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flEMILLEDGEVILLE NEWS I
Official Organ
City of
Milledgeville
^.d October 12,
1901.
LU S THAN HALF OF BALDWIN’S
WAR SAVING STAMPS QUOTA REC’D
Chairman Miller S. Bell Writes
Card Calling Upon People
j 0 Realize Seriousness Of
The Situation.
MANY fail to make
promise of support
Hundreds Have Measured!
Short In Appeals Sent Out
By Government and Others
Render No Financial Aid.
NEW SUGAR RULES
ARE EFFECTIVE
All Users Except Housewives
Must Have Permits Says a
Statement Given Out By
Food Administration.
Although national pledge day for the
signing UP of cards pledging to pur-
.... war Savings Stamps has pass-
CQ<* f,c . , ,
I and g n e, Baldwin county s quota
not as yet bepn secured, as a mat
ter of tact, less than half of the
amount has beer, subscribed.
During the day Friday, which was
nledge day for War Savings Stamps.
1 held in each militia
meetnib 8 ’
district in the county for the purpose
0l receiving certiticates from the peo
ple certifying that they would pur
chase their individual quota. These
meetings had been well advertised
through newspaper publicity, by cards
sent through the mails and by special
ly prepared posters, though the at
tendance was disappointing in almost;
.very instance, consequently resulting
in the shortage in securing the pledg
es for the qurchase of the stamps.
While it was the object of the gov
ernment to secure the financial aid
of e very able-bodied person to the ex
tent of not less than $20 each the bulk
of the pledges secured in the county
came from the hands of only a few, in
denominations of $100 to $1,000.
The quota for Baldwin county was
1375,620 and of this amount a little
less than halt was secured, though
every effort will be made by the com
mittee assigned to look after securing
additional pledges to get the support
of every man, woman and child in the
county, if they are able to shoulder
any part of the measure.
Kealizing the seriousn'ess of the sit
uation brought aho t by the lack of
the people rallying to the cause of
the Government, Chairman Miller S.
Bill, of the Baldwin County War Sav
ings Stamp Committee, has written a
special letter and addressed it to the
pc pie concerning their neglect in
pledging to buy stamps in uid'of the
government. His letter is as follows;
To the People of Baldwin County;
President Wilson has asked that
every mini, woman and child in Amer
ica he enlisted and pledge to save and
y and own at least $20 in War Sav
es Stamps before December 31.
The minimum Is fixed at $20, and
? maximum at $1,000. Every citizen
expected to be a buyer up to the
lit of his or. her ability. The man
o is able to buy liberally and does
is no loss a slacker than the man
0 refuses to buy at all'and yet is
e to buy.
hddwin county's quota is $175,620
1 less, than one-half cf the
ount has boon subscribed—the hal-
e must be s bscribed and Baldwin
tnty must do her duty in this as
' has always d no in every demand
t has boon made upon her in the
We must go over the top, mv
l °" citizens, and measure up to a
mlard of the highest citizenship,
an investment, pure and simple.
Thrift Stamp certificate is gili-
> e d, “A So, first-class and the
■' '"‘st proposition the government
' yet offered the people.
-end your money to Uncle Sam and
J help the government to arm, equip
■I maintain your boys in Camp and
hi ami in the Trenches. You help
furnish doctors and nurses to the
1 hded and dying heroes who have
en their lives and all that you and
Jiislit live and die free men. You
givina nothing at most—you are
lending that democracy may live
1 ,ll!l t German autocracy shall ho
l >ed from the face of the earth,
der the imperative order of the
at the campaign to raise
annot be abandoned until
raised our full quota.
■n’s drive Is still on and I
upon every man. woman and
in this goo ilold county who has
‘•ready entered hts c-r her Bub-
*'° n ,( i or who has not already
hesid and paid for War Sav-
S,am Ps to the full limit to come
and let the committee have
s bscrtptton and help put us
In accordance with orders from the
Federal Food Administration enter
prises and business concerns, which
use sugar In any form, must get per
mits, commencing Monday. The or
ders do not apply to housewives, who
are asked to limit thetr sugar purchas
es to three pounds per month to each
member of the family.
Focal Food Administrator J. H. En
nis has a number of blank forms for
permits, which applicants may have.
These blanks must be filled out and
forwarded to the fcod administration,
Chamber of Commerce building, At
lanta. Wholesale dealers in sugar are
ordered by Mr. Ennis not to sell any
sugar to anyone without a permit.
The order must be observed says
Mr. Ennis. Failure to comply, he
declares will result in cases being
made and may cause a sugar shortage
in the county.
Mr. Ennis says the users of sugar
have been pet in five classes. Candy
makers are in the first, and will be al
lowed only half the amount they used
for July, 1917. Ice cream manufactur
ers are limited to seventy-five per
cent.
