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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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First on the Appetite List 
O NCE the crispness ana charm of 
Grape-Nuts have been tested by the 
family, there’s one item that stands prom¬ 
inently out in the marketing list thereafter. 
That’s Grape-Nuts. 
The twenty hours of continuous baking 
have produced, from the natural richness 
of wheat and malted barley, a food that 
is uniquely sweet with sugar developed 
from the grains themselves, and whose 
crispness and flavor make a delightful 
appeal* to every member of the family. 
And Grape-Nuts is soundly nourishing 
—a great builder of health and strength. 
Served with cream or milk, as a cereal 
for breakfast or lunch, or made into a 
pudding for dinner. 
See that your marketing list includes 
this delicious, economical food, today. 
All grocers. 
“There's a Reason” for Grape-Nuts 
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others. Not sold through declers. Send check, express- 
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charges collect. 0 Absolute satisfaction or money back. 
THE BATAVIA RUBBER COMPANY 
\9 Robertson St., Batavii, N. Y. 
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Tire Makers for 
15 years 
Reference t First Natl. Bank 
Batavia, N. Y. 
Protect YourYoung Fruit Trees 
Excelsior Wire Mesh 
Tree Guards will positive¬ 
ly safeguard young fruit 
trees against gnawing ani¬ 
mals. They are rust-proof, 
easily attached, and cost 
but a few cents each. In 
various sizes. 
rite, lor booklet R {or detailed 
information. 
Wickwire Spencer Steel Corporation 
Worcester, Mass. Buffalo, N. Y. 
PACK YOUR APPLES IN BAKER BOXES 
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satisfactory." ^Pomolopy Dept.. Mass. Afirricult- 
ural College. They stood the 
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► r no middlemen's profits. 
,1 BflKEH B0X COMPANY 
64 Foster St., Worcester Mass. 
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THE HOPE FARM BOOK 
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This attractive 234-page book has 
some of the best of the Hope Farm 
Man’s popular sketches—philos¬ 
ophy, humor, and sympathetic 
human touch. Price $1.50. 
For Sale by RURAL NEW-YORKER 
335 West 30th Street, New York 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Two towns, Whitepine 
and Salona, Minn., have been abandoned 
because of forest fires as a precaution 
against loss of life, and it may become 
necessary to abandon McGrath, Adjutant- 
General W. F. Rhinow reported at bis 
office in the Capitol at St. Paul Septem¬ 
ber 5. 
The bodies of four of five of the crew 
of the Government Martin bombing plane 
No. 5, from Langley Field, Virginia, were 
found September 5 on the north side of 
Twenty Mile Creek, 10 miles southwest 
of Summerville, Nicholas County, W. Va., 
and the fifth member was taken by auto¬ 
mobile to Charleston in a dying condi¬ 
tion. The dead are: Lieut. ITarry L. 
Speck, pilot, Medford, Ore.; Lieut. W. S. 
Fitzpatrick, observer, Medford, Ore.; 
Sergeant Arthur R. Brown, Kentucky; 
Private Walter B. Howard, San Fran¬ 
cisco. The seriously injured man is Cor¬ 
poral Alexander C. Hazelton, Wilming¬ 
ton, Del. The spot where the wrecked 
machine was found is at the head of Line 
Creek, in the Twenty Mile Creek section. 
It is 25 to 30 miles from a railroad. Ap¬ 
parently the plane was lost in a storm. 
New York spent approximately $1,000,- 
000 on its Labor Day holiday September 
for admission to sporting events and 
the theatres and for pleasure at the 
beaches, in addition to the millions spent 
in railroad and trolley car travel and 
other amusements. Of this million $642.- 
000 was spent for admission to baseball 
games, boxing matches, racing, tennis 
matches and the theatres. Transporta¬ 
tion officials estimated that at least a 
million persons returned to this city on 
Labor Day after vacation trips to plea¬ 
sure resorts. Travel by rail and boat was 
unprecedented, and this does not include 
thousands of automobile travelers. 
