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Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-08-08
PERSONAL

DOTH, OuIluay hight u WI. dIlu
Mrs. Billy Poplin, a son.
Mr.. Geo. S. Steele last Friday
bought the Mcbride Hudson
Super-Six.
Mrs. S. S. Steele and children
returned Sunday from a three
weeks visit at Mt. Airy and
Greensboro.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. LeGrand Ever
EFT and LeGrand, Jr., will leave
Sunday for a week. visit at Pitts
boro and Wendell.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Stephenson
left Tuesday for Philadelphia and
New York to spend ten days.
Mr.. Stephenson will buy goods
for Stephenson-Belk.
Miss Mary Louise Everett re-
turned to the city Tuesday,, ac-
companied by Miss Minnie Little,
of Charlotte, and Miss Suzanne
Pegues, of Greenville.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. L. Steele and
daughter went to Pittsboro We'd
nesday. Mr.. Steele and Henry
will return Friday, Mrs. Steele
to remain there with Mrs. Moore
for ten days.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Berry Lilies
and family left today for Edney-
vile, in the mountains, and will
be gone two weeks. His substi-
tute, G. A. McRae, is carrying
the Route..2 mail in his absence.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Reynolds
and young son left Wednesday
for Wrightsville. He is attending
the Good Roads Convention, and
will return Saturday. Mrs. Rey-
nolds will remain there for two
weeks.
w. C. Hicks, ]. B. Hicks and
Neal D. Hicks went by car to
Wilmington Monday to visit Mrs.
w. W. ThroWer, returning We'd
nesday night. Neal Hicks was
one of the 81 to go to Camp
Wadsworth tonight.
A party consisting of Misses
Octavta Scales, Mary Reid Hobbs,
Emma Gray Ledbetter, Elizabeth
Cole; and Messrs. Walter Scales,
William Leak, George EntWlstle
and Robert Steele were guests of
Miss Alice Page, of Aberdeen, at
a picnic at Lakeview Tuesday
afternoon and evening.
Mrs. ]. T. Bennett goes from
Sylvia to Blowing Rock Saturday,
for two weeks, and will then turn
homeward. Jack Bennett will
likely come to Wadesboro from
Sylvia Saturday. Miss Mary CHI
will join Mrs. Bennett at Blowing
Rock.
Friends in the county will be
interested to learn of the mar
rage at Asheville last week o:
| miss Kate Webb to Mr.. Brew
ington, of that city. Miss Webb
was sent to Asheville for he
health for s months last year
through the fundamentally O
local friends, and has been in tin
mountain city since May It'll
through the same sources.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-08-08
Notice of Service
by Publication.

by ! uDAlCdllOkk.
North Carolina,
Richmond County,
In the Superior Court before the Clerk
w. A. Mcdonald and j. R. McLendon,
Plaintiffs
VS.
Colon McNair, Duncan McNair. Margaret
A. Clark, Murphy McNair, Robert Nc
Nair, Emma McNair Goodwin, Alice Nc
Nair. Willie McNair, Walter Patterson,
John Patterson, Kennie Patterson, Mamie
Patterson Williams and Bessie Patterson,
Defendants.
The Observation-Disclosures McNair, Willie
McNair, Walter Patterson, John Patter-
son. Kennie Patterson, Mamie Patterson
Williams and Bessie Patterson, above
named, will take notice that a Special
Proceeding entitled as above has been
commenced in the Superior Court of
Richmond County, N. c.. for the purpose
of having division made among the par
ties to this action as tenants in common
of $50 acres of land known as the Neill
McNair and John McNair lands and the
said Defendants will further take notice
that they are required to appear at the
office of the Clerk of the Superior Court
for the County of Richmond at the Court
House in Rockingham on the 2lst day of
September, 1918, and answer or demur to
the Petition filed in this proceeding or
the Plaintiffs will apply to the Court for
the relief demanded therein.
This the 9Th day of. August, 1918.
| J. A. McAULAY.
III Clerk Superior Court.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-08-08

