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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21
"PRESTo, CHANeE."
nErOHE

They went TO n swell restaurant
And ordered tender duck.
But when he went TO carve the bird
lie met with awful luck.
Tho oily duck slipped on the plate
And splashcd into her lap
The gravy bowl turned upside down
And covered her with pap.
But ala that maiden Jaw him good
And cry. "Oh. my new drcssi"
And drop him like n rodhot cake
For making such a mcssg
Oh. moi She whispered. "Lovcy dove
Don't mind. That's nothing. dear.
Just move that screen a little bit
So We can spoon In here"
AFTER.
They went into their dining room.
Where a tine feast was spread.
She took her place down al the foot
While he sat az the head
Again the duck skipped on the plate
And few into her lap.
Her Paris silk was All smcared up
With oily. Juicy sap.
Then quick the table went slam. bangi
The dishes an broke NJ
He lay beneath the whole shehang.
All sncnrrd with red catChup
And ON the top there danced some one.
ls this that maiden sweet
Who called him lovcy dove before.
But nov kicks with both feetf
G. n. BARNtrz
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21
RUNAWAY ON UNION STREET
{. E. 6ottum's Horse Spoiled Several
Dollars Worth Of Groceries

A horse hitched to the delivery
wagon OF h. Il. Bottum and driven by
Harry Hufnagle was frightened this
morning on Union street, and ran
away, breaking the sleigh and damag-
ing several dollars worth Of grocer
les.
Young Hufnagle was delivering
goods at the home of Mrs. Charles
Moon, leaving the horse by the curb
ing. A man carrying a buggy top
came down the sidewalk and the
horse became frightened, running
down Union street and striking a tel
ephone pole, demolishing the sleigh
and stringing groceries along Union
street. The horse ran back to the
store where 1t stopped.
The damages to groceries amounted
to about five dollars and the sleigh
was badly broken up
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21
BUFF WYANDoTTEs
a Visit to Famous Breeding Plant
in South SALISBURY

w Ooutn ondItSDury
After a very pleasant time spent at
South SALISBURY at the estate of the
late Mr.. Madison, breeder Of much
note in Buff Wyandottes, it may be
of interest to many to learn of the
work that has been accomplished on
this plant.
After the death of Mr.. Madison the
stock OF about $50 birds were care
fully culled by Mr.. ingalls, of Green
vile, N. Y, and all birds not I'D to
standard were disposed of for market
thus leaving only the pick of this
fine flock, about 425 in number which
were purchased by N. d. Bottum who
had been in charge of the care of
these birds for some years.
In this flock as a whole Mr.. Bottum
mas without a doubt flock of Bluffs
that are Buff and one that cannot be
excelled in this country.
Just a brief word regarding these
fowls as they run and as they look
TO one entering pen. The first
thing perhaps that catches the eye is
the immense amount of bone shown
in all Of the birds both males and fe-
males, then the evenness in surface
color, this being about as near per.
feet as 1t can be bred, in all OF these
birds II seems TO be a much more diff.
hcult task to pick one Of uneven sur.
race color than It is in many flocks
to select an even surface.
In shape they are a Wyandotte all
over, being especially strong in width
OF saddle and spread of tail, also in
fullness in breast. The body is set
low on clean legs of good color. ~
Mr.. Bottum has sold many birds for
breeding since taking over the stock
and has many yet to select from as
the writer found about rs hens, 40
pullets and about 20 cock birds and
cockerels.
The breeding pens will be mated by
February 18th ready for business and
contain many of the big Boston and
New York winners or sons and daugh
ters OF them.
Owing to the illness and death OF
Mr.. Madison, In November no birds
from this plant were shown this sea.
son, but had they been shown they
would certainly have upheld the past
and. doubtless added much more TO
the laurels OF tie plant.
Dr. II. r. Bristol
Bennington, Vt, Feb G, 1911.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21
MAKES RAILROAD HISTORY
Purchase Of Stock In Rutland System
Indicates New Policy

