\ VOL.  5.
flifxiliary  HssoGiations,

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

FULL  OUTFIT— S15.

30 Books Blue Letters, 50 in book. 
goo  Record Blanks.
0oo  Notification Sheets.
250  Last Calls, 
goo  Envelopes.

HALF  OUTFITS-SIO.

500 Blue Letters, old style.
250  Record Blanks.
250  Notification  Sheets.
125  Last Calls.
300  Envelopes.

1» place of  old  style  Blue  Letter  in  above 
SIO  Outfit  we  can  substitute  10  books  Blue 
letter in latest form, as  recommended by tbe 
accent State convention, for $ 12.50 
Prices in  other quantities  furnished  onap- 
ptieation

FULLER & STOWE  COMPANY,

ENGRAVERS and PRINTERS,
49 Lyon St, Grand Rapids,

S E E D S
Gardes aid Field Seeds,
ALFRED J. DROWN,

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL

REPRESENTING

T A M PA   ITTPir 
s e e d s m a n   OP
JMlJliO  VllK, ROCHESTER,
GRAND  RAPIDS.

16 and 18 North Division St.,

PLEASE  NOTE—Parties  contemplating 
baying  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  b ox‘package 
seeds  containing ¿00  5c  papers for Si, giving 
you a profit of SO per box.

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

Combines the Advantages of a

FOOMMOML B ill

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A. J.  Bowne, President.

Geo. C. Pierce,  Vice President.

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

Transacts a general banking business.

Make a  Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 

o f Country Merchants Solicited.

HIRTH  &  KRAUSE

LEATHER

SHOE  BRUSHES,

SHOE  BUTTONS,

SHOE  POLISH,

ings, etc.  Write tor Catalogue.

SHOE  LACES.
Heelers, Cork Soles, Button  Hooks, Dress­
118 Canal Street,  Grand Rapids.
8TJNT0N, SAMPSON * GO.,
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.
CHAS.  A.  COYE
Horse and Wagon Covers, 

MANUFACTURER  o f

Awnings and Ttents,
Flags and Banners,
Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,

Wide Ducks, etc.

Telephone  106.

73 CANAL ST., 

-  GRAND RAPIDS.

We carry a full  'ine of 
Seeds  of  every  variety, 
both for field and garden. 
Parties  in  want  should 
write to or see the
GRAND RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  S ID  CO.

71 CANAL STREET.

MYRON  H.  WALKER,

Attorney and Solicitor,

Pass Book and  the  Coupon 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICH.

System.

PRICE  LIST.

20 Coupon Pass  Books..........
$8
100
$50 
$09
1009 

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..$   1  00
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..........  6  25
..........10  00
..........17  50

Money can be sent by  postal  note  or post- 

office or express order.

&  A.  STOWE  &  BRO„

Grand Rapids, Mich.

•  W.  E   BEACH,

Dealer in

G R A I ^ ,

SEEDS,

BALED  HAY,

MILL  FEED, 

and PRODUCE.

In  Car  Lote.

HOLLAND,

MICH.

BEANS!

I have  a   nice lot  of  Hand- 
picked  Beans  I  offer  to  the 
trade.  Parties in w ant can get 
«applied by writing to

W ,  T. LAMOREAUX,

w   $1 Hsnal Street, . ; ;  t  Grand Rapid*, Mich.

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

To C id Dealers

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

SILVER SPOTS

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

It will be sold on its merits.  Sample or­

ders filled on 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.

I.  T.  VARBBN  1  CO,
BELKNAP

F lin t,  M ich .

Spring,  Freight,  Express, 

MANUFACTURERS OF
Lumber, and  Farm

W A G O N S !

Logging Carts  and  Trucks 

Mill and Dump Carts, 
«Lumbermen’s and 

River Tools.

We carry a huge stock of material, and have 
eveiff facility for malting first-class  Wagons
_|W Speoial  attention  given  to  Repairing, 
Painting and lettering.

Slops on Front Si., Grand Rapids, Kish,

P R . 0 3 D T T 0 E  !
W e  should  be  pleased  to open corres­
pondence with  anyone  having  APPLES, 
POTATOES, ONIONS, BEANS, PRIED 
FRUIT1 S and Other Country Produce to of­
fer.  CAR  LOTS A SPECIALTY.  Con­
signments will receive our  best  attention.
W e are willing at all  times, to make lib­
eral advances when drafts  aré drawn with 
bill lading attached.  Goods sold on arriv­
al or held as per request of shipper.
S .   T .   F I S H :   C*3  C o . ,

Commission Merchants,

189  So.  W ater  S t.,  Chicago, 111.

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

G rocer here.

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.

lari Bros.,  Common Merchants,

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO., 

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

ASK  FOR

ÄRDENTER

MUSTARD
BEST III THE VOSLD.
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.

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

166 South W ater St., CHICAGO. 
Reference

Felsenthal. Gross  & Miller. Bankers 

Chicago.
H E X T E R   &  F R IE D M A N

Manufacturers  of

B U T T E R I N T E .

Office and Factory;  231,233  Michigan,St.

CHICAGO, 

- 

ILL.

We have  taken 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 stoek  o f  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 Ä LYON,

Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

BOOKS,

20  and 22  ionroe St.,  fraud Bands,  Mich,

SEEDS!
Field Seeds

A FULL LINE OF

AT  JOBBING PRICES.

Drop Card for Price List.

C.  AINSWORTH,

76 So. Division Street,.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.
, -V’u  

Telephone 80*.

A  FISH  STORY.
Written Especially fo r Tb s  Tradbsman.

Jack Aldrich was a thriving  retail grocer 
in a close street of one of  onr  large  cities. 
He had a snug little store,  a nice snug little 
wife, together with an  annually  increasing 
snug little family;  and Jack,  if  we  except 
one little weakness, was the  most  diligent 
and steady fellow to be  found in the neigh­
borhood.  Small in person,  pleasing in ex­
terior, Jack Aldrich was always  considered 
a peculiarly smart  tradesman.  His  father 
had pursued the same business  before him, 
and,  though there were  not  large  profits, 
there  was  certainly  contentment,  which 
Jack very wisely judged was far better.

It did not require any vivid stretch of the 
imagination to form a  comparison  between 
the venerable Izaak Walton,  of  piscatorial 
celebrity,  and our grocery for,  like  that im­
mortal angler. Jack was devoted to his call­
ing and usually confined to streams of small 
dimensions,  but making his escape whenev­
er he could to enjoy  the  sole  recreation of 
his  existence—that  recreation  being 
the 
sport with which Izaak’s name is ever asso­
ciated.

Jack  Aldrich  was  a  worthy disciple of 
this  renowned  angler—at  least,, he would 
have been had he strictly followed that mas­
ter’s injunctions;  but,  if  truth must be con­
fessed,  the one weakness already alluded to 
in our little grocer consisted  of  indulgence 
beyond the bounds of  strict  sobriety,  when 
any prolonged or favorable  sport more than 
usually  elated  his  spirits.  On such occa­
sions,  Emily,  his faithful  wife,  of  course 
lectured the recreant grocer  most  severely; 
while he,  mortified  and  humbled,  meekly 
promised  “never to do so  any  more,’’  and 
kept his word until  betrayed  into  tempta­
tion again.  Being a water-drinker at home, 
from motives of prudence,  not to say  of ne­
cessity,  it did not require much in the shape 
of stimulants to render poor Jack  helpless. 
Whenever he could spare an hour  or two in 
the long summer  evenings,  after  the  busi­
ness of the day was. nearly over,  leaving the 
store iu Emily’s care,  away  slipped Jack to 
the river,  there to watch his  line and forget 
his  cares,  until  night’s  sombre  shadows 
warned him that all sober  citizens  were re­
tiring. 
It was only at  rare  intervals  that 
Jack engaged in a whole day’s  fishing;  for, 
in the first place,  he could not  absent  him­
self from pressing daily duties,  and,  in the 
second,  he had no  friend  resident  in  the 
country  within  easy  access  to  whom he 
could resort for an introduction to  babbling 
streams and big fish.  He had  toiled  early 
and late,  as his father had done before him; 
and when Emily’s brother  bought  a  small 
country hotel situated  upon  the banks of a 
river much resorted to by  anglers  and sent 
a hearty invitation to Jack to come and vis­
it him,  what words can paint the bright an­
ticipations  of  the  happy grocer?  He had 
not been well of late—needed summer  holi­
days;  and,  in short, Jack  could  not  resist 
the tempting offer.

Emily urged her husband  with  affection­
ate solicitude,  to “keep  watch”  over  him­
self;  but she loved him  too  well  and  was 
too unselfish to object to his  accepting  her 
brother’s hospitality.  “Make hay while the 
sun shines,  my dear,” she said;  “you  may 
never have such another opportunity.  Bus­
iness is slack just now—besides, the baby is 
weaned  and  I  can  take  care of the store 
with Charlie;  only—” here there was  a pri­
vate  whispered  admonition,  the  tenor  of 
which may be inferred from  Jack’s answer, 
accompanied by a hearty kiss:  “I  promise 
you,  my dear,  that I will never taste a drop 
except  when  I  get my feet wet,  and then 
only just enough to keep out  the cold.”

“Oh,  that  cold,  Jack!”  replied  Emily; 
“it’s a queer thing  is  that  cold!  Always 
trying to get a hold on you,  and nothing but 
a little whisky will keep it away! ”  and the 
wife shook her head.

It was too much felicity for  Jack Aldrich 
—gathering together his assortment of rods 
and  tackle—laying  out  his  hard-earned 
money to purchase  more—packing  his  va­
lise and setting out on a:  beautiful  summer 
morning.

Yet his dreams fell short of reality  when 
Jack first beheld the  palradise  which  sur­
rounded Ord’s hotel, nestled on  the  pictur­
esque  river.  Here  he  could  fish  off  the 
bank from a grassy slope where  the  banks 
hung over the broad, deep waters where the 
monsters of the finny tribe  were  plentiful. 
Herie he did fish off the green  bank,  but the 
fish were strangely shy. *  Jack labored most 
assiduously;  but, somehow, he caught noth­
ing.  There was always  something  wrong; 
either it was too hot,  or fhe  water  was  too 
clear, or the fish wouldnh take that particu­
lar bait at that particular  spot and he must 
go up or down stream.,  lAnd  so  Jack  fol­
lowed  the  river’s  course patiently,  day by 
day,  striving most manfully to  ensnare the 
wary inhabitants of the treacherous element. 
“Try the ‘Black Pool,’ ” said one  and  an­
other, until Jack determined  that he would 
fay these famed waters,  although  the  pool 
was  a  long  way  up stream.  However, a 
farmer offered to give him a lift in his wag- 
qn on the way up,  leaving Jack to work his 
jvay back to the  hotel  as  best  he  might; 
and,  well supplied with lunch  stowed away 
in his basket, Jack set forth  to try his luck 
in the “bottomless  pit,”  for so the  “Black

Pool” was significantly named by the inhab­
itants thereabouts,  with whom the spot was 
in ill-repute.  .

Solemn and stately were the  neighboring 
woods and an old house stood' on  the  sum­
mit of a high hill near by. 
It was uninhab­
ited now and,  of course,  there was a legend 
attached.

A former owner of the  building and farm 
surrounding it was very  anxious tor a son; 
but, on his unhappy  wife  presenting  him 
with nothing but daughters, he  swore  that 
on the birth of the next he  would  throw it 
into the “Black Pool.”  He  did so,  and not 
only once but two or  three  times,  so  the 
story went. 
It was  also  related  that  the 
bodies of the babies  were  never  recovered 
from the deep,  dismal waters,  which  went 
to show that the pool was bottomless.  How­
ever,  whether it was  that  they  were  left 
very much alone or that the fish in the pool 
were really better  than  others,  report had 
not exaggerated their abundance  and  size, 
and Jack,  to his great satisfaction, managed 
to capture some “big fellows,” according to 
his own phrase.

It was a solitary  place.  The  river  here 
was dark and sullen;  it was a  fitting  place 
for the enactment of the  baby horror.  The 
air was sultry,  as if a storm were  brewing, 
clouds were gathering and the  heat was in­
tense.  There was no “cold”  to  keep  out 
and Jack’s feet were  perfectly  dry,  but so 
was  his  throat.  Ord,  his  brother-in-law, 
had placed a suspicious-looking bottle in the 
basket,  saying he might like a little “in wa­
ter” after  a while.  Jack  was very  thirsty 
and he drank a large quantity  of  water out 
of a large tin cup, pouring in  just  enough 
of the contents of the bottle  to  “take  the 
chill off,” as he was heated and  feared  the 
result of the cold water alone.

“I won’t forget my promise  to  my  dear 
Emily,” said Jack to himself,  as  he  drank. 
“Not one drop of whisky clear will I touch. 
Ah,  bless me!  how  her  dear  heart  would 
ache if she were to  hear  this  tale  of  the 
monster who  murdered  his  babes!  She’d 
almost think she could see  their  faces  up­
turned  in  the  water. 
I  wonder,  now,  if 
there’s any truth in the  story?”  and  Jack 
fell into a  reverie.  Sitting  down  on  the 
bank,  he fell asleep  and  dreamed  that in­
stead of hooking a big fish  he  had  pulled 
out a girl baby!  Great was  his horror,  and 
he awoke with a start,  to find that darkness 
was rapidly gathering  around  him,  while a 
few pattering drops now and then betokened 
the approach of a storm as  the  grumbling 
thunder  died  away  in the distance.  One 
drink to fortify  himself,  and  Jack  com­
menced his homeward route—a rather  diffi­
cult undertaking, as he was not  acquainted 
with the road and compelled to  diverge fre­
quently from the river,  which  was  a  sure 
guide,  however,  as it  flowed  directly  past 
his brother-in-law’s  door.  But  rivers  are 
straggling,  winding  things,  and  after an 
hour’s  hard  toiling  over  unknown  paths, 
moving slowly and  carefully,  for  caution 
was extremely necessary on the bank of the 
river,  poor Jack Aldrich  became  thorough­
ly nervous and exhausted as the rain poured 
down and the thunder burst overhead.  Wet 
through in a moment,  he took  refuge iu the 
bottle of whisky.  “Even Emily would rec­
ommend it now,” said he,  and his thoughts 
went back to the cozy little room  over  the 
store,  where he was wont to  enjoy  a  nice 
supper with his wife.  Now,  here  he  was, 
wandering and houseless,  uncertain  of  the 
way,  wet through and no sight or  sound of 
humanity to cheer his eyes or ears.  He on­
ly heard the rushing of the river, the wail of 
the  wind  and  those  ghostly,  mysterious 
noises which issued from the desolate woods. 
It was enough to appal a stouter  heart than 
Jack Aldrich’s.  No wonder he  took  com­
fort from the bottle.

“Catch me a-going a-fishing in  a  strange 
place again!” muttered he;  “only  catch me 
at it,  that’s all!”

An impression  that  he  was  walking  on 
haunted ground and that,  at the  same time, 
his basket was getting heavier  and heavier, 
oppressed Jack Aldrich with a sensation al­
most approaching suffocation,  and he shout­
ed aloud,  as if to increase his courage—talk­
ing to himself and at  himself—“Who  says 
Jack Aldrich is drunk?  Any one who dares 
to say so is a reprobate!  Who  dares to say 
that Jack Aldrich carries a basketful of dead 
babies  instead  of  dead fish?”  But just as 
the  inebriated  fisherman  came to this por­
tion  of  his  harangue,  a  light appeared a 
short distance away and, as he made toward 
it,  a low,  dull  sound,  as  of  monotonous 
knocking,  fell oh his  ear,  notwithstanding 
his  perceptions  were  not  particularly 
acute.

the 

Jack staggered along until  he  reached a 
building  whence 
sounds  appeared 
to proceed and, creeping  slowly  toward an 
apeiture,  peeped in with a  remarkably  sa­
gacious expression of countenance, no doubt, 
had the darkness  permitted  his  face to be 
seen.  What he beheld there  caused him to 
start backward so suddenly  that, coming in 
contact with a log, he fell violently  over it, 
the blood spurting from his  nose  and a cry 
escaping at the same moment from the hap­
less angler,"  Jack  Aldrich  had  seen three 
spectral-looking  men  working  at a coffin, 
engaged in finishing the  dismal  receptacle 
with all their might, as if it was" wanted  in

a hurry.  When he recovered from the tem­
porary stupor resulting  from  his  fall,  the 
scared man could neither  speak  nor  move; 
his tongue stuck to the roof  of  his  mouth 
and his legs  were  powerless to sustain his 
weight.  Once,  indeed, he  thickly  mutter­
ed,  “Whisky, more whisky!”  but  immedi­
ately sank back,  helpless and  hopeless,  for 
he heard a voice say,  “ We’ll  put  him  in 
when it is finished;  it is just  done.  We’re 
in good time and it’ll be the safest place for 
the  drunken  brute.”  Poor  Jack  Aldrich! 
To be put in a coffin alive at  the suggestion 
of one whom he thought an evil spirit!

He heard another say,  “Hello!  let’s have 
a look into his basket!  My,  but they’re big 
ones!  Put  them  in  with him and let’s be 
off at once.”

“Off at once!  Where?” thought the terri­
fied and miserable  man—“Where  are  they 
off to?  To the ‘bottomless pit,’ for stealing 
the dread secrets of  the haunted pool?”  As 
to the whisky,  that  was  nothing—ghostly 
beings never interfered with  such  matters. 
The knocking discontinued,  a  tramping of 
feet was heard,  a bustle  as  of  preparation 
and Jack felt himself  lifted  up and laid in 
what he knew by instinct to be a coffin!  Oh, 
it was most horrible!  And,  with  an effort, 
he jerked aside the lid,  which  was  placed 
lightly over him,  half raising himself  as he 
did so.

“If he gets uneasy,” said  a  stern  voice, 
“we must secure  him  better, or he’ll be in 
the water before his time comes  and  make 
food  for  the  fishes  instead  of fun for the 
devil.”

So they were conveying him to his Satan­
ic majesty, dead  babies  and  all,  perhaps 
mistaking  him  for  their  murderer!  Jack 
still had sense enough to be  aware  that his 
struggles only  rendered  matters worse;  he 
was in powerful hands and they tossed him 
about  like  a feather.  Could his dear wife 
see her husband in a  coffin, what would her 
feelings be?  And,  as Jack thought of this, 
his tears began to flow copiously.  He  sob­
bed and  wailed  in  a  sickening,  maudlin 
tone;  but it had a soothing effect and he fell 
off to sleep just as he was conscious  of  be­
ing placed in a  boat  and,  amid  gleaming 
torches,  rowed rapidly away,  but  whether 
up or down stream he could not tell.  “Bat 
of course they are taking me  to  the  “bot­
tomless pit,’ and there they  will  cast me in 
with my horrible load,” he thought.

Could it be the whisky which  made Jack 
Aldrich  confound  the  fish  he had caught 
with the murdered babes,  who  had  slum­
bered beneath the waters for years?  With a 
stifled cry for pardon on his  lips, 
insensi­
bility succeeded,  and when  Jack  awoke at 
noon next day in his  bed at his  brother-in- 
law’s,  with the sun streaming in through the 
curtains, he shuddered at the  remembrance 
of his horrible adventure, wondering how he 
came to be in bed,  and  also  how  he  had 
come by  a  bandaged  cheek,  from,  which 
blood was still oozing,  and  a  head  which 
throbbed so fearfully at  each  pulsation  of 
his heart.

“What a horrible vision!”  he  exclaimed, 
feebly.  “Demons rowing me in a coffin  to 
the ‘bottomless pit’ of the  Black  Pool!  It 
is a warning to prepare for my death!”

“No, no, Jack!” exclaimed  the  cheerful 
voice of his  brother-in-law;  “it  wasn’t  a 
death warning,  but only a  gentle  hint  not 
to attack the bottle so often;  your  head is 
none  of  the  strongest  and won’t bear it. 
You’re all  right,  my  boy,  for  you  have 
brought back  some of the nicest fish I have 
seen in many a day,  though  both  they and 
you came home in a  rather  queer sort of a 
way,  it must be owned—all  packed up in a 
coffin together!”

“Ord,” said Jack,  solemnly,  “these  are 
not fish;  they are those  drowned children!”
“Poor fellow,  he is wandering again.  He 
must have another blister,”  said  Mr.  Ord. 
And by the time it was  put  on  and  more 
drugs had been administered,  Jack’s  fever 
was so much reduced  that  he  was  able to 
collect his thoughts  and attempt a descrip­
tion of the prodigious  scenes  he  had gone 
through.  “Why,  that was  old  Mat.  Jen­
kins and his two sons whom  you  took  for 
demons,” laughed Mr.  Ord, as  he  listened 
to Jack’s account  of  his  midnight  adven­
tures.  “Mat. is  a  temperance  man,  and 
thinks nothing of sending a man to  Beelze­
bub if he gets drunk;  and,  between you and 
I, I don’t think Mat. is far wrong, for whis­
ky is the high road to ruin at all times.”

“Yes, yes,  I know that!”  groaned  Jack. 
“But they put me in a coffin  and rowed me 
off.  How  did  I  get  here?  Oh,  I  am  a 
doomed man!  I am a doomed man!  I shan’t 
be long out of my real coffin!”

“You won’t,  if you go on like this, Jack,” 
replied Mr. Ord, with a serious  air.  “You 
have got a severe contusion oh the head, be­
sides other injuries, and ft is  absolutely ne­
cessary that you be kept quiet  and  discard 
these foolish  fancies.  Old Mat.  Jenkins is 
our only  undertaker  hereabouts;  his. work­
shop is close to the river «and  he frequently 
conveys his dismal  burdens in a boat.  The 
wooden box in which he  laid you for safety 
was wanted urgently for  a  poor  boy  who 
died  of  infectious  fever.  He  thought  he 
was doing the beet he  could  for  you.  He 
found, by a letter, that you  were  stopping 
here,  and he  deposited  you and the fish on 
theporeh, where we  found  you  in a h ard

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY 8,  1888,

NO. 229.

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shape,  indeed. 
I believe old Mat.  thought 
you a worse occupant for the coffin than the 
one fer whom it was intended.”

“And so I was!” exclaimed  the  penitent 
man;  4 ‘and before I am put in a coffin again, 
may I be baried alive if I am  not  a reform­
ed  man.” 

His wife, Emily,  was not informed of the 
reason, but she was very  much  pleased, as 
time progressed,  to find her husband  proof 
agaipst^jie  strongest  temptations.  Never 
was he^mown to be in the least  degree ine­
briated after his return  from  this  memora­
ble  expedition,  and  not  even to keep the 
“cold” out would he drink a drop  of  whis­
k y - 

B e l l u f .
How  Profits  are  Figured  in  Maine.

________ 

From   th e Lewiston (Me.)  Journal.

A Madawaska clothing dealer in  the  last 
month of the last year took a business vaca­
tion trip to Portland,  and  dropped  into one 
of the largest wholesale  clothing  houses in 
the city to purchase ready-made goods.  He 
purchased goods to the amount of $230, and 
asked for credit.  The Madawaska clothing 
man was a  good-looking  fellow,  and  the 
Portland  wholesaler  trusted  him. 
This 
week the  Madawaska  merchant  came  to 
Portland, paid his $230, bought  $500 worth 
of clothing and asked for time  again.  The 
proprietor called him into his  private  office 
and  said:
“Five hundred dollars is quite a bill.” 
“Yes.”
“I thought  it wouldn’t  be out of place to 
inquire a little into your financial  standing, 
that’s all.”

in Madawaska.”

“Quite right, quite right.'”
‘ ‘At what profit do you sell  these  goods 
“Ten per cent.”
“Of course you have to pay the freight on 
these goods, sell some  of  them  on  credit 
and  you  find  a  poor  customer once in a. 
while?”
;  “O, yes.”
“I don’t think the firm will be able to self 
you goods unless you pay.”
The Madawaska man stared at  the  Port­
land,  wholesaler  and  said:  “I  guess you 
don’t  reckon  10  per  cant,  profit here in 
Portland the way  we  do  in  Madawaska. 
When I pay you $1 for an article Madawas­
ka pays me $10 for it.”
“Sell you?  Well, I guess we’ll  sell  you. 
all the goods  you  want,  my  friend. 
I’d 
trust you as soon as I  would  the  Bank  of 
England,” concluded the  wholesale  dealer 
in trousers,  dispatching a clerk  to  pack up*, 
the goods.

He Did Not Reduce the Bill.

A man who had just set up in  the  hard­
ware  business  and  who  had been a clerk 
where  the  eccentric  millionaire,  Stephen 
Girard, had been in the  habit  of  trading, 
applied to him for a share of his patronage. 
Girard bought of him,  but when the bill was 
sent in he found  fault  and  marked  down 
the prices.

“Cask of nails,”  he  growled,  “which  I 
was offered for so and so.  You have charg­
ed so and so,  and you must take it off.”

“I  cannot  do  it,”  said the  young mer­

chant.

“But you must do it,” roared Girard.
“I cannot and will not,” was the final re­

ply.
Girard  bolted  out,  apparently in a rage, 
but soon after sent a check  for  the  whole 
bill.  The young man began to  relent  and 
say to himself:  “Perhaps  he  was  offered 
them at that price,  but it is all over now. 
I 
am sorry I did not reduce the bill and get it 
out of him on  something  else.  His  trade 
would have been worth a good  deal to me.”
By and  by Girard came again  and  gave 
him another order.  The  young  man  was 
very courteous and said he was almost sorry 
he did not reduce the former bill.
“Reduce a bill!” exclaimed Girard.  “Had 
you done it I would  never  trade  with you 
I merely meant to  see  if  you  had 
again. 
cheated me.”

The Modem Octopus.

In  answer  to  the  question,  “How does 
the  trade  look  upon  the sugar trust?”  the 
leading jobber promptly replied:

“With disgust.  Competition  is  the  life 
of trade. 
Its absence makes the handler  as 
well as the cousumer suffer.  There are doz­
ens  of  brands  of  sugar.  Each  maker 
claims his own possesses the greatest merit, 
and there is a vast difference between them. 
Now the  trust  places  them  all on a level. 
Jobbers and brokers alikej are down on this 
trust.  That  mercantile  trust  ought to be 
prohibited by Congress  is  the sentiment of 
the trade.”

’e?”

Little six-year-old Jay was visiting at his 
Aunt Willa’s,  and  some  caller  had a baby 
with her.  Jay walked up and looked at the 
baby as it lay in its mother’s arms  and, go­
ing back to his aunt, said:

“Aunt Willa, Dod knows everthing, don’t 

“Yes, Jay.”
Jay goes back to the baby, solemnly  eyes 
turning  around,  says 

it  a  moment  and, 
slowly:

“Aunt Willa, then Dod  knows that baby 

has an awful j>ug nose.”
PERFECTION  SCALE

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Will Soon Save its Cost on any Counter.
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.  1  WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO  THE

Retail trade of Irte Woltieriae Siale.

E. A. STOWE &  BEO., Proprietors.

Subscription—One Dollar per year.  Advertid 

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Publication Office—49 Lyon Street, Grand 
% Rapids. 
Eastern  Representative—E.  H. AYER, 49 
TrlbuneBuUdlng, N. Y.
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piration, unless so ordered by the subscriber.

