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WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
ISSUED BY THE
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT
They Can Help
CAPITAL $60,000 BURPLUS $25,000
TOTAL RESOURCES $520,000
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First National Bank
CENTRAL CITY, COLORADO.
BUSINESS FOUNDED IN 1862. ORGANIZED AS A
NATIONAL BANK JANUARY 1«t, 1874.
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One of the oldest banks in Colorado, it has for fifty-four years
striven to furnish the public with every facility consistent . ,
with conservative banking practice. ,
Officers and Directors:
J. C. JENKINS, President J. C. McSHANE, Vice-President i
H. H. LAKE, Cashier W. O.'JENKINS, Assistant Cashier '
WILLIAM MARTIN
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PERSONAL MENTION
Wm. Auger was In Denver Satur
day. He Is thinking of going into
the ship yards and helping Uncle
Bam.
Rev. Geo. S. Parker went to Den
ver yesterday to attend the funeral
cf a friend.
Mra. Fritz Wenzel and son leave
next week for Denver and If they
find they like the big city as well as
they do Central, will make Denver
their home. Mr. Wenzel has been
In nver several weeks.
Joe Powers visited friends and rel
atives. In Central Sunday.
Mrs. Wm. Mitchell left for Denver
Sunday to visit her daughter.
Darrow Mabee, who went to Den
ver for bis health, has returned, a
little better.
Miss Nellie Erohl came up from
Greeley Friday, returning Sunday af
ternoon.
Ben Slattery came up from Denver
Saturday night, Denver Is too ex
citing a place for him.
Jack McCalllster arrived Saturday
evening from the Agricultural col
lege to get ready for war service, be
ing one of tl:e two selected to go
to Camp Funston fromffJllpln county j
on April 27th. |
Mrs. Esther Lobb, daughter of Mrs.
Wm. Martin, came up from Denver
to attend the funeral of her mother.
J. C. Noble, of. the Philadelphia
mine at the head of Freeman gulch,
returned from a trip to Dnver Tues
day.
John Morgan, of Oak Creek, was
here-this week, visiting his mother,
sister and brother.
Robert Prouso has accepted a pos
ition at Golden and left Central and .
several sad hearts this week to go
to that place.
S. A. Rank left yesterday for his
home in Boulder.
Percy R. Alsdorf left yesterday
morning for Denver on business.
County Supt. Edith Williams went
to Denver yesterday. I
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Roberts and son
came up from Denver to attend the I
funeral of Mrs. Martin Sunday. I
Miss Mamie Cody returned from a
visit to penver last night.
James Barbee returned Tuesday
night from Denver. Mrs. Barbee is
remaining in Denver for a few weeks
for the benefit of her health. I
James Henley and Theodors Sten
eck went to Denver Sunday to see
the bright lights.
Mr. and Mrs. Ike Hardy have re
turned from an extended stay In Ar
vada. They report Al. Klals, who
was ill, aa recovered.
Mr. and Mrs. Emmett McKlbben,
of Apex, were In Central yesterday.
They report yesterday aa the sever
est of the winter.
Mrs. Fred Head leaves tomorrow
for Cheyenne, Wyo.
Walter Boyle, the pioneer mining
man, returned from Denver last night
John G. May left for- Denver Sat
urday.
Mr. and Mrs. Al. Ingersoll. of Den
ver, attended the funeral of Mrs. Wm
Mar'tn.
H. Benight, who was In attendance
at the Foater-Colomo trial, left for
his home in Denver yesterday.
Tom Cudahy returned from a trip
to Denver last night.
Mrs. Charles Brandstetter came
over from Georgetown last night to
visit a few days with her husband.
Mrs. H. J. Hawley returned from .
a visit with her daughter In Denver
Saturday night.
Mrs. John Claus, of Denver, came
up to attend the Ct.as. Anderson fun
crrl Tuesday.
Mrs. R. C. Benight came up from
Denver Monday night.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens, w-ho had
been spending a week at Arvada vis
iting friends, returned Friday. i
Mrs. W. U. 8. Parsonß returned
Monday night from Denver, where j
she attended the Benight funeral.
