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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-11-24
NORTH WHITE CREEK

Mrs. Maria Warren of Cambridge
is visiting her son, Charles Warren.
John Martin had the misfortune TO
sprain his ankle quite badly recent
ly.
Ira Seeley and niece, Miss Austin
OF Ash Grove spent Sunday at the
home of Charles AgaA.
About twenty-five friends of Mr..
and Mrs. William Luke gave them a
surprise party Thursday evening. Mr..
Luke was burned out in the spring,
and they have just moved into their
new home. They left Mr.. and Mrs.
Luke a beautiful clock and water set.
Sandwiches. ice cream and coffee
were served and all kinds of games
played The party broke up in the
wee hours of the morning, all report
ing a fine time.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-11-24
STATUE OF PATRIOT
Description of Seth Warner Marker,
Gift Of Col. Olin Scott

Col Olin Scott, generous and public
spirited citizen of Bennington has
closed the contract for a $4,000 statue
of Col. Seth Warner, which will be
placed on the spacious grounds of the
Bennington battle monument before
Memorial day. The work will be
done by H. J. Bertoli, an Italian sculp-
tor of Montpelier. The figure of Col,
Warner who bore so prominent a part
in the Revolutionary struggle will be
of heroic size in Continental uniform.
The granite pile surmounted by the
figure will be thirty feet high.
The first base, which will be ten
feet square, will have polished sides
giving in bold letters the history of
Warner. Colonel Warner who was
born in Roxbury, Conn, in 3743 resid-
ed in Bennington frC~n 1866 to 1888,
and died in his native town in 1884.
He was the captor of Crown Point,
commander of the Green Mountain
Boys in the repulse of Carleton at
Longueil and at the battle of Hub
bardton and the associate of General
Stark in the victory at Bennington.
He was distinguished as a successful
defender of the New Hampshire
Grants and for bravery, sagacity, en-
ergy and humanity as partisan Off
Ger of the War of the Revolution. Col.
Warner died of a painful disease con
tracted under the fatigues and hard
ships of service, particularly in his
winter campaign in Canada.
The foundation of this imposing
memorial to one of the bravest Off
GERS Of the Revolution has already
been laid. The statue will face the
south, looking down Monument Az
enue. Colonel Scott, who bears alone
the whole expense of this fine gift, is
president Of the Bennington Battle
Monument and Historical association
and is descended from several of the
early prominent settlers of Benning
tom Correspondence to Troy Times.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-11-24
ESKIMO CLIFF JEWELLERS
Great Cave on Kings Island, Alaska,
Inhabited by Natives

Great Cave on Kings Island, Alaska,
Inhabited by Natives
Five hundred feet above the surface
of Behring sea which dashes itself to
spray on the bare rock wall far below
them, lives a race of cliff dwellers.
How long these strange people have
been nestled in the cavernS Of Kings
Island no one pretends to know. But
they are there today, living in much
the same way as anthropologists say
our ancestors lived some time in the
long ago after they had given up
roosting in trees.
Kings Island, like the Diomedes and
other islands in Behring sea and Ben
ring strait, is of limestone formation
with what the geologist calls granite
intrus1ons This peculiar formation
is favorable to the formation of caves
and Kings Island is honey-combed
with caves and grottoes. One great
cave is over 300 feet in height
The Eskimos who Inhabited these
caves and whose descendants still
Chamber up and down the PERCEPTIONS
lodges have added to the ancient cliff
dwellings of a more remote period a
newer type Of dwelling. In winter
they creep back into the rock cham
bers that are greasy with the memory
of much blubber and many big feasts
in the days that we're
But in summer the Kings Islanders
abandon their ancestral home. Great
poles are fixed IN the rock and on
these is built a box-lke affair, which
is then covered with walrus skin.
These walrus skin cabins look for all
the world like collins suspended oil
poles, but when the summer tourist
approaches them he finds that every
one is full of very lively Eskimos
with sundry pups and venerable dogs
scrambling out to give voice to IA
strange greeting.
Although Kings Island is barren
rock with practically no vegetation,
the hundred or so natives who live
there do not starve. The sea around
them abounds in walruses, and when
the ice pack begins moving through
Behring strait great herds of walrus-
es may be heard through the long
sunlit night believing like wild cat
tie To an Eskimo a walrus Is just
plain meat. and from the time that
the hrSt SonorouS roar or the great
sea monsters comes over the ice I'M
til the last ton Of blubber is stored in
the great cave no one sleeps on Kings
Island. Sometimes sixty walruses
have been killed out of one herd by
these daring sea hunters The ivory
from these creatures run into many
hundreds of dollars.-Seattle Post-ln-
telligencer.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-11-24
CONGRESSMAN BURNED
Representative De Almond Lost Lite
in Fire

