1082 
If* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 2, 1922 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
KING'S HATCHERY NOTICE 
It is ordered by the court that all 
creditors of the said defendant shall file 
with the receiver, in writing, on or before 
September I5, 1922. proofs of their said 
respective claims against Harry King, 
doing business ns King's Hatchery, which 
proofs shall consist in each case of a 
statement, under oath, in writing, signed 
and sworn to by the respective creditor 
setting forth the claim and the considera¬ 
tion therefore, and the items thereof, and 
whether any payments have been made 
thereon, and such claim is justly owing 
from the said defendant to said creditor, 
and in the event the claim is founded upon 
an instrument in writing: a true and cor¬ 
rect copy of such instrument, unless lost 
or destroyed, must be tiled with said re¬ 
ceiver: and it is ordered that all such 
claims shall he tiled on or before the 15th 
dav of September. 1922. and in default 
thereof that any such creditor failing to 
file said claim on or before the loth day 
of September. 1022. proved in accordance 
will) the above provisions of fbis_ order 
shall be barred from participation in any 
dividends or distribution of the assets of 
said Harry King, doing business as 
King's Hatchery, which may hereafter 
be made by the court or receiver herein. 
FREPERICK P. WALT HER. 
Judge. Common Pleas Court. 
Dated at Cleveland. < 'bio, this 15th 
day of August, 1922. 
Receiver's address : 019 iW illiamson 
Building. Cleveland. Ohio. 
The Albert A. Miller Company. Tne.. 
consisting of A. A. Miller, president, and 
his daughter. Josephine M. Miller, were 
indicted by the Federal Grand Jury on 
a charge of using the mails to defraud. 
The indictment claims that circulars were 
sent through the mails alleging that 
wealthy clients of the company would 
lend money to those needing it to keep 
alive their old business ventures or to 
float new enterprises. It is alleged that 
those applying for help were charged fees 
for imaginary circularizing of persons 
who had money to invest, for advertising 
and other expenses, which expenses were 
not incurred. Miller is out on $10,000 
bail. 
The enclosed from Imperial Silverware 
Company, Montreal. Canada, looks like 
a scheme to get 98c. My daughter was 
never in any contest connected with the 
above concern. She was in the Reefer 
contest, and above looks as if names were 
handed over to above concern for further 
bait. H - J - H - 
New York. 
The enclosed refers to a notice from 
the Imperial Silverware Company that 
the party addressed had won a prize of an 
eight-piece silver set of the value of $10. 
and all the party had ,o do was to send 
9Sc to cover dusts of mailing and packing 
and the silver set would be forwarded. 
This class of fakes is of many years’ 
standing. Trash disposed of in this way 
can have little value, and the 9Sc is no 
doubt several times what it is worth. 
Evidently from this E. J. Reefer of 
Philadelphia sells the names of those en¬ 
tering his contest to other fakers. 
I have 150 shares of Hudson Producing 
and Refining Corporation stock that t 
bought for $5 a share which 1 would like 
to sell. 1 hgve written to the company I 
bought it from, but did not receive any 
answer. Please try to And out if it is any 
good. The brokers are King & Scott, 
Broadway and 57tk St., Fisk Building, 
New York. G. w. C. 
New York. 
Hudson Producing and Refining Cor¬ 
poration is a recent oil promotion of stock 
jobbing character. There is no market 
for the stock. King & Scott refused to 
make any offer for the stock. 
Can you give me any information about 
Guaranty Egg Corporation. Inc-., New 
Jersey? I have a friend that is anxious 
to take shares in same, but I told him to 
wait till I see what The R. N.-Y. said 
about it. T. E. ir. 
Virginia. 
Our advice to the Virginian’s friend is 
that if lie has any money he ever wants 
to see again not to invest it in the stock 
of this corporation. It would not be in¬ 
vesting—only turning his money over to 
the promoters of the enterprise for a piece 
of paper of no established or market 
value. 
In the last part of April an agent of 
the Boston Portrait Company. Boston, 
came to my house. lie represented an 
enlarging studio, and I refused about 10 
times to give him a photo, but at last I 
gave him a very good photo of our family. 
I did not have to pay a cent until the i 
picture came, and if the picture was not 
like the little one. 1 did not have to take 
it. he said. Two months later it came; 
a tine car stopped at the house, and a man 
and his wife came in with the picture. 
