Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1913 — Strawberries Must Be Sold By Measure—Not Box. [ARTICLE]

Strawberries Must Be Sold By Measure—Not Box.

A new state law requires that strawberries be sold by the measure and not by the box. At Lafayette the city weighmaster has been busy for several days looking after gardeners who sell strawberries and he has found many boxes that do not contain a quart and he intends to prosecute those who sell by box instead of quart. It would be well tor local dealers to see that boxes contain full measure before disposing of them. Crates of strawberries this season hat are Shipped out of New Albany contain boxes which hold full quants, each crate holding six full gallons. Crates now weigh forty pounds, while in former years they weighed from twenty-eight to thirty pounds. Berry boxes must be marked as to size.

Republicans, progressives and democrats at South Bend who are dissatisfied with a wide open town, rave combined to put a citizens’ ticket in the flrlt for the municipal election next fall.

The steamer Noronic, the largest passenger boat on the great lakes, was launched at the Western Dry Dock yards at Fort William, Ont., Monday afternoon, in the presence of several- thousand people.

Thomas W. Morgan, of Ottawa, Kans., Tuesday was appointed warden of the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kans., by Attorney General Mcßeynolds. He succeeds R. W. MoClaughry, for fourteen years in charge at Leavenworth.

Jack Johnson, the colored heavyweight champion pugilist, was sentenced to one year and a day in the rtate prison at Joliet and fined SI,OOO, for violation of the Mann white slave act. Johnson was granted two weeks’ time to prepare a writ of error and the bond for $30,000 on which he has been at liberty, since his conviction was allowed to stand.

John Ryan and children, of Medaryville, were here today, the latter tor the purpose of attending the picnic of the parochial school. John took advantage of the occasion to pay his subscription to The Republican, to which he has been a sub scriber ever since it was established. John is a democrat, but he says he does not let that fact influence him when he wants the news. Borne of the features of the ROH ear are most axle clearance of any car, Warner auto-meter, tally-ho horn, center control, automatic sparker, straight line drive shaft, Bosch magneto, non-skid tires, jiffy curtains, etc. And best of aIL the ear is sold for S9OO, Mly equipped. This price Includes everything. You do not buy the ear and then have to spend two or three hundred dollars before you are ready to take a trip. If interested ask John Knapp, tlw lyl agent, for a free demon“Had dyspepsia or indigestion for years. No appetite, and what I did eat distressed me terribly. Burdock Blood Bitters reached the cause.”—J. H. Walker, Sunbury, Ohio.