The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-08-16
ORDER SUGAR BOWL
OFF DINING TABLES
HoTELe. REsTAuRANTs, CAFES
on PLACES WHERE MEALS ARE
SERVED For PAY CAN NOT
HAVE SUGAR BOWL ACCESSIBLE
PatFens' Service For Drlnks 10 Limited
To One and one-Hak Tsaspeon-
Suls 81 Sugar, Or Two Loass
Of Lump Sugar.

Nashville, Tenn.-Sugar bowls have
been banished from the tables OF all
public eating places under an edict is.
sued by Dr. H. A. Morgan, federal food
administrator for Tennessee. No ho-
tel, restaurant, boarding house, cafe
o. place where meals are regularly
served for pay, can longer have the
sugar bowl where 1t 10 accessible to
the patrons. Every patron is limited
to a service for his drinks OF one and
ene-half teaspoons Of sugar or where
lump sugar is used to tive loafs. For
fruit or berries not more than one and
one-half teaspoons may be served to
any customer. This order grows out OF
the desperate sugar shortage. 1t has
been in effect In Nashville, Knox.
vile and other places for some time
and has resulted In an immense aav.
ing Of sugar.
At the annual meeting Of the Ten.
nessee Hotel association In Nashville,
this sugar ration was approved and
the cooperation of all loyal hotel men
was pledged Dr. Morgan in It's en-.
forcement. ]. |. Finney, of the food
administration, addressed the hotel
men and thanked them for the splsn-
did cooperation that they have given
the food administration. Every Off
cial, federal, state and local, has been
summoned to aid in the enforcement
Of the sugar rationing plan.
Hardware and Implement Men.
DR.. Morgan, federal food adminis-
TRAITOR win be one of the principal
speakers at the annual convention OF
the Tennessee Hardware and Imple
ment Dealers at the Hotel Hermitage.
Nashville, on August 7, and will urge
that the implement dealers cooperate
with the food administration in fur.
nishing the farmers with all possible
labor-saving machinery. Another fed.
erRl food administrator, IN the person
of Hon. Hamp Williams, Of Arkansas,
will also speak at this meeting. 1t is
expected that as the result of the
meeting the implement dealers Of Ten.
nesses viii be organized as an auxdL
larry of the food administration.
MIIl Feed Prloea
Under the schedule of prices an
nounced by the federal food admins
tration In Tennessee, mixed mill feed
should not sell In ton lots or ovet
from the mills to the consumer at over
s2a per tn. II sold In less than ton
lots dollar may be added. II dsliv.
seed another dollar may be charged.
Where bran d sold the mill must
sharge s1.ss per ton lass than fos
nixs1 fssd. II they sell sherss, msA
dlings e. red dog tAsy may Charge
rs cents per ton more thaa for mixed
leeds. This means that practically
III ever the state tha consumer should |
BUY from the mills bran at not to OK. |
iced s1.65 per hundred. Shorts in like
manner at about $40 per hundred +,
md mixed feed at around s165 per
hundred pounds. It is announced that
hese prices must BE- observed. Al /
'atriotic citize-s, officials and food ad
illustrators are urged to report ex.
'essive charges for all mill fesdA, 50
hat the food administration can dis 7
ipiine the parties VINO are guilty OF
'vercharges.
Many Are Fined.
Hotels and eating places In Knox.
ille have been fined sums aggregat-
ag s210 by Fayette F. Vandeventer, :
ty food administrator, for violating 9
he rules of the federal food admins. !
ration. The checks have all been i
lailed to the Red Cross canteen al ?
knoxville. The Union Grocery com. Q
any Of Nashville, has been fined SIS :
y the benefit OF the Red Cross at ?
for having sold over two :
ounds OF sugar to city customers. The .
urbage Produce company, Of Johnson . :.
ity. cited before James Fl. Eppe, Jr.. :
,ed administrator Of Washington =
,unty, was tined s25 because its store :
Jonesbore failed to candle eggs a. =
scuired By the regulations. This fine : :
- also paid over to The Red Cross.
lncs the beginning OF the federal y
Cd administration In Tennessee =
Of dollars have been col. :
'Oted In tines and paid over TO the = !.
sd Cross. =
License Revoked. :
The license Of the Farinerz' Hay q j,
rain company At Hartman. Tenn, y
Is been revoked BY The food admin :
tration for failurs 70 oAserve the =
'guiations and the company forbid :
n to transact any further business n
,der Al Of tho penalties Of ths food :
Introl act