came through two freezes covered with 
earth, aud in its stunted state grew very 
slowly through the cold May, and finally 
got to growing in June. 
In the shrubbery now the bloom is 
mainly A]tineas, and some of them make 
a fine show. Then the Bignonia grandi- 
flora, trained on one corner of the porch, 
is now in its full glory of great clusters 
of big orange-colored bloom. The wet 
weather has brought out the Dahlias 
almost as tine as the Autumn bloom, and 
the flower heads on the Gannas are un¬ 
commonly large. The great dumps of 
perennial Thlox are making a show. 
These seem of late years to he especially 
subject to attacks of mildew, and when 
one is busy making the early garden, he 
is apt. to overlook these, and, failing to 
spray them, they are pretty certain to get 
the mildew- 
It would he a blessing if someone could 
find a real rose-bug destroyer. I have 
tried everything I could think of, but they 
get far more grapes than I do. They eat. 
the white ruses, but these will come again. 
This Spring I covered my long trellis 
Avith mosquito netting, but they got under 
it and ate the flowers of the grapes. On 
a big arbor in the rear of the dwelling 
hardly a cluster of grapes is left. Ar¬ 
senates of all sorts: and A r arious mixtures 
of them fail. Every season they are cer¬ 
tain as taxes to appear just as the grapes 
make flower clusters, and they come in 
millions, and in a little while every clus¬ 
ter of grape bloom is covered with them. 
I tried getting the arsenates on ahead of 
their advent, so as to be ready for them, 
but it made no difference. The Govern¬ 
ment, formula of lead arsenate, glucose 
and water fails just as every other poison. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
90, and Albert, seven. Mr. Shell, the 
oldest white man in the world, died July 
0 at his luiine at Greasy Greek, Ivy, Al¬ 
bert is the offspring of a second marriage, 
"Uncle” John's first Avifo, said to have 
been two years his senior, having died 
about 10 years ago. The aged man re¬ 
tained full possession of his faeult Ds to 
the last and discussed his funeral ar¬ 
rangements with Mr, and Mrs. Samuel 
Greeoh, with Avhom he had made his home 
since he lost his own place through the 
foreclosure of a mortgage several months 
ago. Up until the time lie was ‘‘discov¬ 
ered,’’ about four years ago, “Uncle” 
John led a Secluded life in the mountain 
country, but since then he traveled con¬ 
siderably, exhibiting himself at State 
fairs. In 1919 he took his first airplane 
vide. 
Three young girls and one of their four 
boy companions were drowned in Lake 
St. Baul, near Beeancour, Quebec, July 
10, and three other boys in the party 
swam to shore after the boat in which 
the seven were rowing had capsized. All 
were between 15 and 22 years old. When 
the boat started leaking the three girls, 
only one of whom could swim, jumped 
into the water, overturning the craft. 
The four bodies were recovered. 
A petition for a referendum next Fall 
on tlie State liquor enforcement act has 
obtained the required number of signa¬ 
tures to insure a place on the ballot, in 
Massachusetts, and will soon be filed at 
the State House, the Constitutional Lib- 
erty League announced July 11. The 
act, passed by the last Legislature, pro¬ 
vides for enforcement of the Volstead act 
through the police. The measure is op¬ 
posed by the league. 
Mrs. John McCarthy was brought to a 
hospital at Lockport, N. Y., July 11. suf¬ 
fering from injuries received when the 
family automobile ran into a swarm of 
bees near Macnalls Corners. Hundreds 
of the bees were swept up by the auto¬ 
mobile top, and when they began to crawl 
over the occupants of the machine Mrs. 
McCarthy jumped. Others in the machine 
were severely stung. 
The plant, of the Fleisehmann Yeast 
Company at I'eekskill, N. Y„ caught fire 
July 11 and two buildings were destroyed. 
The loss would have been much greater 
hut for the assistance of a picked detach¬ 
ment of the 105th Infantry, under com¬ 
mand of Col, Hansom 11, Gillett. part of 
the 58d Infantry Brigade of the National 
Guard encamped near under command of 
General John F. O’Ryan. After the fire 
was under control, sentries were posted 
to guard the property until employees 
could salvage the machinery. The dam¬ 
age was estimated at $50,000. 
State police late July 10 descended 
upon an alleged band of moonshiners 
operating in the dense woods of Galloway 
township, near Atlantic City, N. J., and 
after searching the woods for five hours 
arrested two men and seized a quantity 
of moonshine whiskey and material for 
making liquor. Seventy gallons of 
“moonshine,” five barrels of mash and a 
120-gallon still were confiscated. The 
men arrested said they were A. L. Smith 
of Anderson. S. C., and Silas Allen of 
Chester, Pa. 
