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4 VOLUME SEVENTEEN
The Vienna Ne ws
VIENNA. GA.. THURSDAY, March 28th 1918.
NUMBER 36
F(.0UR RULING BY
FOOD ADMINISTRATOR
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AMOUNT OF FLOUR THAT EACH
PERSON IS TO HAVE IS LIMIT-
PINEHURSi jo HAVE
PRTRIO^ MEETING
MAIN FEATURE
TO BE ADDRE
LIBERTY BOND
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A now ruling has been made con
cerning flour which you will find in
full below. Read carefully and fol
low directions strictly. You will no
tice that the amount of flour that each
person Is to have is limited to one and
one-half pounds per week. The retail
ers arc to sell only one eighth of a
barrel of flour to any town citizen at
one time and this is to be regarded
as a 30 day supply for a family of
five and not more than a fourth of a
barrel under any circumstances to
any country customer at one time and
thi3 to be regarded as a 30-day sup
ply. All others than producers must
purchase flour strictly on the fifty
fifty basis, now in effect.
- . March 26, 1918.
D. L. HENDERSON,
ood Administrator, Dooly County.
If we are to furnish the Allies
with the necessary proportion of
wheat to maintain their war bread
from now until the next harvest, and
this is a military necessity, we must
reduce our monthly consumption to
twenty one million bushels a month
as against our normal consumption
of about forty-two million busiliels,
or fifty per cent of our normal con
sumption. Reserving a margin for dis
tribution to the army and for special
cases, leaves for general consump
tion approximately one and one-half
pounds of wheat products weekly per
person. Many of our consumers are
dependent upon baker’s bread. Such
^rcad must be durable, and therefore
■squires a larger proportion of wheat
products than cereal breads baked in
the household. Our army end navy
require a full allowance. The well
to-do in our population can make
greater sacrifices in the consumption
of wheat products than can the poor.
In addition our poulation in the agri
cultural districts, where the other
cereals are abundant, are more skill
ed in the preparation, of breads from
these other cereals than the crowded
city and industrial populations. With
improved transportations we now
have available a surplus of potatoes.
We also have in the spring months a
surplus of milk and we have ample
corn and oat3 for humnn consump
tion. The drain on rye and barley as
substitutes has already greatly ex
hausted the supply of these grains to
effect the needed savings of wheat.
We are wholly dependent upon the
voluntary assistance of the American
people and we ask that the following
rules shall be observed:
. First, householders to use not to
exceed a total of one and one-half
pounds of wheat products per week
per person. This means not more
than one and three-fourths pounds of
victory bread containing the required
percentage of substitutes and about
cne-half pound of cooking flour, mac
aroni, crackers, pastry, wheat break
fast cereals, all combined; Second,
pgblic eating places and clubs to ob
serve two wheatless days per week,
Monday and Wednesday as at present.
In addition thereto not to servo in the
aggregate a total of moor breadstuffs
macaroni, crackers, pastry, pies, cake,
wheat breakfast cereals, containing a
total of more than two ounces of
wheat flour to any one guest at any
or.e meal. No wheat products to he
strved unless specially ordered. Pub
lic eating establishments not to buy
more than six pounds of wheat prod
ucts per month per guest, thus con
forming with limitations requested of
householders. Third, retailers to sell
■ noRpuore than one-eight of a barrel
of flour to any town customer any
one time, and not more than one-
, quarter barrel to any country custom.
■' , er at any one time and in no case to
" Mil wheat products without the sale
V E y an equal weight of other cereals.
Fourth, we ask the bakers and grocers
to reduce the volume of victory bread
scld by delivery of the three-quarter
pound loaf where one pound was sold'
before and correspondingly propor
tions in other weights. We also ask
bakers not to increase the amount of
their wheat flour purchases beyond
seventy per cent of the average month
ly amount purchased in the four
months prior to March first. Fifth,
manufacturers using wheat products
fS*non-food purposes should cease
sueh use entirely. Sixth, there is no
limit upon the use of other cereals,
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DOOLY’S NEXT
QUOTA FORTY-FIVE
EIGHT WHITES AND THIRTY-
SEVEN NEGROES CALLED, NE
GROES TO LEAVE ON MARCH
29, WHITES ON APRIL 2.
