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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-05-24
SALISBURY

Mrs Gideon Simpklns was taken to
the insane asylum at Brattleboro, one
day last week.
Mr. and Mrs Ed. Ward OF East Ar
lington visited his sister Mrs J. w.
Bowen last Sunday
Evi Randall and son Harry, Of
Cambri lge visited his brother, f. b.
Randall of this place over Sunday.
John Harrington, Of Watertown n.
Y. recently spent few days with his
parents Mr. and Mrs ID. w. Harring-
ton.
The first band concert of the sea-
son was given by the SALISBURY city
band last Saturday evening, May 18th,
near the station, the occasion being
to serenade a newly married couple.
Everything seemed to work together
for the success OF the evening; even the
train for which they we're waiting did
not appear to spoil the music, until
about three hours past the usual time
After long anl patient playing with an
occasional shower of rice, the groom
very plainly refused TO treat and our
weary band gave up in despair and
went home without their smoke, This
certainly was not very encouraging
for them on their first appearance but
we hope they will not be discouraged
but Just remember the motto
'If at first you don't succeed try, try
again.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-05-24
NORTH DORSET.

Miss Myrtle Lewis has gone to East
Arlington.
Mrs w d, Herrick is gaining, but
very slow.
Mrs Ernest Whitney spent Thursday
at Manchester.
Mrs Frank Raiche of Dandy is Wis
iting her parents.
James O'Rourke of West Rutland is
working for J. G, Flynn.
Nora Harris Of Manchester Depot
spent Sunday with Mrs George Grit.
fifth.
Mrs George Griffith who has been
I'll with a severe cold is better at this
writing
Mrs Cooney. Miss Rosy Cooney and
Master Walter Cooney were in Mao
chester Wednesday.
Earle Buchanan aud some friends OF
bennington visited his father j. l..
Buchanan S nday.
Misses Mamie Coonev and Carrie
Farnham who are attending school at
Castleton we're home Saturday and
Sunday.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-05-24
WEST RUPERT.

George Saunders has had his house
newly painted.
George Gragen does not improve in
health as fast as many friends wish.
James Wilsoa and family spent last
week at Lake COsayuna with relatives.
Dr. Moore has greatly improved
the appearance of his house by the adj
dition OF a front piazzG.
Misses Sarah Knights and Leota
Marble who are working in Salem
spent Sunday at home.
Rev. A. Wilson who has been visit
I ing friends here the past week deliver
ed a nice sermon at the Diciple church
last Sunday.
Harley Guild of Rupert passed thro'
here en- route from Troy Saturday eve
ming in new automobile purchased in
New York.
one day last week H. p. Hood &
/ Sons of Boston sent checks TO their
patrons here amounting to oyer 5000
/ for milk delivered last month Mr.
Hood was tbs first man to purchase
milk here for shipment and no one
can deny that il was big boon to the
farmers here.
The family OF Spencer Beebe have
all been sick for some time Mrs Bee
he and The five children are better at
present but Mr. Beebe is still in crit
ical condition. Drs Young OF Salem
and Moore of this place are the attend
ing physicians. A nurse was obtained
in Cambridge and DR. Blackfan of the
same place was called 10 consultation
and the wishes of their many friends
are that good results may follow.
Considerable excitement was caused
here all day Tuesday aud sight seerS
were treated to a picnic over the man
ouvers of balky automobile purchas-
ed by Will Blase recently. We use
the word balky because some of its
antics we're very characteristic of a
balky horse First it could be backed
up but not budged forward an inch;
second, the more the bystanders coax
ed and pushed the harder it braced;
third and last when it did start OF its
own accord ii intended to leave Mr.
Buck but that was not to be for after
race he succeeded in mounting 1t and
run it into field where it again be-
came stubborn. II is now in c. ~ Lin
coins barn awaiting repairs.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-05-24
HOOSICK

Mrs Catherine Clapper has been on
the sick list for few days.
Work has been started on the Hat
iron flower bed at the fore corners.
Mrs Edward Donnelly spent few
days last week in New York City.
Mr. and Mrs F. H. Sullivan are visit
ing for couple of days at Savory.
Mass.
Miss Jennie Fuller OF North Adams
spent Saturday and Sunday with Mrs
David Jepson.
Our station agent c. X. Potter, is
confined to the house by illness DR..
Clark attends her
Frank Gallop mas rented the Thur
Der tenement for another year. MI
Thurber is having it painted white.
Mrs William Brant has gone IT,
take care of her daughter who is I'LL
Mrs William Thompson at New Bri
tain, Conn.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-05-24
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of The Town aud village Briefly
Told for Busy Read RS

