Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1917 — DAVIS DRAWS LINE AT SAWDUST [ARTICLE]

DAVIS DRAWS LINE AT SAWDUST

Old Newton County Clerk Rebels Pulverized Wood Diet. 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 sauce until I am getting thin as a rail, and the end is not yet. It seems Mr. IHoover wants every housewife to conserve anything and everything, movable or immovable, and I’m not going to stand it much longer. I’ll go to the ant, thou sluggard, and be wise, and eat bluegrass and alfalfa in the nooks' and corners of civilization before I will submit to having, 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.”—Kentland Democrat.