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tflLLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA.
THE MILLEOOEVIUE NEWS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER { 19l
FOURTH LOAN TOTAL I
i IS $6,866,415,300
No Mystery
in Meat
More Than 21,000,000 Peraona Pur-
chaaed Bonda of the Fourth Liberty
Loan and Every Diatrlct Goea “Over
The Top.”
Some things are so simple
that they have to be explained
again and again. When things
are obvious, people keep looking
for mysteries behind them.
So it is with the packing bus
iness. The mero size of Swift
& Company confuses many.
Because their imaginations are
not geared up to scale, they be
lieve there must be magic in it
somewhere—some weird power.
Swift & Company is just like any
other manufacturing business run by
human beings like yourself; it takes in
raw material on the one hand and turns
out a finished product on the other.
Swift & Company keeps down the
“spread,” or the expense absorbed be
tween raw and finished material, to as
low a figure as possible. (If it didn*t
it would be put out of business by
others who do.)
How much Swift & Company pays
for the raw material, and how much
it gets for the finished product, depends
upon conditions which Swift &
Company does not control.
It depends entirely upon how much
people want the finished product, and
how much raw material there is avail
able to make it from.
The profits of Swift & Company
amount to less than one cent per pound
on all meats and by-products—less than
one-fourth of a cent on beef.
Washington, Nov. 1.—Despite peace
talk and influenza, American citizens
have responded for a fourth time to
the Government’s appeal for war
loans with more than was asked. To
tal subscriptions of $6,866,416,300 from
more than 21,000,000 individuals Is
the record of the Fourth Liberty Loan,
as announced today by the treasury
based on careful estimates by the
twelve Federal Reserve banks. The
entire $866,416,300 oversubscription
will be accepted and appled to reduc
ing the size of the fifth loan, to be
offered in the spring.
Final figures may send the Fourth
Loan total even higher. Owing to
long delay by banks in tabulating
their pledges, reserve banks were in
structed by the treasury to report
conservative estimates of their sales
and subscribers, making these too low
rather than too hgh. For this reason
some revision of the totals will be
made within a week or ten days.
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FOUR MINUTE MEN
TO BE PERMANENTLY
ORGANIZED IN STATE
Georgia Headquarters Opened In At
lanta—President Commends This
Work.
In order that a permanent organiza
lion of the Four-Minute-Men might be
effected in Georgia, W. Curtis Nichol
son associate national director, of
Washington, D. C., is now making a
tour of the state preparatory to re-or-
gunization.
Mr. Nicholson states that every
county, district, city, town and village
in the south will soon have its local
organization of Four-Minute-Men.
More than three thousand speaKfifs
are being sought in Georgia alone.
These men will address public gather
ings daily all over the state on sub
jects assigned to them by the United
States government through the na
tional committee on public information
In this manner even the remotest sec
tion of Georgia will receve a spoken
message from the head of our nation
al government.
The Georgia state headquarters for
the Four-Minute-Men was established
recently in room. 313 Trust Company
of Georgia Building, Atlanta, and the
process of a thorough and efficient re
organization is "now under way.
Commending the Four-Minute-Men,
which organization now numbers fifty
thousand speakers, for their efficient
and untiring efforts during the recent
financial campaigns, President Wood-
row Wilson writes as follows:
“To the fifty thousand Four-Minute-
Men of the United States:
“May I not express my very real
interest In the vigorous and intelli
gent work your organization is doing
■n connection with the committee on
public information? It is surely a
matter worthy of sincere appreciation
that a body of thoughtful citizens,
with tlie hearty co-operation of the
managers of moving picture theatres,
are ‘engaged in the presentation and
discussion of the purposes and meas
ures of these critical days. . . .
“My best wishes and continuing in
terest are with you in your work as a
part of Uie reserve officer corps in a
nation thrice armed because through
your efforts it knows better the justice
of its cause and the value of what it
defends.
“Cordially and sincerely yours,
“WOODROW WILSON.”
