Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1917 — John J. Davis Can’t See The New Hoover Dishes. [ARTICLE]

John J. Davis Can’t See The New Hoover Dishes.

Kentland Democrat. Having received notice that Mrs. John G. Davis had been appointed war mother for Newton county, we interrogated Mr. John G. Davis as to the significance of the appointment, and he said (or words to that effect): “I don’t know what it all means, but I suspect it is more of this food conservation business. I have practiced eating sawdust biscuits, fried banana peelings and boiled corn cobs with green tomato satibe until I am getting thin as a rail, and the end is not yet. It seems Mr. Hoover wants every housewife to conserve anything and everything movable or immovable, and I am not going to stand it much'longer. 11l go to the ant, thou sluggard and be wise, and eat blue grass and lafalfa In the nooks and corners of civilization before I will submit to have my usual breakfast fare of dogfennel biscuits denied me. Old Uncle Sam can do nearly everything and I’m willing to do my bit, but right now I draw the line on sawdust frys.” Z _ ■ ----- - •-