Canadian grocer April-June 1918 . akes and refuse to sellanyone who cuts? asked one member. Yes, he now has that privilege, re-plied Mr. Banfield. Mr. Banfield gave the convention somevery important information on marketconditions. The big department storeswere buying all the goods, dry goods par-ticularly, that they could possibly get andstoring them. He told of how wholesalehouses in some cases were sending outenvoys to buy up goods from the retail-ers who did not know any better, suchas table napkins, cottons, etc., whichthey found impossible to get themselves. He also told an interesting s
Canadian grocer April-June 1918 . akes and refuse to sellanyone who cuts? asked one member. Yes, he now has that privilege, re-plied Mr. Banfield. Mr. Banfield gave the convention somevery important information on marketconditions. The big department storeswere buying all the goods, dry goods par-ticularly, that they could possibly get andstoring them. He told of how wholesalehouses in some cases were sending outenvoys to buy up goods from the retail-ers who did not know any better, suchas table napkins, cottons, etc., whichthey found impossible to get themselves. He also told an interesting story heheard recently about the profits of alarge mail order house in Canada. Thesewere larger than the proprietor had in-tended, as they were to be divided asbonuses, so the solicitor of the house inquestion was consulted for a solution tothe quandary. The lawyer asked the head of thehouse how much his salary was, on hear-ing of the difficulty. He was told thefigure. The only solution I can see,he added, is to make it a S. D. McMICKEN,Grocer, Moose Jaw, Sask., elected 2nd Vice-Presi-dent of the Association. An Implement Repair Week Saskatchewan merchants are anxiousto see a big crop in this year and that theharvest will be adequately handled. Someof them are leaving their stores fromtime to time to help their farmer friendssow the seed. At the convention an important reso-lution was suggested urging the Gov-ernment to set apart an Implement Re-pair Week, so that the farmers wouldhave a special time set apart to attendto their machinery well in advance andhave harvevsting repairs made beforeharvesting operations are actuallybegun. R. A. Magee, , and general mer-chant, Wolseley, moved this and urgedthe importance of encouraging the get-ting ready well in advance the mach-inery with which to take off the crops. Evvery year, Mr. Magee said, thereis a great deal of loss and inconveniencebecause farm machinery and implementsare not ready when harvest time ar-rivves. Un
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