunday. 

J. W. McK enn ey, G eneral Agent.
Detroit,  Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING  EAST.

Arrives. 
tSteam boat  Express........................   6:25 p m  
tT hrough  Mall....................................10:40 a m  
tE vening Express................................3:25 p m  
•Lim ited Express.............................  6:50 a m  
tMixed, w ith  coach..........................  • 
tM oming  Express.............................  1:05 p m  
tThrough  Mail...................................  5:00 p m 
tSteam boat Express..........................10:40 p m 
tMixed.................................................  
•Night Express.................................. 5:25 a m 

GOING WEST.

11:00 a m

Leaves
6:30 p m
10:50 a m
3:50pm
6:50 a m

1:10 p m
5:10 p m
10:45 p m
7:45 a m
5 -.40 a m

tD aiiy, Sundays excepted.  "Daily.
Passengers taking th e  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  10:30  a  m the following 
m orning.  The N ight Express has a through W agner ear 
and local sleeping car from  D etroit to G rand  Rapids.
J as. Campbell, City Passenger Agent. 

Geo. B. Reeve, Traffic M anager Chicago.

Michigan Central.

SENSIBLE  SUGGESTIONS.

For Clerks Who Are Desirous of Advanc­

ing in Their Business.
W ritten Especially  for T h e  Tradesman.

T he  Counter, July 2,  1887.

I entered a grocery store the  other  even­
ing to purchase some cheese, which my wife 
desired me to bring home for supper.  Now, 
as  the  lady  in  question  is  very  fond  of 
cheese,  she is,  naturally,  anxious  to get a 
good article.  For this reason,  I always get 
it,  as she labors under the impression that I 
am a good judge of the article  in  question.
1 inquired, on  entering,  of  the  affable  (?) 
clerk  who  was in  attendance  if he  had a 
good article in the cheese line.  He  replied 
that he had something especially fine in that 
way, aHd I asked permission to sample it, at 
the same time explaining why I was so par­
ticular.  On tasting it,  I  discovered, to  my 
horror, that the  cheese  was  not  only  very 
old,  but  could  furnish  its  own  means  of 
transport. 
I politely  informed  the  young 
man  that  it  would  not  suit  my  purpose, 
whereupon he  became  just the  opposite of 
affable, telling  me,  almost  in plain  words, 
that I didn’t  know  good  cheese  from bad, 
and,  in divers ways, abusing me as much as 
he dared. 
It is needless  to say  that I pur­
chased nothing of him,  and shall never wil­
lingly enter the store  again whose  proprie­
tor is so blind to his own interests as to em­
ploy such an excuse for a salesman.

I have  related this  incident  simply as a 
basis for a few  suggestions  on  the  deport­
ment  and  general  conduct  the  salesman 
must adopt  toward  his  employer  and  pat­
rons, if he wishes to retain the good-will of 
the former and the custom of the latter.

In these  days  of  sharp  competition,  the 
merchant must not only sell the best goods, 
buy close and  turn over  his  stock  rapidly, 
but he must employ salesmen who will draw 
custom  by  their  own  personal  attractions 
—salesmen  who  are  ever  ready  to  oblige, 
dress neatly and are prompt to attend to the 
wants of those upon whom depend the mer­
chant’s financial success.

The  most  important  requisite of  such a 
clerk is to be able to read the character of a 
customer in his  countenance—to be  able to 
determine,  almost at a  glance, to what  ex 
tent he may go without offense in giving ad 
vice as to the extent and quality of the goods 
he may wish to purchase.

There are  very few  people  who enter a 
store without the intention of making a pur 
/»hasA of some sort, still there are some such 
and the salesman who understands his busi 
ness thoroughly  will,  by his own  power of 
pleasing,  generally  make  a  sale  of  some 
sort  to  these  would-be  lookers  on.  Not 
that I wish,  for a moment,  to assume that 
good clerk will  force a person  to buy  what 
he  actually  has no  use  for, for in  ninety- 
nine cases out of a hundred such an attempt 
will not only spoil his chance of selling any 
thing at the time, but in the future.

The  successful  clerk is the  one  who is 
universally  polite,  good-natured, 
neatly 
dressed and always clean in his habits, thor­
oughly  conversant with the stock which he 
is to sell and is always ready to put himself 
to a little  inconvenience to  oblige his  cus­
tomers. 
It is very  important  with  him to 
be conversant  with the  topics of  the day 
and in the lulls of  business  he wiH make 
a point  to  talk with  the  patrons—find  out 
their likes and dislikes,  what subjects inter 
est  them,  and  always, in  his  intercourse 
with them, let them think that they  are the 
best-informed,  and that it is himself who 
rather  ignorant  than  otherwise. 
In  this 
way  he  flatters  their  pride,  makes  them 
think their presence and society is a person 
al pleasure to himself, and  thereby  secures 
many a good  customer,  who, but  for  his 
aptitude in this way,  would  never think of 
buying a cent’s worth of goods of the fortu 
nate man who is his employer.

Above all  else, the  clerk should be  pos 
sessed of an inexhaustible  fund of good na­
ture.  Thrown  among  so  many  different 
classes of  people, this  trait of  character 
very sorely tried,  and often it seems almost 
impossible to refrain from  knocking  down 
some persons, whom, no  matter  how  hard 
you try,  are never  satisfied.  These  custo 
mers,  as a rule, are the richer  portion  of 
community, who, knowing  their  custom 
valuable and is sought for by  everyone,  are 
snubbish and overbearing to an unusual ex­
tent. 
If you do get mad,  keep  it  to  your­
self.  Don’t let your customer  know  it, for 
the chances are that  he  will  annoy you  all 
the  more  in  that  event.  Learn  to  make 
your actions and  speech  conform  to  those 
of each  individual  who comes in your  way,
Above all things else,  do not  be  familiar 

with your customers.  By  this  I  mean 
not joke with them  unless  the  opportunity 
is just right to make it pleasant.  Don’t tell 
them  all  about  yourself,  your  interests 
pleasures and troubles, unless you  are  cer 
tain that by so doing  you  can  make  their 
personal friendship for yourself, more warm 
and thus doubly insure their  custom.  Un 
der  any  other  circumstances  than  these 
confidences of this sort  only serve  to  bore 
the  recipient  and he votes  you  stupid  and 
egotistical. 
‘‘Familiarity breeds contempt” 
—old, but  very  applicable  in  this  connec­
tion.

Don’t  be  snobbish  or  fawning.  Such 

course may please some, but  it  is  the  very 
few,  and  the  custom  of  that  few  is  not 
worth anything to you or your employer.

Don’t  be  impertinent. 

It  seems  hardly 

neccessary to caution  any  one  in  this 
gard, but at the same time there  are  clerks 
who are very impertinent and  at  the  same 
time  are  not  aware  of  the  fact.  Watch 
yourself carefully in this way and never ask 
a question that has the least  touch  of  cur­
iosity  in  i t   People  are  quick to  take  of­

fense if they get the impression that you are 
trying to pry into their secrets.

Your  conduct  towards  your  employer 
should be that of a man who knows that his 
services are of  enough  value  to  be  appre­
ciated by him,  Be independent  and manly 
your intercourse with  him,  never  offer 
advice as to the condnct of the store  unless 
requested,  and he will appreciate at your 

true worth.

To sum it all up in a word,  the clerk who 
wishes to get to the top round of the ladder, 
must be courteous,  well  informed  and  not 
lack in energy to push himself in  the  right 
direction. 

Rell u f.

The Grocery Market.

The  sugar  situation  is  almost  wholly 
without feature, the usual  July  depression 
having put in an appearance.  Hard sugars 
are a trifle lower and soft sugars  somewhat 
stiffer.  Currants are stronger  and  higher. 
Coffee and tea are steady,  the former  being 
rather  stronger  and  the  latter  weaker. 
Cheese is  low,  with  only  Pair  seasonable 
demand.  Competent  jtidges  assert  that 
this staple has touched bottom and that the 
next change  will  be  in  the  direction  of 
higher prices.

Candy and foreign  nuts  are  unchanged. 
Peanuts are  higher.  Oranges  and  lemons 
are strong and advancing.

Anti-Monopoly vs. Monopoly.

The  time  has  been  when  monopoly 
seemed to  thrive in this  country, but  that 
time has passed and  gone.  People  nowa­
days demand  fair play in  all  branches  of 
business life,  and nowhere is this spirit  ex 
hibited more than in the  oil  business.  To 
this fact is largely due the unparalleled suc- 
sess of the  Independent  Oil  Co.  since its 
advent at this market.

Good  Words Unsolicited.

Pringle  Bros.,  grocers,  Muir:  “We can’t do 

business jvithout T h e  T r a d e s m a n .”

Ed. A. Bradford,  grocer,  White  Cloud:  “A 

paper that every grocer should take.”

C. W.  Armstrong,  general  dealer,  Bowen'i 

Mills:  “Am well pleased with your paper.”

Jas. W. Kandall, general  dealer,  Wacousta 
Enclosed find two  dollars  for  T h e   T r a d e s  
a n .  Last year when I sent you my subscrip 
tion I ordered the paper Btopped at the end of 
the year, as Grand  Rapids was not a market 
ever visited and I was not interested in your pa 
per.  This year I feel that I could not do with 
out  T h e   T r a d e s m a n ,  and  if  it was  a  daily 
would  6end  you  subscription for  the  same, 
Aside from the market reports. I  am interest 
ed in the subjects discussed in its columns, es­
pecially the  dead-beat  question.  As  long as 
you continue to give as  interesting a trade pa­
per as you do. you can keep my name on your 
list.”

Cultivate Peace  of  Mind.

Strive  everywhere and in all things to be 
at peace. 
If trouble  comes  from within or 
without, receive it peacefully.  If joy comes 
receive it  peacefully,  without  excitement, 
If we must needs flee  from evil,  let us do 
calmly, without  agitation,  or we may stum 
ble and fall in our  haste.  Let us do  good 
peacefully,  or our  hurry  may lead  us into 
endless faults.  Even  repentance is a work 
that should be carried on peacefully.
Weather Prognosticators.

in  the  atmosphere, 

An item in Rundschau states that patent 
ed weather prognosticators are  sold  in  the 
market in  the  shape  of  a  landscape  with 
blue heavens,  green grass,  and  trees,  with 
yellow  background,  etc.  With  increasing 
moisture 
the  blue 
heavens assume a dirty red  hue,  the  other 
colors changing at the same time.  The col 
ors used in these  drawings  are  made  with 
the salts  of cobalt,  which are very sensitive 
to moisture.  This sensitiveness is still fur 
ther increased by using  gelatin  in  mixing 
the colors.

A Conscientious Witness.

