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THE MOHAVE COUNTY MINER AND OUR MINERAL WEALTH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1918
PAGE THREE
FAIR FOOD PRICES
As Fixed By Food Adiministration
KINGMAN, Saturday Nov. 9, 1918 The following official Quotations
arc the maximum retail prices that may be charged for the foodstuffs nam
ed, as fixed by Kingman Fair Price Committee of the Food Administration
Owing to fluctuations of the mark et on butter and eggs, the above price
on these items is neither minimum or maximum.
Victory Flour 1-8 bbl. bag (24 pounds) $1.75
Wheat flour, per 1-8 bbl. bag (21 lbs.) 1.G5
Wheat flour (bulk), per pound i 07
Barley flour, per 1-8 bbl. bag (24 lbs.) 1.95
Barloy flour (bulk), per lb s 08 1-2
Rice flour (bulk), per lb ' 12
Cornmeal (bulk), per lb 08
Corn flour (bulk), per lb OS
Victory bread (price per loaf), 16 oz 13
Victory bread (twin loaf), 24 ounces ....". 16
Oatmeal or rolled oats (bulk) per pound 10 to .11
Rice, unbroken, standard quality, per lb 12 to 17
Sugar, granulated (bulk) per pound 09 1-2
Beans (pink), per lb 12
Beans (navy) per pound 17 1-2
Potatoes (white or Irish), per lb. , 04 to 4
Onions, per lb 04 to .04 1-2
Raisins (seeded), per 16-oz. pkg 7 . . . ".15
Prunes (60-70's), per lb.- 15
Canned tomatoes (standard grade), (No. 2 can) .' .18
Canned corn (standard grade) 'per 20 ounce (No. 2) can 15
Canned peas (standard grade), per 20-oz. (No. 2) can 18 to .22
Canned Salmon (tall pink Alaska), per 16 oz. (No. 1) can 22 to .25
Canned salmon tall red Alaska), per 16-oz. No. 1) can .'. 30
Eavaporated milk (unsweetened, per 6-oz can .'. 08
' , Evaporated milk (unsweetened), per 16-oz. can 17
Butter, per lb 72
Eggs (fresh ranch), per doz 92
Cheese (New York or local), per lb 40 to .45
Lard (pure leaf in tins) per 3 pound pail 1.03 to 1.10
Lard substitute in tins, per 6 pound pail 2.00
Bacon (not sliced), standard grade, per lb 55
Bacon (sliced), (fancy grade), (Swifts Prem.) per lb 70
Ham (smoked), standard, per lb. (whole) 43 3-4
Ham (smoked),, fancy grade, per lb. Prem. whole 44 3-4
Bacon, (Premium) not sliced , 61 to 63
Round Steak, per lb 35 to .40
On charges made for any articles here listed in excess of the list
price should be reported to County Food Administrator Stewart.
WITH OUR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
FRANCE AS SEEN A
BY A U. S. SAILOR
Charles Maddux gies an interest
ing, breezj debciiption of tiance and
the Fiench people In a recent letter.
-OF LICKING" THE HON
One of the most inteicsting letters
ASSETS
OVER
$3,000,000
CAPITAL
and SURPLUS
$325,000
VRIZOXA CENTRAL BANK
Established 1887
"Top of the morning to ye!"
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Unlike Topsy
Swift .&., Company
Has Not "Jest Growe
Swift & Company, in fifty years of well " ;
ordered growth, has become one of the !
great national services because it h'aaWifiSM
learned to do something for the American"'
people which they needed to have done
for them, in the way in which they
preferred to have it done. ,
It has met each successive demand, in
the changing conditions of national life,
by getting good meat to increasing mil
lions effectively, efficiently, economically,
and expeditiously.
The Swift & Company packing plants,'
refrigerator cars, car routes, branch
houses, organization, and personnel of
today are the practical solutions, born of
practical experience, to the food problems
okhalf a century.
Because of all these elements working in
correlation and unison, Swift & Company
is able to supply more and better meat to
more people than would have been pos
sible otherwise, at a net profit per pound of
meat so low (a fraction of a cent) that the
consumer price is practically unaffected.
Strip away any portion of this vast,
smooth-running human machine, and you
make a large part of the meat supply
uncertain, lose the benefit of half a century
of fruitful experience, and scatter the
intelligent energies of men who have
devoted a life work toward meeting the
needs of a nation in one vital field.
The booklet of preceding chaptered this story of
the pacldngindnstryrill be mdHtd on request to
Swift & Company,
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois.
Swift & Company, U. S. A.
mam
blight and cheerful over heio this
morning, and I'm feeling- likewise 1
think its a good time to wiite a few
lines.
