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Show GROCER HELD INNOCENT. CHICAGO, Jan. 13. Tho grocer ia jH not to blamo for the high cost of food, according to Frank D. Connolly, sec-retary sec-retary of the Retail Grocers' associa-tion associa-tion of San Francisco. Mr. Connolly came hero to present the National As- jH sociatlon of Retail Grocers of the United States a plan for forcing down IH tho price of milk to the consumer. He explained that when milk reached 16 IH cents a quart in his city tho grocers contracted with a producers' associa tion to tnko all the lattcr's milk, in-stalled in-stalled a i'cnsh and carry" plan and tho price is now 13 cents. He proposes thai tho national association use slml lar methods to distribute other prod ucts from the producer to the home, the plan to be extended to the entire country. |