from Aberdeen Monday to visit
Mrs. c. M. Hobbs.
Mrs. J. B. Reynolds and chill
dren went to Wadesboro We'd
nesday; they will return SUM-
day.
Mr.. A. r. McPhail and family
left today in their car for a weeks
visit to his mother at Mount
Holly.
Miss Elizabeth Henegan, of
Dillon, is expected the last of the
week to visit Miss Annie Coving-
! ton.
Mesdames c. w. Worley and
Monte Boon came from Durham
Wednesday to visit Mrs. R. l..
Mcdonald.
Miss Elizabeth Nicholson came
Tuesday to visit Mrs. A. c. Ever
EFT; she will return to Salisbury
Saturday.
Mrs. G. F. Smith, with Geral-
dine and Martha Tillman, left
Monday for a visit to Wilson. Mr..
Smith and Miss Geraldine went
to Davidson county.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. Covington
and Misses Florence and Harriet
Crawford, and Louise Dlggs, go
Friday for a two weeks stay
near Leesville, S. c.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. c. Hinson,
Miss Ruth Freeman and Oscar
Abernethy, of Monroe, spent the
weekend here with Mrs. A. W.
Porter and other relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. F. Warner
and Miss Lizzie Kerr, of Norfolk,
after spending several weeks in
the county with relatives, return
ed today. Mr.. Warner has been
in Norfolk for Is years, and is
car Inspector for the electric lines
there.
Mrs. ]. P. Leak and Miss Con,
cord returned Sunday from Mem.
phis and western cities. Mr.. J.
NJ. Dockery, DR.. R. E. Burlington,
of Memphis, Mr.. Ed. Lilly, Of
Asheville, and Pickett Leak ar
rived today in Mr.. Dockery's car
for a weeks visit to Mrs. Leak.
C. M. Hobbs left Tuesday for
Richmond to get his shoe sam
pies. He has been transferred
from the western territory, with
headquarters in Tennessee, to
the North Carolina territory
with headquarters at Raleigh
He has been with the Stephen
Putney Shoe Co. for % years.
Mrs. J. S. Ledbetter has had
number of visitors recently. MIR
and Mrs. Weakley returned tC
Norfolk on Thursday of last
week, after a five days visit
Mrs. c. w. Shepard and Miss
Annie Shepard, of Fort Valley
Ga, are still visiting at her home
while she with Robert Shepard
in her car left the city Tuesday
with her other guests, Mr.. an(
, Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Frank A
Vance and two daughters, ii
their car, for Fort Valley, Ga
f She expects to return the last O
: next week. Also, Earl T. Mat
1 tox, of Savannah, spent the week
end at her home,
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-08-08
Narrow Escape.

Watt Parsons and Cole Nichols were
returning to Camp Mills from New York
a few nights ago, when their hired Car
collided with another car, two soldiers
occupying the other car being killed,
Miraculously our two Richmond county
soldiers were unhurt.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-08-08
R. L. Davis Sunday.

Superintendent of the State
Anti-Saloon League, R. L. Davis,
will speak at the Methodist
church Sunday night at $50.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-08-08

