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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-24
PoIIutina Public Waters

Right at hand this very hour comes
a striking object lesson of the evil
of polluting our streams, ponds and
lakes with sewage, as we have been
doing here in Vermont for genera
tons. Rutland has typhoid fever and
the people of Vergennes also on the
Otter Greek below are beginning to
be anxious for their own health be-
cause the sewage of the former city
comes down to them in the river.
Modern knowledge of hygiene and
sanitation makes every man his broth
ers keeper in the matter of public
health. And every man has dis
tinct property right in tne health of
his neighbor and a right to be protec-
ted from the consequences of his
neighbours Ill health so far as the
laws of nature can be invoked to give
protection.
When the matter is analysed to its
finality there can be absolutely no
justification for city polluting any
public waters with its sewage and
this includes our own st. Adams that
for years has been emptying its own
sewers into Lake Champlain. The
practice must be stopped all over Yer
mont both from the viewpoint of safe
guarding the public health and from
the aesthetic desire to preserve the
natural beauties of the region in their
virgin loveliness-St. Adams Messen-
ger
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-24
STATE BAPTIST OFFICERS
Elected at Annual Convention Held
at 81. Adams.

Elected at Annual Convention Held
at st. Adams.
st. Adams, Sept. 23.-The Baptist
state convention here mas elected the
following officers: President the
Rev. DR.. F.. u. Penney of Burlington;
vice-president, J. r. Berry of Putney;
secretary, H. II. Wright of Addison;
treasurer A. G. Crane of Burlington.
board of managers, the officers and
H. G. Mail of Pownal. A. h. Harri-
man of Middlebury, w. Il. Baker of
Felchyille. A. NJ. Watts of Johnson,
Sidney Aldrich of Colchester.
At the anniversaries of the womens
societies were held, Miss A. A. Brig
ham of Bennington, presiding. An
address of welcome was delivered by
Mrs. J. s. Brown of this city, to
which Mrs. J. A. Greenwood of Cole
CHESTER, responded. Mrs. n. N. Bis
hop, district secretary for New Eng
land spoke concerning the training
schools after which she Immediately
took the 1879 train for Boston The
reports of Mrs. J. A. Greenwood,
state vice president of Home Mis-
sions, Miss Mary Brown of Ludlow
Junior state secretary for Foreign
Missions. and Miss A. A. Brigham,
senior state secretary of Foreign Mis-
sions, showed the organization to be
in a healthy condition.
At the annual meeting of the Yer
mont Baptist Historical society the
following officers were elected:
President, tde Rev. Henry Cracker of
Chester; vice-president, ex-Gov. w.
w. Stickney; secretary and treasurer
the Rev. h. A. Mason of Saxtons
River; trustees. l.. w. Hawley of
Brattleboro, Rev. Eugene Haines of
Rutland, the Rev. j. w. Moore of Bel
lows Falls, the Rev. f. l.. Baylss of
Ludlow. the Rev. A. G Gilbert of Pas
sumpsic. A. f. Sherman of Ludlow,
the Rev. f. A. Mason of Saxtons
River.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-24
WIFE WANTS DIVORCE
Woman's Strenuous Life on Bonanza
Wheat Farm

Spokane, Wash. Sept 23.-Mrs.
Marie Mann, wife of John Lester
Mann, a bonanza wheat rancher in
Spokane county, shows in her petit
ion for divorce, filed in the superior
court nere, that the routine of her
four years of married life, left no time
for visiting relatives or neighbors. to
say nothing of bridge whist and mu-
sic. Stripped of their legal verbiage
the allegations set forth in the com
plant present the appended schedule
of duties.
Rise at o'clock a. M. exercise
with a cross cut saw on a pile of logs
Get breakfast for a threshing crew OF
30 men, each possessed of a healthy
appetite.
After breakfast: Plant potatoes and
other CHORES clean the barn and chop
wood for the cook stove; Load severa.
wagons with sacked grain to take to
market; cook dinner for 30 thresh-
ermen, with appetites as mentioned,
Afternoon recreation: Butcher
hogs and make sausage; chores and
wood chopping. also milking a dozen
cows; prepare supper for the same
crew of hungry haryesters and clean
the house.
Evening at home: Darn socks,
make bread and do otner work till 10
o'clock p. M. bed on a pallet of straw
on the floor of the cookhouse.
The complaint closes with the dec
laration that Mrs. Mann was literally
forced by her. husband to perform the
tasks mentioned in the foregoing, al
leging also that when she was too
sick to work he refused to permit her
to go to ner mothers home.
Mann declines to talk about the
charges preferred by his wife, nor has
he engaged counsel to defend the ac-
ton.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-24
APPEAL TO VETERANS
Vermont Soldiers Should Become
Members of G. A. r.

