Michigan Tradesman.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  W EDNESDAY,  APR IL  8,  1891.
ESTABLISHED  1841.

A  PIONEER  TRADER.

In cid en ts  In  th e   E arly  D ays  o f  H o u g h ­

to n   C ounty.

Written  for The  Tradesman.

[.CONTINUED  FROM  LAST  W EEK.]

It was now the last of  November, and, 
while  the  weather was  not  so  cold as  I 
had  expected  it would  be, it was  snow­
ing  almost  constantly.  There  was  an 
average  depth of  four  feet of  snow  al­
ready  on  the  ground  and  still  it  kept 
coming.  The  mails  and  express  which 
must now reach us overland were greatly 
delayed  from this  cause, and for  several 
weeks  we  had  been  practically  cut  off 
from  communication  with  the  outside 
world.  Two  weeks  more  passed, with 
an  increase  in the  depth of  snow.  The 
cold becoming more intense, a hard crust 
formed  upon  the  surface,  sufficient  to 
bear the weight of men and dogs, though 
not of horses, and by this primitive mode 
of conveyance—sleds  drawn by men and 
dogs—the  delayed  mails  and  packages 
now  began  to  arrive. 
I  was  informed 
that this was one of those severe winters 
often experienced here, which sometimes 
seriously  interfered  with  the  commerce 
of this region for months.

I had noticed that  Mr.  Hicks exhibited 
more  anxiety than usual  concerning  his 
business  and  was  occasionally  absorbed 
in  deep  thought.  Emboldened  by  the 
confidence  he seemed to repose  in  me, I 
approached  him  one  evening  when  we 
were  alone  and  deferentially  enquired 
if  his  business  occasioned the anxiety  I 
had noticed.  He looked at me pleasantly 
for a moment, then, reaching a late pack­
et of letters, selected one which he hand­
ed me, with  the  remark,  “That  will  ex­
plain.  Read  it,  Edward.” 
It  was  a 
statement  of  account  from  a  wholesale 
house,  showing  a  balance  of  something 
over  $1,000  against  Eli  Hicks,  several 
months  past due, with  the  remark  that, 
if  not  promptly  paid,  they  would  feel 
obliged  to  forward  it  to  Marquette  for 
collection.

“If  the mails  and  express matter  had 
not been so delayed by this bad weather,” 
said  Mr.  Hicks, as I finished  reading the 
communication,  “I should have paid this 
long ago.  Money was  ordered sent  here 
by  one  mining  company  several  weeks 
since  to pay off  their  workmen, but  the 
storms delayed  the mails  going south  as 
well  as  those  coming  north. 
If  that 
company had  received  their  money  and 
paid  their  men,  it  would  at  once  have 
given  me  nearly $800  toward  canceling 
my  outstanding  paper.  Of  course, we 
should  also  have sold  large  amounts of 
goods  for  cash,  whereas, our  trade  has 
fallen off  materially from that of  former 
winters  when  communication  was  unin­
terrupted. 
I  stated the situation  to the 
honse in the last  mail going south, and 1 
have  a  hope  that  they  will  grant  my 
request for a renewal of time, as a forced 
collection  would  impair  my credit,  and 
thus my standing with the wealthy miners 
of  this  peninsula  would  be  very  ma­
terially  injured. 
If  I  knew  where  to 
borrow the money, I would do so at once, 
and would  give a chattel  mortgage upon

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some of the best portion of  my stock, or, 
if  the  party  preferred, I  would  sell  a 
part  of  my  stock  at  what  it  cost  me. 
Still, it is not  probable that  that amount 
could  be obtained  any  nearer  than Mar­
quette, and, at present, it would be easier 
to reach Chicago than that place.”

Fancy my  thoughts  and  feelings  as  I 
listened  to the  words of  my good  friend 
and employer, knowing that it was in my 
power  to  relieve  him  at  once  in  this 
emergency.  How  clearly  the  parting 
words  of  my father  came  back  to  me, 
reproving  me  for  my  silence—“If  you 
should  remain  with him, give  him  your 
confidence.  Show  him  that  you  appre­
ciate  his  kindness and  treat  him  in  all 
respects  as  if  he  were  your  father’s 
brother.”

I could hesitate no longer.
“Mr.  Hicks,”  said  I,  “it  is  in  my 
power  to  relieve  you  in  the  present 
emergency.  Please  allow  me  to  do  so, 
and  In  the  same  manner  I would "' were 
you  my father’s  brother, for  such  I  al­
most regard  you. 
I  can give  you drafts 
upon Chicago for 81,000.  They ean leave 
for  Detroit  by the  first  mail  out. 
If  it 
were my own uncle, I should ask security 
for  its  payment, but no  interest. 
I will 
ask no more of you.”

For a few  minutes  he  seemed agitated 
by  conflicting  emotions,  but  at  length 
said:  “My friend,  there is only one way 
in which I can permit you to confer upon 
me  this  great  favor.  My  first  thought 
must be for  your perfect  security, else  I 
could  not  accept it at all.  Owing to the 
quantity of snow that has fallen this sea­
son,  my  trade  has  been  so  light,  and 
probably will be for the next six months, 
that  I  have  on  hand  an  overstock  of 
some kinds of goods. 
I would, therefore, 
prefer  that  you  purchase such  goods— 
and  only  such — from  me  as  I  feel 
positive  you  can  suffer  no  loss  upon. 
They will  then be yours, and  also  what­
ever  advance  in  price  may  accrue. 
I 
refer  to  lard, butter  and  bacon,  all  of 
which are staple articles  in  this  region. 
Tou  must  accept them  from  me  at  the 
invoice  prices  when  purchased with  no 
freight  added, and, if  it  should  happen 
that  you  obtain  no  interest on  your in­
vestment, I will  personally see that yon, 
at  least, suffer no loss.”

The  next  day I received  the following 
bill of  sale, the  packages being  marked 
with my name and set aside:
8 tons No. 1 lard @ 8i»c............................ £340 00
31100-pound kegs butter® 15c...............   485 00
134 tons bacon @ 8c...................................   800 00
•_____________________________ $1006 00
Perfection  Scale•

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VOL.  8.
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Liability,  $100,000. 
Capital,  $100,000. 

Cor. Monroe and Ionia Sts.,

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Money transferred by mail or telegraph.  Muni­
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76 So.  Division St., GRAND  RAPIDS.

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It  was far  from  my intention to  make 
this  investment  a  source  of  personal 
profit.  The transaction was, on my part, 
solely to assist  my  father’s  friend,  and, 
as the  freight  and  other expenses  upon 
these goods from Detroit, including trans- j 
fer at  Marquette, had  been  about 82 per 
hundred,  I  insisted  upon  adding this to 
the amount of my invoice, or 1 would not 
accept the goods.  1, therefore,  paid  Mr-. 
Hicks  81,197  in  drafts  upon  a  Chicago 
bank,  §1,000 of  which  he  at  once  for­
warded  per  mail  to  his  creditors in De-, 
troit.

Christmas was now close at hand.  The 
snow was  still  falling,  but,  as a portion 
of  the  expected  funds  with  which  the 
miners  were to be paid  had  arrived, we 
yet hoped  for a fair  holiday trade.  The 
morning of December 24, the sky cleared 
and  the  wind  fell, and  during  the  fol­
lowing ten days we were all kept busy in 
the store.  Miss  Ilicks,  with her father’s 
quiet and precise methods of  transacting 
business,  was  now pressed  into  service, 
it  being  the first  time since  my arrival. 
Many  accounts on our  books were either 
wholly  or  partially  settled  during  the 
holidays,  much  to  Mr.  Hicks’  gratifica­
tion.

Oue evening  about  February 1,  I  had 
gone to the house at an earlier hour than 
usual, to  read  aloud  for the  ladies from 
some  magazines  which  had  that  day 
arrived.  We [had  all  become interested 
in what was transpiring in the gay world 
so far  from us,  when Mr.  Hicks came in. 
There  was  a  pleased expression  in  his 
eyes.  He held  a  Marquette  newspaper 
in  his  lyind.  Turning  to  me, he  said, 
“Allow  me  to congratulate  you. 
It  is 
quite  evident  that  you are  the  favored 
child of  fortune, and that you will never 
regret coming so far  from your relatives 
to this wild region.”

“I am  positive, Mr.  Hicks, that 1 shall 
never  for  a  moment  regret  it,”  I  an­
swered,  glancing  toward  Miss  Minnie, 
whose  face  was  as  animated  as  her 
father’s “but  please  explain why  I  am 
‘the favored child of fortune.’ ”

Referring  to  his  paper, he  answered, 
“Marquette,  our  only  jobbing  town  in 
this peninsula,  is about  to  experience  a 
butter famine, and  it  appears  from this 
paper that we are said to be holding two- 
thirds of  all the stock on the south shore 
of  Lake  Superior.  At a meeting of  the 
merchants of  that  city, several of  them 
were appointed to come here for the pur­
pose of securing a supply.  Butter is now 
retailing there at fifty-five cents,  with no 
stock  on  hand at that. 
If  the  journey 
can be made with  safety on the ice along 
the shore, you can dispose of every pound 
of  your butter  for  cash  at a fine  profit 
and,  at  the  same  time, confer  a  favor 
upon the citizens. 
I have as much more 
in  large  and  small  packages, but 1 dare 
not sell  that with  the  present  prospect 
of a late spring, as 1 shall  be expected to 
fill orders in this affwell as a few counties 
around  us.  We  may expect these  Mar­
quette merchants to arrive any time dur­
ing  the  coming week. 
I  think  that, if 
you  wish  to  sell  your  butter, which  1 
know is in prime  condition, you will not 
have to talk  much  upon the  subject,  as 
they will  doubtless make  you a big offer 
at once.”

In reply, I said,  “My wish  to  sell,  Mr. 
Hicks, will  be  governed by your  advice 
alone, as  I shall value  it  more  than  my 
own judgment.”

“My  opinion  would  be,”  Mr.  Hicks 

rejoined,  “that you ought to sell.”

The  third  day after  this  conversation 
two  sleighs  and  four  men  made  their 
appearance  at  “ Hicks’  Store.”  After 
introducing 
themselves as  merchants 
from  Marquette,  they  made  known  to 
Mr.  Hicks  their  business, which  was  to 
purchase butter and lard.

“I  have  none  for  sale,”  he  replied, 
“but  my friend  here,  Mr. Edward  Par­
sons, of  Indiana,  has a quantity of  first- 
class  Michigan  butter  and  lard  in  my 
cellar, which, I believe, is for sale.”

Both  the  butter  and  lard  were  ex­
amined.  They were  apparently satisfied 
and 1 then  asked what  quantity they de­
sired.  Without  answering my question, 
they  asked  how  much  butter  I  had  to 
sell.

“Thirty-one  hundred  pounds,”  I  an­

“Wliat  do  you  ask  for  it?”  was  the 

swered.

next question.

it.” 

“Make me an offer,” said I.
“We will  take  the lot at forty cents  a 
pound,  if you wish to sell at that price,” 
was the reply.  _

“All right,” I  rejoined,  “you can have 
______
“How much lard have you of the qual­
ity shown us?”  was their  next question.

“Two tons,” I answered.
“And the price?”
Having previously consulted Mr. Hicks 
regarding the  bacon and  lard, I was pre­
pared  to  answer, so  I  promptly replied, 
“Twenty  cents.  And,  now, would  you 
like some fine bacon?”

“The  bacon  we  cannot  use at a price 
you  would  want  for  it  now,” was  the 
answer,  “but we  can  probably send  you 
a customer for it upon our return.  Make 
out  the bill  for the  butter  and  lard, as 
we must lead our  sleighs this afternoon, 
as we  must  start  on  our  return in  the 
morning.”

The bill  was  promptly made  out  and 
receipted  for the sum of  82,040, and the 
currency  counted  out to me.  The  ease 
with  which this  sale was  made not  only 
astonished but gave me great satisfaction; 
yet Mr.  Hicks  assured  me  that it was a 
transaction quite characteristic of a min­
ing country.

February 19,  a  snow  storm  from  the 
northwest  set  in with great fury,  which 
for  more  than a week was  almost  unin­
terrupted,  rendering it nearly impossible 
to obtain communication with Marquette. 
But one mail  had  reached us from  there 
since  February  11. and  at  that date  my 
customers  for  butter  and  lard  had  evi­
dently  arrived  home  in  safety,  as  1 
received a letter from a prominent grocer 
there  containing  an  offer of  seventeen 
cents  a  pound  for my  2,500  pounds  of 
bacon, and  requesting  an answer, which 
was at once mailed  accepting it.  Febru­
ary 21, another mail  which  had  been de­
layed  on  the  way  by  the  storm  was 
received.  March  1, clear  skies  but  in­
tense  cold  greeted  us.  The  following 
week,  Holzwein  &  Co., grocers,  reached

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .
“If it is now retailing at fifty-five cents, 
the question  is,  ‘What  would  naturally 
be a fair price from the jobber?’” said I.
“We usually expect, during the winter 
season  to  make  from  15 to 20 per cent, 
at  wholesale  on  butter.  At  the  retail 
basis of  fifty-five  cents, it  would  bring 
the  wholesale  market  at  about  thirty- 
eight cents.  My advice would be first to 
listen  to  an offer from them.  Your but­
ter has  cost  you  just  seventeen cents a 
pound,  and,  of  course,  even  less  than 
thirty-eight  is  better than to hold it and 
take the chances.”

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G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

Spring line of  Prints in Merrimack, Washington, Simpson, 
| Hamilton,  Garner,  Passaic,  Allens,  Cochecs just  received, at 
I rock bottom prices.

Men’s  and  Ladies’  Straw  Hats,  Bags,  Burlap,  Wadding, 

Twines, Ducks and Drills.

’PH  E  MICHIGAN  TEADESMAN.

“Hicks’  Store” from  Marquette  with  a 
sleigh  drawn  by  four  horses,  ready  to 
take  the  bacon  they  had  purchased  by 
letter.  This amounted to $425.

I  had  now  received a profit of  $1,368 
upon an investment of  $1,197, in a trans­
action  occupying  only  a  few  months, 
and with no expense whatev^, excepting 
insurance  on  the  goods.  That  night, 
after 1  had retired and  thought  over the 
matter  carefully, I  could  not  reconcile 
my  good  fortune  with  strict  justice  to 
Mr. Hicks, who  had, as  it  were, donated 
this  large sum  to  me. 
In  my  dreams, 
my  father  stood  before  me,  with  a  sad 
expression  upon  his  face.  Pointing  to 
the  money lying  on  my table,  he  said, 
“Divide  equally  with  Mr.  Hicks.” 
I 
awoke,  determined,  at  some  opportune 
moment, to insist upon his acceptance of 
one-half of my profits.

Our  trade in the  store  materially im­
proved as spring  advanced.  There  was 
still a large demand for butter, salt meats 
and  lard.  Mr.  Hicks  had a quantity  of 
salt pork and  beef in barrels which  sud­
denly  took a  rise  in  price, • so  that,  by 
April 1, our  cellar  looked comparatively 
empty.  Lard  and  bacon  had  advanced 
three to five cents a pound since my sale, 
but, as  Mr. Hicks  had  advised  me with 
his best judgment at the  time, he felt no I 
regrets over the sale. 
I agreed with him |

that 1 had done well and ought to be and . 
was satisfied.  In  truth, I was  congratu-j 
lated by the entire family, who said they 
believed  I was  born  under the  influence | 
of some lucky planet which was to bring 
me health,  wealth and happiness.

1  will  close  this  narrative  by saying 
that  my  father  made  us  all  a visit  the, 
following  July  and  found  me a partner j 
in the new firm of Hicks & Co., which had ; 
just  been  formed  and  consisted of  Eli 
Hicks, Edward Parsons and  Mrs. Minnie 
Parsons, as  Miss  Hicks  and  I  had  con- j 
eluded to engage in a life  partnership as | 
well, and  my wife, having capital of  her j 
own left her by a grand-parent, preferred 
to take an interest with us.

The  secret  of  the  life  friendship  be- [ 
tween  my  father  and  Mr.  Hicks  was 
explained to myself  and wife during this 
visit. 
It seems that, while the two  were 
boys in their  teens, Mr. Hicks had saved 
my father’s life, at the  risk of  losing his 
own while rescuing him  from a runaway 
team, and to Mr.  Hicks  belonged  the en­
tire credit  of  my father’s recovery, from 
his  constant  and  faithful  attention  to 
him during the  illness which  for several 
months  followed.  The joy of  these two | 
men at the union of their families through 
the  marriage of  their  youngest  children 
can hardly be overestimated. 

F.

We are now ready to make contracts for the season of 1891.

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Correspondence solicited.

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Wagarville—The shingle mill of Wagar  Homer  G. Luce, F. J. Dyk, John  D. Van 
&  Pfeifer  will  shortly  be  removed  to  Wyck,  Van  Dam,  Kievit  &  Co.,  R.  A.
Whittemore.  The  mill  is  cutting about 
Steketee, G.  H.  DeGraaf,  B. Vauanroy, 
60,000 shingles daily.
Frank Douwstra, VanderVeen&I)atema, 
Willemin  &  Westra.  J.  F.  Seymour, J. 
Scripsema.

Marquette—The  Burtis  sawmill  will 
cut  4,000,000  feet  for  its  owner  the 
coming season, doing custom  sawing the 
remainder of the time.

Pine  Ridge—J.  Norton  is  getting  out 
board  timber  for  the  Canadian  market. 
It will be railed to  Marquette,  whence it 
will go to its destination by water.

Au  Sable—The  H.  M.  Loud  &  Sons 
Lumber  Co.’s  mills  have  been  operated 
night  and  day  during  the  winter,  and 
will continue to  be  through  the  season.
Pentwater—P.  Labonta  succeeds  La- 
bonta  &  Mero  in  the  planing mill busi­
ness.  Mr.  Mero  will  probably  embark 
in some other manufacturing  enterprise.
Roscommon — A  planing  mill, paving 
block  machine  and  b,ed  slat and  broom 
handle  factory  is  to  be  started  here  by 
W.  W. Vaughn and D. H. Matteson & Co.
Tawas—Sibley  & Bearinger  have  sold 
their sawmill to  the Tawas Improvement 
Co. for §30,000.  The sellers  furnish 30,- 
000,000 feet of logs for the mill to cut.

The  petition  referred  to  last week is 
still  at  T h e  T radesm an  office,  where 
grocers are invited  to  call  to  affix  their 
names at any time.

As the meat dealers have all  agreed to 
close  their  doors  at  7  o’clock, and the 
grocery  clerks  have  organized  a  trades 
union  to  enforce  their  demands, it does 
not  seem  possible  that  the  movement 
could  fail  this  time.  T h e  T radesm an 
earnestly  hopes  to  see  it  succeed  and 
will  do  all  it  can  to  contribute to the 
success of the undertaking.
W ool  Q uiet—H ides  W e a k —T allow  Firm  

—F u rs  Q uiet.

Gladwin—Dyer Bros, have begun to re-

The  wool  market  continues quiet and 
unchanged,  with 
large  arrivals  of 
Australian.  Texas  and  Territory wools 
are  well  cleaned  up.  Assortments  to 
choose  from  are  much  broken.  Manu­
facturers are conservative in buying  and 
take such lots as they may be  obliged  to 
have,  or  are  sufficient for immediate re-
move their shingle mill to Champion, Up-  quirements.  New wools from  the South
per Peninsula, where  they have 4,000,000 
and fat sheep wools are  coming forward.
feet to  cut,  and other timber  supply  se­
Hides  are  weak  and  lower, with  dull 
cured.
sales  of  both  hides  and  leather.  Light 
hides are scarce, but the  tanners  curtail 
their working in,  which  leaves an ample 
supply  for  the  present.  Leather  is  in 
large supply and the demand is dull.

Bay  City—McKeon  &  Glover  have 
contracted  to  put  in  20,000,000  feet  of ! 
logs on the Hauptman Branch in Ogemaw 
county for William Peter and have begun i 
the  work.  The  logs  will  be  railed  to 
the  river.

to  be  very  much  higher  before  the 
pickling season, owing  to  the high price 
of corn.

J. P. Visner, broker for Thomas Stokes, 
New  York  City,  jobber  of  salt  fish, is 
headquarters for good  values.  Address 
304 No. Ionia  street,  Grand  Rapids,  for 
prices on full weight and reliable quality.

FOR  SALE,  W ANTED,  ETC.

Advertisements will be inserted  under  this  bead for 
two  cents  a  word  the  first  insertion  and  one cent a 
word  for each  subsequent  insertion.  No  advertise­
ment taken for less than 25 cents.  Advance  payment.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

T^RUG STOCK—NEAT  AND ATTRACTIVE, AND NEW 
J -J  hardwood  fixtures.  Excellent  location  on  best 
retail street  in  Grand  Rapids.  Expenses  very  light 
and  trade  steadily  increasing.  Low  inventory,  just 
completed, $2,600.  On account of  failing  health,  will 
sell  at  invoice  or  for  $2,100  cash,  if  sold  by  March 
16.  Otherwise will hold it as an  investment.  A  genu­
ine  bargain.  Personal  investigation  solicited.  Ad­
dress “F.,” care Hazeltine Perkins Drug Co.  City. 197

I TOR SALE—LARGE  GENERAL  STOCK,  WELL  Lo­

cated, and carrying the.good will of a long estab­
lished,  successful  business*  Goods  staple  and  all 
bought for cash.  This is a great  bargain  and  a  rare 
opportunity  for  anyone  looking  for  a  good  busi­
ness opening.  Phil M. Roedel. White Cloud, Mich. 204

221

drets No. 221, care Michigan Tradesman. 

ery. ice  cream  and  lunch  counter;  cash  trade. 
Failing health only  reason  for  wanting  to  sell.  Ad 

i X>R SALE-AN OLD AND WELL-ESTABLISHED BAK- 
IfK)R  BALE—FINE  STOCK  OF  BOOTS  AND  SHOES 
IfOR SALE—A GOOD CLEAN STOCK OF  HARDWARE 

Bpfeei&l  line.  No  old  goods.  Everything  desira 
ble.  Good  trade,  mostly  cash.  Excellent 
farming 
country. Address‘‘Shoes,” care Michigan Tradesman 214

and agricultural implements, situated in  a  good 
|  town  of  1,500  inhabitants  on  the  Michigan  Central 
\  Railway.  Good  farming  country  surrounding.  Has 
enjoyed and does now the leading trade.  Good satisfac- 
i  torv reasons for selling.  This is a ba* gain for  anyone 
with energy and push.  Address No. 218  care  Michigan 
! Tradesman. 

