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Title: Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine
Identifier: cranberriesnatio6063port (find matches)
Year: 1936 (1930s)
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Subjects: Cranberries
Publisher: Portland, CT (etc. ) : Taylor Pub. Co. (etc. )
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A view of the Crocker Bog at Wakeby Lake. finds plenty of work to keep liim busy. He is in his second year as Forest Fire Warden for the Town of Sand- wich. He is a member of the Sand- wich finance committee and has been a member of the Sandwich special pohce for 20 years. He has two trucks, a loader and lots of farm equipfment. He is a past president of the Sand- wich Board of Trade, a past presi- dent of the Wakeby, Forestdale, South Sandwich Improvement Socie- ty. He has been engaged in Boy Scout work. He is treasurer of the Cape Cod Heavy Equipment Asso- ciation. He is an active member of Cotuit Grange. He is a member of State Highway Surveyors Association, he also be- longs to the Cape Cod Foresters Association and to the Cape Cod Fire Chiefs' Association. He was long a member of the Upper Cape Cod Cranberry Club and of course of the new Cape Cod Cranberry Club. He is a member of the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers Association. He has kept five saddle horses, which he rents out mainly to riders from nearby Camp Good News. Amazing Collection He is an amazing collector of old objects, chiefly old machinery. The rear of his property has a most amazing collection of old materials. He has what he described as three acres of "old iron." In this he can find about any kind of a piece of old equipment, particularly any parts of tractors that could be imagined. If anyone is looking for a piece of machinery hard to find they come to "Alvan's Place." There, he is able to put his hand on it almost immediately. He has about a half mile strip of what he calls "Old stone." This is marble and granite. "I am a saver of thread," he says. "I always save everything and there always seems to be somebody who wants something and I always have it. I can find anything I want as I am so familiar with my collection of 'old iron." He brings home most anything that he can find in the way of old metal and many other objects. These he (CRANBERRIES Photo) obtains from dumps and from his construction work. He saves every- thing. He has a bam with four levels and this is crammed with almost every conceivable object. His collection in- cludes old cranberry scoops from six inches to two feet in width. Other buildings are also crarnmed with odds and ends. "I have enough old things, old picture frames, fire place tools and sets, lamps, ornaments, old brass, some silver, old furniture, every- thing to start in tomorrow and pretty well stock an antique shop, if I should care to go into that business. He calls his remarkable collection of "old iron" particularly valuable. It certainly is unique in extent. He is married to the former Elsie M. Macomber of Marston Mills. The couple has three children; Mrs. Con- stance Carr, wife of Captain Eugene Carr who is with the U.S. Jet serv- ice in Maine and formerly stationed in Germany; Richard Alvan Crock- er, who is a graduate of the Massa- chusetts Maritime Academy at Buz- (Continued on Page 16)

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