‘Do you solemnly swear  that in  the case 
now  before  the  Court  you  will  tell  the 
truth, the whole truth and  nothing but  the 
truth,” asked the  clerk of a  Hibernian wit 
ness.
“Well, oi’d promise as  far  as  the  fairst 
and the last is concerned, but oi don’t think 
oi cud be pos’tif about the ‘whole troot’ part 
of it.”

“Why not?”
“Because, begorry,  there was some of the 
row that oi know nothing about at all at all 
an’ oi can’t tell ye the troot  about that, can 
oi?”

•PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing & Provision  Co 

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

quote  as follows:
Mess,Chicago packing..............................14
Short cut..................................................... 14
Short Cut, clear...........................................15
Extra clear pig, short cut..................   ... .16
Extra clear,heavy.....................................
Clear quill, short cut..................................16
Boston clear, short cut...............................17
Clear back, short cut..........................— 17
Standard clear, short  cut. best................. 17
DRV  SALT MEATS—IN  BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy........................... ..
medium...........................
lig h t...............................
Short Clears, heavy..............................
medium...........................
light..................................

“ 
“ 
do. 
do. 
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLAIN.

 

“ 

■.. 

LARD.

16 fts............. 
12 

Hams, average 20  fts...................................11
*  “ 
“ 
11)4
“ 
“ 
to 14 Jbs...^¥j........ 11%
“  picnic  .................. ............................  8
best boneless.................................... 1014
7)4
..........10
.......... 11)4
.......... 13
7
7)4
7%
7*4
7)4

Shoulders
Breakfast Bacon, boneless............ .
Dried Beef, extra...........................
ham  prices.................
Tierces  ..........................................
30 and 50 ft Tubs.............................
LARD IN  TIN PAILS.
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case.....................
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case......................
101b Pails. 6 in a case.....................
20 ft Pails, 4 pails in  case...............
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 lbs
00
Boneless, extra.........................................12 00
Pork Sausage...............................................  7)4
Ham Sausage..............................................11
Tongue  Sausage........................ ..............   9
Frankfort  Sausage.....................................8
Blood  Sausage............ ................................  6
Bologna, straight........................................  6
Bologna, thick............................................. 6
Headcheese................................................  6
In half barrels.............................i........ 
3 00
In quarter barrels......................................  1 65

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

BEEF IN  BARRELS.

PIGS’ FEET.

FIELD SEEDS.

Clover,  mammoth............................ 
  ©4 75
“  medium.................................   @4 75
Timothy, prime...................................  @2 75

OILS.

ILLUMINATING.

LUBRICATING.

Water White...............................................  1114
Michigan Test.............................................1014
Eth aline....................................................... 1«H
Ruby............................................................12H
Gasoline.......................................................1114
Capitol Cylinder...........................................«614
Model  Cylinder............................................ 3114
Shield Cylinder............................................2614
Eldorado  Engine.................................... ...23
Peerless Machinery....................................20
Challenge Machinery..................................1®
Paraffine  ..................................................... 2014
Black. Summer, West Virginia................. ^9
Black. 25° to 30°. 
¡In
Black, 15® C.  T. 
Zero.................

............................... 1214

 

OYSTERS.

FRESH  FISH.
 

OYSTERS  AND  FISH.
S’. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
Fairhaven Counts...........................................40
Black bass............... 
9
Rfcck bass........................................................  4
Perch...............................................................   4
Wall-eyed  pike...............................................  7
Duck-bill  pike.......................................... 
  7
Sturgeon.....................................  
®
Sturgeon,  smoked............................................ 8
Trout.........................  
9
Trout, smoked................................................. 10
Whiteflsh..........................................................9
Whiteflsh, smoked..................... 
JO
Brook  Trout.............................  
50
Frogs’ Legs, per dozen............................. 25@65

 
 

 

 

 

(Suoceries.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

^ 

814

1514

1214
814

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Cracknels
Lemon Cream..........................  7
Sugar Cream............ -.............  7
Frosted Cream........................
Ginger  Snaps...,....................  7
No. 1 Ginger Snaps................. 
7
Lemon  Snaps........................ t
Coffee Cakes...........................
1314 
Lemon Wafers........................
1114 
Jumbles...................................
1214 
Extra Honey Jumbles............
1314 
Frosted Honey  Cakes............
1314 
Cream Gems..................... .
1314 
Bagievs  Gems...................
1214 
Seed Cakes..............................
c8!4
8. &  M. Cakes.  .......................
©  22 
Citron.................. ............................... 1®
© 7
Currants 
©  14
Lemon Peel.
Orange Peel.........................................  ©  14
Prunes, French, 60s.............................  @1014

DRIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN

“  French, 80s..............................   © 8
“  French,  90s.............................  © 7
“  Turkey....................................  4)4© 5
4!4
“  Bohemia................................ 
Raisins, Dehesia.................................3 50@5 00
Raisins, London Layers.....................   @1  80
Raisins, California  “ 
.....................   @1 65
Raisins, Loose Muscatels................... 1 40© 1 5G
Raisins, Ondaras, 28s..........................8)4© 814
Raisins.  Sultanas................................  8  © 814
Raisins,  Valencia, new  .....................   ©  614
Raisins,  Imperials..............................   ©3 00
Cod, whole.................................................5@5!4
Cod, boneless...........................................5)4@6%
H alibut,..................................  
914
Herring, round.  14  bbl.......................  ©2 90
Herring .round,  14  bbl.............................  1 75
Herring, Holland,  bbls........................... 11 00
Herring, Holland,  kegs........................   66@75
Herring, Scaled......................................... 1«@22
Mackerel, shore, No. 1,14 bbls.................  20 00

FISH.

 

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These  prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

AXLE  GREASE.

promptly and buy in full packages.
Crown  ..................   80!Paragon............... 2 10
Frazer’s...............   90|Paragon25ft pails.  90
Diamond  X...........  60 Fraziers, 25 ft pails.1 251 White, No. 1,10
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Modoc, 4 doz.
BAKING  POWDER
Acme, *4 ft cans, 3 doz. case—
14 ft  **  3  “ 
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2ft  “  1  “ 
B ulk.............................
Princess,  %s.............................
148.............................
Is...........................
bulk..........................
Arctic, 14 ft cans, 6 doz. case... 

85 
1 60 
3 00

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FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

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

“ 
..........3 00
“ 
..............2 50
No. 3,14 bbls.......... ..................6 50
Sardines,  spiced, 14s..................................10@12
Trout, 14  bbls.......................................... 5 50
“  10 ft  kits.........................................  85
White, No. 1,14 bbls............................... 7 50
White, No. 1,12 ft kits.............................. 1  10
ft kits...........[..................1  00
White, Family, 14 bbls.............................3 75
kits...................................  7o
Lemon.  Vanilla.
1 6G
2 65
“  4 oz......................... 1  50
“  6 oz......................... 2  50
4 25
“  8 oz......................... 3  50
5 00 
“  No.  2 Taper............1 25
1 75
3 00 
“  No.  4 
“ 
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“ 
pint, round................ 4 
9 00
......... 9 00
“
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18 00 
“  No.  3 panel..............110
1  85 
“  No.  8 
..............2 75
“ 
5 00 
“  No.  10 
..............4 25
“ 
7 00
Grand Haven, No. 8, square.................
95
Grand Ha/en, No 9, square, 3 gro................1  15
Grand Haven,  No. 200,  parlor.................... 1  75
Grand  Haven,  No. 300, parlor....................2 25
Grand Haven, No. 7,  round.......................1  50
Oshkosh, No. 2..............................................1  00
Oshkosh, No. 8.................................... ^...... 1 50
Swedish...............................................s.......  75
Richardson’s No. 8  square.........................100
.......................... 150
Richardson’s No. 8 
Richardson’s No. 7)4, round.........................1 00
Richardson’s No. 7 
...........................150
Woodbine, 300...............................................1  15
Black Strap............................................... lfi@18
Cuba Baking..............................................25028
Porto  Rico.................................................24@30
New  Orleans, good...................................28@34
New Orleans, choice..................................44@50
New Orleans,  fancy..................................52@55

MOLASSES.

MATCHES.

do 
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OATMEAL 

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ROLLED OATS

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PICKLES.

Barfels.................5 75 Barrels..................5 7i
Half barrels.......... 3 00 Half barrels..........3 00
Cases.............2 25@3 25lCases............ 2 25@3 25
@7 50
Medium
)4 bbl....................:................  @3 75
Small,  bbl............................................  @7 50
)4 bbl.......................................   @4 25
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross...........  ©2 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,2)4 gross........  @1  75
American T.D....................................   @  75
Choice Carolina..... 7  [Java  ................. 
5)4
Prime Carolina..... 6  P atn a.......................6)4
Good C arolina.......5)4 Rangoon...........  @4)4
Good Louisiana. __ 5)4|Broken.. 
. __ 3%©3)4
Table  ............... __5)41 Japan........ ............5)4
SALERATUS.
DeLand’8pure.. ....5%!Dwight’s ... 
............ 5
Church’s  .........
|Sea  Foam..
__5 
............ 5%
|Cap Sheaf.. ............ 5
Taylor’s G. M... __5 
less in 5 box lots.

RICE.

SALT.

60 Pocket, F F   I
28 Pocket............................................. I 90@2  15
2 35 
1003 ft pockets.
75 
Saginaw or Manistee..........................
80 
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags....
3 15 
Higgins’ English dairy bu. bags........
75 
American, dairy, )4 bu. bags..............
20 
Rock, bushels......................................
21 
40 
Warsaw, Dairy, bu. bags....................
20

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SAUCES.

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Parisian, )4  pints................................
Pepper Sauce, red  smali...................
Pepper Sauce, green...........................
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring............
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........
Catsup, Tomato, pints........................
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ....................
Halford Sauce, pints..........................
Halford Sauce, )4 pints.......................
Allspice........................   ....................
Cassia, China in mats..........................
“  Batavia in bundles.................
“  Saigon in rolls........................
Cloves, Amboyna................................
“  Zanzibar.................................
Mace Batavia......................................
Nutmegs,  fancy.................................
No. 1....................................
No. 2....................................
Pepper, Singapore,  black..................
white...........L...
“ 
SPICES—PURE  GROUND.
Allspice...............................................
Cassia,  Batavia...................................
“ 
and. Saigon.................
“  Saigon .... ^...........................
Cloves, Amboyna................................
“  Zanzibar................................
Ginger, African...................................
“  Cochin....................................
Jamaica.................................
“ 
Mace Batavia......................................
Mustard,  English................................
and Trieste............
Trieste.................................
Nutmegs,  No. 2...................................
Pepper, Singapore black....................
white....................
Cayenne................................
Muzzy, Gloss, 48 ft boxes, 1  ft pkge... 
“  48“ 
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“  b u lk .........
“  40  ft 
“  72  ft crates, 6 ft boxes..
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“  Corn, 40 ft boxes. 1 ft pkgs__
“  20ft 
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lib  “ 
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1 ft pkgs—  
“ 
6 1b boxes...
b u lk .
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Pure, 11b pkgs.................
Corn, 1  1b pkgs.................
Firmenich, new process,gloss, lib__
“ 
3 ft....
“ 
61b....
“ bulk, boxes or bbls
"corn, l f t ...............
Cut  Loaf.............................................
Cubes...............................................*..
Powdered............................................
Granulated, Standard.......................
Off...................................
Confectionery A..................................
Standard A..................... .....................
No. 1, White Extra  C....... ..................
No. 2, Extra C......................................
No.3 C.................  ..............................
No.4C..................................................
No. 5C..................................................