Kansas City, Mo, Nov. 24.-Con-
gresham David Albaugh De Almond,
one of the oldest Democratic mem
bers of congress and his grandson,
aged six years, were burned to death
in a fire which destroyed the De Ar
mond home at Butler, Mo. early yes
terday. The other members of the
family escaped.
Neither the body of the congress
man nor his grandson, has been re-
covered. Bones, believed to be those
of the two missing persons, have been
found by the searchers. The grand
son lived across the street and was
visiting his grandfather.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
Mrs. De Almond said that she hearo
no cry from her husband and nothing
is known of his experience. Whether
he smothered in bed and burned be-
fore he could leave the room or made
no attempt to save his life will prob
ably never be known.
David Albaugh De Almond was
born in Blair county, Pennsylvania,
| March Is, 1874, and was reared on a
farm. He was educated in the COM
mon schools and at Williamsport,
Dickinson Seminary He removed to
Butler, Mo-, and entered upon the
practice of law He was presidential
| elector in 1884, and had been state
senator, circuit judge and Missouri
supreme court commissioner. He
was first elected to Congress from the
sixth Missouri district in 1891 and
had hapn sucpeSsiVplV reelected since
| Congressman De Almond will be re-
membered as having been involved
in an intense alteration on the floor
of the house with John Sharp VIII
| liams of Mississippi.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-11-24
SALISBURY VALLEY

Mrs. Edward Bouplon is on the sick
list.
Byron Pierce is able to be out
again.
Mrs. Elmer Amidon was in town on
Friday.
Mrs. Clara Bailey visited in Cam,
bridge Sunday.
L. Harrington of Center SALISBURY
was in town Friday.
Mrs. F. w. Fuller and Miss Nettie
Bouplon were in Troy Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs Benjamin Smith spent
one day last week in Cambridge.
Misses Elsie Newell and Eva Stan.
ley called on Mrs. +. NJ. Pierce Fri
day.
Miss Matilda Brayton called on heI
sister, Mrs Edward Bouplon on Sat
qrday.
Mrs. Edward Bouplon who has
been confined to her home by illness
is convalescing.
Miss Bessie Amidon has closed hei
term of school and will spend the win.
Ter months at home.
Mr. and Mrs. George Bouplon and
daughter spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs John Davis OF Cola.
Mrs. r. b. Young and daughter Ha-
eel have been spending a few days
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs Frank
Bouplon
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-11-24
WAS MASONIC AUTHORITY
James M. Keenan, Highly Esteemed
by Railroad Men

