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stand  behind a  counter  twelve  hours  In the 
day and  listen to  the  senseless clatter, higgle 
and haggle about a penny.  My sympathy is so 
practical  in  this  matter  that there  does not 
exist  a  single  salesman  on  earth  who  can 
truthfully  say I  ever  asked him to take one 
cent less  than  he asked for  his  goods.  Oh, 
how many annoyances in business life!  How 
they pour in upon a man some days—mistakes 
in the books, counterfeit bills  and counterfeit 
buyers, a whole day’s  run of simpletons who 
look at the  whole  stock of  goods without the 
least intention of buying any!  My father told 
me a story about a fisherman who three times 
in one day swept  a great  net  out into a  lake 
after pickerel and bass,  but each time it came 
to shore it brought onV wagon-loads of black, 
thorny,  squirming,  grunting  hull-heads,  not 
worth a penny in the  market.  Some days the 
business net seems bewitched and simply sur­
rounds a somewhat similarly Avorthless catch- 
customers Avho need more running after than 
a two-year-old  child,  yet  never  pay for what 
they get until forced to.  If you get up feeling 
a little less patient  than usual, the most trou­
blesome  buyer of  all—the one  who talks the 
loudest, swears the most, smells the worst and 
buys the  least—is  sure  to  be  on hand.  He 
spends the first half  of  the day in examining 
your goods and then departs with the promise 
to purchase in the afternoon.  As he puffs out 
the door you  begin to  wonder if  it  would be 
wicked  to  pray  that just as  he started  down 
town after dinner he might kick against a ten- 
pound can  of dynamite  and  not be heard of 
afterwards.  When that old lady curled up her 
lip and said she could “buy the same goods for 
half  the  money  elsewhere,”  you  wanted  to 
tell her to “go there, then.”  When a man beat 
you down to cost on  a job lot, aDd then want­
ed the goods for less, you  wanted  to  tell him 
he “could steal them cheaper still.”  When you» ; 
went away  hack  to your office, after haAiing 
closed up for the  night, just to  accommodate 
a customer, and he told you “if you could not 
do  better  by him  than  that  he  must  go  to„ 
some one else,”  you felt  like  assisting bis lo­
comotion toward the door with  knee muscles 
and shoe leather.

But  you  have  stood  it  all  and  triumphed! 
over  your evil inclinations.  You  can  return 
kindness for  insult  and  calmness  for impa­
tience  and good for  evil.  You  have  learned 
this, not at the church simply,  but amidst the 
turmoil and exasperations of business.  There 
others must learn it also.

The  moral  and Christian business  men  of 
this world  have  vast opportunities fordoing 
good.  Never was business integrity so much, 
in demand as at the present time.  Strict son- 
scientiousness  in business is  likely to  be no­
ticed  and  rewarded, berause it is so uncom­
mon.  What do I mean by saying  it is uncom­
mon?  Let  me tell you.  I  stood in a grocery 
store Avhere a traveling man  was  selling pep­
per to  the  proprietor, a  Christian  man.  He- 
meant  to  be  honest.  The  groeeryman  was 
complaining about the price of the goods. The 
traveling  man  said,  “Here is  some  for  half 
that  price,  but  it is  not  pure  and  consista 
largely of ground  coeoanut shells.”  The gro­
cery man  bought that article  and  I paid just 
the same  for it as for  the pure article.  How 
unconsciously these tricks of the trade creep 
over a man  until there is well-nigh universal 
contamination!  Because  of this,  the  excep­
tions stand  out by contrast and  gleam white 
on  the  background  of  business  blackness. 
However 
true  P.  T.  Barnum’s  statement, 
“humanity loves  to  be  humbugged,” it is not 
true  in  the  sphere of  trade.  The  business 
hnmbug is abomination.  A man  may love to 
have  his  senses  deceiA-ed by  a  whitewashed 
elephant  and a Barnum’s “what-is-it,” but he 
never  loves  to  patronize  a  business  house 
which is a humbug show 300 days  in the year, 
swallow  a “what-is-it” in his  coffee, nor wear 
his skin for a coat.  Neither does he like to be 
“skinned” himself.  I  believe, therefore, that 
business honesty  will be rewarded—not as  it 
deserves,  perhaps.  Every  elephant  with  a 
natural white  skin  suffers  by  suspicion be­
cause of the one  whitewashed beast.  A child 
once burned  on  a  stove  keeps  his distance 
from cold iron even.  You may he  the  soul of 
honesty,  yet  some  one  Avill  suspect  you  off 
wrong.

Not only can  a  Christian  business  man do. 
good by the honesty of  his  methods, but also 
by  a  Godly  conversation.  With  the  special 
Christian  worker,  men  are  on  their  guard.. 
But it is not so Avith you.  If the hunter could 
don the skin of the  game  he  seeks,  and hide 
his weapons,  he  could  capture  it with ease; 
but the gleam  of  his  rifle  frightens it away. 
The  preacher’s  attitude  says,  “I  seek  not 
yours, but you,”  and  men  prepare  to defend 
their  positions.  But your  trade  says,  “Wo 
seek yours  and not you,” and suspicion  is dis­
armed.  The gates  of  the city are open night 
and day.  There are no sentinels.  You march 
in and turn their own guns  upon them.  I be­
lieve some of the  most effective sermons that 
will ever be preached  will  be  delivered from 
behind the counter  or an office  desk  or from, 
a lumber-pile or  pilot-house.  All you  need 
is sanctified common sense  and a consecrated 
heart.  You can all  be  what Paul commands,. 
“Diligent  in business, fervent in spirit,  serv­
ing the Lord.”  You may  toil  hard and never 
be rich in gold and bank notes, but if you con­
secrate  your  lives  to  God,  you  shall begin 
business in the next  world  with  the Bank of 
Heaven  to  draw  upon.  Every  dollar  you 
handle in this world  is God’s  money.  So use 
it and not abuse it as  one  of  God’s  stewards, 
that at last He shall say, “Well done, good and 
faithful servant;  thou hast been faithful over 
a  few .things, I will  make  thee  ruler  over 
many things.  Enter  thou  into the joy of thy 
Lord.”
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SONG  OF  TH E   DRUMMER.

With a face looking sad and forlorn,
A drummer gazed on his six big trunks, 

With a heart as heavy as lead,'
While this to himself he said:

Pack! Pack! Pack!
From early morn till night;

Crowding the trunks  till  they  creak and 

crack.

With samples, close  and tight.

Pack! Pack!  Pack!
Pack!Pack!  Pack!

With a distant sigh and a groan,
He murmured in dolorous tones,
It’s  Oh! in winter and summer 
With samples to go on the road,
To be a commercial drummer,
And pack and unpack this load.

Who calls it an  “elegant job?”
This running, and  dunning,  and  drumming 
Who say that it’s only fun 
With only a day now and then,

Who says it’s an “easy  berth”—
With samples all over the earth?
To travel twelve months of the year,
Of quiet home comfort and cheer?

Oh men with a place iiiside;
Oh,men, at beneh or ¿.t desk!
Your labors, I know, are confining and close, 
But at night you can take a rest,
And be with your wives and children, 
Enjoying the solace of home 
And sleep in a bed that’s neatly spread,
And on ticks not stuffed with stones.
In the morning get up at regular hours, 
Feeling rested, bright and  refreshed. 
Instead of pulling out all hours of the  night 
And smashing your shins  getting  dress’d. 
Only a few hours sleep,  no  breakfast at all, 
Rushing to catch the train—
Or a twenty-mile ride on a rickety coach 
Through the sleet, the snow  and  the rain.

To make a long trip—work like a slave.
And when you get back to the “house,”
For it matters not how  well you may do, 
E’en though  your  profits  are  thousands a 

Hustling from town to town!
To meet with a grumble and frown,
The firm it is hard to please,

About “losses” they’ll give you a breeze !

“A respite however brief!”
And my achiD g mind relief!”
About business, sales, or trade!

O, but for one short hour!
When my broken back could take a rest 
One moment free from care or thought 
And where from sight the yawning trunks 
Into dark oblivion would fade!
With a face looking sad and forlorn,
A drummer locked up his sample trunks. 

With a heart as heavy as lead,
And wearily went to bed.
Pack! Pack!  Pack!

Again with a sigh and a groan,

Then he fell  asleep,  but  his  dreams Avere 

year.

sweet

Of wife and babies at home.

Trials and Temptations  of  Business Men.
“Take h«ed and beware of covetousness;  for a man’s 
life  consisteth  not  in  the  abundance  of  the  things 
which he possesseth.”—Luke 12:15.
“For what  is  a  man  profited  if  be  shall  gain  the 
whole world, and lose his own soul!’’—Matt. 16:26.
The first  text  we  have  read  is  the  simple 
statement of a well-known and almost univer­
sally acknowledged truth  and  the  other  is a 
kind of problem in gospel arithmetic.  As busi­
ness men you are asked to look over the world 
in general for evidences of th etruthf p^pesa of 
the  first  text, and,  as  immortal  beings,  you 
are called upon by quick mental and spiritual 
processes  to  solve  the problem of  the latter. 
The first you can decide without  lifting  your 
eyes to heaven and need  not look beyond  the 
little circle  of  earthly  things.  The  other de­
mands a solution while  you gaze into the face 
of death, judgment  and eternal ages.

The  great  mass  of  mankind  ought  to  be 
easily convinced of the correctness of the first 
statement,  some  in childhood, all at mid-life. 
The second is a question that is often made to 
wait until death-throes  and  physical  dissolu­
tion and  consciousness of  eternal  loss  force 
the pallid lips  to  answer “nothing.”  Yet the 
settlement ef the  first  ought  to  help  to  the 
speedy solution  of  the  second  question, and 
that is why they have been brought into prox­
imity.  “A  man’s  life consisteth  not  in  the 
abundance of the things which he possesseth.” 
Glance over the world  and  see:  Stephen Gir­
ard, with his millions, sleepless  and unhappy: 
Cornelius  Vanderbilt, with  fZOi),000,000  in  his 
grasp,  exclaiming  while  dying,  *T  am  poor 
and  needy;”  A.  T.  Stewart,  groaning  on  a 
bed of eiderdown, dying  like  any  other  man, 
and his wealthy  widow  hunting up  and down 
the land vainly for his stolen body; Humboldt, 
with the learned  world  at  his  feet,  dining at 
kings’ tables, never marrying because his own 
life was so unhappy, and saying, “the greatest 
good  luck  is  to  be born  a  Flathead;”  Gen 
Grant  suffering  from  an incurable  disease 
while nations of  men  praise him  and bestow 
honors and wealth upon him; the Czar of Rus­
sia, surrounded by his guards, in constant dan­
ger of being blown to atoms; the German king 
who took the throne but yesterday, with more 
wealth than  he can  sum  up, slowly dying  of 
cancer; thousands of wealthy men all over the 
world so fearful that they will lose their riches 
that  they cannot  sleep  as  soundly as  do  the 
paupers who  crawl  under their back  steps to 
sleep.  Truly  a  man’s  life “consisteth  not in 
the abundance of the things which he possess­
eth.”
And yet the secular spirit of our day is mam­
mon worship.  It has  come  to  this now, “any 
way to get rich,” until America is a  vast gam­
bling hell,  from  the  shores  of  Maine  to the 
quays of  San Francisco.  This  feverish haste 
to be rich has begotten a  host  of  people  who 
are  measuring  eternity  with  a  yard  stick. 
“Their heart goeth  after their covetousness.” 
The  feverish  excitement  of the day in  busi­
ness  circles;  the  enormous  dishonesties  of 
some; the night and  day absorption  of ener­
gies ending in premature decay—what is  it all 
about?  Haste  to  be  rich!  Lines  of  steam­
boats,  lines  of railroad,  telegraph  lines,  ex­
press  companies have largely come to be sim­
ply dice  and  cards  which  men  shuffle  about 
on the counters of the continents with which 
to play a gigantic game to enrich the players. 
The eagerness and rush  and haste and scram­
ble  for  large possessions have well-nigh  be­
come universal.  Such people have no time to 
study the Bible—only time enough to read the 
papers  that chronicle the  prices of  the mar­
kets.  This class of people is not growing less,, 
but more numerous.  The spirit is contagious. 
Every venture of a Arise man wRich  turns out 
a fortune has  a thousand  venturesome  fools 
who  follow  eagerly  the  same  methods,  but 
often without success.  A man  gets a  thous­
and dollars In a  lottery venture, and immedi­
ately the, express add post-office delivery over­
flow with  vivid illustrations  of  how  “a  fool 
and his money are soon parted.”

It  Is difficult, indeed, to  reach  such people 
with the gospel.  A  man  with such  thoughts 
may attend oh urch, but. even  then 
ing,. wa 

bis ¡business.

If he dared  to do it he would leave the tag on 
his coat walch  he wears to  church with  the 
“come down” price on it.  In ehurch he is in a 
half-sleeping state,  dreaming about  his  busi­
ness.  While the  preacher  talks  of  the  wed­
ding garment  he wonders if it is all wool  and 
if he could not discount the price.  The “bread 
of life” suggests to his mind a provision store. 
While the preacher  talks of  the  new  Jerusa­
lem  he  meditates  on  speculations  in  corner 
lots and heavenly hills and wonders if the pine 
is all  cut off.  When the  streams  of  life  are 
spoken of,  which  make glad the City of  God, 
he  dreams  of  sawmills  and dock-room.  He 
could look  right into the face of  an  old-fash­
ioned orthodox hell and  plan to get prsflt out 
of it for a brick-kiln.

Everything to him h as  a  money  value.  He 
will gauge his pastor’s worth to the church by 
the annual auction sale  of  pews.  He will get 
his business into his  religion  whether he gets 
his  religion  into  his  business  or  not.  The 
Bible is not  in the way of  bargains with him. 
The  ritual he uses  at family prayer has writ­
ten between  the lines: “Lord, gi\re us  a  good 
day for our business and help us to get anoth­
er corner in the market.”  But no matter how 
many corners  he  escapes,  the  devil has  cor­
nered him, and he must repent  or stumble in­
to eternal darkness over a dry  goods box or a 
lumber pile or a wheat bin.

His  aim  is  to  be  rich,  suddenly  rich,  and 
strict  integrity  and  thorough  conscientious­
ness  are  not  often  rewarded  in  that  way. 
“Honesty is the best policy” is a proverb with a 
heavenward look for reward and that does not 
all come in  this  world’s  coin.  A  sneak-thief 
boy can steal more apples in a day than would 
be given him of heaven in a month.  The gam­
bling  merchants  and  business  men  of  this 
world  control 
the  largest  amount  of  Its 
wealth, and  so  what wonder that business in 
the high circles of ambition for gain should be 
regarded  as  a  kind  of  gambling  operation? 
Hundreds of thousands of  dishonest specula­
tors are pursuing such  a  course  in  business 
life that, while  they take the greatest care  to 
insure their property against fire, their meth­
ods are leaving  their souls exposed  to  flames 
in which they shall lie down and burn forever. 
They are not laying up “treasures in heaven.” 
Indeed,  some  one  has  said  that  if ever an 
average American speculator gets into heaven 
Ito will not be enraptured over the beatific vis­
ion of God,  nor  fail at the feet of his Master, 
but will march up to the throne and go around 
it with pencil and tablet, and the first question 
he will  ask its  occupant Trill he,  “How much 
did  it cost?”  If we  could  see some  of  these 
men as they really are,  at the close of a life of 
dishonest  struggle  for  gain,  many  of  them 
would  be  shriveled up  like  the  picture  of a 
weazened-faced mummy clutching a coin.

To thousands of  business men  in America, 
St. James’ words are applicable:  “Go to, now, 
ye rich men, weep and  howl for  the miseries 
that.shall come  upon  you.  Your riches  are 
corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. 
Your gold  and  silver is cankered and the rest 
of  them  shall  be  a  witness against you, and 
shall  eat  your  flesh  as  with  fire.  Ye  have 
heaped  treasure  together  for  the  last  day. 
Behold the hire of the laborers Avhich is of you 
kept back  by fraud  curseth.”  It was  not be­
cause  they  possessed  the  riches  that  they 
should be cursed,  but because of the “fraud” 
by which  they obtained  them.  And this  de­
frauding in order  to  be rich  enters every de­
partment of  business.  Why,  a  man can  sit 
down to his  table if  he is  not  Arise  and cau­
tious,  and  innocently  eat  biscuits  made  of 
plaster  of  Paris,  bone-dust,  soap-stone  and 
alum,  and  butter  it  with  gilt-edged  butter 
made  of rancid  fat.  He can  drink  coffee in 
which there is not a berry of the genuine arti­
cle, sweetened with sugar which  is a combina­
tion of insects, bone-dast  and ground marble. 
He seldom knows whether he is eating pepper 
or  scorched  corn-cobs  or  ground  coeoanut 
shells. 
If  he  should  be  unable  to  digest 
this  umvholesome  mixture  and  be attacked 
with  gastritis, his physician  might  quite  in­
nocently finish the Avork  of death by prescrib­
ing a drug which  has  only  one  grain  of  the 
pure  to  two  of  the  deleterious  material. 
Whence and  why all  this adulteration, fraud, 
swindling  and  mercantile 
jugglery?  That 
men  may  be  rich  without  earning  then- 
wealth.  Because of this  greed for gain busi­
ness life is crowded  with temptations.  “They 
that  will  be  rich  fall into temptation  and a 
snare.”  "For the love of money is the root of 
all evil, which  whiie some  coveted  after they 
have erred  from the faith, and  pierced them 
selves through with many sorrows.  But thou, 
oh man of God, flee these things.”  If the man 
of God takes that advice he will be on the run 
most of the time.

Young men enter business life now with un­
numbered examples of successful rascality all 
about them.  The public trusts a  man  to-day 
for his honest record  and to-morrow  he  is fa­
mous for  crime,  men  of  large religious  pro­
fession  sometimes  going  headlong  into  dis­
honesty and ruin.  Is there,  then, conflict  be 
tween  business  and  religious  life?  lNo!  A 
thousand  times, no!  Paul  said,  “Diligent in 
business, fervent in spirit,  serving the Lord.” 
Yet how  many are debased by their  business 
and by their greed?  “Was any woman,” says 
Ruskin, "ever made better for possessing dia­
monds?  B ut how many have been made base, 
frivolous  and  miserable  by  desiring  them? 
Was ever man  made better for having coffers 
full of gold?  But who shall measure the guilt 
that  is incurred  to fill them?  Look  into the 
history of civilized nations.  Analyze with ref­
erence to this one  cause of  crime and misery 
the lives and thoughts of their nobles, priests, 
merchants and men of luxurious lives.  Every 
other  temptation is  at last concentrated into 
this:  pride and Just and  envy and  anger  all 
give  up  their  strength  to  avarice.  The sin 
of  the  whole world  is  essentially the  sin  of 
Judas.  Men do not disbelieve their Christ but 
they sell him.”

Thank God for the thousands of honest bus­
iness  men!  A  whole  life-time  of  honesty! 
They can lay the Bible  on every written con­
tract and the two will  not quarrel.  They can 
pray  with their hands  in  their  pockets  and 
their money will  not chill the  fervor of their 
prayers.  It does not frighten them to read “as 
the  partridge  setteth  on  eggs  and  hatcheth 
them not, so riches got by fraud.  A man shall 
leave them  In the  midst of  his days, and at 
the end no shafi lto afooL”  ! To such men bus-

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Handsome  advertising  matter  goes  with 
first order.  Secure this Cigar and increase 
your Cigar Trade.  It is sure to do it.

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bill lading attached.  Goods sold on arriv­
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OUR SPECIALTIES:

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Cheese,

Onions,

Potatoes,

Foreign Fruits, 

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Liberal  advances  made  on  consignments. 
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consignments  sent us in unseasonable weath­
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Orates will be furnished merchants  wishing 
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11. 1S88.

H.  K.  Thurber,  the  retired  New  York 
merchant, makes a patriotic  appeal  to Con­
gress  to  appropriate  an  adequate  sum  to 
compensate  theU . S.  & Brazil  Steamship 
Co., for carrying the mails  to  South  Amer­
ica.  M r.  Thurber says he serves  the  com­
pany in the  capacity  of  president  without 
pay, because he desires to see one American 
steamship  line  successful;  that  the enter­
prise is  just earning expenses;  that the line 
would  have  to  stop  running  but  for the 
$85,000  per year  paid  by Brazil  for  mail 
service;  that for the same  service the Post­
master  General  offers  to  pay  $4,000  per 
year;  that  rather  than  accept  the  paltry 
sum  thus  tendered  the line is carrying the 
mails gratuitously. 
It is customary  to  be­
wail the decline of American  shipping  and 
to attribute it to various causes;  but if Con­
gress does not instruct the  Postmaster Gen­
eral  to  properly  compensate  the  South 
American  line  for  carrying  the  mails  to 
that portion of  the hemisphere, people gen­
erally will know where to place the  blame.

Pew towns in the State  bear  evidence of 
surer future prosperity than  South  Haven 
Connected with the outside  world  by  two 
lines of railway and  blessed  with  the  ad­
vantages of lake shipping, there is no reason 
why the place should not become a town of 
•considerable  importance. 
The  business 
rmen are unusually well rated in commercial 
‘ circles and will be able to  pull  together to 
advantage in building  up  the  town,  now 
. that they are united for a common  purpose 
through the medium of a  B. M. A.

The  failure  of  co-operative  enterprises 
appears to keep pace with  the inauguration 
-of new  ventures  of  that  character.  Last 
week the  failure  of  the  Chicago  packing 
establishment  was  chronicled  and  this 
week the end of the Detroit  boot  and  shoe 
- factory is announced.  Too  much  reliance 
cannot  be  placed  on  labor  alone.  There 
must be sufficient  capital  to  lubricate  the 
wheels of enterprise or  the  project  almost 
.invariably fails.

I t  is  only once or twice a  year that T h e  
T r a d e s m a n   yields  any considerable  por­
tion of  its space  to  the  publication  of  an 
• entire  sermon, hut  the  effort  given on the 
first page is so pertinent to the subjects dis­
cussed in these columns from week to week 
that it will  undoubtedly command  thought­
fu l attention.  The  sermon  is  the  handi- 
'work  of  Rev. M. C. Hawks,  pastor  of  the 
‘Simpson M. *E. Cnurch,  at  Detroit.

The West Michigan Farmers’ Club is con­
sidering the idea of asking the Council to ap­
point a milk inspector.  The Grand  Rapids 
Mercantile  Association  is  pressing for the 
appointment  of  an  inspector  of produce. 
T h e   T r a d e s m a n  suggests that the two or­
ganizations unite in the effort to  secure the 
appointment of an  officer  who  shall be an 
Inspector of both milk and produce.

The  assignment of Root, Strong  &  Co.,' 
at Detroit,  seems to be a case  similar to the 
one  in  Manistee  recently—the inability of 
the eoncem to run after its  head  was gone. 
T h e   T r a d e s m a n   has no  means  of  secur­
ing  inside  information,  but  ventures  the 
prophesy  that  the  assignment  is  but  the 
forerunner  of  the  eventual  retirement  of 
the house from business.

Monopolies die hard, and the board insur­
ance  ring  is  no  exception  to  the  general 
■rule.  The Supreme Court is to be  asked to 
pahs upon the  validity of  the  law.  Lotus 
hope it will be construed  in  the  interest of 
- the people as a whole—not  in  the  interest 
•of the few who own insurance stocks.

The  Insurance  Monbpoly.

The insurance monopoly  has  proposed a 
test case under the law prohibiting compacts 
among insurance companies, for the purpose 
of ascertaining  whether  the  law  is valid; 
«Iso to establish  whether  Attorney-General 
Taggart’s  opinion,  defining  the  so-called 
‘“‘Beveridge plan” as a violation of  the law, 
Is la strict  conformity  with the law.  The 
monopoly  side  of  the  question  is  being 
handled by ex-Judge  Marston,  of  Detroit, 
his opponent in behalf of the  people  being 
Attorney-General Taggart.  The ease comes 
up in the Supreme Court in about two weeks.
Cadillac has had a good  many  thin gs to 
•contend with in  the  past,  but  tier  .worst 
calamity is yet to  come.  Hyman  Brown, 
Who has a peculiar penchant  toe  failing at 
convenient periods, has moved bis  clothing 
stock from this  city  to  that  place.  The 
people of Cadillac have The Tradesman’s 
profoundest sympathy.

Harbor Springs people are rejoicing over 
the discovery of a boiling spring, forty feet 
jfrom tbe shore of the bay and fourteen feet 
Under water, which throws a stream'fifteen, 
feet above the level of the water.  T 3*e dte-

W. D. Ballon has removed his drug stock 
from 40 West Fulton street  to  545 Ottawa 
street.

D.  M.  Goodsell  succeeds  H.  C. Knowles 
in  the  confectionery business at 113 South 
Division street.

Wright & Friend have  engaged in gener­
al trade at Lake  Odessa.  Clark,  Jewell & 
Co. furnished the groceries.

E. Vander  Stolpe  has  engaged  in  the 
grocery business  at 635  Broadway.  Cody, 
Ball, Barnhart & Co. furnished the stock.

J. L. Doughty will  engage in the grocery 
business  at the comer of  Highland  avenue 
and  South Lafayette street.  Clark, Jewell 
& Co. furnish the stock.

Geo. Tubergen,  who  has  purchased the 
grocery  stock  of  the  late  U.  Feeter,  at 
36 South Division  street,  will also continue 
the pickling of eggs at that location.

