Show sl ITE MENT in last week a 8 issue of the chron icle there appeared a brief write entitled boys arrested tor for steal ing chickens the article concluded thus the officers say that the boys will be ar reigned before the juvenile court and the matter of making the buyers accessories to the crime has been laid before the county attorney the writer has personally inter viewed the officers and has been aa by them that no such ment was given out by them for publication it is true the delta produce corn coin pany bought some of these chickens from these boys the chickens were stolen by the boys but the thing we think unfair to us is the assumed idea published last week that we as buyers knew we were buying stolen poultry we had no idea of this and re gret sorely that such should have happened we wish to note here that from now on we shall exercise every reas enable caution in buying anything from minors we assure our patrons and cit zens of our community that we ar ara entirely out of sympathy with steal ing and will always be ready to co operate with officers in the enforce ment of the law respectfully submitted 9 S J rawlinson |