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Tradesman.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JANUARY ML  1888.

AN  ACCIDENT  ON  PURPOSE.

W ritten  Especially fo r The  Tradesman.

Jonas Crabtree, or, as he was  more often 
called,  “Old  Crabbed;”  had  a  daughter. 
Nothing strange about that, you say.  Well, 
perhaps not.  He  might  have had a* dozen 
without attracting the curiosity of his neigh­
bors.  No, the surprising thing about it was 
her extraordinary good looks.  Jonas  him­
self was one of the most  ill-favored  beings 
on the face of the earth, and  how  he  ever 
managed to get the trade he had was not the 
least singular thing  about  it.  His grocery 
store had the cream of the  patronage in the 
little city of Newburg, and  Jonas  had con­
trived, no one could tell how,  to  build up a 
large business from a  most  humble  begin­
ning.

Cranky and ugly as he  was,  there  were 
still  many  redeeming  traits about the old 
man,  to which his good business might, per­
haps, be attributed. 
In  the  first place,  he 
was strictly  reliable,  and  his word was as 
good as a written  guarantee.  With  all his 
ability for getting ahead, he was not penur­
ious,  and many a kindly act of  charity  did 
he perform when satisfied no one would dis­
cover the source.

But to return to the  daughter.  She was, 
as I have said,  most  bewitchingly  beauti­
ful,  and was the apple of the old man’s eye. 
Her every wish  had  been  granted.  Ever 
since her mother died,  which occurred about 
ten years before this narrative opens, Jonas 
had centered his earthly ambition  in Berry. 
She had been educated  thoroughly and was 
as accomplished  and  graceful  as  she  was 
pretty,  and one of Jonas’  happiest  dreams 
was of  seeing  his  daughter  married  to a 
wealthy and distinguished suitor.  Whether 
he had the person picked  out or not, would 
be  hard  to  determine;  but, for some un 
known reason, he had taken a  most  unac 
countable  dislike  to  one of the clerks em 
ployed by  him  in the store, and had threat 
ened to discharge him in case he did not de 
sist in his attentions to Berry.

“Yes,  I am sure of it. 

I have driven old 
Jack so long that I know him  like a book,” 
was the response to the interrogatory, in the 
musical tones of the girl.

“Well, if you are sure of it,  say  to-mor­
row about four.  Your  father is always out 
in front of the  store  talking  with some of 
the loungers about that time, and will be on 
hand to witness the farce.”

After a few more  whispered  words  the 
lovers parted,  and they  wended their way 
home.  There was some scheme on foot, no 
doubt, but what it was would be hard to de 
termine from the few scraps of conversation 
which were distinguishable.

At noon of the day following  Tom  Har­
wood’s  rude  dismissal  from  irate  Jonas 
Crabtree’s  presence,  Berry  and her father 
were seated at dinner.

“Papa,” said Berry, as she  poured Jonas 
a second cup of delicious  tea,  made as only 
his daughter knew how,  “Papa, can I take 
old Jack and the cart  to  drive  out  to Aunt 
Sarah’s this afternoon?”

“Why, yes,  my dear;  of course you can,” 

responded  Jonas,  affectionately.  “But 
don’t know, either,” he added,  hastily.  “I 
drove him down to the  store  this  morning, 
and he was so frisky and  ugly  I  had  hard 
work to hold him.  He hasn’t  been  driven 
much of late and I  guess  you  had  better 
take Nell.”

Oh,  no papa,”  responded  Berry,  as she 
turned  hastily  away.  “I  never  liked  to 
drive Nell, she’s  so  slow  and  poky.  Be­
sides,  I have driven  Jack  two  years  now, 
and never had the least trouble.  He knows 
me,  and there is not the least danger.”

After much persuasion,  Berry gained her 
point, and Jack  was  duly  harnessed  and 
driven  off,  while  the  father  went  to the 
store.

Tom  Harwood  was nothing if not pleas 
ing in the eyes of the fairer  sex.  Tall,  ro 
bust and strong,  his curly blonde  hair  and 
large blue eyes,  sparkling with fun,  insured 
him a warm  reception  in  whatever  social 
circle he might wish to enter.  But in Jonas 
Crabtree’s eyes he had one great fault—that 
of poverty.  He was  well educated,  ambi 
tious,  and  would  some  day  stand in the 
front rank, both as to wealth  and  station 
But before this  could  be  accomplished he 
had years of hard work in store for him, and 
Jonas’ daughter must step at  once  into the 
higher circles on her wedding-day.  On this 
point her father was resolved.  He  had not 
lavished all the care  and  love  of a lifetime 
on the girl,  to have it wasted on a  common 
clerk.

In this  world  of  contraries,  opposition 
usually serves to intensify the desire of  at­
taining the end in view,  nd Tom made the 
best of the opportunities presented for woo 
ing the old man’s daughter.  Berry was not 
at all averse to  his  impetuous love-making 
in fact, contrived to help  the  headstrong 
youth along.  For, to tell the truth, Cupid 
arrow had deeply penetrated  Berry’s heart, 
and she had determined,  in spite of adverse 
circumstances,  to marry Tom or no one.

At first, Jonas  had  offered  no hindrance 
to their  intimacy;  but  he soon discovered 
the danger,  and endeavored to put a stop to 
it.  His success  was  not  remarkable, and 
many  were  the  clandestine  meetings  be­
tween the young couple,  when they pledged 
anew their vows of eternal constancy.  Fi­
nally,  matters came to such a pass that Tom 
determined  to  ask  Mr.  Crabtree  for  his 
daughter’s  hand.  With  much  fear  and 
trembling,  Tom  called  on Mr.  Crabtree at 
his home,  and put the awful question.

“Marry my  daughter!”  shouted  the  old 
man,  turning purple in  his  rage.  “Marry 
my  daughter!  Why,  you  presumptuous 
young villian!  Do you  imagine  for an in­
stant that you are a  suitable  match for my 
daughter?  You,  to whom I furnish the ne­
cessaries of life?  No!”  thundered  the old 
man,  stamping the floor  in  his  rage.  “A 
thousand 
times,  No!  Get  out  of  my 
house and consider yourself  discharged!”

It is needless to say  that  Tom got out of 
the house,  with as little ceremony as  possi­
ble.  He had expected a refusal,  but such a 
storm of rage and insult he had  not  looked 
for,  and his face flushed as he thought of it.
“You blamed old fool!”  he  muttered to 
himself, as he shook his fist at an imaginary 
Jonas Crabtree, menacingly,  “I will marry 
your daughter, for all your bluster!”

But how to do it was  now  the  question. 
Jonas had  discharged  him  and he had no 
means  of  support,  even if he managed to 
accomplish it.  He pondered and studied the 
matter  over  until  he  nearly  went  crazy, 
when it occurred to him to learn what Berry 
could suggest.

That evening,  if you had  chanced to be a 
bird and had  alighted in the branches of an 
old oak tree hanging over the  waters of the 
river which flowed  placidly  by  the  town, 
you possibly could have seen underneath the 
forms of two persons, who were engaged in 
earnest  conversation.  Occasionally,  yon 
might  have  overheard  such  sentences  as 
these: 

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But can it be done safely, B ei^?”  ifi  a

deep, manly voice..

The  afternoon  passed  away with a good 
deal of uneasiness on Jonas’ part, for an un­
defined dread filled him  that  his  daughter 
would meet with  some  accident;  and the 
more he thought of it,  the more  he  blamed 
himself for letting her  drive  the  old horse, 
knowing how  badly  he had  behaved in the 
morning.  His  anxiety  did not diminish as 
the hours wore away,  and  he  gazed  anx 
iously up the  street  to  see if she were not 
returning.  As  he  stepped  out in front of 
the store on  one  of  his  viewing  trips, he 
espied one of his customers  coming  slowly 
towards the store.  As  he  approached, Jo­
nas sat down on a box beside him,  and  the 
two were soon deep in a  discussion  of  the 
crop prospects and other matters of local in­
terest.

Suddenly,  a great commotion was seen up 
the street, and people  rushed to the edge of 
the walks,  while  shouts  of  “Stop  him!” 
“Save the girl!” were  heard,  adding to the 
noise  of  the  clattering  hoofs of a horse, 
running wildly towards Jonas’  store.  The 
occupant of the dog-cart  was  holding  des­
perately to the sides  of  the  high,  swaying 
vehicle,  as  the  maddened  Borse  rushed 
along,  narrowly escaping destruction  at ev­
ery step.

Jonas Crabtree  recognized the  horse in a 
moment and was nearly  crazed  with  fear 
for his darling’s safety.  Berry hung to  the 
lines bravely,  and  appeared to be quite cool 
under the trying ordeal.

As  the  flying  horse  reached  the  store, 
there suddenly  appeared  a  farmer’s  team 
around the corner. 
It was too  late for it to 
get out of the way,  and it seemed, for an in­
stant, as though  the  brave  girl  must  be 
dashed to death against  the  heavy  wheels 
of  the  wagon.  At  this  moment,  a  man 
dashed  into  the  street  from the opposite 
walk, seized the flying horse by the bits and 
was dragged for some  distance  along  the 
rough cobbles  of  the  gutter.  Not  able to 
continue  under  such  a  weight, old Jack 
stopped in his wild  flight,  flinging  Berry’s 
preserver  heavily  against  a paving stone. 
But she was saved;  and her  father  was  so 
overcome with fear and delight at her rescue 
that he forgot the poor fellow to  whom  he 
was indebted for  his  daughter’s  preserva­
tion,  who  was  lying  in  the  street,  with 
blood streaming from his mouth  and  with 
what appeared to be an ugly wound  in  the 
side of his head.

As soon as  Jonas  recovered  himself, he 
ordered Tom carried into the store.  A doc­
tor was immediately  summoned,  who pro­
nounced his injuries serious,  but not neces­
sarily fatal, and  said  that  he  must  have 
good care and nursing.

In his gratitude for Berry’s safety,  Jonas 
forgot the  subject  he  and  Tom  had dis­
cussed with such warmth  the  night before, 
and a  carriage  was immediately  procured 
and Tom  was  tenderly  conveyed  to  the 
residence of Jonas  Crabtree.

Did Tom get well?  oh,  yes.  And he,  to­
gether with Berry and  the  accidenti?),  so 
captivated the old  man’s  good  graces that 
he finally  consented  to  Tom’s taking pos­
session of that which  he  had already made 
his by right of  salvage.  And they are  not 
without means of support,  either.  As  be­
fore remarked, Jonas  Crabtree  was  gener­
ous to a fault,, especially  with  his idolized 
daughter, and he  pushed  Torn to the front 
to such an extent that  he now manages the 
business  entirely,  and  the  sign  over the 
store door reads  “T.  H.  Harwood,  success­
or to Jonas Crabtree.”

This story would never have been written.

N O . 225.

perhaps,  had it not  been  that  an  intimate 
friend of Tom’s told  it  to  me one evening 
over our cigars.  From  his  account of it,  it 
seems the whole thing had been  premedita­
ted.  Berry  had  placed  several  pieces  of 
coarse Ssand-paper  under  Jack’s harness in 
the morning,  while  he  stood  at  the gate 
waiting for her father,  and this served to ir­
ritate the horse so as to convince Jonas that 
he  needed  more  driving,  and  was  the 
cause of his anxiety.  The  sand-paper was 
taken  out  when  Berry  drove him, but, as 
Jack was feeling pretty frisky,  a  judicious 
use of the whip had  produced the apparent 
unmanageableness  of  the  horse,  although, 
as Berry was an accomplished horse-woman, 
she had complete control  over  him  all  the 
time.  This, with a sponge  saturated  with 
some substance  resembling  blood in Tom’s 
mouth, and a slight scratch on his head,  to­
gether with the fact of having the doctor in 
the secret,  had  served to complete the illu­
sion.

The deception  has  never  been disclosed 
to Mr. Crabtree  and  I  hope  he  will  not 
chance to read this recital.

Although  it  was  rather  rough  on  old 
Jack,  the principals  justified  their  act  on 
the  ground  that  “all’s  fair in  love,” and 
Berry made it up to the old fellow by doub­
ling his feed  of  oats,  shielding  him  with 
woolen blankets in the winter and providing 
him with a silver mounted harness.

R e l l u f.

The New  Year.

W ritten  Especially  fo r The  Tradesman.

There is something pathetic  in  the  hope 
of  civilized  mankind  for  something  new. 
The eagerness with which the  world  scans 
its daily newspaper rests in the last analysis, 
on its confidence  that  the  present  state  of 
affairs is not the best possible, and that it is 
worth while to look forward to better things 
to come.  All down  the  course  of  history 
we see men straining forward in this way, and 
no one gets their ear more  readily  or  their 
heart more entirely than he  who  predicts a 
golden age yet to come.  A great part of the 
power and  attraction  of  Christianity  lay in 
this.  While the other creeds were doubtful 
of the future,  or spoke gloomily  of  it,  the 
Gospel bade men  hope,  and  even  exalted 
hope to the rank of  a cardinal virtue beside 
faith and charity. 
It spoke  to  a society of" 
a renewal of the earth unto peace and right­
eousness. 
It  pointed  the  individual  to a 
better life beyond  death,  in  which  society 
would still exist,  and man’s  highest aspira­
tions be realized in an  existence of less frie- 
tion than  this.

So New Year’s day comes  to  us  as  the 
festival of hope, as Christmas is the festival 
of charity. 
It is the turning of  a new leaf, 
and great things may lie for us on the fresh 
pages,  Only the cynic thinks its records will 
be just the same as those of  the past. 
It is 
our nature to hope they will be  better than 
we yet have  had.  Whatever  our  ideal  for 
ourselves, we are  confident  the  year  will 
It may be a low ideal 
bring us nearer to it. 
It  may 
—mere gain,  or fame or  pleasure. 
be a high one—use,  wisdom and worth. 
In 
either case the new year blends  itself  with 
our plans and expectations,  and  we turn to 
it with a fresh joy of expectancy.

The deepest vindication of  this  perennial 
hopefulness is faith in the  divine  renewal. 
If the future can grow out of  the past only 
by  laws  of  necessary  causation,  then  it 
never can be anything higher  or better than 
the past. 
It will be the reaping of the har­
vest  the  past  has  sowed,  nothing  better. 
And for most of  us,  if not all of  us,  that is 
exactly what we do not  want, that  is  what 
we have the most reason to  fear.  We need 
new force, new uplifting power in our lives, 
not the mere repetition of the old. 
It is the 
faith that the new. is possible  to  us  which 
makes life  tolerable,  and  hope  prennial.. 
And the new year  will be more  truly such 
in proportion as we get down  to  the  deep- 
things of life, and bring  ourselves  into the- 
line of those eternal forces,  which renew the 
spirit of  man  with a new spring time,  and 
open new  doors  of  experience  and  life to 
him.  That is what men are  really  after in 
all their search for  novelty, 
their  craving 
for  some  new  thing.  When  that comes 
they can rest in it,  for  they have got to the 
hard pan.  But to doubt that,  and  to  take 
up the  cry  of  the  disappointed  and  dis­
heartened Hebrew:  “There is nothing new 
under the sun,” is  to  get  into  the  deepest 
slough  of  unbelief.  “I   pray  you,”  says 
John Ruskin,  “ to prove  and  know  within 
your hearts that all things lovely and right­
eous are possible for those  who  believe  in 
their possibility,  and  who  determine  that 
for their parts they will  make  every  day’s 
work contribute to  them.  Let  each  leave 
its sure record of  some  kindly  thing  done 
for others,  some goodly  strength gained for 
yourselves.”  That is the  spirit in which to- 
begin the new  year. 
A. S. M.
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166 South W ater St., CHICAGO. 
Reference

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

Chicago. 
H E X T E R   &  FRIEDMAN,

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Manufacturers  o f

BTTTTERXKTE.

Office and Factory;  231, 233  Michigan,St.,

CHICAGO, 

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TUBS!  TUBS!  TUBS!

We  have  150  doz.  first  quality  wash  tubs, 
which we will  sell F. O. B. as  follows:  No. 3, 
§3per  doz.;  No. 2, f t   per  doz.; No.  1, f 5  per 
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PIERSON'S  BAZAAR,  S tanton,  Mich. 

Stoneware, 6c. per gal. F. O. B.

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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  lajge  sale, 
aggregating  many  million  of  pounds  each 
year.

The State  Assayer of Massachusetts says 
Muzzy’s Com  Starch  for table  use,  is  per­
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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

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ALFRED  K  BROWN.
FRUITS,

Jobber  in

NUTS  AND

SEEDS

16 and x8 No. Division, St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  U G H .
CHARLES  A.  COTE,

Successor to

A. Coye & Son,

AWNINGS I TENTS

Horse and W agon Covers, 

DEALER IN
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Feed Bags,

F lags & B anners m ade to  order.

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

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Bought and Sold by

FRANK J. DETTENTHALER,

117 Monroe St., Grand Rapids.
"  Oysters the  Fear Around  api

J-  E.  FELDNER  &  CO.,

CUSTOM  SHIRT  MAKERS,
Men’s  Furnishing  Goods.

AND DEALERS IN

NO. 2  PEARL  ST., 

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P rom pt A ttention to  Mail Orders.  Telephone 891.

STANTON, 8Ä M P80N K 0,,
Men’s  Furnishing  Goods,

M anufacturers and Jobbers of

Sole  Manufacturers  of  the  “Peninsular” 

Brand  Pants, Shirts and Overalls.

S tate  agents  fo r  Celuloid  Collars  and  Cuffs. 

120 and 122  Jefferson, Are.,

DETROIT, 

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JACOB BROWN i  GO.,
FUrniehing Goods and Notions.
Lilmhermen’s Supplies a Specialty,

W HOLESALE

M anufactures of

WE CARRY A  FULL LINE  OF 

ALASKA SOCKS AND 

MITTENS.

193 and 195 Jefferson Ave., Cor. Bates  St.,

DETROIT, 

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

GRAND RAPIDS  GRAIN AND  SEED CO.

71 CANAL STREET.

MYRON  H.  WALKER,

Combines the Advantages of a

Pass Book and  the  Coupon 

System.

PRICE  LIST.

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Money can be sent by  postal  note or post-

office or express order.

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

SEEDS

FOR  EVERYBODY.

For the Field or  Garden.

Attorney and  Solicitor,

if  you want to buy

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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O ver F o u rth  N ational Bank.  Telephone 407.

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Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

B O O K S

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Im porters and Jobbers of

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Overalls, Pants, Etc,,

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A  Complete  Line  of

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

Volveriie (Hair Factory,
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W est End Pearl St. Bridge,

Butter, Eggs, Wool, Pota­
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Apples  and  all kinds  of 
Produce.
If you bave  any  of the  above  goods  to 
ship, or anything in the  Produce line let us 
hear  from  you.  Liberal  cash  advances 
made when desired.'

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157 South W ater St.,  CHICAGO. 

Reference; Fibs?? National Bank,  Chicago. 
Michigan Tradesman. Grand Rapid*.

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

T H E   GREAT

EDMUND B.DIKEMÏN
Watch fiaker 

s Jeweler,
44  GÄMÄL  8T„
(flub.
Grand Rapids,  - 
EDWIN FALLAS,
VALLEY CITY COLD STORAGE
Blitter, Eggs,  Lemons,  Oranges.

PROPRIETOR OF

JOBBER OF

And Packer of

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

217, 219 Livingston St.,

D. D. COOK,
Valley  City  Show  Case  Factory,
SHOW CASES

Manufacturer of

Proprietor  of  the

Prescription  Owes  and  Store Fixtures.

O F  A I1X1  KINDS.

My Priées are Lower than any o f My 

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nished  on Application.

38 West Bridge street, Grand Rapids.

/  Telephone 874.

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

Cigar calledSILVER  SPOTS

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

It will be sold on its merits.  Sample or­

ders filled on 60  days approval.

Price  $35  per  1,000  in  any  quantities. 
Express prepaid on orders of 500 and more. 
Handsome  advertising  matter  goes  with 
first order.  Secure this Cigar and increase 
your Cigar Trade. 

It is sure to do it.

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Spring,  Freight,  Express, 

MANUFACTURERS OF
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Mill and Dump Carts, 

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

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

J.  B o w n e , President.

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

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

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The  Michigan  Tradesman.

na>«»«j Organ of M ichigan Business Men’s A ssociation^

A  W IIK L T   JOURNAL  DEVOTED  TO  THE

Retail Trade of the Wolderine State.

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E.  A. STOWE, Editor.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY  11,  1888.

The Railw ay Age,  which  is  the  repre­
sentative  railway  journal  of  this  country, 
has issued a compilation entitled  the “Rail­
way Officials of  America,” under which are 
included  the  five  members  of  the  Inter­
state  Commerce  Commission.  The  shipr 
ping  public  long  ago  came to  the  opin­
ion  that  the  Commission  belonged  to the 
railways, but this is believed to be  the  first 
instance on record where  the  railways have 
claimed the Commission as their own.

Gripsack Brigade.

A.  C. Huntley, late of  Petoskey,  has en­

gaged to travel for L C. LevL 

L.  D. Berry started out  with  a  line  of 

Stow & Davis’ photographs last week.

J. Harvey Beasley  started for the Pacific 
slope last week  in  the  interest  of  Stow & 
Davis.

David G. Kenyon  has  engaged  to travel 
for the new wholesale boot  and  shoe house 
of  Reeder,  Palmer & Co.

W.  H. Downs has  engaged  with  Root, 
Strong & Co. for another year,  covering the 
same territory as during 1887.

John Osting,  formerly  with  the  Telfer 
Spice Co., has engaged with  Fred. D.  Yale 
& Co., covering the city trade.

“By.” Smith  is  laid  up  with illness, in 
consequence of which Amos S.  Musselman 
is taking his G. R. & I. trip this week.

Chas.  Brooks,  formerly  engaged  in the 
grocery business on  South  Division street, 
has engaged to travel for Amos  S.  Mussel- 
man & Co.

W. H.  Downs  and wife  have  returned 
from Union City, where  they  spent Christ­
mas and New Year’s  with  friends.  S. F, 
Downs returned with him.

Cims. Livingstons,  traveling  representa 
tive  for  E.  G.  Studley  &  Co.,  is  lying 
seriously ill at his home on Straight  street, 
of rheumatism of the  muscles.

M. K.  Walton and Frank H.  White  will 
continue  to  extol  the virtues of Curtiss & 
Dunton’s line on  the  road  and  Oliver 
Shults will continue his meanderings among 
the city trade.

The Phoenix Furniture Co.’s trio of  trav­
elers have started out for the  spring  cam­
paign—J. C. Riley in the  East,  Frank 
Moone in the West and John M.  Wolcott in 
the Ohio Valley.

A.  M. Herrington,  formerly  engaged 

the drug business at Freeport, has  engaged 
to travel for the Michigan  Reclining  Chair 
Co., introducing the patented reclining chair 
made by that corporation.

James  H.  Roseman,  who  has 

talked 
crockery and glassware in this' territory for 
eleven years, has engaged  to represent Pit­
kin & Brooks for a fourth year, the  engage­
ment dating from January 1.

J. C. More starts out this week for an ex­
tended  trip  in  the  interest  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Furniture  Co.  When  J. C. starts 
out, his wife and partner  are  the only per­
sons who know which way he is headed.

E. K.  Bennett has  engaged  to  travel for 
N. G. Levinson &  Co.,  of  Chicago,  for a 
fifth year.  He has teen granted a  vacation 
until the 16th and is improving the occasion 
by indulging in hunting  and  other  sports. 
He is stopping at Ypsilanti at present.

Jas. N. Bradford is working  up his mus­
cle, preparatory to the fourth  annual social 
party  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Traveling 
Men’s Association.  He has  been  commis­
sioned  a  committee  of one to “fire” a cer­
tain public official, in case he  comes  to the 
dauce drunk as he jtid last  year  and insists 
on creating a disturbance.  The p.  o. would 
do well to stay away this time.

The  State  Railroad  Commissioners  of 
Minnesota  have  issued  orders  that  after 
January 1 the upper berths  in  all sleeping 
cars run or operated on any railroad  in that 
State shall remain closed whenever the low­
er berths are occupied  by  passengers  until 
(he upiper berths are  needed  for  actual oc­
cupancy.  This  decision  will  be  hailed 
with delight  by  every traveling man in the 
country, because if it is  enforced in Minne- 
f  sota there is hope  that  the  Railroad  Com­
missioners  of  other  States  will  take the 
matter up arid  enforce it after a while gen­
erally throught  the  United States.  Every 
traveler knows when he  buys a lower berth 
the upper berth is let down and he is fenced 
in  unnecessarily,  -it  frequently happening 
that, the upper berth  is  not sold at all.  Of 
course, the object is  plain. 
It  is  to  force 
the occupant of the lower berth  to  buy  the 
whole section.
Postponement  of 

the  Traverse  City 

.  Banquet.

Y  T r av er se C it y ,  Dec. 81,  1887.

Owing to the death of  our late Congress­
man,  Rim.  Seth  C.  Moffatt—our  fellow 
townsman and member  of ' the B.  M. A. 
the banquet appointed for January  10  will 
he indefinitely postponed.

F.  H amilton,
J .  A .  Mo ntague
m k 
J . G. J ohnson,
General Committee from B. M. A.

.. 

A, Retajfegenend dealer,St. Johns: 
get ffiOBE WfthOUt THB Trabssmam."

■ÍCan’i

AMONG THÈ TRADE.

GKAJiD  KAPIDS  GOSSIP.

the interest of O. G. Bradeen in the general 
stock of Bradeen  &  Ely,  has formed a co­
partnership with E. H. Coffin.

C. Vari Dam succeeds G. Van Dam & Co.

the
in  the  grocery  business  at  303  Jefferson | banker  and  general  dealer,  has  teen  at-
tached.  The liabilities  are  about  $10,000,
avenue.
E and the assets about the  same.

Harbor  Springs—A.  J.  Southard, 

W.  W.  Brower  has engaged in the gro­
cery business at Fife Lake.  The stack was 
purchased here.

B. F. Barnett has  engaged in the grocery 
business at  Branch.  The  stock  was  pur­
chased at this market.

Bay City—-The Knights of Labor co-opera- 
I tion store has teen  closed  on ; attachment. 
The liabilities are $1,000 and the assets $500 
| iu stock  and  $1,500  in  uncollectable  ac- 
[ counts.

St. Johns—Albert  Retail,  who  recently
The Sligh Furniture Co.  is  preparing  to  purchased the J.  S. Visgar  clothing  stock, 
erect a $15,000  factory  building on its new | has removed his drygoods stock  from  Pe-
j wamo to this place,  and rented  the  M.  V.
location, near its present site.
I Brown block.

R. E. Barnes has engaged in the  grocery 
business  at  Grand  Haven.  Cody,  Ball, 
Barnhart & Co. furnished the stock.

Middleton—James Stonebrook has retired 
| from  the  hardware  firm  of  Salisbury  & 
Stonebrook.  The business will  be  eontin- 
F. J. Dettenthaler has  leased  the  store j ued by Freeman and  J.  H.  Salisbury, under 

and basement at 37  North  Division  street j the style of J. H. Salisbury & Son.
and will use the same as  a  packing  house 
and ware  house.

