VOL.  4

GRAND  RAPIDS,  W EDNESDAY,  AUGUST  10,  1887.

NO. 203,

SHERWOOD  HOUSE.
-  MICH.
CHARLOTTE, 
, 

T he Traveling; M en’s Favorite.

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Re-fltted and  Re-furnished.

Sample Rooms on F irst Floor.

First-Class in all its Appointm ents.
M. F. BELGER, Proprietor.

EDMUND B.DIKEMHN
Watch JKaker 

TH E  GREAT

a Jeweler,

44  GANAL  8T„
Grand Rapids,  - 
CHARLES  A.  COYE,
A. Ooye & Son,

Successor to

DEALER IN

AWNINGS § TENTS

Horse and Wagon Covers, 

Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,

Wide Ducks, etc,
GRAND  RAPIDS,
- 

Flags & Banners made to order.

73 CANAL  ST.. 

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

EH. FREEDMAN M .
CIGARS
-  MICH.
REED  CITY, 

Factory  No,  26,  4th  Dist.

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

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

SILVER SPOTS
ders filled on 6o  days approval.
Price $35  per  x,ooo  in  any  quantities. 
Express prepaid on orders of 500 and more. 

It will be sold on its merits.  Sample or­

Handsome  advertising  matter  goes  with 
first order.  Secure this Cigar and increase 
your Cigar Trade.  It is sure to do it.

GEO.  T.  WARREN  &  CO.,
FURNITURE TO ORDER.

F lin t,  Mioli.

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 
lumber  of  any  kind.  Designs 
famished when desired.

Wolverine Chair Factory,
WANTED.

W est End Pearl St. Bridge.

Butter, 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.

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO. 
Earl Bros.,  Commission Merchants,
BELKNAP

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

Spring,  Freight,  Express, 

MANUFACTURERS OF
Lumber  and  Farm

W A G O N S !

Logging Carts  and  Trucks 

Mill and Dump Carts, 

Lumbermens and 

River Tools.

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

Show on Front St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

The Most Complete Assortment 

M en  Seeds a Specialty.
in Michigan.  Don’t Buy un­

SEEDS
ALFRED J.BROWN
16-18 N. Division St.,GranflRapifls
HIRTH  &  KRAUSE,

til  you  get  my  prices.

Representing J as. Vick, of Rochester.

LEATHER

SHOE  BRUSHES,

SHOE  BUTTONS,

SHOE  POLISH,

ings, etc.  Write  for Catalogue.  «

SHOE  LACES.
Heelers, Cork Soles, Button  Hooks,  Dress­
118 Canal Street,  C ud Bapids.
CHTSB2TG  HOOT.

JUDD  ct?  OO-, 

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

And Full Line Summer Goods.

102  CANAL  STREET.
S

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ADDRESS

GRAHAM  ROYS,  -  Grand  Rapids, Mich.

08123589

Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

BOOKS,

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

STEAM  LAUNDRY,

43 and 45 K ent Street.

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

CHEMICALS.

Orders  by  Mail  and  Express  Promptly  At­

tended  to.

PAINT.

brand of

We have a full stock of this well-known 
M I Z S S   P A I N T
and having sold it for over SIX YEARS can 
recommend it to our  customers  as  be­

ing a First Glass  article.  We sell it

On  th e   M anufacturers'  G uarantee:

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 falling to   give  satisfaction, we  agree to 
re-paint th e  building  a t  our  expense,  w ith  th e  best 
W hite Lead o r  such o th er pain t as the  ow ner  m ay se­
lect.  In  case  of  com plaint,  prom pt  notioe  m ust  be 
given to the dealer.

T.  H.  KEVIN  & CO..

Mfrs. & Corrode« of Pure White Lead.

Pittsburg, Pa.

Write for prices and Sample Card to

Wholesale  Agents,  Grand  Rapids.

Try POLISHINA, best FumitureFin- 

ish made.

GEORGE  BROWN’S  OVERCOAT.

W ritten Especially fo r The Tradesman.

“Bother  the  thing, I wish I hadn’t  bur­
dened myself with  it!” and  George  Brown 
looked askance at the  overcoat  hanging  on 
his arm. 
In the  morning,  when  he  came 
'  down to the store, from his boarding-house, 
the weather had been raw and cold, but now 
it was so soft and  warm  that,  in  carrying 
his grips (for he traveled  for a large whole­
sale house in a  bustling  city  which I will 
call—never mind,  it isn’t  outside of  Michi­
gan,)  from the store to the depot, the weight 
of an additional  garment was  burdensome.
It was a  handsome  coat,  light as well as 
warm,  fashionable  in make  and  fitted ad­
mirably;  and, 
though  he had a horror of 
coddling  himself,  he  had  never  repented 
purchasing it.  But it  certainly  was a nui­
sance  to him  this  evening,  and  the  first 
thing he did on entering  the coach  was to 
toss it on the first  vacant  seat,  which hap­
pened to be one of two together.

While he went  to a  newsboy  to get the 
evening paper,  a solitary female entered the 
coach and sat down in the seat  opposite the 
coat.  George  returned  to  the car and sat 
down in the seat opposite, with his coat and 
grips beside him;  the next moment the con­
ductor gave the signal,  away  they steamed 
and the young  man  buried his  head in his 
newspaper.  That day the  verdict had been 
given in a case of considerable  importance, 
and not till he had  scanned the  whole pro­
ceedings, as setPforth in the evening edition, 
read the judge’s summing up and the finding 
of the jury,  was the paper  laid  down for a 
minute and the presence of a fellow-passen­
ger remembered.

It was somewhat embarrassing to find the 
eyes of  this  solitary  female  fixed  on his 
face.  They were dark  eyes,  and very bril­
liant ones,  and  there  was  an  intensity in 
her gaze that made  him—although  wont to 
to pride himself on his self-possession—red­
den slightly and'feel ill at ease.

Not that there  was  anything rude or un­
pleasant in that intent gaze.  His vis-a-vis, 
both in dress and bearing,  was a lady—and, 
moreover,  a young lady.

Her age, roughly guessed,  was  between 
twenty and twenty-four;  her features were 
of a refined type  and  capable  of great ex­
pression;  her hair was  glossy,  her costume 
neat and well-chosen,  a cashmere  walking- 
dress and black  silk  jacket  moulded to a 
slender,  graceful figure, while her  make-up 
in general was all that could be desired.

George Brown’s first thought was surprise 
that so lady-like a person  should  be travel­
ing alone after dark;  but his next was to re­
mind himself that her air of  modest reserve 
—for there was nothing  bold  or  familiar in 
the glance he had  surprised—and  the quiet 
elegance of her dress must  inspire everyone 
with respect.

But imagine his  astonishment  when one 
of those neatly-gloved  hands was  extended 
towards him, and a voice, 
tremulous  with 
haste and eagerness,  accosted  him hurried­
ly:

“Sir,  will you sell me your overcoat?”
It  was  such  an  extraordinary  question 
that he could find no answer to it.  After  a 
very brief pause, it was repeated:

“Oh, sir,  won’t  you sell it to me?  I wrill 
gladly,  thankfully,  give  you  this for it.’ 
And now he  saw  that the  gloved  fingers 
were agitating a scrap of  paper—a  ten-dol- 
lar bill.  “I am sorry I  cannot  oifer  more, 
but it is all  I have to  spare.  Pray  take it 
and sell me the  coat.  Don’t  hesitate,  for 
there is not a moment to lose!  You will be 
doing me an  immense  service,  you will,  in­
deed! ”

It was positively confusing to be appealed 
to in this manner,  and the  young man had 
looked from the  fair petitioner  to  his coat 
and back again more than once, ere the dis­
tress that began to be  depicted on her coun­
tenance aroused  him from  his  trance of be­
wilderment.

“Yours Is a very curious request, madam.
I am not in the  habit of  parting  with my 
garments in this way.”

“I suppose not—of  course  not,”  she ac­
quiesced;  “and  that is what  makes it the 
more painful, more difficult, for me;  but in 
case like this, surely you will  not  refuse!”
“I am quite at a loss for  your  meaning,” 
he  declared,  marvelling  secretly  whether 
this  pretty,  well-dressed  young  woman 
could be in her right senses.

“Oh, dear! ” and she  wrung  her hands in 
her impatience;  “how difficult it is to make 
one’s self understood!  I am  offering  you a 
ten-dollar bill in exchange for the coat lying 
beside you.  Please  accept  my offer.  You 
will earn my everlasting gratitude! ”

But  still  George  Brown  raised his eye­
brows in wonder and demurred.  The whole 
affair was so out of all bounds that it would 
have struck him as  comical if  she had not 
been so terribly in  earnest.  Her  troubled 
eyes, quivering lips  and clasped  hands im­
parted to it quite a tragical element.

“Nothing  makes  me more happy than to 
oblige a lady,” he said,  with the  proverbial 
politeness of the American  traveling  man, 
“always supposing her  requests are reason­
able  ones;  but  this  one  of yours I don’t 
know how  to characterize.  Please  tell me 
of what use to you the coat you wish to pur 
chase can possibly be? ”

She drew herself up as if offended that he

should presume to  question  her, and there 
was silence,  but it didn’t last for  more than 
a minute;  and,  after  peering  though the 
window at the darkness,  the fair,  anxious 
face was turned once more on  Mr.  Brown.
“Do we stop at the next station?” she de­
manded,  instead of giving  him the explana­
tion he anticipated,  “will  you  kindly tell 
me what it is—Middleville?  Then where is 
Hastings?  Shall we  soon reach it? ”

His assent  appeared to  increase her dis­

tress.

“Oh,  sir,  will you  not be  generous  and 
grant  my  request?  I cannot  tell  you my 
motives,  but I  will say this  much;  it is of 
the utmost importance  to me—and another. 
For pity’s sake,  accept the  money and give 
me the coat! ”

Her entreaties were  irresistible;  she saw 
that  they  had  prevailed.  The  bill  was 
forced into his hand,  all the  more  forcibly 
because he made a gesture of dissent.  The 
overcoat was  in the  lady’s  possession, and 
the mystified George Brown became witness 
to a piece of  masquerading  that  increased 
his perplexity.

In an incredibly  short  space of time the 
young lady had  enveloped  herself  in  her 
purchase,  and was  pulling  the velvet trim­
ming off her stylish felt hat.  This, and the 
bird that graced it, were  transferred to one 
of her.  pockets.  Then,  with  all  possible 
haste,  the brim of the hat was turned down, 
the crown  crushed  in,  and it  was  trans­
formed into the  dowdy  traveling cap of an 
elderly  man.  With  this  pulled down over 
her eyes,  the coat turned up to her ears and 
buttoned  over  her  velvet  dress,  and  her 
hands  folded  over  the  handle of her um­
brella, 
the  metamorphosis was  complete. 
It was  no  longer a graceful  girl  who  sat 
there,  but a bent old man; and George could 
have laugjied  at  the  change  had  he  not 
heard her breathing  prayers that she might 
escape detection.

What  was the  meaning of  this  strange 
piece of acting?  From  whom was she try­
ing to escape—the police?  No;  this implied 
evil-doing and he  would  have  staked  his 
life on her truth and  purity.  Was it?—but 
he was beyond all conjecture.

But the train was  stopping at  Hastings, 
and a couple  of  old  gentlemen,  who had 
been conversing  on the  platform,  stepped 
forward to  watch  the  passengers  get off. 
Apparently  they  did  not  find  the person 
they  wanted,  for 
from 
coach to coach inspecting the faces of those 
on board.

they  walked 

George  Brown  could  hear  the  hurried 
breathing of  his  companion,  and  her  mur­
mured  ejaculation  of  thanksgiving  when 
she found that  her  disguise  was  not  sus­
pected, and lie pitied  her when  the sudden 
opening  of  the  door  made  her start and 
tremble;  but it was only a couple of women 
and some children who got on.  The elderly 
gentlemen  she  dreaded  had  gone and the 
train went on its way.

However, he could  not leave  this strange 
girl without showing his  readiness to serve 
her;  and,  seizing an  opportunity when the 
occupants of the car were  busy  with  their 
own matters,  he leaned toward her, saying: 
“I shall get off at  Charlotte;  but  what 
will you do?  Can I be of any  assistance to 
you?  If I can,  don’t hesitate to say so.” 

“Thanks; 

if  you  could  get  me  a  car­

riage—”

A nod, and he drew  back, for  one  of the 
children was inquisitive,  and  was  drawing 
nearer to hear what, the young man was say­
ing to the old one.

And now the outskirts of Charlotte  were 
in sight,  and as soon as he had  assisted the 
lady to the depot, he hurried away on his er­
rand.  But when  he  returned  to  lead the 
lady to the carriage she had disappeared and 
he had too  strong a sense of  honor to draw 
the notice of the  curious  upon her by mak­
ing too  many  inquiries.  She  had  gone, 
taking  his  coat  with  her, and leaving no 
trace of the adventure  save  and except the 
ten-dollar bill;  and this he folded away in a 
private place in his  pocketbook, there to lie 
till he could find the owner.
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“If you go to Kalamazoo during your  va­
cation,  Brown,”  said  one of his firm, as he 
was bidding the  store good-by  for his sum­
mer’s  rest,  “I  wish  you’d  go and see my 
old friends the Monteith  Bros.  They have 
bouglK goods of us more years than I can re­
member,  and are  always  wanting  some of 
us to call on them. 
I  have  got to take my 
family North this summer, and I cannot go, 
so I’ll try and  make  amends  by sending a 
pleasant fellow in my place.  Do go and see 
them.”

“Thanks  for  the  compliment,”  was the 
good-natured  reply,  “but  it  needs  more 
‘cheek’ than I’ve got to  present myself in a 
strange place  with  no  better  excuse  than 
that you told me to.”

“Nonsense;  I’ll give you a letter of intro­
duction,  and  you  won’t  repent it,  for both 
the Monteiths are  shrewd,  intelligent men, 
and very hospitable. 
In this  case, too, the 
obligation will be mutual.  You will not be 
half so glad to find friends in a strange city 
as they will be to receive a guest who shares 
their taste for  business  and  can  give them 
pointers.”

So  George  Brown  was  persuaded  to  ac­
cept the  introductory  letter;  and as every­

thing  his  senior  had  said  in  favor  of  the 
Monteith Bros,  was carried out by  common 
report,  he presented the  letter one  dismal, 
rainy day, when going around the town was 
next to impossible.

The brothers  were  delighted  with their 
guest,  and  insisted  on  his  going  home  to 
dinner with them.  The  head  of  the table 
was taken by a widowed  sister,  as pleasant 
and agreeable as themselves;  and  the party 
also  included  a  good-looking  young  man 
who was head clerk in the store of the Mon­
teith Bros.,  and was made  known as Harry 
Royal.

With  this  young  man  George  Brown 
struck up a kind of  friendship.  There was 
something very  attractive  about  the young 
fellow.  He was  versatile  and  headstrong 
yet  so  frank,  so  generous  and  so  kind- 
hearted that he had a  personal  charm  that 
brought  him  friends  wherever  he  was. 
Nothing  pleased  him  better  than  to  show 
George around,  and accompany him on long 
walks,  and on one occasion he  insisted that 
George must  accompany him  to  his rooms.
“It’s absurd to think that 1 should let you 
walk to your hotel—a mile the shortest way 
—without anything to shield  you  from this 
rain. 
If I can’t find you an umbrella I can, 
at least, lend you an overcoat.”

To  this  arrangement  a  willing  consent 
was given,  for the  night  was a  miserable 
one;  and, leading the way into a snug little 
room,  Harry  commenced a  bootless search 
for an umbrella.

“I ought to have two,” he grumbled;  “but 
it’s a fact that I never  know  where  to find 
them.  However, here’s an overcoat.  Take 
care of it,  for it’s  the  one  thing  I  value in 
the world.”

“May I know  why?”  said  George,  as he 

put on the coat.

“Because it was a gift from  Polly on the 
eve of my leaving home;  and if you want to 
know who Polly  is,  why,  she’s  the dearest 
little girl in the world. 
I should have been 
ruined,  body  and  soul,  if  she  hadn’t  saved 
me from the clutches  of  the scoundrel who 
had me in his toils,  God bless her! ”

Harry Royal’s voice  was  quivering with 
emotion,  and to  disguise it  he  commenced 
rattling  away  about  something  else.  As 
for his friend,  he  remained  silent,  scarcely 
opening his lips  except  to  say  good-night, 
when they parted.

But,  on  arriving  at  his  hotel,  George 
Brown’s first act was to snatch  up a  lamp, 
and survey himself in a glass.  Not satisfied 
with this he took off the borrowed coat  and 
examined it closely.  There  was no  longer 
any  doubt  of  it.  The  buttons  had  been 
changed,  and it had  been  altered  to fit the 
somewhat  smaller  frame  of  Harry  Royal; 
but it was the same coat he had parted with 
two years ago in a railway train;  and  “Pol­
ly, the dearest  girl in  the  world,”  must be 
the young  lady  whose  ten-dollar  bill  still 
lay in his pocketbook.

Had she  ever  told  Harry  how  his  coat 
came  into  his  possession?  He  certainly 
would  not  learn  the  fact  from  George 
Brown, who did not  feel  like  acknowledg­
ing that it was he who had been a  party  to 
this strange adventure.  He returned the coat 
on the morrow, saw it carelessly flung into a 
closet,  and was  leaving when  Harry  Royal 
called him back.

“ I have never shown you Polly’s picture, 
haye  I?   Perhaps  you  won’t  call  her  a 
pretty girl; but then, no photographer could 
do  justice to her  features,  or  seize  the  ex­
pression that makes her so charming.”

The owner  of  the  photo  felt  somewhat 
huffed when the  carte—after  being  studied 
for  nearly  five  minutes—was  laid  down 
without  remark  or  criticism;  but  be  was 
too  good-natured  to  retain  any annoyance 
for more than  a  few  seconds,  and,  as  he 
ran down the stairs, after his friend, he was 
as gay as ever.

When they next met it was  in  the draw­
ing-room of  a  wealthy  merchant,  to whom 
one of  the brothers  had  introduced  them. 
Mr. Ferry had half  a dozen  fair daughters, 
light-hearted,  witty,  and  very fascinating. 
He was rich enough to  dower  them  hand­
somely,  and  the  two  elder  were  already 
married. 
Inez had a prediliction for a poor 
suitor,  but she knew that  her  father would 
have no objection to  him  if  he was worthy 
of  her.

That  this  choice  had  fallen  on  Harry 
Royal,  no  one  could  doubt  who  saw the 
bloom deepen  in  her  face,  and  her  bosom 
heave as he drew near.  Mr.  Brown  pitied 
the love-stricken maiden,  for how could the 
young  man  return  her  affections,  if  his 
were already bestowed on one  to  whom he 
was,  by his own avowal,  so deeply indebted 
as the fair Polly.

Mr. Ferry’s  hospitalities  on  the  night of 
the ball  demanded  a  call  on the following 
evening,  and,  accordingly,  George  Brown 
paid  it.  But  his  face  was  covered  with 
astonishment when  he  found  that  he  had 
been preceded  by  Harry  Royal,  who  was 
leaning over the back of Inez’s chair flirting 
with her desperately.

“ Is this right ? ” he asked, as  the  young 

men left the house,  side  by side.

Harry started and reddened, but answered 

“ Under present circumstances 1 suppose 

with his usual frankness:

it isn’t, and every time I see her,  I  resolve 
that it shall be the  last;  but  I’m  an  idiot.

and I can’t  resist  the  magic  of  her  pres­
ence.”

“ And  Polly?”
Harry bit his lip and hung  his head for a 
minute or two;  then,  vowing that he would 
behave more sensibly, made his escape, and 
for several days avoided  George altogether.
Of this Mr.  Brown determined to take no 
notice.  He had been in Alpena longer than 
he originally intended and  must hasten his 
departure  if  he  would  utilize  the  rest of 
his holiday.  But, when in saying his good­
bye at Mr.  Ferry’s,  he casually learned that 
the fickle  Harry  was  a  daily  visitor  there 
and  laying  open siege to the heart of  Inez, 
all the chivalry in his  nature  flew  to  arms 
in defense of  the forsaken  Polly. 
In  vain 
did he remind himself  that he  had no busi­
ness  to  meddle  in  the  affair.  All his re­
solves to refrain  vanished,  when,  walking 
into  Messrs.  Monteith’s  drawing-room  to 
bid  farewell  to  their  widowed  sister,  he 
found Harry there alone writing for her.

“ Call me overdo flic ious if  you will,” said 
George,  “ but I am  no  true  friend if  I did 
not recall you to your duty.  The beauty of 
Inez Ferry  may  have  enthralled  you;  but 
your heart, your honor, bind you to the dear 
girl  who  braved  so  many  risks  for your 
sake.  Can  you  ever  be  happy if  you  for­
sake her ?  Can  you  ever  call  yourself  an 
honorable man,  if,  while she patiently waits 
for  you  in  her  far  off  home,  loving you, 
trusting you,  refusing  to  suspect  that  yon 
could forget her—you are transferring  your 
allegiance  to  another?  I  have  seen  this 
girl, 

I know how she-----”

But here a loud  “ Oh!  1 say,” from Harry 
broke  in  on  the  speaker’s eloquence, and 
ere he could  renew  his  explanations  they 
received another check  in  the  shape  of  a 
half  laugh and a nod in the direction of the 
door:

“ You’re a capital  preacher,  Brown,  but 
it isn’t fair to let you  go  any  farther  with­
out informing you that Polly is one of  your 
audience.”

A  start,  a  glance  in  the  direction  of 
Harry’s eyes had  taken,  and  there,  in  the 
door-way, stood the fair purchaser of George 
Brown’s overcoat.  Siie  was  crimson  with 
confusion,  for she  had  been  standing there 
long enough to hear most of her champion’s, 
remarks.  Nor was his  embarrassment any 
less,  while  the  exasperating  Harry  made 
matters worse by  looking  from  one  to the 
other and chuckling.

Suddenly  assuming a  very  grave  air,  he 

thanked his friend for his good counsel.

“ It’s a thousand pities it’s  thrown away, 
as it is in  my case;  for,  having  plucked  up 
spirit to tell Inez  that  it  was  my  poverty 
that  forbade  me  to  address  her,  she  so 
represented  affairs  to  her  worthy  parent; 
that he  gives  me  his  daughter  and  takes 
me into partnership with him. 
I’m a lucky 
fellow, don’t  you  think  so?  And  Polly— 
my sister Polly—has come  to  be  present at 
the wedding.”

George Brown did not leave  Alpena  that 
night,  nor  the  next,  nor  as  long  as  his 
leave of  absence  lasted.  Miss  Royal  had 
consented  to  be  the  guest of  the brothers 
Monteith,  and,  as  Harry  was  absorbed  in 
his betrothed,  it  devolved on some one else 
to show the stranger  the  sights pf  the city.
The first time they had a confidential chat 
—for  Mr.  Brown  was  so  respectful  that 
Polly soon got  well  acquainted—a  few ex- 
planatons were entered into that set both at 
ease.

“ My conduct  must  have  seemed  so  ex­
traordinary, so insane,” she  said.  “I have 
often wished I had  asked  you not to judge 
it too severely.”

“ I  never  did  that,”  said  her  attentive 

auditor.”

“ Please let me tell you all about it,” said 
she.  “ Harry and I lost our  parents  when, 
we were very little children.  A kind  aunt 
took care ol'  me,  but my brother was left to 
the  guardianship  of  his  two  uncles—stern 
old men,  who  made  no  allowance for the 
follies  of  youth.  Not  long  before  the 
evening I met  you on the train,  the foolish 
boy made the acquaintance of a villiau, who 
led  him  into  follies  we  need  not  dwell 
upon, now they are repented and atoned for.
I knew nothing of  what had  happened  till 
the terrible  news  reached  me  that  Harry 
would  be  arrested  for  something 
that, 
scoundrel  had  done  and  laid  on  Harry’s, 
shoulders,  and his uncles,  instead of  trying; 
to save  him,  refused  him  any  help  what­
ever.

and 1 was made a sort  of  prisoner. 

“ Of  course  I  was  eager  to  help  him,” 
Polly went on,  “ but they werecniel enough 
to  want  to  murder  me.  They  could  not 
prevent me from taking the few hundreds I 
had in the bank,  that  my  father  left  me; 
but  they  won  my  aunt  over to their side, 
I  had 
escaped, and was on my way to Harry when 
I saw you;  but I  had  reason  to  fear  that 
they would try to intercept me at Hastings, 
unless I could prevent their discovering that 
I was in the train.  As soon as  I  saw  you 
toss  your  overcoat  into  the  seat  the idea 
entered my head  that  it  would  be  a good 
disguise.  Have you forgiven me for insist­
ing on buying it ? ”

And then  Polly  laughed  such  a  sw eet, 
that  her  hearer  could 

irresistible  laugh, 
hardly refrain from joining in it.

(CONCLUDED ON*EIGHTH  PAGE.)