218

Fo r  sa l e—a  t h r iv in g   b u sin e ss  o f   g e n e r a l

merchandise,  located  on  line  of  K.  &  S.  R.  R.
I  Established  twenty  years.  Reasons,  proorletor  has 
other business, doing  a  trade  of  $1,500  to  $2.000  per 
annum, with small stock and expense.  Address  X.  T.
I  Z , care Michigan Tradesman. 

224

IJOR SALE—COMPLETE DRUG STOCK  IN  A  GROW- 

tag village on good line  of  railroad,  surrounded 
1 by as fine farming  country  as  there  is  anywhere  In 
Michigan.  Must quit the business  on  account  of  faU- 
ing  health.  Address  No.  213  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 

sis

17s

FOR  SALE—WELL-SELECTED  DRUG  STOCK, 

in ­
ventorying about $ 1,200,  situated  in  good  coun­
try town of 500 people.  Reason for selling, proprietor 
has other  business.  Address  No.  173,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

G REAT CHANCE  TO  BUY  A  WELL  ESTABLISHED 

furniture  business  in  one  of  the  best  cities  in 
Michigan;$20,000  stock;  good  town;  good  trade;  no 
competition; piesent owner  has  other  business.  For 
full  particulars  address  H.  C.  Ransom,  Jackson,
Mich.
FOR BALE—A  COMPLETE  DRUG STOCK  AND Fix­
bargain.  Address for  particulars  8. P. Hicks,  Lowell,
W ANTED—I  HAVE  8 POT  CASH  TO  PAY  FOR  A 
general  or  grocery stock;  must be cheap.  Ad- 
20
dress No. 20, care Michigan Tradesman. 

tures;  stock well  assorted  can  be  bought  at  a 

210

SITUATIONS WANTED.

TXT ANTED—SITUATION BY REGISTERED  PHARMA­
CY 
cist.  Nine years experience.  Best of reference. 
Address O. I. N. T , care Michigan Tradesman. 

222
WANTED—SITUATION  BY  REGISTERED  I'HARM- 
acist.  Ten  years' eiuerienee.  Reference«  fnr-

XTrANTED  —  SALESMAN  WHO  HAS  HAD  F.XPE- 
V V 
rience In clothing, dry goods and boot and shoe 
store.  Address P. Medalie, Mancelona, Mich. 

227

MISCELLANEOUS.

A  TTENTION—WANTED  GENERAL  MIXED  STOCK 
-CV-  merchandise from  $6,000  to  $15.000.  If  offered 
cheap at large  discount  to  close.  Will  pay  all  cash. 
Drawer 37, Sheridan. Mich. 

I ¡KIR SALE  OR  RENT-CORNER  LOT  AND 5-ROOM 

house on North  Lafayette st., cellar, brick found­
ation  and  soft  water  in  kitchen.  $1,200.  Terms  to 
suit.  Cheap enough  for  an  investment.  Address  No 
137, care Michigan Tradesman. 

137.

223

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AMONO  THE  TRADE.

ABOUND THE STATE.

Hodunk—M. J. Smith  succeeds  Smith 

& Adams in general trade.
L Lake  Odessa—J.  F.  Cahoon  has sold 
his general stock to Ann Clark.

Hesperia—C.  M.  Perkins  has  sold his 

general stock to A. C. Eldridge.

Belding—Geo.  Hauk  has  sold his boot 

and shoe stock to L. Greenawald.

St. Clair—John Jones succeeds  Conger 

& Jones in the variety store business.

Alanson—H. J.  (Mrs.  A.) Beaman has 
sold  her  drug  stock  to  Cross  Bros.  & 
Hunt.

Au  Sable—Pack,  Woods  &  Co.  and 
Penoyer Bros.’ sawmills  will start about 
the 10th.

Ludington—C.  M.  (Mrs. H.  P.)  Hilton 
succeeds  Joseph  Hoare  in  the  bakery 
business.

Saginaw—J.  &  H.  Weil  is succeeded 
the  grocery 

by  Long  &  Johnson  in 
business.

Grand  Ledge — Doran  &  Smith  have 
sold their boot and shoe stock  to Dwight 
& Spencer.

Coldwater — Miss  A.  M.  Adams  has 
decided  to  remove  her  notion  stock to 
Ann Arbor.

Fowlerville — Palmerton  &  Co.,  have 
sold  their general  stock to Geo. A.  New­
man & Co.

Detroit—Kingsbury  &  Keyes  succeed 
Andrews & Hamilton in the  grocery  and 
meat business.

Big Rapids—A.  Markson has  admitted 
his  son,  Maurice,  to  partership  in  the 
clothing business.

Belding—W.  H.  Hart  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  to  Lamb  Bros.,  who will 
continue the business.

Vassar—Robert G.  Lyon succeeds San­
ford,  Lyon  &  Co.  in  the  hardware  and 
agricultural implement business.

Crooked  Lake—L.  Russell,  who  owns 
a  sawmill  four  and  a  half  miles  from 
this place,  will remove it to this location 
soon.

Charlotte—The directors  of  the  Char­
lotte  Steam  Heat  Evaporator  Co.  have 
elected  F.  S.  Belcher  secretary  and 
treasurer,  in  place  of  R.  C.  Jones, re­
signed.

Big Rapids—S. S.  Wilcox  has  sold  his 
interest in the hardware firm of S. S.  Wil­
cox &  Co. to  his  partner,  who  will  con­
tinue  the  business  under the style of  F. 
F. Wilcox.

Roscommon—Two  years  ago  John 
Davis took up  a  homestead  in  Roscom­
mon county.  Last week he sold the pine 
on the land to  Maltby  &  Mosher, of Bay 
City, for §6,200 cash.

Caledonia—Stephen  Brooks  has  sold 
an  interest  in  his  hardware  stock  to 
Frank  Snow,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
same business at  Moline.  The  new firm 
will be known as Brooks & Snow.

Standish—D.  W.  Richardson  is  suc­
ceeded by A. D. Walker & Co. in general 
trade, but retains his  telegraph  pole and 
tie business—statements  to  the contrary 
notwithstanding.

Ionia—The  N.  Klingenberg  merchant 
tailoring  stock,  which  was  bid in by H. 
R.  Wagar, has been sold to C. W. McCoy, 
of Fenton,  who  has  leased  the store and 
will  soon  open  with  a  stock  of cloths 
and men’s furnishing goods.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Dexter—Walton & Co.  are overhauling 

their  sawmill  and  will  begin  sawing as | Geo. 
soon as the weather permits.

Tallow  is  firm  and in good demand at 
fair  prices.  The  supply  is  not  large, 
but as prices are higher than soapers can 
pay and get their money  back,  they turn 
to  oils  of  various  kinds,  with  good 
satisfaction.

Pelts  aré  in  good  request,  at  fair 

prices, and a short supply.

Furs are more than quit at the decline. 
Dealers have  accepted  their  losses  and 
will  not  buy  only  as  they  can  see  a 
margin,  and  want  that  margin assured 
by a low purchasing price.

The  G rocery  M arket.

Sugar  is  stiffer  and  likely  to  be very 
scarce  and  hard  to  get  until  after the 
15th.  The  refiners  are  unable  to  fill 
tj^ir orders promptly  and  the  situation 
seems  to  be  getting  worse  instead  of 
better.  Corn syrup is  higher and strong, 
some  of 
the  manufacturers  having 
notified  their  brokers  to  look  for  35c 
syrup  before  the end of  another  month. 
Oat  meal  is  strong  and  advancing,  on 
account of the high price of oats.  Pickles 
are  strong and  are good  purchase at to­
day’s prices.  Sauerkraut is about out of 
market  Jobbers  having  any 
left  are 
offering  it  at  any  price  to get rid of it 
before warm weather.  Vinegar promises

Saginaw—C.  S.  Bliss  & Co.  have  be­
gun the  construction  of  a  circular  mill 
on the site of  the  mill  destroyed  by  fire 
last fall.  The new mill will be equipped I 
to  cut  long  stuff,  principally  for  cars, 
bridges, etc.

Saginaw—The  Wells-Stone  Company 
has  put  4,000,000  feet  of  logs into the 
Chippewa  and  Salt  rivers,  in  Isabella 
county.  This  company  owns  26,000 
acres of land in that  region,  upon which 
there is a large quantity of timber.

Manistee — The  Buckley  &  Douglas 
sawmill,  which  was  the  last  to  shut 
down,  having  run  until  the  last day of 
February,  is  also  the  first  to  start  up 
again. 
It begun  operations  on  Wednes­
day and will run night  and  day.  There 
is quite a stock of hardwood logs on hand 
put  in  since  the  mill  shut  down,  and 
these will  be cut out  first.  Their docks 
are  pretty  well  crowded  with  lum­
ber,  but  as  most  of  it is sold, room will 
be made as soon  as  a  boat can get to the 
dock.

Early Closing of  Grocery Stores.
As a result of the agitation of  the sub­
ject  by  T h e  T radesm an,  the 7  o’clock 
closing  movement  now  promises  to  be­
come general ail over the city.  G. Gallo- 
| way  circulated  an  agreement  to  that 
effect  among  the  grocers  of  the  south 
end last week, securing the signatures of 
j forty  dealers  who  will  simultaneously 
turn  the  keys in their  doors, five  nights 
| a week, on and after April 20, as follows: 
Philip  Graham,  Henry  J.  Vinkemulder 
&  Bro., B. S. Harris,  LeBaron  &  Cobb, 
B.  Doyle & Sons,  Jones &  Clark,  Degan 
&  Co.,  Jno.  Rynburg, A.  Bunnell,  E.  J. 
Carrell,  G.  S.  Putnam,  Thos.  H.  Hart, 
Norman  Odell, John  G. Gray, C. Fox, G. 
W. Eby,  P.  Wendover, DeJager,  Stryker 
&  Co.,  A.  South wick,  Stephen  Taylor, 
Tubergen,  S.  K.  Beecher,  E.  H. 
Manley, Jas. N.  Aniba, Walbridge & Co.,

RED T h e   m o s t  e ffe c tiv e   C o u g h   D ro p  in  

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MANUFACTURED  BY

A   1 3  

th é   m a r k e t, 
S e lls   th e  
q u ic k e s t  a n d   p a y s   th e

COUGH  £ £

Grand Rapids, Mich.

A. E. BROOKS & CO.
DROPS
The  Finest  Line  of  Candy  in  the  State.
P E R K I N S   <fc  H E S S
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

DEALERS IN

NOS.  112 and  1*4 LOUIS STREET. GRAND  RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

WE CABBY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOB MTLL USB.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Frank  E.  Shattuck  the  Sand  Lake 
general dealer, was married last  week to ! 
Miss Sylvia Hartt, of Big Rapids.

H e y m a n   &  C o m p a n y ,

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

The L. W. Toles Drug Co. will  remove 
its drug stock from this city to Marquette.
Morse  &  Co.  have  begun  the work of 
removing their  stock  to  the new Gilbert 
block.

0.  M.  Anstead  succeeds  Anstead  & 
Yohn in the dry  goods  business on Mon­
roe street.  ^

________

Bespaloff & Scheeham are succeeded by 
B.  Bespaloff in the tailoring and furnish­
ing goods business.

J.  A.  Pomfield  has  opened  a grocery 
store at Petoskey.  The Lemon & Wheeler 
Co. furnished the  stock.

The  OIney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.  will 
remove  to  its  new location at the corner 
of Louis and Ottawa streets by May 1.

Cowles  &  Fenner  have  opened  a gro­
cery store at Thompsonville.  The OIney 
& Judson Grocer Co. furnished the stock.
Wm.  C.  Britton  has  opened a grocery 
store  at  19  Ellsworth avenue.  Mussel- 
man  &  Widdicomb  furnished  the stock.
The  Thompson  Lumber  Co.  has 
arranged  to  open  a  general  store  at 
Thompsonville.  The  grocery  stock will 
be  furnished  by  the  OIney  &  Judson 
Grocer Co.

The A.  C.  Bauer  drug  stock,  at  the 
corner of East Bridge and Clancy streets, 
has  been  purchased  by  Ben. Sahrouder 
and Garrit Schrouder,  who  will continue 
the  business  under  the  style  of  B 
Schrouder & Co.

H. A.  Hitchcock, grocer  and  druggist 
at  Mt. Morris, will close out  his  grocery 
stock  and remove  his drug  stock to this 
city, locating on the corner of Cherry and 
Packard streets.

Richards  &  DeVries,  druggists  at  76 
Grandville avenue, have sold their  stock 
to  John  DeKruif  and  Bert  Gezon,  who 
will  continue  the  business  under  the 
style of DeKruif &  Gezon.

W.  H.  Tibbs  has  purchased  the drug 
stock  of  H.  E. Grand-Girard & Co., cor 
ner  Monroe  and  Spring  streets.  Mr 
Grand-Girard will return  to  Big  Rapids 
for a time,  but  will  eventually  take  up 
his residence in this city.

P u re ly   P erso n al.

Robert Rouse, general dealer at Pearle, 

was in town last Friday.

Wm.  H.  Downs  spent  Sunday  with 

relatives at Union City.
E.  B.  Seymour succeeds Howard Udell 
as  book-keeper  for  I.  M.  Clark  &  Son

HERRICK’S

PATENT  BASKET  STAND.
20,25 and 30 inch  sizes, $3 per Dozen. 

Indispensible to every  grocer  Order through your  jobber 

or direct of the manufacturer,

E.  J.  HERRICK,

Grand Rapids.

t a

Frank J. Wurzburg is again behind  the 
prescription  case  at  his  Monroe  street 
pharmacy,  but  he  does  not  regain  his 
strength as  fast as he could  wish.

Will S. Jones, business manager of the 
Minneapolis  Commercial  Bulletin,  paid 
Grand  Rapids  a brief  visit  one  day last 
week.  Mr.  Jones  should  come  more 
often and stay longer.

Julius Schuster, of the  grocery  firm of 
Desenberg  &  Schuster,  at  Kalamazoo, 
was in town  last  Tuesday  for  the  pur­
pose of receiving  the  necessary  instruc­
tions regarding  the  releasing  of  sugars 
from  bond,  of  which  he was the custo­
dian at the Celery City.

Fred H. Ball is getting  out  plans for a 
handsome 
residence  on  Washington 
street,  between  the  residence  of  his 
father  and  that  of  Capt.  H.  N.  Moore. 
Mr.  Ball  spent  Sunday  with  his  wife’s 
parents  at  Henderson,  Ky.,  where Mrs. 
Ball has been  visiting  for  a week or ten 
days.  She will return home with him.

G rip sack   B rigade.

Geo.  F.  Owen  is  now  located  in his 

own home on North Union street.

The Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. repeats 
the generous  act  of a year ago and pays 
a year’s subscription of T h e T radesm an 
for all of  its  traveling  men.

The traveling salesmen  who  reside  in 
Hillsdale have organized the  “ Traveling 
Men’s  Social  Club  of  Hillsdale,”  with 
Frank Thompson, the  cracker salesman, 
as President.

Howard Udell has resigned his position 
of book-keeper for I. M. Clark  &  Son  to 
take  the  position  of  Michigan traveling 
representative for Harry  Weissinger To­
bacco Co., of Louisville, Ky.

Algernon  E.  White,  general traveling 
representative for Rolla Thomas, of New 
York, has been in  town  for  a  week,  re­
newing his acquaintance with his family. 
He will not return again until July.

The  meeting of traveling men, held at 
Sweet’s  Hotel  Sunday  noon,  was  well 
attended.  Sentiment in favor of a social 
club  appeared  to  be  so  general  that  it 
was  decided  to  continue  the  agitation 
and  Jas.  B.  Mclnnis,  M.  K.  Walton, 
Chas. S. Brooks, W. Fred Blake and  Jas. 
Roseman were  constituted  a  committee 
to solicit membership, on the  basis of $5 
per year.

A  clothing  merchant  advertises  a  $10 
It isn’t a law suit, however. 

suit for $5. 
A $10 law suit costs $300.

0 HÏÏ8 R1

6 3   a n d   6 5   C a n a l  S t.,

I -St

Manufacturers  of

Slot  Cases

Of Every Description.

WRITE FOR  PRICES.
First-Glass  Work  Only.
G R A N D   R A P ID S .

To  Clothing  and  General  Store  Mer­

chants:

It canuot be disputed that

Nickel Kolb  &  Son,
Clothing JlaniM drers

W h o l e s a l e

---- OF----

Rochester, N. Y.,

Have  bad  for  nearly 30 years  past and 
have  to-day one of  the largest  trades  in 
Michigan;  and  why?  Because  the  mer­
chants  who  handle  our  line  know  that 
when a customer  visits  their  store  they 
can rely upon  good goods and  materials,
and a perfect fit.  Our  goods  are made so well  and our  prices so equitable that we 
fear  no competition, not  even  from  manufacturers  making  inferior  garments  to 
catch the merchants with low prices.

WILLIAM  CONNOR,

Marshall, Mich,

Box 346, 

We  commence  April  1st,

CLOSING  OUT

Our entire  line of  Spring and Summer  Goods at great  bargains and  prefer to offer 
the same to the general trade  rather than to one or two  large houses. 
It  will  pay 
you to write our  Michigan agent, William Connor, who resides  at  Marshall, Mich., 
to call npon you and look at these

G R E A T   B A R G A IN S  IN

Jinn's,  Youths’,  Boys’  and Children’s  Clothing

William Connor will  be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand  Rapids, on Thursday and Fri­

day, the 16th and 17th days of April  next.

B o l t s  

Wa

I want  500 to 1,000  cords of Poplar  Excel­

sior  Bolts, 18, 36 and 54  inches long.

I also  want  Basswood  Bolts, same  lengths 

as above.  For particulars address

J. W. FOX, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Pennsylvania  L u lm ii’s.

The  best  fitting  Stocking  Rub­
bers in the market.  A  full line of 
Lycoming Rubbers on hand.  Try 
them.
GEO. H  REEDER & CO.,

State  Agents for 

LYCOMING  RUBBER  CO.

168  and  160  East  Fulton  Street.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRAHESM^NT.

D ry  Goods•

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

D oing  B usiness  a t   a   Profit.

Written for The Tradesman.

A  sharp  commercial  writer  recently 
said  this  very  pat  thing:  “ The  next 
crime  short  of  highway  robbery 
is 
monkeying  with  a  business  without 
making  any  profit.”  Anyone  of  sound 
sense will agree that if  not  a crime, it is 
foolish and disastrous.

There are many things  involved in the 
conduct of  a  business,  which  determine 
its success or failure.  Knowledge of the 
business, executive  ability,  the  employ­
ment of competent  help,  judicious  buy­
ing,  care  in  giving  credits,  fidelity  in 
collecting accounts,  skill  and  enterprise 
in  pushing  trade—all  these  and  other 
factors,  beside the amount of capital put 
in,  have  a  bearing 
in  determining 
whether the business shall prove profita­
ble or not.

The particular point I have  in mind to 
speak  of  just  now,  and  one  on which 
profits  largely  depend,  is  the  price  at 
which  goods  are  sold.  At  what  per 
cent,  above  cost  are  goods  sold ?  In 
figuring  cost,  are  all  the items counted 
which may legitimately be  reckoned in ? 
Having  fixed  a  selling  price  which is a 
reasonable  advance  upon  cost,  is  this 
price  strictly  and  impartially  adhered 
to?  These  are  questions  which  every 
merchaut  should  consider  vital  to  his 
success.

There should be  no  occasion  to  speak 
of  the  necessity  of  sticking  to  prices, 
without  deviation  under  any  circum­
stances,  but  there 
is.  The  business 
world knows, and the worst of it is there 
are  customers  who  know,  that  some 
merchants  cut  prices.  When  they  do 
this they not only lose the profit to which 
they  are  entitled,  but they injure busi­
ness—their  own  as  well  as their neigh­
bors’.

When a customer finds  out that he can 
buy  goods  under  the  regular  price, he 
has the merchant  at  a  disadvantage and 
will  not  hesitate  to  improve  his oppor­
tunity.  Nor does it  stop  with  him,  for 
people  delight 
in  boasting  to  others 
when they secure a cut  in  prices.  Thus 
the merchant’s own  business  is  demora­
lized and his competitors, with  whom he 
ought  to  live  in  harmony,  are  justly 
incensed.

