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*?? 1 ' LEXINGTON DISPATCH-NEWS. j OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER V' ' Lexington, b. C. !. Published Every Wednesday By y r LEXINGTON-PISPATCH-NEWS / PUBLISHING CO ' G. M. HARMA.\ uu. r S. J. LEAPHART, Business Manage! 1 * Entered at the Pom ingtcn, S. C., as to Second CI a is. ? Subscription Price; per Year; $1.5 - \. ( ? CASH-IN Ai > >.* , r Make all communications to Lex fagton Dispatch-News Publishing Co., Lexington, S. C. Phone liy V WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28, 19IS. 1 "Germany short of change," says a news headline. xiut tiioc :i0c is like ly to come soon. Unfortunately, there are also some people whom the war inspires not so much to do their "bit.as to get their Wt \One admirable thing about a farm j is that about as many people as can j crowd on it can make a living, if they j all work. 1 j : ' ' * And isn't itg rand to think that every time we go to a moving picture show we are being patrotic by reason of-thew ar tax. Germany will believe in the reality ef American inventive genius when the submarines that leave their home ports regularly fall to return. The Russian editors probably | wouldn't be quite so jubilant over the new republic if they knew how hard they'll have* to work on'Jeleetionday. %ights. > . r ' Them an who says there will be so many potatoes raised thisy ear that it will be impossible to hire men enough to- dg them nevt fall seems to think that the amateur gardeners will Taise all they thin-k they will. Wearing a -flag on your collar may he all right, but how about the feel tngs of the laundress who is oblidged to throw the /lag into a tub with a lot of soiled clothing? A number of American farms are yawning for the husky football hero who time after time held back 11 men doing their best to mix bini up with the field's real estate. .. -.1 ' P One thousand two hundred U-boats a year is estimated to be Germany's ozitput and it is to be hoped that with the aid of the allies will soon be able to make that their downput. t ? If .^everybody saves their meat scraps or eats them, as advised by the depatrment of agriculture, that day will mark the passing of beef stew on the average popular price menu. KEN" OVER FORTY-FIVE TO BE TAKEN IN ARMY t . ? "Washington, Aug. 27.?In order | that younger men may be released for nvore active positions, the enlist- j inent of men between the ages of 45 < and 55 years has been approved by ! the war department for the ordnance j department, quartermaster, and medi cal corps, and for certain branches of, the signal corps. Instructions to this effect were sent I today to army recruiting units throu-' ghout the country. Minor disabilities which do not interfere with the j performance of the military duties Of applicants will be waited it was | said. A release signed by present employ I ers will be required with each appli- j cation for a recruit over 45 years, so j that the industrial machinery of the country may not suffer. SUNDAY SCHOOL, CONFERENCE. There will be an all-day Circuit Sun day School Conference at Hebron Church Sunday, Sept. 1, beginning at ten o'clock. Dinner will be served on the grounds. All superintendents and j teachers on the Lexington Circuit are urged to be present; also the members of all adult classes who can at-; tend will be cordiallyweleomed. FOSTER SPEER, Pastor. : ? THE JACKSON HOT ED. Is conveniently located; corner: Lady and Main streets Columbia. Home like good 'rooms; Easy beds and all conveniences to make guests ' fcomfortable. Mr. Thos. Conder is ' proprietor and gives care and attention fo his guests. He is a clever' 5 ~ ~ "U xv gentleman u.iiu uuc ciiuugn a. within himself. The weary traveler . or anyone wishing- to rest pleasantly will find The Jackson all right.Prices' for rooms or night lodging reasonable. AX OLD CITIZEN. Mr. Emanuel L. Taylor of Pino Bluff is visiting his brother-in-laws France Hutto and V. A. (iunter at' Felion, and the other relatives and friends in the