Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1917 — BEAT HIGH FOOD PRICES [ARTICLE]

BEAT HIGH FOOD PRICES

Ad Club at Portland, Ore., Is ConductIng Fresh Fish Market, Selling at Cost Portland, Ore.—Cutting the high cost of living in a practical manner is the task essayed by the Portland Ad club, which is conducting a fresh fish market here and selling sea food at cost. So popular Is the market that the first day it opened three tons of fish were sold. Sable fish, groupers, ling, cod and smelt are sold for five to seven cents a pound, while other fish markets are asking twelve to twenty cents for the same kinds of fish. On the opening day a crowd of'women, with market baskets, stood before the doors waiting for the first fish to be" placed on sale. From that time on sales continued brisk, and the Ad club, co-operating w-lth the city administration, has under way a plan for a permanent fish market where all kinds of sea food will be sold at actual cost, The Ad club points out that 11 people eat fish the fishing industry will be promoted and other foods capable of being shipped long distances will be released to help win the war.