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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10

be all the children will care for. The
older members Of the family will prob
ably like mullins or griddle cakes. with
cupful of coffee. Most delicious.
fluffy corn -four cakes can be made
by using one beaten egg, a half-tea-i
spoonful of salt, a cupful of sour milk !;
the richer the better, and half-tea-
spoonful Of soda; stir in enough corn
-four to make it of the consistency
liked for cakes. The thinner they will
cook and turn well the more delicate
Is the texture Of the cake. Serve
these with maple strip or corn strip
and the family will ask for them again
and again.
Fried cornmeal mush is another
good and substantial breakfast disL
(which will stay by" until another.
meal. Bits Of meat, chopped driec
fruit like dates and figs or nuts, arc
all good to add to it and increase the
food value of the dish.
Vegetables, because of their bulk,
are most necessary and should form
a large part Of the food of the entire
family after 1t is out of the milk stage.
Vegetables are rich in mineral salts
and vegetable acids as well as the
wonderful and little known, growth
determinants. can onion day keeps
the doctor away" If the women who
are an ounce overweight would cut
out one meal day or eat very lightly
at luncheon and not gormandize at
dinner, they would feel better, be hap
pier and able to accomplish more
work and at the same time be doing
something to help win the war by con
serving food. Children should not be
stinted, as they need food for growth !;
but the average man or woman might
easily cut down the food from one
quarter to half and gain in physical
as well as mental power by so doing.
1t is not well to serve cornmeal at
noon or night if it has been served in
any form at breakfast, unless the fam,
lily is especially fond of it.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10

and terminal warehouses at French
ports, which used up the greater part
Of 1876, 100000 expended during the
year for military engineering opera
lions.
The American army 10 the best clothed
and best fed army in the world. and
the following Illustrative figures of
quartermaster purchases are interest.
ing. For example, take six standard
articles Of food. Since the beginning
OF the war there have been bought for
army use 625. 461 1892 pounds Of flour at
a cost Of $43.375, AS; 1852, 316
pounds Of sugar at . cost Of $14.452s
512; O,451 $50 pounds Of bacon at a
cost of $4,000 900; 1O2, S94.742 pounds
Of dry beans. costing $l2.81S, 469; u.
274,529 cans of tomatoes costing 3d.
27S.121, and .3S.42l.2 58 pounds of rice
at a cost of $2,775.O00. These figures
give one an idea Of the size of Uncle
Sans market basket and the huge cost
OF army maintenance.
The clothing bill for the army from
April /, 1917, to August ], 1913. fol-
lows and shows how great sums have
been essential to keep our men COM
fortably clothed:
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10

A hog survey Of Iowa is to be made
by the United States Food Administra-
ton under direction of Administrator
j. r. Deems.
Every hog on every Iowa farm Is to
be counted by the school children dur
ing the month of September so that Mr..
Deems can tell Herbert Hoover exact
ly how much pork Iowa can furnish
for export to our soldiers and our al
lies In the war.
The count will be carried ON by
school districts and will be in charge
In each county of committee COM
posed of the County Food Administra-
tors, the county superintendent Of
schools, the county agricultural agent,
the chairman of the wOman's commit
tee of the Food Administration and
the Council Of National Defense, the
merchants representative on the staff
Of the County Food Administrator, and
the president of the farm bureau Of
the county.
Census cards will be furnished the
pupils of the schools and the boys and
girls will collect the information from
the farmers In each school district.
The census cards will secure the fol-
lowing information as to the hogs on
each farm for Mr.. Hoover and Mr..
Deems:
Number of brood sows with Sucking
pigs.
Number of brood sows in farrow.
Total number of brood sows.
Number of hogs or pigs of 100 pounds
or less, including sucking pigs.
Number Of other hogs over 100
pounds Excluding brood sows).
Total number of hogs.
This information is being secured by
the Food Administration for the rea-
son that it is necessary to know how
much exportable food Iowa may pro-
duce for our soldiers during the year.
The United States must ship to Eu-
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10
ALL MEETINGS STOPPED

By order of the local health author
tiles, the public schools picture shows,
pool halls and all public meeting
places must be closed Immediately ana
remain closed until further notice.
No lodges, meetings or assembleges
of any kind will be permitted. This
is simply measure of precaution to
stamp out the Spanish influenza befor
it becomes serious epidemic as it
is in the east. While any number Of
people have it in this city land vici-
nifty, it is of a comparatively light
form, in most cases, and these precau-
tons are taken to prevent it becom-
ing more serions.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10
Picking Pins From Threat.