An automobile containing six persons, 
five of them children, was wrecked Sep¬ 
tember 5 when it crashed into a New 
York. New Ilaven & Hartford Railroad 
freight train at the Albert Street cross¬ 
ing. Torrington, Conn. Two of the chil¬ 
dren. Albert Scarrone, 14, and Carnize 
Xasnarle. 16. of New York City, were 
killed.. Guireo Sardie, owner and driver, 
and his 14-year-old daughter. Anita, were 
s > badly hurt that the. doctors despaired 
of saving them. Sardie’s second daugh¬ 
ter, Nardi, 16, and his son, Angelo. 10, 
were in the wreck, but escaped with slicht 
injuries. Th e automobile hit the first car 
<f the train. Two of the children were 
thrown clear, but Sardie and the others 
were, buried under the wreckage. Before 
Sardie could be dragged out. the gasolene 
tank exploded and he was badly burned. 
According to witnesses there was no flag¬ 
man at the crossing. 
Fifteen men were trapped September 5 
on the fire escape of a four-story tenement 
louse in 400 West Fortieth Street, at 
Ninth Avenue, New York, when fire 
started in the basement and spread 
rapidly through, the building. Fourteen 
of them were brought down on ladders by 
firemen, hut one of them turned back into 
the structure in an effort to make his 
way down the stairs and was suffocated. 
TIis body was found later by firemen and 
he was identified as Sahi Ismael, a Turk. 
27 years old. Fire Department officials 
said that the fire apparently started 
among a pile of peach baskets and fruit 
crates which had been stored in the cellar. 
TwcIvq armed bandits walked into the 
Childs restaurant on the Boardwalk at 
Tennessee Avenue, Atlantic City, after 
midnight September 5. They robbed a 
dozen of the several hundred patrons in 
the place, blackjacked E. F. Fow, the 
manager, wasted a few minutes in an un¬ 
successful search for $2,000 he had re¬ 
moved from the cash register and then dis¬ 
appeared through the front entrance to 
mingle with the throngs on the Board¬ 
walk. 
Breeding tides in the Gulf of Alaska 
on Turnagain Arm have revealed a five- 
foot vein of gold quartz assaying about 
$100 to the ton, according to reports re¬ 
ceived at Anchorage September 1. 
About 15.000 cases of whiskey, valued 
at more than $1,000,000 and shipped 
to New York from distilleries and bonded 
warehouses in Kentucky and Maryland 
by use of forged permits, were seized by 
Federal prohibition agents September 6 
on several piers along the North River. 
This is the largest seizure made in this 
city since the Volstead act went into ef¬ 
fect. A few weeks ago it was discovered 
that 500 blank permits had been stolen 
from the office of Harold L. Hart, Direc¬ 
tor of Prohibition for New York State, 
and an investigation disclosed that many 
of the stolen permits had appeared at dis¬ 
tilleries and bonded warehouses filled out 
in an apparently bona fide manner. 
WASHINGTON. — The forthcoming 
clean-up of the tax division of the Inter¬ 
nal Revenue Bureau, brought about as 
the result, of an investigation Commis¬ 
sioner Blair has been conducting for the 
last few weeks, probably will include ac¬ 
tion regarding the operations of alleged 
“fake” certified accountants’ organiza¬ 
tions.which have sprung up in Washing¬ 
ton since the income tax division reached 
its present enormous proportions. Ac- 
September 17, 1021 
cording to reports of investigators these 
organizations have been issuing certifi¬ 
cates without authority of law. there be¬ 
ing no law in the District of Columbia 
covering certified accountants, and have 
been issuing certificates to persons who 
have never passed any sort of an exam¬ 
ination that would properly qualify them 
as accountants. Some of the alleged ac¬ 
countants are, according to the reports 
of investigators, former employees of the 
income tax division. Postoffice inspectors 
and the United States Attorney for the 
District, of Columbia also have made in¬ 
vestigations of the alleged Association of 
Accountants. The postal inspectors have 
reported that the associations have been 
violating the postal laws in sending out 
circulars claiming to issue certificates en¬ 
titling the bearers to bo classed as certi¬ 
fied accountants. The holder of one of 
the certificates of the volunteer associa¬ 
tions, while being safe in the District of 
Columbia, could claim no legal standing 
as accountants in those States which hav e 
laws on the subject. 
_Army salvage sales have averaged 
$520,000 a day since January 1. accord¬ 
ing to the director of sales. In a sale at 
New York August 31 $141,000 was re¬ 
ceived for 60.000 surplus blankets. All 
told 500.000 surplus blankets arc to he 
d Loosed of by the army. 
