The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-08
HUNDREDS DISAPPOINTED
Tickets Given Out in Order to Make II
Possible for First Come to Be First
Served Second Carload of spuds
To Be on Sale Tuesday Morning.

It was just like busy Saturday IN
a barber shop when the Council of
Defense began selling the dollar and a
quarter potatoes over on the Malt House
track this morning and the demand for
potatoes was a lot bigger than the
supply. In fact the entire carload had
been sold out before nine O'Clock and
people were clamoring for the potatoes.
When the car was opened this morning
more than two hundred purchasers were
on hand. They came in automobiles
and wagons; they came with baby
carriages and with their kddies pull
ing little express wagons; they came
with bags over their shoulders and
every one wanted to purchase pota-
toes at once.
It was a great car of potatoes, but
the experts who wanted to critieise de-
clared that the potatoes were not over
ripe and while they were wonderful for
immediate consumption-most any one
knows the rest of it. These statements
did not in any way effect the sales from
the car and the members of the council
in charge were kept busy for hours
getting the potatoes into bags and wag-
ons. At the office in the City Hall the
secretary of the council began giving
out tickets for potatoes and some peo-
pie waited in line for more than two
hours in order to be able to spend
their money. Tickets were given out
for 1,011 bushels of potatoes and this
was greater than the cargo of the car
and the people who were disappointed
were notified that there would be an
other car on the track ON Tuesday
morning at eight O'Clock. Hundreds
of people who wanted TO buy the po-
tatoes were turned away because the
supply was way below the demanI l.
These people were given tickets for the
sale on Tuesday and it is certain that
most of them will be on hand. The
maximum sale this morning was chang
ed from fifteen to ten bushels and
lot Of people wanted to buy the pota-
toes by the wagon load. None of the
potatoes were sold to storekeepers or
peddlers and while there was a demand
for small orders the men in charge of
the sale of the potatoes refused to sell
any one less than a two bushel order.
The city was one of the first purchas-
ers from the car and the full ten
bushel allotment was bought and taken
out to the city farm in the town of
Somers. 1t is possible that the city
will be allowed to take another wagon
load of the potatoes out of tn car which
came in this morning and which will be
opened for sale on Tuesday morning.
"We are mighty well satisfied with
the quality of the potatoes and the way
they are selling,'' declared one of the
members Of the council in charge of the
sale this morning. Certainly they are
wonderful looking potatoes and the peo-
pie are getting them at the right price"
The Council Of Defense is not MAX
ing any money on the potatoes. The
cost of them at the loading station was
a dollar and ten cents bushel and the
freight little over nine cents. If the
council breaks even on the car the
members will be entirely satisfied. So
great was the demand for the potatoes
this morning that it is probable that
other cars will be shipped in at once.