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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JANUARY 25,  1888.

Tradesman.

A YEAR’S  WORK,

As

Illustrated  by  the  Owosso  Business 

Men’s  Association.

At the last meeting  of the Owosso B. M. 
A., President Parkill read the following in­
augural address:

force  of  circumstances 

We have  just  finished  the  first  year of 
our existence and have every  reason to con­
gratulate ourselves on haying so successful­
ly passed through all the trials  and tribula­
tions which always beset an organization of 
this kind at  its  beginning.  Gathered  here 
upon this  our  first  anniversary  it is fitting 
and proper that  we  should  recall our good 
works,  and  as  warriors  around  the camp­
fire draw inspiration  for  new  victories  by 
relating the  doughty  deeds  of the past,  so 
we may hope  thereby  to  gain  inspiration 
for still more earnest  works  in  the future.
Twelve months  ago  the  credit system of 
the merchants of this  city  was  in  a  most 
chaotic and unsatisfactory  condition.  Un­
principled men  made  a  business  of  going 
about  from  place  to  place  getting  credit 
wherever it was obtainable,  with  no  inten­
tion of ever paying the debt,  By  courtesy, 
we call them delinquents, but the  man  who 
takes a merchant’s goods when he knows he 
cannot pay for them  is  no  better/ than the 
thief who breaks  in  at  night  and  steals. 
This class is comparatively  small  and con­
stitutes but a small  part  of  the irresponsi­
ble portion of the community asking credit, 
but  they  are  nevertheless  responsible for 
hundreds of  dollars  of  uncollectable debts 
on the books of the  merchants  of this city; 
and, gentlemen,  I hold  it  to be the greatest 
work we have accomplished, to have headed 
off this class of people and compelled  them 
to be honest  and  pay  cash,  and  in  doing 
this, far from being  their  enemy,  we  have 
been their best friend.  We  have  befriend­
ed that unfortunate 4;lass  of  people  who 
through 
have 
been  unable 
to  pay  and  have  been 
classed as delinquents,  for  any community 
that lives within its income must in the end 
be better  for  it.  We  have  befriended the 
great majority who are  good  pay, for they 
no  longer  have 
to  pay  the  irresponsi­
ble man’s debts,  as they certainly do  under 
the old system, or the merchants fail.
Any  merchant  of  this  city  who  will 
watch his business  to-day  and  compare  it 
with a year ago will be  struck  with the im­
prove condition of our credits.  Fewer  peo­
ple want time on their  purchases and those 
who do  belong to  the  class  who  can and 
want to pay their  debts.
In this matter alone,  the  Association has 
saved hundreds of dollars  to  its  members 
and established a system  which benefits ev­
ery dealer in the city whether  belonging to 
it or not,  and in the end,  when  all  under­
stand our system and our  objects,  the very 
class that now reviles us and  seeks by mis­
representation and  slander to injure us will 
acknowledge that we are their best  friends 
But we have not confined our work to this 
one object alone.  We take pride in the fact 
that we have been instrumental  in  adding 
very  materially  to  the  city’s  growth  and 
business during the past year,  that we have 
been alive to matters of public  interest and 
have taken a hand in shaping the policy and 
conduct of affairs  pertaining  to  the  city. 
This is no more than we have an undoubted 
right to do,  and in exercising  this,  the un­
questioned  privilege  of  every  citizen, the 
right of knowing and  advising  in  matters 
affecting our own and  the  city’s  interests, 
we do not encroach on the  rights  or  privi­
leges of either the city  government  or any 
association or society of  individuals  in the 
city.  We are jn sympathy  with,  and  the 
friend of,  any man or class or association of 
men who are interested in promoting integ­
rity in business relations  or  aiding  in  the 
growtli and prosperity of our city.
Our work during the  year  just  closed is 
too well known to you  all,  gentlemen, 
to 
make particular  repetition  desirable,  but it 
is emiHently proper-that on the threshold of 
a new year we take a look at the future and 
endeavor to get a correct view  of the work 
in which it seems desirable  to  interest our­
selves.
With this object in view,  I  wish  to  csfll 
your attention to a few  matters  which,  out 
of the many things to be done, seem partic­
ularly to.need our attention.

TA X ES.

The  subject  of taxes is one of  unfailing 
interest to every citizen.  How  to  get  the 
best government at the  least  expense,  and 
how to meet our obligations to  that govern­
ment with  the  least  inconvenience to our­
selves is a problem that  comes  home to ev­
ery honest citizen.  Under our present sys­
tem our taxes are all (or nearly  all) paid at 
onetime, viz.:  the  last  of  December, 
doubt, if it had been  the  intention  of  the 
law  to  cause  the  taxpayer  the  greatest 
amount of trouble, if  a  more  unfortunate 
time could have been fixed  upon. 
It comes 
just after  %inter  supplies  have  to be pro­
vided, when work is  slack  and  when  the 
Merry  Christmas  and  its festivities make 
heavy demands on the purse of every friend­
ly citizen.  As merchants,  we  feel  the dis­
advantage of having the tax  collector  com­
ing  forward  with  his  demands at a time 
when trade is naturally  better  than at any 
other season in the year,  and it results in a 
very material lessening in  the trade of that 
season  whenever  taxes  are  heavier  than 
usual.  The State and county taxes must be 
collected at that time,  but  why  could  we 
not have the city charter  so  amended as to 
allow us to collect a  portion  of  our  local 
taxes in the summer?  If, for  instance, the 
school tax—amounting, as it does,  to  over 
half of our entire  tax—could  be  collected 
during the warmer  months  when  work is 
pi enty  and  expenses  are  light,  it would 
have a most  beneficial,  result,  not only in 
making the burden easier to men of  moder 
ate means, bat, for the reasons  above  stat­
ed, to every merchant in  the  city. 
I com 
mend this matter to you and hope you  will 
give it your careful consideration during the 
months to come  before  any  such  change 
can be effected in onr city charter.

W A T E R  W ORKS.

The great question before the city to-day. 
to be solved in the near future, is  a  proper 
water  supply for the  use  of  our  citizens 
Not only must we have  a  supply  sufficient 
for ft perfect  fire protection,  but it must be 
of such a degree of purity as to admit of its 
use foralUiQusebold purposes—for cooking, 
for  the  laundry  and  for  drinking.  Not 
only must it be free  from  substances  inju­
rious to health* but  it  must  be soft enough!

to permit of  its  economical  use  with soap 
in washing.  A water heavily charged with 
lime or  magnesia  would  cost  the  citizens 
hundreds of dollars every year in extra soap 
bills.  All of these  points  should be borne 
in mind before a location  for  any  proposed 
system of water works is selected.  We,  in 
connection with the  Council,  should be as­
sured that all these requirements  are  satis­
fied. 
In order that this Association may be 
kept informed of the  progress of the Water 
Works  Committee,  I  recommend  that  a 
special committee be appointed  whose duty 
it shall be to make  a  report on this subject 
at each stated meeting of the Association.

W A G O N  R O A D S.

The merchants of  a  country  town,  even 
with the amount of manufacturing  we have 
in Owosso, must draw  their  support  large; 
ly  from  the  farming  community. 
In  no 
way,  other  things  being  equal,  can  this 
trade be so easily  reached  as by improving 
the  main  lines  of  travel  leading  into  our 
city.  An outlay of a few hundreds  of  dol­
lars in connection with the road work of the 
various  townships  in  our  neighborhood 
would add greatly to the already large coun­
try trade  centering  at  Owosso.  Personal 
investigation  has  satisfied  me  that in one 
township alone  five  farmers  get  mail  at 
neighboring towns to one getting mail here, 
and that  largely  because  in  coming  here 
they would  be  obliged  to  pass  over  two 
miles of road  which  is  nearly  impassible 
half the year. 
I suggest that  the  Associa­
tion  instruct  the  Improvement  Committee 
to examine this subject  and  make a report 
at some future meeting  of  the Association, 
at a date long  enough  before  the time for 
spring road  work  for  this  Association  to 
take action on  and  offer  recommendations 
to the City Council.

T H E   COUNTY  F A IR .

It is apparent to all of you who are in trade 
that any event that  calls  people to us from 
all parts  of  the  county  is  one  of the best 
advertisement we  can  have.  People  com­
ing here from the more remote  sections  of 
the county look over our stores  and become 
convinced of the advantages  to  be  derived 
from trading  in  a  well  stocked  market. 
There is no one  or  two  events that call as 
many  people  to  us  as  our  county fair. 
Thousands  of  people  from  every town in 
the county  come  here  at  that time.  The 
officers of the Agricultural Association com­
plain,  and not without reason, that our mer­
chants do not offer sufficient encouragement 
or enough  interest  in  this  institution. 
I 
present this matter to you here tonight, and 
bespeak for  it  your  careful  consideration 
during the months  to  come  before the next 
meeting of the Agricultural Association.

A D V E R T ISIN G

I wish to  call  your  attention to the plan 
of advertising the city’s  business  and mer­
chants, presented by Mr.  Osborn at our last 
meeting.  A  careful, 
judicious,  well-con­
ducted  advertising  scheme  of  this  kind, 
wherein  the  truth  concerning  the  city’s 
business and  the  advantages  we  offer the 
trade  coming  here are  set  forth,  will un­
questionably add  very  largely to our trade. 
Have you ever figured up in your own mind 
the  territory  that  should  come here to do 
business.  We have no serious  competition 
nearer than Saginaw on the north,  Flint  on 
the east, Lansing on  the  south,  and Ionia 
on the west.  We  should  draw  trade from 
at least 16 to 20  miles  on  the  north, 10 to 
15 miles an the east,  16  to  20 miles on the 
the  south  and  10 
to  15  miles  on  the 
west, representing a territory 30 to 40 miles 
long by 20 to 30  miles  wide, and when the 
advantages the city offers  to  customers are 
fully known  and  appreciated, we will have 
the bulk of the trade from this entire region. 
We have more and a greàter variety of goods 
in  any one of our well-stocked  stores  than 
can be found  in  all  the  stores in that line 
combined in any of the small  towns around 
us. 
I  recommend  to  the  Association  the 
appointment of a special committee to care­
fully study  this  matter  and  report  with 
recommendations  to  the  Association  at a 
date early enough to do the work in time for 
the spring trade.

M A N U FA C T O R IE S.

We take great pride in the  rapid  growth 
of our eity,  and there is not a  man  among 
us who does not believe  that  we owe it al­
most entirely to  our  manufactories. 
It is 
equally certain that our future  growth  de­
pends on the development  and  increase of 
these  industries.  To  this  end, we have a 
Committee whose duty it is to secure, by all 
possible means, the location of manufactur­
ing establishments and other enterprises.  I 
recommend to the Association a careful and 
judicious advertising of  our  wants in some 
of the  leading  industrial  journals  of the 
country,  and  that  the  Committee  be  in­
structed to present a report  of  their  work 
at each stated meeting  of  the  Association.

T H E   P E D D L E R .

The  peddler  who  tramps  about  from 
house to house  and  from  town  to  town, 
swindling people who are credulous enough 
to buy his wares and  contributing no share 
to the hardens of  the  public  expense,  is a 
nuisance, and as, such should be prohibited. 
Nine times out of ten he  swindles the buy­
er, getting a higher  price than the same ar­
ticle could be bought for of a  regular  deal­
er, and more often selling  an  artjgle  that 
appears  very  useful  and  ingenious  but 
proves  in  actual  practice to be worthless. 
We have laws in  existence  which,  if prop­
erly enforced, would almost  completely do 
away with this nuisance,  and  I  hope  the 
Association will at once take  steps  toward 
the attainment of this end,  and  trpst  that 
instructions  to  this  effect will be given to 
the Committee  on Trade  Interests,  whose 
duty it is to look af^pr such matters.

D U T Y   A T   E L E C T IO N S.

No city can be well governed  unless it be 
well  officered.  You  might  as  well  have 
faith in the juggler’s trick of  turning water 
into wine as to expect  a  pure,  economical 
and honest  government from  officers  who 
have lax ideas on these  subjects  and  who 
are inexperienced in business matters.«
The  time  has  now arrived in the life of 
this city when the character of the city gov­
ernment is of the greatest importance.  We 
are on the eve of the  expenditure  of  large 
sums of money for  public  purposes*  which 
will require cool business  judgment  and a 
thorough understanding of the  city’s wants 
and resources.  We cannot get such men in 
office unless we  work  earnestly  for  their 
election.  Thé worthy man  rarely seeks an 
office.  He has to be persuaded into  an  ac-

ceptance of a  nomination  in  the first place 
and his friends must work  for  his election 
to secure it if he is nominated.
I  hold that this is  a matter  in  which  the 
members of  this  Association  should  take 
the keenest  interest,  not as an association, 
but as individuals.  We should  make it our 
business to see that the Council and officers 
elected at the  coming  spring  election  are 
men worthy of  the trust  imposed  in them, 
that the city  government  for  the  coming 
year shall not fall  below  the  standard of 
^former Cquncils,  and  that, 
irrespective of 
party,  the best  men are placed in charge of 
our affairs.  And, in  doing  this,  we do no 
more than a duty that belongs alike to every 
honest, patriotic citizen.

PICKED  UP.

W ritten Especially fo r  T h e  Tr a d e sm a n .

Her aunt was busy ironing,  and  Edie was 
nearly as busy  decorating  the  isinglass on 
the coal stove with Black Jack gum, in par­
allelograms and  obtuse  angles.  Her aunt 
was humming a fragment of a hymn.  Sud­
denly  little  Edith  looked  up  and  said, 
“Auntie, dear,  you’se  singing  inside  out, 
isn’t you?”

“Charlie,” said the  school-mistress,  “It’s 
too bad to keep you in  after  school  while 
the other boys are having  such a good time 
coasting,  but you broke the rules an4Jh a y e  
to punish you.”

The little black-haired, black-eyed urchin, 
scarcely seven years old,  gazed  sullenly on 
the floor.  The teacher,  continuing her lec­
ture, dilated  upon  the  reprehensibility  of 
misbehavior  and  pictured  out the result of 
persisting  in such practices by showing the 
child how he might go from  bad  to  worse 
and finally be arrested  by  his  own father, 
who was a policeman.

“Ho!  My pap don’t  arrest  no  one,” he 

answered,  with an air of triumph.

‘ ‘He doesn’t?” queried the teacher.  ‘ ‘How 

is that?”

“Ho!  My pap says that if he arrests any 
one he has to git up early and go to the court, 
so he lets some one else arrest ’em,  so es he 
can sleep mornin’s.”

“ Contracts,” said the bald-headed man in 
the double seat,  “I’d never sign  a  contract 
for any man or firm. 
I want to be  my own 
master,  and then if  some  one  offers me a 
better thing than I’ve got,  I can take it.”

“Well,  that’s all right from certain stand­
points, but, just the same, I’ll  take  a  con­
tract every time,  because  then I know just 
what to expect and just  what I’ve got to dp 
and don’t feel as if every  poor  day  I have 
may cause me to get the  ‘grand fire,’ ” said 
the tall passenger.

“I agree with you,” began  the  man with 
the specs and,  moving over  to  the  double 
seat and stretching out his ipgs,  continued, 
“I’ve had some experience in  this  contract 
business,  and it’s only a year  ago that I re­
alized the benefit of it. 
I  signed  a  year’s 
contract with Blank Bros,  in ’86 for ’87 and 
agreed  to  sell  twenty  thousand  dollars’' 
worth  of  their  goods that year. 
I was to 
get credit for all mail orders  from my terri­
tory,  and  everything  seemed  loyely. 
In 
February,  I  called  on  certain  jobbers  in 
Grand Rapids and tried  to  induce  them to 
handle our goods, hut could  make no satis­
factory arrangement with them. 
In March, 
Blank Bros,  wrote me that,  in answer to my 
solicitation of their trade, these  same  job­
bers  had  called  on  them but that a short 
time before Blank Bros,  had  concluded not 
to sell the jobbing trade  any  more.  Well, 
about May, in going  over a portion  of  my 
territory that is tributary to these jobbers, I 
was surprised to find that they had sold and 
were  handling  our  goods!  1 wrote in for 
information but got no reply.  On  the  8th 
of August, Blank Bros.’ men  went out on a 
strike, and on the  10th  they  notified  me 
that, as I was not selling  enough  goods, I 
could consider myself  discharged. 
I wrote 
to them and told  them  that,  according  to 
my order books and the figures given me by 
their book-keeper in July, I had  more than 
sold ~-my  guarantee.  They  replied  that a 
mistake  had  been  made,  that I had never 
sold certain  jobbers,  whose  bills  had been 
credited,  etc.,  etc. 
I wrote  back  and  ex­
plained and quoted their letter of March and 
told them that the reason for  my  dismissal 
was apparent (the strike,  you see) and that 
I was their man and subject to their  orders 
until ’88. 
I heard no more from  them  and 
on September 1 drew for my August salary. 
The draft was protested and on  notification 
thereof,  through my lawyers, garnisheed an 
account in Grand Rapids.  Within  twenty- 
four hours, they wired  me  to  come  to De­
troit and, after  a  stormy  interview, 
they 
paid me in full for my year.”

“You bet!  Contract  every  time!”  said 
the  tall  passenger,  and  the  bald-headed 
man drummed on the  window.

A young man with a  red  mustache,  sit­
ting just  behind,  here  broke  in with,  “I 
wish I had a certain  firm  tied  down  that 
way,” and, being encouraged by the  inquir­
ing looks of the trio, elucidated as  follows: 
“Three years ago, I was at  work  in Bay 
City in a retail  dry  goods  store,  and, not 
being overly well paid  and  learning of the 
opening of a new store  in  chat  line in the 
Rapids, made application and  secured a po­
sition. 
I  moved my family there  and  en­
tered at once on my dnties.  I  worked hard 
I have lots of friends and relatives in Grand 
Rapids, and  I   secured  quite a respectable

NO. 227.

custom for the firm. 
I was  first  placed in 
the glove department  at  the  monumental 
salary of $10 a week.  The  rule of the firm 
was, please observe,  ‘No notice  given or re­
quired.’  At the end of my first year, I was 
promoted to the handkerchief  and embroid­
ery department and placed  in  full  charge 
thereof and my salary raised to $12.  A wife 
and child, high rent, coal $8 a ton and—$12! 
a week!  It appears that  the  senior  mem­
ber of the firm had a lady friend (in the full 
significance  of  the  word),  who  was  in 
the same department,  and who was so over­
bearing in her manner  as  to give offence to 
a great number of customers, and the junior 
member,  who,  by the  way,  was  my  best 
friend,  wanted  to  dismiss her.  This the 
senior would not allow and, in consequence, 
I was placed over her head as  the  chief of 
the department.  Well, here my trouble be­
gan.  She would do nothing that I suggest­
ed, and,  feeling that it would be worse than 
useless to complain,  I let her have  her own 
way.  The  senior  member  began  to  find 
fault with  me and  annoyed  me  in  various 
ways, and the outcome was  that on the sec­
ond day of the new year the firm had a quar­
rel and both of us were discharged. 
In the 
midst of winter,  at a time when  business is 
the dullest and positions  almost  impossible 
to be obtained,  I was thrown on the streets, 
with a family  on  my  hands,  after  three 
yeafs’ faithful,  honest, 
laborious  work at 
such a low salary as to be able to save noth­
ing, simply because the  senior  member de­
sired to keep his “lady love”  near  him and 
protect and promote her, and I  stood in his 
way.  The junior member gave me  a  good 
recommendation, but—here I  am,  and  no 
prospect of a place until spring.  You bet I 
want a contract, verbal or written, from now 
out.”  And he wiped the  perspiration from 
his brow and borrowed a chew of plug from, 
the tall passenger. 

Leo.  A.  Caro..

Regulating  Trusts.

Public sentiment with  regard to the mod"- 
eruized method of conducting business,  and. 
more especially industrial enterprise,  under 
the  Trust  system,  has commenced to find. 
expression in  Congress,  and previous to ad-  • 
journment  several  resolutions had been in­
troduced as a basis for some  legislative  ac­
tion.  Those interested in Trusts have been, 
at  considerable  pains,  whenever  an  im­
portant one  has  been  in  course  of  organ­
ization, to assure the public that they would, 
be the gainers in every  sense,  and that the - 
combination would prove to  be as much for- 
the benefit of the consumer as the producer.. 
Unfortunately,  however, 
these  promises- 
have not been fulfilled,  and thus far  practi­
cal experience has shown that these combin- . 
ations were not only in favor of  those  who 
had pooled their  interests under the Trust, 
but most distinctly and decidedly a combin­
ation against public interests.  The  funda­
mental principal of  the  Trust,  and the one 
that  has  been  its greatest recommendation 
to those that have adopted it, has  been that 
it effectually and successfully throttled com­
petition  and thereby furnished  an  almost 
impregnable monopoly. 
It has been a com­
plete illustration of “big dog eat little dog,” 
and its methods have  been  as  offensive as 
they have been autocratic, and all the  more 
objectionable because they are an evasion of 
the laws that  have  been  provided  by  the 
legislature,  state as  well  as  National, for 
governing  and  regulating,  in the interests 
of the public,  the formation  and conduct of 
corporations.  By crushing  out competition 
the Trust  makes  it  possible  to levy a tax 
upon  consumers,  which is as unjust as it is 
burdensome,  and  it  furthermore  operates 
against the development of  small industries 
and  individual  enterprise.  Under  these 
circumstances it is  no  matter  -of  surprise 
that public sentiment has  become hostile to- 
these aggregations  of capital aud  combina­
tions of autocratic power,  and that Congress 
has been requested to  inquire  into  and ap­
ply a remedy, if such can  be  found.  Con­
gressman Mason  has offered a resolution in 
the House of Representatives asking for the 
appointment of a committee to  inquire into 
the formation and working of the Coal  and 
Sugar  trusts,  and  Congressman  Guenther 
has introduced a similar  resolution directed! 
towards the operation of the  Standard  Oil 
Trust.  The latter has, perhaps, proved less 
oppressive than the  other  two  mentioned 
above or any other of the  numerous  Trusts 
that have been brought into existence by the- 
signal  success  th$t  has attended the enor­
mous operations of the Standard Oil, but no­
distinction can be made in the  operation of 
a system that has proved to  be  oppressive 
and so emphatically opposed to public inter­
est.  The  very  secrecy  that  has been ob­
served in everything connected with the Su­
gar Trust,  for instance, has  aroused  suspi­
cion,  while the manner in which it has been 
managed thus far has  been  to  antagonize 
every related trade interest.  The  introduc­
tion of these resolutions is,  therefore, time­
ly,  and it is to be hoped  that  they  will re­
sult in formulating legislation that  will  be 
passed by Congress,  and  afford  the publie 
the protection that appears to be necessary. 
The benefits that  have  been  already  con­
ferred by the Inter-State Commerce law is a . 
case in point, and good results ought to fol­
low the  application  of  these  principles to 
this unique and  phenomenal  development 
in the economic history of the country.
PERFECTION  SCALE

The Latest Improved and Rest.

DORS  NOT REQUIRE DOWN  WEIGHT 

W ill Soon Save Its  Cost on aqy Counter.
HAWKINS *  PERRY, Grand Rapids. 

SG E a C. WETHERBEE *  CO., Detroit. 

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trated Catalogue.

VOL.  5.

SEEDS
Garten and Field Seeds,
ALFRED J. DROWN,
JAMES VICK,
SEEDSMAN  OF
ROCHESTER,
GRAND  RAPIDS.

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REPRESENTING

PLEASE  NOTE—Parties  contemplating 
haying  seeds  in  bulk  should  embrace  the 
opportunity  of  securing  good  reliable  seeds 
from  the  well-known  house  of  James  Vick. 
As  we  deal  exclusively  with  James  Vick, 
Seedsman,  we can  save  you  money  as  our 
goods  come  in  large  quantities, thus saving 
you express charges.

We  can  supply  you  with  box  package 
feeds  containing 200  5c papers for $4, giving 
you a profit of |6  per box.

On  short  notice  we  will  mail  you  free 
Vick’s beautiful  Floral  Guide, together  with 
oar wholesale price list.

BUM J. Burn M a n

Combines the Advantages of a

Pass Book and  the  Coupon 

System.

PRICE  LIST.
20 Coupon Pass  Books.------ . 
50
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280
500
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Money can be sent by  postal  note  or post- 

office or express order.

E.  A.  STOWE  &  BRO,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

COAL!

Present  Prices:

Stove No.  4 and Nut 
Egg and Grate

-  $8.00 per ton, 
$7.75  per ton,
We  are agents for  Brazil  Block  Coal.  The 
net and cheapest steam coal in the market,

Grand Rapids Ice & Goal Co.

OFFICE 52  PEARL  ST.,

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,

T9  Canal Street,

Grand Rapids, Mich,

Rilxiliary  Associations

Wishing to  procure outfits  for  their Col 
lection Departments, are  invited  to  exam- 
tee the  following  quotations, which are for 
9m  work on good quality of  paper:

. FULL  OUTFIT—$15.

3» Books Blue Letters,  50 in book.
900  Record Blanks, 
goo Notification Sheets.
■50  Last bails, 
goo  Envelopes.

HALF  OUTFITS—SIO.

goo  Blue Letters, old style, 
ago  Record Blanks, 
ago  Notification Sheets, 
sag  Last Calls, 
goo  Envelopes.

H1RTH  &  KRAUSE,

LEATHER

SHOE  BRUSHES,

SHOE  BUTTONS,

SHOE  POLISH,

ings, etc.  Write  for Catalogue.

SHOE  LACES.
Heelers, Cork Soles, Button  Hooks, Dress­
118 Canal Street,  Grant! Rapids.
STANTON, SAMPSON * CO,
Men’s  Furnishing  Goods.

Manufacturers 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, Ave.,

DETROIT, 

-  MICHIGAN.

CHIRLES  A.  COTE,
A. Coye & Son,

Successor to

AWNINGS  TENTS

DEALER INs◄

Horse and W agon Covers, 

Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,

F lags & B anners m ade to  order.

W ide Ducks, etc.
GRAND  RAPIDS.
-  

73 CANAL ST.. 

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

GRAM! RAPIDS GR4H AND ED CO.

71 CANAL  STREET.

MYRON  H.  WALKER,

Attorney and Solicitor,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICH.

Over F o u rth  N ational Bank.  Telephone 107.

