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The Washington times., 1926-05-07

given by the Virginia Military Insti-
tute Dramatic Club and Cadet Or
chestra on Saturday evening at the
willard Hotel, under the auspices
Of the Robert -. Lee Chapter
United Daughters Of the COnfed.
eracy. Many Of the socially promi-
nine OF the Army and Navy have
sienified their intention Of being
present as the institute is highly
regarded by them, and many sons
Of Army and Navy officers are
cadets there. The younger set
especially those who attend the hops
at the institute, are planning tc
give the cadets b welcome. Ot
course; the Daughters Of the Con
federacy win attend in numbers as
they are mainly instrumental ir
bringing the cadets here for tl1e
evening. Parties are being made
up in Alexandra and other nearby
places for the evening.
Mrs. Walter Everett Hutton. I:rest
dent OF RObart u. Lee Chapter, an
nounces the following additional lisl
! of patrons and patrOnesses: SenatOI
1 Hiram Bingham, Senator and Mrs
Frederick NJ Sachett, Justice z. g
McFeynolda. Admiral Charles O'Neil
Admiral and Mrs. w. Z. Capps
Col. s. d. Talbot, Capt. AYillian
Wheeler, Capt: Fl ST Wilson
Judge Robert w = Matt tfipgly. g. Bas
com Slenp, Andrew = 5ickey, Mrs
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SCHOOL CADET OFFICERS
GUESTS AT WHITE HOUSE

Brigade and regilnental comman-
ders Of the High School Cadet
Corps and Lieut.. Col. Wallace mi.
Craigie, u. 8. AL. professor Of MILF
tary science and tactics. who il In
charge OF the corps, called at the
White House today and were pho
Etographed with President Coolidge.
Those In the sparty included
Cadet Col Edward D. Andrlls, Of
Eastern High School, brigade COM
mander; Lieut. Col j. g. Marsh,
commander Of the First Regiment
lof Central High school; Lieut.. Col.
Joseph II. SorrelI, commander o1
the Second Regiment, Tech High
School, and Lieut.. Col Lloyd Free
Icommander of the Third Regiment
of Western High school.
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Herman jennings, Mrs. William Cor.
coTan Elstis. DIR. Sterling Ruffin
Mrs. George E. Pickett, Mr.. ana
Mrs. Frank 8. Hight, Mrs. John Y.
n,3ff. Mrs. Henry T.. Miller, Thomas
r Keith. Jenning G. Wise, Russell
Talderson. q. II. Nicolson, Stuart
8 Marshall. II. r.. r. PendletOn
and " T.. Dennis. The girls com.
n1ittea includes: Misses Virginia Lee
T,vnham. Ruth Coleman, Judith
Shelton. Marjorie Pell. Yolandc
Frever. Adelaide Rowe, Eleanor
DANIEL. Ruth Weldon, Celene nu
Puy. Blanche Lothrop. Virginia For.
ward Grace Maude Morgan AZ
rnena Agnes, ". Blanche Howell
Janet Murray Gray, Lillian Flena'
ing. Gladys Nelson Marthill, Laura
Myles. Eliza Carpenter. Beryl 8
Roberts, Lena Allen, g. ]. Eteto
Phoebe Fuller. Evelyn Harris howe
Polly Wacker, Corinne Daniel Vlr,
ginia Blackstone and Margaret
Blackstone.
METHODIST WOMEN
ENTERTAINED TO-DAY
Miss Frances Battelle entertained
at the MayfloWer today In coInph
ment fo the women In washington
who are accompanying the MethO
dist church bishops now IN con
ference. She had as guests MIS-
George a. Miller, Of Mexico City
Mrs. Herbert Weich, of Korea; Mrs
Lauress j. Birney, Shanghai, China
Mrs: FWederick Fisher, Calcutta
India: Mrs. Brenton Fl Bradley
Bombay, India; Mrs. Wallace y
Brown, FoochoW, China; Mrs. Ear
CranstOn, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs. 20
seph T.. Berry. Philadelp "a.
Mrs. william Burt. Clifton Springs
N. n; Mrs. William. r. mcdowell
Washington, ID. c.; Mrs. EDWIN q
, Hughes, Chicago, ILL.,; MIS- Eneo
dore s.. Henderson, Cincinnati, ONO
Mrs. Francis J McConnen, FltIs
lburgh, Pa; Mrs. Frederick y: Leete
indianapolis, Ind; Mrs. Thomas
Nicholson, Detroit. Mich; Mrs. Adns
w. Leonard. Buffalo, N. 4.; n.rs
Ernest u. waldorf, Kansas City
Mo-; Mrs. Charles ~ Locke g
Paul, Mimi: Mrs. Ernest g. Rich
ardson, Atlanta, Ca; Mrs. Charlie
w. Burns, San Francisco, CaliI.
Mrs. ii. Lester Smith, Helena. Mont
Mrs. Charles Z. Mead, Denver
colo. Mrs. william r. Anderson
Boston, Mass: Mrs. Frederick ]
Il Keeney, Omaha, Neb.
The washington CHESTS will y
Mrs. Frederick Brown Harris, Mrs
i Clarence True Wilson. Mrs. J
Phelps Hand, Mrs. Frederick Rey
i nolds. Mrs. Henry s.. France, Mis-
Z Mary France. Mrs. j. s. MontgOm
ery. Mrs. n. e. Woolever and Mrs
4 r s1fsiifa ~ Clark
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TWO ESCAPED coNvlcTs
RETAkEN IN MARYLAND