THE CAFE COAT GIRL.
By O. O, WHIZ.
“Gus," said the Coat Girl to Au
gust, the head waller, “I certainly am
glad that when this world was made
they put people in it."
“For tipping, yes, you mean that,
Frauelin?” asked Augu.-t.
“Gus, you are so mercenary you
Teel like an accident had happened
every time a jitney turns over in your
pocket.
“I am just talking about the fun
people give me. That fat woman who
was just talkin’ to me e me over
here and roused my Irish by calling
tne ‘my dear young woman’ and then
asked me if I knew of some nice fam
ily where there wasn’t no children
and where they didn't keep cats or
dogs, and while ! was tryln’ to think
of tome such family he was leliin’
me that she was buntin’ a good home
for a rubber plant!
“You see, Gus, she has raised it
GOVERNMENT TO SOON
FIX RETAIL PRICE BEEF
Will Permit Butchers To Make Only
a Certain Percentage of Profit—On
Cash-and-Carry Basis Figures Fixed.
The Federal Food Board has made
public a ruling governing the retail
prices of beef, lamb and pork, and
fixing a schedule of margins over the
cost price, allowed butchers for these
three meats. These rules have not
been received here yet, but they will
come later through Dr. Soule, it is ex
pected.
The butcher who fails to live up to
these rules will run the risk of being
permitted to contribute to the Rod
Cross and post a sign on his door to
the effect that he has disobeyed the
food administration rulings.
The public can easily keep tak on
the butchers' charges by keeping up
with the wholesale price a pound for
carcasses of beef, lamb and pork, and
adding the price which the board al
lows as profit.
This scale of pree to be allowed is
as V'llows:
Margin a Pound
| Urn rimmed Cuts Over Cost of
from a baby and she had taken slips
from it until it had grandchildren, and
it had get so big she didn’t have room
f' r it in her house and she wanted to
give it to someone who wo id be kind
to it in Its old age and not let the
children abuse it or the cats climb it.
“Gus, I tell you the people in this
world are funny. And the very fun
niest ones in the lot are the ones who
are must serious. I never did see no
woman on the stage who was one-half
so funny to mo as one of those fat
lades in a fat automobile and u fat
pup sittin’ beside her peering out at
the world through one of these spec
tacles on the end of a little silver
stick.
“I stop cn the curb and watch ’em
go by, Gus, and then I chuckle for an
hour. She sees me standing there on
tlie ci rb and says something about the
curiosity of the poor, feels very su
perior and we are both a lit happier
for ti
'Cash and Carry). Straight Cattle.
’irloin steak 14 cents
Top round 18 cents
Bottom round 16 cents
Prime rib roast 13 cents
Chuck rib roast 5 cents
Chuck steak 5 cents
Whole top sirloin .. 13 cents
Whole Cross rib 13 cents
Out top sirloin 16 cents
Stew beef 8 cents
Lamb.
Ixiin chop (kidney cut) .. 15 cents
Rib chops 12 cents
Legs of lamb 12 cents
Shoulder chops 9 cents
Chucks l cent
Stew 4 cents
Pork.
Pork chops, from ety dressed loins,
5 cents a pound for the end chop.-,
and 9 cents a pound for the middle
rhops over the cost of the loins.
Smoked hams (whole unwrapped I,
6 cents a pound over the cost price of
the ham.
Smoked bacon (unwrapped), sliced.
It cents a pound over the cost price
of the smoked bacon.
This ruling has gone into effect in
New York, and will apply to butchers
all ovc- the oo ntry. No ofllcail no-
-- 3 has yet been received by the local
Protect Late Garden Crops.
Usually thtro are a few weeks of
pleasant weather after the first kill
ing frost. I’rotect late beans and oth
er tender vegetables subject to injury
from frost by covering with paper or
sheets when the first killing frost is
apparent. In the case of tomatoes the
entire vine may be pulled and hung
up in a basement or shed where the
truit will ripeu for some weeks later.
Protect Machinery.
