Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1914 — Lots of Fruit in Michigan Awaits Cars For Shipment. [ARTICLE]

Lots of Fruit in Michigan Awaits Cars For Shipment.

There are said to be 10,000 earloads of fruit at St. Joseph, Mich, waiting to be shipped, , The fruit comes from the small strip of sandy land surroundirfg St. Joseph and is of recoghized quality. The railroad service is not sufficient to handle all the fruit at once and- its transportation is something of a problem. With this supJWy of fruit to be shipped into Indiana in the near future, housewives need not worry about the source of their fruit for canning. The great production "promises a cut in the price of peaehes and ripples—there are a .few things that the war cannot affect yet. *