Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1920 — RETAIL DRY GOODS DEALERS MEET AT INDIANAPOLIS [ARTICLE]

RETAIL DRY GOODS DEALERS MEET AT INDIANAPOLIS

The sixth annual convention of the Indiana Retail Dry Goods Association to be held at Indianapolis Tuesday and Wednesday, June lotir and 16th, will be one of themost important meetings ever held by the dry goods and ready-to-wear men of the state. ' A two days’ programme has been arranged which includes addresses >y the most prominent personages n the trade. Included in the programme is the demonstration sale to be staged by Mrs. Genevieve Reid, Educational Director of Marshall Field &• Co., Chicago. Mrs. Reid will be assisted by an expert saleslady from Chicago and an expert shopper from Indianapolis. All the rules of good salesmanship will be brought out during tins demonstration sale and as merchants generally are interested greatly m salesmanship, this feature will prove interesting and hStore problems of today will toe handled by men nationally known in th« drv goods and suit trade. At

in me ury kw" , — ' the Smoker Tuesday evening, the meeting will be in charge of E. S. Kinnear of Marion and will consist entirely of discussions of the questions submitted to the Question box, all questions being upon store problel%e Association a novel and energetic for new members. Within the past week membership has doubled and represents the representative retail dry goods and ready-to-wear men from every quarter of . The officers of the Assocmtion anticipate the largest attendance I ever had at any previous convention of the retail dry goods trade of Indiana.