Purchase OF stock In Rutland system
Indicates New Policy
New Haven. Conn. Feb 21.-In
railroad circles here the purchase by
the New Haven system of tho half in
terest in the Rutland system is re.
garded as OF great Importance in
three aspects.
II shortens the northern route to
Montreal by about 10 miles and over
a new route Of lower grades than the
old line; with the building OF link of
10 miles between South Vernon, VI.
and Brattleboro, the New Haven Sc
cures its own line to Montreal and
connection with through business
westward. and in the Grand Trunk
New Haven controversy II gives the
New Haven road additional opportun.
lty for diversion OF traffic from its
adversary. notably business origina.
ting on the Boston and Maine.
A more important aspect of the Rut
land purchase is It's forecast OF clio
ser traffic relations between the New
York Central and New Haven corpor.
atoms, Joint and equal ownership by
two large railroad companies in
considerable railroad system being un
precedented in New England railroad
history.
The policy OF the New Haven has
been, so far as possible TO equalize
the interests IN itself OF the New York
Central and Pennsylvania. One step
In that policy was the sale some
months ago by the New Haven to the
Pennsylvania of large block OF New
Haven stock.
Logically there should be an Offset
to the Pennsylvania for the Rutland
and this In part appears in
announced Mans OF the New Haven for
now pushing through rapidly the New
York connecting line with the Penn.
sylvania via Hell Gate. which is under
stood to have encountered hitherto
some opposition on the part OF the
New York Central
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21
OEPEW COULD HAVE
BEEN REELECTED
j. S. SENATOR
Republicans Had Majority Pres
emf on gath Ballot
DEMOCRATS GIVEN A SCARE
Refusal to Vote Because Of oentls-
mans Agreement Prevented an
Election

Albany Feb. 21.-Although the
deadlock over the election of a Uni.
ed States senatir is apparently as far
from settlement as 1t was a month
ago. the Republicans had their Demo
cratic opponents worried bit yes
terday when 1t was discovered before
the Gath joint ballot was taken at
noon that the Republicans outnum.
bered the organization Democrats
among the quorum of members pres
ent. 1t all came about through an
unofficial pairing arrangement, and IL
some OF the Republicans had not re-
FUSED to vote on the ground that they
were bound by a gentleman's agree
ment not to cast their ballot until
the return of the Democrats with
whom they We're pairing, Chauncey
M. Depew might have been reelected
AS 1t was he came within a few votes
of it.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21
PROPERTY TO BE CONVEYED
according to Provisions of Will OF
Late Rufus B. Godfrey

Attorney W. ]. Meagher, as execu-
tor OF the will OF the late Rufus B.
Godfrey, will some time during the
present week turn over to the graded
school district and the local Y. M. g.
A. two pieces Of property, the house
occupied by the testator as a resi-
dence on Beech street and a store
building on Main street. Mr.. God.
freys will provided that these two
pieces OF property should 20 two
thirds to the graded school district
and one third to the Y. M. G. A. The
Beech street residence in the inyen-
tory filed with the local probate Office
is listed at $4,000 and the store at
$500.
Since the act of the recent legIsla-
ture giving the Boston and Maine
railroad the privilege OF operating
steam trains over the Bennington and
North Adams electric line 1t has been
rumored that the residence on Beech
street might be purchased by the rail-
road company to be used as a station
and Bennington headquarters.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21
THINK ENGINEER A sMUGGLER
Federal Officials Get One on the D. &
n. for Bringing In Opium

Albany. Feb. 21.-Federal officers
have arrested Walter Funk, a Della
ware and Hudson engineer running
between Albany and Montreal, on the
charge Of smuggling opium. He was
held in $4,000 bail for trial Thursday.
The officers say Funk has been bring
ing the drug into the United States
for the past year and a half. They
allege that he secreted 1t in pals of
butter which he often brought from
the north and then shipped II to New
York. Boston and New Haven. This
is the fifth arrest in this city for al
legged opium smuggling within two
weeks.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21
1888 CATHOLICS IN VERMONT
Figures for tie Burlington Diocese
from "a Official Directory

Chicago, H., Feb. 2l.-Advance
sheets OF the Official Catholic Direc-
tory give the following statistics re-
garding the Burlington diocese (Which
Is conterminous with Vermont;) Pop
ulation (Catholic) about 1888; bish.
ops, one; clergy, lO7; churches, ~;
missions with churches, 30; total
churches, 9; seminaries, one: colleges
for boys. four; academies for girls,
six; parishes with schools, 20; chill.
dren attending, 6l29; orphan asylums
one; orphans, 2OS; homes for aged,
one; total children in Catholic insti.
tutions, 6l61.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21
CLOSE VOTE LIKELY
Mayoralty and License Contests In
Burlington Attracting Attention

