Potatoes Dumped in River, September 1920

New Bern--Twenty-three thousand dollars worth of Irish potatoes are rotting down at the foot of Craven street and are to be taken down the Neuse river and thrown overboard. At the same time local residents are paying all the way from 5$5 to $8 a barrel for potatoes of this variety. The potatoes are loaded on two barges of a fleet of three which came into port a week ago. The cargo was taken on board at Norfolk and consigned to Havana, Cuba, where they were to be sold at a price of $31 per barrel. Off Beaufort the oats wre ordered by wireless to seek port and went into that harbor, later coming on to New Bern. (From the Roanoke Rapids Herald, September 17, 1920.)