Miscellany, Feb. 23, 1931

"TIME brings all things."

Apples

To Brooklyn, N. Y., went Lester Green, fruit farmer, with ten barrels of apples, in his horse & cart. He found it impossible to get a good cash price. He swapped apples for flour, flour for meat, meat for this & that, then drove home in a Model T Ford, bringing food for dinner, coat for lis wife, a pipe, a pound of tobacco, five gallons of gasoline, 50¢ in cash.

Eggs

In Turlock, Calif., Exchange Clubmen and Rotarians proposed to hold a mighty egg-throwing contest among clubmen of nearby towns. Purpose,to stabilize industry by reducing surplus stock.

Check

In Santa Barbara, Calif., G. F. Jackson asked a shopkeeper: "Do you want to cash a bum check?" The shopkeeper cashed it, discovered it was worthless. Arraigned in court, G. F. Jackson pleaded guilty, told the judge what he had said. The judge admitted that G. F. Jackson could not be held for violation of law if he could prove by witnesses that he had warned the shopkeeper.

Check

In Newark, N.J., Joseph Palitta, 9, and John Petrie, 9, wrote out a $5,000,000 check on The Clinton Trust Co., took it to Newark Municipal Airport. Said they: "We want three airplanes and a hangar to keep them in." Said Office Manager Joseph Wolfe: "Sorry, I haven't any change."

Scotch

In Northport, L. I., William Weyrauch was engaged in cleaning out the old Lecoq house, long unoccupied. He discovered a bottle of Scotch whiskey dated 1842. No lawbreaker, William Weyrauch destroyed it.

House

In Lynn, Mass., Lois Taylor, 3, went out to play, garbed in felt hat, pink silk dress, scarf, and underwear, new shoes and rubbers. At midnight she returned in an old red sweater, red hat, dirty old shoes. Her pretty curls had been hacked away. Horrified, her mother told the police. Their discovery: Lois had played "house" with another little girl, had lent verisimilitude to her rôle of "father" by changing her clothes, cutting her locks.

Fights

In Kaposszecsko, Hungary, Joseph Reitinger, native who had made his fortune in the U. S., told the official village announcer to go about with his drum, invite the whole village to the local public house for free drinks, free music. Joseph Reitinger paid for 3 bbl. of wine, 2 bbl. of beer, 7 gal. of spirits. Next night he wished to do the same thing. Officials banned the party: they had been obliged to break up 17 fights.