Mrs. Annie Spear, of Idaho Springs
came over Friday to visit a few days
with her brother and sißter, Joseph
Floyd and Mrs. Cowling. |
Alf. Thomas was over from Fort
Morgan to attend the funeral of his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Wm. Martin.
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94 interest In Fannie lode. Enter
prise mining diatrlct for SIOOO.OO.
3t H. J. HAWLEY.
WANTED BUILDINGS, HOUSES
The M. It omen Wrecking Co., will
purchase old buildings, houses, barns
fixtures, etc., paying cash for same.
Address, Golden, Colo.
Mcney has no choice In these
tin es between courage and coward
ice. Every dolltr tl at Isn’t doing
something noble and patriotic must
fight or be classed as a traitor.
It Is said that Germany’s birth
rate Is decreasing while that of
France and Belgium Is Increasing.
tub cnitPiir ormrtbk
WOMEN ASK FOR
RATIONING PLAN
Amtrican Women Volunteer to
Buy Fixed Amounts of Meat, *
Bread Flour, Sugar
and Butter.
PLAN STARTED IN NEW YORK.
Idea Supplements U. 8. Food Admlnls
tration’e New Home Card Now
in 10,000,000 Homes.
The women of America, who are
anxloua to do their great part In the
winning of the war, are now, aa a
whole, familiar with the most impor
tant aspects of food conservation. The
Home Card, both m Its original form
and in the revised edition for 1918,
which provides for two wheatless days,
one meatless day a week, in addition
to a wheatless meal every day, has been
placed by the Food Administration aft
era vigorous campaign in 10,000,000
American homes. An intelligent and
conscientious observance of the Horn,
Card's requirements is all the Food
Administration uskß of the housewlvei
of the country.
The Food Administration has had ■
great many requests, however, particu
larly from the homes of the well-to-do,
thut it should issue a worked out plun
for a voluntary system of rationing.
This desire for a voluntary ration
springe from two causes—first, be
cause it Is far simpler for the house
wife to save food when she has a con
crete working plan by which to pro
ceed, and, eecond, because the loyal
women of America desire, unselfishly,
to put themselves on the same basis
as the women of the Allied countries.
The ration proposed by the Food Ad
ministration Is almost the same aa
that adopted In England for voluntary
observance. All ever the United King
dom, In hundreds of houses there
hange In the front window a card with
the stirring pledge, “IN HONOR
BOUND WE ADOPT THE NATION.
AL SCALE OF VOLUNTARY RA
TIONS."
The ration recommended by the
Food Administration, and adopted first
in New York city, whence the Idea has
spread through the entire country, Is
the following:
Weekly
Allowance
Per Person.
Meet—Beef (fresh, salted, tin
ned and hashed); mutton,
lamb and veal (mutton by
preference) 244 lbs.
Butter H lb.
Cooking Fats (margnrtne, lard,
lard substitutes, vegetable
oils) Vi lb.
Wheat Flour (for use In cook
ing gravies, etc., where
corn starch, cracker dust
or bread crumbs cannot be
substituted) Vi IK
Victory Bread (containing at
least 20 per cent, of a sub
stitute for wheat f10ur).... 1% lbs.
Sugar (Including all sugar
used en the table and In
cooking and all sweatmeate
and candies, but not that
used for canning and pre
serving) £ ib.
The Items listed shove are the only
ones which are definitely limited. In
the case of milk and cream, ns much
may be used as necessary, and chil
dren, of course, must have their full
allowance of whole milk. Fish and
poultry, any cereal other than wheat,
vegetables and fruits and cheese may
be used ns freely as Is desired.
The above ration Is In no wise In
tended to supplant the Home Card,
but rather to supplement It. It has
been published with the Idea that It
will be a very real aid to the Ameri
can woman In her splendid effort to
carry out the great food conservation
program.
USE MORE POTATOES.
M
mated that over 700,000 extra
seres of potatoes were planted
last year. The United States
Food Administration Is endeavor
ing to push the nation's big po
tato stocks Into channels of
trade and has placed potatoes
on the list of substitutes that
mn.v be bought along with wheat
flour.