S. Barber,  who clerked for W. J.  Clarke, 
the Harbor Springs  grocer, for  four  years, 
has engaged in the grocery  business at that 
place.  Bulkley,  Lemon & Hoops furnished 
the stock.

Fred Engler has engaged in general trade 
at  Reed  City.  Olney,  Shields &  Co. fur­
nished the groceries and H. Leonard & Sons 
the crockery.  The hardware was  also  pur­
chased here;________________

Albert W. Fowler  has sold  his  grocery 
stock and fixtures and store  building at 398 
Second street to Maria J.  Beal,  who  will 
continue the business.  Mr. Fowler propos­
es to take up his residence in Portland, Ore 
gon, and will leave for that place about May
1. 

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Harry G. Stanton, for the past seven years 
with the Putnam & Barnhart  Lumber  Co., 
has  purchased  a  portion  of Frederick C. 
Miller’s interest in the  box  manufacturing 
firm of Blount & Miller and taken a position 
in the office.  No  change  will  be made in 
the .firm name until  Jan.  1, 1889.

Wm.  Reid, the Detroit  glass  jobber,  has 
rented  the  vacant  store  in  the  Kennedy 
block,  on the corner of  Waterloo and Louis 
streets, and will occupy the same with a full 
line of window glass, selling only in jobbing 
quantities.  The establishment will prove a 
valuable accession to this market.

The Cadillac  Express of last  week  con­
tained the following:  “F. J. Lamb, of Grand 
Rapids, has opened a fruit  and garden pro­
duce commission house at L. H.  Town’s old 
stand, in this city.  William Kennedy is the 
manager, and will fill all  orders  for  green 
stuff from points north of Reed City.”

Hester & Fox have  sold  a  fifteen-horse 
power engine and  boiler  to  the  Michigan 
Fire Ladder and Truck  Co.,  for use in the 
new factory of the corporation  at  Oakdale 
Park,  and a ten-horse power boiler  and en­
gine to L.  R. Fleming,  who is  establishing 
a.new planing mill at the D. &M. Junction.
Work on the main factory building of the 
Grand,  Rapids  School  Furniture  Co.  has 
reached the third story and the  roof will be 
on by the end of the  week.  The wareroom 
is about completed and the  foundry  build­
ing will next  receive  attention.  The com­
pany expects to be able  to  occupy  its new 
plant about J uly 1.

The business community  was  somewhat 
surprised last Wednesday by the announce­
ment that Thompson & Maclay had made an 
assignment to Wm.  Widdicomb.  The  as­
signment  was  occasioned by the  failure of 
the Commercial National Bank of Dubuque, 
Iowa,  and until an adjustment of affairs can 
be arranged business will'  be  con tinued the 
same as  before.

Thos. H. Bedell,  Superintendent  of  the 
Sherwood  Manufacturing  Co.,  has leased 
the buildings  now  occupied  by the Grand 
Rapids School Furniture  Co.,  on  Prescott 
street, the lease to date from the  time  the 
present occupants vacate the  premises, and 
will engage in the manufacture of furniture 
specialties early in the fall.  Others will be 
associated with Mr. Bedell in the enterprise, 
but the details surrounding the organization 
have not yet been fully decided upon.

The Sherwood Manufacturing Co. has ut­
tered  a  bill  of  sale  for  $18,000  to E. M. 
Kendall  to  secure  the  labor  indebtedness 
and the claims of  the  National  City Bank, 
S. B. Jenks  and  E. M. Kendall.  The  in­
strument empowers  the  trustee to continue 
the  business  as  long  as it may be deemed 
desirable  for  the best  interests of  the cred­
itors and  stockholders.  From  present  ap­
pearances,  barely  enough  will  be realized 
from the assets to pay  the  secured  claims, 
leaving  about  $5,000  worth  of  unsecured 
creditors in  the  lurch*  The  stockholders, 
whose investment  amounts to  $15,700, will 
also  put  on  sackcloth  and  ashes.  The 
trouble seems to have  arisen  from the fact 
that the concern  was  selling  its  manufac­
tured  product at a lower  price  than it cost 
to  make  it,  without  the  officers or stock­
holders  knowing it.

ARO UND  T H E   STATE.

Locke—Geo. H. Price succeeds H. Walter 

In the grocery business.

Ferry—W. H. Davis & Go. succeed  J. F. 

Keeney in general trade.

Peck—Gray  &  Robinson  succeed  John 

Collins in general trade.
■  Lacey—L. N. Mosber  has  removed  his 
general stock to Baafield. 

Dowagiac—Stark A Hall have  sold  their 

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driving  spiles, andJ grocery stock to N. Copley.

succeed,  4 .  S.

Bronson—f t  A. Bartlett succeeds Bartlett 

& North in the lumber business.

Tecumseh—Jas.  Montague  succeeds  W. 

D. Adams in the notion business.

Muskegon*—L. N. Codman succeeds J.  B. 

McCracken in the grocery business.

Marquette—Goodwin  & McLean  succeed 

Jesse Goodwin in the fish business.

Ioniarr-J. L. Lee & Co., dry  goods  deal­

ers, have assigned to B. H. Lawson.

Fife  Lake—B.  E.  Flanders 

succeeds 

Clark A Flanders in toe meat business.

Parkville—Dunham  &  Co. succeed  Dun­

ham & Son in the boot and shoe business.

Hastings—Baughman & Buel have moved 
their drug and jewelry stock  to  Nashville.
Muskegon—Miss M. Pratt  has  opened  a 
jewelry store at 235 West Western  avenue.
Mecosta—Bromley Bros. & Co.  have  en­
gaged in toe agricultural  implement  busi­
ness.

Enreka—C. J. Dennis succeeds Daggett & 
Dennis in the dry goods and  grocery  busi­
ness.

Lansing—C.  E.  Houghawout  succeeds 
Chas.  Houghawout  &  Son in the grocery 
business.

Flint—G. R.  Hoyt  & Sons  contemplate 
toe removal of their  dry  goods  business to 
East Saginaw.

Nashville—John  Weber  &  Son  succeed 
S.  Weber & Son  in  the agricultural imple­
ment business.

Maple Rapids—James  Astley is building 
a new store and W.  L. Aldrich  is  about to 
engage in the hardware business.

Battle Creek—Zwisler & Babbitt,  late  of 
Coldwater,  will  engage  in  the notion and 
fancy goods business about April 20.

Lakeview—C. F. Braden  has  moved  his 
drug  stock  across  the  street  to  the  store 
formerly occupied by Dr,  John Lamoreaux.
Lacey—Chas.  E. Nickerson, of  the form­
er firm of Bristol  &  Nickerson,  has  pur­
chased toe store building  formerly  owned 
by L. N. Mosher and  engaged  in  general 
trade.

Traverse City—A.  W. McElcheron,  form­
erly  of  the  firm  of  Pope  &  McElcheron, 
has  arranged  to open a merchant  tailoring 
establishment at  Ishpeming.

Lacey—Phineas  Powers  has  purchased 
the interest of Chas. E.  Nickerson  ih  the 
general firm of Bristol  &  Nickerson.  The 
new firm will be known  as  Bristol & Pow­
ers.

Cato—Wm. Ellsworth,  grocer,  has been 
closed  out  under  chattel  mortgage.  Geo. 
Adams,  Ellsworth’s  son-in-law,  holds  a 
mortgage on the balance of  Ellsworth’s vis­
ible possessions.

Stanwood—B. P. Harris  has  sold his in­
terest  in  toe  general  stock  of  Harris  & 
Van Auken  to  D. E.  Reed, his  son-in-law. 
The new firm will be known as Van Auken 
& Reed.  Mr. Harris  will  take  up his resi­
dence in the South.

Cadillac—Sampson & Drury have  discon­
tinued their branch store at Lake City.  The 
stock of  hardware was  brought  to this city 
and the grocery supplies  were  sold to Day- 
huff  & Jordan, who also  purchased  part of 
the L. H. Town stock,  and will open a store 
at their mill.

M A N U FA C T U R IN G   M A T T E R 8.

Rodney—Plato  &  Remie’s  sawmill  has 

started up again.

Sylvester—D.  B.  Kelly’s  handle  factory 

has resumed operations.

Cheboygan—Swift  Bros,  succeed  L.  P. 

Swift in the sawmill business.

Mosherville—-J. B. Green succeeds Luther 

N.  Tyler in the milling business.

Bay City—Jas. McDonald & Son  succeed 
McDonald & Shearer in the milling business.
South  Saginaw—J.  H.  Freeny  succeeds 
E. R. Phinney in the  manufacture  of  shin­
gles and salt.

Stanwood—Carpenter &  Son  and  Dan- 
forth &  Co.  have  eight  million  shingles 
ready for shipment.

Battle Creek—Smith  &  Nichols  succeed 
Mr. Smith in the manufacture  of the Smith 
equalizing fence machine.

Jackson—Geo. S. Bennett has  traded his 
interest  in  the  Smith  Middlings  Purifier 
Co. for a half interest in toe Eldred Milling 
Co.

Benton Harbor—The plant of the Bentoa 
Harbor Church Furniture Co.  has been sold 
to Samuel  Hale  for  $1,875.  The  factory 
will be put in running order at an early date.
Muskegon—The  Lake  Lumber  Co.  has 
been  organized  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$50,000, of  which  $20,000 is paid  in.  The 
stock is held as follows :  Herman O. Lange, 
200;  same  as  trustee,  1,200;  John  B. 
Lemieux,  200;  W.  S.  Hofstra, 400.

Detroit—Articles  of  association  of  the 
Morton & Backus Lumber  Co.  have  been 
filed with the  county  clerk.  The  capital 
stock is $75,000, of which $40,000 is paid in. 
The  incorporators  are  Wm.  D.  Morton, 
Charles  K.  Backus,  E.  Wilson  Cressy, 
Francis B. Cressy and Myron L. Doyle.

Jackson—Geo. T. Smith, President of toe 
Smith Middlings Purifier Co.,  has  returned 
from New York,  where  he  purchased the 
right to manufacture the cyclone pulverizer, 
of Erastus  Wiman.  He  will  manufacture 
toe  machine  heire  and  has  toe  exclusive 
right to toe entire West.  The  cyclone pul­
verizer pulverizes anything  from  iron  day 
to mineral paint by counter  currents of air, 
the particles losing  ground  into impalpable 
powder by the action of toe  air  forcing toe 
particle« together.  The  currents of air are 
generated in the machine.

ST R A Y   FA C TS.

Detroit—Wm. Smith, of toe firm of Wm. 

Smito A Co., meat dealers,  is dead.  ..

Wm. 

Saginaw—Smith  A  Grossman ;  succeed 
Smith in jh e upholstering business. 
Oolfax--G.  l&^offi8gt,.hpB ig&ftpd.flif

three  power  sewing  machines  during  the 
past season, the first ever sold here.

Otsego—Geo. B. Norton,  formerly of toe 
firm of Norton A Wolff,  has  gone  to  Des 
Moines, Iowa, to engage  in  the  furniture 
business.

Wayland—S. W. Dunwell has sold his in­
terest in  toe  lumber  business  of  Hoyt& 
Dunwell to his partner, who  will  continue 
the business under the style of  I.  N. Hoyt.
East  Saginaw—The  Cross,  Gordon  & 
Randall Lumber Co. and the Standard Lum­
ber Co. have been  consolidated  and  reor­
ganized  under  the  style  of  the  Geo.  F. 
Cross Lumber Co.

Standish—D.  W.  Richardson,  who  re­
cently made an  assignment, is pulling him­
self together  like a little  man and will pay 
It is  to be  hoped  there 
every debt in full. 
will  be  something 
left  when  he  gets 
through.

Colfax—G. E. Thomas infused  the  ideas 
inculcated in T h e   T r a d e s m a n  in the man­
agement  of  the  finances  of  Colfax  town­
ship  the  past  year,  and  toe  result  is  the 
township is out of  debt  and  has  money in 
the treasury.

Bloomingdale—In  accordance  with  the 
death-bed desire of the  late  senior partner 
in the general firm of Warren Havefi & Co., 
the business will  be  continued  by  Milan 
Wiggins and Frank Hubbard  under toe old 
firm name.  Mr. Haven was the most repre­
sentative citizen of the place,  having  been 
engaged in trade for eight  years and in the 
manufacture  of  cheese  for  over  sixteen 
years.  He was a man of strong convictions 
and had a  large  personal  following.  His 
loss will long be felt in toe community.

Bank  Notes,

The  Second  National  Bank  of  lohia is 

doubling the capacity of  its vault.

Chas.  S.  Cobh,  Cashier of  the  Michigan 
State Bank,  was  elected  Mayor  of  Eaton 
Rapids at the recent election.

Aaron Clark expects t& open  his  bank at 
Caledonia about May i.  The postponement 
is  occasioned  by his  delay  in  getting  his 
safe.

The exchange bank at Coopersville, estab­
lished  by  the  late  W.  G. Watson,  will be 
continued under  the  style of  D.  O.  Watson 
& Co.

A.  S. Thompson, Assistant Cashier of the 
First National  Bank of  Traverse  City,  has 
resigned  his  position  on  account  of  ill 
health.  He will  take  up  his  residence in 
Colorado  after a visit of  two  weeks’  dura­
tion among old friends at Whitehall.

A comparative statement of  the condition 
of  the Oceana County Savings  Bank, made 
on  March  31,  shows  its  deposits  to  be 
$25,442.21,  against  $18,103.53  on  Dec.  31 
and  $2,538.17  on  Oct.  31.  The  total  of 
loans  and  discounts  has  increased  from 
$62,537.99  on  thè 
first  named  date  to 
$82,134.39.

A new banking  and  exchange house has 
been  opened  at  Fifield,  Wis.,  to be known 
as the  Price  County Bank,  and  is the only 
institution of  the kind in  that county.  The 
company is duly organized under  the  State 
laws of  Wisconsin, having proper authority 
to  issue  its  own  currency  at  any  time. 
The capital is large enough to meet  present 
requirements and the  stockholders embrace 
some  of  the  wealthiest  and  leading  bus­
iness men in the town and county.

Merchants should remember that the cele­
brated  “Crescent,”  “White  Rose”  and 
“Royal  Patent”  brands of flour are manu­
factured and sold only  by  the  Voigt  Mill­
ing Co.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements  will  he  inserted under this head for 
one cent a 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  be  sent  in 
care of this office  m u st  b e   a c c o m p a n ie d  b y  25 
c e n ts  e x tr a , to cover expense of postage.

1 

ids, Such. 

ply to room 1, Glenhaven Place. 

“The Tradesman”—600 pounds  of brevier and 200 
pounds of nonpareil.  A  good  bargain' will  be  given 
purchaser. 

F or sale- the  dress  of  ty pe  now  used  on
FOR SALE-GENERAL STOCK IN GRAND LOCATION. 

_______________________________ ~

I  TOR  SALE  OR  RENT—GOOD  MEAT  MARKET  IN 

Reason, want to sell. Address 122, this office.  238-tf 
OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—CLEAN  GROCERY 
stock and  fixtures,  which can be reduced  to $800, 
situated in good business locality.  Will trade for real 
estate.  Rent  reasonable.  Address Arthur Lowell, 699 
238-tf
Broadway, Grand Rapids._______________ 
town of  1,000 inhabitants, in good  farming local­
ity.  Will sell cheap to right party, or would exchange 
for  real  estate  or  city  property.  Address  119,  this 
office. 
841*
T7oR SALE—ON ACCOUNT OF THE  DEATH  OF  THE 
r   proprietor, I offer for sale a  small  stock of drugs 
and  medicines;  glass  labeled  bottles;  black  walnut 
front drawers; fire  proof  safe;  jewelry;  books;  soda 
fountain,  etc.  AU  or  any  part  will  be  sold at a big 
discount for cash.  W. R. Mandigo, Administrator. Sher­
wood, Mich.  _______________________________ 237-240
F or  rent—n ew   brick  store  on  Ottaw a
FOR SALE—MY IMPLEMENT  BUSINESS;  GOOD Lo­
For  sale—general  stock  merchandise  in
F or sale  at  a bargain,  a  stock of general

cation, brick building, lime  house  and  tile  yard. 
238*

good town and good trade.  Inquire of J. C.  Stitt, 
3*0*

street, suitable for tin or hardware business.  Ap­
237-240

merchandise in an iron furnace town in this State. 
Furnace company pays  out in- cash $8,060 per month. 
Stock  will  invoice  about  $6,000.  Can  be  reduced  to 
$2,500  or  $3,000  in  60  days.  Sales  per  month  $1,600. 
Pay  sure.  Best of  reasons  for selling.  Those mean­
ing business address No. 113 this office._________ 234*tf
FOR SALE—WHOLE OR part interest in  a first- 
class meat market in a thriving  town of 1,000 in­
habitants with  two  railroads.  Average sales  $30  per 
day.  Good reasons for selling. Address H., care Trades* 
man. 
219-tf
F o r  s a l e —a t   a  b a r g a in ,  a   c l e a n   s t o c k   o f
»hardware  and  mill  supplies;  Address  Wayne 
Ohoate, Agent, East Saginaw.____ ___________  210-tf
F o r  s a l e —t h e  b e s t  d r u g  s t o r e  i n   t h e   t h r iv -
ing  city of Mnskegon.  Terms  easy,  C.  L.  Brun- 
dage, Muskegon, Mich._______________________ l88"**
F o r  s a l e —a  c l e a n  s t o c k  o f  d r u g s, f ix t u r e s ,
etc.,  complete, on good line  of  railway, about 35 
miles north of Grand  Rapids.  No  paints  or  oils, bat 
could be  added to  good advantage.  Poor  health and 
other business  my  only  reasons  for selling.  No.  U6 
care Tradesman office. 
832- tf

DoUarvUle, Mich. 

■ OR SALE—THE ROLLER PROCESS GRIST MILL AT 

Edmore, Mich.  Doing a good business  and an in­
creasing trade.  The proprietor has other business and 
must sell.  Edmore  is a  thriving  village of  1,200, has 
two railroads, and in the midst o f a growing country 
A good chance  for the right man.  Call  on or address 
. j. H. Gibbs,Edmore, Mjeh. 
-  838*
J7?«   SALE—SECOND  HAND  HEARSE  AT  A BAK- 
238*
HEBANTED—BY A YOUNG MAN OF 28, SITUATION IN
drug Btore, three years’-experienee.  Registered 
SNA
itäati! oil

lNitEsofflco*  ; 

____  

■ OR SALE CHEAP—OHE 1,4*0 POUND HOBLER, BAH- 
inan & Co fire-proof safe; one set 240  lb  Buffalo D. 
B.  scales; one 8 foot nickel  show  case  and a  quantity 
of miscellaneous  hardware.  Will  he  sold Separately
jr all together.  Call  on or address.  H. E. Hesseltine, 
236-48
land 31 Monroe St., Q-rand Rapids, Mich.
■ OR SAWE—FRUIT FARM OF 7}tf ACRES, LOCATED 
' in  Spring  Lake.  Ten  minutes  walk  from  post- 
office.  Pleasant  place.  Nice  buildings.  Will  sell on 
long time or exchange for  stock of  any kind  of  mer­
chandise.  Place is valued at $3,000, wUl take $2,000 for 
it.  Address S. A. Howey,North Muskegon, Mich.  236-tf
A  GENTS  WANTED  EVERYWHERE.  THREE NEW 
-XX  articles  just  oat.  Big  money.  Exclusive terri­
tory.  Inclose  stamp for  particulars.  Samples  of  all 
three  35 cents.  Address  Swinebume  &   Co., Manufac­
turers, LaCrosse, Wis. 
249*
Good  opening—for  a  grocery,  bak ery,  or
general store.  Live manufacturing town of 2,500. 
Only  two  groceries  and  one  general  stock.  Parties 
looking for a  location, please  address  Robert  Ander­
son, North  Muskegon, Mich._________________  
239*
WANTED PARTNER—A VERY  GOOD CHANCE  FOR 
a man with some capital to become partner in a 
well-established  clothing  store  in  a  small,  thriving 
city in  Michigan.  Please  state  how much  can be in­
vested and  address  to  this  paper  under letters  A. B. 
Understanding  of  the  business  is  not  a  necessity. 
Would like  a party who understands  the  Holland lan­
guage. 
238-tf
WANTED—REGISTERED  PHARMACIST  WHO  CAN 
famish first-class references and is not afraid to 
work. in  other parts  of the  store.  Moderate  salary. 
Addres3123, this office.
WANTED—TO  EXCHANGE  STOCKS  AND  LOOA- 
tions.  General  stock.  Reason,  want a change. 
Address 121 this office. 
238-tf
WANTED—JURSTULASS STOCKS OF MERCHANDISE 
personal property, or real  estate in Michigan in 
exchange for  choice  selected  farms or farm  lands in 
Wisconsin,  Iowa,  Minnesota,  Dakota  or  Minneapolis 
real estate.  Address Bigelow  & Sheldon, Minneapolis, 
Minn. 
238*
■ ANTED—SITUATION  BY  A  REGISTERED  PHAR- 
macist.  Seven years’experience.  Bestofrefer- 
ences.  Address lock box No. 37, Midland, Mich.  233-tf
WANTED—EVERY  STORE-KEEPER  WHO  READS 
this  paper  to  give  the Sutliff coupon system a 
trial.  It will abolish your pass  books,  do  away  with 
all your book-keeping, in many instances save you the 
expense of one clerk, will bring your business  down to 
a  cash basis and  save  you  all the  worry and trouble 
that usually go with the pass-book plan.  Start the 1st 
of the month With the hew  system and  you will never 
regret it.  Having  two kinds, both  kinds  will be  sent 
by  addressing  (mentioning  this  paper)  J.  H.  Sutliff, 
Albany, N. Y. 
226-tf
WANTED—1,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT  OUR 
Improved Coupon  Pass  Book System.  Send for 
samples.  E. A. Stowe & Bro., Grand Rapids. 
225-tf

CIGAR  DEALERS
$11,550 Worth of Real Estate 

Read  this  Schema*

j

And  personal  property  to  bd  actually 
given away to  purchasers  of  toe celebrated
“Golden-Rod” and “Presio” Cigars
in 1888.

We  have  sold  these  goods  for  the  past 
ten  years  at  the  uniform  price of  $55 per 
M.  for “Golden-Kod’i  and  $35  per  M.  for 
the “Presto”  cigars,  and  shall  continue  to 
sell them at that price,  thus  charging noth­
ing extra for  the property we  shall distrib­
ute.

We  have figured that  by liberal advertis­
ing we can  save  the  salaries and  expenses 
of several men on the road and that the dif­
ference will  pay for  this  property and  the 
purchasers of  the goods  will get  the direct 
benefit. 
Just  look  at  this  carefully  and 
see a plain business proposition.  We hand 
over to you direct the amount it would cost 
us to sell these  goods in   the ordinary way.
We will  distribute  th ii  property  in  toe 

following manner:

We will  start  an  order  book at this date 
with lines numbered  from  1  to  3,000  and 
each order will  be  entered  in  the book  m 
the order it is received at our  office.

Every fifth order  received will entitle the 
party ordering  to  a  fine  gold  handled  silk 
umbrella which will be sent with the goods.
Every  24th  order  received  will  entitle 
sender to a full tea set of 56  pieces Import­
ed China Ware, which will be sent with the 
cigars.

Every 74 th  order received will entitle the 
party ordering to a clear title deed of a piece 
of  real-estate.  Either  a  building  lot  and 
water  privilege,  at a  summer  resort,  a city 
lot in city of  Sault  Ste  Marie,  a house  and 
lot in  St.  Ignaee,  or  a  farm  of  160  acres. 
There are 39 lots of the  real  estate and 720 
articles  of  personal  property  to  go  with 
3,000 orders,  an  average  of  more  than one 
in four.

An order will consist  of  K  M.  “Golden 
Rod” cigars at $55 per M. or 1  M.  “Presto” 
cigars  at  $35  per  M.  An  order  of double 
this amount from one  party will be entered 
as two orders.

These cigars  are not  made  of  cheap ma­
terial, like the  ordinary  scheme  cigar,  but 
are First-Class  Goods,  made  as  we  have 
always made them,  to hold trade.

The “Golden-Rod” is made from the finest 
imported Yuelta Havana, long filler, straight 
hand-made  goods,  without  flavor,  and  as 
fine as anything made in the U. S.  Sold at 
their  market  value, without  regard to  the 
property  given  away.  The “Presto” cigar 
is a  very nice  imported  scrap-cigar,  gives 
universal  satisfaction  and  sells  in  many 
places at 10c.
The summer  resort  lots are  on the beau­
tiful Lakeville Lake in  Oakland Co. on the 
P. O. & P. A.  R. R., a handsomer lake with 
better fishing than  Orion, six miles distant 
Lots 40 feet by 80 rods with good lake front 
privilege, value $50 each.

The  lots  at  the  Soo  are  within  K of a 
In  the 
mile  of  the  water  power  canal. 
heart  of  the city,  with  houses  all  around 
them, 40x124 feet, valued at $1,000 each.

The house and  lot at St. Ignaee  is in the 
third  ward  on  Main  street.  House  occu­
pied by tenant, valued at $1,000.

The farm  is  within  two  miles  of  Carp 
Lake Station, on  the G.  R. & I.  R. R.  Six 
miles from Mackinaw  City,  hardwood  and 
cedar,  good front on Carp Lake, seven acres 
under cultivation, valued at $3,200.

