The  Michigan  Tradesman.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JULY 31,  1889.

NO. 306.

Wholesale  and  Retail

ANNUAL  ADDRESS

JOBBER  OI

413  So.  Division  St.,

CONTRACTORS  FOR

Dealers  in

92  Woodward  Ave.

103 Ottawa St.,  Grand Rapids.

B u sin ess  M en’s  A sso ciatio n .

A llen D c r f e e . 

A. D. Leavenw orth.

(Formerly Sliriver, Weatlierly & Co.) 

and  Co.'s 
HUR” 
the best.

It  could  scarcely  be  supposed 

O f  P re sid e n t  W ells,  o f  th e   M ichigan 

W eatherly  &  Pulte,

H E A D Q U A R T E R S

Galvanized Iron  Cornice,

DEALERS.

SOLD  BY  ALL 
Ask for  Geo. Moebs 
“ BEN 
if  you  want 

Plilmbing X Heating Work.

That contains any  in­
tobacco,  “ill- 
ferior 
flavoring” or other in­
jurious  ingredients.*
QUALITY

A l l e n   D u r f e e   &  C o.,
FUNERRL  DIRECTORS,

COUNTS.
Our  “BEN  HUR” 
CIGARS have  proved 
so  popular  over  all 
other 10c Cigars in the 
market 
that  the  de­
mand  is  overwhelm­
ing.

W m .R . Keeler,
Confectionery aiäßiprs,

eral  ways  and  bid fair to be much more j marked the application of steam, of  ma-
combinations increase in  magnitude and 
power. 
It  takes a million  of  dollars to 
chinery  and  of  scientific  knowledge to 
so in the future, unless influences now at 
properly build and equip a sugar refinery. 
the various industries of mankind.  Dur­
work to restrict production shall succeed. 
There are now more of them in existence 
ing all this period we have been consider­
The  cheapening  of  transportation  has 
than can properly be supported.  There is 
ing, consumption  more  than  kept  pace 
proved  a  powerful  incentive  in  stimu­
To  meet  changing  conditions,  to  sur­
still uncertainty about  the  continuation 
with increase in population. 
It failed to 
lating  production  of  agricultural  pro­
vive their  action  and to be  benefited by 
of  this  complex  and  unnatural  Trust. 
keep  pace  with  production.  How  to 
ducts.  Steam  has  rapidly  supplanted 
their  influence,  is  the  justification  for 
Under  these  circumstances it is not sur­
secure interest upon  capital  invested  in 
sailing  vessels  upon  the  ocean, for the 
the  continued  existence of  any creation 
prising that there  should  be  timidity in 
manufacturing enterprises  without over­
carrying  of  produce.  The  expense  for 
possessing  the  attribute  of 
life.  We 
the embarking  of  capital  in  a  venture 
stocking  the  market,  was  the  problem 
freight has thereby been greatly reduced. 
usually say of  such an  existence,  that  it 
which may be rendered  valueless  before 
presented to the producer of  every  mer­
It  costs  now  less  than  two  cents per 
has  proven  itself  to  have  a  mission. 
any returns can be looked for. 
It is un­
chantable article used  by man.  None of 
pound for transporting  fresh  meat from 
Modern science expresses the fact,  in the 
der  these  conditions  of  doubt  and  un­
the numerous means  adopted had solved 
New  York  to  Liverpool,  while  boxed 
statement  that  in the struggle for exist­
certainty that  this  great  union  of  pro­
this problem.  They had  only  served  to 
meats have been  transported  from  Chi­
ence  it  has  shown  itself  the  fittest  to 
duction proves  itself  fittest  to  survive. 
build into systems the various departures 
cago  to  London  for  one-half  cent  per 
survive.  However  we  may  regard  the 
As  its  fingers  deftly  take  from  every 
from former business methods which had 
pound. 
In  1860, twelve  cents  was  the 
theory which these  latter  terms suggest, 
sugar bowl in the land a tribute governed 
been tried.  The  problem  remained and 
lowest price charged for  the  transporta­
most of  us  recognize  the  fact of  the ex­
in quantity by no  law  but  that  of  exi­
its terms  became  every  day  more com­
tion of  grain  from  New  York to Liver- j 
istence of  the  struggle and  feel  keenly 
gency,  and with as little  remorse  as the » 
plex.
pool, while in 1886 the  average  cost was 
conscious of  our  own share in its uncer­
honey bee feels in extracting sweets from 
Among  the  first  to  feel  the  effect of 
five cents.  Great,  however,  as  has  been 
tainties.  From  the  minutest  organism 
the clover,  it proudly points to the  suc­
competition resulting  from  overproduc­
the cheapening of  ocean freights,  the re­
revealed to our senses, up through order, 
cess of a great industry.
tion were railroads.  The large increase 
duction  in  the  cost  of  railroad  trans­
genera  and  species,  to  humanity,  the 
The  Standard  Oil  Trust  is  another 
of these produced  intense  rivalry, espe­
portation  has  been  even  greater. 
It is 
contest is relentless  and  never  ceasing. 
example of  the unification of capital and 
cially among the trunk lines,  and  led  to 
tated  by  David A. Wells that,  “Taking 
Myriads  have  gone  down  and will con-] 
effort in gaining control of  an important 
unfair methods for securing custom.  Re­
the  American  railroads,  in  general,  as 
tinue to go down  during  the  strife, and 
article  of  human  want. 
Its  history, 
lief was sought by means  of agreements, 
representative of  the  railroad  system of 
only  the  few  are  spared.  Human  life 
which dates back less than twenty years, 
which were made at the end of long tariff 
the world,  the average charge for moving 
and human  action, though they show no 
has  been  disreputable  from  the  begin­
wars and  as  often  broken,  through the 
one ton of  freight  per  mile has been re­
exception to this  grand generalization of 
ning,  and its successes do not tend to in­
manipulations of shippers, who cunningly 
duced from about 2.5 cents in 1869 to 1.05 
nature’s  plan,  are  subject  to  modifica­
spire in the minds  of  youthful  business 
played off one line against another.  After 
in  1885;  or,  taking  the  results  on  the 
tions  which,  in some  directions,  seem to 
men a belief  in the  truth  of  the  adage 
innumerable failures,  that ingenious de­
New  York  Central, from  1.95 in 1869 to 
that  “Honesty is the best  policy.” 
Its 
limit the effect of  the  law.  These  arise 
vice known as  “the  pool”  was created. 
.68 in 1885.”
from those higher mental  characteristics 
managers have been men  of  intelligence 
The principle involved in the pool is  the 
The effect of this cheapening of freight 
which  distinguish  man  from  the brute, 
and shrewdness who have never permitted 
furnishing each road  becoming members 
upon  the  ocean  and  upon the land has 
those emotions and moral instincts which 
principle  or  sentiment  to  stand  in the 
of it with a certain ratio  of  business de­
been to place the grain producers  of  our 
way of  the accomplishment  of  their de­
lead him to aid those of his kind who fall 
cided upon  at  the  outset  and  which is 
Western States,  and  the cattle raisers of 
by the wayside in the  struggle.  But the 
signs. 
It early sought and  secured from 
varied from time  to  time  to conform to 
our Southern plains,  on  nearly an equal 
lower  instincts  are  never  absent,  and 
railroads large freight concessions in the 
changes in patronage  bestowed upon the 
footing with those engaged  in  the  same 
form  of  rebates,  not  only upon  all  oil 
only  their  activity is in a greater or less 
various  roads  by  certain  officers of the 
pursuits nearer  the  central  markets  of 
shipped by itself,  but  likewise upon all 
degree  modified  by that  higher  nature, 
pool  known  as  “eveners.”  Rates  are 
the world.  This condition has  not  only 
which is humanity’s  noblest  birthright.
shipped by its  competitors.  With  these 
then established and  competition ceases. 
stimulated producers  of  farm  products, 
The  propensity to  appropriate all that 
atrocious  and  shameful  privileges, 
its 
From the standpoint of the railroad, pool­
but it has also stimulated the building of 
he can  of  the  substances  and  agencies 
remarkable  growth  is  not  surprising. 
ing  may  be  regarded  as having accom­
railroads into regions where the ax of the 
Its rapidly increasing wealth  enabled  it 
which  are  necessary to  existence,  man­
plished everything expected of it.
pioneer had scarcely begun its work. 
In 
to obtain practical control of the oil fields 
kind  shares  with  the  lower  animals, 
our  own  State a still  further  incentive 
that 
and  shows  little  less  selfishness  than 
constantly being developed and to secure 
for building railroads beyond the bounds 
those  engaged  in  manufacturing indus­
patents,  machinery and  talent  to  make 
they in securing them. 
Influenced in the
of civilization has been our valuable for­
tries and desirous  to suppress the undue 
the  product  available.  The struggle to 
■Pnmrva  P it\pq  TT!t;r»  M aritp lsi opposite  direction, l>y the  continual  de-
ests of  pine,  for  which  the  world was 
competition,  resulting  from overproduc­
P um ps,  P ip es,  HjZC., 
ivian ieis i velopment oi  his  morai  nature,  he  has
secure and  maintain its monopoly devel­
clamoring.  The development,  from this 
tion in their  departments, could witness 
and  Grates. 
oped characteristics more akin in ferocity 
| sought,  by laws and  other  artificial  re­
cause,  of  the  northern  portion  of  our 
the success  of  the  railroads without an 
to  the  brute  than  to  humanity.  The 
strictions, to place barriers upon  human 
State  has  seemed  almost  miraculous. 
attempt to  imitate  their  plan.  Accord­
investigations  of  this  powerful  and re­
greed.  Unlike natural laws,  these work 
These are all evidences of the cumulative 
ingly,  after  numerous  efforts  to  secure 
lentless organization at  AVashington and 
imperfectly,  and  secure  to  those  whose 
effects, during  the  past  thirty years, of 
these  results,  by  means  of  syndicates, 
Albany exhibit a chapter of  rapacity un­
physical or mental  endowment  is small, 
man’s  knowledge  and  mastery  of  the 
combinations  of  various  kinds  and the 
equaled in the annals of  successful busi­
but limited immunity from  the  rapacity 
forces of nature and  reveal the causes of 
other  methods  we  have  considered,  all 
ness  enterprizes. 
It  was  there  shown 
of  their more favored brethren.  Rapidly 
the vast production,  during  that period, 
of which proved failures, there suddenly 
that fraud  and  violence  were  the chief 
changing  conditions  constantly  develop 
of the articles needed for sustenance and 
appeared,  fully  equipped  for  its work, 
elements that has secured  to  this  Trust 
new  methods of  oppression  and  wrong, 
comfort in the daily life of humanity.
that peculiar organization known  as  the 
its  present  position. 
Its  rivals  have 
and, to meet these,  it becomes  necessary 
modern Trust.  Eurekas  went  up  from 
Increased  supply  caused  by  cheaper 
been  removed from its path by means of 
to continually erect new barriers.  From 
the  lips  of  manufacturers  all  over the 
means  of  production  and  distribution 
bribery of  clerks  and  workmen,  the de­
the  earliest  records of  humanity,  down 
land.  The long-sought  solution  of  the 
always signifies lower  prices. 
It  means 
struction of  stills and machinery and by 
through all the ages to the  preseut time, 
problem had  been  found.  Since  their 
more and better food for the  poor  and  a 
a  system  of  espionage as despicable  as 
the history of  the race exhibits upon one 
advent, Trusts have grown  with a rapid­
larger share of  all  the comforts of exist­
any that has ever  disgraced  human  his­
side  selfishness, cruelty and  wrong, and 
ity truly  marvelous.  The  system  tran­
ence.  Hence,  to  the  philanthropist  of 
tory. 
It is  claimed  by those  whose  in­
! upon the other  attempts to alleviate suf­
scends all previous experience or concep­
the period,  nothing could have been more 
terest it is to  explain  and  excuse  these 
fering  and  diminish  burdens.  These 
tion in its subversion of the most ordinary 
cheering than the events we have related. 
acts that  through the instrumentality of 
two forces, which continually war against 
axioms of political economy. 
It aims to 
He contemplated the increase  and  confi­
this Trust oil has been kept at the lowest 
each other,  are as active to-day,  as in the 
entirely  destroy  competition 
through 
dently predicted that  we were approach­
price at  which skill  and capital can pro­
! past.  Gradually the  minds of  men have 
organization  and  the  power of  capital. 
ing a time when none  need  go  naked or 
duce it.  The low  price of  oil is not due 
become  more  and  more  dominated by a 
Its method is simple, but radical.  “In the 
hungry.  But, amid this profusion, there 
to this cause. 
It is due to the bounty of 
I spirit  which  leads  them  to endeavor to 
most approved' form of Trust, such of the 
arose disturbed conditions of  commerce, 
nature, which has stored up for man’s use 
remove some of  the  natural  inequalities 
concerns to be affiliated  as are uot incor­
trade and industry.  Business of all kinds 
vast basins of  crude petroleum,  the loca­
of  their  kind,  and  thereby  furnish  to 
porated are transformed  into joint stock 
suffered  a  peculiar  depression,  which 
tion of which is being constantly revealed 
those who are born into the  world  inad­
companies.  Then all the companies, new 
seemed to be confined to no locality within 
to him.  AVith the  material  on  hand  in 
equately equipped  for  thé  struggle  for 
and old,  transfer  their  property  to  the 
the bounds of the civilized world. 
If  its 
practically  unlimited  quantities,  very 
existence,  some compensation.
Trust,  an  unincorporated  board  which 
effects  were  more  visible  at  one  place 
ordinary business  sagacity would dictate 
I  This spirit has manifested itself  in the 
represents each of the  unified  concerns. 
than  at  another,  that  place  was  where
that the  greatest  profit lay in increasing 
| formation  of  governments, .the  enact­
The trustees then exchange Trust certifi­
itest through the
produe
consumption, by low prices to its highest 
ment of  laws securing to individuals the 
cates for the various  companies’  shares, 
labor-saving  ma-
instrumentiility
limit.  This the  Standard  has  been  en­
right  to  life  and  liberty of  conscience, 
usually on the basis of a trebled or quad­
l facilities for trans­
chinery and[ impi
abled to  do  and  still  receive  a  margin 
the promotion of  education,  the  sanctity 
rupled valuation.  Control is  then  exer­
portation.  1Begin]nifig in 1873, this depres-
which has been enormous  owing  to  the 
of  the home, the teaching of morals based 
cised by the board overall the operations 
l  the unsatisfactory
sion  of  bu
quantity sold.  Wherever and  whenever 
upon human experience and religious be­
of the industry thus organized: one refin­
returns froin all classes  of  investments
competition shows its head this margin is 
lief,  the building  up of  commercial  sys­
ery or mill is enlarged, another is closed; 
dustxies have extended,
in  product!
not only obliterated but oil is sold  much 
tems and business methods founded upon 
territory is  apportioned  to  each  active 
itions, almost to the
with occasi'onal  ’
below  the  cost  of  production  until the 
justice  and  honesty, and  all  the  other 
member of  the  combination;  output  is 
(üonditions  of  the  most
present  tinle. 
impertinent  intruder  is  driven  to  the 
complex relations and interests, of which 
regulated;  prices are fixed.”
significant importance had  been  rapidly 
wall.
our  present  social  condition is the ulti­
changing.  A  transition  had  suddenly 
Manifestly,  the  rewards  which  tempt 
This  monster  is  now  stretching  his 
mate expression. 
It is the  spirit  which 
taken place from the  shop to the factory 
good business  men  to  relinquish  direct 
tentacles to  enclose  other  products. 
It 
has lifted the race  from  barbarism to its 
and from hand  labor  to  the tireless toil 
control  of  large  enterprizes  in  which 
has  already seized  cotton  seed  oil,  tur­
present altitude in its  long  and  tedious 
of the steam engine.  The world was not 
they have invested time,  labor and capí- j 
pentine.  white  lead  and  linseed  oil. 
march  through  sorrow  and  wrong  and 
prepared to purchase the daily increasing 
tal.  must  be  alluring and certain.  The ¡ 
These,  unlike  petroleum,  are in  limited 
bloodshed.  As we  read  the  story of  its 
supplies which  this  development  of  the 
public  receive  no  official 
intelligence 
supply,  and the effect of  placing them in 
toilsome progress, we are impressed with 
forces of nature  for  man’s  use  enabled 
upon these or  any other facts  connected 
I a Trust  has  been,  like  that  of  refined 
the  rapidly  accelerating  speed  of  its 
the producer to  offer. 
Forced  to  meet 
with  the  workings  of  these  large  mo­
I sugar,  to  greatly  enhance  their  prices.
march  during  the  period of  the present 
these changed conditions,  a  struggle  for 
nopolies.  Being unincorporated, they owe 
I But  one  international  Trust  has  been 
generation. 
“Every  cause  produces  a 
existence among manufacturers, differing 
allegiance  to  no  law  regulating  their 
tested.  Although  this ended in disaster, 
multiplicity of  effects,”  is  au  aphorism 
ouly in  the  methods  from  those  which 
action.  We  know  them,  however,  by | 
j owing  to  the greed of  its promoters, we 
of 
science.  Constantly  multiplying 
characterize struggles in forest and  jun­
their fruits.  We  know  what  the  great 
I may confidently expect  that  the  glitter­
effects, which, in turn, have become effect 
gle, ensued.  The  voluntary  closing  of 
Sugar  Trust  has  accomplished  during 
ing prize offered  will prompt other efforts 
producing causes, have in the fullness of 
many large manufactories,  because  ceas­
the short period of  its existence. 
It has 
| and  that  these  will eventually prove as 
time brought us to a period where events 
ing from work  meant  less  of  loss  than 
taken this article  of  food,  which has be­
I successful  as  the  Trusts  in  our  own 
occur and conditions  change  with  start­
working,  and  the  enforced  closing  of 
come  a  necessity  alike  to  the  poor  as 
country which now claim  our  attention.
ling  rapidity.  These  compose  the  be­
others by reason of strikes from dissatis­
well as the rich,  and  dictated  the price 
wildering  variety of  business,  political, 
Since  writing  these lines, I have been 
fied laborers, became one of the noticeable 
for  which it shall be  sold.  This  price 
religious 
and 
favored  by  an  inspection  of  the  pros­
features  of  this  struggle.  One  after 
has been close  to  the  margin  at  which 
action, which surround  and  influence us 
pectus of  the  North  American Salt Co., 
another, in this way, succumbed to others 
refined  sugar  could  be  imported  after 
to-day.  They  constitute  our  environ­
which  is  international  in  its character. 
more fitted than  themselves  to  survive, 
paying the tariff  of  3}-.< cents per pound 
ment,  and  those of  us and of  the  insti­
This trust claims that  “it is not a Trust,” 
best I Those who were left continued  the  con- 
and cost of  transportation.  During  the 
tutions we form w hich  shall  prove 
but at the  same  time  calls  attention to 
present  year this kind  of  sugar has ad­
They placed in the field an immense
to  this  environment, will  best 
adapt
the fact that it has secured  130  different 
vanced 75 per cent.  Although the Trust 
commercial  travelers,  selected
flourish.  The  changes  wr
works, representing seven-eighths of  the 
is  not responsible for  all  this  advance, 
the  life-time of  most  of  my hearers  to-1 fr<)™ .am°ng the most competent and  en-
output of  this  necessity  of  human  life, 
_| ergetic men in the country.  Armed with
a European combination having its share 
day. consequent upon  the  increased con 
on  the  American  continent. 
It  coolly 
sample  cases, 
the 
in creating the burden,  yet the former is 
trol man  has  attained over the forces of 
observes  that,  under  “vigorous and ex­
smaller  towns  and  hamlets  and  fairly 
responsible for  just as much of  it as the 
nature, have vitally affected the methods 
perienced management,”  the  profits may 
swarmed in the cities.  In many instances, 
conditions  permit.  An  eminent author­
of  business and the interests of  business 
seem so unusually promising  as to excite 
their attack was made directly  upon  the 
ity,  William M. Wilson,  iu  a  series  of 
men.  Through  the  aid  of  labor-saving 
surprise  and,  perhaps,  criticism.  This 
retailer,  ignoring  their  old-time  allies, 
admirable  articles  on  “Trusts and  Mo­
machinery, the result of  one man’s work, 
profit, it avers,  will  be  at  the  outset 20 
the jobbers.  Here,  we may note in pass­
nopolies,”  now  being  published  in the 
in a given  time,  “measured  by quantity 
per cent. 
It  has  a  kind  word  for  the 
ing, began a struggle for existence on the 
Baltimore  Sun,  states that the profits of 
in ratio to a given  amount of  labor,”  far 
Sugar  Trust,  which,  it  states,  is  not  re­
part  of  the  latter,  who  sought to meet 
the sugar trust for the  year  ending with 
exceeds what it was  possible  for  him to 
sponsible  for  all  the advance in refined 
the changing conditions and survive their 
June of  the present  year,  after the pay­
accomplish  twenty or  thirty  years  ago. 
sugars, although it admits that  its  prop­
action by filching  from  the  retailer  the 
ment.  of  dividends,  was  $23,000,000. 
It is impossible to estimate, with any de­
erties  are  worth  four  times  what they 
portion denied him by the manufacturer.
This giant was capitalized at .$50.000.000, 
gree of  accuracy, how much of saving in 
were when the Trust  was  formed.  The 
commercial ¡ an  amount  probably more  than  double 
time and labor  has  thus  been  saved  in 
Standard  Oil  Trust,  it  finds,  has  been 
its original cost.  Hence,  the  profits  of 
travelers upon this grand  scale  was  not 
the  world’s  great  work  of  production 
doing  a  vast  amount of  good  under  its 
the past  year have been greater than the 
the only means  made  use  of by the sur­
and distributions
“economical and  progressive administra­
entire  value  of  all  the  refineries  that 
vivors 
existence. 
recently 
tion.”  The  magnitude  of 
this  latest 
compose  the  Trust. 
In  the  meantime, 
Through the instrumentality of the trav­
given  this  subject  much  attention,  but 
addition  to  the  list of  Trusts, its inter­
sugar refineries are  many of  them  idle, 
eler, prices were reduced to the minimum 
the data upon  which to  base an estimate 
national  character, the  article  of  prime 
while their  proprietors  wax  rich  upon 
of profit and  sometimes  even below that 
is  quite  meager.  Some  facts,  however, 
necessity it seeks to  control  and  its im­
the substance  they filch from the toiling 
point. 
Post  dating  of  bills became ex­
bearing  upon  the  subject, gleaned from 
pudent  claims  of  virtuous  and  benev­
millions of a nation. 
Is there no remedy 
tremely  common,  cash  discounts  were 
various  sources, may not  be  uninterest­
olent  intention,  give  it  a  character  in 
for this?  Must  we  go  on  paying  to  a 
allowed long  after  the  customary  time 
ing.  According  to  the  report  of  the 
some respects somewhat beyond  its  con­
great  corporation  an  annual  tax  upon 
for such discounts  had  passed and mer­
United States  Bureau of  Labor for 1886, 
geners for selfishness and greed.
3,000,000,000 pounds of  an article which 
chants were  induced  to  purchase much 
the  gain  in  the  power of  production in 
But it is  not  alone  in  productive  in­
enters into the daily life of every inhabi­
larger  stocks  than  business  prudence 
some  of  the  leading  industries  of  the 
dustries that  combinations  seek  to  mo­
tant?  Beside  reduction  or  abolition  of 
would sanction.  The situation permitted 
United  States  has  been  as  follows:  In 
Insurance,  the telegraph and
nopolize. 
the tariff, the two sources of  relief  most
little caution in the extension  of  credit. 
the  manufacture  of  agricultural  imple­
obvious are legal restriction  and  compe- j the telephone,  each  in  its  domain  has 
The merchant from  the village no longer 
ments  from  50  to  70  per, cent.,  in the 
tition.  The former has  been invoked in I destroyed, or is  endeavoring  to destroy, 
went to the  city  soliciting  credit  based 
manufacture of  shoes  80  per  cent., car­
many of  the  states  by  laws  aiming  to j competition.  The  two  last  have  been 
upon a full statement of his financial con­
riages  65  per  cent., machines  and  ma­
practically successful in  this.  The  pe­
cripple  or  destroy  these  organizations.
dition.  All that was necessary  for  him 
chinery 40  per  cent.,  silk  50  per  cent. 
culiar tactics  of  those interested  in  in­
Thus far  success  in  this  direction  has 
to  do  was  to  rent a store,  erect a sign, 
Mr. Edward Atkinson, who has made this 
surance have been discussed at  previous 
been small,  and it is  questionable  if,  in 
and,  no  matter  how  small  his  capital 
subject a special  study and  who  may be 
meetings  of  our  Association.  These 
the future, law can do  much  more  than 
might be or  how  unsavory his  business 
regarded as excellent authority, estimates 
have  led,  I may say in  passing,  to  the 
to  compel  them  to  make  their  actions 
antecedents,  he  was  at  once  urged  to 
one-third as the minimum that should be 
adoption  of  a plan  of  insurance by our 
and methods public.  Competition, which 
buy not  only all  he  needed,  but  much 
accepted  for  the  displacement of  labor 
Insurance Committe,  with which you are 
has heretofore been the potent  regulator 
more than he could either sell or pay for.
during  this  period.  Other  authorities, 
familiar,  and which,  it is expected,  will 
of  the evils which modern  combinations 
We have not lime to point  out  all  the 
however, make the average much higher. 
be considered and acted upon by  you  at 
have so vastly increased  and  intensified, 
effects which were  the  natural  outcome 
Whatever  the  ratio  may be, the  results 
this  meeting.  The  Committee  deserve
becomes less and less  efficacious as these
of the vast  increase  in  production  that
have  been  exceedingly important in sev-

If in want of Clover, Timothy, 
Hungarian,  Millett,  Orchard  or 
Blue  Grass,  Seed  Corn—Early 
Yellow or Dent,  Turnip or  Ruta 
Baga, or, in  fact,  Any  Kind  of 
Seed,  send to the
Seed Store,
W.T.LAMOREAUX.

Prices Lower than Eller

1 have a complete line  and will call on 
all trade  within  reasonable  distance  of 
Grand Rapids.

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EXPERT  ACCOUNTANT

AND

Adjuster  of  Fire  Losses.
Twenty Y ears Experience.  References furnished 
24 Fountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

if  desired.

STEAM

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The  Leading  Laiindry

IN  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Any one wishing agency in towus outside 

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KING  &  COOPER,

OFFICE  OF
Fancy G rocers.
S t .  J o s e p h , Micb., Feb. 23,1889. 

DANIEL  LYNCH,Grand Rapids:
DEAR SIR—Permit us to con­
gratulate you upon  the  trade  we 
are working upon your Imperial 
Baking Powder.  We  have  had 
it  tested  by  the  most  competent 
cooks  in  the  city  and  they  pro­
nounce  it  fully  equal  to  any 
powder on the market;

Yours very truly,

KING & COOPER.

JOBBER  OF

F.J.DETTENTHALER
Lake  Fist

F r e s h   a n d   S a l t

=AND=

Ocean Fish

Mail  orders  receive  prompt  attention. 

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GRAND  RAPIDS.

FOURTH NATIONAL BANK

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A. J.  BOWSE, President.

Geo. C. Pierce,  Vice President.

H.  W. Nash, Cashier
CAPITAL,  -  -  -  $300,000.

Transacts a general banking  business.

Make a Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 

of Country Merchants Solicited.

BUY

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weather.

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MADE  TO  ORDER.

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D e p a r t m e n t  BUSnfesfconnegeapEds
ucates pupils to transact and  record  business as 
it is done bv our best  business  houses.  It  pays 
to go to  the  best.  Shorthand  and  Typewriting 
also thoroughly taught.  Send for circular.  Ad 
dress A.  S.  PARISH, successor to C. G. Swens 
berg.

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Are in  great  demand  and  we  can 
handle  any  amount  to  good  ad­
vantage.  Send  us  all  the  choice 
stock you can.  The sixteen-quart 
case  is  the  best package.
Prompt  reports  made.
BARNETT  BROS.

CHICAGO.

M ers, Attention

We are making  a  Middlings 
Purifier and Flour Dresser that 
will save you their cost at least 
three times each year.
They  are  guaranteed  to  do 
more  work in less  space (with 
less  power  and  less  waste) 
than  any  other  machines  of 
their  class.
Send  for  descriptive  cata­
logue with testimonials.
Martin’s  M iilinp  Purifier  Co.,

GRIND  RIPID8,  MICH.

THE  GREAT

EDMUND B.DIKEMHN
Watch Jiaker 
s Jeweler,
44  BÄNRL  8T„
Grand Rapids,  -  Mil

GRAND  RAPIDS,

63—65  CANAL  ST.

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AMONG THE TRADE.

in 

GEANT) BAPIDS GGSSIP.

of  butter in cold storage.

Edwin Fallas has  over  40,000  pounds 

D. O. Courtney has removed his grocery 

J. K. Delbridge  succeeds  Delbridge & 
Ingalsbee  in  the  manufacture of  cigars 
at 341 South Division street.

G. Yan Dam has engaged in the grocery 
and  notion  business  at  the  corner  of 
Wenham avenue and  Lagrave street.

A.  Heston & Co.  have  engaged  in  the 
boot and shoe business  at  East  Jordan. 
Rindge,  Bertsch  &  Co.  furnished  the 
stock.

Meloy & Rich  have  received a carload 
of  Star  feed  mills,  which  they  have 
stored 
their  warehouse  on  Fifth 
avenue.

O. A.  Ball bid in the  general  stock  of 
F. A. Gansen, at Lakeview,  in  behalf  of 
the  Grand  Rapids  creditors,  at  attach­
ment sale last  Friday.

should be made to secure  «uch  increase 
To accomplish this but one way seems to 
to  promise  satisfactory  results— 
me 
the  employment  of  a competent  organ­
izer. 
I believe  our  Association  should, 
at least,  test  the  efficacy  of  this  means
by a few  months’ experiment  with such I gtock from 85 to 78 stocking street, 
an  officer  during  a  portion,  at  least, of
the  next  year.  The  cost  need  not  be 
Perkins  &  Co.  have  foreclosed  their 
large for a brief  period,  and  possibly all  chattel  mortgage  on  the shingle mill of 
expenses resulting therefrom may be paid | & £  Johnso^   at MeCosta.
from the first  year’s per capita tax of the 
new organizations formed. 
I recommend 
earnest  consideration  of 
this  matter, 
with the hope  that in the way suggested 
or  in  some  better  way, the  State  may 
become  thoroughly  organized  and  our 
Association placed upon the  high  plane 
of  usefulness  which the Business Men’s 
Association  of  this  great  State  should 
occupy.  The recommendation  of  Presi­
dent Hamilton,  in his address last  year, 
that our collection  system  be  improved 
by a B. M.  A.  Exchange for  all  moder­
ately  sized  towns,  I  most  heartily  en­
dorse.  A  system  whereby all  persons 
likely to seek  credit  of  merchants  may 
be  rated  as  to  their  responsibility and 
credit in the same  way that  dealers  are 
in Dun and Bradstreet is one that should 
commend  itself  to every business  man,
I  hope  some  of  our  local  associations 
will give this  plan a practical  test  dur­
ing the  year  and  report  the  results  at 
our next annual meeting.
To  Secretary  Stowe,  whose  untiring 
devotion to the interests  of  the Associa­
tion is so  well  known  and so highly ap­
preciated by every member, we owe,  this 
year,  a special debt  of  gratitude.  With 
characteristic  liberality he  published  a 
full report of  our meeting one  year ago, 
in excellent form for use and preservation, 
and furnished  a  copy  without  expense 
to every member in the  State.  However 
willingly such a burden may be assumed, 
self-respect forbids that  we  shall  here­
after  permit any individual  to  bear  it. 
I, 
therefore,  recommend  that,  in  the 
future,  the  Secretary  be  instructed  to 
have the proceedings  published, in num­
ber  sufficient to supply each  member  in 
good  standing  and  to  be  paid for from 
the funds of the Association.
In the past, the fate of  individuals,  of 
communities and  of  states was often de­
cided by single combat.  To-day  “In the 
world’s*  great field  of  battle”  victories 
are  achieved  only by united effort.  Or­
ganization is pitted against organization, 
the individual performing only a subord­
inate  part.  The field  upon  which  are 
arrayed  to-day all  the forces  of  human 
exertion presents to our view vast aggre­
gations  of  units.  Each  combination 
bears a banner  upon  whose folds  words 
emblematic of its purpose may be traced. 
These  purposes  range  between  the two 
extremes of good and evil intent.  Among 
this host we stand,  in numbers small but 
in purpose  noble.  Upon our flag, borne 
well  aloft,  shines  brightly  that  word 
which has distinguished our calling down 
through all the ages—Honor.
Gripsack Brigade.

