Shortage of sugar

100 YEARS AGO

A teacher asked a class of girls the meaning of the letters SOS.

One beaming little girl, evidently prematurely burdened with domestic worries , replied:“Short of Sugar!”

With the continuance of warm weather the crops in Strathearn are looking splendid, and there is every prospect at present of an abundant harvest.

A local farmer states that there are so many potatoes under cultivation that they should be selling at about pre-war prices at the fall of the year.

It must be a vexing thought to many Crieff folks that with the approach of the blackberry harvest on their own‘fruit farm’, the Knock Hill, there will be no sugar to convert the berries into jam on this occasion.

It is hardly fair of the Sugar Commission to provide sugar for the fortunate persons who possess fruit gardens and neglect those who have to depend on wild fruit for their supply of‘jeely’.

As regards Crieff folks, could the Town Council not have applied for sugar on behalf of the inhabitants, seeing the Knock and the preserves thereon are their own property?

They were surely as much entitled to a supply as those with gardens of their own.