OCSL BOARD
ISSUES STATEMENT
FARMERS MAY HAVE THEIR LA-
BOR PLACED AT BOTTOM OF
CLASS ONE.
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A meeting of county i interest
will be held at the Pinehurst school
auditorium Friday night beginning at
8 o’clock. Plans for the occasion are
in the hands of Pinehurst’s patriotic
women and they are receiving the
bordial cooperation of the men of tho
town. The program will include a
number of interesting features, chief
of which is to be an address from a
prominent speaker to be supplied by
the District Liberty Loan Committee.
The ministers of Pinehurst are en
tering heartily into tho plans for the
ineeting and will have -a place on the
program.
Those who are sponsoring the meet
ing are very anxious that it be widely
attended and urge that the people
from every section of thq country
lend their presence, the occasion be
ing entirely patriotic and calculated
to benefit all who attend.
A series of meetings of this kind
are to be held in the various commu
nity centers throughout the county
before and during the Liberty Bond
campaign, those who are arranging
for them are contributing in a'most
helpful way to the success of the
campaign for there is no more effect
ive means of reaching the masses than
through these public meetings.
It is hoped that tho Pinehurst
meeting will be largely attended,
TIPPETTVILLE news
Somewhere In France,” a play to
be given at the Tippettvillo high
school Friday night, March 29th. As
this play will not take up the entire
evening another short play, a comedy
will be given.—“Engaging Janet.”
Patriotic songs and music are in-
serted between acts of plays.
This program is in charge of Miss
Singer, superintendent of music and
expression. Admission 10 and 25cts.
Come and take a trip to France with
us.
SPLENDID MEETING
HELD AT RICHWGOD
DR. MOBLEY SPOKE TO LARGE
AUDIENCE AT SCHOOL HOUSE
WEDNESDAY NIGHT. *
200 MEN ARE NEEDED FOR
NAVAL RESERVE FORCES
Savannah, Ga.—Two hundred ad
ditional men are needed in the U. S.
Naval Reserve forces at Savannah ac
cording to Lieut. Huger, section com
mander. The men especially desired
arc machinists, carpenters, gas engine
men, bricklayers, cooks, mess attend
ants, pipe fitters, boilermakers nnd
seamen. Anyone i nthe draft age but
not in the current quota of draft can
get permission from the local board
to join the naval reserves. This is
tonsidered one of the finest branches
of the service as it gives the men
plenty of chance for sea service which
Will, if they wish, lead to active serv
ice abroad. Many of the boys from
Savannah are now in the Naval Re
3erve and on duty.
flours and meals, corn, barley, buck
wheat, potato flour, etc. Mnny thous
and families throughout the land arc
now using no wheat products whatev
er, except a very small amount for
cooking purposcs,and are doing so bc-
perfcct health and satisfaction. There
is no reason why all of the American
people who are able to cook in their
own households cannot subsist per
fectly well with the use of less wheat
products than one and one-half lbs.
a week, and we specially ask the well-
to-do households in thee ountry to
follow this additional program in or
der that wc may provide the neces
sary marginal supplies for those parts
of the community less able to adapt
themselves to so large a proportion
of substitutes. In order that
shall be able to make the wheat ex
ports that are absolutely demanded
of us to maintain the civilian popula
tion and soldiers of the allies and our
own army we propose to supplement
thev oluntary cooperation of the pub
lie by a further limitation of distri
bution and we shall place at once re
striction on distribution which will be
adjusted from time to-time to secure
as nearly equitable distribution as
possible. With the arrival of harvest
wc should be able to relax such re-
drictions. Until then we ask for nec
essary patience, sacrifice and coope
ration of the distribution trades.’