county. Emanuel left i here near fifty-years ago for Arkanjsas and we are glad he succeeded in doing well.His old friends and war; Comrades are glad to see him. He i was a member of Harman's company, i X. 20th regt. & C. Vs. He made the J trip here in an auto with his daugh- j ttr and her family. They have re-; tamed home but Emanuel will re-j Wttdn for few weeks. ' - >j I - ' NOTICE. The Joint Council of the Lexington Pastorate wil meet at the parsonage ; Saturday, the 31st., inst., at 10 a. :n. ; The treasurers of the several churches j will be expected .to make* reports. O. r>. SHEA ROUSE PASTOR. J. A. CLiFTCN M. D SPECIALIST In diseases of the eye, ear nose and throat in Saluda on Monday and in i ?atesburgr Tuesday with Dr Mitchell i WANTED?A colored boy about 12 'ears old a good worker, and none ; ther need apply. DRAFTS HOTEL. "WANTED?Good second hand sowmill and engine at once, write. J. Hoy Wessinger, ltp.il. Lexington, S. C. j ' FOR SALE?One good horse, J sound and well conditioned. A real ! bargain. Apply to w. v>. numiuc-i, j R. F. D. 2 ( OWS FOR SALE. T til r if. " VOO " *'ch cows with >ur.g caives. beta . ..Ichers. ; J. S. ADDY. ltp. Lexington Rt. 3. FOR SALE?About 30 acres of fine short leaf timber, 5 miles from Chapin L C SHEALY, ltpd. ' . CHAPIN FOR SALE?Chevrolet Touring Car driven 3,000 miles in good con- j dition 17" sliding storing wheel, bumper, 191S Modle, $600.00. J. H. Habenicht, 1713 Main St., | ' Columbia, S. C. , I FOR SALE?A few 80 to 90 lbs 3 1-2 | months old O. I. C. male pigs 3-4 pur^ of my champion 2 years old 759 pounds registered O. I. C. boar for $22.00 and $24.00. F. P. RISTER, ltpd. ; Chapin, S. C. REWARD OFFERED?LOST. i, LOST?One gold cuff button with j old English letter "W" engraved on i it, on last Sunday afternoon in or j near Lexington. Finder please return | to Preston Freshley, Irmo, S. C., and : receive reward. 44c. I WANTED?I want to rent a erood crrmr 2 horse farm. ' M. L FRYE. 45p Gilbert Rt 3I ' / FORSALE | Pure bred, big type, Poland China pigs from 8 to 14 weeks old. Price from $7.50 to $10.00. L. Magnus Shealy, 7-31 -3tp Peak, S. C. . FOR SALE?1 bay horse weighing 1100 pounds. Gente and will work anywhere. S. B. Kyzer Lexington route 2. , 2tpd.?8-14. LOST?A black and tan hound bitch about 1 vear old Answers to the name of Flora. Liberal reward will j be paid for return or information as J to whereabouts. B. G. MATHIAS 3tpd8-21. Lexington Rt 4. LOST kOLD SPECTACLES?Pair i of gold spectacles on Augusta Road, j between Rawl Old Field and town of j Lexington Tuesday afternoon. In1- J closed in case inscribed "Carson's j Jewelry Shop, 2222 New Rochelle, X. I Y. Finder please return to A. M. Hoi j loway, Irmo, S. C., and receive liberal1 reward, or leave at Lexington Dis- j patch News office, iwp. . . The draft will now set the slackers and the idlers from way back. WE SERVE THE PUBLIC. I Everything in drugs and medicines, I we have them. Ask Rice, he knows about it, twenty years experience. 2f. HARMON DRUG CO. NEW BROOKLAND PEOPLE SHOULD EAT PIE DAILY Pie is wholesome, combining both; fruit and grain. Those who have! trouble digesting pie should take: ONE SPOONFUL simple buckthorn: bark, glycerine, etc. mixed in Ad!er-i-ka. This flushes the ENTIRE1 bowel tract, removes foul matter! which poisoned your stomach formonths and relieves ANY CASE sour stomach, gas or constipation and < prevents appendicitis. Leaves stom ach in condition to digest ANYTHING Sandel Drug Store New Brookland.! Sanitary Meat Market anil Rpstauvarif Fresh native meats always on hand. | Ice sold in any quantity from 5c up Our restaurant is prepared to furnish meals at all hours. First class mealt prepared by experienced cooks. CAUGHMAN & SOX MEAT MARKET Neat Dear to Postoffiee. < - LEXINGTON, S. C J ? mis wycn Ffinn 1 vui! MiCd rD?U ccn Tip in | ipc ILsJr litlL ItLLlL^ i Food Administrator Writes Presi- < dent America Conserved 141,000,000 Bushels Wheat. I CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN, j i Meat and Fat Shipments Increased by : 844,600,000 Pounds. Conservation measures applied by the American people enabled the Unit- j ed States to ship to the Allied peoples j and to our own forces overseas 141,- j t)00.000 bushels of wheat and S44,600,- j 000 pounds of meat'during the past j year, valued in all at $1,400,000,COO/ i This was accomplished in the face of a j serious food shortage in this country, be.