| Show notice to the public the last issue of the reporter con tamed a brief item to the effect that certain supplies for the domestic sc se ence department of the T antic JI gh school were being purchased outside of the d strict and in view of the fat fact that th s in or mation NN was as supposed to have come from the members of the retail merchants association I 1 wish to say that the above organization organ bation has given no authority to anyone to make any my such statement I 1 rom information sec see ired from the h gh school trustees it is evident that praet cally all of the business for the school is go n ng to merchants of tintic gintic and that t the he b cisine ss amounts to a cons demable sum in the course of a month while it is true that some small ord rs have been given to out of to firms th sc orders have been for merchandise mer mere chandis bandis that could not riot be secured at home I 1 trust that tais explanation u 11 be the means of putting the c right with reference to th a mattir r yours D J russell pres retail mer ass n |