F1 M E  10 ORDER.

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

W est End Pearl St. Bridge.

Wolverine Chair Factory,
BELKNAP
V a p a M U C o .
Spring,  Freight,  Express, 

MANUFACTURERS OP
Lumber  and  Farm

W A G O N S !

Logging Carts  and  Trucks 

Mill and Dump Carts, 

Lumbermen’s and 

River Tools.

We carry a  large stock of material, and have 
every facility for  making  first-class  Wagons 
of all kinds.
^"S p ecial  attention .given  to  Repairing, 
Painting and Lettering.
Shops oil Front St., Grand Rapids, Mioh,

MIRTH  &  KRAUSE,

LEATHER

SHOE  BRUSHES,

SHOE  BUTTONS,

SHOE  POLISH,

ings, etc.  Write  for Catalogue.

SHOE  LACES.
Heelers, Cork Soles,.Button  Hooks, Dress­
118 Canal Street,  M  Rapids.
ASK YOUR JOBBER

FOR

KEROSENE

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

EfiYON l LYON,

Importers,

Jobbersand

Retailers of

B O O K S ,

WANTED.

'

157 South W ater St.,  CHICAGO. 

Reference: First National’Bank,  Chicago. 
Michigan Tradesman. Grand Rapids.

Ear! Bros.,  Commission Merchants

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

Watch Maher 
a Jeweler

EDMUND B.DIK EtHJt

TH E   GREAT

44  CÄNHL

Grand Rapids, -  JM
LUDWIG  WINTERNiTZ,
Fermentum!

STATE  AGENT  POE .

The Only Reliable Compressed Yeast.

M anufactured by R iverdale Dist. Co.

106 Kent  Street, Grand  Rapids,  Mich,

TELEPHONE  566.

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

CHARLES  A,  COYE,
A. Coye & Son,

Successor to

DEALER IN

AWNINGS § TENTS

Horse and Wagon Covers, 

Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,

Flags &  Banners made to order.

Wide Ducks, etc
GRAND RAPIDS
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73 CANAL ST.. 

F - A j n s r r .

We have a full stock of this well-known 

I 

brand of

M I Z E Z  

F A I N T
and having sold it for over SIX YEARS can 

recommend it to our  customers as  be­

ing a First Class  article.  We sell it

On th e  M anufacturers’  Guarantee:

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

T. H. NEVIN & CO...

Mfrs. & Corroders of Pure White Lead.

Pittsburg, Pa.

Write for prices and Sample Card  to

Wholesale  Agents,  Grand  Rapids.

20  and 22  ffonroe St.,  Grand Rapids,  Mich. Try PO LISH  IN A ,  best FumitureFin- 

ish made.

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

The Most Complete Assortment 

til  you get  my prices.

ALFRED J.BR0VN
16-18 N. DMsionSt.,GrandRapids

Representing J as. Vick, of Rochester.

We carry a full  1ine of 
Seeds  of  every  variety, 
both for field and garden. 
Parties  in  want  should 
write to or see ¡the

GRAND RAPIDS URAIN  AND  SID  CO.

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

FRUIT  EVAPORATOR
Been  Used  only One  Season 

For Sale Very Cheap.

A  Great  Bargain.

GRAND RAPIDS.

Stuart c S w e e t,
SHERWOOD  HOUSE.
*
-  MICH
CHARLOTTE, 

The Traveling Men’s Favorite. 

- 

Re-fitted and Re-fumiShed.

Sample Rooms on F irst Floor.

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

Are State Agents for

CIGAR.

Eaton  &  CHeosoi
Frederick  the Great
Grand Rapids, Mich.

COOK & PRINZ,

Mr.  Christopher  Sparling.

Represented  by th e   Giant,

Valley City Slow Case Mg. Co,
SHOW  GKSES.

Manufacturers of

PrBSoriçtion Cases and Store FixWres

Proprietors of the

OF  ALL  KINDS.
SEND FOR  CATALOGUES,

SEND  FOR  ESTIMATES.

38 West Bridie St.. Graiid Rapids

Telephone 374.

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

Cigar calledSILVER  SPOTS

This  Cigar  we  positively  guarantee  T 
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. 
,

iEO.  T.  WARREN  &  CO,

Flint, M idi.

GRAND RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER 21,  1887,

m a n u f a c t o r ie s .

Their  Value and  How  to  Secure  Them.*
Mr.  President  and  Gentlemen  of  the  Mioh

igan Business Men’s Association:
In casting a glance at this intelligent body 
of business men congregated at this our first 
anniversary from all parts  of  this  prosper­
ous commonwealth,  I feel that I have under­
taken a task, for the  performance of which 
my ability is. inadequate  to do  justice to a 
subject of such great magnitude and impor­
tance. 
I would  much rather that some one 
more capable than I had been  selected,  but 
it has been assigned to and accepted by me, 
and, consequently, I will have  to submit to 
the inevitable. 
I trust,  however,  that you 
will, under the circumstances,  be lenient in 
your criticisms.
I do not think there is a gentleman in this 
assembly but is aware and will  concur with 
me in the assertion  that  manufacturing in­
dustries are the most  beneficial  and essen­
tial to the advancement, civilization, growth, 
prosperity and welfare of a commonwealth, 
community or city,  and mostly through this 
enterprise we must attribute the speedy suc­
cess and  prosperity of  the  State of Michi­
gan,  which,  a trifle  over  half a century ago 
was almost  an  entire  wilderness,  with its 
tall, majestic evergreen pines, its oak open­
ings and beech and  maple  timber belts,  in­
terspersed and impregnated with innumera­
ble lakes,  marshes and swamps. 
Its roads 
were Indian trails,  and its  inhabitants the 
noble red  man,  the bear,  the  wolf and the 
deer—the days  when  quinine  was  consid­
ered as necessary for  subsistence  as flour is 
at this date.  Its commerce was insignificant 
and all its great  resources of minerals  and 
timber were wholly undeveloped.  The pop­
ulation was very scant,  scattered  along the 
eastern and southern edge. of  the  territory; 
the time when  there  were  no  railroads, no 
telegraphs or telephones, no  electric  lamps 
situated  on  skyward  towers, 
taking  the 
gloom from  the night and  encircling us in 
perpetual radiance.
But, gentlemen,  mark the  changes  and 
improvements that have  taken place in this 
short interval.  The predictions that Michi­
gan would be a State of forests and swamps 
for a century to come have  proven to be ip- 
correct.  The  sharp,  glittering  ax  of  the 
pioneer,  amidst  hardships,  privations and 
dangers, with indomitable energy, confident 
of success,  vigorously  assailed  and leveled 
that great wilderness with such rapidity that 
this day it is dotted with  magnificent  thor­
oughfares, beautiful cities and villages,  and 
numerous  manufactories of  various  kinds, 
with a network of railroads accessible to al­
most any part of the State.  It has acquired 
an exalted  position  and is the  recipient of 
much credit and  distinction  for her  great 
commercial  increasing  prosperity  and the 
unparalleled  rapidity  of 
its  marvelous 
growth;  and what is  it  that  has  done  this 
work in so short a time?  It  is  principally 
attributable  to  manufacturing  enterprises, 
and Michigan to-day,  with  »u area of 56,000 
square miles and  its  2,000, >.¡00  inhabitants, 
in comparison with her sisto%states in man­
ufacturing  advancement  ancU'sciences,  by 
the unbounded  zeal  and  sliberality  of her 
people,  is excelled by none.
Manufacturing  enterprises  promote  life, 
energy,  business  and  wealth.  They  will 
furnish  employment  to  our  inhabitants, 
trade to our merchants, promote the growth 
and  welfare  of  our  cities and towns,  will 
build  factories,  stores and  houses,  and by 
that means furnish  employment to our me­
chanics,  will have  a  tendency  to  increase 
railroad and other transportation facilities— 
in fact,  there is no enterprise that will stim­
ulate such a healthy, lasting  and  substan­
tial boom as various  manufacturing  estab­
lishments. 
In what state  would  our coun­
try be without them?  Let us for a moment 
review that  memorable  panic of ’73, when 
the cry of overproduction,  yet ringing in our 
ears,  was heard all over the land—from the 
shores of  the  Atlantic  in the  east to the 
western cliffs of the  Rocky  Mountains  and 
the  Pacific  coast,  and  from  the  orange 
groves.of Florida in the south to her Majes­
ty’s dominions on the  north—our factories, 
one after another, shut down and ceased op­
erations, real estate  began  to  depreciate to 
less than  one-half  its real  value,  in fact, 
there was no sale whatever for it.  Men and 
women in our cities  and  villages  were idle 
for want  of  employment,  mercantile  and 
commercial  interests  received  such  a dead 
blow that it will ever be memorable in Amer­
ican history, business transactions on confi­
dence had entirely vanished, and the results 
were  disastrous  and  complicated  failures 
and a general depression of commercial life 
throughout the ^continent, aild  our  country 
which,  a few  mouths  previous, was  in the 
height of glory and prosperity, lay before us 
dead and barren like a deseii.
But, mark the change!  After a period of 
deep depression  and  discouragement, from 
the dying embers of desert desolation,  pros­
perity gradually  began  to  return.  One es­
tablishment  after  another Resumed opera­
tions, labor of  all kinds  was again  in de­
mand,  wages  advanced,  confidence  kept 
gradually  returning,  real  estate  began to 
move and loom up,  and  once more the mer­
ry hum of machinery and the hammer of the 
mechanics were the  welcome  music which 
gladdened our  hearts.  Life  and prosperi­
ty were  again  everywhere 1 visible,  and I 
trust and have no doubt that  eventful  time 
has  taught a lesson to the  American people 
never to be forgotten,  and  henceforth  they 
will take precaution to  advance  on a sure, 
sound and healthy basis,  ar.*l  use  due  cau­
tion to keep within bounds.
As before  demonstrated,  «it  the  present 
day, the country being dotted with its many 
cities,  villages  and  hamlets,  it  requires 
something aside from a fanning community 
to increase population and insure prosperity. 
We must furnish employment to our inhab­
itants and business to our merchants or they 
cannot remain with us;  building houses and 
stores simply will not maintain a place.  In 
my estimation there is nothing that looks so 
discouraging as a number  of vacant  stores 
and houses in a town,  but yon Will not find 
them in a manufacturing tow n;. for,  show 
me a town with  manufacturing enterprises, 
and I  will show.yon a  place of  growth and 
prosperity. 
We will now indulge in an imaginary sail 
across the Atlantic add alight  in  the  great 
city of London, with  it§  innumerable  and 
great manufacturing establishments, and in 
that beautiful and prosperous  metropolis of 
Prussia—-Berlin.  Although not a seaport,
8. Lamfrom at third eonven- 
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and, 
therefore,  cannot  gain'  advantages 
from that  source,  it  derives  Its  principal 
maintenance from its great and efficient and 
manufacturing  and  commercial  enterprise. 
I could name  a  great  many other  points 
over there, but our time is limited,  and it is 
by no  means  necessary  for  us  to  delve 
among the improvements  and  cities  of  the 
Old World.  We will, therefore, recross and 
land in New York, the  metropolis  of  our 
continent, which, for its  manufacturing en- 
terprsies and its great  commercial  activity, 
is second to none in  the  world.  We  will 
now wind our way to that celebrated manu­
facturing city of Pennsylvania—Pittsburg— 
noted for its many immdhse  oil  refineries, 
iron and steel  foundries,  which  are carried 
on so extensively that in nearing  the  sub­
urbs of that city the  black  smoke  issuing 
from its towering  smokestacks is  emblem­
atical of a volcano opening  its  craters  and 
from  the bowels of the  earth  expelling its 
eruptions.
We will now cast a  glance  at  our  own 
metropolis—Detrot—with  its  many  super­
ior  manufacturing  enterprises  of  various 
kinds, carried on to such  an  extent,  stead­
fastly enhancing the prosperity and growth. 
It is a marvelous and  astonishing fact that, 
stationed, for instance,  on Gratiot avenue at 
the time when the mechanic  and laborer re­
tires from his daily toil,  for more  than an 
hour you can see the walks on both sides of 
that  thoroughfare  completely  lined  and 
blockaded with men, women boys, and girls 
carrying dinner pails.
S.uch is what  enhances  the  population of 
our cities and promotes  prosperity,  wealth 
and commerce.  Let us now  visit our flour­
ishing little city of Owosso,  situated on the 
Shiawassee River, the place of my residence 
for nearly a quarter of a century.
When 1 located in Owosso in 1867, it was 
a quiet little city of about 1,500 inhabitants, 
snstained at that time principally by a farm­
ing community.  The Detroit & Milwaukee 
Railway was the only  railroad  at that time 
in operation, but  the  Jackson,  Lansing & 
Saginaw road was  then  building  and was 
completed at the close of  that year.  Manu- 
factqriHg.cn terprises of any  note  were un­
known, nothing  more than a  planing mill, 
flouring mill and two  iron  foundries  on a 
small scale.  The city,  as  you  might say, 
held its own with a few slight improvements 
and slow,  tardy growth.
In 1880,  our census gave us  2,500  inhabi­
tants.  About  one  year  previous  to  that 
time Mr. D. M. Estey  proposed  to remove 
his small furniture  factory, 
then  situated 
six miles north,  on the Shiawassee River, to 
Owosso.  An appropriation was asked from 
the city in the shape of  land  for  a  site  for 
the erection of a factory,  which  was  grant­
ed,  and a  factory  was  immediately  built 
with quite an  extensive  capacity. 
It was 
then  operated  under  the  name  of  “The 
Owosso  Furniture  Company,”  but  was' 
shortly  after  reorganized  under  the  name 
and  firm  of  “Estey  Manufacturing  Com­
pany,” for the  purpose  of  manufacturing 
furniture on an extensive scale;  it  was op­
erated and  pyshed to such  an  extent  that 
but a short time elapsed before the capacity 
was inadequate,  and a large  brick  building 
was added with new aqd  extensive machin­
ery,  and it has ever since steadily improved 
and enlarged until  this  day  said  establish­
ment employs 275 hands with a weekly pay 
roll of about $3,000:  their goods are-jobbing 
all over the United States—south  as  far as 
Georgia and  Florida,  and  west  to Arizona 
and the Rocky Mountains.
In 1868, Mr.  L.  E.  Woodard  came  here 
from the State of New York  and purchased 
a planing mill,  sash and  blind  factory, also 
a lumber yard which he operated on a small 
scale, but kept gradually  gaining  until the 
panic of ’73 struck our little city, which was 
not exempt from  its  ravages.  Everything 
in the shape of business was at a standstill; 
building operations of all kinds had ceased, 
lumber was in no demand,  but  when  pros­
perity returned Mr.  Woodard  was equal to 
the emergency.  He erected many dwelling 
houses,  built additions to his  planing  mill, 
imported lumber from the  Saginaw  valley 
by the million,  and kept  steadily  enlarging 
and increasing  until  now  he has a lumber 
business of great  magnitude,  and his plan.; 
ing mill and  sash  and  blind  factory  have 
been pushed and enlarged to such an extent 
that he now employs over 100 hands in both 
combined. 
In 1884,  the project  of a casket 
factory was agitated;  the city was asked for 
an appropriation of $3,000 which was grant 
ed,  and a handsome,  roomy  brick  factory 
was built. 
It was operated by a stock com 
pauy,  but, like many other  new  enterprises 
of that kind,  by mismanagement  and  inex­
perience it almost proved a failure.  Mr. L.
E.  Woodard was  induced to  purchase  the 
entire interest,  and with the  pluck,  energy 
and perseverance of a Napoleon  Bonaparte, 
he put his shoulder to  the  wheel,  pushed 
and  enlarged  the  business to such a pitch 
that its present capacity  is  inadequate;  or­
ders are received much faster than they can 
be filled,  although the establishment is run­
ning day and night. 
It  is  now  being  en­
larged to double its present capacity,  the 75 
hands  now  employed  will be increased to 
130, and Mr.  Woodard’s  praiseworthy  ef­
forts were rewarded  with victory  and suc­
cess.  This  incident  will  demonstrate  to 
you that novice» are apt to fail, and in order 
to have enterprises turn  out successfully,  it 
is of the Utmost importance to have live, en 
ergetic business men to manage them.
We have noyv a good number of other im­
portant manufacturing  enterprises:  Wood­
ard  Bros.’  Furniture  Factory,  employing 
about 60 hands;  the Qwosso Tool and Bend­
ing Works with about, forty hands;  Owosso 
Extension Table Manufacturing Co.-;. Owos­
so Pump Factory;  Excelsior Factory;  Spoke 
Factory,;  Handle Factory;  Cigar and (Cigar 
Box Factories;  Mattress  Factory;  Owosso 
Gas Co.;  Bailey  Manufacturing Co.  (foun­
dry);  two extensive  biick  yards;  flouring 
mills, etc.  The entire number of hands em­
ployed is from  700 to  800* with  a  weekly 
pay roll of about  $8,000.  Nearly  one-haif 
of the employes are men  of  f&nilies, hence 
it is unnecessary for me to  explain, for you 
can judge for  yourselves, 
the  benefits de­
rived by the-mercantile, municipal, commer­
cial interests  and  growth. to the city.  We 
have also had, within the last year, another 
railroad completed, the  Toledo,  Ann Arbor 
& North  Michigan, and  these  enterprises 
have, since 1882,. poshed our little city from 
2,500 to  over  5,000  inhabitants,  and it is 
stijjjl steadily  increasing.  J 
In the Weantime magnificent  stores with 
plate glass fronts, and fashionable dwelling 
houses embowered amqngtrees and flowers, 
surrounded by beautiful lpwns of liberal ex­
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panse, kept towering up in all  parts  of  the 
city, r   yet no vacant houses in  the place. 
Hr 
of all kinds and descriptions are oc- 
O upivi-d more in continual demand.  Not 
i  Vfi’ant s*ore in the city.  The  hammer of 
the mechanic is sounding in every direction, 
and the towering  structures  are  fashioned 
and  adorned  by  the  artistic brush of the 
painter, as monuments of the genius of man. 
Educational advantages are  met  with great 
liberality, and the city  is  continually  im 
proving with many new enterprises.
The evidences of  prosperity  cited in the 
character  of  public  and  private  improve­
ments are to be traced alike to the manufac­
turing enterprises in our midst,  and we will 
shortly enjoy one of  the  most  stupendous 
enterprises we have had yet,  viz:  the  loca­
tion of the car and repair shops of the Tole­
do, Ann Arbor & North  Michigan  Railway 
Co. and with it the division headquarters of 
the road, and consequently the  home of the 
engineers,  conductors,  firemen  and  brake 
men of the road.  This  project  had  to be 
earned by special election; to  bond  the city 
for $25,000,  the sum required to procure the 
location  of  the  shops.  The  election was 
held August 22,  last,  and in order to demon 
strate to you the enthusiasm,  liberality and 
enterprise of our citizens, I  will  announce 
to you the result of said election: there were 
714 votes cast;  648 “Yes” andonly66 “No.”
If any of the gentlemen of  this  conven 
tion should,  perchance,  be  about our flour­
ishing little city some pleasant Saturday ev 
ening and pass up and down our main thor­
oughfares, they would be  obliged  to  elbow 
their way  through,  as the  walks  are then 
completely thronged with humanity, andev 
erything presents the appearance of business 
life and animation. 
It  would  give  them a 
good idea of what  manufacturing  interests 
will do for a  town.  And  now,  gentlemen, 
“How to Obtain Them,” more  especially in 
small towns. 
I assure you this is no  small 
task. 
It requires a great deal  of  patience, 
perseverance  and  brain  work, and,  as we 
come to brain work,  i t . reminds  me  of  a 
story,  and as the gentlemen  are  somewhat 
weary of listening  by this  time,  and know­
ing that business men are fond  of stories, ] 
will,  with your permission, proceed to tell it
•There was a  certain  dudish  individual, 
with more money than brains, who general­
ly managed to go to Washington when Con­
gress was in session,  in  order to  have  the 
honor of ringing in  with  the  congressional 
gentlemen.  One  day he was  in  conversa­
tion with one of  the  members,  who  hap­
pened to be baldheaded,  and he  asked  him 
the question, how it came  that  most of our 
best educated men are baldheaded.  “Well,” 
said the gentleman,  “I will  tell  you.  Did 
you  ever  study  anatomy?” 
“No,  sir. 
“Well,  you see the  brain  lies  and  extends 
under the skull from the front  to  the  back 
of the head.  The  hair  enters  through  the 
skull, and is clinched  on  the  under  side. 
Now,  when we perform any brain work, the 
brain is in constant motion,  which so wears 
on the clinching of the hair that it gradually 
wears off the entire clinching, and there be­
ing nothing on the  underside  to  hold  it, it 
will easily pull out.  That, sir,  is  the reas­
on why educated men are usually baldhead­
ed |
As remarked before,  it is no  easy task to 
obtain  manufactories. 
is 
rough and rugged, and those who  have had 
experience are undoubtedly aware of ij;.  All 
knowing the advantages they possess, it is a 
natural  consequence  that every city,  town 
and hamlet is  making  strenuous  efforts to 
procure them,  hence you will  see  that they 
are to be procured only by  money,  hard la­
bor  and  difficulty. 
In  order  to induce a 
manufacture!'  to  locate  in  your town, you 
will have to  picture  to  him  advantages  to 
insure his success.  You  will  have  to  pay
him a bonus,/ either  in  land  or  money* or 
both,  and evmrthen,  after  securing  the es­
tablishment,  you  will  have  to  run  your 
chances of success.  All corporations or in­
dividuals manufacturing wares on an exten­
sive scale and employing a number of hands, 
know their value, and if you  want  them to 
locate in your  town,  you  will  have  to pay 
for them.  Those  factories  are of the same 
value to a corporation or city as  your  stock 
of merchandise is to you.  You  cannot  get 
a stock of goods without  paying,  for them, 
neither can a city or  town  obtain a  factory 
of any consequence  without  paying for it. 
An article is w*orth what it will bring in the 
market, and you will have to  pay  the value 
to obtain it,  and money judiciously expend­
ed for such enterprises is  well invested. 
It 
matters not what amount you pay for them, 
as long as the  value  is  in  them.  Cheaply 
purchased factories are no more  cheap than 
a shoddy suit of clothing is ata small price.
An extensive and successful  manufactur­
ing establishment already  located can hard­
ly, be induced to remove its business.  If our 
little city should petition Messrs.  Newberry 
& McMillan to remove,  and  locate their ex­
tensive ear shops at Owosso, I hardly think 
they would give our proposition a moment’s 
consideration. 
In order to obtain manufac­
tories you must commence  o,n a small scale, 
and so run the. chances of  their  success,  in 
which event  the  manufacturers  will  make 
strenuous effoits themselves  to  extend and 
enlarge of their own accord;  and if so, they 
Will remain with you and the benefit derived 
will be mutual.
It is  necessary  to  have  competition  in 
freight rates, for that is a  big  item  to  the 
manufacturer. 
It  will  require  more  than 
one railroad line to  obtain  such.  Suitable 
timber  from  which  to  manufacture  their 
goods is also of  much  importance.  Water 
power is a great inducement,  but  not of so-, 
great  consequence  as  in  former  years,  as 
most qf the machinery at this dateisrun by 
steam or gas.  The  principal!  point  to suc­
cess is to induce manufactories  on  a  small 
scale—such as flouring mills,  sash and blind 
factories, planing mills,  iron foundries, etc: 
Such have a  tendency  to  promote  healthy 
and steady growth, and  will  eventually in­
duce railrpad  competition, and with it man­
ufacturers on a large scale.  Bear in mind: 
one hand will wash the other; and prosperi­
ty accomplished by degrees and  by  persist­
ent activity is apt to  be  more  lasting  and 
beneficial than any other.
In  conclusion I would  say;  Hast  your 
bread upon the  waters  and in due  time it 
will return.  - The time is past  when  avar­
icious, grasping* Sbyloeks  and  drowsy Rip 
Yan Winkles meet with prosperity and suc­
cess,  Therefore, you will have to stimulate 
a spirit of enthusiasm,  enterprise and liber­
ality.  Yon will ha veto  use prudence, en­
dure'patience and perseverance, and, should 
you fgtil on 
twice or even-three rimes, do 
not ge t discouraged and thraW’-up the spoinge,

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your efforts and prosperi ty will reign in your 
midst.

The Traveling Man.*

It has been the usual custom in responses 
to this toast to especially  refer  to the comi­
cal  side  of  the  commercial  traveler—.hi« 
ever-ready fund of wit and  humor, the free 
and easy manner with which he adapts him­
self to all circnmstances.  A t a recent meet­
ing of the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of this 
State, on an  occasion  like  this* one of its 
most  prominent  members,  in response to 
this toast, referred to  him  as  “an angel—' 
one quite dissimilar to the one mentioned in 
the Good  Book,  who came  down at stated 
periods of time and troubled  the waters for 
the healing of the  people.”  He  said  that 
the  modern  commercial  angel  was  never 
known to trouble  any  water.  Our temper­
ance  - friends, 
in  their  efforts  for reform, 
have discovered that they can  combat more 
successfully  the  saloon  with an open door 
than the ofie  located  behind  a  druggist’s 
sign.  Such little flings, no doubt, would be 
amusing,were they true.  As a representative 
of this class of business men, I protest.  Nor 
am I here to defend any  individual  derelic­
tion from the path of rectitude and duty.  A 
decayed apple away down in the corner of a 
barrel will,  to a  certain  extent, 
taint  the 
balance  of'  the  fruit  in  that  barrel.-  All 
branches of business have members who are 
no honor to their  associates  or  themselves, 
and it comes with ill grace from any branch 
of business to  thus  stigmatize  the  whole 
body politic of another class.
We live in an age of  progress,  and  the 
commercial traveler of to-day  stands  erect, 
the equal—physically,  mentally and morally 
—of  any  other class of  business men with 
whom he comes in contact. 
In  your  relar 
tions with him  you  will  find  him  sharp, 
crisp,  energetic,  full of  business,  fir m ly  be­
lieving (at least,  to all outward appearance), 
that he represents the only house in his line 
that has reached the acme  of  perfection in 
point of style, fit or durability of  its wares. 
Do not  censure  him if you think at  times 
that he overdraws  the  picture.  Men of all 
branches of business  so  arrange,  place and 
display their merchandise that its good qual­
ities may first be observed by the purchaser. 
You will find that in his  business  methods 
he  differs  but  slightly  from  other  men. 
Treat him,  when  he  calls  upon  you  in his 
capacity as salesman,  with that respect that 
should always be accorded  by  one  gentle­
man to another;  for  who knows how soon 
he may be in a position  to return  to  you a 
hundredfold your acts  of  kindness  -which 
cost so little?  By faithfulness, uprightness, 
integrity and strict  business  principles,  the 
traveler of to-day  may,  on  the morrow, be 
the successor of the firm he represents. 
In 
the ups and downs of mercantile life, through 
circumstances over  which  you have no con­
trol, misfortune  overtakes  you, how  gladly 
will he avail himself of  the  opportunity  to 
lend a helping  hand to  bridge  over  what 
might have been a financial failure.  Statis­
tics tell us that 75 per cent. oiKhli  -those en-*' 
gaged in enterprises  outside  of  agriculture 
make  a  financial 
failure,  by  personal 
neglect, 
trusting  their  affairs  to  inexpe­
rienced parties, or by not  looking  after the 
small details of their business.
From the rock-bound  coast of  the Atlan­
tic to the Golden Gate of the  Pacific  slope; 
from the pine forests of  Northern Maine to 
the orange groves of  the  Sunny  South, lis­
ten, and you can  hear  the  steady  tramp, 
tramp,  tramp  of  three  hundred  thousand 
commercial men to the fife and drum of suc­
cessful business.  As a  citizen of this great 
commonwealth,  he  stands  as  one  of  the 
mast important factors in commercial devel­
opment and future prosperity.  Who,  more 
than he, comprehends  the  resources of this 
republic, 
its  great  deposits  of  mineral 
wealth, the richness of its'  soil, the  legisla­
tion most needed for its perpetuity.  Ou all 
these subjects he is  ever  ready  to give an 
opinion,  and as a gleaner of information ac­
curate and reliable on the  general condition 
pf trade,  in fact, on all  business  topics,  he 
is brimful of  valuable  suggestions,  which 
are generally  trustworthy  and  true to his 
convictions.  He  ever  stands  a  faithful 
Helper to his employer  in times  of adversi­
ty,  and  shares  his  joys when  the fickle • 
goddess has been more  kind.  For  him we 
claim no superiority,  but with commendable 
pride  does  he  point  to  the fact that the 
American colonies qf  Canada  are not aug­
mented  from  his ranks.  Neither  does he 
expect that monuments of bronze or marble 
will be erected to tell a  coming  generation 
his virtues.  He  only  asks  that  credit be 
given where merit demands, believing as he 
does with Bums that  “a mon’s a mon for a’ 
that.”

