People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — Meeting of Illinois Retail Grocers. [ARTICLE]

Meeting of Illinois Retail Grocers.

Edwardsville, Ill., Feb. 19. —The third annual convention of retail grocers and merchants of Illinois convened in the court-house Tuesday morning with about 200 delegates in attendance. The, reports of the president, secretary and treasurer were read and referred to a committee. The following resolution was unanimously adopted: “Resolved, That we, the Grocers’ and Merchants’ association of Illinois, in annual state convention assembled at Edwardsville, unite with Cuba in her cry for deliverance, and urge congress te accept the terms she has made, or to help her in any other way that may seem advisable.” The several standing committees made reports, all of which were adopted.