Coronado Eagle and Journal, Volume 5, Number 47, 7 April 1917 — WILL DISCONTINUE WAGON SERVICE [ARTICLE]

WILL DISCONTINUE WAGON SERVICE

After April 15 the Coronado Home Bakery will discontinue the auto that has been used for some months past in selling bakery goods to patrons at their homes. In a chat with the reporter regarding the change, Chas. Anderson, proprietor of the Coronado Bakery, explained the reason. “Increased cost of materials and everything connected with the business has forced the retrenchment,” he said. “As a sample, flour hp,s climbed from $5.25 a barrel to $10.70, shortening from 7c a pound to 15c, pie fruit from 25c . a can to 50c, sugar from 5c to Bc, grease from $26 per barrel to $56. All told, the Increased cost of making goods has totaled from $l5O to $2OO per month, and I have been unable and unwilling to raise the price of my goods to customers to offset the advance. It is an expensive proposition to keep an auto and a driver to sell bakery goods direct to the customer. The license paid by outside bakery wagons is so little that they can afford to come here and have a route, while if I attempted to go to San Diego I would have to pay $25 per month license. For the reasons given, I will discontinue the wagon service, but will continue to take care of my customers at the store, and when desired will deliver orders.” "If you want mocking birds to nest about your home, feed them a little raw meat occasionally with a dash of cayenne pepper,” advises Frank X. Holzner, local naturalist. Ih this way, he says, he has so tamed two mocking birds that they fly Into his kitchen and eat the meat from a plate on the table.” “It took a little time,” he continued, “but now when they see me they, come flying to the kitchen door for their favorite morsels. “Another good thing to make them feel at home is a little earthen jar with about two inches of water for them to bathe in. I set a jar like that out In the yard first, and gradually moved it within the screen porch, and now the two birds come there every morning for a wash.”— Roundabouts.