Here are the different classes:
A. Candy makers, soft drinks, soda
fountains, chewing gum, chocolate
and cocoa manufacturers, tobacco
manufacturers, flavoring extracts, in-
verv sugar, syrups, sweet pickles,
wines, etc.
B. Commercial canners, vegetables,
fruit, milk, medicinal purposes, explo
sives, glycerine, etc.
C. Hotels, restaurants, clcbs, din
ing cars and steamships, boarding
houses, hospitals, public institutions
and public eating places generally in
which terms are included all hoard
ing houses who take care of 25 pe:
sons or more.
I). Bakers and cracker manufactur
ers of all kinds.
E. Retail stores and others selling
to direct consumers.
Class B will be furnished with
enough sugar for their requirements
and any excess will be considered a
violation, according to the order.
Class C. Will bo nllewod 70 per
cent of the total amount used d ring
tha same period last year.
Class E will be allowed to sell to
housewives only without permit and
will be allowed to purchase not more
than the same amount as they aver
aged during the months of April, May
and Juno, and will be expected not to
sell more than the limited three pound
a month for each member of a fami
ly.
In order to secure justice' in distri
bution, states the order, and to make
the restrictive plan as effective as
possible no manufacturer or whole
saler of sugar will be allowed after
July 1 to sell any sugar except to
buyers who secure certificates from the
federal food administration, indicat
ing the quantity each may buy.
MILLEDGEVILLE GEORGIA, Wednesday Morning, July 3, 1918.
$1.50 a Year
And You aro only nskod
to save dnd not waste T< mk!
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U t V- _ A A'.' '< • *
OUR SOLDIER BOYS,
HERE AND THERE
Last Reports Heralded Con
cerning Those From Mill
edgeville Now With Fight
ing Forces Here and Abroad
THEY ARE SELLING BONES FOR FOOD IN ENGLAND.
Over in England at the height cf the
meat shortage and before the popu
lace was put on rations, they sold
bones at the rate of five pounds for
one shilling. Policemen regulated long
lines of people patiently standing out
on the sidewalks, waiting, not for
their favorite matinee idol to pass,
but for a chance to enter a food shop
and buy a small quantity of food. It
takes abort three minutes for the
shop keepers to dress their windows
over there, merely because there are,
perhaps, but a few cans of condensed
milk and a box or two of corned beef
to be displayed.
Yet over here in America, bones, hay
even fats and precious scraps of meat
are going into the garbage pails! Al
though in many cities there were long
lines of people waiting last winter for
supplies of coal, there has as yet been
no pinched-faced mob pleading f:r
food. True, there are frequently long
Hues of people on the street, but most
ly- they are buying tickets to shows!
In the busy streets In towns and cities
shopkeepers display elaborate ar
rangements of all kinds of delicacies
In their show case windows. They
would scorn a “display” of corned
beef and condensed milk!
The accompanying picture is from
the Official Press Bureau In London.
It was sent over to this country for
the express purpose of showing Ameri
ca what England was actually facing.
A country In such straits not only
needs help herself, but cannot possi
bly be expected to contribute to the
support of United States troops now
on the other side. The food shortage
is real. Save food and “Carry On.”
Mrs. Allen Little received a letter
from her husband, Capt. Allen Little,
who is now with the American tight
ing forces In France. Captain Little
is with the Medical Reserve Corps
and in his letter to Mrs. Little ho ex
pressed himself as being comfortably
situated and lacking neither comfort
able quarters nor wholesome food.
ft* ft* ft*
Cooper Dismuke, at one time a num
ber of the old Baldwin Blues, w.itcs
back home from France and tells 1.1
friends here that he and his comrade
are experiencing neither fear nor
hardship In holding back the Hue.
Young Dismuke says ho has ulrea ly
been on the firing line and has ex
perienced encounters for several hour*
at a time.
Fa 1*5 fta
Kenneth Skinner, who has seen sor
vice on the front line trenches ir,
France for several months, did not
mention having come in contact w';!’
he enemy at his last writing, tu'
stated that hfs uniformed assoc-res
were all ready to drive the TouMns
back at the first opportunity.
Fa ft?. Fa
Mr. Russell Bone, writing back to
some of his frlendB, says he is being
kept busy “over there” dishing (lit
supplies to the forces on the linos, lie
connected with the qunrtermr.rter
corps, having arrived in France the
first of this year.
Fa Fa
Dr. Richard Hinion, who formerly
lived in Milledgeville, has been given
a leave of absence from the army. He
has been stationed in Indiana during
the past several months and will be
out of tho army temporarily nn tic-
count of illness.
