Michigan Tradesman.

GRAND  R A PID S,  W ED N ESDA Y ,  A P R IL   22,  1891.
Dr»ü Store for Sale at a Bargain
EARLY  DAYS IN  THE  FAR WEST.

1 CONTINUED  FROM  LAST  WEEK.1 

V O L .  8 .
PEOPLE'S  SAVINGS  BANK.
liability,  $100,000. 
Capital,  $100,000. 

Cor. Monroe and Ionia Sts.,

Depositors’  Security,  $200,000.

OFFICERS.
Thomas Hefferan, President.
Henry F. Hastings, Vice-President.
Charles M. Heala, 2d Vice-President.
Charles B. Kelsey, Cashier.
DIRECTORS.

D. D. Cody 
S. A.  Morman 
Jas. G. MacBride 
Wm. McMullen 
D. E. Waters 
Jno. Patton, Jr.  . 
Wm. Alden Smith 

H. C. Russell
John  Murray
J. H. Gibbs
C. B. Jndd
H. F. Hastings
C. M. Heald
Don J. Leathers 

Thomas  Hefferan.

Four per cent, interest paid on time certificates 
and  sayings  deposits.  Collections  promptly 
made  at  lowest  rates.  Exchange  sold  on New 
York, Chicago, Detroit and all foreign countries. 
Money transferred by mail or  telegraph.  Muni­
cipal  and  county bonds  bought and  sold.  Ac­
counts of mercantile firms  as^well as banks'and 
bankers solicited
We  invite  correspondence  orj personal  inter­
view with a view to business relations.

EATON,  LYON  &  GO.,

JOBBERS OF

A  Complete  Line of

HAMMOCKS,

FISHING  TACKLE,

MARBLES
= = B A S E   BALL  GOODS = ■
Onr new sporting goods catalogue will  be  ready 

about February 10th.

EATON, LYON  & CO.,

SO and SS  Monroe  St.
GRAND RAPIDS

Fire  Insurance  Company.

Prompt,  Conservative, Safe.

On  long  time  if  desired, or will  exchange  for 
part  productive real  estate.  Stock  clean  and 
well assorted.  Location the best in the city. 
I wish to retire permanently from  the drug  bus­
iness.

C.  L.  BEUNDAGE,

Opp. New Post Office. 

117 W. Western Ave. 

Muskegon,  Mich.

Fine  M illinery!

Wholesale  and  Retail.

SPRING STOCK IN ALL THE LATEST STYLES 

NOW COMPLETE.

MAIL ORDERS ATTENDED  TO PROMPTLY.

Adams & Co.,

90  Monroe St.,  Opp. Morton House.

ESTABLISHED  1841.

THE MERCANTILE AGENCY

R .G . D u n   &  Co.

Reference Books issued  quarterly.  Collections 

attended to throughout United States 

and Canada

HARVEY  &  HEYSTEK,
P a p e r

Wholesale Dealers in

W a l l  

------a n d ------

BRUSHES.

Picture Frame Mouldings.
Also  a  complete  line  of  PAINTS,  OILS  and 
Correspondence Solicited.
74 HG Ottawa St., GRAND  RAPIDS

W arehouse,  81  & 83 Campan St.

SEEDS!

Write  for  jobbing  prices  on 
Mammoth,  Medium,  Alsyke  and 
Alfalfa Clover,Timothy, Orchard 
Grass,  Red  Top,  Blue  Grass, 
Field Peas, Beans and Produce.

C. AINSWORTH

76  So, Division  St., GRAND  RAPIDS,

PENBERTHY  INJECTORS

W. F. McBain, Sec’y.  S. F. Aspinwall, Pres’t

Manufactured by

BA N N ER  SOAP.
Best In  the world I
JUS.  BIECHELE  SOAP  CO.,
Represented  in  Mich,  by  E.  A.  Withee, Vernon.
Ball-Bamhart-Putman  Co.,  Grand  Rapids :  B. 
Dessenberg  Co.,  Kalamazoo;  Jackson  Grocery 
Co.,  Jackson;  Phelps,  Brace  &  Co.,  Sinclair, 
Evans & Elliott  and  Moran-Fitzsimons  Co.. De­
troit;  Saunders  &  Co., Port Huron;  Merrill, Fi- 
field & Co., Bay City;  Symons  Bros. & Co., Sagi 
naw;  St. Johns Mercantile Co., St. Johns.

Canton, Ohio.

Sold by

Allen Durfee. 

A. D. Leavenworth.

Allen Durfee & Co.,

CUTS for BOOM  EDITIONS

---- OR----

PAMPHLETS

For the best work, at  reasonable  prices, address 

THE  TRADESM AN  COMPANY.

The  Most  Perfect  A utom atic  Injector 
F O X
H B S T B R   &
Sole Agents,

Made.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

W ritten fo r The Tradesman.

One evening  about the  1st  of  Novem­
ber,  while  sittidg  in his  room  with  his 
wife,  the  afternoon  mail  from the  East, 
which was  brought  him,  contained a let­
ter  for  Mrs.  De  Yere,  dated  at  Paris, 
France.  She  was  deeply absorbed  in  a 
perusal  of  its  contents,  when  Mr.  De 
Vere  was  interrupted  by  sudden  excla­
mations of  joy  from  his  wife,  followed 
her saying,  “Jean, do look here!” and 
she  held  aloof  a  handsomely  engraved 
piece of paper.  “Dear old Auntie Marie, 
blessings  upon  her !  She  heartily  ap­
proves of  our  marriage,  dear,  and  sends 
me a wedding dowry of 3,500 francs,  and 
now  we  need  not  wait  for  your  hard- 
earned money, but can at once enter upon 
our  long-cherished  project of  going  into 
the  mercantile  business  for  ourselves. 
Promise  me,  Jean,  you  will  rent  that 
new  store,  two  doors  below  the  Hotel 
Worthington,  to-morrow,  and  we  will 
then remove from  here  at  once, and  be­
gin housekeeping in  the rooms  over  it.” 
There  was  a  pleased  but  quaint  ex­
pression upon  the face of  Mr.  DeVere as 
his little wife ran before him, and almost 
compelled  him  to  listen,  while  she  told 
of her good fortune and her plans for the 
future.  But  when  she  intimated  that 
her  wedding  gift was  to  be  the  capital 
for  their  contemplated  business, he was 
ready to protest.  “See here, little girl,” 
exclaimed  DeVere,  as  his wife  paused a 
moment,  “are  you  not rather  premature 
in  disposing  of  your  marriage  portion?
only married  you and  no  part of  that 
money is mine.  Let me invest it for you 
safely  in  farming 
this  new 
country,  where  there  will  be  no  possi­
bility of losing it.”

lands  in 

“No, no! 

I could not think of such an 
investment,”  answered  the  wife.  “Are 
we not one in all our interests, in all that 
constitutes happiness  in  life,  and  is  not 
ours mine and mine yours?  And,  then, 
Auntie surely intended it for  both of  us, 
as she says it was in her will bequeathed 
to  me at her  death,  hut,  learning of  my 
marriage,  she  now  desires  me to possess 
it at once and enjoy it with  my husband, 
and  adds  that  she  will  visit  us  here  a 
year  from  next  Christmas.  You  will 
remember,  Jean,”  continued  Mrs.  De­
Vere,  “that  we  have  always  spoken  of 
engaging  in  business  together,  even  be­
fore  our  marriage, and  before  I  had.  a 
penny of my own, and then you expected 
to furnish the  capital.  Now  that I have 
sufficient for  our present  purpose, I sim­
ply  invite  you  to  enter  into a partner­
ship with me. 
If I recollect  rightly, our 
stock  was  to  consist of  dry  goods, gro­
ceries and crockery,  with  a  few common 
articles of  hardware,  and keep as closely 
within  those  lines as  possible.  The dry 
goods  and  crockery  comes  within 
the 
sphere of  woman’s work to handle  and 1 
would  therefore  be  able to help  more in 
these  than in other  departments of  mer­
chandise.  Then  with  one  stout  boy  to 
assist  us,  we  shall  probably for  a  time 
require no more  help. 
I  think your idea 
was  to  give  no  credit  whatever,  and  in

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that case very little book-keeping will be 
required,  and  that  will  relieve  us  of 
much  labor.  We  will  reside  over  the 
store  and  continue to take  our  meals  at 
the Osprey House as usual.  Should more •  
capital  be  needed  in  our  business  and 
you have money to spare,  of course more 
stock  could  be  added,  but,  if  not,  you 
know I shall  be  only  too  happy to have 
you  share whatever  property,  prosperity 
and  happiness  there is in  this world for 
me.  Now do  not  say  one  word, Jean,” 
said Mrs. DeVere, as her husband seemed 
about to speak,  “I am the  manager until 
you purchase the stock and then I resign 
everything  to  you,  and  am  only  your 
assistant and adviser.”

As  it  was desirable  to  be in  readiness 
for their  share of  the  holiday trade,  Mr. 
DeVere ceased  work at his vocation as  a 
carpenter, leased  the store  building pre­
viously  mentioned,  at  once  purchased  a 
stock  and,  within  two  weeks  from  the 
reception  of  Mrs.  DeVere’s  letter  from 
France,  a plain  sign over  the door  read­
ing,  “Jean  DeVere & Co.’s  Cash  Store,” 
announced  that  the  new  establishment 
was transacting business.  Placards were 
conspicuously seen about the room, upon 
which the following were printed in large 
letters,  “We  sell  for  ready  pay only,” 
“Positively no  credit  here,” “All  kinds 
of  farmers’ produce received  for goods,” 
“Please do not ask for credit,”  “We have 
neither  books  nor  book-keeper.”  The 
arrangement  of  the  stock  was  in  good 
taste  and,  as both  room  and  stock were 
perfectly  new  and  clean, 
it  may  be 
imagined  that the  new store was attract­
ing its full share of attention.  Notwith­
standing the public notices that no credit 
would  be given,  there  was  much embar­
rassment  and  perplexity, if  not  annoy­
ance, from  all  classes  occasionally  ask­
ing for it, and it required all the shrewd­
ness  and  tact  one  could  command 
to 
avoid giving offense by a refusal.

In reciting his trials to the  writer long 
afterward, Mr.  DeVere said;  “I will  re­
peat in detail some of the incidents which 
occurred  while  eluding  the  demon  of 
credit. 
It  may  have  been  two  weeks 
after we begun  business when one  after­
noon a young man came in with a written 
order from a firm  who were lumber  deal­
ers and builders in the village,  asking us 
to send  them two kegs of  nails.  A dray 
stood at the door to take them.  The firm 
were reputed to be wealthy, but were, of 
course,  strangers  to me,  although had  it 
been  otherwise I could  not  have  broken 
our rules of all goods cash on leaving the 
store.  Not  knowing "whether  the  man 
intended  to  pay  for  them,  and  wishing 
to  avoid  extra  labor  or  trouble, I  first 
made and receipted the bill for them and 
pushed it toward him for payment.  Look­
ing  a  little  confused,  he  said: 
‘There 
was no money sent with  the order  and it 
intended  that  the  nails 
was  probably 
should  be  charged  to  the  firm.’ 
In as 
few  words  as  possible,  I  stated  to  the 
young  man  (who, it appeared,  was their 
book-keeper)  that  we  kept  no  accounts 
with anyone—not even a memorandum— 
and I  pointed to the  placards  about  the 
store;  that having  begun  business  on  a

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strictly ¿cash  basis,  we  were  reluctantly 
compelled  to refuse  every one  and  that 
money must  accompany  all  orders  from 
rich and poor alike.  As is often the case 
with  such  firms, they  were at first  very 
angry at my  refusal,  but  being in imme 
diate want of  the nails and as there were 
none of  the  exact size  in  town except at 
our  store, as  I  learned  afterward, they 
held a brief  consultation and  finally told 
their book-keeper  to  pay  for  and  bring 
them,  which  he  did.  As  I  afterward 
always  treated  this  firm  in  the  most 
Courteous  manner  in  every  other  way. 
they  soon  saw  the  inconsistency  of  at­
tempting to make rules for our guidance, 
and  ever  after  treated  us  respectfully, 
while  being  careful to pay  for  goods  at 
the time  ordered.  There  are  altogether 
too many wealthy  persons  who  seem  to 
imagine  that  a  custom,  a  restriction,  or 
law  regarding  credit  must  not  be  made 
for,  and cannot  possibly be  meant  to in­
clude them, but is intended for the poorer 
classes who  have not  sufficient money to 
‘pay as they  go,’ and  from  whom  it can­
not  always  be  collected  by  law.  This 
wealthy class forget  that  those who ‘can 
readily pay but do not’ are placing  them­
selves  in  a  more  unenviable  light  than 
those  who ‘would  pay but  cannot.’  At 
another  time  a  well-dressed  lady  and 
gentleman—strangers to us—entered  the 
store early one  evening,  the lady making 
her purchases  from  me  at  one  counter, 
while the gentleman  closely engaged the 
attention of Mrs. DeVere on the opposite 
side.  After  selecting  goods,  seemingly 
with rare good  judgment,  to the  amount 
of  $14.50  and I had  shown  her a memo­
randum of  the  items,  she  called  out  to 
the supposed  husband,  ‘Walter,  will you 
please  settle  for  these goods,  as I must 
hasten home?’  and as  he  answered,  ‘Cer­
tainly,’ she  proceeded  to  gather  up the 
parcels. 
I  quickly  placed a  hand  upon 
them  and  quietly  said, 
‘Pardon  me, 
madam,  you are a stranger in our village, 
and as we do no credit business,  I cannot 
allow any goods to leave  the store unless 
paid  for.’  As  I  ceased  speaking,  the 
man,  whose  ears were  evidently alert  to 
catch  what  was  said,  smilingly  replied 
to me: 
‘It is all  right,  sir, I  assure you. 
We are  not  exactly strangers  in  the vil­
lage,  and  I  do not  desire  any credit.  1 
am  perfectly good  for  twenty times  the 
amount,  and  only want  a  memorandum 
of  it  in  your  drawer  for  twenty-four 
hours.  My  name  is  Walter  Clark  and 
our residence is on Willow street,’  which 
I recognized  as  one  on the  outskirts  of 
the  village.  At  this, I  called  his  atten­
tion  to  the  placards  in  sight,  which  1 
assured him  must be strictly  adhered to. 
He  then  growled  out  something  about 
‘these  having  no  reference  to  him,  and 
that it was a strange  way for a merchant 
to do business,’  and said in a crusty tone 
‘I will  call,  pay for  and  take the  goods 
in  the  morning,’  and the  couple  left  the 
I  never  saw  them  again,  but 
store. 
learned 
afterward 
they  were 
strangers  in  town,  and  left on an  early 
morning train. 
It  was without  doubt a 
deliberate  attempt to  swindle  me.  For 
obvious  reasons  such  rascals  invariably 
select for their victims proprietors of the 
latest stores which  have opened for busi­
ness.  Almost every  village and city have 
more or less  really dishonest  persons  in 
or  around  them  who  make  it a business 
to  impose upon  merchants  by  all  possi­
ble  devices,  short  of  a  strictly criminal 
act;  and every artifice is employed which 
ingenuity can suggest to accomplish their

that 

purpose. 
It often  seems as  if  this class 
included both sexes about equally.  Such 
persons are among  the  first to call  upon 
a new  merchant to congratulate him and 
wish him success.  They are exceedingly 
friendly, will remark  that  they don’t re­
quire any  goods  to-day,  but  called  in to 
get  acquainted;  will tell  you  they never 
buy anything unless they pay for it;  will 
warn  the  new  comer  against  credit  in 
this  town,  and  inform  him  who,  more 
than  all  others, to  avoid;  ' give] him  a 
world  of  good  advice  in a most  solemn 
and  confidential  manner;  try.ito  laugh 
and  chat and  become very  familiar,  and 
voluntarily inform  him  they will  run in 
often,  as  be,  being  a  stranger,  will  be 
‘lonesome,’  etc.  This  class  never  take 
a hint that you are  either weary of  their 
conversation  or  their  company. 
It  act­
ually seems almost impossible  to  get rid 
of  them.  They are quite  apt to come  in 
great  haste for an  article some  day and, 
catching  it  up,  smilingly 'remark  that 
some  one is waiting  for  them  and  they 
will  ‘settle  for it the'first  time  they go 
by.’ 
If  the article  has cost  more than a 
dollar,  it will  usually  be  found  that  he 
has  given you  the ‘go  by.’  He  remains 
away and  you  are  rid of  him  for a year 
or  two at that  price.  Others,  after hav­
ing patronized  you in a small  way  for a 
few  months,  always  paying  for  every­
thing,  will  some  day astonish  you when 
you  are  busily engaged with  customers, 
by  opening  the  door, suddenly  allowing 
a lady to step  in, and,  speaking  hurried­
ly,  say  in a loud . tone of  voice,  ‘Let  my 
wife have what she wants and I will stop 
and  settle  the  bill  on  my  way home  to­
night,’ and quickly close  the  door.  You 
excuse  yourself  to  give  the  lady a seat, 
that  you  may  not  mortify  her  before 
others,  but,  having  previously  enquired 
about the  character of  the man, you call 
the  woman aside  when  you find  time  to 
do so,  and kindly inform her  that credit, 
for  any time  at  all,  is  impossible.  Of 
course, the  man  did not  call on his  way 
home, neither  has he called  since.  Still 
others will  stride  into  your  store  very 
pompously and  purposely because  many 
persons  are  present, ask  you  to put  up 
something  for  them, thinking  you  will 
not  dare  to  refuse  them  a  few  hours’ 
credit,  before all these people;  but when 
the  article  is  ready  and they  say,  ‘just 
drop a slip in the  drawer until I return,’ 
and you  refuse,  they make a great  blus­
ter  and  attempt to impress  upon  those 
present, if strangers, that they are shame­
fully wronged and imposed upon.  Aside 
from  such  annoyances,  we  found  the 
cash  system  the  only true  one,  and  in 
adhering  to  this  we  attained  success, 
where  many merchants  who  came  later 
with  more  capital  failed  in a few years 
through  too  loose  an  indulgence in  the 
credit  system.  Our  village  of  a  few 
buildings  many  years  ago,  where  wife 
and I ventured to invest all  we then had, 
is  to-day a thriving  city  with  its  thous­
ands of  people.  We  not only amassed a 
competence  in  the mercantile  business, 
but we have also done well  in real estate 
investments,  and  will  probably  make 
this  place our  home the  balance of  our 
lives. 
In  bidding  you  good-bye,  permit 
me to assure  you from  actual experience 
that there  are ‘no  gray hairs,  nor  sleep­
less  nights’  in  doing  a  ready-pay busi­
ness.”

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.

=  
PUTMAN  CO.
esalo  ■ Dry - Goods,

If.  SWEKEWER &

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

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

Twines, Ducks and Drills.

STANDARD  OIL  GO.,
-O I L S -

Dealers  in  Illifminating  and  LMcatinn

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

N A P T H A   A N D   G A SO LIN ES.

Office, Hawkins Block. 

Works, Bntterworth Aye.

BULK  STATIONS AT

Grand Rapids,  Big Rapids, Cadillac, Grand  Haven,  Ludington, Howard  City,  Mus­

kegon,  Reed City,  Manistee, Petoskey, Allegan. 

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Highest Price Paid for Empty Carbon and Gasoline Barrels.

I M P O R T E R S   A N D

Wholesale  Grooers

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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fashioned to  tell the truth without  hesi­
tation when asked  a  question  regarding 
his goods. 
If he thinks a piece of  goods 
will fade, either  from  sunlight or  wash­
ing, he is  candid  enough  to  say so,  and 
when asked what he thinks  most  becom­
ing,  gives  his  opinion  so  honestly  as 
often to provoke a  smile or  remark.  “ I 
recommend this piece of goods,” he some­
times  quietly  says,  and  that  remark  is 
usually  sufficient  to  decide  the  choice, 
such is their confidence in  the merchant. 
A  customer  is  seldom  disappointed,  for 
the  old-fashioned  merchant  is  honest 
from principle—not from policy.  No sub­
stitutes for real goods  are ever  found  in 
his store,  except by accident. 
If you ask 
for straight N. O. molasses, Mocha coffee 
or  pure  ground  mustard,  you  will  get 
them,  or he will inform you he has none. 
He has no  corn syrup  or  glucose  sugars 
at any price,  but if  low grade sugars  are 
wanted  he has  them,  and  you will  only 
pay  the  price  for  just  the  article  you 
get.  You can depend upon what he tells 
you,  and it is quite safe to  be  guided  by 
his  judgment.  Uncle  John  says  that 
whatever  it  is  necessary to do  he  con­
siders  honorable,  and  he  has  no  false 
pride  in  business. 
If  you  desire  any 
goods delivered in the village, he replies, 
“Certainly,  some  time  to-day,”  and  at 
some  hour before you sleep the old-fash­
ioned merchant will come trudging in with 
them.  There  is  no  false modesty about 
him,  and no act which is considered legit­
imate is  considered  too  insignificant  for 
him to perform.

I w ish all the readers of  T h e T r a d es­
the  pleasure  of  an 
the  old - fashioned 

man  could  have 
acquaintance  w ith 
m erchant. 

V in d ex.

Playing Garda

WE  Ml  HEADQUARTERS

19  So. Ionia  St., Oranti Rapids.

SEND  FOR  PRICE LIST.

Daniel  Lpeh,
Slot Cases

Manufacturers  of

Of  Every Description.

The  Old-Fashioned Merchant.

Written for T h b  T r a d e s m a n .

