The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-01-18
WILL FURNISH THE FUNDS
Retail Merchants Resolve to Stand bv
Officials in the Fight With
Catalogue House.

The closing session OF the South
Dakota Retail Merchants Associa-
ton was held Thursday morning.
and an adjournment was taken AT
the noon llour.
c. NJ. Day, editor Of the Sioux
Falls Argus-Leader. was down on
the program for an address on adver-
tising. Mr.. Day covered his subject
In a thorough manner, and paid
particular attention to advertising
as a means to overcome the inroads
OF the catalogue house. He bel ieved
that the local business man could
be able partially divert a great per-
centage Of the business from the
catalogue house by constant adyer-
t~lslng-not %spasluodic, but following
out a system from q years end to
the other. Mr.. Days remarks we're
heartily appreciated, and one bust
ness man said that it was the most
sensible talk that he had ever heard
at an association meeting.
j. E. Walker. ..of Chester, gave a
talk on the catalogue house and the
banking business, showing in what
way the houses effected the banks,
in that they urged the sending of
money by express, tried to get farm
ers to deposit their money in the
banks connected with the catalogue
houses, and cut out a great deal of
money in a locality.
The election Of officers was hen
taken up and the following was the
result:
President, a. T. Grimm, OF Parks
ton; secretary. L. S. Tyler, OF Sioux
Falls; treasurer, II. o. Rhine, of Dell
Rapids: vice presidents, G. Mittle-
staedt, Of Milbank, Edward Oschner,
OF Kimball, L. G. LeVoy, of Webster,
Robert Sundstrom, Of Beresford,
I. j. Hansen, OF Canton, d. q. Loft
tus, of DeSmet; directors, p. #.
Wickhem, A P. Mcmillan, W. n.
ii. Buntley, L. N. Grill, Ex-Governor
A. +. Lee, L. j. Colrshon.
The committe on resolutions made
its report and they were adopted.
The resolutions are in substance as
follows: That 1T is the duty Of
every member to contribute his
individual influence toward the
members Of the legislature in an
effort to have the authority of the
dairy and food commissioner 80 en-
larged as to give him authority to
take and analyze any Article OF food
that my come into this state, that
he may have full power to bold o
goods that NAV have come here for
distribution until such sample as he
may have taken of the same be shown
that it is pure and tit to be delivered
for food uses; that it is the unani-
nous sentiment Of this convention
that the effort Of any Combination OF
capital Or corporation that has for
an object the annihilation and
destruction of the various retail
soSiNpo1to oSSOOAdUiOuS. uOU Only l0
this state but in others and that we
will fight to tile bitter end this
effort to destroy us in the FOOD
work that we have so far accom-.
plished toward advancing the inter-
ests OF the retail merchants: that as
an association We uphold the officers
in their efforts to defend this as
sociatirn in the courts of the United
States from the malicious prosecu-
tion of the cat house that is arrayed
against US, and that we will furnish
the means to carry on the case that
has been commenced against US up to
the last court Of resort in such cases.
Thanks we're extended to President
Grimm for what he has done for the
association and to the citizens of
Mitchell for their efforts to make the
visit Of the delegates pleasant, and
congratulations were extended for