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no 1 iiVNJi JLL l. OFFIGIALGOUNTY AND CITY PAPER Kinsley, Edwards County, Kansas, January 31, 1918 Volume 42 Number 21 MEN CHOSEN FOR NEXT QUOTA UNIFORM RULES ARE LAID plies "Picture shows open at 2 p. m. and close at 10 p. m.

"We ask the fullest co-operation DOWN BY STATE BOARD. Not Many Totally Unfit for Some Branch of Service. of the churches and lodges in the conservation of fuel. State Fuel Administration Issues Blanket Opening and Closing Order. "This order applies to all estab DR.

LOVELAND TO BE HERE. Dr. Loveland will be in Lewis Friday night of this week and will make an address at the M. E. Saturday night he will address the people of Offerle the school house.

On Sunday morning there will be a union meeting of the Methodist and Congregational churches at the M. E. church addressed bj Dr. Loveland and in the evening he will address a meeting of all the churches at Harwood's Theatre. lishments, whether the fuel for light or heat be coal, oil, wood, gas Not many of those examined by the local draft board up until noon tpday have failed to meet the requirements for some kind of military service.

A number o.f those who have passed are obtaining releases and are enlisting in some branch of the service. Carl McKib-ben, Rodney Wilcox and Loren -Sturgeon that we. know of are go or gasoline." All Must Help Some. ing to Kansas City to enlist thin week. JThe following Class One Regis trants were physically examined on January 2Sth and passed for mili MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Saturday a license was granted to W. M. Williamson of Stafford and Mrs. Georgia May Odle of Hudson. The couple was married by Probate Judge Harold Payne.

Yesterday a license was issued to Roy McClaren and Francis Van-deree both of Lewis. tary service: Commenting on the order last night, Senator Carey said: "If the people of Kansas will co-operate with us for a few weeks until we get over the hill' into spring, there will be no need for acute shortage conditions anywhere in the state, but if we are to be able to supply the requirements of the people in anything like an equitable manner of distribution it must be a result of the fullest spirit of co-operation and helpfulness on the part of everybody concerned." The state fuel administrator pointed out that the uniform regulation was made as result of earnest recommendation from many of the county chairmen of the fuel administration who urged that a blanket regulation treating ail communities alike, would meet with a hearty co-operative response on the part of all the institutions affected. Hutchinson Gazette: The state fuel administrator and his advisory board spent Kansas Day in conference here formulating a comprehensive and uniform conservation regulation order which is to supersede the orders now existing in the cities and towns in Kansas providing hours for opening and closing of business institutions in ail the towns and cities of the state. The order is effective February 1, and was the unanimous sense of the entire board and the federal administration for Kansas. What Order Provides.

The text of the order: "Closing regulations effective February 1st, 1918, established by Emerson Carey, fuel administrator for Kansas, and the advisory committee composed of C. H. Banner, J. C. Mohler, Harry Darby, C.

W. Southward and L. Taylor "During the time this closing order is in effect, all electric signs and all display lights shall be turned out, and all lights in buildings all be turned out except those that are necessary for safety. Street lights shall be reduced to the same ALIEN ENEMIES MUST REGISTER. We are reprinting this week the requirements in regard to the Aliens in this country.

Postmaster Tatums has the blanks and will give them out at any time to those who desire to look them over before filling them out. The blanks beginning next Monday are to be called for at the postofTice and filled out. The affidavit may also be filled out by some one elsq but must be sworn to and the finger prints taken in the presence of the Charles R. Harrison George Sanko Frank William Meyer Albert Henry Frazee Elmer Jordan Clyde Raymond Co Iyer Orval Cyrus Love to Phillip Sargent Arley Wilson Fail David Gugiri Five men were rejected, as follows: Mark Persinger William Edward Soice Thomas William VanBebber John William Patton John Pomery Wire Those who passed on January 29th follow: Roy Gingrich, Martin Desote Kirkbride Maurice Vest Brooks Paul Joseph Homer Paris France Ross Boman George Fred Hildenbrand Louis Frank Wilson Four men were rejected on this MISS COLVER ENTERTAINS Miss Florence Colver gave a one-o'clock luncheon yesterday at her hone in honor of John Cormack and Chester Bidleman, who were home on a furlough. The other guests were Eugene Riley, Curtin postmaster.

