The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-03-27
WHEELING FOOD
PRICES, WITH
POTATOES DOWN
ADMINISTRATION ADVISES BAKED
UDERs o BREAD sUBsTI-
TUTE AS LOYAL ACT.
! Condemns Certain Local Sugar Adver.
Observation-Disclosures and Cabbage
Declining.

Tho price Interpretation committee OF
the cuu! administrator for tn" CITY or
Wheeling submits thr following report.
Most important today ~ our quotation
on potatoes. Tn" expected advance in
price did not occur and potatoes are
today the cheapest food on the market.
At this very tim" the government is
urging people IL use potatoes. They
are one If the best wheat substitutes
p~rucurahle. II not the very best. and
the person using plenty Of baked pnta-
toes needs little or no bread. Patriotic
ana economic motives both combine ~
, urge the extensive use Of potatoes at all
times.
Our attention has been called 10 GER
tain advertisements uf sugar and flour
especially OF sugar. appearing III the
local papers and III the windows of GER
tain dealers. This practice is forbidden
hv the laws of tho food administration
We especially condemn Eucn advertise
mcntS and ask that they be- discontin-
ucd.
onions and cabbage again show n de-
/ cline.
Rice flour IL not quoted. II there Is
any supply Of it in the market At pres
cnt it is negligible.
There is no change in flour. sugar.
meats lard and its substitutes, Or dried
vegetables. Corn meal shows a slight
advance.
In bread we still quote only the IL
pound loaf. We arc Informed that the
pound loaf is on the market in small
quantities but unless the Bakers ASS0-
citation approves its use we prefer not
10 make Il Quotntion thereon.
Bulk Granulnted Sugar.
Retailer pays $T.SI per cwt. Consumer
should pay not more THAN Sc per Id.
R4fIner's formulated Sugar.
Retailer pays $S.27 per cwt. Consumer
should pay > Id. pkg, 19c: ) ID. pkEs.
$50
Lima Beans.
cost retailer l5Ac per III. Consumer
should pay from 1%r t. 2Gc.
Navy Beans.
Cost retailer l5i.c per III. Consumer
should pay from lSc to c6c.
Red Kidney Beans.
Cost retailer 16c per ID. Consumer
should pay 20c.
scotch Dried Peas
Cos; retailer l"c per ID. Consumer
should pay 15c To Ice.
Split Peas.
Cos: retailer lie per ID. Consumer
should pay lac 10 16c.
Pinto Beans
Cost retailer Zoe per III. Consumer
should pay l"t@c.
Old Cabbage.
Retailer reys - per ID. Consumer
should pay >r.
Onions.
Retailer pays !" To nc per II. Con-
sumner should pay - I" la,r.
Potatoes.
No. Government grade. Retailer
pays sl.7n IL Sis per cwt. Consumer
should pay ~ to- -. rcr In.
No. " Government Crad". Retailer
nays sl.ln per cwI. Consumer should
nay NC per IL.
Barley.
Retailer pays &C to 6l3c per ID. Con
sumner should pay s. L" Pc.
Corn Flakes.
Retailer pays STA" rcr dog. pkE"s.
! Consumer should pay n"r pkg. l3".
Hams.
- 10 l. lbs. average. Retailer pays
! "na,r a. %Nc per H.. Consumer should
pay SAC I" %5r.
"a 10 IL lbs. average. Entnilcr pays
ISL tn :SHc per ID. Consumer should
pay 31c t" 3%c.
Bacon.
S to - lbs. average. 1:ctnr!rr Hiy9
! 2GaIc to ar per III. Consumer should
pay 4@r pr III.
J.. T." II lbs. average. Retailer pays
s4t. IL 3i1,c per III. consumer should
pay 4Nr Drr III.
u TO Is Lbs. average. h"tHil"r pays
SSIac nnr H.. Consumer should pay 5Sr.
Dry Salt Extra Short.
Retailer pays o. IHr In. Consumer
! should pay %lc /" SC.
Dry Salt Fat Backs.
| Retailer pays $50 per III. Consumer
should pay %h'.
Lard.
open K..,l" Rendered.. Retailer pays
oSi.r per III. Consumer should pay sc.
Stan,inrd Pure. E"iail"r pays Is" per
III. rrueunr"r should pay 2@C. G.ard
quotations nrrly 20 NIlk only.)
Crisco.
Retailer pays 2<'-c. Consumer should
PAY 80" :" 20
Compound shortening. Frtailcr pays
80 !" a." pr III. Consumer should
pay cSc :" sc.
Flour.
Spring wheat. Retailer pays i11.a5
r"r hhI. Consumer should pay for ~
sacks sl.52.
Winter wheat.
Retailer pay; El"@" per hhl. con
gunner should ray- f"r x sacks 81" TO
Sl.l3.
Flour Substitutes.
TIL following j. - li"r ri tn" prices
nr flour substitutes "r'i"r"I M lh' i""i
administrator Ia J." purchased IN equal
quantities with wheat flour. This list
"Nmpris"S IN" substitutes noW "htalnn.
hi" in Wh""ling
Barley Flour.
Retailer pays a. per III Consumer
should pay SIC to &c
Corn Flonr.
H"'ajtrr paws $50" :" 40" cen