A merchant is just as much  entitled to 
get from customers in the money received 
for goods a legitimate profit as to get the 
cost of the goods.  The  merchant  cheats 
himself who sells goods without a  profit. 
It would be a good  thing  for  some  mer­
chants,  and  it  would  not  hurt  any, to 
write out the last  two  sentences,  under­
score them in red, and stick  them  up  in 
their  counting  rooms  where  they  will 
often meet the eye.
□ Experience has proved that more goods 
can be sold  at  good  prices  firmly  main­
tained than can be sold  under  the  price- 
cutting  policy.  The  merchants  who 
have  achieved  fortune  and  success are 
those  who  have  made  it  an invariable 
rule to make a fair profit  on  every  sale.
A man who charges a good price shows 
he has  confidence  in  his  goods, and the 
very fact  of  charging  a  uniform  price 
impartially  to  all  necessarily  begets 
confidence in the customer that the goods 
are  right  and  desirable.  When  a  mer­
chant runs down his own goods by letting 
down  the  price,  the  customer may well 
entertain 
their 
character,  and  if  he  is  after  first-class 
goods, seeks elsewhere.  Business is busi­
ness. 

Mebcuby.

suspicion 

as 

to 

a 

UNBLEACHEU  COTTONS.

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Arrow Brand  5)4 

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Adriatic.................  7
“  World Wide.. 7
A rgyle...................  6)4
“  LL............... B
Atlanta A A.............614
Pull Yard Wide...... 6)4
Atlantic  A..............7
Georgia  A................614
“ 
H................6*
Honest Width......... 63£
“ 
P ..............6
“  D......   ...  6%
Hartford A .............514
Indian Head...........  714
“  LL................534
King A  A............... 6V4
Amory.................... 7
Archery  Banting...  4 
King EC.................  5
Lawrence  L L ........514
Beaver Dam  A A..  5)4 
Madras cheese cloth 634
Blackstone O, 38—   5
Newmarket  G........6
Black Crow............ 6K
B ......  514
Black  Rock 
N ........  6V4
Boot, AL................  7)4
Capital  A ............... 5!4j 
DD—   5)<
Cavanat V ............. 534 
X ....... 7
Chapman cheese cl.  334 Noibe R...................  51*
Clifton  C R ............ 514  Our Level  Best.......6Vi
Comet..................... 7  Oxford  R ..................614
Dwight Star.......... .  714 Pequot.......................7V4
Clifton CCC...........634  Solar........................  6Vi
|Top of the Heap—   7Vi
Geo. Washington...  8
Glen Mills.............   7
Gold Medal.............. 7Vi
Green  Ticket......... 814
Great Falls.............   614
Hope.......................   714
Just  Out........  434® 5
King  Phillip...........734
OP......7Vi
Lonsdale Cambric.. 1014
Lonsdale............  @ 834
Middlesex........   @5
No Name................   714
Oak View ...:.........   6
Our Own................   514
Pride of the West.. .12
Rosalind................. 714
Sunlight.................   414
Utica  Mills.............814
“  Nonpareil  ..11
Vinyard..................  814
White Horse.........   6
“  Rock..........    . 814
9

A B C ......................814
Amazon...............  8
Amsburg.................7
Art  Cambric...........10
Blackstone A A......  8
Beats A ll....,.........   4Vi
Boston....................12
Cabot................. 
7Vi
Cabot,  X.................634
Charter  Oak...........  514
Conway W..............7)4
Cleveland.............. 7
Dwight Anchor......  834
shorts.  834
Edwards................. 6
Empire...................   7
Farwell...................734
Fruit of the  Loom..  834
Fitchville  .............7
First Prize..............6V4
Fruit of the Loom X.  8
Falrmount..............  414
Full Value..............634
Cabot......................   7341 Dwight Anchor
Farwell...................8 
UNBLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.
TremontN........
...  514 Middlesex No.  1... .10
“  2... .11
Hamilton N......
...  614
“  3... .12
...  7
L......
...  8
“  7... .18
Middlesex AT..
...  9
“  8... .19
X ....
No. 25 ...  9
BLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.

HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

...  714 Middlesex A A...... .11
Hamilton N ......
2...... .12
“ 
Middlesex P T .. ...  8
...  9
A T ..
“ 
A O ...... .1314
4...... .1714
...  9
“ 
X A..
I F . .
5...... .16
“ 
...1014
CARPET  WARP.
.21
colored— 2014 White Star...... ...... 1814
“  colored..21
Nameless................20
...........25
...........2714
...........30
...........3214
.........35

..............8
................. 9
 
G G  Cashmere........21
Nameless..............16
............... 18

Peerless, white.. ....18
Integrity................. 18141 
Hamilton 

Integrity, colored.

DBESS  GOODS.

“ 
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“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
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1014

“ 
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“ 

“ 

“ 

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COB8ET8.

“ 

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........  6

COSSET  JEANS.

Coraline................$9 501Wonderful............ $4 50
Schilling's............   9 00| Brighton................4 75
Naumkeagsatteen..  714
Armory..................   634
Androscoggin.........714
Rockport.................. 614
Biddeford...............6
Conestoga.................634
Walworth .................634
Brunswick..............614
PBINTS.
Allen turkey  reds.
5X1 Berwick fancies__  14
robes...........514 Clyde  Robes.............  5
pink a purple 634|Charter Oak fancies 414
buffs 
Del Marine cashm’s.  6 
pink  checks.  5141
mourn'g  6
staples........514 Eddy stone fancy...  6
shirtings ... 
chocolat  6 
434
American  fancy. 
rober—   6 
534!
American indigo.
sateens..  6 
534
American shirtings.  4141 Hamilton fancy. 
6
Argentine  Grays...  6 
staple...
5*4 
Anchor Shirtings...  434 Manchester fancy. 
6
Arnold 
....  6141
new era.  6 
Arnold  Merino 
...  6
Merrimack D fancy.  6 
long cloth B.1014 Merrlm'ckshirtings. 414
Repp furn .  814
C.  814| 
century cloth  7 
Pacific fancy..........6
gold seal......10141
robes............614
green seal TR10141 Portsmouth robes...  6 
yellow seal.. 1014 Simpson mourning..  6
Berge............. 1114
greys........6
Turkey red.. 1014 
solid black.  6 
Ballou solid black..  5 
Washington Indigo.  6 
“  colors.  554
“  Turkey robes..  714
Bengal blue,  green, 
“  India robes___ 714
red and  orange  ..  514
“  plain T’ky X 34  814
Berlin solids........ ■ ■  514
“  X...10
“ 
“  oil bine.... ..  614]
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red................   6
“  green .. -•  614
M 
“  Foulards.. ..  514
Martha Washington
red 34........ ..  7
Turkeyred 34........714
“ 
“  %........ ..  934
Martha Washington
“ 
“ 
“  4 4...... ..10
Turkey red............ 914
“ 
“  3 4XXXX 12  j
Riverpolnt robes__5
Cocheco fancy........6  I Windsor fancy............614
“  madders...  6  ! 
gold  ticket
“  XX twills..  6141  indigo blue...........1014
“  solids........... 554!
Amoskeag AC A....13 
|AC  A......................1214
Hamilton N ............ 714 Pemberton AAA___ 16
D..............814 York..........................1014
Awning.. 11
Swift River............  714
Farmer....................8
Pearl  River............1214
First  Prize.............1114
Warren....................14
Lenox M ills..........18
.  8 
Atlanta,  D..............  6341Stark  A
Boot........................   634 No  Name  ..
•  714 
Clifton, K............... 7)4 ¡Top of  Heap
.10
Simpson..................20  ¡Imperial..................1014
................. 18  Black.................9® 914
.................16 
..................... 1014
Coechco.................10541

COTTON  DBILL.

TICKINGS.

SATiNEs.

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“ 

“ 

DEMINS.

“ 
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Amoskeag.............. 1214
9 oz........1414
brown .13
Andover................. 1114
Beaver Creek A A.. .10 
BB...  9
CC....
Boston Mfg Co.  b r..  7 

“ 
“ 
“ 
blue  814 
“  d & twist 1014 
Columbian XXX br.10 
“ 
XXX  bl  19

“ 

Columbian brown.. 12
Everett, blue.......... 12
brown. ^...12
Haymaker blue........ 734
brown...  734
Jeffrey.....................1114
Lancaster................1214
Lawrence, 9 oz........ 1314
“ 
NO.220....13
“  No. 250....1114
“  No. 280.... 1014

GINGHAHS.

“ 

fancies —   7 
Normandie  8
Lancashire.............   614
Manchester............   534
Monogram..............  614
Normandie............... 714
Persian...................   814
Renfrew Dress........714
Rosemont................. 654
Slatersville.............. 6
Somerset...................7
Tacoma  ...................714
Toil  du Nord......... 1014
Wabash..................   714
seersucker..  714
Warwick...............   814
Whlttenden............   634
heather dr.  8 
indigo blue  9 
Wamsutta staples...  634
Westbrook..............  8
..............10
Windermeer........... 5
York..........................634

Amoskeag................ 714
“  Persian dress 854 
Canton  ..  814
“ 
“ 
AFC......1214
Arlington staple —   6*4 
Arasapha  fancy  ...  434 
Bates Warwick dres 814 
staples.  614
Centennial............   1014
Criterion..............  1014
Cumberland  staple.  514
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................414
Elfin.......................   714
Everett classics......814
Exposition............... 734
Glenarie.................  634
Glenarven................ 634
Glenwood.................714
Hampton...................614
Johnson Chalon cl 
14 
indigo blue 914 
zephyrs... 16 
Lancaster,  staple...  634
Amoskeag..........  ..1634jValley City............. 1514
Stark.......................2014 Georgia...................1514
American............... 1614¡Pacific  .....................1414

GRAIN  BAGS.

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THREADS.

Clark’s Mile End....45  ¡Barbour's................88
Coats’, J. & P .........45  Marshall’s...............88
Holyoke..................22141

No.

6  ..  ..33 
8 ........ 34 
10..........35 
12..........36 

KNITTING  COTTON.

White.  Colored. 

No. 14 ..........37 
“  16...........38 
18..........39 
“  20...........40 

White.  Colored.
42
43
44
45

38
39
40
41
CAMBRICS.

Slater........................434
White Star............   414
Kid Glove...............  434
Newmarket.............. 414
Edwards........

Washington............  414
Red Cross.................4)4
Lockwood.................434
_Wood’s ...................   434
4341 Brunswick.............  434

BED  FLANNEL.

Fireman.................3214
Creedmore............. 2714
Talbot XXX...........30
Nameless— .'........2714

!T W......................... 2214
F T ...........................8214
JR F .X X X .............35
Buckeye..................3214

MIXED  FLANNEL.

Red A'Blue,  plaid..40
Union R .................2214
Windsor.................1814
6 oz Western..........21
Union  B................ 22)4

Grey SR W.............1714
Western W  .............1814
D R P ...................... 1814
Flushing XXX........ 2314
Manitoba................ 2314

DOMET  FLANNEL.

Nameless...... 8  ® 9141
...... 814@10  I

“ 

9  @1014 
1214
Brown. Black. Slate. Brown. Black.
13
15
17
20

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.,
13
914
15
«H4
17
1114
20
1214

Slate.
914
1014
1114
1214
Severen, 8 oz...........   914
May land, 8 oz..........10)4
Greenwood, 714 oz..  914 
Greenwood, 8 os— 1114

934 13
1014 15
1114 17
1214120
DUCKS.

West  Point, 8 oz__1014
10 oz.... 1214
“ 
Raven, lOoz............1314
Stark 
............1314
WADDINGS.

“ 

White, doz...............25  I Per bale, 40 doz___ (7  50
Colored,  doz...........20 

|

siLEsiAs.

Siater, Iron Cross...  8  ¡Pawtucket............... 1014
“  Red Cross....  9  Dundie.....................   9
Best..............1014 Bedford......................1014
“ 
“ 
Best AA......12141 Valley  City............... 1(>14

SEWING SILK.

Cortlcelli, doz.........75  (Cortlcelll  knitting,

twist,doz..3714  per 14oz  ball........ 30
50 yd, doz.. 37141
HOOKS AND EYES—PER GROSS.
" 
“ 

No  1 Bl’k A White..10  (No  4 Bl’k A White..15 
..20
“ 
“ 3 
..25
No 2—20, M C......... 50 
¡No 4—15 F  314............40

..12 
“ 8 
..12  ) “  10 

PINS.

“ 
“ 

2 

3—18, S C...........45  I

No  2 White A Bl’k.. 12  ¡No  8 White A Bl’k..80 
.23

COTTON TAPE.
..15 
“ 10 
| “  12 
-.18 
SAFETY  PINS.
No 2..........................28 
|N o3............................ 36

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4 
6 

NEEDLES—PER M.

A. Jam es............. .  1  50 Steamboat.........40
Crowely’s................1  35 Gold  Eyed..................... 1 50
Marshall’s ................1 00)
5—4....2 25  6—4.. .3 26|5—4....1  95  6-4. ..2  95 

TABLE  OIL CLOTH.
“ 

...8 101
COTTON TWINES.

“  ....2  10 

“ 

Nashua................... 18
Rising Star 4-ply__17
3-ply.... 17
North Star.............. 20
Wool Standard 4 plyl714 
Powhattan.............18

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown....................12
Domestic............... 1854
Anchor.................. 16  "
Bristol....... ............13
Cherry  Valley........15
I X L.......................13
Alabama.................  6J£IMount  Pleasant 
614
Alamance...............   654 Oneida....................  5
Augusta;.................  714
Pyrm ont................  554
Ar» sapha...............   6
Randelman.............6
Georgia...................634
Riverside................534
G ranite..................  5?¿
Sibley  A..................634
Haw  River............ 5
Toledo....................  6
Haw  J .................  5

PLAID  08NABURGS.

A W N I N G S

AND  TENTS.

Flags, Horse and  Wagon  Covers.  Seat  Shades,  Large 
Umbrellas,  Oiled  Clothing,  Wide .Cotton  Ducks,  etc. 
CHAS.  A.  COYE,  11  Pearl  Street.

Send  for  Illustrated  Catalogue.

Telephone  106.

J.&P.GOATS

FOR

VEITE,  BUCE  E l)  COLORS,
Hand and Machine Use.
P.  STEKETEE  &  SONS.
Voigt, HemoMeimer & Go.,

FOR  SALE  BY

Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy

DRY GOODS,

NOTIONS,

CARPETS,

CURTAINS.
Shirts,  Pants,  Overalls,  Ete.

Manufacturers of

Elegant  Spring  Line  of  Prints, Ging­
hams,  Toile  Da  Nord,  Ch&llies,  White 
and  Black  Goods,  Percales,  Satteens, 
Serges,  Pants  Cloth,  Cottonades  and 
Hosiery now ready for inspection.
Chicago and Detroit Prices Guaranteed.

48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St. 

GRAND RAPIDS, 

- 

-  MICH.

Spring Season 1891.

I f  You desire to  sell

Carpets  by  Sample

Send for

Circular  and  Price List.

Smith & Sanford,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

T U ’'K   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .

7

Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, ’85 ................. 

40 j I>rawer  and

HAUL) WAKE.
The  Largest  Cheese Ever Made.
Boston,  Mass.,  March 7—We  notice a 
recent  statement  in  your  paper  to  the 
effect that a cheese recently manufactured 
in  New York  State  and  weighing  4,000 
pounds,  is  the  “ biggest”  cheese  ever 
made in the United States.  This,  indeed, 
is a very large cheese, but as a matter of 
fact a much  larger  one  has been  made. 
We  had  made  for  us  a  few  years  ago 
(1883) 
in  New  York  State,  a  cheese 
weighing  5,233  pounds,  measuring  as 
follows:  Height, three feet eight inches; 
diameter, five  feet, four  inches;  circum­
ference,  sixteen  feet, nine  inches.  We 
think  it  more  than  probable  that  this 
was  the largest  cheese ever  made in  the 
United States, or anywhere else, for that 
matter. 

Gass,  Doe & Co.

Increasing Its  Facilities.

The T.  H.  Nevin  Company,  of  Pitts­
burgh, Pa.,  manufacturers  of  Pittsburg 
white lead  and  Swiss  Villa  paints,  has 
increased its capital stock  from  55100,000 
to  $200,000.  Property  has  been  pur­
chased where a  large  factory  is  now  in 
It will  cost  $70,000.
course of erection. 
L. Wells, grocer, Allegau:  “I like  your  paper 
very much.  It  is a great  help to  any one in  the 
grocery business.”
C r o c k e r y   & G la s s w a r e

6 doz. in box.

LAMP  BURNERS.

No. 0 Sun.........................................................   45
No. 1  “  .........................................................   50
No.2  “  ...................................................... 
  75
Tubular.............................  
75

 

 

LAMP  CHIMNEYS.—Per bOX.

First quality.
“ 
“ 
YYY Flint. 
“ 
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No. 0 Sun...................................   .................   1 75
No. 1  “  .........................................................188
No. 2  “  ......................................................... 2 70
top.................................... 2  25
No. 0 Sun, crimp 
“ .......................................2 40
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
“ .......................................3 40
„  „
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top.................................... 2  60
“ .......................................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  “ 
....................... J50
No. 1 crimp, per doz..................................... 1  •»
........................................160
No. 2  “ 

La Bastic.

Pearl top.

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FRUIT JARS.

Mason’s or  Lightning.

Pints............................................................. 87 00
Q uarts.................... ,......................................  7 5 ’
Half gallons  .................................................   9 jjO
Rubbers.........................................................  
60
Caps  only......................................................  3 50

STONEWARE—AKRON.

*r 

Butter Crocks, per gal................................   0614
Jugs, H gal., per doz...................................   75
....................................  90
..................................  1  80
Milk Pans, 14 gal., per doz.  (glazed 75c)  ...  65 
“ 
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2  “ 
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*. 

( 

“ Imitation is the sincerest  form  of Flattery ••
THAT THE GEM FREEZER IS  RECOGNIZED AS THE BEST IS PROVEN 
BY THE  WAY  OUR COMPETITORS ARE  IMITATING IT9 GOOD QUALI­
TIES,  AND USE  IT  AS  THE  STANOARD  OF  COMPARISON  WHEN 

TRYING TO SELL THEIR  OWN GOODS.

~7â,

WE  ONLY  CLAIM  A  COUBLE  ACTION 
BECAUSE  IT IS  IMPOSSIBLE TO  GET MC 
FROM  ANY  SYSTEM  OF  GEARING  IN  U

HE  GEM  FREEZER 
tAN  TWO  MOTIONS 
PRESENT  IN  ANY

r CANNOT BE FULLY  PROVEN.

“7Az,

Do NOT BE  IMPOSED UPON BY THOSE WHO MAY TRY TO SELL YOU 
OTHER FREEZERS  BY TELLING YOU  THEY ARE  "  JUST AS GOOO •• 
OR  “ JUST THE  SAME AS  THE GEM.”  
INSIST  ON  HAVING  THE 
GcM  AND IF  YOU CANNOT GET IT FROM  YOUR  REGULAR JOBBER, 
WRITE TO US AND  WE WILL TELL YOU  WHERE  YOU CAN  GET IT, 

OR  QUOTE YOU PRICES AND DISCOUNTS.

MANUFACTURED BY

AM ER IC A N   M A C H IN E  C O .,

Lehigh Avenue a  American Street,  Philadelphia.

J O H N   H .  G R A H A M   4   C O ., 

m a n f' rs,  a g e n t s,  113 Chambers St.,  New York.

P r ic e s   C u rre n t.

T hese  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay prom ptly  and  buy  in  fu ll  packages.

augurs and bits. 

dls.

Snell's...............:............................................... 
60
Cook’s ................................................................ 
40
J enningS’, genuine.......................................... 
25
Jennings’,  imitation....................................... 50410

AXES.

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First Quality, S. B. Bronze............................• 7 50
D.  B. Bronze.............................   12 00
S.B .S. Steel..............................   8  50
D. B. Steel..................................  13 50
Railroad...........................................................1 14 00
Garden.......................................................net  30 00

BARROWS. 

di8.

bolts. 

dls.

Stove....................................................................50&10
70
Carriage new list.............................................. 
Plow................................................................. 40&10
Sleigh shoe.......................................................  
70

BUCKETS.

butts, cast. 

Well,  plain...................................................... I 3  50
 
Well, swivel...............................................  
 
dis.
Cast Loose Pin, figured....................................704
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint................60410
Wrought Loose Pin...........................................60410
Wrought  Table................................................. 60410
Wrought Inside Blind......................................60410
Wrought Brass................................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s ...................................................70410
Blind,  Parker’s ................................................. 70410
Blind, Shepard’s .............................................. 
70

blocks. 

CHAULES.

CROW BARS.

Grain....................

dis. 50&02

Cast Steel........................... .................... per» 
Ely’s 1-10.......................... !................ perm 
Hick’s C. F ..............................................  “ 
G. .............................................................  “ 
Musket....................................................  

5
66
60
35
60

C ARTRIDOES.

chisels. 

Rim  Fire........................................................... 
Central  Fire..........   ..................................dls. 

50
25

Socket Firmer..................................................70410
Socket Framing................................................70410
Socket Corner...................................................70410
Socket Slicks...................................................70410
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer.............................  
40

Curry,  Lawrence’s .......................................
Hotchkiss.......................................................... 

40
25

combs. 

CHALK.

dis.

dis.

“ 

copper.

White Crayons, per  gross..............1201214 dls. 10
Planished, 14 oz cut to size........per pound 
30
14x52,14x56,14x60.......................  
28
25
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.......................  
Cold Rolled, 14x48........................................  
25
Bottoms.............. 
27
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks..................................... 
50
Taper and straight Shank............................ 
50
Morse’s Taper Shank.................................... 
50

n bills. 

dis.

 

DRIPPING PANS.

Small sizes, ser pound................................  
Large sizes, per pound................................  

07
614

ELBOWS.

Com. 4  piece, 6 in ........................... doz. net 
75
Corrugated.....................................dis. 20410410
Adjustable......................................................... 40410

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

dlS.

files—New List. 