»Response by  Geo. W.  Noble at  banquet of 

M. B. M. A., at Flint, Sept. 7.
Beet-Root Sugar Cultivation in the United 

States.

Claus Spreckels,  the great  sugar  refiner, 
is reported to be contemplating  the  experi­
ment of growing  beet-root  sugar  in  this 
country in one of the central western states. 
It is claimed that the climate  is  similar to 
that in Germany and Austria,  where'  beet­
root cultivation is a most  important  indus­
try.  As is well known,  the  cultivation of 
beet sugar has been very  profitable in those 
and other European  countries,  where high 
bounties have been paid by thé governments. 
If it is true as reported  that  such  experi­
ments  are  contemplated,  the  outcome  of 
them  will  be  closely  watched.  Whether 
under present conditions of low sugar prices 
it is possible to successfully make this sugar 
in this country is an  interesting  question. 
In 1886 the total  consumption  of sugar oï 
all kinds in the United States was 1*389,125 
tons, of which only one-tenth was produced 
in this country.

ting  rates in à  lively  fashion.  The  çhjfôf 
onslaught seems to be on patent  medicina»* ~ 
whieh have been whittled down to a low fig­
ure.  Some of the firms announce that tb ^ i 
will drive their rivals out of business or «due 
force them to séll at a reasonable  r a t e a l i  
the  cutting  continues it is  expected  that 
some firms will have to succumb. 
A New England paper published thecard 
of a  dealer  in-shoes  and  ctwah  artiekw. 
which contained the
clause:  “N. B.  Ladies  who  i S S S i  
shoes will do wall to call Soon.*  aT5 dT«!&

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Grand  Rapids,  Mieli.

WANTED

A. J. Bowse, President. 

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Gao. C. Pierce, Vice President.

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

Transacts' a general banking business.

MANÜFACÏURED BY

SOLD BY

The undersigned will  pay  the high­
est  market  price  for  H EM LOCK 
B A R K   loaded  on  board  cars  at  any 
fide track on the G. R . &  I, or  C. &  W. 
M. Railroads.  Correspondence  solicit-

Mich,

101 Ottawa

Grand Rapids

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL

C O A L  a n d  W O O D .
^  A* HAMILTON,  Agt.,  ^  ÿ   *
101 O ttaw a St., Ledyard Blook. 
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What do you think of this?  While in'ôonve» 
satlon  with  Wm.M. Dale,  one of  the largest 
druggists In  Chicago,  we  were  surprised  to 
learn that hehad sold over one and a half mil* 
lion of Tansfil’s Punch 5o. cigars  and th a t the 
quality gèta better ail the time.  The  demand 
continues to Increase.  Löt Us teU you, If you 
want to sell a cigar  thatyqur customers  p H  
be pleased with, the sooner you order Tansill’s 
P a ^ ^ h e  better,—Independent Grocer.

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

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S.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

Terms $1 a yçar in advance, postage paid. 
Advertising rates made known on application.

WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  21,  1887.

NOT  OUR  KIND;

The Detroit Journal, which has exhibited 
singular antipathy to the cause of organiza­
tion since it became  a  living  issue  among
Michigan business men,  and has  rigidly op­
posed every legislative measure the associa­
tions have proposed for the  amelioration of 
the membership, thus  Slurs  the  movement 
in a recent issue:
Grand  Ledge  wants  a  business  men’s 
association,  and  is  offered  Ovid’s old one. 
It has two or three years’ rust on it, but has 
never been used  much.

For the benefit of the Journal, and others 
who might be influenced  by  the  statement 
thus quoted, T h e T radesman  would have 
it  understood  that  the  Ovid  association 
above referred to  is  in  no  way  connected 
with the movement which has been inaugu­
rated in  nearly  100  cities  and  towns  in 
Michigan; that it was  not  organized  under 
the auspices of  the  State  Association,  nor 
has it recognized, or been recognized by,  the 
State  body. 
It  organized  on  primitive 
methods, long since obsolete, and attempted 
to exist without seeking the co-operation of 
the other  associations  of  the  State. 
Its 
decadence and  failure  are  to be attributed 
wholly to faulty plans and a  disposition on 
the part  of the  members  to  “go it alone” 
and refuse the  proffered assistance of 2,000 
brother business men in various parts of the 
State.  With this understanding of the mat­
ter, is it any wonder the organization failed 
to accomplish desired results?

this  connection, 

it  affords  T he 
Tradesman  much  pleasure  to  be able to 
state that no association which has been or­
ganized  on  the  plans  advocated  by  this 
journal has ceased  to  exist, nor do any  of 
the the  associations  so  formed  give  any 
promise of leading other than useful lives— 
bettering 
improving  the 
^financial conditions of the  membership  and 
building up the  communities  of  which  the 
members are a part.

their  members, 

In 

T h e T radesman has received numerous 
complaints from  shippers  in  the fruit belt 
this season regarding the  shameful manner 
they have been treated by  the express com­
panies.  Th e T radesman has investigated 
. a number of the  complaints  and  found the 
facts to he as  represented. 
In many cases, 
fruit marked for a certain  market  has been 
carried beyond its destination and in dozens 
of instances shipments have  been  refused, 
when there was plenty of room for them in 
the express car,  owing to the caprice of  the 
agent.  This threw the fruit  on. the market 
a day later than  was  intended,  frequently 
incaring loss because of  its unmerchantable 
condition. 
In many cases, proper care was 
not taken  to  prevent  breakage,  and when 
accidental  breakages  occurred,  adequate 
means were not taken to make  the  loss  as 
little as possible.  The  fruit  crop has been 
large,  to be sure,  and  has  required  excep­
tional facilities and  patience  on the part of 
the express companies, but the  latter  have 
not done themselves or the shippers  justice 
in the reckless and  generally  unaccommo­
dating manner they have  pursued from the 
beginning of  the season.  Wherever  water 
transportation is possible,  the policy  above 
referred to has driven  shippers to  resort to 
that means of getting their  product to mar­
ket, and the uniform courtesy they have re­
ceived at the hands  of  vesselmen  and  for­
warding  agents,  coupled with the  superior 
condition in which the fruit reaches its des­
tination,  has  done  much  to  bring  wffter 
transportation into  favor  among  fruit pro­
ducers and shippers.

The number of private banks  which have 
been  started  in  the  smaller towns of the. 
State  during  the  past year is remarkable. 
In too many instances the capital at stake is 
too small to warrant the people  having any 
confidence in the enterprises, one institution 
having recently been started in a lake shore 
town  with  hat  $1,000  at its back,  out of 
which two partners expect to make a living. 
It is difficult to predict anything but failure 
for such an enterprise or for any  undertak­
ing in the banking line which  is  operating 
under  similar  circumstances.  The  best 
method to pursue is the one T h e  T rades­
man has frequently  recommended—the or­
ganization o fa  State  bank,  with  savings 
feature, the stock to be placed in  the hands 
df every person whose  patronage  would be 
worth anything to the institution-

; Business men, « s a  rule,  pay their taxes 
f I  without a murmur,' but they are not particu- 
i  Tar enough to see that  the  money raised by 
taxation  isexpended  judiciously  and  eco­
nomically.  Especially  is  this  the  ease  in 
7  villages  with  money raised for the  support 
of the  corporation.  While a  business man 
usually finds a place  on  the  board of trus- 
tees, it is not always an important tax-payer 
who Is so Honored, and many small cases of 
jobbery  are  worked  through  under  the 
If business 
men were more  in- the  habit  of attending 
-  the meetings of the boards of trustees, there 
V  would be ffiwer  bills  presented,  those pre- 
^Oented woffid  be  scaled  down  to.  actual 
~  iand a  corresponding  reduction  in 
» tome would necessarily follow.  „  k

.  guise of public  improvements. 

BASELESS  CLAIMS.

One by one the roses fall.  The advocates 
of the so-called :‘'bote.foodmovemeiit,fhave 
claimed all  along  that  Wm.  K.  Newton, 
State Dairy Commissioner of  New  Jersey, 
was in favor of the proposed  National Act. 
Th e  T radesman  has in its  possession a 
letter  written  by  Mr.  Newton on May 2, 
1887,  in Which he  denounces  the  measure 
and the  men  advocating  it.  Disgusted at 
the wanton use his name has been put to by 
the so-called  “pure  food”  cranks, he now 
comes out in the Am erican  A nalyst  with 
the following emphatic  disclaimer:

The National Government can and should 
enact laws to prevent the importation of all 
adulterated food and drugs,  and it - can pre­
vent the manufacture and sale of  such arti­
cles in the District of Columbia and the ter-
ritories;  further than this it cannot go.  The 
prevention of the sale and  manufacture  of 
adulterated articles in the  states is a matter 
with'which the different state  governments 
have to do, and  with  which  the  National 
Government has no business to interfere.
This seems to me to be the essence of the 
whole  matter, and it is of no use to  expect 
the Government to interfere with the police 
powers of the states  by  enacting a general 
adulteration law;  even if this was done such 
a law would not be constitutional.

The above is a fair sample of the baseless 
claims made by the men who are advocating 
an impossible  measure for  the  dollars and 
cents there are in it.  Half the  representa­
tive men and  journals  they  claim to be in 
favor of their scheme are dead set against it, 
and have so expressed  themselves time and 
time again;  yet the editors of the  house or­
gans who-espouse  the  scheme  continue to 
put forth such claims,  with no  regard  for 
the truth or the feelings of the persons mis­
represented.^___________

If ever a town needed a hotel,  it is Grand 
Ledge.  Fusion  sheets, co-operative towels 
and partnership napkins are a distinguishing 
feature of  the two  excuses for  hotels  now 
eking  out  a  miserable  existence  at  that 
place.  No  wonder  the  traveling  men  are 
as careful to  steer  clear  of Grand Ledge in 
the night time as  they  would  be to avoid a 
town stricken with a pestilence.

Few  towns  bear  evidence  of  brighter 
future prospects than Saugatuck  and Doug­
las.  Already  participants  in a lake carry­
ing trade of  no  small  dimensions,  which 
will be largely augmented by the  advent  of 
railway connection with  the  outside world, 
both  towns  give  unmistakable  signs of re­
viving business activity.

Acting on the principle  of  ‘“Giving  the 
devil his due,”  T h e  T radesman  prints a 
card from  Mr.  Dodge,  of  Lowell,  on  the 
fourth page of this issue.  If there was ever 
any question as to Mr. Dodge’s sanity, there 
can be none  after  perusing  the  article in 
question.  ________________
Purely Personal.

Julius Houseman is confined to his bed by 

serious illness in the shape of a fever.

.

John  Smith, 

the  jolly  Ada  merchant, 
meandered around among the jobbing houses 
Monday.

Heman G. Barlow is back  at  his  desk at 
Cody, Ball, Barnhart & Co.’s.  He is just as 
cranky as ever.

Ben.  W.  Putnam has gone to Minneapolis 
on a pleasure trip.  He will  be  gone about 
two weeks.

Chas.  E.  Brewster, 

the  Kingsley  cant 
hook manufacturer,  was  in  town a couple 
of days last week  on  his  way  to  Chicago 
and Milwaukee. 

N.  B.  Blain,  President of #tfie  Lowell B. 
M. A., was called upon to  mourn the death 
of his father last week,  which  occurred on 
Tuesday—the 86th birthday of the deceased
Thos. S. Freeman has  returned from Mt. 
Clemens, whither he went to  obtain  relief 
from his old enemy—inflammatory  rheuma­
tism.  He  was  only  partially  successful 
this time.

Jos.  Hinemann, 

late  in  charge  of the 
claim department  of  Sprague,  Warner  & 
Co., of Chicago, has taken  the  position of 
manager of the collection department of the 
Grand Rapids School Furniture Co.
^J.  H. Thaw has lost his  interest  in Ohio 
farm life and returned to his  old  love—the 
brokerage business.  He is at present assist­
ing Thos.  S. Freeman.

It is.reported  that  Geo.  B.  Dunton has 
invented, and will apply for a patent  on,  an 
ingenious device to attach to  oil  cans,  and 
that several manufacturers  are  bidding  for 
the exclusive use of the patent.

Fred.  "Stoner  the Grand  Haven  confec­
tioner, has sold out,  leaving  some  of  his 
creditors  in  the  lurch.  Mr.  Stoner was 
never overburdened  with  honesty  and  his 
recent actions are perfectly in keeping with 
his previous policy.

E. Densmore,  the  well-known  inventor, 
has  returned from California, but will face 
westward again in about  two weeks.  Dur­
ing his last visit to the  Slope  he  purchased 
a large fruit  farm and  has  now in contem­
plation the starting of a veneer  mill at, San 
Diego.

Jim Stewart, the holy  terror of the Sagi­
naw Yalley,  sends Th e T radesman $5 for 
a five years’  subscription  to  the paper, but 
accompanies the remittance with a letter  in 
his own hand which no one in Grand Rapids 
has been able  to decipher.  The  next letter 
Mr.  Stewart  writes  T h e  T radesman 
should be accompanied by an interpreter, to 
ensure reply.

At the W est Michigan Fair.

Grocers in Grand Rapids and  the  towns 
surrounding will find it to  their  advantage 
-to inspect Walker & Son’s display of pickles 
at ¿he West Michigan  Fair  and  get  their 
prices before purchasing elsewhere—sweet, 
sour, mixed and chow-chow, all grades. 
W a l k er & Son,  Grand Rapids.

AMONG T H E  TRADE.
GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

* 
Chas. K.  Farmer has engaged in the  gro- 
cery business $,t Pipestone.  Bulkley, Lem­
on & Hoops furnished the stock.

Cod  Ball, Barnhart & Co.  have  leased 
two more upper floors.in the Barnhart block 
Mid thrown them in connection  with  their 
entire establishment.

Wm. Sears & Co. ore now running a night 
force as welLas a day gang,  enabling  them 
to  keep  their  machinery  moving  twenty 
hours out of the twenty-four.

L. Townsend,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business;'* at  Howard  City,  has 
opened a grocery  store  on  thè  comer  of
oouui xouia ana n au  streets, ana wm snorts 
ly add lines of dry goods and notions,

H. F.  Hastings has made an arrangement 
with the Arbuckle Coffee Co., of New York, 
to  carry  a  stock  of  their bulk roasts and 
their second grOffe  package goods—“Avori- 
ca”—as sobn |i^,the necessary  facilities can 
be arranged.  •______ _____

Grand ifapids jobbers have generally sent 
out invitations to their trade to improve the 
reduced railway rates incident  to  the West 
Michigan  Fair  by  paying  the city a visit. 
In most cases,  the trade  is  asked to accept 
the hospitality  of  their  jobbing  friends  to 
the freedom of the theatres  and  admission 
to the Fafr.1

The Empire  Furniture  Co.  has  sold its 
business to  the  Empire  Furniture  Co.,  of 
Constantine, which  corporation  will  make 
the  goods  hereafter,  ship  them  to  this 
market in the  white,  where  they  will be 
finished and placed on the market  by  Mes­
srs. Mason and  Chapman,  who  are  repre­
sented on the stock  list  of the Constantine 
corporation.

Stanton—Z.  B. Knapp has  bought timber 

near here and is building a shingle mill.

Rosbommoh—Gow, Majo & Co.  will  put 
in 5,000,000 feet df logs the  coming season.
Gladstone-^-Jones & Eichhorn  will put in 
4,000,000 feet of logs for  Gardner & Wood.
> Coleman—T. B.  Simons  has  shut down 
his mill for the season,  after  making a cut 
of 3,500,000 shingles.

Menominee—The Soper Lumber Co.  will 
put in 25,000,000 feet of  logs  this  winter, 
and the Bay Shore Lumber Co.,  15,000,0Q0 
feet.

East Saginaw—The Corning  Lumber Co. 
has sold a tract of pine on  the  Manistique 
River to Bradley  & Sons,  of Bay City,  for 
$60,000.

Alpena— Fletcher,  Pack  &  Co.  have
handled over their logging  railway at Hub­
bard lake since it  was  started,  35,000,000 
feet of logs.

Muskegon—Hovey  &  McCracken  have 
bought  Barker  &  Akeley’s  sawmill  and 
plant at North Muskegon and  will  assume 
possession December 1.'

Stanton—The Cutler  &  Savidge  Lumber 
Co., of Grand Haven, has about eighty men 
at work in its timber just  northwest of this 
place and expects to put in about 12,000,000 
feet the coming season.

Bay City—Several of the mills are getting 
crowded for dock room to  pile their lumber 
on.  L. L.  Hotchkiss  & Co.,  on  the west 
side,  will shut down next week for want of 
logs.  The firm has several million feet they 
expected to get to saw this season  hung up 
in some of the streams.

Marquette—The scarcity of lake transport­
ation may be appreciated from  the fact that 
the  immense  Burtis  saw  mills have been 
obliged to shut down  because  they cannot 
get vessels to market their lumber, while all 
their dockage and yard  room are piled high 
with manufactured stuff.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Flint—E. H. Morse has bought  the  drug 

stock of J. L. Willett.
.  Cambria—A. W.  Bennett  succeeds J.  P. 
Molby in general trade.

Leslie—Martin Smoll  succeeds  H.  Grove 

in the grocery business.

Boyne City—John C.  MeFellin,  general 

dealer,  has been attached.

Ithaca—Srodes  Bros,  succeed  Geo.  H. 

Srodes in the grocery business.

Tyre—A.  MacDonald & Co. succeed Mac­

Donald Bros,  in  general trade.

Ashley— Field  Bros.,  general  dealers, 

have assigned to A.  H.  Phinney.

Three Rivers—Fred.  T. Kinney  succeeds 

Place & Kinney in general trade.

Ithaca—Carter  &  Sons,  grocers,  have 

been closed on chattel  mortgage.

Detroit—Munger  &  Co.  have  opened  a 

wholesale hardware  establishment.

Clio—Mark  & Worcester  succeeds Mark 

& Carey,  grain and produce dealers.

Flint—Snyder  &  Braitmayer  are  a new 

firm in the fancy goods and notion line.

Milford—F. H.  Trump & Son  succeed F. 

H.  Trump in the fancy goods  business. *

Union City—L,  A.  Walsworth  succeeds 

Bell & Walsworth in the meat business.

Charlotte—Frank S. Piper succeeds Piper 

& Tower in the boot and shoe business.

Pontiac-—Benedict  &  McCauley  succeed 

Benedict & Daniels in the music business.

Ludington-^-Wallace  Houk  succeeds  B. 
G.VanLeuven in  the confectionery business.
Homer—-Fred Snyder has  bought the sta­
tionery and news business of W. L. Harmon. 
p  Homer—O.  L.  Linn succeeds  Spayde  & 
Linn,  dealers  in clothing and  boots  and 
shoes.
.  Battle Creek—C.  H.  Cuykendall succeeds 
Nicholas  Renker,-  dealer  in cigars  and to­
bacco.
. Kalkaska—Mr.  Smith has  sold  his  meat 
market to  a Mr. Miles.  Mr.  Smith returns 
to  Niles.
•  Mancelona—Waldeen &  Shelberger  have 
engaged in the grocery and  boot  and  shoe 
business.

Hastings—Houghtaling & Lichty succeeds 
Henry Houghtaling  &  Son  in  the grocery 
business.

Morley—Henry Strope has  purchased the 
Wiley &  McMullen  stock  of goods and is 
closing it out at his store.

Charlevoix—W.  W.  Fuller,  late  with A. 
J. McLeod,  expects to open a  meat  market 
at Alba in the near future.

Dowagiac—J. R. Edwards succeeds J. R. 
Edwards & Co.,  dealers in boots  and  shoes 
and gent’s furnishing  goods.

Otsego—'The  Norton  &  Wolff  general 
stock will be sold at sheriff’s sale to-day.  N. 
W. Mills ^ill probably be the purchaser.

Charlevoix—E. B. Hodge &  Co.,  having 
failed to find a building at Alba suitable fqr 
a harness sh1|p, have  concluded to continue 
the same business here.

Hersey—Frank  Beardsley  succeeds  Ne­
ville & Beardsley in the drug business.  Dr. 
Neville,  the retiring partner, will engage ih 
the lumber business in Wisconsin.

East  Saginaw—M.  A.  Knox,  formerly 
engaged in the* grocery  business at Tustin, 
has formed a copartnership with Mr.  Ewing 
under the firm name of Knox &  Ewing  and 
engaged in the  grocery  bnsiness  on Wads­
worth street.

Breedsvilie—He W. Rodenbaugh,  former 
ly engaged in tlm  drug  business  here, but 
for the past few^nonths  the  manager  of  a 
drug store at Paw Paw,  has  purchased  the 
drug stock of B. J. Robertson here and will 
continue the busiriels-;

m anufacturing  m atters.

Romeo—A  newjpajrriage  factory  is  in 

prospect.

Flat Rock—The N. Ludington  Co.’s new 

sawmill has started up.

Eastwood—A bowl, and wooden ware fac­

tory is wanted, and wanted bad;

STRAY  FACTS.

Bad Axe—-A flour mill is wanted.*
Kalkaska—A photographer  and a dentist 

are wanted.

Watervliet—The Watervliet  Evaporating 

Co. begun operations on Sept.  15.

Byron—J. M.  Corkey,  of  Flint,  has con­

tracted to build three brick stores here.

Tustin—Cadillac  shippers  are paying 69 
cents per bushel for potatoes on  track here.
Niles—F. M.  Gray,  President of the Citi­
zens’ National Bank, has sold  his  interest 
to E. F.  Woodcock and  other  capitalists of 
Lansing and will retire  from  the  banking 
business for  a  time.  Mr.  Woodcock  will 
take charge of the bank Oct. 1.

Fremont—D.  Gerber  &  Sons have  under 
advisement  the merging  of  their  extensive 
tanning business into a stock company, hav­
ing received  flattering  inducements  in  the 
way of  financial  assistance  from  Chicago 
capitalists in  the  event  of  such  a turn of 
affairs.

Carson City—By a  vote  of  120  to 7, the 
corporation is authorized to bond the village 
for $10,000 for encouraging public improve­
ments.  One half of  this  sum  will  be de­
voted to  securing  a  complete  system  of 
water works and the  balance  will  be used 
as a bait to lure  manufacturing enterprises.
Saugatuck—Rogers  &  Bird  have  under 
advisement the project of building a  second 
steamboat,  to run on the  Chicago  route  in 
conjunction  with  the  A .  B.  Taylor. 
In 
case the project  is  carried  in  effect,  work 
will be begun on the new craft this  fall,  so 
as to have her ready for next summer’s busi­
ness.  She will have  110 foot keel.

Kalamazoo—M.  W. Haynes, Jas. Zanders 
and Geo.  A. Pfiffer,  doing  business  under 
the style of the Ideal Cart Co., have assigned 
to David  Fisher.  Before  assigning,  they 
executed mortgages for $1,000 to the  Kala­
mazoo National Bank and $600 toa Lansing 
firm.  The assets  are $8,500,  consisting  of 
$2,300  book  accounts  and  the  remainder 
stock.  The  liabilities  are  $7,500.  The 
principal creditors are the White Wheel Co., 
of Fort Wayne and Evers  &  Bauman  and 
C. H. Dickinson,  of  Kalamazoo.  Some of 
the creditors believe that  they  will  receive 
70 cents on the dollar.

Gripsack Brigade.

L. M.  Mills attended a  family  reunion at 

Rockford on Monday.

A. F.  Boat,  traveling  representative  for 
Samuel B.  Davis & Co.,  of Chicago,  was  in 
town over Sunday.

Wm.  R. White,  the  jolly  representative 
of the Thompson  &  Taylor  Spice  Co.,  of 
Chicago, was in town over Sunday.

A. W.  Newark,  who  has  been working 
the Upper Peninsula  trade  for Cody,  Ball, 
Barnhart & Co.,  has severed his  connection 
with that house  and  returned  to his home 
at Cadillac.

H. B. French, for several years past trav­
eling  salesman  for. the  Cleveland  Baking 
Co., has accepted a  similar  position  with 
Wm.  Sears & Co., taking the “upper  coun­
try” for liis territory.  /

The Pentwater  News  thus  pays  its re­
spects to the  Celtic  representative  of  the 
Grand  Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co.: 
“John Garvey, Jr., hired a rig and driver at 
Montague,  Monday,  to take him to Shelby. 
The road near the coal kilns is near the rail­
way track, and as they approached the kilns 
the smoke from them prevented their seeing 
the freight train coming until right in front 
of their team.  Their rig was a top carriage 
ahd it was’impossible  to  jump  out.  The 
team reared and  commenced  backing,  and 
apparently  they  would-soon be under the 
wheels of the cars.  The drummer got down 
on his knees and commenced praying, while 
the driver lashed the  horses  and  by whip 
persuasion,  compelled them to keep clear of 
the track until  the  train  passed«  This is 
said to bfi the only ease on record of adrum- 
mer’s praying,”

Addison Morrison has  returned from Kit­
tanning, Pa., whither he went with his fami­
ly- a couple of weeks ago.  His  family  still 
tarry at the old home.

Peter LankaSter, city salesman  for .Haw­
kins & Perry, will accept a smilar  position 
With the new  TTelfer  Spice  Co.,  in which 
corporation he-will have a financial interest, 
on October l.  ;|

Ed« Bush, for several  years on  the road 
for J. H. Thompson & Co.,  of  Detroit, has 
engaged to travel for  the  American  Eagle 
Tobacco Co.  This  will  compel  Thos.  P. 
Ferguson to stretch out his  territory  over a 
dozen or fifteen new towns.

