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Show THE PEOPLE LIKE IT. The Latest System Used by the I X L Stores Co., Where Vou Buy the Goods at Your Price. . A very unique system of selling household goods has been introduced by Hart & Meyers, the celebrated auctioneers auction-eers imported by the I X L Stores com- pany from Chicago. The system is a new idea in merchandising, and Salt Lake City is the first place in the west where this plan has Leen introduced in connection with the selling of home furnishings. The plan is this: The concern con-cern have a stock of $175,000 which they have contracted to dispose of in fifteen days. Hart & Meyers have agreed to dispose of this stock in a given time. The store is arranged accordingly, with seats reserved for the prospective buyers. buy-ers. If one wishes to purchase a range, bedroom set, parlor suite or anything needed for the home, the articles are placed on a platform in the center of the store. Here the articles are auctioned, auc-tioned, the customer bidding, and the goods go to the highest bidders. A beautiful hand-carved dining room set consisting of five pieces, and valued at Si. 200, sold yesterday for the ' sum of $27S. A very beautiful imported Persian Per-sian rug, large enough to cover a good-sized good-sized room, and valued at $100, sold at $18.75. A six-hole Monarch malleable range, valued at $80, sold for $23.75. It is certainly the opportunity for the people peo-ple of Salt. Lake City to purchase their wants in this line. It is the first and perhaps the last time this chance will ever be offered, and it will certainly pay one to visit this gigantic selling event. The store will remain open evenings from 7:30 to 9:30 in order that those who are unable to attend during the day may avail themselves of this opportunity to take part in this sale. The sale will close Sept. 21. In addition to buying these goods at your own price, the concern are granting liberal credit to purchasers. |