Black Snake Bit Teteran. 



,',',"oTTi-R July :;5.-Edward Knight, 



80 BLi 



BURLIl 

 black bea 

 the fiscal 

 as qorapl 

 year, acc 



today by 

 same Ui] 



was paid 

 the 12 ni( 



r*-.^>tiUf THE PEKALTY. i^/'i. 



e -.^rom the N. Y. Tribune. ' i' 

 Ours Is a desenerate age — shocWng 

 dances, shameless clothes, risky songs, 

 ! outrageous shows, and perfectly atrocious 

 and infernal fiction — and many contend 

 «„ 1— s^filarh* fnr-tha 



103 



NEW HEAD OF THE OBSERVATORY. 



[Chapter 3S1, Acts of 1905, as amkndkd by Chapter 2G8, Acts of 1900.] 



, the co.st of de 

 s and held und. 

 le per cent, of tl; 



troyi 



,g such 

 owner- 

 ssessed 



which said eggs, caterpillars. 



An Act to provide for suppressing the gypsy and brown taii, moths. 



Section 6. The mayor of every city and the selectmen of every town shall, 

 on or before the first day of November in each year, and at such other times as he 

 or they shall see fit, or as the state superintendent may order, cause a notice to be 

 sent to the owner or owners, so far as can be ascertained, of every parcel of land 

 therein which is infested with said moths; or, if such notification appears to be 

 impracticable, then by posting such notice on said parcels of laud, requiring that 

 the eggs, caterpillars, pupa2 and nests of said moths shall be destroyed within a 

 time specified in the notice. 



When, in the opinion of the mayor or selectmei 

 eggs, caterpillars, pupEe and nests on lands coutigno 

 ship in a city or town shall exceed one half of < 

 value of said lands, then a part of said premises on 



pupjE or nests shall be destroyed may be designated in such notice, and such 

 requirement shall not apply to the remainder of said premises. The mayor or 

 selectmen may designate the manner in which such work shall be done, but all 

 work done under this .section shall be subject to the approval of the state 

 superintendent. 



If the owner or owners shall fail to destroy such eggs, caterpillars, pupce or 

 nests in accordance with the requirements of the saiil notice, then the city or town, 

 acting by the public officer or board of such city or town designated or 

 appointed as aforesaid, shall, subject to the approval of the said superintendent, 

 destroy the same, and the amount actually expended thereon, not exceeding one 

 half of oue per cent, of the assessed valuation of said lands, as heretofore 

 specified in this section, shall lie assessed upon the said lands; and such an 

 amount in addition as shall be required shall lie apportioned between the city or 

 town and the Commonwealth in accordance with the provisions of section four 

 of this act. The amounts to be assessed upon private estate as herein provided 

 shall be assessed and collected, and shall be a lien on said estates, in the same 

 manner and with the same effect as is provided in the case of assessments for 

 street watering. 



McAdie of San Francisco 

 ctor at Blue Hill. 



\i\\e. at present head 

 'S weather bureau in 

 been appointed di- 

 iill Observatory and 

 ovolofiy by Harvard 

 it'll the observatory 

 )y Professor Rotcii. 

 'ill come to Blue Hill 

 mber. L. A. Well.^, 

 large at the observa- 

 r Rotch's death a lit- 

 ar ago. is to retire, 

 le of the most noted 

 he country. He was 

 larvard in '85. and 

 years in the govern - 

 'to Clark University 

 ,er a few years there 

 leral weather bureau 

 n Washington, New 

 Francisco, being in 

 past eighteen years. 

 ;ensively on nieteorol- 

 t is expected that he 

 I'ork at Harvard thnt 

 r the late Professor 



