The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-01-11
Retailers Set +. q q. on Staples
to Conform to . u Food
Regulations.
URGE PEOPLE TO BUY CAREFUL
Local Merchants Endorse Plans of
Government Food Administra-
ti0n to Conserve Supply
of FOOdstuffs.


U. S. food administration, the Glas-
gov committee of grocers have COM
piled list of prices, both wholesale
and retail, on staples.
pointed by County Director James w.
Wedum, follows:
We dealers in foodstuffs in Glas-
gov, Montana, and as committee
appointed in support of the U. S.
food administration, do hereby sub
NIT wholesale and retail prices on
staples:
Sugar-Wholesale, 8Ac-9c; retail;
1Oc-11c.
Flour, 49 s.-Wholesale, $2.6O-$2 .98;
retail, $2.S5-325.
Corn Wholesale, 6kc-7c; re-
tail, 8c-9c.
Wholesale, 7c-7 1-1Oc; re-
tail, 9c-9hc.
Beans-Wholesale 16h c-17c; retail,
20c-25c.
Rice-Wholesale, 8hc19Ac; retail,
1Oc-12hc.
Milk, 16 z.-Wholesale, 12hc-
14Ac; retail, 16 1-3c-20c.
Bacon-Wholesale, 36c-45c; retail, 45c-
55c.
Ham-Wholesale, 28c-34c; retail,
35c-45c.
Creamery Butter-Wholesale Soc
53c; retail, 55c-6Oc.
We ask the cooperation of the pub
lie and recommend not over 81 worth
of sugar and not over 49 pounds of
flour in the city, and if possible not
over 25 pounds of sugar and SO
pounds of flour to ranchers and farm
ers.
Committee.
The committee recommends the OBJ
servance of the following resolutions
of the food administration:
/. We will, whether licensed or
not, cooperate with the U. S. food
administration in every way possible
to insure the enforcement of it's rules
and regulations and the success of its
conservation plans, and deliver to the
consumers of the United States the
necessaries of life as cheaply as it lies
within our power to do. We will
earnestly and vigorously recommend
all other retail grocers to pursue this
course steadfastly.
2. We recommend that retail gro
GERS discontinue the soliciting of ord
ers during the period of the war.
3. We recommend the limitation of
all deliveries to one a day to any one
family or on any one route.
4. We recommend that under con-
ditions and in localities where it is
feasible, the cooperative system OF
delivery be employed.
5. We urge all retailers and their
clerks to concentrate their efforts or
selling wholesome and nutritious sub
stitutes for white flour and meat.
We recommend that the retail
ers use their efforts to sell articles
of food that are cheap, yet of good
quality, in place of high priced sta
pies, and that in doing so they be
guided by the recommendation of the
conservation department of the food
administration.
7. We urge the most strict econo-
my in the conduct of all retail gro
Gerry stores, and constant effort to
eliminate all waste and extravagant
methods, to the end that time, energy
fuel, Equipment, and men may be con-
served, and that wholesome food may
be placed in the hands of consumers
at the lowest possible prices.
8. We recommend that retailers
throughout the country and their as
sociations, local, state and national
cooperate to the fullest extent with
the U. S. food administration, and
that they Immediately express their
purpose so to do by communicating
direct with the administration in
Washington.
9. We express our appreciation of
the support that has been given the
food conservation work by the trade
papers of the country and earnestly
solicit their continued cooperation with
the food administration.
10. We recommend that all retail
grocers assist in the potato cam1
paign of the food administration by
urging the sale of that commodity
this season.
II. We urge that all food products
where possible, be sold by weight in
reasonably large quantities and fo1
cash.
II. We recommend that all retail
ers urge the sale Of such items as
small prunes, cornmeal, oatmeal, rice
hominy and similar articles in bulk.