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Show 1 M ONE PEST FOLLOWS ANOTHER Crickets Occupy Ravine Filled Up to Drive Out the-" Mosquitoes Cleveland, Ohio, July 11. Citizens In the vicinity of the Wlllowdalo ave. city dump nro kicking ngaliu At first they voiced a plaint to Miss Mildred Chtulsey, chief of sanitary police that mosuultoes were breeding in a nearby near-by ravine and making life mlserablo for neighbors. She hnd a chat with Gus Hanna, superintendent of Btreets, and ho oh-llglngly oh-llglngly had 1Ib men till up the ravine with street sweepings. Tho mos-quitoes mos-quitoes left, but In their stead came a tribe ot cherry crickets that chirp the whole night through. That would not havo been so bad, tho people said, It the crickets had not invaded their homes and bitten pieces out of tho carpets and even tho furniture. |