Read carefully the PRESIDENT ISSUES PROCLAMATION URGING AMERICAN CITIZENS TO CONSERVE FOOD. The following proclamation, as regards the conservation of food, has been issued by the President. In which he asks the co-operation of all American citizens. The proclamation follows: Many causes have contributed to create the necessity for a more intensive effort on the part of our people to save food in order that we may supply our associates in the war with the sustenance vitally necessary to them in these days of privation and stress. The reduced productivity of Europe because of large diversion of man power; to 'the war, the partial failure of harvests and the elimination of the more distant markets for foodstuffs through the destruction of shipping, places the burden of their subsistence morejargely on our shoulders.

The food administration has formulated suggestions which, if followed, will enable us to meet this great responsibility without any real inconvenience on our part. In order that we may reduce "our consumption of wheat and wheat products by thirty percent a reduction imperatively necessary to provide the supply for overseas, wholesalers, jobbers and retailers should purchase and resell to their customers only seventy percent of the amounts used in 19171 All manufacturers of pastes, biscuits, crackers, pastry, and breakfast cereals should reduce their purchases and consumption of wheat and wheat flour to seventy per cent of their 1917 requirements and all bakers of bread and rolls to eighty per cent of their current requirements. Consumers should reduce their purchases of wheat products for home preparation to at most 70 per cent of those of last year, or when buying bread should purchase mixed cereal breads from the bakers. To provide sufficient cereal food, homes, public eating places, dealers and manufacturers should substitute popatoes, vegetables, corn, barle-, oats and rice products and the mixed cereal bread and other products of the bakers which contains an admixture of other cereals. In order that consumption may be restricted to this extent, Mondays and Wednesdays should be observed as Wheat-less days each week and one meal each day should be observed as a Wheatless meal.

In both homes and public places, in order to reduce the consumption of beef, pork and sheep products, Tuesday should be observed as Meatless day in each week, one Meatlets meal should be observed in each day; while, in addition Saturday in each week should further be observed as a day upon which there should be no consumption of pork products. A continued economy in the use of sugar will be necessary until later in the year. It is imperative that all waste and unnecessary consumption of all sorts of foodstuffs should be rigidly eliminated. The maintenance of the health and strength of our own people is vitally necessary at this time and there should be no dangerous restriction of the food supply but the elimination of every sort of waste and the substitution of other commodities of which we have more abundant supplies for those which we need to save, will in no way impair the strength of our people and will enable us to meet one of the most pressing obligations of the war. 'T therefore, in the national interest, take the liberty of calling upon every loyal American to take fully to heart the suggestions which are being circulated by the food administration and of begging that they be followed.

I am confident that the great body of our women who have labored so loyally in co-operation with the food administration for the success of food conservation will strengthen their efforts and will take it as a part of their burden in this period of national service to see the above suggestions are observed throughout the land." W00DR0W WILSON, The White House, Jan. 18, '18 Following the President's proclamation the following instructions were issued by the Federal Food Administration for Kansas: The sale of flour by millers, retailers and other dealers in towns or cities to individual consumers shall be in one-eighth or one-fourth barrel quantities or less. To consumers living in rural communities, one-fourth to one-half barrel quantities or less. Profit to wholesalers in flour should not exceed 50 cents per barrel on cash basis. Profit for retail dealers in original mill packages should not exceed from 40 cents to SI.

00 per barrel, depending on character of service performed and size of package. Where retailers sell in amounts less than mill packages the gross profit should not exceed one cent per pound. Any instructions printed elsewhere in this paper under the heading "Registration of Alien Enemies" and proportion that has been maintained during the Lightless nights. "All business and professional offices, except offices used by the United States or, Municipal governments, transportation companies, public utilities companies, telephone or telegraph companies, hospitals, undertaking establishments and industrial plants, shall open at 9 a. m.

and close at 5 p. m. I govern yourselves accordingly. GOLDEN NEW BAND ELECTS OFFICERS. The Golden Band Sunday school Bidwell, Tom Mairs and Charles Beal.

