Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-09-11

PRICE SHOPS
TO THE PUBLIC
Clyne to Aid Fox River Valley Phil
anthropist in Fight To Gust
Profteers.

From Chicago Examiner
Col. George Fayban, Philanthropist
entered the lists as an active foe a.
gainst sugar hoarders and price Jug
glers. He made an agreement with
United States Attorney Clyne to open
a community store to sell at cost to
the whole Fox River Valley.
Col. Fayban proposes to buy sugar
in carload lots from the refneries and
place it on sale at his farm in Geneva
and in depots he will establish in the
larger towns in the valley.
Col. Fayban made the proposal to
after he had discussed the food situa-
tion with the prosecutor. He said he
would bear all the cost of distributing
it and would sell to all corners in the
valley. 1t is his intention to get enough
sugar to supply a half million people,
and within month he says the pro-
fiteering retailers will be on their
knees begging their former customers
to name their own prices.
Aims at PrOfteers.
After the sugar sales are started it
is the intention of the colonel to enter
the coffee and prepared cereal market.
istrict Attorney Clyne said the gov
ernment would cooperate in every way
with Col. Fayban's idea and he prom
ised to obtain all the sugar he could
for immediate shipment to the farm
at Geneva. 1t is expected the first
shipments will start from New York
this week
Broke Shoe Shortage.
Col. Fayban's experiment with the
community store idea developed from
his efforts to break shoe shortage
II the Fox River Valley several months
ago. He bought several hundred cases
of shoes and placed them on sale at
cost on his farm. Thousands of citi-
zens in the Fox River Valley flooded
the community store with orders and
the success of the idea was apparent
from the start.
Shoe prices dropped from 35 to So
per cent in one week aSlong the re-
tailers in the Fox River Valley towns,
it is said.
Mr.. Clyne says the Fayban idea
would be broached to number of Chi
cagoans of philanthropic bent.
Clyne Wants More Sugar.
Mr.. Clyne sent telegram to the
sugar committee of New York urging
them to hurry consignment of sugar
that has been billed to Chicago. He
is endeavoring to keep a sufficient sup
ply of sugar on the market here to pre-
vent the possibility of a shortage. He
has information that there are 100
United States ships bringing sugar
from Cuba.
Since Mr.. Clyne's recent confsca-
tions of sugar used for speculative
purposes sugar pirates have kept their
operations under cover. Deputy mar
shals and agents of Edward ]. Bren-
nan are keeping strict watch on all
the warehouses and freight yards for
sugar shipments and when they are
discovered they are promptly seized.
To Sell Seized Cocoa.
The carload of cocoa seized last
night at Joliet by Deputy Marshal
Thomas Henneberry will be put on
the market at a fixed price. The CO.
Goa was shipped by the National CO.
Goa Mills Company of New York, but
the consignee was not named.
| The district attorneys office has
launched a drive at an alleged newly
formed chocolate trust and grand
jury developments have been promised.
Potatoes are to be the next object
of Mr.. Clyne's attention, he stated
yesterday morning. According to evil
dence gathered by Mr.. Brennan's ~
gents, potato growers in Minnesots,
Michigan and the Dakotas have large
crops, but commission men are hold
ing up shipments to create high prices.
By this method the commission men
hope to throw the blame on the grow
ers for shortages, but the growers
have complained that they are at the
mercy of the commission men.