Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-11 | Page 24 | Grocery Order is Sent from France to Salt Lake Firm

Grocery Order Is Sent From France to Salt Lake Firm Oversea Baker's Letter Shows World Reads Local Lo-cal Advertisements. ON an elaborate sheet, with items neatly tabulated in characteristic French fashion, came to a local firm yesterday, all the way from France, an order for a 1000-franc consignment of groceries. The letter was addressed: "United Grocery and Company, M-4 Alain street. Suit -Lake City, Utah, Ktats Unis d' Amerique," indicating that advertisements in local papers are finding find-ing their way to the remotest centers of the civilized world. This is a transla 1 ion of the order: Gentlemen "Would it be possible for you to make me several small shipments? ship-ments? If so, you may as a trial send me C. O. D. 1000 francs' worth of sugar, chocolate and such goods as macaroni, ribbon vermicelli and" noodles. You will greatly oblige me if you can iill this order. Awaiting your early replv, I am, etc., GHARLFS DESPRES, Bakery. Nogent-en-Bassigny, Department of the Upper Marne. An order of this sort, that would be unusual even in times of peace, is interesting in-teresting to the point of being a curio today. Of course, the local .company with whom the order is placed cannot meet the demand, much as It would please them to do it. They can at least keep it in their files as a relic of the days when war made business uncertain and often Impossible.