Organization Grows Slowly

ORGANIZATION GROWS SLOWLY

GROCERS AND BUTCHERS DO NOT TAKE INTEREST

In Forming Association for Mutual Protection -- Another Effort Will be Made to Get Together

Efforts have been made during the past two weeks to organize the grocers and butchers of the city into an association to work in unison with the state association and to form a combine that would have for its object the looking after the interests of retail dealers. An organizer from the state body came here and secured the pledges of forty-three dealers to join a local association and at a meeting subsequently held Wm. Stimson was elected president and Chas. Miller secretary.

Lately, however, the organization seems to have gone to sleep and a meeting called last week to further perfect the organization and get things into working shape, was attended by only eight of those who signed the first call. The officers are not disheartened yet and have called a meeting for September 2, at which time it is hoped there may be a full attendance. In the meantime every dealer who promised to join the association will be visited for the purpose of enthusing him if possible.