Hastings—H. A.  Goodyear  has  retired 
I from the hardware firm of  H.  A.  Goodyear 
& Sons.  The business  will  be  continued 
b y j. F. and  D.  S.  Goodyear  under  the 
j style of Goodyear Bros.

Jacob Lustig,  formerly  on  the  road for 
M. H. Treusch,  has  engaged  in  the job­
bing  of  cigars  at  65  North  Ionia  street, 
under the style of the Lustig  Cigar Co.

T.  S.  Freeman  &  Co.,  merchandise 

Manistee—Frank Bostwick  has  assigned 
. his  grocery stock to bis father-in-law.  His 
! assets are $500.  His liabilities  are $2,200,
brokers, have dissoved, J.  H.  Thaw  retir- J including a chattel  mortgage for $600,  held 
ing.  The business will be  continued at the J by his brother-in-law.  The  failure appears 
same location by T.  S.  Freeman, under his  to be a family affair, 
own  name. 

Detroit—Stephen Baldwin, who has been
Geo. H. Eccles,  who recently failed in the | special partner in the  wholesale  dry  goods
house of Edson,  Moore  &  Co.,  since  the 
grocery business at Sault Ste.  Marie, was in 
formation of the firm sixteen years ago, has 
town  last week  and arranged to settle with 
retired to devote more attention  to  his  ex­
all  his  creditors  here on the basis of 50 per | 
tensive  Canadian 
lumber  interests.  His 
cent,  cash and long-time notes for balance.
capital,  however,  remains  in  the  firm as 
T. J. Sheridan has  formed  a  copartner­
long as it is  needed  or  desired.  Frank  S. 
ship with his brother,  Chas.  L.  Sheridan, 
Munger, who has  been  an employee of the
and the two will  continue  the  business of I grm from  the  first,  has  been  admitted to
manufacturing  shingles  and  lumber  and 
conducting a general store  near  Woodville j 
under the style of T. J. Sheridan & Co.

partnership.

M A N U FA C T U R IN G   M A T T E R S.

T. J. Sheridan  has  purchased a tract  of

Traverse  City—Mr.  Albright  succeeds
28,000  acres  of  pine  land  in  the  Upper J Kenney & Albright  in  the  manufacture of 
Peninsula,  including  a complete  saw  and I brooms.
shingle mill plant, on  which  he  will begin j  Graafschaap—Strabbing Bros.  & Co. have 
operations in the spring.  The  tract is esti-  refitted their feed mill  and added a flour ex 
mated 
100,000,000 feet of  shingle and lumber  tim- J 
Jackson—The Geo. T.  Smith  Middlings 
ter, and  Mr. Sheridan  will  contract  with  Purifier Co. has declared a  dividend  of  32 
two  or  three  other  mills  to  assist  in the J per cent, on its $300,000 capital, 
cutting.

to  change department,

from  75,000,000 

to  contain 

AROUND  THE  STATE.
Athens—M.  V.  Ensminger, 

hardware

dealer, is dead.

Linden—Jos.  Wise,  general  dealer, 

has

teen closed by creditors.

Bellevue—Farlin &  Latta  succeed  Wm. 

Farlin in the meat business.

Freeport—E. H. Sisson succeeds Sisson & 

Catt in the grocery business.

Bellevue—Hare  &  Cooper  succeed  A. 

Hare in the hardware business.

Tra.iflma.7oo—A.  M.  Munn, crockery deal­

er,  has assigned to David Fisher.

Reed City—J. W. Deuel  succeeds  Deuel 

& Turnbull in the grocery business.

Sparta—Eugene  Hinman  has bought the 

boot and shoe stock of  E. R.  Hubbard,

Detroit—I. Joachimstahl  &  Co.  succeed 
M. Harris & Co.  in the  millinery  business.
Eaton  Rapids—F.  E.  Turrell  succeeds 
Turrell & Wright in the hardware business
Vicksburg—Chas.  H.  Haines  succeeds 
J. F. Young & Co. in  the  hardware  busir 
ness.

Sault 3te. Marie—Peppard  &  McKinney, 
late  of  Jackson,  have  opened  a grocery 
store.

Detroit—G.  T.  Foster  succeeds  G.  T. 
Foster &  Co.  in  the  wholesale  millinery 
business.

Paw  Paw—Fred  Bilsborrow 

succeeds 
Demming  &  Bilsborrow  in  the  hardware 
business.

Paw Paw—H. P.  Nelson  has  purchased 
the building  and furniture  stock of L.  W. 
Osborn.

Bay City—G. R. Fox, dealer  in  crockery 
and wall paper,  has assigned  to  Allen  L. 
Stewart.

Negaunee—Thomas  Wells  and  Edward 
Blake have bought the  stock  in  the  Iron 
Cliff store.

Parma—B.  J.  Simpson  &  Co.,  general 
dealers,  have assigned  to  Geo.  P. Glazier, 
of Chelsea.

Manistee—J. P. J.  Krogen  will  open  a 
hardware  store  at  the comer of  First  and 
MeKee streets.

Northport—B. N. Pickard has taken pos' 
session of the Nelson & Co.  general  stock 
on a bill of sale.

Freeport—S. R. Hunt has re-purchased  a 
half interest  in  the  furniture  business of 
J. W. Fogelsong.

Muskegon—Gow,  Majo  &  Co.  shipped 
about 1,500 tons of  sawdust  to  the  Terra 
Cotta Co.,  at Pullman, 111., during 1887.

Lake  Brewster—C.  E,  Brewster  &  Co. 
have received an order for a  full  carload of 
peavey handles from Washington Territory.
Sturgis—F. W. Wait  received  the  plant 
and  business of  the Wait Furniture  Co.  as 
a birthday present from his  father, one day 
last week.

Grand  Junction—John  A.  Wright  has 
purchased  the  DeForrest property, and re­
port has it that he  will  turn it into a furni­
ture factory.

Muskegon—Hackley & Hume will build a 
new refuse burner 26 feet  in  diameter  and 
80 feet high,  with  a  spark  arrester at the 
top 20 feet high.

Bay City—Pitts & Cranage  have  cut 18,- 
000,000  feet  of  a  40,000,000  tract  near 
Ogemaw,  and  will  finish  the  job in two 
years.  The logs are railed to Bay City.

Grayling—What is thought  by  an expert 
to be one of the  finest  boards  every sawed 
in Michigan  was  lately  turned out by Sail­
ing,  Hanson & Co. 
It  was  3x16,  56  feet 
long,  and free from speck or blemish.

Pinconning—W.  G.  Cogswell  has  con­
tracted  to  cut  the  shingle  timber on the 
Sage tract, near Long lake, on  the  Detroit 
& Alpena road,  and  is  building  a  shingle 
mill of 45,000 daily capacity,  which will be 
doubled if necessary.

Sleight Station—J. A. Doty &  Co.  have 
teen  making  extensive  improvements  in 
their mill, including the addition  of  a new 
edger.  They are at present engaged in fill­
ing an order from the Milbum wagon works, 
of Toledo.

Bay City—E.  C. Hargrave,  A.  C.  Haven, 
Mrs. E. J.  Hargrave  and  J.  Vance,  have 
formed a copartnership  under the  style  of 
Hargrave,  Haven & Co.,  and  will  build a 
shingle mill with a daily capacity of  25,000, 
to be running by the opening of  navigation, 
on  the  site  of  one  of  half  the  capacity, 
which was owned by Murphy & Dorr.

Acme—Buller  Bros.,  proprietors  of  the 
Acme woolen mills,  are  moving  their  ma­
chinery to Traverse  City,  where  they will 
occupy a new $5,000 building.  The change 
is made to secure better shipping  facilities. 
A man  named  Fisher,  living  in  Coral,  is 
negotiating  for  the  old  Acme  property, 
which he  wishes to turn  into a shingle and 
feed mill  and broom handle factory.

to 

about 

goods  amounting 

Marion—E. W. Marshall,  of  Elsie,  will 
Muskegon—The Muskegon Valley Furni­
erect a store  building  here  and engage in 
ture Co. uses about  1,000,000 feet of lumber
trade in the spring.
Ionia—Assignee  Wardle  has  sold  the  annually, and carries in  stock  from 1,500,- 
Bradley & Campbell furniture stock to Geo. 1000 to 2,000,000 feet, and a stock of finished 
H. Allured & Son. 
$65,000
Three  Rivers—Y.  G.  Roberts  succeeds J About $5,000 monthly are paid out ih wages 
E. E.  Chamberlain & Co. in  the  book  and  to the 150 employes.  The factory  contains 
wall paper  business. 
j 45 machines and has four  dry  kilns.  The
Bangor—The  A.  M.  Harrison  general  greater part of the lumber used is  oak  and 
stock is being closed out at  auction, greatly  ash, the remainder being mostly  maple and 
to  the  demoralization  of  legitimate  bus-  soft woods.
-inessi 

teen
Muskegon—Dennis  Smith *  Co.,  dealers  organized to conduct the business  formerly 
in house furnishing goods,  have  teen  dam- j carried on by Ames & Frost  and  the  Mus-
to  the  extent  of | kegon  Curtain  Roll  Co.  The  authorized 
aged by fire and  water 
capital is $75,000,  $60,000 of  which  is paid 
$5,000. 
up,  being  held  as  follows:  F.  B.  Stock- 
bridge,  Kalamazoo,  $7,500;  O.  W.  Jobn- 
The J son,  St. Ignace, $7,500; Thomas Kane,  Chi­
cago,  $15,000;  E. F.  Hartshorn,  Newark,
Detroit—Walter H. Draw  has purchased 1N. J., $5,000;  Francis  Smith,  F. A. Nims, 
an interest In the grate and mantle business  H. J. Hoyt, D. JD. Erwin,  Wm. Carpenter, 
of P. A.  Billings.  The  new  fern  will be I $500  each;  A. F. Temple,  $22,500;  D. D. 
known as P. A. Billings & Co. 
\  I Irvin, trustee, $15,000.  The  officers of the
Mn*r—E: H. Ely,  Who recently purchased j new corporation are as  follows:  President)

Cadillac—Arthur H. Webber  has  bought 
the drug stock of  R.  J.  Cummer  &  Co., 
comprising li. J. and Jacob Cummer, 
firm has been dissolved

Muskegon—The  Temple  Co.  has 

Insured.

Francis  B.  Stockbridge;  Vice-President, 
Thomas Kane; Treasurer and General Man­
ager,  A.  F.  Temple;  Secretary,  D.  D. 
Erwin. 

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:

STRAY  FACTS 
Bronson—There  were  no 

failures  here

during 1887.

Marion—John Fero, late of Hartwick, has 

opened a blacksmith shop.

Lansing—rSedina  &  Liclite, tailors,  have 

dissolved,  Sedina  continuing.

Howell—A.  Garland  succeeds Garland & 

Homing in the tailor business.

East Saginaw—A receiver  has  teen  ap­
pointed for the plumbing  firm  of  Haas  & 
Edinger.

Adrian—Wesley  &  Sons, 

the  Adrian 
clothiers, recently  regaled  their  customers 
with hot coffee and doughnuts.

Freeport—C.  D.  Beebe  and  C. H. Van 
Arman,  of Hastings, have under  considera­
tion  the  establishment  of  a  bank  at this 
place.

Paris—W. D.  Hopkinson,  formerly  en­
gaged in business here,  has  returned from 
Dakota and entered the  employ of Stickney 
& Co. as  book-keeper.

Frankfort—Frank L. Fuller  has  sold his 
half interest in the Bank  of  Frankfort to a 
new firm which will be known  as  Chandler 
Bros. & Co.  They will  continue  business 
under the same style.

Detroit—James L. Lee and Fred McGraw 
have entered the wholesale dry goods house 
of Root, Strong & Co.  Mr.  Lee  has  teen 
with the house for  ten  years  and Mr. Mc­
Graw for eighteen years.
Detroit—The  Meat 

Inspectors  have 
claimed that  the  city  ordinance  was  not 
strong enough to allow  them  to  confiscate 
and  destroy  diseased  meat.  The matter 
was brought before the  Health  Board  and 
Health Officer Duffield was instructed to se­
cure the ordinances of  other cities and pre­
sent them at the next meeting.

Traverse  City—Wm.  Clement is locating 
a camp at Cat-tail Point, on Carp Lake.  He 
has bought a large  amount of  land  in  that 
locality,  and  will cut the  timber  into  saw- 
logs and  square  timber.  Mr.  Clement has 
already cut 57,000  cubic  feet of  white pine 
in Wexford county.  One piece cut squared 
44 inches,  55 feet long,  and clear of  a knot, 
which  is  considered  to  be the largest and 
best piece of  timber so far cut in the Grand 
Traverse region.

Detroit—The Peninsular White Lead and 
Color Works, which  was  inaugurated  and 
maintained by Farrand,  Williams & Co.  up 
to January 1, was  then merged into a stock 
company under the same  style.  The  capi­
tal stock is $100,000  three-quarters paid in. 
The officers are as follows:  President,  W. 
C. Williams;  Vice-President,  R.  P.  Will­
iams; Secretary,  A.  S.  Brooks; Treasurer, 
J. S. Farraud,  Jr,;  Auditor,  H.  C.  Clark 
Manager,  D; Av  Harrison;  Superintendent, 
C. T. Abel.  The  institution starts out un­
der-favorable auspices.

Purely Personal.

Andy Johnson,  of Lowell,  has  returned 

from California.

JohnE. Thurkow, President of the Morley 
B. M.  A., was in town one day  last  week 
Heber Walsh, the Holland  druggist, mil 
ler and lumberman,  was in town last Friday 
for a few hours.

J. M. Boyd,  of the storage  house  of Ap 
is in 

pleby,  Clark & Co.,  at  Minneapolis, 
town for a few days.

Jas. W.  Seymour has recovered  from his 
rheumatic attack and  resumed his old posi­
tion as billing clerk for Wm.  Sears & Co.

E. E. Whipple, Manager of the  Whipple 
Harrow Co.,  at Eaton Rapids,  has  returned 
from an extended business trip  through the 
East.

W.  J. Seymour,  of  Seymour  Lake,  Oak­
land  county,  raised  $90  worth of pepper­
mint oil this season from three-fourths of an 
acre of land.

J. M.  Carr, who failed in the shingle mill 
business here a couple of years  ago,  is now 
operating  a  shingle  mill  at  Shingleton, 
Alger county.

John  P.  Homiller,  late  with  the  Sligh 
Furniture  Co.,  has  taken  the  position of 
bookkeeper  for  the  McCord  &  Bradfield 
Furniture Co.

S.  S. Morris,  6f  the wholesale provision 
house of S.  S. Morris & Bro., at Muskegon, 
was in town last Wednesday and beamed on 
his brother jobbers.

Col. I. E. Messmore’s  present  address is 
7  South  Main  street,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 
The numerous creditors  of  that gentleman 
will please take notice.

Geo. B. Dunton leaves to-night for Peoria, 
HI., where he will spend a couple  of  days. 
He will visit some of the bowl  factories of 
Kentucky before returning.

Geo.  D.  Conger, formerly with  the  Sligh 
Furniture  Co.,  but  more  recently  with 
Conant Bros.,  at Toledo,  is no longer in the 
employ of  the latter  house.

Capt.  C. G. Perkins will  oome  up  from 
Henderson,  Ky.,  next  week to attend the 
annual meetings of the Hazeltine & Perkins 
Drug Co. and  Peninsular  Novelty Co.,  in 
both  of  which  corporations  he is a heavy 
stockholder.

John F. Gill has severed  his  connection 
with Spring*  Company,  and  haagoneto 
Boston to  accept  one  of two positions of­
fered him by houses there.  He is  succeed­
ed with Spring &  Company  by  Calvin  S. 
Gray, late with the Chase  Bros.  Piano Co.

A  new  price  list  for  rubbers  and  lawn tennis  shoes has been adopted by the  com­
It will advance the  price  of men’s boots 25c, lum­

panies, to  take  effect  Feb.  1,1888. 
bermen’s  10 to 30c,  and  lawn tennis 10c. a pair.  The list price is to be as follows:

RUBBER  BOOTS.

Hip boots, pur© gum .........................   ...........................
H unting boots, pure  gum ...............................................
Knee boots, pure gum .....................................................
Short boots, pure g u m . ........ :..................................
Hip boots, dull finish.....................................................
Hunting boots, dull  finish..............................................
Knee boots dull finish............. .......................................
Short boots, dull finish, light or heavy........................
Short boots, pebble leg, wool lined, light or heavy. 
Short boots, pebble leg, cotton lined, light or heavy.
Storm King boots,................ ............................................
Firemen’s boots.................................................................
Wading pants, pure  gum — ...............  ......................
Wading pants, dull finish.................................................

6 50 
6 50 
5 50 
5 00 
5 60 
5  60 
4  50 
4 25 
4 25
5ÓÒ 
4  50 
14 00 
12  00

Double soles, 25c extra per pair. Extension edge soles 50c extra per pair. 

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Aukle boots, adjustable buckle, solid beel and tap.
Ankle boots, adjustable buckle, no heel.  ...............
Ankle boots, solid heel and  tap..................................
Ankle boots, no  heel.....................................................
Extra heavy overs, heel and tap............................... .
E xtra heavy overe, no  heel.........................................
Manitoba overs,  no heel..............................................
Montana overs, heel and tap, autom atic buckle__
Montana overs, no  heel, autom atic  buckle............
Extra heavy overs, heel and tap, Wilkey strap___
E xtra heavy overs, no heel, Wilkey strap..............
Ontario overs, heel and tap........................................
Ontario overs, no heel..................................................

Ankle straps, 15 cents per pair extra.

ARCTICS  AND  ALASKAS.

PfttfiTit, Arntiftfi (finow exciuders)..........................................................
f.mnhfirmfin's  Arntifis, heel and tap ...................................................
hern.en’ft AretiCSj no heel............................................................
A reties, extra heavy.............................................. ...............................
A reties' extra heavy, rough counter and toe...................................
A reties, extra heavy, rough counter.............................................
Arctics,  light...........................................................................................
Western Arctics (back bucale).............................................................
Pure gun1  a reties  extra heavy
Buckle  Arctics........ .*.............................................................................
Buckle Arctics, spring heel..................................................................
Alaskas, wool-lined.................................................................................
Alaskas,  cotton-lined............................................................................
SELF-ACTING OVERS AND ALASKAS

1  90 
1 65 
1 65 
1  45 
1 35 
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1  75 
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Self acting, wool-lined Alaskas.......................................................................
Self-actingi cotton-lined Alaskas....................................................................

IMITATION  SANDALS.

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Im itation sandals and overs, medium and light........   .......
Im itation sandals and overs, pure m m .................................
Im itation sandals and overfi, starrett strap...........................
Im itation sandals and overs, back stra p ...............................
Croquet slippers, white fleece-lined.........................................
Croquet slippers extra heavy counters..................................
Croquet slippers, heeled and spring heeled..........................
Footholds.......................................................................................
Buskins..........................................................................................

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TENNIS  GOODS.

Men’s balm orals.............................................$1 75 1 Men’s Oxfords.....................  .........................$1 40
Women’s balm orals......................................   1 65  Women’s Oxfords...........................................  1 25
Misses’  balm orals................................. .—   1 50 j Misses’  O xfords......... ...................................   1  15
Children’s balm orals.....................................  1  35
Children’s Oxfords.........................................  105
Boys’  Oxfords................................................  1 25
Boys’  balm orals.............................................  1  65
Youths’balm orals.........................................  160
Youths’  ...........................................................  115

Leather trim m ings 16 cents extra.

Statistical Position of the Detroit Savings Banks.

The standing and strength of the eight saving banks of Detroit are a source of pride to 
every man  in Michigan.  That T h e  T r a d e sm a n ’s  readers may have an opportunity of 
judging of their  position, the  following  summarized  statement  has  been compiled from

Peninsular.......
D etroit.............

Capital
....  $500,000
....  250,000
....  200,000
...  200,000
....  150,000
....  150,000
....  100,000
....  100,000
....1,650,000
Totals.....................................................1,650,000

Surplus and 
undiv.  profits

128,667.91
9,663 79
151,939 11
2i.027.41
37,523.51
3)0,815.79
10,340.85
14,683.95
680,667.33

Deposits
4,491,617.68
326,981.84
3,331,456.82
1,103,761.93
925,000 66
3,942,559.33
590,272.08
721,723.57
15,435,381.20

Loans  and 
Discounts 
3,866,090. 88 
427,772.9!; 
2,388.156.21 
1.086.019.51
805.747.70 
2,000,987.14
524,780.49
602.102.71

11,761,657

Summarized Position of the Grand Rapids Banks.

The  Tradesman  herewith  presents  its  usual  quarterly  summary  of  the  reports 
made by the five National and two  savings  banks of  the city,  showing substantial gains 
in each institution:

National City...........................
Fourth National......................
Fifth National.........................
Grand Hapids Savings  .........
Kent County Savings............
Totals..............................

Capital 
.  $800,000
.  500,000
.  500,000
..  300,000
.  100,000
.  150,000
.  50,000
.2,400,000

Surplus
67,000
100,000
25,000
28,000
5,000

225,000

Undivided
Profits
93,284.46
77 071.33
38.240.76
32,059.21
7,854.12
46.23
11,241.15
258,797.26

Deposits
1,851,238.10
1,026,853.48
1,202,517.45
729,052.33
159.089.27
452,952.40
339,561.68
5,760,763.61

Loans and 
Discounts
2.301.3 fiUO
1.432.4 <8 74 
1,254,9
922,887.:’. i 
229,585. . i 
391,946.?’; 
354.686.9
6,887,854.40

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6,000  in h ab itan ts;  doing  a   large
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_ 

A dvertisem ents  w ill  be  inserted u nder this head fo r 
one cent  a  w ord th e first insertion  and one-half cen t a  
w ord fo r  each  subsequent  insertion.  No  advertise­
m en t taken  fo r less th a n  25 cents.  Advance paym ent.
A dvertisem ents  directing  th a t  answ ers  be  sen t  in  
care of th is office  m u st  be  accom panied by 35 
cents ex tra, to  cover expense o f postage.
I iOR SALE—FINEST STOCK  AND BEST-PAYING GRO- 
cery  business  in  Big  Rapids, on  account o f sick­
Y ___ 88**
ness.  A. V ollmer, Big Rapids, Mich. 
I pOR SALE—WHOLE OR PART INTEREST IN A FIRST 
class m eat m arket in  a   th riv in g   tow n  of  1,000 in
! 
A verage  sales  $30  per 
hab itan ts w ith  tw o  railroads, 
ddress H., c are Trades- 
day.  Good reasons fo r selling, 
219-tf
m an.
I AOR SALE—AT A  BARGAIN.  A 
CLEAN  STOCK  OF 
hardw are  and  mill  supplies. 
’ 
Address  W ayne 
Choate, Agent, E ast Saginaw.
210-tf
F OR SALE—THE BEST DRUG STORE IN  THE THRIV- 
ing  city of  Muskegon.  Terms  easy.  C.  L.  Brun- 
dage, M uskegon, Mich._______Y  
193-tf
F o r   e x c h a n g e —$1,000  w o r i h   o f   b o o t s  a n d
shoes,  fo r  pine lum ber dry and on  railroad.  Ad­
dress O, this office. 
230*
F o r   s a l e - a   n o .
MEAT  MARKET  IN  A  CITYOF
cash  business;
good reasons fo r  selling;  shop in  southw estern  Michi­
gan;  four  railroads  in   city.  Established  six  years. 
Address L, box 108, Niles, Mich. 
228*
F OR  SALE—t h e   s t o c k ,  FIXTURES  a n d   GOOD- 
will  of  th e  well-known  fish  and  oyster  m arket, 
“The  Baltim ore,” 20  Lyon St.,  w ith  th re e  y ears’ lease. 
Store newly fitted up.  E verything clean  and  nice and 
a   well established  cash  trade,  especially  w ith 
th e 
hotels  and  restaurants.  E verything  com plete.  Two 
fine  delivery  rigs.  Reason  for  selling,  proprietors 
have  investm ents  elsewhere.  W rite  or  call  on  B. F. 
Em ery, M anager. 
226
WANTED—POSITION  AS  BOOK-KEEPER OR SALES- 
m an by a m an of fifteen years’ experience.  Best 
of references.  Address box 400, Bangor, Mich. 
228*
W ANTED—1,000 MORE  MERCHANTS TO ADOPT  OUR 
Im proved Coupon  Pass  Book System.  Send fo r 
samples.  E. A. Stowe & Bro., G rand Rapids. 
225-tf 
\ \ T  ANTED — POSITION  BY  REGISTERED  DRUG 
VV 
clerk.  Six  y ears’  experience.  Speaks  English 
and  G erm an.  Best  of  reference  furnished.  Address 
107  Tradesm an. 
226*
W S m acist.  The  best  of  references.  Address.  N.
ANTED—POSITION  BY AN  EXPERIENCED PHAR 
.  The  be:
A. Vyne, Morley,  Mich.
W 4
ANTED-TWO  FIRST-CLASS  CIGAR  SALESMEN 
fo r  th e  road,  covering  th e  State  of  M ichigan. 
None bu t experienced and well recom m ended m en need 
225-tf
apply.  L ustig C igar Co.,  65 N orth Ionia St. 
W ANTED—AGENTS  TO  HANDLE  THE  NEW  CHEM- 
ical  In k   E rasing Pencil.  G reatest novelty ever 
produced.  Erases  ink  in  two seconds,  no abrasion  of 
paper.  200 to 500  p er  cent,  profit.  One  agent’s  sales 
am ounted to $620 in  six d ay s; an o th er $32 in tw o hours. 
T erritory  absolutely  free.  Salary  to  good  men.  No 
ladies need answ er.  Sample 35  cents.  F or  term s  and 
full p articulars address th e m anufacturers, J. W . Skin­
ner & Co., O nalaska, Wis. 
227*
ANTED—A  MAN  OR  FIRM  TO  TAKE  AN  INTER- 
w
est  in, and stock and handle th e output of a  new 
80-horse-power  factory  and  m ill  plant,  w hich  h as 
facilities fo r cu ttin g  and handling 3 to  4 m illion feet of 
logs  p er  annum   in   lum ber,  shingles,  b arrel heading, 
and planing m ill stock.  Has a  good dock, and railroad 
facilities  and is  in   one of  th e best locations  in  Michi­
gan.  Address  O. W. H orton, G rand Rapids, Micb.  225* 
O  BUSINESS  PAYS  BETTER  THAN  FRUIT  FARM- 
w
ing;  no fru it pays b etter th a n   th e peach;  no te r ­
rito ry  n o rth  of th e cotton states m ore reliable th a n  th e  
fam ous M ichigan lake shore  “Peach  Belt.”  B argains 
in  im proved and  unim proved farm s.  W rite fo r p rin t­
ed list.  H. J. Edgell, real  estate  agent,  South Haven, 
Mich. 

223-3t

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W ANTED  TO

(drugs  o r  hardw are  preferred).