The house and table were decorated in red, white and blue and was very artistic and beautiful. A delicious three-course luncheon was served and a most delightful time enjoyed by all. John is so enthusiatic about his army life that it is contagious and makes the boys at home rather envious of him. And Miss Colvfer is just the class met at the Christian Parsonage last Friday night on official business. The new officers were elected.

They are as follows: Mr. Cliryt Beck, President; Mrs. Bertha date: JefYry Bruce Hetzel Carl Leslie Piatt Ben Frank Joseph Kurth Those who passed on January 30th were: Etherton Admund Albert Boehme Irwin Everett Smith Walter Buess Ivan Reeder Loren L. Sturgeon one to have thehappy thought of Rhine, Vice-President; Miss Stella Little, Secretary and Treasurer; Mrs. Clara Matheny, Assistant Sec bringing them all together for a department stores, hardware stores, implement stores, tea and spice stores, confectioneries, "smoke houses, cigar stores and news stands, photographers, electric stores, and all other merchandise stores shall open at 9 a m.

and close at 6 p. m. except on Saturday stores shall open at 9 a. m. and close at 9 p.

rn. "Druir stores shall open at 9 a. pleasant visit before the return to camp life. retary and Treasurer. At the close of the meeting refreshments were served by Mrs.

Jones. There will CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. be a social meeting of thei Golden 1 Band at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Ruhe Friday night at 7:30 Services held at E.

A. Noble's residence Sunday at 11 a. m. Subject, "Love." A cordial invitation is extended to the public. o'clock.

All members of the class are invited. Rev. W. H. Williams spent a few Armin John Brenneisen Hubert Earl Warren Walter Henry Haney Carl A.

McKibben Henry Charlet The four men rejected were: Kenneth B. Keener Bernard August Meyers Lowell W. Johnson Cliff Shaw Clyde Raymond Coiyer, Walter Buess, andWalter Henry Haney passed for limited military service only, days in Wichita this week on busi MRS. CHARLES HONORED. Mr.

and Mrs. C. W. Beeler gave reception at their home last night for Mr and Mrs. Elmer Charles About fttty of 'the M.

E. church people" were present. Mrs. Charles, who is soon to leave ness. A cup of hot coffee will make you feel fine.

Try one at the Poor m. and close at 9 p. m. This does not prohibit taking care of emergency calls any time during the day or night. Druggists are not to sell anything except drugs from p.

m. to 9 a. m. "Bakeries shall not sell anything other than bread, cakes, rolls, pies, doup-hnuts and all other products of the oven from 0 m. to 9 a.

m. "Restaurants and hotels from hours of p. m. to 9 a. m.

are prohibited soiling tobacco, cigars, chewing gum, being permitted to sell food only. "Banks, trust companies, building rnd loans shall not be open for business except the hours from 10 a. rn. to p. m.

Food Grocery Saturday. for California, was presented with Mrs. Fred Milloway leturned a very handsome knitting bag by with her husband from Sterling, the ladies of the Ladies' Aid So where they went last Saturday. ciety of the M. E.

church, of which The doctors there advised that Mrs. Charles is president. Mrs. Milloway wait for about two weeks before having an operation, HOGS WANTED. I will buy all fat hogs delivered to the Heath scales Saturday, February 9th.

Pete Dr. Stoltenberg made a business trip to Spearville Tuesday as she was not quite strong enough Harold Payne's sister, Clara, and Francis Cooper of Lincoln township were in Kinsley last week to just yet. Earl Parker left Tuesday after m. take the teachers' examination and "Barber shops open at 8 a noon for Dodge City. John Cormack has a five-days' I to visit Mr.

Payne. Ben Meyer of Belpre came to Kinsley from Emporia, Wednes rnd close at 7 except on Saturdays when they may mien at 8 a. m. andclose at 9 r. m.

