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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1918
Page
2
Dalton news notes wartime prices rise and meatless days ending, wheat hoarding feared, and a cheese factory planned in Union County. Georgia prisoners may work on roads, a Rome Georgia man sent eggs to Wilson, and Billy Sunday may go to France. Local editors discuss drafts, taxes, and community events amid the war.
The United States Food Administration announces district traffic offices under a traffic director. The Southern district headquarters will be in the Healey Building, Atlanta, led by Charles Barham, former general freight agent of the N. C. & St. L. railway. The unit aims to coordinate food and railroad efforts, cut loading delays, and ease congestion, working with regional director Markham and county representatives to direct local needs to Barham’s office.
The government rules that all meat dealers who sell or deliver to counties municipalities private institutions or to any third party must obtain a wholesale license. This applies to merchants who resell meat to hospitals prisons asylums universities hotels and other institutions or to any other buyer. The ruling covers dealers who supply meat to their own trade.
Food New Mexico reports yearly aid reaching 57.1 million people with large-scale shipments including 384 million bushels of wheat and wheat flour, 2 billion pounds of pork, 1.944 billion pounds of sugar, 212.75 million bushels of oats, 24.31 million bushels of corn, 443.484 million pounds of fresh beef, 3.618 million bushels of rye, and 28.998 million pounds of butter.
All county administrators have been notified that use of the flour permit cards by farmers is obligatory. Retailers violate the law in making a mile without requiring a card.
An auction in Lumpkin County Georgia will sell the estate of 0 Williams deceased. On April 10 1918 the administrator Hor. Rare will offer a Meadows corn mill and an International gasoline engine at the courthouse in Dahlonega for cash to the highest bidder. Delivery will be made at Mrs F P Williams residence.
A Massachusetts probate court publication cites Myer Morrell an absentee with a property in Franklin County. Joseph Morrell of Greenfield is proposed as receiver for the described holdings under a warrant to take possession. Public notice requires posting in Boston Traveller and Dahlonega Nugget for three weeks and at the courthouse, with mailing of notices to interested parties.
An American appeal calls for a 50 percent cut in wheat intake to drop monthly consumption from 42 million to 21 million bushels. Individual weekly wheat should not exceed 1.5 pounds. Flour sales drop to one eighth barrel for towns and one quarter for countryside. Bakers bread content trimmed to 76 percent April 14 to boost substitutes. Seizure authorized of wheat stores in New Mexico and thousands of rotten corn shipments to Georgia warn of stock losses. Honor roll lists Dahlonega and nearby communities.
Notice to all creditors of the estate of Virgil A. Higgins requests claims to be filed and all debtors to pay promptly. Executrix Lizzie Higgins Lesny notes the March 1918 date and lists various local creek areas and dates from the Lampkin County region as deadlines and places for settlement.
War news feels more favorable while Atlanta faces food woes with rotten corn and meal held in condemnation. A Vermont preacher faces prison for urging men to skip registry. Schools may stop German instruction as reports of hardship spread.
An ad notes the Henderson Boiler and Grist Mills in White County are now operated by W G Campbell offering grinding services. It promotes old mill facilities for grain processing and invites customers to use the mill for their grinding needs.
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