He is  an  old-fashioned  merchant,  and 
carries  a  general  stock,  doing  business 
in the village  of W.  The town is twelve 
miles  from  a  railroad, but  the  country 
round  about  is  rich  in farms and  farm 
buildings, and  the  people  are  contented 
and happy.  The  merchant  is  well  edu­
cated, even refined; yet it is the old-fash­
ioned  refinement—“fossilized,” the  city 
people  call  it.  He  represents  a  class 
now  quite  rare.  He  is  more  than  60 
years old,  and has  carried on business in 
that villagers his father’s successor,more 
than thirty years.  The first log store there 
was built and occupied by his father, and 
he entered it as a clerk at  the  age of  12, 
remaining in the mercantile business ever 
since,  with the exception  of  three  years 
at  school  after  he  became  of  age.  He 
wears  no very modern  style  of  clothes, 
and  when  he  goes  into  the  city he  at­
tracts  attention,  not  merely  because  he 
is  old-fashioned,  but  because  so  many 
people  know  and  respect  him.  The 
“dudish”  young  men  along  the  street 
watch  him  a  moment,  and  as he  passes 
by vote  him  an  old  “fossil.”  His  walk 
is  not  hurried,  yet  he  steps  firmly  in 
those  heavy  boots,  with  head  erect  and 
the bearing of one of  nature’s noblemen. 
He is a peculiar man,  but his word is ac­
cepted  as  if  it were  in writing.  Every 
one has a nod and smile  for Uncle John. 
He does  not  even talk  business  at  once 
with his customer,  as if he  were in haste 
to take what money he has  and  bow him 
out.  He  says  there  is  always  time  in 
this world  to  be  courteous  first, and  to 
do  business  afterward.  You  would 
never know that he thought of  eating  or 
sleeping as long as there is a customer to 
oblige, or any service he  could  render  a 
fellow  being.  He  is  just  old-fashioned 
enough  to  believe  there  is  something 
worth living for  beside  money and  self. 
When  a  woman  drives  up  to  his  store 
alone, or with her child, he is so peculiar 
that he invariably goes out to  greet  her, 
assist  her from the vehicle,  and tells her 
to “runjught  in with  the  child,”  while 
he hitches the  horse  and  brings  in  her 
baskets  of  butter  and  eggs. ]e Then  he 
gently takes  the  little  tot  in  his  arms, 
removes her wraps,  and  holds  the  little 
fat  hands  toward  the  stove  to  warm 
them,  asking  her  about  papa,  the  dog 
and the kittens, and lastly carries her  to 
the open box of raisins, and  tells]] her  to 
take  a  handful  and  give mamma a few. 
While  he  waits  upon  his  customer  the 
delighted child  has  the  freedom  of  the 
store.  Uncle  John  is  sufficiently  old-

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

63  and 6B Canal St., 

WRITE FOR  PRICES.

First-Class  Work  Only.
-  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Spring & Company,

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

D r e s s   G o o d s ,  S h a w ls ,  C lo a k s , 
Notions,  Ribbons,  Hosiery, 
Gloves,  Underwear,  W oolens, 
Flannels,  Blankets,  Ginghams, 
Prints and  Domestic Cottons.

W e  invite  the  attention  of  the  trade  to  our com plete  and  well 

assorted  stock  at  low est  m arket  prices.

Spring & Company.

THE  PUTNAM  GANDY  GO.,
Wholesale
Man ufac turers.

F ruit  and  N ut  Jobbers.

ASK  FOR  PRICE  LIST.

G R A N D   R A PID S.
Buy our Custom Made River 
Boots  and  Shoes.  We  make 
the  Correct  Styles  in  River 
Goods.  The bottom  stock  if. 
.more  solid  and the  fitting  on 
the upper is stronger than any 
other  lines  made.  Our New 
Spring lines have proved great 
sellers.

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AMONG THE  TRADE.

ABOUND THE STATE.

Lyons—M. J.  Fisk  has  purchased  the 

drug stock of D.  Kelly.

Shelby—C. W.  Fisher has sold his gen­

eral stock  to A.  G. Avery.

Fraser—John Fisher has  sold  his  gen­

eral  stock to Gus Reifert.

Hodunk—M.  J.  Smith  succeeds Smith 

& Adams in general trade.

Bay  City—John  L.  Root has  sold  his 

grocery stock to Calvin Root.

Red  Jacket—M.  Prinz  has  sold  his 

drug stock  to  Geo.  Ramsell.

Stetson—Hiram  Wiley  has  sold  his 

drug stock to  C.  E.  McClure.

Argentine — Henry  Adams  succeeds 

Adams & Field in  general trade.

Clio—H. St.  Dennis succeeds  W.  Har­

ris & Co.  in the milling business.

Greenville—Wm.  Ackerman  has  sold 

his hardware stock  to X.  Lippman.

Bangor—J. D.  Davis  &  Co.  have  sold 

their general stock  to A. B.  Lee & Co.

Grand  Ledge—J.  M.  Burtch  succeeds 

McBride & Co.  in the lumber  business.

Clare—Shearer & Co.  are succeeded  by 

W.  B.  Curtis in the furniture business.

Dowagiac—D.  E.  Conine  succeeds  J. 
E. Foster in  the boot and  shoe  business.
Decatur—A.  W.  Wright  has  sold  his 
cigar and tobacco stock to Geo.  W. Cong- 
don.

Benton  Harbor—Rowe  Bros,  are  suc­
ceeded by J.  E. Dunbar in the meat  busi­
ness.

Fraukeumuth—John  M.  Hubinger  is 
succeeded  by G.  J.  Hubinger  in  general 
trade.

Detroit—Barley  & Johr  are  succeeded 
by  Miss  Ada  Barley  in  the  millinery 
business.

Charlotte—Vanderhoof & Packard suc­
ceed  Donovan & Vanderhoof in  the  fur­
niture business.

Detroit —Sutherland  &  Addison  are 
succeeded  by Geo. W.  Sutherland  in  the 
grocery business.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Frank  Carleton  has 
retired  from  the  hardware  firm  of  P. 
M. Church & Co.

Mount  Clemens—Henry  Kuester  suc­
ceeds C.  (Mrs. John)  Hoffman  in  the dry 
goods and notion business.

Leslie—Wm. Haynes has sold his cloth­
ing,  furnishing goods and  boot and  shoe 
stock to John Tripp,  Son &Co.

Middleville—W. H. Severance has pur­
chased the interest of his  partner in  the 
drug  firm of  Severance & Rich,  and  will 
continue the business  in  his  own name.
Belding—Will  Bricker  has  sold  the 
general  stock  he  recently purchased of 
W.  D. Sinclair to C.  M.  Stoddard,  late  of 
Litchfield.  The new firm will  be known 
as C.  M.  Stoddard & Co.

Marshall—J.  F.  Smiley,  F.  G.  Seaman 
and C.  J.  Cronin have  formed  a  copart­
nership  under  the  style of the Marshall 
Pharmacy  Association  and  engaged  in 
the  manufacture  and  sale  of drugs and 
medicines.

Mulliken—Austin P.  Hart,  whose drug 
stock was  recently destroyed by fire, has 
purchased  a  nearly new stock  at  bank­
rupt sale  at Saginaw,  and  resumed busi- 
hess in the  Oscar Crane  building,  which 
he has also purchased.

Fennville—Geo.  F.  Goodrich,  whose 
drug stock was  destroyed  by fire  in  the 
recent  conflagration,  has  formed  a co­
partnership with Mrs. L. A.  Andrews un­
der the style of Goodrich & Andrews, and 
the  new  firm  has  purchased  the  drug 
stock of  W. A. Swarts & Son.

T H E   MTOETTG^lSr  TRAXŒ SM JkJST

M A N U FA CTU RIN G   M ATTERS.

Hudsonville—Dedie  Bros,  are  putting 
in a factory to manufacture barrel hoops.
Otsego  Lake — Mickelson,  Hanson  & 
Co.  will  operate the Briscoe  sawmill the 
coming season.

Detroit—Henry W. Whalen and others 
have incorporated the Detroit Match Co., 
with $10,000 capital, $1,000 being paid in.
Saginaw—F.  Dennie  and  C.  W.  Cole 
| have purchased the McLean planing mill 
J  and  factory and  will  manufacture  sash, 
doors and blinds.
Cadillac — The  Cadillac  Upholstering 
j and  Mattress  Co.  has  been  merged  into 
a  stock  company.  S.  W.  Kramer  is 
President  of  the  corporation,  and  E.  F. 
Sawyer Secretary and Treasurer.

for 

Detroit —Judge  Reilly  has  granted 
the petition of  Geo.  W.  Balch for  a  re­
ceiver 
the  Peninsular  Knitting 
Works,  and  has  appointed  Fred.  F. 
Ranney,  who has  given  a  $60,000  bond.
Douglas —  The  Douglas  Manufactur­
ing  Co.  has  been  incorporated,  with  a 
capital of  $25,000,  to continue the manu­
facture of  fruit  packages  formerly  con­
ducted  by the  Fruit  Growers’ Manufac­
turing Co.

Belding—The contract for building the 
new basket factory has  been  let to Fred. 
King  and  Thos.  Foy,  whose  bid  was 
$12,150.  The  building  will  be  45x154 
feet,  three  stories,  with an  engine room 
27x30, and a tower 14x18.

Mancelona — The  Mancelona  Handle 
Co., whose factory was recently destroyed 
by fire, has been  merged  into  a corpora­
tion under the same title, with  a  capital 
stock of $12,000.  The officers are as  fol­
lows:  President, W.  H.  Thompson; Vice- 
President,  Harvdy  Eastman;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, C. C. White.

Saginaw—John  G.  Owen, who is  over­
hauling his sawmill at Owendale, putting 
in two new band  saws,  says he  has been 
delayed  a  month  by the  machinery  not 
being  shipped  when  expected,  and  his 
mill  will  not  start  untir  some  time  in 
May.  He has 50,000 logs secured, enough 
to stock  the mill  fully  as  soon  as  it  is 
ready for business.

Hastings—The Hastings Wool Boot Co. 
has been  organized  with a  capital  stock 
of  $60,000,  one-half  paid  in,  to  succeed 
to  the business established by the Amer­
ican Wool  Boot  and  Shoe  Co.  The  offi­
cers of  the  new  corporation  are  as  fol­
lows:  President,  Chester  Messer;  Vice- 
President, Clement  Smith;  Secretary,  M. 
L.  Cook;  Treasurer,  Dan.  W.  Reynolds.
Muskegon—It is understood  that John 
Vogel and John Lynch,  partners of John 
Torrent, are looking over the White Fish 
Bay tract  of 
land  recently acquired  by 
Mr. Torrent,  with  a  view  to  early oper­
ations  to  manufacture  it. 
It  is  under­
stood  that  the  tract  is  estimated by its 
owners  here  to  cut  between 200,000,000 
I and 300,000,000 feet,  but  it  is  stated  by 
those acquainted with the  belt  from  the 
Upper Peninsula that  it  may not  run  to 
exceed  100,000,000 feet.

Muskegon—P.  P.  Leonard,  who  has 
cut no small  figure in the  lumber opera­
tions  of  this  city  for  many  years,  now 
finds  himself  without  a  mill.  Ryerson, 
Hills  &  Co.’s mortgage  on  his  sawmill, 
for $7,559 having been foreclosed and the 
! property bid in by Chas. T.  Hills.  What 
| will  be  done  with the  mill  this  season 
| has not yet been decided. 
It will  not be 
| operated  by  Ryerson,  Hills  &  Co.,  as 
I they will  clean up their  remaining stock 
I of  logs on  this  river  with the  two mills 
j which they already own, 
It  will  proba- 
i bly not  be  operated  at  all  this  season, 
j and may be sold and  moved.

Gripsack Brigade.

S.  H.  Hart, the  genial  representative 
of  the Acme White Lead  and Oil Works, 
of Detroit, is in town for a few days.

T. W.  Kramer,  who  came  here  a  few 
months ago in the interest of the Thomp­
son  &  Chute  Soap  Co.,  of  Toledo,  has 
been recalled.

A.  D. Baker wanted a lay-off last week, 
and  sent word  to the  house  that he was 
laid up with la grippe.  He is among the 
trade as usual this  week.

Wm.  L. Curtis  has  engaged  to  travel 
for  the  Bissell Carpet  Sweeper  Co.  and 
started out on  his  initial  trip  Monday. 
He  will  visit  the  trade  of  Southern 
Michigan and Indiana.

Charles  S. Robinson  presented “Hub” 
Baker with a  corset  on  the  occasion  of 
the  recent  surprise  party  given  by the 
latter’s wife.  Mr. Baker’s “diagnosis” of 
the contents showed his  thorough  famil­
iarity with the subject.

invariably  capture 

Quincy  McBride,  of  Burton,  has  en­
gaged to travel for  the  Diamond Crystal 
Salt Co., of  St.  Clair.  Mr.  McBride is  a 
capital  man  to  talk  salt  in  connection 
with the dairy business, as his butter ex­
hibits  almost 
the 
prizes at  all dairy fairs and  expositions.
Secretary Seymour is still $25  short on 
his  account  for  the  furnishing of  the 
room in the Masonic Home. 
It costs but 
$1  to  be  enrolled  on  the  list of  donors 
and  those  who  have  neglected  to  con­
tribute this amount should do so at once. 
Otherwise,  the willing  ones will  be com­
pelled to do double duty.

P.  J. Coppens  has  merged  his  handle 
business into a stock  company under the 
style  of  the  American  Handle Co.  The 
corporation has a capital stock of $50,000, 
of  which  $20,000  is  paid  in.  Factories 
will  be operated at  Augusta,  Mich.,  and 
Bridgeport,  Ala.,  the  main  office  being 
located  at  Grand  Rapids. 
J.  N.  Zim­
merman is President of  the  company,  E. 
M. Coppens Vice-President, and P. J. will 
act as  Secretary, Treasurer and  General 
Manager.

“I  have  seen  a  good  many tough  ho­
tels  in  my time,”  remarked  a  traveling 
man the other day,  “ but  the  shebang  at 
Delton  is  ahead  of  the  ark  in  point 
of primativeness.  When a guest is ready 
to retire,  the bluff old  boniface grasps  a 
lantern  and  invites  the man  to  follow. 
You land  in  a  room  with  three  or  four 
beds,  and  the  landlord  stays  by  you, 
holding the  lantern  in  his hand.  When 
you ask  him why he  does  not  set  down 
the lantern and retire, he replies,  T want 
it  to  show the  next  man  to  bed.’  One 
experience  at  that  hotel  is  sufficient  to 
warn  the  average  traveling  man  that 
Delton is  a  good  place to  avoid  staying 
over night in.  The  business  men  there 
are  a lively set of fellows, and will prob­
ably reform  the  landlord, or  get  a  new 
one,  as soon as they come to  realize  how 
much  a poor hotel  hurts a town.”

FOURTH NATIONAL BANK

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A   J.  B o w n e , P r e s id e n t.

D. A. 

<  d g e t t ,  Vice-President.

H.  w .  N a s h , Cashier
CAPITAL,  -  -  -  $300,000.

Transacts a general  banking business.

Hake a  Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 

of Country Merchants Solicited.

FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

Advertisem ent* w ill be Inserted  under  th is  head (or 
tw o  cents  a  word  th e  first  insertion   and  one cent a 
word  (or  each  subsequent  insertion.  No  advertise­
m ent tak en  (o r less th an  25 cents.  Advance  paym ent.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

■   SNAP-CLOTHING  AND  MEN’S  FURNISHING 

goods  stocks  (o r  sale  in tow n o (  1,800  people. 
Only cloth in g  store  in  tow n.  Trade  all  sp ot  cash. 
88,500 a  week  paid ou t  in  factories  every  week.  For 
particulars, address No.  *36 care  M ichigan Tradesman, 
Grand  Rapids. 
236

Dr u g  st o c k —n e a t   a n d  a t t r a c t iv e , a n d  n e w

hardwood  fixtures.  ExceU ent  location   on  best 
retail street  in  Grand  Rapids.  E xpenses  very  lig h t 
and  trade  steadily  increasing.  Low  inventory,  ju st 
com pleted, $2,000.  On accoun t  o f  (a ilin g   h ealth ,  w ill 
sell  a t  invoice  or  (o r  $2,400  cash .  If  sold  b y  March 
16.  O therw ise w ill hold it  as an  investm ent.  A  genu­
in e  bargain.  P ersonal  Investigation   solicited .  Ad­
dress “F.,” care H azeltine P erkins D rug Co.  C ity. 107 

OR SALE  — A  FIRST-CLASS.  W ELL- ASSORTED 
stock o f  hardw are and building  m aterial, situ at­
ed a t P ort H uron.  Did a  business o f  $68,000 last  year. 
No old  stock  or rubbish.  W ill  Invoice  ab out  $20,000. 
Proprietor  sick In  bed  and  unable  to  attend  to  th e 
business.  Address Geo. M. D ayton, L am ing, Mich.  228

special  line.  No  old  goods.  E verythin g  desira 
ble.  Good  trade,  m ostly  cash.  E xceU ent 
farm ing 
country. Address “Shoes,” care M ichigan Tradesman 214

Fo r   s a l e —f i n e   s t o c k   o f   b o o t s  a n d   s h o e s
FOR SALE—A GOOD CLEAN STOCK OF  HARDWARE 

and agricultu ral im plem ents, situ ated  In  a   good 
R ailw ay.  Good  (arm ing  country  surrounding.  Has 
enjoyed and does now th e lead ing trade.  Good sa tisfa c­
tory reasons fo r selling.  T his Is a  b argain fo r  anyone 
w ith ea erg y  and push.  Address No. 218  care  M icblgan 
Tradesman. 

tow n  o f  1,600  inh ab itants  on  th e  M ichigan  Central 

218

FOR  SALE—a  THRIVING  BUSINESS  OF  GENERAL 

m erchandise,  located  on  line  o f  K.  A  S.  R.  R. 
Established  tw en ty  years.  R easons,  p ronrletor  has 
oth er business, doing  a   trade  o f  $1,600  to  $2.000  per 
annum , w ith sm all stock and expense.  Address  X.  Y. 
Z  , care M ichigan Tradesman. 

Fo r  s a l e —d r u g   s t o c k   o n   o n e   o f   t h e   p r i n -

clpal  streets o f  th e  boom ing  city   o f  Muskegon 
Stock w ill Invoice from  $3,000 to $4.000.  W ill sell build 
in g  also.  Good  reasons  for  selling.  For fu ll partlcu- 
lare, address A. H.  E ckerm an, M uskegon, Mich. 
231

224

21S

by as fine farm ing  co u n try /a s  there  is  anyw here  in 

ETOR SALE—COMPLETE DRUG  STOCK  IN  A  GROW- 

in g  v illa g e on good lin e  o f  railroad,  surrounded 
M ichigan.  Must q uit th e business  on  accoun t  o f  fail­
in g   health .  Address  No.  213  care  M ichigan  Trades­
m an. 

Situated on C.  &  W.  M. 

I  TOR SALE—WILL SACRIFICE A STOCK OF GENERAL 

m erchandise Inventoried a t $800.  Only store w ithin 
th ree  and  one  h a lf  m iles. 
Railw ay.  Good  store  building,  dw elling  and  barn. 
R easons for  selling, death  o f  proprietor.  Address  H. 
M.  G.,  care M ichigan Tradesm an. 

in  good  tow n;  p lenty  boarders; g o cd  

chance;  oth er  business  reason  fo r  selling.  Address 

box 238,  Dow agiac, Cass Co., Mich.________________ 238

17TOR  SALE—BAKERY  AND  RESTAURANT  ;  GOOD 
FIOR  SALE—WELL-SELECTED  DRUG  STOCK,  IN- 

ven toryin g about $1,200,  situ ated   in  good  coun­
try tow n o f 500 people.  Reason fo r seU ing, proprietor 
has oth er  business.  Address  No.  173,  care  M ichigan 
Tradesman. 

business; 

173

232

tures;  stock w ell  assorted 

OR  SALE—A  COMPLETE  DRUG  STOCK  AND  FIX- 
can  be  bought  a t  a 
bargain.  Address for  p articulars  S. P. H icks,  Lowell, 
Mich. 

126
W ANTED—I  HAVE  SPOT  CASH  TO  PAY  FOR  A 

gen eral  or  grocery stock;  m ust be cheap.  Ad- 

dresB  No. 20, care M ichigan Tradesman,____________ 20

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

Freeport, Mich. 

■ N  EXPERIENCED  DRY  GOODS CLERK  DESIRES 
situ ation.  Speaks  G erman.  Address  B ox  203 
234
W ANTED—POSITION  BY  REGISTERED  PHARMA- 
clst,  four  years practical  experience.  Address 
229
Box 170, Bangor, Mich. 
W ANTED—SITUATION  BY  REGISTERED  PHARM- 
aoist.  Ten  years’  experience.  R eferences  fur­
nished.  No. 220, care M ichigan Tradesman. 
220
WANTED—POSITION IN STORE BY  A  SINGLE MAN 
who  has  had  fourteen  years  experience  In  a 
general  store;  can  g iv e  A  No. 1 references.  Address 
Dick Starling, E astm anvtlle, Mich. 
225
'1X7'ANTED— A  DRUG  CLERK  WITH  ONE  OR  TWO 
i t  
years’  experience.  R egistered  assistant  pre- 
fered.  Good  references required.  A  good  chance  to 
learn th e business.  I.  F.  H opkins, M uskegon. Mich.

MISCELLANEOUS.

TXT ANTED—AN EXPERIENCED HARDWARE CLERK. 
VY  A m arried m an. who w ants  steady  em ploym ent 
w ill  have  th e  preference.  Send  references  from   la st 
em ployer to  box 1,204, C adillac, Mich. 
230

i TOR  SALE  OR  RENT—CORNER  LOT  AND  6-ROOM 

house on North  L afayette st., cellar, brick found­
ation   and  so ft  w ater  in  k itchen.  $1,200.  Term s  to  
snlt.  Cheap enough  fo r  an  investm ent.  Address  No 
187, care M ichigan Tradesm an. 

SODA  FOUNTAIN  FOR SALE  CONSISTING  OF  TWO 

copper  fou n tains,  cooler  and d raft  arm   for  $50, 

address Lock  Box  25, Sheridan,  Mich.__________ 2?5

187.

WANTED.

POTATOES,  APPLES,  DRIED 

FRUIT,  BEANS 

and all kinds of Produce.

If yon  have  any  of  th e  above  good* to 
ship, o r anything;  in  the  Produce  line,  let 
os near  from   you.  Liberal cash advances 
made  w hen desired.

E A R L   BROS. ,

Co m m issio n Mer c h a n ts
Referenoe: First National  Bank,  Chicago. 
Michigan Tradesman. Grand Rapids.

157 South W ater St.,  C H IC A G O . 

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Hosperia—P.  H.  McGhan has removed 

his grocery stock to Ferry.

