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Michigan  Tradesman.

YO L.  4.

G R A N D   R A P ID S,  W E D N E SD A Y ,  A U G U ST   24,  1887.

SHERWOOD  HOUSE.
-  MICH.
CHARLOTTE,  ,  - 
lie-fitted and Re-furnished.

The Traveling Men’s Favorite.

Sample Rooms on First Floor.

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

TH E  GREAT

EDMUND B.DIKEMÍN
Watch fJaker 
§ Jeweler,
Grand Rapids,  ■  f \ ±
CHARLES  A.  COYE,
A. Coye & Son,

44  CRNRL  8T„

Successor to

DEALER IN

AWNINGS § TENTS

Horse and Wagon Covers, 

Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,

Wide Ducks, etc,

Flags & Banners made to order.

73 CANAL ST.. 

- 

•  GRAND  RAPIDS

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

CIGARS
-  MIG
REEDGITY, 

Factory  No.  26,  4th  Dist.

- 

ERTÖN kLYON

Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

BOOKS

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

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

STANLEY  N.  ALLEN,  Proprietor.
U  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  1  

CHEHCALS.

tended  to.

Orders  by  Mail  and  Express  Promptly At­

PIONEER PREPARED

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t

t

.

We have a full stock of this well-known 
E I Z Z S   F A I N T
and having sold it for over SIX YEARS can 

brand of

recommend it to our  customers as  be­

ing a First Class article.  We sell It

On  the  Manufacturers'  Guarantee:

When two or more coats of our PIONEER PRE­
PARED PAINT  is applied as received in original 
packages, and if within  three years it should  crack or 
peel off, thus failing to  give  satisfaction, we  agree to 
re-paint the  building  at  our  expense,  with  the  best 
White Lead or  such other paint as the  owner  may se­
lect.  In  case  of  complaint,  prompt  notice  must  be 
given to the dealer.

T. H. NEVIN A CO..

Mfrs. & Corroders of Pure White Lead.

Pittsburg, Pa.

Write for prices and Sample Card  to

Wholesale  Agents,  Grand  Rapids.

Try FOLISHINA, best FurnitureFin- 

ish made.

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

SILVER SPOTS

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

It will be sold on its merits.  Sample or­

ders filled on 6o  days approval.

Price  $35  per  i,ooo  in  any  quantities. 
Express prepaid on orders of 500 and more. 
Handsome  advertising  matter  goes  with 
first order.  Secure this Cigar and increase 
your Cigar Trade. 

It is sure to do it.

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Flint. Mloli.

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Anything or everything in the 
line of Special Furniture, inside 
finish or  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 
furnished when desired.

W est End Pearl St. Bridge.

Wolverine Chair Factory,
WANTED.

Butter, Eggs, Wool, Pota­
toes,  Beans,  Dried  Fruit, 
Apples  and  all  kinds  of 
Produce.
If you have  any  of  the  above  goo<js  to 
ship, or anything in the  Produce line let us 
hear  from  you.  Liberal  cash  advances 
made when desired.

Earl Bros.,  Commission Merchants,

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO. 

Reference:  F ir st  National  Bank,  Chicago. 
Mich ig a n T radesman. Grand Rapids.

BELKNAP  : 

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MANUFACTURERS OF
Lumber  and  Farm

Spring,  Freight,  Express, 

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. 
J3F"8pecial  attention  given  to  Repairing, 
Painting and Lettering. 

Shops on Front St., Grand Rapids, Mioh.

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SEEDS

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

The Most Complete Assortment 

til  you get  my prices.

Representing Jas. Vick, of Rochester.

ALFRED J.BROVN
16-18 N.DivtsionSt.,GrandRapids
HIRTH  &  KRAUSE,

LEATHER

SHOE  BRUSHES,

SHOE  BUTTONS,

SHOE  POLISH,

ings, etc.  Write  for Catalogue.

SHOE  LACES.
Heelers, Cork Soles, Button  Hooks,  Dress­
118 Canal Street,  Grand Rapids.
GHTSS2TC ROOT.
We pay the highest price for it.  Address
Peck Bros., Druggist*, Grand Rapids, Mich.

JUDD  rib  OO.,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

And Full Line Summer Goods.

102  CANAL STREET.
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ADDRESS

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W H

GRAHAM  ROYS,  -  Grand  Rapids, Mich.

POTATOES.

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

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166 South Water S t, CHICAGO.

Reference

F elsen th a l.

Gross  &  Mil l e r . B ankers.

V.  R.  STEGLITZ,

Proprietor of

ill

Manufacturer of the following popular 

S.&M.

brands:
ORIOKET.

ROSADORA.

are solicited to send in a trial order.

V.  R.  S.
Dealers  not  handling  any of above brands 
Mich.
Eaton Rapids,
ASK YOUR JOBBER

FOR

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.

LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ,
Fermentum!

STATE  AGENT  FOR

The Only Reliable Compressed Yeast.

Manufactured by Riverdale Dist. Co.

106 Kent Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich,

TELEPHONE  B66.

Grocers, bakers and others can secure the agency for 
their town on this Yeast by applying to above address 
None genuine unless it bears above label.

Are State Agents for

Frederick  the Great

CIGAR.

Grand Rapids, XCioh

Represented  by the  Giant,

Mr.  Christopher  Sparling.

Proprietors of the

COOK  & PRINZ,
Valley City Show Case Mf|. Co.,
SHOW  GHSKS.

Manufacturers of

Prescription Cases and Store Fixtures

OF  ALL  KINDS.
SEND  FOR  CATALOGUES,

SEND  FOR  ESTIMATES.

38 West Briflp St.. Grand Rapito
HEMLOCK  BARK

Telephone 374.

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  0. & W 
M. Railroads.  Correspondence  solicit 
ed.

N.  B.  CLARK,

101 Ottawa St., 
Grand Rapids
HENRY  J.  HARTMAN

FOUNDER,

GRAY IRON CASTINGS A SPECIALTY

Send for  Estimates.

71 South  Front St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich

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PLACE to secure a thorouj
and useful education is at t. 
Gr a n d  Ra p id s  (Mich.) Busi 
n e ss Co lleg e,  write for Col­

lege Journal.  Address, C. G. 8WENSBERG.

A  VERY  PRACTICAL JOKE.

Written  Especially for The  Tradesman.

The little village of  Smithfield  was elec­
trified one day  by  the  announcement  that 
old Mr. Nelson was intending to retire from 
the active business life he had led in the vil­
lage for the  last  fifteen  years,  and  would 
turn the store  and  its  contents  over  to his 
nephew,  Frank Nelson, who would one day 
inherit all the old  man’s  wealth, he being a 
bachelor, with  neither  kith  nor  kin except 
Frank.

Although  there  were  other  stores in the 
place, Nelson’s was the sole claimant to any 
pretense  of  a  metropolitan  style.  Here  it 
was  that  the  young  ladies  of Smithfield 
came to do their shopping  when they want­
ed  anything  stylish  in  dress  goods  or the 
latest shades in ribbons.

It  was  a  general  store,  filled  with all 
classes  of  merchandise,  from  the  lowly 
washtub to the more  genteel  silks and sat­
ins.

Many years ago Nelson had started in bus­
iness a poor man;  but,  by  strict  integrity 
and careful attention to the  demands of his 
customers,  he had amassed a very comforta­
ble fortune.  But now he was getting on in 
years, and had decided to spend his remain­
ing time on earth in  seeking  what  enjoy­
ment he  might  get out  of it, for he was a 
jolly old bachelor,  always ready for any fun 
or any joke that might be played.

Another reason for his  decision  was that 
Frank,  who had been educated in a business 
college in the East,  and had  been  traveling 
for the past two years, might have a chance 
to learn the practical  parts of  the business 
under his supervision, and make the person­
al acquaintance of the patrons of his uncle’s 
store:  for Frank had not been in Smithfield 
since his boyhood, and no one there remem 
bered him.

Now,  in the village of  Smithfield  resided 
many young ladies  whose  claims to beauty 
were not to bo despised,  even by a traveled 
young man like  Frank  Nelson;  and,  as a 
natural  consequence, the rumor that such a 
distinguished  personage  intended to make 
his home among them,  set many a maiden’s 
heart a-flutter, and many were the plots that 
were laid in feminine  minds to entrap him 
Among  these fair  damsels were two sis 
ters,  daughters of a widow  not in the best 
of circumstances.  The sisters worked, one 
as a school teacher and the other as clerk in 
a small dry-goods store,  and  by this  means 
lengthened out the family  purse.

One of the sisters,  Nellie  Walters, was a 
blonde, short in stature, yet  plump  withal, 
with  gray  eyes  and a piquant  expression 
that was in perfect harmony with a modest, 
retiring  character.  She had been her fath 
er’s pet child, but he had  not  spoiled  her, 
and she had  budded  into  perfect woman­
hood.  She was the school teacher, and was 
idolized by her scholars.

Her  sister,  Emma, was as much her op 
posite in  appearance as she  was in disposi 
tion.  She was a  decided  brunette,  tall in 
stature,  and  had  a  certain air  of  hauteur 
about her that  attracted  while  it repelled 
She was pronounced a coquette by the more 
malicious of her  neighbors,  and her actions 
did not belie them.  Many  were  the young 
swains who had been singed by the fire that 
sparkled in her  black  eyes,  and then cast 
iside as so much rubbish.

The sisters heard of the intended  change 
and of Frank’s  coming with very  different 
sensations.

Nellie’s first thought  was,  would he keep 
her  brother  in his place  in Mr.  Nelson’; 
store or supplant him with some of his own 
friends?  It  would  be  a hard blow to the 
Walter’s family if he did, for Henry’s wages 
added not a little to their support.

But the imperial  Emma’s  thoughts were 
of a different nature entirely.  She immedi 
ately set her sharp wits to work to make the 
best plan possible  to  bring  young  Frank 
Nelson and the old man Nelson’s thousands 
to her feet.  She  schemed  and  pbndered 
until she finally laid out a plan of campaign 
that, as she thought,  was sure to accomplish 
her object.

Old  Mr.  Nelson  had  written  Frank to 
come on the morning train, Thursday;  bu 
through  some  mistake, he arrived on  the 
evening  train of  Wednesday,  and  no one 
came to meet  him.  So,  telling the station 
agent he would send for his  baggage in the 
morning,  he set out to walk  up  the  village 
street towards his uncle’s place of business.
As he strolled  along, trying  to pick out 
the old landmarks, scenes of his boyish frol­
ics,  and wondering if anyone  would  recog­
nize him, he suddenly became aware of two 
very  pretty  girls  walking just  in front of 
him,  and so earnestly  engaged in conversa­
tion that they did  not. notice  his  presence 
behind them.

Now Frank was much too honorable to be 
guilty of eavesdropping,  but, as the shorter 
of the two  raised her  voice  a trifle,  lie was 
amazed to hear his  own  name,  and  could 
not resist the temptation to hear the balance 
of the sentence: 

“I tell you,  Emma,  you  will  be doing a 
most despicable thing to try and throw your­
self  at  Frank  Nelson’s  head  in  such  a 
shameless  way.  Don’t  you  ever  stop  to 
think what mother would say?”

“Oh!  I’ve heard enough of your preaching 
I

about  what  mother  would  say, Nellie. 

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tell you 1 am going to marry Frank Nelson, 
in spite of everything;  and when I am once 
mistress of old  man  Nelson’s  wealth,  you 
and mother will be sorry  that  you tried to 
hinder me,” responded Emma, and then the 
girls turned a corner and  were  soon out of 
sight.

“Whew! ” thought Frank.  “It seems my 
future is decided for me  already. 
I hardly 
thought,  when I came to  this  little  burg, 
that I should find a wife already picked out 
for me.  Let’s  see, can’t I have a little fun 
out of this?  By jove!  I’ve  got it! 
I’ll see 
what uncle  says.”  And, with  thoughts of 
future fun in his mind,  he hurried on to his 
uncle’s store  and found the old  gentleman 
about  ready to go home.

“Not a word about my being your nephew, 
uncle,” he said,  as the old  man grasped the 
boy’s hand.  “I’ve got a little practical joke 
by which you and I can have some fun, and 
learn  a  certain  fair  marrying  damsel  of 
Smithfield a lesson.”

The old man,  always  ready  for  any fun, 
assented at  once,  and,  as  they  walked up 
the dark street towards  home, Frank relat­
ed the conversation he had  accidentally ov­
erheard,  and unfolded his plan  for  entrap­
ping the trapper.

Old Mr. Nelson  entered  heartily into the 
fun, and the  result  of  their  conversation 
was that the morning’s  mail carried a letter 
to Frank’s college chum, reading as follows:
D e a r  H a r r y '—I want you to come up to 
Smithfield  on  the  first  train.  You  can 
spend your  vacation  here,  instead of with 
your brother,  and I’ll promise you more fun 
than hearing a clam talk.  Don’t fail.  Ex­
planations when you arrive.

Your old chum,  F r a n k .

The next day, Mr. Nelson told his friends 
that Frank had been delayed,  and  wouldn’t 
come until Saturday morning.  He also, in­
cidentally,  let it be known that he had hired 
a new clerk,  who would keep the books, at­
tend to collections and work of that nature.
So, on  Saturday  morning,  the  old man 
drove down to the depot,  and,  on the arriv­
al of the  train,  rushed up  and  grabbed a 
young  man  who  got  off by the hand, and 
acted generally  as though  very glad to see 
him.  From  this, 
the  depot-loungers  in­
ferred  that  this  was  the  long-expected 
nepnew,  and the news of his arrival  spread 
rapidly,  as  anything  in  the  way of news 
will,  in a country village.

On  their  arrival  at  the  store,  quite  a 
crowd of Nelson’s  patrons  and  friends had 
gathered, anxious to make the acquaintance 
of the young  man, and see  if  he  brought 
any of his city airs with him.

The old man  introduced  him,  right  and 
left,  as  “my  nephew,  Frank,”  and  the 
young man thus  made the  acquaintance of 
half the people in the  town in a  very short 
time.

Of course,  it was  very  obscure to Harry 
Fleming’s  understanding  as to why he was 
adopted  as  the  nephew of  Mr. Nelson in 
Frank’s place, but he knew there was a joke 
somewhere,  and accepted  the situation as a 
matter of course.

“The old man’s  nevvy  ain’t no  slouch, 

tell ’e,” was the sage  remark of the  oldest 
inhabitant,  as  he  rolled  his  quid  in  his 
month. 
I reckon he’ll  turn  things  wrong 
side  out in  this  here  town.  He’s got all 
the old man’s smart ways.”

The next Monday, the old  man  formally 
transferred the management  of  the store to 
his nephew  (?),  and the new proprietor, to 
gether with the new  clerk  and  FredWal 
ters gave the old store  such  an overhauling 
as  it  hadn’t  seen  for  years.  Old, shelf- 
worn stock was  put  on “bargain counters1 
—a new thing  at  that  time.  New  goods 
came  and  were  opened up every day,  and 
the store of Frank Nelson,  in a short  time, 
presented a much  more  attractive  appear­
ance than old Dan Nelson’s ever had.

The new clerk was very  attentive  to cus­
tomers, and  had  such  a  stylish,  attractive 
way of showing goods that  the  demands of 
the young ladies of  the  village  upon their 
respective papas for pin money was  largely 
increased.  This, together with  the  young 
proprietor’s  geniality  and  friendliness  to­
wards all with whom he came in contact in 
creased the trade to a wonderful extent.

About a month after  our  hero’s  appear­
ance in Smithfield,  his uncle decided to give 
a house-warming in his  honor,  and,  accord 
ingly,  issued invitations to all in the village 
with  whom  he  had  been  associated,  and 
among  them  were  Mrs.  Walters,  her  two 
daughters,  Nellie  and  Emma,  and  their 
brother Fred.

The  all-eventful  evening  at  length  ar 
rived, and as the  guests  came the old man 
introduced  the  two  young  men  as  “my 
nephew Frank and Harry Fleming.”

After a bountiful spread in the large din 
ing room, the tables  were  cleared  and the 
young people danced until  they  were tired, 
Emma Walters  devoted her  entire atten­
tion to Frank,  and he  seemed  highly  smit­
ten with her charms,  and danced and flirted 
with her outrageously;  while the new clerk, 
Harry Fleming,  was fully as attentive to her 
sister,  who  seemed  not  at  all  displeased 
with his attentions, although she cast many 
an anxious glance towards her sister.

So  matters  progressed  for  some  time. 
Young Nelson was  Emma  Walters’ escort 
to all the parties and picnics,  and became a 
constant caller at the residence of her moth­

er;  and people  nodded  their heads wisely, 
and hinted something  about  wedding-cake.
Meanwhile, the new clerk was as fully en­
grossed  with  the fair Emma’s sister as his 
employer was with Emma.  They took long 
walks together,  and  rowed  on the river in 
the shady evenings;  and finally Harry was 
forced to admit to himself that he loved tha 
girl who looked so confidingly  up at him as 
he told her of his hopes  and ambitions.  As 
they were returning  from  church one even­
ing, he won a shy  consent  from  Nellie to 
be his wife.

Mrs. Walters  objected  somewhat on ac­
count of his  poverty, but he  urged  his suit 
with such fervor and  showed  such  bright 
prospects for his getting a share in Nelson’s 
business, that she finally agreed to an  early 
marriage—the first of September.

Nellie’s  sister  laughed  at her  for taking 

up with a poor clerk.

Wait until you see me  Frank  Nelson’s 
wife,” she said,  “and you’ll wish  you  had 
more ambition than to marry our clerk!” 

The preparations for the wedding went on 
finely, and old Mr. Nelson  insisted that the 
young folks must be  married  at his house.
“I’ll give  Nellie a  wedding-present  she 
adn’t thought of,” said he to Mrs. Walters, 
and  she,  supposing  the  old  man would do 
the handsome thing, consented.

The first of  September  dawned fair, and 
was as bright a day  as  any  young  couple 
starting  on  life’s  journey  together  could 
wish for.

Mr.  Nelson’s  old-fashioned  house  was 
thronged with guests  from  the  village,  the 
wedding-dinner was  prepared, the minister 
had taken his stand with  bible  open, when 
the groom led the  blushing  Nellie  before 
him,  her sister acting as bridesmaid.

“Do you, Frank  Nelson, 

take this  wo­

man—”

Frank Nelson!  Had they heard aright or 
had  the  minister  lost  his  senses!  Emma 
Walters turned white, but,  imagining  there 
was some mistake, kept her place.

The  ceremony  was  concluded,  and  the 
minister said,  “I now  pronounce  you  man 
and wife,” when Mr. Nelson came up,  and, 
taking the  newly-wedded  couple  by their 
hands,  addressed the wondering guests:

“My old friends,  help me to congratulate 
my nephew on his  marriage  with this dear 
girl.  At the  same  time,  let me  explain a 
little misunderstanding  that  seems  to have 
arisen.  This young  man  whom I hold by 
the hand is my nephew,  and not  the  clerk, 
Harry Fleming, who stands here;  and  this 
young lady,  his wife, is Mrs. Frank Nelson. 
Forgive us for our deception,  for Frank has 
found a dear little wife by it,  and I think it 
has taught some people a lesson  they’ll not 
soon  forget. 
It isn’t wise to talk  over our 
matrimonial plans on the street.”

Of course,  what  the old man meant was 
only known to  the  parties  interested,  and 
has remained a secret to this day.

Nellie forgave  her  husband for his share 
in  the  joke, but her sister  never  forgave 
either,  and  soon  after  left the village to 
travel as companion to a rich widow.

As for old Mr. Nelson, he  chuckled  and 
laughed until his nephew  had to throw wa 
ter in his face and pour  brandy  down  his 
throat to avert an apoplectic fit.

That was—ha! ha ha!—the  best  joke  ] 
ever saw in my life! ” was all he could  say,

R e l l u f .

Maxims for Merchants.

Lying won’t stand, while truth is truth.
Risk anything before  you risk your repu 

A man’s money is as  much  his own as a 

tation.

man’s talent.

Credit should be  sparingly  given and in­

tegrity be the basis of it.

Enterprise talks,  imagines projects;  capi­

tal affords the means to do.

Capital builds the ship,  the  railway  and 

the telegraph;  enterprise works them.

A bird in the hand is worth only one bird. 
There is no chance of making it worth two, 
without letting it out of the hand.

The merchant who  craves  the earth gen 
erally gets,  in due time,  all he can occupy— 
a space in its bosom  about  two feet by six 
or rather the earth gets him.

Every practice has its theory.  There is a 
good way and there is a  bad  way  of doing 
everything.  The good  way  is the true and 
the bad way is the false theory.

A man can  succeed  better in the mercan 
tile field by  pursuing an  honest,  straight­
forward course than he  can  by  deadening 
his conscience and  disregarding  all  moral 
obligations.

A man who  really  means to aid a young 
merchant is a man of cautions dealing.  He 
wants to impart not only the capital of gold 
but also that of wisdom and direction which 
are better than gold.

Pull upright, energetic  business men this 
way,  and then that way and the  other,  and 
they only bend,  but never break.  Trip them 
down,  and in a trice they are on  their  feet, 
Bury them in the mud,  and in an t our they 
will be out and bright.
A man may be  unfortunate,  he  may be 
poor and  penniless,  but if he is  known to 
possess unbending integrity, an unwavering 
purpose to do  wiiat is  honest  and  just, he 
will have friends and patrons,whatever may 
be the embarrassments  and exigencies  into 
which he is thrown.
It is only by a perfect knowledge of busi­
ness, by an exercise of tact,  judgment  and 
cautious  discrimination,  coupled with hab­
its of industry and a diligent  observation of 
the laws of trade and  manners of men, that 
a young  man  can  ever  hope to become a 
merchant of honorable eminence.

NO. 205.

BUSINESS  LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of Last Resort.

DUE-BILL— DEMAND  OF  PAYMENT.

No demand of payment is  necessary  as a 
condition precedent to a right of action upon 
a due-bill,  but the  commenceiuent  of a suit 
thereon is  a sufficient  demand.  So held by 
the Supreme Court  of  Pennsylvania  in the 
case of Boustead  vs. Cuyler.

REGULATING  USE  OF  BICYCLES.

The  Supreme  Court  of  North Carolina 
lately held that a  statute  prohibiting  any 
person from using a bicycle upon a turnpike 
road without  express  permission of the su­
perintendent of the road did not deprive the 
owners of bicycles of the  use of their prop­
erty without due process of  law,  within the 
meaning of  the  fourteenth  amendment to 
the Constitution of the  United States.

LIABILITY  OF  MARRIED  WOMEN.

A married  woman  owned  real estate in 
her own right, and  she  and  her  husband 
were in the habit of using  the name “J.  P. 
Kinney & Co.” as a matter  of  convenience 
in transacting her  business.  Acting  under 
authority from the wife, the husband bought 
articles which were placed in her house and 
gave a note with the  signature  referred  to 
above  for the purchase price. 
In an action 
upon this note the New  York  Court of Ap­
peals held that the  wife  was  liable  for the 
amount of the same.

INDIVISIBLE  CONTRACT.

In an insurance policy the  insurance was 
apportioned  part to a building  and  part to 
the furniture and household goods contained 
in it.  The policy prohibited the  taking  of 
additional  insurance  on  “the  property in­
sured, or  any  part  thereof,”  without  the 
consent of the insurance  company in  writ • 
ing.  Additional insurance was taken, with 
out the company’s consent or knowledge,on 
the building, but not on the furniture.  The 
Indiana  Supreme  Court  held 
that  this 
avoided the entire policy.  The court stated 
the  rule  governing  the  case  as  follows: 
Where the property  covered by one  policy, 
although consisting  of  separate  items, ap­
pears to be so situate as to  constitute  sub­
stantially one risk, then even though separ­
ate amounts of insurance be  apportioned to 
each separate  item  or  class  of  property,  if 
the consideration  for the  contract  and  the 
risk are both  indivisible,  the  contract must 
be treated as entire nevertheless.

SHAREHOLDER’S LIABILITY.

In the case of  Christensen  vs.  Eno,  the 
New York Court of Appeals lately held that 
the liability of a shareholder in an incorpor- 
porated  company  does not arise out of his 
relation, but depends upon his contract,  ex­
press or implied, or upon  some statute, anil 
that in the absence of  these  grounds of lia­
bility a person to  whom  shares  have  been 
issued by the  company as a gratuity  or bo- 
pus without his having subscribed  therefor 
does  not,  by  accepting  them,  commit  a 
wrong upon  creditors of the  company  nor 
make himself liable to pay the nominal face 
of the shares as upon a subscription or con­
tract,  so as to give an unsatisfied  judgment 
creditor  of  the  company a right of action 
against him for the amount  unpaid on such 
stock; nor, according to the court, is a stock­
holder liable  to a creditor  of the  company 
for the value of bonds of  the  company, is­
sued to him as a gratuity  or bonus,  where 
the bonds have not  been paid  and are mere 
unperformed  promises  to  pay, and  where 
the holder has received none of the funds or 
assets of the company available to creditors.

Agreement by Iowa Jobbers.

Tho wholesale grocers  of  Iowa  recently 
met at Davenport and  adopted  the  follow­
ing agreement:

We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the 
Western Wholesale Grocers’ Association, in 
order  to  correct  many abuses  which  have 
crept into our business, resulting from com­
petition,  the system of selling goods through 
traveling  salesmen, etc.,  hereby  agree with 
each other to adhere to the following system 
of transacting business with the trade:
1.  Bills for goods sold  are  all  due at our 
respective places  of  business, and payment 
for same is  expected  to  be  made  direct to 
the house by remittance  when due, without 
cost to  us,  instead of  to traveling  men  on. 
their  trips, as  has  heretofore  largely been 
the custom.
No one, unless by written order, will have 
authority to collect  for us.
2.  Believing that  uniformity is  desirable 
in terms and discounts, as is the  custom  in 
the  trade  centers, we establish  the follow­
ing  to  be  strictly  adhered  to:  Tobacco, 
cigars, green  coffee, syrups  (except  N.  O. 
molasses), soaps,  starch, canned goods, vin­
egar,  ground  spices,  sixty days or  two per 
cent, off for cash in ten days.
Teas,  in  original  full  half  chests,  four 
months,  or four per cent, off for cash in ten. 
days.
All  other  goods,  except  salt  and  cash, 
goods,  thirty days, or one  per  cent off  for. 
cash in ten days.
All  bills  will  have  the  time  on  which? 
goods are  sold, and  the  cash  discount  on. 
same plainly shown,  and bills are subject to- 
discount only if paid in ten days from date.
Interest to be  charged on bills  after  ma­
turity.
3.  All claims for  reclamation  and  allow­
ances  are  to  be  submitted  directly  to  us 
within ten days  of  receipt  of  goods, and a 
credit statement  will  be  forwarded  if  the 
claim is just.
4.  No  allowance  made  for  cheese, fisli,. 
meat or green fruits, claimed as spoiled, un­
less  returned  immediately  on  receipt  of 
same.  No allowance made on canned goods 
claimed as spoiled, unless  returned  within, 
thirty days of receipt of same.
5.  Traveling men to keep an itemized ex­
pense account to be  handed in at the end of 
each trip.
6.  The  limited  selling  prices  of  goods 
known  as  combination  goods,  sold  under 
agreements with the manufacturer or dealer 
to be strictly adhered to.

Honorable competition is a  means of cre­
ating  trade  and  develops  the capacity of 
man.  But  competition  which  seeks every 
means in its power to  monopolize  trade by 
reducing prices, instead  of  being the life is. 
the death of business.

PESTER l FOX,
Manufacturers’ Agis, for11
Ma  OSINBrY

Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all  kinds, 

of Wood-Working Machinery, Saws 

Belting  and  Oils.

And Dodge’s Patent Wood 3plit Pulley.  Large 
stock kept on hand.  Send  for  sample  Pulley 
and  become  convinced  of  their  superiority.

WRITE  FOR PRICES.

130 Oate St., Grand Rapids, Micl
Voiit, Hemolsleiior & Co,
DRV  GOODS

Importers and Jobbers of

Staple  and  Fancy.

Overalls, Pants, Etc.,

OUR  OWN MAKE.

A  Complete  Line  of

Fancy CrocterysfaiicyWoodenware

OUR  OWN  IMPORTATION.

Inspection Solicited.  Chicago and Detroit 

Prices Guaranteed.

Must  Have  Tiger  Oil.
Grand  Ra pid s, June 22,  1S87. 

Dr. Leeson, Cadillac:
D ear 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 
I intended  sending out  your 
you as I did. 
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 when called for.
You can do as you choose  about  sending 
me any to sell. 
I  can  get  my  supply,  as 
formerly,  from  my  husband's  mother  in 
Millbrook.  Very  respectfully yours,

MISCELLANEOUS.

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

198tf

F OR SALE—Twenty acres of improved fruit 
land  three  miles  from  Frankfort.  Will 
trade  for house  and  lot  or  stock  of goods in 
Grand  Rapids.  Address,  for  particulars.  E. 
A. Stowe, Grand Rapids._______________205tf
i riOR SALE—A paying business.  M. V. Gun 
drum’s  general stock  of merchandise, at 
Leroy, Mich.  The stock is full  and  complete. 
Will  invoice  $10,00u  to  £12,000.  Can  reduca 
stock if desired.  Commat <ls  a good trade and 
business  is  profitable.  W ill  rent  or  sell  the 
building.  Reason for selling:  “Goingsouth.” 
Terms cash.  Address  M. V. Gundrum, Leroy, 
Oscoola Co.. Mich. 
30»*
I AUK  SALE—A well-selected stock of general 
-  merchandise in a good town in  Northern 
Michigan.  Stock will inventory about  £20,000. 
Can be reduced to  0,000 if desired.  Will also 
either sell or  lease  store  building  and  ware­
house.  Store,  brick.  32x100  ft,. 3  stories  and 
basement.  Warehouse,  24x60  ft.  on  railroad 
track in rear of storp,  Address “Tradesman.”
Grand Rapids,  Box 21.  ____ _________  207*
OK SALE—Stock of dry  goods  in  a  large 
manufacturing town  of  about  $5,000  in­
habitants; stock inventories about $6,(00.  Ad­
dress  box 690, Owosso, Mich.____________ 206*
ÍAOR  SALÉ—The  mill  and  machinery  tor­
i'  merly used  by  the  Ionia  Manufacturing 
Company  at  Ionia.  Mich.  Apply  to  A.  J. 
Webber, receiver, Ionia, Mich._________203-3t
F OR SALE—120-acre  farm, with  fine  house 
and other buildings,  three  miles north of 
Coopersville.  The  best  orchard  in  Ottawa 
county.  Price $7,000 cash.  Address,  for  fur­
ther particulars, E. A.  Stowe,  Grand  Rapids, 
Micb. 
TAOR  SALE  CHEAP—Portable  saw  mill  in 
X?  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.  196tf
I jlOR  SALE—Fine  residence  property  on 
Mount Vernon street, west side, with bath 
room, closets  and  all  modern  conveniences, 
for sale for $5,000 cash, or will  trade for  stock 
of general merchandise or goods in any partic­
ular line.  Address N. A. Fletcher,  Houseman 
Building, Grand Rapids. 
195tf
I ilOR SALE—The best drugstore in the thriv­
ing city of Muskegon.  Terms easy.  C. L.
Brundage, Muskegon. Mich.
193tf
TTIOR SALE—Best  bargain  ever  offered  for 
X- 
general  stock  in  growing town  in  good 
farming  community  in  Northern  Michigan. 
Stock  will inventory  about  $6,000.  Sales  last 
year were $60,000.  Address “The Tradesman,” 
Grand Rapids. 
A*/"ANTED—Drug clerk, young man  prefer- 
red.  Direct box 205, Lake City. 
» » 
207*
W f  ANTED 
traveling 
» y 
salesmi
salesmen; salary  and  expenses;  no ex­
perience  necessary,  Address  with  stamp. 
Palmer & Co., Winona. Minn. 
206*
’AITANTED—Situation  by  young  man  in  a 
y y  grocery or  general  store.  Four  years’ 
experience.  Best of  references.  Address  8., 
care box 354, Fremont. Mich. 
207*
~ \\T ANTED—To exchange  farm worth $2,500 
y y 
for a stock  of goods.  Address  Box  23, 
Tradesman office. 
“VIT ANTED—A  man  having  an  established 
y y  
trade among lumbermen to add  a  spec­
ial line and sell on commission.  To  the  right 
man a splendid chance will be  given  to  make 
money without  extra expense.  Address “B," 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
178tf
■ OOK  HERE—Parties looking for an oppor­
tunity to go into the drug business to make 
mon'oy  had  better  investigate  this  stock  of 
drugs and building for sale In an iron furnace 
town In  Michigan.  No  opposition.  No  other 
drug  store  within  six  miles.  Stock  will  in­
voice $1,000.  A good  building that cost $1,000. 
Will sell the stock and building for $1,500, part 
cash, balance on time.  Reason for selling, too 
much  other  business  to  attend  to.  Address 
P., care “Tradesman,” Grand ltapids. 
206*
SITUATION  WANTED—A  lady understand­
ing the check system desires a position as 
cashier or assistant  bookkeeper.  Good refer­
ence.  Address  Box  594,  care  Tradesman  of­
fice. 
208*

SALESMEN—Five 

201*tf

177tf

ST.  CHARLES
-  Mich.
REED  CITY, 

G. S. SWAYZE,  Manager.

AMONG THE TRADE.
GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Jennings & Smith will  shortly remove to 
the  Gibson  building,  at  38  and  40  Louis
street. 

