Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-02-15
FOUR WATERFOWL
MEN At CONvtHT!G,:..
STATE GATHERING OF RETAIL.
HARDWARE MEN AT Mil.
Postal Rate One OF the Questions
Taken Up -Mdil Order BUSHES
Handled Without GlOyeS-Asso.
citation Has a Mutual Insurance
Feature.

VIM. J. Pritzlaff, John Bruegge..
Henry Winkenwerder and Daniel Kuse
returned Friday evening from Nj!
waukee, where they attended, the coz.
ventiun of the Wisconsin Retail Dealer.
Hardware association, which was i
session for four days at the Publ.
Service building. The gentlemcr
report good time and proftablv
gathering. The attendance was very
large, there being d representation c!
over five hundred of the retail hard
ware merchant of the state.
One of the beauties of this associa
ton is the fact that they hav>
mutual insurance company OF tn
own, which last year paid a DIVIDEND &.
over forty per cent, which is al {"
ceptionally good showing considering
the fact that the company has heen
in existence less than four years
The number of policy holder hal
grown nearly 200 during the past year
At its present time, like insurance
companies exist In all the states Of
the union with very few exceptions.
The Wisconsin association of reta
dealers is also affiliated with tn
national association.
One of the things advocated by the
Wisconsin association is that first class
mail matter be reduced from two cents
per half an ounce to one cent. The
success of the Wisconsin association
is largely due to the efforts OF tia
secretary, G. A. Peck of Berlin, wiz
has performed a good work to increaS"
the membership.
Announcement of court decision
of national Importance to retail lard
ware dealers was made by National
Secretary M. T. Cory at the Closing
session of the Wisconsin Retail Hare
ware Dealers association at t..s
Public Service building yesterday
morning. 1t vas to the effec. that
the United States circuit court a.
Sioux Falls, N. D., has refus-d t.
grant an injunction to Montgomery
Ward & Co, restraining the retail
hardware dealers of that state from
Influencing the wholesale dealers nC5
to sell the mail order house, a;3 a.,
missing suit for $40, 900 damages fc1
loss of business sustained by tht
action of the retail dealers. i w'ee
a test case, in as much as the samg
course is being taken by retail dealers
associations in many other states,
including Wisconsin,. In discussing
the decision Mr.. Cory said that it
sounded the death knell of the mail
order house, at least as far as the sal"
of hardware is concerned.
On FRIDAY, the following otiicel-
were elected.
PresidenU-Jacob Kornely, Milwau-
kee.
Vice president-James Murphy,
Racine.
Secretary -tresaurer-C. A. Peck,
Berlin
New directors-O. B. James, Rich
land Center; O. A. La Budde, Ceonto.
The convention Endorsed the repoTs
of the committee on resolutions de-
handing reciprocal demurrage il
connection with railway freight trans
portation and delays. The report Sc
forth that inasmuch as the railway
interests of the country maintajng
car demurrage associations, through
which all freight shipments or "a
celvers are charged demurrage on CO =
held by them over twentyfour hours.
that the shippers and the receiver ar @
equally entitled to demurrage froh.
the railroads when freight is delayed
in transit to the direct injury Of TIL
firms waiting for shipments.