THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY. MARCH 10, 1917.
9
Potatoes Stop Soaring;
Other Vegetables Are High
The price of strawberries has gone
up in the last week 20 per cent from
00 to 75 cents a box.
That won't worry most of ui,
though, will it? Let 'em go up. The
big news of the week in the vegetable
market is that potatoes have not gone
up. They still hold at 70 or 75 cents
a peck in most of the downtown
stores. Moreover, the market men
who are in a position to know just
what the situation is on the spud,
declare that there is no prospect that
the price wilt advance any more. So
far as the supply of potatoes is con
cerned, they will not go up. Of course,
if the speculators who bought them
up decide that they can squeeze a
little more out of the vegetable men
and the consumers, they may ad
vance the prices still more, but not
much.
Fresh beets, turnips and carrots are
on the Omaha market from the gar
dens of the south and good-sized
bunches may be had for the small sum
of one jitney.
Cucumbers are here, but they are
rare and sell at about 20 to 25 cents
each not per dozen, but each.
Some very tine celery cabbage
on the market also, at 15 cents
pound. Celery is plentiful at 5 and 10
cents a stalk, .tomatoes command ii
cents a pound.
Lettuce and head lettuce of very
fine quality are obtainable at all the
vegetable markets at spring oncea.
Cauliflower is also extremely fine at
12 to 15 cents a pound. Rhubarb, the
summer vegetable that s said to be
very healthtul, is also on the market,
but it is the hothouse kind and not
very plentiful yet.
Saturday is "California orange day"
and the golden citrus fruit is present
in great abundance and luciness on
the Omaha market, selling at good
old prices. I he orange is also a can
didate for honors as a fruit that keeps
the doctor away. The fine western
apples are still plentiful at the old
prices.
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SITUATION GRAVE
Controller Says Feople Eat Too
Much and There is Danger
of Famine.
SPEECH CAUSES SENSATION
London, March 9. The Prussian
food controller. Dr. Georg Michaelis,
made in the Prussian Diet yesterday
what the Koelnisclte Zeitung calls a
serious speech on the food situation,
says a Reutcr dispatch from Amster
dam. Dr. Michelis declared the dis
tress was such that a more severe
state of things, especially in the large
industrial centers, could hardly be im
agined. He indicated the possibility
that all surplus stocks of grain would
be exported and said that very rad
ical measures were needed to enable
the people to hold out until next
year.
"We have in the third year of the
war," the food controller is quoted as
saying, "discovered that among all
sections of the people the general
feeling evinced ia not one of that en
durance for which we had hoped.
This is human nature, but it is highly
deplorable and may have most seri
ous results.
Abuie of Bread Tickets.
"We have not perceived in the
towns that stern supervision which
is absolutely necessary in the distri
bution of foodstuffs. There has been
widespread abuse of bread tickets, en
tailing grave consequences as regards
our stocks. Bread tickets have been
ilegally. used on such a shocking
scale that our entire reserves were
exhausted. So, when potatoes failed
and bread was ordered as a substi
tute, there was none available. Flour
has been similarly reduced, owing to
similar irregularities in the mills."
Dr. Michaelis concluded by urging
the utmost severity to remedy the
shortcomings, while there was- yet
time. Some of the mills would have
to be closed and the municipalities
deprived of their autonomous pow
ers. Rationing and requisitioning
must be strictly applied with respect
to eggs, milk, butter, fruit and vege
tables. He added:
Speech Causes Sensation.
"We are confronted with the
thought of what would happen if this
measure also should fail and what
grim starvation there would be if sud
denly during the closing months of
the economic year we should .find
there was insufficiency and we could
not hold out. The ensuing misery
would be indescribable.
The speech caused a sensation and
the socialist, Hufer, who followed, ac
cording to the Kheinisch Westtal
ische Zeitung, declared that the junk
ers were to blame if a famine super
vened. An attempt was made, he
said, to shift the blame on England,
"The selfishness of the agrarians,"
he said, "is the cause of the high
prices. The war would long since
have been ended if everybody had to
suiter hunger equally.
