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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-06
OFF TO War
Are 100000 Foreigners In
The United States

New York, July PA hundred thou
sand Italian Americans, some of
whom are reservists in the Italian
army ARE answering the call of the
thousand sons of Italy are on the high
seas bound for the war. 1t is esti-
mated that it will take nearly all
summer to secure accommodations
for the men aboard the ships bound
for the Mediterranean. They are
an eager lot, according to all reports,
and many of them have never had
military experience.
1t is said that Italy will use the con-
tingent from America in the reserve
forces, which are now being recruited
rapidly. The reservists will have the
first call for actual service at the
front, while the recruits are being put
through the necessary course of train
ing.
Parades of the volunteers are being
held in all the big cities of the east,
where the Italian headquarters are
gay with the flag of the mother coun-
try. The enthusiasm of the Italian
colonies knows no bounds, and the
men who are to go to the front are
veritable heroes.
1t is said that the Greeks of this
country are impatient for chance to
enlist. The old hatred of the Turk
burns steadily among the half mil
lien of Greeks along the Atlantic sea-
beard. When the Graeco-Bulgarian
war broke out some years ago, the
Greeks flocked back to the standard
by the thousands from the United
States, and they maintain an organi-
Zation in America which is ready to
send 100000 men in short notice to
aid King Constantine if he is forced
by popular demand to throw his coun
try into the war on the side of the
allies. It is the belief of the leaders
of the American Greeks that such an
action would heal much of the friction
that remains among the Balkan states
and would push the Turks beyond
reach of the Mediterranean.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-06
STORM
Does Considerable Damage
Near Gambler
Portion Of Railroad Bed Is
Washed Out

The seat of Thursdays big storm
seems to have been in the vicinity of
Gambler, reports from all over the
county indicating that little, If any,
damage was done save in this local
ity.
Hardscrabble Run, Immediately
east of Gambler, became riotous and
uncomfortable and its rising waters
washed out all the flood gates and
left many fields at the mercy of this
ordinarily quiet rivulet. A number
of chickens lost heir lives, while hay
was washed out from several barns.
A number of cows belonging to Frank
Dial were swept into the rampaging
stream and were rescued only with
difficulty.
The heavy rain washed out the
Pennsylvania railroad bed one mile
east of Gambler and the south-bound
train, No 52S, due in this city at 500
p. m, was held up for nearly an hour,
while repairs We're made to the bed.
The house owned by Ned Flecknoe
and situated near Gambler was
struck by lightning and portion of
the weatherboarding torn loose. No
damage was done to the occupants.
Throughout the county, farmers
were complaining Friday that their
wheat had been washed down by the
torrents of rain which fell. In Pike
township the rain was supplanted
for a while by a slight fall of hail
which did some damage. A number
OF large trees, just west of Brandon,
were blown over by the storm.
In the city of Mt. Vernon, the rain
did more good than harm, giving the
streets thorough, good cleaning.
Main street was at one time almost
covered with water.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-06

Mr.. l.. s. Kinnaird of Logansport,
Ind, arrived in the city Friday. He
will remain here until Tuesday, when
with Mrs. Kinnaird, Mrs. Brooks,
Christine and Wayne Kinnaird, he re-
turns to Logansport to reside.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burgess McManis and
daughter, Barbara, of Rochester, N.
y, arrived in the city Friday for a
visit. Mr.. McManis will return next
week, while his wife and daughter
will remain here for while.
Elder and Mrs. U. S. Ashton return
ed Friday to their home in Academia.
Elder Ashton has been attending the
Panama Pacific exposition IN CAL
fornia, while Mrs. Ashton has bee1
visiting with relatives in Lincoln,
Nebraska.
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MONSTER
zeppelinS Carry Motors OF
45O.HOfSe Power

