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Show PRICE OF BUTTER , WILL HIGHER Chicago, Aug:. 2. Consumers who are 'looking for a drop In the prices of home of the necessities of life will 1 Pot get any drop In letter, according ' to John Newman, president of the E-i-I gin board of trade. After the board, hnd increased the price a c?nt a pound yesterday, Mr. Newman said it was his opinion that even higher i prices were coming before winter. I "Butter will be at prices to exceed anything In the last few years before winter Is well started," srlld Mr. New-i New-i man. "The present dry weather is I the cause of this prospeet. The talk j of C0-cent butler is ridiculous, how j ever.". The price was advanced from 27 to 2S cents by the Elgin board. Many of the members reported that pas tures in their regions were dry and worthless and that farmers had already al-ready begun to give their cows feed that shorld be saved for winter. |