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MIDDLEBURY.
THE CONGREGATIONAL CHI URCH.

THE CONGREGATIONALC CHI URCH.
 Rev B. B. Aiken, missionary to China, temporarily resident here, preached very acceptably, Sunday morning, August II. He took for his theme from the parable of the sOwer, in Matthew 13. He spoke of the mis- sion work in China, under the head of the sower, the seed, the soil, the sow ing and the harvest. The he'illustrative cases adduced gave abundant evidence of the success of gospel work among the Chinese.
 At the same service MT Perkins of Greenwich, whose family is sojournine at Wildwood, the summer resort kept by Miss Esther WOodford, sang with telling effect "There is a green hill far away"
 ANNUAL FIELD DAY AND BASKET PICNIC. On next week Wednesday, August 21, occurs ceisor % Pomona o1 Grsnge S @ at % Forest Park in va terbury. State Master B. Q. Patterson of Tor
 
 pected to be present and take part in the liter ary exercises of the afternoon, which con: com: friendsare cordially invited to attend. FOR PERMANENT ROAD WORK.
 At the special town .ae meeting on Mo Monday it was voted to lay out 5000 on the Waterbury road, beginning to work at the Waterbury line
 Miss M. L. Townsend and her sister left town, last week, for their new hone in New Haven.
 Bridge Nichols has cousin from Iowa wis., iting him. On last Saturday they had fam l fly picnic on the lawn, which was very enjoy able. It is 35 years since this cousin left these parts, and she finds many changes Rev MT Crane was in Plainville over Sunday attending camp meeting. A. w. BiSsell has moved in over his store 1 which he has fitted up with modern improve ] ments, so he has now a pleasant home of Il rooms, with running water, set tubs, etc. Mrs George Treat has returned from her cot tage at West Haven.
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W. ]. BEEHLER, BrookfieId, Conn.
Harvesting Merchandise.

some funds for the Y. M. c. A. A great number of the ladies of Hotchkissville are interested in a Ba- zaar to be held sometime before Christ maS In the meantime, articles suit able to put on sale at such times would be received by the committee with many thanks.
 MT and MT Fred A. Eyre, who have been visiting at his home for a couple of weeks, returned to Little Valley, last Monday, going via New York City and Albany. HOTCHKIssvILLE.
 The Christian Endeavor society held an ice cream social in the hall, last Friday evening. Eighteen dollars was taken in.
 Miss Gertrude Hall of Bridgeport is visiting relatives here.
 Mrs Frank Ward was ill with sore throat and under Dr Reynolds care, last week.
 Miss Ethel Bellamy sang at Prof FL tons concert in Union City, Tuesday evening.
 Will Forbes recently had 20 chickens stolen,
 Mrs Brown of Waterbury has been visiting her parents, MT and Mrs Will liam Bellamy.
 John Harrison, an old man who boards at Thomas Greens and has been ill with consumption for nearly a year, is much worse.
 Mrs Philip c. Burr and baby of Cam bridge, Mass, is visiting her mother, Mrs Julia P. Bradley. Miss Florence Ward of Bridgeport is visiting relatives here.
 John Suckley, ST., and little grand daughter, Sarah, are visiting relatives in Bridgeport.
 Miss Rachel Minor of Roxbury was a guest of Mrs H. A. Hotchkiss, this week.
 Mrs Benson is in Sherman, caring for her mother, who is i'll.
 Car Winton has been spending a week at the shore.
 Mrs Sally Cha rlton of Savannah, Ga, and Miss Ruth Sloane, nurse, of Wa terbury, are guests of Dr B. l.. Smith.
 Little Miss Wolfe of Waterville is visiting her grandparents, MT and Mrs Joseph Pearson.
 At the Sunday school session, last Sunday, an excellent sermon from the text "1 will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help," was preached by Rev MT Wright of New Jersey, and recitation apprOpri- ate to the sermon was rendered by Dea
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The Vile cup, which will be com peted for by members of the Danbury Golf club, was presented to the club Saturday afternoon by Dr w. c. Vile, the donor. The presentation took place during tea which the ladies of the club served on the club house piazza. Dr H. F. Brownlee, president of the club, responded to Dr Wile's eloquent presentation speech.-[ Dan- bury NeWS.
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HATTERTOWN.
LOCAL JOTTINGS.

