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Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
THEIR WORST ENEMY.

As has been remarked q number of times before in these notes, the new.y set apple orchards throughout all the north central states have no enemy that infiicts greater damage than the white borer, which hatches from eggs deposited by the borer beetle on the trunk at or just above the surface of the ground. If not disturbed 1t makes its home beneath the bark covering a period of two full years, when it emerges from the trunk as a mature beetle. The damage which two or three of these lusty borers can do to thrifty trees Is sickening to the one who has set them out with high eX- pectations and has taken much pride in caring for them. AS a preliminary to putting the borers out of business any grass or weeds should be removed from the trunk of the trees. One should then make a close inspection of each trunk, scraping the earth away close to the trunk to the depth of an inch or an inch and half. The presence of the newly matched borer Is often indicated by a drop of brown juice exuding from the bark. AS it grows its excreta is a fine brownish pulp. In case this does not appear on the surface the borer can often be To- cated by a fiat dead or hollow spot in the bark. The young borers will be found near the surface and the older ones farther in, some of which will have to be reached with a piece of wire or a pliable twig. It is well to go over the orchard several times dur. ing the growing season, as one inspec- ton seldom gets all of the offenders. Painting the trunks of the trees with a lime wash in which a generous sup ply of carbolic acid has been added will kill many eggs and the newly matched grubs, but ought not to be re- lied upon entirely.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
sILos FOR ALFALFA.

A friend of the writer who lives in the humid sections has three thrifty acres of alfalfa which he plans to put up soon. The stand Is fine and even, and the yield will be good. He may have good weather at cutting time; then, again, he may not. He Is debat- ing the question of putting up a silo with the special purpose in view of having a sure method regardless of weather for securing this valuable crop, and if he should he will increase his acreage to ten acres. We believe the plan is a feasible one, one that might well be followed in those sec- tions where uncertain weather pre- vails at having time. In the arid and semiarid sections of the west one can just about bank on favorable weather for having, but east of the ninety-ifth meridian there Is a good deal of risk and often a considerable deterioration in the quality of hay as a result of getting wet in the curing process. In stances are numerous where alfalfa has been made into perfect ensilage by the usual method, and all kinds of stock have been greedy to get it. Silos should be on every farm in the corn belt, and any farmer who has one can and should give this alfalfa ensilage business a trial.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
HAY CAP AND WEIGHTS.

Along with other devices for secur- ing the hay crop in sections wherein rain Is likely to fall at cutting time the hay cap is making a place for it. self. These caps are best made of squares of forty inch "A' sheeting. Cords from ten to twelve inches long should be attached to each corner from which to suspend the weights to hold them in, place. While brick or stone may be used for this purpose, a very convenient weight is made by making some molds of tough ticket board or manila cardboard with q diameter of about two inches and a half and the same depth and filling with cement. Just before this hardens common barb ed wire staples should be bedded so as to leave a convenient loop of iron through which to tie the cords. These weights will not break and can be re- moved from the cap cords as soon as the season is over.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
THE STORY OF TWO ROBINS.

Boys who in moments of thought lessness might be tempted to break up birds nest will be interested in tn story of a couple of robins that built their nest behind the top rung of a break ladder on a freight car which was in the yards at Hamilton, Ont. The ear was billed out empty to Buf- falo, N. T., after the birds had built their nest and there were four eggs in it. When the train pulled out the rob- ins followed the car, being discov- cred by a patrolman on the interna- tional bridge. The railroad men, who became interested in the plucky birds. managed to find something the matter with the car so that 1t could be put on II dead siding until the robins had reared their little ones, which, as most boys know, isn't very long. If railroad men will go out of their way to be- friend birds fin this way, surely every warm hearted boy ought to.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20

They fear for the safety of the walls which have been seriously injured on the river side by heavy rains.
 General POrfirio Diaz. ex-president of Mexico, is preparing to leave Bad Nauheim for Paris, being advised by a consulting physician not to take the waters on account of his age From Paris Diaz will go to Switzerland. where he will remain throughout the summer
 An interesting archaeological discov. cry of what is believed to be Horace's Sabine villa has been made In the neighborhood of Percile. in the Sabine hills.
 The foreign office at St. Petersburg confirmed the report that Baron Rosen would not return as Russian ambaSsa. dor at Washington.
 King George is suffering from a severe sore throat, which may inter. fere with his visit to Edinburgh.
 The Sixth regiment of chasseurs of Portugal has been sent from Lisbon tc re-enforce the Braga garrison.
 Olieslagers, a Belgian aviator. flew 3SS miles without a stop at Brussels. beating the worlds record.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
A pANpELIoN SPRAY.

