Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1918 — Get Complete Family Record. [ARTICLE]

Get Complete Family Record.

Sugar records now being kept in grocery stores are causing some perturbation on the part of grocery men. Since the food administration limited the amount of sugar a family can Use per month, the grocers have had to keep track of the amount sold to each customer. For this purpose they use a sort of book, or ledger, in which the customer’s name and address, and other information pertaining thereto, are recorded. Since most of the purchasers are women, it can be imagined that the grocers’ task, sometimes, is not so easy, but the women, realizing that the information must be-given, have gracefully accorded it. Nor-is that all. Grocers do tell that they get more Information than they have any need for. Here’s how it is: ‘They insist on telling me all about little Johnny, and what little Susie Is doing today, and—why, say, since, we started this here sugar record, we know the complete family history of all our customers.” Now what do you know about that? —Washington Star.