Time diags pietty slow heie in Pan
iliac, usually, 'ihe weather lias been
very wet lately but today has the
pro'spect of being of the Arizona var
iety. Last Saturday was a fine day, and,
being ''on libeity," a sailor friend and
I went on a bicycle hike. Ihe roads
in this country are fine and quite num
erous. We covered fifty kilometers,
(about thirty-one 'miles) in a few
hours. Took refreshments at the hunt-,
ing lodge of an English woman (wid
ow to a Frenchman and the mother of
tw'o sons now 'deadJ whd gave their
lives for France.) . We had a nice lit
tle chat, some wine, etc., and then
were on our way.
Along our route we saw many luci
ous blackberries and stopped occas
ionally to "manger" some of them.
The French do not eat blackberries.
Mighty strange, but we jackies are
glad they don't for as it is, while out
"promenadeing we can stop alongthe
roadside and eat to our heart's con
sent. They the French people don't
know what they re missing! There are,
however, very few food substances
which the French, let go to waste.
Frogs, snails, ddhkey flesh, and now
horse flesh, are some of the "meats"
they turn to account. How would you
like a dish of donkey flesh with a
fancy name like 'saucisson de Lyn,' or
would 'you prefer a burro with cac
tus trimmings and labeled "camou
flage de asb(s)bestos?" So well do the
people of this country like snails that
they actually farm them. They are
fed on green stuff, wine dregs and on
bran soaked in wine, thus they are
given a special favor. Gay Paris con
sumes some fifty tons of ,snails per
day! If this war should last another
four years, I wonder what we Ameri
cans will be eating?
A few days ago I witnessed a
Fiench Funeral procession. This is
another thing which they do in their
pwn sweet way. It certainly was a
strange sigm 10 me. iweryuoay was
walking except the hearse driver and
the drivers of otherwise empty carri
ages which latter follow ed the balance
of the procession. After the funeral
was all over the- people attendhig",
wouict nae home in these vehicles. So
I was told that even in Paris the peo-
rl tvs.llr tn n fnnninl PnnfMct fliie
f to.our"a-apid transit" method. Well,
pufufriends try to get us (not to say
ihfiiitselves) out of misery quick, don't
they?- - ,
rfOh, yes, the procession! To con
tinue, the priest preceeded the hearse,
jin'-this case) then the men, then the
women, all following closely upon the
Hearse. Every Frenchman they pas
sed saluted the procession. This' also
isv decidedly a French custom.
"Oh; well, we can't all be alike, and
I' i'eckpn it's a good thing we're jiot
just sc But its a good thing that
some'frace of people are more respect
ful: of the dead, than are we Americ
ans: Only our near friends and rel
atives concern us deeply. That re
minds me of a limerick I once read,
vhich ran thus-wise:
"While attending a funeral, McBride
Was asked who was dead and replied,
'I don't know,' he said,
'The man who is dead,
I just came along for a ride!' " a
' Am now a gunner's mate, 3rd class
(since July 1). Please remember to ad
dress me exactly as below.
Best Regards.
Tell inquiring friends "hello" for
me and tell them to write. Goodbye.
Sincerely,
Charles Maddux,
G. M., 3 C, V. S. N,
U. S. N. Air Station, Panillac. Care
of Postmaster, New York City, N. Y.
It's1 lecu'vuu 01 i' ranee was that of L.
v. VyJlULllHis. linn is with tin VTth
WRITES OF LIFE
IN FRENCH BILLETS
Emery Morrow, son of R. P. Mor
row, writes of the life in the French
billets behind the trenches. He entered
the service about a year and a half
ago and has been in France but a
short while.
"I am in training back of the lines
and am billeted in comfortable quar
ters in a stone house 51 years old.
Five of us live in the same place aSid
have things fixed nicely. Shelves for
our clothes and hooks for our equip
ment, a small table and chairs. We
sleep on matresses on the floor. I
am in a new place, not the one from
which I wrote you last time. You see
I am moving about quite often and
seeing the country as I do. It is very
pretty here and resembles California
very much. An old lady owns the
place where I stay and she treats. us
fine, as do most of the people in this
country. All of the houses are built
of stone and one house here is 285
years old, but still as good as new.
The grapes will soon be ripe, but they
do not have the same crops that they
have in California.
I see names of some of my old Gal
veston friends on the walls so I know
I am on their trails, and we may get
together again.
There are 15 boys from the 8th reg
iment in my company, and fine fel
lows, and we are trying to hang toget
her. Robt. E. Morrow, Co. D., 1st Tarin
ing Batt., 1st Regiment, U. S.
