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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1918
Page
1
The Texas Bar Association reports a committee is investigating lawyers who charged registrants for legal advice under the draft act. It will recommend disbarment for those found guilty. The association defends most lawyers as loyal citizens and condemns avaricious practices.
Paris dispatch quotes French military authorities predicting continuous Allied pressure until the German forces are completely exhausted. Henry Bidou states the American Army and French reserves are ready to act and maintain pressure everywhere.
Mr and Mrs W J Bell of Madill Oklahoma spent the week end with his sister Mrs Jack Everheart north of town in a brief social item.
The article details nationwide registration for men aged 18 to 45 on September 12 under the President's proclamation. It notes registration hours 7 am to 9 pm, use of local draft boards, and assistance from officials to ensure orderly conduct. Projections show about 12.8 million registrants with 2.3 million likely drafted for general service, many of them from ages 18 to 21, with emphasis on later deployment to France.
The government outlines a wheat embargo effective from last Sunday with rules for flour substitutes. Victory Mixed flour will be 80 percent wheat flour and 20 percent substitute, while whole wheat and graham flours qualify as victory flour if 95 percent of the wheat berry is used. Retailers may stock straight white flour with barley flour or corn meal and must sell one pound of substitute per four pounds of wheat flour. Breakfast substitutes like oat meal and hominy are removed, and the eighth barrel limit is lifted to allow a sixty day flour supply.
Local humor chronicles Moon's marriage in Van Zandt as a change of Moon and the birth of a daughter as a new Moon. He celebrates drunkenly then finds only 25 cents left, a last quarter. His return home ends in a total eclipse. PMID: Quanah Observer.
The voluntary enlistment system ends and draft regulations may allocate a portion of conscripts to the navy and marine corps. Induction in special branches will have limited latitude, though actual volunteering is not permitted. Details are being withheld.
The youngest Texas governor in state history is Hobby who was born in Pell county on March 26, 1878. He moved to Houston at 14, joined the Houston Post at 17, later became managing editor and owner of the Beaumont Enterprise. He served twice as lieutenant governor and became governor after Ferguson's removal and has now won election.
T Mathieu, a 35 month French army officer discharged as physically unfit, resigns a $350 job to take a $30 position as civilian manager of the airplane division at Kelly Field in San Antonio. His condition has since improved.
He met United States Army requirements and enlisted to serve under the Stars and Stripes at $30 per month, performing the same civilian job he earned $350 monthly. A pioneer aviator in France, he began flying in 1909.
Washington issues a subscription notice demanding nonrenewal of papers after expiration starting October 1 1918. The War Industries Board regulation applies nationwide with penalties for noncompliance. Ben Roberts and his wife visited his mother Mrs Mel Roberts in Dallas on Sunday.
London Sept 2 Col Godfrey Jones a Welsh regiment officer has been promoted to brigadier general in the British army. He began as a coal miner in Wales and rose from private to general through steady promotions while the heir to the throne holds a lower rank.
Mr M B Henning assistant cashier of Princeton Bank and Miss Leona Carver of Farmersville married at the Oran Sears residence near town last Thursday afternoon Rev W J Epting officiating Mrs Henning is Sears sister in law
Miss Olive Neff returns home from a 16 month visit near Ranger. She travels with her uncle J. T. Falls and cousins Miss Nannie Falls and P. T. Falls and his wife.
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