Potato soup has become a war
dlah. Here Is a recipe that haa
been teated by United Ststca
Food Admlnlatnitlon experts. In
gredients needed are three pota
toes, one quart of milk, two
slices onion, three tablespoons
butter substitute, two table
spoons flour, ono and one-bslt
tablespoons salt, one-quarter
teaspoon celery nnlt, one-eighth
teaspoon pepper, few grains cay
enne and one teaspoon chopped
parsley.
Cook potatoes In boiled salted
water. When soft run through
a strainer. Scald tnllli with on
ion, remove onion and add milk
slowly to potatoes. Melt the fat,
add dry Ingredients, stir until
well mixed, then stir Into bolting
soap. Conk one minute, strain
ami sprinkle with barley.
HSI.P consume the
i 1917 record break
ing potato crop.
Ooverntnent ex
perts have eetl-
TO CUT WHEAT
USE ONE-HALF
Military Neoesslty Demand* That
Each Amerioan Eat Only V/t
Pound* Wheat Products
Weekly.
CORN AND OATS SUBSTITUTES.
Allies Must Have Wheat Enough to
Maintain Tholr War Bread
Till Next Harvest.
If we are to furnish the allies with
the necessary proportion of wheat to
maintain their war - bread from now
until the next harvest, and this It a
military necessity, we must reduce our
monthly consumption to 21,000,000
bushels a month as against our nor
mal consumption of about 42,000,000
bushels, or 50 per cenL of our normal
consumption. This is the situation as
set forth by the U. S. Food Adminis
tration at Washington. Reserving a
margin for distribution to tlie army
and for special cases, leaves for gen
eral consumption approximately lVi
pounds of wheat products weekly per
person, the Food Administration’s
statement continues: Maqy of our
consumers are dependent upon bakers’
bread. Such bread must be durable
and therefore requires a larger propor
tion of wheat products than cereal
breads baked in the household. Our
army and navy require a full allow
ance. The well-to-do In our population
can make greater sacrifices In the con
sumption of wheat products than can
the poor. In addition, our population
In the agricultural districts, where tjie
other cereals are ahundnnt, are more
skilled In the preparation of breads
from these other cereals than the
crowded city and Industrial popula
tions.
With Improved transportation condi
tions we now have available a surplus
of potatoes. We also have in the
spring months s surplus of milk, and
we have ample corn nnd oats for hu
man consumption. The drain on rys
and barley ns substitutes has already
greatly exhausted thq. supply of these
grains.
To effect the needed saving of wheat
we are wholly dependent upon the
voluntary assistance of the American
people and we ask that the following
rules shall be observed :
1. Householders -to use not to exceed
a total of 144 pounds per week of
wheat products per person. This
means not more than 1% pounds of
Victory bread containing the required
percentage of substitutes and one-half
pound of cooking flour, macaroni,
crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat
breakfast cereals, all combined.
2. Public eating places and clnbs to
observe two wheatless days per week,
Monday and Wednesday, as at present
In addition thereto, not to serve to
any one guest at any ons meal an
aggregate of breadstulfs. macaroni,
crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat
breakfast cereals, containing a total
of more than two ounces of wheat
flour. No wheat products to be served
nnless specially ordered. Public eat
ing eetabllshments not to buy more
than six pounds of wheat products for
each ninety meals served, thus con
forming with the limitations requested
of the householders.
8. Retailers to sell not more than
one-eighth of s barrel of flour to any
town customer at any one time and
not more than one-quarter of a barrel
to any country customer at any one
time, and In no case to sell wheat
products without the sale of au equal
weight of other cereals.
4. We ask the bakers and grocers to
reduce the volume of Victory bread
sold, by delivery of the three-quarter
pound loaf where one pound was sold
before, nnd corresponding proiairtlons
In other weights. We also ask bakers
not to Increase the amount of their
wheat flour purchases beyond 70 per
cent, of the average monthly amount
purchased In the four months prior to
March 1.
6. Manufacturers nslng wheat prod
ucts for non-food purposes should
cease such use entirely.
6. There Is no limit upon the use of
other cereals, flours, and meals, corn,
barley, buckwheat, potato flour, et
cetera.
