The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-14
ANOTHER HINT ON ECONOMY
Dr.. Bailey of State University Advises
kansans to Make Tt cir Own
Breakfast Foods.

Isn't sixty cents pound rather high
to pay for breakfast feed that is
made entirely from wheat? That
makes the wheat retail for $36 q
bushel in the form of breakfast food
and isn't $50 bushel rather high for
wheat even in war times? DR.. E. H.
S. Bailey, head of the chemistry de-
partment in the University of Kansas
and specialist in foods, asks these
questions. Doctor Bailey says that is
just what it costs to eat a certain kind
Of popular breakfast food Another
wheat breakfast food that retails for
sixteen cents a pound makes the con-
sumner pay $3.50 a bushel for wheat
and still another that retailS for TWEEN
ty-four cents a package charges the
housewife who buys it $14.40 a bushel
for wheat. No. 2 hard wheat is sell
ing at around So busnel now. Other
breakfast foods make the consumer
pay $3.50 to $25 bushel for wheat and
around 81 bushel for corn. The
Kansas City market quotes corn at
close to $40 a busheI
ct is an uneventful day no new
breakfast food is put on the market"
Doctor Bailey said. Most wonder
full are the virtues ascribed to them,
but isn't it common sense that pro-
ducts made from wheat, corn, or other
grain cannot contain any more brain
food 'anti-fat' or other nutrition than
is contained in the wheat, corn or
other grain? A few years ago the
housewife arose early to cook the fam
lily oatmeal or mush. Today she must
have these expensive hurTy-up foods
in fancy packages. While we are
studying economy would it not be a
good plan to use a little gas, oil or
stove wood in cooking breakfast food
than in paying such high prices for
them?
Accepts HoIton Band.-The Holton
municipal band of twenty-five pieces
| has been accepted by the government
as a marine band. Lieutenant Walter
D. Smith of the United States marine
band of Washington and Captain En-.
slick of st. Louis, recruiting officer OF
the Central division of the United
States marine corps tested the play.
ing ability of the band and accepted it
as a unit. 1t will be known as the
Second Regiment Marine band.
Waitress Inherits $25, ooo.-Mrs.
Lorraine SlagIe, waitress in local res
taurant, received word today that she
had been left tract of land and about
$4,000 in cash and personal property
by an uncle who recently died at
Windsor, Mo. Mrs. Slagle has been
working for years to keep four chill
dren in a convent school at Cleburne
Tex. She will take her children with
her to the Missouri estate at once.
College Man Drowned.-Homer Par
ker, 20 years old. a senior in Highland
college, was drowned the other after
noon in Wolf river.
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Arrested Stacker at Richmond.-Se
cret service men arrested Willie Hous
ton here recently for failure to regis
ter. His bond vas fixed at $4,000.
! Prepare Site for Hotel. = The Las
sen, Wichita's ten-story hotel, was
assured when workmen began tearing
down the small structures at the
northwest corner OF First and Market
streets, the site of the new building
The contract calls for the Lassen tc
be under roof on December 1.
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! A Recruit Drowned at Riley. n
Rasmussen, a recruit of the Twenty
first Cavalry. was drowned while
| swimming in the Kansas river neal
Fort Riley recently.
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Woman a. Court cierk.-Mrs. Mar
Gilfry has been appointed by Judg'
Charles A. Smart at Garrett to th'
| vacancy In the district court clerkshiE
created by the death OF Mrs. LeEis
Jackson. ]. N Morris. formerly clerk
has been named as Mrs Gilfry'I
deputy.