The successful manner  in  which  Presi­
dent Grevy meets every crisis which, would 
tend to precipitate revolution shows that he 
holds a firm seat.  Yet it must be  admitted 
that the  danger  of  a  new  war  between 
France  and  Germany  is  great.  There  is 
now, more than ever, a  hostile  feeling  be­
tween the two peoples.  Germans in France 
are scarcely safe;  Frenchmen  in  Germany 
must keep quiet.  Never  before,  perhaps, 
was there so great a popular tension,  and it 
is hard to see how it can be relaxed  enough 
to maintain peace.  A war,  under such con­
ditions,  would  be  literally  a  flying  at 
each  others’  throats,  and  must  become  a 
conflict  “to  the  death,”  shocking  to  the 
moral sense of mankind.

000 within the year.  Of this gain $30,433,- 

The total value of our mineral products is 
put at $465,000,000,  an increase of $37,000,- 

360 was in the  value  of  pig  iron.  These 
look  like  large  figures, but  they  will be 
thought very small by the  American  statis­
tician of half a century  hence. 
If there be 
any field in which we have only touched the 
beginning of our  resources,  it is this of our 
mineral  wealth.  We  have  not taken the 
pains  to  ascertain  one-half  of  what  our 
country contains in this shape.

F r a n k f o r t  gives  promise  of  enjoying  a 
genuine  business  boom  in  the  immediate 
future.  With  the  finest  flowing  mineral 
spring in the State, an inland lake of unsur­
passed  beauty, a climate  which  borders  on 
perfection  during  the  summer  months,  a 
harbor  which  is  capable  of  floating  a  re­
spectable  navy, and a  railway  in prospect, 
there  would  seem  to  be  no  reason  why 
Frankfort should  not  develop into a city of 
considerable  importance  during  the  next 
half dozen years.

Elk Rapids  puts  forth a bid for  a  bank. 
The man who supplies such a want  will  be 
happy and rich in after years.,

AMONG TH E  TRADE.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Wm.  Irwin succeed Irwin & Lane  in  the 

grocery business.

The Valley City Milling Co. has  sold  its 
grain elevator at Filmore  Center  to Harvey 
Bros.,  late of Hamilton.

Kilstrom  &  Peterson,  feed,  wood  and 
coal dealers at 15 West Bridge  street,  have 
retired from the feed business.

Ed. Telfer  is arranging to merge his  cof­
fee and  spice  business  into  a  corporation 
under the style of the Telfer Spice Co.

The Grand Rapids School  Furniture  Co. 
has let  the contract for the  construction  of 
a new dry kiln, 22x56 feet in dimensions.

H. Leonard & Sons have  in  press  a  200 
page illustrated catalogue, which will be the 
largest publication of the  kind  ever  issued 
by a Grand Rapids house.

Glass & Osborn have rented a store build­
ing  on  the  corner  of  South  Division  and 
Grant streets  and will shortly remove  their 
grocery, drug  and  boot  and  shoe  stock  to 
that location from Elm Hall.

Amos  S.  Musselman  &  Co.  are  now 
pleasantly settled in their new  quarters  on 
South Ionia street and  Hester  &  Fox  will 
have occupied the vacated  premises  by  the 
time  T h e  T ra d esm a n  for  next  week 
reaches its readers.

John  V.  Crandall & Son’s store  and gen­
eral  stock  at  Crandall’s  Comers, 
three 
miles  west  of  Sand  Lake,  burned  to  the 
ground  Sunday, 
involving  a  total  loss. 
Mr.  Crandall come  to town  Monday morn­
ing and  before  night Arthur Meigs  &  Co. 
had  shipped a new  grocery  stock to  Sand 
Lake, and Yoigt,  Herpolsheimer & Co. h^d 
booked  an  order  for a stock of  dry goods. 
The Messrs. Crandall are hard men to down 
—especially  with  fire—but the  next  time 
they leave  their store  in a dry time to go to 
a  camp meeting,  they will leave somebody 
beside the watch dog at home.

Robert Neil,  the  Ashland Center  general 
dealer and logger, has made a nasty failure. 
He  traded  his  stock to Erastus  *N. Burrell 
for  the  property  known  as  the  “Burrell 
farm,” subsequently  deeding  the  property 
to' his  wife.  His  other  real  estate  was 
deeded to Alex. McKinley and  Washington 
Seamon, both  transfers  being  undoubtedly 
fraudulent.  Neil has been claiming that he 

was making $10,000 per year on his logging 

contract,  but the  loose  manner in which he 
conducted  business  gives  ground  to  the 
suspicion that  the margin  might have  been 
on the  other side of  the ledger.  Creditors 
will  probably  not get  a  cent  unless  they 
proceed to set aside the real estate transfers, 
which any court would undoubtedly do.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Remus—C.  F.  Fitzgerald  has  opened  i 

meat  market.

er,  is selling out.

Grand Ledge—B.  II.  Enos,  general  deal 

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

retail  trade  of  the  wolverine  sta te.

S.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

Verms $1 a year in advance, postage paid.
A i vertising rates made known on application.

WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST 10,  1887.

EARLY  CLOSING  AT  LANSING.
One of the first actions taken by the Lan­
sing  Business  Men’s  Association,  after  its 
organization had been  fully completed, was 
to inaugurate  the  early  closing movement. 
After  a  thorough discussion of the subject, 
it was decided to close all places of business, 
except drug stores, at six o’clock in the even­
ing,  five  days  in  the  week.  The  move­
ment was  inaugurated with a “great  flour­
ish of trumpets,” including music  by  brass 
bands,  a  significant  street  parade,  an  out­
door meeting on the steps of the capitol and 
a fine  display of  fire works.  A movement 
begun under such  auspices could not fall to 
exert a good  influence  over  the  trade  nor 
fail  to  convince the people  in  general that 
it possessed strong elements of cohesiveness. 
All  reports  from  Lansing  are to the  effect 
that  the  agreement was  lived  up to  to  the 
letter  until  about two  weeks  ago, when  a 
grocer—not a  member  of the Association— 
■sent  word to President  Wells  that  he  pro­
posed  to  withdraw  from  the  movement, 
lie did  so, and his  action was  followed  by 
a  more  prominent grocer,  also  not  a  mem­
ber of  the  Association.  * Fearing  that  the 

early closing system would not prove a sue-1 

cess, so  far as the  grocers were  concerned, 
a number of  grocers petitioned the Associa­
tion to rescind its action, so far as it applied 
to  the  grocery  trade.  Such  action  would 
have caused  a  break along  the  entire  line, 
as several general dealers stated they would 
petition  for the  same  exemption,  and  this 
would undoubtedly  be  followed by the  dis­
integration of  the  movement  the  Associa­
tion had so much at heart.

In  this  emergency  the  Association  ap­
pealed  to  the  people for support.  A mass 
meeting  was  held  at  the  opera  house,  at 
which  time stirring speeches were  made by 
clergymen, professional and  business  men 
and  representatives of  the  workingmen in 
favor of  a  continuance of  the early  closing 
system.  No one had the temerity  to speak 
on the other side of  the question and at the 
conclusion  of  the  addresses, the  following 
preamble and resolutions were unanimously 
adopted :
W h e r e a s,  The  early  closing  of  stores 
during the past month in this  city  lias  de­
monstrated to  our  entire  satisfaction  that 
the movement  has  been  conducive  to  the 
best interests, not  only  of  merchants  and 
their employes,  but of  our  entire  city,  by 
removing the causes which before that  per­
iod existed to induce men during  the  even­
ings to be absent from their homes; and 
W h e r e a s,  There seems  at  the  present 
time danger that  this  movement  may  fail 
for lack of the moral support to which  it  is 
entitled  from  every  good  citizen;  there­
fore be it
Resolved—'That we, citizens  of  Lansing 
assembled here to-night,  will  by  act  and 
word, aid the merchants of this city  in  the 
good work they have inaugurated  of  short­
ening their hours of labor, and  testify  our 
sincerity  by  pledging  ourselves 
to  make 
uo purchases at stores  after  the  hour  for 
closing adopted by the Business  Men’s  As­
sociation.
Resolved—That merchants who adhere to 
the early closing  movement  show  an  un­
selfish determination to promote  the  moral 
well-being of our city and are entitled to our 
sincere thanks.

The  following  evening  the  Association 
held a meeting to consider the matter, when 
petitions were  received  from a largo  num­
ber  of  workmen  in  the  factories,  asking 
that the present system be continued.  This 
put the lie to the statement so industriously 
circulated  by  interested  persons,  that  the 
workingmen as  à  class favored keeping all 
places of  business  open  until  late  iii  the 
evening. 
The  matter  was  discussed  in 
All  its  bearings,  in the course of  which 
■was  discovered  that  the  citizens’ meeting 
and workingmen’s petitions had had a great 
iufluence upon  the minds of  those who had 
been  disposed to go back  to  the  old  way. 
It  was  unanimously  decided  to  place  the 
closing  hour at  6:30 p. m.  for  members of 
the  Association,  and  allow  those  outside 
of the Association to  do  as they pleased  in 
the premises.  Considering  the  strength of 
the sentiment in the  community in favor of 
early  closing,  there is little  to fear  for  the 
future.

The Lansing B.  M.  A.  is entitled to great 
credit  for the  advanced  stand it has  taken 
on  this question and the  energetic and  per­
sistent  manner in which  it  has stood by its 
,colors.  Nothiug but the shrewdest general­
ship and  the  stanchist  loyalty on the  part 
•of  the members  could  have  carried  them 
through the crisis.

The rapid service system recently brought 
about by the  introduction of  the little store 
railways  is  likely  to  develop  into  some­
thing of  a monopoly, the company  control­
ling a number of  patents  having secured  a 
permanent injunction against the Merchants’ 
Store  Railway Co.  The patents of  the for­
mer  provide  for the  working of  the appar­
atus  by a  rubber  spring,  while  the  latter 
uses compressed air.  Judge  Brown,  in the 
United  States  Circuit  Court,  at  Detroit, 
held that the defendants’ device was a man­
ifest  attempt to seize  upon the  dominating 
idea of  the patent  and evade  the  letter  of 
the  claims.  His  honor  took  the  ground 
that the air-impelling devioe was equivalent 
to the rubber spring, and did not entitle the 
defendants to credit for a new invention.

Lakeview—John  Croft  is  moving  his 

grocery stock to Manistee.

Northville—H. D.  Bailey,  grocer,  has as 

signed to E.  S.  Woodman.

Balch—H. McClure, of  the  grocery  firm 

of McClure & Co.,  is dead.

Metamora—Lyon &  Schuneman  succeed 

Wilder Bros,  in general trade.

Adrian—Wm.  Sheldon succeeds  Sheldon 

& Sigler in the jewelry business.

Oxford—J. D.  Hagerman  succeeds  Ha- 

german & Larzealier in general trade.

Pontiac—Allison  &  Merritt 

Henry E. Allison in the jewelry business.

Bay City—Whitney & Co.  succeed  Pom 
eroy & Whitney in the cracker baking b ig ­
ness.

succeed 

Detroit—The  stockholders  in  the  new 
Peninsular Savings  Bank  have  elected  as 
president,  Alexander  Chapoton;  first  vice 
president,  Cornelius  Corbett;  second  vice 
president, Joseph  Perrien; cashier,  Joseph 
B. Moore; attorney, Michael Brennan; direc­
tors, Alexander Chapoton,  Thomas  Nester, 
Casper Schulte, James Dwyer,  Joseph Per­
rien, John Atkinson, John H. Berry,  Alex­
ander  Lewis,  Paul  Weidner,  Siegmund 
Simon, John M. Dwyer,  W.  E.  Moloney, 
Joseph B. Moore,  Simon  C.  Karrer,  Cor­
nelius Corbett, Waldo M. Johnson,  Michael 
Brennan, James Gerrans,  M.  F.  Howard, 
Geo. Hanley, Joseph A.  Marsh,  and W.  D. 
Smith, of Ann Arbor.  The capital stock is 
$250,000.

Bad Axe—Mark  Razek  succeeds  Razek 

Bros,  in general trade.

Bad  Axe—Sol  Rosenstock & Co.  succeed 

E. T. Des Jardines in general trade.

Lowell—Ben.  E.  West  &  Co. have  sold 

their drug stock to Clark & Winegar.

Owosso—Salisbury Bros,  succeed  D. R. 

Salisbury in the boot and shoe business.

Brockway Center—A.  H. Braidwood suc­
ceeds Owens & Braidwood in general trade.
Charlotte—Levy  & Green  succeed  F.  L. 
(Mrs. J. H.) Green in the clothing business.
Orangeville—Eli  Nichols’  store  was  re­
cently broken into and $500 taken from the 
safe.

Edmore—The O. Tower  hardware  stock 
has been sold to W.  F.  Chapman,  late  of 
Stanton.

Litchfield—A. J. Lovejoy &  Co.  succeed 
Love joy  &  LeFleur,  general  dealers  and 
bankers.

Chelsea—R.  S.  Armstrong & Co.  succeed 
R. S. Armstrong in  the  drug  and  grocery 
business.

Six Lakes—E. A.  Bellows  has  enlarged 
his store and added lines of dry  goods  and 
hardware.

Clio—A.  B: Gould  has sold  his  general 
stock to Nixon & Hubbell and his furniture 
stock to Wm.  H.  Davis.

White Cloud—P. Wait has  purchased the 
boot and shoe stock of J. R.  Campbell  and 
will continue the business.

Stanton—J.  W.  S.  Pierson  &  Co.  are 
building a two-story brick  tin  shop  in  the 
rear of their hardware  store.

Big Rapids—Griswold &  McGregor  have 
closed their  branch  drug  store  at  White 
Cloud and moved  the  stock  back  to  this 
city.

Elm Hall—Glass  &  Osborn  are  reducing 
their  stock  of  drugs,  groceries  and  boots 
shoes, preparatory to their removal to Grand 
Rapids.

Sault  Ste  Marie—Prenzlauer  Bros, 
wholesale and retail  general  dealers,  have 
dissolved, Herman Prenzlauer  retiring  and 
A.  Prenzlauer  continuing  under  the  same 
style.

Kalamazoo—Geo. Bassett  has  purchased 
an  interest  in  the merchant  tailoring  and 
furnishing  goods  business of  F.  E.  Wells 
and  the  two  will  continue  the  business 
under the style of Wells & Bassett.

Red Jacket—The  firm of W.  H. Hosking 
Jr., & Co. has beep closed by Sheriff Ryan, 
This firm was the firm  of  Walls  &  Co.  i 
few days ago and when danger was threaten 
ed by the creditors of  Watson & Walls,  the 
Allouez mine tributors, who are also  inter­
ested and partners in the Red  Jacket  store 
which is managed by W. H. Hosking,  who 
married a  sister  of  Wm.  Walls,  Hosking 
said he had bought out Walls’  interest  and 
changed the style  of  the  firm  as*  above, 
Leoppid  &  Austrian, 
the  steamboat  and 
commission firm, of  Chicago, are the credi
tors who closed the store. 
________
Port Huron—The proprietors of  the  99 
cent store turned a big and spirited pup  in 
to their place the other night to  keep  away 
burglars.  They would have  saved  money 
if they had put in the burglars to keep away 
the  dog.  He  wasn’t  used  to  being  left 
alone in such a fine place,  and it made  him 
feel so good that he  spent the night in run­
ning hurdle races, eating  silk  parsols,  and 
other innocent but  expensive  amusements 
In the  morning  the  store  was  a  barren 
waste, and if the owners could sell the  pup 
for $150 they would be tickled to death,  al­
though they wouldn’t be a cent ahead.

Frankfort—F.  L.  Fuller,  Cashier  of  the 
Bank of Frankfort, has  been' hgitating  the 
subject of organizing a Building  and  Loan 
Association for  some  time  past,  and  the 
agitation has finally taken shape in  the for­
mation of a strong organization, with $500,- 
000 capital,  divided  into  5,000  shares  of 

$100 each.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Mason—The new knitting  works employ 

seventeen hands.

Leetsville—B. A.  Jones  will  move  his 

sawmill to Kalkaska.

Sand Lake—J. Y.  Crandall & Son’s  new 
sawmill is completed  and  is  running  full 
blast.

Battle Creek—The  Sheathing  Lath  Ma­
chine Co. has been organized, with a capital 

stock of $100,000.

Plainwell—R. Almendinger  succeeds  F. 
B. Jones in  the  manufacture  of  cigars and 
the sale of tobacco.

Chippewa Lake—A.  D.  Hensel is  closing 
up his  lumber  business,  preparatory to  re­
moving to Lansing.

Detroit—The  Detroit  Picture  Frame Co. 
has  elected  Leonard  Laurense  president 
and Wm. P. Bowring secretary.

Ingalls—Carley & Parmenter’s new shin­
gle mill  is  nearly completed.  Cedar  shin­
gles will be manufactured exclusively.

Bay  de  Noquette—R.  Peacock,  lumber 
dealer,  has sold  out to the  heirs of  Joseph 
Peacock, possession to be given Nov.  15.

Sangatuck—Wisner,  Rowe  &  Co.,  who 
have  just  opened  a  bank,  announce  that 
they will put up a brick  block  next season.
Detroit—W.  H.  Pierce and S. R. Bateson 
are partners in the manufacture of the John­
son capsule.  They disagreed and  Pierce  is 
demanding a dissolution of the partnership.
Muskegon—Sawmill  laborers were  never 
more scarce than at present.  Montgomery, 
Hetz  &  Co. have  been  compelled  to  cease 
running  nights, owing  to  their inability  to 
get the necessary help. 

»

Farwell—J. E. Austin is  building  a  mill 
to  have  a  daily  capacity of  40,000  feet  of 
lumber and 45,000 shingles,  at Lake George, 
about seven miles  from Farwell, on the To 
ledo,  Ann  Arbor  &  North  Michigan Rail­
way.

Saginaw—A.  Linton & Sons, whose  mill 

North Muskegon—The  Cohasset Lumber 
Co.  is again  hauling  logs  over  its  logging 
road and  dumping them into the Muskegon 
river  at  Paris,  at the rate of  about  150,000 
a day.  They  reach  Muskegon  about  five 
days after starting.

was lately burned out,  were  offered  $1,000 
with a capital of $100,000, for the manufac­

bonus to locate their new  mill  within  cer­
tain prescribed  territory,  and  while  they 
did so on their own choice,  the  bonus  was 
courteously declined.

Flint—A  company  has  been  organized 

ture of the Skinner automatic  car  coupler. 
The main  office  will be  located  at Flint, 
while the  work will  be  done  at  Detroit. 
The  officers  are:  Oreu  Stone,  president; 
John  Skinner,  vice-president;  A.  D.  Mc­
Call, treasurer;  J.  W. Blake, secretary.

Kalkaska—John Torrent will  saw  about 
15,000,000 feet  at  his  Kalkaska  mill,  on 
that part of the Hannah, Lay & Co. proper­
ty which he retained when he made  his  re­
cent sale.  Logs from  the  timber,  at  the 
head of Boardman river,  reach the mill  via 
a five-mile logging road,  over  which  a  trip 
was recently made with 30,000 feet  of  logs 
in fifteen minutes.

THE  AUBURN  PAPER  00.
The trade generally will  be  interested in 
the following articles, which refer to one of 
the leading  business  houses of Grand Rap­
ids:

We clip from the Commercial  World and 

U. S. Exporter.
An  Industry  that  has  Grown  Up  with 

Auburn.

THE  AUBURN  PA PER  COMPANY.

“Looking over the trade and resources of 
the State of New York,  the observer cannot 
fail to be astonished in the first place at the 
number of large towns  of  considerable  in­
dustrial  importance,  and  in  the  second  at 
the prosperity that has  attended the growth 
and development of  various  manufacturing 
interests that have sprung up in all parts of 
the Empire State and wherever a flourishing 
community has been collected.

The Auburn  Paper  Company furnishes a 
conspicuous  instance  of  the  importance of 
these businesses,  the first paper mill having 
been started here in  1829, when  the village 
was scarcely settled. 
It underwent several 
vicissitudes and was  successively owned by 
the Messrs.  Skinner & Hoskins, the Cayuga 
County Bank, Messrs. West, Ivison& Mark­
ham,  until  in  1849  a  stock  company  was 
formed  to  operate  it.  They  re-organized 
and enlarged the business in 1854. 
In 1872 
the  Messrs.  Botsford  Bros.  (John  H.  and 
James E.) purchased  the  property and  the 
business  then  commenced  to  make  head­
way.

They entered on the business with the vim 
of  young men and pushed it with such suc­
cess that they  soon found their quarters in­
adequate,  and finally secured accomodations 
in the Richardson  building on South street, 

100 feet deep and three stories high with an 

excellent  basement,  which  they had  spec­
ially fitted up for them.

They control several mills, all of the most 
improved construction  and  equipment,  and 
manufacture a full line of manilla and straw 
papers.

Their chief specialties are their “Ra” and 
“S B” manillas, for which they have a large 
trade in all  the  principal  cities,  and  which 
is sold very largely to the trade for shippers, 
grocers, tea merchants and others, for wrap­
ping and packing purposes.

These papers are noted and  highly popu­
lar on account of  extra finish  and fine qual 
ity.

Their  “Superb”  butter  and  fruit 

tray

TRADE  M A R K .

which is furnished  in  one,  two,  three and 
five pound sizes,  and is  made from the pure 
wood pulp  smoothly  finished  and  in  one 
piece,  the ends being secured by eyelets.  Its 
size and shape render it a  general  favorite 
it is tight and strong as  well  as  light  and 
cleanly and is largely sold in New York and 
other large cities.

In addition  to  the  above  lines  the  firm 
have an excellent  business  as  jobbers  and 
dealers in general  stationery goods, twine 
etc.,  their trade  reaching as far west as the 
Pacific Coast and  all  through  the  Eastern 
States and  their  enterprise  and  the  favor 
with  which 
straightforward  and 
prompt method of doing business is received 
are displayed in their rapidly increasing and 
important sales.”

their 

The following is a  part  of  an  article ap 
pearing in the  Auburn  Dispatch  of  April 
22,  1887:

,  The Auburn Paper Company.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements  will  be  inserted under this 
head for one cent a word or two  cents a  word 
for three insertions.  No advertisement  taken 
for less than 25 cents.  Advance payment.
Advertisements  directing  that  answers  be 
sent  in care of this office must be accompanied 
by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage,
F<
lOTEt  SALE—The  mill  and  machinery  for­
merly used  by  the  Ionia  M anufacturing 
Company  at  Ionia.  Mich.  Apply  to  A.  J. 
Webber, receiver. Ionia. Mich._________203-3t
FOR  SALE—New stock of groceries and fix­
tures situated at 115 Broadway.  Call and 
203*
■OR  SALE—120-acre  farm, with  tine  bouse 

and other buildings,  three  miles north of 
county.  Price $7,000 cash.  Address,  for  fur­
ther particulars, E. A.  Stowe,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich. 
TIOR  SALE  CHEAP—Portable  saw  mill  in 
good running order.  Capacity  25  M pine 
lumber per day.  Gang edger, saw dust carrier, 
and line rollers.  For  further  particulars  en­
quire of J. F. Clark. Big Rapids, Mich.  I96tf

Rapids,  Mich. 

198tf

examine stock  or  address  A. Kenyon,  Grand 

Coopersvilie.  The  best  orchard  in  Ottawa 

195tf

198tf

TIOR  SALE—Fine  residence  property  on 
Mount Vernon street, west side, with bath 
room, closet«  and  all  modern  conveniences, 
for sale for $5,000 cash, or will trade for  stock 
' general merchandise or goods in any partic- 
ar line.  Address N. A. Fletcher,  Houseman 

Building, Grand Rapids. 
" TIOR  SALE—The best drugstore in the thriv- 
X? 
ing city of Muskegon.  Terms easy.  C. L. 
Brundage, Muskegon, Mich. 
TIOR SALE—Best  bargain  ever  offered  for 
U  general  stock  in  growing town  in  good 
farming  community  in  Northern  Michigan, 
k  will inventory  about  $6,000.  Sales  last 
ear were $60,000.  Address "The Tradesman,” 
rand Rapids.______________________ 177tf
JIO R  SALE—Ice box, 6 feet and 2 inches high, 
-  2 feet and 11  inches  deep and 5 feet and 2
inches wide.  The  box is zinc lined and nearly 
new.  J. C. Shaw, 79 Canal  street.  Grand Rap- 
ids.________________________________I89tf
1 TIOR  RENT—Large store, corner  West  Ful- 
D 
ton  and  Front  streets.  Boston  Block. 
Good  location  for a grocery.  Inquire of J. T. 
Strahan,  221  Mt.  Vernon  street.  Grand  Rap- 
i d
. _____________________________203*
T71TANTED—Situation  by  young  man  in  a 
▼ » 
grocery or general  store.
Four  years' 
experience.  Best of  references, 
Address  S.. 
care box 354, Fremont, Mich.
207*

Tradesman office.

for a stock  of goods.  Address  Box  23,

trade among lumbermen to add  a  spec­
man a splendid chance will bo  given  to  make 
money without  extra expense.  Address “B,” 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

■7"ANTED—To exchange  farm  worth $2,500 
■ ANTED—A  man  having  an  established 
ip
375 South Union St., Grand Rapids.