Warrantee  deeds of  real  estate  will  be 
sent with the cigars,  which  come in proper 
order.

When the property is ail  distributed,  cir­
culars  will  be  sent  to  each  purchaser  of 
cigars,  showing  name  and  address of  par­
ties getting these presents.

Send  in  your  orders,  somebody will get 
some good proper# for  nothing.  You will 
get  warranted  goods,  worth  the  price put 
on them. 1  The value of the presents is not 
taken out of the goods.

Terms on  cigars, 60  days  to  responsible 

parties, or 5 per cent, off for cash.

We give reference  below as to  our  busi­

ness standing.
National Bank, Romeo.

Citizens'  National  Bank,  Romeo;  First 

Any  business  man  in  Borneo,  and  any 
wholesale tobacco bouse in Detroit, Chicago, 
Louisville and St. Louis.
, 

;{| W. Brail«! I Bro;,

Yours respectfully,

. x . 'B O M E Q t ; ,   M I O B f k - i

... - 

.  j

Also good farm.  Address  John  O. Smith,  Eaton  Rap­

■i

Wholesale  Grocers,

HANDLE  EVERYTHING  IN   THE  PROVISION  LINE.

Pork, Beef, Lard, Hams, Shoul­
ders,  Bacon,  Sausage,  Pigs’ 
Feet,  Canned  Beef,  Lunch 
Tongue, Potted  Ham, etc.

GURTI88  X  D U P H

Everything in the Paper Line.

RockMls,  Childs,  Sterling,  leonomRi

W. & T. PURE JUTE MANILLA.

GENERAL  w o o d e n w m ,

OIM S-ISS»1
BASKETS, 

AXE  HANDLES, 

CLOTHES  BARS, 

LINES  AND  PINS, 

BRUSHES, 

MOPS,

TUBS  AND  PAILS, 

BOWLS,

Everything in the Woodenware Line.

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DIRECTIONS 

We have cooked the com in this can 
sufficiently.  Should  he  Thoroughly 
Warmed (net cooked) adding  piece oi 
Good Butter (size of hen's egg) and gill 
of freah  mills:  (preferable  to  water.) 
Season to suit when on the table. None 
genuine unless bearing the signature oi

Davenport  Canning  (j0<

H ave » p o r t,  la .

«Af. A T   T H IS

W. Steele Pa c k  k Provision Co.,

G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

WHOLESALE  DEALERS IN

Fresh and Salt Beef,

Fresh and Salt Pork,

Pork Loins,  Dry Salt Pork,

Hams,  Shoulders,

Bacpn, Boneless Ham,

Sausage of all Kinds,

Dried Beef for Slicing.

T   A.  T Ü  T \  
I 
i  Û K . I J  
J 

Strictly Pure  and  Warranted,  in  tierces,  barrels,  one-half 
barrels,  50  pound  cans,  20  pound  cans, 3, 5  and 10  pound 
pails.

Pickled  Pigs*  Feet,  Tripe, Etc.

O u r prices for first-class  goods are  very low  and all goods are warranted  first-class 

in every instance.

When in Grand Rapids give us a call  and look dyer our establishment^

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Iron and Tinned..
Copper Rivets and  Burs  ____  . 

. I, ........ .dis 
a«

ROPES.

SHEET IRON.

Com.Smooth.

11
-|g
70&10
66

.............  
dis
dis

Com. 
$3 00 
3  GO 
316 
3 15 
325 
„ _
3 35
All sheets No; 18 and lighter,  over 3  inches 

r,  FATENT FLAN I8AED IRON.
wood’spatent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 
B  Wood’s pat. planished. Nos. 25  to 27  9 20 
Broken packs )4c ft ft extra.
« . . .  
Sisal,)4in.and  larg er.................. 
Manilla................................ * 
sq u a r es.
Steel andiron........:............. 
TryandJBevels........................  
Mitre   
......... ................"dis
_T 
^ 
Nos. 10 to 14................................$4 20
Nos. 15 to 17x.............................  4 20
Nos. 18to 21............ ................. !  4 20
Nos.22to 24.................. . 
420
Nos .25 tQ 26.................... 
4 40
No. 27.................ia o  
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
sh e e t z in c.
In casks of 600 lbs, ^  ft................... 
In smaller quansities, ft  1b.. . . . . . . . . . .. . 
American, all kinds.........*..........  
dis 
Steel, all kinds.............................. . * |dis 
Swedes, all kinds............................... dis 
 
Gimp and Lace......................... 
CigarBox  Nails..............i...'." "   dis 
Finishing Nails............................. 
 
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 
Noil,  Refined....................... 
Market  Half-and-half........  ................ 
Strictly  Half-and-half........27
TIN PLATES.

6(1
60
60
di« fin
56
dis  56
50
60
56
45
35
22
24

TINNER’S SOLDER.

TACKS*

gv
6)4

12 00

 

5 40

TRAPS.

 
20x28, Charcoal.........................‘
100 Plate Charcoal......................  
100 Plate Charcoal............... 
 

:&x%’S£ardoai...... .................6 00@fi 20
10x14,Charcoal........................... 
IX, 
7 «5
12x12, Charcoal........................ „  
g gs
IC, 
12x12,  Charcoal..................................8  35
IX, 
IC, 
14x20, Charcoal.......................... ’ 
6 35
7  «5
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal.....................  
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal.................... . 
9 35
11  37
IXXX, 14x20, Charcool................. 
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal..........................  13 15
16  10
IX, 
DC, 
’ 7*10
DX, 
9 1a
DXX. 100 Plate Charcoal..........................11 10
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.......................  13 10
Bedipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50 to  7 35
Roofing, 14x20, IC................................... 
Roofing, 14x20,  IX .................... 
"   7 00
Roofing, 20x28, IC............................ 
Roofing, 20x28, IX .......................................15 CO
____ TIN—LEADED.
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Teme......................6 00
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Teme...................  7 50
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Teme............. ! .12 06
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne................... 15 00
_ 
Steel, Game................................................. g0&16
Oneida Communtlty,  Newhouse’s..........dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60&19
Hotchkiss’ ................................................. 66&10
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s.................................60&1O
Mouse, choker..................................... 18c 38 doz
Mouse,  delusion...............................$1 50  doz
Bright Market..............................................  dis 67)4
Annealed Market.......................... 
Coppered Market........................................... dis 62)4
Extra Bailing................................................  dis 55
Tinned  M arket.............................................dis 62)4
Tinned Broom.............................................. » f t 09
Tinned Mattress......................................^  ft 8)4
Coppered Spring Steel.................................. dis 50
Tinned Spring Steel........................................dis 40&1O
Plain Fence...................................................^ f t 3
Barbed Fence, galvanized........................ 
  4 00
painted..................................... 3 25
Copper............................................. new  list net
Brass.......................................  
  new list net
WIRE GOODS.
B right........................................... dis  70&10&10
Screw Eyes.....................................dis  70&10&10
Hook’s ...........................................dis  70&10&10
Gate Hooks and  Eves.................. dis  7Q&10&1A
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled..............
Coe’s Genuine....................................dig 
Coe’s Pte nt A gricultural, wrought, dis 
Coe’s Ptent. malleable.................................dis 75&1C
Birdcages...............................................
Pumps,  Cistern............................. .. .dis
Screws, new  list#....................................
Casters, Bed and Plate............. dis50&10&10
Dampers, American...................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes an all steel goods...d 
Copper Bottoms...........................  
30c

MISCELLANEOUS.

WRENCHES.

dis  70&16

50
75
7G&5

WIRE.

50
75

%

“ 

% &10

H A R D W O O D   D U M B E R .

 

The furniture factories  here pay as follows 
for  dry  stock,  measured  merchantable, mill 
culls out;
Basswood, log-run................................ 13 00015 00
Birch, log-run........................................ 15 00©18 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2............................  @25 00
Black Ash, log-run............... 
14 00016 50
Cherry,  log-run.....................................25 00035 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and 2............................. 45 00050 00
Cherry,  cull......................................  
@10 00
Maple, log-run................... 
12 00014 00
Maple, soft,  log-run............................. 11 00©13 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2............................  @20 00
Maple, clear, flooring.......................  @25 Oo
Maple, white, selected.....................   @25 Oo
RedOak, log-mn....................................18 00©20 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2............................24 00025 08
Red Oak, % sawed, 8in and upw’d.,40 00©45 00
Red Oak,  “ 
regular..................30 00035 00
Red Oak, No.  1, step plank..............  @25 00
W alnut, log-run................................ 
@55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2.........................  @75 00
Walnuts,  culls.................................. 
@25 00
Grey Elm, log-run............................ 
@13 00
White Ash, log-mn............................... 14 00©16 50
Whitewood,  log-mn..............................20 00022 00
White Oak, log-mn............................... 17 00@18 00

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RAGS, RUBBERS, BONES & METALS

______ 

BOUGHT  BYWm. Brummeler,

JOBBER IN

T IN W A R E ,  G L A SSW A R E   a n d   N O T IO N S. 

T E L E P H O N E   6 4 0 .

79 Spring St„ 

-  Grand Bapids.

ÄSSOß.IATIOH  fllPIRTJlEMT,

Michigan  Business  Men's Association.

Hirst Vice-President—Fani F. Morgan, Monroe.
Second Vice-President—S. Lamfrom, Owosso.
Secretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer-L. W. Sprague. Greenville.
Executive Board—President. Secretary, Geo. TV. Hub­
bard, Flint; W. E. Kelsey, Ionia; Irving F. Clapp, Al- 
legan.
Committee on Trade Interests—Smith Barnes, Traverse 
City ; Chas. T. Bridgman,  Flint;  H. B. Fargo, Muske-
X  gon.
Oommmltte on Legislation—Frank Wells, Lansing; W. 
SL Kelsey, Ionia; Neal McMillan, Rockford.
Committee  on  Transportation—J.  W.  MUliken,  Trav­
erse City; ino. P. Stanley, Battle Creek;  Wm. Rebec, 
East Saginaw.
Committee oh  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,  Owossó;  WU1  Em- 
mart, Eaton Rapids.

fttfieial 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. 3 —S tu rg is 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.
President, H. S. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jora.
N o.  4—G rand  B a p ld s   M .  A . 
N o.  5 —M u sk e g o n  B .  M . A . 
President, H. B. Fargo ; Secretary, Wm. Peer.
President. F. W. Sloat; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin.

President. E. J. Herrick; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.

N o. 6 —A lb a  B . M . A . 

N o . 7—D im o n d a le  B . M . A . 

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

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

N o . 8 —B a stp o r t B . M . A .

N o , 9 —L a w re n c e  B . M . A . 

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

N o. IO—H a r b o r  S p rin g s B . M . A . 

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

N o . l l —K in g s le y  B . M . A . 

President, H. P. Whipple; Secretary, C. H.  Camp.

N o. 1 2 —Q u in cy  B . M . A . 

President, 0. McKay; Secretary, Thos. 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 4 —ilo . M u sk e g o n  B . M . A . 
President, S. A. HoWey; Secretary, G. C. Havens.
President, R. R. Perkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase.

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

N o. 1 6 —S an d  L a k e  B . M. A . 
President, J. V. Crandall:  Secretary, W. Rasco.

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.

N o.  1 9 —A d a   B . M . A . 

President, D. F. Watson; Secretary, E. E. Chapel.
President, John F. Henry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps.

N o. 2 0 —S a u g a tu e k  B . M . A . 

N o. 2 1 —W a y la n d  B . M . A . 

President, C. H. Wharton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt.

N o . 2 2 —G rand  L ed g e  B . M . A . 

Persident, A. B. Schumacher; Secretary, W.  R.  Clarke.

N o. 2 3 —C arson C ity B . M . A . 

President, F. A. Ròckafellow; Secretary, C. G. Bailey.

President, J. E. Thurkow;  Secretary, W. H. Richmond.

N o . 2 4 —M orley B .  M . A .

N o. 2 5 —P a lo  B . 91. A .

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

N o . 2 6 —G r e e n v ille  JS. M . A . 

President. 3. R. Stevens; Secretary, Geo. B. Caldwell.

N o.  2 7 —D o r r  B . M .  A . 

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

N o. 2 8 —C h eb oygan  B . M . A  
President, J. H. Tuttle;  Secretary, H. G. Dozer.
President, Wm. Moore;  Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrough.

N o . 2 9 —F r e e p o r t B . M . A .

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

N o. 3 0 —O cean a B . M . A .

N o . 3 1 —C h a rlo tte B . M . A . 

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

N o. 3 2 —C o o p e r sv ille  B . M . A . 

President, G. W. Watrous;  Secretary, J. B. Watson.

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

President,  L. D. Bartholomew;  Secretary, R. W. Kane.

N o. 3 4 —Saran ac B . M .  A . 

President, H. T. Johnson;  Secretary, P. T. Williams.

No.  3 5 —B eU a ir e   B . M . A .

President, Wm. J. Nixon; Secretary, G. J. Noteware.

No. 3 6 —I th a c a  B .  M . A .

President, O. F. Jackson;  Secretary, John H. Everden.

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, D. 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 . M . A . 
President, B. O. Graves;  Secretary,  H. M. Lee.
N o . 4 0 —B a to n  B a p ld s  B . M . A , 
President, C. T. Hartson; Secretary, Chas. Coller.
N o. 4 1 —B r e c k e n r id g e   B . M . A . 
President, W. O. Watson; Secretary, C. B. Scudder.
President, Jos. Gerber ; Secretary  C. J. Rathbun.

N o. 4 2 —F r e m o n t it. M . A . 
N o. 4 3 —T u stin  B . M . A . 

President, G. A. Estes; Secretary ,W. M. Holmes.
President, E. B. Martin; Secretary, W. H. Smith.

N o. 4 4 —H eed  C ity B . M . A . 

N o . 4 5 —H o y tv ille  B . M . A . 

President, D. E. Hallenbeck; Secretary, O. A. Halladay,
President, Wm. Hutchins; Secretary, B. M. Gould.

N o. 4 6 —L e slie  B .  M. A . 

N o.  4 7 —F lin t  M .  U . 

President, G. R. Hoyt; Secretary, W. H. Graham.
N o. 4 8 —H u b b ard 8to n   B . M . A . 
President, Boyd Redner; Secretary, W. J. Tabor.

N o.  4 9 —• L eroy  B-  M .  A . 

President, A. Wenzell; Secretary, Frank Smith.

N o . 5 9 —M a n istee B . M . A . 

President, A. O. Wheeler; Secretary, J. P.  O’Malley.
President, L. M. Sellers; Secretary, W. C. Congdon.

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

N o. 5 2 —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 .

President, Thomas B. Dutcher;  Secretary, C. B. Waller
President, C. F. Hankey; Secretary, A. C. Bowman.

N o.  5 5 —P e to sk e y   B . M . A . 
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 —R o c k fo r d   B . M . A . 

President, Geo. A. Sage; Secretary. J. M. Spore.

N o . 5 8 —F ife  L a b e  B . M . A . 

President, E. Hagadorn; Secretary, E. C. Brower.

N o. 5 9 —F e n n v ille  B . M . A . 

President 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 . 
President, H. E. Hogan; Secretary, S. E. Neihardt.
President, V. E. Manley; Secretary, 1. B. Barnes.

N o.  6 1 —H a rtfo rd   B . M . A . 
N o. 6 2 —B a st ¡saginaw  M . A . 

President, G. W. Meyer; Secretary, Theo. Kadish.
N o. 6 3 —K vart B . M . A . 
President, W. M. Davis; Secretary, C. E. Bell.
N o , 6 4 —M e r r ill B . M . A . 
President, C. W. Robertson; Secretary, Wm. Horton.

N o . 6 5 —K a lk a sk a  B . M . A . 
N o. 6 6 —L a n sin g  B . M .  A . 

President, Jas. Crawford; Secretary, Ç. S. Blom.
President, Frank Wells: Secretary, W. E. Crotty.

N o. 6 8 —A lle g a n  B . M . A .

N o . 6 7 —W a te r v lie t  B . M . A . 
President, Gao. Parsons: Secretary, J. H. Hall.
President. A. E. Calkins;  Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.
N o. 6 9 —S cotts a n d  C lim a x  B . M , A . 
President, Lyman Clark; Secretary, F. 8. Willison.
N o . 70—N a sh v ille  B. M. A, 
President, H. M. Lee; Secretary, W. S. Powers.

M a n u fa ctu rers  S e e k in g   N e w   L o ca tio n s.
Smith Middlings Purifier Co., Jackson. 
Lovell Refrigerator Co., Ionia.
Clapp Shirt Co., Allegan.
David Woodward (plows) Clinton.

Special Enterprises Wanted. 

Grist Mill—Hopkins Station. 
Newspaper—North Muskegon. 
Gristmill—Bellevue.
Wood working establishment—Quincy.
Hard wood factories—Fife Lake.
Tobacco factory, vinegar and pickle factory, 
Cannery—Wayland.

cannery—Grand Rapids.

Mr.  Höyt at the Helm at Flint.

F lint, April 5, 1888.

E. A.Stowe, Grand Rapids:

De a b Sib—At our annual election of  Of­
ficers, Geo.  R. Hubbard  was chosen  Presi­
dent  He  presided  over  One  meeting,  at 
which  he  tendered fhi&  resignation, on ac­
count  of  pressure  of  privato  business  G. 
R. Hoyt was elected in Ms place. 
/   *■*  %  :
iB S I A '  Yonrs truly, 
:

Wm. IL Gbaham, Sec’y. 

m á  

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A ssociation  N otes.  .

1

S, Lamfrom, Secretary of the  Owosso B. 
M. A., writes:  “Too busy to  write  much. 
We are doing good work.” 

Nashville has beea granted  charter  No. 
70 during the past week.  The  Association 
there affiliates with twenty-one members.

Charlotte  Republican:  The  B .  M.  A. 
discussed the  electric  light  question  Wed­
nesday evening, appointed a larger commit­
tee  and  proposes  to  give  the  subject  a 
thorough investigation.

S. Van Ostrand, Secretary of  thenewly- 
organized South  Haven  B. M. A.,  writes: 
“The B. M. A  is going to  be  a  hummer.” 
If the writer is anything  like  his  brother, 
the Secretary of the  Allegan  B. M. A., the 
Association cannot fail to succeed.

The  Kalkaska  B.  M,  A.  is  after  the 
Grand  Rapids  Telegram-Herald  with  a 
sharp stick.  That paper published a willful 
libel on Kalkaska  county,  and the  business 
men propose to  retaliate by withholding all 
patronage from that disreputable sheet.

A Cadillac  correspondent  writes:  “We 
are taking steps to reorganize the B. M.  A. 
aud put it on a firm  and  solid  foundation. 
As soon as we do, we shall  join  the  State 
body.  McAdam has  not  sense  enougb to 
resign the  Presidency,  so  we  propose to 
shelve him.”

Traverse  City  Herald;  At  the  regular 
meeting of the Business Men’s Association, 
on Tuesday evening,  a new constitution was 
adopted,  which  will be ready  soon  for dis­
tribution,  and other important business was 
done,  and an  adjournment  had  to  Tuesday 
evening,  April  17, at  which  time the great 
G. A.  R. encampment  to be  held  here  this 
season will be made the special order of bus­
iness.

The editor of the American Qrocer writes 
T h e   T r a d e s m a n   under  date  of  April  4, 
acknowledging his error  in  stating that the 
organization of  the  New  York State Asso­
ciation antedated that of the Michigan Bus­
iness Men’s Association.  Mr. Barrett prom­
ises  to set  himself  aright  on  this  point at 
the  Pennsylvania  State  convention,  to  be 
held at Wilkes Barre  the latter  part of  the 
month,

Teeumseh News:  The committee to whom 
was intrusted  the  task  of  making the pre­
liminary arrangements for organizing a Bus­
iness  Men’s  Association  have,  during  the 
past week,  circulated a paper for the signa­
tures of the business men of Tecumseh and 
have  met  with  gratifying  success,  nearly 
every  business  man  in  Tecumseh  signing 
the  paper.  The  committee  have  called  a 
meeting at the Council  building next  Wed­
nesday night.

Status of the McAdamFailure.

L. B. BeUaire, assignee for J.  C.  McAd­
am,  the Cadillac dry goods  dealer, has com­
pleted  his  appraisement  of the assets, as 
follows:

Stock.............. ......... . ......$6,307.00
F i x t u r e s . 1.
......  200.00
A ccounts.. . : ................ ....... 
355.25

t

Total...........  ........$6,862.25

As the liabilities are $10,770.88, the (¿ed­
itors will probably receive less than 50 cents 
on the dollar,  after  deducting  exemption 
and costs of assignment.

Referring to the mention  of the failure in 
last week’s paper,  a Cadillac  correspondent 
writes:

Your statement  in  regard  to McAdam’s 
failure is deserved  and  is true. 
In justice 
to the town,  however,  there  is  this  to  be 
said:  McAdam’s  failure  is due to himself 
alone.  No  blame  can  be  attached te the 
town or anyene in it (except those whom he 
recklessly  trusted  and who  did not pay). 
Mr. Gow and Mr. Kramer,  who  are in the 
the same line,  have  been  very  successful 
because,  unlike  McAdam,  they  have  at­
tended strictly to business,  have  kept  out 
of politics and  have  not  bitterly  opposed 
and denounced everyone  who did not agree 
with them in all they said.  The town is all 
right and our business  men  are  all  right. 
“Shysters” in business  stand the same poor 
chance of succeeding here that they do else­
where.
During McAdam’s  residence  here he has 
raised a row and created a split in the Dem­
ocratic party;  got into a  fight  with  one of 
our newspapers;  got into a  bitter  political 
fight with the Cummers  and  Mitchells and 
others of qur best  citizens;  has  wantonly 
attacked prominent  business  men through 
the newspapers;  led a rabble that attempted 
to break up a citizens’ convention; has near­
ly broken up the Royal Arcanum;  has com­
pletely demoralized the  Business Men’s As­
sociation;  has quarreled with the City Coua- 
eil and, finally, has  gradually  and  forever 
lost his trade and  has  ingloriously  failed. 
He will never succeed  here—nor  anywhere 
else.  His departure would be  hailed  with 
joy by our best business  men.  He is a dis­
turbing element in  all  matters  pertaining 
to the welfare of the town.

It is reported in  commercial  circles that 
McAdam recently remarked,  “If my credit­
ors want to settle with  me  on  m y  terms, 
they can do so.  If not, they can go to hell.” 
If McAdam really made the  statement thus 
imputed to him,  it would  appear  that  his 
creditors should show  their  resentment of 
such methods by  refusing  to  compromise 
their claims,  thus  driving out of business a 
man who seems to be devoid of business ca­
pacity and common  decency.

Having  violated  the  constitution of the 
B.  M. A., McAdam should  promptly resign 
his membership and position in the Cadillac 
branch of that body.

, 

Grand Rapids Mercantile Association.
At  the  regular  semi-monthly  meeting  of 
the  Grand  Bapids  Mercantile  Association, 
held on April 3, applications  for  membership 
were received from J. F. Jones, 133 Broadway, 
and  Martin  &  Wurzburg,  52  Lyon  street. 
Both applicants were  elected.

M. C. Goossen,  of  the  Committee on Trade 
following  report, 

Interests,  presented  the 
which was accepted.
One of the points mentioned in  our  last re­
port  was  that  the  main  object for which a 
man does business is money.  But there is one 
point well worth remembering  in  connection 
with money making,  something which money 
cannot buy—it is honesty.  It  can  neither be 
bought at jobbing  rates  nor  retailed  at bar­
gains, but experience  teaches  that we should 
be straightforward in  all dealings, whether it 
will be for loss or gain.  Do  business  honest­
ly.  It will gain you credit, it  will  gain  you a 
name that will be a life long protection in the 
community  in  which  you  dwell.  The credit 
you gain in this way  is  far  better than start­
ing  in  business  with  a large capital, which, 
without the sympathy of the  people, is worth­
less.  But  a  man  of  known  honesty with a 
small capital can secure  the  confidence of the 
people and gain a reputation  far and wide, so 
that his credit will know no  bounds.  He  will 
not be called smart, but he will be  called hon­
est.
L. Winternitz, of the  spècial  Committee on 
Berry Packages, reported that he had secured 
four additional signatures  to  the agreement. 
The report was accepted  and  the  Committee 
instructed to continue its work.

I. C.  Levi, proprietor  of  the  Star  Clothing 
House,  related  his experience with  the Blue 
Letter.  He said that those who owed him the 
longest seemed  to pay  the soonest,  when re­
minded of  the indebtedness by the receipt of 
a Blue Letter.  He said he found it good policy 
to bave some  stated  time when goods sold on 
credit shall be paid for and be on hand prompt­
ly at that time. When left longer the men who 
secure credit invariably have  some excuse to 
offer, and nine times out of ten payment is de­
layed long beyond the period originally-agreed 
upon.  He  hoped  to  see  the  time  when  the 
credit  system would be  entirely  superceded 
and would gladly co-operate  in any plan look­
ing to that end.

A. J. Elliott coincided with the  views  of Mr. 
Levi, adding that  when am an failed  to keep 
his  agreement regarding the  payment of an 
account, it was  seldom  advisable  to  extend 
him any further credit,  as  he  usually abused 
the privilege.