Wnf. M. Wurzburg  and  Wm. F. Wurz­
burg have retired from the firm of  F.  W. 
Wurzburg’s  Sons  &  Co.  The  business 
will  be  continued by Fred A. Wurzburg 
and  Zachariah  T.  Aldrich,  under  the 
style  of  F.  A.  Wurzburg  &  Co.  The 
change  will  carry with it an increase in 
the capital employed  and  the  stock car­
ried.

agricultural 
implement  stock  was  bid  in  at chattel 
mortgage sale by the McCormick Harvest­
ing  Machine  Co.,  whose  representative 
has placed the  business  in  the hands of 
its former owner,  who  will  conduct  the 
same under the  style  of  W. C. Denison, 
A-gt. 

The  Martin’s  Middlings  Purifier  Co. 
has sold  two  purifiers  to  Frederick  W. 
Stock, Hillsdale;  a  purifier  and  a flour 
dresser to D.  L. Darling,  Remus; and five 
purifiers  each  to  M.  G.  & N.  Sage  and 
the Elkhart Milling Co.,  Elkhart, Ind.

It is reported  that  the  local  agent of 
the Western  Union  Telegraph  Co. is to 
be removed shortly, owing to the numer­
ous  complaints  made  against  the man­
agement of the office.

The  W.  C.  Denison 

_______________

ABOUND THE  STATE.

The Michigan Tradesman  » W - S Ä S - i Ä
great credit for  the labor  they have  be­
stowed upon this  plan,  and  also  to  se­
cure the co-operation of  our membership 
in its adoption  and  in  the  organization 
of a company under its provisions.
In making the subject of modern Trusts 
and  combinations  especially  prominent 
to-day, my motive has been to  call  your 
attention, as business men, to  their  evil 
influence  and  to  the  conditions  which 
called  them  into  existence  and  which 
make them  successful. 
It  requires  no 
prophet’s vision to foresee that  within  a 
few years, unless  checked, all important 
branches of industry will be brought un­
der their control.  When  the  Trust  has 
reached its  ideal  perfection,  and  when 
the manufacturers and  producers  of  all 
the materials used by  man have invoked 
its power,  we  may  look  for a return to 
many of the conditions existent before its 
development.  With little or  no  compe­
tition, manufacturers  can  dispense with 
the services of traveling men  and  them­
selves retain the vast  sums now paid for 
the salaries and  expenses  of  this class. 
No efforts will be made to overstock deal­
ers, no bills  will  be  post  dated  and no 
cash  discounts  beyond  the  customary 
time will be allowed.  Some of  these  re­
sults are certainly desirable.  Unmixed 
evils  are  rarely  seen,  and if a return to 
the situation  before  the  Trust  reveals 
some good, it should not blind  us  to  the 
greater evils of the remedy.  One lesson 
of the Trust, which I wish  to make most 
impressive to-day, is  the  importance  of 
the formation of associations of business 
men all over the country which shall aim 
to curtail the power of  these monopolies 
by  stimulating  competition  whenever 
offered and by bringing  them under gov­
ernment control.  This  should  be  done 
before their  daily  increasing  power be­
comes so great as to influence legislation 
in their interest.  In what way and to what 
extent legislation and competition should 
be invoked, if  at  all,  might  and should 
be discussed in both  our  State and local 
bodies.  Many of the latter are languish­
ing, the  meetings  being  but  slimly  at­
tended.  The dead-beats  have  all  been 
listed, the  peddler  anathematized,  new 
enterprises, for which the necessary cap­
ital is not  forthcoming,  talked over and 
they have settled into a state of lethargy. 
Why should not this subject of  combina­
tions and  Trusts,  involving,  as it does, 
efforts on the part of railroads, manufac­
turers  and  insurance  organizations  to 
restrict production and  destroy competi­
tion, receive such attention as  its  inpor- 
tance demands from every business man? 
Comparison  of  ideas  and  diffusion  of 
knowledge upon  this  subject would pre­
pare  members  to  come  to  our  annual 
reunion with a purpose in  view  and  an 
intelligent conception of  the best means 
for its fulfillment.
I have  endeavored  to  present to  your 
view what  seem to me to be some of  the 
salient  conditions  affecting  business in­
terests at the present  time.  These, with 
other conditions  more or less  important, 
constitute  the  environment of  the mem­
bers of  our  Association.  Under  the in­
fluence  of  this  environment,  shall  our 
organization  not  prove  itself  to  have a 
mission—shall  it  not  show itself  fittest 
to  survive ?  During  the  three  years of 
its  existence,  the  M.  B. M. A.  has  ac­
complished more than its  founders could 
have  predicted  for  it  during  so short a 
period.
The report of  the Treasurer  will show 
that the debt which existed  at the begin­
ning of  the  year  has  been  paid, and we 
have now a small  balance  in  the  treas­
ury.  This result has been brought about 
through  the  increase  in  the  per capita 
tax from  twenty-five to fifty cents.  The 
Secretary’s report will show an  increase 
in  the  number of  auxiliary associations 
and  a  falling  off  in  membership. 
I 
earnestly commend to  your consideration 
this  report, as  the  practical  knowledge 
and  experience  of  this  officer  concern­
ing the needs  and  work of  our  Associa­
tion—it is of  the  greatest value.  These 
needs  and  this  work  have been  always 
largely  local  in  their  nature  and  have 
been  brought  to  our  attention through 
the  reports  which  have  come  up to us 
from  auxiliary  associations, at  our  an­
nual  meetings.  These  reports  have 
nearly all presented records of  successes 
in  our  collection  system  of  listing  all 
persons found unworthy of  credit.  They 
have shown how,  in  many ways, the ma­
terial  advancement of  their  various  lo­
calities has been  stimulated  through the 
efforts  of  these  associations;  how  man­
ufacturing  interests  have been built up, 
roads  constructed, railroads  induced  to 
locate and all beneficent  enterprises fos­
tered.  They have  also  indicated  an in­
crease  of  those  friendly  relations  and 
social enjoyments which  add  so much to 
the  happiness  of  our  lives.  The  work 
which  these  reports  chronicle  and  the 
needs they express should receive no less 
attention from us  in  the  future than  in 
the  past,  for  it  must  always  be  local 
wants  which  lead  to  the  creation  and 
healthful existence of  local bodies.
While taking the  most  active  interest 
in these  foundation stones of  our organ­
ization, it behooves the State Association 
to  discuss  topics  outside  the  limits  of 
purely local concern and to act upon sub­
jects  of  more  general 
than 
usually occupy the attention of auxiliary 
bodies.  Of  this  class  was  the  effort 
made  by  the  M.  B.  M. A.  to  secure  a 
standard  form  of  insurance  policy  for 
our  State.  The  effort  was  successful, 
and not only business men but the entire 
community are indebted to our  organiza­
tion  for  a  valuable  safeguard  against 
fraud or error on  the  part of  insurers of 
property.
There  are  problems  which  affect the 
entire  business  community  constantly 
presenting themselves  for  some  compe 
tent  authority  to  settle.  Why  should 
not our Association be the court at whose 
bar such problems may be adjusted when 
adjustment  is  possible?  Such a court 
to be valuable, must  have  the  power to 
execute  its  mandates.  We know of  but 
once  source  whence  this  power  can be 
obtained—that  source  is  a  membership 
far  greater  than  our  Association  now 
boasts, and the right of  each  member to 
all  the  privileges  of  the  Association 
The  latter  can  readily be  secured by a 
change  in  our  organic  law, making all 
members of  auxiliary associations  mem 
bers  of 
the  State  Association.  The 
former  is  of  much  greater  importance 
and  more  difficult to obtain. 
In view of 
the  advantages  of  this  power  which  a

improving 

J. F. Hammell,  the  Ionia  traveler, 
recent 
teadily 
dangerous illness and will soon be on the 
road again.

from  his 

Jas.  D.  Wadsworth  has  severed  his 
connection with  F. W. Wurzburg’s  Sons 
& Co., to take a position  as  house  sales 
man for Lemon & Peters.

You  can  impose  upon  Ed.  Frick  all 
you want to now and he cannot resent it 
an  accident  on  the  firm’s elevator  last 
Thursday having  disabled his right arm
L. M. Mills and family put  in  Sunday 
at Ottawa Beach.  The  report that Mill: 
constructed  an  “Ode  to  Black  Lake,’ 
during  the  day,  is  probably  without 
foundation.
The  boys  would  like  to  know  what 
takes J. L. Kymer to  Greenville so often 
of  late.  Rumor  has  it  that he is about 
to give up the  book  business  and  learn 
the Miller trade.

It is said that Dave  Holmes  has  been 
highly elated since he  hustled  “By  Gee 
Crip” over the  counter,  until Will Swan 
went up to  Woodville the other evening, 
put him into a trunk and sat upon the lid
Landlord  Buck, of  the  Elliott  House 
Sturgis,  says he will have to advance the 
rates of  the house  with  Will  Campbell 
as he cannot afford to feed  Carpenters as 
cheap  as  traveling  men, for  they work 
harder and, therefore, eat more—pie.

The  Hotel  Committee of  the  Knights 
of  the  Grip  has  secured  the  following 
additions to the hotel  agreement  during 
the  past  week:  Sherman  House, Flint; 
Moore  House,  North  Branch;  Tremont 
House,  Cass  City;  Marathon  House, 
Columbiaville.  The  Pipp  House,  at 
Kalkaska,  voluntarily signed  the  agree­
ment several weeks  ago, but  the  matter 
was inadvertently overlooked.

Fred Aldrich  called  on  Fred  Blake’s 
customers  last  week,  while  the  latter 
stayed in to get acquainted  with his new 
daughter.  Aldrich  was  badly  delayed 
by the  girls  at Lake  Odessa  and  could 
not  resist  the  temptation  to  stop  and 
pitch a couple of  ball games  at  Bowen’s 
Mills  and  Hoytville. 
Judging  by  the 
dilapidated  appearance  of  his  physiog­
nomy, the country players were too many 
for  him.

Scott  Swigart  went  to  East  Saginaw 
Saturday, w’here he  will  spend a couple 
of  weeks.

A..  H. Brown, traveling  representative 
for G.  S. Abbott & Son,  of  Chicago, was 
in town over Sunday.

They  say  Will  Campbell  is  about  to 
leave the road, as he is now  learning the 
Carpenter trade at Sturgis.

Fred  Blake  and  wife  are happy over 
the advent of  a 9K-pound daughter, who 
put in an appearance last Tuesday.

A.  L.  Braisted,  the  feather-weight 
traveling  representative  for  the  Voigt 
Milling Co., has  taken  his  pug dog on 
pleasure trip to the Northern resorts.  His 
family remains at home.

interest 

Ubly—Jas. A. Richardson  has sold his 

grocery stock.

Detroit—The National Wire  and  Iron 

Co. is going out of business.

Tustin—Elmer Skaglin  succeeds G. A 

Skaglin in the meat business.

Waldron —  John  L.  Bates  succeed! 

Crow Brothers in general trade.

Blanchard—Chas. Robinson has bought 

the meat market of W.  H. Caswell.

Allegan—F. R. Rudd  succeeds Rudd & 

Williams in the dry goods business.

Kalkaska—L. D. Curtiss succeeds Cur­

tiss Bros,  in the furniture business.

Paris—H.  A.  Cone  has  bought  Sila 

Barker’s interest in the meat market.

Trufant — Samuel  Goldstein  has  re 

moved his general stock to Gladstone.

Grayling—Lyon & Conner  have moved 
their general store  here from Metamora
Detroit—Becker Bros, have discharged 
the $800 mortgage on their  bakery stock
Marshall—F. D. N. Yan Slyke has sold 
his millinery stock to Mrs. Conrad Nover,
New Lathrop—Townsend  Bros.’ hard 
ware store has  been  closed by creditors
Jackson—F. J. Jaycox, dealer in cigars 
and tobacco, has been closed by creditors,
E.  K.  Bennett,  the  jewelry salesman 
has  lately purchased a fine  residence  at 
Lansing.

Bradley—Gunn & Allgeo  succeed S. J 
Gunn in the  elevator, feed  and  produce 
business.

Middleton—D.  McLeod  succeeds  D 
McLeod & Co.  in  the  drug  and  grocery 
business.

Mt. Pleasant—Tapping  &  Colby  sue 
ceed  Chatterton & Balmer in the grocery 
business.

Ishpeming—S. P. Sandmark’s  jewelry 
stock  has  been  foreclosed  on  chattel 
mortgage.

Sherwood—C. T.  Lipes  succeeds Clark 
Lichtenwalter in  the  grocery and crock 
ery business.

Grand Haven—H. Bloeker  succeeds H 
Bloeker  &  Co., machinists.  The  style 
remains unchanged.

Muskegon—P. J.  Connell is building 
one-story brick building for P. M. Roedel 
at White Cloud. 
It  will  be  used  as 
bank.

Howard City—J. W.  Lovely  has  pur­
chased the F. W. Foster  hardware stock, 
at Newaygo, and is  removing  it  to  this 
place.

Prattville—Edgar  Hackett  and  Bert 
Yan Ness  are building a new  store  and 
will engage in the drug and  grocery bus 
iness.

Flushing—H. H. Chatters is building 

three-story brick block, which will be by 
far the finest block in town.  He expects 
to complete it  by November 1.

Muskegon—Dr.  Y.  A.  Bergeron  has 
purchased the drug  store of W. A. Stev 
enson  at  558  W.  Western  avenue,  and 
will  operate  the  same  in  conjunction 
with his other store.

Yermontville—C. E. Demming  has  re­
tired  from  the  grocery firm of  Lemmon 
& Demming.  The business will  be  con­
tinued by Lincoln A.  Lemmon.

Lakeview—F.  Shellman  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  and  store  building  to 
Casper  Schutt, formerly engaged  in the 
grocery business at Howard City.

Mendon—F. E. Riley  will  remove  his 
drug  stock  from  this  place  to Climax, 
where he will  continue in the same  bus­
iness and will add a line of  groceries.

Shelby—S.  Kohler  has  purchased the 
interest of  W. A. Smith in the meat mar- 
et  firm of  Smith & Willetts.  The  new 
firm will be known as Kohler &  Willetts.
Muskegon—J.  R.  Tweedale & Co. have 
disposed  of  their  drug  stock  to  C.  L. 
Brundage. 
It  is  understood  that  Mr. 
Brundage  will  move  the  stock  to  the 
empty  store  in  the  Dearborn & Snyder 
block.

Middleville—The  safe  in  Otto  Bros.’ 
hardware  store  was blown open by bur­
glars last Tuesday night,  who  succeeded 
getting  only  $4  in  currency.  The 
firm  has 
lost,  in  the  past  five  years, 
about $1,000  through  burglars, in goods 
stolen and  property destroyed.  There is 
no clue  to  the  perpetrators of  the deed.
Lansing—Local officers  have  arrested 
William  Mower,  who  has  been  selling 
cutlery  and  revolvers  too  cheap  about 
town. 
In  his  satchel  were  found six 
revolvers and thirty-seven pocket knives 
and a lot of shears and silver spoons.  A 
hardware store at Leslie  was  robbed  on 
July 16,  and it is thought Mower  robbed 
it.  He  is  an  old  prison  bird,  having 
served two terms, and twenty  years  ago 
as an inmate of the State Reform School. 
Reed City—Richards & Shaw  have  as­
signed  their  grocery and  provision bus­
iness to Wm.  H. Hawkins.  This firm has 
been  in  financial  difficulties  for  some 
time,  and gave a chattel mortgage on the 
stock last spring  to  the  William  Steele 
Packing  and  Provision  Co.,  of  Grand 
Rapids,  who  closed them up on a writ of 
attachment.  Each  partner  blames  the 
other  for  the  trouble.  This is the first 
failure of  a business  house in Reed City 
for eight  years.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Smyrna—Spencer & Hill  succeed F. L. 

Spencer in the manufacture of lumber.

Dorr—Clark & Weber  have  taken  the 
management of  the Eureka flouring mill.
Detroit—Ruxton & Tilley succeed B. H. 
Ruxton in  the  manufacture  of  picture 
frames.

Port  Huron—Smith,  Jenks & Co. suc­
ceed  Brooks, Joslyn & Co. in the  lumber 
business.

Bay  City—Bousfield  &  Co.  succeed 
Bousfield, Perrin  &  Co.  in the manufac­
ture of woodenware.

Holland—Brink  &  Co.  succeed  the 
Werkman Manufacturing Co. in the man­
ufacture of  furniture.

East  saginaw—J.  H. Freeney will  not 
rebuild  the  shingle  mill  on  the site of 
the one burned a week ago.

Woodville—Robinson  & Blodgett have 
sold their lumber, tie  and telegraph pole 
business to the Union Tie Co., of Chicago.
Bellaire—Mrs. B.  A.  Nixon  succeeds 
T. R.  Dunson  in the furniture  business, 
under the style of  the Bellaire Furniture 
Co.
Kalamazoo — Thos.  Wilson  has  been 
appointed receiver of  the Bird  &  Crane 
Manufacturing  Co.,  manufacturers  of 
pulleys.

Port  Huron — Brooks,  Joslyn  &  Co. 
have  sold  their  lumber  stock  to O. W. 
Smith  and  Frank  Jenks,  leasing  them 
their  yard property.

Mancelona—The  Antrim  Iron  Co.  is 
building  a  warehouse,  24x144  feet  in 
dimensions,  which  will  be  filled  with 
lumber and farm implements.

Lansing—The  Lansing  Lumber Co. is 
the 
negotiating  for  the  purchase  of 
Mason  clothespin  factory. 
If  the  pur­
chase  is  made,  the  factory  may be  re­
moved to Clare county.

Manistee—The  East Shore Novelty Co. 
has  been  organized  here,  with a capital 
of  $10,000,  and  will  manufacture  bed- 
slats,  step-ladders,  curtain-rollers,  etc. 
The company will occupy the old skating- 
rink for its factory.

East  Saginaw—J.  C.  Brown,  who  is 
putting in logs on  the  Ocqueoc, will fin­
ish his summer contract about the middle 
of August, and will  then commence cut­
ting for Sibley  &  Bearinger, on his reg­
ular fall and winter job.

Bay City—It is reported that  one  mill 
firm in this  city is negotiating  with  the 
owner of  Canadian  timber for the trans­
fer  of  50,000,000  feet  of  logs  to  this 
river,  in lots-of  10,000,000  feet  the  first 
season and 20,000,000 feet for the others
Hastings—The Hastings  Furniture Co 
has been  organized  with a capital  stock 
of  $15,000, to be paid in as needed.  The 
directors  are  A. E. Dickerman,  Edward 
De  Groat,  Archie  McCoy,  C. D. Beebe, 
W.  H.  Powers,  S.  Greusel  and  D.  S. 
Goodyear.

Marquette—Findley  Morrison  bought 
180,000 feet of pine stumpage on ten acres 
of  land pre-empted by Clarance  McDer­
mott, and Morrison was arrested, charged 
with trespass.  The United States Court 
here  dismissed  the  case,  holding  that 
McDermott  was  justified in  selling  the 
timber and Morrison was all right in cut 
ting it.

Muskegon—Owing to  late  transfers of 
stock 
in  the  L.  L.  Arms  Shingle  & 
Lumber  Co.,  a  new  election  of  officers 
was held,  at which L. L. Arms was made 
President,  C.  H.  McKnight  Yice-Presi- 
dent, and Albert  Waldron  Secretary and 
Treasurer.

Marquette—Hewitt & Smith have sued 
the Chicago Lumbering Co. in the United 
States Court here for a shortage  of  lum­
ber.  The  plaintiffs  contracted  for  the 
sawing  of  3,000,000 feet  of  logs  by the 
defendants,  but  received  only 2,000,000 
all told.  Defendants say the logs escaped 
from the boom and  that  they cannot  be 
held liable.

East  Saginaw—L. D.  Sanborn  is  cut­
ting 10,000,000  feet  of  logs  in  Gladwin 
county,  which  are  being  railed  here. 
He will complete this  job about the mid­
dle  of  September,  and  will  also  cut  a 
quantity of  logs  on  another  tract.  He 
has  sold  about  5,000,000 feet of  lumber 
this season, of  which 3,000,000 in one lot 
went to local  yard dealers.

East Saginaw—Charles Lee  is  arrang­
ing to erect a planing  mill on the site of 
the one destroyed by fire a year ago.  Mr. 
Lee is over seventy  years  old,  and when 
his  mill  burned  he  sustained a loss  of 
$70,000, without a dollar of insurance—a 
loss that  would  have  appalled  many  a 
younger man.  He has a bountiful supply 
of sand, however,  and comes up  smiling 
and determined to rebuild.

Bay City—The good that  men  do lives 
after  them,  and  there  are a few who in 
life  pursue  a  course  that  makes  the 
axiom  applicable.  Among  those  who 
are,  through their abundant means, doing 
something for the  well-being of  the race 
is H. W.  Sage, who  is  largely  interested 
in lumbering here.  He  has  done  much 
for  West  Bay  City,  and  is  one  of  the 
foremost  promoters of  the  Cornell  Uni­
versity.  He  has  just  bound  himself  to 
pay  $200,000  for  the  Cornell  library 
building,  the contract for which has been 
let,  provided  the  Fisk  University  will 
suit  is  decided  against  the  university. 
Mr.  Sage’s  mill  here  is  manufacturing 
30,000,000  feet  of  lumber  annually, his 
salt  works  turned  out  72,967 barrels of 
salt  last  year,  and  he  is  largely inter­
ested  in  pine  on  the Rifle and Au Gres 
rivers, in upper Michigan and Wisconsin. 
He  also  owns  over  40,0 )0  acres of  fine 
hardwood land in upper Michigan.
Wool,  Hides  and Tallow.

Wools  show  no  improvement  in firm­
ness  or  prices.  The  dealers  are  bulls 
and manufacturers bears on  the  market. 
Sales are fair in quantity, from  the  fact 
of  concessions between seller and buyer. 
Dealers  now  realize that they have paid 
too  much  for  the  clip, in order to have 
the manufacturer  take it at any price he 
can  realize  from his cloth.  Receipts of 
wool  on  seaboard  are  large  and  it  is 
piling  up,  which  makes  buyers  think 
they will get it cheaper later.  These are 
of  high  cost  and  are  held  firm at pres 
ent. 
In  the  meantime,  the holders have 
a firm  and  advancing  market  abroad to 
sustain their views and  lend  them  hope 
for  the  future.  No  change  need  be 
looked for before September.

Hides  are  still  dull  and lifeless,  and 
yet tanners are  looking  for prime stock, 
as they can begin to see something in the 
future.  Hides are in their prime,  and if 
it will pay to work them at any time, it is 
now.  The  leather  market  has  been 
fairly well  sold  out, especially of  cheap 
sole  and  some  other  grades,  and  any 
great  demand  would  create  a shortage. 
In fact, the  leather  market  is  in better 
shape than for some months past.

Tallow  and  grease  are  some  firmer 
with  a  slight  advance,  with  the  hot 
weather against  the  shipper,  so that the 
advance is lost in the heavy shrinkage

Attention is directed to  the  advertise 
ment  of  Barnett Bros.,  the well-known 
Chicago  commission  merchants.  This 
firm stands at the  head  of  the  commis­
sion business and  when the Messrs. Bar 
nett  say they will pay the  highest  mar 
ket  price for  whortleberries,  the  trade 
can depend upon their doing just as they 
agree.

FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

A dvertisem ents will be inserted  u nder  th is  head for 
tw o  cents  a   word  th e  first  insertion  an d   one cent a 
word  fo r  each  subsequent  insertion.  No  advertise­
m ent tak e n  fo r less th a n  25 cents.  Advance  paym ent.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

Ge n e r a l   s t o c k   o f   m e r c h a n d is e   f o r   s a l e —

A nice clean stock of d ry goods, clothing, carpets, 
boots and shoes, furn ish in g  goods  and  groceries  in a 
good live  town.  L argest  trad e  in  th e  place.  First- 
class  investm ent.  Address K napp & P ark er,  Fowler- 
viUe, Mich._____________________________________ 470

ests, we offer fo r sale our stock o f drugs, groceries, 
crockery, glassw are, w all paper, paints, oils,  e tc .;  one 
of th e b est stocks in b est county seat in M ichigan, 
invoice about  $7,000;  w ill  trad e  o u t  $1,000.  Address 
B art ram  & M illington. Paw   Paw.

Fo r   s a l e   o n   e a s y   t e r m s—a   s t o c k   o f   g e n

eral m erchandise in a  sm all tow n In th e best farm ­
in g  country  of  S outhern  M ichigan;  profits  on  sales, 
$2,500 p er annum , as p er sales book;  reason fo r selling, 
failing h ealth.  Address, No. 467, care M ichigan Trades­
m an.

F o r  s a l e —s t o c k   o f   d r u g s ,  m e d ic in e s ,  g r o

ceries and provisions;  will also sell store building, 
22x36, two-story, w ith  cellar  and  store  room   an d   lot 
4x8 rods;  also dwelling house, w ith tw o  acres of  land; 
building  b u ilt w ithin tw o  years;  reason  fo r  selling, 
poor h ealth  ;  no d ru g  an d  m edicine com petition; term s 
easy.  A. D. Loomis, Levering, Mich._____________ 463
d{H  A A A   W ILL BUY RESTAURANT, FURNITURE, 
fixtures, stock and good will o f  th e pres^ 
en t ow ner;  only resta u ra n t  in   th e   city  of M arquette; 
good reasons fo r selling cheerfully  given  on  applica­
tion ;  first-class ice  cream   trad e a  specialty.  Address 
F. Heppner, 105 Superior St., M arquette. Mich. 

464

SITUATIONS WANTED.

TTTANTED—POSITION  AS SALESMAN  OR MANAGER 
V ▼  d ry  goods o r g eneral store, by  a  young  m an  of 
experience;  best of  reference furnished.  Address, A. 
Robertson, M artin,  Mich. 
WANTED—SITUATION AS CLERK  IN  SMALL  GRO- 
■ ANTED—1,000 MORE MERCHANTS TO ADOPT OUR 

Address O. D. Cleveland, H arrison, Mich._________469

cery o r d ry  goods store by a  reliable young m an. 

Im proved Coupon  Pass  Book System .  Send for 

MISCEIXANEOUS.

____________________ 471

sam ples.  E. A. Stowe & Bro., Grand R apids. 

214

Splendid  land,  3K  m iles  from   county  seat;  also 
house and lot, tw o blocks from  business center of same 
city of 3.500 in h ab itan ts,  in  C entral Michigan;  w ill ex­
change fo r  stock  of  m erchandise.  Address  No.  465, 
care M ichigan  Tradesm an.________________ _____ 465

th e  m ost pleasan t streets “ on  th e   hill.”  W ill ex­
change for stock in an y  good in stitu tio n .  Address 286, 
care M ichigan T radesm an. 

F o r   s a l e —g o o d   r e s id e n c e   l o t   o n  o n e   o f
WANTED—SEND  A  POSTAL  TO THE 8UTLIFF COU- 

pon Pass Book Co.,  Albany,  N.  Y., for  samples 
of th e new  Excelsior  Pass  Book,  th e  m ost  complete 
and finest  on th e  m ark et,  and  ju st  w hat  every m er­
ch an t should h ave  progressive m erchants a ll over the 
country a re  now u sing them . 

_______________   286

437

•  

Our  Fall  Stock

Is now Complete and Ready for Inspection.

F, fl, Wilrxtulrg  X  Go,,

(Successors to F. W. Wurzburg’s Sons & Co.)

Exclusive  Jobbers  of

DRY  GOODS, HOSIERY,

NOTIONS, UNDERWEÄR

19  &  21  SOUTH  DIVISION  ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH

*

ESTABLISHED  1870.

GHR8.  80HMIDT  X  BROS,,

Manufacturers  and  Dealers In Foreign and 

American

Granite and Marble

Monilments 

StaWary

Having erected a New Granite  Factory 
with the Latest Improved Machinery, we 
can  Guarantee all Work First Class  and 
Fill Orders Promptly.

WORKSHOP AND  POLISHING  MILLS: 

Cor. West Fulton  and  Straight Streets.

OFFICE  AÎ D SALESROOM:

93  Canal  Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

E X C L U S I V E
Carpets,

Oil  Cloths, 

Rugs,

China  Mattings 

Draperies,

a n d

P arlor Screens
Smith  l Sanford,

Ottawa  and  Pearl  Sts.,  Ledyard  Block.

L IO N
COFFEE

M erchants,

YOU  W A N T  TH IS CABINET

T h o u s a n d s   o f   T h e m

It  does  away  with  the  unsightly barrels so 
Are in use all over the land. 
often  seen  on  the  floor  of  the  average  grocer.  Beautifully grained and 
varnished  and  put  together  in  the  best  possible  manner. 
Inside each 
cabinet will be found one complete set of castors with screws.

Every  Wide-Awake  Merchant

Should  Certainly  Sell

LION, THE  KING  OF  G0FFEE8.

An  Article  of Absolute  Merit.

It is fast  supplanting  the  scores  of  inferior  roasted coffees. 

only in one pound packages. 
120  one-pound  packages. 
Shipping depots in all first-class cities in the United States.

Packed 
Put  up  in  100-lb  cases,  also  in cabinets of 
For  sale  by  the  wholesale  trade  everywhere. 

W o o lso n   Spiee  Co.,

TOLEDO,  OHIO.

L. WINTERNITZ, Resident Agent, Grand Rapids.

RED scmm: raiWFSHDES
Product of Our Factory  at  Dixon,  111.

In view of the fact that we  have  GREATLY  INCREASED  our  FACILITIES 
for MANUFACTURING in OUR THREE FACTORIES and owing to the PECULIAR 
and CLOSE COMPETITION existing in MICHIGAN, C. M. Henderson  &  Co.  have 
concluded to MAKE A DECIDED CUT ON VARIOUS LINES of our  goods,  which 
will  ENABLE  ME  to  make  it  to  YOUR  ADVANTAGE to purchase your stock 
NEARER HOME the coming fall season.
Our LADIES’ FINE GOAT, DONGOLA, GLOVE  and OIL GRAINS to retail at 
$2, and FINER GRADES of  GOATS and DONGOLAS, which consumers can buy at 
$2.50 and $3.00, together with the MEDIUM PRICED lines of MEN’S  CALF, DON­
GOLA, and KANGAROO  Shoes  of  our  own  make,  and  all having the MERIT of 
SOLIDITY  and  STYLE—with  satisfaction  guaranteed—will  be  worthy  your 
CAREFUL  CONSIDERATION.  Our  heavier  grades  of  SPLIT, GRAIN,  KIP, 
VEAL,  and CALF  BOOTS  are  UNEQUALED,  and  the “Celebrated  Red  School 
House Shoes” AS USUAL takes the “First Place.”

G. M. HENDERSON  l GO.,  Gbicago.

Headquarters for the Celebrated Wales Goodyear Rubber Goods

Fond da Lac, Wis-

F a c t o r i e s :
Dixon,  111.

W i l l a r d   H .  J a m e s ,
Salesman  for  the  Lower  Peninsula.

P. O.  address,

Morton  House,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
We  furnish  electrotypes  of  our  Specialties  to  Customers.

Chicago, 111.

ASSOCIATION  DEPARTMENT.
Michigan  Business Men’s Association. 

ville;  W .S. Pow ers, N ashville;  Oren  Stone, Flint. 

P resid en t—F ran k  W ells, L ansing.
F irst V ice-President—H. Cham bers, Cheboygan.
Second V ice-President—C. Strong, K alam azoo. 
S ecretary—E. A. Stowe, G rand Rapids.
T reasurer—L. W . Sprague. Greenville.
Executive Board—President; C. L. W hitney, M uskegon; 
F ran k   H am ilton, T raverse C ity;  N. B. Blaln, Lowell; 
Chas. T. B ridgm an, F lin t;  H iram   DeLano,  Allegan;
OolEumittee  on  Insurance—Geo.  B.  Caldwell,  Green­
Com m ittee on L egislation—S.  E.  P ark ill,  Owosso;  H. 
,  A. H ydorn, G rand R apids;  H. H. Pope, A llegan. 
C om m ittee on Trade Interests—Sm ith Barnes, Traverse 
C ity :  Geo. R. H oyt, E ast Saginaw ;  H. B. F argo, Mus-
C om m ittee on T ransportation—Jam es Osborn,Owosso; 
O.  F.  Conklin,  G rand  R apids;  C.  F.  Bock,  B attle
Com m ittee on Building and Loan Associations—Chaun- 
cey S trong, Kalam azoo; W ill E m m ert, E aton Rapids; 
W . E. G rotty, L ansing.

Local S ecretary—P. J. Connell,  M uskegen.
Official O rgan—Th e Michigan Tradesman.

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

Ho. X—Traverse City B. M. A. 

P resident. J. W. M illiken; Secretary , E. W. H astings.

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

Ho. 2—Lowell B. M. A.
Ho. 3—Sturgis B. M. A.