________________

H.  A.  Yedders  succeeds  Theodore  B. 
Goossen in the grocery business at 79 Shaw- 
mut avenue.

The Sisson  &  Lilly Lumber Co. has  put 
in a branch  supply store at Otia.  Amos S. 
Mussselman & Co. furnished the stock.

Cornelius  Jonker has engaged in the gro­
cery business at the corner of  Carrier street 
and College  avenue.  The  stock  was  pur­
chased at this market.

Bert  VanderVeen,  son  of  E.  Vander- 
Yeen,  the  Holland  hardware  dealer,  will 
shortly engage  in the  hardware business on 
West Leonard  street,  near  the  intersection 
of Scribner street.

Cary  &  Loveridge  have  sold  a $2,035 
channel steel safe to the  Oceana  Loan, and 
Security  Association,  at  Hart.  Also steel 
fire  and  burglar  proof safes to Putnam & 
Brooks and the Honduras Timber Co.

Wm.  Sears & Co.  are now  running  thei 
cracker factory an extra day each,  week,  by 
working  over hours,  and  contemplate put­
ting on a night  force to run in conjunction 
with the  day  gang.  They  pronounce the 
report that  they  contemplate  putting in a 
branch  factory at Manistee  es without the 
least foundation in  fact.

L.  D. Harris has declared a final dividend 
in the  matter of  the Post and Tribune  Job 
Printing Co., of Detroit, of which estate he 
was  assignee.  Two  previous  dividends 
have been declared, one of  25 per cent,  and 
one of 20 per cent.  The  final  division dis­
tributes  another  10  per  cent,  among  the 
creditors,  making  55  per  cent  received by 
them.  The  creditors  number  sixty-two, 
representing $12,000 worth of Indebtedness.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Bellaire—Fred.  Smith has  opened a jew­

Charlevoix—John McCabe  has  opened a 

elry store.

meat market.

Bellaire—Hemstreet Bros,  will soon open 

a grocery and feed store.

Yermontville—Geo. J. Lamb, the harness 

dealer,' has added a line of groceries.

Blanchard—Mrs. E.  S.  Hipkins  has sold 

her drug stock to J. S. Burton, of Chase.

Detroit—Thos. W.  King,  dealer  in  pic 

ture frames,  has assigned to D. King,  Jr.

Luther—Paine & Buckner »have embarked 

in the furniture and undertaking business 

Big  Rapids—C.  F.  Mynning,  grocer  at 
the upper depot,  has  added a line  of  boots 
and shoes.

Lake City—Wood & Walton  are  arrang­
ing to build a new  store,  which  they  will 
occupy themselves.

Moscow—W.  W.  Armstrong succeeds S.
C. Murray in the hardware  and agricultur­
al implement business.

New Hudson—Elmer  J.  Rice  succeeds 
Andrew Laird in general trade.  The latter 
still retains his produce business,

Pentwater—W. A. Smith has retired from 
the meat market firm of  Smith  Bros.  The 
business will be continued  by W.  F. Smith 
Hastings—Fred.  Heath  has  retired from 
the  drug  firm of W.  H.  Goodyear  & Co, 
The  business  will be  continued by W.  H 
alone.

Charlevoix—Perry  Weed  has  sold  his 
drug stock to  C.  B.  Cochran, of  Philadel­
phia.  The  business  will  be  conducted  by 
his brother.

Whitehall—M.  Freehling  contemplates 
closing out Ills  dry  goods  business  in  the 
fall and engaging  in  the  same  business  at 
Grand Rapids.

Traverse City—Hamilton & Milliken have 
leased the store adjoining their present quar­
ters on the north and will soon  be  occupy­
ing three full stores.

Plain well—J. N.  Hill &Co., left a  barrel 
of molasses on their  store  floor  one  night 
last week.  Before morning the barrel burst- 
ed,  with a result more sweet  than pleasant.
Lakeview—John Bale,  of  the  mercantile 
and  lumbering  company  of  Macomber  & 
Bale,  lost a thumb last  week by allowing it 
to come in contact with  the  friction  pulley 
in his saw mill.

Cadillac—Geo.  A.  Deitz  has  returned 
from  Tennessee  and  resumed a pamership 
connection with the  grocery and  drug busi­
ness of A. E. Smith,  under the former  firm 
name of  Smith & Deitz.

Battle Creek—T.  B.  Skinner has sold his 
dry goods store to Nelson  Haskins, of  Im- 
lay City, and L. W. Robertson, of  Hubbard- 
ston.  Mr.  Skinner  has been  selling  dry 
goods here for forty years.

Big Rapids—The  $400  mortgage on the 
grocery stock of A.  B. Carpenter,  held  by 
Amos S.  Musselman & Co., of  Grand  Rap 
ids, was  foreclosed  last  week.  The stock 
was bid in  by  Mrs.  Carpenter,  who  will 
continue the business in her own name 

Muir—O.  N.  Ely  has  retired  from  the 
firm of L.  A.  & O.  N.  Ely,  and returned  to 
rural pursuits.  L. A. Ely will continue the 
general  merchandise  business  at  the  old 
stand,  adding  thereto  the  sale  of  his pat­
ented  articles,  as follows:  Patent shelving 
button  exhibitor;  wall  paper  and  border 
exhibitor.

▲ JOURNAL. DB VOTED TO THE

RETAIL  TRADE  OP  THE  WOLVERINE  STATE.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

1  rms (1 a year in advanoe. postage paid.
A 1 vertising rates made known on application.

WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST 24,  1887.

The arrival at New  York  of  cargoes  of 
raw  sugar  from  the  Hawaiian  Islands, 
amounting to some 10,000 tons,  has  caused 
no small sensation among the trade  in that
city,  for this sugar enters free of  duty,  un­
der the treaty with those  Islands. 
It came 
around Cape Horn,  and more is expected to 
follow.  It will, perhaps, impress upon many 
persons the simple fact that an  easy way of 
adjusting this line of business to the  opera­
tions of the general trade  in  sugar  will  be 
to repeal the present duty on all that  comes 
in—with protecting  provisions  against  ex­
port duty, and in favor of our own ships.

The board insurance  monopoly seems de­
termined to fight every innovation and take 
advantage  of  every  excuse  to  extort more 
money from policy holders.  Michigan man­
ufacturers  who  are  substituting  crude  oil 
for  coal  or  wood  as  fuel  now find  them­
selves subjected to  an  increase  of  rates  on 
the pretext of  increased  liability.  Oil  fuel 
has been extensive introduced in Cincinnati 
and  other  large  cities,  with  the  approval 
of  the  insurance  companies, but  the  bull­
headed  idiots who control the board compa­
nies doing business in this  State  are amen­
able to neither reason nor  mental growth.

The Inter-State Board  of  Trade  of  the 
United States has been incorporated at New 
York, for the  purpose  of  fostering  trade 
and commerce,  preventing  abuses in trade, 
securing freedom from  exactions, uniformi­
ty in the customs  and  usages of  trade,  in­
formation on trade  matters, to settle differ­
ences between  members,  promote friendly 
intercourse,  unification  of  transportation 
laws,  originate  and  advance  measures for 
the benefit of  agriculture,  trade  and com­
merce.

In purchasing and maintaining  an exper­
imental farm,  as  is  now  contemplated  by 
that organization,  the White Lake Business 
Men’s Association will take  a  step  in  ad­
vance of any other organization in the State. 
The idea, as outlined in another column and 
described  by  President  Linderman  in  his 
annual  address,  is perfectly  feasible  and 
deserves the  commendation  of  every  one 
interested in the development  of  Michigan 
agriculture.

T he  Tradesm an  has no  hesitation in 
pronouncing the oration delivered by Myron 
H.  Walker at the picnic of the Lowell Bus­
iness Men’s Association,  and printed verba­
tim on another page, to be the best  exposi­
tion of association work which has yet been 
given. 
It is a long way in  advance of  any 
previous effort in that  direction  and gives 
evidence of  careful  study  and  preparation 
on the part of the author.

Official  Report  of  the  Manton  B.  M.  A.

Picnic.

Manton,  Aug. 22,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
D ear Sir—The  morning of  our Manton 
Business Men’s Association  picnic  dawned 
auspiciously.  The sun shone from a cloud­
less sky.  The air  was  cool  and,  had the 
roads not been so dusty,  a more perfect day 
for the occasion could not  have been select­
ed.  Early in the morning the people began 
to gather in  from the  country,  on  foot, on 
horseback,  and  with  horse  and ox teams, 
until our beautiful village was filled to over­
flowing, putting on a regular Fourth of July 
celebration  appearance.  The  place select­
ed for holding  the  picnic  was a fine grove 
on an eminence  overlooking  and just west 
of the village limits  The ground had been 
cleared,  tables erected, swings put  up, etc., 
the day before.  Promptly  at  10 a.  in.,  ac­
cording to the  programme,  the  stores were 
all closed and the  band  formed  on  Main 
street and,  with  sweet  strains  of  music, 
marched to the  grounds,  followed,  by the 
people in procession.  On  arriving,  the vis­
itors seated  themselves in  the cool  shade 
for social chat and  to listen to  the enliven­
ing strains from the band.  We expected to 
have the presence of  the Hon. Frank Ham­
ilton,  President of  our  State  Association, 
but, unfortunately for us,  his  engagements 
were so pressing that, at the  last  moment, 
he wrote it would be  impossible  to  come. 
Short addresses  were made by Rev.  Slyter, 
H.  B.  Sturtevant, of  Sherman, 
(who,  ac­
companied by Mrs.  Sturtevant,  Dr.  Corbin 
and Mrs. Corbin,  had driven over to partici­
pate) and H. C. McFarlan.
In the meantime,  the business  men,  with 
their coats off, under  the  direction and effi­
cient help of the ladies,  were busy  cutting, 
carving and carrying the large pile  of  pro­
visions  which  they had  prepared  and ar­
ranging them on tables 200  feet  in  length 
At 1 p.  m., everything  being in  readiness, 
the people were invited to  begin  active op­
erations,  and  such  a  time  of  feasting, 
mixed with fun, joke and  laughter, our vil­
lage has never witnessed.  Taken all in all, 
it was an immense success and will bear re­
peating.  But,  Mr.  Editor,  it  would  have 
done your heart  good  to have  seen  the la­
dies  and  business  men  at  the  close.  A 
more tired, worn-out,  completely  done-up 
lot it has  never  been  my  good fortune to 
see, but they had the full  assurance of suc­
cess to apply as a balm  to their aching bod­
ies, and a good work well done.

R.  F uller, Sec’y.

Whitehall—The attorney  for  the  mort­
gage creditors of J. Widoe & Son replevined 
the stock from the  attacting  creditors  last 
Wednesday, when H. E.  Staples  foreclosed 
Any man who  buys  goods,  and  at  the 
his  mortgage,  bidding  $2,000  for 
the 
time of purchasing draws  a  check  for  the 
stock, subject  to three  other mortgages ag­
amount on a bank where he has no deposit,
gregating $2,000.  Mr. Staples has  thrown 
Is quilty of fraud and felony, and  is  liable
the store open for business and will attempt
to indictment for  crime.  Payment  by  the  ______
debtor’s check does not of itself  cancel  the I ^  j^ ^ fy  big action in ignoring  the  attach-
^  m  neJ, tum of ,he Muske.
debt unless  express*  so  agreed,  a n d t te , ^  
creditor can sue either on the debt or 
at bis opinion.

gon Circuit Court.

JEast Jordan—Harry Branch succeeds Geo. 

Beaman in the drug business.

Clarkston—E.  Jossman  succeeds  Frank 

Jossman & Co. in general trade.

Quincy—J. & John  Hayes  succeed T.  E. 

Rathbun in the grocery business.

Morrice—A.  B. Clark &  Co.  succeed  D. 

B. Holmes in the hardware  business.

Jackson—Dunham & Lewis succeed Fow­

ler & Dunham in the grocery business.

North  Branch—Harvey  &  Stoneberg, 
harness dealers,  have  dissolved  and  sold 
outr

East Jordan—Aithur Ward succeeds Cut­
ler & Moorehouse in the confectionery busi­
ness.

Dexter—Leonard D. Alley  has  sold  out 
his general store and  grain and agricultural 
implement business.

STRAY  FACTS.

First

Lapeer—Each  $100  share  in  the 

National Bank is now worth $265.

Lansing—A.  D.  Hensel  succeeds  B. F. 
Hall  in  the  lumber  business.  The  latter 
still retains his coal business.

Clarkston—I. Frank has retired from  the 
Jossman  & 

Clarkston  Exchange  Bank. 
Bird continue the business.

Berlin—'Through 

the  efforts  of  Dell 
the 

Wright, 
outside world has been secured.

telephone  connection  with 

Muskegon—The  savings  bank  project 
does not look as favorable  as  it did a week 
ago, the subject having failed to arouse much 
enthusiasm  among  the monied  men  of the 
city.

Bellevue—Whitney & Davenport are put­
ting  up  an  evaporator  with  a  capacity  of 
225  bushels  of  apples  daily.  The  woris^ 
will furnish  employment to thirty-five  per­
sons during the season.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Jonesville—The cotton mills  are now run 

both day and night.

Hersey—C. N.  Leach has sold his shingle 

mill and gone to Wisconsin to locate.

James McSkimin has  engaged  to  travel 
for Cody, Ball, Barnhart  &  Co.,  handling 
teas exclusively.

Matherton—The  sawmill of  Peter  Dorn 
mey was destroyed by fire on the 14th.  The 
fire originated in  the  boiler  room.  No  in 
surance.

Rockford—Horace H.  Childs has purchas 
ed the interest of Benj.  F.  Carper  in  the 
paper mill business of Childs  &  Carper,  at 
Childs’ Mills,  and will conduct the business 
alone hereafter.

Lowell—The  Michigan  Cutter  Co. 

building a warehouse,  42x100 in dimensions 
and 14 feet  high.  The  building  will  be 
completed this week and  used  wholly  for 
storage purposes.

Whitehall—H. Olsen  is  agitating  the or­
ganization of  a  stock company with a capi 
tal of  $6,000, to engage in  the manufacture 
of  novelties in the line of  furniture. 
proposed to erect a new building in the rear 
of  Olsen  &  Degen’s feed  mill  and  utilize 
the same power used in that  establishment,

It 

Gripsack Brigade.

Nobody knows the  drummer’s  ways,  and no­
body knows where the drummer goes. 
Nobody knows where the  drummers eats, and 
nobody  knows where the drummer sleeps
Cornelius  Capsule Crawford now  has his 

mail sent  in  care of the Salvation  Army.

Louis J. Koster,  traveling  representativ 

for Edson, Moore  &  Co.,  Detroit,  was 
town last Friday.

F.  O.  Taft,  formerly  station  agent 

Lowell,  is now on the road  for  the  Michi­
gan Cutter Co., of Lowell.

Valda  Johnston  was  starting  out  for 
ride with his family Saturday when John 
Long drove along the  street on a dead  run 
colliding with Valda’s  vehicle,  wrecking 
and slightly injuring his child.

M.  K.  Walton  spent 'last  week  in  the 

Upper Peninsula in the interest of Curtis 
Dunton.  He  sold  one  concern  two  car 
loads  of  goods  and  another  house  a  full 
carload.  He  also  sold  2,300  handsleds 
which will not be shipped until fall.

Purely Personal.

Frank  Jewell,  of  Clark,  Jewell  &  Co 

spent last Friday at Pewamo.

M.  S.  Goodman  has  returned  from 
week’s visit with friends  in  Traverse City

Edward  Bremer,  book-keeper  for F.

Yale & Co., is rusticating a  week in Walk 
er township.

Geo.  Sherman,  book-keeper for the Sisson 
& Lilley Lumber Co., at Sisson’s Mills, was 
in town last Saturday.

Geo. G.  Whitworth  has  returned  from 
the East, whither he  has been in  the inter­
est of the Fox Caster Association.
'  John Snitseler, of the firm name of Voigt, 
Herpolsheimer & Co.,  started  East Monday 
for the purpose of buying fall goods.

Franklin  Barnhart, of  the firm of  Cody, 
Ball,  Barnhart  &  Co.,  is  visiting  his  old 
home and friends on the banks of  Chautau­
qua Lake.

Henry  Herpolsheimer, of  Lincoln,  Neb., 
spent  several  days  last  week  with  his 
brother,  Wm.  G.  Herpolsheimer, and  went 
on to the Eastern markets.

Geo.  A.  Sage,  the  Rockford  grocer,  at­
tended the Ionia reunion  last  week.  Con­
trary to expectation, it did  not  require  the 
services of a shutter to get him home.

Jerry Williams,  senior  member  of  the 
firm of Williams & Cobum,  wool  buyers of 
Boston, was in town last week, the guest of 
his Michigan representative, W.  T.  Lamo- 
reaux.

H.  Mathews, 

the  Chase  merchant  and 
lumberman, passed through the  city  Mon­
day on his way to New  York,  whence  he 
sails Saturday  for  Queenstown, 
intending 
to spend about six  weeks  in  Ireland  and 
Great Britain.  He is  accompanied  by  his 
family.

Geo.  B. Dunton, Jr., put  in  his  appear­
ance at  the  residence  of  the  paper  jobber 
last Saturday.

Frank Hamilton, President of  the Michi­
gan Business Men’s Association, will  be  in 
the city Friday on  his  way  to  the  Eastern 
markets.  He  will  return  direct  to  Flint, 
arriving there a day in advance of the State 
convention.

A. T.  Linderman, the Whitehall inventor, 
has lately applied for a patent on a new de­
vise for a packing box, which is destined to 
become very popular. 
It comprises  an  or­
dinary box made  of  veneer,  with  enclosed 
angles crated with  wood.  Mr.  Linderman 
has shown the  box to but  few  people,  but 
unite in asserting that it is the best  sub­
stitute for the present cumbersome  packing 
cases ever introduced.

Monthly  Report of  State  Secretary Mills. 

Grand Ra pid s,  Aug.  22,  1887.

A. Stowe. Grand Rapids:
Dea r Sir—The  following  additions  to 
the membership of the  Michigan  Division, 
P. A.,  have  occurred  since  my last re­
port:
15167— A. D.  Noble.
15172—G. H. Doane.
15178—J.  L.  Likens.
15195—  G. A. Monroe.
15220— J.  Grotemat.
15230—A. Meekison.
15240—  Geo. Ward.
15245—C. A.  Lewis.
15264—E.  W. Trout.
1527s—Jas. A.  Peters.
15345—E. G. Miles.
15399—J. H.  Cummins.
15392—L.  E. Woodward.
15168—  B. A.  Gottlieb.
15174—W.  F. Shedd.
15177—A. E.  Cadwell.
15196— D.  L. Densmore.
15221—  G. A. Angel.
15237—Geo. II. Raynor.
15241— Geo. J. Heinzelman.
15166—C. B.  Baker.
15272— F. L. Kelley.
15275—G. F. Behr.
15s73—Geo. S. Trevor.
15384—S.  T.  Green.
15395—J. A. Duncan.
16160—Jas. Rooney.
15176—S. Tobias.
15194—W.  S. Jones.
15218—C. T.  Clarage.
15226—T. O. Lewis.
15239—F.  E.  M’Connell.
15242— Wm.  Simmons.
15243— Frank Mosher.
15273— W.  W. Dennis.
12337—E. E. Eagle.
15378—J. F. Nelson.
15390—A.  L. Nichols.
One  hundred  and  five  more  members 
have paid annual dues for 1887-8.
Inasmuch as the outlook is  very  encour­
aging for the  adoption of  5,000 and  3,000 
mile books and the  insurance  system,  and 
having received official notice that two lead­
ing  railroads, 
through  the  efforts  of our 
Railway  Committees,  will place on sale 1,- 
000 mile books at 2 cents  per  mile,  on Sep­
tember 1, which is evident  we  will be suc­
cessful in inducing  others to do likewise,  it 
is incumbent on every  commercial  traveler 
to lend us a helping  hand by  renewing his 
membership,  or joining our Association.
Application blanks  and  all  information 
cheerfully  given-by  State  Secretary  and 
Treasurer, 

L.  M.  Mills,

568 Wealthy avenue, Grand Rapids.

1— | 

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

J. E. Edwards, Odonnell 
John Koopman, Falmouth 
P. Jean not & Co.,  Reeves 
S. T. M’Lelian. Denison 
Gus. Begrnan, Bauer 
J. P. Dwinell, Carlyle 
A. D. Martin, Otia 
C. M.  Shaw, Sparta 
Schrock & Long,  Clarksville 
Jno. Damstra, Gitchell
G. Ten Hoor, Forest Grove 
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam
H. Van Noord, Jamestown 
Herder & Lahuis, Zeeland 
Jno. M. Cook, Grand Haveu 
C. K. Hoyt. Hudsonville 
Johnson & Seibert, Caledonia 
S. J. Martin, Sullivan
G. 8. Putnam, Fruitport 
S. Cooper, Jamestown 
Nelson F. Miller, Lisbon 
Den Herder & Tanis, Vriesland .
R. McKinnon, Hopkins 
L.  R. Rogers, Eastport 
Cole & Chapel,  Ada
F. C. Stone & Son, Cedar Springs
O. House, Chauncy
W. H. Goodyear, Hastina-s
Seward McNitt &Co., Byron Center
W. H. Roach, Lake City
Sisson & Lilly Lumber Co., Sisson's Mills
W. H. Hicks, Morley
S. J. Koon, Lisbon
J. W. Runner. Shelby 
A. DeKruif, Zeeland 
Lon. A. Pelton, Morley *
WalliDg Bros., Lamont 
Dr. V. Sinz,  Conklin 
J. N. Wait, Hudsonville 
Kremer & Bangs, Holland 
John Giles & Co.,  Lowell 
C. H. Demlng, Dutton
F. E. Campau, Alaska
Hoag & Judson,  Cannonsburg 
J. P, Cordes, Alpine
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont 
Levett & Dann, Dorr
C. E. Manley, Kinney
A. L. Utter, Utter Lumber Co., Sullivan
C. E. Coburn, Pierson
Thos. Cooley, Lisbon
Smith & Bristol,  Ada
Jas. Coiby, Rockford
H. Matthews & Co.. Chase 
C. N. Hyde & Co., Rockford 
Jos. Rogers, Hastings 
Bert Tinkler, Hastings 
Adam Wagner, Eastmanvilie
L. K. Gibbs, Gibbs Bros., Mayfield
M. Gezon, Jenisonville 
Jas. Smith, Big Rapids 
M. Minderhout, Hanley 
John Gunstra, Lamont 
Geo. F. Cook, Grove 
Stickney & Co., Paris 
Blakeley Bros., Fife Lake
C. E. Blakeley, Coopersville
A. L. Conger, Kalamazoo 
M. F. Dowling,  Middleville 
H. Colby &  Co.,  Rockford
B. Gilbert  & Co., Moline 
G. W. Clark,  Saranac
R. T. Parish, Grandville 
E. J. Hewes, Newaygo
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove 
M. Heybour & Bro., Drenthe
S. Juistema, Grand Haven 
A. Woolley, Hastings
D. W. Shattuck, Wayland
L. A. Paine, Englishville 
8. Sheldon, Pierson
G. H. Walbrink,  Allendale 
A. W. Curtis,  Holly
R. Bredewey, Drenthe
M. M. Robson, Berlin
Chas. Drury, Sampson & Drury,  Cadillac
H. B. Irish, Lisbon 
Otto Bros.,  Middleville
Mrs. M. Potter,  proprietor  of  bazaar  store, 
Grand Ledge:  “I  like  it  very  much.  Don’t 
know how I could do  without it.”

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL

COAL and WOOD.
01 Ottawa St., Ledyard Block.

E.  A.  HAM ILTO N,  Agt.,

Telephone 909—1 r.

Standing Committees of the Michigan Di­

vision, T. P. A.

Grand  Ra pid s,  Aug.  22,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
De a r Sir—The  President of  the Michi­
gan  Division,  T.  P. A., has  appointed the 
following  State  Committees  for  the year 
ending July 1, 1888:
Legislation—M. J. Matthews, Detroit;  S. 
E. Parkill,  Owosso;  A.  W.  Atles,  Detroit.
Railroad—Geo. F.  Owen,  Grand  Rapids; 
E.  A.  Rich,  Ionia.
Hotel—A. A. Howard, Coldwater;  Julius 
Bader,  Kalamazoo;  W.  II.  H.  Smith,  Fen­
ton.
Press—E.  A. Stowe,  Grand  Rapids;  M. 
B. Field,  Lansing;  M.  N.  Reed, Ypsilanti.
Bus and Baggage—W. J.  Richards,  Un­
ion City;  E.  P.  Grow,  Bay  City;  A.  H. 
Rothermel,  Kalamazoo.
Relief—C.  L.  Zacharie,  Kalamazoo;  D. 
S. Hatfield,  Grand  Rapids;  C. F, Ballard, 
Charlotte.
Employment—C. S. Kelsey, Battle Creek: 
E. A.  Reynolds,  Milan;  J.  F.  Hammell, 
Ionia.
Arrangement—L. J. Koster,  Detroit;  A. 
L.  Lay,  Battle Creek;  Wm. Haste,  Detroit,
Finance—C. W.  Gregg, Jackson;  Geo. F, 
Owen,  Grand Rapids;  A.  F. Peake,  Jack 
son.
The D., G. H. & M.  and  Grand  Trunk 
Railways,  in order to especially  favor com­
mercial men, have given the week-end priv­
ilege to all,  and it is to be hoped every mem 
her of our Association  will show his appre 
ciation of the  liberality of  these roads,  by 
reciprocating in every  honorable  way, and 
lend their influence to those  roads who ree 
ognize  the  rights  and  importance  of  the 
commercial traveler.

Very truly,  L.  M.  Mills, 

Sec’v-Treas.  Mich. Div„ T. P.  A.

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

| 
f Extra Stock
j 
Anything  else  in  the  line  of| 
Gommercial 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 & STOWE  COMPANY,

Grand  Rapids, 

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-  Mich.

The Hardware Market.

Nalls still remain firm  at  $2,10  for  iron 

and $2.20 for  steel.  Sisal rope has taken 
jump to 11c, on  account  of  a  pool  among 
the manufacturers  and  a  great  scarcity of 
sisal  hemp.  Manilla  rope has  sustained 
little  advance,  but  a  stronger  advance  is 
among the probabilities.  There is no change 
in barbed wire,  although  it  is  firmer  with 
all the manufacturers, and there is prospect 
of a  slight advance.  Owing  to the  fire 
the  Calumet & Hecla  mine, the indications 
are good for an advance in copper.  Screws 
are firm at the  new list  and  discount, both 
manufacturers and jobbers seeming to be ad 
hering to the new  price.

He  Could  Collect  It  Himself.

Col.  Dodge,  the  Lowell  hypochondriac, 
was bewailing the death of a $10 debtor the 
other day, remarking that the man was now 
in hell and beyond his reach,  when the Sec­
retary  of  the  Lowell  B.  M. A.,  who  hap­
pened to hear the remark, suggested  that it 
would be easy to collect the amount.

“How so?”  eagerly inquired Dodge.
“By making out  a  statement  of  the  ac­
count  and  taking  it  with  you  when  you 
die,” was the reply.

HURGULES  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- HILL  &  CO.,

19 and 21  Pearl  St.,  Grand  Rapids, Mich.
Also  wholesale  dealers  in  Gunpowder, 
Ammunition,  Guns,  Fishing  Tackle  and 
Sporting  Goods Generally.

Mrs.  Susa Cawtiiokxe.
PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY
Business cards ] Good  Stock  “p i  TsT  C lr  T   TsT  Th i 
—
Note heads 
Envelopes 
Bill heads 
Statements

CZ5  I
1 JCJ 
From 2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers. Saw  Mills 
Grist Mills, Wood  Working  Maehinory,  Shaft 
ing.  Pulleys  and  “oxes.  Contracts  made  for 
Complete Outfits.

$9.00. 
$10.00.

Fine  Sample  Rooms  in  Connection,
This  spacious and  admirably construct­
ed  N ew   Brick  Hotel  is  now  open  to  the 
public. 
It is provided  with all the  Modern 
Improvements.  The rooms are large, airy 
and pleasant, in suits or single, and newly 
famished throughout.  The design of man­
agement is to make this house one of com­
fort and pleasure to its guests.

The  Traveling  Public  are  cordially  in­

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MICH.
GRAND  RAPIDS. 

88,90  and  92 South  Division  Street,

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vited.

Cody, Ball, Barnhart l Co,

Are sole agents at this market for the justly-celebrated

HAMBURG CANNED GOODS.
Solid Meat. Tomatoes.

Comprising the following well-known brands:

Table Queen Tomatoes.
Snow Flake Corn.

Sweet Corn.

Succotash.

Stringless Beans.

Fancy Sifted Peas.
Early June Peas.

Cnampion of England  Peas. 

White Marrowfat.

Petit Pois.

Black Raspberries. 

Blackberries.

Remember “The Best is the Cheapest.”

PLACE YOUR ORDERS EARLY.

THE  LOWELL  PICNIC.

