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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-11
TRiCkED IN HORSE SALE
Benz. Beattie Returns to BrattIeboro
Without Money or Horses,

Benjamin Beattie of South London
derry was feeced out of 5000 In Bos
ton Tuesday by a crooked horse trade
In company with Robert Kirkwood OF
South Londonderry, Beattie left Brat
tleboro Monday night for Boston for
the purpose Of purchasing some hor-
ses. Tuesday morning at well
known sales stable in that city Beattie
bought five horses, two pairs and
single horse, and was to pay $500 for
them. He deposited 5000 in checks
and was to send the remaining 500
when he got home. Both young men
waited around the stables for some
time in the belief that papers were
being drawn up creating a mortgage
on the horses for the remaining 500.
After an hour or two a stranger ap.
peared and inquired of the men from
South Londonderry If they were the
buyers of the five horses, and learning
that they were the stranger with a
show OF much regret said that he was
very sorry that he had not been pres
eht as he would never have allowed
his men to sell such worthless horses
at such price. They are no good. .
said the stranger "and II you do not
believe what | say, | will hitch them
up and show you. Three of the hor.
SEES are 'whistlers and the other two
are worthless" One pair was given
short try-Out and before they had
returned one horse was just able to
stand and the other animal would
have dropped il driven two rods fur.
Their. The new owner was thoroughly
discouraged at the way he had been
taken in and on the advice of his new
found friend exchanged the five hor.
SEES for pair that looked to be of
great deal more worth. For this pair
he was to give $3.50 and he made out
another check for $50 to complete the
payment. The horses were placed in
the stalls and left there subject to Mr.
Beattie's call.
Thinking that It would be cheaper
and pleasanter to drive home Mr.
Beattie fastened to the railroad sta.
tion In the. hope of obtaining an auto
mobile guide. When he returned for
his horses he discovered that he had
again been tricked, other horses hav
ing been left in their stead Wild
with such deception Beattie rushed
out for policeman who returned with
him to the stables to ascertain the ex
act condition of affairs. Several men
however in the employ of the salesman
swore that the horses had not been
changed and that they were the ones
the unhappy purchaser had bought
Threats and entreaties were of nc
avail and Mr.. Beattie with Mr.. Kirk
wood returned to Brattleboro Tuesday
night.
One of the checks for $3.50 was
drawn on a Brattleboro bank and
payment was stopped. The other two
were cashiers checks. The matter
has been placed in the hands of A. II
Schwenk who is to take steps immed
lately to recover the 5000.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-11
Why -
Suffer?

If you suffer pain from
any cause DR.. Miles Anti
Pain Pills will relieve it
and leave no bad after
effects. That's the impor-
tant thing. Neither do
they create a habit. More
often. the attacks become
less frequent, or disappear
altogether. DR.. Miles
Anti-Pain Pills have no
other effect except to re-
lieve pain and quiet nerv-
GUS irritation.
1--WE are never without DR.. Niles
Anti Pain Pills. My husband ana
son, aged Is were always subject TO
sick headache until VIC began using
these Pills, and they have broken
them up entirely. Don't think they
have had TO use them Ior Six fbohtiis'
recommend them to every one, a
few weeks ago / heard an old lady
friend was sick. went 10 see her;
She was down with IAGrlppe, and
nearly crazy with awful backache.
I gave her one OF the Pain Pills
and left another for her TO take IN
a short time They helped her right
away. and she says she Will never be
without them again. Last winter my
husband was taken with pluerlsy on
both sides. and ! know he would have
died II II hadn't been for the Pills.
In less than half an hour he. was
sweating. and went to bed and slept"
MRS. G. III. WEBB,
Austinburg. Ohio.
Your druggist sells Or. Miles Anti.
Palm Pills, and we authorize him TO
return the price OF first package (onIV
n II falls to benefit you.
Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-11
MCKEE DIVORCE REFUSED
Legal Expert Of Paris Court Presents
His Conclusion.

