Show PETTY THIEVERY ABROAD IN LOCAL PATCHES during the past week since the wat er melons and cantaloupes have begun to be ripe enough to eat or destroy for lack of being ripe enough to eat after being pilfered from the property of some one else has been considerable sid erable complaint in regard to boys or perhaps in some cases it Is grownups as well stealing and wantonly destroying melons melons locally raised are cenap in price and there is no call for any one to want to steal or pilfer them N ne times out of ten if those who craw a melon but are unable to buy them will call at the house of the ralser and state their case to him he will onerously give them what they want and tell them they are welcome to them but when one maliciously steals or destroys melons which are not fully ready for the market r bust them and eat the heart of the melon and waste the most of them then the owner has just cause for complaining to the officers of the law and asking for protection from the thieves or wanton destroyers that Is what has happened ln this community during the past few days and those who are guilty of these offenses had better take warning from this complaint or some of them might find themselves in the clutches of john law said |