No cigars or merchandise to be sold except- Mrs. M. E. Shannon of Lewis and furlough and arrived from. Camp Doniphan Sunday to visit his par- i Mr.

J. Shannon and daughter day to take the physical examina- ents. He says he would not take of British Columbia, were in Kin- ing from i) a. m. to 6 p.

except tion. anything he could think of in ex- sley Tuesday afternoon, returning profits excess oi these or in excess of pre-war times will be considered cause for an investigation. Substitutes for wheat flour should not be sold at more than a reasonable advance over actual purchase price, and not sold with regard to market or replacement value at time of selling; in other words, the profit should be over. the actual purchase price in all cases. WALTER P.

INXES, Federal Food Administrator for Kansas. Rev. W. H. Williams entertam- Bilhnrd and pool halls, oowhmq flt (innpr for a hnjf alleys, anting rinks open from 12 (oz(m of his A change for the past six months of his life since enlisting in the army; as the experience and training he from avisit in Great Bend and Mrs.

A. E. Buxton were Kinsley visitors last Thursday. Come to the Pure Food Grocery nnd cret a free cup of coffee has received are invaluable. noon to n.

m. rso merenanense pleasant evening as spent, cigars or candv to he sold Irom FOR SALE: Improved 10 acres, in to i Mrs. R. J. Manuel drove in todav 2 3 miles from Kinsley.

Fine for poultry and Garden. E. R. Smith. "Countrr clubs and dance halls i onn? Ms Eva Foree home- Mi to be closed for all entertainments 1 na 'n -jmg the we imtil further advised 'iting Mrs.

Manuel. Mr. and Mrs. Will Dawes iett-j Mrs. Vivian Cormack Johnson Tuesday tor a visit at Minneola, returned to her home in Rplnr "Any jewelry store making it The eotTec- sale at the Pure Food where their son, Charles, is living, this morning after a visit here Later they will go to Oklahoma with her brother, John Cormack.

met ice to examine watches of Grocery, is Saturday, op.o day only. railroad employees may remain op- Miss Dorothy Merryman left for City, where their son, Rufus, livc. "rni. mrnA n- on at its option, but no goods shall i Kansas City Tuesday night to join They have sold all of tjheir prop-arty here to Henry Schaller. be sold between the hours or 0 p.

Mrs. Woods and Mrs. Hills and m. and 9 a. excepting Saturday i return with them the last of the W.

H. Bidleman and family nights, when the 9 o'clock limit ap- wveek. Tuesday in Great Bend vis iting relatives while Chester was it home as they could not all get rway to come here to see him. John Cormack ieit last night on Community Theatre Friday Night .1 William Desmond in "Paddy O'Hara" Saturday Night Jviis; Biilie Burke in'GIoria's Romance" and Keystone Comedy, Pawnbroker's Heart' Wednesday Night, Feb, 6th Little Marv McAllister in "Steps to 80416' and Hoyt Comedy, "Bear Facts" No. 12 for Camp Doniphan, after dorado, la-t week and is iting his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Jo-Bishop. Miss Helen Lunz and Miss Haze Sturgeon of Belpre, were Kinsley visitors last week and took the teachers' examination here. Mrs. Robt.

Grove left last week for Philadelphia, where she will join her husband. The pongregational Ladies Aid Society met with Mrs. H. J. Draut yesterday afternoon.

The ladies are doing Keel Cros work at their meetings now. Mrs. S. E. Tall man of Lewis, received a cablegram from her son.

Herman, Sunday. He stated that a short but pleasant visit at home. Ernest McKibben is in the hos pital at Ft. Riley with a severe case of the grippe. J.

W. Smith and wife left for us about your eyes We can help you. Leonard Jewelry Company Jewelers and Opticians Watch Inspectors for A. T. S.

F. Ry. Co." Hutchinson Tuesday morning to visit relatives. Mr. A.

L. Moffat was a business visitor in Topeka this week, leav the had arrived safely in France ing here Tuesday. and was well..