FARM AN1) GARDEN.—Prominent 
club women of New Jersey have joined 
forces with the State Department of 
Agriculture, through its Bureau of Mar¬ 
kets, in an effort to check profiteering in 
focal products. The purpose is to inform 
the public, by means of publicity, as to 
the fair price of eatables. To accomplish 
this about ”0 women, affiliated with the 
State Federation of Women's Clubs, com¬ 
posed of about 200 women's organizations 
in the State and the New Jersey League 
of Women Voters, have offered their 
services. The particular duty of the 
women is to ascertain the retail prices of 
various farm products in their respective 
communities, to inform the State Bureau 
of .Markets weekly as to (lie average pre¬ 
vailing prices, and then to aid in distri¬ 
bution of the information thus obtained. 
Justice Thomas F, Donnelly of New 
York June 11 handed down a decision 
denying the application of Paul T. Brady, 
member of the IIolstein-Friesian Asso¬ 
ciation of America, for an injunction in 
which lie sought to set aside the election 
of directors arid to restrain them from 
holding the next annual meeting in Kan¬ 
sas City, Mr. Brady contended that the 
original charter permitted the election of 
six directors, while the present board 
numbered 1(5. Justice Donnelly ruled 
that the enlarged directorate was sanc¬ 
tioned by vote at a meeting several years 
ago. The nets of the hoard Under the 
amended charter and constitution, he 
held, were legal. 
During the first four months of opera¬ 
tion of the Agricultural Development 
Board of the Province of Ontario, Cana¬ 
da, the province has lent to farmers in 
long-term loans $571,570 and in short¬ 
term loans $25,000. The extent of the 
demand for Government loans is indicated 
by the fact that 2.000 applications have 
been received. It is staled that the 
scheme is achieving one of its chief ob¬ 
jects in keeping many farmers' sons on 
the land. The father secures a loan from 
the Government, to buy an adjacent farm 
for his sons, mortgaging both farms in 
order to get the lrmti. The system also 
enables city men who have had perhaps 
some farm experience in youth to take 
up farming. Farmers who have lost their 
buildings through fire are also aided. 
Seventy-five per cent of the applications 
are for loans for building purposes. In 
sonic cases loans are obtained to pay off' 
existing encumbrances, as loan companies 
demand 7 */> per cent to renew, whereas 
the Agricultural Board lends the money 
to the farmers at 0 per cent. 
A party of Maryland farmers who won 
first honors in the United States as cattle 
judges have carried off a similar trophy 
in England, awarded at the Royal Cattle 
Show being held at Cambridge. Twelve 
cows of three different breeds were used 
for the test, and the Americans scored 
nearly 200 points more than their oppo¬ 
nents. The English team included one 
girl. The members of the Maryland team 
were George Worrilow, Joe Glaekin and 
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animals. No fuss or muss, no 
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WASHINGTON. The railroad strike 
situation assumed a more threatening as¬ 
pect June 10. Reports reaching Federal 
agencies indicated that itbe situation was 
getting beyond the control of the local 
authorities in the disturbed areas, that 
United States mails and interstate com¬ 
merce in general already were being ser¬ 
iously interfered with, threatening a 
breakdown which may compel military 
action by the Federal Government. Dis¬ 
order in Illinois was repressed by the 
National Guard. President. Harding, in 
a proclamation issued July 11, demanded 
that mails and interstate commerce be 
free from interference. 
The State Department announced plans 
July 11 for withdrawal of United States 
troops from San Domingo. 
Francis P. (larva n, formerly Alien 
Property Custodian, and now head of the 
Chemical Foundation, Inc., appeared 
July 11 before the special war frauds 
grand jury. Formal assurance that 
“every American interest” in the dye 
patents sold by the Alien Property Cus¬ 
todian in 1919 to the Chemical Founda¬ 
tion will be protected by the Government 
was made by Attorney-General Daugh¬ 
erty. Denying that any person connected 
Avith the Department of Justice had liad 
any communication Avilb German inter¬ 
ests or individuals regarding recovery of 
the patents, Mr. Daugherty’s statement 
reiterated that in moving to recover them 
from the foundation the department was 
merely carrying out the instructions re¬ 
ceived from President Harding. 
After a year's suspension, recruiting 
for the navy will be resumed under orders 
published July 11. Sixty-five thousand 
men will have to enlist or ro-eulist in the 
coming year to keep the navy up to the 
8(5.000 men authorized under the naval 
appropriation bill. 
