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Show elaborate banquet (v the delegates and their friends. MERCHANTS ANNUAUVIEETING Convention of State Association Will Be Held in Salt Lake October 5-6. The sixth annual 'convention of the Utah Hetafl Merchants" association will be hold in Salt Lake City Wednesday Wednes-day and Thursday. October 3 and 6. The merchants are to have not only a business conclave,, but a session will be devoted to conviviality. It is expected ex-pected that merchants from all parts of the state will be present, and a thorough discussion of the business situation will be given. At 10 o'clock Wednesday morning F. II. Weight, president of the Salt Iike association, will deliver the address ad-dress of welcome, and the response will bo made by .J. M. Mlshop, president presi-dent of the Ogden association. J S. Carver of Ogden, state president, will then 'deliver an address, after which rcforts from the various officers will be heard and committee appointed. At the afternoon session reports from secretaries of local associations throughout the state will be read, and a paper on the subject, "Is Co-Operat-Ive Iiuylng in Large Deals Profitable and Desirable?" will be read and discussed dis-cussed by S. W. Price fur the affirmative affirm-ative and J. W. Wilcox for the negative. neg-ative. At Wednesday's evening ses-Flon, ses-Flon, the following papers will be read and discussed: "Why Should Free Deals Be Abolished?" "The Value of the National Association.'" "Why the Manufacturer Should Pioict the Retailer Re-tailer In His Profits," "What Henefltfl. if Any, Arc Sen by the Wholesaler and Manufacturer in a Retailers' Organization." Or-ganization." "The Right Way to Figure Fig-ure Profits," "Regulation of Credits From the Viewpoint of ihe Wholesaler." Wholesal-er." At HV.30 a. m. Thursday the convention conven-tion will reconvene. The first paper will bo "The Mall Order Menace; Mow 'Rest to Cope With It." Thin will be followed by the following papers: "The Incompetent Creditor," "How Rest to Cooperate to Discourage the Sale of Highly Advertised Staples Which Do Not Carry Profit Enough to Pay Cost of Doing Business." "Is the Pacific Coast Plan the Remedy?" "The Credit System, and How it Cau Pe Improved," Im-proved," "Home Manufactured Goods." These will be followed by the election of officers and the selection of the place for the 1911 convention. On Thursday night there will be an |