P resident. H. S. Church; S ecretary, Win. Jorn.________

H«>.  4—Grand  Rapids  M. A. 
P resident, E. J. H errick; S ecretary, E. A. Stowe.
Ho.  5—Muskegon B. M. A. 

P resident, Jo hn A. M iller;  S ecretary. C. L. W hitney. 

Ho. 6—Alba B. M. A.

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

Ho. 7—Dimondale B. M. A. 

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

P resident, F. H. Thurston ; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston.

Ho. 8—Eastport B. M. A.
Ho. 9—Lawrence B. M. A.

P resident, H. M. M arshall; S ecretary, J. H. Kelly.
No. 10—Harbor Springs B. M. A. 
P resident, W . J. Clar k ; Secretary. A. L. Thompson.
' 
P resid en t, H. P. Whipple; Secretary, D. E.  W ynkoop.
“ 
P resident, C. McKay; Secretary, Thos. Lennon._______
‘ 
P resident, H. B. S turtevant;  S ecretary, W.  J. Austin.
---------Ho. 14—No. Muskegon B. M. A.
P resident, S. A. Howey. Secretary, G. C. Havens.---------

H o.ll—Kingsley B. M. A.
Ho. 13—Quincy B. M. A.
Ho. 13—Sherman B. M. A.

Ho. 15—Boyne City B. M. A.
P resident, R. R- P erkins; Secretary, F. M. Chase.---------
---------- No. 16—Sand Lake B. M. A.
P resident, J. V. C randall:  Secretary, W. Rasco.-----------
j}9> 1 7—piainwell B. M. A.
Ho. 18—Owosso B. M. A.

P resid en t. Geo. H. Anderson; S ecretary , J. A. Sidle.-----

P resident, W arren P. W oodard; Secretary, 8. Lam from . 
" 
P resident, D. F. W atson; Secretary, E . E. Chapel.
— 
P resident, Tohn F. H enry; Secretary, L. A. Phelps.------
" 
P resident. C. H. W harton; Secretary, M. V. Hoyt.--------

"  No.  19—Ada B. M. A.
Ho. 20—Saugatuck B. M. A.
No. 31—Wayland B. M. A.

Ho. 33—Grand Ledge B. M. A. 
No. 23—Carson City B. M. A.

P resident, A. B. Schum acher; Secretary, W.  B.  Clarke. 
‘ 
P resident, John W. H allett:  S ecretary, L  A. Lyon.-----

P resident, J. E. Thurkow ;  Secretary, W. H. Richmond.

No. 34—Morley B. M. A.
No. 585—Palo B. M. A.

P resident. H. D. Pew; Secretary, Chas. B. Johnson.____
' 
P resid en t. A. C. S atterlee:  S ecretary, E. J. LlarK._____

No. 586—Greenville B.M. A.

: 

No. 587—Dorr B. M.  A.

P resident, E. S. Botsford; Secretary, L. N. Fisher.--------

P resident, A. J. Paddock;  Secretary, H. G. Dozer._____

" 
P resid en t. Wm. Moore;  Secretary, A. J. Cheesebrough.
— 
P resident, A. G. A very;  Secretary, E. S. HoughtaUng. 
' 
P resident, Thos. J. Green:  Secretary, A. G. Fleury.------

No. 38—Cheboygan B. M. A
No. 589—Freeport B. M. A.  _
No. 30—Oceana B. M. A.
No. 31—Charlotte B. M. A.
„
No. 358—CoopersviUe 
P resident, W. G. Barnes;  Secretary, J .B . W atson.
No. 33—Charlevoix B. M. A. 
P resident,  L.  D.  Bartholom ew;  Secretary, R. w. Kane.
No. 34—Saranac B. M. A.
P resident, H. T. Johnson;  S ecretary, P. T. W illiams.—
-------------N o .  35—Bellaire  B. M. A.
P resident, H. M. H em street; Se c re tary ,C. E. Densmore. 
"  No. 36—Ithaca B. M. A.

P resident, O. F. Jackson;  S ecretary. Jo h n   M. Everden. 
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P resident,  Chas. F. Bock;  Secretary,  E. W. Moore.------

N o . 3 7 —B a t t l e  C r e e k   B . ML.  A .
No. 38—Scottville B. M. A 

P resident, H. E. Symons: Secretary. D. W. H iggins
---------- No. 39 —Burr Oak B. M. A.
P resident, W. S. W ilier; S ecretary,  F. W. Sheldon.

P resident, C. T. H artson; S ecretary, WiU Em m ert. 
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No. 40—Eaton Rapids B. M. A. 
No. 41—Breckenridge  B. M. A.

resident, C. H. Howd;  S ecretary, L. W aggoner. 

P resident, Jos. G erber; Secretary  C. J. B athbun.

Ho. 48—Fremont B. M. A. 
No. 43 

Tustin B. M. A.

p resident, F ran k  J. Luick

S ecretary, J. A. Lindstrom .

P resident, E. B. M artin; Secretary, W ■ H. Sm ith.

No. 44—Reed City B. M. A. 
No. 45—Hoytville B. M. A 
No. 46—Leslie B. M. A. 

P resid en t, D. E. H allenbeek; S ecretary, O. A. H alladay.

P resident, W m. H utchins; Secretary, B. M- Gould.
'  
P resident. W. C. Pierce;  Secretary, W . H. Graham.
' 
P resident, Boyd Redner; S ecretary, W. J. Tabor.-----

-  Ho. 47—Flint M. U. 
.
No. 48—Hubbardston B. M. A.

P resident,  A.  W enzell; S ecretary, F ran k  Smith.

No. 49—Leroy  B  M. A. 
No. 50—Manistee B. M. A. 

P resident, A. O. W heeler; Secretary,C.  Grannie. 
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No. 51—Cedar Springs  B. M. A. 
P resident, L. M. Sellers; Secreta ry , W. C. Congdon.
No. 558—Grand Haven B. M. A. 

P resident, A. B. Kedzie;  Secretary, F. D. Vos.______

_ 

P resident, F rank Phelps;  S ecretary, A. E .F itzgerald.

Ho. 53—Bellevue B. M. A. 
Ho. 54— Douglas B. M. A  
P resident, Thom as B. Dutcher;  Secretary, C. B. W aller. 
No.  55—Petoskey  B. M. A.
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P resident, C. F. H ankey: Secretary, A. C. Bowman.
No. 56—Bangor B.  M. A.
— 
P resident, N. W, D rake;  Secretary, Geo. Chapm an.
No. 57—Rockford B. M. A.
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P resident, W m. G. Tefft; Secretary. E. B. Lapham .
No. 58—Fife Lake B. M. A.  ^
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P resident, L. 3. W alter; S ecretai; ,£.S  Blakely.
Ho. 59—Fennville B. M. A.
P resid en t F. S. Raym ond: Secretary, A. J. Capen.
Ho. 60—South Boardman B. M. A. 
P resident, H. E. H ogan; S ecretary, S. E. K eihardt.

P resident, V. E. Manley; Secretary, I. B. Barnes.______

Ho. 61—Hartford B. M. A. 
Ho. 658—East Saginaw M. A. 

P resident, Jas. H  .Moore;  S ecretary, C. W.  M ulholand 

Association Notes.

The Traverse City Ladies’ Library Association 
gave a reception  to  the  B.  M.  A.  of that town 
ohe evening last week.

Piainwell Enterprise:  At a special meeting of 
the  Business  Men’s  Association,  Friday  even­
ing, Geo. H.  Anderson  was  chosen  delegate to 
the meeting of the State body at Muskegon, with 
Jas. N. Hill as alternate.
Rockford  Register:  At  the  meeting  of  the 
Rockford branch of the Michigan Business Men’s 
Association,  Messrs.  J. Coon, D. R. Stocum and 
J. J. Ely were  elected  to  represent Rockford at 
the State meeting at Muskegon.
Palo  correspondence  Ionia  Standard:  The 
Palo Business Men’s Association continues  in  a 
thriving condition.  The members met Tuesday 
evening  and  initiated  C.  L.  Grace  as  a  full- 
fledged  member.  The  Association  has  done 
much to unite the business interests of Palo.  It 
has come to stay.
Muskegon  News:  Secretary  Whitney  has  re­
ceived a postal from the Traverse City delegates, 
on the back of  which is a picture representing a 
man with a grip sack,  followed  by  wife and an 
interminable string of children,  all  walking  on 
a country road, past a sign reading: 
“To  Mus 
kegon.”  Above them floats the  motto:  “We’ll 
be there.”
Cheboygan Tribune:  The Michigan Business 
Men’s Association  holds  its  annual  meeting at 
Muskegon Tuesday,  Wednesday  and  Thursday 
of next week.  A  very  interesting  programme 
will be presented, closing with a grand banquet, 
tendered by the citizens, Thursday evening.  We 
regret that the Cheboygan Association is  not  to 
be represented, at  least  no  delegates  have  yet 
been chosen.
Grand  Rapids  Mercantile  Association.
At a special meeting of the Grand Rapids Mer­
cantile  Association,  held  at  The  Tradesman 
office Tuesday evening, July  23,  Thos.  Keating 
acted  as  chairman,  owing  to  the  absence  of 
President Herrick.

M. C. Goossen, of the Boat Committee, reported 
that $24.25 was  expended  for  boat  rides  at the 
picnic  and  that  $31.75  was collected, leaving a 
balance on hand  of  $7.50.  The  report  was  re­
ceived  and  Mr.  Goossen  and  his  associates 
thanked for their efforts  in  making  the  picnic 
the success it was.

E. A. Stowe introduced  the  following  resolu­

tion, which was unanimously adopted:
Resolved,  That the hearty thanks of the Grand 
Rapids Mercantile Association be and are hereby 
tendered to the wholesale  dealers  and  commis­
sion men of Grand  Rapids,  who  so  generously 
provided a collation on the occasion of our third 
annual picnic.
Election of delegates to  the  State  convention 
resulted in the choice of  the  following:  O.  F. 
Conklin,  E.  J.  Herrick,  Thos.  Keating,  C.  L. 
Lawton, M. C.  Goossen,  B.  S.  Harris,  Leonard 
Kievit, L. Winternitz and A. Rasch.

Thos.  Keating  was  selected  to make a report 
of the work of the  Association, and the meeting 
adjourned.
The  Attendance  Good  at  Saugatuck.
Sa u g a t u c k , July 25,1889.

E. A. Stowe, G rand R apids:
D e a r   Sir —I  think we will  have two delegates 
to Muskegon next week. 
I will go, and if I can 
persuade  President  Henry to go with me, I will 
do so.The attendance at our regular meetings is good
•about 50 per cent, of the membership.
L. A. Phelps, Sec’y.

Yours respectfully,

AFTER  DINNER.

The  Toast

Programme,
Arranged.

so  Far  as

The following shows  the responses,  so 
far as arranged,  which  will  be heard at 
the Muskegon banquet on Thursday even­
ing:

F rank W e lls, Lansing.

1.  Our  Officers—How  Shall  They  Be
Fed to Secure the  Most Work?— 
Upon what meat has this,  our Caesar, fed 
That he has grown so great!
2.  “No Overdrafts Allowed”—
grows.
3.  The Legislature—Its Relation to the
Business Interests of the State— 
When  the  state  is  most  corrupt, then 

I know  a  bank  whereon the wild time

H iram D eLano, Allegan.

the laws are most multiplied.
4.  Muskegon—

Suft. C. A. Gow er, Lansing.

She needs no sentiment.

P. J. Connell, Muskegon.

sprightly,

to  entertain 

Do  as  adversaries  do in  law — strive 
Myron  H.  W a l k e r,  Grand  Rapids.

5.  The Honest Lawyer—
mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
6.  Our Guests—
See,  your  guests  approach:
Address  yourself 
And let’s be red with mirth.
7.  The Man of Samples—
Nothing poetic about that.
8.  Sawdust Hospitality—
I can no other answer make, but, thanks, 
And thanks;  and ever oft good turns 
Are shuffled off with such uncurrent pay.

H. S. R obertson, Grand Rapids.

C. L. W h it n e y, Muskegon.

them 

L. W. Spr a gue,  Greenville.

•  9.  Our  Noble  State—Her  Genius and 

Her  Grangers—

Breathes there a man with soul so dead 
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land?

Governor  Luce.

OFFICIAL  PROGRAMME

For the  State  Convention at Muskegon 

This  Week.

Dry  G o o d s *
P r i c e s   C u r r e n t .

T U E S D A Y — 1 :3 0   P .  M.

Call to order.
Prayer—Rev. S. M.  Cramblet. 
President’s  address.
Secretary’s report.
Treasurer’s report.
Report of Executive  Board. 
Appointment of special Committees on 
Credentials,  President’s  Address, 
Secretary’s Report,  Order of  Busi­
ness and Resolutions.

Reports of delegates.

TUESDAY— 7 :3 0   P .  M.
Music—Opera House Orchestra.
Prayer—Rev. J. N. Rippey.
Music.
Address of  Welcome—S.  H.  Stevens.
Response—
Music.
Address by Governor Luce.
Music.
Address—“Legal  and  Business  As­
pects of the Bonus,”  H.  H.  Pope, 
Allegan.

Music.
Paper—“The Business Man  and  the 
Railways,  and their  Relative Rela 
tion,” Chas. Clarke,  Ovid.

Volunteer addresses.

12.

W E D N E S D A Y — 9  A .  M.

Business.

1.  Report  of  Committee  on  Order  of
2.  Report of  Committee on Credentials.
3.  Report of Committee on Insurance.
4.  Report of Committee on  Trade Inter­
5.  Report of Committee  on Transporta­
6.  Report of Committee  on Legislation.
7.  Report of Committee on Building and
Loan Associations.
8.  Reports of delegates.

ests.
tion.

WEDNESDAY—2 P.  M.

Excursion on  Steamer  Van  Raalte on 
Muskegon Lake and Lake  Michigan;  ex­
hibition drill of life saving crew;  visit to 
Interlake  Park;  returning 
to  city  in 
time for supper.

WEDNESDAY—7:30 P.  M.

1.  Consideration of report of Committee
on Transportation.
2.  Paper—“The Best Method  of  Secur­
ing  Manufacturing  Enterprises,” 
A.  O. Wheeler, Manistee.
3.  Consideration of report of Committee
on Legislation.
4.  Paper—“How  Shall  We  Deal  with
Jobbers Who Retail?” W. J. Clarke, 
Harbor Springs.
5.  Consideration of report of Committee
on Building and Loan Associations.
6.  Paper—“The Business Man  and  the
Legislature,” Hon. Milan Wiggins, 
Bloomingdale.
7.  Paper—“Why Not Become  a  Nation
of  Cheese  Eaters?”  Hon.  E.  N. 
Bates, Moline.

THURSDAY— 9  A.  M.

1.  Paper—“Mutual  Insurance,”  M.  C.
Kelley, Muskegon.
2.  Consideration of report of Committee
on Insurance.
3.  Address—“How to Deal with the Pat­
rons of  Industry,” C. L. Whitney, 
Muskegon.
4.  Reports of  delegates.
5.  Question box.

THURSDAY—1:30 P.  M.

1.  Paper—“Permanency  in  Business,”
2.  Consideration of report of Committee
3.  Report of Committee  on  President’s
4.  Report of Committee  on  Secretary’s
5.  Reports of  special committees.

O. F. Conklin, Grand Rapids.
on Trade Interests.
Address.
Report.

THURSDAY—7:30  P.  M. 

fire  department  and 

Exhibition  of 
chemical engine.

THURSDAY—8  P.  M.

1.  Election of officers.
2.  Unfinished business.
3.  Adjournment.

THURSDAY—9:30  P. M. 

Complimentary banquet  at  Occidental 
Hotel, tendered by members of Muskegon 
B. M. A.

A Plucky  Ohio Woman.

One of  the most  enterprising business 
men of  Carmel, Ohio, if a woman.  Miss 
Annie  Lancey,  of  that  town,  having 
leased a mill  property  there,  is  doing a 
big business, operating the same day and 
night.  She  employs  fourteen  men  and 
can make every one of  them  hustle, to®. 
During the day she runs a rotary on long 
lumber, and at night  her  gang  stand by 
the shingle and lath machines.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.
Atlantic  A..............   7%
Atlanta A. A...........6%
Archery  Bunting...  4%
Amory....................... 754
Beaver Dam  A A ...  5%
Berwick  L ..............   614
Blackstone O, 32—   5
Chapman................  354
CohassetA..............  754
Comet......................  7
Clifton CCC...........654
Conqueror XX........  4%
Dwight Star............  754
Exeter A.................   654
Full Yard Wide......   654
Great Falls E ......... 7
Honest Width..........654
Hartford A..............   554
Integrity XX........... 454
King, E F ................  6
“  E X ................  6
“  EC, 32 in ...... 554
Lawrence L L ..........554
Maginnes................   554
New  Market B........  5
Noibe R ...................  554
N ew ton....................654
Our Level  Best...... 654
Riverside XX......... 4M
Sea Island R ...........654
Sharon B  ...............   654
Top of the  Heap—   754
Williamsville.......... 7
Comet,  40 in ...........8
Carlisle  “ 
...........   754
New MarketL,40in.  754
Blackstone A A......   7541
Beats All.................  4M
Cleveland.............   7
Cabot.........................754
Cabot,  %..................  654
Dwight Anchor......   9
shorts.  854
Edwards..................6
Empire....................   7
Farwell................... 8
Fruit of the  Loom..  854 
Fitchville  ................754
Pirst. Pri/o 
_  ...  7
Fruit of the Loom %.  8
Fairmount................ 454
Lonsdale Cambric.. 1054
Lonsdale................. 85?
Middlesex...............  55*
No Name.................  754
Oak View...... .........  6
Our Own.................  554
Sunlight..................  454
Vinyard..................   8
HALF BLEACH’D COTTONS
Cabot.........................754
Farwell..................... 854
Dwight Anchor......   9
Biddeford...............   6
Brunswick................ 654
Naumkeagsatteen..  7 
Rockport................... 654
PRINTS.
American  fancy—   6 
indigo__ 654

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

CORSET  JEANS.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

American shirtings.  5 
“  —   654
Arnold 
long cloth B. 1054 
“ 
“  C.  854
“. 
“ 
century cloth  7
gold seal...... 1054
“  Turkey red.. 1054
Berlin solids........... 554
oil blue.......   654
“  green__ 654
Cocheco fancy........  6
madders...  6 
Eddy stone  fancy...  6 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  6
staple___  6
Manchester fancy..  6 
new era.  654 
Merrimack D fancy.  654 
shirtings...  554 
R eppfurn.  854
Pacific fancy.........6
robes............ 654
Portsmouth robes...  6 
Simpson mourning..  654
greys........  654
solid black.  654 
Washington indigo.  654 
“  Turkey robes..  754
“  India robes__ 754
“  plain T’ky X M  854 
“ 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red..............  6
Martha Washington
Turkey red %......   754
Martha Washington
Turkey red...........  954
Riverpoint robes—   5
Windsor fancy........654
gold  ticket 
indigo blue......... 10
TICKINGS.
Amoskeag A C A — 13
Hamilton N ...............754
Pearl  River............. 12%
Amoskeag............ ..13%
Amoskeag, 9 oz... ..15
Andover............... ..1154
Everett................. ..12
Lawrence XX....... ..1354
Glenarven............ ..  6%
Lancashire........... ..  6^4
1 Normandie.......... ..  8
Renfrew Dress__ ..  8
Toil du Nord....... ..10
Peerless, white....... 1854

CARPET  WARP.
“ 

colored__21

GINGHAMS.

DEMINS.

“ 

“ 

GRAIN BAGS.

Stark....................... 1954
Franklinville......... 1854
American................1654
Windsor..................1654
Valley City............. 16
Georgia.................. 1554
Pacific.....................1354
Burlap.................... 11
Clark’s Mile End....47
Coats’,  J. & P .........47
Holyoke..................2254

SPOOL  COTTON.

Trade in  Fancy  Groceries.

An  inspection  of  the  retail  grocery 
stores in many  cities  will  convince  any 
observant person  that  the  consumption 
of delicacies in the grocerj  line  is  m  no 
danger of overtaking production, for  the 
reason that  sufficient  endeavors  are not 
made, as a rule, to push their sale.  Yet 
no  other  article  in  the  retail grocer’s 
stock pays such good profits. 
It is mani­
fest that there is a limit  to the consump­
tion of  staple  foods  except  in  years of 
unusually low prices,  and  any  increase 
of the individual dealer’s trade  must  be 
at the expense of his neighbors.  With a 
keen perception of this fact, the  average 
retailer tries  his  hand  at  it,  generally 
cutting prices in order  to  succeed.  But 
if the same energy  and  enterprise  were 
expended in pushing  the  sale  of  tancy 
groceries, cutting  would be unnecessary, 
because dealers have in this line in many 
neighborhoods practically a virgin  field. 
There is, of course, a large trade annually 
in every town and  city  in many descrip­
tions  of  fancy groceries, but it is gener­
ally  restricted  to a few  establishments, 
and there are great possibilities of further 
development of  the  trade by the smaller 
stores.  Especially  does  this  statement 
hold good at this season of the year,  and 
during the  late  summer  and  early fall, 
when  the  average  palate  inclines  to 
lighter  and  more  toothsome  foods than 
those consumed in cooler weather.  There 
are many  appetizing  delicacies  suitable 
for  hot  weather, 
the  consumption  of 
which is quite limited,  owing to the neg­
lect of the retailer to properly push them. 
The mere display of  show cards descrip­
tive of summer beverages and salad dress­
ings' and the usual  hot  weather goods is 
sufficient  uow-a-days  to  insure a steady 
sale,  but  there  are  many  less  widely 
known articles which must be seen to be 
appreciated and create a demand.  Many 
of these  delicacies  are  put  up  in glass 
and tin,  and  are  admirably  adapted for 
display, especially those in glass,  as  the 
contents are visible  and present such an 
enticing  appearance  that  patrons  need 
little urging to give them a trial. 
Such 
goods  should  not  only  be  displayed in 
the show window, but on the  counter  in 
a neat manner,  where customers can have 
a good view,  and convenient to the hands 
of the proprietor and his assistants when 
an opportunity presents itself for calling 
the attention of patrons to their peculiar 
qualities and merits.

Peter Brautigam,  the  North Dorr mer­

chant, was in town last Friday.

P resident, C. V. P riest; Secretary, C. E. Bell.__________

P re sid e n t,C .w . Robertson; S ecretary, Wm. H orton. 

No. 63—Evart B. M. A.
No, 64—Merrill B. M. A.
No. 65—Kalkaska B. M. A.
No. 66—Lansing B. M. A.

P resid en t, A lt. G. D rake; Secretary, C. S. Blom._______

P resid en t, F ran k  W ells; Secretary , Chas. Cowles.
‘ 
No. 67—Watervliet B.*M. A.  "
P residen t. W. L. G arrett; S ecretary, F.  H.  Merrifield.

P resid en t, H. H.  Pope;  Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.

'  Ho. 68—Allegan B. M. A.
No. 69—Scotts and Climax B. M. A. 
P resident, Lym an C lark; Secretary, F. 8. W illison.
' 
P resident, H. M. Lee; Secreta ry , W. 3. Powers,________
' 
P resident, M. N etzorg;  S ecretary,  Geo. E. C lutterbnck 

Ho. 70—Nashville B. M. A,
No. 71—Ashley B.  M. A.
No. 72—Etlmore B. M. A.
No, 73—Belding B. M. A.
No. 74—Davison M. U.

‘ 
P resid en t, A. L. Spencer; Secretary, O. F. WehBter.

P resident, J.  F. C artw right; Secretary. C. W. Hurd.
' 
P resident, Oscar P. Bills;  Secreta ry , F. Rosacraus.
' 
P resid en t, S. S. McCamly;  Secretary.  Channcey Strong 

No. 75—Tecumseh  B. M. A.
No. 76—Kalamazoo B. M. A.
No.  77—South  Haven B. M.  A. 

No. 78—Caledonia B.  M. A.

P resid en t, E. J. Lockwood; S ecretary, Volney Ross.
' 
P resident, J. O. Seibert;  Secretary, J. W. Saunders. 
No. 79—East Jordan and  So.  Arm  B. M. A, 
P resident, Chas. F. Dixon;  S ecretary, L. C.  Madison. 
No. 80—Bay City and W.  Bay  City  R. M. A 
P resid en t,F . L. H arrison;  Secreta ry , Geo. Craig.

P resident. L. A. Vickery;  S ecretary, A. E. Ransom.

No. 81—Flushing B.  M. A. 
No.  82—Alma B.  M.  A.
Ho. 83—Sherwood B. M. A. 
No. 84—Standish B. M. A. 

P resident, B. S. W ebb;  S ecretary, M. E. Pollasky.

P resid en t. L. P. W ilcox;  S ecretary. W. R. Mandigo.

P resident. P. M. Angus; Secretary, D. W. Richardson.

No. 85—Clio B. M. A.

P resident. J. M. Beem an;  Secretary, C. H. May.
No. 86—Mlllbrook and Blanchard B. M. A. 
P resident.T . W . P reston:  Secretary.  H.  P.  Blanchard. 
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No. 87—Shepherd B. M. A.
P resident, H. D. B ent;  Secretary, A. W . H urst.

An  Inexperienced Financier.

i

Many  are  the  absurd 

transactions 
which take place in banks, some of  them 
showing an overcautiousness  in the care 
of money, and others, like the following 
an amusing ignorance of its value:
A Georgia paper says that a negro,  the 
fortunate  possessor  of a valuable  house 
lot, one  day  sold  his  property for $10,
000. 
He was given a check for that amount 
which was carried  in  due time to one of 
the banks.  The  paying teller asked him 
how much  of  the  money  he  wanted in 
cash.
“I wants all  dat  ar  paper  calls fur,’ 
replied the negro.
“What!  You  don’t  want  $10,000  in 
cash?”
“Jesso,  sah.”
“All right,”  answered the man, and in 
five minutes he began  piling  the  money 
on the counter.
As he laid  the  $500  packages  on  the 
counter the negro’s eyes grew larger and 
Finally,  when  twenty  of  the 
larger. 
packages had been placed before him, he 
looked  intently  at  them  for a moment, 
and then,  with a broad grin on  his  face, 
said:
“I’s jist paralyzed!  Gimme a dollar’n’a 
half, ’n’  you  kin  keep  de rist till I call 
agin.”

What He  Saved.

“What  did  you  save from  the fire  at 
the hotel?”  was  asked  of  a  drummer. 
“Anything of value?”
“Well,  I should say so,”  with a wink. 
“I saved paying atwo weeks’ board bill.”

M A N U F A C T U R E R S
H astings, Mich

Desiring a good location will find the City of

A very desirable place.  The Common Council and the Citizens will furnish

GOOD  SITES

Close to the different railroads.  They  will  take  stock  and give every encourage­

ment.  We have

H a rd   W o o d   L u m b e r

In abundance.  Address at once

Improvement  Committee,

Citp  of  Jtatin p .

Learn to  Speak RespectfuUy.

1 stood in a store, the other  day, when 
a boy  came  in  and  applied  for a situa­
tion.
“Can  you  write  a  good  hand ?”  was 
asked.
“Yaas.”
“Good at figures ?”
“Yaas.”
“Know the city well ?”
“Yaas.”
“That  will  do—I  don’t  want  you,” 
said the merchant.
“But,”  said I, when the boy had  gone, 
“I know that boy to be an honest,  indus­
trious  boy.  Why don’t  you  give  him a 
chance ?”
“Because  he  hasn’t  learned  to  say 
‘Yes, sir,’ and ‘No, sir.’ 
If  he  answers 
me as he did  when  applying for a situa­
tion,  how will he answer  customers after 
being here a month ?”
What  could  I  say  to  that ?  He  had 
fallen into a bad habit, young as he  was, 
which  turned  him  away from  the  first 
situation he had applied for.

VISITING  BUYERS.

G randville

Maston & H am mond,

Sullivan Lum ber Co,
Sullivan
A W Fenton. Bailey 
Spring & Lindley, Bailey 

John Sm ith, Ada 
Wm H ew itt, Cam pbell 
John K am ps.Zutphen 
Jo h n  D am stra.  GitcheU 
G T enH oor,  F orest  Grove F N arregang, Byron C enter 
P  V anden Bosch,  Zeeland  P  B rautigam , No D orr 
D F Clem ent.Spring  Lake  E S Botsford, D orr 
Jo h n  G unstra, Lam ont 
C H Deming. D utton 
C arrington & N orth.  T rent W alling Bros,Lam ont 
Dr S J  Koon, Lisbon 
A H ester & Co, E Jo rd an  
Geo P  S tark, Cascade
N F MiUer,  Lisbon 
C B Shaver, K alkaska
L Cook  B auer 
O B G ranger,  Piainw ell 
J  T P erham , K ent City 
Jno F itzgerald, Baldwin
M M Robson, B erlin 
S S Dryden & Sons,  A llegan E W hite, Lee 
F D W arren,  M artin
J  R aym ond, Berlin 
J W Lovely, Howard City 
J   DenHerder&Son, Overisel
Sm allegan & Pickaard,
Silas Loew, Burnips Cors 
F o rest Grove 
B G ilbert & Co, Moline 
S J  M artin, Sullivan 
1 J Quick, Allendale 
H Dalmon, Allendale 
S McNitt, B yron Center 
W m K arsten,  Beaver  Dam 
A Lowell, L uther 
H M eijering, Jam estow n 
F B W atkins.H opkins Sta 
H V an Noord. Jam estow n 
J  P  Cordes, Alpine 
M A Side, K ent City 
Jo h n  DeVries, Jam estow n 
J  W  Mead, B erlin 
Jo h n  Giles & Co, LoweU 
Sauerbier & Schoefer,
C E Cobum , Pierson 
Jo h n  Baker, Chauncey 
W  Ver H eulen. B eaver Dam 
H A Dailey. Lum berton 
Alex Denton, H ow ard  City
J  Kinney, K inney 
R B Gooding &Son,Gooding L M W olf, Hudsonville 
E E H ew itt.  Rockford
Geo A Sage, Rockford 
HAJÏDWJLRJB.

Big Rapids

The Hardware  Market.

The sheet iron market is firm,  with an 
advancing  tendency.  The  tin  market 
in London and  New  York is firm, heavy 
handlers  holding  for  higher  prices. 
Rope is weak.  The  rumors  relative  to 
the abandonment of the American straw- 
board  Co.  are  without  foundation,  the 
combination having been  reorganized on 
the basis of  $6,000,000 capital, including 
26  mills  and  all the  personal  property 
appertaining  thereto.  The  manager in­
timates that the  price  will  probably be 
advanced from 32 to 35 cents.

P r i c e s   C u r r e n t .

dis.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

T hese  p rices  are  for cash  buyers,  w ho 
pay  prom ptly  and  buy in  fu ll  packages.
60
Ives’, old style  ............................................. 
60
Snell’s.......................................................••• 
Cook’s ..................................  
40
Jennings’, genuine........................................ 
25
Jennings’,  im itation.....................................50&10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze...........................$ 7 00
D.  B. Bronze...........................  11  00
S.B.S. Steel.................................  8 50
D. B. Steel....................................   13 00

AXES.

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dis.
dis.

BALANCES. 
BARROWS. 

dis.

dis.

bolts. 

bells. 

BRACES. 

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, cast. 

Spring  ........................................................... 
4o
Railroad....................................................... $ 14 00
Garden.................................................... net  30 00
Hand......................................................  60&10&10
70
Cow ................................................................ 
Call  ................................................................30&15
Gong.............................................................. 
25
Door, Sargent.................................................60&10
Stove................................................................50&10
Carriage new list........................................... 
75
Plow................................................................ 40&10
Sleigh shoe....................................................  
70
60
Wrought Barrel  Bolts................................... 
40
Cast Barrel Bolts.........................................  
40
Cast Barrell, brass  knobs............................. 
Cast Square Spring........................................ 
60
Cast C hain..................................................... 
40
Wrought  Barrel, brgss knob........................ 
60
Wrought Square..........................................  
  60
Wrought Sunk  Flush...................................  
60
Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob Flush.. .60&10
Ives’ Door........................................................ 60&10
dis.
Barber............................................................  
40
Backus........................................................  50&10
Spofford.........................................................  
50
Am. B a ll........................................................  net
Well,  plain..............................................— * 3 50
Well, swivel..................................................   4 00
dis.
Cast Loose Pin, figured..................................70&
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed....................70&
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed...............60&
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint...............60&10
Wrought Loose Pin........................................ 60&10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip.......................60&05
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned..................... 60&05
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silvertipped .60&05
Wrought  Table.............................................. 60&10
Wrought Inside Blind................................... 60&10
Wrought Brass..............................................  
75
Blind,  Clark’s................................................ 70&10
Blind,  Parker’s...............................................70&10
Blind, Shepard’s ........................................... 
70
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, ’85................ 
40
Bissell  No. 5.................................... per doz.$17 00
19 60
Bissell No. 7, new drop p a n ...........  
Bissell, G rand.................................  
36 00
Grand Rapids...................................  
24 00
Magic................................................ 
15 00
Grain......................................................dis. 50&02
Cast Steel..............................................per®»  4;
3?
Iron, Steel Points.................................   “ 
Ely’s i-10............................".................perm  
(
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Hick’s C. F ........................................... 
l
G. D ...................... ...............................  “ 
i
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Musket................................................. 
“ 
!
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list.. 
Rim Fire, United States.........................dis. 
I
Central  Fire............................................dis. 
!
Socket Firm er............................................... 70&10
Socket Framing............................................. 70&10
Socket Comer.................................................70&10
Socket Slicks.................................................70&10
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer............................ 
40
Barton’s Socket  Firmers..............................  
20
Cold................................................................  net
Curry,  Lawrence’s .......................................40&10
Hotchkiss...................................................... 
25
White Crayons, per  gross.............. 12@12% dis. 10
Brass,  Racking’s...........................................
Bibb’s .............. .............................................
Beer....................  
Fenns’.............................. 
 
