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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1910)
THE GRAFT BUG BUZZING IN MANY CITIES. MIIII— ■— wmmrn, mm, ■ ■ —, , ■ ~■■ ))■■■ w n ■■■■■ (J* - I i \ % —Cartoon by Parr, in the New York World. FOOD PRICES FALLING AND BREAD CHEAPER Wheat, Corn, Cotton, and Materials in Market Standards Lead Expected Decline-All Down Except Meat-- Even Meats Will Fall, Admission of a Packer. New York City.—Wheat, corn, cot ton, some of the metals, and those of the other commodities which lend themselves to speculation have beet) declining for the past few w’eeks, some of them sharply, and the poor consumer, who has seen the cost of living go up steadily since the panic period, is beginning to hope that the crest of high prices has been reached and that most of the necessities of life may get back again to something like real values. Flour Steadily Declining. There are indications that the back ward slide has begun. Flour has Kone down 25 cents a barrel since January, and sl.lO since its highest price of last year, and east side bak ers have increased the size of their loaves. Consumers are now getting two pounds two ounces of bread for seven cents. A short time ago they got only two pounds for the same money. This results in the saving of thousands of dollars to the poor. \ "We have increased the weight of loaves as much as we can,” said Jacob Bock, of 159 East Houston street, president of the Boss Bakers’ Associa tion. ft is estimated that the increased weight in the loaves will make a dif ference of SSOOO a day to east side consumers. Everything Down Except Meat. Other marked declines in the prices of foodstuffs are bound to make them selves felt in the retail markets and In the household expense accounts. Potatoes, for instance, are off from 40 to 50 per cent, from the price of last November, and while they do not 'W-.--,-- High. meat r 1.33% Corn 76 Oats 55% Flour 6.00 Pork 27.50 Beef 19.25 C-offee ' .08?* Sugar «• 5.25 Tror* 19 00 Tin 33.60 Copper 13.50 Cotton 16.10 Cot. Print 04% Another test, which is perhaps "broader, is obtainable from the price of standard foodstuffs, materials, and manufactured articles quoted regu larly in the trade journals. The j>rices of commodities in the vicinity of New York as reported by Dun’s Review make possible an estimate of the upward uovement of the past year and the beginning of the present 2»- Spring patent flour {Spring clear flour Butter (special) Cheese (common) TUges (Western first) Milk (40-qt. can net to shipper) Salt mackerel Sugar (refined) Sugar (s tandard) Rice Peas Brown cotton sheetings Standard prints Blue denims Hemlock, shoe leather dazed* kid Men’s grain shoes Wax brogans Women’s split Bricks Lath Benefits Taken by Farmers. When the rise was in full swing last year an investigation by the Washington authorities put the blame on the middlemen, hut the farmer himself has taken most of the profit from the higher cost of living. Bast .rear was the greatest money making twelve months that the farm- enter into the speculative markets, a drop of that exteut cannot be passed over by the middlemen and retailers. It means cheaper potatoes at the cor ner grocery. Butter, as every housewife knows, has been selling below the sky-high prices of last year for some time, and is now on the average six per cent, lower in the Western wholesale mar kets. but meats stubbornly hold out. Beef in Chicago is still about at its high price of $19.25 per 100 pounds, reached on March 28, and pork is only a trifle lower, and lamb and mut ton also refuse to come down. Taking a list of fourteen commodi ties. such as wheat, corn, oats, beef, nork, sugar, and the standard metals, it would seem that the top prices were hit in January. A number of commodities reached prices then which they have never since returned to, although the falling off has been by no means constant. These market prices, although in fluenced by speculation, usually indi cate the true level of values in the long run. Of the commodities chosen it will bo seen that they reached their lowest point for the year in April, and that none have reached new high levels since March, when four of the group made high record prices. Nine of these fourteen were dearest in Jan uary. These standard commodities are set forth in the appended table, which gives the high and low prices, highest and lowest prices reached this year, together with the lowest prices in 1909. The prices are in the cash markets in New York: Shows the Fall From Higli Prices. VY 1910. 1909. Low. « ■'*’ Low. Feb. 15 1.15% April 19 1.07% •Tan. 14 .64% April 6 .65% Jan. 22 .47% April 6 .44 Jan. 12 5.75 Feb. 11 5.60 Mar. 26 23.00 Jan. 25 16.50 Mar. 28 15.75 Jan. 3 13.40 Jan. 7 .08 9-10 April 7 .06% Mar. 4 4.85 Jan. 3 3.35 Jau. 3 18.25 Mar. 8 15.75 Jan. 3 4.37% April 13 3.95 Mar. 31 31.55 ’ Mar. 14 30.32%' Jan. 3 12.55 Mar. 19 12.12% Jan. 3 13.85 r Jan. 18 9.25 Jan. 18 .03%’ Feb. 5 .03% decline. The figures in the appended table cover the first of this month, the last of January, when the upward movement seems to have reached the top, and the same period a year ago. The prices given are wholesale quo tations, and not by any means close to the heights to which the New York consumer was forced to climb to fill his wants over the counter. Fall in Wholesale Markets. April, January, January, 1910. 1910. 1909. $5.65 $5.50 $4.85 4.50 4.50 4.00 ■3-' .35 .32% 23 .13% .10% .39 .36 I.s'* 1.80 1.60 30.01 * 30.(Xl 25 .