Flanagan & Fisher have opened a  gro­
cery store at 447 Lyon street.  The stock 
was purchased at this  market.

Eli  Lyons,  general  dealer  at  Altona, 
has  added  a  line  of  hardware.  The 
stock was purchased at this market.

S. Van Bruggen has  opened a  grocery 
store  at  Maxwell  City,  New  Mexico. 
Hawkins & Company furnished the stock.
E.  McNelton,  meat  dealer  on  Lyon 
street,  near  North  Union  street,  has 
closed  his  shop  and  retired  from busi­
ness.

John Harrovets has  opened  a  grocery 
store at the corner of Madison street  and 
Fifth  avenue.  The  Lemon  &  Wheeler 
Company furnished the stock.

L.  Schrock,  whose  general  stock  at 
Clarksville  was  destroyed  by  fire  last 
Wednesday night, has  purchased  a  new 
stock and resumed  business.  The  Ball 
Barnhart-Putman  Co.  furnished the gro­
ceries and  Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  &  Co. 
the dry goods.

The  G.  li.  &  I.  Railroad has changed 
its  rates  to  the  summer schedule  from 
Grand  Rapids  to  Northern  lake  points. 
The rate to Traverse City, Petoskey,  Bay 
View,  Harbor  Springs  and  Mackinaw 
City  is  now  25  cents  for  first-class,  20 
cents for second-class,  15 cents for third- 
class and 12 cents for fourth-class.

To-day  is  the  last  day  of  grace  ac­
corded  the  syndicate  which  has  been 
negotiating  for  the  plaster  quarries  of 
Grand  Rapids during the  past two  years 
and the  indications are  that the transfer 
will not  be  completed,  as the  New York 
capitalists who are to furnish the  “sinews 
of  war”  appear  to  be  weakening. 
In 
case the syndicate acquires the properties, 
the  price of  stucco will  be  immediately 
advanced  to  the  old  figures—$1.60  for 
large barrels and $1.50 for small.  Several 
Grand Rapids  men, more or less  directly 
connected with the plaster business, have 
purchased  and  stored 
large  quantities 
of  stucco,  in the expectation of  realizing 
a  handsome  profit  on  the  advance  in

Henry W. Fox  has  taken a position  in 
the  drug  store  of  Otto  Bullis, at  Maple 
Rapids.

L.  M.  McCrath  is  seriously  ill  with a 
relapse of la grippe, which has developed 
into pneumonia.

C. F.  Moore, Manager  of  the Diamond 
Crystal Salt Co., at St. Clair, was in town 
one day last week,  looking  after  the  in­
terests of his product.

Christian Bertsch has  gone  to Boston, 
and  will  spend  a  fortnight  in the shoe 
manufacturing  centers of  New England, 
collecting goods for the fall trade.

John  B.  Daniels,  who  is  connected 
with 
the  business  department  of  the 
Northwestern  Lumberman,  the  priuce of 
timber journals,  was in town a couple of 
days of last week.

J.  R. Smith,  for the  past twelve  years 
in 
the  employ  of  W.  E. Watson,  the 
Mancelona  general  dealer,  has  taken  a 
clerkship  in  the  store  of  the Converse 
Manufacturing Co. at Newaygo.

M.  J.  Streeter,  the  Wacousta  general 
dealer,  is  beside  himself  with  joy over 
the advent of a son  who tips  the beam at 
ten pounds avoirdupois. 
It  will  not  be 
long before  the  firm  will  be Streeter  & 
Son.

Jas. Veruor and Arthur Bassett, of De­
troit,  accompanied  by  Stanley  Parkill. 
of Owosso, are  off  on  a Southern trip  of 
three weeks,  during  which  they will  at­
tend the annual meeting of the American 
Pharmaceutical  Association in  New  Or­
leans.

All  In but Reitz.

Ma n ist e e,  April  18.—All  of the salt 
manufacturers at  this  point  have  gone 
into the Michigan Salt Co.,  with  the  ex­
ception of Reitz.  Golden Filer,  who was 
not connected with  the  old  Association, 
is  one  of the most enthusiastic members 
of the new organization.

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.

TOE  HEW  YORK  BISCUIT  CO.,

S.  Â.  SEARS,  Manager.

C ra ck e r M an u factu rers,

87, 39 and 41 Kent St., 

- 

Grand  Rapids.

Jennings*

Flavoring  Extracts

Are  Acknowledged  the  Most  Profitable.

SEE  QUOTATIONS.

PERKI NS  <&  HESS
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

DEALERS IN

NOS.  1**  and  124  LOUIS STREET. GRAND  RAPIDS. MICHIGAN.

WE CARRY A  STOCK OF  CAKE TALLOW  FOB MILL  USE.

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T E A D E S M A K

price,  in  case  the  sale  is  consummated. 
They appear  to  be  more anxious  to  see 
the  sale carried  out-than the  owners of 
the mills and quarries.

Purely Personal.

5
Pennsylvania  Lumlnaii’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  Ageuta  for 

LYCOMING  RUBBER  CO.

158  and  160  East  Fulton  Street•

B o lts  W anted !

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, G rand R apids,  Mich.

We are now ready to make contracts for the season of 1801.

Correspondence solicited. 

81  SOUTH  DIVISION  ST..  OR AND  RAPIDS.

chants:

To Clothing and General Store Mer­

It cannot be disputed that

H IM  Kolli  &
Clothing JVIaiiiifactiirers

Wholesale

Rochester, N. Y.,

Have  had  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.

-  M arshall,  Mich. 

w i l l i a m   CONNOR, 

Box 346, 

We  commence  A.pril  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 upon you and look at these

G R EA T  B A R G A IN S  IN

Hen's,  Youths’, Bogs’  and Children’s  Glothing

William Connor will  be at Sweet’s Hotel,  Grand  Bapids, on Thursday, April 3q.

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N ".
Dry Goods Price Current.

6

The Balance "Wheel of Trade. 

Written fo r The Tradesman.

It would  seem  to be  a  fact  that,  like 
some  watches,  everything  relating  to 
trade and commence  in the world, includ­
ing the small retail merchant in the coun­
try,  has its compensating  balance.  The 
first thought is to  deny such a  condition, 
but the more the subject is examined, the 
more  apparent  the  fact  becomes.  Per­
haps you have always supposed that since 
the railroad connected your village  with 
Grand  Rapids  or  Muskegon,  your  trade 
was injured.  Why?  Because you saw  a 
number of  your customers take the  train 
and  spend the  day,  doing a  little  shop­
ping in those cities.  You saw them return 
with both dry goods and  groceries.  But 
they soon found that a  rather  expensive 
way of saving three cents on a yard or two 
to three cents on a pound, and you quickly 
found that the difference in your expense 
of  obtaining goods by telephone and rail, 
instead of the lumber wagon as formerly, 
allowed you to very  successfully compete 
with large cities, if not  discount them  a 
trifle when you  compared  your low  rent 
and current expenses  with  theirs.  The 
country merchant connected  with  cities 
by rapid  communication now sells  more 
goods  than  when  isolated.  Why?  Be­
cause if  a  particular  kind  or variety of 
goods is  required,  he  can  promise it to 
his  customer  to-morrow,  and  make the 
sale,  not only  when  his  customer most 
desires it,  but just when he  is  in posses­
sion  of  the  money  to  pay  for  it.  Var­
ious  improvements  in  facilitating  trade 
are frequently in advance of our thoughts 
or vision, and the facts  concerning  their 
beneficial  effects  are  only seen  in their 
practical  workings  afterward.  For  in­
stance,  a friend  of  mine  residing  forty 
miles from Chicago,  for twelve to  fifteen 
years before having any nearer  commun­
ication by rail,  fully believed that a rail­
road would almost ruin  the  agricultural 
population,  and regretted  that  one  was 
contemplated.  “Why,”  said  he,  “there 
are  hundreds  of  horses  and  teamsters 
employed between this point (Fox River) 
and Chicago.  All  these horses  consume 
large  quantities  of  oats  and,  in  conse­
quence,  grain brings a high price  at  our 
own door with no cost for transportation. 
Our farmers are  also engaged  in  raising 
an army  of  horses  to meet the constant 
demand.  This necessitates  the  feeding 
of grain and hay on the farms.  Should a 
railroad  be  completed  here,  horses  and I 
oats will  be a drug on the market at once 
and  our most  profitable industry  ruined. 
But mark the result.  The railroad came. 
The oats were  brought  up  close  to  the 
metropolis,  and their  transportation was 
now  so cheaply  effected  that  they  sold 
for more than ever  before.  A  cash  de­
mand for all the horses arose at once,  as 
buyers could easily visit the locality, and 
ship the animals promptly to any section 
of the country.  As the facilities for rap­
id transit came,  milk was wanted in large 
quantities to supply the  great  city,  and 
cows  rapidly  took  the  place  of  horses, 
being a far greater source of profit.  The 
unlooked  for  compensation  came  with 
the railroad and soon a hundred fold  ad­
vantages were added in commercial  pros­
perity, also. 
In  the  connection  of  vil­
lages  with large cities  by railroads,  both 
are about equally  benefitted.  While the 
city enlarges its  wholesale  trade, the vil­
lage  merchant increases  his  retail  busi­
ness.  The village is at once given a better 
market for all  its surplus  farm  produce,

[OOMTIMUED  ON  •■TENTH  PAGE.]

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

“ 

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Adriatic.................  7
Arrow Brand 5)4 
Argyle  ..................   6*4
World Wide.. 7
Atlanta AA.............  6V4
“  LL...............   5
Atlantic A..............  7
Pull Yard Wide...... 6)4
H..............  634
“ 
Georgia  A..............6)4
“ 
P ............... 6
Honest Width.........  6%
D.............   6*
“ 
Hartford A  ............ 5)4
“  LL.............   5*
Indian Head...........  7l£
Amory....................   7
King A  A................. 6)4
Archery  Banting... 4
King EC.................  5
Beaver Dam  A A..  514
Lawrence  L L ........  5*4
Blackstone O, 32__ 5
Madras cheese cloth 634
Black Crow............ 6)4
Newmarket  G........6
Black  Rock  ...........7
B........514
Boot, AL...............   754
N........6%
Capital  A............... 5>4
DD....  5}4 
Cavanat V..............5)4
X ...... 7
Chapman cheese cl.  334 Noibe R..................  sv
Clifton  C R ............ 514  Our Level  Best.......614
Comet..................... 7  Oxford  R ................  6M
Dwight Star............  714 Pequot.....................  714
Clifton CCC...........  614jSolar.......................  614
¡Top of the  Heap....  714
A B C ......................81i
[Geo.  Washington...  8
Amazon.................. 8
Glen Mills.............   7
Amsburg.................7
Gold Medal............   714
Art  Cambric...........10
Green  Ticket......... 8I4
Blackstone A A.......  8
Great Falls.............   6J4
Beats All.................414
Hope.......................   714
Boston.................... 12
Just  Out........434® 5
Cabot.......................714
King  Phillip.... „ ..  7V
Cabot,  %................. 654
OP......  714
Charter  Oak........... 514
Lonsdale Cambric.. 1014
Conway W..............   714
Lonsdale...........  @ 834
Cleveland............... 7
Middlesex........   @ 5
Dwight Anchor.......8M
No Name................   714
shorts.  8*1 Oak View...............   6
Edwards................   6  Our Own.................  514
Empire................... 7  Pride of the W est...12
.............. 7* Rosalind.....................714
Parwell. 
Fruit of the  Loom 
8141 Sunlight..................  414
Fitch ville
17  Utica  Mills.............. 814
First Prize..............0%
Fruit of the Loom X.  8
Vinyard..................  814
Fairmount..............414
White Horse 
Full Value..............634
Rock.........   .  814
HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.
Cabot.....................   7341 Dwight Anchor
Farwell...................8 
|
UNBLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.
TremontN..............   514
Hamilton N.............614
L.............7
Middlesex AT........8
X...........  9
No. 25__ 9
BLEACHED  CANTON  FLANNEL.
Hamilton N........... 714
Middlesex P T.......... 8
A T.......... 9
X A.......... 9
X F ........ 1014

Middlesex A A.......11
2 ...........12
A O........1314
4...... 1714
5.......16
Peerless, white....... 18  ¡Integrity, colored.  21
colored. ...2014 White Star..............1814
.  . 
“  colored..21
Integrity................ 18141 
Hamilton  ...............8
Nameless................ 20
“ 
................. 9
.................25
_  “ 
.................1014
 
G G  Cashmere........21
-  ..............30
Nameless.............. 16
 
...............18
.................35

Middlesex No.  1__ 10
2.. 
3. ...12
7.. 
8.. 

DRESS  GOODS.
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CARPET  WARP.

Nonpareil  ..11
....  6

27)4
32)4

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9

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PRINTS.

CORSETS.

“ 
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CORSET  JEANS.

“  —   6141 

Hamilton fancy. 

_  
Coralino  ...............$9 50|Wonderful............$4 50
Schilling’s ............   9 00! Brighton..................475
Armory...................  634
Naumkeagsatteen..  714
Androscoggin......... 734.
Rock port.................. 614
Blddeford...............  ¿
Conestoga.................634
Brunswick..............614
Walworth..............   634
Allen turkey  reds..  534 
Berwick fancies__  14
robes.............534
Clyde Robes...........5
Eink a purple 634
Charter Oak fancies 4% 
uffs  . . . . . .  6
DelMarine cashm’s.  6 
pink  checks.  5)4
mourn’g  6 
staples.........5)4
Eddy stone  fancy...  6 
shirtings...  4%
chocolat  6 
American  fancy 
534
rober  ...  6 
American indigo 
534
sateens..  6
American shirtings.  434 
  6
Argentine  GrayB...  6 
staple__ 5)4
Anchor Shirtings...  434 Manchester
faFancy..  6
Arnold 
new era.  6
...  6  Merrimack D fancy.  6 
Arnold  Merino 
long cloth B. 10)4 Merrim’ck shirtings.  4% 
Reppfurn.  814
‘  ,  c -  8)41 
„ 
‘ 
century cloth  7  [Pacific fancy..........6
gold seal...... 1014 
614
‘  green seal TR10% Portsmouth robes...  6 
yellow  seal.. 10)4 simpson mourning.  6
greys .. ..  .6
serge...... •• • •1114 
! 
_  “  Turkey  red  . ion [ 
solid black.  6
Ballou solid black..  5  [Washington Indigo.  6 
colors.  5)4  “  Turkey robes..  7%
d 
“  India robes....  7% 
Bengal blue,  green, 
red and  orange  ..  b%  “  plain T’ky X 34  8)4
Berlin solids...........514 
“ 
« J x .^ 107*
“  oil bine.......  6)4  “  Ottoman  Tur-
‘ 
‘‘  green ....  6)4  keyred................   6
Foulards ....  5)4 Martha Washington
re a 34...........7 
„ 
Ti...........  9)4 Martha Washington
.. 
..  ^ . yyVy JS 
J-4XXXX 12  Rlverpointrobes__5
. 
“  madders...  6 
| 
gold  ticket 
“  XX twills..  6%\
“ 
solids......... 5)41

Turkey red 34......... 734
Turkey red  ........  9)4
„  
Cocheco fancy........  6  Windsor fancy........614
“ 
Indigo blue......... 10)4

robes........ 

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AC  A..................... 1214
Pemberton AAA.... 16
York....................... 10)4
Swift River............  734
Pearl  River............ 12*4
Warren................... 14

TICKINGS.

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Amoskeag A C A.... 13
Hamilton N............   734
D ....  ....  8)4
Awning.. 11
Farmer................... g
First Prize.............. 1114
Lenox M ills.......... 18 
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Atlanta,  D..............  63£| Stark  A
£«»»• •••••................. 63£ No  Name...
Clifton, K................. 734 ¡Top of Heap
Simpson.
imperial... 
............20
.................18
Black........
_ ‘ 
......................16
Coechco................. 1014

COTTON  DRILL.

SATiNBS.

" 

.......10)4
• ■  m   9% 
........10K

“ 
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Amoskeag..............12%
9oz......14%
brown .18
Andover.................11%
Beaver Creek AA... 10 
“ 
BB...  9
CC-...
“ 
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 
“ 
blue  814
“  d & twist 10%
Columbian XXX  br.10 
XXX  bl.19  ;

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[Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue.......... 12
brown.......12
Haymaker blue......  714
brown...  73£
Jeffrey.....................11)4
Lancaster................12%
Lawrence, 9 oz........UK
No. 250....11K 
No. 280__ 10)4

“  No. 220....13
“ 
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GINGHAMS.
“ 
fancies....  7
“  Normandie  8

Amoskeag.............. 714
“  Persian dress 814 
Canton ..  814
“ 
AFC........1214
“ 
Arlington staple__  6J4
Arasapha  fancy—   4=4 
Bates Warwick dreg 814 
staples.  614
Centennial.............  1014
Criterion......... ...... 1014
Cumberland staple.  514
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................414
Elfin.......................  714
Everett classics......814
Exposition............... 714
Glenarie.................  614
Glenarven..............   634
Glenwood.................714
Hampton...................614
Johnson Chalon cl 
14 
indigo blue 9J4 
zephyrs.... 16 
Lancaster,  staple...  634

Lancashire.............   614
Manchester.............  534
Monogram..............  6%
Normandie............... 714
Persian...................   814
Renfrew Dress..........714
Rosemont................. 614
Slatemville.............. 6
Somerset......... . 
7
Tacoma  ...................7%
Toil  duNord..........1014
Wabash.................... 714
seersucker..  714
Warwick...............   814
Whittenden............   634
heather dr.  8 
Indigo blue  9 
Wamsutta staples...  634
Westbrook..............8
..............10
Windermeer........... 5
York
............... 634
GRAIN  BASS.
Amoskeag..............16)4 [Valley City
Stark...................... 2014! Georgia
American...............16)4 i Pacific

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THREADS.

Clark’s Mile End__45  iBarbou
Coats’, J. & P.........45  Marsha
Holyoke..................22141

KNITTING  COTTON.

..11
..18
..19

..33
...34
...35
...36

6  ..
8...
10...
12...

“  16...
“  18...
“  20...

White.  Colored.
38 No.  14... ....37
39
...38
40
...39
41
...40
CAMBRICS.

White.  Colored,
42
43
44
45
Slater.......................   4141Washington.......... 4u
White Star............   4)4 Red Cross.  .............  4)4
Kid Glove...............  4)4 Lockwood.................4%
Newmarket............ 4% Wood’s....................   4U
Edwards.................. 4)4¡Brunswick............  4%
Fireman................ 32)4
T W ..................................2214
Creedmore.............27%
F T ......................... 82)4
Talbot XXX...........30
JR F.X X X ............35
Nameless...............2714
Buckeye.................3214
Red &' Bine,  plaid. .40  IGreySRW .............1734
Union R................. 22)4 Western W  ..............1834
Windsor................. 18)4 D R P .......................1814
6oz Western.......... 21  FlushingXXX.........23)4
Union. B................ 2214 ¡Manitoba................. 23)4
DOMET  FLANNEL.
Nameless...... 8  @ 9)41 
.......g  @10)4
8)4010 
12)4

MIXED  FLANNEL.

RED  FLANNEL.

« 

Brown.  Black.¡Slate.  Brown.

CANVASS  AND  PADDINO.
914
1014
1114
1214

Slate.
9* 13 
9) 4
10) 4 
10)4 15 
UK 
111417 
1214120 
1214
DUCKS.
Severen, 8oz..........
914
Ma y land, 8 oz.........10%
Greenwood, 7% oz..  9% 
Greenwood, 8 oz__11)4

West  Point,  8 oz_10)4
IO 0Z ....1214
“  
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Raven, lOoz.............1334
Stark 
.............13)4
WADDINGS.

Black
13
15
17
20

White, doz............ 25  I Per bale, 40 doz___ 87 50
Colored, doz.......... 20 

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SILBSIAS.

Slater, Iron Cross...  8  Pawtucket...............10)4
“ Red Cross....  9  Dundle............................  9
“  Best................ 10)4  Bedford.......  
1034
12)4 Valley  City............. 1014
“ 

Best AA 

SEWING  SILK.

Corticelli, doz.........75  fCorticelli  knitting

twist, doz. .37)4  per %oz ball.... 7.30 
50 yd, doz..37)41
HOOKS AND EVES—FEB GROSS
No  1 Bl’k & Whlte..l0  INo  4 Bl’k & White  15
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“  2 
..'20
“  3 
.25
« 
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No 2-20, M C 
40
‘  3-18,8 C.......... 45
No  2 White & Bl’k..12  ¡No  8 White & Bl’k  20 
.15  “ 10 
“  4 
.23
..18 
I  «  12 
[  as
“ 
6 
SAFETY  FINS.
No2........................ 28 
|No3..........................36

..12  I “  8 
,:12 
«10 
.50  INo 4—15  F 8)4-

COTTON  TAPE.

PINS.

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NEED LBS—PER  M.

A. James................ 1  50jSteamboat.
Crowelv’s................1 35 Gold  E yed... .'.'.‘I.'.'l  50
Marshall’s...............1 00
5—4. ...2 25  6—4. ..3 2515—4 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
“  ...3 10|

“ ----2 10 

6—4. ..2 95

1  95

COTTON TWINES.

Nashua................... 18
Rising Star 4-ply ... .17 
„  
3-ply — 17
North Star.............. 20
Wool Standard 4 plyl7)4 
Powhattan.............18

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown................... 12
Domestic...............18)4
Anchor..................16
Bristol......   ...........13  I
Cherry  Valley........15
I XL............  ........13
Alabama.................  63S£ Mount  Pleasant.
Alamance................   6)4
Augusta].................. 7)4
An sapha................  6
Georgia....................  6)4
Granite .................. 534
Haw  River..............5
H aw .J......................6  !

614
Oneida....................  6
Pyrm ont................  534
Randelman............ 6
Riverside...............   5)4
Sibley A.................6M
Toledo....................  6

PLAID  OSNABUB08.

igl HorpolsbeL.....

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  Du  Nord,  Challies,  White 
and  Black  Goods,  Percales,  Satteens, 
Serges,  Pants  Cloth,  Cottonades  and 
Hosiery now ready for inspection.
Chicago and D etroit Prices Guaranteed.