Wintered  at  the  Grand  Rapids  Post  Office.

E.  A. STOWE,  Editor.

W E D N ESD A Y ,  F E B R U A R Y   8,  1888.

'  T H E   N EW   INSURANCE  LAW .
The new law  prohibiting  compacts  and 
combinations is now in force and the insur­
ance companies are disposed to  resect  it. 
liearly all the companies  doing  business in 
Michigan have seht out  circulars  to  their 
agents in this State, substantially as follows: 
To our Michigan Agents:
Gentlem en —Referring to what is known 
as the “Cole Law” passed at the last session 
of your Legislature,  and evidently designed 
to prevent insurance companies  and  agents 
from co-operating in any manner in the reg­
ulation of business, and which  law goes in­
to effect on the 1st prox., it  is  but  proper 
that our views in regard to  the  conduct of 
Our business and the course which we intend 
to pursue should be given.
You are doubtless  well  advised as to the 
scope  and  intent  of that law, and that on 
and after the 1st of  February  it will not be 
lawful for you  (in the language of  the law) 
to enter into any “contract” or “agreement” 
with other agents or associations,  “the  ob­
ject or effect of which is  to  prevent  open 
and free  competition,”—so reads the law— 
evidently seeking thereby to disband all ex­
isting local  boards,  compacts  and  agree­
ments as to rates.
The operation of this law will necessarily 
make certain changes in  our  business  ex­
pedient, and while we can  entertain no res­
pect for a law so unjust in its  provisions as 
this seems to be, yet so long as  it  remains 
in force this Company will  observe  it, and 
must ask its agents to do the same.
We wish further to say that so far as this 
Company is concerned, we w ill  not  permit 
eUny reduction in  rates  by  reason  of  this 
change in the  manner  of  conducting  our 
business, and no concession whatever in the 
rate last accepted will be made,  except  for 
actual improvements that  render  the  risk 
safer.  All new risks will  be  rated  at-this 
office on the same basis as the class has paid 
heretofore, subject to  such  increase as our 
experience would seem to make  necessary. 
Furniture factories hereafter will be wholly 
-declined in your State;  no  saw  mill  risk 
will be accepted except those of  the  better 
Class located at the agency writing, and pro­
vided with first-class appliances  for  extin­
guishing fire, and then only on  surveys and 
applications signed by the owners and made 
a part and warranty of  the  policy;  wood­
working  establishments  generally  will be 
declined, except at a very material  advance 
in rate;  flour mills will be rated by us under! 
the schedule now in use in this  office,  and 
as for lumber risks, the present rule  of this 
Office requiring space and  four-fifths  co-in- 
Surance clause will be adhered to.
We shall endeavor to place in your hands 
Within a short time printed tariffs,  by which 
the business of this  office will be governed, 
without reference to rates or  rules  adopted 
by other companies,  but  in  the  absence of 
such the above rules  will  govern,  subject, 
o f course, to such changes as may be adopt­
'd!  hereafter,  not  contrary to law,  and  as 
may occur to us in the future.
This law will impose additional labor and 
responsibility  upon  each  of  you,  but  we 
trust that the good judgment and discretion 
of our agents will convince  them  that they 
can conform to the  law  with  much  better 
results to themselves and this  Company by 
ttstrM  adherence to adequate rates, than to 
enter into any wild scramble  for  business.
Agents will please  understand  that rules 
relating to commissions paid by  this  Com­
pany,  or  by  other  companies  associated 
With us in the same agency, are in ho  ma-i- 
ner affected by the  new  law,  and  remain 
unchanged.

As will be noted, in the above circular,  in­
surance agents are instructed  to write risks 
at the rates in  vogue  before  the  compact 
was abolished. 
It is  understood  that  the 
ratings of the Board on all  the  risks in the 
Slate are now being classified  and  printed 
In Chicago and that copies will shortly be in 
tjie  hands  of  local agents.  While such a 
device will probably tend to  hold  up  rates 
for a time,  they  cannot  be maintained very 
long.  Local agents admit that the competi­
tion for mercantile risks,  on which the most 
money is made,  will cause a  break  in  the 
rates within sixty days,  and this  opinion is 
corroborated by  several insurance magnates 
whom T h e T radesm an  has  caused to be 
interviewed on the subject  The same rule 
Will hold good as regards new  buildings on 
which  insurance  is  sought  Without  the 
iron hand of the Board to  fix  an  arbitrary 
rate, competition  is  as  sure  to  bring  in­
surance down to what it is worth  as  water 
is sure to reach its own level.  A reduction 
in  toe rates on one or two  classes  of  risks 
will necessarily be followed  by  lower rates 
all around, so that the time  is not far  dis­
tant when the  concession the B. M. A. has 
been working for  years  to  secure— ‘ ‘Good 
insurance at Bur  rates”—will  be  realized. 
Then, if not  before,  will  be  tone  to  in­
quire into and abolish some of the detestable 
practices used by insurance adjusters in set­
tling losses.

In the meantime, it behooves  every  busi­
nessman to zealously watch  the  Commis­
sion having in preparation a  standard form 
of insurance policy, to toe end  that the in- 
terests of the insured  are  protected.  The 
insurer will take care  of  his  interests—no 
one need worry on that score.

PURE FOOD AGAIN.

The editor of T h e   T r a d e s m a n   w a s  not 
présent ât  toe  so-called Jhire  Food  “con­
vention,” held  at  Washington three weeks 
ago; and In the language  of  the Celt, he is 
“dom glod he wasn’t.” 
.  N ot haying witnessed  the  pandemonium 
M f   Oto  tíme  toecon-

. . .

vention was supposed  to  be  in  session, he 
is compelled to glean  his  knowledge of the 
proceedings  entirely  from  -the  reports  of 
those who were there,  and  to  that end he 
has waded-through toe more or less extend­
ed  descriptions  given  in  about fifty trade 
journals  and  newspapers.  With  few  ex­
ceptions,  the  convention  is  pronounced a 
most  dismal  failure -  in  all  the  elements 
which are necessary  to  make up a success­
ful gathering, bent  on the  accomplishment 
of a common  purpose.  The  editor  of  the 
Denver  Retail  Grocer,  who  traveled  a 
thousand  miles  to  attend  the convention, 
seems to have expressed  the  sentiment  of 
everyone present in the following  terse and 
plaintive wail:
We would like  to  say  one kind word in 
regard to this convention,  but  we  cannot, j 
One would naturally suppose that a body of 
intelligent,  professional  and  business men 
could  meet  without  the  disgraceful  pro­
ceedings which characterized this assembly. 
The thing opened and ended with a wrangle 
and  about  the  only  thing a well-meaning 
delegate was instructed  in  was  parliamen­
tary 
law.  *  *  *  The  principal  fight 
seemed to be  in the selection of a president. 
Why this  was so we  cannot  say, but it ap­
pears there were  two  factions  strongly op­
posed  to  each  other.  *  *  *  We  are 
free to admit that the  manner in which the 
meeting was conducted will  utterly destroy 
any-possibility of getting  the  bill  through 
Congress,  and we  will  also  state  that the 
next  meeting will not even  have a quorum. 
It is a pity.

T h e  T radesm an—speaking  for  and in 
behalf of the Michigan  Business Men’s As­
sociation,  the largest and  strongest body of 
organized business  men  in  this  country— 
has never  favored  the  proposed  National 
Act.  Looking at the  convention  from this 
distance.  Th e T r adesm an  sees no  reason 
why  it  should  alter  its  position.  A bill 
which can be changed,  as the so-cajled Pure 
Food  bill  was  altered,  simply  by  a little 
clamor,  shows unmistakably  that the origi­
nal  draft  possessed  little  merit—none  in 
fact,  in  its  unconstitutional  form.  The 
present bill, so hastily amended and so easi­
ly accepted, carries with it in but  small de­
gree the confidence  of  the  people and will 
be as barren of  results,  if  finally  enacted, 
as is much of the unnecessary and meaning­
less  legislation  which  is  pushed  through 
Congress  every  session  and  immediately 
forgotten by everyone but  the  printer who 
paves its way to the ragman.

T h e Tr a d e sm a n—speaking,  again,  for 
the associated associations which  it  endea­
vors to fairly represent—-has not wasted much 
time  or space in opposing the proposed bill, 
for two reasons:  First, because of its uncon­
stitutionality,  knowing  it  would  come to 
naught;  second,  because^the editor  did  not 
seek to antagonize the  cherished opinions of 
those who were equally in earnest, for good 
food, with the business men of Michigan, but 
who hoped to abolish  all  adulteration with 
one fell swoop—a ridiculous idea which was 
clung to tenaciously until dissipated  by  the 
Washington  convention.  T h e  Tr a d e s­
m an expects  to  see  laws  passed by every 
Legislature in the country,  looking  toward 
trade honesty and the health  of the people. 
Such a plan of  action  the  business men of 
Michigan  always  have  advocated  and al­
ways will advocate.  The  members  of  the 
100 associations,  acting in  unison  through 
the Michigan  Business  Men’s Association, 
believe  in  education,  and  agitation,  and 
legislation—in the order named,  not putting 
the cart  before  the  horse—and  on 
these 
handmaids they base their hopes for the fu­
ture welfare of morality and the  pocket  on 
the question of adulteration.  On  this plat­
form  T he  Tr adesm an is proud  to  stand.

A  Philadelphia  dispatch,  under date of 
Feb.  1,  notes the  following:  “A  suit  for 
$50,000 damages against the Western U nion 
Telegraph Company was  yesterday brought 
by Frank J.  Primrose,  a  wool  merchant, 
who  claims  that  he  lost  that amount of 
money by his Western  agent  buying  wool 
on a failing market through a blunder in tel­
egraphic  instructions.”  A  Grand  Rapids 
business man suffered a loss of  about  $500 
through the inexcusable blunder of a West­
ern Union operator  and  when  he  talked 
about resorting to the courts, the local man­
ager requested him to loan his proofs of the 
error long enough to  forward  them  to the 
New York office for examination.  No soon­
er did the Western Union5 get  the  wéapons 
in their own hands than  they  informed the 
owner that they would not  settle  the  case 
and that he could not have his proofs—part­
ly in the shape of  sheets  taken  from  his 
own eopy book—back  again.  No  amount 
of coaxing or threatening  has  induced  the 
octopus to recede from its first  position and 
the wronged party is prevented  from bring­
ing an action for damages by  reason  of his 
inability to  regain  possession of the docn 
ments necessary to establish his case.  The 
tyrannical attitude of  the  Western  Union 
and its hirelings  was  never  more fittingly 
illustrated than in this case.

Editorial Endorsement of the Aldine Grate 
From the Grand Rapids Eagle.
The Aldine grate  is  unquestionably  the 
handsomest and most artistic article  of  its 
kind  manufactured.  In  addition, it is ac­
knowledged,  by all who have  tested  its car 
pabiiities, to be the most  economical  grate 
on the market, as  ^égards  the  amount  of 
fuel  consumed  in  proportion  to  the  heat 
given out.  It is built upon scientific princi­
ples,  which insure perfect combustion,  ad­
mirable ventilation and absolute  immunity 
from  'the  escape  of  gas  or  smoke.  Mr. 
Théo. M. Carpenter, of the Eagle's editorial 
staff, recently had one of the Adeline  grates 
placed in  his  residence,  on  East  Fulton 
street, and is therefore qualified  to  testify 
personally to the correctness  of  the  above 
statements, which he does with pleasure.
The Aldine is indisputably  the  cleanest, 
handsomest and most efficient  fireplace yet 
devised,  and  its  popularity  is sore to in­
crease as its merits become more  generally 
known. 
■  - 1&1 - V<

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AMONG T H E  TRADE.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Fred j), Yale <& Co.  have added a line of 

teas to their extract business.

Robert North has engaged in the  groce ry 
business at Lake P.  O.  Cody,  Ball,  Barn­
hart & Co. fnmished'the stock.

E. D. Smith has engaged in  the  grocery 
business at Bumip’s  Comers.  Cody, Ball, 
Barnhart & Co. furnished the stock.

Olney,  Shields & Co.  are extending  their 
sample room twenty feet in the  rear, which 
will give them a sample room  20 x 40  feet 
in dimensions.

Peter Bos will engage in general  trade at 
New  Groningen.  Amos  S.  Musselman  & 
Co. will furnish  the  groceries  and  Voigt, 
Herpolsheimer & Co. the dry goods.

A. B. Foote, the Hilliards general dealer, 
has given R.  D. Swarthout a trust mortgage 
for $1,700, including in the document about 
three-quarters oi his Grand Rapids creditors.
Geo. P.  Gifford, Jr., has  purchased of C. 
F. Nason eighteen acres of land  just  north 
of the D., G. H. & M. junction and west of 
the G. R. & I. Railway.  The  tract  has  a 
half mile frontage on the railway track.

Christian Bertsch has purchased the inter­
est  of John H.  Palen in the boot and  shoe 
business of Palen & Herold.  The  business 
will be continued  by  Alonzo  Herold  and 
Christian Bertsch under thè style of Herold 
& Co. 

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The general stock  formerly  belonging to 
E. N.  Lesperence,  of  Hamilton,  which is 
now in possession of E.  G.  Studley  &  Co., 
will be distributed pro rata among the chat­
tel  mortgage  creditors  during  the  coming 
week. 

_______ _________

Ed.  W.  Johnston  has  purchased a half 
interest in the grocery and  meat  market of 
Sam. K.  Beecher,  at the  corner of Jefferson 
and Wealthy avenues, and the business will 
be continued under the style  of  Beecher  & 
Johnston.

Daniel  Kull  gave  Spring  & Company a 
bill  of  sale  for his dry goods stock at 606 
South Division street on February 1 and the 
following day the stock was  taken  posses­
sion of by Spring & Company  and removed 
to the latter’s establishment.

VanEvery & Co., meat dealers at 51 Can­
al street,  have leased the  store  at 55 Canal 
street and  will  occupy  the  new  premises 
with a complete grocery stock,  furnished by 
Arthur Meigs & Co.  The grocery and meat 
market will be connected by an archway.

When H.  H.  Freedman & Co.  took  pos­
session of the Fox & Bradford  cigar  stock 
about a year ago, two  creditors  replevined 
their goods.  The  suits came up for a hear­
ing in the Kent Circuit Court last Thursday, 
when both  the  replevining  creditors  sub­
mitted to a non-suit, decrees for $300.55 and 
$441.72, respectively, being entered against 
them.  Barring  these  two  firms, Jas.  Fox 
has personally settled with all the creditors 
of the former firm of Fox  &  Bradford  and 
will now probably take  steps to secure dis­
charges of indebtedness from them also.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Okemos—J.  Tobias  succeeds  Wm.  Cole 

in the grocery business.

Dimondale—D.  M. Hough’s general store 

has been closed by creditors.

Eaton Rapids—1. P. Roberts has re-open­

ed his grocery and feed store.

Algonac—Geo.  D.  Dana  succeeds  Dana 

Bros, in the grocery business.

Kendall—Geo. W. Knapp  succeeds  Wm. 

Herman in the grocery business.

Muskegon—P.  Wierengo  has  opened a 

hardware store on Myrtle street.

Kalamazoo—E. A.  Welch  has purchased 

the grocery stock of J. E. Doyle.

Big Rapids—Will Haney succeeds Haney 

& Darling in the grocery business.

Hoytville—O. A.  Halladay  is  adding  a 

line of groceries to his drug stock.

Chesaning—Bettis,  Hotaling  &  Co.  suc­

ceed H. J. Bently  in general trade.

Ludington—Chas.  P.  Olson  succeeds J. 

P. Baggott in the grocery business.

Norvell—Tremaine & Co.  succeeds  Yar- 

rington & Bancroft in general trade.

Clyde—F.  A.  Wiekens  &  Co.  succeeds 

Wickens & Adams in general trade.

Adrian—Voorhees  Bros,  have  assigned 

their hat and cap stock to Seth Bean.

Mi. Pleasant—Thos.  McNamara,  general 

dealer, has assigned to  John Kinney.

Adrian—B.  E.  Taylor  has  engaged  in 

the wholesale flour and feed business.

Lansing—Chas. W- Dearin succeeds F. J. 

Blair in the tobacco and cigar business.

Lansing—Geo. L. Davis succeeds Wm. J. 

McRoberts & Co. as proprietor of bazaar.

Sault Ste. Marie—Adams  &  Eccles  suc­
ceed Geo. H. Eeeles in the grocery business.
Brooklyn—Wm.  S. Culver & Co.  succeed 
Walker B. Sherman in the dry  goods  busi­
ness,

Howell—Stephen J. Miller,  the  produce 
dealer, broke his leg while wrestling with a 
friend on the 2d.

Wayland—Rev.  J.  C.  Branch  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  and crockery stock of 
W. H. Bartholomew.

Wayland—F. A.  Burlington  has  closed 
his meat market and taken a position in his 
father’s store at Bradley.

Detroit—Sidney D. Miller has put in $80,- 
000 as the special partner  in  the wholesale 
hardware firm of S. A. Munger & Co.

Jackson—D.  A. Tinker & Co. have closed 
their  dry goods  establishment, preparatory 
to this removal of their stock to Petoskey.

Traverse City—The Hannah & Lay  Mer­
cantile Co. has foreclosed its  chattel  mort* 
gage on the grocery  stock  of I. G. Winnie.

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Fremont—Fentop  &  Forman’s  grocery 
stock has been seized on six executions and 
one chattel mortgage.  The stock  inventor­
ies $1,537.071 

Adrian—A. L. Morrow & Co. have closed 
their boot and  shoe store and  shipped their 
stock to Marion,  Ohio,  where they will re­
sume business.

Detroit—John  Freeman  has been admit­
ted as a general  partner  in  the  wholesale 
hardware firm of S. A.  Munger & Co. under 
the same style.

Hoytville—Wm. Crane has  sold  his  dry 
goods,  grocery  and hardware stock to West 
& Co.  Failing health is the cause assigned 
by Mr.  Crane for his retirement.

Detroit—Geo. Hadzits &  Co.,  wholesale 
notion dealers, have dissolved,  Geo.  Burk- 
heiser retiring and the  remaining  partners 
continuing under the same style.

Elk  Rapids—Eugene  Hill  and  Archie 
Campbell have purchased the fixtures of the 
Farmers’ Market Co. and  will  continue the 
produce business under the style  of  Hill & 
Campbell.

Ishpeming—G. L.  Reynolds,  proprietor 
of a general store at National Location, has 
assigned.  His assets are about  $1,000 and 
his liabilities five times as great.  Reynolds 
has been drinking heavily and is now enjoy­
ing an attack of delirium tremens.

Adrian—Lisle B. Ross,  for several years 
salesman  for  Crane  &  Wood,  and more 
recently head clerk  with  Wood,  Crane  & 
Wood, will shortly remove to Three Rivers, 
where he will engage in  the  clothing busi­
ness.  The firm name will be L.  B. Ross  & 
Co.,  the  company  consisting  of  a  silent 
partner residing in Adrian.

Detroit-»-Last Monday the grocery firm of 
Nieborowski & Shellenberger gave Weise & 
Reese, wholesale grocers,  a one-day  chattel 
mortgage on  their  stock.  The  document 
was filed Tuesday,  and  the next day it was 
foreclosed.  Nieborowski  claims he did not 
know he was signing such  an  expeditious 
warrant,  and has retained  Col. Atkinson to 
help him out.  Weiss & Reese  say that the 
partners  do  not  agree,  and they took the 
goods to protect  themselves.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Kalamazoo—A.  L.  Pratt &  Co., road cart 

manufacturers, have dissolved.

Lansing—Wm.  VanBuren and  Bailey M. 
Buck have formed  a  copartnership  under 
the style of the Lansing  Furniture  Co.  for 
the purpose of engaging in the manufacture 
of cheap beds and chamber suites.

Port  Huron—The  organization  of 

the 
Maddin Two Wheel Pony Binder and Chain 
Mower Manufacturing Co.  (the longest cor­
porate name on record) has  been completed 
by the election  of  Thomas  Sutherland  as 
President,  Marcus Young  as  Secretary and 
Samuel D. Maddin as Superintendent.

Oscoda—The firm  of  Moore  &  Tanner, 
lumber  manufacturers, 
has  dissolved, 
Charles  Tanner  purchasing the interest of 
his partners,  Stephen  Moore  and Lucius S. 
Moore, of Detroit.  The  property  transfer­
red consists of  the  sawmill,  dock,  boom 
privileges, village property,  etc.  The Mes­
srs. Moore retain their pine lands  and  will 
continue  their  lumber  operations  in  the 
woods,  and will have  their  logs cut by Mr. 
Tanner.  The mill has a sawing capacity of 
from 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 a  season,  and 
has a reputation of turning out  as fine lum­
ber as can be cut anywhere.
STRAY  FACTS.

Medina—Chas.  Colvin has been  admitted 
to partnership in the firm of A.  J.  Colvin & 
Co., proprietors of the Medina  cheese  fac­
tory,  and E. G. Farnsworth has retired.

Detroit—O.  W.  Shipman drops  the  coffi 
business to devote his time to the Wheeling 
& Lake Erie Railroad.  The Shipman Coal 
Co., F. B. Stevens, President,  will continue 
business at the old stand.

Detroit—The  Black  Hardware  Co.,  Du- 
charme, Fletcher & Co., the  Detroit  Stove 
Co. and the Peninsular Stove Co.  have  be­
gun suit in assumpsit to  recover  money al­
leged to be due than  from  Osmun & Dow- 
son,  hardware dealers  on  Gratiot  avenue. 
The firm has chattel  mortgaged  its  entire 
stock for $4,800.

Mosherville—Since the  15th of  last  De­
cember, when L. N. Tyler assigned his mill 
property to  I. P.  Wheeler, there has been a 
demand from many fanners who had wheat 
stored in the mill to have  it  returned,  but 
Mr.  Wheeler’s  counsel  advised  him not to 
pay it out.  This  warmed  the  farmers  to 
fever heat.  Finally, Mr.  Wheeler  referred 
the case to the Supreme Court, which decid­
ed that a man cannot  assign  other people’s 
property intrust, and  Mr.  Wheeler has giv­
en notice to that class  of  creditors  to  get 
their wheat.

Menominee—Albert Greiner  is  operating 
two cedar  camps  near  Cedar  river on the 
Stephenson and Cedar river road.  He expects 
to get about 75,000 paving posts this winter 
for  Goodenow  &  Hinds,  of Chicago;  also 
five or six  hundred  cords  of  pulp  wood, 
which  he  will  probably  sell to the paper 
mill company at Appleton, Wis.

Bank Notes.

John H.  Boies has been admitted to part­
nership  in  the  Exchange  Bank of Boies, 
Eaton & Co., at Hudson.

The reference last week to  the  dishonor­
ing of a N.  Y.  draft, imputed to  the  Bank 
of Charlevoix,  should have  been  applied to 
the Charlevoix Savings Bank instead.  Th e 
Tr adesm an is assured,  however,  that the 
dishonoring of the draft was not the fault of 
the drawer, but of the  National Park Bank 
instead,  in not crediting  its  Charlevoix pa­
tron with all its remittances,  and  that  the 
matter was promptly and honorably adjust­
ed by telegraph to  the  satisfaction  of  all 
concerned. 

;V 

.

MISCELLANEOUS.

lock box I, Coopersville, Mich. 

fare  in   th is  city.  Stock  .win  inv en to ry   about 
$3,000.  Cheap rent.  Good reasons  fo r selling.  Apply 
228-41
to L. 36, care Tradesm an. 

Advertisements  will  be  inserted under this bead for 
ohe cent & word the first insertion  and one-half cent a 
word, for  each  subsequent  Insertion.  No  advertise­
ment, taken  for less than 25 cents.  Advance payment.
Advertisements  directing  that  answers  he  sent  in 
care,of this office  must  be accompanied by 35 
cents extra, to cover expense of postage.
■OR SALE—GROCERY STOCK ON MAIS THOROUGH- 
FOR EXCHANGE-FARM WORTH $2,500. WILL TRADE 
F OR  SALE—THE  STOCK,  FIXTURES  ’.AND  LONG 
I 'OR SALE-WHOLE OR PART INTEREST IN A FIRST- 

lease of a  general store doing a  good trade.  Trade 
established.  Reasons fo r  selling, o th er business.  Ad­
230*
dress 108, care M ichigan Tradesm an. 

fo r  m erchandise  or  business  property.  Address 
228-tf

class m eat m ark et ih  a  th riv in g   tow n  of  1,000  in­
h ab itan ts w ith  tw o  railroads.  A verage  sales  $30  per 
day.  .Good reasons for selling. Address H., care Trades­
m an. 
219-tf
FOR SALK—a t   a   b a r g a in ,  a   c l e a n   s t o c k   o f  
hardw are  and  m ill  supplies.  Address  W ayne 
Choate, Agent, E ast Saginaw. 
210-tf
F OR SALE—THE BEST DRUG STORE IN  THE  THRIV- 
ing  city of  Muskegon.  Term s  easy.  C.  L.  Brun- 
dage, M uskegon, Mich. 
193-tf
FOR  EXCHANGE—$1,000  WORTH  OF  BOOTS  AND 
E OR EXCHANGE—FOR MERCHANDISE, HARDWARE 

shoes,  fo r  pine lum ber d ry and on  railroad.  Ad­
230*

o r  general  m erchandise  preferred,  five  acres of 
land  in   flourishing  business  town.  New  house  and 
b am ; house alone cost $2,000 tw o years ago.  Good well, 
cistern  and  out houses.  P lenty  of  fruit.  Also  good 
house  w ith one  acre  of  land  nicely located  in  sam e 
tow n.  Address  G.  W.  W atrous,  Coopersville,  Mich.
230*

dress O, th is office. 

reason.  109. th is office. 

to ry  town.  N othing  o ut  cash  w ill  buy—poor  h ea lth  

Apply to  D.  C. H ulett, St.  Ignace, Mich. 

:  Terms easy.  Good  reasons  fo r  w ishing  to   sail. 
229*

voice about $3,500.  Low ren t.  S outhern Mich, fac­
230*

I70R   SALE—A FINE  DRUG  STOCK  IN  ST.  IGNACE.
FOR  SALE—CLEAN  NEW  STOCK  HARDWARE.  IN- 
WANTED-FOR  CASH,  SMALL  GENERAL  STOCK 
WANTED—AN  EXPERIENCED  SALESMAN  A c­

of m erchandise o r boots and shoes in good farm ­
ing  country.  Must  be  a   bargain.  Give particulars. 
231*
H. W . Haw kins, Reed City. Mich. 

th e  m anufacturing  and  m ill 
tra d e of this S tate  to   tra v el  fo r  a   reliable w holesale 
and re tia l supply  house.  To  th e  rig h t p a rty  w ith ac­
ceptable references steady  em ploym ent will be given. 
Address  Samuel  Lyon,  108  P aris  Ave., G rand Rapids,- 
M ichigan. 
228-2t

quainted  w ith 

- 

Tradesm an. 

m acist.  The best of  references.  R egistered  by 
exam ination and speaks H olland.  Address N. A. Vyne, 
236*
Morley,  Mich. 

a practical know ledge of ch air and general cabi 
n et  w ork.  Address  W.  B.  Nicholson,  W hitehall, 
229*
Mich. 

