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Show Store Founder j . jft w -T"1 :t-t- -ia i. , r v 1 t :- t - - . ? f' 1 Sams who worked for him were about as fair and square as they came. The business grew. The business has continued to grow, and today the Penney company com-pany operates nearly 1500 stores, located in every state in the Union. Observers uf department stcre operations in this country attribute much of the company's success to its rigid adherence to Mr. Penney's original plan of vesting vest-ing full merchandise control of each store in the hands of a local manager who is in a position to study the wants and needs of the people of his own community, as Mr. Penney and young Sams (who is now president of the Penney Pen-ney company) did in Kemmerer. Mr. Davies said that he and his associates always look forward to Mr. Penney's visits with a great deal .of pleasure. "He has a remarkable re-markable memory for faces and names and is so eager to render a real service that he makes it very easy for any of us to discuss our individual store problems with him." J. C. PENNEY Penney To Address Group Meeting in This Section Store Manager M. E. Davies and 1 his associates of the J. C. Penney company will go to Provo on Wednesday Wed-nesday night, April 29 to attend a meeting presided over by the founder foun-der of their company, J. C. Penney. Mr. Penney is visiting a number of Penney stores in Utah to renew his personal contacts with Penney Pen-ney managers and their associates, mingle with the shopping crowds, and make a personal study of retail re-tail trends in this section. Mr. Penney is an idealist, but a very practical one. He opened his first store in the tiny mining town of Kemmerer, Wyoming", with a total capital of $500. The hard working miners and their families soon discovered that Mr. Penney's little 20x40 store carried just the things they wanted, and that he and that young fellow |