The Loal- Exemption Board has
received orders to mobilize forty-five
registrants for movement to tho
camps in the next draft. The order
specifies that thirty-seven of these
shall be negroes while there will be
nly eight in the white contingent. As
result of the regulations affecting
registrants engaged in farm work, is
sued by the Department at Washing
ton, many of the affidavits required
have been received by the Local
Board. Action on these is left large
ly to the discretion of the board but
the order provides that the quofh
shall be filled regardless of farming
claims.
The movement of colored regis
trants is scheduled for tomorrow, the
white squads will go forward Tuesday.
The following colored men have
been summoned to appear at the court
house, Vienna, Ga., at 4 o’clock, p. m.
March 28, 1918, at which time they
will be inducted into the military
service of the United States.
Sap Walker.
Joe Dyson
Elbert Howe
Pleas Kennedy
Will Riley
David- Ball
Elmore Redding
Burner Bryant
Hudson Whitsett
Squire Young
Junior Washington Mitchell.
Elbert Harris
Yenrtis Johnson.
Joe Johnson
Peter Coiey
Albert Jolly
Dennis McLendon
John Burnam
Henry Harvey
Percy Martin
Pete Perry
Henry Harris
Oavid Hamilton
Henry Lawson
Bozeman Cross
Will Hudson
Lige Jolly.
Malachi Ross
Lawrence Thomas
Ligon Lewis
Charlton Jefferson Gilbert
Garfield Lewis
Oscar Gray
Joe Graham, jr.
David Pitts
Eddy Felton
Claude Cone
Sam Thomas
David Nealy
Friends and employers of these col
ored men should consider it their pa
triotic duty and an act of friendship
to the men who arc to be called to
the colors, to sec that all are present
and on time Thursday afternoon at
four o’clock.
WHITE MEN
List'of white men to appear for
roll call and be inducted into military
service Monday afternoon, April 1,
1918, at 4 o’clock:
Henry HollU Morgan
James Mortimer Tharpc
Thomas Ross Summer
Leon Fuller Beddlngfleld
Maurice Bernstein
LaFayctte Williams
Carl Dennis Sims
Henry Clay Ingram
The Local Board oi Dooly county
has received instructions from the Ad
jutant General to defer, as far as
practicable, the calling of registrants
‘actively, completely and assiduously
engaged in the planting or cultiva
tion of a crop” until all other men in
class one who are physically qualified
have been called. The Board has
been governed by these instructions
in the present calls for which notices
have been mailed, basing selection up
on the occupations named iq question
naires. However, since it is by no
means certain that some of the reg
istrants have not changed their oc
cupations since submitting their ques
tionnaires, it is desired that every
case meriting deferment be reported
to the office of the Local Board; al
so it is desired that any information
tending to show that a registrant,
either because of a change of occu
pation or by reason of his inattention
to duty, does not merit deferment, be
likewise reported.
For tho convenience of registrants
or their employers, wishing to ■ be
benefitted by the privileges extended
to farmers, blank affidavits have been
prepared and printed and may be
procured at the Vienna News office,
It is possible that clns3 one men en
;agcd in farming would be deferred
without filing affidavits or any other
information additional to their ques
tionnaires, nnd persons interested arc
under no obligations to adopt this
method, but the Board states that it
finds tho filing of affidavits to bo the
safest, surest and most satisfactory
manner of acquiring facts.
The plan to grant a slight defer
ment to farm labor was adopted “sole
ly in the need of tho Nation, and not
for the benefit of any individual.”
Therefore, i every person affected
should enter into the patriotic spirit
which prompted this expedient and
help to make it effective.
NITRATE READY
FOR DOOLY FARMERS
SEVEN HUNDRED TONS OF GOV-
ERNMENT NITRATE WILL BE
USED IN DOOLY. .
Richwood and the surrounding com
munity were well represented at the
Richwood school building Wednesday
night when a meeting was held there
in the interest of the Third Liberty
Bond issue.
Much credit is due Prof. 6. T.
Sangster, principal of the P.ichwood
school who made the arrangements
for the meeting and worked up the
interest to the extent of taxing the
capacity of the building.
