Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1917 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mentioa from Many Places. COLD STORAGE PLANTS FULL Yet High Prices Are Kept Up, Says New York Official. New York, June 22. —A statement saying every available cold storage place in this city is full to capacity and charging that retailers are keeping up high prices in spite of affluence of food, has been iss sued here by Joseph Hartigan, commissioner of weights and measures. The British government has ceased buying food supplies here, the public is living more economically, and storage space is at a premium, Mr. -Hartigan asserted, yet wholesalers complain that retailers are charging exorbitant prices. “Butter, cheese and eggs have come in to New York in such quantities as to cause a glut in the market,” he added. “It is the first experience of the kind enjoyed by the wholesale trade.’’ Unless federal and municipal agencies intervene, the commissioner said, there is danger of further price increases and speculation will not be eliminated.