Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-16
IMPORTANT NEWS OF TOWNS IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
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GO ON LIST AS
FLOUR SLACKERS
Food Administrator 10 Prose
cute Laggards; Excess
Taken From Hoarders

The Federal -four registration i'm
Dauphm county ends tonight, and
according to present indications
there will be ten thousand or more
householders in the county on. the
Stacker list unless an unexpected
deluge of cards are put in the mali.
Not quite $4,000 of the cards have
been turned in from county house
holders, and information in the
hands of the Dauphin county food
commission shows that there are
between $4,000 and $4,000 house
holders in the county.
According to announcement from
Philadelphia by State Administrator
Howard Heinz, householders who fail
to report boarding will be prosecuil'
ed under the food act which provides
llne of $4,000 and two years i'm
prisonment. While there have been
no cases of boarding in this county
that call for prosecution under the
boarding act, the fact that house
holders fail to report their flour hold
lngs may in some cases be accepted
as prime facie evidence that hoard
ing is existing.
No One TO Escape
After the registration is closed to-
night, the flour registration cards
Will be filed and compared with the
city mail lists, a representative of
the food administration said This
morning. Every house that failed to
send in its report will be visited by
food administration representatives
1t is said. This personal visitation
will be conducted in the city first.
In order to secure an information
as to which householders i'm the
county are not represented at the
food administration offices by q Hour
card, representative will be appoint
ed in various districts of the county
TO ascertain the householders who
did not report their flour supplies.
While there have been no in
stances since the registration he
gan of householders boarding to the
extent that they were prosecuted or
fined, number of individuals nave
had to give up excess flour holdings
TO be sold to less favorably provided
householders. In such cases the
householders have been paid for
the excess they have been compelled
to forfeit. .
OF the $4,000 cards reported to
49, fS'N' ioiiiiiAohi eibiOilt ifO NION
an excess of 166,003 pounds being
held.
New BIoomfield-Samuel S. Will
lard and James r. Magee, are at
tending United States court. at
Scranton this week.-James Miller,
who has been in Chicago several
weeks, spent several days here, left
for Harrisburg, Saturday.-Henry
Reigel, who has been home for some
time, has started on his route again.
Misses Erestine and Mary Rhine
smith, spent the weeken d. with Mis- (
Rhewhefle Atler,a at The Mary 'ByoRitss :
school at Swarthmore.-- NJ
Magee, spent Sunday at PhiIadel-
phia,-Mrs. James l.. Butz, is visit
ing her mother, Mrs. George Crosier.
at Harrisburg.-Allen Lagar, has re
ceived a card from his son Robert,
stating he had arrived in Port. Rob-
ert is in the Aviation Corps.-New-
ton c. Bernheisel, who enlisted last
May and has been in Texas ever
since, will be home on furlough
next week. He is a son of Charles
Il. Bernheisel. of Green Park.--Mrs.
Laura Alexander, accompanied by
her daughter, Mrs. William Snyder,'
went to Philadelphia on Tuesday
Helen Keiser and Brutton Charles.
suent the weekend at Philadelphia,