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Show "JITNEY" IS STILL PRICE OF "LOAF" Salt Lake, Jan. 29, "Half a loaf is better than no bread," Is apparently the motto of Salt Lake's bakers Yesterday Yes-terday passed with no indication that the bread manufacturers of this city would follow the lead of Ogden in eliminating the 5-cent loaf Meanwhile Mean-while the shrinking modesty of the "Jitney" loaf is not arousing a proportionate pro-portionate approval among housewives. house-wives. Bakers who have been asked about the diminutive appearance of the loaf-let loaf-let admit that they are putting less and less dought into it, though they receive the same amount of "dough" for it. At a meeting of the Utah-Idaho mill ers and grain dealers, held here yesterday, yes-terday, no action was taken toward a change in the price of flour. The continued upward tendency of wheat in the eastern market made a reduction reduc-tion out of the question, and there Is a general tendency among the members mem-bers of the association to resist a further fur-ther advance in the price of flour. |