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  x,ooo  in  any  quantities. 
Express prepaid on orders of 500 and more. 
Handsome  advertising  matter  goes  with 
first order.  Secure this Cigar and increase 
your Cigar Trade.  It is sure to do it.

GEO.  T.  WAMN  &  CO.,
BELKNAP

F l i n t ,   M l o H .

Spring,  Freight,  Express, 

MANUFACTURERS OF
Lumber  and  Farm

W A G O N S !

Logging Carts and Trucks 

hUll and Dump Carts, 

Lumbermen’s and 
River Tools.  r

We carry a large stock of material, and have 
every faculty for  making  first-class  Wagons
iry facuii 
of all kinds.
|3F~Special  attention  given  to  Repairing, 
Painting and Lettering.
Slioiia os Front St., Grand Rapids, Mioh,

FOURTH NATIONAL BA I

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

in  place of old  style  Blue  Letter  in  abo 

i n   Outfit  we  ban  substitute  10  books  Blue 
Letter in latest form, as recommended by the 
ascent State convention, for $12.60 
Prices in  other quantities  furnished  on ap­
plication

FULLER & STOWE  COMPANY,
ENGRAVERS and PRINTERS,
49 L j 
Brand Rapids,

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A. J.  Bowne, President.

Geo.  C. Pierce,  Vice President.  ~ 
H. P. Baker, Cashier,
CAPITAL,  - y -  -  $300,000.
‘  Transacts a general banking business. 
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Make a  Specialty o f Collections.  , Accounts 
- v   of Country Merchants Solicited.  ■/

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W A N T E D .

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

Earl Bros.,  Coiiissioii Merckauts,

157 South W ater St.,  CHICAGO. 

Reference:  First National  Bank,  Chicago. 
Michigan Tradbsman. Grand Rapids.

ASK  FOR

ÄRDENTEK

MUSTARD
BEST Of THE WOULD.
POTATOES.

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

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COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

166 South W ater St., CHICAGO. 
Reference

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

Chicago.
H E X T E R   &  FRIEDMAN,

Manufacturers  of

B I J T T E R T N E .

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

CHICAGO, 

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ILL.

SEEDS W e have  ta k en  g re a t 

care  in  th e selection of 
our seeds  th is  season, 
and are pleased to  offer 
you  a   fine  and  com­
plete stock  of  garden  seeds.  We also ca rry  a  full line 
of garden im plem ents.  Send fo r  catalogue and whole­
sale price list.  To th e tra d e only.

Alfred J. Brown, Seedsman.
16 and 18 No. Division St.,  Grand Rapids.

EATON l LYON,

Importers,"

Jobbers and

Retailers of

BOOKS,

20  and 22  donroe St.,  Grand Rapids,  Mioh*

Told, B w ttin ir 1 Co,
DEY  GOODS

Importers and Jobbers of

Staple  and  Fancy.

Overalls, Pants, Etc.,

OUR OWN  MAKE.

A  Complete Line  of

Fancy CrocKerysFancy Woodenvare

OUR OWN IMPORTATION.

Inspection Solicited.  Chicago and Detroit 

Prices Guaranteed.

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

Wolverine Chair Factery,

W est End Pearl St. Bridge.

AMONG T H E  TRADE.

GRAND  RAPIDS  ©OSSIP.

Geo.  G.  Steketee has  placed  his  linei  erf 
family remedies under the rebate  plan, thé 
innovation, dating from Jim. 20.

C. W. Ives has engaged in the  drug busi­
ness at Bockford.  The  Hazeltine  &  Per­
kins Drug Co. furnished the stock.

The J elegram-Herald Publishing Co, has 
given a blanket chattel mortgage for $2,500 
to C. G.  Swensberg to  cover  indorsements 
made  by  that  gentleman.  This  plaster, 
with the mortgage on the press, renders the 
concern execution proof.

Cqopersville—G.  S.  Woodhull .succeeds 
Busman & Woodhull in the  meat business.
Holland—P. H. Wilms  succeeds  WiUits 
& Metz in the agricultural  implement busi­
ness.

Decatur-rJ.  F,  Crotser  succeeds  Geo. 
Sias  in  the  cigar  and  confectionery  busi­
ness.

Harrison—A.  D.  Shadboldt  succeeds  A. 
D. Shadboldt & Co. in the  dry  goods  busi­
ness.

Jackson—Minor,  Beals  &  Co.  succeed 
Shearer & Spaulding  in  the  clothing  busi­
ness.

Bear  Lake—Wm.  R.  Hopkins,  grocery 
dealer,  has  been  closed  on  chattel  mort­
gagee

series—$250,- j 
-of the Valley

All the  shares in the  first 
000, comprising 2,500 shares-
Detroit—Gabrill & Wurzer, liquor dealers
City Building and Loan  Association  have I on Gratiot avenue, have  assigned  to  Chas. 
been subscribed,  and a new series will prob-1 Flowers.
ably be ordered opened by the  directors be­
tween now and  spring.  This  Association 
makes the best showing of any organization 
of the kind ever formed in  the State.

EastTawas—Henry  Hanson,  proprietor 
99 cent store,  is  succeeded  by  Hanson & 
Wilmot.

Iron  Mountain — Bod art  &  Gerondale, 
flour and feed  dealers, have closed out their 
Samuel  Lyon,  formerly  of  the  firm of 
business.
Raniville & Lyon,  has  leased  the  comer 
- North Branch—Cable & Johnson  succeed
store and basement  in  the  new  Kennedy
block, on the corner of Waterloo  and Louis | ?ohn Lammiman in the grocery  and bakery 
streets,  and  will shortly open up a full line
Saranac—W.  C.  Clark  &  Co.  succeed 
of belting and mill supplies,  having secured 
Maria (Mrs.  Robert)  Kyle  in  the  grocery 
the  agency of several  leading  manufactur­
business.
ers.  He expects to be able  to  begin  busi­
ness about Feb.  10.

business

U  D.  Harris, 

the  North  Ionia  street 
paper  jobber,  gave two chattel mortgages, 
aggregating $7,000 early last week—one for 
,000 running to the Ypsilanti  Paper  Co. 
On  Saturday  Bradner,  Smith  &  Co.,  of 
Chicago, attached  the  stock on a claim for 
$475, alleging fraud, and  an  officer is now 
in possession of the stock.  The suit  is  re­
turnable  on  Friday,  when  Mr.  Harris  is 
confident his attoruerys  will  be able to dis­
solve the attachment

Portland—Homer & Lewis have  engaged 
in the meat business,  giving  the town four 
meat markets.

Millington—The  grocery  store  of  Spar­
row Bros,  has  been  closed on a bill of sale 
by J . M. Eager.

Whitehall—Capt.  Davis  announces  his 
intention of removing  his  notion  stock  to 
Fremont shortly.

Howard City—John  F.  Van Denberg & 
Co. succeed R.  G.  Quick & Co. in the whole­
sale butchering business.

.Gripsack Brigade.

A. M.  Young has engaged  to  travel  for 
the Lustig Cigar Co:, covering  the  eastern 
part of the State.  v

Wallace Franklin has engaged with Fair­
banks, Morse & Co.  for  a  seventh  year, 
giving him the  control  of  this  State  for 
their fall line.

Ed. Pike has severed his  connection with 
Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co. to  accept a po­
sition with Hart Bros., jobbers  of  furnish­
ing goods and manufacturers of shirts,  etc., 
at Chicago.

Any  traveling  man  having  friends  he 
wishes especially invited to  the  annual so­
cial party, to be held on Feb. 3, should send 
their names to Hi. Robertson,  care. Arthur 
Meigs & Co.

S.  W.  Bush has engaged to  travel  a sec­
ond year for Leonard A.  Treat,  the Boston 
fish jobber, covering Michigan,  Ohio,  Indi­
ana and Illinois.  He makes his  headquar­
ters at Detroit the.same as heretofore.

A.  W.  Peck,  who is a member of the drug 
firm of Peck & Co., at Walton, has engaged 
to travel for  the  Hazeltine & Perkins Drug 
Co., covering the Upper  Peninsula and the 
Northern portion of the  Lower  Peninsula. 
The engagement begins February 1.

W.  W.  Gorball,  formerly  with  Franklin 
MacVeagh & Co.,  but  more  recently with 
Bulkley, Lemon & Hoops,  has taken  a  po­
sition with Hawkins & Perry,  dividing  the 
upper portion of the Lower Peninsula  with 
the  facile Doak.  M.  Gorbell  will  continue 
to reside a't Traverse City.

Albert C. Antrim started out Monday  for 
a Tour months’ trip  through  the  Southern 
States in the interest of the Alabastine Co., 
when he will again turn his face toward the 
Pacific.  He denies that California is neces 
sarily an expensive place to  live,  asserting 
that  he  can  get  more food for $1 in San 
Francisco  than  in  any  other  city  in  the 
country.

VISITING BUYERS.

luire 

H aven 

The followingretail  dealers have visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses:  '
R T Parish, Caledonia 
H E Parm elee,  H illiards 
S T Colson, A laska 
M P  Shields, H illiards
G H Walbrinfc, A llendale  O S  P utnam , F ru itp o rt 
Jnö Farrow e, A llendale
C C Tuxbury .S ullivan 
R ichard!  &  Bechtold,  Bel- F  N arregang,B yronC en  v 
B A Jones, LeetsvUle
P eek & Co, W alten 
A Purchase, So Blendou
J  M Cook, G rand H aven
R  FuUer, M anton 
J  C  Benbow,  Cannonsburg C A Pearson:  F rem ont 
I A M itchell, Lowell 
Geo E H arris, Ashland 
J  F Barrows, Law rence 
O F, W P  Conklin, R avenna 
N agler & Beeler, C aledonia N Bouma, Flshe*- 
C W  Ives, R ockford 
G H Rem ington, B angor
S L W are, Sand Lake
E S Boteford, D orr 
LeFebre  &  Meyer,  G rand L Kolkcma,  H olland 
J V a n  E enaam ,  Zeeland
C H Joldersm a, Jam estow n H Thom pson, Canada Cor’s 
A W  Blain, D utton 
L A Paine, EngllshviUe 
H uizinga &  Son, Eastm an- John Giles & Co., Lowell 
H enry Mitchell, Lowell
John  Sm ith, A da 
Charles  Straw , E  Saginaw
O Trum ble. W est Olive
H Ade, Conklin 
Cole & Chapel, Ada
LCook,  B auer 
F  L Blake, Middleville 
W E H inm an, S parta 
L R Rogers, Irving 
J  A Lieber,  Caledonia 
W M Rogers. Fennville 
S T McLellan, Denison 
F  N Fisher, D orr 
H W  P otter, Jenisonville
Spooner & More, C edar Sp’s M Gezon, Jenisonville 
H Van Noord, Jam estow n  J  P  Visner. Visner & W hite, 
J  S  Thom as,  C annonsburg  Allegan 
John  Meyering,  Noordloos E E W oodward, W oodward 
S J  M artin, SulUvan 
G Ten  H oor,  F orest  Grove F ran k fo rt  Lum ber  Co, 
E S Botsford, D orr 
W S Johnson, Sutton’s  Bay
Jo h n  K am ps, Zutphen 
DeKruif, Boom*  & Go., Zee- A T Kellogg, K alkaska 
J  F ran k   Clark, Big Rapids
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WW Peirce, Moline 
C K H oyt, H udsonville 
Geo P S tark, Cascade 
A Lobdell & Co, Mecosta 
J  W W illetts, S tanton 
E J  Roys,  Lakeview

Bros, F ran k fo rt
F ran k fo rt

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Bank Notes.

H.  C. Parke  has been  elected Yiee-Presi- 
dent  of the State Savings Bank,  at Detroit.
Dusenbury, Nelson & Co.  succeed  G. A. 
Dusenbury & Co. in the  banking  business 
at Mount Pleasant.

Leroy  Moore  has  been  promoted  from 
Cashier to President of  the  City  National 
Bank,  at  Greenville.  F.  B.  Warren suc­
ceeds Mr. Moore as Cashier.

Geo.  W. Albrecht,  of  the  Bank  of Bel- 
laire,  and Ira A.  Adams,  general  dealer  at 
Bellaire,  were  in  town  last  Wednesday, 
their mission being to boom their town.

Col. J  ohn  A.  Elwell,  late  President  of 
the First National Bank  of  St.  Louis, has 
retired  from  the  institution.  R.  M.  Steel 
is now President of seven or eight banks.

THe  Michigan Tradesman!

Of l cMjt Oraran of XIoliiaraiiBustaess Stan’s  Association,

r A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL  DEVOTED  TO  THE

M a il Trade of the Woltferine State
E.  A.  STOWE &  BRO., Proprietors.

Subscription—One Dollar per year.  Advertis- 

•  ing Bates made known on application.

Publication  Office—49  Lyon Street. Grand 
' Rapids.
Eastern  R epresentative—E.  H. AYER, 49 
Tribune Building, N. Y.

Subscriptions to  th is pap e r a re  n o t discontinued a t ex­

piration, unless so ordered b y  th e  subscriber.

Entered at  the  Grand  Rapids  Post  Office.

E.  A. STOWE, Editor.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY  85,  1888.

The  anti-compact  law  goes  into  effect 
next Tuesday.  The subterfuge adopted by 
the insurance monopoly to replace  the com 
pact system clearly comes under the head of 
the combinations  prohibited by the law and 
it rests with the Insurance Commissioner to 
proceed against the companies  who  persist 
in violating the law .} The  Business  Men' 
Associations of the State are responsible for 
the law,  and  they  will  not rest until it is 
enforced to the  letter.

The  proposed  amendment  to  the State 
constitution providing for the establishment 
of a Department of Banking,  which will be 
submitted to the people at the next  general 
election, involves some changes in the pres 
ent banking system which  will tend to give 
State banks a standing  not  now  enjoyed, 
Among other improvements is  a  provision 
for regular bank examiners, whose business 
it shall be to investigate each  State bank at 
stated  intervals.  This  innovation, if it is 
authorized at the  poles,  will  tend  to give 
State banks the same credit  and confidence 
now reposed in National banks.

When the White  Lake  B. M. A. was or­
ganized about a year and  a  half  ago,  a co­
operative store was started in  opposition to 
those  who  joined  the  Association.  One 
day last week  the  stock  was  sold  under 
chattel mortgage, leaving those who  placed 
money and reliance in the promoters of  the 
enterprise somewhat  wiser  in  experience, 
The Associated Press also  notes the failure 
Of a similar establishment at  Marshall, 111. 
under date of Jan.  20,  as  follows:  “The 
Farmers’  Mercantile  Association,  which 
conducted a large  general  store on the co­
operative plan, has  failed,  with  liabilities 
of $12,000 and assets of  $2,000.  The com 
pany was composed  of  seventy-three farm 
ers, and was organized  in  1875.  The  ob 
ject was to supply  themselves at wholesale 
rates, the expenses being paid by the profits 
on goods sold to outside  parties.”  As T h e  
T r a d e s m a n  has frequently  intimated,  the 
time has not yet  come  when  co-operative 
distribntion  can  be  made a success in this 
country.

In selecting Charles Buncher,  of Detroit, 
as the appointive member  of  the  Commis­
sion constituted  to  prepare  a  uniform  fire 
insurance  policy,  Governor Luce  has  done 
the  business  men  of  the  State  a  service 
which they will  heartily  appreciate.  Gov­
ernor Jerome, acting  under  exactly similar 
circumstances,  appointed  a  Detroit  insur­
ance agent,  who  proved  to  be  the  servile 
tool of his employers.  The draft  of  policy 
prepared by the  Commission  of  which  he 
was  a member was so manifestly unfair  to 
insurers  that  it  was  overwhelmingly  re­
jected by the Legislature when it  was  pre­
sented to that body. It remains for the present 
.Commission to prepare a standard  form  of 
policy which shall be  fair  to  both  insurer 
and insured and devoid of the technicalities 
whieh  now  enable  the  companeis  to con­
strue their promises  just  as  it  suits  their 
pleasure.  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   hopes  to  see 
good results follow in the wake of the Luce 
Commission.

Reports to Bradstreefs from  New York, 
Boston,  Philadelphia,  Chicago,  St.  Louis, 
Kansas City and about  a dozen other  com­
mercial centers convey the pleasing  intelli­
gence that there is no longer  a  stringency 
in the money  market,  prevailing  rates for 
interest  having  suffered a  considerable de­
cline.  Time money  is  in  fair  demand at 
New York at 5)4 per cent, on first class col­
lateral and 6 per cent,  on mixed  securities. 
At Boston,  demand  money  goes at 5 to 6 
per cent., and business paper is  discounted 
at 5 to 6K  per  cent.  Philadelphia  money 
lenders  demand  but  4  per  cent,  for call 
loans and 5 per cent  for  time  pap«'.  At 
Chicago,  people  who  were  charged 8 per 
cent in December have had  their  loans re­
newed at 7 per cent, and sharp  call  loans 
on  choice  collaterals  are  now  frequently 
made at 6 per cent 
In  some instances, ev­
en lower  rates  have  been  accepted.  The 
change in  the  money market is a welcome 
one to business  men  generally,  as  cheap 
Interest  means  a  continuance  of  “good 
times,” while an undue  tightening  of  the 
money market would  undoubtedly  precipi­
tate an era of distrust and  closeness  which 
is sure to come sooner or later.

W.  L. Aldrich, the Maple  Rapids  drag- 
gist, assigned to J. W. Price on  the  17th, 
haring previously deeded  all  his  property 
to his wife.  He then  left  for  the  West. 
The strange part of the affair is that he was 
not embarrassed at all, as he had  no debts. 
He h asa wife and two  children,  whom he 
leaves  well  provided  for. 
In  a letter he 
left  for  his  wife  and  father  he  said  he 
would never see them  again.  I t is learned 
that  lie  Intimated  to   his 
that 
he n was  going  to  LosAngeles, Cal., but 
at S t Johns be bought«  ticket  for  Kansas 
It is thought his mind is tempo- 
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Montague—The stock in the  co-operative 
store was sold  under  chattel  mortgage on 
the 16th to Bela  Harrison.

Hilliards—M.  P.  Shields has sold his gen­
eral stock  to  Howard  E.  Parmelee,  who 
will continue the business.

Nicholas Pell,  who has conducted  a  gro­
cery business at 258 South  Division  street 
since last April,  gave voluntary  possession 
to Bulkley, Lemon & Hoops  by  virtue  of 
their  chattel  mortgage  last  Friday.  The 
firm was satisfied that a portion of the stock 
had been spirited away and a deputy sheriff 
succeeded in unearthing a roomful  of goods 
Northport—The  Nelson  &  Co.  stock, 
at Pell’s residence.  Nicholas  was  then in-
which  was recently  sold to B. N. Pickard,
vited to pay all arrearages  and  costs or in­
dulge in the privilege of  wearing  stripes at | ^as keen seized by creditors  of the original 
some penal  institution.  He  chose the for-
mer  alternative.  H is  course  in this case 
shows him to be thoroughly  dishonest  and 
unworthy of credit or  confidence,  and T he 
T r a d e s m a n  hopes he  w ill  never have an­
other opportunity of  disgracing the profes­
sion of the merchant.

Kalamazoo—James  W.  Aljor’s  grocery 
stock has been seized on  chattel  mortgage 
held by J.  H.  Phillips.  The stock  is being 
disposed of at private sale.

Ionia—Batson &  Bush  succeed  Hunt & 
Train in  the  grocery  business.  The  firm 
comprises N. H. Batson and Frank Bush.

Detroit—John Davis & Co., manufacturers 
of baking powder and spices,  have  merged 
their business into  a  stock  company  under 
the same style,  with a capital  of $40,000.

owners.

E. N.  Lesperance,  the  Hamilton  general 
dealer, mourns the loss of .his stock and nu­
merous  creditors  mourq  the  loss of their 
claims.  He  recently  gave  a  mortgage to 
Mrs. Holman, his  housekeeper,  for $1,200, 
but the document was not put on record un­
til after several heavy purchases were made 
and the goods in  stock.  As  soon  as  the 
Holman  mortgage  was  filed,  the  regular 
creditors began to assert  their  rights,  and 
mortgages were executed in  quick  succes­
sion to  Spring  &  Company,  Cody,  Ball, 
Barnhart & Co., H. P.  Baldwin 2d & Co., a 
brother of Lesperance, E. G. Studley & Co. 
and  to  three  others.  Mrs.  Holman then 
proceeded 
to  foreclose  her  mortgage, 
when Studley & Co.  attached  the stock on 
the ground that the  Holman  mortage  was 
null and void,  as  the  withholding  of  the 
same from filing  gave  Lesperance  a  ficti­
tious  credit  This  point  has  been passed 
upon by the  Supreme  Court,  and there is 
no question as to  the legality  of  Stadley’s 
action in the premises.  Mr.  Studley  form­
ed  an  alliance  with  the  four  mortgaged 
creditors ahead of  him  and  removed  the 
stock to this  city. 
It  inventories  $1,400, 
which will about pay the claims of the Stud­
ley alliance,  which amount  to $1,200.  The 
other mortgage creditors and  the unsecured 
creditors will probably never see  a  cent on 
the dollar, as  Lesperance  is  supposed  to 
have  salted  down' the  proceeds  of  sales 
made before the  creditors  appeared on the 
ground.

Plainwell—W. H. Hine, who has conduct­
ed  a  grocery  business  here about eighteen 
months, has sold his stock to W.  H.  Cros 
by and  returned  to  Chicago,  his  former 
home.

Manistee—Putnam & Brooks,  of  Grand 
Rapids,  recently  filed  a  bill  in  chancery 
against Frank N.  Bostwick,  who  recently 
made  an  assignment  to  Jas.  Riley,  his 
brother-in-law.  Judge  Judkins  appointed 
John Seymour receiver of the estate,  pend 
ing the adjudication of the matter.

last  Saginaw—Newman, - Sears  & Co., 
dealers in agricultural implements, made, an 
assignment on the 19th to  Thomas  McEw 
ing, of Bancroft.  The  resources  are  esti 
mated at $8,700,  which includes a consider­
able amount in outstanding  accounts.  The 
assets are claimed to be sufficient to pay the 
liabilities,  which are estimated  at $8,100.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Alpena—N. Foley is running three  lum 
her camps and has 3,500,000 feet of  logs on 
the skids.

Diamond Springs—Sisley &  Ireland have 
leased the flour  and feed mill and  will add 
new machinery.

Evart—The  Champion  Tool  &  Handle 
Co.  succeeds M. Belanger & Co. in the man­
ufacture of lumbermen’s tools.

Manistee—Stokoe & Nelson  recently cut 
a pine tree  which - measured  152)4  linear 
feet, and when sawed into  logs  scaled  4,- 
200 feet.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Waterloo—Gorton  &  Snyder,  general 

Port Huron—The Maddin Mower  &  Bin­
der Co. has been  organized,  with a capital 
stock  of  $100,000.  The  machine  to  be
Lansing—Fred J. Blair’s cigar  store  has I manufactured is  a  pony  binder and mower

dealers,  have dissolved.

been closed by creditors.

Lowell—C. R.  Hine, boot  and  shoe deal­

er,  has gone oat of business.

Vassar—W. Y. Capron, grocer and jewel­

er, has sold his grocery stock.

Buchanan—Ed.  Colvin succeeds Meach &

Hunt in the furniture business.

Greenville—A.  T. Bliss  succeeds  M. A.

Potter in the grocery business.

Hastings—Engles & Mead succeed Downs 

& Babcock in the meat  business.

Charlevoix—J- F.  Smith  succeeds  Cross 

& Smith in the grocery business.^

invented by Samuel Maddin.

Muskegon—The  Muskegon  Shingle  and 
Lumber  Co.  cut  90,000,000  shingles  and 
6,000,000 feet of  lumber  last  season,  and 
will put in 12^000,000  feet of logs this win­
ter, to be rafted to this place.

Holland—R. E. Werkman  has  sold  his 
interest in the Werkman Lumber Co. to, the 
other meigjters of the corporation, who have 
re-organized  under  the  style  of the Alba 
Lumber Co.  The new  corporation will op­
erate the  sawmills  at  Alba  and  Simons, 
while Werkman will  probably  operate the

Luther—J. E. Whiting succeeds  Whiting | one he owns at Kalkaska. 

& Bliss in the hardware business.

Yassar—L.  C.  Merritt  succeeds  Merritt 

& Hunt in the hardware business.

Muskegon—S.  P.  Bechtel  succeeds  Jas.

F. Laman in the grocery business.
*  Saginaw—Vopel  &  Kinney  succeed  L.
W. Vopel  in the wall paper business.

North  Adams — Geo.  Jones 

Knapp & Crane in the drug business.

succeeds 

Lansing—Sindlinger A Webb  succeed  F.

J. Sindlinger in the grocery business.

Luther—L .. T.  Paine  succeeds  Paine &

Buckner in the undertaking business.
I  Flint—J . B. Wilson  succeeds  J. B*  Wil­
son A Bio* in the hardware business.

Montague—Chas.  W.  Johnson  succeeds 

Herron <fe Johnson In the meat business.

Bay City—C. A. McDonell succeeds C. A.

McDonell A Co. in tire grocery business.

STRAY  FACTS.

Stanton—Chas  F. Briant succeeds Briant 
& Trethrake in the  wholesale  lumber busi­
ness.

Muskegon — The  capital  stock  of  the 
Tillotson  &  Loveless  Co.  is  $25,000,  of 
which $20,000 is paid in.

Muskegon—J. B. Wallace, the  flour  and 
feed merchant, has been  arrested on a capi­
as nt the instance of a young  lady, who al­
leges  assault  and  battery  and  slanderous 
language.

David  Cornwell, general  dealer, Monterey: 
“ T h b   T r a d e s m a n   is  as staple  as  pork  and 
flour with us.” 

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Frank  Dreese. dry goods, Ed more:  “ I  con­
sider-your paper the best weekly for the pur*' 
pose that ! have ever taken.” 

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MISCELLANEOUS.