BALTIMORE, May Two Of the
four convicts who made a daring
escape from Maryland penitentiary
were captured by police today. The
prisoners gained freedom by sliding
down rope of 30 or 30 blankets.
Outside the walls, they stole an
auto and drove It over the ties Of
8 log railroad bridge Later the
machine crashed into q lamppost.
Two convicts, Philip Duesberry,
negro, and Charles Jenkins were cap
tured, but Elmer Jenkins and George
Colburn escaped into wood.
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Jack the Fiugger'' FIees

WIIlKES4BARRE, Pa. May I.---
Police are seeking b Jack the
Hugger' who attempted to hug
Miss Helen Cunningham as she was
walking on Park avenue. He
stepped from the shadow OF q build
ing and seized her around the
waist. When the man failed to
stop the girl screamed and he re-
leased her and fled.
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c 4 R
INJURIES Il

SAN FRANCISCO, May L..
Twelve persons were seriously in
jured and many more less seriously
today when q California street cable
car ran away on the steep hill
starting at the Fairmont Hotel and
crashed with another cable car at
the end Of the line at Sansome
Street.
The car was said to have been
filled with passengers, mostly
women. when It started its mad
dash Of over dozen blocks.
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A greas deal Of interest Is betns
taken by the play and dance 70 b,
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NOTE: All public golf courses in
Washington now open at 5 A. M.
and close at dusk.
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Forest lie Preyent Frost

POTTSvILLE, Pa, May. For
est fires burning over large acreages
IN this section prevented the deadly
white frost predicted by the weather
bureau. There was practically no
frost.
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NOTED ARCHITECT DIES
As He IS AWARDED PRIZE

CHICAGO. May Howard Van
Doren shaw, noted Chicago archi-
tect, died suddenly In q Baltimore
sanitariun. where he was under
treatment for anemia. according to
word received here today.
shaw, who was 81, was yesterday
awarded the gold medal for archi-
tecturai achievement by the Ameri-
can Institute of Architects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-19