i 11OALS 4SS.
Subscription $3.50
of the 1893 counties in the
United States, all but 355 are now
"dry."
Richmond County Fair Oct
16, II, Is, 10. Sand Hill Fair at
Pinehurst Nov. 20-21.
Died, August End, Mr.. Taylor
Dawkins, aged 65. Interment at
Northam the 3rd.
Easy to buy, convenient to
handle, no red tape-Get a WAR
SAVINGS STAMP today.
DIR. w. A. McPhaul has re-
signed as county health officer of
Robson county, effective Sept.
LIST.
The food YOU waste to-day
may mean HUNGER to Someone,
Somewhere, Sometime. Be Saw
ing!
John Lampley has resigned
as supt. of Arson roads. He ex-
poets to offer his services to the
government for road work in
France.
The wife of Mr.. J. A. Hall
died at Asheville Tuesday. The
remains will be brought to Rock
ingham tonight and interment
Friday at Eastside.
Give our boys in the Army
and Navy every fighting chance.
; Pledge yourself to save to the
utmost of your ability and to buy
war-savings stamps.
Buyers of Buick cars from
West Bros. the past few days
were DR.. W. H. Steele, a Buick
Four; Jim Pegram, Hamlet, Buick
Six.
-Lumberton Robersonian, Au,
gust 1st: E. L. Hanna, of Red
Springs, has been elected chief
of police of Lumberton, at salary
of 500 per month.-The board
of city commissioners has appro
priated $500 to the county fail
association.
Governor Beckett last WeeE
pardoned Judson Leach of Scot
land county who has served since
1915 on a ten-year sentence fol
killing his brother while intoxi
Gated. He also pardoned Pau
Brown, of Stanly county, wh'
has served Is months on a lO-yeaI
sentence for manslaughter.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-08-08
Advertised Letters.

The following are the adver-
tised letters at the Rockingham
postoffice for the past week:
Misses July Bell, Crissie Collins, Carrie
Canton, Bessie Johnson, Annie Studevent,
Eula Terry.
Mrs. Emma Blackman, Mrs Matte
Mckee, Mrs. H. ADcBerry.
John M! Coleman, Charlie Lawson, S.
L. Long, A. D. Mengesom, Will Mayles,
Ralph Robertson, S. A. Tucker, Charles
Williams, Walter Watkins. J. H. Waller.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-08-08

Mrs. L. c. Sharpe, Depot St.,
says: q suffered with a dull,
nagging ache in my back. | was
dizzy at times and my kidneys
annoyed me by acting irregular
ly. l got Doan's Kidney Pills at
SCOTS Pharmacy and began u.s.
ing them. Doan's soon cured
me and | haven't had to take
them in a long while"
60c, at all dealers. Foster-Mil
burn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
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Train Schedule:
LOCAL ITEMS

Short News Items of Intere st
of Town and County, Con-
densed Into Paragraphs
for Hurried Reading.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-08-08
THOROUGH WORK
How a Rockingham Citizen Found
Freedom From Kidney Troubles.

If you suffer from backache---Any Cur
able disease of the kidneys, Use a
tested kidney remedy. Doan's Kid
ney Pills have been tested by
thousands. Rockingham peo-
pie testify.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-08-08
FRIDAY, AUGUST 10Th.
ALICE BRADY in
'WOMAN AND WIFE

Adapted from Jane Eyre"
the immortal masterpiece by
Charlotte Bronte, sympatheti
acted by Alice Brady and
splendid cast.
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-07
D0FFING THE HAT
PoIiteness Traced Back to the
Primitive Times.
Ancient Peoples, as Mark OF suon'is-
sion, Uncovered Body and Surren-
dered Their Clothing.

