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Page Six ~ TAR PRICE’ BOARD FIXES PRICES — CONSUMER WILL PAY ONALL STAPLE FOODS FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS Wholesalers, Retailers and Consumers Antive at Equitable Price-Fixing Plan; Board to Meet Every Two Weeks to Revise __ The fixing of uniform prices on all staple foods for the city of Casper, the result of order: Buy and Keep LIBERTY Bonds. ab - | City News | oO eee he clothing donated for the Bel- gian relief and which w at the Shockley ga 7 xed Sund afternoon. The need for more clothing is apparent and the quota of pounds of clothing has not been reached ee ee Mr. and Mrs. W. Kimball, Sr. were in town Saturday from their ranch in the Casper mountains. A. H. Black and C. H. Long of the ‘Chamberlin Furniture & Undertaking company, came home yesterday fron Cody, Wyo., where they went to ge tnei> car which was left in Cod ae = S sone time ago when th were er ee A of the United States Food | route home from the } They re Administration, was made yesterday at a meeting in the In-|turned by way of Riverton wher: dustrial Club of the Price Inte administration, these prices to tober 14, when the board will such fluctuations as may occur the interim. Prices on butter and eggs and like commodities on which the market fluctuates, will be subject to change without notice. The “fair prices” are fixed after taking into consideration the prices made by the wholesaler, which are regulated by the government, and to which is added freight from jobbing points, drayage, and the profit allow- ed by the government to the retailer. ! in; Retaiier Pays. Commodity Low Price Wheat Flour, 24-Ib. bag___-_$1.40 Wheat Flour, 48-lb- bag_____ 2.80 Wheat Flour, bulk, per lb___ .064 Barley Flour, bulk, per Ib___ .06 Rye Flour, 10-lb. bags_ = 08: Rye Flour, 24-lb. bags_ ~ 1.40 Corn Flour, bulk, per It - -06 Rice Flour, bulk, per Ib. -104 Cornmeal, 10-Ib. bags. ==—e.08 Cornmeal, 24-Ib. bags -- 1.40 Victory Bread, 16-0z. loaf_ -10 Oatmeal or rolled oats, blk. Ib -06 4 52-0z. pkg. .27 Sugar, gran. per 100 lbs____ 8.65 Beans, white, navy, or pea— not lima—per lb_ 138 Beans, colored, pinto, etc. -103 Potatoes, white or Irish, Ib-_ .024 Onions, per lb. ______ -034 Raisins, seeded, 1l-oz pkg_-_ .09 Raisins, seeded, 15-oz pkg--- .12 Prunes, per lb. ___ -123 Prunes, per 10 lbs. - S 123 Canned Tomatoes, standard grade, per 20-oz. No. 2 can .12} ‘Canned Corn, standard grade, per 20-0z. No. 2 can_____ 16 2-3 Canned Peas, standard grade, per 20-0z. No- 2 can_____ -16 2-3 Canned Salmon, tall pink Alaska, per 16-0z. No. 1 can__---_ .18 Evaporated Milk, unsweetened, per, 6-oz. :can’==--_c-_-=- .05% Evaporated Milk, unsweetened, pers1G-or.\can) = —-—-—— = — rab Butter, creamery print, Ib.___- Oleomargerine, best grade, lb .36 Eggs, stored, per doz____-__ Cheese, Am. full crm, cut, lb_ Lard, pure, bulk, per Ib Lard, pure, in tin, small Medium —_ Large ---_ 2.70 Lard substitute, in tin, small_ 7 Medium 1.18 Large. 2.40 Bacon, breakfast, standard grade— wide, per lb. ____ 45 narrow, per lb. ._ - 403 Ham, smoked, per Ib. _ - -853 Interesting Sidelights on the By FRANK [United Prenn Sta AN AMERICAN HOSPITAL IN FRANCE, Sept. 3. Mail.) They give the boy now and then a man hates to go back to the front. tell how keen he is by what he says when the doctor says ‘Well, Think you’re ready for the front Old Man, how do you feel? again?’”’ Sometimes there are half-imaginary pains which conval-| escents can produce for the occasion. Usnally there are not, Rufus Jacoby of Waterloo, Iowa, speaks with a Southern accent. In his company there are “Joe and Mill and me,” as Rufus puts it, ‘we're all brothers. army a long time, and when this war started, I stole into the army, too.” Rufus was wounded, which he did not mind, except that it vexed him to have to leave the company. Tho he had a serious wound, he tried to get the doctor to let him stay with the company and “rest up a bit.’’ “But the doctor couldn’t do that, and Rufus went back to the base hos- pital where he was operated on, and soon was convalescing. Every day he pestered the doctor for permission to go back to the company. “You see,’”’ he explained to the doc- meet again to make revision in AMONG THE WOUNDED YANKS Our Boys in Hospitals Joe an’ Mill’s been in the, rpreting board of the national they have business interests. be in effect until Monday, Oc- Shier The funeral of Mrs. R. B. of Red Cloud, Minn., mother of The prices as fixed by the local J. N.’ Snook, was held Sunda county board, composed of F. R. Huf- ternoon at 3 o’clock at the Sh smith, federal food administrator for Gay chapel, the Rev. J. J. Gibl'n, pas Natrona county; C. C. Merrill and tor of the Gantz Memorial chure! Chas. Goss, representing the whole- officiatiny. Interment was made sale grocers R. White and A. L.| the Casper cemetery Wallace, representing the retail groc- se ers; Oscar Heistand, representing the! Miss Inez Clements of East Buck consumers, and Charles E. Connor, num street who has been ill with ar ir representing the Trades Assembly,|tttack of the mumps for the pas Harry McCracken, secretary, were as week or ten days, is able to be out follows: again. ee we Customer Should Pay. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Heumier ot Low Price High Price $ High Price Tusk are the parents of a nine-pounc daughter born yesterd t the Cas per Private hospital. er Miss Ferris, superintendent of thx Casper Private hospital, is spending a few ¢ visiting at the James Grieve ranch. Mrs. RK. R. Dunlap and daughter Miss Dorothy Dunlap, of South Maple street, will leave tomorrow for Den ver to join the former’s brother and ter. They will leave later for Long Beach, Cal., to spend the winter months where the sunshine is prepet ual. Mrs. Dunlap has been one of the indefatigable workers at the Rec Cross ga’ rooms where she will be greatly missed. Miss Dunlap has beer 063 063 « 9 —8 for $1.00 10.17 11.00 attending the Natrona county high school. + nelnis | Mrs. C. L. Kerr left this morning -16 for her home in Crawford, Nebr. after visiting over the week end 173 the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Lenehan of South Beech street. 20 Pe ae Charles T. Lee was in from his 20 ranch near Sheridan to spend a few days in Casper attending to busines: 225 interests. * *# * 078 F, W. Gertridge of San Francisco is spending a few days in Casper, thc 15 guest of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Dunphy es of South Maple street. Mrs. Gert -45—2 Ibs. for 85 ridge was formerly a business partner 55 of Mr. Dunphy. He is now on his way -40 \East to visit his mother who lives 85 jin Nova Scotia. -85 se £e 1.50 Miss Mabel Millhollin, ticket agent 3.15 - | at the Northwestern station returned .80 yesterday from a two weeks visit with 1.40 relatives in Fremont, Omaha, and 2.80 Holdredge, ges ee 55 (ey se) 5 ne | HOTEL ARRIVALS. | ———EEEEEEEE.' At the Midwest S. Youson, Wheatland; L. War Disclosed in Chats with city; D. H. Fishburn, Grand Island J. M. Yocum, cottsblug; A. W. Mey. er, B. Thomason, Alliance; Thomas |H. Redington, B. H.,Shannon, J. TAYLOR ff Correspondent} (By | ver. such good care in the hospitals that At the Henning You can|_ ©. R. Rigdon, Cheyenne; C. Barr Chicago; J. S. Ada liance; Hel. en Beeson, Omaha; D. Hatch, Lin coln; J. H. Johnson, Sheridan; Mrs McElhaney and child, Deadwood; W A. Fleming, St. Louis; Fred Krell Chicago; J. G. Blood, Basin; D. R real or imaginary, or half-real of the human anatomy was set out before us as plainly as if charted, Dix, Kansas City; George Webster. while miracles were performed be- Denver; M. E. Gilbert, Douglas. —_——— fore our very eyes. One after an-! other they came—came so rapidly the surgeons took only time enough between to ‘scrub up.’ Thus lives were saved as if by magic: men were virtually made over on the operating table. “ i “When we looked up at the end of will be a meeting of the stock the first day we found we had been| holders at the office of the Compan working for 19 hours. It was at|/#t 22-- North Center street on Oct this moment 3 in the morning. By | 8 the surgical department was again fully alive. All day long we worked at our posts. Then at midnight the order came, ‘Work straight thru till morning.’ Day and Night All One “Thus one day succeeded another, until we scarcely knew when it was NOTICE To the Stockholders of the Goth berg-Harris Sheep Company: meeting is for the purpose of dis solving and winding up the affair: of the corporation. Notice is here. have been fully paid and discharged Dated at Casper, Wyoming thi 25th day of September, 1918. MARTIN J. GOTHBERG S. J. Shoemaker and son, Denver;|== N. W. Ryan, Victor; Nelson Frank- | = = - linfi Miss Earnest, G. D. Key, Charl tt M. Gillespie, C. W. Sipler, Lyman | Bishop, George B. Ward, Mr. and|=3} Mrs. F. M. McPherson, Denver; R. F. Soun- | tag, Mineral Wells; Charles Hornnan, Den- Notice is hereby given that there | 10, 1918, at the hour of ten o’clock in the forenoon. The object of said| by giving that all of the indebtedness THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE | ; * This gas warning is displayed conspicuously near the battle front. It warns the soldiers not to venture into the battle area without their masks. It reads: “Do not go over there without your gas masks!” | “Jimmie” Cody, formerly with the| FREMONT HONEY PRODUCERS | Wheeler Insurance and Real Estate) GET BIG RETURNS ON CROP, company, whote to M. P. Wheeler | that he is about ready to start his! LANDER, Wyo., Sept. 30.—Ran-| leading honey producers | fall trip with some seventy pounds ney Bros, of sampies for foreign trade. Jimmie of Fremont county, have completed | s with the 31st Company, S. A-R. D.| gathering this year’s crop and are} Overseas Casuals, and is now at/now fitting up their bee colonies for Camp Merritt, J. the winter. clint ee ye eee the| Their total production this year ‘Clinton , form zs Ps Wheeler ranch, will leave Wednesday |“!!! be more than 150,000 pounds, for Mitchell, Neb, to work in a sugay|™ost of which has already been ship- * factory. ped. Honey is bringing a big price Ly ae | this year, averaging 20 cents a pound N Carolyn Maltby, a sister of! or better. Mrs. Charles E. Winter, left yester-| The Lander valley honey is ranked day for Washington, D. C., to accept, with the best in the world, being al- a position with the U. S. government most clear white and of an exception- in the Civil Service department. Miss | ally fine flavor. Maltby already has one sister “RELIANCE DIRECTORATE Washington who has been in the ser- vice for the past four months. Miss Maltby has spent considerable time | in Casper with her sister and has, many friends here who will wish her luck in her new undertaking. i Maltby expected to meet Miss Vera Manbeck in Omaha and go the rest of the way to Washington with her. ears The Reliance Oil company of Doug- las has elected O. T. Freeman and | John Pexton to the board, thus mak- John Mechlin, gon of Mr. and Mrs. ing seVen in the directorate instead of J. S. Mechlin, left.on Sataurday for | five, | Laramie to enter the University of| The well of the Reliance firm ts Wyoming. jdown to 1800 feet and progressing o jnicely. The pay sand found at about Position Wanted — Experienced|100 feet is not considered large stenographer; can furnish references. enough to warrant production so the Phone 368 W. 9-30-2* drill will be sent to the deeper sands. * * YOUR BEST advertising. men busy. t INCREASED BY BOARD. Beat the Boche by Buying Bonds. | GAS WARNING ERECTED BY THE FRENCH ‘EVELYN NESBIT, STAR IN DRAMA, AT IRIS TONIGHT Evelyn Nesbit would have won in- ternational fame as a motion picture star of the highest rank had her name been wholly unknown to the public previous to her portrayal of the lead- ing character in “Redemption,” at the Iris today and tonight. Her act- ing in Julius Steger’s nobly beautiful photo-dramatic production, which is filling the George M. Cohan’s theater to capacity twice daily, has come as| MONDAY, SEPT. 30, i915 the audiences that have seen her her new role on life’s great stir This young woman of ten thoy sorrows shows herself to be the pox sessor of unusual histrionic a} Charmingly natura] in her lighter moments, she is strong and sure ;, the emotional scenes. Her depi, ment of mother love is one of most exquisitely touching things ey, r witnessed on the stage or screen, ]; the poigant scene where she tells hur son, grown to man’s estate, of th. cruel circumstances, which, when <he was young and trusting, made her th. plaything of a cruel libertine, she 4 peals with irresistible and tear-eom.