their efforts as they are of finding
the murderer.
The Evening Repository. one after
noon newspaper, appears on the
street with large headlines quoting
the prosecutor as saying thus and so.
A few minutes later the news
boys call the next edition of the
News, which says boldly and with
finality across it's front page Re
pository Lies" and declares the
prosecutor says he did not say it.
Scatter Drained reporters from
yellow journals hatch their ridicu-
lous tales in the hotel Hobbies and
jumpy public with yarns that read
like Diamond Dick and have as much
foundation.
The most absurd stories have gone
out of Canton describing in detail
an underworld-made more mysteri-
Gus by the picturesque name of THE
Jungle"--Which is no blacker than
the slums of other cities which have
their allotment of bootleggers, dope
peddlers and gamblers.
The aftermath of the death of a
brave man has been a volcano,
whose eruption has split city wide
open, threatening to ingulf many of
those who thought they lived in
security.
The shot that killed Mellett
started a stampede; the public h"
lost the reins. The public mas
gather them in still.
Reported threats against Norman
Clark, attorney, did not jeopardize the
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MUNITIONS BLAST
REPORT IS DENIED
Fig Point, Va, Commander
Reports Powder Magazine
Destroyed by Fire.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
The War Department has suffered
another munition loss from fire, this
time At Pig Point. Va, but Army off
GERS have not yet decided whether the
flames We're started ~ lightning, as
in the case Of the recent explosion at
Lake Denmark, y. j.
First dispatches last night indicated
that there had been an explosion and
that a quantity of small arms car
tridgeS We're set off, but an official re-
port today from Maj. Edwin II. Chase,
commanding officer of the Pig Point
depot. said only a powder magazine
was burned, and that no explosion
occurred. There were no serious cas-
ualties.
The report was made to Maj. Gen.
Williams, chief of Army ordnance,
and was made public at the War De
partment as follows:
The magazine which was burned
contained only prOpelling charges OF
powder and no small arms amfnunl'
ton. This magazine completely
burned. There was no explosion.
AT no time was there danger OF
the fire being communicated to other
buildings on the reservation and the
detachment at the depot was able
to fight the fire at close range.
"The building destroyed was 300
feet distant from any other build
ing on the reservation.
The cause of the fire is not yet
known but it did not occur until
several hours after a lightning storm
and the lightning protection was
known to be in good condition..
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CAR STOP OPINION ASKED.
Acting Traffic Director May Oppose
u Street Proposal.

The Public Utilities Commission to-
day asked Col. l. c. Moller, acting
director Of traffic, for an opinion on
the recent request of local law
tlrin To have an car stops at nearslde
corners At the intersection OF -Four
teeNth and / streets.
COL. Moller indicated that he likely
would voice his opposition 10 the pro
posed change, because of the fact that
a fire engine house is situated just
west Of Fourteenth street on |
street. and that car stop at the
southwest corner would reduce its eff.
cheney in responding to alarms.
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SIS, 100000 IS SOUGHT
TO BUILD HOSPITAL
tuberculosis Organization, Incor
porated Here, to Ask for Fund
in Countrywide Drive.

Plans to raise SIS 100000 by donation
were announced here today by the
National Sanitorium for Tuberculous
Children. recently incorporated under
the laws of the District of Columbia.
The organization is governed by
the following trustees: John b. Coch-
ran. president of the Franklin Nation
al Bank and chairman of the board:
Edwin l.. Wilson, Washington attor-
ney: Judge Sam Hooker of the Circuit
Court of Oklahoma: f. j. McCallum
and DR.. j. Donald Iams, child special
list, both of Pittsburgh. Mrs. May B..
Moran of Pittsburgh is executive sec
rotary of the organization.
The board soon is to determine a
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MAEI4 STROM OF PETTY RIVALRIES
PALSIES CANTON MURDER PROBE

