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.

,ol Tape shows drop of 10 cents per
Manufacturers N, uneasy, but firm.
~, lhls i: about the noon hour of
thursday, July 10Th, A. D. 1917. The
sun is at the meridian, or so darn
close to 1t that it's heat waves are
about the same.
Our thoughts have turned to ice.
Ice IS natures remedy for a "hot
tlme,' parched tongue or fevered
brow.
Nature, however, doesn't supply ice
IN this section; it has to be manufac-
tufed; 1t costs money to manufacture.
How much money nobody knows
out the manufacturers, and they won't
All we who buy are permitted to
know is the selling price.
For 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 so cents per hun
dred.
4N"SNI cry IilSlC was q uUWl.
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
loudest.
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
they 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. E. l.. Mann, Mrs. NJ. S. Brown
and Mrs. D. j. Coughlin
These ladies presented their griev-
ances to the company in the follow
ing mild and convincing manner. The
ladies also held a pleasant conversa-
ton with Messrs. Henley and R. E. l..
Mann, the latter the local manager
for the Palatka Public Service Co..
The matter of the raise was gone IN
to thoroughly, the ladies presenting
their arguments in favor Of a reduc-
ton and the officials giving reasons
for the advance.
The following are the reasons for a
reduction presented by the ladies' Oh
the committee:
Palatka July 14th, 1917.
Mr.. r. f. L. Mann, Manager,
Palatka Public Service Co.
Dear Sir:
As a committee representing the
Womans Club and the housekeepeers
Of PaIatka we beg reconsideration
Of the step taken by the Palatka Pub
| lie Service Co. in the recent advance
in price of ice, and submit the tol-
lowing reasons: H.,
First: Although we realize that
advance in prices Of materials and
labor may warrant slight increase
in price, vet we do not feel that SO
great a raise is justifiable.
Second: This raise IN price aHecIs
a class of people that is least able
n meet it and is thereby a grave
menace to the health of large per.
rentaee of our population because OF
fbeir inability to buy in large guam
t;tips or to spend money in suth-
| dent sums to buy books; Inc pa: pa
HES and children i'll families OF TINS
| class suffer for want of milk ana
fool which can be kept only with Ice
and which their parents cannot pro
vide for them under the prevailing
price. ~, -,..,o,+ ;s 1aving
,unaa+ ,t' stress upon food conservation
Ne the housekeepers all over the
United States. are pledged TO WoiN %
rith Them. Prohibtive prices plac-
cd upon ice prevent our cG-op!ef:a''o"
$" 5. his If most grave national crisis
EDNA DUNSHEE MANN
FEMME R. BROWN,
vARFL BASSETT COUGHLlN.
palatka people are eonseTyatlILe; T',atI.y
tbat fact was emphasized on lueSuTS dpi
High+, when a mass meeting was M M
,tS M NV nv +hp board Of trade ana H. WI
po,ic To 10y The people didn't mass mere
,,,oro oU['' eleven present, including 1our
were rn SLe, connected with the ice com,
Nanv mnU 81 Secretary Higgins didn't rfho ebo
P;s KY inrepared list of grievances III tt,J
ms prIp''t ,ao Of the men who represented
Pse'ireN pre- ire company. He asked SOM ON
a.+;Nns the lSe ' but his manner, according
HueI,a',e tba report of Mr.. Henley was was nj nJ'
10 I"I natIlre to inspire that 1ull LEI,
OF h;n a l"'o Of feeling needed to arrive
IoWShlP u So there were no con-
clqSlonST; Tsa Taws has been busy this week yee.,
i,toryiewing ry people; it hasn't d +oIted Tted
inseLGi ,,' aIi hut has seen many and ta,neu neu
EN-, EN- a. them Among buSlnleSss. ,,biIe l,Tn
with wa.oIIy oTT there is feeling that !nti MGtie
generaI5y ger aomnany NV may possibly be J4Se,- tSer
the tn foNApJit ;o 9pJy5ncing rates some, ena tney
@ none IN Oeri rsising the rates as announeeff of
isot Iot week W, That is the cohce"SU' VI
Paqsn@ TbeTe are others who MAINTAIN 9tsD And And
u, me- NEE was high enough oe1Otg, otber eli ci-
the they ,PS PS'S getting even lower r2ee Ho one
tleT Thn @'T News doesn't know, .t;tute i'm e a
else else hI'oT reasonable, Just p Pr1Ge produc-
tai ia,r # they knew the cost osstimate. Gn In