During A.  S. Doak’s  Visit in Canada this 
summer, he let his prize bull  dog  take  his 
vacation at South Boardman  and  when lie
called for his dog last  week  he was met by 
a delegation of farmers nearly  half  a  mile 
in length.  ’ Supposing  they  were  a  lot  of 
grangers, wanting to buy  a  carload of gro­
ceries, he put on  his  most  catching  smile 
and squared himself for  business.  But his 
mind was soon  disabused  of  that  theory, 
for  each  granger,  .as  lie  pressed  Doak’s 
hand,  left in it a bill for  more  or less dead 
sheep,  which  the  aforesaid  bull  dog  had 
killed  during  his  'location.  Doak  cast 
about him  for a friend,  but as both Murray 
and Peck certified  to the death of  each and 
every sheep  at  the  hands  of  Doak’s dog, 
there was .nothing left for old “yours truly” 
to do but to plank  clown  his  last  month’s 
salary, which  he  did  manfully.  The  last 
seen of the dog was in the  baggage  caron, 
his way home, with all  four  feet  tied with 
a clothes line and a bird cage over his head.

Told on the W est Side.

“Say,  Watson,”  said  Pettersch,  “you 
know Jenks.  What sort  of a fellow is he? 
He has owed me a bill for  over  a year. 
Is 
he honest?”  “Yes,” said  Watson,  slowly; 
“Jenks is honest;  there’s  no  doubt  about 
that;  but it takes him a long  time to find it 
out.”
Mason County Druggists on the New Law.

Ludington, Sept.. 17,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand  Rapids:

Dea r Sir—At  the  last  meeting of our 
Society, it was unanimously  resolved  that 
the new State law  regulating the sale of li­
quors by druggists shall be strictly observed 
and rigidly conformed to in all its  bearings, 
especially that relating to dram drinking.
Respectfully,  W m. H ey sett, 

Sec’y Mason County  Pharm.  Society.

MISCELLANEOUS.

- 

198tf

Advertisements  will  be  inserted under this 
head for one cent a word or two  cbnts a word 
for three insertions.  No advertisement taken 
for less than 25 cents.  Advance payment.
Advertisements  directing-  that  answers  be 
sent in care of this office must be accompanied 
by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage,
F OR SALE—The best brick  hotel  and  barn 
in Michigan for $1,000: owner going west. 
F. W. Downer, Gaines, Mich. 
209*
T710R  SALE—Or  exchange, platform  spring 
J-  peddling wagons,  suitable for  wholesale 
or retail trade.  Address  Welling & Carhartt, 
139 Jefferson avenue, Detroit, Mich. 
208tf
F OR  SALE—A  new  soda  fountain,  which 
cost $140 and freight  this  spring-.  It was 
bought of Matthews & Co.  Will  sell  for  $100. 
In perfect order.  W. R. Mandigo & Co.,  Sher­
wood, Mich. 
212*
F OR SALE—Stock  of  general  merchandise 
which will inventory about $10,000, but can 
be run down to $6,000 within thirty days.  This 
is an established business of nine year’s stand­
ing,  and  a  rarp  chance  for  the  purchaser. 
Good  reasons  for  selling.  Apply  to  Rice  & 
Lillie, CooDersville, Mich. 
207tf
F OR SALE—Drug stock  in  a .town  of 1,700 
inhabitants, situated  in fine farming and 
milling country.  A good  place  for ithe right 
man.  Reason for selling—owner  not a  regis­
tered  pharmacist.  Address  Lock box 48, Fre­
mont, Mich. 
209*
F OR  SALE—Twenty  acres  jOf  improved 
fruit  land,  with  several  iicres  bearing 
fruit, one mile from Frankfort.  Will trade for 
house and lot or stock of goods in Grand Rap­
ids. 
205tf
F OR  SALE—Desirable  residence lot on Liv­
ingston  street.  Will  sell on Long time or 
exchange for good stocks, mortgages or other 
real estate.  E. A. Stowe, Tradesman office.
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
F OR SALE—120-acre  farm, with  tine  bouse 
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, 
Mich. 
F OR SALE—At  a  bargain,  all 
the  ma­
chinery of a two  run grist  mill.  Put up 
last year.  Does first class-work.  G. C. Willey, 
Summit City. 
213*
F OR SALE  CHEAP—Portable  saw  mill  in 
good running order.  Capacity 25  Mpine 
lumber per day.  Gang.edger, saw dust carrier, 
and line rollers.  For  further  particulars  en­
quire of J. F. Clark, Big Rapids, Mich.  I96tf
F OR SALE—The best drugstore in the thriv­
ing city of Muskegon.  Terms easy.  C. L. 
193tf
Brundage, Muskegon, Mich. 
F OR SALE—Best  bargain  ever  offered  for 
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. 
177tf
FOR RENT—Pleasant store at  19  West Ful­
ton street,  Boston  block.  Now  used  as 
'dry  goods  store.  Good  location.  Apply  to 
221 Mt. Yernon street. 
207tf.
■ ANTED—Good  newspaper  man  with  at 
least $500 cash, to take half interest in, 
and management of, newspaper office in grow­
ing town on Lake Michigan.  Addres Franklin, 
care Michigan T rad esm an .______________
TAT ANTED—Situation by registered pharma- 
cist  of  four  years’  experience.  First- 
TT 
class references.  Address  P., Tradesman of­
fice. 
209tf
XXT"ANTED—A -first-class  meat market man 
n  
to take  good position in  country town. 
Good  salary  to  good  man.  Address  J.,  care 
Tradesman, 
207
*  ANTED—By  a man  of  twenty  years ex­
perience, a  situation on  road  handling 
groceries, cigars,  tobacco,  wooden  or  willow 
ware  or can turn to most any line  of  goods. 
The best of references given.  Address John M, 
Laberteaux, Benton Harbor, Mich. 
209*
XATANTED—To exchange  farm worth $2,500 
VV 
for a stock  of goods.  Address Box  23, 
Tradesman office, 
\ \ T ANTED—A  man  having  an  established 
T V 
trade among lumbermen to add  a  spec­
ial line and sell on commission.  To  the  right 
man a splendid chance will bo given  to  make 
money without  extra expense.  Address “B,” 
care Michigan Tradesman.  * 
m O  EXCHANGE—Highly improved  real  es- 
tate  adjoining  city  limits  for  stock  of 
X  
general merchandise«  Address box  65, Grand 
211*
Rapids, Mich« 
■ 1MBER LAND FOR SALE -4,400  acres  Of 
fine timber land in Columbia Co., Oregon, 
within 35 miles of Portland, 3 to 4 miles of the 
Columbia River.  For further particulars call 
on or address E. E.Long, No. 10 Stark St., Port­
land, Oregon. 
210

208*tf

178tf

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GRAND  RAPIDS

MICHIGAN.

attention of the

have just received a

Stock of

Large  and  Well-Assoi
L ad ies’,  M isses’  a n d   C h ild ren ’s
CLOAKS

Which] we are offering 

at prices that can­

not  be

When  in  the  city 
call  and*  look  us 
through,

All  Orders  will  be  Promptly  and  Carefully  Filled.

Preserves and Jellies,
BLACKBERRY  JAM, 
Ì 
RASPBERRY  JAM.
FIG,  APRICOT, Etc, Etc.

PEACH,

10 fl> Wooden Box, 59> Tin Pail, 2 ft> Glass Jar, 1 lb Glass Jar.

Godìi, Ball,  Barnhart X  Go.,

SELLING  AGENTS,

GRAND  RAPIDS,'MICH.

AX HANDLES!

1  X Ax Handles
2  X
3 X
4 X
3  X Dbl.  Bit
4 X

$  .75
1.25 
2.00
2.50
1.50
2.25

C.  &  D.  LANTERNS,

OIL CANS AM) TANKS,

And a General Line of

PAPER  &  WOODENWARE.

CURTISS & DUNTON,

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Written Especially for Tb s Tha d b s h a n .
Ye cttybelies, ye city belles, 
Hfw ray bosom throbs and swells 
* 
Ye Imtmte blondes and sweet brunettes,

When ye pass by.

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On “Rock aud Bye,”
Iu s1m>P and store;
Then, bless your eyes, 
f curse my sigbs,
And love no more.

Association Notes.

The Sherman B. M. A.  took in three new 

members at its last meeting.

Calumet and  Red  Jacket  business  men 
have organized into a protective association. 
Mo “tick” given to dead-beats:

Three Oaks has organized an  Association 
of eighteen members and is  considering the 
subject of joining the State body.

State  Treasurer  Sprague,  who  has been 
spending a couple of  weeks at  Detroit, re­
turned to his home at Greenville last, Satur­
day.

Charlotte business men are moving in the 
matter of organization and will soon  swing 
into line.

The business men of  Leroy  have  asked 
the editor of T h e  T radesman  to  name a 
date on which he can assist them to  organ­
ize an association.

The Kalkaska B.  M. A.  has  presented  a 
$1,000 building  to  Don.  D.  Haven,  who 
lost his sash, door and blind  factory by fire 
two weeks ago.  He will  start  up again as 
soon  as  the  necessary  machinery  can  be 
procured.

The pamphlet and blanks ordered printed 
by the State convention  were  issued within 
a week of the adjournment  of  the  conven­
tion  and  are  now  in  the  hands  of  every 
local association  in  the  State.  So  far  as 
heard  from,  the  local  bodies  are  taking 
prompt action in  securing charters from the 
State Association.  The  work was never in 
such good shape as  at present, and much of 
the system  and  uniforinity which  it is now 
assuming is due  to the  incorporation of the 
State and local  bodies.

The Hardware Market.  *

Mails and iron are firm.  The  nail  pool 
spoken of in a recent issue of Th e Trades­
man does not now give  promise  of  being 
formed, but there is no prospect of a decline 
in prices.  Thé glass market is  very  firm. 
The manufacturers claim that  they  cannot 
concede the advance in wages  demanded by 
the blowers,  and there is no indication  that 
the factories will start up before January 1.

I b a r b w a r e .

 

 

 

dis 

BELLS.

BOLTS.

BRACES.

BUCKETS.

BUTTS. CAeT.

a u g e r s  a n d  b i t s .

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

BALANCES.
BARROWS.

promptly and buy in full packages.
Ives’,  old style........................................dis  60
N.  H.C. C o ....;..................... 
60
...dis 
Douglass’................................................. dis  60
Pierces’  .........................  
60
dis 
 
Snell’s ......................................................dis  60
Cook’s  ................................................... dis 
40
Jennings’, genuine.................................dis  25
Jennings’, imitation............................. dis50&10
Spring.......................................... 
40
Railroad.....................................................$ 14 00
Garden...............................................  .net 33 00
H and........................................... dis $ 60&10&10
Cow..........................................*»...dis 
70
Call.................................................dis 
30&15
25
Gong........................................ ....dis 
60&10
Door. Sargent................................dis 
Stove...................................................dis $ 
60
Carriage  new list...............................dis 7C&10
50
Plow  ................................................... dis 
Sleigh Shoe............................  
dis
Wrought Barrel Bolts....................... dis
Cast  Barrel Bolts...............................dis
Cast Barrel, brass knobs................... dis
Cast Square Spring............................ dis
Cast Chain..........................................dis
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............ dis
Wrought Square................................ dis
Wrought Sunk Flush......................... dis
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush................................................ dis  60&10
Ives’ Door...........................................dis  60&10
B arber.............................................. dis$ 
40
Backus................................................dis 50&10
Spofford...................................  
dis 50
Am. Ball...............................................dis 
net
Well, plain................................................. $ 3  50
Well, swivel.............................................. 
4 00
Cast Loose Pin, figured......................dis  70&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........dis  70&10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis  60&10 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint.. dis  60&10
Wrought Loose  Pin.......................... dis  60&10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip........... dis  60& 5
Wrought Loosé Pin, japanned...........dis  60& 5
Wrought Loos%Pin, japanned, silvei
tipped.............................................. dis  6Q& 5
Wro ught Table....................................dis  60&10
Wrought Inside Blind....................... dis  60&10
Wrought Brass................................    .dis
Blind, Clark’s.....................................    dis 70&10
Blind, Parker’s.......................... 
Blind, Shepard’s ..................'............ dis 
70
Ely’s 1-10............................................. per m $ 65
Hick’s C .F................................. 
«0
G. D.............  
35
Musket....................................... 
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester  new listSO&lO
Rim  Fire, United States........................dis50&10
Central Fire............................................dis30&10
Socket Firmer.....................................dis  70&10
Socket Framing..  ..............................dis  70&10
Socket Corner..................................... dis  70&10
Socket Slicks...................................... dis  70&10
Butchers’Tanged Firmer................. dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers...................dis 
20
Cold....................................... 
 
..net
COMBS.
Curry, Lawrence’s.............................dis  40&10
Hotchkiss  .......................... 
COCKS.
Brass, Backing’s.....................................  
Bibb’s ...................................................... 
B eer...................  
 
 
Fenns’. ..................... 
 
COFFER.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size............. 28
14x52,14x56,14 x60......................................   31
Cold Boiled, 14x56 and 14x60.........................  23
Cold Rolled, 14x48........................... 
........   23
Bottoms......................................i.................  23
Morse’s Bit  Stock...................... >....dis
Taper and Straight Shank...... ..........dis
Morse’s Taper  Shank.........................dis

40
Com!4piece, 6  in ......................... doznet  $.75
Corrugated.......................... ...........dis20&101&0
..dis  X&10
Adjustable......................  
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00. 
dis 
Ives’, L $18 00; 2. $24 00; 3, $30 00.  dis 
American File Association List........dis  60&10
Disston’s . ...-----  
dis  60&10
New American..... .............................. dis  60&10
Nicholson’s......... ......... 
......d is  60&10
Heller’s ...............................................dis  55&10
Heller’s Horse Rasps. . , 4 ......... 
50
GALVANIZED IRON,
Nos. 18 to 20, 
14 
List 

  dis 
22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27
15

 
CATRIDGES.

 
EXPANSIVE BITS.

files—New List.

CHISELS.

DRILLS

ELBOWS.

 
60

12 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discount, 60.

Stanley Buie and Level Co.’s ..,....... dis 

60

13 
GAUGES.

HAMMERS.

Maydole & Co.’s..:.............................. dis
Kip’s ............. . . . . . - . . . . . - ■ . . . . . .dis
Yerkes & Plumb’s ..............................dis  40&10
Mason’s Solid Oast Steel................. .30 c list 60
Blacksmith’s SoUd Cast Steel, Hand. .30 e 40&10 
J  - 
RaraTloorKldderMfk.Ck)., W oodtrsek  50fcl0
Champion,  anti-friction,..................dis  60&10
Kidder, wood  trafic ..,...,-------  
40
60
Çelfce, Clark’s, 1,2, 

die 
«dip :

HANGERS.

HINGES.

1 

' 

dis 75&10

dis 25
60
60
40&10
60

r 

Along Monroe street in cigar stores,
And on the screens and saloon doors 

1 meet your stare;

Then wonder why a woman charms, 
When such display of legs and arms 

-And bodies bare 

,  Aré common stuff;
A t once my heart 
Feels love depart 
And cries—Enough.

Regular  Meeting  of the  Muskegon  Asso­

ciation.

F rom  th e M uskegon Chronicle, Sept. It.

The  Business  Men’s  Association  met 
again last evening in the city hall.  Though 
there was not  present  a  majority  of  the 
whole  membership, 
there  were  enough 
there to make the  transaction  of  business 
interesting and the  discussion  of new sub­
jects enthusiastic.  Many members came  in 
during the latter part  of  the  proceedings, 
being unable to leave their  places  of  busi­
ness sooner.
The following standing  committees were 
confirmed;
On  Manufacturers—J.  A.  Miller,'  F. 
Jiroch, H. S. Henderson.
Transportation—S.  S.  Morris,  Dennis 
Smith,  G. F. Sperry.
Insurance—J.  D.  Vanderwerp,  C.  C. 
Moulton, Fred Brundage.
Improvements—C.  B. Mann, R.  S. Miner, 
**T.  Platt.
Trade  Interests—Wm.  Peer,  Dr.  G.  P. 
Booth,  H. J. Footlander.
Lowell  Bros.,  manufacturers  of  refrig­
erators at Ionia, wrote for information as to 
the possibility of  starting  a  factory  here,  i 
As this matter embraces  one  of the princi­
pal objects of the  Association,  it  was  dis­
cussed at length.  The best  ways to  secure 
such manufactories  were  also  brought up. 
The matter  was  turned  over  to  the  Com­
mittee on Manufacturing,  with  the sugges­
tion that  they  invite  the  Lowell  Bros, to 
come and look Muskegon over.
The amendments to the constitution, read 
at the last meeting,  with some  other minor 
changes, were adopted.
The Executive Committee reported  in  re­
gard to securing  a  hall  in  which  to  hold 
their meetings.  J.  A.  Miller  stated  that, 
besides  other  numerous  inquiries,  he  had 
spoken to Mayor  Torrent  and  other mem­
bers of  the  council,  who  expressed  them­
selves as being willing that  the Association 
should hold  its  meetings  in  the city  hall. 
The Association  instructed  the  Executive 
Committee to  petit-ion  the  council  for  the 
same.  1
H. B. Fargo, one of  the  delegates to the 
State convention, presented  a  highly inter­
esting report.
The matter of the Muskegon  Association 
obtaining a  charter  and  being  annexed  to 
the State Association was next brought  up. 
There are over 100 on  the  list of  member­
ship, some of  whom  have  not  paid  their 
initation fee and cannot be considered mem­
bers until they do.  To be  annexed  to  the 
State orgaization 25 cents per  capita  is  re­
quired,  which  will  be  taken  from 
the 
treasury, but which  it  was  not  desired  to 
send until all the names of membership had 
been confirmed,  and a  good  showing could 
be  made.  The  Executive  Committee  was 
instructed to  notify  those  members  whose 
dues were  unpaid  of  the  requirements,  so 
that by their next  meeting  the  number  of 
per capita could be determined.
Several new  members  were  admitted  to 
membership.
Before the  meeting  closed  the subject of 
toll  roads  was  brought  up.  Those  about 
the farming country  of  Grand Rapids were 
noted and it  was  thought  by  a  number of 
the members  present  that  stock  in such  a 
road from Muskegon would  be an excellent 
investment.  This subject will receive more 
attention at another meeting.

Travelers’  Methods—The  Great  Secret  of 

Selling Goods.

F rom  th e Philadelphia Record.

Indeed, 

“How do traveling salesmen sell goods?” 
is  a  question  easily  and  often  asked, but 
with  difficulty  answered. 
there 
may  be  a  different  answer  from  almost 
every man  who  travels  and  yet  no  single 
explanation that would  apply to  all  cases. 
Two general divisions might be made, how­
ever,  in the methods of selling merchandise, 
and this is the way an old  traveler  divides 
them:
“There are a great many successful  trav­
eling men who always make  it  their  prac­
tice to go for business right  away  as  soon 
as they enter a store.  There is no waste of 
time and words in idle  talk  or  congratula­
tions, but samples are  at  once  shown  and 
then it is: 
‘I can sell  you  these  goods  at 
such and such a figure; do you want,any  at 
those figures?  Mo?  Very well; how about 
these?  Or  these?’  There  is  no  dicker 
about price, and it is of no use for the  buy­
er to try and bluff the salesman.  The  buy­
er knows his man, and knows that what he 
says is final. 
If he sees a bargain  that  he 
wants he takes it as offered,  knowing  that 
he can do no better with thesalesman. There 
are  lots  of  men who  pursue  this  straight­
forward  policy  and  never  attempt to beat 
about the bush, and  they  sell  big  bills  of 
goods.  Often,  however,  they  are  not  so 
successful until they become known  to  the 
buyers, but they  generally  manage  to  get 
what they arc after.  Then there is the other 
extreme. 
Instead  of  talking  business  at 
the start, the salesman,  if he has a big  buy­
er in tow, spends a day with his man seeing 
the sights and generally  enjoying  himself, 
but never  a  word  of  business.  There  is 
nothing  but  pleasure  for  the 
first  day. 
When the buyer has been  well  warmed  up 
and is in  good  humor  the  salesman  steps 
in to bid him good-by,-and just as he  is  on 
the point of  leaving  he  mentions  casually 
that ho has  some  fine  bargains  in  certain 
lines, and in a very incidental manner  calls 
attention  to  the goods.  When  he  finally 
does depart heiakes with him'a goodly  or­
der, which he has secured in  a,  very  unob­
trusive manner and without apparent effort 
Mow here are two totally different  methods 
of selling goods, and very often both will be 
used upon tlie.same buyer by different sales 
men with equally  good  results,  while,  on 
the other hand, many men can only  be  ap 
preached by One or the other  of the  meth­
ods. 
onfy  shows  that  to  buy  or  sell 
¡gj
goods one inust know his man.5” 
1111

G.W. Crouter, druggist. Charlevoix: 
bless ThkTradmmah,”  fËSi ¿AA I

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TIN  PLATES.

TIN—LEADED.

W ith Additions Lately Made to Our Business, W e now Think W e have the

Wholesale'Hardware.

60
60
60
60
50
50
50
50
50
45
35
12 50
16 00
17 50
10x14, Charcoal...................... 5 40@5 60
, 
10x14,Charcoal...............................   7 25
12x12, Charcoal..................................  6 25
12x12, Charcoal............................   7 75
, 
14X20, Charcoal.............................   5 75
, 
14x20, Charcoal..............................  7 25
X,  14x20, Charcoal..............................   8  75
IXXX, 14x20, Chareool..............................  10 77
1XXXX, 14x28,  Charcoal...............................  12 55
20x28, Charcoal...............................  15 50
IX, 
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal..............................    6 50
100 Plate Charcoal............... 
  8 50
DX, 
DXX.100 Plate Charcoal...............................  10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcdhl...........................   12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50 to 6 75
Roofing, 14x20, IC...................  
5 25
Roofing, 14x20,  IX .............. 
 
6 75
Roofing, 20x28, IC........................................11 00
Roofing, 20x28, IX ......... .............. 
14 00
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Teme................  5 50
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne..............  7 00
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne............... 11 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne............   14 00
TRAPS.
Steel, Game........................ 
60&10
OneidaJCommuntity,  Newhouse’s........... dis 35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60&10
Hotchkiss’  ...............................j ...............60&10
S,P. &W.  Mfg.  Co.’s........................... 
60&10
Mouse, choker........................ 
186 $  doz
Mouse,  delusion...... ........................$1 50 & doz
Bright Market.. .1.................................dis  67^
Annealed Market................................dis  70&L0
Coppered Market.;,-........................................ dis 62Vi
Extra Bailing.........................................   dis  55
Tinned  Market............ .*.....................dis  62H
Tinned Broom......................................... $}Jb  09
Tinned Mattress...........................................ft 8J4
Coppered Spring Steel.....................   .dis 
60
Tinned Spring Steel....................................... dis 40&10
Plain Fence.............................................. $fi>  3
4 10
Barbed Fence, galvanized..................... 
painted............................... 3 35
Improved and we feel better able to meet all
Copper..................... 
new  list net
new list net
Brass.........................  
MARKETS and PRICES.
Bright.................. 
dis  70&10&10
Screw Eyes..........>— ..................dis  70&10&10
Hook’s ........................ 
dis  70410&10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes............. ...dis  7OM0&10
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled..........
Coe’s Genuine....................................dis 
Coe’s Ptent A griculturai, wrought, dis 
Coe’s Ptent, malleable................................ dis 75&1C
BirdCages................  
 
Pumps,  Cistern..................................dis 
Screws, new list..........................  
7G&5
Casters,  Bed  and P late......dis50&10&10
Dampers, American....................  
40
Fdfcks, hoes, rakes an all steel goods..,d 
Copper Bottoms....  . .....  .................  

W e Solicit Orders or Inquiries for anything wanted 

Our Facilities for doing Business have been much 

In the State of Michigan.

 
WRENCHES.

in the line of Hardware.

m isc e l l a n e o u s.

WIRE GOODS.

WIRE.

50
75

50
75

23c

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HARDWOOD LUMBER.

The furniture factories here pay as follows 
for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run...........;...............12 00@14 00
Birch,log-run..................................15 00@1800
Birch,Nos. 1 and 2...........a......,..;..  @25 00
Black Ash,log-run.. 
...........13 00@15 00
Cherry,  log-run....................... ....... .25 00@35 00
Cherry, Nos. 1 and 2 . . . . , . . , .  M , .46 00050 00
Cherry,  onll...... .....................@10 00
Maple, log-run...... ........... ,....;....... 12 00014 00
Maple,soft,  log^run-------------.....11 00013 00
Maple, Nos. la n d 2................ 
02000
Maple, dear, flooring.................... 
025 Oo
Maple, white, seleoted
Bed Oak, log-run...... .
024 00
Bed Oak, Nos.l aDd2........: . ,..........  
Bed Oak, quarter  saw ed..«,. ......26 00030 00
RedOak,No. l,step plank......... 
02600
Walnut, log-run.........................i .... 
06500
W alnut,N os.land2.;> ..v ........... 
-076 00
wainuta,  cuns.......................
WalnntSi  culls........................ 
025 00
K  Elm, log-run..
.
eA 6h, log-run..,«..,...,...¿....13  i0@14
00
Wbitewood,  log-run.................. ....20 Gw 122
White Oak, log-run........................   @17 00

. @ 1 3

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FOSTER,  STEVENS  l  GO.,

10 and 12 Monroe street, and 33, 35,37, 39 and 41 Louis street,
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Grand Rapids, 

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WHOLESALE  DEALERS IN

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and  Vegetables,

8  m l  io  Itila  s iti!  grand

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese,  Etc.,

■I

60

50

 

 

SPECIAL  ATTENTION  SIVBN  TO  ITLUNO  0EDEES.

GEO.  E.  H O W E S,

JO BB ER  IN

Foreign and Domestic Fruits.

S P E C I A L T I E S  a

Oranges, Lemons, Bananas.

3 Ionia St.,  GRAND

MICH.

JENNESS l McCURDY,

Importers  and  JiandM iIrers’  Agents,

DEALERS IN

fi> 6X

Fancy  Goods  of all Descriptions.
Bronze  and  Library  Lamps,  Chandeliers,  Braekets,

HOTEL AND  STEAMBOAT GOODS,

73 and 75  Jefferson Ave.,

EtO,,

DETROIT,  -  MIOH.

Wholesale  Agents for Dilffield’s Canadian  Lamps.

25

 

 

 

8H
.• 1%

h o es.  "

KNOBS—NEWS LIST.

S t a t e . ...... .... 
i,■ .-„-„per doz,net, 2 60
Screw Hook and Strap, to 12  in.  4%  14
and  longer__ M
3H
....... 
Screw Hook and Eye,  %  ........... ..  .net  HH4
Screw Hook and Eye X...........net 
Screw HookandEye  £ ...... ..V.net 
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.«...,¡.4......net 
7V4
70
Strap and  T  
 
..........................d is 
HOLLOW  WARE.
P ots................................... .1,................ 
60
K ettles........................................  
 