Many thousand families throughout
the lend are now using no wheat prod
ucts whatever, except a very small
amount for cooking purposes, and are
doing so In perfect health and satisfac
tion. There Is no rensAn why all of
the American people who are able to
| cook In their own households cannot
subsist perfectly well with the ufte of
less wheat products than one nnd one
half pounds s week, and we specially
i ask tha well-to-do households In the
eountry to follow this additional pro
; gramme In order that we may provide
j the necessary marginal supplies for
those parts of the, community less able
to adapt themselves to so Isrgs a pro
portion of substitutes.
In order that we shall be able to
make the wheat exports that are ab
solutely demanded of us to maintain
the civil population nnd soldiers of tbo
allies nnd onr own nrmy, we propose
to supplement the voluntary co-opera
tlon of the public by s further limita
tion of distribution, and we shall place
at once restrictions on distribution
which will he adjusted from time to
time to secure ns nearly equitable dis
tribution as possible. With the arf'enl
of harvest we should be able to relax
such restrictions. Until then we ask
for the necessary patience, sacrifice
and co-operation of the distributing
trades
wife and child
hearth and home
IIBERTY
■ BONDS
Third Liberty Loan
THE ENEMY
WE MUST MEET
By William Allen White
(Mr. White, editor, author and King ol
the war and all of its many angles while
on an extended visit to the various battle
lines of the Allied armies.)
Back of the German lines every
ounce of food is conserved, and dis
tributed with fairly equitable pro
cision; every yard of cloth Is num
bered and Is entered Into the wax
strength of the empire. Every penny
weight of German coal Is handled
with scientific care, and the one end
and aim of all this autocratic control
of food and clothing and heat Is the
v-’lnnlng of the war. There is no other
purpose In the German mind. Every
German mark is a German soldier;
every grain of gold is doing its full
share to work out that indomitable
purpose.
Here In America we must realize
that the war will not be won on any
front, but in our own hearts. This Is
a clash of civilizations. We must de
velop in our hearts a democratic pur
pose as strong and as carefully direct
ed as this autocratic purpose of Ger
many. We, too, must make soldiers
of our corn stalks, make,defenders of
our wool and cotton and silk, make
every pound of coal an American
pound, and we must make bullets of
our pennies. If we fail to develop this
democratic purpose in the eye to eye,
knee to knee, hand to hand, struggle
on the front, which, after all, only
reflects the strength of our convic
tion, then our civilization will go
down. To fall to support our soldiers
with ammunition, with food, with
clothing, with coal, will weaken them
for the great conflict at the great mo
ment, and that weakening will come
from our hearts at home. It will
come If we are slow with our finan
cial support of the men. Tbs Liberty
Loan furnishes us with the only way
we home-stayers can practically show
our purpose. Our patriotism will be
measured by our performance toward
the Liberty Loan. What we lend to
our country In this time of need will
measure our love of the freedom* our
fathers bought. It Is at stake. The
autocratic purpose of Germany, Iron
willed and yet unbroken, aimed at
world conquest is threatening us.
What Is freedom worth to youT It Is'
worth what you lend to your govern
ment in this hour of Its awful need.
Your Choice ?
bonds or
bondage?
Will you lend your
money and be free -
or
Hoard It nowandpqy
it out in Tribute when
Liberty is lost ?
IS AMERICA AWAKE?
As much as has been said and writ
ten in America about the World-War
In Europe. It Is doubtful If America Is \
yet awake.
A man who returned from Europe '
•lx months ago, said, "The farmers of "
America are feeding to their cattle
today better food than millions of
people In Germany and Austria have
had at times. These people whose
governments are fighting us are sub
sisting on cow beets and straw bread.
All Europe Is short-ratlonad and
hungry.
This Is our war from now on. What
happens In Europe Is America’s deep
est concern. There Is not enough food
in the world. Either our soldiers must
skimp their rations or we must skimp
ours; either they must do without
some necessities or we must do with
out some of our luxuries.
Which shall it be?
Count on the Tomorrows. What
will your business be worth U we
should lose the war tomorrow? What
would you give for a farm In Russia
today? What would you give for a
farm In America If conditions were
such as they are in Russia today?
Help produce, help conserve, and help
fight by buying Liberty Bonds, for
"he also tights who helps a fighter
tight.’*