EXCHANGE  FOR  MERCHANDISE- 
Two  hundred
and  sixty acres  of  land  in   B arry county,  Mich.,  and 
about $4,000 w orth of A No. 1 village property in one of 
th e’Best business  vUlages  in   th e  State.  W ell  rented, 
pays  a good  in terest  on  investm ent.  Address  Dr. A. 
H anlon, Elk R apids, Mich. 
225*
ANTED—SITUATION IN A GOOD STORE AS SALES - 
W J
m an, by young m an  of four years’ experience in  
general  m erchandise  and  drugs.  Good  references. 
226*
Address R., Box 75, Sherman, W exford Co., Mich. 
W ANTED
SITUATION  AS  CLERK  IN  A  GENERAI 
grocery store.  Had two years experience.  Refer-
Address 
226*
W ANTED—TO  BUY  GOOD  ESTABLISHED  HARD- 

w are  business  in  prosperous  place w here busi­
ness  is  not  overdone, or  to learn of  good opening  to  
p ut in   new  stock.  Correspondence  confidential.  Ad­
226*
dress box 275, Pontiac, Mich. 
ON  ROAD, 
aces 
226*

enees  given,  if  wanted, 
box 338, Nashville, Mich.

ANTED—SITUATION  IN  STORE  OR 

two years experien 
Can  ta lk   German,

given.  Address Í06, this  office.

TIME  TABLES.
'Grand Rapids & Indiana.

All T rains daily except Sundny.
GOING  NORTH.

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Arrives.
Traverse City <fc M ackinaw E x.........8:455a m
Traverse C ity &  Mackinaw  E x.......
T raverse City  &  Mackinaw  E x ....  7:30pm
Cadillac Express...............................   8:40 p m
Saginaw  Express............ ..................IX :25 a m
............................... 10:30 a m .

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

Saginaw  express runs through solid.
9:05 a. m. tra in  has  ch air  ca r to   Traverse  City  and 
11:80 a. m. tra in  has ch air car  fo r Traverse  City, Pe­
10:40 p. m, tra in  has sleeping ears for T raverse  C ity, 

Mackinaw.
toskey and M ackinaw City.
Petoskey and Mackinaw".

GOING  SOUTH.
C incinnati  Express..........................  
F o rt W ayne Express....................... 10:30 a m  
Cincinnati  Express......................... 4:40 p m  
Traverse City and Mackinaw Ex. .10:50 p m  

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

7:15 a m  tra in   has  parlor  chair  car  fo r  Cincim iati. 
5:00 p m  tra in  has W oodruff sleeper fo r C incinnati. 
5:00 p.  m. tra in  connects  w ith M. C. R. R. a t K alam a­
zoo fo r B attle C reek,  Jackson,  D etroit  and C anadian 
points, arriv in g  in D etroit a t 10:45 p. m.

M u s k e g o n ,  G r a n d   R a p i d s   &   I n d i a n a .  

Leave. 
A rrive.
6 SO a m .......................................................................10:10am
1 1 0 0 a m ...................................................... .............  4:30pm
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 c k w o o d , Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Detroit, L ansing  &  Northern.

G rand R apids & Saginaw  Division.

D EPART.

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

All tra in s arriv e a t and d ep a rt from  U nion depot. 
Trains ru n  solid both  wax s.

A R RIV E.

Chicago & W est Michigan.
Leaves. 
tM ei!......................................................  9:10 a m  
tDay  Express.......................................12:80 p m  
*Night Express.....................................11:00 p m  
M uskegon E xpress................................5:00 p m 

Ai rives.
3:55 p m
9:45 p m
5:45 a m
11:00 a  m
♦Daily. 
Pullm an Sleeping C ars on all n ig h t  trains.  Through 
p arlo r ea r in charge of careful attendants  w ithout  ex­
tra  charge to  Chicago on 12:30 p. m., and th rough coach 
on 9:10 a. m. and 11 p. m. trains.

tDaily except Sunday.

N ew aygo Division.

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

A rrives.
4:20 p m
10:20 a m

All tra in s arriv e and depart from  U nion Depot.
The N orthern term inus of this division is a t Baldwin, 
w here close connection is  made  w ith  F. & P. M. tra in s 
to and from  Ludington and Manistee.

W. A. Gavbtt, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J. B. Mitllikex,  G eneral  M anager.

Detroit.  Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING  EAST.

 

 

A rrives. 
»Night E x p ress.,............................... 9:30 p m  
■(•Through  Mall.................................... 10:20 a m  
■(Evening Express.................................3:25 p m  
(■Detroit  Express..............................  
(Mixed, w ith  coach............... 
GOING W EST.
(M orning  Express................. 
1:05 p m  
(Through  M ail.................................   5:00 p m  
(G rand Rapids E xpress................... 10:40 p m
»Night Express..................................5:25am  
(Mixed................................................. 

Leaves.
10:55 p m
10:30 a m
3:50 p m
6:40 a m
11:00 a m
1:10 p m
5:10 p  m
5:40 a  m
7:45 a m
(Daily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily.
Passengers tak in g  th e  6:50  a  m  Express  m ake  close 
connection a t Owosso fo r Lansing,  and  a t  D etroit  fo r 
New  York,  arriv in g   th e re  a t  10:10  a  m  th e  following 
m orning.  The N ight Express has aW agner sleeping car.
J as. Campbell, City Passenger Agent. 

Geo. B. R eeve. Traffic M anager, Chicago.

 

MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER

No 

The  m ost practical 
h an d   R oaster  in  th e 
world.  Thousands In 
use—giving  satisfac­
tion.  They a re simple 
durable and  econom­
ical. 
grocer 
should  be  w ithout 
one.  Roasts  coffee, 
and  pea-nnts to   p er 
fection.
Send  fo r  circulars.

M . S.West,

ISO Long St., 
Cleveland, Ohio.

M

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I A ttorney a t P a te n t Law  an d  Solicitor 
’o f  A m erican  and  F oreign  patente. 
105 E. Main S f l Kalam azoo, Mich., U. S. A.  B ranch  of­
fice, London, Eng.  P ractice in U. S. Courts.  C irculars 
free.  .  :

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The New Rubber  Price List. 

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MISCELLANEOUS.

GENUINE K. of L.  CIGARS.
The product of  Organized,  Working  Ci- 
garmakers.  Established  Sept.  1,  1886, on 
the Co-operative plan by members of L.  A. 
6374, K.  of  L.  Smokers  and  Friends of 
Labor, Attention! 
If  you  are  opposed to 
filthy, tenement-house factories,  the servile 
labor of  coolies,  the  contracts  for  convict 
labor, give our Cigars a trial.
If you are in favor of shorter hours of labor, 
the  Saturday  half-holiday,  and  last,  but not 
least, the payment of higher and living wages 
in solid cash, give our Cigars a trial and accord 
them your most  liberal  patronage,  The yel­
low  K . of L. label  on  every  box.  One hun­
dred thousand sold within three months in the 
city of Detroit alone.'  W arranted to he  strict­
ly five and ten cent goods.  For further partic­
ulars, term s, prices, references, •-tc., address 

W .  E.  E fiU M   &  CO.,

W ernersville, B erks Co.. Pennsylvania.
CHAS.  E.  BREWSTER,
c a p   HOOK and PEai/Y H1NDLE8.

MANUFACTURER OF

Jobber 

in  H and-Shaved  W hite 

H ickory  Axe  H andles.

I  manufacture  my  handles  from  rived 
second  growth  maple,  turned 2 1-2,  2 9-16, 
2 11-16 at bulge as ordered.

My stock is  kiln-dried, and with a capac­
ity of  fifty doz.  per  day can  fill  all  orders 
promptly.

PROMPT ATTENTION  TO MAIL ORDERS.

BEANS!

I have  a  nice  lot  of  Hand­
picked  Beans  I  offer  to  the 
trade.  Parties in want can get 
supplied by writing to

W.  T.  LAMOREAUX,

L A K E   BREW STER,

MICH.

71  Canal Street, 

-  G rand R apids, Mich,

STEAM  LAUNDRY,
STANLEY N. ALLEN, Proprietor. 

43 and 45  K e n t Street, 

W E DO ONLY FIR ST CLASS W ORK AND 

USE  NO  CHEMICALS.

Orders by mail and express promptly attended to

WHOLESALE  AND RETAIL

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

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M ichigan  Business Wen’s  Association.

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P resident—F ran k  H am ilton, Traverse City.
F irst Vice-President—Paul P. M organ, Monroe.
8econd Vice-President—S. Lam from , Owosso.
S ecretary—E. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids.
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T reasurer—L. W. Sprague. G reenville. 
E xecutive Board—President,  Secretary-, Geo.  W . H ub­
b ard , F lin t; W. E. Kelsey, Ionia; Irv in g   F. Clapp, Al­
legan.
Com m ittee cm T rade Interests—Sm ith B arnes, Traverse 
C ity; C has. T. B ridgm an,  F lin t;  H.  B,  F argo,  Muske­
gon.
Oommm itte  on le g isla tio n —F ran k  W ells, Lansing; W. 
E. Kelsey, Ionia; Neal McMillan, Bockfdrd.
C om m ittee  on  T ransportation—J.  W.  M illlken,  T rav­
erse CSty; Jno. P. Stanley, B attle C reek;  W m. Rebec, 
E ast Saginaw.
Comm ittee on  Insurance—N.  B.  B laln,  Lowell;  E.  V. 
H ogle, H astings: O. M. C lem ent, Cheboygan.
C om m ittee on  Buildin g   and  Loan A ssociations—F. L. 
F uller,  F ran k fo rt;  S.  E .P a rld ll,  Owosso;  WiU  Em- 
m ert, E ato n  Rapids.

Official O rgan—Th* Michioak Tbadesmak.

The following auxiliary associations  are op­
erating under  charters  granted  by the Michi­
gan Business Men’s Association:

N e .  1—T r a v e r s e  C it y  B . M . A . 
P resident, Geo. E. Steele; Secretary, L. R oberts.

P resident, N. B. Blain; Secretary. F ran k  T. King.

Ko. » -L ow ell  ®. M. A. 

K o .  3 —S t u r g i s  B . M . A . 

President. H. S. C hurch; S ecretary, Wm. Jo rn .
Ko.  4—Grand  Rapids  M.  A. 
P resident. Jas. A. Coye; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.

N o .  5 —M u s k e g o n  B .  M . A . 

P resident, H. B. F argo; Secretary, W, C. Conner.

P resident, F. W, Bloat; S ecretary, P. T. Baldwin.

K o . 6 —A l b a   B . M . A . 

K o .  7 —D i m o n d a l e  B . M . A . 

P resident, T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. W idger.

P resident, F. H. T hurston; S ecretary, Geo. L. Thurston.

Ko. 8—Eastpori B. M. A.
Ko, 9 —Lawrence B. M, A.

P resident, H. M. M arshall; Secretary, C. A. Stebbins.

'  o .  1 0 —H a r b o r  S p r i n g s  B . M . A . 

President, W, J, C lark; S ecretary. A. L. Thompson.

K o .ll—Kingsley B. M. A.

P resident, H. P. W hipple; Secretary, C. H.  Camp.

President, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon.

K o .  1 2 —Q u in c y  B . M . A .

P resident, H. B. S turtevant: S ecretary, W.  G. Shane.

K o .  1 3 —S h e r m a n  B . M . A . 

K o .  1 4 — N o .  M u s k e g o n   B . M . A . 
President, S. A. Howey; S ecretary, G. C. H avens.
K o .  1 5 -   B o y n e  C it y   B .  M .  A .  ' 

P resident. R. R. P erkins;  Secretary, J. F. F airchild.

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K o .  1 6 —S a n d  L a k e   B .  M .  A . 
P resident, J. V. C randall:  S ecretary, W. Rosco.

No. 17—Plainw ell B. M. A. 

President, M. Bailey, S ecretary, J. A. Sidle.
K o .  1 8 —O w o s s o   B .  M . A . 

P resident, S. E, P arkill; Secretary, S. Lam from .

Ko.  1»—Ada B. M. A. 

President, D. F. W atson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel.

K o .  2 0 —A a u g a t u e k   B .  M . A . 

President, John F. H enry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps.

K o . 2 1 — W a y l a a d   B . M .  A . 

P resident, C. H. W harton; Secretary, M. V. H oyt.

K o ,  2 2 —G r a n d   L e d g e  B . M . A . 

P ersident, A. B. Schum acher; Secretary, W .  R.  Clarke.

K o . 2 3 —C a r s o n  <  i t y   B .  M . A . 

P resident, F. A. Rockafellow ;  Secretary,  C. O. Trask.

P resident, J. E. Thurkow ;  Secretary, W, H. Richm ond.

K o . 2 4 —M o n e y   BS.  M . A .

K o . 2 5 —P a l o   f t  M .  A .

President, Chas. B. Johnson; Secretary, H. D. Pew.

K o .  2 6 —G r e e n v i l l e   K . M .  A . 

President. L. W. Sprague; S ecretary, E. J. Clark.

President, E. S. B otsford; Secretary, L. N. Fisher.

K o   J  7—D o r r   B . M .  A . 

President, J .  H. T uttle;  Secretary, H. G. Dozer.

K o .  2 8 —C h e b o y g a n   B . M . A  
No. 29—F reep o rt B. M.  A.
N o .  3 0 —O c e a n a   ft .  M .  A .

President, Wm. Moore;  Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrough.

President, A. G. A very;  Secretary, E. S. H oughtaling 

N -.. 3 1 —C h a r l o t t e   B   M .  A . 

P resident, Thos. J. Green;  Secretary, A. G. Fleury.

K o . 3 2 —C 'o o p e r s v ille   B . M . A . 

President, G. W. W atrous;  Secretary, J. B. W atson.

N o .  3 3 —C h a r l e v o i x   fS.  M .  A . 

President, Jo h n  Nieholls;  Secretary, R. W. Kane.

N o . 3 4 —S a r a n a c   B .  M . A . 

President, Geo. A. P o tts;  S ecretary, P, T. W illiam s.

N o .  3 5 — B e l l a l r e   K . M . A  

President, Wm. J. N ixon; Secretary, G. J. N oteware.

K o .  3 6 —I t h a c a   B .  M . A .

P resident, O. F. Jackson;  Secretary, John  M. Everden.

N o .  3 7 —B a t t l e   C r e e k   B .  M . A . 

President,  Geo. H. Rowell;  Secretary,  Jno.  P. Stanley.

N o .  3 8 —S e o t t v i l l e   B .  M .  A . 

P resident, H. E. Symons; Secretary, D. W. Higgins.

Ko. 39  Burr Oak B. M. A. 
President, B. O. G raves;  S ecretary,  H. M. Lee.
No. 40—Eaton Rapids B. M. A. 

President, F. H. DeGalin; Secretary, W ill Em m ert.

N*. 41—Breckenridge  B. M. A. 

President, W . Q. W atson; Secretary, C.  E. Scudder.

Ko.  4 2—Fremont B. M  A. 

P resident, Jos. G erber;  S ecretary  C. J. Rathbun.

P resident, G. A. E stes; S ecretary, G. W. Bevins.

Ko. 43—Tusttn B. M. A. 

Ko. 44—Reed City B. M. A.

President, C. J. Fleischhauer;  S ecretary,  W. H. Sm ith.

Ko. 45—H oytville B . M.  A .

President, D. E. H allenbeck; Secretary, O. A. H alladay.

P resident, W m . H ntchins; Secretary, B. M. Gould.

No. 46— Leslie B. ML A. 

No.  47 -F lin t  M.  U. 

P resident, W. C. Pierce; Secretary, W, H. G raham.

No. 48—Hubbardston  B. M. A. 
President, Boyd R edner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor.

President,  A.  W enzell; Secretary, F rank Sm ith.

Ko. 49—1/eroy  B  M.  A. 

K o . 5 0 —M a n is te e  B .  M . A . 

P resident, C. D. G ardner; Secretary, H. W. Leonard.

P resident, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon.

No. 51—Cedar  Springs  B.  M.  A. 
Ko. 52—Grand Haven B. M. A. 

President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, Wm. Mieras.
Ko, 53—Bellevue B. M. A. 

President, F ran k  P helps; S ecretary, John H. York.

Association  Notes.

W. Rosco,  Secretary  of  the  Sand  Lake 

B. M. A. writes:  “ We are doing well.”

L.  N.  Fisher, Secretary  of  the  Dorr  B. 
M. A., dropped in one day  last  week  long 
enough to assure T he Tbadesm ak that his 
Association was  flourishing. •

Bellevue wants a roller grist mill and her 
business men claim to be  able  to  offer  the 
best advantages in Central  Michigan.  Ap­
ply to the  Secretary of  the B. M.  A.

Newaygo,  Ashton  and  South  Haven 
await appointments with the State  Organiz 
er.  Hesperia,  Hudson and Tecumseh  have 
the subject of organization under considera­
tion. 

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The Hartford B. M. A.  recently present­
ed B. W.  Stickney with a handsome revolv­
er in token of the appreciation of  the mem­
bers of the part he took in  the  capture ot a 
gang of safe breakers who operated in Hart­
ford.

A t the annual meeting of the Sand  Lake 
B. M. A., the following officers  were elect­
ed:  President, J. V. Crandall;  Vice-Presi­
dent,  M. V.  Wilson;  Secretary, W.  Rosco; 
Treasurer, H. F. Hamilton; Executive Com­
mittee, A. L. Sheets,  J. E.  Goul and A.  P.- 
Comstock.

At the last meeting of the Bellevue B. M. 
A.,  the  following  officers  were  elected: 
President,  Frank  Phelps;  Vice-President, 
A. J.  Sawyer;  Secretary, John  H.  York; 
Treasurer, B. D. Vaughan; Executive Com­
mittee, C. D. Kimberly,  Alfred  Hare  and 
N. EL Johnson.

Too much care cannot  be  exercised in re­
porting plainly  aad correctly  the names of 
persons sent to the State  Association by to­
tal secretaries.  Some  of the  reports are so 
illegible that it requires the  work ef an ex­
pert to decipher  them, and  even then mis^ 
takes cannot well be avoided.

A Palo correspondent  writes:  A tth e an-

noal meeting  of  the  Palo  B.  M. A., held 
Tuesday  evening, 
the  following  officers 
were  elected:  President,  Chas.  B. John­
son;  Vice-President,  Ira 8.  Jeffres;  Secre­
tary, Henry D.  Pew;  Treasurer, E. B. Sun- 
derlin.  The members report that the Asso­
ciation is. doing good work.

The banquet of  the Merley B. M. Â. last 
Monday evening was one  of  the  happiest 
events ever celebrated  in  this  State.  The 
m enu was appetizing,  the set  speeches  en­
tertaining  and  the  impromptu  responses 
witty.  President  Thurkow  entered  upon 
the duties of toastmaster with  much  trepi­
dation, but soon became  imbued  with  the 
spirit of  the occasion  and  acquitted  him­
self with great crédit.  The Morley Associ­
ation may hold many  more banquets, but it 
will never indulge in a more  thoroughly en­
joyable occasion than its first attempt in the 
entertainment line.

Petoskey Independent :  A t the Business 
Men’s meeting,  held  Wednesday  evening, 
considerable  business  of  importance  was 
discussed  and  taken  under advisement by 
representatives  of  the  Association.  The 
result of these findings  will  become public 
after the next  meeting.  The  Association 
may also have a banquet in  the  course of a 
month,  both for social and  business purpos­
es.  The  officers  elected  for  the  ensuing 
year are,  President, P. B.  Wachtel;  Vice- 
President, C. F. Hankey;  Secretary, E.  C. 
Bamuoi;  Treasurer,  G.  W.  Bump;  Execu­
tive  Committee,  Jas.  Buckley  and A. D. 
Fochtman.

A veteran advocate of the B. M. A. writes 
as follows :  “I am pleased to see  a  grow­
ing interest in Association work.  The sum­
mer months decrease  our  efforts  in  many 
walks and recovery is slow  and  often  late 
in  the  fall.  We  must  talk  banquet  for 
winter and holiday  picnic  for  summer. 
I 
am firmly of  the belief that a discussion of 
the  tariff  and  other  economic  questions 
should be included in the programme of our 
state meetings,  where they  could  be  shorn 
of  political  sentiment.  These  questions 
which concern  the  merchant—the  business 
man—are  handled  only  by  politicians  for 
gain,  and we have no  place  to  bring  our 
opinions to bear except at the  ballot.  How 
weak, how idle the masses of  business men 
are towards these abuses!  Our State Associ­
ation should be ‘up and dressed’ and express 
our sentiment on large question^.  We have 
a powerful lever,  a  broad  avenue,  but  it 
needs men of brain and power and  time  to 
push it to the highest point.  We have been 
working for two years  past  in  the  under­
brush, but I tell you there  are  vast  forests 
around us.” 

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Organization Inaugurated  at  Bangor.
The business  men of  Bangor met  at Odd 
Fellows’  Hall,  last  Friday evening,  for the 
purpose  of  organizing  an  Association. 
Geo. H.  Remington  called  the  meeting  to 
order,  when  N.  W.  Drake  was  selected to 
act  as  chairman  and J.  D.  Davis as secre­
tary pro tem.  The editor of  T h e   T r a d e s­
m an  explained  the  B. M.  A.  system  and 
read  the  local  constitution,  when  C.  C. 
Phillips  moved  that  all  those  in favor of 
organizing  such  an  Association  arise. 
Every one rose.  The  constitution  and by­
laws  presented  by  Mr.  Stowe  were  then 
adopted,  when  the  following  gentlemen 
handed 
charter 
membership :  A.  B.  Chase,  Silas DeLong, 
L. S.  Russell,  Chas.  W.  Peters,  Monroe & 
DeHaven,  W.  S.  Charles,  I.  N.  Graham, 
C.  C.  Phillips,  Hart Sackett, Geo.  H. Rem­
ington,  Henry Hammond,  M. A.  Clock,  G. 
Sinclair,  F.  N.  Camp,  J.  A.  Sherrod  & 
Son,  N.  W.  Drake,  Harvey  Bros., M. T. 
Hammond,  Wm.  Broadwell &  Son,  H.  D. 
Harvey,  Stevens  Bros.,  A.  C.  Runyan, 
L.  L.  Northrup,  A.  C.  Cross,  S. McMillan, 
J.  G.  Miller  &  Sou,  J.  D.  Davis,  C. A. 
Southard,  Oppenheim  Bros.,  Henry  De- 
Long,  S.  D.  Monroe,  I. B. Sheldon,  Geo. 
Chapman.

their  names 

for 

in 

Election of  officers resulted as follows : 
President—N.  W.  Drake.
Vice-President—Geo.  H. Remington.
Secretary—F.  M.  Harvey.
Treasurer—Silas DeLong.
Executive  Committee—Wm.  Broadwell 

W.  S.  Charles, C.  C. Phillips.

The Association  starts  out  under  flour 
ishing  auspices  and  is  destined  to  work 
great good to Bangor, her business men and 
everyone  who  is  in  any way interested in 
the prosperity of  the town.

Annual Meeting of No. 22.

Gr a n d   L e d g e , Jan. 5,  1888.

E. A. Stowe. Grand Rapids:

D ea r Sir—Enclosed herewith please find 
second  list  of  delinquents,  showing  the 
names of several former  citizens  now scat­
tered throughout the State.
At  our  monthly  meeting,  Wednesday 
evening,  the following  officers were elected 
for the ensuing year:

President—A. B. Schumaker. 
Vice-President—George  Campbell. 
Secretary—no choice.
Executive Committee—John  W. Fitzger­
ald,  F.  O. Lord and W.  C.  Westland.
The Secretaryship went begging, notwith­
standing the  fact  that  that  functionary’s 
salary was fixed at $40 per year.  The pres­
ent Secretary holds over for one month.

Yours truly,

W. R.  Cla r k e, Sec’y.

The Blue Letter at Muskegon.

F rom  th e Business Gazette.

At a recent meeting  of  the  Muskegon B. 
M. A., the following  members reported the 
number of Bine  Letters  sent  out  by  them 
and the amounts collected:
H D  B aker...
F H Johnson.
A P Conner &
A P e e r..........

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Blue Letters. Collectée
$25  00
43 73
10 00
39 67
15 00
79 00
19 00
25 00
32 43
28 75
$317 48

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Capital Report From the Owosso Associa- 

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tion. 
Owosso, Jan. 3,  1888.

IS. A. Stovre, Grand Rapids:
Hear  Sib—Oar  Association  is  in  a 
flourishing condition.  There  has  been but 
little attention paid lately to  the  collection 
department, owing to the rash of  business, 
characteristic of  this  season  of  the  year, 
but yet we collected last week  for  one  of 
our merchants, an account ef  $64.25, of be­
tween  three  and four years’ standing,  and 
worthless.  All  those  who  have  availed 
themselves of  the Blue Letter and Associa­
tion Sheet have derived more or  less  bene­
fit and are well  pleased  with  the  results. 
At our annual meeting the following officers 
were elected for the ensuing  six months: 

President—S. E.  Parkill. 
Vice-President—E. L. Brewer. 
Secretary—S. Lamfrom.
Treasurer—H.  W.  Parker.
Executive  Committee—S.  E.  Parkill,  S. 
Lamfrom, E. A.  Todd,  C. S.  Williams and 
T. D. Dewey.
Our President-elect  will  deliver  an  in­
augural address next  Friday evening.  We 
will also shortly hold  another  Association 
banquet.
My semi-annual report  as  Secretary  was 
as follows:

RECEIPTS.

Ju ly .
July

EXPENDITURES.

July  1  Cash in treasury......................$7152
July  2  Banquet tickets............. .........   92 50
Membership fees and dues......  67 50
82
Blue  Letters............................ 
Total................... J.......... .  235.34
Secretary’s salary...................$  15 00
Hall rent for banquet..............   5 00
•  ”  Decorations for banquet..........  23 00
“  “  Decorating stands....................  6 48
“  **  Printing  invitations  and tick­
ets.........................................   7 00
“  H. W. Parker, for check man., 
l 50
“  Ladies’ Guild Society...............   m  00
“  “  J. L. Decker, for  printing pro­
grammes...............................
8  00 
”  “  W. Decker’s K. T. band........
13  00
“  “  C.  H.  Kelsey,  for decorating
paper..........................
75
for
Printing  Co., 
letter heads...........................
2 25 
W. F. G. Koth, ringing bell.....
4 00
Sept  1  J. H. Champion & Co.,  for  ap­
pendix to delinquent list and
public meeting....................
500 postal cards.................." ’ ’ ’
For per capita  dues  and char­
Wood......................
Printing postal cards.
Recording fee  for  incorporat­

ter fee..........................

Aug  6  Times 

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Oct

ing  articles..................

