The Tribune-Progress (Mountain View, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, April 19, 1918 Page: 1 of 8
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THE TRIBUNE-PROGRESS *
Volume 19. Number 50
Mountain View, Oklahoma, Friday, April 19, 1918
$1.00 Per Year
THIRTY DAY SUPPLY
can go on and do aa you please,
regardless of government orders,
OF FLOUR IS LIMIT, TL
Merchants are Selling Flour
on the Card System—Went
Into Effect Last Monday.
All Who Have Taken Out
Cards Willing to Comply.
The flour card has arrived.
Last Monday the card system of
purchasing flour was inaugurated
in the state of Oklahoma. Here-
tofore persons could go to differ-
ent flour dealers and purchase of
each the maximum amount al-
lowed by the government. This
feature was abused to some ex-
tent before the fifty-fifty plan was
started. As it now is, a person
holding a card can only purchase
a thirty day supply and the
amount proportioned is six
pounds per month for each per-
son in a family.
The flour dealers in Mountain
View are highly pleased with the
card system and promise hearty
co-operation. This method of
buying flour has been brought
about by so many people refus-
ing to comply with past orders
the government has issued gov-
erning fhe floor supply.
If the people as a whole could
only realize that we are at war,
and when the government makes
an order modifying the use of
flour, sugar, meat, or any other
just as the individual parent
should do in correcting a ch Id.
if. after telling a child to perform
some particular duty he fails to
do so, you usually proceed to
bring punishment sufficient to ac-
complish your order. We are all
on an equal footing with the flour
card, and there is no chance for
your neighbor having an over-
abundant supply of floor and you
have none.
Ail large or small flour mills
are under the card system order
and you will haye to show your
card before getting wheat ground
for flour; also the mill is only
allowed to grind each person a
thirty-day supply.
Don't lose your card or leave it
at home if you expect to get flour.
Don’t blame the merchants if
they are strict with the card sys-
tem—they are compelled to be
strict and the government has
made the orders very plain. The
fifty-fifty plan holds good now as
before. Be an American; live up
to the orders as issued by the
government and you will be
doing mighty good soldier duty
at home.
agent, F. F. Parker and the local
exemption board. Mr. Parser
has the application blanks and
they can be had by calling at his
office in the court house at Ho-
bart. Furloughs will not be
granted to enlisted men of or
above the grade of first sergeant,
Fnrloughs granted on this order
will be without pay and allow-
ances, except enough to keep up
war-risk insurance and pledges
on Liberty bonds.
INSTRUCTIONS TO RE-
TURN SURPLUS FLOUR
According to the Government
Orders All Flour in Excess
of Thirty-Day Supply is to
Sold Back to be Merchant,
Furloughs to be Granted
Furloughs will be granted to
soldiers where they are needed
at home for agricultural work.
These furloughs are granted ac-
cording to the act of March 16,
food product, comply with these! 1918,and is to enable soldiers to
orders as directed, the different j engage in agriculture during the
card systems would not need to | present farming season for the
The government has instructed
the State Federal Food Admin-
istration of Oklahoma to issue
orders to county food administra-
tors to make public the order
that all wheat flour iu excess of
a thirty days supply in the hand
of the consumer must be turned
back to the merchant from whom
it was purchased; if flour that has
been made from wheat taken to
a local or other mill, the same
order applies—a merchant or
the mill grinding same must buy
it back. This order was eflective
the,same time as the flour card,
be instituted. The government
will be fair with you if you be
fair with it. If you think you
purpose of augmenting the agri-
cultural production. Application
can be made through the couutv
Monday, April 15.
Deputy Food Administrator for ^ **ore wou^ **k.
Mountain View. H. C. West, re-
ceived a message Tuesday to the
effest that this order must be
complied with and any found
continuing to hoard an amount
above the thirty-day supply
would be subject to a $5000 fine
or two yesrs in prison.
The following letter to J. M.
Pate, County Administrator at
Hobart, is self explanatory on
two or three questions:
Norman, Okla., April 11, '18.
Mr. J. M. Pate, Hobart, Okla.
Dear Mr. Pate: We are in re-
ceipt of your favor of the 9th inst.
in regard to farmers of your
county having pnrehased a year's
supply of flour last year.
