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Show Flour to Advance; 1 May Go to .$7 Sack J Local flour prices remain practically a tho same, with predictions made by M jobbers that a twenty-five cent In- 5 crease will take placo in tho near a future. 1 1 Flour is selling for $G.G0 as the av- erago price per hundredweight, with X deviations above and below... this av- erago In some few instancesr j Reports that flour would advance a to $10 per sack in the near future was I said to be erroneous by several local X grocers, but they reported a likely jjj rise to $7. I Reports from Minneapolis indicate x that a now record for high prices In 1 2 flour had been reached when flour 1 advanced 50 cents per barrel. The price of flour has raised $2 within a A month, it Is slated. I Local grocers, speaking generally of tho tendency of pricbs to rise, said jjj that general hoarding of commodities I was responsible for this condition. " "There h? a family in this town that jjj has laid in a supply of sugar and has at least 1G sacks stored away. The a same family has 3fi sacks of flour j stored for future use." I "With all who can purchase goods a In this manner and lay in a supply A that will last them for years, prices I aro bound to rise and inflict a hard- " ship on those who attempt to purchase d what they need as the occasion arises," 1 it was said. ' |