Marines, Am. Ex. Forces, via N.
Y., France.
Engineers and took active part in, one
of tne biggest battles of the war. Mr.
Cai others was formeily connected
with the Miners' Union at Chloride.
"I will start with the time we left
the training camp in the States. Of
course we had an idea we would be
given woid soon to pack up as they
had carefully inspected and checked
UP pn all our equipment and we were
'all, ready when it did come. The ride
to the port of embarkation was un
eventful and made in the night very
quiptly. No time was lost in going
aboard and the next day at noon with
several other heavily ladened troop
ships, we dropped down to the outer
harbor and watied there until all were
ready to start. We put to sea in the
daytime with an escort consisting of
several very tast little destroyers, a
large business like cruiser, a dirigable
airship, and- some sea planes, to guard
us. We were packed in like'sardines
and I noted that the others were the
same and I afterwards learned that
one or the larger vessels was a for
mer German ship. All the transports
were well armed and manned by naval
seamen.
Before reaching this side we were
joined by several other destroyers and
picked up a number of troop ships on
reaching the French port we came in
single file through the mine fields our
ship leading the way and right here
I want to say that there is no more
imposing sight in the world than a line
of great ships as far as the eye can
reach and flanked by the "watch dogs"
of the navy darting here and there all
the time. Any object afloat is careful
ly investigated as it 'may be a "sub"
and is approached with great caution.
It seems that the American Navy has
made a great "rep" in these waters
andis considered the "very la'st word"
agoing among the navies of the world.
Well we were landed in quick time and
were billeted in an old French prison
camp built and used by Napoleon dur
ing his wars. 'Ihe old place, where
the firing squads did its work, is still
intact as are many other objects of
interest. We w ere here only two days',
entraining direct for the fiont, and in
an even twenty days from the tiaining
camp we were -under fire of the Ger
man guns and in the start of the
World's famous battles. We had
marched all night in the pouring rain
and the scream of the heavy shells
did not raise our spirits very much.
Here at one side were the Marines
flanked by a division of our Eastern
troops, who proved themselves the
best fighters the Huns had ever fac
ed. The Germans had started another
drive, which was to reach Paris, and
the French were on the point of break
ing and so advised the leader of the
Marines. "Hell no?" said he. "We
.were sent here to hold this groifnd and
to take more.
And they did and these same woods
have been renamed in honor of our
boys, many of whom are still there do
ing their long sleep. The initial suc
cess was followed up so fast and fur
ious that no time was left for eating,
sleeping or rest and only stopped
when the salient the Huns had forc
ed into the French lines, was gone and
the Germans were for the time secure
back of the natural barrier of a couple
of rivers. Of course in their 'retreat
all bridges, rail tracks, etc., were des
troyed and they also left vast quan
tities of ammunition in addition to
great dumps they had blown up.
Heavy artillery could not be moved
quickly enough and was captured ev
ery where. I saw great Howitzers,
made by the Krupp's, that stoop moie
than 9 feet high and hurled shells
weighing several hundred pounds. We
had scores of machine guns, trench
mortars, etc., in our camp and great
trenches filled with the German dead.
Today this section is in a large part
cleaned up and the people are again
in their homes. But it makes one
feel blue when he is going along the
road as here and there he passes a lit
tle plot with our boys or sees a lone
grave surmounted by a rude cross. A
Springfield rifle sticking, bayonet
down, m the ground and a dun colored
helmet" hanging on top of the cros.
An identification tag tied to the sticks
tells who he is and bears his official
number. One I noticed had two sig
nal flags stuck upright and another
had a belt with telephone tools stuck
in it, showing what his duties were.
Jt seemed difficult to me to realize
that all along here one of the most
brilliant pages of history was writ
ten. It was all so sordid and lacked
all semblance of the "glorious charge"
we have often read about. "No pris
oners" and later "Hell, Heaven, or
Hoboken before Xmas" were the cries.
The Huns fought desperately and the
rear guard is always machine guns,
hundreds of them everywhere.
The Yanks fought in Indian style,
scattered out and taking advantage of
every bit of cover, always ahead, un
til it got the Dutchman's goat. Here
is one little incident Three boys, two
of them recently from a New England
factory and the other from the South
west, the cactus country, were taking
what cover they could behind a mound
of earth. Machine gun bullets were
streaming past and they could not lo
cate the gun, which was doing the
great damage to our troops, who were
advancing on their bellies in the open
Finally they spotted it and the Spring
field punctured the helmet of the oper
ator. Another took his place and
shared his fate. The third was more
wary and kept down but the gun still
smoked, so the boys crawled around,
(Continued on Page Nine)
Payments
on Bonds
The second installment on Fourth. Liberty
Loan Bonds is due the 21st of this month and
should be in the hands of tke banks by the 19th.
