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Show J. C. PENNEY MANAGER ATTENDS CONVENTION M. L. Baird, manager of the local J. C. Penney store, was in attendance attend-ance Sunday and Monday morning j at a convention of the managers of j the J. C. Penney stores of the southern south-ern Utah district, numbering twenty nine, held at Provo. J. R. Dougherty Dougher-ty of the district office with headquarters head-quarters at Portland, Oregon, was in charge of the convention and brought some good word of the sales gains being made throughout the' entire United States indicative of better business conditions everywhere. every-where. According to the figures eivpn h Mr. Dougherty, an average of 33 per cent sales gain over the same month last year has been made by the Penney stores in the United States, a most encouraging outlook for the winter. |