Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1917 — CLEANED from the EXCHANGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEANED from the EXCHANGES

Choice beeves sold at the Union, sttfck yards in Chicago Monday at’ new high price record for, cattle on the hoof. The new figure i was eighty cents higher-than the ( record price established last week, | An agreement by the country’s' beet sugar producers to limit the price of their product so as to es-! feet a reduction of about cents a pound in the present price ofl sugar has been announced by the. food administration, with a notice, to the public that this should mean a saving of 130,000,000 between; now and the first of next year. It was also announced that the wholesale grocers had agreed to limit distribution charges to prevent ex--orbitant charges. Jitrimy Leather, proprietor of a resort at Cedar Lake, who was shot j last week by Jack McDonald, alias John Lane, following a quarrel, died Sunday night shortly after i identifying the murderer. Clyde Hunter, prosecuting attorney, has stated that the resorts of Lake ( county will be, cleaned up in an • effort to stop the wanton destrue-. tion of life, there having been nine-j teen homicides there so far this (

year. The “clean-up” will probably continue for about two weeks, until the death of Leather is forgotten.