Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-07-22
CREAMERIES WIN
A POINT AGAINST
EXPRESS COMPANY
There Will Be No Extra Charge
For the Return of Empty
Cream Cans.

Des MoiErs. Ia. July % Iowa cream.
cry and dairy interests have won thei,
I fight for free return of empty milk anc
cream cans by the express companies
which recently announced that aftel
August they would charge 10 cents
for carrying each empty can from the
creamery to the original shipping point
In reply to Il letter from Secretary
Dwight y. Lewis of the state railroad
commission. enclosing protests from
half dozen of the largest creamerie,
In the state. General Traffic Manager
j. n. Bradley, of the American Express
company. Yesterday afternoon tele.
graphed from New York as follows:
All express companies Will issue sup.
PIGMENT to classification 19, effective
August |, continuing the free return OF
empty milk and cream cans without
wagon service. omitted by oversight
(Sisnedp j H. Bradley"
Protest is Effective.
When the new classification was pub
lished last week and creamery men
found that they would be required To
pay 10 .ants for returning each empty
can after August L. they at once com
munlcatcd With each other and the
powerful dairy and creamery organ-
Hation OF the state was set in motion.
The state railroad commission was
Hooded with protests. all demanding "A
hearing on Wednesday OF this week,
and letters of protest We're also sent tn
the traffic managers of all large express
COMPANIES in thu state
IN reply the companies offered to fur
nfsh free team service for empty cans,
but not for full cans. This concession
did not please the creamery men. az
the same teams that bring in the full
cans To the station can take back the
empty cans without additional expense,
On receipt OF protests from creameries
at Davenport. Clinton, Mason City.
Cedar Rapids and Dies Moines, Score
tarA Lewis of the railroad commission,
wrote to the traffic manager OF each
company as follows.
y nder the circumstances 1T is re-
spectfullN suggested by the board that
this rate on empty cream cans returned
In Iowa be not made effective on Au-
gust |, but that the taking effect OF
this rate be deferred until such time
as the board can hear the complainants
and Your representatives upon this sub
ject"
a PAIL OF PENNIES
TO EASE CONSCIENCE
iowa Falls. la. July pa pail of
conscience money passed through here
few days ago en- route from Dysart
to merchant at Buffalo Center. The
pail was sent by express. collect, the
charges being 80 cents. The consignee
was Charles I.eibsohn. who is at Il loss
to know who sent him the easy
money On opening the pail MIR. Leib-
sohn found two sacks containing 2,T4O
pennies and a note saying: you are
my friend; YOU have this coming" and
signed, Your friend. nothing else" The
pail containing the mysterious ship
ment was small sized candy pail that
originally came from the johnson Bis
cult company, of Sioux City, and
shipped to f. Nye. at Lake Park. la
The sacks We're the usual bank sacks,
one bearing the name of a Cedar Rapids
institution. The pennies weighed 10
pounds.
The shipment is shromded in mystery.
and the consignee says it Is either II
bit of conscience money or II good joke
II the latter, it is the best one he ever
had played On him, he says.