New Ulm review., 1914-09-02
Steady Advance
In Living Cost
ALLALONC THE LINE PRICES ARE
GOING HIGHER ON STAPLE
GOODS.
VAR SAID TO BE EXHAUSTIkG
{ MANUFACTURERS SUPPLIES
IN AMERICA.

That the war is going to affect all of
us right here at home is evident from
the quotations on staple articles. While
the advance is not rapid at the present
time, the first jumps getting the prices
up were such big boosts that now the
advance is more gradual but it is going
on just the same, in almost all lines of
goods. Food prices have risen quite
appreciably. Potatoes are rs cents per
bushel, high price for September.
Butter advanced two cents the past
week and eggs are now 21 cents. Sugar
reached the high mark at $3.50 and
stubbornly sticks there, investigation
or no investigation. In New Ulm,
meat prices are not yet materially higher
but the local butchers have to pay
higher prices for their purchases from the
packing houses and a rise is inevitable
here they say.
Wheat sold at IS cents on the 3rd day
of August. 1t closed yesterday at $1.1O,
a difference of Is cents per bushel.
Compass flour is selling at 1925. Rye
flour is $2.70 and Graham $500. Even
rejected wheat brings SO cents and No
Grade 88 cents. Oats are As cents and
corn Ga cents for shelled.
Ready-to-wear dealers have had notice
from the manufacturers and dealers in
the East that prices must go up. Those
houses handling notions, kid gloves, etc,
which are made almost entirely in France
made clothing, calling as it does for
goods from abroad is advancing as fast
as stocks are exhausted.
Practically all of the millinery houses
depend to great extent upon imported
goods and this will mean an advance in
prices. All city milliners declare there
will be big. advance and milady will
tave to do more than the usual planning
and cajoling in order to gain possession
of the ''love of bonnet" that she takes a
fancy to.
Dry Goods men of the city state they
have no definite advice as to advances
in their lines but say that the travelling
men show kilograms and letters from their
houses giving them strict orders not to
shade prices a cent and sell only when
they can get good, stiff prices from the
best customers. They also have ad-
vices that laces and ready made articles
of women's wear in which laces and other
imported fabrics are employed will surely
go higher altho there is as yet no advance.
Drugs are also among the other articles
that are aeroplaning these days. There
are big advances in nearly every drug in
common use and it will cost considerable
more to indulge in headaches or Mysteries
hereafter.
Owing to the fact that print paper is
likely to become increasingly hard for
the country newspaper to secure, the
Review finds it best to cut out the Pink
Sheet Extra at this time, even tho we
have been asked where the Pink Sheet
went to last week. All dyes for use in
making printing papers are secured
from Germany and the paper manu-
facturers are taking orders for colored
stocks only on condition that they are
able to fill them from their present
stocks. Paper like that used for the
Pink Sheet advanced rs per cent last
week and ordinary white print paper
advanced also while some other lines OF
stock are not obtainable at any price.
Germany supplies nearly all of the dyes
and much of the clay used in the manu-
facture of various card boards and
papers and while recent advices state
that arrangements have been made to
secure these much needed commodities,
it may be some time before conditions
become normal.
4hn% iv,%0
problem is that /of the immense con-
sumption of white print paper by the
city dailies. All of them are getting
out extras, some nearly every hour, and
they are using many times their ordinary
amounts of paper. For this reason
some of the paper mills are catering
solely and wholly to their needs and
making nothing but roll paper. The
small country paper uses sheet paper
which is ordinarily made by all the mills.
The decrease in production runs the
price of the sheet paper up and also
makes it hard to get. The Review had
contracted for half years supply but
can make no more arrangements until
conditions are more settled and for that
reason we deem it best to condense as
much as possible and cut out the extra
sheet, much as we dislike to do this.
We are really ashamed to offer our
readers paper so greatly taken up by
ads this week but there seemed no help
for it just at this time and we have there
fore set the reading matter in smaller
type to save room and ask your in
diligence for this time. If it becomes
necessary to do so we will have to cut
out the story page in order to carry the