The Bloom Booster du lieu suivant : Bloom, Kansas • 6

THE BOOSTER. BLOOS1, KANSAS efn 5T those people joined together against Germany have come through Into sight of the coming harrest not only with wealth and strength fully maintained, but with, only temporary periods of hardship. "It Is difficult to distinguish between various sections of our people the frjccT air A BOX FROM HOME Food Administrator Writes Presi-' s- SAVED FOOD FED THE ALLIES tlons In assessing credit for these results, but no one will deny the dominant part of the American women." dent America Conserved 000,000 Bushels Wheat, i CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN. A hoarder. is a man who is more Interested in getting his bite than in gir-his bit Meat and Fat Shipments Increased by ll 844,600,000 Pounds.

Teachers' Examination A teachers' examination will be held in the high school building in Dodge City on August 23 and 24. ESTHER M. WILKINSON, Co. Supt. The local board at Dodge City is asking for three volunteers to register the men who will come under the new draft now before the Conservation measures applied by the American people enabled the United States to ship to the Allied peoples and to our own forces overseas bushels of wheat and pounds of meat during the past year, valued in all at $1,400,000,000.

This was accomplished in the face of a serious food shortage in this country, bespeaking the wholeheartedness and patriotism with which the American people have 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 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 SO, 1918.

The shipments of meats and fats (Including meat products, dairy products, vegetable oils, to Allied destinations were as follows: Fiscal year lbs. Fiscal year 1917-1S 3,011,100,000 lbs. This office receives all the particulars in regard to the draft and registrations and will he glad to furnish any information -SAA3 The social at the high school last Tuesday night was well attended snd an enjoyable time was had by the young people present. Drawn by Gaar Williams. Division of Pictorial Publicity.

Food savings of millions of Americans during our first year of war enabled this government to send enormous food shipments abroad for our fighting forces and the Allied nations. Our savings in cereals out of a short crop amounted to 154,900,000 bushels; all of which was shipped to Europe. We increased our meat and fat shipments 844,600,000 pounds. This was America's "box from home" to our army abroad and the civilians and military forces of Allied nations. Geo.

Bire and family and Arthur Young and family returned to Dun-kp Thursday after a visit at Norman Young's. A leather 4x6 tool kit containing crescent wrench, key nosed pliers and other articles, was taken last 4 Till A tf Tuesday from F. H. Shelor's. Re ward for information leading to its return.

fr- i 5' "5. i Al! youth who have become 21 of age- since Jue 5 are to teister August 24 at the county seat Increase lbs. Our slaughterable animals at the beginning of the last fiscal year were not appreciably larger than the year before and particularly in hogs they were probably less. The increase in shipments is due to conservation and the extra weight -of animals added by our farmers. The full effect of these efforts bogan to bear their best results in the last half of the fiscal year, when the exports to the Allies were 2.133,100,000 pounds, as against 1,200,500,000 pounds In the same period of the year before.

This compares with an average of 801,000,000 pounds of total exports for the same half years in the three-year pre-war period. In cereals and cereal products reduced to terms of cereal bushels our shipments to Allied destinations have been Fiscal year 259,900,000 bushels Fiscal year bushels "I Hi Li if I Lr II fl 1 t1 t-t: Cart An.mon has hfen notified by the government. to et oil Class one 1918 registrants into the weekly drili 40 MM mm .1 Copt Amnion hus been notified that the towns of Meade, Minneola, Plains and Liberal compose the 35th Battalion of the Kansas State Guards and thev are to elect a Ma- Increase 80,000.000 bushels Of these cereals our shipments of i 1 t3L Bute the prime brendstuffs in the fiscal year I jor to command them. 1917-1S to Allied destinations were: and Advertise It. One Rate to AHthe LOWEST Lonnie Monson of Minneola was here Tuesdrv having some welding done.

C. W. Tipton of Westphalia ft here visiting lis daughter, Mrs, H. C. GifTord.

and other relatives and friends The editor's right arm was put out of commission this week by a sort of carbuncle. Dr. Van opened it Friday and it is through the assistance of Editor Hays of Minneola that we are ab.e to put out the paper this week. Things sold well at Gf o. sale last week considering conditions.

