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Show I ou I BUR MERCHANDISE I FOB IBE BIC I The buyers in all of the various f departments are instructed to be 1 on the outlook all the time for the best items of merchandise which j can be bought for the Anniver. ! sary, sometimes these goods are bought many months ahead with orders to be shipped in time to be in Ogden for the sale. Every ! year three and four buyers go to ! I New York and other eastern mar- j kets to purchase the general j stocks for the store, and on these I trips they search the markets for , Anniversary Items. How well i they have planned this year is evi- J j denced by the goods displayed in i I the windows and which are not to be sold until the Anniversary Sale I begins. You will probably have noticed in the windows and in the adver- j j tisements the prominence of the mmJ Forty Cent Prices. These prices J are made to conform to the year 1 H of the Anniversary 50 as to es- I I tablisb in the public mind the y. number of years during which the I I firm has been doing business and j I ' naturally the items offered at this I price must be of unusual merit in I 1 order to make the year impressive. I ( It was not until the firm was' I I Twenty-nine years old that the! I ; jj celebration of the founding was started, since that time the sales I I have been growing in importance i and ha3 become so widely known $ll that there are customers lirtng' many miles from Ogden who make ym it the occasion of an annual visit to the city. The distribution cf the plates brings to light many interesting' pfc?j experiences on the part of custom- j crs e Btore- Frequently old WA settlers will come for one of the I mirA ' plates and relate their visits to the j nttle store forty years ago and gjs; ae delight in telling of their j fl first experiences in meeting W. H. ffip Wright, the late founder of the j Wjm business, and the present members j mm of the firm. The present manage- J jP ment welcome the visits of these I Hi eld customers and enjoy hearing i Km of their early experiences in con- j EBB Arttioj. with the bufiiness. I |