, ing. Their telephone is reached
| through the Daily News exchange.
The office of the other investigator.
Roach of Chicago. hailed by his
friends as sort of a superhuman, is
across the street, in the Office of the
Daily News attorney. When the
Daily News speaks the city govern
ment jumps into line, from the
| mayor, the acting superintendent of
police and even the county prose-
cutor on down the line.
But there is another element which
does not bow to the News. This
element is composed of many of the
Older and more substantial citizens.
who have had things pretty much
their own way in Canton for many
years. They resent the News and
it's inspiring headlines. They
cannot rid them selves of the thought
that this young Mellett came into
their town unlimited. and after
raising tempest in teapot got
killed for his pains. thus bringing the
city into disrepute before the entire
country.
Real Powers i'm Politics.
Many members of this group of
lawyers are real powers in local
politics. They do not hold office
themselves, but they pull the strings
TO fill the offices with men of their
choosing. They still hold some of
the strings. but they are afraid to
do much pulling. 1t might bring them
publicly into a mess that already in
wolves too many. Some of them, it is
whispered, live in daily dread lest a
friendly bootlegger of a better day
will sQueal to the extent of making
known his list of customers.
Mellett's death has brought. chaos.
The city has become a whispering
gallery. The Police Department has
utterly lost the confidence of the
public it serves
Every move the county prosecutor
makes is interpreted either as
blocking something, or else a
political stroke. And this despite the
fact that the prosecutor is still gen
orally and highly regarded as an
| honest man.
The mayor himself, although held
| in esteem by both political parties,
| comes in for his share of whispered
gossip that includes nearly every
man who has had the misfortune
TO get his name in the Canton
papers.
Publicity Is Welcomed.
The private detectives working on
the mystery Of who killed the edi-
tor convey the impression that they
are as much DESTROYS of personal
publicity and suitable recognition of
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HELD IN CONTEMPT.

John Van Sickler was adjudSed in
contempt of court yesterday by
Justice Bailey for failure to keep w
alimony payments 10 his wife. Char
lotte Van SiCkler.
The husband is in arrears $40
and will spend 80 days in jail unless
he makes payment. Attorney Bobert
T.. Lynch represented the wife.
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location for the proposed hospital
somewhere in the Southwest, so en-.
dowed that poor children can receive
free treatment. FL PaSu, Tex. and
several other cities in Southwestern
States are under consideration.
Original plans of the organization,
first incorporated under the laws of
New Mexico, and since dissolved,
called for the location of the institu-
ton at Albuquerque, but the erection
there of a War Mothers Memorial
Hospital for tuberculous former serv-
Ice men, caused an abandonment of
the idea.
F. c. Chamberlain is the national
campaign director, and headquarters
for the drive will be located in Kan
sas City. National headquarters will
be in Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-19
WOODMEN ON OUTING.
Members of Order and Friends a,
Chesapeake Bav TODAY.

Woodmen of the World and their
friends from the District and neigh
boring sections of Maryland and Vir.
gina are at Chesapeake Beach today
on the annual outing of Cedar Camp.
No. IS.
This excursion is always a rally
for Maryland farmers for miles
around. Swimming. fishing, boating,
athletic events and dancing are on
the program. NJ. l. Ryon of Upper
Marlboro, Md, is chairman of the ar.
ranGementS committee
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FOWL BAN ENDORSED.
Man Cites Noise of Pigeons-Many
Oppose Regulation.

The strongest Endorsement of the
regulation proposed by Health Officer
William c. Fowler to prohibit the
keeping of fowls in thickly populated
residential sections of the District was
received by the Commissioners today
from IL man in Northeast Washing
tom His message was:
If the man living next door to
YOU had pigeons that smelled and
cooed right near your kitchen you
also would be strong for the new
poultry rule. Adopt it."
The commissioners have received
numerous protests against the adop-
tion of the regulation, chiefly from
pigeon fancierS. The looming Pigeon
Association of the District has asked
Ton a hearing before aclion is taken
on the regulation.
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life of his wife confined in a hospital
with a newly born babe. according to
information obtained today. Tuesday
1t was reported enormously that Mrs.
Clark was in a serious condition fol-
lowing a visit, Louis Mazer, accused
OF the murder of Mellett, is said to
nave made to the Clark home when
he is said to have threatened Clark
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Publicity Is Welcomed.