- ;r.g the wholeheartedness and pa:. sin with-which the American pe< ? lave met the food crisis abroad. Food Administrator Hoover, in a letter to President Wilson, explains how the situation was met The voluntary conservation program fostered by the Food Administration enabled the piling up of the millions of bushels of wheat during 1917-18 and the shipment of meat during 1917-18. The total value of all food shipments to Allied destinations amounted to $1,400,000,000, all this food being bought through or In collaboration with the Food Administration. These figures are all based on official reports and represent food exports for the harvest year that closed June 30, 1918. The shipments of meats and fats (Including meat products, dairy products, vegetable oils, etc.,) to Allied destinations were as follows: Fiscal year 1916-17 2,166,500,000 lbs. Fiscal year 1917-18....3,011,100,000lbs. Increase ?^... 844,600,000lbs. Our slaughterable animals at the beginning of the last fiscal year were not appreciably larger than tjie yeap before and particularly in hogs; they were probably less. The increase ip shipments is due to conservation and the extra weight of animals added by our farmers. The full effect of these efforts began to bear their best results in the last half of the fiscal year, when the ex- 1 ports to the Allies were 2,133,100,000 pounds, as against 1,266,500,000 pounds in the same period of the year before. This compares with an averagfe of 801,000.000 pounds of total exports for the same half years In the three-year pre-war period. i? \ In cereals and cereal products re- I duced to terms of cereal bushels our < shipments to Allied destinations have 1 been: i Fiscal year 1916-17..259,900,000bushels Fiscal year 1917-18..340,800,000bushels j . ...... Increase 80,900,000 bushels ( Of these cereals our shipments of the prime breadstuff's in the fiscal year ^ 1917-18 to Allied destinations were: Wheat 131,000,000 bushels and of rye 13,900,000 bushels, a total of 144,900,- i 000 bushels. 1 The exports to Allied destinations during the fiscal year 1916-17 were:" Wheat 135,100,000 bushels and rye 2,300,000 bushels, a total of 137,400,000 bushels. In addition some 10,000,000 bushels of 1917 wheat are now in port for Allied destinations or en route thereto. r?he total shipments to Allied countries from our last harvest of wheat will be therefore, about 141,000,000 bushels, or a total of 154,900,000 bushels of prime breadstuffs. In addition to this we have shipped some 10,000,000 bushels to neutrals dependent upon us, and we have received 1 some imports from other quarters. "This accomplishment of our people in this matter stands out even more j clearly if we bear in mind that we had j < available in the fiscal year 1916-17 j from net carry-over and as surplus < over our normal consumption about 200,000,000 bushels of wheat which we were able to export that year without trenching on our home loaf," Mr. < Hoover said. "This last year, however, j owing to the large failure of the 1917 j; wheat crop, we had available from net ! carry-over and production and Imports j only just about our normal consump- 11 tion. Therefore our wheat shipments ' to Allied destinations represent approximately savings from our own wheat bread. "These figures, however, do not fully convey the volume of the effort and sacrifice made during the past year by the wimple American people. De- ' spite the magnificent effort of our agri- i cultural population in planting a much increased acreage in 1917, not only was there a very large failure in wheat, i but also the corn failed to mature prop- ! erly, and our corn is our dominant crop. !4 "I am sure," Mr. Hoover