One  of  the  Largest  Gatherings  of  the 

Season. -

The  first  annual  picnic  of  the  Lowell 
Business  Men's  Association  was  held  at 
Island Grove,  in that  village,  last  Friday. 
Ail 
the  stores,  except  one.  were  closed 
while the picnic was in  progress,  and aside 
from  business  men  and  their  employes, 
there was a large  attendance of  townspeo­
ple and farmers from all directions.  Heavi­
ly loaded tables were set in  the  grove  and 
between  12 and 1 o’clock  ample justice was 
done to the viands.  After all had been sat­
isfied,  the crowd  assembled on  improvised 
seats around the  platform,  when  the exer- 
cisès were opened with an acceptable  selec­
tion by the Grand  Ledge  Ladies’ Band and 
prayer  by  Rev. J. T.  Husted.  A  double 
quartette sung  “The  Old  Oaken  Bucket” 
with good effect, when President Blain con­
gratulated the  Lowell  Business  Men’s As­
sociation on the  success of  its first attempt 
in  the  entertainment  line.  The  day  and 
dinner had been all that  could  be  wished 
for and he hoped  the  remaining  exercises 
would be equally  satisfactory. 
In  conclu­
sion,  he said he  hoped  to  meet  everyone 
present on that  occasion at the  second an­
nual picnic of the  Association  next  year. 
He then called  on  Myron  H.  Walker, of 
Grand Rapids,  who  delivered the following 
oration:
The  tendency  of  our  time,  among  all 
classes and  trades  in  society,  and  in  busi­
ness,  is to  combine  for  the  protection  and 
advancement of  mutual  interests,  to multi­
ply the power of  the  individual by associa­
tion and union of  effort, and so attain aims 
and objects  held in common to be desirable 
but  impossible  of  accomplishment  by  the 
unaided individual.
The  power  and  personality  of  the  indi­
vidual  citizen  were,  perhaps,  never  more 
potent  and  marked  than  they  are  to-day; 
and the individual citizen is the all-powerful 
unit of  state  and  government,  upon whose 
patriotism and  intelligence  these  must  de­
pend,  by  whose  conscience  and  judgment 
all Questions  must  be  finally  resolved,  and 
for whose protection they are organized and 
supported.  Yet,  while  this  is  so,  popula­
tion has become dense;  the  weight and mo­
mentum  of  the  mass  are great,  and  in  the 
onward  rush 
individuals  are  ever  being 
crushed.
Society is complex;  its interests are  mul­
tifarious;  business is greatly diversified and 
specialized;  the  accumulation and power of 
wealth are multiplied,  and  power is largely 
concentrated in the hands of  a few.  From 
all these causes come the desire and need of 
the individual citizen  to  increase his power 
by combination with others,  thus enhancing 
and combining the power of the influence of 
individuals otherwise weak,  for  the  protec­
tion and assertion  of  individual  rights  and 
interests.  Therefore,  we  find  fraternities, 
lodges, assemblies,  and associations of vari­
ous kinds rapidly multiplying.  On the other 
hand,  this is the  age  of  giant  corporations 
and monopolies, springing largely from sim­
ilar causes  but  seeking  the  attainment  of 
different  ends—combinations  for  securing 
increased  power  and  profit, regardless, too 
often,  of the means  used  or  of  the  effects 
produced upon a community.  Such a giant 
monopoly  is  the  “Standard Oil Company,” 
that  without  mercy  crushes  competition, 
corrupts  legislators,  intimidates  the  public 
authorities, thus seeking to control and mo­
nopolize  the  principal  supply of  light  for 
a great  nation,  that  it may gather  to itself 
greater profit, although the people be wronged 
thereby.  Then  there  are  gigantic railroad 
pools—freight and  passenger—by means of 
which great  trunk  lines  divide  profits,  too 
often ill-gotten  and  extortionate.  This  is 
the day of wheat corners, coffee deals,  pork 
corners, and  numerous  other  corners  upon 
’change,  which means  simply that  a  set  of 
wealthy gamblers undertake  to  control  the 
supply and price for a whole nation of some 
of  these staples of  life,  cornering the mar­
ket,  raising the price  to  a  fictitious value, 
and making  dear  the poor man’s every-day 
food in order that  they may grow  suddenly 
rich without  adding  one  dollar of value  to 
the  resources  of  the  nation.  These  and 
many other monopolies of  the day are  evil, 
seeking to gather  wealth for  the  few  from 
the little of  the many,  without  just  return 
or  compensation.  Their growth  should  be 
checked and power restrained  by  wise  and 
just legislation.
Any organization  must  be  judged  by its 
fruits—by  what  it  accomplishes;  and,  in 
speaking  of  an  association  which  is  yet 
largely to be tested by time,  we judge of its 
merits by its avowed objects and  its funda­
mental  and  governing  principles.  But 
these,  in  practice,  we  find  are  sometimes 
wrested from their true aim.  Organizations 
may  have  good  principles  and  profess 
worthy objects and yet produce evil results; 
or the good  they  do  may  be  partly  mixed 
with and neutralized by evil because of  bad 
leadership or failure to carry out their prin­
ciples in practice.  Take,  for  instance,  the 
Knights  of  Labor,  as  prominent  among 
those organizations which have grown from 
the  felt  need  of  united  effort  of  which  I 
have  spoken. 
It  is  composed  chiefly  of 
laboring  men;  its  motto,  “The  injury  of j 
one is the concern of  all;”  its declared aim, 
“to organize,  agitate,  and  educate,  with  a 
view to  the  ultimate solution  of  the  labor 
problem,” and  these,  some  of  its  leading 
principles  and  objects—first,  “to make in­
dustrial  and  moral  worth, not wealth,  the 
true  standard  of  individual  and  national 
greatness;” second, “to secure to the workers 
the full enjoyment of  the  wealth  they cre­
ate,  sufficient  leisure  in  which  to  develop 
their  moral,  social,  and  intellectual  facul­
ties, all the  benefits, recreation,  and  pleas­
ures of association.”  In a word,  “to enable 
them  to  share  in  the  gains and honors of 
advancing  civilization.”  The  motto,  the 
object, and  the  principles  are  worthy  any 
set of men.  And listen  to  these things for 
which  they  pledge  themselves  to  strive— 
“equal pay for  equal  labor  of  both  sexes” 
and “to favor arbitration of  differences and 
so  render  strikes  unnecessary.”  Yet  this 
same organization,  with  such  principles  to 
govern it and such objects  and  aims  to  in­
spire it, pledged in terms to arbitration that 
strikes  may  be  unnecessary,  lias  ordered 
and championed more shrikes in the last few 
years than have occurred before  in  the  his­
tory of  the  nation.  Nearly  nine-tenths  of 
them have failed,  vast sums of  money have 
been lost to  the workingman as  well as his 
employer, and  poverty  lias  visited  many a 
home where modest comfort dwelt before.
By  similar  means  the  boycott  has  been 
so unjustly and frequently applied  that the 
term is odious and the thing has largely lost 
its power;  and as  a  legacy of  these strikes 
and boycotts,  irritation  and  suspicion exist 
between employer and employe, and each is 
thereby prevented from doing justice to the

other.  This  shows  how  an  organization 
with excellent principles and purposes  may 
be drawn away to  bad  methods  aud injuri­
ous ends.  The  Knights  must follow  more 
closely their clear-sighted leader, Powderly; 
drive  out  the  demagogues  in  their  ranks 
who live  by the sweat  of  their  jaw;  avoid 
strikes and the  boycott  as  desperate reme­
dies;  really favor  arbitration;  cultivate  so­
briety,  intelligence, and  just  views  of  and 
respect for the rights of  others, and the Or­
der may yet make a grand history  and  do a 
grand work.
Some years ago, our friends of the Grange 
conceived the idea that  they could do away 
with the  middle-man,  as  he  is  called—the 
retail trader—and, in some cases, the jobber 
or  wholesaler, and  buy  their  goods  direct 
from  the  manuracturer  and  importer,  and 
send their products direct  to  the  consumer 
or the  great  markets  of  our  country,  thus 
saving money and much  vexation of  spirit. 
They made a brave effort  in  that direction, 
but the middle-man is still with us, and,  in­
deed, it looks very much as  though  he  had 
come to  stay, despite  the  earnest efforts of 
the  Patrons. 
If  so,  we  must  accept  the 
inevitable aud make the best of it.
Without  doubt, as  civilization  advances, 
population  increases,  wants  multiply,  and 
business becomes more diversified,  the mid­
dle-man,  or  retail  dealer,  becomes  more 
numerous  and  a  more  necessary  factor  of 
trade  and  more  of  a  specialist,  handling 
some particular  line  of  goods  exclusively. 
In  country  places,  on  the  four  corners, 
among  a  rural  population,  a general  store 
with  a  small 
line  of  every  kind  of 
goods, having  in  stock  everything  from  a 
bottle of  soothing syrup  to a pair  of  army 
brogans, best meets  the  wants  of  the  peo­
ple.  But,  as  the cross roads become a cen­
ter of population and  grow  to  be a village, 
perhaps a city, the general store is relegated 
to the past aud succeeded  by stores in each 
separate line or branch of trade.
Many  of  you  remember  the  time  when 
three or four  general  stores  in  Lowell  did 
all the business  and  there  was  not  a  dis­
tinctive  dry  goods,  clothing  or  boot  and 
shoe store in the town, these all being com­
bined into one.  Many of the firms now do­
ing business in  Lowell  have  dropped from 
their stock one line of  goods  after another, 
until now they are specialists.  At the same 
time, these firms carry no less or  little  less 
stock but  a  much  larger and better variety 
of their line  of goods, and sell,  as a rule,  at 
cheaper  prices.  All  this  shows  that  the 
middle-man  is  a  product  and,  therefore,  a 
necessity of  advanced  civilization,  and fills 
a legitimate place in business and meets the 
present wants of society;  not an excresence, 
I think, either,  but  rather a useful member 
of  society, who,  in  his  way,  is  as  neces­
sary  to  the  comfort  and  civilization  of 
the  people  of  to-day  as  the  farmer  is 
in  his. 
the 
Grange  members  have  also  come  to  the 
conclusion that they cannot get  along with­
out the middle-man as well as  they thought 
they could—that  a  man  cannot, as  a  rule, 
run  a farm  and  a  store  at  the  same  time 
with  success;  that  a  man  who  does  one 
thing, and  does  it  well,  is  of  more  value 
than  he  who  would  be  his  own  lawyer, 
banker,  jobber,  and  retailer  at  the  same 
time  that  he  is  a  farmer or producer,  and 
that agriculture of itself offers  to  the intel­
ligent farmer a broad  field for  study,  skill, 
and learning,  to the  exclusion of  any other 
business.
So,  then,  I  conclude  that  we  can  not 
get rid of the middle-man if  we would,  and 
the question is,  How can  we  best get along 
with  him?  Perhaps,  however,  a  question 
of  more  importance  to  him,  and  to  you 
gentlemen of  the  Lowell  Business  Men’s 
Association  here to-day,  is,  How can he,  or 
you,  rather,  best get along with us—that is, 
with  the  general  public,  upon  whom  you 
depend for  custom  and  support  and  with 
whom it is of  large  importance  you should 
be on terms of  mutual  confidence and good 
will?
I am to speak very briefly of the principles 
aud purposes of the  Lowell Business Men’s 
Association—what it claims to do and  what 
it  ought  to do.  1 understand,  from its  de­
clared purposes aud principles, that it seeks 
to bring  the  public  and  the  business  man 
into more confidential relations,,to the advan­
tage of  each.  Out  of  the  tendency of  the 
age  to  combination  and uuion, of which  I 
have spoken, out  of  the  need  of  a  closer 
union and  more  harmony between business 
men,  out  of  the  deepening  feeling  among 
business men that their interests are mutual 
and common and  can  best  be  advanced  by 
united  efforts,  rather  than  by  opposition 
aud warfare among themselves, have grown 
business  men’s  associations.  This  need, 
doubtless, has been long felt, but the means 
to meet it have not been  made  plain.  One 
thing is certain—the rapid growth and mul­
tiplication  of  the  business  men’s  associa­
tions throughout Michigan  and the  enthus­
iasm of  their members  prove  the existence 
of  the  want  and  that  these  organizations 
are  thought  by the  business  men  to meet 
that want.  Whether they will  or  not can­
not  be  told  until  the  organizations,  their 
principles,  and their work  shall  have  been 
! tested by time. 
I  believe that their princi­
ples and purposes, as stated in the constitu­
tion,  if  adhered  to  aud  attained,  as  they 
may be  by  wise  management,  will  benefit 
not only the  business  men  themselves  but 
the public also;  for the interest of  any man 
engaged in a legitimate  business, supplying 
that  which  the  public  needs,  is  identical 
with the interests of the people.

that  most  of 

think 

I 

The community too often look upon busi­
ness men  with  distrust, as men,  who,  as  a 
class,  will  prey upon  them  if  opportunity 
offers;  and  it  is  probable  that  some  busi­
ness men do regard and use the public  as  a 
proper  subject  of  plunder,  made,  like  a 
lemon, to be squeezed,  and because of  their 
rapacity  the  whole  trade  suffers.  This 
ought  not  to  be.  Will the Business Men’s 
Association help bring the  honest customer 
and the honest business man into closer and 
more  trustful  relations?  Will  it  aid  in 
driving out of business the dishonest trades­
man?  Will it,  in large measure, take away 
the  occupation  of  the  dishonest  customer 
and the dead  beat?  Will  it  beget in busi­
ness men more public spirit  and  enterprise 
and  a  higher  commercial  integrity? 
If  it 
will do all or any of these things, it will live 
and not in vain.
uThis  association  proposes,  among  other 
things,  “to  encourage  well-directed  enter­
prises,  to promote the  proper  progress,  ex­
tension,  and  increase  of  the  trade  and 
growth of this village.”  This  suggests  the 
inquiry,  What  is  the  duty which  the busi­
ness man owes the community in  which  he 
lives and  does  business?  First  of  all,  he 
should be a public-spirited citizen, interested 
and enterprising in behalf of  his own town 
or  city,  quick  to  discern  chances  for  im­
provement and growth,  and  ready to aid its 
material prosperity as far as he is able.

There  is  a  marked  difference  between 
different  business  men  and  the  business 
men  of  different  places. 
In  this  respect 
Grand  Rapids, for  instance, has  been gen- j 
erally blessed  with  public-spirited citizens. 
These men  have  talked Grand  Rapids—its 
advantages and prospects—by day, dreamed

of it by night, boomed  it, and  pinned  their 
faith  to  it  and  its future.  Any deserving 
enterprise has received their encouragement. 
They have  been  liberal in  supporting  pub­
lic improvements.  Their money is invested 
iu Grand  Rapids  property  and  industries, 
and there they build their homes, expecting 
there to live and  die.  Can  this  be  said  of 
Lowell?  Only  in  part. 
It  is  true,  there 
has been a marked(improvement in the past 
year or two;  but the time  is  not  long  past 
when Lowell  seemed  to  prefer  to  pay  for 
broken legs rather than for good sidewalks; 
high  rates  of  insurance,  rather  than  for 
water works;  for  horse-racing  and  driving 
parks rather than for good roads leading into 
the village, and for investments in wheat op­
tions  rather than for  homes. 
I  have  been 
told, but do not vouch for its truth,  that the 
D., G.  H.  & M. R. R. and  its  depot  would 
have been on this  side of  Grand  river,  had 
it not been for the  attempt of a few men  to 
get more than  the worth of  their  property. 
For years business  men  made  their  money 
in Lowell  and  invested  it elsewhere,  stop­
ping  here in the meantime but making aud 
building no homes here.  Such public spirit 
never built a city or  boomed  a  town.  But 
a change is happily coming  over  the  place; 
homes are going  up,  water works are to  be 
built,  furniture  and  cutter  factories  rise 
and  flourish, 
the  new  railroad  is  com­
ing,  and  men  begin  to  talk  as  if  Lowell 
had a future.  The Business Men’s Associa­
tion has,  I  understand,  helped  in  some  of 
these enterprises  and  proposes  united  and 
well-directed effort in  the future.  The As­
sociation Will do well,  among  other things, 
to give due encouragement  to  the improve­
ment of  the roads leading  into  the  village 
from the  surrounding  country;  to  beautify 
and adorn  the village—among other places, 
the public park  and  the  cemetery still fur­
ther;  to develop and utilize its water power 
and other natural  advantages;  to encourage 
and  aid  needed  public  improvements,  and 
agitate for greater  efficiency  in  its  schools 
and  the  payment  of  better  wages  to  its 
teachers.
But the business  man owes a still further 
duty to the community  iu  which  he  lives, 
viz.,  to  encourage  morality  and  obedience 
to law  and  to  discourage  vice  and  crime. 
This  seems  plain,  yet  there  are  business 
men  in  every  community,  Lowell  not  ex­
cepted,  who forget or ignore  this  duty.  A 
community  takes  its  moral  tone  largely 
from  its  business  men,  who  are  generally 
its most influential class of  citizens.  How, 
then, shall the  business  men of  Lowell, or 
this  Association,  longer  tolerate  gambling 
in  this  community, which  has  already  in­
jured many of  the  young men aud,  indeed, 
many of  the business men  of  this  village? 
I marvel that a business  man  whose credit 
is his pride, aud  who  must  know  that  the 
fact that he gambles,  if known,  will greatly 
injure that  credit,  or  one  who  appreciates 
his influence  in  a  community,  will  engage 
in any such practice. 
I am glad,  therefore, 
that one  of  the  objects of  this Association 
is to foster the highest commercial integrity, 
and I trust that it will seek to give a higher 
moral tone  and  life  to  this  locality.  Not 
that  Lowell  is  a  desperately  wicked  or 
abandoned place, or worse than the average; 
but, business men  of  Lowell,  it  is  well  to 
remember  that,  other  things  being  equal, 
the intelligent and desirable citizen will seek 
that  place for his home and for  the  in vest­
ment of his money that is most orderly, law- 
abiding,  and  moral  and  which  offers  the 
best educational advantages.  Believe  what 
we  may, the  school-house  and  the  church 
attract a desirable class of citizens.

Lowell  is  a  beautiful,  enterprising,  and 
growing village,  the best in the county,  and 
has a market not excelled.  It will probably 
never be a very large place,  but it may have 
a marked and nealthy growth.  Here is your 
place  of  business,  here  your  home.  Here 
you expect to rear your family, as you hope, 
to  careers  of  usefulness  and  honor.  You 
owe a debt to the community  in  which  you 
live.  How will  you discharge that debt?
This  Association  proposes,  further,  “to 
secure immunity from  inferior and adulter­
ated  goods,  short  weights,  counts,  and 
measures,  fictitious  brands  aud  labels  and 
misrepresentations 
in  public  and  pri­
vate.”  This  is  the  era  of  adulterations 
and fictions in trade.  Why,  even our whis­
key will not kill quickly enough when pure, 
and  so must be saturated with arsenic,  sul­
phuric  acid,  fusil  oil, aud other poison and 
decoctions,  when  it is properly termed “rot 
gut” and  warranted  sine death. 
I heartily 
congratulate the business .men who propose 
to guard against adulterations and cheats in 
their  trade,  but  they  must  be  argus-eyed 
and  sleepless 
to  detect  them  all;  but 
the effort will  pay.  “Honesty  is  the  best 
policy,” ever  has  been,  ever  will  be;  and 
selling goods for exactly what they are, at a 
fair  price  and  profit,  will  insure  success 
where deceit and cunning  will fail.  While 
theever-suspicious and ail-knowing “sharp” 
customer,  so-called,  is  sure  to  believe  that 
merchants  are  all  dishonest  and  ready  to 
cheat him and  that  if  he  escapes  it  is  be­
cause of  his own shrewdness, yet the desir­
able customer is one who by experience has 
gained confidence  in the tradesman, and re­
lies largely on his word and judgment as  to 
the price  and  quality  of  the  goods.  Such 
customers are  only to  be  secured  and held 
by honest dealing.

Another  and  most  important  aim of  the 
Business Men’s  Association  is  declared  to 
be “to introduce the  cash  system wherever 
practicable,  and  to  guard  against unneces­
sary  extension  of  credit  to  unworthy  per­
sons.”  The  credit system is, undoubtedly, 
a great burden  upon all classes of  business 
men, and especially so to retail tradesmen— 
a burden  not only because of  the enormous 
loss suffered  from  bad  debts,  but, also,  be­
cause of  the increased credit  the tradesman 
himself is obliged to ask for and receive and 
the  additional  capital  required  to  conduct 
business.  Bad debts and bad book-keeping 
are,  in my judgment, the  two  most fruitful 
sources of failure in business.  It is difficult 
enough, at  best, undor  present  conditions, 
to  succeed  in  ordinary  business  or  trade. 
What with the sharp competition and usually 
small profits, the  uncertain  and changeable 
market and price, due largely to speculation 
and  its  influence, and  the  poor  quality  of 
many goods. a tradesman ordinarily has  no 
bonanza.  But  when  to  these  is  added  a 
large credit system, resulting  in  many bad 
debts, and often  accompanied  by loose  and 
bad book-keeping, failure is only a question 
of time;  and  it is a matter of  little  wonder 
that  less  than  ten per cent,  of  the  men  in 
mercantile business  are  ultimately success­
ful.  Nor  is  the  credit  system  more  of  a 
curse to the tradesman than to thecustomer, 
for by it the  customer  is  often  induced  to 
buy that  which  he  cannot  afford  and  does 
not really need.  Mr. Hine  once said in the 
Lowell Journal that a  farmer was in a bad 
way  who  mortgaged  next  year’s  crop  for 
this  year’s  living.  So  he  who  buys  that 
which he cannot afford  and  could  by econ­
omy do without, trusting the future to bring 
the means of  payment, is also in a bad way 
and is taking  the  first  step .towards  bank­
ruptcy.
The credit system is, also,  largely respon­
sible for that parasite  of  society' and  crea­

ture  of  modem  times,  the  dead-beat. 
It 
has  fed  and  nourished  him  until  he  has 
grown  into  huge  proportions,  the  pest  of 
society and terror of  every  business  man— 
more terrible than an “army with banners.” 
Of all useless  and  worthless  people  in  the 
world  the  dead-beat  holds  equal  rank—I 
had almost said is entitled to the first place. 
Moving about from  place to place like a de 
vouring locust,  ever  seeking  “green  fields 
and  pastures  new,”  the  dead-beat  comes 
with his insinuating  smile,  his  oily tongue, 
and plausible promises and takes captive the 
tradesman unawares,  who in blissful ignor­
ance  smiles  over  his  trade  and  dreams  of 
large  profits, only  to  be  rudely  awakened 
and find that an account which he had banked 
upon  and  counted  good is so  much  waste 
paper,  so  much  book-keeping  for  naught, 
and his profits  sunken to losses.  The  new 
store,  with its  grand  opening,  is  the  dead­
beat’s paradise.  Joy  cometh  to  him  with 
its announcement.  He  lifteth  up his eyes, 
and,  behold, his  harvest is at hand.  He  is 
its  steady  customer  and  fast friend  until 
money is called for—then his heart is broken, 
his friendship and his trade cease.  And- so 
this  army  of  dead-lmts  preys  upon  the 
community, aud the  cry goes  up for  relief. 
When a man gets the notion  that the world 
owes him a living,  he is taking the first step 
toward becoming  a  dead-beat. 
If  he  once 
thoroughly  believes  and  acts  upon  that 
, principle,  he becomes of  no  use  to himself 
or to the world.  The world owes no man a 
living,  except  as  he  honestly  earns  it  and 
renders an equivalent for it  The thief, the 
tramp,  and the dead-beat are prominent and 
worthy  representatives  of  that  class  who 
hold and practice the contrary doctrine.
The credit system injures  not  alone  the 
tradesman and the customer who buys with­
out means of payment but the cash customer 
and he who pays  promptly,  as  well.  The 
merchant  must  retrench,  in  part, at least, 
for the losses suffered from bad debts.  Any­
way,  he must make the attempt.  Who will 
foot the bill other  than  his  casli and best­
paying  customers?  Hence, 
these  pay 
higher prices  because of  the credit system. 
If,  then,  this Association  shall  succeed  to 
any considerable extent  in  introducing the 
cash  system  or  in  reducing the amount of 
credit business,  it  will  benefit  all  classes, 
even the dead-beat himself,  who is not past 
reformation—if  any  such  there  be. 
It  is 
not practicable—and the  Association recog­
nizes the fact—iu  a  community  like  this, 
depending largely upon the custom of farm­
ers,  whose  cash  comes  iu usually only at 
certain seasons,  to do  a  strictly  cash  busi­
ness.  But if  a united effort be made by all 
business men,  it will be found feasible to do 
much  more  of  a  casli  business  than  the 
farmer and even the  tradesman  himself  is 
aware.
Not only by introducing  the cash system, 
where possible,  does  the  Association  pro­
pose to  eliminate dead-beats and protect its 
members, but, also, by exchanging informa­
tion in regard to customers,  thus  guarding 
against giving credit  to  unworthy persons, 
and by a system  of  collecting  doubtful  ac­
counts and  black-listing  dead-beats.  This 
feature of  the Association’s  work  is  most 
liable to be misunderstood aud  criticised by 
the public  and  abused  by  members  of  the 
Association.  Great care should be taken to 
prevent its use for  the  collection  of  unjust 
or honestly  disputed  accounts.  The  plan 
of  the Association  is,  iu  substance,  this: 
The  members  who  have  old  or  past-due 
accounts are first expected  to see the delin­
quent debtor in person and  attempt  to  get 
their due without resort  to the Association. 
This failing,  before reporting  the debtor as 
delinquent, they are required  to send him a 
“blue  letter,”  so-called,  setting  forth  the 
fact that he owes the  writer  a  stated  sum 
and  giving  him  fifteen  days  to  pay  or 
arrange for payment. 
If the debtor fails to 
do  this,  at  the  end  of  the fifteen days his 
name is  reported  to  the  secretary  of  the 
Association, with his  occupation  and place 
of residence.  The secretary then mails him 
an official notice,  which  states  that  unless 
he pays or  arranges to pay  the  amount  in 
ten days,  he  will  be reported to the Execu­
tive  Committee  as  a  delinquent. 
If  not 
then  paid, the  Executive  Committee, after 
investigating all disputed  accounts and giv­
ing the debtor an opportunity to be heard in 
the  absence  of  extenuating  circumstances, 
places his name upon  the list of  delinquent 
debtors.  These  delinquent lists,  both local 
and State,  are published for  the  use of  the 
members,  who are obliged not  to trust any­
one whose name appears upon them,  and, if 
they do so, they are  liable  to  a  fine of  ten 
dollars.  The purpose of  this is two-fold— 
the collection of doubtful debts, and protec­
tion against and  elimination of  dead-beats. 
Rightly  and  wisely used, this  may become 
an efficient means  to these ends.  The dan­
ger  is  that  wrong  may be  done by putting 
upon the list those  who are honestly trying 
to pay but  are  unfortunate,  and those  who 
honestly,  but  perhaps  mistakenly,  dispute 
the account. 
If  there be an honest dispute 
between the merchant and his customer over 
an account,  it should be settled by courts of 
justice—at  all events  outside  of  the Asso­
ciation.  This should be the  invariable rule 
if  the Association would merit success  and 
receive public approval.

Care should be exercised in the selection of 
the Executive Committee, choosing only men 
of  good judgment, who will  give sufficient 
time to  the careful  and thorough discharge 
of the duties of the Committee.  The widest 
difference  should  be  made  by the Associa­
tion  between  the dead-beat,  the dishonest, 
unwilling and indifferent debtor on  the  one 
hand, and the honest, but poor or unfortunate 
debtor on the  other.  Members  of  the  As­
sociation,  and  business  men  generally, 
should  remember  that  honest  men  cannot 
always pay their debts  when  due,  and  may 
sometimes  fail  to  keep  their  promises  to 
pay.  For  those  who  are  honestly striving 
to meet their obligations, the creditor should 
have  sympathy  and  forbearance.  But  the 
debtor  should  not  forget  the  truth of  the 
old darkey’s  saying  that “De  man dat  has 
to dodge ’round de comer  to  get  out ob  de 
way ob de man  he  owes  will  neber  get  to 
heaben.”
Never avoid your creditor.  If  you cannot 
pay him  when  the  debt  comes  due, go  di­
rectly to him, tell him so in a manly fashion; 
tell him also your reason and your prospects 
for  future  payment,  and  you  wiU  seldom 
fail  to  find  him  reasonable  and  accommo­
dating.  By  running  away,  dodging,  or 
avoiding him,  you  will lose his respect  and 
your  own.  Avoid  the  burden  of  debt. 
Nothing will sooner crush the life and sweet- 
neess out of average humanity,  followed  as 
it  is  in  natural  order  by  duns, collectors, 
attorneys,  and officers  of  the  law. 
It is to 
be  dreaded  and  avoided as  a  dire evil for 
whicli no amount of  present luxury and en­
joyment  can  compensate.  Choose  rather 
rigid  economy  and  self-denial.  Hedged 
about  by these  safeguards and governed by 
sucfi a spirit, this  department of  the Asso­
ciation ought  not  to  give  ground  for com­
plaint;  nor have delinquents any  reason  to 
complain—the  merchant  seeks  simply  his 
own by fair and honorable means.

But  does  some  one  suggest, How about 
the  tradesman  who  deliberately  defrauds

his  creditors  and  fails  in  order  to  make 
money? 
I do  not  know  what  the  rule of 
the Association is, but  to  him  the  advan­
tages of  membership should be denied.  We 
need to return to the  days of  old-fashioned 
honesty,  before  men  grew  rich  by  paying 
their creditors twenty-live cents on a dollar, 
and  when  dead-beats  were  unknown  and 
the name had not become a part*of  our lan­
guage, when it was just as much a part of a 
man’s religion to pay his debts  as it was  to 
attend  prayer-meeting. 
I  am  not  a  wor­
shipper of the past, but we might well learn 
of  it in this respect.
Finally,  I  understand  that  it is proposed 
by the Association to  bring  about  between 
business  men  themselves  a  mutual regard 
for each  others’  rights  and  feelings  and  a 
more generous and  honorable  rivalry. 
In­
deed,  if  the  other purposes of the Associa­
tion are  accomplished, this  will follow as a 
matter  of  necessity.  Much  progress  has 
already been made in this direction, or such 
an organization would be unthought of  and 
impossible.
Avoid  ruinous  competition  and  crying 
down each others’ goods;  be generous in all 
your treatment of each other;  unite heartily 
to  advance  your  common  interests,  and 
business  will  be  less  vexatious  and  more 
satisfactory and successful. 
In the present 
condition of  society, the  failure  or  success 
of  one  is  the  concern  of  all.  When  the 
farmer  suffers  loss,  business  languishes; 
when the merchant fails,  the  community is 
injured.  Society  is  interested  in its hum­
blest member.  Let the humblest  of  us  be 
dignified by the thought  that by doing hon­
est work, filling our  station  in  life  rightly 
and  well,  we  may  contribute to  the  uplift 
and welfare of  society.

“ Nothing useless is or low;
And what seems but idle show

Each thing in its place is best;
Strengthens and supports the rest.”

I  love  to  look  at  the  seal  and  read 
the motto of our State.  Who can read those 
words  upon  her  seal—“If  you  would  be­
hold a beautiful  peninsula, look  around”— 
and  remembering  the  natural  advantages, 
the  riches  of  forest,  farm,  and  mine,  the 
patriotism,  public spirit,  and intelligence of 
our  Michigan,  not  feel  an  honest  and  just 
pride?
If the Business Men’s Associations of our 
State follow closely their organic  principles 
and  ever  seek  to  attain  their ends by fair 
means and in a spirit of justice and forbear­
ance,  they  will  multiply,  for  not  only  the 
members  but  the  State  and  all its people 
will be benefitted.
It affords The  Tradesm an much pleas­
ure to be able to give the above oration ver­
batim,  as  it  is  the  best  general  address 
which has ever been  given on  that subject. 
Mr. Walker was frequently interrupted with 
applause and at the close of his  speech was 
heartily greeted.

After  another  selection  by  the  band, 
President Blain called on the editor of The 
T radesm an,  who  spoke  briefly  on  the 
same subject  covered by Mr.  Walker, con­
cluding with the following  reference to the 
State Association:

As the local organizations  were called in­
to existence as a matter  of  necessity,  so it 
was soon found to be necessary to carry the 
work further than the local  body  could do 
it effectively, and as a result of such  neces­
sity the Michigan  Business  Men’s Associa­
tion was organized last  September.  Of the 
work accomplished in  the first  year of our 
existence, it is only necessary for me to say 
that it is more than  we  anticipated  when 
we begun.
As the local  association  represents unity 
and equity,  so the State body stand for- that 
co-operative  strength  which  comes  from 
combined  and  concerted  action.  No  at­
tempt is made to dictate to the local bodies, 
the State Association  assuming such duties 
only as cannot be well  performed by the lo­
cal organization. 
Iu  other  words,  we take 
up the work  where  the  local  association 
leaves off and carry it forward.  The  delin­
quent is the ward of the local association so 
long as he remains within the jurisdiction of 
the organization  placing  him on the delin­
quent  list,  but when he moves  to new pas­
tures the  State  Association  steps  in and 
does what it can  to  prevent  him  getting 
credit in the new  field  and so posting  the 
business men that they  may not  be victim­
ized.  We find that the  subject of  securing 
good, and  combating  inimical,  legislation 
can better be handled by a central organiza­
tion than by a hundred  local  branches,  al­
though the machinery of the  parent body is 
such that the work is done by the locals, the 
State organization furnishing merely the di­
recting force.  The  same  is true,  in a gen­
eral way, of the  subjects of  transportation 
and insurance,  both of  which  are  bound to 
play important parts in our future work.
As the possibilities of  local  organization 
expand, so we expect the State body to keep 
pace with the times and  render its quota to 
the success of the cause.  We  believe  that 
local organization is the only  feasible  plan 
for the reformation of trade  abuses and the 
elevation  of  business  men  and  business 
methods;  and we are  equally  certain  that 
an organization  which  brings all the local 
bodies  into  harmony—enabling  the  busi­
ness men of all  sections to  join  hands for 
the accomplishment of a common purpose— 
is destined to play  no  unimportant  part in 
the work of busmess  regeneration  and ad­
vancement.

Another selection by the  band  closed the 
literary  exercises  of  the day,  when an ad­
journment was taken to the fair  grounds to 
witness a game of base ball between Lowell 
and Grand Rapids clubs.

The Lowell Association has accomplished 
much  good in the  eighteen  months it has 
been in existence and  President  Blain and 
the members  have every reason to look for­
ward to a successful future.

Manistee  Joins  the  State  Body.

Manistee,  Aug 17,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

Dea r  Sir—Our Association at the meet­
ing held August 5, decided to join the State 
Association,  and  I  herewith  enclose  P.  0. 
order  for  $6.30  iu  payment  of  per  capita 
dues for present membership.
We  shall  endeavor  to  be  represented  at 
the convention.
We have  just  gotten  out  our first delin­
quent  sheet  and  will  report  to  you  next 
month. 

Yours respectfully,

H.  W. Leonard,  Sec’y.

“ Let  There  Be  Light.”

Saug atuck, Aug.  20,  1887,

E. A. Stowe, Grand  Rapids:

De a r Sir—Will  you  please  give  me  a 
few of the general by-laws of  the  Business 
Men’s Association?  We  want  an Associa­
tion, but  don’t  know  just  what  it  is. 
If 
you can give  us  some light  on the  subject, 
we will be very grateful.

Yours Respectfully, 

L. A. Phelps.

Muskegon  Business  Men  Make  a  Good 

Start.

From the Muskegon News, Aug. 18

About forty representative  business  men 
met at Rifenburg hall last  evening  to  con­
sider the project of organizing  a  Business 
Men’s  Association.  H.  B.  Fargo  was 
selected to act as chairman  and  Jacob Jes- 
sou as secretary pro  tern.  E.  A. Stowe,  of 
Grand  Rapids,  who  has  organized  over 
eighty associations,  explained the aims and 
objects of organized effort  among  business 
men, when John  Howell  moved  that  the 
formation of an  association be immediately 
proceeded with, which was adopted.  R.  S. 
Miner moved that the constitution  present­
ed by Mr.  Stowe  be  adopted,  which  was 
carried,  when 
the  following  gentlemen 
handed in their names  for  charter  member 
ship:  H.  B.  Fargo,  R.  S. Miner, Jacob Jes- 
son &  Co., A. Towl, M. M.  Goodspeed,  J. 
R. Tweedale &  Co.,  John  DeHaas,  Wm. 
Pease, Philabaum & Howell,  E.  W.  Quack- 
enbush, Main & Anderson,  W.  R. Keift,  L. 
Poppe,  F.  E.  Johnson,  John  Newton, 
Scandinavian Stock Co., F. H. Johnson, D. 
A. Boelkens,  C.  C. Moulton,  A.  D. Wood, 
I. H. Goldman,  A.  Van  Buren,  Geo.  L. 
Pillsbury, H. Hasse,  Cotton  &  Goldrath, 
H. D. Baker,  S. S. Morris  &  Bro.,  Rosen 
Bros., A.  S.  Mussen  & Welton,  D.  Christie 
& Co.
Committees were appointed to receive the 
names of the remaining business men of the 
city, when an adjournment was  taken until 
next Tuesday evening, at  which  time  offi­
cers will be elected and the work of the As­
sociation begun in earnest.
A  Plan  to  Further  Improve  the  Present 

Collection  System.