The swiftness and case with which
doctor can remove a bone, a pin OF
other object from the windpipe. -esoph..
aglIs or even lung is often astonishing.
This is when he uses one of the tubes
that enable him to look right down
into the organ, see the foreign object
illuminated by an electric lamp and in
sert delicate fcrceps with which to.
seize it and draw it out. Without the
use of an endoscope there is hnch dan
ger of injuring the tissues by blind
feeling for the offending object.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10
Cnlppendale.

chippcndale--thlt's nnn;e to coz
1ufe with! mean this literally. Tor.
so many people do it or try to; I mi,
sure that every one Of you, rcadil.:s,
this, knows the type of commencing
connoisseur who ascribes most of thu
furniture IF the eighteenth century,
and some of the early ninetecnth-st &c
this same dominating Thomas C!ipIen.
dale. But. after all, isn't that tribute
to his personality, a recognition of the
fact that he, first of all the English
cabines makers, was able to break
away from tradition; that he actually
irecreated his trade. making 1t a pro.
fession, an art; and Sc stamped his
Individuality on all his work that II
became known by his name. not BY
that of the reigning monarch Alice
Van Leer Carrick in the House Beau.
ttful.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10
A coRN.cRIB PRocLAMA-
TlON.

To All Anti-Amerlcan Rats:
Be not discouraged by the al
most rat cuteness of these
Americans in building their
corn houses on little piers
with curved, slippery Sheet
metal over the caps just under
the floor joists. We find that
these men soon forget what they
have learned, and fall back into
weak, careless customs.
This fall, when you begin to
return from the fields to your
winter homes, hopefully look to
see If some man has not left a
ladder conveniently leaning
against the door, or-what is
just as good-has used the shell
ter of the building to make a
pile of farm tools reaching from
the ground high enough up for
you to climb within jumping
reach of the cracks in the floor.
Once inside, you need not
worry about these stairways be-
ing taken off.
WILHELM.
September Z, 1918.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10
Harmony Study Club

=
The Harmony Study club met with
Mrs. Margaret Uttman. Thursday,
Oct. 3rd.
Meeting called to order and roll
call responded to with quotations
from Van Dyke.
A report of the clubs French or
phan, Denise Rourtier, was given by
Ellen .Sassaman. The club then adj
journed for their program.
Life of Henry Van Dyke Ethelyn
Blackburn.
Reading from aDays Off, Ellen
Sassaman.
Reading from "The Ruling Passion
Ute Coulthard.
Piano Solo Vera Harvey.
The hostess served lunch, assisted
by Mrs. Ute Coulthard.
Mrs. Frank Harvey and son were
the guests of the club.
Florence Morrow, Sec.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10
FOREIGN PEOPLES
SUFFER FOR FOOD
scoNpIT,oNs OVERSEAS MAKE
! THOSE AT HOME SEEM ALTO
GETHER EASY AND CON-
PLANNING ABSURD.