J

V^o 

A dvertisem ents  w ill  be  Inserted under th is head fo r 
o n o ce n t a w ord th e first insertion  and one-haif cent a  
No  advert ise- 
w ord fo r  each  subsequent  insertion. 
m ? j  
fo r less th a n  36 cents.  Advance paym ent.
A dvertisem ents  directing  th a t  answ ers  be  sent  in 
care o f th is office  m ust  d© accom panied bv 25 
cents extra, to  cover expense of postage. 
TpOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—FOR A GROCERY STOCK 
a  store  building, house  and lo t: well rented.  For 
*■*■ 
p articu lars address  P. O. box  73, Sum m it Center, Mich
...... 
228*
X p°R   SALE—THE  STOCK,  FIXTURES  AND  LONG 
a  general store doing a  good trade.  Trade 
•  Reasons fo r  selling, o th er business.  Ad- 
dress 108, care M ichigan Tradesm an. 
230*
TJ'OR SALE—WHOLE OR PART INTEREST IN A FIRST 
.  ..claf 8 m eat m ark et in a   th riv in g   tow n  of  1,000 in- 
n ab itan ts w ith  two  railroads.  A verage  sales  &iQ  per 
day.  Good reasons fo r seUing. Address H., care Trades- 
man> 
219-tf
"raOR  SALE—a t  A  BARGAIN.  A  CLEAN  STOCK  OF 
Ìb o a te , a S
PUe8-  AddreSS  W ayne
T ^°?,,S AIiS r T,PS B®ST DRUG STORE IN  THE THRIV 
J- 
ing  city ot  Muskegon.  Terms  easy.  C.  L.  Brun- 
dage, M uskegon, Mich. 
, 9??.
TpOR  EXCHANGE—61,000  WORTH  OF  BOOTS  AND 
^ eSS8qthis officPeDe llUnber dlTand °n rallr0ad-  9A*
1  *iEAT  MARKET  IN  A  CITY  OF 
J -  . 0,000  ln aab itan ts;  doing  a   large  cash  business* 
®?U‘.ng:  sh°P in  southw estern  MiehL
ia £ d 
g an ,  fo u r  railroads  m   city.  Established  six  years 
Address L, box 108, Niles, Mich. 
*  228»
TpOR  SALE—HALF  INTEREST  IN  PLANING  MILL 
sash,  door and blind factory, heading w orks com! 
plete,. including  dry  kiln;  m aterial  abundant.  J. W
Citya M^clUganhle r  UrUon  City  N ational  bank,  Union
F O R  EXCHANGE—FOR MERCHANDISE, HARDWARE 
1 
j  o r  general  m erchandise  preferred,  five  acres of 
land  m   flourishing  business  tow n.  New  house  and 
b arn; house alone cost 62 ,000 tw o years ago.  Good well, 
cistern  and  outhouses.  P lenty  of  fru it.  Also  good 
house  w ith one  acre  of  land  nicely located  in   same 
town.  Address  G.  W.  W atrous,  Coopersville,  Mich.

 S ì  

y 

Apply  to D.  C. Hulett, St.  Ignace, Mich. 

FOR  SALE—A  FINE  DRUG  STOCK  IN  ST.  IGNACE.

le rm seasy .  Good  reasons  fo r  w ishing  to   s  11. 
229*
IN-
voice about 63,503.  Low ren t.  Southern Mich, fac­
to ry  town.  N othing  out  cash  w ill  buy—poor  health
reason.  109. this oftic
230*
m acist.  The best of  references.  Registered  by 
^ and speaks H olland.  Address N. A. Vyne, 
m oney,  Mich«
1 1 /-ANTED—FOREMAN  FOR FACTORY.  MUST HAVE 
net 
kn°w ledge of ehair and general cabi
Mich 
k '  Address  w -  B.  Nicholson,  W hitehall,

WANTED—POSITION  BY AN  EXPERIENCED PHAR- 

dM,000 TO  $10,000 BONUS-TH*:  DECATUR MANUFAO- 
*ji  ., ta rin g   Co.  offers its fine  p la n t of  brick  and fram e 
building, engine,  boiler,  wood-work,  m achinery  etc. 
a t a  sacrifice equal  to  above  bonus  to   any institution 
em ploying  60 o r  m ore  hands.  Address  Im provem ent 
A ssociation D ecatur, Mich. 
228*

WANTED—THE  ADDRESS  OF  ANYONE  WISHING 

to   s ta rt  a   variety   store.  Address  B.  D.. 

Tradesm an. 

’

WANTED—SITUATION  IN  OFFICE  IN  THIS  CITY 

SITUATION  WANTED—IN DRY GOODS OR GENERAL 
KJ  store by a  young German-American, of fo u r y ears’ 
expenence.  B e-t of references.  Address W. C.. Michi­
g an Tra lesman. 
229*
A  GOOD  BUISNESSYaND  STOCK  FOR  SALEI  OUR 
turnace com pany pays to   h e r m en $10,000 to  $12.- 
000  p er  m onth.  Address  F, draw er  V,  Bangor,  Mich.
229*
by  book-keeper.  Three and one-half years w ith 
last com pany.  Good  reference  given.  Address  Fitz- 
227*
roy, tin s office. 
ANTED—EVERY  STORE-KEEPER  WHO  RRAna 
VY 
th is  paper  to  give  th e Sutliff  coupon system  a 
trial.  I t will abolish your pass  books,  do  aw ay  w itb 
all your book-keeping, in  m any instances save yeu the 
expense of one clerk, will bring  your business  down te 
a   cash basis and  save  you  all  th e  w orry and trouble 
usua“ y go.w ith the pass-book plan.  S tart th e 1st 
or th e m onth w ith th e new   system  and  you  w ill never 
reg ret it.  H aving  two kinds, both  kinds  will be  sent 
by  addressing  (m entioning  this  paper)  J.  H.  Sutliff, 
Albany, N. Y.
YT7"ANTED—POSITION  AS  BOOK-KEEPER OR SALES- 
▼ T  m an by a  man of fifteen y e a ^  experience.  Best 
of references.
----------  Address box  400, Bangor, Mich,
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228*
W ANTED—1,000 MOR 
MERCHANTS TO ADOPT  OUR 
Im proved Couno
.  I  — . —  Pass  Book System.  Send for
, 
samples.  E. A. Stowe & Bro., Grand Rapids. 
225-tf
VUTANTED—TWO  FIRST-CLASS  CIGAR  SALESMEN 
fo r  th e  road,  covering  th e  State  of  M ichigan. 
> V 
None but experienced and well recom m ended m en need 
apply.  Lustig  Cigar Co.,  65 N orth Ionia St. 
225-tf 
T XT ANTED—AGENTS  TO  HANDLE  THE  NEW  CHEM- 
»T 
leal  Ink  E rasing  Pencil.  G reatest novelty ever 
produced.  Erases  ink  in  tw o seconds,  no abrasion  of 
paper.  200 to  500  per  cent,  profit.  One  ag e n t’s  sales 
am ounte 
$620 in six days; an o th er $32 in tw o hours.
Territory 
ee.  S alary  to   good  men.  No 
ladies ne 
nple 35  cents.  F or  term s  and 
full parti 
the m anufacturers, J. W. Skin-
ner & Co.

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FISHING

- I T O L E
*  If you want to put in 
a  stock  of  FISHING 
TACKLE and wish first 
class goods and bottom 
prices,  get  our  prices 
before  you  buy, as we 
have  the  largest  and 
best stock in the State.

L. S. HILL & CO,

19 and 21  Pearl  St.

Grand  Rapids,  -  Mich.

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PATENTED  OCT.  19, 1887.

Manufactured by

KOCH  A.  B.  CO.

354  MAIN  ST., 

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

MFGS. ALL KINDS  OK 

’ACKING & SHELF

BOXES.

Cases, Egg

Crates.

Shipping 
é and 6 ERIE ST.

' Grand  Kapids,  Mich.

Ä M 08  8 ,  M ú S S E L M ñ N  1  C o ,

W h o le sa le   G rocers,

21 & 23  SOUTH  IONIA  ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS^ MICH.

Mall Grocers

with GOOD  COFFEE would do well 
to avoid Brands that require the sup­
port of Gift Schemes, Prize Promises 
or Lottery Inducements.

- S E E L -

DILWORTH’S COFFEE,

Which Holds Trade  on  Account of 

Superior  Merit  Alone.

Unequaled  Quality. 

Improved  Boasting  Process. 

Patent  Preservative  Packages.

Saginaw,  EastSaginaw and Bay City.

For  Sale  by  all  Jobbers  at  Grand  Rapids,  Detroit, 
DILWORTH  BROTHERS,  Proprietors,
PITTSBURGH,  Pean.
REEDER, PALMER  &  CO,

Wholesale Boots and Shoes.

STATE  AGENTS  FOR  LYG0]UI]¥G  RUBBER  GO,,

24 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, 

, TELEPHONE 

NO.  998.

House and Store Shades Made to Order.

NELSON BROS. ■  GO.,

"  „■«  f 1  *  'a 

^ 
68 Monroe  Street, 

i  tN,  .  s 

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-,  Grand Rapids.

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A.  T. Linderman  writes  Th e  T r a d e s­
m an that the item in last week’s  paper rel­
ative to his arrangement  with Jas.  S.  Kirk 
& Co. is not in accordance  with the facts in 
the case,  and requests a contradiction of the 
statement,  which Th e  T radesm an gladly 
accords him, regretting  that  an  erroneous 
report should have crept into these columns.
Eldridge Bros., furniture dealers, Hesperia: 
“It.is a valuable paper for the business man.”

HAY!

We offer in car load lots good 
Timothy  Hay.  We  have  the 
output of four presses and  can 
offer it in any quantity.  W rite 
for prices.
Lamoreaux &  Johnston,

71 Canal St., Grand Rapids.

“Did you ever hear how near W.  H. Jen 
nings’ peculiar and original cuss-word came 
to getting  him  into  trouble in a Northern 
Michigan town a few years  ago?”  asked 
friend of that  gentleman,  the  other  day 
“Jennings was talking  extracts  and  per 
fumery to the proprietor of a  general store, 
and during the conversation,  as  usual, took 
occasion  to  use1 his  ‘By Gee Crip.’  The 
youthful son of the merchant,  being within 
hearing of the dialogue, 
immediately  took 
up this,  to him,  new word and  was repeat­
ing it to his great satisfaction at  having re 
ceived  a  new  word  into  his  vocabulary 
The father,  hearing  this, 
turried  to  Jen 
nings and,  in a loud  tone  of  voice,  said 
‘Get out of my  store,  you  old  scoundrel 
You are teaching my  boy  to  swear!’  But 
the irrepressible druinmer looked him calm­
ly in the eye,  saying,  ‘Well,  By  Gee  Crip 
¡ if your boy never swears  worse  than  “By 
Gee  Crip,”  you’re  a  lucky  man,  By Gee 
Crip!’” 

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Purely Personal.

E.  L. Gallinger,  until recently with Smith 
& Dietz,  at Cadillac,  has  gone  to  Denver 
for the benefit of his health.

Percy H.  Clark,  book-keeper  for  James 
G. McElwee & Co., of  Big  Rapids,  was  in 
town last week on business.

J.  P. Yisner,  the  Allegan  lumber  and 
building material  dealer, was in town Mon­
day on his way to Muskegon.

A. E. Banks, President of t|ie  Frankfort 
Lumber Co., of Frankfort,  was in town last 
week on his way to his home in Milwaukee,
Henry Hopkins, the  Marquette hardware 
merchant,  was in town  last week,  in atten­
dance on the  Annual  Convocation  of  the 
Grand Chapter R.  A.  M.._

Benj. Schroeder has  taken  the  manage 
ment- of H.  Matthews & Co.’s  drug store on 
Sixth  street.  Mr.  Matthews  will  devote 
his* entire attention to his Chase store.

Fred.  S.  Antrim, formerly engaged in the 
grocery business here,  is now keeping books 
for J. M. Weatherwax, who is  engaged-  in 
the lumbering business at Aberdeen,  Wash. 
Ter.

Jas.  H.  Thompson,  Of the firm of Thomp­
son & Maciay,  has gone East to  buy  goods 
and  select  machinery  and stock  for their 
manufacturing department.  He is  expect­
ed back about Feb.  1.

E.  A. Lee,  local manager of  the  Detroit 
Safe Co., went to Saugatuck to-day  to  sell 
a  large  safe  to the banking  house of Wis- 
ner, Rowe & Co.  Later in the week he will 
go to Kansas City on a similar mission.

Frank L.  Fuller, formerly of  the  firm of 
Chandler & Fuller, proprietors of the  Bank 
of Frankfort,  was in town a  couple of days 
last week.  He is looking for a  good  loca­
tion -for the establishment of a  State  bank.
John J. VanLeuven, who  made  a  most 
disreputable failure in  the  millinery  busi­
ness here about three years  ago—even leav­
ing his friends in the lurch—is now manag­
ing the  Boston  salesroom  of  the  Bissell 
Carpet Sweeper Co.

E. E. Woodward, of the  firm  of  Wood­
ward Bros., general  dealers  at  Frankfort, 
passed through the  city last  week  on  his 
way home from  Winfield, ' Kansas,  where 
he has been for  several  months.  He  was 
accompanied by his family.  *

Hon. Geo. E.  Steele,  President  of  the 
Traverse City B.  M. A., was in  town  last 
Friday on his way home  from  Kalamazoo, 
where he  attended  the  annual  meeting of 
the Michigan Engineering Society, of which 
organization he is also president.

I. M. Clark,  of  Clark,  Jewell & Co.,  has 
removed his headquarters  from Oakland to 
Petalnma, Cal.  He has  purchased a hand­
some residence at the latter  place,  and will 
probably spend his winters there, hereafter.
If. J. Clark is back from  the  Sunny Slope 
for a short time, but will soon  hie  himself 
back to the Golden Gate.

Belongs to the

THIS SPACE
Central City Soap Co,
ANTI-WASHBOARD
j a m

Manufacturers of

AND

Jackson, Mich.

F  OR  SA LE!

A drug  stock  in the  lively and  booming 
town  of  St.  Ignace.  Population  3,000. 
Apply to  J. H. Thompson  &  Co., Detroit, 
Michigan.

OBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

And Full U ne Summer Goods.

109  CANAI* STREET.

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I880C1ITI0K  DEPIRTHEMT,
M ichigan Business  Mcn's Awoclatlon.

P resident—F ran k  H am ilton, T rarerse City.
P irat Vlce-President—P aul P.M organ, M onroe.
Second Vice-Presidenfc—8. Lam frora, Owosso.
S ecretary—E. A. Stowe, G rand R aplas.
Y reasurer—L. W . S prague. G reenville.
B xecntlve B oard—President,  Secretary,  Geo.  W.  Hub- 
b&rd, F lin t; W. E. Kelsey, Ionia; Irv in g   F. $ lapp, Al
O om m ltte« on T rade Interests—Sm ith B arnes, T raverse 
O fty; Chas. T. Bridgm an,  F lint;  H.  B.  Fargo,  Muske- 
gon. 
O om m m ltte on Legislation—F rank W ells, L ansing; W, 
E. KelBey, Ionia; Neal McMillan, Rockford.
O am m ittee  on  T ransportation—#.  W,  M illiken,  Trav­
erse City; Jno. PA Stanley, B attle C reek;  W m . Bebec. 
E ast Saginaw.
Comm ittee on  Insurance—N.  B.  B lain,  Lowell;  E.  Y, 
H agle, H astings; O. M. Clem ent, Cheboyg&n.
Oommittee o n  Building  and  L oan  A ssociations—F. L. 
F üller,  F ran k fo rt;  S.  E. P ark ill,  Owosso;  W ill  Ern- 
m ert, E aton Rapids.

•fflclal Organ—Thk Michioah Teadeshak.

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

No. 1—Traverse City B. M. A. 
P resident, Geo. E. Steele; Secretary, !.. Roberts.

P resid en t, N. B. Blaln; Secretar». F ran k  T. King.

No. 8—lo w r il O .M. A.
No. 3 —Stnrgis B. M. A. 

, 

President. H. S. C hurch; Secretary, Wm. Jo ra.
yo.  4—Grand Rapids  M.  A. 
President. E. J. H errick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.
No.  5—Muskegon B. M. A. 

rm n lflm t  H. B. F argo; Secretary, W. O. Conner.

No. 6—Alba B. M. A. 

P resident. F. W. Bloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin.

No. 7—Bim ondale B. M. A. 

■President, T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. W idger.

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

N o . 8—Bastport B. M. A 
No. 9 — Lawrence B. *t. A. 

President, H . M. M arshall; Secre ta ry , C. A. Stebbins. 
* 
P resident, W . J. C lark; Secreta ry , A. h . Thom pson.

so , 10—Harbor Springs B. ML A.

P resid en t,H . P. W hipple; Secretary , C. H.  Camp.
“  
-President, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon.

b o .l l —K ingsley B . M. A. 
No. 12—Quincy B. M. A.
No. 13—Sherman B. M. A. 

P resident, H- B. S tu rtev an t; S ecretary, W.  G. Shane. 
Ko. 14—Ho. Muskegon B. M. A. 
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President, S. A. H ow ey; S ecretary, G. C. Havens.
N o .  1 5 —B o y n e  C it y   B. M .  A .
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President. R. R. P erkins;  Secretary, J. F. Fairchild. 
N o .  1 6 —S a n d  L a k e  B.  M .  A .
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Fresident, J. V. C randall:  Secretary, W. Rasco.
N o . I T —P l a i n  w e l l  B .  M . A .
President, E. A.  Owen, Secretary, J. A. Sidle.
N o .  1 8 —O w o s s o   B .  M . A . 

President, S. E. P arkill ; S ecretary, S. Lam from .
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President, D. F. W atson; Secretary, E. E. C hapel.

N o .  1 9 —A d a   B . M . A .

Fresident, John F. H enry; Secretary, E. A. Phelps.

N o . 3 0 —S a u g a t u c k   B. M . A .
N o .  3 1 —W a y  l a n d  B. M . A .

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

No. 33—Grand  Ledge B. M. A. 

Persident, A. B. Schnm acher; Secretary, W.  R.  Clarke.

N o . 3 3 —C a r s o n  1 i t y   R .  » .   A . 

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

N o . 3 4 —M o r ie y   B .  M . A .

P resident, J. E. Thurkow ;  Secretary, W. H. Richm ond. 
‘ 
P resident, Chas. B. Johnson; Secretary, H. P. Pew.

N o .  3 5 —P a l o   B   111.  A^

N o .  3 6 —G r e e n v i l l e   fi. M .  A . 

President. S. R. Stevens; S ecretary, Geo. B. Caldwell.

N o   AT—D o r r   » .  M .  A . 

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

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

N o .  3 8 —C h e b o y g a n  B . M . A  
N o . 3 9 — F r e e p o r t  B. #1. A .

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

P resident, A. G. A very;  S ecretary, E. S. H onghtaling.

President, Thos. J. G reen; Secretary, A. G. Fleury.

N o .  3 0 —O c e a n a   B . M .  A .
N o . 3 1 —C h a r l o t t e   B. M . A .
No. 33—Coopersville B. M. A. 
N o .  3 3 —C h a r l e v o i x   B .  ¡VI.  A . 

President, G. W. W atrous;  S ecretary, J. B. W atson.

President, Jo h n  Nicholls;  Secretary, R. W. K ane.

President, Geo. A. P otts;  Secretary, P. T. W illiam s.

N o .  3 4 —S a r a n a c   8 .  M . A . 

N  o ,  3 5 —B e l l a i r e   It. M . A  

President, Wm. J. Nixon; S ecretary, G. J. Notew are.

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

President, O. F. Jack so n ;  Secretary, Jo h n   M. Everden. 
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President,  Chas. F. Bock;  Secretary,  Jno. P- Stanley.

N o .  3 T —B a t t l e V - r e e k  B .  M . A .
No. 38—Scottville B.  M. A. 
No. 39  Burr Oak B. !tt. A. 

P resident. H. E. Symons: Secretary, P   W. H iggins.

•President, B. O. G raves;  Secretary,  H. M. Lee._____

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

No. 40—Baton Rapids B. M. A. 
No. 41—Breckenridge  B. M.' A. 

F resident, W. O. W atson; Secretary, C.  E. Sendder.

President, C. .1. Fleischhauer;  Secretary,  W. H. Sm ith.

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

F resident, Jos. G erber;  Secretary  C. J. R athbnn.

Fresident, G. A. Estes; Secretary,W . M. Holmes.

No. *3—fretuunt 8». M- A. 
No. 43—Tnstin B. M. A. 
No. 44—Reed City B. M. A.
No. 45—Hoyt ville B. M.  A.
No. 4 6 — L e s lie   B .  S i. A . 
No.  4 7 — F l i n t   M .  U.

President, W m. H utchins: Secretary, B. M. Gould. 
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President. W. C. Pierce; Secretary, W. H. G raham .

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No. 48—Hnbbardston B. M. A. 
President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor.

N o .  4 9 — t.e r o y   B   M .  A . 

ident, A. O. W heeler; S ecretary, J. P.  O’Malley. 

President,  A.  W enzel! ; Secretary, F ran k  Smith.

M No. 50—Manistee B. M. A.

No. 51—Cedar ¡Springs  B.  M.  A. 
No. 53—Grand Haven B. M, A. 

P resident, ¿ . M. Sellers; S ecretary, W. C. Congdon.

President, Thom as B. D uteher;  Secretary, C. B. W aller.

Fresident, F. D. Vo*; Secretary, Wm. Mieras.
No, 53—B ellevue B. SI. A. 
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Fresident, F rank Phelps; Secretary, Jo h n  H. York.
No. 54—Douglas B. M. A.
No.  55—Petoskey  B. M. A. 
No. 56—Bangor  B.  M.  A. 
No. 57 —Rockford  B. M. A. 
P resident, Geo. A. Sage; Secretary. J. M. Spore.
N o . 5 8 —F i f e   L a k e  B .  M . A . 

President, Ç. F. H ankey; Secretary. A. C. Bowman.

President, N. W. D rake;  Secretary, T. M. H arvey.

P resident, E. H agadom ; S ecretary, O. V. Adams.

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Bangor Secures Charter No. 56.

Bangor, Jan. 16,1888. 

B. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dear Sir—Enclosed please find draft for $12 
for charter fee and per capita dues on 36 mein' 
hers.  We  have to  report tbe  names  of three 
new members since we organized, with others 
to come in.
At our iast meeting the following committees 
were appointed:
Manufactories—J. G.  Miller, Wm.  Bradwell, 
B. 8. Harvey.
Transportation—Wm. S. Charles, A. C. Cross, 
Gordon Sinclair.
Insurance—C.  C.  Phillips,  P. Oppenhem, H. 
D. Harvey.
Improvements—A. B.  Chase/ C.  W.  Peters, 
S. McMillan.
Everything passed off pleasantly and by our 
next meeting we will be well organized.

T. M. Harvey, Sec’y.

Election of Officers at Moriey.

M oRiiEY ,*Jan. 16,1888. 

S. A.  Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Drab Sir—At the  adjourned  regular meet- 
iag of the B. M. A., the following officers were 
«looted:

President—J. E. Thurkow.
Tice-President—W. O. Lake.
Secretary—W. H. Richmond.
Treasurer—Henry Strope.
Executive  Committee—W. H.  Hicks, B.  H. 
McMullen, Wm. HilL 
W. H. Richmond, Sec’y. f

Tours truly,

Good Report from Dimondale.

DtMONDALE.Jan. 14,1888. 

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B. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dear Sir—At the annual meeting of the Dl- 
mondale B. M. A.,  the following  officers were 

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President—D. M. Hough.
Tice-President—J. W. Fish.
Secretary—N. H. Widger. 
Treasurer—F.  G  Pray.
Executive Committee—President, Secretary, 
We have secured two new members, making 
Oar Association is in a thriving condition and 

T. M. Sioan, J. M. Jarboe and J. Weber.
a total of twenty-two.
Ib rare to bo crowned with great success.

Yours,  N. H.  Widger, Sec’y.

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Grand Rapids Mercantile  Association^ 
A t the regular meeting of the Grand Rap­
ids Mercantile Association, held on Jan. 17*, 
applications for membership  were  received 
from M. L. Swift,  15 Canal  street,  mid WV 
H. Downs,  43  Monroe street, both of whom 
were ¿elected to membership.
’  The  following  communication  was  read 
by the Secretary;

Gr a n d R a p id s, Jan. 13,  1888.

To the Members of the Grand Rapids Mercan­
tile Association:
Gentlem en—Since applying for the  po­
sition of collector for your  Association  and 
subsequent to your electing  me  to  that  of­
fice, I  have been forced  to  buy a  farm near 
Berlin, in  order  to  protect  my  own  inter­
ests, which will render it necessary  for  me 
to defer entering upon the duties  of  collec­
tor until spring.  As such  delay would  be 
manifestly unfair to the Association, I  deem 
it best to  offer  you  my  resignation,  assur­
ing you that I  greatly  regret  the  combina­
tion of circumstances which has rendered it 
necessary  for me to take  this step.

S.  A.  SHELDONi

The  resignation  above  implied  was  ac­
cepted with regret,  when the  following  ap­
plication was received and read:

Gr a n d R a pid s, Jan. 13,  1887.

To the Grand Rapids Mercantile Association: 
Gentlemen—Desirous  of  obtaining  the 
position  of collectors for  jour  Association, 
we make the following proposition:
We will secure  applications  for  member­
ship on the basis of fifty cents apiece.
We will undertake to collect such dues as 
are not paid to the Secretary for fifteen (15) 
psr cent, commission.
We will undertake the collection  of  such 
accounts as have  not  been  paid  within  the 
fifteen  days  specified,  after  the  mailing  of 
the  “Blue  Letter,”  for  twenty  per  cent, 
commission on all sums  collected,  it  being 
understood we are to  receive  said  commis­
sion on all sums paid, after the claims have 
been placed in our hands,  whether payment 
be made to us or to the member direct.
We  will  furnish  and  keep  a  complete 
record  of  all  claims  placed  in  our  hands, 
which may be  open  to  the  members  at  all 
times, unless otherwise directed by the  As- 
sociation.
We will agree to keep  our  office  (Booms 
6 and 37 New Houseman Block) open dur 
iiig  business  hours  for  the  transaction  of 
business connected with  the  collection  de­
partment of the Association,  free of charge.
We further  agree  to  pay  postage  on  all 
notification sheets sent out by us,  the Asso­
ciation to furnish us  the proper  blanks and 
stationery. 

Respectfully,

H u g h e s  &  T h o m a s.

On motion of  B.  F.  Emery,  the  applica­
tion was referred to the  Executive Commit­
tee.