Rutland, Nov. 23.-James Mckee
keenan, died at his home here Satur-
day evening of tuberculosis The flu
neral will be held from the Masonic
temple at two o'clock this afternoon.
the services to be conducted by Kill
lington Commandery, Knights Tenn
plar Burial will be in Evergreen
cemetery The body was taken to
the temple last night and lay all day
today in state where it was viewed
by large numbers
Mr.. keenan, was born in Greenock,
Scotland, Oct. a. 1870. coming to this
country at the age of II years. For
the past IS years he had been inter
ested in railroading being held in
high esteem by the principal Vermont
companies because of his wonderful
grasp of figures and railroad Stats
tics.
He held his first important position
with the Central Vermont being chief
clerk to the auditor of accounts with
offices in ST. Adams About 10 years
ago he moved to this city, since
which time he has served continuous
ly as auditor of the freight depart
ment of the Rutland road.
Mr. keenan, was prominent in fra
ternal circles. His affiliations includ-
ed Englesby Lodge, No. "a, f. and A.
NJ, of St Adams; Champlain Chap
ter, r. A. NJ, and Lafayette Comman-
derry, X T., both of ST Adams and
Rutland lodge, No. 345, B. p o. r. He
was also a 32d degree Mason and
Shriner and was accounted one of the
best informed Masons in the state in
both the Scottish and York rites. He
was a member of Vermont lodge, No.
l, X. p.
He was of pessimistic temporal
ment, almost a fatalism and this ten
dency is supposed to have fastened
his end.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-11-24

Taac Majesty Blend Teey Lpton's. PerWala Chase
A~"0 SanbonS Revere Changers and many others
COffeec Revere. Premier White House Chase & Sanborns
Seal and Victoria Special Top Notch, Grangers Good
Health and other brands.
All kinds Fruit Nuts. Nut Meats Cluster Raisins,
Red Cherries in Maraschino, Grape Fruit In Maaschino
Don't forget Cranbere Pumpkin Mince Meat Squash and
Boiled Cider.
Pickles of all kinds Olives. all grades and prices
menthe Jelly, delicious with turkey other
Mint Sauce and after dinner mints.
shall sell English Breakfast Tea of good grade
b good Ceyon Tea Csc b Mixed Tea black
green h. These will with that
per h. called houses Others In Coffee
can sell you from 12c to 40c per ID.
(ur RpVprp Coffee best in the world 35c lbs for $0O
Vui MS'tiS UVie| Top Notch. lbs for $780, Chase San
bom's, lbs for $100
Cluster Raisins, 10c and 25c per pkg
above Minneapolis hard spring wheat
patent they duplicated by dealers who say they have
because there Michigan New
blended flour which will compare with them
made barrel and bought much cheaper
Any good housekeep knows that there is difference
eggs coffees flour everything that
QUALITY that makes the price.
strictly grocery and do sell everything
expect all the
value than elsewhere
During thirty of have found that
per of the people know good thing when they it. The other
per ready to be fooled at all times.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-06-03

PEELED by the pernicious inactivity
and refusal of the workers enjoy
ing the fruits secured for them by
the organization to pay dues and
otherwise assist in maintaining it.
to grant concessions to the en-
ployers, the fault does not lie with
the officials and the working mem
bers but with the fault finders and
Knockers who brought about the
conditions that caused it. The in
different and disloyal men are alb
solutcly responsible, aud this state
of affairs will continue to exist I'M
til they lay aside their hammers
and get into the organization and
lend their united aid and assist.
ance to those who have so ably
fought their battles during the past
year under such enormous diff
culties and determined opposition.
If the miners of the Kanawha
Valley wish to see their organiza-
ton live and prosper they must
meet the opposition with united
band, and to secure this they must
eliminate petty person al .jealousies,
remember their oblie alton and
stand loyalty behind those whom
the majority entrust with the duty
TO lead them on to better things in
the future.
Miners of West Virginia unite,
you have everything to gain, and
nothing to lose, but your chains.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-06-03
GOOD FOR GLASSCOCK.