Built, as all Zeppelins, with rigid
framework of REINFORCED aluminium,
it has 1S napkin ring" sections, each
containing gas-tight bag-a total
gas capacity of $4,000 cubic feet.
Over the framework is stretched a
heavy cloth covering that is imper-
vious to rain or snow. Upper and
lower decks furnish surfaces that
serve the same purpose as do the
wings of an aeroplane when it is de-
sired to drive to higher or lower air
level.
The individual gas bags are not full
ly inflated before the ship starts on a
voyage. Slack is left to accommo-
date the expansion of the gas in the
upper air. Safety valves with indicat-
ors on the pilots desk make 1t almost
impossible for any one of the gas
bags to explode, but six of them
might come to grief at one time with
out endangering the airship, SO great
is the sustaining power resulting from
speed.
The Viktoria Luise is just short of
486 feet in length and has a breadth
OF 46 feet. 1t has three six-cylinder
Diesel motors, with combined horse
power of 450. A speed<of so miles an
hour has been made with atmospheric
conditions normal. If, by some rare
accident, two of it's motors should be
rendered useless, the third would be
sufficient to give headway against a
twenty-seven mile wind.
Captain Hacker, who commanded
the Viktoria Luise in the trip from
Dusseldorf to Berlin, has little fear
of storms while his ship is in the air
though Germany's excellent weather
forecast service makes it possible fol
flights to be SO timed as to avoid the
ordinary windstorm. Each Zeppelin
carries a wireless outfit, and from
land stations obtains report of wealth
er conditions.-Ti Bits.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-06
JUICES
From Various Fruits Prepar.
ed Successfully
Government Prepares BulIe.
tin On The Subject

Washington, ID. c., July 2-That the
juice of currants, blackberries, black
raspberries, sour cherries and peach.
es may be prepared and kept as sue.
cessfully as grape juice and by the
same methods, has now been demon
strated in the course of series of
Investigations which the United
State department of agriculture is
conducting into the whole complicat-
ed question of fruit juices. The juices
of the fruits mentioned, it has been
found, retain their characteristic col
or and flavor after being sterilized
and stored away and can, therefore,
be made available for use throughout
the year in households and at soda
fountains, etc. In this way it is
thought much fruit that has hitherto
been allowed to go to waste may be
utilized.
For reasons, however, which are
not as yet very thoroughly under
stood, the various fruits differ greatly
in the effects of sterilization upon
them. Thus strawberry juice and red
raspberry juice lose their distinctive
colors and flavors very readily and,
therefore, cannot be put on COM
mercial scale and marketed as grape
juice is. Lemon and orange juices
also undergo peculiar changes in
favor after sterilization and no salts
factory method of overcoming this
obstacle has yet been developed.
Lemon juice is the more promising
but this, too, can not yet be manufac-
tured commercially with success.
With certain precautions, on the 9TH
er hands, pineapples can be made to
yield sterilized juice of very at
tractive flavor which should have dis
tinct commercial possibilities. The
juice, however, should be kept in cold
storage at from 80 to 35 degrees
Fahrenheit after sterilization, and
most of the suspended material
should be removed by means of a
milk separator or by filtration More
over, where atmospheric oxygen is
rot excluded in the process of bot
Ting, the juice darkens gradually.
These studies have already resulted
in the discovery of method produc-
ing concentrated apple juice by freez-
ing which is not only easier to ship
than ordinary cider, but which will
keep much better. In the concentrat-
ed juice, however, the presence of
sugar and acid retards the growth of
micro-organisms and fermentation is
very slow.
Similar methods are now being
tried out with other fruits. In the
case of grape fruit juice, for example,
concentration to syrup by freezing
is easily accomplished and it appears
al the present time that there are
great commercial possibilities in this
method although further experiments
ton is considered necessary. In the
case Of fruits whose juices do not suf-
fer any change Of flavor or color IN
the process of sterilization, this meth.
cd is not likely to prove necessary.
Details of the experiments with a
discussion of the effects upon the var.
ious fruits of sterilization, exposure
to atmospheric oxygen after steriliza
ton, storage, at low temperature, etc.,
etc, are contained in new bulletin
of the United States department OF
agriculture, No. 241, Studies on Fruit
Juices"
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-06