E. J .  Herrick spoke on the abuse the gro­
cer and  consumer  have  to  put  up  with «in 
connection  with  the  present  method  of 
handling berries  in  boxes  and  recommend 
ed the appointment  of  an  inspector  to  see 
that quart boxes  contain  a quart of berries.
A. J. Elliott suggested that action on the 
matter be taken in time  to  enable the berry 
packers to procure the proper boxes.

H.  A.  Hydorn moved that  the  matter be 
referred to  a  special  Committee  on  Berry 
Boxes,  to decide  upon  the  proper  size  for 
boxes and prepare a  series  of  rules  on  the 
handling  of  berries  and  berry  packages. 
The motion was adopted,  and  the chair ap­
pointed as such committee Messrs.  Herrick, 
Keating,  Wintemitz and Elliott.

It  was  voted  the  sense  of  the  meeting 
that no berry packages  should  be returned.
Deputy City Sealer Parker then addressed 
the Association. 
In 1877, he arranged with 
City Clerk Warrell  to  take  the  position  of 
Deputy  Scaler  on  a  percentage  basis.  At 
the end of the year he had $80 worth of un­
collectable fees on his books.  At the  pres­
ent time,  not to  exceed  5  per  cent,  of  the 
scales in the city  weigh  correctly,  most  of 
them weighing from 13 to 18  ounces  to  the 
pound.

A vote of thanks  was  tendered  Mr. Par­
ker, when the Association proceeded  to the 
election of  officers,  which  resulted  as  fol­
lows;

President—E. J.  Herrick.
Vice-President—H. A.  Hydorn. 
Secretary—E. A. Stowe.
Treasurer—B. S.  Harris.
Executive  Committee—Chas.  Pettersch, 

Thos. Keating and C. L. Lawton.

A vote of thanks was  tendered  the retir­

ing officers, and the meeting adjourned.
Banquet and Railroad at Manistee,

From  th e  Manistee  Advocate.

ley, Mailhot.

The B. M.  A.  meeting on  Friday evening 
was very well attended.  President  Wheel­
er appoiiffed  the  following  committees to 
have ciqHg of the coming banquet:
Executive—Leonard,  Gardner,  Russell.
Banquet—Leonard, Mahon, Levy.
Hall and Decorations—Hellesvig,  McAn- 
Toasts—Niskera,  Russell.
Printing—Wheeler,  O’Malley,  Wanty.
Mr.  Nungesser reported that the Railroad 
Committee had had a meetiug  and  author­
ized Mr. Niskem to go to Grand  Rapids, if 
necessary,  to meet the C. & W.  M.  officials 
in regard to the matter  of  extending  tbsir 
road  here.  The  Committee  advised  Mr. 
Niskem to endeavor to have  Mr.  Uamsdell 
accompany him,  if possible.
Messrs.  Lyman,  Gardner  and^Cardozo 
were elected a Committee  on  Trade  Inter­
ests.
Messrs. Russell, Newcombe  and  Wanty 
were elected a Committee on Improvements 
and Messrs. Mailhot, McAnleynnd  Helles­
vig were appointed  a special Committee on 
Trade Interests on  questions  affecting the 
grocery trade. 
Thirty  members  have  already  signified 
their willingness to pay $5 each to  the ban­
quet fund.

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The  Hardware Market.

The  new  window  glass  list is out and 
will  shortly be distributed  by  the  jobbing 
trade.  The list is advanced,  and  the  dis­
count  reduced,  there  being  a  greater ad­
vance on the large sizes than on the smaller. 
There is no  change  in  the  tin  or copper 
markets.  Rope  is  firm,-  Barbed  wire is 
firm, with prospects of  an advance.  There 
are indications of a slight advance  in nails. 
Bair iron is  weak.

Phlneaa  Allyn,  general  dealer,  Dushville: 

The Tradesman is valuable to me.”

The Blue Letter in Battle Creek.

From  th e  B attle Greek  Call.
_ About a year ago there was formed in qur 
city an organization which was know as the 
Battle Greek Grocers'  Association,  being a 
branch of the  State  Association.  The pri­
mary object  of  this  Association  was  the 
banding together of all the  grocers  in  the 
State  for  the  adoption  of  a system that 
would protect its members  from  that  class 
of people who are to be found  in every city 
who pursue the practice of securing the con­
fidence of the grocer by  prompt  cash  pay­
ments for a short  time,  obtaining  a small 
credit which, by partial  payments and mere 
extensive purchases,  grows  larger and larg­
er like a snow ball.  When a  final  demand 
for settlement is made,  they  balance  their 
account only  with a  suggestive  twirling of 
their fingers to their nose and seek a greener 
grocer or fresher fields in some other city.
It was to help the grocer of  this and oth 
er cities that a plan was devised  by  which 
their  unsavory  reputations  would  follow 
them wherever they went  and  their  little 
confidence game would become a failure.  It 
was not the purpose  of  the  Association to 
put in this class those men who  could  not 
pay by reason of the common misfortune of 
sickness,  loss  of  situation  or  work,  but 
those  who  would  not  pay  if  they  could 
avoid, it and who  purchased  goods with no 
expectation of paying.  The success of  the 
Grocers’ Association finally led to the open­
ing of its doors to all business  men  and its 
incorporation under the name of  the Michi­
gan Business  Men’s  Association,  with, the 
wider object of securing the passage of laws 
which were for the best interests of the bus­
iness men of  the  State;  the  doing  away 
with  unjust  railroad  discriminations;  the 
taking of the necessary steps by each auxil­
iary to secure railroads,  manufactories and 
everything that would  contribute to the fu­
ture welfare of the city.
Ünder the rules  of  the new Association, 
its members are each furnished  with a Blue 
Letter,  which the member sends to those in­
debted to him,  asking a settlement  or satis­
factory arrangement for the payment of the 
account. 
If no notice is takeu  of  the Blue 
Letter,  the name of the delinquent  is haud- 
ed to the Secretary,  who notifies  him  that 
settlement  must  be  made  or  satisfactory 
reason shown for not so doing,  or his ñame 
will be placed upon the list  and  all  mem­
bers of the Association  will  be  debarred, 
under the penalty of a fine, from  extending 
to him any credit until  the  claim  is  paid, 
and when it is paid,  he will  be  re-instated. 
In order to protect any person from the pos­
sibility of being made to suffer  for a disput­
ed account or an  unjust  claim, 
the  rules 
provide for the right of appeal to the Execu­
tive Committee,  which  gives  a hearing to 
both párties and decides with full impartial­
ity.  Thus no one can be maliciously  injur­
ed,  but the bell has been tolled and the pro­
fessional dead-beat must pay up or have his 
credit shut off in this and  every  city in the 
State.
The auxiliary in this city, which is known 
as the Business Men’s Association of Battle 
Creek,  held a meeting  in  Good  Templars’ 
Hall Wednesday evening,  for  the  annual 
election of officers and to listen  to  the final 
reports  of  the  several  committees.  The 
members are our best  business  men and at 
the meeting the hall was crowded and forty- 
six more names were  added.
After the  adjournment  a  resolution, by 
those who did not  receive  any  office,  was 
unanimously carried that  the  officers elect 
should  provide  a  banquet  for  the  other 
members of the Association at the next reg­
ular meeting.

The

Rockford  Association  Reaches 

Its

First Mile-Post.

From the Rockford Register.

Last Wednesday evening  the  second an­
nual  meeting  of  the  Rockford  Business 
Men’s Association took place.  The Associ­
ation  was  organized  Dec.  13,  1886,  with 
twenty-four  charter  members.  Ten  new 
members  have  been  admitted  and  one 
dropped (removed),  leaving  a  present  ac­
tive  membership  of  thirty-three. 
It  has 
proved a terror  to  the  dead-beat,  and the 
retiring President,  G. A.  Sage,  stated  that 
he thought the  organization  had  saved to 
the members  from  $1,000 to $1,300 in bad 
debts collected and prevented.)
Considerable feeling was raised against it 
at first by a  few who misunderstood  its ob 
jects, thinking it was a sort of  a  combina­
tion for the purpose of keeping prices up as 
high as possible,  and there were  some,  too 
(who were not members),  who  took  pains 
to encourage this view,  but they have found 
out different.  The price of  goods  is some­
thing that has  never been mentioned in any 
of its meetings, and with which it has noth­
ing to do.
From  the  interest  manifested  at  this 
meeting we are ied to hope that the Associa­
tion will press forward  toward even greater 
results during this year  than  was  accom­
plished last year.  The  Rockford  Associa­
tion will become an auxiliary  to  the  State 
body at once.  The  officers  elected for the 
ensuing year are as follows:

President—W. G.  Tefft.
Vice-President—C. R.  Cowdin.
Secretary—J. M.  Spore.
Treasurer—Joshua Cdlby.
Executive Committee—J.  Coon, D.  W. C 
Burch,  W.  Hyde,  the  President  and Secre­
tary.
The President has appointed  Committees 
as follows:
Manufacturing—Joshua Colby, D. R.  Sto- 
cum, Eben Allen.
Transportation—C.  N.  Hyde, J. J. Ely,
S. E.  Rykert.
Insurance—E.  B. Lapham,  G.  A.  Sage,
T.  G.  Selleck.
Improvement—G.  C.  McConnell,  C.  F. 
Sears,  David Wellbrook.
Trade Interests—Neal McMillan, 01. San­
ders, James Colby.

The Greenville Association to  Banquet on 

Feb.  i.
G r e e n v il l e ,  Jan. 20,1888. 

E. A. Stowe. Grand Rapids:
Dear Sib—At  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
Greenville Business  Men’s  Association,  held 
on the 18th  Inst.,  the  following officers were 
elected for the ensuing year:

President—8. R. Stevens.
Vice-President—J. L. Van Wormer.
Secretary—Geo. B. Caldwell.
Treasurer—W. w. Slawson.
Executive — President,  Secretary,  L.  W. 
Sprague, E. J. Clark and A  C.  Sattertee.
Arrangements were also made for holding a 
banquetât Hotel  Phelps .on  the  evening  of 
February 1.
Two new members were received, making a 
total membership of seventy-seven.  Hie  As­
sociation is in a nourishing condition.

Resp’y Tours,

E. J. Clark,  Ex-Sec’y.

A Professional  View.

arm?”

Dr. Pellet—“So Scalpel set  your  broken 
Patient—“Yes,  sir.”
Pellet—“What were his charges?”  ; 
Patient—^Twenty dollars.”
Pallet—“Robbery,  sir—downright 
bery!  Pd.have amputated it for $35!”

rob­

Association  Notes.

T. W. Preston is  working  up  organiza­

tio n  sentiment at Millbrook,

A Hoytville correspondent writes:  “The 
B* M. A. is doing good  work  in  bringing 
some long-winded fellows to time.”

Tho Flint Mercantile  Union  has issued a 
neat and carefully complied delinquent lisjt, 
comprising twelve pages and cover.

W. Rosco,  Secretary of the Sand Lake B. 
M. A., was in town one day last week.  He 
reports his Association as  flourishing,  with 
a banquet in prospect.

The North  Muskegon  B.  M. A., at a re­
cent  meeting,  pledged  $700  and  $400, 
respectively, to  secure  the  location of two 
manufucturing institutions at that place.

Muskegon Business  Gazette:  The  Mus­
kegon Business  Men’s  Association is quite 
likely  to  be  the  means  of  bringing two 
large manufacturing  establishments here at 
an early day; of which  we  shall have more 
to say later on. 

,

Business men contemplating  the organiz­
ation of a B. M. A.  should consider  that no 
organization will run itself—that if they are 
not prepared to give the work the  attention 
its  importance  demands  they  had  better 
“quit before they begin.”

Two  more  associations  have  affiliated 
with the State body during the past week— 
Rockford,  with  thirty-three  members,  and 
Fife  Lake,  with  fifteen  members.  The 
former took Charter No. 57  and  the  latter 
No.  58.

The nine local associations of  New  Jer­
sey,  represented  by  delegates,  formed the 
Retail  Merchants’  Association of New Jer­
sey at Newark  on  the  12th,  making  the 
third State which has followed the example 
set by Michigan eighteen months ago.  The 
New Jersey organization  starts  out  under 
favorable auspices and will undoubtedly ac­
complish much good for its  present  auxil­
iaries  and  stimulate  the  organization  of 
many new associations.

Petoskey  Independent:  The  President 
of the Business Men’s  Association requests 
all members and the citizens generally  who 
are interested in the growth and permanency 
of our town to be  present  at the next regu­
lar meeting of the  Association  on Wednes­
day evening.  A number of very  important 
subjects will be presented forconsideration, 
of which  all  should  be  conversant.  The 
welfare  of  Petoskey  can  be  materially 
enhanced if the  people  will  encourage the 
efforts of the Association  by  their presence 
and advice.

Petoskey Democrat:  A very  interesting
B. M. A.  meeting was held  Wednesday ev­
ening at Odd Fellows’  Hall.  More  energy 
and interest were expressed in  matters per­
taining to Petoskey than we have witnessed 
at  any  previous  meeting.  C.  F.  Hankey 
was elected President of the  Association in 
place of P.  B.  Wachtel whose  appointment 
at Washington made his  resignation neces­
sary.  The subject of prospecting for gas in 
the spring was thoroughly -discussed,  and a 
committee consisting  of  H.  O. Rose, A.  C 
Bowman and W.  S.  Spencer were  appoint 
ed to solicit subscriptions  for  stock and re 
port at a future  meeting  to  be  held  two 
weeks from  Wednesday  evening.  A com 
mittee consisting of C. F.  Hankey,  James 
Buckley, John Milor,  W.  S. Spencer and A,
C. Bowman was also appointed to make ar­
rangements for a banquet to be held  at  the 
Gushman House in the near future.  Sever­
al communications were read  from  outside 
parties inquiring after the prospects  for lo­
cating  manufacturing  institutions  at  this 
place.

Meeting of the Muskegon Association.

From  th e M uskegon News.

The Muskegon B. M. A.  met  last  night 
in special session with  President  Fargo in 
the chair.  The  President  stated  that the 
object of the  meeting was  to  consider the 
proposed banquet to be given by the Associ­
ation.  A general  discussion  was had con­
cerning the banquet. 
It  was  finally  con­
cluded to hold the banquet at the Occidental 
in February,  and  the Executive Committee 
was empowered to  complete  the  arrange­
ments.
A communication was  received  from the 
Geo. T.  Smith  Middlings  Purifier  Co., of 
Jackson, in aqswer to a letter from the Sec­
retary of the Association relative to locating 
here.  The company  states  that it is desir­
ous of locating at a point whpre hard woods 
are easily obtainable and  where  there  are 
ample  shipping  facilities. 
Inasmuch  as 
Muskegon can accommodate the  concern in 
all its desires in these respects,  further ne­
gotiations willjbe had relative to the removal 
of the immense milling  institution  to  this 
city.
The President announced  the  following 
standing committees.
On Manufactures—John A.  Miller,  S. \H* 
Stevens,  H.  D.  Baker.
On Transportation—S.  S.  Morris,  J.  D. 
Vanderwerp,  H. S.  Henderson.
On insurance—F.  H.  Holbrook;  ,M.  C. 
Kelley,  H. N. Powell.
On  Improvements—C.  B.  Mann,  R.  S. 
Miner.  N. Friedman.
On Trade Interests—C. L.  Whitney,  A. 
P. Connor,  D.  Christie. *

The Drug Co.’s Annual.

At the annual meeting  of  the  Hazeltine 
& Perkins Drug Co.,  Dr.  Chas.  S.  Hazel- 
tine,  Capt.  C.  G.  Perkins  and  H.  B. Fair- 
child were re-elected to the Board of Direc­
tors, which subsequently  re-elected  the old 
officers, as follows:

President—C.  S. Hazeltine. 
Vice-President—^C. G. Perkins.
Secretary  and  Treasurer—H.  B,  Fair- 

child.

Hides, Pelts and Furs.

Hides remain firm at the  reduced  price, 
largely on account  of  poor  stock.  Wool 
has declined during the past week.  Michi­
gan X is selling at 27 cents in Philadelphia, 
the lowest price for some years.  Tallow  is 
firm,  but  stocks are  accumulating.  Furs 
are no higher,  but  buyers  are  inclined to 
crowd prices np, on account of  small catch, 
and choice lots wiU bring better prices.

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■M il IVCIVS C.  WEST, 

attorney a t P a te n t Law  aind Solicitor 
_   J o t   A m erican  and  Foreign  patents. 
105 E. Main 9tu  Kalam azoo, Mich., U. S. A.  Branch  of-1 
flee, London, Eng.  P ractice in U. S. Courts.  C irculars 
free.

Offer No. 172.

FRE^E—To  Merchants  Only:  A 
tripple-plated  Silver Sef (6 knives, 6 
forks,  6 tea spoons,  1  sugar spoon,  3 
butter knife), in satin-lined case.'  Ad­
dress at once,  R.  W.  Tansill & Co., 
5 5  State St., Chicago.

WHOLESALE  AND  RET ATT,

COAL and WOOD
101 Ottawa St., Ledyard Block.

E. A. HAMILTON, Agt.,

Telephone 909—1 r .

FOSTER; STEVENS & CO.,

Wholesale Hardware,

10 & 12 MONROE  St., 33,35, 37, 39 & 41 LOUIS St.,

The Gun Coat and Hat Hook.

SALT  FISH

Bought and Sold by

FRANK J. DETTENTHALER,

117 Monroe S t, Grand Rapids.

¡3&~  Oysters the Year Around  ae*

FOR  SA L E !

The  steam  grist  mill  at  Pewamo,  Mich., 
known  as  the  Chubb  Mill, with  good  house, 
fair barn and  new  boiler.  The property hav­
ing fallen to me by the decease of L. W. Chubb, 
my father, and living  in  another  state. I will 
sell  the  property  at  a  very  low  price.  Ira 
Chubb.  Himrods,  N.  Y.  Address  A. W. Sher­
wood.  Pewamo, Mich.

MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER

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

No 

Bolt. S.West,

150 Long St., 
Cleveland, Ohio.

Sole agents for Chicago B rass Rule Work?, 

for Stets of Michigan.

PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY

3  IsT G-1 IST E S

Prom 2 to 130 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills 
UFrist Mills, W ood Working  Machinery,  Shaft 
ing,  Pulleys  and Boxes.  Contracts maio for 
Complete Outfits.

50 W alnut Finish List 
50 Tinned 
**
60 W alnut  “
70 
«

* 

Write  for discounts.

$1.90 Gr 
$ 2.20  “ 
$2.15  « 
$2 55  “

AGENTS  FOR  L.  &  J.  WHITE  COOPER  TOOLS.

WRITE  FOR  PRICES  BEFORE  BUYING.

Foster,  Stevens  &
GRAND  RAPIDS.

!.. M.  CART.

C A R Y  A  LOVSRXDGE,

1,.  D.  LOVERIDGE.

GENERAL  DEALERS  IN

2Tire and Burglar Proof

X7V,  Ö, 
GRAND  RAPIDS. 

enlson,

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MICH.

88,90 and 92 South Division Street, 

“ CANDEE ”
Rubber
BOOTSWITH
DOUBLE  THICK 

BALL

Ordinary Rubber Boots 
always wear out first on 
theball.  TheCANDEE 
Boots  are  double  thick 
on  the  ball,  and  give
DOUBLE  WEAR.
Most economical Rubber 
Boot  in  the  market. 
Lasts  longer  than  any 
other boot and the
PRICE NO HIGHER.
Call  and  ex­
amine  the 
goods.

Combination and Time Locks,

11 Ionia Street, 

- 

Grant Rapids, lick

PUTNAM  &  BROOKS

WHOLESALE

OYSTERS

NO  BETTER  GOODS  IN   TH E   LAND

TRY THEM

13,1 5 ,  17  South  Ionia  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

FOR  SALE BY

E. G. STUDLEY & GO., G rand Rapids. 

Jobbers of

Rubber  and  Oil  Clothing  of  all  kinds, j 
Horse  and  W agon  Covers, Leather  and 
Rubber Belting and Mill  and Fire Depart- ! 
ment  Supplies.  Send for price list.

Re-paint your old buggy and make it look like new for LES8 THAN ONE DOLLAR.  Eight beautiful shades. 
Prepared ready for use.  They dry hard in a few hours, and have a beautiful  and durable gloss.  They are 
the ORIGItifttL, all others are IMITATIONS.  More of our brand sold than all the other brands on the market.

Neal’s  Carriage  Paints
GRANITE  F L O O R   PAINTS
ACM E  WHITE  LEAD  A  COLOR  WORKS

The Great  Invention.  Six  Handsome Shades.  Ready for use.  DRY  HARD  QVER  NIGHT,  and are very 

durable.  Give them a trial, and you wilt be convinced that it does not pay to mix the paint yourself.

Dry  Color  Makers, Paint  and  Varnish  M anufacturers.

IDHIWR.OIT*, 

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CUT THIS ADVERTISEMENT OUT AND TAKE IT TO YOUR DEALER, IT WILL SECURE YOU A PRIZE.

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“Oh! he’sa ll right.”
But Daddy wasn’t.  He lay  and  groaned 
a while, and  then  slowly  arose, saying, as 
he did so, that he had had  another  o’  them 
faintin’  spells  o’  his’n,  and  that  he felt 
powerful weak like after i t   When  he  be­
came sufficiently composed to  think ,of  the 
weighty affairs  of  life,  he  shouldered ids 
grain bag and came over  here.

“By  jing!”  he  ejaculated  in  his usual 
voiceless  manner,  “I  wuz  jes’  over tew 
Breckenridge’s,  and  dinged  ef  I  wuzn’t 
took dead  sick  to  my  stummick, and top­
pled right over onto the floor, an’ that there 
<jeef  ole  devil  ’ats  there,  axed  me what 
ailed me, an’ jes’ ’ecause  I  couldn’t  holler 
loud enough  fer  him  ter  hear,  he jumped 
right onto me,  and  would  liked tew have 
killed me ef Breckenridge hadn’t a come  in 
an’ made him stop jes’ in time.  Oh!  I   feel 
ter’ble weak ’n’ trembly like.”

Daddy  comes  to  town  quite  often and 
since this episode gives Breckenridge’s store 
a wide berth.  Sometimes old  man  Breck­
enridge comes over  here to smoke his pipe, 
and if Daddy happens in at  these  times  he 
finds it convenient  to  leave  without  much 
ceremony.  Association  with  such  toughs 
as Breckenridge is not  compatible  with the 
dignity of a hero who “fit” and bled for his 
country’s honor in the Mexican war.

J oseph  W.  W in k l e.

O H A S :  E .  B R E W S T E R ,
C1KT HOOK and PE1VY HANDLES.

MANUFACTURER OP

Jobber  in  Hand-Shaved  W hite 

Hickory  A xe Handles.

I   manufacture  my  handles>from  rived 
second  growth  maple,  turned 2 1 -2, 2 9-16. 
211-16 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. 

- 

- 

LAK E  BREWSTER, 
MICH.
STEAM  LAUNDRY,
STANLEY N. ALLEN, Proprietor. 

43 and 45  K ent Street, 

WE  DO ONLY FIRST CLASS WORK AND 

USE  NO  CHEMICALS.

O rders by m ail  and  express  prom ptly  attended to.

S A X a E i !

Furniture  a n i undertaking  business  in  a 
live town  in  the  Western  part  of  Michigan. 
Will  sell or rent store building.  Good  reason 
for selling,  A  clean  stock or  furniture  and 
undertaking goods.  A grand  chance  for  the 
right man.  Address “G” care of the Michigan 
Tradesman.

W  H I P S

ADDRESS

GRAHAM ROYS.  -  Grand Ranids, Mich.

Grand,  Square  and  Upright  Pianos.

The  Weber  Piano is  recognized  beyond 
controversy as  the  Standard for  excellence 
in every  particular. 
It is  renowned for its 
sympathetic,’ pure  and rich  tone  combined 
with  greatest  power.  The  most  eminent 
artists and  musicians,  as  well as  the musi­
cal  pnblic  and  the  press, unite in the ver­
dict that

The  Weher Stands Unrivaled.

Sheet  music  and  musical  merchandise. 

Everything in the musical line.

Weber Pianos, 

Fischer Pianos,

Smith Pianos, 

Est-ey Organs, 

A. B. Chase Organs,

Hillstrom  Organs,

JULIUS A  J. FRIEDRICH,

(Successor  to  Friedrich  Bros.)

30 and 32 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

CEO.  E.  HOWES,

C.  N.  RAPP,  Manager,

Apples,  Potatoes  %  Onions.

JOBBER  IN

SPHOIAX.TIES :

Oranges, Lemons, Bananas.

3 Ionia St.. GRA2TD RAPIDS, MICH.

THOMPSON  &  MACLAY,

IMPORTERS AND  JOBBERS  OF

M ois, Bony,  Kilt  M u,  M

i l   Gils,  Etc.

The Nittìgan Tradesmaa.

A  STORE  INCIDENT.

' Written Especially for Thk Tradeskait

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Old  man  Breckenridge,  father  of  my 
business competitor  of  that  name, is here 
on a visit from his home  in Nebraska.  He 
is verging on his  dotage,  is  very deaf and 
rather cracky withal, yet in many  ways he 
is a nice old fellow.  He  has  been  telling 
me  some funny experiences  which  he had 
in running a store in  Western . New  York, 
some forty or fifty years ago, and sometime 
when I  am in  the  mood,  I  will give The 
T r a d e sm a n- the  benefit  of one or two of 
them. 

Five or six miles  from  here lives Daddy 
M’Cracken.  Daddy  “ fit”  in  the  Mexican 
War and  prides  himself  greatly upon this 
circumstance in his life’s  history.  He was 
shot in thé  throat  with  a  musket  ball  in 
such a way as to deprive  him  of  his voice, 
anil draws a  pension  in  consequence^  He 
«does  all  his  buying  on  the  strength  of 
Unde Sam’s quarterly allowance.

The  elder  Breckenridge  was  left  in 
charge of the store the  other  day while his 
son went  to  dinner.  Daddy  came  along
soon after, bringing with him a dirty  grain
bag in which it is his  custom  to  carry the 
purchases fpr  the  household.  Of  course, 
old Mr. B.  was  delighted  to  see  another 
man in whom he though he recognized those 
qualities  which  often  make  old  people 
great cronies, and he hailed  the  coming of 
M’Cracken with delight.