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@  70 
@  80 
@1 25 
@1 50 
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@1 20 
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Victorian. 1 ft 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......................................$ gross 3 50
Arctic 8  oz..................................................  7 20
Arctic 16 oz................................................  13 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box.............................  2 00
Arctic No. 2 
3 00
Arctic No. 3 
4 00
No. 2 Hurl..............1  751 Common Whisk__   90
No. lH url__2 00@2 25 Fancy  Whisk........ 1 00
No. 2Carpet........ 2 25 Mill................................ 3 75
No. 1 Carpet.1..2 50 Warehouse  ...................2 '
Parlor Gem...........3 001
Clams, 11b, Little Neck.............................1 10
Clam Chowder,  3 ft................................... 2 15
Cove Oysters, 1 lb standards....................  90
Cove Oysters, 2 1b standards..................   1 75
Lobsters, 11b picnic................................... 1 75
Lobsters, 3 1b, picnic.................................2 65
Lobsters, 1 ft star......................................2 00
Lobsters. 2 1b star...................................... 3 00
Mackerel, 1ft fresh standards................. 1 45
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards................5 25
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 ft............... 3 50
Mackerel, 3 1b in Mustard......................... 3 50
Mackerel. 3 ft  soused...............................3 50
Salmon, 1 1b Columbia river......................1  75
Salmon. 2 1b Columbia river.........   ......... 3 00
Sardines, domestic )48............................. 6@7
Sardines,  domestic  )4s...........................   10@12
Sardines,  Mustard  )4s..............................   12
Sardines,  imported  %s.................................13© 15
Trout. 3»  brook....................................   4 00
Apples, gallons, standards......................3 75
Blackberries, standards...........................   80
Cherries,  red standard............................1 20
Damsons.............................. ....................1 00
Egg Plums, standards 
........................... 1 20
Gooseberries............................................ 1 00
Green Gages, standards 21b....................120
Peaches, Extra Yellow............................1 75
Peaches, standards.............................1 60@1 75
Peaches,  seconds.....................................1 45
Peaches, pie............................................... 110
Pears.........................................................1 10
Pineapples, standards.............................1 35
Quinces..................................................... 115
Raspberries,  extra................................... 1 25
re d ...................................... 1 35
Strawberries  ............................................1 20
Whortleberries.........................................  80
Asparagus, Oyster Bay......................:.... 2 00
Beans, Lima,  standard.............................  75
Beans, Stringless, Erie.............................  90
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked.................... 1 70
Corn,  Archer’s Trophy.............................
Morning  Glory..............................
Revere...........................................1  35
Rome..............................................1  35
Sequoit...........................................1  35
Hamburg....................................... 1  40
Livingston.................................... 1  30
Peas, French............................................ 1  50
Peas, extra marrofat.....  .................. 1 20@1 40
PeaB,  soaked.............................................   75
Early June, stand.....................1 50@1 75
2 00
French, extra fine..................................20 00
Mushrooms, extra fine................................... 20 00
Pumpkin, 3 1b Golden................................ 1  10
Succotash, standard................................... 80@1 30
Squash.......................................................1 00
Tomatoes, standard brands......................1 20

sifted................... 

CANNED VEGETABLES.

CANNED FRUITS.

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CHEESE.

Michigan full  cream.......................... 
7)4
York State, Acme.....................   . . .   © 9
Wilbur’s  Premium..351 German Sweet........ 23
Sweet........25 Vienna Sweet  ..........2f
B’kf’tCocoa 45 Baker’s ...................3’
Cocoa-theta 42 Runkles’................. 35
Vanilla Bar 28|

CHOCOLATE.

COCOANUT.

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Schepps, Is..........................................   ©25
©26 
Is and  )4s.
@27 
)4s.....................................
Is in tin pails....................
©27)4 
©28)4 
)4s 
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....  @23)4
Maltby’s,  Is......................................
@24
Is and  )4s..................  
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....  ©24)4©20 
)4a...................................
Manhattan,  pails.............................
@18 
Peerless  ..........................................
@16
Bulk................................................
COFFEES—PACKAGE.
..............................  

60 fts 100 fts 360 fts 

....... -2496
.........24%

24
34%
24)4
24)4
24%
24
24
24)4

Lion....................
Lion,  in  cabinets
xxxx............
Arbuckle’s  ........
Dilworth’s .........
Standard  ...........
German..............
German, In  bins.
j*uiKnuiiB........
Eagle.............
Mexican........
Green.

SHORTS.

SMOKING

Sweet  Rose.............32:  Mule Ear...................6»
May  Queen.............63  Fountain...................74
Dark AmericanEagle67] Old Congress.............64
The Meigs................60|Good Luck.................52
Red  Bird................. 50  Blaze Away...... ....... 35
Prairie Flow er.......65| Hair Lifter.................30
Indian Queen..........60 Hiawatha.................. 65
M ayflower.............70]  Globe....................... 65
Sweet  Pippin..........45 Crown Leaf................66
H ustler...................22'Sunset.......................35
Our  Leader............ 16iHiawatba...................23
Mayflower..............23|Old Congress..............23
Globe.......................22 May  Leaf...................22
3| D ark........................20
Mu’.e Ear.
PLUG.
.27]Blue  Blazes............. 27
Eye Opener.
.30 Capper......................35
Whopper  ...
.30 Jupiter  ....................25
Peach Pie...
37 Night Cap.................22
Star 
__
Splendid.................  38
Old Solder__
Red Fox.................... 40
Clipper  ....................34
Big  Drive................. 40
Corner Stone............34
Scalping  Knife....... 34,Chocolate Cream— 40
Sam Boss.................  34[Nimrod....................35
......29 Big Five Center........ 33
Next
......33 P a rro t...................... 42
Jolly  Time...
......421 B uster......................35
Favorite......
Black Prince.............35
Black  Bird...
..35 
Live and Let Live.. .33]Black  Racer.
..42
Quaker.....................28]Climax
Acorn  ......................30
Big  Nig................... 3
Spear Head..............37jHorse  Shoe..............37
P.  V..........................36 Vineo........................34
Spring Chicken........36 Merry War................ 28
Eclipse  ....................30 Ben  Franklin............32
Turkey..................... 39 Moxie........................34
Q. &Q,...  .................24 Black Jack................32
Lark......................... 22 Musselman’s Corker.30
Choose me................24i
Yum  Yum...............30|Pure..........................16
Our  Leader............. 15 S ta r........................... 20
Old Vet.....................30 Unit  ..........................30
BigDeal................... 27 Eight  Hours............. 24
Navy Clippings........26 Lucky  ...................... 30
Leader.....................15 Two  Nickel............... 25
Hard  Tack...............30 Duke’s  Durham....... 40-
Dixie ........................261Green Corn Cob Pipe 26
Old Tar.................... 40 Owl............................ 16
Arthur’s  Choice......22 Rob Roy.................... 24
Red Fox...................26 Uncle  Sam....... , ....... 27
Gold Dust................26 Lumberman..............25
Gold Block.............. 31 Railroad Boy..............36-
Seal of G rand Rapids  I Mountain Rose......... 18
(cloth)................25; Home Comfort...........25
Miners and Puddlers.28 Old Rip.................... 60
Peerless  ..................24 Seal of North Caro-
Standard................. 201  Lina, 2  oz.................48
Old Tom...................ISiSeal of North Caro-
Tom & Jerry........... 24 
lina, 4oz...................48
Seal of North Caro­
Joker..
lina, 8oz.................45
Traveler..................35
Maiden......................27
Seal of North Caro­
Pickwick Club..........40
lina, 16 oz boxes__42
Nigger Head.............26
King Bee, longcut.. .22 
• • • • • 32*
Holland.....................22 Sweet Lotus..
German.....................15 Grayling......
......32
Honey  Dew..............261 Seal Skin......
......30
......32
Colonel’s Choice.......15 Red Clover.  .
Queen  Bee................22 Good  Luck...
......26
Blue  Wing............... 3t)lNavy............
......30
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen......
70 
“  Maccoboy...........................
©  55 
Gail & Ax’ 
...... .  ..............
@  44 
“ 
Rappee...............................
@  35 
Railroad  Mills Scotch........................
@  45 
Lotzbeck  .......................................... .
@1 30
Japan ordinary.......... ......................
.18@20
Japan fair to good.....................................25@30
Japan fine.................................................. 35@45
Japan dust.................................................15020
Young Hyson............................................ 20®45
GunPowder...............................................35@50
Oolong.................................................33©55@6C
Congo.
. 25030
50 gr. 
10 
10 
16

White Wine......................
Cider........ •.................................
York State Apple.......................
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bath Brick imported..........................
90
American...........................
do 
Burners,  No. 0....................................
@70 
do  No. 1..................... ...............
80 
do  No. 2....................................
90 
Cocoa Shells, bulk..............................
® 4 
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand............
@7 70 
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans............
©25 
Candles, Star.......................................
@11 
Candles.  Hotel....................................
©12 
Camphor, oz., 2 ft boxes.....................
©35 
Extract Coffee, V. C...........................
©80 
@1 20 
Felix........................
_
Fire Crackers, per box..........................  
@1  20
Fruit Jars, pints....................................  ©10 00
“  quarts..................................   @11 00
“  2-quarts................................   @14 00
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps........................   @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps............................@35
Gum, 8pruce.........................................   30@35
Hominy, $ bbl.......................................   @3 00
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails..............................   5  @ 5)4
Pearl Barley....................................... 2%@ 3
Peas, Green  Bush.................................   @1 15
Peas, Split  Prepared.............................  © 
Powder, Keg...........................................  @5 00
Powder, Y*  Keg......................................  ©2 75
Sage  .......................................................  © 15
Sago  ......................................................   @7
Tapioca............................................... 

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FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.

