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Show Sugar Tough Problem V V V n' i Cheap Sweet Goes Quick H" K' V 1 Some Stores Hold Tight 1 Will somebody please Inform the general public where the colored gen-tlman gen-tlman In the heap of timber is That Is with regard to SUGAR. Talk to the wholesale man and ho will toll you that of the 2575 sacks allotted to the local trade by the Amalgamated Am-algamated Sugar company, each Jobber Job-ber got about 100 sacks. Then figure that each jobber has about 1C0 customers, thl? is the minimum min-imum ' figure, somo jobbers havo many more than that, h,qw many sacks of sugar la your retail house going to get? Now It happenes that somo retail houses up to date have not had any I because on a division of the allotment, allot-ment, somebody had to go without. Then what dos the retailer do J with it when ho gets it? Some of J them sell it as did one or two stores 2 on Saturday at 1C cents a pound. 5 Others put it into their household s stock, thinking ttiat the proprietor A of a grocery 3torc has a right to 3 buy cheap sugar as much as you 3 and I, ! The restaurants seem to have come g off fairly jwoll. Some Tcstaairants I have received as many as four sacks of tho cheaper sugnr. With tho re- 3 suit that in sorno places whece the 5 cup of coffee costs you more because S of tho increased price of sugar it 3 still costs you more when susar is i cheap again. At oCJier restaurants i the price of (he cup of cofffce was jj never changed. So thoro you are. jj |