Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-27
CONSUMERS LOOK ON WITH IN
TEREST WHILE PRICES
CONTINUE TO SLIP.
SUPPLY NOW Is LARGE;
BEET SUGAR WILL HELP
Old Law Of Supply and Demand Puts
Crimp in Sky High Prces-Some
Of the Causes That Helped -
Glimpse at Prospects for Cheaper
Potatoes in Fall.

Locally retail sugar prices have eb-
bed below $50. The extreme range
Thursday. based on prices quoted by
q dozen retailers was from 1925 to
$50. a sack. Especially keen is the
general interest In the sugar situa-
ton and sugar prices at this time.
There is n very special and general
belief both among the consumers
having information about the situa-
ton and many recognized experts
who declare that graduated sugar
viii be selling for from. 10 to Is
cents before the first of the year On
the other hand some wholesale grow
ars, who may or may not be actually
expressing hope, are predicting that
SUGAR will arain ascend before it
goes very much lower.
Several things have very apparent
~ knocked the blocks from under the
supar market. One of the most i'm
portaut OF these influences was the
refusal of American women to buy
20 to 80 cent sugar for canning. The
result, was that during the canning
decreased to a large extent.
Raw Dumped on America.
Another influence was that the
United States became the market for
raw sugar from all over the world in
the last six months. Sugar prices
We're boosted to such heights in this
country that the United States mar
l. Ell s,tf y,aN ha ~ ne -.
sugar producers In every part of the
globe. The result was that immense
cargoes of raw sugar were unioaded
at the seaboard. This has resulted in
increase In the quantities of both
raw and graduated available in this
country. There are Immense stores of
graduated sugar in the hands OF
Wholesale grocers. One wholesale
grocer In touch with the situation.
declared recently that If the market
in sugar continues It will prove disas1
trous to some wholesale dealers.
The nations beet sugar crop is the
largest in history. Grinding of beets
begins In October and this immense
crop will reach markets in Novem-
Der. 1
Glimpse at Potato Prospects.
Altho ii Is early yet here to get a
real index OF what the price of pota-
toes will be during the fall and win
ter, they VIII. Without doubt. be much
cheaper than last year SO far the re-
tail price here has been persistentely
much higher than inssmaller towns in
this part of the state. While potatoes
are selling at Eldora and other places
for $1.25 to S1-50 a bushel, retailers
here have been getting around So a
bushel. ocalAdealers complain that
they cannot buy from local growers
for a lower price to give them a MARI
gin profit, There is no question that
the crop in the potato states is go
ing to be tremendous one. ~
Bankers refused to carry brokers
loans on SUGAR, and forced nruf1-tt =
Of stocks and consequently lower.
prices. If bankers in potato ce..g
will refuse to finance the boarding.
and storing of this staple the predic-
ton has Teen made that potatoes will
90 dow \ bushel before the
winter Is over.
Notice.
My wife having left nv bed and
board will not stand respans ht.i r
any debts she may contract Frank
EIyin ~ 44s h5 NO. G y