Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-02-15
FLOUR NO LONGER
SOLD BY ITSELF
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of substitutes used and specified in the
list given with this article. He at once
notified the gr0cers and dealers that
they could get ample supplies to put
into effect the order as to amount of
substitutes sold.
Cut Down Flour Supply
flour to a retailer without selling at
the same time an equal amount of
substitutes and then the retailer cam
not get but 20 per cent of the amount
of wheat flour formerly sold to the
dealer in the district
This affects bakers too, as they
cannot buy flour except by taking
substitutes. but the rule does not go
into effect with the baker until Feb.
u. while with the others it is effective
ROW. The baker is left out on account
of the stock he has on hand since he
has for some time been making war
bread
1T is all very simple. Do not ask for
wheat flour unless you are ready to
take some or several substitutes MAX
ing up the amount in weight of the
flour purchased.
GrOcers Get on Well
\ canvass of the grocers by the
News Budget, disclosed the fact that
all were anxious to carry out the law
just as have all Of them in all of the
rulings of the government. At Thomp-
sons the manager said he had opened
Il barrel of flour and was selling it in
small quantities. five and ten pounds,
with the substitutes The favorite sub
Stitutes were corn meal and barley
flour.
c. J. Dregne said he had plenty of
substitutes He was selling much oat
meal He had found few that Oh
.jccted when it was explained. In fact
most of his customers had heard of
it before they came TO the store.
Effner Nelson was one of the first
to get iii shape for the change. He
said his trade accepted the order with
out difficulty His greatest worry
was to get enough of the substitutes.
List of Substitutes
William Carroll had sign up Sat
urday and list of the things to take
the place of the flour. He said he had
been selling less flour and more of the
substitutes right along and was get
ting on fine under the rule.
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the letter and state that they have no
difficulty after it is once explained to
the purchaser.
w. D. Morgan stated that it was
a hardship for some of his customers,
many Of them farmers, to get flour in
the large sacks and an equal amount
Of substitutes. Mr.. Williams said
that was so and the only solution was
a smaller sack The millers are put
ting ND flour now i'll the small-weight
sacks but not many of them have come
to Ladysmith The problem was
solved in large part by farmers taking
bran and barley flour. Animal food is
not a substitute.
Il. AntOnOff got to the law at once
and no one got away without buying
substitutes there.
VOlkman Bros. are acting on the or
der and do not find their sales dimin
iShed by reason of it.
Phil LeVeille says that he has no
difficulty in abiding by the order.
Food HOar(lers Next
Food Administrator Williams eX-
poets the hardest part of his job to
come. when on his return he has to
make survey of the sales of the gro
GERS III individuals in January. This
is the work which is aimed at food
hoarderS The next act that is antici-
pated is concerning sugar.
Victory bread is getting popular and
scores of people who had an idea that
life you'd not be worth living if they
had to give up three meals a day on
white bread have been better off with
the new breads. 1t is not so pretty
but all of the scientific sharps say it
is a lot better for the human system.
SHIPPING ASSOCIATION
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