Evening journal., 1914-05-20
LAW BREAKS UP
BULL FROG TRUST
Men Who Trapped Out Of
Season are Fined at
New Castle
DAUGHTERS OF 1912
AT BIRTHDAY PARTY

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL
NEW CASTLE, May 2O-Frogs' legs
at $40 pair are rich eating But
that is the price they are bringing
in New Castle at present. The mar
ket had been cornered all spring, but
Magistrate Nickerson and Constable
Wright broke up the trust" yester-
day. Now the bull frogs are safe.
Frederick w. Cressery and George
Paxton, of Philadelphia. have been
the operators in the bull frog legs
trust" and have been doing enough
business to keep one man travelling
daily to Philadelphia. In addition to
frogs they caught toads, snakes and
land frogs and sold them to the care
taker OF the Zoo. But when Bull
Frog Fred" as Cressery was known,
started business yesterday on the
marsh south of Dobbinsville, the
laws arm grabbed him and his as
sistants. Cressery was give a hear
ing before Magistrate Nickerson and
was fined SO and costs for each frog
found in his possession and In default
of payment he was committed to the
workhouse for sixty days. Paxton
was fined $50 and he, too, will retire
for sixty days at Greenbank.
William Wright and Ernest Serson,
of Wilmington, two youths who were
promised new shoes for assisting In
/ the work, were dismissed. The open
season for bull frogs does not COM
mence until July /.
The Delaware Society Daughters OF
1872, held a birthday party yesterday
at the residence of Mrs. Selden S.
Deemer. The Wilmington and other
out-of-town members came here on a
special car. Following a short busi-
ness meeting arrangements were
made for the unveiling of a tablet al
I Lewes in two weeks. The musical
program yesterday was as follows:
Violin and piano duet, Whispering
Waves" by Messrs. Elbert and Rieve
piano trio, Mrs. Frank JamisOn
Misses Ocheltree and Johnson; vocal
solo, might and Day." Mrs. Scott
piano duet, Soldiers Chorus" Faust
Mrs. Frank Jamison, Miss Ruth Ochel-
tree; "A Sweet Girl Graduate" Mrs
John L. Johnson; violin and piano
duet, Dance Of the Song Birds,
Messrs. Albert and Rieve; piano solo
"Silent Voices" Mrs. Ocheltree; piano
duet, "Sunflower Dance" Mrs. Jami
son and Miss Johnson; vocal solo
Goodbye Dad" Mrs. Scott; violiT
and piano duet, Sunbeam and
Shadow" Messrs. Albert and Rleve
vocal solo, Because" Mrs. Hibbs, o
Philadelphia; piano trio, la Gin
quantine," Mrs. Frank JamisOn
Misses Ocheltree and Johnson.
Arrangements have been completed
for an entertainment by the "I'wo Con
federates," under the auspices of the NJ
L. Church in the church on May 27.
There is no other combination of en-
tertainers in the world like this. Col.
Booker and Capt. Miller are both old
time Virginia gentlemen who served
under General Robert Il. Lee. When thy
surrendered with him at AppomattoN
Court House they laid down their mus
kets and went back home to find their
old plantations stripped of everything
in the way of worldly possessions, but
they went to work like real men to
make the best possible use of the linn.
tied opportunities before them, and
they have succeeded
DIR. r. r. Roth, of the Board OF
Health, is determined that when q
quarantine is established it shall be
obeyed. Sylvester Rumsey, colored, hac
diphtheria at his home two weeks ago
but he broke the quarantine and DIR
Roth swore out warrant for Rum
seys arrest yesterday.
Courtland Pinder, manager Of thu
, Boy Scouts baseball club, invites chal
lenges from all clubs whose member
are between l6 and Is years old.
The New. Castle A. a. will play tn
Seventh Ward Club of Chester, a
Ocean Beach Park ON Saturday.