Saranac,  Aug.  17,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

D ear  Sir—Can  we  not  at  the Septem­
ber  meeting  of  the  State Association  fur­
ther improve our  collection  system  by hav­
ing a State  collector  appointed,  who  could 
take charge of the entire department and be 
furnished with blanks for  the  purpose  and 
collect the hard ones that  the  local associa­
tion can not fetch to time?
I have  a  plan which I would like to pre­
sent to the convention,  if it is so desired.
Yours truly, 
H.  T.  J ohnson.
F. J.  Dettenthaler will  handle the  justly 
celebrated  Anchor  brand of  oysters again 
the coming season.  This  brand  gave uni­
versal satisfaction last season,  having made 
hundreds of friends  among the trade, all of 
whom  will  insist  on  handling  the sauie 
brand again the  coming  season.  Mr. Det- 
tenthaler  also  hopes  to  put  the  Anchor 
brand in many new hands this year.

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

..dis 

BELLS.

BOLTS.

BRACES.

BUCKETS.

........ dis $ 

aug er s a n d b it s.

promptly and buy in full packages.
Ives’,  old style.......................... ............. dis 
60
N.  H. C. Co................................. ............. dis 
60
Pierces’ ....................................
60
.............dis 
Snell’s ......................................... ............. dis 
60
Cook’s  ....................................... ............. dis 
40
Jennings’,  genuine.................. ............. dis 
25
Jennings’, imitation................
........... dis50&10
BALANCES.
Spring......................................... ....... 
40
BARROWS.
Railroad....................................
...............$  14 00
Garden......................................... ........... net 33 00
Hand..........................
..dis  $ 60*10*10
Cow.............................................. ... dis 
70
Call............................................
30*15
...dis 
Door, Sargent............................ ...dis 
60*10
Stove..........................................
60
Carriage  new list...................... ..........dis  7G&10
Sleigh Shoe................................. ..........dis 
70
Wrought Barrel  Bolts............. ..........dis 
60
Cast  Barrel Bolts..................... ..........dis 
40
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs........
40
........dis 
Cast Square Spring................ :
60
........ dis 
Cast Chain................................. ..........dis 
40
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............dis 
60
W roughtSquare....................... ..........dis 
60
Wrought Stink Flush...............
........ dis 
60
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated Knob
Flush....................................... ..........dis  60*10
Ives’ Door.................................. ..........dis  60*10
Barber ............................
40
........dis $ 
Backus............................
........dis  50*10
Spofford.............................
........ dis 
50
Am. Ball...................................... ..........dis 
net
Well, plain....................
...............$  3 60
Well, swivel...............................
4 00
............... 
BUTTS. CAST.
Cast Loose Pin, figured..................... dis 
70*10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........ dis  70*10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis  60*10
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  j oint.. dis  60*10
Wrought  Loose  Pin........................... dis  60*10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorntip...........dis  60*  5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned...........dis  60*  5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvei
tipped................................................ dis  60& 5
Wrought Table.....................................dis  60*10
Wrought  Inside  Blind........................dis  60*10
Wrought Brass.....................................dis 
75
Blind, Clark’S;...................................... dis  70*10
Blind, Parker’s.....................................dis  75*10
Blind,  Shepard’s.................................. dis 
70
........................................... per  m $ 65
G. D  ...................................................... 
35
60
Musket................................................... 
Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester  new list50&10
Rim  Fire, United  States.........................disoO&lO
Central Fire..............................................dis30*10
CHISELS.
Socket Firmer... 
................................dis  70*10
Socket Framing......................................dis  70*10
Socket Corner.........................................dis  70*10
Socket Slicks...........................................dis  70*10
Butchers’Tanged Firmer.....................dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers...................... dis 
20
Cold........................................................ net
Curry,  Lawrence’s................................. dis 40*10
25
Hotchkiss  .............................................dis 
Brass, Racking’s...................................... 
60
Bibb’s ........................................................ 
60
g e er -,-...................................................."!". 40*10
Fenns........................................................  
60
28
Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... ss 
 
31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60................ 
 
23
Cold Rolled, 14x48...................................   
23
Bottoms................ ................................!!!.*...  23
40
Morse’s Bit  Stock.............................. dis 
Taper and Straight Shank................. dis 
40
Morse’s Taper  Shank.........................dis 
40
Com. 4 piece, 6  in.................. .........doznet  $.80
Corrugated...........................................dis  20*10
Adjustable...........................................dis  %&10
30
Claris, small, $18 00;  large, $26  00.  dis 
Ives’. 1. $18 00 ;  2. $24 00;  3, $30 00.  dis 
25
American File Association List.......dis  6Q&10
Disston’s ..............................................dis 
60*10
New American... ................................ dis  60*10
60*10
Nicholson’s...........................................dis 
..............................................dis  56*10
Heller’s 
Heller s  Horse Rasps.........................dis 
50
28
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 
18

27 
15 
Discount, Juniata o0@10, Charcoal 60. 

OALVANIZED IRON,
14 

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

22 and 24,  25 and 26, 

files—New List.

EXPANSIVE BITS.

CATRIDGES.

ELBOWS.

COPPER.

DRILLS

COMBS.

COCKS.

CAPS.

12 

 

60
Stanley Rule and Level Co. ’s.............dis 
Maydole & Co.’s................................... dis 
25
Kip’s . . . . .............................................. dis 
25
Yerkes  &  Plumb’s..............................dis 
40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel....................30 c  list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 o 40*10
Bam Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track  60*10
Champion,  anti-friction....................dis  60*10
Kidder* wood track............................ dis 
40

HANGERS.

13 
QAUGES.
HAMMERS.

HINGES.

4 

HOES.

HOLLOW  WARE.

KNOBS—NEW LIST.

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

60
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3............................. dis 
State— ..................................... per doz, net, 2 60
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4%  14
3%
and  longer.............................................. 
10%
Screw Hook and Eye,  %  ...............  .net 
8%
Screw Hook and Eye %.......................net 
Screw Hook and Eye  £ ...................... net 
7%
Screw Hook and Eye,  \
.....................net 
7%
70
Strap and  T .......................................... dis 
P o ts....“. ................................................... 
P0
K ettles.......................................................  
00
so
Spiders  ................................................... " 
Gray  enameled........................................’’ 
50
Stamped Tin Ware..................... new  list 
75
Japanned Tin  Ware................................. 
26
Granite Irqp .Ware................................... 
25
Grub  1  /............................................ $11 00, dis 60
Grub  2...............................................   11 60, dis 60
Grub 3.................................................   12 00, dis 60
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........... dis 
65
Door, porcelain, jap.  trimmings...........  
55
Door, porcelain, plated  trimmings....... 
55
Door, porcelain, trimmings.................... 
55
70
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain......... dis 
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s......................  40&1K
Hemacite...............................................dis 
45
55
Russell *  Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list..dis 
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s.....................dis 
55
Branford’s ... 
...................................dis 
56
Norwalk’s ............................................. dis 
56
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...................dis  70
Adze  Eye......................................$16 00 dis 
60
Hunt  Eye..................................... $15 00 dis 
60
Hunt’s.........................................$18 60 dis 20 *10
Sperry *  Co.’r, Post.  handled..................dis  50
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s..........................  
dis 40
Coffee,P.S.*W.Mfg.Co.’s Malléables ...  dis 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s .............  dis  40
Coffee,  Enterprise..................................... dis  25
Stebbin’s Pattern  ................................dis  60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine.............................................dis 60*10
Enterprise,  self-measuring............................ dis 25

LEVELS.
MATTOCKS.

m olasses GATES.

MAULS.
MILLS.

LOCKS—DOOR.

NAILS —IRON.

Common, Brad and Fencing.

2 

2% 

j 50

OILERS.

8d  6d  4d

i  lOd 
1%
$1 25  1 50  1 75  2 00 

lOd to  60d....................  ..................... «  keg $2 10
8d and9 d adv.................................................. . . . .  26
6dand7d  adv......................................50
4dand5d  adv............................................... ..!!!" 75
3d advance....................................... ’
3d fine advance................................................2 25
Clinch nails, adv..............................................1 00
Finishing 
Size—inches  f  3 
Adv. $  keg 
Steel Nails—2 20.
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent......................dis60&10
Zinc, with brass bottom............................dis  50
Brass or  Copper.........................................dis  50
Reaper..................................... per gross, $12 net
Oimstead’s .................................................   50*10
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy............................  dis  30
Sciota Bench..........................................dis 50@55
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.....................dis  30
Bench, flrstjquality..............................dis 50@55
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood.... dis20*10 
Rry, A cm e.............................................. dis 50*10
Common, polished...........................  
dis60&10
6%
Dripping................................................$  a> 
Iron and Tinned.................................... dis 
55
Copper Rivets and  Burs......................’dis 
60
“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27  9 20

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

PLANES.

RIVETS.

PANS.

Broken packs %cÿlb extra.

ROPES.

 

'¿is

TIN  PLATES.

TINNER’S SOLDER.

Sisal, % in. and  larger...............................  n
Manilla................................................... 
12
SQUARES.
Steel and Iron....................... r
..........dis 70*10
Try and Bevels............................... 
........dis
60
Mitre  ................................................... .dis
..........dis
20
> Smooth. Corn.
..  $4 20
$2 90
..  4 20
2 90
..  4 20
3 00
..  4 20
3 05
..  4 40
3 15
..  4 60
3 25
over 2 inches

SHEET IRON.
Con
Nos. 10 to  14.............................
Nos. 15 to 17.............................
Nos. 18 to 21.............................
Nos. 22 to 24.............................
Nos .25 to 26............................
No. 27.........................................
All sheets No, 18 and  lightei 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, ÿ   8>...........................
6
In smaller quansities, ¡p  ü>.
6%
TACKS
American, all  kinds..........
........dis
60
Steel, all kinds....................
........dis
60
Swedes, all  kinds...............
........ dis
60
Gimp and Lace........................................
........ dis
60
Cigar Box  Nails........................  .!.!.!dis
........ dis
50
Finishing  Nails.................................... dis
50
Common and Patent  Brads........... '..'dis
60
Hungarian Nails and Miners’ Tacks, dis
60
Trunk and Clout Nails.........................dis
50
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails..........dis
45
Leathered Carpet  Tacks....................dis
35
No. 1,  Refined...........................................
12 50 
Market  Half-and-half....................  ...*
16 00 
Strictly  Half-and-half...........................j
17 50
IC,
10x14, Charcoal..........................5 40@5 60
IX,
10x14,Charcoal...............................  7 25
IC,
12x12, Charcoal...............................  à 25
IX,
12x12,  Charcoal.............................   7 75
IC,
14x20, Charcoal...............................  5  75
IX,
14x20,  Charcoal............ ..................   7 25
IXX,
14x20, Charcoal.............................  
s  75
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool............................. '  10 77
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal.......................... j  12 55
20x28, Charcoal...............................  15 60
IX, 
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................  0 go
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal......................... 
  8 50
DXX. 100 Plate Charcoal.............................  10 60
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.................... 
'  12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50 to 6 75 
Roofing, 14x20, IC................................. 
5 25
Roofing, 14x20,  IX ...........................................0  75
Roofing, 20x28, IC..............................................  
Roofing, 20x28,  IX.............................. ......  14 00
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne.................5 60
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne............  .  7 eo
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal  Teme............... 11 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal  Terne............  14 00
Steel, Game.....................................................60*10
OneidaiCommuntity,  New house’s..........dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60*10
Hotchkiss’  ............................................ 
60*10
S, P. *  W.  Mfg.  Co.’s ......................... ! ..” .'60*10
Mouse, choker........................................18c »  doz
Mouse,  delusion........................................ $1  50$  doz
Bright Market...................................................dis 67%
Annealed Market....................  ..........dis  70&lu
Coppered Market..............................................dis 62K
Extra Bailing............................................   dis  65
Tinned  Market................................................. dis 62%
Tinned  Broom.....................................................09
Tinned Mattress........................................£  a  g%
Coppered Spring Steel....  ...................dis 
50
Tinned Spring Steel.......................................... dis 40*10
Plain Fence............................................................3
Barbed Fence, galvanized..........................   4  10
painted............................... "3 3 5
Copper.......................................................new  list net
Brass..........................................................new list net
Bright...............................................dis  70*10*10
Screw Eyes.......................................dis  70*10*10
Hook’s ............................................. dis  70*10*10
Gate Hooks and  Eves...................dis  70*10*10
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
Coe’s Genuine........................................¿is
60
Coe’s Ptent A gricultural, wrought, dis
Coe’s Ptent, malleable.........................dis  75*10
BirdCages................................................... 
50
Pumps,  Cistern......................................diB 
75
Screws, new  list........................................ 
70*5
Casters,  Bed  and  Plate.................... dis50*10*10
Dampers, American................................. 
4(1
Forks, hoes, rakes an all steel goods.¿60*10*10 
Copper  Bottoms...................................... 
23c

MISCELLANEOUS.

TIN—LEADED.

WIRE GOODS.

WRENCHES.

TRAPS.

rates.

WIRE.

’ non

“ 

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

The furniture factories  here  pay  as  follows 

for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run...............................12 
00@14 00
00@18 00
Birch, log-run.......................................15 
Birch, Nos. 1 and  2..............................  @25 00
Black Ash, log-run...............................13  O0@15 00
00@35 00
Cherry,  log-run....................................25 
00@50 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and 2............................45 
Cherry,  cull......................................... 
@10 00
00@14 00
Maple,  log-run..................................... 12 
00@13 00
Maple, soft,  log-run............................11 
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2.............................. 
@20 00
Maple, clear, flooring......................... 
@25 (v>
Maple, white, selected.......................  
(gets on
Rea Oak, log-run.................................  @ia 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2......................... 
@‘>4  00
Red Oak, quarter  sawed................... 26 
00@30 00
Red Oak. No.  1, step plank...............
Walnut, log-run...................................
Walnut, Nos. 1 aud 2..........................
Walnuts,  culls....................................
Grey Elm, log-run..............................
White Ash,  log-run.............................12
Whitewood,  log-run...........................20
White Oak, log-run...........................

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Michiuaii  Business  Mont*  Association. 

President—Frank Hamilton, Traverse City.
First Vice-President—Paul P. Morgan, Monroe.
Second Vice-President—E. J. Herrick, Grand Kapids. 
Secretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Kapids.
Treasurer—Julius Schuster, Kalamaxoo. 
Executive Committee—President, First V iceWresident, 
Secretary, N. B. Blain and W. E. Kelsey.
■Committee on Trade Interests—Smith Barnes, Traverse 
City;  P. Ranney, Kalamaxoo;  A.  W.  Westgate,  Che-
Comxnittee on Legislation—'W. E.  Kelsey,  Ionia;  J.  V.
Crandall, Sand Lake;  J. F. Clark, Big Rapids. 
Committee on Membership—H. S.  Church,  Sturgis, B.
F. Emery, Grand Kapids;  the Secretary.
Committee  on  Transportation—Jas.  A. AloyC;  Grand 
Kapids;  J.W.  Milliken,  Traverse  City;  C.  T.  Bridg­
man, Flint. 
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Committee on Constitution—W. E. Kelsey,  Ionia,  R. D.
McNaughton, Coopersville;  I. i .  Clapp, Allegan, 
Official Organ—Thk Michipas Tradesman-
The following local associations have mostly 
been  organized  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Michigan Business Men’s Association, ana  are
auxiliary thereto:  ______ _

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

President, D. F. Watson;  Secretary, Elmer Chapel. 
President, C. R. Smith;  Secretary, Peter Baldwin.____
Presldentflrving F. Clapp ; Secretary. E. T. VanOstrand. 
R e ta il  G rocers’ A sso cia tio n  o f  B a ttle  ^ e e k  
President. Geo. H. Rowell;  Secretary. John I . Stanley.

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

B e ld in g   M erch an ts’  A sso cia tio n . 
President, H. J. Leonard; Secretary, J. M. Earle.
B e llâ tr e   B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A 8SO®1“; ^ ”; 
President, John Rodgers;  Secretary« G. J. Noteware^
B u rr  O ak  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 

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

President, B. O. Graves;  Secretary■ H. M. Lee
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M erch an t’s P r o te c tiv e  A ss’n 
President, E. P. Clark;  Secretary. A. S. Hobart.
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B o v n e   C ity  B u sin e ss M en’s A sso cia tio n . 
Presichmt, R. RtPerking;  Secretary, F. M. Chase.
President, J. C. McAdam;  Secretary, C. T. Chapin.
A  I COIUCHK, m 
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C arson C ity B u sin e ss M en’s A sso cia tio n . 
President, F. A. Rockafellow;  Secretary, C. O- TrasK.
"Casn’o v la .  B a ile y   an d   T ren t  B .  M.  A
President. H. E. Hesseittne;  Secretary, E. Famham.----
C edar  S p rin gs  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President,'!. W. Provin;  Secretary. L. H. Chapman.
TCHlurut. A. 
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C h a rlev o ix   B u sin e ss  M en’s A s s o c ia tio n .
President. John Nichols;  Secretary. R. W. Kane. 
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•C oop ersville  B u sin ess  M en’s  A ssociation . 
•President. G. H. Watrous;  Secretary, W. K. Boynton.
—---------- it,  m   p .r T o f  C h eb oygan .
President, J. H. Tuttle;  Secretary, H. G. Doxer.
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D im o n d a le   B u sin e ss M en’s A sso cia tio n .
President, T. M. Sloan:  Secretary, N.H. Widger.-------
D orr  B u sin ess  M en’s  A ssociation . 
President, L. N. Fisher;  Beeretary. E. S. Botsford.
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R e ta il  G rocers’  A sso cia tio n   o f
President,  Richard Luster;  Secretary, Chas. H. Smith.
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H U vU V , 
Edm ore Business  M en’s A ^ o ciatlo n  

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Secretary, Will. Emmery

Geo. L. Thurston. Central Lake

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

President, H. W. Robson;  Secretary, W. 8. Whittlesey,
President*?.  H.  Thurston,  Central  Lake;  Secretary, 
iLanids  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n .
E lk  K ap id s B u sin e ss M en’s P r o te c tiv e  A s’n. 
President, J. J. McLaughlin;  Secretary, C. L. Martin.— 
K vart B u sin e ss M en ’s A sso c ia tio n . 
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President, W. M. Davis;  Secretary, Chas. E. Bell.
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F ife  t a k e  B u sin e ss M en’s A sso cia tio n . 
President, E. Hagadom; Secretary, O. V. Adams.----
President, W. C. Pierce;  Secretary, J. L. Willett.
President, Wm. Upton;  Secretary. E. R. Chandler.
President, Foster Sisson;  Sec’y, Arthur Cheseborough. 
President. Joseph Gerber; Secretary, C. X. Rathbun.----
G rand  H a v en   B u sin e ss ^M^n’s  A ssociation . 
President, Fred. P. Voss;  Secretary, Fred A. Hutty.

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F ra n k fo rt  B u sin ess  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
F r e e p o r t  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 

F lin t  M ercan tile  U n ion . 

F r e m o n t B . M . A .

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R e ta il  G rocers’  A ss’n  o f  G™.n ^t “ ^ p la s’ 
■ President. Jas. A. Coye;  Secretary, E. A. Stowe.
G r e en v ille   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, L. W. Sprague;  Secretary, E. J. Clark.
H a rtford  B u sin e ss M en’s A sso cia tio n . 
• President. V.E. Manley ;  Secretary, I. B. Barnes.
H o lla n d  B u sin e ss M en’s A sso cia tio n , 
•sident, John Krnmer;  Secretary, P. W.  Kane.
President,-------------- ^ _________________—------
H a stin g s  B u sin e ss  H en 's  A sw c ia tlo n . 
President. iTE. Stauffer:  Secretary.  J.  A.  VanArm.
H arb or  S p rin gs  B u sin e ss  M Ï Ï s Â m ’Ü. 
President, W. J. Clark;  Secretary, A.L.  Thompsan.
H ersev  ¡B usiness M en’s A sso cia tio n .
President, 0?L. Millard; Secretary, Frank Beardsley 
H o p k in ’s  S tation   B u sin e ss  M en’s A ss’n.
President, 8. Courber; Secretary, 8. C. Pendei.--------
H ow ard   C ity B u sin e ss  M en ’s A sso c ia tio n  
-Chairman, C. A. Vandenberg;  Secretary, B. J. Lowry.
H o lla n d   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n , 
resident, Jacob Van Putten;  Secretary, A. Van Duren
M u b b ard ston   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n  
¡President, Boyd Redner;  Secretary, L. V- ■ Robinson.
President. Wm. E.  Kelsey;  Secretary,  Fred. Cutler, Jr

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

■President,G. F. Jackson, Secretary, John Everden.__
K a la m a zo o   R e ta il G rocers’ A sso cia tio n . 
•K alkaska  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 

■ President. P. Ranney;  Secretary. M. S. Scovllle.
President. A. E. Palmer;  Secretary. C. E. Ramsey.
K in g sle v   B u sin ess  M en’s  A ssociation , 
»sident. H  P. Whipple;  Secretory.  C. H. Camp.
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lo u sin g  Business  M en’s Association.
President. Frank Wells;  Secretary, Will Crotty.___
L aw ren ce B u sin e ss  M en’s A sso cia tio n . 
m  Marshall;  Secretary, C. A. Stebblns,
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L eslie   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 

E yon s  K usiness  M en’s  A s’n 

President. Wm. Hutchings;  Secretary. M. L. Campbell 
E o w e ll  B u sin e ss  M en’s  P r o te c tiv e   A ss’ 
President, K. B. Blain ;  Secretary. Frank T. King.
L u th er   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President. W. B. Pool;  Secretary, Chas. J. Robinson.
President, B. M. Hutchinson:  Secretary,D-SA. Reynolds 
M auc eln n a   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, W.E. Watson;  Secretary, C. L. Bailey.
M an istee  B u sin e ss M en ’s A sso cia tio n . 
President, C.  D. Gardner;  Secretary, H. W. Leonard, 
M a n istiq u e  B u sin e ss M en’s A sso cia tio n . 
President, F. H. Thompson;  Secretary, E. N. Orr.
M anton’s  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 

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

M uir  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
M erch an t’s  U nion  o f  N a sh v ille . 

President. F. A. Jenlson;  Secretary, R. Fuller.
U rocers’  A ss’u  o f  th e   C ity  o f   M u sk egon
President, H. B. Fargo;  Secretary, Wm. Peer._______
President. Simon Town;  Secretary, L. A. Ely. 
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President, Herbert M. Lee;  Secretary, Walter Webster 
President. J. M. Ballou;  Secretary. J- F. Conrad.______
President, W.E. Thorp ;  Secretary, E. 8. Houghtallng.
■President, C. H. Hunter;  Secretary. Lester Cooley.
O w osso  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President. W. A. Woodard; Secretary, 8. Lamfrom.
Petow key  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, Jas. Buckley;  Secretary. A. C. Bowman.
P e w a m o   B u sin ess  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, Albert Retan;  Secretary, E. R. Holmes.

O ceana  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A s’n. 

O vid  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A s’n. 

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

M. U. F. A. of Fort Huron. 

President, M. Bailey ;  Secretary, J. A. Sidle,
President. G. C. Meise!:  Secretary. 8. L. Merrlam.
President, L. T. Wtimarth; Secretary, R.E. McCormick.
President, C. /. Fleischauer; Secretary, H. W. Hawkins. 

B e e d  C ity   B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A sso c ia tio n . 
R o ck fo rd   B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A sso cia tio n .

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

Sand  T ak e  B   M. A .

M erchants’ P r o te c tiv e  A ssociation ,

-President, Geo. A. Sage;  Secretary, J. M. Spore.______
¡President, J. V. Crandall;  Secretary,  Peter  Comstock.
gt.-C barles  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, B. J. Downing;  Secretary, E. E. Burdick
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President, H. L. Kendrick;  Secretary, C. M. Merrill. 
B u sin e ss M en’s P r o te c tiv e  A ss’n o f Saranac 
President, Gee. A. Potts;  Secretary, P. T. Williams. 
President, H. E. Symons; Secretary, D. W. Higgins.
S o u th   B oard  m an   B u sin e ss  M en’s A ss’n. 
President, H. E. Hogan;  Secretary, S. E. Nlehardt. 
do. A rm  an d  K. J o r d a n  B u sin e ss M en’s A s’n 
«»resident, P. C. Loveday;  Secretary, C. W. Button.
S h erm an   B u sin e ss M en’s A sso cia tio n . 
President, H. B. Sturtevant;  Secretary, W. Q. Shane.
-Spurta  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso c ia tio n . 

S c o ttv ille  B . M. A .

President, J. R. Harrison;  Secretary, M. B. Nash.

S tu rg is  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, Henry S. Church;  Secretary. Wm- Jom. 
T raverse  C ity  B u sin ess  M en’s  A sso cia tio n  
President. Geo. E. Steele;  Secretary,  L. Roberts.
T a sti n  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President. G. A. Estes;  Secretary, Geo. W. Bevins.
V e rm o n tv ilie   B u sii 
__________Secretary, W. E. Holt.
President, W. H. Benedic
President. II. Peirce;  Secretary, F. H- Merrlfteld.

W a te r v lle t B u sin e ss M en ’s A sso cia tio n . 

>ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n

W a y la n d   B u sin ess  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
W ood lan d   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 

President. E. W. Pickett;  Secretary. H. J. Turner.
President, John Veite;  Secretary, X. N. Harter
W hite Cloud  Business  Men’s  Association. 
•President, P. M. Roedel;  Secretary, M. D. Hayward.

W h it«   t a k e   B u sin e ss  M e n »  A* n. 

President. A. T. Linderman, Whitehall  Secretary,  W. 

B. Nicholson, Whitehall.

TH E  FIRST  ANNIVERSARY.

Annual Picnic of the White Lake Business 

Men’s  Association.

The White  Lake  Business  Men’s  Asso­
ciation was organized on  August  12,  1886.
Much  good  work^  has  been  accomplished 
during the past  year  and  much  remains to 
be done.  For the purpose of indulging in a 
mutual rejoicing  over  the  achievements of 
the past and  laying  plans  for  future work, 
it was decided to celebrate the first anniver­
sary  of  the  birth  of  the  organization  by 
holding a picnic  at  the  White Lake resort,
There were not so  many invitations  issued 
as on the Fourth  of  July—when the  Asso­
ciation tendered everyone a free ride  to the 
same  resort,  an  invitation  which  was  ac­
cepted  by  1,500  people—but  a  sufficient 
number  put  in  an  appearance  to  tax the 
capacity of  the  ferry boat  Cayuga  to  the 
utmost.  On  several trips  it  was necessary 
to lash a barge to  the  boat,  in  order  that 
none might be disappointed.

tion—nature has been lavish In that regard. 
We can say without fear of  successful con­
tradiction that there is not a more beautiful 
country, naturally,  in the State of Michigan, 
than  that  lying  within a radiu3  of  five  to 
eight  miles  from White  Lake.  This  may 
seem a broad assertion, and one made with­
out  very cateful  consideration'  to  someone 
who  hasn’t  been  out  around  very  much. 
However that may be, I can say that I have 
travelled a good deal and have been  a  close 
observer  wherever  I  went, and  the  state­
ment  is  made  not  for effect,  not  to  see 
what I can  say to you  to-day to cheer you, 
not to disparage other places, but  because I 
believe it to be absolutely true.  Remember 
I  speak  of  natural  beauty;  unfortunately, 
however, we  cannot do very much business 
with natural beauty—the great trouble is the 
beauty is  too natural,  too  unadorned.  We 
would like her better with a modest drapery 
of  thriving  tillings, and  we  would  like  to 
shake hands and do business with the thnv-
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there !  Moss-back.  This may be ri 
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vulgar,  but  I  cahnot  express  mys 
better, and I ask  your  pardon.  Th 
est  problem we have to solve, in m] 
is  the  proper  way  to  change  the 
to  “Ah, 
there!  Moss-back,” 
Thriving  Tiller.”  Gentlemen,  it
it.  Let  us  attend  to  our business  as  w 
s
comes  business  men. 
I  have  made  thi 
matter a study—I may say a special study-

there

izers.

The resort chosen f o r  the picnic comprises 
seventy acres, being a  strip of land about a 
quarter of a mile wide  lying  between Lake 
Michigan  and  White  Lake.  The  land  is 
situated at an  elevation  of  about fifty feet 
above the water on either side,  is sufficient­
ly  undulating  to  render  the  view  pictur 
esque, and  is  handsomely  shaded  by  tall 
pines and second-growth hardwood.  There 
is  an  absence  of  the  ever-shifting  white 
sand so common at most  other Lake Michi­
gan resorts,  its  place  being  taken  by occa­
sional patches of green  sward and  a luxur 
ious  growth of small vegetation.  Why the 
owners of the resort have not developed and 
improved it  is  only  explainable  on the hy 
pothesis  that they are  lumbermen  by pro 
fession and  see  more  money in  converting 
their  pine  forests  into  lumber.  A  few 
thousand  dollars  judiciously  invested  in  tenamJS 
laying out the  grounds and  constructing 
_ good hotel  would  bring in large  returns 
besides  attracting  thousands  of  people to 
the  resort during the  summer season 

pay  for  high-priced fertilizers.  Neitl 
it  best  for this  sandy land.  A  vege 
mass—mixing  with  and  separating 
heat-and-cold-conducting  little  rocks 
make  the  sand—is the stuff  that  ch£

warmer and more  fertile.

The first boat left for the  picnic  grounds 
at 9 o’clock and five round  trips  were made 
at intervals of  two hours thereafter.  After 
surveying  the  grounds  and  admiring  its 
many beauties,  an old-fashioned  picnic ^in 
ner was  summarily  disposed  of,  when  the 
crowd  gathered  at  the  pavilion,  attracted 
thither  by music furnished  by  the  Ladies’
Comet  Band  of  Whitehall.  Although  the 
ladies have had but a single  year’s practice, 
they  play  like  veterans,  and  contributed 
greatly to the day’s enjoyment.  The meet­
ing was called  to  order  by  President  Lin­
derman, when  Rev. B.  F. Murden  invoked 
"the  divine  blessing.  Secretary  Nicholson 
made  his  annual report, showing a balance 
of 873 in the entertainment fund and 844.26 
in the general  fund.  The  various  actions 
taken  by  the Association  during  the  year 
were cited, showing that  the  members  had 
allowed  no  grass  to grow under their feet. 
President  Linderman  then  called  on  the 
editor of  T he  Tradesm an  for  a  few  re­
marks, which were given, when an interest­
ing  address  was  made  by  L.  M. Mills  in 
behalf  of  the traveling men.

