The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-01-27
FOOD PRICES ADVANCE
TO A NEW HIGH LEVEL
FLOUR, MEAT, CHICKENS, COZ
FEE AND MANY OTHER Ia
BILE ITEMS COST MORE.
TOPMOST POINT NOT REACHED
Quotations on Almost Everything the
Grocer Sells Shows an Upward Ten
dency, and Another Jump Skyward
May Be Expected Soon.

AACNSA OSho 0AtOWo Gil ~ RWdAd Gil
dency, and Another Jump Skyward
May Be Expected Soon.
| Two-dollar wheat maybe all right
in Chicago, or for the farmers OF the
west but it is rather disastrous to the
consumer, who is now paying just
about $500 to $3.50 more per barrel
for his flour than he was paying one
year ago.
A great many people think that this
is the price of the republican victory
during the past fall as wheat began
ascending during the presidential cam
paign and it has not reached the top
most point as yet, because flour quo
tations show that this very necessary
article for the sustenance of life is still
climbing skyward, with the sky ap-
parently being the limit No one at all
acquainted with market conditions will
hazard guess as to when top prices
will be reached and start downward
again.
But while flour is very high, retail
ling at $ll to $12 per barrel, it is not
the only thing that is vaulting, for
nieat, determined not to be outdone,
has gone UP nearly one hundred per
cent during the past year and white
meat is now selling at and around 10
cents per pound, and the extent of the
disaster is not yet full realized. There
| is consolation, however, in the fact
that hams are somewhat cheap
er, it being stated that picnic hams,
especially, are off two or three cents
per pound Side meat went up eight
or nine cents per pound during the
past year.
Lard Still Climbing.
Hens are higher by six or eight
cents than they were, a year ago,
while it is stated that flyers, where
they can be bought at all, are some
thing like fifteen cents a pound cheap
err, but the statement is made that
while they range around fifty cents
per pound there are none to be had
or very few at least. AS a whole chick
ems may be considered a little cheap
err than they were year ago
Both sweet and Irish potatoes are
cheaper than they we're a year ago.
There is but little difference in the
past year in price of sweet potatoes,
but they are some cheaper than a year
ago, while Irish potatoes that sold a
wear ago at $3.50 per sack are now
quoted at $500 per sack. A saving,
therefore, comes to the people with
these important items of food.
Lard is another commodity that has
shown a tendency 'skyward, it being
stated that it is up something like hive
cents per pound over what 1t was
wear ago and still climbing. Peanuts
are about the same price as they were
wear ago, and there is no indication
that there will be any change one way
or the other in the price.
Meal Is Cheaper.
Meal. another article of food that
plays an important part in the average
home. is cheaper than it was year
ago. now retailing at forty to forty-
| five cents a peck, with indications that
| il is going higher, as corn is beng
quoted at higher price than during
the recent past The opinion prevails
that meal will go higher than at pres
ent. but it is stated that it will have
to 90 considerably higher to reach the
highest point at which it sold during
the past year.
Coffee has advanced out OF all rea-
son. according to the opinion OF ma
iority of dealers. Coffee that could be
sold short time ago at AZ cents IS
now retailing at 81 cents and the end
is not in sight, for it is claimed that
wholesale prices in many instances
are higher than that for which coffee
! is being retailed and that as soon as
the supply of these merchants on hand
now is sold and they have to go into
the market for more there's is gong to
be another upward jump in prices.
Can't Explain 1t.
A wel-known groceryman III dis
cussing the matter stated that quota
lions on practically everything in the
grocery line shows an upward ten
dency and that he was unable to ac-
count for a general rise in prices. he
stated that he could understand why
prices of certain commodities advanc--
ed because Of their scarcity, but could
not see why everything should adj
vance.
/ In fact. the gentleman stated that
he could not see why -four was adj
vancing, because there is enough wheat
for consumption on hand.
SUPREME COURT SAYS TAX