Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1918 — NEW FLOUR REGULATIONS OUT [ARTICLE]

NEW FLOUR REGULATIONS OUT

The following new regulations have been sent to the county food administrators, effective at once: First. No customer in town shall be permitted to buy more than 24% pounds of wheat flour at any time. Second. No customer residing in the country shall be allowed to buy in excess of 49 pounds at one time. Third. No consumers, town or country, shall be permitted to buy supplies beyond their requirements for thirty days, and then none without an equal quantity ot recognized substitutes. (Exceptions will be made in case of a customer who certifies he has previously purchased substitutes in amount equal to the added wheat flour purchase, and the total purchase is adequate only to meet the demands for thirty days.) Public eating houses are expected to observe wheatless days on Monday and Wednesday; in addition thereto not to serve to any one guest at any one meal an aggregate of breadstuffs, macaroni, crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat or breakfast cereal containing a total of more than two ounces of wheat flour; no wheat flour products to be served unless specifically ordered. Their purchases of wheat flour should be on the maximum basis of six pounds per ninety meals. Bakers are not to increase their wheat flour purchases beyond seventy per cent of the average for four months, prior to March 1, 1918. JOHN EG-ER, County Food Administrator.