AoiN Tut bhuy h'"u -
Noveck shows the most attractive
assortment 10 the latest styles and
feathers OF Ladies', Misses, Boys
and Children S Shoes and Oxford Ties
at very low prices. Try pair 2t
The assortment OF Ladies' silk lawn,
lingerie and merceTized Waists in long
and short sleeves, mt Noyeck's Is very
large. The styles are exclusive and
beautiful the prices are from so cents
to S4.9S. u
The members Of the high school have
In preparation play that will be Civ
en- Monday evening, June 4th On
that account there will be no ex ercises
by the school the afternoon before
Memorial day.
Ia the new cloak room at Noveck' 5
is offered extraordinary bargains. The
prices In Ladies' Suits are from So. 90
TO $500 reduced A large reduction In
the price OF coats. Call ct once If you
wish to take advantage OF the Offering
as the number OF garments is limit
ed It
Tuesday the Bennington * Hoo sick
Valley Railway Co. completed nego-
tiations for the purchase of several ac-
res of land adjoining Battlefield park
for baseball and other sports. The
ball grounds win Immediately be put
in condition. The company also bought
large gravel bank for ballast and
they will at once commence TO put the
remainder of the roed in first class
condition.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-05-24
TRADING STAMP FRAUDS.
officials of Three Companies Under
Arrest at Philadelphia.


Arrest at Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA. May -. - On
charges Of having defrauded merchants
of this city by false pretense out of
hundreds OF thousands of dollars l.. A.
Belmont, representing tile Yellow Trad
ing Stamp company; William Glenn.
president OF the Crown Trading Stamp
company. and II f. Winslow. local
representative Of the Sperry * Hutchin.
son Trading Stamp company, were ar
rested here and held under bail for a
further hearing
The ailidavits on which the warrants
of arrest were issued were sworn to by
jo>eph f. Ward. former trading
stamp man. who is acting for the Re
,ail Dealers Protective association.
The retailers organization was recent.
~ formed for the purpose of driving
the trading stamp companies out Of
business in this city The Yellow
Trading Stamp company is charged
with defrauding the merchants out of
100000, the Crown 100000 and the
Sperry & Hutchinson company $500
Goa. Glenn is also charged with oh
tanning $4,000 under false pretense by
refusing TO redeem about 1000 books
OF stamps.
The prosecutors charge that the trad
ing stamp companies defrauded the
retail merchants by representing that
premiums given on five dollar book
of stamps were worth the full value,
whereas the merchants claim that the
premiums were not worth more than
81, and in many cases were only worth
10 cents.
Winslow and Glenn said after their
arrest that the charges We're absolute
ly false and that they would have no
trouble in proving 1t.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-05-24
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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-05-24
EAST RUPERT.

Frank Danforth has moved from the
home of A. A. Roberts into the house
with his brother Charles.
Atthe Sunday school Sunday Rev c,
L. Carhart took charge of the senior
class and Miss Harding the intermedi-
ate We thank them very much as
they made the lesson very interesting.
Miss May Frost played the organ in
the absence OF the organist We also
welcomed Mrs Williams aud Misses
Myrtle Hulett and Laura Towsley from
Dorset.
With sorrow we chronicle the death
of Simeon Pepper, one Of the Oldest
inhabitants, on the morning OF May
10Th, He was laid at rest beside his
wife who died six years ago in Febru-
airy Mr. Pepper has been cared for
by loving daughter, Mrs VIM Tobin,
who can truly say she hath done what
she could. He was q kind husband
and father, kind neighbor and one
that vii be greatly missed by all, even
the little children, for all loved Grand
pa Pepper.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-05-24
CARD OF THANKS

We most heartily desire to express
our thanks to our friends and neigh.
bors for their kind assistance and sym
patty during our sad bereavement
also for the beautiful flowers and those
who arranged them so beautifully; and
especially thank Rev C. L. Carhart
for his comforting words, and the sing
ers for their fine selections,
Mrs Eva Pepper Tobin
and family.
East Rupert, VT.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-05-24
East Rupert, W.

Most disfguring skin eruptious,
scrofua, pimples, rashes, etc, are
ne to impure blood. Burdock Blood
Bitters is cleansing blood tonic
Makes you clear eyed, clear Drained,
clear skinned.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-26

Samuel Burns, one of the old resi-
dents of this county, died at his nome
on Sophia street in this city, Satur-
day evening, July 21, 1906, aged 6s
years.
Deceased came with his parents 20
West township. from Elkhart coun-
ty almost SO years ago and resided
there until about two years previous
to his death, when he moved to this
city. He was q prominent farmer of
West township and member of the
Dunkard church. and was a good cit
izen.
His death was caused by cancer OF
the stomach, but he was confined to
his home only few weeks He
leaves wife, two sons and two
daughters, all married except one
daughter. He has a brother in Mich
igan and two sisters in North Da-
kota.
Funeral services were held at the
Dunkard church in West township,
Monday at 2:ao p. m. and the re-
mains inferred in the cemetery near
the church.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-26