3  00 
5 00
19 60 
1 50 
1 25
50
.$227 83
In 

Total  expenses.
Leaving-  a  balance 

treasury  of....................$  751
The number  of  notification  sheets  sent 
out by me since July 1 is thirty-four,  sixteen 
of which paid or made arrangements to pay 
and eighteen will be  ready  for  the  delin­
quent list as soon  as  the  Executive  Com­
mittee meet and  investigate.  The  number 
of members added since that  time  is  te n -  
one honorary and nine active members.  We 
have lost two members—one by withdrawal, 
by reason of closing out  business  and  re­
moving from our jurisdiction,  and the other 
by reason  of  non-payment  of  dues.  Our 
organization was chartered  as  No.  18,  on 
Oct. 20,  1887, and on Oct. 22 was legally in­
corporated and duly recorded by the County 
Clerk of  Shiawassee county.  We affiliated 
with the State  Association  with  sixty-six 
members.  The whole number  of  members 
now in  good  standing  is  sixty-eight—one 
honorary  and  sixty-seven  active  members. 
Many important  improvements  have  bee- 
accomplished through  the  enthusiasm  and 
efforts of this Association,  of  which the lo­
cation of  the car and  repair shops and that 
of the Starkey Shook factory are most note­
worthy.  The  collection  department  has 
been satisfactory and  beneficial to all mem 
bers who have  availed  themselves  of  the 
Blue Letter and the  Association Sheet, and 
it is generally conceded that  the credit sys 
tem has been curtailed through  this Associ­
ation.  Having experienced  such  flattering 
success and prosperity,  it is hoped  and  ex­
pected that the members will feel interested 
and perform  their duty  by  attending  our 
frequent meetings and co-operating with the 
officers for the future welfare of the Associ­
ation, and striving to make  this the banner 
Business Men’s Association  of  the State of 
Michigan,  and let us ever bear in  mind that 
harmony is the strength of  all institutions 

Respectfully  submitted,

S.  L am from,  Soc’y.

Under date of January  7  Mr.  Lamfrom 

writes:

!

At our regular meeting  last evening,  the 
newly-elected officers  took  their respective 
stations.  We had a splendid turn-out.  Our 
President-elect,  S.  E.  Parkill,  delivered a 
fine inaugural, which you will  undoubtedly 
receive for publication.  The following res­
olutions were requested to  be  published in 
T h e   T r a d e sm a n :
Resolved,  By the Owosso Business Men’s 
Association,  that we  extend to the Cadillac 
Business Men’s Association and citizens our 
sincere and unanimous  thanks  for the cor 
dial and friendly  greeting  and  hospitality 
extended by them to our  members and citi­
zens,  at their banquet in honor and celebra­
tion of the happy event of uniting us by the 
iron rail of the Toledo,  Ann Arbor & Cadil­
lac Railway; also to Hon.  A.  W. Wright, for 
his gracious  entertainment  at  his  elegant 
hotel in Alma and to J. M.  Ashley, Jr., for 
his untiring efforts in our entertainment and 
comfort;  and be it further
Resolved,  That a  copy.of  these  resolu­
tions be  forwarded  to  T h e   T r a d e sm a n , 
the Official Organ of the Association.

The LeRoy Association to Hold a Banquet.

LeRoy, Jan. 6,  1888.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids;
Dear  Sir—The  LeRoy  B. M.  A.  held 
its annual meeting on Wednesday  evening. 
There was a good  attendance and we had a 
good time.  Nearly all the members report­
ed good success in the collection of doubtful 
accounts.  All the old officers were re-elect­
ed for the ensuing year.  We  also  voted to 
have a grand banquet  at the Brooks House 
on Friday evening, January 13.  This  was 
proposed by Slim Jim,  who  stated  several 
times during the meeting that we should in­
vite the Tustin B. M. A. and that  the main 
object was to make  a  pleasant  feeling be- 
tweep the two  towns.  We  hold  a special 
meeting Tuesday evening for the purpose of 
admitting two  new  members,  which  will 
give us a total membership of  fifteen.  We 
are all in good working order now and each 
member is well pleased with the working of 
the Association.  Yours truly,

F rank Smith,  Sec’y.

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Fenner and Wood Chopper wants.  First 

teen sawed  by  one man In 9 
vS S P ríi l l  K M B  ■ daily;  “Mxacilv 1 
from

8089. Csnal Street, GUoago, UL

fjarbware.

These  prices  are  for cosh buyer»,  who  pay 

 

.dis 

BOLTS.

BELLS.

— dis

BARROWS.

BALANCES.

...dis
djft

AUGERS AMD BITS.

promptly and buy in full packages.
iye& old Style................. 
dis
dis
Douglass’..................................... 
Pierces’ ................................  .  .........dis
Snell’s ............................ 
"!.!d is
Cook’s  ............... 
dis
Jennings’, genuine___ _ ._____ _  ". . . . dis  m
Jennings’, im itation................................disSO&LO
Spring.............................  
40
R ailroad........ ...............................................$  14 00
Garden...............  
.....net 33 00
Hand ...  ............
Cow......... ...........
70
C all......................
30&15
G ong.................
25
Door. Sargent... 
60&10
Stove....................
0
Carriage  new list................................dis
7C&10
Plow  ...........................................   I.......dis
50
Sleigh Shoe....... 
................................. dis
W rought Barrel  Bolts..................... .. dis 
60
Cast  Barrel  Bolts................................. dis 
40
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs................... dis 
40
Cast Square Spring.............................dis 
60
Cast C hain............................................dis 
40
W rought Barrel, braes  knob............dis 
60
W rought S quare................................. dis 
60
W rought Sunk Flush..........................dis 
60
W rought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
T F lu sh ....................... ...........................dis  60&10
Ives’ Door............................................. dis  60&10
40
B a rb er...................................................dis$ 
Backus.........................  
..dis  50&10
Spofford................................................. dis 
50
Am. Bah.................................................dis 
net
well, plain  ..................................................$  3 50
Well, sw ivel................................................. 
4 00
Cast Loose Pin, figured.........................dis  70&
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed.......... dis  70&
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis  60& 
W rought Narrow, bright fast  joint, .dis  60&10
W rought Loose  P in ...:...................... dis  60&10
W rought Loose Pin, acorn tip .............dis  60& 6
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned.............dis  60&  5
W rought Loose Pin, japanned, silvei
dis  60& 5
W rought Table......................................dis  60&10
Wrought Inside  Blind.......................... dis  60&10
W rought Brass...................  
75
Blind,Clark’S;.................................'." ‘.'.dis  70&10
B ind. Parker’s ......................................dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard s..................................... dis 
70

BUTTS. CAST.

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

BUCKETS.

tipped 

BRACES.

dis 

 

 

CAPS.

 

 

DRILLS

COMBS.

COPPER.

ELBOWS.

CHISELS.

CATRIDGE S •

EXPANSIVE BITS.

............................................Per m $ 65
w

$.75
. disSO&lOJ&O 
5Ó&10

g . d .............................................; .........  
M usket...........................................
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester  new list 
.50
Rim  Fire, United  States..................  
dis50
Central F ire.......  ................................. "  " . jdis25
Socket Firm er........................................dis
70&10
Socket Fram ing.................................. "dis
70&10
Socket Corner................................." " _'dis
70&10
dis
Socket Slicks............................ 
70&10
Butchers’ Tanged  F irm er.. . . . . . . . . . .dis
40
Barton’s Socket  Firm ers.......... 
"dis
20
Cold...................................................V.V.net
Curry,  Lawrence’s ......................... 
dis
40&10
Hotchkiss  ........................................ ".dis
25
COCKS.
Brass,  Racking’s............... !.
60
.................................................................................... eo
g e e r v ..........................................................   40&10
F e n n s....................... . . . .............................  
99
Planished, 14 oz cut to size....... 
5» n,  2x
14x52,14x56,14 x60............................................. 31
20
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60........ 
 
Cold Rolled, 14x48...........................  
    29
Bottoms
30
Morse’s Bit  Stock.............................  dis
Taper and Straight Shank........ " "   dis
Morse’s Taper  Shank...........................dis
Com. 4 piece, 6  in .............................doznet
Corrugated..
....... ...... dis
A djustable.......................  
Claris, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00. 
dis 
Ives’, 1, $18 00;  2. $24 00;  3, $30 00.  dis 
American File Association  L ist........ dis
Disston’s ................................. 
di8
 
New  American.......... ..........." " " ."  
dis
Nicholson’s .......................  
 
dis
Heller’s .......................... 
.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'dis
Heller’s  Horse Rasps................... .....d is
i i  
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List  12 
_  
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ..............dis
„  
Maydole & Co.’s ................. 
dis
Kip’s ........................  
dis
Yerkes  &  Plum b’s ..........................      .dis  40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel...................  30 c list 56
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&J0 
_  
Bam  Door Kidder Mfg. Co.,  Wood track  50&16
Champion,  anti-friction........................dis  60&I6
40
Kidder,wood  track .............. ..........d is  
„  
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3.................................dis 
60
State. ■■■■■■■ — ........................ p erd o z,n et,2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  In.  454  14
and  longer......................
"net
Screw Hook and Eye,  % 
Screw Hook and Eye %........   . 
'  'n et
Screw Hook and Eye  % ... 
net
Screw Hook and Eye,  %..........'  "  'net
Strap and  T ...................................... '.¿is
_  

«
.......................................................  eo&io
Spiders  ............................  
onXrin
Gray  enameled.................................................... 50
HOUSE  FURN ISHIN G   GOODS.
Stamped Tin W are......................new  list 
75
Japanned Tin  W are............................  
25
Granite Iron  W are..................
„  

22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27
15

GALVANIZED i r o n ,
14 

60&10
6Ü&J0
60&IO
66&16
55&1S
50

HAMMERS.
 

13 
GAUGES.

files—New List.

Discount,  60.

HOLLOW  WARE.

HANGERS.

HINGES.

HOBS.

I   1 

_  

_ 

, 

, 

, 

 

 

• 

LOCKS—DOOR.

KNOBS—NEW LIST.

,  
l ................................................$11 00, dis 66
G rub3.................................................  12 00, «Ms60
55
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings.......... dis 
Door, porcelain, jap.  trim m ings............ 
55
Door, porcelain, plated  trim m ings....... 
55
Door, porcelain, trim m ings................... ’ 
55
70
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain........ dis 
40&10
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s ..  . .. .. .  
45
H em acite........................... 
¿Is 
55
Russell ¿yrw in Mfg. Co.’s new list.. dis 
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s.............. 
dis 
55
Branford’s ...  ................  
¿is 
55
Norwalk’s ..................................... ".."d is 
55
dis  70
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .......... . 
Adze  Eye...................................... $16 00 dis 
60
H unt Eye.........................1.......... $15 00 dis 
60
H unt s .........................................$18  50 dis 20 & 10
■  
Sperry & Co.’f, Post,  handled...................dis  50
Coffee, Parsers  Co.’s ......................... 
dis 40
Coffee,P.iL&W.Mfg.Co.’sMalleabies " " d is  40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s .......... .  dis  40
Coffee,  Enterprise......................................¿i8  gg
I  
Stehhm’s Pattern  ........... 
<u8  60&i0
Stebbip’s Genuine........   .....................<jis  0O&1U
Enterprise,  self-measuring..........*...dis 
25

MOLASSES GATES.
 

m a t t o c k s .

LBV ELS.

MAULS.

m il l s .

„  . 

. 

N A IL S—TRON.

Common, Brad and Fencing.

OILERS.

"   225

i ............. *  ......................V keg $2  10
g©

^  
6d and 7d  adv.......... ......................... . 
4dand5d  adv........................75
3d advance........................... .......... 1  gg
........... 
3d fine  advance............... 
Clinch nails,  adv»..... 
 
.........l  00
I  lOd  8d 
Finishing 
8d  4 d " " " '
Size—inches  f  3 
2 
154
254 
$1 25  1 50  1  75  2 00 
Adv. » k e g  
Steel Nadls-2 20.
Zinc ot tin. Chase’s Patent.......... . 
dis60&Ki
Zinc, with brass b o tto m ................... ...dis  50
Brass o r  Copper............................... 
gg
Reaper.______________ ____per gross! $12 net
Olmstead’s . 
.....  so&to
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fa n c y ...;........... .....d is   40@lo
Sciota Bench.... .; .. ..  
Sandusky Tool C a ’s, fancy! .!......... !!.'<Hs 4e@io
Bench, firslfoualifr.............................die  060
Stanley Rule and Level Co.fs, wood..,. dis28&io
-  
...¿»..dis 50900
K ry.A om © .,..... 
C o m m o n , p o l i s h e d . . . , .  ..disOO&lQ 
D rip p in g ....:........... 
 
6#

........................ 
PLANES.
- 

r  u   <u8

PANS.

. 

/ 

$3 10
a mi
3 10

3 25

 

 

v   RIVETS.  ■

Sirs j m .  
Iron and T inned...............................dig 
Copper Rivets and  B urs...................... dis 

55
50
. 
wood’spatentplanished. Nos.24to 27 10 20 
B  Wood a pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27  9 20 

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

Broken packs ^ c  fl S> extra.

■ 

qu

TACKS.

,  „   „ 

dis
dis

SHEET IRON.

TINNER’S SOLDER.

ROPES.
sisal, H m . and  larger__ ____ 
m u
M anilla.. . : ............................. 
\%
s q u a r e s .
Steel and Iro n ...................................... dis  70&10
Iry a n d  Bevels.........................................dis 
60
®*ltre  ......................................................dis 
20
xt 
Com. Smooth.  Com.
...................................$4 20 
4 20 
Nos. 15 to  17................ 
Nos. 18 to 21...................................  4 20 
N os.22t o 24....................... t i n  
I i l
w«8!«5 to 26...................................  4 40 
_sheets No, 18 and lighter,  over 3  inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, #   lb....................
In sm allerquansities, $  
. 
. 
American, all  kinds........................ 
Steel, all kinds............................] 
! !dis
Swedes, all k in d s ......... 
dia
Gimp and  Lace..........................   
Cigar Box  Nails......................  
'dis
Finishing Nails............. 
dis
 
Common and Patent B rads.. " .......dis
Hungarian Nails and Miners’ Tacks .’dis
Trunk and Clout Nails.......... 
dis
Tinned Trank and Clout N ails.. "  "  .’dis
Leathered Carpet  Tacks..................................dis 35
„  
No. 1,  Refined....................
Market  Half-and-half..
Strictly  H a l f - a n d - h a l f . ..........  
__ 
iSFifr Charcoal..........................6 00@6 20
TY 
10x14,Charcoal..................  
7  sk
IX, 
6  85
12x12, Charcoal................... 
 
IC, 
12x12,  C harcoal....................... . 
IX, 
8 35
IC, 
14x20, Charcoal......................... 
a  35
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal......................... 
7 85
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal..................... .........  935
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool.................. . . . .  "   11  37
TXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal................ 
13  15
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal......................!." "   16  10
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal.............  
*  7  10
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal.......... ..................  9  1#
DXX.  100 Plate Charcoal.........H   10
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal........   ..............  13 16
hedippcd  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1  50  to  7 35
Roofing, 14x20, IC.................... 
540
Roofing, 14x20,  IX ....................... ................  7  m
Roofing, 20x28, IC................. 
1«  no
Roofing,  20x28,  IX .......................................... 15  CO
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.................  6 00
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne.............  7  ;;>o
IL, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne............. ".12 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal  Terne..............15  00
Steel, Game.......................................... 
60&16
Oneida Communtity,  Newhouse’s d i s   35 
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s.  60&M
Hotchkiss  ..................  
MUklA
S, P. & W.  Mfg.  Co.’s
Mouse,  delusion.................................$1 50 §  doz
_ 
dis  6754
Bright M arket................................ 
Annealed M arket............................'. '. ‘.dis  70&10
Coppered M arket......................... 
dia  aau
E xtra Bailing.....................................dis  H

TIN—LEADED.

TIN  PLATES.

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

TRAPS.

WIRE.

25

„ 

^ 

 

 

 

.

. 

“ 

....... 

WIRE GOODS.

Tinned M attress.................................. * 
aa jj> si*
Coppered  Spring Steel............... "  ’. 
¿¿g 
50
Tinned Spring Steel................................dis 40&K)
 
Plain Fence................................................. 
3
4 00
Barbed Fence, galvanized........ . . . . . . . 
painted..........................'.."'.'3  25
Copper................................................ ... 
¡|8t net
Bra8S................................................... new  list net
B right.......................   
dig  70&IO&IO
Screw Eyes........................................dis  70&10&10
Hook s 
 
dis  70&1G&10
Gate Hooks and  Eves....................dis  70&10&18
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled.......
gg
Coe’s Genuine......................................’ ¿j8 
75
Coe’s P te n t A gricultural, wrought, dis 
Coe s  P tent. m alleable......................dis  75&1C
MISCELLANEOUS.
Birdcages.............................. 
gn
Pumps,  Cistern....................... ¿ ^
Screws,  new  list..................................'... 
7G&5
Casters,  Bed  and  Plate..............disSO&lo&lO
Dampers, A m erican......................  
49
Forks, hoes, rakes an all steel goods! "d 
Copper  Bottoms............................. 
3g£

WRENCHES.

, 

 

oo@35 00

HARDW OOD  LUM BER.

The furniture factories  here  pay  as  follows 
for  dry  stock,  m easured  merchantable, mill 
culls out;
Basswood, log-run...............................13 oo@15 00
Birch, log-run. 
............................ig 00@18 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and  2...................... 
@gg oq
Black Ash, log-run...............................14 00@16 50
Cherry,  log-run................................    .25 
Cherry, Nos. 1  and 2........................... 45 oo@go 00
Cherry,  euil.........................................  
@10 00
Maple,  log-run..................................... 12 00@14 00
Maple, soft,  log-run........................... l l  00@13 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2.............................. 
@20 00
Maple, clear, flooring......................... 
@gg Qn
Maple, white, selected.......................  
aava  on
Red Oak, log-run. 
......................... is 00@to 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2.........................24 00@25 08
Red Oak, 54 sawed, Sin and upw’d..40 00@45 00
Red Oak,  *• 
regular.............30 00035 00
Red Oak, No.  1, step  plank............... 
@25 00
Walnut, log-run................................... 
@gg 09
@7g  99
W alnut, Nos. 1 and 2........................... 
Walnuts,  culls................................ 
®25 00
grey  Elm, log-run.............................. 
@13 00
White Ash,  log-run..................................14 00@16 50
Whitewood,  log-run................................ 20 00@22 00
White Oak, log-run..................................17 00@18 00

“ 

27 00@29 00

LUM BER,  LATH  AND SHINGLES. 

 

 

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C

................................00@26 00

FIN ISH IN G  AND FLOORING.
Uppers, 3 i n ...; ................................ $ 
4599
a 11» * f t . . . . . . . . . . f....................... ..  42 00@44 00
. J f f l ........ j p jfel-S............................   33 0<>@35 00
Fine com., 1J4 to 2 m .............................   31  00@33 00
Strips, A & B, 6  in ..............................  34 00@36 00
Strips, A & B, 4  m ............................   30 00@31 00
QuC  --ij-v-v*..................v
.............  21  00022 00
Shop, 1J4 to 2 in .................................   22 0e®24 00
XTl m ...................................................  16 G0@18 00
Norway strips, C & better, 6  in__   16 00@18 00
4 in ......................! ...........................   15fe0@16  00
No 1,10 in, 18 & 20 fe et........ :...........  17 00@18 00
10 feet and under........................      16 00@ 17 00
Wide com. b’ds, No. 1,16 ft. & u n ’r   16 00@17 00 
Com. fenc. No. 1,16 in,  16 ft & un’r   16 0f@I7 00 
Com. st’k. No. 1,8&i0 in. 16 ft., un’r  14 00@16 00 
Com, strip. No. 1, 4 in., 16 ft. & un’r  15 00@L6 00 
Com. stocks, No. 2,16 ft. & under..  12 00@U 60 
Wide com. No  2,16 ft. & u nder..:.  12 00@13 00 
Com. boards, No. 2,16 ft. &  un ’r . ..  11 00@12 00 
Com. fenc., No. 2,6 in., 16 ft, & un’r  12 00@13 00
................................  8 0001000
Shipping culls, m ..............................  10 00*»11  00
Norway fencing, No. 1., 6 in ..........   11 00@13 00
No.  2...  ..........................................  9 00@10 00
9 00@10  00

Piece stuff. 18 ft. & u nder.............  

COMMON BOARDS AND STRIPS.

......... 

PIECE STUFF AND TIMBER.
Add $ lfo r each extra two feet in 
length.
Add $1 for each extra two feet in 
length.

Tim.  >2x12 & nn’r  and 18 ft. & un’r.  12 00@13 00 

SHINGLES  AND LATH.

Norway car sills................................  16 0C@i7 00
Car decking. 18ft....................... 
12 00@14  00
T h ick star,18in.,5to2J4..............   3 25@ 3  50
Clear, 6  in 
.................................   2  25@ 2 50
Thin star, 18 in., 6 to 2 in .................  3 25@ 3  50
Clear, 5 in ...........................................   2 25@ 2 50
Star, 16  in ...................................... ...  2  75@ 3 00
Clear, 5 in ...........................................   1  60@  1 80
Lath, No, 1.........................................   1  25@  1 JO

AGENTS  FOR  TH E

Improvement  patented  April  28,  1885,  of  which we  are 
the  sole manufacturers,  has been  tested with  the most cele­
brated knives of other makers,  and has proved an easier and 
faster cutter than any other. 
Its special  excellence consists 
in the chisel-edge tooth shown in the engraving. 
It  may be 
used for cutting hay  in the mow,  stack and bale; also ditch­
ing, cutting peat,  or  any  other  work  for which a hay knife 
is used. 
It can be readily ground by the most inexperienced, 
as it requires to be ground only on one side.  Should a tooth 
break,  all that is necessary to replace the damage  is to grind 
it once and a new chisel tooth appears. 
It can ordinarily be 
sharpened with a  common  scythe  stone.  Try one and you 
will give it the preference.

FOSTER,  STE1/EN8  Î  GO,,
Grand  Rapids,
Mich.

10 and  12  M onroe St.,  33 to 41  L ouis  St.,

Warmed (net cooked) adding  piece of 
Good Butter (size of hen's egg) and gUl 
of fresh  milk  (preferable  to  water.)

jpavenpvrt  Canning 
Davenport,  Ic

a t .  t h i s

CEO.  E.  H O W ES,

C.  N.  RAPP,  Manager,

Apples,  Potatoes  |  Onions.

JO BBER  IN

SPEOIALTIBB :

Oranges, Lemons, Bananas.

3 Ionia St.,  CRÂ2TD  R

A m

s ,   « m w

x>0  YOU WANT

jF & iP frtQ ri
O F 1  T H E  A G E )  
EVERY FAMILY 
SHOULD, HAYE IT

f^EREDAfÍD

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l/frEJta>RS a n d  s o l e  h a k í u f V s  
S.WTc ORJ3£S* &MARKET ST S, Ê   $   $  
$   $   $   *   PHILADELPHIA Q*.

If so, send for Catalogue and Price-List to

HEYMAN & CO.,  6land^i,aai st-
' Grand. Rapids.

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¡lili Ü ¡1111

The  Michigan  Tradesman,

HB BOUGHT  AN  AXE.

W rtte n  Especially fo r Th e Tbaseshan.

He was a  man of  large  dimensions  and 
was clothed in a greasy suit of kersey goods. 
His knit wool cap was pulled far down over 
his head, and his beard was stiff with frozen 
tobaeeo  juice.  As  he  opened the  door, a 
whiff of  winter’s  breath came  bouncing in, 
bearing  on  its  wings  a  mingled  odor  of 
fried  Onions,  homestead  “smokin’”  and 
forty rod  whisky.  He  sailed  majestically 
up to  the  stove, kicked  some  of  the accu­
mulated  snow  and  ice  from  his  feet  and 
legs,  spat  recklessly upon  the  hearth and 
then remarked.

“ Quite a young winter!”
That  is  an  awful  chestnut  up  here  in 
Northern Michigan, but owing to this man’s 
formidable size, no one said (<rats.”

When ,1  had  made up  my mind that he 
was sufficiently thawed out to talk business,
I  approached him with:

“Is there  anything  that I can do for you 

to-day?”

“Well,  I don’t  know,”  he  growled,  “but 
if you’ve got any slashin’ good axes I  might 
take one on ’em.”

‘.‘What kind of an axe do you wish?”
“I want  one  to  chop  cordwood with,  ’n’ 

most of the timber is maple ’n’ beech.” 

“Here is one of  Casteel & Beltem’s ‘Curf 

parers’.  How does that strike you?” 

“Them’s  most  always  too  soft.  Hain’t 

you got none of the dolly varden brand?” 

“No, I don’t think  there is a dollyvarden 
about the piece,  but we have several others. 
What  do  you  think  of  these ‘Lig numvi- 
taes’?”

“Don’t like the  shape of them.  The  eye 
’s always so b ig’t they’re liable to bust out. 
Gi’me one with a wider bit.”

The wider bitted one was produced. 
“That’s  better, but  it  don’t  hang jest to 
shit  me.  There  is  too  much  iron  in  the 
head. 
It  makes it liable to  glance.  Here, 
let  me  look  at  that.  There,  now,  that’s 
more  like.”   Then,  after  a moment’s criti­
cal examination:

“But, cuss the luck, the steel’s put onter 
the outside.  Get  me one like that with the 
iron  split  ’n’  the  steel  welded in between. 
There,  that’s about  the  thing.  How much 
does she weigh?”

“Pour and three-fourths  pounds.”
“ Too heavy.  Give  me one that won’t go 

more’n  four and a quarter.”

“This one  weighs  just  four  and a quar­

ter.”

It was examined.
“D’ you think  it’s got good stuff into it?” 
“I don’t know.  Probably it  has.”
“ Don’t you warrant it?”
“No, sir.  We never warrant axes against 
frozen  hemlock  knots,  nor  some  other 
things, but  when  an  axe  is manifestly bad 
we are always willing  to  have it returned.” 

“Then you won’t  warrant it?”
“No, sir.  Only as I have said.”
“How much is it?”
“ One dollar.”
“ One dollar?”
“ Yes.”
“ You  don’t  forget  to  charge  for  ’em. 
They sell ’em over to  Breckenridge’s for 90 
■cents.”

“ That’s the place to buy them.  We have 

but  one price to everybody.”

“You’d better take 90 cents.”
“ No sir.”
“ Ninety-five?”
“No sir.  One dollar is the price.” 
“ Throw in a chaw o’ terbacker?”

■  “Oh, yes, of course, I never refuse a man 
that.”

“ Weil,  then,  I guess  I’ll  take it.  You’ll 
have to book it for a few days.  Me ’n’ Bill 
Twistleson is goin’ to work fer Jim. Thayer 
cuttin’  wood,  ’n’  first  scale  we  get,  you’ll 
get  your cash.  Let  me  have two or three 
matches to light my pipe with goin’ home.’» 

J oseph W. Winkle.
Grand  Rapids  Mercantile  Association.
At the regular  semi-monthly  meeting of 
the Grand  Raipds  Mercantile  Association, 
held on January 3,  Vice-President  Hydom 
acted as presiding officer, owing to  the  ab­
sence  of  President  Coye.  The  following 
applicants for membership in  the  Associa­
tion were accepted:  Alden Bros.,  31  West 
Bridge street; H. Vander Weyden, 22 South 
Division street;  Adam Her, 623  South  Di­
vision  street;  S.  G.  Ketchum,  14  West 
Bridge street.

The report of the  Executive  Committee, 
«nade at the  previous  meeting,  was  taken 
from the table, as was also the  accompany­
ing application of S.  A.  Sheldon  for  the 
¿position of agent and collector for  the  As­
sociation.  S. A. Holt moved that the offer 
fee accepted and the report of the Committee 
■adopted,  which was  carried.