Conditions relative to the food sup
;ply of foreign peoples are SO much
more serious than those surrounding
our people that complaining about
whether u tea drinker shall have one
or two teaspoonfuls of sugar seems the
height of absurdity, or worse, in the
opinion of officials in charge of the
food conservation program of the
United States.
Food Administrator ]. F. Deems Of
Iowa Is notified that on May 20 the
price of wheat bread in the Ukraine
was about 40 cents per pound loaf !;
and flour 80 cents per pound. These
prices, which are about four times as
high as in the United States, are based
:.on present currency equivalents.
Great Britain has adopted the ra-
ttoning of poultry. So great has be-
come the shortage of feed that 1t is
no longer justitiable to support even a
hen If she fails to do her part toward
feeding the nation.
Biddie Must Earn Rat;ons.
A daily ration of four ounces Of
feed per bird will be provided for birds
.of the best utility breeds up to an ag-
,gregate amount of $4,000 tons of feed
ing stuffs for six months.
Second-grade birds, which must be
bred from proved layers will receive
.rations only after the requirements of
the first grade have been satisfied.
Effects of inadequate food distribu-
ton on prices are shown in Russian
reports. Late in April of this year,
butter was selling in Moscow for SO
cents per pound, while in PetrOgrad,
'4O6 miles distant, the price was So per
pound.
This condition emphasizes the pres
ent Importance in all countries of us
Ing locally produced foods as much as
possible in order to insure adequate
transportation and bring about fairly
level prices for foods in general.
Wheat Only s1.41 There.
The New Zealand government has
made arrangements to take over the
entire wheat crop of that country at
$1.4l per bushel. The present out
look is for an average yield
Rationing of cheese in Switzerland
has been in force since June l. The
allowance is one-half pound per per-
son monthly.
The meat supply in Milan is quite
insufficient, being only about one and
one-third pounds per person per month,
of which 25 to 80 per cent is bone.
The bacon ration in Milan in June was
increased from four and one-half
ounces to ten and one-half ounces. The
ration of Italian paste was increased
from one and One-half pounds to two
and one-fifth pounds, but all other
ratiOns for July were the same as In
June.
Germany Suffers, Too.
About June 20 one meatless week
was introduced, one and fourteenth
ounces of fat and one egg being given
as substitutes. The cheese ration In
Berlin per week is 4.3S ounces, but on
the inhabitants receive this ration
about every four or five months. Fol
the week June 1923 the potato ration
was ~ pounds.
Food rations in Zurich for July pei
person per month We're as follows
Sugar IL pounds; sugar for preserves
~ pounds; alimentary pastes, &c
pound; rice, .SS pound; cheese, IL
pounds; flour, ~ pound; bread (pel
day., AS pound, with % pound add
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10
Mrs. John Reel Dies Suddenly

Mrs. John Reel Dies Suddenly
Mrs. John Reel suffered stroke
of apoplexy late Saturday night and
died without regaining consciousness.
She had been up town during the
evening and went home about 1000
o'clock, apparently in the best of
health. Sometime later she was found
lying on the floor unconscious. A
physician was Immediately called but
she failed to rally and passed away
"a short time afterward.
The funeral will be held from the
Christian church at 200 o'clock and
burial in Rose Hill cemetery.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10
New Times Repcrter

Ralph Hanford has resigned his po-
sitlon with the Times aud has accep-
ted a position at the old Egan store.
Ills position with the Times has been
taken by sam'l Holmes. If you know
any news, or even suspicion any, phone
Sam.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10
Kind, Not Critical.

Think as well as you can Of ever,
one who is trying in these hard times
to 10 his duty-to be brave, cheerful
and useful. Let us not be among
those "who wet their tongue like q
sword and bend their bows to shoot
their arrows, even bitter w.srds. !"
Kindness helps, where criticism can
7ot-Exchange.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10
How Farmers, clubs Can Help.

Meetings of the Grange and Farm
ers' clubs in rural communities
should be utilized for the purpose OF
stirring up enthusiasm for the Liberty
loan. The war which is now being
brought home to all of us in the
daily casualty lists will be the chief
topic Of interest, and 1t will he an
easy matter to turn the discussions to
the necessity and duty of participat-
Ing In the war work by buying Lib
erty Loan bonds.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10
Card of Thanks

Mrs. George Arpp and family wish
to thank the friends and neighbors
and especially the Odd Fellows, the
Woodmen and the Blacksmiths for
their kindnesses and flowers, during
their late bereavement.
Mrs. George Arpp and family
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10
4 poubl.js.vlna.

Honey invested in Liberty bonds
not only insures quick assets when
most needed with a good monetary re-
turn If held to maturity. but after the
war the buying power win be great
ly enhanced. making double saving.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10
.WHA7' UNCLE SAM
DOES WITH MONEY
How Funds Raised by Sale Of
Liberty Loan Bonds Is Ex-
pended by Government.
FIGURES ARE STAGGERING
Estimated Total Of $4,000, oooo 900
Will Be Spent This Year for Prepa-
ration and Maintenance Of
Our Fighting Forces.