Knox is making preparations to
receive circus in the nera future
1t is the first circus that ever visited
Knox, presumably owing to the fact
of twenty-five dollar license fee
The circus management refused to
pay the price of admission and the
Starke County Republican says OF
this: "The parsimony of the proprie-
tors was shown in their demand that
no license fee be charged them. The
business men subscribed SIS, the
amount of the license Fee" If the
circus proprietors showed their par
simony in refusing to- pay the license
the Knox business men have certain
ly shown their damfoolishness BY
volunteering the payment of twenty
FIVE dollars to bring into their town
a set of hoodlums, thugs, robbers and
sharpers, who, besides the two o.
three thousand dollars the show
will carry away, will steal and pilfer
that much in addition from the people
of Knox and vicinity The Republi-
can surely must be in error about the
Knox business men paying a circus
license fee. If it is a fact they did
then the public there should take
steps to secure the appointment of a
guardian for them.-Argos Reflector.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-26
Russell Sage Dead.

Russell Sage the old New York
financier of whom everybody has
read, died at his summer home on
Long Island at four o'clock Sunday
afternoon He was preparing with
great pleasure for the celebration of
his ninetieth birthday August 4.
|. Mr.. Sage had been in feeble health
for three or four years, and during
that time suffered long sieges Of i'll
ness, which at times threatened TO
prove fatal Always resolute and en-
ergetic, he went to his Offices and
ATTENDED to his multifariors interests
daily, and for long hours when his
strength was scarcely sufficient to
sustain such labor. which was per-
formed against the advice of his ply
sician
When he was taken to his Law
renee house early this month, Mr..
Sage rallied at once He began to
talk of taking up active work again,
and often spoke of his belief that he
was destined to live for many years.
With the hot weather of a few
days ago, however Mr. Sage began 10
show signs of increased weakness
and soon his debility was so great
that he was almost helpless. He
began to sink rapidly last Friday af-
ternoon, and to his physician the
end then seemede very near. Mr.
Sage suffered not at all, but the fatal
weakness of age and in6rmit, ended
his life.
Sage was not a popular man: he
was not even widely respected Per
haps there never has been let :er
summary made of Mr. Sage's status
in the eyes of his fellow citizens
than that voiced some years ago by
one of his enemies, who SAID: He
is feared by many, respected by
some, admired by few, envied by
none and loved by his wife,"
The reason that Sage did not make
any appeal to the sympat,iies or af-
fections of his fellow men was to
be found in the fact that he was too
much of a money-making machine
and too little of human being. He
was like some remarkable bit ci
mechanism, constituted for the SOL.
purpose of scheming ways to MAKE
money and of putting them into eff
feet, with little of average human
warmth of heart, generosity of feel
ing or kindness of spirit.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-26

Pickles as a steady diet, washed
down with ccpious draughts OF vim
egar, caused the death of Miss Anna
Gross of St. Louis, 2s years old. who
was training to reduce her weight
She dropped dead Monday in the
bathroom at the residence of her
brother, Adolph C-oss, 200 Magnolia
avenue, and the inquest revealed the
cause of death.
DIR. J. A. Hartman performed the
post mortem examination and dis
covered that the walls of the girls
stomach were almost entirely eaten
away. Never before, he said, had he
seen the walls of a human stomach
as thin He gave rupture of the
stomach as the cause of death, say
ing that the vinegar and pickles
made this possible.
The girls brother testified that
Miss Gross had been twitted abort
being SO stout, and that she decided
to diet to reduce her flesh and avoid
the jokes of her companions. She
refused to eat meats and other heavy
foods. and subsisted almost entirely
on pickles and vinegar She lost
flesh rapidly. but in the end sacrificed
her life.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-26
Save Coal and Oil to Nation.

The geological survey is showing
great activity in the examination oil
the coal and oil deposits in the Unit
ed States. This applies not only to
coal beds which already are worked
but to deposits underlying public
lands. President Roosevelt announc-
ed to the last Congress his belief in
the wisdom of hereafter Withholding
from entry portions of the pullic
lands rich in coal. Ignite or oil Al
though the La Toilette bill providing
legislation to this end was not passed
by Congress, it is believed the Presi-
dent has plenty of authority under
existing law to carry out the pro-
posed policy.
The President is convinced that
many of the natural resources of the
United States must be conserved for
the use of future generations How
soon he will take steps to insure
their preservation to the government
is not known, but the subject is be-
ing carefully gone into by officials
of the Interior Department.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-26