Milk Producers'
Combine Announces
Advance in Price
New York, March 9. The food
situation today showed two new
factors, both tending to raise prices.
The Dairymen's league, which vir
tually controls the sources of supply
for this city and vicinity within a
radius of several hundred miles, an
nounced a schedule for the six months
beginning April 1, which averages VA
cents a quart more than the corre
sponding months of last year. Further
freight congestion was threatened by
a strike of freight handlers of the
New York Central.
Officers of the big distributing com
panies here said they expected to
meet within a few days to discuss
the latest move of the milk producers.
There is talk of resisting the increase
on the ,ground that the Dairymen's
league is an illegal combination under
the anti-trust laws. When the dairy
men raised prices six months ago the
big city dealers fought the hague and
for several days the community ap
peared to ot threatened wun a miiK
amine.
Five hundred of the freight hand
lers went ou Inst ni'ht and several
hundred mo- e announced their in
tention of :oining the strike today.
The railrosil comparies are arrang
ing to put strikebreakers to work un
der police protection,.
Egg Storage Warehouses
Are Now Nearly Empty
'Washington, March 9. Cold stor
age holdings ot eegs in the United
States on March 1 showed a decrease
of 97.2 per out, compared with Feb
ruary 1 hoi lings, lilt Department
of Asrriculture's monthly report today
shows 193,716 dozen in storage Com
pared with a year ago holdings show
a decrease of about 86.3 per cent.
American cheese in cold storage
March 1 was 12,009,756 pounds, a de
crease of 35.3 ner cent during Feb
ruary and about 29.3 per cent less
than a year ago.
CHOICE FOREQUARTER LAMBS, LB 1378c
PIG PORK LOINS, LB .1878c
FRESH DRESSED CHICKENS, LB. 16c
Stew Porterhouse Steek, lb.
Sten Shoulder Steak, lb...
Steer Pot Roast, lb
Young Veal Roast, lb
Young Veal Chops, lb
Mutton Chops, lb
Pig Pork Roast, lb
Pig Fork Butts, lb
Span Bibs, lb
.18V,e
.t'te
.14',c
.U'lC
.14V,e
.14V,c
.18V.C
.19c
.14,c
Extra Lean Regular Hams. lb.,..21V,e
No. 1 Skinned Hams, lb 23e
Sugar Cured Bacon, lb 17s,e
SPECIALS
From 8 lo p. m. Perk Chops, lb., 18c
From S to 10 p. m. Country Sausage,
par lb., at. 8c
Deliveries made to all parts of the city.
Mail Orders Filled at These Prices.
EMPRESS maft.et.
113 South 16th Street,
Phone, Doug. 2307.
PIG PORK LOINS, LB 18c
FRESH DRESSED CHICKENS, LB. .16c
Steer Pot Roast, lb 13V,e
Young Veal Roast, lb ll'iC
Young Veal Chops, lb..... 14,c
Steer Shoulder Steak, lb lSVjc
Steer Porterhouse 8teak, lb 18Vic
Pig Pork Roast, lb lS'ic
Pig Bork Butts, lb. 10'4c
Mutton Chops, lb I UVsc
Mutton Boast, lb .....'ic
PUBLIC MAR LET
Extra Lean Regular Hams. lb....21'ic
No. 1 Skinned Hams, lb 23,c
Sugar Cured Bacon, lb I7c
SPECIALS
From. to B p.. mCoantry Sausage,
per lb., at..".. 8c
From 9 to ID p. m. Lamb Chops, lb 8c
Deliveriea made to all parta of the city.
Mill Order Filled at These Pricea.