6SAat SARCpk W
His Conclusion.
Paris, May THE legal expert of
the court has presented his conclus-
ion in the Mckee divorce case. His
finding was against granting a divorce
holding both Mr.. and Mrs. Mckee re-
sponsible. Formal judgment will be
rendered May IA. The suit was
brought in this city by Mrs. A. Hart
Mckee formerly Mrs. Hugh Tevis.
The first hearing took place in March.
In presenting its conclusions the
legal. expert retraced the history of
the Mckee marriage and described
both Mckee and his wife as spoiled
children OF fortune, who had fallen
desperately in love with each other
He said Mckee was man OF uncon-
trollable temper who always had been
interested In 0ccultism and magic, and
found that he had been guilty of great
brutality towards his wife and that
the repeated scenes OF violence had
seriously affected her health.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-11
ICE PROBE TO CONTINUE
Court Turns Down Petition Of w. M.
OIer.

New York, May 6.-The appellate
division of the Supreme court OF this
state refused today to grant the pet
ition of Wesley NJ. Oler, president oil
the American Ice company, for an Or
der prohibiting Justice Goff, Attorney
General William S. Jackson and the
grand jury from investigating the ice
company. A new grand jury to under
take this investigation was organized
Monday.
Mr.. Oler applied for the writ OF pro
hibition last night. He alleged that
Gov. Hughes authorization to the at
torney general to conduct the investi
CATION expired when previous grand
Jury declined to indict the company
The special grand jury began its In
vestigation of the ice company today
A score OF clerks carrying large books
appeared at the jury room.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-11
Notice to Our Customers.

We are pleased to announce that
Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs,
colds and lung troubles is not affected
by the National Pure Food and Drug
law as Il contains no opiates or other
harmful drugs, and we recommend II
as safe remedy for children and
adults.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-11
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup

Has been used for over sIxTy-FIvE YEARS BY NIL.
LIONS Of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE
TLErfIING. With PERFECT SUCCESS ! sOOrhks
the CHILD, soFrENs the GUNS. AlIAfs all PAIN
CURES WIND collie and 10 the best remedy for DiAh-
RHdA Sold BY Druggists IN every pert OF the world
Be and ash for Mrs- wlnslovs Soothing Syrup,
andiake no other hind Twenty-Five cents bottle. Guar
under the Food and Druss Act June h 800 esria
Number loes An OLD AND WELL TRIED REMEDY
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-11

Mrs. s. Joyce, $50 Sullivan St., Clare
mont, N. H., writes: about year
ago | bought two bottles OF Foley's
Kidney Cure II cured me of a sew
ere case OF kidney trouble of several
years standing. 1t certainly is a
grand. good medicine and heartily
recommend it."-Quinlan's Pharmacy.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-11
COOK HASN'T SHOWN UP
l'Brandon Minister Has Not Taken His
New Charge.


New Charge.
Utica, May S.-Rev. Mr.. Cooke, the
Methodist minister from Brandon who
recently filed charges against Chan
cellor Day of Syracuse university and
who was appointed to pastorate In
the isolated village of West Winfield,
Herkimer county, has not appeared
to assume his new charge. Mr..
Cooks charges against Chancellor
Day were Quashed and DR.. Days
friends, It is said, set about to locate
the accusing clergyman in some re-
mote section where his activities
would be restrained. A few weeks
ago Mr.. Cook was shifted from the
Troy conference to the Northern New
York conference and subsequently as
signed to West Winfield. II is re-
ported In that village that one Of the
trustees of the parish had received
n letter from Mr.. Cook I'm which he
said he would refuse to abide by the
designation Of the conference.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-11
NOTICE.!

To The DepOsitOrs Of The bennington county
Savings Bank
Sec 46i7 Of the Vermont Statutes reads
IN the year nine cen hundred and eight, and
every nth year thereafter, at such time In the
year as the bank con.miss i0nef shall designate.
the trustees Of savings banks, savings insutu.
ttons and trust companies shall G III In the de
post books for exam nation and verlfication.
and cause the same TO be examined and veri
fed by some person other than the treasurer or
proved by said commissioner"
In accordance with the above law you are
hereby notified to present your pass books dur.
Ing the month Of May next FOR examination and
y. II. DEWEY. Treas.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-11

Kodol completely digests all classes
OF food. 1t will get right at the trou-
BILE end do the very work itself for
the stomach. Sold by d. A. Ward.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-11
FRANK B. HOWE, Editor and PubIishe
The Doctors Disagree.
II was six men of Indostan,
To learning much inclined.