Mrs Cook and Mrs M. D. Morgan have been the guests of Mrs Henry Morgan.
 J. w. Penny has been spending sev. eral days in New Milford visiting with relatives.
 MT Stetson of Gravesend, L. l., has been entertained at E. B. Booths.
 Mrs Juliette Platt, Miss Frances Platt and Miss Helen King of Bridge port passed last week with Mrs Al mira Porter.
 Miss Lydia Benedict has been visit ing with friends in the Park City.
 Merwin Morgan has returned to New York.
 William Wakelee has purchased a horse and buggy of Andrew Richmond.
 Mrs c. D. Stillson has been spending a week at the shore.
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Misses Bessie and Sadie Bacon of Clinton are guests of Rev and Mrs o. w. Barker.
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Harry Pinckney, who is staying at Capt A. w. Peck s, caught handsome string of bass, the other day, one weighing three and one-half pounds.
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The men of Taunton district, under the leadership of A. w. Fairchild, rallied on Monday morning and moved over the Taunton cemetery. THE BEE would like to see every cemetery in town moved over twice year.
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Mrs Gorham and children of Vest port are visiting Mrs William A. May. nard in Taunton district. On Wednes. day they paid visit to friends in Shel- ton.
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FOR ROAD IMPROVEMENTS.

At the special town meeting on Sat- urday it was voted to appropriate $2,00O for road improvements. The State pays three quarters of the sum.
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Mrs William Sturges and daughter of Great Plain have been guests, this week, at Frederick Andrews in Taun- ton district.
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Mrs Philo Clarke is visiting her daughter, Mrs Walker, at Ossining, N "
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When in Bridgeport visit The 0. H. Bennett Shoe Go. s store for the bar gains that cannot be duplicated. You will be pleased as the goods are marked way down in price.
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The huckleberry crop is short, ex- cept on burned-Over-tract, which is resorted to by a crowd of berry pickers every day.
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G. N. Haley is passing the week at Mystic.
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Mrs w. A. Cantield, while slicing a ham for the church festival, Wednes- day, cut bad gaSh in one hand.
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If the action of your bowels is not easy and regular serious complications must be the final result. DeWitt's Little Early Risers will remove this danger. Safe, pleasant and effective R. H. Beers & Co.,, Newtown; s. c. Bull & Co.,, Sandy Hook; A. B. Blakeman, Botsford; B. Hawley &Co., Stepney; A. B. Fancher, Hawleyville; w. N. Hurd, Long Hill.
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Mrs Philo Clarke is visiting her daughter, Mrs Walker, at Ossining, N. Y.
 Harry Coger was the victim of d lively runaway, while on his meat wag- on on Friday last. While going down steep hill in Taunton district both pole straps broke, causing the wagon to run against the horses The horses ran and were finally stopped near the l residence of Mrs Barnum in DOdging- town. MT Coger jumped, escaping with few bruises.
 How to get an antique oak rocker, l free. See Allison Brothers advertise- 1 ment.
 MT and Mrs w. D. Smith and daugh- ters, Dorothy and Emily, passed We'd 1 nesday in Bridgeport with MT Smith s mother, Mrs s. H. Smith: 1 The funeral of Charles c. Bartram, whose death was announced in last weeks BEE took place on Friday at D. m. from the home of his brother in-law, Former Selectman w. H. Glover. The pail bearers were Messrs WuIIdAl 1ONlllu, OcOTkc T. DuuCOmDe, Elmer w. Fairchild, John B. Wheeler, l.. P. Glover and E. F. NorthrOp. The burial was in the Newtown cemetery. Among those present at the funeral from out of town were c. B. Bartram of New York, Miss Florence White of Babylon, L. l., Miss Julia Bidwell and Mrs ElOsia BOtSfOrd Johnson of New Haven.
 Czar Winton of Woodbury, accom- panied by his sister, a Bridgeport lady, called on w. s. Bradley and other friends, Tuesday. Mrs Edric Goudy of New Haven also paid a short visit at Mir Bradley's on Tuesday. If the action of your bowels is not easy and regular serious complications must be the final result. DeWitt'S little Ear1V Risnrs will remOva this
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At the special town meeting on Monday it road, beginning to work at the Waterbury line.
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The program offered by the New Fairfield Grange, Friday sevening, August 16. at the Congregational church, promises to be very entertaining. The following is the program in full:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-06
HALF A CENTURY YET.
BefOre the Pension Roll of the United
tates VIII Come to an
End.

