Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-12-18
U. s. FIXES
FAIR LOCAL
FOOD. PRICES
'HooverAs Representatives.
Here Cut 10 Per Cent OF
Retail Price Of Sugar II
First Published List; o.
er Schedules to FoAox
FIGURES ARE SET FOB
OUR RICE, POTATOES

Tho maxuxm prices that my -
charged for food commodities 81
staple character 70 the retailer W ia
wholesaler and jobbsr and that vhieA
the retailer may ssk The consumlD
have bean fixed b. tie Wape0e
County Food Administrative acttno
under The direc4don Of tie unito4
States Food Admint1th1t1na md ~
Iowa Representative I J. Desss q
burlington -
But fpur commodities vs.e taasl
up In the nrst meeting q the ooun0
food admtElb6ation called yesterday
1T the Commercial club b. Wapeno
County Food Administrators ". T. Hsp
Per. The oommissSoo n charge ue
this work includes Whoaesaaeg4 yetn4k
eE7 and consumers.
FIX PRICE ON sTAPlEA.
The items taken up yeatera1y V4
sugar, potafoes, rfee and dour. 1AD
latter IL shown in the tahle q p95eoe
IN one-fourth and one eighth ba1Fea
lots which 10 more easily undekseood
by the consumer - the toetyete1a
and twenty -four pound bags.
These prices WIN be pubii1hed fsu0
time to time By tho Food Admin1gha.
ton adding now commodities aA4
already publtshed.
One OF the prices Qnntsd shows &
10 per cent reduction. 1hfs b sueaQ
which has been selling for 10 oenl
per pound and has BEEN given Q MAJ
mum price 10 the consumes q
cents. vi
The prices nxsd BY sAe Rosd ~
minist1atiou yesterday afternoon -,
based upon q cash and carry basis
and the consumer b asked to asl11e
~ much - possible in the reduction
Of delivery service as . war measure.
An dealers must conform TO thoo0
prices and the consumer - won .
the dealer is liable to penalty for ~.
latipns Of the Food Administrators
regulations regarding prices, sxoesn
buying and boarding 81 bod eoQme6-
iheA
SECOND co0ssTr N STATE =
wapellD n TIE second county IN 10
sta4s to hsve Published food price0,
Des Aoines county, the homo a.
Hoover's Iowa representative, J. =.
Deems. was the nrut to pU6fish TIA
price list Of foods IN the staAA
Wtpello county since organising -
fbod administrator q week ago. 10
perfected complete organisation aa1
every member has shown q crest -
terest and patriotic zeal 10 make ID
work Of food contrul and conoo9v1k&oQ
. success here.
CAIRNS TO SPEAK HERE.
Alexander Cairns Of Washdnghgn. n.
c., win speak at the Commercial cut
dining room Tuesday evening On 1nod
conservation and food co0f1ol
Mr. Cairns volunteered his sGgv1eat
to the food administrator md b caAp
wasting the country speaking n "a
interest Of this 6epaFtment Of na<inol
service.
I'm this community the patriotic ~
Spouse to the cab for Conservatism
has been good" said Ar. Harper b.
day. More knowledge On these sui.
jects b what the people seem to want
Those who are In position 70 disseEa.
inate Information OF this Kind have n.
sponded nobly to the call for their @,
sistance In furnishing this Informative
to the people and the work Of e61cor
don VIII be continued.
sAt the meeting Tuesday Il II mesd
that club. lodge ana church OFFICIALS
should particularly attend In ordee
that they may eulishteu the peo1oe
With whom they come In cuatact -
that they can all lend their help =
this patriotic cause. They an want ID
give their help II they Just knew hon
The question b 30 get><his infoFnloe3oQ
out to them. Il can be done hxgslJ