48,  50 and 52 Ottawa St.

GRAND RAPIDS, 

- 

-  MICH.

A  W N I N  G S

A N D   T E N T S .

Fla*«. Hors« 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.

Spring Season 1801.

I f   You  desire  to  sell

Carpets  by  Sample

Send for

Circular and  Price List.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

J.&P.COATS

SIX-CORD

IN

Spool Cotton

FOR

WHITE, BUCK  AND  COLOBS,
Hand and Machine Usa
F.  STEKETEE  & SONS.

FOR  8ALE  BY

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .
Hardware Price Current.

HAMMERS.

AXIS.

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
dig.

60
Snell's........................................................... 
Cook’s ........................................................... 
40
Jennings’, genuine......................................  
28
Jennings’,  Imitation....................................50*10

AUGURS AMD BITS. 

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“ 
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barrows. 

First Quality, S. B. Bronze...........................1790
D.  B. Bronze............................  12 00
S. B. S. Steel..............................  8 50
D. B. Steel................................. 13 50
Railroad...................................................... * 14 00
Garden.................................................. net  30 00
Stove............................................................. 50*10
Carriage new list.........................................  
70
Plow.............................................................. 40*10
70
Sleigh shoe................................................... 

BOLTS. 

dig.

dig.

BUCKETS.

Well,  plain................................................... 1350
Well, swivel......................................................  4 00

BUTTS, CAST. 

dlS.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................70*
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.............. 60*10
Wrought Loose Pin.......................................60&10
Wrought Table.............................................G0&10
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60*10
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70&16
Blind,  Parker’s.............................................70*10
Blind, Shepard’s .......................................... 
70

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

40

BLOCKS.

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

Grain......................................................dls. 50*02
Cast Steel.............................................per lb  5
Ely’s 1-10.............................................perm 
Hick’s C. F .........................................  
“ 
G. D ....................................................   “ 
“ 
Musket................................................ 

65
60
35
60

CARTRIDGES.

Rim  Fire...................................................... 
Central  Fire.......................................... dig. 

chisels. 

dig.
Socket Firmer................................... 
70*10
Socket Framlfig............................................70*10
Socket Corner...............................................70*10
Socket Slicks...............................................70*10
Butchers’Tanged Firmer............................ 
40

50
25

 

combs. 

dig.

40
Curry,  Lawrence’s....................................... 
Hotchkiss....................................................  
25
White Crayons, per  gross..............12@12H dig. 10

CHALK.

COFFER.

“ 

Planished, 14 oz cut to size........per pound 
14x52,14x56,14x60 .......................  
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.......................  
Cold Rolled, 14x48........................................  
Bottoms...............  
Morse's Bit  Stocks..................................... 
Taper and straight Shank............................ 
Morse’s Taper Shank.................................... 

drills. 

 

dls.

30
28
25
25
27
50
50
50

DRIPPING PANS.

Small sizes, ser pound................................  
07
Large sizes, per  pound................................   6H

BLBOWS.

Com. 4  piece, 6 in ........................... doz. net 
75
Corrugated..................................... dls. 20*10*10
Adjustable.............................................dls. 40*10
dls.
Clark’s, small, 118; large, 826.......................  
30
Ives’, 1, »18;  2, 824 ; 3,130............................ 
25

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

files—New List. 

dls.

Dlsston’s ...................................................... 60*10
New American............................................. 60*10
Nicholson’s ..................................................60*10
Heller’s ......................................................... 
50
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps.................................... 

GALVANIZED IRON

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

12 

14 

Discount, 60

13 
GAUGES. 

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

28
18

50

dlB.

and at more remunerative prices.  Why? 
Because of the  reduction in cost of  car­
riage,  promptness of delivery and  fresh­
ness  with  which  it  may  be  received. 
This places more money in  the  hands of 
the people, who, in turn, have more to ex­
pend,  and thus the compensation follows. 
It has been said of manufactured products, 
that it is extremely  doubtful if there has 
ever been an over-production—that there 
was simply a contraction in demand, and 
this  demand  will  at  any  time  increase 
with the cheapness of production;  hence, 
the merchant by more than  doubling.his 
sales, even at a less percentage of  profit, 
is  actually better  paid  for  his  interest 
and labor.  The unprecedented low price 
of sugar in  this  country  to-day  will be 
found  to  increase  the consumption  to  a 
surprising degree,  and the  grocer will be 
benefitted in  proportion.  Herein lies the 
“compensating  balance.”

T aking  No  C hances.

From Brooklyn Life.

years?”

“You are a pharmacist, are you?”
“I am.”
“Been  in  the  business  a  number  of 
“I have.”
“Registered?”
“Yes, sir.”
“That  is  your  diploma  hanging  over 
“It is.”
“Well,  you  may give  me  a  pound  of 

there?”

borax.”

IMITATION  IS  T H E   SIN CEREST  FORM 

OF  F L A T T E R Y ”

th a t  t h e  GEM   FR E E Z E R   18  RECOGNIZED  AS  THE  BEST  IS
PROVEN  BY THE  WAY OUR COMPETITORS ARE IMITATING ITS GOOD QUALI­
TIES,  AND USE IT AS A STANOARD OF COMPARISON  WHEN TRYING TO SELL 
THEIR OWN GOODS.  WE  LEAD— OTHERS FOLLOW.

WE  CLAIM  FOR  THE  GEM   FR EEZER   NOTHING  THAT  CANNOT  BE 
FULLY  PROVEN.  WE  ONLY  CLAIM A DOUBLE ACTION  BECAUSE IT IS 
IMPOSSIBLE TO GET  MORE  THAN  TWO  MOTIONS  FROM  ANY 8YSTEM  OF 

GEARING IN USE IN ANY  FREEZER AT THE  PRESENT TIME.

DO  NOT BE IMPOSED UPON BY THOSE WHO MAY TRY TO SELL YOU OTHER 
FREEZERS  BY  TELLING  YOU  THAT THEY  ARE  “  JU ST AS GOOD ”   OR 

“  JUST THE  SAME AS TH E G EM .’ *

INSIST ON HAVING THE  “  GEM,”   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.

w e ll A dvertised. 

T horoughly w rapped 

FOR PROTECTION  IN 

Shipping.

JOHN  H.  GRAHAM  &   CO.,
MANUFACTURERS’  AGENTS’
113 Cham bers St r e e t, 

New York.

AMERICAN  M ACHINE  CO.,
LEHIGH  AVE. A  AMERICAN S T ., 
" m"

P h i l a d e l p h i a . 

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 E N I S O N ,
88,  90, 92  So.  Division  St., Grand  Rapids 

Manufacturers’  Agent,

Estimates given on Complete Outfits.

dig.

“ 
“ 
“ 

dls.
dls.

MATTOCKS.

HINGES.

levels. 

HANGERS. 

wire goods. 

LOCKS—DOOR. 

HOLLOW WARE.

knobs—New List. 

 
HOUSE FURNISHING  0000».

Maydole *  Co.’s ....................................dls. 
25
Kip’s ...................................................... dls. 
25
Terkes A Plumb’s................................. dls. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel, Hand__30c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2 ,3 ..............................dls.60&10
State...........................................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook and  Strap, to 12 in. 4H  14 and
longer........................................................  3Vi
Screw Hook and  Eye, H.......................net 
10
“  %........................ net 
“ 
8)4
ft........................ net 
7)4
“ 
“ 
7)4
“  %........................ net 
“ 
Strap and T ........................................... dls. 
50
dls.
Bara Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50*10
Champion,  anti-friction.............................   60*10
40
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
60
Pots............................................................... 
Kettles........................................................... 
60
Spiders  ............................ 
60
Gray enameled..............................................40*10
Stamped  Tin Ware...  .........................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
25
Granite Iron W are..................... new list 33)4*10
dls.
Bright...................................................... 70*10*10
Screw  Eyes.............................................70*10*10
Hook’s .....................................................70*10*10
70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.'s  .................... 
70
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
55
55
Door,  porcelalp, jap. trimmings................. 
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
55
Door,  porcelsin, tilmmlngg........................  
55
Drawer  and  Shatter, porcelain..................  
70
Russell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .........  
55
55
Mallory, Wheeler *  Co.’s ...........................  
Branford’s ................................................... 
55
Norwalk’s .................................................. 
55
Adze Eye.........................................116.00, dls. 60
Hunt Bye.  ......................................115.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s....................... 
...........»18.50, dls. 20*10.
d ig .
50
Sperry A Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................  
40
40
“  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malléables.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry & Ch'ik’s.................  
40
“  Enterprise 
.....................................  
25
Stebbin’s Pattern..........................................60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ 60*10
25
Enterprise, self-measuring.......................... 
Steel nails, base.....................................
..1  95 
Wire nails, base.....................................
..2 35 
Steel.
Wire. 
60.....................................................Base
Base 
50..................................................... Base
10 
40...................  
05
20 
30....................................................  
10
20 30
20.........  
15
16....................................................  
15
12....................................................   15
40
10......................................................  20
50
8.......................................................   25
65
7 * 6 .................................................   40
90
4............................. 
60
1  50
3.........................................................1 00
a ...................................................................................J  Q0
2  00 
Fine 3................................................1 50
2  0090 
Case  10.............................................  60
8.............................................  75
1  00 
6.............................................  90
1  25 
Finish 10..........................................   85
1  00 
8............................................ 1 00
1  25 
1  50 
6............................................ 1 15
75
Clinch! 10..........................................  85
90 
8..........................................1  00
6..........................................1  15
1  00 
2 50 
Barrell %...........................................1 75
dls.
.  @40 
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy..........................
Sciota Bench.........................................
.  @60 
.  @40 
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.................
.  @60 
Bench, first quality................................
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood.  .
.  *10
dls.60—10 
Fry,  Acme............................................
Common, polished................................
70 
dls. 
40
Iron and  Tinned.........................................  
Copper Rivets and Burs............................. 
50
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
*‘B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

Advance over base: 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

MOLASSES OATES. 

N AILS

PLANES.

Broken packs He per pound extra.

MAULS. 

RIVETS.

m il l s. 

FANS.

dls.

dlS.

 

 

 

 

 

7

ROPES.

 

SQUARES. 

SHEET IRON.

Sisal, H inch and larger.............................  8
Manilla..........................................................  jjj$
dls.
Steel and Iron..............................................  
75
Try and Revels...................................  
 
go
Mitre............................................................ 
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
83 10
3 20
3 20
3 30
3 40
3 50
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

Nos. 10 to  14......................................14 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...................................... dls. 
Sliver Lake, White A..............................list 
Drab A.................................  “ 
“ 
White  B...............................  » 
“ 
Drab B..................................  “ 
“ 
“  White C..................................“ 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.  ■

50
50
55
50
56
35

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

Hand........................................ 

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton 825
“ 
20
Silver Steel  Dla. X Cuts, per foot,__ 
70
50
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot__ 
“  Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot__ 
30
*
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X 
Cuts,  per  root.............................................  3u
dls.
Steel, Game................................................... 60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s __ 
70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per doz.
Mouse, delusion............................... 81.50 per doz.
dls.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market..........................................70—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market............................................   62H
Coppered  Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...............................  3 40
painted...................................   2 80

wire. 

“ 

WRENCHES. 

Au Sable...............................dls. 25410@25*10*05
Putnam.......................................... 
dls. 05
Northwestern................................ 
dls. 10*10
dlS.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..................... 75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75*10
Bird Cages.......................................... 
 
50
Pumps, Cistern........................................  
75
Screws, New I ist..........................................70*10
Casters. Bed a  d Plate...........................50*10*10
Dampers, American..................................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods........  
65

MISCELLANEOUS. 

dig.
 

HORSE NAILS.

METALS, 
pie tin.

6%
7

ZINC.

26c
28c

BOLDER.

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars.......................................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2Hc per pound.
680 pound  casks........................................... 
Per pound....................................................  
H@H.................................................................. 16
Extra W iping.................................................  J5
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder in the market indicated by nrivate brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson........................................per  pound  16
Hallett’s......................................  
13
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10xl4IC, Charcoal........................................8 7 50
7 50
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
9 25
14x20 IX, 
9 25

Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.

“ 

 
 
 

 

 

10xl4IC, Charcoal...................................... 8 6 50
6 50
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
8 00
14x20 IX, 
8 00

Each additional X on this grade 81.50.

 
 

“ 
“ 
“ 
TIN—ALLA WAY GRADE.
“ 
“ 
“ 

 
 
 
ROOFING PLATES

 
 
 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“  Worcester...........................  6 50
14x20 IC, 
“ 
14x20 IX, 
..........................   8 SO
“ 
13  50
.................... . 
20x28 IC, 
“  Allaway  Grade................  5 75
14x20IC, 
7 25
 
“ 
14x20 IX, 
“ 
12 00
 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
“ 
 
15 00
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.
14x28 IX........................................................814 CO
14x31  IX................................  
K l l :  f°r N°-1 B0‘‘e" ’ [ ^  potml  -  

15
10

“ 
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i

We  have  taken  hold of  this  line  of  goods  w ith  our  ac­
customed  energy  and  shall  carry  a  full  assortm ent  of  the 
best  makes.  We  shall  be  glad  to  give  full  inform ation  and 
prices  to any one  desiring to  secure an  agency.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

8

T H E   M IC H IG A N '  T R A D E S M A N .

M ichigan T radesman

Official O rgan o f M ichigan B usiness Men’s  A ssociation.

▲  W EEK LY   JOU RN A L  DEVOTED  TO  T fIB

Retail Trade of tlie Wolverine State.
The  Tradesm an  Company,  Proprietor.

Relief from  the Remedy.

Customer—Not long ago I came in here 
and bought a porous  plaster  to.  help me 
get rid  of  the  lumbago.
Clerk—Yes, sir.  What can I do for you 
now?
Customer—I want something to help me 
get rid of the porous plaster.

MOSELEY BROS.,
Clover & Timothy Seeds,

BEANS, POTATOES, EVAPORATED APPLES.

Jobbers  of

SOLD  MEDAL,  PARIS,  1878.

26, 28, 30 and 32  Ottawa St., 

W TBtrn Æ Cm
ast 
jOCOa I Foreign  and  Domestic  Fruits.

C. N .  R A P P   &

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

GRAND  RAPIDS.

CO.,

I

from which the excess of 
oil has been removed,
la Absolutely Pure ! ORANGES, LEMONS and BANANAS.
and it is Soluble.

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

HEADQUARTERS  FOR

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

strictly in advance.

Publication  Office, 100 Louis St.

Entered at the Grand Rapid» Post Office.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

WEDNESDAY,  A PRIL 22, 1891.

FIGURES  WILL  LIE.

The  old  aphorism  to  the  effect  that 
figures will  not  lie is no  longer accepted 
by  conservative  business  men,  because 
too  much  depends  upon  the  honesty  of 
tfie  person  employing  that  method  of 
expression.  Political discussions of  late 
years  have  proven  that  figures  can  be 
made to  lie  with as much  apparent  can­
dor as the politician  uses in harranguing 
the  adherents of  his  party in the  heated 
periods of a campaign.

The  above observation is suggested by 
the  official  report  lately  given  to  the 
press  by  Secretary  of  State  Soper,  who 
improves  the  opportunity  to  decry  the 
occupation  of  the  farmer  and  depict  a 
condition  of  affairs  which  every candid 
observer  is  satisfied  exists only  in  im­
agination.  The business of  farming has 
not  been so profitable as it should  be for 
several  years  past,  but  the  man  who 
asserts  that the  farmers of  Michigan,  as 
a class,  are  on  the  road to bankruptcy— 
even  though  he  presents  doctored  and 
distorted  tables of  figures  in  support  of 
his  assertion—is  actuated  either  by  ig­
norance  or  cunning.  Mr.  Soper  had 
something  of  a reputation  as  a  nego­
tiator of  farm  loans  long  before  being 
elevated to the office which he now occu­
pies,  and his  present  onslaught on farm­
ing  as  a  business—sent  out  broadcast 
over  the  country under  the  official  ap­
proval of the State—will do much  to cre­
ate  distrust  of  Michigan  loans  in  the 
minds of Eastern capitalists,and,possibly, 
enable  Mr.  Soper to continue his alleged 
10 - per - cent. - interest - and-10-per-cent.- 
plan of bonus operation after he has been 
relegated  to  the  ranks  of  the  private 
citizen.

In  view of  the  high  prices now  ruling 
for  all  kinds  of  farm  products  and  a 
promising  outlook  for  profitable  prices 
for  several  years  to  come—considering 
that  over  a  million  dollars’  worth  of 
farm mortgages have  been discharged  in 
Northern Michigan alone during the past 
six  months from last year’s potato crop— 
not  at  all  surprising  that  Mr.  Soper’s 
attempt to  depreciate  the value  of  farm 
lands  and to disparage  the  profession of 
the farmer should  meet with  the opposi­
tion of every class  of  people  except  the 
scheming  demagogues  who  hope to  per­
petuate themselves in  office by inflaming 
the ignorant and  unfortunate portions of 
the community  by means of  false issues 
and lying  figures.

Generous  Offer.

The Thompson & White Soap Co. offers 
to  send  any  grocer’s  wife  a  $3 set  of 
silver-plated knives on receipt  of  an  in­
voice showing that her husband has pur­
chased  a  case  of  “Condensed  Potash 
Flakes,” for which the house  is  creating 
a large demand.

The  rain  of  dollars  will  follow  the 

reign of sense.

}\m No Chemicals i 

are used in its prepar­
ation. 
It  has  more 
i than  three  times the 
Istrength  of  C ocoa 
’mixed  with  Starch, 
rrowroot  or  Sugar,  and  is  therefore  far 
tore economical, costing less than one cent a 
It is  delicious,  nourishing, strengthen- 
ip. 
ig,  e a s i l y   d i g e s t e d , and admirably adapted 
,r invalids as well as for persons in health.

Sold  by G rocers everyw here.

S OS !

Parties  wishing  seeds of  any  kind  for  garden 
or  field  please  send  for  our  catalogue  and 
wholesale price list before buying.

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

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

The  Alfred  Brown  Seed  Store.

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

G.  S .  BROWN  <£  CO.,

.BAKER & co., Dorchester, mass. | Ça 1 ifornia Oranges

_________   _____ 

____ JOBBERS  OF  --------

B E A C H ’S

New  York  Qoffee  Rooms,

61  Pearl  Street.

Five  Cents  Each  for  all  dishes  served 

from bill of fare.

Steaks, Chops, Oysters and All  Kinds  of 

Order  Cooking  a  Specialty. 
FRANK  M.  BEACH,  Prop.

F. J. BARBER.

A. C. MARTIN.

BiRBER,  MARTIN  &  CO.
ßüMissioi  perchants

GENERAL

FOR THE  SALE  OF

Blitter, Eggs, Poilltry, Priiit, and all 

Kinds of Codntry ProdVce.

191  Sonth  Water  Street,

CH ICAGO.

S . A .  M orm  an

Petoskey,  Marblehead and Ohio

WHOLESALE
LIME,

Akron,  Buffalo and Louisville

C E M E N T S ,

Stucco and Hair,  Sewer Pipe, 
F IR E   BRICK  AND  CLAY.

W rite  for Prices.

20  LYON  ST., 

-  GRAND  RAPIDS.

^   B lu efield   B a n a n a s.

SEND  FOR  QUOTATIONS.

24 and 26 North Division St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

M u s k e g o n   C r a c k e r   C o.,

M anufacturers o f

Crackers, B iscuits#Sw eet Goods.

Finest Quality and Largest Variety in the State.

MUSKEGON.

MICHIGAN.

SPECIAL  ATTENTION  PA ID   TO  MAIL  ORDERS.

T U C K E R ,  C O A D E   &  CO.,

Wholesale - P ro to  - Commission - Merchants.

SPECIALTIES :  Butter, Eggs and Fruits.  .

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
56 and 58 South Ionia St., 
REFERENCES:  Grand Rapids National Bank, Elliott & Co., T. Wasson, E. J. Herrick, Rem­
ington & Horton, all of Gaand Rapids.  Consignments  solicited.  Stencils and  cards  furnished on 
application.  Returns made immediately on sale of goods.  TELEPHONE 87.

W rite  for Quotations.

THEO.  B.  GOOSSEN,

Wholesale  P ro te   i  Commission

Broker in  Hardwood and Hemlock Lumber,

33 Ottawa St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Consignments  solicited. 

Reference, Kent County Sa/vi/ngs Bank.

TELFER  SPICE  COMPANY,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Spices  and  Baking  Powder,  and  Jobbers  of 

Teas. Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries.

1 and 3 Pearl  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS

T H E   M I C H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N .

9

The  Druggists  will  Survive.

from 

Brinton,  April  10.—Please  allow me 
a small space in yonr  valuable  paper  in 
to  the  constitutional  kicker, 
answer 
James Vernor,  of  Detroit,  wherein he is 
kicking in regard to physicians becoming 
pharmacists without examination.  1 be­
lieve  that  a  physician  who diagnoses a 
disease  and  prescribes  for  the  same is 
far  more  competent  to fill the prescrip­
tion  than  a  druggist  (who  sometimes 
substitutes  and  sometimes,  the  sufferer 
frequently  losing  his  life  by the substi­
tution)  who  never  saw  the  invalid.  1 
believe  that  if  every  physician  would 
purchase  his  medicines 
some 
reputable  physicians’  supply  house and 
furnish  is  own  remedies  in  full  and 
write no prescriptions, that these kickers 
in general would not have the opportuni­
ty to substitute any remedy,  and  if  the 
patient  was  poisoned  by  an overdose of 
any  violent  poison,  the  physician alone 
would be responsible;  and it  would  not 
only  do  away  with  the  constitutional 
kicking  if  physicians,  who  would  keep 
and  prescribe  their  own  remedies,  but 
the  sick  and  afflicted  would  get  their 
medicine  cheaper  and  there  would  be 
no substitution  of  remedies,  because the 
physician  has  only  his  reputation with 
which  to  earn  a  livelihood,  while  the 
majority  of  the  druggists  care  only for 
the  fees  that  a  prescription brings, re­
gardless of the consumers’ welfare.