Planished, 14 oz cut to size........per pound 
14x52, 14x56,14x60 ........................ 
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60........................ 
Cold Rolled, 14x48.........................................  
Bottoms.........................................................  
dis.
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks............................ 
 
Paper and straight Shank............................. 
Morse’s Taper Shank..................................... 

40&10
60
28
26
24
24
25
40
40
40

CRADLES.
CROW BARS.

CARPET  SWEEPERS.

CHALK.
COCKS.

CARTRIDGES.

chisels. 

drills. 

BLOCKS.

COPPER.

COMBS. 

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DRIPPING PANS.

Small sizes, ser pound.................................  
07
  654
Large sizes, per  pound........................ 
Com. 4  piece, 6 in ............................doz. net 
75
Corrugated...................................... dis. 20&10&10
Adjustable..............................................dis.  5V&10

ELBOWS.

 

S T E E L   S C R A P E R S .

No. 1 holds 7 feet of earth. 
No. 2  “  5  «
No. 3  “  3  “ 

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F o ster, S te v e n s & Co.,

W H O L E S A L E   H A R D W A R E .

10 and 12 Monroe St.

33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 Louis St, 

GRAND

RAPIDS,  MICH.

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EXPANSIVE BITS. 

piles—New List. 

Clark’s, small, $18; large, $26........................ 
30
Ives’, 1, *18;  2, $24;  3, $30............................. 
25
American File Association List....................60&10
Disston’s ........................................................ 60&10
New  American...............................................60&10
Nicholson’s ................................................... 60&10
Heller's........................................................... 
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps..................................... 
50

dis.

GALVANIZED IRON.

Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27 
List 
15 

13 

12 

14 

28
18

Discount, 60

dis.

g a u g e s. 

HAMMERS.

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s......................  
50
Naydole  & Co.’s.......................................dis. 
25
Kip’s ..........................................................dis. 
25
Yerkes & Plumb’s.................................. dis. 40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel..........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand__30c 40&10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 .................................dis.60&l0
State............................................ per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 in. 454  14  and
longer.........................................
3^4
10
.net
Screw Hook and  Eye, 54..............
.net
8H
.net
7/4
IS............
.net
7V4
70
.dis.
Strap and T ....................................

HINGES.

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HANGERS. 

diS.

Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track— 50&10
Champion,  anti-friction..............................   60&10
Kidder, wood track ......................................  
40

HOLLOW WARE

Pots..................................................................60&05
Kettles.............................................................60&05
Spiders........................................................... 60&05
Gray enameled..............................................  
50

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

Stamped  TinW are......................... new list 70&10
Japanned Tin Ware......................................  
25
Granite Iron W are................... new list3354&10

HOES.

HORSE NAILS.

LOCKS—DOOR. 

knobs—New List. 

Grub  1......................................................... $11, dis. 60
Grab 2 .....................................................*11.50, dis. 60
Grub 3 ......................................................... *12, dis. 60
Au Sable................................dis. 25&10@25&10&10
Putnam......................................dis.  5&10&254&254
Northwestern.................................   dis. 10&10&5
dis.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings..................... 
55
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings.................. 
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings..............  
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings.........................  
55
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain................... 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd  &  Co.’s..........................40&10
45
Hemacite.......................................................  
Russell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new l i s t .......... 
55
Mallory, Wheeler  &  Co.’s ............................. 
55
Branford’s ....................................................  
55
55
Norwalk’s .....................................  
 
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ......................  
70
Adze Eye................................................ $16.00, dis. 60
Hunt Eye................................................$15.00, dis. 60
Hunt’s........................................$18.50, dis. 20&10.
dis.
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled......................  
50
dis.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ....................................  
40
40
“  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry & Clark’s.................. 
40
“  Enterprise.........................................  
25
Stebbin’s Pattern...........,.............................. 60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine..........................................60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring........................... 
2b

LEVELS. 
MATTOCKS.

mauls. 
mills. 

MOLASSES GATES. 

dlS.

dis.

dis.

 

NAILS
Advance above 12d nails.

FENCE  AND  BRADS.

FINE BLUED.

CASTING AND BOX.

25
50d to 60d........................................................ 
10
lOd................................................................... 
8d and 9d.......................................................  
25
6d and 7d.......................................................  
40
4dand5d........................................................ 
60
3d....................................................................   1  00
2d....................................................................  1  50
..........  1  00
..........  1  50
2d  .....................................................................  2 00
50
12d to 30d........................................................ 
60
lOd................................................................... 
8d to 9d  .........................................................  
75
6dto7d........................................................... 
90
4d to 5d................................................................  1 10
3d.........................................................................  1 50
%  inch...........................................................
%  “ 
..........................................................   2 25
1% and  1% inch.............................................  1  35
2  and 2% 
“ 
2% and 2%  “ 
3 inch.............................................................. 
3*4 and 4%  inch............................................. 

COMMON BARREL.

CLINCH.

85
75

 

 

 

Each half keg 10 cents extra.

oilers. 

dis.

Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent........................... 60&i0
Zinc, with brass bottom................................ 
50
Brass or Copper —   ......................................  
50
Reaper................................,.... .per gross, *12 net
Olmstead’s ............................ 
50&10
PLANES. 
diS.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy..................................40@10
Sciota Bench.................................................  @60
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy..........................40@10
Bench, first quality........................................  @60
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood............20&10
60
Fry,  Acme...............................................dis. 
Common,  polished..................................dis. 
70
50
Iron and  Tinned........................................... 
Copper Rivets and Burs................................ 
50
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT FLANISHED IRON.

r ivets. 

Broken packs %c per pound extra.

FANS.

dis.

ROPES.
 

 

 

dis.

squares. 

Sisal, % inch and larger..............................   12%
Manilla................. 
14%
75
Steel and Iron................................................ 
Try and Bevels.............................................. 
60
M itre...............  
20
SHEET IRON.Com.  Smooth.  Com.
$3 00
3 00
3 10
3 15
3 25
3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

$4  20 
Nos. 10 to  14............................. 
Nos. 15 to 17 ......................................  4  20 
Nos.  18 to 21.......................................  4 20 
Nos. 22 to 24 ......................................  4  20 
Nos. 25 to 26 ............................ 
4  40 
No. 27 .................................................  4 60 
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SAND PAPEB.

SASH CORD.

List acct. 19, ’86......................................dis. 
Silver Lake, White  A...............................list 
Drab A ..................................  “ 
White  B...............................   “ 
Drab B..................................   “ 
White C.................................  “ 

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40
50
55
50
55
35

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

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saws. 

tacks. 

SAUSAGE SUUFFEBS OB FILLERS.

»Extras sometimes given by jobbers.
“  Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,__  
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot__  
“  Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... 
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X 
Cuts,  per  foot.............................................. 
dis.
 

Solid Eyes..............................................per ton *25
Miles’ “Challenge” __ per doz. $20, dis. 50@50&05
Perry...................per doz. No. 1, $15;  No. 0,
.................................................*21;  dis. 50@50&5
Draw Cut No. 4............................ each, $30, dis  30
Enterprise Mfg. Co.......................... dis. 20&10@30
Silver’s................................................... dis.  40&10
Disston’s Circular.....................................45@45&5
Cross Cut................................... 45@45<&5
H and.............................  
25@25&5
Atkins’  Circular...........................................dis.  9
70
50
30
28
American, all kinds.................................. 
60
Steel, all  kinds.............................................. 
60
Swedes, all kinds........................................... 
60
Gimp and Lace.............................................. 
60
Cigar Box Nails............................................  
50
Finishing  Nails............................................  
50
Common and  Patent  Brads.........................  
50
Hungarian Fails and Miners’ Tacks.....................  50
Trunk and Clout N ails............................... 
 
  50
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails  ...................  
45
Leathered Carpet Tacks................................ 
35
Steel, Game.....................................................60&10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ................ 
35
70
Oneida  Community, Hawley & Norton’s .... 
Hotchkiss’...................................................... 
70
P. S. & W.  Mfg. Co.’s  ................................... 
70
Mouse,  choker................................. 18c per doz.
Mouse, delusion...............................*1.50 per doz.
dis.
Bright Market................................................  67%
Annealed Market........................................... 70&10
Coppered Market...........................................  62%
Extra Bailing..............................,...............  
55
Tinned Market.....................  
62%
Tinned  Broom.................................. per pound 09
Tinned Mattress..............................per pound 814
Coppered  Spring  Steel.................................  
50
Tinned  Spring Steel...................................... 40&10
Plain Fence.......................................per pound 03
Barbed  Fence, galvanized..................................$3 75
painted.......................................   3 00
Copper.............................................. 
Brass................................................. 
WIRE GOODS.
Bright.......................................
Screw  Eyes..............................
Hook’s ...................................... .
Gate Hooks and Eyes..............
WRENCHES.

lew list net
“  “  “
dis.
.70&10&10
..70&10&1G
..70&10&1C
..70&10&10

30
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled..................... 
Coe’s  Genuine.............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..........  
75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable................................ 75&10

traps. 

wire. 

dis.

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MISCELLANEOUS. 

Bird Cages........................................... 
 
Pumps, Cistern.........................................  
Screws, New List........................................... 
Casters, Bed  and  Plate.................... 
Dampers, American...................................... 
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods.

50
75
50
50&10&10
  40
65

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PIG TIN.

COPPER.

INGOT.

ZINC.

Pig  Large...........................................................280
Pig Bars..............................................................300

Duty:  Pig, Bar  and  Ingot,  4c;  Old  Copper,  3e
Copper is a component of  chief  value), 45  per 
cent  ad valorem.  For large lots  the following 
quotations are shaded:

Lake....................................................
“Anchor” Brand................................

.............18)4
...  ..........18

1 15

LEAD.

pound.  Pipe and Sheets 3c per pound.

Duty:  Sheet, 2%c per pound.
600 pound  casks.................................
.............. 6%
Per pound...........................................
..........7®7%
Duty:  Pig, $2 per 100 pounds.  Old  Lead, 2c per 
American  .....................................................@5
Newark........................................................... @5
B ar......................................................................... 6
Sheet....................................................... 8c, dis. 20
%<&%.........................................................1«
Extra W iping...................................................13%
The  prices  of 
the many  other  qualities  of
solder in the market indicated by private brands 
—  
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY.

SOLDER.

Cookson......................................... per  pound  14%
Hallett’s........................................ 
11M
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10xi4IC, Charcoal.........................................C  6 00
14x20 IC, 
...  6 0C
12x12IC, 
...  6 2S
10 06
14x14 IC, 
10x28 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
7  75
14x20 IX, 
7  75
12x12 IX, 
8  00
14x14 IX, 
12  50
20x28 IX, 

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Each additional X on this grade, C1.75.

1 60

 
 
 
 

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10x14 IC,  Charcoal.......................................S 5 50
14x20IC, 
5 40
 
12x12 IC, 
5  65
 
9  25
 
14x14 IC, 
29x28 IC, 
........ .................................  1180
6  90
 
10x14 IX, 
6  90
 
14x20 IX, 
7  15
 
12x12 IX, 
14x14 IX, 
 
11  65
20x28 IX, 
 
14  80

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14x20 IC, Terne  M. F ....................................$ 7 60
....................................   15 75
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, “  Worcester..................................   5 50
...........................   7 00
14x20 IX, 
..........................  11  50
29x28 IC, 
14x20IC, 
4  90
14x20 IX, 
6  40
20x28 IC, 
10  50
13  50
20x28 IX, 

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ROOFING PLATES
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14X28  IX..........................................................«12 00
14x31  r x ............................................................13 50
14x60 ix ’ 
09

|  B°Uers! j. pgr pound.... 

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HAKDWOOD  LUMBER.

The furniture factories  here pay as follows for I 
dry  stock,  measured  merchantable,  mill  culls j 
out:
.13 00@15 00 
Basswood, log-run......
.15 00@16 00 
Birch,  log-run.............
@22  00 
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2......
.14 00@16 00 
Black Ash, log-run......
.25 00@40 00 
Cherry, log-run...........
.60 00@65 00 I 
Cherry, Nos. 1  and  2...
@12  00 
Cherry, Cull.................
.12 00@13 00 I 
Maple, log-run...........
.11  00@13 00 
Maple,  soft, log-run... 
@20 00 
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2—  
@25 00 
Maple,  clear, flooring. 
@25 00 
Maple,  white, selected
Red Oak, log-run........
.20  00@21  00 
.26 00©28 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and
Red Oak, Ya. sawed, 6 inch and upw’d.38 00@40 00
Red Oak, % sawed, regular................. 30 00©32 00
Red Oak, No. 1, step plank.................   @25 00
Walnut, log ru n...................................  @55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2...........................  @‘? 00
Walnuts, c u ll...................................... 
£0
Grey Elm, log-run................................12 00@13 05
White Aso. log-run..............................14 00@lo 00
Whitewood. log-run............................20 00@22 00
White Oak, log-run................... ..........17 00@18 00
White Oak, 34 sawed, Nos. 1 and 2— 42 00@43 00 |
G.  M.  MUNGER  &  CO..
Successors to Allen’s Laundry. |
Mail and Express orders  attended  to with 

GRAND  R A PID S.

P’ omptness.  N ice W ork, Q uick Tim e

Satisfaction Guaranteed.

W.  E. HALL. Jr., 

.

.

.

  Manager. |

WANTED.

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED! 

FRUIT,  BEANS 

and all kinds of Produce.

If you have  any  of  the  above  goods to I 
ship, or anything in  the  Produce  line, let 
ns hear  from  you.  Liberal cash advances | 
made when desired.

E A R L   B R O S . ,  

Co m m issio n M e r c h a n t s j

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO. 

Reference:  F ir s t  Na tiona l  Bank,  Chicago. 
Mich ig a n T radesman. Grand Rapids.

illE DOLLARS FINE,

Or imprisonment for ten days, is  the  legal  pen- j 
alty for selling  tobacco  in  any form to a minor 
without  a  written  order  from  the  parent  or 
guardian.  To

onform 

to 

Merchants  should  procure  a  supply  of  blank 
orders, which will be sent postpaid on receipt of 
postal note, as follows:

350  TOBACCO  ORDERS  - 
50 0  
1  OOO 

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.75
-  L 2 5
-  2.00
by 

remit-
All  orders  must be  accompanied 
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WEDNESDAY.  JUEY  31,  1889.

THE  RIGHT  OF  HIGHW AY.

T h e  T r a d esm a n  must  applaud  the 
members  of  the  Salvation  Army  who 
went to jail in Quincy, Mass., rather than 
pay a fine for parading without a license. 
They are defending  the right to free use 
of  the streets and  highways of  America, 
against  preposterous  restrictions  which 
have  grown  up  in  some  parts  of  our 
country.  There  is  a  notion  that  the 
community  which  creates  streets  and 
roads  has  the  right to  prescribe  under 
what conditions they shall be used.  The 
fact is that  the  making of  public  high­
ways  is a condition  on  which  mankind 
at  large  has  consented to the establish­
ment of  private  ownership of  the  lands 
and tenements past which such highways 
run.  The  rights  of  the  human  race in 
this  planet  antedate  the  rights  of  the 
people of  Quincy to their town lots;  and 
the 
latter  are  held  in  severalty  on 
condition  that  mankind shall be embar­
rassed  as  little as possible in its parsing 
to  and  fro  on  its  legitimate  errands. 
Another  false  notion  is  that  while one 
man or two  men  or  five  men  may  use 
streets or roads without  restriction,  fifty 
or a hundred  moving  together  must ask 
leave.  Until  it  can  be  shown that the 
hundred  obstruct  needlessly the  use by 
.  one or five, the  right of  the  hundred  is 
t  proportionally greater  than  that  of  the 
smaller  number.  To  parade  on 
the 
streets or highways is  just  as  lawful as 
to walk on them,  and he who  pays a fine 
inflicted for parading  abandons in so far 
a natural  and  universal right, on which 
parochial  legislation  has  encroached. 
This  was  the  position  taken  by  the 
English courts as to the use of  the streets 
of  English towns by this  same Salvation 
Army,  when  the  mayors  of  the  towns 
tried  to  suppress  their  parades  by the 
authority  of  municipal  ordinances. 
Lastly,  there  is  the  modern  and  false 
idea that religious meetings are properly 
in-door affairs, and may be driven off the 
streets whenever the public pleases.  All 
great  religious  movements—Buddhism, 
primitive  Christianity,  the  Friars,  the 
Reformation,  Quakerism,  Methodism 
made their power felt in the open air and 
in masses w ho w'ouldnot come to church. 
A formal  and  self-satisfied  church  may 
encase  itself  in  brick  and  mortar;  an 
earnest  church  will  “go  out 
into  the 
highways  and  hedges  and compel them 
to come in.”

It always is said in such  cases that the 
offenders  should  have  applied  for  a 
“license,” and it  would  not  have  been 
refused.  That 
is  exactly  what  they 
should not have done.  To  ask  for  per­
mission is to admit  the  right of  refusal, 
and that the Salvation Army never should 
admit.
SET  BACK  FOR  THE

SALT  TRUST.
About  ten  days  ago  the  propagators 
of thé salt trust, yclept the North Ameri­
can Salt Company,  announced  that  sub­
scription books had been opened in  New 
York  and  London  for  the  §11,000,000 
stock  and  $4,000,000  bonds  which  the 
corporation proposed to float,  accompan­
ied  by the  statement  that  there  would 
undoutedly  be  twice  as  many offerings 
as could be accepted.  Such a statement 
was made by President Burt to a reporter 
of  the  Detroit Free Press last  Tuesday, 
at which time the Salt  King  claimed  to 
have  telegrams  and  cablegrams  in  his 
possession  to  substantiate  his  claim. 
When the books were  closed  on  Thurs­
day night,  however,  it  was  found  that 
barely  $2,000,000  had  been  subscribed, 
which  so  disheartened the directors that 
they authorized the  Associated  Press ta 
make the following statement:
While the subscriptions have been very 
numerous  and  in  the  aggregate  large, 
the trustees feel that they are  not  justi­
fied  in  proceeding  to  an  allotment  of 
shares  on  the  present  basis  without 
further conference  with subscribers and 
venders.  This, on account of subscribers 
being on both sides  of  the Atlantic,  and 
the venders  widely separated,  wrill take 
time,  and it has  been  decided to return 
subscriptions  and  postpone  further  ac­
tion until these  negotiations can be com­
pleted.
This  action  of  the directors undoubt­
edly sounds the death  knell  of  the pro­
posed trust.  The  refusal  of  capitalists 
to invest in the enterprise  plainly shows 
the distrust  with  which  men  of  money 
have  begun to regard large  monopolistic 
undertakings  and presages the  eventual 
downfall of such aggregations of capital 
as  soon  as  the  people  wake  from  the 
lithargy in  which  they appear  to  have 
fallen.

A  ft ARP  NUT  TO  CRACK.

The  Detroit  Journal  thus  refers to a 
subject which is perplexing  the business 
men of  more than one Michigan  town 
trying 
very hard to see if  water works really do

Several  Michigan  towqs  are 

ANNUAL  REPORT

Oct.

C onvention.

Of  S e c re ta ry   S to w e  to   th e   M u sk eg o n  

cut down insurance rates.  Not answered j 
yet.
It has been  the  experience of  the past j 
that the  greater  safeguards the business I 
A  year  has  passed  since  we met  at 
Cheboygan,  where  we  parted  company 
men  adopted  against  fire  and  the more; 
with the firm  determination  of  pushing 
perfect  municipalities  made their water j 
the  work of  organization even more  en­
works,  the  higher  the  insurance  rates
ergetically than it  had  been  pushed  in 
were  raised.  Such  was  the  condition  __  __   ___
In some  respects  we have ac-
the past. 
under  the  “board’’  system,  which  the I complished fully as much as we expected;
in other  respects,  we  have not  fulfilled
business men of  the  State  impelled  the j 
the promise of a year ago.
Legislature  to  stamp  with  the  seal  of 
I assume that the first  thing  you  will 
infamy.  Under  the  present  system  of 
w ant to ascertain is  our financial  condi­
tion.  Our receipts have been as follows:
“rating  bureaus,”  which  resemble  the 
21  Cheboygan................................. $  I  80
defunct “board”  in about  the  same pro­
Aug.
40 00 
4  Kalamazoo...........
Sept.
8  30 
portion  that  the  shadow  does  the sub­
13  Frank  Hamilton...
16  00 
21  Lowell...................
stance,  T h e  T r a d esm a n  believes  that 
10  00 
26  Tustin...................
36  50 
29  Owosso  .................
the insurance companies are endeavoring 
IT  00 
1  Davison.................
10 50
to do the insuring public justice and that 
Morley
Dimondale................................. 
8 00
improvements  tending  to reduce the fire 
Nashville...................................   14 50
Dorr........  .................................  ®
risk will bring  about a corresponding re­
Ashley........................................ 
8 50
duction  in  rates.  Such  is certainly the 
Saugatuck.................................. 
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Palo...........................................   J   50
policy  of  the  Grand  Rapids  manager, 
Traverse City............................   50  00
Battle Creek..............................   40 00
with  whose  work  T h e  T r a desm a n  is 
Ada............................................  
3 50
Lansing......................................  40  50
somewhat familiar.
Bellaire......................................  10 00
Plainwell...................................  1®  50
South  Haven.............................  *1  00
Fife Lake................................... 
4 00
Caledonia  .................................  1*  00
Rockford...................................   16 50
Quincy.......................................  U  50
watery liet.................................  
4 00
30 00 
Flint
15 00 
Charlevoix...............................
35 00 
Greenville................................
3 00 
East Jordan and South Arm... 
3 00 
Bay City and West Bay City... 
6  50
Breckenridge —
3  Flushing...................................- 
3 00
6  00 
Boyne City
26 50 
8 East Saginaw 
...
7 50 
8 Flushing...........
1  00 
11 South Haven.....
19 50 
18 Bangor...............
18 50 
29. Alma..................
50 
30 Breckenridge  —
7  50 
31 Sherwood..........
15 00 
5 Manistee............
2 50 
5 South Boardman
10 00 
6 Cheboygan........
2  00 
Plainweil...........
4 00 
K ngsley.............
15 00
Harbor  Springs..
Fennville...................................  10 00
Grand Haven............................   15  00
Manistee....................................   14  50
Bellevue..................................... 
¿50
Evart..........................................  
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Caledonia................................... 
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As T h e  T ra d esm a n goes on the  press 
this  week,  representatives  of  the  bus­
iness men of  the  State  are  gathering at 
Muskegon for a three days’ discussion of 
the  subjects  most  vitally affecting their 
interests.  Previous  conventions  of  this 
character have wrought great good to the 
business public and there is every reason 
to  believe  that  the  fourth  convention 
will fully equal, if  not exceed,  its prede­
cessors in this respect.

The  only regret  suggested by the con­
vention is that every business man in the 
State  is  not  directly  interested  in  the 
meeting  and  its  work  and is not a part 
and parcel of  the  Association which ren­
ders  the  holding  of  such  conventions 
possible.  ______________ _

THE  MUSKEGON  M EETING.

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Dec.

March

The investigation  which  has  resulted 
in  the  appeal  of  Convict  Klemmer 
against  the  infliction  of  death  by elec­
tricity,  has  brought  out  a  great  deal 
which  was  not  known to the New York 
Legislature when  the  law was passed to 
substitute  the  electric  shock  for  the 
hangman’s  noose.  One electrician after 
another has given testimony to the  effect 
that there  is  no  absolute  certainty that 
such a shock  will  kill. 
It  was  said by 
one  witness  that it was possible to raise 
the tension to a point  which  he thought 
would  be  certain  to  produce 
instan 
taneous  death,  but  it  would  be  at the 
risk  of  bursting  the  generating  ap 
paratus and killing the attendants.  Yet 
the most  powerful artificial current pro 
duces  only  a  spark  ef  a  few  feet  ii 
length,  while  people  have 
recovered 
from being struck by a flash of lightning 
which is at least half a mile long.  Other: 
doubted  whether  any  shock  would  be 
certain  to  produce  death  in every case 
The effect of  electricity on different tem 
peraments  differs  as much as the effect 
of  alcohol,  or  even  more.  What  prob 
ably would  be  sure  death to one, might 
merely inflict the most  terrible  sufferin 
on  another,  or  produch a  temporary pa 
ralysis of  the vital  and sentient powers 
Therefore, the  law  is  defective  in  pre 
scribing that death shall be inflicted by 
means  which  will  not  certainly put  an 
end to life.  And  it  is  unconstitutional 
because  it  would  inflict  the “cruel and 
unusual  punishment”  forbidden  by  the 
State Constitution,  where  death  was not 
the  result.  Under  the  weight  of  thi 
testimony,  it  is  not  unlikely’  that  the 
Court of  Appeals  will  set  the law aside 
on  constitutional  grounds, and we shall 
hear no more of  this  new  fad  in  penal 
legislation.

T h e  T ra desm a n regrets  to  note  that 
a number  of  building and loau  assoeia 
tions  organized  in  other  states,  w’here 
the  laws  governing  such  organizatious 
are more lax than in Michigan,  are gain­
ing a foothold in  different  parts  of  the 
State.  Michigan  has  an  excellent  law 
in this  respect  and  there  is  no  reason 
for seeking  outside  connections,  unless 
the men  who are aiding the invaders are 
more  anxious  to  build  up  Minneapolis 
and  other  outside  cities  than  they are 
our own cities and towns.  Leaving aside 
the responsibility of  these outside enter­
prises, which in several cases is a matter 
of  grave doubt,  T h e  T r a d esm a n ques­
tions the policy of  going abroad for any­
thing  when a better  article  can  be  ob­
tained  at home.

The  Detroit  News is making a desper­
ate attempt to secure a subscription foot­
hold in Grand Rapids, but this end of the 
institution  does  not  appear to have  the 
co-operation  of  the  home  office.  The 
vituperative  editorial  attack  on 
the 
West  Michigan  Fair,  which  is  one  of 
the enterprises in which  the  Valley City 
takes especial pride,  and the  savage  on­
slaught  on  President  Ramsdell,  are 
hardly calculated  to  increase the esteem 
in which the News is held in this locality.
The American Express Co.  is so fortu­
nate as to have an  Angell  in its employ, 
but he is lacking in most of the attributes 
of  the  real angel.  Business courtesy is 
a  comparative  stranger  in his  locality, 
while  fairness  and  equity are  qualities 
he  has  never  cultivated.  Anyone  who 
has suffered a Joss  at  the  hands  of  his 
company,  and  placed  the  claim  in  his 
hands  for  adjustment,  will  appreciate 
the justness of the above criticism.

May
July
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April  2  Evart.........................................   ®
Sherwood........................................ 
Mill brook and  Blanchard........ 
Shepherd........................................  
Millbrook and  Blanchard........ 
19  Sherman......................................... 

1 00
1 50
1 00
Total  receipts........................................... $U4 10
Eleven new charters have been granted 
during the past year—No. 77 to 87, inelu- 
ive, from which  the  State body derived 
i revenue of $33.
In accordance with the  instructions  of 
the  Executive  Board,  I  deposited  the 
funds  of  the  Association  in  the  Kent 
County Savings Bank,  remitting same  to 
Treasurer Sprague as fast as the deposits 
reached $100.  I have, accordingly, made 
the Treasurer eight  remittances,  as  fol­
lows:
Sept.  1 Cheek  No.  1 —
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Jet.  8
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“  17
“  4....
Dec. 15
“  5....
“  24
“  6....
Feb.  6
"  8....
July 26

I  nheck  No.  1.................................$100 00
..  100 00 
..  100 00 
..  100 00 
..  100 00
.............   100 00
100 00 
74  10
Total......................................................ST74 10
I have  double  vouchers  for  these  re­
mittances—the receipts of  the Treasurer 
and the canceled checks.
Our  receipts  show’ a slight  falling off 
from  those  of  the  previous  fiscal  year, 
which  amounted  to $841.06.  Our  mem­
bership also shows a considerable shrink­
age, having decreased from 2,436 to 1,570. 
This is due to  the  failure of  thirty-nine 
of  our local bodies to remit the per capita 
tax.  Had  these'reported  on  the  same 
basis as the  year before, our  total  mem­
bership  could  not  have  fallen  short of 
3,000.  Frequent  notifications  of  the de­
linquency have  been  sent out during the 
year,  with  but  little  apparent effect, no 
amount of  printed  and  written  appeals 
having produced the desired effect.
Two charters have been  surrendered— 
Eastport, No.  8, and  Oceana, No. 30.
While  no  headway has been  made, 
far  as  increase  of  membership  is  con­
cerned, marked progress has  been  made 
in several  directions,  a partial  record of 
w’hich will be embodied  in the reports of 
the  several  committees. 
I  note a grad­
ual growth of  the  respect  in  w’hich the 
Association  is  held,  both on the part of 
members  and  those  who  are  not mem­
bers—a  disposition  to  recognize  in  the 
Association  the  embodiment of  the best 
aims  and  efforts  of  business  men  gen­
erally.  This  is  certainly a partial  com­
pensation  for  the  thought  and  energy 
given our organization.
The Association has come  to be looked 
upon as a mediator  between  the  whole­
sale  aud  retail  trade,  and  its  kindly 
offices  have  frequently been  invoked in 
the  interest of  fairness.
We have  been  officially recognized by 
the  Treasury Department,  at  Washing­
ton,  and  by the  Insurance  Departments 
of  several states.  An exchange of  court­
esies  with the  Insurance  Commissioner 
of  New’  Hampshire  has  been  particu­
larly acceptable to us,  as it  has  enabled 
us to keep pace  with  the progressive in­
surance movement in the  Granite  State.
The delinquent reports not  being suffi­
ciently lmmerous  to  warrant  the publi­
cation  of  monthly  sheets,  as  originally 
intended, wre  have  gotten  them  out  bi­
monthly instead.  This  has  been  in the 
interest of  economy,  at least.
I renew’  my recommendation of  a year 
ago,  that  the  State  body undertake the 
publication  of  all  regularly  listed  de­
linquents on the  monthly sheets.  Aside 
from bringing both State  and  local asso­
ciations into  closer  relationship, this ar­
rangement would furnish the  local  asso­
ciations  their  lists  more  regularly  and 
promptly  than  they now  get  them  out 
themselves, while  the  expense would be 
very much  less  than  under  the present 
system.
I recommend that  both  State and local 
constitutions he  amended so that the Ex­
ecutive  Committee  shall  consist  of  the 
chairmen of  the  various  standing  com­
mittees. 
In the State body, for instance, 
the  chairman of  each committee is thor­
oughly conversant  with  the work of  his 
committee,  and  a  number of  such  men 
can  more  readily familiarize themselves 
with  the  condition  of  the  Association 
than under the present system.
Recognizing  the  value  of  our  report 
and the demand for it for  filing purposes 
from Boards of  Trade and  other  similar 
organizations, I  recommend  that  it  he

printed  in  book  form,  worthy of  pres­
ervation,  the  contract  to  be  let  to  the 
lowest responsible bidder, advance sheets 
to  be  furnished any journal  wishing  to 
make use of  same.
I  come  now  to  the  mention  of  some 
matters of  a personal  character. 
I have 
filled  the  office  of  Secretary  for  three 
years and its  duties  have  always been a 
pleasure  to  me;  but I recognize  the  de­
sirability  of  frequent  rotation  in  office 
and  that  the  success of  the Associatiou 
can be best  promoted by passing  around 
the  loaves  and  fishes.  While  it  would 
seem  like  parting  with  an old friend to 
turn  the  duties  of  the  office  over  to 
another,  I am  fully  persuaded  that  the 
best interests of  the Association demand 
that the  position  be  given  to  some  one 
who  can  accord  it  more painstaking at­
tention.
In conclusion. I  desire  to  express  my 
thanks to President  Wells  and the other 
officers  and  committees of  the  Assoeia 
tion  for  the  ready  assistance they have 
accorded  me  on  every  occasion  where 
assistance was  possible,  and to the mem 
hers generally for  their  forbearance and 
co-operation.