Phono, Douglas 2793
1610 HARNEY STrlEET
Follow the Crowd to the
Washington Market
Where Quality is High and Prices Are Low
MEATS
Fresh Beet Tenderloin, per lb 36c
Fresh Pork Tenderloin, per lb....37'tc
Choice Steer Sirloin - or Porterhouse
Steak, per lb 25c
Oholee Steer Round Steak, lb. .'. 20c
Choice Steer Shoulder Roast, per lb.,
at 15e and 17Vtc
Extra Fancy Hindquarters of Lamb, per
Its at , lsy.c
Extra Fancy Forequartero of Lamb, per
lb., at H'ic
Young Mutton Chops, loin or rib, lb,, ISc
Compound Lard, per lb .-i.lSc
GROCERIES
Washington's Best Flour, sack $2.4S
Washburn Crosby's Gold Medal Flour,
par sack, at $2.45
Wax Beans, per can 10c
Extra Fancy Sifted Peas, 3 eans....25e
Large cans Kemo Tomatoes, S cans. 50c
Extra Fancy Pork and Beans, specisl,
8 cans for 35c
Snlder's Tomato Soup, large size,
2 cans for 25c
All Brsnds Creamery Butter, lb. ...40c
All Brands Small Milk, special Sc
Sugar. 13 lbs., for 81.00
Cranberries, per quart 8c
Extra Fancy Country Butter, lb.... 38c
Strictly Fresh Country Eggs, dosen. .30c
DELIVERY SCHEDULE
All orders south to Martha and west to 46th St. leave every day at 9 : a. m.
All orders north to Ames Ave., and west to 41th St. leave every day at 2 p. m.
. Writ for our monthly price list. Mail orders promptly attended to.
THE WASHINGTON MARKET
The most sanitary ana up-to-date grocery and meat market In tht middle west
rtraw Tyler 470 connects alt departments. 1407 Douglas St, Omaha, Nek.
Saturday is Orange Day
All Over the Country
There are more California oranges
in Omaha today than ever before in
history. Immense shipments by fast
freight have been coming in for the
last week to supply the big demand
by local merchants in preparation for
National Orang oay, which this year
falls on Saturday. Fruit dealers say
that there will be more oranges
bought and eaten during the next few
days than during any imilar period
preceding the orange days of past
years.
Reports from California indicate
that the same condition is true!
throughout the country. This great
annual fruit festival nationally Inau
gurated a few years ago has grown to
such proportions that in the Califor
nia grove professional orange pick
ing gangs have been kept tremen
dously busy for the last week taking
the fruit from the trees fast enough
to supply all markets. Trainload
after trainload has left the Golden
State already, and they are still com
ing. Last year at Orange day Mayor
Thompson of Chicago issued a proc
lamation designating the day as one
on which to eat oranges freely and be
thankful for the low price and deli
cious quality of this healthful fruit.
Night Schools Are to
Be Closed Next Thursday
The public evening schools will be
sed for the season on text Thurs
day eveuir.g. The membership fol
lows: Central High and Commercial
High, 591; South High, Comcn
' s. 110; Kellom, 108
WJ WED THU FR 1
Special Prices on Sunkist
Order now from your dealer or from one of the itores
named below. Buy them by the box. Uniformly good
oranges such as Sunkist will keep.
Special shipments, direct from California, of luscious,
Sunkist Oranges the uniformly good oranges are now
ready for the special Orange Day sales
in scores of local stores. Sunkist are
juicy, practically seedless, tender and
they are good or you.
Uniformly Good Oranges
unkist ;
California Fruit Growers Exchange
Ce. Operative Noa.ProSt OrtuuulMa si MM Cram
LoeAnfalea, California
Desserts and Salads
tasta and look better if Sunkist
Oranges are included.
SOMMER BROS.
GROCERIES AND MEATS
28th and Farnam Sts.,
Phone Harney 188-
ED STANLEY
GROCERIES
4615 Dodge St.,
Walnut 2107.
STAHMER BROS.
GROCERIES AND MEATS
3701 South 20th St.
Douglas 3844.
STEIN BROS. CO.
GROCERIES AND MEATS
4002 Hamilton St.,
Walnut 870.
mrs. w:h. STENNER
GROCERIES
2819 South 31st St.,
Harney 277.
GEORGE STRIBLING
GROCERIES AND MEATS
7th and Pierce Sts.,
Pouch, 201)9. .
THORIN & SNYGG
GROCERIES AND MEATS
1 3880 Hamilton St.,
Walnut 384.
