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Show Spuds Quoted By Jeweler l VAAAA "WVS"W amvwv-, VVS-N SVS Tuber Wears Regal Air Few Being Sold In City "How much for spuds today," a Standard-Examiner representative aBked as he stepped in a local grocery gro-cery store. "You'll havo to drop in a jewelry store to get the latest quotation," the grocer replied. King Spud of Ireland has not on'.y como into his own but has exhibited domineering and tyrannical qualities 1 chaser are lined with glittering yellow yel-low metal. "Spuds aro not worth more than $C.50 a sack wholesale" a local grocer gro-cer this morning stated: "Nevertheless, "Neverthe-less, if wc sell spuds, we have to buy them from commission houses for at least $7 per hundred." lie said that the majority of local grocers were keeping a few spuds that arc absolutely obnoxious. Where a dollar and a half would in the good old day3 insure tho presence of at least a bushel of tubers, nnd in days more remote', a full 100 pound sack, It hardly would buy peelings from potatoes po-tatoes at present. 1 Local grocers havo ceased to carry,1 potatoes In quantities, it is stated, the! prime reason being that this article) of food cannot be purchased .n quavj titles unloos the pockets of the , for customers for tho purpose of 1 mnking ycaat. j But reverting to King Spud, His arrogance, as before stated, has bc-j come a burden to the common and uncommon people alike. Authorities report young tubers about to rl3e in f revolt and drive their aged forbears for-bears from his towering heights. The Invasion la scheduled to begin Immediately Im-mediately after warm weather sets In in earnest. |