The private detectives working on
the mystery Of who killed the edi-
tor convey the impression that they
are as much DESTROYS of personal
publicity and suitable recognition of
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Of other factions. 1t is true that
Lengel, chief of police, and Clark
head Of the Bertillion bureau, were
instrumental through testimony or
evidence in sending a former director
of safety, brother of former Mayor
Curtis. to the penitentiary. 1t is true
that this mayor. defeated for re-
election, was resentful of those who
testified against his brother, and it
is true that Curtis and his crowd,
which split from the regular Repub-
iican organization. were friendly to
the News and to the News candidate,
the present Mayor Swarts.
1t is now a matter Of written his
tory, buried in the files of the News
but not forgotten in the minds of
Canton, that the News, after the
election of Mayor Swarts. sought to
Gust Lengel and Clark through point
ing out an alleged connection Of the
Police Department with the under
world.
Dispute About ExOneratiOn.
Neither Lengel nor Clark has ever
been convicted OF such charges.
Lengal, in fact, has been exonerated
by the city civil service commission.
But here one stumbles on another
snag. One group charges the eXonera
ton came from a biased commission,
while another one comes back with
the assertion that the evidence
against Lengel was trumped up
through fraud and deceit.
At any rate, whatever the political
affiliations or sympathies of the News,
it smote crime hip and thigh, and
crime struck back and took the life
of its editor. Mellett'S campaign led
to his death. That seems to be the
ins,rmountable obstacle blocking the
argument against Mellett. He is
dead.
When he died the leadership in the
hunt for his murderers naturally
rested in the NrWs. Whether or not
the police we're stainless, the police
have been LIFT high and dry in this
veStigatlon. True, il is a sorry po-
lice force which steps aside, a sad
commentary on the arm Of the law
that its constituted authorities allow
themselves to be walked off the stage
because they are not wanted. But
the News would have none Of them,
so they quit They stand idle. They
are the objects of curiosity. After
reading the newspaper one comes to
regard them as freaks.
Private Sleuths i'm Charge.
Investigators hired by private in
terests are now in charge, although
United States attorney seems to have
brought the action. At one time
investigators were sent here post
haste by the Ohio governor, but the
governors men made the mistake Of
working through the police force. The
News objected and they were removed.
The office occupied by the investiga-
tors working with the county prosecu-
tor is located in the Daily News Build
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LOWREY Is NOMINATED
IN MISSISSIPPI RACE
Unofficial Returns Give Him Lead
Over Richard Denman, With No
Decisive Change Expected.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
JACKSON. Miss. August 10
Representative L. G.. LoWrey of Blue
Mountain was nominated for Con
eress III the second district on
the basis . of unofficial returns
received today from Tuesdays pri-
mary With only seven precincts
missing Lowrey had SIPS votes to
: 708 for Richard Denman Of Charles
ton.
Returns from the seven missing pre-
rinctS are not expected to change the
standing of the vote more than 100
TO $50 votes.
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Rain Postpones Horse Show.

BERRYVILLE, Va. August 10
The Berryville horse show today was
postponed until tomorrow on account
of rain. All events will run on SEIZED.
ule Friday and Saturday.
, 1926-10-22

AT the earliest opportunity the Govern
meu5wjI lodge public charges against
hose responsible for grave offences.
General Primo de Rivera states that
the only sanctuary Incidents during
the movement occurred at PampIona
TO miles southwest of B|ayoDne). where
a lieutenant and a gunner were killed
and a sergeant and a gunner were
wounded while resisting a command to
surrender It'd.
, 1926-10-22

