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Putnam patriot., 1916-06-30
Store Closed All Day Tuesday, July 4th. Remember These Fri es
 are Good Until the Fourth
EXTRA SPECIALS
 FOR CASH
Lemons 15C dog 10 bars LenOx soap 25C Shredded Wheat 1OC pkg0

tub creamery butter, 04e b II los Fine Granulated Sugar, SIOO to
 the purchaser of pound of
 Banquet Coffee or Bulk Cocoa
 at Ste new potatoes +-c pk nice ripe piuenppies 30e doz 2 bs milk or soda crackers lac $ rolls toilet paper Poe < boxes matches, 2ae 1 pkgs maearoni 2ae good All-round flour soc bag 8 cans corn, pens, clans, beetS
 sauerkraut baked beans or
 string beans 2ae Blue Label ketehup. bot lse N. B. (. fig bars 9e b Arm X Hammer Soda or Corn
 starch 6c pkge seeded raiSins loe pkge ? cnn peaches or Hawaiian Sliced
 pineapple 2ae Dink salmon 9c can 8 pkes kellogg's eornhakes 25e Goods delivered to any part of the city. Telephone orders given prompt attention. Will have loadiof water melons at reasonable prices for the Fourth.
Putnam patriot., 1916-06-30
Sealed Proposals

For Electrical Wiring at County Jail, Brooklyn, Conn. Plans and specifications can be seen at Clerk of Courts office, Putnam, Town Clerk s office, willimantic, Town Clerk office, Central Village, Town Clerk office, Danielson, and at Jail Brookly lyn, Conn
 Bids to be sent to County Jail Brooklyn, Conn, on or before July 10th, 1916.
 Bids will be opened July 12th, at 3 D. m at the Jail. The County Commissioners reserve the privilege of rejecting any and all bids.
 JOHN A. DADN,
 k Fl. CORTTlS,
 L. LAFRANGE,
 County Commissioners for
 Nindham County Dated at Brooklyn, Conn, this 2slh day of June, 1916.
Putnam patriot., 1916-06-30
Screen Doors

Sizes t inches f inches inches 135 S265
Putnam patriot., 1916-06-30
Tax Notice
 City of Putnam

A warrant having been issued to me for the collection of all property taxes and street spfinkling tnxes which nre due and pay able to the City of Putnam on July 10th, 1916, levied on the Grand List for the year 1915, according to the vote of said city; NOiICE Is hereby given that for the purpose Of receiving such taxes, 1 will meet all persons lia- ble to pay property and sprinkling taxes due said city, at my store, at No. 2 Elm street. in PuInhm. on
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-15
COMPLETING THE MIDLAND

NOMPLEIlON or the Midland rail-
\ road. begun more than five years
ago and abandoned after the
roadbed had been completed practi-
cally from Millersburg to Gratz, would
do much for that end of the county.
Even though the line were operated
only by gasoline. as once proposed,
the transportation facilities thus af-
forded, both freight and passenger,
would do much for the development
OF one of the richest valleys in that
part of the State and for the future
of Millersburg and the other towns
touched.
With the Midland completed and a
bridge across the Susquehanna at or
near Millersburs, that town would
rapidly become the second largest in
the county. despite the big steel in
dustry contributing to the population
OF Steelton. Millersburg is a natural
trade center and with the barrier of
the river removed and better railroad
facilities from up-valley points moth
ing would stand in the way of its
growth.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-15
PoeiEc4 ;st
Pe~~SqGSo~ia
By the Ex-Committeeman