Vermont Soldiers Should Become
Members Of G. A. r.
To the Veterans of the Civil War
who are now citizens of Vermont
and who have never affiliated with
the Grand Army of the Republic,
Comrades:
IL is more than forty-eignt years
since the call to arms in defense of
our country and our flag and the pres
ervation of the Union rang out among
the green hills of Vermont and to
which you in patriotism so nobly res
pended. You remember the fraternal
feelings which existed for those com
rades who touched shoulder to Shout.
der vita you on many a hard-fought
battlefield. and who sympathized with
you in all your trials in the four long
years of that gigantic struggle. When
that memorable struggle was ended
an institution was organized which Is
known as the Grand Army of the Re
public, one of whose objects was to
further cement this fraternal feeling
and to perpetuate the memory and
history Of those who sacrificed their
lives that the nation might live. Ii
has ever stood ready TO assist such
former comrades in arms as needed
help and extend needful aid to the
widows and orphans. 1t has always
stood for justice and right and has
frowned upon everything which tend
ed to disloyalty or to in any manner
weaken the permanence of our free
institutions. lt-has always stood for
good citizenship, and I'm all its acts.
though fOrceful vet conservative, de
handing nothing but what was just
The satisfactory condition of all sol
diers can be traced to the work of
the Grand Army of the Republic,
which has been mtiring in its efforts
to secure such benefits from the Gen
eral movement as you and all COM
fades we're entitled to- My comrades
| am appealing to you for a purpose,
which is to strengthen the Grand Ar
my. II needs you to help keep our
fast decreasing ranks as full as posi-
Bile It is the grandest organization,
which ever existed. There is none
like it. There never can be. Its re-
cords will be the mecca where future
generations will come to look your
name and your record. Is it not a du-
ty which you owe yourselves, your
posterity and the Comrades OF the
Grand Army of the Republic to affili-
ate with us in all the remaining work
which the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie has yet TO do?
The Grand Army of the Republic is
ready to welcome you. Come in, Com
rades.
Most fraternally,
A. b. Franklin,
Commander Dept. VT G. A. r.
.Townshend, Vt,
September II, 1909
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-24
First Gun of Campaign

The first gun of the gubernatorial
campaign of 1910 has been fired with
a distinctness of sound that cannot be
mistaken. II is an unusually early
discharge-and the formal declaration
of Hon. Frederick Gleed Fleetwood, OF
Morrisville (erstwhile secretary of
state,) that he is in the field for gov
ernorship honors. injects an appreci-
able zest into the contest. One OF
Lamoille county's three mentioned
is now out in the Open-which no
doubt means that tne other two have
arranged to continue the quiet cher
ishing of their ambitions and await
the prevalence of clearer political
skies.
Whether Mr. Fleetwood really has
an idea that he can win the place he
seeks, is not definitely known, since
he does not take the public into his
confidence, save TO ask for tneir votes
and to declare that he will not spend
a cent to bring about his election
This latter announcement will tend
to produce apathy Morrisvilleward
among that class of workers (alleged
to exist even in staid old Vermont)
WHO ODtt dlt, anu III I've, Oll a lHtiNtAiiT
tile basis; but it is a refreshing hint
at the better brand of campaigning,
the success of which it remains for
Mr. Fleetwood to demonstrate
1t sometimes happens in politics as
elsewhere, That first come first ser
ved"-that delay in declaring ones
purposes results to 'the other fell
lows" advantage; and the decisive
action of the Morrisville gentleman
will be likely to compel other presum-
ed candidates to get out into the lime
light or run the risk of committals
in a direction away from their aspir-
ations. The effect of the firing of the
first gun will be an interesting thing
to watch.
AS the Barre Times remarks, Mr.
Fleetwood (who has warm personal
friends and admirers throughout the
state) has given us time to think it
over; and a great many things may
happen between this and the nomina-
ting convention date.-Ludlow Trib-
une
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-24