ELMER A. JOHNSON
GROCERIES AND MEATS
Park Avmua And Laavanworth St,
Harney 116.
TUCHMAN BROS
THREE STORES
LOUIS JANKOWSKF
GROCERIES AND MEATS
1420 Military Ave.,
Walnut 274.
HEATH BROS.
GROCERIES AND MEATS
300 1 North 24th St.,
Webater 880.
HAWKINS & LATHAM
GROCERIES
3131 Burl St.,
Harney 1400.
A. HARMS
GROCERIES AND MEATS
4Sth and Military Ave.,
Walnut 700.
HANNEGAN & CO.
GROCERIES AND MEATS
3B52 Leavenworth St.,
Harney 78.
LUKE KELLY
GROCERIES AND MEATS
2902 Franklin St.,
.Webeter 881.
J. E. KIRK
GROCERIES AND MEATS
2702 Fort St.,
Colfax 988.
E. KARSCH&CO.
GROCERIES AND MEATS
1820 Vinton St.,
Douflaa 7701.
HARRY HOLLANDER"
GROCERIES AND SMOKED MEATS
1821 Leavenworth St.,
Douglas 8330.
CHAS. HINZ
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS
624 South 13th St.,
Douglas 4883.
HIBBELER & CO.
GROCERIES
2312 Vinton St.,
Douglas 360.
CHAS. F. HERMANEK
GROCERIES
1312 William St,
Douglaa 4383.
For Sunday's
Breakfast
Much of the pleasure of the Sunday morn
ing breakfast depends upon the quality of the
fruit. You can't go wrong on Sunkist Oranges.
Louis Sommer
Groceries and Meats
49th and Dodge Sts.
Phone Walnut 102.
Mutual Stores
Company
Dundee's New Quality and Service
Store.
Everything To Eat
50th and Dodge Sts.,
Phon. Walnut 176.
Wo feature only quality in our
complete line of groceries, meats,
fruits and vegetables.
W.J.ADDY
3506 Sherman Ave.
Phone Webster 2437.
ROSENBLUM BROS.
GROCERIES AND MEATS
' 103-5 North 40th St.,
" Telephone Harney 194.
J. ROSEN
GROCERIES AND MEATS
2789 Davenport St,
Harney 318.
AFTER SCHOOL-
whn children ask for lunch hava Sunkist
Oraugit for thtm.
Why not a bo far tht family 7
JOHN WISLER ,
GROCERIES AND MEATS
4879 W. Leavenworth St.,
Phone Walnut 3343.
H. RACHMAN
GROCERIES OF QUALITY
2802 Sherman Ave.,
Webster 167S.
W.RUDLOFF
Grocer
2629 Sherman Aye.,
Webster 1144.
"""JOS. J. SCHNEIDER-
GROCERIES
1342 South 13th St.,
Douflss 1824
A. SHAW
GROCERIES AND MEATS
2131 Military Avenue
Welnut I2.
Schaben's Grocery
4238 Lake St.,
Welnut 3S79.
Chas. F. Shaw Grocery Co.
1331 Park Ave.,
Harney 1746.
PHONE HARNEY 284
For good things to eat
Sunkist Oranges, Fruits and
Vegetables in Season.
Wilkie & Mitchell
"Good Things to Eat"
40th and Farnam Sts.
A. C. SCHULTZ j
GROCERIES
4344 Leavenworth St,
Walnut 2888.
REED BROS.,
GROCERIES
2223 Leavenworth St,
Tyler S3. '-
Ben Reinschreiber & Son
GROCERIES
2SIS Leavenworth Si, ,
Harney 590.
GEO. ROFFMAN ,
GROCERIES AND MEATS .
2824 North 30th St,
Webster 171.
J. ROSENBLAT ti
GROCERIES .-.4
SI North 13th St.,
Douglaa 2308. '
D. J. JOURD5N
GROCERIES AND MEATS
1701 Vinton St,
Douglas 287S and 2878.
JEPSEN
BROS.
Groceries
and
Meats
A FULL
LINE OF
SUNKIST
ORANGES
2502 Cuming St.
Douglas 1840
"Oranges for Health"
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