Putnam patriot., 1910-07-15
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M hal is said to 5etbe biggest aunaal National Reunion in the history of he Order Of hlks, get fallY under way on M0ndas at DeBeit. Mich. The formal opening of the Grand Ledge was *el. eoinea by Senator G j. Burrows. Goss ernor Fred Warner aud Mayor Philip Breitmeyer in behalf ei the Nation, the Stale and the city.
 War Is being made on ice cream cones as being detrimental to health More than 1 4.5oe ege of the ice cream cones were seized iu New York, Mon day, by E. k. Marshal Kenkei, as n part of the campaign being waged by the government under tie pure ieod act. IL is alleged that the cones con- thin borc aeid, and are injurious to health.
 The case instituted by the govern. ment against the sale 0f bieached flour as being in violation of the pure food act, was won by the government. II was proved by ineoniestlble witnesses, that the ingredients used ln bleaching the four were injurious to health.
 More than sl0.O00, ,Oo0 reduction In the postal deficit has been made in the first nine months of the fiscal year just ended. Such reduction Is unprece. dented. The deficit for the nine months WAS g, 7o9 0o0, against sl2, ,s32, In the same period Of the preceding fiscal year.
 Porto Rico is the future rest cure re- s,rt and winter playground of North America, according 10 a bulletin issued by The War Department Monday. IL declares that the normal temperature there k 76 degrees. that August, the hottest month. mnsters "A mean annual temperature of n, and the cold wealth CT record registers an average of I3. In has an ideal climate with perpetual summer.
 Since Russias unfortunate encounter with the Ear Eastern inventors of ilu jitsu she has begun 10 give attention, for the first time, to the training and discipline of her school children. The British organization of the Hoy Scouts Is held ap to the admiration of the Rassian public press. One school in- spector has trained and equipped a corps of i5u small boys from the ma. tional schools of his district, and clad in the uniform of marines, were taken to st. Petersburg and reviewed by the Emperor. This Is the tirst time 1bat anything oi the kind has been per miited In Russia.
 The Agricultural Department reports a record. breaking peach crop In oeof- ria, the fruit being of finer quality than ever before, the result of spraying the trees, extermInating the brown rot and black spots, according to method insenied by the Departments experts.
 Secretary of the Navy Meyer has or deted the safe of the cruisers Detroit and Boston, the ganhoat Concord and the torpedo, boat Ninslo~, as their day ol usefulness has gone hN, The Boston and Concord were nasl ef Dewey feel Ia the battle ol Manila Hay A broad. aide. rom one of the later hatlleships would sink these efalsefs ten mites of
 Says David Starr Jordan, rreSi. dent of Leland Stamford University. 's'Sene day the college presidents and school heads af this country Will fef- haps be called COW afdiy and brutal he. cause they didn't put a stop to the dan gers Of football. sport that destroys The hcst there k in American youth.
 Flying against winds ranging up- wards to fifteen miles'an hour, the goN- .fnaent aeroplane, manned by Lieu. tenant Touleis. has been undergoing a series oi Interesting tests at Fort sam Houston, Texas. All the European governments are training officers 10 Use The flying machines as certain To be used In all future great wars. IL Is amazing to sec what the machine can do today compared with ils Limitations . year ago-in speed, distance, height and safety, and lhr number ef persons one can carry.
 sTheodow Roosevelt, Is the prophet Of this generation. believe in him as the anointed prophet of God, as believe in ifsaish, of whom he Is Inc antithcsis, said Rev. A. Edwin keis. win, pastor of the West End Pfesbyte. rian church, New York, week ago.
 According 10 the Department of Az rleuitn.e theS gre 2i,7s0,oO mtich COWS In the United States, and the~e are wosth tN2. ,oa,. The naasni- tude of the indussry can, perhaps, best bc undenaood when tt is considered that thess cevs psodnps ysssly about sl.e0O, ,000. .0oo tone hlIliop dciiarsl worth of dairy pseducts- TheN is no other branch of divssslfsed agsicultur~ Q im- portant to the psogres q . ccmmuni- ty, Or ons so semuneFative e dalEytng uheo s,nouerlv onrsknd on. n has mnde