Fulton County Tribune, 1917-06-15

The universal praise given the Strawberries shipped from bowling Green, Kentucky, into Oftio, lor tne past lew years, induced the Chief of Ohio bureau of Horticulture to send representative there during their sea season - son season this year, to stuay their methods of growing, grading and packing, and to learn something of their organi organisation. - sation. organisation. Arriving there on June 7th we found their season well spent, as they were shipping only about twenty cars per day. . iheir record day for the sea season - son season having been sixty-nine cars. "Ths Warren County, Kentucky Strawberry Growers Association" is incorporated with usual officers, Board of Directors and General Manager. It is composed of about seven hundred members, nearly all of whom are growers who live within a radius of twelvs miles of Bowling Green, the shipping point and County Seat, on the L. & N. R. R. 224 miles southwest of Cincinnati. Ths country is rolling but not very hilly and the soil a reddish clay loam that produces under good management from 80 to 40 bushels of corn per acre. About 3000 acras of strawberries were grown by the Association this season. The largest "Patch" contains 110 acres, with many 30, 25, and so on down to ii or 3 acre3, all one variety, the Aroma. Shipments are made in car lots only by through freight in iced cars. Ship Shipments - ments Shipments are made to Boston, New York, Homester, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Chicago, mild all, northern cities and from there distributed by wholesale dealers to the smaller towns. Their demand has been so great this season that they were able to get $3.00 per 24 quart crate for the tirst 240 cars f. o. b. "Bowling Green. They will exceed 600 cars for the season and not go be below - low below $2.50 per crate in price there. It is gratifying to know that ber berries - ries berries the growers were getting 12 c. per quart for in latter part of May, we were getting from our dealers in Wau Wauseon - seon Wauseon 465 miles away, delivered at olr doors at 16 cents per quart. To one at all familiar with straw strawberry - berry strawberry growing the question arises: "Where do they get all their pickers?" Th Association looks after that as well s other details of the business. This year they imported from other sections of Kentucky, Tennessee and adjoining states .about 3000 pickers, largely from rural and village schools, churches, lodges, etc. A teacher., or other adult, organizes a company to bring with her and looks after their welfare, She is given work in a pack packing - ing packing house at from two to three dollars per day, according to size of her com company. - pany. company. The grower furnishes sleeping quarters, either tents or crude wooden structure with bunks bedded with straw. The grower also furnishes meals at 10 cents each, not an elabor elaborate - ate elaborate one but enough to sustain life. All members of the Association are white people and all imported pickers are whites. Local colored people who can provide for themselves ar em employed - ployed employed as pickers. Something of the magnitude of the strawberry business of this Associa

tion for this season can be conceived by putting together the figures of 600 cars containing 420 crates each and selling at an average of $2.75 per crats. Two impressions of the trip are most prominent. That the Aroma berry as grown in that section ig a wonderful berry, and that R. A. Gra Graham, - ham, Graham, Manager of the Association is a wonderful organizer. Details of methods , of growing, grading and packing with some of the rules and regulations of the Associa Association, - tion, Association, also some photographic views of the .busy scenes, may be found in the Annual report of the States Horticul Horticulture - ture Horticulture Society. C. H .WAID, Wauseon, O., June 11, 1917. CHARG E AGAINST THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, in special ses session - sion session assembled at Washington, D. C, May 8th and 9th, brought the follow following - ing following indictment against the Liquor Traffic: "In this time of crisis the Federal Council urges the churches to use their utmost endeavors to secure na national - tional national prohibition as a war measure, demanded alike by economic, moral and religious considerations. The li liquor - quor liquor traffic consumed last year food foodstuffs - stuffs foodstuffs sufficient to feed 7,000,000 men for a year, required the toil of 75,000 farmers for six months to furnish these food-stuffs, engaired 62,920 wage earners needed in legitimate industry and exacted a heavy toll of life. The nation canltot afford this economic and moral waste." The Federal Council represents practically all of the protestant churches in America and this mes message - sage message to the churches was issued af after - ter after careful study of the conditions and the facts.

