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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1918
Page
6
The Federal Food Administration orders dairy handling rules with county committees to enforce changes. It stresses eliminating duplicate cream stations, centralizers, and waste while boosting quality and local production. outlines price reporting, a cream testing department, and the need for cooperation to implement the plan statewide.
The Normal and Public libraries report a request from the American Library Association for more books for troops overseas. Popular titles include Jane Grey Rex Beach Jack London Ralph Connor Owen Wister and C Henry. Local libraries will forward suitable donations and urge community support as over 600 000 books have already been sent abroad. Dispatch offices ship books to France in strong cases serving as bookcases. Readily read on transports the volumes are later delivered to reopens by competent officials in France.
Report details Barnes County War Savings Stamp campaign results aiming for 375000 dollars. County pledges reach 220000 with 145000 still needed. Valley City trails by 86000. Districts show strong support in many schools while several areas face shortfalls, urging further contributions from residents to back the war effort.
Governor Lynn J. Frazier led a 30 member state official and employee party to Julius Anderson’s farm to shock grain cut during the day. The workers’ pay will go to the Red Cross. The group included Secretary Nelson Mason Secretary of State Thomas Hall Attorney General Langer E B Cox tax commission Frank Packard land commissioner Wm Prater and others from the state council of defense.
Dr F L Wicks offers specialized eyeglass fitting in Wicks Block with contact phone 493. Public notice invites patients to inquire at the office for vision needs.
Scrap buyer seeks iron metal rubber tires brass and other scrap. Will pay market value per ton. May and June collection requested. Call 334 for prices and arrangements.
Officials and local district exemption board members receive deferred status under draft laws per adjutant general Fracer following Provost Marshall General Crowder's telegram. Crowder stresses value of retaining draft officials and confirms their deferred classification.
The Federal Food Administration distributes Customer's Card No 2 to North Dakota grocers for recording multiple sugar flour and substitute purchases within a 30 day period. Card 2 includes family size and total supply fields and must be retained by dealers and returned monthly. Card 1 supplies can still be used until exhausted. Card 2 will remain in use until regulations change.
Dorr Carroll of the state council of defense warned North Dakota must nearly double lignite production in 1918 to offset reduced eastern coal imports. He noted 684,000 tons produced in 1917 and a total consumption around 4,500,000 tons, with 1,750,000 of bituminous and 250,000 of anthracite. He urged immediate orders to expand mines, cars, and miners.
Secretary Thomas Allen Box outlines a statewide defense effort to consolidate war work under county bodies. He notes 45 counties already organized with branches in towns and townships and calls for cooperation across harvest and Liberty Loan drives. He warns against profiteering, urges patriotism, and says every county will form a defense body to spearhead activities.
The Times-Record sells fine war maps for one dollar each while supply lasts. The maps show battle field layouts and include valuable information for readers tracking the war. Mr and Mrs W E McCurdy of Washburn NC visited the city yesterday and stayed at the Rudolf Hotel.
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