The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-26
conceaIinq Smallpox Cases.

pr. 0. L. Hagler was fined s100 in police court yesterday on the charge of concealing smallpox. He was arrested by order of Inspector Burson. and con victed before Judge Feagin, although he appealed the case.
 e.~S~-e-~~.~~~~~~~~~~ Can other grocers do this? MT. Wilson's letter follows:
 "Our firm wishes to challenge the state ment of Ned Brace in your last Sundays paper, wherein he says that it costs more to buy groceries in Birmingham than in neighboring cities. We have made a true comparison of the prices of ordinary ne- cessities for the table-fiour. lard, meat sugar. and all fancy groceries, and we find that we undersell five out of every six towns in the south.
 we can't speak for the other Birming- ham grocers but for ourselves we have kept a close tab on the current grocery prices in all the cities and we herewith attach what we believe is true eompari- son of prices between Birmingham and the neighboring cities taken as whole; Drennen's current prices 20 pounds granulated sugar. sl; 1O-pound bucket pure leaf lard, s1.15; best breakfast bacon per pound, 2oc; sugar-cured hams, per pound 12ikc; Premium hams, per pound, 14c; Picnic hams, per pound. 1oc; fancy Irish potatoes. per half bushel 55c standard tomatoes six cans, Soc; best patent flour, per barrel. s6.5o; best pat ent flour, per sack soc; 10-pounds pig meat, s1.
 Atlanta, Memphis, Nashville and Mont gomery prices: 17 pounds granulated su- gar sl; 10-pound bucket pure leaf lard, s1 35; best breakfast bacon. per pound soc: sugar-cured hams, per pound. 15c; Premium hams, per pound, 2ic; Picnic hams, per pound, 12c; fancy Irish po- tatoes, per one-haf bushel, CSC; stand ard tomatoes, cans. 65c; best patent flour, per barrel, s7.5O best patent flour, per sack, s5c; 1O-pounds pig meat. s1.5O.
 And all other staple and fancy groceries in about the same proportion.
 Not Making Undue Profit.
 T. II. Vaughn, with Mackin Bros, gro cers, is the authority for the statement that the retail grocers of Birmingham are not making any undue profits on what they sell He stated that there is some thing very wrong, that prices are sky high, much higher than they should be. but that the fault does not lie at the door of the retailer.
 Mir Vaughn discusses the price of ba- con here and elsewhere. He said yester- day: IF. A. Ferris & Co.,, on February IS, 1908, sold breakfast bacon in New York at 161h cents a pound. No packer puts out finer goods. They are handled by Park & Tilford, retail grocers, who cater to such trade as the Vanderbilts, Astors. Goulds and other of the 400
 .On February "A Swift & Co. got spot cash for their brand of Premium bacon 1s cents. On February 22 Shirk & Co.,, 1919 First avenue Birmingham, sold Kin gan,s Reliable, one of the oldest estab- lished brands of meat, for 2i cents a pound.
 Macy advertised in the New York Herald last Sunday price of cents on Quaker Oats. Retail merchants here can not buy here at that price. They also advertised hams, bacon and tongues, the best that money can buy, st 12i1 cents pound. Swift's Eagle brand sugar. cured bacon was advertised at 15 cents: pure lard at F cents and flour, Pride of St. Louis brand, superlative quality, the very best flour milled, at $595 a barrel. Now. the difference of the prices in Birmingham and in the big eastern cities must be accounted for between this city and the others. The local retail grocer is not the man who needs a thrashinT."