TILLAMOOk. HEADLIGHT
MAY 16, 1918,
TO CUT WHEAT
USE ONE-HALF
Military Necessity Demands That
Each American Eat Only 11/2
Pounds Wheat Products
Weekly.
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You can be the one to send him
a pouch of
Real GRAVELY Chewing Plug
It pays to know the facts before you spend
your money.
You will be sending your friend more
tobacco comfort and satisfaction in one pouch
of Real Gravely Plug than in half a dozen
plugs of ordinary tobacco.
CORN AND OATS SUBSTITUTES.
Allie» Mu»t Have Wheat Enough to
Maintain Their 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 Is a
military necessity, we must reduce our
Give any man a chew of Real Gravely Plug, and he will tell
monthly consumption to 21.000.000
you that’* the kind to send. Send the be»t!
bushels a month as against our nor
Ordinary plug il false economy. It costs less per week to
mal consumption of about 42,000,000
chew Real Gravely, because a small chew of it lasts a long
bushels, or 50 per cent, of our normal
while.
consumption. This Is the situation as
If you smoke a pipe, slice Gravely with your knife and add
set forth by the U. S. Food Adminis
a little to your smoking tobacco. It will give flavor—improve
your smoke.
tration at Washington. Reserving a
margin for distribution to the army
SEND YOUR FRIEND IN THE U. S. SERVICE A POUCH OF GRAVELY
and for special cases, leaves for gen
Dealer» all around here carry it in 10c. pouches. A 3c.
eral consumption approximately lVfc
stamp will put it into his hands in any Training Camp or Sea-
pounds of wheat products weekly per
port of the U. S. A. Even “over there” a 3c. stamp will take
person, the Food Administration’s
it to him. Your dealer will supply envelope and give you official
statement continues: Many of our
directions how to address it.
consumers are dependent upon bakers'
bread. Such bread must be durable
P. B. GRAVELY TOBACCO COMPANY, Danville, Va.
»nd therefore requires a larger propor
The Patent Pouch keeps it Fresh and Clean and Good
tion of wheat products than cereal
—It is not Real Gravely without this protection Seal
breads baked in the household. Our
Established 1831
army nnd 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 the
other cereals are abundant, are more
skilled In the preparation of breads
from these other cereals than the
jrowded city and Industrial popula
tions.
With Improved transportation condi
Cranking a camera, like cranking a machine gun has its exciting mom tions we now have available a surplus
ents—quite!
of potatoes. We also have In the
Captain Donald C. Thompson, war photographer and correspondent who spring months a surplus of milk, and
took the picture to be shown at the Princess Theatre, Tuesday and Wed we have ample corn nnd oats for hu
nesday, May 21-22, under the title “The German Curse in Russia”, was man consumption. The drain on rye
arrested fourteen times while snapping photographs on the battlefields of and barley as substitutes has already
Europe. He was twice knocked senseless by concussions, thrown into greatly exhausted the supply of these
prison by the secret police on four occasions and then rescued by revol grains.
effect the needed saving of wheat
utionists. He was decorated four times and wounded three times; and we To are
wholly dependent upon the
now he is going back for more—you just simply can’t satisfy some voluntary assistance of the American
people.
people and we ask that the following
Another such picture probably will never be sfiown in Tillamook, as very rules shall be observed:
1. Householders to use not to exceed
few men are willing to risk their lives as Captain Thompson did, and even
pounds per week of
if they did it would be a mericle if they succeded in getting away with a total of
their lives and the picture. When we offer this picture to the people whent products per person. This
not more than 1% pounds of
of Tillamook at the exceptionally low price of 50 cents for Adults and menns
Victory bread containing the required
25 cents for children we expect to fill our theatre to capacity both nights. 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 clubs 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 one meal nn
iggrogate of breadstuffs. macaroni,
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____________________________________crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat
.breakfast cereals, containing a totnl
' of more than two ounces of wheat
flour. No wheat products to be served
unless specially ordered. Public eat
ing establishments not to buy more
than six pounds of whent products for
each ninety meals served, thus con
forming with the limitations requested
of the householders.
I 3. Retailers to sell not more than
one-eighth of a barrel of flour to any
town customer at any one time and
not more than one-quarter of a barrel
I to any country customer at any one
' time, and in no case to sell wheat
j products without the sale of an equal
■ weight of other cereals.
4. We ask the bakers and grocers to
reduce the volume of Victory bread
I »old, by delivery of the three-quarter
, pound louf where one pound was sold
; before, and corresponding proportions
I In other weights. We also ask bakers
I not to increase the amount of their
wheat flour purchases beyond 70 per
eent. of the average monthly amount
HEN the Germans re
purchased In the four months prior to
treated from long held
March 1.
positions in Northern
5. Manufacturers using wheat prod
France they girdled ev
ucts for non-food purposes should
ery fruit tree that time
cease such use entirely.
permitted. Here is
6. There Is no limit upon the use of
such a tree, hacked be
other cereals, flours, and meals, corn,
yond chance of the
. barley, buckwheat, potato flour, et
tree’« surviving unless
cetera.