Now that the people of the United
States are to be asked in the Fourth
Liberty Loan drive which opens Sep
TENDER IS and continues three weeks.
to lend the government at least twice
as much money as has been asked be-
fore, the treasury department realizes
that there is natural curiosity on the
part OF the public to know for what
all is money is being expended. The.
amount already spent on preparation
and the maintenance of the fighting
forces Staggers the Imagination, and
the prospect is for an even larger ex-
peNGlture in the present fiscal year,
the total being estimated at $24,OOO,-
100000
Figures received ut Liberty Loan
headquarters for the Seventh Reserve
district from the war department give
~ idea of the vast sums which have
5.en expended and which will have to
te spent to win the war, and this In
.nton brings home to all Ameri-
Cans u concrete idea of how much
money 1T takes to wage modern war
and how our money is being used to
win victory.
The following figures are an answer
to the query of the average Liberty
Bond buyer: just what will Uncle
Sam do with the money from my $500
bond? single bond does not go far to-
ward meeting the expense of war, it Is
pointed out, but when the bonds of
millions OF Americans are brought to-
gether, the total Of cash provided
reaches stupendous totals.
Since the United States entered the
war in April, 1917, the war department
has raised. equipped, trained and, with
naval help. sent across the sea upward
of Il million and half of soldiers, and
has practically as many more under
training at home. OF all this vast
number of men sent abroad, the num-
Der lost in transit as result of
U-boat attacks up to September /,
1918, was less thar 500
During this same time 100000
rifles have been made, inspected, as.
sembled and issued, and the weekly
production is growing.
The total amount of money directly
appropriated by congress for the ord
nance program, for which authorize
ton has been given to incur obliga-
tons, amounts to approximately $12,-
000,000,OOO.
From the beginning of the war to
June 30, 1913 the last day of the past
fiscal year, contracts were placed by
the ordnance department from appro-
pri.tions and authorizations existing
at that time amounting to $4,3OO,OOO-
600. 1t is now estimated that during
the present fiscal year ending June 80,
1919. the actual cash expenditures for
ordnance will reach total of $1,000
100000.
The major items for which cash ex-
penditures We're made or for which
contracts were placed up to June 80,
1918. We're as follows:
.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10

10 pass WITH HItIe( cOm-
ment or a great deal of
planning. We have any
number of breakfast
foods that will supply Il
fair meal with top milk.
A good dish Of we'll
cooked oatmeal with top
milk or thin cream will
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10

Red Cross Rooms Closed
By orders of the Board Of Health,
prohibiting all public gatherings, all
the Red Cross work rooms will be
closed until further notice.
Mrs. J. B. Barrett, Pres
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10
The HEN
GBINETizl s

When we look into the long avenue
of the future and see the good there is
for each Of US to do, we realize after
all what beautiful thing it is to work
and to live and be happy
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10
MEALS FOR THE DAY.

In these days of conservation OF
wheat, the breakfast helps one meal
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10
See the Updikes

See the Updikes.
The Updike Grain Co., will run
their elevator here as a country sta
ton for the present. See them for
prices. They buy all kinds Of grain.
8-12 tt.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10

Dates for Topper and Son.,
can 1be taken at the State Saw
ings Bank, Mo. Valley. IT,.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10

Oil
You can have your oil can filled at
your home by phoning,
H. C. Hansen,
If. Phone 275-J.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-10

Want e Sen7 uss The Timss.
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Drs. Gamble and Gamble.
Osteopatns Sixth g.
Gilpin observer., 1918-01-24
M. e. CHURCH

Services for next Sunday:
10 a. m. Classmeeting, VIM. Aug
er. leader.
IL a. M. Public worship. Sermon: :
Christian Sympathy"
b 2.45 p. m. Sunday Sohocl. c. O.
Richards. Supt. Miss Hazel Stribley,
S. S. pianist.
p. m. Sermon, "Self-Deception. +"
Miss Grace Rule. church organist.
Choir rehearsal Saturday evening.
Everybody cordially invited to at.
tend these services.
lt may be that by asking less we
may get mere. We need not de-
oieve ourselves by thinking that ''ev-
erybody" will go to church. but we
stlll extend the kindly invitation.
There is rccm for "Self-Decepticn"
fy staying away.
GEORGE S. PARKER. Minister.
Gilpin observer., 1918-01-24
EASTERN STAR UNIT

