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Show DELIVERY C0$T,. . I ISBECOMP-: ' I 810 BURDEN . I - H ft compliance with a request ot n H number ot local merchants, a special H mooting of the dlroctors of thu Com- H merclal club was held Monday oven- H ing for tho purposo of considering H tho matter of regulating or discon- H tlnulng tho froo delivery service nnd H as far as posslblo to put all business JH on tho cash basis. After somo dls- H cusslon It wns tho senso of tho )ueet- H lng that t)io merchants be called to- H gother and that thoy formulate some H plan to regulato tho froo delivery l system nnd to adopt somo method ot JH placing tho businesses moro on a cash basis, A special committee, H consisting of tho following, were np- H pointed to call at tho meeting and to H co-opornto with the merchants In H their work: D. H. Thomas, C. M. H Chrlstcnscn nnd J. W. Morrell, H A hieotlng will bo called In n few H days and every merchant to whom H these conditions npply should gotbusy H and think of somo plans which would H holp solvo theso problems. Many H peoplo aro vory lnconslctent In tho H matter ot credit and freo delivery. H From nn economic standpoint tho do- H livery Bystem should nt leaBt bo recti- H latod and perhaps bo discontinued. H Tho party who Is willing to go to tho B storo and purchaso his goods and H carry them homo should not bo H compelled to help pay for tho do- H livery to othor people Those who ' ffl pay cash should not help pay for tho M bad credit. |