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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1918
Page
5
Election commissioners Aaron A. Rasor Carl Iratasch and John A. Sloane warn unregistered voters in Kosciusko County that time is running out to register for the upcoming election. They urge registration at the Warsaw Registration Board or via Notary Public to avoid disfranchisement.
Citizens may buy only two pounds of sugar in town and five pounds in the country at a time with a 25-pound canning limit still in effect. The notice urges restraint due to Atlantic submarine activity and beef shortages for Allied armies, promoting pork as a substitute while pork supplies rise. Signed by James K R Frazer, Federal Food Administrator for Kosciusko County.
A local ad urges residents around Silver Lake to try Bliss Native Herb Tablets noted to aid rheumatism indigestion and kidney derangements. 200 doses are offered for 1 at the Record Office in Silver Lake. Jamies Meloy.
Local notes show the S B Burdge family visiting in Axton on Sunday. Mrs Bessie Smith and her War son visiting Ross Gamble's home. Several residents and visitors including John Suimme and Leanna, with friends from Chicago, visited in various homes around the area. A large Fourth of July program planned at Winona Lake with military involvement.
Dr Barnard directs Indiana hotels and restaurants to limit boiled beef to two meals per week and beefsteak and roast beef to one meal weekly. Households may buy at most one and one quarter pounds of clear beef per person weekly. Sugar sales are restricted to two pounds city, five pounds rural. many dealers barred. Deputies urged in churches and lodges. statewide food club meeting June 27 at Claypool hotel Ginavolis.
Mrs Belle Johnson of Anderson visits uncle F M Jaques on West Main Street. Ford tractor arrives in Claypool for haying. Leo Leonard at Ft Benjamin Harrison visits Elkhart. may stay next Saturday. July 4th Lone Star military program near Winona Lake begins at 10 am. J D Lee Cline and Sou visit Decatur for business and kin. Prof F C Sanders hauled a Lord tractor by train to Claypool. Izza Funk and Sherman Sausamac visit Monticello and farmer's sister A R K Broidge family. pleasant trip but no tidal plessant trip.
War Savings Day will be observed with local meetings in every community to secure subscriptions for war savings springs.
From Fort Snelling a correspondent describes daily life with the 40th Infantry. He notes mess hall capacity, travel by train via the Pennsylvania and liveton routes, and scenic river valleys through Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin. He mentions inoculations, a supportive mess sergeant, and a pending quarantine before moving to barracks. He expects rifle instructions and plans to write to Silver area residents.
A wartime letter from Floyd Henderson, once of Silver Lake, now with American troops overseas, describes moving across France, longing for home and family, skyward aircraft, and pride in American spirit. he mentions cigars, candy, and mail delays while urging letters as if he were on a visit.
A local agency advertises savings on subscriptions to any magazine. Call Brush & Willanson at the Recorp office in Silver Lake to receive a money saving magazine clubs catalogue.
Silver Lake readers are advised that buckthorn bark glycerine and similar ingredients mixed in Adler i ka can flush the entire bowel tract. The article claims this method prevents appendicitis and mentions the SOE approval.
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