The Red Cross unit Of the order
of the Eastern Star of this county
held their indtdal meeting at the
rooms of the Red Cross i'm the Elks'
building cn Thursday of last week.
They have taken over the depart
ment of surgical bandages, not
garlze as was reported last week, un-
der the supervision of the officers
of the local Red CROSS Chapter.
There were twelve members in at
tendance and all seemed very enthu-
siastic in the work, and the blzzing
sewing machines and sO1inirg need
les flew Swiftly, to say nothing of
the tongues, and the amount of work
acccmplishe showed that they mean
to held their sector of the second
lime of defense.
They will meet every Thursday at
the above place and all members of
the order are urged to attend part
cir all of the time and help on the
coed work to help "win the war"
Remember orr president looks to
to do ais we'll as the women of other
nationalities.
Gilpin observer., 1918-01-24
IMPORTANT NOTICE
FOR NURSES

The census OF the nurse forces is
now being made dn the county and
Mrs. w. U. s. Parsons, director i'm
charge, will furnish upon request the
necessary cards to be falled out
Each and every man and woman in
thils county who lis a trained, practi-
cal or graduate nurse, or an attend
amt whether at present actively en-
gagged In nursing or not, Is earnestly
vequested to show their patriotism
by responding to the director of this
county as early as pCssdlble.
1t LIS desirable to cdmplete the cen-
'sus before February 10th, and you
are earnestly requested III you have
net already been registered to re-
port to the director of your county.
Gilpin observer., 1918-01-24
Arrive and Depart.

ARRIVALS" and departures" have n
definite place in French trench phIlol-
ogy. When the American troops first
entered the trenches their French COM
rades were very anxious to have them
distinguish accurately between the
noise of "arrives" and departs" 81
thought they were talking harbor
clearances at first" said one Yankee
lad. "Then I heard low, whining
sound and "a shell exploded behind us.
I'm arrive said my companion. He
signified that It was present from
the Germans. Soon there was n louder,
sharper sound. 1t was responsive
roar from our own batteries. 'Un de-
part he said with great satisfactio
VOLTA + we had 1t. The exchange of
artillery fire II. after all. a matter Of
arrivals and departures Needless
to say. the departs enjoy the wider
popularity"
Gilpin observer., 1918-01-24
SEIZURE OF HOUSEWIVES /.
FOOD STOCKS IMPOSSIBLE

The government has never consid-
cred any plan of SELLING foodstuffs
owned by householders. Nor Is there
any policy of this kind suggested for
the future.
In spite of this fact, the United
States food administration has been
obliged repeatedly to issue official de-
malls Of rumors that the government
Intends Communicating preserves and
canned goods put up In American
homes.
These rumors were originated partly
by pro-German propagandists and part
ly ~ conscienceless grafters, who
sought to profit through buying from
misinfOrmed housewives.
The year 1918 will see home canning
and preserving practiced on greater
scale than ever before In the nations
history, officials in Washington believe.
And they are assuring all patriotic
housewives that foods so saved are
theirs, and theirs alone.
Gilpin observer., 1918-01-24
Has orea, speeIs,e Gravity.

Mercury has the greatest specific
gravity Of all liquids, but recently an
other has been discovered which is also
SO heavy that stones Of all kinds
granite, limestone, quartz, ETC., float
in 1t. It is saturated aqueous solution
of tung stoporate. lis specific grav-
ity is 3.3, whereas that Of ordinary
rock does not exceed 2.7. Only few
precious stones have a specific gravity
greater than that Of this liquid, for
which reason it is proposed to employ
1t for the separation Of such stones
from masses of broken rock.
Gilpin observer., 1918-01-24
THURSDAY, JANUARY 24th, 1918.
uNsAvoRY CITIZENSHIP

Tho most dangerous class Of men
to be found in this country today 10
the American pro-German political
demagogue who blows patriotism
with one breath and rank hypocrisy
with another. We say they are most
to be dreaded because they are ever
ready to plunge the knife deep into
their government for political gain
and as the war preparations extend
the more we find these men plotting
for self gain by contributing articles
to unsavory papers, calculated to un-
dermine the foundation Of govern
ment.
Many of these men we are sorry
to say have been honored by their
countrymen to high positions in the
councils of the nation, and their for
mer experience should have taught
them that when their country is en-
gagged In a life and death struggle,
their every effort should be bent to-
ward the preservation Of the future
welfare Of the country, instead Of
wallowing in the putrid depths Of
party politics for self aggrandize-
ment.
This class Of people should either
remain faithful to the governing
power or be placed In a safe retreat
as all nations have done with trait
ors.