STICK.
Standard, 25 ft boxes...........................   8)4© 0
Twist, 
...........................   © 0
Cut Loaf 
.......................  @10
MIXED
Royal, 25 ft pails.................................   @9
Royal, 200 ft bbls.................................   @8
Extra, 25 ft pails.................................  @10
Extra, 200 ft bbls.................................   @9
French Cream, 25 ft pails....................  @11)4
Cut loaf, 25 ft cases............... ............   @10
Broken, 25 ft pails..............................   @10
Broken. 200 ft  bbls..............................   © 9
Lemon  Drops.........................................  @12
Sour Drops.............................................  @13
Peppermint  Drops......
@13
Chocolate Drops.........
14
H M Chocolate  Drops.
18
Gum  Drops  ...............
10
Licorice Drops............
AB Licorice  Drops..
12
Lozenges, plain...........
14
Lozenges,  printed......
15
Imperials....................
14
Mottoes.......................
15 
Cream  Bar..................
12 
Molasses Bar...............
12 
Caramels.....................
18 
18 
Hand Made Creams__
10 
Plain  Creams.............
Decorated Creams......
20 1»
String Rock.................
Burnt Almonds..........
14
Wintertrreen  Berries..
Lozenges, plain in  pails.....................   @11)4
Lozenges, plain in bbls.......................  @10)4
Lozenges, printed in pails..................   @12)4
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..................   @11)4
Chocolate Drops, in pulls....................  @12)4
Gum  Drops  in pails...........................   © 6)4
Gum Drops, iu bbls.............................  @ 5)4
Moss Drops, in palls...........................9  @10
Moss Drops, in bbls  ...........................   @9
Sour Drops, in  pails...........................   ©12
Imperials, in  paiis..............................   @12)4
Imperials  in bbls................................  @11)4
Bananas  ............................................ 1  50@3 00
Oranges, California, fancy.................  ©
Oranges, California,  choice...............   @
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls.......................
Oranges, Florida.................................
5 50
Oranges, Rodi, cases...........................  
Oranges, Messina.................................4 50@5 00
Oranges, OO.........................................  ©
Oranges, Imperials............. 
5  25@5 50
Lemons, choice.
@4 50 
Lemons, fancy............................
©4
Lemons, California......................
Figs, layers, new,  $ ft..................
Figs, Bags, 50 ft.............................
Dates, frails do  ...........................
Dates, )4 do  do  ...........................
6)4
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $1  ft............
9)4@10 © 8
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $ ft.
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $1 ft...............  7  @7)4
Pine Apples, (|j) doz...........1...............  2 00@3 00
Almonds,  Tarragona..........................17)4@18
@17 
Ivaca.
@17 
California..........................
© 9- 
Brazils................................................
Filberts, Sicily.....................................
@10 
© 9 
Barcelona.............................
@17 
Walnuts. Grenoble............................ 15
15 
Sicily....................................
French.................................
11 
@14
Pecans, Texas, H. P ...........................10
Missouri..............................8  @  9
Cocoanuts, $ 100.................................5 50@6 00
PEANUTS.
Prime  Red, raw
ft............. ............  © 4%
do  ............. ............  © 4)4
Choice 
Fancy H.P. do
do  ............
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Choice White, V a.do............. ............  © 5)4
Fancy H P,. Va do  ............. ............  © 6)4
...........  6  © 6)4
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Grand Rapids Division.
DEPART.
D etroit Express.................................................
Day  Express..................................
•A tlantic Express..........................
Mixed 
.............................................
ARRIVE.
•Pacific  Express................................................................ 6:00 a m
M ail.....................................................................................  8:00 p m
G rand Rapids  Express........................................... 10:15 p m
M ixed................................................................................... 5:15 p m
•Dally.  All other daily except Sunday.  Sleeping cars 
run on A tlantic and Pacific Express trains to  and from  
D etroit.  P arlor  cars ru n   on  Day  Express  and  Grand 
Rapids Express to  and  from   D etroit.  D irect  connec­
tions m ade a t D etroit w ith all through trains E ast over 
M. C. R. R., (Canada Southern Div.)

D. W. J ohnston, Mich. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids.
O. W. Rcggles, Gen’l Pass, and Ticket A gt., Chicago
Duluth, South  Shore & Atlantic  Railway

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Rio................. .21023 Rio.................
Santos............ .23@25 Santos............ 23026
Maricabo........ ,23©24 Maricabo........ 24025
25030
J a v a .............. .23025 Java.............
O. G. Java...... .24032 O. G. Java...... 27@33
Mocha  ........... .25026 Mocha............ 31032
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Seymour Butter.....................  
Butter...................................... 
Fancy  Butter..........................  4)4
S. Oyster.................. 
Picnic...................................... 
Fancy  Oyster..........................  4)4
Fancy  Soda.............................  5
City Soda.................................
Soda  .......................................
Milk........................................
Boston....................................
Graham...................................
Oat  Meal.................................
Pretzels, hand-made..............
Pretzels..?..............................

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Corn, )4 bbls......................................... 
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Corn, 10 gallon kegs............................. 
Corn, 5 gallon kegs..............................  
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Pure Sugar, )4 bbl................................ 
TOBACCO—FINE C U T -IN  PAILS.
Bad Boy.................... 35
Uncle Tom................42
Cinderella...
What Is It?................28
Hi There...................30
Cherry..................... 60
Red Cap.................... 56
Five and Seven........ 46
CrossCut...................36
Magnet..................... 25
Old Jim ......................35
Seal of Detroit..........60
Jim Dandy............... 38 Old Time...................30
Underwood’s Capper 35 
Our  Bird__.,............26
Meigs & Co.’s Stuoner35
Brother Jonathan...27
Atlas........................35
Jolly Time................36
Royal Game............. 38
Our  Leader..............33

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

cuttle bone.

Advanced—Gum  opium;  <ram  opium,  po.; 
Declined—Gum camphor.
ACIDUM.

SPONGES.
Florida eheens’ wool, carriage...... 8 25  ®2 50
Nassau 
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2 00
1  10
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Annatto  ..........................
Antimoni,  po....................
Argenti Nltrqs, 
Arsenicum........

Aceticum..............................................  
8® 10
Benzoicum,  German__*......................  80@1 00
Carbolicum...........................................  45© 50
Citricum...............................................  57@ 60
Hydrochlor...........................................   3®  5
Nitrocum................................... 
 
 
O x allcu m ....................................................  
ll@  13
Salicylicum.........................................1 85@2 10
Tannicum.................:.........................l 40@1 60
Tartaricum..........................................   50® 53
Aqua, 16 deg..........................................  3®  5
Carbonas.............................................   n@
Chloridum............ .............................   12® 14  Capsici Fructus, af.
Capsici Fructus, po.
Capsici Fructus, B, po..........
Cubebae (po.  1 15................................1 10©1  15
Caryophyllus,  (po.  35)..........
Carmine, No. 40.....................
Xanthoxylum.............................. ....  25® 30
C< ra Alba, S. &  F ..................
Cera  Flava........................... .
Copaiba.........................................
53
Coccus ...................................
Peru...............................................
®1 50
Cassia Fructus....................!
Terabin,  Canada........................... ....  50® 55
Centrarla..............................
Tolutan......................................... ....  40® 45
Cetaceum.................
Chloroform,  Squibbs... 
Abies,  Canadian...........................
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Chloral Hydrate  Cryst.
Cassiae  .........................................
11
Cinchona Flava............................
18
Eaonymus  atropurp....................
30
Myrica  Cerifera, po’.....................
20
12
Quillaia,  grd.................................
12
S'assfras  .......................................
12
Ulmus............................................
12
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)..................
410
Glycyrrhiza Glabra.......................
....  24® 25
....  83® 35
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9® 10
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Citrate and Quinia........................
Citi-ate Soluble..............................
Ferrocyaniduin Sol.......................
Solut  Chloride..............................
Sulphate, com’l,  (bbl. 85)..
pure..................
FOLIA.

Cinchonidine.  German...................
Corks, see list, discount,  per cent!!
Creasotum...................................
Creta, (bbl. 75)................... 
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Creta, precip.................... ..,!!!!!!!!
Creta Rubra.........................!!!!..!!!
Crocus  .....................
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Brags & flDebicines

Stale  Board  of Pharmacy.

One Y ear—Jacob Jenson, Muskegon.
Two Y ears—Jam es V em or, D etroit.
T hree Years—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor.
F our Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Five Years—Stanley E. P arkell, Owosso.
President—O ttm ar  Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
T reasurer—Jas. V em or.
Next Meeting—At D etroit, July 5 and 6.
Special Meeting—At Petoskey, July 15 and 10.

Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Ass'n.

P resident—F rank J. W urzburg, Grand Rapids.
F irst Vice-President—Mrs. C. W. Taylor, Loomis. 
Second Vice-President—H enry Harwood, Ishpeming. 
Third Vice-President—F rank Inglis, Detroit.
S ecretary—8. E. P arkill, Owosso.
T reasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive Committee—Geo. W. Crouter, J. G. Johnson, 
Local Secretary—Guy M. Harwood, Petoskey.
H ext Place of Meeting—At  Petoskey, July 1*, 13 and 1*.
Grand  Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society. 

F rank Wells, Geo. Gundrum and Jacob Jesson.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER 9, 1831.

President—Geo. G. Stekeitee.
Vice-President—H.  E. Locher.
S ecretary—F rank H. Escott.
T reasurer—H enry  B. Fairchild.
Board of  Censors—President,  Vice-President  and  Sec-
B o a rd ^ ’ Trustees—'The President,  John E. Peck,  M.  B. 
Kimm, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen and O. H. Richmond, 
wen, Isaac W atts. Wm. E. W hite and Wm.  L.  W hite. 
Com m ittee on Trade M atters—John E. Peck, H. B. Fair- 
child and Hugo  Thum.
Com m ittee  on  Legislation—R.  A.  McWilliams,  Theo. 
Kemink and W. H. Tibbs.
Com m ittee on Pharm acy—W. L. W hite, A. C. B auer and 
Isaac W atts.
R egular  Meetings—F irst  Thursday  evening  in   each 
m onth. 
A nnual Meeting—F irst  Thursday evening in November 
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  July  7,  a t  The 

.

.

.

.

T radesman office.

Detroit  Pharmaceutical  Society. 

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER, 1883.

President—F rank  Inglis.
F irst Vice-President—F. W. R. Perry.
Second Vice-President—J .J .  Crowley.
Secretary and T reasurer—F. Rohnert.
A ssistant Secretary and  Treasurer—A. B. Lee. 
A nnual Meeting—F irst W ednesday in June.
R egular Meetings—F irst W ednesday in each  m onth.
Central  Michigan  Druggists’  Association 
President, J. W. Dunlop;  Secretary, R.  M. Mussell.
Berrien  County  Pharmaceutical  Society. 
President, H. M. Dean;  Secretary, H enry K ephart.

Clinton  County  Druggists’  Association. 

President, A. O. H unt;  Secretary, A. S.  W allace.
Charlevoix County Pharmaceutical Society 
President, H. W. W illard;  Secretary, Geo. W. Crouter.

