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Newspaper
The Dillon Herald
Location
Dillon, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1918
Page
4
The Dillon Herald announces subscription rates at 3.00 per year with 91.0 and six months at 20 cents, all in advance. Advertising rates available. obituaries and political appeals may be refused unless author’s real name accompanies submissions. The paper serves Dillon and surrounding eastern North Carolina areas.
The Herald notes wide backing for limiting cotton to one acre per grain acre to save the 1918 cotton crop if the government estimate of 15 million bales is correct. It cites labor pressures, Gen. Crowder’s order, and county meetings urging farmers to prepare for future crops, with delegates sought for a state farmers convention in Columbia.
A Venice correspondent notes rising demand for imitation leathers of specific grades and colors. Once driven by art furniture makers, demand waned due to transport difficulties and luxury restrictions, causing art furniture manufacture and export to stall.
The food administration urges all canners to obtain their full sugar needs for the 1918 season as early as possible. Federal authorities instruct manufacturers of essential foods to secure sugar first to protect canning and preserving of fruits and vegetables. Conservation measures emphasize jams and preserves as valuable food stores.
Columbia reports William Millett SC food administrator attended a meeting of state food administrators in Washington. Under Hoover federal guidance, SC wheat growers will receive liberal grinding allowances. Exact miller instructions not yet set but forthcoming. farmers may have much more wheat ground under new rules.
In early food saving efforts housewives blamed waste in hotels and factories, but now business and private citizens join patriotic wheat saving. The Food Administration cites three bushels saved per 100 threshed with better threshing, urges not to hold crops for arled next year, and notes a grain threshing division educates farmers to maximize output during wartime.
South Carolina food administrator William Elliott asked voters to abstain from political barbecues during the campaign year. He cited waste and wartime food shortages, urging patriotic citizens to avoid such indulgences to help feed the hungry world.
Local ads present cash for junk at M B Gehwarts near Brick Warehouse Dillon offering 40 to tie per hundred pounds for scrap iron. Also money to loan on farms and city property at six percent for three to ten years, amounts from two thousand to twenty five thousand, with annual interest. Also sales of Miller certificates, a Maxifer Ton Truck Maker attachment offer, Bank of Dillon stock, a lost watch reward, and wants to buy a good tobacco cotton and grain farm with terms named investor. Track workers needed at Dillon for two dollars per day.
A brief reflective line compares riches love and wisdom to birds gaining wings then flying away. The text ponders whether prudent measures should clip those wings to prevent loss. It reads as a thematic aside on self-interest and restraint.
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