E. J. Herrick brought up the  question of 
regulating  the  berry  box  business—or 
“nuisance,” as he  expressed  ifc—in  which 
Opinion  he  was  cordially  supported  by 
several other members.;  I t was  finally  de­
cided to make the subject  the  special order 
of business at the  next  meeting,  and  Mr 
Herrick was asked to lead In the discussion
A. J. Elliott moved  that  toe  election of 
officers be deferred until toe  next  meeting, 
and an effort made to secure  toe attendance 
of every member of  the Association, which
w a s adopted.

A member asked if  any one had had any 
experience Vito toe city  scale  tester.’  XL 
A. Hydom  stated  that  such  a  functuary 
charged him $1.50 for testing something he 
didn’t  know anything about, and then didn’t 
know enough to  write  a  receipt.  Several 
.other  members  reported  ft similar  experi- 
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The Michigan Tradesman.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY  11,  1888.

LEISURE  HOUR JOTTINGS.

B Y   A  CO UN TRY   M ER C H A N T.

W ritten EspeciaUy fo r The Tradesman.

A  celebrated  diplomat and statesman  is 
alleged to have once  remarked  that “there 
is no such word as fail.”  From the charac 
ter which history  gives  the individual, and 
the  senseless,  absurd  and  utterly  inane 
character of  the  assertion,  I am well satis 
fied that  he  has  been  grossly  libeled by 
many  generations.  Failure  always  has 
been,  still  continues  to  be,  and probably 
always will  be, the lot of no  inconsiderable 
portion of the  human  race.  Not a nation 
ality, profession, avocation or trade eyeres 
caped from it. 
It frequently overtakes the, 
apparently, wise,  prudent and clear sighted, 
and allows  the  reckless,  “pig headed” and 
unreflecting to escape its clutches. 
It comes 
at  unexpected  times,  and  in  unexpected 
manners. 
It  frequently  overtakes  those 
who have every reason to imagine that they 
have safely distanced it in the  race,  and  it 
frequently  relinquishes the pursuit of those 
who believe themselves  unable  to distance 
it.

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But it is  not  of failure  in  the  abstract, 
but of failure as applied to business pursuits 
that I intend to speak.

One of the most successful  merchants  of 
America, in the course of an address at some 
business  convention,  a  year  or  two  ago, 
made the assertion that ninety traders out of 
a hundred were not reasonably successful in 
their pursuit,  and  any  one  among  us, by 
looking back  over  the multitude of trades­
men whom we  have personally known  can 
verify the statement.  Of  course,  it  is not 
claimed that the  proportion  mentioned  be­
come bankrupt  or  poverty-stricken,  but it 
is claimed that at least the proportion  men­
tioned do not receive  adequate  returns  for 
their time and  money invested, and that no 
inconsiderable  proportion  of  that  propor­
tion go through  years  of  anxiety,  struggle 
and  disappointment  to  eventually  arrive 
at the point  of  unavoidable  and  absolute 
failure.

I have  got a sort  of  an  antiquated  old- 
fogyish notion that there is disgrace attach­
ed to a majority of business failures.  I  am, 
perhaps, too  captious  and  whimsical  and 
prejudiced, but I am  satisfied that I  should 
feel more independent,  manly and self-reli­
ant  in  manipulating  a  cross-cut  saw or 
ditching shovel, than  in  conducting a trad­
ing  institution  under  an  alias.  But,  of 
course, 
circumstances  alter  cases,  and 
there may, possibly,  be  circumstances con­
nected  with  what  we  consider “cloudy” 
failures,  which,  if  explained  to us, might 
alter our opinions radically. 

- 

When, however, I become  personally  ac­
quainted with the principal of  an apparent­
ly  “cloudy” failure who,  after he again  be­
comes  prosperous,  regards  the obligations 
incurred before  his  assignment as debts of 
honor,  I shall undoubtedly  indulge in more 
charity.
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Some years ago I heard of  an  individual 
who adjusted  an  old  matter  of the nature 
mentioned,  but  the  circumstances  under 
which he did it were such that I am satisfied 
that the  moral  side  of the transaction was ; 
never brought into discussion.

•

•

I think it was during the Centennial year 
that a  sleek,  smooth,  oily-tongued  party 
whom I will call Gammon opened a general 
store in the little village  of—say—Arcadia. 
His capital consisted  of  a small amount of 
cash, a large ditto of plausibility,  and a still 
larger ditto  of  “cheek.”  Through the cre­
dulity of jobbers,  he  stocked  up  liberally, 
and for  something  over  a  year his affairs, 
to  the  outsider,  looked  very  promising, 
when he suddenly  astonished his neighbors 
by making an assignment.  In the meantime, 
he  had  formed  an intimacy with  his  next 
door  neighbor—a druggist  named  Wood— 
and had induced that party to loan him $400, 
and  to  endorse  his  paper  for $600 more. 
When  the collapse  came, Wood  supposed, 
of course, that Gammon  would  “take care” 
of him,  but  the  assignor  calmly  let  him 
take  his  chances  with  the other creditors, 
and  he  eventually  received  fifteen  cents 
on the dollar for his  claim.  The  store  re­
sumed business under the alleged control of 
Mrs.  Gammon,  and  for  some  mouths its

trade in “bankrupt  goods” continued to de­
press and exasperate competitors.

About  eleven  o’clock  one  night, Wood 
was called out to put up some  medicine for 
a sick horse, and, on approaching his store, 
he saw a dim  light  in  that  of  Gammon’s. 
He  and  the  neighbor  who  had  joined 
him  withdrew into a  dark  alley to discuss 
the capture of suppositious  burglars, when 
they  saw  Gammon  emerge  from his door 
with  an  armful  of  goods.  The  circum­
stance was,  of course, a matter of considera­
ble discussion and comment while the reme­
dies were  being  compounded,  but  it  was 
mutually  agreed  to  keep  it  quiet for the 
present, and awaited further developments.
In compounding the ingredients required, 
Wood  found  it necessary  to  go down into 
his cellar for a  certain  article.  The  base­
ments of his own  and  Gammon’s store had 
originally  been  connected  by  an archway 
which was now  planked  up.  While going 
down the stairs his lamp became accidental­
ly extinguished,  and he was about to return 
to relight it when he  saw  a  gleam of light 
through a crack in the  boards.  Calling his 
customer  to his assistance,  an  entrance to 
Gammon’s cellar was speedily  effected, and, 
in abox of “excelsior,” in  the  midst  of  a 
huge pile of boards and boxes,  they found a 
short  candle, whose  blaze was speedily ap­
proaching the inflammable  material.

Now,  1 am not.' defending  Wood’s  moral 
character, or  eulogizing  him  as a collector 
of  defunct  debts. 
I  am  merely  relating 
facts.  And the facts  are these:  The next 
morning  Wood  ascertained  that  Gammon 
was heavily  insured.  He  interviewed that 
gentleman  and  suggested  the payment of 
his own claim of  $850,  and a silencing  fee 
of $100  to  the  other  witness; and before 
night  the  amount  mentioned 
changed 
hands,  and in less  than  a  week  Gammon, 
with his  family  and  goods  and chattels, 
left Arcadia forever.

.PLACE to secure a thorough 
,  w   an<i useful education is at the 
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The personal and  household  expenses of 
the average small  tradesman  will probably 
not materially  exceed  those of the average 
prosperous day laborer.  The  work  of  the 
average small tradesman is little less  labor­
ious,  and  at  least one-third hours  per day 
more extended than that of the average day 
laborer.  As  ease  and  luxury,  therefore, 
are  not 
secured  by  engaging  in  petty 
trading 
enterprises,  what 
the 
average 
small  trader  to  embark  in  his 
pursuit?
Simply his  speculative  propensi­
ties and the  hope  that luck or  fate  or for­
tune will be kinder to  him  than the dozens 
or hundreds whose  partial  or total failures 
he has witnessed.
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induces 

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It is  a  self-evident  fact that the leading 
cause  for  failures  is the unreasonable pro­
portion  of  tradesmen  as  compared  with 
other  professions  and  avocations.  Let  a 
new  town  open  up  with  anything like  a 
“ boom” and witness the influx  of  handlers 
of merchandise.  Take, for  instance,  Bub- 
bleville,  on  the  line  of  a new^Michigan 
railroad.  For  many  years,  Bubbleville, 
under another name, had been a quiet, pros­
perous and  tidy  little  hamlet,  supporting, 
comfortably,  some  three  or  four  traders, 
and the  usual  number  of  mechanics  and 
professional men.  When the new road was 
proposed, Bubbleville  became  tremendous­
ly excited.  Visions of metropolitan splendor 
pervaded the minds of its  inhabitants,  and 
it subscribed a liberalj “bonus”  to  the pro­
posed enterprise.  A  sharp  capitalist,  per­
haps in league with the builders,  bought up 
all the land  surrounding? the  contemplated 
depot,  platted it into lots,  and advertised the 
“ town”  vigorously.  Prospectors  began  to 
pour in,  and the real  estate^market became 
excited.  Fairly prosperous traders in neigh­
boring communities  caught the Bubbleville 
fever and moved  their  stocks.  Well-to-do 
agriculturalists  sold  or  mortgaged  their 
farms  to  amass  fortunes^in  trafficking at 
Bubbleville.  Old  and  solid  merchants  in 
neighboring cities  started  branch  stores in 
the new Eldorado,  and,  before a single new 
dwelling-house,  shop  or  factory was com­
menced, thirty  or  forty  trading  establish­
ments were in full blast 

Now,  if Bubbleville had  been  surround­
ed by a pine  forest,  or  been  adjacent to a 
mine, or oil well, or some manufacturer had 
established a big  “plant,”  the  remarkable 
preponderance  of  mercantile  institutions 
would have been  easily  accounted  for, but 
the new railroad didn’t  add ten per cent, to 
its  regular  customers. 
I ts , trade  always 
had been, and always will be,  a purely local 
and  mainly  agricultural one.  There is not 
,  the remotest probability that manufacturing 
enterprises of  any  moment will ever be in­
augurated, and when the bustle and activity 
of the building boom  subside,  some  thirty 
•or forty traders will have to depend for sup- 
port upon about the same customers who for­
merly made  three  or  four  traders  reason- 
. ably prosperous.  And the  little verse from 
Pimch,

“Full m any a ghastly smile he gmoleT 
And Oh 1  W hat m ust his feelings been 

And m any a wink he wunk;
To th m k  the thoughts he thunk?”

naturally occurs  to  me when I imagine an 
interview  between  one  of  these three or 
four traders and the collection  agent of tire 
railway company.

I,shall he very much surprised and mysti­
fied,, ifi.before  a  score  more of new moons 
look down on Bubbleville, that place doesn’t 
..«patribute liberally to that interesting seg^i

L. M.  CARY.

C A R Y  &  LOVEREDGE,

L. L.  LOVEKÏDGE.

GENERAL  DEALERS  IN

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Combination and Time Locks,

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Which Holds Trade  on  Account of 

Superior  Merit  Alone.

Unequaled  Q uality. 

Im proved  R oasting  Process. 

P aten t  Preservative  Packages.

For Sale  by AMOS  S. MUSSELMAN  &  CO.,  Grand 
Rapids,  and  all  Jobbers  at  Detroit,  Saginaw  and 
Bay City.
DILWORTH  BROTHERS,  Proprietors,
PITTSBURGH,  Penn.

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Weight. 
No. 2,250 lbs.  12x8x8% In.  23x14x13 in.  030 
No. 3,500 lbs.  15x10x10 in.  28x18x18 In. 
35 
No.4 .700lbs.  18x14x12 in.  82x22x21% in.  45 

Liberal Discounte to  Trade,

AmNC&FECO., CinctDnati,0.

oil itL°n.? ° S e+haS, ^ 0r? .actual 
Roasted Coffee sold at the price either in Packages or in Bulk and storekeepers 
all over the State of Michigan and elsewhere who are  not  already handling  Lion  are urged to  give  it  a trial.  We cheermllv 
answer all communications  regarding pnees  etc  Convenient  shipping  depots  established at  all  prominent  cities,  securing 
quick delivery.  For sale by all the wholesale trade everywhere.  Manufactured  by the Woolson Spice Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

L.  WINTERNITZ,  Resident Agent,

tJ?an 

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

and fresh until entirely used.

ARTHUR  MEIGS  &  CO.

W h o lesa le  Grocers,

SOI©  Agents,

77 to 83 SOUTH  DIVISION  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

58 Michigan Ave., Chicago,

BELL,  CONRAD  £  CO.
PROPRIETORS  OFSoice  Mi
TEAS, GOFFERS 18PIGE8.
JAPAN  TEA—“Red Dragon” Chop. 
COFFEE—O. G. Plantation Java, 

OWNERS  OF THE  FOLLOWING  CELEBRATED BRANDS:

IMPORTERS  OF

Imperial, Javoka, Banner, Mexican.
it Coffee oi  Earl.  We  Solicit Gontnmnications.
W. R. KEASEY, Traveling Representative.

JOBBERS  IN

Ï   Company,
DRY  GOODS,
Hosiery, Carpets, Etc.

Branching  Out.

By the acquirement  of  additional  store 
room On a long-time -lease,  Fi?  J.  Detten- 
thaler has put himself  ik  a position to con­
duct his rapidly growing business on a scale 
larger than ever before.  He  now has one of 
the best-equipped  wholesale  fish bouses in 
the State and carries  the  largest  stock  of 
fresh and salt fish to be seen outside of  De­
troit. 
If his business keeps  on  increasing 
as fast as it has during the  past four years, 
it will soon be necessary for  him  to erect a 
brick block especially adapted to  his  busi­
ness.

Wholesomeness of Cottonseed Oil.

From  th e C incinnati P rice  C urrent.

It is an  ascertained  fact  that  cottonseed 
oil is digestible in much less time than pure 
lard.  Bendered beef  fat  is,  perhaps,  uni­
versally considered equal to hog’s lard in its 
adaptability to food uses, and  generally  re­
garded as  better.  Therefore,  there  is  no 
good ground upon which  to  assail  a  com­
pound of lard, beef fat and  cottonseed oil-— 
which are the only  ingredients  of  perhaps 
99 per cent.,  probably  more,  of  the  com­
pound  lard  manufactured  at  the  present 
time.  We believe such a  compound  to  be 
preferable to pure hog’s lard  for  food uses.

Dissolution  of  Copartnership.
Notice is hereby given  th at  the  Copartner­
ship heretofore existing between  the  under­
signed, Thomas J.  Sheridan  and  Caroliae  A. 
Sheridan, under the firm name of “T. J . Sheri­
dan & Co-,” was, on the 12th  day of December. 
1887, dissolved by m utual consent.  _ Debts  due 
the firm are to be paid toT . J. Sheridan, who is 
authorized to receive and  receipt  the  same; 
and all claims and demands  against  the  firm, 
if any at this date, are to be  settled  and  paid 
by said T. J. Sheridan, who  has  assumed  and 
agreed to pay the same.

T.  J.  SHERIDAN,
CAROLINE  A.  SHERIDAN.

Copartnership Notice.

The said T. J. Sheridan and Charles L. Sheri­
dan have this day entered  into  a  copartner­
ship under the firm  name  and  -tyle  *f “T. J. 
Sheridan & Co..” for the purpose of  m anufac­
turing and selling lumber  and  shingles,  and 
carrying on a  general  supply  store.  Charles 
L. Sheridan having heretofore  had  charge of 
the m anufacturing interests of  the  old  firm, 
will still have  charge  of  m anufacturing  for 
the new firm. 

T. J. SHERIDAN,
CHAS. L.  SHERIDAN.

J U D D   c fc   O O . ,

JO B B E R S of SA D D L E R Y   H A R D W A R E  

And Full Line Summer Goods.

102  CANAL  STREET.

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KOCH  A.  B.  CO.

354  MAIN  ST.. 

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

THDBBEB, WHYLAND
NEW  YORK,

RELIABLE

FOOD  PRODUCTS.

[It is b oth pleasant and  profitable  fo r  m erchants to  
occasionally v isit New Y ork, and all such are cordially 
invited to  call, look through our establishm ent, corner 
W est Broadw ay, Reade and Hudson streets, and  m ake 
o u r acquaintance, w hether  th ey   wish , to buy goods or 
not.  Ask fo r a  m em ber of th e firm.]

(Btoceries.

Compound  Lard and  Legislation.
i th e  C incinnati Price C urrent.  ■

The advocates of  the  Dawes bill relating 
to  adulterated  lard say that  the tax feature 
Ins been added in order to bring the subject 
aaatter of such legislation within the consti­
tutional powers of  Congress.  Does the eon- 
provide for new measures of reve- 
m « excepting in case  of  exigency  calling 
to r revenue?  Is  not the  President’s recent 
asessage an official declaration  that there is 
no such exigency, but,  in  fact,  a condition 
of affairs calling for modification of existing 
provisions for revenue?  Is not a new reve­
n te  measure, under such conditions, clearly 
unconstitutional?  However  great the need 
to r  legislation  for  protecting  consumers 
against adulterated or  impure food products 
or drugs, is it the proper comee  to  pursue 
to  resort to unconstitutional,  therefore  un­
lawful, means for accomplishing such ends?
The State of Massachusetts,  as  a  State, 
o»« taken action with reference to compound 
lard, which covers the  various  features  in 
which the consumer  is  interested,  and  in 
which the competitive  manufacturer should 
have a right to enter  a  claim. 
Is  it  not 
dtearly a matter for  State  regulation  to ac­
complish? 
Is  it  within  the  province  of 
Congress to eater upon legislation so plainly 
belonging to the States?
Is it good argument to  claim  that  an un­
constitutional revenue message is justifiable 
cn the ground that the proposed  tax  “will 
beso  very small  as  to  be  hardly  notice­
able?”
Is it a  good  argument  to  take  ground 
against a  wholesome  and  desirable  com­
pound because there is  a  good  margin  of 
profit in its manufacture, even  in selling at 
lower prices than the  unmixed  article  for 
which it is a substitute?  Is  it correct logic 
to claim that such margin  of  profit, in sell­
ing to the consumer at the reduced  price,  is 
to such an extent “taken  out  of  the  con­
sumer?”  Is not the man who  can  make  a 
mixture of  good materials—we  will  say, a 
compound of cottonseed oil,  beef  fat  and 
hog’s lard,  making  a  substitute  for  lard, 
considered in every  particular equal to lard 
for the uses for which it  is  offered—doing 
a  good service to the consumer  in  offering 
it to him at less cost than the straight article 
for which it is a substitute?
Can anybody tell what lard costs a packer, 
at a stated price  paid  for  live  hogs  from 
Which it is made,  without reference to what 
is realized ou other portions of  the product? 
If not, is it not fallacy  and  deception  and 
bod form to talk of  a  loss of  one  to  two 
cents  a  pound on lard manufacture, under 
competition from Other animal and vegetable 
fats entering channels  previously  occupied 
by lard?
There are mules  of  greater  value  than 
home horses; dog skins  that  are  preferable 
to some leopard skins; oleomargarine that is 
for better for the human stomach  than some 
butter—and a mixture  of  pure  cottonseed 
cil and beef fat with lard may be considered 
preferable to  straight  hog’s  lard,  for  its 
equal or greater merit, in  every  particular, 
combined with a saving  in  cost.  But  the 
purchaser has a right to  know  whah he re­
ceives, in each and every instance.
Compound lard should be branded what it 
is. T he use of deleterious materials, ineuch 
articles for food  uses,  should  be  severely 
punishable, including imprisonment.
The actions of  dishonest men  should not 
be made to serve as  an  embargo  upon  an 
important  industry—whether  it  be 
the 
manufacture of pure lard, or  a  mixture  of 
hud, beef fat and cottonseed oil.  A properly 
made substitute is as legitimate an article of 
manufacture  as  that  for  which it substi­
tutes.
Is it in order to endeavor  to  degrade  the 
reputation of  compound lard  in its entirety 
ef manufacture for the reason  that  an  in­
finitesimal proportion of  it  contains objec­
tionable ingredients, or because  the  article 
is a  successful competitor  with  pure  lard? 
Is not the present  movement  against  com­
pound lard one for protection of an industry 
against the influences of  another legitimate 
industry, rather than any  solicitude for the 
consumer?
Convention  of Cider  Manufacturers  and 

Fruit Evaporators.

The  proposed  State  convention  of  the 
manufacturers of cider and evaporated fruit 
promises to be well attended and to be pro­
ductive of much good.  Every branch of the 
fruit  manufacturing  industry will be well 
considered  and  argued—cider, 
ripening, 
preparing,  evaporating,  marketing,  etc. 
Jelly, boiled cider  and  apple  butter  will 
have a large place.  Freight  rates  and leg­
islation will also be argued  by  posted men. 
X m y   fruit  manufacturer  should  take  a 
hand.
The meeting will take  place  at  Jackson 
an January .25 and 26, and bold  over  until 
the 27th, if we don’t  get  done.  Headquar­
ters will be at the Commercial House, oppo­
site the Central  depot.  Fair  board  can be 
procured at $ l per day.  The  city  council 
moms, 
two  blocks  away,  have been pro­
cured for the meeting.  Bring  a  sample  of 
each of your productions and thus ornament 
flic table of exhibits,  which will receive re­
wards of merit from a committee of judges, 
elected by the Association.  Turn  out  and 
surprise our sister states,  which  now  rank 
above us  in  this  branch  of  manufacture. 
W e have the fruit,  which is our forte.
Programmes  will  be  mailed free to any 
address  by  applying  to  W.  A.  Herring, 
South Allen, Mich.

The  Grocery  Market.

The sugar market  has  been on a regalar 
tear during t&e past week,  as  the  result of 
stimulus supplied by the sugar trust.  Candy 
su d  syrup are beginning to move upward in 
Sympathy with the  advance in sugar.  The 
Standard oil people have forced the price of 
sefined  oil  up  %c~,  to  conform  to  their 
forced advance in crude oil,  and the vinegar 
manufacturers  have finally  brought about a 
combination  and  succeeded  in  advancing 
fñees l%c. per gallon. 
It is  not  believed 
that the vinegar men can hold together, but 
fiu&Aheir combination will meet  the  same 
. h t e  which recently overtook  the jelly com­
bination.  California raisins áre in good de- 
oaand and there are  indications  that  they 
still shortly go higher.  Plug -tobaccos con­
tinue to advance,  probably more  from habit 
f ia n  necessity.

The  Hardware Market.

Hails are without change.  The  advance 
to glass  is  well  maintained.  Pig tin is a 
HUle higher in Hew York,  but  unchanged 
W est
v  3- P. Derby, wholesale grocer, East Saginaw: 
appreciate the. good qualities ef your  pa-

SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF

46 Ottawa Street, Grand Rapifls
ABSOLUTE  SPIGES,
Atolli!  M ili M ir .

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OYSTERS.

OYSTERS AND  FISH .
F. J. D ettenthaler quotes as follows:
Fairhaven C ounts. . . . . . . . . . . ...... 
.35
Selects............................... .............; ...................23
Anohors..............................................................20
Standards  ........ 
 
jp
Favorites............................................... 
  15
Standards per gal..........................................;1 10
Selects,  per gal .     ....................................... .1  40
Counts, in bulk, per 100.............. ................... 1 20
.....................................   80
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Clams, 
70
 
 
“  per gal................ 
125
Black  bass.................................... 
10
Rock bass.............................................................  4
Pfereh__ <...........................................................4
Duck-bill  pike..................................................  8
T rout.................................................................   10
W hiteflsh........................  
10

FRESH  FISH .

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Curtiss & Dunton quote as follows:

W OODBNW ARE.
Standard  Tubs, No. 1...................  
5
Standard  Tubs, No. 2....................... 
4
Standard Tubs, No. 3..... 
3
 
Standard Pails, two hoop................................ 1
Standard Pails, threè hoop.......................... .1
Pails, ground wood 
....................................4
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes......................!.. 2
B utter  Pails, ash............................................. 2
B utter Ladles................................................
B utter Spades.......  ......................"   ......... ,!
Rolling Pins.......................................
Potato Mashers...................................!.!! 
.
Clothes Pounders.................. .............!.. !  .  2
ClothesPins........../ .............................!  .!".’’
Mop  Sticks..............................................Ü.ÜÜ1
Washboards, single..............  
  *..1
Washboards, double....................................... !2
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BASKETS.

Diamond  M arket.............................................  40
Bushel”, narrow hand, No. 1............... 
1  50
Bushel, narrow  band, No. 2............................1 40
Bushel, wide band.............................................1 75
Clothes, splint,  No. 3..............................4___3 50
Clothes, splint,  No. 2.......................................4 25
Clothes,splint,  No. 1.......................................500
Clothes, willow  No. 3...................................... 6 00
Clothes, willow  No. 2...................................... 6 50
Clothes, willow  No. 1...................................... 7 50
W ater  Tight,  (acme) bu..............................!!!3 75
......................2  85

half bu 

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HIDES, PELTS  AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

G reen__ ^  ft  4%@ 5
P art  cured...  6  @ 6%
Full cured__   7  @
Dry hides and 
k ip s ............  6

Calf skins, green
Deacon skins,

or cured__   6  @ 7
$  piece.......10  @25

HIDES.

8
WOOL.

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FURS.

Fine washed $  ft 22@23|Coarse washed.. .22@24
Medium  ............. 22@25|Unwashed............16@18
No. 1  No. 2 No. 3  No. 4

Bears............................... 15 00  7  00  4 00
Beavers............................. 6 00  4 06  2 00
20
Badgers...........................  75 
Cat,  Wild.........................  50 
20 
5
“  House.....................   15 
5
10 
Fox,  Red.......................... l  00 
60  30
10 
“  Cross....................... 5 00  2 50  1 00
50 
“  G rey......................  75 
50 
20
10 
Fishers..............................7 00  4 00  2 00
1 00 
Lynx................................. 4 00  2  50  1 00
50 
10
Mink, Large D ark........   40 
05 .
Small P ale..........  25 
05
M artins............................ 1 00 
30
10
8@4  01
M usrats...................... 
O tter...........................6 00 
2 00  1  00
Raccoon, Large........   75 
10
Small..........  30 
05
Skunk.........................  75 
10
Wolf............................3  00 
25
Deer Skins, dry, Red Coats, per lb ............  30c
“  .............   30c
“  Blue  “ 
25c
“  Short ¡Grey, 
“ 
“  Long 
“   .............   10c
MISCE LLANEOUS.

SPRING  WINTER  FALL  KTTS

i t  
4  00 
50 
20 
50 
1  00 

Sheep pelts, short shearing............... 
5@25
Sheep pelts, old wool estim ated..........  @25
Tallow    ....................................................3%@ 3%
Grease b u tter.........................................  
5@ 8
Ginseng, good......................................... 1  60@1  70

20 
10 
25 
50 

25 
15 
60 

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MISCELLANEOUS.

Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay $1.60@$1.70 $  ft 
for clean washed roots.
Rubber Boots and Shoes—Jobbers are  offer­
ing 40 per cent, off on first  quality  and 40 and 
12% per cent, off on second quality.
PRODUCE  MARKET.