Dr. H. A. Mobley spoke to the peo-
pie in an earnest manner reviewing
in part the events in Europe that
have led to the necessity of the Unit
ed States taking a hand in the great
war, pointing out tty; present need
of tho moral and financial support of
every American citizen.
His message was well received
From the show of interest it would
seem that tho people of Richwood and
community will come up with a liberal
share of patronage to the next Liber
ty Bond sale.
GENEROUS RESPONSE
FOR BELGIUM APPEAL
BIG SHIPMENT OF CLOTHING
AND SHOES SENT FROM HERE
FOR BELGIUM RELIEF—MON
EY CONTRIBUTED.
The American Banking Corporation
which was some time ago made deposi
tory for the Government nitrate fund,
and Mr. White, Ihe county demonstra
tor have been notified officially that
Dooly’s apportionment of the govern
ment nitrate supply has been received
at n nearby port and is ready for ship
ment. Dooly farmers have applied
for a total of 700 tons, the fund for
half of the amount being already on
deposit at the American Banking.
Ci rporation.
A personal letter has been forward
ed each applicant by tho bank in
forming them of tho arrival at port bf
the nitrate. The names of those who
made deposits to cover cost of ni
trate have also been properly report
ed. The shipment will probably ar
rive here at an early date and be
ready for distribution among those
who have applied for it.
STORES TO CLOSE
AT SIX O’CLOCK
We, the .undersigned, agree to close
stores at six o’clock old time, seven
o’clock new time, commencing April
1st, 1918, and continue to do so un
til August 15th, 1918, all days except
Saturdays.
Vienna Ten Cent Co.
Walton Brothers.
Farmers Hardware Co.
Sam Cohen.
J. P. Heard & Sons Co.
J. J. Cooper.
J. T. Hall.
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W. F. Newby.
Vienna Hardware Co.
O. L. Arnold.
Mrs. Gertrude Taggart.
Vienna Shoe Store.
H. Orovitz.
Vienna News.
SINGING CONVENTION NOTICE
, I take this method of notifying the
concerned that the Dooly County
Singing Convention will convene this
year at Double Branch on the County
line between' Vienna and Hawkins-
ville, on the 27th and 28tHdays of
April.
Now there has been much said
about calling off thiB singing because
bf the high cost of provisions, but af
ter discussing this with the execu
tives, we find that it would be a very
unwise thing to do. While we know
the government is utging to conserve
the food supply and as we have al
ready reached tho point where food
supplies are limited, we as a singing
loving people will not discontinue the
all-day sings, but do hereby call a
halt t othe public spread of dinner on
such occasions and we are putting the
public on notice that for the duration
of the present war, all who attend the
singings ate expected to furnish their
lunch. So don’t attend expecting the
communities around such occasions
to furnish a bountiful supply of pro
visions as has been practiced in time
of peace in tho past. We must be
loyal and conserve, but wo must
The appeal to the people of this
city and community for second-hand
clothing to bo sent to the needy Bcl-
glums brought a magnificent response
Committees In cars made a tour of
the town informing the people of the
need. They were greeted everywhere
with n show of sincere interest nnd
gnerosity.
Great bundles of clothing of all
kinds most of it in excellent condi
tion were gathered together. A num
ber of the merchants contributed
freely, giving shoes, that had been in
stock for some time, cloth’and various _
articles of value. Some who had no | spread the sunlight of song and not
clothing to spare gave money, a total h CV e any retrenchment in means by
of $12.75 being collected. This will which humanity may bo uplifted and
be forwarded at once to the Commis- We contend for tho spirit of singing,
sion for Relief of Belgium and ex- sing that ono may be uplifted. No
pended ns most needed. one knows tho value of a song, so we
When the collection was sorted and will keep on sinking.
counted it was found that the number
of garments totaled 992. Besides
this there was a considerable amount
of cloth of various kinds. The ship
ment has been forwarded to the prop
er destination and its contents will
give comfort and protection to many
who aro destitute in stricken Bel
gium.
