Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-07
COUNTY ORGANIZATION
FOOD PLEDGE CAMPAIGN

Portland. Me. Feb. 6.-.About 1000
patriotic Maine men and women have
voluntarily enlisted for the intensive
Food Conservation Campaign 10 start
ir the State the week of Feb. $ to %
This organization u be headed by
State Campaign Director W. b. Moore
OF Portland and under the supervision
of Federal Food Administrator DR..
Leon S. Merrill, Includes county chair
men and vice chairmen in each city,
town. plantation and hamlet
This regiment" of volunteer work
ers are really the executives in their
respective communities and will have
the assistance Of several thousand high
school students and OF children of the
higher grades in the public schools.
State Campaign Director w. b. Moore
announced today the personnel of the
county organization in the State as
follows:
AndroscoSgin A Free, chairman.
Lewiston; Mrs g. w. Anthony. vie,
chairman. Lewiston.
Aroostool;-h. W. shay u, q4airm q. n
chairman. Pressure Isle.
Cumberland-William NJ PennelI, chair
man, Portland; Mrs. T. q. Nanamee, vic
chairman Portland
Franklin-Currier G. Holman, chair
man. Pennington; Mrs W. q. Mallet'.
vice chairman, Pennington.
Hancock-Charles Z. Pineo rhairmau-,
Bar Harbor: Mrs. i. Melvin Millillem. vice
chairman. Bar iIarbor.
kennebec--W G Atkins, chairma n.
Gardiner; Mrs. Y. G. Totman, vice chair
man. Oakland.
knox-Fred W. Wight. chairman. Rock
land; Mrs. Ada J. Blackingtor, VIC"
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Lincoln-John NJ; Gliddsn, ehai'mo il,
chairman, Wscas set
oxford-Aibert J. stearns:: chairma".
chairman, Rumford,
Penobscot-Wilfred A. Hennessy, char
man, Bangor; Miss Frances r. Freeman,
vice chairman. cronO.
. Observation-Disclosures NJ. Hamln. chair-
man, Milo; Miss Alice AveriH. vice cha =
man, Dover FoXcrOft.
agadahoc--William Il. Kimban chai-~
man, Bath; Mrs. Palmer Cobb, vice
chairman, Bath
somerset-L; /, Watson, chairman,
Skowhegan; Mrs. Vivian G. Woodbury..
vice chairman. Skowhegan.
Waldo-O. +. Frost chairman. Belfast
Mrs. G.. W. Wescott, vice chairman, Be! E.
fast.
Neutrality-suspicious. Day, chairman,
Machias: Mrs. Katherine F. Frost, v'cc
chairman. DennySville.
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Biddeford: Mrs. Edward lIussey. ice
chairman, Sanford
Because of the crisis existing in the
food situation in this country and orr
associates in the war. The people of
this State, as we'll as throughout the
Nation, will be asked to make addi-
tional sacrifices toward food cunserva-
ton and tood substitution.
There Will he distributed in this
State 100000 Of the new Home Card
for 1918 bearing a personal message
from Herbert Hoover and the new food
regulations to be observed in every
American home. 1t is not proposed
that the distribution of this new infor-
nation from the L. =. Food Admin
iStration will be Il general house TO
house canvass as was done in sign
ing the pledge cards during the Fam
lily Enrolment Campaign in October.
The general plan of distribution and
for reaching every home in the State
il as follows:
Each colnty viii receive z supply of
this card and circulars, exceeding at
least 20 per cent Of the number of fam
lilies in the county. The county chair
men and vice chairmen will arrange
for the distribution as equitably as
possible to the various city and town
chairmen and vice chairlnen. The CO.
operation of the high school students
and school children of the higher
grades will assume the duties of plac-
ing the new Home Card in every
home in the State Of Maine.