Spiders  ............................... ...........*... 
60
 
 
Gray  enameled--- -------------------- 
HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.
StampedTmWare............. .  ..new list 
75
JapannedTin  W are................................. 
Granite Iron  Ware___ ____............ 
25
Grub  1......... ............................ ....$11 00, dis 60
Grub  2.................................. . 
1150, dis60
Grub3. 
.........,,tv;......  12 00, dis60
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...... . .dis
55
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings...........
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings......
55
Door, porcelain, trimmings ..................
55
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain........ dis
70
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s ..  ...............
40&Ì0
Hemacite ............  
dis
45
55
Bussell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list.. dis 
55
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s ..:............. dis 
Branford’s ...........................  
dis 
55
Norwalk’s ............ 
dis 
65
 
LEVELS.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................. dis  70
Adze  Eye.................................. $16 00 dis 
60
Hunt Eye.................................. $15 00 dis 
60
Hunt’s................................... .  $18 50 dis 20 & 10
Sperry & Co.’f, Post,  handled................ dis  50
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s,,....................... 
dis 40
Coffee, P. S. &W.Mfg. Co.’s Malleables ...  dis 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry A Clark’s...................dis 40
Coffee,  Enterprise....  ............................dis  25
Stebbin’s Pattern  ..............................dis  60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine..............................dis  60&10
Enterprise,  self-measuring...............dis 
25

MOLASSES GATES.

MAULS.
MILLS.

LOCKS—DOOR.

mattocks.

 

 

 

NAILS —IRON.

OILERS.

Common, Brad and Fencing.
 

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

lOdto  60d..............L ........................f  keg $2 10
25
8dand9dadv...... ......................  
 
6d and 7d  adv...... ..................................... 
50
4d and 5d  adv................................... 
75
 
3d advance......................................................  1 50
3d fine advance.............................................  2 25
Clinch nails, adv.. .....................................   1 00
Finishing 
Size—inches  |  3 
Adv. f  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
Olmstead’s .................,...........................   50&10
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.................... ........ dis  30
Soiota Bench...................................................dis 50@55
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy....................dis  30
Bench, first'quality........................................dis 50@55
Stanley Buie and Level Co.’s, wood__ dis20&10
PANS.
Fry, Acme........................ 
dis 50&10
Common, polished.................................dis60&10
Dripping-.................................... 
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.

PLANE S •

RIVETS.

sp 

 

Broken packs V% c $  9> extra.

ROPES.

 

 

SQUARES.

SQEET IRON.

Sisal, Yi in. and  larger................................11^
Manilla.........................................................  12}£
Steel and Iron................; ................... dis  70&10
Try and Bevels...................................dis 
60
Mitre  ................................................. dis 
20
Com. Smooth.  Com,
$2 90
2 90
3 00
3 05
3 15
3 25
All sheets No, 18 and lighter,  over 2  inches 

Nos. 10 to 14..................................$4 20 
Nos. 15 to 17 ................................   4 20 
Nos. 18 to 21................................   4 20 
Nos. 22 to 24.........................  
4 20 
Nos .25 to 26...................  
4 40 
No. 27 ...........................................  4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
sh eet zin c.
In casks of 600 fts, $   fi>.........................
In smaller quansities, 
lb..................
American, all  kinds...... ............  
dis 
Steel, all kinds.................<................dis 
Swedes, all kinds...............................dis 
Gimp and Lace............................. „.dis 
Cigar Box  Nails...................           dis 
Finishing Nails................................... dis 
Common and Patent Brads...............dis 
Hungarian Nails and Miners’Tacks.dis 
Trunk and Clout Nails..................... . dis 
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails...........dis 
Leathered Carpet  Tacks....................dis 
No.l,  Refined........................................ 
Market  Half-and-half..........................  
Strictly Half-and-half.......................... 

TINNER’S SOLDER.

TACKS.

LUMBERMEN
,
M  Close Beyers of festen Mielga. 

-OF-

EÄ8Y  8Ä6INÄW,

M lß flM N ,

Desires to call  your  attention to the fact that they are the 
best firm in this State to purchase supplies from.  Carrying an 
immense stock of

And purchasing early for spot cash enables this Co. to offer 
Bargains no  other  firm  in  Michigan  dare offer.  We  offer  all 
FIRST-CLASS  BRANDS  of PLUG  TOBACCO in

Teas, Golta, Spices, Tokens,EtG,
10 Bin LOTS a SE CITS.

-WE  INCLUDE-

SPEÄRfiEÄD, Wf l  P U P ,  DIAMOND 
GHOBOLñTE CREEP!,  COLD  SHIELD,  P.

NIPOD, 

VINCO, 

8 .,

1/.,

And. Many OtLer Brands.

We  also  offer 
BUTT  LOTS  AT 
26  CENTS.

500  butts  of  the  following  brands  in  5 
THE  VERY  REASONABLE  PRICE- OF

ta b le 's Lark, LorilM ’s Sweet Riissett, Mg- 
' Älpin's Boom, Sorg’s Quality X QUautitg.
Merry  War, in  5  butt  lots 
Big X Plug  in  5  butt  lots

30c.
24c.

w

-WE  ALSO  OFFER-

MILS  OF  FINE  GUT 
24  TO  30  GENTS,

A I L i I

ji  s p l h k t d i d   v

a

l u

e

s

.

In  Teas  we  only  ask  a trial  order.  Our present stock of 

1,400 packages includes Teas of every nature and description.

5 to  6g., Good  Dust  at  10  to  12c.

IN   JA PA N S,

- 

- 
Low  Grades,  fine  for  money, 
- 
- 
Mediums. 
Good  fiew Japs 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Elegant  New  Japs  ■ 
Fansg Japs, OUr Own Importation,

- 

- 

'■-Ü» ¡¿ T

12  to  lfe  
16  to  18gL  
20 to 24g]
28 to 33ß|
31 to 

h!

Send  for  Samples  and  Quotations  on  everything  sold  by 
First-Class Jobbers.  We Stand next to Phil. Armour on every­
thing in the

PROVISION  LINE.

Parties  Desiring  Our  Circulars 

Mail  Address«

Please

T iy A M E S  S T B V i& lffl.

(Limited.)

high moral standard.  Yet, even in this de­
defraud, as jrell as 
mercantile  life.
-All the “stalls of servîcë” hâve more offesa 
of-  the  counterfeit-vexeepfc,.  perhaps,  the

partment of life’s labor,  there are thosewho 6RÂJÎDMFIDS
FRONT

—TO  THE—

—AGAIN.—

publication of this,  my defence,  I am, 

With great respect,  E. W.  D o d g e .

The above letter was  accompanied by the 
following communication, which speaks for 
itself, as it is reproduced verbatim :

L o w eix,  Aug. 31,1887.

E. A. Stowe. Grand Bapids:

Dea b Sir—I  have read in  the tradesmen 
an article  in  regard  to  Col. E.  W. Dodge 
writing  and  posteing  some notices of the 
Business Mens Pic Nick recently  held here 
and am here to sey  that  Mr.  E.  W.  Dodge 
did not write, or post,  ner have any thing to 
do with them in any way, I wrote and Post­
ed them my self,  and will  sey  that  their is 
more truth than  Poetry  in  them, as fer as 
our town is conserned.  And wishing to set 
Mr.  Dodge all right before the people  write 
this to you.  And if any one feels any doubt 
about the matter I can prove what I sey,  by 
three  reliable  persons. 
I  consider  Mr. 
Dodge a Jentlemen, and a good Lawyer, and 
do not wish to longer let this matter rest on 
his Shoulders,  as mine are broad  enough to
beer it all.
If you require eny pay ment  for the Pub­
lication of this comuncation please  ferwerd 
yur Bile and I  will gladly Honer it.

Geo.  M.  Bonnab.

We are now  supplying  the Trade  with our 

new Brand of Soap

BEST  FAMILY.

It  is the  LARGEST  and  BEST  bar  of 
white  PURE  SOAP  ever  retailed  at  Five 
Cents a bar. 

Respectfully,

Orders  by  Mail  and  Express Promptly At> 

tended  to.

In can offer a few cars of
No. 1 W hite  Oats  at  -  31 £ c 
No. 1 Timothy Hay, per ton, $13

In car lots here on track.

71 Canal Street,

CH7SZNG  HOOT.
We pay the highest price for it.  Address
Peck Bros., Druggists, Grand Rapids, Mich.

(  S uitable  for.  various 
la widths  of  sh elv in g.

 

■ PATENTED  OCT.  19,  1887.

Manufactured by

■ B f l  i   l
i
H H  J W  
m i l   KOOH  A.  B.  CO.
54  MAIN ST., 
PEORIA.  ILL
Liberal  discount  to  the  trade, or  parties
first  putting up these brackets in any local-

PO RTA BLE AND  STATIONARY
S   I T   O I 3 S T E S
From 2 to I'.n Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw  Mills 
Jrist M ills, \\ ood Working  Machinery,  Shaft 
ing,  Pulleys  h:. !  Boxes.  Contracts made for 
JomDiote Outfits.

O ,  

88, W and 93 South Division Street, 
LIND  RAPIDS. 

I > © i 3 J . ® o ] a L ;
MICH.

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TIME  TABLES.
Grand Rapids & Indiana.

All T rains daily except Sundny.
GOING  NORTH.

A rrives. 
Traverse C ity & M ackinaw E x.........8:45 a m 
Traverse C ity &  M ackinaw  E x.......  
Traverse City  &  M ackinaw E x ....  7:30 p m  
Cadillac Express................................  3:40 p m 
Saginaw  Express............................... 11:25 a  m  
10:30 a m . 

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Leaves.
9:05 a m
11:30 a  m
10:10 p m
5 :05 p m
7:30 a  m
1:10 p m

Saginaw  express runs thro u g h  solid.
9:05 a. m. tra m  has  ch a ir  ca r to*T raverse  C ity  and 
11:30 a. m. tra in  has ch a ir ca r  fo r Traverse  City, Pe- 
10:40 p. m, tra in  has sleeping ears fo r Traverse  C ity, 

M ackinaw.
toskey and M ackinaw City.
Petoskey and M ackinaw.

GOING  SOUTH.
C incinnati  E xpress..........................  
P o rt W ayne Express........................10:30 a m  
C incinnati  Express..........................1:10 p m  
Traverse City and M ackinaw Ex. .10:50 p m 

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

7:15am  tra in   has  p arlo r  ch a ir  ca r  fo r  Cincinnati. 
5:00 p m  tra in  has W oodruff sleeper fo r Cincinnati. 
5:00 p.  m. tra in  connects  w ith M. C. R. R. a t K alam a­
zoo fo r B attle Creek,  Jackson,  D etroit  and  C anadien 
points, a rriv in g  in D etroit a t 10:15 p. m.

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. 
Leave. 
A rrive.
6:30 a m ............................................................................... 10:10 a m
11:00 a m .......................................................................  4:30 p m
4:40 p m .......................................................................  8:50 p m
Leaving tim e a t  Bridge stree t  depot 7 m inutes later.

C. L. L o ckw ood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

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Detroit, Lansing  &  Northern. 

Grand Rapids & Saginaw Division.

Saginaw  E xpress....... ..............................................   7  30 i
Saginaw  Express........................................................ 1  10 j
G rand Rapids  Express............................................ 11  251
G rand Rapids  E xpress............................................ 10  30 ]
AU tra in s arriv e a t and d ep a rt from  U nion depot. 
T rains ru n  solid both  wavs.

ARRIVE.

DEPART.

 

tM a il..........................................  
tD ay  E xpress...................................... 12:30 p m  
•N ight Express.................................... 11:00 p m  
M uskegon Express............................... 5:00 p m  

9:10 a m  3:55 p m
9:15 p m
5:15 a m
11:00 a  m
•Daily. 
Pullm an Sleeping Cars on all n ig h t trains.  Through 
p arlo r ca r in charge o f careful atten d an ts  w ithout  ex­
tr a  charge to  Chicago on 12:80 p. m ., and th ro u g h  coach 
on 9:10 a. m. and 11 p. m. trains.

tD aiiy except Sunday.

Newaygo Division.

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

Arrives.
1:20 p m
10:20am
All tra in s arriv e and d ep a rt from  U nion Depot.
The N orthern term inus of th is division is a t Baldwin, 
w here close connection is  m ade  w ith  F. & P. M. train s 
to  and from  L udington and Manistee.

W. A. Gavbtt, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J. B. Mu l l ik e n ,  G eneral  M anager.

Manufacturers’ Agts. for

Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds, 

of Wood-Working Machinery, Saws

Belting  and  Oils.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.
A rrive.

Kalamazoo Division.

Leave.. 
N.Y.M ail.  N .Y .E x
Ex. & Mail.  N.Y.M ail. 
1:35 p m  
6:15pm
7:15 a m .. G rand Rapids.  9:15 a m  
5:55pm   9 :02am ..A U egan...........8:28 a m  
5:00am
7:05pm   10:06a m ..K a la m a z o o ...  7:30am   1 ^ 0 p m
8:30pm   11:3 5 a m ..W h iteP ig eo n .  6 :55am   2:20pm
2:30 a m   5:05 p m ,. T oledo .............11:00 p m  
9:15 a m
5:35am
8:30am   9:40 p m . .Cleveland........6:10pm  
2:50 p m   3:30 a m . .Buffalo.............11:55 a m   11:10 p m
5:10 a m   6:50 p m .. C hicago........... 11:80 p m  
6:50 a m
A local freig h t leaves G rand Rapids a t 12:50 pm ,carry­
in g  passengers as fa r as  Allegan.  A11  tra in s  daily ex­
cept Sunday. 

J. W. McK e n n e y, G eneral Agent.

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MR.  I?ODGE  AGAIN.

He Makes Certain Statements  W hich Are 
iiv  X' 

J  Open t*>Argument.

.  Loweix, Aug. 27,  1887.

XL A. Btowe, Grand Rapids :

this 

letter 

De a b Sib—Upon my return  to-day from 
a shortabsence from  Lowell,  looking after 
some  railroad  matters  for  the  Lowell  & 
Hastings  Bailway  Company, for  whom I 
have the  honor  of  being  attorney,  I was 
Shown the two articles in your  paper in re­
lation to myself, which are  evidently  libel­
ous in their  nature. 
I  propose  to answer 
the charges  therein  made  and  therefore 
ask  the  publication  of 
in 
I t a   T radesman.  M M
Some  of  the  state­
ments therein I shall acknowledge and some 
I  shall deny.
First, I  am a  lawyer,  duly  admitted to 
practice in the State Conrtsof Michigan and
United States District Courts.
’  Second, some eighteen  years  since I was 
a practicing physician, but becoming dissat-
isfied with that profession* I  read  the  ordi­
nary course of elementary books of law, and
after a rigid examination in oped  court, be-, 
fore the legal bar of Ionia county, I  was du­
ly admitted to practice in the courts.  Was 
there anything dishonorable in  this proced­
ure?  Once a poor boy sawing  wood  from 
door to door in the city of Grand  Rapids,  I 
believed I  had the moral and  legal  right to 
select any honorable  profession  without  in 
subsequent years being taunted with being a 
doctor or lawyer, as if those two professions 
would bring me  into  reproach  before  the 
business  men  of  Kent  bounty,  or of the 
State of Michigan.
Third, my name is on the  delinquent  list 
of the Lowell Business  Men’s  Association, 
but I had notified the Secretary of the Asso­
ciation here that I was not aware that I was 
in debt to the person who  placed  my name 
thereon. 
I am not  aware  of  it  now.  He 
has never  given  me any bill of  account in 
his favor. 
I  so informed the Secretary, and 
I say now,  as I have said often, if he has an 
account against me, let  him  present  it and 
he can have his pay any minute.  I shall call 
no uâmes, neither deal  in  personalities. 
I 
have been in this gentleman’s  store  almost 
daily;  purchased goods of him for years and 
paid for them immediately;  I have associat­
ed with him politically  and  fraternally, yet 
I  have not, to the date  of  this  writing, re­
ceived one single item of  account  in his fa­
vor.  He certainly must  be mistaken. 
If I 
owe him one  dpllar, 
let him  bring me his 
items, and,  if jhst,  his pay is ready—in case 
I  have no legal set-off.
On the occasion of the  Association  here 
here last Friday, I did not post up any notices
denouncing the Business Men’s Association 
as a “gathering of  high-toned dead-beats.” 
I  had nothing whatsoever to do with it, and 
did not know  anything  about these notices 
in  any way, shape  or  manner,  directly or
Indirectly.  More than that, I  did not insti­
gate them;  and  when  these  notice  were 
charged to me, I confess that my anger was, 
for heat, above 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
_ I  have been invited to  join  the  Associa­
tion more than once,  aiid  again  to-day by 
their honorable Secretary;  but I have stead-, 
ily refused because I  believed  that all legal 
means should be exhausted before beginning 
such “listing.”  I have held and have often 
so stated, that where men gave credit, know-

two,  and 

to 
than 

lose  a  debt  in  full 
to 

in  , both  these  cases  I 
but 
afterward  deplored  my  haste. 
I  would 
prefer 
rath­
er 
injure  a  struggling  poor 
man.  We can not always lift the curtain of 
domestic life or disclose the secrets  of  pov­
erty.  Behind this eurtain and hidden with­
in these  home  secrets  are  skeleton  sor­
rows and struggles which God’s toilers only 
know.  Possessing,  as I do,  the  memories 
of my aching back,  burdened  with its  saw- 
buck and saw in your city in the years gone 
by, with crackers and baked  potatoes  seas­
oned with salt as my only food,  eaten alone 
in my room in the old Grand Rapids Academy 
(under the  tuition  of  Professor  Franklin 
Everett  and  his  sainted  wife),  I find my 
sympathies  have  never  dried  np.  Their 
kindness to me then, a poor, struggling boy, 
I  can never forget, and  their lessons of pa­
tient toil I shall ever remember.
A few years ago,  in a business  matter I 
lost in a few  hours  the  toil  of years. 
1 
buckled on the harness,  refused to take ad­
vantage of the bankrupt law (then in force), 
and have now nearly paid up in  full  doljar 
for dollar with interest  Since  then I have 
met another loss (through the agency of one 
of the members of the  Lowell  Association* 
by the way), whioh  almost crushed me and 
leitm em  aeDt,  witnout  office,  books, o ra 
left me in debt  without  office,  books,
thing but a stout heart and  willing  hands. 
I  have now a comfortable  house,  a good of­
fice with a fair library,  and am  almost out 
of debt  And  every  man.  if  my  life  is 
spared, will receive his pay in full.
Now, If it is a fact that my recent actions 
have been so  eccentric as  to give  some of 
my friends strong grounds for fearing  that
I  am not quite right in  the  upper  story, I 
confess that some of the  members  of  the 
Lowell  Business  Men’s Association  must 
sadly err in  judgment  when  they  invite 
such a one as  they  say I am  to  become a 
member of their body.  But if to defend the 
cause of the poor, if to vindicate  the rights 
of the poverty-stricken  laborer, if to  insist 
l i | i  the law for the oolleetion of debts shall 
first be exhausted before  recourse  be taken 
jto what, in tee present ease, 1 believe to be a 
Rbelons procedure—then I  am  “eccentric.” 
1'  Yoqr worthy speaker, on tee day of yoUr 
picnic here, advocated tee  same  doctrine I 
quote  (and  Mr.  Walker  never  uttered  a 
teaching  more  replete  with  troth):  “The 
danger» teat  wrong  may be done by put-
I I  on the list those who are honestly trying 
to pay* but are unfortunate, and  those who 
honestly, but mistakenly,  perhaps,  dispute
tee account.  If there be ait  honest dispute 
between-tbe merchant and his customer over 
an account,  it should be settled by courts of 
j/~:  j  justice, at ail events outside tee Association. 
I? 
This should be the  invariable  rule,  if  the 
I . ^  Association would merit success and receive 

public approval.”

Ki illlif lga&v; X. am not a preacher— I never was 

œËÈÉÎÊÈÊÈÊ^ °* 
K08?®!?  but if I had been
llll  I  apprehend that it would have beennodis- 
| .  grace.  I am a devout  believer  in the doc­
trines ofthe  Christ as  enunciated by Hit?», 
^   j ^  I ^ d  j^at .  there  cannot  be a. higher*; 
ft-  holier, or grander office on earth  than  that
ancj I  cannot
ylei4 te aay jnan more  respect  than to that 
self-abnegation, ;4e- 
to  the:  elevation of  men to a; 
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It will fit any pail, and keep  the  Tobacco  moist 
It will pay for itself in a short time.
You cannot afford to do without it.
For particulars, write  to

If so, send for Catalogue and Price-List to

'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.

SAM PLES  TO  TH E  TRAD E  O NLY.

House and Store Shades Made to Order
, 
N elson Bros. & Go..

68 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS.

Jennings & Sm ith

ARE  NOW LOCATED IN THE

And W ould be Pleased to have a Call from Their M any Friends.

Opposite Eagle Hotel,

DETROIT. M I O H . ,

Manufacturers of the following well-known Brands

C. C.  BUNTING.

BUNTING

C, L. DAVIS.

Specialties:  Apples and Potatoes in Oar Lots.

20 and 22 OTTAWA  ST.,  GRAND RAPID^  MIOH.

Salesman  for W estern  Michigan.

For Quotations address

Detroit.  Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING  EAST.

Arrives. 
tSteamboat  Express.......................   6:25pm 
^Through  Mail.................................10:10am 
tEvening Express............................3:25 pm  
•Limited Express............................6:50 am  
tMixed,with  coach......................... 
GOING WK8T.
tMoming  Express..........................   1:05 pm  
tThrough Mail...................................5:00pm 
tSteamboat Express................. ...10:40 p m 
tMixed...............................................  
•Night Express.................................5:25 am  

Leaves.
6:30pm
10:50 am
3:50 pm
6:50 am
11:00 am
1:10 pm
6:10 pm
10:15 p m
7:15 am
5:10 am
tDaiiy, Sundays excepted.  ‘Daily.
Passengers taking the 0:50  am   Express  make dose 
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 car 
and local sleeping car from Detroit to Grand Rapids.
J a s. C a m p b e l l , C ity  Passenger Agent. 

Geo. B. Reeve, Traffic Manager Chicago,

Michigan Central.

ARRIVE.

DEPART.

Grand Rapids Division.
Detroit Express............................................... 
6:15am
Day Express..........................................................  1:10 pm.
•Atlanne Express.    ................ ............................10:W p m
Mixed  ....................... ...........................................6:50am
•Pacific  Express.;............. ........ ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .   6:00am
Mail 
............. .................................... 
3:00p m
Grand Rapids Express,...................... 
10:15pm
Mixed..................................................... . 
5:15 pm
•DaUy.  AU other daily except Sunday. Sleeping cars 
run oh Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from 
Detroit.  Parlor cars run on  Day  Express  and Grind 
Rapids Express to and  from  Detroit.  Direct  connec­
tions made at Detroit with all through trains East over 
M, C. R. R., (Canada Southern Div.)
;  D. W. Johnston, Mich. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids.

O. W. Rugglks, Gen’l Pass, and Ticket Agt., Chicago.

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[Arrive 

Mr, Leave] 
, 

...............St  I g n a e e l .

Duluth, South  Shore & Atlantic  Railway.
EAST  ■
am 
i x   pm
11,-30  . 6 :0 5 ..........Grand Rapids.......... ¡: 10:30  3:40
:  1  ■  Ar  PM  AM
-F.M'  ' ‘AM •:  Ev 
. 8:30  5:30
10:45  81:80 
8:00 
  Lv  ' -8:05 10:00
1:00 Ar....... Marquette. 
8:83 
Lv  1:86  9:16
1:40 Ar 
...Negaunee 
. . . . . . . . . Jshpeming,.........  12:50  9:05
8:48  1:45 
11:» 
6:25   
.H o u g h to n .,..,,,.,.  9:20  6:00
3:14 
.Calumet.. . . . . . .Lv  *8:06  4:26
6:34 A r.., 
" t k   »M  .  y
Only  direct  route ; between .the ’East and South and 
ths Upper Peninsula of Michigan,

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stock kept on hand.  Send  for  sample  Pulley 
and  become  convinced  of  their  superiority.

WRITE FOR PRICES.

44, 46 and 48 So. Division St.,

Manufacturer  of  Harness  and  Collars 
at Wholesale  and  Bétail,  73  Canai  street, 
Grand Bapids. has  the.finest line  to  select 
from in  tee city.  Give  him  a osi).  None 
but experienced workmen employed.

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J/JiC S .  y  ur and useful education is at tea
W mÊÊÊÉÊÊm  QaA3É!
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tegeJOuruoL  Address, C. G. SWEN8BERG, 
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OfftÌMin Eagle Building, 49 Ljon St., 3d Floor, 

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Telephone No. 95.

{Entered  at the  Postoffice  at Grand, Rapids  at 

Second-dam Matte?.!'

WEDNESDAY.  SEPTEMBER  21,  1887.

LEISURE  HOUR JOTTINGS.

BY A  COUNTRY  MEKCHANT.

Written Especially for The Tradesman.

Those individuals  who  attempt  to solve 
the credit problem,  in  the  columns  of the 
commercial  papers,  are  undoubtedly  act­
uated by the deeply-seated and praiseworthy 
desire of being serviceable  to their business 
contemporaries,  and with  this view of their 
intentions 1 have carefully  perused much of 
the recent “literature” on the subject.

As it is patent to everyone that  the ready 
pay system is the  only  one  that  gives the 
merchant perfect immunity  against dishon­
est and unfortunate  debtors,  it is to be ex­
pected that a  majority of the  writers  pro­
nounce the “No  Credit”  the  shibboleth of 
the tracfer; and  I   notice in a Chicago paper 
the effusion of  a  gentleman,  who  has be­
come so thoroughly exasperated by personal 
losses that he vehemently calls  for  a  total 
abolition of all  credit  transactions of every 
name and nature.

.Now, credit is credit,  whether given for a 
day or a year, and  any person of reasonable 
information who takes  a  cursory  glance at 
the business field can see that it is practical­
ly  indispensable,  and  the  only  debatable 
question  is  whether  credit  in  the  retail 
trade is advisable or not.
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.

When I think of the  vast  machinery  of 
the commercial world that  is  lubricated by 
credit, and then witness the  efforts of some 
party—who,  through  want  of  judgment, 
carelessness or lack of energy,  perhaps, has 
become the victim of the beat tribe—to stop 
the revolution of the wheels,  it  puts me in 
mind of a little  anecdote  which a St. Law­
rence river captain used'to relate.

One day,  while “shooting the rapids” and 
in the midst of the  most tumultuous water, 
as he stood by the  wheel  anxiously watch­
ing its every motion,  an  excited individual 
came rushing up to him,  and shouted:

“Hi,  Captain!  Stop yer boat!  My hat’s 

blowed overboard!

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Profit  and  the  accumulation  of  profits 
being, of course, the primary  object  of the 
trader, every detail of his  business possible 
should be  made  practically  subservient to 
his interests. 
If, by a  judicious  extension 
of credit, he can enlarge his income, and  he 
is  financially  situated  to  withstand  the 
necessarily increased  outlay,  it is certainly 
sensible  in  Kim  to  add  the  feature  to 
Ais  trade;  if,  on the  contrary,  the  losses 
that will inevitably attend anything like  an 
extended “book business”  should  equal  or 
éxcel his profits,  or,  if the difficulties in col­
lections should  keep  him  in  embarrassed 
circumstances, it would  be  folly to deviate 
from a ready pay system.