30
Clark’s, small, 818; large, 826....................... 
Ives’, 1, 818;  2, 824;  3, 830 ............................ 
25
Dlsstou’s ...................................................... 60410
New  American.............................................60410
Nicholson’s ...................................................... 60410
Heller’s .........................................................   ®0
Heller’s Horse Rasps...................................  
50
28
Nos  16  to  20 :  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27 
List 
15 
18

galvanized iron

dis.

12 

14 

Discount, 60 

13 
GAUGES. 

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s...............   —___50

..
dlS.

HAMMERS.

dis.

“ 
“ 
“ 

HINGES.

HANGERS. 

HOLLOW WABE.

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

Maydole  4  Co.’s .......................................... dls. 
25
25
Kip’s .............................................................. dis. 
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s..................................... dls. 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel. Hand...  30c 40410
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 .................................. dis.60410
State...............................................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 4)4  14  and
longer............................................................. 
3)4
Screw Hook and  Rye, )4............................net 
10
“  %............................. net  8)4
“ 
£ ............................. net  7)4
“ 
“ 
“  %............................. net  7)4
“ 
Strap and T ..................................................dls. 
50
Barn.Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track— 50410
Champion,  anti-friction................................  60410
40
Kidder, wood track......................................... 
Pots..................................................................... 
§0
Kettles................................................................ 
fO
60
Spiders  .............................................................. 
Gray enameled..................................................40410
Stamped  Tin Ware................................... new 
Japanned Tin Ware........................................  
Granite Iron W are..................... new list 33)4410
4 00
WIRE GOODS. 
dls.
Bright........   ................................................70410410
70410410
Screw  Eyes................................ 
Hook’s ..  .....................................................70410410
70410410
Gate. Hooks and Eyes........................ 
70
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s  ................... 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings..................  
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings............... 
55
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................... 
-------  ------------  
-  “  
70
 
55
Russell 4  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  ..........  
Mallory, Wheeler  4   Co.’s .............................. 
55
Branford’s .......................................................  
55
Norwalk’s ........................................................ 
55
Adze Eye.............................................816.00, dis. 60
Hunt Eye.  ..........................................815.00, dlB. 60
Hunt’s    .......................................818.50, dls. 20410.
dlS.
Sperry 4  Co.’s, Post,  handled........................ 
50
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ................................
“  P. S. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables
“  Landers,  Ferry 4  CIp . k’s ............
“  Enterprise 
.................

knobs—N ew List. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

------------- 

MATTOCKS.

levels. 

dls.
dis.

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

dls.

25

I

 

 

MOLASSES GATES.

dls.

 

 

 

 

 

NAILS

Advance over base: 

Stebbin’s Pattern..............................................60410
Stebbin’s Genuine............................................ 60410
Enterprise, self-measuring............................. 
25
Steel nails, base............................................... 1  95
Wire nails, base...................................... .  —2 35
Steel.  Wire.
Base
60........................................................Base
.Base
10
05
20...............................................   1» 
*>
35
io 
15 
10............  
40
20 
50
g.;” ." ...........................................    25 
65
7 4 6 " ..............................................   40 
90
4 
60 
 
1  50
3.............. 
....................................1  00 
2 00
o'".'."'...............................................1  50 
Fine 3.............................................. 1  50 
2 00
90
Case  10.............................................  60 
1  00
«  g 
......................... .........   75 
1 25
«  o'  ...........................................  90 
Finish 10..........................................   »  
100
125
i< 
g 
.......................................100 
e"......................................... 1  15 
<• 
1 50
75
Clinch’10.........................................   85 
90
=•  *  g......................................... 1  00 
1  00
6/........................................1  15 
«< 
Barrell X.........................................1  75 
2 50
dlB.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   @40
Sciota Bench................................................  @®*
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy...........................  @40
Bench.first quality........................ -............  @60
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s, wood...........  410
Fry,  Acme............................................ dls.60—10
Common,  polished................................... dls.
Iron and  Tinned.............................................  
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................  
50
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
‘•B” Wood’B  pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IKON.

PLANES. 

RIVETS. 

Broken packs %c per pound extra.

PANS.

diS.

* 

ROPES.

squares. 

SHEET IRON.

Com.  Smooth.

Sisal, % Inch and larger................................ 
8
Manilla..............................................................  11)
dls.
Steel and  Iron................................................ 
7
Try and Bevels................................................. 
6
Mitre.................................................................. 
2
Com. 
S3  10 
3  20 
3 20 
3 30 
3 40 
3 50
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to  14........................................ 84 20
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
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86..........................................dis.
Silver Lake, White  A .................................list 
Drab A ....................................  “ 
White  B.................................  “ 
Drab B....................................   “ 
White C....................................“ 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

50
50
55
50
55
35

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

Hand...................-........................

Solid Eyes.................................................per ton 825
list 70
20
“ 
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.................................................

30
Steel, Game........................................................60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ................. 
35
Oneida  Community, Hawley & Norton’s —  
70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per doz.
Mouse, delusion..................................81.50 per doz.
dis.
Bright Market.......  ...........................................  65
Annealed Market............................................. 70—10
Coppered Market.............................................   60
Tinned Market.................................................  62)4
Coppered  Spring  Steel................................... 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized..................................  3 40
painted.......................................  2 80

wire. 

dls.

“ 

HORSE nails.

WRENCHES. 

Au Sable................................. dis. 25410^25410405
dls. 05
Putnam.............................................. 
Northwestern................................... 
dls. 10410
dlB.
30
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled...................... 
Coe’s  Genuine..............  
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,............ 
75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable..................................75410
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Bird Cages..................................... 
50
Pumps, Cistern............................................ 
75
Screws, New List..............................................70410
Casters, Bed  and  Plate.............................50410410
Dampers, American........................................  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods........  
65

dis.

 

 

 

 

METALS,

FIG TIN.

28c

26c

6 \
7

ZINC.

SOLDER.

Pig  Large......................................................... 
Pig Bars.....................................................   - 
Duty:  Sheet, 2)4c per pound.
680 pound  casks............................................... 
Per pound......................................................... 
)4@)4.........................................................................}6
Extra W iping.....................................................   15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder in the market Indicated by nrivate brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson........................................... per  ponnd  16
Hallett’s .......................................... 
13
TIN—MELYN GRADS.
10x14 IC, Charcoal...........................................8 7 50
7 50
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
9  25
14x20 IX, 
9  26

Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.

10xl41C,  Charcoal.........................................8 6 50
14x2010, 
...........................................   6 50
10x14 IX, 
8  00
 
14x20 IX, 
 
8  00

TIN—ALLA WAY GRADE.
“ 
“ 
“ 

Each additional X on this grade 81.50.

 
 
ROOFING PLATES

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

 
 
 

 
 

 

 

“ 
“ 

‘  Worcester..................................  6 50
• 
11 
1  Allaway 
“ 
“ 
“ 
BOILER SIZE TIN FLATS.

14x20 IC, 
..............................   8  50
14x20IX, 
.............................  18  50
20x28 IC, 
5 75
14x20 IC, 
...................  7  25
14x20 IX, 
.................   12 CO
20x28 IC, 
............  ...  15  00
20x28 IX,
14x28  IX.........................................................  814  CO
14x31  IX....................................................................15 50
14x60 ix’ f°r 

uera' [ per pound 

Grade. 

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

’ I 

10

We  have  taken  hold of this  line of  goods  with  our  ac­
customed  energy  and  shall  carry  a full  assortment  of  the 
best makes.  We shall  be  glad to  give  full  Information  and 
prices to any one desiring to secure an agency.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

8

MichiganTiadesman

A  W EEK LY   JO U RN A L  D EVOTED  T O   T H E

Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. 
Retail  Trade of the Woliierine State.
The  Tradesman  Company, Proprietor.

Subscription Price, One  Dollar per year, payable I 
Advertising Rates made known on application. 

strictly in advance.

Publication  Office,  100 Louis St.

Entered at Ote Grand Rapids Post Office.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL.  8, 1891.

A  question of considerable importance 
to  people generally has  been decided  by 
our  Supreme Court in the case of Upham 
vs. Detroit  City Railway Co., the facts of 
which are briefly these:  Mr. Upham took 
passage on one  of defendant’s street cars 
last  September;  and for  convenience  or 
otherwise  stood on  the front platform of 
the car, from which he was thrown  to  the 
pavement, sustaining severe injuries, for 
which  he  sued  the  company  for  negli­
gently  causing  the  same.  The  circuit 
judge  instructed  the jury that,  if  plain­
tiff could have secured passage on the in­
side of the car, but  voluntarily  chose  to 
remain on the platform, he could not  re­
cover.  The j ury found for the defendant, 
and the Supreme  Court, in  reversing the 
case, lay down the law that, in the absence 
of any express regulation prohibiting peo­
ple from riding on the platform of  street 
cars, or notice that if they do  so,  it must 
be at their own risk,  street railway  com­
panies are liable for injuries  to  persons, 
whether inside or outside of the car, caus­
ed by their negligence, provided such in­
jured party is free from negligence  which 
contributed to the  injury.

T h e  T radesm an need offer no apology 
for  giving  place  to  the comm unicatiou 
from the Ionia County farmer, in another 
column this week, setting forth the man­
ner in which wheat can be  produced  for 
less  than  50  cents  per  bushel.  While 
such discussions are usually  relegated to 
the  columns  of  the  agricultural  press, 
T h e  T radesm an  holds  they are equally 
pertinent  in  the  columns  of  a business 
journal,  whose  readers  are  directly  de­
pendent  upon  the  farmer,  sharing  both
his success and misfortune.

■

With  wheat  and  potatoes  active  at $1 
per  bushel;  corn  firm  at 70 cents:  oats 
in 'good  demand  at  50  cents;  butter  by 
no means plenty at 20  cents—the farmer 
ought  to  be  as  happy  as the gun maker 
in  war  time.  Such  a  combination  of 
high  prices  has  not  come  his  way for 
several  years,  but  there  are many signs 
which  indicate  a  continuance  of  good 
prices  for  agricultural  products  for 
several years to come.

The  method  adopted  by  the  Experi­
ment  Station  to  ascertain  the  value  of 
Michigan  soil  in  the  production  of  the 
sugar beet, which is  fully  outlined  in  a 
communication from Prof. Kedzie  in an­
other  column,  deserves  the  cordial  co­
operation  of  every  farmer  who  is  so 
fortunate  as  to  secure  any  of  the  seed. 
The  results  will  be  watched  for  with I 
interest,  not  only  in  this  State  but  all 
over the country.

For the finest coffees in the world, high 
grade teas, spices,, etc., see  J. P. Visner, 
304  North  Ionia  street,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich., general  representative  for  E.  J. 
Gillies & Co.,  New  York City.

BEET SUGAR.

Plan  of  Cultivation  Proposed  by  the 

Experiment  Station.*

The manufacture  of  sugar  from  beets 
was one of  the  incidental  results  of the 
Napoleonic  wars  following  the  French 
revolution. 
It  had  been  known  for  a 
long  time  that  beets  contained  sugar, 
but it was not  supposed  that beets could 
successfully compete with  sugar cane in 
making  sugar.  At  first  the  beet  only 
contained  6  per  cent,  of  sugar and only 
about  half  of  this  could  be obtained in 
the  form  of  crystalized  sugar  by  the 
methods then employed. 
In competition 
with  sugar  cane  containing  IS per cent, 
of sugar and with  the  established modes 
of  making  sugar,  the  sugar  beet  had a 
poor show in the  effort to  secure a place 
in the  sugar  market  of  the world.  But 
the demands of war on  one  hand, and of 
human needs on the  other  hand,  pushed 
the beet sugar industry  into  prominence 
in  Europe. 
Improved  quality  of  the 
beet secured by selection and  cvltivation 
and improved methods in  extracting and 
purifying  the  sugar  brought  the  beet 
sugar industry to such development  that 
when  the  war  clouds  rolled  away, beet 
sugar held the  field,  and  now more than 
half the sugar  of  the  world  is extracted 
from  beets.  The  area  in  the temperate 
zone suited to raising  sugar  beets  of the 
best  quality  is  much  larger  than  the 
tropical  area  suited  to  growing  sugar 
cane.  In  the  temperate  zone  are  also 
found the  vigor  of  body  and  activity of 
mind  suited  to  develop  and  carry  for­
ward  manufacturing  industries. 
It  is 
probable that more and more the world’s 
supply  of  sugar  will  come  from  sugar 
beets, while tropical cane will fall into a 
subordinate  position. 
Increased  con­
sumption  of  sugar  will  keep  even pace 
with  the  increased  supply  in  the years 
to  come  and  it  may  be said with literal 
truth  that  the  discoveries  of  Marggraf 
and Achard in beet sugar have sweetened 
the lot of mortals for  all time.

*

*

*

*

*
importance. 

The  area  adapted  to  the  growth  of 
sugar  cane  in  our country,  for climatic 
reasons,  is  very  limited,  while  the area 
suited to  the  growth  of  sugar  beets em­
braces millions of acres.  While  France, 
Germany,  Austria  and  Russia  have 
pushed forward this industry to astonish­
ing  lengths,  we  have  stood  idly  by, an 
importer  and  consumer,  but  not  a pro­
ducer,  while  these  countries  refuse  to 
take  a  pound  of  our  pork  in exchange. 
Less  hogs  and  more  beets  may  remedy 
this  evil.  This  country  paid  Germany 
$16,000,000  for  sugar  in  1889,  while she 
still refuses to admit a  pound of our hog 
products. 
*
*  *  The kind of beets  to «be raised
is  a  matter  of  first 
In 
Germany  the  farmer  is  not  allowed  to 
furnish  his  own  seed,  but  all  the  beet 
seed is  furnished  by  the  manufacturer. 
Distinct  varieties  of  beets have been se­
cured  by  cultivation  and  sele'ction,  as 
distinct  as  are  the  breeds  of  cattle  in 
stock  raising,  and 
the  manufacturer 
would  no  more  use  seed  of  unknown 
pedigree than would the  stock raiser use 
scrubs in developing his herd.  Not only 
must  the  seed  be  from  approved  vari­
eties known to be rich in sugar, but each 
beet  is  tested  for  its  richness  in  sugar 
before  it  is  planted  for  seed  and  all 
beets  below 
re­
jected  in  planting  the  seed. 
It  is  not 
enough for  the  intelligent  sugar grower 
to  know  that  the  seed  is  called  sugar 
beet, but he must know  its  pedigree and 
the quality of the beet that  produced the 
seed.
By  this  process  of  breeding  and  se­
lecting the contents  of  sugar  in the beet 
has been raised from G per cent, (in 1747) 
to  20  or  even  22  per  cent,  in  some 
special  strains  of  beets.  A  beet  that 
contains  less  than  12  per  cent, of sugar 
in  its  juice  is  hardly  worth  manu­
facturing and the value increases rapidly 
with the increase in percentage of sugar.
Unfortunately,  the  raising  of  seed of 
the sugar beet  of  the  best  quality—the 
breeding  of  sugar  beets—is  not  tho­
roughly established in  this  country, and 
for  the  present  we  must  depend  upon 
imported  seed  from  France,  Germany 
and Austria. 
It  is  our  hope  that  with 
like care and skill in this calling  Ameri-

standard  are 

the 

YJffi  JiW  YORK  BI8GUIY  BO.,
Manufa,

C ra ck e r 

S.  A.  SEARS,  Manager.

8 7 , 8 9  a n d   41 K e n t S t., 

-   .  G r a n d   H a p id s .

TELFER  SPICE  COMPANY,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

S p ic e s   a n d   B a k in g   P o w d e r ,  a n d   J o b b e r s   o f 

T e a s, C offees a n d   G r o c e r s ’  S u n d r ie s .

1 and 3 Pearl  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS

C.  N .  R A P P   &  CO.,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Foreign  and  Domestic  Fruits.

9  No. IONIA  ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

HEADQUARTERS  FOR

O R A N G B S ,  L E M O N S  and  B A N A N A S .

SBBDS! Parties  wishing  seeds of  any kind  for  garden 
The Alfred Brown  Seed  Store.

We  carry the  largest  and  most  complete stock of  seeds in Western  Michigan, 

or  field  please  send  for  our  catalogue  and 
wholesale price list before buying.

and offer only such seeds as are of the highest grade.

Parties having Clover Seed to sell, please correspond with us.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

G.  S.  B R O W N   &  C O .,

----- JOBBERS  OF  ------

C a lif o r n ia   O r a n g e s

B lu e fie ld   B a n a n a s .

SEND FOR QUOTATIONS.

24 and 26 North Division St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

MOSBBBY BROS.,
Clover  &  Timothy Seeds,

Jobbers  of

BEANS, POTATOES, EVAPORATED APPLES.

26, 28, 30 and 32  Ottawa St., 

. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

M U S K B G O N   C R A .C K B R   C O .,

Crackers, Biscuits#Sweet Goods.

Manufacturers of

Finest QVality and  Largest Variety in the State.

M U S K E G O N , 
______________ SPECIAL  ATTENTION  PAID  TO  MAIL  ORDERS.

: 

: 

: 

M IC H IG A N .

Jennings*

B h i v o r i n g

Are  Acknowledged  the  Most  Profitable.

SEE  QUOTATIONS.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

S>

analysis have been  selected, the  balance 
of the crop remains for  the  farmer  and 
should repay him for his time and trouble, 
as food for  his  stock.
The  foregoing plan for  experimenting 
will cost the  farmer  little  except  care 
In the estimation  of  the 
and patience. 
experimental  board  it  will  afford  the 
surest  information 
in  regard  to  the 
beet sugar industry  in  our  State. 
If it 
shall establish a new and paying industry 
in our State on the one  hand, or  save  us 
from disastrous investment of capital,  on 
the other hand, the result in either event 
will repay the cost and  trouble.
It would manifestly  be  impracticable 
for the College to furnish seed to plant  a 
quarter of an acre to every one  who may 
apply.  The board desire to  secure  fifty 
or  sixty  thoroughgoing 
farmers  who 
will  carry  forward 
these  experiments 
if  attempted. 
If  the  agricultural  so­
ciety,  farmers’  club,  grange,  or  other 
organization  in  the 
interest  of  agri­
in  the  several  counties  and 
culture, 
townships, will themselves select  two or 
three persons  who  will  do 
this  work 
thoroughly, and will send here the names 
of these persons, for whose fidelity  they 
will  vouch,  the  quantity  of  seed  ne­
cessary for  the  experiment will  be sent, 
free of expense, to such persons  so  long | 
as the supply of  seed  shall  last.  After ! 
these  field  experimenters  are  supplied 
with enough for their quarter acre plats, 
if any seed is  left,  smaller  packages of 
seed for a  few  rods  of  ground  will  be 
sent to parties  who  may  apply,  regard 
being  had  to  reasonable  distribution 
through  the State.  The State board  de­
sires the hearty co-operation  of  leading 
farmers in our State in this investigation, 
and will do all  in  its  power to  secure 
accurate and  reliable  information  on a 
subject of great importance to  our State.
Chemist  Experiment  Station.
"Bulletin  issued  by the  Experiment  Station  at  the 

R .  C.  K e d z i e ,

State  Agricultural College.

SHOE  DRESSINGS

Manufacturers’  Prices:

Gilt Edge,
Raven Gloss,
French Toilette,

A rug  given with 

chase of above.

Per Gross. Per doz.
$22  80
$2  00
2  00
-  22  80
1  75
20  00
each full  gross  pur-

ca may soon  produce  beet  seed  no ways 
inferior to the best from Europe.
Many attempts have been made to man­
ufacture sugar from beets in this.country, 
but with two  exceptions  they have  been 
financial  failures, the  Oxnard  works  in 
Nebraska  and  Spreckles  in  California 
being  the  two  conspicuous  exceptions. 
The causes of financial failures have been 
many, but I will only mention two.
1.  The  machinery for a sugar  plant  is 
very  costly — can  be  used  only  a  few 
months in  the  year—and  requires  great 
technical  skill to run it profitably.
2.  A very  large  amount  of  beets must 
be  furnished to stock  and  run a factory, 
of good quality and at a price that manu­
facturers  can afford  to  pay.  A success­
ful  sugar  plant  should  have 50,000  tons 
of beets, containing 12 per cent, of sugar 
and for such  beets the manufacturer can 
afford  to pay $3 per  ton  delivered at the 
factory,  with an  increase of  25 cents  for 
each per cent, above twelve.  This would 
take  3,500  acres of  land in beet  culture 
each  year, or 7,000  acres  for a rotation, 
because  beets  cannot be raised  continu­
ously on any soil.  The beet raising area 
must be so near  the factory that the cost 
of  hauling the  beets to the  factory shall 
not eat up the profit.
The  project of  adding a new  industry 
to our State is agitating the minds of our 
farmers  and  manufacturers.  There  are 
two  questions  underlying 
this  whole 
subject, and which must be satisfactorily 
settled  in advance  of  any effort  to build 
and equip sugar  factories:
1.  Given a climate and  soil  adapted to 
the growth of sugar beets, can our farmers 
raise sugar beets  in  such quantities that 
they can sell the beets (with a reasonable 
profit to themselves) to the manufacturers 
at  a  price  they can  afford  to  pay  and 
make a reasonable profit in making sugar? 
If the farmers lose money in raising beets, 
the  supply  for  the  factory  will  surely 
fail and the factory close for want of raw 
material.  This is the first question to be 
settled,  and  until  it  is  settled  all  pro­
jects for  making  beet  sugar  are a de­
lusion and a  snare.  This is  a  question 
for the farmers to settle first  of all;  how 
many tons can be  raised  per  acre;  how 
much does  it  cost  per  ton?  They can 
then get at the root of  the  whole  matter 
by raising the roots.  This is the problem 
to be solved in  Michigan:  it  is  still  the 
unsolved problem for  'Nebraska.
The  second  question  is:  What  is  the 
value of  beets  raised  in  Michigan for 
making  sugar?
These questions can  be  satisfactorily 
answered only by actual trial.  No guess or 
estimate or figuring what the yield ought 
to be can give  the  reliable  data  opon 
which to base business matters involving 
so large an outlay of capital.  A  quarter 
of a million dollars should not  be  inves­
ted on guess work.  But if  fifty or sixty 
thoroughgoing  farmers in  different  sec­
tions of the State will give the  subject a 
careful trial to determine how  many tons 
of beets  fitted  for  the factory  can  be 
raised on an acre,  and what is the actual 
cost per ton of raising the  beets,  and if 
fair specimens of such beets shall be sent 
to this experiment station for analysis to 
determine the amount of sugar they  con­
tain, such investigations will furnish the 
bottom  facts of  the  beet  sugar  industry 
in our State.
This is substantially the plan proposed 
by the experiment station  for this season. 
A quantity of seed of the four best varie­
ties of sugar  beets  in  Europe  has  been 
ordered for distribution  to  our farmers 
under certain conditions;  the  farmers to 
raise a quarter acre of each kind of beets 
from this seed according to directions  in 
this bulletin, keeping an  exact  account 
of  the  cost  of  raising  the  crop,  and 
weighing the merchantable  crop  or  the 
beets free from tops and  the crown  that 
rises above the ground.  When the beets 
are ripe  and  harvested, the farmer  is  to 
send by express pre-paid three fair  spec­
imens  (three  beets),  distinctly  marked 
and named, of each kind of  beets  raised.