The President  then  read  his  annual  ad­

Our  Association  was  formed  for 

dress, as follows:
It devolves upon me at this  our  first  an­
nual meeting to  present  to  your  notice a 
brief resume of the results of  our  past  ef­
forts, and to present for your  consideration 
fields for operations for the  future.
the 
avowed purpose of collecting  bad debts  of 
the past, of protection against bad debts in the 
future, of harmonizing interests, of promot­
ing a friendly  intercourse of the  members, 
of advertising  the  advantageous  locations 
to be  secured by  outsiders  who  desire  to 
come among us, or rather who desire  to  go 
somewhere,  and whom  we  desire  to  have 
come among us.  Gentlemen, we have done 
a goodly amount of these things, more, pre­
haps, than  we  are  any  of  us  aware  of.
Such undertakings do not come  about  in a 
day or a month, but we are  being  educated 
rapidly in harmony of feeling,  in  unity  of 
action, in learning to  yield  our  individual 
ideas where they conflict with the  minds of 
the mass, in studying the good of the towns 
In which we live, as well as meditating  up­
on  our  individual  benefit, 
in  becoming 
broader guage men with every effort  of  the 
kind  we  make.  Brothers—before  I  said 
Gentlemen,  now I say  Brothers—this  is  a 
good deal to do in one short year,  and yet it 
has not seemed to show  a  great  amount; 
the  foundation,  however,  has  been  well 
laid for future action  and  each  succeeding 
effort will become the easier  for  what  we 
have done this year.  All  grand  undertak­
ings have had their  beginnings,  oftentimes 
small and  without  promise;  few  realize, 
however, when  later  on  success  seems  to 
crown every effort and things seems to move 
of themselves in the way we want  them  to 
go, that the silent work on  the  foundation 
of the structure has made such  things  pos-
sible. 
The attendance at  our  regular  meetings 
has not been as large as it should have been. 
Gentlemen, it will  pay you to make a point 
to  be  at  the  regular  meetings  oftener.
There are matters  of  interest  that  will  be 
brought out the  coming  year.  Be  present 
at  the meetings—bring your oar  along  and 
put it in.  You may not see the dollars and 
cents in it at the time, but  you will  surely 
see the sense in it later on.
Turning now from the  generalities of the 
past, I desire  to  direct  your  attention  to 
some specific matters which  need  your  at­
tention in the near future.  We  are an As­
sociation of business men.  To be such,  we 
have  to  do  business.  .This  necessitates 
someone  to  do  business  with. 
It  is  an 
open secret that a good many of the lumber­
men and their hundreds  of employees  will 
not be engaged in cutting  up  pine  logs on 
White Lake a thousand  years  from  now.
Some of them will  have  moved  away  by 
that time—and they  may go  sooner.  Shall 
we move away after them,  stay here and go 
out of business or bring in other  people  to 
do  business with who won’t go away?
Now,  gentlemen, robbed of  all  romance 
or  ridicule,  there  is  one  of  these  three 
propositions  that  we  need  to  settle  the 
very first  thing we  do.  There is  no ques­
tion  about the natural  beauty of  ourloca-

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with  ten

As I said, 

lakes  dotted 
each  suppon

fui 
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rs. 
rs, 
lumberman  had  gone? 
I  think  n ot;  in 
fact,  I think if we should  look for  our lost 
lumberman,  we  would find  him at home  in 
some vine-clad cottage not a thousand miles 
away,  happy in the possession of  ten acres 
of  such fruit  land,  a competence, and—lit­
tle tillers.  Ah, there!  Little Tiller.
this  sand  cannot be  made to 
blossom  like  the  rose  by any  other means 
than  green fertilizers  judiciously and intel­
ligently  applied.  But people are not going 
to bank  on what I say or  any other  person 
says  that that  process will  accomplish  the 
desired result;  seeing is believing, and how­
ever  nice  this  may  look  on  paper,  they 
would  much  rather  be in the  condition of 
the happy swain who had  just been accept­
ed by his sweetheart.  Said he,
Love’s no humbug,  though all things show it; 
Once I thought so—now I know it.
Gentlemen, these  people  must  not  only 
think that this sand can be profitably work­
ed by this process—they  must  know it.  A 
movement is on foot  to  prove  by  practical 
demonstration  upon  a piece  of  this  sandy 
land  that it can be done.  That  movement 
should be fostered and encouraged by every 
business man in this vicinity.  A committee 
have in charge the  consideration of  a stock 
company to  lease and cultivate in  the right 
way a small tract  of  sandy  land. 
I  hope 
that they will form the  company  and  that 
we  will  all  take  stock.  A  better  thing 
could not be done.
In conclusion,  I suppose the proper thing 
for me to do would  be to  extend my thanks j 
to you all for the courtesy you have extend­
ed to me  during  the past  year,  etc.,  ad lib.
1 don’t think I’ll do anything  of  the  kind, 
however.  The truth  is,  you  haven’t  been 
very  courteous  to  your  presiding  officer. 
You would generally get  up and say,  “Mr. 
President”  (and a good many not even that), 
and then, without  waiting  for recognition, 
sail in; but  then,  we  hadn’t much time for 
partiamentary usuages, and the fact will re­
main that whether  our  meetings were held 
in the stately chambers of  the village coun­
cil,  with  light  and  chairs  and  table  and 
stationery; or in the firemen’s annex, with a 
tallow dip,  one  chair,  and  an  envelope  for 
the secretary’s  notes;  or  on  the  sidewalk, 
gathered  around  a  lantern  and  a  shingle 
block,  we “got  there”  just  the  same.  So, 
all in all,  I think I  do feel  kindly  towards 
you, everyone,  and believe I  can  in  future 
years  look  back  upon  our  Association 
meetings as some  of  the  pleasantest things 
of my life among you, when any  failures in 
judgment on the part of the Executive were 
met with  no  harsher  comment  than  “Mr. 
President.”

David  Forbes,  the  Scotch  singer,  was 
asked to favor  the  audience  with  an  Irish 
song,  which he executed very cleverly.

Election of  officers was the next  thing in 
order, but as the people  were  restive under 
restraint  and  looked  longingly at the wav­
ing foliage  and  the  dancing  water  below, 
the Association adjourned  to  meet in Mon­
tague a week hence.

At  the  invitation of  the  captain  of  the 
life saving station,  the people assembled on 
the bank  of  the  channel  opposite  the  sta­
tion and  witnessed  an  exhibition  drill  by 
the  crew,  which  was fully appreciated  and 
largely  applauded.  The  light-hoi; «3  was 
also  inspected,  through the  courtesy of  the 
keeper,  and  other  points of  interest  exam­
ined.  Taken  as  a  whole,  the  day  was  a 
very enjoyable one and will long be remem­
bered by all  who  participated  in  the  occa­
sion.

Next  year  the  Association  will  hold an­
other picnic and add to the features  of  this 
year’s event  such  games  as  base  ball, foot 
ball,  tug  of  war,  running  and  jumping 
matches,  rowing  and  swimming 
races, 
dancing,  etc.  The  general  excursion  and 
picnic  will  probably  then  be  combined  in 
one.

In the Country.

“Jeremiah,  did  you  bring that  hunk of 
oleomargarine  from  town  with you? ”  in­
quired Farmer Goshem.

“Yes, father.”
“Well, jis’ drop it inter the churn and call 

out the summer boarders.”

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ED.  TELFER,  Grand Rapids.

C.  C.  BUNTING.

BUNTING  &  DAVIS,

C.  L.  DAVIS.

Commission  Merchants.

Specialties:  Apples and Potatoes in Oar Lots.

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

33.  F A L L A S ,

Makes a Specialty of

Butter  and  Eggs,  Fruits  and  Oysters.

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

We Handle the Celebrated “ROCK BRAND" Oysters.

Mo. 1 Egg Crates for Sale.  Stevens’ No. 1 patent «Ilers used.  50 cent» each.

317 and 310 Livingstone Street, 

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Grand Kapids, Michigan,

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JOBBER  IN

Foreign and Domestic Fruits.

SPECIALTIES s

Oranges, Lemons, Bananas.

3 T"™*« St.,  CRAUD RAPIDS, MICH.

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

AKTHUR  MEIGS  &  CO.

W holesale Grocers,

SOlo  Agents,

77 to 83 SOUTH  DIVISION  STBEET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

DETROIT  SOAP  CO.,

DETROIT, MICH.,

Manufacturers  of the following well-known Brands

of

QUEEN  ANNE, 
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TRUE  BLUE, 

CZAR,

MONDAY, 

MOTTLED  GERMAN,
SUPERIOR,

ROYAL  BAR,

MASCOTTE, 

CAMEO,

PHCENIX,

WABASH,

AND  OTHERS.

For Quotations address

W .  Or. HAW KINS,

took Box  173, 

We  Have  Got

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH
Salesman  for  W estern  Michigan._________ __

5,000  DOZEN.

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PEAGH and GRAPE BASKETS.
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WHOLESALE  DEALERS IN

F r u i t s   a n d   V e g e t a b l e s

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese,  Etc.,

8 ai 10 Ionia Stout

SPECIAL  ATTENTION  GIVEN  TO  FILLING  ORDERS.

REMOVAL

Jennings  &  Smith,
BRGTIG MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
Je n n in g s’  F la v o rin g   E x tra c ts ,

MANUFACTURERS

PROPRIETORS

Arctic Baking Powder, etc.
W IL L   R E M O V E

ABOUT

AUGUST  15th.

TO THE

Gibson  Building,  38  and 40 Louis St.
Spring  l  Company
DRY  GOODS
Hosiery, Carpets, Etc.

JOBBERS  IN

JOBBERS  IN

DRY  GOODS,

AND NOTIONS,

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WEDNESDAY.

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Offlo# in Eagle Building, 49 Lyon St., 3d Floor. 

Telephone No. 95.

t Entered  at  the  Postofflce  at  Grand  Rapid»  as 

Second-class Matter. 1

WEDNESDAY.  AUGUST  24,  1887.

LEISURE  HOUR JOTTINGS.

BY A  COUNTRY  MERCHANT.

Written Especially for The Tradesman.

The merchant who  possesses a clerk who 
is  honest,  intelligent  and  industrious,  and 
one who has  an  active  interest  in the busi­
ness,  should  deem  himself  an  unusually 
favored  individual.  There  are clerks with 
honesty  but  no  intelligence;  honesty  and 
intelligence  but  an  excess  of  indolence, 
with  plenty  of  industry  but  wanting  in 
moral  perceptions,  and,  perhaps,  with  all 
the requisites  mentioned  except  a  sincere 
desire for the prosperity of their employers.
It is a common  occurrence for the  young 
fellow on the farm to endeavor to  exchange 
the plough and drag for  the scale and yard­
stick, on the  assumption that he will there­
by secure  better  wages  and  a  life of ease 
and comfort; but if he succeeds  in bringing 
about the  change,  and  does  his duty faith­
fully, it  won’t  take  him  long to learn that 
idleness has no more place in  a  store  than 
on  a  farm. 
In  any  establishment  doing 
sufficient business to  warrant  the  payment 
of  reasonable  salaries,  a  clerk  can,  if  he 
choose, put in as many solid hours of  work 
as the employee of the  manufacturer or ag­
riculturist.  For its  value  there are few in­
vestments that require as much care and at­
tention as the average stock of  merchandise 
(I am speaking from theory much more than 
practice),  and  the  clerk  who  devotes  his 
spare time  to arranging, dusting and fresh­
ening your goods  is the  one whose services 
you can least dispense with.

The  large  city  establishments  can,  per­
haps,  afford  to  indulge in  the dude clerk, 
but for the  country  trade  he  is  a  dismal 
failure.  Oue of his  species  used to exhibit 
himself, for a stated  salary,  in  a store In  a 
neighboring town.  His name was Augustus 
McCue,  and  I  have  always  thought that it 
was  partially,  at  least, through  Augustus’ 
efforts that his principal  was forced into an 
assignment.  At all  events,  he  did assign, 
and as his principal creditor was an Eastern 
party named  Blinker,  the  concern fell into 
that individual’s hands,  and  McCue was re­
tained by Blinker’s  attorney to  conduct the 
business. 
In a few  weeks McCue began to 
receive  letters  from  Blinker  asking  what 
occasioned such a  sudden  and  remarkable 
decrease  in  the  volume  of  business,  and 
McCue used to  write  back  explaining  the 
phenomenon in various ingenious and plaus- 
able ways, but he  neglected to mention the 
fact that the store,  under  its  new  manage­
ment, was  closed  for  every  circus,  horse 
race,  ball  game  and  picnic  that  came  off 
anywhere  in  the  vicinity,  and that the in­
stitution had,  moreover, recently fitted  him 
out  with  several  new  specimens  of  the 
tailor’s  art.

One morning about  half-past nine o’clock 
McCue  came  sauntering  slowly down  the 
street,  reflecting  on  what a  “soft  snap” he 
had,  and  reproaching himself for not sleep­
ing  an hour  or  two  longer.  On approach­
ing the  store he  found  a corpulent, plainly 
dressed old gentleman  seated on a box, and 
patiently waiting  for  the  doors  to  be un­
locked.

“I say, young man!”  remarked  the  o. g. 
mildly,  “ain’t  you  a  little  late  this  morn­
ing?”

“Well,  I dunno’s I  am!”  replied  McCue. 
“We don’t care nothing about forenoon cus­
tomers,  anyhow!”

“But it doesn’t look exactly'like business, 

does it?”

“Say,  old  feller!  if  you  don’t  like  our 

style you can navigate,  you know!”

“Well,  young  feller!  I  don’t  like  your 

style and I’m not going to  navigate!”

“Mebbe  you own this  towm, old  Hippo 

; potomus?”

“Oh no!  I only own this store and stock! 
And now come  inside  and  we’ll  give  the 
thing a little looking over!”

McCue’s family saved  him  from  a  Jack- 
son contract  by mortgaging  their property, 
and the young man  has  been  looking long 
and vainly for another store in which to ex­
hibit his attractions.

Most of us who have arrived at, or are ap­
proaching,  the period  of  wrinkles and gray 
hairs have sowed more  or  less  “ wild oats,” 
and I’m afraid the most of  us are not toler­
ant  enough in  excusing  the  same  practice 
in the rising generation.  I’ve heard Dayball 
chuckle over youthful  escapades,  and some 
of them slightly deffleient  in morality, too, 
and  then  growl  at  his  clerk  for  nothing 
more harmful than a night’s  dancing.  Mr. 
Slimmer often tells  in class meeting what a 
depraved wretch  he  was, before  he  exper­
ienced  a  “change  of  heart,” and  how  he 
revelled in cards  and  billiards, and  attend­
ed  chivarie parties,  and  headed  nocturnal 
raids  on  watermelon  patches,  and  yet  he 
recently felt impelled to  discharge  a  clerk 
because he persisted in going to progressive 
euchre parties.  If Jones’  statements can be 
relied upon he was  an  old-time athlete and 
occasionally a bruiser,  yet even his philoso­
phy occasionally  gets  overbalanced  by  the 
frequent  absences  of  his assistant, who  is 
deeply interested in  the  mysteries of  base- 
1 ball.  Yes,  I am satisfied that the old “stag-

, 

Proprietors of

VOIGT MILLING CO.,
Crescent Roller Mills
Crescent,  White Rose, 

Manufacturers of the following well 

known  brands:

Vienna, Royal Patent,

AND

ALL  WHEAT  FLOUR,

The Great Health Food.

W . end Pearl St. Bridge,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  -  MICH.

THAW ILL COMPAHT,
Floilr,  Peed,

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Grain  and 

Baled  Had'
-  MICH.

25 Pearl Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

0.  E.  Brown,  Gen.  Mgr.

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

GRAND KANGS  GRAIN  AND  SEED CO.

71  c a n a l st r e e t.

SALT  FISH

Bought  and Sold by

FRANK J. DETTENTHALER,

117 Monroe S t, Grand Rapids.

Oysters the  Year Around  _jicJ

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A. J.  B o w s e, President.

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

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

Transacts a general banking business.

Make  a Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 

of Country Merchants Solicited.

ers” of trade forget too often that those who 
are in the spring-tide  of  youth  are,  by the 
laws of  nature, actuated  by  different  mo­
tives  and  impulses  than  themselves. 
If 
they  will  let  their  minds  wander  back  I 
will  wager a reasonable  sum  that each and 
every  one  of  them  who  can  remember  a 
father  or  grandfather,  has  heard  these 
progenators  repeatedly  bewailing  the  per­
versity and recklessness of the rising gener­
ation,  and  mournfully predicting  that  the 
world was rapidly going to  “the  dem nation 
bow-wows.”  And so  it  has'been and prob­
ably always will be.  Years  and cares,  the 
thousand and one worriments and vexations 
of life have made a wide gulf  between  the 
tastes and desires of  the  middle-aged  man 
of business,  and his helper who is,  perhaps, 
just  reaching manhood; and while the  em­
ployer is justified in  remonstrating  against 
unreasonable excesses in the amusement line 
and  agaipst  heedlessness  and  neglect  of 
business,  let him not be too arbitrary in for­
mulating rules for  rigidly regulating his as­
sistants’ conduct.

“A gentleman from L-----has written me
about the  character  of  that  young, tallow- 
faced, ecrue-headed youth, what’s-his-name, 
that used to  work  for  you,” I  observed  to 
Jones the other day,  “How  did  he  happen 
to leave your employ?”

“Oh!  you mean  young Slinker!” said the 
old man,  with a sort of foolish grin.  “Well, 
I’ll tell you,” but ’taint  necessary  to  write 
back the partic’lars you know;  you kin just 
explain on gineral principles like.  You see, 
Slinker had been after  me  for  a  long  time 
to learn the business, an’ w’en Bilkins went 
West,  I took  ’im  in.  He used to brag how 
he could draw  trade,  but  I  never  knowed 
’im  to  draw  anything  suceessful  but  ’is 
wages.  Sliuker  never  had  much  braius, 
an’ wot little he did  have he spiled by read- 
in’ dime novels  an’  sich  stuff.  One day he 
read  a  yaller  covered  book,  wich I picked 
up  arterwards,  wich told how a poor young 
clerk  fell  in  love  with ’is  rich  employer’s 
darter,  an’ how the  old  man  diskivered it, 
an’ how, fin’lly he giv’ the old feller a sound 
lickin’ w’en the darter was present, an’ mar­
ried  ’er  and  her  father’s  fortin’.  This, 
somehow, got it into  his fool  head  that  he 
was stuck on  Jul’a Ann,  an’ she on ’inf, an 
that to make up the  programme  old  Jones 
had got  to  be  thrashed.  So  one  Monday 
momin’ I kim down  to  the  store  late,  an’ 
Jul’a Ann  kim  along  to get some truck for 
dinner, an’ we  found  the  floor  hadn’t  bin 
swep\  nor  a  cussed chore done, an’ I says:
‘Wot’s the matter,  Slinker,  w’y don’t you 

clean out?’

yerself,’ says he.

‘If you  won’t  yer  dirty  work done, do it 

I was s’prised,  but  I  kep  cam  an’ asked 
im if that was his peculiar way of resignin’ 
his situashun.

‘It’s  my  peculiar  way  of 

sayin’  you 
can’t  tyr’nize  over  me  any  more,’  says 
Slimmer  hittin’ hisself  on  the breast like a 
gorilla.

‘All right,’ I remarked,  ‘I  don’t  owe  you 

nothin’, now git.’

the  floor  poundin’  away 

Then he giv’ me some  sass,  an’ I put  my 
boot where  ’twould  do  the  mos’  good. 
I 
didn’t stop to think  I’s  old and clumsy, an’ 
fore I knowed it the  young  feller  had  me 
on 
like  mad. 
Slinker  urns’  of  had  a  wrong  idee  ’bout 
the state of Jul’a  Ann’s  fections, fur  ’fore 
he knowed it she  grabbed  up the poker an’ 
knocked him stiffer’n  a  wedge. 
I  gin ’im 
825 to keep the  matter  to  hiself,  an’  he’s 
never been in since. 
I don’t have  any par 
tic’lar  grudge  agin’  the  cussed  fool,  but 
you’ll hav’ to use  your own  judgment ’bout 
recommendin’ ’im, you see!”

Points for Retailers.

Get  along  slowly  if  you  must,  but get 

along honestly.

Live up to  your  own  engagements  and 

keep your own secrets.

Never deal with a man who flies in a pas­

sion on being dunned.

Follow  your  business  closely  and it will 

lead to honor and wealth.

Beware  of  a  gaudy  exterior.  The  rich 

and prudent are plain men.

The debtor seldom  attaches the same im­
portance that the creditor does to the prompt 
payment of small debts.
Integrity of  character  and  truth are the 
prerequisites for success in any calling, and 
especially in that of the merchant.

The most  successful  business  men  have 
been found among those who duly  estimat­
ed the importance of small things.

Every clerk knows that success cannot at­
tend his efforts unless he be thoroughly hon­
est and scrupulously conscientious.

Almost  all  men  use  too  many words in 
buying  and  selling,  and  when  too  many 
words are used there is  almost  always a lie 
somewhere.
The rule with  small  debts is the same as 
with large ones—they  should  be promptly 
paid  when  due.  Generally  they  are  due 
from the start,  and if not paid  then become 
overdue.
It is an easy thing to point  out  the  way 
to success, but even if that way leads surely 
to the goal longed for,  it  is  only  necessary 
to abide religiously by one’s  sober  convic­
tions and success is certain.

Thoroughness is  a habit which once culti­
vated will never leave you;  attention to cus­
tomers wins every time, andwhen the practi­
cability of it is once demonstrated it will be 
a pleasure to continue it; economy is  a diffi­
cult thing to learn,  but its importance stares 
every one of us in the face.

W hy He W as Polite.

Two men meet on a street car.  A woman 
enters and one of the men hastily  gives her 
his seat.  The other one looks in  astonish 
ment,  and when the woman gets  off,  says 

“ You are growing strangely polite.” 
“How so?”
“Why, you gave that  woman  your  seat 
just now.  1 never saw you do  anything  of 
the  kind  before.  You  must  have  been 
struck by her appearance.”
“Oh,  no.  You see I owe  her  husband  a 
grocery bill and she  knows who I am.”

Roller Champion,
Matchless,

Gilt  Edge,

Lily White,

Harvest Queen,
Snow Flake,

White Loaf, 
Reliance,

Gold Medal, 
Graham.

OUR  SPECIALTIES:

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

Meal.  Bolted  Meal,  Coarse  Meal,  Bran, 

Write for Prices.

Grand  Rapids, Michigan.

SEEDS

FOB  EVEBYBODY.

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

Anythin!  in the  Line  of  SEEDS,
Seed Store,
W, I. UPREHUX.

71  CANAL  ST.,

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Cracker  Manufacturers,

Agents  for

AMBOY  CHEESE

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

ORANGES

1865

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Wholesale Mfrs. of 

Piire  Gandy

ur New Factory is  one  of the 
largest  and  best-equipped 

the land.  Come and 
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SO. IONIA  ST.

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PEANUTS

CANDY

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ROOFERS

Good Work, Guaranteed for Five Years, at Fair Prices.

-  Mich.
Grand  Rapids, 
STORE  COUNTERS  AND  FURNITURE  TO  ORDER.

- 

D.  H.  MOSHIER,

MANUFACTURER OF

Goifnters,  Prescription  Gases,
Änd  all  kinds of  Store  and  Bank  Piirnitdre.

w o o d   m a n t e l s;

Odd Bookcases and Sideboards.

Special  attention  given  to ordered  work.  Call  and see me 
62 So. Front St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

or send for estimates.

58 Michigan"Ave., Chicago,

BELL,  CONRAD  I  CO.,
ßentilruloice
TEAS,  G0FFEE8 It 8PIGE8.

PROPRIETORS  OF

IMPORTERS  OF

OWNERS OF THE  FOLLOWING  CELEBRATED  BRANDS:

GRAND  BAPIDS,  MICH.

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

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers  j  i  Onnpjnlftr 
American and Stark A Bags 
< *  U pU lU llJ.

JAPAN  TEA—“Red Dragon” Chop. 
COFFEE—O. G. Plantation Java,
Imperial, Javoka, Banner, Mexican.
Tig Bisl Mil« ffluEartL  Wi Soil Comulcaliit
C  AINSWORTH,CART ÄLOVBRIDGE.

W. R. KEASEY, Traveling Representative.
L,.  M.  CARY.

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GENERAL  DEALERS  IN
GENERAL  DEALERS  IN

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JOBBER IN

GLOVER, TIMOTHY  SEED  and  BEAMS.

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

82 South Division St., 

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- 

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-  Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Fire and Burglar Proof

Combination and Time Locks,

Il Ionia Street, 

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Grani Rapids, Mich.

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Boned,  with  Featherbone, which is absolutely un­
breakable, and is not injured by perspiration, or laun- 
drying.  Soft and pliable, giving health  and  comfort.
D  a m p ir m n  
I  A  I  Pi 11  I  nAttomey at Patent Law and Solicitor 
a  u  x m i  AMof  American  and  Foreign  patents. 
105 E; Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich., U. S. A.  Branch  of­
fice, London, Eng.  Practice in U. 8. Courts.  Circulars 
free.

t u e r o s  c.  w e s t ,

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  Dealers.
MISSOURI

THE

Steam

Washer

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 iu stock.  Write  for 
prices and terms.

J.  WORTH, Sole Mir.

7  ST. LOUIS,  MO.

The  letters  below are  a fair  sample o f  a 
very large  number  received  by me In  my 
regular  correspondence.  They  spealt  for 
themselves.

Ooallala, Neb., Nov. 29,1885. 

WORTH, St. Louis, Mo.:
Dear Sir—I received yours of the 16th, ask­
ing how I liked the  Missouri  Steam  Washer. 
Sir. I can do more and better  washing  with it 
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.
Yours truly,  Mr s. E mma ARMSTRONg. 
Office of J. E. LANE & Co:, Phoenix Laundry.
Bio R a p id s, Mich., July 7.1886. 

WORTH, St. Louis, Mo.:
D ear Sir —Two years ago we purchased one 
your Steam  Washers of  Mr.  Owen,  of this 
place.  After giving it a thorough trial we find 
that it is the best washer, little or big, we ever 
saw.  One girl does all our  washing,  which is 
$65 to $75 per  week,  and the  clothes  are per­
fectly clean and white.  Fraternally yours,
J. E. La n e & Co.

©roceries.

The Grocers’ Picnic at Battle Creek.
The grocers of Battle Creek  held a picnic 
atGogouac Lake last Wednesday afternoon. 
Although not an Association  picnic, it was 
projected and carried  out  by  members of 
the Association.  Desiring  the  attendance 
of every grocer in the city and  surrounding 
towns,  and as eleven grocers in the city are 
not  members  of  the  Association,  it  was 
deemed advisable to call  it  “The  Grocers’ 
Picnic.”
It was an impromptu affair  and, contrary 
to  our  most  sanguine  expectations,  was 
heartily entered into  by  every  groceryman 
in the city and the grocers of  the  towns  of 
Bedford,  Cresco, and  Climax.  There  are 
thirty-six grocers in Battle Creek, thirty-two 
of whom attended  the  picnic.  Two of the 
absent ones were old men who  did not dare 
attend on account of the extreme  heat;  one 
was out of the city and one  was  unable  to 
attend on account of  the  birth  of  a  child. 
Thirty-four of  the  thirty-six  stores  were 
closed at  1  p.  ui.  and  not  opened  until 
Thursday morning.
The German Cornet Band of this city  ac­
companied us,  and afternoon and early even­
ing were devoted  to  music,  base  ball  and 
making the acquaintance  of our fellow gro- 
cerymen.  The  occasion  was  an  enjoyable 
and profitable one to us all, and did more to 
create a feeling of friendship and  harmony 
among us than anything  we ever had.  We 
had an abundance of good things to eat, and 
fed  at least seventy-five  invited  guests out­
side of the grocer’s  families,  and  gathered 
up  at  least  twelve  basketsful  of  the  frag­
ments  that remained.
We propose to have a  picnic  again  next 
year but on a much  larger  scale—devote  a 
whole day to it and have a longer  program­
me of exercises and amusements,  giving  a 
prize to the clerk who  can  do  up  a  neat 
package in the shortest space of time, one to 
the grocerman who comes  the  longest  dis­
tance to attend, one to the one  who  brings 
the largest family, etc., and many other en­
joyable features which will  add  interest  to 
the occasion.  We believe that our Associa­
tion has,  in a large measure, brought  about 
this  feeling  of  good  will  and sociability 
among the grocerymen of Battle Creek, and 
we hope in the near future to make our As­
sociation  such  an  organization  as  every 
groceryman in Battle Creek will deem it an 
honor and a privilege to be a member of.
J P.  Stanley,  Sec’y.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar remains about stationary.  Canned 
goods are still on an upward tendency.  The 
manufacturers  of  oatmeal  and  rolled oats, 
by means of their combination, have advanced 
prices  30  cents  per  barrel.  Cheese  con­
tinues  to  walk  up  the  ladder, being  now 
quotable at 11c at the factory for July make 
and ll><c for August  Jobbers are holding 
at 12@12%c, and  a  further  advance  is  by 
no means improbable.  Other articles in the 
grocery line are about steady.

Oranges are steady in price  and  good in 
quality, with  only a’ fair  supply.  Lemons 
are in good supply and prices a shade  low­
er,  though  best  makes  are  firmly held at 
about last week’s prices.  Bananas are com­
ing in freely and prices are  moderate, with 
’ quality first-class.  There will be three cars 
here to sell this week.

Candy,  on account of heavy demands and 

a stiff sugar market,  is strong in price.

Association Notes.

What town will be the first to  present  a 

B.  M.  A. brass band ?

The Rockford B. M.  A.  will  picnic  at 
Myers’ Lake, five miles from that town,  on 
Friday of this week.

The  Sherman B. M. A. now has  fifteen 
members,  four  additions  having  been re­
ported to the State body last week.

The Sturgis  B. M.  A. sends in per capita 
dues  on  ten  additional  members,  making 
thirty-four  in  all,  and  also  applies  for  a 
charter.

Secretary Scoville, of the Kalamazoo  Re­
tail Grocers’ Association, has gone East with 
his son, who  is  severely  afflicted  with  in­
flammatory rheumatism.

The Flint Mercantile Union  has  entered 
into an arrangement with the  ladies  of  St. 
Paul’s church to get up  the  “spread”  ten­
dered the State convention on September  7.
The Hopkins Station B.  M. A.  is  agitat­
ing the  establishment  of  a  roller  flouring 
mill at that place.  A man named S. Ensign 
offers to make such  a  venture,  if  properly 
encouraged.

For uniqueness of statement and brusque­
ness of sentiment,  T he  Tradesm an com­
mends the annual  address of  the President 
of the White Lake B. M. A., which is given 
in full in another column.

If the President  of  the Lowell B. M.  A. 
had  known  beforehand  that  the  White 
Lake picnic would be enlivened with music 
by a female brass  band, he  would not have 
sent in his regrets at the last moment.

Three  “Association  picnics”  were  held 
last week—at White  Lake on  Tuesday,  at 
Lowell on Friday and at  Manton on Satur­
day.  The  unanimous  opinion seems to be 
that such events are conducive of more good 
the organization  than any other plan yet 

devised.

N.  W.  Allen, 

the  Watervliet  general 
dealer,  writes:  “I have been  a member of 
the Watervliet B. M. A.  but  a few  weeks, 
but I find it is  business  and  has  paid  me
ell.  Some of my debtors  send me ‘blows,’ 
others dollars, and the latter counteract  the 
effect intended to be produced  by  the  for­
mer.”

Fremont  Indicator:  Now  the  business 
men  of  Fremont  are  in condition to “talk 
up” and act upon matters for  public good— 
hold out inducements for men to locate here 
with  new  enterprises;  to  some  way  start 
the town anew  on  the  road  to  prosperity. 
In  short, let  the  Association  be  energetic, 
as  similar  bodies  are  at  the  present  time 
throughout the State.

President Linderman has made  a  careful 
compilation of the amount of bad debts col­
lected by the White  Lake  Business  Men’s 
Association during the year it  has  been  in 
existence and finds that  the  sum  total  is 
§2,830.  The accounts  were of  “absolutely 
no use,”  says  Mr.  Linderman,  “and  we 
would gladly have  taken a cent on the dol­
lar before the Association was formed.” 

An Important Meeting.

The  adjourned  meeting  of  the  Retail 
Grocers’  Association,  which  will  be held 
this evening, will be a most  important one, 
The new delinquent list,  which has been in 
course of preparation  for two  months,  will 
be distributed among the members.  Twelve 
delegates to  the  State  convention  will be 
elected and Warren  Hutchins will  address 
the members on the “Best Methods of  Pre­
serving Fruits and Vegetables.”  Other im 
portant matters will be  brought  up for dis 
cussion and action, making it  essential that 
there should be a full attendance.

i 

New Departure.

Cody,  B all,  B arnhart & Co.,  (
f

Wholesale Grocers. 

Grand  Ra pids,  Aug. 20,  188' 

Tea  Department—We have concluded  to 
open a Tea Department,  in connection with 
our  business,  being  firmly  convinced  by 
close observation that it is a  branch of  the 
trade that requires more  than  ordinary at­
tention.  Our arrangements are now perfect 
mid we know we  can  make it  pay  you to 
hoy your teas of us.
Mr. J ames McSkimin  will  represent us 
on the no ad,  and any favors shown him will 
be duly appreciated by us. 

~  jjftgJr
pBK fr-'
Cody,  B all,  B arnhart & Co.

Respectfully, 

( 

Make Contracts Now.

The Independent Oil Co.  is now prepared 
to make contracts with the  retail  dealers to 
furnish them with their supplies of  oil dur­
ing the fall and winter months.  This is the 
best method for the retail trade  to  pursue, 
as it ensures a full supply at  all  times  and 
fair prices,  which is  not  always  the  case 
where the dealer is compelled to depend up­
on his own resources during the time of the
oil famine.______ 

_______

At Foster, Stevens & Co.’s: Arthur Zwis 
far, employed in  the  order  department  of 
the wholesale store,  has  resigned  to  take 
charge of his father’s general  store at Cold 
water.  Ed.  McGowen  has  resigned  his 
position in the retail department, on account 
of ill health, and returued  to  his  home 
Rast Saginaw.  Harry  Barber  and  C.  M 
Horton,  both  engaged  in  the  wholesale 
store, have gone North,  the former  bent  on 
pleasure and the latter in  pursuit  of  busi
n e s s . __________________

T he  Tradesman acknowledges  the  re­
ceipt of  an  invitation  to  attend to first an 
naal  picnic  of  the  wholesale  grocers,  im 
porters and brokers of  Chicago,  which  was 
held last Saturday,  and regrets  that  it  was 
unable to be represen tedon that occasion.

F. J.  Dettenthaler will be  prepared to fill 
orders for Baltimore oysters about the 25th 
Watch his quotations under the head of the
Grocery Price Current. 

F. J.  Dettenthaler has arranged to handle 
a larger line of Baltimore  oysters  this year 
than he did last  season,  which is  saying 
good deal.

__

Traverse City Herald:  At the last meet­
ing of the  Business  Men’s  Association  it 
was unanimously  resolved,  “that  it be the 
sense  of  this  meeting  that  the  business 
men of Traverse City should provide,  as in­
dividuals,  for the  grange  exhibits  at  the 
coming fair of the Grand  Traverse  County 
Agricultural Society.”  This  resolution has 
already been acted upon,  in part, and a suf­
ficient  amount  subscribed  to  insure  good 
premiums for these exhibits.