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*

When I started  this  paper as a continua­
tion of an article which appeared in a former 
issue of T h e  T radesman,  I  intended  to 
give some  facts  and  figures  from my per­
sonal experience with  the  “you’ll  have  to 
put it down” customer, but, on reflection,  it 
has occurred to me to  make  a  more repre­
sentative country merchant my authority on 
.the subject.

*
I  have,  consequently, 

interviewed a re­
tired trader,  who  for  many  long and busy 
years had an exceptionally favorable^oppor- 
tunity  for  studying  the  subject  that sug­
gests this writing,

“I would not for  a  moment,”  said  the 
.gentleman  in  question,  “make ány sugges­
tions or express any  opinions regarding the 
subject of credit as applied to  the  business 
•of the present time; but I will  give you  my 
■experience and the deductions I have drawn 
therefrom.

*

“I started in  trade  a  great  many years 
¿ago with plenty  of  ambition  but  a  rather 
.limited capital.  The* dead-beat element, in 
those days,  was  not  so  conspicuous as at 
present,  but still it existed, and  my anxiety 
to sell goods, and  fear  of  offending pepple 
-combined,  soon loaded me down beyond my 
«capacity with slow and  worthless accounts.
It was only by  the  closest  figuring  and 
the generosity  of  my  creditors  that I was 
-able to keep afloat  Then,  I  went  on  an­
other tack absurdly resolute  in  refusing  to 
..give  time  to  anyone  under  any  circum­
stances and lost some of my most profitable 
«customers for Want of a little practical com­
mon  sense.  Then, for a period, I gravitat­
ed between the  extremes  of  strictly ready 
pay and an almost reckless.system of credit, 
and five or six years  of  business  found me 
about %s well  off,  financially,  as  when  I 
-commenced.  Then,  1  took  in  a  partner 
Who, lankily,  was  a  cool-headed,  sensible 
.and  practicable  business  man.  He  staid
• 'With  me  four or  five years  and had the ex- 
- elusive  control of the books,  and 1 followed 
\ his system while I remained in trade,  and I
safely say that I made a tidy  little sum out 

É of credit  customers.
p i   “ Now,  understand me, I don’t  claim that
•  X ever formulated  iron-clad  rules and regu­
lations and never violated them in any case, 
.bat;!  was governed by certain general  prin­
ciples,  which,  withou|;adhering particularly
to their relative  order  of  importance,  may 
C o put tá[homething llke this shape: 
d

a£si

responsible or those who haven well-earned 
reputation for honestyandpromptness.

“ Don’t trust those  who are notorious for 
their slowness  or unwillingness to settle or 
those who have a .Chronic habit of disputing 
accounts, no matter what ' their circumstan­
ces may be.  Don’t ‘accommodate’  the idle, 
improvident and shiftless,  even as a matter 
of sympathy,  for  such  sympathy  and the 
cost of your goods  will  be  wasted.  Don’t 
invest in strangers without  satisfactory re­
ference.  Don’t let the  fact  of  a man’s be­
ing a passably good  customer count against 
his general  reputation.  Don’t  ever  try  to 
silence your doubts by saying ‘this fellow is 
a notorious beat, but  he  won’t  try  to beat 
me.r

“When  practical,  always  have  a fixed 
time set  for  payment,  and  when  an  un­
reasonable  period has elapsed after  thé  ac­
count  is  due,  don’t   be  afraid  to  let your 
debtor  know  that  you know  it.  You will 
keep more Mends among  credit  customers 
by insisting  on  reasonably  prompt  settle­
ments. 
If the debtor can't pay, get  an  in­
terest  bearing  note.  If he  refuses to sign 
one, it is a good reason for putting the mat­
ter in a judgment.

“In demanding your pay be courteous but 
firm, and don’t  entertain  lingering  doubts 
that perhaps you  are  unreasonably precipi­
tate in calling for what  honesty and equita­
bly belongs to you.

“Now this is a general  outline of what  3 
consider a fairly  satisfactory credit system 
but,  of course,  you must expect unpleasant­
ness and losses under the best devised plans 
that the  most level-headed  retailer can ma­
ture; the great  study  is  to  bring  both as 
close to the minimum as possible.

“Suppose  that  you  sell  four  thousand 
dollars’ worth of goods on  time  during  the 
year: you càn  reasonably  estimate  that, at 
the  best,  you  would  lose  three-fourths of 
this amount by doing  a  strictly cash busi­
ness. 
If you make,  say,  twenty per cent, 
profit—and in  the  terms  of  trade  put  it 
down that you  can make better profits than 
in the strictly ready pay one—you have add 
ed six hundred dollars to your  income,  less 
the losses;  and  a  merchant  who  for  five 
consecutive years would allow himself to be 
defrauded  out  of  over . one-sfktli  of  this 
amount,  annually,  bad better auction off his 
stock and  use  his  talents  on  a  ditching 
shovel or crosscut saw.”

It will be observed  that  the  old.  gentle­
man has failed to offset  against the alleged 
profits  the  annoyances  and  vexations that 
invariably  attend  a  credit  business.  Per 
haps he was  wise  in  doing  so, as I doubt 
whether there are  two  dealers in Michigan 
who could agree upon their monetary value.
Five energetic  young men  can obtain sal­
aried positions with the  Metal Back Album 
Co., Battle Creek.

I M E

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

The'popularity of  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.

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*

F.  J.  DETTENTHALER,

JOBBER OF

-AND-

SALT  FISH.

Mail Orders  Receive Prompt 

Attention.

See  Quotations  in  Another 

Column.

LBadjBg Cigar Jobbers of tticltiqan.

02291630

Wholesale Œgaré,

Grand  Rapids, 

•> 

-  Mich.

SALT  FISH

Bought and Sold by

FRANK J. DETTENTHALER,

117 Monroe S t,  Grand Rapids.

Oysters the Year Around 

¿e*

Mey fiitylliMCo.

OUR  L EA D IN G   BRANDS:

Roller Champion,

Gilt  Edge,

Matchless,

LUy W hite,

H arvest Queen,
Snow Flake,

W hite 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.
TRANSIT IL L  COIPANY. V
Floiir,  F eel 

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Grain  and 

Baled  }ia|.

TRUNK  FACTORY.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN

TRUNKS  END 

TRAVELING BEG8
Sample  Cases  and  Trunks

W H O L E S A L E  A N D  R E T A I L

MADE TO  ORDER.

91  C A N A L   STREET,

Grand  Rapids,  fe  - 

-  Mich.

N ÍCÁ j s llilj i] f e  föfe,

-ER  Oll.

Full Line ot

We make a s  ecialty of

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

GRAND  EAPIDS  OFFICE,

Xo. 1 Canal StM

Telephone No.  228-2.

J.  G.  ALEXANDER,  Agent.

yOOtiD^sY^Qp
very Vamer u d  Woed Chopper want*,  /int»rdet WeGuarantee  Satisfaction.

lutve been «awed  by  one mee
deh*.  “jft*

Tä  
Baadiedt here «ved  5 end 

25 Pearl Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

0.  E.  Brown,  Gen.  Mgr. 

- MICH. PEANUTS

Sili

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

DEE, BERTSCHI (ML,
AND  SHOES-
’
RUBBER  SHOE  CO. 
-  Grand Rapids, Mich.

6 Pearl Street, 

AGENTS FOR THE

C.  AINSWORTH,

JOBBER IN

TOMATOES.

PACK ED   B Y

DAVENPOET  CANNING  C0„

DA7EXTFOET,  IOWA.

ORANGES

1865

PUTNAM & BS00K8

Wholesale Mfrs. of

Pure  Candy

Our New Factory is  one  of the 

largest  and  best-equipped 

in the land.  Gome and 

see us.  11,13,15,17 

SO. IONIA  ST.

1887

GLOWER,  TIMOTHY  SEED  and  BEERS.
-  Grand  Rapids, Mich
76 South Division St., 
LEMONS ST0RE  G0ÜNTEßS  AND  FURNITURE  TO  ORDER.

Parties W ishing to  Buy or Sell  above are Invited to Correspond.

- 

- 

- 

D.  H.  MOSHIER,

MANUFACTURER OF

^

Counters,  i M M i i  H f l
Ind  all kinds  of  Store  and  Bank FtlrniWre.

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

Odd Bookcases and Sideboards.

or send for estimates.

Special  attention given  to ordered  work.  Call  and see me 
62 So. Front St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.
The Standard of Excellence
K I N G S F O R D ’S

CANDY

P U R E

A N D

w

Leaainq  rea Mouse
GLÄRK, JEWELL i GO, BELL,  CONRED

IN MICHIGAN,

Kingsford’s Oswego CORN STARCH for Puddings, 

Custards, Blanc-Mange, etc.

THE  PERFECTION  OUT  QUALITY.

WILL  PLEASE  YOU  EVERY  TIME !

ALWAYS ASK  YOUR  GROCER  FOR  THESE  GOODS.

G rand Rapids.

M O SELEY   BRO S.,

WHOLE¡SALE

Fruits, Seeds,  Oysters & Produce,

ALL  KINDS  OF  FIELD  SEEDS  A  SPECIALTY.

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

toes, will be pleased to hear from you.

26,  28,30 

k 32  Ottawa  S M . 

GUARD  EAPIDS

PROPRIETORS  OF

58 Michigan Ave., Chicago,

ßßotilru -Spieß  Wills,
TEAS,  GOFFEES i 8PIGE8.

OWNERS OF THE FOLLOWING CELEBRATED BRANDS:

IMPORTERS  OP

JAPAN  TEA—“Red Dragon”  Chop. 
COFFEE—-O. G. Plantation Java, 

Imperial, Javoka, Banner, Mexican.
The Best Cole on Jp fc   We  Solicit C om iicatm

W. R. KEASEY, Traveling Representative.

* 

Absolute Baking Powder.

And

100 per cent. Pure.

M anufactured a n d  so ld  o n ly  b y

ED, TELFER Grand,Rapids

L, M. CARY.

C A R T  <& LOVERIDCE,

t .  I» LOYKRIDGE.

GENERAL  DEALERS  IN

Tire and Burglar Proof

Combination and Time Locks,

ll Me Street,  -  Grant Rapids, i l

kíPSfí'y 'S) 

i

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■

One Good Life.

A sunbeam piercing rite forbidden shade 
I rear prison cell baa often brc 
Quiet to troubled spirits, and has made

Of some drear
brought
Dark,  morbid  brooding change  to  peaoeful 

thought.

So one good life will prove a guiding light 

To  brighten  paths  weak  mortals  oft  find 
'  dredr^— 
A beacon in the narrow way of Right 
To lure the fallen to a higher sphere.

"  *

Saugatuck in Line on Organization.
Realizing the necessity for some  medium 
through which they could act in  concert on 
all questions affecting the good of the place, 
the business men of Saugatuek met last Wed­
nesday evening to consider the subject of lo­
cal  organization,  John Nies was elected to 
act  as chairman and L. A. Phelps was select­
ed to serve as secretary pro tem.  E. A. Stowe 
was present by invitation and explained the 
plan adopted  by the  State  Association for 
the use of local  bodies.  At the  conclusion 
of his address, it was resolved to proceed to 
organize at onee,  which  was  begun by the 
adoption  of*  the  regulation  constitution. 
The  following  charter  members  were ac­
cepted:  N. L. Rowe,  C. E. Bird,  F. Wade, 
F. Kirby,  H.  Schnoble,  E.  S.  Pride, M. 
Robinson,  Edward Wisner, J. F. Henry,  R. 
C. Brittain, J.  Sehaberg,  Chris.  Walz,  Fritz 
Walz,  C.  M.  Winslow,  J.  Nies,  L.  A. 
Phelps,  A.  C.  Zwemer,  C.  M.  Cook,  C. 
Miller & Son.  The  Blue  Letter  collection 
system was adopted for the use of 
Asso­
ciation,  when an adjournment was taken for 
a week,  when the organization will be com­
pleted by the election of  officers.

“The Merchant’s Friend.”

From the Tustin Echo.

T h e Michigan  T radesman,  a  journal 
devoted to the retail trade of the  Wolverine 
State and published at  Grand  Rapids, has 
just completed the fourth year of its success­
ful career.  T h e  T radesman is  the  mer­
chant’s friend and ought to be read by every 
business man in the State.

'jjiiiiii!iiiiii;!S'"8 nlftiiB  V im -»

y^ S $ B  BO TH ERS

GRAND  RAPIDS  MICH

Buy  of  th e   m anufacturer  and  save  freig h ts  and 
dealers’  commissions.  Factory,  61,  63  and  65  South 
F ro n t  St.  Office  and salesroom , 92 M onroe  street.

PATENTS;

LUCIUS C.  WEST, 

A ttorney a t P a te n t Law  and Solicitor 
of  A m erican  and  Foreign  patents. 
105 E. Main St., K alam azoo, Mich., IT. S. A.  B ranch  of­
fice, London, Eng.  P ractice in  U. S. Courts.  C irculars 
free.

J U D D  

t b   C O . ,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

Boned  with  Featherbone,  which  is  absolutely un­
breakable, and is not injured  by perspiration, or laun. 
drying.  Soft  and pli»bTéyfelying health  and comfort.

CORSETS.
ST.  CHARLES,
REED  CITY,  -'  Mich.

J. W . MORSE,  Manager,

Fine  Sample  Rooms  in  Connection.
This  spacious and  admirably construct­
ed New  Brick  Hotel  is  now  open  to  the 
public. 
It is provided with all^he Modern 
Improvements.  T he rooms are large, airy 
and pleasant, in suits or single, and newly 
furnished throughout.  The design of m an­
agem ent is to make this house one of com­
fort and pleasure to its guests.

T he  Traveling  Public  are  cordially  in­

vited. 

*

“CANDEE”
Rubber
B O O T S
DOUBLE «THICK 

WITH

BALL.

Ordinary Rubber Boots 
always wear out first on 
the ball.  The CANDEE 
I Boots  are  double  thick 
i on  the  hall,  and  give
| DOUBLE  WEAK.
|  Most economical Rubber 
Boot  in  the  market. 
Lasts  longer  than any 
j  other boot and the
|  PRICE NO HIGHER.
Call  and  ex­
amine  the 
goods.

FOR SALE BY

E.  G. ST U D L E Y  & CO.. Grand Rapids 

103  CANAL STREET.

And Full Line Summer Goods.
W H I P S

ADDRESS

Jobbers of

Rubber  and  Oil  Clothing  of  all  kinds, 
Hose  and  W agon  Covers,  Leather  and 
Rubber Belting and Mill  and Fire Depart­
m ent  Supplies.  Send for price list.

DEALERS IN

NOS.  188 and  124 LOUIS STREET. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

GRAHAM  ROYS,  -  Grand Rapids, M idi.
S
P E R K I N S   &  EE
H ides, F u rs, W o o l &  Tallow,

Bought 5,000 Boxes "HSPPY FipilLY 80HP"

O
.   c £ c   C
-  ,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.,

3
  1
W HOLESALE  GROCERS, 

WE CARRY A STOCK OF  CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL  USE.

.   3

C

3

.

.

60  BARS— 60  POUNDS  IN   A  BOX.

More or Less.

Which they will sell at  a  Great  Bargain  until  Oct  1.  NO  BETTER  SOAP  MADE. 
10 boxes and upwards  delivered  at  your  railway station free.  Retail Grocers can sell 5 
pound  bars  “HAPPY  FAMILY  SOAP”  for  ,25  cents,' surprise  their  customers,  and 
make a handsome  profit.  Send  in  your  orders,  for  all soap stock has advanced,  so will 
this soap.  Manufactured  only by

l l e n B

A
P.  S.—A full line of my fine  milled Toilet Soaps kept in  stock by Messrs.  Jennings & 

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Smith, the best value in  the market.

/■ /T ^   TRADE 

T R Y   O U R   O B I j E B R A T E D
m

T>e e   jth  C h o f   Ja p a n   T e a .

/ U   M A RK  

T  

This tea is grown  in  the  Province  of  Surunga, which  district, all  Japanese admit, 
produces the most regular leaf and best drinking Tea of „the many plantations now yield­
ing.  Each  year some new district  becomes  known, but none grow any tea equal to that 
from Surunga.  Our  Teas  are  carefully picked  by the iiatives,  and  the  leaf well rolled. 
They are then sent to Yokohoma, where special attention JPgiven to the firing and pack­
ing for this market.  We can highly recommend our “Bke Chop” Tea,  and all lovers  of 
a full, rich drinking tea will appreciate its many merits.  Try it and be convinced.

J.  H.  THOMPSON  &  CO,

5 0   J e

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n

  A v e . ,   D e t r o i t ,   M l o l x .

BARLOW  BROS.
Md  RAPIDS

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V ISITIN Q   BUYERS.  .  .

',■-  The following retail dealers have "visited 
gps  .  th e market during the past weekand placed 

orders with the various houses:

4  W. G. Bradish, Matherton 

Okas. B. Brewster. Kingsley
B. M. Reed. Coopersrille 
Geo. Carrington, Trent 
Severance & Rich, Middleville
C. F. Williams, Caledonia 
C. B. Field, Vermontville 
J , N. Waft, Rudsonrille 
J . C. Benbow. Cannonsburg 
H  K. Bice, Croton 
«8. A. Bush, XArirell
i A. M, Church, Alpine 
M  Gezon, Jenisonville 
j .  A. Shattuck, Sand Lake 
Jno. Damstra. Gitchell 
jno. Kamps, Zutphen 
Cornell & Griswold, Griswold 
H. Van lioord, Jamestown 
DeKruif, Boone & Co., Zeeland 
G. Ten Hoor. ForeBt Grove 
C, K. Hoyt, Hudsonrille 
■  A. F. Harrison. 8parta 
X.- Sauerbier, Big Rapids 
Cole & Chapel, Ada 
G. W. Reynolds, Belmont 
James Colby, Rockford
N. Bouma, Fisher 
A. B. Foote, Billiards 
G. H. Bennlnk. Muskegon 
L A. Mitchell, Lowell
' A. Volk, Muskegon 
C.E. Pratt, Moline 
H  Thompson, Canada Corners 
G. Van Lopik & Son, Grand Haven 
J . P. Cordes, Alpine 
C. Stocking, Grattan
F. c. Stone & Son, Cedar Springs 
p. Steketee & Co., Holland
G, H. Joldersma, Jamestown 
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam 
A. Purchase, So. Blendon 
Farowe & Dalmon, Allendale 
John Farrowe, So. Blendon 
G. S. Putnam. Fruitport 
L. A. Barber & Son, petoskey
-  Percy T. Cook, Reynolds 
Kremer & Bangs, Holland 
A-DeKruif, Zeeland 
Hunt & Hunter, Lowell 
Walling Bros,, Lamont 
S. McNitt & Co., Byron Center.
L. M. Wolf, Hudsonrille 
Geo. B. Harris, Ashland 
„  R. T. Parrish, Grandrille
C. C. Tuxbury, Sullivan 
Ihr. Day, Pierson
R. 8. Shiffert, Bridgeton 
U- DeVries. Jamestown 
Moores, Weed & C.o, Moorestown 
Walker & Hewitt, Lansing 
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade 
W. C. Murray, Lowell 
W. A, DeHart, Vickeryville 
W . H. Struik, Jamestown 
J. F. Mann, Lisbon 
J. 8. Goodyear. Hastings
D. R. Stocum, Rockford 
Wm. Barker, Sand Lake 
C. H. Doming, Hammond 
L. Cook, Bauer
O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna 
Frank B. Piper, Charlotte
S. Bitely, Sparta 
J . Raymond, Berlin 
John Smith, Ada
Grand Ledge  Organizes  an Auxiliary.
Agreeable to invitation, the editor of T he 
T radesman met the business men of Grand 
Ledge last Friday evening for the purpose of 
assisting them organize a Business Men’s to 
Association.  Geo.  Campbell  was selected 
to act as chairman of the meeting and W. E. 
Wilson served as secretary  pro tern.  After 
an hour had been  spent in  listening to the 
methods of organized eifort and the  subject 
had been thoroughly discussed, A. B. Schu- 
maker moved  that  the  organization  of an 
Associatian be proceeded  with,  which was 
adopted.  Frank O.  Lord  moved  that the 
constitution  presented  by  Mr.  Stowe  be, 
adopted, which was also  carried,  when the 
following handed in their names for charter 
membership:  W. H. Hall, A. B. Schumak- 
er, C. W.  Allen,  G.  B.  Griswold,  F.  O. 
Lord, B.  S. Pratt, Milo Campbell, J. L. Mc- 
Fteet, W. K. Clark,  C. H. Phillips, O. Guin- 
te r,. D.  D.  Shane,  M.  T. Streeter, W. F. 
West, W. E.  Wilson,  Geo.  Campbell,  B. 
Robinson, J. W. Fitzgerald.

Election of officers resulted as follows:
President—W. E. Wilson.
Vice-President—Geo. Campbell.
Secretary—W. R. Clark.
Treasurer—W.  H. Hall.
Executive  Committee—President, *  Secre­
tary,  John  Fitzgerald,  F.  O. Lord, A. B. 
Schumaker.

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

»

T he  Banner  Fruit  County  of the  Future.
“I  have spent  the entire  fruit  season  in 
this  State,”  said  a  leading  Chicago  fruit 
buyer, the  other day,  “and  a  careful  esti­
mate  of  the  relative  advantages  of  each 
county  in  the  fruit  belt  leads  me  to  the 
opinion that before  five years  have  passed 
Oceana county will come to the front as the 
leading fruit county of the State.  Although 
farther  from  Chicago 
than  most  other 
sources of supply, Oceana fruit  has made a 
record second to none, and ‘ as soon as ship­
pers realize that it is to their interest to give 
fruit  just as. little  jolting  as  possible  and 
transfer from  rail  or boat  at Muskegon  or 
Grand  Haven,  the  reputation  of  Oceana 
fruit if sure to be largely enhanced.”

Hides, Pelts and Furs.

Hides are without change.  Pelts are dull 
sad  Mow salé.  Tallow is still firm, although 
toe advance has  sustained a cheek.

AU Hail to the Evart  Association.

ïfcom the Evart Review.

A t the last regular  meeting  of the BusTl 
ness Men’s  Association, a  committee  con­
sisting of David Redmond, W. J. McUwain, 
E. P. Wightman,  R. A.  Allured  and  Dr. 
Dumon, was appointed  to  investigate and 
report toe  most  feasible ■ route  for a road 
south from Evart, and to report to the Asso 
dation on Monday night.  The great success 
the Sears road  project  gives en­
couragement to the wish to (pen a first class 
permanent road,  making  connection  with 
xoads leading east and west  in  Evart  and 
Chippewa townships. 
It is  hoped  the im 
ipovemenËvriR hé completed this fall.
The Sears road job, which has been prose­
cuted under the direction of a  committee of 
the Business  Men’s  Association,  is nearly 
completed-  ThcJoh represents  steady § 1,-. 
100 expenditure.  About  $300  in cash was 
raised, by $5 subscriptions  among  ourciti- 
xens, the balance is work donated by various 
to n les, principally by farmers who  will be 
directly benefited.  The  work  ¡consisted in 
damping, grading, turn piking and  claying 
d o n t three miles of the  highway  lying he- 
’tween Evart  and Hears. 
I t jsto e best Im- 
ptbvementmade in tijtis seetien this season; 
monument to toe  jBusiness^ien’s 
as Showing  what a  Uttie push 
action will accomplish.

S h

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WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

•* 
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These prices  are  for  cash  buyers, who  pay 

A XT.a grease.

*  BAKING  POWDER.
 

“ 
“  % n> 
“  .............. 
2 lb 
B u lk ................... 
 

promptly and buy in full packages.
Grown  .....\ . .....  80Paragon__.......2 10
Frazèr’s ...........  90 Paragon 25 lb pails.  90
Diamond  X .____ _  60 Fraziers, 25 lb pails. 1 26
Modoc, 4 doz......... 2 50
.......  * 85
 
Acme, % ft cans, 3 doz. ease 
..........  i  60
..  “ 
3 00
75
Princess,  %s..............................................125
%8. ............... ................. .........2 00
Is ............. .................................. 3 75
bulk..............  
28
 
Arctic, % ft cans, 6 doz. case......................  45
 
“ 
75
“ 
140
 
“ 
..................... 2 40
“ 
....................*12 00
Victorian, 1 ft cans, (tall,) 2 doz................ 2 00
Diamond,  “bulk.” .. .•....................... 
15
Dry, No. 2.................................
Dry, No. 3...... ..........................
Liquid, 4 oz,............................ .
Liquid, 8 oz...............................
Arctic 4 oz................................
Arctic8  oz............................
Arctic 16oz.................. ^ ......
Arctic No. 1 pepper box......... .
Arctic No. 2 
...........
Arctic No. 3 
...........

 
__ doz. 
....doz, 
__doz. 
__ doz. 
__$   gross 3 50
................... 720
............  12 00
............ 2 00
......... 
3 00
...................400

**  % 
% 
“ 
1 
5 
“ 

 
'  25
45
35
65

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BUTTING

4 
2 
2 
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No. 2 H url.............1  75
No. 1 H url....2 00@2 25
No. 2Carpet...........2 25
No. 1 Carpet...........2 50
Parlor  Gem........... 3 00

Common Whisk. 
Fancy  Whisk...
Mill....................
Warehouse  .....

.  90 
.1  00 
.3 75 
.2 75

CHOCOLATE.

Wilbur’s  Premium..35
Sweet........25
“ 
“  B’kf’tCocoa 45
“  Cocoa-theta 42
“ 
YanillaBar28

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

COCOANUT.

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Schepps, Is .....................................
Is and  yt s...... .................
14s....................................
is in tin pails.................
..............
14s 
Maltby’s,  Is................................ .
is and  14s...................
14s..................................
Manhattan,  pails.......................... .
Peex-less  ........................................ .
Bulk..............................................
COFFEES—PACKAGE.

@25
@26
@27
@27%
@28%
@23%
@24
@24%
@20@18
@15
60 lbs 100 lbs
Lion...................................................  
2514
Lion? in cabinets.............................  
26J4
XXXX..............................................25%  26%
Arbuckle’s  .............. ........................ 25%  25%
Dilworth’s ........................................  
25%
Standard  .......................................... 
2514
German............................................. 
25%
German, in  bins.... .......................... 
25%
Magnolia...........................................  
25%
Eagle................................................ 25%  25%
Mexican...........................................20 
20
Honey Bee, 1 3b packages...... ..........26

Green.

COFFEES.

Roasted.

R io.................. 22@24
Santos..............23@25
Maricabo.........24@26
J a v a ............... 23@25
í). G. Java........24@32
M ocha............25@26
COFFEES—SPECIAL BRANDS
Bell, Conrad & Co.’s Plantation Java. 
“  Mocha................  
Javoka...................  
“ 
“ 
Imperial.................. 
“ 
Banner............... 
“  Mexican.................. 

Rio................... 22®24
Santos.............. 23@26
Maricabo..........25@26
Java................. 25@30
O. G, Java........ 30@35
Mocha.............. 31@32
32
33

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28

30
39
30

CORDAGE.

60 foot Jute...... 1 00
72 foot J u te ...... 1 25
40 Foot Cotton.... 1 50

50 foot Cotton.... 1  60
60 foot Cotton__ 1  75
72 foot Cotton__ 2  00
$ 1b
6%

 

7%

8%

CR ACKERS  AND  SWEET  GOODS.