wrote in concluding his report, "that all the \ ' millions of our people, agricultural as | well as urban, who have contributed ; to these results should feel a very j definite satisfaction that in a year of universal food shortages in the northern hemisphere all of those people Joined together against Germany have come through into sight of the coming harvest not only with wealth and strength fully maintained, but with only temporary periods of hardship. i1 "It is difficult to distinguish between ; various sections of our people?the homes, public eatiDg places, food trades, urban or agricultural popula- ! 1 tlons?in assessing credit for these re- j suits, but no one will deny the domi- j nant part of the American women,*' 1. !j( A hoarder to a man who to more bvj , terested In getting feto Wte than to gfiM . _ .! A E I :^apsp m0^0mm Food savings of millions oi ment to send enormous food sh Our savings in cereals?out of i shipped to Europe. We increa America's "box from home" to Allied nations. PRICE S SUING cn Food Administration Names Price Which May Be Charged in South Carolina?$3.50 for a Bale of 500 Pounds, $1.50 for Bagging and Tie*. _ y ?5 i Columbia The Pood Adminlistraf tion his fixed the price which may be :hap<ged for ginning in South Carolina, rtfis fixed price becomes effective immediately, and is as follows: For ginning a bale of 500 pounds of lint cotton or less, $3.50 per bale. For each additional 100 pounds of lint cotIon, at the rate of 70 cents per 100 pounds. When bagging and ties are furnished by ginmer, $1.50 additional. The farmer shall have the privilege Df furnishing his own bagging and' ties. LESS SVGAS NEEDED TO j SWEETEN TEA THAN COFFEE i I Save the waste. 100 million cups of coffee are used | daily in the United States. 700 million cups of tea are used J daily in the United States. 170 million cups ?f tea and coffee. If even an average of half a teaspoon of sugar per cup is left undissolved at the bottom of the cups of j tea and coffee, the waste would be 1,-1 700,000 pounds of sugar daily. Stir your sugar until it dissolves. | Less sugar is needed when it dig- i solves. It is estimated that one-third to one-1 half of all sugars used in homes is | used in tea and coffee. ! i Think it over. How is it in your | home? Isn't there a chance for saving? j I j MAXIMUM Preservation of Fruit With MINIMUM Sugar. s The sugar shortage is one of the inconveniences of the war. It is not a tragedy. A little consideration and resourcefulness will quickly help to lessen the inconvenience. Housewives who have been accus- i tomed to preserving fruits with quantities of sugar should not view the present ougar shortage as a death knell to their plans for conserving the fruit surplus. It is important that these fruits be saved for winter use. j housewives who have been accus-1 tomed to preserving fruits with quan- j tities of sugar should not view the | present sugar shortage as a death knell to their plans for conserving the fruit surplus. It iB important that rhese fruits be saved for winter use. Sugar is desirable in preserving fruit, but it is not necessary to ith success. There are three things which the housewife should do to help in the sugar conservation pr^rana: 1 Preserve a part of? the fru*t fcy. dGX from hc Jlfsll fes& ^ w-'' . . - i , Drawn by Gaar W F Americans during our first yea ipments abroad for our fighting i short crop?amounted to 154,90 ised our meat and fat shipments I our army abroad and the civilia AMERICANS A - LIMIT U! Must Use No More Per Person a Moi Meagre Allied * Is Mair I Stocks Will Be Short . I h Year?Ration May Two pounds of sugar a month?half a pound a week?that Is the sugar ration the U. S. Food Administration has asked every American to observe until January 1,1919, in order to make 1<"*K AT11* aure uiere diiuii uc cuuu^ii JLVA vui Array and Navy, for the Allied armies and for the civilians of those nations. Ey New Year's the world sugar situation will be relieved somewhat by the new crop. Cuban sugar of this y.ear's crop will be