Show GONDITIONS OF TRADE Better Than Corresponding Week of Last Year S COLLECTIONS REMAIN GOOD I I Although tho Present Season Is Always Al-ways Dull Merchants Say They Are Well Pleased With Their Sales for tho Past Week Complaints Being Made as to High Rents Pacing Brick Scarce Sugar Factories Fac-tories Will Soon Begin Poll Operations Opera-tions Nev Scow for tho Lake Quietness has characterized the business busi-ness of the city during the week yet merchants say a very fair trade has I been enjoyed and certainly the percentage I per-centage over last year Is of a very satisfactory I sat-isfactory figure There has been no move of Importance Import-ance In commercial stocks only such as may have been brought Into lequlsl tion by other commercial transactions Bank deposits continue to be heavy Ian I-an while there Is much money bank I ers say being withdrawn for use In various industrial ways there never Imo been a time in the history of the city when bank accounts were so well kept up Interest too is paid as It I falls due in most cases and some times In advance Merchants generally aro looking fat ward tothe fall trade with much complacency com-placency A number of landlords in the business busi-ness district are going say tlie merchants mer-chants to the extreme In the matter of rents Particularly is this the case with people who own property qn Main street In case tho present desire for high rents among the landlords keeps up said one merchant yesterday it will be necessary for many of us to move oft on to some side street where if we do less business we will have the satisfaction satis-faction of knowing that we arc making more money Collections from the country districts dis-tricts It Is said were seldom better than at the present time It shows say the merchants that the people In the cow counties as they are called have money to live on and are also able to pay their debts |