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Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-13
EFFICIENT GINNING AND CLEAN
SEED WILL BE INSISTED UPON

Columbia.-The Food Administra
tion expects the prices fixed for gin.
ming in South Carolina to be followed
strictly. Ginning prices were fixed
recently, as follows: For ginning a
bale Of 500 pounds of lint cotton or
less, $3.50 per bale. For each addi.
tional 10 0pounds Of lint cotton, at the
rate Of 20 cents per 100 pounds. When
bagging and ties are furnished by
ginner, $3.50 additional The farmer
shall have the privilege of furnishing
his own bagging and ties.
Ginners may not charge. on weights
including bagging and ties, but the
prices announced are for net lint cot
ton. Bagging and ties weigh 25
pounds. Therefore, ginners must not
charge in excess of $3.50 a bale, un-
less the weight Of the bale, including
bagging and ties, is more than 525
pounds.
Efficient ginning will be insisted
upon and clean seed must be deliver
ed, Violations Of these rules should
be reported to the County Food Ad-
mlnistrator or to the Food Admins
tration at Columbia, and investigation
will be made.
For ginning upland long staple cot
ton. such as is grown in Darlington
and Florence counties, an additional
charge Of $l00 per bale is permitted.
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-13
NEW WHEAT RULES
ARE NOW IN EFFECT

: Co1umbia.-New rules governing the
sale Of wheat flour, effective Septem
ber 1, have been promulgated by ths
Food Administration.
Retailers are required to sell at the
same time with every four pounds OF
standard wheat flour one pound on
standard corn flour, corn meal corn
-four, or barley -four.
No dealer may force upon the con
sumer any other substitute than the
above with wheat -four.
Instead of the above substitutes
the dealer may, II customer so de-
mands, deliver on he same basis any
Of the following flours: Kaffir -four
rice flour, bean -four, oat -four, milo
flour, potato flour, buckwheat -four
fotarita -four, peanut -four, sweet po
tato flour.
Pure rye -four or meal may be sold
as substitute but must be sold in
the proportion of at least two pounds
OF rye with three pounds of wheat
flour.
Corn meal for use in making corn
bread should be purchased separately
from combination sales.
Corn meal purchased as a substitute
with wheat flour should only be used
in making Victory bread mixture.
Victory Mixed F1our may be sold
without additional substitutes as it is
wheat -four which has mixed with ii
the required amount Of barley corn
or rye -four substitutes.
Victory Mixed Flour includes Gra'
ham, whole wheat or entire wheat
-four or meal when It contains 95 per
cent or more of the wheat berry.
The necessity for conservation OF
wheat -four continues, and all house.
keepers are requested by the Food
Administration to use such wheat
-four as is required carefully and con.
servatively.
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-13
STORAGE WILL SAVE
SWEET POTATOES
Proper Storage Houses Should be
Built to Care for the crop.-Import
ant Product Has Been Poorly Han
died and Big Waste ResvIts-can
Be Avoided.

Columbia-The proper storage Of
sweet potatoes is one Of the most i'm.
portant food conservation measures
that can be put into effect in South
Carolina, and is urged by the Food
Administration. No perishable pro
duct grown in this State is more i'm:
portant than the sweet potato, and
none, as rule, is so poorly handled,
according to United States Depart
ment OF Agriculture experts. To keep
this crop in good condition the pota.
toes must be we'll matured before dig
ging, carefully handled, well dried, or
cured, after being put in the storage
house, and kept at uniform tempera'
ture after they are cured. The only
safe and practical method of storing
sweet potatoes is in a well built stor
age he lse.
Suggestions on storing sweet pota'
toes, and detailed information on how
to construct suitable storage house,
are contained in Farmers Bulletin
go, recently published by the United
States Department of Agriculture, and
q copy Of this bulletin may be had by
any interested person who will write
the Department at Washington and
make request for 1t.
Proper storage Of sweet potatoes
after they have been grown is equal
ly as important as making the pota'
toes. It is good economy to build a
substantial place for keeping the
product, for then the chances OF loss
are greatly reduced, and storage
house win soon pay for itself. There
Is no food to be wasted these days,
and no one should take any chances
Of loss which can be avoided, says the
Food Administration.
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-13
TIME TO PREPARE FOR
INCREASED WHEAT ACREAGE

