Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-21
STATE BOARD OF CONTROL SAYS
4. j NO REASON EXISTS FOR IN.
GREASE IN FLOUR RATES.
ADVANCE in WHEAT DOES
NOT JUSTIFY PRESENT PRICES
0Jow Decrease For Ysar-Exhibit to 30
I. Made At state Fair-complete Gen.
:. sus Of Game Birds to Be Taken Next
Winter-No Protection For lnde-
pendent Telephone Lines.
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Des Moines, Aug. 2l-It is the opin-
1on of the board of control that the
<iour makers are arbitrarily pushing up
ithe price OF -four. Colonel McConlogue.
chairman, says that the rise in price
of flour does not seem warranted.
The Pillsbury Company telegraphed
their bid to US and It is upwards OF
$3.50 a barrel: yet the price year ago
was down around $40. or something OF
that kind. Now-what has caused the
higher price? The millers are not pay
ing that difference in the price on
wheat. We have had a great crop OF
wheat this year. 1t does not look rea-
sonable to raise the -four price SO
much"
One firm. after submitting written
ybid, yesterday telephoned the board to
add 20 cents to the bid. A great many OF
abe bidders on supplies for the state
institutions are holding back and re-
efusinE to make offers ON various ma
tterials. especially of stuff which mus.
be imported.
The record of deaths from tubercu-
]osis in Iowa probably Will show at the
end Of the calendar year a slight re-
Iuction in the number from the pull
monary form of epidemic. Figures fos
tine frst half Of the year would indi-
cate this. Last year the total OF death
flor the year was 1.135.
An exhibit in connection with this is
tnt
The board OF health and the tubercu-
losis department will cooperate and
work together, and they will have a
room in the woman's building. Very
many people come for the first time
into contact with the subject at the
state fair and the demonstrations and
lectures are attended by large numbers
Next winter when there is snow on
the ground it is the plan of the state
game department to have complete
census taken of the game birds In
Iowa. Warden Hinshaw believes tina,
this will show that Of the game birds
placed In the state last spring there
are now at least 80, 900. If they can be
kept for two or three years the state
will be splendidly stocked with birds
Reports from the various game pre-
serves indicate that the partridge
raised large flocks this year.
Inquiry from some Of the owners Of
independent telephone lines In tbs
etate recently ha. deysioned that -t..ers
is.yery Kttle legislation that can b
made use OF to protect these lines frorr
the domination OF the big companies
and that as result many OF them are
being crowded out Of existence. A state
OFFICIAL who had been asked as to why
there had been no legislation favorab BILE
to the companies In many years. replied
that II was, because Of the fact thai
SO many Of the members Of the legis-
lature have been interested in tele-
phone lines and they have been con-
WINGED that the interests of all the
telephone systems are identical. The
big companies have defeated all anti
trust legislation by getting the indie
pendents to fight it, While there has
been legislation to protect the indie
: pendent dealers in oil, butter. eggs
poultry and kindred subjects there has
been none to protect the independent
telephone operator.