Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1919 — GERMANS EATING HOME MEAT. [ARTICLE]

GERMANS EATING HOME MEAT.

Nearly four times as many horses were slaughtered for food in the first three,months of this year than in the corresponding period in 1918, according to statistics published by Reicha Hanzeiger, to justify the German government’s return to tneat rationing. - * j • Horses butchered in January, February and March this year totalled 223,378 against 65,286 a year-ago. In the same period; this year 1,819,000 other food animals were slaughtered, compared! with 2,845,000 last year. « ■. ' i Miss Agnes Kahler, of this laity, and Miss Ella Comer, of Wolcott, returned to their t homes Tuesday from a trip to Niagara Falls 'and other eastern points. . .