Clurabia.-The world cry. is for
bread. Wheat is as necessary as bul.
lets. The world situation calls for and
demands an increase in the acreage
planted in wheat for 1919. Now is the
time to begin planning for next years
program.
Farmers should select the land to
be planted to wheat, and thoroughly
prepare the seed bed. The yield per
acre is as important as the acreage,
hence the Importance CT selecting the
farm land best adapted to wheat and
the procuring of good seed free from
disease and weed seeds. All seed
suspected of having smut should be
'reated to insure against loss from
this trouble.
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-13

Send US your JOB printing .
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-13
SELECTION OF SEED CORN
IMPORTANT AT THIS TIME.

Columbia-Selection and testing OF
seed corn is important. Every farmer
should go into his field, select suitable
ears, and so mark them that they may
be readily distinguished. After the
seed corn is harvested it should be
stored so as to protect it from ex.
tremes in weather, insects and rats.
The labor shortage makes it absolute.
ly necessary for the farmers to have
good seed in order to avoid loss OF
time and effort spent in replantina
and to nake every acre produce as
much ae possible 1T time when big
production Of food crops is demanded
81 the W0-N situation.
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-13
THE SUGAR RATION As
MEASURED IN SPOONFUL

y Columbia.-How many teaspoonfuls
are there in one pound Of sugar?
With the sugar ration at 2 pounds
per person rer month it is well enough
to know this.
There are e6 level teaspoonfuls-3
for each day.
There are 4S rounded teaspoonstu:s
-14z for each day.
There are 80 heaping teaspoonfuls--
almost for each day.
It should be remembered that the 2
pounds Per person per month ratioa
covers the use Of sugar for all pur.
poses-including the sweetening OF
tea, coffee, dessert and in cooking.
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-13
WEIGHT OF BAGGlNG AND TIES
IS NOT TO BE CHARGED FOR.

Columbia-It has come to the atten-
ton of the Food Administration that
some of the ginners are charging on
weights which include the weight Of
5agging and ties. The ginning prices
recently announced by the Food Ad.
ministration were for net lint cotton.
Bagging and ties weight 25 pounds to
the bale. Therefore, ginners must not
charge in excess OF $3.50 per bale, for
ginning, unless the weight OF the bale,
including bagging and ties, is more
than 525 pounds. For the excess over
that weight, at the rate Of 70 cents
per 100 pounds Of lint cotton is the
proper charge.
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-13
SANE War BREAD
FOR ALLIED NATIONS
aFifty-Fifty" Rule is Superseded by
New Food Administration Reguia'
tions Which Permit Of Larger Use
Of Wheat-victory Mixed Flours
May be Purchased Without Buying
Substitutes.

! Colunbia.-The 100000 people
| fighting Germany will eat the same
war bread. That is to say that the
war bread Of the allied nations Will
| hereafter be mixed in the same pro-
portions OF wheat -four and subst1'
tutes.
The "fifty-fifty" rule, which has
been in operation in America, under
which It was required that wheat
-four be sold only in equal proportion
with substitutes, has been superseded
/ by new regulations just announced by
the Food Administration and which
became effective on September I. In
| stead OF "fifty-ifty," the proper Ion is
"eighty-t twenty"
Under this international bread pol
icy, formulated by the inter-allied food
council held recently in London, the
people OF the allied countries are per-
mitted to eat bread containing more
wheat -four than they have had at any
time since the beginning Of the war,
and all rationing Of bread among the
allied peoples viii be discontinued at
time when the wheat situation in
Germany and Austria is anything but
promising.
At the same time the wheat re.
sources of the allied countries will be
conserved so as to maintain the nee.
essary reserves against disaster; and
tor that reason It becomes necessary
for the Food Administration to pro-
mulgate the new 'eightytwenty" rule.
The new regulations provide for the
manufacturing and marketing OF a
mixed flour, to be known az Victory
Mixed Flour, under certain standards
set by the Food Administration. Vic
tory Mixed Flour may be purchased
for household use without buying sub
stitutes.
Where straight wheat -four Is pur.
chased, however, twenty per cent OF
other cereal hours or substitutes must
be purchased.
All bakers bread shall contain 20
Der cent OF other cereals and the Food
Administration relies upon the house.
holders; of the country to mix at least
20 per cent Of the substitute cereals
into home baked bread.
Corn meal, for use of corn bread,
should be purchased separately from
combination sales.
Ability to provide the allies with
the new bread and relaxation Of the
restrictions on wheat, In America was
made possible by the sacrifices OF the
American people in their patriotic OBJ
servance of the conservation program
of the Food Administration and the
bumper wheat crop which has just
been harvested.
Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-13
BLAME THE KAISER.