A pension official in Washington has
been trying to figure how long it Will
be before the national pension roll
comes to an end. He practically adj
mits that he is unable to solve the
problem, owing to the fact hat there
is a difference from year to year in
the increase and decrease of pensions,
and there are also the Spanish war
pensions to be considered, for which,
outside of the Philippine service, there
have already been filed two-thirds as
many applications as there were
troops actually engaged in the war.
According to these figures, says a
Washington report, there were at the
close of the year a total of 993,529
names on the roll, an increase of 2,O10
from the previous year. During that
year the names of 1884 pensioners
were dropped from the list, but this
was more than offset by the 1894
that were added, 1860 of these being
names restored that had been previ-
ously dropped for various reasons.
He then figured hat if there was no
increase at all and an annual average
decrease of 5000 a year, the pension
roll would be exhausted in about %
years, or in 1924. As throwing a little
light on the question the statistics of
the Mexican war pensioners may be
quoted. This wal ended SIS years ago,
and yet there are to-day $3.50 surviv-
ors on the roll, as well as S,151 widows,
with a total number of beneficiaries
amounting to 16,464, while on June 30,
1900, there was still on the pension
list one survivor and LAP widows of
the war of 1912. If the civil war pen
sions and those for the Spanish war
are to run on anything like the same
rate, the present century will be more
than half gone before there is any
promise of the wiping out of all pen
sions resulting from our wars of the
past: and it may be stated that from
1861 to 1900 the pension system has
cost Uncle Sam no less than 81, 562, 974,-
O10
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-06
I'm OUR OWN

OF the 1900 convicts in Tennessee, %
claim to be college graduates.
There are in California nearly $4,000
Italians. Their property is estimated
at S%50.oOo,0oO.
Two newspapers of New York spend
about S1,O0O,O00 a year each for
paper, the quantity consumed being
31,S7S tons.
Boston owes $1o6.72 per inhabitant;
Montreal owes 1872; Cincinnati owes
$83.65. Other American and Canadian
cities w less.
There are w original portraits of
Franklin in the Boston public library,
one by Duplessis, presented by Hon.
Edward Brooks; the other by Creme,
presented by Gardner Brewer.
In Tennessee and Georgia the pea
nut is known as the goober; in Ala,
bama and the western gulf states, a
ground pea; in the southwest of the
United States and in the West Indies,
a pindal or pindar, andin various parts
of England a j~urnut, an earth nut or a
manila nut.
Over 1000 uncontested actions for
absolute divorce, separation and an
nulment of marriage are decided every
year by the justices of the supreme
court in New York county, n. Y, alone
DEGREES are granted in about rs pei
cent. of these. Thu procedure in. un.
contested divorce suits is SO simple
that the evidence is generally followed
by an immediate divorce.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-06
USE OF PETROLEUM.
Experience shows That 1t often De-
strOys Trees as Well as the In
sects That Infest Them.

The varying and sometimes diSas-
trous results obtained from the use OF
refined petroleum on growing trees as
an insecticide, and especially against
the San Jose scale, haye led to the sus-
picion that the crude product might
be less variable and drastic in its eff
fects. But SO far as it has been used
itwould appear that we have yet much
to learn before we can with safety
recommend the application of the
crude product to the different varieties
of fruit trees. That it is efficient In
destroying the San Jose scale If 1t IS
brought in contact with this insect
seems now quite probable. But h
hundreds of LEI trees that mark the
areas where it has been indiscrimin-
ately used, point very clearly to the
fact that great caution is necessary,
and no one is, as yet, able to say just
where safety ceases and danger be-
gins. Then, too, when no permanent
injury is apparent, as in the case of
the Seeding apples on the ground of
the Ohio agricultural experiment sta
ton, who can say that this unnatural
retardation may not after the first
dppIlcdtIOH prove 10 DC d nlcudSC L
the life or general vigor of the tree?
1t is well known that, in nature, these
retardations sometimes occur but
nature seldom, if ever, owe the bark
of a tree or shrub, and then oEly in
part, with vegetable growths lii
lichens, and even these r known to
be detrimental, a smooth, clean bark
being always desirable. In the use of
refined petroleum one of the most per-
picking phenomenon observed was the
fact that equally careful applications.
made by the same person, with h
same grade of oil, would give almost
opposite results. Here recommends
ton of the refined product for general
use has, in many cases, resulted dis
~astrously and brought no little dis.
repute to the chronological fraternity
of this country. The most that can
now be said for the refined product
is that a ten to twenty per cent. mix
ture with water constitutes a fairly
successful summer wash and destroys
the young scale, thereby checking the
increase and spread until applications
of whale oil soap mixtures can be
made.-Prof. F. NJ. Webster, in Farm
erS' Review.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-06
SPORT IN WESTERN CANADA.
While the Farmers Grain Is Ripenins
and His stock Growing Fat, He
May Have Plenty of Shooting.