W ANTED—POSITION  BY AN  EXPERIENCED PHAR- 
W ANTED—FOREMAN  FOR FACTORY.  MUST HAVE 
W ANTED—THE  ADDRESS  OF  ANYONE  WISHING 
SITUATION  WANTED-IN DRY GOODS OR GENERAL 

to   s ta rt  a  variety   store.  Address  B.  D.,  care 
231*

store *y a young German-American, of four y ears’ 
experience.  Be^t of references.  Address W. C., Michi­
229*
g an Tradesm an. 
GOOD  BUISNESS  AND  STOCK  FOR SALE. ~OUR 
furnace com pany pays to  h er  m en $10,000 to $12,- 
000  p er  m onth.  Address  F, draw er  V,  Bangor,  Mich.
229*

WANTED—EVERY  STORE-KEEPER  WHO  READS 

this  paper  to   give  th e Sutliff  coupon system  a 
trial.  I t will abolish y our pass  books,  do  aw ay  w ith 
all yo u r book-keeping, in  m any instances save yeu th e 
expense of one clerk, will b ring  your business  down to 
a   cash basis and  save  you  all  th e  w orry and trouble 
th a t usually go w ith the pass-book plan.  S tart th e 1st 
of the m onth w ith th e new  system  and  you  w ill never 
reg ret it.  H aving  tw o kinds, both  kinds  w ill be  sent 
by  addressing  (m entioning  th is  paper)  J.  H.  Sutliff, 
Albany, N. Y. 
226-tf

W ANTED—1,000 MORE  MERCHANTS TO ADOPT  OUR 

Im proved Coupon  Pass  Book System.  Send for 
225-tf

sam ples.  E. A. Stowe & Bro., G rand Rapids. 

A  SANITARY  SAFEGUARD,

AN ECONOMICAL  HEATER,

THE  JtLDINE  FIRE-PLRGE

Is constructed on  scientific principles.  It is 
the only successful hard  coal grate made.  It 
also  burns soft  coal,  crushed  coke  and wood 
equally as economically.  Unlike other grates, 
it has the return  draft  of  a  coal  stove.  The 
objects attained  are economy of fuel, perfect 
ventilation, distribution  of  heat,  and  equali­
zation of temperature from floor to ceiling.  It 
can be set in  the chimney like ordinary direct 
draft  grates,  or  piped  to  flues  one  or  more 
rooms removed from the grate itself.  It costs 
less  than  half  as  much  to  operate it,  and  it 
keeps fire through the night as  well as a  hard 
coal  stove.  Send  for  illustrated  catalogue, 
containing  full  and  explicit  information  re­
garding the  grate, or call at  the  factory  and 
see an Aldine Fire-Place in operation.
JtLDINE  MANUFACTURING CO.,

Cor. Court St. and Shawmut Ave.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

T H E   GREAT

EDMUND B.DIKEMBN
Watch leaker 

Jeweler,
Grand Rapids,  -  JIM.
J.  E.  FELDNER  &  CO.,

44  GÄNÄL

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«

CUSTOM  SHIRT  MAKERS,
Men’s  Furnishing  Goods.

and dealers in

NO. 3  PEARL  ST., 

-  GRAND  RAPIDS 

Prompt Attention to Hall Orders.  Telephone 891.

Offer N o. 173.

FREE—To Merchants Only:  An 
elegant  silver-plated  Water Pitcher, 
frosted and richly  carved? height,  13 
inches.  Addrhss at once, R. W . Tan- 
sill  &  Co,, 55. State S t, Chicago.

£S^This  soap  may be  used  in  ANY  WAY 
and  for  ANY  PURPOSE  that»any  other  is 
used, and will  be found to  excel all in cleans­
ing qualities, but if you will

FOLLOW  DIRECTIONS

which  are  plain  and  simple  much  rubbing, 
and  consequently  much  labor  and  wear  of 
clothes, will be saved.

The peculiar property possessed by our soap 
is that  of  loosening  and  separating  the  dirt 
without injuring the fabric, instead of eating 
up the dirt and thereby rotting the cloth.

Ask your wholesale grocer about our SPEC­
IAL, OFFER.  It makes retail profit very sat- 
»factory.

Central City Soap Co.,

JACKSON,  MIGH
“ CANDEE
E u b b f e
BOOTS

WITH

DOUBLE  THICK

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

FOR  SALE BY

E. G. STUDLEY & CO., Grand Rapids. 

Jobbers of

Rubber  and  Oil  Clothing  of  all  kinds, 
Horse  and  Wagon  Covers, Leather  and 
Rubber Belting and Mill  and Fire Depart­
ment  Supplies.  Send for price list.
b e g ir t  tii©  m o n t h :

Right by using the

is

A New Account Book
For Grocers  M  Gelerai  Dealers.

This book has  Printed  Headings  planned 
to receive  a  daily  statement  of  Sales,  Pur­
chases, Cash Received,  Ca6h  Expended, Bank 
Account,, Bills Receivable, Bills Payable,  etc. 
etc.; aleo  provides  for  Weekly,  Monthly  and 
Yearly Totals.  The arrangement of  the Reg­
ister is such that a dealer can ascertain his lia­
bilities and resources in a few  minutes at any 
time  Each Register contains Interest Tables, 
Standard  Weights  and  Measures,  Business 
Laws and  much  other  valuable  information 
for  business  men.  Over 35,6,0  copies  of the 
Register now in use.  Address,  for  free  sam­
ple sheets, prices, etc.,

H. I. PIMPHILQN, Pnblislier,

30  Bond  Street.

NEW YORK.

Yuiit M p ls ilir   Co,
DRT  GOODS

Importers and Jobbers of

Staple  and  Fancy.

O v era lls, P a n ts, St©.,

OUR OWN  MAKE.

A  Complete  Line  of

Fancy CrockerysFancyWooGesware

OUR OWN  IMPORTATION.

Inspection Solicited.  Chicago and Detroit 

Prices Guaranteed.

GENUINE K. of L. GIG AES.
The product of  Organized,  Working  Oi- 
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 trml.
If you are in favor of shofter hours of labor, 
the  Saturday  half-holiday,  and  last,  but not 
least, the payment of higher and living wages 
in solid cash, give our Cigars a trial and accord 
them your most  liberal  patronage.  The yel­
low  K. of L. label  on  every  box.  One hun­
dred thousand sold Within three months in the 
city of Detroit alone.  Warranted to be  strict­
ly five and ten cent goods.  For further partic­
ulars, terms, prices, references,  to., address 
W ernersville, Berks Co..  Pennsylvania.

W.  E.  KRUM  & CO.,

'PLACE to secure a thorough 
and useful education is at the 
Gr a n d  Ra p id s (Mich.) Busi- 
y w . P P   n e ss Co ll eg e,  write for Cot- 

lege  Journal.  Address,  C. G. SWENSIjEItGl.

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W H

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ADDRESS

S

GRAHAM ROYS,  -  Grand Ravitis, Mich.

RESTORATION  NOTICE
Under  instructions  of  the  Secretary  of 
the Interior  dated the  15th  day of  Decem­
ber, 1887, modified by b is instructions of the 
22d day of December,  1887.  By direction of 
of the Commissioner of  the  General  Land 
Office dated January 19th, 1888.
Notice is  hereby given  Thai the indem­
nity withdrawal for the benefit ©f the Jack- 
son  Lansing  and  Saginaw  R.  R.  Co.,  has 
been revoked.
That all the lands  in this  district  within 
such  indemnity limits of the  grant of  said 
K. K.  Co., and heretofore withdrawn for thé 
benefit  of  said  Company—except  such  as 
may be covered by approved selections—are 
now  open to settlement.  And  that  on  the 
8th day of March,  1888  the  said lands  will 
be  open to  fifing and entrv.

U.  S.  Land Office,

Reed City,  Mich.,

Receiver, 

E.  N. F itch, 

January  23, 1888.
N a th a n iel Cla rk, 
Register.
RESTORATION  NOTICE.
Under  instructions  of  the  Secretary  of 
the Interior  dated  the  15th  day of Decem­
instructions 
ber,  1887,  modified  by  his 
of  the  22d  day  of  December,  1887.  By 
direction  of  the  Commissioner  of  the Gen­
eral'Land  Office  dated January 19th,  1888.
Notice is  hereby given That  the  indem­
nity withdrawal for the benefit of the Grand 
Rapids ard Indiana  R. R.  Co. has  been  re­
voked.
That all the lands  in  this  district  within 
such indemnity limits  of  the grant  of  said 
R.  R.  Co.,  and  heretofore  withdrawn  for 
the benefit of said company—except such as 
may be covered by approved selections—are 
now open to settlement and that  on the 8th 
day of March,  1888,  the  said lands  will be 
open to filing and entry.

U.  S.  Land Office,

Reed City,  Mich.,

Receiver. 

F.  N. F itch, 

January 23d,  1888.
N a th a niel Cl a r k, 
Register.
CHAS.  E.  BREWSTER,
GINT HOOK and PpifY HANDLES.

MANUFACTURER OF

Jobber 

in  Haml-Shaved  W hite 

Hickory  Axe  Handles.

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

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

PROMPT  ATTENTION  TO  MAIL  ORDERS.

M IC H .

LAKE  BREW  ST E R,

COAL!

Present  Prices:

Steve  No.  4  and Nut 
Egg and Grate

$8.00  per ton 
$7.75  per ton
We  are agents for  Brazil  Block  Coal.  The 

West and cheapest steam coal in the market.

Grand Rapids Ice & Coa^ Co,?

OFFICE  53  PEARL  ST.,

MAGIC COFFfE ROASTER

No 

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.  R oasts  coffee 
and  pea-nuts  to   per 
fection.
Send  fo r  circulars.

M tS Je st,

150 Long St., 
Cleveland, Ohio.

Sole agents for Chicago Brass Rule Works 

tor Stv.to of Michigan.

FRET’S PATENT/^, 
J ö Ä s j e  ne^ *  : v;

SfTGS. ALL KINDS OF

PACKING & SHELF

b o x e s .

Crates, etc.

Shipping Cases, Egg 
4 and 6 ERIB ST.

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

SALT  FISH

Bought and Sold by

FRANK  J. DETTENTHALER,

117 Monroe St.,  Grand Bapids.-
13?“  Oysters the Year Around  g l
STEAM  LAUNDRY,

43 and 45  Kent Street, 

STANLEY N. ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST CLASS WORK AND 

USE  NO  CHEMICALS.

Orders by maU and express  promptly attended to.

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL

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

E. A. HAMILTON, Agt.,

Telephone 909—la .

J U D D   eft*  O O p ,  

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

And Full Line Summer Goods.

109 CANAL STREET.

MOGIITIQK  DEPARTMENT.
Michigan Business Men’s Association.

President—Frank Hamilton, Traverse City.
First Vice-President—Paul P. Morgan, Monroe.
Second Vice-President—8. Lamfrom, Owosso.
Secretary—!!. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer—L. W. Sprague. Greenville.
Executive  Board—President, Secretary, Geo. W. Hub­
bard, Flint; W. E. Kelsey, Ionia; Irving F. Clapp, Al­
legan.
Committee on Trade Interests—Smith Barnes, Traverse 
0ity; chas. T. Bridgman, Flint;  H.  B. Fargo, Muske­
gon.
Oommmitte  on Legislation—Frank Wells, Lansing; W. 
E. Kelsey, Ionia; Neal McMillan, Rockford.
Committee  on  Transportation—J.  W.  Milllken,  Trav­
erse City; ¿no. P. Stanley, Battle Creek;  Wm. Rebec, 
East Saginaw.
Committee on  Insurance—N.  B.  Blain,  Lowell;  E.  Y. 
Hogle, Hastings; O. M. Clement, Cheboygan.
Committee on  Building  and  Loan Associations—F. L. 
Fuller,  Frankfort;  S.  E. Parkill,  Owosso;  Will  Em- 
mert, Eaton Rapids.

Official Organ—The Michigan Tradesman.

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

' 

N o . 2—L o w e ll B . M . A .

N o.  1 —T ra v erse C ity  B . M . A . 
President, Geo. E. Steele; Secretary, L. Roberts.
President, N. B. Blain; Secretary, Frank T. King.
Resident. H. S. Church ; Secretary, Wm. lorn.
N o.  4 —G ran d   B a p id s   M .  A . 

N o. 3 —S tu r g is B . M . A . 

R esident. E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.

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

President, H. B.Fargo; Secretary, W. C. Conner.
”
President. F. W. 81oat; Secretary. P. T. Baldwin.

N o . 6—A lb a  B . IE. A . 

1  ^   N o.  7—D im o n d a te  B . M . A . 

President, T. M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Wldger.

President, F. H. Thnrston; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston.

N o. 8—E a stp o r t B . DC. A .
N o . 9 —L a w re n c e  B . M . A .

President, H. M. Marshall; Secretary, C. A. Stebblns.

N o. 10 —H a rb o r ftp r in g s B . M . A . 

President, W. J. Clark; Secretary. A. L. Thompson.

bio.1 1 —K in g sle y  B . M . A .

-  N o. 1 3 —Q u in c y  B . M . A .

President, H. P. Whipple; Secretary, C. H.  Camp.
President, C. McKay; Secretary, Thoa. Lennon._______
President, H. B. Sturtevant; Secretary, W.  G. Shane.

N o. 1 3 —S h er m a n  B . M. A* 

N o. 1 5 —B o y n e  C ity  JB. M . A . 

N o . 14—N o, M u sk eg o n  B . M . A . 
President, S. A. Howey; Secretary, G. C. Havens.
President, R. R. Perkins;  Secretary, J. F. Fairchild.
“  
President, J. V. Crandall:  Secretary, W. Rasco._____

N o . 1 6 —Sand L a k e  B . M . A .
N o. 1 7 —P la in w e ll B . M . A . 
President, E. A. Owen, Secretary, J. A. Sidle.
N o.  1 8 —O w osso B . M . A . 

President, S. E. Parkill; Secretary, S. Lamfrom.
" 
President, P. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel.

N o.  1 9 —A d a  B . M . A .

N o. 9 0 —8a n g a tu e k  B . M . A  

N o. 3 1 —W ay la n d  B . M . A .

President, John F. Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps. 
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President, C. H. Wharton; Secretary, M..V. Hoyt.
Persident, A. B. Schumacher; Secretary, W.  R.  Clarke.

No. 9 9 —G rand  L ed g e  B . M . A . 
N o, 9 3 —C arson C ity B . M. A . 

N o. 9 4 —M o rley  B .  M . A .
*  N o. 95—P a lo  B . M . A . 

President, F. A. Rockafellow;  Secretary, C. O. Trask.
President, J. E. Thurkow;  Secretary, W. H. Richmond. 
~ 
President, Chas. B. Johnson; Secretary, H. D. Pew.
President. S. R. Stevens; Secretary, Geo. B. Caldwell.

N o. 9 6 —G r e e n v ille   B . M . A . 

:

N o   9 7 —D o rr B . IVI.  A . 

President, E. S. Botsford; Secretary, L. N. Bisher.

N o. 9 8 —C h eb o y g a n  B . M . A  

President, J.  H. Tuttle;  Secretary, H. G. Dozer.
President, Wm. Moore;  Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrough.

N o. 9 9 —F r e e p o r t B . JB. A .
N o. 3 0 —O cean a B . M . A .

President, A. G. Avery;  Secretary, E. S. Houghtaling.

N o. 3 1 —C h arlotte  B. M , A .

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

N o. 3 9 —C o o p e r sv ilie  B . M . A . 

President, G. W. Watrous1;  Secretary, J. B. Watson.
¡"resident, L. D. Bartholomew;  Secretary, R. W, Kane.

N o. 3 3 —C h a r le v o ix   B-. M . A .

N o. 3 4 —S aran ac B . M . A .

President, Geo. A. Potts;  Secretary, P. T. Williams.

N o .  3 S —B e llâ tr e   B . M . A . 

’resident, Wm. J. Nixon; Secretary, G. J. Note ware
esident, O. F. Jackson;  Secretary, John  M. Everden.

N o. 3 6 —I th a c a   B .  M . A . 

N o. 3 7 —B a ttle  C reek  B . M . A . 

President,  Chas. F. Bock;  Secretary, Jno. P. Stanley.
..
President, H. E. Symons: Secretary, P. W. Higgins. 

N o. 3 8 —S c o ttv ille  B .  M . A .

N o. 3 9  -B u r r  O ak B . W. A . 
President, B. O. G raves;  S ecretary,  H. M. Lee.
N o. 4 0 —E a to n  B a p id s  B . M . A . 
President, F. H. DeGalin; Secretary, Will Emmert.
N o. 4 1 —B r e e k e n r id g e   B . M . A . 
President, W. O. Watson; Secretary, C.  E. Scudder. 
” 
President, Jos. Gerber; Secretary  0. J. Rathbun.
President, G. A. Estes; Secretary,W. M. Holmes. 
resident, C. J. Fleischhauer;  Secretary,  W. H. Smith.
President, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary, O.,A. Halladay. 
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President, Wm. Hutchins; Secretary, B. M. Gould.
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President'W. C. Pierce; Secretary, W. H. Graham.
President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor. 

N o. 4 9 —F r e m o n t J8. M . A .
N o . 4 3 —T u stin  B . M . A . 
N o. 4 4 —ftee d  C ity  B . M . A .
N o. 4 5 —H o y tv ille  B . M . A .

N o. 4 8 —H u b  bard sto n   B . M. A . 

N o. 4 6 —L e slie  B . M. A .

N o.  4 7 —F lin t  VI.  U .

N o . 5 1 —C edar  S p rin g s  B .  M .  A .

N o.  4 9 —L eroy  B   M .  A .
N o. 5 0 —M a n iste e  B . M . A . 

President, A. Wenzeil; Secretary, Frank Smith.
President, A. O. Wheeler; Secretary. J. P.  O’Malley. 
~ 
President, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon.
N o. 5 9 —G rand H a v e n  B . M . A . 
President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, Wm. Mieras.
'  N o, 5 3 —B e lle v u e  B . M . A . 
President. Frank Phelps; Secretary, John H. York.
N o. 5 4 —D o u g la s B . M . A .
N o.  5 5 —P e to sk e y   B . M . A .

Resident, Thomas B. Dutcher; Secretary, C. B. Waller.

President, C. F. Hankey; Secretary. A. C. Bowman.

N o. 5 6 —B a n g o r   B .  M.  A . 

President, N. W. Drake; Secretary, T. M. Harvey.

N o. 5 7 —K o ek fo rd   B . M . A . 

President, Geo. A. Sage; Secretary. J. M. Spore.
President, E. Hagadom; Secretary, O. V. Adams.

N o. 5 8 —F ife  L a k e B . M . A . 
N o . 5 9 —F e n n v iU e  B . M . A . 

Resident F. S, Raymond: Secretary, P. S. Swarts.
N o. 6 0 —S o u th  B o a rd m a n  B . M . A . 
Resident, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, S. E. Neihardt.
Resident, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes.
N o. 6 9 —E a st P a g in a w  R . G. A . 

N o .  6 1 —H a r tfo r d   B . M . A . 

esident, G. W. Meyer; Secretary, Theo. Kadish.

N o . 6 3 —K vart B . M . A . 

esident, W. M. Davis ; Secretary, C. E. Bell.

Association  Notes.

A.  E. Calkins has been  elected President 
of  the  Allegan  B. M. A.  for the ensuing 
year.

Both the  Muskegon  and  Greenville asso­
ciations hold banquets on Wednesday even­
ing.

President Hamilton  of  the  M. B.  M. A., 
arrived in  town  Monday  with  his mother, 
who is bound East.

President Hamilton  has  called a meeting 
of the State  Executive  Board to convene at 
Muskegon Wednesday.

The Lansing B.  M. A.  is the  only  large 
•rganization in the State  which has not yet 
affiliated with the  State  body.  Wherefore 
süeh exclusiveness, President Wells?

Two  associations  have  secured  charters 
from the State body during the past week— 
East Saginaw with 55 members  and  Evart 
with 33 members.  The former took Charter 
No. 62 and the latter No. 63.

Merchants should remember that the cele­
brated  “ Crescent,”  “White  Bose”  and 
“Royal  Patent”  brands of flour are manu­
factured and sold only  by the  Yolgt;:M0fc 
\
A Sons, hardware dealers, Grand 
v

Boom 
Haven:  “The paper is weiry gooiLn & $ 

. 

Allegan Association.

Annual  Address  of  the  President  of  the 
In pnrsufuiee of  article 5, section  l,.of our 
constitution mak ing it the duty of your Presi­
dent to report the proceedings Of the Associa­
tion for the past year and make such Sugges­
tions for  its  future  management  as he  may 
deem proper, 1 have the  pleasure of  present­
ing the following:
We,  as  an  Association, having reached our 
first birthday, should: before  starting another 
year’s work, stop and look  backward over the 
year qow closed  and  mark  the  blunders  and 
errors of  the past as  flags of warning for  the 
coming year, for “he that would prosper must 
profit oy his own mistakes.”
At our organization  a year ago, you well re­
member hindrances of doubt and misrepresen­
tation seemed to block  our  progress, as some 
of our best  business  men  seemed  fearful  of 
the outcome  and  looked  upon  the  organiza­
tion as only a bubble of discord and misplaced 
confidence; so much so, that some of our mem­
bers  refused  to  have  their  names appear in 
the  printed  list of  membership  for fear  of a 
certain  faction  of  a  dozen  or  more,  who, 
through  misunderstanding the objects of  the 
Association  and  encouraged  by one  or two 
(who now occupy a prominent place in our de­
linquent list) threatened  to organize  for the 
purpose of—they knew not  what.  But upon 
the never dying principle that “truth crushed 
to  earth  shall  rise  again”  our  Association 
struggled on.  The opposition  saw their  mis­
take,  and,  before the first  quarter, progress 
and success perched upon our banner.  From 
thenceforward we have moved steadily on and 
now number seventy members.
Our accomplishments have not been as great 
as we might wish, nevertheless, we have made 
a grand  start in  the right direction, and>the 
hand of our compass is now pointed to success 
in nearly every  project we  nave started; and 
only Deeds continued efforts  to show that the 
A. B. M. A.  was not asleep in 1887.  The work 
done, time spent, and efforts put forth by our 
committees  are certainly deserving  of  more 
than ordinary notice and should  be  recorded 
in the  archives of  this  Association as  efforts 
well worthy heart-felt thanks and should stand 
as examples to our f  uture workers.
While we look with pride  to our first year’B 
success, let us not forget to note and profit by 
our mistakes—and allow  me  here  to  suggest 
that  in the  year  to come we be a little more 
discreet, firmer in resolution, more diligent in 
our official  capacity and prompt  in our work 
as an Association.  You  nave  a duty as mem­
bers of  this Association which is to lend your
Eresence at  each and all  its meetings, to up- 
oid its discipline, to encourage its efforts and 
firmly stand by its decisions.  You  have  not 
reached these points fully in the past.  Will you 
do so in the future?  When a meeting is called, 
you  are  expected to  be present.  When  youj 
are placed upon  a committee,  do  your duty. 
When  our delinquent  list  is  placed in  your 
hands, it  is  your  bounden  duty to  become 
familiar with  the names theron and under no 
circumstances extend credit to a single mem­
ber of that honored list, for this is the nucleus 
around which  clusters the  success  or  defeat 
of  uur Association and is the only safeguard 
to our credit business.
Fellow officers:  We are the servants of bus­
iness men and  we are expected to fill the pos­
itions we have the  honor to occupy, in a busi­
ness  manner;  let not  slackness  nor  neglect 
mark our  official  career, allow  nothing to be 
done in  a  slipshod way.  Let us  see  that all 
orders and other  documents passing through 
our  hands properly  and  fully signed  and all 
moneys disbursed only on such orders, and  in 
fact let our entire official  duties be conducted 
according to strict business principles.
And now, gentlemen of the  Associaiion, for 
your courtesy, assistance and encouragement 
during the year now closed, I am indeed grate­
ful; for your  seeming appreciation of my of­
ficial labors, in that you offer me the honor of 
a second term, I heartily thank you and would 
gladly accept, were  it  not for the pressing de­
mands upon my time in  other directions, and 
for th efact that presents itself  to me conclu­
sively after  careful  reflection,  that  the got d 
of the Association demands a change of Presi­
dent.  Therefore, I  trust  you  will pardon  my 
refusal to accept  a second term,  with  the as­
surance that whoever you may select as your 
President shall have  my earnest co-operation 
and support. 
Annual  Banquet  of the  Charlevoix Asso­

I r v i n g  F . C l a p p .

ciation.
Charlevoix, Jan. 31.1888.

E. A. S t. we, G rand R apids:
Dear Sir—The  Charlevoix  Business  Men’s 
Association  held its  first  banquet  last  even­
ing.  At 7:30 the  parlors of the  Bridge  Street 
House  and  he  halls  were  full  of  a  lively, 
bustling, buzzing  crowd and the dining  room 
below  was  equally  full  of  tables,  and  busy 
women,  hastening the  last  preparations  for 
the feast.  Then the  signal was given and the 
crowd surged down  into the dining room and 
around the tables,  filling the room almost too 
full for comfort.  When they had seated them­
selves  at  the  richly-laden  tables,  there  was 
little vacant space  in  the  room.  When  they 
had been there thirty minutes there  were ab­
solutely no vacant spaces in them.  Rev. A. O. 
Downs invoked the divine blessing.  After the 
hunger of the f easters had been satisfied, Pres- 
dent Bartholomew introduced  the Hon.  John 
Nichols, our worthy ex-President, as the toast­
master  of  the  evening;  and  the  manner  in 
which he discharged the delicate  duties of his 
office  demonstrated  that  the  Committee  on 
Arrangements made no  mistake  in  selecting 
him for that place.  The toasts of the evening 
were as follows:
Charlevoix—Her advantages  and opportun­
ities—Queen  of  the  Lakes—She  showers  her 
wealth  of  forest,  field,  waters,  climate  and 
scenery upon us, and bids us be loyal in main­
taining her supremacy—Long  live the Queen! 
Response by A. W. Cruickshank,
The Village Newspaper—The embodiment of 
truth—The encyclopedia of the neighborhood 
—The inspirative to  all that is noble  and use­
ful—How could we  do  without  it?  Response 
by C. J. Strang.
Shorter Hours  and Better Pay—What we all 
want—Why  shouldn’t  we  have  them?  Re­
sponse by G. W. Jeffries.
The  Business  Men’s  Associations—Labor is 
organized.  Capital is  organized—The  church 
is  organized,  Everything- else is  organized. 
Why  should  not  the  business men  organise 
to foster  their  own  interests  and  the  inter­
ests of  the  community  in  which  they  live? 
Response by R. W. Kane.
in  youth— 
They sustain us in manhood—They comfort us 
in old  age—The  best  bargain  any  man  ever 
made  is when  be  obtained  a  true,  sensible, 
loviDg wife.  Response by Hon. E. H. Green.
Interspersed among  the toasts were a num­
ber of pieces of vocal and instrumental music 
rendered by our best home talent.
Everything  passed  off  in the most pleasing 
manner.  The  responses  to  the  toasts  were 
heartily applauded, the music  thoroughly en­
joyed and the social part was the greatest suc­
cess  of  all.  Everybody  seemed  thoroughly 
delighted  and  at  11:30  took  their departure 
from the scene  of their  revels, realizing that 
it  would be a long  time before another occas­
ion  the  equal  to  this  in  social  enjoyment 
would fall to their lot.
It seems utterly impossible that the  impres­
sion made by the responses to the toasts of last 
evening should wear away without producing 
lasting benefits to our place.
sadness, 
though, for  we  to-day  expect  the  corpse  of 
Mrs. Crouter. wife of  Dr.  G.  W. 0 router, who 
is so well known  to  the  officers  of  the  State 
Association.  She  died  Saturday  last  at  the 
home  of  her  mother, in  Strathroy,  Ontario. 
The funeral occurs to-morrow, Wednesday, at 
the M. E. Church, of which she was a member.
1 will only add a  list  of  the  officers  elected 
for the ensuing year.
President—L. D. Bartholomew.
Vice-President—J. L. Hurd.
Secretary—R. W. Kane.
Treasurer—W. A. Brown.