201*tf

I78tf

s

ial line and sell on commission.  To  the  right 

AGENTS  FOR  THE

ness. ___________________________________

Standard  Petit Ledger.
YATANTED—A registered female pharmacist 
»  t 
to take situation in  western  town.  Al­
so other registered-pharmacists and assistants.
TIOR  SALE—Stock of $3,000 in  town  of  1,000 
-  population.  Average daily sales, $30.
TIOR  SALE—Stock  of  about  $2,000,  well lo­
cated iu Grund Rapids,  doing  good busi­

500 inhabitants.  No other  drug  store  in 
own, good location.  Must be sold on account 
if death of proprietor.____________________

F
1 TIOR  SALE—Stock  of  about  $500 in town of 
I TIOR  SALE—Stock of about $1,S00 in town of 
IilOR  SALE—Stock  of  $1,700  in 
IilOR SALE—Stock of aoout $4,000 in town of 
■LSO—Many  other  stocks,  the  particulars 

of which we will  furnish  on  application.
m o   DRUGGISTS—Wishing to secure clerks 
X   we will furnish the  address  and full  par­
ticulars of those on our list  free.___________
YXTE  HAVE also secured  the  agency  for J. 
t t   H. Vail & Co.’s medical publications and 
can  furnish  any  inedieal  or  pharmaceutical 
work at publishers’ rates.

town  of 
800 inhabitants.  Average daily  sales $15.

2,000  inhabitants.  Will  exchange  for 

1,800 population.  Will exchange for good

Will sell on easy terms.

good farm lands.

- 
eal estate.

• 

M ic h ig a n   D r u g  E x c h a n g e ,

357 S#utb Union St., 

- 

Grand Rapids.

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STRAY  FACTS.

Moreuci—Jesse  Chamberlain succeeds C 

F. Acker in the hotel business.

Armada—The flouring mills are being re 

fitted with roller process machinery.

Lansing—A.  H.  Hansel, 

late  of  Chip­

pewa Lake, has opened a lumber  yard.

Homer—J.  H.  Cook, Jr., has  bought  out 

O. W. Mumbrue’s blacksmith business.

St.  Louis—F.  C.  Henry, the  miller,  con­
templates opening a  mill  and  elevator  at 
Ashley.

Frankfort—The  Bank  of  Frankfort  ex­
pects  to  move  into  its  new  quarters  by 
September  1. 
Its  business  is  rapidly  in­
creasing.

Ionia—W. C.  Page,  P. T. Bates, Ben.  B. 
Hall and R. Lee Page have formed a copart­
nership  under the  style  of  Page,  Bates  & 
Co.,  to engage in the handling  of produce.
Blanchard—Mrs.  E.  S.  Hipkins has  ap­
plied for the administratorship of the estate 
of  her late  husband  and the  guardianship 
of  their  child.  The  drug stock  is  offered 
for sale.

Fremont—M. B.  Franklin, the merchant- 
postmaster, has fairly outdone himself in the 
purchase of  office furniture,  in consequence 
of which he has  the  finest  appearing  post- 
office to be seen in a year’s journey.

Marquette—A company of Cleveland cap­
italists under  the  leadership  of  Samiftl L. 
Mathers has leased  forty  acres of land next 
to the Lake  Superior  Iron Co.’s  gold mine 
and will proceed to develop it.  An advance 

rental of $10,000 has been paid on the prop 

erty. 

*

Purely Personal.

John  H.  Loucks,  the  happy  storekeeper 

at Ottawa Beach, was in town Monday.

John F. Halladay, the  Battle  Creek  gro­
cery jobber, was  in  town  last  Wednesday 
on his way to Chicago.

Silas K.  Bolles  has  gone  to  Leadville, 
Col.,  to  secure  immunity  from  the  hay 
fever.  He is accompanied by his wife.

C. B.  Field, of Muskegon, passed through 
the city Saturday on his  way  to  Vermont- 
ville,  where he has  lately purchased a large 
stock farm.

Charles B.  Lovejoy,  the  Big  Rapids gro­
cer,  was in town  last  Thursday to meet his 
family,  who have been  spending  the  sum 
mer in the East.

Heman  G.  Barlow  sustained  a  painful 
injury  one day  last week, which has  kept 
him in dry  dock  most  of  the  time  since. 
While  tinkering with a gas  fixture, a piece 
of  glass  came  in  contact  with  his  wrist, 
severing a large artery.  ______

Gripsack Brigade.

Edwin Andrew, father of Ed.  P. Andrew 
died at Ludington last week at  the  age  of 
63.

L.  L.  Loomis has returned from  Minnea 
polis and resumed his trips on the  road  fot 
Bulkley, Lemon & Hoops.  The trade, will 
gladly welcome him back.

Jack Linsey, traveling  representative  for 
P.  Lorillard & Co.,  is  ill  with  a  fever  at 
the Park Place,  at  Traverse  City.  Recent 
symptoms are more favorable.

Frank  Correll, 

traveling  representative 
for  Bixler & Correll,  wholesale  dry  goods 
and notion dealers at Easton,  Pa., has  been 
spending his summer vacation with  friends 
here.

Fremont  Indicator:  Chas.  E.  Morgan 
iu “off  the  road”  for  a  few  weeks’  rest- 
up, and  is  enjoying  the  mid-summer holi­
days  at  his  home on the  farm “salubrious 
made” by the splashings  and the breezes of 
Fremont Lake.

It  is  reported  that  a  change  has  been 
made in the  place of  holding the \ traveling 
men’s picnic, but up to the time of  going to 
press  T h e  T r a d esm a n  has  received  no 
authoritive  statement from  the  committee 
having  the  matter  in  charge.  Conflicting 
reports  have  been  published  hO thd daily 
papers.

ESTABLISHING  A  WESTERN  BRANCH  AND 

OPENING  NEW  TERRITORY.

“Among the institutions  located  in  this 
city that have attained  enviable reputations 
in the commercial  world  none more proper 
ly deserves its  distinction  than the Auburn 
Paper Company.  Obtaining  control of  the 
business  in  1872, they at  once  instituted 
revolution  of  business methods, employing 
distinctly original  modes  and  bringing  ad 
vanced ideas  to aid in  the  development  of 
the trade.  How practical  were  those idea 
and how closely were  the  methods adhere 
to and diligently  pursued  is  evidenced  i 
the fact that the  company now  feel  it  in­
cumbent  to  establish  a  branch  house  in 
Michigan  to  meet  the  requirements.  The 
new house  is  located  in  Grand  Rapids, 
prosperous, 
enterprising  city,  conven 
iently  located  for  the  trade  and  offering 
every  conceivable  advantage.  James  E 
Botsford, one  of  the company, will  locate 
there  and  superintend  the  business,  the 
other  member,  John  H.  Botsford, remain 
ing in charge of the house in this city.  The 
firm have  already a  number  of  large  con 
tracts for the western  house, and  the  pro 
portions of the business in that  State alone 
are truly of exceptional magnitude.  Pleased 
and gratified at the success already attained, 
the company are not disposed to  relax their 
efforts in the  strides  of  progress, but  pro­
pose  to further  increase  their  facilities for 
securing  trade  and  to  make  preparations 
commensurate with  the  present  encourag­
ing auguries.”

The  above mentioned company is located 
29 Ionia St.  in  this  city,  where  they carry 
in stock a large supply of  manilla  paper  of 
various grades, of Rag, Straw, Building and 
Carpet Papers.  They also do a  large  trade 
in fruit papers shipping into  Southern Cali­
fornia.  They are agents for satchel bottom 
bags also for the Union Anchor Square Bag, 
the best paper bag in the market.
The trade can place their orders with  the 
Auburn  Paper  Co.  in  the  confidence that 
no house  in  the  west  can  offer  greater  in­
ducements.

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Manufactured by

KOCH  A.  B.  CO.

354  MAIN  ST.,

PEO RIA .  ILL
Liberal  discount  to  the  trade, or  parties 
first  putting up these brackets iu any local­
ity.

Must  Have  Tiger  Oil.
Gra nd  Ra p id s,  June 22,  1S87.

Dr. Leeson, Cadillac:
D e a r Sir—I should have  answered your 
letter ere this had not  sickness  prevented, 
and now I will just say that I asked for the 
sole agency of  Tiger Oil  simply  because I 
thought your  medicine  was not at  present 
for sale here. 
I have  relatives  and friends 
here who have tried repeatedly to find Tiger 
Oil in the city and failed,  and  consequently 
have been in  the  habit  of sending  to  Mill- 
brook for it.  When we moved  here recent­
ly,  almost the first day  some  one asked if I 
brought  any  Tiger  Oil to  sell.  As I had 
not I kept lending from  what I had for pri­
vate use,  until it was  gone, and  we tried to 
buy more here,  and,  as on former occasions, 
failed to find any.  So,  thinking perhaps it 
might pay  to keep a small  supply on  hand 
(if no  one  else  near  me  kept  it),  I  wrote 
you as I did. 
I intended  sending out  your 
circulars from house to house, "and so adver­
tise it. 
If, as you say,  so  many  druggists 
in this city keep  Tiger  Oil  they  take no 
pains to sell it, even wheu called for.
You can do as yon choose  about  sending 
me any to sell. 
I  can  get  my  supply,  as 
formerly,  from  my  husband’s  mother  in 
Millbrook.  Very  respectfully yours,

Mrs.  Su sa Ca w th o r n e.

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RINDGE, BERTSCH £  CO.,

MANUFACTURERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS IN

B O O T S   A 2 T D  
AGENTS  FOR THE

S H O E &

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, 
£-TOE-1  NEW  PROCESS  STARCH. 

-  Grand Rapids, Mich.

removed,

[SWEET
This Starch having the  light  Starch  and  Gluten 
One-TTiird  L ess

I Can be used than any other in the Market.
I 

M anufactured by th e

FIRMENICH  MNFG.  CO.

Factories:  M arshalltow n,  Iow a;  Peoria, 111»,

Offices  a t Peoria,  Ills.

''-wSsK W

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st r o n g .!  Clark,  Jewell  &  Co.

FOR  SALE  BY

SURE.

CLARK, JEWELL & CO.

ARE SOLE AGENTS FOR

ELASTIC STAE0H.

IT’S A WINNER.

Yodr  StOGk  is  Not  Gomplete  Withodt  It.
INGLUDE  B  BOX  IN  YOUR  NEXT  ORDER.

Wholesale Grocers.

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.

Association Notes

A B.  M. A.  has  been formed  at  Ashley.
Carry the news to Blain.  There will be a 
banquet at the  Flint  convention,  tendered 
by the Flint Mercantile Union.

The  editor  of  T h e  T ra d esm a n  will 
assist in the  formation of  an association  at 
Sand  Lake to-night  and  at  Ithaca  Friday 
night.

W. Crotty, Secretary of  the  Lansing  B 
M. A.,  writes:  “As soon as some members 
who have not paid up  have  been called up­
on, we shall join the State body.  We  will 

enter with over 100 members.”

The  Railway  Association of  Michigan, 
comprising  all  important  railway  lines in 
the State,  has granted a one  and  one-third 
rate to the  September  convention  of  the 
Michigan Business Men’s Association.
•Grand  Haven  Herald:  The  monthly 
meeting of the Business Men’s  Association 
Wednesday night showed the  value  of  the 
Association not only in collecting bad debts, 
but in  avoiding  dishonest  customers,  be­
sides  helping  to  train  these  into  better 
ways,

S.  Lamfrom,  Secretary of the Owosso  B. 
M. A., writes:  “We have elected delegates 
and alternates to the State convention.  We 
designated Stanley E. Parkill to deliver  the 
three minute oration under penalty of a box 
of cigars for the last  variation of  the  des­
ignated time.”

Lansing  Republican:  The  members  of 
the Lansing Business Men’s Association are 
in a happy frame of mind.  They think the 
action of  the meeting  last  night  was  just 
right  and  henceforth  everything  will  be 
lovely.  The men who have  taken this ear­
ly closing movement in  hand  are determin- 
9d to succeed or die trying.

Howard Record:  We  stated  some  time 
ago  that  the  Business  Men’s  Association 
had taken up the project of  opening up and 
improving the  roads  leading  into  Howard 
City.  An arrangement was made  with Mr. 
Neve,  highway  commissioner  in  Pierson 
township, by the terms of  which the  Busi­
ness Men’s  Association  was  to  furnish  a 
sum  of  money  to  assist  in  completing  a 
piece of road  south  from  the  Wood  Lake 
school house.  Since that time the road has 
been  completed  in  good  shape  and  the 
money raised  at  this  “end of the  line” and 
paid over in proper shape.  This will prove 
to be of great convenience to the farmers in 
the locality along the  road,  and  save  them 
several miles  travel  in  coming to  Howard 
City with their grain.  Roads  in  other  lo­
calities will now receive due attention.
White Lake to Picnic Next Week.
W h it e h a l l, Ang.  3,  188 

E. A. Stowe. Grand Rapids:

De a r  Sir —At the  last  regular  meeting 
of the White Lake Business Men’s Associa­
tion,  which oceured  on  Tuesday  evening, 
Aug.  2, you were invited to attend  our  an­
nual picnic, which will be held at  Weston’s 
grove, at the  mouth  of  White  river,  on 
Tuesday,  Aug 16.
Any members of your home  society  that 
you can bring along wilt  be  welcomed  by 
us. 

Respectfully yours,

W. B.  N icholson,  Sec’y.

Muskegon to Organize on a Broader Basis.
E. A. Stowe, Grand Bapids:

Muskegon,  Aug 5,  1887.

De a r   Sir—We  have  been  considering 
the  advisability  of  merging  our  Retail 
Grocers’ Association  into a Business  Men’s 
Association, and  have come  to  the  conclu­
sion  that sucli  a  course is the  best  plan to 
pursue.  Please  let us know when you  can 
make  it  convenient  to be  with  us  for  an 
evening,  not later than ten days hence.  We 
think by such  effort we can secure  a  large 
association  here  and  we  wrant  you  to  be 
present  at  that  meeting and  explain  more 
fully than any of  us are able to do  the ben­
efits of  organization.  You can fix the date 
to  suit yourself  and  President  Fargo  and 
myself  will  see to getting  the  signature of 
all businessmen to the call for this meeting.
W m.  P e e r ,  Sec’y. 

Yours truly,

President  Blain,  of  Low ill,  and  the  edi 
tor  of  T h e  T ra desm a n  will  go  to  the 
White  Lake picnic on  August  16,  and Mr. 
Peer has  been informed  that he can issue a 
call for a meeting on the following evening. 
It is to  be hoped  that  President  Hamilton 
and the Presidents of the Ionia, Grand Rap­
ids,  Coopersville,  Grand  Haven  and  White 
Lake  Association,  or  representatives  from 
those bodies, can  also be present  at  the  re­
organization of the Muskegon body.
Good Report  From  the  Owosso  Associa­

tion.
Owosso,  Aug.  4,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Bapids:

is 

De a r   Sir—Our  Association 

in  a 
healthy and flourishing condition and many 
good results have been  derived by its mem­
bers,  both individually aud in general.  The 
indications are flattering for the future.
We are at present laboring  to  locate  the 
car and repair shops  of the T.,  A. A.  & N. 
Railway in this city.  The General Manager 
met a committee from our Association  last 
evening and talked very  favorably. 
If  we 
are able to accomplish this,  the  credit  will 
rest wholly with the B.  M. A.

Yours truly, 

S.  L am from,  Sec’y.

The Flint Programme.

F l in t,  Aug.  1,  1887.

B. A. Stowe, Grand Bapids:

D e a r   Sir—I   have  been  around 

this 
morning aud secured reduced  hotel  rates— 
81.50 per day at either the Bryant, Sherman 
or Dayton Houses.
We extend an invitation to  a  banquet on 
Wednesday evening, Sept.  7.
Our Deaf and  Dumb  Institute  is  closed 
and will not be opened until about Sept.  15, 
but we will try and entertain  the  members 
in other directions.
We will have the opera  house  for  your 
meetings. 

Yours truly,
J.  L.  W il l e t t ,  Sec’y.

The Bancroft cheese factory has resumed 
operations with a full force under new man­
agement.

Chas.  M.  Northrop,  Lakeview:  "I  have a 
high  appreciation  of  The  Tradesman  as  a 
business instructor.”

tion.

Programme for the Coming State Conven­

TUESDAY—9 A .  M.

ren, Mayor of Flint.
by L.  W. Sprague,  Greenville.

may have to be made  in  the  programme as 
the date of the convention draws near:

The  following  programme  will  be  ob 
served at the third  convention of  the Mich­
igan Business Men’s Association,  to be held 

3.  Address of welcome by Geo.  T. War­
4.  Response in behalf of the Association 
5.  Reading of  President’s  Address.
7.  Report of Treasurer
9.  Appointment of Committees on Cred­
entials,  Order  of  Business,  Resolutions, 
President’s  Address  and  Secretary’s  Re 

at Flint on  Sept. 6  and  7.  Some  changes 
1.  Call to order by President.
2.  Prayer by Rev.
6.  Report of Secretary.
8.  Report of Executive Committee.
port.10.  Reports of delegates on  local associa 
2.  Report of Committee  on  Credentials
same.6.  Paper—“Manufactories,  their  value 
8.  Reports of delegates continued. 
1.  Report of  Committee  on  President’s 
2.  Report of  Committee  on  Secretary’s 

3.  Report  of  Committee on  Transporta 
4.  Report of  Committee on  Legislation.
5.  Discussion  of  above  and  action  on 

and  how  to  secure  them”—S.  Lamfrom, 
Owosso
7.  Paper—“Mercantile  Education”— C. 
T.  Bridgman,  Flint.

1.  Report  of  Committee  on  Order  of 

tion work, one to three minutes each.

TUESDAY—7:30  P.  M.

TUESDAY— 1:30  P.  M.

Business.

tion.

Address.
Report.
ests.
same.

3.  Report of  Committee on Trade Inter 
4.  Discussion  of  above  and  action  on 
5.  Dissolution of Association. 
WEDNESDAY  9  A.  M.

Prayer by Rev.

for auxiliary bodies.

and By-Laws, and adoption of  same.

1.  Call to order.
3.  Organization of new Association.
4.  Report of  Committee on Constitution 
5.  Election of officers.

6.  Adoption of  constitution and by-laws 
8.  Paper— “Village  Improvements 
1.  Paper—Mutual Insurance”—Hon.  M. 
2.  Opening of Question Box.

7.  Adoption of  charter.

WEDNESDAY— 1:30  P.  M

W.  W.  Warner,  Allegan.

T.  Cole, Palmyra.

3.  Paper—“Buying  goods,  how,  when 
4.  Selection of next place of meeting.
5.  Announcement of  standing and spec­

and where.”

ial committees.

WEDNESDAY—7:30  P.  M.

2.  Report of  Committee on Resolutions.

1.  Address—“The Business Man in Pol 
itics”—Hon.  S.  C.  Moffatt,  Travers»  City.
3.  Adjournment  to  banquet tendered by 

the Flint Mercantile Union.
Organization  of  a  Strong  Association  at 

Fremont.

In  spite  of  a  strong counter attraction, 
there  was a full  attendance of  the business 
men  of  Fremont  last  Friday  evening  at a 
meeeting called to consider  the advisability 
of organizing a Business Men’s Association. 
Joseph Gerber  was selected to act  as chair­
man of  the  meeting and  Chas.  I.  Rathbun 
as  secretary  pro  tem.  After  an  explana­
tion of  the  aims  and  objects of  organized 
effort  by  the editor  of  T h e  T ra d esm a n, 
A.  H.  Northway moved  that  the  formation 
of an Association be immediately proceeded 
with,  which  was  adopted.  The  regulation 
constitution  was  then  adopted,  when  the 
following gentlemen  handed in their names 
for charter membership:  D.  Gerber & Sons, 
C.  I.  Rathbun,  Darling  &  Smith,  W.  D. 
Leonardson,  Fenton  &  Forman,  M.  B. 
Franklin,  Darling Milling Co., A. H. North 
way,  Raider  &  Son,  J.  B.  Ketchum,  W. 
Hopper,  J.  R.  Odell,  W. A.  Anderson,  C. 
A.  Pearson,  C.  C.  Merricle,  Rutherford  & 
Mizuer,  Fred  Marshall,  W. S. Platt,  Alex. 
Read,  Van N.  Miller,  Richard Purdy,  C. E. 
Stearns,  A.  K.  Wagner,  A.  J.  Jones,  K 
Boone, J. Dursema, A.  F. Tibbitts,  L. Val­
uer, J. F. Wright, E.  O.  White, J. R. Jack- 
lin,  L.  Sweet,  N.  A.  Vyne,  Walter  Pum- 
frey.

Joseph Gerber  was elected President and 
Chas.  I. Rathbun  Secretary.  These  gen­
tlemen,  with  J. R.  Odell, A.  H. Northway, 
and  Frank H.  Smith  were constituted  the 
Executive  Committee. 
The  election  of 
the  remaining officers  and  committees  was 
deferred until the next meeting 

The  Blue  Letter  collection system  was 
adopted  and  the Executive  Committee  in­
structed  to  procure  the  printing  of  the 
necessary blanks.

The  editor  of  the  local  paper  was  re­
quested  to  print  the  constitution and  by­
laws in his next paper, as a matter of news, 
and the meeting adjourned for one week.

Evaporator Notes,

R. H. Olive is building an addition  to his 
evaporator, at Wayland,  which will  double 
his room capacity and enable  him  to  turn 
out four times as much cured  fruit per day.
M. B. Brooks has started his old evapora­
tor, at Nashville,  and has begun work  on a 
new building.

Connor & Cross expect  to  start  a  fruit 

evaporator at Fremont.

He 

M. O.  Walker  will  soon  start  his  fruit 
evaporator  at  Allegan. 
contem­
plates  putting  in  another  evaporator  at 
Bloomingdale.

change.  Sheet iron has  advanced 20c  per 
100 at the factory,  but the jobbers have  not 

Nails  are  firm,  but  without  material 

The Hardware Market.

yet changed  their  price.  There  is  every 
prospect of a great scarcity  of  light  sheet, 
as all the  factories  are  running  on  heavy 
tank iron, for which  there  is  a  great  de­
mand at present.  Coll chain Is  firm,  with 
every prospect of an early advance.

Sand Lake in Readiness to Organize.
Sand Lake, Aug.  4, 1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Bapids:

De a r  Sir—At last  Sand  Lake  is  fully 
ripe to  enter  the  list  of  Business  Men 
Associations, 
every  business  man  and 
woman having signed a call for  a  meeting. 
We await your convenience to  come  up  to 
set us up in  business.  Write me when you 
can be with us. 

Yours truly,

J. V.  Cr a n d a l l.

Now is the time for you to use  Tiger Oil 
aud prove it is better than  any other  medi­
cine known for all  Summer  Complaints of 
the Stomach and Bowels, from the infant to 
manhood, as Pain, Colic, Cholera Infantum 
Cholera,  Cholera Morbus,  Diarrhoea,  Flux, 
Yellow Fever and all  kindred  diseases,  as 
well as Nervous  Diseases,  Sunstroke,  Par­
alysis and their  relations.  Use  internally 
and externally.

HEMLOCK  BARK!

WANTED.

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

N.  B.  CLARK,

101 Ottawa St., 
Grand Rapids
To  Grocers  and  Provision  Dealers 

CHADBORN’S

Automatic  Smoked  Beef Cutter.

HURGIMS  POWDER
Anxiihilator

THE GREAT STUMP AND ROCK

Strongest  and  Safest  Explosive  known 
to the Arts.  Now is the time to Stock Up 
for Farmers’ Trade.

Mail orders promptly filled.

L . S .  H IL T .  &   C O .,

19 and 31  P e a rl  St.,  G rand  Rapids, M idi
Also* wholesale  dealers  in  Gunpowder, 
Ammunition,  Guns,  Fishing  Tackle  and 
Sporting  Goods Generally.

HESTER & FOX
Sai  ail  Grist  i l l
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M anufacturers’ Agts. for

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Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all  kinds, 

of Wood-Working Machinery, Saws 

Bel tin?  and  OilB.

mm

With guard in position for use.

DIRECTIONS—Screw firmly to  Bench or 
Counter.  Always  Keep the  Slide in the 
Bottom of  the  Box, with  the  POINTS 
TOWARD  THE  KNIFE.
HAWKINS  &  PERRY,

W holesale  Provisions.

Grand Rapids,  -  -  Mich.

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.

30 Oaies St., Grail Rapids, Mich,

EN  R O U TE!

100,000  Old  Virginia  Cheroots,

WILL BE IN STOCK THIS WEEK.

SEND IN YOUR ORDERS.

Cody, Ball, Barnhart ft Co.
Grand  Rapids,  -  -

SOLE  AQX1NTS,

fM I

Wall Paper § Window Shades

At  M anufacturers’  P rices.

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

House and Store Shades Made to Order.

68 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS.

Nelson Bros. & Co.,
A IN SW O R TH ,

JOBBER IN

L.  M.  CARY.

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StL O V E R X D G E ,

GENERAL  DEALERS  IN 

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Fire and Burglar Proof

GLOI/ER,  TlflOTHY  SEED  and  BEAMS.