- a revelation to experts as well as to pelling effect. ANNOUNCEMENT TO BOOKKEEPERS AND PENMEN Beginning October 1 we shall conduct night classes in BUSINESS PENMANSHIP, ORNAMENTAL WRITING ENGROSSING and LETTERING of VARIOUS STYLES Excellence, Ease and Rapidity in writing attract favor Classes in charge of Mr. Julius Muller, Wheeler & Worthington’s Chief Draftsman. THE DATE—OCTOBER 1ST and bring returns. Please do not 7 to 9 p. m. Tuesday and Thursday. Casper Business College Second and Durbin LIBERTY BONDS TODAY qr delay enrolling $6 a Month. 31.0000000000000seooeoeeeeoooooooeoooe LRA O MATTER what you have to sell—-wheth- er suits, wall paper, millinery, hardware, shoes, paints, garden seed, silk dresses, safety razors, stocks, cigars, oil leases, gold teeth, fresh eggs, silk hose, houses, but- ter, lumber, jewelry, furniture, or service— Newspaper advertising is the best salesman you can hire. One man and the right kind of newspaper space will sell more for you than four to five clerks or salesmen without The more salesmen on your payroll the more ad- vertising space you ought to employ to keep the clerks and sales- If you believe in advertising as a salesman—and surely you do when you see it making others about you rich— the only way to make your advertising pay is to keep it work- tor many times over, “ordinarily day, when night. In fact, I cannot Presiden there’s Joe and Mill and me in the now recall the days and distinguish Sept. 27, 29, 30. company. Here I’ve been away a one from the rest. As I look back —" long time and only Joe and Mill’s over them they all run together—one| slowly wend their way back toward out there, and they need me.”’ But Rufus didn’t get away. was not well enough. Finally a morning came when the doctor said, “Well, boys, feel like going back to the line again?” Some of them had aches and pains unregistered before, but for Rufus, he said, ‘‘Doctor, I’m a perfect man. | I reckon I can be ready in about seven seconds to go back to Joe an’, expect you to imagine. Unless you Mill and the Company.” ‘were actually in the work it would be The doctor told Rufus he could re-|next to impossible. There was, in turn. a word, the feeling of gratification Rufus could hardly control him-| for work—hard wor—well done. self. “Doctor, this is the happiest] ‘Now, too, we are day by day see- moment of my life,” he said. ‘“We’ll| ing the effects of our work. I see never forget it, Joe and Mill an’ me|it perhaps more than some of the ‘ the company.” others, for I am all the day long in “It truly seemed as if each part|the midst of the patients as they| long continuous day, with no break at all for night. At last, tho, we were rewarded. Order came out of chaos, as order must, and we had the satisfaction of hearing the chief sur- geon say, ‘Well, boys, we may rest a little now. Every urgent case has been attended.’ “What satisfaction that announce- ment really did bring I can hardly He | health. What a revelation they are! What a demonstration of that elec. ng spirit of America! — There is no complaint. The ones |=} who suffer most grumble least. | == Sometimes it is unbelievable. To |= them the Germans are no supermen. They have been near enough to see. At the same time there is no brag- gadocio. Instead, we find simply a} philosophical acceptance of realities | and a determination to win the war at any cost. If ever anyone enter-| tained a lurking apprehension that} there might be a remote possibility of | disaster for the Allied cause, one | moment with those young chargers who went thru the fire and came} back to us, his folly.” would convince im 0} | y Y HHHHTUAMNUNANMTUMMUMNNIAAIMUNAAARR RR _____H_——_——_——_———_ A ae nin innit ing as regularly as your other salesmen. You would fire a clerk | who worked only one or two days a week. Give advertising | a fair chance and you will get results. i Bs | ’ j If you are in doubt as to the right way to advertise your business ask an expert to help you. The undersigned will be glad to talk it over with you anytime. Very sincerely, The Daily Tribune Advertising Manager ANA