Governor Glasscock in speech
to the old soldiers at AIorgantown
Saturday declared war on the cor
poration legislative lobby. The
Governors stand against this i'm
famous gang of plutocratic pharites
who have controlled legislation in
the state for the past decade is
heartily endorsed by organ
lied labor and all other good
citizens who will back him in
his fight to eliminate it. If it had
not been for the professional
lobbists Of the Elkins- avis-Dixon-
Watson interests the Employers
Liability Act and the "Guard'and
other labor laws would have been
enacted at the last session of the
legislature. Here's hoping that
he will have the power to cope
with the criminal corporations and
wrest the control of our legislative
branches from their grasp.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-06-03

The label is the most potent wea-
pom in the hands Of organized labor
for its advancement. The trade
unlonist should use the label like
the soldier uses his gun in target
practice. Become an expert in
time of peace in order to do ef1cc-
tive work in the emergency of war.
ii inc employer sees your label
securing one bulls eye after an
other, he will think before engage
ing in battle with you. To be pre-
pared is the best insurance against
war. A demand for the label is
positive proof that your organ
ization will be capable Of effective
opposition in time Of strike.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-06-03

A little over two years ago the
good people arose in their might
and buried under an Avalanche
of ballots the gang who had CON
trOlled the city for years. AS a
result Charleston enjoyed two
years of the best government that
had fallen to its lot for many wears.
But through Indifference on the
part Of our citizens self appointed
bosses of the two dominant politi-
cal parties railroaded a new charter
through the last legislature which
has again put our city into the
hands of political bosses who are
absolutely controlled b. the public
service corporations and ere two
years roll round the most gigantic
franchise steal ever penetrated
upon our people will be consumated
unless the Council and Board OF
Affairs do their duty to their con
Stituents and refuses to be handled
by the powers behind the throne.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-06-03

The anonymous editor of the
Gazette aroused from his swisdomf
slumber the other day and interro-
gated us as to what connection a
county official had with our be.
loved bi- partisan government. To
our friend who presides at the
fountain of HwiSdom'' we would
say that he must be very recent
arrival among us if he does not
know that the county officials are
joint owners of our "buy" partisan
city government. But if he
fingers among us long he will find
that even men of great "wisdom' >
who live under bipartisan bossism
rule can learn a few things.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-06-03

Some of the men in the Kan
awha Valley now realize their mis-
take In refusing to pay dues into
their organization. 1t is to be
hoped that they will profit by
their experience and get in line at
once SO as to make it possible to re-
cover lost ground in the near
future. He that lives at the ex-
pense of Others soon falls bv the
wayside. Get in the local at your
place before it is too late.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-06-03
TROUBLE BREEDERS RESPONSIBL E.

Continuous disparagemcnt and
unjust criticism of the work of
others by the fault finding grum-
blerS and knockers has a most dis
couraging effect upon those who
do the work. This is particularly
true and noticeable ut the present
time i'll the Kanawha Valley.
When men of high ideals, who
make many personal sacrifices,
with honesty of purpose and i'm
bled with an earnest desire to
make things better and their people
happicr-who work year in and
year out without hope or thought
of higher reward than IL far
share of the improved conditions
which they hope will come to all
through their eflorts-receyc no
encouragement except the Snecr
and backbitting ofthe fault finders
and knockers. it is apt to chill
their ardor and make them less en-
thuslastic i'll the work they have
setiOut to accomplish. When fault
IS found with everything that has
been done, whether it deserves it
or not; when no effort has been
made by these adverse critics by
direction or suggestion that it
might have been done otherwise
and thus bring better results, it is
very hard for the average man to
listen with Indifference to the
criticism of the fault. finder, when
he knows that he has done his
level best and that his critics had
every opportunity beforehand of
saying what should be done and
how 1t should be done.
Instead of lending aid and en-.
couragcmcnt at the proper time
and IN the proper place to those
ready and willing to do the work
the growing critic and fault.tind
ing grumblcr delights in throwing
chilly blanket of diScouragcment
over everything. Instead Of loval-
~ paying their dues into the Or
ganization and standing up in the
union meetings and honestly
reasoning with their fellows and
searching for the way, they either
let their membership lapse. do not
attend the meetings or wait until
1t Is over before they voice the
venom of their criticism.
W hen real good has been ac.
compliShed and conditions have
been improved by the officers and
loyal members they participates
with thanklesS smart and pro
coed to enjoy the conditions sccur
ed without rcnding any aid or as
slstancc to maintain them, but if 6
mistake has been make or success
fails to crown the efforts Of the rea
workers. they at once get out theiI
hammers and yell they've sold
out and denounce the officers apG
their loyal supporters at every Oh
pO1tunity.
When the organization is com
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-06-03
THURSDAY, JUNE 1903.
LABOR'S WATCHWORD,

