The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1917-07-20
ICE COMPANY MAKES
COMPROMISE RATES
Company Moved to Recon-
slider High Schedule by
WOman'S Club.
Mass Meeting" at Board of Trade
Didn't Mass Much-Eleven Present,
Including Four Company Men.

Tape shows drop of 10 cents per
1GU.
Manufacturers uneasy, but firm.
This l.; about the noon hour of
Thursday, July 10Th, A. D. 1917 The
sun is at the meridian, or so darn
close TO it that its heat waves are
about the same.
Our thoughts have turned to ice.
Ice is natures remedy for "hot
time" parched tongue or fevered
brow.
Nature, however, doesn't supply ice
in this section; it has to be manufac
tured; it costs money to manufacture.
How much money nobody knows
but the manufacturers, and they won't !
tell.
All we who buy are permitted to
know is the selling price.
For d long time Palatka people
have been buying ice at retail at 40
cents per 100 lbs.
Last Monday week the company
raised this price to 60 cents per hun
dred
Naturally there was a howl.
You could hear it from all sections
of the city, though we Of the common
people whose bank accounts are not
worrying the bank book keeper, were
Ioudest.
The Woman's Club met; the house
. keepers met with the club women.
All were indignant. These good wo-
men met first in the morning. Then
thew adjourned to afternoon. At the
afternoon meeting they were calmer.
A committee was appointed to pre-
sent grievances to the ice company.
| This committee was composed OF
Mrs. f. L. Mann, Mrs. NJ. S. Brown
| and Mrs. D. J. Coughlin
These ladies presented their grey
ances to the company in the follow
| ing mild and convincing manner. lhe
ladies also held a pleasant conVersa-
tion with Messrs. Henley and H. Il. L.
Mann, the latter the local manager
| for the Palatka Public Service Co.
The matter of the raise was gone m
| TO thoroughly, the ladies presenting
| tIair arguments in favor Of a roduc-
| lion and the officials giving reasons
for the advance. r.. -
| The following are the reasons lor a
| reduction presented by the IadIeS Oh
| the committee: -
i Palatka July 14th, l9l"
| Mr. R. E. L. Mann, Manager,
| pa1atka Public Service Co.
| Dear Sir: ~.
| As a committee representing the
Woman's Club and the houSekeepers
ot PHiatka we beg reconslderatlo2i
Of the Step taken by the Palatka fuo
liz Service Co. in the recent adVanG;'
in in nrice mi of ice, and submit the 1ol
IoTirS FirSt: Although we realize tina
advance in prices OF ma{erla,S mate ;mSroa @.' 81
labor may warrant SHghC lnSat lSat .
in nrice. yet we do not feel Vh"' D
~ mropt A raise is justitiabIe' eo4
Second: This raise in price aHeGT
class of people that IS least aoi u,
" ',"o m,o9t if and is thereby gray
| 10 ,,Inco n,o 70 the health of large per
d,Tt'soT ao,,toro Of our population because o
CSns"Er tt,. E;n,hiIitv to buy in large quaarn
tHfl, t;p;ns or to spend money N sun
| Cicnt sums to buy books; nf ne hi III
| 5ios C and children in families I}i Hl tr' on
| o'ss oiess suffer for want OF mus ,!!t, "hc 10
| SnoJ .''SJ5 which can be kept only Wlln ~ ~
| lUoD n,T which their parents cannot ! Pi, ~
| S;% ,;To for for them under the preValll"
ii price: mi, Government is layin
III IhlIu' l"U ,o0n food conservation
IL We the housekeepeTS an an to H,' wor
II I,Nited States, are pledged ;oos Co myI MA,
III .;tb Uri,' Them. Prohibitive prices ptS "a
II "i', oJ npon ice prevent our cG-CpEiii co optisis EiS'
II /" ''eI EDNA DUNsHEE MANN
II IENNIE R. BROWN,
Hi W4EEL 2EITI.' BAssETT coUGHLll
II p.Iat[a people are conseTyaSlGE T,,oSGs
III that fact was emph"Sinetii ,s,ootirc % was cal
II ni~bt, when a mass mee.me trade and NJ
od,SIb od by the board Of it tTa"e ,,,oss' S'' The
II Pooic T% Ss The people didnt ,mTing m,TSS, 70,
ii .oDn oo eleven present, lhctIoii;s tLa ;eo cor
| wJL' to are connected with the 9;JuSt iue rel re-,
| VINO are secretary Higgins dldh !, ri i
II Pany., y.,.,nored list of grievances III IL, = "
II his preP", of tho men who represent y '
presence cnrnany. ~ He asked so, I;,
the ice 'oirfhi b,,t his manner, accordll
que.Siuon,.oo,n ,.o,nort of Mr.. Henley was wa Z, Z,
to the o5faTe PsPo' to inspire that fl full arri i
Of ahin a i"'o Of feeling needed to "a arr, 20
10 .G%SIr'g %cSoIncgusions. So there were '' "
ii ciusiOns. - boen busy this we
The ;owi"g News "os people; it hasn't +.IIs is
. 'em 'a,l all but has seen seen. n'T,IS business m
with then, her there is feeling that IA Me ine
generally, y,onv y"y'I may possibly be lq5S lt5
jR fed IN RoiieTe i~g that there was Iuousc IuS.
none peLGsGi e;sinr the rates as annous' O,,.
ton irogb in GH,s'"FT That nat is the cOnee"SOS
Pqlatka opiniGtRR;e opa others who maintain 9tad I
perSf IS tba rate was high enough "t that other
they point aotiUg in 'l even a lower T2ce' Io g.,
ar ties the az News doesn't nto,lId kLiOc Constitute
TO else knows oTwSssso%nable, %j just p Pr1GS pTod
io cs they hcsgnS bps% naEe set an sstjmatsf sf
IA ti0n tb. absence 5bss of this knO"'SOS'