22 Feb 1918
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Newspaper
Mount Vernon Signal
Location
Mount Vernon, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1918
Page
1
A broad wartime appeal urges readers to conserve food and boost home crops to support troops. It stresses reducing flour use, increasing vegetables, and raising livestock while thanking the Red Cross and YMCA for aid. Local notices mention deaths, moves, and community visits as part of the home-front effort.
Livingston items report Miss Mae Evans visiting Gertrude Evans at Brush Creek and multiple locals moving or traveling. F. W. Oakley from Ravenna plans to relocate to Laurel with L. and N. A. R. Co. and Squire Arnold is sick. Several notices on health, salesmen, weather, and town happenings follow, including social plans, a joke about a forthcoming marriage, and ongoing town opinions.
A concise call to individual responsibility urging every citizen to contribute to national goals, emphasizing that one person’s efforts matter and are expected by the president and the nation.
The passage asserts no confiscation of produce or supplies by the Government and claims German agents started the unfair “buggy a boo.” It states payments will be made for all government acquisitions and that Fuel and Food administrators prove the government intends to regulate prices to achieve justice for both producers and consumers.
The piece urges early planning for the panting season focusing on average yields and care for potatoes and vegetables. It stresses raising a surplus for home use and local supply, noting the ongoing federal wheat policy and its impact on encouraging a larger corn, potato, and vegetable crop.
Early frosts left many fields with unripe corn that became sapless and unfit for seed. The cold snap likely killed the life germ in corn left in shocks or on stalks when temperatures fell below fifteen degrees below zero.
The appeal calls farmers to test seed corn now and spread proven results to neighbors. It warns that wartime survival hinges on domestic conservation, with a push to buy war saving stamps and Tariff stamps as a form of liberty bond support for government protections.
The notice urges readers to protect person and property from Kaiser aggression and lists Liberty bonds War and Thrift stamps as investments. It claims risk from murderers cut throats and child killers and promotes buying bonds starting at 25 cents.
A registration system is being set up inviting mechanics carpenters blacksmiths and others who can handle tools to register with Dr M Pennington Mt Vernon Kentucky. Eligible workers may be called by the government or may choose to work on their own terms with good pay offered.
Citizens of Rockcastle and all trades urged to attend a War Council meeting at Mt Vernon to aid the troops fighting our battles and preserve the liberty won in the war of 776.
The postponed revival at the Baptist church will start next Tuesday and run ten days or more. Rev. H. H. Wallace of Sturgis Kentucky will lead, assisted by Pastor Childress. All are invited to attend. Mrs Graveley’s mother died in Virginia and she will return home soon. J L Pilkenton visited Mt Vernon on Saturday. Tom Roberts of Danville died at his brother’s home in Somerset and was buried in Danville after a paralysis illness.
An old advice piece extols Marie Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as quick relief for colds. It cautions against a second cold during recovery and urges rest, noting a middle aged man should stay in bed until fully recovered, even if that means three days early.
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