Ionia County  Pharmaceutical Society. 
President, W. R. C utler;  Secretary, Geo. Gundrum.

Jackson  County  Pharmaceutical  Ass’n; 

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

Kalamazoo Pharmaceutical Association. 

President, D. O. Roberts;  Secretary, D. McDonald.

Mason  County  Pharmaceutical  Society. 

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

Monroe  County  Pharmaceutical  Society. 

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

Muskegon  Drug  Clerks’  Association. 

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

Oceana County Pharmaceutical Society. 

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

President, E. A. Bullard;  Secretary, C. E. Stoddard.
Manistee  County  Pharmaceutical  Society, 
President. W. H. W illard;  Secretary, A. H.  Lyman.

The  Coming Convention.

Secretary Parkill aunouiices that  a  large 
number of  noted guests  will  be present, as 
follows:  Governor Luce, Hon. M. H.  Ford, 
Hon.  Mark  Brewer,  Hon.  S.  P.  Duffield, 
Geo.  S. Davis,  Geo.  P. Englehard,  J.  Gelis 
Lewis, S.  E.  Miller, President  of  the  Ohio 
Pharmaceutical  Association;  G.  E.  Hopp, 
Secretary of the same body; President Pren- 
tis, of the Wisconsin  Pharmaceutical  Asso­
ciation; Frank  Hamilton,  President  of  the 
Michigan Business Men’s Association.

President Wurzburg and wite leave for the 
North on  Saturday  evening,  spending  the 
Sabbath on  Mackinac  Island,  and  reaching 
Petoskey via the inland  lake route Monday 
afternoon.  They will  be  accompanied  by 
H. B. Fairchild  and  wife,  of  the Hazeltine 
& Perkins Drug Co.

The Position of the Board.

T he Tradesman  is requested  to  state 
that at least  three of  the other  four mem­
bers of the State Board of  Pharmacy  were 
not aware that Jacob  Jesson  was  working 
for a re-appointment—that  the  announce­
ment of the Governor’s action in the matter 
was the  first  intimation  they had tiiat the 
appointment was to be made at this time.

T he Tradesman  considers  Mr.  Jesson 
the right man in the  right  place,  but it ap­
pears to be the almost  unanimous  opinion 
•of the drug trade of the State that the man­
ner in which his  re-appointment  was  se­
cured was  wholly  wrong  and  open to the 
objections stated by T he  Tradesman last 
week.

A Good Officer.

President Wurzburg will retire  fjrom  the 
positiou of  presiding officer of  the  Michi­
gan State Pharmaceutical  Association with 
the satisfaction  of  knowing  tiiat  lie  has 
done  his  whole  duty  to  the  organization 
and left undone no act which would tend to 
•enhance  its  professional  standing  or  its 
value to  the  membership.  Mr.  Wurzburg 
is entitled to great credit for the aggressive­
ly consistent course he  has  pursued  while 
at the head  of  the Association.

Druggists’ Convention.

H. W.  Beecher and J. Leo. Kymer, of the 
firm of Eaton & Lyon,  wholesale  booksell­
ers and stationers,  will be at the  Arlington 
at Petoskey  during the  druggists’  conven­
tion and desire to show them the finest  line 
of holiday goods ever shown  in  Michigan. 
Look at their goods and prices.

T he T radesman  acknowledges  the  re­
ceipt of  a  neat  phamphlet  containing  the 
constitution  and  by-laws  of  the  Central 
Michigan  Druggists’  Association;  also  the 
constitution and by-laws  of  the  St.  Louis 
{Mo.) Drug Clerks’ Association.

Advance Echoes of the Convention. 
The fifth annual convention  of the Mich­
igan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
which  convenes  at  Petoskey  next  week, 
promises to be the most interesting occasion 
ever participated  in  by  the  druggists  of 
this State.

The  Tradesman  is  not  much  of  a 
prophet, but it is willing to wager  a  year’s 
subscription against a box of pills that  De­
troit will be selected as  the  next  place  of 
meeting; that Frank Inglis will be the  next 
President of  the Association,  and that Sec­
retary  Parkill will be  re-elected  by  accla­
mation.

So far as heard from at  this  writing,  no 
city will  put  in  a  bid  for  the  meeting 
against Detroit, the claims of  that place  to 
the honor being now generally conceded.

The election of Frank Inglis to the presi­
dency of  the Association will be acceptable 
to members in all parts  of  the  State,  and 
particularly so to the druggists  of  Detroit, 
where he occupies the positiou of  president 
of the local society.  Mr. Inglis has  been a 
strong supporter of the Association since its 
inception and richly deserves recognition, j

Mr.  Parkill  deserves  a  unanimous  re- 
election for the efficient work  he  has  done 
during the past two years.  The experience 
he has thus gained will be  worth  much  to 
the Association during  the  next  year, 
in 
the course of  which  many  more  local  as­
sociations are  likely  to  be  organized  and 
large additions to the State  membership re­
sult  therefrom.  Mr.  Parkill  thoroughly 
understands how to bring in  new  converts 
and  this  faculty  the  Association  cannot 
afford to dispense with.

The Drug Market.

Opium continues moving upward in price, 
each  day  advancing  a  fraction.  Smyrna 
speculators are  offering §4.50  in  the  New 
York market,  with  no  sellers.  Powdered 
opium has also advanced.  Quinine is easy, 
with  light  demand.  Citric  acid  is  firm. 
Carbolic acid is  weak  and  will  be  lower. 
Cuttle bone is firm at the advance  and  the 
prospects  are  for  higher  prices.  Gum 
camphor has declined; manufacturers are in 
bettei^supply.  Cubeb berries tending lower. 
Linseed oil is very firm and advancing.  P. 
& W. advanced morphia 25 cents per  ounce 
on June 30.  A further advance is probable, 
as this  article  has  not  moved  upward  as 
fast  as  gum  opium.  Four  dollars  per 
ouuce  iu  %ths  is  predicted  by  manufac­
turers.

Will  Not Sue for Libel.

The report  that President Wurzburg pro­
poses to proceed  against  the  Pharmaceuti- 
cal Era for  imputing  a  portrait  of  Patsy 
Sullivan to him  is  not corroborated  by that 
gentleman.  He  says the  alleged  represen­
tation of his features  gives  him  more  pain 
than  a  sore  finger, but  the next man who 
suggests  that  the  cut  be put in the rogues 
gallery is likely to meet with a warm recep­
tion.

Go to Petoskey.

Every  Michigan  druggist owes it to him­
self and his profession  to  attend  the  con­
vention of the Michigan State Pharmaceuti­
cal  Association  at  Petoskey  next  week. 
Those who are compelled to  stay  at  home 
should not fail to send in their yearly dues.

Minor Drug Notes.

The retail druggists  of  Cleveland have a 

§200 library.

The St.  Louis  Drug  Clerks’  Association 

has sixty-five members.

A  good quality of wine is now being suc­

cessfully manufactured from oranges.

There is a wonderful increase in the num­
ber of text-books  for students of pharmacy.
A red ashphaltum or mineral pitch, twen­
ty inches thick, has been  found at  Beaure­
gard,  Miss.

It.  Rother has isolated  what he  considers 
to be the fluorescent principle of wild cherry 
bark.

Maine has a new law  regulating  the sale 
of opium aud its enforcement is hard on un­
registered druggists.

It is claimed that a German  Health  com­
pany sells a preparation of honey and water 
costing 12 cents for §25.

Beeswax  can  easily be  powdered by add­
ing an equal bulk or granulated sugar and a 
small per cent, of alcohol.

An eminent physician says that the micro­
scope  has  become  of  indispensable  service 
in the diagnosis of skin diseases.

In India they have a theory that petroleum 
is an oil produced from fish  suddenly killed 
by an influx of salt into an inland lake.

It is estimated  that  the  number of drug­
gists in the United States who are  interest­
ed in microscopy has increased  50 per cent, 
during the past three years.

G.  M.  Beringer  has  found  commercial 
ground flaxseed to  contain over 30 per cent, 
of oil.  The  United  States  Pharmacopoeia 
states that it  shall  not  yield  less  than  25 
per cent.

A French paper says  that  petroleum  de- 
stoys all insects and banishes rats and mice, 
and  that  water  slightly impregnated  with 
petroleum aoplied  to  plants  infected  with 
insects will destroy them.
About two years ago an aqueous  solution 
of epsom salts  sweetened  with glucose was 
sold in glucose for  glycerin.  A  similar  ar­
ticle  was  found  reported  in  the  Engiish 
market recently.

Will Exhibit at Petoskey.

Chas.  E.  Watson  and  Ed.  P.  Andrew, 
general  traveling  representatives for  S.  A. 
Maxwell & Co., of Chicago,  have engaged a 
suite of  rooms at  Petoskey for  next  week, 
where  they will  display  the  contents of  a 
couple of dozen sample  trunks for  the ben­
efit of those druggists  in  attendance on the 
convêntion of the Michigan  State  Pharma­
ceutical Association.  They will show every­
thing new in the  line  of  books,  stationery 
and  holiday goods  and  their  order  books 
will be in  readiness.  Every delegate to the 
convention is invited to give the boys a call.

The Pennsylvania Liquor Law.

The following is  the  clause  iu  the  new 
liquor law of Pennsylvania that governs the 
sale of intoxicating liquors by druggists:
“That  druggists  and  apothecaries  shall 
not be required to obtain a license under the 
provisions of this act, but shall not  sell  in­
toxicating liquors except  upon  the  written 
prescription of a regularly  registered physi­
cian.  Alcohol,  however,  or  any  prepara­
tion containing the same, may  be  sold  for 
scientific,  mechanical,  or  medicinal  pur­
poses.  Any one violating the provisions  of 
this act shall be guilty  of  a  misdemeanor, 
and upon conviction thereof shall be subject 
to the same  penalties  as  are  provided  in 
section  15  of  this  act,  provided  that  no 
spiritous,  vinous,  malt,  or  brewed  liquor 
shall be  sold  or  furnished  to  any  person 
more than once on any one prescription of a 
physician; and  provided  further,  that  any 
physician who shall  wilfully  prescribe  any 
intoxicating liquors as a beverage to persons 
of known intemperate habits shall be guilty 
of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction 
thereof  shall be subject  to  the  same  pen­
alties and fines as are prescribed  in  section 
17.”

The Aniline Trade of Germany.

