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Show CONGRESSMAN'S LUCK. Indiana Lawmaker Becomes Mushroom Mush-room Farmer by Accident. KOGANSPORT. Ind . May 7 -Some men are born rich, others achieve riches and some hao thirty acres of mushrooms mush-rooms throat upon them. The first to be classified in the latter category Is Congressman Con-gressman Charles B. Landls As a result re-sult Landls contemplates the addition of tho management of a canning plant to his duties as a lawmaker and as editor of tho Delphi Journal. Land for which he would hae taken a dollar an acre promises to yield him profitable returns re-turns If arrangements for gathering ihe crop ciulckly and preserving II can be matle by next season ln a trade, 'sight unseeh," Landls became be-came possessor of thirty acres of lnd In Carroll county When ho went out to look at the land the remarks he made were such as are ext luded from the Congressional Con-gressional Record Tt was the most forlorn for-lorn spot Landls had ever seen ' Could not even raise a rnortgago on It!" lie declared. Yesterday he drove past ihe forbidding field and found to his amazement that where oal Stubble and weeds had ell figured the landscape the thirty acres were dotteel v.lth mushrooms Landls and each of his hired hands gathered a bushel basketful without making an appreciable ap-preciable inroads in the supply. Realizing Realiz-ing thai tin- crop would have to harvested In a hurry, he sent word to all the ne-lrh-bon and to friends In Delphi, and fifty families gathered without effort nil thi mushrooms they could carry. |