F in al  P re p a ra tio n s  fo r  th e   C o n v en tio n  

b y   th e   S a w d u s t  A sso ciatio n  

From  the M uskegon News, July 25.
The  Muskegon  Business  Men’s Asso 
ciation met last evening  at  the rooms of 
the  Association,  in  adjourned  regular 
session.  Among  the  members  present 
were  President  J.  A.  Miller,  Secretary 
C.  L.  Whitney,  Jacob  Jesson,  David 
Hirschfield,  Geo. Burdick,  L. C. Mangold, 
M.  Duquette,  M.  II. Desky,  Wm.  Peer, 
R. W.  Greenizen,  P.  J.  Connell, Ernest 
Eimer,  W.  H. Barney and  R.  S. Squires.
At the  session of  July 17, the Associa­
tion  devoted  its  time  mainly to discus­
sion of  the coming visit of  the  Michigan 
Business Men’s Association  here on July 
30.  Matters  arose  which  could  not be 
settled then, and the  meeting  adjourned 
to last evening.  As it was an  adjourned 
regular  session, the Association resolved 
to  first  consider  what  other  business 
there might be before it,  and then devote 
its attention to the matter in hand.
Ernest  Eimer,  chairman of  the  Com­
mittee on Manufactures,  reported  the re­
ceipt of  the following communication : 

Dear Sir—We  are  negotiating  for  a 
change  in  location.  Our  proposition i: 
to make a stock  company of  $50,000, cit 
izens of  the  city  w here  we are to locate 
to  take  $15,000 of  stock, payable as fol 
lows:  $5,000 when the machinery arrives 
$5,000  when  factory  is  ready  to  start 
$2.000 when we work tw'enty girls, $3,000 
when we  work  forty girls.  We propo 
moving  as soon as room  can be obtained 
for factory, and can be ready for work in 
thirty days.  We furnish  machinery suf 
ficient  for  the  manufacture of  seventy 
five  dozen  corsets  per day, and transfer 
all  our  interest  in  valuable  patents 
$5,000 of  the  stock  to  be  held  in  the 
treasurer’s hands, to be sold when neces 
sary. by order of  the  board of  directors 
We  shall  employ  seventy-five  to  100 
girls,  as fast as  they can  be  learned the 
business.  The stock  will  certainly pay 
good dividends  and  the  factory will  be 
of  greater  material  benefit  than  male 
employment.  Girls  earn  from  $5  to 
per week. 
If  you think  your people cle
re such a factory and  will  probably in 
vest  the  amount  named,  we  will  meet 
vour people,  provided that  other  partie 
have not  taken it.

Mer c h a n t s’  Co rset  Co

The  communication  wras  referred  to 
the Committee,  with  power to act in the 
matter.  Mr.  Eimer  proposes  to  show 
the  letter  of  the  company  to  variou 
business men  of  this city,  and ascertain 
their views  on  the  subject.  This  was 
the course recommended by the  Assoeia 
tion.

C. L. Whitney was  selected to respond 
to the  toast  “Our  Guests.”  President 
Miller stated that the club  house • wou 
be open to the  members  of  the  eonven 
tion and  to  visiting  business  men. 
circular  will  soon  be issued to the busi 
ness  men  of  the city urging them to at 
tend  the  sessions  of  the convention 
the  papers  and  resultant  talks  will be 
to the point and of  great benefit.  There 
is one special paper which should attract 
a  large  attendance:  “The  best method 
of  securing manufacturing enterprises 
by A.  O.  Wheeler,  of  Manistee.  Thi 
and the  discussion following  will  prob 
ably be one of the most important of  the 
meeting, especially to Muskegon.
Alternate  delegates to the  convention 
were elected as follows,  the regular del 
egates having  been elected  July 17:
D.  Baker,  R. W.  Greenizen,  J. D.  Sheri­
dan. A. C. Truesdel. J. D.  Huntley, Reed 
Davies,  L.  G.  Mason,  M.  Duquette, 
W.  H. Barney,  Peter Wintermute,  C. C. 
Moulton, W.  H. Irvine.
After the adjournment of  the Associa­
tion,  the  Executive  Committee  met  to 
consider some matters in connection with 
the  convention.  Ernest Eimer. Geo. R. 
Forshee  and  L.  C.  Mangold  were  ap­
pointed a committee to  attend  to  decor­
ating  good  templars’  hall,  where  the 
business meetings of the convention  will 
be held.  The same  gentlemen were also 
constituted a committee  to  attend to the 
placing  of  banners in the street decora­
tions.  A motion  passed  the  committee 
to hire the opera  house orchestra for the 
reception  ceremonies at the opera  house 
on Tuesday evening.'  The matter  of  is­
suing complementary tickets to the excur­
sion  and  banquet,  to  persons  outside 
of  the  Association,  was referred  to  the 
Committee on Arrangements, with power 
to act.
□ The  simplest  and  most  natural man­
ners are the  easiest  and best for a sales­
man, but they are also the  most  difficult 
to acquire, for  simplicity  is  the highest 
attainment of art.

piilskepn  Paper  Go,,

Dealers in

f in e   s t a t io n e r y ,  w r a p p in g
PAPERS, PAPER BAGS, TWINEsT 

WOODEN  DISHES,  ETC.

Mail  Orders  Promptly  Filled.

44 Pine St.,  Muskegon, Mich.

N o   C h e m ic a ls .

fl|M

Breakfast  Cocoa
Is absolutely  pure 

i j

m

and  it  is  soluble.
To  increase  the  solubility  of 
the powdered cocoa, various expe­
dients are employed,  most of them 
beina  based  upon  the  action of  some  alkali, potash, soda  or 
even ammonia.  Cocoa  which  has been  prepared  by one of 
these chemical processes  can  usually be  recognized  at  once 
by the distinct alkaline reaction of the infusion in water.
W .  Baker & Co.’s  Breakfast Cocoa
is  manufactured  from  the  first  stage  to  the^last  by  perfect 
mechanical  processes,  no  chemical  being  used  m  
its preparation.  By one of the most ingenious of these 
mechanical  processes  the  greatest  degree  of  fineness  is 
secured w ithout the sacrifice of  the  attractive  and  beautiful 
red color  which  is  characteristic  of  an absolutely pure and 
natural cocoa.
W . Baker & Co., Dorchester, Mass.

CANDY!;

_______  

We  manufacture  a  full 
line,  carry  a  heavy  stock, 
and  warrant  our  goods  to 
be  STRICTLY  PURE  and 
1 first class.

I * U L N A  AT  &   B R O O K S .

the  LawJ W E   L E A D
s  Follow.

L et 

f

N o t   a   q u e s t i o n   o f   'VSftio  C a n ,  b u t   W h o   ' W i l l  

s e l l   t h e   B e s t   G o o d s  f o r  t h e  L o w e s t   P r i c e s .

OUR NEW TEAS ÄRE NOW RERDY FOR  INSPECTION,
Teller Spice Company

1  and  3  Pearl  St.,  Grand  Rapids.

S.  K.

BOLLES.

S .   K.  Bolles  &   Co.,

77  CANAL  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

W holesale  Cigar  Dealers.

E.  B.  DIKEMAN.

i i

T O S S   U P T »

We  will  forfeit  $1,000  if  the  “TOSS  UP 
Cigar  is  not  a  Clear  Long  Havana  Filler  of 
excellent quality,  equal  to  more  than  the  aver­
age ten cent cigars on the market.

E A   T U

To th e Hass Booh•

i Such is the fate of the  Pass Book System wherever it comes in

The Finest 5-gI. Cigar ]M M iIrerl.

LONG HAVANA FILLER.
A  -   S .   D A V I S
127 Louis  St.,  Grand  Rapids.

THEY HAVE NO EQUAL.

•Tradesman  Gredit  Coupon

contact with the

THE  "EDITOR’S  GH01GE,"

FLINT, Mifih.. April 9,1869.

To Whom it May Concern:
We,  the  undermined  committee,  se­
lected by Geo.  T.  Warren  &  Co. tocan- 
vas the list of names and select one for a 
Cigar Label from the  many names sent 
in  by  the  contestants,  have  this  day 
selected the following,  viz:  EDITOR'S 
CHOICE,  sent  in  by  Sig  Wolf,  o f\ 
Toledo,  Ohio.

J ohn J. Coon, E ditor F lin t Jo u rn al 
F. H. Rankin. J r ., o f W olverine Citizen 
A. L. Aldrich, o f th e F lin t Globe.

OUR  NEW  BRAND  OF CIGARS,

‘E D I T O R ’S   C H O I C E ’

Will be ready for  shipment  in  about 

two weeks.

Price, Thirty-Tliree Dollars per Thousand.
We  shall be pleased to receive a sample  order 

from you. 

Yours respectfully,

Geo, T. Warren  k Go.

Which is now used by over 2,600  Michigan  merchants.

The Tradesman Coupon  is  the  cheapest  and  most modern in 

the market, being sold as follows:

“

“ 
“ 

per hundred.

 
10 
.............20 

$  2 Coupons 
$  5
$10 
$20

.$2.50  SUBJECT  TO  THE  FOLLOWING DISCOUNTS:
for  200 or over...5 per cent.
.  3.00  Orders 
“ 
500  “ 
.  4.001 
.  5.001 
“  1000  “ 

“
“
SEND IN SAMPLE ORDER AND  PUT YOUB BUSINESS  ON A  CASH  BASIS.

iE l 8T0WES BRO., Brand Rapids.
P E R K I N S   Sc  H E S S
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

’d e a l e r s  i n

NOS.  133  and  134  LOUIS  STREET, G RAND  R A PID S,  M ICHIGAN. 

WE  CÄ.RRY  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE  TALLOW  FOR MILL  USE-

M O S E L E Y   BRO S.,

Fruits, Seeds, Oysters * Produce.

------WHOLESALE------

All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.

If you are fti market to buy or sell Clover Seed,  Beans or  Potatoes,  will be 

26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa  St., 
C. A. LAMB, G rand R apids. Mich. 

pleased to hear from you.
- 
GRAND  RAPIDS.
F. J. LAMB & CO., G rand Rapid«, Mloh  .
C .   A.  E A M B  

CO.,

FRED  CLOCK,  Chicago.  111. 

- 

Wholesale  and  Commission
Wholesale  ai

Fruits

Our  Specialties:

CALIFORNIA  FRUITS, 

ORANGES, 

56  and  58  So.  Ionia  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Produce.
EDWIN  FAEEAS,

BANANAS  AND  BERRIES.

LEMONS,

Bitter, I® , (ta p s, Lemons, Bananas, Mince Meat,  Nats, Fip, Etc.
Eggs Crate Factory in connection.  Price List  furnished 

JOBBER  OF

on  application.

Mail Orders Filled Carefully and Promptly at Lowest Market Price.
Cold  Storage at Nos. 317 and 319 Livingstone St.
Office  and  Salesroom,  No.  9  Ionia St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A L F R E D  J. B R O W N ,
Foreign,  Tropical  and  California

WHOLESALE  DEALER  IN

F R U IT S .

MICHIGAN  CIGAR  CO.,

B ig  Rapids,  Mich•

MANUFACTURERS OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED

“M.  C.  C.”“ Yum Yum

The Best Selling Cigar on the Market.

The Most  Popular  Cigar. 

99

SEND  FOR  TRIAL  ORDER.

Send  Specifications  for  Estimates  before  Contracting.

SHAFTING, HANGERS, 
AND PULLEYS A SPECIALTY.
FIRST-CLASS IN  EVERY RESPECT.
t h e  L A N E  & B Q D L E Y  G O .
2  to 4 8  JOHN  ST., C IN C IN N A T I,  O.
CURTISS  &  CO.,
Wareh,
a p e r  

W H O L E S A L E

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

M ICHIGAN.

W. STEEEE 

Packing: and Provision Co.
GRAND RAPIDS,  MICH.

Fresh and Salt Beef, Fresh and Salt Pork, Pork Loins, Dry Salt 

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Pork, Hams,  Shoulders,  Bacon, Boneless Ham, Sausage 

of  all  Kinds,  Dried  Beef  for  Slicing.

JL, A R B

strictly Pure and Warranted, in tierces, barrels, half-bbls., 501b. cans,201b. cans, 3, 5 and 101b. palls

R ickled R igs9 J P ee t,  'Tripe, E tc •

Our prices for first-class goods are very low and all  goods  are  warranted  first-class  in every in 
stance.  When in Grand Rapids, give us a  call  and  look  over  our  establishment.  Write  us  for 
prices.

DEALERS  IN

Greamen,  Glißese  and  Dairy

SU PPL IE S.

I inni tip & Bitmap,

TOLEDO,  OHIO.

K O A L I

GRAND  RAPIDS 

WHOLESALE

Anthracite and Bituminous Coal.
Before ordering your coal write to us for prices.

State Trade a Specialty.

ICE  X  COAL  C0„

53  Pearl  Street. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

H E S T E R   <&  F O X ,

Manufacturers’ Agents for

S A W  A I T S  G R I S T  M I L L  M A C H I N E R Y ,
Send  fo r 
C atalo g i 
and 
Prices

ATLAS B

»

INDIANAPO LIS.  IND.,  U.  S.
___________ M A N U F A C T U R E R S   O F _______
STEAM ENGINES* BOILERS
Carry Engines and Boilers In Stock 

for  immediate  delivery.

Saws, Belting and  Oils.

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

Pulley and become convinced of their  superiority.

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

F E R M E N T U M

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

The  Only  Reliable  Compressed  Yeast.

Grocers and Bakers not handling our yeast are requested to  write  for  samples 
and prices.  One trial will convince all of its superiority for freshness and strength.
X,.  WINTERNITZ, 
Special care given  outside  shipments
Yisiting merchants  are  invited to call at 
the distributing depot,  106 Kent St.

DETROIT SOAP CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

State Jobbing Agent,

Manufacturers of the following well-known brands:

QUEEN  ANNE.  MOTTLED  GERMAN,  ROYAL  BAR,  CZAR,

SUPERIOR, 

PHCF.NIX, 

AND  OTHERS. 

MASCOTTE, 

CAMEO.
________________

TRUE  BLUE, 

For quotations in single box lots,  see  Price  Current.  For quotations in larger 
ITT' 
V V.  L r .  J J L A A   VI T v I 1 > C 5 j  LOCK  BOX  173. 

Salesman for  Western Michigan,

quantities,  address,

t t   A  ■fTTTWJ'Vf C; 

g r a n d   r a p id s .

The Michigan Tradesman

WEDNESDAY. JUEY 31,  1889.

Metropolitan  Merchants.

W H A T   CONSTITUTES  A  SALESM AN
Brief Opinions of a Number of Eminent 
The New York Press  sent  out  its  re­
porters  to  interview  a  number  of  the 
leading firms and  obtain  their  opinions 
about the qualifications  of  a  good sales­
some  of  the 
man.  The  following  are 
these 
inter-
homeopathic  points  from 
views:
A salesman  must  know  how  to  sell. 
To do this he must adapt  himself  to the 
moods,  whims and  oddities  of  different 
people.  A great deal  of  patience is  re­
quired of a salesman, especially in fitting 
clothes  and  hoots.  Employers  should 
require  that  their  salesmen  know  the 
goods and tell the exact truth about them. 
Honesty  is  the  best  policy,  and  while 
policy may be a low motive, there can be 
no doubt  that its influence in business Is 
helped by the fact that  it  pays.—Frank 
JR.  Chambers, with Rogers, Peet & Co.
The first requisite is to be a good reader 
of  human nature and to possess the abil­
ity to  judge people rightly.  The manner 
of  approach  requires  tact,  skill  and po­
liteness  based  upon a high  standard  of 
morality;  patience,  attention,  keen  ob­
servation,  pleasing,  refined  and  easy 
manners, are  absolutely  necessary if  he. 
wishes to succeed. 
It is not  great  talk­
ers who are great salesmen or merchants. 
The  old  saying that “Silence is golden” 
is as true as it is trite.—F. B. Thurber, of 
Thurber,  Whyland & Co.
A good address  is  important, but a ca­
pacity  for  judging  human  nature  cor­
rectly  and  readily  is  better.  An easy, 
familiar  manner,  which  might be effect­
ive and taking with one  customer, might 
offend  another,  while  a  polite  reserve, 
which  would  be  proper  in  one  case, 
might  be  considered 
“uppish”  and 
haughty  in  another.  An  extensive  ac­
quaintance  and  a  pow’er  of  personality 
are important factors  in  selling goods.— 
Joshua Cregg.
There  are  salesmen  and  salesmen. 
Many  are  buried  in  what  we  call  the 
grave  of  salesmen — the  departments. 
Most  of  the  general salesmen  are  men 
who have had vigor and ambition enough 
to rise from the  grave  of  a  department 
and strike out boldy.  A successful sales­
man must  know  the  trade,  be  able  to 
remember  names  and faces.  The inter­
est of  the customer is the interest of  the 
house  in  the  end.—Miles  M.  O’Brien, 
with H. B.  Claflin & Co.
A man  must have  a  natural  aptitude 
for the business  to  succeed.  Salesmen 
are born not made.  Of  course, he  must 
have knowledge  of  the business  gained 
by actual experience,  but  he  will never 
rise in his  calling,  unless he has the pe­
culiar gift of impressiveness in his favor. 
—Benjamin  Arnold,  of  Arnold,  Con­
stable & Co.
An  impressive  manner,  backed  by  a 
solid  character, is the  key-note  to  suc­
cess.  The  vast  impetus  given  to  bus­
iness by the monster  establishments, the 
superior organization  and  the  improved 
methods which they demand, give  young 
people  more  and  better  opportunitie 
than  ever.—Thomas  E.  Ball,  of  Best 
& Co.
A knowledge of  the  stock, a good  eye 
for  form  and  trained  eye for color will 
help  very  much.  A  young  man  oi 
woman  of  ordinary intelligence,  who is 
at all ambitious,  is bound to get ahead in 
salesmanship,  become  a  buyer  or  head 
of  a department.—Mr. Pitt, of Macy’s.
Persistence,  patience  to  stick  while 
there  is a chance  of  success. 
It  woult 
be a good  thing  for  our  young  men  if 
they  had  to  learn  their  business  thor­
oughly  and  properly by  an  apprentice­
ship of  five or  six  years.—Robert  Spen­
cer, of Lord & Taylor.
A  young man.  to be a successful sales­
man.  must  be  honest,  industrious  and 
intelligent.  Then he must  make up his 
mind to give  his  whole  attention to his 
work  and  not  fritter  his  brains  away 
about  outside  matters.—John  Sloan  of 
W. & J. Sloan.
He  should  be  a  gentleman,  to  begin 
with, not only in outer  appearances,  but 
in instincts, feelings and manners.  Man­
ner is everything.  He should understand 
his  customer’s  nature,  or  mood,  and 
adapt himself  to it easily.—Mr. Boyd, of 
Brooks Bros.
Jewelry salesmen  are  born,  they  are 
not made.  The  qualities  which make a 
good  jewelry salesman are different from 
those  of  a  dry  goods  salesman,  and  it 
would  be  very difficult to define the dif­
ference exactly.—Mr. Cook, Tiffany &Co.
A  man  must  be  mannerly  and  haVe 
tact enough  to  judge  of  his customer’s 
tastes.  He must be possessed  of  a mar­
velous  quickness  of  preemption and  ac­
tion.—Sheppard  Knapp,  of  Sheppard 
Knapp & Co.
Salesmanship can  no  more  be  taught 
in a school or college than swimming can 
be learned ashore.  The  store  itself  is 
the  best  school.—Mr.  Friedsam,  of  B. 
Allman Bros.
To be  a  successful  salesman  requires 
industry,  assiduity and a display of  rare 
qualities of judgment and organization.— 
E. J. Denning, successor to A. T. Stewart.
Strict attention to business is the main 
requisite.  Experience and  a  good man­
ner  will do the rest.—M. T. Kelly.

A conceited,  pretentious  and  affected 
manner  on  the  part  of a salesman’dis­
gusts and  repels,  while  one who is sim­
ple and natural in  his  manners  attracts 
and makes friends.

For Lowest Wholesale  Quotations on

Best  SGranton  Coal

Call oh  or  address

I.  B.  KNOWLSON,

35  Pearl  Street, 

-  Grand  Rapids.

F L O  U R I ™

FEED

Just  what farmers need.

Owl, Grown Prince, White Lily, 

Standard, Rye, Graham.

Bolted Meal,

Feed, Etc.

D I R E C T I O N S

We nav'* cooked the corn in this can 
sufficient! 
Should  be  Thoroughly 
Warmed .not cooked) adding  piece oi 
jiood Butter (size of hen's egg > and giL 
of fresh  milk  (preferable  to  water.; 
Season to suit when on the table. .None 
unless bearing the signature •
Davenport  Canning  (j0<

Davenport,  la.

A T   T H IS

M AIL  ORDERS  SOLICITED.

NEWRYGO  ROLLER  MILLS.
A W   NING

AND  TENTS.
ft

The Cheapest,  Very  Durable.  Slightest

in Draft and Most Rapid Grinder 

on the Market.

Agents  Wanted  for  Every  County 

Michigan  and Wisconsin.

F O R   TERM S  W R IT E   TO

MELOY  &  RICH,

Horse and W agon  Covers,  W ater  Proof  Coats, Buggy 
Aprons, W ide Cotton  Ducks, etc.  Send fo r  Illu strated  
Catalogue.

Ghas. A. Ooye,

Telephone 106. 
11 Pearl St.
1 1 ,0 0 0   R Ë W A R D Ü

THE  LARGEST  AND  BEST 

LEAR  LONG  HAVANA  FILLED 
SUMATRA  WRAPPED  CIGAR 

SOLD  FOR  5   CENTS.

l ’mirctecì Gear  Lini?  Havana HB« 
igtev'--imported Wrapper.- 
¿ß

sâsràj

m Æ z

arree to lorteit One Thon.-a id D ollars to any perso: 
• « r«> ,• .»»tain a'ivhiü 
I OIvTH  l5L.uTiifc.KS.

t j  U i lesse!

SOLE  A G EN TS,

AÏTE RAPIDS.  MICH,

ÌO  LYON  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
Win•  R ru m m eler
I Tinware,  Glassware  and  Notions.

Rags,  Rubbers  and  Metals  bought  at  Market 

JOBBER  OF

76  SPRING  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,

WE  CAN  UNDERSELL  ANY  ONE  ON  TINWARE.

Prices.

C r o c k e r y   & G l a s s w a r e

LAMP  BURNERS.

No. 0 Sun...........................................................  45
No. 1  “  ...........................................................  48
No. 2  “  ...........................................................  70
Tubular......... ’.................................................   75

lamp chimnets.—Per box.

6 doz. in box.

“ 
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“  
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2  25
3  25

Pearl top.

First quality.
“ 
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XXX Flint.

top..........................................«2 15
“  
“  

No. 0 Sun................................................................1 90
No. 1  “  ................................................‘.......2   00
No. 2  “  ...........................................................3 00
No. 0 Sun, crimp 
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top........................................... 2 58
2 80
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
3 80
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled.................... 3 70
“ 
No. 2  “ 
................... 4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
.....................4 70
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz........................1  25
No. 2  “ 
...  ..................150
No. 1 crimp, per doz.................... -................... 1  40
No. 2 
“ 
. . . ................................... 160
Butter Crocks, per gal...................................  06)4
Jugs, V, gal., per doz....................................   65
.....................................  90
.................................... 1  80
Milk Pans, 14 gal., per doz.  (glazed 66e)—   60 
“  90c).  ..  78
“ 

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STONEWARE—AKRON.

“  1 
“  2 
“ 
11 

“ 
“ 
1  “ 

La Bastic.

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fruit  jars—Per  gro.

Mason’s, pints.................................................... $10 50
quarts.................................................  11 00
^-gallon.............................................  14 00
Lightning, quarts..............................................  12 00
14-gallon..........................................   16 00

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THE

Quick  Meal 
Gasoline 
Stone
Has

Safety  Points

H.  L eonard  &  Sons.

G r a n d   R a p i d s ,

M i c h .

Near Union' Depot.

Cor. Spring and Fulton Sts.

The

Old  Reliable.

—•

WE  IRE

Headquarters
Michigan.

FOR

26,165
Quick M\
StoUes
Sold
in  1888,
Satisfaction•

Fodnd 
in no Other 
Stone.
W arranted  to  Give

“ 

Tin Oven, Self Lighter 

Above Stove, with Russia Iron Oven, Self  Lighter 
- 
- 
With Three Burners on Top, Russia Iron Oven, Self Lighter 

“ 
“ 
“Useful  Hints  to  Dealers  in  Quick  Meal  Oil  Stoves”  sent free on request. 

“ 
Send for Complete Illustrated  Catalogue and write for Factory  Discounts,

Tin Oven, Self Lighter 

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“ 

“ 

- 

- 

- 

- 

-

Every dealer should have a copy.

H.  L eonard  &  Sons.

List Price.
$21.50
20.50
23.50
22.50

H eadquarters  for Bananas.

16  AND 18 NORTH  DIVISION ST.

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

EC-u.okLle'toerries  W a n t e d !

THEO.  B.  GOOSSEN,

WHOLESALE

P r o d u c e   a n d   C o m m i s s i o n   M e r c h a n t ,

IS  MAKING  A  SPECIALTY  ON  HUCKLEBERRIES.

If vou are in the  market  to  either  buy  or  sell,  or  send  on  commission,  will be pleased to hear

33  OTTAWA  STEET, 

Telephone 369.

Brand Rapids Fruit and ProddGe Bo.,

(SUCCESSOR  TO  GEO.  E.  HOWES  &  CO.)

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH-

from you.

FOREIGN  FRUITS.

Jobbers  of

O r a n g e s ,   L e m o n s   a n d   B a n a n a s   a   S p e c i a l t y .

3 NORTH IONIA  ST., GRAND RAPIDS.

EEHIGH  VAEEEY  COAE 1
Will furnish at lowest  circular  prices  Lehigh Valley Goal in 
car  lots.  All  coal  of  superior  quality.  Order  at  once  and 
save  advance.

A . 

Him

TELEPHONE  490-1.

FIRE!  FIRE!

MAIN OFFICE, 54  PEARL  ST.

We  are  selling  the  BEST  RUBBER  HOSE  in 
3-4,  1,  11-4,  11-2,  2  and  2 1-2  inch.  Cotton Mill 
Hose, Rubber Lined;  also unlined Linen Hose, in all 
sizes, for fire protection.

OUrPriGßs are RoßkBottom

We  have the Best  Lubricators, Grease and  Oil 
Gups,'Lath; and  Fodder  Yarn,  Saw Gummers, and 
the best General Stock of Mill Supplies in this State.

AGENTS  FOR  STEWART’S  BEADY  ROOFING,  DEAFENING  FELT  AND 

SHEATHING,  IRON  FIBRE  PAINT  AND  CEMENT.  BEST 

OF  THE  KIND  IN  USE.

S A M U E L   LY O N .

GROCERIES*

Purely  Personal.

Noyes  L.  Avery  has  returned  from 

Alaska.

Edwin Fallas sold two of  his three cot­

tages at Bay View last Saturday.

A. W. Fenton, the  Bailey  druggist, is 
spending a few days at  Macatawa  Park.
Silas Loew, the Burnips’ Corners hard­
ware  dealer,  was  in  town  one day last 
week.

Geo. Caulfield has resumed  his  former 
position  as  profit  clerk  with  Lemon & 
Peters.
C. C. Tuxbury, Manager  of  the  Sulli­
van  Lumber  Co.,  at  Sullivan,  was  in 
town Saturday.

Carl S.  Hester  has  bought  the  yacht 
Shadow, on Black Lake.  He  will  keep 
his craft at Macatawa Park.

Frank B.  Watkins,  the  Hopkins  Sta­
tion merchant,  was  in  Monday  for  the 
purpose of getting  posted up on politics.
J. B.  Watson,  the  Coopersville  drug­
gist,  has  gone to Mt. Clemens, in  hopes 
of  securing relief  from  the  rheumatism.
F.  Raniville  has  gone  to  Holdridge, 
Neb.,  on a business  and  pleasure  trip. 
He expects to be absent  about  ten days.
S. M.  Lemon  will represent the Grand 
Eapids  jobbing  trade at the  State  con­
vention  of  business men,  at  Muskegon 
this week.

Morris H.  Treusch  started for  Buffalo 
Saturday night,  where he  will  spend  a 
week with the friends  of  his wife,  who 
has been spending the summer there.

Frank  E.  Leonard  is  making  a  trip 
around  the  lakes.  On  his  return,  the 
latter  part of  the  week,  Chas. H. Leon­
ard and family will go to Bear Lake for a 
fortnight's recreation.

Wonder how  much  Ed.  Telfer had to 
pay the Palo correspondent  of  the Ionia 
Standard for the following:  “Ed. Telfer, 
of  the  Telfer  Spice  Co., Grand Rapids, 
was  in  town  Monday.  He  is  quite  a 
hustler as well  as a perfect  gentleman.” 
The many friends of H. H. Pope, Presi­
dent  of  the  Allegan  B.  M.  A., will be 
pained to learn of  the death of his wife, 
which  occurred  at  Wequetonsing  last 
Thursday.  The  funeral  and  interment 
occurred on Sunday,  at  the late home of 
the deceased.

R.  A.  McWilliams  has  grown  a  foot 
since Uncle Sam  accorded  him the  priv­
ilege of  writing “P. M.” after  his name, 
Station  A has come to be recognized as a 
great convenience by West  Side business 
men,  the  wonder  being  how  they  got 
along so long without it.

W. T.  Hess, Fred Tracy and  Fred Per 
kins left Sunday night  for  Boston.  Mr 
Hess  will  close up his wool deal for the 
season and return in a  week or ten days, 
while  the  other two gentlemen will pro 
ceed  to  Block  Island,  in  the  Atlantic 
Ocean, in hopes a month’s stay there will 
drive the malaria out of  their systems.
The  Custom of “ Beating  Down.”
It used to be the custom, and is now in 
many localities,  to  “beat  down”  in  all 
trades with  storekeepers and merchants 
An amusing  example of  this  practice is 
given below:
In the old haggling way of trade it was 
customary to  demand  a  great deal  more 
than the asker  hoped to get.  One  time, 
on  the Texas  frontier, a man came  into 
camp riding an old mule.
“How  much  for  the  mule?” asked  i 
by-stander.
“Jist $100,” answered the rider.
“I’ll give you $5,”  said the other.
The rider stopped short, as if in amaze 
ment, and then slowly dismounted.
“Stranger,”  said  he,  “I  ain’t  a-goin 
to let a little matter of $95 stand between 
me and a mule trade.  The mule’s your.’
Another  story, somewhat of  the same 
sort, is related  by an old  tenant  farmer 
who, on paying  his  rent, told  his  land 
lord that he wanted some lumber to build 
a  house, and would  be  much  obliged if 
he  would  give  him  permission  to  cut 
down  what  would  answer  for the  pur 
pose.

“No!” said the landlord sharply.
“Well, then,  sir,” the farmer went on 

“will  you  give  me  enough  to  build 
barn?”
“No!”
“To make a gate, then?”
“Yes.”
“That’s all I wanted,” said the farmer 

“and more than I expected.”

The  Fruit Jar Market.

Fruit  jars  are  steady.  The manufac 
turers are threatening a further advance 
but  their  threats  are  regarded  in  the 
light of  a bluff  by  jobbers  generally,  as 
most  of 
the  manufacturers  are  com' 
pletely  sold  out.  The  indications  are 
that  the  factories  will  not  be  started 
again  before  January 1,  as  the  blower 
refuse  to  resume  work  at  the reduced 
Tate of  wages  decided  upon by the man 
ufacturers.

The  Apple  Outlook.

Despite reports which have  gone  out, 
predicting a partial failure of  the  apple 
crop, men who are in a  position  to  esti 
mate the crop assert  that the indications 
are  excellent  for  an  average  crop 
usually fine  fruit.  As  the  New  York 
crop is generally conceded to  be  a  com 
plete failure,  the  outlook  is  good for 
profitable  season  for  Michigan  apple 
growers.

The  Grocery  Market.

In the language of  the  immortal  John 
Caulfield, there  is  an  Austerlitz as well 
as a  Waterloo.  The  sugar  refiners  ap 
pear to be of  the  same  opinion, as  they 
have  reduced  their  quotations %c—and 
the  end  is  not  yet.  Corn  syrups  are 
firmer and a little higher.