E. A. Stowe  called attention to  two serious 
drawbacks in  the  credit system—that people 
are too apt to buy lavishly when  they do  not 
pay as they go and  that too many men cease 
trading at  a store  as  soon'as they are able to 
get their names  pn the ledger for  a few  dol­
lars.

Mr. Levi  said he sometimes  found it desir­
able to send men receipts for old accounts, in 
order to  win  them  back  as  customers.  He 
frequently did this in the  case of poor people 
who were unable to pay their bills.

M. C. Goossen  called attention to  the habit 
some people have of avoiding the payment of

A recent item in one Of the  dailies 

is to 
the effect that hair grows more rapidly after 
death than during life. 
If this is the  case, 
the only objection to a  profitable  tonsorial 
business in a cemetery is  the probability of 
the  great  number  of  “stiffs”  the barber 
would get, * * 

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v 

South  Haven  in  Line  on  Organization.
Pursuant  to  adjournment  at a preceding 
meeting,  the business men of  South  Haven 
met last Wednesday evening and  organized 
a B. M.  A.  C. J.  Hempstead  was  selected 
to act as chairman of  the meeting,  while S. 
Yan Ostrand officiated as secretary pro tern. 
The  editor of  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   explained 
the modus operandi,  after  which t^e regu­
lation constitution was adopted  and  the or­
ganization  completed by the election of  the 
following officers:

President—L.  S.  Monroe.
Vice-President—C.' J.  Hempstead.
Secretary—S. Yan Ostrand.
Treasurer—Volney Ross.
Executive  Committee—L. S. Monroe,  S. 
Yan  Ostrand,  Vassar  Selkirk,  E.  J.  Lock- 
wood and T.  E.  Tompson.

The  Association  starts  out with a mem­
bership of  about  forty,  including  the  best 
men in the town,  and has a bright  future in 
store for it.  The officers  are  stirring  bus­
iness men  and  will  exert  every  energy to 
make the  organization a success.

Returning  home, 

the  editor  of  T h e  
T r a d e s m a n  spent a few hours at Hartford, 
where he organized  an  Association on Feb. 
22,  1887.  Ail the members are pleased with 
the Association.

Geo.  H.  Remington,  of  Bangor,  whom 
the writer met  on  the  train, reported  that 
the Association  at  that  place  has  accom­
plished much good to the members.

Dr.  W.  H.  Andrews,  who  was  at  the 
depot at Fennville as  the  train  pulled  in, 
expressed  himself  as  highly  pleased  with 
the workings of  the B. M. A. there.

Which town will  make the next  move in 

the line of  organization ?

A  Generous  Dividend.

Jas. Anstey, assignee  for  Peter L.  Vau- 
consant,  the St. Johns  saloon  keeper  who 
failed several months ago,  reports  the  re­
ceipt of $3,831.50, which enables him to de­
clare a dividend of 1)4 per cent,  among the 
creditors.  One Grand Rapids  firm,  whose 
claim amounted to $60, spent  25  cents  for 
the affidavit of a notary and a  like  amount 
for filing the claim with the  county  clerk, 
and  received  a  dividend of 80 cents in re­
turn.  Evidently a case of “something  rot-! 
ten in  Denmark.”

Nashville Takes Charter No. 70.

Nashville, April  3, 1888.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dea r Sir —Enclosed  I  hand  you $3 charter 
fee and annual per capita dues on twenty-one 
members, total  $8.25.  Please  forward me the 
necessary blanks to be filed  with  our  county 
clerk.
Our members seem to be interested and you
m a v  ft urn A nt  I n   h p f lr   orinH   P A u n lfa 
f m m   fL io
place.
At  the  meeting  held  March  26,  a vote  of 
thanks  was  tendered  you for favors  shown 
in the organization of the Association.

Respectfully,
W . S. P o w eb s, Sec’y.

“Resulted Beneficially and Satisfactorily/* 

Wa te b v l ib t, April 5,1888.

I . A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dea r  Sib —The  Watervliet  Business Men’s 
Association  elected  officers  last  night as fol- 
lows:

President—Geo. Parsons.
Vice-President—Dr. W. L. Garratt.
Secretary—J. M. Hall.
Treasurer—H.B. Bradt.
One new member, Eugene  Moodey,  was ad­
ded to the Association,  Enclosed find 25 cents 
per capita dues for same.
The Association is prospering finely, and we 
hope Colornu and Benton Hahbor will organize 
soon.  Our experience has resulted beneflcial- 
ly and satisfactorily.

J . M.Hall,S eo’y.

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BOLTS.

BRACES.

BUCKETS.

60&10
60&10

7C&10
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BUTTS. CAST.

AUGERS AND BITS.

promptly aud buy in full packages.
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BALANCES.
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40
BARROWS.
Railroad..... ...................................... 
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Garden................................  
net 33 00
BELLS.
H and.............................. ........... dis  $ 60&10&10
Cow................................................dis 
70
Call......................  
 
30&15
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G ong........... ...............  
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25
Door, Sargent................................dis 
60&10
Stove................................................... dis
Carriage  new list...................... 
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Plow  ............................. 
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Sleigh Shoe..........................................dis
Wrought Barrel Bolts........................dis
Cast Barrel Bolts............................... dis
Cast Barrel, brass knobs................... dis
Cast Square Spring...... .....................dis
Cast Chain.....................  
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Wrought Barrel, brass  knob.............dis
Wrought Square.............  
dis
Wrought Sunk Flush......................... dis
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
T Flush............................. 
dis
Ives  Door............................................dis
Barber
40 
dis$ 
Backus.
dis  50&10
50
Spofford.............................................dis 
net
Am. Ball............................................ dis 
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.........................dis 
60&10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip......... dis 
60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned......... dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvei
tipped.............................................dis  60& 5
Wrought Table..................................dis  60&10
Wrought Inside Blind......................dis  60&10
Wrought Brass..................................dis 
75
Blind, Clark’s.....................................dis  70&10
Blind, Parker’s...................................dis  70&10
Blind, Shepard’s............................... dis 
70
CAPS.
Ely’s 1-10._____
............................per m $65
Hick’s C. F ......
60
............................ 
G. D..................
...............  
35
Musket............
............................ 
60
CATRIDGES.
Rim Fire, TJ. M. C. & Winchester  new list... .50
Rim Fire, United  States...........................dis50
Central Fire......   ............ 
rHnas
CHISELS.
Socket Firmer....................................dis  70&10
Socket Framing................................ diB  70&10
Socket Comer....................................dis  70&10
Socket Sticks................................ . 
dis  70&10
Butchers’Tanged Firmer.................dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers..................dis 
20
Cold..................................................... net
COMBS.
Curry, Lawrence’s..............
....dis  40&10 
Hotchkiss  ...........................
— dis 
25
COCKS.
Brass, Racking’s.................
.........  
60
Bibb’s ..................................
60
.........  
B eer.....................................
.........   40&10
Fenns’....................... ...........
.........  
60
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size....................39ft  33
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
Morse’s Taper  Shank........................ dis 
40
Com. 4 piece, 6  in.......................... doznet  $.75
Corrugated....................................... dis20&101&0
Adjustable..........................................dis 
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00. 
dis
Ives’, 1, $18 00 ;  2, $24 00 ;  3, $30 00.  dis
American File Association List........dis
Disston’s ............................................ dis
New American................................... dis
Nicholson’s..........................................dis
Heller’s ...............................................dis
Heller’s Horse Rasps.........................dis
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

22 and 24,  25 and 26,  27
15

GALVANIZED IRON,
14 

files—New List.

EXPANSIVE BITS.

ELBOWS.

DRILLS

12 

 

 

Discount,  60.

13 
GAUGES.
HAMMERS.

 

dis

HINGES.

HANGERS.

HOLLOW  WARE.

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.............dis
Maydole & Co.’s.................................. dis
Kip’s ................................................ 
Yerkes  & Plumb’s.............................dis  40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel.....................30 c list 50
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
Bam Door Kid derMfg. Co., Wood track  50&10
Champion,  anti-friction....................dis  60&10
40
Kidder, wood  track............................dis 
Gate, Clark’s, l, 2, 3............................ dis 
60
State......................................... per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  In.  4&  14
75^
and  longer........................................... 
70
Screw Hook and Eye,  ya  ..................net 
Screw Hook and Eye %.....................net 
8)4
Screw Hook and Eye  %.....................net 
7 y„
Screw Hook and Eye,  %...................net 
7)4
Strap and  T .....................................dis 
70
P ots.........................................................  60&10
K ettles....................................................   60&10
Spiders  ................................... 
60&10
Gray  enameled....................................... 
50
Stamped  Tin Ware....................new list  70&10
Japanned Tin  Ware............................... 
25
Granite Iron  Ware................................  
25
Grub  1..............................................$1100, dis 60
Grab  2.............................................  11 50, dis BO
Grub3..............................................   12 00, dis 60
Door, mineral, j ap. trimmings..........dis 
55
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings........... 
65
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings......  
55
Door, porcelain, trimmings................... 
55
Drawer and  Shutter, porcelain........dis 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s....................  40&18
dis 45
Hemacite............................... 
LOCKS—DOOR.
55
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list.. dis 
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s...................dis 
55
Branford’s ..........................................dis 
55
Norwalk’s  .............................. 
 
dis 55
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................. dis 70
Adze  Eye...................................$16 08 dis 
60
Hunt Eye...................................$15 00 dis 
00
Hunt’s...................................... $18 50 dis 20 & 10
Sperry & Co.’e, Post,  handled.................dis  50
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s................................ dis 48
Coffee,P.S.&W.Mfg.Co.’sMalleables ...  dis 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s..............dis 40
Coffee,  Enterprise................................... dis  25
Stebbin’s P a tte rn ............................. dis  60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine............................. dis  6O&J0
Enterprise,  self-measuring.............. dis 
25

KNOBS—NEW LIST.

MOLASSES GATES.

MAULS.
MILLS.

MATTOCKS.

LEVELS.

HOES.

 

 

NAILS—IRON.

.

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.

.

.

2 

Common, Brad and Fencing.

2)4 

H   "A'J 

oqjuBg.  * 

8d  6d  4d
1)4

i  lOd 
$1 85  1 60  1 75  2 00 

% kfltr *2 OR
keg $2 06
lOdto  60d.............. 
8d and 9 d adv.................................... ....... 
25
6dand7d  adv......... ......................... 
SO
4d and 5d  adv...... ...................................... 
75
3d advanee.
1 66
.
.
3d fine advance.... .......__ ............ 
2 25
Clinch nails, adv........................................  1 00
Finishing 
Size—inches  f  3 
Adv. ft keg 
Steel Nails—2 15.
•
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent.................. .dis60&10
Zinc, with brass bottom...................  
dis  60
Brass or  Copper......... ....................... ....dis  60
R eaper................... ...........p er gross,$12not
Olmstead’s ............ . 
.......  50&30
Ohio Tool Co.^s, fancy........................ dis 40® 10
Sciota Bench............... ........... .......... .dis  @60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy....  ... ....dis 46@16 
rHa - @60
Bench, flrstjfonallly 
Stanley Buie and Level Co.’s, wood 
dis20dd0
Fry, Acme......................... ................dis5G&K)
Common, polished.............. ................dls66&16
Dripping..................... ............... .....«¡Mb  6)4

PLANES.

'  PANS.

...  . 

CHAS. A. C0IE

MANUFACTURER  OF

Horse and Wagon Covers, 

Awnings and Tents,
. Flags and Banners,
Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,

Wide Ducks, etc.

Telephone  106.

73 CANAL ST., 

-  GRAND RAPIDS.

J-  E.  FELDNER  &  CO.,

CUSTOM  SHIRT  MAKERS,
Men’s  Furnishing  Goods.
Prompt Attention to Mail Orders.  Telephone 891.

AND DE ALKES IN

G R A N D   R A P ID S  

N O .  8  P E A R L   ST., 

PROPRIETOR OF THE

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

MANUFACTURER OF

Prescription  Cases,

My Prices are Lower than any of My Compet­

itors.  Send for Catalogues.

21 Scribner  Street, Grand  Rapids.

---- AND----

TELEPHONE 374.

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

Grand Rapids Seed Store,

P E R K I N S   Sc  H E S S
1, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

D E A L E R S I N  

*

N O S.  1 2 3   a n d   1 2 4   L O U IS  ST R E E T ,  G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H IG A N .

WB CARRY A  STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MTT.T.  OBE.

BIRD CAGES!

A  Full  Line of

' 

JEW ETT'S  BIRD  CAGES.
Foster, Stevens l Co.,

Send for Illustrated Catalogue,

10 and 12 Monroe St.,
33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 Louis St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

MICH.

THIS  PAINT  is composed of NATURAL  MINERAL and HYDRAULIC  CEMENT,  and  will  outwear  other  pigments.  It 
will cement up the cracks, fill up the pores of  the  wood and make  a hard and  serviceable covering.  FLOORS are necessarily wash­
ed frequently, this paint  will  harden  almost to  stone  under the influence  of  water by reason  of  the cement.  The success  of OUR 
FLOOR  PAINT is the result of a series of  practical  experiments  extending over several  years,  with the view of  filling  the demaBd 
for a Paint adapted to floors  and such places as are often scrubbed with soap.

Senour Manufacturing*  Oo.,

For Sale at F actory P rices by—H a z e ltin e  & P e r k in s  D r u g  Co., G rand R a p id s ;  J a m e s  E . D a v is & Co.,  D e tr o it: W e st & T ra a x ,  T o le d o  • 
’

S. L. B o y c e  & Co., P o r t  H u r o n ; F r e d  B ru n d a g e  & Co., M u s k e g o n ; H a r v e y  & H e y ste k , G rand B a p id s ; G. W .oB ru sk e, E a st Saginaw, 

Neal’s  C a r r ia g e   Paints

Re-paint your old buggy and make it look like new for LESS JHAN ONE DOLLAR.  Eight beau 
Prepared ready fo r use.  They  dry  hard  in  a  few hours, and have a  beautiful  and durable gloss, 
the ORIGINAL, all others a re   IMITATIONS.  More of our brand sold than all the o ther brands on

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ACME  WHITE  LEAD  &  COLOR  WORKS

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

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CUT THIS ADVERTISEMENT OUT AND TAKE IT TO YOUR DEALER,IT Witt SECURE YOU A FRiZC

D E T R O I T ,

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Tire MiéMgan Tradesman,

« I S   SECOND  TR IP  OUT.

Written for T h e Tradesman. 

,

N o f l ie  s o n u s,  April 5, 1888.

E d it o r  T r a d e s m a n —How maple  sugar 
is revenge.  Next  to  getting  even  with a 
man for swapping a  balky,  blind,  heavey 
i  old horse to ns for one whieh  merely  runs 
away occasionally, when we  think  we  are 
getting the bulge  on  the  other  man  and 
smile  confidentially  and  secretly into our 
celluloid cuff, is the  supreme  sweetness of 
returning mud for dirt. 
I  feel to-night as if 
1 could almost  forgive  tne  man  who pur­
loined my umbrella which I borrowed  from 
a friend.  Truly my heart overfloweth with 
■magnanimity  and the oil of  castor  towards 
my fellow-men,  and  I  feel that I could di­
vide my last quarter with a  hungry  tramp, 
were it counterfeit and I unable  to  pass it.
Last Saturday night—or  Sunday  a.  m., 
rather—on the Brakemen, Engineers & Tired 
Railway,  between  Striketown  and  this 
place,  we were stuck for four  long,  weary 
hours in a snow-drift.  The  coaches  were 
fairly well filled with suffering  passengers, 
who heartily welcomed anything in the nat­
ure  of  diversion.  As  the  sky  began  to 
brighten in the East  on  Sunday  morning, 
Ail Feol’s day, Easter  Sunday  or Henfruit 
morning  (these  different  appellations are 
given for the benefit of those  who are long­
ing for the spice of life—take  your choice), 
four of us formed a pedro  party.  As  soon 
as I  had taken the booby prize eight consec­
utive times, I became v«ry  weary  and,  re­
tiring to a double seat,  stretched  my limbs 
oat upon the opposite seat and dozed  away 
as peacefully  as  my  surroundings  would 
permit.  Our  conductor  was,  naturally,  a 
good-natured,  gentlemanly  fellow,  but his 
temper had evidently been  soured  and de­
veloped by the necessity of becoming an en- 
/gine-driver when  the  Sisterhood  man  be­
came weary, which is often the case on this 
-line.  Up to this  time,  the  aforesaid g. c. 
•had merely expressed his  annoyance at our 
-unseemly lack of haste by banging the door, 
swearing  and  abusing  the train-boy.  My 
recumbent  position  was hailed by him as a 
full-fledged opportunity for  blowing off his 
extra  steam  and  cleaning  out  his  mud- 
drums.  As he first passed  me,  he  gently 
shook me into consciousness and nearly out 
of my clothes.

“Here,  you somnolent dummy!” he  plac­
idly ejaculated.  “This is no  10-cent  lodg-1 
ing house on  the  Eur-a-pine  board  plan! 
Seep your  bovine-epidermis  enclothed ex­
tremities off from the Pullmanian upholstery 
or I’ll pull(a)man onto the floor!”

Whether the ghastly pun was premeditat­
ed murder in a crude  state  or  intended as 
Mumm’s extra dry humor I am not prepared 
to state, but the effect  was  that of a seven- 
story-and-basement  campaign falsehood—it 
aroused  attention.  Every  eye  in  the car 
was directed to our vicinity.

I  made no reply to this  tirade  of diction­
ary, but immediately  changed  my position. 
Before the  conductor  was  fairly out of the 
car, however,  habit—having once been a re­
porter—replaced my feet upon the  cushion.
Presently the conductor,  in  his  anxiety 
Tor new things to swear at, returned.  I had 
forgotten where my feet were.

'“My dear sir,” he  remarked,  with  a se­
ductive, I’m-going-to-paralyze-you smile, “a 
man once sat in the very seat in  which you 
are now sitting, with his feet on  the  oppo­
site cushion.  That man is now dead.  His 
malady was a very fatal one  called, by emi­
nent Latin  scholars,  ‘Conductorialibus dis- 
locationat van diebackboneibus,’  and  was 
aggravated by too much  jeribus  from  the 
strong arm of a party of  about  my  dimen­
sions.  An  ejaculation  to the Solomon is a 
¡great ¡plenty-!”

H e  looked  around  the  car  to see how 
■many of the passengers still  breathed, ban­
daged the wounded, set  the  broken  bones 
¿and again went out.

As his  form  vanished,  I  happened  to 
think that it  was  All  Fool’s  day.  Aha! 
Now should the occupants of  the  car howl 
-and burst their vests,  etc., with  mirth, and 
-now should the haughty,  unbridled spirit of 
the conductor be broken  and  thereby save 
my spine.  Stealthily  and  burglariously I 
removed  my  boots.  Carefully  and  with 
■malice aforethought I  placed them,  one up- 
-on the other, on the opposite  cushion.  As 
-an accessory  before  the  fact,  I  placed a 
«newspaper over them,  reaching  also  over 
my knees, while  my  bunion incubator and 
corn inoculator—as I affectionately term my 
feet —were snugly ensconced, couchant, un­
der the seat  With the innocent  snore of a 
’four-months old babe, I —in my mind—went 
’into that peaceful sleep  popularly supposed 
to be inimical to the just,  and  awaited the 
•enemy, conscious of the fact  that  I  could 
see him and go him a pair—of boots.

The occupants of the-car  held  their  re­
spective breaths in  all  cases  where  they 
:  were not too  strong—the  breaths.  Noise­
lessly the door opened and, like  an  aveng­
ing hero or a boy crawling under the canvas 
at acircus, the  conductor  advanced  to his 
fate.  The fate was all ready for him.  With 
a howl of savage glee,  resembling in shape 
a  buzz-saw, he grabbed  the  boots.  Exert- 
i Ing all his ticket-punching strength, he gave 
ajerk.  The  boots  came!  The  conductor 
went—over (he back of the next seatl  One 
boot described the arc of a circle  and  glede 
serenely through the glass of  rim rear door, 
while the other, taking an erratic, intoxicat­
ed course,  smashed the poor little bird on  a 
woman’s spring  bonnet,  jammed  a  bald- 
headed man’s ping hat ever his  eyes  and fi­
 plump upon the  proboscis 
nally c
■ «¿« man who was sleeping calmly, unaware
. ¡Mm
(aljyfe sjgj|

n

i

With the assistance .of a jack-screw  from 
the engine and an ax, we got the  conductor 
upon his feet  Somebody was mean enough 
to inform the party who held an impromptu 
boot reception on his nose that the  conduc­
tor  threw  the  missile,  and  it  was  only 
through the display of gigantic strategy that 
we kept him from  murdering the knight of 
the punch on the spot 

Just at this moment the  whistle sounded, 
and,  as the conductor limped out of the car, 
we started  a chorus entitled,  “Don’t  Fool 
With  the  Boots  When  the Man Ain’t In 
’Em,” while the back of the said  conductor 
bore the touching  inscription,  “Beware of 
Cranky Idiots on April the Oneth.”

Yours, happy in the  sweet  sense of jus­

tice, 

F. O. B.

il

“CLIMB- AXE”

TOBACCO.
THOMPSON  &  MACLAY,

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

Moss, Hosiery,  Underwear,  M in g   Goads,  Etc

19 South Ionia Street, 

- 
No  Goods Sold a t R etail. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

-  Telephone 679,

REEIDER, PA LM ER  &  CO,

Wholesale Boots and Shoes.

2 4   P e a r l   S t . ,   G r a n d   R a p i d s *   M i e l s . . , TELEPHONE 

STÄTE  ÄGENTS  FOR  LYCOJUIP  RUBBER  GO,,
W M . SEARS & G O .
Cracker Manufacturers,

NO. 998.

Agents  f o r

AMBOY  CHEESE-

3 7 ,3 9  & 41 K ent  Street.  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

“Now, John,  don’t  fail to 
get som e of the DINGMAN 
SOAP.  Sister Clara w rites 
that  it  is  the  best  in  the 
world  for  washing  clothes 
and  all  house  -  cleaning 
work.”
Hawkins & Perry
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

W holesale Agents,

FOR SALE  BY

w

DO YOU WANT  A

If so, send for Catalogue and Price-List to

HEYM AN  & CO.,  *¡£££S?
77

Is the Time to Order a Supply of the CELEBRATED

Ä rGtiG   Liquid Biding,

JOBBERS  IN

DRY  GOODS,

A N D  N O T I O N S ,

83  Monroe  St.«

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

G R A N D   R A P ID S,  M ICH .

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers 
American and Stark A  Bags

1A Specialty.

PUTNAM  &  BROOKS,

WHOLESALE

Jobbers  In

Oranges,  Lemons,  Bananas,

Dates,  Pip,  Citrons,  Prdnelh

PRICES QUOTED  AND  CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED

13»  1 5.  17 South Ionia Street, 
13,  15,  17  Railroad Place 

f i l l i  MTJ  D A UTTiQ 
UHlifllJ  ünlllJÛ.

Wholesale  Grocers.
., Lems

IMPORTERS  OF

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

‘Acm e” Herkimer Go.  Cheese, Lautz Bros. 

Soaps and Niagara Starch.

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

FISHING  THGKLEI

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.,

19and  SI  Pearl Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICH.

RETAIL  GROCERS
W ho wish to  serve their  Customers 
with GOOD COFFEE would do well 
to  avoid  Brands  th at  require  the 
support of Gift Schemes, Prize Prom­
ises or Lottery Inducements.

------ SELT.------

DILWORTH’S COFFEE,

Which Holds Trade  on  Account of 

Superior  Merit  Alone.

’* 

Uneqnaletl  Quality. 

Im proved  Roasting  Process. 

Patent  Preservative  Packages.

For  Sale  by  all  Jobbers  at  Grand  Rapids,  Detroit, 

Saginaw,  East Saginaw and Bay City.

DILWORTH  BROTHERS,  Proprietors,

PITTSBURGH,  Penn.

MANUFACTURERS !
INFORM  YOURSELVES

Contemplating a Change or Seeking a Location

Regarding the  prospects, opportunities  and  advantageous 

situation of

(MDSTOJtE,

As a site for a manufacturing town.

FREE  SITES

W ill be given you, whether you be of large or small capac­
ity.  As  you  are  doubtless  aware, GLADSTONE  is  the Lake 
Shipping  Port  for  the  Great “Soo” Railway  and  feeders,  and 
situated as it is on the Little  Bay Du  Noquette, the  finest  har­
bor  of  deep water  on  Lake  Michigan,  offers  unparalleled  in­
ducements for  all  kinds  of IRON  and  WOODWORKING in­
dustries.

For particulars, opportunities for business, plats and maps, 

call on or address

F.  W,  M cK IM EY,

Agent Sault  Ste.  Marie Land and Improvement Co.,

GLADSTONE,  MICH.

Grand,  Square  and  Upright  Pianos,

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

Tie  Weler Stands Unrivaled.

Sheet  music  and  musical  merchandise.

Everything in the musical line.

Bjfcp iB P  

W eber Pianos, 

Fischer Pianos,

Smith Pianos, 

Estey Organs, 

A. B. Chase Organs,

Hillstrom  Organs,

JU L IU S A. J. FRIEDRICH,

(Successor  to  Friedrich  Bros.)  >

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

4 oz. Round 3 doz  in case,
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2 
Pints  “ 
4 oz. Ovals 3 
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MANUFACTURED  ONLY  BY  THE

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38 and  4 0  Louis  Street,

G R A N D   R A PID S.

