Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1919 — HOW IS IT WITH RENSSELAER? [ARTICLE]

HOW IS IT WITH RENSSELAER?

Wholesalers Are Sending Rebates for Excessive Sugar Charges. Ft. Wayne, August 18. —All ot the six local wholesale grocers will be summoned to appear before an agent of the United States department of justice, the county prosecutor and the food administrator here tomorrow to explain rebating to grocers on recent sugar sales. Rebate checks have gone out to all retailers, it waa learned today and the price fixed so that the consumer would not have to pay more than 11 cents a pound for sugar. O _ As stated in Saturday’s Democrat, Rensselaer grocers—except in one solitary Instance —were selling sugar at 12 to 12% cents per pound, only one -Store selling at the retail price fixed by the federal food administrator, 11 cents. This "was due, it to the fact that our grocers were held up by the wholesalers In Chicago, where practically all of the sugar retailed here is bought. As the government IS getting after these profiteering wholesalers, as shown by dispatches elsewhere In The Democrat and through the daily papers, all grocers who have been charged an exorbitant price by wholesale houses they have dealt with should report the matter to the proper authorities that these profiteering leeches may be brought to time and properly punished.