We consider man gentleman who
takes off his hat to lady. AT least
the act is thought to be gentlemaniy.
polite. The origin of this custom, like
so many other customs common among
so-called Civilized peoples, goes back to
primitive times, says the Salt Lake
Tribune.
When Il person was made captive his
conqueror stripped him of his weapons
and clothing and left him without any
thing he could call his own. The cap
tive was thus made a slave, his lack
of clothing being evidence of his sub
iugation. We need only to look at the
sculptures of the ASSyrians to see the
truth of the fact. And in Isaiah 70
we find the following statement: And
the Lord said. like as my servant
Isaiah hath walked naked and bare
foot three years for Il sign, so shall
the king of Assyria lead away the
Egyptians prisoners and the Ethio-
plans captives young and old, naked
and barefoot"
The first step, then, in tracing the
origin of taking off the hat, is the
surrender of the clothing among primi-
tive and ancient peoples as mark Oh
submission. The next step is the un-
covering of the body as mark of rev.
erencc. There are nll degrees Of un-
covering though often only the most
valuable parts of the clothing are taken
off in the presence of superiors.
It must be remembered that this
act Of uncovering the body was cere-
;oI to- nj tp
reverence to superior. Then cnne
the use Of the ceremonial to propitiate
the dead. We can see remnant Of
this most any time. At funerals and in
our grnveynrds men take Off their hats.
They still take off their hats on enter
ing churches and before the images
of Christ and the Madonna.
In times of chivalry men raised their
hats to ladies' to show reverence. But
this wns only superfcinl In meaning.
A knight would ride down a poor peas
ant woman carrying n large burden
and never think Of helping her-lenst
hat to her. However. II he heard of
some beautiful damsel OF his own class
In the slightest danger, imaginary or
real, he would go to her and, hat in
hand, kneel and dedicate himself to her
service.
Today much the same things occur.
Ordinarily n gay youth forgets &c take
of his hat to his mother, yet he
shows this Difference to his 'best girl"
After all It Is only form. and polite
ness should 60 deeper than this. How
ever. the form persists. and II is of
some historical interest to remember
that 1t Is remnant Of the primitive
stripping Of captive by which process
was expressed the fact that he yielded
mp all he had. Taking of the hat to
wealthy girl mems. occasionally. not
only the yielding up Of all you have.
but the getting Of all she has. Cere-
mouy 10 often nothing but a hard cnl-
culation In regard to personal results.
especially where self.ngSrnndlxemen
10 the ultimate aim Of the polished In
dlvidual
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-07
SUNNY SIDE

Joe Nesbitt and family. Vern
Norton and family ate Sunday
dinner with M. C. Owens and
wife in M. C. new house.
sMartha Paul was a Saturday and
Sunday visitor with Mrs.. Lester
Beveridge and family.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Jimy
Hunter a baby girl, Jan. Oath.
All parties doing nicely.
Vern Norton and wife called at
the Hunter home last Friday to
see the new girl.
]. L. Ambrosier and wife we're
Monday visitors in the Vern Nor
ton home,
There will be q non. partison
League speaker at the Sunny Side
school house FEBRUARY IA tn.
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-07
Land Bargain

l offer subject to prior sale the
Northwest quarter of section five
township nine, south, range fifty
nine west, Elbert county, Colo,
located in Bijiou valley about II
miles north of Mattison, and five
miles east of Kuhn's crossing.
1t is unimproved. excellent grass
smooth land, shallow to water. in
the rain belt and said to be fine
alfalfa land. $40 per acre, net
to me.
E. E. Jeter, Owner,
Land Merchant,
Lenora, Kansas.
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-07

John w. Hull. "the land man"
of Mankato, Kans. My business
for the present will be confined
to Kansas and Colorado, especial
ly Kit Carson, Cheyenne and Lin
coin counties, | am conducting a
live wire real estate exchange
business, and will make an effort
to sell or exchange your farm
land. List your farm with me.
John w. Hull, Mankato, Kans.
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-07
WEDDING BELLS

MARRIED-Mr. Willis Leach, and
Miss Myrtice Johnson were unit
ed in the Holy bonds of weddlock
Friday evening at the home of
his aunt, Mrs. C. A. Magwire by
Rev. w. L. DeMunbrun.
Miss johnson is a daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. S. johnson, Of
this place, and is one of our in
telligent, and ambitious young
ladies', she has been raised in
this community, and is respected
by all. She is of a bright and
cheerful disposition always ready
to help where ever and when
ever needed.
Mr.. Leach. was formerly resi-
dent of this country, but lately
of st Edwards, Neb. while here
he was a good Industrious young
man. always working, and made
good. He has many friends here
He is of the kind that usually
saves and makes good where
ever he goes. The RECORD joins
in wishing them the richest OF
this worlds blessings.
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-07
EvAoK RIoIp FOOD CONTROL.
Feed 10 Bought In Germany Surrsptl-
tlovsly In Violation o. Auts.
eeatIe Rultnoo,