Spraying experiments which have been conducted at a good many agri- cultural college stations show con- clusively that a spray made by dis solving 100 pounds of iron sulphate (green vitrioD in a barrel of water and applied to dandelions, mustard and Uimilar weed pests will put them out of business. Somewhat oddly, while the spray seems to discolor blue grass, wheat or oats, the injury 1t does is not permanent. A somewhat weaker solution than that given above will kill young weeds If applied shortly after their appearance.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
FOR EIGN
 NOTES OF INTEREST

taken to prevent the appearance of the disease in London.
 It is announced that as a result of the increase in wages and other con- sessions which the transatlantic steam ship companies were obliged to con. cede to the seamen who recently went on strike in England there will be an increase of $2.5O in the fares of saloon and second class passengers. The greatest increase is at Liverpool, where there Is an annual increase of $1,035,5OO London comes next. with $466,75O.
 Louise, dowager Duchess of Devon. shire, almost the last of those beauti- full and brilliant women who have so great an influence on English politics. is dead at the residence of Sir Edgar Vincent, near the Sandown park race course, England, where she had been overcome by the heat The death ot the duchess removes the last figure in a romance that endured through sixty years.
 Women of England are arranging to make their voices heard on the side of President Taft's arbitration proposals They hold that ties of kinship and questions of peace and war affect them as closely as they do men and purpose to hold a great Anglo-Ameri can meeting in October as compli ment to the historic GuildhaIl demon. .;tra tion.
 The German government has decided 10 fOrtify the island of Heligoland which was ceded to her by Great Brit ain some twenty years ago. The island has attracted considerable attention in the past year or two because of the arrest of British and French officers on charges of espionage in that vicin !ty.
 The proposed tunnel under the grand square of Moscow outside the walls O. the Kremlin in order to run tramcars without disfiguring the his toric site is opposed by archaeologists
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
The Dairy as a Temple.


 The people called the Todas, living in the Nilgiri hills, India. have a curi- ous religious ritual evolved out of the ordinary operations of the dairy. The priest Is the dairyman, and the temple is the dairy. Only the milk of the sa- cred buffalo is churned in the dairy temple. The milk of buffaloes that are not sacred is churned in the front part of the huts in which the people live. The dairy temples are of different degrees of sanctity, core spending to the different degrees of sanctity of the buffaloes tended in each. Even the vessels used in a dairy tenn pie vary in sanctity, those that con- tain the milk being more sacred than those that only receive the products of the churning.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
Confirmed Proof
Residents of Canaan Cannot Doubt What Has Been Twice Proved.

Tn gratitude for complete relief from aches and pains of bad backs-from dis dressing kidney ills-thousands have publicly recommended Doan's Kidney Pills. Residents of this vicinity who so testified years ago. nov say their cures were permanent. This testimony doubly proves the worth of Doan's Kidney Pills to Canaan kidney sufferers.
 Mrs Paul Chapin, 236 N. Elm St., Torrington, Conn, says: My kidneys were very weak and every cold l con- tracted settled in them. My back ached almost constantly and could scarcely stoop without having sharp twinges through my Joins. Seeing Doan's Kidney Pills advertised, procured box and through their use I was cured. I publicly recommended this remedy at that time and am now pleased to con firm all that then said about it.. .#
 For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co.,, Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States.
 Remember the name-Doau'l- and take no other.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
GnnnraI Mar<aka