Members of the Order will assemble at the Castle Hall Sunday morning at nine o'clock and all who have flowers they will donate are especially re requested - quested requested to bring them to the hall at this time. A. Hogeboom will be in charge of the division that will leave at 9:30 in automobiles for Pet Pettisville - tisville Pettisville where the graves of deceased Knights will be decorated and an ad address - dress address delivered by Knight F. E. Ken Ken-yon. - yon. Ken-yon. The decorating of the graves at '. Tedrow and Chesterfield will be in charge of Knight G. A. Stratton. Sunday afternoon all members in including - cluding including Esquires and Pages as well as members of other lodges who may be in town are requested to assemble at Castle Hall at 1:30, the lodge head headed - ed headed by the Boy Scouts Drum Corps will march to the cemetery at 2 o'clock At the cemetery the decoration of the graves - will be in charge of Knights Burr and Jordan; re-assemble at the center of the cemetery at 3:00 o'clock when the following program : will be given: Invocation Rev. F. E. Kenyon. Address Rev. J. A. Wharton. Music .closing ode) The Lodge. Benediction Rev. A. A. Barker. Officer of the day,- F. E. Kenyon. The members of the Wauseon Temple Pythian Sisters will partici participate - pate participate in the Memorial Services, decor decorating - ating decorating the graves of departed members of the Temple and performing the kindly service of preparing the flow-ers.-- -

nance is lor physicians of the follow following - ing following counties: Fulton, Defiance, Henry Paulding and Williams. Dr. Porter will first cover the gen general - eral general field in a comprehensive lecture. He will then conduct a practical dem demonstration, - onstration, demonstration, illustrating the latest ad advances - vances advances in technique that have been developed in the large clinics of the medical centers, with a view of in increasing - creasing increasing the degree of safety and de decreasing - creasing decreasing the suffering attending child birth. The meeting will close with a general discussion by the physicians present, in which particular attention will be given to the serious situations that often confrent the practicing phy physician - sician physician who is called to the rural dis districts - tricts districts to aid the stork. The Ohio plan of making post-graduate study available to all physicians is being watched carefully by the medi medical - cal medical profession throughout the United States. It will be tried in other states next year. In Ohio, it will be develop

The Government has asked the newspapers of the country to publish the names of those who Registered on June 5th, without compensation. It is our government that asks it and the Tribune is anxious to do all it can do to aid and assist the government of the United States. This list, will take considerable space in the paper and will consume considerable time in the composition it costs us as It costs every other newspaper something to publish this list, but we are willing to contribute this as part of our "bit." We mention this only in order that those who read may appreciate the val value - ue value of this list, it should be preserved; cut out the installments as they are printed from week to week and paste them in a scrap book for future refer reference. - ence. reference. Considerable has been said in regard to those who have claimed ex exemption, - emption, exemption, but it seems to us that there are not many who are in position to pass judfi-ment in a general way upon. t,t4 -.!fJtv of those who made this claim. The Provost Marshall General 4 iSvruriionu on this point were gen

PHYSICIAN'S CONFERNECE Every physician of Wauseon and Fulton county has been invited by The Ohio State Medical Association to participate in a conference to be held in Defiance on Friday, June 29, to give post-graduate consideration to the subject of obstetrics. Dr. William D. Porter, clinical professor of ob obstetrics. - stetrics. obstetrics. Dr. William D. Porter, clini clinical - cal clinical professor of obstetrics in the Uni University - versity University of Cincinnati College of Medi Medicine, - cine, Medicine, will conduct the meeting, and -will lecture on and demonstrate the recent scientific advances in this important field of medical practice. The confer conference - ence conference is one of a series of group meet meetings - ings meetings that are being held throughout the state under the auspices of the as association, - sociation, association, with a view of making post postgraduate - graduate postgraduate study possible for everv

BOND AND ROAD SALE On Monday of this week the Board of County Commissioners awarded bonds to the amount of $18,000 for road improvements No. 79 and No. 84 to the Peoples State Bank of Wauseon at par and accrued interest.- This be being - ing being the only bid submitted for this bond issue. The Commissioners also awarded the contracts for the following road improvements: Road Improvement No. 15, in Clinton and German town townships - ships townships to Jonas Nofzinger. Road Im Improvement - provement Improvement No. 62 being one and one half miles on the Wauseon-Napoleon road, ' and No. 63, one mile south of Pultz' Corners and extending one mile West, to Ira Acton, of Napoleon improvement No. 77; gravel road in Franklin township and No. 84, gravel road in Franklin and Gorham town townships - ships townships to Gray Brothers of Bowling Green. i Road Improvement No. 79 one mile south from Darby's Corners to J. E. Coon of Swanton.

AUTO ACCIDENT Fulton street in front of the Arcade or just north of that building, was the scene of an auto accident. Sunday af afternoon - ternoon afternoon when Mr. Will Domitio crashed into a Ford loaded with Ad Adrian, - rian, Adrian, Michigan men who tried to dash in front ot Mr. Domitio's heavier car, disregarding traffic rules. The Ford lost a rear wheel and one man who was in. the-rear of the Ford Was thrown on the pavement suffering a blow that rendered him unconscious for a time and receiving a bad scalp wound; he was taken into the office of Doctor Lenhart who dressed his wound3 and gave him medical attention. - A train of fifteen Pullman coaches filled with a cavalry detachment pass passed - ed passed through Wauseon over the N. Y. C. railroad Sunday afternoon.