A ssociation "Work—N ational,  State and 

Local.

From  th e  N ational Grocer.
Association work has two  distinct  fea­
tures;  indeed, it  might  be  said  that  it 
had three—National, State and local;  the 
latter, of  course, differing  much  greater 
than the other  two  almost in every way.
If  we take the large cities, we find a con­
dition of  things which  (Joes  not promise 
well for the movement  being  conducted 
upon  representative  lines. 
If  we  take 
New  York  as  the  largest  city first, we 
find that the movement  has ever since its 
inception been  anything  but  represent­
ative of  the  entire  trade.  Many  of  the 
largest  grocers  have  systematically  re­
fused to have anything to do with it, and 
some of  the  second-rate  grocers  stoutly 
refused  all  solicitation to have any con­
nection  with  it, saying  that it was  con 
ducted upon too narrow lines to serve the 
trade as it ought to be served. 
It should 
be expected  that  the  association of  any 
trade  in  the  commercial  metropolis  of 
the country ought  to  take  first  rank in 
ery way.  But, alas !  this is not so, and 
we  see  no  chance  in  it  ever taking its 
proper  position  in  the movement, as its 
views  are  constantly becoming more re­
stricted  instead  of  open;  indeed  it  has 
lost  some of  its  brightest  workers  and 
best  thinkers, and  many who  stay only 
do it for the  good of  the  cause  and  not 
for the benefit to be derived.
In comparison  with  the Association of 
ew York, let  us  for a moment  look at 
those  of  some  of  the  smaller  adjacent 
towns.  Perhaps  none  has  really  done 
more  good  or  been  of  more  use  to its 
members and  the trade than that of  Pat­
erson,  where  work  is  undertaken  and 
done in a manly,  business-like  way. 
In 
the  first  place,  probably 85 per cent, of 
the business men are members, and fully 
that  much  of  the  actual  trade is repre­
sented.  The result  has  been that, as an 
Association,  it  has  fully  accomplished ] 
many  things  that  others  dare  not  at- j 
tempt.  The reason has  been plain to all i 
ho have been acquainted with its work-j 
ings.  All of  its business has  been  con-1 
ducted  upon  the  broad  lines,  and  the j 
members  have  consequently  worked  in j 
perfeet harmony.
Another  association  that  has  been  a j 
perfect success is the Merchants’ Associa- j 
It  has  been  a  success | 
tion  of  Nyack. 
from its inception,  and has  worked quite .
revolution in the little village.  Every- ! 
thing  works in harmony,  and  the  mem­
bers of  the Association have always been 
socially related, the best of feeling being ; 
prevalent  among  them.  Early  closing! 
has been adopted, and  business has been 
placed upon a much better footing.  The 
Association’s  work  has been of  the best 
kind, and it has been blessed with a staff 
of  excellent officers.
In  the  State  view  of  the  merchant 
movement, the  palm  must  be  given en­
tirely  to  the  State  of  Michigan.  The 
State is beyond question in the best state 
of  organization, and it has  accomplished 
more  by  far  than  any  other.  The  in­
fluence of  the  merchant  movement  has 
been felt upon  legislation and upon pub­
lic  men. 
In  short, it is a power  in  the 
commonwealth.  That  its  thought  has 
been well directed all who have followed 
its work will admit, and  T h e  Mic h ig a n 
T ra d esm a n has served the  cause  nobly. ;
But what has that got  to  do  with  the 
future?  some  may ask.  Everything; the ; 
past must always be considered,  in  any- i 
thing,  when  the  future  is  regarded. I 
Does not  the  employer  desire  to  know I 
the man he is engaging by his  past? 
It 
is only by reference to this  that  he  can ! 
form any idea as to his future  or  to  his ' 
ability.  The  same  with a public  move- j 
ment  then—in  order  to form  some idea! 
of its future, the past must be considered. !
If  we  are to  judge solely upon  these j 
lines,  it is evident that the movement of I 
the future  will  differ  largely from  that j 
of  the  past,  if  it must achieve the sue- J 
cess it deserves,  and ought to have,  from j 
its representative  character.  That it is ! 
changing  now  is  evident to all keen ob­
servers.  The  associations  which  have 
pursued  a  policy of  narrowness  are  at 
present going through a crisis which will 
become more acute;  and  if  care  is  not 
taken,  disintegration  will  take  place. 
Warnings have  been  given  by members 
who regarded the  welfare  of  the move­
ment above selfish gratification.
The  future,  if  the  proper  course  is 
adopted, is full of hope and good.  There 
must be a better  understanding between 
the individual members  and  there  must 
be liberal-minded  action on all questions 
connected with the trade.  The  associa­
tion rooms must be made more attractive 
from a social as well  as  business  stand  j 
point.  As  “Harlem”  said  last  week, 
many  movements  prospered  greatly  by 
fair attention to the social  side,  and  we 
are convinced  that  none  would  have  a 
greater  impetus  from  this  source  than 
the  one  under  discussion.  Those asso­
ciations  which  have cared more for this 
side  of  the  movement  have  prospered 
and  increased  in  a  greater  proportion 
than  any  othters.  Take,  for  instance, 
the attraction the association  rooms  are 
in  Philadelphia,  and  no  doubt  these 
could be made even more attractive.  We 
do  not  say that  the  same  policy  as  is 
practiced there would succeed elsewhere. 
Certainly not, for we know different,  but 
we point it out as  something  that  could 
be utilized.
Again,  the movement  on  the  part  of 
the merchants of  Brooklyn to build their 
own  hall  will  be  another  step  in  the 
right direction,  and have great influence 
upon the trade of  that city.  There may 
be  some  little  difficulties  to  overcome, 
but if  the proper methods are adopted in 
this matter, there  is  no  question  whatr 
ever that the building  of  this  hall  will 
have a very wholesome influence  indeed.
Then the movement and its  relation to 
the  local  political  parties  is  not  to be 
If  the proper 
overlooked by any means. 
efforts  are  put  forward,  this  influence 
can  not  only be utilized, but  it  can  be 
exlarged and greatly increased. 
It ought 
to be such that if  a reasonable request is 
made it ought to be granted at once.  We 
could point out many little  matters  that 
ought to be regulated  by the  local  asso­
ciations which are  to-day neglected, sim­
ply because the association does not have 
any  weight  whatever  with  local  poli­
ticians.  Business  men  will have to mix 
more in these matters if  their wishes are 
to be at all considered or  even  regarded 
in the least.
The same  thing  applies exactly to the 
State  associations.  They must  husband 
their resources  and  their  power if  they 
want anything from  the  legislators.  Of 
course, we know that  legislative matters

are difficult, and that all  our  legislators 
have  been  more  or less spoiled by large 
corporations.  Nothing  is  done  without 
money and influence, both  of  which  the 
movement  possesses,  if  only  the  right 
methods  are  adopted  to  get what is re­
quired.  Of  course,  everything  takes 
time, and the old saying  that “Rome was 
not built in a day,”  applies to this move­
ment  in  its  full  significance. 
It is  yet 
young, and can be  made a mighty engine 
for  good  if  only  the  proper  course  be 
adopted.
Considered  in  a  National  sense,  the 
movement is as  yet  entirely  young  and 
is capable of  great and  significant work. 
Up  to  now, the  only  time  that  it  has 
been called  to  exercise  any influence in 
the matter was at the Pure Food Conven­
tion at Washington,  and it  did  its  work 
there  fully  and  in  earnest.  What  it 
could  do  in  the  future  can  be  well 
judged  by what  was  done  there. 
It is 
hardly worthy of  the name National yet, 
for  there  are  very many large  business 
centers  unrepresented,  and  before  its 
real  significance  could  be brought out a 
complete and national organization would 
have to be made.
Of  the future of  the merchants’ move 
ment, then, we have  much hope. 
It will 
be progressive in a most  emphatic mean 
ing of  the  term.  That  there  is  lots of 
work for it to do,  and lots  of  workers to 
do it, no one will  doubt, but it will  take 
time,  energy,  and  not a little  money to 
perfect  it.  As it advances  its  progress 
may appear  slow,  but  then  this  is  the 
case  in  movements where the objects to 
be attained are so varied.
It is our  opinion  that  the  merchants’

movement has come to stay, and it has our 
best  wishes,  in  spite  of  croakers  and 
would-be  maligners.

An  Efficient  Salesm an.

If we were asked  what  constituted  an 
efficient salesman, we should say the first 
qualification should  be a patient disposi­
tion,  for  in  nothing  is  a young  man’s 
temper more  likely  to  be  tried  than in 
showing  goods  to  customers. 
Parties 
will come into  a  shop,  test  the price of 
goods, and consume  often a considerable 
amount of time,  and then go  away  with­
out buying anything.  These try the pa­
tience  of  a  salesman  severely,  but  he 
must not  exhibit  any  ill-feeling,  or  be 
guilty of any sort of impertinence, as any 
exhibition of impatience  or anger is sure 
to give offense to the customer, who may, 
if not put in ill-humor, return, after com­
paring prices, etc.,  with goods in several 
establishments,  and buy a good large bill 
of goods.

Little  Georgie’s  Smart Pa. 

“Géorgie, Georgie ! mind, your hat will 
be blown off  if  you  lean  so  far  out  of 
the carriage”  (quickly  snatching the hat 
from  the  head of  the  refractory young­
ster  and  hiding  it  behind  his  back)— 
“There, now, the hat has gone !”
Georgie  sets up a howl.  After a while 
his father remarks :
“Come,  be  quiet ;  if  I  whistle,  your 
hat  will  come  back again.” 
(Whistles 
and replaces hat on boy’s head.)  “There, 
it’s back again, you see !”
While  the  parents are engaged in con­
versation, Georgie  throws  his hat out of 
the window and says :
“Pa, whistle again !”__________ ____

Iniißg F. Klapp,

GROCER, 

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SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

L,autz B ros•  &  Co,9s  Soaps,

Niagara  Starch,

JLmhoy  Cheese,

G R A .N D   R A ^ P i n S ,

PRODUCE  MARKET 

there 

Apples—Choice eating,  83  per  bbl.;  cooking, 
Beans—Dry  stock  is  scarce,  but 
is 
Jobbers pay $1.75 per bu 

$2.50 per bbl.
scarcely any demand. 
and hold at $2.10@$2.15 per bu.

Beets—30c per doz.
Blackberries—$1.50 per 16-qt. ease.
Butter—While there has  been  no  advance  in 
price, butter  is  firmer  and  in  a little better de­
mand.  Creamery commands 16@17c,  and  dairy 
10@14c, according to quality.
Cabbages—Southern  Illinois stock is in plenti­
ful supply at $1.85 per crate.
Cheese—Lenawee and Allegan county  makers 
bill  their  stock  at  8c,  while  jobbers  hold  at 
8%@9c.

Cherries—$1.50 per bu.
Cider—10c per gal.
Cooperage—Pork barrels, $1.25;  produce barrels 
Cucumbers—30c per doz.
Dried Apples—Commission men hold sun-dried 
at 3@3%e and evaporated at 6@7c per S>.
Eggs—Jobbers pay 12c and hold at 13c.
Field  Seeds—Clover,  mammoth, $5  per  bu.; 
medium, $4.85.  Timothy,  $1.85 per  bu. 
Gooseberries—About out of market.
Green  Beans—Wax, $1 per bu.
Green Onions—12@15c per doz. bunches.
Honey—In small demand.  Clean  comb  com­
Onions—Southern, $2.50 per bbl.
Peaches—Scattering lots are  beginning  to  ar 
rive, but not in sufficient  quantities to establish 
the market.

mands 15@16e per lb.

25c.

$1.25 per bbl.

Pears—California, $2.50 per  crate.
Peas—Green, 50c per bu.
Pop Corn—2%e per lb.
Potatoes—New  southern  stock,  40c  per bu. or 
Radishes—10@12c per doz. bunches.
Raspberries—About out of market.
Tomatoes—95c  per 30-lb. crate.
Whortleberries—The crop is coming in slowly, 

fair stock commanding $3.25 per bu.

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

quotes as follows:
Mess, new......................................................  11  75
Short cut Morgan...........................................  12 00
Extra clear pig, short cut.............................  13 25
Extra clear,  heavy........................................  13  50
Clear, fat  back..............................................  12  75
Boston clear, short cut.................................   13 50
Clear back, short cut.....................................  13 50
Standard clear, short cut, best....................   13 50
Hams, average 20 lbs........................................ 10M
16 lbs........................................ 11%
12 to 14 lbs.................................12
picnic__ ■................................................ 834
Shoulders........................................................... 6&
boneless........................................  8
Breakfast Bacon, boneless...............................10
Dried Beef, extra..............................................
ham prices....................................   9
Long Clears, heavy...........................................  6%
Briskets,  medium.............................................  6%
lig h t................................................... «%

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lard—Kettle Rendered.

BAKING  POWDER.

lite cans. 
34 lb. “
3 oz.  “
% lb. “ 
12 oz. “
Fib.  “
2341b.“ 
31b.  “ 
41b.  “ 
51b.  “

... 
95 
...  1  40 
...  1  90 
...  2 60 
...  3 80 
...  4  95 
...11  78 
...13 75 
...17 76 

...22  20

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34 lb. 
“  % lb. 
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lib . 
51b. 
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34 lb.  “ 
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Arctic, % lb. cans, 6  doz...  45
...  75
“  4  “ 
... 1  40
“  2  “ 
... 2 40
“  2  “ 
“  1  “ ...12 00
Absolute, 34 lb. cans, 100s. .11  75 
50s..10 00
lib .  “  50s..18 75
Teller’s,  34 lb. cans, doz..  45 
“  .. 
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34 lb. 
85
“  ..  1  50
1 lb.  “ 
Acme, 34 lb. cans, 3 doz  —   75
341b. 
.... 1  50
.... 3 00
lib . 
bulk.........................   20
45
85
1  50

Red Star, 34 lb. cans, 

“  2  “ 
“  1  “ 

% lb.  “ 
1 lb  “ 
AXLE GREASE.

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BATH BRICK.

Frazer’s....................................82 60
Aurora...................................1  75
Diamond.............................   1  60
English, 2 doz. in case......  
80
 
Bristol,  2  “ 
75
American. 2 doz. in case... 
70
Gross
Arctic Liq,  4-oz.................  3 40
00
“  %  pt...........  7 
“ 
1 p t...........  10  00
7 20
“  8-oz paper bot 
Pepper  Box  No.  2  3 00 
“  4  4 00
“  5  8 00

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bluing. 

BROOMS.
No. 2 Hurl................................  1 70
io. 1  “ 
...........................  1  90
So. 2 Carpet.............................  2 00
2  25
No. 1 
 
“ 
Parlor Gem.............  
2 60
ommon Whisk.................. 
90
Fancy 
..................  1 00
Mill . ...................................   3  25
Warehouse................................2 75
Kings 100 lb. cases................... 5 00
80 lb. cases.....................4 25

BUCKWHEAT.

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BUTTE BINE
Dairy, solid packed—
rolls...................
Creamery, solid packed 
rolls..........
CANDLES.
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes........
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Star,  40 
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Paraffine......................
Wicking.............................. 
CANNED GOODS—Fish.

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dried fruits—Domestic.
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Apples, sun-dried...... 3  © 334
evaporated__   6  @6%
Apricots, 
5
Blackberries “ 
12
Nectarines  “ 
12
Peaches 
“ 
Plums 
“ 
9
Raspberries  “ 
20
drum..........-...........  @23
boxes......................  @25
dried fruits—Currants.

dried fruits—Citron.

dried fruits—Prunes.

Zante, in  barrels........  © 434
in less quantity  © 5 
Turkey........................  434© 4%
Bosna..........................5%@ 6
Imperial......................  @
dried fruits—Raisins.
alencias....................  @

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

Ondaras......................   @  9%
London  Layers,  Cali­
fornia.......................2 35@2 40
London Layers,  for’n.  ©
Muscatels, California.  @2 00
dried  fruits—Peel.
Lemon.........................  
13
Orange.................t  —  
14
Farina, 100 lb. kegs.............  04
Hominy, per  bbl..................4 00
Macaroni, dom 12 lb box....  60
imported......   @10
Pearl  Barley..............   @3
Peas, green..................  @1  30
split.....................  © 3
Sago,  German.............  © 6%
Tapioca, fl’k or  p’rl...  © 634
Wheat,  cracked..........  @6%
ermicelli,  import__   @10
domestic...  @60

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FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Jennings’ D. C. Lemon  Vanills
1  25

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oz. Panel, doz. 
oz. 
V
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oz. 
To.  3,  “
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No.  8, 
“o.lO,  “
o.  4, Taper,  1 
% pt,  Round, 1

85 
1  40 
2 25 
1  00 
2 75 
4 50 
1  60 
4 25 
8  50 
FISH—SALT.

Cod, whole.....................  @5
boneless................   @7%
H alibut.........................10@1134
2  50
Herring,  round, % bbl.. 
gibbed.............. 
2 75
Holland,  bbls.. 
10 00 
Holland, kegs..  @  70
Scaled. 
25
Mack,  sh’s, No. 1, %  bbl  11  00 
•  12  lb k it..145 
Trout,  %  bbls.............  ©4 50
White,  No. 1, % bbls...........5 50
12 lb. kits......1  15
10 lb. kits...  90
Family,  34  bbls........2 35
kits........   50

10 
“ ..135
kits........   78

10  lb. 

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GUN  POWDER.

LICORICE.

LAMP WICKS.

K egs.....................................5  25
Half  kegs.............................2 88
No. 0.................................  30
No. 1.....................................  40
No. 2....................................   50
Pure..................................   30
Calabria............................  25
Sicily.................................  18
Black  Strap......................  
16
Cuba Baking.....................22@25
Porto  Rico........................24@35
New Orleans, good...........25@30
choice........33@38
fancy......... 45@48

MOLASSES.

One-half barrels, 3c extra.

“ 
“ 

3 00

1  60

2 25
3 25
4 00
6 00
2 50
7 50
15 00

“ 

21b.  “ 

Tierces..............................................................
Tubs............................................  
501b.  Tins.........................................................   -
lard—Refined.
25
Tierces................................................................. 8%
30 and 50 lb. Tubs.............................................  6&
7%
7% Clams. 1 lb. Little Neck— 1  20 
3 lb. Pails, 20 iD a  case...................
9,  10
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case...................
7% Cove Oysters, 1 lb. stand...
90
10 lb. Pails, 6 in a case....................
... 1  6C
“ 
20 lb. Pails, 4 in a case........... ........
0% Lobsters, 1 lb. picnic.......... 1  5t
50 lb. Cans...................................... .
.......... 2 65
2  lb.  “ 
BEEF  IN  BARRELS.
1 lb.  Star.............. 2 Ot
00
Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs......
2 lb. Star.............. 3 75
00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing........
25 Mackerel, in Tomato Sauce 1
Plate................................................
Extra Plate...... .............................................   ~
 
Boneless, rump butts......................................   »uu
Pork Sausage.......................................................7
Ham Sausage.....................................................12
Tongue Sausage.......................................  
*
Frankfort  Sausage...........................................  8
Blood Sausage...................................................  “34
Bologna, straight..............................................  ®%
Bologna,  thick................................................... ®%
Headcheese......................................................  ®%
In half barrels........................................................3 00
In quarter barrels..................................................1 75
In half  barrels.......................................................3 00
In quarter barrels.................................................. 1 £5
In kits......................... 

2 lb. 
3 lb. in Mustard.. .3 00
31b.  soused..........3 00
Salmon, 1 lb.  Columbia..  . .2 00
1 lb.  Alaska........... 1  80
Sardines, domestic  346........
%s.......i_

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

pigs’ peet.

“ 
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“ 
“ 

TRIPE.

“ 
“ 
“ 

85

“ 

“ 

 

 

 

 

“ 

“ 

“  Mustard 34s........  @10
imported  34s ......   13%
“ 
“ 
spiced,  %s.................... 10
Trout, 3 lb. brook.............
canned goods—Fruits.
Apples, gallons, stand.........2  25
Blackberries,  stand.............  90
Cherries, red standard........  90
pitted....................2 00
Damsons..............................   90
Egg Plums, stand...............1  20
Gooseberries.......................1  00
Grapes ..................................
Green  Gages.......................1  10
Peaches, all  yellow, stand.. 1
“ 
seconds................ 145
“  H e ........................ 1  00
Pears....................................1  30
Hneapples................. 1  40@2 50
Quinces.............................. 1 00
Raspberries,  extra.............1  35
red................... 1  60
Strawberries.......................1  10
Whortleberries.....................
8
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay........
Beans, Lima,  stand.............  80
‘  Green  Limas....  @1  00
*  Strings..............   ©  85
*  Stringless,  Erie..........  90
‘  Lewis’ Boston Baked.. 1  40
Corn, Archer’s Trophy.......1 00
“  Morn’g Glory. 1  00 
Early Golden. 1  00
“ 
Peas, French...................... 1  68
“  extra marrofat...  @118
“  soaked.........................
“  June, stand................1  35
“  sifted..................1  55
“ 
“  French,extra  fine...  .150
Mushrooms, extra fine...... 2  15
Pumpkin, 3 lb. Golden........  85
Succotash,  standard......... J  00
Squash............................... 1  10
Tomatoes,  Red  Coat..  @1 00 
Good Enough— 100
BenHar...............1  00
stand br....  @1  00
Michigan Full Cream  834©  9 
Sap Sago.....................16  @16%
CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.
German Sweet..................  
23
35
Premium............................ 
Cocoa................................. 
38
Breakfast  Cocoa..............  
48
Broma................................ 
!
Rubber, 100 lumps................ 25
35
Spruce...................................30
Bulk......................................  6
Red.......................................   7%
Rio, fair.......................17  @19
“  good.....................18%@20
“  prime...................  @21
“  fancy,  w ashed...19  @22
“  golden..................20  ©23
Santos..........................17  @22
Mexican & Guatemala 19  ©23
Peaberry.....................20  @23
Java,  Interior.............20  @25
“  Mandheling__ 26  @29
Mocha, genuine......... 25  @27
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add %c. per lb. for roast 
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink 
age.

CHEWING  GUM.
200 

coffee—Green.

CHICORY.

CHEESE.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“   

coffees—Package.

“ 

100 lbs
Lion.......................................2234
“  in cabinets................... 22%
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX— 2234 
Thompson’s  Honey  Bee— 243*
Tiger................2234
NoxA ll........... 2334
O  B................. 22%

“ 
“ 
“ 
coffee extract.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
Jute 
“ 

clothes  lines.
“ 
50 f t........... 
“ 
60 f t..........  
“ 
70 ft........... 
80 f t..........  
“ 
60 ft..........  
“ 
72 f f ......... 
“ 
CONDENSED MILK.

Valley City.........................
Felix................................... 1
Cotton,  40 ft......... per doz.  1
1
1
2
2
1
1
Eagle..................................   7
Anglo-Swiss....................... 6
Kenosha Butter...................  8
Seymour 
.............. i..  6
Butter...................................  6
“  family........................
“  biscuit........................  7
Boston...................................  8
City Soda.............................
Soda......................................   6%
S. Oyster ..............................  6
City Oyster, XXX.................   6
Picnic..................................
Strictly  pure......................
1  Grocers’..............................

CRACKERS.
“ 

CREAM TARTAR.

OIL.

RICE.

PIPES.

PICKLES.

ROLLED OATS.

OATMEAL.
Muscatine, Barrels..............5 50
Half barrels........2 87
Cases........ 2  15@2 %
Muscatine, Barrels__   @5  50
Half bbls..  @2 87
Cases........2 15@2 25
Michigan  Test....................   9
Water White........................ 10%
Medium.................................4 00
34 b b l......................2 50
Small, bbl...... ...................... 5 00
34  bbl.......................... 3 50
Clay, No.  216.........................1 60
T. D. full count...........  75
Cob, No. 3.............................  40
Carolina head........................ 6%
No. 1.........................534
No. 2..........5%@
No. 3........................ 5
Jap an .............................5  @5%
Common Fine per  bbl.........  88
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks.......  24
28 pocket..............................2 05
60 
.............................. 2 15
100 
.............................. 2 40
Ashton bu. bags..................  75
Higgins  “ 
75
........ 
Warsaw “ 
..................  37
..................  20
Kegs....................................  134
Granulated,  boxes..............   2
Kitchen, 3 doz.  in box......   2 35
Hand, 
.......  2 35
Mixed bird.............................4%
Caraway................................ 10
Canary.................................   4
Hemp....................................   4
Anise.....................................  834
Rape...................................... 4%
Mustard..................................734
Scotch, in  bladders............37
Maccaboy, in jars............... 35
French Rappee, in Jars...... 43

“ 
“ 
34 -bu  “ 
SAL  SODA.

SAPOLIO.
“ 
SEEDS.

SNUFF.

3  “ 

SALT

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SOAP.

Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands.

Superior...............................3 30
Queen  Anne.......................3 85
German  Family..................2 40
Mottled  German.................3 00
Old German........................2 70
U. S. Big  Bargain............... 1  87
Frost, Floater......................3 75
Cocoa  Castile  .....................3 00
Cocoa Castile, Fancy..........3 36

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

“ 

spices—Whole.

Happy Family,  75...............2 95
Old Country, 80................... 3 30
Una, 100............................... 3 65
Bouncer, 100........................3 15
Allspice................................ 10
Cassia, China in mats.........7%
“  Batavia in bund.... 11
“  Saigon in rolls..........40
Cloves,  Amboyna................30
“  Zanzibar................... 23
Mace  Batavia.......................80
Nutmegs, fancy..................80
“  No.  1................ 
75
“  No.  2.......................70
Pepper, Singapore, black — 18
** 
white...... 26
shot........................ 20
“ 
spices—Ground—In Bulk.
Allspice................................ 15
Cassia,  Batavia....................20
and  Saigon.25
“ 
' Saigon.....................42
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna................ 35
“ 
Zanzibar.................26
Ginger, African..................12%
“  Cochin.................... 15
Jam aica................. 18
“ 
Mace  Batavia.......................90
Mustard,  English................ 22
and Trie..25
Trieste.................... 27
Nutmegs, No. 2 ....................80
Pepper, Singapore, black— 21
“  white........30
“ 
“  Cayenne..................25
STARCH.
Mystic,  64  pkgs................. 4 48
barrels.......................6

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“ 

“ 

SUGARS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

Cut  Loaf.....................  @  934
Cubes..........................  ©  9%
Powdered...................   @  934
Granulated,H. &E.’s ..1  @9%
Franklin..  @ 934
Lakeside..  @ 034
Knight's...  @ 934
Confectionery  A........  © 8%
Standard A.................   @894
No. 1, White Extra C..  @834
No. 2 Extra  C.............  © 7%
No. 3C, golden...........   @754
No. 4 C, dark..............   @  734
No. 5 C ........................  @754

FRESH MEATS.

 

“ 

Swift and^Company quote as follows:
“ 
“ 

Beef, carcass...........................................  4?£@  6
hindquarters................................  6  © 7
3%@  4
fore 
Hogs.............................................................  ®  ®
Pork loins................................................  ©  ‘
@®
Bologna......................  — -..................  @®
Sausage, blood  or head.............................  ®  ®
liver..............................................  ©  5%
Frankfort.....................................  © 
M utton....................................................   ®  @  8%

shoulders.................... 

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OYSTERS and FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

FRESH  FISH.

“ 

smoked....................................  @ ¿7

.................................................................   ®
Trout...........................................................  ®  ~
H alibut.........................................  
 
Frogs’ legs,  per doz.................................  

 
iu®ou

-JgSj?

CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

STICK.

 
 
MIXED.

Standard, 25 lb. boxes.......................................11
Twist, 
11
25 
1*
Cut Loaf, 25 

“ 
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“ 
“ 

Royal, 25 lb. pails............................................. 11
2001b.  bbls.............................................18%
Extra, 25 lb.  pails............................................ 1*
2001b.  bbls.............................................11%
French Cream, 25 lb.  pails......  ................  13%
Cut Loaf, 25 lb. cases........................................
Broken, 40 lb. Bask...........................................
200 lb. bbls........................... ...............

“ 

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.

“ 

Lemon Drops.....................................................18
Sour Drops........................................................ "
Peppermint Drops.............................................J®
Chocolate Drops................................................ J®
H. M. Chocolate Drops.....................................18
Gnm Drops.................................................-¿¿-18
Licorice Drops.............................................iwg^»
A. B. Licorice  Drops........................................ 14
Lozenges, plain.........................  
J*j
printed.............................................16
Imperials........................................................... J®
Mottoes.............................................................. J®
Molasses Bar...............................................••••13
Caramels.....................................................16@20
Hand Made  Creams......   ................................ 20
Plain Creams.....................................................18
Decorated Creams.............................................fJ
String  Rock......................................................
Burnt Almonds..................................................22
Wintergreen  Berries........................................ 15

 

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“ 

“ 
“ 

fancy—In bulk.
Lozenges, plain, in  pails..................................13
in bbls....................................12

printed, in pails...............................13%
in bbls................................12%
Chocolate Drops, in pails..................................13%
Gum Drops, in pails.........................................   634
in bbls...........................................  5
Moss Drops, in pails..........................................11%
in bbls........................................... 10%
Sour Drops, in pails..........................................13
Imperials, in pails............................................ 12%
inbbls...............................................U%

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“ 
“ 

“ 

FRUITS.

“ 
“ 

Oranges, fancy  Rodi........................................5 50©5

fancy........................................  @

Messina  200s...........................
220s ........... ................
300s...........................

Lemons, choice.............................................4 00@5 50
Figs, layers, new.............................  —  
Dates, frails, 50 lb .........................................  © 4%
34 frails, 50 lb .....................................   © 5%

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
8@11
“  Bags, 50 lb.....................................  © 6
“ 
“  Fard, 10-lb.  box............................  @
“ 
...........................  8  ©
“  Persian, 50-lb.  box......................... 5%@ 6

Bananas........................................................1  25©2 50

50-lb.  “ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

Almonds, Tarragona.  ...........................   @17
Ivaca.........................................  @14?
California..............................13  @14
Brazils......................................................7  @ 8
Filberts,  Sicily.......................................1034@11  ^
Walnuts, Grenoble.  .............................. 12  @12%
French......................................  @18
Pecans, Texas, H. P ..................................7%@12
Cocoanuts, per 100..................................4 25@4 50
Chestnuts................................................

“ 

PEANUTS.

Game Cocks.
Star..............
Horse...........

©634

Wholesale B rice  C urrent•

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

pay promptly and buy in fu ll packages.

“

SALERATUS.

“ 

SYRUPS.

one-half barrels 
half barrel 
“ 

DeLand’s,  pure....................5
Church’s, Cap  Sheaf............5
Dwight’s ........... ;..................5
Taylor’s ................ ...  ........... 5
Corn, barrels.....................  @26 d*
  @28™
Pure  Sugar, bbl................28@36
30@38
SWEET GOODS. X  XXX
934
9%
9%
9
9
...534
...43£

Ginger Snaps..............9 
Sugar  Creams............9 
Frosted  Creams.......... 
Graham  Crackers......  
Oatmeal  Crackers......  
Boxes..............................
Kegs, English..................

SODA.

TEAS.

JAPAN-  ■

F a ir........................... 14 @16
Good.......................... 18 @22
Choice........................ 24 ©29
Choicest.................... 30 @34

SUN CUBED.

F a ir........................... 14 @15
Good......................... 16 ©20
Choice........................ 24 ©28
.30 ©33
Choicest....................

BASKET  FIRED.

IMPERIAL.

F a ir...........................
@20
Choice........................
@25
Choicest.....................
©35
Extra choice, wire leaf
©40
GUNPOWDER.
Common to  fair........ .25 ©35
Extra fine to finest... .50 ©65
Choicest fancy.......... .75 @85
Common to  fair........ .20 @35
Superior to fine......... .40 @50
Common to  fair........ .18 @26
Superior to  fine........ .30 ©40
Common to  fair........ .25 @30
Superior to  fine........ .30 @50
Fine to choicest........ .55 @65
F a ir...............................25  @30
Choice........................... 30  @35
B est...............................55  @65
Tea  Dust......................  8  @10

ENGLISH BREAKFAST. 

YOUNG HYSON.

OOLONG.

tobaccos—Plug.

W

S. W. Venable & Co.’s Brands.
Nimrod, 4x12 and  2x12............39
Reception, 22-5x12,16 oz........ 39
Vivco, 1x6, 4% to  & ...... 
32
Big 5 Center, 3x12,  12 oz........36
Wheel, 5 to  B>..........................39
Trinket, 3x9, 9 oz..........*........25

 

tobaccos—Fine Cut.