There is to be no haste about open
ing the Fall political campaign in
Dauphin county. The Democrats are
discouraged and will make no
more than a passive effort to land
their ticket and the Republicans have
things so we'll in hand that early
activity would gain them nothing. To
be sure Senator Beidleman and some
OF the other leaders are getting about
the county, but no more than in years
when there Is no big campaign in
sight. The Senator seldom takes a
vacation but almost any day during
the summer his automobile may be
found on the back roads of the county
headed toward some gathering. re-
union or picnic of country folks. No
picnic is complete without his pres
ence and it is generally conceded that
he eats more cold fried chicken in a
season than any other man in the
county. barring, perhaps, itinerant
Methodist preachers. County Chair
man William II. Hornsr is of the
opinion that the Republican majority
in Dauphin county will be bigger this
year than usual. He has been hear
ing from all parts of the county and
says that the people are generally we'll
satisfied with the ticket and that
Hughes will sweep the district with
a plurality scarcely second to the high
became President.
One of the busiest men in the dis
trict is Congressman Aaron S. Kreider,
who is candidate for reelection. Mr..
Kreider is the head OF a big and
growing business and between that and
keeping in touch with conditions at
Washington he has had no time for
vacation. 'I'll take 1t campaigning
through the district" he told friend
yesterday, his first effort in that di-
rection to be an afternoon spent at
the Middletown fair this week.
Says a special dispatch from West
Chester: Indications point to an old
fashloned Republican sweep in No
vemher, carrying the entire county
ticket that includes T. Larry Eyre for
State Senate, and Maris NJ. Hollings-
worth. Samuel p. Whitaker and II. c.
Graham for Legislature. All are
sound Republicans. active workers
and highly respected throughout the
county. While Mr.. Eyre has been the
acknowledged Republican leader for q
quarter century, this is the first time
he has run for State office. He is a
close friend of Governor Brumbaugh
and took charge of the latter's Local
Option fight in the last legislature.
Recently he has become deeply inter-
ested IN the good roads problem and
through his earnestness and effective
ness has cemented the confidence of
the county to the extent that there is
no serious opposition confronting. a
well-defined rumor is afioat that ex-
State Senator Oscar z. Thompson, Of
Phoenixville, is to be appointed super
intendent of the Spring City Industrial
School, State institution. He has
long been an active and influential
figure in county politics and for many
years was connected with the Phoenix
Vile Bridge Company. being an expert
engineer. He also is a good roads
man, this promising to be a leading
issue in the coming local campaign"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-15
GOVERNORS TROOPIN SPLENDID
CONDITION ON MEXICAN BORDER
Needs Motor Truck and Anxious For Outfit of Horses
Rations Plentiful and Good; Work of Training Pro-
crossing Satisfactorily

row is one straight stretch for two
Mules. The camp is called Camp Stew
art The only disagreeable feature
about the camp, as far as we are con-
cerned, is that we have not yet re-
cetVed our horses, but are still hard
at work training the men on foot.
| We started at the beginning with the
instruction of the men and are fol-
lowing it up with the larger maneu-
vcrs This weeks work consists of the
following:
"Monday-First period, 7 a. m.
Field exercise squadron each squad
ron to search for and attack an
enemy in a designated section. Second
| rertod. IL a. m. (A) Explanation of
the practical details of entrenching a
troop position for defense, using, the
standing trench, and (B) individual
cooking at the reserve ration.
| tuesday, a. m. Maneuver, squad
rons form separately, in mass, west of
camp, near picket lines, fully
equipped, blanket roll, filled canteens,
etc, for dismounted field service. The
Second squadron formed lines of de-
| tense to-day. Construction of shelter
tent camp by squadron, and individual
COOLING preceded the maneuver.
Wednesday-Fir period, squadron
close order drill; second period, regi-
mental close order drill; third period,
first aid troop officers and non-com-
| IN SSlOllSu OlllCeTS OF eaCn squadron
conducted by medical officer
= Thursday-Inspection by division
inspector.
F'riday-First period, troop drill,
optional work; second period. squad
ron drill; third period, same as
| Wednesday.
Saturday-First period, test by
! squadron commander of signal squads
and OF individuals as to knowledge
of use and care of arms, saddling and
bridling and regimental organization;
second period, first aid instructions
by squad, troop officers and medical
| officers in supervision.
In addition to the above, Tuesday
at 1 p. m, the troop was formed for
demonstration of proper method of
| cleaning saddlery and arms. Actual
work was then carried out by squad
leaders. On Wednesday at the same
] hour, squads resumed work, after
| which the troop commander inspected
results. Equipment laid out in man
ner prescribed for the inspection in
drill regulations
Each week a program similar to
tho above is laid out, so you see we
are not idle During spare time the
boys nave athletic sports, sparring
matches, etc.
Dan Nirella, bandmaster of the
First Pennsylvania field artillery, has
rendered his services to the First
Pennsylvania cavalry as temporary
| bandmasteT and will organize a
mounted band for the regiment. Al
ready the musicians have been selected
II will be the first mounted band that
the National Guard of Pennsylvania
ever had and under the tutoring of
! Nirella is expected to be a good one"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-15
Keeping Us Out of War