first aid measures were
Many thousand families throughout
quickly adopted. In many cases the
the land are now using no wheat prod
advancing French troops brought the
ucts whatever, except a very small
first aid material and sometimes suc
amount for cooking purposes, and are
ceeded in saving the trees. Where the
doing so In perfect health and satisfac
tree was absolutely cut down—as hun
tion. There is no reason why all of
dreds were—there was, of course, no
the American people who are able to
relief measure to employ. Members
cook in their own households cannot
of the U. 8. Food Administration
subsist perfectly well with the use of
brought this picture to America. Ear
less wheat product» than one and one-
ly tn the war the German govern
half pound» a week, and we specially
ment introduced a policy of strict
ask the «cell-to-do households in the
food conservation at home and has
country to follow this additional pro-
endeavored to curtail tn every possi
, gramme in order that we may provide
ble manner the French and English
America is today the great larder of the necessary marginal supplies for
supply. Ü boat warfare and destruc- tbe allied natioos. Out of our food | those parts of the community less able
lion of fnrmlng property are parts of stocks we must save enough to feed
to adapt themselves to so large a pro
the same campaign.
our European associates in thia war.
portion of substitutes.
The Greatest War Picture Ever
Filmed.
“ A Great Net of Mercy Drawn Through
An Ocean of Unspeakable Pain. ”
If You Were "Over There”
Instead of Over Here.
TF YOU should see a French child—a tiny
1 girl—sitting by the roadside, sobbing
quietly because she is too weak from hun-
ger to cry very loud, you would sell your
watch to buy her breakfast. Of course you
would 1
If you should hear somewhere in the
restless wards the low moan of an American
soldier, you would gladly sit by him all
night long, if that would save his life. And
consider it an honor too !
You are not “over there” but here, where
these sights and sounds are not brought
home to you in all their intensity I But
the RED CROSS is there— m A you
can make it your representative !
“Over there”the Prussians are crucifying
the incarnate Liberty of Man, and they are
making the world black for little children !
The money you give to the Red Cross
now will give you the right, when the Beast
is beaten down, to think. “There are happy
children, clear eyed women and strong men
alive today, because my money went across.”
What Are You Going to do About It?
CONTRIBUTED TO THE RED CROSS BY
TRY TO GET IN
AT THE PRINCESS
Tuesday and Wednesday, May 21-22
D estroy F rench E ood S dui ^ es
In order that we slmll be ntde to
make the wheat export» that are ab
solutely demanded of us to maintain
the civil population and soldiers of ths
allies and our own army, we propose
to supplement the voluntary co-opera-
ttoo of the publie by a further limita
tion of distribution, and we shall place
at once restrictions on distribution
which will be adjusted from tiros to
dore to secure as nearly equitable dis
tribution as possible. With tbs arrival
st harvest wa abould be able to relax
such reatricttoM. Until then wa ask
for the nsceeaary patience, sacrifice
atMl co-operetioa sf 0>e dtotributlBg
The Store that Sells for Cash Only—and Selling for Cash Sells for Less.
JUST RECEIVED ANOTHER MONTHLY CONSIGMENT OF
Matchless Wirthmor Waists
—Good to look at and just as
Good as they are good looking. <
As Always-Just One Dollar.
—No other Dollar Waist can be
like the Wirthmor for no other
Dollar Waist is made and sold in
the same efficient and economy
effecting manner. The values are
truly matchless and every Waist is
unconditionally guaranteed to give
entire satisfaction.
Four new Models are illustrated,
and if anything, they are prettier
and better value than any we have
ever received heretofore.
Sizes 36 to 50.
Wirthmor Waists are Sold by
One Good Store in Every City
They are Sold Here Exclusively.
The New
Spring and Summer
White Shoes
for Women
Arrived thia Week.
N T Last after much
patient waiting
we are able to an
nounce the arrival of
these long-looked for
Shoes.
They were,
however, worth wait
ing for, styles are good,
values are splendid
and they are shown
with the popular Mill
tarv Heels as well as
the attractive Louis
Cuban Heels.
Come to the store for
a fitting as early as
possible, for the earlier
you come the better
the selection we will
have to show you.
Timely Purchase of
Extraordinary Values in
Turk and Huck Towels.
Enables us to Announce a Showing
and Sa/e Without Precedent
I F your supply of Hand, Face and Bath Towels
I neec s replenishing we urge you to examine
nf T. k°n<lewU1 values offered in this showing
• ’1
Huck Towels at remarkably low
»rnroh"
fef^nt indications point to a decided
i
°f tlie8e K°od8 and a steady advance
in prices, ! So all we need
to say is “Buy
Now.” You will
appreciate our advice later
undoubtedly.
White Turk
Brown Turk
Towels
Towels
17 X 34 Hemmed -
25c.
25c. 18 X 36 Hemmed
20 X 38 Hemmed -
18
X 36 Ex. Heavy - 34c.
35c.
20 X 40 Hemmed -
Huck Towels
49c.
25c.
22 X 44 Hemmed -
17 X 34 Hemmed
65c 18 X
36 Ex. Quality - 35c.
22 X 44 Ex. Heavy»
75c. See Displays—Under Balcony,