3.00  per  gross
6 00  “ 
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MOSELEY  SB,OS

WHOLESALE

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Fruits, Seeds,  Oysters & Produce,

ALL  KINDS  OF  FIELD  SEEDS  A  SPECIALTY.

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

toes, will be pleased to hear from you.

26 88.30 & 32 Ottawa  stmt,  GRIM) Rim

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LEISURE  HOUR JOTTINGS.

B Y  A   COUNTRY  M ERCHANT.

Written for Th e   Tradesman.

Thompson, in his exhaustive and volumi­
nous eulogy of spring, neglected to mention 
one feature that is  an  exceedingly  promi- 
. <■  nent  one  of  the  season,  viz,,  the warm 
p  weather exodus of the tramp  from  our so- 
called charitable, reformatory and penal in­
stitutions.

About the time  that  Jack  Frost  deter­
mines to begin his vacation,  when the hus­
bandman has commenced  the  tickling pro­
cess that is to make the earth  laugh with  a 
harvest, and while nature is  leisurely  don­
ning her garments of green, the annual  but 
■  aimless  migration  of  the  tramp  begins.
Long experience has enabled  him to secure 
•  comfortable quarters and generous  fare for 
the ice-producing season, but  even the lim­
ited  amount  of  labor  exacted  from  him 
makes him extremely careful not to commit 
an offense that will keep him confined after 
a night’s lodging in a  straw-stack  or  hay­
mow,  and it’s an exceptional  case when he 
doesn’t commence his  wanderings  as soon 
as the mercury  assumes  a  settled  warm 
weather altitude.

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Mixed with the conglomerate  elements of 
city life,  the tramp is not seen to advantage. 
The circumstances  and  surroundings serve 
to  render  him  humble,  obsequious  and 
cringing.  Even in the  country  villages he 
is dwarfed and depressed by the  shadow of 
official authority. 
If you want to  see  him 
a la “McGregor on  his native heath,” seek 
him in the highways and  by-ways  of  the 
country.  Here, with the farmer  usually at 
work in his back fields and with only wom­
en and children to  encounter,  he  becomes 
bold,  aggressive and  arrogant.  Here he is 
no longer the whimpering,  whining beggar. 
In actions,  he resembles far less the average 
mendicant than the soldier who is  duly au­
thorized and commissioned to traverse the en­
emy’s country and forage off its inhabitants. 
Among the  “ weaker  vessels”  he is rarely 
respectful and still more rarely thankful for 
favors bestowed.  Seated before a generous 
and appetizing cold lunch,  he will  probably 
accompany his  gastronomic  exploits  with 
remarks similar to this:

“ Wot’s them?  Oh, them’s  beans;  hard- 
or’n a flint an’ cooked-  with  scaly,  measly 
pork!  Nice vittles  fur  a  gentleman  with 
the dispepsy,  ain’t  they  now!  An’-  apple 
sass!  Them apples was too  wormy to sell, 
I s’pose!  Cold b’iled  beef,  hey?  Wonder 
you didn’t set on cold  b’iled  pertaters  an’ 
cold pancakes!  An’  not  a  napkin  to  be 
seen! 
I  don’t s’pose,  though,  you  know 
wot a napkin is!  If—”

About this time the  irate  housekeeper is 
probably  hysterically  ringing the big farm 
bell to  summon  masculine  assistance, .but 
when the  brawn  and muscle  of  the  family 
puts in  an  appearance the gorged wayfarer 
has added a mile or more to the total of  his
aimless journey.

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The genuine tramp has but  one  use  for 
money,  and t hat is its efficacy in  establish­
ing congenial relations between himself and 
the  gin  slinger. 
If,  after negotiating an 
hoar’s labor for a square meal, he should be 
requested to fulfill his part  of  the  contract 
first,  he will usually  indignantly  and abu­
sively cancel his engagement;  but when the 
-saloon man hints at payment in  advance he 
takes the suggestion kindly and as a master 
-of course.  And  the  saloonist is  the only 
party for whom he will work with  any  de­
gree  of  cheerfulness,  and  a . prospective 
glass of “ forty rod” will develop  more  la­
tent energy than a  prospective  respectable 
second-hand garment.  The  only  occasion 
upon which he ever  wishes  himself a voter 
-is when he runs across an  election jeopard­
izing  the liquor interest, and the nearest he 
ever approaches a discussion  of  any public 
matter is when he argues  the  absurdity of 
ihe Governor’s Thanksgiving  proclamation, 
in inviting people to meet on a  certain  day 
At their usual places of  worship,  when the 
law requires that his usual place of worship 
—the saloon—shall be rigidly elosed. 

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The tramp who is willing to work is such 
a rare specimen of his  species  that I think 
he should be fostered and encouraged,  but I 
regret to say that my  neighbor  Crossgrain 
os sadly deficient in his  appreciation  of the 
«curiosity.

One day  last  summer,  while  Crossgrain 
was shaving his lawn with an old-fashioned 
scythe, a very  seedy,  dirty  and  hungry- 
looking wayfarer came into the yard and re­
quested the privilege  of  finishing  the job. 
After satisfying himself that  the  applicant 
was qualified for the work the  old  man re­
signed the  implement  and  went  into  the 
house. 
In about an hour  the  phenomenon 
came in and  announced  the  completion of 
•Us undertaking.  Crossgrain  came out, ap­
proved of the work and observed:

“You’ve dqlled the scythe pretty bad,  an’ 
some folks ’ud want you to help  sharpen it 
a g ’in,  but I  ain’t small  ’bout  sich  matters! 
You’re  perfectly  welcome to the use of it! 
If you come  ’round  here  ag’in in three er 
foot weeks you can practice  gome  more in 
the mowin’ line!  Sich  exercise  is  mighty 
good fur a man of  your  habits, an’ I don’t 
begrudge the use of the scythe an’ snath!”

“ But, ain’t  yon going to give me  suthin’ 

ri» eat?” paid  the tramp.
,  “Well, not jist now, my  Mend,  notjist 
now!  Yon might leave your address, an’ ’( 
:I conclude to open & beggars’ bondin’ house 
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?T'I sent the disappointed traveler 
a  res­
taurant and paid for filling him up,  ail  ihe 
more cheerfully, perhaps, because of the re­
flection that such cases would not occur oft­
en enough to make any  serious  inroads on
my income. 

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The male tramp  seldom  enters  business 
houses en begging missions.  He may occa­
sionally importune the grocer for a lunch of 
crackers and cheese, but he rarely  asks for 
money.  But  the  female  tramp  always 
makes a thorough canvass of every shop and 
store.  She usually locates herself (perhaps 
with one or two companions)  in  some  de­
serted house in the country and methodical­
ly  “ works up”  every  village  and  hamlet 
Within the radius of a day’s  travel.  She is 
sharper and better  informed  than her male 
counterpart, and  the  latest  startling  and 
horrifying calamity  forms  the  subject for 
her tale of woe and  destitution.  A  short 
time ago, a small Michigan  town was badly 
demoralized by fire,  and  before  its  ashes 
had become cold I was  importuned  for as­
sistance by a female  who,  according to her 
statement, had made the  remarkable record 
of  “footing it” over a hundred  miles in less 
than two days.  She had  left  three  small 
children  (who had  presumably  become ex­
hausted by the speed  of  the  journey)  at a 
farmhouse a few miles off,  and a portion of 
the money she was collecting was to ransom 
them from captivity. 
(I have  always  no­
ticed  that  the  female  tramp—taking  her 
word for it—has fully as  many  children as 
her age will permit;  and,  in addition to this, 
she is usually encumbered with a blind,  im­
becile or paralytic husband.)

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On a principle similar to the one that it is 
better to let ninety-nine  guilty  men escape 
than to  make  an  innoceat  one  suffer,  a 
great many of us feel  that  we  had  rather 
feed a score of healths',  incurably  lazy im­
posters than to send one  needy,  deserving 
sufferer away from our doors hungry;  but I 
am beginning to think  that  there  is  more 
sentiment than reason in this.  If the appli­
cant is disabled and destitute  there are am­
ple provisions made for his relief in his own 
locality;  if he is capable of  work he can al­
ways procure it in any farming section, and 
it’s a debatable question  whether in assist­
ing wayfarers who  are  anxiously  looking 
for harvesting jobs in April and seeking for 
an opportunity to fill up our ice  houses  in 
August we are doing justice  to  the  appli­
cant,  to ourselves or to society.

1 am .inclined to believe that  those  coun­
ties which have remained  “ wet”  under the 
local option law will,  during  the  next few 
months,  be far more seriously  afflicted with 
the tramp nuisance  than  those  that  have 
voted the saloon man out of business.  The 
habits and circumstances of  the  American 
ncmad naturally prevent him  from  invest­
ing in the  “social club” scheme,  and he will 
readily and instinctively drift  to  localities 
where “John Barleycorn” still has  a  legal 
existence.

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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.

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Egg and G rate........................ $7.75 per ton

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OFFICE 5»  PEARL ST.,

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ADDRESS

GRAHAM  ROYS,  -  Grand Rapids, Mich.
Æ PLACE to secure a thorough 
and useful education is at the 
Grand Rapids (Mich.) Busi­
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lege Journal.  Address,  C. G. 8WEN3BERG.

TIME  TABLES.
Grand Rapids & Indiana.

All Trains daily except Sundny.

GOINS  NORTH. Arrives.
Traverse City & Mackinaw Ex........ 9:05 am
Traverse City Ex...............................
From Cincinnati................................7:30 p m
Ft. Wayne and Mackinaw Ex...........3:40 p m
Saginaw Express...................................11:25 a 

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Leaves. 
11:3d a m 
7:00 am
5:05 p m 
7:20 a m 
m.
1:10 p m

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10:30 p 

Saginaw express runs through solid.
7:00 a. m. tram has chair car to Traverse City.
11:30 a. m. train has chair car for Petoskey and Mack­
5:05 p.  m, train has  sleeping  cars  for  Petoskey and 

inaw City.
Mackinaw City.
Cincinnati  Express..................................... 
Fort Wayne Express...................... 10:30 a m 
Cincinnati Express........................   4:40 pm  
Traverse City and Mackinaw Ex. .11:00 p m 

7:13 am  train  has  parlor  chair  car  for  Cincinnati. 
5:00 p m train has Woodruff sleeper for Cincinnati. 
5:00 p.  m. train connects  with M. C. R. R. at Kalama­
zoo for Battle Creek,  Jackson,  Detroit  and Canadian 
points, arriving in Detroit at 10:45 p. m.

11:45 a m
5:00 pm

GOING  SOUTH.

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. 

Leave. 
Arrive.
6:45 a m.................................................................. 10:10 a m
1100 am ..................................................................   4:30 pm
4:40 pm ..................................................................   8:50 pm
Leaving time at  Bridge street depot 7 minutes later.

C. L. L o ckw ood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Michigan Central.

Grand Rapids Division.

DEPART.

ARRIVE.

Detroit Express...............................................................6:15 am
Day  Express..................................................................  1:10 pm
•AtlanticExpress...................................................10:10 p m
Mixed  ....................................................................   6:50 am
•Pacific  Express............................................................. 6:00 am
Mail...........................................................................3:00 p m
Grand Rapids Express......................................... 10:15 p m
Mixed.............................................................................   5:30 pm
•Daily.  All other daily except Sunday.  Sleeping cars 
run on Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from 
Detroit.  Parlor cars run  on  Day  Express  and  Grand 
Rapids Express to and  from  Detroit.  Direct  connec­
tions made at Detroit with all through trains East over 
M. C. R. R., (Canada Southern Div.)

O. W . R u g g le s. Gen’l Pass, and Ticket Agt., Chicago. 
Ch as. H. No r r is, Gen’l Agent.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

Kalamazoo Division.

Arrive.

Leave. 

Ex. & Mail. N. Y.Mail. 
N.Y. Mail.  N. Y. Ex
4:35pm  7:45am..GrandRapids.  9:45am   6:35pm
5:55pm  9:02 a m.. Allegan..........8:28am  5:18am
6:55pm  10:06 a m. .Kalamazoo ...  7:30 a m  4:20pm 
8:80 pm   11:35 a m..White Pigeon.  5:55 a m  2.40 pm
2:30 am   5:05 pm . .Toledo............11:00 pm   10:00 am
8:30am  9:40p m..Cleveland.......6:40pm  5:55am
2:50 pm   3:30 a m. .Buffalo...........11:55 am   11:40 pm
5:40 am   7:10 p m. .Chicago......... 11:30 pm   8:50 am
A local freight leaves Grand Rapids at 1:10 pm,  carry­
ing passengers as far as Kalamazoo.  Ail  trains  daily 
except Sunday

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

Arrives. 
•Night Express................................  9:30 pm  
tThronghMail................................. 10:30 am  
tEvening Express...........................   3:25 pm  
tDetroit  Express............................
tMixed, with  couch....................... 
GOING WEST.
tMorning Express..........................   1:05pm 
tThrough Mail................................ 5:00 p m 
•Grand Rapids Express................
•Night Express..................................5:25 am  
tMixed.............................................. 

Leaves.

10:55 pm
10:30 am
3:50 pm

11:00 a m
1:10 p m
5:10 pm

5:40 am

7:45 am
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  *Daily.
Passengers taking the 6:50 a m  Express  make close 
connections at Owosso for Lansing, and at Detroit for 
New York, arriving there at  10:10  a  m  the  following 
morning.  The Night Express has  a  Wagner  Sleeping 
car. 

J a s . Ca m p b e l l , City Passenger Agent.

Geo. B. Reeve. Traffic Manager, Chicago.

W IG W A M   S L I P P E R S .

Send Your Spring Orders to MATHEW.

Men’s  ................. .. —  j ...... ...................... 9 50
“  with soles....................................... .10 50
Boys and women’s _______________ _ 
8 25
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“  with soles................. . . 9 90

Youth’s and Misses......................................6 65
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with soles.................... 7 50
Children’s.................................................... 5 50
with soles...................................6 60

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Woonsocket and Wales-Goodyear Rubbers, Boston K niend Wool Boots.

TENNIS  SHOES  IN  FIRSTS  AND  SECONDS.

O*.  R. MAYHEW,  Grand  Rapids.

RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO,
BOOTS  AND  SHOES.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

W ith  1,000  “BOUQUET”  CIGARS  at

w m   w i l l   g i v e ;  f e e e

T WE N T Y   (20)  C H A I R S

LIKE  THE  ABOVE  OUT.

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The Chairs are first class in  every respect-—being made of Seasoned Wood, and Oiled in the most  approved maimer.  The 
Chairs can be folded, as shown in  cut, and carriecl without  any inconvenience.  It is suitable for the Parlor, Lawn or any place 
where  a good chair is needed.

The  BOUQUET  CIGARS are packed  fifty in a box, making one chair for  every box.  W e will  guarantee  the  BOUQUET 
CIGARS  to give satisfaction.  We have only a limited quantity of chairs, and would suggest that  you place  your orders a t an 
early date.

TERMS, 60 days, 2 per cent, off for cash in 10 days.

AGENTS FOR THE

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO

14;and-l& Pearl Street» 

-  Grand Rapids, Mich

4 6 ,4 7 ,4 9  a n d  51  M ichigan  A v en u e, 

C H IC A G O ,  TT .T a

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‘  Gripsack Brigade.  {

Geo. W. McKay has  moved  into hid new 

xesidsace on Packard street.

'Will Campbell has a good story ou “How 
to.borrow photos.”  It will pay the trade to 
Inquire.

Ghas.  Livingston, for the past four  years 
with E. G. Stadle.y & Co.,  has gone  on  the 
road for Samuel Lyon.

I t is said that  Dave  Smith  has a  loaded 
dub  for  the  funny man  who  sent  him a 
w hite dog.  Dave’s  hair  is  not  reel 
It is 
auburn,

h , W. Atkins, of Detroit, traveling repre- 
sentative  for  Heavenrich  Bros.  & Co., of 
.Detroit, was in town Monday on his way to 
Muskegon.

S. W. Bush and F. J. Everhart  are  now 
ea the road for  F.  J.  Dettenthaler.  The 
former works in Indiana  and  Ohio and the 
latter In Michigan. 

If an “Angell” came down from “ ’Evan” 
and  traveled  “Miles”  to  find a “Brad.,” 
would he look from one “Townsend” to an­
other,  or  would  he  “Seymofir”  than he 
“Leggett” to?

Geo. Townsend, a  St.  Joe.  wall  paper 
traveler, has a minstrel troupe  on the road. 
George is  manager  and  interlocutor.  All 
ifae troup are amateurs from St. Joe.  They 
are playing to good houses.

Walter M. Gibbs, general traveling repre­
sentative for Hatch  & Jenks, of Buffalo,  is 
pleasantly  situated  at  Central  Place,  on 
Fountain street.'  Mr. Gibbs has been work­
ing this territory about a year.

...

T h e T radesman has  received  the  fol­
lowing, with  the  request  to publish same 
under  this  head:  “Will  the  commercial 
traveler who gave Dr. Mather  his  cap  the 
night he  was  hurt on the  Chicago & West 
Michigan Railway please send his name and 
address to W. W.  Mather,  1556 N. Halsted 
street, comer Clark,  Chicago,  111.  He was 
so kind to me I  would like to find his name. ”
J.  Henry Dawley, who  by  the assistance 
of his diminutive black  mustache  and per­
suasive  looks  makes  a  successful “taffy 
peddler,” was bom in 1861, at a tender age. 
After divers startling  adventures,'  such as 
whooping-cough  and  measles,  geography 
and birch rod, he succeeded in  entering the 
employ of Putnam  &  Brooks in 1879.  He 
has been with the above  firm  in several ca­
pacities and, on Jan.  1,  1886, took a grip on 
the road for the first  time,  which  he  still 
ha«.  He covers the D. & M. as far  East as 
Ovid,  the D., L. & N. and the upper branch­
es of the C. & W. M.  He  is  married  andj 
his wife and he have  “one  or  the  finest” 
little girls in Kent county.

“Count Your Pickles.”

The suggestion  made  by  The  Trades­
m a n  a  couple  of  weeks  ago  that  grocers 
count the contents  of  a  pickle  barrel,  for 
the purpose  of  ascertaining  how  near the 
goods  come  up  to  the  guarantee  on  the 
head of the barrel,  is  meeting  with general 
favor.  Among  the  responses  recently  re­
ceived on this point are the following:

St. I gnace, April 2,  1888.

‘  M. A. St® we, Grand Rapids:
De a r Sir—Having taken your advicq. we 
have just completed  counting  a  barrel  of 
medium  pickles,  marked  1,200,  which we 
find on  actual  count  contained  just  1,160, 
including  some  very  small  one—Benton 
Harbor Pickle and Yinegar Co.’s goods.

Respectfully yours,

Conrad  Bros.

EIGHT  PER  CENT.  SHORT.

Grand H a v en, April 5,1888.

„A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
D ea r Sir—According to your  request in 
T h e  T radesm an  that  merchants  count 
their  pickles,  we  send  you  the  following 
facte for publication:
We  purchased  (with  an invoice of  other 
goods) from  A.  Wiefengo,  of  Muskegon, 
one-half barrel of pickles,  marked 600, and 
packed by the  Benton  Harbor  Yinegar  & 
Fickle  Co.,  of  Benton  Harbor.  .  We  find 
that it contains but 555  pickles  (by  careful 
count)  making a shortage of 45.
Respectfully yours,

J.  V a n d e r Zalm & Co.

Purely Personal.

Hou.  E.  N.  Bates,  the  Modine  cheese 

manufacturer, was in town Monday.

John  Snitzeler  has  returned from New 

York, whither he went to buy goods.

S. YanOstrand, the South  Haven  drug­
gist, is the happy possessor of  a  2:40  six- 
year-old horse, from which he expects great 
filings.

C. C.  Lee,  of Coldwater,  has quit the gro- 
eery trade, because he does not  have to sell 
oodfish and onions any more.  A rich friend 
died and left him a trunk full of money.

E. J.  Copley,  formerly  of  this  city, is 
’ building a saw, planing and  shingle mill at 
Louisville, Tenn., and  intends  adding ma­
chinery for making sash, doors, blinds, bar­
rels, kegs and perhaps |ubs and buckets.

J . I.  Zerkle,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
dreg business on South Division street,  but 
for the past two years  engaged  in farming 
In Morton county, Kansas,  has moved back 
to Grand Rapids and will engage in the real 
«state business.

A  Staunch  Vessel.

The passenger  and  freight  steamer, H. 
W* W illiam s,  now  nearing  completion at 
South Haven, will be one of the best vessels 
« n lh e lakes.  Constnicted  entirely of first- 
quality oak timber,  under the direct person- 
id supervision of Capt. Williams, thesteam- 
« r gives promise of being as safe as she will 
Mb  long-lived.  The  work  is  so far along 
f in t her engines will  probably  be tried this 
«peekand regular trips  begun about May X. 
Daring the fruit season,  the  W illiams will 
make a round trip to Chicago every day.

The Grocery  Market.

a | H  

.Sugar is  without  change.  Illuminating 
«•1  has  declined  X c.  Scaled  herring  is

mwm&m&wg'

W H O L E S A L E   P R IC E   C U R R E N T .

The  quotations  given below  are  such  as  are  Ordinarily  offered  cash  buyers, who pay 
'  ■;

promptly and buy in full packages: 

¡».v/ 

■  PROVISIONS.  ;

'  p o r k   i n   b I r k e l s, .
 

The Grand Rapids Packing ft Provision Co. 
quote  as follows:
-  . 
Mess... wv, .
i s oo
Short cut..................... 
15 25
Shortcut  Morgan............................... .....15 50
Extra clear pig, short c u t...............................16 50
Extra clear,heavy........................’.............ig 60
Cle^r quill, short c u t...................................... 10 50
Boston clear, short cut...................... 
  16 50
Clear back, short cu t.................. ........... .16 50
Standard clear, short  cut, best,..  ...........16 50
B ean,..., 
’ ,
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLAIN.
Hams,average 20  fts................................... 11
“ 
I6 fts ..................................... 11%
“ 
12 to 14 fts........................J134
“  picnic  ................................................6V4
“  best boneless..................................... 11
Shoulders.............................. .....................  8
Breakfast Bacon, boneless...........................11
Dried Beef, oxtra.........................................   834
ham  prices.......................... ...10

,,,.,,,,,, 

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“ 

DRY  SALT  MEATS.

 

 

 

“ 

“ 
“ 

LARD.

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

BEEF IN BARRELS.

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

Long Clears, heavy...... ......... 

8%
“  medium...................................  8«
“  lig h t........................................ 1034
7%
8
8«8)4

Tierces  . 
30 and 60 ft Tubs ................................ 
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case..........................
5 ft Pails, 12 in acase........ ..................
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case...........................
20 ft Pails, 4 pails in case.........   ........
Extra Mess, warranted 200 fts....................  7 00
Extra Mess, Chicago PacKing....................   7 50
“  Kansas City Packing............. 7 25
P late............................. ............... .............   7 75
Extra Plate................................................. 8 25
Boneless, rump butts..................................  9 50
“  Kan City pkd............8 50
“  34 bbl.  5 00
“ 
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
In 34 Bbl..............................................................3 00
In % Bbl..............................................................1 75
In Kits...................................... ....................   85

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

PIGS’ FEET.

TRIPE.

“ 
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“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

HIDES. FELTS AND FURS. 

Perkins & Hess pay as follows: 

HIDES.

WOOL.

Green__$  ft  4  © 434
Part cured...  5  © 534
Full cured__   534© 6%
Dry hides and 

k ip s...... .  6  ©  8

Calfskins, green
Deacon skins,

or cured 
$  piece......10  @20

5  © 6%

Fine washed $  ft 18©20|Coarse washed 
Medium  ............200231 Unwashed.......

.20022
.12016
No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4

FURS.

“ 

20 
20
60
50

Bears....................... ...15 00  7 00 4 00 '  "¿O
Beavers.................... ,...6 00  4 00 2 00
25
Badgers...................
....  75 
Cat, Wild..................
....  50 
5
“  House...............
5
Fox,  Red................. ....1  00 
30
10
“  Cross............... ....5 00  2 50 1 00
50
“  Grey...................  75 
10
20
Fishers............ ............7 00  4 00 2 09
1 00
Lynx......................... ...4 00  2 50 1 00
50
Mink, Large Dark.......  40 
10
05
Small Pale__ ...  25 
05
M artins.................... ...1 00 
30
10
SPRING  WINTER  FALL  KITS
Musrats....................  18
.  18
804
01
Otter.........................6 00
.6 00
2 00 1 00
Raccoon, Large.
.  75
10
20
Small..
.  30
05
10
Skunk...............
.  75
25
10
W olf....,.................. 3 00
.3 00
50
25
10 per cent, may be added to above prices.
Deer Skins, dry. Red Coats, per lb...........  30c
 
“ Blue  “ 
“ 
“ Short  Grey,  “  ..............  25c
“ 
 
**. 
“ Long 
MISCELLANEOUS.
5020

Sheep pelts, short shearing.................  
Sheep pelts, old wool estimated.........   ©23
Tallow...................................................3%© 4
Grease butter......................................  
5© 8
Ginseng, good.........................................   ©2 00

25
15
60
11
4 00
50
20
50
1 00

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WOODENWARE.