D. Scotten & Co.’s Brands.

“ 
“ 
“ 

Hiawatha...................  
62
Sweet  Cuba................ 
37
TRADESMAN CREDIT COUPONS.
$ 2, per hundred................  2 50
$ 5,  “ 
................  3 00
$10,  “ 
................  4 00
$20,  “ 
................5  00
Subject to  the  following  dis­
counts:
200 or over.............  5 per  cent.
500  “ 
1000  “ 
30 gr......................................   634  4
40 gr......................................   834  “
50 gr.......................................1034

.............20 
VINEGAR.

10 
“

 

$1 for barrel.

YEAST.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Fermentum,  Compressed.  .
Cocoa Shells,  bulk.............  334
Jelly, 30-lb.  pails........ 4  © 434
Sage...................... 
15
P A P E R  & W OODENW ARE

 

PAPER.

Curtiss  &  Co.  quote  as  fol­

lows:
Straw ...... ..............................165
“  Light  Weight...............200
S ugar..................................... 185
Hardware...............................2%
Bakers....................................234
Dry  Goods............................. 5
Jute  Manilla..........................8
Red  Express  No. 1.............. 5
No. 2.............. 4

twines.
48 Cotton.............................  22
Cotton, No. 2..........  
20
“  3.........................18
Sea  Island, assorted............40
No. 5 H em p................*.  ...16
No. 8 B...................... 
17
Wool.....................................  734

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WOODENWARE.

Tubs, No. 1.........................   7 25
“  No. 2.........................   6  25
“  N o.3...........................5 25
1 60
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop....  1  75
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes.... 
60
Bowls, 11 inch....................   1  00
13  “ 
“ 
.....................  1  25
.......................2 00
15  “ 
“ 
.....................  2  75
17  “ 
“ 
assorted, 17s and  17s  2 50 
“ 
“  15s, 17s and 19s  2 75
“ 
40
“ 
bushel..................  1  60
“  with covers  1  90
“ 
“  willow cl’ths, No.l  5 75 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“  
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“  No.l  3 60
“ 
“ 

Baskets, market.................. 

splint 

No.2 6 25
No.3 7 25
No.2 4 25
No.3 5 OO

90»
88

GRAINS and FEED STU FF»

WHEAT.

FLOUR.

W hite...................................  
Red........................................  
Straight, in sacks..............  4 80
“  barrels............  5 OO
Patent  “  sacks..............  5  80
“  barrels............  6 00>
Bolted................................  2 20
Granulated...... .................  2  45

MEAL.

“ 
“ 

MiLLSTUFFS.
 

Bran.......................  
  12  00
S hips................................  12  50-
Screenings ........................  12 00
Middlings..........................  13  00
Mixed Feed........................ 15  50
Coarse meal......................   15  50
Small  lots.........., ..............  43
Car 

“  ..........................  3934s

CORN.

OATS.

RYE.

HAY.

Small  lots.........................  32
Car 
“  ........ .................  30

No. 1.................................. 35©4G

BARLEY.

No. 1...................................  1  25
No. 2..................................   1  10

No. 1...................................  12 00
No. 2...................................  10  5C

HIDES.

HIDES,  PELTS  and  FURS.
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­

lows:
Green ..........................  4  © 4%
Part  Cured.................   4  @ 434-
Full 
..................  434© 5
Dry..............................   5  @6
Dry  Kips  ...................  5  @6
Calfskins,  green........ 3  @  4
cu red ......  434© 5
Deacon skins..............10  ©20

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“ 

34 off for No. 2.

PELTS.

Shearlings.................. 10  ©25
Estimated wool, per lb 20  @28

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tallow........................  3%@ 3J4,
Grease  butter.............3  ©  5
Switches........... . . —   2 
2%
Ginseng......................2 00@2 25

WOOL.

Washed:........................... 25©30'
Unwashed........................ 12@22\

P o lish m a

This is the Time to Painti

The  Best  is Ilw a p  the Cheapest.

W E   HAVE  SOLD  THE

Pioneer Prepared Paint

For many years and

G U A R A N T E E

Same  to

G iv e   S a t i s f a c t i o n .

Dealers  in  paints  will  find  it  to  their 

interest to write us  for  prices 

and sample cards.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

HMELTINE  *  PERKINS  DRUG  CO.,
LIQUOR & POISON  RECORD
B e s t  o n  t h e  M a r k e t ,  
u  i  svnwp  % nun  100 rx»nis st*»
11.  A.  Ol UnH  A  DivU,, GRAND RAPIDS

Acknowledged to be the

COMBINED.

O I L S !
S n o w  Drop*

A Fine Water White Oil, High Gravity and Fire 
Test, and recommended to those wishing a High 
Grade Burning  Oil.

R ed  Cross*
Water White—A splendid  oil.

(SPECIAL.)

Gasoline*
ranted to Give Satisfaction.

Naptha*

Our XXXX Red Cross brand is unexcelled.  War­

Sweet and Free from Oily  Matter, and has met 
the  approval of many of the  largest  consumers.
R ed Cross P aint Oil
Is full of merit and needs but a trial to convince 
all of its great value.  For mixing with Linseed 
it is without  a  peer,  as  it  greatly  reduces  the 
cost of same ana without injuring its quality.
M ineral Turps*

Its peculiar composition is such  that  it can be 
used  with  turpentine in fair proportion, the lat­
ter  retaining  full  possession,  and  with  perfect 
results.

ALL  KINDS

Constantly  in  stock, all at our Cleveland prices, 

Lubricating Oils
Grand  Rapids  Tank Line  Go;,

thus saving you time and freight.

WORKS—D. & M. Junction.

OFFICE  ROOM—No. 4 Blodgett Block.

Branch  Scofield,  Shurmer  &  Teagle, 

Cleveland, Ohio.

< T >
DIAMOND  TEA

CURES

L iver and 

K idn ey Troubles 
Blood D iseases 

Constipation

---- AND----

F ern  ¿ile

Complaints
Being composed entirely of  HERBS, it 
is the only perfectly harmless  remedy on 
the market and  is  recommended  by  all 
who use it.

Retail Druggists  will find it to 
their  interest  to  keep  the, DIA­
MOND  TEA, as it fulfills all that 
is claimed,  making  it one of the 
very best selling articles handled.

Place your order w ith  our  Wholesale

House.Diamond  (Jeflicinc  Go.,

PROPRIETORS,

DETROIT,  -  MICH.

Hazeltine & Perkins Drag Co.,

WHOLESALE  AGENTS,

GRAND RAPIDS, 

- 

MICH.

Drugs 0  Medicines*

Stale  Board of Pharmacy.

One T ear—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann  A rbor.
Two Y ears—Geo. McDonald, K alam azoo.
Three Years—Stanley E. P ark ill, Owosso.
F o u r Years—Jacob  Jesson,  Muskegon.
Five Years—Jam es V eraor, D etroit.
P resident—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon.
S ecretary—Jas.  V ernor, D etroit.
Treasurer—Geo.  McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Next  Meeting—At L ansing, Novem ber 6, 6 and 7.

Michigan  State Pharmaceutical  Ass’n. 

President—Geo. Gundrum , Ionia.
F irst Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, L ansing.
Second Vice-President—H. M. Dean, Niles.
Third Vice-President—O. Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer—W m  Dupont, Detroit.
Executive C om m ittee—A. H. Lym an,  M anistee;  A. Bas 
sett,  D etroit; F. J.  W urzburg,  G rand R apids;  W.  A. 
Hall, Greenville;  E. T.  Webb, Jackson.

Local Secretary—A. Bassett, D etroit.
Annual Meeting—At D etroit. Sept. 17,18 and 19._______
Grand  Rapids  Pharmaceutical Society. 
President. J. W. H ayw ard,  S ecretary, F ran k  H. Escott.
G r a n d  Rapids Drug Clerks’ Association. 
President, F. D. K ip p ;  Secretary, A lbert Brower.
Detroit Pharmaceutical  Society. 

President, J.  W. Caldwell.  Secretary, B. W. P atterson.
President, C. S. Koon;  Secretary, J. W. Hoyt.

M u s k e g o n   D r u g   C l e r k s ’  A s s o c ia t io n . 

C a n th a rid in   in  P h a rm a c y .

The use  of  cantharidin  in  pharmacy 
has been very limited,  as far  as  I  have 
been able to determine,  although quite a 
number  of  methods  have  been  recom­
mended  for  separating  this  principle 
from the flies.  Most  of  these have been 
used, no doubt,  with a view of determin­
ing the  quality of  the flies,  their  value 
being  estimated by the  amount  of  can­
tharidin, and as a matter of  experiment.
My attention  was  attracted to the use 
of  cantharidin  while making  some can- 
I  noticed how easily 
tharidal collodion. 
this  principle  could be separated by the 
method  adopted in that  process. 
In the 
preparation  a  considerable  amount  of 
cantharidin remained  undissolved by the 
collodion, even after agitation for several 
days.
It occurred to me that it would require 
but a  little  extra  labor  to  remove  the 
fatty matter with carbon bisulphide,  and 
obtain  the  cantharidin  in  a  tolerably 
pure state,  by which  the  quality of  the 
drug used might be estimated, and at the 
same  time  a  collodion,  prepared  of  a 
known  strength,  by simply  adding  the 
cantharidin to  the  requisite  amount  of 
flexible collodion.  A preparation  made 
in  this  manner  yielded  satisfactory re­
sults.
A short time  after  this  I  was  called 
upon to make some vinegar of cantharides 
according to the  British  Pharmacopoeia.
I found the process a tedious one, especi­
ally that  part  of  the  process  requiring 
percolation,  which wás exceedingly slow 
and  unsatisfactory.  A  preparation 
equally efficacious  was  readily made  by 
simply dissolving  cantharidin in  a  mix­
ture  of  glacial-acetic  and  acetic  acids 
corresponding to the  menstrum  used  in 
the preparation.
While  I  have  not  made  any  further 
experiments, I might suggest  its  use  in 
the  liniment  of  cantharides,  and  the 
cerate  of  the  extract  of  cantharides. 
Referring to the last-named  preparation,
I have often wondered  why the Pharma­
copoeia is burdened with two cantharidal 
cerates.  The plain cerate of cantharides, 
if  properly made  with a good  specimen 
of  powdered  flies,  seldom fails  to  give 
satisfaction.  The  claim for  the  cerate 
of  the extract is that it is an elegant and 
efficient  substitute  for  the  ordinary ce­
rate, as the greater  portion  of  the inert 
matter is removed in the  process adopted 
for its preparation.
The object of  this  preparation, there­
fore, is simply to remove  the  vesicating 
principle  in as pure a state  as  possible, 
and  to  combine  it with a suitable  base. 
The process is somewhat cumbersome  to 
the druggist,  as  it  involves  percolation, 
distillation and  evaporation, the final re­
sult being the removal of the cantharidin, 
associated with a considerable amount of 
extractive.  A more simple method would 
be to add a chloroformic solution of  can­
tharidin to a melted mixture of wax, lard 
and resin, or the cantharidin may be dis­
solved by means of  heat, in a mixture of 
rape seed and castor oils, and then added. 
In doing this, it  would  be  necessary  to 
diminish the amount  of  lard, as the lard 
would render the cerate too soft.
But is this elegant  and efficient substi­
tute an improvement  over  the  ordinary 
cerate?  So far as I can learn, such is not 
the case.  If the objection to this prepara­
tion be the mechanical admixture  of  the 
powdered flies, I hardly  think  it  justifi­
able, as these small particles of the hard, 
exterior  parts  of  the  insect have a ten­
dency to  irritate  the  skin,  and thereby 
facilitate the vesicating action.
I had occasion, some time ago,  to  test 
the relative merit of these  two  prepara­
tions.  The cerate of  the  extract  failed 
to give the satisfaction which the  cerate 
had previously given.  That  the  former 
preparation contained  sufficient canthar­
idin  there  could  be  no  doubt,  as  six 
months after its  preparation I found  the 
entire surface  thickly  studded with can­
tharidin crystals.
Cantharidin dissolved in  oil  has  been 
used in Germany. 
In  the  last  issue  of 
the “Pharmaceutische Rundschau,” New 
York, May, 1889, a process  is  given  for 
making  cantharidal  oil,  as 
formerly 
recommended by E. Dietrich, Helfenberg, 
It  was  made  by  dissolving 
Germany. 
three  parts  of  cantharidin in two thou­
sand parts of rape seed  oil. 
It has been 
shown by F.  Eger  that  a  portion of the 
cantharidin in the preparation is precipi­
tated  after a time,  and  he  recommends 
the  use  of  castor  oil.  The  following 
formula  is  suggested  for  a  permanent 
preparation:  0.3 grammes of cantharidin 
is dissolved in 20.0 grammes of castor oil 
and 40.0  grammes  of  rape  seed  oil  by 
means of heat, after which 140.0 grammes 
of rape seed oil is added.
The  main  objection to the use of  can­
tharidin  is  its  expense. 
In  Merck’s 
Index 1 gramme is quoted  at $2. 
It can, 
however, be  made  more  cheaply by the 
druggist himself.
The  separation  of  cantharidin  is  not 
difficult;  it  is  easily  accomplished  by 
percolating 
the  powdered  flies  with 
chloroform. 
I have  used  for  this  pur­
pose a narrow Whitall-Tatum percolator, 
in  the  bottom  of  which a cork  was  in­
serted, containing a glass tube drawn out 
to a fine point  and  curved  upward. 
In 
this  manner I was  able  to  prevent  the 
percolation  from  going  on  too rapidly. 
The chloroform was recovered for future 
use  by  means  of  an  old-style  alembic, 
connected  with  an  empty bottle, acting 
as a receiver, and  kept cool.
With a water bath placed over an ordi­
nary spirit  lamp, the  distillation can be 
carried  on  until  the  greater  portion of

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the  chloroform  is  recovered.  The  fat 
can be removed after evaporating the re­
maining  chloroform by means of  carbon 
bisulphide  or  petroleum  ether. 
In this 
manner  it  may be  obtained  sufficiently 
pure for pharmaceutical  purposes.  The 
powdered drug as found in this market is 
generally  good,  containing  about  8 per 
cent,  of  moisture  and  a  fair  yield  of 
cantharidin.
Other  processes  have  been  recom­
mended,  such as treating  the  flies  with 
alkalies, and  subsequently with acid, be­
fore using  chloroform or ether, by which 
means a larger  yield  is  obtained.  Per­
haps the best  method is that of  dialysis, 
recommended by E. Dietrich.  But as far 
as the commercial article is concerned,  it 
is  yet  too  expensive to be used, at least 
in this  country.
I "would,  therefore,  recommend  the 
druggist  to  prepare  it  himself,  as I be­
lieve that cantharadin could be used in a 
number  of  the  pharmaceutical  prepara­
tions  now  kept  in  the  stores,  thereby 
saving considerable time,  besides  secur­
ing  preparations  of  known  strength, 
which is always  an  object  to be desired.

F. A.  Gr a zer.

S u n d a y   C losing  in   P en n sy lv a n ia .
At  the  meeting  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Pharmaceutical Association, the prosecu­
tion of druggists  for  selling articles not 
strictly medicinal was discussed.  Accord­
ing to the newly-elected President of the 
Association,  John  W. Miller, the sale of 
a toothbrush  on  Sunday,  in  Alleghany 
county,  was  punishable  with  a  fine of 
$25.  This was regarded not only  as  un­
just, but as discrimination, since the fine 
for similar offences in  other  counties  of 
the State was only $4.  The  paper  was 
withdrawn in deference  to the sentiment 
of the  Association,  who  feared  that  it 
may be interpreted  as  favoring  Sunday 
traffic, and a resolution passed that  “the 
Association recommends  drug  stores  be 
kept open on  Sundays  only  for the sale 
of necessary articles, with due regard for 
the laws of God and the commonwealth.” 
Without  discussing  the  moral involved 
in the  question,  or  attempting a defini­
tion of what constitutes  “necessary arti­
cles,” except that  as  cleanliness is next 
to godliness, so  should soap and brushes 
also be  necessary  articles,  if  sold with 
due  regard  to  cleanliness,  the Associa­
tion could  scarcely  be  conversant  with 
the true inwardness  of  this  prosecution 
as conducted  by  the  Alleghany  County 
Sunday League,  or  it  would have set its 
mark of disapproval  of  its methods and 
the men composing  it. 
If the resolution 
is intended for  the  larger county on the 
other end of the State,  where  the  chief 
business on Sunday in  many drug stores 
is the dispensing  of  liquors,  because of 
the closing of the  saloons on this day by 
the Sunday League, it may possibly have 
a good moral effect, though  it  is  feared 
that something more  is  required  than  a 
resolution  to  stop  the  liquor  traffic  in 
drug stores in prohibition localities.

W h o lesale  P o iso n in g   w ith   A rsenic.
A murder trial has  just  terminated in 
Paris which  was  prolific  of  sensational 
horrors.  The accused, Pastre  Baussier, 
a student  and  apprentice  in  pharmacy, 
stood charged with having poisoned with 
arsenic  no  less  than  thirteen  persons. 
One of the victims was Madame Decamp, 
the  wife  of  his teacher  and  employer. 
The  motive  assigned  in  this  case  was 
revenge  for  having  accused  him  of  a 
theft.  Another  victim  was  a  fellow 
student  and  clerk,  the  alleged  motive 
beiug  the fact that the deceased stood in 
his  way  in  the  matter  of  preference. 
His master,  M. Decamp,  was  killed  be­
cause he suspected him.  The mother-in- 
law of  his master and two servants went 
the same road to  the  hereafter,  because 
(as was alleged)  they had  informed  the 
successor of M. Decamp in the pharmacy, 
of  certain dishonorable acts of  Baussier. 
And so on through the list.  The  prose­
cution proved the motives,  showed  that 
the deaths  had  occurred from  arsenical 
poisoning,  and  that  Baussier  w’as  the 
only  person  interested  in  getting 
the 
deceased out of  the way, but,  owing  to 
the  peculiar  technicalities  of  French 
criminal law, Baussier was acquitted!

W ill  P o stp o n e   th e   M eetin g   O ne  W eek .
Four  members  of  the Executive Com­
mittee  of  the  Michigan  State  Pharma­
ceutical  Association — A.  H.  Lyman, 
Manistee;  A.  Bassett,  Detroit;  F.  J. 
Wurzburg,  Grand Rapids and W. A. Hall, 
Greenville—met  at  the  Hotel  Cadillac, 
Detroit,  last Friday,  for  the  purpose of 
arranging  a  programme for  the  annual 
convention appointed for Sept. 9,  10, and 
11.  The general features of  the conven­
tion  were  mapped  out  and  Secretary 
Brown,  who was present at the meeting, 
was  instructed  to fill  in  the  necessary 
details.

The  matter  of  postponing  the  con­
vention a week was then discussed,  when 
a  resolution  was  adopted, favoring  the 
change  and  requesting  the President to 
call a special meeting, to be held  at  De­
troit August 7,  for the purpose of chang­
ing the dates to Sept.  17, 18 and 19.

T he D ru g   M a rk et.

Quinine  is  firmer, with a  higher  ten­
dency.  Opium is  also  tending  upward, 
being  higher  abroad.  Morphia  is  un­
changed.  Chloroform has declined.  Bal­
sam  copaiba  is  lower.  Chlorate potash 
is  advancing.  Quicksilver  is  higher. 
Carbolic acid is tending  upward.  First- 
pick Gum Arabic is out of  market.  Tur­
pentine  is  higher.  Linseed  oil  is firm, 
but unchanged.  Oil wintergreen has ad­
vanced.  Oil cubebs are higher.

It  takes  a  London  court  to  decide a 
question in accordance with “the eternal 
fitness of  things,” as  some one called it. 
A coal dealer filled the  wrong cellar full 
of  coal, and when  the  mistake  was dis­
covered the occupier of  the  premises re­
fused any further remedy than to pay ten 
shillings  per  ton  for  the  coal.  As the 
regular  price  was  twenty shillings, the 
coal dealer went to law.  The  court sim­
ply decided  that  the  coal  could  not be 
removed  without  the  consent of  the oc­
cupier  of  the  premises  where  it  was 
mistakenly put.

COLLEGE  TRAINING.

Is  th e   C ollege  T rain in g   in  P h a rm a c y
B e tte r  fo r  th e   S tu d e n t  th a n   th e   R e­
v e rse  ?
The  query  which  the  committee  has 
propounded  is  a  timely  and  important 
one.  Formerly,  the  almost  universal 
practice was for a preceptor to engage an 
assistant  with the understanding that he 
was  to  remain  actively engaged  in  the 
store  for at least  four  years,  then,  after 
usually  two  years’  experience,  the  as­
sistant  was  sent  to  a  college  of  phar­
macy  to  attend  his  first  course  of  lec­
tures, and then,  after  another  course,  if 
his requirements as to age and experience 
enabled him to apply for  the  final exam­
ination  in  the  spring,  he  came forward 
and,  if  successful  at  this  last  test,  he 
graduated.  The query is timely, because 
a different practice is coming into  vogue 
to  a  slight  extent,  and  is  sometimes 
recommended,  and it certainly  would  be 
well to scan closely what might be called 
an  innovation  upon  the  time-honored 
practice.
So  far  as  the  writer’s knowledge ex­
tends, no  college  of  pharmacy has  ever 
passed  a  by-law  or  resolution  which 
aimed  to control  the  choice  of  the  stu­
dent  or  preceptor  in  this matter;  there 
has  never  been  anything  to  prevent a 
student  from  entering  a  college at any
period of  his service, and takiug the reg­
ular course (provided  he passed  the  pre­
liminary examination  as  to his ordinary 
education);  he  was  never  asked  any 
questions  about  the  length of  time that j 
he had been in business  before  entering j 
college, so that the  habit of  not  matric- j 
ulating at college until two or more years I 
of  practical  experience in the drug  bus­
iness, had  its  origin  entirely outside of 
direct college  legislation, yet, indirectly, 
certain  provisions  in  the  requirements 
for graduation  had an important bearing 
in establishing the practice.  These were 
adopted  by  nearly  every college  in  the 
country,  and  provided,  first,  that  each 
student,  before  receiving  his  diploma, j 
must produce  evidence of  having served j 
four  years  in  the  drug  business;  and, | 
secondly, that  every graduate must have 
attained  the  age  of  twenty-one  years. 
Preceptors  and  students,  knowing  of 
these  requirements,  naturally  reasoned 
that it would be better to concentrate the 
greatest  amount of  study upon  the  last 
two  years of  the  four, because  the  last 
year wras the period when the final exam­
inations took place, and it was reasonable 
to believe  that  the first or  junior  exam­
ination should precede the final or senior 
examination  by  as  short a time  as  pos­
sible, because study and  the  acquisition 
of  theoretical knowledge  is  much  facil­
itated by being  carried  on  continuously 
and without  intermission. 
It  will thus 
be seen that the practice of  entering col­
lege  after  first  having  had  two  years’ 
experience  in  a store  was  rational  and 
based on good  judgment. 
In addition to 
this, the course of  instruction  at  all col­
leges  of  pharmacy  presupposes  some 
practical  familiarity  and  knowledge  of 
the objects used to illustrate the lectures 
on  pharmacy. 
It  is,  perhaps,  needless 
to say that the instruction would be much 
more likely to fasten  itself  in the  mem­
ory of  the  hearer, if  he had  the  advan­
tage of  some  previous actual knowledge 
of  the operation or of  the physical prop­
erties of  the chemical or  pharmaceutical 
preparation  that  is  the  subject  of  the 
lecture.
Then again, the custom of  first acquir­
ing some practical experience  before en­
tering college, was aided by the fact that 
the diploma  was  not  granted  until  the 
candidate had reached the age of twenty- 
one  years,  and it was not only rational, 
but in most  cases  obligatory on the part 
of  students,  to acquire practical experi­
ence at first;  for  the  great  majority en­
tered the  drug  business  at  about  their 
seventeenth  year,  and it became  neces­
sary to occupy their  time to the best ad­
vantage,  and  during  the  preliminary 
experience  in  the  store  they  had  the 
opportunity  of  carefully  investigating 
the subject of  college work,  and of  con­
sulting  with their  preceptors,  and with 
the older students as to the  best  method 
of  preparing for  college. 
In some cases 
of  exceptional  ability  it  has  happened 
that  enough  money has  been  saved  by 
the student during the  previous  experi­
ence  to  pay his  college  expenses;  and 
there are  many graduates  in  successful 
practice  to-day who  have  reached  emi­
nence  in  their  profession,  who  were 
compeled  by  straitened  circumstances 
early in  their  career,  to earn the means 
which paid for their education at college.
The  query  asks  whether  a  previous 
“experience is  better for  the  student,” 
and by inference  it  would  be  supposed 
that  the  pecuniary  question  of  “ways 
and  means”  was  not  a  factor;  for  the 
few  who  are  so favored  that  they  can 
afford to  take  their  college  training  at 
the beginning of  their four  year term of 
service,  and  wait  two  years before pas­
sing their final examination (for of course 
they can not come  into  the  examination 
room  until they have  produced evidence 
of  having  at  least  three  and  one-half 
years’ experience in a store),  there  still 
remains  the  question,  Which is better?
The  writer  is  willing  to  grant  that 
there  may be an  exceptional  case  here 
and there  which  would  require  special 
consideration,  and the ultimate object of 
the student  might  not be the usual one, 
that  of  becoming  a  retail  pharmacist. 
In all of  the older colleges of  pharmacy 
there are constantly increasing  numbers 
of  students  who graduate,  or  take  the 
instruction,  who  never  expect  to  be 
apothecaries, but will enter wholesale or 
manufacturing  departments,  or  become 
chemists, physicians or professional men 
in some of the collateral sciences; in such 
cases the probable career  of  the student 
must be taken into  account.  But  it  is 
usually safe to say that two  years’ train­
ing in a retail  drug  store  at  the  begin­
ning,  with the  varied experience that it 
affords, 
to  become 
familiar  with the physical  properties of 
chemicals,  galenicals  and  medicines  in 
common  use,  gives  to  all  an education 
that is lasting in its effects, and  of  ines­
timable  value all through  life. 
If  the 
student  should  be  so fortunate as to se­
cure  a  good,  conscientious  preceptor, 
there  should be no  hesitation  whatever 
as to the course to  pursue. 
In  conclu­
sion,  the  query is  answered  by stating 
that, in the  writer’s  opinion, it is better 
for the student to have  practical  experi­
ence  before  entering  college,  better for 
professors (because of the greater intelli­
gence  of  the  students),  better  for  the

the  opportunities 

college (because it makes better students) 
and  better for  the  community  (for  the 
same reason).

J o s e p h   P .   R e m i n g t o n .

T he  S m a lle st  S c re w s  in th e   W o rld .
The smallest screws in  the  world  are 
made  in  an  American  watch  factory, 
j They are cut from steel wire by machine, 
but as the chips fall down from the knife 
it looks as  if  the operative  was  simply 
cutting up the wire for fun.  The fourth 
jewel-wheel screw is  the  next  thing  to 
being  invisible  to  the naked eye.  With 
a glass,  however,  it is seen to be a small 
screw,  with 260 threads to the inch,  and 
| with a very fine glass  the threads may be 
j  seen  very clearly.  These  little  screws 
! are 4-1000  of  an  inch in  diameter,  and 
| the heads  are  double  the  size.  About 
i  1,000,000 of  them are made a month, but 
J  no  attempt is ever  made to count  them, 
j In determining the number,  100 of  them 
: are  placed  on  a  very delicate  balance, 
i and the number  of  the  whole amount is 
| determined by the weight of  these.  All 
\ of  the  small  parts  of  the  watch  are 
counted in this way, probably 50  out  of 
the 120.  After being cut, the screws are 
hardened and put in frames,  about 100 to 
the frame,  heads up.  This is done very 
rapidly,  but  entirely by sense  of  touch

instead  of  sight,  so  that  a  blind  man 
could do it  just as  well as the owner  of 
the sharpest eyes.  The  heads  are  then 
polished in an automatic machine,  10,000 
at a time.  The  plate on  which they are 
polished is covered with oil  and a grind­
ing  compound, and on this  the  machine 
moves  them rapidly by reversing motion 
until they are fully polished.

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Chloroform.

ACIDUM.

Aceticum...................
Benzoicum,  German..
Boracic 
.....................
Carbolicum................
Citricum .....................
Hydroehlor................
N itrocum ...................
Oxalicum...................
Phosphorium  dii........
Salieylicum................1
Sulphuricum..............
Tannicum...................1
Tartaricum.................
AMMONIA.

m  io 
80@1  00 
30
40®  45 
50®  55 
3®  5
10@   12 
13®  14 
20
40®1  80 
1M ®  5 
40@1 60 
40®  43

Aqua, 16  deg................. 
Carbonas  ...................
Chloridum.................. 

3®  j>

14

a n il in e .

Black  ..........................2 
Brown...........................  80@1 «0
Red  ..............................    45@ 50
Yellow.........................^ 

00@2 25

50@3 00

BAOCAE.

Cubeae (po. 1  60...........1 
85®2 00
8® io
Juniperus...................... 
Xanthoxylum...............  25® 30

b a l sa m u m .
Copaiba........................   55@ 60
Peru............................. 
M
Terabin, Canada  ........   45® 50
Tolutan........................   45@ 50

c o r t e x .

Abies,  Canadian..................  18
Cassiae  ................................  J*
Cinchona F la v a ..................  J®
Euonymus  atropurp...........  Jy
Myrica  Cerifera, po.............  M
Prunus Virgin!....................   1*
Quillaia,  grd........................  “
Sassafras  ........... ................
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)........  10

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e x t r a c t d m . 
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra...
po.
Haematox, 15 lb. box..
I s ...................
)4s...... .
148................
f e b b u m .
Carbonate Precip........
Citrate and Quinia 
Citrate  Soluble........
Ferrocyanidum Sol —
Solut  Chloride...........
Sulphate,  com’l ..........
pure............

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24®  25 
33®  35 
11@  12 
13®  14 
14®  15 
16®  17

@  15 
@3  50 
@  80 
@  50 
@  15 
2

I K ®  

FLORA.

Arnica ........................
Anthem is...................
M atricaria..........   8°®

FOLIA.

.........  

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol” Tin- 

  10©
nivelly.............. . —  25@
35®

“ Alx. 

« 

 

Salvia  officinalis,  14s
and  Hs.............   10©
UraUrsi............. 
8®

•

o u m m i.

“ 
“ 

“ 
« 
“ 

Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)

2d 
3d 
sifted sorts..
po.

Acacia,  1st picked....  ®1
....  ©
....  @
75®1
50®
“  Cape,  (po.  20)...
“  Socotri, (po.  60).  @
Catechu, Is, (14s, 14 34s,
16)......................... 
_©
Ammoniae..................  25®
Assafcetida,  (po. 30)... 
<©
Benzoinum..................  ¿0@
Camphor®...................   35®
Euphorbium  po  ........   35@
Galbanum...................  
<©
Gamboge,  po..............   80®
Guaiacum, (po. 45)....  @
Kino,  (po.  25).............  ©
M astic........................  ©1
Myrrh,  (po  45)...........   @
Opii,  (pc. 4 75)...........3 20@3
Shellac  ......................   25©
bleached........  25®
“ 
Tragacanth................   30@
herb a—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................
Eupatorium.........................
Lobelia.................................
Majorum........  ...................•
Mentha  Piperita..................
“  V ir..........................
Rue........................................
Tanacetum, V ......................
Thymus,  V...........................

M AGNESIA.

Calcined, Pat..............   55®
Carbonate,  Pat  ..........  20®
Carbonate, K. &  M....  20@ 
Carbonate, Jenning5..  35®

Absinthium............... 5  00©5 50
Amygdalae, Dulc........  45@  75
Amyaalae, Amarae— 7 25@7 50
Aniai.......................... 1  75@l  85
Aurauti  Cortex..........  @2  50
Bergamii  ................... 2 50@3 00
Cajiputi......................   90@1  00
Caryophylli................  @1  70
Cedar  ..........................  35®
Chenopodii................  ®1  75
Cinnamon!!............... 1  20@1  25
Citronella...................   @  75
Conium  Mac..............   35@  65
Copaiba......................   90@1  0C
Cubebae...................16 00@16 50
Execht hi tos................  90@1  00
Erigeron....................1  20@1‘30
Gaultheria.................2  10@2 20
Geranium,  ounce......   @
Gossipii,  Sem. gal......   50@
Hedeoma  ....................1  15@1  25
Juniperi......................   50@2 00
Lavendula..................  90@2 00
Limonis......................1  50@1  80
Mentha Piper..............2  35®2  40
Mentha Verid............2  50@2 60
Morrhuae, gal.............  80@1  00
Myrcia, ounce.............  @ 50
Olive.......................... 1  00@2  75
Picis Liquida,  (gal.,35)  10@  12
R icini.........................1  24@1  32
Rosmarini............. 
75@1  00
Rosae,  ounce..............   @6 00
Succini........................  40@  45
Sabina........................  90@1  00
Santal  ....... 
3 50@7 00
Sassafras.....................  55@  60
Sinapis, ess, ounce—   @  65
Tiglir...........................  @1  50
Thym e........................  40®  50
opt  ................  @  60
Theobromas................  15@  20
BiCarb........................  15@  18
Bichromate................  15©  16
Bromide......................  37®  40

POTASSIUM.

