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Show VETERAN MERCHANT OUT OF THE HARNESS C. M. Freed Will Turn His Business Over to His Sons and Make a Tour of the World. After forty-two years of strenuous life in the business world, the last fourteen four-teen of which have been spent in Salt Lake. C. M. Freed, head of the Freed Furniture company, will leave the cares of business to his sons and enjoy the competency and the rest he has so well earned. . Mr. Freed retires from the field where he has -so long been a recognized leader with the respect and confidence of his business associates and the affection of a wide circle of friends. His career has been a striking example ex-ample of the sucoeps that comes to the man of integrity, zeal and ability, for In the years that he has been a competitor com-petitor In the local field his business has grown from the most humble beginning be-ginning to one of the largest establishments establish-ments in the West, the Freed Furniture Furni-ture company today occupying more than 60,000 square feet of floor space. With Mr. Freed's retirement from the firm the charge of the large business comes to Lestsr D. Freed, his son, whose progressive and zealous work cannot fall to keep the establishment up to the high standard on which It is now conducted. The veteran merchant and his wife will leave this week for San Francisco. Mr. Freed plans with Mrs. Freed a tour of the world, including Honolulu, China. Japan and Manila. A son, Ellis, is in business. In the latter city. It is probable that they will not return re-turn to Salt Lake for a year or more. |