Y.  H.  W orden.
Hood & Co. Abandon Their Contract. 
The wholesale druggists of the country 
received telegrams from C. I. Hood & Co., 
Saturday,  announcing  their  annullment 
of the contract promulgated by that house 
on January 20.  This action is due to the 
refusal of the majority of the retail trade 
to  sign  the  agreement  and  co-operate 
with  the  manufacturers  in  establishing 
a  minimum  price  on  their  goods. 
It is 
to be regretted  that the  effort of Hood & 
Co. has met with such serious opposition, 
as the house has  evidently been actuated 
by the  best  of  intentions, 
it  has  been 
an expensive experiment for Hood & Co., 
who are  probably $100,000  out of  pocket 
through  the  attempt  to  maintain  their 
contract,  besides  the  loss  of  a  large 
amount of  trade, owing to the  antipathy 
of the trade to the plan  proposed.

Freight  Rates.

The  New Salt  Company—Reduction  in 
Sa g in a w ,  April  18.—At  a meeting of 
the  directors  of  the  newly-organized 
Michigan Salt Co., held here on Tuesday, 
some  of  the  officers  were  elected  and 
important  plans  were  outlined  for  the 
future.  The President  of  the  corpora­
tion has not yet been named,  as it  is  not 
known  whether  the  gentleman  the  di­
rectors  have  in  view  will  accept  the 
office. 
In  case  he  will  not  accept,  the 
office  will  fall  to Mr.  Stone of  the  firm 
of Wells,  Stone &Co, who is temporarily 
discharging the duties of Vice-President. 
Two things  are  fully  agreed  upon—W. 
R.  Burt  shall  have  no  hand  in  the 
management  of  the  company  and  the 
duties  and  privileges  of  the  directors 
shall  not  be  usurped  by the President, 
as was the case with the  old  Association 
under  Mr.  Burt’s  management.  Those 
manufacturers  who  refuse  to  affiliate 
with  the  company  will  shortly be con­
fronted  with 
the  same  tactics  which 
have  enabled  the  Standard  Oil  Co.  to 
silence all competition.
re­
duction  of  8  per cent,  will go into effect 
April 20, on all classes  to  and  from  the 
Saginaw valley to points east of  Buffalo. 
The request of shippers was for a  15 per 
cent,  reduction,  and  the  announcement 
of  only  8  per  cent,  does  not  strike the 
shippers  of  this  market  with  much 
enthusiasm. 
It is claimed that Flint,  an 
inland  town, 
from 
Saginaw,  has  been  on  a  92  per  cent, 
basis  for  a  long  time,  yet  Saginaw, 
having  both  rail  and  water  shipping 
facilities,  and  furnishing  an  immense 
tonnage,  has  been  keept  on  a  100 per 
cent,  basis—in  other  words,  paid  the 
same  rate  as  Chicago  on  everything 
shipped  east.  Dealers  here  have  been 
shipping  lumber  to  New  York  for  25 
cents, and to Philadelphia  for  23  cents. 
The  reduction  of  8  per  cent,  will now 
make the New  York  rate  23  cents  and 
Philadelphia 21 cents.

The  railroads  announce  that  a 

thirty-four  miles 

Cash Prize for Everybody.

We have the newest and  biggest thing 
out in  a  scheme  coffee.  Ask  our  trav­
eling man to show it to  you.

Ba ll-Babnh a bt-P tjtman Co.

The  Drug Market.

Alcohol  has  advanced  4c  per  gallon, 

the price being now as follows:
Barrels.......................................................  *2 31
2 36
Half  barrels............................................... 
10 gallon  lots.............................................  
2 39
5 gallon lots................................................  
2 41
Less 5c per gallon for cash in 10 days.
The  Paris  Green  Association  has  an­

nounced the following prices:
Arsenic kegs....................................  .............15$£
100 to 175 lb.  kegs............................................1654
14,28 and 56 lb. pails....................................... 173£
1 lb. boxes.......................................................18J4
.......................................................20M
% lb.  “ 
M lb.  “ 
.......................................................22M
Above prices  are  subject to change  on 

two days* notice.

Opium  and  morphia  are  steady.  Qui­
nine is weak and lower for foreign brands. 
Domestic  is  unchanged.  Citric  acid  is 
firmer.  Epsom  salts  are  higher.  Tur­
pentine  is  lower.  Celery  seed  has  ad-! 
vanced.

Send for (Quotations.

WM.  BRUMMELER  &  SONS

M anufacturers o f and Jobbers in 

Pieced and Stam ped Tinw are, Rags,

M etals, Iron,  Rubber and W iping Rags 

264 So. Ionia St., GRAND  RAPIDS. 

Telephone 640.

EDMUND B.DIKEMRN

T.  E.  Clapp  has  merged  his  private 
bank,  at  White  Pigeon,  into  the  First 
National  Bank  of  White  Pigeon.  The 
new  corporation  has  a  capital  stock  of 
$50,000. 

_______

Our  local  jobbers  report  the  demand 
for sugar as  unprecedented.  The Olney 
& Judson Grocer Co.  alone  has  averaged 
over a carload per  day so far this month.
Dr. Chas.  S.  Hazelton has sold his sum­
to  Dr. 

mer  residence  at  Spring  Lake 
Owen,  a retired physician of Chicago.

The  Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.  re­
ceived a  carload  of  Snider’s  catsup  last 
week.

THE  GREAT

ca

Jeweler
Grand Rapids,  ■  Jftieh

44  CRNRL 8T„

Wall  Paper  and Window  Shades.
N EL SO N   BROS. &  CO.,

House and Store Shades Made to Order.

68  MONROE  STREET.

DEALERS  IN

GEO,  M,  SMITH  SAFE  C0„
-  S A F E S   -

FIR E   AND  BURGLAR  PROOF

Vault and Bank W ork a Specialty.

Locks Cleaned  and Adjusted. 

Expert W ork Done.

F IR E   PROOF 
STEAM   PRO O F 

BU RG LA R  PRO O F 

W A TER  PRO O F

Movers and Raisers of wood and brick build­

ings, safes,  boilers and smoke stacks.

OFFICE AND  SALESROOM :

157 and 160  Ottawa 81, 

Tel. 1173. 

G RA N D   R A PID S.

HERRICK’S

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

Indlspensible to every  grocer.  Order through your  jobber 

or direct of the manufacturer.

E.  J.  HERRICK,

Grand Rapids.

.65
.50

REDUCED !

Genuine Peninsular Button Fasteners, per great gross, 
Duplex Button Fasteners,  per great gross, 

-

- 

Above prices are for 10 great gross lots.

Order now before the manufacturers combine to advance prices again.

HIRTH  &  KRAUSE, 

Grand Rapids, Mieh.

Remember we are headquarters for Shoe Store Supplies.

Warehouse  Platform  Truck.

This  Truck is designed  for  use  in  warehouses,  whole­

sale establishments, flour and feed,  and other stores.

Has  platform 30x38 inches.  Frame  well  made of  hard 
maple.  Wheels  8  inches  in  diameter;  caster  wheel  6 
inches.  Height  from  floor  to  surface  of  platform  11 
inches.

PRICE,  $5.

MANUFACTURED  BY

GRAND  RAPIDS
HARD  SCREW  CO.,

Grand.Bapids, Mich,

IO
D ru g s  M e d icin es

State  Board  of Pharm acy.

One  T ear—Stanley E. P ark ill, Owosso.
Two  T ears—Jacob  lem o n ,  M uskegon.
Three  T ears—Jam es  V eraor, D etroit.
F our T ears—Ottm&r Eberbach, Ann  Arbor 
F ire T ears—G eorge Gundrum, Ionia.
P resident—Jacob  Jesson, M uskegon.
Secretary—Jas.  V ernor, D etroit.
T reasurer—S. E. P arkill,  Owosso.
M eetings  fo r  1891—Ann  Arbor,  May  5;  Star  Island 
(D etroit) July 7;  H oughton, Sept. 1:  L ansing  Nov. i.
Michigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Ass’n. 

President—D. E. P i all, Saginaw.
T in t Vice-President—H. G. Colem an, K alam azoo. 
Second Vice-President—Prof. A. B. P rescott, Ann Arbor. 
Third V ice-President—Jas. Vernor, D etroit.
Secretary—C. A. B ugbee, Cheboygan.
Treasurer—W m Dupont, Detroit.
N ext M eeting—At Ann Arbor, In  October, 1891._________
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical  Society. 
P resident. W. R. Jew ett,  Secretary,  Frank H. E scott 
R egular Meetings—First W ednesday e v e n in g  o f  March 
June, Septem ber and Decem ber.
Grand Rapids Drug: Clerks’ Association, 
^resident, F. D. Kipp;  Secretary, W. C. Sm ith._______

D etroit Pharm aceutical  Society. 
President, J. W._Allen; Secretary, W. F. Jackman.
Muskegon  D rug Clerks’  Association. 

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

A  Patent Medicine Agent’s Escape.

Written for The  Tradesman.

Many years ago—long before I engaged 

in the drug trade—I was  traveling  for 
patent  medicine  firm  in  Western  and 
Southern  New  York.  The 
country 
through which my business lay was quite 
new; that  is,  while  the  farms  generally 
contained  a  quarter  section  or more of 
land,  the  amount  cleared  and  partially 
under  cultivation  was  comparatively 
small.  Cities were few and far apart and 
villages and hamlets  were  small in size
Two  East  and  West  railroads—the 
New York  Central  and  the  Erie—were 
all  the  roads  then  meeting  the  require 
ments of  the great central portion of the 
State. 
I  was traveling with  a  horse and 
buggy, and my work was collecting money 
from  agents,  establishing  new agencies 
and distributing supplies to retail stores 
In those days,  not only nearly every store 
wanted and  sold the  medicine I carried 
but in many  districts it was necessary to 
make agents of farmers, as  stores of any 
kind  would often  be many  miles  apart 
My goods were shipped to me at different 
points  along  the  two  railroads  named 
whence I would take  from  six to twelve 
dozen boxes at a time,  carrying  them in 
a water-tight compartment of my vehicle 
under  lock  and  key. 
traveling,  I 
usually intended  to  reach  some  village 
or  a  public  house  by  the  way,  where 
entertainment for myself and horse could 
be  had.

In 

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N ,

of  these  people,  unless  circumstances 
forced me to do so. 
I  will  admit  that I 
lacked physical courage,  was  timid,  and 
was  apt  to  magnify  the  gravity of the 
situation.  As if to  add  to  my  alarm, 1 
was  already  aware  that  nearly  all  the 
country people viewed me in the  light of 
a  peddler—as 
they  always  enquired 
what kind of goods I was  selling—until, 
after a full explanation of  my  business, 
and that placed me, if possible,  in a still 
worse plight, as they would at once infer 
that I carried large sums of money.  The 
dwellings in that section were nearly  all 
built of logs,  and  the  more  pretentious 
and roomy ones were far apart, but, as it 
looked  like  rain.  I determined  to  apply 
for a night’s lodging at the first fairly re­
spectable farm house,and risk the chances 
of safety.  I was armed (if such it may be 
called)  with  an  old-style,  single-barrel 
rifled  pistol,  which  required 
loading 
with powder and  ball,  requiring  four or 
five minutes to complete the process. 
In 
experienced  hands,  it  would  probably 
kill at twice the distance of modern arms, 
but,  in  my  hands,  its  value  consisted 
entirely  in  its  gleaming  barrel  and 
formidable appearance,  and,  also,  what 
in those days was in my favor, there  was 
no law  against  drawing  a  weapon  and 
covering  your  man  with  it,  while  you 
argued the case with  him. 
It  was  past 
eight  o’clock  when  I  came 
through 
lonely swamp into a  small  clearing on 
slight  rise  of  the  ground,  and a rift in 
the clouds  for a moment revealed a large 
log house near the road  on my left,  from 
which a dim light shone  through a front 
window.  The loud bark of a dog  caused 
the opening of a front door, and, as there 
was nothing to prevent, I drove up within 
a few feet of a man and a dog, standing on 
the threshold, while a woman old enough 
to be the man’s mother, stood peering over 
his  shoulder.  To  my  enquiry  whether 
I could  obtain lodging and  food  for  my 
horse,  he  “reckoned” 
I  could,  and  at 
once pointed to the barn,  and  motioned 
me to  follow.  As  I  alighted  from  the 
buggy,  the man hastily  looked it over as 
well as the  darkness  would permit,  and 
then  said,”  You  aint  got  any  smokin 
terbacker iu that  peddler box  of  yourn 
have ye?”  “No sir,” I replied,  “I  have 
no tobacco of any kind.”  After  feeding 
my horse and  placing  my  buggy  under 
cover,  we started for the house; the bare 
headed man leading the way, and the dog 
—a  vicious  looking  cur—following  in 
rather  too  close  proximity  to  my heels 
for  my  comfort.  As  we  entered 
the 
house,  a young woman arose  and offered 
me a chair near a  large  stone fire place 
which gave both light and  warmth to the 
apartment.  On a table in the  room  w&s 
the remains of  the  evening  meal.  To a 
question from the woman whether I would 
like some supper,  I  replied in the  nega­
tive,  leaving  her  to  infer  I  had  eaten 
previously. 
In  attempting  to  converse 
with my host,  I was  obliged  to do  most 
of  the  talking,  obtaining  only  brief 
answers  in  return.  He  had 
removed 
from Tennessee to this State six years be­
fore and bought the 160 acres of  land he 
then occupied,  built the house  and  barn 
and had  thirty  acres  then  under  culti­
vation.  His  crops  consisted  mainly  of 
corn, potatoes,  oats and  hay,  with some­
times a few cattle and hogs  to  sell; and, 
he added,  “There will be  a  right  smart 
crop this fall.”  He had no near relatives, 
except  a  brother  and  sister  and  his 
brother’s danghter,  who he said  all lived

As  the  conversation  progressed,  he 
volunteered  to  say  that  his  name  was 
Johnson,  and that  in  his  younger  days 
he  formerly  kept  a  grocery  in  Green 
county,  West  of  the  Bald  Mountains, 
where  he  made  the  money  to  buy  his 
farm,  and  that “he  was  considered  the 
best judge of snuff and tobacker  in  that 
country.” 
I remember his  asking  me if 
I was an “airly riser” and  if I  generally 
slept soundly.  At 9 o’clock I signified  a 
wish to retire,  when  the  young  woman 
hastily  prepared  what  she  called  a 
“ witch” for  a light—which  was  simply 
some grease,  a rag,  and a  button on a tin 
plate—and, opening a door to a stair-way, 
she said,  “You will  find  a  bed  in  the 
room at the top of the stairs.  That’s the 
one you are to sleep  in,  and  be  sure to 
blow out the ‘witch,’ as  we  don’t like it 
left burning.”  The room I was to occupy 
was large enough for three or four  beds, 
and a part of it extended  over  the  room 
in  which  we  sat  during  the  evening. 
There was a back window  in  the  South 
end of my room, and as the moon had now 
risen and the clouds had partially cleared, 
I could see a field of corn a short distance 
away,  and the edge of  a  forest  beyond. 
Being extremely tired, I was soon in bed, 
and  soundly  sleeping. 
I  do  not  know 
how long  I  slept,  nor  what  it was that 
suddenly awoke  me,  but I found  myself 
sittin  gbold  upright in  an instant.  The 
impression was left upon my  brain  that 
something very heavy  had fallen  from 
great height  and  crashed  upon  a  floor 
Now, however,  all was still  as  death, 
looked  about  the  room  in the darkness 
From a crevice in the floor came  rays  of 
light from below, and I  cautiously  crept 
from the bed,  and  bent  down  to look or 
listen.  By the light from the  fire-place,
I beheld two men  and the  villainous dog 
belonging to the farmer.  The trio  were 
all apparently intently listening,  for they 
did not  move a muscle.  One of  the men 
was a stranger and the other was the  old 
man with whom I had  conversed.  What 
I saw at  that  hour  of the  night  would 
have startled  a  less  nervous  man  than 
myself.  The youngest man had a double 
barrelled gun lying across his knees,  and 
an axe  was  lying on  the  floor near him 
The  old  man held  a  whetstone  in  one 
hand, and a murderous  looking  knife  in 
the other,  which,  from  appearances,  he 
had been sharpening.  An empty  bucket 
stood on the floor near—probably to catch 
my heart’s blood  as  they  murdered me 
Apparently hearing no sound,  they com­
menced  to  converse  in  whispers,  while 
the  old  man  again  sharpened  his knife. 
Listening closely I  could  only catch  the 
following  broken  sentences:  “He  may 
jump  down.”  “Tige  will  be  ready  for 
him.”  “If he gets  in that field next  the 
the woods,  we shall lose him.”  “One of 
us must stand guard, now which shall go 
up.”  “We’ll draw cuts for  th a t”  My 
mind was made up. 
I would sell my life 
as dearly as possible.  Hurriedly dressing 
myself, I  crept  to the  back  window  to 
look out.  Did I dare to  jump?  1 raised 
the  window  gently  a  few  inches  and 
while hesitating what to do, the two men 
passed  near  the  end  of  the building, 
talking with  each  other in  a  low  tone. 
Having no  light,  I could  not be seen by 
them,  and could watch them by their out­
lines.  “Here he  is,” said  one in  a loud 
voice, and the next instant a .bright flash 
of light,  and  the  loud report  of  a  gun, 
and an almost human  scream  of  agony, 
and the growling and thrashing  about of 
dog  told  the  story  of  my  night  of

terror.  The  men  had  shot  a  raccoon!
The sadden  revulsion of feeling that I 
was safe, caused a faintness  that  weak­
ened me until  I  with  difficulty  crawled 
back to my bed.  But after a time, I again 
slept until called to a late breakfast. 
In 
the morning the younger  man  was  more 
talkative, and enquired if  anything  had 
disturbed  my  rest,  “for,”  said  he,  “ we 
were out last  night  after  a  coon  which 
has bin pesterin’  us  and  was afraid  we 
made too much noise.  We  thought  you 
did sleep sound, though we talked mostly 
in  whispers  for  fear  of  wakin’  ye.” 
From  all the  man  then 
told  me  a key 
was given 
to  the  whispered  sentences 
of the previons night.  They  had  heard 
the dog drive  a  raccoon  up a  tree  near 
the  house after I  retired and  they knew 
he would be loth to come  down.  One of 
them was to climb  the tree,  when,  if the 
animal jumped,  the dog would  be  ready 
to take him.  Should  he escape,  the  dog 
and reach the cornfield they  expected  to 
lose  him.  To  my  already  excited  im­
agination,  all  this applied  to  me as the 
victin.

I ate a  most  excellent  breakfast  that 
morning,  for which  the  family  refused 
to receive  any  remuneration  whatever. 
I found out from others that Mr.  Johnson 
was,  as he had told me  at  one  time,  the 
proprietor of a general store in Tennessee 
and,  though  an illiterate man,  and quite 
diffident with strangers,  he was kind and 
generous to all. 
In passing through  the 
county several times afterward,  I always 
made it a point to call  and  remain  over 
night or part  of a day  with  the  family, 
but could never influence them to  accept 
a penny for all the trouble I caused them.
I insisted,  however,  upon  presenting the 
two women with some  useful dry  goods, 
and the two  men with  each a fancy pipe 
and some  choice  smoking  tobacco,  but 
that family never  know  to  this  day the 
terrible fright  they  caused  me  on  that 
eventful  night.

A  Woman’s  Way.

A young woman  who  had  a check for 
$14 on a certain bank presented it  at the 
cashier’s desk, and he politely said:

“You will please endorse it,  miss.”
She took it over to the desk and  wrote 
'I want this  money  awful  bad  yours 

on the  back:
truly please pay the bearer.”

PAUL  EIFERT

Manufacturer of

M s , Traveling Bap and Cases

SAMPLE  TRUNKS  AND  CASES 

MADE  TO  ORDER.

Write for Prices.

41  SO.  DIVISION  ST.,

Grand Rapids,
Michigan.
Grand  Rapids  Electrotype  Co.,

ELEGTR0TYPER8

AND

8TERE0TYPER8,

And Manufacturers of

»eads, 81tfgs, Brass  Rille, Wood  and 

Metal Piirnitifre.

«  and  8  E rie St., GRAND  RAPIDS.

This, however, was not always possible, 
unless  I traveled far into the night,  and 
I occasionally asked accommodation  of a 
farmer whom I was  willing  to  pay  the 
same  amount as if I put  up  at a  public 
house. 
I  soon learned  that,  like all else 
in  this  world,  appearances  are  often 
deceitful; therefore,  I was  suspicious  of 
persons  and  places,  and,  having  little 
practical  knowledge  of  the  world,  was 
more easily led into errors  of  judgment.
One  day,  about the first of  October,  I 
found myself in the fearfully hilly region 
of a part of Steuben county,and,  as night 
came on, enquiry revealed the fact that I 
was twelve miles from the  nearest  hotel 
and that a portion  of the  road  to it was 
through a  dense  wilderness.  From  the 
language and general appearance  of  the 
inhabitants,  I could  not determine  from 
what State they  formerly  came,  yet,  to 
me,  their  reticence  threw  a  feeling of 
distrust over all their movements.  From 
one  young  man  about  my  own  age,  I 
learned that most  of  the  families  came
from the Middle States.  Recalling  ail  I 
had heard and read concerning robberies,
mysterious disappearances and  murders, 
1 wa8 in no mood to accept the hospitality | in the same house with  him

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TETE  M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .

R 

S. N.  Y.  Q. &

Morphia,  S. P. & W .. .2 20®? 45 
C. Co.......................2 10@2 35
Moschus Canton........  @  40
Myrlstlca, No. 1.........   70®  75
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @  10
Os.  Sepia....................  33®  38
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Plcls Liq, N.  C., )4 gal
doz  ............................   @2 00
Plcls Liq., quarts......   @1 00
_  “ 
pints.........   @  85
PH Hydrarg, (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)__   @  3
Plx  Burgun................  @  7
Plumb! A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opll.. 1  10@1  20 
Pyre thrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......   @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  30®  35
Quasslae....................   8®  10
Qulnia, S. P. & W......   33®  36
S.  German....21)4®  28
Rubia  Tlnctorum......   12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv..  @  33
Salacln.......................l  80@1  85
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  50
Santonlne  ....................   @4 
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
M.......................  10®  12
@  15

“ 

Seldlltz  Mixture........  @  25
Sinapls.......................   @  18
opt..................   ®  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................  @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 13).  .  12®  13 
Soda et Potass Tart...  30®  33
Soda Carb.................  1)4®  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb............   @  5
Soda, Ash.................... 3)4®  4
Soda, Sulphas............  
• @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcla  Dom......   @2 25
“  Myrcla Imp........  @3 00
*’  Vini  Rect.  bbl.
2 31).........................  @2 41
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal......   @1  10
Sulphur, Subl.............3  @'4
Ron..............2X@'S)4
Tamarinds.................  8@"  10
Terebenth Venice......   28®  30
Theobromae..............  45®  5G
Vanilla...  ............... 9 00@16 00
Zinc!  Sulph...............   7®  8

OILS.