5%
7

4%
5

7 
7 
7
7

914
15%

13%
13%

X  XXX
5
5
5
5

11%

8
8
8
12%
8%

13%11%12%13%
12%8%

Kenosha Butter...... ................
Seymour Butter...................... 
Butter......................................  
Fancy  Butter............ .............   4%
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............................
Bagleys  Gems.........................
Seed Cakes...............................
S. &  M. Cakes..........................
CANNED FISH.
Clams, 1 fi>, Little Neck.............................. 1 10
Clam Chowder,  8ft.....................................2 15
Cove Oysters, 1 ft standards.................95@1 00
Cove Oysters, 2 ft standards..................  1 55
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic.....................................1 75
Lobsters, 2 ft, picnic........................  
  2  65
Lobsters, 1 ft star........................ 
.2  00
 
 
Lobsters, 2 ft star......................................2 95
Mackerel, lf t fresh standards.................. 3 70
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards.............. .5 CO
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 ft................
Mackerel, 3 ft in Mustard.................?. 
Mackerel. 3ft  soused................................
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river.......................2 20
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river...................   .3  90
Sardines, domestic %s..............*...............6@6%
Sardines,  domestic  %s..............................10@11
Sardines,  Mustard  %s............................... 10@11
Sardines,  imported %s..............................13@15
Trout. 3 lb  brook.....................................
Apples, gallons, standards.................3 00@3 40
Blackberries, standards...........................115
Cherries,  red  standard............................ 1 65
Damsons................................................... 115
Egg Plums, standards 
............................1 45
Gooseberries.............................................1 75
Grapes..........................................................   95
Green Gages,............................................1 45
Peaches, standards............................. ......2 65
Peaches,  seconds..................................... 2 25
Peaches, pie...............................................150
Pears............................................................1 40
Pineapples,.............................  
1 
Quinces.....................................................115
Raspberries,  extra...................................160
re d ...... v.............................150
Strawberries  ............................................ 1 60
Whortleberries........................................ 1 00  •
Asparagus, Oyster Bay............................ 2 00
Beans, Lima,  standard...............................   75
Beans,  String...............................................  75 ,
Beans, Stringless, Erie........................ 
 
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked...................1 50
Corn,  Archer’s Trophy......................... ..1 20
Peas, French.............................................1 60
Peas, extra marrofat........................1 20@1 40
Peas, soaked................................................  75
“  Early June, stand..................... 1 50@1 75
sifted............................2.00
“ 
“  French, extra fine..................................20 00
22 00

Mushrooms, extra fine.............  
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden................................
Succotash, standard....................................8d@l 30
Squash.,....................................................1 40
Tomatoes, standard brands............... 
1 10
Michigan full  cream...... ................ ..12  @13
Citron......................................... 
.19 
Currants, old......................................  6%
Currants, new.    ............................... 6%
Lemon Peel................ .......................  @  14
Orange Peel..................................... .  @  14
Prunes,  French,60s..........................  @10%

DRIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN.

CANNED VEGETABLES.

CANNED FRUITS.

CHEESE.

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French,80s................. .  ....  @ 8
, :f* 
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French,  90s.................... .......   @7
*f  Turkey.................. .'..............   4  @5

Raisins, Dehesia....................... ..........3 50@5 00
Raisins, London Layers....................  @1 85
......................  @1 80
Raikins, California  “ 
Raisins, Loose Muscatels....................  @l«B5
Raisins, Ondaras, 28s. ...... .....  .....  @ 9
Raisins. Sultanas.,............................ 8%@ 10%
Raisins,  Valencias.............................   ® 6%
Raisins, Imperials............ .........  @3 00
Cod, whole................ 
4%@5
Cod,boneless.......................................®g  6@7
H alibut__ ...............................................   10
Herring, round,  %’bbl................ . 
Herring,round, 14  bbl...__ l 60
Herring,Holland, b b l s . ................. .
Herring,Holland,  k e g s ..,...,........... 

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12ft kits 

,  “  10 1 “ 

.  k its ..................... 
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Herring, Scaled.........................................  @22
Mackerel, shore, No. 1, % b b is"..............  20 00
......... 3 CO
...... :„...2 50 ■
No,.3, % b b ls.......  .................6 50
Sardines, spiced, %s...      ................1G@12
Trout, %  bbMt. . ........... ............................5 75
10® kits........................................  85
White, No. 1, % bbls _____________6 75@7 00
White, No. 1,12 ft kits:...'.......................1 10
White, No. 1, 10ft k its..__ _____ ______   90
White. Family* % bbls.....................4  00
65
Lemon.  Vanilla.
Jennings’D.C., 2 oz..............$  doz.  1 00 
1 6€
! <!oz.....  
2 65
...  ... .1  50 
Ooz..................  ...2  50 
4 25
5 00
8oz...........................3 50 
175
No.2 Taper...  ...... 125 
No. 4 
  1  75 
3 00
% pint, round...... . .4  50 
9 00
9  00  18 00
, & 
“ 
No. 3-panel......__110" 
185
No. 8 
5 00
.............2  75 
No* 10 
.............4  25 
7 60
Grand  Haven, No.  8, square...............*.___  95
Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 gro................115
Grand  Haven,  No. 200,  parlor.................... 175
Grand,Haven,  No. 300, parlor..................2 25
Grand Haven,  No.: 7,  round  !....................1 50
Oshkosh,No.  2...,* .....................................100
Oshkosh, No.  8. . . . . . . . ...............................l  50
75
Swedish.........................  
 
Richardson’s No. 8  square.................... !.! !l 00
Richardson’s No. 9 
do 
............... 
150
Richardson’s No. 7%, round........................„1 00
Richardson’s No. 7  "  do 
...........................150
Woodbine. 300..............................................1 15
Black Strap......... ...................................... 16@18
25@28
Cuba Baking............... 
Porto  Rico......................  
 
24@30
New  Orleans, good....... ................ 
28@34
New Orleans, choice.....  ................*___ ,44@50
New Orleans, fancy.......  ........*______,52@55

MATCHES.  A

MOLASSES.

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% bbls. 2c extra

OATMEAL

ROLLED OATS

Barrels...................6  00
Half barrels...........3 12
Cases......................2 25
Medium.
Small,  bbl............................................. 

Barrels....................8 00
Half barrels........  .3  12
Cases.......................2 25
PICKLES.
..............................   @6  50
“  % bbl................. Vi . ........;___   @3 45
  @7 50
  @4 00

% bbl..............................  

PIPES.

Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross......
@2  00
Imported Clay, No. 216,2% gross........  @1 75
American T.‘D.....................................  @  75
Choice Carolina......7
Java  ................ 
5%
Prime Carolina......6%
P a tn a ......................5%
Good Carolina__ ,.6
Rangoon.........   @5
Good Louisiana.... .5%
Broken.............3%@3%
Table  ...................... 6%
Jap an .................. 6
H ead.......................7
DeLand’s pure...... 5%|Dwight’s ..................5
Church’s  ............... 5  Sea  Foam...............5%
Taylor’s G. M......... 5 
|Cap Sheaf............... 5

SALERATUS.

%c less in 5 box lots.

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

@1 20 

@2  00 
©  70 
@  80 
@1 25 
@1 50 
@  90 
@3 50 
@2 20

SALT.

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

SAUCES.

SPICES—WHOLE.

Parisian, %  pints................................
Pepper Sauce, red  small....................
Pepper Sauce, green  ......................• .
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring.........
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..................
Catsup, Tomato, quails  ....................
Halford Sauce, pints..........................
Halford Sauce, % pints.....................
Allspice...............................................
Cassia, China in mats..........................
“  Batavia in bundles.................
“  Saigon in rolls.........................
Cloves, Amboyna................................
“  Zanzibar..................................
Mace Batavia................. ....................
Nutmegs,  fancy..................................
No. 1....................................
No. 2....................................
Pepper, Singapore,  black..................
w hite.................
Allspice...............................................
Cassia,  Batavia...................................
“ 
and  Saigon.................
“  Saigon...................................
Cloves, Amboyna................../............
“  Zanzibar......................  
.....
Ginger, African...................................
“  Cochin.....................................
Jamaica....................... t.......
“ 
Mace Batavia......................................
.........................
Mustard,  English...' 

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SPICES—PURE  GROUND.

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and Trieste...... .

Trieste.......................

Nutmegs,  No. 2...................................
Pepper, Singapore black....................
white...... ............
STARCH.

Cayenne......................

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s y r u p s .

SUGARS.

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40@3 50

@ 5% 
@ 5% 

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20ft 
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@ 5% 
@ 4 
@ 6% 
@ 6 

TOBACCO—FINE CUT-IN PAILS.

@ 6% @ 7 
@ 6% @ 5%t@ 7 
© 6% @ 4 @ 6

@   6% 
@  6% 
© 6% 
@6 69 
@ 6% 
@ 6% 
@ 6% 
@5% 
@ 5% 
@  5% 
@ 5% 
@ 4%
@31
@33
©35
26@36
29@39
Bad Boy...... ............. 40
Cinderella................. 37
Hi There...... ............30
Red Cap.....................55
GrossCut.................. 35
Old Jim .....................35
Old Time...................40
Underwood’s Capper 35 
Meigs & Co.’s Stunner35
Atlas......................... 35
Royal Game.............. 38
Mule Ear...................65
Fountain...................74
OKI Congress.............64
Good Luck.............   .52
Blaze Away............. .35
Hair Lifter_____— 30
Hiawatha.................67
Globe  ...............  
65
Crown Leaf.............. 66
Sunset....*................35
Yum  Yum................45
butterfly.............     .35

Muzzy, Gloss, 48 ft boxes, 1 ft pkgs...
“  48 “  “
“ 
  3ft 
...
“ 
“  b u lk .......
“  40ft 
“  72 ft  crates, 6 ft boxes..
“ 
“  Corn, 40 ft boxes, 1 ft pkgs__
“ 
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lf t  “  ....
Kingsfora’s Silver Gloss, 1 ft pkgs__
6 ft boxes...
b u lk .........
Pure, lf t pkgs.................
Corn, l f t  pkgs.................
Firmenicb, new process, gloss, lf t__
•  “ 
3 ft....
6 ft....
“ 
“ bulk, boxes or bbls
“  c o rn .lft..............
Cut  Loaf..............................................
Cubes ...................................................
Powdered............................................
Granulated.  Standard.......................
Off...................................
Confectionery A..................................
Standard A.........................................
No. 1, White Extra  C................... .
No. 2, Extra C......................................
No.3 C............................. ....................
No.4 C.................................................
No. 5 0 ..................................................
Corn,  barrels
Corn, % bbls............
Corn, 10 gallon kegs. 
Pure Sugar,bbl..... 
Pure Sugar, % bbl...
Uncle Tom................42
What Is It?...... .........28
Cherry  ...................... 60
Five and Seven...... ;45
Magnet......................25
Seal of Detroit..........60
Jim Dandy...............138
Our  Bird...................25
Brother Jonathan.. .27
90
Jolly Time................36
Our  Leader.............. 40
Sweet  Rose.............32
May  Queen.........  
.65
Dark AmericanEagIe67
The Meigs.......... ..,.:60
Red B ird ..,......... ;..50
Prairie Flower.......65
Indian Queen........60
May Flower..............70
Sweet  Pippin__....45
H ustler____,...22
Mackinaw        *.... .24
Macatawa......... 
.„23
Zulu  Chief.............30
PLUG.
Eye Opener.. . .„ ..3 2
Whopper.. < _______ .30
Peach Pie...... W:-. t .. 30
Star 
..............4 1
Old Solder...... . .........37
C lipper....................34
Corner Stone.  ¡ .A . .34 
Scalping  K nife......34
Sam Bass__ ........  34
N e x t.............. 
  32
Favorite  ..............36
Live and Let Live.. .32
Quaker............... ....28
Big  Nig.........* ....3 5
Spear H ead............42
P.  V................  
36
Spring Chicken......36
Eclipse  „ f i l § . %. .36 
T urkey......:.
Q. 
Lark................... .....26
Choos&me.....»  .....24 
Jolly T a r . . . ......82
Bed Top...... ..............24
Tip Top...,..,:*
Holy H o s e s , 83

Blue Blazes.............. 32
Capper......................40
Jupiter  ................ ...25
Night Cap................ .30
Splendid.................   38
Red Fox.................... 44
Big Drive................. 44
Chocolate  Cream__ 44
Nimrod  .....................38
Big Five Center........35
P a rro t......................42
B uster................... ..35
Black Prince... :. ...*.35
Black „ Racer.............35
Climax  ............ 
..42
Horse  Shoe............37
Vinco ....................... 83
Merry, W ar...........3 2
Ben Franklin...........32
Moxie................ 34
B lackjack................32
Musselman’s Corker. 30 
Live and Let Live.. .32
Happy Thought........42
Cherry Bounce____ 38
Plank  Road.*...... ,*..42

&Q...............................30

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SNCFF.

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.Maccoboy..................... @  65
Rappee 

Our  Leader..___..,.17
Hiawatha............ 28
Mayflower...... .......,23
Old Congress........ .23
Globe,.......................22
May  L eaf,..........
Mule E ar._______   .23
Dark :. 
.........2 0
XING
SMOI
Yum  Y um .,.............30
P u re .........................16
Our  L eader............ 16
S ta r.......................... 20
Old Vet............... 
.30
Unit  ....... 
,80
Big Deal.  ..................27
Eight Hours,.......... .24
Navy Clippings........26
Lucky  ...................... 30
Leader..................... .15
Two  Nickel............. 25
Hard Tack................30
Duke’s  Durham.......40
Dixie
Green Corn Cob Pipe 26
Old T ar....................40
Owl........................... 16
Arthur’s  Choice.......22
Rob Roy.................... 25
Red Fox.................... 26
Unele  Sam .............. 28
Gold Dust................. 26
Lumberman.............25
Gold Block..
_____30
Railroad Boy.............38
Seal of Grand Rapids 
Mountain Rose..........18
(cloth)............2 5
Home Comfort..........25
Miners and Puddlers. 30
Old Rip......................60
Peerless  ............... \ .28
Seal of North Caro­
Standard...................22
lina, 2  oz................48
Old Tom...................19¡ Seal of North Caro-
Tom & Jerry...........  25Í 
lina, 4oz.................48
Joker........................25
Seal of North  Caro
Traveler...................35
lina, 8 oz..,.............45
Maiden....................27
Seal of North Caro­
Pickwick Club..........40
lina, 16 oz boxes__ 42
Nigger Head.............26
King Bee, longcut.. .22
Holland.................... 22
Sweet Lotus.............. 32
German........4..........15
Grayling...................32
Honey Dew..............25
Seal Skin...... ............30
Colonel’s Choice..... 15
Red Clover................32
Queen  Bee. 
........... 22
Good  Luck................26
Blue  Wing................$
Navy......................... 30
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen 
70
Gail & Ax’ 
......  
.........................  @  35
Railroad  Mills Scotch........................   @  45
Lotzbeck  .............................................  @1 30
Japan ordinary......................................... 18@20
Japan fair to good..................................... 25@30
Japan fine......................  
35@45
Japan dust..................................................!5@2Q
Young Hyson............................  
20@45
GunPowder.......................................  
  35@50
2olong ......... ....................................... 33@55@6C
Congo.......................................................25@30
VINEGAR.
w „  ., 
30 gr.
50 gr. 
White Wine.......................... 
08
10 
Cider...... ............................. " "   08
10 
York State Apple.......................
16
m is c e l l a n e o u s .
Bath Brick imported..........................
90
do 
American................
75
Burners, No. 0...........................
@70
do  No. 1......................................
89
do  No. 2............................
90 
Cocoa Shells, bulk............... .1............
@ 4 
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand!. ! . . . ’
@7 50
'  @25
Cream Tartar 0 and 10 ft cans... 
Candles, Star............................... 
"
Candles.  Hotel............................. 
©jg
Camphor, oz., 2 ft boxes
@35 
Extract Coffee, V.  C__
@80 
@1  20
Fire Crackers, per box............... @1 20
@ 9 50
Fruit Jars, pints................. 
2  quarts.......................!.!!!!  ©10 50
2-quarts.................................  @13 50
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.........................  @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.................. .!  ©35
 
Gum, Spruce.............................. 
 
Hominy, ^  bbl..................................!.  @359
Jelly, m 30 ft  pails................................ 
@ 
Pearl Barley...........................................  © 2%
Peas, Green  Bush..................................  @1 10
Peas, Split  Prepared......................
@ 3% 
Powder, Keg............... ..................
@5 00 
Powder, %  Keg.................. . ! . . . . .
@2 75 
Sage  ....................................................
@  15 @ 6
Sago  ..........................
Tapioca......................... ! ! ! ..! ! .....

Felix

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

do 
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FANCY—IN BULK.

STICK.
Standard, 25 ft boxes............................  8%@ 9
Twist, 
............... ............  © 9
Cut Loaf 
 
©10
MIXED
Royal, 35 ft  pails..................................  @9
Royal, 200 ft bbls...............................! "   @8
Extra, 25 ft pails................................. !  ©in
Extra. 200 ft bbls.......................... ...!!.  @9
French Cream, 25 ft pails.................!!!  @11%
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases.............................  @10
Broken, 25 ft pails............. 
..!!!.  @10
Broken. 200 ft  bbls...............................  © 9
FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.
Lemon Drops................................ 
@12
Sour Drops..............................................  @13
Peppermint  Drops................................  @13
Chocolate Drops........................................  
14
H M Chocolate  Drops............................... 
18
Gum  D rops..............................................  
10
Licorijpe Drops........................................... 
22
A B Licorice  Drops..................................  
12
Lozenges, plain.......................................... 
34
Lozenges,  printed.....................................  
15
Im perials................................................... 
14
Mottoes...................................................... 
15
Cream  Bar.................................................  
J2
Molasses Bar..............................................  
12
Caramels........................................ 
Hand Made Creams.................................... 
is
Plain  Creams.............................................. 
is
Decorated Creams.....................................  
20
String Rock................................................ 
13
Burnt Almonds........................................  
22
Wintergreen  Berries................................. 
14
Lozenges, plain in palls.........................  @U%
Lozenges, plain in bbls................  
  @10%
Lozenges, printed in pails...................  @12%
Lozenges, printed in  Dbls..................   @11 %
Chocolate Drops, in pails......... ..........   @12%
Gum Drops  in pails............................  @ 6%
Gum Drops, in bbls................................   @5%
Moss Drops, in pails............................  9  @10
Moss Drops, in bbls.............................  @9
Sour Drops, in  pails............................  @12
Imperials, in pails...............................  @12%
Imperials  in bbls..............................  @11%
Bananas 
..................................... .....100@2 50
Oranges, California, fancy.................  @
Oranges,- choice..................................
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls.......................
Oranges, Florida.................................. 
•
Oranges, Rodi,..................................... 4 50@5  00
Oranges, Messina................................  @
Oranges, OO.........................................   @
Oranges, Imperials.............................   @4 50
Lemons, choice....................................4 0C@4 50
Lemons, fancy............................. 
  5 50®6 00
Lemons, California.........................
Figs, layers, new, 
ft......................... 10  @15
Figs, Bags,50ft...................................   @8
Dates, frails do  ..................................  @5%
Dates, % do  d o ..................................  @ 6%
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft..................   @9%
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  ft....................  @8
Dates, Persian 50 ft box 10ft..............  6  @ 6%
Pine Apples, ^  doz...........................  @
Almonds,  Tarragona..........................17%@18
Ivaca...................................  @17
California..........................  @17%
Brazils.................................................8%@ 9
Filberts, Sicily.
“  Barcelona................
Walnuts,  Grenoble...............
“ 
Sicily.....................
French..................
“ 
Pecans, Texas, H. P ..............
“ 
Missouri............
Cocoanuts, $  100, full bags...
PEANUTS.
Prime Red, raw 
ft............
do  ............
Choice 
Fancy H.P. do 
do  ............
Choice White, Va.do  ............
Fancy H P,. Va  d o ............
H .P.V a...... ..........................

@4 50
@ 4% 
® 5% 
®  5% 
@ 6% 
@ 7% 
@ 7

15 
9
13@17

@11 @ 8 @16% 

FRUITS.

NUTS.

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HIDES. PELTS AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

HIDES.

Green__$  ft 5%@ 6  Calf skins, green
Part cured...  7  @ 7%  or cured__ 7
Fullcured__   7%@ 8  Deacon skins,
Dry hides and 
$  piece...... 10

la p s...... .  8  @12

@ 8 
@30

SHEEP PELTS.

WOOL.

@26
Old itool, estimated washed $  ft........25
@3%
Tallow...................................... ..........3
Fine washed $  ft 22@25|Coarse washed.. .26@28
Medium  .......... .27@30|Unwashed...........16@23
Sheep pelts, short shearing.............. 
5@25
Sheep pelts, old wool estimated....... 
- @25
Tallow......... ....................................... 3%@ 3%
Grease butter. ..................................  
,5@ 8
Ginseng, good__ ................ ......1 60@1 70

MISCELLANEOUS.

 

OYSTEBS.

OYSTERS AND  FISH.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
Fairhaven Counts...... ..........  
 
.35
 
.....25
Selects.-»•........................................ 
Anchors.............................. ...................... .23
Standards  ...................................................2 0
Black bass............. ........ ........................1 0
Rock bass....,..................... 
4
Perch........................ 
4
 
. ..............................  7
Wall-eyed  p
e
Duck-bill  pike......... ...................................    7
Sturgeon....................... 
6

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Sturgeon, sm oked.;............. (T
Whiteflsh ...... 
Whiteflsh, smoked...__...... 
Brook Trout.................................50
Frogs’ Legs, per dozen.............. 

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..35®65

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PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co. 

PORK IN BARBELS.

quote  as follows:
Mess,Chicago packing.................  
,16 00
S hortcut..........................  ........................16  00
Shortcut, clear, Botsford............ y........... 15 00
Shortcut  Morgan.........................
Extra clear pig, short cut..................   . . . .17 00
Extra clear,heavy...........................
Clear quill, short cut................... ..........1 7  00
Boston clear, short cut.................................... 17 00
Clear back, short cut..................... ...!!! ! !l7 00
Standard clear, short  cut, best...  .!!.!!! .17 OO
Bean...........................................
Hams, average 20  fts..................... 

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OB PlÜ n.

12
........................!.!  '.!!l2%
12 to 14 fts........................... J2%«
!..  8%

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“  picnic  ...................................... . 
“  best boneless................................ ü j |

Shoulders.................................................. !.
Breakfast Bacon, boneless..............!!!!!!!! 13%
Dried Beef, extra.........................................10
ham  prices..............................n%
7%
7%
g
7«
7%
7«

Tierces  ........................   ...................... 
30 and 50 ft Tubs..................................  
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case..................... . 
............ .Ü 
5ft Pails, 12 in a case.  
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case............... „..!!!."! 
20 ft Pails, 4 pails in  case.................*! ’ 

DARD IN TIN PAILS.

LARD.

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BEEF IN BARRELS.

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND 8MOKED.

Extra Mess, warranted 200 fts....................  7 25
Extra Mess, Chicago PacKing................. V  7 qq
“  Kansas City Packing. . . . . . .".”  7 50
P late......................................  0 
7 m
Extra Plate......... ......................................   g qq
Boneless, rump butts............V.Vll 00
Pork Sausage............................
Ham  Sausage........................!!!!!!!........... 11
Tongue  Sausage...................... !!!!!............  9
Frankfort  Sausage....................!!!!!!!  !’ 
8
Blood  Sausage................................   ...........g
Bologna, straight.....................!!!.!.........   "ft
Bologna,  thick............................ ...” ............. a
Head  Cheese.............................!..!!!!!!!!!!  ft
In half barrels...................................  
3 qq
In quarter barrels............. ! ■ !! ! . !! !  .! ! ! ”  1 75

PIGS’ EEET.

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5

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 
prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides................................   5  @ 6
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters.........•••••  „
Dressed Hogs.....................................'.  Bj|@ e%
M utton......... ......................................   e  @ 6%
Lamb spring..................... ................. 8%@ 9
Pork Sausage...... !!!!!!!!!” ...............  8 @ 8%
Bologna................... 
f  ^
....................... ::::::;:!!:  @n
Lard, kettle-rendered.........   ............   © g

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

WOODEN WARE.

 

CurtiSB & Dunton quote as follows:

 
 

Standard  Tubs, JNo. l .......  
r„  m
......   ............ 4. nn
Standard  Tubs, No. 3.. 
Standard Tubs, No.3......... !!!!!!!!............. 3 Si
Standard Pails, two hoop. 
......... 
125
Standard Pails, three hoop..!!!".!!!............ i  50
Pails, ground wood 
.................!!!!!"!* .4 50
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes........ 
” "  2 25
Butter  Pails, ash__  
" "  ' " 9  9A
S
Butter Ladles................. 
 
Butter Spades................................
-t
RollingPins...................... 
Potato Mashers............ .!!!!!!!!!!..............   55
Clothes Pounders......... 
 
9 9 *
ClothesPins................... 
Sn
Mop  Sticks.........................  
1 no
Washboards, single__ .!!!!!!!!!!!.!!................1 75
Washboards, double............ !!!!!  "!!!"....... 2 25
Washboards,Northern  Queen............ !!!Ü2 75
-■ 
Diamond  Market............................... 
49
Bushel, narrow b'and, No. i . .!!!.” . ................. l  50
Bushel, narrow band, No. 2  . 
1 40
Bushel, wide band........... 
 
175
Clothes, splint,  No. 3......... ! ! !.................... gu i
Clothes, splint,  No. 2........ 
4 25
Clothes, splint,  No. 1......... 
k  «a
Clothes, willow  No.3...... ............................ «  iin
Clothes, willow  No. 2..  ..! ” ............................ a sa
Clothes, willow  No. 1......... 
7 sii
Water  Tight,  (acme) bu. !.!!!, ! ”  !!..!!!!!! !3 75 
h aifbu..?...............2 85

BASKETS.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock Bark—Tanners at this market  are 
paying $5 for  all offerings  of good bark.
Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay $1.60@$1.70 «  ft 
tor clean washed roots. 
Rubber Boots and Shoes—Some manufactur- 
ers authorize their agents to offer 40 per cent, 
and 40 and  5  per cent., for  first and  second 
quality, respectively, and some are authorized 
to sell tor 40 and 12% per cent., and 50.

18

v

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

bbl.

Apples—In great  supply  at  |i.23@fl.50 per 
Beets—In good supply at 30c ner bu.
Bean  Hand-picked  mediums  are  very 
scarce,  readily  commanding  $2.25®$2.70 per 
bu.

Butter—Creamery  is  in  good  demand and 
fairly firm at 2@@28c.  ¿Dairy  is  active at 18@„ 
22c.

Cabbages—$3@$7 per  100,  according to size. 
Carrots—40c per bu.
Celery—20@25 $ doz.
Cheese—Jobbers are holding their  stocks  a t 
Cider— 10c per gal.
Dried Apples—Evaporated  are  dull  a t  10@ 

12@13c.

11c per lb.

Eggs—Scarce and firm.  Jobbers are paying 

13 %c and holding at 15c.

4@5c per lb.; Delawares, 4%c per lb.

