Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1919 — PROSECUTE SUGAR PROFITEERS [ARTICLE]

PROSECUTE SUGAR PROFITEERS

Chicago and Detroit Concerns Accused of Exorbitant Charge. Lafayette, August 16. —Oscar W Campbell, Tippecanoe county food administrator, announced today that he had discovered that several wholesale firms in Chicago and Detroit were selling sugar to local dealers at a rate considerably higher than it should be. A candy manufacturing concern here paid a Chicago sugar house 13% cents a pound for sugar and a local bakery paid 13% cents to the same concern. A Detroit house has been selling sugar here for $10.26 a hundred pounds, wholesale. Mr. Campbell says that an investigation will be made immediately and prosecution started, if possible, against the offending concerns. He .found that none of the local wholesalers was selling sugar at a rate above what it should be sold. The local war on high prices is being carried on vigorously and at a meeting Monday night the retail grocers will discuss the prices with the food administrator and they will tell him what they paid for goods and what they sell them for. Meat prices will also be taken up with local dealers and the dealers in clothing and shoes have also been asked to meet with Mr. Campbell'.