Parties Wishing to  Buy or Sell above are Invited to Correspond.

82 South Division St., 

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-  Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Combination and Time Locks,

11 Ionia Street, 

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

SUCCESSFUL  TRADESMAN.

W ritten Especially for Tun Tradesman.

How comparatively few  who  embark  in 
business are  successful?  To  examine  the 
statistics is to become  discouraged  at  the 
outset.

By success,  we do  not  always  mean  to 
accumulate a large fortune,  but  to  be  able 
to remain in, and permanently  conduct  the 
business, with a constant increase.  Neither 
do we speak of success  in  a  sodid  view'.
We have no reference to  the  rolling  stone 
which gathers no moss. 
It is not  all there 
is of life, to gather either moss or money.

Of course, the causes  of  success are var­
ious, but among  them  two  are  the  most 
prominent.  Become master of  these,  and 
your  probabilities  rise  sixty  per  cent. 
First—thoroughly understand  the  business 
in  which  you  engage.  Second—carefully 
select your location and then sit down there, 
determined at all hazards to stay.

If your capital is small so  much  more  is 
the rule imperative, that you remain  in one 
place.  We obtain the most valuable  of  all 
our education from experience,  rather  than 
books. 
It may in truth be  said  to  be  the 
great teacher, as its lessons  are  never  for­
gotten. 
If we have noted the experience of 
others, it also is  of  value  to  us.  Let  the 
reader of forty or forty-five years old glance 
backward  among  the  merchants  he  has 
known in the past.  The  most  successful, 
particularly in small towns,  will  be  found 
among those who have remained in  the one 
locality longest

Acquaintance is one of the most  valuable 
auxiliaries of capital—in  fact,  is to an hon­
est man good capital of itself,  and  he  who 
has known every  man  and  woman  in  his 
locality almost from  childhood  can,  if  he 
will, compete in  trade  with  any  stranger 
who may locate beside him.  This  intimate 
acquaintance with persons—their characters 
and habits—cannot be had by those who are 
often changing their residence and  place of 
business; consequently, it is the best  policy 
for any person who  contemplates  engaging 
in any business to firmly decide  to  remain 
in the same place for at least  twenty years 
when if not then successful,  he may  natur 
ally conclude that  in  that  line  success  is 
not for him.

It is proverbial that he succeeds best who 
remains longest, not only in the same  town 
but upon the same spot of ground, and in the 
same room, if possible.  Persons have been 
known to fail in business by  simply chang 
ing from one building to  another,  not  half 
a block distance.  Some  enterprising  man 
put in the same kind of stock  in  the  place 
vacated, and judiciously caught half his old 
customers.  Many merchants, when removing 
to another store  in  the  same  town,  con 
tinue the lease of the old one, also,  closing 
it up entirely for  six months or a year,  and 
its doors become a  standing  guide  to  and 
advertisement of  the  new  quarters  of  its 
occupant.  The writer considers this money 
well invested.

Do not allow occasional incidents  or  cir 
cumstances to  discourage  you.  Dull  day 
will come,  possibly  a  year  of  failure 
crops.  Some other town will be “booming 
and you will hear its praises and attractions 
■said or sung daily.  But don’t ttike the bait 
—it costs money to move and  yet  re-estab­
lished,  and where is that valuable  capital 
acquaintance—we  have  mentioned?  Gone 
for many years  from  you.  Bear  in  mind 
that the wheel of fortune  constantly  revol­
ves, and the  spoke  on  which  good  times 
and prosperity sits smiling  must  and  will 
come around to you, as to all others in time* 
tf you will only remain within its periphery, 
instead of  continually  shifting  your  seat 
just before it reaches you.

One demon of trade which, if once allow­
ed to enter your door will,  haunt  you  ever 
after is crediting, trusting, or  loaning  your 
goods.  We are aware that it  is  an  almost 
universal custom, though a most unsafe and 
pernicious  one.  “The  retail  dealer  must 
not give  credit.”  Commit  those  words  to 
memory and think of them whenever a cus­
tomer addresses you. 
It is your only  safe­
ty.  Do not  say  you  cannot  do  business 
that way.  You can,  as we  can  personally 
testify, and you will be far  happier  at  the 
close of a year  and  avoid  the  thought  of 
much profane language.  The man  who al­
lows his goods taken  from  his  door  with 
no compensation except  good  promises,  is 
loaning  money  in  driblets,  and  without 
either interest or security.  He  assumes all 
risk of loss,  while  his  customer  takes  the 
goods with out any.  Further than this,  he 
is  firmly within the  power  of  that  man, 
until the debt is cancelled;  and  you  refuse 
him the second and third favor at  the  peril 
of losing all! 
If you are selling strictly for 
cash or its equivalent,  you can  and natural­
ly will sell the same  goods  a  little  lower 
than  your  neighbor  who  credits.  What 
happens then?  You will get  three  out  of 
four of  all  cash  customers.  And  mark! 
they will  pass by those who  have, credited 
them, and pay  you  the  money,  believing 
that you sell at lower  prices,  whether  you 
do or not.  They also avoid  the  store  that 
has given them credit for fear of being dun­
ned!

Such is human nature and  the  only  way 
to circumvent 
is to credit  no  one.  Pos­
sibly one in fifty or one hundred will be an­
gry at your  refusal  and  leave  you.  You 
may be thankful you escaped thus  cheaply. 
But refuse him kindly,  as  if  it  pained you 
to do so, and in time he  will return  to  you 
with cash and yyill be one of your best  cus­
tomers.  Your standing in  the  commercial 
world will rise in  proportion,  as  you  pur­
sue this line of  policy.

Establish  a  reputation  for  the  highest 
honor  in  dealing  with  children.  Always 
discriminate 
in  favor  of  a  child,  and 
in  making  change,  give  it  the  half  cent, 
if any is involved  in the  transaction.  The 
loss—if any—will return to you  a  hundred 
fold.  We have known  one store hi a large 
town singled out by  the  people  to  which 
children  were  almost  invariably  sent  to 
make cash purchases, owing to the strict in­
tegrity of its  proprietor  and  employes  in 
dealing with them.

Condnct your  own  business,  and  never 
allow customers or  hangers  on  to  dictate 
the course you are  to  pursue.  Never  min­
gle business and recreation with a customer. 
Both are excellent, if  separate,  but  it  is  a 
mixture in which both ingredients  are ruin­
ed.  Don’t have too  many  easy  chairs  in 
your store.  The L. L.’s  (lazy  people  and 
loungers) are too apt to occupy them, to the 
exclusion of desirable customers.

Have your  own  rules  of  business  and 
firmly yet respectfully adhere  to  them.  A 
large percentage of  failures  are  caused  by 
great numbers of persons obtaining the idea 
that even the  most  uneducated  and  inex­
perienced can succeed  in  dealing  in  mer­
chandise,  after  all  other  vocations  have 
proven failures.  This is a serious,  general­
ly fatal error.  Bear in mind that  while  in 
the ordinary trades, your master piece  may 
be turned out after three years of  study,  it 
will cost double or treble  that  time  to  be 
come sufficiently experienced  in  the  mer­
cantile work to compete with those who  are 
eminently successful.

While your ready cash ought to  purchase 
as much as mine in the  same  market,  we 
find it will not always do so,  from  the  fact 
that inexperience cannot know  how,  when 
or where to buy.  A man who had for years 
bought and sold  a  particular  article,  and 
made ordinarily good  profits,  confessed  to 
us that after twenty-six years  in  the  busi 
ness he had  only  just  learned  the  abov 
secretin purchasing; “and,” saidhe, “I hav 
lost thousands of dollars,  by  ignorance  of 
this fact when I began.”

The past half century  has  witnessed the 
most wonderful changes in  the  business  of 
‘store keeping,” but the next  half  will  be 
far  more  startling. 
It  will  result  in  the 
most  perfect  system  of  arrangement  and 
dealing and of  Darwin’s  “survival  of  the 
fittest” only. 

F r a n k .  A.  H ow ig.

Proprietors of the

COOK  & PRINZ,
Valley City Slow Case M |. Co.,
SHOW  GASES.

Manufacturers of

OF  ALL  KINDS.

SEND  FOR  ESTIMATES.

Prescription Cases and Store Fixtures
38 West Briftp St.. Grand Rapids.
Bug Finish!

C H U H C H ’S

Telephone 374.

READY FOR USE DRY.

NO MIXING REQUIRED.

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

MANUFACURED BY

Anti-Kalsomine Co., Grand Rapids.
MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER

No 

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

iBoM W est,

150 L ong St., 
Cleveland, Ohio,

for member’s use.

Full  outfits  for  the  Collection  Depart 
ment of a Business Men's Association, con 
taining all the late improvements, supplied 

to order for $13.  The outfit comprises: 
1,000 “Blue Letter"  Notification  Sheets 
500 Copyrighted Record Blanks,
500 Association Notification  Sheets, and 
500  Envelopes.
49 Lyon Street, 

Money can be sent by  draft,  post-office 
Fuller & Stowe Company,

-  Grand Rapids, Mich

or express order.

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

and fresh until entirely used.

ARTHUR  MEIGS  &  CO.

W holesale Grocers,

SOlo  A gents,

77 to 83 SOUTH  DIVISION  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

ftmf Êm
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TOMATOES.

PACKED  BY

DAVENPORT  CANNING  CO,

DAVSXTFOHT, IOWA.

The Standard of Excellence
KINGSFORD’S
“Silier
Gloss”

“Pure”

A 1ST >1®«

^MUfltCTUREO I

P U R E

< Oswego,

Kingsford’s Oswego CORN ST ARCH for Puddings, 

Custards, Blanc-Mange, etc.

t h e   p e r f e c t i o n   o f   q u a l i t y .

WILL  PLEASE  YOU  EVERY  TIME!

ALWAYS  ASK  YOUR  GROCER  FOR  THESE  GOODS.

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.

33.  F A L L A S ,

Butter  and  Eggs,  Fruits  and  Oysters,

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

Makes a Specialty of

We Handle the 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,

HOWES.

JOBBER  IN

Foreign and Domestic Fruits,

SPEO IALTIBS1

Oranges, Lemons, Bananas.

3 Ionia St.,  GHAXTX) RAPIDS, MICH.

BABl o w   BROS.

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DETROIT, MICH.,

Manufacturers of the following well-known Brands

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MICHIGAN, 

TRUE  BLUE, 

CZAR, 

MONDAY, 

PHCENIX,

WABASH, 

AND  OTHERS.

MOTTLED  GERMAN,
SUPERIOR,

ROYAL  BAR,

MASCOTTE,  »

CAMEO,

For Quotations address

W. G. HAWKINS, 

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Lock  Box  173, 

BRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

We  Have  Got

Salesman  for  W estern  Michigan.

5,000  DOZEN.

HO!  FOR  BASKETS!  -
DIAMOND MARKETS, Glean to 6ive Away, 
DIAMOND  MARKETS, Good  Ones  to  U se,* 
BUSHEL BASKETS and .Covers for Slipping, 
BUSHEL BASKETS, Extra Finis!, to Use, 
THE AGME, tie Best Basket in tie World, 
WILLOW and SPLINT Clothes Baskets, 
PEAGH and GRAPE BASKETS.
CURTISS  &  DUNTON,,

ORDERS  FILLED  PROMPTLY.

PAPER  &  WOODENWARE.

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A.  M ElîCA-NTILE  JO U RN A L, PU B L ISH ED   EACH 

W EDN ESD AY .

E.  A.  STOWE  &  HRO., Proprietors.

Office in Eagle Building, 49 Lyon Si., 3d Floor. 

Telephone No. 95.

[Entered  at the  Postofflce  at  Grand Rapid#  at 

Second-claes Matter.1

WEDNESDAY.  AUGUST  10,  1887.

LEISURE  HOUR JOTTINGS.

BY  A  COUNTRY  M ERCH AN T.

W ritten Especially for The Tradesman.

Three or four  country merchants,  includ­
ing  the  writer,  were  enjoying  the  before 
bed-time  cigars,  and  chatting  on  various 
topics  the  other  evening,  in  the  reading 
room  of  a  popular  Grand  Rapids  hotel, 
when Jones of  our  town  appeared  on  the 
scene.

“Hello,  Mr.  Jones!”  said  one  of  the 
group,  “didn’t  know  you  was  in  the city. 
When did you arrive?”

“I kim in las’ night!” replied Jones.
“Ah!  And where do you stop?”
“ Well,  I’ve been puttin’  up  at  two  tav­
erns,  so  fur,  an’ now I’m lookin’ up anoth­
er. 
I’ve heard  a  pile  about  the  cuteuess 
and  sharpness of them  there hotel clerks— 
how  they studied  human  natur’,  an’  how 
they could  read  a  feller  like a primer,  but 
its all  bosh!  Yes,  sir!'the  boshiest kind of 
bosh!  You  see  I  always  stopped  at  the
R-----tavern  ’till  it  was  pulled down,  an’
now I’m kind o’ lost like. 
I got in late las’ 
night  without  any  luggage,  an’  writ  my 
name  down  in  a  new  house  ‘an’ told  the 
feller I’d go right to bed if  he  had  no  ob­
jection,  an’  he  looked  at  me  in  a  stony 
sort of  a way  for  a  minit, an’  went to  the 
lookin’ glass ‘an’ pulled  up  his  collar  an’ 
felt of  a  pimple,  an’  whistled,  ’till  I got 
mad an’ told  ’im  if  he’s  my  clerk  I’d give 
’im a dose of  number  ten  boots.  Then  he 
mellered  up  a  little  and  asked  ’fide  any 
change  ’bout  me.  Dumb'd  if  ’taint pretty 
rough fur a feller  that  kin  draw  his check 
fur a few tliousan’ mos’ any day to be taken 
fur a beat,  but ’twas  too  late  to  hunt up a 
nother tavern,  so  I  stuck a big roll of  bills 
under his nose and  then paid ’im fur a bed.
“Nex’ mornin’ I got breakfus’ at an’ eatin’ 
shop down in a cellar, an’ at noon I went to 
a  big tavern down  the street  there fur din­
ner. 
’Twas  ’mighty  warm  you  know,  an’ 
w’en I went into the eatin’ room I pulled off 
my coat and  hung  it  on  a  chair,  but  ’fore I 
I’d got my vittles  a feller  come  up an’ told 
me’ I’d better  put  it  on  agin,  an’  w’en  I 
’nvited ’im to min’ his  business  he  told me 
I’d got to cover up my shirt sleeves er leave 
the house,  an’ I did leave,  an took dinnefr in 
a nother celler.”

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As a  rule,  the  country  merchant  is  not 
cosmopolite, and  the  selection of  a regular 
stopping  place,  in  the  city which  he  fre­
quently visits,  is, to  him,  a matter of  some 
moment,  but let him once satisfy himself in 
the  premises, he  is  almost  invariably ever 
afterwards a steady guest at  the house.

The  trouble  with  too  many hotel  clerks 
is that  they are  snobs—title  worshippers— 
dress devotees.  While I do not excuse Jones 
for his boorishness,  in  denuding himself  of 
his coat in a public dining room,  I am satis­
fied that if the Hon.  Mr. McSwab,  who was 
registered  at  the  same  hotel  on  the  same 
day, had indulged in a  like  eccentricity,  no 
remonstrance would have  been  made.  Let 
Merchant Williams,  who is a man of wealth, 
education  and  natural  intelligence,  and, 
withall, one of nature’s gentlemen, but who 
always dresses plainly and unpretentiously, 
be, by some chance, assigned  to a desirable 
room on the  second floor, and let Congress­
man Boodle  or  Governor  Bum  afterwards 
put  in  an  appearance,  and  no  satisfactory 
apartment be found  vacant,  you  can  safely 
wager  that  Williams  will  leam  that  “an 
unfortunate  mistake”  has  been  made,  and 
will  have to  content  himself  with a dilapi­
dated! room  in  the  fourth story; or,  let the 
choice  of  the  single  vacant  bed,  at  “fair 
time” gravitate between Farmer Hooley and 
the  gorgeous  Augustus  McDude  and  the 
verdict is rendered  before  the  case is tried.

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“‘I struck a worse  case  than  yours  once, 
•out  in  Colorado,” said  one  of  the party to 
whom  Jones  was  relating  his  grievances. 
“I stopped at  a  little  way  station late one 
night, and goin’ to  the  only hotel,  enquired 
fur a room,  and  the only terms  on  which I 
could  get  one  was  by depositing  sufficient 
collateral with the  landlord  to  secure  him 
against my eloping  with  his  bedding,  tow­
els, etc.

“Speaking of table etiquette,” said anoth­
er,  “reminds me of eating dinner once with 
the immortal Sullivan.”  It  was  at a some­
what  pretentious  Detroit  hotel,  but  the 
rules  appeared  to  be  suspeuded  pro  tem. 
The distinguished gentleman sat at the table 
in  his  shirt  sleeves,  with  a  battered  plug 
hat  on his  head  and  a  cigar  between  his • 
teeth.  He had a  bottle  of  bourbon  before 
him and three  or  four  obsequious  darkies 
anxiously ’waiting  his  orders.  He  was in 
a  maudlin  condition,  with just  conscious­
ness  enough  left  to  indulge  in  occasional 
bursts of  profanity and vulgarity,  but,  not­
withstanding all this, I didn't see any desire 
evinced to bounce  him,  and  I  rather  think 
the hotel people  thought themselves highly 
honored by the exhibition.”
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I doubt if there’s a place on the foot stool 
as  lonesome  and  spirit  depressing  as  a 
strange  hotel  in  the early morning.  Busi­
ness matters require  your presence at home

by a certain time, and at night you go to the 
clerk,  pay your  bill  and tell  him you want 
to leave  on  the  early  train.  He  receives 
both the money and  information  with calm 
indifference, and  you  are  elevated  to  your 
room.  After  getting  to  bed,  you  begin 
to  reflect  that  you  haven’t  either a  civic 
or military title,  and  are  not  even  a  com­
mercial  traveler,  and  begin  to  seriously 
doubt  whether  you’ll  be  remembered  two 
minutes by the Arctic gentleman below, and 
your slumbers  are  fitful  and  unrefreshing. 
You forget the  time  your  street  car leaves 
and get  up an  hour  earlier than necessary. 
You go down into the  office  and  find it an­
kle deep  with  water,  sickening  with  soap, 
and every possible door  and  window  open 
to  a  teeth-chattering,  marrow-freezing  at­
mosphere.  You can find no island of refuge, 
and  you  gravitate  miserably  between  the 
blood-curdling  cold within and the hair ele­
vating  temperature  without; and then  and 
there, while  dodging  the  baggage en route 
for the morning  trains  and the  icy  glance 
of the office  autocrat, you mentally register 
a solemn vow that  under  no  circumstances 
will  you  ever  undergo  a  like  experience 
again.

It is estimated  that 200,000  bushels  of 

wheat were taken in Chicago Friday for ex­
port.

V.  R.  STEGLITZ,

Proprietor of

Eaton Raiiils Cigar Factory.

M anufacturer of the following popular 

S.&M.

brands:
CRICKET.

ROSADORA.

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

are solicited to send in a trial order.

And. D ealers.

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  ST. LOUIS,  MO.

Og a l l a l a , Neb., Nov. 29,1888.

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, St. Louis, Mo.:
D e a r  Si r —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.
Y ours tru ly ,  M r s.  E mma AKMSTKONg. 
Office" of J. E .  LANE & Co., Phcenix Laundry.
J.  WORTH, St. Louis, Mo.:
D e a r Si r —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 
f65 to $75 per  week,  and the  clothes  are per­
fectly clean and white.  Fraternally yours,
J. E. L a n e  & Co.

Big R a p id s , Mich., July 7. 1886.

Cold Storage.

chants and others consignments of

W e are prepared  to  receive  from  Mer­
Butter,  Cheese and Eggs,

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

SALT  FISH

Bought and Sold by

FRANK  J. DETTENTHALER,

117 Monroe St.,  Grand Rapids.

{3^“  Oysters the  Year Around  j g l

SEEDS

FOR  EVERYBODY.

For  the Field or  Garden.
Clover,

if you want to buy

Timothy,

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

Red Top,
Rye,

Onion,

Ruta Baga 
Wurzel,

Mangle

or 

Write or send to the

Anything;  io  the  Line  of  SEEDS,
Seed Store,
W, T. LRPREKUX. 

71  CANAL  ST.,

|

&  Christ

Are State Agents for

Frederick the Great

CIGAR.

Greuad  R a p id s, M ich..

Represented  by the  Giant,

Mr.  Christopher  Sparling.

LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ,
Fermentum!

S TA TE  A G E N T   FO R

The Only Reliable Compressed Yeast.

M anufactured by Riverdale Diet. Co.

106 Sent Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich. 

TELEPHONE  566.

Grocers, bakers and others can secure th e agency for 
th e ir tow n on thlB Y east by applying to  above address. 
None genuine unless it bears above label.

ASK YOUR JOBBER
FORit Oil  Co.’s

KEROSENE

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

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.

.  H.

k

PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY
33 3ST G I N  33 S

From 2 to 130 Horse-Power,  Boilers, 8aw  Mills 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft 
ing.  Pulleys  and  Roxee.  Contracts  made for 
Complete Outfits.

W ,  O,  X>enl»on,

88,90 and 92 South Divislou Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS. 

- 

MICH.

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

6RAN9 KAP1DS  URAJN  AND  SEED CO.

71 CANAL street.

HENRY  J.  HARTMAN,

FOUNDER,

GUAY IRON CASTINGS A SPECIALTY.

71 South  Front St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Send  for  Estimates.

PLACE to secure a thorough 
and useful education is at the 
G r a n d  R a p i d s  (Mich.) B u s i­
n e s s  C o l l e g e ,  write for Cot- 

Address.  C. G. 8WENSBERG.

lege Journal.

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.

Voigt, H errtsM ier k Go.,
DRY  GOODS

Im porters and Jobbers of

Staple  and  Fancy.

Overalls, Pants, Etc.

OUR OWN  MAKE.

A  Complete  Line  of

Fancy Crockery a Fancy Wo odenware

OUR OWN  IMPORTATION.

Inspection Solicited.  Chicago and Detroit 

Prices Guaranteed.

NO RUBBING! 

- 

NO BACKACHE! 

NO SORE FINGERS!

Warranted  not to Injure the Clothes* •

USED TWO WAY5{8;®8œ»i.,.

THE BEST LABOR-SAVING SOAP MADE

FULL  DIRECTIONS  ON  THE  WRAPPER.

A  Vegetable  Oil  Soap.  Contains  No  Rosin.

M anufactured  only  by  th e

A  LABGE  “ CHROMO”   WITH  THREE  BARS,
G.  A.  SHOUDY  SOAP  CO.

CLARK,  JEWELL  k  CO.,

Sole Agents for Western Michigan.

JOBBERS  IN

DRY  GOODS,

-A-3ST3D 3ST0TI03STS,

80  M onroe  St.,

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers 
American and Stark A Bags

IA Specialty.

FULLER & STOWE COMPANY,

D esig n ers

Engravers and Printers

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

WM. SEARS &  CO
Cracker  Manufacturers,

A gents  fo r

A M B O Y   C H E E S E .

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

1865

*1H
Q
(Ö

W holesale Mfrs. of

PUre  Candy

Our New Factory is  one  of the 

largest  and  best-equipped 

in the land.  Come and 

see us.  11,13,15,17 

SO. IONIA  ST.

3Ci
0)

1887

PEANUTS

CANDY

REVOVAL.

Jennings  &  Smith,
ARTIG  MANUFACTURING  G0MPBJ4Y,
Jennings’  Flavoring  Extracts,

MANUFACTURERS

PROPRIETORS

Artie Baking Powder, etc.

W IL L   REMOVE

TO THE

ABOUT

AUGUST  15th.

Gibson  Building,  38  and 40  Louis  S t.

DRY GOODS,

S pring  i  Company,

JOBBERS  IN

Hosiery, Carpets, Eta

F.  J.  l a m b   <&  CO-

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

F r u its  and  Vegetables,

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese,  Etc.,

8  81810  Iiia   Stall,  GBAUD  BAPIDS,  NICE

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

SPECIAL  ATTENTION  GIVEN  TO  FILLING  ORDEBS.

(Brocales.

HOW  TO  TELL  GOOD WHISKY.

A Wholesale Dealer Gives Some Informa­

tion to the General Public.