“Good  day  to  you”  said  Breckenridge, 

■“nice day.  Where abouts do you live?” 

“Ter’ble  nice  weather  tew  be  sure” 
whispered Daddy.  “ ’bout the peartestl’ve 
seed sence afore  the  battle  of  Monterey. 
Then the’ wuz some nice weather.”

“I'm  pretty  deaf,  and  you’ll  have  to 
speak some louder to make  me  hear,” said 
Breckenridge,  who,  though  he  saw  the 
movement  of  Daddy’s  lips,  heard  not  a 
word.

“ I be a talkin’ es loud es I kin, but I   lost 

"the use of—”

“I say,”  interrupted  Breckenridge  in  a 
louder voice  than  beiore,  “you’ll  have to 
»chirp a trifle louder than what you  are,  for 
«I’m deaf as  blazes.”

“Well, I  tell ye, I can’t  talk  no  louder.

I  hain’t got the use of my voice; I—” 

“Louder, louder,” shouted  Breckenridge. 
’“Talk louder, can’t  you?  You  must  be  a 
'darned sight  deafer’n  me.  Whoop  it  up, 
«now, old man.”

“Hump!  Me  deaf!”  hissed  Daddy,  “I 
I  kin hear jes’es good 

hain’t deaf  at  alL 
es the next un; biit it’s my—”

“You might  just  as  well quit talking as 
.  to mumble away like that,” bawled Brecken­
ridge, who was  beginning  to get out of pa­
tience at what he  supposed to be downright ! 
obstinacy on the part of his interlocutor.

“An’ I  tell ’ée that my hearin’ ’s all right, 
yon ole fool;  but  I  couldn’t  speak  a  mite 
louder if I  was to go to hell fer it.”

“Talk away, you old rhinoceros,’’growled 
Breckenridge,  and then,  after  the  manner 
«of many other people of whom  I  know,  he 
began criticising Daddy in a manner  highly 
uncomplimentary to  the  voiceless old man, 
under the impression  that he, also, had lost 
his hearing and could  not understand what 
was said.

“ It beats the oldest that when a man gets 
to be as old as this lunatic, he can’t  for the 
life of him see how anybody  in  the  whole 
worldean be dqaf but just him—”

But here he was  interrupted  by  Daddy, 
who began wildly  gesticulating,  and  in  a 
manner most belligerent.

■“ You  mis’able ole  scallawag!”  he whis­
pered—and there was  so  much  vehemence 
in the remark that it reached  the  dignity of 
«a mild shriek—“You ole villain!  what d’ye 
mean by insultin’ a grey  headed  veteran of 
the Mexican war?  You ole  sardine!  You 
ole  tarrier!  You  ole  porkypine!  You 
«mis’able ole skunk! while I „was  a  marchin’ 
to the battle of  Buena Yista, an’doin’ work 
te r four men an’ fightin’ fer five  more,  you 
wuz like enough a  cavortin’  around  in  yer 
spring buggy, a tbinkin’  how  slick  ye  got 
out of it.  Oh! I’ve seed  lots  o’  such roos­
ters as you, an’ ye can’t  cod me a mite, you 
cowardly old sneak.”

While Daddy was firing in this broadside, 
Breckenridge  regarded  him  with  a  calm 
.  look of  patronizing  indulgence,  evidently 
wondering just what species  of mild lunacy 
fie was afflicted with, and how often he had 
those spells.  His  manner  nettled  Daddy, 
who continued to heap epithet after  epithet 
upon the old man,  until, finding at last that 
this had no effect upon him,  and, goaded by 
u   sense  of  his  wrongs,  he  arose  in his 
wrath and approached the  aged  B.,  shak­
ing his fist and vowing to inflict  bodily  in­
jury upon him.

Now,  although  Breckenridge  has about 
outlived  the  period  allotted  to  man  for 
earthly  pleasures,  he  doesn’t  propose  to 
take a dare from another, just ready for the 
grave, and the  agility  with  which  he as­
sumed an  attitude  of  defense,  must  have 
rather disconcerted  Daddy,  who, however, 
continued  on  the  offensive,  and  aimed  a 
right hander at his  opponent’s  face.  This 
\  Breckenridge  parried,  and  as  he  did so, 
heat 
guard,  and,  following
up his  advantage,  lammed  him  in the eye 
after the most  approved  style.  The  blow 
was probably not a hard one—though it may 
have been—but  it  floored  M’Cracken, and 
sent him sprawling among a lot of sail kegs 
which  were  in  a  convenient place for his 
reception, and he lay there  a  moment later 
whdn the younger Breckenridge came in 

“What’s the*matter withDaddy, father?” 
’  was  his  first query, andtiie old fellow who 
knows a little slang, replied:
I
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19 South Ionia Street, 

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GRAND  RAPIDS.

SI

No  Goods Sold at R etail.

Telephone 679,

BARLOW BROS.
' ’S o  RAPIÖ5
M I C H I G A N ’

OHevwa t   t h i s

W IGW AM   S U P P E R S .

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Send Your Spring Orders to MAYHEW.  V

....................10 00 1 Youth’s and M isses.... 

Mati'i. 

with soles 

. . . . . . ' ..........................11 25 | 
W *  a5aw o«  with soles., .w ......... 9 75 | 

“ 

.................7 00
with  soles......................800
with soles........................... ........6 75

W oonsocket and W ales-Goody ear Rubbers, B oston K nit and W ool B oots.

Rhode Island Lum berm en’s Heel and S trap  F. 96c net.  D itto no Heel and S trap, F. 70c net.

G-.  R.  MAYHEW,  Grand  Rapids.
P
Hides, Purs, W ool & Tallow,

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MOS* 1*3 and  1 *4  LOUIS STREET, GRAND R A PID S, M ICHIGAK.

WE CARRY A  STOCK OF  CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL  USE.

I B M

•  W e m anufacture  a  line Of Fire  Proof 
S afes'that  combine all the  m odern im 
proveniente and  m eet w ith  ready sale 
am ong  business  m en  and  dealers  ol 
all kind.
Any business house  can handle  our 
Safes  in  connection  w ith  any  other 
line  of  goods  w ithont  additional  ex« 
pense  or interference  w ith any  other 
business.
i  Weight. 
Inside Measure. Outside M e âsire .^
Ko. 2,250 lbs.  12x8x8% in.  23x14x131a.  #80 
No. 3,500lbs.  15x10x10 in.  28x18x18 In. 
85 
Mo.4. 700 lbs.  18x14x12 in.  82x22x21% in.  <6
f s.8 - T liberal D iscounts to  Trade.

ALPINE SAFE GO., CiMinnati.O.

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BUCKWHEÄT  FLOUR.

THE  BEST  GOODS  MADE,

PUT  DP  IN  5 ID.  and  21-2 ID.  PACKAGES.

100 lb.  Cases 
80 lb. Cases
F or  Sale  Bv

$5.00.
$4.25.

Bulkley, Lemon & Hoops, 
Clark, Jewell  &  Co., 
Hawkins & Perry, 

G-rancL  itap ld s, 

Arthur Meigs & Co,,

Amos S.  Musselman & Co,, 

Olney, Shields & Co..
-  Midi.
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AND ALL JOBBERS IN THE BNITED STATES.

- Manufactured  By

KING i LAMB, No. 14 5th Rve„ GHIGKGO, 111.

Wholesale Grocers.

$

IMPORTERS  OF

Teas,  Lemons  aid  Foreign  Frails.

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

“Acme” Herkimer Co. Cheese, Lautz Bros. 

Soaps and Niagara Starch.

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

JENNES8 

Importers and  JiamlMiIrers’  Agents.

DEALERS  IN

\McßURDY,

ARCTIC  BAKIN6  POWDER!

j  U I U J 1 U )   U X U U K I M U X U J

Faneu  Goods  of all Description.

HOTEL AND  STEAMBOAT GOODS,

Bronze  and  Library  Lamps,  Chandeliers,  Brackets,,  Etc.,

73 and 75  Jefferson Ave.,

DETROIT,  -  MIOH

Wholesale  Agents for Driffield's  Canadian  Lamps.

“

1-8 lb. Cans 6 Doz. in case
et
1-4 
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1-2
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THE  LAST  TWO  ASSORTED  COLORS.

Glass Mug
Tea Caddie

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500 Gro!
75 Doz,
140  “
-  240  “
1200  “
90  “
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275  “

The ARCTIC  BAKING  POWDER has now stood  the  test 

for ten  years with a steady increasing demand.

MANUFACTURED  ONLY  BY  THE

38 c& 40 LOOTS STREET,

Grand  Rapids,  -  Mich.

R IS P   8UN 

1
BUCKWHEAT.
Guaranteed Atolntely Pare.
JUills,
Newäygo  Roller 

ORD ERS  FROM  R E T A IL  TKADE SO LIC ITED .

N ew aygo, 

-   M ich,

“Now, John,  don’t fail to 
get some of the DINGMAN 
SOAP.  Sister Clara writes 
that  it  is  the  best  in  the 
world for  washing  clothes 
and  all  house  -  cleaning 
work.”

FOR  SALE  BY

Hawkins & Perry

W holesale  Agents,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH ’

V.

H E S T E R   Sa  FOIX,

Manufacturers’ Agents for

SAW AITS GRIST M3M. RACB1NERY,
Send for 
C atalogue 

and 
P rices

ATLAS EN0"lt
WORKS
INDIANAPOLIS.  IND.* tj.  S* A.
_______  MANUFACTURERS  OP
STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS.
Carry Engines and Boilers In Stock 

for  Immediate delivery.

Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds of Wood-Working Machinery,  Q  

Saws, Belting and  Oils.

And  Dodge’s. Patent Wood Split Pulley.  Large stock  kept on hand.  Send for Sample 

Pulley and become convinced of their  superiority.

tFrite for FiiM lh 

4 4 ,4 6  and 48 So. D ivision  St.,  G RAND  R A P ID S, M ICH.

The Michigan Tradesman.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY  85, 1888.

LEISURE  HOUR JOTTINGS.

B Y  A   COUJTTBY  M ER C H A N T.

W ritten E s p e c ia lly  fo r Th e  T r a d e sm a n.

While the theory of fatalism is,  as  I   at­
tempted to argue in a recent  paper,  utterly 
unphiiosophical  and  unreasonable  and  as 
unsusceptible of real argument as the belief 
that ghosts and goblins exist  among us,  we 
have, most of us, nevertheless, been witnes­
ses to the fact that ill luck does  sometimes 
seem to follow  individuals*  through  long 
years, almost from the ciadle to  the  grave, 
But, if we take sufficient  interest  in  these 
cases to investigate the  methods and habits 
of the alleged victims of fate,' we  can  near­
ly always prove satisfactorily  to  ourselves 
that the disasters and  afflictions  that  have 
overtaken them are due  principally to their 
own  folly  or  heedlessness.  This  is true 
more especially in the  matter  of  financial 
failures, but a great many  of  the other vis­
itations that are commonly pronounced una­
voidable could, by a  reasonable  exertion of 
common sense, be  avoided or made less ca­
lamitous.  For instance,  it is a common as­
sertion that no human foresight can provide 
against fire, flood, storm,  sickness  and va­
rious  other  mundane  afflictions,  and,  on 
general principles,  the  assertion  is correct; 
but if A.’s property all goes  up  in  smoke 
and ashes a day or two  after  he  neglected 
to renew his insurance policy,  or  B.  builds 
his residence on ground that has been swept 
by  the  floods  of  successive  years, or C. 
erects a tall, flimsy  building  in a notorious 
cyclone belt, or  D.  knowingly  and  cause­
lessly exposes himself to contagious diseas­
es,  my  sympathy  for  their  misfortunes 
would be materially mitigated by my knowl­
edge of the fact that they are  all personally 
responsible  for  their  own  troubles.  And 
when  A.,  B.,  C.  and  D .,. through  their 
friends,  solicit us to contribute to an aggre­
gate sum  sufficient to reimburse  them  for 
the losses occasioned  by  their folly,  are we 
not, by our  compliance, 
taking  stock in a 
premium fund to reward heedlessness,  neg­
ligence and  “bull-headedness?”

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When one comes to reflect  upon  the pro­
portion of “happy-go-lucky”  people  among 
those with whom he comes in  contact, peo­
ple who are  almost  totally  devoid of inde­
pendence, energy or ambition  and  who ha­
bitually  spend  more  time  in  waiting  for 
“ something to turn up” than in endeavoring 
to turn Up something themselves, he should 
naturally cease to wonder that  the world is 
unduly prolific in beats, beggars  and  para­
sites.  Numerous cases,  undoubtedly, exist 
where individuals have made every practica­
ble and possible effort to  fight  their  way, 
unaided, through life and yet  met  disaster 
and defeat at every turn,  but  the great ma­
jority of those who are constantly complain­
ing of the hostile attitude of  “fate”  are di- ¡ 
rectly responsible  for  their  own  “misfor­
tunes.”*
Speaking of those  occasional  caprices of 
fortune, which we find it difficult to account 
for, reminds me of a story that  was current 
in my grandfather’s days, and one which the 
chroniclers alleged to be “true as gospel.” 

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About the commencement of  the  present 
century, 
there  resided  in one of the large 
Eastern cities a  merchant  of  great  wealth 
and high business and social standing, who, 
from his strict integrity  and  almost  exces­
sive conscientiousness,  was known through­
out the section as “ Honest  Jo .,  Mattison.” 
Notwithstanding  Mattison’s  regard  for the 
rights of others and his  sincere desire td be 
morally,  as well as legally,  right  in  every 
transaction, he was for  years  successful in 
'  every undertaking.  He was  proverbially a 
“ lucky man.”  Goods  always  advanced on 
his hands;  his ships invariably  made  pros­
perous voyages;  the frauds  and  failures of 
the dishonest and unfortunate  never affect­
ed him, and it almost seemed as if the large 
sums he disbursed in charity  returned  him 
a monetary profit.  One day,  a  couple  of 
gentlemen were seated at a table in a private 
room of one of the taverns  of  the city,  dis- 
eussing a lunch and a bottle of  wine.  One 
was a local capitalist and large  real  estate 
owner  and the other  a  traveling  English 
man.  The parties, in addition to discussing 
their refreshments,  were also  earnestly dis­
cussing the subject of  the  honesty and dis­
honesty of the human family.

“My experience in  the  matter,”  said the 
Englishman,  “has been  somewhat compre­
hensive,  and,  from my  experience,  I   con­
tend that such a thing as a  strictly  honest 
man  doesn’t  exist.  Circumstances  alter 
cases, and when  a man’s  circumstances are 
favorable he can afford to pass  as  a  model 
of honor and integrity, but let adversity ov­
ertake him, and see how soon  his  so-called 
moral perceptions are blunted.”

“But how are you going to prove this?” 
“ By actual experiment, if you like.  Just 
indicate a party whom you  believe immacu­
late—I mean  some active  speculator  who, 
by reason of his  ventures,  may  eventually 
meet with  irretrievable  losses—and,  if you 
’ll give me a bond to secure me for the prin­
cipal,  I’ll put a thousand pounds in his pos­
session in such a manner that he can appro­
priate It or account  for  it  as  he  chooses. 
My wanderings will bring me  around  here 
again in  about  five  years.  Whether 1 am 
right or wrong in my theory, I will  be  out 
the  use  of  my money for that timé.  If I 
am right, you will lose  five  thousand  dol­
lars,  which you will pay me on  my  return. 
If l  am wrong,  you will have  the  earnings 

“You shall use any  means  you choose to 
convince yourself that I   have, fulfilled  my 
part of the contract, but it shall be specified 
in your, bond that, if you ever, by  word  or 
sign, intimate to the  party  or  to  anyone 
else that you are privy  to  the  transaction, 
you shall forfeit twice  the  amount  of  the 
sum invested in the experiment.”

To this Mr. Bloomfield,  the Englishman’s 
companion, readily agreed,  and  the parties 
soon afterwards separated.

Shortly after dark that evening, as ‘‘Hon­
est Jo.” was walking homeward, he met,  in 
the deep shadow of a shade  tree,  a ragged, 
repulsive-looking  individual,  who  gruffly 
asked  him if his  name was Mattison.  On 
being answered in the affirmative, the party 
thrust a heavy package  into  his hands and 
said:

“Use  that  when  and  as you choose!  1 
sha’n’t want it  for  some  years,  probably, 
but when I come after  it  the  watch-word 
will be my name,  and my name’s Lazarus!”
And,  before  the  astonished  merchant 
could raise  an Objection  or ask a question, 
the man had vanished.

The next day Mattison’s  books contained 
a new entry reading: 
‘ ‘Blank Lazarus, Cr., 
By Cash Deposited,  $5,000.”  And,  accord­
ing to the veracious  chroniclers,  from  the 
very day on which  Mattison  received  this 
money his habitual good  luck  disappeared. 
As  time  passed  by,  successive  disasters 
swept away the accumulations of  years un­
til, at last, he found himself  almost  penni­
less.  And, as another  singular  feature of 
the transaction,  Lazarus’s  dollars  began to 
multiply in about the same ratio as those of 
Mattison  decreased.  Every 
investment 
made  with  them  and  their  earnings was 
marvelously  successful,  and,  about  five 
years  after  the  $5,000  credit  was  given 
Blank Lazarus, that  unknown  party  was 
the wealthiest merchant  in the city and Jo­
seph  Mattison  was  his  agent, on a small 
salary fixed by himself.

One night,  “Honest Jo.”  was  seated  in 
the office of “B.  Lazarus,”  diligently  at­
tending to the intricate and  complicated af­
fairs of that commercial  Croesus,  when his 
labors were interrupted by the porter’s ush­
ering in  a portly,  well-dressed  gentleman, 
accompanied by a ragged and  disreputable­
looking specimen of humanity,  whose  ap­
pearance Would have disgusted  the average 
mendicant.  Mattison  grasped  the hand of 
the gentleman warmly and said:

“I am always glad to see you, Mr. Bloom­
field!  Who  is  our  somewhat  dilapidated 
friend here?”

“This man,” said  Bloomfield,  with some 
embarrassment,  “has importuned and final­
ly persuaded me to be  present  to witness a 
demand which he proposes  to  make.  The 
thing’s unreasonable and  incredible,  but he 
claims that you owe  him  a  large  sum  of 
money.

“I claim,” said  the  ragged  man,  “that 
exactly five years ago to-night,  under a cer­
tain tree not half a mile from here, I intrust­
ed Mr. Mattison with a  package containing 
five thousand dollars.  The watch-word was 
my name, and my name’s Lazarus.”

“Mr.  Bloomfield,”  said  “Honest  Jo.,” 
calmly,  “this man’s story is a  true  one. 
I 
recognize his voice  and  person  distinctly, 
but it will take him  some  time  to  realize 
the situation in which he is placed to-night. 
You and  many  other  friends  have »often 
hinted that the transformation  from Matti­
son to Lazarus was the result of monomania 
or  partial  insanity,  but,  the  fact is that 
Mattison’s property has entirely evaporated, 
while that of Lazarus has multiplied a hun­
dred-fold.  The property is all in his name, 
and nothing is requisite but my  relinquish­
ment of its management.”

To follow up the story,  as  related by its 
ancient  narrators,  would occupy too much 
time and space.  Suffice it to  say  that  the 
skeptical  Briton emerged from his disguise 
and acknowledged the existence of  an hon­
est man;  that an  equitable and satisfactory 
adjustment of property matters ensued,  and 
that “ Honest Jo.  Mattison”  eventually re­
established his reputation  as  a lucky man.

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The Martin  Middiings Purifier and Elimi­

nating; Reel.  .

About  a  year  ago  Mr.  J.  B. Martin, a 
practical milling engineer and miller of many 
years*  experience, came to this city  with a 
eouple  of  patented  machines  of his own 
invention for the purpose of interesting some 
of  oar  capitalists  in  their  behalf.  The 
machines comprised an Improved Middlings 
amt  an  Purifier  Eliminating  Flour  Dress­
er, and were such a marked departure  from 
other machines  designed  for the same uses 
that the gentleman who took  Mr.  Martin’s 
proposition  under  consideration  made  a 
thorough  test  and  investigation  of  their 
nerite  before  venturing  their  money and 
reputation  in  the  enterprise.  The  more 
they  tested  the  machines,  however,  the 
more they  were  convinced  that  they even 
oxeeeded the claims of their  inventor and a 
stock company was accordingly  formed for 
the purpose of engaging  in  their  manufac­
ture on  an  extensive  scale.  The  results 
have been  even  more  flattering  than  the 
stockholders had  any  reason to anticipate. 
The machines have been called for as fast as 
they could be turned  out.  Every  machine 
sent out of the  factory  has  given the most 
unqualified satisfaction—in  no  case  has a 
machine been  returned  for  repairs  or  for 
other causes.  The company  has been com­
pelled to increase its  facilities to keep pace 
with the demand for the machines and from 
present  indications  the  Martin  Middlings 
Purifier Co.  is destined  to  develop into one 
of the largest manufacturing establishments 
in the city.

The Middlings  Purifier  excells  all other 
machines of the  kind  on  coarse  middlings 
and germ stock  and  purifies  stock  which 
cannot  be  handled  economically  by  any 
other purifier. 
It is  guaranteed to do more 
work, and better  work,  in less space, with 
less power and less waste,  than  any  other 
purifier in  the  market. 
It  is  built  of the 
best  material  and  is  made  durable in its 
construction, and is the only purifier manu­
factured  operating  equipoised  cases  with 
double reversable  eccentrics,  thus avoiding 
the necessity  of  bracing  the  machine  in 
position and  preventing  all  rack or strain 
upon  the  frame  and  bearings.  And it is 
the only purifier  offered  to  millers  which 
embodies within  itself,  an  entire  grading 
system that will thoroughly grade and puri­
fy the diffierent grades of  middlings which 
come upon purifiers.

The Purifier is so  constructed  that it has 
a perfect automatic air  pressure  upon  the 
doth.  The air pressure increases  and  be­
comes stronger and stronger on  every mesh 
of the cloth, as the  operation  of  purifying 
goes on up to the completion  of  its  work; 
and the intensity of  the  pressure to be ap­
plied is under  perfect  control.  The cloths 
of the machine are kept  in  a  perfect  un­
changed condition by the action of the trav­
eling elastic strap, which is one and a quar­
t o  inches in width, and strikes  the  cloths 
a t intervals of its own width,  by  a  gentle 
clastic tension induced  by  the  contraction 
and instantaneous tightening of  the  straps 
as the pawls they are attached to are thrown 
out by spring force into the ratchets as they 
pass along under the cloths.  The  philoso­
phy of this device  for  keeping  the  cloths 
clean will  impress  any thinking  mind  at 
cnce of its superiority over  the  brush  for 
this purpose.  The  difference in the opera­
tion and action of the traveling elastic strap 
as against the  brush  for  the  purpose  of 
cleaning bolting cloths will  be  apparent to 
all practical millers.

Among the millers who have  Purifiers in 
operation are the Voigt  Milling  Co.,  C. G. 
A. Yoigt-& Co., Valley  City  Milling  Co., 
Grand Rapids;  H. A. Kilgore,  Kalamazoo; 
Dougall  &  Wellington,  Lowell;..  E.  W. 
Hunt, Dimondale;  Smith  &  Co.,  Shelby; 
John Bickhart,  Decatur;  Merrill  &  Co., 
Plainwell;  Morris,  Althouse & Co.,  Coral; 
Three  Rivers  Milling  Co.,  Paducah,  Ky. 
A ll of these mills have had Purifiers in con­
stant use for from one to  three  years  and 
will cheerfully answer any  inquiries  which 
stay be sent them regarding  the  workings 
and merits of the machine.

has  more 

H ie  Martin  Eliminating  Flour  Dress­
ing  Machine 
capacity, 
does more, cleaner and better work than the 
szdinary  Centrifugal,  saves  the  fine mid­
dlings from the feed,  handles  all  kinds of 
stock. 
It Will thoroughly eliminate specks, 
fibrous and all other  deteriorating  matters 
from low grades  of  flour.  Returns  from 
holts, chop from smooth  rolls,  stock  from 
middlings  burrs,  and  separate  whatever 
flints  or  fine  middlings  there  may be in 
the stock from the feed.  This  machine has 
almost double  the  capacity,  and  makes a 
more even and cleaner grade of  flour 
the  ordinary  centrifugal reel;  there 
bring no obstruction to the  free  and  even 
action of the stock, as is the case with other 
aontrifugals, having  their  ribs  supporting 
Gw cloths inside  the  reel.  This  maehine 
has the ribs which support the cloth outside 
Gie reel, therefore no obstruction  to the ac­
tion of the stock,  consequently  more  even 
and better work and much greater capacity. 
The  cloths  are  guaranteed  never  to  fill 
or clog, or  need  personal  attention.  The 
brashes, which are two inches in width, are 
distributed over and attached to  the twelve 
blades, forming the beater cylinder, in such 
*  system as to cause each brash  to  surface 
only  one  distinct  section  of  the  cloth. 
Enough of them are  used  to  connect  and 
surface  the  entire  length of the cylinder. 
T he beater cylinder revolves  one-quarto of 
an inch above the center of the  silk  cylin­
der, thus bringing the brushes  only in con- 
tM t with the silk, at the extreme  upper di- 
amefeer of toe cylinder.

The cloth-cylinder is made in twoiuilves, 
making it very convenient to take eff or put 
on.  The cloths ore much easier  add quick­
er adjusted, and ean be put on touch tighter 
and cheaper than on the  ordinary  centrifu­
gal,  No tacking required except at the end 
and outer edges of  cloth.  The  cloths  are 
held to their place by steel  hoops  prepared 
for the purpose and fastened  with  screws.
The machine is built of the very best ma­
terial;  beantifnl  in  design and all its parts 
made convenient to get at;  no  complication 
in gear;  runs light, and  never has failed in 
a single instance of giving  satisfaction.

As  showing the  esteem in  which  these 
machines are  held  by 
the  milting  trade, 
T h e  T radesm an takes  pleasure  in  pre­
senting a letter from  a  practical  miller of 
long experience, whose  opinion is reckoned 
A l: 

' 
D ecatur, Jan.  12,1888. 