Burlington, Feb. 21.-The political
situation In this city is narrowing
down to the question Of mayor and II.
cense or no license ]. Il. Burke and
Robert Roberts are in the field for
mayor and both sides claim the vic.
tory The vote will undoubtedly be
close.
Some clergymen have been agitat.
ing no license for some time but
there has been no active campaign
in the city. The vote. however will
probably be close as there is a grow.
ing sentiment that the law has not
been well enforced during the past
year.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21
MAYOR GREENE RENoMINArEp
VIII Make No Special Effort to Sc.
cure Reelection

st. Adams, Feb. 2i.-The Republl.
can caucus Saturday night renomlna.
ted Selden c. Greene for mayor. b.
c. Hawkins the present incumbent
was named for city clerk and treas.
urer' The Democrats named ]. +. o..
Nell for mayor and w. A. Shannon
for clerk and treasurer.
Mr.. Greene 10 not anxious for the
ONCE again and does not intend 10
make special effort to secure Il
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21
ANrLsALooN LITERATURE

Clarence J. Ferguson Sending Il All
Over the State
Burlington, Feb 2i.-Clarenco J.
Ferguson, superintendent Of the Yer.
mont Antl-Saloon League Is busv
sending out tons OF literature and
letters as a part Of statewide cam.
paign for no license. He has made
no campaign IN this city. however.
He plans 10 food the State with
literature and also TO have series
OF meetings covering the present wet
sections and all dry places where
the Issue this year Is IN doubt
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21

The Arabs claim that Ewes tomb is
at Jlddath, the seaport Of Mecca. The
temple there. which has a palm grow
ing out Of the solid stone, Is supposed
10 be the last resting place Of the FIRST
woman.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21

A privateer is a ship belonging to
private parties, but sailing with IL
cense termed n letter Of marque)
granted by n government In time OF
war to seize. plumber and destroy tho
ships OF the enemy.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21
nd When You Stretch You Are Likely Experience Painful Results
NO PAPER TOMORROW

Tomorrow, the anniversary of
Washington's birthday being legal
holiday, there will be no issue OF the
Evening Banner. Thursdays paper
VIII contain the news Of both DAYS.
The business office will be open from
to IL a. m.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21
BASEBALL eUNTs

Cable II. Prindle of Wllllamstown
who last year played with the Ben.
nington baseball team, yesterday re.
ceived a contract from the Waterbury
Connecticut league baseball team the
management asking him TO report nj
the beginning OF the season Prindle
is one OF the best fielders in this sec.
tion and was one OF the best slugeers
in the four city league last season
lie is. not aware who recommended
him TO the Waterbury management
but thinks IL was Fred Eastman. who
played in this section couple OF
years. Mr.. Prindle is not decided
what he will do about the matter but
Is considering the offer and expects
to 20 down to Waterbury in the near
future to talk the matter over with
the manager
"Cabe' started baseball with indie.
pendent teams in the county and
was n member OF the old Blackinton
team which "Bill" Mackey managed
In 1899 he played with the Dalton
team which won the county champi.
onship. He has never been in lea.
que baseball but two years ago ne
received an offer from the Lowell
club In the New England league. lie
aid not accept as business prevented
him from leaving.
Last season he played with the Ben
nlngton team and two years ago play.
ed part OF the season with the North
Adams team.
If he should accept the terms OF tho
waterbury management. the club will
nave secured one OF the best men In
the line OF a fielder He is accurate
In his Judgment OF fy balls generasly
covering right field. lie was one of
the fastest baserunners in the league
last season. lie Is generally liked
by all his associates and takes great
interest In his wordsworth Adams
Herald.
There will be meeting at the VII.
son House In North Adams ON Tho
10Th OF the managers OF the Bennlnr.
ton, Pittsneld and North Adams
teams for the purpose OF Arranging
the schedule OF games for the com.
ing season. Plttsileld will be repre-
scented by Captain.Manager Garry and
DOC. Curtin, Bennington by Mana.
ger p. 5 Higgins and North Adams
by John II Flaherty who IL netting In
the capacity OF manager for the Tun.
mel City while negotiations are IN
progress for a recognizing OF the |
association.
Letters have recently been receiy. |
ed here by friends OF Thomas Leonard !
who capialned the Bennington team
during the hrst half OF the season OF
islV' He is now a student I'm the |
law school OF the University Of Ten.
nessee at Chattanooga.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21
MARRIED AT NORTH ADAMS