* 
The  specimens  of  beets  raised  and 
furnished to the Experiment  Station  ac­
cording to  the  foregoing  plan  will  be 
analyzed free of  charge and  the  results 
of both  kinds  of  invesigation  given  to 
the  public.
After  the  few  pounds  of  beets for

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State  Board of Pharmacy*

, 

One  Tear—Stanley E. Part 111, Owoaeo.
Two  Tears—Jacob  Jesson,  Muskegon.
Three  Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Four Tears—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor 
Five Years—George Gundrum, Ionia.
President—Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon.
Secretary—Jas.  Vernor. Detroit.
Treasurer—S. E. Parkill, Owosso. 
(Detroit) July 7:  Houghton, Sept. 1;  Lansing  Kov. A
Michigan  S ta te   P h a r m a c e u tic a l  Ass’n. 

.
Meetings  for  1891—Ann  Arbor,  May  6;  Star  Island 

President—D. E. Piall. Saginaw.
Tirst Vice-President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo. 
Second Vice-President—Prof. A. B. Prescott, Ann Arbor. 
Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Secretary—C. A. Bugbee. Cheboygan.
Treasurer—W m Dupont, Detroit. 
*
Next Meeting—At Ann Arbor, in  October, 1891.  _____
Grand  Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society, 
President. W. R. Jewett,  Secretary,  Frank H. Escott 
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March, 
June, September and December. 
Grand Rapids  Drug Clerks’ Association. 
resident, F. D. Kipp; Secretary, W. C. Smith.______

____ _

Detroit  Pharmaceutical  Society. 
President, J. W. Allen;  Secretary, W. F. Jackman.

Muskegon  Drug  Clerks’  Association. 

President  C. S. Koon;  Secretary, A. T. Wheeler.

How to Deal with the Kickers.

Written for Thb Tradishak.

Everyone now and  then  meets  with  a 
genuine surprise peculiar to his business, 
and  druggists  are  no  exception. 
It  is 
not  always  agreeable,  even  although  it 
may have its comical aspect.

In  this  case  it  was  a  woman  who 
caused  the  surprise.  However,  women 
have always surprised us ever since Mrs. 
Eve  Adam  astonished  her  husband  by 
that serious  joke  of  hers.  The incident 
to  which  i  call  attention  was  a sharp 
and  shrewd  dodge,  will  admit,  and,  1 
say it to the credit  of  the  sex,  one  that 
only  a  woman  would  have  had  the 
ingenuity to evolve.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRAX>ESM-AJNT.

I  calmly  replied,  “ and,  as  to  the  pre­
scription itself, I shall  retain  that  until 
you pay for the medicine,  and  even then 
you  are  only  entitled  to  a  copy  of  it. 
These prescriptions  are  simply  an order 
to the druggist  to  prepare  the medicine, 
and  the  original  is  his  property,  to  be 
placed  on  file  by  him  for  his  own pro­
tection.  The  medicine  is  now prepared 
for you according to the order, and when 
you  pay  for  it  I  will  furnish  you  an 
exact  copy  of  the  order,  if  you desire 
it.”  I  knew  that  this  woman  was  not 
the person who  would  throw  away  that 
prescription  and  pay  for  a  second  one 
and go to another store just to  spite  me; 
therefore,  I  determined  to  hold  to  my 
rights.  As I ceased speaking, the woman 
again  spoke  in  a  still  higher  key  and 
quick,  snappish  tone.  “ I’ll  give  yez 
jist sixty cints for  that  bottle,  if  ye like 
to tak’ it ;  if not, I’ll be goin’ !”  “ You
could not have it  for  ninety-five  cents,”
I answered.  Nothing less than  one  dol­
lar  will  pay  for  it.”  “ And  will  yez 
give  me  my  resate?”  “ No,  ma’am,” 
was my answer.  Without  another  word 
she strided rapidly to the door,  went out 
and closed it with a bang.  That evening 
a  boy  was  sent  for  the  medicine.  He 
had  a  silver  dollar  to  pay  for  it  and 
asked no questions and made no remarks.
It was six months afterward  before  that 
woman  entered  my  store  again,  but, 
when  she  did,  I  waited  upon  her  as  I 
would upon any lady in the land.

to discuss  such a question beforehand, if 
at all.”  In  such cases, rest assured that 
you  have saved  trouble,  as  no real  lady 
or gentleman will  take  offense at such a 
course.

Just a word more.  Druggists will find 
it quite  necessary to guard  against  for­
getfulness  (?) of  customers  and  place  a 
price  check  mark  upon every  prescrip­
tion and every copy of it before it is filed 
or leaves your  store.  Many a time  have 
I  had a party  return  with a prescription 
I had filled  long before and, when 1 stat­
ed  the  price, smilingly  beg  my  pardon 
and reply that I only charged him such a 
price before, naming a third or a quarter 
less than  they had  actually paid.  “You 
paid me  the same  price  I am asking you 
now,” I answer,  “and I recorded it here,” 
pointing to some  small  letters or charac­
ters  made  with  ink  within  the  body  of 
the  writing—that  it  might  not  be  torn 
away—on  the  prescription  itself.  Call­
ing my assistant, I would  ask him to tell 
the  gentleman what  price was first  paid 
for  that  prescription.  Of  course,  his 
answer would  correspond with mine  and 
could not be questioned.  Use either  let­
ters  or  characters in affixing  the  price. 
Let it be done with ink,and, if possible, do 
it in  the presence  of your  customer and 
call his attention to it. 

Druggist.

I had a few other customers who under­
took  to  play this  same  dodge  with  me, 
A female came into my store one after­
and,  not  wishing  to offend  them, I  had 
noon and,  laying a well-written prescrip­
accepted  less  than  I  ought, rather  than 
tion  on  the  counter,  said,  “ Will  you 
throw  away  a  preparation  that  was 
please put that up  for  me ?  I  will  call 
worthless  to  anyone  else.  Sometimes, 
for  it  in  half  an  hour.”  The  woman, 
one  would, while  objecting to the  price, 
who  may  have  been  forty  years  old, 
remark  that, had  he  supposed  it would 
walked  as  if  enfeebled  in  health,  was 
cost  so  much, he would not  have bad  it 
thinly clad for that time  of  the year and 
prepared. 
“ Had  you  asked  me  the 
naturally  excited  my  sympathy.  The 
price,”  I  would  reply,  “I  would  have 
prescription was  from  a  physician  with 
answered you, but, as you did not, I have 
whom I was  well  acquainted. 
It  called 
charged  you  no  more on that  account.” 
for  an  eight-ounce  emulsion  containing 
These  remarks  of  my  customers,  how­
all the oils that could  well  be held with 
ever, at  last  gave  me a clew to the  plan 
out  separating  and  required  care  and 
I  have  now adopted, and  I  can strongly 
skill  in  its  preparation.  According  to 
recommend it to all druggists.  Of course, 
all  the  ethics  of  country  druggists,  I 
discretion  must  be  used,  for  offense 
should  have  had  at  least  §1.25  for  my 
might  be  taken  where  too  much  loss 
materials and twenty minutes’ labor, but, 
would  follow. 
If  I  have  the  least sus­
when the woman returned  and I glanced 
picion  that the  holder  of  a prescription 
at her scanty and  poor  apparel,  noticed 
is  one  of  the quibbling  kind, when it is 
her care-worn  and  pinched  appearance, 
presented to  me,  I  carefully examine  it 
while in a feeble voice she  enquired how 
in his  presence, and,  fixing a price  from 
much the bottle would cost, I relented at 
which  I cannot recede, 1  say to  him  po­
once  and  said,  “ It  should  be  more, 
litely,  “This will  cost  you  50 cents1 
madam,  but  it  shall  only  cost  you  one 
“ 75 cents,” as  the  case  may be, naming 
dollar.”  The change in that woman was 
the price.  “Shall I prepare it for you? ” 
magical and,  I confess, startled me.  She 
Here,  you  notice,  is  a  direct  question 
was  no  longer  the  poor,  decrepit,  old 
that the party must  answer,  which, if  in 
invalid.  She  drew  herself  up  straight 
the  affirmative,  leaves  no  excuse  for 
as  an  arrow,  those  sleepy  eyes  of hers 
quibbling  afterward.  Persons  who  had 
suddenly  awoke,  snapped  and  almost 
intended the quibbling dodge after a pre 
flashed  fire,  as,  in  a shrill, strong voice 
scription was already prepared are  quite 
indicating  sound  lungs,  she  exclaimed 
taken aback at this unexpected turn,  and 
“ One dollar !  Ye’ll not git it then.  Do 
of  course, commence  at  once  to  discuss 
yez  mane to rob me ?  It’s not worth any
the question of  price.  This,  however, is
sieh  price  an’  I’ll  not  pay  i t !  Ye can I just what you desire,  as then you cannot 
kape it an’ jist hand me- back my resate.”  possibly  meet  with a loss.  Perhaps  one 
And,  with a sharp  twitch  of the  head as  sucjj  customer in a hundred  will  act  as
if she meant business,  she  slowly moved 
if  he were offended when you have care 
back and forth along the  counter like an 
fully  figured  the  price  before him  and 
enraged tigress in her  cage.  Astonished 
put the  direct question  to  him,  “Shall 
as  I  was  at  the  sudden  outburst, I  did 
prepare  this  for  you?”  and  he  replies 
not lose my presence of mind.  1  took in 
rather  curtly,  “I  did  not ask  you about 
the  length  and  breadth  of  that  little 
the  price, sir?”  “Of  course  not,” I  po­
beating-down-in-price-game of hers in an 
litely  answer,  “but, pardon  me,  I  some 
instant and  was  prepared  to  checkmate 
times  find  that  many are  unacquainted I 
her.  “ 1 am  charging  you  less than the 
with  drugs, and  even  a  moderate  price 
seems to them  like extortion, and  1  like j
usual price  forathat  medicine,  madam,”

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.

Detr oit,  April  1,  1891 —  A  meeting 
of the Michigan Board of  Pharmacy,  for 
the purpose of  examining candidates for 
registration, will be held at  Ann  Arbor. 
Tuesday  and Wednesday,  May 5 and  6, 
1891.
The  examination  of  both  registered 
pharmacists  and  assistants  will  com­
mence  on Tuesday  at 9 o’clock  a.  m., at 
which hour all candidates will please re­
port at the lecture room of Chemical Lab­
oratory of  the  University.
The  examination  for  registration  for 
all candidates will occupy two  days.
Owing to the action of the  last  Legis 
lature, which caused the  Railway  Asso­
ciation of Michigan to change its rules re­
lative to reduced  rates  for  assemblies, 
special  railroad  rates  for  this meeting 
could not be  secured.
Other examinations will beheld during 
the year as  follows:
Star  Island—July  7.
Houghton—September 1.
Lansing—November 4.

Yours  respectfully,

J ames Yernor,  Sec’y.

A  Timely Note  of Warning.

Detr o it,  April  1—I  want  to  thank 
you  for  the  timely  note of  warning, on 
the  bill  to  make  registration  of  physi 
cians  as  pharmacists  compulsory  with 
out  examination. 
It  is  only  necessary 
to call  the  attention  of  members of the 
Legislature,  to the  measure  to  convince 
them of the mischief that lurks in it.

J ames V ernor.

The Drug Market.

Gum opium and morphia are unchanged. 
P. & W. morphine has declined.  Mercury 
has declined.  English vermillion is lower. 
Linseed oil has advanced.  Cubeb berries 
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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

Wholesale P rice  Current•

Advanced—Linseed oil. 

Declined—P. & W. Quinine, English  Vermillion, cubeb berries.

ACIDUM.

Aceticum....................
m   10 
80@1 00 
Benz oleum  German..
30
Boraclc 
....................
23®  35 
Carbollcum................
58®  60 
Citricum....................
3®  5
Hydrocwor.................
Ni troc um 
...................
10®   12 
11®  13 
OxaUcum...................
20
Phosphorium dll
1  40@1 80 
Sallcylicum . 
IX®  5 
Sulpnurlcum. 
1  40®1  60
Tannicum__
Tartarlcum................ .  40®  42

AMMONIA.
Aqua, 16  deg..............
3X@  5
5X@  7
20  deg.............
Carbonas  ................. .  12®  14
Chloridum.................,  12®  14

a 

ANILINE.
Black......................... ,2 00@2 25
80@1  00
Brown........................
Red..............................  45®  50
Yellow........................2 50@3 00

BACCAE.
Cubeae (po. !  30..........1 3E®1  40
8®  10
Juníperas.................
.  25®  30
X anthoxylum ........
BAL8AMUM.
.  65®  70
Copaiba...................
Peru_______ 
Terabln, Canada  ......  35®  40
Tolutan......................  35®  50

_

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian.................  18
Cassiae  ...............................  H
Cinchona Plava  .................   18
Euonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po.............  20
Prunus Virgin!....................  12
Quill ala,  grd.......................   14
Sassafras  ............................  14
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)........  10

EXTRACTUM.
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra..
po.......
“ 
Haematox, 15 lb. box.
“ 
Is.............
54s............
“ 
“  X<>..........
FERRUM.
Carbonate Precip......
Citrate and Quinia...
Citrate  Soluble.........
Ferrocy anidum Sol...
Solut  Chloride......
Sulphate,  com’l ........
pure...........

24®  25 
33®  35 
11®   12 
13®  14 
14®  15 
16®  17
®  15 
@3 50 
®  80 
®  50 
®  15
IX®
®

Arnica.......................  22®  25
Anthemis..................   20®  25
Matricaria 
25®  30

 

FLORA.

 
FOLIA.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-

...................  20®

nivelly....................  25®  28
Alx.  35®  50
and  Xs....................  12®  15
8®  10

Salvia  officinalis,  Xs
UraUrsi...................... 

“ 

“ 

SUMMI.
“ 
“ 

“ 
» 
" 
“ 

Acacia,  1st picked—   ®1 00
....  @ 90
2d 
3d 
....  @  80
sifted sorts...  @  65
po.................  75@1  00
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ®  12
“  Socotri. (po.  60).  @ 50
Catechu, Is, (Xs, 14 Xs,
16)...........................  @  1
Ammoniae.................  25®  30
Assafoetlda, (po. 30)...  @  15
Benzolnum.................  30®  56
Camphors...................  50®  52
Euphorblum  po  ........  35®  lo
Galbanum.  ................  @3 00
Gamboge,  po..............  80®  95
Guaiacum, (po  40)  .. ■  @  35
Kino,  (po. 25)............   @  20
M astic.......................   @  80
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  @  40
Opil,  (po. 3 50)............ 2  25@2 40
Shellac 
....................  28®  40
“ 
bleached........  13®  35
Tragacanth................  30®
hkbba—In ounce packages.
Absinthium......................... 
j®
Bupatorlum.........................  20
Lobelia.................................  25
Majorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................  23
“  Y ii.  ......................  25
Hue.......................................  30
Tanacetum, V......................  22
Thymus,  V..........................   25

MAGNESIA.

Calcined, Pat..............  55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. &  M —   20®  25 
Carbonate, Jennlng5..  35®  36

OLXUM.

Absinthium................ 5 00@5 50
Amygdalae, Dulc........  45®  75
Amyaalae, Amarae___8 00@8 25
A nlsi............................1  70@1 80
Aurantl  Cortex.........   @2 50
Bergamll  ...................3  75@4 00
Caryophyill...... ......... 1  20@1 25
Cedar............... 
  35®  65
Chenopodil...............   @1  75
Cinnamonil................ 1  15@1 20
Cltronella ...................  @  45
Coninm  Mac..............  36®  65
Copaiba .......................1  20@1 80

 

 

Cubebae................... 10 50@ll 00
Exechthitos...............   90@1  00
Erigeron....................1  90® 2 00
Gaultheria.................2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce......  @  75
Gossipil, Sem. gal......  50®  75
Hedeoma  .................. 1  85®2 00
Juniper!......................  50@2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
"Imonis.....................1  80@2 80
Mentha Piper............. 2 90@3 00
Mentha Verid............2 50®2 60
Morrhuae, gal............1  25@1 35
Myrcia, ounce............   @  50
Olive..........................1 00@2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal. .35)  10®  12
Ricini........................ 1 04®1  20
Rosmarinl............  
75®1  00
Rosae, ounce..............  ®6 00
Succini.......................  40®  45
Sabina.......................  90@1 00
Santal  .......................3 50@7 00
Sassafras....................  45®  50
Sinapis, ess, ounce__  @  65
Tiglii..........................  @1  50
Thyme.......................  40®  50
opt  ...............   @  60
Theobromas...............   15®  20

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POTASSIUM.

BiCarb.......................  15®  18
Bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide.....................   37®  40
Carb............................  12®  15
Chlorate, (po. 16)........  14®  16
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide........................2 80@2 90
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  30®  33
Potassa, Bitart, com...  ©  15
Potass Nltras, opt...... 
8®  10
Potass Nltras.............. 
7®  9
Prussiate....................  30®  33
Sulphate  po...............   15®  18

RADIX.

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Aconitum..................   20®  25
Althae.........................  25®  30
Anchusa....................  15®  20
Arum,  po....................  ®  25
Calamus......................  20®  50
Gentiana, (po. 15)......  10®  12
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 40)..................   @  35
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__  15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po................. 2 40@2 50
Iris  plox (po. 35@38)..  32®  35
Jalapa,  pr..................   35®  40
Maranta,  Xs..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po.......   15®  18
Rhei............................  75@1 00
“  cut.....................   @1  75
“  pv.......................  75@1  35
Splgelia.....................   48®  53
Sanguinaria, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentaria.................  40®  45
Senega.......................  50®  55
Simllax, Officinalis,  H  @ 40 
M  @  20
Scillae, (po. 35)...........  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Foeti-
dus,  po............  —   @ 35
Yalerlana, Eng.  (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
ingiber a ..................   10®  15
Zingiber  j .............. 
22®  25
SEMEN.
..  @ 15
Anisum,  (po.  20). 
Apium  (graveleons)..  15®  18
Bird, Is.....................  
4®  6
Carui, (po. 18)............   8®  12
Cardamon....................1  00@1 25
Corlandrum...............   10®  12
Cannabis Sativa.........  4X@  5
Cydonlum..................   75® 1  00
Cnenopodium  ...........  10®  12
Dlpterlx Odor ate.........2 00@2 25
Foeniculum...............   @  15
Foenugreek,  po.........   6®  8
L in i...........................   4  @ 4X
Lini, grd,  (bbl. 3X) ■ ■ •  4  @ 4X
Lobelia.......................  35®  40
PharlarisCanarian—   3(4® 4(4
Rapa..........................  6®  7
Sinapis,  Albu............  8®  9
Nigra...........  11®  12

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SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W., D.  Co. .2 00@2 50
D. F. R.......1  75@2 00
 
Juniperls  Co. O. T — 1  75@1  75
“ 
.............1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  B.........1 75@2 00
Spt.  Vini  GaUi............1 75@6 50
Vinl Oporto................ 1 
Vini  Alba................... 1 

1 

25@2 00
25@2 00

10@1 50

8PONOE8.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage................... 2 
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.......................... 

25@2 50
2 00
1  10
85
65
75
1  40

STRUTS.

Accacia...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................  50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferri Iod.............................   50
Aurantl  Cortes....................  50
Rhei  Arom..........................   50
Slmilax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................  50
Scillae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  50
Prunus  f lrg........................   50

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TINCTURES. ^
»  V 

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« 

Aconitum Napellis R.........   60
Rfl
Aloes...................................   60
and myrrh.................  60
Arnica................................   50
Asafoetida............................  0
Atrope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................  60
“  Co..........................   50
Sanguinaria........................   50
Barosma.............................   50
Cantharides.........................  75
Capsicum............................  50
Ca damon............................  75
Co.....................   75
Castor..................................1 00
Catechu...............................  50
Cinchona............................  50
Co.....................   60
Columba.............................  50
Conium...............................  50
Cubeba................................   50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot...................................   50
Gentian...............................  50
"  Co............................  60
Guaica................................   50
ammon.................   60
“ 
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................  50 I
Iodine..................................  75
Colorless................   75
Ferri  Chloridum...............  35
K ino...................................   50
Lobelia................................   50
Myrrh..................................  50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
Opil.....................................  85
“  Camphorated................  50
“  Deodor......................2 00
Auranti Cortex....................  50
Quassia...............................  50
Rnatany.............................   50
Rhei.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentaria.........................  50
Stromonium........................   60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian..................  
  50
Veratrum Verlde.................  50

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MISCELLANEOUS.