Martin Middlings Purifier Co.,  Grand Rapids:
D e a r  Sirs—In answer to your  enquiry, 
how I  like your Purifier and Flour  Dresser, 
will say that the success of my  mill  ought 
to be sufficient answer. 
I  am making from 
sixty  to  seventy-five  barrels  of  straight 
grade flour per  day  and  frequently  some 
very nice patent when called  for,  and  my 
straight flour stands second to  none  wher­
ever it is put.
Your four machines which  constitute my 
mill are doing all you recommended them to 
do.
I wish you a happy and  prosperous year.

‘

Yours truly,

J ohn Bick h abt.

Millers are requested to send  the  manu­
facturers samples of stock they wish to have 
improved and made better  (not  less  than 
fifty  pounds).  The  manufacturers  have 
both machines set up at their  factory,  con­
nected with automatic feed and elevators in 
running  condition,  so that they can be op­
erated on stock the same as if  connected in 
a mill.  All  samples  sent them will be op­
erated on the machines and the  separations 
returned just as they  are  made,  accompan­
ied with the  guarantee  that  the  same re­
sults can be secured on  the  same  kinds of 
stock in any mill  where  the  Purifier  and 
Reel  are  put  into  operation.  Millers  at­
tending the State convention  here  on Feb­
ruary 8 are requested  to  send  in  samples 
for operation in their  presence,  or at least 
to call at the factory and  inspect  the  ma­
chine  and see it in  operation.  Those who 
have not yet done so would do  well to note 
the advertisement on page 17 of the  Amer: 
lean M iller for January and  also to remem­
ber that the company  stands  ready  at  all 
times to ship one  of  their  Purifiers for the 
excess of earnings for four months over any 
other machine of the kind on the market.

The  “Anchor”  Brand.

The celebrated “Anchor’’  brand  of  oys­
ters continues in great  demand,  in  conse­
quence  of  which  F.  J.  Dettenthaler has 
been compelled to nearly  double  his  ship­
ments from  Baltimore.  Dealers should be 
careful to specify  the  “Anchor”  brand in 
ordering, and take no other.  This brand is 
now so deeply rooted in  the  esteem of the 
trade that nothing short of  an  earthquake 
could knock it out.

Relative Status of Jobber and Retailer.
Proctor  &  Gamble  issue  the  following 
statement relative to the status of  the  job­
ber and retailer:

The  manufacturer has no  right to go di­
rect to the retailer any  more  than he has a 
right to sell direct  to  the  consumer.  The 
retailer is a convenience  and  necessity for 
the consumer just as  much  as the jobber is 
a convenience and necessity for the retailer. 
Each occupies a  recognized  position in the 
trade,  and,  consequently,  the  interest of 
each must be protected,  and we as manufac­
turers feel that we have no right  whatsoev* 
er to go beyond the jobbing trade.

The Grocery Market.

The grocery market has been  remarkably 
steady during  the  past  week.  Sugar  has 
remained nearly  stationery,  but  the  indi­
cations  are  good  for  a  further  advance. 
Havemeyer & Elder  have  shut  down their 
refinery and Dick & Meyer will  shut  down 
this week.  The  package  coffee  manufac­
turers announced a decline  of  J^c on Mon­
day.  Tubs  are  up  25c  a  dozen.  Other 
articles  in  the  grocery  line  are  without 
nominal change.

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lege  Jownuil.  Address,  C. G. SWENSBERG.

M PLACE to secure a thorough
and useful education is at the 
Grand Rapids (Mich.) Busi­
ness College,  write for Coir 

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D. D. COOK,
Valley  City  Slioi  Case  Factory,
SHOW GASES

Proprietor  of  the

Manufacturer of

Prescription  Cases  an 

Store  Fixtures. 

OF  ALL  K IND S.

SEND  FOR  CATALOGUES.

My Prices are Lower than any o f My 

Competitors.  Estim ates Fur­

nished o n  Application.

38 Vest Bridge street, Grand Rapids.

Telephone 374

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 o- r  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
S. T. FISH  C fc   OOm

Commission Merchants,

189  So.  Water  St.,  Chicago, 111.

R bfeebkce—Firs t N ational  Bank,  o r  any  W holesale 

G rocer here.

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Aotoe, ,% Ok cans, 3 doz.... 

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75
3  “  ....  1 50
i lb  “  1  “  ....  3 00
Bulk................... 
20
Princess,  54b. »• •  .............   1 25
%s.....................3 00
I s ....,.............. . 3  75
bulk..................  
38
Arctic, % tb cans, 6 doz__ 
45
4  “  ....  75
....  1 40
2 “ 
.  ..2  40
3 “ 
....12 00
1 “ 
Victorian. 1 9> (tall,) 2 doz. 2 00
Diamond,  “bulk.” ............ 
15
Absolute,  H  fik  cans, 100
cans in  case.....................11 75
Absolute,  hi  9>  cans,  50
cans in  case.....................10 00
Absolute, 1 B> cans, 50 cans
in case...............................18 75
Telfer’s hi B>, cans, 6 doz in
case.................................    2 70
Telfer’s hi fi> cans, 3 doz in
case........ ..........................  2 55
Telfer’s 1 K> cans,  1 doz in 
case....................................  1 50

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BROOMS.

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BUCKWHEAT.

Dry, No. 2.................. doz.  25
Dry, No. 3 ................. doz.  45
Liquid, 4  oz...............doz.  35
Liquid,  8 oz...............doz.  65
Arctic, 4 oz........ V gross  3 50
Arctic, 8 oz.......................   7 20
Arctic 16 oz......................... 12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box.  2 00
Arctic No. 3 
3 00
Arctic No. 3 
4 00
King’s Quick-Rising, 80-lb.
King’s Quick-Rising, ICO-lb 

cases................................... 4 25
cases..............  
5 00
N o.2 H url:........................... 2 00
No. 1 Hurl..............................2 25
No. 2 Carpet.......................... 2 50
No. 1 Carpet............. 
3 75
Parlor Gem.
.......................3 00
Common Whisk....................l  00
Fancy  W hisk..................... 1 25
Mill.........................................3 75
Warehouse........................... 3 00
Runkle Bios’.. Vien. Sweet  22
Premium..  3*
Horn-Cocoa  37
Breakfast..  48

CHOCOLATE.
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OOCQANUT
Schepps,  is..................
lsand% 8...
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“  %s................. ........27%
Is in tin pails__ 27%
*■ 
....28%
“  %8 
...... 23%
Maltby’s, Is.................
........24
“ 
Is  and %s..
/4s............... ........24%
“ 
.......20
Manhattan, pails.......
Peerless........................ ..  ..18
Bulk, pails or barrels. .16@18
Mocha.......................... .2f@27
Mandalihg...................
.25@25
O G  Java....................
Java.............................. ..23@24
Maricabo...................... .21@22
Costi Rica.................... ..21 @22
Mexican....................... ..21 @22
Santos.......................... ..2l@2-£
Kio,  fancy................... ,.21@22
Rio,  prime.................. ..19@20
Rio,  common.................18@19
To ascertain cost of roasted 
coffee, add hie per fi). for roast­
ing and 15 per cent, for shrink­
age.

COFFEE—GREEN.

.......27
.......28

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COFFEES—PACKAGE.

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CORDAGE.

CRACKERS.

 
BANNED FTSH.

30 lbs 60 fiks 100 lbs
Lion................. 
23)4
Lion, in cab... 
24)4
Dilworth’s __  
23 hi
Magnolia........ 
23
Honey  Bee...25?4  25)4 
23%
Germ an........  
23
German, bins. 
23%
23)4
Arbuckles Ariosa 
Avorica 
2J hi
McLaughlin’s XXXX 
23%
'COFFEES—SPECIAL BRANDS.
Belt-ConradPlan.Java..  32 
Mocha..32
“ 
Javoka 30
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Imper. .28
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Banner.26
“ 
Mex.......20
Arbuckle’s Avorica............ 22
*•  Quaker Cy............. 23
“  best Rio.................23%
“  Prime Maricabo...25% 
Thompson & Co.’sHon. B ..25 
60 foot Jute..........................   90
72 foot J u te ......................... 1 20
4oFootCotton............... ,....1  50
50 foot Cotton...................... 1 60
60 foot Cotton...................... 1 75
72 foot Cotton...................... 2 00
Kenosha Butter...................  .7
Seymour  Butter........... ....... 6%
Butter..................................... 5%
i-amily  Butter.......................6%
Fancy Butter.........................5
Butter  Biscuit...................... 6%
Boston .................................. ->hi
City Soda.................................8
Soda......................................... 5%
So  a Fancy.............................5
s.  Oyster................................5hi
Picnic................ 
5%
Fancy  Oyster.............. ......5
Clams, 1 lb, Little  Neck__ 1 35
Clam Chowder,  3 ft.............2  15
Cove Oysters, 1 fik stand.. .1 00 
Dove Oysters, 
ttk  stand.. .1 7o
Lobsters, 1 lb picnic............1 75
Lobsters, 2 fik, picnic...........2 65
Lobsters, 1 fik  star.............1  90
Lobsters. 2 fik star...............2 90
Mackerel, lfi>  fresh stand.!  70 
Mackerel, 5 fik fresh stand.5 CiO 
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce 
Mackerel,3 lb in Mustard..
Mackerel. 3 fik soused........
Salmon. 1 fik Col. riv.. 1 75@2  10
Salmon. 2 fik Col. riv...........3 60
Sardines, domestic %s.  ... 
7
Sardines,  domestic %s...  9® 10 
Sardines,  Mustard  %s...  9® 10 
Sardines,  imported  %s..l2@13
Sardines,  spiced, %s.......1U@12
Trout. 3 ft  brook............
CANNED FR U IT S.
Apples, gallons,  stand.......2 75
Blackberries, stand............1 30
Cherries, red standard.......1 60
CherrieB,  pitted..........1 85® I 90
Damsons.............   ..  .1 25®1 3
Egg Plums, stand................1 5G
Gooseberries.........................1 65
Grapes........ ..........  
95
Green Gages.........................1  50
Peaches, all yellow, stand.2 66
Peaches,  seconds............... 2 25
Peaches, pie................1 60®1 65
Pears................................ ....1 35
Pineapples,........ .....1  40®2  75
Quinces................................ 115
Raspberries, extra........ 
.1 50
red.................1 60
Strawberries........................1 50
Whortleberries.................... 1  30
Asparagus, Oyster Bay__ 2 00
Beans, Lima, stand............  75
Beans. Green Limas..1 10®1 40
Beans,  String 
.........1 00® 1 20
Beans, Stringless, Erie....  90 
Beans, Lewis’ Boston Bak.l 60 
Corn, Archer’s Trophy....115 
MornG’ry.i  15
Early Gold.l 16
Peas,  French.......................1 60
Peas, extra marrofat.l 20®1 40
Peas,  soaked........................  75
“  June, stand__ 1 60@1 75
sifted ...___ . 2  00
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“  French, extra fine. .20 00 
Mushrooms, extra fine«:.22 00 
Pumpkin, 3 fik Golden...... 1 20
Succotash.standard... ,80®1 30
Squash.....  ......................... 1 40
Tomatoes. Red Coat  @  l 20 
Good Enough  1 20
Ben Har  ....... 1 20
..  stand brJ.  15® 1 20
. CHEESE.
Michigan full cream.. .12%®13 
Apples, evaporated.. ,§%@10%

CANNED  VEGETABLES.

D RIED   FRUITS*

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FISH .

..6® 6%

sundried__ _ 

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D RIED   FRUITS—FOREIGN.
Citron......... ...........'.*....21
Currants.................* ,......7
Lemon  Peel..........................14
Grange P eel........................ 14
Prunes, French, 60s—  ....14% 
French,80s.........12%
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French,90s............ 11
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«  Turkey, old......... *  4%
Turkey,  n e w ......  5
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.Raisins, Dehesia .................3 60
Raisins, London Layers.... 3 10 
Raisins, California  " 
.. ..2 40 
Raisins, Loose Muscatels .  2 20 
Raisins, Loose California. .2 00 
Raisins, Ondaras, 28s. 8%@ 8% 
Raisins. Sultanas...... 
....*8%
Raisins,  Valencias...........7%
Raisins, Imperials....................3 76
Cod,  whole.................... 4%®5
Cod, boneless.................6%®7%
 
Halibut..  .............  
12%
Herring, round,  % bbl. 
3 00 
Herring, round,  % bbl. 
1 to 
Herring, Holland, bbls.  10 00 
Herring, Holland, kegs  75@95 
Herring, Scaled........  22@23
Mack, sh’r, No. 1, % bbl... .8  75 
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“  12 fik kit..l 35
“ 
..1  10
“  10  “ 
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No. 2, % bbls.......... 7  50
“ 
Trout,  %  bbls........ . ...........5 75
“  10  fik  kits...................  85
White, No. 1,  hi bbls........... 7 00
White, No. 1,12  fik kits....... 1 20
White,  No. 1,10.fi) kits....... 1 05
White, Family,  % bbls....... 3 75
kits............  68
Jennings’  Lemon.  Vanilla.
D.C.,2oz.......$  doz 100 
1 6t
“  4 oz........ ..........1 50
2 65
“  6oz..................3 60
4 25
“  8 oz..................3 50
5 00 
“  No. 2 Taper. .1 25 
1 76
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“  No. 4 
..175
3 00 
“  % pint, r’nd..4 50
9 00
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..9 00
18 00 
“  No. 8 panel... 110
1 85 
“ 
“  No. 8 
...2  75
5 00 
“  No. 10  “ 
...4 25
7 00
Farina, loo lb. kegs.............   04
Hominy, $1 bbl....................4 25
Macaroni, dom 12 lb.  box..  65 
Pearl Barley..................  ® 3%
Peas,  Green..................  
® 1)4
Peas, Split......................  @2 15
Sago, German............  @ 6%
Tapioca, fl’k or p’rl..  ®  8
Wheat,  cracked........   @ 6%
Vermicelli, import...10  @1125 

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FLAVORING EXTRACTS. 

iexported... 10  ®U

FtRTNACEOUS  GOODS.

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domestic..
MATCHES.

.  95 
G. H. No. 8,  square..........
.1  10 
G. H. No 9, square, 3 gro..
.1 75 
G. H. No. 200,  parlor........
2 25 
G. H. No. 3o0,  parlor........
1 50 
G. H. No.  7, round............
.  75 
Oshkosh, No. 2...................
.1 50 
Oshkosh, No.  8...................
.  75 
Swedish..............................
..1 00 
Richardson’s No. 8  sq—
..1 50 
Richardson’s No. 9  sq......
.1 00 
Richardson’s No. 7%, rnd. 
.1  50 
Richardson’s No. 7 
rnd. 
.1 15
Woodbine. 300....................
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

MOLASSES.

% bbls. 3c extra

OIL.

RICE.

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PICKLES.

OATMEAL

OATS—ROLLED.

Michigan Test.....................10%
Water  White.......................12
Barrels.................................8 25
Half barrels........................ 3 25
Cases..................................... 2 35
Barrels.................................6 25
Half barrels........................3 25
Cases....................................2 35
Medium..................................6 00
hi bbl......................3 50
Small,  bbl.............................7 00
hi bbl........... /......4  00
Choice Carolina....................6%
Prime Carolina.....................6
Good  Carolina......................5%
Good Louisiana....................5%
Table..............................,5%©6
Head.......................................6%
Java........................................5%
Patna................... .................. 5)4
Rangoon.................................5
Broken ,  ’  ............................. 3%
Japan.............................. 5%@6%
DeLand’s pure......................5%
Church’s  ...............................5
Taylor’s  G. M....................... 5
Dwight’s ................................5
Sea  Foam.............................. 5%
Cap Sheaf...............................5

SALERATUS.

%c less in 5 box lots.

SALT.

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SPICES—WHOLE.

hi 
SAUCES.

60  Pocket, F F D .......2  10©2 20
28 Pocket..............................2  10
100 3 fik  pockets.................... 2 36
Saginaw or  Manistee........   95
Ashton, bu. bags.....................76
Ashton,4 bu.  bags...............2 75
Higgins’bu.  bags...............  75
American, % bu. bags.......,  20
Rock,  tymhels......................  25
Warsaw, bu. bags...............  40
...............   20
London Relish, 2 doz..........2 50
Dingman, 100  bars...............4 00
Don’t  Anti-Washboard__ 4 75
Jaxon..................................... 3 75
Allspice  ..................... 
8%
 
Cassia, China in mats........ 8%
“ Batavia in bund.. ..12
“  Saigon in rolls........40
Cloves,  Amboyna................30
“  Zanzibar.................. 29
Mace Batavia........................80
Nutmegs,  fancy..................80
No.  1................ 75
No.  2................ 70
Pepper, Singapore,  black..l9 
white.29
shot........................ 21
SPICES—GROUND—IN  BULK.
  12
Allspice........................ 
Cassia, Batavia.................15®16
and Saigon.25
“ 
Saigon.................... 42
“ 
Cloves, Amboyna................32
“  Zanzibar...............  31
Ginger, African...................12%
“  Cochin...................15
Jamaica...............18®22
“ 
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Mace Batavia 
Mustard,  English............... 20
“ 
andTrie.22
Trieste................. 25
Nutmegs,  No.  2.................65
Pepper,Singapore  black..22 
Cayenne.......... ...25
doz...84 
Absolute Pepper, 
Cinnamon  “ ...84
“ ,..60 
Allspice 
Cloves 
“ ...1  12
“ ...78
Ginger 
Mustard 
“ ...84
STARCH. 

“  w hite..32

Klngsford’s
Silver Gloss, 1 fik pkgs...........7

*«  6 fi> boxes......... 7%
** 
bulk................6%
Pure, 1 fik pkgs.....................   5%
Corn,l  fl>pkgs......  .......  7
Muzzy’s
Gloss, 48 fik 1 fik pkgs..............5%
“  48 fi> 3 fi>  “ 
..............5%
bu lk ..... 4
“  40fik 
“  72 fik 6 fik boxes..........6%
Corn, 40 fik 1 fik  pkgs............  6
“  20 fi> 1 fik  “ 
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SUGARS.

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TOBACCO 8—PLUG.

TOBACCOS—FINE  CUT.

Frosted Cream s......
9
Graham Crackers....,
8%m
Oatmeal  Crackers.*..
Spear  Head..............  
44
Plank Road... . . . . ___       ..42
Eclipse.. . . . . . . . . ¿;..........  ..36
Holy Mdses......................... . .33
Blue Blazes..... fip  «f 
..  82
Eye  Opener.......... ..to
Star 
...........................42@45
Clipper.................................... 39
Scalping Knife...................... 39
Sam Bass.................................39
Climax— .......... 
43@45
Merry  War..........................3 5
Jolly  Tar........... .«.............. ...37
Live & Let Live........................  ...37
Nimrod..................................... 43
Whopper............ >,........... 
.39
Jupiter..........................  
..30
Old Honesty.............................43
P.  L............................................38
Corner Stone 
..................... 39
Clipper............................. .35@37
2 and 2................................25@32
Sweet  Pippin........ ................50
Five and Seven........................to
Hiawatha...............................   70
Sweet  Cuba........ ................... 45
Petoskey Chief........................68
Sweet Russet...........................45
Thistle............................ 
42
Florida......................................65
Rob  Roy.................. 
27
Peerless........................  
28
Uncle Sam................................30
Japan ordinary................18@20
Japan fair to good...........25®30
Japan fine.......... ..............35@45
Japan dust........................12@20
Young HyBon...................2Q@45
Gunpowder....................... 35@50
Oolong.................. 33®55@60®75
Congo..................................26@30
30 gr. 50 gr.
11
11
12

TOBACCOS—SMOKING.
 

White Wine.V... .. 
9
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Cider..................
Apple................. ..  10
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bath Brick imported... 
do 
American...
Burners,  No.  0..............
do  No. 1...............
do  No. 2................

.90
.75
.65
.76
.95
Cocoa Shells, bulb...............  4
Condensed  Milk, Eagle__7 so
Cream  Tartar..................... 25
Candles. Star........................  9%
Candles. Hotel..................... lo%
Camphor, oz., 2 fik boxes.. .35
Extract Coffee, V.  C..........80
F elix __   115
Fire Crackers, per box__1 20
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.. .25 
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.. 35
Gum, Spruce.......................30
Jelly, in 30 SB pails..  .5   @ 5hi
Powder,  Keg......................5 50
Powder, %  Keg..................2 87
gage.....................................15
Sauer-kraut, 30 gals...........9 00
CANDY. FRUITS and NUTS 
Putnam  &  Brooks quote  as 
follow s:

VINEGAR.

TEAS.

do 

FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN  5 fi> BOXES.

STICK.
Standard, 25 fik boxes..........  8%
............9
Twist, 
do 
Cut Loaf  do 
............10
MIXED.
Royal, 25 3)  pails.......8%@  9
Royal, 200 fik bbls.................  8
Extra, 2511)  pails................. 10
Extra, 200 lb bbls.................  9
French Cream, 25 fit) pails. .11%
Cut loaf, 25 lb  eases............ 10
Broken, 25  fit)  pails..............10
Broken. 200 fik  bbls............... 9
Lemon  Drops..........................13
Sour Drops...............................14
Peppermint  Drops................14
Chocolate Drops.....................14
H M Chocolate  Drops...........18
Gum  Drops 
..........................10
Licorice Drops........................18
A B   Licorice  Drops..............12
Lozenges, plain...................... 14
Lozenges,  printed................. 15
Imperials................................ 14
M ottoes....................................16
Cream  Bar...............................13
Molasses Bar........................... 13
Caramels.................. 
18
Hand Made Creams................18
Plain  Creams..........................16
Decorated Creams................. 2C
String Rock.............................13
Burnt Almonds..................   22
Wintergreen  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  in 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.....................1 75@2 50
Oranges,  California..  @
Oranges,  choice.......3 00@3 50
Oranges. Jamaica....
Oranges,  Florida.......3 C0@4 00
Oranges, Rodi............  @
Oranges, Messina—   @3 00
Oranges, OO...............  @3 00
Oranges, Imperials..  @3 59
Lemons,  choice........3 50@3 75
Lemons, fancy..........3 75@4 00
Lemons,  California..
Figs, layers, new.......12  @16
Figs, BagB, 50 B)........   6  @ 7
Dates, frails do.........  © 5%
Dates, hi do  do........   @6%
Dates, Fard 10 fit)  box 
fl>..  9 
Dates, Fard 60 fit)  box $  3)..  8 
Dates, Persian50 fik box 1) fik 6%
Pine Apples, $  p oz.......
Almonds,  Tarragona  @17
Ivaca........   @16%
California  @16
Brazils..... 
®10
Filberts, Sicily..........10%@11
Barcelona..  @
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Walnuts,  Grenoble.. 14%@15
Sicily........  
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12
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12  ©12%
French 
Pecans, Texas. H. P. 
9@12 
“  Missouri...
Cocoanuts, $  100.......  @5  50
Chestnuts..................   @
Prime  Red,  raw  $   tt>  @4%
Choice 
do  ® 5
Fancy H.P. do 
do  ©  5%
Choice Whiter Va.do  6  @ 6%
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  @  6%
H. P .V a......................  6)4®
OYSTERS  AND FISH.
follows:

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes  as 

PEANUTS.
do 

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FRUITS.

NUTS.

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OYSTERS.

Fairhaven Counts........   35
Selects............................   23
Anchors.........................  20
Standards  ...........................   18
Favorites.......................   15
Standards per gal.....................1 10
Selects, per gal........................1 40
Counts, in bulk, per 100... .1 20 
....  80
Clams, 
_  70

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FRESH  FISH .

“  shell 

Blqck bass........................  .....10
  4
Rook  bass......................... 
Perch, skinned.......................   6
Duck-bill  pike................. . 
8
Trout*  .................................... 10
Whiteflsh....... ...........1 0

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PORK   IN  BARBELS.

The Grand Rapids Packing &  Provision Co. 

 
f...................  

quote  as follows:
Mess.................. 
.16 00
Short cut........ ....................................        .16 00
Shortcut, clear,  Botsford..................................15 00
Shortcut  Morgan..................  
18  25
 
Extra clear nig, short cu t.. . . . V :...........    .17  00
Extra clear* heavy  . 
It  00
 
Clear quill, short  cut.  . . . . _. . . . . . . . . . . . l i  
00
Boston clear, short o u t................... .......1 7  90
Clear back, short c m .....................          17 00
Standard clear, short  cut, best........................17 00
B ean...................... ........................ ...............
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLA IN.
Hams, average 20  lbs...................................ll
“ 
  fiks........................ .........11)4
“ 
12 to 14 fiks............................. H%
“  picnic  ................ .................... ..............6 hi
“  best  boneless...... ..................................
Shoulders..........................................................  8
Breakfast Bacon, boneless............. .............. 11
Dried Beef, extra..................................... 
ham  prices....................... ..........10

' 1
“ 

  8%

“ 

6

DRY  SALT  MEATS.

Long Clears, heavy................... ..............  ...  8%
“  medium......................................   8%
“ 
  8%

ligh t.......................................  

“ 
“ 

LARD.

“ 

BEEF IN  BARRELS.

LARD IN  TIN PAILS.

Tierces  .....................................................  
3
30 and 50 fi) Tubs......................................  
8%
3 fi) Pails, 20 in a ease..............................  
8%
5 fit Pails, 12 in a case...........................
8%
10 fik Pails. 6 in a case............................
8%
20 fi> Palls, 4 pails in  oase......................
8)4
Extra Mess, warranted 200 fikB.......................  7 00
Extra Mess. Chicago PacKing.......................  7 50
**  Kansas City Packing..............7  25
P late..................................................................  7 75
Extra Plate.........................................................8 25
Boneless, rump butts..................................  .10 00
“  Kan City pkd............ 9 00
“  % bbl.  5 00
“ 
Pork  Sausage....................................................  7%
Ham  SauBage................................................... 11
Tongue  Sausage..........................................   9
Frankfort  Sausage........................................8
Blood  Sausage..................................................  6
Bologna, straight.............................................  6
Bologna,  thick..................................................  6
Head  Cheese................................ ...................  6
In half barrels  ...............................................  3 50
In quarter barrels.........................................   2 15

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

PIG S’  FEET.

“  V, 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

HIDES, PELTS  AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

Green__ sp a>  4%® 5 Calf skins, green
Part cured... 6 @ 6% or cured....  6  @  7
Full cured__ 7 @ Deacon skins,
Dry hides and
^ piece....’.10  ©25

k ip s............ 6 @  8

WOOL.

“ 

50
25

FUSS.