Our  rejoicing  is  mingled  with 

The  Ladies—They  tmndle  us 

Yours, 

R. W. K ane, See’y.
Grand Rapids Mercantile Association.
Gr a n d R a p id s,  Feb. 6, 1888.

D e a r   S i r —The  regular  semi-monthly 
meeting of the G.  B.  Mercantile  Associa­
tion, which occurs Tuesday evening, Feb. 7, 
should be well attended, because:
1.  President Herrick  will  announce the 
standing committees for the  ensuing  year.
2.  The Committee on  Berry  Boxes will 
present its report.
3.,  The. Executive Committee will report 
op two matters—a  new collector  and a new 
hall for meeting purposes.
4.  President Hamilton, of the State As^ 
sociation,  will be present  mid  address  the 
meeting.
1 Turn out and give the  first  President of 
the first Association in the State  a  rousing 
welcome, 

E. A. Stowe,.See’y.

First Banquet of the Petoskey Association.
From the Petoskey Democrat.
The first  annual  banquet  of  the  Petoskey 
Business  Men’s  Association  was  a  complete 
success.  The Cushman House  was  illuminat­
ed in honor of the occasion,  and  the  popular 
proprietors  spared  no trouble nor expense to 
make the occasion one long to be remembered. 
By 8 o’clock the  spacious  parlors  were filled 
with ladies and gentlemen, and soon  after flf- 
‘.ty couples filed into the dining  room and took 
places at the  bountifully  spread  tables.  All 
members  of  the  Association  displayed their 
qualification^  for  membership  by  attending 
strictly to  business,  until President  Hankey 
called  a  halt,  and,  after  a  few appropriate 
words,  announced  the  toasts of the evening. 
These  were  entirely  informal,  and  partook 
largely of the nature of “roasts,” considerable 
amusement  being  elicited  by  numerous sal­
lies.  Mr. Buckley  gave  an  excellent talk on 
Petoskey’s  prospects,  Mr.  Bouteeou praised 
“the ladies, God bless them,”  Mr.  Call lighted 
the natural gas well, the  editor  of  the Demo­
crat expatiated on shears.  Lawyer  Dart tried 
to make people believe that  lawyers  could be 
honest if they tried hard, Mr. Wylie gave some 
excellent ideas on the aims  and objects of  the 
Association and Mr. Page praised the climate. 
The dining room was then cleared for dancing, 
while the ladies visited in  the  parlors and the 
gentlemen talked  business  over  their  cigars 
in the office or joked the  various  speakers  on 
their oratory.  Considerable  amusement  was 
caused by the fact that President  Hankey did 
not announce any name for the last toast, but 
simply said it was to be the bestspeeeh of the 
evening.  It was  claimed  that  Wm. L. Curtis 
beamed  with  pleasure  and  was  just  rising 
from his chair,  that Barnum was half way up, 
that Judge Newberry had  his  mouth all fixed 
to say  “this  is  an  unexpected  honor,”  that 
H. O. Rose  turned  hia  head  to  see  if he had 
heard  correctly  and  then  pushed  back  his 
chair to  rise, that J. H. Milor pulled  down his 
vest and fumbled  his  necktie  nervously  and 
that Guy  Harwood  dropped  his  napkin  and 
cleared  his  throat  with  a swallow of water. 
But Mr. Page  showed that there was no doubt 
in his mind by  getting  under  way  while the 
other fellows were getting ready,  and  it  was 
estimated that at least a dozen  business  men 
were sure there was a mistake somewhere.  As 
soon as the tables  were  cleared away the din­
ing room was  filled  with  dancers,  and those 
giddy youngsters, H. O  Hot e and W. L. Curtis, 
cut pigeon wings and danced  hoe downs until 
the windows rattled.  Many of the dancers re­
mained until the early  hours,  and  everybody 
says “we had  a splendid time.”

Congratulations Over the New Law. 
Chairman  Blain,  of  the  Insurance Com­
mittee of the M. B. M. A., recently received 
the following congratulatory letter  from an 
active worker  in the ranks  of organization:
I congratulate you. as chairman of the Insur­
ance Committee of the M. B. M. A., on the suc­
cessful inauguration of the anti-compact law, 
which went into  effect to-day,  and for  which 
the M. B. M. A. is largely responsible.
Every Board office in the State is closed  and 
all the companies which belonged to the Board 
have sent  their  agents  circulars, instructing 
them to pbey the Jaw, both in letter and spirit. 
The “Beveridge  idea” was  rejected by the in­
surance companies as a plain  violation of the 
law.  The agents are  instructed to write risks 
at the rates established before the Board went 
out  of  existence, but  as  the  hazard  of  such 
risks  changes  and  new  risks  come  into  the 
field, competition among agents is pretty sure 
to bring insurance into open market, as should 
be the case.
While time only will  tell  whether  we  have 
gained a permanent victory, we  have certain­
ly  secured a  temporary  advantage,  which  is 
sure to result to the profit of business men.
In  my opinion, our policy should  now be to 
keep one eye  on our  present  law, to see that 
it is honestly enforced, and  the  ot.  °r  on  the 
Commission constituted  by the Legist 
~e to 
prepare  a  standard  insurance  policy,t ♦ se e  
that such a form  is adopted  as will be fair to 
both insurer and insured.

Gripsack Brigade.

E.  I.  Goodrich  returned  home  Sunday 

morning from a six weeks’ trip.

W. S. Horn has  severed  his  connection 

with Cody, Ball, Barnhart & Co.

Capt. Frank Conlon has  taken  the State 
age*cy for the Price Baking Powder Co., of 
Chicago.

Hi.  Robertson was  called  to  Breedsville 
Monday on account of the serious  illness of 
his father.

John II.  Miller, city salesman for Putnam 
& Brooks,  is  the  happy  father  of a nine- 
pound  boy..

Wm.  Krumheuer, formerly with  the Tel- 
fer Spice Co., is now on the road  for  Fred 
D.  Yale & Co.

Wheeler,  Conant & Blodgett  is the name 
of the Boston house for which  John F.  Gill 
will travel during 1888.

R.  L.  Hall,  State  agent  for  Allen  B. 
Wrisley, of Chicago,  was in town last week 
and attended the  traveling  men’s  ball  on 
Friday evening.

John E. Kenning is now the  proud  pos­
sessor of a black bull pup. 
It  is  currently 
reported that E.  Shattuck has  a  slight  at­
tack of the same disease.

L.  M.  Bennett, the Traverse  City  jewel­
er,  has placed his business in  the  hands of 
II. Reny and gone  on  the  road  for N. G. 
Levinson & Co.,  of  Chicago.

Geo. J. Englehardt,  who has  represented 
Wm.  Graf and successors  in  this  territory 
for the past eleven years,  has  jumped from 
Milwaukee to Binghamton and  will hereaf­
ter extol the merits of Geo.  A. Kent & Co.’s 
cigars.

II. L.  Toles,  Indiana  representative  for 
Harfkins & Perry, sprained his ancle at La- 
Grange about three weeks ago and has since 
suffered a second accident of the kind at his 
home at Benton Harbor.  The prospects are 
not good  for his getting  out  on  the  road 
again inside of a month.

The  New  Wholesale  Notion  House  in 

Grand Rapids.

.AS the time  has come when merchants in 
the interior towns are  beginning  to  place 
their orders for spring stocks, T h e  T r a d e s ­
m a n  takes the liberty of calling their atten­
tion to the new establishment of  Thompson 
& Maclay,  recently opened in this place.

It is unnecessary to refer  to  the  antece­
dents of the firm, except to  say  that  they 
come here with  an  enviable  reputation as 
business men and T h e   T r a d e s m a n   feels 
sure it risks nothing in recommending them 
to the trade.  Their long experience in con­
ducting  just such  a business and their con­
nection with the best manufacturers and im­
porters in the East will enabfe  them to pro­
cure the most desirable  goods at the lowest 
prices,  and T h e  T r a d e s m a n   knows  their 
intention is to sell  at  moderate profits and 
thus give the fullest satisfaction  to all who 
may favor them with their patronage,  They 
have employed gentlemanly  and competent 
men to represent them  on  the  road,  who 
are now interviewing dealers.

Remember,  The  Tradtsman  recom­

mends the house of Thompson & Maclay.

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BOLTS.

BELLS.

BRACES.

BUCKETS.

BUTTS. CAST.

AUGERS AND BITS.

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages,
Ives’,  old style................................................... dis 80
N. H.C. Co........ ..................................... dis 
60
60
Douglass’. . . . . ................ »•»....................d is 
Pierces’  ......... .  .................................  
60
dis 
60
Snell’s . . . . . . ......................  
dis 
Cook’s  ........................  
 
40
 
dis 
Jennings’, genuine........ ...dis 
25
Jennings’, imitation............................. dis50&10
BALANCES.
Spring........— .................................  ...dis 
40
BARROWS.
Railroad  ....................................  
$  14 00
Garden.............................  
net 33 00
Hand ...  ........................................dis $ 60&10&10
70
Cow..................................................... dis 
30&15
Call..................................................  dip 
G ong.................................................. ui6 
25
Door, Sargent...................................dis 
60&10
Stove...................................................... dis $ 
0
Carriage  new list................................dis 7G&10
Plow  .......................................................dis 
50
Sleigh Shoe............................................dis 
70
60
Wrought Barrel  Bolts........................dis 
Cast  Barrel Bolts................................dis 
40
40
Cast Barrel, brass knobs..........  .......dis 
Cast Square Spring..............................dis 
60
40
Cast Chain..................................... .  dis 
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............dis 
60
Wrought Square..................................dis 
60
Wrought Sunk Flush.......  .................dis 
60
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush......................................................dis 60&10
Ives’ Door........................ 
dis  60&10
40
Barber...................................................dis$ 
Backus............................ ......................dis 50&10
Spofford................................................. dis 
50
Am. Ball................................................ dis 
net
Well, plain.................................................... $  3 50
Well, swivel.............................. .................. 
4 00
Cast Loose Pin, figured..........................dis 70&
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........... dis 70&
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis  60&
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint, .dis  60&10
Wrought Loose  Pin...................,...d is 
60&10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip ...........dis  60S 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned.............. dis 60S 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvei
tipped.................................................... dis 60& 5
Wrought Table.........................................dis 60&10
Wrought Inside Blind........................... dis 60&19
Wrought Brass.........................................dis 
75
Blind,Clark’s.......................................d is  70&10
Blind, Parker’s..................................... dis  70&10
Blind, Shepard’s ......................................dis 
70
Ely’s 1-10...................................................per m $65
Hick’s C. F ............................................. 
60
G. D......................................................... 
35
Musket.................................................... 
60
Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester  new list.. ..50
Rim  Fire, United States................................dis50
Central Fire.....................................................dis25
Socket Firmer...  .................................. dis  70&10
Socket Framing.....................................dis  70&10
Socket Corner........................................,dis  70&10
Socket Slicks............................................dis  70&10
Butchers’Tanged  Firmer.....................dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers.......................dis 
20
Cold...........................................................net
Curry, Lawrence’s.......  ...................... dis  40&10
Hotchkiss  ............................................. dis 
25
Brass, Racking’s........................................  
60
60
Bibb’s ..........................................................  
B eer..............................................................  40&10
Fenns’..........................................................  
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size......................781b  28
14x52,14x56,14 x60..........................................  31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 aud 14x60...........................  29
Cold Rolled, 14x48.............................................  29
Bottoms......................... 
30
Morse’s Bit  Stock.................................dis 
40
Taper and Straight Shank....................dis 
40
dis  40
Morse’s Taper  Shank...................... 
Com.4piece,6  in........ ...................doznet  $.75
Corrugated...........................................dis20&10J&0
Adjustable....................:.......................dis  )6&10
30
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00. 
dis 
Ives’, 1. $18 00 ;  2. $24 00;  3, $30 00.  dis 
25
American File Association List.......... dis  60&10
Disston’s ................................................ dis  60&30
New American...................................... dis  60&10
Nicholson’s.............................................dis  60&16
Heller’s ................................................dis 
55&16
Heller’s Horse Rasps.......................     .dis 
50
Nos. 16 to 20, 
22 and 24,  25 and 26,  27 
28
15 -  18
List 

GALVANIZED IRON,
14 

files—New List.

EXPANSIVE BITS.

CATRIDGES.

CHISELS.

ELBOWS.

COPPER.

COMBS.

DRILLS

COCKS.

12 

 

 

Discount,  60.

13 
GAUGES.
HAMMERS.

c list 60

HANGERS.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...............dis 
56
Maydole & Co.’s .................................. dis 
25
Kip’s ........................................... ,.......... dis 
25
Yerkes  &  Plumb’s ................................ dis  40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel....................... 30 
Blacksmith's Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&JO 
Bam Door KidderMfg. Co., Wood track  50&10
Champion,  anti-friction...................... dis  60&H)
40
Kidder, wood  track...............................dis 
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3............................dis 
60
State.............................................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4)4  14
7)4
and  longer............................................... 
Screw Hook and Eye,  ) 4 .................. net 
TO
Screw Hook and Eye %....................net 
8)4
7)4
Screw Hook and Eye  34....................net 
Screw Hook and Eye,  %...................net 
7)4
Strap and  T ....................................... dis 
TO
P ots..............................................................  eo&io
K ettles...................................:....................  60&10
Spiders  .......................................................  60&10
Gray  enameled.......................................... 
50

HOLLOW  WARE.

HINGES.

HOUSE  FURN ISHIN G   GOODS.

 

HOES.

LOCKS—DOOR.

KNOBS—NEW L IS T .

Stamped Tin Ware......................new list 
75
Japanned Tin  Ware.................................  
25
Granite Iron  Ware...................................  
25
Grub  1................................................ $11 00, dis 60
Grab  2................................................   11 50, dia 60
Grub 3..................................................  12 00, dis 60
Door, mineral, j ap. trimmings........... dis 
55
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 
55
55
Door, porcelain, plated  trimmings....... 
Door, porcelain, trimmings....................  
55
Drawer and  Shutter, porcelain..........dis 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s ......................  40&10
Hem acite.............................. 
45
dis 
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list..dis 
55
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s ..................... dis 
55
55
Branford’s .............................................. dis 
Norwalk’s .............................................. dis 
55
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s................... dis  70
Adze  Eye......................................$16 00 dis 
60
Hunt Eye......................................$15 00  dis 
60
Hunt’s .........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled.................. dis  50
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s..................................dis 40
Coffee, P. S. &W.Mfg. Co.’s Malleables ...  dis 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s...............dis 40
Coffee,  Enterprise......................................dis  25
Stebbin’s Pattern  ................................dis  60&JK)
Stebbin’s Genuine............................................. dis 0O&1O
Enterprise,  self-measuring...........................dis , 25

MOLASSES GATES.

MATTOCKS.

LEVELS.

MAULS.

MILLS.

N A IL S—IRO N .

 

Common.. Brad and Fencing.

6d  4d
2 
1)4

I  lOd  8d 
2)4 
$1 25  1 50  1 75  2 00 

lOdto  60d.............................................$  keg $3 10
8d and 9 d adv.................................. 
25
6dand7d  adv...............................................  
50
4dand5d  adv...............................................  
75
3d advance.................... ;..............................  1 50
3d fine advance........ . .............................. 
2 25
Clinch nails, adv....................; . . . ................  100
Finishing 
Size—inches  f  3 
Adv. » k e g  
Steel Nails—2 20.
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent. ................. diseo&lO
Zinc, with brass b o t t o m . . . . . . d i s   60
Brassor  C op per................................d is   50
Reaper................................... per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s ............. 
.....  5O&10
: 
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.................dis
Sciota Bench. 
...............dis
 
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy....  ....... dis
Bench, flrstCquality.. 
Stanley Rule and Levivel Co.’s, wood... .disSOMS
Fry, Acme............. ...................... ..........dis 50&IQ
Common, polished..................................disflWUO
D ripping.,'.......,...;,... 
....... f *  i- 0)4

{  PLANES.
 
 
 

c v   p a n s.

OILERS»

. 

.. 

 

 

' 

55
Iron and Tinned.....................................dis 
¡Copper Rivets and  Burs......................dis 
50
“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to27 10 20 
“B” Wood's pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27  9 20

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

Broken packs )4c <p ib extra.

ROPES.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 
 

TACKS.

s h e e t  IRON.

TIN  PLATES.

$3 00
3 00
3 10
3 15

«14
6J*
60
60
60
.  60
50
SO
50
50
50
45
35

Sisal, H in. and  larger..................................  M)4
Manilla................... 
.......  12
SQUARES.
Steel a n d iron .........................  
dis  70&10
Try and B ev els................  
dis 
60
Mitre  .........  
 
 
dis 
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
 

3 25
3 35
All sheets No, 18 and lighter,  over 3  inches 

Nos. 10to 14.......  
$4 20 
4 20 
Nos. 15 to 17........... 
Nos. 18 to 21............. 
4 26 
 
Nos.22to 24........... 
4 20 
 
440 
Nos .25 to 26............................... 
No. 27.............................................  4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs,.$   lb............................ 
In smaller quansities, $   lb.................... 
American, all  kinds............... 
dis 
Steel, all kinds........................................ dis 
Swedes, all kinds................................... dis 
Gimp and Lace.......................................dis 
Cigar Box  Nails .................................... dis 
Finishing Nails.......................................«9 
Common and Patent Brads.................dis 
Hungarian Nails and Miners’ Tacks .dis 
Trunk and Clout Nails...........................dis 
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails............ dis 
Leathered Carpet  Tacks......................dis 
TINNER’S SOLDER.
20
N o.l,  Refined................................. 
Market  Half-and-half.................. 
22
Strictly  Half-and-half.................. 
25
10x14,Charcoal......................... 6 00@6 20
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal................................   7  85
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal....................................  6 85
IC, 
12x12,  Charcoal.............................   8 35
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal................................  6 35
IC, 
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal...... ........................  7 86
IXX, 
14x20, Charcoal...............................   9 35
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool...............................   11 37
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal............................   13  15
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal...............................   16 10
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal.*..........................  7  10
100 Plate Charcoal............................   9  10
DX, 
DXX. 100 Plate Charcoal.............................. H 10
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal...................... 
13 10
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50 to 7 35
Roofing, 14x20, IC.........................................   5  40
Roofing, 14x20,  IX ........................................  7  0D
Roofing, 20x28, IC.........................................   12 00
Roofing,  20x28, IX .....................................       15 GO
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Tem e........................6 60
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Tem e......................7 so
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Tem e......................12 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Tem e..............15 00
Steel, Game..................................................... 60&1D
Oneida Communtity,  Newhouse’s............dis  36
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60&1O
Hotchkiss’ ..............  
60&10
S, P. & W.  Mfg.  Co.’s....................................60&16
Mouse,  choker.........................................18c ^ doz
Mouse,  delusion................................. $1 50$  doz
Bright Market..................................................  dis 67)4
Annealed Market...............................................dis 7G&10
Coppered Market...............................................dis 62)4
Extra Bailing..............................................  dis  55
Tinned  Market.................................................. dis 62)4
Tinned  Broom...........................................09
Tinned Mattress.........................................»  B> 8)4
Coppered  Spring Steel..................................... dis 50
Tinned Spring Steel...........................................dis 40&10
Plain Fence................................  
» f t  3
Barbed Fence, galvanized................................... 4 00
painted........................................ 3 25
Copper.................................................new  list net
Brass.................................................... new list net
Bright................................................dis  70&10&10
Screw Eyes........................................dis  70&10&10
Hook’s ...............................................dis  70&10&10
Gate Hooks and  Eves....................dis  70&10&10
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled...............
Coe’s Genuine..; .................................. dis 
Coe’s Pte nt A gricultural, wrought, dis 
Coe’s  Ptent, malleable....................................dis 75&1C
Birdcages...................................................  
Pumps,  Cistern....................................dis 
Screws, new  list..............................  
7C&5
Casters,  Bed  and Plate.............. dis50&10&10
Dampers, American.......................  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes an all steel goods...d 
Copper Bottoms......................................  

MISCELLANEOUS.

TIN—LEADED.

W IRE GOODS.

WRENCHES.

TRAPS.

%
30c

50
75

50
75

WIRE.

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HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

The furniture factories  here pay as follows 
for  dry  stock,  measured  merchantable, mill 
culls out;
Basswood, log-run............................... 13 00@15 00
Birch, log-run........................................15 00@18 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2.............................. 
@25 00
Black Ash, log-run............................... J4 00@16 50
Cherry,  log-run.................................... 25 00@35 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and 2............................45 00@50 00
Cherry,  cull.........................................  
@10 00
Maple,  log-run......................................12 00@14 00
Maple, soft,  log-run............................11 00@13 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2.............................. 
@20 00
Maple, clear, flooring......................... 
@25 00
Maple, white, selected.......................  
@26 On
Red Oak, log-run...................................18 00@20 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2............... 
24 00@25 00
Red Oak, % sawed, 8in and upw’d..40 00@45 00
regular................30 00@35 00
Red Oak,  “  “ 
Red Oak, No.  1, step plank............... 
@25 00
Walnut, log-run................................... 
@55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2........................... 
@75 00
Walnuts,  culls..................................... 
@25 00
Grey Elm, log-run.............................. 
@13 00
White ABh, log-run............................. 14 00@16 50
White wood,  log-run............................20 00@22 00
White Oak, log-run..............................17 00@18 00

 

 

 

 

LUMBER.  LATH  AND  SHINGLES. 

FIN ISH IN G  AND FLOORING.
Uppers, 3 in ..1.................................... $ 
45 00
  42 00@44 00
1 to 2 in...................................... 
Selects, 1)4 to 2 in..............................  36 00@38 00
1 in .................................... 
33 00@35 00
 
Fine com., 1)4 to 2 in.......................... 31 00@33 00
1 in....................................................  27 00@29 00
Strips, A & B, 6  in............................   34 00@36 00
C...........................: ......... 
27 00@29 00
Strips, A & B, 4  in............................   30 00031 00
21 00022 00
C........................ 
Shop, 1)4 to 2 in.................................   22 00@24 00
16 G0@18 00
l i n ....................... 
 
Norway strips, C & better, 6 in__   16 00@18 CO
4 in........................................... 
15 G0@16  00
No 1,10 in, 18 & 20 feet.....................   17 00@18 00
10 feet and under...........................  16 00@17 00
Wide com. b’ds, No. 1,16 ft. & un’r  16 0Q@17 00 
Com. fenc. N o.1,16 in, 16 ft & un’r  16 00@17 00 
Com. st’k, No. 1,8&10 in. 16 ft., un’r  14 C0@16 00 
Com, strip, No. 1, 4 in., 16 ft. &un’r  15 00@16 00 
Com. stocks. No. 2,16 ft. & under..  12 00013 60
Wide com. No. 2,16 ft. & under__   12 00@13 00
Com. boards, No. 2,16 ft. & un’r ...  11 00@12 00 
Com. fenc., No. 2,6 in., 16 ft, & un’r  12 00@13 00
4 in...................................................   8 00@10 00
Shipping culls, in ..............................  10 00011 00
Norway fencing, No. 1., 6 in..........  11 00@13 00
No.  2 ..............................................   9 00010 00
Piece stuff, 18 ftr. & under...............  9 00@10 00

COMMON BOARDS AND STRIPS.

PIECE STUFF AND TIM BER.
Add $lfor each extra two feet in 
length.
Add $1 for each extra two feet in 
length.

Tim. 12x12 & un’r and 18 ft. & un’r.  12 00013 00 

SHINGLES  AND LATH.

Norway car sills,..............................   16 00017 00
Car decking,18ft...............................  12 00014 00
Thick star,18 in., 5 to 2)4.................  3 2n@ 3 50
Clear, 6  in .........................................   2  26@ 2 50
Thin star, 18 in., 5 to 2 in .................  3 25@ 3 50
Clear, 5 in...........................................   2 250 2 50
Star, 16  in ....................................... .*  2 75@ 3 00
Clear,Sin.....................................  ...  1600 180
Lath, No. 1............................. ..........  1 25@ 1 JO

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th e ORIGINAL, all others are  IMITATIONS.  More o f our brand sold than all th e other brands on th e market.

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GRANITE  FLOOR  PAINTS
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D E T R O I T ,

Dry  Color  Makers, Paint  arid  Varnish  M anufacturers.

1, 

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

R E C O M M E N D E D   B Y   E M I N E N T   P H Y S I C I A N

CONG™1  EXTRACT OF

M A L T   ^   H O P S
F O R   U A L E   B Y   A L L   D R U G G I S T S
Milwaukee,  Wis., Oct.  20,  1887. 

Ph. Best Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wis.: 

Gentlem en—I have  used  in  my family 
and practice the Liquid Extract of Malt and 
Hops,  known  as  The  “Best”  Tonic,  with 
the  most  satisfactory  results. 
I  consider 
the Malt Extract the most valuable of all of 
its class of Tonics, and  especially  adapted 
to those  cases  of  debility  arising from  en­
feebled digestion.  The “Best” Tonic  I be­
lieve fnliy equal to the  best  imported  Malt 
Extract,  and I am confident  will  give satis­
faction to patient and physician.

J.  H.  T hompson,  M. D.

Chicago,  Dec. 6,  1887. 

Ph. Best Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wis»: 

Gentlem en—I  have had the pleasure of 
examining and  testing  the qualities  of TBe 
“Best” Tonic, not  only in  my practice  but’ 
in  my  family.  Am  most  highly  pleased 
with  its  medicinal  qualities, and  cordially 
recommend  it  to  those,  who, by  reason  of 
nervous exhaustion, find  it necessary  to re­
sort to Tonics and extra nutrients.  A wine 
glass  full  before  each  regular  meal,  in­
creases the appetite and improves digestion; 
administered upon retiring at night, has the 
effect to produce most tranquil sleep.

Respectfully,
J.  H a r v ey B a t e s,  M.  D.

Milw a u k ee,  W is.,  Oct.  21,  1887. 

Ph. Best Brewing  Co., Milwaukee, Wis.: 

D e a r  Sirs—I  take  pleasure  in  stating 
that your “Best” Tonic is the most palatable 
of  any preparation  of  Malt,  and  that  from 
its  prompt sind reliable  effect,  I prescribe it 
in preference to that of any other make.

