The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-09
Cooperative Service Bakery
Idea Makes Big Hit with Pub.
oOtvwOod Hotel Joins Bakers IN Cutting Prices to Line
'' With Realities Other Business Men
Must Follow

gould open lOI O4oAiA 1'
S YOU 10, will not be able to do so
S Sspr' of delay in getting the
70 ready and the failure of the
ppa lSe modern equipment to
nS. ;Te Manager Salisbury says
aa bakery and lunch will open
w as soon as the equipment ar
!s and the bakery store can be
LIE ready for opening. The re-
ss"S,tiOn of the store has taken
io"~er that at first anticipated.
SoI;sbury says that he wants the
OIace in shape for business when
+ opens, as he expects to be. busy
., The public generally is waiting
ss5xiously for the bakery to open.
Manager Salisbury reports that
ne Cooperative Service idea Of
.onducting buSinss on a nonprofit
basis is very popular, and that the
neople are demanding that the
Pe6twood prices be reduced to a
basis in line with reality. Manager
salisbury said : "The prices of
fmit dropped in Plentywood this
week but it has not reached the
nroper level yet. Grapes are sell
ine this week for 80 cents a basket
down a nickel since last week,
when % cents a basket it what
cranes must come to to be in line
With reality and what they are
selling for even at Williston, and
reaches are go cents a box in
Plentywood and 40 cents at Willis
ton. There is the same spread in
all other fruits and canning vege-
tables. There is no excuse for
this as fruit can be sold in Plenty
wood on the same real basis at at
WillistOn, and Williston merchants
are not doing business for their
health. am in communication
with several fruit growers In the
west who cannot get anything for
their fruit where it rots on the
ground, who are figuring on ship
ping in a lot of fruit on consign-
ment to the Cooperative Service
to be sold on the non profit basis.
The fruit growers think that they
can bring in fruit by truck even
cheaper than by railroad. This
would mean even cheaper fruit.
Under this plan the consumers
would get the fruit at cost price
while the growers would get more
for their produce, thus eliminating
the rObber profits the conscience
less middlemen are now pocket
ing at the expense of the poor
poverty stricken people in thi:
country. l find / can get the very
finest cheese made in Wisconsin
for nine cents a pound at the CO
operatives, which can be brough.
here in five-ton trucks and sold TO-
One-half of what people here pa!
for much inferior quality of chess
and we aregetting in contact witt
other cooperative producers ant
hope to have many items to sell t.
the Sheridan county consumers Of
the same basis.
Farmers Service Free
THE farmers can also make us
Of the cooperative service in tn
selling of their products. Butter
eggs, vegetables, ETC., can be sol
at the cooperative service stcr
to the consumers free. Tradin
tickets will be given for product
such can be used in the restaurar
edeemable on anything the CO
operative Service handles on tn
basis of no profit.
Fine Line of Suits
u wish to announce to the pull
lie that Alfred Helm of Westb,
has joined the cooperative and
week from Saturday he will sho
a line fmens and boys fine sui
ranging in prices from So to 81
de has these suits on special a
engagements with the co-operativ
tallors of Milwaukee. He has so
over $50 of these suits in Il
Westby area. The Co-operati'
Service has examined these sui
and they are bargains. No sui
Of such quality has ever been Q
Tered in this country before. II
material is of the very best, ;
closely woven wool. and the wor
manship is of the finest. / recol
mend these suits without reserv
non as extraordinary bargain;
Mr.. Helm is tailor by trade a.
does his own alteration.
PlentywOOd Hotel too
Mrs. Hunt, manager of t
PlentywoOd hotel has also adopt
the idea of the cooperative s.
wee" She has put the price
rooms down to so cents the mig
Sne rents a room for so cent o
OF two or three in room maxi
no difference in price; rooms r.
Tor night at 80 cents only. T
Is also in line with reality"
Announcement
The Cooperative Service B;
cry Restaurant and affiliates v
nave advertisements next week
tne Producers News. 1t will
me policy of the Cooperative S
wee to patronize the farmers
operative paper, the Produc
news, and to cooperate with it
reducing prices in Plentywood.'