Kvhlow's  Review says:  “The prospect of 
a slow improvement in the aniline  industry 
has been fulfilled,  and,  but for the uncertain 
political situation of Europe, which has late­
ly had so  damaging an  effect on all  trades 
and industries, the improvement in question 
would doubtless have increased.  The prices 
for the most important raw materials which 
are employed in the above industry reached 
in 1886 a normally low  point.  Certain  re­
ductions in the price of some of the products 
are also to be recorded.  These,  however, 
were,  on the whole,  moderate.
“The manufacture of fuclisinhas just un­
dergone  a  complete  revolution  in  conse­
quence of the employment of nitro-benzoline 
and the  abandonment  of  the arsenic  acid 
process.  The  manufacturers  are now pre­
pared to deliver a  fuchsin and a blue  abso­
lutely free of  arsenic  compounds.  Several, 
modifications  have  had to be  made  in the 
machinery.”

Keratinization of Pills.

Pills keratinized are not  intended to  dis­
solve in the stomach,  but in  the  intestines. 
Keratin is  obtained  by  boiling  quills  in 
water, extracting the  fat  with  ether,  dis­
solving in acetic acid,  and evaporing.
For coating  pills,  ammpniacal  or  acetic 
acid solutions are employed only.  It is neces­
sary to apply the coating from 8 to 10 times 
to insure durability.

Addition of Alcohol to Wine. 

According to  Rundschau, Riche  made  a 
report to the Paris Academy  of  Science  in 
which he says the addition of no more than 
per cent, of alcohol to many light wines is 
useful.  However, the alcohol must be  free 
from fusel oil,  since  its  presence  renders 
wine dangerous to health.

The  thirty-fifth  annual  meeting  of  the 
American Pharmaceutical  Association  will 
be held in Cincinnati,  commencing Septem­
ber 5. 
It  has  been  some  time  since  the 
western pharmacists have had  an  opportu­
nity of attending a meeting so near at home. 
They should take advantage of  this circum­
stance and have the West well  represented.
It is estimated by  Dr.  Hoffman, of  New 
York, that one-half of the  medicinal  drugs 
aud  chemicals  consumed  in  the  United 
States enter into and are dispensed and con­
sumed in proprietary medicines.

A curious local anjethetic of  the  Chinese 
is in the form of hard,  wax-like tablets. 
It 
seems to owe its  benumbing  property  to a 
secretion from the skin of frogs.

Frank Hibbard,  the Evart  druggist,  has 
the California fever,  and will remove to the 
Pacific slope  as soon as  he can  dispose of 
his drug stock and residence.

He Wanted Indemnity.

Clerk—I love  your  daughter  and  she re­
ciprocates my affection.  «
Merchant—My  daughter  has  spoken  to 
me about you;  I  have  no  objection  to  the 
match.
I wish to ask you 
“I am glad to hear it. 
one question.”
“I’ll be  perfectly  candid  with  you,  sir; 
proceed.
“I expect to give your daughter a-diamond 
engagement ring.  Would you object to giv­
ing me a check for it,  so I can get it back in 
case we were to break our engagement?”

Where is the Soul  Located.

According  to  the  Independent  Practi­
tioner, Pythagoras asserted that the  seat  or 
location  of  the  soul  is  the  encephalon; 
Eristratus, the  meninges;  Herophilus,  the 
great ventricle; Servetus,  the  aqueduct  of 
Sylvius; Arontius, the  thé  third  ventricle; 
Des Cartes, the pineal  gland;  Soemmering, 
the  liquid  contained 
in  the  encephalon; 
Aristotle, the heart;-others,the origin of the 
spinal  cord, 
the 
corpore  striata,  etc.  Empedocles  believed 
that it circulated through the blood.

the  corpus  callosum, 

Midpo  Drag  Mange.

AOENTS  FOR  THE

population.  Average daily sales, $30.

375 South Union St., Grand Rapids.
Standard  Petit Ledger.
\ \ T ANTED—A registered female pharmacist 
to take situation in  western  town.  Al­
V ▼ 
so other registered pharmacists and assistants.
FOR SALE—A new, clean aud carefully  se­
lected stock of §1,500 in town of 500 inhab­
itants.  Average  daily  sales  $12.  No  other 
drug store'm town.
FOR SALE—Stock of $3,000 in  town  of  1,000 
F OR SALE—Part  Interest  or  whole  stock, 
well located In Grand Rapids.  Will sell at 
reasonable rates.  Would  prefer to take part- 
r.__________
FOR SALE—Stock of about $1,800 in town of 
FOR  SALE-Stoek 
FOR SALE—Stock of about $4,000 in town of 
■LSO—Many  other  stocks,  the particulars 
KE HAVE also secured  the  agency  for J.

of which we will  furnish  on  AnnliAatinn
of which we will  furnish  on  application.
DRUGGISTS—Wishing to secure clerks 
we will furnish the  address  and full  par­

mo
ticulars of those on our list free.

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

1,800 population.  Will exchange for good 

2,000  inhabitants.  Will  exchange  for

of  $1,700  in 
town  of 
Average daily sales $15. 

Will sell on easy terms.

good farm lands.

800 inhabitants.

real estate.

Michigan Drug Exchange,

857 South Union St., 

- 

Grand Rapids.

WHOLESALE

93 and 95 Louis Street.

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nemes, uuei 
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WE  ARE  SOLE  OWNERS  OF

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Which is positively the best Remedy 

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

tient

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
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Henderson Co., Ky.,

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Distilled

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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 rifts'  Favorite  Eye,

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

G W fflisS  Fill Wines

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

such asPatent  Medicines,

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

Mail  orders  always  receive  our specia 

Hazeltine 

& Perkins 

Drug Co

12 I Ether Suiph......................
Emery,’all  numbers..........
Emery, po.........................
Flake  White......................
Galla...................................
Gambier............................!
Gelatin, Coopor..........!.!!!!
Gelatin, French..................
Glassware Hint, 70&10 by be
Glue,  Brown......................
Glue, White...................ÜÜ
Glyeerina........................!!!
Grana  Paradisi..................
H um ulus...........................
Hydrarg Chlor. Mitt  ..!!!!!
Hydrarg  Chlor.  Cor...........
Hydra rg < )xide Rubrum__
Hydrartf  Ammoniati.........
Hydra rg U nguentum.........
Hydrargyrum...................
Ichthyocolla, Am  ............ .
Indigo............*..................
Iodoform.......................................
Liquor Arson et Hydrarg iod! ! ! ! ! !
Liquor Potass  Arsinitis.................
Lupuline  ...........A ........................
Lycopodium.....................!!!!!!!!.
Macis.......................................
Maguesia, Sulph, (bbl. 1)4).. !!!!!!!!
Mannia, S.F....................................
Morphia,  8, P. & W......; __ !!!!!!!
Mosebus Canton................ !!!!!!!.*
Myristica, No. 1................. !!!!!!!!!
Nux  Vomica, (po. 20)............
Os. Sepia......................................
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Co.!.!.!" !
Picis Liq,  N. C.. Yx  galls, doz.........
PicisLiq.,  quarts...........................
Picis Liq., pints...........................! !
Pii Hydrarg, (po. 80)...................
Piper Nigra,  (po. 22)..................................@
Piper Alba, (po. 35)................... 
  @
Pix Burgun.......................................*..  @
Plumbi Acet............................ !!!!!!!.  14®
Potassa, Bitart, pure................ !!.!!!.  @
Potassa,  Bitart.com......................... !  @
Potass  Nltras, opt................................... 8®
Potass Nitras........................... 
  7®
Pulvis Ipecac et opii...............!  ..!!..1  10@1 2Ò
Pyrethrum, boxes, H. & P. D. Co., doz.  @1 00
Pyrethrum.pv....... :...........................  43®
Quassiae.............................................  
3®  10
Quinia, S, P. &  W...............................    53®  63
Quinia, S, German..............................   43®  60
Rubia Tinctorum................................  12®  13
Saccharum Lactis, pv................ 
®  35
 
Salacin.......................................   .. * *. 
2®
SanguisDraconis.................. !!!.!!!  *  40®  50
Santonine.......................................... 
®4 50
gapo.  \V................................. •............   12®  14
gaP°*  M............................................... 
8®
Sapo. G................................................   @
Seidlitz  Mixture.................................   @
Sinapis....................................... 
  @
Sinapis,  opt.................................,.***  @
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  Do. Voes...........'.!  @
SnutLScotch,  Do. Voes.....................   @

 

 

 

, 

, 

Soda Carb.

Bbl
Whale, winter...................................  70
Lard, extra....................................   .  60
Lard, No.  1........................................    45
Linseed, pure raw............................  
47
LinBeed, boiled................................  50
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained...........  50
Spirits Turpentine...........................   40

'%© 9
33© 35
2©
4© 5
3© 4
Soda  Sulphas................................
© 2
Spts. Ether Co........................
50© 55
Spts.  Myrcia Dom..................
©2 (X)
Spts. Myrcia Imp..........................
©2 50
Spts. Vini Kect, (bbl. 2 10)............
@2 25
Strychnia, Crystal........................
®1 30
214® 314
Sulphur, Subi............................  
Sulphur,  Roll................................!!  2)4® 3
Tamarinds..........................................  
8®  10
  28®  30
Terebenth  Venice..........................  
Theobromae............................................  50  @ 55
Vanilla  ............................................. 9 oo@l6 00
7®  ’ g
Zinci  Sulph...................... 
OILS.
Gal
75
«1
50
50
53
60
45
Bbl
Lb 
Bed Venetian.......................... 
iv
2® 3 
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles.......   144
3® 3 
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda.........   144
2® 3 
Putty, commercial.................  2)4
3)4® 3 
Putty, strictly pure.................  2)4
2«® 3 
Vermilion,prime  American..
13®16 
Vermilion, English.................
55® 58 
Green, Peninsular..................
16®17 
Lead, red strictly pure..
6® 6)4 
............................ ay
Lead, white, strictly pure......
6® 6)4 
Whiting, white Spanish.........
®70 
Whiting, Gilders ...................
®90 
White, Paris American...........
1  10 1 40 
Whiting  Paris English cliff..
Pioneer Prepared  T aints......
20®l 40 
Swiss Villa Prepare«'  Paints..
00®J  20
VARNISHES.
No. 1 Turp Coach.................................1 10®1 20
Extra  Turp..........................................l  60@1 70
Coach Body..........................................2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture...........................1 00® 1 10
Extra Turk  Damar..............................1  55®1 60
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp....................  70®  75
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O i i s l i m a n ’s

In  the  treatment  of  Catarrh,  Headache, 

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

Colds, stands without an equal.

Air Menthollzed by passing through the Inhaler- 
tube. In which th e Pure Crystals of Menthol are 
held’ thoroughly applies this  valuable  rem edy  in  the 
m ost  efficient  way,  to   the  parts  affected,  lit  sells 
readily.  Always keep an open Inhaler In your store, 
and let your custom ers try  It.  A  few  inhalations  will 
not h u rt th e Inhaler, and will do m ore  to  dem onstrate 
Its efficiency than a  half hour’s talk.  Retail  nrice 
BO cents.  F er Circulars and  Testim onials address 

H.  D.  Cushman,  Three  Rivers,  Mich. 

Trade supplied by

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

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this paper.

