Show left a notice on the door proclaiming its wrongs kansas city mo april 12 the american mercantile association alleged to be a act rich concern with offices in a downtown down town office building has been closed and this notice posted on tho door good bye suckers good byo tho whereabouts of the officers of the as ia not known the com banys head office was at st joseph mo and from there a notice had been cent out to its announcing noun cing tho suspension in tho following words the officers of the american mercantile association take this mean to announce to you that the business of said corporation haw been suspended and that it will bo to complete or carry out its contract with you when this wa received by uio kansas city subscribers the majority of whom are laboring people they flocked to tho concerns office many pitiably piti ablo were enacted the subscribers had agreed to pay ono dollar a week for eighty on the promise that they were to beecho reecho at the end of bat many working girls and laborers had acea making payments for months past one woman had paid a week or itty six weeks and expected soon to realize the american mercantile association began business in may 1904 and its books left behind by its officers how that it had many subscribers the stationery gave the officers a M druelinger Dru eninger president and treasurer W IA stamper secretary L H miles and N M nordean Nord can nell managers Brue Is salu to be la afao saloon business at st joseph |