Our Democratic friends have prac-
tically only one reason to give why
Mr.. Woodrow Wilson should he re-
elected President of the United States.
1t is that "he kept us out OF war"
To all the criticisms which the Demo-
cratic administration of the national
affairs since March A. 1918, invites,
and they are both grave and numer-
Gus, there is one unvarying reply: "He
! kept us out of war" No party has
ever made quite such bad record as
the Democratic record of the past
three years, five months and ten days.
II has been a record of the most pro-
fligate extravaganza and flagrant in
competency. 1t has been a record of
blundering inefficiency at home and
ignominious dishonor abroad. 1t is a
record which admits of no convinc-
ing defense and which has been preg-
nant with disaster. But the Ameri-
can people are asked to overlook all
that, to forgive and forget II, because
he kept us out of war" .
But now comes Senator Bankhead.
OF Alabama, with a demurrer to the
plea that Mr.. Wilson ought to be re-
elected. despite his incompetence, be-
cause "he kept us out of war;" and
with the specific charge that Mr.. VIII
son would have dragged the country
into war had he been allowed his own
way. The McAdoo Shipping bill was
the text for the Alabama Senator'S
remarks Mr.. Bankhead was one of
the seven Democratic Senators whose
opposition prevented the passage OF
the somewhat similar bill which the
administration tried hard to force
through Congress last season. Thev
joined with the Republicans in oppos-
ing that bill because it provided
among other Objectionable things. for
the purchase by the United States Of
the interned German and Austrian
vessels. Indeed, the purchase of these
vessels is generally believed to have
been the chief object for which the
legislation was promoted by Mr.. Nc
Adoo and his father-in-law and no
impartial person has any doubt that
IL would have had the result which
MT. Bankhead apprehended.
That was an eventuality to which
Mr' WILSON'S attention was directed AT
the time, but the prospect did not M
an restrain him from doing his utmost
10 secure the enactment of what
everyone knew to be one of his NET
measures. For the United States to
nave bought and undertaken to on
crate those German and Austrian ves.
sells would have been to have pone
looking for a fight; and wo should
certainly have found it.-Philadelphia
Inquirer. F'''a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-15
Wilson AS a Weather Vane
IChicago Examiner.1


President Wilson was favor ~
against 1t. e 10
PRESIDENT Wilson was in favor of the
SaTrison Continental Army plan. Now
he is against 1t.
President Wilson was opposed IN in.
creasins the navy. Now ne demands
that the navy be made the largest in
President Wilson was oppossd %
young men spending time in militarv
training. Now he demands that 400 :.
900 be trained
President Wilson was opposed TO a
tarln commission. Now he demands a
tariff commission.
PRESIDENT Wilson favored interven.
ton in Mexico, and did send the army
70 intervene. Now he declares that
wnlle he is President nobody shall
interfere in Mexico"
President Wilson demanded that all
Mexican claimants get together in a
conference to establish de facto gov.
ernment and threatened nonrecoxni.
tlon or any who refused. President vii.
son then recognized as the Mexican
ruler the only claimant who did not
and would not. join in the conference
President Wilson was in favor of the
Panama Canal tolls. After his election
he compelled the Democratic majority
to repeal the free tolls law.
President Wilson wanted to KNOCK
Bryan into a cooked hat" and when
elected made him his chief official ad-
wiser.
President Wilson was opposed to the
initiative and referendum. Then he de.
clared in favor of it. Since then he has
forgotten 1t.
President Wilson was out and out IL
flavor of free trade on theoretical
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-15
GEORGE C. JACK, in I