"Cr my brthCqy i presented to Baron
Friedrich Won krupp' a new specially
constructed Ford with wireH heels, in
order to facilitate his sour Of the country.
Later The Baron was. as everyone
knows, discovered to nea fake. lie is
now in Newcastle County Del work
house awaiting trial Oh the charge Of
, 1926-10-22

passing worthless checks. I have writ
ten through a secretary to authorities in
Wilmington. Del. inquiring As to just
what I can do to get my Ford back 1t
is now in Denver .driven from Albu-
querqe. N. M. where the Baron was
Z restad--Tjme.
Milford chronicle., 1926-06-18

gram that is now under way by the
Telephone Company for improving and
expanding the plant.
The expenditure will provide new
cables containing additional lines for
telephones in the city and new circuits
for Newport and Richardson Park. Ap-
proximately $500 miles of wire will
be placed-enough to build two single
lines between New York and San Fran
cisco, with 500 miles surplus.
Work is now under way. Two cable
splicing crews and five construction
gangs are being used. Ralph Way is in
charge of the cable work.
Three main cables and one extension
to a present cable are to be placed.
Two of the new cables will be installed
on King and Market streets, respec-
lively, north of the Central Office at
Sixth and Shipley streets. Another
main cable will be placed on Sixth
street, west of the Central Office
Branches from this cable will furnish
additional circuits for a large portion
of the city.
The aerial extension to a present
cable is to be built toward the Marine
Terminal on the Christiana River. Ad-
ditional lines are to be placed in this
cable to provide for anticipated growth
in South Wilmington.
The work, which was begun in Janu-
ary, is scheduled to be completed
around the first of October.
Milford chronicle., 1926-06-18
Forest Park
Near RridRaYilIel

Don't forget that the Peoples Aid
Society will meet at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Moore tonight. Ey-
erybody welcome.
Mrs. Regina Culin spent Monday
with her daughter, Mrs. Will Grif-
fin.
Many of the young folks in this
vicinity motored to Oak Orchard on
Sunday afternoon.
Elizabeth Smith was Sunday af-
ternoon guest of Thelma and Ruth
Feyerabend.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Koszeyi and
family have returned to their home
in New York City after spending
some time with relatives in this Vi
cinity.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Wiley were
Sunday visitors of her brother, MIR.
and Mrs. Frank Donovan of Middle
ford.
The stork visited the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Otis Kitchens Thursday,
June IL and left them a fine baby
girl.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. ]. Feyerabend en-
tertained friends at dinner last Sun
day.
George Smith who has been work
ing in Philadelphia spent the week
end with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Passwaters
spent Sunday evening with Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Williams of near Bridge
Vile.
The Children's Day exercises of
Chaplains Chapel will be held Sun
day evening, June 20 at 1880 o.
clock. Come one, come all.
Milford chronicle., 1926-06-18
DELAWARE FRUIT AND
WHEAT CROPS LOOK GOOD

Apple and peach trees continue to
develop with the beayiest crop Of
both peaches and apples present
trees have ever borne. Unless the
June drop in peaches takes off from
one-ffth to one-fourth of the buds
now developing and the apple trees
are thinned out considerably, it
doesn't seem possible for the trees
to be able to devlop properly all the
fruit that is now growing.
Wheat in Delaware looks fine. In
the lower part of Sussex county rye
is being harvested and much of the
wheat is already beginning to turn.
peas are not being raised as extern
sively in lower Delaware as in other
Years. but the crop now being pick
cd is lust as fine quality as ever.
Strawberry season viii! reach lts
neak this week. Last week the crop
started off with a shipment OF gu
carloads on Monday. In addition TO
This scores of trucks, some OF Whlcn
are able to carry half a carIoaG a'
a load bauled the fruit to PhlladeI-
mia. New York and PonnsyIVanla
markets. Large quantities OF stI"M
berries are also being preserved III
casks at csnneries in Sussex county.
The nrice of berries so far has peen
a satisfactory one and the cool wea-
ther. with lust enough rain to make
the patches produce abundanIly' H''S
been all in the farmers taTor'