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Show s w I j s i fnS SELLING CLOTH Clover schemers are working tho old cloth swindle in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and women of that city are heing swindled out of sums ranging from .??. to $5. Eventually these Bwlndlers will reach Ogden and, to warn the people, the Standard reproduces re-produces tho following account of tho method employed by tho rascals: A man and a woman, claimed to be his wife, solicited through the residence resi-dence section. They cairied with them attractive samples of dress goods and cjoakings. Tho price which they sot on the finished articles was astonishingly as-tonishingly low and in most cases the victims bit The man was the sleek member of the pair. He was a smooth talker and extolled tho superiority ol the goods which he was selling. When asked how it was that he could sell goods at such an astonishingly low price he had numerous explanations explana-tions regarding the goods being smuggled smug-gled into the country and the work being done at home whore there was little expense A perfect fit was guaranteed Here Is where the woman wom-an end of the pair came in. She was nn expert tailoress. She would measure meas-ure the eustome", Of course It would be necessary to show good faith on the part of the purchaser to put up a small sum Say from $3 to $5. The purchaser need not pay any more until un-til the garmenf'arrived and aftor Its examination if It was found satisfactory, satisfac-tory, then the remainder of the purchase pur-chase was to be forwarded to an address ad-dress given. Some time has elapsed since the pair canvassed this city, bui none of (he victims have seen or heard anything further4 from them or their purchase.,! no |