Apples—$2.25 per bbl.
Beets—In good supply at 40e ner bu.
Bean—Hand-picked  mediums  are  very 
scarce, readily commanding §2.25@$2.50 per bu.
Butter—Jobbers pay 18cfor choice dairy and 

sell a t 20c.  Grease butter is slow sale at 8c.

B utter 1 rffe—Creamery,  10c  for  solid  packed 
and 17c for rolls.  Dairy, 13%c for solid packed 
and  14%c  for  rolls.  E xtra  creamery 20c  for 
solid packed and 21c for rolls.

Cabbages—$6@$8  per  100,  according to size. 

Very scarce.

Carrots—30@35c perbu.
Celery—25 9  doz.
Cheese—Jobbers are holding their  stocks  at 

Cider—lOc per gal.
Cooperage—Pork  barrels,  $1.25;  apple  bar­

13@13%c.

rels, 25c.

Cranberries—Home  grown, $3 perbu.  Cape 

Cod, $11 per bbi.

Dried  Apples—Jobbers  hold  sun-dried at 6c 

and evaporated at 8%c.

Eggs—Jobbers  pay 18o  for  pickled  stock 
and 28c for fresh, holding at 2c above those fig­
ures.  Fresh eggs are hard to get.

Honey—In plentiful supply a t 15@16c.
Hay—Baled 

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

is  moderately  active  at  $14 
in 

Onions- Home grown, 75c  per bu.  Spanish, 

$1.30 per crate.

Pop Corn—2o 9  ft.
Potatoes—Buyers pay 68@70o  for good stock 
(Rose and  Hebrons  preferred) and hold at 75@ 
80c.

Sweet  Potatoes—Kiln-dried 

Jerseys  are 
scarce  and  high,  readily  commanding  $5.50 
per bbl

Turnips—20@25c per doz.

GRAINS AND M ILLING PRODUCTS.

Lancaster  and  82c  for  Fulse and Clawson.
lots and 54c in carlots.
car lots.

W heat—2c  higher.  City  millers  pay 84c for 
Corn—Jobbing  generally  at  660  in  100  bu. 
Oats—White,  40c  in  small  lots  and  36c  in 
Rye—48@50o 9  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.20 9  owt.
Flour—No change. Patent. $5.209 bbl.in sacks 
and  $5.40  in  wood.  Straight,  $4.20 9  bbl. in 
sacks and $4.40 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.50 9  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15 9  ton.  Bran. $18 
9   ton.  Ships,  $19  9   ton.  Middlings,  $20  9  
ton.  Corn and Oats. $22  9  ton.

COALI

Present  Prices:

Stove  No.  4  and Nut 
Egg and Grate

18.00  per ton. 
$7,75  per ton.
We  are agents for  Brazil  Block  Coal.  The 

best and cheapest steam coal in the m arket.

WHOLESALE  MANUFACTURERS OF

FIB. D. YALE & CO.
Baking PowAbi^, ExtTaQts, Blninp,
GROCERS’  SUNDRIES.

AND  JOBBERS OF

40 and 42 Sonth Division St.,

GRAND RAPIDS,  -  MICH.

INCREASE  YOUR  TRADE

BY  SELLING

Composed  of  G uatem ala,  A frican  and 
M exican Java»,  Santos, M aracaibo  and  Wio 
selected with especial  reference  to their fine 
d rin k in g  qualities.  The most p o p u lar brand 
of Blended Coffee in the  m arket.  Sold  only 
in 50 lb. Cana and 1  lb.  packages. 30, 60 and 1CK> 
lb. Cases.  M ail O rders Solicited by the  pro­

prietors.J. H. THOMPSON i 00.,
59 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich.
Im porters and .jobbers of  fine  Teas, Coffees, 
Spices,  Etc..  Baking  Powder  Mfrs.,  Coffee 
Roasters, Spice Grinders.

BEE  SPICE  MILLS,

ESTA BLISH ED   1866.

B r o s ,,
B u r n e t t  
159 80. Water Street, Ghißago,

We do a General  Commission Business 
and offer  as  inducements  twenty years’  ex­
perience and clear record.  The best  equip­
ped and  largest  salesroom  in  the  business 
in this city.  Ample storage  facilities—full 
20,000 feet  of  floor  space  in  the  center of 
the best market in  the  West.  Ample capi­
tal  and  first-class  references  on  file  with 
Th e  Tradesm an.  Write  us  if  you wish 
information,  whether  to  buy  or  sell. 
I t 
will cost you nothing.

BARNETT  BROS.

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WITH
DOUBLE THICK

Ordinary Rubber Boots 
always wear out first on 
the ball.  TheCASDEE 
Boots  are  double  thick 
ou  the  ball,  and  give
D O U B L E   W E A  It*
Most economical Rubber 
Boot 
the  market. 
Lasts  longer  than  any 
other boot and the
PRICE SO HIGHER. 
Call  and  ex­
amine  tho 
goods.

in 

Grand Rapids Ice & Coal Co.,

OFFICE  52  PEARL ST.,

R  SALE BY

Offer N o. 171,

FREE—To  Merchants  Only:  A 
genuine  Meerschaum  Smoker’s  Set, 
(five pieces), in satin-lined plush case. 
Address at  once,  R.  W.  Tansill & 
Co., 55 State St,, Chioago.

E . G. STTJDLEY &  CO., Grand R apids.

Jobbers of

Rubber  and  Oil  Clothing  of  all  kinds, 
Horse  and  Wagon  Cover«, Leather  and 
Rubber Belting and Mill  grid Fire Depart­
ment  Supplies.  Send for price list.

WBO&SSAIiB  PRIGB  ÖttBÄTOIT.

These prices  afe  fo r  eaáh  huyen, Who  pay 

prom ptly and buy in full packages.
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Paragon  ... 
C ro w n .......  ... .. ..   80
Paragon 25 lb pails,  90 
Frazer’s . .......... . 
90
Fraziers, 25 lb pails. 1  20
Diamond  X ....... . 
SO
Modoc, 4  doz.......2  50

AXLE  GREASE,

BAKING  POWDER.

10 00
..18 75
55 
50

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'ie corlan. I lb cans, (tall,) 2 doz.....................2
Diamond,  “ bulk.” ..........................................
Absolute, % lb cans, 100 cans in  case........ 11

 
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1
Dry, No. 3................  
doz.
25
Dry, No. 3............................................doz.
45
Liquid, 4 oz,........................................doz.
35
Liquid, 8 oz......................................... doz.
65
Arctic 4 o z .... 
.................. 9   gross 3 507 ?n
Arctic 8  oz_
Arctic 16 oz...
.  12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box............................ ..  2 00
Arctic No. 2
..  3 00
Arctic No. 3
.  400
Ring’s Quick-Rising, 80-lb. cases............ .$  4 25
............ .  5 00
No. 2 H url__ ....... 2 00 Common Whisk. ...1 00
No. 1 H url__ ........2 25 Fancy  W hisk... ...1.35
No. 2 C arpet.......... 2 50 Mill...................... ...3  75
No. 1 Carpet.. ........ 2 75 Warehouse  ....... ...3 00
Parlor Gem.. ........ 3 00
Runkle Bros’..V ienna Sweet..................
...  .22
Prem ium ........................
..  .33
Homeo-Cocoa.................. ........37
B reakfast......................... ........ 48

*4 
4« 
BUCKWHEAT.
“ 

100-lb. 
BROOMS.

CHOCOLATE.

“ 

‘

COCOANUT.

“ 

Schepps, Is..............................................  @25
Is and  %s.................................  @26
“ 
“  %s...............................................  @27
Is in tin   pails...........................  @27)4
•• 
“ 
548 
.........................   @28 Hi
Maltby’s,  Is.............................................  @23)4
“ 
Is and  )4s..............................   @24
)4s............. .............................  @24)4
“ 
M anhattan,  pails...................................   @20
Peerless  ..................................................  @18
Bulk, pails or barrels............................   @16
Mecha........
Costi Rica........ 21@22
Mexican........... 2i@22
Mandating........25@55
Santos...............2 *@23
O G J a v a .......... 25@25
Jav a................. ,23@24
Rio,  fancy.......21 @22
Rio,  prim e...  .19@20 
Maricabo.......... 21@22
Rio,  common...I8@19 
To  ascertain cost of  roasted  coffee, add )4c 
per B>. for roasting and 15 per cent, for shrink 
age.

COFFEE—GREEN.

COFFEES—PACKAGE.

. 

f  

- t o s h .
........... 

Raisins,Valencias,  > ......................... 7'  @7%
Raisins, Im perials.......................... . 
@3 75
' 
Cod, w hole.......¿ ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . ___.... .4%@5
COd, boneless..... 
. .. .. .. ..  6%®7%
H a lib u t........................................... a ___ _  12)|
Herring, round.  %  bbl........................   @3 00
H erring,round,  %  b b l ....,; ..,...........  1 50
Herring, Holland,  bbls................ ............   10 00
Herring, Holland,  kegs.........  ...............   80@85
 
Herring, Sealed...................... 
22@23
Mackerel, shore, No. 1, % bbls.................. 8  75
.......   135
....  @1  10
No. 3, % bbls.................... ......... .6 50
Trout, %  bbls............................................... 5 50
“  10 ft  k its.............................................  85
White, No. 1, % bbls  
............................  6 75
White, No. 1,12  lb k its ............. ................1 20
White, No. 1,10 Jb k its................................1 05
White, Family, % bbls.................... ........... 3  75
68

“
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12 lb kits 

k its .......... 

* 
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

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1 

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“ 

Lemon.  Vanilla.
Jennings’ D. C.,2 oz...............$  doz.  1 00 
1 6C
”  4 oz..........................150
2 65
“  6 oz............................3 50
4 25
“  8 oz...........................3 50
5 00 
“  No. 2 Taper..............1 25
1  76
r   No. 4  r‘ 
................1 75
3 00 
“  % pint, round..........4 50
9 00
“
“ 
.......... 9 00
18 00 
r*  No. 3 panel.. . ......... 110
1  85 
“  No.8  “ 
.................275
5 00 
*  No. 10 
............... 4 25
“ 
7 00
FARINACEOUS  GOODS.
Farina, 100lb.  kegs............................
@  04 
Hominy, $  bbl........................................
@4 25 
Macaroni, domestic 12 lb.  boxes........
@  65 
im ported............'.................
@11% 
Pearl Barley.................................... .
@  3 
Peas, Green
@115
Peas, Split...................... .......................  @2%
@ 6
Sago, German
Tapioca, flake or pearl.........................   @5%
Wheat, cracked  .....................................  @6 25
Vermicelli,  imported................................  @11)4
domestic, 12 lb. boxes........   @  65
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square.........................   95
Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 gro...................... 1 10
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  p a rlo r.........................1 75
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, parlor...........................2 25
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round...............................1 50
Oshkosh, No. 2..................................................  76
Oshkosh, No.  8....................................................   .1 50
Swedish.............................................................    75
Richardson’s No. 8  square..................................1 00
Richardson’s No. 9 
........................ 150
Richardson’s No. 7)4, round................................ 1 00
........................ 150
Richardson’s No. 7 
Woodbine. 300...................................................1 15
Black  Strap............................................ 
17@18
Cuba Baking.................................................. 22@25
Porto  Rico......................................................24@35
New  Orleans,  good.......................................33@40
New Orleans, choice..................................... 44@50
New Orleans,  fancy..................................... 50@52

do 
do 
MOLASSES.

MATCHES.

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bbls. 3c extra

O IL.

OATMEAL 

Michigan Test.................................................... 10%
W ater W hite..................................................... 12
Barrels......................6 25 Barrels......................... 6 25
H alf barrels.............3 25 Half barrels........... 3 25
Cases.........................2 35lCases.............................2 35
M edium ................... 6 00| Small,  bbl.................... 7 00

ROLLED  OATS

PICKLES.

I 

RICE.

PIPE S.

y% bbl......... 3 o0| 

“  % bbl...........4 00
Im ported Clay, No. 216,3 gross............  @2 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,2)4 gross........   @1  75
American  T. D.......................................   @  75
Choice Carolina..
Java  ................. 
5)4
Prim e Carolina..
P a tn a ........................5%
Good C arolina__ __ 5)4
R angoon..........  @5
Good Louisiana...... 5)4
Broken..............  @3)4
T ab le............... 5%@6
Jap an ................5%®6)4
H ead ........................ 6%
DeLand’s p u re........5)4
Church’s  .................5
Taylor’s G. M......... 5

Dwight’s ................. 5
Sea  Foam.................5)4
Cap Sheaf............... .5

SALERATUS.

%c less in 5 box lots.

SALT.

  @

30 lbs 60 lbs 100 lbs

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CRACKERS.

CANNED F IS H .

“  Quaker Cy. 
“  Best Rio 

“ 
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Prim e Maricabo

Arbuckle’s Avorica, 50 lb. double bags 

Lion...........................................
Lion, in  cabinets....................
Dilworth’s ................................
Magnolia...................................
Honey Bee................................25%  25%
G erm an.................  ................
German, in  bins......................
Arbuekle’s A riosa..................
Avorica...............
McLaughlin’s  X X XX............
COFFEES—SPECIAL BRANDS.
Bell, Conrad & Co.’s Plantation Java.
Mocha..................
“ 
Jav o k a................
“ 
Im perial..............
“ 
“ 
B anner................
“ 
Mexican..............
“
“

24)4
25
24%
24
25 
24 
24%
2i)4
22%
24)4
33 
33 
30 
28% 
26 % 
20 
22 
23 
23%
Thompson & Co.’s Honey Bee...............
25
CORDAGE.
60 foot Ju te .......
90
50 foot Cotton.. ..1 60
72 foot J u t e ....... 1  20
60 foot Cotton.. ..1  75
4o Foot Cotton... 1 50
72 foot C otton....2 00
Kenosha B utter. ....7 City Soda.......... .......8
Seymour  B utter ....5% Soda................... .......5%
...5% Soda Fancy...... .......5
B utter.................
Family  B utter..
...5% 8.  Oyster.......... .......5%
Fancy B utter__ ....5
P icn ic...............
B utter  Biscuit.. ....6% Fancy  Oyster..
B oston...............
Clams, 1 ft, Little Neck................................1 35
Clam Chowder,  3 f t...................................... 2  15
Cove Oysters, 1 fl>  standards..................   100
Cove Oysters, 2 B>  standards........................   1 70
Lobsters, 1 lb picnic.......................... 
.1  75
Lobsters, 2 B>, picnic........................................ 2 65
Lobsters, 1 ft sta r...................  
1  90
Lobsters. 2 ft s ta r.............................................2 90
Mackerel, l f t   fresh  standards......................1 70
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh  standards......................5 CO
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 f t .................
Mackerel, 3 ft in M ustard.............................
Mackerel. 3 ft  soused..................   .............. 
.
Salmon. 1 ft Columbia riVer............. 1  75@2  10
Salmon. 2 ft Columbia river...........................3 50
Sardines, domestic %s........................... 
Sardines,  domestio  )4s................................   9@10
Sardines,  Mustard  %s..................................  9@10
Sardines,  imported  %s.................................12@L3
Sardines,  spiced, )4s..................................... 10@12
Trout. 3 ft  brook........................................
Apples, gallons, standards............................2 75
Blackberries, standards................................. 1 30
Cherries,  red  s ta n d a rd ........................1   60
Cherries, pitted.............................................1  85@l 90
Dam sons................................................   1 25@1  35
Egg Plums, standards 
...............................1  5G
Gooseberries..................................................... 1 65
Grapes.............................................................   95
Green G ages................................... 
1 50
Peaches,  all yellow, standards..................... 2 65
Peaches,  seconds.............................................2 25
Peaches, p ie...........................................1 6C@1  65
Pears................................................................ 1  35
Pineapples,............................................ 1 40@2  75
Q uinces...........................................................1 15
Raspberries,  extra.......................................1  50
1 50
Strawberries  ............................................ ...1  50
W hortleberries............................................. 1 30
Asparagus, Oyster Bay................................ 2 00
Beans, Lima,  standard............................ . 
75
Beans, Green Lim as................. ...1  10@1  40
...................................1 00@1 20
Beans,  String 
Beans, Stringiess, E rie................................  90
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked...................... 1 60
Corn, Archer’s Trophy.......... ................... .  115
Morning Glory........ ........... 1  15
Early Golden............;..........115
Peas, French...............................................1  60
Peas, extra m arrofat............................1  20@1  40
Peas,  soaked...............................................  75
“  Early June, stand....................... 1  50@1  7
sifted.............................. ,2 00
“ 
“  French, extra time..................... ......... 20 00
Mushrooms, extra  flue....................  
.........22 00
Pumpkin', 3 ft Golden........ .........................   120
Succotash, standard.................................80@1  30
Squash....... . . . . . . . . __________________.1 40
Tom atoes,standard brands.................1   15
Tomatoes, Red Coats........ .........  ...............  1  15
Good  E nough... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   115
Other standard brands..............115

CANNED VEGETABLES.

r e d ..................... 

CANNED FR U IT S.

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CHIfiESlS •
Michigan full  cream .......... 
13@13)4
Apples, evaporated................................9%@1P%

D RIED  FRU ITS.
6@ 6:
sum m ed..................... 
 
'  D RIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN.
C itron........................................  
 
@ 7
C u rra n ts ................................... 
Lemon P eel..............................................  12@14
12@14
Orange P eel........... ..       ...• ......... 
Prunes, French,60s.... I ,......... . . .         @
%  French, 80s...................... 
  @ ■
 
.  “  French,  90s...............................   @
@ 4)4
"  “  Turkey, old..................... 
“
  Turkey,, new .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   @
. 3  60
Raisins. D ehesis.. .
.
.
Raisins, London Layers,.....  . 
*..1  @3 10
@2 40
Raisins,California  “ ...  . . . . . . . . . . .  
Raisin*, Loose Mtisoateis,......................  @2 20
. @2 00
Raisink, Loose C a l
Raisins,Qndaras,  28s.,.,  i..............8)4@  8%
i  @ 8)4
B a j a i n s ; 8 u l t a n a p . ; . . ,

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60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................2  10@2 20
2  10
28 Pocket.................................................. 
2 35
1003 ft  pockets........................................ 
Saginaw or  Manistee...........................  
95
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........  
75
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags__  
2 75
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........  
7ft
American, dairy, )4 bu. bags............... 
20
Rock, bushels.......................................... 
25
40
Warsaw, Dairy, bu. bags...................... 
...................... 
20
London Relish, 2 doz.......................................2 50
Dingman. 100  bars.........................................   4 00
Don’t Anti-W ashboard.................................. 4 75
Jaxon............. 
..... ......................................3 75
Allspice...................................................  
8)4
Cassia, China in m ats............................  
8)4
12
“  Batavia in bundles..................  
40
“  Saigon in rolls........................... 
Cloves, Amboyna................................... 
30
“  Zanzibar..................... 
29
Mace B atavia................................................. 
Nutmegs,  fancy...........................................  

SPICES—WHOLE.

'SA treES.

SOAP.

 

 

No. 1........................................  
No. 2........................................  
Pepper, Singapore,  black.................... 

75
70
19

“ 
shot 

w h ite.........................  
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SPICES—PURE GROUND—IN  BULK.

Allspice...................................................  
Cassia,  B atavia......................................  
and  Saigon..................  
Saigon  .  ...................................  
Z an z ib a r...,........ 

“ 
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Cloves, Amboyna.......................................... 
“ 
Ginger, A frican......................................  
“  Cochin...................................... 
Jam aica.....................................  
“ 
Mace Batavia.......................................... 
Mustard,  English.......................................... 
and Trieste.............. 
T rieste....................................... 

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

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w hite...................... 
“ 
“  Cayenne....................................  
Absolute  Pepper, per doz..................... 
 
“ 
 
 
 
“ 
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“ 
 
“ 
 
 

Cinnamon 
Allspice 
Cloves 
Ginger 
Mustard 

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12
lo@16
25
42
 
12%
 
15
18@23
85
22
25

32
25
84
84
60
1  12
78
84

STARCH.

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SUGARS.

l f t   “ 

Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1 ft pkgs—   @ 7

“  3 ft 
“ 
“  b u lk ..........   @ 4
“ 
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“  Corn, 40ft boxes, 1 ft pkg s....  @ 6
“ 

6 ft boxes...  @  7)4
b u lk ..........   @ 6%
Pure, 1 ft pkgs...................   @ 5)4
Corn, 1  ft pkgs...................   @ 7
Muzzy, Gloss, 48 ft boxes, 1 ft pkgs...  @5%
“  48 “ 
...  @5%
“  40  ft 
“  72  ft crates, 6 ft boxes..  @ 6)4
....  @ 6%
“ 
@ 8% 
Cut  Loaf..................................................
C ubes.......................................................
@  7% 
Pow dered................................................
@  7% 
7%@7  56 
Granulated,  Standard.........................
Off........................................
@  7% 
Granulated, New  Orleans....................
@
Confectionery A .....................................
©  7 
Standard A ...............................................
@  6% 
6J4@ 6% 
No. 1, W hite E xtra  C.......... .................
@ 6% 
No. 2, E xtra C.........................................
@  5%
No.SC.......................................................
.................  @5%
No.4 C.......................................................
.................  @5%
No. 5C.......................................................
Corn, barrels.......@38  (Pure Sugar,bbl.  25@38
Corn, )4 bbls........@.li  Pure Sugar, % bbl 27@39
Corn, 10 gal. k ’gs.338 
Lorillard’s American Gentlem en...
Maccoboy.................... .
Gail & Ax’ 
............... .........
Rappee..............................
Railroad  Mills Scotch..................
Lotzbeck  .............................................

SNUFF.  .

8YRUPS.

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SWEET  GOODS.

X
Ginger  Snaps........ .........................   7)4
Sugar Creams..................................  7%
Frosted Creams................................
Graham Crackers............................
Oatmeal Crackers......................
TOBACCOS—PLUG.

@21

Spear H ead........ 42@44
Plank  R oad/.............42
Eclipse  ...................... 36
Holy  Moses..............33
Blue  Blazes.............32
Eye O pener.;........3 2
S tar 
............ 42@46
C lip p e r........ ............ §9
Scalping  K nife........ 39
Sam Bass.........•  • •  39
filiiiMT. . . . . .   43@45 2 and 2
8weet Pippin 
.......SO
Five and Seven..... .60
Hiawatha.............  TO
Sweet Cuba,,..... • •
Rob Roy....... ..«TlPeeriesSw..

35
Merry W ar.......
Jolly T ar........ ...........34
Live & L et L ive........34
Nimrod...................... .46
W hopper.................... 30
Ju p iter........  v.......... 30
Old H onesty..........4 2
33
P, I*
Corner Stone. 
.35@37
C lipper...-----
.26@32
_
Petoskey Chief..... ..68
Sweet  R usset........... 45
T histle. . . . . . . . . M fil
. . . . . . . . ,M.65
Florida 
. . . . . . 2 8
.......30

TOBACCOS—SMOKING.
[Uncle  Sam.

TOBACCOS—FIN E  CUT.

70 
@  55 
@  44 
@  35 
@  45 
@1 30
XXX
8)4
8%
9
8%
3%

TEAS.
Japan o r d in a ry ....................
Japan fair to  good.............
Jap an  fine........ . . . . ; ............................
12@20
Japan du st............................................  
Young Hyson..........—   .............................20@45
G unPow aer...................... 
 
35@50
Oolong..............* ........................ .  33@55@60@75
Congo..... .......................................^

VINEGAR.

30 gr.

miscellaneous.

W hite W ine................ ................  
9
C id er........ ................... 
9
Apple.......... .......... . . . . . . .   —   10
Bath Brick im ported............................
do 
Am erican............................
Burners,  No. 0........ ..............................
do  No. 1 ................... ..................
do  No.  2........................... .
Cocoa  Shells, bulk....................... ..........
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand.............
Cream T artar 5 and 10 ft cans..............
Candles. Star....................... ...................
Candles.  H otel........................................
Camphor, oz., 2 ft boxes.......................
E xtract Coffee, V.  C..........................
F e lix ...........................
Fire Crackers, per b o x .........................
Gum, Rubber 100 lum ps.......................
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. 
...................
Gum, Spruce..........................................
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails.................................   5
Powder, K eg...........................................
Powder, %  K eg......................................
Sage  .........................................................
Sauer-kraut, 30 gals.....................................
CANDY. FRUITS  AND  NUTS.

Putnam  & Brooks quote as follows :

do 

50 gr. 
11 
11 
12
90 
75 
65 
75 
95 
@  4 
@7 60 
@25 
@ 9)4 
@10% 
@35 
@80 
@1 15 
@1 20 
@25 
@35 
@30 
@  5% 
@5 26 
@2 87 
@  15 
;..9 00

 

 

 

 

 

 

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FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.

STICK,
Standard, 25 ft boxes..............................  8  @  8%
Twist, 
.............................  @ 9
Cut Loaf 
..................   ...  @10
MIXED
Royal, 25 ft  pails.....................................  s%@ 9
Royal, 200 ft bbls....................................  @ 8
Extra, 25 ft  pails....................................   @J0
Extra, 200 ft bbls.....................................  @ 9
French Cream, 25 ft pails......................  @11)4
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases................................  @10
Broken, 25  ft  pails.................................   @10
Broken. 200 ft  bbls.................................   @ 9
Lemon  Drops__ :......................................  @13
Sour Drops........ .........................................  @14
Pepperm int  Drops...................................  @14
14
Chocolate Drops........................................ 
H M Chocolate  Drops.............................. 
18
10
Gum  Drops  ............................................... 
is
Licorice Drops.................. 
A B  Licorice  Drops.................................  
12
Lozenges, plain...................  
14
Lozenges,  printed..................................... 
15
Im perials...................................................  
14
15
M ottoes....................................................... 
Cream  B ar..................................................  
13
13
Molasses B ar............................................... 
18
Caramels...................................................... 
Hand Made Creams................................... 
18
Plain  Creams............................................. 
ie
Decorated Creams..................................... 
20
String Rock................................................ 
13
Burnt Almonds........................................ 
22
W intergreen  Berries............................ 
14
Lozenges, plain in  pails.......................   @11%
Lozenges, plain in  bbls.................. 
  @10%
Lozenges, printed in pails....................  @12%
Lozenges, printed in  bbls....................   @11%
Chocolate Drops, in pails......................  @12%
Gum  Drops  ih pails..............................  @ 6%
Gum Drops, in bbls................................  @5%
Moss Drops, in  pails..............................  @10
Moss Drops, in bbls  ; ............................   @ 9
Sour Drops, in  pails..............................   @12
Imperials, in  pails.................................   @12
Imperials  in bbls.................................  
@11
Bananas 
Oranges, California, fancy..................   @
Oranges,  choice.....................................
Oranges. Jam aica, bbls.........................
Oranges, Florida....................................3 00@i  00
Oranges, Rodi,........................................   @
Oranges, Messina...................................  @
Oranges, OO.................... ; ...................... 2 85@3 00
Oranges, Im perials................................  @
Lemons, choice......................................3  75®
Lemons, fancy....................................... 4 00@4  25
Lemons, California.......... .....................
Figs, layers, new,  $  ft..........................12  @16
Figs, Bags, 50 ft......................................   @  7
Dates, frails do  .....................................  @5%
Dates, % do  d o .....................................  @6%
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   f t....................   @ 9
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $ f t ......................  @ 8
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $  ft.................  6  @7%
Pine Apples, $   doz.............................. 
Almonds,  Tarragona............................   17@18
Ivaca......................................  @17
C alifornia............................   @16
B razils.................. ..................................  @10
Filberts, Sicily....................................... 10%®11
Barcelona................................  @
W alnuts,  Grenoble................................ 11%@15
Sicily.....................................  
12
French...................................12% @13
80
Pecans,  Texas, H. P .............................  
9@12
88
Missouri.................................
Cocoanuts, $  100, full bags..................   @5 50
Chestnuts............................................. 
PEANUTS.
29
Prime  Red, raw 
ft............................  @4%
21
Choice 
do  ............................   @ 5
Fancy H.P. do 
do  ............................   @5%
Choice W hite, Va.do  ............................   6  @6%
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ............................  @8%
H .P . V a.............................. .................... 6%@
32

................................................ l 75@2  50

FRUITS.

