Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1912 — SINGLE FLAT CAR [ARTICLE]

SINGLE FLAT CAR

Will Carry Largest Watermelon Ever Grown in Texas. Farmingdale, N. Y., September 7. Some day next week a flat car will be shunted down the Long Island tracks as far as Farmingdale. On it, braced on two sides, will be a watermelon, the largest ever grown ?n Texas. It will be delivered at the summer home of B. F. Yoakum, head of the Frisco Lines. The melon weighs 112 pounds, so a dispatch to Mr. Yoakum says. It was grown by Judge Norman G. Tittrell, of Houston. i