Show CREDIT CLERKS ASSOCIATION I BRANCH OF NATIONAL TO BE ESTABLISHED HERE Meeting will bo Held at the Knuts I ford Tomorrow EveningIdea Approved Ap-proved by Local Credit MonA Mon-A meeting In which the business men generally will be Interested will be held at the Hotel Knulsfoid tomorrow evening even-Ing at S oclock At that time a Credit Clerks association will doubtless bo organized which will become a branch of the National Credit Clerks association associa-tion which now has a membership of 3000 twentyseven of the principal Slates of the Union being represented W H Preston of the Knnpp Spencer Spen-cer Hardware company of Sioux City la Is the promoter of the new association asso-ciation and he is being assisted by G I K Ford of the Salt Lake Hardware company P A Dorau of tIme Symns Utah Grocery company J A Graham of time Walker Brothers Dry Goods company and others The object of the association said Mr Preston Is lo bring the credit clerks of Limo big mercantile Institutions Institu-tions In closer touch with each other than they are now thus establishing a mutual confidence that has In times past been conspicuous mainly by Its absence Time position of credit clerk Is an important one and ho should at I all times be uplodate in every respect By afwoclntlon with others of his class he must necessarily learn more than If he flocked by himself We have also found that through time efforts of an aaaoclallon we have brought about legislation beneficial lo merchants generally gen-erally Our association does not pretend pre-tend to collect bad bills or anything of that sort but records of the standing of the linns throughout the country arc kept for limo benefit of our members The Idea Is to help the honest and make It warm for the dishonest Then again there Is the prosecution fund of 10000 for the use of members to prosecute prose-cute fraudulent debtors AVe supply J50 of the leading trade papers of the country with business literature After an association has been formed here I shall visit the const cities Mr Preston was the first president of the National Association of Credit men and is at present a member of the board of directors of time association He is also a close friend of Superintendent Superin-tendent ofPublic Schools Cooper |