arriving In this country. Every available sugar source will be <3rawn on by the Food Administration during the nest winter months to maintain sufficient stocks here to keep up our national sugar supply. During October the first American beet sugar will arrive in the markets. By the middle of November some of our Louisiana cane crop will be available. All of this sugar and more may be needed to keep this nation supplied on a reduced ration and to safeguard the Allied sugar ration from still further methods requiring no sugar, j 2. Preserve a part of the fruit with j a greatly reduced supply of sugar. j 3. Preserve a part of the fruit by replacing some of the sugar ordinarily used with other sweeteners. When canning without sugar fruit3 ; V.'v vNTit nn hv fh A uailfl.l TTtftthndS. lxici^v uc yui c* kj j ? ?_, using for the liquid, water alone in- j . stead of sirup. ! Unsweetened fruit juice may be j used in place of sirup. Unsweetened fruit juice may be; concentrated to a thin sirup and used in place of sugar. Fruit may be carried with one-half I or one-fourth the usual amount of bu- j gar. The sweetness of the sirup in | which fruits are canned may be re- j duced. j In making jams, marmalades and butters, reduce the volume of fruit pulp one-third to one-half by boiling, then measure and add only one-half ; sugar by weight instead of the cus tomary three-fourths. I Other sweeteners may be used instead of, sugar. Honey?-If honey is obtainable it ' may be used weight for vdHght to rei platv part or all of the sugar in any I given recipe except in jelly making." Three-fourths of . a eup of hooey \ weighs about as ?noh as a cup of I ; ,?r? )m& m I 'it < ^4?JOS^ I | iliiams, Division of Pictorial Publicity. r of war enabled this governs forces and the Allied nations* 0,000 bushels; all of which was 844,600,000 pounds. This was ins and military forces of th?\ SKEDTO 1 :r nr cur ad ju ur juu/iiv Than Two Pounds ith if the Present Sugar Ration itained. Jntil Beginning of New Be Enlarged Then. reduction. In Europe the present nr ' tion is already reduced to a minimum. Our Situation. The situation which the United States faces in its efforts to maintain A ^<A ? W rl I v?"i Vv 11 A A All/TA ^A +h A Al_ a JLU1I Hi oil IUU 111/11 U1 augai IV UiC lied world is as follows: Sugar supplies throughout the country, in homes, stores, factories and ' bakeries are at a low ebb. We must make increased sugar'shipments to theAllies. Production of American beet and Louisiana cane crops have been disappointing. Porto Rico crops have been- cuis tailed. > Immense sugar stocks in Java cannot be reached on account of the shipping shortage; ships are needed for troop movements and munitions. Army and Navy sugar requirements have increased as well as those from the Allies.. , Most industries using sugar have had their allotment reduced by one-half; some will receive no sugar. Households should make every effort to preserve the fruit crop without I sugar, or with small amounts of sugar. Later, when the sugar supply is larg* er, the canned fruit may be sweetened as It is used. sugar. Molasses?Molasses may be used as a substitute for sugar with such strong flavored fruits as plums and cranber? ries. The flavor of molasses remains prominent. ? Sorghum?All grain sirups are lik? molasses, giving a decided flavor *o the product. , Glucose or Corn Sirup?These sirups may be used to replace three-fourths of the sugar by weight in any given recipe except jelly making. Threefourths of a cup of these sirups weighs ^bout as much as a cup $>f sugar. Sugar is 1 1-2 to 2 times sweet as these sirups. * Another thing the girls ought to remember: Half the voung men who fail to marrv feel that thev cannot afford the luxury of a wife who knows how to do nothing and is ui>willing to help. Our brief experience with war has already cured more hollow chestF than thousands of pool tables' cure in a million years. Ensrland is eoiner on a crusade aerainst the food specalator.He is or.. of the worst traitors with whom nations have to deal.