Yours truly,

J.  R.  McD ill.

Milwaukee,  Wis.,  Oct. 21,  1887. 

Ph. Best Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wis. : 

Gentlem en—I  have  used  The  “Best” 
Tonic  in  my own  family  and  in my prac­
tice,  ever since it  was  brought to my atten­
tion by the  Phillip  Best  Brewing  Co.,  and 
am free  to  say  that  I  believe  it  to be the 
most palatable  and  useful of  the Malt pre­
parations I have used.

W m.  F ox,  M.  D.

Mil w a u k e e,  Wis», Oct. 26,  1887. 

Ph. Best Brewing Co.. Milwaukee, Wis.:
D e a r  Sirs—I  thankfully  received  the 
two bottles of your Concentrated Liquid Ex­
tract of Malt and  Hops,  and  am  impressed 
with  the  value  of  this  good and  nutrithte 
preparation. 
It is really a  highly nutritive 
Tonic and  remedial  agent  in  building up a. 
weak  constitution,  strengthening the nerv­
ous  system,  and a  valuable  substitute  for 
solid  food, particularly  if  given  after  dis­
eases,  in cases of  injuries  of the  body, and 
especially when  the appetite  is diminished. 
It  will  be  difficult  to  find  a  better  Tonic 
than  the “Best,”  and  I  cheerfully  testify 
that it is of  great  value in the treatment of 
all kinds ef weakness  and diseases. 
I pre­
fer it to any imported Malt Extract.

Very Respectfully,

M.  Ohlevjann,  M.  D.

For Sale By

Grand Rapids,

Mich.

FISHING  TflGKLE !

If you want  to put in a  stock of Fish­
ing  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.,

and  91’ Pearl  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICH.

PROPRIETORS  OF

58 Michigan Ave., Chicago,

BILL,  CONRAD  £ CO.,
ßentilni Spice Mills
TEftS,  COFFEES * 8PIGE8.

IM P O R T E R S  O F

OWNERS  OF THE  FOLLOWING  CELEBRATED  BRANDS:

JAPAN  TEA—“Red Dragon” Chop. 
COFFEE—O. G. Plantation Java, 
Imperial, javoka, Banner, Mexican.
Tie Best (Me on Bafll.  Wi Solicit Cmmleatw.

W. R. KZEIASBY^ Traveling Representative.

Tbs  JUliGltìgan Tradesman.

W HEREAS:

Wrtten Stpectillrfor Tb i .Tb u >:

“Look here!” broke forth the bald-headed 
man, and then he blushed, even to the little 
spaces  not  concealed  by  the long lock so 
carefully brushed out over his bald  pate, to 
find the eyes of the other three stonily rivet­
ed on his right hand,  wjith  which  he  had 
just  then  mechanically  slipped  a  pedro 
from the bottom of the deck.  “I  was  just 
thinking,” he began again.  “Well,  if  you 
’re th in k in g broke in the  man  with  the 
specs,  “is the reason you and  your  partner 
always hold a pedro when you deal,  I move 
that from now out  we  have  no  thinking 
when we play pedro!”

“I was  just  wondering,”  imperturbably 
went on  the  bald-headed  man,  “which is 
the most injurious  to  traveling  men,  wo­
men, whisky o^aaicls?”

“Women P’ said the tall  passenger,  who 

was a bachelor.

with the red nose.

“Whisky!”  cried  the  weak-eyed  man 

“ Cards! ” said a man  who  looked  like a 
Roman Catholie priest, but who  really sold 
beer for a Toledo brewing concern.

“From the bottom of my heart,  I believe 
that cards are the most  to  blame  for  men 
who go wrong,” said the bald-headed  man. 
“ It is a  great  temptation  for  a man who 
loves cards, and is fascinated by the excite­
ment  of  ‘skinning’  five  cards to see if he 
has drawn the right one to fill  his  flush,  to 
set down to a poker table with his  employ­
er’s money in hjs own pockets. 
If  he  sits 
down  with  ever  so  good  intentions  and 
wins, all is right Jor that  one  time, but he 
spends his winnings freely. 
If  he  loses, a 
‘ten’ or a ‘twenty’ taken from his collections 
may win back his own ‘stuff’—and  it  may 
eventually land him in Canada or in jail.”

“But,” argued the man with the specs on, 
“ my dear boy,  if he had not been  a  drink­
ing man, he would not  be  so  foolish as to 
use his employer’s  money. 
In  nine  cases 
out of ten, you will find that  the  men who 
play  cards  for  money  are  men who also 
drink;  and,  further  than  that, I firmly be­
lieve that a man  who  drinks  has a shorter 
life 'on the road’ than a man who  gambles. 
I  admit that to sit up nights  unfits  a  man 
for business, but you must also  admit  that 
a man with a head full  of  whisky is in far 
worse shape to transact the  business of his 
employers  than  a  man whose  head  may 
ache but who is sober.  More than that, the 
man who gambles is oftentimes able to con­
ceal his vice  from  his  associates—that is, 
until the inevitable  end  comes  and he is a 
defaulter or  an  embezzler.  But  the  man 
who drinks!  How can he remove the signs? 
The trembling hand, the  reddened eyes and 
nose, the ever-predominant  clove  or  mint 
smell are too plain.  Then come the shabby 
clothes,  the unshaven face, the empty order 
book and—”

“You  can trace all  these things  to  wo­
men,” broke in the tall  passenger;  “all  of 
them!  When a man on the road has a ‘mash’ 
in every town, when he bores the life out of 
his companions by telling them of this mar­
ried woman or that dining-room girl he  has 
mashed,  then  begins  his  downfall.  Fine 
clothes, presents, money—all are needed  to 
keep up one’s reputation  as  a  lady-killer, 
and soon his salary is  not  enough.  What 
follows?  He  gambles.  He  loses  often­
times,  and, filled with agony  and  remorse, 
he takes to  drink!  Do  you  fellows  ever 
think,  when one of these puppies with dude 
bangs and perfumed  handkerchiefs sits be­
side you and tells  you  of  his  mashes, of 
your own women-folks at home? - Has such 
a ‘masher’  no  mother,  who,  at least it is 
hoped, is a  married  woman?  Has  he  no 
sister, who may one day  be  insulted by the 
lecherous stare of just such  another ‘blood’ 
as he?  Fellow-sojturners, women, the stay 
of our homes, 
the  beginning  of  our lives 
and the tender thought of all  honest  men, 
are the fault, not the cause,  of  more  men 
going wrong than whisky and  cards put to­
gether! 
if some of them did not encourage 
men to flirt with  them,  many  men  would 
not flirt at all.  And I  firmly  believe  that 
some women are bom, just as Minerva was, 
fully armed at all points.  Some  have been 
ruined by men, and from  other  men 
they 
exact a most terrible revenge.  Men  on  the 
road who are married and  have  homes and 
families have no business with this  terrible 
pastime—flirtation. 
It  can  only  lead  to 
shame and dishonor—”

And here someone observed that they had 
passed Bangor and  the  committee  of  the 
whole arose and a motion  was  djuly  made 
and carried that they  get off  at McDonald, 
go to the Buster House and play double-pe- 
dro at a quarter a  comer,  ten  cents a  “set 
up,” until the train came back.  Adjourned 
sine die. 

Leo.  A.  Cabo.

M.  de  Lesseps  has  sunk  a  billion  of 
francs  in  digging  a  useless and„hopeless 
ditch at the  Isthmus  of  Panama.  Nearly 
all of this great sum—a  fifth of the war in­
demnity exacted  by  Germany in 1871—has 
come out of the pockets of  small  investors 
in France. 
Is the Country going to  “throw 
good  money  after bad?”  No more can be 
got on the credit  of  the  stoek_or bonds of 
the canal company; but the  great  projector 
thinks he could replenish his empty treasury 
if the government  would  allow him to ap­
peal to the gambling instinct in Ins country-: 
mien and their neighbom by means of a great 
lottery. 
It  was  alleged ¿that ¡.President 
Carnot was not unfavorable to the proposal, 
hut the French ministry has now refused to 
sanction it, and the  whole  project appears 
to be “at the end of;its£string.”

Nnytea Uro*., grocers, city: “The paper is

JOBBERS  IN

DRY  GOODS,

.AJSTD NOTIONS,

8 0   M o n r o e   JBt.,

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

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Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers 
American and Stark A Bags

{A Specialty.

JENNE88 1 McGURDY,

Importers  and  JianiifaoWrers’  Agents.

DEALERS IN

Faney  Goods  of all Description.

HOTEL AND  STEAMBOAT GOODS,

Bronze  and  Lihrarg  Lamps,  Chandeliers,  Brackets,,  EIg.,

73 and 75  Jefferson  Ave.,

DETROIT,  -  MICH,

Wholesale Agents for  Dilffield's  Canadian  Lamps.

W holesale  Grocers,

IMPORTERS  OF

Teas, Lemons and Foreign Fruits.

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Soaps and Niagara Starch.

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ask for Special  Inside Prices 
on  anything  in  our  line.

PUTNAM  & BKOOKS,

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Dates,  Figs,  Citrons,  Prilnells,  Etc,

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Moss,  Hosier?,  bit  M s,  Fonisbg  ills,  Etc.

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- 
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business.

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Wo.S,600Ibs.  16x10x101a.  28x18x18In. 
86 
Ho. 4 ,700 IN.  18x14x12 ta.  82x22x21% la.  46
j g y  L iberal D iscounts to  Trade. *ä
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Grani  Square  and  Upright  Pianos.

The  Weber  Piano is  recognized  beyond 
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in every  particular. 
It is  renowned for its 
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Sheet,  music  and  musical  merchandise. 

Everything in the musical line.

Weber Pianos, 

Fischer Pianos,

Smith Pianos, 

Estey Organs, 

A  B. Chase Organs,

Hillstrom  Organs,

JULIUS A. J. FRIEDRICH,

(Successor  to  Friedrich  Bros.)

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

DETROIT  SOAP  00,

D E T R O IT . M IOH .,

Manufacturers  of the following well-known Brands

S O - A . F »   s

of

QUEEN  ANNE, 
MICHIGAN, 

TRUE  BLUE, 

CZAR, 

MONDAY, 

PHCENIX,

WABASH, 

AND  OTHERS.

MOTTLED  GERMAN,
SUPERIOR,

ROYAL  BAR,

MASCOTTE,
CAMEO,

For Quotations address 

,

W .   Gk  H A W K I N S ,

Lock  Box  173, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MIOH.

Salesman  for W estern  Michigan.

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and a  draft  dropped out.  The  letter  was 
dated in a  Western  mining  town, and  was 
written by my old comrade F----- ,  the reck­
less spendthrift  and  irresponsible major of 
toe —st. 
It reminded me of a fact that had 
occurred to me numberless times; that I  had 
in ’64  lent him  $300,  and it  informed  me 
that  he  had-  reformed  and  was  pros­
perous  beyond  expectation -  and 
that  he 
enclosed  me,  with 
and  un­
dying  regards,  a  draft  to  cover  the  loan, 
with compound interest to date.,

thanks 

“Under  certain,  circumstances,  gentle­
men, money is a wonderful  tonic,  and  my 
desire for  self-extermination  rapidly evap­
orated.  The other enclosure  was from the 
pension office at Washington. 
It  informed 
me  that  my  application, which  had  been 
‘holding fire’ for  years,  had  been favorably 
passed upon, and in it  was  inclosed a draft 
on the New York Sub  Treasury  for  several 
hundred  dollars.  Altogether  my  ‘valen­
tines’ more  than  covered  all  my indebted­
ness,  and 
the  foundation  for  an, 
eventually, successful business.

laid 

“There,  Crossgrain!  Your challenge  in­
duced  me  to  refer to a matter—I mean the 
poison episode—of which even my family is 
ignorant, and, of  course,  I  expeet that  the 
confession  will  not be  made  public.  The 
circumstance  is  somewhat  antiquated, but 
neither of  you  would  like  to have  such  a 
matter, ancient as it is,  made the subject of 
old  woman’s  gossip  the  balance  of  your 
lives.”

Smiley  may  accuse  me  of  making  his 
secret  public,  but  he  can’t  accuse  me  of 
giving his real name.

PATENTS;

LUCIUS C.  WEST,

A ttorney a t P ate n t Law  and Solicitor 
lAKtP  »T  • 
A m erican  and  F oreign  p a te n ts  
105 E. Main St., K alam azoo, Mich., U. S. A.  B ranch  o f  
flee, London, Eng.  P ractice in  U. S. Courts.  C irculars 
free.

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Manufactured by

KOOH  A.  B.  CO.

354 M AIN  ST., 

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

JOHN  H.  REDMOND,

Wholesale  Commission  Merchant,

335  Broadway,  -  Albany,  NT.  Y.,

P. O. BOX 315.

_ Liberal Cash  Advancem ents on Con­
signm ents.  M arking P lates free.  Cor­
respondence  and  Consignm ents  Solic­
ited.  References furnished.

Poultry,  Butter  and  Eggs  a 

Specialty.

REEDER. PALMER  &  CO.,

Wholesale Boots and Shoes.

STATE  ÄGENT8  FOR  LYCOMING  RUBBER  CO.,

2 4   P e a r l  St.,  G rand  R a p id s, M ich, ,

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P E R K I N S   «&  H E
Hides, Furs, W ool <& Tallow,

DEA LERSIN

NOS.  123  and  524 LOUIS STREET. GRAND  RAPIDS. MICHIGAN.

WE  CARRY  A  STOCK OF  CAKE TALLOW FOR MTT.T.  nSR.

wish to serve
M a   R rn n p n  
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with GOOD  COFFEE would do well 
to avoid Brands that require the sup­
port of Gift Schemes, Prize Promises 
or Lottery Inducements.
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Which Holds Trade  on  Account of 

Superior  Merit  Alone.

Unequaled  Quality. 

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answer all communications  regarding prices  etc  Convenient shinnincr 
quick delivery.  For sale by all the wholesale W e  everywhere. 
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BUNTING  &  DAVIS,

C o m m issio n   M e rch a n ts.

Specialties:  Apples and Potatoes in Oar Lots.

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

W. Steele Packing & Provision Co.
FRESH  MEATS.

JOBBERS  IN

Stock Yards and Packing House, Grandville Ave.,

Grand  Rapids,  -  -  UVEioti.

CURT1S3, DUNTQi;  i   ANDREWS

ROOFERS

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

Grand  Rapids, 

- 

-  Mich.

W H O L E S A L E

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  4 32  Ottawa  Street. 

fiW J  M PM

WIGWAM  SLIPPERS.

D O   Y O U   W A N T   A

Send Your Spring Orders to  MAYHEW.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY  8,  1888.

LEISURE  HOUR JOTTINGS.

BY A  COUNTRY  MERCHANT.

W ritten  Especially fo r The Tradesman.

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* 

If 

the 

titular  deity,  who  is  said  to 
preside  over  sundry  observances  that  are 
peculiar to the Fourteenth  day of February, 
would  mingle  a  little  practical  business 
with the verbose  sentimentality,  gush  and 
foolishness  of  the  anniversary,  he would 
find himself in much greater  favor with in 
dividuals who have  passed  the  age of sen 
timentality,  gush  and  foolishness.  Now, 
I  don’t object to St.  Valentine’s  suggesting 
Combinations  of  hearts,  and  arrows,  and 
cnpids,  and  vine-treUised  cottages,  and 
gondolas,  and  flower  gardens,  and  rose- 
tinted skies to  bread-and-butter  misses and 
half-fledged  youngsters,  but  if  he would 
divert the time employed in pursuading peo­
ple to send glaring  and  hideous caricatures 
—which rarely possess  the merit of humor, 
and are nearly  always  calculated  to distort 
and ridicule real or alleged defects—to per­
suading  parties  to  make  the day an  occa­
sion for dissipating  a  portion of the gloom 
and depression of  life,  he  would  certainly 
add  enormously  to  the  ranks  of  his devo­
tees. * 
If, for instance,  the  saint  could by some 
process induce a portion of  the  great  body 
of delinquents,  to  make the Fourteenth of 
February  an • occasion  for  surprising  and 
delighting  struggling  and  almost discour­
aged  tradesmen,  by  sending  them  valen­
tines  enclosing  the  amount  of  their  ac­
counts, how many of  those  depressed deal-; 
ers would welcome the day  with  eagerness 
and delight.  Then, again, he might arrange 
affairs so that, on this occasion,  now devot­
ed  almost  exclusively  to  rather  mawkish 
sentiment,  unthinking  foolishness and,  of­
ten, studied  anonymous  impertinence,  the 
anxious  office  seeker  should  receive  his 
commission;  the  veteran  his  long-delayed 
pension;  the  expectant heir the notification 
• f  his  inheritance;  the  principal in a law­
suit his andouncement of victory; the minis­
ter his “call” to  new  and  richer  pastures; 
the 
lawyer  his  most  important  “brief’ 
of the year;  and  divers  and  sundry  other 
impecunious, anxious and expectant parties, 
missives,  in  the  shape  of valentines,  that 
would  dissipate  their  monetary  troubles 
and dispel their anxiety.
;-------- 1*  
*  
e  A couple of years  ago,  on the eyening of 
the Thirteenth of  February,  Deacon Cross^ 
grain,  our  neighbor  Smiley,  and  myself, 
were  seated  around  a  comfortable  fire, 
manufacturing huge wreaths of smoke,  and 
discussing  various  matters,  when  Cross­
grain’s three children entered  the store and 
began  importuning  the  old  man for some 
money to buy valentines.  Now Crossgrain, 
in modern parlance,  is  “ well  heeled,’’chut 
nothing is more distasteful  to him than the 
purchase of articles that could not be classed 
as “necessities,”  and  when  an unsatisfac­
tory compromise had been effected with the 
youngsters,  and  they  had  departed, 
the 
Deacon exclaimed:

*  

*  

*

“Of all the  senseless and  rediculous cus­
toms that the human family is afflicted with 
I class this valentine business the  greatest.
I can see some sense  and  perhaps a partial 
return for the expense in the observance  of 
some of the holidays,  but who ever heard of 
an individual that receive any real benefit or 
of even  lasting satisfaction through the dis­
tribution  of  Uncle  Sam’s  mails  on  the 
Fourteenth of February?”

“I  have!”  said  Smiley,  promptly;  “al­
though not perhaps in exactly the sense you 
intend. 
In ’65 I came out of the army con­
siderably  demoralized  in  health,  and with 
an excess of lead about my anatomy.  Find­
ing  farming  impossible  I  sold  my  forty 
acre patch and invested it in a small trading 
business, and for  three  or  four  years paid 
■expenses and kept my  credit  in fair shape. 
But during these years  my family increased 
and my trade began to decrease,  and in the 
early part  of  February,  1870,  I found my 
self involved to that extent  that I could see 
no way to extricate  myself  from my finan­
cial difficulties.  To add to my troubles  my 
wife and two children were  taken sick,  and 
a heavy doctor’s bill  accumulated;  three or 
four of my heaviest  creditors  moved  West 
without settling up,  and  an alleged friend, 
whose note I had endorsed,  left  the matter 
for me to adjust.

“On  St.  Valentines  day,  about  eleven 
O’clock the sheriff attached all my property. 
The physician and several other local'credi­
tors were  speedily  on  hand, clamoring for 
their dues, and my  total  cash  assets  were 
inside of ten dollars.

“I have no  excuse  for  cowardice, or de­
ficiency  in  manhood,  except  the fact that 
my  wounds  and  disability,  added  to my 
other troubles, so completely  unnerved and 
■depressed me that I could,  by no process of 
reasoning,  convince  myself  that I was of 
th e  remotest use to the world, my family or 
myself; and 1 deliberately  formed a resolu­
tion to depart at once by the  ‘poison route.’ 
After making  what  must  have  seemed an 
•exceptionally affectionate  visit  to  the sick 
ones, I  went  into  pur  humble  parlor,  laid 
down upon the lounge, and was  deliberate­
ly preparing for the  ‘shuffling  off* process, 
when my little six-year-old  burst  into  the 
room  and exclaimed eagerly:

DILBORTH  BROfJtERS,  Proprietors,

Saginaw,  East.Saginaw and Bay City.

For  Sale  by  all  Jobbers  at  Grand  Rapids,  Detroit, 
PITTSBURGH,  Penn.

ÄM08 8, MU88ELMAN1 Co.

"V'TWholesale  Grocers,
V

21 & 23  SOUTH  IONIA  ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH

CEO.  E. HOWES,

C.  N.  RAPP,  Manager,

Apples,  Potatoes  |  Onions.

JOBBER  IN

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

Oranges, Lemons, Bananas.

3  Io n ia  S t..  GRAX7S  R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

House and Store Shades Made to Order,

• - ■ -................................................... 10 00 I Youth’s and Misses..........................................7 00
s 
soles.. ............................................1125 
RAwa 
“ 
••  with  soles...................8  0o
Boys and women’s ..........................................  8 50 | Children’s ..................................................... !. .6 (X>
with  soles.......................  9 751 
withsoles............................Q f f i

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“ 

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

Q-.  H,  M A T H E W ,  Q r a n d   R a p id s .

MICHIGAN  CIGAR  CO.,

MANUFACTURERS  OF  THE  JUSTLY  CELEBRATED

C .  

“ B Æ .  
. ”
f f i 1YUM   YUM,”

The Most Popular 10c  cigar,  and

C

The  Best  Selling  5c  Cigar  in  the  Market. 

Send fo r  trial  order.
-  MICH.

BIO  PLA-FIIDS, 

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

RIM, BERTSGH & CO.,
COTS  AND  SHOES.
BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.
WM. SEARS & OO.

-  Grand Rapids, Mich

14 and 16 Pearl Street, 

AGENTS FOR THE

Cracker  Manufacturers,

If so, send for Catalogue and Price-List to

HETMAN  & CO.,  6nJ“d^ anaist
>  Grand Rapids.

- 

RISING  Stiff 

BUCKWHEAT.
Gnaranteed ¿M utely Pnre.
Newaygo  Roller.  JUills,

ORDERS FROM RETAIL TRADE SOLICITED.

Newaygo, 

-  Mich,

§et some of the DINGMAN 

“Now, John,  don’t  fail to
OAP.  Sister Clara writes 
that  it  is  the  best  in  the 
world for  washing  clothes 
and  all  house  -  cleanincr 
work.”
Hawkins & Perry
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

W holesale  Agents,

FOR SALE  BY

H E S T E R  

FOX,

Manufacturers’ Agents for

S A W  A N D  G R IS T  K IL L  M A C H IN E R Y .
Send for 
Catalogue 
and
.  Priée»
41

ATLASENMHEWORKS

INDIANAPOLIS.  INDM  U.  S.

M A N U F A C T U R E R S  O F

STEAM E R B 8E 88 BHILCB8
Carry Engines and Boilers In Stock 

for  Immediate delivery.

Planers, M atchers, Moulders and aU kinds of W ood-W orking M achinery. 

Saws, B elting  and  O ils.'  <v 

Ahd  Dodge’s  Patent Wood Split Pulley.  Large stock  ketpt on hand.  Send for Sample 
Write far Price*. 
j

44, 4igaad. 48 Be. D lTlrieigL 6 B4 KD SAPina, srsmfet 

Pulley and become convinced of their  superiority.'^-.

“ *Oh papa!  I’ve been over to  the  post- 
office to see if  I’d got a  valentine, and just 
«ee what a pretty one  somebody’s  sent me;
And here’s  two for you, hot I’m ’ficaid papa 

ain’t nice Utosoinel’  %
‘I listlessly opened one o f ¿he envelopes

68  Monroe  Street,

Grand Rapids.

37.39 & 41 Kent  Street.  Grand  Rapids, Minhiga-vi,

i t  go.,

jSk.sexi.tiB  fo r

AMBOY  CHEESE.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

The  quotations  given  below  are  such  as  are  ordinarily  offered  cash  buyers, who pay 

promptly and buy in full packages:  ______

(G ro c e rie s .

The Fourth  Social Success 
Grip Carriers.

of file  Local

So for as The  T r adesm an is able to as­
certain,  Grand  EapidS  is  the only city of 
any size in the country where the  traveling 
jnenand their wives ale able to get together 
twice a year and enjoy a day and evening in 
pleasures.  The annual  summer  pic­
nic of the Grand  Rapids  Traveling  Men’s 
Association has come to be  looked  upon as 
at feature of the heated term, and, in no less 
degree,  the  annual  winter ball of the fra­
ternity has grown to be one of the events of 
'{he social season.

The fourth annual  social  party was held 
at Metropolitan Hall  last  Friday  evening 
amt was no exception to  its predecessors in 
point of attendance, sociability  and general 
pood feeling.  All the boys wore their store 
■nilfts and their wives were  arrayed in gar­
ments  which  wiil’> make  the expense  ac­
counts  uncommonly  large for the next few 
weeks—providing,  of course,  there is any 
acnnection between  to  two.  Dancing  was 
Indulged in from 9 o’clock until nearly mid­
night, when all hands adjourned to Sweet’s 
Hotel for supper.  Through an unfortunate 
hitch in the arrangements, seats in the din- 
fog room were prepared  for  about  -twenty 
than should have been the case, in con­
sequence of which a dozen couples—includ­
ing the President of the  Association—were 
compelled to occupy the parlor for the space 
of an hour.  The supper  provided  for  the 
first, contingent is said to have been admira­
bly served, but those who  came  last  were 
treated  with  about  as  much  respect  as 
would  ordinarily  be  accorded  a  gang  of 
tramps.  Dancing  was  resumed at the hall 
shortly after 1 o’clock and  everything pass­
ed off as “merrily as a marriage bell”  until 
adjournment.  Success No. 4  may  now be 
inscribed on the banner  of  the G. R. T. M.

DO’S.

W ritten  Especially for The Tradesman.

There’s something, love, for ns to do, 
Because, forsooth, 'tisf riendship’s due,
So let us act without ado,
Before the eve distills her dew,
Gome kiss me, love, and then  Adieu.

M .J.W rxslby,

Buy flour manufactured by  the  Crescent 
Roller Mills.  Every sacfc warranted.  Voigt 
Milling Co.

THEY  JJfllfE  fjO  EQUAL

They Please Everybody.

BEST  FAMILY,

HEADLIGHT  a i  

LITTLE DAISY

SOAPS  are  conceded  by all to  be the best 

soaps ever sold in Michigan.

Commendations are coming in daily, 

for price list.

Send

HAY!

Treasurer  Seymour 

T radesman  his  usual 
port,  as  follows:

RECEIPTS.

furnishes  The 
semi-annual  re-

DISBURSEMENTS,

Balance on band..............•.........i f §,06
Receipts Feb. 3,1888....................  166.50  $231.56
For ball and checkers...................$18.00
For music........................................  24-0)
For printing.................................
For ribbon............................ ..........
For postage.....................................  g.00
For supper tickets...........................98.25
For printing programs................................. 

