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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1918
Page
2
The Indicator Editor and Publisher enters at Westville post office as second class matter. The weekly paper is published every Thursday in Westville Indiana and 5,000 readers in Laporte and Porter counties. Advertising rates are set on application and copy must reach Wednesday noon for same week publication. Get busy.
The June 28 W. 8 S. S. meeting guides a citizen presiding and a secretary reading commissions. It lists order of business from Governor proclamation to Star Spangled Banner, plus minutes deadline and post meeting duties. Local social notes follow.
County Agent Link with County Agent Harper surveyed wheat fields in the northern tier townships finding good grain largely free of disease. Clarence Wilson’s Washington township Michigan Amber yielded 35 to 40 bushels before hail damage. Wilson faces about 2000 dollars loss and offers seed.
Women interested in Liberty Gardens are requested to communicate with Mrs. E. G. Smail at R. R. 8 La Porte Indiana. The notice lists crops including cucumber sweet corn lima beans eggplants tomatoes muskmelon watermelon peppers and string beans.
Dr Harry F E Barnard Indiana federal food administrator warns no bread price rise is justified by substitute costs and cites downward trends in corn meat and corn flour. He orders discontinuation of ice shipments in several communities and bans thrift stamp bonuses for wheat flour sales while upholding strict ration rules. Lafayette grocer B A Carman a faces a one week suspension for selling pancake flour as a wheat flour substitute at inflated prices per Tippecanoe county official action.
Wilson calls the nation to a thrift campaign to boost war production and conserve resources. He urges every citizen to invest savings in Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps, pledging before June 28 to support government securities and national production.
The message urges citizens to buy War Savings stamps as a wartime duty and contrasts consumer luxury spending with supporting the armed forces abroad. It calls June 28 as the day the Kaiser will not celebrate and emphasizes boys in France sacrifice their lives for country.
Mr. Simpkins pays income tax for 1917 on a $15,000 income under evolving laws. He frets over fairness, recalls Judge Willoughby and the Tuscania loss, and mails his tax return with a mix of pride and reflection on war sacrifices. A second tale recalls Red Cross bag makers racing to finish for soldiers.
Your donation funds relief across war-torn regions including France Serbia Italy Armenia and Romania. The Red Cross directs aid to the hungry shelterless and wounded with programs for invalided lifers crippled veterans children prisoners and repatriates. Each dollar yields 100 cents of aid with overhead covered by interest from deposited funds.
Federal Food Administration directs earlier wheat marketing to meet Allied demands and supply domestic needs. Hoover urges Indiana farmers to bring all wheat except seed reserves to market before May 1. if mills cannot buy, channel through Grain Corporation. Bakers must use Victory recipe with 20 percent substitutes and avoid egg waste. Transportation delays raise prices. list of military personnel contributions included.
The Red Cross hospital supply service in France runs 16 warehouses stocked with drugs, medicines, surgical instruments and dressings for 3,428 French military hospitals. Paste for wallpaper is restricted to very low grade wheat flour unfit for bread making as housekeeping season nears.
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