An enterprise which has given Bridgeport some distinction in the industrial world has been its pickle factory. The Otto Kuehne Pickling Company was incorporated Tune 15, 1915, by: P. C. Wade, A. T. Seybelt, Thos. Ishmael, Otto Kuehne, Sam Livingston, A. W. Atkins, A. Weisenberger, J. L. Johnson, F. H. Putman, J. F. Holloway, L. R. North, T- A. Schwender, F. E. Williams, T. B. Estill, J. G. Porter, William Mount, Robert Gregg, R. A. Riddle, Martin Hannwald, T. M. Lvnch, Fred Lindberg, William H. Willis, J. E. Trinnier.

The operation of this enterprise is told thus in May, 1919.

H. H. Van Deventer is starting the spring campaign for cucumbers for the pickle factory. He is making contracts with growers and is offering assistance to all who want to plant cucumbers for the factory this year. The company will furnish seed to all growers, so that cucumbers will be of standard size and quality and will enable the factory to pay the best price. Prices will be paid on the same scale as last year, which were "war prices ;" so the growers will know from the beginning that they are going to get good returns for their labor. An expert superintendent in the person of C.

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H. Pickarts, formerly of Leavenworth, Kans., is on the ground and will move his family here soon. He will give his best attention to the factory management and to the producing of a high class of pickles by the factory so that the business may be put on a more permanent basis. Prospective growers should see the superintendent or Mr. Van Deventer, the president, or may make their contracts at the Hunt Realty company's office at any time. This should be attended to at once by those who want to grow cucumbers this season.