Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1920 — BUYS SAFE FOR SUGAR [ARTICLE]
BUYS SAFE FOR SUGAR
Pennsylvania Man Takes Drastic Steps to Save Supply. At last the inevitable has happened. Sugar has become so valuable that Aleves would rather have it than diamonds, and Dickerson Run, Pa., is resorting to drastic means to retain it When J. F. Black opened his gen* eral store he discovered that his last five pounds of the precious saccharine was missing. Flour worth S2OO was also taken, but Mr. Black is not worrying so much about that. He straightway hied himself to the hard-' ware store, where' he purchased a safe. He says'he is expecting a small consignment of sugar soon and wants to make sure that when he opens up it wUI still be where he put it