Col. E.  W.  Dodge,  the  Lowell  lawyer, 
doctor  and preacher, enjoys  the distinction 
of having his name on  the  delinquent  list 
of the  Lowell B. M.  A.  On  the  occasion 
of the  Association  picnic  last  Friday,  he
posted several notices  around  the town de 
nouncing  the  occasion as  a  gathering  of 
“high-toned dead-beats.”  Mr.  Dodge’s re­
cent actions  have  been  so  eccentric  as  to 
give some of his friends strong grounds  for 
fearing that he is not quite  right in the up 
per story.

The Traverse City B. M.  A.  has  made 
ten-strike by securing a second manufactur­
ing  enterprise  for  that  town  within  the 
space of  a  week.  Wm. Beitner  made  the 
Association a proposition to remove his mill 
and  chair-stock  works  from  Keystone  to 
Traverse  City  for  a  bonus  of  §4,000  and 
five  acres  of  land.  Hannah,  Lay  &  Co, 
generously donated the  land  and a commit­
tee  appointed  by  the  Association  secured 
the  necessary funds  within  a  day’s  time, 
The  B. M. A.  has  already  done  more  for 
Traverse  City  than  has  ever  been  accom 
plished  by  all  her  citizens  put  together 
heretofore.

The White Lake Business Men’s Associa­
tion,  comprising the business men of White­
hall and Montague, has under advisement 
novel project, which  speaks  well  for  the 
enterprise of that  organization. 
It  is  pro 
posed to organize a  stock  company  with 
capital'of §5,000 or less,  for the  purpose  of 
purchasing forty acres of sandy land for ex­
perimental purposes.  Much of  the  soil 
that vicinity is too light for successful  cul­
tivation,  as the  effect  of  the  heat  is  too 
marked. 
It is claimed that  the sowing and 
plowing under of three successive crops of rye 
will make a mould which  will act as a non­
conductor,  so that the heat and drought will 
not so easily penetrate the  soil,  as  well 
affording the  necessary  fertilizing  quality 
The’results of such an experiment  will cer­
tainly  be  worth  all  it  costs,  and  The 
Tradesm an hopes to see the  project  car 
ried out.
Tradesman is worth five times its cost.”

Parker & Hobbs,  grocers, Kalkaska:  “T he 

FOR SALE

At Pewamo, Ionia  Co.,  Mich.,  the  stock 
drugs,  paints,  oils,  fixtures,  etc.,  owned 
the estate  of  B. H.  Stevens.  The  stock  wi 
invoice from $800 to $1,000.  The best location 
in  the  village, doing a  good  trade.  Has  the 
telephone office in tne store.  Write or call on 
me at Pewamo, Mich.  Josephine Stevens, Ad 
ministrator  Pewamo, Aug. 13,1867.

65®75 Our  Leader....... .......17] Hiawatha__
Mayflower........ .......23 Old Congress.
22 May  Leaf__

..  20 00 Globe..................
.  3 CO  - Mule Ear............ .......23

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

These prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.

a x l e g r ea se.

Crown....................  80 Paragon  .................2 10
Frazer’s ................  
90 Paragon 251b pails.  90
Diamond  X ...........   60 Fraziers, 25 ft pails. 1 25
Modoc, 4  doz..........2 50
Acme, )4 ft cans, 3 doz. case........................  

BAKING  POWDER.

85
.........................3 00
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Princess,  fcs........................................................  1 2a
Ks........................................................  2 25
Is.........................................................   4 25
bulk...............................................  
28
Arctic, 54 lb cans, 6 doz. case....................... 
45
............. ......... 
75
.......................   140
....................... 2 40
.......................  12 00
15

Victorian, l ft cans, (tall,) 2 doz.........................2 00
Diamond,  “bulk,”......................................... 
25
Dry, No. 2............................................doz. 
Dry, No. 3..................................  
doz. 45
Liquid, 4 oz,....................................... doz. 
35
Liquid, 8 oz.........................................doz. 
65
Arctic 4 oz.......................... .............. V  gross 3 50
Arctic 8  oz............................................................ .7 20
Arctic 16oz..................................... 
12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box......................................2 00
“  .................................  3 00
Arctic No. 2 
Arctic No. 3 
“  .................................^  00
Common Whisk__   90
No. 2 Hurl.................1 75
Fancy  WhiBk.........1 00
No. 1 H url....2 00@2 25
Mill................................3 75
No. 2Carpet.............2 25
Warehouse  ............2 75
No. 1 Carpet.............2 50
Parlor Gem.............3 00
Clams, 1 lb, Little Neck...............................110
Clam Chowder,  31b................................... ;S  15
Cove Oysters, 1 D>. standards..................95@1 00
Cove Oysters, 2 lb  standards....................  1 65
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic......................................1  75
Lobsters, 2 lb, picnic..........................   .......2 6o
Lobsters, 1 lb star.........................................2 00
Lobsters. 2 lb star....................................... 3 00
Mackerel,lib  fresh  standards.................... 1  45
Mackerel, 5 lb fresh standards..................5 CO
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 B>.................
Mackerel, 3 lb in Mustard............................
Mackerel. 3 ft  soused................... ...............
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river.......................2 00
Salmon, 2 1b Columbia river.........................3 76
Sardines, domestic )4s.............................  .60$
Sardines, domestic  54s...............................  10@ll
Sardines,  Mustard  54s.................................10@11
Sardines,  imported  )4s............................... 13@15
Trout. 31b  brook.......................................
Apples, gallons, standards........................ 2 75
Blackberries, standards..................... . 
1 00
Cherries,  red standard..................... ......... 1  40
Damsons...........   .........................................1 10
Egg Plums, standards 
..............................1 3o
Gooseberries..................................................1 20
Green Gages.................................................. 1 35
Peaches, Extra Yellow................................1 75
Peaches,  standards............................. .....2  00
Peaches,  seconds..........................................1 75
Peaches, pie...................................................1 25
Pears.............................................................1 *0
Pineapples...........................................j .......1 40
Quinces..........................................................11»
Raspberries,  extra........................................... 1 40
red........................................ 1 35
Strawberries  ................................................1  40
Whortleberries...................................  
  1 00
Asparagus, Oyster Bay.................................... 2 00
Beans, Lima,  standard...............................   75
Beans, Stringless, Erie...............................   90
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked...........................1 50
Corn,  Archer’s Trophy...............................
**  Morning  Glory..................................
“  Revere................................................. 1 3o
“  Rome.....................................................1 35
“  Sequolt..................................................1 35
“  Hamburg..............................................1 40
“  Livingston........................................... 1 30

CANNED VEGETABLES.

CANNED FRUITS.

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Peas, French.......................................................1 50
Peas, extra marrofat—   .................... 1 20©1_40
Peas, soaked.................•........................
“  Early June, stand....................... 1 50@1  <5
sifted............................... 2 00
“ 
“  French, extra fine.................................... 20 00
Mushrooms, extra fine.................................20 00
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden.............
Succotash, standard.......................................80@1 30
Squash................................................................ J 90
Tomatoes, standard brands................ 

  1  20

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’  CHOCOLATE.

Michigan full  cream ..;..,..............12  @1254
Wilbur’s  Premium..35IGerman Sweet...........23
Sweet..__ 25 Vienna Sweet  ...........22
B’kf’tCocoa 45 Baker’s .................'.. .3r
Cocoa-theta42 Runkles’ ....................35
Vanilla Bar 28|
Schepps, Is....................

COCOANUT.

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Herring, Scaled.............................
, shore. No. 1, 54 bbls....,
12 lb kits

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FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

10 lb  kits.........................................  

Jennings’ D. C.,2 oz...............$  doz.  1 00
4 oz..................... ....150
6 oz................... 
2 50
8 oz.............................. ..3 50
No. 2 Taper.............. .1 25
No. 4 
............... 1  75
54 pint, round.......... 4 50
“ 
1 
“ 
.......9  00
No. 3 panel...............110
“ 
No. 8 
................2 75
No. 10  “ 
................ 4 25

...............2 50
No. 3, 54 bbls...............................6  50
Sardines, spiced, 54s................................... 10@12
Trout, 54  bbls..............................  ...............5  50
 
White, No. 1, 54 bbls.......................... 7 00@7 50
White, No. 1,12  lb kits.................................1  10
White, No. 1,10 ft kits...................................  90
White. Family, 54 bbls................................3  00
kits........................................  50
Lemon.  Vanilla.
1 60
2 65
4 25
5 00 
1  75
3 00 
9 00
18 00 
1  85 
5 00 
7 00
Grand  Haven,  No. 8, square.........................  95
Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 gro......................1 15
Grand  Haven,  No. 200,  parlor...........................1 76
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, parlor...........................2 25
Grand Haven,  No.  7,  round..............................1 50
Oshkosh, No. 2......................................................1 00
Oshkosh, No. 8...................................................... 1 50
Swedish................................................  
75
Richardson’s No. 8  square........... . i............1 00
............................ 150
Richardson’s No. 9 
Richardson’s No. 754, round................................1 00
............................ 150
Richardson’s No. 7 
Woodbine. 300........................................................ 1 15
Black Strap.............................................1...16@18
Cuba Baking..................................................25@28
Porto  Rico.....................................................24@30
New  Orleans, good......................................28@34
New Orleans, choice.....................................44@50
New Orleans,  fancy.....................................52@55

MOLASSES.

MATCHES.

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54 bbls. 2c extra

OATMEAL

ROLLED OATS

PIPES.

PICKLES.

Barrels.....................5 75
Barrels......................... 6 00
Half barrels............ 3 00
Half barrels............3 12
Cases........................ 2 25
Cases.............................2 25
Medium.................................  ...............  @6 50
54 bbl.........................................  @3 45
Small,  bbl...............................................   @7 50
bbl...........................................  @4 Oft
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross...........   @2 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,254 gross........  @1 75
American  T.D.......................................
Choice Carolina...... 7  [Java  ................
554
Prime Carolina......6  P atna.........................554
Good Carolina........554 Rangoon........................  @454
Good Louisiana......554 Broken...............334@354
Table  .......................554|Japan........................ 554
DeLand’s pure....... 5)4|Dwight’s ...........
Church’s  ................ 5  Sea  Foam.........
Taylor’s  G. M.........5 
|Cap Sheaf..........
SALT.

54 c less in 5 box lots.

8ALERATUS.

RICE.

54  “ 

SAUCES.

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................
28 Pocket............................................... .
1003 ft  pockets.......................................
Saginaw or Manistee............................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags__
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........
American, dairy, 54 bu. bags...............
Rock, bushels.........................................
Warsaw, Dairy, bu.  bags.....................
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Parisian, 54  pints..................................
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................
Pepper Sauce, green.............................
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring.............
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .....................
Halford Sauce, pints............................
Halford Sauce, 54 pints...... ..................
Allspice...................................................
Cassia, China in mats............................
Batavia in bundles..................
Saigon in rolls..........................
Cloves, Amboyua..................................
Zanzibar....................................
Mace Batavia.........................................
Nutmegs,  fancy....................................
No. 1......................................
No. 2......................................
Pepper. Singapore,  black................ .. 

SPICES—WHOLE.

white...............
SPICES—PURE  GROUND.
Allspice...............................................
Cassia,  Batavia...................................... 

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548................
Manhattan,  p ails......
Peerless  ......................
Bulk...........—

COFFEES—PACKAGE.

Lion......................................................
Lion,  in cabinets...............................
X X XX............................................ ...25%
Arbuckle’s  .........................................25%
Dilworth’s............................................
Standard  ............................................
German.................  ............................
German, in  bins.................................
Magnolia..............................................
Eagle....................................................25)4
M exican............................................. 20

Green.

COFFEES.

Roasted.

Rio...................22©24
Santos..............23@26
Maricabo......... 25@26
Java..................25© 30
O. G. Java....... 30@35
Mocha..............31@32

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

60 foot Jute........   1 00  150 foot Cotton__1 60
72 foot J u te ........  1 25  60 foot Cotton__1  75
40FootCotton___ 150  |72foot Cotton__2 00

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454
5

CRACKERS  AND  SWEET  GOODS.

X  XXX
5
5
6
5

Kenosha Butter........................
Seymour Butter....................... 
Butter........ ...............................  
Fancy  Butter............................ 
S.  Oyster................................... 
Picnic.......................... . 
Fancy  Oyster............................ 
Fancy  Soda............................... 
City Soda.......-,.......,...................
Soda  ............................. . . . ........ 
Milk............................................  
Boston.......................................
Graham......................................
Oat  Meal...................................
Pretzels, hand-made................
Pretzels......................................
Cracknels..................................
Lemon Cream............................ 
Sugar Cream.............................. 
Frosted Cream..........................
Ginger  Snaps............................ 
No. 1 Ginger Snaps.................. 
Lemon  Snaps............................
Coffee Cakes..............................
Lemon Wafers..........................  
Jumbles......................................
Extra Honey Jumbles.............
Frosted Honey  Cakes.............
Cream Gems..............................
Bagievs  Gems..........................
Seed Cakes.................................
S. &  M. Cakes............................
Citron...................................................... 19  @
Currants.......................... ......................7)4@
Lemon Peel......................................• •••
Orange Peel............................................
Prunes, French, 60s...............................
French, 80s...............................
French,  90s..............................
Turkey............................. 4
Bohemia...................................

DRIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN.

8
8
8
1254
854

7 
7 
7
7

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Raisins, Dehesia...................................3  50@5 00
Raisins, London LayerB.......................   @1 80
Raisins, California  “ 
.......................   @1 66
Raisins, Loose Muscatels....................1 30@i  50
Raisins, Ondaras, 28s............................8%@  8
Raisins.  Sultanas.......................... . 
9  @  10
Raisins, Valencia, new.........................  7  @  754
Raisins, Imperials.................................  @3 00
Cod, whole..................... ..............................454@5
Cod, boneless.............................................  6@654
H alibut........ ............................................... 
9
Herring, round,  54  bbi............. ...........  @2  76
Herring-«round,  34  bbl............................ -  1 40

FISH.

“ 

“ 

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and  Saigon.
Saigon....................
Cloves, Amboy na................
....... 
Zanzibar....................... 
Ginger, African...................................... 
Cochin.......................................  
Jamaica.................................... 
Mace Batavia.........................................  
Mustard, English.-................................. 
and Trieste.............  
Trieste.................................... 
Nutmegs, No. 2...................................... 
Pepper, Singapore black.....................  
white.....................  
Cayenne..................................  
STARCH.

31
>0
15
18® 22
85
20
23
25
65
22
32
85
Muzzy, Gloss, 48 ft boxes, 1 ft  pkgs...  @ 5%£
“  48“ 
...  @654
" 
40 ft 
“  72 ft crates, 6 ft boxes..  @ 6)4
lib   “ 
....  @6)4
“ 
6 1b boxes...  @754
b u lk ..........   @ 654
Pure, 1 ft pkgs..................  @ 654
Corn, 1  ft pkgs.......  ........   @7
Firmenich, new process, gloss, 1ft__   @ 55£
3 ft....  @554
61b....  @6)4
bulk, boxes or bbls  @ 4
corn, 1 ft...............  @6
SUGARS.

“  3ft 
“  bu lk..........  @4
Corn, 40 ft boxes, 1 ft pkgs....  @6
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1 ft pkgs__   @7

20 ft 
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SYRUPS.

Cut  Loaf.................................................  @ 6)14
Cubes......................................................  @ 6%
Powdered...............................................   @ 3%
Granulated,  Standard......................... 
@654
Off......................................  @6 18
Confectionery A ....................................   @5?»
Standard A..............................................  @514
No. 1, White Extra  C............................  @5%
N o.2, ExtraC.................................. 
@554
No.3 C......................................................  @ 5
No.4 C.....................................................  @414
No. 5C.................................. ..................   @414
@28
Corn,  barrels  .......................................  
Corn, 54 bbls............................................  
@30
331
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...............................  
Com, 6 gallon kegs................................. 
@32
Pure  Sugar, bbl....................................> 
24@30
Pure Sugar, 54 bbl..................................  
26@32
TOBACCO—FINE CUT-IN PAILS.
Bad Boy......................40
Uncle Tom.................42
Cinderella.................. 37
What Is It?................28
Hi There.................... 80
Cherry...................... 60
Red Cap......................55
Five and Seven........45
251 Gross Cut.................... 35
Magnet.................
Old Jim....................... 36
Seal of Detroit..........60
Old Time....................40
Jim Dandy................38
Underwood’8 Capper 35 
Our  Bird................... 25
Meigs & Co.’s Stunner35
Brother  Jonathan...2"
Atlas...........................35
Jolly Time................36
Royal Game............... 38
Our  Leader.............. 40
Mule Ear....................66
Sweet  Rose.............. 32
Fountain...................74
May  Queen.............. 65
Old Congress..............64
Dark AmericanEagle67
Good Luck.................52
The Meigs................. 60
Blaze Away...............35
Red Bird................... 60
Hair Lifter.................30
Prairie Flow er........65
Hiawatha.................. 67
Indian Queen...........60
G lobe.........................65
May Flower..............70
Crown Leaf............... 66
Sweet  Pippin...........45
Sunset.........................35
Hustler ......................22
Yum  Yum.................45
Mackinaw................. 24
Butterfly....................35
Macatawa................. 23
Zulu  Chief................30
Eye Opener............ 33jBlue Blazes.................30
Whopper  ..................30 Capper........................40
Peach Pie.................30 Jupiter  ....................... 25
Night Cap...................22
.......41
Splendid..................   38
Md Solder...................37
Red Fox......................44
Clipper  ......................34
Big  Drive...................44
Corner Stone..............34
Chocolate  Cream___44
Scalping  Knife.........34
Nimrod......................38
Sam Boss..................   34
Big Five Center.........35
N e x t...........................32
Parrot....................... 42
Favorite.................... 36
Buster ....................... 35
Live and Let Live.. .32
Black Prince..............35
luaker....................... 28
Black  Racer..............35
lig  Nig......................37
Climax  ......................42
Spear Head............... 44
Horse  Shoe............... 3'
P.  V ............................ 36
Vinoo ......................... 36
Spring Chicken.........36
Merry War.................32
Eclipse  ......................33
Ben  Franklin............32
Turkey........................39
Moxie.........................34
&Q..............30
Q. 
Black Jaok.................32
Lark............................ 26
Musselman’s Corker. 30 
Choose me..................24
Live and Let  Live...32
Jolly Tar.................... 32
Happy Thought........ 42
Red Top......................24
Cherry Bounce..........36
Tip Top.....................386
Plank  Road............... 42
Holy M oses.............32
Trio......................

PLUG.

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provision  Co. 

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SMOKING

POHK  IN  BARRELS.

DRY  SALT  MEATS—IN  BOXES.

Hams, avei age 20  lbs............................  .......12

quote  as  follows:
Mess, Chicago packing.................................. 15 50
Short cut.......................................................... 15 50
Short Cut, clear............................................... 16 50
Extra clear pig, short cut............................. 17 00
Extra clear,heavy.........................................
Clear quill, short  cut..................................... 16 50
Boston clear, short cut.................................. 17 OO
Clear back, short cut..................................... 17 00
Standard clear, short  cut, best................... 17 00

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SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLAIN.
“ 
16  fts...................................... 1254
12 to 14 fts.............................. 1234
“ 
“  picnic  ...................................................  834
“  best  boneless....................................... 11
Shoulders.........................................................  754
Breakfast Bacon, boneless............................11
Dried Beef, extra...........................................1054
ham  prices  ............................... 12

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Yum  Yum................ 30|Pure........................... 16
Our  Leader...............16 Star.............................20
Old Vet.......................30 Unit  ..  ...................... 3»)
Big Deal..................... 27 Eight  Hours.............. 24
Navy Clippings........ 26 Lucky  ........................30
Leader.......................15 Two  Nickel................25
Hard  Tack................ 30 Duke’s  Durham....... 40
D ixie..........................26| Green Corn Cob Pipe 26
Clear*  heavv
Old Tar.......................40|Owl.  ............................16  T 
Arthur’s  Choice.......22 ; Rob Roy......................25  I»°ng Clears, heavy
Red Fox.....................26,Uncle  Sam..................28
9U
light
Gold Dust................. 26 Lumberman...............25
Short Clears, heavy.................................
Gold Block.......____ 30, Railroad Boy.............. 36
medium..............................
Seal of Grand Rapids 
iMountainRose..........18
light....................................
(cloth)..................25! Home Comfort........  .25
Miners and Puddlers.30jOld Rip.......................60
Peerless  ....................28; Seal of North Caro-
Standard...................22| 
lina, 2  oz.................. 48
Old Tom..................... 19-Seal of North  Caro-
Tom & Jerry............ 251 
lina. 4oz....................48
Joker.
Seal of North  Caro­
Traveler.................... 35
lina, 8 oz.................. 45
Maiden....................... 27
Seal of North  Caro­
Pickwick Club.......... 4U
lina, 16 oz boxes__ 42
Nigger Head..............26
King Bee, longcut.. .22
Holland......................22
Sweet Lotus............... 32
German......................15
Grayling....................32
Honey  Dew..............25!Seal Skin....................30
Colonel’s  Choice.......15 Red Clover.  .............. 33
Queen  Bee............... 22 Good  Luck.................. 26
Blue  Wing............... 30|Navy............................30
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen....... 
70
Maccoboy............................  @  55
Gail & Ax’ 
@ 41
Rappee.................................  @  35
Railroad  Mills  Scotch..........................   @  45
Lotzbeck  .................................................   @l  30
Japan ordinary.............................................18@20
Japan fair to good........................................25@30
Japan fine...................................................... 35@46
Japan dust.....................................................15@20
Young Hyson.............................................,20@45
Gun Powder...................................................35@5U
Oolong.....................................................33@55@6C
Congo.............................................................25@30
50 gr.
10
10
16

Tierces  ..................................................... 
30 and 50 ft Tubs...................................... 
3 lb Palls. 20 in a case.............................. 
5 lb Pails, 12 in a case..............................  
10 lb Pails. 6 in a case................. 
 
20 lb Pails, 4 palls in  case.......................  
BEEF IN BARRELS.

Pork  Sausage.....................................................754
Ham  Sausage..................................................11
Tongue  Sausage........................................... 
9
Frankfort  Sausage.........................................  8
Blood  Sausage.................................................  6
Bologna, straight............................................  6-
Bologna, thick.................................................  6
Head  Cheese....................................................  6

Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts............  7 25
Boneless,  extra..............................................11 00

In half barrels...............................................   3 00
In quarter barrels.........................................  1 65-

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

75»
754
7%
734
794
7%,

PIGS’ FEET.

VINEGAR.

30 gr. 

SNCFF.

LARD.

TEAS.

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FRESH  MEATS.

White Wine..................................   08 
Cider..............................................  08 
York State Apple......................... 
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bath Brick imported..................
American...................
do 
Burners,  No. 0..............................
do  No. 1...............................
do  No.  2..............................
Cocoa  Shells, bulk.......................
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand...
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans...
Candles, Star.................................
Candles.  Hotel.............................
Camphor, oz., 2 lb boxes.............
Extract Coffee, V.  C....................
F elix.................
Fire Crackers, per box...............
Fruit Jars, pints..........................
quarts............. ..........
2-quarts.......................
Gum, Rubber  100 lumps.............
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.  __
Gum, Spruce.................................
Hominy, $  bbl.............................
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails.......................
Pearl Barley.................................
Peas, Green  Bush.......................
Peas, Split  Prepared..................
Powder, Keg.................................
Powder, 54  Keg............................
Sage  ............................... 1............
Sago  .............................................
Tapioca........................................

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90
@70 
SO 
90 
@ 4 
©7 50 
@35 
@11 
©13 
@35 
@80 
@1  20 
@1 30 
©  9 50 
@10 50 
@13 50 
@25 
@35 
@30 
@3 50 
@ 5 
© 2 34 
@1  10 
@  354 
@5 00 
@2 
@  15 
@ 6 
® 6

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

 

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FANCY—IN  5 lb BOXES.
 

STICK.
Standard, 25 ft boxes.............................   854@  9
.............................   @ 9
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
 
@10
MIXED
Royal, 25 ft  pails....................................  @ 9
Royal, 200 ft bbls....................................   @8
Extra, 25 ft  pails....................................  @10
Extra, 200 ft bbls....................................  @  9
French Cream, 25 lb pails.....................   @1154
Cut loaf, 25 ft  eases...............................  @10
Broken, 25  ft  pails.................................  @10
Broken.200ft  bbls.................................  @9
Lemon  Drops............................ 
  @12
Sour Drops.................................................   @13
Peppermint  Drops..................................   @13
14
Chocolate Drops.......................................  
18
II M Chocolnto  Drops.............................. 
Gum  D rops.............................................. 
10
22
Licorice Drops........................................... 
A B Licorice  Drops................................. 
12
Lozenges, plain......................................... 
14
Lozenges,  printed.................................... 
15
Imperials................................................... 
14
15
Mottoes...................................................... 
Cream  Bar.................................................  
12
Mo lass es 13 ar.............................................  
12
18
Caramels..................................................... 
Hand Made Creams..................................  
18
if*
Plain  Creams..................»........................  
Decorated  Creams.................................... 
20
tringRock...............................................  
13
Burnt Almonds.....................................  
23
Wintergreen  Berries.....................
14
FANCY—IN  BULK.
Lozenges, plain in  pails..................
@1154
Lozenges, plain in bbls................
@1054
Lozenges, printed In pails...............
@1254
Lozenges, printed in  bbls
@1154
Chocolate Drops, in pails.....................
@1254
Gum  Drops  in pails.............................
@ 654 
Gum Drops, iu bbls..................... ........
@ 554 
Moss Drops, iu pails............................. 9
@10 
@ 9 
Moss Drops, in bbls...............................
Sour Drops, in  pails.............................
@12 
Imperials, In  pails.................................
@1254 
Imperials  in bbls............................
@1154
Bananas 
.............................................. 1 50@2 50
Oranges, California, fancy..................  @
Oranges,  choice................................... 4  50@5 00
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls.....................
Oranges, Florida.................................
Oranges, Rodi,.......................................4  75@o 50
Oranges, Messina..................................   @
Oranges, OO............................................   ®
Oranges, Imperials.............................. 4  75@5 00
Lemons, choice.....................................5 00@5 50
Lemons, fancy...................................... 6 00@6 r
Lemons, California...............................
Figs, layers, new,  $  ft.........................IU  @15
Figs, Bags, 50 ft......................................  @  8
Dates, frails do  ....................................  & 554
Dates, M do  d o ....................................   @654
Dates, Fard 101b box V  1b....................  954@10
Dates, Fard 501b box ^Mb.....................   @ 8
Dates. Persian 50 ftbox $  ft................  7  @754
Pine Apples, $  doz.............................   2 00@3 00
Almonds,  Tarragona...........................17 54® 18
Ivaca......................................  @17
California............................  @17
Brazils....................................................   @ 9
Filberts, Sicily......................................  @10
Barcelona...............................   @ 9
Walnuts,  Grenoble..............................15  @17
Sicily...................................... 
15
French................................... 
11
Pecans, Texas, H. P ............................ 1254@16
Missouri................................8  @  9
Cocoanuts, $  100...................................4 o0@5 00
PEANUTS.
1b...........................   @454
Prime Red,  raw 
Choice 
d o ...........................  @5)4
Fancy H.P. do 
do  ...........................  @ 6)4
Choice White, V a.do............................  @ 6)4
Fancy H P,. Va  d o ...........................  @ 7)4
H .P .V a...................................................  @7

FRUITS.

NUTS.

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HIDES. PELTS AND  FURS.

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

HIDES.

Green__ ft 554@  6
Part cured...  7  @ 754 
Full cured....  754@  8)4 
Dry hides and 
kips............  8  @12  1

Calf skins, green
Deacon skins,

or cured__7  @  8
$  piece......10  @30

SHEEP PELTS.

@26 
Old wool, estimated washed ^ ft........25
@ 354
Tallow.....................................................   3
Fine washed $  ft 22@261 Coarse washed.. ,26@28 
Medium  ............. 27@30| Unwashed............16@22

WOOL.

OYSTERS.
FRESH  FISH.

OYSTERS AND  FISH.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
Fairhaveu Counts.......  ..................................... 10
Black  bass................................................  
9
Rock  bass.............................................................  4
Perch.....................................................................  4
Wall-eyed  pike...................................................  7
Duck-bill  pike....................................................   7
Sturgeon...............................................................   6
Sturgeon,  smoked................................................ 8
Trout.....................................................................  7
Trout, smoked..................................................... 10
................................................  7
Whiteflsh........  
Whiteflsh, smoked............................  
JO
Brook  Trout.......................................... 
50
Frogs’ Legs, per dozen...........................25®65

 

 

 

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 
prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides.................................. 5  @  654
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters..................  7  @8
Pressed Hogs.........................................   7  @  7)4
Mutton....................................................   654@ 7
jamb  spring..........................................   9  @10
Veal..........................................................  8  @854
Pork Sausage__
.  854® » 
Bologna...........................
© 6 
Fowls...............................
@12 
Ducks  ............................
@
Turkeys  ........................
.11  @12 
Lard,  kettle-rendered..
.  754®

FIELD  SEEDS.
Clover,  mammoth........................
“  medium............................
Timothy, prime.............................

@5  15 
@5 15- 
@2 65

OILS.

ILLUMINATING.

Water White................................................ 
Michigan  Test................................................. 105i
Ethaline.............................................................1354
Ruby..................................................................1254

 

1154

LUBRICATING.

Gasoline.............................................................1154
Capitol Cylinder....................................... 
36)4
Model  Cylinder............................................... 3154
Shield  Cylinder............................................... 2654
Eldorado  Engine.............................................23
Peerless Machinery........................................20
Challenge Machinery......................................19
Paraffine  ......................................................... 2054
Black. Summer, West  Virginia......................9
Black. 25° to 30°............................................10
Black, 15®  C.  T...............................................11
Zero................................................................... 12)4

MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock Bark—Tanners at this market  arc- 
paying $0  for  all offerings  of  good bark.
Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay  $1.65  $   1b  for 
clean washed roots.
Rubber Boots aud Shoes—Local  jobbers  are 
authorized  to  offer  standard  goods at  40  per 
cent. off. and second quality at 50 and  1254 per 
cent. off.

WOOD EN WARE.

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

Standard  Tubs, No. 1...........................................5 75
Standard  Tubs, No. 2........................................... 4 75»
Standard  Tubs, No. 3...........................................3 75
Standard Pails, two hoop.....................................1 40
Standard Pails, three hoop..................................1 65
Pails, ground wood 
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes................................2 25
Butter  Pails, ash..................................................2 25
Butter Ladles........................................................ 1 OO
75
Rolling Pins.......................... 
Potato Mashers...............................................   50
Clothes Pounders................................................. 2 25
ClothesPins......................................................  60
Mop  Sticks............................................................. 1 OO
Washboards, single.............................................. 1 75
Washboards, double.............................................2 25

 

BASKETS.

Diamond  Market............................................  40
Bushel, narrow band...........................................1 50
Bushel, wide band................................................1 75
Clothes, splint.  No. 3..................... •..............3 50
Clothes, splint,  No. 2........................................... 4 25
Clothes, splint,  No. 1...........................................5 00
Clothes,willow  No.3........................................... 6 00
Clothes, willow  No. 2........................................... 6 50
Clothes, willow  No. 1...........................................7 50
Water  Tight, bu................................................... 3 75
“  half bu........................................... 2 85

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COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—Plenty at $L25@$2 per bbl.
Beets—In good supply at 30c per bu.
Beans—Good hand-picked are scarce  at $2@ 

$2.10.

Butter—Creamery  Is  in  good  demand and 
fairly firm at 22@25c.  Dairy  is  active  at  18@ 
20c.

California Fruit—Peaches,  $1.50; Plums, $2; 

Pears, $3.

Cabbages—New, 75©80c per dozen.
Carrots—40c per bu.
Celery—20@25  doz.
Cheese—Factorymen  are  now  holding July 
make  at  lie  aud  August  at 1154c.  Jobbers 
figure on about  lc  margin,  making  present 
prices from jobbers’ hands 12@1254c.

Cider—10c per gal.
Corn—Green, 7c. $   doz.
Crab Apples—25c per bu.
Cucumbers—8  doz.
Dried Apples—Evaporated, 16c $  ft; quarter­

ed and sliced, 6@7c $  ft.

Dried Peaches—Pared. 15c.
Eggs—Dull.  Jobbers  are  paying  llq  and 

holding at  12c.

Grapes—Concords  and Ives, 6c per lb. 
Honey—Scarce at 10@14e.
Hay—Baled 

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

is  moderately  active  at  $15 
in 

Muskmelons—Scarce at  $1.50 
Onions—More plenty, the market now being 

well supplied at $1 per bu.

Parsley—25c 
Peaches—Hale’s  Early  and  River’s  are  in 
large supply  at  $2 per  bu,  Early  Crawfords 
command $2.50 per  bu.

doz.  Scarce.

