Show Convention of Retail Merchants The fourth annual convention of the Utah Retail Merchants Association was held in the city pavilion on Tuesday Aug 11 The program arranged wan not given as the train was Into and it was 1130 before the chair called the convention to order Mayor James A Martcll gave a welcome which was responded to by Edward Williams the chairman who said he thought Salt Lake City had all the attractions but since coming coming here he has found ho was mistaken Mr Carver state treasurer Lorenzo Jensen W M Roylance nnd William Knight each gave short talks After music by the Silver Band the convention was dismissed dis-missed A banquet was given them in the evening in the Opera House by the Commercial Club of this city In the afternoon they met in Packs pavilion for business when the officers and directors for the ensuing year were elected as follows James h Carver president Geo A Hone 1st vice president pres-ident C J Foulger 2nd vice president J M Quale 3rd vice president W E Stoker 4th vice president II B Niel son treasurer G W Fassel secretary L Jensen State organizer J S Carver Car-ver and C M Lee were appointed delegates del-egates to the national convention The following directors were appointed S W Price D A Affleck Thomas S S Davies A Hudson and C M Lees from Salt Lake City Gomer Nicholas Ed Williams F E Grant and D A Alford from Ogden A S Jones and Wilford Perry from Provo A Bate man and J Hailston from Logan Oran A Lewis and P P Thomas from Spanish Fork A Swensen Murray and James Lindsay from Taylorsville |