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Show UH.lill IIK.SII IIU.ITS. A t'olluollnc Agt'iu-y Wlilch "SpoU" t lie It ml I'tty ui:ilri'. The following from the Spring-ville Spring-ville Tiulepetnlent may contain a valuable suggestion to the merchants of Ibigliain City. A bianch was organized in Spring-ville Spring-ville and will result in much benefit to the business men. On last Thursday a meeting of the merchants of Springville was held in the otlice of Catlrey it-Davis it-Davis for the purpose of organizing organ-izing a branch of the Merchants' Retail Commerical agency of Chicago. This institution was started in a small town in Iowa nine years ago, and has steadily grown, until at the present time it lias a membership of one hundred hun-dred and sixty thousand and dues a business of '2.-100,0110 a year. Il furnishes to the merchants a thiirmigh collection and protection agency. If a man contracts a bill and does not settle, the same is banded in by the merchants to the agency and the latter sends him in all four letters, at intervals often days. If he takes no notice of the communications his name is then placed upon a list of debtors who do not pay their bills, which list is used by all merchants, mer-chants, belonging to the agency as a guide to giving or withholding credit. By this means a man's reputation :s uYad beat follows him no matter to what part of the country he may go. If he requests re-quests to have an account- opened by reference to the agency i U.e dealer can find his standing, and refuses his request, slating his j reasons lor not desiring to carry j him. I'y Ibis means, if a debtor i has any self respect A all he "is j 1'orced to pay his indebirdness. i |
