Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1917 — BUTTER BOARD IS CLOSED [ARTICLE]

BUTTER BOARD IS CLOSED

Elgin Organization Will Suspend for Duration of the War. Chicago, Nov. 2. —At the request of Food Administrator Herbert S. Hoover the Elgin Board of Trade, which for years has been the agency through which butter prices in the middle West have been established, has been closed for the duration of the war. Administrator Hoover, in requesting that the board close, announced that market conditions would not be permitted to r . govern butter prices during the war.