From  the Chicago H erald.
“When you  hear  people  talk  about  this 
whisky or that  being  good,”  said  an agent 
for a Chicago  wholesale  liquor  house  who 
was just returning from a trip to Kentucky, 
“.you can say  to  yourself  that  the  whisky 
may be either good or bad, and that the man 
who  drinks  and  smacks  his. lips  knows 
nothing at all about it.  Telling  good whis­
ky from bad is an art  which  few people ac­
quire. 
I buy thousands of  barrels of whis­
ky  every  year,  and  as I buy  on  my  own 
judgment it  is  not  conceited  in  me  to say 
that I know something  about the  business. 
In the first place, no man  can be a judge of 
whisky  who  drinks it.  For  two  years I 
I have tasted  whisky a dozen  times  a day, 
but in  all  that  time I have  not  drank as 
much as a gill.  A  glass  of  whisky  a  day 
would  destroy  my  usefulness.  Drinking 
the liquor  blunts  the  fine  sense  of  taste a 
whisky  expert  must  possess, and  absolute 
temperance is the first essential.  More than 
that,  a man must have a fine,  natural  taste 
to begin with,  and must  be careful  what he 
,eats or drinks. 
I can’t eat onions or cheese 
or drink  beer, or even  soda water, or  any 
highly-spiced  food,  and  retain  that  keen 
taste on which I’d be willing  to base  an or­
der for fifty or one hundred barrels of whis­
ky.  When I started in this business I spent 
three months  educating  my  taste, going to 
the cellar three times daily  and  smelling of 
150 casks of whisky of different brands.  At 
the  end  of  that  period I was  taken  blind­
folded  into that  cellar, and as  they rolled 
the  barrels  up to  me I  told  them  every 
brand simply through my olfactories.  Rep­
utation  is everything  in the  whisky busi­
ness.  There  are  in  the  trade  about 1,000 
brands,  with about forty  brands in the lead 
as the generally  popular  goods. 
I can tell 
every one of these by taste or smell, just as 
surely as if I were  reading  the  brands on 
the ends  of  the  casks.  The  professional 
whisky taster always dilutes the liquor with 
water,  and  sometimes  he heats the  water 
and  whisky  together  after  mixing.  His 
taste is so  fine as  to be  almost  infallible, 
and it is next to  impossible  to  fool  him. 
The men who  guzzle  liquor  may be able to 
tell high-proof  goods  from  that  which is 
rank and raw,  but that is about all they can 
do.  Whisky reputations are made or marred 
by the professional tasters, and it is on their 
judgment and  dictum  that the trade is car­
ried on.  As you may  imagine, a man with 
a good  mouth  for whisky  is likely to find 
taste a  source of  satisfactory  profit to him- 
seif.” 

_

How  Cigars  Are  Flavored.

From  tUe Chicago Herald.

may be used  in very 6mall  quantities  for 

Nearly  every  brand of  nickel  cigars is 
more or less flavored,  but, so far as I know, 
nothing injurious is used.  The notion that 
opium or any  of its  compounds is  used, is 
an erroneous one.  Almost anything may be 
used that will please  as well as deceive the 
smoker’s taste.  Probably the most common 
flavoring is valerian  root  steeped in  rum. 
There are,  besides,  countless  other  objects 
used.  Some manufacturers use orange peel 
and lemon peel;  rose-water is  extensively 
employed—in fact  most of  the  flavorings 
contain that ingredient.  Tincture of opium 
higher  priced  cigars,  but opium is too ex­
pensive to be  recklessly  used.  There  are 
ingredients  used by some  cigarmakes,  es­
pecially in  Cuba,  which it  would not do to 
mention,  but if it were  generally  known it 
would lessen  the demand for imported  ci­
gars.  The flavoring is generally poured in­
to the boxes  after the  cigars  are  packed, 
though for cheap goods the  common way is 
to sprinkle the  mixture over the leaf tobac­
co.

The  Grocery  Market.

The sugar market  is  without feature and 
the  same is true of  most  other  articles  in 
the grocery line.  Cheese continues to walk 
skyward  and  the  indications  are that  the 

12  cent  mark will  be  reached  before  the 

close of the week.

Candy is in good demand  and  prices  are 
steady.  Oranges  and  lemons  are  without 
material change and in fair  supply.  Bana­
nas are plenty and fairly  cheap.  Nuts  are 
unchanged, except  peanuts,  which  are  a 
shade higher.

A Bad Go»

From the Michigan Dairyman.

season for 6 cents per pound. 

The  salesman  of  an  Allegan  county 
cheese factory contracted its July make to a 
Grand  Rapids  jobbing  house  early in  the 
In the mean 
time, the  other factories in that county are 
getting  9  cents for their July cheese.  The 
Dairyman  is  willing  to  wager  a  year’s 
subscription  that  there  will  be  some  tall 
“kicking” done  by  the patrons of that fac­
tory when they receive  their July dividend.

The  Cheese  Situation.

One of  the leading  cheese manufacturers 

of Michigan writes :

I  receive  lots of  orders,  but  don’t  try to 
fill them. 
I  am afraid  the  price is getting 
too  high  for  this  time of  the  year,  unless 
the drouth continues.  Of course, if it does, 
it will  be  all right, as there will  be  a  very 
light  supply of  cheese.  We have  shrunk 
over  4,000  pounds  of  milk  per  day  since 
June 24, and  still  going  down.  Some  are 
feeding their  cows meal  and some  hay. 
I 
was  glad  to  see you  ventilate  the  Adrian 
cheese jobbing houses.  They deserve it.
Ithaca to  Organize  on  Friday  Evening.

I th a c a,  Aug. 6,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

De a r   Sib—I  take  pleasure  in  stating 
that 
the  business  men  had  a  meeting 
Wednesday  evening,  and  we  found  thirty 
who were ready to organize.  Much interest 
was manifested  in  the  move.  We  would 
like to have  you  come  here  and  assist  us 
Friday evening of next week.
Yours  very truly,

F r a n k   P.  Me k b e l l.

Independent Oil.

Manager Marston, of the Independent Oil 
Co., reports a gradually increasing business 
in his line.  He says that the hearty  recep­
tion accorded him by the trade  has  wholly 
exceeded his expectations and  that  he  has 
been compelled to draw on all his resources 
to meet the continually increasing  demands 
of the trade.  He has so increased his facili­
ties, however,  that he  will  be  able  to  fill 
all orders promptly  when  the  usuall  fall 
rush begins.

VISITING  BUYERS.

The following  retail  dealers  have visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses :
R. T. Pariidi,  Grandville 
John F. Huiladay, Battle Creek 
Chas. B. Lovejoy. Big Rapids
L. Valler, Fremont
Elmer Chapel, Cole & Chapel, Ada
Dr. O. O. Osborn, Glass  &  Osborn,  Elm  Hall
J. P. Dwinell, Carlyle
Eli Runnels, Coruing
A. D. Martin, Otia
C. M. Shaw, Sparta
Gus Begman, Bauer
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford
G. H. Joldersma, Jamestown 
A. T. Burnett, Cross Village 
C. E. Coburn, Pierson
S. Cooper, Jamestown 
A. C. Barkley, Crosby
H. Van Noord, Jamestown
J. Barnes, Austerlitz 
C. E. Manley, Kinney 
Nelson F. Miller, Lisbon 
Mattie Griswold, Bradley
G. W. Reynolds, Belmont 
S. A. Busb, Lowell
Cornell & Griswold, Griswold 
C. S. Comstock, Pierson
H. Thompson, Canada Corners
M. J. Howard, Englishville 
S. Stark, Allendale
Jno. Kamps,  Zutpben 
Jno. Damstra,  Gitchell 
Spooner if Moore, Cedar Springs 
Walter Struik, Forrest Grove
R. K. McKinnon, Hopkins 
G. Ten Hoor, Forest Grove 
John Meyering, Noordeloos 
Childs & Carper, Childs Mill 
W. T. Covell, Hart
S. J. Martin, Sullivan
K. G. Smith, Wayland 
M. P. Shields, Hilliards 
Wm. Crane, Hoytville
C. S. Comstock, Pierson 
S. Cook, Bauer
S. M. Wolf,  Hudsonville 
R. Neil, Ashland  Center 
J. Smith,  Ada 
J. H, Robinson, Lamont 
M. Gezon, Jenisonville 
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove
D. W. Shattuek, Wayland 
Win. Vermulen, Beaver Dam 
Parkhurst Bros., Nunica 
Velzy Bros., Lamont
L. A. Pain, Englishville 
C. C. Tuxbury, Sullivan 
Denton & Lovely, Howard City
V. Sinz* Conklin
Dr. John Graves, Wayland 
R. B. McCullock, Berlin 
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade
L. D. Chappie, Wayland 
C. N. Leach, Hersey
Farowe & Dalmon, Allendale
M. P. Shields, Hilliards
I.  J. Quick, Allendale 
Ezra Bassett, Cedar Springs 
Brautigam Bros., No. Dorr 
Catlin & Munger, Sullivan 
Frank Naregang, Byron Center.
R. J . Side. Kent City
J. V. Crandall,  J.  V.  Crandall  &  Son,  Sand 
J. H. Loucks, Ottawa Beech
A. Purchase, South Blendon
C. F. Williams, Caleponia
Adam Newell, Burnips Corners
L. A. Scoville, Clarksville
A. DeKruif, Zeeland
W ailing Bros., Lamont
Sisson & Lilley Lumber Co., Sisson’s Mill
W. H. Bartholomew, Wayland 
J. H. Edwards, Newaygo 
Tobias Bergy, Caledonia 
Parkhurst Bros., Nunica
A. C. Barclay, Crosby 
Jas. Broderick, Summit City 
John Meyjering, Noordelous
Kalamazoo—B. Bevier  succeeds Geo.  W. 

Lake

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Sampson in the saloon business.

Detroit—King & Hutton  succeed  W.  R. 

King & Co. in the plating business.

H.  N.  Morse, manager of the  Pere  Mar­
quette  Lumber  Co.’s store,  at  Ludington, 
spent Sunday with  friends  here.  His  es­
tablishment is known  as  the  “Big  Store,” 
and he is well  qualified  to  discharged  the 
intricate duties devolving upon the manage­
ment of such an institution.

M ichigan  Business  Mon’s  Association. 

President—F rank H am ilton, Traverse City.
F irst Vice-President—Paul P. Morgan, Monroe.
8econd Vice-President—E. J. H errick, G rand Rapids. 
Secretary—E. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids.
Treasurer—Julius Schuster, Kalamazoo.
Executive Committee—President, F irst Vice-President, 
Secretary, N. B. Blain and W. E. Kelsey.
Comm ittee on Trade Interests—Smith Barnes, Traverse 
City;  P. Ranney, Kalamazoo ;  A.  W.  W estgate,  Che­
boygan.
Comm ittee on Legislation—W. E.  Kelsey,  Ionia;  J.  V.
Crandall, Sand Lake;  J. F. Clark, Big Rapids. 
Comm ittee on Membership—H. S.  Church,  Sturgis;  B.
F. Emery, G rand Rapids;  the Secretary.
Comm ittee  on  Transportation—Jas.  A.  Coye,  Grand 
Rapids;  J. W.  Mil liken,  Traverse  City;  C.  T.  Bridg­
m an, Flint.
Committee on Constitution—W. E. Kelsey,  Ionia;  R. D.
McN&ughton, Coopersville;  I. F. Clapp, Allegan, 
Official Organ—The Michigan Tradesman.

COOPERAGE.

D. Quay &Co. quote as follows, f. o. b. Bailey: 

STAVES.
“

“

“ 

“ 

Red oak flour bbl. staves 
@ 6 25
...M
Elm 
©  5 25
...M
White oak tee staves, s’d and j ’t.M 
@20 00
I’t.M
White oak pork bbl. 
“  M
@18 00
Produce barrel staves................ M
...M
@ 4 50
Tight bbl. and h’ds to m atch.......M
...M
@17 50
HEADS»
Tierce  heads,  square.............. f? M
@20 00
$ M
“ 
Pork bbl. “ 
........
@18 00
M
Produce barrel, set.............
@  4
Flour 
“ 
“  .............
@  44
Cull  wood  heading.............
@  34
HOOPS.
White oak and hickory tee, 8f ’t.  M  19 00®12 00 
White oak and hickory  “  7Mf’t.M   9 00@11 00
Hickory  flour  bbl.......................... M  6 00®  7 00
Ash, ro u n d “ 
“  ........................M   5 50®  6 00
Ash, flat racked, 6M f’t ..................M  3 50®  4 50
Coiled  elm .........................................  5 00®  3  00

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Spring & Lindley quote as follows:
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White oak, pork, hand made...............1  00@1 05
lard tierces, hand made.. .1  15@1 25
Beef and lard, M bbls., 
...  75@  90
Custom, one head.................................. l 00@110
Flour  ......................................................  30®  35
Produce  ................................................   26©  30

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BARRELS.

Having  Made  a  Specialty of 
Mercantile Printing for several 
years, we  are  able  to  offer the 
Merchants  of  Michigan  the 
best  goods in  that line at the 
Lowest Prices compatible with 
Pine Work.  We quote:

$9.00.
$10.00.

Business cards 
Note heads 
Envelopes 
Bill heads 
Statements

Good  Stock 
Extra Stock
Anything  else  in  the  line  of 
Commercial Printing Executed 
Promptly and at  a Reasonable 
Price.
Remember  that a  Merchant 
is judged largely by the appear­
ance of his stationery.
Orders can be sent direct and 
printing delivered  to  any job­
bing house  at  this  market, to 
be shipped with other goods.
Correspondence Solicited.
FULLER & STOVE  COMPANY,

Grand  Rapids, 

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-  Mich.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

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

AXLE  GREASE.

C row n....................  80
Frazer’s ................  
90
Diamond  X ...........   60
Modoc, 4 doz..........2 50

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

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BAKING  POWDER.
Acme, 14 ft cans, 3 doz. case........
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4  ft 
2 B>
B u lk .....................................
Princess,  148......................................
4 s .......................................
18........................................
bulk...................................
Arctic, 4  lb cans, 6 doz. case..........
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Victorian, 1 lb cans, (tall,) 2 doz.... 
Diamond,  “bulk,” ............................
BLUING
Dry, No. 2.............................
Dry, No. 3..............................
Liquid, 4 oz,..........................
Liquid, 8 oz...........................
Arctic 4 oz............................
Arctic 8  oz............................
Arctic 16 oz............................
Arctic No. 1 pepper box__
Arctic No. 2 
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Arctic No. 3 
BROOMS

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.......doz.
....  doz. 
.......doz.

gross 3 50
..........  7 20
.........12 00
...........2 00
........  3 00
..........4 00

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

25
45
35
65

No. 2H url.................... 1 75
No. 1 H u rl....2 00®3 25
No. 2Carpet............2 25
No. 1 Carpet............2 60
Parlor  Gem............3 00

Common Whisk__   90
Fancy  W hisk.........I 00
Mill................................3 75
Warehouse  ............2 75

CANNED FISH,

Clams, 1 1b, Little Neck........
Clam Chowder,  3 fit...............
Cove Oysters, 1  lb standards 
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards
Lobsters, 1 lb picnic...............
Lobsters, 2 ft, picnic.............
Lobsters, 1 lb sta r..................
Lobsters. 2 lb sta r..................

...1   10
...2  15
...  90
..  1 60
...1 75
...2 65
...2  00
...3 00
__ 1  45
....5 25
...3 50
....3  50

Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river........
Salmon. 2 1b Columbia river........
Sardines, domestic 4 s ..................
Sardines,  domestic  Ms..............................  10® 12
Sardines,  Mustard  Ms................................•  12
Sardines,  imported  Ms.............................. 13@15
Trout. 3 lb  brook.........................................   4 00

...3 00

CANNED FRUITS.

Apples, gallons, standards.........................
Blackberries, standards.............................
Cherries,  red standard.............................. 1
Damsons.......................................................1
Egg Plums, standards 
.............................. 1
Gooseberries..................... , . ....................... 1
Green  Gages, standards 2 1b......................1
Peaches, E xtra Yellow..............................1
Peaches, standards...............*.....................2
Peaches,  seconds........................................ 1
Peaches, pie..................................................1
Pears..............................................................1
Pineapples, standards................................1
Q uinces........................................................ 1
Raspberries,  extra.....................................1
re d ........................................ 1
Strawberries  ............................................... 1
W hortleberries............................................

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CANNED VEGETABLES.

Asparagus, Oyster Bay.....................................2 00
Beans, Lima,  standard...............................   75
Beans, Stringless, Erie...............................   90
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked...........................1 50
Cora,  Archer’s Trophy...............................
“  Morning  Glory.................................
“  R evere..................................................... 1 35
“  Rome........................................................ 1 36
“  Sequoit......................................................1 35
“  Hamburg.................................................. 1 40
“  Livingston...............................................1 30
Peas, French............................. 
1 50
Peas, extra m arrofat............................1  20® 1  40
Peas,  soaked.................................................   75
“  Early June, stand.......................1 50@1  75
“ 
sifted............................. 2 00
**  French, extra flue...............................20 00
Mushrooms, extra fine................................ 20 00
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden........................................1 25
Succotash, standard.................................80© 1  30
Squash................................................................ 1 00
Tomatoes, standard brands.................  ..1.20

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CHEESE.

CHOCOLATE.

Michigan full  cream ............................10«@114
Wilbur’s  Prem ium ..35 German Sweet..........23
.......37
.......35

Vienna Sweet
Baker’s ........
Runkles’ .......

Sweet........25
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Cocoa-theta 42
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COCOANUT

@25 
®26 
@27 
@27M 
@28 M 
@23M @24 

@24 M @20 

Schepps, Is.........................
Is and  Ms..........
“ 
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Is in tin  p ails...
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“  Ms
Maltby’s,  Is.......................
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Is and  Ms..........
Ms.....................
Manhattan,  pails.............
Peerless  ............................
Bulk....................................

COFFEES—PACKAGE,

.......... 

Lion...........................................
Lion,  in  cabinets....................
X X X X ...................................... ..........25«
Arbuckle’s  ............................. ..........25«
Dilworth’B...............................
Standard  .................................
G erm an....................................
German, in  bins.....................
Magnolia..................................
Eagle......................................... ..........25«
M exican.................................. ..........20

@18 
@15
60 fts 100 fts 
254
204
254
25«
25«
254
264
25«
254
25«
20

Green.

COFFEES.

Roasted.

R io...................22@24
Santos..............23@25
Maricabo.........24 ©26
J a v a ............... 23@25
O. G. Jav a....... 24@32
Mocha  ............. 25@26
COFFEES—SPECIAL BRANDS.
Bell, Conrad & Co.’s Plantation Java.
“  Mocha...................
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Javoka.................
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Banner.................
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CORDAGE.

R io.................... 22@24
Santos............... 23@26
Mar icabo.......... 24@25
Jav a...................25@30
O. G. Java.!....27@33 
Mocha............... 31@32
32
32
30
29
28
20
60 foot Ju te .......  1 00  150 foot Cotton.... 1  60
72 foot J u t e ....... 1  25  60 foot Cotton.... 1  75
40FootCotton__1 60  172 foot Cotton___2 00

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4M

7M

CRACKERS  AND  SWEET  GOODS.

7
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64

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15M

Kenosha B utter........................
Seymour  B utter....................... 
B utter......................................... 
Fancy  B utter............................ 
S.  Oyster.................................... 
Picnic......................................... 
Fancy  O y ster....,.................... 
Fancy  Soda............................... 
City Soda....................................
Soda  ...........................................
Milk............................................
B oston.......................................
G raham ......................................
Oat  Meal....................................
Pretzels, hand-made................
Pretzels......................................
Cracknels..................................
Lemon Cream............................ 
Sugar Cream.............................  
Frosted Cream..........................
Ginger  Snaps............................ 
No. 1 Ginger  Snaps.................. 
Lemon  Snaps............................
Coffee  Cakes..............................
Lemon W afers..........................
13M
Jum bles......................................
11M
E xtra Honey Jum bles.............
12M
Frosted Honey  Cakes.............
13M
Cream  Gems.....................
13M
Bagleys  Gems..........................
13M
Seed Cakes.................................
124
S. &  M. Cakes.  .........................
8M
C itron..................................................... 19  @  22
C urrants.................................................   7)4®  7M
Lemon Peel............................................   @  14
Orange Peel............................................   @  14
Prunes,  French, 60s...............................  @10M

DRIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN.

French, 80s...............................   @ 8
French,  90s..............................  @ 7
Turkey......................................  1  @ 5
Bohemia................................... 
44
Raisins, Dehesia................................... 3  50@5 00
Raisins, London Layers.......................   @1  80
.......................   @1 65
Raisins, California  “ 
Raisins, Loose Muscatels.................... 1 30© 1  50
Raisins, Ondaras,  28s............................8)4© 8
Raisins.  Sultanas..................................   9  ©  10
Raisins,  Valencia, new.........................  7  @7)4
Raisins, Im perials...............................  @3 00
’God, whole.....................................................5@5M
Odd, boneless.......  .................................... 6)4@7

12 M 
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PROVISIONS.

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The Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co. 

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

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

quote  as  follows:
Mess, Chicago packing.......................................15 50
S h ortcut...............................................................15 50
Short Cut. clear....................................................16 50
E xtra clear pig, short c u t................................. 17 00
Clear quill, short  cut..........................................16 50
Boston clear, short c u t.......................................17 00
Clear back, short c u t..........................................17 00
Standard clear, short  cut. best........................17 00
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN  BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy.................................
medium..............................
lig h t...................................
Short Clears, heavy.................................
medium..............................
light....................................

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SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OK  PLAIN.
“ 
16  fts.........................
“ 
12 to 14 fts.................
“  picnic  ......................................
“  best  boneless..........................
Shoulders............................................
Breakfast Bacon, boneless...............
Dried Beef, extra...............................
ham  prices....................
Tierces  ....................... ........................
30 and 50 ft T ubs.................................
3 ft Pails, 20 in a ease.........................
5 1b Pails, 12 in a case.........................
101b Pails. 6 in a case.........................
20 ft Pails, 4 pails in  case..................
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts............   7 75
Boneless,  ex tra................................................11 50
Pork  Sausage.................................................. 7)4
Ham  Sausage....................................................11
Tongue  Sausage........................................... 
9
Frankfort  Sausage.........................................  8
Blood  Sausage.................................................   8
Bologna, straight............................................   6
Bologna,  thick................................................... 6
Head  Cheese....................................................   6
In half barrels................................................   3 00
In quarter barrels..........................................  1 65

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•  634
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• 10)4 
.11)4 
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SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

BEEF IN BARRELS.

PIGS’ FEET.

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I'R E SH   HEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 
prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides..................................   5  @ 6)4
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters..................  7  @ 8
Dressed  Hogs......................................... 7  @  7)4
M utton...................................................... 6)4® 7
Lamb  spring..........................................  9  @
Veal.........................................................   8  @ 8)4
Pork Sausage........................................... 8)4@ 9
Bologna...................................................   @6
Fowls.......................................................n   @12
Ducks  .....................................................  @
Turkeys  .................................................J1  @12
Lard,  kettle-rendered........... ..............   7)4@8  Q

FIE L D   SEEDS.
Clover,  mammoth.........................
“  medium............................
Timothy, prime.............................

@5 OO 
@5 00 
@2 75

OILS.

5

LUBRICATING.

ILLUMINATING.

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W ater W hite....................................................  11)4
Michigan  Test................................................. 10)4
Ethaline.............................................................13^4
R uby..................................................................12)4
Gasoline.............................................................114
Capitol Cylinder.............................................. 36J4
Model  Cylinder...............................................314
Shield  Cylinder............................................... 264
Eldorado  Engine.............................................23
Peerless  Machinery........................................ 20
Challenge Machinery...................................... 19
Parafline  ..........................................................204
Black. Summer, West  Virginia......................9
Black, 25° to 30^..........................................   10
Black, 15® C.  T ..............................................  ll
Z ero....................................................................124

MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock Bark—Tanners at  this m arket  are 
paying 80  for  all offerings  of  good bark.
Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay  $1.50  $   1b  for 
clean washed roots.
*  Rubber Boots and Shoes—Local Jobbers  are 
authorized to offer standard goods at 40  and 5 
per cent. off. and second quality at  50 per cent 
off.

WOODENW

ARE
Standard  Tubs, No. 1.....................
Standard  Tubs, No. 2.......................
Standard  Tubs, No. 3.......................
Standard Pails, two hoop................
Standard Pails, three hoop.............
Pails, ground wood 
....................
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes...........
Butter  Pails, ash.............................
Butter Ladles....................................
Rolling Pins.......................  .............
Potato Mashers.................................
Clothes Pounders.............................
ClothesPins.......................................
Mop  Sticks.........................................
Washboards, single..........................
Washboards, double.....................
Diamond  M arket.............................
Bushel, narrow band.......................
Bushel, wide band............................
ClotheB, splint,  No. 3...........
Clothes, splint.  No. 2.......................
Clothes, splintj  No. 1.......................
Clothes, willow  No. 3.......................
Clothes, willow  No. 2.......................
Clothes, willow  No. 1.............   .......
W ater  Tight, bu...............................
“  h a lfb u .......................

BASKETS.

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........... 5 00
........... 4  00
........... 1  40
........... 1 65
4  50
........... 2 25
..........100
...........   75
...........   50
........... 2 25
...........   60
........... 1 OO
........... 1  75
............2 25
...........   40
........... 1 50
............1  75
3 50
........... 4  25
..  5 00
........... 6 (JO
........... 6 50
........... 7 50
........... 3 75
............2 85

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—Home grown, $1.50 per  bbl.
Beets—4Cc ¥  bu.
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
ly  Arm at 2u @ 22c.  Dairy is  in  good demand 
at  15 ® 16c.