l letter received here yesterday,
speaks entertainingly on the work
and welfare OF Troop c (the Cover
Lors troop, First Pennsylvania Cav
airy, which has been in service at
Camp Stewart, El Paso, Texas, on the
Mexican border for more than a
month. Among other things, Captain
Jack says:
Troop F of New Castle was pre-
sented on Monday night with a new
Ford truck. They are very proud of
the citizens of their home town in
being kind enough to send something
so very much needed. About half of
tho troops of the regiment have re-
ceiNed trucks from the citizens of the
nothing been done in reference to the
Harrisburg troop. although some of
the boys tell me there has been such
a movement on foot at home. ! have
heard nothing concerning this.
NC doubt the people of Harris
hIrg have read many conflicting re-
ports concerning conditions among
the soldiers along the border. and in
order to put them right as far as
my command is concerned, and / do
not believe it differs from the rest,
| thought | would drop you a few
lines to let the families and the friends
of the troop know the actual con-
ditions.
The men of the troop are keeping
well, only a few small ailments being
reported occasionally. Payrolls for
month of July are now in and the
boys are looking forward to an early
payday.
''As a whole the men seem thor
oughiy satisfied with conditions. or
course, every one of us has his griev-
ance at times. but after the thing is
over it is quickly forgotten. A lot
of trouble has been caused by reports
of ill-treatment and discomfort sent
by some Of the men throughout the
camp to their home papers. The ra-
tiol:s ere sufficient and of good quail
ity. You can draw almost anything
you desire to; fresh beef every day,
ii you wish it. In my troop 1 draw
fresh meat three or four times a week.
To my mind, there are cases where
the mess sergeants do not know how
to draw these rations, and, no doubt
there are some cooks who do not
know how to prepare the ration when
they receive 1t. Where such is the
case it makes matters bad for mess.
We have all been here long enough to
know the ropes and there is no ex-
cuse for the mess to be neglected.
Il certainly hope that you may be
able to let the families and friends
of the boys in my troop know the
true facts. so that they may not worry
during the time we are kept on the
border. How long we may remain
here none of us can tell.
THE Pennsylvania division, known
as the Seventh division, is canlped
along the Alamagordo road, with
about $4,000 men, and has a perfect
camp. The street along the officers
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-15
Many Papers Raise Prices
fourth ERfate.l /

In addition to those newspapers
which have been mentioned during the
past few weeks as increasing the SELL
ing price, the following advances have
beer made:
Attleboro (Mass.) Sun. from one to
two cents.
Binghamton IN. " Republican.
Herald, from one to two cents a copy
on rewsstands, and from SO to So per
year by carrier.
TeXarkana (Ark.) Texarkanian,
from fifty to sixty-five cents per
month.
Texarkana (Ark) Four States Press
and Courier from fifty to sixty-five
cents per month,
Readville (Pa.) Tribune. from one
to two cents.
The Menominee (Mich.) Herald
Leader, now charging 81 a year fol
carrier service and Sc year by mail.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-15
POLICE COOPERATE

TN Decatur. ILL.,, Chief of Police E. F.
Wills has issued an order recently
that every policeman in the city is
now humane oficer and hereafter
anyone found using horse that is un-
fit for service or in any other manner
being cruel to animals will be promptly
arrested and prosecuted.
This should be true of every city
and town in every State where there
are anti-cruelty laws. 1t should be
just as much a policeman's duty to see
that arrests are made for'breaking the
laws against cruelty to animals as for
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-15

dangerous, but a nuisance and con-
trary to the law. Instructions have
been given to notify all persons who
have placed such banners across any
street that they must remove them,
Action will be taken against all Of
tenders who do not take down the
banners within a reasonable time.
There has been growing up in Har-
risburg during the last year or two a
similar nuisance and it would seem to
be the duty of the officials of the prop
er department to stop the thing be-
fore it goes any farther. Some years
ago in the city of Denver Mayor
Speer issued an order requiring all
signs suspended over sidewalks to be
removed within a fixed period and as
a result thousands of dangerous signs
came down promptly.
In view Of the fact that the city Is
eliminating poles and wires which OBJ
struct the highways it is hardly reas-
enable to suppose that permission will
be given for a suspension of signs and
banners of all sorts which tend to re-
duce the width of the sidewalks and
endanger pedestrians.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-15
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Those waves which Britannia rules
don't extend as far as so feet below
the surface, apparently. - Kansas City
Star.
One automobile for every forty-four
persons in the United States, which
leaves enough pedestrians for sport
Wall Street Journal.
Mexico may not be learning a lesson
from the mobilization of our militia:
but this country is learning a lot of
them.-Boston Herald.
Villa must have been alive all the
time. for there is nothing in his be-
havior to indicate that he has been
born again, Savannah News.
But can the United States renouncC
all rights in Greenland without the con-
sent Of old Doc Cook. the gum-drop
king?-Boston Transcript.
Captain Konig's confidence may be
due to the fact that there is plenty of
room at the bottom.--Philadelph In
quirer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-15