II you are inconyenienced by
the necessity OF using less
sugar than you have been
accustomed to before the war,
don't blame the Food Admins
traitor, but blame the kaiser.
he's responsible for it all.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-24
British Fire Drives Back
Huns in Opening Attack
By .4ssociatef Prcss

With the British Army i'm France,
April 24.-The Germans began a
heavy bombardment of the British
positions in the Somme sector this
morning and the latest reports state
that an attack is in progress.
A German bombardment of the
British positions on both sides of
the River Lave, on the northern bat
tlefront was begun at 4 o'clock this
morning. a large section of this bat
tlefront is seething, although the
definite dimensions of the infantry
action are not yet known.
Northwest of Albert early to-day
enemy troops which advanced from
their trenches for an assault were
driven back by the British fire.
Northwest of Merville a large con-
centration of German soldiers was
dispersed by the British artillery.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-24

chimes. and THE Stouffers" gave an
exhibition of mind-reading. Miss
Eleanore Stouffer was the principal
in the act, giving descriptions of
auditors, although she was blind
folded. An operetta, The Nanks
Yanking the Kaiser" presented by
Mrs. nellie Fernsler and Fleister
Culp, struck a popular chord. The
story was told in popular songs.
\ Mrs. Roy G. Cox, Mrs. ]. G.. San
ders, George Sutton and D. d. Hol-
lenbaugh composed The Liberty
Quartet" singing a number of beau
tiful selections as the closing of the
musical program.
As a final number members of the
Y. w. c. A. gymnasium classes gave
an exhibition of aesthetic dancing.
Misses Faye Haverstick Esther
Wheeler, Florence Frank, Jean Mot
ter, Mary Frances Rockefeller and
Grace Robinson were the members
of the class. Misses Motter and Hav-
erstick are prominent solo dancers.
All the members of the class showed
the carefu! and capable training of
Miss Marjorie Bolles, physical direc-
tor of the Y. w. c. A, under whose
direction they appeared last night.
Everything Free
Uncle Sam, in the person of Flavel
l.. Wright, appeared in the audience
selling large Thrift cards. These
cards sell at $50 each. David Kauf-
man purchased the first card. Fol-
lowing his purchase a number of
others were sold. Rotarians who as
sisted in the entertainment were:
Flavel L. Wright. interlocutor.
End Men-John H. Nixon, John H.
Kreamer, John S. Musser, Richard
C. Jobe, John F. Maclary, John F.
O'Neil.
Company-A. D. Bacon. ]. w.
Bowman. j. II. Bell, A. M. Blake.
c. w. Boil, z. B. Black, D. w. Cot
P G.. Diener, R. w. Dowdell, S. P.
Eby, G. w. Ensign, G. H. Jeffers, C.
H. Kehr, c. E. L. Keen, A. II. Kreid-
Ter, c. II. Koch, ]. B. Lawrence, R.
H. Lyons. c. ]. Lewis, w. S. Long
maker, A. w. Moul, F. II. Marsh, j.
II. McCandless. f. B. Musser, C. NJ.
Forney, H. C. Fry, C. G. Fickes. w.
II. German. S. II. Hughes, B. r. Hun
ter, II. l.. Holmes, A. l.. Holman, E.
n. Hershey, A. L. Hall, Preston
Crowell, w. II. Robson. B. w. Saul,
w. G.. Starry, G.. NJ. Steinmetz, j. F.
Saussaman, G.. P. Tillotson, C. j.
Wood. Jr.. Brook Trout and Joe
Youngel.
The musical director was C. Linn
Scott.
The talent for the show was all
given free. Wilmer & Vincent gave
the theater. through Manager Hop
kins: the orchestra charged nothing
for it's servises, the stage hands con-
tributed their work and the Rotary
Club bore the other expenses, the
tickets being all redeemable in
stamps at their face value. The ar
rangements for the show were made
largely by p. G. Diener and Richard
c. Jobe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-24
FEW FOLKS HAVE
GRAY HAIR NOW
Druggist Says Ladies are Using
Recipe of Sage Tea and
Sulphur.