Even the autocratic food control Of
Germany has been powerlefs to pre-
vent surreptitious sales, according to
semi-oficial reports reaching the Unit
Cd States food administration. Illegal
sales Of butter are being made In Ger.
many at prices ranging from $i.75 to
&2.25 q pound. Eggs sold contrary to
the German food regulations arc
bringing 10 to IS cents apiece. accord.
inG to -rhsss reports. And bacon or
ham II bringing from $3c5 to $5..o .
psusd
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-07

FOR SALE-16O acres close to
Kansas line, describedEas follows
Lots 11-13-14 and 10 or sw or of
ne or and ne or of Sc or and the
W hf of Sc or section 81 twp IL
range AZ W. For particulars ad-
dres A. E. Anderson, 11O5 E,
Evans Ave. Pueblo, Colo 444t
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-07
PUBL &c SALE
Saturday Feb. 8, 1918,
At one O'clock, p NJ.

The undersigned will sell auction Chas Boyds yard
Cheyenne Wells, the following described property:
HORSES of bay 6yrs old weight 1900
/ black mare colt coming old; l sorre horse.
IMPLEMENTS new wagon, new top buggy. new single
harness work harness. old of old work harness.
disc pow walking plow, breaker walking lister harrow
sutsurace packer cultvato planter 14ft
l set triple blocks and rope pump tools.
FURNITURE kitchen cabinet chairs, hole stove
new dresser and miscellaneous articles.
Is. TERMS CASH
Will offer private half section of land with good well
and other improvements.
Leroy Ballard, Owll.
J. E. HAYES Clerk BEN BROWN. Auct
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-07

FOR SALE-A high grade
Clydesdale Stallion, coming 3yrs
old. weight 1900. Exceptionally
strong. heavy boned, with good
style and action, harness broke.
T. A. Dodds, Arapahoe, Colo.
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-07

STRAYED-4 head cattle, one
white face COW, 2yr old calf by
side, branded on right hip q S
calves unbranded, hole in right
ear slit in left ear.
r. K. Shirrod, Cheyenne Wells.
Colo.
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-07

WANTED Some one to break
100 or 200 acres of land on sec
ton 31-14-45. Please state low
est price and when can be done.
w. M. Pyle, LOG N 5th St.,
Marshalltown, Ia.
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-07

FOR SALE-Well drill, 425 feet
steel cable, $40 feet ofsteel flush
line, a horse power engine. Drill
ready to run. John Tauscher
cheyenne Wells Colo. 45tf
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-07
ADvERTIsING RATES
Made known upon application.

FOR SALE-2OO acres Kiowa
county, legal description, north
200 acres section 10 township II
south range 43, opposite school.
Cash price, $1,000 VIM Leslie,
Anaheim, Calf. A.. AZ st
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-07
Mr. G. K. Gwathmey is on the
sick list this week.

s " Bair. of Arapahoe
W transacting business at the
county seat Monday.
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-07

A. NJ. Yoder and wife of Arap-
ahoe, were social callers at this
Office Wednesday.
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-07
ROLL OF HONOR

The following parties have re-
newed their subscriptions to the
RECORD since our last issue.
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-07
SUGAR CO i. /
SAVED L.llLLl0k55.
American Consumer Prosited by
sl8o,0 ooo-French Stu
alton Helped.
HOME PRICE HELD AT 9 CENTs.
This Nations Sugar Supply Reduced
to Seventy Per Cent. OF Normal.
Java Stocks Unavailable.