T almost dropped oyer when I looked at 
the picture. It was something awful, so 
I told him I did not want it. as it was 
not tit to put on the wall. He got so dis¬ 
agreeable. and called roe all kinds of of¬ 
fensive tilings, and said he was going to 
arrest me and take me to court, and I 
don't know what lie didn't say. So I. 
like a child, paid to avoid any further 
trouble. It was $9.9+ Just for the one 
picture, and a neighbor lmd the same 
trouble. Her picture is also no good. 
Mine is standing behind the piano. I 
would like to see people like that put out 
of their money-making scheme. g. d. 
New York. 
This is the old story of the deceptive 
methods- of the agents of so-called por¬ 
trait houses. We have many times ad¬ 
vised having nothing to do with any of 
them. 
I mu writing to you in regard to W. M. 
Whiting. Geneva. N. Y. lie is working 
now in the town of Mam-hestor, Ontario 
County, Y„ selling fruit trees. lie 
claims that lie is the only man who has 
the stock to sell that he is offering to the 
people. Will you please write me a per¬ 
sonal letter and let me know what you 
think of this W. M. Whiting? p. p. tt. 
New York. 
Mr. Whiting is on the warpath again 
selling trees. We have several inquiries 
from New York State. We do not know 
whether Mr. Whiting's claim that no one 
else can sell the stock he offers is true or 
not, but our information is that he grows 
no trees himself. He has a packing house 
in Geneva and buys blocks of stock from 
growers in that vicinity. Mr. Whiting’s 
license to sell trees in Pennsylvania was 
withdrawn a few years ago because of 
false claims lie made at that time, and 
we have not heard that ho has been al¬ 
lowed to do business in the. State since. 
Somehow other States are not as lenient - 
with tricksters as our own fair State. 
Farmers who agree to pay two or three 
prices for trees on the strength of Whit- 
ingV yarns cannot blame The R. N.-Y. 
for their predicament. When the order 
is once signed Whiting will force (if he 
can) acceptance of the trees and that I 
payment he made for them. 
T.asf Fall I received plants and trees 
from the Corn Belt Nursery and For¬ 
estry Association. Bloomington. Ill., for 
which I paid an outrageous price, expect¬ 
ing good results. This Spring two peach 
trees failed, for which I paid $4.50, and 
one cherry tree, which cost $2,25, also 
12 raspberry plants at $2.50. I also got 
200 Everbearing strawberry plants for 
$25. and 20 failed, and the berries are 
just small berries, instead of large, like 
the agent showed us. My neighbor had 
an order, of which 05 strawberry plants 
failed and one peach tree. They claimed 
they would pack them well and replace 
all that failed. I have written to them 
twice, and they do not answer. ,T, S. 
Ohio. 
There is no guarantee of replacement 
on the order blank, and as usual when 
farmers rely upon the verbal representa¬ 
tion of nursery agents they can “whistle” 
when the stock fails to grow or proves 
untrue to name. 
Mr. Greene, another paint salesman, 
called on me and requested me to pur¬ 
chase paint from his concern, the Wills 
Product Company, New York City. I 
told him I wavs in the market for some 
concrete floor paint. lie told me to try 
his paint, as lie specialized in certain 
paints, and that Ins concrete paint was 
a special product. I thereupon ordered 
four gallons of same. When the order 
arrived at the station I noticed that the 
box was marked floor paint, but that it 
mentioned nothing in reference to con¬ 
crete. I therefore refused to accept same 
unless guaranteed. While waiting for 
the guar an tv the railroad company 
shipped back the paint, and 1 cannot sea 
how I am obliged to pay for this paint. 
T have in the meanwhile found out that 
Mr. Greene is the Wills Product Com¬ 
pany. and that he seeks his prey among 
i he rural people. a. j. it. 
New York. 
The paint salesmen are getting in 
about as had odor in country districts as 
the “portrait agent.” The firms conduct¬ 
ing these lines of business have only their 
deceptive practices to blame for the re¬ 
sult. The next move of Wills Product 
Company will he to Ihrenten R. J. H. 
with suit to collect pay for the paint. ' 
The way to keep out of trouble is to have 
nothing to do with the agents of these 
houses, but when taken advantage of 
farmers should fight for their rights. 
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