Hair that loses its color and lustre.
or when il fades, turns gray. dull
and hteless, is caused by d Lack of
sulphur in the hair. Our grand
mother made up a mixture of Sage
Tea and Sulphur to keep her locks
dark and beautiful, and thousands
of women and men who value that
even color, that beautiful dark shade
of hair which is so attractive. use
only this old-time recipe.
Nowadays we get this famous
mixture improved by the addition of
other ingredients by asking at any
drug store for bottle of
"Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com
pound" which darkens the hair so
naturally, so evenly. that nobody can
possibly tell It has been applied
You just dampen a sponge or soft
brush with it and draw this through
your hair, taking one small strand
at a time. BY morning the gray hair
disappears; but what delights the
ladies with Wyeth's Sage and Sui
phur Compound. is that. besides
beautifully darkening the hair after
a few applications, it also brings
back the gloss and lustre and gives
ii an appearance of abundance.
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com
pound is delightful toilet requisite
TO impart color and a youthful ap-
pearance to the hair. It is not in
tended for the cure, mitigation or
prevention of disease.-Adv.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-24
Liberty Editorial
Medical Examiner. Philadelphia
Division. Pennsylvania
Railroad
TRYING TINE

m HIS is the time that tries mems
souls through the pocketbook.
We gray-haired men who stay
at home in comfort and safety pass
and repass upon the streets the boys
IN khaki.
Nothing do they stop TO ask of US.
But as we note with growing Won
der their health, their youth, their
unmistakable seriousness, this ques-
ton demands of US an answer:
What have l ever done that such
men should fight, should die, for
me? What am doing now?"
II Is my fight! I DO believe in
the war.
You have not bought a Liberty
that these boys should fight for
YOU?
The man who has bought Bonds
finds in this a little solace as he
watches the soldier boys. l try to
question the motive of no man who
has failed to buy. Yet this test 1
would submit to you:
When back comes your neigh boris
son to say good-by before he sails
for France TO fight. tell him your
reason for not buying Bonds.
At this time he labors under no
illusions.
He thinks of patriotism in terms
Of life and death.
If you can look him straight in the
eeys after you talk through your
list of ecusesx. we'll and good.
But If you feel shifty-
., buy a Bond,
Be a man-not a burden.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-24
TEUTONS WANT
CLEAR PATHFOR
WAR IN HOLLAND
Ultimatum Includes Privilege
of Transit on Canals and
Railways

London, April 24.-The German
ultimatum. according to advices re-
ceived in London. demands the right
of transit not only for civilian sup
plies and of sand and gravel through
Holland, but also for war materials.
The privilege OF transit is asked
not only on the Dutch canals but also
on the railways.
Germany has never before made
any claim of the right of transit for
aVowed war materials and the yield
ing of Holland on this point would
he equivalent to the abandonment of
Dutch neutrality.
Relations between Germany and
Holland still are discussed in dis
patches from Holland with the sug-
gestion that the situation is extreme
ly serious.
The sand and grave questions
takes a prominent place in all the
reports, but some of the corre-
SpondentS write of several others.
The correspondent of the Times at
The Hague mentions among other
things the reported demand that
Holland shall guarantee TO Germany
a supply of raw materials immedi-
ately after the war while a certain
quantity OF Dutch tonnage is de-
manded for the same period.
1t is further suggested. the Times
adds, that the Germans expect to be
able to force Holland TO accept such
conditions as would virtually COM
pei the entente allies TO formally oc-
cupy the Dutch colonies, which
would throw Holland completely into
German hands.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-24
Books and Magazines