BUTTER-Steady at the advance; re- ceipts, II, ,292 packages; creamery. specials per lb., 26a261ac.: extras, 25a251kc.: third: to frsts. 19a221kc: state dairy, common tc prime. lSa24c.; process. seconds to sp"- cials, l711aA11c.; factory. current make l61ha19hc.; packing stock, 16a1Sc.
 CHEESE-Steady; receipts. l035 boxes
 EGGS-High grades firm: receipts. .oot cases.
 POTATOES-New steady; seconds. peI Dbl. $1a1.50; culls, 50a75c.
 LIVE POULTRY - Primer; chickens broilers. per lb.. 2Oa23c.: fowls l5al6c roosters. 9a915c.
 DRESSED POULTRY - Steady; prices unchanged.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
DIsTRICr OF CANAAN, ss., Probate

hIoIhIOI Of JAN AAN, Ss.I FrODhte A Court, July Is, 1911.
 Estate of Joseph H. Smith, late of Can aan Tn said district, deceased.
 Upon the application of Nellie E. Smith of Bridgeport, praying that letters of administration may be granted on said estate, BIS per application on file more fully appears, it is
 ORDERED-That said application be heard and determined at the Probate Office in North Canaan In said District, on the 1st day of August, A. D. 1911, at o'clock in the afternoon, and that notice be given to all persons interested in said estate of the pendency of said application and time and place of hearing thereon, by publish ing of this order once in some news paper having a circulation in said District, and by posting a copy thereof on the public siGn-post in said town of Canaan at least five days before the day of said hearing, to appear, if they see cause, at said time and place and be heard relative thereto, and make return to this Court.
 Attest: DAVID c, WHITTLEsEY, Judge.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
ch;nosa Tea Seed Oil.

Tea seed oil is the name applied to an oil expressed from the seed of the Camellia sasanquia. This is not the tea tree (Camellia thea), nor can its leaves be used. It grows principally in Honan, but is found wherever the wood oil tree grows. The seeds are gathered in October. and the extracted oil usually reaches the market in Han kow about the middle of winter. It is used by the Chinese as cooking oil.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
Silent Barhers.

Barbers in the early days of the Christian era were not permitted to talk while shaving a patron. Indeed, silence was so much appreciated by persons while under the barber's hands that mutes were preferred for this service. <
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
AT A COURT OF PROBATE holden at
 Sharon within and for the District of

Sharon within and for the District of
 Sharon, on the 18th day of July, 1911. Present, Frank W. Dakin, Judge
 Estate of Gertrude Sabine, late ot Sharon in said District, deceased.
 Frederick Sabine of said Sharon, ap- peared in court and moved that letters of administration be granted on said esta te to Amile Deveaux of said sharon, and it is ORDERED-That said application be heard and determined at the Probate Office in said sharon, or the 26th day of July, 1911 at ? o'clock in the afternoon, and that notice be given of the pendency of said application and the time and place of hearing thereon by publishing copy of this order in some newspaper printed in this county and having a circulation in this district and by posting like copy on the public sign-p post in the said town, and return make to this court.
 Attest, FRANK w. DAKIN, Judge. Certified from record,
 WILLARD BAKER, Clerk
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
LEGAL NOTICES
nIsTRICT OF CANAAN. ss., Probate

nISTRICT OF CANAAN. ss., Probate U Court, July 6, 1911.
 Estate of Augusta Scott, late of North Canaan in said district. deceased
 The Court of Probate for the District of Canaan hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof, for the cred itors of said estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to pre- sent their accounts, properly attested within said time, will be debarred arecov- cry. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to GEORGE ;. FULLER, Execu6or.
 Canaan, Conn. .N
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
EWS
 OF OUR N E.GH BORS.

 with its routine business until the pas. sage of the reciprocity bill in the Unit. ed States senate, when the reciprocity fireworks in Ottawa will be started again.
 A. l.. Burnell, American vice consu at Barranquilla. Colombia, has report ed to the state department at Wash ington that advices received from W A. Trout. the consular agent ht Sants Marta, Colombia, as to the landing ot Castro at that port about July 4 indi, cate that there is no truth in the report to that effect.
 Three sodiers of the Twenty-nintt battalion and a number of MadeEists estimated as high as thirty, were kill ed and many others wounded in q battle between the two forces. whict ragged in the streets of Puebla, Mexico Forty Maderists are prisoners In bar racks of the Saragoza battalion.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
Whats the AnsNver7

The inevitable kid and his question: 'rapa. who furnishes the meat for the train. the cow catcher or the train bu;cher"-Santa Fe Employees Mag RZina
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
ASSESSMENT NOTICE

The Sewer Assessment of. The Canaan Fire District for year 1911 is now due. Interest go per annum after Nov. 1st, 1911 from May 1st.
 JOHN s. REEDA Collector
 North Canaan, Conn July 17th, 1911.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20