20
20 
1U
60
50
50

75 
50 
..  15 
...1 00 
...5 00

Fine washed «  B> 18@2DICoarse washed.. .20@22
Medium  .......
.20@23| Unwashed............12@16
No. 1  No. 2  No. 3 No. 4
Bears.............
..........15 00  7 00  4 00 
Beavers.........
6 00  4 00  2 00 
Badgers........
Cat, Wild.......
5
House..............
Fox,  Red..................
30 
1 00 
“  Cross........'___
“  Grey...............
20
Fishers....................
.7 00 4 00 2 00
1 00
Lynx.........................
4  00 2 50 1 00
50
Mink, Large Dark........
.  40
10
05
Small Pale.......
25
05
Martins.......................
.1 00
30
10
SPRING  W INTER  FALL  KITS
Musrats...................... 
8@4  01
Otter...........................0 00 
2 00  1  00
Raccoon, Large........   75 
10
20 
Small..........  30 
05
10 
Skunk...........................  75 
25 
10
Wolf............................3 ( 0 
25
50 
Deer Skins, dry, Red Coats, per lb............  80c
30c
“   
“  Blue  “ 
 
“  .............   25c
“  Short Grey, 
 
“  Long 
“   
10c
Sheep pelts, short shearing.............. 
5©25
Hheep pelts, old wool estimated..........  @25
Tallow 
...................................................3%@ 3%
Grease butter........................................ 
5@ 8
Ginseng, good....................... .................i  60@1  70

25
15
60
l i  
4 00 
50 
20 
50 
1 00 

MISCELLANEOUS.

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WOODEN WARE.

 

 

Curtiss & Dunton quote as follows:

Standard  Tubs, No. l ............................................0 00
Standard  Tubs, No. 2......................................5 00
Standard  Tubs, No. 3..... 
A  0 l
Standard Pails, two hoop................................ 1  35
Standard Pails, three hoop...............................  j  50
Pails, ground wood 
................................... 4  5(1
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes...................!. .2 25
Butter  Pails, ash.................................................. 2 35
Butter Ladles....................................................  90
Butter Spades...........................................          75
Rolling Pins..
.  75
Potato Mashers....................................................50
Clothes Pounders............................................... !.2 25
Clothes Pins............................................ !!!.!!  60
Mop  Sticks.........................................".!!!!"! .1 00
Washboards, single..............................................75
Washboards, double............................ . . . . . . !2 25
Washboards, Northern  Queen...........................2 75

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

BASKETS.

 
 

Diamond  Market.............................................  40
Bushel, narrow band, No. 1 ........... 
 
  [1  50
Bushel, narrow  band, No. 2................ 
*1  40
Bushel, wide band............................ 
1  76
Clothes, splint,  No. 3............................................3 50
Clothes, splint,  No. 2.........................................  .4 25
Clothes, splint,  No. 1 ............................................5 op
Clothes, willow  No. 3............................................0 00
Clothes, willow  No. 2........................ 
Clothes, willow  No. 1...... 
 
Water  Tight,  (acme) bu...................................... 3 75

0 50
7 50
.  ..................2 85

“ 

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“ 
PRODUCE  MARKET.

Apples—$2.50@$3 per bbl.
Beets—In good supply at 40c per bu.
Bean—Hand-picked  mediums  are  very 
scarce, readily commanding $2.25@$2.50 per bu.
Butter—Jobbers pay 18cfor choice dairy and 

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

Buttertne—Creamery,  16c  for  solid  packed 
and 17c for rolls.  Dairy. 13%e for solid packed 
and  I4%e  for  rolls.  Extra  creamery 20c  for 
solid packed and 21c for rolls.

Cabbages—$6@$10 per 100,  according to size. 

Very scarce.

Carrots—3C@35c per bu.
Celery—25 V doz.
Cheese—Jobbers are holding their  stocks  at 

Cider—10c per gal.
Cooperage—Pork  barrels,  $1.25;  apple  bar­

13@13%c.

rels, 25c.

Cranbe  ries—Wisconsin Bell  and  Bugle  are 
in good demand at $3.75  per  box  or  $11  per 
Dbl.

Dried  Apples—Jobbers  hold  sun-dried at 60 

and evaporated at 8%c.

Eggs—Jobbers hold  fresh  at 20c  and limed 

and pickled stock at 18c.

Honey—In plentiful supply at 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—2c (B fik.
Potatoes—The  market  is  looking  up  con­
siderably.  Buyers  are  paying 75@80c per bu. 
in carlots and 74@76c in job lots.

Sweet  Potatoes—Kiln-dried  Jerseys  are 
scarce  and  high,  readily  commanding  $5.50 
per bbl.

Turnips—20@25o per doz.

GRAINS AND M ILLING PRODUCTS.

Wheat—Ic  higher.  City  millers  pay 85c for 

Lancaster  and  83c  for  Fulse and Clawson.

Corn—Jobbing  generally  at 56c  in  100  hu. 

lots and 54o in carlots.

Oats—White,  40c  in  small  lots  änd  36c  in 

oar lots.

“ 

Cut  Loaf...........................  @ 3%
Cubes..........................   @  7%
Powdered....................  @7%
Granulated.  Stand...  ® ”%
.  Off..........  @7 44
Confectionery A........  ®  7
® 6%
Standard A ........ 
No. 1, White Extra C.  ®  6%
No. 2, Extra C........  @6%
N o.3C .................;  ... 
No. 4C.....................  ® 6%
Corn, barrels....................   @33
Gorn,% bbls......................   @J>
Corn, 10 gal. k’g s..,.. 
@38
Pure Sugar, bbl 
.............25@38
PureSugar,% bbl.  .  ...... 27@39
-  SWEET  GOODS.X   X X X
8%
8%

Ginger  Sn aps.:.;....7% 
Sugar Creams......... .7% 

SYRUPS.

® 6

FRESH MEATS.

The W. Steele  Packing & Pro­
vision Co. quotes as follows: 
Frësh  Beef.................  5%«* 6%
@ 6% 
Dressed  Hogs
@ 9 @9 
Pork loins........ .
Beef loins.. 
........
© 7 
Beef ribs.....................
Pork  rib s................  5
@7 
Pork  sausage.  ........
® 7% 
@  7 
Bologna......................  6
@ 9 
Frankfort sausage...
@13 ® 6
Summer sausage.....
Blood, Uv, h’d  saus’g 5 
John Mohrhard quotes as fol 
Mutton........................  @ 7
L a m b .................  7%@ 8
Veal.............................  8 
Fowls.................... 
  10%@1I
Ducks M ................  @12
Turkeys 
..  @11
Lard, kettle-render’d  @  8%

lows;

Bye—48@50o $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.20 $  cwt.
Flour—20c higher. Patent, $5.40 9  bbl in sacks 
and  $5.60  ip  wood.  Straight,  $4.40 $) bbl. in 
sacks and $4.60 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.60 9  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15 V ton.  Bran, $18 
$   ton.  Ships,  $19  »   ton.  Middlings,  $20  *  
ton.  Corn aad Oats. $22 $  to n .)

@ 8%

Composée}  of  Guatemala,  African  and 
Mexican J&vas,  Santos, Maracaibo  and  Kin 
selected with especial  reference  to their fine 
drinking qualities.  The most popular brand 
of Blended Coffee in the  market.  Sold  only 
in 50 lb. Cans and 1  lb.  packages. 30, to and 100 
lb. Cases.  Mail Orders Solicited by the  pro­
prietors.

J.  fl,  THOMPSON  1 00.,
59 Jefferson Ave-, Detroit, Mich.
Importers and jobbers of  ilne  Teas, Coffees, 
Spices,  Etc..  Baking  Powder  Mfrs.,  Coffee 
Roasters, Spice Grinders.

B E E   S P I C E   M I L L S ,

ESTA BLISH ED   1866.

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159  80. Water  Street,  CMoago.

JOBBER OF

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'  State Board of Pharmacy.

¡Six Y ears—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon.
Two Years—Jam es  V ernor, D etroit. 
T h re e Y e a rs—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor. 
F ou rY eare—Geo. McDonald, Kalam azoo.
F iv e Y ears—Stanley E .P ark e ll, Owosso. 
P resident—Geo. McDonald 
Secretary-7-Jacob 0 esson.
T re asu re r—Jas. Vernor.
N e x t M eeting—At  G rand Rapids,M arch 7 and 8.

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M i c h i g a n   S ta t e   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   A su ’n . 

P resident—A rthur B assett, D etroit.
F irst Vice-President—G. M. H arw ood, P etoskev.  - 
Second Vice-President—H. B. F airchild,  G rand Rapids. 
T h ird  Vice-President—H enry K ephart, B errien Springs. 
Secretary—S. E. P ark ill, Owosso.
'  T reasurer—Wm. D upont, D etro it., 
Executive  Com m ittee—Geo.  G undrum ,  F ran k   Inglis, 
A. H. Lym an, John E. Peck, E. T. W ebb.
Local S ecretary—Jam es V ernor. D etroit.
T i n t  M eeting—At ‘D etroit, Septem ber 4,6,6 and 7.

jt

OBOAUIZED OCTOBER 9, 1884.

Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical Society.
P resident—H. E. Locher.
V ice-President—J/W . H ayw ard.
Secretary—F ran k  H. Escott.
T reasu rer—H enry  B. F airchild.
H oard at Censors—President,  V iee-President  and  Sec­
retary .
B oard o f Trustees—The President,  John  E. P eck,  Geo. 
G. Steketee, A. F. H azeltine and F. J . W urzburg, 
w en, Isaac W atts. Wm. E. W hite and Wm.  L.  W hite. 
C om m ittee on Trade M atters—Jo h n  E. Peck, H. B. Fair-
.  child a nd H ugo  Thum . 
C om m ittee  on  Legislation—R.  A.  M cW illiams,  Theo. 
C om m ittee on P harm acy—W. L. W hite, A. C. B auer and 
R eg u lar  M eetings—F irst  T hursday  evening  in   each 
A nnual M eeting—F irst T hursday evening in  N ovember 
N ext  Meeting—Thursday evening, F ebruary 8,  a t  The 

K emink and W. H. Tibbs.
Isaac W atts.
m onth.

____

T r a d e sm a n office.

D e t r 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 resident—F rank  inglis.
F irst Vice-President—F. W . R. P erry .
Second Vice-President—J. J.  Crowley.
Secretaity and T reasurer—F. R ohnert.
A ssistant S ecretary and  T reasurer—A. B. Lee. 
A nnual M eeting—F irst Wednesday in  June.
R e g u la 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 i a ti o n . 
P resident, J. W. Dunlop;  Secretary, 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 ty   D r u g g i s t s ’  A s s o c i a ti o n . 

P resid en t, 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. C router.

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 utler;  S ecretary, Geo. Gundrum.

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; Secretary, C. E. Foote.______
K a la 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 i e t y . 

P resident. F. N. Latim er;  S ecretary, Wm. H eysett.
M e c o s ta   C o u iity   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty . 
P resid en t, C. H. W agener;  Secretary, 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, Julius Weiss.
M u s k e g o n   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 l e r k s ’  A s s o c ia tio n . 

P resident, 0. S. Koon;  Secretary, Geo.  L. LeFevre.
N e w a y g o   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 . F. A. R aider; S ecretary, A. G. Clark.

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. F incher;  Secretary, F rank Cady.
S a g in a w   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 resid en t, Ja y   Sm ith;  Secretary,  P. E. Prall.________
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 ullard;  S ecretary, C.ÍE. Stoddard.
M a n i s t 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  
P resid en t. W. H. W illard;  Secretary, A. H.  Lym an.

0 - 

“ A Row Over Pure Food.

Under the  above  caption, 

tbe  Chicago 
News of Jan.  21 thus refers to the so-called 
pure food  convention  which  convened  at 
Washington on the 19th:

At the pure-food  convention,  which  be­
gan its sessions at Willard’s hall yesterday, 
-delegates were expected from all the organ­
izations  in  the  United  States whose pur- 
^   pose is to prevent the  adulteration  of food, 
W   but it turned out to  be  a  struggle between 
-the  wholesale  and  retail  grocers.  Great 
good was expected from the gathering,  but, 
much to the  disgust  and disappointment of 
those who hoped something  would be done, 
the convention broke up  in a row,  and it is 
a question  whether anything has  been  ac­
complished.  The  row  began  when  the 
proposition was made to appoint a Commit­
tee on Credentials,  and the entire af terno; n 
W -of yesterday was wasted before a rule could 
™  be adopted to determine who were delegates 
and who were not.  Then  after  recess the 
-disorder reached its height when  the  Com­
mittee on Permanent .Organization reported 
the name of  Dr.  William  K.  Newton  of 
New Jersey,  a  member  of  the  National 
Board of Health, for President,  and H.  W. 
Grannis,  of  Chicago,  for  Secretary.  No 
sooner  had  this  report  been  made  than a 
dozen delegates sprung to their feet at one«
-  .all  fighting for  recognition,  and  the  man 
ÌP with the strongest lungs  declared  that  the 
retail grocers proposed to have  their  rights 
recognized in the organization  of  the  con 
mention.
The fight then commenced fairly between 
the  wholesalers  and  the  retailers,  both 
claiming to represent the  best  interests  of 
the  consumers.  Whenever  the  wholesale 
grocers arose  to  speak  the  retail  grocers 
booted at them,  and whenever a retailer got 
up the wholesalers reciprocated.
Me  Some funny things were said  during  the 
"disorder.  A Mr.  Mayne, of  Washington,  a 
retail  grocer,  was  making  a  very  excited 
speech,  when his throat  became dry aud  he 
called for a glass of water.  While  he was 
drinking a delegate on a back seat arose and 
said:
“ Mr. Chairman,  I arise to  a  point  of  or­
der.”
“The  gentleman will  state  his  point  of 
■order,” said the chair.
“My pe.:nt of order,’’cried a shrill voice— 
“my point of  order  is that  you can’t  run a 
-windmill with water.”
After a row of several hours, Dr.  Newton 
was finally elected President and Mr.  Gran- 
uis Secretary,  upon  which  the  convention 
-adjourned*

_ 

'J 

SCENES OF DISORDER.

resolutions were adopted: 

In  the  evening  the  scenes  of  disorder 
were renewed when  Mr. Thurber,  the well- 
jgknown grocer of New  York,  attempted  to 
rlfeead the report of the  Committee on Legis­
lation.  He proposed a hill  for  the punish- 
*  men t of the adulterators  of  food,  but was 
not allowed to read beyond the first section, 
being  constantly interrupted  with  motions 
to adjourn, to lay on the table, and to do all 
sorts of things, except to proceed with busi­
ness.  Thè filibusters eventually won,  and 
^uftbout 10  o’clock the convention  adjourned 
™  A t the meeting this morning the following 
í 
Resolved,  That this convention puts itself 
I  on record as being in  favor  of  all  proper 
means for the prevention of  adulteration in 
food, drink and drugs.
Resolved,  That  this  convention,  recog- 
áfepizing the importance of preserving thepur- 
w *tty of the food supply of this  country,  and 
-of devising means  for  the  preservation of 
the health and interest  of  the  community 
from injury by the ns» of adulterated foods, 
•drinks and drugs,  hereby  recommends and 
urges thè necessity of the  immediatè enact- 
|;  meat of laws to prevent this evil.
.  —  The adulteration bill was  then discussed, 
w end, after  having  been  slightly  modified, 
%as approved, mad the Committee on Legis- 
- 
iation was instructed to urge  its  enactment 
|   by Congress.  fIn its main  features  the bill 
n  .remains as introduced by Senator Sherman.
Resolutions were offered  especially  con­
:;y 
demning oleomargarine  and  lard, of which 
' oil Is a principal  ingredient, but 

down.

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 laSor, 
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. o f L. label  on  every  box.  One hun­
dred thousand sold within three months in the 
city of Detroit alone.  Warranted to be  striet- 
ly five and ten cent goods.  For further partic­
ulars, terms, prices, references, • to., address 

W.  E.  KRUM  & CO.,

W ernersville, Berks Co., Pennsylvania.

PROPRIETOR OF

EDWIN FALLAS,
7A1L1Y CITY COM STORAGE,
Blitter, Eggs, Lemons, Oranges.

JOBBER OF

And packer of

SOLID  BRAND  OYSTERS.
Facilities for canning and jobbing oysters 
are unsurpassed,, Mail orders filled  promptly 
at lowest • market  price.. -Correspondence so­
licited. .  A  liberal  discount  to • the  Jobbing 
tirade. 
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217,219 Livingston St.,

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Importers and  Jobbers of

DEALERS IN

Patent Medicines, 
Paints,  Oils, 
Vabnishes.

WE ARE  SOLE  PROPRIETORS OF

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W e have in stock and offer a full line o

Whiskies, 
Brandies, 
Gins,
Wines,

Rums,

We are Sole  Agents in Mich­
igan  for  W. D. &  Co.,  Hender­
son County, hand-made

SOUR MASH WHISKEY,

-AND-

Drniists’  Favorite  Rye  WMsly.

W e Sell Liquors for  Medicinal Purposes 

only.

W e  Give  Our  Personal  Attention  to  

Mail Orders and  Guarantee Satisfaction

All Orders  are Shipped and Invoiced the 

same day we receive them.

SEND IN  A TRIAL ORDER.

Hazeltine 

& Perkins
D ru g  Co.

A permanent  organization  was  effected 
ander tbs title of “The National Pure Food 
Association,” and officers  were  elects ft» j 
the ensuing year as  follows:  President, J. 
W. Callahan, of Nyack, N. Y.';  Secretaries, 
H.  W .  G rann is,  of  the  Chicago  Grocer, 
Louis W. Buckley,  of  the  Grocery  World 
of  Philadelphia;  Benjamin  Johnson,  of 
Boston;  Treasurer,  Finley Acker, of Phila­
delphia.  A vice-president  for  each  state 
represented was also elected.  The old Com­
mittee  on  Legislation  was continued,  but 
was  strengthened  by  the  addition of the 
President, three Secretaries  and the Treas­
urer.  The convention*then adjourned,  sub­
ject to the call of the chairman.
The delegates were received by the Presi­
dent in a body at noon.
Thousand Mile Tickets  to  Be Sold at $20.
At a meeting of the Railway  Association 
of Michigan,  held at Detroit  on  the  19th, 
the  request  of  the  Michigan  Commercial 
Travelers’ Association to place on sale 5,000 
mile tickets for $100, good over any road in 
the State, was  rejected.  The  matter  was 
referred to a committee,  however,  to  report 
at the next meeting. 
It was decided to dis 
continue the sale of 500 and 2,000 mile tick­
ets on  each  separate  line  and  substitute 
therefor 1,000 mile  tickets,  to  be sold at a 
uniform price of $20.  These tickets will be 
issued only to individuals,  will not be trans­
ferable and will expire a year  from the date 
of purchase.

The travelers’ plea to have 250  pounds of 
baggage  carried  free  was  denied,  on the 
ground that it would be a  violation  of  the 
Inter-State  Commerce  Law  to  allow  the 
holders of  ordinary  tickets  150  pounds of 
baggage and owners of mileage  tickets  250 
pounds.

The  Drug  Market.

There are only a few changes to note this 
week.  Balsam copaiba continues to harden 
in value and will be higher.  Gum camphor 
has again advanced and is  tending  higher. 
Cubeb berries are higher and in small stock. 
Germa*  quinine  is  dull and lower.  P.  & 
W.  is unchanged.  Morphia is  firm  at  our 
quotations.  Gum opium is  a  trifle  lower. 
Oil  cinnamon  is  tending  higher.  Oil cu- 
bebs has advanced  in  sympathy  with 
the 
berries.  Canary seed is firm  and  tending 
upward.
Good  Advice  to  Beginners  in  Business.
The young man who  desires  to make his 
mark in mercantile life should  not  depend 
alone on his own promptings as to his course 
of  conduct.  He  will  find  good  models 
among the merchants of the  day.  Let him 
observe them closely in  their  lives as busi­
ness men and  citizens.  He  will  discover 
that they have energy, integrity  and  truth­
fulness, aud that they have won [reputation 
and fortune by the especial practice of ¡these 
qualities in all their relations of life.  Noth­
ing is clearer, then,  than  that he should do 
the same thing.  '  He must hew his own des­
tiny to exactly the  same  shape,  or he will 
be a disfigurement in the eyes of all honora­
ble men,  a failure as  far  as  a  high-toned 
manhood is concerned,  and a  model  solely 
of his own conceit and short-sightedness.

Jas.  H.  Kinnane,  the  attorney  of  the 
State  Board  of  Pharmacy,  lodged ^'com­
plaints against four  Detroit  druggists last 
week for violations of the Pharmacy iawT*|!
Dr.  Hostetter, of bitters fame,  is still lin­
gering between life and death at  his  home 
in  Alleghany,  Pa.  He  is  suffering from 
Bright’s disease.

REPORT  OF  THE  CONDITION

Grand  Rapids  Sailings  Bank,

At the close of business,

DECEMBER  31,1887.

TIME TABLES.
Grand Rapids & Indiana.

AU T rains daily  except Snndny.
'  GOING  NORTH.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

.  Advanced—Gum camphor, èli cubebe, cubeb 
berries, cubeb berries, p 6.

Declined—Gum opium, German quinine.

 

 

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CORTEX.

FERRUM.

AMMONIA.

BALSAMUM.

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TH E  IM PR O VED

C. L. L o c k w o o d. Gen’i Pass. Agent.

FOR  PHYSICIANS  AND  FAMILY  USE.

Mackinaw.
toskey and M ackinaw City.
P etoskey and Mackinaw.

GOING  SOUTH.
C incinnati  E xpress..........................  
F o rt W ayne Express..................  ...10:S 0am  
C incinnati  Express......................... 4 :40 p in 
Traverse City and M ackinaw Ex. .10:50 p m 

T raverse C ity & Mackinaw E x ..... ,8:45?a m 
9;05 a  m
T raverse City & M ackinaw  E x.......  
11:30 a m
T raverse City  &  M ackinaw  E x ....  7:30pm   10:40 p m
Cadillac E x p r e s s .....,;.,.......... 
5:06pm
3:40pm  
8agm aw  E xpress.  ................... .... .11:85 a  m  
7:80 a  m
-----...10:30 a m . 
4:10pm

Points  of  Superiority:  Portability,  Power, 
Durability, Compactness,  Strength  of  Cur­
rent,  Patent  Hard  Rubber  Revolubie  Cell, 
Water Tight., Convenience, Can be Carried in 
the Pocket Charged.

Saginaw  express runs thro u g h  solid.
0:05 a. m. tra m  has  ch air  c a r te   T raverse  City  and 
11:30 a. m . tra in  has ch a ir c a r  fo r Traverse  City, Pe-, 
10:40 p. m. tra in  h as sleeping cars fo r T raverse  City, 

Muskegon,  Grand Rapids Si Indiana. 
Arrive.
kfoJ6' 
,«3°an»........................................................... 10:10 am
4  4 0 p m ........................ ....................... ....................  8:60pm
Leaving tim e a t  Bridge stree t  depot 7 m inutes later.

7:15 a m
11:45am
5:00 p m
7:15 a m  tra in   has  p arlo r  ch a ir  ca r  for  Cincinnati. 
5:00 p m tra in  has W oodruff sleeper fo r Cincinnati. 
5:00 p.  m. tra in  connects  w ith M. C. R. R. a t K alam a­
zoo fo r B attle Creek,  Jackson,  D etroit  and  C anadian 
pom ts, arriv in g  in  D etroit a t 10:45 p. m.

8®  10
Aceticum 
Benzoicum,  German.......................  80®1 00
Carbolicum...................................   45® 60
60®  65
Citricum .i............................. . 
Hydrochlor........... ...........................  3®  5
Nitrocum....................................... 
  10® 12
Oxallcum . 
...............................  11®  13
Salicylicum.......................... . ;.........1 7o@2 05
Tamucum..........................................1 40@i 60
  50®  53
Tartaricum ............................  
3®  5
 
Aqua, 16 deg......  .................  
-  18  deg...........................  
 
4®  6
Carbons«..........................................   u@  13
Chloridum.........................................  12®  14
Cubebae (po.  1 60..........................1  75@1 85
Juniperus  ............................. .........   8  @9
Xanthoxylum..................,..............  25®  30
Copaiba.............................................   58®  63
Peru...................................................  @1 50
Terabin, Canada..............................    50®  55
45®  50
Tolutan................................. 
Abies, Canadian.................... 
is
 
Cassiae  ............  
 
 
n
Cinchona Flava.................................. 
is
Euonymus  atropurp....... ............... 
30
20
Myriea  Cerifera, po..........................  
Prunus Virgini.................................. 
12
Quillaia,  grd......................................  
12
Sassfras  ..................................  
 
