The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-06-20

Under the new baking rules issuse
nv the food administration, the subseS
tute for wheat-hour content o. ~
bread and rolls must amount to 70 pm
cent. The substitute content hereaftsT
required In various products follow:
Sweet yeast dough goods, 3S 1-S pei
cent; crackers. is per cent; cooker
and Ice cream cones, 33 1-3 per cent
cakes, SO 1-3 per cent; pies. 30 l-S PEI
cent fried cakes, SO 1-S per cent; pas
try, SO 1-3 per cent; batter cakes, wal.
fies. quickbreads-such as muffins ano
Boston brown bread, SO % per cent.
Under the new rules no public eat
ing place may serve more than two
ounces Of bread and rolls or more tnap
four ounces of quickbread to any one
person at any one meal.
With customers who buy loaf bread,
bakers are urged to promote the use OF
the three-quarter pound loaf, following
the food administrators request thaf
the 12-ounce loaf be used where the 10
ounce loaf was used before.
Bakers are urged to Introduce
"Quick-breads" as wheat-savine
measure. These quick breads, includ-
ing mullins, baking-powder biscuits
corn bread, Boston brown bread, grid
die cakes, and waffies, must contain
two-thirds wheat-four substitutes.
The use Of the words milk" or
scream" on wrappers and labels Is no
longer prohibited, but milk bread must
still be sold at the same price as bread
made without milk.
The official review Of the first year
Of war issued by the committee on pub
lie information contained the following
description of the work Of American
engineers in France:
American engineers have gone into
French forests and done the work OF
the pioneers of our own Northwest.
They have frequently been under fire.
One Of their first tasks was the recon
struction and extension Of railroad
800 miles long to carry our products
from ports Of Decentralization to gen
eral bases of operation.
The First Engineers troops, LOO
strong, arrived In France about three
months after war was declared. Since
then the number has been greatly aug
mented. These troops have been con-
stantly engaged in general engineer
Ing work, including the construction
Of railways, docks wharves, canton
ments, and hospitals.
An American army locomotive was
built In this country In Fl days and
shipped to the Expeditionary Forces.
Many other locomotives, cars, logging
trains, tracks, disassembled buildings
and other equipment have been shipped
to augment the output end facilitate
the construction operations Of Ameri-
can forces abroad.
The federal trade commission has
issued orders to 90 lumber companies
of the middle West and far West re-
quiring them to stop certain trade
practices in relation to mail-order lum-
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which are barred by the orders are the
following:
Obtaining from mail-order concerns,
In bad faith or by subterfuge, esti-
mates of the prices of lumber and
building material and obtaining cata-
logues and special information intend
ed only for bona fide customers and
prospective customers.
Through actual or threatened with
drawal Of patronage, inducing manu-
facturers or wholesalers to refuse to
furnish supplies Of lumber and build
ing material to mail-order concerns.
Following or causing statesmen of
mail-order concerns to be followed
from place to place with the object of
hindering and embarrassing them in
their negotiations with prospective
customers.
The latest bread allowances in
France, placing the ration at about
two-thirds Of that heretofore main
tanned, limit maximum consumption
per day. as follows:
Children less than three years old
3h ounces.
Children from three to thirteen year.
old, seven ounces.
Persons from thirteen to sixty year.
!, old 10la ounces (hard workers In thi.
age class may receive 81 ounce,
more.)
Persons over sixty, seven ounces.
Parents of soldiers in camps ar,
warned by the war department of ,
: swindle which has been successful,
operated In various camps.
A telegram is sent informing tina
/ the soldier has a furlough, and re
? questing funds by wire to come home
waving Identification. The rest is
: mere matter of detail.
: Parents and friends should be warn
, ed of this game and of the similar on
i where the telegraphic request is t
I mail money to the soldier, care ger
: eral delivery.