Kansas will have a picturesque
and suggestive celebration on Au-
gust 30 next. On that day it will be
exactly fifty years since John Brown
stood upon a low hill west of the
| town of Osawatomie with forty-one
armed men and gave bloody and ter
rible battle to 400 Missourians 1t
was here that Brown lost his son
Frederick The event confirmed him
| in his dark-perhaps some would say
his determination to fight
| the institution of slavery to his own
or its finish.
Osawatomie, from which Brown
held his name in history by no less
brilliant title than Scipio Africanus,
I.ucius Marcus Coroilanus, Napier
of Magdala and Kitchener of Khar-
toum had theirs, was the Concord
| fight of the war against slavery.
There the embattled squatters under
Brown fired the shot which continu-
ed to reverberate until the last Am
erican slave was free; and there, on
the last day but one of August, a
distinguished comp any, headed by
Vice President Fairbanks, will sound
the praises of the uncompromising
old fanatic who scorned hunger,
cold, dungeons and death for the
sake of the cause that absorbed his
every thought.
Fifty years since Osawatomie! Has
John Browns soul made good in the
years that it has been supposed to be
marching on? That is question
upon which Americans will disagree.
Burghart Du Bots and Bishop Turn
err think that it has not-that the
cause of negro freedom has been go
/ ing backward. and the black man re-
verberating to a condition border
ing on slavery. They regard their
race as more hopelessly abartioned
to its fate. in the midst of ar. ndif-
ferent nation, than it was when men
like Brown were willing to do and
die for it, But Booker Washington,
on the other hand, believes that il is
doing very well on the whole, and
that it is honoring Browns memory
better by struggling hard to become
educated and industrially independ-
ent than it would be by fighting for
1.-THE franchise.
1t is hard to tell. "Who would be
free, themselves must strike the
blow" said the poet Complete lib
erty, the real freedom, which is in
ner as well as external, cannot be
bestowed outright, as gift, by one
people upon another Doubtless
/. John Browns soul must do another
half-century's marching before the
work begun at Osawatomie shall be
fully consumated, and the people
for whom he laid down his life fit to
be truly free.-New York Mail
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-26

In his vigorous Winona address
Gov Folk referred to the rebates OF
the railroads. the abuses of the beef
packers and the scandals of the life
insurance companies. These abuses
he said. ARE no longer tolerated.
There is no secret remedy for vice.
The only way is to hit it, and hit it
hard. Civic virtue is an overthrow OF
civic depravity. When the boodlers
were overthrow it was feared it
would hurt the state of Missouri, but
the state has increased in population
and wealth. People go to live where
the law is respected and obeyed. Hon
est business men need have no fear of
being exposed, and publicity is the
greatest cure for evils, for many of
the offenders fear public sentiment
more than prison walls. Parties are
inding that honesty is the best policy
A rascal is rascal, whether he be a
Democrat or Republican, and should
be treated as criminal"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-26

The monthly bulletin of the state
board of health reports as follows in
regard TO disease and death in June:
There were fewer deaths and less
disease than in the corresponding
month last year. Rheumatism was re
ported as the most prevalent ldisease
which was also the case in June las:
year.
Smallpox was reported from eight
counties, 50 cases in all with no
deaths
Typhoid fever was reported from
81 counties with 1O5 cases and 29
deaths
Tuberculosis shows equal or even
greater activity than in the same
month last year, the deaths being
a15 for this June and 354 for las.
June.
Pneumonia caused III deaths. l.
the corresponding month last year ii
caused 81 deaths.
Violence caused 164 deaths, the
murders numbering suicides 35.
The total number of deaths was
1922, rate 1916; in june last year 2 49,
rate ia.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-26

Democratic papers seek to make po-
litical capital because Democratic con
gressmen have sometimes joined with
President Roosevelt and the majority
and helped pass good bills. 1t would
be sad commentary on our Demo
cratic statesmen if this were not true
Alas, it is also too true that there
was not one of the so-called admins
tration measures, SO ably supported
by the Republican members of con
gress, that was not openly and bitter
ly opposed and obstacles put in the
way of its passage by Democrats a,
some stage. No, the Republican con
gress must take the blame for its mis-
takes and shortcomings in legislation
and just public will at the same
time give it due credit for the good
laws passed regardless of the attempt
of partisan Democratic papers to con
fuse.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-07-26
When Sporting Blood Gets Thin.

Since the recent crusade at Wa
wasee, resort keepers over there are
putting up howl that there is a
conspiracy to ruin the place as Z
summer resort" 1t is a familiar cry
1t is heard wherever the authorities
try to keep semblance of law and
order Your so-called sport is the
first man to play the baby when
things go against him. These fellows
trample on the rights and scrupIes
of the community; who produce moth
ing, but like spiders, want to fatten on
on the weaknesses of others, ought
at least to have manhood enough to
take their medicine without making
wry face when trouble comes. The
wide popularity of Winona, the most
successful summer resort in this
country, ought to be evidence enough
to convince anyone that facilities for
drinking and gambling are not essen
tial to the prosperity of a summer
resort; and if resort manager can
not make living without STOPPING
to an outlawed business, he had bet
ter get into something eise.-Bremen
Enquirer.