DIST. CONFERENCE
HERE NEXT WEEK
Ministers And Laymen Of The
Oxford District To Meet In
Milledgeville July 9 For
Three Days Session. j
400 BUSHELS BF
WHEAT ON 15 ACRE$
War Savings Stamps steadily in
crease in value.
eiwmei
quota
have
a 1 d w i
^t believe that German He that
ltlR l * 1, ‘ w«r Is nearly over. Don't
iTe tlle fellow who says that cur
government has all the money if needs
for that is another German lit- Don’t
believe the man who says you have
made your sacrifice when your bought
Liberty Bonds, you have not sacri
ficed at all, you have merely loaned
your little pittance at an Interest bet
ter than is paid upon cur bonds in
times of peace and backed by just
exactly the same security. Tito best
nnd the richest government in the
world. Buy, buy and buy again and
keep on buying.
The boys who have gone and the
hoys who are going day by day to tho
fields of France and all the other bat
tle ironts have given their all-some
have already paid the dread price of
war—some havo already made the
supreme sacrifice and others must fcl-
low. What of you—can you not do
just a little bit and do it like men—
proudly and with thanks to Almighty
God that you have been given the
chance?
MILLER S. BELL. Chairman,
Baldwin County War Savings Commit-
• tee.
Mr. Dixon Williams Produces
Sufficient Grain To Manu
facture Eighty Barrels Of
Flour, Or Half Car Load.
It has been demonstrated by Mr.
Dixon Williams that there is no need
for the farmers of Baldwin county
to go without a plentiful suppl of
Hour, even in these war times.
During'the week just passed. Mr.
Williams threshed four hundred bush
els cf wheat from fifteen acres of land
on his farm near Meriwether, alio, t
seven miles north of Milledgeville.
This production of wheat is equiva
lent to eighty barrels of flour, enough
;o supply at least sixty people tor a
period of 12 months, giving each one
all they could wish f.r.
The wheat crop of Mr. Williams lies
created a good deal of comment in
Milledgeville and Baldwin county and
no doubt the success achieved in grow
ing this grain will lend encourage-
mi nt to other farmers in the county
to plant a larger acreaage in this par
ticular grain.
The average value of the yield of
wheat grown by Mr. Williams is ttst
abcut $75 per acre, outside of the
grain straw and the profit to ho d
rived by turning stock on the ground
to gather all waste.
NINETEEN GO FROM
HERE GAMP GOROGN
Young White Men Of Baldwin
County Called By Draft To
Enter United States Army
Thursday Morning.
STOLEN — One Ford touring Car.
about four month* old; equipped
with hot air accelerator and Ford
starter. Motor No. 2269686; Tag No.
1013. Reward for Information to
COCHRAN SMITH CO., Dublin, Ga.
Nineteen men left Milledgeville
Thursday morning for Camp Gordon
to enter the United States Army in
answer to a call having been made by
the selective draft law, the entire
number beiug white.
As is customary, the drafted men
were called the afternoon before their
entraining to meet at the court house
to answer the roll call preparatory to
leaving for the soldiers’ camp.
The men left Milledgeville at X
o'clock, going b.v way of the Centra!
of Georgia Railroad, .including the fol
lowing:
Roland 11. Lawrence, John Potroulas
Preston Simpson, Theodore Ennis
Posey, J:hn E. Binford, Carton O. Eth-
redge, John Michael Matoushon, It.
W. Binford, William Robert Lee, John
C. Pennington. Homer Sapp, Frank
Copeland, Charlie Badger, John West
Ivey, Tom Watson Avery, Robert Al
onzo Adams, Andrew F. Avery, John
Rogers Smith and George W. Carr.
TOTAL SURRENDER
ASKED BY GERMANY
England Must Give Up Fleet,
Gibraltar And Suez Canal,
Belgium Must Go, Too, Ger
man Count Says.
The convening of the Oxford district
conference will take place in Milledgo
vllle next Tuesday and remain in ses
sion for three days.
Tho opening sermon of the confer
ence will bo preached Tuesday night
and will in all probability by attended
by a full congregation. The ministers
and laymen delegates will begin to ar
rive in the city during the day Tues
day and as soon as they reach here
the,y will be assigned to the various
homes where they are to be entertain
ed. Those having been appointed to
1 ok after homes for tho entertain
ment of the ministers are as follows:
Mrs. M. M. Parks, Mrs. Dixon Wlll-
nms, Mrs. M. S. Bell. Mrs. O. M. Conn,
Miss Maude Norris, Mrs. II. D. Allen,
Mrs. R. B. Mooro, Mrs. E. A. Tigner,
'rs. W. A. Massey. Mrs. D. F. Mont-
-'•nferv, Mrs. E. E. Bell, Mrs. J. E.
Kidd and Mrs. W. F. Little.
The organization of the conference
will take place Wednesday morning
and will be presided over by Bishop 11.