In the construction of ramps or
walks along the river slope from
the top to the granolithic prone
made at the bottom. would it not be
well TO introduce as much variety and
artistic arrangement of the stone work
as is done in the working out of such
walks by the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company in its treatment Of its sta
tion surroundings along the entire line?
Might it not be possible to secure one
Of the artistic rough-stone artists OF
the "Pennsy" to direct the work of this
sort
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-15
MAKING SAILORS OF LANDsMEN
TEN Harrisburg boys sailed away


yesterday on the battleship
Rhode Island TO learn how to
man and fight Uncle Sans war craft
in time of emergency. They are
part of a contingent of $500 white
clad civilian sailors aboard nine bat
tleships, that have been detailed to
give the lads an outing at sea and val
liable training as well, over a period Of
esae month.
The ships will proceed to a rendez-
Gus in the vicinity of Gardeners Bay
Long Island. where the men will be
put through training in the techni-
calities of naval warfare. At the end
Of this time the Navy Department ex-
poets to have a naval reserve that
would constitute valuable fighting ma.
terial in time of war.
Thus the navy has at last entered
the preparedness program, usurpine
the center of the stage with all the
grace and enthusiasm OF its early days
For the last six months we have heard
much Of oglethrope and Plattsburg
We have delighted in photographs OF
rockies riding horseback. rockies
shooting and frying bacon and rockies
bathing in the latest approved mill.
tary fashion out of primitive tin bas.
ins until our one vision of American
defense has come to be khaki. Now
, the navy is going to see to it that we
hear a thing or two from Gardner's
Bay and renew our acquaintance with
the white maritime uniform-after all
the principal means OF American de.
Tense.
The readiness of the response tc
this call Of the navy is another prooi
that American youth is as fond a.
ever OF the strenuous life and as prone
to adventure as the lads who rar
away to become cabin boys in the
frigates Of long ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-15

grounds. Now he says he doesn't care
anything about free trade theories.
President Wilson is for women suf-
frage in New Jersey and against wo-
man suffrage in Washington.
President Wilson was opposed to
preparedness as late as last year Now
he is preaching preparedness fervently.
President Wilson was pledged to pro-
tect American lives and property in
any foreign country. Mexico included.
Now he says 1t is none of our business
what happens in Mexico.
We leave to President Wilson's
apologists the task of reconciling so
many contradictions.
To us 1t seems that President Wilson
has no fixed principles or convictions
upon any subject under the sun. and
that he is consistent only in advocating
anything that promises to promote his
reelection and his personal ambitions
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-15
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
POLICE Ys. GUARp
Aug. 1. 1916


To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Enclosed please find very intelli-
gently composed item of interest from
July issue OF the Patriot.
What we on the border would like to
know is--why the State Police were not
sent down in our place If they are so
superbly eficient?
tits the express desire OF the guards
men that this extract and some fitting
remark should appear in the Telegraph
merely to show that somewhere. some-
time, someone made a mistake.
Faithfully and contentedly,
The National Guard of Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-15

A more or less strict censorship hav-
ing been imposed upon all newspaper
at the Mexican border,
friends OF the soldiers will be COM
PEELED to get most of the inside infor-
nation from their private correspon-
dence. This order has followed the
sensational stories of i'll treatment and
lack of food sent out by irresponsible
writer's soon after the soldiers arrival
on the border. Correspondents of the
Telegraph. however. declare that there
was no foundation for these sensational
reports and that the men have been
supplied with wholesome food right
along.