50

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

Bbl.  Gal
70
60
56
59

11
62
Llndseed,  boiled__   59 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............  
69
50 
Spirits Turpentine__  43)4  50

b b l. 

f a in t s. 

lb .
Red Venetian.............154  2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars...  13£  2@4
“ 
“.  Ber........IX  2@3
Putty,  commercial_2)4  2)4@3
“  strictly  pure.... 2)4  2V@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ..........................  
13®16
VermHlon,  English....  70@75
Green,  Peninsular.....  
70@75
Lead,  red............   @7)4
“  w hite........  @7)4
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  VUla  Prepared 
Paints......................1 00@1  20

VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach.... 1  10@1  20
Coach  Body............... 2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Fum ........1  00@1  10
EutraTurkD am ar....l  55@1  60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp.........................  70®  76

HAZBBTINB

& PBRKIN S

DRUG  CO.

Im porters and Jobbers of

Wholesale Price  Current•

Advanced—Alcohol, epsom salts, celery seed.  Declined—Foreign quinine, turpentine.

▲eroine.

Acetlcum................... 
8@
Benz oleum  German..  80@1
Boracic 
....................
Carbollcum................  23®
Cltrlcum....................   55®
Hydrochlor................  3®
Nltrocum 
.................   10®
OxaUcum...................  It®
20
Phosphorlum dll........ 
Salley Ileum............... 1  40® 1  80
Sulphurlcum.............. 
lx®   5
Tannlcum...................1  40@1  60
Tartaricum.................  40®  42

n 

Aqua, 16  deg..............3)4®
20  deg..............6)4®
Carbonas  ...................  12®  14
Chlorldum.................  12®  14

ANILINE.

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

BACGAB.

Cubeae (po.  1  30............. 1 3E@1 40
Junlperus...................  8®  10
X&nthoxylum...:......   25®  30

BALSAHUM.

Copaiba......................  60®  65
Peru............................  @1  80
Terabln, Canada......   35®  40
Tolutan......................  35®  50

GOBTBX.

Abies,  Canadian.................  18
Casslae  ...............................  11
Cinchona F lav a.................   18
Euonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrica  Cerlfera, po.............  20
Prunus Vlrglnl....................  12
Qulllaia,  grd.................. 
  14
Sassafras  ............................  14
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)........  10

EXTRACTUM.

Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...  24®  25
po...........  33®  35
r
Haematox, 15 lb. box.
14
15 
l1

“ 
Is..
“  %»■
" 
54s.

11®
13®
14®
16®

* 

Carbonate Preclp... 
Citrate and Quinta.
Citrate  Soluble......
Ferroey anidum Sol. 
Solut  Chloride.
Sulphate,  com'l......... 1)4® 

@  15 
@3 50 
®  80 
®  50 
~  15
2
pure............   ®  7

“ 

FLORA.

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

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tln-

...................  20®  22
nlvelly........  .........   25®  28
Alx.  35®  50
15
10

Salvia  officinalis,  )4s
and  H8..............   12® 
UraUrsl................  8® 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

s u m m i.
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
“  Socotrl, (po.  60).  @ 50
Catechu, Is, (Ms, 14 )4s,
16).......................  @ 
1
Ammoniae............  25® 
30
Assafcetlda, (po. 30)...  @  20
Benzolnum............  50® 
55
Camphor».............   50® 
52
Eupnorbium  po  ........  35®  lo
Galbanum.  ................  @3 00
95
Gamboge,  po.........  80® 
Guaiacum, (po  40)_  @ 
35
Kino.  (po. 25).......   @ 
20
Mastic  ........................  @  90
Myrrh, (po. 45)......  @ 
40
Opll.  (po. 3 50)...........2 25®2 40
Shellac  ......................  23®  30
bleached...  28® 
33
Tragacanth...........  30® 
75

“ 
H iBB A —In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  25
Eupatorium.........................  20
Lobelia.................................  25
Majorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................   23
“  V ir.........................  25
Rue.......................................  30
T&nacetum, V......................  22
Thymus,  V..........................  25

MASNESIA.

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

OLEUM.

Cubebae................... io 50@ll  00
Exechthltos...............   90@1  00
Erigeron.....................l  go@2 00
Gaultherla................. 2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce......  @  75
Gossipii, Sem. gal......   50®  75
Hedeoma  .................. 1  85@2 00
Junlperi......................  50@2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Llmonis......................2 50@2 85
MenthaPlper.............. 2 90@3 00
Mentha Verld.............2 50@2 60
Morrhuae, gal............. 1  io@l  15
Myrcla, ounce............   @  50
Olive............................... 1  00@2 75
Plcls Liquida, (gal.,35)  10®  12
Rlclnl.............................. 1  04@1 20
Rosmarinl............  
75@1  00
Rosae, ounce..............  ®6 00
Succini.......................  40®  45
Sabina.......................  90®1 00
Santal  ....................... 3 so@7 00
Sassafras...................   45®  50
Sinapls, ess, ounce....  @  65
Tlglfi..........................  @1 50
Thyme.......................   40®  50
opt  ...............   @  60
Theobromas...............   15®  20
POTASSIUM.
BJ Carb.......................  15®  18
i3@  14
Bichromate...............  
Bromide......................  37®  40
Carb..... 
.................  
ia@  15
Chlorate, (po. 16)........  14®  16
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide............................. 2 80@2 90
Potassa, Bltart, pure..  30®  33
Potassa, Bltart, com...  ®  15
Potass Nltras, opt......  8®  10
Potass Ultras..............  7®  9
Prusslate....................  30®  33
Sulphate  po...............   15®  18

“ 

RADIX.

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 50@2 60
Iris plox (po. 35@38)..  32®  35
Jalapa,  pr...................  35®  40
Maranta,  \  s..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhei............................  75@1  00
"  cut......................  @1  75
„  ,  PV.......................   75@1  35
Splgelia......................  48®  53
Sangulnarla, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentaria.................  40®  45
Senega.......................  50®  55
Similax, Officinalis,  H  @ 40 
M  @  20
Scillae, (po. 35)....... 
  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Foetl-
dus,  po....................  @  35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  ©  25
German...  15®  20
lnglbera..................  
io®  15
Zingiber  j ...............  
22®  25

“ 

“ 

..  @ 15
Anlsum,  (po.  20).. 
‘  plum  (graveleons)..  22®  25
4®  6
id, Is....................... 
Carol, (po. 18)............   8®  12
Cardamon..................1  00®1  25
Corlandrum...............   10®  12
Cannabis Sativa......... 4)4® 
5
“Vdonlum..................   75@1  00
henopodium  ...........  10®  12
Dlpterlx Odorate.......2 00®2 25
Foenlculum...............   @  15
Foenugreek,  po.........   6®  8
L ini............................4  @ 4H
Linl, grd,  (bbl. 3)4)...  4  @4)4
Lobelia.......................  35®  40
Pharlaris Canarian__3)4® 4)4
Rapa..........................  6®  7
Sinapls,  Albu............   8®  9
Nigra...........  11®  12

“ 

Frumenti, W., D.  Co.
D. F. R....

2 00@2 50 
1  75@2 00 
1  10®1  50
Junlperls  Co. O. T ___1 75@1  75
1 
Saacharum  N.  E .........1 75@2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli............1 75®6 50
Vini Oporto.................1 
Vini  Alba....................1 

25®2 00
25@2 00

75@3 50

“ 

 

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage.................. 2 25@2 50
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ................
2 00 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........
1  10
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage...................
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage .......................
Hard for  slate  use__
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se..........................

1  40

TINCTURES.

“ 

“ 

^  

Aconltum Napellls R .........   60
P .........   50
and myrrh.................  60
Arnica................................   50
Asafcetida............................  0
Atrope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................  60
_  “  Co..........................   50
Sangulnarla.........................  50
Barosma.............................   50
Cantharldes.........................  75
Capsicum............................  50
Ca damon............................  75
Co.........................  75
Castor..................................1 00
Catechu...............................  50
Cinchona............................  50
Co.........................  60
Columba.............................   50
Conlum...............................  50
Cubeba................................   50
Digitalis.............................   50
Bigot...................................   50
Gentian...............................  so
_  ",  Co............................  60
Gualca.................................  50
ammon....................   60
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................  50
Iodine..................................  75
“  Colorless................     75
Ferri  Chlorldum.................  35
K ino...................................   50
Lobelia................................   50
Myrrh..................................  50
Nux  Vomica.......................   50
Opll......... ...........................   g5
Camphorated...............   50
“  Deodor.........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................   50
Quassia...............................  50
Khatany........................  ...  50
Rhel.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol...................  50
„ 
Co..............  50
Serpentario.........................  50
Stramonium.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian.............................   50
VeratrumVerlde.................  50

“ 

“ 

MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

* 
“ 

“  prep

ground,  (po.

Coccus.............
Cassia Fructus.

Calcium Chlor, Is, ()4s
11;  !4s,  12)..........
Cantharldes  Russian,
P O .......................................
Capai cl  Fructus, a f .
^po:-
Caryophyllus, (po.  18)

Chloral Hydsquibbs . 
Crst___
Cinchonldlne, P,  4 W  
German
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
cent  ...........:.........
Creasotum............... '
Creta, (bbl. 75)...........

JSther, Spts  Nit, 3 F..  26®  28 
“  4 F ..  30®  32
Alumen.....................   2^@ 3
.7 )................................  3®  4
Annotto......................  55®  60
Antimoni, po................   4®   5
et Potass T.  56®  60
Antipyrin......................  @1 40
Antifebrin.....................  ® 25
Argenti  Nltras, ounce  @  66
5® 7
38® 40
2 10@2 20
@ 9
@1  40
@ 25
@ 30
@ 20
13® 14
®3 75
50® 55
38® 40
@ 40
@ 20
@ 10
@ 45
60® 63
@1  10
1  50® 1  70
20® 25
15® 20
3)4® 12
60
® 50
@ 2
5® 5
9® 11
@ 8
28® 30
@ 24
6® 7
10® 12
Ktner sulph..............
68® 70
Emery,  all  numbers.
@
@ 6
„   “ 
po................. 
_
Ergotajpo.)  60.........   50®  55
Flake  White..............  12®  15
Galla..........................   @  23
Gambler.....................7  ® 8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   @  70
French...........  40®  60
“ 
Glassware  flint,  70 and 10. 
bybox60and 10
Glue,  Brown..............  9®  15
“  White...............   13®  25
Glycerlna..................17  @  25
Grana Paradisi...........  @  22
Humnlus....................  25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite. 
®  90 
“  Cor ....
“ 
@  80 
Ox Rubrum
“ 
®1  €0 
Ammonisti.. 
“ 
@1  10 
“ 
Unguentum.
45®  55
Hydrargyr 
ru m ............   @  70
Ich thy oboi
thyobolla, Am..  ..1  25@1  50
Indigo........................   75@1 00
Iodine, Resubl...........3 75®3 85
Iodoform....................  @4 70
Lupulln......................  50®  55
Lycopodium..............  50®  55
M ad s.........................  80®  85
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarglod...........•__   ®  27
Liquor Potass Arsinitis  10®  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
1)4)...........................  2®  3
Mannla,  S. F ............   50®  60

Cudbear.

Absinthium................ 5  00@5 50
Amygdalae, Dulc........  45®  75
Amyaalae, Amarae__ 8  00@8 25
A n isi.......................... l  70®1 80
Aurantl  Cortex..........   ®2 50
Bergamll  ...................3 
Cajlputl.................   90®1 
00
Caryophylll................. 1 
Cedar.........................  35®  65
Chenopodll...........  @2 
oo
Clnnamonll.................1 
Cltronella..................   @  45
Conlum  Mac..............  35®  65
Copaiba  .....................1 

75®4 00
20@1 25

15@1 20

20@1 SO

STROPS.

Accacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferri lod.............................   50
Aurantl  Cortes....................  50
Rhel  Aram..........................   50
Similax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
ScUlae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   50
Tolutan...............................  50
Prunus  vlrg.........................  50

“ 

“ 

CHEMICALS  A N D

PATENT MEDICINES.
Paints, Oils  Varnishes.

DEALERS  IN

Sole Agents for th e Celebrated

8*188  I M I   PREPARED  PUNTS.

F i  lie of Staple  Drag# Sundries.

W e are Sole  P roprietors o f

Weatherly’s  JVIicIiigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

We H ave In Stock and Offer a Full Line a f

WHISKIES, BRANDIES,

GINS,  WINES, RUMS.

We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only.
We give oar Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guarantee Satisfaction.
All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we receive them.  Send in  a 

trial order.Jiaieltine i  Perkins Drug Go,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

12

T H E   M ICH IQ A JST  T R A D E S M A N ,

W ritten fo r The Tradesman.

G R O C E R IE S .
C heated  w ith  His  E yes  Open. 
“Are  those  eggs  for  sale,  madam?” 
asked a grocer of a  country  woman who 
was  passing  his  store  with  a  market 
basket  on  her arm.

“Yes,”  said  the  woman,  hesitating  a 
little.  “I  might trade ’em for sugar. 
I 
was  takin’ ’em  down  to  a  friend  who 
wants ’em for his own  use  and is  willin’ 
to  go a  leetle  beyend  the market,  as  I 
bring ’em  jest  out o’ the nest.”

“Eggs ought to  be  cheap  now,  as you 
know the bottom has dropped out of sugar 
lately,” remarked  the  grocer,  “ but why 
can’t  we  make  a  lumping  bargain  all 
round?” And he winked one eye toward a 
friend  who  had 
just  stepped  inside.
“ You say how  much sugar you ’ll take 
in  that  basket,”  he 

for  all 
continued,  “ and  then I’ll talk.”

the  eggs 

“I guess I can trust you to make an of­
fer,” answered the woman.  “How much 
’ll you  give  now?  Be  kind  o’  liberal.” 
“I’ll try to do the fair thing with you,” 
he replied,  as he eyed the  basket  elosely, 
while he said to himself,  “Seven  dozen 
I guess.”  “I’ll give you eighteen pounds 
of  light  brown sugar.”

“All right,”  said  the  woman,  “ weigh 
out your sweetnin ’  and tell  me where  to 
put these eggs.”

“In 

that  empty  wooden  bowl by the 
door and I’ll  go  back and get the sugar,” 
he  answered.

The woman deposited three dozen  eggs 
in the bowl  and  from  beneath  them re­
moved some fine stalks  of  celery  which 
nearly filled one-half the basket.

The  man  soon 

returned  with  two 
packages of sugar which he placed in the 
basket, when the  woman  commenced  to 
pile the celery on top of them.  The man 
looked at the celery a moment, and  then, 
as if a thought suddenly  struck  him,  he 
glanced around at the  wooden  bowl. 
If 
a Kodak could have caught the expression 
of his face then, it would have been worth 
more than the sugar.  With a vain attempt 
to raise a smile, he said:

“Sold,  madam!  But it’s my own fault;

Good bye,  and  bring me some more  eggs 
when you have fresh  ones.”

“This was a lumpin’ bargain,  you  see; 
next time we’ll both look  at  the goods,” 
replied  the  woman,  as  she  started  for 
home.
W ools  and  Hides  Quiet—Tallow  Firm.
Fine fleece  wools  are  decidedly  quiet, 
with no demand at any advance in  price. 
Manufacturers appear  to  be  inclined  to 
use  what  little  there  is  offering,  if the 
price  is  low  enough,  but  only  a  low 
price tempts them.  The  demand  is  for 
Australian and  territory  wools,  which, 
mixed,  gives  better  results.  The cloth 
market  being  dull,  with  no  duplicate 
orders for heavy goods,  keeps  the manu­
facturers out.  The supply of  cloth  and 
wool is large,  and the  future  outlook  is 
not encouraging for any advance.

Hides  are  in  fair  supply,  with little 
demand.  The past week  was  a  holiday 
in the trade and the few sold were at low 
prices.  Leather is equally low and dull, 
but  tanners  bold  firm  on  prices  of 
leather, as they cannot replace  it in buy­
ing hides.

Tallow is firm, with  a  slight  advance 
and  considerable  speculative 
feeling. 
The  advance  is  considered  temporary, 
j from  speculation  under  a light supply, 
and from the advance in meats,

Furs are about done  with  and  buyers 
have  hauled  off.  All  quotations  are 
nominal.

The  Grocery  Market.

The  clamor  for  sugar  still  continues, 
the attempt of the jobbers to prevent the 
retail trade  from  buying  on  speculation 
having proved a failure.  This condition 
gives the refiners a decided advantage, as 
it will enable  them  to  control  the  mar­
ket  completely.  Rolled  oats  are  firm, 
jobbers having advanced their prices  25c 
per bbl.

Oranges are without  material  change. 
The demand for lemons is larger than the 
supply,  an advance of SI  per box having 
occurred during the past ten days.  Candy 
is  steady  and  firm,  owing  to  a  strong 
sugar market.  Peanuts  are very strong. 
Foreign nuts are without  change, except 
1 Brazils,  which are lower.

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ON  EARTH.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

Apples—So meagre are the offerings, that there 
is really no market.
Beans—The  market  is  firmer.  Handlers  are 
offering  81.80  per  bu.  for  country  picked  and 
holding city picked at $2.25@$2.30.

Beets—50c per bu.
Butter—Stocks  are  beginning  to  accumulate 
and  lower  prices are In prospect.  Jobbers now 
pay 17@18e, holding at 19@S0c.

Cabbages—50c  per doz. or 84 per 100.
Carrots—20@25c per bu.
Cooperage—Pork barrels,81.25; produce barrels 
S5c.
Cranberries—Nearly  out  of  market.  Jerseys 
have entirely  disappeared and  Bell and  Cherry 
are held at $9.50@$10.
Eggs—The  market  is  lower,  but  fairly  firm, 
owing to the large quantities being put into cold 
storage.  Dealers pay 12c and hold at 13@14c. 
dealers paying 1254@13c and holding at 14c.

Honey—Dull at 16®18 for clean comb.
Lettuce—13c for Grand Rapids Forcing
Onions—Scarce  and  firm.  Dealers  pay  81.40 
for all offerings of choice, holding at 81.65.  Ber­
mudas are In good demand at $3per crate.

Parsnips—40c per bushel.
Potatoes—The  market  holds  firm,  although 
several  distributing  points—notably  St, Louis 
and Cincinnati—have  ceased  taking  shipments 
almost altogether.  The  Chicago  market is now 
fully supplied by water shipments, leaving  only 
rail consumptive points to take shipments.  Aside 
from  this  these is no indication  of  weakening, 
but dealers are not  so  free buyers  as  they have 
been.  New potatoes  from  Southern  California 
are expected to  arrive In about two weeks.
Radishes—40c per dozen bunches.
Strawberries—83.50 per case of 24 quarts.
Squash—154c per lb.
Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Jerseys are in small 
Turnips—30@35c per bu

demand at 84

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

 

 

Mess,  new................................ 
13 00
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................................   11  25
Clear back, short cut................................ .  U 50
Standard clear, short cut. best....   .........  
14 50

sausage—Fresh aud Smoked.

Pork Sausage...................................................7
Ham Sausage...................................................  9
Tongue Sausage.............................................. 9
Frankfort Sausage  ........................................754
Blood Sausage................................................. 5
Bologna, straight............................................  5
Bologna,  thick...................................   ......... 6
Headcheese.................................................... 5

lard—Kettle Rendered.

Tierces............................................................ 8
Tubs.................................................................814
501b.  Tins....................................................... 854
Com-
pound.
654
654
754
754
7
654
65,

Tierces .................
Oand  501b. Tubs.
5 lb. Palls, 12 in a case.

Family.
...654
...654
-..-754
— 7}¿
....7
...654
LREL8.

Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs...................  9 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.................... 9 00
Boneless, rump bptts.....................................
s m o k e d   m e a t s —Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lbs......................................   954
16 lbs...................................... 10
12 to 14 lbs........................... 10M
picnic................................................7
test boneless..........................................¿54
Shoulders........................................................  654
Breakfast Bacon, boneless...............................854
Dried beef, ham prices ..................................10
Lone Clears, heavy........................................... 654
Briskets,  medium.  .........................................  gfc

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“ 
“ 

light..............................  

 

FISH and OYSTERS.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

FRESH  FISH.

Whltefish......................................
Trout............................................
Halibut.........................................
Ciscoes..........................................
Flounders.....................................
Bluefish.......................................
Mackerel.......................................
Cod...............................................
California salmon........................
o y s t e r s—Cans.
Falrhaven  Counts.......................
F. J. D. Selects.............................
Selects..........................................
F. J. D..........................................
SHELL  GOODS.

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

@40
@35
@27
@25

Oysters, per  100. 
Clams, 

“

.................1  2S@1  50
.................   75@1 00

FRESH  MEATS.

“ 

Swift and Company quote as follows:

Beef, carcass..........................................  7
hindquarters...............................  3
fore 
...............................
loins, No. 3..................................
ribs.............................................
rounds........................................
tongues.......................................
Bologna..................................................
Pork loins..............................................
“  shoulders......................................
Sausage, blood or head.........................
liver.........................................
Frankfort.................................
Mutton...................................................
Veal........................................................  4
CANDIES, FRUITS and  NUTS. 
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

“ 
“ 

@   8 
@  9 
@   6 @13 
@11 
@
@1054 
@ 5 
@1054 
@ 654 @ 5 
@ 5 
@ 754 
@ 854 
@  554

STICK  CANDT.
Full  Weight.