Sugar control has saved the Amer
lean public S1S0,000,0C0, Herbert Hoov-
er, United States food administrator,
declared tile other day. =
He pointed out that sugar was sell
ing for II cents a pound last August
and that it would have advanced 10 ~
cents pound, with the world short
age as a stimulus, had not the food
administration secured the co-oper;i-
ton of the refiners and wholesalers
and fixed sugar price that today en-
nbles housewives to buy sugar at from
Sh to 8 cents Il pound.
Every cent raise in sugar from
September to January means $lS,-
COO,OOO to the American consumer"
Mr.. Hoover said. Numbers of gen
tlemen will tell you that 20 cent sugar
would have prevailed and the public
robbed of $1SOO0O,0O0 this year il we
had not taken these actions" Later
Mr.. Hoover called attention to the fact
that uncontrolled sugar advanced to
35 cents n pound during the Civil War.
France Got Our Sugar.
Today the American public has been
allotted 20 per cent of its normal sup
ply. Before the war the average an
nual household consumption here was
50 pounds Il person. In England the
annual consumption during the war is
81 pounds, and in France each person
is allotted little over one pound a
month.
"In August the French government
found itself unable to maintain even
this ration" Mr.. Hoover declared.
'An appeal was made to America.
France needed 100000 tons. We
agreed to fill this demand and up to
December had shipped Sj,42 tons In
the meantime nn appeal was made to
the American public to reduce its sug-
ar consumption, and requests We're
made to distributors to supply the
confectionery and sweet drinks trade
with 80 per cent. of normal supply.
This has been generally followed, al
though such regulations were vOlun-
tary, as the food administration had
no authority to impose them"
Domestic Price is cH to 0 Cents.
Retail grocers throughout the coun-
try are supposed to take Il profit of no
more than so cents hundred-half IL
cent Il pound-on sugar. BY reason of
food administration regulations bind
ing reiincrs and Wholesalers, the re-
taller is able today TO buy sugar at
from to S1a cents pound. This
enables him to sell. to the housewife at
Sla to 8 cents pound.
There have been some violations of
the sugar rulings Mr.. IIoorer said
recently: "Snlcs of sugar from 10 to
20 cents per pound have been reported
and followed UP vigorously and stop
ped and is evidence itself OF the prices
Mt which consumers would have been
mulct had we not interviewed. We have
forfeited wholesalers licenses III az
gravnted cases. and we have issued
warnings to first Offenders in n great
many instances through our local ad-
rlin:strators."
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-07

C. S. Woodrow. of First View,
was . business visitor at Chey-
enqe Wells Wednesday.
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-07

For Sale-Ford car with winter
top. also good regular top COM
plete, cheap, at Highway Garage
Chas. Boyd, Owner 46 tt
L g. & of Victory a south
ern photo-play Friday nsght Feb
9th. Don't forget Robinson Cru
so Tuesday Feb IL. Be sure anu
see these pictures.
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-07
Why Shortage Exists.

The three great sugar producing CEN
ters Of the world nre Germany. the
West and East Indics. German sugar
Is, Of course. used Mt home. The East
Indian sugar il unavailable because Of
the ship shortage.
While u boats made big inroads on
the worlds shipping. France and Italy
ceased to he self sustaining In sugar
manufacture. England in the mean
time was cut of from German sugar
1 400, 600 tons n year-becnuse of the
war. The result has been that the al
lied nations have been forced to turn
to America and the West Indies for
their sugar.
Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-02-07
Effect on Military Situation.

American sugar stocks could be fill
ed TO normal very sooa if ships could
he sent to Java, where 100000 tons of
sugar is waiting for shipment. But
the shipping situation is SO acute that
The nation cannot spare the eleven
ships needed 20 transport this sugar.
1t would take the boats one year to
haul 25O,OOO tons. In the same time
they could he used for transporting
2OO,OOn soldiers to France.
The food administration believes
that the American public will diminish
its sugar consumption by 10 or Is per
cent. when 1t is made clear TINT such
sugar saving Is patriotic net and
when 1t Is understood that there are
plenty of sweeteners available to take
the place of sugar, such as honey or
corn syrup.