The American Relief Administration 
expected to reach the maximum of its 
famine relief program by the middle of 
July, supplying meals to 10.000,000 per¬ 
sons. The rationing will he gradually 
reduced as the harvest conies in. regard¬ 
less of whether if is decided definitely to 
abandon the work in Russia after Sep¬ 
tember. Colonel William N. Haskell is 
leaving for Washington to confer Avith 
Secretary of Commerce Hoover regarding 
the plans for the future, and in his ab¬ 
sence C. J. O Quinn will head the or¬ 
ganization. Colonel Haskell expects to 
remain away six weeks, although it is 
possible he may not return, the work of 
closing up the A. R. A.’s affairs being 
left to Mr. Quinn. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC, — Small torpedoes, mis¬ 
taken for candy, are believed to have 
caused the death of two children in New 
York. Katherine Coyne, two, of 2007 
Madison Avenue, died in Bellevue Hos¬ 
pital -Tilly 8, a day after the death of 
Catherine Fitzpatrick, five, of 709 Am¬ 
sterdam Avenue, in Knickerbocker Hos¬ 
pital. The torpedoes are about the size 
of a five-cent piece and are covered with 
red paper, so that any child is likely to 
mistake them for candy, in the opinion 
of Dr, George Holumiu, Assistant. Medi¬ 
cal Examiner. The phosphorus in the 
torpedoes caused the death of the chil¬ 
dren. 
Permission to sue S. E. J. Cox, oil 
promoter, for $*>25,900 was given July S 
by District Judge Monteith to James G. 
Leave!, receiver for the General Oil Com¬ 
pany. at Houston, Texas. The $(525,000 
is claimed by the receiver as having been 
improperly obtained front the General Oil 
Company as expenses for selling stock. 
Cox recently was acquitted iu United 
States Court on charges of using the 
mails to defraud, but was found by the 
Federal Trade Commission to have en¬ 
gaged in improper business practices. 
After keeping afloat for 48 hours with 
the aid of tin empty barrel Alfredo Men¬ 
doza reached shore near Fajardo, on the 
east coast of I’orto Rico, June 8. telling 
of the capsizing of a small vessel in which 
be and seven companions and a crew 
were on their way tu Culebra, oue of the 
small islands off the east, coast of I’orto 
ltico. It is believed he is the sole sur¬ 
vivor. 
< )ue person was reported killed and 
others injured in a grade crossing col¬ 
lision between the first section of the 
Twentieth Century New York Central 
Limited and an automobile at Butler, 
Ind., July 10. 
Edward Hines of the crew of the fish¬ 
ing schooner Henrietta was brought to 
Boston July 10 aboard the fisherman 
Josephine de Costa. The De Costa took 
him on at sea from a small steamer which 
picked him up unconscious four days af¬ 
ter he had been separated from his own 
craft. Hines said that on the third day 
he sighted a steamship. Although weak 
he rowed his dory frantically into the 
vessel's course so that she came dose by. 
He was amazed, he said, when an officer 
whom he took to he the captain refused 
•to take him mi. lie does not know the 
name of the ship. Hines had only rain¬ 
water to drink and no food. He suffered 
severely from exposure in the downpour 
of previous week before he was picked up 
July 0- 
One man killed and 30 injured, two 
seriously, is the toll of a tornado which 
swept the shores of Lake Andes, S. IX, 
June 8, virtually destroying the town of 
St. Charles. The property damage is 
expected to exceed $750,000. Summer 
collages and resorts were the heaviest 
losers. 
A terrific windstorm prostrated tele¬ 
phone and telegraph communication and 
caused considerable property damage at 
Watseka. 111., June 10. 
Among the many mourners at the 
funeral of “Uncle" John Shell, 124 years 
old, were his two sons, William, aged 
14x18-16x18 
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Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
July 21-22—Farmers’ Field Days, 
State Agricultural School, Farmingdale, 
Long Island. 
July 21-August 4 — Farmers’ Week, 
Connecticut Agricultural College, Stores, 
Conn. 
August 8-9-10—Long Island Potato 
Tou r. 
August 15-18 — Farmers’ and Home 
makers’ Week. New Hampshire College, 
Durham. N. II. 
‘September 7-8—Northern Nut Growers’ 
Association, thirteenth annual conven¬ 
tion. Rochester, N. Y. 
September 17-22—Eastern States Ex¬ 
position, Springfield. Mass. 
November 15-17--American Bornologi¬ 
cal Society, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
November 15-25 — National Grange, 
Wichita, Kan. 
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