Bennington Couple Quietly Welded
In Tunnel City
George Henry Hall OF 22i Stafford
street, Bennington and Miss Grace
Isabelle Dryer OF 107 Beech street,
the same town, were married Wednes-
day evening at the Congregational
church In this city by Rev. DR.. T. n.
Busneld They left the city immedl-
ately following the oeremony.-North
Adams Herald.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21

Take LAXATIVE BRoMo ouinine
Tablets. Druggists refund money n
n fails 70 cure. r. w. GROVES sig
nature II on each box. $50
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21
MUMPs RAGE AT CORNELL

WNWWNTTFW w "
Advertise for Accommodations
Ithaca, N. Y, Feb. 2l-Cornell stu.
Tents IN with the mumps have so
ovcrtaxed the capacity OF the inflrm.
airy that the university win advertise
for accommodations for the cases.
Thirty.fve students are now severe
~ m with the humps and the epldem.
ic is still spreading.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21
PosTALs EASY WINNERS

Ran Away From Baptist Church Ten
Pin Five
The postoffice ten pin team last eve
ming defeated the Baptist church five
In the Y. NJ. c. A. tournament by a
big margin. The score:
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21

Following is an enumeration of
products that would be effected by
the ratification of the Canadian reci-
procity which would DC Of particular
interest to Vermont:
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21

For eastern New York and western
Vermont fair and continued cold to-
night and Wednesday.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21

Matinee everyP. NJ. NJ , o'clock
So 20 ali. Same as night show
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21

Mr.. GEORGE LUcIER will sing
Il want to buy a little bit of love
sud LET me call you sweetheart
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21

A very fine comedy by the great
Vi,agraph Co. This picture is a
scream; don't miss it.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21

Probabilities for This Section for the
Next ~ Hours
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21

Letters have recently been receiv.
ed here by friends OF Thomas Leonard
VINO capitalized the Bennington team
during the frst half OF the season OF
1910. He is now student IN the
law school OF the University Of Ten.
nessee at CHATTANOOGA.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21
Baptist Church
WEATHER FORECAST

Total pins. 2277; average Use. ~
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-02-21
Cream separators

Up to the present time 40 per
cent duty has prevented Canadian
manufacturers OF cream separators
from Offering their product to Amer.
lean farmers and creameries. Under
the pending agreement this duty will
be entirely done away with by the
United States. and the extensive Can.
adam cream separator industry will
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-12-09
Resolutions OF Respect

With regret we record the death
OF Brother John R. Walters, q
member OF Elkton Council, No
22, Jr. o. U. A. M, and we cher
.sh a fond remembrance of one
who whIle resident OF our com
munity was ever faithful in his
attendance at the sessions OF on
Council and an active worker in
advancing the principles OF our
Order. his untimely death sewers
the links OF 1raternal brotherhood
in the bonds o. Virtue, Liberty
and Patriotism, and we mourn
with those who shared kindred ties
OF affection and high esteem which
bound him to them.
Resolved, / hat we extend to his
relatives, our sympathy, and trust
they may be comlorted in theil
deep sorrow by the Great Com
.orter, who dries the tears OF those
who weep and renews again in the
heavenly kingdom all earthly ties
severed in this world and makes
our happiness complete beyond
The grave.
Resolved, That our charter be
draped; a copy OF these resolu-
tons be engrossed upon the Coun-
Gil records; copy sent to the rela-
tiVes OF our deceased brother, I'M
der seal, and given to the news
papers with the request that they
publish the same.
=. Nj, Groves,
J. J. Keys,
Joseph H. Sloan,
Committee.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-12-09
Saved His Wife's Life

My wife would have been in her grave
today" writes o. II. Brown, of Musca-
dine, Ala iii it had not been for DR..
King New discovery. She was down
in her bed, not able to get up without
help. She had severe bronchial trou-
ole and a dre-jful cough. / got her a
bottle OF Dr. hipg's New Discovery, and
she soCn began to mend, and was we'll in
short time" Infallible for coughs and
colds, it the most reliable remedy ON
earth for desperate lung trouble, hemor-
rhages .lagr.ppe, asthma, hay fever,
Group and whooping cough. soc, 100.
Trial ho,tle free. Guaranteed by ALL
DRUGGISTS.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-12-09

