The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-11-21
WILL HAVE 70 PAY.
The People who are Poor Pay to be
Looked After.
. NEW WAY TO COLLECT OLD DEBTS
A Branch of the Merchants Retail Col
lection Agency Organized in
Morgant0wn.

The Retail Merchants of Morgan
town met at the Wallace House, Mon
day the 9th, and organized q branch
of The Merchants Retail Commercial
Agency, SO Dearborn St., Chicago,
Ills. The system in use by this
Agency has for its purpose the pro-
lection of Retail Merchants. The
legality, praeticability and results
Of the system were fully explained
by J. ii. Kinkead, General agent for
West Virginia. The following were
chosen as officers:
L. Pickenpaugh, President; d.
Chadwick, Vice President; S. A. Pos
ten, Secretary; G. A. Hayes, Treas
urer; T. Pickenpaugh, E. Shisler,
w. II. Bailey, C. A. Hayes, William
Moorhead, Executive Board.
This Agency uses no dishonorable
means to force collections or settle
ments, but the merchants propose to
excl else their legal right to refuse
credit to person who gains the rep
utation of not treating a member of
the Agency honorably.
There is no law compelling mer-
chants to sell their goods on credit.
There is no law forbidding mer-
chants to refuse credit to any person
they see fit, and when a merchant
sells his goods on credit it is an ac-
commodation to the consumer, and
if such consumer has no apprecia-
ton of the favor extended and aoi2-
fuily neglects to make reasonable
and honorable adjustment Of his in
debtednes, then he should be com
PEELED to pay as he buys 1t is bet
ter for him and much more profitable
for the merchant. Many poor
worthy man has been refused credit
for the necessities of life because of
the merchants unpleasant expert
ence with bad debtors, but this sys-
TEN will tend to obviate all that, be-
cause the man who does respect his
credit will be known and have a
standing among merchants, while
the dead beat" and others of his
kind will also be known to the mem
bers of this Agency and be absolute
ly refused credit; no matter if he
moves to another town or state his
reputation as poor pay will follow
him and the merchants in snch new
place of residence will also refuse
him credit. This Agency issues a
regular and legal Abstract of unset
tied accounts. Each member agrees
to forfeit twenty dollars to his branch
as penalty in case he extends cred
it to a person whose unsettled &C
counts appears in the abstract, and
no account can appear therein until
the debtor has had a full and fair OPP
portunity to go to the merchant he
owes and in some way arrange such
indebtedness. The man who can pay
and won't pay and the man who
cannot pay, but will not 90 to the
merchant and state his condition and
make efforts to arrange, is the person
this Agency is after.
This Agency does not interfere
with the credit of men who deal hon
orably, no matter if they are slow;
neither does it any way regulate pri-
ces. Its sole object is to compel men
to be honest with merchants or to
pay spot cash for goods purchased.
Something of this kind has been
needed for a long time and this sys-
TEN will work. I'm combination
there is strength" The members
have the success or failure of this
system in their own hands. Where
ever merchants have properly COM
bined, the system has proven great
success The United States is being
carefully covered by this Agency,
and the merchants in all small towns
are visited and solicited to join the
county branch.
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