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

13
Cassia Acutifol, Tinniveliy......... ......  20© 25
Alx..................
......  35© 50
Salvia officinalis, )4s and  )4s___ ......   10©
12
Ura  ITrsi......................................
.  ... 
8©
10
GUMMI.
....................... ......  ©1 00
2nd 
“ 
......  © 90
3rd 
....................... ......  © 80
“ 
Sifted sorts....................
“ 
65
PO................................... ......  75@l 00
,  “ 
Aloe, Barb,  (po. 60)..................... ......  50© 60
“  Cape, (po. 20)....................... ......  © 13
“  Socotriue,  (po. 60)............. ......  © 50
Amnioniae  ................................. ......  25© 30
Assafoetida,  (po. 30)................... ......  © 15
Uenzoinuui................................. ......  50® 55
Camphorae.............................
---   25© 38
Catechu, Is,  (V4s,  14; J4s, 18)....... ......  @ 13
Euphorbiuni, po..........................
10
Galbanum.................................... ......  @ 80
Gamboge, po................................ ......  75© 80
Guaiacuin, (po. 45)....................... ......  © 35
Kino,  (po. 25)...............   .............. ......  © 20
Mastic......................................   .......  @1 25
Myrrh, (po.45).............................. ......  @ 40
Opii, ^ 0. 6 50/.............................. ..... 4 85©5 0C
Shellac......................................... ......  18© 25
30
Tragaeanth .........................................
h e r b a —In ounce packages.
Absinthium  .......................................
Eflpatorium.......................................
Lobelia  ...............................................
Majorum  ............................................
Mentha Piperita.................................
“  V ir.........................................
R u e .....................................................
Tanacetum,  V....................................
Thymus. V.. . ......................................

bleached..

25®
30®

30

MAGNESIA.

Calcined,  Pat......................................
...................  55®
.................  20®
Carbonate,  P at...................................
Carbonate,  K. &M.
...................  20®
Carbonate,  Jennings..........................  35®

60

 

 

 

 

 

 

Absinthium............................ 
4 50®5 00
Amygdalae, Dulc................................  45®  50
Amydalae, Arnarae............................. 7 00®7 50
Auisi  ....... 
M 20®2  30
Auranti Cortex...................................  @2 00
Bergamii.......’......................................... 2 00@2 50
Cajiputi  — .................. 
90@1  00
Caryophylli.........................................  @2 00
Cedar*..................................................  35®  65
Chenopodii.........................................  @1 50
Cinnamonii.........................................  90®l  00
Citronella  ..........................................   @  75
Conium  Mac.......................................   35®  65
COpaiba..................  
........................   90® 1 00
Cubebae..........................................   9 50© lo 0)
Exechthitos.........................................  90@1 00
Erigeron......................... 
1 20®1 30
Gaultheria........■......................................2 00®2 10
Geranium, 3.......................................   @  75
Gosaipii, Sem, gal................................  55®  75
Hedeoma.............................................   90® 1 00
Juniperi...............................................  50®2 00
Lavendula..........................................   90@2 00
Limonis....................................................1 75®2 25
Lini, gal...............................................  42®  45
Mentha Piper...................................... 2 75®3 6J
Mentha Verid...........................................5 50@6 00
Morrhuae,  gal....................................   80®1  00
Myrcia,  s.............................................   @  50
Olive.........................................................I 00@2 75
Plcis Liquida, (gal. 35)........................   10®  12
Ricini.......................................................1 43@1 60
Rosmarini..........................................   75@1  00
Rosae,  5...............................................  @8 00
40®45
Succiui  ............................................... 
Sabina..................................................  90®l 00
Santal..........................................  
..8 50@7 00
Sassafras.............................................   12®  45
Sinapia, ess, 5......................................  @  65
Tiglii...................................................   @1  50
Thyme....................................... 
  40®  50
opt............................................  @  60
Theobromas__.'..................................   15®  20
Bichromate............*............................  1,3®  15
Bromide.............................................   42®  45
Chlorate, (Po. 20)............................          18®  20
Iodide.......................................... %__ 3 (K>®3
Prussiate
25®  28

POTASSIUM.

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A lthae................................................   25®  30
Anchusa.............................................   15®  20
Arum,  po............................................  @  25
Calamus...............................................  20®  50
Geutiaua,  (po. 15)................................ 
io@  12
Glycbrrhiza, (pv. 15).,........................   16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,  vpo. 33)...............   @  25
Hellebore,  Alba,  po...........................   15®  20
Inula,  po.............................................   15®  20
Ipecac, po............................................2 50@2 60
Jalapa, pr............................................  25®  30
Marnnta,  Vis.......................................   @  35
Podophyllum,  po................................  15®  18
Rhei 
...............................................  75<gl 00
“  p v ..........................!.!.!!!!!!!!!!  75®i35
Spigelia...............................................  48®  53
Sanguinaria, (po. 25).......................        @  20
Serpentaria.........................................  35®  40
Senega....................................... 
40®  45
Smilax, Ollicinalis, H ..........................  @  40
Mex.....................   @  20
Sclllae, (po. 35)....................................   10®  12
Syuiplocarpus,  Foetidus, po..............  @  25
Valeriana,  English,  (po.30)...........*...  @  25
German.............................  15®  20
Anisum, (po.22)...................................  @  17
Apium  (graveolens)...........................   12®  ¿5
Bird, Is..................  
4®  6
Carui,  (po. 20)......................................  12®  15
Cardamom........................................... 1 oo@l 25
Coriandrum........................................  10®  12
Cannabis  Sativa.................................  
3®  4
Cydonium............................................  75@1 00
Chenopodium  ..................................... 
io@  12
Dipterix Odorate.................................l 75@i 35
Foeniculum.........................................  @  15
6®  8
Foenugreek, po................................... 
Lini........................................................3)4®  4
Lini, grd, (bbl, 3)......... j...................... 3)4® 
4
Phalaris Canarian..............................   33i@4)4
Kapa............  
5®  6
Sinapis,  A lbu...i................................ 
8®  9
n@  12

 
Nigra..............  

SEMEN.

 
 

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SPIRITUS.

 

Frumenti,  W.,  D. &Co................. ,...2 00@2 50
Frumenti, D. F. R................... 
1 75@g ye
Frum enti.............................................1 lo@l 50
Juniperis Co. O. T......... -.................. 1 75@i 75
J uni peris Co........................................ 1 75®? 60
Saacharum  N. E.................................. 1 75@2 00
Spt. Vini Galli......................................l 75®o GO
Vini Oporto..........................................1 25®2 00
Vini  Alba..........................................   l 25®2 00

TH E  QUEEN’S JUBILEE.

Jubilee week is now a thing  of  the  past 
and the British branch  of  the Anglo-Saxoti 
race  has  shown  its  congenital  inability to 
manage such affairs with any adaptability to 
sentiment or  fine  taste.  The Anglo-Saxon 
on either side of  the  Atlantic  is  a  clumsy 
ahimal  when  he  is  required  to  act  out  a 
sentiment of any kind.  He never has man­
aged to co-ordinate  emotion  and  its  visible 
utterance to  any  extent, and  apparently he 
never will.  From an  artistic or philosophi­
cal point of  view,  nothing  is  more  absurd 
than our  own  Fourth  of  July celebration, 
except  the  Queen’s  Jubilee.  An  old  lady 
was carried through a long series of London 
streets under the summer  sun,  in order that 
her loyal  subjects  might  have  a  chance to 
stare and cheer.  She  attended  public wor­
ship in the oldest of  London churches amid 
a dense throng, whose  selection  and collec­
tion is out of harmony with  any purpose of 
Christian  worship.  She  was  worn  out  in 
attending balls, receiving  addresses of  con­
gratulation,  receiving  firemen  and  soldiers, 
and hearing speeches. 
If the intention was 
to get her out of the way and give her son a 
chance,  as  soon  as  the  fifty  years  of  her 
reign were  up, the  matter  could  not  have 
been better arranged.

That the  Queen’s  reign  has  been, on the 
whole,  an era of substantial  progress which 
calls  for. some public recognition,  is beyond 
doubt.  The  England  of  1887  is  in  many 
respects a better England  than that of  1837 
was.  But we  cannot  say that  the English 
people have reason  to  felicitate  themselves 
upon the way in which they have discharged 
the duties  aud  embraced  the  opportunities 
of  that  half  century, or that they can look 
forward  to  the  coming  half  century  with 
equanimity.  On the  contrary the  problems 
of  government  have  grown  in  difficulty, 
with the growth of  wealth in  the hands  of 
the few, of numbers  now armed with polit­
ical  power,  and  of  social  discontent. 
If 
there be anything England might ask of the 
fates in  1887,  it  is  to  be  put  back  where 
she was in  1837, and  allowed  to  approach 
the problem of  the  past  half  century with 
less of sciolistic confidence and more insight 
than  has  characterized  her  councils in the 
reign of Queen Victoria.

“If it were to be done  over  again,” there 
is not an  important page  in the history that 
wnuld not be altered.  The educatian of the 
English people  by national  aid  would  not 
have been delayed to the last decades of the 
reign.  The  surrender  of  English  agricul­
ture to the pressure of  foreign  competition, 
in order that  Manchester  and  Birmingham 
might get  labor  cheaper,  would  not  have 
been made.  The railroad system would not 
have been allowed to grow  up  in  the  hap­
hazard fashion which has  deprived the pub­
lic of  much  of  its  advantage.  The  rapid 
growth of  the great towns would have been 
directed and  controlled  in  the  interests of 
moral and physical  health.  The  severance 
of the  peasantry from  the  land,  and  their 
reduction  to  the level of farm laborers and 
factory  hands,  would  have  been  checked. 
America would  not  have  been alienated by 
the  ambiguous  policy  of  1861-65.  And, 
lastly,  the Continental influence of England 
would not have been sacrificed  to the  yard­
stick policy  of  Lord  John  Bussell and the 
Whigs.

century 

the  half 

than  would 

On one important point  it  would seem as 
though England had learned  nothing  since 
1837.  The Jubilee finds  the British Parlia­
ment busied with  a  bill  to  coerce  Ireland 
into acquiescence  in  the  Union.  The  old 
Hebrew jubilees were years of emancipation 
and liberation.  The Hebraistic  John  Bull 
spends a good part of his Jubilee in forging 
fresh chains.  The grandest  opportunity of 
the year,  the chance to  convert Ireland into 
the fast friend of England  by  undoing  the 
crime of 1801,  has  been  missed.  No  more 
gracious  act  could  have  marked the  close 
of 
the 
signing  of  a  Home  Buie  bill  by  the 
Queen.  Such is the situation on the surface. 
But in truth the  progress  of  England  has 
been nowhere more  marked  than just  here 
in  its  relations  to  Ireland. 
It  is waking 
up to the fact  that  the  resources  of  alien 
government in Ireland are about exhausted, 
that its conceit of managing the Irish better 
than they could themselves is badly discred­
ited, and that sooner  or  later, Home  Buie, 
if not separation, must be conceded.  In 1337 
the maintenance  of  the  Union  just  as  it 
stood was the common ground  of  all  Eng­
lish politicians.  Very little heed was given 
to Irish miseries,  and what  there  was  pro­
ceeded  upon  the  assumption  that the Irish 
themselves  were  to  blame  for it.  No out­
side criticism  disturbed  John Bull’s equan­
imity.  But  half  a  century, or rather quar­
ter of a century, has made  a  change for the 
better; and 1887 finds the  greatest  of  Eng­
lish statesman, with the support of the bulk 
of his party, #o-operating with the Irish for 
the re-establishment  of  self-government in 
Ireland.  This is one  of  the  greatest gains 
of the half century.