Balance on hand.................................   $57.11

l-OU ©H4.40

W e offer in car load lots good 
Timothy  Hay.  We  have  tlie 
output of four presses and can 
offer it in any quantity.  W rite 
for prices.
Lamobeaux  &  J ohnston,

71  Canal St., Grand Rapids.

RAKINO  POWDER.
10c cans.. 
95 
...  1 40 
Hi lb.  **  •• 
...  1 90 
. 
16 oz.  “ 
...  2 60 
k l b .  “ .. 
...  3 80 
112 oz. “  . 
...  4 95 
[lib ..  “  •• 
...11 78 
1234 lb.
...13 75 
.. 
...17 76 
...2 2  20
75
U ft 
3  “  ....  1 50
. 3 00
ia> 
B u lk ......... ...........  JO

Í lb.  “ 
,1b. 
ilb.

f*  1  “  .. 

Acme, 34 ft cans, 3 doz.... 

Princess;  34s......................£

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1  “ 
5  “ 

&.....................  3 75
bulk..................  
28
.  45
Arctic. % ft cans, 6 doz. 
4  “   
  75
2  “  ....1 4 0
2  “  ....2 4 0
1  “  ....12 00
Victorian. I ft (tall,) 2 doz.  2 00
Diamond,  “bulk.”. ........... 
1®
Absolute,  34  ft  cans, 100
cans in  case..........................U  76
Absolute,  34  ft  cans,  50
cans in  case......................... 10 00
Absolute, 1 ft cans, 50 cans
in case............................. A® 75
Telfer’s 34 ft, cans, 6 doz in
C8>S6....................  
  2 70
Telfer’s ’¿"ft cans.% doz in
case........ ............................2 55
Telfer’s 1 ft cans,  1 doz in
1  50
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BLUING

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BBOOMS.

Dry, No. 2................... doz.  25
Dry, No. 3..................-doz.  45
Liquid,4  o z ............ doz.  35
Liquid,  8 oz.............. doz.  65__
Arctic, 4 oz........ $   gross  3 ou
Arctic, 8 oz.......................   1  *9
Arctic 16 oz................ —   12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box.  2  00 
Arctic No.41 
® Jjj
Arctic No. 3 
4 00
No. 2 Hurl..................................2 go
No. 1 Hurl..................................2 2g
No. 2 Carpet.............................. 2 5q
No. 1 Carpet.............................. f  ¿5
Parlor Gera.............................. j* J{0
Common Whisk........................1 %
Fancy  W hisk........................... J ~5
M ill............................................. 2 J5
Warehouse .......................... ® u0
Runkle Bros’.. Vien. Sweet  22
Premium..  3d
Horn-Cocoa  37
Breakfast..  48

CHOCOLATE.
“ 
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OOCOANUT
Schepps, i s . . . . . . . . . ............27
Is and 34s............. .28
34s............................2734
Is in tin pails— 2734
3*8 
....2834
Maitby’s, Is...........................2334
Is  and 34s........... 24
3*s.........................2434
Manhattan, pails.................20
Peerless.................. . • • • • • -
Bulk, pails or barrels. .16©18
Mocha............................. 27@29
Mandating......................2o@55
O G  Java........................26@2a
Java.................................
Maricabo........................ 21@22
CostiRica.......................31@22

‘  COFFEE—GREEN.

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Michigan full cream... 13® 1334
Apples; evaporated... 9 34® 10 34 

D RIED  FRU ITS.

“  '  sundried.----- ..6® 624
D RIED   FRUITS—-FOREIGN.
Citron....... —  
20
Currants.  .... 
............ 7
Lemon  P e e l.................. --*J4 ,
Orange Peel— ............1 4
Prunes, French, 60s........1434
“  French,80s_____. ..1234 I
“  French, 90s........11
“  Turkey, old..........434
“  Turkey,  new........7  5

........ 

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FISH .

“  
“  10  “ 

Raisins, Dehesia.. . . ..............,.3 60
Raisins, London Layers.... 3 10 
Raisins, California  “ 
.. ..2 40 
Raisins, Loose Muscatels,. 2 10 
Raisins, Loose California. .1 90 
Raisins, Ondaras, 28s. 834®  834
Raisins. Sultanas........ 
....83%
Raisins,  Valencias..............  7
Raisins, Imperials............. .3  75
Cod,  whole.....................434@5
Cod, boneless.......  .....6?s®734
1234
Halibut.......................... 
3 00
Herring, round,  34 bbl. 
Herring, round,  34 bbl. 
1 50 
Herring, Holland, bbls. 
10 00 
Herring, Holland, kegs  75@80
Herring, Scaled........... 
®22
Mack, sh’r, No. 1, ¿ b b l— 8 75 
** 
ia ft kit..l 25
..110 
No. 2. 34 bbls— ...7 50
Trout,  34  bbls..................... 5 75
“  10 ft  kits...................  85
White, No. 1, 34 bbls...........7 00
White, No. 1,12 1b kits...... 1 20
White,  No. 1,10 ft kits......1 05
White, Family,  34 bbls......3 75
kits............  68
Jennings’  Lemon.  Vanilla
1 60
D. C.,2 oz.......$  doz 1  00
2 65
o z . . .1 50
4 
“ 
4 25
“ 
6 oz..................2 50
5 00 
“  8 oz.................. 3 50
1  76
“  No. 2 Taper..1 25 
3 00 
..175
“  No. 4 
r‘ 
9 00
34 pint, r’nd. .4 60
“ 
18 00 
»  1 
..9 00
»*  “ 
1 85 
No. 3 panel...! 10 
5 00 
...2 75
No. 8 
“ 
7 00
...4 25
No. 10  “ 
Farina, 100 lb. kegs.............  01
Hominy, $   bbl....................4 0j
Macaroni, dom 12 lb. box..  60 
imported...10  @11
Pearl Barley.............  3M® 4
Peas,  Green...................  @1 40
Peas, Split......................  @ 334
Sago, German............ 
Tapioca, fl’k or p’rl..
Wheat,  cracked........
Vermicelli, import...10 
domestic..
MATCHES.

** 
FLAVORING EXTRACTS. 

FARTNACEOUS  GOODS.

~
®  6 
® 634 
@1134

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95
G.H. No.  8,  square....
G. H. No 9, square, 3 gro... 1  10
g ! H. No. 200,  parlor..........1 65
G. H. No. 3U0, parlor.'..— 2 15
G. H. No.  7, round............. 1 40
Oshkosh, No. 2-------
Oshkosh, No.  8.....................150
Kwpdisli....................  
10
Richardson’s No. 8  sq........1 00
Richardson’s No. 9  sq.... ..1 o0 
Richardson’s No. 734, rnd. .1 00 
Richardson’s No. 7 
rnd.. 1  50 
Woodbine. 300......................1 15
Black  Strap...................... 17@18
Cuba Baking.....................22@25
Porto Kico......................... 94@3a
New  Orleans,  good.........o3®40
New Orleans, choice.... .44®50
New  Orleans, fancy....... 5l>@52

MOLASSES.

B,

The Grand Rapids  Packing & Provision Co. 

PO RK   l i t   BARRELS.

quote  as follows:
Mess................... -I........................-................J8 00
Shortcut... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . — 16 00
Short cut, clear,  Botsford.. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..  . ,15 00
Short out  Morgan........................ .....16 25
Extracleftr pig, short cu t.........  ...  .. ..17 00
Extra clear, beavi  ... .. .. ..  — ............1 7  00
Clear quill, short cu t.. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  .11 00
Boston clear, short cut...............................17 00
Clear back, short cu t,;.............. ................17 00
Standard clear, short  cut, best. ..........1 7  00
Bean............... ............. ..... .  i. .. ... . . ■. ,, ••
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLAIN.
Hams, average 20  fts.......... .............— ........11
16  fts .............................1134
12 to 14 fts..............................1134
....................... ..............  ...  634

picnic   
best boneless........................

Shoulders .... — .....................................—   8
Breakfast Bacon, boneless.......... ..11
Dried Beef, extra—  

............... ............  834

bam  prices.................................10

“ 

DRY  SALT  MEATS.

Long Clears, heavy. 

.............................—   834
“  medium...... ..............................  834
ligh t...........................................  834
“ 

LARD.

8
834
824
8%
834
834

LARD IN  TIN  PA ILS.

Tierces  .....................................................  
30 and 50 ft Tubs............. ...................... - 
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case.............................. 
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case.............................. 
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case.............................. 
20 ft Pails, 4 pails in case........................ 
Extra Mess, warranted 200 fts...........................  7 00
Extra Mess, Chicago Pacning...........................  7 50
P late..............  
 
Extra Plate.......................... 
Boneless, rump butts..........................................10 00

“  Kansas City Packing.......... ...7  25
7  75
8 25
“  Kan City pkd.    ........9 00
“ 34 bbl.  5 00
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BEEF IN  BARRELS.

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SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.
 

Pork Sausage..............  
734
Ham Sausage...................................... .............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

PIG S’ FEET.

FRESH  MEATS.

 

 

as follows: 

The W. Steele  Packing & Provision Co. quotes 
_  „
Fresb  Beef............................ 
5  ® 634
Dressed  Hogs.......................................... 634® 624
Pork loins................................................  @ 9
Beef loins.. 
..........................................  @ 9
Beef ribs...................................................  @ 8
Pork ribs....................................................5  @ 7
Pork  sausage..........................................  @734
Bologna...................................................  6  @ 7
Frankfort sausage.................................  @9
Summer sausage............;......................   @13
Blood, liver and head sausage............5  @ 6

HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

Green__ $  ft 434® 5
Part cured...  6  @ 634
Full cured__   7  @
Dry hides and
k ip B ...............  6  @ 8

HIDES.

Calf skins, green
Deacon skins,

or cured__6  ©  7
piece......10  @25

WOOL.

Fine washed $  ft 18@20|Coarse washed.. .20@22
Medium  ............. 20@23|Unwashed............ 12@16
FURS.No. 1  No.,2 No. 3 No. 4

4 00 
00

TOBACCOS— PLUG.

Pure Sugar,V4 bbl., 

. . ...27®39 
SWEET  GOODS-X  XXX
834
Ginger  Snaps.... —  734 
Sugar'Creams— — 734  83*
Frosted Creams........  
9
Graham Crackers.... 
834
Oatmeal  Crackers.... 
834
Spear H ead...— ................ .44
Piguk Road..............................42
Eclipse.............................    -.36
Holy Moses..............................33
Blue Blazes..........................  32
Eye  Opener................  
■<&
.......................... 42@45
Star 
Clipper.............................. — 39
Sealping Knife....................... 39
Sam Bass.......-................—   39
Climax.............................   43@45
Merry  War.................. . —  ..35
Jolly Tar......................— 37
Live & Let Live......................37
Nimrod...................................  43
Whopper— ...................... — 39
Jupiter......................................30
Ola Honesty.......................... .43
P.  L..................................... — 38
Corner Stone............................39
Clipper.............................. ,35@37
2 and 2................................ 25@32
Sweet  Pippin..........................50
Five and Seven.......................50
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 Hyson...................20@45
Gunpowder.. . ...................35@50
Oolong.................. 33®55®60®75
Congo..................................25®30
VINEGAR.30 gr.  50 gr,
11
11
12

 
TOBACCOS—SMOKING.

TOBACCOS—FIN E  CUT.

White Wine .... .. 
9
Cider.................. .. 
9
Apple................. ..  10
MISCELLANEOUS 
Bath Brick imported.. 
do 
American..
Burners, No.  0....................65
do  No. 1........... 
75
do  No. 2......................95
Cocoa Shells, bulk...............  4
Condensed  Milk, Eagle— 7 60
Cream  Tartar.......... . 
25
Candies. Star.......................  934
Candles, Hotel....................1034
Camphor, oz., 2 ft 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,in30ft pails..  .  5  @  534
Powder,  Beg.......................5 50
Powder, 34  Keg..................2 87
.15
Sage
Sauer-kraut, 3(1 gals............9 00
CANDY. FRUITS and NUTS. 
Putnam  &  BroOKS quote  as 
follow s:

TEAS.

do 

Purely Personal.

Frank Jenison, the Manton merchant, was 

In town over Sunday.

Daniel Lynch paid a visit  to  East  Liver­

pool and Pittsburg last week.

M. J. Wrisley, of Lakeview,  is compiling 
a 600-page volume comprising  the efforts of 
Michigan poets only, and wishes the address 
of every verse writer in the State.

Geo.  H.  Reeder,  of  the  firm  of Reeder, 
Palmer & Co.,  has  gone  to  Williamsport, 
Pa., to interview the Lycoming Rubber Co., 
for which factory his house  is  distributing 
agent in this territory.

Sumner  M.  Wells,  store  salesman  for 
Clark, Jewell & Co., failed to  put in an ap 
pearance  Monday  morning,  but  he  sent 
down word to uncork a box of cigars for the 
boys while he juggled  the  nursing  bottle, 
it’s a girl and weighs eight pounds.

Geo. H. Rainouard,  the  Bridgeton  mer 
chant,  is  in town for a couple of days as a 
witness  in  the  United States Court in the 
matter of R. S.  Shiffert  and  Ed.  English 
who were arrested  by  theU . S. authorities 
for illegally carrying the government mails 
A. W. Ferguson has been engaged to sue 
ceed C. N. McWhorter as local  representa­
tive for R. G.  Dun  &  Co.  Mr.  Ferguson 
has  had  twelve  years’  experience  in the 
agency business, two years as chief clerk in 
flu» Grand Rapids office, and is  well  quali 
fiwl to assume the duties  and  responsibili­
ties of local manager.

The  Grocery Market.

Sugars  have  taken  a  slight  downward 
movement  and  package  coffees  tumbled 
down  another 
on  Monday.  Well-in- 
llonned members of the  grocery  trade  ex­
press  the  belief  that  a decline of 
per 
week will be witnessed for at least a month 
to come.  Beans continue to get scarcer and 
tend higher.  Procter & Gamble  and  Kirk 
both announce  advances  in  their  brands, 
ranging from 15c to 50c per box and Kirk 
out with a circular, announcing that hereaf­
ter the Michigan trade will  be  handled ex­
clusively through  the  jobber.  Business in 
Ai« grocery line is moderate in  volume, but 
collections are fully up to  the  average  for 
this season of the year.

Lenten Fish and Oysters.

F. J. Dettenthaler is well  supplied  with 
finh and oysters of all kinds for the  Lenten 
trade and is  prepared  to  supply  dealers, 
jobbers or retailers, with anything in 
ids line  on  short notice.  Those who have 
.■ever dealt with him would do well to send 
far  quotations  without  delay  and his old 
customers—well,  they’ll  keep  right on in 
the old way without any  suggestions  from 
{fane Tradesman.

The Michigan  Central’s  Niagara.

The Michigan Central  does  not  assume 
foe ownership of Niagara Falls, but  it does 
•offer to its passengers from  its  station  at 
m is  View, the grandest and most compre- 
hensive spectacle that the great cataract af­
fords.  It is the only  road that runs direet- 
3jr by the falls, and from this point all parte 
o ffo e cataract, the angry  rapids above and 
foelmUtag cauldron below, are in full view.
season, when  the  cliffs  are  hung 
w ith  gigantic . icicles,  and the  trees  and 
lAnibbery covered with curious  formations 
- o f {Spates spray, the  soene  reacjies, <fo the 
fongua&OOf ^avara iTaylor;  rttliq climax of

PROPRIETOR OF

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

JOBBER OF

^

SOLID

217, 219 L ivingston St.,

And Packer of
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 
trade. 
G -rand  R a p id s .
F O R   S - A X jE I!
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.

’Dress  Stays

Soft,  pliable  and  absolutely  unbreakable.  Stan­
dard  quality  15  cents  p er  yard.  Cloth  covered  20 
cents.  S atin covered 25 cents.  F o r sale every where.

TIME  TABLES.
Grand Rapids & Indiana.

All Trains daily except Sundny.
GOING  NORTH.

A rrives.
T raverse C ity & M ackinaw E x .. . . .  .9:05 a  m
T raverse City E x.................................
From  C incinnati................................ 7:30 p m
F t. W ayne and Mackinaw E x......... 3:40 p m
Saginaw  Express............................... 11:25 a  m

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11:30 a  m  
7:00 a m
5:05 p m 
7:20 a m  
IHO'p m

10:30 p m .

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Saginaw  express runs th rough solid.
7:00 a. m. tra m  has ch a ir car to  Traverse City.
11:30 a. m. tra in  has ch a ir c a r fo r Petoskey and Mack­
5:05 p.  m. tra in   h as  sleeping  cars  fo r  Petoskey and 

inaw  City. 
M ackinaw City.
GOING  SOUTH.
C incinnati  Express..........................  
F o rt W ayne Express........................10:30 a m  
Cincinnati  E xpress.......................... 4 :40 p m  
Traverse C ity and M ackinaw Ex. .11.-00 p m  

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

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. 

7:15 a m  tra in   has  p arlo r  ch air  ca r  fo r  Cincinnati. 
5:00 p m  tra in  has W oodruff sleeper fo r Cincinnati.
5:00 p.  m. tra in  connects  w ith M. C. R. R. a t K alam a­
zoo fo r B attle Creek,  Jackson,  D etroit  and C anadian 
points, arriv in g  in  Detroit a t 10:45 p. m.
Leave. 
Arrive.
6:45 a m .................................... ................................10:10am
11:00 a m ......................................................... ............  4:80 p m
4:40 p m .....................................................................   8:60 p m
Leaving tim e a t  Bridge stre e t depot 7 m inutes later.
C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
Michigan Central.

Grand Rapids Division.

DEPART.

ARRIVE.

Detroit Express........................ .............................  8:15 am
Day Express......................................................     1:10 p m
•Atlantic Express...................................................10:10 p m
Mixed  ................ ............................................ 
0:60am
•Pacific  Express................................ ................  6:00 am
Mjall 
................................................ .  3:00p
Grand Rapids Express..............................  
10:15 p
Mixed....................................................................... 6:15 p
•Daily.  All other daily except Sunday.  Sleeping ears 
run on Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from 
Detroit.  Parlor cars run on  Day  Express  and Grand 
Rapids Express to and  from  Detroit.  Direct  connec­
tions made’ at Detroit with all through trains East over 
M. C. R. R., (Canada Southern Div.)

O. W. Rugglbs. Gen’l Pass. andTieket Agt., Chicago. 
Chas. H, Norris, Gen’l Agent.

N. Y. Mail. N.Y.Ex

Kalamazoo Division.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.
Arrive.
Leave. 
Ex. & Mail.  R. Y.MaiL 
4:35 pm   7:45 a m; .Grand Rapids . 0 :45 a m  6:35 p
6:56p in s  0:02am..Allegan.j,.......8:28am  6:18a
6:55 p m  10:66am:iKalftreaaoo...  7:38am   .  4:20 p 
8:30 n m  11 :S5‘am . .White Pigeon, 5:56 a m  2.40p 
2:30a m   6:05pm..Toledo .l.1....11:00pm  10:00a
8.-30»ifi  0:40.p'm.-;Cleyelan'd.......6:40 p m  5:55 ;a
S 60pm  d 30am'.Buffalo. 
11 55am   11 40p 
6:40 a m   7:10pm.:ChiiCMfe.......U:30pm  8:D0a:in
A loeal frelgbt leaves Grand Rapids at 1:10 pm, q6njr- 
Y lUjojwnin'ilTii polhlrtf T n ^ ritfitir  *  All  i m |m   daily 
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OATMEAL

CORDAGE.

CRACKERS.

8ADERATUS

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

34 bbls. 3c extra 

Arbuckle’s Avorica.

36c less in 5 box lots.

DeLand’s  pure...................... 534
Church’s  ............................... ^
Taylor’s  G. M.....................5
Dwight’s ....................... 
5
Sea^Foam............................... 534
Cap Sheaf..............’ ...............5

Michigan Test...................... 1094
Water  White.......................
Barrels.......................................6 25
Half barrels.................. 
Cases.......................................... •- 85
OATS—ROLLED.
Barrels.......................................® 25
Half barrels........   ..............»  2?
Cases.......................................... - “5
Medium...................................... 6 00
34 bbl........................... 3 o0
Small,  b b l................................ ] 00

Rio,  fancy..................... 21©22
Rio,  prime..................... 19@20
Rio,  common....... :..  ..18©l»
To ascertain cost of roasted 
coffee, add V4cper ft. for roast­
ing and 15 per cent, for shrink­
age. COFFEES—PACKAGE.
30 lbs 60 lbs lOOfts
223
Lion.................
2334
Lion, in cab...
223*
Dilwortb’s —
22
Magnolia........
22%
Honey  B ee...2194  21%
22
Germ an........
German, bins.
2234
Arbuckles Ariosa 
2034
Avorica 
2234
McLaugblin’s XXXX
COFFEES—SPECIAL BRANDS. 
Bell-Conrad Plan. Java... .31 
Choice Carolina................... »34
Mocha.. 32
Prime Carolina....................6
Javoka 29
Good  C arolina................... 534
Imper. .27
Good Louisiana..................^ 53»
Zb
Table..............................
UnaH 
19
Java................... ....................634fi!*
2C21
....................... . .0
Pamrcnn 
.22
..............--334
2334 Broken.. 
.......
Thompson & Co.’sHon. B. .25 
foot Jute......................... 110
foot Jute  
....................1 10
40Foot Cotton.....................1 50
foot Cotton............................1 60
foot Cotton............................1 "6
72 foot Cotton............................2 00
Kenosha Butter....................7
Seymour Butter..................534
Butter....................................534
Family  Butter..........  
........534
Fancy Butter........................5
Butter  Biscuit....................-«3
Boston.................. .................734
City Soda...............................»
Soda........................................63»
So >a Fancy........................... \
Oyster...............................534
P icnic....................................534
Fancy  Oyster...................... 5
Clams, 1 ft. Little  Neck— 1 35
Clam Chowder, 3 ft............ 2 15
Cove Oysters,T ft stand.. .1 00 
Cove Oysters, 2 ft stand.. .1 7u
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic...........1 75
Lobsters, 2 ft, picnic.......... 2 65
Lobsters, 1 fl>  star...............1 90
Lobsters. 2 ft star...............2 90
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce! 00
Mackerel,lib stand............. 1 45
Mackerel, 2ft stand............. 3 CO
Mackerel,3 ft in Mustard..4 00
Mackerel. 3 ft soused........
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia......... 2 10
Salmon, 2ft 
8 50
Salmon. 1 ft Sacramento...1 90 
Salmon, 2ft 
...2"“'
Sardines, domestic 34s.  ... 
Sardines, domestic 34s.. .10@11 
Sardines,  Mustard  34s...  9@10 
Sardines,  imported  34S.-12@13
Sardines,  spiced, 34s....... 10@12
Trout. 3 ft  brook..............
CANNED FR U IT S.

„
60  Pocket, F F D .......2 10@2 20
28 Pocket............................ *  *9
100 3 ft  pockets...................2  do
Saginaw or Manistee........   9o
Ashton, bu. bags.................  75
Asbton,4bu.  bags.............2  7.
Higgins’bu.  bags . ...............   ¿j
American, 34 bu. bags........  &
Bock, bushels........................  -■
Warsaw, bu. bags...............   w
...............   20
London Relish, 2 doz........ 2 50
Dingman, 100 bars.............4  00
Don’t  Anti-Washboard— 4 75
Jaxon...................................f  7o
Queen  Anne..................... 4  wo
German Family.................2  04
A llspice........ ..........  
| t4
Cassia, China in mats........ »34
“  Batavia in bund.. ..12 
“  Saigon in rolls..... 40
Cloves,  Amboyna...............30
Zanzibar................. 29
Mace Batavia.......................°o
Nutmegs,  fancy.................75
No.  1..................70
No. 2..................6o
Pepper, Singapore,  black..l8 
white.28
shot............... .......... 20
SPICES—GROUND—IN  BULK.
Allspice.................. .............. J2
Cassia, Batavia— ............. if
“ 
andSaigon.25
“  Saigon......................42
Cloves, Amboyna................ 3j>
“  Zanzibar................. 33
Ginger, African................. 1234
t*  Cochin..................... 15
Jamaica.............18®!
“ 
Mace Batavia...... ............. 85
Mustard,  English............... 20
andTrie.22
Trieste.................25
Nutmegs,  No.  2................. 65
Pepper,Singapore  black..23 
w hite..32
« 
Cayenne............... 25
“ 
Absolute Pepper, 
doz...84 
Cinnamon
“ 
Allspice 
“ 
Cloves 
“ 
\ 
Ginger 
■  Mustard
STARCH. 

34  “ 
SAUCES.

SPICES—WHOLE.

CANNED F IS H .

SOAP.

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CANNED VEGETABLES. 

_pples, gallons,  stand.......2
Blackberries, stand........ . .1
Cherries, red. standard.......1
Cherries,  pitted........ 1 85@1
Damsons......................I 25@1
Egg Plums, stand.........1
Gooseberries....................   -1
Grapes............... ..............
Green Gages............. . . - • • • •!
Peaehes,  all yellow, stand.2
Peaches,  seconds...............2
Peaches, pie.............. .1 6G@1
Pears............................    -.-.-»4
Pineapples,.............-1 40@3
minces..................................j
laspberries, extra..............1
red ............-1
Strawberries.............. ......1  60
Whortleberries................ .1 20
Asparagus, Oyster Bay— 2 00 
Beaus, Lima, stand. . ....^   85
Beans, Green LimaB..  @1 40
Beans,  String...........1 00®1 ^
Beans, Stringless, Erie....  90 
Beams, Lewis’ Boston B ak.l
Corn, Archer’s Trophy... ;1 15 
MornG’ry.l 15
Early Gold.l 15
Peas,  French.....................160
Peas, extra marrofot.l 20@1 40
Peas,  soaked.......................  80
“  June, stand....  @150
.2 00
“  <  “  , sifted 
- French, extra fine.. 20.00. 
Mushroom s, extra fine....20 00 
Pump^n, 3 ft Golden.. .. .>1 00 
Succotash, standard... ;80®1 30
S q u a s h . .......25
Tomatoes, Bed Coat i -  | © 120 
Good Enough  1  20 
Cf.:-; ftW*1  Bon Hat a, wv% 20

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Bangsford’s 
Silver Gloss, 1 ft pk gs.;,...  7 

“  6 ft boxes.
“ 
bulk.......
Pure, 1 1b pkgs.........  —   534
Corn, !  ft pkgs........  .
SUGARS.
Gut  -Loaf..
Cubes. . 1 . . . . . .
Powdered...........
@ 7% @7 31 
Granulated,  Stand...
Off.......
@6 94 
Confectionery A ......
@6 81
Standard A .. . ........
No. 1, White Extra C.
No. 2, Extra G---___  
1
No. 3 C ............. .............. «
N o . ' i C . . . . . , , ^ . i  
Corn, barrels..^;, a ......
C orn,34bbls...........  .4
Com, 10 gal; k’g s..-..
Pure Sugar, bbl...........

SYRUPS.

“ 

STICK.
do 
do 
MIXED.

FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.

