Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1913 — Monticello Man at Head of Lumber dealers’ Association. [ARTICLE]

Monticello Man at Head of Lumber dealers’ Association.

At the 29th annual meeting of the Indiana Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association at Indianapolis this week C. D. Meeker, of Monticello, was elected president of that organization. The lumber dealers took an advance step in the matter of. bringing up home trade as against mail order business. It was the opinion of all present that lumber could be sold by the home-retail dealer just as cheap as-it could be supplied by the mail order or house wrecking houses; and that the purchase would be much more satisfactory to the customer, because he would have a chance to inspect what he was buying; and it was urged upon dealers that they use more space in their home papers for advertising purposes. The mall order concerns are persistent advertisers through the medium of catalogues and their alluring offers should be met by the dealers through their local papers. r A number of editors of the state were present as guests of the association.