Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-14
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1t cost 50, 900 to furnish the Travelling
| Mems association club rooms at st. Paul.
Reports come from all the towns through
out the northwest to the effect that business
is very dull in all mercantile business.
The Commercial Travellers Protective as
bership of over sixteen thousand and is
probably the strongest association of the
kind in the world.
A meeting of the directors of the Com
mercial Travellers club of Minnesota was
held at the club rooms Sunday MAY 6, at
fare of the association.
a Huron, Oak, writer says: Our mer-
chants are in a healthy financial condition,
while trade is quiet, yet we are living within
our income. Our farmers are feeling happy
over the prospects Of a good crop.
The annual meeting of the Minnesota di-
vision Il. p. A., for the election of state
officers and delegates and alternates to the
convention of the national association T. p.
A, will be held at the rooms of the Com
mercial Travellers club, Hale block, Satur-
day, May 10.
A dispatch from Morristown, Mimi, says
Our merchants are in better condition than
they were six months ago. Our farming
land, which originally was timber and brush,
has been largely cultivated, and wheat, oats
and corn are now the principal products.
Crop prospects were never better than they
appear at present.
J. d. H. Painter, travelling freight agent
of the Omaha line, knows how to play a
game of whist, and loves it about as well as
any one, provided of course there is no bust
ness on hand. Ask him about the game from
Madelia to Minneapolis between himself and
unknown VS. H. S. fowler and Tony Shafer.
Painter will be pleased to tell you of the
thirteener.
Il. w. Harvey, representing the Pattee
Plow company OF Monmouth, ILL.,, is again on
a tour through the state. Tom is an old
timer in his line and to all appearances is
getting younger every trip. If we would
dare to tell a Joke on him, we would repeat
his remark, "that the nice little 'sparkler'
that he wears in his scarf was lost and for.
gotten by Q man on a lark. '"-May be il
was, but we doubt it.
Sam Leland, Of the firm of Tychsen & LIE
land of Lincoln, who had his foot blown of
months ago, is again on the road. Although
badly crippled he manages to get around
among his trade and his customers manifest
most substantial courtesy by giving him very
liberal orders. Mr.. Leland is probably the
best known of any travelling man n the South
Platte country, and HIS many friends con,
graduate him on his recovery.
There is nothing so profitable as advertis
ing and a popular way to do so is in a display
of the goods to be sold. This is the belief
expressed by Mr.. w. b. Howard, represent
ing the G. M. Jarvis company Of San Jose,
California, at the druggists convention at
Lincoln last week. And those who paid the
display then respects can testify TO the good
qualities of the goods exhibited. A popular
representative Is bound to make any line OF
goods popular. This being u fact the sue,
cess of the Jarvis is assured.
Flowers, richly perfumed and delicately
fragrant were wreathed into lovely bouquets
and strewn by the hundreds from the adver.
Using supply of Salon Palmer, the great New
YORK perfumer, through his popular repre-
sentative, Mr.. A. B. Levi, at the druggists
convention in Lincoln last week. Mr.. Lev.
has for years represented this house and is
an energetic and interesting worker anG
wholly deserving the great success ne has at,
tanned in so thoroughly placing his good:
throughout the west.