Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1918 — Cash and Carry. [ARTICLE]

Cash and Carry.

Quite providentially it happens that the doctrine of carrying home one’s groceries promises to attain full growth at a time when capacious and decorative bags are not only fashionable, but almost necessary for house-’ wives. It Is evident, says the Spokane Spokesman Review, that there is Intention of seeing that the buyer la paid In cash for carrying his own food home. Already dealers are lopping cent sand even nickels off the coqt of things not delivered. A cent, for instance, goes thus with every loaf of bread. Cents and nickels grow rapidly to quarters, and quarters will buy war stamps that pay 4 per cent It behooves us to look closely to such details.