Standard, 25 ft boxes..........834
Twist, 
..........  9
Cut Loaf 
...........10
Royal, 35 ft  pails.......  834@ 9
Royal, 200 ft bbls.................  834
Extra, 25 ft  pail3................. JO
Extra. 200 ft bbls.........._-----9
French Cream, 25 ft pails. .1134
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases............ 10
Broken, 25 ft pails..............10
Broken. 200 ft  bbls..............  9
Lemon  Drops..........................13
Sour Drops.............................. 14
Peppermint  Drops................14
Chocolate Drops.................... 14
M Chocolate  Drops..........18
Gum  Drops  ........................... 10
Licorice Drops........................18
_  B  Licorice  Drops..............12
Lozenges, plain...................... 14
Lozenges,  printed................. 15
Im perials...........................
M ottoes................................... lo
Cream  Bar..............................}8
Molasses Bar........................... 15
Caramels.................................. 18
Hand Made Creams................18
Plain  Creams..........................1®
Decorated Creams................. 20
String Rock............................
’  urnt Almonds...................  22
Wintergreen  Berries............ 14
Lozenges, plain in  pails... 12 
Lozenges, plain .in  bblB... .11 
Lozenges, printed in pails. 1234 
Lozenges, printed in  bbls. 1134 
Chocolate Drops, in pails.. 1234
Gum  Drops  in pails..........634
Gum Drops, in bbls............534
Moss Drops, in  pails..........10
Moss Drops, in bbls............  9
Sour Drops, in  pails..........1*
Imperials, in  pails..............12
Imperials  in bbls............... 11
Bananas.......................... 1 75@2 50
Oranges,  choice.......3 00@3 50
Oranges, Florida.......3 00@4 15
Oranges, Messina—   @3 00
Oranges, OO...............  @3 00
Oranges,  Imperials..  @3 50 
Oranges Valencia, cases.. .6 00
Lemons,  choice.........3 50@3 75
Lemons, fancy...........3 75©4 00
Figs, layers, new........ 12  @16
Figs, Bags, 50ft........... 6  @7
Dates, frails do.........  @ 534
Dates, 34 do  do........   @ 634
Dates,Fard 10 ft box ^  ft..  9 
Dates, Fard 501b box 
ft..  7 
Dates, Persian 501b box $  ft 534
Almonds,  Tarragona  @17
Ivaca........16  @1634
California 15  @16
Brazils..............  934@10
Filberts, Sicily...............  @11
@1434
~
Walnuts,  Grenoble.. 
12
Sicily........
French—
@11 
8@12 
Pecans, Texas, H. P.
@5 50
Cocoanuts, ^  100.......
PEANUTS.
@ 4 
Prime Red,  raw $   ®
@ 434 
Choice 
do 
do 
@  5 
Fancy H.P. do 
do 
@ 5 
Choice White, Va.do 
@  634 
Fancy H P..  Va  do 
@   6
H .P .V a......................
OYSTERS AND FISH.
follows:

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes  as 

FRUITS.

NUTS.

“ 
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“ 
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Bears................................... 15 00
Beavers.................................6 00
Badgers...........................  75
Cat, Wild.........................  50
“  House......................  15
Fox,  Red.............................. 1 00
“  Cross........................... 5 00
“  Grey......................  75
Fishers..................................7 00
Lynx..................................... 4 00
Mink. Large  Dark........   40
Small Pale..........  25
Martins................................ 1 00
Musrats.

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10
SPRING  W INTER  FALL  KITS
01
8@4
11
2 (K) 1 00
4 00
.6 00
10
20
50
75
05
10
20
.  30.
10
25
50
.  75
25
50
.3 CO 1 00
30c
Deer Skins, dry, Red Coats, per lb.
30e
“ 
*•  Blue  “ 
25c
“ 
“  Short Grey, 
10c
“  Long 
“ 
MISCELLANEOUS.

.
.
.
5©25
Sheep pelts, short shearing.............
Sheep pelts, old wool estimated..........  @25
Tallow.......................................................  334@ 334
Grease butter.......................................... 
5® 8
Ginseng, good.........................................1 60@1 70

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WQODENWARE.

Curtiss & Dunton quote as follows:

Standard  Tubs, No. 1....................... .............. 6 00
Standard  Tubs, No. 2...................................... 5 00
Standard  Tubs, No. 3...................................... 4 CO
Standard Pails, two hoop............................... 1 35
Standard Pails, three hoop............................ 1 60
Pails, ground wood 
...................................4 50
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes...........................2 25
Butter  Pails, ash...................................... ..2 25
Butter Ladles......................................  
 
 
90
Butter Spades............................................  
  75
Rolling Pins.......................................................  *5
Potato Mashers............................... 
50
Clothes Pounders............................ ¡r.... —  .2 25
ClothesPins.......................................................  60
Mon  Sticks............................................................. 1 00
Washboards, single...............................................1 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 75
Clothes, splint,  No. 3.......................................... .3 50
Clothes, splint,  No. 2......................  
 
Clothes,splint,  No. 1............................... 
Clothes, willow  No. 3........................................... 6 00
Clothes, willow  No. 2........................................... 6 50
Clothes, willow  No. 1............................................7 50
Water  Tight,  (acme) bu...................................... 3 75

4  25
.5 00

half bu 

......................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@$2.50perbu.
Butter—Jobbers pay 20cfor choice dairy and 

sell at 22c.  Grease butter is slow sale at 8c.

Butterine—Creamery,  16c  for  solid  packed 
and 17c for rolls.  Dairy, 1334c for solid packed 
and  1434c  for  rolls.  Extra  creamery 20c  for 
solid packed and 21c for rolls.

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

Very scarce.

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

13@1334c.

OYSTERS.

 

Fairhaven Counts...............  35
Selects............. ..........  
23
Anchors.................. 
*0
 
Standards  ....................... 
  18
Favorites...,.......................   15
Standards per gal...............110
Selects, per g a l......■■— 1 40
Counts, in bulk, per 100— 1 20 
« 
“  —   80
Clams, 
“  —   70
“  per  gal..........fa........1 25

r“  shell 

fresh  f ish .

Black bass........................... 
Rock bass................................  4
Perch, skinned.....................
Duck-bill  pike........................ 8
Trout................................ 
 
Whiteflsh......... 

.........• -19

FRESH MEATS.

prices, as follows:

John Mohrhard quotes, selling 
Fresb beef--------------4  @ 634
Hogs........ . 
634® 7'
Pork loins............. ®
Pork ribs............ -•••  734® 8
Bologna.......................„  _,6
Frankfort sausage...  9  @10 
Blodd, liv, h’d saus’g  5  @ 6
M utton,..................7  @  «34
Lamb.:. i  
............, 734® 8 ,
V eal,......... ............ 8  ® 834
Fowls,.., • A*.......... .1034®11H
Ducks.......'.....»,..3.  @12
Turkeys 
12
834
Lard, kettle-render’d 

 

Cider—I0c per gal.
Cooperage—Pork  barrels,  $1.25;  apple  bar 

rels, 25c.
Cranberries—^Wisconsin Beil  and  Bugle are 
in good demand at $3.75  per  box  or  $11  per
blDried  Apples—Jobbers  hold  sun-dried at 
and evaporated at 834c. 
and pickled stock at 18o.

.
Eggs—Jobbers hold  fresh  at 20o  and bmed 
H oney—In plentiful supply at l6@16c.
Hay—Baled 

is  moderately  active  at  $14 
in 
per ton in two and  five  ton  lots  and  $13 
®
car lots.
Onions—Home grown, 85c  per bu.  Spanish, 
$1.30 per crate.
Pop Corn—234c 79 ft. 
J®
Potatoes—Buyers are paying 75@80c per bu. 
and bolding at 90c.
Turnips—20®25e per doz,

. . .  

.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS. 

Lancaster  and!  82c  for  Fulse and Clawson.
lots and 62c in carlots.
carlots.

Wheat—le lower.  City  millers  pay. 84c  for 
Corn-—Jobbing  generally  at 56c  in  100  bu. 
Oats—White,  42c  in  small  lots  and  36c  in 
Rye—48®50o $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $L20 #  owt.
Floui>-No change. Patent $5.40 $  bbl in sacks 

and  $5.60  ip  wood.  Straight,  $4.40 $  bbl. 
sackB and $4.60 in wood.  _
«feaL-Bolted, $3.68 «  bbl. 
I   MiUFeed-^ScreeDingaV$15 itO fl.  Bran. $18 
■   ton.  Ships,  $18.50 V ton.  Middlings, f  19  ¥  
ton. Corn and Oats, $22 V ton.

L

18232576

.  " 

BY SELLING

F.J.DETTEffTHRLER!
Sill Lilt Fill

w h o l e sa l e

AND  OYSTERS.

Packing  and Warehouse,

Composed  of  Guatemala,  African  and 
Mexican Javas,  Santos, Maracaibo  and  Kio 
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. 30,60 and 100 
lb. Cases.  Mail Orders Solicited by the  pro­
prietors.

J.  H.  THOMPSON  \  GO,,
59 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich.
Importers and jobbers of  tine  Teas, Coffees, 
Spices,  Etc..  Baking  Powder  Mfrs.,  Coffee 
Roasters, Spice Grinders.

BEE SPICE M ILLS,'

37 North Division Street.

Office, 117 Monroe St.,

GRAND RAPIDS,  MICH.

SEND  FOR  PRICE  LIST.

ESTABLISHED  1866.

A l f r e d   J .  B r o w n ,

B s m t t

159  So. later  Street, CMcago.

JOBBER  IN-

FOREIGN,

TROPICAL

ANDCALIFORNIA

F R U I T S .

W e do a General  Commission Busines 
and offer  as  inducements  twenty years’  ex­
perience and clear record.  The best  equip­
ped and  largest  salesroom  in  tjie  business 
in this city.  Ample storage  facilities—full | 
20,000 feet  of  floor  space  in  the  center of i 
the best market in  the  West.  Ample capi- • 
tal  and  first-class  references  on  file  with j 
Th e  T radesman.  Write  us  if  you wish 
information,  whether  to  buy  or  sell. 
It 
w ill cost you nothing.

BARNETT  BROS.

Bananas,  Olir  Specialty,
GRAND  RAPIDS,

i 6 and i 8 No. Division St..

MICH.

THURBEB,  WHYLAND  &  CO.,

N E W   YORK,

RELIABLE

FOOD  PRODUCTS.

[It  is both pleasant and  profitable  for  m erchants t*  
occasionally v isit New York, and all such are cordially 
invited to call, look through our establishm ent, c orner 
W est Broadw ay, Reade  and Hudson streets, and  m a k e 
our acquaintance, w hether  they  wish  to  buy goods o r 
not.  Ask for a m em ber of the firm.]

JULIUS  HOUSEMAN, Pres.,

A. B. WATSON. Treas..

S. F. ASPINW AIX. Secy.

46  Ottawa  Street,  Orami  Rapids.

SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF

ABSOLUTE  SPICES,
AMtn B ù i Favto.

-AND-

CASH  CAPITAL,  $ 2 0 0 ,0 0 0 .

M

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MD. D. YA1E & CO.
B atti Powders, Extracts, Bleiep,

WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS  OF

AND JOBBERS OF

I)

40 and 42 Sonth Division St.,

GRAND RAPIDS,  -  MICH«

f

I Kl r\ 

jJ  0

FURNIYOBB TO ORDER.

Anything or everything in tlie 
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 
furnished when desired.  *
Wolverine Chair Faetipy,

W est End Pearl St. Bridge.

km White Lead  & Color forte,
-  MICH.
DETROIT, 

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Alcohol, gum gamboge, po. 
Declined—Oil spearmint, German quinine.

S h t t g s  I I  f ò é b t c i n e s

V  State Board o f Pharmacy. 

Six Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
' Two Years—Jtunes Vernor, Detroit.
Three Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann 
Four Year»—Geo. McDonald, Kal&mas 
Fire Yean—Stanley E. Parkell, Owosso.' 
President—Geo. McDonald 
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Treasurer—Jas. Vernor.
Next Meeting—At Grand U-apids, March 7'and 8.

aiag-

osso.Mpr

Michigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Ass’n. 

President—Arthur Bassett, Detroit.
First Vice-President—G. M. Harwood, Petoskey. 
Second Vice-President—H. B. Fairchild,  Grand Bapids. 
Third Vice-President—Henry Kephart, Berrien Springs. 
Secretary—S. E. Parkill, Owosso.
Treasurer—W m. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive Committee—Geo.  Gundrum,  Frank  Inglls, 
A. H. Lyman, John E. Peek, E. T. Webb.
Local Secretary—James Vernor, Detroit.
Next Meeting—At  Detroit, September 4,5,6 and 7.

ORGANIZED  O CTO BER 9,1884.

G ran d   R a p id s   P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o ciety .
President—H. E. Locher.
Vice-President—J. W. Hayward.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry  B. Fairchild.
Board of Censors—President,  Vice-President  and Sec­
retary.
Board of Trusteés—The President, John  E. Peck,  Geo. 
G. Steketee, A. F. Hazeltine and F. J. Wurzburg, 
wen, Isaac Watts, Wm. E. White and Wm.  L.  White. 
Committee on Trade  Matters—Jonn Peck, F.  J. Wurz­
burg. W. H. Tibbs.
Committee  on  Legislation—J.  W.  Hayward,  Theo.
Kerning, W. H. Van Leu wen.
Committee  on  Pharmacy—W.  L.  White,  John  Muir, 
M. B. Kimm.
Regular  Meetings—First  Thursday  evening  in  each 
month.
;  Annual Meeting—First Thursday evening in November 
Next  Meeting—Thursday evening, February 8, at The 

T r a d e sm a n  office. *

D e tr o it  P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o c ie ty .

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER, 1888.

President—Frank Inglis.
First Vice-President—F. W. R. Perry.
Second Vice-President—J. J.  Crowley.
Secretary and Treasurer—F. Rohnert.
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer—A. B. Lee. 
Annual Meeting—First Wednesday in June.
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday in each month.
C e n tr a l  M ic h ig a n   D r u g g is ts ’  A sso c ia tio n . 
President, J. W. Dunlop;  Secretary, R. M. Masse».
B e r r ie n   C ou n ty  P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o c ie ty . 
President, H. M. Dean;  Secretary, Henry Kephart. 
C lin to n   C o u n ty  D r u g g is ts ’  A sso c ia tio n .
President, A. O. Hunt; Secretary, A- B. Wallace.-_____
C h a r le v o ix  C o u n ty  P h a r m a c e u tic a l S o ciety  
Présidant, H. W. Willard;  Secretary, Geo. W. Crouter.

I o n ia  C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u tic a l S o ciety . 
President, W. R. Cutler;  Secretary, Geo. Gundrum.

J a c k s o n   C o u n ty  P h a r m a c e u tic a l  A ss’n« 

President, C. B. Colwell; Secretary, C. E. Foote.

K a la m a zo o  P h a r m a c e u tic a l A sso c ia tio n . 
M ason   C ou n ty  P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o c ie ty . 

President, D. O. Roberts; Secretary, D. McDonald.
President, F. N. Latimer;  Secretary, Wm. Heysett.
M eco sta   C ou n ty  P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o ciety . 
President, C. H. Wagener;  Secretary, A. H. Webber.

M o n ro e  C ou n ty  P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o ciety . 

President, S. M. Sackett;  Secretary, Julius Weiss.
M u sk e g o n   C ou n ty  D r u g g ists’  A sso c ia tio n , 
President, E. C. Bond;  Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre.
M u s k e g o n   D r u g   C lerk s’  A sso c ia tio n . 
President, C. S. Koon;  Secretary, Geo.  L, LeFevre.
N e w a y g o   C ou n ty   P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o ciety . 
President, J. F. A. Raider; Secretary, A. G. Clark._____
O cean a C o u n ty P h a r m a c e u tic a l S o ciety . 
President, F. W. Fincher;  Secretary, Frank Cady.
S a g in a w   C ou n ty  P h a r m a c e u tic a l  S o ciety . 
President, Jay Smith;  Secretary, D. E. Prall.________
T u sco la  C ou n ty P h a r m a c e u tic a l S o c ie ty . 
President, E. A. Bullard; Secretary, C. E. Stoddard.
Manistee  County Pharmaceutical  Socle 
President. W. H. Willard;  Secretary, A. H.  Lyman.

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
At the regular  monthly  meeting  of  the 
Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical  Society,  held 
at The Tradesman  office  last  Thursday 
evening,  the following  communication was 
presented:

We, the undersigned retail  druggists  of 
Rent and Barry counties, do hereby  signify 
our desire to join the Grand Rapids Pharm­
aceutical Society and comply  with its rules 
and regulations,  provided every retail drug­
gist in above counties will also join:

Nagler & Beeler,  Caledonia.
C. F. Williams,  Caledonia.
J. W.  Armstrong, Bowen’s Mills.
Severance & Rich, Middleville.
W.  O.  Clark,  Middleville.
J. A. Baughman & Buel,  Hastings.
£ .  H.  Latbrop,  Hastings.
W. J.  & L.  L.  Holloway,  Hastings.
W.  H.  Goodyear,  Hastings.
X).  E.  Watters, Freeport.
H.  C. Peckham, Freeport.
D.  B.  Kilpatrick,  Woodland.
L. E.  Benson & Co.,  Woodland.
John Q.  Look,  Lowell.
Yeiter & Look,  Lowell.
Clark & Winegar,  Lowell.
Hunt & Hunter, Lowell.
W.  L.  White moved that the communica­
tion be accepted and the persons  who sign­
ed the same be invited to join  the Associa­
tion at the  next  meeting,  Also  that  the 
druggists at Ada,  Rockford,  Cedar Springs, 
Sand Lake, Berlin,  Coopersville, Grandville 
mid Jenisonville be extended a similar invi­
tation by the Secretary.  The  motion  was 
Adopted.

President Locher announced  the  follow­

ing standing committees:

Following the transaction oí  other unim­

portant business, the meeting adjourned*

Protecting  American  Oil  of  Peppermint.
A. M. Todd in Oil, Paint and  Drug  Reporter.

The prospects for oil of peppermint  have 
improved.  An attempt to trade on the good 
name  which  American  peppermint  has 
achieved by importing  the  Japanese imita­
tion and bottling it in United States bonded 
warehouses in packages imitating American 
brands, was recently made,  and an order se­
cured from thè Secretary of the Treasury to 
that effect by New York parties. 
In grant­
ing this request, the Secretary of the Treas­
ury was undoubtedly not aware of  the  real 
intent of the matter,  which  could hardly be 
looked upon as anything else than one of the 
worst systems of adulteration.  As the Jap­
anese oil is sold under the name  of  “Pep­
permint,” he was probably not  aware  that 
it ik the product of a plant  vastly  different 
from the true American  peppermiat,  men­
tila piperita.
The Japanese oil is produced  from  a to­
tally distinct plant, mentita arvensis, which 
is more related to  the  pennyroyal  than to 
peppermint  The leaves of the  plant have 
an odor of pennyroyal in a high degree,  the 
flowers, also, having the  same  cup-shaped 
form as the pennyroyal,  and  being likewise 
disposed at the  axles.  The  true  pepper­
mint, both American and  English,  flowers 
only at the extremities  of  the  stems,  the 
flowers being conical  in  form.  Regarding 
the relative value  of  the  Japanese  plant 
mentha arvensis, I refer to  Drs.  Hanbury 
and Fluckiger, the highest authorities in the 
world,  who,  in  the  latest,  edition  of  the 
“Pharmacographia,”  page  485,  say  as fol­
lows:  “One grower of  peppermint  known j 
to us  (at Micham)  was  compelled  to aban 
don the cultivation, owing to the  enormous 
increase of mentha arvensis,  which  could 
not be separated and which,  when  distilled 
with the  peppermint,  ruined  the flavor of 
the  latter.”
Foreseeing  that  the  effect  of the above 
mentioned order would be injurious  to  the 
good name of the American oil,  I addressed 
the Secretary of the Treasury,  stating  the 
facts in the case  and the  pernicious  effects 
arising from the use of his order.  So  soon 
as the real facts in the case were  known to 
the Secretary,  he promptly  issued  an order 
revoking his former one.
It will be interesting to learn  what  will 
be the next move made by  the  adulterators 
in this country.  They may  possibly  adopt 
the plan which a party in Liverpool is using, 
who  is  advertising “New American oil of 
peppermint,  splendid  crop!  10s 6d per 1b, 
sterling, or if cash is  remitted  with  order, 
10s per lb.”  Knowing that it was  impossi 
ble for him to sell  the  genuine  article  at 
these prices, I ordered a  bottle through the 
editor of the Chemist and  Druggist,  Lon­
don. 
I found it to contain not even a trace 
of genuine peppermint,  but  the  Japanese 
variety with an  extremely  rank  odor. 
It 
was more rank than the  notorious  “Michi­
gan Peppermint,”  so-called,  purporting to 
come from  “Evart,  Michigan  Co.,  IT.  S.”
It is to be hoped that the  journals  of  the 
country will, by denouncing such  swindles 
help to maintain a  high  reputation  which 
has been secured for the American industry 
by many years of toil and watchfulness.

Michigan  Board  of Pharmacy.

Muskegon, Feb.  1,  1888.

D e a r  Sir—A meeting of  the  Michigan 
Board of Pharmacy, for  the  purpose of ex­
amining candidates for registration, will be 
held in new Royal Arcanum hall, 74 Water­
loo street, Grand Rapids, Tuesday and Wed­
nesday, March 6 and 7,  1888.
Candidates for the registered  pharmacist 
certificate will please report at the  hall at 9 
o’clock,  Tuesday  morning,  March 6.  The 
examination will occupy  two days.
Candidates for the assistant  pharmacist’s 
certificate will please  report at the hall at 9 
o’clock, Wednesday morning, March 7.  This 
examination will occupy one day.

Yours  respectfully,  J acob J esson.

See’y.

caarasara  r o o t .
We pay the highest price for it.  Address
Peck Bros., Druggists, Grand Rapids,Mich.
FOR  SALE!
A drug  stock  in the  lively and  booming 
town  of  St.  Ignace.  Population  3,000. 
Apply to  J. H.  Thompson  &  Co., Detroit, 
Michigan.

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

Proprietor  of  the

Manufacturer of

Prescription  Cases  and  Store  Fixtures. 

OF  ALL  KINDS.

SEND  FOR  CATALOGUES.

Competitors.  Estimates Fur­

My Prices are Lower than any of My 
38 West Bridge street, Grand Rapids.

nished  on Application.

Telephone 374

PECKHAM’S
CROUP  REMEDY

Is now put up  in two  sizes,  retailing for 25c 

and 50c.
85c size, 
50c  “

per doz.

Peckham ’s Croup  Remedy is prepared  es­
pecially for children  and is a safe  and certain 
cure for  Croups, Whooping-Cough, Colds, and 
all  bronchial  and  pulmonary  complaints  of 
childhood.
Druggists make no mistake in keeping Peck­
ham’s Croup Remedy in stock.
Trade supplied by
Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co., Grand 
Farrand, Williams & Co.,  Detroit.
James E. Davis & Co.,  Detroit.
Peter Van Schaack & Sons, Chicago.

Rapids.

FOB  ATTRACTIVE  ADVERTISING  MATTED 

PROPRIETOR.

ADDRESS  THE

DR. H. 0. PECKHAM,

Freeport,

Mich.

£3P~“Peckham’s  Croup  Remedy is the most 
reliable and satisfactory proprietary medicine 
~ handle.  My sales are constantly increasing.” 
■W. H. Goodyear, Druggist, Hastings, Mich.

VISITING  BUYERS.

.  , 

ners

H astings 

The following retail  dealers  have  visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses:
R Bredeway,  D renthe
L  R Rogers,  Irv in g  
A W agenaar, New  H olland 
W  W  F o rrester, Pierson 
B aker  &  Baker,  R ockford Chas  B rott,  Canada  Cor- 
Eli  Runnels,  Corning 
S Sheldon, Pierson 
F ran k  Jenison,  M anton 
J  J  W illiam s, W hite  Cloud S J  M artin,  Sullivan 
O Trum ble, W est Olive 
Chas Lawson,  Morley 
L M aier,'Tisher  Station
H P erigard, M uskegon 
H oughtaling  &  L ich ty   R T P arish, G randville 
L Cook, B auer
A P urchase, So Blendon 
J  M Reid,  G rattan 
John Farrow e, So Blendon  C S Comstock, P ierson 
H  Dalmon, A llendale 
W m  V erm eulen,  Beaver
Dr  H enry  Lever, Newaygo  Dam 
Geo  H  Rainouard, Bridge- J  C Benbow,  C annonsburg 
M  J   Howard,  Englishville
_ *2? _  
J   W   Pessm k  &  Bro,  IIol- Chas W agner, Fife Lake 
E F Foster, Fife Lake
_ iSnd  ,  , 
W m B arker,  Sand Lake 
J  W Robinson, Stetson 
C E P ra tt, Moline  - 
Geo P  S tark, Cascade
G M H untley, Reno 
Ira  H Peck,  C edar  Springs
P   M ulder  &  Co,  Graff- Morley Bros, Cedar Springs 
J  p  Cordes, Alpine
F  E D arby, K alkaska 
Jno  Pruim , Zeeland 
J  L  Thom as,  C annonsburg
A W Blain, D utton 
A S C arpenter &  Co,  Bald- L evitt & Dann,  D orr 
Sm ith & Bristol, Ada
M Jonkm an, H olland 
F W Bunker. Casnovia
O  W  Messenger,  Spring L N Fisher, D orr 
j  v  C randall  & Son, Sand
T ^ ak e 
Dr S J  Koon, Lisbon 
Lake
Geo E H arris, Ashland 
G N Reynolds, Belm ont 
O F  & W P  Conklin, Raven- 
D E W atters, F reep o rt 
Neal McMillan,  R ockford 
n a
C C Tuxbury, Sullivan 
A Carlson, G ilbert 
H enry Baar,  G rand  H aven W m K arsten,  B eaver Dam 
Sisson  &  Lilley,  Sisson’s H H Childs,  Rockford 
J  N W ait, H udsonville 
C W Fenton & Co,  Bailey  M M inderhout, H anley

M Gezon, Jenisonville
D  Cleveland,  Coopersville

schaap 

Mills 

The  Drug  Market.

p u l

A  beau un, 
«curated  Metal  Box,  with 
bionze  label 
GIVEN FREE  with  every
dozen boxes <
COLGAFS  TAFFY  TOLU.

Specially D esigned for a Herbarium.

Suitable  w hen  em pty fo r  preserving, under  proper 
label,  herbs,  roots,  s  eds,  spices,  papers,  etc.,  etc. 
E very  storekeeper as well  as  housekeeper, wil  find it 
w ell-adapted in  size, m aterial and finish fo r m any use­
ful purposes.
COLGa N’S  TAFFY  TOLU is th e original trade-m ark­
ed gum  w hich  has  eet  th e  w orld  o-chewing.  I t  sells 
rapidly, Pays well, and alw ayf gjves satisfaction.
Supplied by  all  jobbers,  packed in above style, a t $3 
per dozen.  Size, 8Xx4&x7& inches.
G0LG1N  1 McHFEE,  L otoille,  Kg.

Originators and Sole Proprietors.

N. B —Include a  dozen boxes in  your nex t order.  You 

On  Trade  Mattersr—John  Peck,  F.  J. 
On Legislation—J.  W.  Hayward,  Theo. 
On Pharmacy—W.  L.  White, John Muir,

Wurzburg,  W. H. Tibbs.
Kemink,  W. H. Van Leuwen.
M. B. Kimm

It was decided to hold the  regular 

ings in the afternoon,  instead of  the  even­
ing,  for a time,  in  order  that  the  out-of- 
town members may be able  to  attend  the 
meetings.

