The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-22
HAVE TAKEN WINONA
THE STATE GRoCERs ARE NOW IN
POSSESSION OF THE
TOWN
CONVENTION Is UNDER WAY

President Hanson Delivers His An
| nuaI Address-TOuches ON Points
| of Interest to the Trade-Secre-
| tary Tenvoorde Gives the Finan-
ciaI Condition of the Organization
| Evening Given to SociabilIty.
| WINONA, Mimi, Feb. 21.-jSpecial.)-
| Winona Is in possession Of the grocers
| today. Something like $50 of them, rep
resenting the Retail Grocers' Association
of Minnesota, arrived in the city today
| and are now engaged In holding the
| fourth annual state convention of their
organization.
| While grocers from all over the state
| and Wisconsin are represented, the BAH
ner delegation made their appearance at
| noon today when special train OF SIX
coaches arrived over the Burlington road
carrying the grocers of Minneapolis and
| st. Paul. With many of them came
| their wives and the procession, as 1t lined
up for the march to the convention hall,
attracted much attention. Each in addl-
| ton of monster badge, carried a red,
white and blue umbrella, while the gro
tesque was furnished by band, each
| member of which carried a dilapidated
instrument and was attired in side
| splitting costume. They were q feature
and caused much merriment.
J A platoon of police, the Gate City band
and the members of the local organiza-
| ton, each of whom constituted himself
a member of-tlle reception committee, met
| the two delegations and they were es-
corted to the Pythian hall, where the
/ deliberations of the convention are to be
| held.
The convention was called to order this
| afternoon by President Robb, of the WI
! mona association. Rev. S. +. FSerfoot
| then offered prayer.
Mayor E. K. Tarbell was introduced to
| the convention by Mr.. ]. T. Robb, pres
| ident of the Winona Retail Grocers' as
| ISOLATION. The mayor cordially welcomed
| the grocers to the city.
After the mayors address, President
Robb turned over the business of the con-
| vention to State President HANSON.
| The response was very happily made
| by Mr. J. F. Main, of Minneapolis.
| The annual address of President P. G.
Hanson came next Mr.. Hanson said, In
| part:
Immediately at the close of the last
| convention the executive board met and
we have had two or three executive
meetings during the year. The secretary
| will make a full report of our meetings.
! We took up the question Of the very
small profit on Uneeda biscuit with inc
very best we could, but did not succeed
| in getting as large q profit as we hopeo
| for, but got a small reduction that has
meant hundreds of dollars to the mer.
chants of this state. In the fore. part or
! March your president took up the mat
| ter of price cutting on Santa Claus soap
with the N. K. Fairbanks. company, and
| told them that something must be done
| at once or there would be trouble, and
| they Immediately notified me that they
would send up their manager to adjust
| matters, which they did. We met him at
the West hotel, and, after going over the
whole matter very carefully for about
| three hours, he assured us that he would
do everything in his power to keep the
goods out of the department stores, and
see to it that the merchants received
profit on their goods. could go on and
| state number of things of this and diff
ferent kinds of work that we have taken
up through the year, but let this suffice.
However, there is one very important
subject that must not forget to mem
Your president and secretary have
spent large amount Of time the past
year in looking up everything. possible to
educate themselves on the subject Of in
surance, and after due deliberation and
thought we concluded the thing to do
was to start a retail merchants mutual
IRE insurance company, anu we Q6ClQ0Q
to issue call for that purpose. On Dec.
| u, 1885, we got together as many of the
officers and directors of this association
| as we could, and, with other merchants,
we organized O. fire insurance company.
| And we are more than pleased with the
results thus far.
| National Secretary Godfrey and Ma
| 'tienal Treasurer Floyd each made brief
| addresses.
| The report Of Secretary Tenvoorde was
| briefly as follows:
During the session of the legislature
| last year the time of the secretary and
| president was engaged in trying to Sc
| cure the passage of a number of bills.
| After the adjournment the hand book
was issued and much routine business
transacted. 1t was impossible to send
| cut an organizer, but the time Of the
secretary was taken up largely with Sc
| curing information regarding the forma-
| tion of the Retail Merchants Mutual Fire
| Insurance company. The company was
! formed and there is a fair prospect that
| the required amount, 900, will be all
| In by April l.
| There are at present eighty-four local
| retail business mems associations In the
state.
The receipts for the past year have
been as follows:
| Balance on hand .................... $37 IS
Dues collected .......... ..:......... 1S5 90
Donations at last convention -. 219 80
St Paul Retail Grocers' associa-
ton ................ luO w
Cation 49,. 80. ............ 100 90
tons ......................... S1 SO
| Hand book ............ ............. l 434 10
Total ...... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 81. 9ss 0e
Disbursements
Printing hand book ................. $500 90
| Commissions ON advertisements. 275 90
| Postage 5000. .......... .............. $50 90
| Envelopes 1890. ................... IL so
| IIalf tones for hand book ........... IS 15
| Express, etc Observation-Disclosures. SO IS
| Return postage ...................... $50
vouchers OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. SAC 27
= Total $500. .................. 50 765 81
| Balance on hand .................... 232 40
! Due from insurance ........... s. %
Total resources on hand ...... SAFE ~
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