Pears—$1@$ 1.50 per bu.
Potatoes—New, 75c per bu.
Pop Corn—254c W ft.
Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys, $5@$5.50per bbl. 
Tomatoes—40c)t bu.
Turnips—65c ¥  bu.
W liter melons—$10 @ $15  per 100.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS. 
Lancaster and 73c for Fulse and Clawson.
lots aud 4754c iu carlots.
car lots.

Wheat—No change.  City millers pay 75c for 
Corn—Jobbing  generally  at 52c  in  100  bu. 
Oats—White, 35c in small lots  and 30@31o  in 
Rye—48@50c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 
Flour—No change. Patent,$5.10$ bbl.in sacks 
and  $5.30  in  wood.  Straight,  $4.10 $  bbl. in 
sacks and $4.30 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.40 y  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14  $) ton.  Bran, $13 
« ton.  Ships, $13  V ton.  Middlings, $14 V ton 
Corn aad Oats. $17  W ton.

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NO RUBBING! 

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NO BACKACHE I 

NO SORE FINGERS!

Warranted  not to Injure the Clothes*

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Stale  Board  of Pharmacy.

Six Years—Jacob  Ji'sson, Muskegon.
Two Year»—James Vernor, Detroit.
Three Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
Four Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Five Years—Stanley E. Parkell, Owosso. 
President—Geo. McDonald 
Secretary—Jacob Jesson..
Treasurer—Jas. Vernor.
Next Meeting1—At Lansing, November 1 and 2.

M ic h ig a n   S ta te  P h a r m a c e u tic a l  A s s ’ll.

President—Arthur Bassett, Detroit.
First Vice-President—G. M. Harwood, Petoske.v.
Second Vice-President—H. B. Fairchild,  Grand Rapids. 
Third Vice-President—Henry Kephart, Berrien Springs. 
Secretary—8. E. Parkill, Owosso.
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—Geo.  Gundrum,  Frank  Inglis, 
A. H. Lyman, John E. Peck, E. T. Webb.
Local Secretary—James Vernor, Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Detroit, October

Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER  9,1881.

President—Geo. G. Stekettee.
Vice-President—H.  E. Loeher.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry  B. Fairchild.
Board of Censors—President,  Vice-President  and Sec­
retary.
Board of Trustees—The President,  John E. Peck,  BI.  B 
Klmm, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen and O. H. Richmond, 
wen, Isaac Watts, Wm. E. White and Wm.  L-  White.
Committee on Trade Blatters—John E. Peck, H. B. Fair- 
child and Hugo Thurn.
Committee  on  Legislation—R.  A.  McWilliams,  Theo, 
Kemink and W. H. Tibbs.
Committee on Pharmacy—W. L. White, A. C. Bauer and 
Isaac Watts.
Regular  Meetings—First  Thursday  evening  in  each 
month.
Annual Meeting—First Thursday evening in November
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  Sept.  1,  at  The 

Tradesman office.

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER, 1883.

President—Frank Inglis.
First Vice-President—F. W. R. Perry.
Second Vice-President—J. J.  Crowley.
Secretary and Treasurer—F. Rohnert.
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer—A. B. Lee. 
Annual Meeting—First Wednesday in June.
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday in each  month.
Central  Michigan 
President, J. W. Dunlop
Berrien County  Pharmaceutical  Society. 
President, H. M. Dean;  Secretary, Henry Kephart.

Druggists’  Association, 
Secretary, R.  M. Mussell.

Clinton County  Druggists’ Association. 

President, A. O. Hunt;  Secretary, A. S.  Wallace.
Charlevoix County Pharmaceutical Society 
President, H. W. Willard;  Secretary, Geo. W. Crouter,

Ionia County  PharmaceuticalJSociety. 
President, W. R. Cutler;  Secretary, Geo. Gundrum.

Jackson County Pharmaceutical Ass’n. 

President, R. F. Latimer;  Secretary, F.  A. King.

Kalamazoo Pharmaceutical Association. 

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

Mason County  Pharmaceutical Society. 

President, F. N. Latimer;  Secretary, Wm. Heysett.
Mecosta  Countya Pharmaceutical  Society, 
President, C. H. Wagener;  Secretary, A. H. Webber.

Monroe County Pharmaceutical Society. 

President, S. M. Sackett;  Secretary, Julius Weiss.
Muskegon County  Druggists’  Association 
President, W. B. Wilson;  Secretary, J. R. Tweed.

Muskegon  Drug  Clerks’ Association. 

President, 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, Frank Cady.
Saginaw  County  Pharmaceutical  Society. 
President, Jay Smith;  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. Willard;  Secretary, A. H.  Lyman.

the winter season,  to  take  the  young  and 
healthy twigs,  and  after  maceration,  put 
them into suitably  constructed  stills,  with 
sufficient quantity of water or dilute alcohol 
to properly extract their strength,  and from 
the condensation save  a given quantity pro­
portionate to the amount of  material  used. 
As water is  its  solvent,  there can be no me­
chanical measurement of its strength,  as  in 
distilling spirits, or natural one by voluntary 
separation,  as in making essential oils.  The 
first runnings  will  be  the  strongest,  and 
should only be used, but,  by adding  water, 
the distillation  can  be  continued  for  any 
considerable length of time and the product 
still retain traces of its odor.  The irrespon­
sible maker  does  not  need  to  water  his 
witch hazel, but can,  in this way,  dilute  it 
to his heart’s content and be  technically in­
nocent of the charge.  A barrel  made  from 
two tons of the  shrub (the  proper  amount 
| requisite)  would be  no  more  a  barrel  of 
witch hazel extract,  in  terms,  than  would 
| be one made from two bushels, of the shrub.
Now, here is an open field  for  the  shy­
ster,  the jocky trader, the  “cutter” and  the 
cheat,  and right vigorously have they plied 
their energies to the task.
But with what result let us offer  proof in 
this same connection.  The thief  does  not 
necessarily prosper because escaping  detec­
tion in the act.
Here is a case in point  telling  the  whole 
story in a few  words.  A well-known  firm 
of  wholesale  druggists  broke  a  contract 
made with us for their yearly supply for the 
paltry consideration of two cents per gallon, 
from 80  to 90 cents per  barrel,  and  rather 
congratulated themselves  upon  their  inde­
pendence  of “arbitrary dealing”  (referring 
to our refusal to  make  the  concessions  in 
price  demanded)  after  inspecting  a  good 
sample; of course,  the goods were purchased 
on short time, delivered  and  paid  for. 
druggist cannot know everything,  and  with 
the almost endless variety  embraced in that 
trade it is not strange  that  a  poor  article 
should escape detection, especially if in  the 
original  package,  and  more  especially  be­
cause when newly-made  it is difficult of de­
tection.  A short  time intervened when the 
goods sold  began to come  back,  with  de­
mand for the return  of  the  money.  Even 
their  own  retail  house,  compassing  their 
hesitancy to re-open  negotiations  with  us, 
applied to us for their supply, by direct pur­
chase. 
their 
stock was worthless,  weak  in strength  and 
short of alcohol; it had soured  and  spoiled 
on their hands.  Their efforts to get redress 
from the  manufacturer  who sold it to them 
were fruitless.  He was  found  not  to  be 
worth his salt,  and as unprincipled  as  irre 
sponsible.  Now,  indeed, the  proper  rela 
tions are restored and we  sell  the  firm  all 
they use,  upon the  old  basis.  But  it  can 
be shown to be a fact  that it has  taken two 
years of strenuous effort to re-establish suf­
ficient confidence  between  that  firm  and 
their customers,  to be able to  sell  two  bar 
rels per year against from thity to forty,the 
sum of their annual sales previously, to say 
nothing of its  reflex  influence  upon  their 
general trade.
It is not difficult to multiply facts of siin 
ilar import,  and it would seem that the  les­
sons of experience would  stop  this  thing, 
But,  these are merchants!  O, no, that  is a 
mistake; there are traders still,  who  clutch 
the  temptations  of  cut  prices,  with  the 
avidity of the buzzard for the carcass, appar­
ently with a like relish  for  the  flavor.  Of 
argument there is  no need.  Cut  prices are 
short lived, and irregular purchases of mer­
chandise  unprofitable. 
For  the  precise 
point sought to be established  hitherto,  we 
make no appeal to  magnanimity—to  moral 
sentiment or physicial  suffering  or half the 
ills that life is heir too, amplified and inten­
sified  by  adulteration  and  its  equivalents, 
We have employed as an illustration one of 
the least important and least  offensive, per­
chance inadmissable  as  an  adulterant,  to- 
wit:  depletion,  dilution,  or,  to  employ  a 
druggist’s  by-word,  “aqueous  innocence.” 
Watering  whisky  may  be  innocent  and 
justifiable  in  the  interest  of  temperence. 
But  administering  bread-pills  becomes  a 
crime,  when  substituted  for  that  which 
would have saved life.  Deprivation of food 
has nothing in common with  administering 
poison, but the one will destroy life as sure­
ly and more horribly than the other.

Investigation  proved  that 

is declining.

failure in Boston.

produced in Java.

Minor Drug Notes.

after a long depression.

manure for grape  vines.

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tain he was  charging.

The  wax  paper  business  has  proved  a 

The indigo consumed in Europe is mostly 

Higher prices in the  pig lead market rule 

Magnesium ammonium phosphate is a rich 

A Maine druggist has written a play,
The dye-woods  trade in the  Netherlands 

A.  Connecticut  drug  clerk  had  both his
question is Upon what principle  legs broken by the bursting of  a soda foun

Combination  among  manufacturers  will 
make  prices on quicksilver,  vermilion, and 
carmine more uniform.
France  has  instituted  a  system  for  the 
inspection of mineral waters.

“ Cutting” a Financial Failure.
Correspondence Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.
Of the outcry against monopoly, combina­
tions, etc.,  it is to be said  that  we  are  in­
debted to the patent  laws  of  this  country 
for its prosperity; and  yet,  monopoly is  the 
essence of patent law.  The  tariff is a two- 
edged blade which cuts both ways, and need 
not be discussed in this connectiou.  But if 
monopoly oppresses the laborer  betimes,  it 
employs labor. 
If it enhances  the price  of 
manufactured commodities,  it establishes  a 
market  for  them,  and  it  is  a  question 
whether its advantages  may  not  in  some 
measure compensate for the disasters inevi­
table to an unsettled market  which  would 
happen without  them,  for it is certain  that 
patents, combinations and  even monopolies 
establish  trade  rates,  regulate  prices  and, 
make  uniform  the  cost  of  merchandise. 
Moreover ilie suggestion is offered that prof­
its to the manufacturer  under  the  existing 
state of things,  are not greater,  nor  ruling 
prices higher than are healthful to the com­
monwealth. 
If so,  it follows  that cut-rates 
or cut-prices  are  an  innovation  and  but 
another name for commercial anarchy.
But we do not inveigh  against  “cutting” 
from a pecuniary standpoint alone, but from 
that of a united and  great  moral,  physical 
And commercial wrong.
It scarcely touches the  question  at  issue 
whether or  not  the  linaucial  standing  of 
“cutters,”  so-called,  equals  that  of  oilier 
merchants—whether or not  they  pay  their
or by what methods are they  able to do so? 
nr hv what  met loiis are f.linv  ahlt. 
Is there a basis for a  reasonable  success  in 
Impossible  is 
that way of doing business? 
it to ignore the fact that  adulterating,  sub­
stitutes of  inferior  qualities,  and  all 
the 
The  government authorities of  Germany 
catalogue of ingenious devices for  cheapen­
are  having a  hard  time  trying  to  enforce
ing the price of  merchandise  by  lessen»!
the cost and diminishing that by limiting its | l*ie new law against patent medicines, 
worth  go handdn-hand witli  “cut  prices.” j  The  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great 
They necessitate resort to them and  are  re-  Britain is putting  up a $30,000 building for
sponsible for their existence.
The weightier phases of this wrong  must 
be omitted,  however, 
in  this  article,  with 
the remark that the adulteration of drugs is? 
.if possible,  more reprehensible than that  of 
food,  for the reason  that  food  is  usually 
taken into  the  system  when  in  a  healthy 
condition,  and drugs  employed  when  the 
constitution is less able to  bear  a  violation 
of its laws. 
It is the purpose of the writer, 
upon completing the series of these commu­
nications, to  expose  the  wrong  of  which 
it  complains,  in  all  its  nakedness,  as  a 
monstrous evil,  fraught  with  present and 
prospective calamity.  Let us,  then,  cover 
every  point.  The  most  inviting  field  for 
adulteration in  drugs  with  its  hand-made 
cut prices,  is with that class of goods which 
have no standard of quality other  than  the 
Carbolic  acid  is  scarce  and  high  in 
manufacturer’s fidelity to his  trust, as  with
compounds not reported in the U.  S.  Phar-1 Europe,  but  is  unchanged  here,  although 
macopoeia, and with such as are difficult  of  likely to  be  higher.  Cantharides  here  ad- 
anaIysis.  The article  of  witch  hazel  ex-  v&nced and are reported firm. 
Insect  pow- 
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. 
tract, so-called, is, for example, strictly a dis- L, 
tillate of the shrub “Hamamelis Virginica.”  der  is  8tlU  tendinS  upward;  best  brands
hvae  advanced  again  this  week.  Balsam 
It is strange,  by the way, that an  article of 
merchandise, sold by almost the entire drug 
tolu is tending higher.  Chamomile flowers, 
trade of the world, and in no inconsiderable 
Roman,  have advanced  and  will  be higher, 
quantities,  should not be recognized  by  our 
on  account  of  short crop.  Oils bergamont 
Pharmacopoeias.
and  lemon  are  very  firm  and  advancing 
A double purpose may be  gained  by  af­
fording information to the  public,  who  are j  abroad, 
Oil  peppermint is dull.  Oils sas­
none too well-informed  upon  the  subject, 
safras and wintergreen are higher and tend- 
and at the same time fixing the base for the 
Camphor  is  in  full  supply  and 
concluding argument for this article in stat-  ,n^  UP 
ing that the method  employed  in  making  easier. 
Oil  cassia  is lower.  Oil cubebs is 
'Witch hazel extract or distillate,  Is,  during1 higher.
Quinine is dull and lower.

“As one who  has had some twenty years 
experience  in  pharmacy,” says an English 
druggist,  “I  consider  the  dispenser  who 
cannot  guarantee  the purity of  every drug 
which  he  dispenses,  either  because he has 
made  it or  because he cannot  analyze it,  is 
not worthy of the confidence of the medical 
man whose instructions he lias to carry out, 
or of  the  patient  whose money  he  takes. 
There  are,  I  maintain,  many  pharmacists, 
some of  whom are  only in a small  way  of 
business,  who  are  prepared  to  guarantee 
personally every drug which  they dispense. 
If they can not  do so, they have no right to 
demand special remuneration.”
The  Drug  Market.

The coal-tar  colors are fast  replacing the 
vegetable  dyes,  indigo  and  logwood being 
about the only ones  surviving.

its headquarters.

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W hat  Practical  Use  Can  the  Druggist 

Make of the Microscope ?-

This is the title the  Microscope  gives to 
the following well-written  and  timely edi­
torial:
The importance of this query to the prac­
ticing pharmacist  can hardly be  estimated. 
In the first place,  it is  absolutely  essential 
that the druggist who would know anything 
of botany,  and of  the  plants  from  which 
the medicines are made, which it is his bus­
iness to dispense, should have a  knowledge 
of the structure of plant tissues.  Professor 
Prescott, in a recent valuable article,  makes 
this one of the  necessary  qualifications;  al­
so,  an  understanding  of “the  descriptive 
terms by which vegetable drugs are defined,” 
and “by which to  indentify  drugs in pow­
der.”  Unfortunately, 
there  are  in  phar­
macy,  as in other  professions,  too  many to 
whom the use of the  microscope, as an edu­
cational instrument,  makes  little -or no  ap­
peal.
There is,  however,  another  side to this 
question which is of  greater  interest to the 
public and of  pecuniary  importance to tbe 
pharmacist.  The retailer may be over-hon­
est, but this has not  always  been found to 
be the case with manufacturers and import­
ers;  and  powders, 
leaves,  roots,  etc.,  for 
which  the  highest  market  price has been 
paid,  have  often  proved  to  be inert and 
worse than useless,  if not  positively  injur­
ious to the consumer.  Drug adulteration is 
no new  “trick of the trade,” for  Pliny,  Vi­
truvius,  and  others  of  the  Latin  writers 
speak of its practice in their day and  of the 
tests then employed.  As the knowledge of 
medicinal plants increased,  the ingenuity of 
the  human  brain  was  taxed to keep pace 
in this fraudulent practice, until, as early as 
the thirteenth century,  recourse was  bad to 
legislation to restrain  dealers from cheating 
each other  and the  public.  At the present 
time laws are in force in every civilized land 
prohibiting  the  adulteration  of  drugs and 
food stuffs;  but that the evil has  not  been 
wholly stamped out in our  own  country is 
well known,  and it is asserted that in  Eng­
land,  Germany,  Belgium and  France there 
are still establishments which  prepare such 
drugs with especial reference to  the Ameri­
can market.
In  view  of  these  facts,  it  becomes  the 
imperative  duty  of  every  pharmacist  to 
protect himself  by  testing  all  crude drugs 
that come  into  his  possession.  And  how 
can this  best  be  done?  Assuredly  not  by 
chemistry,  which  is  not  infallible,  and 
which  requires  both  time  and  apparatus 
The  simplest  way  out  of  the  dilemma  is 
afforded  by the  microscope,  which  stands 
ever ready at  hand.  But  little  knowledge 
of  technique is necessary,  and  little time is 
lost  in  applying  this  important  test.  All 
that is essential is  that a few  shreds of tis 
sue tom  apart  by  needles or a thin slice or 
the powdered article to be placed  on a slide 
in a drop  of  water  or  glycerine  under  the 
instrument.  Although  the  pharmacopoeias 
and dispensatories of England and America 
as  yet  hardly  notice  this  instrument,  its 
importance as a part  of  the  druggist arma 
mentarium  is,  in this country,  beginning to 
be recognized, and at present nearly all  our 
school books of  pharmacy include  a  course 
of  microscopy in their curriculum.

Rough  on  Analysis.

From the American Analyst.

A fair  presentment  of  the  popular  idea 
relative to the intellectual  training  and  ex 
perience  requisite  for  making  chemical 
analysis  is  given  by  some  ex-grocer  now 
editing a trade  journal,  who,  according  to 
the National Druggist, advises that analyti­
cal chemistry and microscopy  be  taught  in 
our common schools to all pupils  fifteen  or 
more years of  age.  The statement is made 
that “this  is  perfectly  feasible.  No  more 
mental capacity is required to make a rough 
analysis of a sample of pepper than to make 
an analysis of a sentence.”  “Rough analy­
sis” is a very appropriate  name  to give  the 
work  performed  by persons  who have  had 
or would  have  such  training  as  here  sug­
gested.  Those persons who have  had  spe­
cial  training  and  experience  find  constant 
difficulties  in  the  way  of  accurate  work. 
Still  some  persons  would  advise  school 
children to run around with  a  test  tube  in 
one hand,  a reagent bottle in the other,  and 
a microscope under the arm,  to  detect  food 
and chemical  adulterations.  Microscopy is 
a very fascinating  and  useful  study, 
th e  
construction  and  use  of  the  instrument 
shouldjbe taught in our high schools, and un­
doubtedly will be before any far distant day. 
It does  not,  however,  follow  that a fifteen- 
rear-old-child  will  be  enabled  to  place  a 
pinch of  powder under the objective  of  the 
microscope and call off the number and pro­
portion of  the ingredients after the fashion 
of the  young  microscopist and chemist cre­
ated in the brain of the editor  to  whom  we 
have referred.
Commercial Samples of Fowler’s Solution.
W.  H.  Dickinson has  examined  samples 
of this  preparation as  made by both whole­
sale and retail druggists.
His  general conclusions,  as  expressed in 
paper read before the Indiana State Phar­
maceutical Association, are  that  from  the 
results of  examinations  thus  far  made of 
fowler’s  solution  that  have  been  heard 
from,  it may be seen  that  the  strength  of 
arsenious acid  in  the  commercial  samples 
falls  far  below  the  requirements  of  the 
United  States  Pharmacopoeia.  The  aver­
age per cents,  of arsenious acid found in the 
examinations by D. S.  Caraway, W.  Simon­
son and himself  are  respectively  .863  per 
cent.,  .687 per cent, and .850 per cent.  The 
samples made  by wholesale  druggists seem 
to contain,  in  general,  a higher per cent of 
arsenious  acid  than  those  made  by  retail 
druggists.  The main reason for the latter’s 
strength running lower than that of the for­
mer is  that  the  retailer’s  sample  is  more 
apt to be exposed to the light and air, which 
causes the changing  of  the  arsenious oxide 
into the higher oxide,  for  which  latter  the 
pharmacopoeia makes no  limit.  This oxid­
ation  weakens  the  strength of  the prepar­
ation,  as arsenic of the  higher  oxide is less 
poisonous than that of  the other oxide.
State  Boards  and  Colleges  of  Pharmacy.
The Pharmaceutical Record  very  truth­
fully says:
Boards of  pharmacy are  in no sense edu­
cators,  but  the  tendency should  be exerted 
iu favor of colleges of  pharmacy  as  educa­
tors,  and to  Induce  employes  to  take  such 
course of  instruction  in  full  before  com­
ing before  a  board  of  pharmacy.  A good, 
systematic course of  instruction,  such  as  is 
pursued by all  the colleges of  pharmacy,  is 
far more conducive to the  welfare  and  suc­
cess of  the  candidate  in  his future career, 
and of  greater  safety  to  the  public,  than 
simply  the  examination  of  any  board  of 
pharmacy.  We  write  this  in  the  hope  of 
calling the attention of  both  employers and 
clerks  to  the  greater  advantages  to  both 
through  the  instructions  and  study  that 
come  from  attendance  upon  a  college  of 
pharmacy.  Take  sound  advice;  study sys­
tematically  and  persistently,  but  do  not 
“ cram.”

In conclusion, he  says:

Prof.  J.  P.  Remington, 

The Metric System and  Parts by  Weight, 
in  a  carefully 
written  paper  on  the  use  of  weights  and 
measures  in  liquid  preparations, considers 
the  practice of weighing solids and measnr 
ing  liquids  preferable  to  that  of  parts by 
weight. 
The  advantages  that  would  be  gained 
by  substituting  the  use  of  the  gram  and 
cubic  centimeter  for “parts  by weight” are 
those  which  belong  then  to  the  use 
“solids by weight  and liquids by measure 
and although  this change  would be,  in  the 
writer’s  opinion,  a  great 
intprovement, 
there seems  to  be  so  much  opposition 
the use of the metric system in this country 
that it is very doubtful at this time whether 
the  gram  and  cubic  centimeter  could  be 
adopted,  with a reasonable chance of its uu 
iversal  use,  without  legislative  aid;  and 
even then its  success  would  be  problemat 
ical.  The  metric  system  is  undoubtedly 
the most  simple, comprehensive,  and  beau 
tiful  system  that  has  ever  been  devised, 
and if its one  great  defect  of  binary divis 
ions  and  subdivisions  could  be  overcome, 
its inherent advantages  would be  so  appar­
ent  that  pharmacists  everywhere would be 
glad  to  adopt it for its intrinsic worth; but 
even witii this  defect  it  is,  in  the  writer 
opinion,  greatly  to  be  preferred  (if  the 
measures  are  used)  for  pharmaceutical 
practice than parts by weight.

Dangerous  Lemonade.

A style of  lemon-squeezer  has  been sold 
quite extensively which is  made of  galvan 
ized iron,  or iron covered  with a coating  of 
zinc.  A  word  of  caution  should  be given 
against their  use,  as  the  citric  acid of  the 
lemon will  readily dissolve  the  zinc,  form­
ing  unwholesome  and  poisonous  salts. 
Lemon-squeezers should  be  made either  of 
plain  iron  or  wood,  or,  where the surfaces 
are brought into  contact  with  the fruit,  of 
glass or porcelain.  Zinc  is  a  metal which 
is  readily  attacked  by  the  weakest  acids, 
and no article of food or  drink  should  ever 
be allowed to come in contact with it.

AGENTS  FOR  THE

375 South Union St., Grand Rapids.
Standard  Petit Ledger.
F OR  SALE—Stock of about $1,300 well locat 
ed in town of 6,000 inhabitants  in  Texas 
Liberal  discount.
I ilOK  SALE—Stock of about $1,3UU in town of 
600 inhabitants in Kansas.  Can be bought 
on very reasonable terms.
I pOR  SALE—Stock of about  $5,000  in  town 
of 3,0o0 inhabitants in  Indiana.  Average 
daily sales $35.  Terms easy.
I nOH  SALE—Stock of about $1,500 in townof 
5l0 inhabitants.  No  other drug store  in 
place.
F OR SALE—Stock of  $1,200  in  town  of  300 
inhabitants.  Average daily sales $15.
F or  s a l e- 
-Stock  of  $3,750 well located  in 
Detroit.
Doing good business.
F OR SALE—Stock  of  $500 in  town of 800 in 
habitants.  No other  drug store in town
I HOtt  SALE—Stock  of  $2.2uu  in  town  ot 
inbabitants.  Average  daily  sales  $15 
Will sell at  liberal terms.
■ LSO—Many  other  stocks,  the  particulars 
of which we will  furnish  on  application.
T O
i DRUGGISTS—Wishing to secure clerks 
we will furnish the  address  and full  par­
ticulars of those on our list  free.
W E  HAVE also secured  the  agency  for J 

H. Vail & Co.’s medics.1 publications and 
can  furnish  any  medical  or  pharmaceutical 
work at publishers’ rates.

Michigan Drug Exchange,

357 South Uoion St., 

- %  Grand Rapids.

„ ,  *THB  «ÄC

U tility and j

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(ArlBE^EAffiiy 
'PUT UP BY Art Y 
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OrtE BRACKET (§| 
S uitable  for.  various
[3WIDTHS  OF  SHELVING.

® ®  U S   • • 

¡•PATENTED  OCT.  19,  1887.
KOCH  A.  B.  CO.

Manufactured by

354  MAIN  ST.,

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

c

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Bug; FinisM

READY FOR USE DRY.

NO MIXING REQUIRED.

It sticks to the vines and Finishes the whole 
crop of Potato Rugs 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 
farmers.  It is therefore  cheaper,  and  saves 
the trouble and danger  of  mixing  and  using 
the  green,  which,  needless to say,  is danger­
ous to handle.
Bug Finish was used the past season on  the 
State Agricultural  College  Farm  at  Lansing, 
Michigan,  and,  in  answer  to  inquiries,  the 
managers write:  “The Bug finish  gave  good 
satisfaction on garden and farm.”  Many  un- 
solicitated  letters have  been  received  prais­
ing Bug Finish.
Barlow & Star, hardware dealers at  Coldwa- 
ter. Mich., write as  follows under date oj. May 
14:  “We sold «.100 pounds of “Bug Finish” last 
year.  It is rightly named  “Bug  Finish,” as it 
finishes the <-ntire crop of bugs with oneappll- 
catiod.  We shall not be satisfied unless we sell 
three  tons  this  year,  as  there  is  already  a 
strong demand for it.  Please send us ten  bar­
rels ¡3.000 pounds) at once.”
Guaranteed as represented.  Cheaper than

any other Mixture used for the purpose.

MANUFACTURED BY

Anti-Kalsomine Co., Grand Rapids.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.
,  

Advanced
sassaf ras, oil wintergreen, oil oubebs. 
Declined—Oil cassia, quinine, P. & W.

-, 

Aceticum.................................................. 
8® 10
Benzoicum,  German..............................  80@i 00
Carbolicum..............................................   13® 48
Citricum.................................................  £8®  65
Hydrochlor........................................ 
..  10® 12
..  11®r 13
..1  85@2  10
..1  40®l 60
..  50® 53

Tartaricum

 

 

do 

3® 5

ACIDUM.

AMMONIA.

MISCELLANEOUS.

SPONGES.
dò 
........  
. . .  
do 
”  
do 
do 
....... 
,for slate use................  
................. 

f 
* 
¡  Florida sheens’wool, carriage.......2 25  @2 50
J Nassau 
do 
2 00
„  -.L  
1  10
Cantharides,  insect powder,  oil j Velvet Ext  do 
gg
ExtraYe  f  do 
Grass 
do 
66
Hard ! 
75
Yellow Reef. 
l  40
ASther, Spts Nitros, 3 F..........................   26® 28
iEther, Spts. Nitros. IF .........................  30® 32
4 !u m en ..................................................   24®  34
Al u men,  ground, (po. 7)....................... 
3®  4
Annatto  ...................................................  55® 60
Antimoni,  po......................................   4®
Antimoni et Potass  Tart....................   55®
Argenti Nitras,  5.................................   @
Arsenicum...........................................  5®
Balm Gilead  Bud................................  38® 40
Bismuth 8.  N....................................3 15@2 30
Calcium Chlor, Is, (4s, 11;  j^s, 12)....  ©  9
Cantharides  Russian, po......................  ®2 10
Capsici Fructus, af..............................   @ 15
Capsici Fructus, po..............................   @ ig
Capsici Fructus, B, po..........................  ® u
Caryophyllus,  (po. 35)..
Carmine, No. 40...........
C< ra Alba, S. & F.........
Cera Flava...................
Coccus ........................
Cassia Fructus.............
Centraria....................
Cetaceum...................
Chloioform........................................   0B(ai 4U
Chloroform,  Squibbs...........................   @l 00
Chloral Hydrate  Cryst..................... 1 60@1 75
Chondrus..........................................  io@  i2
Cinchonidine, P.& W........................   15®  30
Cinchonidine.  German........................ 
f@ 15
Corks, see list, discount,  per cent.... 
in
Creasotum..................................... 
•••••••••••

..  48® do
@1 50
..  50® 55j
..  40® 45

.. 
3® 5
4® 6
.. 
..  11® 13
..  12® 14

30®
@3
50®
2S@
@®
©
©38®

..1 30®L 40
6® 7
..  25® 30

BACCAE.

(KK1 

ga

Chloridum .................................

Cubebae (po.  1 20.....................
Juniperus  .................................
Xanthoxylum..........................
BALSAMUM.
Copaiba......................................
Peru............. ..............................
Terabin,  Canada.......................

CORTEX.
Abies,  Canadian.................
Cassiae  ..................................
Cinchona Flava.....................
Eaouymus  atropurp............
Myrica  Cerifera, po.............
Prunus  Virgin!.....................

IS
11 !
18  I30
20
12
12
12
10

.  24® 25
.  83® 35
9® 10
© 12
© 13
.  @ 15

@ 15
©3 50
.  @ 80
.  @ 50
.  @ 15
•  1K@
®

.  10® 12
.  20® 25
.  35® 50
.  10® 12
. 
8® 10

@1 00
.  @ 90
.  @ 90
@ 65
.  75@l 00
.  50® 60
.  @ 12
.  @ 50
.  25® 30
-  @ 15
.  50® 55
.  25® 38
•  © 13
.  35® 10
.  @ 80
.  75@ 80
.  @ 35
@ 20
@1 25
.  @ 40
.5 0C®5 25
.  18® 25
.  25® 30
.  30® 
75
u

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

mus..........................................
Ulnros Po (Ground  12)...............
EXTRACTUM.
reyrrhiza Glabra...................
po..  .......................
Haematox, 15 Jb boxes...............
Is.............................
4 s  ...........................
548 .......................
Carbonate Precip.......................
Citrate and Quinta.....................
Citrate Soluble............................
Ferrocyanidum Sol....................
Solut  Chloride............................
Sulphate, com’l,  (bbl. 85)..........
pure...........................

FERRUM.

“ 

FOLIA.
Cassia Acutifol, Tinnivelly. 
A lx...........

“ 

“ 

Ura  Ursi.

GUMMI.
2nd  “ 
..............................
3rd 
“ 
.............................
Sifted sorts..........................
Aloe, Barb,  (po. 60)..................  ....
Cape, (po. 20)............................
‘  Socotrme,  (po. 60)..................
Ammoniae  .......................................
Assafoetida,  (po. 304........................
Benzoinum.......................................
Catechu, Is,  (4s,  14; 14s, 16).
Gaibanum......
Gamboge, po..
Kino,  (po. 25)..................
Mastic.............................
Myrrh, (po.45)................
Opii, ¡po. 6 75/...:..........

“  bleached...................
Tragacanth ............................
h e r b a —In ounce ]
Absinthium  ..........................
Eupatorium  ..........................
Lobelia  ..................................
Majorum  ..................... ........
Mentha Piperita....................
“  V ir............................
R u e.........................................
Tanacetum,  V .......................
Thymus. V .............................

OLEUM.