The  three  staples,  quinine,  opium and 
morphia,  are without change,  but  are weak 
and prices are  unsettled.  Balsam  copaiba 
continues to harden in  price.  The supply is 
I very light and very little is coming forward, 
meet-1 Balsam fir is advancing.  Gum  camphor  is 
very firm at the advance.  Po.  gum gamboge 
¡1 has advanced.  Qil spearmint  has declined. 
Alcohol has advanced again 2c.  The Trust 
is “getting  there.”

TRADE  SUPPLIED  BY  THE

Hazeltiie & Perhis M eCo.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICH.

And the W holesale  Druggists  o f  Detroit 

and Chicago.

THE  LUSTIG  CIGAR  CO
WHOLESALE CIGAR  HOUSE.

EXCLUSIVE

will find it the best $3 investm ent you ever m ade.

Direct  Importers  of Imported  and  Key  W est  Cigars,

A gents for Ottenberg’s  Partidoes  &  Gladstone Cigars.

■  N

FROM  DEALERS  WE  SOLICIT  A  TRIAL  ORDER.

OEHffi 65 U0. IONIA ST,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICE

M anufacturers of the Celebrated

ACME  PREPARED  PA IN T S,

Which  for  Durability,  Elasticity,  Beauty 
and Economy are Absolutely Unsurpassed.  ~
F .   J .   W T T R Z B T J T ia ,

WHOLESALE  AGENT,

Grand  Rapids,

Mich.

THE  IMPROVED

Aierioan  Poclst  Battery,

FOR  PHYSICIANS  AND  FAMILY  USE.

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

Price $10.  Dis. to  the  Trade.

The Electro Medical Bittery Co.,
Haxeltine 

KALAMAZOO, 

-  MICH,

Manufacturers’  Agents,

GRAND  RAPIDS, MIOH.

it Perkins Driig Go,

ACIDUM.

ANILINE.

Aceticum ..................  8®  10
Benzoicum, German  80@1 00
Boraeic........30
Carbolicum________  45®  50
Citricum................ 
  68®  65
Hydrochlor__ ...... 
3®  5
Nitrocum .............. 
  10®  12
Oxalicum..................  11®  13
Phosphorioum  dll...' 
2»
Salicylicum..............1 70@2 05
Sulphuricum.............   1%®5
Tannicum..................1 40@1 60
Tartaricum...............  50®  53
AMMONIA.
Aqua, 16 deg.............. 
3®  5
4®  6
18  deg.............. 
Carbonas..................      11®  13
Chloridum.................  12®  14
Black.:....................... 2 00@3 25
Brown........................   80@l  00
Red............................  
45®  50
Yellow.....................   .2 50®3 00
BACCAE.
Cubebae (po.  1 60__ 1 75©1  85
Juniperus  ...............  .  10®  12
Xanthoxylum ........t-  25®  30
BALSAMUM.
Copaiba......................
60®  65 
Peru............................
@i so 
Terabin,  Canada.......
50®  55 
Tolutan......................
45®  50
CORTEX.
Abies,  Canadian.......
18
Cassiae  ......................
11
Cinchona Flava........
18
Eaonymus  atropurp 
30
Myrica  Cerifera, po.
20
Prunus Virgini........
-   12 
Quillaia,  grd.............
12 
Sassfras......................
12 
Ulmus.........................
12 
Ulmus Po (Ground 12) 
10
EXTRACTUM.
Glyeyrrhiza Glabra..  24®
p o .....  .  33®
Haematox, 15 fl> box..  9®
*  Is............  @
54s   
®
54s..........  @
FERRUM.

“ 
“ 
** 
“ 

Carbonate Precip__   @ 1 5
Citrate and Quinia...  ©3 50
Citrate Soluble..........  @  80
Ferrooy anidum Sei..  @
Sol at  Chloride........ 
@
Sulphate,  com’l ........ 1J4@
pure.........  @

“ 

 

Alx.  35®

@1 00 

FLORA.

“ 

FOLIA.

Arnica.................   12®
Anthemis...........  45®
Matricaria..........   30®
Barosma.............  10® 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-
nivelly..............   20@
“ 
Salvia  officinalis,  5£s
and  14s.............  10®
Ura  Ursi.............   8®
Acacia,  1st picked...
2nd  “ 
...
3rd 
...
“ 
Sifted sorts.
p o .................
Aloe, Barh,  (po. 60)..

GUMMI.

 

®

OLEUM.

@  90 
@  80 
@  65 
75@1 00 
50@  60 
@  12 
@  50

“ 
“ 
“ 
“  Cape, (po. 20)...  @
“  Soeotri’, (po. 60)  @
Catechu,  Is,  (14s,  14
)4s.  16)......................  @
Ammoniae  ...............  25®
Assafoetida,  (po. 30).  @
Benzoinum...............  50®
Camphorae...............   30®
Euphorbium, po.......  35@
Galbanum................  @
Gamboge, po............  80®
Guaiacum, (po. 45)...  @
Kino,  (po.25)..............  @
Mastic.........................  @1 C0
Myrrh, (po.45)............  @ 4 0
Opii, ipo. 5  75>............4 00@4  10
Shellac.......................   25®  33
“  bleached.......  25®  30
Tragacanth...............  30®  75
herba—In ounce packages
Absinthium...............
Eupatorium..............
Lobelia  ......................
Majorum  ..................
Mentha Piperita.......
V ir...............
R u e .............  
..........
Tanacetum^JY..........
Thymus. V h ..........
MAGNESIA.
Calcined,  Pat............  55@
Carbonate,  Pat........   26®
Carbonate,  K. &M..  20® 
Carbonate,  Jennings  35®
Absinthium.................... 5 00@5 50
Amygdalae, Dulc__   45®  75
Amydalae,Ämarae..7 25@7  10
A nisi................................ I 90@2 00
Auranti Cortex........   @2 50
Bergamii......................... 2 75@3 25
Cajiputi  ....................  90@1 00
Caryophylli...............  @2 00
Cedar...........................  35®  65
Chenopodii.......... @1  75
Cinnamonii...............  9ö@l  00
Citronella  ........ 
Conium  Mac.............   35®  65
Copaiba......................  90®  1 00
lubebae...................... 14  50@15 00
Exechthitos...............  90@1  00
Erigeron.....................1 20@1 30
Gaultheria................. 2 25@2  35
Geranium, 5...............  @  75
Gossipii, Sem, gal__   55®  76
Hedeoma....................   75®  85
Juniperi.....................   50@2 00
Lavendula..................   90@2 00
Limonis...................... 1 75@2 25
Mentha Piper............ 2 25@3 30
Mentha Verid............ 3 00@3 25
Morrhuae,  gal..........  80@1 00
Myrcia, 
.................  @  50
O live........................... I 0G@2 75
Picis Liquida,(gal.35)  10®  12
R icini..................... ...1  18@1 26
Rosmarini.................  75@1  00
Rosae,  1......................  @6  00
Succini  .. /................. 
40® 15
Sabina.........................  90@l  00
Santal..........................3 50@7 00
Sassafras....................  55®  60
Sinapis, ess, 1............  @  65
Tiglii...........................  @1 50
Thym e........................  40®  50
opt..................   @  60
Theobromas...............  15®  20
Bi Carb.......................   15®  18
Bichromate...............  13®  15
Bromide....................   42®  45
Carb............................   12®  15
Chlorate, (Po.20)...  .  18®  20
Cyanide......................   50®  55
Iodide......................3  00@3 25
Potassa, Bitart, pure  34®  40 
Potassa,  Bitart, com  @
Potass  Nitras, opt...  8®
Potass Nitras............ 
7®
Prussiate.................   25®
Sulphate po...............  15®
Aconitum.................   20®
A lthae.......................   25®
Anchusa....................  15®
Arum,  po..................   @
Calamus.....................    20®
Gentiana,  (po. 15)__   10®
Giychrrhiza,  (pv. 15).  16® 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
@
Hellebore,  Alba,  po.  15®
Inula, po....................  15®
Ipecac, po................... 1  75@S
Iris plox (po. 20@22). 
_
Jalapa, pr......... . 
25©
Maranta,  )4s .............   @
Podophyllum,  po__   15©
75@1
Rhei  .........  
“  cu t.....................   @1
“  p v ......................  75@1
Spigelia  ....................   48©
Sanguinaria, (po. 25).  @
Serpentaria...............   3b@
Senega........... 
...  56®
Smilax, Officinalis, H  @ 
M  @
“ 
Scillae,  (po. 35)..........  10®
Symplocarpus,  Foe- 
tidus, po.. .. .. .. .. ..   @
Valeriana, Eng. (po. 30)  @ 
German..  15®
Zingiber a ........ .  .  . 
J0®
Zingiber  j . .. .. .. . j ...  18@
.... SEMEN. 
f
Anisum, (po. 20).
Apium  (graveleons).
Bird, Is..........
Carni,  (po.18).
Cardamom................1
Coriandrum...........  M
Cannabis  Sativa....'.  d)4 
C ydonium ..,J,,,....'  $g

, po.45)......  

POTASSIUM.

RADIX.

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12

MISCELLANEOUS, 

1 00 

Chenopodium__ __ 
io@  12
Dipterix  Odbrate....! 75@1  85
Foeniculum .:..........   @ 15
Foenugreek, p o ...... 
6©  8
14*4........ 
3)4®  4
Lihi, grd, (bbl, 3)..  ..  3)4®  4
Lobelia....... ................  35®  40
Phalaris Canarian...  3&@4)4
5®  6
Rapa........................... 
Sinapis,  Albu............ 
8®  9
N ig ra ....... 
li@   i?
SPIRITU S.
Frumentl, W., D. Co..2 00@2 50 
Frumenti, D. F. R ... .1 75@2 00
Frumenti .................. l  io@l 50
Juniperjs Co.  O. T.. .1 75@1 75
Juniperis Co..............1 75@3 50
Saacharum  N. E.......1 75@2 00
Spt. Vini  Galli..........1 75@6 50
Yinl Oporto................1 25@2 oo
Vim  Alba...................1 25@2 00
SPONGES.
Florida sheens’ wool,
carriage...................2 25@2 50
Nassau sheeps’ wool,
carriage.................
2 00
Velvet Extra sheeps’
wool carriage........
1 10
Extra Yellow sheeps’
carriage..................
85
Grass  sheeps’  wool
carriage..................
65
Hard for slate  use...
75
Yellow Reef, for slate
use............................
1 40
SYRUPS.
Accacia.......................
50
Zingiber.....................
50
Ipecac.........................
60
Ferrilod.....................
50
Auranti Cortes..........
50
Rbei Arom.................
50
Smilax Officinalis__
60
50
r,  “ 
Co-
Senega.........................
50
Scillae.........................
50
“  Co.....................
50
Tolutan.......................
50
Prunus virg...............
50
TINCTURES.
Aconitum Napellis R 
60
F
50
Aloes...........................
60
“   and myrrh.......
60
Arnica.......................
50
Asafcetida..................
50
Atrope belladonna...
60
Benzoin.......................
“  Co........... .....
50 
Sanguinaria..............
50 
Barosma.....................
50 
Cantharides.............
T5 
Capsicum....................
50 
Cardamon..................
75 
Co..............
75 
Castor.......................
Catechu......................
50 
Cinchona....................
50 
Co................
60 
Columba....................
50 
Conium.......................
50 
Cubeba.......................
50 
Digitalis......................
50 
Ergot...........................
50 
Gentian......................
50 
co..................
60 
Guaica.......................
50 
ammon..........
60 
Zingiber......................
50 
Hyoscyamus.............
50 
Iodine..........................
75 
Colorless........
75 
Ferri Chloridum........
35 
Kino............................
50 
Lobelia............... ..
50 
Myrrh.........................
50 
Nux Vomica..............
50 
Opi..............................
85 
Camphorated...
50 
Deodor.............
2 00 
Auranti Cortex........
50 
Quassia.......................
50 
Rhatany.....................
50 
Rhei............................
50
Cassia  Acutifol........
Co...
Serpentaria...............
Stromonium..............
Tolutan.......................
Valerian......................
Veratrum Veride__  
50
either, Spts Nit, 3 F..  26®  28 
.¿Ether, Spts Nit, 1F..  30®  32
Alum en......................  354® 3J4
Alumen,  ground,  (p-
Annatto  ....................  55@  60
Antimoni,  po............ 
Antimoni et Potass T  55®  60
Antipyrin..................1 35@l 40
Argenti  Nitras,  3__   @  68
Arsenicum................. 
Balm Gilead  Bud__   38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ........... 2 15@2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, 04s
11;  ks,  12)...............  ©  9
Cautharides Russian,
po..............................
Capsici  Fructus, af..
Capsici Fructus, po..
Capsici Fructus, B po 
Caryophyllus, (po. 35)
Carmine, No. 40........
Ctra Alba, S. & F __
Cera Flava.................
Coceas  .......................
Cassia Fructus..........
Centraría..................
Cetaceum..................
Chloroform...............
Chloroform,  Squibbs 
^  R  
5  Chloral Hyd Crst.......1 50@1 75
Chondros..................  
Cinchonidine, P. & W  15®  „ 
Cinchonidine, Ger’an  8®  15 
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
c en t......................... 
40
Creasotum.................  @  50
Creta, (bbl. 75)............  @  3
Creta  prep................. 
e
Creta, precip..............  8©   10
Creta Rubra...............  @  8
Crocus.......................   30©  35
Cudbear...................... 
©  34
Cupri Sulph...............  6@  7
Dextrine....................  10©   13
Ether Suiph...............  68@  70
Emery, all numbers.  ©  8
Emery, po..................   ©  6
Ergota, (po.) 75..........  70@  75
Flake  White..............  13@  15
G alla...................... 
©  33
Gambier.................... 
7©  8
Gelatin, Coopor........   ©  15
Gelatin, French........   40®  60
Glassware flint, 70&10  by box. 
Glue,  Brown.............   9®  15
Glue, White...............  13@  35
Glycerina..................   33®  26
Grana  Paradisi........   @  15
H um ulus..................   35©  40
Hydrarg Chlor.Mite.  ©  85 
Hydrarg Chlor.  Cor.  ©  80 
Hydrarg Ox. Rubrum  @  90 
Hydrarg Ammoniati.  @1 15 
Hydrarg Unguentum  45©  55
Hydrargyrum..........  ©   80
Ichthyocolla, Am  .. .1 35®1 50
Indigo.........................  76@1  00
Iodine,  Resubl........ .4 00@4  10
Iodoform..................   @5 15
Lupuline  ..................   S5@l  00
Lycopodium.............   55®  60
Macis...........................  80®  85
Liquor  Arsen et Hy­
drarg Tod.................  ©  27
Liquor Potass Arsini-
Gs.............................  
io@  13
Magnesia, Sulph, (bbl
1)4)................. 
2@  3
Mannia. S, F...............  90@1 00
Morphia,  S, P. & W  3 10@3 35 
Morphia.  S.  N.  Y. Q.
&C.  C o.................. 3 00@3 25
Moschus Canton__   @  40
Myristiea, No. 1____   60©  70
Nux  Vomica,  (po. 20)  @  10
Os.  Sepia...................  25©  27
Pepsin  Saac,  H. & P.
D ..C o......................  @2 00
Picis Liq, N. C.. »4 gal
doz 
------ J . . . . . .   @2 70
Picis Liq.,  quarts....  ©140
Picis Liq.t, pints........   ©   85
Pil Hydrarg, (po.80).  ©  50
Piper Nigra,  (po.22).  ©  18
Piper  Alba, (po. 35)..  @  35
Pix  Burgun.............  @  7
Plumbi  Acet............  15©  m
Pulvis Ipecac et opii.l  10®1 20 
Pyrethrum.boxes, H 
&P.D.C0. , doz....  .  @1  25
Pyrethram,pv__ ...  60©   65
Q u a s S i a e . - , . 8®  in 
Quinia, S, F..& W ....  56®  61 
Quinia, S,German.  .  45®  55, 
Rubia Tinctorom. 
12®  '13 
Sacebarum Lactis pr.  @  35 
2® 73
,
Sal aol n^i . k,

o .7 )..........................   3®
4®

60&10, less.

io@

5© 

5®

v

.

@2 00
@2 50

OILS.

SaujiuisDraconis....  40®  50
Santonine................. 
@4 50
Sapo, W—  
12®  14
Sapo,  M ....................   8@  10
Sapo, G. — ...............   @  15
Seidlitz  Mixture.......  @  28
Sinapis......................  @  is
Sinapis, o p t.............  ©  30
Snuff, Maccahoy, Do.
Yoes..  ....................   @  35
Snuff,  Scotch,  Do.
„ Voes.........................  @  35
Soda Boras, (po  11).. 10  @  11
SodaetPotossTart..  33®  35
Soda Carb.................   2® 2*4
Soda,  Bi-Carb............  4®  5
Soda,  Ash..................   3©  4
Soda  Sulphas............ 
©  3
Spts. Ether Co..........  50©  55
Spts. Myrcia Dom... 
Spts. Myrcia Imp.... 
Spts. Vini Rect,  (bbl.
2 17)........................   ©2 30
Strychnia, Crystal...  @J  30
Sulphur, Subl............ 
3 Y»
Sulphur,  Roll............  2y,@ 3
Tamarinds.................  8®   10
Terebenth  Venice...  28@  30
Theobromae.............   60®  65
Vanilla  ....................9 00@16 00
Zmci  Sulph............... 
7©  8
Bbl  Gal
75
72
50
59
62
60
50
Lb
Red Venetian............laj  2<_
Ochre, yellow Mars..IX  2@3 
Ochre, yellow  Ber... l x   2@3 
Putty,commercial...2)4 2)4@3 
Putty, strictly pure..2J4  2M@3 
v ermilion prime Am-
13@16
erican...................... 
75@80
Vermilion,  English.. 
Green, Peninsular... 
16©17
6@6)4
Lead, red strictly pur 
Lead,  white,  strictly
Pure......................... 
6@6J4
Whiting,  white Span 
©70 
Whiting,  Gilders’.... 
@90 
1  10 
White,  Paris  Amer’n 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
cliff......................... 
1 49
Pioneer  Prepared
F aints....................1 20©1 40
Swiss Villa Prepared
Paints.................... 1 00@l 30
No. 1 Turp  Coach__1 10@1 20
Extra  Turp.............. 1  60@1 70
Coach Body...............2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn.......1 00@110
Extra Turk Damar.. 1  55@1 60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp.........................  70©  75

Whale, winter............  70 
Lard, extra.................  68 
Lard, No.  1................  45 
Linseed, pure  raw  ..  56 
Linseed, boiled........   59 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...................   50 
Spirits Turpentine...  45 
PAINTS Bbl 

VARNISHES.

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The  MicMgan Tradesman.

H IS  FIRST  TRIP  OUT.

«RUMen E sp ecially to r  The Tradesman.

Blowup, Feb. 3, 1888. 

E ditor  Tradesman 

I   am  at  last 
launched on the tide of life in the  shape of 
si railway train and a couple  of  ill-looking 
grip», in the guise of  an  innocent traveling 
■win just starting bat on his maiden trip.

I  don’t know what evil genius  could have 
«ntered the purity of my mind  and induced 
mm to  renounce  the  joys  of a six-dollar-a- 
week  clerkship  to  plunge  into the awful 
fprtOT of railway horrors, hard beds and ill- 
oonditioned  fleas  usually  comprised in the 
fc»ppy lot of a commercial  pilgrim.  Of one 
filing, however, l  am niorally and physical­
ly positive—never again,  after  these  sam­
ples are safely stowed away in  their recep­
tacles at home, will I be caught in  the  hu­
mane  employment  of  endteavoring to sell 
pure goods at half the cost of impure to the 
anwary merchant.

X left the house in an ecstasy  of  delight.
My very  blood  danced  in  my  veins  like 
sparkling champagne, as  through my brain 
flitted glorious visions of  full  order-books, 
full—well,  never  mind  that—I’ve got it in 
m y grip yet, and it isn’t half  empty, either.
My first—and I can gladly say  my  last— 
ta p  leads me to minister to  the  wants  of 
Hie shrewd merchants of the Upper  Penin­
sula.  Like a conqueror on his way to battle 
went I  out.  Like a lamb led to the slaugh­
ter, or a Shanghai  rooster after a raiD, go I 
Bock.
•  The first place at which I rendezvoused is 
mdled Blowup,  presumably  through  some 
ancient  Indian  legend,  as  it  is  a  min­
itig town and explosions  of  giant  powder 
are frequent.  As 1 left the  train,  I   wan­
dered artlessly toward the  hotel,  dreaming 
happy  thoughts  of  the  ray of light I was 
bringing to Blowup, when my reveries were 
mriiieniy interrupted in a rude  manner  by 
my  person  coming  in  contact with an ob­
struction—in other words, a full-grown bar- 
xel of salt planted carefully in the middle of 
the street. 
I  stopped immediately—that is, 
m  soon as I  reached the  ground—and com­
muned  awhile  with  nature.  When I  had 
»covered  my  breath  and  sample  cases,
which  I  had  carelessly laid down when I
stopped,  I  uttered  a prayer  for  guidance 
and at last reached the hotel.  . After a large 
Mp-dog of the bull variety had made my ac-
- quaintance and had  taken  an  appetite-re­
storer from the young  and  tender  veal of 
my lower limb,  I   hobbled  gracefully  into 
tod-bar-room.  The  landlord  was  there— 
way much so.  As I left the depot, I thought 
probably  the  inhabitants  of the town had 
been snowed in and the only food  they had 
was onions. 
I now  discovered  my  error.
I t was the landlord;  and, if odor would con­
vey sound,  he  certainly  had  no use for a 
telephone in his hostelry. 
It has since been 
told me that this individual  ground the cof- 
tee and  pounded  the  steak  for  breakfast 
with his breath.  This is not hard for me to 
heiieve, for I  saw him drive a nail with it at 
forty rods.

- 

The hour being late for a  traveling  man 
to be out—8:30 p. m.—I went to  my  room 
tinmediately after tea and made a desperate 
effort to retire.  I  soon  found  this to be a 
lopeless task.  I am not naturally  cruel or 
■sanguinary,  and the conflict in  which I en­
gaged for about half an hour completely un­
sewed me.  Thinking  discretion the better 
part of valor and, being of  a  strangely  re- 
tiring disposition,  I left the fl—them in  un­
disputed possession of my downy pine board 
with  one-blanket  attachment.  One  great 
amd overpowering  reason  for  my  leaving 
Jkem masters of the field  was  the  horrible 
titought that I might be spirited away in the 
wight,  leaving  the  landlord under the im- 
gRSsion that I had jumped  my  board-bill, 
tons creating a bad precedent  for the house 
tor which I travel.

Returning  to  the  bar-room,  I  told  the
toodlord that the bed was  so  very soft and 
«aptivating that I  feared to  yield  myself to 
ite  seductive  influence,  as I might not be 
tible to arise as early as I ought  in  order to 
«■lion my customers, and  therefore begged 
toe privilege of sitting in a chair  in the of- 
tice for the balance of the  night. 
I  would 
»At  for worlds, have injured  the landlord’s 
tender sensibilities, and I  will own that my 
reluctance in this regard was partly through 
fear of the awful cyclone of his breath.  The 
wjii, clammy  perspiration  comes to my in -. 
tellectual forehead as I think of that breath! I 
Often in my dreams I  can see  its  phantom 
tibape stalking  with  terrible  grandeur and 
toagrance before my eyes.

1 was awakened in  plenty  of  time  for 
teeakfast, but breakfast was not so prompt, 
|nH when at last it was served lmostheart- 
Hy wished it had forever stayed away.  Be­
ing voraciously hungry, in a momentary  fit 
• f  insanity I  advanced on  the  enemy.  My 
tote was soon  decided.  After  devouring a 
■fringiPi  nail  thoughtlessly  mixed  in  the 
Buckwheat  man-killers,  I   sent  a hinge of 
Broiled sole-leather after it.  My reason for 
tills was that I  had discovered that the trap- 
floor of my stomach  was  sadly in need of a 
new hinge, and I  hoped, in this way, to get 
i l  replaced at no extra expense to the house 
By having the  landlord breathe  on me and 
complete the hinge by driving  the nail.  At 
. «mt, the doctor was convinced that the only 
Mope of saving my  life  was  by  tunneling 
torough 
of my  neck  to  the  sole-
leetiier, M t ft fortunate  chance  saved  me 
«Ma  painful  operation.  The  landlord,  in 
Mbi anxiety for what I owed  him  and  my 
Iffa in seme way placedabout throe-eighths 
«C aa  inch of his breath in my  mouth. 
It 
its nnlitiTT way into my-throat and* 
_   ijto ttiii tiiitlrinf iffa g p f jr a g ^  man,  the

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It will pay for itself in a short time.
You cannot afford to do without it.
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ARTHUR

Wholesale Crdcers,

SOlo  A g en ts,

77 to 83 SOUTH  DIVISION  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

W.  C.  DENISON,

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leatheV gripped the breath and together they 
were polled out. 

I  am about to go out among the  guileless 
merchants of Blowup and  save  their  cus­
tomers many hundreds of dollars by  selling 
goods at prices of which they never  dream­
ed.  The thoughts which crowd my wander­
ing  mind  are  too  painful  at this time to 
write further of my  adventures,  but I hope 
to tell you of  my  wonderful  success  next 
week.

Until then, I ask you  to  cherish  me  in 
your memory, and if you  don’t  hear  from 
me, see that my grave is at least  four  feet 
and a half under snow the year around, and 
inform my creditors of my whereabouts.

Yours, crushed to earth, but to rise again,

F.  O.  B.

JAGOB BROWN i CO.,
FifrnisliinB Goods and Notions,
Liimbermen's Supplies a Specialty.

WHOLESALE

Manufactures of

WE  CARRY A FULL LINE OF 

ALASKA SOCKS AND 

MITTENS.

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

DETROIT, 

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H. Leonard & Sons, É e  Asants,

134 to  140  Fulton St.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Has  the  best record  of  any  stove  in  the  market.  Most 
profitable  stove  to  handle  because  the  easiest  seller.  Every 
body knows the

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TO  RETAILERS
CLOTHING,
Furnishing  Goods,

Hats, Caps, Etc.

All winter goods will be sold at and

FOR  30  DAYS

BELOW COST
SPRING GOODS

To make room for

Whieh are now arriving.

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TERMS:-- 

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5 

30  “
NET  60  “
T  P  T ï ï t f ï   16, 88,40 and 42 Canal 8t,
ln  U i  l A U U   l ,  

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to give exclusive territory for the sale of the “QUICK  MEAL” to  our customers.
Write us for new  catalogue  showing  Dew  designs  and improvements for  1888 and 
advise us if  you desire to handle  the stove  in  your  town.  Ail bills dated April 1st and 
stoves shipped at once if desired.

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Wholesale  Crockery  and  Motlse  Fin ishin g  Goods,

JOBBERS  IN

S pring  X  Com pany,
DRY  GOODS
Hosiery, Carpets, Etc.

0 .

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

The  Gem Coat and H at Hook.

50 W alnut Finish List 
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60  W alnut  “
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