Mrs. CT
Mrs. John
been visit
Mr.. Flo
at home I
Miss G.
month of
Kirkus D,
Mr.. and
ter Rober
Miss F.
n. j., and
Chester
Thanksgiv
Mr.. and
era) days
Mr.. G. F
reunion o.
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Of Port De-
ing Mr.. an
Miss Ed
addressed
ton last S
was "MargI
ly Centre
Mrs. Eli
have return
with her
Minor, in
Mr.. Geo
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Mrs. job
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Mrs. CT
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Mr.. Flo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-26

tor Dick, whom he succeeds, he would be
readily mistaken in public. for a heavy
tragedian.
A few years ago, while Tom L. Johnson
was making his famous "red-devil' cam
paign tour through Ohio, he happened
into a tent meeting presided over by
Pomerene. who made such an impression
upon the single tax mayor that the latter
took him up and brought him to the front
as candidate for governor in 1908. Before
that Pomerene had been merely city So
licitor and prosecuting attorney. Despite
Johnsons backing he lost the guberna-
torial nomination, but two years later
last fall-was elected lieutenant governor.
He graduated at Princeton five years
after Woodrow Wilson got his sheepskin
there and then took his degree at the
Cincinnati law school, six years after
William H. Taft had there been grad
uated. He now hung up his shingle in
President Mckinley's home town, Canton.
He is a non-smoker. like Taft and
Roosevelt; is serious minded and a good
listener, but not a political mixer" He
was married nineteen years ago, but has
no children. The better to aid him in his
campaigns, his wife has made study
of politics. and in order to measure his
popularity she subscribes to the press
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-26

a radical reversal Of the social order Of
events.
Charles Fletcher Johnson. to whom he
will hand that garment, is the first demo-
cratic senator who has been elected from
the Pine Tree state within fifty-four
years.
Vastly more tedious than the straight
and sudden squirt which Luke Lea made
up the political hill has been the climb
which johnson has made in the same di-
rection, by zigzag paths and over perilous
of years before the Tennessee prodigy
first saw the light. he had little more Of
heritage than an unusual share of red
blood and ambition.
Bent on getting into college, he left his
fathers humble home and taught school
in three Maine towns. Then he went
down to Boston, and, while serving as
clerk in railroad office, slept in hall
room, and finally saved enough money to
enter Bowdoin, the alma mater of Tom
Reed. And having spent two years at
that college, he settled down to study
law. although he now had a young wife
Soon after starting his practice at Wa
terville. Me, he was elected alderman Of
the town, and before his shingle had been
dimmed by six winters he received the
democratic nomination for Congress-a
fOrlorn hope" which was intrusted to
him again in the following campaign.
Meanwhile he had become mayor and
that was the loftiest stepping stone by
which he had mounted senatewards by
the time the democratic landslide of last
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-26

clipping bureaus and complies voluminous
scrapbooks.
A seat in the lower house of Congress
has been the final stepping stone in the
Senateward climb of two republicans
Miles Poindexter of Washington and
c. f. Townsend of Michigan. as well as
of their two democratic colleagues, q. NJ
Hitchcock of Nebraska and John Sharp
Williams of Mississippi.
Poindexter is forty-two years old and
a radical insurgent, while Townsend is
fifty-four and a near-insurgent. Hitch
cock man Of fifty-one. is the editor and
owner of the Omaha World-Herald. He
and John Sharp Williams were both edu-
Gated in Germany. the former at Baden
Baden and the latter at Heidelberg.
Although not to become senator from
Mississippi until Saturday. Williams was
nominated by the primaries as far back
as 1907 and elected in 1908. He has been in
the House eighteen years, was the demo-
cratic nominee for Speaker in the past three
Congresses, and would probably now be
the Speaker-elect of the next Congress
had he not received the senatorial cleo
ton and handed the floor leadership of the
House democrats over to Champ Clark.
The Hoosier toga so long worn by
Beveridge will be handed to John w.
Kern, a democrat, who needs introduce
ton to the reader no more than does Will
liams. Before receiving the nomination