Who is it that would not adapt him
self to the new method of providing
for these occasions. Don’t be a slack
er, come along with books and lunch,
we will win. Be loyal and faithful,
cut out the big dinneof but keep up
the interest by all means. Buy liberty
bonds and war savings stamps.
J. J. BARRY, See.
ONE OF STRONG EMOTIONAL
SCENES IN "CAMILLE”
Camille is dying and is telling Ar-
mand of her love which shall extend
beyond the grave. Armand drinks in
her words, with his soul in his eyes—
eVen as bee lasps her dying form con
vulsively to him, Camille smiles sad
ly—there is a shuddeting movement
—Camille is dead. Armand looks i:
to her dead face—then lowers her
body to the couch. He bows his head
to the inevitable call of the Great
Master. There is a smile upon Ca
mille’s lips, even in death. Armand
is thinking of that time when they
shall be united in the great beyond—
but his happiness passed when Ca
mille died.
Camille will be seen at the DeSoto
Theatre next Friday in a Fox picture
featuring Theda Bara.
FOR SALE, USED CARS
One Ford Roadster, One Five-Pas-
lenger Overland.
O. W. HORNE, Vienna.
PLEASANT OCCASION AT
SMYRNA
Wc wish to thunk our guests nnd
speakers for their presence on Inst
Friday night at our box supper given
for the benefit of Smynu school. Wc
appreciate too,’.the spirit of respect
ful attention given to the speaker al
though it would have been hard not
to have listened to messages so forci
ble.
The thirty-five boxes brought by
girls from several communities, vary
ing from stars to steamboats and from
drumsticks to chocolate drops, were
bought by most liberal bidders. The
entire entertainment brought eighty
dollars clear of expenses. The newly
painted building will reflect the liber,
ality of all those interested.
Reported.
A CHEAP PLACE
103 1-2 acres of land, 75 acres in
cultivation, balance in timber, two
tenant houses, etc. Rented 1 for year
1918 for four bales of cotton. See
me quick. Easy terms. '
D. C. KETCHUM, Vienna.
The "service flag’’ is not official,
but its general use is encouraged by
the Government. It has been patent
ed by private parties. The matter of
having an official service flag is not
so controlled is under consideration
by Congress.
FARMERS OF DOOLY
A GOOD IVESTMENT
162 1-2 acres of land on main pub
lic road, 130 acres in cultivation.
Large G-room dwelling, 3 tenant
houses, outbuildings, fencing.
Rented for year 1918 for 8 bales of
cotton. Must be bought soon or own.
er will take off tho market. Easy terms
D. C. KETCHUM, Vienna.
Tlie most important question before America today is the production
of food and feed necessary to carrying on the war, the feeding of our armies
and the feeding of the armies of the allies. v
We have proudly boasted that Imperial Georgia might be cut off from
all the rest of the world and she could still supply her own ncc^s. But wo
have not been feeding ourselves by half.
Now the United States Government calls on us to make good, to raise
enough food for ourselves; assist in feeding the armies of our allies and the
wives and children of our allies’ troops who are holding the trenches waiting
for American reinforcements, who have been facing death for three years
and sacrificing their all that they as well as Americans may continue to en
joy the blessings of liberty, of thought, word and action.
The allies entered 1918 with a food supply smaller than at any time
since the war began. The crops of Europe will bo shorter this year than ev
er. It is up to America and it is up to the South.
The Food Administration will draw an iron ring around the South an
other year. Do you want to face starvation like Europe is facing it and go
hungry while your pockets jingle with gold or do you want to share glorious
ly in this war for liberty.
History records no instance in which the South has failed to do her
share. For God’s sake let history repeat itself now. You farmers of the
South! Forget yourself and put y6ur heart and soul In winning this war.
No one has a greater opportunity than you.
Plant food—Food—Food.
Let your slogan be “Food and feed stuff full, and running over."
THE BANKS OF DOOLY COUNTY
J. P. Heard, Chairman