M. Dubose. Bishop DuBcso will preach
on several occasions while the confer
ence is in session, also.
Dr. B. F, Frazer, presiding elder of
the Oxford district, has been b'ally
engaged during the last several weeks
making preparations to make this
conference one of the most interest
ing ever held by the ministers in his
charge.
The several local committees ap
pointed by Dr T. R. Kendall, pastor of
the Milledgeville MethodlBt Church,
are as follows:
Assignment to homes—E. E. Bell,
R. B. Moore, E. R. Hines, M. S. Bell,
nnd Dr. T. R. Kendall.
Reception — Dixon Williams, W. T.
Garrard, George W. Holllnshead, Ottw
M. Conn, D. F. Montgomery, S. D_
Stembrldge, G. W. Holllnshead, Jr.,
W. H. Montgomery, D. W. Brown, R.
S. Alford, W. A. Massey, J. L. Harper,
UU'1 B. L. Barius. ,
Church-—Dr. E.- A..Tigner.-
Music—Mrs. E. R. Hines.
Flowers—Sunday School and Ep-
wortli (League.
-Fffl-
MEN TO PILE INTO
HANCOCK IN JULY
One dollar and a half Is a mighty
little to any individual these pros
perous times, but when an army of
people send in their subscriptions to
the county paper the aggregate ma K es
things hum and gives encouragement
toward making the paper better in
every way ' Let your come on
right now.
War Savings Stamp—“Baby Bond”
—Interest 4 per cent.
Grocerymen, Notice
WE HAVE JUST PRINTED A SUPPLY OF
SUGAR PLEDGE CARDS
BOTH FOR HOME CANNING AND PRESERVING AND
HOUSEHOLD USE
TO BE FILLED OUT BY YOUR CUSTOMERS AS REQUIRED BY THE
UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION
Paris, July 1.—Great Britain must
t rn over its war fleet to Germany, re
turn Gibraltar to Spain, and restore
Egypt and the Suez canal to Turkey.
Great Britain, France and the United
States must yap Germany nn indemn
ity of at least $15,(100,000,000. Belgium
and French territory must be sur
rendered.
These are among the conditions i:
eluded in the German peace program
published in Ihc Nachrichten f Goer-
litz, Prussia, by Count Roon. a mem
ber of the Prussian house of lords,
according to a Havas dispatch from
Basle, Switzerland.
Count. Roon savs Germany iss en
titled to the following terms because
of its strength and until they are
j realized there should be no armistice
and r.o cessation of submarine war
fare:
Annexation of Belgium, wiih admin
istrative automny in the inferior.
Independence of Handers.
Annexation of the entire Flanders
ccast, including Cnlals.
Annexation of the Briey and Longvy
basins and the Toul, Belfort and Ver
dun regions eastward.
Restitution to Germany of all her
colonies, including Kiao Chau.
Great Britain to cede to Germany
such naval bases and coaling stations
as Germany designates.
Great Britain must return Gibraltar'
to Spain, cede its war fleet to
many, restore Egypt to Turkey aqjsroe
Suez canal to Turkey.
Greece must be re-establiprg^l'^'^jP
der for
frontiers
Austr .
w ^
Troops There, Now Number
ing 23,000 To Be Swelled
To 42,000 Before Month
Passes.
Augustu, July 1.—As stated in the
Chronicle Atlanta telegrams yesterday
four hundred lieutenants liuve been
transferred to Camp Hancock from
Camp Gordon. They are quartered on
(lie site formerly occupied by thA 1^
lCDtli Pennsylvania Infantry. It is <<%•* C-
St® 2
/
; Diluted at Camp Hancock that 72.
three July movements of troops t
machine, gun training schools?
July 5th. J 1.. 15th and July^%,^« ill %% '
ring in 17,600 additional ^
r<■ now $25,0 Hi troops ijtffi\
fore auo.lier month th()re ? OJ
•00 troops there. *
Of the 1,108 ne| "
service battalion at^_
large number of^them are%
Aumond, where ‘ prepuratioSs^^f°l%^-^5 e
bathing luke urmJjeiiig rapidr^^retfght'^> '%%■' 0
to conclusion.N»w iulep^-ftfiCjlie ^
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rmer King Constunj^jjrti; ^ j^fl
rs as before the win'-'-o*
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and Montenei;iSi>r'.^Ixi5*3-9*""
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WE ARE SELLING THESE BLANKS IN RETAIL QUANTITIES AT
WHOLESALE PRICE8
THE MILLEDGEVILLE NEWS
Serbia ^ r v ,
Great Britain, Fra^^^tf&fjH
tidd States must pukyoffW
I war costs, the ln,d§*t$fy
lraum or $45,o^(^!wjfii>£
must agree ferlaj,
immediately,^ r ‘ ^
France
occupied^
conditions