Curtiss & Dunton quote aB follows:

Standard  Tubs, No. 1..................... .. .6 OC08
Standard  Tubs, No. 2.......................... 5 0005
Standard Tubs, No. 3........................ .4 C( ©4
Standard Pails, two hoop..............................l
Standard Pails, three, hopp...........................1
Pails, ground wood 
.................................4
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes......................... 3
Butter  Pails, ash..........................................2
Butter Ladles...............................................
Butter Spades...............................................
Bolling Pins..................... ............................
Potato Mashers............................................
Clothes Pounders..........................................2
Clothespins..................................................
Mop  Sticks.....................................................1
Washboards, single............................. ..!!. .1
Washboards, double..................................... 2
Washboards, Northern  Queen.................... 2
Diamond  Market.........................................
Bushel, narrow band, No. 1......................... 1
Bushel, narrow band, No. 2......................... 1
Bushel, wide band........................................1
Clothes, splint,  No. 3....................................3
Clothes, splint,  No. 2....................................4
Clothes,splint,  No. 1..................................5
Clothes, willow  No. 3....................................6
Clothes, willow  No. 2..  ............................... 6
Clothes, willow  No. 1....................................7
Water  Tight,  (acme) bu............................... 3
.................... 2

BASKETS.

“ 

“ 

halfbu 

“ 
PRODUCE  MARKET.

1301334c.

Apples—$4 per bbl.
Beets—In good supply at 40c per bu.
Beans—Hand-picked  mediums  are  very 
scarce, readily commanding $2.50 per bu.
Butter—Jobbers pay 20022c for choice dairy 
and sell at 22025c.  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—$10$(.25  per  doz.,  according  to 
size.  Very scarce.
Carrots—30035c perbu.
Cheese—Jobbers are holding their  stocks at 
Cider—10c per gal.
Cooperage—Pork  barrels,  $1.25;  apple  bar­
rels, 25c.
Cranberries—Wisconsin Bell  and Cherry are 
in  good  demand  at $J.50 per crate or $10  per 
bbl.
Dried Apples—Jobbers hold  sun-dried  at 534 
©634c and evaporated at 834e.
Eggs—Considering the  season  of  the  year, 
the  price holds  up wonderfully.  Sales  were 
made Monday at 15c, but a few warm days will 
probably send the price down to 10 or lie.

Honey—In plentiful supply at 15016c.
Hay—Baled 

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

is  moderately  active  at  $15 
in 

Maple Sugar —New crop,  10c per lb.
Onions—Home grown, $1.40  per bu.
Pop Corn—234c $  ft.
Potatoes—Buyers are paying 75080c per bu. 
and holding at 85090c.
Turnips—20025c per bu.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

and 78c for Fulse and Clawson.
lots and 53c in carlots.
car lots.

Wheat—City  millers pay  78c  for  Lancaster 
Com—Jobbing  generally  at 57o  in  100  bu. 
Oats—White,  42c  in  small  lots  and  36c  in 
Rye—48050c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.30 ¥  ewt.
Flour—No change. Patent $5.40 $  bbl in sacks 
and  $5.60  in  wood.  Straight,  $4.40 $  bbl. in 
sacks and $4.60 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.50 $  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15 
ton.  Bran, $18 
ton.  Ships,  $18.60  <p  ton.  Middlings,  $19 
”
J
I ton.  Corn and Oats.
19  ton.

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Pure Sugar, 34 bbl......

TOBACCOS—FINE  CUT.
 

SWEET  GOODS.X  XXX
Ginger  Snaps......... 734 
834
Sugar Creams........,.734 
834
9
Frosted Creams...... 
*34
Graham Crackers.... 
Oatmeal-Crackers.,.. 
834
TOBACCOS—PLUG.
Spear Head...........___   ..44
Plank Road. ...................  
  42
Eclipse............ 
36
Holy Moses .........  
33
Blue Blazes......................... ..32
Eye  O pener...;.....................32
___   ...........42045
Star 
Clipper..............  
20
Climax... u .
.
............  .45
Corner Stone.........................39
Tip Top...................... 
41
Tenderloin.............................38
Sweet Russet......................?38
Dark Magnolia.................... 40
Hot  Shot............... 
40
Sweet  P ippin...,..................50
Five and Seven,......... 
60
H iaw ath a.........................70
Sweet  C u b a . . ...... 45
Petoskey Chief......................68
Sweet Russet.................  
45
Thistle................................... 42
Florida................................... 65
Rose Leaf..............................66
Red Domino..........................38
Swamp Angel.......... .............40
33
 
Stag...................  
Rob  Roy.............  
28
 
Peerless.......................  
28
Uncle Sam............... .............30
Jack Pine................  
36
Sensation...............................33
Yellow Jacket....................... 20
Sweet  Conqueror........... 20025
Japan ordinary,.............18020
Japan fair to good..........25030
Japan One........................35045
Japan dust......................12020
Young Hyson................. 20045
Gunpowder......................35050
Oolong.................33055060075
Congo...............................25030
30 gr.  50 gr.
11
11
12

White W ine.......  
9 
9 
Cider.....................  
Apple....................  10 
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bath Brick imported.........90
do American.................75
Burners,  No.  0...................65
do  No. 1....................75
do  No. 2.............'___95
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TOBACCOS—SMOKING.
 

VINEGAR.

TEAS.

do 

Chimneys,  No. 0....................38
“  1....................40
“  2....................52
Cocoa Shells, bulk................4
Condensed Milk,*Eagle__ 7 60
Cream Tartar.....................25
Candles. Star......................  934
Candles. Hotel....................1034
Camphor, oz., 2 ft boxes.. .35
Extract Coffee, V.  C..........80
F elix....... 1 15
Fire Crackers, per box__ 1 20
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.. .25 
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps... 35
Gum, Spruce......................30
Jelly, in 30 ft pails..  .  5  0  5%
Powder,  Keg.....................5 60
Powder, %  Keg......................2 87
Sage....................................15
CANDY, FRUITS and NUTS. 
Putnam  &  Brooxs quote as 
follows:

 

STICK.
do 
do 
MIXED.

FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

Standard, 25 ft boxes......... 834
Twist, 
........... 9
Cut Loaf 
..........10
Royal,^5 ft pails......   8340 9
Royal, 200 ft bbls................  834
Extra, 25 ft pails................10
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
HM Chocolate  Drops..........18
Gum  Drops  ......................... 10
Licorice Drops......................18
A B Licorice  Drops.............12
Lozenges, plain.....................14
Lozenges,  printed................15
Im perials.............  
14
Mottoes.................................15
Cream  Bar............................13
Molasses Bar......................... 13
Caramels............................... 18
Hand Made Creams...............18
Plain  Creams........................16
Decorated Creams................20
String Rock...........................13
Burnt Almonds...................  22
Wintergreen  Berries........... 14
Lozenges, plain in pails.. .12
Lozenges, plain in bbls__ 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..........12
Imperials, in  pails......... . .12
Imperials  in bbls...... .  ..  11
Bananas................... 1 2502 75
Oranges,  choice......   ©4 00
Oranges, Florida...... 
0
Oranges, Messina__  
01 50
Oranges, OO...............4 0004 25
Oranges, Imperials.. 
04 50
Oranges Valencia ca.7 5008 00
Lemons, choice.........3 2503 50
Lemons, fancy.......... 3 7504 00
Figs, layers, new...... 12  016
Figs, Bags, 50 ft........ 
Dates, frails do......  @434
Dates, % do  do........  © 534
Dates, Fard 10 ft box »  ft..  3 
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  ft..  634 
Dates,Persian50 ftbox ..50534
Almonds,  Tarragona 

017
Ivaca........  ©16
California  13014
Brazils......................  8340 9
Filberts, Sicily.........   ©11
Walnuts,  Grenoble.. 13  011
Sicily........ 
12
French__   ©11
8012 
Pecans, Texas, H. P. 
Cocoanuts, $  100......  
04 50
PEANUTS.
0  4 
Prime Red, raw  ^   ft 
0  434
Choice 
do 
do 
Fancy H.P. do 
do 
0   5
0  434
Choice White, Va.do 
Fancy H P,. Va  do  5  0  534
H. P.V a......... 1........  
0  5
OYSTERS AND  FISH.
follows:

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes  as 

FRUITS.

NUTS.

“ 
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0

OYSTERS.

 

 

Fairhaven Counts..............  35
Selects...............  
28
Anchors.......................  
  20
Standards  .........................  18
Favorites............................  15
Standards per gal..............1 00
Selects, per gal.................1 40
Counts, in bulk, per 100__ 1 20
“ 
  80
Clams, 
  70
“  per gal..............— 125
Black bass..................1234
Rock bass..............................4
Perch, skinned.....................
Duck-bill  pike.....................  8
T rout..................... 
....10
Whitefish..............................W

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FRESH FISH.

“  shell 

“ 

 
 

 

FRESH MEATS.

prices, as follows:

John Mohrhard quotes, selling 
Fresh beef...... ..........5   0  7
Hogs_____ A ¿it,............S%0 7
Pork loins.................  9  ©934
Bologna.'........... 
6
Frankfort sausage...  9  010 
Blood, liv, h’d saus’g  5  0  6
M utton...............  8340 9,
L n w .‘.,,^ > ,............  8340 9
Veal.. . . . . . . . . . .   634© 7  :
Fowls../:...................13 014
Turkeys  .............. ...13  014
Iionl, kettie-render’d 

0  834

Dairy  Notes.

Lyman Reed,  of  Medina  county,  Ohio, 
has been engaged as maker at Warren Hav­
en Co.’s cheese factory,  at  Bloomingdale.

Fred Smith will  start a new  cheese  fac­
tory at  Breedsviile  about  May  1, having 
been  pledged  the  milk of about 300 cows. 
Geo. Shattuck, formerly with  Warren Hav-. 
en&Co.,'ajt  Bloomingdale,  has  been  en­
gaged as maker.

'

FISH.

•  “ 
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>  DRIED FRUITS—FOREIGN.
C i t r o n . . . . . . . ................33
Currants.  .  .  ..  ...... 6340 7
Lemon  P eel............. ...... 14
Orange Peel.......................14
Prunes, French,60s........ 
French,80s............
French. 90s......:.
Imperial............ ,634
Turkey, old......40434
Turkey,  new 434© 5
Raisins, Dehesia................3 60
Raisins, London Layers.. .  3 00 
Raisins, California  “ 
... .3 40 
Raisins. lAose Muscatels. .2 10 
Raisins, Loose California. .1 90 
Raisins, Ondaras, 388. 7340  8 
Raisins. Sultanas......  ...,.834
Raisins,  Valencias...... 6)407
Raisins, Imperials..............3  75
Cod,  whole...................43405
Cod, boneless..............6?»@734
1234
H alib u t............... . 
Herring, round, 34 bbl. 
3 00 
Herring, round, 34 bbl. 
1 50 
Herring, Holland, bbls.  10 00 
Herring, Holland, kegs  75080
Herring, Scaled........... 
024
Mack, sh’r, No. 1, 34 bbl__ 8 75
“ 
“  13 ft kit..l 25
“ 
“  10  “ 
“ 
“ 
..110
“ 
No. 2.34 bbls.........7 50
Trout,  34 b b ls..................5 50
“  10 1b  kits.................  85
White, No. 1,34 bbls...........7 00
White, No. 1,13 ft kits...... 1 20
White,  No. 1,10 ft kits...... 1 05
White, Family,  34 hbls...... 3 75
k its..........  70
Jennings’  Lemon.  Vanilla.
D.C.,2oz......doz  90 
135
4oz.................140  2  50
“ 
“  6oz.................3 35  3  75
“  No. 3 Panel... 1 00 
.175
“  No. 4  Taper..1 60  2  75
“  No. 8  panel...2 75  4  50
...4 50 
“ No. 10  “ 
7 50
“  34 p in t,r’nd..4 50 
“ 
“  1 
“ 
..9 00  15 00
Lemon.  Vanilla.
per gross.
9 60

“ 
FLAVORING EXTRACTS. 

Standard 
English2 o z......  7 30 
3 oz........  9 00 
4 oz........12 06 
6oz........18 00 

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FARINACEOUS GOODS.

“ 

“ 

Farina, 100 lb. kegs............  04
Hominy, $   bbl...................4 0t)
Macaroni, dom 12 lb.  box..  65 
imported... 10  ©11
Pearl Barley................  
0  334
01 40
Peas,  Green................. 
Peas, Split....................  © 334
Sago, German........... 
0  634
Tapioca, fl’k or p’rl.. 
0   6
Wheat,  cracked........  © 634
Vermicelli, import...10  ©1134 

6 50

12 00
15 00
24 00

“ 

domestic..
MATCHES.

OIL.

..17018
..22025
..24035
..33040
..44050
. .56052

G. H. No. 8,  square...........  95
G. H. No 9, square, 3 gro... 1 10
G. H. No. 200,  parlor.........1 60
G. H. No. 300, parlor.........2 15
G.H.No.  7, round............ 1 40
Oshkosh, No. 2...................  75
Oshkosh, No.  8...................1 50
Swedish.............................   75
Richardson’s No. 8  sq.......100
Richardson’s No. 9  sq.......1 50
Richardson’s No. 734» rnd. .1 00 
Richardson’s No. 7 
rnd.. 1  50
MOLASSES.
Black  Strap...............
Cuba Baking..............
Porto Rico..................
New  Orleans, good...
New Orleans, choice..
New  Orleans, fancy..
34 bbls. 3c extra
....10%
Michigan Test............
Water White..............
....11%
OATMEAL
....6 00
Barrels.......................
....3 25
Half barrels...............
....2 25
Cases...........................
OATS—ROLLED.
....8 00
Barrels.......................
....3 25
Half barrels...............
Cases......................... 2 2602 35
....6 00
Medium.......................
....3 50
“  •  34 bbl............
....7 00
Small,  bbl...................
...A  00
“ 
34 bb l.............
Choice Carolina.........
...... 634
Prime Carolina........... .......6
Good  Carolina...........
......534
Good Louisiana.........
-  -.534
Table........................... ,5% ©6
H ead............................ ....... 6%
Java...........................
......634
...... 5%
Patna..........................
Rangoon.....................
......5
Broken...  .................. ....... 334
Japan.......................... 5340634
SALERATUS.
DeLand’s pare...........
...... 534
......5
Church’s  ...................
...... 5
Taylor’s  G. M............
...... 5
Dwight’s ....................
Sea  Foam............ ....... ....... 5%
Cap Sheaf.................... ....... 5

PICKLES.

RICE.

%c less in 5 box lots.

SALT.

“ 

....2 15
60 Pocket, F F D........
...2 05
28 Pocket....................
....2 25
100 3 ft pockets...........
....  95
Saginaw or Manistee.
Ashton, bu. bags........
....  75
Ashton,4 bu.  bags...... ..... 2 75,
Higgins’bu.  bags......
....  75
American, 34 bu. bags. .....  20
Rock, bushels............
....  25
Warsaw, bu. bags......
....  40
....  20
.......
London Relish, 2 doz..
...2 50
Acme English, pts__ ....2 60
....4 00
Dingman, 100 bars......
Don’t Anti-Washboard__ 4 75
....3 75
Jaxon..........................
Queen  Anne..............
....4 06
German Family.........
....2 04
SPICES—WHOLE
....  834
Allspice......................
Cassia, China in mats.
....  834

34 
SAUCES.

SOAP.

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“ 

“  Batavia in bund....12
“  Saigon in rolls ....40
....25
Cloves,  Amboyna......
“  Zanzibar......... ......23
Mace Batavia............. ......80
......40
Nutmegs,  fancy........
No.  1.........
....65
....60
No. 2 .......
Pepper. Singapore,  Dlack.,1834
white.28
shot...............
....20
SPICES—GROUND—IN BULK.
....12
Allspice.......................
....15
Cassia, Batavia..........
and Saigon.25
“ 
“  Saigon............ ......42
....35
Cloves, Amboyna......
“  Zanzibar........
....30
Ginger, African.........
....1234
“  Cochin...........
....15
Jam aica.......
...18022
“ 
Mace Batavia............. .....8 5
Mustard,  English...
...... 20
and Trie.32
Trieste..............25
Nutmegs,  No.  2.................65
Pepper, Singapore  black..22 
white..32
Cayenne............. 25
doz... 84
Absolute Pepper, 
Cinnamon  “ ...84
“ ,..80
Allspice 
“ ...112
Cloves 
Ginger 
“ ...78
Mustard 
“ ...84
STARCH. 

Kingsford’s
Silver Gloss, l f t  pkgs..........7

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“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

SUGARS.

“  6 ft boxes........ 734
“ 
bulk..............634
Pure, lf t pkgs....................  534
Corn, 1 ft pkgs. — .  .......  7
Cut  L oaf.....:'___... 
0  834
0  734
Cubes..............y . . . . . . . .  
Powdered................. 
0  734
Granulated, Stand... 
0  734
O ff.......  ©7U6
Confectionery A.......  
0  6%
Standard A ........... 
0  634
No. 1, White Extra C. 
0  634
No. 2, Extra C.........-. 
.011
N o . 3 C .
.
...  0  6% 
N o.4C.......................  5340 5«
SYRUPS. 
Corn, barrels.......
Com, 34 bbls........
Corn, idgal, k’gs......... 
Pure Sugar, bbl.

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Acme, % lb cans, 3 doz....  75
“  U J   «* 
3  “ ....  150
1  “ ....  3 00
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“  B u lk ..............  20
Princess,  %s.................... 15$
u s ................ ..  3 00
18........  
3 75
b u lk ...............   gg
dime size.........  85
Arctic, 34 fi> cans, 6 doz....  45
4  “ .... 
75
3  “ .... 140
3  “ .... 3  40
1  “  ....12  00
Victorian. 1 lb (tall,) 3 doz. 3 00
Diamond,  “bulk.” ........... 
15
Bed Star 34 ft cans 13 doz..  45 
..  y   ..  «  6  “  ..  85 
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cans in case....................11 75
Absolute,  34  ft  cans,  50
cans in case....................10 00
Absolute, 1 ft cans* 50 cans
in case.  ...................... ..18 75
Telfer’s 34 ft, cans, 6 doz in
case................................ 3 70
Telfer’s ft ft cans, 3 doz in
case................................2 55
Telfer’s 1 ft cans,  1 doz in
case................................   1 50
Early Riser, 34s, 4 doz  case  45 
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“  8 oz.  “ 
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“ 
4oz.  oval...........  3  40
...........  6  50
“  8 oz.  “ 
“  Pints r ’nd...........10  80
BROOMS.
No. 3 Hurl...........................2 00
No. 1 Hurl................ 
2 35
No. 2 Carpet....................... 2 50
No. 1 Carpet........................2 75
Parlor Gera......................3 00
Common Whisk................. 1 00
Fancy  Whisk —   ............ 1,25
Mill....................................3V5
Warehouse.......................-3 00
Bunkle Bros’.. Vien. Sweet  23
Premium..  33
Horn-Cocoa  37
Breakfast..  48

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CHOCOLATE.
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Schepps, Is.........................27
Is and fts..............28
fts.........................>27ft
Is in tin pails— 37ft
fts 
....38ft
Maltby’s, Is.........................23ft
Is  and fts.......... 34
fts...................... 24ft
Manhattan, pails............... 20
•••••••••••••'• - •• 18
P66rl68S 
Bulk, pails or barréis. .16018
Mocha........................,..25028
Mandaling.....................25026
O G  Java......................25026
Java.............................. 23024
Maricabo...................... 21022
Costi Rica.................... 21022
Mexican........................21022
Santos...........................21022
Rio,  fancy....................21022
Rio,  prime....................19020
Rió, common................17018
To ascertain cost of roasted 
coffee, add ft c per ft. for roast­
ing and 15 per cent, for shrink­
age. COFFEES—PACKAGE.
30 lbs 60 fts 100 fts
Lion...............  
10%
Lion, in cab... 
20
Dilworth’s__  
19ft
Magnolia.......  
19
Acme............19 
19
G erm an........ 
19
German, bins. 
1934
Arbuckle’s Ariosa 
1934
Avorica 
1734 
19ft
McLaughlin’s XXXX 
Honey  Bee.. .21ft  21ft  21ft
Nox All......... 20ft 
20ft  20ft
Our Bunkum.l9ft  19ft  1,9ft
COFFEES—50 LB. BAGS.
Arbuckle’s Avorica.......... 17
“  Quaker Cy.........  18
“  Best Rio................19
“  Prime Maricabo...21 
60foot Ju te ...................... 110
72 foot J u te .................... .1 40
40 Foot Cotton...... . ..-..,....1 50
50 foot Cotton.................... 1 60
60 foot Cotton.....................1 75
72 foot Cotton..................... 2 00
Kenosha Butter.................;.7
Seymour Butter................. 5ft
Butter.................................. 5ft
Family  Butter.....................5ft
Fancy Butter................. ....5
Butter Biscuit.................... 6ft
Boston.................................7ft
City Soda........................... ,.8
Soda.................. 
..5ft
So'a Fancy..........................5
S.  Oyster..............;— ........5ft
Picnic......... .. — ..............5ft
Fancy  Oyster.........— ......6 ,
Clams, 1 lb, Little Neck__ 1 35
Clam Chowder, 3 lb............2 15
Cove Oysters, 1 ft stand.. .1 00 
Cove Oysters, 2 ft stand.. .1 70
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic...........1 75
Lobsters, 2 ft, picnic.......... 2 65
Lobsters, 1 ft star..............1 95
Lobsters. 2 ft star..............2 90
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce3 35
Mackerel, 1ft stand...........1 45
Mackerel, 2ft stand...........3 00
Mackerel,3 ft in Mustard. .3 35
Mackerel. 3 ft soused........3 25
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia........2 10
3 50
Salmon, 2 f t “ 
Salmon. 1 ft Sacramento. ..1 90 
Salmon, 2ft 
.. .2 75
Sardines, domestic 34s___   7
Sardines, domestic 34s• ..10011 
Sardines,  Mustard 34s...  9010 
Sardines,  imported  34s..13013
Sardines, spiced, 34s.......10012
Trout. 3 ft  brook...... ......
CANNED FRUITS.
Apples, gallons, stand......2 75
Blackberries, stand...........1 20
CherrieB, red standard......1 60
Cherries,  pitted.........1 8501 90
Damsons.................... 1  2501 3,i
Egg Plums, stand...... . 
.1 50
Gooseberries...................   ..1 65
Grapes...............................  95
Green Gages............. .........1 50
Peaches, all yellow, stand.2 65
Peaches,  seconds...... .......2 35
Peaches, pie..............1 
6001 65
Pears..................... .............1 SO
Pineapples,............... .1 
4003 75
Quinces.............................. 1 SO
Raspberries, extra.-.......... 1 50
red...............160
Strawberries..................... 1 60
Whortleberries...................1 20
Asparagus, Oyster Bay. ...2 00
Beans, Lima, stand ____...  85
Beans, Green Limas.. 
0140
Beans,  String............1 0001 20
Beans, Stringless, E rie....  90 
Beans, Lewis’Boston B ak.l 60
Corn, Archer’s Trophy__ 115
MomG’ry.115
Early Gold.l 16
Peas,  French..— .... . .. ..1 60 
Peas, extra marrofat.l 3001 40
Peas,  soaked..,......... 
80
“   June, stand__  
01 60
“  Sifted.............. 2 00
“ 
“  French, extra fine. .30 00 
Mushrooms,extra fine....30 00
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden........1 00
Sucootash,standard....8O01 30
Squash.,.............._____1 35
Tomatoes, Red Goat 
0   l 30 
Good Enough  1 30
BenHar .......1 3 0
stand br.l 150 1 30
CHEESE. 
:
Michigan full cream..  01334 
DRIED FRUITS.
Apples, evaporated. ..93401034] 
sundried.....  .,00034

CANNED VEGETABLES. 

CANNED FISH.

CRACKERS.

CORDAGE.

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NEW  YORK,

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occasionally visit New Y on, and all Bach are cordially 
invited to call, look through our establishment, ooraer 
West Broadway, Reade and Hudson streets, and make 
our acquaintance, whether  they wish to buy goods or 
not.  Ask for a member of the firm.]

8TÄNT0N, 8ÄM PS0NI GO.,
Men’s  Furnishing  Goods;

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Sole  Manufacturers  of  the  “Peninsular” 

Brand Pants, Shirts and Overalls.

State  agents  for  Celuloid  Collars  and  Cuffs. 

1 2 0  a n d  1 2 2   J e ffe r so n ,  A v e .,

DETROIT, 

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GEO.  F.  OWEN,  Grand  Rapids;

Western Michigan  Salesman.

HIRTH  &  KRAUSE,

LEATHER

SHOE  BRUSHES,

SHOE  BUTTONS,

SHOE  POLISH,

SHOE  LACES.
Heelers,  Cork Soles, Button  Hooks, Dress­
118 Canal Street,  Grand Rapifls.

ings,  etc.  Write  for Catalogue.

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Anything or everything in the 
line of Special Furniture, inside 
finish of  house,  office  or store, 
Wood  Mantels,  and  contract 
30c
work of any kind made to order 
10c
on short notice and in the best 
manner out of thoroughly dried 
lumber  of  any  kind.  Designs» 
furnished when desired.

ffllym e Clair Factory,
FOURTH NATIONAL BAM

W est End Pearl St. Bridge.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A. J.  Bowne, President.

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

CAPITAL,

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

Transacts a general banking business.