Blackberries—8c. 
qt.
Corn—Green, 7c. $   doz.
Cabbages—New, 75c  per dozen.
Carrots—$1.25 per bu.
Celery—23c V doz.
Cheese—Factorymen  are  now  holding July 
make  at  10)4c, in consequence of  which  job* 
bers  have been  compelled to raise  quotations 
to 1034@114c.

Cucumbers—15 $  doz.
Dried Apples—Evaporated, 16c $  1b; quarter­

ed and sliced, 6@7c $  ft.

Dried-Peaches—Pared, 15c.
Eggs—Dull. 
holding at  12c.

Jobbers  are  paying  lie  and 

Grapes—Conoords, 10c per  1b.
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—Very scarce,  on  account  of  dry 
weather, readily commanding $3@$3.50 per bbl.

Parsley—25c 
Peaches—Alexanders  command  $2  perbu. 
Hale’s Early are in fair supply at $2.25 per bu.

doz.  Scarce,

Pears—$1@$1.50 per bu.
Potatoes—New, 75c perbu.
Pop Corn—24o 1? lb.
Radishes—10c $  doz.
Tomatoes—$150  ft bu.
Turnips—65o ¥  bu.
Watermelons—$15 @ $20  per 100.
Whortleberries—$2.25 @  $2.50 per bu.
GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

Wheat—No change.  City millers pay 73o for 

Lancaster and 70o for Fulse and Clawson.

Corn—Jobbing  generally  at  46o  in  100  bu. 

lots aud 42c in carlots.

Oats—White, 35c in small lots  and  30@31c  in 

car lots.

Rye—48@50c $1 bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.26 V uwt.
Flour—No change. Patent,$5.101? bbl.in sacks 
and  $5.30  in  wood.  Straight,  $4.10 y  bbl. in 
%acks and $4.30 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.40 V bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14  V ton.  Bran, $13- 
V ton.  Ships, <13 V ton.  Middlings, <14 V ton. 
Corn and Oats. <17  V ton.

 

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H alib u t.........................................................  
9M
Herring,round,  M  bbl........... @1  75
Herring .round,  4   bbl..............................   1  40
Herring, Holland,  bbls............. ................  9 60
Herring, Holland,  kegs..........................   65@75
Herring, Sealed............................................
Mackerel, shore, No. 1, M  bbls  .................  20  00

“  12 ft kits 
“  10 

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FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

........$doz.  1  00
..1 60 
..2 50 
..3 50 
..1  25 
. .1  75 
..4 60 
..9 00 
..2  75 
..4

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No. 3. M bbls.............................. 6 50
Sardines,  spiced, Ms................... 
Trout, M  bbls........... ................................... 5 60
“  10 ft k its...........................................   86
White, No. 1, M b b ls..........................7  O0@7  50
White, No. 1,12  ft k its.................................1  10
White, No. 1,10 ft k its.................................  90
W hite,Family, M bbls.................................3 00
kits......................................  50
Lemon.  Vanilla.
2 65
4 25
5  00 
1  75
3 00 
9  00
18 00 
1  85 
5 00 
7 P0
....  95 
....1 15 
....1  75
.1 50 
.1 00 
.1 50
.1 00 
.1 50 
.1  00 
.1 50 
.1 15
.. 16@18 
. ,25@28 
..24@30 
..28@34 
. ,44@50 
..52@55
ATS

Jennings’ D. C.,2 oz...
“  4oz...
“  6 oz...................
“  8 oz...................
“  No. 2 T aper...
...
“  No. 4 
“  M pint,round...
“  1 
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“  No. 3  panel........
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“  No. 8 
“  No. 10 
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Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square__
Grand Haven, No 9, Bquare, 3 gro 
Grand  Haven,  No. 200,  parlor.. 
Grand  Haven,  .Vo.  8U0, parlor..
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round__
Oshkosh, No.  2.............................
Oshkosh, No. 8..............................
Swedish.........................................
Richardson’s No. 8  square........
.........
Richardson’s No. 9 
Richardson’s No. 7M. round.......
Richardson’s No. 7 
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Woodbine. 300...............................
Black  Strap..................
Cuba Baking.................
Porto  Rico....................
New  Orleans,  good__
New Orleans,choice...
New Orleans, fancy...

4  bbls. 2c extra

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MOLASSES

MATCHES.

OATMEAL

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PIPES.

PICKLES.

.5 75 
.3 00

ROLLED
Barrels....................5  75 H a rrftls. 
Half barrels........... 3 00 Half barrelB.
C ases............ 2 25@3 251Cases.............
M edium........................
4  bbl...............
Small,  bbl.....................

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@6 50 
@3 45 
@7  50 
@4 Ü0
.........
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross...........  
Imported Clay, No. 216,2M gross........   @1 75
American  T .D .................................
@  75
Choice Carolina......7 
5M
Prim e Carolina......0  P a tn a .........................6M
Good Carolina....... 54 Rangoon......................... @4M
Good Louisiana......6M Broken............... 3)4@3M
Table  ......................5M lJapan........................ 5M
DeLand’s pure....... 5 4 1 Dwight’s ................... 5
Church’s  .................5  Sea  Foam..................5)4
Taylor’s  G. M ...— 5 
|Cap Sheaf.................5

52 00

iJava  .................. 

SALERATUS.

RICE.

SHORTS.

SMOKING

Our  Leader.............. 17i Hiawatha....................28
Mayflower 
............. 23 Old Congress.............. 23
Globe..........................22 May  L eaf..................
Mu'e Ear....................23lDark........................... 20
Yum  Y um ................30|P ure............................16
Our  Leader...............10 S ta r..............‘. ............20
Old V et.......................30 Unit  ........................... 30
BigDeal.....................27 Eight  H ours.............. 24
Navy Clippings........ 26 Lucky  ........................30
L eader.......................15|Two  Nickel................ 25
Hard  Tack................30: Duke’s  Durham........40
D ixie......................*. .20| Green CornCob Pipe 26
Old T ar...................... 40iOwl.  ........................... ]6
A rthur’s  Choice.......22lRob Roy................ .. [25
Red Fox.....................26;Uncle  Sam..................28
Gold Dust..................26 Lum berm an.............. 25
Gold  Block................30; Railroad Boy...............36
Seal of Grand Rapids  MountainRose..........18
(cloth)..................25 Home Comfort........... 26
Miners and Puddlers.30'Old Rip...........  
80
Peerless  ....................28; Seal of North Caro-  ’
lin a ,2 o z ..................48
Standard................... 22; 
Old Tom.....................19; Seal of North Caro-
Tom & Jerry .............251 
lina, 4oz................... 48
Joker...
Seal of North  Caro­
T raveler................... 3
lina, 8oz.................. 45
Maiden...................... 2
Seal of North Caro­
Pickwick  Club......... 4
lina, 16 oz boxes__ 42
Nigger Head........... ,2
King Bee, longeut.. .22
Holland.....................2
Sweet Lotus............... 32
Germ an.....................1
Grayling..................  32
Honey  Dew.............. 25iSeaf Skin..’.].’.
....30 
Colonel’s  Choice......15 Red Clover.
....32 
Queen  Bee................22Good  Luck....
....26 
Blue  Wing................30INavy................
....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..................................
. .15@20 
Young Hyson.............................
..20@45 
GunPowder.................................
. .35® 50
Oolong....................................... [
.......33@55@6C
Congo......................................
............. 25@30
VINEGAR.
30 gr.
50 gr. 
08
10 
08
10 
16

White W ine.............................. 
Cider........................................... 
York State Apple.........................
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bath Brick im ported............................
90
Burners,  No. 0..........  i.” ..!!.!!....!..  @70

American

SNUFF.

TEAS.

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do  No.  2

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F eitx ..............; ; ; ; ; ; ;

Cocoa  Shells, bulk.................................  @ 4
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand
C ondensed M ilk.  Entri»  h n m ñ  
ST-  =@7 50 
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans............
@25
‘  @11
Candles, Star................................. 
Candles.  Hotel......................!..!.!!!" !  @12
Camphor, oz., 2 1b boxes.............
@35 
Extract Coffee, V.  C....................
@80 
@1  20
Fire Crackers, per box.......................... 
  © j 20
Fruit Jars, pints..............................  "   @ 950
;*  quarts........................................©10 50
2-quarts...................................   <ai3 50
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps..........................   ©25
"  ©35
Gum, Rubber 200 lum ps................. 
Gum, Spruce...................................... 
H onflny.J bbi 
"  
......................... 
Jelly, in 30 lb  pails................................... 
Pearl  Barley.............................................. 
Peas, Green  Bush.................................’  ©1
Peas, Split  Prepared..................  j 
Powder, Keg...  ....................................  
Powder, M  Keg 
Sage  .................
Sago
T apioca........ ;........................................   © e

^ 3  50
© 
  @ 2V
@  3M
©5 00
w

@ :@  15 @ 6

Me less in 5 box lots.

SALT.

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................ 
28 Pocket................................................. 
100 3 ft  pockets.......................................  
Saginaw or  Manistee............................ 
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........  
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags__  
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........  
American, dairy, M bu. bags............... 
Rock, bushels......................................... 
Warsaw, Dairy, bu.  bags.....................  
“  M  “  * .....................  

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SAUCES.

2 25
2  10
a 35
95
75
2 75
75
20
23
40
20

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SUGARS.

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SPICES—WHOLE.

20ft 
“ 
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@ 6% 

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8PICES—PURE  GROUND.

Parisian, M  pints......................................  @2 00
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................   @  70
Pepper Sauce, green  ............................  @  80
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring.............   @1  25
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........   @1 50
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................   @  90
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .....................   @1  20
Halford Sauce, pints............................  @3 50
Halford Sauce, M pints.........................  @2 20
Allspice................................................... 
3M
Cassia, China in m ats............................ 
834
“  Batavia in bundles.................. 
It)
40
“   Saigon in rolls__ 1...................  
29
Cloves, Amboyna..................................  
“  Zanzibar....................................  
28
80
Mace B atavia......................................... 
Nutmegs,  fancy....................................  
75
No. 1....................; ................ 
70
No. 2...................................... 
85
Pepper, Singapore,  black.................... 
19
29
w hite...................... 
Li
Allspice................................................... 
15
Cassia,  Batavia...................................... 
and  Saigon.................. 
25
Saigon...................................... 
43
“ 
Cloves, Amboyna..................................  
32
31
“ 
 
Zanzibar...................  
Ginger, A frican...................................... 
10
15
“  Cochin........................................  
Jam aica....................................  
“ 
18@23
Mace Batavia.........................................  
85
Mustard,  English..................................  
20
“  and Trieste................. 
22
Trieste....................................  
25
05
Nutmegs,  No. 2...................................... 
Pepper, Singapore black.....................  
22
white.....................  
32
Cayenne................................... 
25
STARCH.
Muzzy, Gloss, 48 ft boxes.Jl  ft  pkgs...
@ 5)4
“  48“ 
...
“ Bib 
“ 
@  5M 
“  b u lk ............
“ 
40 ft 
“ 
@  4 
“  72 ft crates, 6 ft boxes..
“ 
@ 6)4 
“  Corn, 40 ft boxes. 1 ft pkgs....
@  6 
1ft  “ 
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“ 
....
@  6)4 
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1 ft pkgs__
© 7 
6 ft boxes...
@  7M 
b u lk ............
© 6M 
Pure, 1 ft pkgs...................
@  5M 
Corn, 1  ft pkgs...................
@ 7 
Firmenich, new process,gloss, lib __
® 5)4 
“ 
31b....
@ 5M 
@ 6)4 
“  
6 f t . . . .
“ bulk, boxes or bbls
@  4 
“  corn. 1 1b................
® 6
Cut  Loaf.................................................
@ 6)4 
Cubes  ......................................................
Powdered................................................
©  u "y
Granulated,  Standard........................
®  6)4 @6  18 
Off......................................
@ 57» 
Confectionery A ....................................
Standard A ..............................................
@  544 
@ 5M 
No. 1, White E xtra  C............................
No. 2, Extra C.........................................
@  5)4 
No. 3 C......................................................
@  5 
No. 4 C.....................................................
@  4)4 @ 4M
No. 5 C......................................................
Com,  barrels  .......................................
@28
Com, M bbls............................................
@30
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...............................
@31
Corn, 6 gallon kegs.................................
@32
Pure  Sugar, bbl......................................
21@30
Pure Sugar, M bbl................
26@32
TOBACCO—FINE CUT
-IN PAILS.
Uncle Tom................. 4s
Bad Boy...................40
What Is It?,............... 28
Cinderella.................. 30
C herry....................... 60
Hi  There.................... 30
Five and Seven........ 45
Red Cap......................65
Magnet....................... 25
CrossCut.................... 35
Seal of D etroit.......... 60
Old Jim ....................... 35
Jim Dandy.................38
Old Time.................... 40
Our  Bird....................25
Underwood’s Capper 35 
Brother  Jonathan...27
Meigs & Co.’s Stunner35
Jolly  Time.................36
A tlas...........................35
Our  Leader............... 40
Royal Game............... 38
Sweet  Rose............32
Mule E ar..............,.,..66
May  Queen............... 65
Fountain.................... 74
Dark AmerlcanEagle67
Old Congress..............64
The Meigs...................60
Good Luck.................52
Red  Bird.................... 50
Blaze Away............... 35
Prairie F lo w er........ 65
Hair L ifter.................30
Indian Queen............60 ¡Hiawatha..................67
May Flower...............70 Globe  ........................ 65
Sweet  Pippin...........45
Crown  L eaf............... 66
H u stler.....................22
Sunset.........................35
Mackinaw................. 24
Yum  Yum.................21
Macatawa................. 23i
Eye Opener..............27|Blue  Blazes..............   27
W hopper................... 30 C apper........................40
Peach P ie.................30 Jupiter  ....................... 25
S ta r, 
37
Night Cap.................. 22
Old Solder...................37
Splendid..................  38
Red Fox......................44
Clipper  ......................34
Corner Stone..............34
Big  Drive........ ......... 44
Scalping  K nife.........34
Chocolate  Cream__ 44
N im rod......................38
Sam Boss..................   34
N e x t...........................29
Big Five Center.........35
F av o rite.................... 36
P a rro t........................42
B u ste r....................... 35
Live and Let Live.. .32
Black Prince..............35
Quaker....................... 28
Big  Nig......................37
Black  Racer..............35
Spear H ead............... 44
Climax  ............  
  42
P.  V............................ 36
Horse  Shoe............... 37
Spring Chicken.........36
V inco..........: ............36
Merry W ar.................28
Eclipse  ......................30
Ben  Franklin............32
Turkey........................39
Q. 
&Q............30
Moxie......................... 34
Lark.............................26
B lack jack ................32
Choose m e..................24
Musselman’s Corker. 30 
Live and Let  Live.. .82 
Jolly T ar.................... 32
Happy Thought.:..  .42
Red Top......................24
Tip Top......................¿26
Cherry. Bounoe,.........36

SYRUPS.

PLUG.

 

CANDY. FRUITS  AND  NUTS. 

Putnam  & Brooks quote as follows:

STICK.

do
do

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MIXED

® 9 ® 8 @10 

8M@ 9 
@ 9 
@10

FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES

@ 9 
@11)4 
@10 
@10 
@ 9
@12
@13
@13
14
18
10
12
14
15
14
15 
12 
12 
18 
18
16 
20
13 
22
14

Standard, 251b boxes 
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
Royal, 251b  pails 
Royal, 2001b bbls 
Extra, 251b  pails 
Extra. 200 ft bbls 
French Cream, 25 ft pails 
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases...
Broken, 25  ft  pails__
Broken. 200 ft  bbls__
Lemon  Drops........
Sour Drops.............
Peppermint  Drops 
Chocolate Drops...
H M Chocolate  Drop
Gum  Drops  ............
Licorice Drops........
A B  Licorice  Drops
Lozenges, plain.......
Lozenges,  printed..
Im perials................
M ottoes....................
Cream  B ar...............
Molasses Bar............
Caramels..................
Hand Made Creams.
Plain  Creams..........
Decorated  Creams..
String Rock.............
Burnt Almonds.......
Wintergreen  Berrie 
FANCY-
Lozenges, plain  in  pails 
@11)4
Lozenges, plain in  bbls.
@10)4
Lozenges, printed in pails 
....
@12)4
Lozenges, printed in  bbls....................  ©1ÍM
Chocolate Drops, in pails.....................   @12M
Gum  Drops  in pails.............................
@  6)4
Gum Drops, in bbls...............................
@ 5)4 
Moss Drops, in  pails............................. 9
@10 
Moss Drops, in bbls  .............................
@ 9 
Sour Drops, in  pails.............................
@12 
Imperials, in  pails................................
@12)4 
Imperials  in bbls.................................
@11)4
................................................l  50@3 00
Bananas 
Oranges, California, lHncy..................  @
Oranges,  choice....................................  @5 00
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls.........................
Oranges, Florida....................................
Oranges, Rod!............... 
Oranges, Messina..................................   @
Órange8,00............................................   @
Oranges, Im perials................................ 5  00©5 50
Lemons, choice.......................................6  00@6 50
Lemons, fancy.......................................   ©
Lemons, California...............................
Figs, layers, new,  $  lb
.........................10  @15
Figs, Bags, 501b..........
......................  @6)4
Dates, frails d o ........
Dates, 4  do  do  ........
.........................  @6)4
Dates, Fartl 101b box
ft....................9)4@10
Dates, Fard 60 ft box VB>.....................   @ 8
Dates. Persian 501b box 
ft...............  7  @7)4
Pine Apples, f)  doz.............................   2 00@3 00
Almonds,  Tarragona...........................17)4@18
Ivaea
@17 
California.............................
@17 
B razils....................................................
@ 9 
Filberts, Sicily.......................................
@10 
@  9 
B arce lo n a ....................................
Walnuts,  Grenoble.............................. 15
@17 
Sicily.......................................
15 
French...................................
11 
@14
Missouri................................8  @  9

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Pecans, Texas, II. P .............................10
Cocoanuts, $  100................................... 5  00@6  00
PEANUTS.
Prime  Red,  raw  $   1b...........
® 4)4 
Choice 
do  ...........
@  5 
@ 6)4 
Fancy H.P. do 
do  ...........
Choice White, V a.d o ...........
@  6)4
Fancy H P„ Va  do  ............................  7)4@ 7)4
@7
H .P .V a ............................................... 

5  00©6 0C

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HID ES, PELTS AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

HIDES.

G reen__ $Mb 5)4@  6
Part cured...  7  @  7)4 
Full cured....  7)4©  8)4 
Dry hides and 

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

Calf skins, green
Deacon Bkins, 

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

SHEEP PELTS.

@26
Old wool, estimated washed 
1b........25
@ 3)4
Tallow......................................................  3
Fine washed V  23@251 Coarse washed.. .26@28 
Medium  ............. 27@3o|Unwashed............16@22

WOOL.

OYSTERS.

FRESH  FISH .

OYSTERS  AND  FISH .
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
Fairhaven C ounts.......  .....................................40
Black  bass...................................................... .*..  9
Rook bass.............................................................  4
Perch.....................................................................  4
Wall-eyed  pike...................................................  7
Duck-bill  pike....................................................   7
Sturgeon...............................................................   6
Sturgeon,  smoked................................................8
Trout.....................................................................  7
Trout, smoked.....................................................10
W hiteflsh.............................................................  7
W biteflsb, smoked.............................................. 10
Brook  T rout......................................................  50
Frogs’ Legs, per dozen................................25@65

Drugs dflftebicines!

Stale  Board  of Pharmacy.

Six Years—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon.
Two Y ears—Jam es  V em or, D etroit.
Three Y ears—O ttinar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor.
F our Y ears—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Five Years—Stanley E. Parkell, Owosso.
President—Geo. McDonald.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
T reasurer—Jas. Vernor.
N ext Meeting—At  Lansing, November 1 and 2.

Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Ass’n.

P resident—A rthur Bassett, D etroit.
F irst Vice-President—G. M. Harwood, PetoBkey.
Second Vice-President—H. B. Fairchild,  G rand Rapids. 
Third Vice-President—H enry K ephart. Berrien Springs. 
Secretary—8. E. P arkill, Owosso.
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, D etroit. 
Executive  Com m ittee—Geo.  Gundrum,  F rank  Inglis, 
A. H. Lym an, John E. Peck, E. T. Webb.
Local Secretary—Jam es Vernor, Detroit.
Next Meeting—At D etroit, October

,

Grand  Rapida  Pharmaceutical  Society. 

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER  #, 1884.

President—Geo. G. Stekettee.
Vice-President—H.  E. Locher.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
T reasurer—Henry  B. Fairchild.
Board of Censors—President,  Vice-President  and  Sec-
Board'of 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. 
C om 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.
-
Kemlnk and W. H. Tibbs. 
Com m ittee on P harm acy—W . L. W hite, A. C. Bauer and 
Isaac W atts. 
.
R egular  Meetings—F irst  Thursday  evening  in  each
A n n u a l Meeting—F irst  Thursday evening in November 
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  Sept.  1,  a t  the 

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, 

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Tradesman office.

Detroit  Pharmaceutical  Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER, 1888.

President—F rank  Inglis.
F irst Vice-President—F. W. R. Perry.
Second Vice-President—J. J.  Crowley.
Secretary and Treasurer—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. Wilson;  Secretary, Geo. W heeler.

Muskegon  Drug  Clerks’  Association. 

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

Oceana County Pharmaceutical Society. 

President, F. W. Fincher;  Secretary, F rank 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.