There is probably no country on
the American Continent where the
life of the farmer carries with it
that assurance of comfort and sue
cess as does Western Canada. Nor
is there to be found anywhere else
such a pleasant combination. Game
abounds everywhere and nowhere
does it afford such perfect amuse-
ment. A noted sportsman writing of
the ~favorite pastime says: "There is
one particular spot where / saw a
man drop 20 mallards one morning,
and bring them all to bag, too, for
they dropped in open water or on
fat prairie. At the right season of
the year you can see black lines and
triangles cut sharply out against the
sky all round you, moving very
swiftly, and you begin to wonder
whether you have enough cartridges
to hold out. You can hear the
prairie-chicken growing like barn
door fowls; and a little to the north
cas- is a bit of marshy ground, cat
tie poached, and dappled with gleam-
ing pools, where the snipe are near
" as thick as mosquitoes. A thin
column of blue smoke curling up in
the distance shows you where a few
wandering Indians have pitched their
camp, but there is no other indica-
ton of civilization in sight. Still,
the n~eighborhood is well-settled, and
Q short drive will bring you to q
farmhouse where you can buy the
finest butter and the freshest eggs
for uncivilized prices.
"a very short railway journey will
bring you to a country full of deer
and the lordly wapiti, the king of
the deer tribe the world over; and
down on the fat, Doggy land by the
lake shores the loose will stand
k~nee-deep in water on the summer
evenings, ready to lie down when the
flies get b~othering. All day you
breathe the wild free air of the
prairie, and at night you are lulled
to sleep by the surge and ripple and
splash of the waves on the beach,
broken now and then by the weird
banshee-cry of strange waterfowl"
Particulars regarding settlement of
the lands of Western Canada can be
had from any agent of the Canadian
Government, whose advertisement ap-
pears elsewhere in your columns.
OLD READER.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-06
TIMELY DAIRY NOTES.

Milk at the same time every day.
Milk thoroughly to the last drop, be-
couse the last milk is the best. Al
ways keep the hands clean, and also the
COWS udder and dairy utensils.
To milk young, FESTIVE cows, raise
,ne of the fore feet. Never strike
hem.
Milk with four fingers, and not with
ndeX and thumb, a fault too common
With mixers.
Let there be exact system in all
movements about the dairy. Do not
lelay s%training the milk until the
cream has begun to rise again more
slowly.
The farmer who makes the dairy his
main business, rather than an adjunct,
IS the one who will turn out the best
product, and procure the most profit
and satisfaction.-Rural World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-06
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The population of northern Chine
is almost completely vegetarian, the
chief articles of food being miIIet, rice,
maize, potatoes and turnips.
For the last 1,7oO murders commit
ted in the United Kingdom, only 81
criminals were executed, Us were SEN
fenced to death, but 142 were found in
sane.
The Severn's record salmon was
caught in 1889. 1t weighed 81 pounds.
But the Tay can show a fish of 20
pounds. The average weight of salmon
taken in Great Britain is eight pounds.
The recent census of India shows
that Bengal, which has an area of 203,-
473 square miles-one-quarter less
thar the area of Texas-has a popula-
ton of 74,713, 900, which is equal to that
OF the United States.
In the Chinese ethical code the
Christian injunction to cast out the
beam from ones own V rather than
TO regard the mote in a brothers eye
is expressed: Let every man sweep
the snow from his own door and not
regard the hoar-frost on the top of
his neighbours house."
1t is stated hat a strenuous attempt
is being made by some e~nterprising
Norwegians to pOpularize reindeer
flesh as an article of diet in Europe.
The experiment of raising the animals
in large numbers for slaughtering pur-
poses will be fairly tried. They ex-
pect to find profitable markets in
France and Belgium, and will even en-
,deavor to induce beef-eating Britons
to purchase the article
In the famous cellars of the Hotel de
Vile, at Bremen, there are a dozen
cases of holy wine, which have been
preserved for $50 years. A merchant
figures that if the cost of maintaining
the cellars, payment of rent, interest
upon the original value of the wine
and other incidental charges are con
sidered, a bottle of this choice Madeira
has cost no less than 81, 200, 900, each
glassfuI S27O,OOO, and a single drop
could not be sold without loss under
$500.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-06