II was six men of Indostan,
To learning much inclined
Who went to see the elephant
Though all OF them were blind
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind.
Given the same facts upon which to
base his judgment, like the blind men
of fable fame who likened the tower
ing elephant to house, wall, tree,
modern man. In common with his un.
lettered prototype of long ago, is apt
to twist things to suit his own feeble
fancy by attempting to prove that his
preconceived ideas are right and his
judgment infallible; so, 1t is not to be
wondered at that the men who attend
ed the recent republican convention al
Burlington returned with different
stories concerning public sentiment
on the senatorial situation. The aver.
age Rutland delegate, favoring Page
after carefully overhauling the frisky
G. 0. p. elephant, is now protesting
loudly that "tis a house." but the
Middlebury men. favoring Stewart
are gleefully shouting otis a wall
while the Bennington aspirant's con
fident adherents swap mysterious
stories OF bygone deals and swear by
their departed greatness that the G
0. p animal is in reality big barber
pole, or a tree which can easily be
turned into Barber polls. The Bur
lington Free Press, however. evidently
having in mind the well known fact
that variety is the spice Of life, has
still another theory to advance, for
hobbling along In the rear of the surg
ing crowd, the venerable old +. p. now
cries In shrlll staccato, You're al
wrong BY the beard of the Prophet
| swear it! Did not feel of We elep
liant? Ay! fondle him to my snow.
white-paper bosom? Know | not my
Foster child? Glory be to Burling
ton Bay and the struggled Cinnamon
that gave Our David hk start In life
Oh joy! !! IT'S an angleworm! =
1t must be that the Free Press
has been playing with the elephants
tail.-Vermont Union Signal.
II was difficult and delicate work to
suppress a resolution pledging Yer
monts delegation TO the denomination
of Roosevelt, but 1t was safely accom-
plished. Brer Hapgood, erstwhile a
butt of the groundlings. has demon.
strated foresight and capacities which
have caused very general revision
OF public opinion in his case.--Hard
wick Gazette.
This little editorial paragraph bears
the earmarks of theGazette's Washing
ton correspondent but its point will
not be apparent to those who were
present at the convention and saw the
Hapgood resolution received with littl,
applause. and that mostly in the way
of merriment as lively incident
In dull convention, and then voted
down without an AYE" in its favor
The difficult and delicate work" of ,
unanimous mo" may look large II
Washington but up here in Vermont 1
didn't seem so very serious.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-11
A Market for Your Hides, TaIIow and
Bones.

Almost everybody knows that the
place to send Beef Hides, Horse Hides
Calfskins. Sheep Pelts, Tallow and
Bones Is to c. s. Page, Hyde Park.
Vermont. who pays highest prices. re-
mits the day following the arrival of
goods at Hyde Park; pays the freight
on shipments OF 200 pounds or more
and keeps his customers at all times
posted as to market values.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-11

Insist upon DeWitt's Witch Hazel
Salye. 1t is especially good for piles.
Sold by ID. A. Ward.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-11

DeWitt's Little Early Risers are
small. safe, sure and gentle little pills
Sold by d. A. Ward
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-11

kIDNEY . deceptive dIsease--
,rnnrrDs thousands have II and
lKOUbLE don't know II. II you
want quick results you can make no n stake
by using DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root, the great
kidney remedy. At druggists In Atty cent and
dollar sizes. Sample bottle by mail free. also
plmphlet telling you how to find Out II you
have kidney trouble.
Address, DIR. Kilmer n Co.. Blnghamton. N. Y.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-11
Black;
King
ANN

The stations BLACK King and "Lami will make the sea-
son of 1908 Cedar Hill Stock Farm my home place. Pow
Inal VT
pI AnH Foad 1892 weight 1900 pounds height Is "a hands,
OIVSh ered number OF American Hackney Horse Society
YIMG Sire:Lod Primrose No 498 CA. H. S. 3D. No. 3736 E.
n5"O H. S. B. by Lord Badolph No. 139 A. H. S. B. No.
l412 H. S. B-Dam:Wnona Langtry No. 12S7A H. S. BY
Specially" No. 500 A. H. S. B. No. 1887 E. H. S. B.
AMI Foad 1902 weight 1900 pounds height l6l4 hands Reg
I1M sered by National French Draft Horse Association VOL
No. l2 (No in Soce de Agcueu de France 34S1 Bred by
M Feneue SreLabourer No. 304o by Aru CD out
of Balete No. 1913 by Gedeon Of Joie Arus (2) by
"Schamyl (oO2) Of Margo." Dam'Jeanete" 1909 by
Eclipse l2 of Bjou 1907 by Seducte" 1927 out Of
Nina Ql9D Eclipse (2) by Cesar out of Marie.
Terms of Service Cash time Of service $1,000 with
privilege Of return following season if mare not with foa
Good accommodations for mares from distance at mod
crate rates. kept at owners risk.
could grasp the great market demands good
high prices prevailing all the world they would only
breeding but would vigorously improve quail
y for big heavy drafts and handsome carriage horses The draft
horse has wealth pery American farmers than
horses and might than other
stock.
"A. B. GARDNER POwnaI, Vt.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-11
WHY WOMAN WAS RELEASED

