TO ALL DEALERS AND PURCHASERS OF FOOD IN CRAWFORD COUNTY, ARKANSAS For your information and conduct, and until further notice, the following rules and orders are hereby made and established by the United States Food Administration for Crawford County, Arkansas, which rules and orders must be rigidly observed and obeyed. A violation of these rules will be punished as the law directs. QUANTITIES OF PURCHASE SUGAR- each purchase by persons residing in towns or cities not to exceed five pounds. By persons residing in the country, not to exceed ten pounds. FLOUR-each purchase by persons residing in towns or cities not to exceed 24 pounds. Purchaser who resides in country, 50 pounds. With each purchase of flour by persons residing in town or city, there must be purchased or sold an equal amount in weight of one of the following substitutes: Buckwheat, Rice Flour, Oatmeal, Corn Meal, Grits, Peanut Flour, Rice, Corn Flour, Bran Flour, Shorts, Bean Flour, Corn Starch, Hominy, Potato Flour. Irish Potatoes may be sold in proportion of four lbs. Of potatoes to one pound of flour. A person who resides in the country and who certifies to the seller that he has on hand any of the above substitutes, and that he and his family are using this substitute in equal proportion to the flour purchased, will not be required to purchase any of the substitutes. The above substitutes only, can be sold, and must be sold at reasonable prices. No excessive profits on these will be tolerated or allowed. MEATS-All meat markets and grocery stores, or other dealers, are hereby prohibited from selling beef, pork, mutton, either fresh or preserved or canned, on Tuesday of each week, which is a meatless day. PORK- Pork or any of its products cannot be legally sold by anyone between 12 o’clock Friday night and 7 o’clock Saturday morning. The serving or consumption of pork or any of its products on Saturday is prohibited, and all persons are hereby urged to see that this requirement is strictly observed. VEAL- the slaughter of calves, either by butchers, farmers, or any other persons, firm or corporation, or their sale for slaughter, is hereby prohibited. DELIVERY OF GOODS Retailers of food must curtail their expenses so as to sell all foods at the least possible prices. In towns or cities, goods ordered after 9:30 o’clock in the mornings shall be delivered in the afternoon; goods ordered after 4 p m, has not be delivered until the following morning. RECEIPT AND DECLARATOIN OF PURCHASE Each dealer in food supplies shall provide himself with printed blanks, upon which there shall be entered the date of purchase, the name of the seller, the name of the purchaser, the number of pounds of sugar and flour purchased and the number of pounds of flour, substitute and sugar on hand. These receipts shall be signed by the purchaser and kept on file by the dealer, subject to any authorized agent of the Food Administration and by said Administration filed for record. Any false statement made by the purchaser to the dealer in these receipts, will be subject by the purchaser to such penalties as the law directs. HOARDING-any person found to have on hand at any one time any sugar or flour in excess of the amount hereby limited will be regarded and held as a hoarder of food necessities, and the surplus of such goods so found will be confiscated by the government, and the person so found hoarding will be reported to the United States Department of Justice and proceeded against as the law directs. CHICKENS- On or after February 13, 1918, and until further notice, hens and pullets must not be sold, for food, either alive or dressed, and the killing of them by anyone is hereby prohibited, after said date. WHEATLESS DAYS The National Food Administration has by order made Monday and Wednesday of each week wheatless days. MEATLESS DAYS Tuesday of each week is meatless day and Saturday of each week is porkless day. These rules are based solely upon an Act of Congress of the United States and must, of course, be obeyed. Our sons, our brothers and other relatives are no in the trenches fighting that we may live and enjoy the liberty and freedom so fully guaranteed to us by our constitution and the blood of our forefathers. Patience, patriotism and co-operation by all of our people, will, in the end, win the war for liberty. This, we know we will have in its full limit in Crawford County, Arkansas. Food for our army and navy is as essential as powder and steel to win this war. Let us save and economize to the end that our boys who are in the army and navy may have all the food necessary for their sustenance. Sam R Chew, U S Food Administrator for Crawford County. Approved: S A Pernot, J L Rea, Charles A Pape, Executive Committee, Van Buren, Arkansas, February 19, 1918. Fran Alverson Warren e-mail: alverson@valuelinx.net 479-369-2703 http://www.crawfordcountyarkansas.net/