centrate upon them, feed for a short
lime, and then deposit their eggs.
These trap plants can be sprayed
thoroughly with paris green and water
at the rate of four ounces in 40 gal
ons. The poison can be applied dry
~ mixing one pound of paris green
n 100 pounds of commo flour or land
plaster.
The insects attacking young buds
should be collected by hand at first. A
couple of small boys with tin pals or
pans containing about one pint of
water and a teacupful of kerosene can
catch the beetles by bending the young
plants over the vessel and shaking
them slightly, car being taken not
to break them off. AS soon as the
plants begin to leaf out, they can be
sprayed or busted with paris green.
If the young larvae or worms are
brushed off on the dry, hot, sandy soil,
during the middle of the day, many
Of them are destroyed.
The fight in combating this pest
should begin now to save the crop both
this and next year. AS soon as the cut
ting season is over and before the old
vines have become veritable breeding
beds for the beetle, spray OF lust thor
oughly. The insects spend the win
ter as adults and hide any place they
can find protection. If, therefore, the
early and late broods are destroyed.
the greatest number of them can be
prevented from reaching maturity. If
the first brood now depositing it's eggs
is fought persistently, the second gen.
grafton will not be so difficult to han.
lle. If both broods are allowed to
breed without any attemft TO destroy
them, next years asparagus crop will
De in great danger.-Orange Judd
Farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-06
The Fruit Bark Beetle.

A pest discussed at some length
in a recent New York bulletin is the
fruit bark beetle. This was especial
ly prevalent last season and did
much damage in peach orchards in
western New York, and in some scat
tered plum and cherry plantations.
On peaches its principal injury was
due to punctures of the bark on the
trunk and larger limbs, through
which the sap oozed and formed gum
my eXcrescences. On plum and cher
ry, however, nor injury "a done by
punctures in the twigs, causing death
of the foliage. The natural home of
this insect is in dead bark, so all
brush piles and dead trees should be
removed from the orchards. Caustic
washes upon trunks and branches
serve as a preventive measure, and
cutting off and burning the infested
twigs destroys many of the beetles.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-06
A Point worth Considering.

A close observer has well said thar
birds have different tastes from
men; as a rule they prefer bitter,
sour Or insipid fruit. We should
never destroy such species as the
wild cherry, wild grape, elder, black
berry. juneberry, mulberry, dogwood,
Virginia creeper, buckthorn, sumach,
bittersweet and Others. BY encour
aging such plants we are approach
ing a solution of the problem, that
will preserve for our own benefit
both the cultivated fruit and the
birds" This is a point that we think
many people have overlooked. Where
birds are most destructive is in local
tiles where no food exists other than
that growing in the farmers garden
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-06
THE ASPARAGUS BEETLE.
To E-xterminate This Pest for Mex,
Year Active Operations Must Be
Commenced Vow.

The common asparagus beetle needs
40 description other than the Illus
.ration given herewith from a drawing
oy F. II. Chittenden, United States de-
2artment of agriculture. 1t is not
practical to spray old beds from which
asparagus is being cut for the de-
struction of this pest. The beetles
cluster upon the young shoots just as
hey r coming through the ground;
ven at times going below the sur
face, attacking the young plants. In
Did beds, several stalks should be per-
mitted to stand in each row at inter
walls of about two rods. These stalks
throw out leaves and the beetles con