The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-03-01
ALL have SERVED BUT ONE
Miss Myra Myrick, Recording Secretary,
Is Only Officer Not Reflected
Interesting Discussion of
Living Cost Planned.

HldI > C1uU is 10 pF6SeuG GH1S d1b6TuOOu,
the following ticket for election at
tho meeting Of the club held in the par
lors of the Park Avenue Methodist
church:
President, Mrs. L. NJ Thiers; vice
president, Mrs. G. H. Eddy; recording
secretary, Miss Myra Myrick; cores
ponding secretary, Mrs. A. B. Ames;
treasurer, Mrs. W. R. Cheever; directors,
the Mines. w. P. Robinson, Charles
Brown, E. L. Grany, R. E. Mailer, S. G.
Newman, Clifford J. Hacl-ett. With
the exception of Miss Myrick, all the
Officers are standing for reelection.
Mrs. G. H. Gephart will read treatise
on the present high cost of living. Her
subject promises to develop most in
teresting general discussion scheduled to
follow the paper,
Many questions have been prepared
for bringing interesting phases of the
subject into the discussion.
One member promises that she will
put vital condition before them under
the general question of what to do to re-
duce gas bills.
Less Gas, Higher Bills.
This year she is sending out of the
house her laundry work, hitherto done
with water heated on the gas stove
and irons heated in the same way. More
over, she has had a coal heater set up
IL her kitchen and much of her cooking
is done on this, with the result that she
knows she is using very considerably
less gas than in past winters, in spite Of
which her current bill is the largest one
she has ever paid in the course of her
housekeeping experience. "Why, oh,
whyi" she asks.
| Another matter which one of the
members will present for discussion
is the proposed reasonable and desirable
action of some of the grocers of Keno
sba who plan to follow the example OF
many other cities and reduce the price
of their foodstuffs Then they will
charge extra for each delivery.
Put Expense Where It Belongs.
In one town of the state it was dis
covered that every delivery cost the
grocers between five and ten cents per
person. This is easy enough to be-
lieve when one realizes that professional
| delivery concerns charge % and 30
cents each for delivering packages and
no one expects to pay less, and yet the
packages are often smaller than the
ones which the grocers have J cen ex-
pccted in the past to deliver free of
charge.
Women Will Learn Care.
Another advantage in the new sys-
TEN will be that housewives will be
more particular to order their goods in
such a way that one delivery a day to
their homes will be enough, if they have
to pay each time the delivery wagon.
comes, while at present they duplicate
and triplicate the expense of delivery,
often, by ordering one thing TO be de-
| livered at one time and another at an
other.
Another thing which may be brought
up for the discussion is the expediency
Of having the grocers further reduce
their prices with the understanding
that certain per cen: extra be charged
for each article bought on credit. This
would justly put the cost of carrying
charge accounts which is a very heavy
one in most groceries, directly on the
shoulders of the ones who should bear
it. those who run accounts, and not shift
a large part Of the burden to the cash
customer who under present eircumstan
ces contributes his share toward the
maintenance Of the charge customer.
The interest Of the charge accounts has
to be added to the cost of materials sold,
just as the losses through giving unwise
credit is borne by the other patrons of
the store and not by the grocer himself.