Decision of Assistant Secretarv Wain- 
wright that the War Department has no 
authority to pay $1,500,000 claimed by 
former employees- of the Bethlehem Steel 
Company under an award by the War 
Labor Board has been approved by Sec¬ 
retary Weeks. In apprising Speaker Gil- 
latt of this decision, however, Mr. Weeks 
added that there could be no doubt of the 
moral obligation of the Government to 
pay these claims, and suggested that Con¬ 
gress should take cognizance of that obli¬ 
gation. . Some 38.000 machinists and 
electricians are interested in the claim 
for additional compensation which was 
approved by the Labor Board. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Abatement 
of 20 per cent of this year’s cash rentals 
for lands of the ■Scully estate, owned by 
the Scully family of England and total¬ 
ing 210.000 acres in Illinois. Missouri, 
Kansas and Nebraska, xvas announced at 
Lincoln, Ill., September 6, by Trapp & 
Fox, general managers of the property. 
More than 31,000 acres of the Scully land 
lie in Logan County alone and are ten¬ 
anted, by 220 farmers. The estate has 
been in the family for generations, and 
passed into the hands of the brothers upon 
the death of their father several years ago. 
Thomas Scully owns the Illinois and Ne¬ 
braska lands, while his brother Fred owns 
the acreage in Missouri and Kansas. Sim¬ 
ilar policies govern all the properties. 
Following an uprising of Scully tenants 
against, increased rents several years ago, 
legislative investigations of absentee 
landlordism were started, but resulted in 
affecting none of the Scully holdings. 
The .Northern Nut Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion will hold its twelfth annual conven¬ 
tion at Lancaster, Pa., October 6-7. 
The thirty-eighth annual convention of 
th.p American Pomological Society will he 
held this year in Toledo. O.. December 7, 
8, 0. The meeting will be in conjunction 
with the National Farmers’ Exposition 
annually, held in that city. A consider¬ 
able exhibit of fruits and by-products will 
be staged in connection. The American 
Pomological Society, founded in 1848, is 
one of the oldest agricultural institutions 
in the country. It has had a long and 
successful history and has been of large 
service to the fruit industry throughout 
its life. Its membership is found in the 
T nited States, Canada, and a number of 
other foreign countries. 
Thrashing is just about completed in 
this vicinity. 'Grain , is not as good as 
was expected earlier in the season. The 
bundles were large, with good straw, hut 
grain a little light. Barley ran 35 to 40 
bu. per acre; wheat, average about 25 
bu. ; rye around 20 bu., and oats 25 to 
47 : some thrashed as low as 7 bu. We 
had a very dry Winter and a still drier 
Summer. No rain between April 27 and 
August 1. August 1 and 2 had a pretty 
steady rain, and have had several good 
rains since. This will he a great help to 
the corn here. A few miles south corn 
was fired badly. No apples or berries on 
account of the late frosts and sleet. 
Home gardens are fairly good, considering 
the dry weather. There are no truck 
farms in the immediate vicinity, the truck 
farms which supply the Chicago markets 
being a few miles north of here. Potatoes 
very, poor and small, some hills having 
nothing on. Hay only about half a crop. 
Wheat, $1.20 per bu.; corn, 57c; oats, 
33c; rye, $1.10; barley, 60c. May (baled), 
$18 to $23; straw, $!). Old hens bring 
27e; Springs, 26c. Our eggs are sold 
daily to private trade in Chicago, but the 
farmers receive about 32c per doz. from 
the local grocers. Silo filling begins this 
week (August 24). V. C. T. 
Dupage Co., Ill. 
1 ery hot and dry; many wells are going 
dry; pastures very dry for stock. Pota¬ 
toes need rain badly. Wheat. $1.10 per 
bu.; 16 to IS bu. is the average per acre. 
Some oats went as low as 30 bu. per acre. 
All grain except corn poor. The corn 
crop looks good. Apples about 30 per 
cent of a crop. Many sales are reported 
at $4. to $4.50 per bbl. as they are picked 
from the trees. All fruit and crops are 
from 10 to 15 days earlier than usual. 
Most farmers are working on their whea4 
ground. j. h. p 0 
Orleans Co., N. Y. 
