Show SA SAYS SUB SHE'S TIRED OF oi BEING ROBBED BY 1 j GROCERS Of CITY j I Salt LaKe LaRe Woman Will Buy in th the East and Pay PayS PayI I S Freight Declaring that many of the prices charged ed by tho the retail dealers of Salt City are little short of oi robbery l Mrs Mr E. E F. F Mumford Ium ord of No o 1 Olsen court declares sh she is practically forced to pur purchase hae a lar large e part of her ber goods from the thc east ast Mrs Mumford says that after paying first cla class s freight rate on on tho the goods which she sho expects to buy she can cave o considerable on each article purchased I The way a the merchants of this city char charge e for goods says Mrs Irs II is is not only keeping keepin people away from irom I this cit city citi- hut but butis is Driving many away fay who I would like to live Jive here but are unable to do so on account of tho exorbitant prices Mrs Irs Mumford named over o a number of art articles les on which she said a d prices bad had been raised in the last few months and sho asserted that there did not appear to be any limit to tho the greed reed of tho the merchants merchants mer chants of this cit city I am getting ettin s sick ck and tired of bela being I held beld up on nearly everything that I purchase II said she II and and I ha have C decided de de- de to order a large larse part of my goods I from the east While it is true that I Ido Ido I do not use as 15 mu much h merchandise as some other people I know do do yet I feel that it is my mv right to purchase whore where I can I do the tho best with my money mODe I j have in investigated investigated in- in Vesti the matter ana and I find that after paying freight on what I need I Ican Ican Ican can get et the goods from the east cast at considerably considerably con con- less Jess price than what I have havo to paT pay bereI here bere rI I am m satisfied that a number of ot my friends will join loin with me as soon coon as they know what a saving raving they can make With a number or of us acting together together to to- gether w wo we can do better than if but one of us ns were to order I have tW tried d the bu business iness before and know what I am about talking Mrs Mumford stated that sho she did not I expect to order and sugar from irom the east as the we weight ht of these articles was such that it would hardly pay to order or or- der them She did declare h however that she could savo save no small amount on all kin kinds s of canned goods spices extracts ex cx- tracts and other articles I s is a sample of what bat she declares 1 i 1 simply a 3 holdup Mrs Irs Mumford said she purchased a 1 dozen eggs CS from a local merchant a few ew days ago alO paying payin 45 cents for them The dealer assured me mc that the e eggs gs were strictly fresh she he related I I broke broke- ono one oi of or them and found it far from bein being what was claimed for it 1 I at nt once telephoned to the dealer and told him bim to come and take the CI eggs 8 back Since then I havo have phoned d him several l times tims but the eggs are still here I suppose I will have to take them back myself if I get rid of themI themI themI them I sick and ami tired of am lm being held u up Ul the way I have e been for months and ln I for ono one am nm going to put at least a tJ partin par par- tin stop top to the business par par-I If Ii some poor starving n human being were to to bold hol up a a. citizen on the street for the price of a l meal the tho whole machinery machinery machinery ma ma- chinery of the law would be set et in notion ac no- tion to lo have hae him clapped clappe into prison It seems to me that tho merchants along market row and elsewhere are aro holding up the tho public every eVer day and they the are aro not molested in the least I can stand such a thing just so EO long Ion and then I am forced to resist I am amnot amnot amnot not going to stand this any longer |