The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-28
ICE--5Oe TO ST
Price Varies Greatly in Kansas
Towns, New Report Shows.
COncOrdia and Harrington Pay
the MOst-5O Cents Is Lowest.

Lawrence, Kan, July %. - Con-
sumers in at least two Kansas second
class cities pay a retail rate of 81 per
hundred pounds for ice These cities
are Concordia and Harrington. The
wholesale rate in Concordia is cut to
from 10 to rs cents and in Harrington
it is SIS cents These facts are shown
in table of reports from 49 first and
Second class cities compiled by John
G. Stutz, secretary of the League of
Kansas Municipalities.
Hutchinson, first class city, and
Clay Center and Galena, both second
class, get ice for so cents per hundred,
retail. These are the lowest of the 49
Stutz's table. Fredonia, the only city
in Kansas reporting milk at a nickel
a quart, gets ice. for SIS cents, retail,
and SO cents. wholesale. Ottawa
also has a wholesale rate of so cents.
Fredonia also reports an ice shortage
in August and September each year,
due to the small size of the plant, Mr..
Stutz said. Great Bend is the only
other other city reporting shortage,
the cause being an accident at the
plant there.
The average price per hundred
pounds for ice sold off wagons in the
list of towns reporting is IS cents, the
report shows. The average wholesale
rate, that is when sold 5OO-pound
books, is IS cents. Only seven cities
reported ice shortages during the last
seven years and four of these report
enlarge facilities since the shortage &C.
Cured, Mr.. Stutz said.
The following is Mr.. Stutz's table,
showing the retail and wholesale
rates and number OF companies in
each of the other cities reporting:
First class cities:
Atchison, 10 and So cents, two;
Coffeyville, 10 and so cents, one; Fort
Scott, so cents straight, two; Kansas
City, 60 cents straight, four; Salina,
wholesale, 10 cents, one company;
Parsons, so and SIS to 81 cents, two;
SaIina, 10 cents wholesale, one; To-
peka, so cents straight, one; Wichita,
10 and so cents, three. Hutchinson
has three companies.
Second class cities:
Abilene 60 to 65 retail and so cents
wholesale, one company; Arkansas
City, rs to 60 and 10 cents. one;
Augusta, 10 cents straight, one; BaX-
ter Springs, 60 cents retail, one; Be
lott, 10 and SO to 20 cents. two; Caney,
70 and so to 20, cents, one; Chanute,
cents straight, one; Clay Center, SO
cents straight, number companies not
given; Columbus, 10 cents straight,
one; Ell Dorado, 20 and 90 cents, one;
Emporia, 70 and 60 cents, one; From
tenac, 80 cents straight, one; Dodge
City, 60 cents straight, one; Garden
City, 10 cents straight, one; Girard,
so cents straight, one; Great Bend, so
and IS cents, one; Hays, rs and II
cents, one; Hiawatha, 60 and As to 60
cents, one; Horton, so cents, two; In
dependence, 60 and SO to 60 cents
one; lola, so and 60 cents, one; juno
ton City, no prices gwen, one COM
pany; Lawrence, SIS cents straight,
one; Liberal. rs and 65 cents, one;
Mcpherson, so and 20 cents, one;
Manhattan, so cents straight, one;
Marysville, rs cents straight, one;
Neodesha, go to 10 and so cents, one;
Newton, so and AS to so cents, one;
Olathe. 76 and IS cents, two; Ottawa,
wholesale, SO cents, one; Pratt, rs to
80 and IS cents, one.