Frank Wedckind-In the midst of
the great world events now passing,
the death of Frank wedekind. in
Munich, on February 9th, at the age
of fifty-four, has remained almost
unneticed. Yet he is one of the out
standing literary figures of our age, a
writer whom critics place on a par
with Ibsen, Strindberg, Zola and
Dostoyevsky. Merciless in probing
the truth to the bottom, no matter
where it led, he uncovered in his
dramas all the ills and ugliness of
existing society, cut the body of hu-
manity open, took its heart into his
hand and exhibited il to the gaze of
all. 1t was not a pleasant sight
but Wedekind hated sham above
everything else. He wanted the re-
ality, and if that was disappointing,
then, in wedekind's opinion, the
best way to change and improve it
was not to fool oneself about it and
pretend that it is what it is not. but
to boldly face the actually.
Boni and Liveright announce that
they are reprinting the following
books which they published late in
Stories" edited by Willard Hunting
ton Wright, Sister Carrie" by Theo-
dore Dresser and "a Family of No
blemen" by NJ. Y. Saltykov, the Rus
sian satirist. In making this an
nouncement the publishers remark
that they hardly see how matters of
this kind can be of much interest
or value to the book reading public,
unless there is specific information
as to the number of copies compris-
ing each edition. When 1t is announc-
ed that 100000 copies of 'Over the
Top" have been sold, book lovers
hear something that they very likely
want to know. An edition of a book
may mean anything from 500 to
100, 900 copies, it being generally un-
derstood that this latter figure will
represent the first reprinting in a
cheap edition, by Chicago house, OF
one of last years most popular war
books. So Boni and Liveright add
to their announcement that there
first printing of The Great Modern
French Stories and "a Family Of
Noblemen" was 1900 copies each,
and of "Sister Carrie. which had al
ready sold more than $4,000 copies
before bing published by them in the
present authors authorized edition,
1000 copies. While these figures are
in no way stupendous or likely to
excite ones imagination, they seem
to represent a healthy demand for
good books.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-24
Stomach Misery
Get Rid of That Sourness, Gas
and Indigestion.

When your stomach is out of order
or run down, your food doesn't digest.
1t ferments in your stomach and
forms gas which causes sourness.
heartburn, foul breath, pain at pit OF
stomach and many other miserable
symptoms.
Mi-o-na stomach tablets will give
joyful relief in FIVE minutes; If taken
regularly for two weeks they will
turn your fiabby. sour, tired out stom-
ach into sweet, energetic, perfect
working one.
You can't be very strong and Wig
Your appetite will go and nausea, dfz-
ziness biliousness, nervousness, sick
headache and constipation will follow.
Mi-o-na stomach tablets are small
and easy to swallow and are guaran-
teed to Danish Indigestion and any or
all OF the above symptoms or money
back For sale by II. c. Kennedy and
all leading druggists.-Advertfs
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-24
Local Men Listed For
Commissions at Camp

Fifty Pennsylvania boys are quail
fed for commissions at the third Sc
ries officers training school. Fort
Oglethorpe, Ga, and are listed 'as
eligible for appointment as second
lieutenants. Announcement to this
effect came from Fort oglethorpe to-
day.
Several men from this vicinity are
among those listed for commissions.
They are: John Carleton Lingle, of
Middletown, field artillery; Charles
II. Martin. of Carlisle. infantry; j. S.
Phillips, of Williamstown, field artil-
lery; Edward L. Moore, of New
Bloomfield, infantry. and George NJ.
Dorwart, of Newport, infantry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-24
HE CURED
CHRONIC COLD
WITH VINOL
Mr.. Bagley's Letter Printed
Here as Proof

Dunn, N. CT suffered with a
chronic cold for four months, cough
ed day and night. Had to keep on
working when was not able to. 7
saw Vinol advertised and tried IT.
and want to tell you it just cured
that cold in a short time."-J. c.
Bagley, Dunn, N. c.
That's because Ninol is a constitu-
tional cod liver and iron remedy
which aids digestion, enriches the
blood and creates strength. Then
chronic coughs and colds naturally
disappear. Your money will be re-
turned if it does not help you.
George A. Gorgas, druggist: Ken
nedy's Medicine Store, 321 Market
St; c. +. Kramer, Third and Broad
Sts.; kitzmiller's Pharmacy, 1926
Derry St., Harrisburg,and at the
best drug store in every town and
city in the country.-Adv.