Arizona. Central Bank
Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $325,000
KINGMAN, ARIZONA
HIT IE MM ,
DOES FOR THIS BOY
If your boy or any American boy
was a prisoner in a Hun prison camp,
what would his parent and friends
not give to be able to locate him tfo
that some comforts could be sent to
relieve his sufferings. Right here in
Arizona has just transpired such a
case, but let the Mesa Tribune tell the
story: ,
"The whereabouts of A. Haught,
one of the Mesa boys who went to
France to fight with the American '
trnons. hji hppn Inpntorl Tlivnimli Via
efforts of the Y. M. C. A. army contin
gent, young Haught was discovered in
one of the prison camps in Germany
Heretofore he had simply been report
ed as "missing."
There is a whole lot in that short
story. Thjnk of .the a'nkiety ,. of the
Mesa boy's people when he was report
ed "missing" and for days and weeks
they heard no word of him or even
that he was living or dead. That is
some of the work the Y. M. C. A. is
doing hourly in France, and,, through (
he Dutch branch of the Y, in Ger
many. Now that the Y. M. C. A., has
located young Haught, his parents will k
De aoie to sena mm parcels ot tooa,
which he will badly need. The Y. M.
C. 'A.'war bureau also will' ldok,after
that, handling the packages for Amer
ican prisoners in Germany thrQugh
the Y. M. C. A. in Holland. , ;
It is to continue this work and tp
make it more and more, effective, this
task of locating lost boys in the na
tional service and of caring for other
boys fighting on the seas and in
France, that the United War Work
Campaign is to be waged simultan
eously all over the United States from
November llto 18. It is a chance for
everyone to help do something for the
men in France. ff
"JUST TERMS" AS
THE HUN SAW
THEM IN 1871
From Count Von Moltke's "History
v of The Franco- German
War"
The negotiations (between the com
mander of the French armies and Gen
eral Von Moltkel were ViolH nf nm.
chery during the night between Sept
ember 1st and 2nd. The Germans
were forced to consider that they must
not forego the advantage gained oVer
so powerful an enemy as France.
When it was remembered that the
French had regarded the victory of
German arms over other nationalities
in the light of an insult, any acts of
untimely generosity might lead them
to fdrget their ow.n defeat. The only
course to jwrsue was to insist upon
the disarmament and detention of the .
cntiie army, but officers were to be
free on pai'ole.
General Von Wimpffeh declared it
impossible to accept hard conditions;
The negotiations were broken off and
the French officers returned to Sedan ,
at 1 o'clock . Before their departure
they were given to understand.' that
unless the terms were agPeed by-'nine-the
next morning the' bombardment
would be renewed.- The, capitulation
was signed 1y General Von "Wimpffen
on the morning of the second, further
resistance being obviously-impossible,.
Save the pits? Sure: and a bottom
less one for the kaiser Duncan CoTin
igrams. ' ' l
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County Agricultural Agent C. R.
Fillerup, of Navajo and Lpache coun
ties reports the first fair held in Nav
ajo county, jus held at 'Snowflake, a
great success. The Agricultural, Live
stock and other displays were most
creditable. ' .''';
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The VaWe-in-head-type engine Illus
trated here, like all inttmtl combat
Hon entfmee, require! aa oil that
holdi ita lubricating quahtiea at cyl
inder heat, burna clean in the com
bustion chamber a and goea out wltU
exhauit. Zerolene (lilt thete require
menu perfectly, bwumo Hit cornet'
ly refined from flecttd California -pnJfoase
erudo.
ZEROLENE
The Standard Oil for Motor Cars
It Keeps the Engine Young !
Zerolene keeps the' engine young faU-powered, smooth
running, and economical la fuel and oil consumption
because it it correctly refined from (elected California
asphalt-base crude. Gives better lubrication with lest
carbon. Made in several consistencies. Get our Correct
Lubrication Chart covering your car.
At daaterm uverjfwherm and Standard Oil Service Statioaa,
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
(California)
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R. J. Harlan, Special Agent, Standard Oil Co., Kingman
WILLARD SERVICE STATION
Get your Willard Batteryhere
Have it with you all the time
Independent sthen you'll be
Alphabetically we call your attention to some points
each week. Watch for them and get wise. .
Gas, Oils and Repair Service
OLD TRAILS GARAGE
M. G. Wagner, Prop. Phone Blue 30.' Kingman Ariz.
