The store work at Woolley, Young, Hardy and Company was demanding, with long hours, especially on Saturdays. Weekdays the grocery store closed at six, but then began the cleaning, taking inventory, restocking, and the like. The store closed Thursday afternoon once a month to allow for attendance at the fast and testimony meeting.171
After nearly a year Andrew received a better job offer as a clerk at Woolley, Lund and Judd Farming Implements. He took the new job, leaving the grocery store “with the best of feelings.”172 Just a month or so thereafter Frank Hyde offered Andrew a position at Hyde and Griffen handling fruits and vegetables. Andrew first declined,173 but a few days later he changed his mind and did go with Hyde and Griffen at $75 per month.174
Working six full days at the store, attending to various duties all day on Sundays, and pursuing various community activities other evenings left Andrew little time for relieving Ollie. At this point she had two little children to look after, Clare and Gordon. She understandably sometimes felt a bit neglected and on edge. When Andrew spilled ink on her carpet she cried.175 She spent a lot of time with her mother.
After Andrew had worked at Hyde and Griffen for fifteen months as a store clerk in Salt Lake City, he began a new assignment as a traveling salesman, taking orders for its whole line of merchandise.176
For the next eight years Andrew worked as a drummer, or traveling salesman. He traveled the longer distances by train when he could, but in large part he traveled by wagon, cart, or hack drawn by one or two horses, the conveyance loaded with large cases carrying his samples.177 He sometimes rented a team and wagon; other times he borrowed these from friends. More than once he took the train to Lehi and then bicycled across Utah Valley, catching the train back from Payson.
With the new assignment from Hyde and Griffen, on August 8, 1889, Andrew took his first selling tour to Cache Valley, where Logan was the main town. On the train Andrew visited with Church President Wilford Woodruff, his counselor George Q. Cannon, and Elder Francis Lyman, going to a stake conference in the new stake tabernacle in Paris, Idaho. These three men knew him as a thirty-one-year-old mission president. They and Andrew were all guests for dinner and they all stayed overnight at the home of Mary Rich, widow of Elder Charles C. Rich.178 After the conference Andrew traveled east to Evanston, Wyoming, before returning home via Heber City. He had little success in getting orders, but he took advantage of the trip to the Bear Lake area to get documents signed pertaining to the Heber C. Kimball estate, of which he was administrator.179
For $23, Andrew purchased a horse and cart to use in his selling. It gave him a degree of mobility he had not previously had in Church work or business.180
From November 4 to 9, 1889, Andrew took his second selling tour, this time going south to Spanish Fork, Payson, Nephi, Moroni, Mt. Pleasant, Fairview, Spring City, Ephraim, and Manti, then returning home via Moroni and Nephi, most of his travel by rail. A month later he went to the same areas again.181 Other forays were brief. For example, he might go to Park City just for the day,182 or take the train to Nephi and back the same day.183 Trips might also last several weeks.