Make a Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 

of Country Merchants Solicited.

ASK  FOR

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BEST Df THE WORLD.

Offer N o.  176.

FREE—To Merchants Only:  One 
Williams’ “Perfection”  Electro-Mag­
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W.  Tansill  & Co.,  Chicago.

JUDD  cfe  OO., 

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

And Full Line Summer Goods.

102 CANAL  STREET.

Whips.

The  best  whips  in  the world, made in all  grades. 

Buggy, Carriages, Cab, Team, Farm and Express.

C Z 2 T S S X T G   R O O T .
We pay the highest price for it.  Address 
Wholesale Drag! 
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IF YOU WANT

Medium  Clover,

Mammoth Clover,

Timothy,
Alsike,

Alfalfa,

Hungarian,
Millet,

Red  Top,

Orchard Grass,
Blue Grass.

Field  Peas,

Spring Rye,

Spring  Barley.

SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF

RESOLUTE  mm,
AMnte Baling Poi der.,

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OR ANY KIND OF SEEDS SEND TO

W.  T.  UMOREflUX,

71  Canal  Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

FEED. D. YALE & CO!

JOBBERS OF

Teas,  Coffees ¡  Grocers’  S i t e ,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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

--- JOBBER IN----

MANUFACTURERS  OF

FOREIGN,

La Belle

A N D ­

AI!  Kinds  of  Extracts 

and  Flavorings.

JOBBERS  OF

Teas,  Toilet  Soap,  Glflars 

and  Groaers’  Siindries.

GENUINE K, of L  GIGAES.
The product of  Organized,  Working  C5- 
garmakers.  Established  Sept.  1,  1886, on 
the Co-operative plan by members of L.  A. 
6374, K.  of  L.  Smokers  and  Friends oi 
Labor, Attention! 
If  you  are  opposed to 
filthy, tenement-house factories, the servile 
labor of  coolies,- the  contracts  for  convict 
labor, give onr Cigars a trial.
If you are in favor of shorter hours of labor, 
the  Saturday half-holiday,  and  last,  but not 
least, the payment of higher and living wages 
in solid cash, give our Cigars a trial and accord 
them your most  liberal  patronage.  The yel­
low K. of L, label  on  every  box.  One hun­
dred thousand sold within three months in the 
elty of Detroit alone.  Warranted to be  strict­
ly five and ten cent goods.  For further partic­
ulars, terms, prices, references, ttc., address 
Wern«*5sville, F»erks Co.,  Pennsylvania.

W.  E. KRUM &  CO.,

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.

t f l   H.

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

166 South. W ater S t,, CHICAGO.
Reference

F el se n t h a l.  Gross  & Mil l e r , Bankers, 

Chicago.

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Galanas.  Olir  Specially.
GRAND  RAPIDS, 

16 and 18 No. Division St..

-  MICH.

INCREASE YOUR TRADE

BY SELLING

Composed  of  Guatemala,  African  and 
Mexican Javas,  Santos, Maracaibo  and Rio. 
selected with especial  reference  to their flue 
drinking qualities. The most popular brand 
of Blended Coffee in the  market.  Sold  only 
in 50 lb. Cans and 1  ib.  packages, 30, 60 and 100' 
lb. Cases.  Mall Orders Solicited by the  pro­
prietors.

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

BEE SPICE MILLS,

PROPRIETOR  OF

EDWIN FALLAS,
VALLEY CITY COLD STORAGE,
Blitter, E jp,  Lemons,  Oranges,

JOBBER OF

And Packer of

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

217, 219 Livingston St,,

C. C.  BUNTING.

C. L. DAVIS.

BUNTING  &  DAVIS,

Commission  Merchants.

Specialties:  Apples and Potatoes in Car Lots.

20 ana 22 OTTAWA  ST*  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MIOH.

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Rubia Tinctorum.... 
Saccharum Lactis pv 
Salacin..... —   ____4 50@5 00
Sanguis Draconis__  40®  50
Santonfrie................
@4 50 
Sapo, W...... .............
12®  14 
Sapo,  M....................
8®  10
Sapo, G......................
Seidlitz  Mixture......
Sinapis......................
Sinapis, opt..............
Snuff, Maccaboy, Do.
Voes.......................
Snuff,  Scotch,  Do.
Voes...... ................
Soda Boras, (po  11).. 10 
Soda et Potoss Tart..
Soda Carb.................
Soda,  Bi-Carb...........
Soda, Ash.................
Soda  Sulphas...........
Spts. Ether Co.........
Spts.  * vreia Dom...
Spts, Myrcia  Imp__
Spts. Vini  Rect.  bbl.
2.19)..................... .
Less 5c. gal. lots ten days. 

© 30
@ 35
2 35
11
33® 35
g@ 24
4® 5
3® 4
@ 2
50®  55 
®2 00 
®2 50
®2 29
Strychnia  Crystal...  @J  10
Sulphur, Subl 
........  24® 34
Sulphur, Roll...........  24® 3
Tamarinds................  8®  10
Terebenth  Venice  ..  28®  30 
Theobromae............   50®  55
Vanilla  ...................9
®16 00 
Zinci  Sulph..............
7®  8
Bbl  Gal

OILS.
Whale; winter......
Lard, extra...............
Lard, No.  1............
Linseed, pure raw  ..
Linseed, boiled........
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
"trained..................  50 
60
Spii.tsTurpentine...  43
p a in t s  Bbl 
Lb
Red V enetian...........14  
2@3
Ochre, yellow Mars..14  2@3
Ochre,yellow  B er...l4   2®3 
Putty,commercial...24 24@3 
Putty, strictly pure..24 24@3 
Vermilion prime Am-
eriean.................... 
13®16
Vermilion, English.. 
70®75
Green, Peninsular...  16®17
Lead, red strictly pur 
Lead, white,  strictly
p u r e ..................
@70
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting,  Gilders’__  
@90
1 10
White,  Paris Amer’n 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
cliff....................... 
1 49
Pioneer  Prepared
T aints....................1 20@1 40
Swiss Villa Prepared
P aints.................... 1 00@1 20
No. 1 Turp  Coach__ 1 10@1 20
Extra  Turp.............. 1 60@1 70
Coach Body..............2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furnv ... 1 00@110 
Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@1 60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1
...  70®  75

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DEALERS IN

Patent Medicines, 
Paints,  Oils, 
Varnishes.

WE ARE  SOLE PROPRIETORS OF

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We have in stock and offer a full line of

Whiskies, 

Brandies, 

Gins, 
W in e S j 

Rums,

We are Sole  Agents in Mich­
igan  for  W. D. &  Go.,  Hender­
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State Board of Phamwey. 

Sir Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
: ¿Two^yoaifc-^James .Vemor^Detrolt. ; 
:
Three Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
Pogr Years  Goo. MeDaaldi Kulanwroo.  : 
Five Tears—Stanley E-ParkeU, Owosso. 
President—Geo. McDonald 
Secretary—-Jacob Jesson.
Treasurer—Jas. Vemor.
Hext Meeting— At Detroit July 3 and 5.
|  Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. 
President—Arthur Bassett, Detroit, 
c first Vice-President—G. M. Harwood, Petoskey. 
Second Vice-President—H, B. Fairchild,  Grand Rapids. 
Third Vice-President—Henry Kephaxt, Berrien Springs. 
Secretary—S. E. Parkill, Owosso.
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive Committee—Geo.  Gundrum,  Frank  Incite, 
A. H. Lyman, John E. Peck, E. T. Webb.
Local Secretary—James Veimor, Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Detroit, September 4,6,6 and 7.

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OneA KIStB  OCTOBER  9,1884.

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
President—H. E. Locher. 
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Vice-President—J. W. Hayward.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry B.Fairchild. 
Board of Censors—President,  Vice-President  and Seo- 
retary.
Board of Trustees—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. Von Leuwen.
Committee  on  Pharmacy—W.  L.  White,  John  Muir, 
M. B. Kimm.
ft^gnia.r  Meetings—First  Thursday  evening  in  each 
month.
Annnal Meeting—First Thursday eveninglnNovember 
Next  Meeting—Thursday evening, February 2, at Thb 

Tradesm an office.

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society. 

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER, 1883.

President—Frank ingUs.
First Vice-President—F. W. E. Perry.
Second Vice-President—J. J.  Crowley.
Secretary and Treasurer—F. Rohnert.  - 
Assistant Secrets» and Treasurer—A. B. Lee.
Annual Meeting—First Wednesday in June.
R e g u la r M eetin g s —F irs t W ed n esd ay  in  e a c h   m o n th .
Central  Michigan  Druggists’ Association. 
President, J. W, Dunlop;  Secretary, R.  M. Mnssell. 
Berrien County Pharmaceutical Society. 
President, H. M. Dean;  Secretary, Henry Kephart.
Clinton County  Druggists’ Association. 
President, A. O. Hunt; Secretary, A. 8. Wallace._____
Charlevoix County Pharmaceutical Society 
President, H. W. Willard;  Secretary, Geo. W. Crouter.

Ionia County Pharmaceutical Society. 
President, W. R. Cutler;  Secretary, Geo. Gundrum.
Jackson County Pharmaceutical Ass’n.
-Prf^MA«*, Q, B. Colwell*, Secretary, C. E. Foote.______
Kalamazoo Pharmaceutical Association. 
Mason County  Pharmaceutical Society. 

President, D. O. Roberts;  Secretary, D. McDonald.
President. F. N. Latimer;  Secretary, Wm. Heysett. 
Mecosta  County  Pharmaceutical  Society. 
Pr^rtAn*, c. H. Wagener;  Secretary, A. H. Webber.
Monroe County Pharmaceutical Society. 
President, S. M. Backett;  Secretary, Julius Weiss.
Muskegon County  Druggists’  Association, 
President, E. C. Bond;  Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre.

Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. 
president, o. 8. Koon;  Secretary, Geo.  L. LeFevre. 
Newaygo County Pharmaceutical  Society. 
President. J. F. A. Raider; Secretary, A. G. Clark.

Oceana County Pharmaceutical Society. 

Président, F. W. Fincher;  Secretary, Frank Cady. 
Saginaw  County  Pharmaceutical  Society. 
President, Jay Smith;  Secretary,  D. E. PraU.

EXAMINATION  QUESTIONS

Propounded a i the Last Meeting of the Il­

linois State lizard of Pharmacy.

PH A R M A C Y .

1.  How would you  determine  the  cor­
rectness of a graduate?  What  processes in 
pharmacy require the application of  a great 
degree of heat?  Describe  three  of  them, 
giving  examples.  What  is  meant by the 
terms  exsiccation;  distillation?  Name 
some official preparation in  whiCh the ordi­
nary steel spatula  would be inadmissible in 
dispensing.
2.  What is a solution?  State  difference 
between simple and chemical solution.  How 
may solution of solids be facilitated?  Name 
five solvents used In pharmacy  in the order I 
of their importance.  Explain the  mode  of 
operation and uses of a syphon.
3.  What is the difference between a sed­
iment and a precipitate?  What is  the  dif­
ference between efflorescence and  deliques­
cence?  Explain the process of granulation. 
Explain clearly why  powders  intended for 
percolation are moistened. 
If there are ex­
ceptions to the rule,  state  them,  giving ex­
amples.  How  may  recovered  alcohol  be 
purified?
4.  What is the official name of  Griffith’s 
mixture, Basham’s  mixture,  basilicon oint­
ment, diachylon plaster, Plummer’s pills?
5.  What is  au emulsion?  Give  a  rule 
for making an emulsion of  cod-liver oil,  fif­
Is glycerine heavier or lighter 
ty per cent. 
than water?  State whether you would  dis­
pense  nitrous acid and glycerine;  and why? 
In   what  official  tincture  is glycerin men­
tioned?
6.  What are  the component parts of s»  
lution  citrate  of  magnesium,  compound 
tincture of gentian,  ointment  of  oxide of 
.zinc,  compound  cathartic  pills,  aromatic 
powder?
7.  How many  grains  in  a  gramme of
mercury? What  is  a  cubic centimeter?
How many
What 
grains in a cubic centimeter of  water  at 4° 
C.?  How many grains in a  standard  tea­
spoonful?
8.  What are the doses and antidotes of tar­
tar emetic,  chloral,  strychnine,  aeetate of 
lead,  phosphorus?
9.  How would you dispense  the follow­
ing;

is the  abbreviation? 

R. Potassa, Permanganas, 3 i.
5 i.
Sig-  Use externally.

- Glycerin, 

In what order  should  the  following be 
-dispensed,  and what  is the  mixture called:

Elixir orange, 
Tinct. chloride iron, 
Syrup, 
Water, 
Diluted acetic acid, 

It,  Sol. acetate of ammonium, 29.
10.
2.
18.
50.
0.
Dispense and state dose of quinine.
gr. xx.
3 ss.
3 1.
.add  5 iv.

Acid, sulph. aromat., 
Aq. ammoQ., 
Syrup, aurantii, 
M.  Dose, 3i te r in die.
R,  Hydrarg. chlorid, mite, gr. xx.

R,  Quinine sulph., 

Syrup, zingiberis, 
Acid, hydrochloric, 
'> Elixir simp., 
M.  Signa:  Shake  well  and  take  one
dessert spoonful every  four  hours.

1  i.
3  i.
1 i.

Would you dispense it?
Correct this prescription.
Syr. pruni virg., 
Aqua purae 

R.  Aeld. hydroc., 

3  i.
5 L
q. s. ad ? iv.

M.  Sig.  Teaspoonful every four hours.
1C.  Recognize tbë official  tinctures mark- 
•ed 1, 2, 3, the wines marked 4,5, the syrups 
marked 6, 7, and  liquores  marked 8, 9,10. 
They were as follows:  1, tincture  of acon­
ite.  2, compound tincture of  cinchona.  3, 
tincture of ipecac  and  opium.;  4, trine of 
-aloes.  5, wine of ergot.  6, syrup  of  lem- 
*on»  7,  syrup  of  senega.  8,  solution  of 
acetate of iron.  9,  compound  solution  of 
iodine. 
10, solution of  arsenite  of  potas­
sium . 
,$  1.  Cheno podium —Give  official / name. 
.Parte  used.  Description.  Constituents. 
Medicinal uses.  Dose!  Officiai preparations.
H   $enega-*-Wherfu found?  W hich  var 
xtety JslNMVMud why?Ji*eBH  official pre­
parations and doses.

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and describe the same.  What are the med­
ical properties of lobelia?  What is the dose?
4  Starch—From what is it prepared; and 
how?  What  aré  its  uses  In  pharmacy? 
Name official preparations. 
In  what  case 
of poisoning is it the best antidote?
5.  Myrrh—What  is  the  appearance  of 
myrrh?  To what does it yield Its  virtues? 
What are its effects on the  system?  Name 
the official preparations  and  doses.  What 
are tee active principles?
6.  Kino—What are the varieties of kino? 
To what does  it  yield  its  virtues?  What 
are its incompatibles?  What aré its medic­
inal properties and uses?  Wbat is tee dose?
Ipecac—Give the  botanic  name  and 
part used.  How  would  you  determine a 
good article?  What is the active principle? 
What are its medical properties?  Natne four 
official preparations.
8.  Saffron—Give common name  and de­
scribe this drag.  Name  adulterations  and 
substitutions.  What are its  medicinal uses? 
Name official preparation and dose.
9.  Define tee foUowing  terms:  Incitant; 
narcotic;  tonic;  antilithic;  errhine;  eschar- 
otic;  antizymotic.
10.  Recognize the official drugs marked  1 
to  10  inclusive.  They  were  as  follows: 
Senega  root;  pink  root;  Colombo;  golden 
seal root;  rape seed;  American  worm seed; 
calendula; gum catechu;  India  senna;  sar­
saparilla, Honduras.

CHEMISTRY.

1.  Define synthesis, and  give  example. 
Define analysis,  and give  example.  Upon 
what are tee principles of  analysis  based? 
What are reagents, and what part  do  they 
play in analysis?  State how many kinds of 
analysis there are, and  explain  the  differ­
ence.
2.  Describe tee following apparatus nec­
essary in  pharmaceutical testing and  state 
their uses: Graduated flask, burette, pipette, 
hydrometer,  specific gravity bottle.
3.  What  is  meant  by  the  following 
terms:  Isómorphous,  isomeric, cellular, di­
morphous, octohedron.
4.  Define oxygen  and  hydrogen  fully. 
Which is of greater  interest,  pharmaceuti­
cally;  and  why?  How  are  acids  distin­
guished from other bodies?  What  are  hy- 
dracids,  and from what derived?  Name an 
official inorganic acid,  and say how made.

VISITING  BUYERS.

land

Ashland

The following retail  dealers  have visited 
tee market during tee past week and placed 
orders with tee various houses:
G H Walbrink, Allendale 
A Fisher & Co, Lowell 
W H Pardee, Logan 
H E Hogan, So Boardman 
F Dodge, Big Rapids 
Wright  &  Friend,  Lake
John Damstra, Gitchell 
Jorgensen  &  Hemingsen, 
C K Hoyt, Hudsonville 
W W Peirce, Moline 
Geo Carrington, Trent 
C S Judson, Cannonsburg:
J  L Thomas, Cannonsburg 
John Kamps, Zutphen 
J P Cordes, Alpine 
Den Herder & Tanis, Vries- 
Morley Bros, Cedar Springs 
M J Howard, English ville 
M Geron, Jenisenville 
Mrs G MiUer, Muskegon 
L Cook, Baner 
N Bouma, Fisher 
W H Struik,  Forest  Grove 
S J Martin, Sullivan
LMaier, Fisher Station
Ò  F  &  W  P  Conklin,  Ra-'John Gnnstra, Lamont
venna 
JM Keeney,  Ferry 
K L Kinney, Ensley 
G M Reno, Huntley 
Fred Engler, Reed City 
R G Smith, Way land 
Baker & Baker, Rockford 
A C Barley, Crosby 
Cole & Chapel, Ada 
E E Rice, Croton 
J A Smith, Byron Center 
H VanNoord, Jamestown 
Gus Begman, Bauer 
C H Joldersma, Jamestown 
W W Forrester, Pierson 
L A Knowles, West Troy 
Wm Rosie, Bass River 
G S Putnam, Fruitport 
EU Runnels, Corning 
H Colby, Rockford 
J W Brant Co, Albion 
F G Selleck, Rockford 
Hessler & Hessler, Rockf’rd 
WN Hutchinson, Grant*
Bristol <fc Powers, Lacey 
G F Gretzinger, East Saug- 
Neal McMillan, Rockford 
G P Stark, Cascade 
D D Harris, Shelby ville 
T Heffierman, Baldwin 
G W Minnick, Muskegon 
Jadob  VanderVeen,  Grand 
Pipp  Bros  &  Martindale, 
R A Hastings, Sparta 
J W  Lovely, Howard  City 
Severance  &  Rich,  Middle- 
Walling Bros, Lamont 
H B Iiish, Lisbon

Kalkaska

Haven

atuck

ville

Are You Becoming More  Competent as a 

Druggist?

From the Druggist.

This is a question that each of  our  read­
ers should ask himself.  The  interrogation 
is to be taken in a  broad sense.  A  person 
cannot  dispense  drags  without  learning 
something about them,  and  hence  the an­
swer to the question in  a  restricted  sense 
would always be affirmative.
To put the subject  more  pointedly,  we 
ask:  Are you devoting a  portion  of  your 
If 
spare time to the study  of  pharmacy? 
not,  you are losing  an  opportunity  to ad­
vance your bSsiness interests. 
It is not ne­
cessary to bother your brain over some com­
plex chemical question,  or  some  theory of 
vegetable physiology.  These  studies  will 
do very well for those who have had such a 
training that they  can  comprehend  them. 
The average druggist, however, should take 
some more every day and practical  subject. 
As an example,  take up some medicine that 
is frequently dispensed;  say, the drug rhu­
barb.  Read  what  the  dispensatory  says 
about the substances, and compare the drugs 
in stock with the  description in the book of 
reference.  You will thus learn how a good 
specimen looks as well as the  usual proper­
ties of a poor  article.  Then,  when  your 
physicians come into the  store  to warm by 
the fire and learn the news,  you  can  inci­
dentally speak  about a good quality of rhu­
barb just received from your wholesale deal­
er.  A few words about the  drug  and  the 
manner in which you make  the  pharmaco- 
pceial preparations will not be amiss.  Such 
conversation may explain why it is that you 
charge more for the aromatic  syrup of  rhu­
barb  than  it  is  sold  for  in some “ Cheap 
Johh^ drug stores.

The Drug Market.

Quinine is  steady,  with  light  demand. 
Opium has further declined.  Morphia is low­
er. Mercury and preparations have declined. 
English  vermillion  has  declined. 
The 
Paris green  association  has  fixed prices as 
follows:

Arsenic kegs..............................1714  *■
112 pound kegs......... ..................174
14,28 and 56 pound pails. 
...... 19*4
1 pound packages...................... 1934
4   “ 
...................... 2134
......................2334
4   “ 

“ 
“ 

To bhyers of 500  pounds  during the sea­
son,  Kc rebate  will  be  given and on 1,000 
pounds le rebate*  Bills are payable July 1. 
The  cash  .«discount  is  at the rate of 7 per 
cent, per annum for unexpired time.
Failure  of  Another  Co-operative  Estab­

lishment.

From the Detroit Journal.

After tee Pingree & Smite  strike,  about 
two years and a half ago, there  was started 
by shoe operatives,  who  enlisted the aid of 
trade unions, Knights of  Labor  assemblies 
and workingmen generally, a  shoe  factory 
to be run on tee  co-operative  plan.  Stock 
was taken liberally at $5 per share, machin­
ery proeured and the  factory  started  rim- 
ning.  The project, while perfectly practic­
able, didn’t work, well from the start because 
of mismanagement.  There  ate  charges of 
errodedness  involving two persons,  and for 
over a year past no shoes have been  manu 
factored.  The  concern  has  how  gone to 
smash aud the machinery  and  all appurte­
nances are offered for sale.

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FOLIA.

FLORA.

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ACXDUH.

CORTEX.

ANILINE.

b a l sa m u m .

AMMONIA.

Aceticum................. 
8®  10
Benzoicum, German  80@1 00
BOracic............... 
30
Carbolicum__ ......  45@  50
Citricum .................       66® 65
Hydrochlor.............. 
3®  5
Nitrocum .....  ......  10®  12
OxaUcum . ............. 
11® 13
Phosphorioum  dil... 
20
Salicylicum...............1 76®2 05
Suiphuricum 
......  134@5
Tannicum......................1 40@1 60
Tartaricum ................  50® 53
Aqua, 16 deg...............  3®  5
18  deg...............  4®  6
Garbonas......... 
11®  13
Chloridum.................   12® 14
Black..............................2 00@2 25
Brown.......................      8S@1 06
Red.............................  45® 50
Yellow......................2 59®3 00
BACCAE.
Cubebae (po.  1 60— 1 75®1 85
Ju n ip eru s............ 
.  10®  12
Xanthoxylum.........   25®  30
Copaiba......................  65® 70
Peru..........................   @1 50
Terabin,  Canada......   50®  55
Tolutau....  ..............  45® 50
Abies, Canadian......  
18
 
Cassiae  .......... 
11
Cinchona Flava........ 
18
Eaonymus  atropurp 
30
20
Myrica  Cerifera, po. 
Prunus Virgini........ 
12
12
Quillaia,  grd............  
12
Sassfras...................  
Ulmus....................... 
12
Ulmus Po (Ground 12) 
10
EXT R ACTUM.
GlycyrrhizaGlabra..  24®  25
po___   .  33®  35
• 
Haematox, 15 B> dox..  11®  12
Is............  13®  14
4  s  ...........  14® 15
14s ...........  16® 17
FERRUM.
Carbonate Preclp—   @  15
Citrate and Quinia...  ©3  50
Citrate Soluble.........   ®  80
®  50 
Perrocyanidum Sol.. 
@  15
Solut  Chloride—
Sulphate, com’l...... .  1)4®
pure..........  @  ■;
Arnica.......................  12®  14
Anthemis.................  45®  50
Matricaria................   30®  35
Barosma...................  10®  12
Cassia  Acutifol, Tin-
nivelly....................  20®  25
« 
Alx.  35®  50
Salvia  officinalis,  ü s
and  4 s .................     10®  12
Ura  Ursi..................  8®  10
GUMMI.
Acacia, 1st picked...  ®1 00
2nd  “ ' 
©  90
Srd 
.A  @  80 
“ 
Sifted sorts.  ©  65 
p o ...........  75@1 00
Aloe, Barb,  (po. 60)..  50®  60 
@  12 
Cape, (jbo.20)...
®  50
Socotrr, (po. 60)
Catechu,  Is,  (4s,  14'
J4s, 16)....................  
,®  13
Ammoniae  ..............  25®  30
Assafoetida,  (po. 30).  @  15
Benzoinum..............  50®  55
Camphorae..............  30®  33
Euphorbium, po......   35®  10
Galbanum.................  @  80
Gamboge, po.............  80®  95
Guaiacum, (po. 48)...  ®  35
Kino,  (po. 25)............   @  20
Mastic.......................  @1 50
Myrrh, (po. 45)—  
@ 40
Opii, ipo. 4 90^......... .3 30@3 4C
Shellac......................  25®  Si
bleached......   25®  d0
Tragacanth..............  30®  75
herbA—In ounce packages.
Absinthium.............. 
*
Eupatorium ............. 
20
Lobelia  ........-..........
j»
Majorum  ................. 
«3
Mentha Piperita......  
25
V ir.............. 
30
R u e .......................... 
Tanaeetum,  Y.........  
¿a
Thymus. V................ 
25
MAGNESIA.
Calcined,  Pat...........  55®  60
Carbonate,  P at........  20®  22
Carbonate,  K. &M..  20®  25 
Carbonate,  Jennings  35®  36 
Absinthium.............. 5 00@5 50
Amygdalae, Dulc—   45®  75 
Amydalae, Amarae..7 25@7 10
Anisi.............. 
1  Í5@L  85
Auranti Cortex........  @2 50
Bergamii...................2 75@3 25
Cajiputi  ...................  9U@1 00
Cary ophy 111..............  „@2 00
Cedar.........................  35®  65
Chenopodii..............  @1  75
Cinnamonii..............  85®  9J
Citronella  ...............   ®  75
Conium  Mac............   35®  6o
Copaiba....................  98® 1 00
Cubebae............... 14 00@14  50
Exechthitos..............  90@1 00
Erigeron................... 1 20@1 30
Gaultheria................2 25@2 35
Geranium,?..............  @  75
Gossipii, Sem,gal....  55@  75
Hedeoma...................  75©  85
Juniperi....................  50@2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Limonis.....................1 75@2 25
Mentha Piper........... 2 25®3 31
Mentba Verid........... 3 00@3 25
Morrhuae,  gal.........   80®1 00
Myrcia,  ?...................  @  50
Ouve ................   
I 00®2 75
Picis Liquida,(gal. 35)  10®  12
Ricini........................1  18@1 26
Rosmarin!................  75@1  00
Rosae,  ?....................  
<*IÜL99
Succini  .................... 
40@£5
Sabina.......................  90@1 00
Santal...................    .3 50@7 00
Sassafras...................  60®  65
Sinapis, ess, ?...........  @  65
Tiglii.........................  @1  60
Thym e......................  40®  50
opt................  ©  60
Theobromas..............  15®  20
BiCarb......................  15®  18
Bichromate..............  Id®  15
Bromide..................    42®  45
Carb..........................   12®  15
Chlorate,(Po.20)...  .  18®  20
Cyanide.....................  56®  55
Iodide........................3 00®3 25
Potassa. Bitart, pure  37®  39 
Potassa,  Bitart, com  @  15 
Potass  Nitras, opt...  8®  10
Potass Nitras........... 
7®  9
Prussiate.................  25®  28
Sulphate po......... . 
15@  18
RADIX.
Aconitum.................  2C@  25
A lthae.............  
 
