Arizona State Miner, 1919-11-14

''Wickenburg Should Have A Fair Price Board." Geo. H. Smalley the newly ap appointed - pointed appointed Fair Price Commissioner, with headquarters at Tucson, act acting - ing acting for the Department of Justice at Washington, in writing to the Editor of the Miner last week, has intimated that the govern government - ment government is earnestly seeking to find a remedy for profiteering and the prevailing high prices. In line with the suggestion of Commis Commissioner - sioner Commissioner Smalley, it would be quite appropriate for the Mayor and Common Council of Wickenburg to announce a meeting of the cit citizens - izens citizens and residents of this local locality - ity locality to discuss this matter and at once form a Wickenburg Fair Price Board. Commissioner Smalley in this letter clearly puts it up to each community to take the necessary action to assist him in carrying out the measures required to fix reasonable prices in our own town. Butter sold in San Fran Francisco - cisco Francisco last week at $1 a pound, but complaints were so numerous to the Food Commissioner that it fell in 24 hours to 80 cents. It is generally conceded the creamer creameries - ies creameries who are buying up the butter fat obtained from dairymen, are the cause of the recent rise in butter which is put in storage and hoarded until the "shortage campaign" scares the public into buying at most any price. But read Mr. Smalley's letter: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, WASH WASHINGTON, - INGTON, WASHINGTON, D. C. Tucson, Arizona, Nov. 8. H. B. Watson, Arizona State Miner: Dear Sir. - The maxi maximum - mum maximum margins of profit for nec necessaries - essaries necessaries of life as established by the Food Administration are now taken as a guide in reviewing in investigations - vestigations investigations made by Fair Price boards. These boards are to be formed in all places and Wicken Wickenburg - burg Wickenburg should have one. Some dif difficulty - ficulty difficulty has been found in securing men to serve. The board is com composed - posed composed generally of one whole wholesaler, - saler, wholesaler, one retailer, a representa representative - tive representative of labor unions, two or three men, or women representing households. This board deter determines - mines determines fair prices and sends the list to me for review, and in turn it is sent to Washington. Any prices found to be excessive should first be adjusted by the board. Please let me know if such a board can be formed in Wicken Wickenburg, - burg, Wickenburg, and I shall be glad to take the matter up and see what can be done, Yours very truly, Geo. H. Smalley, Fair Price Commissioner. Guide Against Diseases. We have received copies of the health bulletin issued by Arizona State Board of Health, a copy of which should be in possession of every family in the state. If our space permitted, we should like to reprint it whole. But readers can acquire a copy by writing to the Secretary, George E. Good Goodrich - rich Goodrich at the State Capitol build- I ing at Phoenix.

Influenza is still with us. The state board of health reports 282 cases of pneumonia for Ist half of last year and 1192 for the last half; broncho-pneumonia, during first half 185 eases and 322 for the last half; in 1919 there were 282 cases reported during the Ist half, which shows that there was a noticeable decline, but it also indicates that the infection is still active and likely to spread in this season of the year unless precautionary measures are ta taken - ken taken by public health officials. The coal strike is off and thus j is another excuse for boosting, prices on fuel spoiled. Cities Solving Food Prices. The city of Houston, Texas, is showing its local merchants some lessons in lowering prices, by opening stores and market stalls thruout the city. Reports on 10 weeks operation shows that it is possible to buy and sell in compe competition - tition competition with local merchants at both a direct and indirect saving to the consumers. This is said to be accomplished by avoiding wholesale supply houses of com competing - peting competing merchants, buying and selling for cash. The experiment has opened the eyes of the mer merchants - chants merchants who see fortunes slipping away and are stabilizing prices to meet the new conditions. Allentown, Penn., also has es established - tablished established a city farm, producing garden truck, cattle and 1000 hogs fed on city garbage. An old beer brewery has been converted into a storage warehouse for perish perishables - ables perishables bought from farmers so as to be independent of shipped in products. Many cities are work working - ing working out local food problems under municipally owned stores and shops that are eagerly sought by the heads of families. Flies Carry Filth and Spread Diseases. Flies, walking and feeding in excreta fly away and walk over food or on the lips of infants, or they fall into milk or water or in food receptacles, leaving a trail of filth. Contagious sputa is thus carried by flies from infect infected - ed infected patients to healthy persons. With influx of tuburcular winter guests and tenants, houses that are vacated by them should be thoroughly fumigated before re rerented. - rented. rerented. There are very few of the deaths in this city that occur among our resident population. Nearly all fatalities here are the result of accidents, or among the "birds of passage" who come to this land of tropical winters too late for recovery, but whose lives are prolonged by an-all-year-cli an-all-year-climate - mate an-all-year-climate that might have cured had they come earlier.

