Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-17
IOWA NEWSPAPERS.
BIG LOSSES ON BUTTER.
[Sioux City Journal.1


| [Sioux City Journal1
|. Dealers in butter in Sioux City say
there are 20,000,000 pounds of country
butter stored away in large refrigera-
tors in the west upon which the owners
will suffer a heavy loss. This storage
butter is the material from which the
so called renovated butter is manufact-
ured.
The new butter law requires all reno
waited butter to be stamped as such
and this is not doing the renovated but
ter business any good. While reno
waited butter has been declared to be
prejudice against 1t, and thus the new
law is proving somewhat severe on
the makers of renovated butter
1t is said the losses to be sustained
by reason of the large supply of storage
butter on hand, will reach $1,000,000 and
perhaps more. Most of this packing
stock is stored in Chicago coolers. AT
a fair estimate, this butter, taken as a
whole, cost in the coolers, 16h cents a
pound, and 1t requires at least another
cent earring charges to get it out. This
butter, it is said, would not bring at
forced sale today, 121a cents pound
making loss of cents on every pound
thus, held.
The stock is held mostly by the big
packers of the west, such as Armour
&. Co., Swift & Co.. and the owners OF
large renovating plants, so, fortunately
the losers can stand the loss. Were this
butter in the hands of small dealers
there would probably be some bad fall
ures.
1t is said that there has accumulated
in New York within the last few weeks
$4,000 packages of renovated butter
1t is ordinarily good, but the demand
has fallen off. Offers to ship it abroad
have not found takers. SO disastrous
has the condition become that the own
ers are sending it to Europe on COM
mission.
In Sioux City there is constantly
plenty of fresh country butter on the
market, just as it comes from the far
mer's churn, and it finds a ready sale.
There are also institutions here which
make the renovated product from coun-
try butter after 1t becomes little old
The decreased demand for renovated
stock has caused a greatly increased
sale of creamery stock, and good but
tiers are really scarce. High prices on
first class buffers still continue in Sioux
City stores, and dealers do not expect
material decline until the grass COM
es. The best creamery stock here is
retailing at 80 to S5 cents, and the best
dairy butter at % to % cents. The
prices are abnormal for this time of
the year. They are as high as year
ago at this time, when the drought
conduced to q scarcity of butter.
THE TELL-TALE PHOTOGRAPH.
WEBSTER City Freeman ribune.l
The American School Board Journal:
Some men sincerely believe an UNI
brella is common property. When it
rains they grab the first umbrella in
sight, whether this useful article can
be found at the door of a friend, at a
theatre, in a house of worship, or even
at the home of an educational! publish
ing house. It's all the sarne-.the UNI
brella must serve wwhen the heavens
pour down the pluvial flow.
Mr.. j. D. Williams, western mana ger
of Maynard, Merrill & Company, lost
an umbrella some time ago in man
ner that puzzled him. At any rate he
wondered who did 1t. He thought he
knew and then-he made the discovery
that he didn't know.
The umbrella had a peculiarly shap-
ed handle-one which Williams thought
he would recognize again--a mile away.
He didn't care so much about the loss
of mere umbrella, but that someone
should gobble the only decent umbrella
he ever possessed, and one with a funny
handle at that, bothered him consider
ably.
But. murder will out, and the Sher-
lock Holmes twinkle in Williams eye
finally located the missing article.
1t came about in a somewhat strange
manner.
Mr.. A. A. Weaver. the firms Iowa
agent, recently moved into new office
at Webster City. Iowa. He notified
Manager Williams of this fact. and so
pleased was he with his sanctum. that
he sent an amatuer photograph of the
interior of the new premises
The photograph displayed several
pictures on the wallis, chairs and other
paraphernalia about the room. desk
in the center, with Agent Weaver Sit
ting in an easy pose before It, In one
corner of the room there appeared-lo
and behold-an umbrella.
Williams eyes We're riveted on one
object only, in that photograph. He
saw no chairs, pictures, desk or Wea-
ver-he saw only that umbrella
long lost umbrella.
A message at once flew over the wires
1T read
Mr.. A. A. Weaver.
Webster City Iowai:
Please express, prepaid. Immediately
my umbrella.
j. D. WILLIAMS.
Manager.
And the umbrella came back the
very next day.
And now Weaver wonders how in
we'll, when this little story comes to
his attention, he will know just how 1t
happened.
Is your tongue coated? Are you ner-
vous and weak? Have you sick head
ache? Do you bloat after eating?
Rocky Mountain Tea will positively
cure you. So cents. Mcbride & Will