English experts de
 clare the cholera men, ace Is worldwide, and precautions have been
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
The towns of Candelaya and PreSir

The towns of Candelaya and PreSic are inundated The town of GunGn lupc on the Mexican side. was 1onded and many houses washed away.
 Preparations for handling larger whisky output than during the 1910 season. when 32,OOO.OOO barrels were used. was one of the important sub jectS taken up by the National Coop CTS association in Chicago
 Mrs. Rebecca Norwood has gone to Washington from Texarkana. Ark. to deliver to her cousin. Francis Scott Key Smith. the original manuscript of "The Star Spangled Banner" written by his grandfather
 The city council of Bonham, Tex. has passed an ordinance providing that no one may sell peanuts on the streets of Bonham until he has suffered the amputation of both legs.
 Harry N Atwood has decided to make a flight from Chicago to New York in the next two weeks.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
BRYAN NAMES MANY
 1912 POSSIBILITIES
Folk, Wilson and Clark Head List; Harmon Not Mentioned.

Expressly declaring he is not pre- pared to decide for himself the ques tion of relative availability of Demo crats for the presidential nomination. MT. Bryan in a COmmoner editorial lists those he deems fitted, for the honor The name of Harmon Is con spicuously absent.
 No one. he says, questions the avail ability of Folk. Wilson or Clark. and he adds these as men Democracy might well honor:
 Governor Plaisted of Maine. Senator Kern. Senator Newlands. Senator Chamberlain. Senator Owe" Governor Thomas of Colorado, former Senator Patterson, former Governor Adams. Colonel George Fred Williams. Massa- chusetts; Governor Higgins. Provi- dence; former Governor Tyler. Vir- g1nia; former Governor McMillin. Ten nessee; former Senator Turner, Sena tor Gore. former Governor Campbell. Texas; Congressman Randell. Texas; former Governor Conner, Alabama; for mer Governor McCreary, Kentucky; former Governor Beckham, Kentucky; Henry Watterson, Congressman Raj ney, Mayor Gaynor, Mayor Harrison, Chicago, and former Mayor Dunne, Chicago.
 These tickets are suggested: Gov ernor Smith of Georgia and Governor Burke of North Dakota; Marshall of Indiana and Dix of New York. or Dix and Marshall; Senators Culberson. Texas. and O'Gorman of New York.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
.ao,-,no Two good boxini AFFAIRS. "a rn. pas,.ou HTaIrar

land has agreed to meet Matt Wells the lightweight champion of England ten rounds at the Badger club. Mil .waukee, the last week in August. an( Billy Papke. champion middleweight will meet Sailor Burke before the Twentieth Century club of New YOrl early next week.
 The proposed match between Jack Johnson and Bombardier Wells, tht English heavyweight. has not beer settled despite reports. The condt tions laid down by Johnson that $1h. 900 be deposited for him before the fight may prove a stumbling block. IT addition to this sum, the champion is to receive another like amount for his part in the bout,
 Melville H. Long of San Francisco defeated Carleton R. Gardner in tho feature match at the opening of th' twenty sixth annual singles lawn ten his tournament at the Longwoot Cricket club of Boston.
 The trotting champion, Chlan, has established another record. trotting z half mile in 0:5712 in the grand circuit races at Cleveland
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
DEATHS DENOTED PEOPLE.


 blem given for valor in the civil war is dead in Atlanta. Ga. aged seventy eight.
 Sir Eldon Gorst. British agent and consul general in Egyp. since 1907. is dead in London. Sir Eldon Gorst sue ceeded Lord Cremer as British agent in Egypt. He received the officers of the American Atlantic fleet fin 1908 and Theodore Roosevelt when the lat ter visited Cairo the following year Eldon Gorst was born in New Zealand h 1881, He was knighted in 1902,
 Noble P. Swift, with whom the Swift Packing company originated. is dead at his home in Sagamore, Mass. aged eighty years. He was actively engaged iE business until he was stricken about two months ago. He is survived by a daughter. Mrs. Clara Morang of Sagamore. and a son. liar ". of the Swift company of Jersey City.
 Andrew Gernand, noted inventor eighty eight years old. who had spent fifty-five years trying to solve the prob lem of perpetual motion, is dead in Baltimore. He could have made for tunes on practical inventions. He gave one of his sons a suggestion foi a labor saving corn reaper, on which his son made S1.OO0,OOO or more
 W. B. Shattuc, former congressman from the First Ohio district from 1S97 to 1901, civil war veteran and railroad manager. is dead in Cincinnati.
 Yelling G. Sickel of New York. for merly mayor of Trenton and promi nent in rubber manufacturing circles is dead in Spring Lake. N. J.
 The Very Rev. Hermann Adler, D. D, Great Britain's chief rabbi. Is dead II London of heart failure.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20