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PROVISIONS.

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The  Grand Rapids  Packing & Provision  Co. 

PO RK   IN   BARRELS.

quote  as follows:
Mess..................................  
16  00
S h o rtcu t...........................................................16 00
20
Shortcut, clear,  Botsford............................. 15 00
S hortcut  Morgan...........................................16 25
E xtra clear pig, short c u t..............................17 00
65
E xtra clear, heavy...........................................17 00
23
Clear quill, short  cu t......................................I t 00
Boston clear, short c u t.................................. 17 00
Clear back, short cu t......................................17 00
Standard clear, short  cut, best................... 17 00
Bean..................................................................
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLAIN
Hams, average 20  ibs...........................
“ 
16  fts...........................
12 to 14 fts...................
“ 
“  picnic  ..................................................
“  best boneless.................. ....................
Shoulders..........................................................
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.........................
Dried Beef, ex tra...........................................
ham  prices................................
Long Clears, heavy........................................
“  medium....................................
lig h t...................................—
“ 

DRY  SALT  MEATS.

8
.11 
.  8% 
.10

.11
. 11%
.11%

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

8%
8%
3
8%

LARD.

“ 

BEEF IN  BARRELS.

LARD IN  TIN PAILS.

“  Kansas City Packing........

Tierces  .....................................................
30 and 50 ft T u b s......................................
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case..............................
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case...............................
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case..........................
20 ft Pails, 4 pails in case.......................
E xtra Mess, warranted 200 fts........ ...........
E xtra Mess, Chicago Pacxing......................
Plate ................................................................
E xtra P late........................ ...........................
Boneless, rum p b utts.................. .................
K an City pkd..........
“  % bbl.

8%
8%
8%
7  00 
7 50 
7 25 
7 75 
,  8 25 
10 00 
.  9 00 
5 00
Pork Sausage..................................... 
..  7%
Ham  Sausage............... 
.11
Tongue  Sausage.................... 
9
 
Frankfort  Sausage........................................... 8
6
Blood  Sausage..................... 
6
Bologna, straight........ ........................... 
Bologna, thick.......................... 
6
 
6
Head  Cheese........ ..............................  
3 50 
In half barrels......................................
215
In quarter barrels................................

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

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

PIG S’ FEET.

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FR E SH   MEATS.

The  W.  Steele  Packing  &  Provision  Co. 
quotes as follows:
Fresh  Beef,  sides or carcasses............5%@  6%
Dressed  H ogs......................................  @ 7
Pork  loins....................................... 
@ 9
Beef loins.......... ... ^ ............................   @ 9
Beef rib s.......................... i ......................  @ 7
Pork ribs............................... ............... 5  @  7  i
Pork  sausage.........................................  @ 7%,
B o lo g n a ................. 
6  @ 7
Frankfort s a u s a g e .....................  @ 9
Summer sausage................................... 
@13
Blood, liver and head  sa u sa g e ..:.,...  5  @ 6
John  Mohrhard quotes as follows:
M utton....................... .......................... .  6%@  7
L am b ...........................1........................7  @  7%
V e a l....,.............................if.................8  @8%
F o w ls ..................................................10  @11
Ducks  ...........................................1 0   @11
1
Turkeys  „
Lard, kettle-rendered............. . 
8%@  9

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State beard o f flu tn a a cf. 

S ix Y ea rs-Ja c o b   le sio n , M uskegon.
Two Y ears—Jam es  yernpr, D etroit.
T h re e Y ears—O ttm ar Lberbacli, Ann A rbor 
FoOr Y ears—Geo.M eDonald, K alam azoo.
'  F iv e -Yeare—Stanley E. ParkeU , Owosso. 
P resident—Geo. McDonald 
S ecretary —Jacob Jesson. 
Tre^iMOBr-rJaB.Vcraor. -  ■■
NextX«*«.tine  At  (ii  in ])  i|  1  M arch 7 and (

M ic h i g a n   State  U n a r in a c e u T .ic a l  Ass’n. 

P resident—A rthur Bsissett, D etroit.
P i n t  Vice-President—G. M. H arw ood, Petoskey.
Second Vice-President—H. B. F airchild,  G rand Rapids. 
T hird Vice-President—H enry K ephart, B errien Springs. 
Secretary—S. E. P ar kill, Owosso.
T reasurer—Wm. Dupont, D etroit.
Executive  C om m ittee—Geo. fG undrum ,  F ran k   Inglls 
A .H . Lym an, Jo h n  K. Peck, E. T. Webb.
Local S ecretary—Jam es V ernor, D etroit.
N ext M eeting—At  D etroit, Septem ber 1, S, 6 and 7.

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

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER  9, 1881.

P resid en t—H. E. Loeher.
V ice-President—J. W. H ayw ard.
Secretary—F ran k  H . Escott.
T re a su re r—H enry  B. Fairchild. 

_

B o ard  of Censors—President,  V ice-President  and  Sec-
B o ard  of Trustees—The President,  Jo h n   E. Peck,  Geo, 
G. Steketee, A. F. H azeltine and F. J , W urzburg, 
w en, Isaac W atts. W m. E. W hite a nd Wm.  L.  W hite. 
-Comm ittee on Trade M atters—Jo h n  E. Peck, H. B. Fair- 
child and Hugo  Thum.
C om m ittee  oh  Legislation—R.  A,  McWilliams,  Theo.
-1 Kem ink and W; H . Tibbs.
C om m ittee o n  P harm acy—W .L. W hite, A. 0 . B auer and 
Isaac W atts. 
R egular  M eetings—F irst  T hursday  evening  -in  each 
m onth. 
Annual M eeting—F irst  Thursday evening in  Novem ber 
N ext  M eeting—T hursday evening, February 2,  a t  The 

„

,

Tradesman office.

D e tr o i t,  P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty .

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER, 1888.

P resid en t—F ran k   IngUs.  -
F irs t Vice-President—F. W. R. P erry .
Second Vice-President—J. J.  Crowley.
S ecretary and T reasurer—F. R ohnert.
A ssistant S ecretary and  T reasurer—A. B. Lee. 
A nnual M eeting—F irst W ednesday in  June.
Rngn ia r Meetings—F irst W ednesday in  each  m onth.
C e n t r a l   M ic h i g a n   D r u g g i s t s ’  A s s o c ia tio n , 
President, J. W. D unlop;  S ecretary, R.  M. Mussell.
B e r r i e n   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty . 
P resident, H. M. Dean;  Secretary, H enry K ephart.

C l i n t o n   C o u n t y   D r u g g is ts *   A s s o c i a ti o n . 

P resident, A. O. H unt;  S ecretary, A. S.  W allace.
C h a r l e v o i x  C o u n ty  P h a r m a c e u t i c a l  S o c ie ty  
P resident, H. W. W illard;  S ecretary, Geo. W. Cronter.

I o n i a  C o u n t y   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l  S o c ie ty . 
P resident, W. R. C ntier;  S ecretary, Geo. G undram .

J a c k s o n   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   A ss’n . 

P resident, C. B. Colwell; S ecretary, C. E. Foote.

K a l a m a z o o  P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   A s s o c i a ti o n . 

P resident, D. O. R oberts;  Secretary, D. McDonald.

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

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

M o n r o e   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty . 
P resident, S. M. Sackett;  Secretary, Julia s Weiss.
Muskegon C o u n ty   D r u g g i s t s ’  A s s o c ia tio n , 
P resident, E, C.  Bond;  Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre.

M u s k e g o n   D r u g   C le r k s ’  A s s o c ia tio n . 

P resident, C. 8. K oon;  Secretary, Geo. L. LeFevre.
N e w a y g o   C o u n t y   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty  
P resident, J . F. A. R aider; S ecretary, N. N. Miller.

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

P resident, F. W. Fincher;  S ecretary, F rank Cady.
S a g in a w   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty , 
P resident, J a y  Sm ith;  S ecretary,  D. E. P rall._________
S h ia w a s s e e  C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty
T u s c o l a  C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l  S o c ie ty . 

P resident. E. A. B allard;  S ecretary, C. E. Stoddard.
Manistee  County  Pharmaceutical  Society. 
P resident, W. H. W illard;  S ecretary, A. H.  Lym an.

fo u rth   Annual  Social  Party  of 

the 

G.  R. T. M. A.

The Committee  of  Arrangements  of  the 
Grand  Rapids Traveling Men’s Association 
has arranged to hold the fourth  annual  so 
cial party of  the  Association  at  Odd  Fel­
lows’  Hall,  in  Tower  block,  on  Friday 
evening,  February 3, with supper at Sweet’s 
Hotel  from  11 to 1 o’clock.  Every  travel­
ing  man  and  house  .salesman  is cordially 
Invited  to attend—providing,  of  course,  he 
Is  accompanied  by  one  or  more  ladies. 
Tickets  for  the  dance  are  placed  at  the 
same figure as heretofore—Si  per  couple— 
■supper tickets being 75 cents%>er plate.  At 
■a meeting of  the  Committee,  held  on Sat­
urday evening,  the  following  special  com­
mittees were designated for the occasion:

On  Reception — L.  M.  Mills,  Chas.  S. 
Robinson,  Leo  A.  Caro,  John  Utman, 
Algeron  E.  White,  Fred  Ball,  Byron  J. 
Robertson,  Frank  L.  Kelly,  Frank  H. 
White, F.  W. Blake, Carson Manley, W. H. 
Jennings,  D.  G.  Kenyon,  Manly  Jones, 
John  Garvey,  N.  A. Parker.
On  Introductions—Geo  F.  Owen,  Ad. 
Morrison,  A.  D.  Baker,  Steve  A.  Sears, 
James  Fox,  Fred  W.  Powers, J.  N. Brad­
ford.
On Door—Thos.  Ferguson,  W. G. Haw­
kins,  C. J.  Peck.
Floor Managers—Geo. H.  Seymour,  Dick 
Warner,  Chas.  M.  Falls, A.  C.  Sharp.

The  Drug  Market.

There was little  business  done  in  New 
York  during  holiday  week and there  are 
■consequently few changes to note.  Opium, 
morphia  and quinine are  unchanged.  Oils 
¡bergamot,  lemon,  lavender  and  orange are 
all tending higher.  Linseed  oil  advanced 
again on Tuesday and is  firm  and  tending 
higher.  Flax seed is very searce  and high. 
Ground  seed  and oil cake are both higher. 
Turpentine  has  advanced.  Cubeb  berries 
are advancing.  The largest holder  in New 
York has withdrawn his stock.  Oil cubebs 
has advanced and  is  tending higher.  The 
•following are the month’s  changes  in  the 
•chemical list:

Advanced—Acid,  acetic,  glacial,  citric, 
■blue pill, calomel, citrine  ointment,  corro­
sive sublimate,  lunar caustic, mercury,  dis­
tilled, mercury,  bisulphate with chalk, mer­
curial  ointment,  quinine,  sulphate*,  bisul­
phate and iron citrate,  sol.,  red  precipitate, 
silver,  nitrate, crystals, white precipitate.
’ Declined—Aloin, cream tartar  powdered, 
potassium bromide.

Bank  Notes.

..The banks of East Saginaw will establish
clearing house there, their business having 
Increased so that such a  move is necessary. 
The Second National Bank is to be used for 
4&at purpose,  and exchanges will  be  made 
•hereafter at 12:30 each day.  There  is  also 
•ialkbf the Saginaw City  banks entering in- 
to this arrangement.

The Hastings C ity. Bank declared n divi­
dend of8 p ercen t.o n  its first  year’s  busi- 
nessf. 

v „

The Muskegon National Hank, aside from 
its regular semi-annual  dividend  of  5  per 
cent., declared a speciad dividend  of<  25 per 
•cent.,  making a  total  of  $30,000, divided 
-among the stockholders at  the beginning of 
the year.- 

______

I t is stated that the  advertising or sale of 
patent medicines (secret or proprietary pre­
parations) has been absolutely prohibited in 
Berlin, and  sixty-one  of  them  have. been 
jMfiieiy, denounced  on  account  of  diselo- 

made by chemical analysis.  *

.Annual'  M eeting  and  Banquet  of  the 

Quincy Association.

Quincy, Jan. 5,1888 

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

Dear  Sift—The  Quincy  B. M. 

held 
its first annual banquet last  evening  at the 
Quincy  House, ninety-six  being  seated  at 
the tables.  Landlord  Fred  Kohl  had  his 
tables so handsomely  ornamented and gave 
such  a  bountiful  m enu  that  bis  guests 
unanimously adopted resolutions of thanks, 
commending him to the hungry everywhere. 
From the supper  tables  the  members,  ac­
companied by their wives  and sweethearts, 
proceeded to Odd Fellows’  Hall, where the 
annual meeting and election of officers took 
place.  The old officers—0.  McKay, Presi­
dent;  T.  R.  Rathbun,  Vice-President; C, 
W. Bennett,  Secretary—were  re-elected by 
unanimous ballots; but  the  latter declining 
to serve,  it took nearly an  hour’s  balloting 
to  elect  a  Secretary  who  would  serve. 
There is an impression  that  the Secretary, 
being the only  name  known  by  the delin­
quent,-  receives  all 
the  cusses  and  boy­
cotting  from  that class, which  leads  the 
writer  to  suggest  that  the  M.  B. M. A.’s 
constitution should be changed  so  that not 
the Secretary,  but  some  one else, could do 
the collecting, or send out the “White”  and 
“ Red” letters.  Thos.  Lennon was  finally 
elected Secretary;  Dr.' E. Blackman, Treas­
urer; and the oldmembers of the  Executive 
Committee, O. S. Williamson, H. A.  Graves 
and C. N.  Wilcox,  were  unanimously  re­
elected.  After  passing  a  vote 
thanking 
the ladies for their attendance and  inviting 
them to  come  again, 
the  Association ad­
journed  one  week  to  complete its annual 
business.
The Association is in a prosperous  condi­
tion—in fact, is just now  having a “boom” 
in popularity and favors, twelve  new mem­
bers  having  joined  the  past  month,  and 
more to  follow.

C. W.  B ennett,  Ex-Sec'y.

The  Charlotte  Association  Still  Booming 

Charlotte, Jan. 3,1888.

E. A. Stowe, Grand  Rapids:

D e a r Sir—The Charlotte  B. M. A.  held 
its annual and regular meeting last evening. 
We now number 121 members  and  hope  to 
bring it up to 150.  The  following  officers 
were elected:

President—Thos. J.  Green. 
Vice-President—Geo. A. Perry. 
Treasurer—Geo. H.  Spencer.
Secretary—A. G.  Fleury,
Executive  Committee—Jerrie  Mikesell, 

L. B. Brockett,  Henry Shepherd.
Respectfully,
A. G. F leu ry,  Sec’y.

The  Use  of Santonin.

From  the Jo u rn al of Pharm acy.

White santonine is more  poisonous  than 
that which has  become  yellow  through ex­
posure to sunlight,  though  the  latter  does 
not  show  any diminution in its therapeutic 
properties.  The  dose  for  a  child  of  less 
than  two  years  should  not  exceed  three- 
fourths of  a grain. 
In  all  cases  it should 
be  associated  with  a  purgative—calomel, 
for example—to  facilitate  its  elimination. 
Santonin is inocuous or  toxic,  in proportion 
to  the  rapidity with  which it may be elim­
inated,  and 
individuals. 
Lewin and Caspar recommend that it be ad­
ministered  in  solution  with  oil. 
In  this 
form it is absorbed by the  intestines slowly 
enough  to  permit  a  direct  and prolonged 
contact with the  worms.

this  varies  in 

VISITING  BUYERS.

donia

The following retail  dealers  have  visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses:
M V W ilson, Sand Lake 
H W alsh, H olland 
E  J  Terrill, Avondale 
John E Thurko w, Morley 
S  S  M orris,  S  S  M orris  & 
Bro, Muskegon  ,
I  N Fisher, D orr 
F  N aragang, Byron  C enter 
H enry Strope, Morley 
Morley Bros, Cedar Springs1 
W  W Peirce, Moline 
Goo N Reyholds, Belm ont 
G H Eccles, S anlt Ste Marie 
Johnson  &  Seibert,  Calc 
B A Fish, Cedar Springs 
C H Joldersm a, Jam estow n 
C K H oyt, H udsonville 
C Stocking, G rattan 
E ‘S Botsford, D orr 
Jo h n  Farow e, S» Blendon 
H Dalmpn, A llendale 
A Purchase, So Blendon 
L M Wolf, H udsonville 
F ran k  C atlin, Sullivan 
E Palm er, ScottvUle 
AM  H errington,  F reeport 
Chas A B rett,  C anada Cor­
J  D am stra, G itchel 
Epley & Gilm an, S tanton 
J  C Drew, R ockford 
L Roscoe,  Roscoe & Spicer, 
F rank A Jenison, M antón 
B G H ardy, B& dley 
Gus Begm an, B auer

C lark & CO, H olton 
E li Runnels, Corning 
J  P Pruim , Zeeland 
L R  Burch, Edgerton 
J  J   WiUiams, W hite  Cloud 
Cole & Chapel,* Ada 
B F  B arnett, B ranch 
Neal McMillan, Rockford 
W alling Bros, Lam ont 
S J  Koon, Lisbon 
R T P arrish , G rand ville 
J   C  Benbow, Cannonsburg 
Chas H Dealing, D utton 
H eyboer & Bro, D renthe 
C F  WiUiams, C aledonia 
H M athews & Co, Chase 
H iggins & Co, S cottviile 
J  E B ennett,  F erris  C enter 
C ham berlain  Bros,  Plain- 
M H McCoy,  G rand ville 
John Giles & Co, Lowell 
D Cleland, Coopers vi He 
L A Paine, English ville 
BaU & Ihler, T ustin 
H utzenga & Son;  E astm an 
L Cook,  i   'u e r 
J  T Pierson, Irving. 
P  Vanden Bosch, Zeeland 
H  Van  Noord,  Jam estow n 
E R H ubbard, S parta 
E I Hewes, Newaygo 
J  Raym ond, Berlin 
H Thom pson,  C anada  Cor 
W W Brower, F ife Lake

M ancelona

ville

ners

ners

well

,

The  Corner  the  Place  for  Drug  Stores
F rom  th e Chicago H erald.

Why is it that the comer  is  the place for 
a drug store?  How many  prosperous drug 
stores are there in town  that do not occupy 
corners?  At the northeast corner of  Madi 
son and Halsted streets  there was,  a couple 
of years ago, a prosperous drug store.  Wolf, 
the clothing man,  wanted  that  corner, that 
he might be on an  even  footing  with  his 
lively rivals, and when Wolf  wants a thing 
he wants it badly.  So he  offered  a  bigger 
rental for the corner  than  the  drug  store 
man was paying,  but the druggist promptly 
called this raise,  and,  holding the  age  and 
the better hand,  won  the  prize.  But Wolf 
didn’t stop there.  He offered  the  druggist 
rent free a store a few doors  away  on  the 
north side of Madison street,  and  a  hand­
some borus besides if  he would give up the 
corner.  The druggist thought this  a pretty 
good thing, and in a moment  of  weakness 
was tempted, hesitated, and  was  lost.  Ho 
removed to the store a few  doors  west  and 
lived nicely for a year  on  his  bonus,  and 
last week  a  Sheriff’s  closiug  notice  was 
posed on his front door.  The  corner is the 
place tor drug stores.

Space  in Newspapers.

“I never in my life,”  says  John  Wana 
maker, the millionaire  merchant  of  Phila 
delphia, “used such a thing as  a  poster, 
dodger or a handbill.  My  plan  for  fifteen 
years has been to buy so  much  space  in 
newspaper and fill it up  with  what I want 
ed. 
I would not give an ad veil isement in 
newspaper  of  400  circulation  for  5,000 
dodgers or posters. 
If  I  wanted  to  sell 
cheap jewelry or  run  a  lottery  scheme 
might use  posters,  but I  wouldn’t  insult 
decent reading public with handbills.”

HAVE  YOU

A Liquor  and  Poison  Record,  Combined?  If 
not, send $1 to the Puller  &  Stowe  Company 
Grand Rapids, and yon  will  receive  the  best 
record published, by return  mail.

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Ch icago,  September 30,  1887.

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months we  feel  justified  in  recommending it to be the best duplicating process we have 
ever used (and we have used  them all).  We find no trouble at all in taking 2,000 copies 
from a single  writing. 

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Yours truly, 

Send for descriptive circular and samples of  work.

A.  B.  DICK  COMPANY, 

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254 Lake Street, Chicago.

House and Store Shades Made to Order.

XTELSOXT BRO S. <& GO.

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A  Long  Felt Want Supplied.

APPEARANCE,

Neal’sC arrta g e P aints, an  old vehicle could  n o t  be  repainted  w ith o u t con­
siderable outlay.  O ften th e cost would exceed th e article painted.  Now, with*'Neal’s  C arriage  P aint, you ban 
re p ab tt y our buggies a.t a  trillin g  cost (in colors i i  desired).  The p ain t dries  perfectly  hard,  w ith  a   b rillian t
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H i  W o t   Sale by a ll Eiret Class Dealers in  Faints. 

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WHOLESALE PKIOB CURBENT,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 
 

 
 

ACIDUM

BACCAE.

AMMONIA.

BALSAMUM.

Advanced—Linseed  oil,  turpentine,  cubeb 
berries,  eubeb  berries  powdered, oil  cubebs, 
lard oil.
8@  10
Aoeticum .... J ......................  
Benzoieum,  Germ an................  ........   80@1 00
4fi@  50
Carbolicum...........................  
C itrieum .......... .......................................  60®  65
Hydrochlor ......................  
3®  5
N itroeum .......  ...............  
10®  13
O xallcum .......................... 
ii@   is
Salicylieum................ ............i.  ...I t 7fl@3 05
T annieum ...............A . .. .. ,. .. .. .. .. .. !  40@1 60
T artaricum ............. ............................  50®  53
Aqua, 16  deg...........................................  
3®  5
* 
18  deg...................................;.... 
4®  6
Carbonas..................................................  n@   13
Chloridum ........ .................................. 
  13®  14
Cubebae (po.  1 40. .. . ............................ 1 f8®l  75
Juniperus  .............................................  8  @ 9
X anthóxylum ...........................  
25®  30
Copaiba....................................................  58®  63
P eru.......................... 
@150
Terabin,  Canada....................................   50®  55
T olutan................................. .............. .-r  45®  50
CORTEX.
18
Abies,  Canadian.................... 
 
Cassine  ........................  
n
Cinchona F la v a .............. ....................  
18
Eaonymus  atropurp............................ 
30
Myrica  Cerifera, p o .............................. 
30
Prunus  Yirgini......................................  
32
12
Quillaia,  grd ...........................................  
12
Sassfras  .................................................. 
Ulm us....................................................... 
12
Ulmus Po (Ground  13)........................... 
10
Glycyrrhiza G labra................................  34®
po.................................
33®
Haematox, 15 ft boxes..................
9®
@
Is..................... ......... ..
......................
& s ...............................
Carbonate Precip...........................
@  15 
Citrate and Quinia.........................
®3 50 
Cjtrate Soluble........................................  @
@  80 
Ferroeyanidum Sol................................  @
@  50 
@
Solut  Chloride..............  
15 
Sulphate, com’l,  (bbl. 85)......................  1%@
3 
pure........................................  @
7
Arnica..................!.......................... .......  12® 14
A nthem is............................ .........
.......  45® 50
M atricaria....................................... .......  30® 35
B arosm a......................................... .......  10® 12
Cassia A cui 3 fol, Tinnivelly.......... .......  2G@ 25
.......  35® 50
Salvia officinalis,  34s and  34s....... .......  10® 12

AJx....................

EXTRACTUM.

FERRUM.

FOLIA.

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OLEUM.

MAGNESIA.

-In ounce packages.

GUMMl.
Acacia,  1st picked......................... .......  ©1 00
2nd!.  “ 
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......................... .......  @ 90
3rd 
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.......  @ 80
Sifted  sorts...................... .......  © 65
“ 
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p o ......................................
Aloe, Barb,  (po, 60)....................... .......  50® 60
“  Cape, (po. 20)......................... .......  @ 12
“  Socotrine,  (po. 60)............... .......  @ 50
Ammoniae  ..................................... .......  25® 30
Assafoetida,  (po. 30)...................... .......  @ 15
B enzoinum .................................... .......  50® 55
C am phorae..................................... .......  27® 30
Catechu,Is,  (34s,  14; 34s, 16)........ .......  @ 13
Euphorbium, po............................ .......  35® 10
Galbanum........................................ .......  @ 80
Gamboge, po...................................
80
Guaiacum, (po. 45)......................... .......  @ 35
Kino,  (po. 25)................................... .......  @ 20
Mastic............................................... .......  ©125
Myrrh, (po.45)................................. .......  @ 40
Opii, ,po. 5 75>.................................
Shellac............................................. .......  25® 33
bleached............................ .......  25® 30
Tragacanth ..................................... .......  30® 75
HERBA-
Absinthium  ___
E u p ato rlu m __
Lobelia  ............. .
Majorum  ..........
Mentha Piperita,
“  V ir.......
R u e ....................
Tanaeetum,  V.. 
Thymus. Y ..........
Calcined,  P a t........ ..................................  55®
Carbonate,  P a t......................................   20®
Carbonate,  K. & M................................  20®
Carbonate,  Jennings............................   35®
Absinthium .............................................5 00@5 50
Amygdalae, D ulc..................................   45®  50
Amydalae, A m arae............................... 7 25@7 75
Anisi  ..................................................... 1  90@2  10
A uranti Cortex.................. ...................  @2 00
Bergamii..................................................2 75@3 25
Cajiputi  ..................................................  9G@1  00
Caryophylli.............................................  @2  00
Cedar........................................................   35®  65
Chenopodii.............................................  @1
Cinnatnonii.................................. 
Citrouella  ...............................................  @
Conium  Mac— ......................................   35®  65
Copaiba...................................................   90®  1  00
C ubebae...............................................13  50@14  00
Exeehthitos.............................................  90@l 00
E rigeron.................................................1 20@1 30
G aultheria..............................................2 25@2 35
Geranium, 5...........................................  
@  75
Gossipii, Sem, gal...................................  55®  75
Hedeoma......................................... 
  75®  85
Juniperi...................................................   50@2 00
L avendula...............................................  90@2 00
Lim onis...................................................1 75@2 25
Lini, gal...................................................   42®  45
Mentha Piper.........................................2 25@3 30
Mentha Yerid.........................................3  75@4  00
Morrhuae,  gal........................................  80®1 00
Myrcia,  s..................................................  @  50
O live........................................................ I 00@2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal. 35)...........................  10@  12
R icin i...................................................... 1  18®1  26
R osm arini...............................................  75@1  00
Rosae,  l ................................. .................  @6 00
Succini  ...................................................  
40®45
Sabina.......................................................  90® 1  00
Santal.................. ....................................3 50@7 00
Sassafras............................................... 
  55®  60
Sinapis, ess, 3..........................................  @  65
’ig lii.........................................................  @1 50
T hym e.....................................................   40®  50
opt................................................  @  60
15®  20
Theobromas.................. 
 
