. Hardware merchandising March-June 1917. e is unlawful; we have a reso-lution dealing with that very matter. Mr. Jones.—That was simplv an ex-ample: there must be hundreds of ar-ticles in our stores which we can sell ascheaply as the M. O. H. R. C. Finley, Kincaid.—We are fol-lowing these methods, too, and they arebringing good results. You will noticethat the M. 0. H. feature their own brandof goods, and are building up a good tradeon them. You have lots of lines whichare nationally advertised and which youknow are absolutely good. Let your far-mers know about them, and you will getthem to t
. Hardware merchandising March-June 1917. e is unlawful; we have a reso-lution dealing with that very matter. Mr. Jones.—That was simplv an ex-ample: there must be hundreds of ar-ticles in our stores which we can sell ascheaply as the M. O. H. R. C. Finley, Kincaid.—We are fol-lowing these methods, too, and they arebringing good results. You will noticethat the M. 0. H. feature their own brandof goods, and are building up a good tradeon them. You have lots of lines whichare nationally advertised and which youknow are absolutely good. Let your far-mers know about them, and you will getthem to the store. If you tell them thesethings they see that you are taking an^interest in them. At this point, S. D. McMicken rose totell the convention a story, andas the genial president of the Moose Jawassociation is a splendid story-teller,everybody was attention. He told of afarmer who was in hard circumstances,and whom the speaker, in his big heart,carried from one fall to another. In thesecond year, the farmer had a good crop,. F. E. Raymond,Secretary Saskatchewan and he came to the store and said: Ihave got the money, Mac, but I want tosend it to Timothy Eaton for someclothes. To which Mr. McMicken re-plied, You give me the money, and sendyour gall to Timothy Eatons, and seewhat you will get for it. DOUBT AS TO THE MEANINGOF THE KNOWLES BILL WHAT Mr. McMicken had said re-garding fixed prices being illegal,came as a shock to many members. Forinstance, S. Schwanz, Rocanville, askedif the price of lines like Ostermoor mat-tresses were not fixed. John Gregory asked if a manufacturer,in cases where a merchant had contract-ed to sell at a price, would not have anaction against the merchant if he soldfor less. Mr. Curie.—No. He can refuse tosunply you with further goods. It was decided that the best thin?would be for the secretary to read the Order-in-Council and thus settle Mr. Raymond proceeded toread it through; but before he had readvery far,
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