Mrs. Sarah E. Cab
 bell. designer of the Cross of Honor of the Confederacy, an em-
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20

The Canadian parIia. ment has reassemhled after a seven weeks
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
BU%tNTss CARDS

GEORGER. WILCOX. BLACKSMITH Horse shoeiug, N ood work and
 iron work. RAILROAD ST. CANAAN, CONN.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20

One of the main build ings at the Du Pont Powder works at Lou vipr Colo blew m.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
CRIMES
 AND CASUALTIES,


 others. Fire followed the explosion. and every one fled from the grounds.
 David H. Jordan, brother-in-law of Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the author and playwright, was instantly killed. Miss Pohnstohe died of inju. ries and another young woman and two children were perhaps mortally injured when the automobile in which they were driving was wrecked by trolley car at Foley's Corners on one of the highest hills of Roslyn, N. Y.
 Arthur H. Ramagge was found dead standing at the phone in the Rockville (Conn) station. When Charles Leon ard, another employee of the Rock. vile statioh9 entered the office Ramag- ge was standing rigid at the phone. He was clearly killed by an electric shock. Leonard was burned about the hands removing the body from the phone.
 Before scores of women and men we'll known in official life and almost within a~stone's throw of the Chevy Chase clubhouse. T. B. Johnson of New York. recently appointed solicitor of the navy department, was struck by lightning and instantly killed in Wash ington.
 Three miles from Hendersonville, N. O., an automobile containing sev- eral persons went over an embank- meht- The dead are Miss Lena Bow man, Sumter, s. C., and Robert Bettis, Trenton, s. O. Miss Mabel Bowman of Sumter. s. O.. was seriously in- jured.
 An express train on the road running from Basel, Switzerland, to Frankfort on-the-Main was derailed while enter ing the station at Baden. Eight pas sengers were killed, fourteen others were severely injured and twenty were slightly hurt.
 With their head crushed by a double bitted ax wielded by an unknown mur- derer, Archie Coble. aged twenty-five. and his seventeen-year-old bride. Net tie. were found dead in Tacoma. Wash.
 Before the eyes of half a score of women on their way to breakfast Catherine Grimes. maid employed in the Hotel Gregorian, New York, was killed by the elevator of the hotel.
 One man was killed and two were seriously injured when Erie Train 5. bound from New York to Chicago. was sideswiped by a pusher engine at Portageville. N. Y.
 Dr. Ralph E. Gallinger of Concord. N. H.. son of United States Senator Jacob H. Gallinger, was killed in an automobile accident at Pembroke.
 George Keresge. eighteen years of age, member of camping party, was drowned while swimming in Ice lake Hazelton. Pa.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20

THE CANFIELD," CANAAN, c An up-to-date hotel. All the mod ern conveniences. Service unsur-
 passed. A step from the station.
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20

Joseph Kinwood,r an employee of the Max we'll Briscoe Motor
Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20

l.. C. RHOADES, BARBER SHOP. Three Chairs. Prompt Service.
 Ladies and Children's work solic-
 ited. Garfield Bldg, Canaan, G
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-21

Some have embroidery edge around
neck and sleeves, Others with lace on
neck and sleeve, ribbon run through
beading. Gowns for the little miss
lust like mama's."
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-21
Grange Cooke were guests Of Miss

Grange Cooke We're guests OF Miss
Barheld on Tuesday.
q very enjoyable tea yes rendered
the members OF the Presbyterian
Church and all neighboring congrega-
lions Mt the home OF Dr., and Mrs. r..
b. Mcclure. on Tuesday night. A
large gathering made a most delight
full evening for ali present,
~ Mrs. James is visiting her sister,
Mrs. r. l.. P, Cooke.
s Miss Annie kerans was the guest OF
Miss Lathrop in Richmond the early
part OF the week.