The recent regulations provide
that they must not have more
than thirty days supply of flour
at a time ou the six pounds per
person per month basis, and the
excess supply should be taken
back to the stores from which it
was purchased.
You did not explain why they
could not retnrn it to the mer-
chants from whom they bought
it. If it is because merehants
will not buy it, paying the pres-
ent market price, advise us and
we will see that such stores are
not allowed to buy any more flour
from millers, wholesalers, or job-
bers for some time to come. We
fire of the opinion that it would
not relieve the situation were
they to sell to their neighbors,
iof they cannot sell to the neigh-
bors without selling pound for
pound of substitute unless sub-
stitute to cover the flour purchase
was made from the store before
the flour was delivered by the
farmer. Also the farmer should
j sell at the same figure which a
the county food administrators
and the press, recently appealed
to all farmers to haul their wheat
to the mills oaeleyators and sell.
They were to have done this by
April third.
Please use your influence and
efforts to have them follow these
instructions immediately in order
that it may not become necessary
for the Government to requisi-
tion wheat, which action will fol-
low failure of the farmer to vol-
untarily sell his wheat to the mill
or elevator. Yours truly,
Federal Food Administration
of Oklahoma.
By Paul Cottrell, Executive Sec'y.
We do not understand how a
farmer now has sufficient wheat
on hand from which he could
spare enough for his neighbors.
Please do not allow anv such
dealings to be completed in your
county. The Government, through
A young man's
dark Tan up-to-
tha-minuto $tyl*
Ready to Wear
Hot weather footwear—snappy
~:—just th<
in style—perfect in fit—just the
thing for you live fellows who
she
know good shoes and appreciate them.
The Florsheim Shoe is the logical asso-
ciate of fine clothes, the finishing touch—
We have Florsheims in
many shapes and leathers—
they’re “Skeleton Lined” for
coolness and ready to wear,
without breaking in.
ONE PRICE ONLY.
YOU CAN PROFIT BY THESE FACTS
We have the best stock of Rugs; Linoleums, Refrigerators, Oil Stoves, Wall Paper, Mattresses, Bed Springs and Kitchen Cabinets
we have ever carried, and we can show you why this should be of interest to you if you will read this and put facts together.
Rugs and Floor Covering
| SECOND, Refrigerators: Most everyone
! knows that a good refrigerator will pay for
itself in saving food. Shouldn't we save all
the food we can?
You can just guess
fall, at the price of
THIRD, Oil Stoves; Knowing how un-
certain it is to depend altogether on coal,
every home should have a good oil stove.
FOURTH, Wall Paper: We have just a
few good patterns in stock. You can save
some on this if you have to buy.
FIFTH, Mattresses:
what they will be this
cotton now.
SIXTH. Kitchen Cabinets, and in fact
all lines of furniture, case goods, duofolds,
chairs, etc. Just as proof that you should
get these goods now, if you have to buy
them, take the “D. C.” chair. Vou can't;
get them from the factory for love or money.
The only way one can get these goods is
from some jobbing house that happens to
have them.
FIRST; Only last week our government
took charge of the woolen mills, and we have |
a notice that the factories of whom we have
always bought our rugs will not make any
more rugs or floor covering—in fact they had!
already turned their factories over to the gov-!
eminent for making war blankets. We have a
letter ou file received this week from one of
the leading jobbing houses, offering to take all i
the rugs we now have off our hands and, by
the way, the prices they mention are just the
same as the prices we art getting for the goods
on our floor today. Also factories making lin-
oleum have gone to making goods for the gov-
ernment.
SEVENTH, Bed Springs; Dealers are selling some of these for less than factory prices
We are not putting up war talk in order that we
may reap a war profit, but 'these are facts. We have
looked forward and bought what goods we thought our
trade would demand. And this should be of interest to
you. for you can buy goods in Mountain View for less
money.
FARMER BROS.
Phone 37
Mountain View
P. S.—We have a nice little present for all war brides.
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West, H. C. The Tribune-Progress (Mountain View, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, April 19, 1918, newspaper, April 19, 1918; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc914858/m1/1/: accessed May 8, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.