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Show Foster, Andrus and Dixie Camps Hold March D. U. P. Meet The Foster, Manomas Andrus and Dixie Camps of the D.U.P. held their March meeting jointly in the McQuarrie Memorial Hall Thursday, March 20, at 2:40 p.m., with the Dixie Camp officers as hostesses. Included in the afternoon's after-noon's program were community singing of camp songs, a vocal duet, "The Old Spinning Wheel," by Mamie Paxman and Viola Gentry, and the life sketch of her parents, Adeline Carter and Walter Wal-ter Kemp, given by her daughter, Eunice Kemp Snow. The lesson for the month was given by Amber T. Schmutz under the title "Merchandising in Dese-ret." Dese-ret." This was an interesting history his-tory of the part Utah played as a territory in this phase of industrial development, outlining briefly the old system of due bills, credit, trade and barter, tithing office script and exchange, the Washing-to Washing-to Factory as an exchange center, and the payment of produce for taxes, entertainment tickets, and the original price lists. Many of the first places of business in Salt Lake City, St. George and other centers were mentioned, along with the story of purchasing the camp supplies when Johnson's Army was recalled from Camp Floyd. William Nixon was listed as the father of Merchandising in Utah. The first meeting for an agreement on price fixing, the beginning be-ginning of Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Mer-cantile Institution, Walker Brothers, Broth-ers, Auerbach's, and the early Wells Fargo business in Utah received re-ceived consideration. At the conclusion of the lesson brief responses were made by Mrs. Simmons, historian of Provo Camp for many years, whose husband was one of the early clerks in Walker Brothers early store in Salt Lake City. On request Mrs. Annie C. Johnson John-son repeated the address she made in presenting the flag to the National Na-tional Guard, and was warmly applauded for her thougthfulness. Collections were made for a Utah flag which will be sent to the Dixie boys at San Luis Obispo. |