(X) 5.85 5.30 5.25 5.]5 450 •< >J % .05% .05% 22 5 2.27% 2.15 •0"% .08 .06% .06 .05% .04% -14% .IS .11% .25 .26 04 JO JO .16 1.77% 1.52%’ 1.32% 1.35 1.15 1.32% 1.35 1.12% 5.50 5.50 4.50 3.75 3.65 3.00 1 ers of this country ever experienced. The total value of the. farm products which enter into the Department of Agriculture’s calculations was put by the Secretary at $8,760,000,000, against $7,848,000,000 in 1908, and this increase of nearly $1,000,000,000 was due to shrinking prices rather than to greater production. IF YOUR CHILD NEEDS A TONIC —if your little boy or girl is deli cate and sickly —go to the nearest driiggist and get a bottle of Dr. D. Jayne’s Tonic Vermifuge This splendid tonic has been successful for four genera* tions in making sickly children strong and healthy, and effec tively expelling worms. It is likewise a natural tonic for adults,and restoreslastinghealth and strength to “run-down" systems by toning up the stom ach and other digestive organs. Sold by JHI Druggists— -2 sizes, 50c. and 35c. Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant is the most reliable .jremedy for Coughs, Colds, Croup, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis, and Pleurisy. Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup Relieves Colds by working them out of the system through a copious and healthy action of the bowels. Relieves coughs by cleansing the mucous membranes of the throat, chest and bronchial tubes. "As pleasant to the taste as Maple Sugar" Children Like It* For BACKACHE-WEAK KIDNEYS Try OeWltt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills—Sura and Salk R. O. JACKSON, Attorney-at-Law* McDonough, qa. Office over Star Store. E. M. SniTH, Attorney at Law, Mo Donoitgh, Qa. Offloe ever Star Store, south side square. All work carefully and promptly attended to. &T Am premared to negotiate loans e® real estate. Terms easy. 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RAISED ABOVE SUSPICION.,, Sir Hesketh Bell, the Governor of Uganda, recently wrote an Interest- Ing report of his tour through the eastern districts of t a par * He gave an amusing account of the careful precautions taken by the eldeis of the Bakedi in dealing with the youths and bachelors of the tribe.. A - though the majority of the Bakedi go about in a state of absolute nudity, a desire for clothing is steadily growing among them, es . • tunately, more clothes means less ‘morals.’ The Bagan a, w 0 1 been greatly addicted to wearing apparel, are of notorious > ax ’ among the Kavirondo, the Bakedi and all the unt ° e . notable degree of morality is found to exist. A sharp eye is 'ep on e ' * ■ 'f ■ i, > . V' v . >*iV' • v ‘ \ , v - ' , : - >■•••, b>*-, v r .. • -- . .--v. -%■ % REMOVING THE LADDERS FROM THE BAKEDI BACHELORS’ HUTS AT NIGHTFALL. bachelors. The Northern Bakedi take amusing precautions with regard to the latter. All the young unmarried men are made to sleep in specially constructed huts raised high up on posts. The doors of these huts are so small that the occupants have to wriggle in on their stomachs. Access is gained only by a ladder, which is carefully removed as soon as the young men have been safely disposed of for the night. I was told that among some of the tribes fine ashes are strewn under these human pigeon cotes so that tell-tale footprints would indicate any attempt at a nocturnal excursion.” It will be noted in our drawing that one of the Bakedi elders is engaged in strewing the ashes underneath the hut.—The Illustrated London News. All-Metal Washboard. An all-metal washboard of an im proved design has recently been in vented by a New York man. The two primary advantages of the board ;!p============== J I are that it is very durable and that it has no cracks or corners where dirt may lodge. The device is made of one piece of metal bent around a rod which forms sides, top and legs. The scrub sur faces are formed by raising the metal in a series of corrugations, as shown in the illustration. Being all one piece of metal it will be readily un derstood that the durability of such a board would be great. There is nothing to be loosened or torn up, and the chances are that the utensil will last longer than the lifetime of those who use it. Another advantage of this metal washboard is the ab sence of rough corners or sharp edges, such as sometimes occur on the old-style boards, and on which it is easy to tear a garment if the great est care is not exercised in rubbing over them.—Boston Post t Herbert Spencer’s Deity. This passage is from Mr. Spencer’s “First Principles:” ‘‘The conscious ness of an Inscrutable Power, mani fested to us through all phenomena, has been growing ever clearer, and must ultimately be freed from its imperfections. The certainty that on the one hand such a power exists while on the other hand its nature transcends intuition and is beyond imagination, is the certainty toward which intelligence has from the first been progressing. To this conclusion science inevitably arrives as it reaches its confines; while to this conclusion religion is irresistibly driven by criti cism. ” The Japan Magazine, The initial number of the Japan Magazine, published at Tokio with Lnglish text, for the purpose of re flecting the life, art and literature of Japan, not as a fantastic comic opera land, but as a real country and peo ple, contains much of interest to the American reader, compares favorably with our own magazines, and the daintiness of the numerous illustra tions by native artists is in itself a revelation. A Gate For Beds. No cribs are required in households which are equipped with ono of the bed-gates recently invented by two Connecticut men. Nor need adults worry about tumbling out on the floor during nightmares. The gate is of metal and is composed of crossbars pivoted at their points of intersection so that the whole can be stretched out to the length of a bed or folded up m a small compass at the head or foot. In the centre is a vertical bar to hold the gate against outward movement. Parents who have small children sleeping with them will find the contrivance a great convenience. This device means a considerable sav- 2no Cribs Are Needed. ing in money to do not have enough little members to make a crib a paying and more or less per manent investment. A crib is of no “ S 1 aftei ; a child is old enough to here accident ’ and the gate of h J7 nbed SClves the Problem without S K et aloDg with out them— Star Cn S ’ tbat * s ‘ —‘Washington