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Carb.............................  12®  15
Chlorate,  (po. 18)..........  16© 18
Cyanide......................   50®  55
Iodide......................... 2 85@3 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  27@  29
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @ 15
Potass  Nitras, opt......  
8®  10
Potass Nitras..............  
7®  9
Prussiate.......................  25@ 28
Sulphate  po..................  15® 18

RADIX.

Aconitum...................
Althae..........................
Anchusa.....................
Arum,  po.....................
Calamus......................
Gentiana,  (po. 15).......
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15).. 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 45).....................
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__
Inula,  po.....................
Ipecac,  po...................2
Iris  plox (po. 20@22)..
Jalapa,  pr...................
Maranta,  J£s..............
Podophyllum, po........
Rhei.............................
cut......................
PV........................
Spigelia......................
Sanguinaria,  (po  25)..
Serpentaria.................
Senega  . '......................
Similax, Officinalis,  H 
M
Scillae,  (po. 35)...........
Symplocarpus,  Fceti-
dus,  po.....................
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30) 
German...
Zingiber a ...................
Zingiber  j ...................

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20®  25 
25®  30 
15®  20 
©  25 
20®  50 
10®  12 
16®  18
©  40 
15©  20 
15©  20 
40@2 50 
IS®  20 
25®  30 
©  35 
15®  18 
,75@1  00 
@1  75 
75@1  35 
48®  53 
@   20 
25®  30 
60@  65 
@  40 
®  20 
10©   12
@  35 
®  25 
15®  20 
10®  15 
22®  25

SEMEN.

Anisum,  (po.  20)........  ©  15
Apium  (graveleons)..  10@  12
Bird, Is...................... 
4®  6
Carui, (po. 18)............. 
8®  12
Cardamon.........................1  00@1 25
Corlandrum................  10®  12
Cannabis Sativa..........314© 
4
Cydonium...................  
t5@l  00
Chenopodium  ...........  1U@  12
Dipterix Odorate.........1  75® 1  85
Foeniculum.......  .......  @  15
Foenugreek,  po..........  6@  8
L in i.............................4  ® 414
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 4  )...  414® 454
Lobelia........................  35®  40
Pharlaris Canarian—   354® 414
R apa........................... 
5®  6
Sinapis,  Albu............. 
8®  9
Nigra...........   11®  12

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SFIRITUS.

 
“ 

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Frumenti, W., D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R .......1  75@2 00
1  10@1  50
Juniperis  Co. O. T — 1  75@1  75
...........1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  E .........1  75@2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli............1  75@6 50
Vini Oporto..................... 1  25@2 00
Vini  Alba........................ 1  25@2 00

SPONGES.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage.........................2 25@2 50
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ..................
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage..........
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage...................
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  ........................
Hard for  slate  use —
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se ...........................

2  00 
1  10

1  40

SYBUPS.

A ccada...............................    50
Zingiber  ..........................  
  50
Ipecac...................................   60
Ferri  Iod..............................   50
Auranti Cortes.....................  50
Rhei  Arom...........................   50
Similax  Officinalis..............   60
Co.........   50
Senega ..................................  50
Scillae...................................   50
“  Co..............................   50
Tolutan.................;.............  50
Prunus  virg..........................  50

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TINCTURES.

 

 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Aconitum Napellis R ..........  60
F ...........   50
Aloes.....................................  60
and myrrh..................  60
A rnica..................................  50
Asafcetida.............................  50
Atrope Belladonna..............   60
Benzoin................................  60
Co...........................   50
Sanguinaria..........................  50
Barosma..............................   50
Cantharides..........................  75
Capsicum.............................  50
Cardamon.............................  75
Co.......................  75
Castor.................................. 1 00
Catechu................................  50
Cinehona.............................  50
Co.......................  60
Columba.................. 
50
Conium................................  50
Cubeba.................................   50
D igitalis..............................   50
Ergot....................................   50
G entian................................  50
Co.............................  60
Guaica.................................   50
ammon...................  60
Zingiber..............................   50
Hyoscyamus........................  50
Iodine...................................  75
-Colorless.................  75
Ferri  Chloridum................  35
K ino.....................................  50
Lobelia.................................   50
Myrrh...................................  50
Nux  Vomica........................  50
O pii......................................   85
“  Camphorated................  50
“  Deodor.........................2 00
Auranti Cortex.....................  50
Quassia................................  50
Rhatany  ..............................   50
Rhei......................................   50
Cassia  Acutifol...................   50
Co..............   50
Serpentaria..........................  50
Stromonium.........................   60
Tolutan ... ; ..........................  60
V alerian..............................   50
VeratrumVeride..................  50

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“ 

MISCELLANEOUS.

‘ 
“ 

Æther, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  26©  28
“  4 F ..  30®  32
Alumen......................   2)4® 3)4
(po.
7).............................. 
3®  4
Annatto......................   55®  60
4®  5
Antimoni, po.............. 

ground, 

“ et Potass T.  55©  60

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

« 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

squibbs..  @1 00

Antipyrin.................... 1  35@1 40
Argenti  Nitras, ounce  @  68
Arsenicum.................  
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud......   38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ..............2  15@2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, ()4s
11;  )4s,  12)..............
@  9
Cantharides  Russian,
p o .............................
@1  75 
Capsici  Fructus, a f...
@  18 
©  16 
rpo-.-
@  14 
Caryophyllus,  (po.  28)
23®  25 
Carmine,  No. 40..........
@3 75 
Cera  Alba, S. & F ......  
_
50®  55 
Cera  Flava.................   28©
30 
Coccus........................  @
40 
Cassia Fructus...........  @
15 
Centraria.....................  @
10 
Cetaceum................. 
  @
35 
Chloroform................  32@
35
Chloral Hyd Crst......... 1  50@1 75
Chondrus...................   10@  12
Cinchonidine, P.  &  W  15©  20 
German  4®
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
cent  ........................  ©
Creasotum..................  @
Creta,  (bbl. 75)......... 
  @
 
“  prep...................     5®
“  precip.................  
8®
“  Rubra.................   @
Crocus........................  35®
Cudbear.......................  @
Cupri Sulph................  
8®
Dextrine.....................  10®
Ether Sulph................  68®
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
po...................   @
Ergota,  (po.)  45 ..........  40@
Flake  White__ ____   12®
G alla...........................  @
Gambier.......................  8®
Gelatin,  Cooper..........  @
French...........  40©
“ 
Glassware  flint,  75  & 10 per 
cent, by box 70 less
Glue,  Brown..............  
9®
15 
“  White................   13®
25 
Glycerina....................  22®
25 
Grana Paradisi...........   @
15 
Humulus.....................  25®
40 
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  ©
85 
“  C or__  
<a
@  75 
Ox Rubrum
@  95 
Ammoniati..
@1  10 
45®  55 
Unguentum.
Hydrargyrum............. 
_
I   80
Ichthyobolla,  Am...... 1  25@1  50
Indigo.........................   75@1  00
Iodine,  Resubl........... 4 00@4  10
Iodoform.....................  @5  15
Lupulin......................   85@1  00
Lycopodium..............   55@  60
M acis..........................  80®  85
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
ar arg Iod.................
Liquor Potass Arsinitis 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
V A ) ...................................
Mannia,  S. F ..............  
Morphia,  S.  P. & W. ..2 55@2 80 
S. N.  Y.  Q. &
C. C o........................2 55©2 70
Moschus  Canton........  @ 40
Myristica,  No. 1.........   60®  70
Nux Vomica, (po20)..  ©  10
Os.  Sepia.....................  25®  27
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co.............................
@2  00
Picis  Liq, N.  C., )4 gal
doz  ..........................
@2  00 
Picis Liq., q u arts......
© 1  00 
pints..........
@  70 
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..
@  50 
Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22)..
@  18 
Piper Alba,  (po g5)__
©  35 
Pix  Burgun................
@  7
_
Plumbi A cet..............  
14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opii. .1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......   @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  35@  40
8®  10
Quassiae..................... 
Quinia, S. P. & W ......   39®  44
S.  German....  26®  35
Rubia  Tinctorum.......  12©  14
Saccharum Lac tis pv..  @ 35
Salacin........................2 25®2 35
Sanguis  Draconis......   40®  50
Santonine
@4 50 
Sapo,  W......................
12®  14
H  
io
“  M........................
“  G........................
15
@
Seidlitz  Mixture........
Sinapis.........................
“  opt...................
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
V oes........................
©
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes 
Soda Boras,  (po. 12}.  ,
11®30®
_
Soda  et Potass Tart... 
Soda Carb..........................  2® 2)4
Soda,  Bi-Carb............. 
4®  5
Soda,  Ash................... 
3®  4
Soda, Sulphas................   @ 2
Spts. Ether C o...........   50®  55
“  Myrcia  Dom......   @2 00
“  Myrcia Imp........  @2 50
“  Vini  Rect.  bbl.
2 05).............................  @2 15
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal......   @1  10
Sulphur, Subl.....................25£@ 3)4
Tamarinds........................ 
8® 10
Terebenth Venice.......  28®  30
Theobromae.....................  50@ 55
Zinci  Sulph

Vanilla...................... 9 00@16 008

Roll................ 2)4® 3

@
10®
2®
_
45©

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OILS.

“ 

p a in t s . 

Bbl.
Gal
Whale, winter...........   70
70
60
Lard,  extra................  55
50
Lard, No.  1................  45
Linseed, pure raw __  62
65
Lindseed,  b o iled __   65
68
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
69
strained.................   50
50
Spirits Turpentine__   44
lb.
b b l.
Red  Venetian..............1S£  2@3
Ochre, vellow  Mars__1$£  2@4
“ 
Ber........1&  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2)4  2)4@3
“  ‘strictly  pure...... 2)4  2%@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ........................... 
13@16
Vermilion,  English__  
70@75
Green,  Peninsular......  
70@75
Lead,  red.....................  6$i@7)4
“  w h ite..................6&@7)4
Whiting, white Span...  @75
Whiting,  Gilders’........  @90
1  00 
White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
cliff........................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints......................1 00@1  20

VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach...... 1 10@1  20
Extra Turp................. 1 60@1  70
Coach  Body................2 75®3  00
No. 1 Turp’Furn........1 00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__ 1 55@1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
T u rp ........................  70®  75

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The  Man  Among the  Dry  Goods. 
He stood on the pavement before the store,
A great drv goods bazaar,
Where the feminine tide came surging up 
And rolled from near and far,
And they gaze on him with a dreadful scorn, 
With looks that wither and  sting.
With looks of utter supreme contempt,
As a base superfluous thing.
He was reckoned wise ’mong his fellow men, 
And was numbered  among the great,
And they laid their homage at his feet 
As a ruler of the State:
But there alone in that feminine throng 
He stood like a trembling slave,
A fatai foc-us of withering eyes—
And he longed for the cool, green  grave. 
Oh, a man may gain a deathless  renown, 
And all fame that the world can  give;
But if caught in a woman's dry goods crowd— 
He feels too mean to live.

A   S to ry   fo r  B oys.

“It  was  the  best  boy’s  story  I  ever 
heard,”  was  what a lawyer  said  of  the 
one I am about to relate  to  you: 
*
“We have  had a good  many boys with 
us  from  time  to time,”  said Mr. Alden, 
the  senior  member of  a large  hardware 
establishment  on  Market  street,  Phila­
delphia,  “as  apprentices  to  learn  the 
business.  What  may  surprise  you  is 
that we never take  country boys,  unless 
they live in the  city  with  some  relative 
who takes care of  them  and  keeps them 
home  at  night,  for  when a country  boy 
comes  to  the  city to  live  everything is 
new to him, and  he is attracted by every 
show-window  and  unusual  sight.  The 
city  boy,  who  is  accustomed  to  these 
things, cares  little  for  them,  and  if  he 
has a good  mother he is at  home  and in 
bed  in  due  season.  And  we  are  very 
particular  about  our  boys,  and  before 
accepting one  as  an apprentice we must 
know that he comes of  honest and indus­
trious parents.
“But the  best  boy we ever had is now 
with  us,  and a member of  the  firm.  He 
is the one man in the establishment  that 
we couldn’t do without.  He was thirteen 
years old when he was apprenticed to us, 
and  he  was  with  us  for  eleven  years, 
acting  for  several  years  as  salesman. 
When he first came  we  told him that for 
a long  time  his  wages  would  be  very 
small,  but that if  he  proved to be a good 
boy his  salary would  be  increased-  at a 
certain  rate every  year,  and as it turned 
out  when,  according  to  agreement,  we 
should have been paying him 5500 a year, 
we  paid  him  $900, and  he  never said a 
word  himself  about  an  increase of  sal­
ary.  From  the  very outset,  he  showed 
that he had an interest  in  the  business. 
He  was  prompt  in  the morning, and if 
kept a little  overtime  at  night,  it never 
seemed to make any difference  with him. 
He gradually came to know where every­
thing  was  to  be  found,  and  if  any  in­
formation was wanted it was to this boy, 
Frank  Jones,  that  every  one  applied. 
The  entire  establishment  seemed  to be 
mapped out in his  head  and  everything 
in  it  catalogued  and  numbered.  His 
memory  of  faces  was  equally  remark­
able.  He knew  the  name of  every man 
who came to the store to buy goods, what 
he  bought  and  where he came from. 
I 
used  often  to  say  to  him.  ‘Jones,  your 
memory is worth more than a gold mine ! 
How do  you manage to remember?’
“ ‘I make it my business to remember,’ 
he would say,  T  know that  if  I  can re­
member  a  mau  and  call  him  by  name 
when  he  comes  into the  store,  and can 
ask him  how things are  going  on where 
he  lives, I  will  be  very  likely  to  keep 
him as a customer.’
“And  that  was  the  exact  case.  He 
made  friends  of  buyers.  He  took  the 
same  interest  in  their purchases  as  he 
took in the store, and would go to no end 
of  trouble to suit  them, and  to  fulfill to 
the letter everything he promised.
“Well,  affairs  went  on  in  this  way 
until  he had  been  with us eleven  years, 
when  we concluded  to  take him  in  the 
firm as a partner.  We knew that he had 
no  extravagant  habits, that  he  neither 
used  tobacco nor  beer, nor went  to  the 
theater.  He  continued  as at the  begin­
ning  to  board  at  home, and  even  when 
his  salary  was  the  very lowest  he  paid 
his  mother two  dollars  a  week  for  his 
board.  He  was  always neatly  dressed, 
and we thought it was very probable that 
he had  laid up  one or two thousand dol­
lars, as his  salary for the  last two  years 
had  been  twelve  hundred  dollars.  So 
when we made  him the offer to become a 
partner  in  the  business,  and  suggested 
that  it would  be more satisfactory if  he 
could  put some  money into  the  firm, he 
replied:
“ ‘If ten thousand  dollars will  be any 
object I can  put  in that  much. 
I  have 
saved  out of  my  salary  nine  thousand 
four hundred  dollars, and  my sister will 
let me have six hundred.’
“I can  tell  you that I was  never more 
astonished  in  my life,  than  when  that 
fellow said he could  put in ten thousand 
dollars,  and 
the  most  of  it  his  own 
money.  He had  never spent a dollar, or 
twenty-five  cents,  or  five  cents,  for  an 
unnecessary  thing,  and  had  kept  his 
money in bank where it gathered a small 
interest. 
I  am a great  believer  in  the 
Bible,  you  know,  and I always  kept  two 
placards  in big  letters  up in  the  store. 
On one was this text: 
‘He  that is  faith­
fu l in that which is least, is faithful also 
in that which is much'; and on the other, 
‘He  that  is  diligent  in  business  shall 
stand  before kings  and not  before mean 
men.’  And  Frank  Jones’  success  was 
the literal fulfillment of these texts.  He 
had been  faithful in the  smallest  things 
as  in the  greater  ones, and  diligent  in 
business.  That  kind  of  a  boy  always 
succeeds.” 

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C o -o p erativ e  A sso ciatio n s  F ined.
In France,  as in some  other  European 
countries,  associations  similar  to  our 
co-operative  stores  have  been  formed. 
These  undertake to furnish  their  mem­
bers  with  groceries, clothing  and other 
necessaries  of  life,  at a very  small  ad­
vance  upon  wholesale  rates.  Recently 
two of  these  societies  were cited before 
the  correctional  tribunal  of  Paris  for 
having  furnished  medicines 
to  their 
members upon the same terms, and,  upon 
a hearing,  were  convicted of  a violation 
of  the  pharmacy laws in  each  instance. 
The  court  fined  the societies 500 francs 
on each complaint, and assessed, besides, 
damages  to  the  extent  of  twenty-five 
francs for each specified  violation of  the 
law, the  whole of  the  latter  sum  being 
adjudged and ordered  paid to the  syndi­
cate  of  apothecaries  who  brought  the 
complaints and prosecuted the cases.

One No.  18 Star  Coffee  Mill  and  Water 

Motor.

One Confectioner’s Scale.
One London Tea Balance.
One Boston Market Scale.
One Marble Top Butter Scale.
Four  Fairbanks  Counter  Scales—Brass 

Hoppers.

One 300-lb Floor  or Sugar Scale.
One 3-ton Truck or Farm Scale.
Tea and Coffee Canisters.
Brass  Scoops.
Two Pair Trucks.
One Cabinet Oil Pump,  with Two 25-bbl. 

Tanks.

One Large Hall Safe.

All in perfect working order and nearly 
new.  Will  sell  all  or part at a bargain. 
For particulars.  Address,

K i r b y   B l a k e l y ,

EAST  SAGINAW, 

-  MICH.

THE  ALDINE  FIKE  PLACE

Before  Buying Grates, get our 
circular. Sent Free.  The Aldine 
produces  Warm  Floors,  Perfect 
Ventilation ; keeps fire over night, 
and is cleanly.  Burns coal, coke, 
wood or gas.  Can be piped to com. 
mon  chimneys, or set  like  other 
grates, and can be run at half the 
costof anyother. AddressALDIXE 
jjfG . CO., Grand Rapids,  Mich.

Ml!, HfiillsM ir & Co„
Dry  Goods

Importers and Jobbers of

STAPLE  and  FANCY.

O v e r a l l s ,   P a n t s ,   E tc .,

OUR  OWN  MAKE.

A  COMPLETE  LINE  OF

Fancn  Crockery  and

Fancy  Woodenware

OUR  OWN  IMPORTATION.

Inspection  Solicited.  Chicago  and  De­

troit  prices  guaranteed.

W A Y   W b A R   P A N T S

That  do  no'  fit  or  wear  satisfac­
torily,  when  you  ran 
the 
Detroit. Brand,  that  are perfect in 
style and  workmanship.
J acob Brown&CoS a

l»uy 

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HYDRAULIC

ELEVATORS
Water Motors and Specialties 
I  Send for New Catalogue.
Tuerk  Hydraulic 

Power  Co.

NEW  YORK:  CHICAGO:
12 C ortland St.  39 Dearborn St.

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F u s in g
àiRLOWs
p a t e n t  
man i fold
1 SHIPPING
PtÆ'SH E E T ^ PRICES 
BAR10W BROS.GRAND RAPIDS,MICH
MAGIC COFFEE  ROASTER
The  m ost practical 
h and  R oaster  in  the 
world.  Thousands in 
use—givin g   satisfac­
tion.  They a re simple 
durable and  econom ­
ical. 
grocer 
should  be  w ithout 
one.  R oasts  coffee 
and  pea-nuts to   per 
fection.

No 

Address  fo r  C ata 

logue and prices,

RoM,  8.  Weto,
j  48-50 Long St., 
Cleveland, Ohio,

U C TR otY PC as

T H E   P U B L I C !

By splendid and expensive advertising  the  manufacturers ere 
ate  a  demand,  and  only  ask  the  trade  to  keep the goods in 
stock so as to supply the orders sent to  them.  Without effort 
on the grocer’s part the goods  sell themselves,  bring  purchas­
ers to the store, and help sell less known goods.
ANY JOBBER W ILL BE GLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS.

H E Ä 1/E N R IC H   B R O S.
W h o le s a le   C lo th iers

MANUFACTURERS  OF

R erfect-R itting  'Tailor-Made  Clothing

AT  LOWEST  PRICES.

138-140 Jefferson  Sue., 34-36  W ooiridge 8t„ Detroit.

MAIL  ORDERS sent in care L.  IF. ATKINS will receive  PROMPT ATTENTION.
I\  STEKETBE  &  SONS,
D ry   G oods I N otions,

WHOLESALE

83  Monroe  St.  and 10,12,14,16  & 18 Fountain  Si.,

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

C o m f o r t s   a n d   B l a n k e t s ,   Y a r n s   a n d   W o o l e n s  

fo r   F a l l   T r a d e .

M

Our  lemons  are  all  bought  al 
the  cargo  sales  in  New  Orleans 
and are as free from frost or chil) 
as  in  June,
PUTNAM &  BROOKS.

W M . SEA R S & CO.,

Cracker  MamifaGtifrers,

3 7 .   3 9   a n d   41  K e n t   S t.,  G r a n d   R a p i d s .

The  Best  Fitting  Stock­

ing Rubber  in the 

Market.

Fehsenfeld  &  Grammel,

Manufacturers of

BROOMS!

Whisks,  Toy  Brooms, Broom Corn, Broom 
Handles, and all Kinds  of  Broom Materials. 
536 and 528 Ottawa St., Grand  Kapids.
the  Acm e  of  u t il it y  and

ed  by

KOCH A.. B. CO.,
354 Main St.,  PEORIA,  ILL.
48-50Lake St., Chicago,  114 Water  St., Cleveland

BORDEN, SELLECK & CO., Agts.,

u[ i* E i p r
t 'z 

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U ,  19L
*,30-30

Price

G O IN S   N O RT H .

G ran d   R a p id s  & In d ia n a .
Leaves.
Arrives. 
7:30am
Traverse City & M ackinaw................7:00am  
Traverse City & M ackinaw..................9:30 a m   11:30 a  m
Traverse City  E xpress.......................  3:05  p m  
4:20 p m
Petoskey  & M ackinaw......................8:45 p m  
7:30am  and  11 -.30  a.  m.  tra in s  have  ch air cars for 
Petoskey and M ackinaw City.
10:30 p.  m, tra in   has  sleeping  ear  for  Petoskey and 
M ackinaw City.
Cincinnati  Express...............................6:25 a m  
7:00 a m
F o rt W ayne Express.............................11:45 a m  12:45 a m
C incinnati  Express................................5:40 p m 
6:00 p m
Chicago and Sturgis.......................... 10:40 p m 
11:05 p m
7:00 a  m  tra in   has  p arlo r  ch air  car  fo r  C incinnati. 
0:00 p m  tra in  has P ullm an sleeper fo r Cincinnati. 
11:05 p m  tra in  has W agner sleeper  for  Chicago,  via 
Sleeping  car  rates—$1.50  to  Chicago,  Petoskey  or 

Kalamazoo-
Mackinaw City;  $2 to C incinnati.

G O IN G   SO U TH .

10:30 p m

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. 

Leave 
Arrive.
7  0 0 a m ................................................................................ 10:15 a m
11:15 a m ......................................................................   3:45 p m
5:40 p m ...............................................................................  8:45 p m
Leaving tim e a t  Bridge stre e t  depot 7 m inutes later.

C. L. L ockwood. Gen’l Pass. Agent.

D e tro it,  G ran d  H av en  & M ilw au k ee.

G O IN G   EA ST.

G O IN G  W E S T . Arrives.
fM orning E xpress.... ......................12:20 p m
tT hrough M ail............. ..................... 1:25 p  m
tS team boat  Express.......................10:40 p m
»Night Express........... ..................... 6:50 a m
fMixed...........................
fD etroit  Express....... ......................6:45 a  m
tT hrough Mail............ ...................... 11:35 a  m
fEvening E xpress.... ......................  8:40 p m
»Limited Express..............................6:45 p m

Leaves.
12:25 p m
4:30 p m
10:45 p m
7:00 a  m
7:30 a  m
6:50 a  m
11 -.40 a  m
3:50 p m
6:50 p m
tD aily, Sundays excepted.  *Daily.
D etroit  Express  has p arlo r  car  to D etroit,  m aking 
direct connections for all points  East, a rriv in g  in  New 
York 10:10 a. m. next day.
Lim ited  Express has p arlo r car  to  D etroit,  m aking 
close  connections fo r all points East, also m akes direct 
connections a t D urand with special  Pullm an  th rough 
cars to New York and P hiladelphia.  Steam boat express 
has p arlo r c a r to G rand Haven, m aking d irect connec­
tio n  w ith steam er fo r M ilwaukee and the West.
T hrough tickets and  sleeping  car  berths secured a t 
D., G. H. & M .R’y offices, 28 Monroe St., and a t th e depot.

J as. Ca m pb e ll. City Passenger Agent.

Toledo, Ann Arbor  &  Northern.

For Toledo and all points South and East, take 
the Toledo, Ann Arbor &  North  Michigan  Rail­
way from Owosso Junction.  Sure  connections 
at above point with trains of D., G. H. & M., and 
connections at Toledo  with  evening  trains  for 
Cleveland, Buffalo, Columbus,  Dayton,  Cincin­
nati, Pittsburg, Creston, Orville  and  all  promi­
nent points on connecting lines.

A. J. Pa isley, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

The  Michigan  Trust  Com pany

19—21  FOUNTAIN  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

Capital 
Additional  Liability  of  Stockholders

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$200,000  0  
$200,000

LEWIS  H.  WITBEY,  President. 

WILLARD  BARNHART,  Vice-President. 

D. D.  CODY,  2«  Vice-President.

A.  G.  HODENPYL,  Secretary.

LEWIS  H.  WITHEY, 
WILLARD  BARNHART, 
THOMAS  D. GILBERT, 
DARWIN  D. CODY, 
JULIUS  HOUSEMAN, 
ALFRED  D.  RATHBONE, 
HARVEY  J. HOLLISTER,

DIRECTORS:
DANIEL  H. WATERS, 
JAMES  M. BARNETT, 
WM. SEARS,
CHARLES  FOX,
T. STEWART  WHITE, 
R. B. WOODCOCK,
N. L. AVERY,

S.  B.  JENKS,
JOHN  W. CHAMPLIN,
HENRY  IDEMA,
A. G. HODENPYL,
W.  W. CUMMER, Cadillac,
JOHN  CANFIELD, Manistee, 
CHAS. H. HACKLEY, Muskegon.  w

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This Company is now established in the  offices  formerly  occupied  by  the  Hartman  Safety 
Deposit Vaults, 19-21 Fountain Street, Shepard-Hartman Building.  With ample capital, a Board of 
Directors composed of men of established character  and  recognized financial responsibility—thus 
securing conservative management—with every facility for the prompt and careful administration 
of its business, this Company presents its claims to this community and to  the  people  of  Western 
Michigan  with  confidence,  and  solicits  the  patronage  of  all  who  have occasion to require the 
services of such an institution.

Under the laws of the State of Michigan, this Company is authorized and will undertake
To Loan Money on Approved Real Estate Security.
To Loan Money on Approved Collateral Security.
To  Act  as  Executor,  Administrator,  Guardian,  Trustee,
I Assignee, Receiver, Fiscal and  Transfer Agent and Registrar of 
Stocks and Bonds.
To Act as Agent for  other  persons  or  corporations, in the 
! transaction  of  any  business  that  may be committed to it, to 
! care for property, collect interest, dividends, coupons and rents.
To Execute Orders for the purchase and sale of all kinds of 
investment securities, making a Specialty of Local Stocks.
To Receive Deposits  of  trust  monies on certificate or sub­
ject to check.
To Receive Deposits of Court  Funds.
To Maintain and Manage Safety Deposit Vaults.
And to Transact a General Trust Business.
The affairs and business of this  Company  are  subject  to  the supervision and inspection of 
the Commissioner of the Banking Department of the State of Michigan, and  for  the  still  further 
protection of its patrons THE COMPANY  IS OBLIGED TO DEPOSIT 8100,000 WITH THE TREAS­
URER OF THE  STATE.

We are prepared to act as Trustee for bondholders on Railroad or  other  mortgages.  To  act 
as agent for the  purchase  or  sale  of  all  classes  of  INVESTMENT  SECURITIES,  RAILROAD 
BONDS, STATE, CITY,  TOWNSHIP,  SCHOOL  or  other  bonds,  and  will undertake to negotiate 
the entire issue of any of the above classes of bonds.

IN OUR SAFETY DEPOSIT DEPARTMENT  we  offer  to  the  people  of  Grand Rapids and 
Western  Michigan,  ABSOLUTE  PROTECTION  for  the  safe  keeping  of  their  Notes, Deeds, 
Abstracts, Insurance Polices, Ronds, Stocks, Leases, Wills,  Money,  Jewelry,  Paintings, 
Silver, Private Papers and valuables of any and all kinds.  Our large steel vaults are protected 
by every known device.

The  heavy  steel  vault  is  fitted  up  with  small  safes  which  are  rented  at 85 and upward 
(according to size) per year.  Each safe has a different combination or lock,  and  it  is  impossible 
for any officer  or  employe  of this  Company,  or  any  other  person,  excepting  the  renter  or  duly 
appointed deputy, to gain admission to a  safe,  on  account of the great precaution taken to insure 
the complete identification of the renters.  In the storage vault underneath the  safe  vault,  large 
packages, such as trunks, valises, boxes of silverware, paintings,  bric-a-brac,  sealskin  garments, 
laces, and other bulky valuables are cared for.  All bulky articles are  taken  for  safe  keeping  at 
very moderate rates, according to value or space occupied.  This vault is absolutely dark, dry and 
moth tight, making it a perfect receptacle for the storage of  fur garments.

The officers and employees of the Company  are  under  strict  injunction  not  to 

impart to others any information of  its transactions with  its customers.

CORRESPONDENCE  AND  INSPECTION  INVITED.

Seventeen  Years  on  the  Market

With a steady increase  in  demand.

Jennings'  Flaw ing  E xtracts.

ARE  ALWAYS  RELIABLE  AND  UNIFORM  IN  QUALITY  AND  PRICE,  BEING 

MADE EXCLUSIVELY FROM THE FINEST FRUIT THAT GROW CANNOT 

BE OTHERWISE  THAN  THE  FINEST  FLAVORS PRODUCED.

Dealers will always find Jennings’ Extracts saleable and profitable 
goods to add to their stock.  Order through your Jobber or  direct from

Jennings  &  Sm ith,

Grand Rapids9  Mich,

SEE  QUOTATIONS THIS  PAPER.

THE  OLD  RELIABLE

PUT  UP  IN

Boxes, Cans, Pails,  Kegs,  Half 

Barrels and  Barrels.
Send for sample of the celebrated

Fraxer Carriage Grease

Tbe Frazer Goods Handled  by the  Jobbing 

Trade Everywhere.

R in d g e,  B e rtse h   &  Co.

Carry in stock the best line of

Manufacturers of Delivery Wagons of  all descriptions.  Also manufacturers full line of Delivery and Road Sleighs.
The Belknap  Wagon  and  Sleigh  Co.,

Write for illustrated catalogue and price list.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

WHO  URGES  YOU

T O  

I i . E E P

Every  garment  bearing  the  above  ticket  is 
WARRANTED  NOT  TO  RIP, and.  if  not as re­
presented, you are requested  to  return  it to the 
Merchant of whom it was purchased and receive 
a new garment.
S T A N T O N ,   S A M P S O N   <fc  CO. ,  

Manufacturers,  Detroit,  Mich.

TIME  TABLES.

STARK,

AMERICAN,
PACIFIC,

B aas Warps,  Geese  Feathers, 

Waddings,  Balls 

BURLAPS.

and  Twines.
Prints.  Ginghams, Dress Goods, Hosiery, Underwear and full line of Staple Notions.

Agents foi- Georgia  and  Valley  City  Bags.

Geo.  H.  Reeder,
Mich. I
Grand  Rapids,

Sole Agents,

We  are  wholesale  agents  for 
the Fancy  California  Mountain 
Seedlings and headquarters for 
all kinds of Messina oranges.
PUTNAM & BROOKS.

Women’s -

Low - Gat - Shoes

AT  THIS  MARKET.

1 2 ,  1 4   &  1 6   P e a r l   S t r e e t ,  

r a n d   R a p i d s ,   M i c h .

AGENTS  FOR  BOSTON  RUBBER  CO.

N uts We carry a large stock of Foreign 

and  Domestic  Nuts  and are at all 
times  prepared  to  fill  orders  for 
car lots or less at lowest  prices.

p-U -tneim   <&  B r o o k s .

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