Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-04-14

Americas, Sumter and all of Geor-
gia is called upon by the food admin
#istrationf to relinquish, voluntarily,
all supplies of flour over and above
that authorized to be held for 81
days period, and in an order issued
locally yesterday by County Food Ad'
ministrator Franc Mangum, all house
holders, boarding house keepers, ho-
tcls, restaurants, retail and wholesale
stores are required to file by April
18-next Thursday-a report of all
-four on hand in excess of 30-day
normal supply, or in excess OF
months ration of s pounds per per-
son fed in the establishment, be it q
private or public eating place.
The official order received by Ad-
ministrator Mangum from State Food
Chief A. NJ Soule follows:
mo merchant or dealer should havi'
on hand, unreported, more than nor
NAL supply for 80 days, The excess
should be inventoried at once in dup
licate; one copy to be sent by him to
Or. Soule and the other to the county
food administrator. The same thing
must be done by heads OF individual
families, boarding houses, public eat
ing places and hotels These inven.
tories must be filed before April 18th.
Only those people who have a sup
ply which will last them for more
than month or thirty days need
make returns, but those who do have
to make reports must make it in dup
lcate, and in the following order,
sending one copy to:
Franc Mangum,
Sumter County Administrator,
Americas, Ga.
And the other to
DR.. A. M. Soule,
Georgia Food Administrator,
Chamber of Commerce Bldg,
Atlanta, Ga.
Here is the form of report:
q hereby certify that have on
hand. ..... pounds of wheat -four in
excess of 6 pounds per person eating
at my ............i...... which said
. pounds per person per person per
month is a normal, supply for thirty
days. ....... persons secure their
meals at my ................
Signed ............'.'''' 1865
Address ................... street
.-..'. . .CAtJ
Under the order of the administra-
ton each individual in the state Is
entitled to CONSUME six pounds of
wheat -four per month; that much
and no more There are, in round
figures, 100000 people in Georgia.
This state, therefore is entitled to
within 100000 pounds of flour each
80 days. Everything over and above
that maximum amount is in excess
over the legally permissible quantity
for Georgia and should be released
Such flour as is thus released is to
be. recorded, reported up by DR.. Soule,
and is to be regarded by the govern
ment as Georgia's patriotic contri-
button to the relief of the military
necessity resting upon this country
that of feeding our own and our as
ciated armies on the battle fronts
To arrive at the quantity, in weight
which is to be released by the govern
ment for immediate export to the as
sociated armies every patriotic Geor-
gian is called upon to make out at
once a report as indicated above and
mail it to DR.. Soules office, a dupli-
cate to be mailed to the county food
administrator. This includes dealers
OF all classes handling wheat flour
hotels, restaurants and public eating
| places of all kinds, boarding houses
and private families.
Families Reports.
! The head of each household, there
fore. should report the excess amoun'
OF flour on hand in the pantry at this
time and the number of members in
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