There seems to have developed a
rather curious situation in regard to
the governorship campaign. There is
a very considerable sentiment in ia.
vor of State Highway Commissioner
Charles w. Gates, but even those who
would like most to support Mr. Gate.
hesitate about urging him to run be
cause of the great work he is doing
for the state in his present capacity
AS state highway commissioner Mr.
Gates is in sole charge of the con
stantly growing department of state
road building, which has control OF
the expenditure of toward two hun
bred thousand dollars a year. In this
department he is doing so well and
so much for the state that his closest
friends question whether he is no,
earning more honor for himself and
credit for the state than he could pos
sibly gain by becoming governor
Moreover, Notwithstanding Mr.. Gates
high character, the minute he announ-
ces his candidacy for the governor
ship he will be obliged to resign as
highway commissioner or expose him
self to the charge of travelling around
the state in the interest of his can
didacy at public expense, while osten-
sibly deyoting himself entirely to
road building. PROFESSIONALLY such
charge would not be justified but
n man of Mr. Gates high ideals of
public service does not willingly ex.
pose himself even to suspicion.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-24
ATTRACTIVE LESSONS IN FRENCH

Mr.. Albert Cru, graduate of University 4
France and professor of French at Williams
College viii take charge during this SUMMIT
of Professor de Perpont's classes in Benning-
ton. For particulars write to Professor A. Cru
Pc. box. S76. Williamstown. Mass.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-24
M ARkED FOR THE
REAPER.

About three years ago Mrs. l.. Het-
kes of $40 Kirkham street, Oakland,
Cal, called at our Office with a girl
thirteen years old the latter weak and
listless. She stated that she had lost
a daughter Through kidney disease
and the doctors now told her this one
was in the same fix and that she could
live but short while.
The mother was nearly distracted
We told her that kidney disease was
really Inflammation of the kidneys and
that it was in fact inmurable under
the old diuretics, all of which were
kidney eXcitants but that an emolli-
ent for kidney inflammation had been
discovered and that the child would
probably recover The mother took
the treatment with ner.
We skip three years.
few months ago Mrs Hetkes call
ed with a beautiful young girl who
was the very picture of health. She
introduced her as the dying patient of
three years ago and told us to refer
anybody in the world to her. She
stated the recovery was complete
about the eleventh week.
For the only emollient for inflamma-
ton of the kidneys the world has ever
seen ask for Fulton's Renal Com
pound. Literature mailed free.
JOHN ]. FULTON CO
San Francisco, Cal
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-24
BABIES CURED
TOrturing, Disfiguring
HumOrs Speedily
Yield to CutiCura.

The suffering which Cuticura Soap
and Cuticura Ointment have alleviated
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-24
If YOU CAN'T STAY, DON'T COME
Citizens of Columbus, Ca, Angered at
President Taft's Action.

Columbus. Ga. Sept. 23.-Angered
because President Taft has cut short
his visit to tais city after elaborate
preparations had been made for his
reception and entertainment, a move
ment is under way to start a petition
asking the President to change his
route, as not to pass through Column
bus Conservative citizens do not ia
vor the movement, believeing 1t
would be an insult to the dignity of
the office.
Should Mr.. Taft come through Co
lumbus he will be given a cold recep-
ton. There will be no official recep-
ton and it is believed that not a sin
gle city official will appear at the. de-
pot Columbus has been anxious for
visit from Mr. Taft and the people
feel that in giving only a 10-minute
stop to the city he broke his prom
Use.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-24
Anty Drudge Helps Teddy.

! RHNe-" Mamma mamma, wants you to and play
ball wiz Teddy and me-"
lEoEer-"I can't little This washing will take all
the rest of the afternoon, and I'll be too tired to play
to-day"
AAsy Drudge-"My dear, if you had used Fels-Naptha
Road in cold lukewarm water to do this washing you
would have been through long ago and would have felt
fsah and bright enough to play with the children Your
clothes would have been cleaner and fresher too Just
Try IL next washday for sake and the chdrens
These is nothing worse than hot water
for making hands red and rough-unless it
Is common soap. Hot water and common
soap make combination bad for the skin.
Fel-Naptha soaphelps to keep the hands
nice. FelS-Naptha itself is healing to the
skin. Then, with Fels- Naptha, you never
have to put your hands into hot water.
Fels-Naptha soap washes clothes, washes
Dishes and does all the cleaning about the
house in cold or lukewarm water. No
boiling, no steam; not even hot water.
Your hands are not made tender, and
rough and red, but remain soft and smooth.
The work is done better, too, and in far
less time than in the old-fashioned way
with hot water. Why not have nice hands2
Follow the directions in the Fels-Naptha
red and green wrapper
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-24

b. A. Quinlan is our sole local
agent. Ask for bimonthly Bulletin of
late recoveries.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-24
OLD AGE SERVICE

secured by our Annuities. Maximum
guaranteed income for life at mini
mum cost. Write for rates.. giving
date of birth. Goth year. National
Life Insurance Co., Montpelier, Vt
(Mutual) Earle S. Kinsley, Agent
Rutland, VT.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-24

