The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-06-07
NO MORE WHEAT
Be USED BEFORE
NEXT HARVEST
DEALERS AND MlLLERs HOLD
CONFERENCE WITH COUNTY
FOOD ADMINISTRATOR.
PATRIOTIC ACTION is TAKEN
Win Help Provide Food for Soldiers
and sailors--consumers Asked to
Surrender Flour Holdings at Cost
To Government.

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flour containing wheat in any guam.
tty after Monday, June 10, until after
the flour frOn the new harvest is on
the market. Millers in this county
are grinding no more wheat for dis
tribution here. ALI flour products
from mills in this county are being
shipped under government orders.
This agreement was reached Friday
morning at conference of millers
and dealers with County Food Admin
istrator John p. Graham at the War
Work building.
On Monday, June 10, all persons in
the county, whether dealers or CON
sumers, who have pure wheat flour in
their possession are requested to volun-
tarily deliver it to the county food ad-
ministrator. Only original or un-
broken packages will be accepted for
government use. The government will
pay the dealers and consumers who
deliver this flour fair price for it.
But regardless of price 1t is the patri-
otto duty of all persons to deliver this
flour to the government to be used
for rations for the soldiers and the al
| lies in Europe Corn flour cannot be
transported across the ocean.
| County Food Administrator John P.
Graham has made Arrangements with
the ]. A. Sloan & Co. to have the flour
delivered there, and an experienced
clerk from the Columbia Mill & Eleva-
tor Co. will be there to receive the
flour and give proper receipts for it.
Checks in payment will be sent by
government agents to the persons de-
livering the flour within few days
after it has been accepted.
Letters from the State Food Admin
istration setting forth the critical
wheat flour situation and the call to
the people to deliver whatever flour
may be in their possession to the gov
ernment were read last Sunday in
practically every Church and Sunday
school in the state The people, are
familiar with the 'ssithatfbh ana all
they have been waiting for, to make a
response was the destination of a
place and time to make the deliv-
cry.
| 1t is not believed that large guam.
tity of pure wheat flour will be col
lected here, because there is not
much in the county, according to
statements of millers and dealers at
the conference this morning But
that which is here is wanted by the
government and there is no doubt but
that every available particle of it
will be willingly turned over for this
patriotic purpose.
Dealers in Columbia, Mt Pleasant,
Culleoka, and other places in the
county have already agreed to stop
selling flour of any kind that contains
any particle of wheat until after the
new harvest is on the market. This
means that when the present supplies
of socalled $3.50 flour now in the
hands of the dealers is disposed Of
no more will be on SALE There is but
little for sale now Absolutely no
pure wheat flour Will be sold after
June 10 in any quantity or under any
| circumstances.
| All consumers are requested to i'm.
mediately refrain from the use of
pure wheat flour at all times and to
use as little food as possible of any
kind that contains wheat Every
pound of pure wheat flour in an un.
broken package now I'm the hands of
dealers and consumers should be held
for delivery to the food administration
on Monday, June 10.
At the conference this morning the
millers and dealers told Mr.. Graham
that they were heartily in accord
with the food administration plans
and that they would do everything in
their power to assist him in collection
of the flour now held here.
! a. In many cities and counties of the
STATE this action has already been
taken and large quantities Of flour
have thus been made available for
the soldiers and allies across the At
lantic must have wheat flour bread il
they receive any kind of bread from
America.
TIE next harvest is expected to be
. large one, but the government estf
mates that 1t may be so days before
tho wheat from that source will be
available for use by the armies. Con
sequently 1t is imperative that tbs
present supply Of old wheat or floul
from old wheat be conserved by this
civilian population and sent to the ar
mics from now until the new harves
is available.
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