Report  of  the Committee  on  Legislation.
The  following  report  of  the  Committee 
on Legislation was read by Chairman-Frank 
Wells at the recent convention of  the M.  S. 
P.  A. :
To  the  President  and  Members  of  the  State
Pharmaceutical  Association.
Your Committee  have  nothing  to  report 
concerning legislation in other States.  This 
lias  become  known to most of  you through 
the periodical press devoted to our interests, 
and,  as  it  possesses  but  little  interest  for 
us,  we shall have  nothing to say of  legisla­
tion outside our own State.
Three acts passed by the Michigan Legis­
lature  at  its  recent session  are of  special 
importance to our Association and  to  phar­
macy.  The  act  providing  for  the  incor­
poration  of  a State  Pharmaceutical  Asso­
ciation,  passed  for  the purpose of  enabling 
cur  Association to re-organize  as  an  incor­
porate  body,  is  of  great  importance to  us. 
The  new  organization  will  have  a  legal 
status and  character which the  present  has 
not. 
Recognition  by  the  Legislature  in 
future  legislation and by other  associations 
both outside aud within  our State,  together 
with representation upon  the committee for 
the revision of the Pharmacopoeia, are ameng 
the advantages secured  to  us by re-orgauiz- 
ing  under the  law.  The  transformation to 
a  legal  body  may be accomplished  during 
the present session and need necessarily in­
volve  no  change in our  organic or by-laws, 
or  the  loss of  a  single  member  whom  we 
may desire to retain.
A bill  introduced  early in the  session  by 
Mr.  McKie,  to  amend  the  pharmacy law, 
had  for  its  sole  object  the  admission  to 
registration  without examination  of  a  few 
pharmacists who were in business when the 
pharmacy  law  went  into  eifect,  but  who 
failed  to  avail  themselves of  the privilege 
of registering at that  time.  This, although 
unjust to the  large  body of  druggists  who 
complied with  the law and  have  continued 
to  by  paying their annual  registration fee, 
affected  so  small  a  number  that  it  was 
deemed wiser  to  add some  needed  amend­
ments to it and let it pass than to contest it. 
Although  experience had  demonstrated the 
importance  of  these  amendments,  it  had 
been  decided not  to  ask them  at  this time. 
They  consist  in  the  abolition of  the  pro­
vision  in  section  ten,  which  permits  any 
retail dealer engaged  in  business  at  a  dis­
tance of  not  less  than  five miles  from  the 
limits of  any incorporated  village or city to 
sell  medicine of  any  kind  without  restric­
tion, and  for  the  registration of  assistants 
in  pharmacy.  Both  amendments  are  im­
portant ;  the  first,  in  preventing fraud  and 
in  giving  the  same  protection  to  those 
outside  as  to  those  who  reside  within 
villages and cities ;  the second, in providing 
a remedy for an oversight in the law, which 
made  no  provision  for the  registration  of 
assistants in pharmacy, except such as were 
in  business when  the law went  into  effect. 
Under this latter amendment the  examina­
tions  by  the Board of  this  class will  pre- j 
sumably be below the standard  required for j 
pharmacists,  but  will, at the same time,  be { 
sufficiently rigid to secure competent clerks. ! 
With  these  changes the  pharmacy  law  of | 
Michigan seems to contain all the provisions I 
necessary  for the  protection of  her citizens j 
incompetency,  while  permitting j 
against 
such of  themfas  live at a distance  from  a ] 
registered  pharmacist  to  purchase  at  the 
country store all ordinary family medicines.  '

and 

from  pharmacists; 

It  is  free from  those two  objections  which 
impair  the  value  of  the  laws of  several 
States—the  registration  without  examina­
tion of  physicians  and  of  graduates  from 
colleges of pharmacy. 
It is, without doubt, 
as nearly  perfect as present kuowlwige  and 
experience can make it.
it  has  been  proposed  to  legislate  upon 
the  liquor  traffic,* which  has excited  most 
attention 
the 
probable effect of  such legislation upon the 
interests of  pharmacy  has  been  under  con­
tinual  consideration by this committee dur­
ing all  the latter  part of  the session.  The 
strong  temperance  sentiment  which  the 
vote  upon  the  prohibitory  amendment de­
veloped led to secret  party caucusses where 
it  was  decided to pass a liquor  law  which 
should largely increase the tax which dealers 
wore  compelled to pay,  make  the  penalties 
for violation  of  the  law  more  severe  and 
include the druggists  in  its  stringent  pro­
visions. 
Immediately upon their occurrence 
the  facts  came  to  the  knowledge  of  the 
committee,  who  requested  a  number  of 
prominent  druggists  to  meet at Lansiug  to 
consider  the situation  and take  such action 
as  they  should  deem  expedient.  The  re­
quest was  responded to promptly,  and  over 
twenty  of  the  representative  druggists  of 
Michigan  came  to  Lansing  to  express  in 
some emphatic  manner their  indignation at 
being  classed  by their  own State  with  the 
dram shop.  A vigorous memorial and reso­
lutions were  prepared and  presented to the 
Legislature,  protesting  against the contem­
plated action and pointing out a method for 
accomplishing  the  object  desired  without 
subjecting  druggists  doing  a  legitimate 
business  to  either  the odious  classification 
or  the  tax.  Personal  appeals  and  argur 
ments  were  also  largely  made  use  of  by 
these gentlemen with members.  The result 
of  this meeting,  and of  a similar one called 
subsequently  by  President  Wurzburg,  was 
that  the  measure known  as  the Bates bill, 
containing  no exemption in favor  of  drug­
gists, was  modified by the Diekeina amend­
ment, which  excludes  them from  both  the 
tax  and  penalties.  The  discussion  upon 
this bill  in  the House  was  listened to by a 
large  number  of  druggists,  who  will 
probably  not soon  forget  the  virulent  and 
untruthful statements made by many of the 
members  of  the  number  of  druggists  en­
gaged in the  illegal  traffic in liquor.  Even 
the  Speaker of  the House,  with  an  unfair­
ness unbecoming his official position,  stated 
that he supported  the amendment relieving 
druggists from the tax solely because, he be­
lieved the bill  could not  be  passed without 
it  and not  because  druggists were  entitled 
to this exemption, for he was confident that 
ninety-nine out of every hundred sold liquor 
illegally.  Mr.  Diekema,  at  first  disposed 
to  have druggists  included in the  tax,  sup 
ported  his  amendment  with  a  skill  and 
force  that  secured  its  passage.  He  was 
ably  supported  by  Doctors  Bardwell  and 
Baker,  Mr.  McMillan,  Mr.  Damon,  Mr. 
Hunt,  Mr. Rumsey and  many others.  Our 
Association and the  druggists of  the State, 
generally,  are  greatly  indebted  to  these 
gentlemen  for  the efforts made  by  them in 
our defence aud  their success in preventing 
the infliction upon us of a great wrong.
The outcome of  this liquor  legislation in 
its  bearing  upon the  drug trade  should  be 
entirely  satisfactory  to  every  pharmacist. 
The few  changes from the old  law were all 
suggested  by  the  druggists  who  attended 
the  meetings  at  Lansing.  The principal 
ones are that no liquors shall be mixed with 
any  beverage drawn from  a  soda  fountain 
or  drunk  upon the premises  under any cir­
cumstances, and a penalty of  revocation  of 
registration  for  the  space  of  one  year  for 
conviction  for  a  second  offence under  the 
law.  These  will  have  no  terrors  for  the 
pharmacist  who desires  to  sell  liquors  for 
those  purposes only which he  is  permitted 
to by the law.  This class, we  believe, con­
stitutes  a  very large  majority of  the phar­
macists of  Michigan.  The small  minority 
who prostitute  our  honorable profession to 
minister in  their selfish greed to one of  the 
most  debasing  appetites  of  human  nature 
should not only be classed in law and in public 
estimation  with  the  dram  shop  and  the 
saloon,  but  they should  also  be  compelled 
to pay  the large  tax which the Legislature 
has rightly imposed upon  those who follow 
this  ignoble  calling.  Nothing  connected 
with their  special duties has been, " so  grati­
fying 
the  committee  as  were  the 
earnest  and  unanimous expressions of  our 
brethren who  met with  us at Lansing,  that 
not only should honest druggists be exempt 
from the liquor dealers’ tax and  reputation, 
but that the  saloonkeeper who plies  his vo­
cation under our  banner  should be made to 
suffer  the  penalty of  his hypocrisy and  to 
appear in his true  colors. 
It indicates that 
we  are beginning to realize  the fact  that a 
moiety of  our number has been  creating an 
unsavory reputation  for the whole and that 
it  behooves  each  one of  us to the  best  of 
our  ability,  by example  and by every  other 
means, to  disabuse the  public  mind of  the 
fallacy that  because  druggists  must  keep 
and sell liquors they are necessarily saloon­
keepers. 
this 
knowledge 
achievement, 
through the moral power of our Association, 
of  compelling  men  to  relinquish  their 
prejudices  and  recognizd  us  as  a  body  of 
honorable  merchants,  whose  business  and 
professional  character  entitle  them  to  the 
respect of  all honest and intelligent men.
To  the  President,  Mr.  Wurzburg,  and  to 
the  gentlemen who  freely gave their  time 
and  energy to aid us at a critical period the 
thanks of  the Association,  as  well  as  our 
own,  áre  due.  Such  prompt,  intelligent 
and effective  action is a sure  index that the 
time  is  not far  distant when the  character 
and influence of our Association will be such 
that  neither  officers  nor  members  of  our 
Legislature will  have the temerity to speak 
insultingly of  the pharmacists of Michigan. 

compensation 
the  recedt 

In 
is 

for 

to 

F r a n k W e l l s,  )  Committee 
J ohn E.  P eck,  > 
J acob J esson,  l  Legislation.

on

' 

The  Drug  Market.

Prices are  about  the  same as last  week, 
with  but  few  changes  to  note.  Carbolic 
acid  is  becoming scarce  and  advancing in 
price.  Cubeb  berries are  again higher  and 
very firm.  Opium is steady at present quo- 
I tations.  Morphine  is  unchanged. 
Insect 
powder  has  advanced and  extreme  prices 
are looked  for.  Quinine is dull  and  weak. 
Ipecac  root has  declined.  Oil anise is very 
firm  at  the  advance.  Oil  peppermint  is 
weak and tending low.

There are 3,700,000  cows  kept for  milk­
ing purposes in the  United  Kingdom.  Es­
timating at 440 gallons as the  yield  for  the 
season per  cow, the  total  is  1,628,000,000 
gallons  of  milk.  Of  this  725,000,000  are 
consumed in various ways,  leaving 900,000,- 

000  to  converted  into  cheese  and  butter. 

This is equivalent to 126,000 tons  of cheese 
and 89,285 tons of butter.

leaves,  castor  oil, 

The Amendment  to  the  Pharmacy  Law.
At the request of a member of the  Board 
of  Pharmacy,  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   herewith 
presents Section -10, of the Pharmacy  Law, 
as amended by the last Legislature:
Sec.  10.  Nothing in this act shall  apply 
to, or in  any  manner  interfere  with,  the 
business of any  practicing  physician  who 
does not “keep open shop for  retailing,  dis­
pensing or  compounding  of  medicine  and 
poison, or prevent  him  from  supplying  to 
his  patients such articles  as  may  seem  to 
him proper, nor with the  vending of patent 
or proprietary medicines by any retail  deal­
er,  who  has  been  in  such  business  three 
years or more, nor with the selling  by  any 
person  of  drugs, medicines, chemicals,  es­
sential oils and tinctures which are  put  up 
in bottles,  boxes,  packages,  bearing  labels 
securely affixed,  which labels shall bear the 
name of the pharmacist or druggist  putting 
up the same,  the dose that may  be adminis­
tered to persons, three months,  six months, 
one year,  three years,  five  years,  ten  years, 
fifteen years and twenty-one  years  of  age, 
and if a poison,  the name or  names  of  the 
most common antidotes; of copperas, borax, 
blue  vitriol,  saltpeter,  pepper,  sulphur, 
brimstone,  Paris  green, 
liquorice,  sage, 
sweet  oil, 
senna 
spirits  of 
turpentine,  glycerine,  Glau­
ber  salts,  epsom  salts,  cream 
tartar, 
bi-carbonate of soda, sugar of lead and such 
acids  as  are  used in coloring and  tanning, 
nor  with  the  selling of  paregoric, essence 
of  peppermint, essence  of  ginger,  essence 
of  cinamon, hive  syrup,  syrup  of  ipecac, 
tincture of  arnica,  syrup  of  tolu,  syrup  of 
quills,  spirits  of  camphor,  number  six, 
sweet  spirits of  nitre, laudanum,  quinine, 
and all other preparations of cinchona bark, 
tincture  of  aconite,  and  tincture  of  iron, 
compound  cathartic  pills, or quinine pills, 
nor with the exclusively wholesale business 
of any dealer:  Provided,  That  every per­
son who  shall  within  three  months  after 
this act takes effect forward to the Board of 
Pharmacy,  satisfactory  proof,  supported by 
his  affidavit,  that he  was  engaged  in  the 
business  of  dispensing  pharmacist  on  his 
own  account in  this State,  in  the  prepara­
tion  of  physicians’  prescriptions, 
three 
years  next  previous to the  second  day  of 
June,  1885, or  that  at  such  time  he  had 
been  employed or  engaged  three  years  or 
more  as a pharmacist  in the  compounding 
of  physicians’  prescriptions,  and  was  at 
said  time  so  employed in  this  State,  shall 
upon  the payment to the  board of  a fee of 
two  dollars,  be granted  the  certificate of  a 
registered pharmacist.  A nd provided fu r­
ther,  That  the  said  Board may grant  at  a 
fee not exceeding one dollar, to such person 
not less than sixteen years of age, who shall 
pass  a  satisfactory  examination  touching 
their competency,  before the board of phar­
macy, the  certificate  of  "registered  assis­
tant,” but  such certificate shall  not  entitle 
the holder to engage in business on his own 
account or to take charge of  or act  as man­
ager of a pharmacy or drug store.

Approved June 18,  1887.
Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
The regular August meeting of the Grand 
Rapids Pharmaceutical  Society,  which  was 
held last Thursday evening,  was fairly well 
attended.  In the absence of President Stek- 
etee,  Dr.  H.  E.  Locher  occupied  tlm  chair.
Chairman  Peck,  of  the  Committee  on 
Trade  Interests,  called  attention  to  that 
provision of  the new  liquor law which for­
bids the sale of liquor to  minors  except pn 
the written order of a  parent  or  guardian. 
He presented  a  form,  which  he  suggested 
be adopted by the  Society,  and  printed and 
tableted for the jjse of the members,  as  fol­
lows:

Extract from  the  Liquor  Law.

Sec. 3.  *  *  *  *  Druggists may not
sell any  kind of  liquors  to minors except 
for  medicinal  or  mechanical  purposes, 
and then only on the written  order  of the 
parent or guardian of such minor.  *  *  *

To Any Druggist:

Please send  by bearer,........................

for medicinal use only and oblige

(Sign name here).......................................
Parent or Guardian.

On motion  of  Frank  J.  Wurzburg,  the 
Secretary  was  instructed  to procure  5,000 
copies of the above  form,  in  tablets of fifty 
each, and sold to the members at cost.

The question of  Sunday closing was then 
discussed in  all  its  bearings,  the  general 
opinion being that  the  contemplated  move 
on the part of local dealers would have good 
effect on  the  Sunday closing  movement  at 
other places in  the  State.  The  committee 
having the matter  in  charge  reported  that 
all  the  druggists  but  two  had  agreed  to 

close from 1 to 6 p.  in.,  that  printed  cards 

had been  distributed to  the  druggists,  and 
that it had been decided  to  put  the  agree­
ment into effect on  Sunday,  August 7.

The meeting then adjourned.

White Hair Now the Craze.

Golden  hair  having  gone  out  of  style 
with all but a few  poor  unfortunates  who 
are now unable to  get  their tresses  back to 
their  natural  color,  many  druggists  find 
themselves loaded  up  with unusually large 
supplies of peroxide of hydrogen.  Another 
craze,  however, promises to keep up the de­
mand for that  powerful  drug.  Mixed with 
25  per  cent,  of  ammonia,  it, produces  a 
bleaching  mixture  which  will  turn 
the 
blackest hair snow white  with two a p p l i ­
cations.  Of  course,  the  bleaching  of  the 
hair to a yellow  or  white  is  frightfully in­
jurious to healthy as it withers the capillary 
tubes,  just as  any  other  vegetable is shriv­
eled by burning,  hut the  ladies  who  use it 
don’t mind ruining their  health  as long  as 
they can be  in the fashion.  The  fact  that 
dozens of  women have become raving  man­
iacs through  turning  their  hair  to a golden 
hue will  not deter others from pursuing the 
white hair craze with a recklessness border­
ing on criminal insanity.

A  merchant  is  judged  largely  by  the 
appearance  of  his  printed  matter.  An 
order  or  letter on  a  piece of  unruled,  un­
printed  paper invariably forestalls  a  favor­
able  opinion  of  the  merchant’s  business 
capacity and  prejudices him in the  mind of 
strangers.  Such being the case, it behooves 
every dealer to be well provided with print­
ing  matter.  Those  not  so  supplied  are 
requested to note  the  advertisement of  the 
FullerAStowe Company in another column.

Advanced—Nothing’.
Declined—Nothing.

AC1DUM.

 

A ceticum ....................................................8® 
10 j
Benzoicum, German............................  
80@1 00
Carbolicum..............................................   13® 48
C itricum ...................................................  58® 65
Hydroetalor............................................... 
3®  5 1
N itrocum ...............................................  
  10® 13 I
Oxalicum .................................................   11® 13
Salicylicum............................................1 86®2  10 j
Tannicum...............................................1  40@1 60 j
T artaricum ............................................  50®  53 j
Aqua, 16  deg............................................. 
3®  «
 
 
Garbonas...................................................   11® 13
Chloridum................................................  12®  14

18  deg..................................  

AMMONIA.

BACCAE.

Cubebae (po.  1 30.................................. 1  30@1  40
Juniperus  ............................................  
6®  7
X anthoxylum .........................................  25® 30

BALSAMUM.

Copaiba...................................................     48® 53
P eru .........................................................  @1 50
Terabiri,  Canada......................................  50®  55
Tolutan.....................................................  40®  45

c o r t e x .

Abies,  Canadian....................................  
Cassiae  ................................................... 
Cinchona Flava...................................... 
Edonymus  atropurp............................ 
Myrica  Cerifera, po.............................  
Prunus Virgin!........................ 
Quillaia,  grd........................................... 
Sassfras  .................................................  
Ulmus...................................................... 
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)..........................  

 

18
11
18
30
20
12
12
12
12
10

 

EXTRACTUM.

Glycyrrhiza Glabra...............................  24®  25
po.......................................   83®  35
9®  10
Haematox, 15lb boxes...................  
Is.........................................  @  12
®  13
4 s  ........... 
¿8  ......................................  @  15

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FERRUM.

Carbonate Precip.........................
Citrate and Quinia.......................
Citrate Soluble.............................
Ferrocyanidum Sol.....................
Solut  Chloride..............................
Sulphate, com’l,  (bbl. 86)...........
pure..............................

FOLTA.

@
®
@
®
IH®
®

B arosm a.................................................   10®
Cassia Acutifol, Tinnivelly..................  20®
A lx........................ .'..  35®
Salvia officinalis, k s and  4 s ...............  10®
Ura  Ursi.................................................... 
8®

“ 
“ 

GUMMl.
Acaeia,  1st  picked.................................
2nd 
“ 
.................................
3rd 
.................................
Sifted  sorts..............................
“ 
’* 
p o ........ .....................................
Aloe, Barb,  (pq, 60)...............................
“  Cape, (po. 20).................................
“  Socotrine,  (po. 60).......................
Ammoniac  ............................................
Assafoetida,  (po. 30).............................
Benzoinum ............................................
Cam phorae............................................
Catechu, Is,  (54s,  14; k s , 16)................
Euphorbium, po....................................
G al b a riu m .................. ........................................
Gamboge, po...........................................
Guaiacum, (po. 45).................................
Kino,  (po. 25)..........................................
Mastic......................................................
Myrrh, (po.45).........................................
Opii, rpo. 6 75;.........................................
Shellac....................................................
bleached....................................
Tragacanth ............................................
herba—I n ounce packages
Absinthium  ...........................................
E upatorium ..........................................
Lobelia  ................................................... 
Majorum  ...............................................  
Mentha Piperita....................................  
 
R u e .........................................................  
Tanacetum,  V .......................................  
Thymus. V .............................................. 

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MAGNESIA.

®1 00 
@  90 
@  80 
©  «5 
75® 1  00 
50®  00 
@  12 
@  50 
25®  30 
®  15 
50®  55 
25®  28 
©  13 
35®  10 
@  80 
75®  80 
@  36 
®  20 
@1  25 
®  40 
> 0C©5  25 
18®  25 
25®  30 
30®  75

30
2»
28
28
25
30
*  22
25

Calcined,  P a t....................
Carbonate,  P a t................
Carbonate,  K. & M..........
Carbonate,  Jennings.......

............  55®  60
..........  26®  22
..........  20®  25
.......  35®  36

OLEUM.

 

 

 

 

Absinthium............................................. 4  50@5 00
Amygdalae, Dulc..................................   45@  50
Am ydalae, Amarao................................ 7 25@7 75
A n is i................... 
2 20@2  30
 
Auranti  Cortex.................... 
  @2 00
Bergamii........................ 
 
2  50®2 75
Cajiputi  .................................................  90® 1  00
Caryophylli............................................  @2 00
Cedar......................  
35®  65
Chenopodii............................................   @1  50
Cinnamonii............................................   90® I  00
Citronella  ..............................................  @  75
Contain  Mac...........................................  35®  65
Copaiba..................................................   90®  1 00
C ubebae..............................................  8  50@9  0)
Exechthitos............................................  90® 1  00
Erigerou.................................................. 1  20@1 ¡10
G aultheria...............................................2 25®2 35
Geranium ,?...........................................  @  75
Gos8ipii, Sem, gal..................................   55®  75
Hedeoma........................... 
90@1 00
Juniper!..................................................   50©2 00
Lavendula..............................................  90®2 00
Lim onis.................'.................................1  75®2 25
Lini, gal..................................................   42®  45
Mentha Piper..........................................2 50@3 5J
Mentha Verid..........................................5 50@6 00
Morrhuae,  gal.......................................   80®1  00
Myrcia, 3.................................................  @  50
Ofive.........................................................1 00@2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal. 35)..........................  10®  12
R icini....................................................... 1  42®1 60
Rosm arini..............................................  75®1  00
Rosae,  ?...................................................  @8 00
Succini  ................................................... 
40@15
Sabina......................................................  90® l  00
Santal.......................................................3 50® 7 00
Sassafras.................................................   12®
@  (55 
Sinapis,  ess, '
@1  50
Tigli!.............I..............
40®
T hym e..........................
®
opt.....................
15®
Theobromas..................
Bichrom ate............................................  13®  15
B rom ide.................................................   42®  45
Chlorate, (Po. 20;....................................  18®  20
Iodide......................................................3 I* ©3 25
Pru8siate...............................................   25®  28
A lth ae ................................................ «.  25®
A nchusa.................................................  15®
Arum,  po...............................................   @
Calamus...................................................  20®
Gentiana,  (po. 15)..................................   10®
Glycbrrhiza,  (pv. 16)..............................  16@
Hydrastis  Canaden,  .po. 33;.................  @
Hellebore,  Alba,  po..............................  15®
Inula,  po.................................................  15®
Ipecac, po...............................................1  7 >@2 00
Jalapa,  p r...............................................   25®  30
Maranta,  bis...................................... ,. 
@  35
Podophyllum,  po..................................   15®  18
Rhei  ........................................................  75S1 00
“   c u t.......................................................   @1 75
“  p v ........................................................  75®i as

POTASSIUM.

RADIX.

Spigelia  .................................................   48®  53
Sanguinaria, (po. 25)..............................  ©
Serpentaria............................................   35®
Senega......................  
40®
Smilax, Officinalis, H ............................  @
Mex.......................   ®
Scillae,  (po. 35).......................................   10®
Symploearpus,  Foetidus, po...............  @
Valeriana,  English,  (po. 30).................  @
Germ an...............................  15®

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SEMEN.

 

Anisum, (po.22)......................................  @  17
Apium  (graveolens)..............................  12®  15
Bird, Is....................................... 
4®  6
Carni,  (po. 20).........................................  12®  15
Cardamom.............................................. 1 00® 1 25
Coriandrum............................................  10®  12
Cannabis  Sativa.................................... 
3®  4
Cydonium....................................................   75@1 00
Chenopodium  .......................................   10®  12
Dipterix  Odorate........................................1  75®1 85
Foeniculum............................................  @  15
Foenugreek, po...................................... 
6®  8
Lini.............................................................34®  4
Lini, grd, (bbl,  3)....................................  34®  4
Phalaris  Canarian.................................  3)4 @44
R a p a ........................................................ 
5®  6
Sinapis,  Albu......................................... 
8®  9
Nigra.......................................   11®  12

“ 

do 

Florida sheeDS’ wool, carriage... ..2 21>  ©2 50
do
do 
Nassau 
2 00
do
Velvet Ext  do 
1  10
do 
Extra Y*> 
do 
85
dc
Grass 
do 
85
,for slate use...........
Hard ' 
75
Yellow Reef. 
.............
1  40
MISCELLANEOUS.
Æther, Spts Nitros, 3 P ...............
Æ ther, Spts.Nitros, I F .......................  30®
A luinen....................................
Alumen,  ground, (po. 7;........
Annatto  .................................................  55®
Antimoni,  po..........................
Antimoni et Potass  T art.......
Argenti  Nitras,  5................ ;.
Arsenicum....................................; .......  
Balm Gilead  Bud....................
Bismuth  S.  N..........................
Calcium Chlor,  Is, (4s, 11;  k;
4® 6
Cantharides  Russian, po.......
Capsici  Fructus, a f................
Capsici Fructus, po................
Capsici Fructus, B, po...........
Caryophyllu8,  (po.  35)..........
Carmine, No. 40.......................
Ct ra Alba, S. &  F ....................
Coccus  .............
Cassia Fructus.
C entrarla........
Cetaceum ........
Chloroform,  Squibbe.

Cinchonidine, P.& W.

...  26® 28
...  30® 32
...  254® 354
3® 4
... 
...  55® 60
4® 5
... 
...  55® 60
...  @ 68
5®
5® 7
...  38® 40
.. .2  15@2 20
© 9
...  ®2 no
@ 15
@ 16
.  .  © 14
...  30® 33
@3 75
...  50® 55
...  2fc© 30
...  @ 40
...  © 15
...  @ 10
@ 50
...  38® 40
©1 00
...1 60@1 75
...  10® 12
...  15® 20
9® 15
... 
40
...  @ 50
...  @ 2
5® 6
... 
8® 10
... 
...  ® 8
30
...  @ 24
6® 7
... 

 

Iodoform ...................................
Liquor Arsen e t Hydrarg Iod.
Liquor Potass  Arsinitis..........
Lupuline  ...................................