Standard,  per lb...............................  654
“  H.H.......................................654
T w ist...................................654
“ 
Boston Cream  ..................................
754
Cut  Loaf....................... 
Extra H. H .......................................... 754

Bbls.  Pails.
154 
754 
754 
954 
854 
854

MIXED  CANDT.
Full Weight.

Bbls.
Standard........................................654
Leader........................................... 654
Special...........................................7
Royal............................................. 7
Nobby............................................754
Broken.......................................... 754
English  Rock............................... 754
Conserves......................................7
Broken Taffy.................................754
Peanut Squares.............................
Extra............................................. 
'
French Creams..............................
Valley  Creams.
p a n c t —I n  b u lk . 

Full Weight.

Pails.
754
754
8
8
854
854
854
8
8549
10
1054
1354

“ 

panct—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Bbls.
Palls.
Lozenges, plain................................ 10J4 
1154
printed.............................11 
1254
Chocolate Drops................................  
1254
Chocolate Monumeutals................... 
14
Gum Drops........................................   5 
654
Moss Drops........................................ 8 
9
Sour Drops........................................   854 
954
1154
Imperials...........................................1054 
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......   ......................... 85@95
Plain Creams............................................. 80@90
Decorated Creams................................... 
.1  00
String  Rock.....................................................70
Burnt Almonds.... .........................................1(0
Wlntergreen  Berries.......................................65
California,  128..............................  

ORANGES.

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Messinas, 

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
« 

 
150..................................  
176-2 0-226.............................. 
300-240.......
“ 
“ 
200..............

“ 
“ 
LEMONS.

 

 
3 50

Messina, choice, 360 ..................................  

5 00

fancy, 360 .............................  5 50@6 00
5 00
choice 300.............................. 
fancy 380................................ 
6 00

OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

“ 

«« 

“ 
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63£

“  choice 

“  50-lb.  “ 

Persian, 50-lb.  box...................... 4

Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy  layers........   18@20
  @16
S1254 @10 
@ 8 
@ 6

« 
 
“  Fard, 10-lb.  box.....................
“ 
....................
“ 
NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona.............................   @1754
Ivaca.....................................  @17
California.............................   @1754
Brazils, new...........................................   @8
Filberts..................................................  @11
Walnuts, Grenoble.  ..............................  @15
“  Marbot...................................   @12
“ 
Table Nuts, No. 1..................................  @14
No. 2..................................   @13
Pecans, Texas, H. P .................................  15@17
Cocoanuts, full sacks...............................   @4 00
Fancy, H.  P., Suns................................   @554
“  Roasted....................   @  754
Fancy, H.  P., Flags........................ 
  @554
“  Roasted..........  .......  @754
Choice, H. P., Extras............................  @ 454
“  Roasted.................  @654

Chill.......................................   @

PEANUTS.

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“ 
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OILS.

The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows :

Water White..........................................  @ 9
Michigan test........................................   @854
Naptha.............................. 
@754
Gasoline....................................................  @ 9J4
Cylinder................................................. 27 @36
E ngine................................................... 13 @21
Black, 15 Cold  Test...........................  

 

 

 

  © 954

.55

3 00

3 50

MANUFACTURED  BY

DILWORTH  BROTHERS,

PITTSBURGH.

TRADE SUPPLIED BY

L M.  CLARK  &  SON,

Grand Rapids.
RRADDOCK, BATEMAN  & CO., 
Bay  City.

C U R TISS  &  C O .,

WHOLESALE

Paper  Warehouse.

FLOUR  SACKS,  GROCERY  BAGS,  TWINE  AND  WOODEN  WARE.

Houseman  Block, 

- 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .

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

SNUFF.

SOAP.

SODA.

SAL  SODA.

Old Country, 80.........................3 20
Uno, 100.................................... 3 50
Bouncer, 100.............................3 00
Boxes....................................5*4
Kegs, English....................... 4%
Kegs................................... 
IX
Granulated,  boxes..............2
Mixed bird.................4V4@ 6
Caraway...............................9
Canary.................................. 3V4
Hemp.....................................4V4
Anise................................... 13
Rape...................................   6
Mustard.................................7V4

SEEDS.

SALT

Diamond Crystal.

 
 

 
 

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“ 

“ 

Warsaw.

100 3-lb. sacks......................... *2 40
2 25
60 5-lb 
“ 
2810-lb. sacks.........................2 15
2 00
20 14-lb.  “ 
24 2-lb.  cases..........................   1 50
50
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.. 
281b.  “ 
25
.. 
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags..  35
.. 
281b.  “ 
18
56 lb. dairy  bags...............  
75
56 lb. dairy  bags...............  
75
56 1b.  sacks.......................  27
Saginaw and Manistee.
Common Fine  per bbl...... 
95
Church’s, Arm & Hammer.. .5V4
Dwight’s Cow..........■...........5V4
Taylor’s .................................5*4
DeLand’sCap  Sheaf.............554
pure.........................5*4
Golden Harvest....................5

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar Rock.

SALERATUS.

“ 

SYRUPS.
Corn.

Pure Cane.

Barrels.................................30
Half bbls..............................32
Amber.......................23  @25
Fancy drips...............28  @30
SWEET GOODS.
7
Ginger Snaps.............. 
Sugar Creams............  
854 |
8
Frosted  Creams.........  
Graham  Crackers......  
8
Oatmeal Crackers......  
8
SHOE  POLISH.
Jettine, 1 doz. in  box............7!

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

SUN CURED.

BASKET  FIRED.

F air............................  @17
Good..........................   @20
Choice..........................24 @26
Choicest.......................32  @34
D ust............................ 10  @12
F air............................  @17
Good..........................   @20
Choice.......................... 24  @26
Choicest.......................32  @34
Dust.............................10  @12
F air............................. 18  @20
Choice.........................  @25
Choicest......................  @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
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.

YOUNG  HYSON.

GUNPOWDER.

IMPERIAL.

OOLONG.

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

 

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PAPER.

TWINES.

WOODENWARB.

teast—Compressed.

13
Nigger Head........................23
Honey  Dew......................... 24
Gold  Block......................... 28
Peerless............................... 34
Rob  Roy..............................25
Uncle  Sam...........................28
Tom and Jerrp.....................25
Brier Pipe............................ 30
Yum Yum...........................32
Red Clover...........................30
Navy....................................32
Handmade............... 
40
F rog....................................33
VINEGAR.
40 gr.......................................8
50 gr......................................10
Tin foil cakes, per doz........... 15
Baker’s, per  lb....................... 30
PA PER A WOODEN WARE
Curtiss  &  Co.  quote  as  fol­
lows:
Straw 
.................................iv
Roekfalls..............................2
Rag sugar..............................254
Hardware..............................2V4
Bakers.................................. 2V4
Dry  Goods.................... 5*4@6
Jute  Manilla................. 6V4@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.........................
“  No. 2.........................
“  No. 3.........................
Palls, No. 1, two-hoop..
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes....
Bowls, 11 Inch....................
“ 
13  “ 
....................
“ 
15  “ 
....................
“ 
....................
17  “ 
“ 
assorted, 17s and  19s 
“  15s, 17s and 19s
“ 
Baskets, market.................
bushel.................
“ 
“  willow cl’ths, No.l 
No.2
No.3
No.l
No.2
No.3

7 00 
6  00 
5 00 
1  50 
1  75 
50 
1  001  25
2  00 
2 75 
2 50
2 75 
35
1  50
5 75
6 25
7 25
3 50
4 25
5 00
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS
W hite......................... 
1  09
Red............................. 
1  07
All wheat bought on 60 lb. test.
Bolted...............................  1  70
Granulated.......................  1  80
Straight, In sacks.............   5 60
“  barrels............  5 80
“ 
Patent 
“  sacks.............   6 60
“ 
“  barrels...........   6 80
Graham  “  sacks..........  2 25
Rye 
“ 
...........  2 25
MILLSTUFFS.
Bran...................................  22 00
Screenings........................  18 to
Middlings..........................  23 00
Mixed Feed..........................   30 00
Coarse meal..........................   30 00
Milling............................   80
F eed....................................  60
Brewers, per  100  lbs........... 1  25
Feed, per bu.......................   60
Small  lots.........................  82
Car 
“  .........................  80
Small  lots......................... ..64
Car 
“  ............................62
No. 1...................................  11 00
No. 2..................................   10 00
HIDES, PELTS  and  FURS.
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol 
lows, nominal:
Green..........................  4 @5
Part Cured.................  @
Full 
5  ©
Dry..............................   6 @  i
Kips,green...................4 @5
“  cured....................5 @
Calfskins,  green.........  5 @
cured...........6 @
Deacon skins............... 10 @3

BARLEY.

splint

WHEAT.

FLOUR.

HIDES.

BYE.

MEAL.

CORN.

OATS.

HAY.

“ 

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“ 

Plug.

No. 2 hides V4 off.
FELTS.

Pails unless otherwise noted.
Hiawatha
Sweet Cuba......
McGinty...........
»4 bbls-
Little  Darling..
1791............
1891, *4 bbls. 
Shearlings....................10 @25
Valley  City. 
Estimated wool, per ft 20  @28
Dandy Jim..
WOOL.
Washed.............................20@30
Searhead......................... 
39
Unwashed.. 
.................. 10@22
24
Joker............................ 
FURS.
22
Zero................................. 
Outside prices are for No. 1 only
L. & W............................  
Badger.....................10 20@$1  00
26
28
Here  It Is.......................  
Bear......  
.............   5  00@30 00
Old Style.................... 
Beaver.....................  2  00@  8 CO
Cat,  house..............  05@  25
Old  Honesty................... 
4)
Cat, wild................. 
Jolly Tar......................... 
33
10@  50
Coon.......................  2o@  80
Hiawatha.......................  
37
I Fisher.....................  4 00@ 6 00
34
Valley City....................  
Fox,  cross..............   2  00@ 5 00
Jas. G. Butler &  Co.’s Brands.
I Fox,  red  ................   1  00@ 1  50
Something Good................... 137
j Fox,  gray...............  
40@  70
Peach  Pie...............................34
Lynx.......................  2 00@ 3 00
“Tobacco” ..............................35
I Martin, pale and yel­
low  ......................  40@  1  00
Boss...................................   12* j
j Martin, dark...........  1  50@ 3 60
Colonel’s Choice................ 13
;  Mink......................  25®  1  00
Warpath.............................14
Muskrat..................   07 
20
Banner.............................. 14
! Opossum................. 
15
05 
King Bee.............................20
| Otter........................  3  00  10 00
Kiln Dried...  .................... 17

Smoking.

31

APPLE  BUTTER.

Chicago goods.................7 ‘/,Q8

AXLE  GREASE.
Frazer’s.

 

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“ 
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“ 
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“ 
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Peerless.

Diamond.

Wood boxes, per  doz...... 

Wood boxes,  per doz  ...... 

80
3 doz. case...  2 40
“ 
per gross....... 9 00
“ 
25 lb. pails,.........................1  00
75
151b.  “ 
 
A urora.
Wood boxes,  per  doz...... 
60
3 doz. case...  1  75
per  gross___6 00
50
3 doz. case...  1  50
per  gross___5 50
90
BAKING  POWDER.
45
V4 lb.  “  2  “  ....  85
“ 
1  “  .... l  10
lib .  “ 
“ 
bulk.........................  10
“ 
Telfer’s,  % lb. cans, doz..  45
“  ..  85
Vi lb.  “ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“  .. 1 50
1 lb. 
Arctic, H ft can s..............  60
“  Vi ft  “ 
..............  1  20
“ 
1 1b  “ 
“ 
5 ft  “ 
“ 
“ 

25 lb. pails......................... 
Acme, V4 lb. cans, 3 doz  ... 

ft cans........... 
40
........... 
80
............   1  50

Red Star, 

Vi ft  “ 
1ft  “ 
BATH BRICK.

 
 

** 
“ 
BROOMS.
 

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

 

 
90
.................   1  20

No. 2 Hurl.................................1 75
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet..............................2 25
No. 1 
 
“ 
Parlor Gem...............................2 75
Common Whisk................. 
Fancy 
M ill........................................  3 25
Warehouse...............................2 75
BUCKWHEAT  PLOUR.
Rising Sun......................... 5 00
York State..........................
Self Rising....................... 7.4  50

“ 

BUTTERINE.
Creamery.

Dairy.

Solid packed....................  13Vi
Rolls.....  .........................  14
Solid packed....................   11
Rolls...................................   11 Vi
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes..............10Vi
Star,  40 
..............  10Vi
Paraffine............................12
Wlcking.............................   25

CANDLES
“ 

CANNED  GOODS.

PISH.
Clams.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

Little Neck,  lib ...................... l 10
“  2 lb......................1 90
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 3 lb.......................... 2 30
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  1 lb..........................1 10
21b......................... 2 10
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,  3 lb................. 3 00
Soused, 3 lb............................. 3 00
Columbia River, flat........... 1  85
tails............1 60
Alaska, 1  lb..............................1 35
21b............................... 2 10

Salmon.
“ 

Sardines.
American  &s....................  5@ 6
Vis.................... 7@ 8
Imported  V4s.....................11@12
Vis.....................13@14
Mustard  Xs......................  @9
Brook, 3 lb............................... 2 50

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“ 
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Trout.
FRUITS.
Apples.
Apricots.

2 25
2 50
2 35
1 10
l 20
1 60
1 30

1 40

4 00

Gages.

Cherries.

Blackberries.

York State, gallons__ 
Santa  Cruz...................... 
Lusk’s.............................. 
Overland........................  
F. &  W............................ 
Red.................................. 
Pitted Hamburg.........  
W hite.............................. 
E rie................................. 
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
E rie............................  @1 60
Common......................... 
H e ............................. 1  60@1  75
Maxwell......................... 
Shepard's.......................  
California.................. 2 60@2 75
Domestic......................... 
Riverside......................... 
Hneapples.
Common.......................... 
Johnson’s  sliced........ 
grated........ 
Quinces.

Gooseberries.

Peaches.

Common......................... 

2 40
2 65

Pears.

“ 

1 10

2 25
2 25

1 25
2 25
1 30

1 10

Raspberries.
i 30
Red.............................  
l 40
Black  Hamburg.........  
Erie, black................. 
l  40
Strawberries.
l  i
Lawrence................... 
Hamburg.................... 
2 00
Erie............................  
i  50
Whortleberries.
l  40
Common.................... 
F. &  W....................... 
l  25
Blueberries............... 
1  30
Corned  beef,  Libby’s..........2 10
Roast beef,  Armour’s..........1  75
Potted  ham, Vi lb.....................1 10
“  V4 lb.................  65
tongue, Vi lb..................1 10
¡4 lb...........  65
chicken, Vi lb...........  95

“ 
VEGETABLES.

MEATS.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Peas.

Corn.

2 00
2 50

Squash.
Succotash.

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.

Beans.
String..................................  85
.........................  90
Stringless 
Lima, green..............................l 30
soaked......................  90
Lewis Boston Baked........... 1 35
Bay State  Baked...................... 1 35
World’s  Fair............................ 1 35
2 00
Tiger’.........................................1 00
9 60
Purity.......................................1 10
E rie.......................................... 1 15
Soaked................................   65
Harris  standard.................  75
Van Camp’s Marrofat 
.1  10
Early June........130
Archer’s  Early Blossom__ 1  35
French.....................................l 80
French..............................17@18
7 00
Erie.....................................   90
Hamburg  ............................  90
Hubbard...................................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.
22
German Sweet.................. 
Premium..........................  
34
38
Pure.................................. 
Breakfast  Cocoa.............. 
40
Bulk.....................................4 Vi
Red......................................7
Fancy Full  Cream__11  @12
....10  @1CV*
Good 
Part Skimmed............  8  @ 9
Sap Sago.......................   @22
Edam  ........................  @1  00
Swiss, imported........  24®  25
domestic  __  15®  16
Lim burger..........................   15
Rubber, 100 lumps................35
Spruce, 200 pieces................40
Snider’s, Vi pint........................1 35
pint............................2 30
quart.......................... 3 50
CLOTHES FINS.

CHEWING  GUM.
200  “ 

Tomatoes.

CHICORY.

CHEESE.

CATSUP

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

COCOA  SHELLS.

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COFFEE.
GREEN.Rio.

Santos.

Fair.....................................20 Vi
Good...................................21
Prime................................. 21 Vi
Golden................................22 Vi
Peaberry............................23
Fair.................................... 20V4
Good...................................21
Prime................................. 21 Vi
Peaberry  ............................2254
Mexican and Guatemala.
Fair.................;.................. 22
Good...................................23
Fancy..................................25
Prime.................................22Vi
M illed............................... 24
Interior..............................25
Private Growth..................26
Mandehling...................... 29
Imitation...........................25
Arabian..............................2

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

BOASTED.

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PACKAGE.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Vic. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per cent,  for shrink­
age.
McLaughlin’s XXX X __25*4
Lion.................................... 25 Vi
in cabinets  ................26
Durham.............................. 25
Valley City......................... 
75
Felix..................................   1  15
Hummel’s, foil...................  1  50
tin ....................  2 50
Cotton,  40 ft......... per doz.  1  25
1  40
1  60
1  75
1  90
90
100
Eagle.................................   7 40
Crown.................................6 50

CLOTHES  LINES.
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50 f t..........  
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60 ft..........  
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70ft..........  
80 ft..........  
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60 ft..........  
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7 2 ff......... 
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CONDENSED MILK.

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Jute 
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Genuine  Swiss.................... 8 CO
American Swiss...................7 00

COUPONS.
“Superior.”

 

 
 

1 1, per hundred...............   2 50
3 00
8 2, 
8 5, 
4 00
810, 
5 00
....................6 00
820, 

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8 1, per hundred.................2 00
8 2, 
2 50
8 5, 
3 OP
810, 
...4  00
820, 
5 00
Subject to  the  following  dis­
counts :
200 or over...............5 per cent.
500  “ 
1000  “ 

 
 
 
 

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10 
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CRACKERS.
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Kenosha Butter..................   7Vi
Seymour 
5Vi
Butter.................................   5vi ;
“  family...........................5V4
“  biscuit.........................654
Boston....................................7V4
City Soda............................... 7*4
Soda.....................................6 
I
S. Oyster............ 
5Vi
City Oyster. XXX...................5Vi
Strictly  pure......................  30
Telfer’s  Absolute..............  35
Grocers’............................ 10®15

CREAM TARTAR.

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Apples.

PEEL.

PRUNES.

California Evaporated.

Sundried....................   @11 Vi
Evaporated...............14  @145.
Apricots...................... 
19
10
Blackberries..............  
Nectarines.................  
18
20
Peaches!..................... 
17
Pears,  sliced..............  
Plums......................... 
19
Prunes,  sweet............. 
13
Turkey.......................   @9
Bosnia.........................  @10
French......................  @11
Lemon........................  
18
Orange.......................  
18
In drum......................  @18
In boxes.....................  @20
Zante, in  barrels........  @ 5Vi
in  Vi-bbls........  @ 5%
in less quantity  @  5S£ 
r a is in s  —California.

Bags...........................7
2 10
London Layers, 2 cr’n 
3  “ 
2 35
fancy. 
Muscatels,2crown  ... 
1  75
.... 
Valencias...................  
79S£
Ondaras.....................   8  @ 8V4
Sultanas.....................16  @17

3  “ 
Foreign.

CURRANTS.

CITRON.

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LICORICE.

LAMP WICKS.

Chicago  goods............  4V4©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.

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MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

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

New Orleans.

16
19
19
23
17
20
26
30
36

OATMEAL.

Barrels 200.................  @7 25
Half barrels 100.................... @3 75
Half  bbls 90..............  @3  75
Barrels  180.................  @7 00

ROLLED OATS.

PICKLES.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count.......... 87 50
Half  barrels, 600 count__  4 25
Barrels, 2.400 count  .........  9 00
Half barrels, 1,200 count...  5 00

Small.

PIPES.

Clay, No.  216............................ 1 75
Cob, No.  3.................................1 25

“  T. D. full count...........  75

RICE.

Domestic.

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

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

Imported.

8AUERKRAUT.

2 20
1 60

Barrels..................................... 4 00
Half barrels..............................2 50

Kitchen, 3 doz.  in box......2 50
Hand 
2 50
Snider’s  Tomato......................2 40

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SAFOLIO.
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SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 

4

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Peas.

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Sago.

Wheat.

Farina.
Hominy.

Allspice............................... 10
Cassia, China in mats........  7
40
100 lb. kegs................... 
Batavia in bund__ 15
Saigon in rolls........ 35
Barrels...................................  3 75
Cloves,  Amboyna................25
G rits..................................
Zanzibar..................15
Lima  Beans.
Mace  Batavia......................80
Dried............................ 
6
Nutmegs, fancy...................80
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
“  No.  1.......................75
Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
60
“  No. 2.......................65
Imported...................... 
11
Pepper, Singapore, black— 15 
Pearl Barley.
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white...  .25
Kega........................... 3K@3X
“ 
shot.........................19
Pure Ground in Bulk.
Green,  bu..................... 
1 20
Allspice............................... 15
Split, bbl.................................. 6 50
Cassia,  Batavia...................20
and  Saigon.25
German.............................. 
Saigon................... 35
East India..........................  
Cloves,  Amboyna................30
Zanzibar................20
Cracked..............................  
Ginger, African...................15
“  Cochin....................18
Jam aica.................20
“ 
Mace  Batavia......................80
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste. .25
“  Trieste....................27
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................75
Pepper, Singapore, black__20
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white.......30
“  Cayenne................. 25
Sage..................................... 20
“Absolute” in Packages.
24
Qs  V4s
Allspice......................  84  155
80
Cinnamon...................  84  1  55
Cloves.........................  84  155
Ginger, Jam...............   84  1  55
“  Af...................  84  1  55
Mustard......................  84  1  55
Pepper......................  84  155
Sage.............................  84

Yarmouth..........................
Whole..............................6 @6Vi
Bricks............................. 7 @8
Strips...... ...................... 8  @9
Halibut.
Sm oked............. 
10
Herring.
Scaled...............................  
Holland,  bbls................. 
kegs................... 
Round shore, 54 bbl... 
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Mackerel.