The cost of machinery and imple
ments is constantly increasing. Pro
pare now to protect implements and
machinery from exposure during the
coming winter. As far as possible all
implemt nts should be placed i nder a
Iry sited. Woodwork should he paint
ed and all exposed iron and steel
should either be painted or covered
with grease or oil to prevent rusting.
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FLU IS RAGING AT SCREVEN:
CALL MADE FOR NURSES
Savannah.—Fort Screven lias made
a call i pon Savannah for truined nurs
es to fight flu cases among the troops
there. There are 2,000 new recruits
at the camp’und they are believed to
have cought the disease.
F*4
PREPAREDNESS.
This is the slogan of the wise man.
Stock are continually exposed to rats,
wounds, scratches, etc The man who
is prepared has his healing remedy on
hand to stop all chances of blood poi
son. Farris’ Healing Remedy is High
ly Antiseptic. It is economical. One
50c bottle makes $2.00 worth of a
healing oil or ointment. Money re
funded if you are not satisfied.
BRISCOE WALL.
f od administrator, but the prices fix
ed govern the sale of these meats all
ovt,- ihe country. The margins apply
to “unirimmed cuts” sold on the cash
end carry basis—that is, the customer
will have io take the steak or roast
as it comes, pay rash for It, and earry
it home. If he asks to have the order
sent to the house, the dealer is per
mitted to make an additional charge I
for credt and delivery, and the fool
adirtlntstrallm will back him up in
the transaction.
Special showing of
useful Holiday
Gifts. 8hop Early.
Bell's
SHOP AT HOME.
Build up your own
town and save
money.
Buying Christinas gifts early is in accord with the Government’s request. Giving
practical and useful presents is in keeping with the spirit of the times.
We have made ample preparations to supply your wants. We have many use
ful presents for your inspection. Modestly priced.
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A WONDERFUL SALE OF COATS AND SUITS
Twenty new Coats just in by express. Models entirely new. Some with fur col
lars ana some plain. Made of velours and broadcloth. Specially priced—
$19.75, $25.75, $35.75, $45.75.
SPECIAL SALE OF LADIES SUITS.
Style and quality without extravagant prices. New models. Very becoming
styles. Many straight lines. All the new shadings in broadcloths and velours.
Special sale for this week—
$25.00, $35.00, $40.00.
-LADIES' PETTICOATS.
New shipment of Lakes’ Petticoats. Silk Jersey
tops; all the new sh ides; specially priced
$5.98 .
New Taffetas in all the leading shades; specially
priced 54.98
Something New—Looks like taffeta; wears like
taffeta; black and colors, specially priced, $2.48
my
SPECIAL SALE OF LADIES' BLOUSE WAISTS.
Organdies, Lawns, and voiles. Some slightly soiled. Val-
‘gnu
ues worth up to $2.00, to go in this sale at 98c
New Georgette and Crepe de Chine Waists, just in by ex
press. Specially priced $6.50 and $7.50
SPECIAL SHOWING LADIES' UNDERWEAR.
Gowns in pink and blue; specially priced- $1.98 X j
New Crepe Gowns; Plains and figured; specially U-i
priced $1.48 jI 7
Teddies specially priced 98c and $1.48 ~
New Outing Gowns specially priced $1.50 and $2.(
Silk Bloomeis and Silk Camisoles to close out very much under price
Holiday Gloves
Ladies’ fine kid gloves, whites, blacks, tans and
taupes. Useful for Christmas presents $2 to $3
Ladies’ Siik Hosiery. Useful as Christmas gifts.
In all tlie leading shades, white, black, mahogany,
brown,, taupe and grey.
Specially priced _$2.00 and $2.50
Special showing of Italian Silk Hose—
$2.50 and $3.00
Ladies' Fine Shoes
If you want style, combined with comfort, wear Selby and
Cousin s black kid, taupe, pearl grey, mahogany, brown
and field mouse. AA, A, B and C lasts—
$8.ooto$n.oo
E. E. BELL