A letter to Mr. Metcalf suggesting that people stop sending food to their soldiers overseas due to the fact that the food gets old and bad in the mail and then it is just wasting the food and food production is already at an all time low.

Council of National Defense asks the public to discontinue sending food to the camps. The waste referred to can be chocked only by getting each solider family and friends to realize that they individually are the persons asked to stop.

Norwegians in Kanawha.

Pastor, naturalized in 1898, asks for permission to preach more German, now that war has ended.

Newsman sends copy of article in support of Babel and against other publications critical of governor.

HJM sends this letter regarding the county council and how their authority is more relevant than that of the Iowa State Council and because of this all reports should be sent to them.

CoD business and postings.

Local CoD business and German connections.

Internal CoD business.

Notes worker at Coal Company who said that, if the US wanted to win the war, it'd take a lot of coal and "our women and children would have to freeze."