Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-13 | Page 3 | Retail Merchants Vote Against Weekly Half-Holiday; to Close Stores Saturday's at 6 O'Clock

I -5 v RETAIL MERCHANTS VOTE AGAINST : WEEKLY HALF-HOLIDAY; TO CLOSE I - STORES SATURDAYS AT 6 O'CLOCK m t Jii order to arrive at uniform rule ' and to clear up all1 misunderstanding: relative to the hour of closing stores , on Saturdays, a meeting of the re tail merchants of Ogden was hel i" at the offices "of tho association.' room 202 Ecclcs building' on Friday. April D.N 1 At this meeting, a resolution was adopted that there should be no at- B tempt mado by the association to cn- force a weekly half-holiday closing 1 rule, and a second rosoultion adopted- that all stores should close at C p. m. Wl on Saturdays, beginning April 17. 60 which is the closing hour for other jL ' . week days. ; $j This action was taken after very' careful consideration and was tho unanimous view of the merchants re'p-resented re'p-resented at the meeting, i In order to make the decision of p( the merchants a matter of records. and to clear up all misunderstanding '( pertaining to the weekly half-holi- i j day closing, a canvass has been made fa by representatives of the association sj and the following firms have signed a statoment unanimously agreeing that wr ' there will be no weekly half-holiday recognised or put into effect by them at the present time: Christensen Shoe -store. Glen Bros.-rioberts Bros.-rioberts Piano company. Kern's company.. com-pany.. Dorothy Madson millinery. V. ii. Wright and Sons company. Golden Rule Mercantile company. Osrdcn Furniture and Carpet company, Wolfei Cloak and Suit company. YVatson-Flygare YVatson-Flygare Hardware company. Watson-Tanner Watson-Tanner Clothing company. II. W. Jones Shoe company, The Fashion shop, Ogden Electric Supply company, Fred M. Nye company. Independent Meat company, Washington market, J. S. Daniels, J. S. Carver and Sons. Williams and Smith, Ballard and Mortensen X. U Sturgeon Millinery company, Boyle Furniture company. F. W. Woolworth company, Richardson Richard-son Hunt company, BrowniCarlson-Tresoder BrowniCarlson-Tresoder company, ' Buchmiller-Kap-lan company. Ilorrocks Brothers, Last and Thomas, J. S. Lewis and company. Spargo's Book store. Sylvia Deo Art shop. Thomas C. Foley company, Proudflt Sporting. Goods company, Modern market. I. N. Pierce, American' Ameri-can' grocery, J. II. Tillotson, G. A. Nichols.