F. G, W. for Finance Committee.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-12-16

Remember they are all high grade
goods and the biggest bargains you
ever saw.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-23
Uniquely Dry Town,

Wakefield is "a dry town and a strict-
~ temperance town. 1t is UNIQUE In
that 1t is dry town because it's people
are sober Christian citizens. The town
has never had the annoyance and bother
| of a local option election. but there has
not been saloon here for years, slmp-
'ly because ono Will not find any patron
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-23

that magnificent structure that is to
be given by Mr.. Geo. w. Watts for
the benefit of humanity. will be let
about the LIST of March. The plans
contractors are now figuring on the
price of putting up the first part of
the hospital work These bids will
be opened March LIST.
In the contract now to be let tho
building price Will be from s150000 to
100000. Then the building will be
so erected that in future years there
can be additions without anything be-
ing lost of the first work.
Within very short while after
the contract is awarded work is to
begin on the buildings, all of which
will be fireproof and of the latest mod
ern construction. BY midsummer, if
all plans keep. the work will be un-
der way in nice shape.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-23
HAS VAST FORTUNE
IN COAL DEPOSITS
Estimated That Oklahoma's
Fields, but Touched as Yet,
Contain 6,ooo,ooo,ooo Tons.
Special to Tho Times pispatch.1


BALTIMORE, February 22.-Inter-
esting facts about coal fields contain
ing about 6.oo0oCO.OOO tons and hardly
yet In the beginning of their develop
ment, are set forth in this weeks issue
of the Manufacturers Record by Prof.
Charles n. Gould, of Oklahoma. He
deals with the coal fields of the new
State, OF which the principal one, in its
main body, extends uninterruptedly
from the Arkbnsas line near Fort
Smith for a distance of 125 miles to the
southwest and embraces 43T,T43 acres
This land was originally set apart fol
the benefit OF the Choctaw and Chica-
saw Indian nations as n whole. Esti-
mates of the content of this field range
from 1000 TO 4,000 tons per acre or
from total of 1.252,916.00n to 3,000,-
coo, 900 tons, the smaller estimate being
based upon present wasteful methods
of mining in the region, whereby only
about two-thirls of tho Goa is utilized
and the discarding of a number of veins
from two TO three feet thick, and the
larger estimate being based upon what
will actually be taken from the fielt
by the proper mining of all the veins
Holdings of the Indians.
There is a large amount of Goa
thought to be az great in quantity n.
that in this eastern Oklahoma field
that has been allotted to individual
Indians. Four of the workable vein
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-23

age in Wakefield. Is there another
town in Virginia or anywhere else
with population of 1900 or 1900 in
habitants and rich surrounding coun-
try that can say as much?
That this is some day to be an i'm
portant manufacturing centre there can
be no doubt. The raw material for any
thing that is made of wood is album
dant. labor IS cheap and sites can be
had for the asking. Among the factor
les other than furniture already men
toned. that would payehere are stave
factories, planning mills, box factories
hub and spoke factories, and, because of
the abundance of tasteless timbers
factories to make wooden butter dishes
pie plates and fruit baskets would pay
here. A canning factory
and steam laundry would find profit
able encouragement in Wakefield.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-23
BoYKlNs' BOARD OF TRADE
Men Form Association for the
GODh of tie Town.
Especial 10 The Tlmes-DIspatch.