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‘ 
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“ et Potass T.  55®  60

“ 
ground,  (po.
7)............................. 

iEther, Spts  Nit, 3 F..  26®  28 
“  4 F ..  30®  32
Alumen....................... 2(4® 3(4
3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
Antimonl, po..............  4®  5
Antipyrin..................   @1 40
Antifebrin..................  @  25
Argentl  Nltras, ounce  @  66
Arsenicum.................  5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud......  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 10@2 20
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Xs
11;  Xs,  12)..............  @  9
Cantharides  Russian,
@1  40 
PO..............................
@  25 
Capslcl  Fructus, a f...
@  30 
@  20
6 po.
Caryophyllus, (po.  18)  13®  14
Carmine,  No. 40.........  @3 75
Cera Alba, S. & F ......  50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus.......................  @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  @  20
Centraria....................  ©  10
Cetaceum..................   @  45
Chloroform...............   60®  63
squlbbs..  @1  10
Chloral HydCrst........1  40@1  60
Chondrus..................   20®  25
Cinchonldine, P.  & W  15®  20
German 3X@  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
cent  .....................  
60
Creasotum...............   @  50
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........  @  2
“  prep.................. 
5®  5
“  precip.............. 
9®  11
“  Rubra...............   @  8
Crocus.......................  28®  30
Cudbear......................  @  24
Cupri Sulph...............   6®  7
Dextrine....................  10®  12
Ether Sulph...............   68®  70
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
po..................   @  8
Ergota, (po.)  60 .........   50®  65
Flake  White..............  12®  15
Galla ..........................  @  23
Gambler.....................   7
@  70
Gelatin,  Cooper..:__
French...........  40®  60
“ 
Glassware  flint,  70 and 10. 
bybox60and 10
Glue,  Brown...........
“  White.............
G lycerins..................
Grana Paradisi........
Humulus.................
Hydraag  Chlor  Mite 
“  Cor ..
Ox Rubrum
Ammoniati..
Unguentum.
Hydrargyrum............
Icnthyobolla, Am.
Indigo........................
Iodine,  Resubl...........
Iodoform....................
Lupulln.....................
Lycopodium..............
Macis........................
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy
drarg Iod.................
Liquor Potass Arslnitii 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl

9® 15
13® 25
17  @ 25
® 22
25® 55
@ 90
@ so
i  @1 10
@1 10
4Î® 55
@ 70
1
50
75@1 00
3 7£@3 85
@4 70
.  50® 55
50® 55
.  80® 85
@ 27
3  10® 12
1  2® 3
50® 60

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S. N.  Y.  Q. &

Morphia,  S. P. & W ...2 20@2 45 
C. Co.......................2  10@2 35
Moschus Canton........  @ 40
Myristlca, No. 1.........   70®  75
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @  10
Os.  Sepia....................  33©  38
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Picis Liq, N.  C., X gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Picis Liq., quarts......  @1 00
pints.........  @  85
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)__  @  3
Pix  Burgun...............   @  7
Plumbi A cet..............  14®  15
PulvlB Ipecac et opil. .1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
* & P. D.  Co., doz......  @1 25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  30®  35
Quassiae....................  8®  10
Quinia, S. P. & W......  33®  36
S.  German__21X®  30
Rubia  Tinctorum......  12®  14
Saccharum Lactis pv..  @ 40
Salacln.......................1  80@1  85
Sanguis  Draconis......  40®  50
Santonine  .................  @4 50
Sapo,  W.....................   12®  14
"  M.......................  10®  12
“  G.......................  @  15

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Seldlltz  Mixture........
Sinapis.......................
“  opt..................
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................
Snuff .Scotch, De. Voes 
Soda Boras, (po. 13).  . 
Soda  et Potass Tart...
Soda Carb.................
Soda,  Bi-Carb............
Soda,  Ash..................
Soda, Sulphas............
Spts. Ether C o...........
“  Myrcia  Dom......
“  Myrcia Imp........
*•  Vini  Rect.  bbl.
2 27).........................
Less 5c gal., cash ten
Strychnia Crystal......
Sulphur, Subl............
“  Roll..............
Tamarinds.................
Terebenth Venice......
Theobromae..............
Vanilla..................... 9
Zlncl  Sulph...............

@  25 
@  18 
®  30
@  35 
@  35 
12®  13 
30®  33 
IX©  2 
@  5
3X®  4 
@  2 
50®  55 
@2 25 
@3 00
®2 37 
days.
@1  10 
3  @4 
2X@ 3X 
8®   10 
28®  30 
5G@  55 
00@16 00 
7®  8

Whale, winter...........  70 
Lard,  extra...............   55 
Lard, No.  1...............   45 
Linseed, pure raw __  56 

Bbl.  Gal
70
60
50
59

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paints. 

11
62
Llndseed,  boiled__   59 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
69
strained...............   50 
Spirits Turpentine__  44(4  50
bbl.  lb.
Red  Venetian............. IX  2©3
Ochre,yellow  Mars... IX  2®4
“ 
Ber........IX  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2X  2X@3
“  strictly  pure..... 2X 2X®3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ..........................  
13@16
Vermilion,  English__ 
70@75
Green,  Peninsular......   70@75
Lead,  red....................  @7X
“  w hite................  @7X
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gilders'........  @90
1 00
White, Paris  American 
Whiting  Paris  Eng.
cliff.......................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints.....................1  00@1  20
VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach__ 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................160@1 70
Coach  Body...............2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn.......1  00@1  10
EutraTurk Damar__1  55®1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp........................   70®  76

HAZELTINE

&  PERKIN S

DRUG  CO.

Importers and Jobbers of

CHEMICALS  AND

PATENT  MEDICINES.
Varnishes.
Paints,  Oils 

DEALERS  IN

Sole Agents for the Celebrated

s m s   m u   PREPARED  PRUTS.

N   Lie of  H e  DmÉts’ Seines.

We are Sole  Proprietors of

Weatherly's  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

We Have In Stock and Offer a Full Lino of

WHISKIES, BRANDIES,

GINS,  W INES,  RU M S.

W e sell L iquors fo r Medicinal Purposes only.
W e give o a r Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guarantee Satisfaction.
All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we receive ¿hem.  Send In  a 

trial order.Jtaeltine l Perkins Dnlg Go,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

12

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

Written for T h e   Tradesman.

I took his last  advice. 

G R O C E R IE S .
The Commercial Traveler.

are going  out,  and  will  stick  on  your 
hands at any price and I can sell  all  we 
have in the  newer  sections  of  country. 
I am  talking  now  for  your  interest  as 
well  as  mine,  although  you  can  have 
those you name  if  you  insist  upon  it.” 
I  thought  it  possible  that  he  might 
have some selfish object in view,  and  so 
I  insisted  upon  having  a  few  dozens. 
He  noticed  the  incredulous  expression 
in my face and finally said:

Every man has it in  his  power  to  do 
every other man a kindness or an injury, 
be  it  ever  so  small.  Bearing  this  in 
mind, that individual who  can  and  will 
always treat everyone in an affable  man­
ner is possessed, as he commences  to  do 
business in the world, of a capital  equal 
“I’ll put  in  a  quarter  of  a  gross  of 
to a  small  fortune,  and  almost  untold
those and half a gross of the  new  style.
advantages over his  crusty  competitors.
That merchant makes a serious  mistake, I and you will sometime thank me for  the 
and  commits  an  unfortunate  blunder,  suggestion.”
I  soon  had  a 
who treats  a  commercial  traveler  with 
run on the new style  and  ordered  more 
indifference  or  worse—impertinence. 
from  the  house  by  express,  while  the 
Any merchant engaged in  business  pos­
quarter gross I had stubbornly purchased, 
sesses very little wisdom if he will, with­
heedless of his information, remained  in 
out great cause, treat the  representative 
the store so long that nearly a year after­
of any wholesale house other  than  in  a 
ward he  said:
courteous  manner.  Through  their  ac­
-  “Henry, I am going to take those hand- 
credited agent he is offering a  direct  in­
and  this  insult I kerchiefs  north  with  me,  as  I  have  a 
sult to  the  firm  itself, 
How often it  is  place for them.  Here is the money  they
will be known to them.
the case  that  the  merchant,  sometimes | cost you, and next  time,  old  boy,  have 
hardly realizing what he is  doing,  gives I more confidence in  me.”
the C. T. a curt  and  snappish  reply, in- 
sted of a friendly  reception.

If you have known a commercial agent 
sufficient to become intimately  acquaint-
I have sat  within  hearing,  have  seen  ed with him, you will find that  he  often 
the C. T. enter a store, present  his  card  is the best judge of what  will  suit  your 
and politely ask for a ten minutes’  audi-  trade.  Why?  Because  he  observes 
ence, which be  believes  will  be  to  the  what  is  wanted  by  other  dealers  all 
merchant’s advantage.  One with a  cold j around you and knows better than others 
stare looked the man over and then  said:j what is having the best sale and what  is 
“ 1 don’t want a  thing  from  your  house  not, and  he  will  pride  himself  in  not 
to-day, and.  being driven with  business,  abusing  your  confidence. 
It  will  pay, 
I cannot give you an audience.  The fact  in  the  long  run,  for  any  merchant  to 
is, there have been two others occupying  neglect, if need be,  a  little  other  busi- 
my valuable time to-day, and you fellows  ness and give time to even  half  a  dozen 
are so persistent  that  I  prefer  to  send  traveling  men  who  carry  goods  in  his 
my orders direct to the house  instead  of  line.
having 
forgotten  and  carried  As a rule, this body  of  men  are  true 
around in the pocket until your  return.”  gentlemen everywhere—on  the  cars,  in 
“I regret  that  you  should  have  that  the steamers,  in  the  counting-room,  in 
opinion o£ an  agent  of  the  firm  that  1  the dining room, in the ball room.  They 
represent,” replied  the  C.  T.  “As  for  are  sympathetic  toward  the  weak  and 
myself, I am  particular  to  see  that  an  afflicted; their  purse is ever open to  the 
order taken by me leaves  the  same  day  calls of suffering, and they are the sworn 
for my house. I had a  few  new  special-  champions of  the  rights  of  ladies  and 
ties to  show  you  to-day—that  was  all.  children the  world  over.  Their  stories 
Good morning, sir.”  And the  man  who  are fresh, rich, and racy without  vulgar- 
had  not  even  opened  his  grips  bowed  ity and told with a zest which  is  prover- 
himself out. 
bial  and  unequaled.  They  are  genial,
I  had  the  curiosity  to  know  in  this  long suffering, liberal and  obliging,  and
they can guarantee the  merchant  favors 
from the house they  represent  that  you 
can obtain  in  no  other  way.  By  your 
kindness  and  forbearance  with 
them 
they measure you, and they  will  say  to 
the  house:

case who, if anyone, would have the first 
examination  of  these  specialties  and 
found that another dry goods house  near 
purchased a full line,  which proved to be 
both quick selling and  profitable  goods.
It  is the  exception  and  not  the  rule 
when a C. T. so far  forgets  his  calling, 
or the good name of his bouse, as  to  be­
come,  in the least, insolent  to  his  cus­
tomer, even though  the  provocation  be 
great, as he regards himself  the  favored 
party. 
I have known a C.  T  to  hasten 
home  and  personally  superintend  the
The house, having confidence  in  their
of  my  goods,  without  my  agent, will, in such a case,  do  far  more 
selection 
knowledge,  and, if a few were  short,  to  for their customer than he  could  obtain
substitute a higher priced article and get  un£ er any otheKr circumstances.
_  . 
No matter who you  are,  always  have
it billed at the price agreed upon.  They | a kindly word for the C. T. 
It will  pay. 
have given me many a quite  “tip”  as  a 
special favor, resulting to  my  great  ad- 
wantage,  with no injury to  their  house, 
G r a n d   L e d g e ,  April 2, 1Q91. 
simply  because  they  appreciated  my 
treatment of them.
Gen tlem en—Yours of April 1 to hand.
1 was once about to purchase, by sample, I Sugar arrived O. K.  and  I am more than 
a gross of one kind of  handkerchiefs,  as | pleased  at  your  promptness.  All  the 
they were low in  price  and  I  had  ju8t I other dealers here ordered  from  Detroit, 
| but  nary  a  barrel  of  sugar has arrived
. 
had  a  constant  run  upon  them.  The  except mine,  and there  is  no prospect of 
agent, after enquiring if we were  alone, \ any  for  several  days. 
In the language 
of the  vulgar  tongue,  I  am  “ tickled to
said: 
.
I shall surely remember  your  house in

“It will be to your present and  future 
advantage  to  make  concessions  to  this 
man— as you will  notice  I  have  taken 
the liberty to do—as he is a close  buyer, 
fully responsible and  others  are  crowd­
ing to obtain his trade.”

“Allow  me  to  show  you  something | death*  „ ___. _____ . 

Received  his Sugar Promptly. 

Ball-B&rnh&rt-Put man Co., Grand Rapids;

Mer c h a n t.

them 

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different, at the  same  price,  which  are  the future. 
just  coming  into  fashion.  The  others I 

Yours truly, 

E. A.  T u rnbu ll.

PRODUCK  MARKET.

Apples—So meagre are the offerings, that there 
is really no market.
Beans—The  market  is  steady.  Handlers  are 
offering  $1.80  per  bu.  for  country  picked  and 
holding city picked at $2.25@$2.30.

Beets—50c per bu.
Butter— The  market  is weaker  as stocks  are 
increasing every day.  Jobbers now pay 18c and 
hold  at  20c, but  the  price is  sure  to go  lower 
soon.

25c.
$9  and  Jerseys at  $9.50.
dealers paying 12> i@13c and holding at 14c.

Cabbages—50c  per doz. or $4 per 100.
Carrots—20@25c per bu.
Celery—20@25c per doz.
Cooperage—Pork barrels.tl.25:  produce barrels 
Cranberries—Bell  and  Cherry  are  held  at 
Eggs—The  market  is  weak  and  uncertain, 
Honey—Dull at 16@18 for clean comb.
Lettuce—13c for Grand Rapids Forcing
Onions—Scarce  and  firm.  Dealers  pay  $1.40 
for all offerings of choice, holding at $1.05.
Potatoes—The  market  continues  strong  and 
high, handlers paying $1 at most of the principal 
buying points throughout  the  State,  the  strong 
competition  at  Greenville  having  forced  the 
price there up to $1.05.
Squash—134c per lb.
Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Jerseys are in good 
Turnips—30@35c per bu

demand readily commanding $3.75 per bu.

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

Mess,  new.........................................................   13 001
Short c u t...........................................................  12 50
Extra clear pig, short cut.......... ...................  14 50
Extra clear,  heavy..........................................
Clear, fat back.................................................  14 00
Boston clear, short cut....................................  M25
Clear back, short cut............................................  14 00
Standard clear, short cut, best.....................  
14 50

sausage—Fresh and Smoked.

Pork Sausage..........................................................7
Ham Sausage................. .....................................   9
Tongue Sausage.................................................   9
Frankfort  Sausage 
Blood Sausage......................................................  5
Bologna, straight................................................   5
Bologna,  th ick .....................................................5
Head Cheese.........................................................   5

.............................................7*4

lard—Kettle Rendered.

lard. 

Tierces.................................................' .............. 7V4
Tubs......................................................................   7v
501b.  Tins.............................................................  7jf
Corn-
pound.
6
634
7
714
634
63,
6J4

Tierces...........................................63$ 
0 and 50 lb. Tubs........................GV4 
3 lb. Pails, 20 in a  case............... 714 
5 lb. Pails, 12 in a case.................714 
10lb. Pails, 6 in a case...........7 
20 lb. Pails, 4 in a case................63£ 
501b. Cans...................................... 6 
BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

Family. 

>4 

Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs...............................7 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.........................   7 50
Boneless, rump butts.............................................. 11 00

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Hams, average 20 lbs.........................................  9

“ 
“ 

16 lbs..........................................   934
12 to 14 lbs....................................914
picnic..........................................................634
best boneless............................................  834

Shoulders.............................................................   6
Breakfast Bacon, boneless................................  8
Dried beef, ham prices.......................................  934
Long Clears, heavy................................................634
Briskets,  medium...............................................   £34
634

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

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FISH and  OYSTERS.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 

fr e sh  f ish .

Whitefish..............................................
Trout...........  .......................................
Halibut.................................................
Ciscoes................................................. .
Flounders......... ..................................
Blupfisli................................................
Mackerel..............................................
Cod......................................................
California salmon................................

o tsters—Cans.

Falrhaven  Counts...............................
F. J. D. Selects.....................................
Selects  ........................ ........................
F. J. D..................................................
Anchors................................................

SHELL  GOODS.

@10 
@ 9 
@18 
@ 5 
@ 9 
@12 
@25 
@12 
@20

@38
@30
@25
@25
@23

Oysters, per  100.....................................1  25@1  50
Clams,
75@1  00

BULK  GOODS.

FRESH  MEATS.

“ 

734

Swift and Company quote as follows:
Beef, carcass.......................................... 
“  hindquarters...............................   @  S
fore 
“ 
...............................  @5
loins, No. 3...................................  @12
“ 
ribs..............................................  @10
“ 
“ 
rounds..........................................  @
“ 
tongues................... 

@1034
Bologna.-...............................................  @ 5
@  9 
Pork loins.
“  shoulders..............
@   6  @ 5 
Sausage, blood  or head.
liver................
@   6  @ 734 
Frankfort........
Mutton..........................
@ 8*  
Veal...............................

634® 7

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CANDIES, FRUITS and  NUTS.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK  CANDT.
Full  Weight.

Standard,  per  lb...............................  634 
“  H.H.....................................   634 
Twist  .................................. 634 
“ 
Boston  Cream  .................................. 
734 
Cut  Loaf................................. 
Extra H. H........................................   734 
MIXED  CANDT.
Full Weight.

 

Bbls.  Palis.
734
734
734
934
834
834

Bbls. 
Pails.
Standard...................................... 634 
734
Leader............   ........................’. .634 
7 34
Special......................................... 7 
8
Royal............................................ 7 
8
Nobby.......................................... 734 
834
Broken.........................................734 
834
English  Rock..............................734 
834
Conserves....................................7 
8
Broken Taffy............................... 734 
834
Peanut Squares.............................  
9
10
Extra............................................. 
French Creams.................................................1034
Valley  Creams.................... 
1334

 

fancy—In bulk.
Full Weight.

“ 

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Bbls.  Palls.
Lozenges, plain................................ 1034 
1134
1234
printed.............................11 
Chocolate Drops................................  
1234
14
Chocolate Monumentals................... 
Gum. Drops........................................   5 
634
Moss Drops...  .................................. 8
»34
Sour Drops........................................   834 
Imperials.......................................... 1034 
H34
Per Box
Lemon Drops.................................................. ®
Sour Drops..................................................... 55
Peppermint Drops...........................................65
Chocolate Drops..............................................70
H. M. Chocolate Drops....................................90
Gum Drops................................................ 40@50
Licorice Drops..............................................1  00
A. B. Licorice  Drops......................................80
Lozenges, plain................................................65
printed............................................70
Imperials.........................................................65
Mottoes..........................................................75
Cream Bar.......................................................60
Molasses Bar...................., ..........................-.55
Caramels................................................... 15@17
Hand Made  Creams.................................. F5@95
Plain Creams............................................. 80@90
Decorated Creams....................................... 1  00
String  Rock.................................................-.70
Burnt Almonds............................................1  00
Wintergreen  Berries..................................... 65
California, 128............................................. 
150............................................. 
176-2  0-226..............................  

ORANGES.

“ 
“ 

“ 

Messinas, 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
LEMONS.

300-240........
200..............

Messina, choice, 360 ................................... 
fancy, 360................................... 
choice 300...................................  
fancy 390.................................... 

“ 
“ 
“ 

OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

NUTS.

50-lb. “ 

Figs, Smyrna,  new,  fancy  layers........  18@20
“ choice 
“ 
........  @16
.........  @1234
“ 
“ 
“ 
box.............................   @10
“ 
.........................  @8
Persian,50-lb.  box......................4  @6

“ 
“ 
•«  Fard, 10-lb. 
“ 
“ 
Almonds, Tarragona.............................   @1734
Ivaca......................................   @17
California.............................   @1734
Brazils, new..........................................  @ 834
Filberts..................................................  @11
Walnuts, Grenoble................................   @15

Marbot....................................   @12
Chili......................................-  @

Table Nuts, No. 1..................................  @15
No. 2..................................   @1334
PecanB, Texas, H. P ............  ................  15@17
Cocoannts, full sacks............................  @4 00
Fancy, H.  P., Suns................................   @ 534
@ 734 
@ 534 
..........................
Fancy, H.  P., FlagB 
“  Roasted  .........  ......
@ 734 @ 434 
Choice, H. P., Extras............................
“  Roasted.................

PEANUTS.
Roasted

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

@  634

“ 

OIL'S.

3 00
3 50
3 50

4 25
5 25
4 50
5 00

Standards,  per gal. 
Selects, 
Scrimps, 
Clams, 
Scallops, 

“
“
“
“

The Standard Oil  Co. quotes as follows

Water White..........................................
Michigan test........................................
@1  25 
Naptha  .................................................
@1  75 
Gasoline.................................................
1  60 
Cylinder................................................27
1  50
1  en 1 Engine  ................................................. 13
Black, 15 Cold  Test...............................

