The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-08

7 later was made manager of that con-
Germ 1t was while acting in that ca
pacity that his attention was called
/ to the wide extent of credit which the
| retail grocers and butchers were Civ,
| ing their customers. and a little in
vestigation convinced him tlsat such
a system in business must necessarily
! be accompanied by many losses He
called the attention of a number of
dealers to the evils of this method
of conducting their affairs and when
he proposed the formation of an as
ISOLATION he was encouraged to go
ahead with his project. After the or
ganizatiOn had been perfected he re-
signed his position at the Fifth Ward
Cooperative store and accepted the
salaried position of secretary offered
him by the association 1t is declared
to be largely due 20 his energy and
force of character that the organization
has become so powerful during the past
few months.
F.. c. Allen. the assistant secretary.
is a member of the firm of Miller &
Allen. doing grocery business at 500
| West First South street. He has been
successfully engaged i'm business for
the past four years. He is one Of the
founders of the association. and pre-
sides at all it's social entertainments.
He is also secretary of the Order of
Railroad Conductors for this section
of the country.
The principal object of the associ-
alton is 10 keep track of people Tho
make a practice of beating their gro
GERS and butchers whenever the Op-
! portunity presents itself. At first ii
I was no easy matter to get on the
track Of these delinquents, but after
the first few meetings the members
began TO compare notes and a system
was evolved My which they quickly
warned each other when a customer
failed TO meet his or her obligations
or made a haSty move to some other
part Of the city to evade making pay
ments- As result it was not long
until all the members We're pretty well
posted as to the identity of this par
ticuiar class of 'shinglerss" as they
are known among tradespeople, and
some of them were speedily brought to
book when they deemed themselves Sc
/ cure in their new habitations.
Then the association got after the
itnerant peddlers. After two months
of hard work the city council was fin
ally prevailed upon to pass an OF di-
| nance raising the license of these ped
diers to $50 a year, payable quarterly
| The result was that many peddlers
were driven ont of business, and then
/ the public found that they had been
| dealing with men who were selling
goods by small measures and false
! scales. This had been going on for
years. and persons who had been pat
! it until the butchers and grocers had
| the measures and scales tested An
/ other ordinance was drafted and sub
! mitted to the city council 1t provided
/ that all measures and scales be fire.
! quently tested by the sealeT OF weights
| and measures, and that those found
1 guilty of using fraudulent weights and
/ measures be penaiized by the Torfeit-
uTe of their licenses. This ordinance
/ vas adopted. and ii applies today to
| all merchants as well as TO peddlers
| Following this action the association
prepared a list Of the dead-beats in the
! city. and some of the names enrolled
; thereon were a source OF surprise to
! other members Of the association who
I believed them TO be the soul of honor.
As a result Cf this list many debts
T. which were considered as hopelessly
| lest have been, recovered.
The next important fight of me asso-
! citation was in the matter of the use Of
trading stamps. From Denver there
| had come far cry as to the evils OF
J this new device to attract trade. and
! the local members took prompt action
1 to stamp out the system. An appeal