POTASSIUM.
13®  15
B ichrom ate............................ 
B rom ide..................................................  42®  45
Chlorate, (Po. 20)..................... 
18®  20
Iodide.......................................................3 Of ®3 25
P ru ssia te .................. 
  25®  28
 
 
A lth a e ........................................... 
25®
A nchusa.....................................  
15®
Arum,  po................................................   @
Calamus...................................................   20®
Gentiana,  (po. 15)...................................  10®
Glychrrhiza,  (pv. 15)..............  
16®
Hydrastis  Canaden,  (po. 45).................  @
Hellebore,  Alba,  po..............................   15®
Inula,  po..................... 
15®
Ipecac, p o ...............................................l  75@2 00
Jalapa,  p r ...............................................   25®  30
Maranta,  34s ...........................................   @  35
Podophyllum,  po...................................  15®  18
Rhei  .......................................................   75@1 00
&Spigelia...........................................................   48®
Sanguinaria, (ik). 25)...................................  @
Serpentaria..................................................   30®
Senega............................................... ;........  55®
Smilax, Officinalis, H .................................  @
Mex...........................  @
Scillae,  (po. 35).. ..........................................  10®
Symplocarpus,  Foetidus, po..................  @
Valeriana,  English,  (po. 30)..................  @
German.....................................  15®
Anisum, (po.2C)............................................  @
Apium  (graveolens).........................  10®
Bird, Is...................................... 
4®
12®
Carui,  (po. 18)........................ 
Cardamom..............  ..................................1 0(t@i 25
Coriandrum.............................. 
10®  [2
Cannabis  Sativa..........:..............................¿34® 434
Cydonium......................................................  75@1  00
Chenopodium.................................... 
10®  J2
Dipterix Odorate................................„ ..1  75@1  85
@  ffl
Fdeniculum..................  
Foenugreek, p o ..........................  
 
6®  8
Lini................................. 
334®  4
..  334®  4
Lini, grd, (bbl* 3)........................... 
Phalaris  Canarian.. .................................  33£@434
8®  6
 
Rapa ......................  
 
Sinapis,  Albu............................................... 
8®  9
ll@  12
 
 
Frumenti,  W., D. & Co................2  00@2 50
Frumenti,D. F .R .................................. .1 76®2 oe
Frumenti.....,.* .,i ...................... 
1 10®1 50
Juniperis Co. Ö. T____ ;...........................1 71
Juniperis  Q o............. 
.1
 
Saacoarum  N. E.................................. 
 
 
 
............; ..................1
Spt. Vini  Galli.. 
vini Oporto................................. ;;...........
Vini  A lb a ................................. 

N igra..................................  

 
RADIX.

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,for slate use..............
m is c e l l a n e o u s .

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Florida sheens’ wool, carriage.... .3 
Nassau 
Velvet E xt 
E xtraY p 
Grass  . 
Hard l  
Yellow Reef.  ,  do;
Either, Sots Nitros, 3 F .......
ASther, Spts.Nitros, I F . . . . , . . . . . ; . , . .
Alumen ............................................ ..  234® m
Alumen,  ground, (po. 7)............ 
3@  4
Annatto   
.....................................   55©  60
Antimoni,  p o .......................................  4®  5
Antimoni et Potass  T art.....................  55®  60
Argenti  Nitras,  ? ................... ............   @  68
Arsenicum .............................................   ‘  5@  7
1.................  38®  40
Balm Gilead  B ud......... 
Bismuth  S.  N ............. ....................2 15©2 20
Calcium  Chlor,  Is, (34s, 11;  34s, 12)....
.  ® 9
Cantharides  Russian, po....................
5 10
Capsici  Fructus, a f ..............................
m 15
Capsicl Fructus, p o ..............................
@ 16
Capsici Fructus, B, p o .. . . . ..............
m 14
. 
Caryophyllus,  (po.  35).........................
.  30® 33
Carmine, No. 40.....................................
@3 75
Cera Alba, S. & F ......................
50® 5jr>
Cera Flava.................................
2&@ 80
Coccus........ ...........................
.  @ 40
Cassia Fructus...........................
@ 15
C en traria..........................!.!.!.............
@ 10
Cetaceum,..............................
@ 45
Chloroform.......... ..................................
38© 40
Chloroform,  Squibbs........’ ’. 1 * ."  ”“@1 6Ö
©1 00
Chloral Hydrate  Cryst........................1 60@1  75
1 60@1  75
C hondrus................................................  
io@
10® 12
Cinchonidine, P.& W .................. —
15® 20
Cinchonidine,  Germ an... .. ! ! ! ! ” !
8® 15
Corks, see list, discount,  per c en t..!!
40
Creasotum ..............................................
® 50
Creta, (bbl. 75)................................. "  ’ ‘
@ 8
Creta  p re p .............................................
5® 6
Creta, precip................................
8® 10
Creta R ubra.........................
® 8
C rocus................................... 30®
Gudbear....................................................  @
CupriSulph............................6®
D extrine........ .................................... 
Ether Suiph...............................................  68®
Emery, all  num bers..............................  @
Emery, po................................................   @
Ergota, (po.) 75..........................................  70®
Flake  W hite............;....................... 
12®
G alla............................................... 
ßh
G am bier........................................
7@
Gelatin, Coopor....................
40®
Gelatin, French.................... I. ."  
Glassware flint, 70&10 by box.  60&1Ö,’ less.
Glue,  Brown.............................................. 
9®
Glue, W hite............................................  
13®
G lycerina..................................................  23@
Grana  P arad isi....................................  @
H u m u lu s.....................................  
 
Hydrarg Chlor. Mite  ...........................'.  @
Hydrarg  Chlor.  Cor..............................  @
Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum .......................   @
Hydrarg Ammoniati............................   @1  15
Hydrarg Unguentum ..............................   45@ 55
H ydrargyrum ................................... 
@  80
Ichthyocolla, A m ................................1 25®1 50
Indigo.........................................................  75®1 00
Iodine,  Resubl................................... 
4 00@4  10
Iodoform ................................................   @5  15
Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod.................  @ 27
Liquor Potass  A rsinitis........................ 
10® 12
Lupuline  ..................................................  85®1 00
Lycopodium .............................................  55® 60
Macis....................................... 
 
Magnesia, Suiph, (bbl. 134).................. 
2@ 3
Mannia, S. F ......................................... ’ 
90@1 00
Morphia,  S, P. & W........ ......................3 10©3 35
Morphia. S. N. Y. Q. & C. Co............ 
3 00@3  2f
Moschus Canton
®  40 
Myristica, No. 1........... ..........................
60®
Nux  Vomica,  (po. 20)............................
@  10 
Os.  Sepia...................................
24®  2i 
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Co...............
@2 00 
Picis Liq,  N. C.. 34  galls, doz...!!!!!"
@2 70 
Picis Liq.,  quarts............................
@1 40 
Picis Liq., pints.................... ..................
@  85 
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80)........ *...................
@  50 
Piper  Nigra,  (po.22).................. ...........   ©
18 
Piper  A lba,(po.35)..
@  35
Pix  Burgun...............
Plumbi  A cet.............
.  14® 15
Potassa, Bitärt, pure 
.  34® 4C
Potaßsa,  Bitart, com 
® 15
Potass  Nitras, o p t...
. 
8® It
Potass  N itras............
7@ S
.1 10@1  2C
.  @1 25
.  60® 65
. 
8® «i
.  56® 61
.  4S@ 58
.  12® ia
@ 35
2® 75
40® 50
@4  50
12® 14
Sapo,  M...................................
8® 10
Sapo, G............................. ’ *"
@ 15
Seidlitz  Jlix tu re.............’'. ’
.  @ 28
Sinapis..............................
@ 18
Sinapis,  opt................
@ 30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  Do. Voes!
® 35
Snuff, Scotch,  Do. Voes.......
@ 35
Soda Boras, (po  11).............
10  @ 11
Soda et Potoss T art.............”
33® 35
2@ 234
Soda,  Bi-Carb.
4@ 5
9C@1 00
3® 4
Soda  Sulphas..................
® 2
E ther  Co................... ...‘..............   50®  55
Spts. Myrcia Dom............................  
@3 oo
50
Spts. Myrcia Im p.................. . *............ 
Spts. Vini Beet, (bbl.  2 08).......@2 25
Strychnia, Crystal...  ....................  
®J  30
Sulphur, Subl.........................................2 3 i® 3 $
Sulphur.  Roll.........................................  
3
Tam arinds.............   ...............
... 
8® 10
Terebenth  Venice............
...  28® 30
Theobrom ae....................... . ”   ............  „„
...  30® 65
Vanilla 
....................... ?9 o5@16 00
- -
Zmci  Sulnh....................- __   , 
7© 8
... 
Bbl
Gal
.  70
75
.  68
72
so
.  45
55
58
.  58
61
.  50
60
50
.  4434
Bbl
Lb
Red Venetian............................   134
2® 3 
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........   134
2® 3 
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda.......... 
lj£
2® 3 
Putty, com m ercial..................   234
234® 3 
Putty, strictly pure..................   234
2%® 3 
Vermilion, prime Am erican..
13@16 
Vermilion,  English..................
75®80 
Green, Peninsular....................
16©17 
Lead, red strictly p ure............
634® 634 
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
634® 634 
Whiting, white  Spanish..........
@70
_
Whiting,  Gilders’...................... 
White, Paris Am erican............ 
110
1 48
Whiting  Parts English cliff.. 
1 20®1 40
Pioneer Prepared  T a in ts....... 
Swiss Villa Prepared  Paints.. 
1 00@1 20
VARNISHES.
No. 1 Turp  Coach...................................1 io@l 20
E xtra  T urp......................... ............1  60@1  70
Coach Body............................................2  75@8 00
No. 1 Turp F urniture............................1 00@110
E xtra Turk  Dam ar................................1  65@1 60
Japan Dryer, No. 1 T urp......................  70®  75

Pyrethrum , pv .............
Q uassiae.......................
Quinia, S, P. &  W........
Quinia, S, Germ an.......
Rubia Tinctorum ........
Saccharum  Lactis, pv.
Sanguis Draconis.

Lard, ex tra..................
Lard, No.  1................................
Linseed, pure  raw ..................
Linseed, b oiled .......................
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained.

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80® 85
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H  Michigan Tradesman,

The Dminiiitt«* 

r

The chairman said peddler, but I  find the 
committee placed  me one point above,  thus 
adm itting that there is someone  worse than 
ihedfiim m er.
There has been  no  subject  presented at 
this convention so difficult to discuss,  or no 
isssi  replied  to  to-night,  that requires so 
much tact as that of  “The  Drummer,” be­
muse of the , difference  of  opinion as to his 
needs, worth and rights.  If this assemblage 
were composed of  mixed  classes, I should 
expect to get some sympathy or word of ap­
proval from some,  but  being  composed of 
one class I  need not expect it;  yet it always 
gives  me pleasure at any time to defend the 
drummer,  when  defense  is  necessary, or 
present  his  rights,  for I claim that he has 
rights.
D rum m ing is just as honorable  as  store- 
keeping, and a drummer is  entitled to busi­
ness courtesy, at least.
What a difference there is as to the worth 
of the'drummer.  To the hotel-keeper he is 
a good fellow, and he sends a  ’bus  or  car­
riage to the train to meet him and bring his 
baggage;  while at the hotel, he is treated to 
the best, he is taken to the train in a ’bus or 
carriage with all the  care  possible, for the 
hotel-keeper knows that if his house is pop­
ular with  the  drummed  he  is  successful. 
Bob. Burdette once said, “Whenever I strike 
a  strange town and do not  know  anything 
about the hotels,  I  always follow  the  man 
with the grip, and am sure to get to the best 
hotel.”
To  the  railroad  company he is the best 
paying source of  all passenger revenue, yet 
very little  appreciated (1  believe  there are 
no railroad men here—I  wish  there  were), 
for he pays the regular rates,  while  circus, 
theatrical and base ball  companies  always 
get lower rates, yet they go  over  the  road 
but once a year, while  the  drummer  goes 
nearly ever month.
To the girls and young  men of the  town 
he is an angel, whose visit is looked for and, 
I  tell you, appreciated;  for the tales he tells 
and the life he  infuses  into  the  circle he 
joins, break  the monotony of an almost un­
bearable existence.  Why, even the country 
store-keeper is glad to have  him  come, for 
he is sure to draw  the  young  men  of  the 
neighborhood to the store to  listen  to  his 
stories, thus selling them  cigars if nothing 
rise.  But  to  the  grocer  he  is a bore, a 
fraud, in fact anything that is bad;  and yet 
you expect him to bore  you,  for if he were 
to enter your store  and  present his card and 
ask if there was anything  in  that  line you 
wanted, you  would  almost  invariably say 
"no;” if he were to walk out and say, “Good 
day, sir,”  you  would say,  “Well,  I’ll  bet 
that is a greeny! ”  Yet he took you at your 
word,  not wishing  to  bore  you.  Or,  you 
may  say,  “How much for  this  or  that?” 
Take pepper, for instance; while waiting to 
get your attention, he hears a customer ask, 
"Have  you  any  pure pepper?” and is an­
swered,  “Yes;”  he then thinks,  that  is the 
kind you want to buy,  if .any,  but  when he 
tells you that it is 35 or 26 cents,  you  say, 
“Oh,  I can buy  it for  16 or 18 cents.”  He 
leaves,  thinking  that  the house he is em­
ployed by is too high.  So he goes, possibly 
all the week.  His  employer  says,  “You 
have not nearly made your wages. ”  * ‘Well, ” 
he says,  “you ask too much for your goods,” 
etc., and tells what the grocers say. 
If  he 
has not been educated to the cost of  the ar­
ticle, he then will be, for his employer says, 
"My boy, that pepper cost 18 cents whole to 
Import, without grinding, which adds about 
25 per cent, to its cost. 
I have  taken some 
trouble  to  inquire  into this matter, and I 
think I am nearly right.”  The  next week, 
when he goes out, be  determines  to sell,  if 
not at one price,  at another.
there  is  no  nse  in  a 
drummer telling you a lie about his goods— 
you meet too many in a day, and if one does 
not tell you the  truth  another  one  will,  so 
that you soon find him out;  nor is there any 
use for you to lie to  a  drummer—he  will, 
before an hour, possibly,  meet  some friend 
to whom he tells wh^fc you told him.  “Oh,” 
the friend says:  “you must not believe him; 
he is so and so.”  You see, the next time he 
calls on you, he knows just how to take you 
and what to say.  Be honest with him,  and, 
my word for it, he will be  honest with you; 
there is no reason why  you  should  not be 
friends. 
I have  some  very  good  friends 
among  my  customers.  The  best friend I 
have  is a  customer  1  did not know until I 
began selling goods on the street about eight 
years ago.  He  appreciated  honesty, and I 
always tried to treat him honestly and I  be­
lieve  he. would  do  anything in reason for 
me.
Gentlemen, if a drummer sends you goods 
not  up  to  sample,  do not say,  “Well, it is 
all right;  that is the  way  with  those  fel­
lows,” etc.  Report it;  for if  it is the fault 
of the  salesman yon owe it to the house,  in 
order that they may know the kind of a man 
they have in their employ; 
if it is the fault 
o f the honse you owe it to the salesman, that 
he may know the kind of a house by  whieh 
lie is employed;  you owe it to yourself, that 
it may be made right.  Ho drummer prefers 
to sell impure or low-priced  goods,  and no 
manufacturer  prefers  to  make  impure or 
low-prioed  goods.  Good  goods  are bound 
to  make  some  friends  who continue their 
nse, but  off  goods  do  not.  Mr.  Thurber 
spoke a few moments ago, of “Fair Compe­
tition.”  To my mind there is no such thing 
as unfair competition—there  is  opposition, 
t a t   no  unfair  competition.  Competition 
compels  mechanical  ingenuity  to  devise 
plans to reduce the cost of  manufacture;  it 
encourages scientific  research that develops 
ways of putting to use what  otherwise  was 
a  waste in the original or crude material,  so 
tin t, as Mr. Thurber said,  articles  classed 
A  are now sold as low as class  B was some 
pears ago;  hence,  competition  is good for 
everybody—without it monopolies are creat­
ed.
We have organized an  association here in 
^Philadelphia,  having  for its object a culti­
vation of more  friendly  feeling and to pre­
vent this feeling  of  jealousy  which exists 
among so many of the salesmen,  and  have 
adopted as a motto,  “Competition,  not Op­
position.”  We  claim  that the drummer is 
the best and cheapest  medium  of  informa­
tion possible for a grocer to have;  we mean 
cheap in the sense  as  generally  accepted, 
not as properly defined;  for we do not mean 
that low price is  cheap.  Yon get up in the 
morning, if you sell truck, at 3 or 4 o’clock, 
go to the wharf, get home,  get your break­
fast, sit down,  take  the  paper,  possibly. 
About 8 o’clock, the drummer comes in, for 
h e  always  write  until  he  thinks you are 
through  with  your  morning’s work,  so as 
not to bother.  He tells you the price of su­
gar is 
cents.  Before  noon,  possibly,  a 
dozen call on you, each quoting the price of 
sagar at 6% cents.  You settle in your mind 
that that is the price, and it is only a matter 
of preference to whom you give  tee  order. 
On the otber i itnd. each  may  quote  you a
»ReaponsebyW jg, Nicheli a t the recent ban­
qu et o f th e Penn$Sdvania State Association at

How,  gentlemen, 

different price—it is  then  very^ 
cide where to  place  your,  order.  This in­
formation you get w hile  attending  toyonr 
work.  Or, if not actually at  work, you are 
there to  watch  your  employes  to see that 
they do their duty.  '  'P
The drummer can also tell yon "what your 
neighbors are doing, at what  price they are 
selling certain articles, etc.;  but, gentlemen, 
do not ask them;  do not encourage this tell­
ing of each other, for, as tee saying is, “He 
who tells yon  of  others  will  tell others of 
you.”  It is a mistake—do not encourage it. 
The drummer can do you harm  or good, as 
he wishes;  he may, in a way, tell something 
that will affect your credit very  materially, 
and yet you could n o t' prove that  he meant 
what you thought he did.
How,  as to his  social nature.  He comes 
into your store about 8 o’clock  in the morn­
ing.  The night before you were  at  a  gro­
cers’ banquet, drank too  much  wine,  feel 
bad or, possibly, have tee  blues  from some 
other cause.  “Good morning,  Mr. A.,” he 
says.  “Is there anything I can do for you?” 
“Ho,” you say,  with  a  frown  and  walk 
away.  Out he goes, lucky to get off so eas­
ily.  At tee next block,  he  meets  another 
drummer, to whom he  says:  “Mr. A. is in 
a terrible  humor—he  is  like a bear with a 
sore head.”  “Oh, I will fix him,” the other 
says.  So,  straightening  himself  up,  he 
rushes in,  and, without  asking  you a ques­
tion, tells you a funny stdry,  the very latest 
and if  he does  not know any he makes one 
up.  You begin to laugh,  your  liver  slips 
back into  its  proper  place and you are all 
right,  whereas, if it had not been  for  him, 
you might have had the blues  all  day.  So 
you see, gentlemen, there is some good in a 
drummer.
I am reminded that my time is up,  which 
is probably all the better,  having said much 
more than I expected to say.  But,  gentle­
men, these points are as I understand them. 
I  have told them  in a terude  manner,  but 
they are facte, and I ’ve  no  doubt  some of 
you will agree with them.

PRODUCE.

W e  should  be  pleased  to open corres­
pondence with  anyone  having  APPLES, 
POTATOES, ONIONS, BEANS, DRIED 
FRUITS and other Country Produce to of­
fer.  CAR  LOTS A SPECIALTY.  Con­
signments will receive our  best  attention.
W e are willing at all  times to make lib­
eral advances when drafts  are drawn with 
bill lading attached.  Goods sold on arriv­
al or held as per request of shipper.
s. t . f i s h : «*3 Co.,

Cemmission Merchants,

189  So.  W ater  St.,  Chicago, 111.

R eference—F irst N ational  Bank,  o r  an y   W holesale 

G rocer here.

F R O ST ’S  P A T E N V p  
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PACKING & SHELF 

BOXES.

Shipping Cases, Egg 

r Crates, etc.

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f Grand Bapids, Mich.

BEGIN  THE  NEW  TEAR

Right by using the :

'CofflpleteBusiness BroC
A New Account Book
For t o r s   and  General  Dealers.

This book has  P rin te d   H eadings  planned 
to receive  a  daily  statem ent  of  Sales,  P ur­
chases, Cash Received,  Cash  Expended, Bank 
Account, Bills Receivable, Bills Payable,  etc., 
etc.: also  provides  for  Weekly,  Monthly  and 
Yearly Totals.  The arrangem ent of  the Reg­
ister is such th at a dealer can ascertain his lia­
bilities and resources in a few  m inutes at any 
time.  Each Register contains Interest Tables, 
Standard  Weights  and  Measures,  Business 
Laws and  much  other  valuable  Inform ation 
for  business  m en.  .Over 35,000  copies  of the 
Register now in use.  Address,  for  free  sam­
ple sheets, prices, etc.,

H.  ¥.  PIMPHILON,  Polisher,

30  Bond Street.

NEW  YORK,

P h p ro & Z ir\c   E > \ K a y  i
.alS0 LEADS SLUC-   BHaSS  RÜlC.-
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Boyyt/ 

W O Ô D Î.M ÇTA L  FüTb m it u r E

Sole agents fo r Chicago Brass Rule Works, 

for State of Michigan,

PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY

£3 3ST C3-13ST E  S

Prom 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw  Mills 
Grist Mills, Wood W orking  Machinery,  Shaft 
ing,  Pulleys  and Boxes.  Contracts made for 
Complete Outfits.

W,  O,  D enison,
GRAND  RAPIDS. 

88,90 and 92 South Division Street, 

MICH.

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FOR  SAIjH!

Furniture  and  undertaking  business  in  a 
live town  in  the  W estern  part  of  Michigan. 
Will  sell or ren t store building.  Good  reason 
for selling,  A  clean  stock of  furniture  and 
undertaking goods.  AgraDd  chance  for  the 
right man.  Address “G” care of the Michigan 
Tradesman.

JOBBERS  IN

DRY  GOODS,
.AJSTO N O T I O N S ,

83  Monroe  JSt.,

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

GRAND  R A PID S,  M ICH.

Full  line  of Notions for the Holiday Trade, to 

which the inspection of dealers is 

cordially  invited.

AX HANDLES!

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1 X Ax Handles
$  .75
1.25 
2 X
3 X
2.00
2.50
4 X 
1.50
3 X Dbl. Bit
2.25
4 X  “ 
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C.  &  D.  LANTERNS,
OIL CANS AND TAMS,

And a General Line of

PAPER  &  WOODENWARE.

CURTISS & DUNTON,

V I N D E X
5" C .

In the World.

SUMATRA  WRAPPER.

8TRHI6HY  H ffiP   LOfIG  FILLER, 
C LÄ R K , JE W E L L  X  00,,

Sole Agents for Western Mich.

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TO  RETAILERS
CLOTHING,
Furnishing  Goods,

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All winter goods will be sold at and

BELO W  COST

FOR  30  DAYS

To make room for

SPRING GOODS

Which are now arriving.

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TERMS:—  7  percent.  10 days. 

30  m
NET  60  “
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GRAND  RAPIDS,

The Standard of Excellence
KINGSFORD’S

H.  LEONARD 1  SONS,

134 to  140  East Fulton Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICH.

HEADQUARTERS  FOR

Lamps, Lamp  Chimneys,  Lanterns,  Oil  and  Gasoline  Street 

Lamps, Oil  Cans, Oil Tanks,  Kitchen  and  Factory Lamps, 

Library Lamps, Piona Lamps, Ruby Globe TTa.n Lights. 

Crockery,  Glassware  and  Akron  Stoneware.

Self Extinguishing  Tubular  Street Lamps.
Cuts  and  prices  furnished  on  application. 

State how many would be needed.

LANTERNS !

TiIMlar Jiill Lantern.

(See cut below.)  Largest light known.  Will 

stand any storms.

Our  prices  unchanged  in face of  the great 
advances on all  m etal goods.  Largest assort­
m ent lanterns.  Lowest Pessible Prices,

Prices Mailed  on  Application.

any other style.  Price, $3 per dozen lower than other cans.
a-ooo, 5and 10 gallons; Glass oil cans V2 and 1 gallon; Tin oil cans, y2 and 1 gallon.

B est  an d   Cheapest—3.5 and 10 gallon  Impervious Wood.  Will  not rust.  Wili outlast any 
O ther  Cans—The Pinafore, 3,5 and 10  gallons; the Goodenough 5 and 10 gallons;  the  Peek- 
All the Staple Kerosene Goods.  W rite for catalogue.

GLADSTONE

ZbÆIOHIGkAJST.

To the man seeking a business location or contemplating a 
change, the lumberman, the manufacturer,  we  invite  your at­
tention to the  opportunities,  prospects  and  present  situation 
of this

NEW  TOWN

W ith magnificent harbor facilities (to the great harbors belong- 
the great cities), backed by many square  miles of W hite  Pine 
and Hardwood forests  untouched by the  woodsman’s axe, af­
fording the  most practicable facilities for the establishment of 
woodworking industries.  To these, whether  great or small,

FREE  SITES

Are offered.  Immediately  tributary to this port are the great­
est iron-ore producing ranges in the World, embracing the  Go­
gebic, Menominee and Marquette, which will find their outlet, in 
due course, via this natural shipping point.  The  great  Minne­
apolis, Saulte Ste. Marie & Atlantic Railway will enter this port 
by December Y.  It has already expended over
$500,000.00

Kingsford’s Oswego CORN ST ARCH for Puddings, 

Custards, Blane-Mange, etc.

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

WILL  PLEASE  YOU  EVERY  TIME!

ALWAYS  ASK  YOUR  GROCER  FOR  THESE GOODS.

In Docks, Warehouses, Depots  and  Terminal  facilities.  Over 
One Hundred and Fifty  (150)  business  houses  and  dwellings 
have been built within the past three months, and the  promise 
of growth for the coming year is most flattering.

For  farther  particulars,  opportunities  for business, maps 

and plats, address

F.  W.  McKIMEY,

A p t Sanlt Ste. Marie Land id  Improvement Co.,

GLADSTONE,  MICH,