We aoW stnnh by our friends and
administer, II StiHginy rcbUkc ~ ntci,
or parties 'ohO IRE either indifferent,
nrgiigent or hostile, and, achcnccc,' OPP
portunty G0ords, secure The election
Of intelligent, honest, earnest h'udcs-
unionists wHh, uubicmishcd, paid uE
nniOn cnI'ds in their possession.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-06-03

1t IS with grave concern that we
announce the fact that one of the
bipartisan adherents has refused
to cake the Argus from the post
Office, which means his paper must
be stopped and as a result of the
loss of his valuable patronage he
no doubt imagines that we will
suspend publication. But let him
disabuse his mind, the Argus was
in existence before he mounted the
platform of political preferment
and from present indications he
will join the has BEEN political
bunch before the Argus succumbs
to the onslaught of the bipartisan
bosses. We simply save a dollar
by the transaction.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-06-03
DROP POLITICAL GRAFTERS.

The laboring men of " est Vir
ginia have been gambling with
their votes for years. a great
number of them have always tried
to vote for winners, and in doing
so they have staked more than any
sum of money that they are ever
likely to have under the present
labor expressing system. They
have Staked their future chance to
| work and live under the conditions
OF freedom and justice guaranteed
them under the constitution. And
! they staked them all to lose, as in
the past they have been betrayed
by both the big political parties in
control of State. County and
municipal governments. For in this
game the cards are marked, the
dice are loaded, the result is fixed
beforehand by the bosses who own
the game. The Davises, Eikinscs,
Watsons and DixonS are the men
who win the stakes. Into their
hands the labor voter puts the
power of making and controlling
the laws by which he unjust be rul-
ed; into their hands he puts the
power Of the ''guard's' club and
and the private detectives gun;
into their hands he puts the power
of the municipal and district
courts and the judiciary; into their
hands he puts all the power needed
to control the lives of the masses,
to let them work or forbid them to
work, to dictate the terms on
which they may work, to manipu-
late the prices Of food and clothing
they must buy.
And against all this which the
labor voter puts into the hands of
the "guard" promoter and the
political grafters, what can he
possibly win? If he "picks the
winner,' he may have the salts
faction of joining in a Notification
after election and yelling himself
hoarse for the man he has put in.
to power over him and boas ting
that he guessed right-and then he
may go home and rejoice in that
for the rest of the year, for the
politician will have no further use
for him till the profitable game is
to be played again.
1t is time these men begin to
think for themselves. 1t is time
that they quits stalking their most
precious possession in a game in
which they are sure to lose. 1t is
time that they joined with their
fellows and voted together for men
who are on the worl>ingmen's
ticket and let political graiters eat
grass in the future.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-06-03
NOTICE!

The papers of all subscribcrs
will be stopped AS soon az they
become delinquent, in cornpIi-
ance with the Postal Laws. If
you desire your paper con-
tinued renew your subscription
at once.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-06-03
A Noble Emblem.

The union label stands for home
industry, the protection of the in
terests of labor and the protection
of the just and honorable employ
ers from competition by ''cheap
foreign labor' rivals. Demand it
at all times. z
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1909-06-03

1t now behooves the miners in
the Valley to lay aside personal
prejudice and get into the organi-
zation so as to be ready to meet the
operators next March in united
body. Experience is the best
teacher and they have surely learn
ed their lesson during the past
year