Calcined,  Pat..............................
Carbonate,  Pat.......................... ..........  20®  22
Carbonate,  K. & M.................... ..........  20®  25
Carbonate,  Jennings................ ..........  35®  36
Absinthium................................. ..........4 50@5 00
Amygdalae, Dulc....................... ..........  45®  50
Amydalae, Amarae.................... ..........7 25@7 75
Anisi  ...........................................
........2 20@2 30
Auranti Cortex.......................... ..........  @2 00
Bergamii........................  
........ ..........2 75@3 00
Cajiputi  ...................................... ..........  90@1 00
Caryophylli................................. ..........  @2 00
Cedar............................................
Chenopodii................................. ..........  @f 50
Cinnamonii................................. ..........  85®  90
Citronella  .................................. ..........  @  75
Conium  Mac............................... ..........  35®  65
Copaiba....................................... ..........  90®  1 00
Cubebae ......................................
....10  00@10 50
Exechthitos................................. ..........  90@1 00
Krigeron.....................................
..........1 20@1 30
Gaultheria.................................. ..........2 30@2 40
Geranium, 1................................. ........   @  75
Gossipii, Sem.gal.......................
........  55®  75
Hedeoma...................................... ..........  0O@1 00
Juniperi....................................... .......;.  50®2 00
Lavendula .................................. ..........  90@2 00
Limonis.......................................
........1 75@2 25
Lini, gal.......................................
........  42®  45
Mentha Piper..............................
........ 2 50@3 50
Mentha Verid.............................
........5 50@6 00
Morrhuae,  gal............................
........   80@1 00
Myrcia,  5.....................................
........   @ 50
O live........................................
........ 1 00@2 75
icis Liquida, (gal. 35)..........................   10®  13
Ricini......................................................1 42@1 60
Rosmarini..............................................  75@1  00
Rosae,  ?....................  ............................   @8 00
Succini  ................................................... 
40®45
Sabina......................................................  90® 1 00
Santal............. :...................................... 3 50®7 00
Sassafras...
45®  50 
Sinapis, ess,
®  65 
Tiglii............
®1 50 
hyme _____
40®  50
opt. :.
“ 
Theobromas.
15®

POTASSIUM.
ichromate...............................
Bromide....................................
Chlorate, (Po. 20).......................
Iodide.........................................
Prussiate..................................

RADIX.

......   13®  15
.......  42®  45
.......  18®  20
___3 0C@3 25
.....  25®  28

A lthae....................................................   25®
Anchusa.................................................   15®
rum,  po................................................  @
Calamus...................................................  20®
Gentiana,  (po. 15)...................................  10®
Glychrrhiza,  (pv. 15)..............................  16®
Hydrastis  Canaden,  ,po. 33).................  @
Hellebore,  Alba,  po..............................  15®
Iuula,  po........................... 
15®
Ipecac, po............................................... 1  75@2
Jalapa,  pr...............................................   25®
Maranta,  J4s.................................  
  @
Podophyllum,  po..................................   15®
Khei  .......................................
cut..................................
pv 
75@1 
Spigo! in
48®
Sanguinaria, (po. 25)..............................  ®
Serpentaria............................................   35®
Senega....................................................   40®
Smilax, Officinalis, H........................... 
  @
Mex.......................  @

 

 

. mplocarpus,  Foetidus, po..........
aleriana,  English,  (po. 30)............

Anis urn, (po.22).

Coriandrum........
Cannabis  Sativa.
Chenopodium
Foenlculum...................
Foenugreek, po.............
Lini..................................

Rapa...............
Sinapis,  Albu.

.  10® 12
.  @ 25
.  © 26
.  15® 20

.  @ 17
.  12® 15
. 
4® 6
.  12® 15
.1 00@1 25
.  10® 12
3® 4
75@1 00
.  10® 12
.1 75®l  95
@ 15
6® 8
.  34® 4
.  94® 4
.  3X@44
5® 6
. 
8® 9
.  11® 12

SPIRITU S.

.2 00@2 50
Frumenti, D. F. R................................... 1 
Frumenti........................ 
1 
Juniperis Co.  O. T..... .................... 
1 
Junlperis Co......................  
1 
Saacnarum  N. E ...___ 
 
1 
 
Spt. Vini Galli........................................ 1 
Vini Oporto......................................... 1 
Vini  Alba................................................1 

75@2 OC
1Q®Ì 50
76®1 76
75@3 50
76@2 00
75@0 50
25@2 00
26@2 00

 

 

 

 

 

25®

12«;

Salacin.

io® i
71

Morphia. S. N. Y. Q. & C. Co.
Moschus Canton  ..................
Myristica, No. 1.....................
Os. Sepia................
Picis Liq,  N. C.. y% 
PicisLiq.,  quarts., 
Picis Liq., pints__
Piper Nigra,  (po.22)..................
Piper Alba, (po. 35)..................
Pix Burgun..........................
Potassa, Bitart, pure... 
Potassa.  Bitart.com...
Potass  Nitras, opt........
Potass Nitras................
Pulvis Ipecac et opii... 
Pyrethrum, boxes, H. &
Pyrethrum, pv...............
Quassiae.........................
Quinia, S, P. &  W..........

Greta Rubra.............................
Crocus  ......................................
Cudbear............................
Cupri Sulph.......................... .
Dextrine................................................... 
Ether Suiph............................................ 
Emery, all  numbers.................................... @
Emery, po...................................................  ®
Ergota. (po. 60).........................................   59®
Flake  White...................................... 
Gaiia.............................................................. @
Gambier.......................................................7®
Gelatin, Coopor...................... .!.!.!.!.!  @
Gelatin, French............................... 
40®
Glassware flint, 70&10 by box.  6Ö&1Ö, less.
Glue,  Brown.............................................   9®
Glue, White................................!!!!!!!  13®
Glycerina.................................. .
Grana  Paradisi..........................!!!.!!!  @
H um ulus........................................... 
Hydrarg Chlor. Mitt  .......!.!!!!!!!!!"  @
Hydrarg Chlor.  Cor.................................  @
Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum..........................   @
Hydrarg Ammoniati............................  @1  00
Hydrarg Unguentum..........................  @  40
Hydrargyrum...........................................  @ «5
Ichthyocolla, A m ......................... 
1 25® 1 50
In d ig o ..................................................   76©1 00
Iodine,  Resubl....................................... 4 oo@4  10
Iodoform...................................................  @5 15
Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod...!...!!  @  3<~
Liquor Potass  Arsinitis.......................  
10@ 1:
Lupuline  .................................................   «5@1 00
Lycopodium......................................
60
Maeis.......................................
..  80® 85
Magnesia, Sulph, (bbl. 1)4)!'.!!!
2®
.. 
90@: 00
. 
..3  35@i 60
..3 85@é 50
© 40
.. 
..  70® 75
..  @ 10
@2 08
...  @2 70
©1 40
@ 85
..  @ 50
..  @ 18
..  @ 35
..  @
..  14® 15
..  @ 40
..  @ 15
8@ 10
.. 
7® tf
.. 
..1  10@1 20
)Z.  @] 255
..  60® 65
8® 10
.. 
..  52® 57
..  42® 53
..  12® 13
..  @ 35
2® 75
.. 
..  40® 50
..  @4 50
..  12© 14
8@ 10
.. 
..  @ 15
..  @ 28
..  @ 18
..  @ 30
..  @ 35
..  @ 35
..  74® 9
..  33® 35
2® 24
.. 
4© 5
.. 
3® 4
.. 
..  @ 2
..  50® 55
..  @2 00
@2 50
..  @2 #5
..  @1 30
..  24® 34
..  24@ 3
.. 
8® 10
..  28® 30
..50  @ 55
.9 00® 16 00

Sapo, W..................................
sapo,  m .............................. ;;;
sapo, g ................................;;;
Seidlitz  Mixture.................!’.
Sinapis....................................
Sinapis,  opt..........................
Snuff,  Maccaboy.  Do. Voes.
Snuff, Scotch,  Do. Voes.......
Soda Boras, (po.  9)...............
Soda et Po toss Tart...............
Soda Carb...............................
Soda,  Bi-Carb.........................
Soda, Ash...............................
Soda  Sulphas........................
Spts. Ether Co.......................
Spts.  Myrcia  Dom................
Spts. Myrcia Imp..................
Spts. Vini Rect, (bbl. 2 08)...
Strychnia, Crystal................
Sulphur, Subf........................
Sulphur,  Roll........................
Tamarinds.............................
Terebenth  Venice................
Theobromae..........................
Vanilla  .............................
Zinci  Sulpb............................
OILS.
Bbl
Whale, winter..................
70
Lard, extra........................ 
...
60
Lard,No.  1............................!.!!!.!!!  45
Linseed, pure  raw............................’  47
Linseed, boiled..................................   50
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained....!!!!  50
Spirits Turpentine.............................   35

Gal
75
61
60
50
53
60
40
Lb 
Red Venetian............................
2® 3 
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........
2® 3 
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........
2® 3 
Putty, commercial..................
2H@ 3 
Putty, strictly pure..................
2)4® 3 
Vermilion, prime American..
13®16 
Vermilion,  English..................
55@58 
Green, Peninsular....................
16@17 
Lead, red strictly pure...........
6® 6)4 
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
6®  6)4 
Whiting, white  Spanish.......  .
@70 
Whiting,  Gilders ......................
@90 
White, Paris American...........
1  10 
Whiting  Paris English cliff..
1  49 
Pioneer Prepared  fa in ts......
1 20® 1  40 
Swiss Villa Preparer  Paints..
1 00@1 20
VARNISHES.
No. 1 Turp  Coach........................................1 io@l 20
Extra  Turp..................................................j  eo@l 70
Coach Body^. 
No. 1 Turp Furniture................................. 1 00@I 10
Extra Turk  Damar.....................................1  55®! 80
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp.....................   70®  75
APPROVED by PHYSICIANS. 

...................................2 75@3  00

Bbl
1«
U4
1«
214
2*

PAINTS

O u s l i m a n ’s

MENTHOL  INHALER
Neuralgia, H ay Fever,  Asthma, Bron­

In  the  treatment  of  Catarrh,  Headache, 

chitis,  Sore  Throat  and  Severe 

Colds, stands without an equal.

Air Menthollzed by passing through the Inhaler- 
tube, in which the Pure Crystals of Menthol are 
neld‘ thoroughly applies this  valuable  remedy  in the 
most  efficient  way,  to  the  parts  affected.  It sells 
readily.  Always keep an open Inhaler in yonr store, 
and let your customers try it.  A few  inhalations  will 
not hurt the Inhaler, and will do more  to demonstrate 
its effielency than a half hour’s talk.  Retail price 
50 cents.  Fer Circulars and Testimonials address 

II. D. Cushman, Three Rivers, Mich. 

Hazeltlne & Perkins Drug Co., G’d Rapids, 
And Wholesale Druggists of Detroit and Chicago.

T ANSY  CAPSULEE

■  THE  LATEST  DISCOVEBY.  W
Or.  Laparle’s  Celebrated  Preparation, Safe and 
hi ways  Reliable.  Indispensable  to  LADI1SS. 
BALUMET CHEItiqMCO., Ciiicigo.r;
MnSoopap«.

Send 4 cents  for Sealed Circular.

Trade supplied by

WHOLESALE

Druggists!

42 and 44  Ottawa Street and  89,  91,

93 and 95 Louis Street. 

IMPORTERS  AND JOBBERS  OF

and Druggist's 
Sundries.

MANUFACTURERS  OF

t  Piarmacentical  Prepara­
tions,  Fluid  Extracts  and 

Elixirs

GENERAL WHOLESALE  A 6NTS FOB

Wolf, Patton & Co. and John L  

Whiting, Manufacturers  of 

Fine Paint and  Var­

nish Brushes.
THE  CELEBRATED

ALSO  FOR  THE

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

Horse Brushes.

WE  ARE  SOLE  OWNERS  OF

Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Care

Which is positively the best Remedr 

of the kind on the market.

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

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

WITHERS DADE & CO.’S

Henderson Co., Ky.,

Sour Mash  and  Old-Fashioned 

Hand-Made, Copper- 

Distilled

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

We are also owners of the

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

Bias, Brandies & Fins Vine.

We 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  00 
such articles as do not appear  on  the  list 
such as

PatsnliM edicines,

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

Mail  orders  always  receive  our specie 1 

Hazeltine 

& Perkins 

Drag Co*

G. ß. 1 1Í0IGT i GO.

Proprietors of

Stax Heller Mills.

Manufacturers of

“Our Patent,”

“Star,”

“Galla Lily,”

“Golden Sheaf,” 

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

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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

The popularity ofi.Muzzy’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.

1

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

TIME  TABLES.
Grand Rapids & Indiana.

Wbat 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.

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.

DO  YOU WANT  A

If so, send for Catalogue and Price-List to

8. HETMAN & SON, 10
Wall Paper l Window Shades

At  Manufiaoturers’  Prices.

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

House and Store Shades Made to Order.

68 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS.

Nelson Bros. & Co.,
MOSELEY

WHOLESALE

Fruits, Seeds,  Oysters & Produce,

ALT.  KINDS  OF  FIELD  SEEDS  A  SPECIALTY.

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

H.  LEONARD  l  SONS,

CROCKERY,  GLASSWARE,

LAMP  GOODS  AND  STONEWARE.

WHOLESALE

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

To Insure  Prompt Shipment Order 

Fruit Jars direct from us.

HEADQUARTERS

PRICES. 

Mason’s  Porcelain Top Frilit Jars.
¥  gross.
Pints.......................................................$9.50
Quarts...................................................  10.25
44 gallons................................................13.25
Rubbers  extra...........................................15
Globe Fruit Jars, pints.....................   11.00
quarts..................   12.00
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44 gallon................   15.00
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Preserve Jars.  Tomato Jugs.  Apple 

Butter Jars.  Blackberry Jam Jars.

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FOB 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.

2 quart................................................... per doz.  $4.00
3 quart....................................................  
0.00
4 quart....................................................  
6.00
Shcnvooil’s Incomparable Fin ' Glazed Stoneware.

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Dark.
Stew pans  % gal.............................doz. 1.50
.............................  “  2.00
Milk pans..........................................   “ 
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SHERWOOD’S.

doz.
gal. Pres.  Jars..........75
H ................................. 1.00
Yt  “  Butter  Crocks
1 gal.  Butter  crocks 
2 gal.  Butter  Crocks 
Tea Pots. 

per doz.
White Lined...............90  H gal. Preserve Jars. Stone  Cover........... 90
1.40
1  ** 
White Lined........... 1.50  2  ** 
V*  “  Tomato Jugs and corks...
White Lined........... 3.00  I  “ 
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Corks for  Y* gal. Tomato  jugs..
Sealing wax, five  pounds  in  package  per
v o u *d  .........................................................^

Regular Stoneware. 

Coffee Pots, 

lee Mugs, 

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CLARK, JEW ELL & CO.
ELASTIC STARCH.

ARE SOLE AGENTS FOR

IT’S A W INNER

Yoilr  Stock  is  M  Complete  Withoiit
INCLUDE  A  BOX  IN  YOUR  NEXT  ORDER,

It.

The Standard of Excellence
KINGSFORD’S
“Silver
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Oswego
“Pure”

P U R E

A N D

PECULIARITIES  OF  MERCHANTS.

NO.  I.

Written Especially for The Tradesman.

As a class, merchants are usually  earnest, 
serious, matter of fact persons—in business, 
not  addicted  to  levity  or  nonsense,  but 
speaking  directly to the point—in  a  word, 
are  business  men.  Still, as  in  all  cases, 
there are exceptions, so we  find  merchants 
having their peculiarities and eccentricities, 
not to say occasional foibles.  Our observa­
tion has  been  that  those  very peculiarities 
have proven  valuable,  nearly always  secur­
ing ibr them a large share of patronage and, 
in time,  resulting  in  a  competence.  Most 
of us can  recall the  acquaintance of  a few 
whose  distinctive  traits  stand  out  with 
vivid brightness in the memory.

We herewith recite in brief the history of 
a few,  all  of  whom were  known to us per­
sonally,  and  who  have  sometimes  from 
force  of  circumstances  only,  entered  the 
mercantile arena,  yet have  acquired wealth 
at  last.  They seem  to  belong  to  the  one- 
tenth who  are successful.  May this not be 
attributable to their being,  as  a  rule,  from 
the middle class  in  society  and  from  their 
own self-reliant energies?

Fifty-two  years  ago  Mr. Henry Sherman 
emigrated  from  the  town  of  Starkey,  on 
the west shore of  Geneva Lake, N. Y., and 
with his  young  wife  settled  on  the virgin 
prairie about two  miles  west  of  Elgin,  Il­
linois.  Mr.  S.  was  one  of  the  old-time 
Methodists,  and  carried  his  religious  zeal 
with  him  in  the  every day affairs  of  life. 
He had  made  a  most  determined,  but  un­
successful, struggle for a living  in old Star- 
key,  and  rumor  said  had  been  given  the 
cold shoulder by his more fortunate relatives. 
Registering  a  vow that  he  would yet  buy 
and  sell  the  richest  of  them,  one  bright 
morning  Henry  girded  on  the  armour  of 
faith,  hope  and  charity; on bended  knees 
thanked the  Lord  for  health  and strength, 
and harnessing his poor old horses to a can­
vas covered wagon,  which  contained all his 
earthly possessions, he  and  his wife turned 
their faces toward  Chicago  and  the  Great 
West,  shaking  the  dust  of  Starkey  from 
their feet  forever.

“After several  weeks’toilsome  journey,” 
says Mr. S.,” we arrived at the Fox River and 
having made a ‘claim’  on  the prairie, found 
our small stock of  cash  reduced  to  barely 
twenty-five cents the  last  dime of which  I 
paid  for nails to put  a cheap fence in front 
of our cabin.”

In those  pioneer  days it  was only by the 
most  resolute determination that a “claim” 
was held  and  Mr. Sherman passed many a 
sleepless night with a gun in his hands, the 
muzzle  projecting  through  the  crevices  of 
his hut, ready to  call a halt  should a stran 
ger approach.

Years passed away.  The  farm  was  his 
own,  and  prosperity  smiled  upon  him, 
Elgin became a village of 3,000 people, and, 
as one  of the solid and responsible farmers 
of the  county, Mr. S. placed  his  name  as 
collateral security for a  friend  who  kept  t 
stock of drugs  and  groceries in the village, 
In brief, the sheriff  was soon  in possession 
of  the  store  and,  says  Mr.  Sherman,  “ 
awoke one  morning  with  this  altemativ 
staring  me  in  the  face—either  to  mourn 
over those goods or  mourn  after them,  and 
suddenly found  myself  elevated  to  a full 
fledged druggist, hardly knowing opodeldoc 
from laudanum! 
In a few days  I  was  the 
sole owner  of a fearfully dilapidated  stock 
of drugs,  groceries, stationery and  the  us 
ual large c a ta lo g u e   of  fancy goods peculiar 
to  such  an  establishment,  which  had  all 
been dragged over  by  the  unskilled  hands 
of both creditors and  sheriff  in  a  most un 
ceremonious manner.”

It was at this  juncture  that  the writer 

then a young man—was placed in charge of 
the stock,  which invoiced about $3,000.  We 
shall never forget  our  first  introduction to 
Henry Sherman,  or his kind and hearty sal 
utation, as  he  grasped  our  hand and wel 
corned us as a citizen of Elgin, promptly ac 
ceded to the terms of  eur  salary and placed 
us in possession with  the  remark  that  he 
would be there with  us  to  do  the “coarse 
hand”  work,  such  as  weighing  tea  and 
mi gar,  drawing oil  and  molasses,  and deal­
ing  out  the  “cat  hound”  candy;  but  he 
would depend  upon  us  to  handle the pois­
ons, and  perform  the  fine  work,  such  as 
shoving  the  quill, making  the  purchases, 
Otc.

With  a  very  intelligent  and  industrious 
opposition  establishment,  directly  across 
the street, it is  unnecessary to add that our 
business bad  to be built up from the lowest 
round, but with Mr.  Sherman’s indomitable 
energy and  perseverance, coupled  with  the 
sympathies  of  his  friends,  in  less  than 
three years, he nad  doubled the  stock  and 
owned the brick  block  in  which  we  were 
doing business.  We had also increased the 
sales from $5 a day to over $40.

It may be well to  draw a  crude  pen pic­
ture  of  Henry Sherman,  as  he  was  thirty 
years ago.  He was a man of  only ordinary 
education, but well calculated to adapt him­
self to  any circumstance  or position in life, 
yet he regarded the cultivation  of  the  soil 
as  the  most  honorable  vocation,  and  the 
farmer  nature’s  true  nobleman.  An  im­
promptu speech in his  own terse and forci­
ble  language always  commanded  attention 
and  applause. 
In  stature  he  was  small, 
thin and wiry; active in temperament, mov­
ing with  a quick elastic step;  an eye which 
grasped everything within its range instant­
ly, and a mind and judgment ever ready for 
action.  He was strictly orthodox  in his re­
ligion, but liberal to a fault to the  poor and 
needy, and  his  hospitality was  proverbial.

j  With him, the tide “was always taken at is 
j  rise” and  generally led  to success.  Nature 
had done much for the man,  and art but lit­
tle.  In everything he said or did originality 
was prominent  and natural.  He was posi­
tive and decided  in every act, through rath­
er  inclined  to  brusqueness.  He  was  ex-
tremely fond of  story-telling and  his  jokes 
and  witticisms  were  as  original, dry  and 
quaint as those  of  Abraham  Lincoln.  He 
was rather careless in regard to apparel and 
personal appearance except when his atten­
tion was called to it  by his  excellent  wife, 
his mind being occupied with more important 
matters.  Caring  little for  the artistic and 
ornamental,  he expended less for display in 
his store, but  more for  the  substantial and 
useful,  and  the  careful  selection  of  his 
stock.  All his  customers  were  welcomed 
and  made  to feel  at  ease  in  his  presence. 
The farmers (whose  bulk  of  trade  in  his 
line seemed to be with us)  often  remarked 
that they were not afraid to enter Sherman’s 
drug store  with  muddy  boots  or  working 
dress,  for fear  of  soiling the floor or break­
ing some costly vase.

During  the  harvest  season,  when  the 
streets at mid-day were  often deserted,  Mr. 
Sherman  would  stretch  himself  out  on  a 
back counter in  his  store,  with  a bundle of 
wrapping paper  for  a  pillow and sleep for 
an hour or two.  On  one  occasion a farmer 
acquaintance stepped in and placing a hand 
on  the  sleeper,  said  in  a  sharp  voice, 
‘Wake up,  Henry!  How do  you  like  the 
drug business, and how does it pay?”  Rais­
ing himself to a  sitting position, and glanc­
ing  toward  his  clerk,  he dryly  remarked: 
‘Pretty  well,  I  guess.  The  Doctor  says 
when we have  sold  ninety cents worth, we 
have cleared a dollar!”

The questioner concluded, as we also did, 
that this was about the heaviest percentage 
of profit we had heard of.

It  was  almost  impossible  to  provoke  a 

Instead  of 

quarrel with  Mr.  Sherman. 
direct reply,  he  met  anger  with  a  quaint 
sarcasm that disarmed  it, and  covered  the 
opponent with shame  and  confusion.  One 
of his strongest points in  controversy  with 
an enraged  person  was to  admit every as­
sertion and  there  let  the  matter  rest. 
It 
was an original and  unique  system of  war­
fare,  and  yet  we  never  knew  a  man  to 
strike  him,  however  strongly  he  might 
threaten.  On  another  occasion,  a  person 
who  considered  himself  wronged  entered 
the store  and  shaking  his  fist  across  the 
counter  at  Mr.  S., cried  out,  “you  know, 
sir, that  you  lied  to  me!”  “Well,  then  I 
did,” coolly replied the incorrigible Sherman. 
“Well, I said  you lied  and  you are an old 
scoundrel,  also!” said  the  man, raising  his 
voice  a  pitch  higher,  and  speaking  with 
stronger  emphasis.  “Then I am,” answer­
ed Mr. S., raising his voice to  the same key 
of his enraged  opponent.  “You are an old 
fool and  I’ll  thrash  the  floor  with  you!” 
again  screamed  the  nonplussed  victim. 
“Then you will” was the consoling answer, 
and amid  roars  of  laughter  from  the  by­
standers  the  attacking  party,  now  fairly 
boiling  with rage,  left the store.

But Mr.  S. had not  told  this man a false­
hood—nor any other  man,  and he who ven­
tured to assert  in  public  that  Henry Sher­
man had lied would be in imminent peril of 
being thought  the real  liar himself,  so well 
was the character  of this man known.  He 
was one of those men we occasionally meet 
who never fail to accomplish their object in 
any  emergency; and  though,  as  remarked, 
his education  was  limited, he  was never at 
at loss  for  language,  and  would  suddenly 
astonish and convulse  you with laughter by 
coining a very  appropriate  but  outlandish 
word for something, the real name of which 
he had forgotten.  For  many  years he was 
the favorite auctioneer  among  farmers and 
others,  and  his  very name and  well-known 
genial manners and  amusing speeches were 
quite  sufficient  to  draw  a  large  audience. 
He  was  eminently  successful  as a farmer, 
merchant  and  speculator,  and  is  still  an 
honored  but  aged  citizen  of  that  city  of 
over 16,000 inhabitants.

F r a n k  A.  H o w ig.

How the Joke Worked.

From the Detroit Free Press.

“I want the biggest and  best watermelon 
in that lot,” he said,  as he  surveyed a great 
pile of  watermelons  in  front of a  Wood­
ward avenue grocery.
“Yes sir—here it is—best melon I’ve seen 
this year.”
“Plug it,” was the brusque command.
“Yes, sir—splendid red core.  Shall I put 
it on ice?”
The purchaser  drew  from  his pocket a 
flask of port wine and proceeded to pour the 
contents into the orifice.  The  melon readi­
ly absorbed the liquid,  and when  the plug 
was replaced  the man chuckled:  “He! he!
he! 
I want  that  melon  sent  to ----- , the
temperance  fanatic!  Say  nothing,  and it 
will be a big joke on him!”
A  couple  of  days  later  the man came 
around to the store again aud asked:
“Well, the melon was sent up?”
“Oh,  yes.”
“And the boy didn’t give  my  little  plot 
“Oh, no;  but we heard from it.”
“You did?  He! he! he!  What  did  he 
say?”
“He and his  family were off up the lake, 
but the hired girl and  coachman said it was 
the best melon they ever put tooth into!”

away?”

The Local Committees at Flint.

F l in t ,  Aug.  13,  1887.

R. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
De a r  Sir—We  have  appointed  the fol­
lowing  committees  to  take  charge of the 
State convention:
On Arrangements—W.  C.  Pierce,  G. R. 
Hoyt, C. T.  Bridgman,  Jno.  Croul, D. D. 
Aitken, J.  W. Blake, A.  Myers, J. L.  Wil­
lett.
On Entertainment—Geo. T. Warren, Wm. 
Atwood, Albert Myers, G. W. Hubbard, M. 
E.  Carlton,  Will H. Foote,  Geo. E. Childs, 
J. H. Gotshall, Samuel Moffek

Yours,  J. L. Willett, Sec’y.

toes, will be pleased to hear from you.

28.30  k  32  Ottawa  Strut

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WE CARRY  A STOCK OF  CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL  USE.

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.

RIHDGE, BERTSCH & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE  DEALERS IN

All Trains dally except Sunday.

GOING  NORTH. Arrives.
Traverse City & Mackinaw Ex........ 8:45 a m
Traverse City & Mackinaw  Ex.......
Traverse City  & Mackinaw Ex....  7:30 p m
Cadillac Express.............................3:40  p m
Saginaw Express............................11:26  a m

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

10:30 

am.

Saginaw express runs through solid.
9:05 a. m. train has  chair  car to  Traverse  City  and 
11:80 a. m. train has chair car  for Traverse  City, Pe- 
10:40 p. m. train has sleeping cars for Traverse  City, 

Mackinaw.
toskey and Mackinaw City.
Petoskey and Mackinaw.
Cincinnati  Express.................................... 
Fort Wayne Express......................10:30  am  
Cincinnati  Express........................4:40  pm  
Traverse City and Mackinaw Ex. .10:50 p m 

7:15amtrain  has  parlor  chair  car  for  Cincinnati. 
5:00 p m train has Woodruff sleeper for Cincinnati. 
5:00 p.  m. train connects  with M. C. R. R. at Kalama­
zoo for Battle Creek,  Jackson,  Detroit  and Canadian 
points, arriving in Detroit at 10:45 p. m.

GOING  SOUTH.

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. 

Leave. 
Arrive.
6:30 am ................................................................. 10:10 am
11:00 am .................................................................   4:30 pm
4:40 pm .............*..................................................   8:50 pm
Leaving time at  Bridge street depot 7 minutes later.

C. L. Lockwood, Qen’l Pass. Agent.

7:15 
11:45 am
5:00 pm

Detroit, Lansing  &  Northern.

Grand Rapids & Saginaw Division.

DEPART.

Saginaw Express........ ........................................   1 30am
Saginaw Express..................................................4 10 p m
Orand Rapids Express........................................11 25 a m
Grand Rapids Express........................................10 SO p m

All trains arrive at and depart from Union depot. 
Trains run solid both  wavs.

ARRIVE.

Chicago & W est Michigan,

Leaves.
{Mail..................................................9:10 am
tDay  Express.................................. 12:30 pm
•Night Express..............................11:00 p m
Muskegon Express............................5:00 p m

Ai rives. 
8:55 p m 
9:45 p m 
5:45 a m 
11:00 a m
»Daily.  tDally except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars on all night trains.  Through 
parlor car In charge of careful attendants  without ex­
tra charge to Chicago on 12:30 p. m.. and through coach 
on 9:10 a. m. and 11 p. m. trains.

Newaygo Division.Leaves. 
Express........................................... 4:06 p m 
Express.............................................8:25am 

Arrives,
4:20 p m
10:20am
All trains arrive and depart from Union Depot.
The Northern terminus of this division is at Baldwin 
where close connection is made  with  F. & P. M. trains 
to and from Ludington and Manistee.

w . A. G a v b t t , Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J. B. Muixiken,  General  Manager.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.
Arrive.
Leave. 

Kalamazoo Division.

Ex. & Mail.  N. Y. Mail. 
N. Y. Mall. N. Y. Ex
4:35pm  7:45 am .. Grand Rapids.  9:45 a m  6:15pm
5:55 pm   9:02 am .. Allegan..........8:28 am   5:00 am
7:05pm  10:06 a m.. Kalamazoo...  7:30 a m  4:oOpm 
8:30 pm  11:35 am . .White Pigeon.  5:55 am   2:20 pm
2:30am  5:05p m..Toledo........... 11:00pm  9:45am
8:30am  9:40 p m. .Cleveland.......6:40pm  5:35am
2:60 pm   3:30 am . .Buffalo............11:55 am   11:40 pm
5:40 am   6:50 p m. .Chicago..........11:30 pm   6:50 am
A local freight leaves Grand Rapids at 12:50 pm,carry, 
lng passengers as far as Allegan.  All  trains  daily ex. 
cept Sunday. 

J. W. McKenney, General Agent.

Detroit,  Grand Haven & Milwaukee

GOING  EAST. Arrives.
tSteamboat  Express.........................6:25 pm
tThrough  Mall........................................10:40 am
tEvening Express.....................................8:25 pm
»Limited Express...........................6:50 a m
fMixed, with  coach........................
GOING WEST.
tMoming  Express..........................  1:05 pm
tThrough  Mail................................   6:00 pm
tSteamboat Express....................... 10:40 p m
tMixed..............................................
•Night Express................................  5:25 a m

Leaves, 
6:30pm 
10:50 a m 
3:50 p m 
6:50 a m 
11:00 a m
1:10 p m 
5:10 pm 
10:45 p m 
7:45 a m 
5:40 a m
tDally, Sundays excepted.  »Daily.
Passengers taking the 6:50  am   Express  make close 
connection at Owosso for Lansing,  and  at  Detroit for 
New  York,  arriving  there  at  10:30  a m the following 
morning. The Night Express has a through Wagner ca* 
and local sleeping car from Detroit to Grand Rapids.
J as. Campbell, City Passenger Agent. 

Geo. B. Reeve, Traffic Manager Chicago.

Michigan Central.

Grand Rapids Division.

DEPART.

ARRIVE.

Detroit Express.............................................................. 6:15 am
Day Express.................................................................   1:10 pm
»Atlantic Express..................................................10:10 p m
Mixed  ..................................................................... 6:50 am
•Pacific  Express............................................................ 6:00 am
Mail........................................................................  3:00pm
Grand Rapids Express.........................................10:15 p ra
Mixed.................................................... 
f:16 pm
»Daily.  All other dally except Sunday. Sleeping cars 
run on Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from 
Detroit.  Parlor cars run on  Day  Express  and Grand 
Rapids Express to and  from  Detroit.  Direct  conneo 
tions made at Detroit with all through trains East over 
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D. W. J ohnston, Mich. Pass. Agt., G rand Rapids.
O. W. R u g o l e s , Gen’l Pass, and Ticket Agt., Chicago.
Duluth, South  Shore & Atlantic  Railway
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10:30  8:40
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Only  direct  route  between the  East and South and 
the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

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AGENTS FOR THE

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

14 and 10 Pearl Street, 

-  Grand Rapids, Mich.

Kingsford’s Oswego CORN STARCH for Puddings, 

Custards, Blanc-Mange, etc.

THE  PERFECTION  OF  QUALITY.

WILL  PLEASE  YOU  EVERY  TIME!

ALWAYS  ASK  YOUR  GROCER  FOR  THESE  GOODS.