@ 9 @ 834 @ 734 
@ 934 @36 
@21 @ 934

C U R T I S S   &  C O .,

Paper  W a r e h o u s e .

WHOLESALE

FLOUR  SACKS,  GROCERY  BAGS,  TWINE  AND  WOODEN  WARE.

Houseman  Block, 

- 

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

APPLE  BUTTER.

Chicago goods..  ............ 7H®8

AXLE GREASE.
Frazer’s.

“ 
“ 

Wood boxes, per  doz...... 

80
3 doz. case...  2 40
“ 
per gross....... i  00
“ 
25 lb. pails,.........................  l  00
75
15 lb.  14 
 
Aurora.
Wood boxes,  per  doz........ 
60
3 doz. case...  1  75
per  gross___  6 00

“ 
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“ 
“ 

 

Diamond.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Peerless.

Wood boxes,  per doz  ......  

BAKINS  POWDER.
*4 lb.  “  2 
lib .  “  1 

50
3 doz. case...  1  50
per  gross___5  50
251b. pails........................  90
Acme, % lb. cans, 3 doz  ...  45
“  ....  85
“  .... 1  10
io
Telfer’s,  % lb. cans, doz..  45
“  ..  85
“  .. 1  50
Arctic, K lb can s..............  60
 
...............2  00
 
40
Red Star, M 1b cans........... 
............ 
80
............  1 50

bulk................  
*4 lb.  “ 
1 lb.  “ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

*4 B>  “ 
1 »   “ 
5  lb  “ 

*4 B>  “ 
lib   “ 
BATH BRICK.

 
 

“ 
•  “ 
BROOKS.
 

2 dozen in case.

English...............................  90
Bristol..................................   70
Domestic.............................   60
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals.................... 4 00

bluing. 

 

 

“ 

8oz 

“ 
“  pints, round............ 10 50
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2  75
“  No. 3, 
... 4  00
“  No. 5, 
... 8  00
“  1 oz ball  ..................  4 50

 

 

No. 2 Hurl...............................  1 75
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet..............................2 25
No. 1 
“ 
Parlor Gem............................... 2 75
Common Whisk................. 
90
Fancy 
.................   1  20
M ill....................................  3 25
Warehouse...........................2 75
BUCKWHEAT  FLOUR.
Rising Sun...............................5 00
York State..........................
Self R ising......................... 4 50

“ 

BUTTE BINE.
Creamery.

Dairy,

Solid packed....................   13*8
Rolls..................................   14
Solid packed......................  11
Rolls.................................  1154
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes..............  1054
Star,  40 
10J4
Paraffine..............................12
Wlcking.............................   25

CANDLES
“ 
 

 

“ 

CANNED  GOODS.

“ 

Little Neck,  li b .......................1 10

FISH.
Clams.
2  lb................ 1  90

Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

Standard, 3 lb...........................2 30
Standard,  1 lb..........................1 15

21b...................2 20
Lobsters.

“ 

Star,  1  lb.................................2 50
“  2  lb.................................3 50
Picnic, 1 lb............................... 2 00
“ 

21b  ......................... 3 00

Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb...........................1 20
2  lb.....................2 00
Mustard,  31b......................3 00
Tomato Sauce,  31b................. 3 00
Soused, 3 lb..............................3 00
Columbia River, flat........... 1  85
tails........... 1 60
Alaska, 1  lb.........................1  35

Salmon.
“ 

21b..............................2 10

“ 
“ 

Sardines.
American  *4s...................   5@ 6
}4s............ '.  ..  7@ 8
Imported  Ms.....................11@12
Ms.....................13@14
Mustard  %s......................  @  9
Brook, 3 lb..........................2 50

“ 
“ 

Trout.
FRUITS.
Apples.
Apricots.

Gages.

Cherries.

York State, gallons__ 
4  00
Santa  Cruz................. 
2 25
2 50
Lusk’s......................... 
2 35
Overland................... 
Blackberries.
F. &  W....................... 
1  10
Red.............................  
1  20
Pitted Hamburg.........  
140
1  60
W hite......................... 
1  30
E rje............................ 
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
E rie............................  @1  60
Gooseberries.
Common.................... 
1  10
P ie.............................1  60@1  75
Maxwell.................... 
2 25
Shepard’s ................... 
2 2>
California..................2 60@2 75
Domestic...,.............. 
1  25
Riverside.................... 
2 25
Pineapples.
1  30
Common........ ............  
Johnson’s  sliced........ 
2 40
grated........ 
2 65
Quinces.
1  10
Common.................... 

Peaches.

Pears.

“ 

Whortleberries.

1  30 
1  40
1  40
1  <
2  00 
1  50
1  40 
1  25 
1  30

Raspberries.
Red..............  .............
Black  Hamburg.........
Erie,  black.................
Strawberries.
Lawrence..................
Hamburg....................
Erie............................
Common.................
F. &. W.......................
Blueberries...............
Corned  beef,  Libby’s.
10
Roast beef,  Armour’s ..........1  75
Potted  ham, *4 lb ................ 1  10
“  M lb...................  65
tongue, *4 l b ......  ..110
....  65
chicken, M lb .......   95

“ 
VEGETABLES.

it lb  .. 

MEATS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

Peas.

Corn.

2 00
2 50

Tomatoes.

1  10 
1  30 
1  35 
1  80
@18

soaked....................  90

Squash.
Succotash.

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.

Beans.
String.....................................  85
Stringless 
...........................  90
Lima, green...........................1  30
Lewis Boston Baked............1  35
Bay State  Baked...................1 35
World’s  Fair.........................1  35
1 20
Tiger.......................................1 00
9 60
Purity.....................................l  io
Erie..................................
.1  15
Soaked .............................
Harris  standard.............
Van Camp’s Marrofat 
Early June.. 
Archer’s  Early Blossom
French............................
French ............................
7 00
Erie..................................
Hamburg  .......................
nubbard.........................
.1  30
Soaked...................................   85
Honey  Dew................................. 1 60
Hamburg................................
Van  Camp’s .................................1 10
No. Collins...................................1 10
Hamburg.................... 1  20@1  30
Hancock......................................1 05
Gallon.........................................2 75
CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.
German Sweet....................... 
22
Premium............................. 
34
38
Pure..................................... 
Breakfast  Cocoa............... 
40
Bulk........................................  4*4
Red —   .................................  7
Fancy Full  Cream__ 11  @12
Good 
....io   ©10*4
Part Skimmed.............  8  @ 9
Sap Sago.........................   @22
Edam  ..........................  @1  00
Swiss, imported........   24@  25
domestic  __   15©  16
Limburger...............................  15
CHEWING GUM.
Rubber, 100 lumps................35
200  “ 
.................40
Spruce, 200 pieces................ 40
Snider's, *4 pint....................1  35
pint.........................2 30
quart.....................3 50
CLOTHES FINS.
COCOA  SHELLS.

5 gross boxes  ....................... 40
Bulk...............................   @4
Pound  packages....................... @7

CHICORY.

CHEESE.

“ 
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“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

COFFEE.

GREEN.
RlO.

...................... ‘.....23
Santos.

Fair........................................ 20 J4
Good.......................................21
Prime.....................................21*4
Golden...................................22*4
Peaberry 
Fair........................................20 J4
Good.................... ..................21
Prime.....................................2154
Peaberry  .............................. 22*4
Mexican and Guatamala.
Fair........................................22
Good.......................................23
Fancy.....................................25
Prime.....................................22*4
M illed...................................24
Interior.................................25
Private Growth....................26
Mandehling.........................29
Imitation..............................25
Arabian.................................2

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java. ‘

ROASTED.

.........25

EXTRACT.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Me. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.
PACKAGE.
M cLaughlin’s  XXX X __i£>%
Lion  ........................ 
“  In cabinets  ..................26*4
Durham..................................25*4
Valley City........................... 
75
F elix.....................................  1  15
Hummel’s, foil......................  1  50
t in ......................  2 50
Cotton,  40 ft..........per doz.  1  25
140
1  60
175
190
90
100

CLOTHES  LINES.
“ 
50 ft........... 
“ 
60 ft........... 
70 ft........... 
“ 
“• 
80 ft........... 
60 ft........... 
“ 
72 ft-......... 
“ 
CONDENSED MILK.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
Jute 
“ 

Eagle....................................   7 40
Crown.....................................6 50

“ 

 

 
 
 

Genuine  Swiss................... 8 CO
American Swiss..................700

COUPONS.
“Superior.”
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

$  1, per hundred...............  2 50 I
3 00
# 2, 
4 00
S 5. 
*10, 
5 00
#30, 
6 00

 
“ 
 
“ 
“ 
 
 
“ 
“Tradesman.”
#  1, per hundred...............   2 00 I
“ 
8 2, 
2 50
3 00 |
“ 
8 5, 
“ 
#10, 
4 00
#20, 
“ 
5 00
Subject to  the  following  dis­
counts:
200 or over...............5 per cent.
500  “ 
1000  “ 

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Kenosha Butter..................   754
Seymour 
554
Butter....................................5*4
“  family...........................514
“  biscuit.........................614
Boston....................................714
City Soda..................................7 >4
Soda.......................................6
S. Oyster............................... 514
City Oyster. XXX.................  514
Strictly  pure......................  30
Telfer’s  Absolute..............  35
Grocers’......................  ..  10@15

CREAM TARTAR.

 
10 
............ 20 
CRACKERS.
“ 

 

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Apples.

PEEL.

PRUNES.

California Evaporated.

Sundried....................   @1114
Evaporated...............14  @1414
Apricots...................... 
19
Blackberries..............  
10
18
Nectarines.................  
Peaches'....................  
20
Pears,  sliced.............. 
17
Plums......................... 
19
Prunes, sweet............  
13
Turkey.......................  @  9
Bosnia........................   @10
French  ....................   @11
Lemon..................... 
18
Orange.......................  
18
CITRON.
In drum......................  @18
In boxes__:...............  @20
Zante, in  barrels........  @ 534
in  14-bbls........  @ 51i
in less quantity  @ 514 
r aisin s —California.

Bags.......................... 7
2 10
London Layers, 2 cr’n 
2 20
3  “ 
2 35
fancy. 
1 60
Muscatels,2crown  ... 
1  75
.... 
Valencias................... 
7$£
Ondaras......................  8  @ 814
Sultanas..................... 16  @17

3  “ 
Foreign.

CURRANTS.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

Farina.
Hominy.

4

6
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
60

103 lb. kegs................... 
Barrels.................................3 75
G rits..................................
Lima  Beans.
Dried............................ 
Domestic, 12 lb. box__ 
Imported...........................  
Pearl Barley.
Kegs.............................. 3M@3X
Green,'bbl..........................1  10
Split...................................... 5 50
German.............................  
5
East India..........................  
5
Cracked..............................  
5

Wheat.

Sago.

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

“ 

Cod.

Halibut.
Herring.

Yarmouth..........................
Whole............................6  @614
Bricks............................7  @8
Strips.............................8  @9
Smoked...................... 
10
Scaled...............................  
Holland,  bbls............  
kegs................... 
Round shore, 14 bbl... 
“ 
J4  bbl.. 
Mackerel.

11 00
2 75
1  50
No. 1, 14 bbls. 90 lbs...........12 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs...............   1  25
Family, 14 bbls., 90 lbs......
kits, 10 lbs...........

“ 
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Whitefish.

Pollock.
Sardines.
Trout.

“ 
FLAVORING extracts. 

Fancy.......................   3 50@4 00
Russian, kegs...... : ...........
No. 1, *4 bbls., 90 lbs...........5 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................  80
No. 1, 54 bbls., 90 lbs...........7 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs................  80
Family, 54 bbls., 90 lbs........3 00
kits. 10  lbs.............  50
Jennings' D C.
Lemon. Vanilla 
1  25
2 oz foldfyg box...  75 
1  50. 
. .1   00 
3 oz
2 00 
...1  50 
4 oz 
.. .2 00 
3 00 
6 oz 
...3 00 
4 10
3 oz
GUN  POWDER.
Kegs...................................5 50
Half  kegs...........................3 00
Sage.....................................15
Hops....................................25

HERBS.

JELLIES.

 

 

LICORICE.

LAMP WICKS.

Chicago  goods............ 4*4@5
No.  ... 
30
No. 1...................................   40
No. 2...................................  50
Pure.....................................  30
Calabria...............................  25
Sicily...................................   18
Condensed, 2 doz............... 1 25
No. 9  sulphur..................... 2 00
Anchor  parlor.....................1 70
No. 2 home..........................1  10
Export  parlor..................... 4 25

MATCHES.

LYE.

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

Sugar house....................  
Ordinary.......................... 
Prim e............................... 
Fancy............................... 
F a ir.................................  
Good................................. 
Extra good.......................  
Choice.............................  
Fancy................................ 
One-half barrels, 3c extra

New Orleans.

16
19
19
23
17
26
26
30
36

OATMEAL.

Barrels  200.................  @7  fo
Half barrels  100.................... @3 02
Half  bbls 90..............  @3 62
Barrels  180.................  @7 <X)

ROLLED OATS.

PICKLES.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count......... $7 50
Half  barrels, 600 count__  4 25
Barrels, 2.400 count  .........  9 00
Half barrels, 1,209 count...  5 00 

Small.

PIPES.

Clay, No.  216............................ 1 75
“  T. D. full count...........  75
Cob, No. 3............................ 125

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................... 7
“  No. 1........................6
“  No. 2...............   @5

Imported.

Broken...............................
Japan, No. 1..........................6Vs
“  No. 2...........................5*4
Java....................................
Patna..................................

SAUERKRAUT.

Barrels......................................4 00
Half barrels..............................2 50
Kitchen,3 doz. inbox........2 50
Hand 
2 50
Snider’s  Tomato......................2 40

SAPOLIO.
“ 
SOUPS.

3  “ 

 

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
-‘ 
”• 
“ 

Allspice...............................
Cassia, China in mats........
Batavia in bund__
Saigon in rolls........
Cloves,  Amboyna...............
Zanzibar.................
Mace  Batavia.....................
NutinSKBi fancy.............
“  No.  1......................
“  No.  2......................
11
Pepper, Singapore, black —  
“ 
white...  .
shot.......................
“ 
Pure Ground In Bulk.
Allspice...............................
Cassia,  Batavia..................
and  Saigon.
Saigon..................
Cloves,  Amboyna...............
Zanzibar...............
Ginger, African..................
Cochin..................
Jam aica...............
Mace  Batavia......................
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste..
Trieste..................
Nutmegs, No. 2 ..................
Pepper, Singapore, black__
“ 
“  white......
“  Cayenne.................
Sage.....................................
“Absolute” in Packages, 
24
Ms
Allspice......................  84
80
Cinnamon...................  84
Cloves.........................  84
Ginger, Jam ...............   84
“  Af...................  84
Mustard......................  84
Pepper.......................   84
Sage.............................  84

“ 

75
20
30
25
20
’  Ms 
1  55 
1  55 
1  55 
1  55 
1  55 
1  55 
1  55

SUGAR.

Cut  Loaf....................  @  5M
Cubes.........................  @ 534
Powdered..................   @ 5M
Granulated.................  41 @4.94
Confectioners’ A........4J4@4.69
White Extra  C.........  @4%
Extra  C......................  @434
C ................................   @ 31
Yellow.......................  @
Less than 100 lbs.  34c advance 
Tea, 2-lb,  tin  scoop........ # 6 50
.........   7 25
“  5-lb,  tin  scoop.........   8 75
..........  8 75
“ 
Grocers’, 11-lb,  tin  scoop.  11  00 
brass  “  ..  12 25
“  ..  13 25
brass  “  ..  14 75

scales—Perfection.
“  brass  “ 
.brass  “ 
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22-0),  tin 
STARCH.
Corn.

20-lb  boxes.........................   6*4
40-lb 
.......................... 634

" 

TETE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

 

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SOAP.

SODA.

SEEDS.

SNUFF.

Gloss.
1-lb packages  .....................   6
.......................6
3-lb 
6-lb 
 
6*4
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  4%
Barrels.:............................... 434
Scotch, in  bladders............37
Maccaboy, in jars...............35
French Rappee, In Jars......43
Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

SAL  SODA.

Old Country, 80...................3 30
Uno, 100...............................3 50
Bouncer, 100........................3 00
Boxes................................. 534
Kegs, English.....................43k
Kegs.................................  
13k
Granulated,  boxes.............   2
Mixed bird.................4*4@ 6
Caraway..............................   9
Canary................................  3*4
Hemp...................................4*4
Anise................................... 13
Rape...................................  6
Mustard........................ 
7*4
Common Fine per bbl......   @95
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks......  27
28 pocket.............................1  75
60 
“ 
............................. 2 00
............................. 2 15
100  “ 
Ashton bu. bags.................  75
 
Higgins  “ 
75
Warsaw “ 
35
 
.................  20
Diamond  Crystal,  cases__1  50
28-lb sacks  25
50
56-lb 
60  pocket.2  25
28 
.2  10
barrels..  .1  75
Church’s, Arm & Hammer.. .5*4
Dwight’sCow.  .....................5*4
Taylor’s...............................534
DeLand’sCap  Sheaf...........5*4
pure.......................5*4
Golden Harvest...................5

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SALERATUS.

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SALT

“ 

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SYRUPS.
Corn.

«30

Pure Cane.

Barrels................................30
Half bbls.............................32
Amber.......................23
Fancy drips...............28
SWEET GOODS.
Ginger Snaps..............
Sugar Creams............
Frosted  Creams.........
Graham Crackers......
Oatmeal  Crackers__
SHOE  POLISH.
Jettine, 1 doz. In  box...
TEAS.  . 
japan—Regular.
F air............................
@17
Good..........................
Choice..........................24  @26
Choicest.......................32  @34
D ust............................ 10  @12
SUN CURED.
F a ir..........................
@17
Good.........................
@20
Choice..........................24  @26
Choicest.......................32  @34
Dust.............................10  @12
F air.............................18  @20
@25
Choice........................
@35
Choicest.....................
Extra choice, wire leaf
@40
GUNPOWDER.
Common to  fair...........25  @35
Extra fine to finest— 50  @65
Choicest fancy............ 75  @85
Common to fair...........23  @26
Superior to  fine...........28  @30
Fine to choicest...........45  @55
Common to  fair...........23  @26
Superior to fine............30  @35
Common to fair...........18  @26
Superior to  fine...........30  @40
F air............................. 18  @22
Choice..........................24  @28
Best.............................40  @50

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

BASKET  FIRED.

YOUNG  HYSON.

IMPERIAL.

OOLONG.

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

“ 

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PAPER.

TWINES.

VINEGAR.

5'K ast—Compressed.

 
WOODENWARE.

“ 
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“ willow Cl’ths, No.l  5 
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1 3
| Rob  Roy..............................25
Uncle  Sam............ 
28
Tom and Jerrp...................25
Brier Pipe............................ 30
Yum Yum...........................32
Red Clover...........................30
Navy....................................3a
Handmade...........................40
F rog....................................33
40 gr.....................................  7*4
50 gr.......................................8*4
Tin foil cakes, per doz........... 15
Baker’s, per  lb....................... 30
PA PER A WOODEN WARE
Curtiss  &  Co.  quote  as  fol­
lows:
Straw 
................................. i 3£
Rockfalls..............................2
Rag sugar..............................2*4
Hardware .............................2*t
Bakers.................................. 2*4
Dry  Goods...................5*4@6
Jute  Manilla................6*4@8
Red  Express 
No. 1.5
No. 2...............4
48 Cotton..............................25
Cotton, No. 1................... ...22
“  2........................18
Sea  Island, assorted........... 40
No. 5 Hemp......................... 18
No. 6  “ ................................. 17
Wool............... 
7
Tubs, No. 1.........................  7 00
“  No. 2...........................6 00
“  No. 3...........................5  00
1 50
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop....  1  75
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes__ 
50
Bowls, 11 Inch....................  1  00
13  “ 
....................   1  25
......................2 00
15  “ 
17  “  ......................2 75
assorted, 17s and  19s 2 50 
“  15s, 17s and 19s 2 75
Baskets, market.................   35
bushel.................  1  50
75
“  No.2 6 25
“  No.3 7 25
“  No.l  3 50
“  No.2 4 25
“  No.3 5 00
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS
W hite......................... 
1  00
Red............................  
1  00
All wheat bought  on 60 lb. test.
Bolted...................................   1 70
Granulated.......................  1  80
Straight, In sacks............   5 40
“ barrels...........  5  60
“ 
Patent 
“ sacks.............  6 40
“ barrels...........  6 60
“ 
Graham  “  sacks...........  2 50
“ 
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Rye 
...........  2 25
MILLSTUFFS.
Bran....................  
Si  00
Screenings.......................  18  to
Middlings.........................  22 00
Mixed  Feed...........................  28 50
Coarse meal......................  28  50
Milling................................  80
F eed ...................................   60
Brewers, per  100  lbs................ 1 25
Feed, per  bu.
Small  lots 
Car
Small  lots.
Car
No. 1..................................  11  00
No. 2.................................  10 00
HIDES, PELTS  and  FURS.
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol 
lows, nominal:
Green...........................4
Part Cured.
Full 
Dry...............................6
Kips, g reen................. 4
“  cured...... ............5
Calfskins,  green..........5
cured........  6
Deacon skins.............. 10

u u ................ .
1......................... . . .   76

5
@ 5 @ 6 
@   7 5_  6 
@ 6 > 8 
©30

. . .   74*4
........60
........58

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BARLEY.

splint 

WHEAT.

FLOUR.

HIDES.

MEAL.

CORN.

OATS.

HAY.

BYE.

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FURS.

WOOL.

Plug.

No. 2 hides M off.
PELTS.