One misfortune follows another.
Last year Montpelier was troubled
with coli in its water supply and this
year the Capital city health officer
has discovered cockroaches in the
cream.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-24
FIR Va aeva eaitsr snf Publish

The fates seem to favor Bryan. In
the death of Governor Johnson, Provi-
dence has removed Bryan's only rival
fer the leadership of the Democratic
party.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-24

among skln-tortured, dis
figured infants and chill
dren, and the comfort
they have afforded worm
out and worried parents,
have led TO their adop-
ton in countless homes
as a priceless treatment
for the skin and blood.
Infantile and birth hui
mors, milk crust, SCALED
-. - $780,. E..
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-24

head, eczema, rashes, and every form
of itching, scaly; ,pimply skin and
fancy and childhood, are speedily, per-
manently, and economically cured, in
the majority Of cases, when all other
remedies suitable for children fail Cuti-
cura Remedies are guaranteed abso-
lutely pure. Sold throughout the world.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-18
MORE FLAGS ON TAFT ROUTE
Samson Asks Householders to Deco
rate Homes.
PRESIDENT TO SEE FINEST HOMES
Line of Drive VIII Carry Him Past
Many of Best Omaha Has-BOx
BuiIt at the Den for
Visitor.

Samson has issued a request that so far
as possible residences along the route
taken by President Taft Monday be dec
GRATED with American flags.
This route has met with the approval
of the entire board of governors. as it not
only takes the president by as many school
houses as the time permits, but also drives
him past many of the finest residences Of
the city. Among the p~rettiest drives along
the route is that through Bemis park,
with the beautiful houses high in the air
and surrounded with beautiful lawns.
The drive will 30 past the residences of
Bishop Scannell and Mrs. E. w. Nash, the
castle of G. A. Joslyn, the beautiful homes
OF C. N. Deitz, ]. E., Baum, E. A.. Cudahy
and many OF the others in the West Far
nam district. The run is also over the
boulevard from Harvey street to the new
Field club residence district and should
give President Taft the impression that
Omaha is a city of beautiful homes.
The Rock Island has arranged to haul
the presidential party from Des Moines
to Omaha on a special train as the first
section of No. II to run ahead Of that
train. Thus the president and his party
should reach Omaha on time, If not a
little ahead OF time. The special train will
be made up of the two private cars of the
presidential party, a baggage car Of the
New York Central railroad and the private
car of H. S. Cable, general superintendent
of the Rock Island.
Preparations are complete for the dinner
to be rendered to Mr.. Taft at the Omaha
club. 1t will be an elaborate affair. The
menu has been given out. The Omaha club
will spend $3.50 for flowers to decorate the
tables. The music will cost about SIS and
the walters 500. The menu cards viii be
elaborate and will cost about 81 apiece and
will be a beautiful souvenir Of the banquet.
Samson also wishes to remind all knights
of Ak-Sar-Ben that no visitors will be ad-
mitted to the den Monday night and that
all knights will be required TO present
both their membership cards and their but
tons at the door.
The private box which President Taft
and party will occupy at the den has been
built near the front and on the east side
Of the arena. II is so ranged that the
automobile carrying the president may
drive in the large door at the east side OF
the den and take the president TO the side
OF the box so he may step from the auto
mobile to the box. The fact that the presi-
dents train will run on special time from
Omaha to Denver will give time TO witness
the entire production OF 'PapTika schnit-
zel' and also to make 3 shOrt speech 70
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-18

the knights. He will speak from the presi-
dental box.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-18
CONFER ON TRIAL OF MABRAY
Rush and SwensOn Lay Plans for
Hearing of "MIke" Cases
Next Week,