Special to The Times-Dispatch.1
BOYKINS, VA, February ia
meeting of the citizens of the town
was held last night in the Mayors
office for the purpose of organizing a
Business Mems Association. The assoc
Iciation was organized with nineteen
members. The following officers were
Ielected. S. Z. Beaton, president; w. a.
Powell, vice-presdent: c. 7. Beaton.
secretary; NJ. j. Knight. treasurer.
a committed. consisting of w. w.
White, j. w. Fleetwood r. M. Knight
L. r. Bryant and ]. w. Byers. was
appointed to draft bylaws and submit
them at n meeting to be held next
Thursday night.
The object of this organization is tc
further the business interests Of the
town, to invite Industrial and manu-
featuring pursuits of various kinds
and to induce desirable settlers to To-
cate here.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-23

pItHteu
The parent factory here in Wakefield,
the two branch factories In Suffolk,
together with their large interests at
other points, notably Norfolk and Pet
ersburg. make the Balm Peanut Com
pany with connections, easily the larg-
est handlers of the popular and tooth
some peanut In the world
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-23
outcrop in the old Cherokee and Creek

outcrop in the old Cherokee and Creek
nations. The thickest of these veins
enters Oklahoma from Kansas and pas
ses south to as far as Vinita- This coal
varies In thickness from two to three
and one half feet. Another vein enters
the State in Nowata county and passes
south through Washington and Tulsa
counties. There are half a dozen more
veins of varying thicknesses in differ
ent parts OF the State and one in Has
kell and Pittsburg counties has an area
of more than 10000 acres.
Yet to Be Developed.
These facts about Oklahoma suggest
the riches of the South and Southwest
that are yet to be developed Another
fact especially suggestive at this time
of depression in many quarters. is the
developmental work that's being push
ed in the Potts Creek Valley of Nir-
gnia, just over the West Virginia line
involving an outlay of S2,00O,000 in
railroad construction. ali of which was
financed before the present stress, and
of more than 100000 in mining iron
ore, shipments of which to Virginia
furnaces have already begun. The
Chesapeake ana Ohio Railroad has built
in the field a line twenty-five miles
long. the Norfolk and Western Rail-
way expects to complete an extension
into the field by July, and 100000 have
been spent in the installation of mann
moth ore-washcrs, steam shovels. etc.
The ore varies in thickness from ten or
twelve feet to sixty feet AMI runs from
40 to 60 per cent. metallic iron. Near
to the ore are the rich colting Goals of
the Norfolk and Western and New
River fields. while in close proximity
are heavy seams OF limestone for flux-
ing purposes.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-23
GOOD STREETS FOR VICTORIA
Granolithic Pavements Being Laid-.
sites Tn Great Demand.
Especial to The Times Dispatch. ]
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Especial to The Times Dispatch.l
vICTORUA. VA. February 22.-The
coming metropolis and industrial centre
of Southslde Virginia Is little muddy
and unsightly at the present time. II
could not be otherwise with the streets
being dug up for improvement and
foundations for new buildings being
made in every direction and heavy
rains coming on the upturned earth:
but just give Victoria n little more
time and the few hundred feet Of
granolithic pavement now to be seen
here will be increased until it's absence
at any point Will be as noticeable as.
now is it's presence at Il few points.
The real ESTATE agents and the land
and development companies report more
than the usual inquiry for lots and
building sites and they expect large
business as the spring days begin to
come.
The new hotel--a thing that Victoria
badly needs--is nearing completion. and
the time is not far distant when the
stranger within the gates will find
up o-date accommodations in the me-
'tropolis that IS to be.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-23
wakefield, HUB
Of A RICH SECTION
CONTINUED From First Page.)

Continued From First Page)
between three furniture stores. two
millinery stores, one drug house, ono
feeRand grain store and eight general
stores which carry large stocks OF
everything, two OF them having large
hardware and farm implement and
machinery departments.
The big trade which the merchants
here enjoy comes from the best and
richest sections of Sussex. Surry and
Southampton, and fertile corner of
Isle OF Wight.
What They Raise.
These counties are rich in peanuts,
grasses. corn, oats, potatoes and all
manner of vegetables, which latter find
ready sales in the markets of Norfolk.
suffolk and Petersburg. There is no
better trucking land to be found any
where on the earth than in circle of
five miles around Wakefield.
Peanuts. hay and vegetables are the
money crops of this section and to this
may be added hogs, for Wakefield Is a
market for hams which although not
called "Smithfiei,i," are in all respects
the equal OF that famous brand of hog
meat. In fact thousands of hogs that
are raised right around Wakefield are
sold every year to the Smithfield meat
curers. and thus very many of the gen.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-23

uine "smithfield" hams are cut from
the hogs that spent their lives and had
their Threats cat within speaking dis
tancc of this town.