12
Ulmus................................................  
12
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)....................... 
10
Glycyrrhiza Glabra.............................  24®  25
PO....................................   33®  35
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Haematox, 15 ft boxes.........................  9®  10
Is......................................  @ 12
Vi s  ...................................  @  13
ks  ..................................  @  15
Carbonate Precip................................   ® 15
Citrate and Quiuia.............................   ®3 50
Citrate Soluble.....................................  @ 80
Ferrocyaniduui Sol...........................  
  @
Solut  Chloride...................................   @
Sulphate, com’l,  (bbl. 85)...................   ik@
puro...................................   ®
FLORA.
Arnica.......................................................  12®
Anthemis.............................  
45@
Matricaria................................................  30®
Barosma.................................................. 
io@
Cassia Aon t i i ol, Tinnivelly..................   20®
........................  35®
„ 
Salvia officinalis, &s and 
...............  10®
Ura  Ursi.
8®
Acacia, 1st picked.................................   @1 00
2nd  “ 
@  gg
@  so
3rd 
“ 
Sifted  sorts..............................  @  65
75@l 00
Aloe, Barb,  (po. 60)..................... 
  50©  60
W  “  Cape, (po. 20).................................   ©  ]2
r   “  Socotrine,  (po. 60).......................   @  50
Ammoniae  .............................................   25®  30
Assafoetida,  (po. 30)..............................  @  15
Benzoinum.............................................  50©  55
Cam phorae...........................................  29@  32
 
Catechu, Is,  04s,  14; Jis, 16)........ 
  @  13
Euphorhium, po.....................................  35®  40
Galbanum........ ..................................  
  @  80
Gamboge, po...........................................   75®  80
Guaiacum, (po. 45).................................   @  35
Kino,  (po. 25)...........................................   @  20
Mastic.......................................................  @1 C0
Myrrh, (po. 45).............................  
@  43
Opii, tpo. 5  75j........................................ 4  10®4 20
Shellac........................................... 
bleached........................  
Tragacanth.............................................  30®  75
herba—In ounce packages.
Absinthium  ................................. .........
Eupatorium............................ ..............
Lobelia  ...................................................
Majorum  ...................................... .........
Mentha Piperita....................................
“  V ir........., ................... .
......................... .............
R u e .............  
Tanacetum,  V ...........................
Thymus. V  
 
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Calcined,  Pat.............................  
55@
Carbonate,  Pat.............................  
20@
Carbonate,  K. & M................................  20®
Carbonate,  Jennings...................... 
  35®  36
Absinthium.............................................5 00@5 50
Amygdalae, Dulc...................................  45®  501
Amydalae, Amarae.............................. 7 25@7 75
Anisi  .............................  
l 9u@2  10
Auranti Cortex......................................   @2 00
Bergamii....................  ...........................2 75@3 25
Cajiputi  ..................................................  90® 1 00
Caryophylli.............................................  ®2 00
Cedar........................................................   35®  65
Chenopodii.............................................  @1  75
Cinnaxnonii............................ 
  9*®i  go
Citronella  ..............................................   @  75
Conium  Mac...........................................   35®  65
Copaiba...................................................   90®  l 00
Cubebae...................................... .....14  50@15 00
Exechthitos..................... 
90®1 00
1 20@1 30
Erigeron...................................... 
Gaultheria.............................................. .2 25@2 35
@  75
Geranium, 5...........................................  
Gossipii, Sem,gal.......................... 
55®  75
 
Hedeoma....................................... 
  75®  85
Juniperi...................................................   50@2 00
Lavendula...............................................  90@2 00
Limonis................................................... l   75®2 25
Lini, gal...................................................   42®  45
Meutha Piper 
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2 25@3 33
G 0L 8Ä N   k   M cÄFEE,  L o iiisu ille ,  K y ,  j Morrhuae,  gai...........................!!!!!!!!** 80®1 00

fiazeltine l Perkins Dni§ Co„

' a Herbarium.
serving, under  proper 
,‘es,  papers,  etc.,  etc. 
>usekeep~r, wil  find it 
id finish fo r m any use­
rade-marlr- 
g._  I t  sells 
stion. 
style, a t 83

COLGAN’S  TAFFY  TOLU.

GRAND  RAPIDiS,  MI<)H.

Specially Designe
hen  em pty to 
.  roora.  s  ed 
ce.epe.r as w ell

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A  beauuiuijtt-uecor 

’s TAFFY  TOLU is  the c 
icli  has  : e t  the  world 
ys well, and alw ayf giv» 
by  all  jobbers,  packed 

red  Metal  Box,  with
pull,  GIVEN  FREE  with  every

.j :¡fficalB It 01 j  

 
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Suitable 
label,  hei 
Every  sto 
well adapt 
ful purpos 
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ed gum  w l 
rapidly, pt 
'  Supplied 
per dozen.

Price $ 10.  Dis. to  the  Trade.

Manufacturers’  Agents.

Size, 8)ixd}£x7M i® ibes.

KALAMAZOO,

bJonze  la:>* 
dozen boxes

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  25@
25®

MAGNESIA. 

MIC i Í.

OLEUM.

GUMMI.

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A lthae.......... ......... . . .. i i ..,
Anchusa . ,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Arum,  po........ ................................. 
-@  25
Calamus...................................................   03® ;.fig
Gentiana,  (po. IS)...................................  10®  12
Glychrrhiza,  (pv. 15).........  
16®  18
Hydrastis Canaden,  v'po. 45).................  ®  40
Hellebore, Alba,  p p .................. . 
• 15®  20
Inula,  po............................... '............. .;  15®  20
ipecac, po........ ........................................1 Tg0 §OO
Jalapa,  pr.......................... 
25®  30
Maranta,  & s...............   
@  35
Podophyllum,  p o ...........------ ! ” "  15®  18
Rhei  .................................................
n  00 
“  cut...................................
@1
“  pv , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   ......"  1
75@1 35 
Spigelia  ........................................
48®  53
Sanguinaria, (po. 25).................. . ” ’
Serpentaria....................................
Senega....................................!.!....
Smilax, Officinalis, H ..........
“  •  Mex..............
Scillae,  (po.35)__ ...
Symplocarpus,  Foetidus, po.. 
Valeriana,  English,  (po. 30)................’

10®

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SEMEN.

15®

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Rubia Tinctorum.....  .................
Saccharum  Lactis, pv...............’
Salad n ........................ .................
Sanguis DrRconis........... !..
Santonine.
Bantonme..................  
sapo,  w ............................ '  v m   14
Sapo,  M..........; ...... 
Sapo, G...............................
Seidlitz  Mixture.................
Sinapis..........*
Sinapis,  opt.................. .!!!.!!*.*
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  Do. Voes  ‘
Snuff, Scotch,  Do. V oes......
Soda Boras, (po  11).........   . 
Soda et PotossTart............. . [..............
Soda Carb........   ....................................
Soda,  Bi-Carb.. . . . . . __ .......................
Soda, Ash................................................
Soda  Sulphas............
Spts. Ether Co.......................................
Spts.  Myrcia Dom.............
Spts. Myrcia Imp............
Spts. Vini Rect, (bbl. 2 08)....!............
Strychnia, Crystal..............  
.........
Sulphur, Suhl.................. 
............„
sulphur,  Ron...................................... S
Terebenth  Venice........ 28® 
30
Theobromae.............................................  gg®  ^
I ® Ä , - r v .............................................    00@16 00
Zinci  Sulph.

35 
2® 75 
40®  50
«a* an
g®  10
@ 15
© 28
@ 18
@ 30
@ 35
@ £>
0  @ 11
33® 35
2® 2k
4® 5
3® 4
® 2
50®  55 
@2  00 
@2 50 
@2 25 
@1  30 
2^® 3^
 3

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7®

Whale, winter....................
Lard, extra..................  
..................   ««
Lard, No.  1........................................  *  45
Linseed, pure raw.............................   55
Linseed, boiled...................* ‘ *.......  
53
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained! .* ! ! ! ’ "  50
Spirits Turpentine...................................! ! 47

paints................

Red Venetian............................
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........   1 v
Ochre, yellow  Bermttda..........  
lv
Putty, commercial__  
2M
j  * «Attt/jy D u ic u ^  pure........... 
Putty, strictly pure........ ..!«**  2%
Vermilion,  English..........
Green, Peninsular__ !!!!!!!
Lead, red strictly pure.!!.......
Lead, white, strictly pure.
Whiting, white  Spanish.......
Whiting, Gilders*.....................
White, Paris American__ !!!!
Whiting  Paris English cliff
Pioneer Prepared  I aints.......
Swiss Villa Prepared  Paints..
„  
VARNISHES.

Lb 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2k® 3 
3k@ 3 
13® 16 
.  75@80 
16@I7
6k@ 6% 
6k@ 6/4 @70 
@90 
1 10 
1 49 
1 20@1 40 
1 00®I 20
Coach..............................1 10@1  20

£ ? ;V £ lrp, F£riutllre............................1 00@1  io
Extra Turk  Damar............................... 1  55®!  60
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp......................  70®  75

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MISCELLANEOUS.

©  45
Anisum, (po. 20).............   ................... 
io@  12
Apium  (graveolens)............................... 
Bird, Is.................................................. 
4®  «
Carui,  (po. 18)......................................... 
 
jg
Cardamom....................... .......................j go®!  25
Conandrum................................. 
jjxa  12
Cannabis  Sativa.................!
3%®  4%
.
Cydonmm................................................   75@1 00
Cffienopodium  ........................................   10@  12
Diptenx  Odorate........ ......................... 1 75@i  85
@  je
Foeniculum................................... 
Foenugreek, po....................’___ 6®  8
Lini................................ 
SD.»  I j
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Phalaris  Canarian.................................   33£@4V4
. . . ........... 
Bapa 
5®  g
Sin apis,  Albu................................ 
g®  g
Nigra..............................;;;;;;  n@  1?
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Bramenti,  W.,  D. & Co........................2 00@2 50 I Vermilion, prime American!!
Frumenti, D. F. R........  
Frumenti ......................N ......................110@1 50
Junipens Co.  O. T................................ i  75® i  75
Jumpens  Co............................................1  75@3 5g
Saacharum  N .E ....................................1  75@2 00
Spt.V im Q alil....................................... 1  75@6 50
1  25(ffi2 no
Vim Oporto.............................. 
Vini  Alba.. 
®  00
l  -25@2 00
™ 
Florida sheens’ wool, carriage.......2 25
@2 50 
Nassau 
2  00 
Velvet Ext 
1 10 
Extra Yp ' d o  
85 
Grass 
65 
Hard? 
75 
Y ellow Reef. 
1 40
.¿Ether, Spts Nitros, 3 F .........................
26® 28
ASther, Spts.Nitros, I F .......
30® 32
Alum en..............................
2k@ 3)4
Alumen,  ground, (pö.* V)!.’!."!.".............
3® 4
Annatto  ..............................
55® 60
Antimoni,  po............!.!!!...................
4® 5
Antimoni et Potass  Tart!!!!!!............
55® 60
Argenti  Nitras,  3............ 
©
¿a
Arsenicum.................... 
...............  
Balm Gilead  Bud........ ..........................   ^
38® 40
Bismuth  S.  N ........
.2 15©2 20
Chlcium  Chlor,  Is, (¿'s’, 11; 'ks! 12)!!! !
@ 9
Canthandes  Russian, po........
@2  10
Capsici  Fructus, a f.................. !!!!!!!
@ 15
Capsici Fructus, po............. .
@ 16
Capsici Fructus, B, po__
@ 14
Caryophyllus,  (po.  35)..........!..............
30® 33
Carmine. No. 40.......
@3 75
Ct ra Alba. S. & F .......!!!!!!!!!!!"
50® 55
Cera Flava.....................
2fc@ 30
Coccus............................ ..!.!!!.!!!.!.
@ 40
Cassia Fructus............!!!! ÜÜ...............
@ 15
Centraria.............. ..!!!!!!!!!...............
@ 10
Cetaceum.............. !!!!'!!!!!!..............
@ 45
Chloloform........ ...!...!!!!!.!!...'!.'!
38® 40
Chloroform,  Squibhs 
...!!!!!! *!!  "  ™
©1 00
Chloral Hydrate  Cryst.........................l  50@1
1 50@1 75
Chondrus  ............................
10® 12
Cinchonidine, P. & W .!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
15® 20
Cinchonidine,  German........ .......... !!!
8® 15
Corks, see list, discount,  per' cent..
40
Creasotum...........................
® 50
Creta, (bbl. 75)..........!!!!!!!!!!!"!..........
@ 2
Creta  prep....................... .......................
5@ 6
Creta, preelp............!!!!!!!..................
8® 10
Creta Rubra................!!!!!!!!!!...........
@ 8
Crocus.......*..................... ......................
Cudbear.................. !!!!!!!.....................
Cupri suiph.............!!!!!!!!!................
Dextrine.................................................
Ether Suiph...............!.!!!!!’.!!!...........
Emery, ail  numbers..!!!!.!.................
Emery, po................................   .'...........
Ergota, (po.) 75.................. ......................
Flake  White............
12®
Gaiia............................. !!!!!!!!!!7!!!!."
@7@
Gambier.......................... !!!!!!!!!!!!"' 
im
Gelatin, Coopor............!!!!!!!.!!!.!!!!!  @
Gelatin, French.................... 
40®  60
Glassware flint, 70&10 by box.  '¿Ö&iÖ.'less.
Glue,  Brown.......................  
90»
Glue, White................................  
**  13®
Glycerina...........................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  23®
Grana  Paradisi...................... 
 
®
25®
H um ulus.............. 
 
Hydrarg Chlor. Mite  ..!!!!!!!!!!!.......  ®
Hydrarg Chlor.  Cor........................ 
@
Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum.......................   @  „„
Hydrarg  Ammoniati.........................  ’  ®1  15
Hydrarg Unguentum............................  45®  55
Hydrargyrum........................................  @  80
Ichthyocolla, Am  ..................................1 25@1  50
Indigo. 
76@1  00
 
Iodine,  Resubl............................................. 4 gg@4 10
Iodoform ..........  
..................................  @5  15
Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod..........  
@  27
Liquor Potass  Arsinitis............. 
19®  12
Lupuline  ............................................... * 
85@1 00
Lycopodium...........................................   55®  60
M acis....... 
80®  85
Magnesia, Suiph, (bbl. Ik )............... 
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 25
Moschus Canton 
40 
Myristica. No. 1............... !.!!!!!!!. !!
60®  70 
@  1Ö 
24®  26 
@2 00 
@2 70 
@1 40 
@  85

no. i ..................

Freeport, 

Rapids.

P R O PR IE T O R .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is  prepared  especially  for  children  and 
promptly  cures  Croup,  Whooping  Cough, 
Colas, etc.,  diseases  so common  to childhood. 
The  Croup  Remedy  contains  no  opium  nor 
anything injurious to  the most delicate child
The following wholesale  druggists  will fill 
trial orders for k  doz.. received  before Febru­
ary 1st, 1888, thus  giving  the  trade  an oppor­
tunity to test the remedy free of expense.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co., Grand 

Farrand, Williams & Co.,  Detroit.
James E. Davis & Co„  Detroit.
Peter Van Schaack & Sons, Chicago.

FO B   ATTRACTIVE  ADVERTISING  M ATTER ADDRESS  TH E 

DR. H. 0. PECKHAM,

-  Mich.

Peckham’s  Universal Croup  Remedy  can 
be obtained  of  druggists  only.  Price  50 cts. 
per bottle.

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RESOURCES.

Loans and discounts............................$391,946 57
Mortgages.
.................  67,499 00
Land contracts...............
920 00 
Stocks and bonds..........
4,345 00 
Beal estate.....................
15.404 55 
Furniture and fixtures.
2,46167 
Overdrafts............
208 03
Checks and cash item s.. 
Due from other banks.. 
Coin, nickels and pennie 
Currency...........................

.$17,333 40 
.  45,676 90 
.  2.5(0 51 
.  8,693 00

74,213 81
$556,998 63

LIA B ILITIES.

Capital.......................................................,..$50,000 00
Undivided profits.......................................  
46 23
Due depositors............................................. 452,952 40
Re-discounts...............................................   10,000 00
Dividends unpaid.......................................   44,000 00

Originators and Sole Proprietors. 

N. B —Include a dozen boxes in y o u m e x t order.  You 

will find it the best $3 iavestm ent you ever made.

HAVE  YOU

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

O T v ^ {a   m ,o o T -

We pay the highest price for it.  Address

P e c k   E r a s .,  l>mggists, Orusd Ilapids,MiciL

$556,998 63

3  I Myrcia  5 

! Olive 

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!!!!......................................... l  00®2  tc ! Nux  Vomica,  (po. 20).............................

 

 

Rosmarini...............................................  75@1  00
Rosae,  1....................................................  @6  00
Succini  ...................................................  
40®45
Sabina......................  
90@l  00
Santal.......................................................3 50@7 gg
Sassafras.............................................. 
  55®  60
Sinapis, ess, 5..............................  
@  65
T ielii.................-............................. @150
Thym e.......................... 
40®  50
‘  .  ^ ................................................  @  60
Theobromas.............................................  15®  20
Bichromate........................................ 
13®  15
Bromide...........................................!.!  42®  45
ChlOTate, (Po. 20).....................................  18®  20
Iodide.................:.................................. .3 (X @3 25
Prussiate................................... 
25®  28

POTASSIUM.

 

 

Picis Liq,  n : C.. k   galls, doz ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
i Pirns Liq.,  quarts..............................
Picis Liq., pints............................. !!!!!!
Pii Hydrarg,  (po. 80).................. ...........
Piper Nigra,  (po.22).......................   !"
Piper  Alba, (po. 35).................... .
Pix  Burgun..............................
Plumbi Acet............................. !!!!!!!!!
Potassa, Bitart, pure........
Potassa.  Bitart, com................... !!!!!!
Potass  Nitras, opt.................. 
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Potass Nitras..............................."!.*!."!.'
Pulvis Ipebac et opii.........!!!!!!!!!! !l 10@1  20
Pyrethrum, boxes, H. St P. D. Co., doz.  @1  25
Pyrethrum, p v.........................................   60® 65
Quas8ia e ..................................................   8® 
lo
Quinia, S, P. &  W.....................................  5«® ei
Quinia, S, German...................................   47® 57

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TRADE  SUPPLIED  BY  THE

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICH.

33fAnd the Wholesale  Druggists  of  Detroit 
and Chicago.

THE  LUSTIG  CIGAR
.  WHOLESALE  CIGAR  HOUSE.

E X C L U SIV E

4

Direct  Importers  of Imported  and  Key  W est  Cigars, 

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Ag*ents for Ottenberg’ s  Partidoes  &  Gladstone Oig*ars.

FROM  DEALERS  WE  SOLICIT  A  TRIAL  ORDER.

O F F IC E  65  NO.  IO N IA   ST„ 

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

Grand  Rapids,

Mich.

W M  S E A R S  &  CO.
Cracker Manufacturers,

Agents  for

A M

B O Y

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87,89 & 41 Kent Street.  Grand Rapida,  Michigan.

H. WWW t

134 to  140  East Fulton Streets

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 Hall Lights. 

Crockery,  Glassware  and  Akron  Stoneware.

a

WHOIiESAXiE

Fruits, Seeds, Oysters & Produce,

ALL  KINDS  OF  FIELD  SEEDS  A  SPECIALTY.

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

toes, will be pleased to hear from you.

26  28,30  &  32  Ottawa  Street. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

JOBBERS  IN

FRESH   MEATS.
L A i o l x

I F t s / p i c l s ,  

Stock Yards and Packing House, Grandville Ave.,

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G r r e t n c L  

 
Cuts  and  prices  furnished  on  application. 

uisliing  Tubular  Street Lamps, j

State how many would be needed.

LANTERNS !

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

Prices  Mailed  on  Application.

TtiDtilar liill  Lantern.

(See cut below.)  Largest light known.  Will 

stand any storms.

The Mistigan Tradesman.

EGGS  BY  W EIGHT.

The  Hen’s  Side  of this  Important  Ques- 

. ; # 

tion.

Written Especially for The Tbadmmas.

It is universally conceded that in order to 
logically argue for or  against a principle or 
eostoin,  one must  thoroughly  understand 
the  subject  under  discussion.  Granting, 
then, this proposition, I propose to  demon­
strate most conclusively that there is “some­
thing new  under  the  sun,”  by taking the 
side of the hen (of which I  know absolutely 
nothing) in the discussion of the  “eggs  by 
weight” question, which  has  been  attract­
ing much attention in these columns of late. 
So far, to speak in the language  of  Byron, 
the hen has been “left out in  the  cold,” in­
asmuch as no one seems to  have  consulted 
her ideas and wishes in this matter. 
I will 
leave it to all  fair-minded  people,  Is  this 
light?  In this great and glorious  land  of 
the free and home of the boodler  and  anar 
chist, is it justice to take the  last  egg  laid 
by the poor,  innocent,  unenlightened  hen, 
place a base fabrication  in  the  shape  of a 
porcelain  imitation  in  her  egg  receptacle 
yiri then not give her a ghost of a chance to 
say how the product of her  mind  together 
with com and perseverance shall be sold?  I 
say,  No,  most  emphatically  No!  and my 
love for fairness  and  right is the sole reas­
on for my undertaking  to  write  about that 
of which I know nothing.
Knowing, as I  do  not, 

the  peculiarities 
and labor engendered in  the  production of 
the delightful combination popularly termed 
“egg," I should think that  in  selling it by 
weight the merchants of  this  country  are 
doing a great and  irreparable  wrong to the 
producer  thereof.  Look [at  the  matter in 
this light.  Put yourself in the  place of the 
ben.  Go  out  to  the  bam  some  Sunday 
morning when time drags  heavily  on  your 
hands,  and there perform the  not  difficult 
feat of depositing (or laying) a  large,  full- 
grown egg in a nest about  fourteen  inches 
in diameter.

For the benefit of those who  are unfortu- 
natv enough to have had their youthful edu­
cation neglected, I  here  append  a few sim­
ple directions for laying the egg.  The rules 
will be applicable to any day in  the  week, 
if you think it irreligious to work  on  Sun­
day, although I  should advise you to be pre­
pared to lay off the balance of the day.

On the morning of the fateful  day,  pre­
pare yourself for  the  task  by  eating  for 
your breakfast about one  peck  or  shelled 
com and a tablespoonful of  old  egg-shells, 
which  your  wife  will  undoubtedly  have 
bandy.  The use of the shells  will  be  ob­
vious and the com will serve as  a  ground­
work on which to form the  egg.  Go to the 
bam with a meditative and dignified air.  If 
neither of these are to be  had,  it is possible
to get along with a preoccupied  mien,  simi­
lar  to  that  worn  while passing a quarter 
with a hole in it.  On  entering  the  bam, 
stm t around and flirt with the  rooster for a 
tune,  in order to divert the  attention of the 
ether hens, so that they may  not  frustrate 
your designs by  getting  possession  of the 
n est  Now, get carefully  on  to  the  nest 
mid lay your egg.  If you are successful, the 
•peration will consume about an hour, after 
which look around on the hens with the tri 
nmphant 
air  of  a  hero,  and  cluck 
gleefully a couple of times and  then  go  to 
dinner.

By following these directions and reading 
the label on the bottle  carefully,  you  will 
discover  that  the  laying  of  an egg is no 
slight task, and you will be more  willing to 
give the hen a chance to air her  views as to 
how it should be sold

Everyone  is  aware  that it is a source of 
gratification to know exactly how  much la 
bor is performed by us individually  and the 
net  results  thereof.  Thus  it  is with the 
humble hen, and the person  who wishes to 
«mange the time-honored  custom  of selling 
eleven eggs for a baker’s dozen  to  that  of 
weight  robs  the  hen  of  what  should  be 
looked upon as an inalienable right—that of 
being able to tell accurately how many eggs 
¡die lays per diem.

For example, say that a  hen  lays  three 
eggs a day for  four  days,  By  the  present 
system the net result would  be  one  dozen 
oorga gold at the  current  price  per  dozen. 
Thus the thrifty hen  sees  her way clear to 
laying off for a couple or three days  a week 
ho rest up from the wear and tear of the ex­
ertion  and  family  anxieties.  Suppose  a 
motherly hen wishes to become  the  posses­
sor of a brood  and  an  insatiable  longing 
somes over her to set.  By the  present sys­
tem she can secrete fourteen or fifteen eggs 
h i the hayloft and hatch them with a reason- 
side guarantee that ten of them  will  bring 
forth ten chickens.  But  by  weight,  what 
m e the chances?  Out of  her  fifteen  eggs 
s a y  be evolved six pounds of  spring chick­
ignorant  hen, 
ens or more and  the  poor, 
to  tell 
having no scales,  would be  unable 
hbw many chickens she  actually had. 
Im- 
agine her feelings,  those of  you  merchants 
who are mothers!  Think  of the  horror of 
so t knowing the number of your offspring— 
the unrewarded labor of  months!

le ak  you, merchants of Michigan, before 
you take tbe awful step, to  look  upon this 
y H w  in the light of humanity, reason and 
kerosene oil.  Do not let any  prejndices of 
bad eggs or betrayed confidence in the shape 
s f  setting bens  which  never  lay  bias your 
judgment.  Then,  and  then  only,  decide 
ibis most important  change  in  mercantile 
mnA hencantile ethics. 

Relluf.

O. P. DeWitt*  grocer,  St,  Johns;  “I  bave 
MN» »subscriber  to Tan Tradesman  from 
Ike first number and  shall  continuò  to be as 
Ungasi am in trade/* 

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JOBBERS IN

DRY  GOODS,

J L H U D   N O T I O N ' S ,

83  Monroe  StM 

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers 
American and Stark A Bags 

j 

\A Spalti

GLADSTONE

MICHIGAN.

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,

----OF—

TO  RETAILERS
CLOTHING,
Furnishing  Goods,

Hats, Caps, Etc.

All winter goods will be sold at and

FOE  30  DAYS

BELOW COST
SPRING GOODS

To make room for

Which are now arriving.

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TERMS:--  7  per cent. 10 days. 

30  “
NET  60  *
I  P  II7UI  B6,38,40 and 42-Canal St.,

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i i   U i  L iL lll  I t  

GRAND  RAPIDS,

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 1.  It has already expended over
$500,000.00

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 coining year is most flattering.

For  further  particulars,  opportunities  for business, maps 

and plats, address

f .  w. m c k i m e y
Agent Sanlt Ste. Marie Land and Improvement Co.,
GLADSTONE,  M IC H

VI NDE X

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5 -0 -  C I G A R

In the World.

STRAIGHT  H fillip   LONG  FILLER. 

s  SUMATRA  WRAPPER.

GLARE, JEWELL l CO.

Sole Agents for Western Mich.

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

Best and  Cheapest—3,5 and 10  gallon  Impervious Wood.  Will  notrust.  Wili outlast any 
Other Cans—The Pinafore. 3,5 and 10  gallons; the Goodenough 5 and 10 gallons;  the  Peek- 
All the Staple Kerosene Goods.  Write for catalogue.

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The Stfctiidard of Excellence
KINGSFORD’S

Kingsford’s Oswego CORN STARCH for Puddings, 

Custards, Blanc-Mange, etc.

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

WILL  PLEASE  YOU  EVERY  TIME!

ALWAYS  ASK  YOUR  GROCER  FOR  THESE  GOODS.

R I M , BERTSGU & CO.
BOOTS  AND  SHOES.

f MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

AGENTS FOR THE

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

m
14 and 16 Pearl Street, 
-  Grand Rapids, Mich 1
MICHIGAN  CIGAR  CO.,

m

m a n u fa c t u r e r s  o f t h e  ju s t l y   c e l e b r a t e d

C.  C. ”
“ 7 T J M   7 V U , 99

The Most Popular 10c  cigar, and

The  Best  Selling  5c  Cigar  in  tbe  Market. 

Send fo r tried  order.
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