Crea8otum__
Creta, (bbl. 75).
Creta  pr«p__
Creta, precip.. 
Creta R ubra...
Cudbear.
D extrine.................................................  10®
Ether Suiph............................................   68®
Emery, all  num bers...............
© 8
_
Emery, po.................................. 
© 6
Ergota. (po. 60).......................................   56®
50® 60
Flake  W hite...........................................  12®
12® 15
G alla.........................................
© 23
G am bier..................................
7© 8
Gelatin, Coopor.......................
© 15
Gelatin, French.......................
40© 60
Glassware flint, 70A10 by box.  60&10, less.
ess.
Glue,  Brown............................
9@ 15
13® 25
Glue, W hite.............................
23® 26
Glycerina...............................................   23®
Grana  Paradisi.......................
© 15
H um ulus...............................................   25®
25® 40
© 75
Hydrarg Chlor. Mite  .............
Hydrarg Chlor.  Cor...............
© 65
Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum........
@ 85
Hydrarg  Ammoniati.............
@1  00
Hydrarg U nguentum .............
© 40
H ydrargyrum ........................
® 65
25@1 50 
75® 1  00
Q0®4  10
©5 15
@ 27
10® 12
85@1  CO
55® 60
80® 85
Magnesia, Suiph, (bbl. 1)4).
2® 3
90@1 00
Morphia,  S, P. & W...............................
o«Xri) J ou
Morphia, S. N. Y. Q. & C. Co................
S5®3 50
Moschus Canton  ..................................
© 40
Myristica, No. 1......................................
70® 75
Nux  Vomica,  (po. 20)............................
© 10
Os.  Sepia.................................................
22® 25
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Co..................
®2 06
Picis Liq,  N. C.. V%  galls, doz...............
©2 70
Picis Liq.,  quarts..................................
@1 40
Picis Liq., pints.....................................
85
®
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80).............................
50
@
Piper Nigra,  (po.22).............................
18
©
Piper  Alba, (po. 35)...............................
@ 35
Pix  Burgun............................................
©
14® 15
Potassa, Bitart, pure....................
@ 40
Potassa.  Bitart, com....................
© 15
Potass  Nitras, opt.........................
8® 10
Potass  N itras..................................... 
.
7® 9
Pulvis Ipecac  e to p ii............................1  10@l  20
10® 1 20
Pyrethrum, boxes, H. & P. D. Co., doz.
©1 25
Pyrethrum, pv .......................................
55© 60
Quassiae.................................................
10
Quinia, S, P. &  W..................................
55® 60
Quinia. S, German.................................
45® 55
liubia Tinctorum..................................
Saccharum  Lactis, pv ..........................
© 35
Salacin....................................................
2© 75
Sanguis Draconis..................................
40® 50
_
Santonine...............................................  
©4 50
Sapo,  W...................................................  12®
12© 14
Sapo,  M...........................................
8® 10
Sapo. G............................................
© 15
Seidlitz  M ixture............................
© 28
Sinapis............................................
18
Sinapis,  opt....................................
30
©
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  Do. Voes........
@ 35
Snuff, Scotch,  Do. Voes__ :........
Soda Boras, (po.  B).......................
74© 9
Soda et PotossTart.......................
33® 35
Soda Carb.......................................
2® 2%
Soda,  Bi-Carb.............................
4© 5
Soda,  Ash.......................................
0® 4
Soda  Sulphas.................................
Spts. Ether C o ...........................
50® 55
Spts.  Myrcia  Dom........................
©2 00
Spts. Myrcia Im p..........................
©1 50
Spts. Vini Rect, (bbl.  2 10)...........
©2 25
Strychnia, Crystal.........................
®l 30
_
Sulphur, SubL............................... 
24® 3)4 
Sulphur,  R oll#......................................  2)4®  3
2)4© 3
T a m a r i n d s ..........................
8© 10
Terebenth  Venice........................
28© 30
Theobromae .. 2.............................. 
_
50  © 55
Vanilla  ........ . ......................................9 00@10 00
00® 16 00
Zlnci  Suiph.......................... .........
7® 8
Gal

Bbl
Whale, winter......................................  70
Lard, extra..........................................   60
Lard, No.  1...........................................  45
Linseed, pure  raw ............................ 
47
Linseed, boiled 
5;
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained.
.......  50 
lìti 
Spirits Turpentine..................

OILS.

2k

PAINTS

Bbl
IX
Red  V enetian............ .................. 
1)4
Hi
Ochre, yellow  M arseilles........   14f
Hi
Ochre, yellow  B erm uda..........   1$
P utty, co m m ercial...................  2)4
2)4
P u tty , strictly p u re...................
Vermilion, prim e  A m erican..
Verm ilion,  E nglish...................
Green. P en in su lar.....................
Lead, red strictly pure...........
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
W hiting, w hite  S panish..........
W hiting,  Gilders*......................
W hite, Paris A m erican............
W hiting  P aris English cliff..
Pioneer P repared  J a i n t s __
Swiss Villa P re p are '  P a in ts..
VARNISHES.
No. 1 T urp  Coach......................
E x tra  T u rp .................................
Coach Body.................................
No. 1 T urp F u rn itu re ...............
E x tra T urk  D am ar...................

1  20@1  40 
1 (»©1  20
.1  10@1  20 
.1  6U@1  70 
.2 75@3  00 
.1  00@1  10
..........  70©  75
APPROVED by PHYSICIANS. 

1  1C1  49

C ushm an’s

2® Í

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ail
Lb
2® i
2® 0
24®  i
2)4® 3 
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55©>8 
16®I7 
6® 6)4 
6® 6)4
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In  the  treatment  of  Catarrh,  Headache, 

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

Colds, stands without an eq ual.

Air Slentholized by passing through the Inhaler- 
tube, in which the Pure Crystals of Menthol are 
held* thoroughly applies this  valuable  remedy  in  the 
m ost  efficient  w ay,  to  th e  p arts  affected.  It sells 
readily.  Always keep an open Inhaler in your store, 
and le t your custom ers try  it.  A  few  inhalations  will 
n ot h u rt th e Inhaler, and will do m ore  to dem onstrate 
its efficiency th a n  a half hour’s talk.  Ketail price 
SO cents.  Fer Circulars and  T kstimonials address 

H.  D.  Cushman,  Three  ltlvers, Mich. 

Trade supplied by
Hazeltine Jt Perkins  Drug Co., G’d Rapids, 
And W holesale Druggists of D etroit and Chicago.

SPIRITUS.

Frumenti,  W.,  D. & Co.........................2 00@2 50
Frumenti, D. F. R...................................1  75@2 DC
F ru m en ti................................................1 10@1  50
Juniperis Co.  O. T .......'...............................1  75@1 75
Juniperis Co................................................1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N. E ..........................................1 75@2 00
Spt. Vini  Galli............................................ 1  76®» 50
Vini Oporto..................................................1 25®2 00
Vini  Albi»........................ 

1 26®2 00

 

THE  LATEST  DISCOVERY.

Or.  Laporle’s  Celebrated  Preparation, Safe  and 
Always  Reliable. 
Indispensable  to  L A D I E S ,  

Send  4   cents  for  Sealed  Circular.

CALUMET CHEMICAL CO.. M ica». JW S.

WHOLESALE

Druggists!
42 and 44 Ottawa Street ^nd 89, gi,

93 and gs Louis Street.

IMPORTERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Elegant  Pimacentical  Prepara­

tions,  Finii  Extracts  ani 

Elixirs

GENERAL WHOLESALE  AGNTS  FOR

Wolf, Patton & Go. and John L. 

Whiting, Manufacturers  of 

Fine Paint and  Var­

nish Brushes.
THE  CELEBRATED

ALSO  FOR  THE

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

Horse Brushes.

WE  ARE  SOLE  OWNERS  OF

Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Cnre

Which is positively the best Remed": 

of the kind on the market.

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

Wine aid Lipor Dupartmut

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

WITHERS DADE & CO/S

Henderson Co., Ky.,

Sour Mash  and  Old-Fashioned 

Hand-Made, Copper- 

Distilled

W H IS K E Y .

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

We are also owners of the

flu tists’  Favorite  Kyo,

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

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

such asPatent Medicines,

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

Mail  orders  always  receive  our sped# 1 

Hazeltine 

& Perkins 

Drug Co,

H.  LEONARD  I  80N8,

WHOLESALE

CROCKERY,  G L A SSW A R E ,

LAMP  GOODS  AND  STONEWARE.

134,136,138,140  Fulton  St., Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

m

To Insure  Prompt Shipment Order 

Fruit Jars  direct from us.

| i i

SPACE :

lili

oIF/

State  A gents

FOR THE

Excelsior  Cooking Crock.
Positively the  finest  kettle  for  cooking  any 
kind  of  food.  Those  who  try it  will have no 
other.
Cheapest Preserving Kettle.  Absolutely Fire 
Proof.  Not affected by Heat or Acid.

Factory  Prices.

? ^uart.........; ; ;  per.?oz- 
3 quart.
4 quart.

8.00

Sherwood's Incomparable Fine Glazed Stoneware.

«m

HEADQUARTERS

PRICES.

Mason’s  Porcelain Top Früh Jars.
gross.
Pints .......................................... ..........$9.50
Q uarts....................................... ..........  10.25
54 gallons.................................. ..........  13.25
Rubbers  extra........................ ................ 75
Globe Fruit Jars, pints.....................  11.00
........   12.00
** 
“ 
..........  15.00
Preserve Jars.  Tomato Jugs.  Apple

quarts.......
54 gallon...

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Butter j «»*  Blackberry jam  jars.

1 nous

OUR  LEADING  BRANDS:

Roller Champion,
Matchless,

Gilt  Edge,

Lily White,

Harvest Queen,
Snow Flake,

White Loaf, 
Reliance,

Gold Medal, 
Graham.

OUR  SPECIALTIES:

Buckwheat  Flour,  Hye  Flour,  Granulated 
Ships, Middlings, Screenings, Corn, Oats, Feed. 

Meal,  Bolted  Meal,  Coarse  Meal,  Bran, 

Write  for  Prices.

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

FOURTH m o m  BAM

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A.  J.  Bow ne, President.

Ge o .  C.  P ie r c e,  Vice President.

H. P. Ba k er, Cashier.
CAPITAL,  -  -  -  $300,000,

Transacts a general banking business.

Make a Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 

of Country Merchants Solicited.

PA T.  MAR.  16. 1880.

Ts/L

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

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

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

6, G. I VOIGT  &  GO.

Proprietors  of

S ta x   Roller Mills.

M anufacturers of

“Our Patent,”

“Star,”

“Calla Lily,”

“Golden Sheaf,” 

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

dlings and Screenings.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MIOH.

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.

: (icí-OlíÉ Oli:

'V’alvv

V0I6T MILLING CO.,
Crescent Roller Mills

Proprietors of

M anufacturers of the following well 

known  Brands:

Crescent,  White Rose, 

Vienna, Royal Patent,

AND

AT.T.  WHEAT  FLOUR.

The Great Health Food-

W . end Pearl St. Bridge,

1  .CYLINDER  O l h  GRAND RAPI Do,

Full Line ot

We make a specialty of

BT7BJBKA OIL,

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

GRAND  RAPIDS  OFFICE,

UNTo. X C anal  S t,

Telephone No.  228-2.

GEAND  EAPIDS,  -  MICH.

J.  G.  ALEXANDEK,  Agent.

A

TIME  TABLES.
Grand Rapids & Indiana.

All Trains dally except Sundny.
GOING  NORTH.

Arrives.
Traverse City & Mackinaw E x.........8:45 a  in
Traverse City &  Mackinaw  Ex.......
Traverse City  &  Mackinaw  E x ....  7:30 p m
Cadillac Express...............................  3:40 p m
Saginaw Express...............................11:25 a m
10:30 a m .

“ 

“ 

 

Leaves. 
9:05 a m  
11:30 a m 
10:40p m 
5:05 p m 
7:20 a  m 
4:10 p m

Saginaw express runs through solid.
9:05 a. m. tra in  has  chair  car to  Traverse  City  and 
11:30 a. m. train lias chair ear  for Traverse  City, Pe- 
10:40 p. m. tra in  has sleeping cars for Traverse  City, 

Mackinaw.
toskey and Mackinaw City.
l’etoske-y and Mackinaw.

GOIKO  SOUTH.
Cincinnati  Express.......................... 
F ort W ayne Express....................... 10:30 a m  
Cincinnati  Express.........................   4:40 p m  
Traverse City and Mackinaw Ex. .10:60 p m 

7:15 a  m
11:45 a m
5:00 p m

7:15a m  tra in   has  parlor  chair  car  fo r  Cincinnati. 
5:00 p m tra in  has W oodruff sleeper for Cincinnati. 
5:00 p.  m. tra in  connects  w ith M. C. K. It. a t K alam a­
zoo for B attle Creek,  Jackson,  D etroit  and  Canadiun 
points, arriving in D etroit a t 10:45 p. m.

Muskegon,  (Grand Kapids  & Indiana. 

Leave. 
Arrive.
6:30 a m .................................................................... 10:10 a m
11:00a m ....................................................................  4:30pm
4:40 p m ....................................................................  3:50 p m
Leaving tim e a t  Bridge street depot 7 m inutes later.

C. L. Lockwood. Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Detroit, Lansing  &  Northern.

Grand Itapids Afc Saginaw Division.

DEPART.

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

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

ARRIVE.

Chicago & W est Michigan

Leaves.
(M all...................................................   9:10 a m
tDay  Express.....................................12:30 p m
•N ight Express...................................11:00 p m
Muskegon Express..............................6:00 p m

Ai rives. 
3:56 p m 
9:45 p m  
5:45 a m 
11:00 a  m
•Daily. 
Pullm an Sleeping Cars on all night  trains.  Through 
parlor car in charge of careful attendants  w ithout  ex­
tra  charge to Chicago on 12:30 p. m ., and through coach 
on 9:10 a. m. and 11 p. m. trains.

tD aily except Sunday.

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

Arrives. 
4.20 p m 
10:20 a  m
All trains arrive and depart from  Union Depot.
The N orthern term inus of this division is a t Baldwin, 
where close connection is made  w ith  F. & P. M. trains 
to  and from Ludington and Manistee.

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

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.
Arrive.

Kalamazoo Division.

Leave. 

Ex. &  Mail.  N. Y. Mail. 
N. Y. Mail.  N. Y. Ex
4:35pm   7:45 a m. .G rand Rapids.  9:45 a m   6:15pm
5.00 a  m 
5:55 p m 
9:02 a m. .A llegan...........8:28 a m
4:o0 p m 
7:05 p m  10:06 a m. .K alam azoo...  7:30 a m 
8:30pm   11:35 a m .. W hite Pigeon.  5:65 ¿ m
2:20 p m 
9:45 a m  
2:30 a m  
5:05 p m. .T oledo............ 11:00 p m
5:35 a m 
8:30 a m  
9:40 p m. .Cleveland......... 6:40 p m
11:40 p m 
2:50 p m  3:30 a  m. .Buffalo..................11:55 a m
6:50 a m
5:40 a m  
6:50 p m ..C hicago...........11:30 p m
A local freight leaves Grand Rapids a t 12 -.50 pm ,carry­
ing passengers as far as  Allegan.  All  train s  daily  ex­
cept Sunday. 

J. W .  Mc K k n n k y, General Agent.
Detroit,  Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING  KA8T.

Arrives. 
tSteam boat  Express...........................6:25 p m  
tT hrough  M ail.................................10:40am 
(Evening Express'............................... 3:25 p m  
•Lim ited  Express..............................   6:50 a m  
tMixed, w ith  coach.......................... 
g o in g   w e s t .
tM om lng  Express............................   1:05 p m  
tThrough  M ail...................................  6:00pm  
tSteam boat Express........................10:40 p m  
tMixed.................................................  
•N ight Express..................................  5:25 a  m 

Leaves.
6:30 p m
10:50am
3:50pm
6:50 a m
11:00 a m
1:10pm
5:10pm
10:45 p m
7:46 a m
6:40 a m
tD aily, 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  th e following 
m orning.  The N ight Express has a  through W agner car 
and local sleeping car from  D etroit to Grand  Rapids.
J as. Campbell, City Passenger Agent. 

Geo. B. Reeve, Traffic M anager Chicago.

GIVE  US  A  TRIAL  ORDER.

We  Guarantee  Satisfaction.
PATENTS;

I A ttorney a t P atent Law  and Solicitor 
of  American  and  Foreign  patents. 
105 E. Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich., U. S. A.  Branch  of­
fice, London, Eng.  P ractice in U. S. Courts.  Circulars 
free.

LUCIUS C.  WEST,

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.

,  CONRAD  i   CO.,

0

* 

58 Michigan Ave., Chicago,

PROPRIETORS  o f

IMPORTERS  OF

OWNERS  OF THE  FOLLOWING  CELEBRATED BRANDS:

TEAS, COFFEES  SPICES,
JAPAN  TEA—“Red Dragon”  Chop. 
COFFEE—O. G. Plantation Java, 
Imperial, Javoka, Banner, Mexican.
Tii M  G in i   EM.  Vi  Solicit ComintlMS.

W.  R. KEASEY, Traveling Representative.

STORE  COUNTERS  AND  FURNITURE  TO  ORDER.

D.  H.  MOSHIER,

MANUFACTURER OF

BoiMers,  Prescription  Gases,
Änd  all kinds of  Store  and  Bank  Fdrnitdre.

w o o d   m a n te ls;

Odd Bookcases and Sideboards.

Special  attention  given  to ordered  work.  Call  and see me 

or send for estimates.

62 So.  Front St..  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Stew pans  54  gal. 
1  " 
. 
Milk pans...........

“ 

“ 

Dark.  White. 
. doz.  1.50 
“  2.00 
. 
.66
“  
. 
. 
“ 
.00

1.75
2.25

SHERWOOD’S.

“ 

“ 

Regular Stonewaro. 

doz.
% gal. Pres.  Ja rs..........75
54  ** 
......1.G0
54  “  B utter  Crocks
‘White Lined” ’.77”   .90  H gal. Preserve Jars. Stone  Cover.
J gal.  Butter  crocks 
1
White Lined........... 1.50  -
5*4
2 gal.  B utter  Crocks 
White Lined........... 3.00  J,
Cor
Tea Pots, 
Scaling  wax, five  pounds  in  package 
pound  ......................................................

ks for  54 gal. Tomato jugs___
“ 
.... 

Tomato Jugs and corks.

Coffee Pots.

Icc Mugs,

“ 

“ 

1 

per *

Best  in  the  Market  for  the  Money.

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

EQUAL  TO  TH E  BEST  MADE.

A b so lu tely   P u re.

GO

8 °

A nd

Absolute Baking Powder.

100 per cent. Pure.

Manufactured and sold only by

ED. TELFER,  Grand Rapids.

DO  YOU  W ANT  AL

Michigan Central.

Grand Kapids Division.

DEPART.

ARRIVE.

D etroit Express.................................................................. 6:16 a m
Day  Express.....................................................................   1:10 p m
•A tlantic Express..................................................... 10:10 p m
Mixed 
........................................................................  6:50 a m
•Pacific  Express................................................................ 6:00 a m
M ail...............................................................................3:00 p m
G rand  Kapids  Express................................................... 10:15 p m
M ixed........................................................................... 6:15 p m
•Daily.  All other dally except Sunday.  Sleeping oars 
run on A tlantic and Pacific Express train s to and from  
D etroit.  P arlor  cars run  on  Day  Express  and  Grand 
Rapids Express to  and  from   D etroit.  Direct  connec­
tions made a t D etroit w ith all through train s E ast over 
M. C. R. K., (Canada Southern Div.)

WEST 

p m   Leave] 

D. W. J ohnston, Mich. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids.
O. W. Ruggles, Gen’l Pass, and Ticket Agt., Chicago.
Duluth, South  Shore & Atlantic  Railway.
am  pm
am 
11:30  6:05...............Grand Rapids.................  10:30  3:40
P M A M L v 
10:45  *6:60 
8:30  6:30
1:00  A r.............M arquette.............Lv  2:05  10:00
8:00 
1:46  A r..............N egaunee.............Lv  1:85  9:15
8:33 
................Ishpem ing................   12:60  9:05
8:42  1:45 
11:45  6:16 
9:20  6:00
................H o u g h to n .................. 
6:34  Ar.............. Calumet............Lv  *8:06  4:26
3:14 
PM  PM 
A ll  PM
Only  direct  route  between  the  East and South and 
the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

................St  Ignace  1................  

A r P M A M

[A rrive 

EAST

E WALLEN,

Gen’l Pass & T’k’t  Ag’t

CURTISS.DUNTOfl i ANDREWS

ROOFERS

Good W ork, Guaranteed for Five Years, at Fair Prices.

- 

-  Mich.
Grand  Rapids, 
P E R K I N S   «So  H E S S ,
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

d e a l e r s  i n

NOS.  1*2  and  1*4  LOUIS STREET. GRAND  RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, 

ura  n  a b b v   a  STO C K   OF  CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL  USB.

If so, send for Catalogue and Price-List to

S. HETMAN & SON,

MOSELEY  BROS.,

W H O LESA LE

Fruits, Seeds, Oysters & Produce,

AT.T.  KINDS  OF  FIELD  SEEDS  A  SPECIALTY.

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

toes, will be pleased to hear from you.

26,28,30 i 32 Ottawa simt, 

GRIND  rapids

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George Brown’s Overcoat.

(CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.)

“ Pardon me,” she exclaimed;  “ but I am 
always amused when I remember the aston­
ished look which those  matrons  in  the de­
pot gave me,  as soon  as you had gone for a 
carriage,  when  I  straightened  my  hat, 
slipped off  my coat,  and  took  my  hurried 
departure, being afraid you w'ould  get back 
before I could get away.”

“ I know,” she added,  more soberly,—“1 

know you  will rejoice to  hear  that  I  was 
able to get Harry out of  his trouble, and in­
duced  him to come  to  Kalamazoo,  where 
Messrs. Monteith—old friends of  our father 
—had  already  promised  him  a  situation. 
Wasn’t it fortunate he came here ?  He has 
been doing so well and  been  so steady ever 
since.  Won’t he have a  lovely wife ? ”

“ He has a lovely  sister,”  was  the  earn­
est response.  Polly  blushed  and  tried  to 
be displeased at what  she  termed  flattery, 
but she did not succeed,  and  there  is every 
prospect  of  Harry  Royal’s  wedding being 
followed  by  another.  Such  events are  of 
every day occurrence,  as  the  new  pair  of 
lovers remind each  other;  but it isn’t often 
that they are brought about by the purchase 
of  a drummer’s overcoat on a railway train.

R e l l u f .

BUSINESS  LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of Last Resort.

SALE  OF  STOCK— IMPLIED.WARIiANTY.
The Supreme Court of Indiana held,  in  a 
recent case, that a person selling certificates 
of stock  in a corporation does  not  thereby 
impliedly warrant that  the  corporation  by 
which they are issued  is  a  corporation  de 
jure,  that is, of legal right,  but  only  that 
they are issued by  a  corporation  de  facto, 
that is,  in fact.
PURCHASE  BY  CORPORATION  OF  ITS  OWN 

SHAKES.

The question was lately raised before  the 
House of Lords (England) whether the law 
gives a board of directors and  shareholders 
the power to purchase  or  to  traffic  in  the 
shares of their own company  with the com­
pany’s funds.  The  House  of  Lords  held 
that the law does not confer this power.

LADING.

LIMIT  OF  RESPONSIBILITY  ON  BILLS  OF 
If a common carrier  desires  to  limit  his 
responsibility on bills of lading to a delivery 
to  the  named  consignee  alone  he  must 
stamp  his  bills  “non-negotiable.”  Where 
lie does not do so he must be understood  to 
intend a possible transfer  of  the  bills  and 
to affect the action of the transferees there­
of.  So  held  by  the  New  York  Court  of 
Appeals.

MANUFACTURE  UNDER LICENSE.

In the case of Hyatt vs. Dale Tile  Manu­
facturing Co.  (Limited),  decided  recently 
by the New York Court of Appeals,  it  ap­
peared that the  assignee  of  letters  patent 
licensed the defendent to  manufacture  and 
sell a patented article  within  certain  terri­
tory,  he agreeing to  pay  royalties  therefor 
to the plaintiff and the  plaintiff agreeing to 
refrain from  manufacturing. 
In  this  case 
the court held  that  the  defendant,  while 
continuing to manufacture under the license, 
could not escape  liability  to pay the royal­
ties on the ground that  the  reissue  of  the i 
patent to the plaintiff was void.

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BOND  OP  A G E N T— LIABILITY  OF  SURETIES.
An insurance agent entered into  a  writ­
ten contract with an insurance  company  to 
carry on business for the  company,  at  the 
same time giving the company a bond  with 
sureties for the faithful performance  of  his 
contract.  T h e  contract did not require  the 
company to advance money to the agent for 
any purpose, nor did it require the agent to re­
turn money advanced to him.  Under the cir­
cumstances the Supreme  Court  of  Illinois 
held that the sureties  were  not  liable  for 
any money advanced to the agent  to  enable 
him to prosecute the business  of  the  com­
pany. 
The Coming Convention of the M. B. M. A.
The following official  call  has  been  sent 
out to the auxiliary bodies of the M. B. M. A.: 

Gra nd R a fid s, August 1,  1887.

Flint, Tuesday,  September 6, at 9 o’clock a. 

The  third  convention  of  the  Michigan 
Business  Men’s Association will convene at 
m., continuing  in  session until the evening 
of the day following.
You are credited on the State membership 
book  with  having---- members,  which  en­
titles you to ... .delegates.  You are requestr 
ed to select  a full  set  of  delegates as  soon 
as  convenient; also,  an  alternate  for  each 
delegate,  to  represent  you  in  the  event of 
the inability of  any  regular delegate  to  at­
tend.
Please furnish the chairman of your dele­
gation with the customary credentials, sign­
ed  by the  President  and  Secretary,  giving 
the names of  both delegates and alternates; 
also, please  designate  a delegate to make a 
three minute report of the work accomplish­
ed  by  your  organization  and  its  present 
status.
Reduced  rates  have  been secured at  the 
Flint hotels, and a one and one-tliird rate of 
fare  has  been  obtained  over  the  principal 
railroads  of  the  State,  providing  the  en­
closed  certificates  are  signed  by  agent  at 
starting  point  and  countersigned  by  the 
Secretary  at  the  convention.  Holders  of 
certificates  pay full  fare  going and will re­
ceive a return ticket for one-third fare.
As this will be  the  most  important  con­
vention  ever  held  by the  State  body,  it  is 
essential that your  organization  have a full 
representation. 

E.  A.  Sto w e,  Sec’y.

Frank  H amilton,  Pres.

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