1  50
No. 1, V4 bbls. 90 lbs............12 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs...............   1  25
Family, 54 bbls., 90 lbs......
kits, 10  lbs...........

FISH—Salt.

11 00
2 75

Bloaters.

Cod.

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Whitefish.

Pollock.
Sardines.
Trout.

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Fancy.......................   3 50@4 00
Russian, kegs....................
No. 1, V4 bbls., 90 lbs...........5 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   80
No. 1, V4 bbls., 90  lbs.......... 7 00
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................  80
Family, V4 bbls., 90 lbs........3 00
kits, 10  lbs.............  50
Jennings’ D C.
Lemon. Vanilla
2 oz folding box...  75 
125
3 oz 
...100 
150
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2 00
...1  50 
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4 oz 
6 oz 
.. .2 00 
3 00
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Soz 
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4 10
GUN  POWDER.
K egs................................... 5 50
Half  kegs........................... 3 00
Sage..
Hops.

SUGAR.

Cut  Loaf.................... @ 5X
Cubes......................... @ 5*4
Powdered..................
@ 5V4
Granulated................. @ 5
Confectioners’ A........ @ 4%
White Extra  C........... @ 4%
Extra  C......................
©  4%
C ................................ @ 4%
Yellow....................... @
Less than 100 lbs. *£c advance
sc a l e s—Perfection.
.1 6 50
Tea, 2-ft,  tin scoop.........
“  brass  “ 
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.  7 25
“  5-lb,  tin  scoop........
.  8 75
.  8 75
.........
“  brass  “ 
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Grocers’, 11-lb,  tin  scoop.  11  00
brass  “  ..  12 25
.  13 25
brass  “  . .  14 75

22-lb,  tin

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Corn.

20-lb  boxes...................... ...  6V4
6V4

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H. LEONARD & SONS

GRAND  RADIOS,  MICHIGAN.

Selling  Agents  for  Refrigerators  and  “ New  Process” Vapor  Stoves.

No  60.  Leonard  Extra  Large  Refrigerator.

FOR  GROCERS.  HOTELS,  ETC.

DESCRIPTION.

This Refrigerator  is  designed to supply the wants of  those who  desire as 
large a refrigerator as can  be conveniently handled  without  making it in sec­
tions. 
It  is  made  and  shipped  complete in the  most  workmanlike manner, 
and is designed to go  through  any common  door. 
It  has our  seven walls,  air 
tight locks, metallic  ice  rack, and is zinc  lined  throughout.  Furnished with 
casters.  One bar is movable to receive large articles when necessary.  Perfect 
satisfaction guaranteed.  Holds 275 pounds of  ice.  Length, 50 inches;  depth, 
30 inches;  height, 70  inches.  Finished in  the  new  “ CREMONA ”  style, the 
handsomest finish known to the furniture world.

Special Net Price to our Customers,  $33.00

NO.  3  RANGE  CABINET

"New  Process”  Vapor  Stove,

W ith Reflex Russia Iro n   Oven.

LIST  PRICE,  «22.00.

NO.  2  RANGE  CABINET

List Price w ith  Reflex Russia Iron oven 

$20.00

If there is no  agent in your  town, write to us  for Special  Catalogue

and Disco unts.

Cooking is made  easy by this  original  evaporating vapor  stove. 

It lights  like gas 
It is the  only  stove of  the  kind  that is not  an  experiment—it 

and is absolutely safe. 
has had one year of  actual trial, and has been

IMPROVED  FOR 1891.

The  Evaporator has  been made  removable and  the  location of  the asbestos absorbent  has  been 
changed to just below the evaporator  This absorbent is used to prevent the  flooding of the burners in 
cold weather  and to do away with the  consumption of  the fluid  by the sub-fire.  The  sub-fire  will not 
prevent flooding, but the  asbestos  absorbent will  effectually do so. and  should it ever be necessary to 
get at the  Evaporator or  Absorbent, they  can be readily reached.  The  sub-fire was  used in this stove 
last year and abandoned as unsatisfactory, so do not be deceived by any “cheap talk” of imitating Btove 
manufacturers.  If you are agents of this stove, advertise and push the sales, as it is the LEADER.

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JUNIOR  GASOLINE  STOVE

THE  “VOLUNTEER” 

Lamp Stove.  Four Inch Wick. 

Per  Dez.  $7.50

“GEM” has  removable  top so you  cannot 
$1  40
1  65
2 00
3 00
4  15

loose the wick.  Easy to clean.
No. 1, Two 3-inch  wick, each 
No. 2,  ••  3V4  “ 
No. 3,  “  4 
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No. 5, 
OVENS  TO  MATCH.

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sold annually.  W ill  set on top of ordinary 
$2 80
No. 1—One burner, net each, 
No. 2—Two burner [see cut] net each, 
4 20
No. 3—Three burner, net each, 
5 60

stove  or  table.

OVENS TO  MATCH.

Children’s Carriages.

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m anufactured.

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T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .
Michigan P Tentrat.

H istory  o f the  Sugar  Trust.

Theodore A.  Havemeyer gave to the in­
vestigating  committee  of the New York 
Senate the following  story  ofhis connec­
tion with the great sugar trust:

“When  our  refinery  burned,  in  1883, 
I at first resolved not to rebuild, as I didn’t 
think it safe to continue to do business in 
this country, manufacturing being subject 
to changes in the tariff which might make 
the  business  worthless. 
I finally,  how­
ever,  did .rebuild, spending $7,000,000 in 
eighteen months in doing so.  The  labor 
I underwent while doing this nearly  cost 
me my life,  and 1 went to Europe for two 
years to recuperate.  When I  returned I 
thought of forming the  firm  into  a  cor­
poration in order to put the  property into 
divisible shape,  but was prevented  from 
doing so because the capital of $5,000,000, 
which the corporation  should  have,  in­
volved the  payment of $100,000 a year in 
taxes.  Our competitors  in  Philadelphia 
had  nothing.
“In 1887, John  E.  Parsons  laid before 
me  a  proposition of  Mr. Searles’  to pur­
chase  our  property.  After  consulting 
with my brother we determined to accept 
for  our  interest  in  the  firm  a  certain 
amount of certificates of the Sugar  Refin­
eries  Company  (the  old  trust).  We  be­
came a corporation with a capital of $500,- 
000 In compliance with the deed of  trust. 
•The property  which was thus transferred 
to the Sugar Refineries Company consisted 
of twelve blocks of ground  in  Williams­
burg,  worth,  perhaps,  $250,000  a  block, 
and  the  plant  on  it—refineries,  ware­
houses, etc.—was worth $15,000,000, with­
Indeed, I 
out including  the  good  will. 
would give $20,000,000 for a similar plant; 
but such a one could  not be  bought. 
It 
includes patent processes  resulting from 
the  experience  of  three generations,  by 
which  sugar  may be made  cheaper  than 
anyone else can make it.  Our business be­
gan in 1800.  I make more sugar in one day 
than my father did in a year.  We refined 
in 1887 about  40  per  cent,  of  the sugar 
production of the country, and my firm of 
Harris & Havemeyer in Philadelphia were 
refining  about 15 per cent., so that I was 
refining  55  per  cent,  of  the entire pro­
duction  of  the  country. 
I  have driven 
out  of  business  in  five years,  to 1880, 
twenty-five firms.  When I went to Wash­
ington,  I was  looked  upon  as  a  great 
monopolist, as I am to-day by this commit­
tee,  because  I  could  produce  cheaper, 
because I had knowledge and experience, 
because I did the business on an immense 
scale and save to ourselves all the  profits 
of middlemen, 
In other  words,  where I 
was  making  money  they  were losing it. 
In 1880,  I went  down to  Washington be­
fore the committee on ways and means on 
the tariff bill. 
I found twenty-five people 
who had been driven  out of business, at­
tributing my success to everything but the 
proper thing.  They attributed  it to  my 
cheating the  government.  They  attrib­
uted it to the adulteration of the product.
I had to make a hard fight before I could 
convince the  people who legislate  for us 
that that was not true.  At the same time 
they could not know,  they did not under­
stand,  why I was the only refiner who ap­
peared to get  along. 
to convince 
them. 
If you  want to know  how I  con­
vinced them I will  explain to you.

I had 

“I gave Fernando Wood, the  chairman 
of  the  committee  on ways and means,  a 
certain  number  of  questions.  These 
questions he would ask my competitors— 
‘Mr. Booth, 
questions like the following: 
where do you buy your raw sugar?’ ‘I buy 
‘Through a broker?’ 
it  in  New  York.’ 
‘In 
‘Yes.’ 
‘Where is this sugar stored?’ 
warehouses  in  Brooklyn.’ 
‘All  right. 
How do you get it to your  refinery?’ 
‘By 
lighterage.’ 
‘How  do  you  get  it  from 
your dock to the refinery, two blocks from 
‘What  is  the ex­
the river?’ 
‘Cart  it.* 
pense  of  brokerage?’ 
‘That  is 2)4  per 
‘Fifty cents 
cent.’  ‘What of lighterage?’ 
‘What do you pay for cart­
a hogshead.’ 
ing  a  hogshead?’ 
‘Twenty-five  cents.’ 
‘So it costs you about a dollar a hogshead 
before  you  get  the raw  sugar to the re­
‘How  many  hogsheads 
finery?’ 
do you use?’ 
‘A hundred and fifty a day.’ 
‘Where do you  buy your  coal?’ 
‘I  have 
a canal boat come  alongside of the dock.’ 
‘What does it cost to get your coal into the 
refinery?’ 
‘How 
‘A hun­
many  tons  do  you  use  a day?’ 

‘Twenty-five 

cents.’ 

‘Yes.’ 

‘No.’ 

‘Yes,  sir.’ 

‘What is  done with it?’ 

‘Land alongside  of  the dock; 

‘It  costs  you  $25 a day to  get  in 
dred.’ 
‘Yes, sir.’
coal?’ 
“Well,  that was the line of examination 
pursued with  about  all of  them.  Then 
‘Mr.  Havemeyer, 
they  examined  me: 
where do you bify  your  sugar?’ 
‘Cuba.’ 
‘Do 
‘Do you pay any  brokerage!’ 
you pay any bankers’ commissions?’ ‘No.’ 
‘Yes.’ 
‘Draw  on  you  direct?’ 
‘Then 
‘Yes.’  ‘Where 
you save this brokerage?’ 
does your raw sugar go,  to  warehouses?’ 
‘Landed 
‘No.’ 
‘What does  it cost  you to 
on my dock.’ 
get your sugar  into the  refinery?’ 
‘Two 
cents a hogshead.’ 
‘So you save 23 cents 
a  hogshead?’ 
‘How  about 
coal?’ 
it 
costs about 2 cents a ton to get it in the re­
‘So  you  save  23  cents on that? 
finery.’ 
•How many tons of coal do you use?’ 
‘Six 
hundred. ’ 
‘Do you mean to say that these 
are your profits over and above Mr. Booth, 
before  you  refine  a  pound  of sugar?’ 
‘Yes, sir.’
“That was the explanation how I could 
do the business cheaper than my compet­
itors.  That  is  the  explanation why the 
Sugar Refineries  Company could do bus­
iness 
cheaper  than  our  competitors. 
They don’t  want any  monopoly.  There 
has never been any monopoly.  There has 
never been in  my  recollection a curtail­
ment in production until the  warehouses 
were  so  full  of  sugar that we could not 
move  it,  and when  you  get your ware­
houses full of sugar your expense of refin­
ing  increases,  not  diminishes,  because 
then you have to store it outside and pay 
expenses.”
“If  you  could  refine  sugar  so  much 
more cheaply than other companies, why 
did you take them into the  trust?”  asfc ed 
Senator Erwin.
“Because  I  wanted to get them under 
our control, so as to extend the processes 
which  made  us  successful,”  was Mr. 
Havemeyer’s answer.  Before  the matter 
could be  followed  up  he said:
“There  has  been  great  talk  of our 
cutting out  sugar  houses.  Of the  eight 
which  have  been  dismantled  the site of 
one has  been taken for a park,  two have 
been  closed  because  they  were  too  far 
from the  water,  one  of  these being  the 
Dick  & Meyer,  which burned down.  To 
make up  for  the  loss  of these,  those re­
maining have  increased  their  capacity. 
In the same way the closing  of  refineries 
in Boston has  been  compensated for  by 
the increased capacity  of  the  survivors. 
Our total output is  greater  than that of 
the eighteen companies before they joined 
the trust and we refine 65 per cent,  of all 
the  sugar  made.  On  this  we  want  to 
make  a  profit  of  one-fifth  of a  cent a 
pound.”
When asked what effect  the  formation 
of the trust had had on the price of sugar, 
Mr. Havemeyer  said:
“There never has been,  in any sense of 
the word,  what could be called a  combi­
nation  to  advance  the  price.  We  ad­
vanced the price when the market wanted 
more  than  we  could  give  them.  We 
decreased the  price when our storehouses 
were  filled and  we  were  obliged  to sell 
our stock.  The only result  of the Sugar 
Refineries Company  was  doing business 
on an immense  scale,  a concentration of 
energy,  a  concentration  of  capital,  its 
elimination  of  middlemen—paying  no 
brokerage on raw sugar, and  all that. 
I 
have reduced the cost  of  refining  sugar 
from 2)4 cents  a  pound  to  % of a cent; 
and the consumer  has got  the benefit of 
it.”
Although  again asked why, if be could 
undersell  other  companies,  he  entered 
they 
into  an  arrangement  by  which 
shared the benefit of his secret processes, 
the  witness  failed  to  clear 
that  up 
further.

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New York Express..................................5:40 p m 
1:15 p m

trains to and from  D etroit.
E xpress to   and  from   Detroit.

■Daily.
A ll other d aily excep t Sunday.
S leeping  cars  run  on  A tlantic  and  Pacific  Express 
P arlor  cars run  on  Day  Express  and  Orand Rapid 
Fred m. Briggs, Gen’l A gent. 65 Monroe St.
G. 8. Hawkins, T icket A gent, Union  Depot.
Gko. W. Munson, Union T icket Office, 67 Monroe St.
O. W. Rdgoles.G . P.  &  T. A gent., Chicago.

Detroit TIME  TABLE

NOW IN  EFFECT.

EASTWARD.

tNo.  141 tNo.  161+No.  18 *No.  28
6 50am
I  30am I  3 45pm 110 55pm
7 45am
II 25am  4 52pm 12 37am 
8 28am
12 17am  5 40pm  1 55am 
9 15am 
1 20pm!  6 40pm  3 15am
11 05am 
510pm  8 45pm I...........
11 55am 
6 25pm  9 35pm...........
11 10am 
3 55pm  8 O' pm  5 40am 
3 05pm
6 50pm [ 10 30pm  7 35am
10 57am
3 05pm  8 55pm  5 50am
11 Scarni
4 05pm!  950pmI  1 20am
WESTWARD.

♦No. 81  I  tNo. 11
7 05 am
1  00 pm
8 50 am
2  15 pm

5  10 pm
6  15 pm

Trains Leave
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
Ionia...........Ar
St.  Johns  ...Ar
Owosso....... Ar
E.  Saginaw..Ar
Bay City......Ar
F lin t...........Ar
Pt.  Huron...Ar
Pontiac....... Ar
Detroit......... Ar

Trains Leave

Grand  Rapids,  Lv 
Grand  Haven,  Ar 
Milwaukee.Str, Ar 
Chicago Str",  Ar

♦Daily.  tDally except Sunday.

Trains arive from the east,G:40 a. m., 12:50 p. m., 
5:00 p. m. and 10:25 p. m.
Trains  arrive  from  the west,  10:10 a. m., 3:35 
p.m. and 9:50 p. m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parlcr  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Chair  Car.  No. 82 Wagner ^Sleeper.
Westward — No.  81  Wagner  Sleeper.'  No.  11 
Chair Car.  No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buifetcar.
J ohn W. Loud, Traffic Manager.
B en F letcher, Trav. Pass. Agent.
J as. Campbell, City Ticket Agent.

23 Monroe Street.

CHICAGO

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

A.  M. P.  M. P.M .

P.M.

DEPART FOR

DEPART  FOR

A. M. P. M.
t7:25 + 1 :20
+7:25 +1:30
+7*25

NOVEMBER 30,  1890.
Lansing & Northern R R
P. M.
*6:25
*6:25
*6:25
*6:25
*6:25
*6:25

Detroit  and  East...................
Lansing................................
Howell................................
Grand  Ledge.........................
+1:20
Lake Odessa.....................
+7:2; + 1:20
Plymouth...............................
+7:25 + 1:20
Howard  City.......................
+7:30 +4:30
Edmore  .. 
.......................
+7:30 +4:30
Alma...................
+7*30
St.  Louis  ...............................
+7:30 +4:30
Saginaw  City......................... +7:30 +4:30
♦Every Day.  tWeek Days.
*7 * 9 ^   A  M. runs through to Detroit with'par- 
•  . - G  lor car;  seats 25  cents.
y .on p . m.
A .4 iU  troit. Has  through  Parlor  car  to  De- 
6»*>P\  p- m- runs through to Detroit  with par 
For  tickets  and  information  apply  at Union 
Ticket Office, 67 Monroe  street, or Union station.

Seats, 25 cents.
lor  car, seats  25  cents.

Geo. DeHaven, Gen. Pass’r Agt.

M u skegon, G rand R apids & In d ian a.

For M uskegon—Leave. 

From  M uskegon—Arrive.

7:00  a m  
11:16  a m  
5:40  p m  

10:10am
3:45 p m
8:45 p m

Through tick ets and fu ll inform ation  can  be had by 
callin g  upon A. Alm qulst,  tick et  agen t  a t  Union Sta­
tion ,  or  G eorge  W.  Munson,  Union  T icket  A gent, 67 
Monroe street. Grand Rapids, Mich.

G eneral P assenger and Ticket Agent.

O. L. LOCKWOOD,

1 5

Grand  Rapids  6s Indiana.

In effect February 1,1891.
TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

Arrive from   Leave g o in g

, 

_   „  
South. 
For,Saginaw , solid t r a in ............ 
For.T raverseC ity..........................|   5:15a m  
For,Traverse  City & M ackinaw]  9:20 a  m 
For Saginaw , solid train .............  
For Cadillac....................................... t  2:15 p m 
For M ackinaw...................................t   7:45 p m  
From K alam azoo............................f  8:56 p m

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.

 

North.
t  7:30  a
3
t  7:05  a
3
tll:30  a
3
t  4  30  p
3
t  5:00  p m
[ 10  30  p in

 

 

. 

, 

„  
North. 
For  C incinnati................................]  6:00a m  
For K alam azoo and  C h icago.. ,tl0:15 a m 
From Saginaw .................................  11:45 a m
For F o rtW a y tea n d  the  E a st.. 
For C incinnati....................................t  5:30 p m 
For K alam azo and  C hicago___tl0 :0 0 p m  
From S aginaw ................................. «0:30 p m

Arrive from   Leave going'
South.
t  7:00  a m
«0:30  a m
t  2:00  p m
|   6:00  p m
¡11:05  p m
Trains m arked (]) run daily;  (t) d aily except Sunday. 
Sleeping and parlor car  serv ice:  North—11:30  a  m 
train , parlor  chair  car  fo r  Mackinaw City;  10:30 p m  
train,  W agner  sleep in g  car 
for  Mackinaw  City. 
South—7:00 a m train, parlor chair car for  Cincinnati; 
10:30 a m train, through parlor coach to  Chicago: 6p m  
train, W agner sleep ing car fo r  C incinnati;  11:05  p  m 
train, W agner sleep ing car  for Chicago.

Toledo,  Ann  Arbor  Ss  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.  A 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.

VIA  D.,  S .  H.  A M.

Lv. Grand Rapids a t......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.

Fdrnitdre

-AT-

Nelson, 

M atter 
& Co.’s

Styles  New,  Cheap, 
Medium  and  Expen­
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
Potatoes  and  Onions
In car lots.

We pay highest market  price  and  are 

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

128,130 an d   132  West Bridge S t , 

O R A N D   R A P ID S , 

- 

M IC H .

GX2TSXXTG  IVOOT.

W e pay th e h ig h est price fo r it.  Address

PECK BROS., WGRAND

T H IS   M I C H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N ,

NO  DEALER  EVER  LOST  A  CUSTOMER  BY  SELLING

THE  FRAZER

ALWAYS  UNIFORM .

O FTE N  

IMITATED.

NEVER  EQUALLED.

KNOW N  EV ERY W H ERE.

NO  TALK  REQUIRED  TO   SELL  IT.

Cood C rease M akes Trade-. 

Cheap Crease Kills Trade.

OneTound Decorated Tins

1  DOZ.  IN   A  CASE.

FRAZER HARNESS SOAP 
FRAZER HARNESS OIL 
FRAZER  MACHINE OIL

M U SK EG O N ’S  P R O G R ESS  FOR  1890 As follows:  Three  lines of  Electric  Railway,  six  miles of  paving,  making 
twenty-five miles in all;  new Water Works with  Lake Michigan as source of 
supply;  four  miles 24-inch main put in;  five new school  buildings, several churches,  numerous  residences, and  the finest public library in the  State were  built.  The 
Muskegon Iron and  Steel Co.,  The Chase Bros.  Piano Co., The  Sargeant  Manufacturing Co.,  The  Heaps Earth  Closet Co.,  The  Muskegon  Cracker Co., The Muskegon 
Milling Co.,  The Kelly Bros.  Manufacturing Co., The Michigan Washing  Machine Co.  and The Electric Power Co. each  built a good plant.  All of  these are now com­
pleted and  running.  Besides the nine  factories above  enumerated several  more were started  and are well  under way,  viz.:  The  Muskegon  Machine Co., The^R. D. 
Scott & Co. Carriage and Cart Co., The Morton  Key Seating Co.,  The Muskegon Malleable Iron Works,  The  Morton  Implement Co.  These  together with  the Nelson 
Piano Co., The Gray Bros.  Manufacturing Co., The  Muskegon  Furniture Co., The Muskegon  Wire  Nail  Co., The Alaska  Refrigerator Co.  and  others will be pushed to 
completion early this spring.  Come and see for yourself or send for printed matter to

F.  H.  HOLBROOK,

Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Trade.