CROWN POINT HAPPENINGS M. E. Shufelberger's brother and family, who are on their way to Montana, visited here Sunday with them. Jay Andrews and wife and Vesta were Dodge City visitors Monday. Mrs.

George Batt and babies visited her father, N. M. Broyles Monday and Tuesday. Miss Hazel Griffith of Bucklin, SOUTHEAST OF TOWN ITEMS This section was visited with light showers Tuesday evening. Mr.

and Mrs. P. J. Yunker visited relatives at Ashland Sunday. Dora Hale went to Ashlar.d last week to work in a restaurant.

Charley Gillett and wife and son, Wesley, visited at A. R. Gillett's Saturday night and Sunday. Kenneth Hill has been working for Clyde and Earl Scott this week. T.

P. Weddle and family spent Sunday at N. E. Weddle's. Mrs.

Arthur Moore and Ruby visited Wednesday with Mrs. Fred Tucker. Beulah Walrafen and Ruth Stark returned Sunday from a visit at Stafford rnd Pratt. Splendid Kodak prints made at Kirch Studio, Greensburg, Send your work in. nice of C.

Griffith, has joined the Red Cross as a nurse and expects to be called into training soon. Those who attended the circus at Dodge report it better than last year. Clint Weddle and Clyde Scott returned from Pratt Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs.

C. W. Stark arrived from Stafford Saturday for a visit with their son, M. E. Stark.

A numbero.f her friends gave a pic- nic on Mulberry Creek for her. All Wheat bushels and of rye 13,000,000 bushels, a total of bushels. The exports to Allied destinations during the fiscal year 101G-17 were: Wheat 13.100,000 bushels anil 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. The total shipments to Allied countries from our last harvest of wheat will be therefore, about bushels, or -a total of 151,000,000 bushels of prime brendstuffs.

In addition to this we have shipped some 10,000,000 bushels to neutrals dependent upon us, and we have received some imports from other quarters. "This accomplishment of our people In this matter stands out even more clearly if we bear in mind that ave had available in the fiscal year 191G-17 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, owing to the large failure of the 1917 wheat crop, we had available from net carry-over and production and imports only just about our normal 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 whole American people.

Despite the magnificent effort of our agricultural population In planting a much increased acreage In 1917, not only was there a very large failure In wheat, but also the corn failed to mature properly, and our corn is our dominant crop. "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 definite satisfaction that In a year of universal food shortages la the njirlj. Ash- Jim Hill returned Saturday from west of Hooker where he has been working. had a good time and plenty of fried chicken and ice cream.

Those present were Wm. Hale and family, Miss Mabel Gillett ent to land Sunday. Mrs. A. R.

Gillett visited with Imogene Erb returned Sunday from her vacation spent with relatives at Greenaburg and Hayne. Try our oils for real Eatisf action and service in your cars. T. M. Deal Lumber Co.

B. Caster and wife and Lucile, and Mr. Caster's brother; Ben Sumpter, wife and son, Sammy; W. T. Griffith Mrs.

O. P. Smith was in Bucklin Monday having dental work done. wife and daughter, Hazel; C. H.

Mr. and Mrs, M. T. Phelps were in Dodge City Thursday. Carrie Smith conducted the postoflice during their absence.

Griffith and famdy. A numbr from this neighborhood attended the circus at Dodge City! Mrs. Arthur Moore Tuesday. Charles Buder and family shipped their belongings to Mt. Hope Saturday where tbey will make their home.

Walter Griffith and 'his mother, Mrs. Lindley, mbedout to the Butler farm Saturday. John Pitman and wife and" children visited at Henry DeArman's Friday. The modern girl when duty calls Begins looking for her overalls. Mr.

and Mrs. E. S. HoufX and Rev. and Mrs.

Walrafen drove to Dodge Wednesday. W.J.Wallace Minneola, Kans. Veterinarian Registered State of Kansas Calls Answered Day or Niht Monday. Russeli Hale has been plowing for wheat near Kingsdown. Newt Broyles lost a pocketbook at Dodge City circfl3 day containing almost $100.

Mis. O. L. Bennett and daughter, Mrs. Baker, were in Doige Citv At George Blakeslee's sale last Friday, a pumpkin weighing 24 3-4, raised and donased by Fred Shelor, was sold for the Red Cross bringing $15.75.

-A red sow Pete TAKEN the first of the week..