Putnam patriot., 1911-06-23
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 The conductors Of the New Haven ! road have just put oa their new sum mer uniforms, accompanying which f they have received orders from which ! there is no appeal, to dress neatly al all times.
 Growers are not having very good luck with peach orchards this season, many young trees being already dead or beyond saving, due to blight or | droulh.
 Ou-burning locomotives have been I'll on the New Haven road as far into | Massachusetts as Westaed, and rail. I road men claim they are 50 much bet ter for service than conforming ioeo- | motives that they will be substituted | on all Che lines through New England | within short time.
 When the law giving the state the power to regulate the Use Of common | drinking cups becomes effective, com mon drinking cups in trains, hotels, 1 theatres and practically all other pub lie places will be barred by the regula- tions of the state board of health, says Dr. J. II. Townsend. Farmers say that the cut-worms have been worse this year than for long time and they have attacked about everything that is raised on farms in this section and have caused large amount of damage. In many instances farmers have had to re-plant considerable portion of their crops which these worms have destroyed. The farmers also state that owing to the extreme dry spell throughout the month Of May much seed that was planted did not sprout at all and this has caused considerable amount of extra work and now they say that there are more potato bugs than for years before,
 The governments S50,000,O00 issue of per cent PanNma bonds has been at least three times oqersnbseribed,
 A bulletin issued by the lnternation- al Institute of Agriculture says the crop conditions in the northern hemis- phere are generally good, in Spain eX- cellent but some damage is reported from Russia.
 Chemist Richardson of the Armour company told the senate committee that frozen meat can be preserved al least six years.
 fyh ,la aIa at ei to attend the World Alliance oI Baptists, which has opened in Grace Baptist temple, Philadelphia.
 General Diaz, the exiled president 0, Mexico, at Corunna, Spain, in a state ment justifies his administration and reproaehes his countrymen for theil ingratitude.
 Mobile adopted the commission form of municipal government by a majority of , to 1, the people showing real en. thusiasm after the election over the achievement, Mobile has a popula- ton of about 5l ,0o0.
 The "New York Times" hears from Washington that Clifford Pinehot and James Rudolph Garfield are likely to be Taft men in next years preliminary campaign.
 Emerson said that "lfe is a series of surprises and so 1t is with the Maine. The shattered and sunken old hulk may tell any kind of story. It will be truth.teller, al any rate, so far as steel can talk; and it is the great est of human accomplishments to get the truth.
 Don't hurt me and Fl givey you my penny to buy candy with, said four. year-old Moe Haber, of Bfooklyn, N. T., to an ambulance surgeon who was binding up his crushed right ankle. The boy had been lifted from under heath "a trolley car, which ran him down while he was crossing the street near his home. In spite of his injury the little fellow did not cry. His words brought tears to the eyes of the surgeon, two policemen, and crowd that had gathered around. The boy was hurried 10 St. Johns Hospital. where the foot was amputaied.
 "The canal is war measure; YOU cannot escape that fact was Col. Goethals' emphatic remark. He was urging :the purchase by the govern. ment, for military reasons, of every acre iof land within the canal zone. Someiof the strip is now in private h .4 fact.
 An indemnity of Se, ,0oo, 900 in gold will be demanded of Mexico by the Chinese government for the slaughter of 3o3 Chinese subjects and the destruc- tion of their property in Torreon. The demand will be backed up by cruiser which is already on the way to Mexi- can ports.