  25®  30
Anchusa...................  15®  20
Arum,  po......... .. 
@  25
Calamus...... . 
20®  50
Gentiana,  (po. 15)—   10®  12 
Glychrthiza,  (pv. 15).  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
  @  75
Hellebore,  Alba,  po.  15®  20
Inula, po...................  35®  20
Ipecac, po................. 2 25@2 35
Iris plox(po. 20@22)..  38®  20 
Jálapa, p r............  25®  30
Maranta,  48*.........  @  35
Podophyllum, po—   15®  18
Rhei  . . ......................
“  cut.r..................
“  pv -............
Spigelia  ...................
Sanguinaria, (po. 25). 
Serpentaria...  .. —   3 
Senega.,....
Smilax, Officinalis, H
?  m   .
Scillae,.(po.35):....... .1)
Symplocarpus,  Foe- 
Valeriana, Eng. (po. 30)
" 
'  O erm p .. 
'
Zingiber a ..__ ;.......
Zingiber j .................
SEMEN.
Anlsum, (po.2C>.. | .- :.->
Apium  (graveleons).

Cannabis  Sativa.....  64® 44
Cydonium__ _____75®1 00
Chenopodi u m .........   10®  12
Diptenx Odorate__ 1 75@1 85
-Poeniculum.............   ®  15
Foenugreek, po........ 
6®  8
  34®
Lini.._________ 
Lini, grd, (bbl, 3)..  ..  34®
Lobelia...... ......... 
  35©
Phalaris Canarian...  34@44
R apa...... ..................  5®  6
Sinapis,  A’.bu..........  
8®  9
Nigra.........   11®  13
6PIRITUS.
Frumenti, W., D. Co..2 00®2 50 
Frumenti, D. F. R .... 1 75@2 00
Frum enti.................1 10®1
Juniperis Co. O. T .. .1 75® 1  75
Juniperis Co............ 1 75@3 50
Saaenarum  N. E .... .1 75@2 09
Spt. Vini Galli..........1 75@6 50
Vini Oporto..............1 25@2 00
Vini  Alba............  1 25®3 00
SPONGES
Florida sheens’ wool
carriage................. 2 25®2 50
Nassau sheeps’wool
carriage........... . 
2 00
Velvet Extra sheeps’
wool carriage............  
Extra Yellow sheeps’
carriage.............. 
Grass  sheeps’  wool
carnage.................
Hard for slate use...
Yellow Reef, for slate
use.......................... 
SYRUPS.
Accacia.....................
Zingiber....................
Ipecac.......................
Ferri Iod......... .........
Auranti Cortes.........
Rhei Arom...............
Smilàx Officinalis__
Co..
Senega......................
Scillae.......................
“  Co...................
Tolutau......................
Prunus virg..............
TINCTURES. 
Aconitum Napellis R 
F
Aloes......... ..............
and myrrh......
A rnica......................
Asafcetida................
Atrope belladonna...
Benzoin.....................
“  Co................
Sanguinaria.............
Barosma...................
Cantbarides............
Capsicum..................
Cardamon.................
Co.............
Castor.......................
Catechu....................
Cinchona...................
Co...............
Columba....... 1 » * *  t
Conium
Cubeba__
Digitalis 
Ergot 
Gentian
co......
Gualca........... .
ammon 
Zingiber.
Hyoscyamus 
Iodme
Colorless......
Ferri Chi  ridum.....
Kino..........................
Lobelia
M yrrh......
Nux Vomica 
Opi Camphorated...
Deodor............
Auranti Cortex........
Quassia 
Rhatany 
Rhei
Cassia  Acutifol........
Co...
Serpentaria..............
Stromonium.............
Tolutan.
Valerian 
Veratrum Veride__  
50
ASther, Spts Nit, 3 F..  2S@  28 
/Ether, Spts Nit, 1F..  30®  32
Alumen......................24® 34
Alumen,  ground,  (p-
o.  7)........................   3®  4
Annatto  ...................  55®  60
Antimoni,  po........... 
4@  5
Antimoni et Potass T  55@  60
Antipyrin................ 1 35@l 40
Argenti Nitras,  ?__   ®  68
Arsenicum...............  
5@  7
Balm Gilead Bud__   38®  40
Bismuth 8.  N..........2 15@2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, (4s
11;  4s,  12)..............  @  9
Cantharides Russian, 
po...........................   @2 10
tx@
Capsici Fructu8, af.. 
Capsici Fructus, po.. 
Capsici Fructus, B po 
@30®
Caryophyllus, (po. 35)
Carmine, No. 40........ 
(©<
Ci ra Alba, S. & F __   50@
30 
Cera Flava...............   2fc®
40 
Coccus......................  @
15 
Cassia Fructus.........   @
C entraría.................  @
10 45 
Cetaceum.................  ®
65 
Chloioform 
Chloroform,  Squihbs
@1  00
Chloral Hyd Crst...... 1 60@1 75
Chondrus.................  10®  12
Cinchonidine, P. & W  . 15®  20 
Cinchonidine, Ger’an  8® 
Corks,  list,  dis.  per 
Creasotum...
Creta, (bbl. 75)
Creta  prep__
8®
Creta, precip.
Creta Rubra..............  ®
Crocus......................  22®
Cudbear....................   @
Cupri Sulph..............  6@
Dextrine...................  10®
Ether Suiph..............  68®
Emery, all numbers.  ®
Emery, po.................  ®
Ergota. (po.) 75 .........   70®
Flake  Wnite.............  12®
Gaila 
Gambier
Gelatin, Coopor........  @
Gelatin, French........  40®
.Glassware flint, 70&10  by box. 
15
Glue,  Brown............. 
9®
25
Glue, White..............  13@
26 
Glycerina.................  23®
15 
Grana  Paradisi........
40 
25®
H um ulus.................
80
Hydrarg Chior.Mite.
@  70 
Hydrarg Chlor.  Cor.
®  90 
Hydrarg Ox. Rubrum 
Hydrarg Ammoniati.
@1  10 
45®  55 
Hydrarg U nguentum 
75
Hydrargyrum
HP
Ienthyocblla, Am__1 25®1 50
Indigo........................   76@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl........ 4 00@4 10
Iodoform.................  @5 16
Lupuline  ...................  85@1 00
Lycopodium..................   55® 60
M acis............................   80® 85
Liquor  Arsen et Hy­
drarg Iod......................  @ 27
Liquor Potass Arsini
tis..................................  16® 12
Magnesia, Sulph, (bbl
1 4 ) - .  * -.........................  
 
2 ®  3
Mannia. S. F ...... . 
90@1 00
Morphia,  8, P. & W  2 70@2 »5 
Morphia.  S.  N.  Y. Q.
&C.  Co..................2 60®2 85
40
Moschus Canton 
70
Myristica, No. 1....., 
16
Nux  Vomica, (po. 20)
29
Os. Sepia......   .... 
.
Pepsin Saac,  H. & P.
@2 00
Wm
Picis Liq, N. C.. 4  gal
■  ■  <toz__ ...................... .
Piéis Dig.,  quarts__
Picis Liq.« pints__
Pii Hydrarg, (po. 80).
Piper Nigra,  (po. 22).
Piper Alba, (po. 35)..
Pix  Burgun..............
Plumb! Abet............  16®
Pulvis Ipecac et opii.l  10@1 
Pyrethrum, boxes, H 
-e  &P.D.Oo., doz....  . 
Pyrethrum,

tidus.po............  ®

«po. 75).............  

MISCELLANEOUS.

60&10. less.

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per doz.  $2.00 
3.50
Peckham ’s Croup Remedy is prepared  es­
pecially for children  and is a safe  and certaiu 
cure for  Croups, Whooping-Cough, Colds, and 
all  bronchial  and  pulmonary  complaints  of 
childhood.
Druggists make no mistake in keeping Peek- 
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.

FOR  ATTRACTIVE  ADVERTISING;  MATTER ADDRESS  THE 

PROPRIETOR.

DR. H.  C. PE0KHAM,

Freeport,

Mich.

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A3T“Peckham’s Croup  Remedy is  the  most  reliable 
and satisfactory  proprietary  medicine  I  handle.  My 
sales  are  constantly  increasing.’1—W.  H.  Goodyear, 
Druggist, Hastings, Mich.
» ■ “During the years 1878 and 1879, when we handled 
proprietary  medicines, we  sold more  than four  gross 
of Dr. Peckham’s Croup Remedy, on a positive guaran­
tee, and not one bottle has been  returned.”—Reigler 
& Roush, Merchants, Freeport, Mich.

Pioneer Prepared  Paints

Manufacturers of the Ce ebrated

ACM E  P R E P A R E D   P A IN T S ,

Which  for  Durability,  Elasticity,  Beauty 

and Economy are Absolutely Unsurpassed.

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WHOLESALE  AGENT,

Grand  Rapids, 

-  Mich.

Write  for Sample  Cards  and Prices.  W e 

have Supplied our Trade with this

P.  P.  P.

Brand  and  it  is  all  the  manufacturers 
claim for it.

W e sell it on a  GUARANTEE.

Haxeltine X Perkins Drtlg Go.,
GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

GENERAL AGENTS,

P i r n   Pbepabed Paints
H.  M.  GOEBEL
W all P aper

Is the largest jobber of

In the  State, not excluding  Detroit.  An 
Immense stock  now on  hand  in latest  pat­
terns,  and we  want to  sell.  Prices lowest. 
Also  wholesale  Paints  and  Varnishes. 
Brushes  and  artists  materials.  Orders 
filled  promptly.  Correspond  with  me.
ig Canal St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

ÏBADË  sU ePiiifeb  Btr  t h è

GRAND  RAPIDS,  a  MICH.

And the Wholesale  Druggists  of  Detroit 

and Chicago.
P A Tfl'NFTQ 
r  ft  I  f i l l   I  IjAttomey at Patent Law and Solicitor 
of  American  and  Foreign  patents. 
106 E. Main St, Kalamazoo, Mich., U. S. A.  Branch  of­
fice, London, Eng.  Practice in U. S. Courts.  Circulam 
free.

^CIUS C. WEST,

Milw a u k ee,  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 
tee  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 folly 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.: 
Ge n t l e m e n —1  have had the pleasure of 
examining and  testing  the qualities  of The 
“Best” Tonic, not  only in  my practice  Inti 
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 digestioil; 
administered upon retiring at night, has the 
effect to produce most tranquil sleep.

Respectfully,

J.  H arvey Bates, M. D.

Milw a u k ee,  Wis., Oct. 21,  1887. 

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

Dea 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 and reliable  effect,  I prescribe it 
in preference to that of any other make. 

Yours truly,

J , R. McDil l.

Milw au kee, 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 tee  Phillip  Best  Brewing  Go., 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.

Milw a u k ee,  Wis.,  Oct. 26, 1887. 

Ph. BeBt Brewing Co.. Milwaukee, Wis.:
Dea 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  nutritive 
preparation. 
It is really a  highly nutritive 
Tonic and  remedial  agent  in  building tip 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.  Ohle ja n n ,  M. D.

For Sale By

Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.
Mich,..;"'. ï
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W e Sell Liquors for  Medicinal Purposes 

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only.

W e  Give  Our  Personal  Attention  to 

Mail Orders and  Guarantee Satisfaction

All Orders  are Shipped and Invoiced the 

same day we receive them.

SEND IN A TRIAL ORDER.

Hazeltine 

& Perkins

D r u g   C o,

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

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44, 46 and 48 So. Division St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Pulley  and become convinced of their  superiority.

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Fanßu  Goods  of all Description.

HOTEL AND  STEAMBOAT GOODS,

Bronze  and  Lihrary  Lamps,  Chandeliers,  Braokeis,,  Etc,,

73 and 75  Jefferson  Ave,

DETROIT,  -  MICH.

Wholesale  Igenis  for  Dtlffield’s  Canadian  Lamps.

Vertical, Horizontal, Hoisting  and Marine Engines.  Steam Pumps, Blowers and Ex­

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Estimates Given on Complete Outfits. 

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

88,90 and 92 SOUTH  DIVISION ST.. 

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS.,
-  Mich. 

Grand  Rapids. 

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Alfred  Meakin’s  White  Granite.

ÄRTHUR MEI681 CO.,

O D D S   A N D   E N D S ;

Writ*«» fo r  Th e   T radesman.

“ What you doing,” asked the tall passen- 

fi*-

“Don’t bother me.”
The tall passenger arose,  walked  ever to 

Hie double seat  and began to laugh.

“Nothing  very  funny  that  I  «an see,” 

aald the fat man,  in an irritated tone.

“Is that the way you fix up your expense 

account?”

“ Well, look  at; this  blamed  book:  Re- 
some of day’s work, number  Of  merchants 
sailed  on,  number  sold,  number that did 
aot buy, remarks—that’s  one  page;  collec­
tions,  allowances  and 
for  what—that’s 
page two;  what  time  did  you  leave— -?  
what  time  did  you  arrivo  at——?  how 
many miles  apart?  how  milch  did it cost 
you?  livery,  bus  fare, hotel bills, sundries 
{always  itemize  sundries)—that’s  page 3. 
And at the end of  the week you  must sum 
the whole of  this  bosh  up.  Now, is there 
anything fnnny about this?  Anything fun­
ny about  a  house  chucking  one  of  these 
things at you and in so many  words  insin­
uating that you are  a  thief,  that  you can’t 
be trusted  with  their  money,  and,  on ac­
count of your  dishonesty,  you must  render 
up an itemized  account  of  just  where you 
spent every .cent and where  you drew every 
breath of air?”

“Oh, don’t  get  hot,”  soothingly  replied 
the bald-headed man;  “you are not the only 
one who has to  do  just  so.  Do like I do. 
Every Monday  morning,  before  I  start to 
work, I fill out  all  but  the collections and 
sundries.  Take  a  pointer—never,  fill  out 
your sundries until the end of thè week.” 

“ Well,” said the  man  with  specs on,  “I 
don’t have to do this at all.  When  the end 
of the week comes, I send  in  my cash and 
whatever  is  short  is expenses. 
I  believe 
that my  house  gets  the  best  of  it in the 
long run, for these  expense  books are only 
so many temptations  for  some men to play 
even.”

“ See here, you fellows  are all cranks. 

I 
eould’nt get along without an expense book, 
leali on from  fifty  to  seventy-five  people 
a week. 
I  collect  from  thirty to fifty bills 
pm week,  and  I  am  very  thankful that I 
can have a systematized  way of memoranda 
I don’t 
ing my  collections  and  expenses. 
tiy  to put  down  everything  I  do. 
I don’t 
try 
to  remember  every  eent  I  spend. 
Neither do I believe  that my house expects 
it.  But I dò believe  that  if  a  house pays 
you  for  your  time, 
they  have  a right to 
know what you do with it.  And  they eer- 
fcaiuly have a right  to  know  what  you do 
with  their  money. 
I  sometimes  think it 
would pay houses to put  into their expense 
boqks a pedro and penny ante column.”

*

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The tall  passenger  looked  at  the  bald- 
beaded  man  and  winked.  The  fat  man 
gasped  for  breath,  while  the  man  with 
specs on smiled  as  he  saw  sitting behind 
the quartette and  facing  the  last  speaker 
One of thè members  of  a  large  wholesale 
grocery house.
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The door flieropen,  and  a  young  fellow 
rushes up to the first  man  he  spies behind 
the chunter and  says,  “How do you do?  Is 
there anything I  can  sell  you in my line?” 
“la m   not  the  proprietor,”  replies  the 
dork; “he is  in  the back end of the store.” 
The young man, nowise abashed,  rapidly 
walks to the rear of the store  and, ignoring 
the fact that  two traveling  men  are await­
ing their turn,  while a third is showing  the 
buyer some samples,  asks  again if there is 
“ Anything in-my line you need?”

The proprietor of the establishment looks 
ap in surprise, sizes up the young man, gets 
his proper measure and says:

“ Let’s see, whom are you with?”
“I  represent Fish  Bros.,  of  Grand Rap­
ids,” a small and  obscure  firm  in the com­
mission line.

“ Grand Rapids! Grand  Rapids!” says the 
proprietor  in  a  meditative  tone;  “Grand 
Rapids—say,  where is Grand Rapids?”

The  young  man  takes  this  all in good 
-faith and, drawing a railroad guide from his 
pocket,  kindly explains where  Grand  Rap­
ids  is.  The  merchant  lives  about  fifty 
miles north of Grand  Rapids.

“ Have you any wholesale houses  there?” 

o the next question.

“Oh,  yes, two or three,  but  mine  is  the 

largest.”

“ Grand Rapids ! I have heard of the place, 
Is  there  a  firm  called 

come  to  think. 
Body, Gall & Co. there?”

“ No,  I  think not.”
‘“Sure?”
The young man  draws  out  of  his inner 
coat pocket  a  bran  new  pocket edition of 
Bradstreet, looks  up  Grand  Rapids,  finds 
Body, Call & Co. and  says,  “Yes,  but they 
s e  a small  concern and do a wholesale and 
xutail trade.  We sell  them  lots of goods.” 
“ Well, I have  learned  lots  to-day,  but 
there is nothing I need in your line.  Leave 
ano your card  and  if  I  should  need any- 
filing in a week or so I  will write in.”

The  young  fellow  fumbles  in  all  his 
yoekets for;» card  but  finds  none,  and so 
one of the traveling men  who  had enjoyed 
flBe**roast”  kindly  hands  him one of his, 
H ill be might  pht  his  name  on  it.  The 
fiMnnent  he  looks  ot  the  card, he starts, 
^É p tes «ip4Uid, without a word,  beats a hur- 
xfei retreat.  The  card  states in fino type, 
“ Body.  Call  A   Co.,  Wholesale  Grocers, 
:^Bhand Rapids.”  | g | | y   ' " ' u .

“ Well,”  said  the  merchant,  “it  was 

jftjjjpiytrnt it may do him some good.” 
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Wholesale  H at  H ouse

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

One Block from Union Depot on Oakes Street.

In  WESTERN  MICHIGAN,

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The public  are  so  well  acquainted  with this  incomparable  line  of  white  crockery 
that the name of  the  manufacturer  alone  is  enough to make  a  sale. 
If  your  crockery 
trade  is  light,  try  one  of  the  following  assorted  packages.  Write  to  us  for  quota­
tions.  Prices  guaranteed  and  the  goods  shipped  at  once.  Exclusive Western  Mich­
igan Agents for MEAKIN’S  WARE.

Full Stock Meakin’s Lustre Band Just  Received.

Assorted Crates Alfred Meakin’s White Ware.

No. 44 Assortment.

53 doz. Plates (10 5) (5 6) (30 7) (5 8) (5 7) Soup.
32  “  Fruit Saucers.
24 Sets Minton Handled Teas.
24  “  St. Denis Handled Teas.
18  “ 

Teas  Unhandled.

“ 

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No. 46 Assortment.
I doz. Plates 7 in. Breakfast.
I set  Handled Teas, St. Denis.
I  “  Unhandled Teas, St. Denis.
No. 48 Assortment. 
♦
3 Pairs Ewers and Basins 8s. 
t Covered Chambers 9 s. 
i Uncovered Chambers 9s. 
t  Pitchers  f6 6) (1212) (12 i’4) (15 30) (18 36) deep. 
I sets Handled Teas St. Denis.
!•  “ 
“  Daisy.
I  “  UnhandJed Teas. St. Denis, 
i Soaps covered.  3 vases.
I Mugs.  36 Assorted Bowls.
No. 15183 Assortment.
! doz. Plates (5 5) (2 6) (12 7) (2 8) (2 7) deep, 
i  “  Fruit Saucers.
! 
I Platters 2-8. 3-9,6-10, 6-11, 3-12, 2-14.
I Scollops 12-3, 6-5,12-6,12-7,12-8, 6-9. 
t Covered Dishes 2-7,2-8.
! Sauce Boats,  3 Pickles. 
i Casseroles 2-7,2-8.
I Covered Butters 5.
! Teapots.  4 Sugars.
: Pitchers 3-6, 6-12, 3-24, 6-36.
I Bowls Assorte d Sizes, 
i Mugs 36 s.
I Pairs Ewers and Basins.
I Chambers, 12 Uncovered, 6 Covered.
| sets Handled Teas % St. Denis % Minton.
“  Unhandled St. Denis Teas.
No. 141910 Special  Stock Assortment.
I doz. Plates 6-5,20-7, 4-8.
: Bakers 6-6,12-7, 6-8.
I Bowls Assorted Sizes.

Individual Buiters.

No. 161210 Special Stock Assortment.

18 Chambers, 12 Uncovered, 6 Covered.
36 Scollops 12-6,12-7,12-8.
6 doz. Fruit Saucers.
24 sets Handled Teas, 14 St. Denis, lA Daisy.
21  **  Unhandled Teas St. Denis.
24 Oyster Bowls 30s.
6 Pairs Ewers and Basins 9s.
3 doz. Individual Butters.
18 Dishes 6-9,6-10,6-11.
42 doz. Plates 9-5,13-6,30-7. 
i  6  “  Fruit Saucers.
36 Bowls Assorted Sizes.
15 sets Handled Teas Daisy.
! 45  “  Teas St. Denis 15 Handled, 30 Unhandld 
i 48 Scollops 6-5,12-6, 12-7,12-8, 6-9.
15 Pitchers 3-12, 6-30, 6-36.
I  6 Pairs Ewers and Basins 6s.
112 Chambers, 6 Covered, 6 Uncovered.
Alfred Meakin’s Luster Brand.

No. 15X33 Assorted Crate.

i 
) 27 doz. Plates 6-5,4-8,12-7,0-8, inch flat 2-7 deep. 
I  6  “  Fruit Saucers.
24  “  Oysier Bowls 30s.
$4 set Handle Teas. V% Minton, V% Daisy.
4H set Handle Coffees Daisy.
21 Dishes 2-8, 3-9, 6-10, 4-11,4-12, 2-14 inch.
! 12 Bakers 4-7,4-8. 4-9 inch.
24 Scollops 6-6,6-7,6-8,6-9 inch square.
2 Sauce Tureens Complete.
4 Covered Dishes 2-7,2-8 inch.
4 Casseroles. 1-7,2-8,1-9 inch.
6 Sauce Boats.
4 Pickels.
24 Jugs 3-6.6-12, 3-24, 6-30, 6-36s.
4 Covered Butters, 5 inch.
6 doz. Square Individual Butters.
3 Tea Pots 24s, 6 Sugars 24s.
6 Creamers 24s.
4 Ewers and Basins 9s.
4 Covered Chambers, 9s.
2 Covered Soaps.  2 Brush Vases.
6 Mugs 36s.
1 Slop Jar 2.
18 Bowls 3-24, 9-30, 6-36s.

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Wholesale  Grocers,

21 & 23  SOUTH  IONJA  ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

GEO.  E. HOWES.

S. A.  HOWES.

C. N. RAPP.

GEO. E.  HOWES  &  CO,

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