Pails unless otherwise noted
Hiawatha
Sweet  Cuba......
McGinty...........
*4 bbls.
Little  Darling..
1791............
1891, *4  bbls. 
Shearlings................... 10  _
@25
Valley  City. 
Estimated wool, per lb 20  @28
Dandy Jim..
Washed............................20@30
Searhead.
Unwashed..    ................10@22
Joker...........
Outside prices are for No. 1 only
Zero..............
Badger.................... #0 20@#1  00
L. & W.........
Here  It Is__
Bear......  
.............   5 00@30 00
Old Style......
Beaver....................  2 00@ 8 CO
Old  Honesty.
Cat,  house.............. 
05@  25
Jolly Tar......
Cat, wild................. 
10(8  50
Hiawatha__
Coon.......................  25@  80
Valley City..............
! Fisher.................... 4 00@ 6 00
Jas. G. Butler  &  Co.’s  Brands. 1  Fox,  cross.............. 2 00@ 5 00
Something Good...... ............ 37 Fox,  red  ............... 1  00® 1  50
Peach  Pie  ............... ............ 34 i Fox,  gray...............
40@ 78
“Tobacco” ............... ............ 35 Lynx....................... 2 00© 3 00
Smoking. 
1 Martin, pale and yel 
40@  1  00
low ......................
Boss..........................
1 
! Martin, dark........... 1  50@ 3 00
Colonel’s Choice....... ......... 13
25©  1  00
j  Mink.......................
Warpath................... ......... 14
Banner.................... ......... 14 Muskrat..................
20
07
King Bee.................. ......... 20
05
Opossum.................
15
I Otter....................... 3 00  10 00
Kiln Dried............... ...... -..17
Skunk....................
Nigger Dead............ .......23
10
1  10
Honey  Dew.............. ......... 24
IWolf  ...................... 1  00
3 00
Gold  Block..............
..........28
Beaver castors, per 
5 00
lb ......................... 2 00
j 
..........24
Peerless............

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THE  MICHIG-AJST  TRADESMAN-

W H O   I S   S H Y ?

We D esire to call  your attention  briefly  to  our  assortment  of merchandise  now 
ready for Spring Trade.  Pull  shelves and  counters are the  best  advertisements  so  we  say» 
do not be shy in ordering our staple goods.

We  ore  thoroughly equipped  for  business.  Never  at  this  season  has  our 

stock been so heavy, our sales so large or our shipments so prompt.  We are ready for you.

We  earnestly  desire a call  from  you  when  in the  city, confident that  our 
lines will meet with your approval.  Individually and collectively they are  superior to any we 
have ever shown.

*The  N ew   Glass shown  on this page  is  the  latest, brightest  and  most  stylish 
shape  on  the  market.  The  ware  is a n arvel of brilliancy and  comes  from  the best  manu­
facturer in the  world.  The price, as  you  see, is  low;  actually no higher than common  glass-
We  are  pleased with  the  patronage  so  generously given  us  in  the  past  and 

hope to merit its continuance by fair and square dealing in the future.

No. 360.  Tankard  Pitchers.

1-Half  gallon, open stock, per doz., $4.00 
Same by the barrel, one doz. 
3.75

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No. 300.  Table  Glass Set as shown, open stock, per set, 50c. 

Per barrel of 1 doz.

No.  360.  Brilliant Ice Jug. 

»■'{-Hint, per doz. 
4-pint, per doz. 

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$5.50
6.50

No. 360.  High  Foot Shallow Fruit Bowl. 

9-inch, per doz., $4.25 
lO-inch, 
6,00

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No. 360.  Batter Dish and Cover.

L a r g e   a n d  e l e g a n t , p e r   d o z ., 

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$ 2 .0 0

No. 360.  8-inch oval per doz., $1.25 
9-inch oval  per doz .  1.50

7 in. Comport, per doz.
8 in. 

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$2.25
2.75

8- 
9- lnch 

inch  Berry Dish, per doz.

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$1.75
2 .2 5

No. 360.  Comport. 

4-inch, per doz. 
4 yt Inch, per doz. 

40
45

THE  MICHIGAN  TEADE8MAN.

Mr.  Heydlauff  vs.  Mr.  Eckhardt.
Ionia,  Mich.,  April  1.— Herewith  I 
forward you rambling reply to  the state­
ments  of  Mr.  W.  W.  Johnson  in  his 
communication of March 24.
1  also  send  you  another  of  my state­
ments for 1882,  before  I  used  a  binder. 
This,  like  the  first  statement,  was  not 
intended for the press,  but  made simply 
to  show  croakers  here  at  home  that  1 
was  not  losing  money  on  dollar wheat, 
as  most  of  them  claimed.  Some things 
are  higher  than  they  really  cost,  while 
others  may  be  low,  yet  the  average 
would  not  materially  change  results. 
My first statement was  gotten  up  in  the 
same manner.  All 1 would be willing to 
add to that is the matter of taxes.

Yours truly,

L.  H.  H e y d l a u f f.

REPLY  TO  MR.  JOHNSON.

Now  about  those  two  statements. 

I  raise  wheat  after  corn  and,  when 1 
take  a  crop  of  corn  off  my  land,  there 
are no unpaid bills against that field that 
the next crop is expected to  pay.  When 
I raise corn, I keep it clean, and by clean 
I  mean  all  that  word  implies. 
I can’t 
afford  to  raise  corn  and  weeds  in  the 
same  field.  When  my  corn  is  in  the 
cribs,  I  have  a  clear,  clean  field  for 
wheat,  which  ueeds  but one harrowing, 
and then 1 follow  with  the  drill and the 
job is done until harvest.
As  for  wages,  I  neither  get  nor  pay 
$3.50  per  day  for  man  and  team,  not 
even in harvest time.  About the average 
per  acre,  I  am  one  of  those  who  raise 
more  than  the  average  as  given  by the 
Secretary of State.  You know some one 
has  to  do  that. 
In  the  last  ten years I 
have  not  fallen  below  twenty  bushels 
per acre, except one year  when  my  crop 
was  an  entire  failure.  Several  years  1 
raised  over  forty  bushels  per acre after 
corn.  At  no  time  have  1  ever  worked 
any  ground  more  than  once  after  the 
corn was cut and before  using  the  drill. 
Last  fall  I  did  not  do  that  much. 
I 
drove  on  with  the  drill  as  soon  as  the 
corn was cut.
I 
see that Mr. Eckhardt calls  his  laud  $60 
per acre, same as 1 did. 
Is  it  worth  it ? 
Mine  is  not. 
If  I  wanted  to  sell  it to­
day,  it  would  not  bring  more  than  $40 
per  acre,  judging  by  the  average  pulse 
of  the  farmers  in  such  matters  and  by 
the  way  land  has  sold  here 
lately. 
Neither could  1  get  $4.20  per  acre  rent 
for  my  land  if  I  wanted  to  rent  it. 
Again, I repeat, is it worth it ?
I see Mr.  Eckhardt  sowed  two bushels 
per acre.  What for ?  I called mine two 
pecks  over  one  and  a  half  bushels  per 
acre  while  I  actually  sowed  but  five 
(There are good farmers 
pecks per acre. 
I  ealled  my 
here  who  sow  but  four). 
wheat 80  cents  per  bushel. 
It  is worth 
no  more  to  sow  than  to  sell. 
I  called 
the fitting and drilling two days  at $2.50 
per  day. 
It  did  not  take  me that long. 
Mr.  Eckhardt  calls  his  the  same,  but I 
don’t  see  how  he could fit a field of nine 
acres  and  drill  it  in  two  days and start 
on the f  urrow.
In  harvest,  I  paid  $1  per day, all the 
man asked, and 1  worked  with  him  and 
called  my  wages  the same.  The binder 
cost  me  nothing.  The  threshing  was 
done in one hour  and  forty  minutes and 
1 paid  nine  men  25  cents  each for their 
work and 3 cents per  bushel  for  thresh­
ing. 
I  called  the  marketing $8 and Mr. 
Eckhardt figured it the same.  1 am four 
miles  from  a  good  market  and can hire 
my  wheat  taken  there  for  2  cents  per 
bushel  and  can  deliver  180 bushels my­
self  in  one  day,  so that item is high. 
I 
fertilize  with  clover  and  know  that  it 
does not cost me $2 per acre a  year.  My 
wheat did not cost me a  cent  more  than 
my  statement  calls  for.  When  I  made 
it, I did  not  think  it  would ever appear 
in  type  or  I  would have done different. 
1  made  it  to  show  that  we  could  raise 
wheat for less than  $1  per  bushel  if  we 
do it right.
“ Mr.  Eckhardt also says that with  the 
above expenditures  and  the  best of skill 
and  energy  on  the  part  of  the  farmer, 
the  average  crop  will  fall  considerably 
short  of  20  bushels  per  acre.”  Does 
Mr.  Eckhardt  mean  on  the  same  land 
and  the  same  man ?  If  so,  I  don’t  be­
lieve  it.  When,  “ by  the  best skill and 
energy”  on  my  part,  I  fail  to  raise

------

THE  STATEMENT  OF  1882.

twenty  bushels  of  wheat  per  acre,  1 
shall  quit  and  do  something else.  And 
if  Mr.  Eckhardt  can’t  make  more  than 
$15 on nine acres of wheat, he had better 
begin  to  look  around  and  see  what the
trouble is. 
Interest on 11,027.00 at 7 per cent..............$ 71  40
Taxes on 17 acres...........................................  G 00
20 bushels seed @ $1........................................  20 00
Harrowing 17 acres  once.................. 
5 CO
Drilling 
............................  5 00
Catting 17 acres with  reaper @ 75c  .........   12  75
Binding and setting up (5 men  two  days)  20 00
Hauling to barn..............................................  20 00
Raking stubble.............................................. 
2 00
Threshing 640 bushels wheat ® 3 c ...............   19 20
10 men one day to thresh  .........................  10 00
Marketing 640 bushels @ ?c............................  19 20
Extra board...............................................    20  00
$230 55

Total expenditures, 

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RESULTS.

640 bushels of  wheat at $1..............................$640 00
Value of straw  ..........................................  10 00

Total  results.............................................$650 CO

Net profits on crop....................................  $413 45
Net cost of wheat per bushel  ................. 
37

Use  “ Tradesman”  coupons!

Send for Quotations.

WM.  BRUMMELER  &  SONS

Manufacturers of and Jobbers in 

Pieced and Stamped  Tinware,  Rags,

Metals, Iron,  Rubber and  Wiping  Rags 

264 So. Ionia St., GRAND  RAPIDS. 

Telephone 640.

THE  GREAT

EDMUND B.D1KEMRP
Watch fttaker 
s J eweler,
Grand Rapids  -  JIM,

44  GOBI  8Y„

For Portable  or  Stationary  Engines, 1 
to 500 Horse Power,  Portable or Station­
ary Boilers, Saw Mills, Shafting, Pullies, 
Boxes,  Wood-working Machinery,  Plan­
ers, Matchers, Moulders, etc., call on
W .   C .   D EN ISO N ,

Manufacturers’  Agent,

88, 90, 98  So. Division St., Grand  Rapids 

Estimates given on Complete Outfits.

M i c h i g a n (T e n t r a l

“  The Niagara Falls Route.’*

DEPA RT.  A RRIV E
Detroit Express....................................  7:20 a m  10:00 p no
6:00 pm
Mixed  ....................................................6:80 am  
Day  Express................... ................... 12:00 a m   10:00 am
• Atlantic A  Pacific Express..............11 -.16 p m 
6:00 am
New York Express...............................6:40 p m 
1:15 p m

trains to and from Detroit.
Express to  and  from  Detroit.

•Daily.
All ether daily except Sunday.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Express 
Parlor cars run  on  Day  Express  and  Grand Rapid 
F r ed M. Brig g s. Gen'l Agent. 86 Monroe St.
G. 8. H a w k in s, Ticket Agent, Union  Depot.
Ge o . W. Mu n so n , Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. 
O. W. R u g g l b b, G. P.  A   T. Agent., Chicago.

D etroit

J M

TIME  TABLE

NOW  IN  EFFECT.

EASTWARD.

Trains Leave +No.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  18 ♦No.  28
10 55pm 
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
12 37am 
Ionia...........Ar
1 55am 
St.  Johns  ...Ar
3 15am
Owosso....... Ar
E.  Saginaw..Ar
Bay City......Ar
F lin t.......... Ar
Pt.  Huron...Ar
Pontiac....... Ar
Detroit.........Ar

I  20am
II 25am 
12 17am
1 20pm 
51 Opm 
6 23pm 
3 85pm 
6 50pm
3 05pm
4 05pm

3 45pm
4 52pm
5 40pm
6 4fipm
8 45pm
9 35pm 
8 0-’ pm 
1030pm
8 55pm
9 50pm

5 40am 
7 35am 
5 50 am 
7  20am

6 5f!am
7 45am
8 28am
9 15am 
11 05am 
11 55am 
1110am
3 05pm
10 57am
11 5 am
WESTWARD.
I  *No. 81

Trains Leave 

tNo. 13
Grand  Rapids,  Lvl  7 05 am  |  1  00 pm  5  10 pm 
Grand  Haven,  Ar  8 50 am  |  2 15 pm  j  6  15 pm 
Milwaukee Str, Ar 
Chicago Str,  Ari

♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.

Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:50 p. m., 
5:00 p. m. and 10:25 p. m.
Trains  arrive  from  the west,  10:10 a. in., 3:35 
p.m. and 9:50 p. m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parle r  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Chair  Car.  No. t2 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward —No.  81  Wagner  Sleeper.  No.  11 
Chair Car.  No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar.
J ohn W. Loud, Traffic Manager.
Ben Fletcher, Trav. Pass. Agent.
J a s.  C a m p b e l l , City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.

CHICAGO

JANUARY 4, 1891.
&  WEST  MICHIGAN  RY.
P.  M.

P.M.
P. M.
*11:35 ........
*11:35
*11:35

A. M. I  P.  M.
+9:00  +1:00 
........  +1:00
+9:00  +1:00 
+9:00  +1:00
+5:051.
+1:00 t 
t9:00
t7:25
+5:051.
t7:25
+5:05  •
+5:05  .
t7:25
+5:05|.
+7:25
+1:00;+ 5:05  +8:40 
+9:00
+1:00i+ 5:o5|  +8:40 *11:35
+9:00

+8:40

A. M. has through chair car to'Chica- 
go.  N o extra charge for seats.'
P. M.  runs  through to Chicago  solid 
with Wagner buffet car;  seats  50 cts. 
P. M. has  through free  chair  car  to 
Manistee,  via M.  & N.  E.  it. R.; solid 
train to Traverse City.
P. M. is solid  train  with Wagner pal­
ace sleeping  car  through to Chicago.

DEPART POR
Chicago...........
Indianapolis ... 
Benton Harbor.
St. Joseph........
Traverse  City..
Muskegon........
Manistee  ........
Ludington......
Baldwin  .........
Big Rapids......
Grand  Haven.. 
Holland...........
tWeek Days.  »Every day.
9:00
1:00
5:05
11:35
DETROIT 

A  M.

DEPART  FOR

NOVEMBER 30,  1890.
Lansing & Northern R R
r.M . P. M.
Detroit  and  East.................. +7:25 +1:20 *6:25
+7:25 +1:20 *0:25
Lansing................................
Howell................................... +7:25 +1:20 *6:25
Grand  Ledge......................... +7:25 +1:20 *6:25
Lake Odessa.......................... +7:2. +1:20 *6:25
Plymouth............................... +7:25 +1:20 *6:25
Howard  City......................... +7:30 +4:30
Edmore................................. +7:30 +4:30
.............. +7:30 +4:30
A lm a......................... 
St  Louis  ............................... +7:30 + 1:30
Saginaw  City......................... +7:30 +4:30
♦Every Day.  tWeek Days. 
rj , n r   a  M. runs through to petroit with par- 
I  ..-‘• f  lor car;  seats 25  cents.
1 . Q A   P . M.  Has  through  Parlor  car  to  De- 

trolt.  Seats, 25 cents.

For  tickets  and  information  apply  at  Union 
Ticket Office, 67 Monroe  street, or Union station.

Geo. DeHayen, Gen. Pass’r Agt.
H o w   to   K e e p   a   S to re .
By  Samuel  H.  Terry.  A  book  of  400  pages 
written from the experience and  observation  of 
an old merchant.  It treats of Selection  of Busi 
ness,  Location,  Buying,  Selling, Credit, Adver­
tising, Account Keeping, Partnerships,  etc.  Of 
great interest to every one In trade.  $1.50.
THE  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

Grand  Rapids.

1 5

Qrand  Rapids  & Indiana.

In effect February 1,1891.
TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.
South.
For'Saginaw, solid t r a i n ...........
For .Traverse City.....  ................|  5:15 a m
For Traverse  City & Mackinaw)]  9:20 a m
For Saginaw, solid tra in ............
For Cadillac...................................t  2:15 p m
For M ackinaw............................... f  7  45 p in
From Kalamazoo..........................t   8:55 p m

Arrive from  Leave going 
North, 
t  7:30  a m 
t 7:05  am  
til:30 am 
t  4:30  pm  
t 5:00  p m 
¡j 10:30  p m

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH-

North.
For  Cincinnati...........................
Q  6:00 a in
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago.
.t!0:15a m
From Saginaw...............................  11:45 c
.  11:45 a m
For F ort W ayne and the  East.
For Cincinnati.............................. t 5:30 p i
.t  5:30 p m
For Kalamazo and  C hicago..
tl0:00 p m 
From Saginaw............................
.t!0:30p m

Arrive from  Leave going
iS outh. ~
f  7:10  a m
110:30  am
t  2:00  p m
1  6:00  p m
|11:05  p m
Trains m arked (¡¡) run daily; (+) daily except Sunday. 
Sleeping and parlor car  service:  North—11:30  a  m 
train , parlor  chair  car  for  Mackinaw City;  10:30 p m  
for  Mackinaw  City. 
train,  W agner  sleeping  car 
South—7:00&m train , parlor chair car for  Cincinnati; 
10:30 a m train, through parlor coach to Chicago: 6 p m  
train, W agner sleeping ear for  Cincinnati;  11:05  p  m 
train , W agner sleeping car  for Chicago.
Toledo,  Ann  Arbor & North  Michigan 

Railway.

In  connection  with  the  Detroit,  Lansing  & 
Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee 
offers  a  route  making  the  best  time  between 
Grand Rapids and Toledo.

VIA  D., l . & N.

Lv. Grand Rapids at......7:25 a. m. and 6:25 p. m.
Ar. Toledo a t ...............1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m.

v ia d ., s .  h .  & M.

Lv. Grand Rapids at......6:50 a. m. and 3:45 p. m.
Ar. Toledo a t............... 1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m.

Return connections equally as good.

W. *H.  B e n n e t t, General Pass. Agent, 
Toledo, Ohio.

FJrnitUre

Nelson, 

M atter 
&  C o .’s

S ty le s   N e w ,  C h e a p , 
M e d iu m   a n d   E x p e n ­
sive.

Large  Variety. 

Prices Low.

Parties  having  beans  or  clover  seed 
for sale will find a purchaser,  if  samples 
and prices are right.

We  also want
P o ta to e s   a n d   O n io n s
In car lots.

We pay highest market  price  and  are

always in the  market.
W. T.  LAM0REAUX  &  CO.

128,130 and 132 West Bridge St.,

GRAND  R A P ID S, 

MICH.
GX2TSBXTG  TLOOT7

- 

We pay the highest price for it.  Address

D U n iT   DDAC!  Wholesale  D ruggists, 
rXlUA  jDHUO.1  GRAND  RAPIDS.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

K O   D E A L E R   E V E R   L O S T   A   C U ST O M E R   B Y   S E L L IN G   H IM

THE  FRAZER

ALW AYS  UNIFORM .

O F T E N   IMITATED.

N E V E R   EQ U A LLED .

KNOW N  EV E R Y W H E R E .  N O   TA LK   REQUIRED  T O   S E L L   IT.

Cood Crease MakesTrade_ 

Cheap Crease Kills Trade.

One Pound Decorated Tins

1  DOZ.  I K   A  C A S E .

FRAZER HARNESS SOAP 
FRAZER HARNESS OIL 
FRAZER  MACHINE OIL

The  Muskegon  Improvement Co.

Announces:

That  in  addition  to  the  SEVEN  large  brick  factories  now  completed  or  in 
course of  erection at the celebrated addition of  “Muskegon Heights,” they w ill 
start between April  1  and May  15, next,

Five More Large Brick Factories.

Among them the Alaska  Refrigerator Works, the  largest establishment in this line in  the United States, and the Shaw Elec­
trical  Crane Works.  These two will  have a capacity to work 800 men.  In addition to above two others are under  contract 
and  will  be  started  soon  as  plans  are  ready.  One  of these  is  a  Linoleum  Company,  fr o m   Manchester,  England.  Their 
plant will require  eight buildings, with combined floor space of over forty thousand square feet.  Every one of these concerns 
has an established trade.

A Limited.  JSlimber  of  Choice  Lots are  now on sale in the  “ Muskegon  Heights”  addition,  which 
plat of  ground is pronounced  by good  judges to be as fine  as  any city in the  country can  show;  covered  with  fine  natural 
shade trees.  It is seventy feet  above the level of  Muskegon  Lake, Mona  Lake or Lake  Michigan, centrally located  between 
them  and  slopes  almost  imperceptibly towards  each.  Has  fine  paved  streets leading into center  of  the city;  has Electric 
Street Railway, 10 minutes from City Hall, 44 cars each way daily

Send for plats and prices, or call on 

or  GEO.  L.  ERWIN,  T rustee. 

* 

'

H.  J.  MoDOJSALD,  Sales Agent,

Occidental  Hotel  Block.