Special Assistant United States District
Attorney General S. r. Rush and Postofflce
Inspector j. s, Swenson have been in con-
sultation relative to the j. c.. Mabray cases
to be brought to trial in the federal courts
for the Iowa district at Council Bluffs be-
ginning next week.
Many witnesses have been summoned in
the cases, some Of the Mikes" being from
Canada, who enjoyed several thousand dol
lars worth of experience with Mabray and
his confederates In their lack of judgment
on the results of a horse race and a prize
fight.
Assistant Attorney General Rush win as
sist United States District Attorney Temple
Of Iowa in the trial of the cases against
Mabray.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-18
"PEARY COULD NOT BEAT ME-"
E. o. Mccormick Says He Would Stick
for the Big Pole.
WOULD STAND NO THROW DOWN
Hartman Traffic Man Asserts Had
He Gone Most of Way He'd sure
Finish or Mix IL with the
DIscOVerer.

f. o. Mccormick, assistant traffic man
ager Of the Union Pacific, stopped in
Omaha for a short time Friday morning,
he was in his private car with a party OF
friends ana was enroute to Seattle to see
a. exposition. In his party besides him
set and wife were Judge J. Otis Humphrey
u-s wife OF Chicago; f. 5. Conway, mem
Der OF the Chicago Commerce association,
ana wife, and Miss Mabel Rogers Of Chi
cago. Judge Humphrey is on the United
States circuit bench OF Illinois and his
home is at Springfield.
The Mccormick party arrived on North
western train No. q and left for the west
OF Union Pacific train No. 8. During the
western trip the party will visit Seattle
and several points in California.
Mr.. Mccormick Insisted that his trip was
simply one for pleasure and that he had
thrown off business cares while making IT,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-18

pole myself Then he took along an Els
kimo and located the pole"
"He never would have done that with
me-" spoke up Mr.. Mccormick, IF 1 had
been in that party. He and 1 would nave
gone to the mat right there. 1 don't know
whether Peary did such a thing or not
n 1 am waiting to hear more from both
him and Cook, before declaring my fav-
orite. We don't need to worry much about
the pole yet, though. We haven't any
railroad running there"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-18

President Taft as the guest Of Ak-Sar-Ben,
is the big fireworks display to be given
Thursday night. These will include set
pieces galore, serial fireworks and blazes
Of all sorts.
The free attraction on the Kings High
way this year will be the Towards, wire
walkers, who will give their performances
$50 feet in the air. Other high priced free
attractions are bicycle and trapeze acts
on high wires stretched over the carnival
grounds.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-18

to giving her own soon-to-be-changed cog
nomen Furay asked for the mans age and
the home of his parents. Alas, she was
stopped. She did not know either one.
When told to call him up she explained
that he was in the guard house at Fort
Crook and was denying himself to visitors.
Furay was obdurate and the license was
not issued. 1t may be hat she is now
spending her evenings trying to run the
guard, since they are evidently very anH-
ious to get married as soon as the groom
can get out.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-18
Can't Get Away;
Pm in Guard House
Soldier Boy Lover Sends Sweetheart
for License, but She Gets
it Not.

1t is beginning to look as il John E. Bur
roughs, a soldier at Fort Crook, will have
to wait until he gets out of the guard
house before he can get married.
A day or two ago a woman appeared be
fore Clerk Furay and asked for a mar
riage license. The mans name she gave
as John e. Burroughs, but before she got
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-18

He was questioned as to who would be
made Mr.. Harriman's successor as presi-
dent Of the Union Pacific and answered
that he was unable to give any information
on that point. He said the question was
had been given out yet.
Mr.. Mccormick and his two guests, Mr..
Conway and Judge Humphrey, were ready
to discuss any subject as they sat in the
managers car at the station, Mr.. Conway
brought up the subject of the North pole
and said that he was a Cook man. He
asked both Mr.. Mccormick and Judge
Humphrey which of the two discoveries
they supported. The Judge said he was
with Cook, but the traffic manager said he
had reserved his decision until he heard
further details relating to the two expedi-
tions.
Like Cooks Actions.
II like the manner in which Cook has
told his story to the world" said judge
Humphrey. He surely has proven himself
a gentleman and that goes a great ways
with me-"
That's just the point I make" declared
Mr.. Conway. Cook has refused TO gel
into a controversy with Peary and has
acted like a gentleman all through the af.
fair. 1 am acquainted with a man who
made a trip with Peary once and he told
me that Peary mistreated his men.
"see what he did on this last trip. wher
he got within striking distance of the pole
he said to the real men in his party; Yot
fellows stay back there; 1 will go find th'
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-18
BIG W FOR THE KING
Elaborate Display VIII He One of the
Features of the Fall
Feaffvftfea.

one of the big features of the fall
festivities overlooked In the rush of the
important matters, including the visit of