Grapes—Concords,  2%@3c  per lb.; Wordens,. 
Honey—Dull at 10@14c.
Hay—Baled 

is  moderately  active  at  $14- 
in. 

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

Musk melons—50c per doz.
Onions—In plentiful supply at 60c per bu. 
Peaches—Crawfords, $2 per bu. ; Chilis, $1.25 
@$1.50 per bu.  Common  varieties, 50@75e p er 
bu.

Pears—$1.25 per bu.
Peppers—Green, $1 per bu.
Potatoes—75@80c per bu.
Pop Cora—2c $ ft.
Seeds—Clover,  mammoth  or  medium, $4.50>„ 

Timothy, $2.50.
timorés, $3.

Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys,  $1  per  bbl.  Bal» 
Tomatoes—60c $1 bu.
Turnips—40e $ bu.
Watermelons—$5 @ $10 per 100.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS. 

Wheat—No change.  City millers pay 75c fo r 

Lancaster and 72c for Fulse and Clawson.

Corn-Jobbing  generally  atSOo in  100  bn. 

lots and 47%c in carlots.

car lots.

Oats—White, 35c in small lpts  and 30@31o in- 
Rye—48@50c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25  owt.
Flour—No change. Patent, $5.00$ bbl.in sacks 
and  $5.20  In  wood.  Straight,  $4.00 9  bbl. in 
sacks and $4.20 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.40 $  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14 9  ton.  Bran, $14 
9  ton.  Ships, $15 9  ton.  Middlings, $16 $  to A 
Corn aad Oats, $17 V ton.

His dross Receipts.

A busy retail grocer 
Whom you all surely know, sir.
Was asked one day, in  a friendly way,
By a country chap who had came to stay 
Till the mail came in a t the close of day. 
“What are your gross receipts, sir?.’? 
“He, ha 1 ha! ha! ho, ho, sir?”
As be pointed out with laugh,and shout, 
The barrels and boxes ranged about,  1 
“You can plainly see beyoaiw doubt. 
What are the grocery Beats, sir!” - 
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1

ü

11

■I  „1  J  *  y \L ', 

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, 

Sponges.
■  ■ do% 
’ 
do 
... 
*  dc

Florida sheens’ wool, carriage.,. 
...
do 
Nassau 
j Velvet E rt  do 
, 
wintergreen,'  Extrayp 
...
do 
I Grass 
do 
, 
,for slate úse...>>__
, 
j Hard ’  7 
/  •
Yellow Reef, 
do  ■  M .....
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Æther, Spts Nitros, 3 t- 
Æther, |
Spts. Nitros,  1 F
Aiumen..............
Alumen, ground, (pó. 7)'
Antimoni,  po............  r.
Antimoni et Potass  Tart.
Argenti  Nitras,  3.......
50® 5%
Arsenicùm......... ..........
Balm Gilead  Bud............

 

 

WHOLESALE  FRIOS  CURRENT,

Advanced—Balsam copaiba.„ 
Deolined^-Oii  spearmint, ffdil 

linseed, oil.

ACIBUM 

 

 

 

8®  10
Aeeticum . ................... ........  
Benzoicum,  German.........................   80@1 00
Carbolicum .............. ........... ........... .  45®  50
Citricum .......................................... 
  58® 65
 
..... 
Hydrochlor........................... 
3®  5.
Nitrocum .....  ............... 7............ ...  10®  12
Oxalicum................................  
...... 11®  13
Salicylicum.................................   ....1 85@2 10
Tannicum ....'.......... ,..........................1 40@1 60
Tártaricum .7............................. 
AMMONIA.
Aqua, 16 deg............  
 
 
Garbonas,............................... 
Chloridum 
 
 
Cubebae (po.  1 30........................... ...1 40@1 50
Juníperas  ............................  
6®  7
 
...... 25®  30
Xanthoxylum .......................... 
BALSAMUM.
  50® 55
Copaiba.............................................. 
P e ru .......................................... 
@1 50
Terabin, Canada.......................... 
50®
Tolutan.............................................

18  d e g ............... 

3®  5
4®  6
 
 

BACOAE.

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"MÌ N i # è w K > e b i c i h e g

Stale Board of Pharmacy^; 

Six Year»—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Two Tears—Jame» Vernor, Detroit. 
ThreeVekrs—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
FourYçacs—Géô. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
' f i n  Tean-Staaief. £. ftukeU, Owoseo. 
Preftdjsnt—Geo. HeDonald 
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Treasurer—Jas. Vernor.
N ext M eeting—At Lansing, Novem ber 1 an d  8.

y fa M p m  .S tate  P h a rm a c e u tic a l  A ss’n .

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

G ran d   R a p id s  P h a rm a c e u tic a l S ociety. 

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER  9,1884.

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President—Geo. G. Stekettee.
Vice-President—H. E. Locher.
. Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild. 
Board of Censors—President,  Vice-President  and See-
Boardrof Trustees—The President, John E. Peek,  M. B. 
Kimm, Wm. H. VanLeenwen and O. HRicbmond. 
wen, Isaac Watts. Wm. E. White and Wm.  L.  White. 
Committee on Trad© Matters—John E. Peck, H. B. Fair-
C ^ m ittee  on^Legislation—R.  A.  McWiUiams,  Theo.
,
Committee on Pharmacy—W. L. White, A. C. Bauer and 
.
Regular  Meetings—First  Thursday  evening  in  each
Annual Meeting—First Thursday evening in November 
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  October  6, at The 

Kemink and W. H. Tibbs. 
Isaac Watts» 

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Tradesman office.

D e tro it P h a rm a c e u tic a l Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER, 1883. 1 

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 montn.
C e n tra l  M ic h ig a n   D ru g g ists’  A sso ciatio n . 
President, J. W. Dunlop;  Secretary, R. M. Mussell.
B e rrie n   C o u n ty   P h a rm a c e u tic a l  S ociety. 
President, H. M. Dean;  Secretary, Henry Kephart.

C lin to n   C o u n ty   D ruggists?  A sso ciatio n . 

President, A. O. Hunt; Secretary, A. S. Wallace.
C h a rle v o ix  C o u n ty  P h a rm a c e u tic a l S ociety 
President, H. W. Willard;  Secretary, Geo. W. Cron ter.

Io n ia  C o u n ty   P h a rm a c e u tic a liS o c ie ty . 
President, W. R. Cutler; Secretary, Geo. Gundrum.

Ja c k s o n   C o u n ty   P h a rm a c e u tic a l  A ss’n . 

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

K alam azo o  P h a rm a c e u tic a l A sso ciatio n . 

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

M ason  C o u n ty   P h a rm a c e u tic a l  S ociety. 

President, F. N. Latimer;  Secretary, Wm. Heysett.
M ecosta  C o u n ty   P h a rm a c e u tic a l  Society. 
President, C. H. Wagener;  Secretary, A. H. Webber.

M o n ro e  C o u n ty   P h a rm a c e u tic a l  Society. 

President, S. M. Sackett;  Secretary, Julius Weiss.
M uskegon  C o u n ty   D ru g g ists’  A ssociation, 
President, W. B. Wilson; Secretary, J. R. Tweed.

M usk eg o n   D ru g   C le rk s’  A ssociation. 

President, E. 0. Bond; Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre.

ew aygo  C o u n ty   P h a rm a c e u tic a l  Society, 
esident, J. F. A. Raider; Secretary, N. N. Miller.
O cea n a C o u n ty  P h a rm a c e u tic a l S ociety, 
‘resident, F. W. Fincher;  Secretary, Frank Cady.
iaginatv  C o u n ty   P h a rm a c e u tic a l  S ociety, 
■resident, Jay Smith;  Secretary,  D. E. Prall.
h iaw assee C o u n ty  P h a rm a c e u tic a l Society
T u sco la C o u n ty  P h a rm a c e u tic a l Society, 
'resident, E. A. Bullard;  Secretary, C. E. Stoddard.
la n is te e   C o u n ty   P h a rm a c e u tic a l  S ociety, 
■resident, W. H. Willard;  Secretary, A. H.  Lyman.

BOGUS  W INE.

How  the  So-Called  French  Wines  are 

Sometimes Manufactured.

From the New York Mail.
Our  readers  do  not  need  to  be told that 
most of the beer sold in this country is adul­
terated, to a greater or less extent, with va­
rious drugs,  such  as  quassia,  nux  vomica, 
aloes and strychnine,  to  impart  the  bitter 
taste and to give it the foam  that  simulates 
genuine lager.  Mention has also been made 
in our columns,  more than once, of the qual­
ity of much of  the  domestic  j/ine  in our 
market, which has been proved to be manu­
factured from fermented dried fruit, colored 
and flavored to suit the eye and  the taste.
Much of  the alleged French  wine  sold in 
this country is also made up from  many in­
the  least  of  which  is  the real 
gredients, 
wine from which the  whole  is sold.  Great 
complaint has  been  made in France of  late 
years  concerning  the  ravages of  the phyl­
loxera,  which has  killed  hundreds of  acres 
of  the native vines,  and lessened the native 
product  by  many thousand  gallons.  And 
yet we find,  on  comparing  statistics,  that 
both the exports from France  and  the  im­
ports  to  this  country  of  alleged  French 
wines  qre  as  large as ever.  Furthermore, 
we find, on comparing  the  figures,  that the 
quantity reported as exported  is  more than 
double  the  total  produet,  as  officially re­
ported, of  the French  vineyards,  and  this 
without taking into account  the notoriously 
large home consumption in  France.  There 
is  only  one  explanation  for  such facts as 
these.  The wines exported must be largely 
adulterated.
Not long ago the chemists of  the munici­
pal laboratory in Paris  made  analysis of  a 
large  number of  the  wines  sold  as  claret 
and  Burgundy  in  that city.  Out of  3,361 
samples examined, only 357  were  declared 
“ good,”  and  1,093  “tolerable,”  while  302 
were  declared  to  be  decidedly  injurious. 
Those that are bad .without being positively 
hurtful  are  produced  by mixing a little of 
-Ahe  genuine  wine  with  something  much 
poorer and cheaper, while the positively in­
jurious  contain logwood, campeaehy wood, 
fuctisine,  carbonate  of  potassium  and 
soda and other like substances.
Some of our cheaper native wines are ex­
ported  to  France,  “doctored,” labeled “St. 
Julien,  Bordeaux,” or some other name that 
will help to sell  thenf,  and  re-exported,  to 
he sold in this country at more  than double 
the original price.
In view of  facts  like  these, it is evident 
that the purchaser  of  foreign  wines  runs a 
.great  risk,  to  say  the  least, of  being de­
frauded.  There  is  no  business  in  which 
adulteration  pays  better  in immediate pe­
cuniary returns, and  consequently none  in 
which it is practiced more.

The  Drug  Market.

Opium is rather firmer, but  not  quotably 
«hanged.  Morphia  is  steady  and quinine 
•continues very low,  but a  reaction  may set 
in at any  time..  Quicksilver  is  advancing. 
Balsam  copaiba  has  advanced.  Cuttlefish 
bone is tending higher.  Golden seal root is 
scarce and will be higher.  Oil anise is ad­
vancing.  Oils spearmint  and  wintergreen 
have declined.  Brimstone  will  be  higher 
soon, as  the  crude  article  has  advanced. 
Linseed oil has declined.

S. M. Geary, general dealer, Maple  Hid: 
like y p u r paper aa well as ever.”
I Phfelps Bfcos., general dealers, El well: “Could 
n d tg e t along without it.”  ,

STRUGGLE WITH" DEATH.

Confessions of a Confirmed  Opium  Eater.
-Ne» York Oor.  Detroit Journal, 

■

It afforded  me  instant relief. 

There are drug stores on lower' Broadway 
which (|o a big business, and especially with 
weary or debilitated  men who call  at  late 
hours to get something to buoy them up.  A 
physician is regularly  employed  in them to 
prescribe for people.  The  places  are open 
every hour of thè year.
One evening  several  weeks ago a young 
man, apparently about 30 years  old,  visited 
one of these  stores,  cautiously  approached 
the prescription ■ counter  and  called  for 10 
cents’ worth of gum opium*  He was short 
and of full habit,  but  his  pallid  face and 
trembling  limbs  indicated that he was far 
from healthy.  The clerk refused to sell him 
the drag.  The young man took a silver box 
from his pocket,  opened it and  showed the 
clerk a lump of brown  stuff  about as large 
as a chestnut. 
It was  gum  opium.  “You 
see I  am used to taking it,” said  the  young 
man,  “but I am pretty near out of  it, and I 
mufet have some more.”  The clerk  still de­
clined to sell  the  desired  article,  Saying: 
“You have enough there to kill three  men. 
Throw it away and stop taking it.”
“I’d give worlds  if  I   could,”  said  the 
young man as he arose and wearily  walked 
out of the store.  His eyes were  glassy and 
he walked like one  in  a  dream.  The days 
and weeks  went by and  the  young  man, 
emaciated and  weak, but with  clear  eyes, 
entered the same drug store,  and  recogniz­
ing the clerk who  had  refused  to  sell him 
opium, he shook hands with  him and said: 
“I thank you  for  doing  me  the  greatest 
kindness of a lifetime when you declined to 
I went home* 
sell me any more of the drug. 
and resolved to stop  taking  it. 
I had been 
a slave to it for ten  years. 
It was a  good 
resolve,  but it took nerve to carry it out.”
“Tell ine your experience,” said the clerk, 
as he took a seat  beside  the  young  man. 
The latter,  who kept nervously  moving his 
hands and feet as he talked, recited his story 
of his struggle as  follows:  “I  pave  read 
‘DeQuincey’s Confessions of an Opium-Eat­
er,’ but I never perused the history of a case 
like mine.  Ten years ago I suffered a severe 
attack of sickness.  When I  became conva­
lescent I was in such à  condition  tbat  my 
physician had given me several different pre­
scriptions to buoy me  up.  None  of  them 
seemed to do me any good.  Finally he pre­
scribed what proved to be a brownish, bitter 
solution. 
I 
was called to Chicago on business. 
I asked 
the doctor to give me a prescription  for the 
medicine  to  take  West  with  me,  but he 
refused to do so.
“I was surprised, but I  indignantly  left 
him and took  what  reihained of the medi­
cine with  me  to  Chicago.  Once  there,  I 
went to a drug store,  showed  the  druggist 
the contents of the bottle,  and  asked him if 
he could discover the nature of the medicine 
and put me up some more of it.  He smelled 
and tasted of it,  and asked me  how 
long 1 
had been taking it.  He looked very serious 
when I told him,  and then  he  said: 
‘You 
evidently do not know what you  have been 
taking.  The main ingredient is opium, and 
you have apparently become a victim to the 
terrible habit  of  taking the  drug.’ 
If the 
druggist had felled me  with a club I would 
not have been more surprised.  I went home 
and resolved to  do without  the  medicine. 
All the symptoms of  the  disease  which it 
had been given to  correct  returned,  and I 
suffered  the  tortures  of  the  damned. 
I 
yawned constantly and was unable to sleep. 
Finally I went to  another  physician, 
told 
him my  condition  and  begged him to sell 
me some opium.  He did so.
“I took it and oncb more I  was  at  peace 
with all the world.  I increased the dose un­
til the effects of  it made  my  ears  feel as if 
they were about to burst.  For  five  years I 
made no effort to throw off that terrible yoke 
of habit that my physician had put about my 
neck. 
I slept sparingly in feverish  fits and 
I ate heartily,  but grew weaker  every  day.
I never shall be able to describe  the  awful 
dreams that haunted me during  the  night. 
The hallucination got  a  place  in  my  mind 
that the habit to which 1 was a victim was a 
great snake coiled about my  body  and con­
stantly tightening its folds.  I would dream 
that the head of the  monster  was  darting 
back and forth before my  face  and  awake 
with a scream.  The  drug  began to tell on 
the action of the heart until I felt a sense of 
compression  about  the chest. 
I could not 
relieve myself of the idea that this pressure 
was due  to  the  clammy  embrace  of* the 
snake.  One night I awoke from my horrid 
dream to find myself apparently dying.  My 
heart was beating  at  a  terrific  rate,  cold 
sweat stood out over my  face  and I was in 
a precarious condition. 
I took a great dose 
of the drug,  but was unable  to  retain it. 
I 
was like a dismantled and rudderless ship at 
sea in a gale. 
I called a  doctor,  gave him 
the history of my case  and  begged  him to 
relieve me.  He gave me  some  aconite for 
my hear  and some big valerian pills for ray 
nerves.  They had not the  slightest  effect 
on me.  My heart beat  faster  and  faster.
he big snake was  tightening its  embrace. 
Finally the doctor bared my arm and inject­
ed a solution of morphine into my veins.  It 
brought relief, and in a  week  I was able to 
feebly walk about,  but I was  obliged  to in­
crease my allowance of opium to keep body 
and soul together.
•Then  my  case  assumed  a new phase. 
One night I  awoke from  my  fearful dream 
about  the  snake  with  a  fluttering of the 
heart.  The organ palpitated at intervals of 
five minutes and I  sent for the  doctor.  He 
told me that I must cease taking  the  drug 
or die.  He gave me  bromide  of potassium 
to quiet my nerves,  but-it had  uo effect be­
yond  making  me feel as if I  were  going, 
mad. 
I slyly  returned  to  the  use  of the 
drug. 
I kept the silver box containing it at 
my bedside.  One night I awoke and reached 
for the box.  The nurse had taken it away. 
No one was awake in the house.  Instantly my 
heart began to beat  violently  and I was all 
of a tremble. 
I felt as if I should smother. 
The snake had tightened its folds once more 
and  death  seemed  imminent.  The  ship­
wrecked man on a raft at sea  without  food 
or water does hot  experience  more  agony 
than I did when I found myself without the 
drug. 
I called loudly for  help,  the  nurse 
came and I begged him to get me the opium. 
He had thrown it away.  No drug store was 
open at that hour of the night and, as a last 
resort, 1 searched my  pockets for a erum of 
the drug. 
I found a morsel,  took it greedi­
ly,  and managed  to  exist  until  morning, 
when  the  attendant  got  hie  some of the 
stuff from'a drug store. 
I rallied  and eked 
out an existence for three or four years, but 
it was an awful  existence.'  I had  tried to 
keep secret the fact of my  misfortune,  but 
it seemed as if everybody  had  heard of it, 
for circulars advertising cures Tor the opium 
habit came pouring in on me  from  all  over 
the country.
“At  length  I  determined to emancipate 
myself.  My physician said it  was impossi­
ble—I had been too long in the  embrace  of 
the snake.,  He said that it would kill me to 
break off at once. 
I  came  in  here to buy 
some more oì the drug, but  you  refused to

'  '  <,

sell it to me.  Then 1 went home determined 
to cease taking it. 
’ “ I believe no mortal ever suffered as I did 
after making that resolve.  I   yawned»  thé 
tear ducts were opened until my eyes swam 
and  sleep  was  out  of  the  question.  My 
heart  palpitated  until it seemed  about to 
burst, my appetite, which had open so strong 
while I  was a victim of  the habit,  was en­
tirely gone mid all the world "was clouded to 
me.  The only  consolation  that I had was 
the sensation-that the snake  had.  loosened 
its coiL '   The nerve tonics  that T had taken 
seemed to make me hover on thé confines of 
insanity:  At last, after two weeks of agony 
and sleeplessness,  a  little  œlief  came. 
I 
was able to doze half an hour at a  time and 
eat a little.  My heart ceased to beat as“ rap­
idly as it had done.  One njght during a fit­
ful sleep I  dreamed  that • the  big  snake, 
which had been about my bo$y fora decade, 
dropped to the floor,  raised,  its  head  and 
glided out of  the  room. 
I  .awoke  with a 
sensation  of  terrible  physical  exhaustion, 
and my heart was beating so  slowly  that it 
seemed about to stop.  '1  opened, a bottle of 
beer with a trembling hand  and  drank two 
glasses  of  it.  My  heart-  began  to  beat 
stronger and I dropped* into a calm sleep for 
two hours.  From that time on beer became 
my constant stimulant.  The hops in the li­
quor have a  soothing  effect  and  there  is 
nothing like it for One brëàking off from the 
opium.  Two weeks have  elapsed and now 
I am free.  The  very, ..thought  of the drug 
makes me sick.  Once I  dreamed that I had 
returned to its use.  The door of  my  room 
was ajar and I dreamed of taking  the  first 
morsel of the stuff.  I  saw that awful snake 
thrust his head into the  apartment and pre­
pare to spring upon me and again coil about 
my body. 
I awoke with a scream,  and  if I 
had been at all tempted to return to the hab­
it that vision would nave stopped me.”
The Drug Clerk' Always to Blame.

“A  lady came into  the  store yesterday,” 
said  a well-known drug clerk,  “and  asked 
for five cents’ worth of carbolic acid.  It was 
a small amount  to  order,  but  T made it up 
for her and just before  pasting  the  poison 
label on it  I  said,  with  assumed  careless­
ness,  ‘How are you going to use this?’

“It is  for  my  husband,”  she  answered. 

“He is going to drink it.”

“Of  course  I.  knew  that  carbolic  acid 
was cheaper than a divorce,  and much more 
certain;  but  I  was  greatly  startled.  She 
noticed the expression in my face and added 
hastily: 
‘Oh,  I shall  mix it with plenty of 
water.’

“Why  madam,” said  I,  “you must be in 
a great hurry to get  rid  of  your husband if 
you are going to give him  a  drink  of  this 
acid. 

It is a deadly poison.”

“  ‘Is it possible?’ said  the  lady,  ‘Let me 
see; surely it was carbolic  acid my husband 
wanted. 
I know it was acid of  some kind. 
But,  I forgot,  he has  written the name on a 
piece of paper.  Here it is!’

“Tartaric acid was  what  was written on 
the  paper,  and  I  wrapped  up  five  cents’ 
worth for her.

“ ‘Now,’ ” she asked,  as she took it,  “if I 
had  killed  my husband  with  that  carbolic 
acid would it have been your fault or mine?’ 
‘The  drug 

“  ‘Mine,  of  course,’  I  said. 

clerk is always to blame.’ ”

Druggists’ Liquor Record.

E. T.  Webb,  the Jackson drug jobber, has 
gotten  out  an  admirable  Liquor  Record, 
which he is prepared to sell to the trade for 
$1.15 per book of 100  pages  and $1.65 per 
book ot' 200 pages.  The  Record is conven­
iently ruled,  well printed and  substantially 
bound.  Druggists  should  remember  that 
they must keep a record of  liquor  sales  or 
render themselves liable to a fine  of $ 100 or 
more for the first offense.

Minor Drug Notes.

The  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great 
Britiin is putting up a  $30,000 building for 
its headquarters.

The  Chicago  Retail  Druggists’  Associa­
tion,  at théir last  regular  meeting,  warmly 
endorsed the efforts of  the  license  commit­
tee to insure greater care in compliance with 
the laws regulating  the  sale of  liquor, and 
instructed  the committee  to assure the city 
authorities of the Association’s  intention to 
co-operate with them in  enforcement of the 
ordinance.

In Keeping W ith the Meat.

Patron—That last meat  you sold me was
Butcher—Was it?
Patron-—Yes,  it was,  and  mighty stale. 
Butcher—I cau show you something ahead 
Patron—Don’t believe it.  What? 
Butcher—Your account on my books.

of that meat for staleness.

Good  Words Unsolicited.

paper.”

R. C. Hunter, druggist, Go wen:  “Excellent 
John Dursema, grocer, Fremotit:  “Like the 
paper very much.  Would not do  without it.”

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Abies,  Canadian»................................
Cassiae  ...............................................
Cinchona Flava...................................
Eaonymus  atropurp..........................
Myriea  Cerifera, po............................
Prunus Virgini....................... ...........
Quillaia,  grd............... ........................
Sassfras  ..............................................
Ulmus..................................................
Ulmus Po (Ground 12).........................
Glyeyrrhiza Glabra.............................   24®
25 
po..  .................................  83®
35
Haematox, 15 B) boies.......................; 
9®
............... ; 
9®  10
ls ..,..............  
@
 
................  @  12
................ 
®   13
.................   @  15

18 
11 
18 
30 
20 
12 
12 
12 
12 
10

EXTRACTÜM.

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p u re ........................... 

C arbonate P re c ip ................... .................  @  15
C itrate and Q uinia...................................   @3  50
C itrate Soluble.............................................  @  80
F errocyanidm n Soi............ ....................  @  50
Solut  Chloride............ .............................  @  15
Sulphate, com ’l,  (bbl. 85).......................  154® 
2
7
@ 
A rnica..... ..............................................  
12®  14
A n th e m is...................................................  45@  50
M atricaria..................................................   30®  35
B arosm a 
................................................  10®  12
Cassia A cutifol, T innivelly...................   20®  25
Ä lx ...............................  35®  50
Salvia officinalis,  54s and  54s................  10®  , 12
8®  10
U ra  U rsi............ ........................  

FLORA.

FOLIA.

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Aloe, B arb,  (po. 60).................. 

A cacia,  1st  p icked.......................................  @1 00
®   90
2nd 
“ 
@  80
3rd 
“ 
Sifted  so rts........................ 
“ 
  @  65
“ 
p o .......................... .....................   75@l  00
 
  50®  60
“  Cape, (po. 20)...................................   @  12
“  Soöotrine,  (po. 60).........................  @  50
A m m oniae  ...............................................   25@  30
A ssafoetida,  (po. 30)................................  @  15
B e n zo in u m ...............................................   50®  55
C a m p h o rae.................................  
. . . . .   25®  38
Catechu, ls,  (54s,  14;  54s, 16)..................  @  13
E uphorbium ,  p o .......................................  35@  10
G albanum ................... 
@  80
Gamboge, p o ..............................................  75@  80
G uaiacum , (po. 45)...................................   @  35
Kino,  (p o .25)........................ . i .................  
®   20
M astic..........................................................  @1  25
M yrrh, (po.45)............................................  @  40
Opii, (po. 6  00,.............................................4 60®4  75
S h ellac........................................................   18®  25
b leached.......................................  25®  30
T ra g a c a n th ...............................................   30®  75
h er b a—In  ounce packages.
A bsinthium   .............................................. 
25
E u p a to riu m .............................................. 
20
Lobelia  ....................................................... 
25
28
M ajorum   .......................................... 
 
M entha P ip e rita....................................... 
23
25
V ir ................................................ 
30
R u e ..........................................................!.. 
T anaeetum ,  V .......................... 
22
T hym us. V .................................................  
25
MAGNESIA.
Calcined,  P a t............................................  55@  60
Carbonate,  P a t........................................   20®  22
C arbonate,  K. & M .................................   20®  25
Carbonate,  Je n n in g s............................      35®  36

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45®  50

50@5 00
25@7 75
20@2 30
75@3 00

OLEUM.
A b sin th iu m ............................. 
4 
A m ygdalae, D ulc.......................... 
A m ydalae, A m arae..................................7 
A nisi  ..............  
2 
A u ran ti  C ortex........................................   @2 00
B ergam ii......................................................2 
C ajiputi  ................. 
90@1  00
C aryophylli................................................  @2  00
C edar...........................................................    35@  65
C h en o p o d ii................................................ 
,®1  75
C in n am o n ii...............................................   85®  90
Citronella  .................................................   @  75
Conium   M ac................... 
35®  65
C o p aib a........................ .............................   90®  1  00
C u b e b a e ...................................................11 50@12  00
E x ech tk ito s...............................................   90@1  00
E rig e ro n ..................... -..............................1 20@1  30
25@2 35
G a u lth e ria ..................................................2 
@  75
G eranium , ! .............................................. 
Gossipii, S e m .g a l....................................  55®  75
H edeom a.....................................................  90@1  00
J u n ip e ri.....................................................  50@2  00
L a v e n d u la ..... ...................... , ............... 
 