Having practically  settled the fate of the 
anarchists and sent the  boodlers  over  the 
road,  Chicago should now  purge* herself of 
another iniquity—the  men  who get up cor­
ners in wheat and pork.  Where  the bood­
lers robbed Cook  county of  thousands, Ar­
mour  and his  gang  of  “comerers”  have 
robbed  the  country  of  millions.  Why 
make  an  exception  in  favor  of  the Cbig 
thieves?

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

Is made in the best possible manner, of the 
best obtainable materials,  and  with  proper 
care is warranted to last any ordinary fami­
ly ten years.  Every  merchant  and  retail 
dealer should  keep  it in stock.  Write  for 
prices and terms.

J.  WORTH, Sole Mfr.

7  G T   T O U T «   TWO

Ooallala, Neb., Nov. 29,1886.

The  letters  below are  a fair  sample of  a 
very large  number  received  by me In  my 
regular  correspondence.  They  speak  for 
themselves.
J.  WORTH, 8t. Louis, Mo.:
Dear Sir—I received yours of the 16th, ask­
ing how I liked the  Missouri  Steam  Washer. 
Sir, I can do more and better  washing  with it 
in one day than any four women can do in the 
same time by any other process.  It is the best 
Washing Machine in the world and the invent­
or ought to have a pension for helping women 
with their hardest work as he has.
Fours truly,  Mrs. E mma ARMSTRONg. 
Office of J. E. LANE & Co., Phoenix Laundry.
J. WORTH, St. Louis, Mo.:
Dea r Sir —T wo years ago we purchased one 
of your Steam  Washers of  Mr.  Owen,  of this 
place.  After giving it a thorough trial we find 
that it is the best washer, little or big, we ever 
saw.  One girl does all our  washing,  which is 
$65 to $75 per  week,  and the  clothes are per­
fectly clean and white.  Fraternally yours,
J. E. Lane & Co.

Big  Ra pid s, MichM Ju ly  7.1866.

M it, Herpolsleiier  Go.,
DRV  GOODS

Importers and Jobbers of

Staple  and  Fancy.

Overalls, Pants, Etc.,

OUR  OWN  MAKE.

A  Complete  Line  of

Fancy CrockerysFancy Woodenware

OUR  OWN  IMPORTATION.

Inspection Solicited.  Chicago and Detroit 

Prices Guaranteed.

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

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

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

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

Eaton  &  Christenson
Frederick the Great

Are State Agents for

CIGAR.

Grand Rapids, Mich..

'  Represented  by the  Giant,

Mr.  Christopher  Sparling.

y /p t-J  
/

PLACE to secure a thorough 
i/a n d  useful education is at tne
 0  j( A   Grand Ra pid s (Mich.) Busi- 
ness Co lleg e,  write for Col­

/
lege Journal.  Addrses.  C. G. SWEN8BERG.

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PAINT.

We have a full stock of this well-known 
M Z Z S S   F2LX2TT
and having sold it for over SIX YEARS can 

brand of

recommend it to our  customers as  be­

ing a First Class article.  We sell it

On  the  Manufacturers’  Guarantee:

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

T.  H.  NEVIN &  CO..

Mfrs. & Corroders of Pure White Lead.

Pittsburg, Pa.

Write for prices and Sample Card to

Wholesale  Agents,  Grand  Rapids.

Try POLISH INA, best Furai ture Fin - 

ish made.

JENNESS  &  McCURDY,

Importers and Manufacturers'  Agents,

DEALERS  IN

Bronze Lamps, Chandeliers, Brackets, Etc.

73 k 75 Jefferson Aye. DETROIT,  MICH.
Wholesale Apnts for Dnffleld’s Canadian Lamps.

JOBBERS  IN

DRY  G-OODS,

A J S H D   N O T I O N S ,

8 3   Monroe  St.,

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers 
American and Stark A Bags

1A Specialty.

TO  THE  TRADE.

We desire to ca<ll  your  attention to the

Beardsley W indow  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 26
25 to 29
25 to 29
Discount 10 per cent.

High
25
25
30

0
1
2

List
$5.00
5.00
5.00

“THE BEST.”

The Beardsley Swing Center Screens have 

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 
Wickware 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

H. LEONARD & SONS,
Bargain  Counter  Goods.

Headquarters  for

134 to  142  East  Fulton St., 

G K R - A J S T D   RAPIDS,  MIOH.

Send for a Package  as  below. 

draw trade and do you good.

It will 

PEG. BARGAIN COUNTER GOODS, No. 50-1.

, 4 0

44

“ 

“ 

“ 

.42

162 

44 Single 

ft  7Í?
.45
.45
.40
.65
.33
..65 .32

“  LePage’s  Glue....................
“  Mucilage and  Brush. .
“  2 oz.  S.  M. Oils...................

1 doz. Cologne in Hdkf. Box..........S  .80 1 doz. 2 ft.  Rulos____
1 Ci 2962 Mirror Hair Oil............
.75 1 “  Wood Head Gimlets...........
x 44 Boxes Daisy Shaving Soap.. .75 .38 1 “  569 Wood Yard Measures..
i 44 85 Maple Leaf  Soap............
.55 1 “  G.  C. Cork Screws..........
i 44 209 Dodo  Soap..................
.35 1 **  5-in.  Screw Drivers........
i 44 No.  12 Tops and Strings.......
.15 1 “  0 Zinc Oilers................
i 44 Double Mincing  Knives........
.85 X 44  2  44 
.........
.42 1 “  Bean Pistols.............
i
i 44 9 Wire Potato  Mashers.........
.89 1 “  Bird Cage Springs..........
i 44 4 Hole Mouse Traps............
.70 1 “  Key  Rings,  No.  5900  ..
i 44 Eclipse  Sifters............................
.89 1 “  Door  Stops..........................
.30
4 44 Papers  Tacks..............................
.50 1 “  326}£ Purses........................
.75
1 44 Whisk Brooms............................
.90 1 “  Boxes Royal  Hair Pins___
.45
X 44 922 Order  Books.....................75 .37 3 “  Ad  Pins...............................
.48
1 44 504 Memorandum Books...........
.42 X “  F 3X  Toilet Rolls  Pins.... ..70 .35
1 44 160  Tablets.................................
•35 i
.85
I
.70 i
.................................
43
X 44 Crumb Brush and Trays___1.95
.98 i
.60
1 44 Ass’d T. P.  Holders...................
.60 1 gro.  38 Rubber Tipped Lead  Pencils 1.80
1 44 10-key Richter Harmonicas.....
.55 X “  342 Rub. Tip Nick.  Cap pci 3.00 1.50
44 No. 30 Two-wheel  Carts...........
.95 1 doz.  Scholars’  Companions.......
l
.45
.92 1 Box Soapstone Slate Pencils....
44 Royal Polish...............................
l
.35
3 44 2-oz. common  Black Ink...........
.90 1 gro.  Cedar Pen  Holders.............
.40
44 Jumping  Rope..................
dz.  8 X 12 Slates................ . .65 .33
1
/ i
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1
1 44 Fiat Iron  Stands...............«
. .68 .34
X “   5 x 7  
7-pin.  Coat  Racks...............
1 “
X “  7 X 11 
1.05 .53
012 Basting Spoons.............
1 44
.39 X “ 6 x 9  
double  1.80 .90
Japan Dust Pans................
.40 X
.33
y¿ 44
1 44 Dusters...........................
1 “  Boston Club Base Balls....
1.75
1 44 Tea and Coffee Pot  Stands........
.32 1 “   IXL 
.35
1 4 4 Coat Hangers..............................
.29 1 “  Cascarilla Face Powder___
•35
1 44 Bleached  Sponges......................
.60 X “  boxes Paper and  Envelopes 2.15 1.08
1 44 Curry Combs...............................
.85 1 “  
.48
1 “ Acme Beaters..............................
72 1 “  4770 Metal Back Horn  Combs.. 1.75
1 44 21 Scrub Brushes........................ 1.25 1 “  42 Rubber Combs..........
.30
1 44 Can Openers...............................
.30 1 “  366a Amber  Jersey P ins...
•45
X 44 300 Flower Pot  Brackets.. .1.50 .50 1 “  599-8 Dressing  Combs.......
.68
1 44 No. 2 Sash Brushes....................
1 “   4 Brilliant Hair  Pins.........
.75
2-hole Mouse  Traps...................
1 “  Flour  Dredges....................
1 44
.50
X “ K. & F.  Boxes,  tin.................89
.45 1 “   2-iron  Match Safes.............
.70
1 ft. Rules...................................
.54
1 44
$50.00
YOUR EYE IS CAUGHT

“  noiseless..
“ 
“  

“  S.  W.  Tooth  Picks..

“
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“  

“

O. B. MUiLER, 

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

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

MILLER’S PATENT CASH TILL AND SALE RECOBDEB.
THE  HOME  YEAST  CAKE.

ITHACA, X. Y.

- 

Absolutely the Best and Purest ever put upon the Market.

SXIjI iS OJSJt  ITS  MERITS.

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

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

“ 

“ 

“ 

----- MANUFACTURED  BY------

OFFICE AND SALESROOM.

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

THE  HOME  YEAST  CAKE  CO.
DETROIT  SOAP  00.,

26 & 28 River St.,  Chicago, 111

DETROIT, MICR.,

M anufacturers  of the following well-known Brands

of

s

o

  A . F   s

QUEEN  ANNE, 
MICHIGAN, 

TRUE  BLUE, 

CZAR, 

MONDAY, 

MOTTLED  GERMAN,
SUPERIOR,

ROYAL  BAR,

MASCOTTE,
CAMEO,

PHCENIX,

WABASH, 

AND  OTHERS.

For Quotations address

W. C. HAWKINS,

Lock  Box  173, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

Salesman  for  W estern  Michigan.

