Show APPLE PROJECT I MAKES TRAGEDY A telegram to the Chicago Record- Record Herald from Frederic Mich says Henr Ward Yard Pontiacs Pontiac's eccentric millionaire a afew afew afew few years ago ago began pegan egan planting what he d tie tie- Glared cia red would be b a acre apple orchard or orchard chard on the pine barrens six miles from here hert He lie had succeeded In getting about 2000 acres planted with young oung trees when an application was made to have him adJudged adjudged adjudged ad- ad Judged Insane Witnesses whose WhOM testimony was largely Instrumental In having Ward Vard declared demented demented demented de de- and confined In a R. sanitarium w were re residents of this count county They declared declared de tie- dared positively and solemnly that any man who would tr try to grow apples on the barrens was a hug bug But Ward Vard was right after all This season the crop from those 2000 acres atres of apple trees was sold sold sold-on on the trees trees for for Now the question among the authorities is le how reparation Is to be made to Ward Vard for the years he has suffered confinement on a charge of which he was not guilty Should he be liberated It Is 15 said this millionaire millionaire millionaire-as as sane as anyone outside of an asylum asylum will will undertake to recover foi tot wrongs suffered off individuals as well as county officers lIe He is therefore certainly doomed to die In the asylum as a lunatic merely because he recognized natural soil and climatic resources for successful apple ap- ap plo lf culture on what had been considered barren arren acres |