L im o n is..................................,t........ ; ___1  75@2 25
Lini, g a l . . . . . . . ......................  
 
42®  45
M entha P ip e r............................................. 2 25®3  30
M entha V erid............................................3  
M orrhuae,  g a l......................  
80®1  00
M yrcia,  ! ................................1..................  
O liv e............................................................. I 
Picis Liquida, (gal. 35).......... 
10®  12
R ic in i....................................¡1..................1 42®1  60
R o sm a rin i.................................................   75@1  00
Rosae,  1.......................................................  @8 00
Succini  ....................................................... 
40@45
S abina.............................................. 
90@l  00
 
50@7 00
3 
S an tal........................................ 
S assafras................................... 
55®  60
Sinapis, ess, 5............................................  @  65
T ig lii............................................................  @1  50
T h y m e ........................................................   40@  50
o p t...................................................  @  60
T heobrom as...............................................   15@  20

75@1 00
  @ 50
00@2 75

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B ich ro m ate...............................................   13®  15
 
B ro m id e ................................. 
42®:  45
Chlorate, (Po. 20).............................  
  18®  20
Io d id e......................................  
P ru s s ia te ............................  
 
25®  28
RADIX.

Smilax, Officinalis, H __
Mex.

Hydrastis Canaden,  (po. 35).
Hellebore,  Alba,  po............
Inula, po...............................
Jalapa, p r__
M ar an ta,  )4s.
tthei  .....................—
“  cut...................*.
“  PY...................
Splgelia....................
Sanguinaria, (po. 25).

A lth a e ........................................................   25®  30
A n c h u s a .....................................................  15©  20
 
@  25
A rum ,  p o ............................... 
C alam us.................................... 
 
20®  50
...  16® 18
...  @ 28
...  15® 20
...  15© 20
...1 75@2 00
...  25® 30
@ 35
...  15® 18
...  75<gl 00
@1 75
...  75@ia5
...  48® 53
...  @ 20
40
...  40® 45
...  @ 40
...  @ 20
...  10® 12
....  @ 25
@ 25
...  15® 20
—   @ 15
...  10® 12
...  4® 6
....  12® 15
....1 00@1 25
....  10@ 12
__   3@ 4
....  75@1 00
....  10® 12
....1 75@1  85
....  @ 15
__  
6® 8

Anlsum, (po.2C)........
Apium  (graveolens).
Bird, la. .m.................
Carni,  (po. 18)...........
Coriandrum. 
Cannabis  Sativa.
Cydonium.................... 
-- 
Foeniculum...........................
Foenugreek, po............ .
Lini................................... .
Lini» grd, (bbl, 3)............ .
Phalaris Canarian............
R apa................................... 
Sinapis,  Albu...............................  

Symplocarpus,  Foetidus, po. 
Valeriana,  English,*tpo. 30)..

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

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90@2 00

@2 50 
200 
118 
85 65 
76 
1*4®
,.f  26® 28
...  30® 32
...  2)4® 3)4
4
...  m
...  55® 60
4® 5
... 
...  -55® 60
...  @ 68
5® T
...  38® 40
. ..2 15@2 20
@ 9
@2 10
@ 15
...  @ 16
.  .  @ 14
...  30® 33
@3 75
...  50@ 55
...  2-@ 30
@ 40
...  @ 15
@ 10
© 50
...  38® 4U
@1  00
... 1  50©l 75
...  10@ 12
...  15® 20
t@ l |
40
...  @ 50
@ 2
...  5@ 6
8© 10
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11@ 13
12® 14
Capsici  Fructus, a f........
Capsici Fructus, po........,..7.
Capsici Fructus, B, po. 
Caryophyllus,  (po.  35).. ¿4^
Carmine. No. 40............
Ctra Alba, S.&  F ..........SE
Coccus .........
Cassia Fructus. 
Centrarla  ......
Cetaceum .....
Chloroform,  Squibbß.
Chontirus 
Cinchonidine, P. & W.........v-.V 
Cinchonidine.  German...........
Corks, see list, discount,  per cent.
Crea80tu m ......................................
Creta, (bbl. 75).......................77....
Creta  prep......................................
Greta, precip............................tfjpa
Creta Rubra................................
Crocus.................................................   25®
Cudbear.....................................Ti“. ::..  @
Cupri Sulph................................. 
  6®
Dextrine..................................................10@
Ether Süiph.............................................68®
Emery, all numbers................... 
  @
Emery, po...............  
 
@
 
  50@
Ergota. (po. 60)................................ 
Flake  White........................................  12@
Galla...................................... 
 
  @
Gambier ....................................................7®
Gelatin, Coopor..........................................@
Gelatin, French...............................j...  40®
Glassware flint, 70&10 by box.  60&10, less.
Glue,  Brown............... ................. 
.  9@  15
Glue, White...... .................  
13®  25
Glycerina.............................................  23®  26
Grana  Paradisi...................................   @  15
H um ulus......... 
25®  40
Hydrarg Chlor. Mitt  ..........................  ©  75
Hydrarg  Chlor.  Cor......... ..............      @  65
Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum.......................  @  85
Hydrarg Ammoniati...................   ....  @1 00
Hydrarg Unguentum................  
  @  40
Hydrargyrum  .....................  
  @  65
 
Ichthyocolla, Am  .......................... .. .1 25@1 50
Indigo................. 
75@1  00
Iodine, Resubl...... ..............................4 Q0@4 10
Iodoform.............................................  @5 15
Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod............   ®  27
Liquor Potass  Arsinitis.....................   10@  12
Lupuline  ....................................  
85@1  00
Lycopodium ... ........................... 
  55@  60
Maeis.....................................................  80®  85
Magnesia, Sulph, (bbl. 1)4)................       2®  3
Mannia. S. F........................................  90@l 00
Morphia,  S, P. & W.............................3 35@3 60
Morphia. S. N. Y. Q. & C. Co..............3 25@3 50
Moschus Canton  ........................ 
  @ ' 40
Myristica, No. 1...................................   7Q@  75
Nux  Vomica,  (po. 20)...........................   @  lö
Os.  Sepia...............................................   25®  28
Pepsin Saae, H. & P. D. Co.................  @2 00
Picis Liq,  N. C.. y2  galls, doz.............   @2 70
Picis Liq.,  quarts................................  @140
Picis Liq., pints....................................   @  85
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80).............................  @  50
Piper Nigra,  (po. 22)  ! ..........................  @  18
Piper  Alba, (po. 35).............................   @  35
Pix  Burgun...........................................  @  7
Plumbi  Acet__...................................  14@  15
Potassa. Bitart, pure........... ..............   @  40
Potassa.  Bitart, com..........................  @  15
Potass  Nitras, opt................................  8@  10
Potass  Nitras......................................  
7@  9
Pulvis Ipecac et opii..........................1 10@1 20
Pyrethrum, boxes, H. & P. D. Co., doz.  @1 25
Pyrethrum, pv.....................................  60@  65
Quassiae............................
Quinia, S, P. &  W................................   52@
Quinia, S, German...............................  3a@  50
Rubia Tinctorum................................   12@  13
Saccharum  Lactis, pv.........................  @  35
Salaein............................................... . 
2@ 75
Sanguis Draconis................................   40@  50
Santonine............................................   @4 50
12®  14
Sapo,  W ................ 
Sapo,  M
  8®  10
.
Sapo, G...... ........... 
@  15
Seidlitz  M ixture................................   @  28
Sinapis.................................................  @  is
SinapiS,  opt......... ...............................   @  30
Snuff,  Maceaboy.  Do. Voes...............   @  35
Snuff, Scotch,  Do. Voes.....................   @ 35
Sodg Boras, (po.  9).............................  714®  9
Sodä etrPotossTairt......7..................  33®  35
Soda Carb.....*. 
2® 2)4
Soda,  Bi-Carb......................................   4®  5
Soda, Ash....................: ......................  3@  4
Soda  Sutphas................................. ;. .  @ 
'2
Spts. Ether Co— ..................... 
50®  55
Spts.  Myrcia Dom...............................  @2 00
Spts. Myrcia Imp................................   @2 gfl.
Spts. Vini Rect, (bbl. 2 08)...................  @2 ’25'
Strychnia, Crystal...............................  @130
Sulphur,. Subl......................................  2Vi@ 314
Sulphur,  Roll........................ 
2)4® 3
Tamarinds........................................... 
g@  10
Terebenth  Venice...............................  28@  §0
Theobromae.............................................. 50  @ $5
Vanilla  •...........................................9 00@16 00
7@  8
Zinci  Sulph.........................................  
Gal
775
61
50
45
48
60
40
Bbl
Lb
Red Venetian.......................... 
2® 3
l \  
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........  15^ 
2® 3
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda.........   154 
2® 3
Putty, commercial.................  2)4 
2)4® 3
234® 3
Putty, strictly pure.................  2)4 
13®16
Vermilion,prime American.. 
Vermilion,  English................. 
55@58
I6®17
Green, Peninsular..................  
Lead, red strictly pure........... 
6® 6)4
Lead, white, strictly pure......  
6® 6)4
@70
Whiting, white Spanish.........  
@90
Whiting,  Gilders’.................... 
White, Paris American........... 
l 10
1 49
Whiting  Paris English cliff.. 
1 20©1 40
Pioneer Prepared  J a in ts __  
1 00@1 20
Swiss Villa Prepare*  Paints..  > 
VARNISHES.
No. 1 Turp Coach......................Jr. .... 1 10@1 20
Extra  Turp............ ........... <■__ 77. r. ..J 60@1 70
Coach Body......................................... 2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture....................V.VTJ 00@110
Extra Turk Damar............................ 1  55@1 60
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp.......... . 
70®  75
APPROVED by PHYSICIANS.

Bbl
Whale, winter...................................   70
Lard, extra........................................  60
Lard, No.  1.......................................     45
Linseed, pure raw.......................... 
42
Linseed, boiled .................................  45
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained. 
Spirits Turpentine..............
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In  Silk  and  Satin.

Ä11  These  Goods  are  Low  in

-  • -^»aggSB—aBgMgMNB

Price  and  are irery 

Desirablei 

,

Hazeltine 

& Perkins 

Drug Go.,

DRUGGISTS!

One of  the  most  important provisions of 
the new  liquor law,  in  its  bearings  on  the 
drug  trade,  is  that clause which-  prohibits 
druggists selling liquor to minors, except on 
the written order of the parent or guardian.
By being supplied with proper blanks, this 
provision is rendered  as  little obnoxious as 
possible.

We are prepared  to  furnish  these blanks 

in  any quantity desired.

Can  furnish  them  with  printed  card  of 
druggist, and blocked in tablets of 100,  sent 
post paid, 500 for $1.50 and 1,000 for $2.

FULLER & STOWE  COMPANY,
Grand Rapids,  -  Mich.

CHURCH’S

B ug Finish.!

READY FOR USE DRY.

NO MIXING REQUIRED.

It sticks to the vines and Finishes the whole 
crop of Potato Bugs with one application; 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, 
hut 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 Paris  Green  as  mixed  by the 
farmers.  It is therefore  cheaper,  and  saves 
the trouble and danger  of  mixing  and  using 
the  green,  which,  needless to say,  is danger­
ous to handle.
Bug Finish was used 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- 
solieitated letters have  been  received  prais­
ing Bug Finish.
Barlow & Star, hardware dealers at  Coldwa- 
ter, Mich., write as  follows under date oj May 
14:  “We sold 3,100 pounds of “BugFinish” last 
year.  It is rightly named  “Bug  Finish,” as it 
finishes the entire crop of bugs with one appli- 
catiod.  We shall not he 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 M ixture used for the purpose.

MANUFACURED BY

Anti-Kalsnine Co., Grand Rapids.
Voigt, HerplsliMr k Co.,
DRV  GOODS

Importers and Jobbers of

Staple  and  Fancy.

Overalls, Pants, Etc.,

OUR OWN MAKE.

A  Complete  Line  of

Fancy CrockerysFancy Woodenware

OUR  OWN  IMPORTATION.

Inspection Solicited.  Chicago and Detroit 

Prices Guaranteed.

MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER

No 

The  most practical 
hand  Roaster  in the 
world.  Thousands in 
use—giving  satisfac­
tion.  They are simple 
durable and econom­
ical. 
grocer 
should  be  without 
one.  Roasts  coffee 
and  pea-nuts tQ per­
fection.
Send for  circulars.

Robt. S.West,

ISO Long St., 
Cleveland, Ohio.

FOR  EVERYBODY.

For  the Field or  Garden.

i f you want to buy

Or any other kind, send to the

S e e d   S to r e ,
71  CANAL  ST.,  %
W. T. UPRERUX.

Grand  Rapids, 

-  Mich.

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In  the  treatment  of  Catarrh,  Headache, 

MENTHOL  INHAPR
Neuralgia, Hay Fever, Asthma, Bron­
chitis,  Sore  Throat  And  Severe 

Colds, stands without an equal.

_  

Air M e n th o liz e d  by passing through the Inhaler- 
tube, in whjch thp P u r e  C ry sta ls of M e n th o l are 
held* thoroughly applies this yaluable  remedy  in the
...............   75@1 00 I  most'efficient  way,  to  the  parts  affected.  I t  sells
.........................................— ■ readily.  Always keep an, open Inhaler in your store,
and let your customers try it.  A few  inhalations will 
not hurt the Inhaler, and will do more  to demonstrate 
its efficiency than a half hour’s talk.  R e ta il p ric e  
50 c e n ts.  F a r  Circula rs an d   Testim o nia ls address 
H .  I>.  C u sh m a n ,  T h re e   R iv e rs,  M ich. 
Trade supplied by
H ateltineA  Perkins D rug Co., G’d Rapids, 
And Wholesale Druggists of Detroit and Chicago.

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SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W.,  D. & Co. .
 .2 00@2 50
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1 75@2 0C
Frumenti, D. F. R ............. . 
Frumenti .... . . ........................1 10@1 50
JuniperisCo. O .T.....................1  75@1 75
Juniperis Co......... ................. ............1 75@3 50
Saaoharum  N. E ................................1 75@2 00
Spi. Vini Galli..
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75®8 60 !
1 25@2 00
Vim  Alba........................... . 

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  II® TANSY  CAPSULEO

I   TH E  LATEST  DI8COVEBY.  I f  
Dr.  Laparle’s   Celebrated  Preparation, Safe  and 
Indispensable  to  LADIESi 
Always  Reliable. 
-iS*
M B i  • this paper.

Send  4   epate  for Sealed  Circular.. 

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Old Collector.

TM tteftfapiicitily tor The ftm a w a .
Old Collector circles around;

With bill«.‘duns, excuse« ana stiffs 
Coaxing-, threatening, cajoling, he drifts, 

A nightmare that never is downed;
'  Balked, outwitted, knocked out,

Still Old Collector's about.

In  office and store, in houses and shops,
In saloons, the factories, the street, 

Anywhere  and  everywhere  making  his 

Where  pauses  a  debtor,  delinquent  or 

He ferrets him out,  like  sleuth  hound 

And straddles bis  neck and pounds on 
f 

his back.

. 

stops,

beat;
on track,

Curses,-frowns, tirades and abuse 

Are compliments Collector receives;

Yet, like a Roman, he asks for no truce,
’  But sticks and a victory achieves. 
Discouraged?  No, nor downcast—
He stays and gets them at last.

Mutual Insurance.*

Mutual insurance is a sort of fraternal or­
ganization, whereby  we band  together for 
the protection of  ourselves,  our  families, 
and those with whom we transact business. 
Had  Paul’s  injunction  to  the  Gallatians, 
* ‘Bear ye one another’s burdens,’’been heed­
ed both in spirit and in letter by all genera­
tions, it is possible we could do  without in­
surance organizations.  But, alas for human 
selfishness!  The minister must fix his own 
salary, or seek other employment to furnish 
ins family with the necessaries of life.  Were 
he to labor according to scriptural teachings, 
“ taking no thought for the  morrow,” trust­
ing  to his brothers, sisters  and  friends for 
support, we fear  a sad change  would come 
over his  domestic  affairs.  Think  you his 
butcher would send him the choicest roasts of 
beef?  Would the tailor  furnish  him cloth­
ing of the latest  styles?  When  the  good 
pastor’s wife entered  a  dry  goods  store, 
would the proprietor extend a  cordial greet­
ing, and the clerks approach with their most 
winning  smiles, ever  ready  to  display  the 
best goods in the house?  When the farmer 
brought the eggs, would the stale ones all be 
left at home? 
I am almost afraid that even 
the good farm wife  would  hesitate  before 
sending the daintiest  roll of  butter  to the 
parsonage  and  that  the  first fruits of the 
season would not always be  brought  to the 
parson’s door nor the wants of his family be 
always carefully looked  after.  My impres­
sion is that the salary plan  is  by  far  the 
safest, both for the minister and his family.
So is insurance a better protection against 
loss than merely  trusting to our  friends for 
relief.  By the mutual plan of insurance we, 
perhaps, come nearest to Paul’s admonition, 
“ Bear ye  one  another’s  hardens.”  We as­
sociate ourselves together, promising  to  as­
sist the member who  is  unfortunate  either 
toy death or fire.  The money paid upon our 
policies is not thrown away,  neither does a 
large  share  of  it  go  into  the pcckets of 
stockholders.  We are benefactors  not only 
Of each other but of the public.  The burned 
"borne that renders its occupants so desolate, 
the loss of which might never  be  repaired, 
is, by a few shillings or dollars paid by each 
member, raised from the ashes and a cheer- 
ful and happy home again established.  Our 
neighbor’s  bam  may  bum—we  help  him 
bnild  another.  Years  might  elapse  and 
stocks and crops perish with cold and storms 
before he alone could repair the loss.  Man­
ufacturing establishments which to-day may 
be the glory and pride of the proprietor and 
community,  giving  employment  to  scores 
and hundreds of laborers,  may to-morrow be 
a  smoking pile of ruins.  Our money comes 
to the rescue.  Another factory is built and 
the proprietor  and  community  are  saved 
from an irreparable calamity.
Mercantile establishments are not exempt 
from fire, neither  shops  nor  warehouses. 
Mutual insurance companies  can be organ­
ized that,  with good officers and  good regu­
lations, can take risks on life and  on ail, or 
nearly all, classes of  property.  Why  not? 
Stock companies  maybe  indispensable  at 
present;  but I  cannot see why it is absolute­
ly  necessary  for us to  erect  and  furnish 
costly offices,  to pay extravagant salaries to 
agents,  and  enrich  the pockets  of  stock­
holders (sometimes  almost  to our ruin), in 
order to get our lives and  property insured.
True and genuine insurance seeks only to 
repair, so far as possible, the loss sustained, 
paying a fair price  for  the  transaction  of 
our business, etc.  Stock  companies are or­
ganized for the sole purpose of  speculation. 
Unquestionably they have  done much good 
In the past and may continue to do so in the 
future.  Whether  we  shall  ever  he able to 
dispense with their services is a question to 
be solved in the  future." 
It  may  never  be 
solved.
Very many mutual  insurance  companies 
are meeting with good success;  others prove 
only a source of expense  aiid annoyance to 
their members. Farmers’ mutuals have prov­
en a success, perhaps from the fact that the 
property insured is not so much scattered as 
that of other companies, thus giving the pol­
icy holders a better  chance to  assemble at 
annual elections, and use greater care in se­
lecting officers to  transact  their  business. 
Mutual associations organized for protecting 
It» members against loss by fire on manufac­
turing industries,  shops,  mills,  mercantile 
houses, etc., must necessarily use great care 
in  selecting its members and officers, also in 
taking risks.  One worthless  officer or bad 
member may seriously affect the whole run­
ning  machinery.  Members  m ust  attend 
elective meetings and take an interest in the 
affairsof the society,  or  bad  results  will 
surely follow.
A few words on the  anti-compact  insur 
ance bill passed at the last  session  of  the 
legislature, taking  effect  January 1,  1888. 
St is possible and even  probable  that  those 
companies affected by the Act  wijl  seek to 
make it as obnoxious  as possible,  perhaps, 
In some cases, largely  increasing  the  per­
centage on policies and in others refusing to 
take risks on certain  classes  of  property. 
T he compact to  which  they  require  their 
Agents to subscribe,  before  entering  their 
service, is both oppressive  and  tyrannical, 
mod hot in the least in th e interest of the in­
jured.  The system is bad and should never 
be  tolerated  in   this  or  any other  state. 
Those  compact  companies  are . powerful. 
They fought the bill,  inch by inch, and I am 
sorry to say that appearances indicated that 
mouey was used liberally to defeat its pass­
age*  Great injustice is being done to many 
parties  by  the  compact  system,  and  we 
should stand shoulder to shoulder and abol­
ish it from our midst.
*BM erread byHon. M. T. Cole at third eon- 

.veottonof M.B.M.A.

.  Tito government  authorities  of Germany 
am HHh I  h hard thnefryingto enforce the

ä SIS s  

eft. -ïüo.*

WHOLESALE  GROCERS,

21  and  23 SOUTH  I0|ilS  STREET,  GRflfiD  RAPIDS,  MICH,

TO  THE  GROCERY  TRADE,

GREETING:  W e  are now  Comfortably Settled  in Onr New Quarters, and extend 
a  Cordial  Invitation  to the Trade to Visit us at any time, but Especially During* 
THIS  WEEK  OP  THE  PAIR.

Talk  is Cheap, but we ask you to try our end of the Pudding  String, and  see if we 

have not a  Juicy Portion in our Possession.

Come in and visit  ns  anyhow.  It won’t cost you anything and a  visit  may  Save

you money.

Your Cheerful Servants,

AMOS  S. MUSSELMAN  &  CO

W I XT T E R   COAX.

-AT-

SUMMER  PRICES.

Until Further Notice.

- 

- 

Egg and Grate 
- 
$6.75  per ton.
Stove No.  4 and Nut 
-  $7.00  per ton.
Grand Rapids Ice & Coal Go.,

For September Delivery.

- 

OFFICE  58  PEARL ST.,

Yard. Comer Wealthy Avenue and M. C. R. R. 

Telephone No. 159.

CALL  FOR

From the best White Oats.

SCHUMACHER’S  ROLLED  M ENU
Oatmeal,  Parched  Farinose  and  Rolled 
To use these choice  cereals is to learn  how 

W heat in Original Packages.
to live.

And Dealers.
MISSOURI

THE

Steam

Washer

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

J.  WORTH. Sole Mir.

'  ST. LOUIS, MO.

Ooallala, Neb., Nov. 29,1883.

The  letters  below are  a fair  sample of  a 
very large  num ber  received  by me in  my 
regular  correspondence.  They  speak  for 
themselves.  .
J.  WORTH, 8t. Louis, Mo,:
Dear Sib—I  received yours of the 16th, ask­
ing how I liked the  Missouri  Steam  Washer. 
Sir, I can do ¿tore and better  washing  with it 
in one day than any four women can do in the 
same time by any other process.  It is the beet 
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,  Mbs. Emma ARMSTRONg. 
Office of J. E. LANE & Co., Phoenix Laundry.
J. WORTH, St. Louis, Mo.:;
Dear Sir—Two years ago we purchased one 
of your Steam  Washers of  Mr. Owen,  of this 
place.. After giving It a thorough trial we find | 
that it is the beat washer, little or big, we ever 
aw.  One'girl does all our> washing,, which is 
86 to $75 per ; week,  and the  clothes are per­
fectly d e a n  and white.  Fraternally yours,

Bta'R apids, Mich., July 7.1886.

POTATOES.

W e give  prompt  personal  attention  to 
the sale of POTATOES, A PPLES,BEA N S 
and ONIONS in car lots.  W e  offer  best 
facilities and watchful attention.  Consign­
m ents respectfully solicited.  Liberal cash 
advances on Car Lots when desired.

&  GO.,

.  H.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

166 South W ater St., CHICAGO. 
Reference

Felsenthal. Gross  & Miller. Bankers, 

Chicago.

PROPRIETOR OF

EDWIN FALLAS,
VALLEY CITY COLD STORAGE,
Blitter,  Eggs,  Lemons,  Oranges,

JOBBER OF

And Packer of

SOLID  BRAND  OYSTERS.
Facilities for canning and jobbing oysters 
are unsurpassed.  Mail orders filled  promptly 
at lowest  market  price.  Correspondence  so­
licited.  A  liberal  discount  to  the  jobbing

217, 819 L iv in g sto n  St.,

G r r a n d L   D . a p i d . s .

HURGULE8  POWDER
A iinihilator

THE GREAT STUMP AND ROCK

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

Mail orders promptly filled.

L. S. HILL  &  CO.,

19 an d  21  P e a rl  St.,  G rand  R apids, M ich.
Also  wholesale  dealers  in  Gunpowder, 
Ammunition,  Guns,  Fishing  Tackle  and 
Sporting Goods Generally.

JOBBERS  IN

D RY   GOODS.

-AJSTD NOTIONS,

83  Monroe  StM 

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers 
American and Stark A Bags

j A Specialty.

WM. SEARS & GO.
Cracker Manufacturers,

Agents  for

AMBOY  OECEE3SE*

37,3 9  & 41 Kent  Street.  Grand  Rapide,, Michigan.

GURTIS8,DUNT0|U ANDREWS

ROOFERS

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

Grand  Rapids,

Mich.

H.  LK O TO D  Ï  SONS,

WHOLESALE

CROCKERY,  GLASSWARE,

LAMP  GOODS  AND  STONEWARE.

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

To Insure  Prom pt Shipment Order 

Fruit Jars  direct from us.

HEADQUARTERS

PRICES. 

Mason's  Porcelain Top Frifit Jars.
$  gross.
P ints...............................................  ..$9.50
Quarts...............................................   10.00
Vt gallons......... ..................  
13.06
Rubbers  extra.......... ............................. 75
Globe Fruit Jnrs, pints....................   11.00
quarts................   12.00
Ya gallon..............  15.00

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Preserve Jars.  Toma 
Butter Jars.  Blackfcerr

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S t a t e   A g e n t s

FOR t h e

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.  $1.00
3 quart................................................. 
6.00
4 quart................................................. 
8.00

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Sherwood’s koioaraMe Fin » Glazed Stoneware.

Stew pans  V,  gal 
* 
.  1  * 
Milk pans

“ 

Regular Stoneware. 

per doz. 
'White Lined..............90  $4 gal. Preserve Jars. StODe Cover........  .90
.1.46 
1 gal.  Butter  crocks
.2.25 
White Lined ....... . .1.50
.  .96 
2 gal.  Butter  Crooks 
Tomato Jugs and eorks.........
.1.49 
White Lined......  .3.00
Corks for H gal. Tomato ju g e....
.  .15 
Tèa Poto,Goff«» Poto,
.20
Sealing wax, five  pounds  in package per 1 
M | - 
pound...... ............................................  .OB-

loeMugs,

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