Not an empty house in town. ! The Brayton Company are get getting - ting getting in some of their holiday goods. i When preparing for that Sun Sun| - | Sun| day dinner visit the Blue Ribbon | bakery the night before. The U. S. Dept of Agriculture says there are 57 different vari varities - ties varities of fermented milk, kickless but full of punch. Take a look at Messenger Mar Market's - ket's Market's food prices and if you want to get something else, look up the Wickenburg Grocery's adv. Theres a mighty good opening in town for someone to build a few modern cottages for winter tenants, or for sale purposes. Folks from the frozen East are writing the State Miner nearly every mail for information about our climate and advantages for housing and taking care of win winter - ter winter guests and visitors. What have you to offer? E. H. Turner, contractor and builder, is planning the erection of a number of cottages of mod modern - ern modern build and design in Wicken Wickenburg. - burg. Wickenburg. He has been engaged for a few weeks at Morristown, but will return in a few days to look up matters here in the building line. The Knights and Ladies of Se Security, - curity, Security, a powerful fraternal and beneficial organization, with a membership of 200,000 and as assets - sets assets of over $3,000,000 are pro providing - viding providing homes for the widows and orphans of their deceased mem members. - bers. members. Wickenburg could offer a great asylum for such an institu institution. - tion. institution. Your Sunday dinner is waiting for you at the Home Restaurant. G. B. Upton, of the Upton Oil company returned home from a trip of inspection to the various branch offices of his company in this part of the state on Wednes Wednesday. - day. Wednesday. The Aerial Postals department is wisely considering this place " as a government station for its 1 trans-continental mail service. If 1 once established, it will prove a clinching argument for ultimate selection of this route as most practical for the state highway as the southern border route will always be menaced with more or 1 less danger from white bandits, masquerading as Mexicans after - the style of the early day rustlers ; who did all the robbing and mur murdering - dering murdering that was laid onto Mexi Mexif - f Mexif | cans and Indians. ! ' | Gov. Campbell has pardoned a female bootlegger and thereby j hangs a tale. When you have a mine, or ma ma-1 - -1 ma-1 s chinery for sale notify the State ' Miner, Wickenburg. We have | inquiries nearly every week.

John Wisdom and family are moving into town for the winter so as to get the advantage of our local school facilities. Down at the ranch the seeding of grain j and other winter planting is go going - ing going vigorously on. There is considerable research j going no for establishment of a i local cement factory, details of which are not yet quite ripe, but the outlook is said to be growing more favorable each day. Mrs. H. E. Grant, wife of our local druggist, was suddenly ta taken - ken taken ill last week and had to be removed to the Prescott hospital where she is reported as gradu gradually - ally gradually recovering. Dr. Campbell administered temporarily and accompanied his patient to the hospital. The State Miner gives the latest available news of adjacent mines. Operators are invited to send in reports that may reach those who are spending their money in developing the resour resources - ces resources of this section. The wave of mining interest hereabouts pre predicts - dicts predicts a banner production in the near future. Do you want to learn how to make a hen lay 238 eggs a year? No josh! Climate here is ideal, and since climate is said to en encourage - courage encourage laying hens, Wickenburg folks ought to go into the egg business. Write to Francis R. Kenney, poultry husbandman, University, Tucson, Arizona. If you will invest in a good silver-copper-gold property, showing promise of raising an another - other another crop of millionaires, write to S. F. P. this office. W. H. Marsh, formerly in the druggist business in this city, was a visitor here the past week with old time acquaintances and was the guest of O. R. Jaycox and family for several days. Wickenburg's altitude and sun sunny, - ny, sunny, frostless winters ought to be improved by the building of a sanitarium. Several patented silver-copper claims near Wickenburg for sale or lease; good showing of ore veins and walls. Address S. L. this office. When you want printing done, remember the State Miner can save you money on it. We can print business cards at $2.50 to $5 per thousand if you're not in too big of a hurry; letterheads and noteheads, on bond paper at $4 per thousand up: circulars of all sizes from $2 up; all kinds of printing for mines such as shift shiftboss - boss shiftboss reports, requisitions for sup supplies, - plies, supplies, receipts, tramming and powder reports, all blanks that I are popular with big companies in every capacity. We print gov government - ernment government stamped envelopes at * $1.25 per thousand.

The local Chamber of Com Commerce - merce Commerce has taken up matters with the county supervisors that has brought good results on road matters and $4,000 is to be used this year in repairing the route between Wickenburg and Hot Springs. There are assurances' also that next year there will be ample road funds for building an all Maricopa county road that is calculated to influence the state highway officials to accept the Phoenix-Wickenburg route as an official state highway to Prescott and Grand Canyon as well as to all California points. This is by all odds already the popular auto route to and from California and many cars go this way to Utah, Nevada and Colorado. Before state and federal highway com commissioners - missioners commissioners find funds available to build the Buckeye route, the Wickenburg route will be estab established. - lished. established. To this end our Cham Chamber - ber Chamber of Commerce might score another point by taking some action to put up signposts on all roads leading this way. Wickenburg May Have Aero Aeroplane - plane Aeroplane Mail Service. The Aerial Dept. U. S. Mails wired our Mayor of Wickenburg for suitable aeroplane landing station at Wickenburg on Mon Monday - day Monday and together with co-opera co-operation - tion co-operation of our citizens, property owners and President of Wick Wickenburg - enburg Wickenburg Chamber of Commerce, he was able to reply on the day following, giving all the guaran guarantees - tees guarantees required by the department. Philipe Garcia, who has a large tract of level land inside the city limits and directly alongside of the main highway close to rail and auto arteries of travel, it is stated has offered to donate all the land necessary for the landing place and airdomes that may be required. Besides this, it is pointed out that the Wicken Wickenburg - burg Wickenburg Rifle Range offers untold advantages for such a station which is conveniently higher and perhaps more appropriate for oil and supplies. Write What Inducements We Have Here. Wanted - Am looking for an all-year-round climate, with no extremes of heat or cold; would like a small place where there is alfalfa for a cow and chickens; a space of ground for family gar garden - den garden and orchard. Yours truly, Herman Nelson, 1316, North Ist Street, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Write this man; it costs you nothing; if you can't write, get some of the school children to help you; but do it NOW.