Mr.. c. H. Blair returned Friday to
Harrietsville, o., after a two weeks
visit with friends in the city.
Mr. /. M. Wolverton left Friday for
Pointe aux Pins, Mich, where he will
spend the weekend with his family at
their summer cottage.
City Solicitor Harry w. Koons
made a business trip to Mt. Gilead
Friday.
Mrs. Frank Place of Newark is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. George F..
Owens.
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ments of their work by Dr. William
Clark and Or. F. T. Van Buren, of the
College Of Physicians and Surgeons.
The particular feature Of the costume
s that it is made from top to toe in
one piece, which includes a kind of
hood for the head furnished with mica
covered eye holes. The garment is
to protect the physicians from insects
which carry typhus germs. AS fur
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-06

***There will be an ice cream fes-
tival at the Woods church on Satur-
day evening, July 10. All cordially in
vited.
Miss Amy Ewing left Friday for To
ledo. where she will attend the state
Christian Endeavor convention. Miss
Ewing will also visit with friends in
Toledo for week.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-06

ther precaution against the germ car
rying insects the physicians will sleep
In cots suspended by ropes covered
with a tar preparation. The physic.
ians will also wear undercIothes Of
silk, which will be washed In gasoline
each night to guard against Infection.
The accompanying photograph shows
scene on the deck of the ship just
before she sailed from New York.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-06
Entertained

Entertained
With Reception
Mrs. Charles A. Bird and Mrs. Dan.
iel X. Bird received Thursday after
noon at the latter's home from 2 to
o'clock and from 4 to o'clock.
Eighty ladies called during the ap.
pointed hours. Light refreshments
were served.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-06
sOIIETY NOTES

Entertained
With Auction
Mrs Alice Stamp entertained at
auction at her home on West Sugar
street Thursday afternoon. The hon
or guest was Mrs. Kibler of Hillboro,
O., who is visiting with Mrs. Charles
V. Critchfield, East High street.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-07-06

When the Greek steamer Themisto.
cIes sailed from New York she had on
board twenty-five Columbia university
students bound for Nish on a Servian
relief mission and thirty.five physic-
ans from different parts Of the coun-
try who make up a Red Cross expedi-
ton. These doctors are taking with
them new costume which has been
invented to meet the special require
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Entertained
With House Party

With House Party
Mrs. Judson Ball, north Of Mt. Yer
non, is entertaining with house
party this week. The guests are:
Miss Katherine Donovan, Paducah,
KY, Mrs. w. p. Anawalt, daughters
Margaret and Eleanor, and son, Put
nam, Miss Bertha Brent, Mrs. Rose
Stoeckle and daughter, Louise, Mr.,
Ralph Bergen and Mr.. Guy Moore, all
OF Columbus, Mr.. Joseph Hinde, Miss
Isabel Hinde and Mr.. John Hinde OF
Sandusky. Mr.. Frank McGrath of Co
lumbus.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-12-16
ESTABLISHES c O
President Wilson Shakes Hands with
1000 People.

Columbus. Ohio, Dec. l0.-President
Wilson to-day established a new record
for number of persons greeted by him at
a public reception, according to men,
bers of his official party. Seven thou
sand persons passed through the rotunda
of the State capitol and shook his hand,
it was estimated, while 5000 was con-
sidered the largest number ever before
greeted by the President on a similar
occasion.
At four O'Clock, after the President
and others in the receiving line had
shaken the hands of nearly 6.DD men.
women and children for an hour and a
half, DR.. Cary T. Grayson, the Presi-
dents physician, recommended that the
capitol doors be closed and no others
admitted. The President refused to give
his approval.
Mrs. Frank b. Willis, wife of Ohio's
Governor, was at the head of the suff-
rage delegation. She gave President
Wilson a bouquet of yellow roses and
white lilies-of-the-valley. representing
s~uffragists' colors.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-12-16
MT. SINAI TEMPLE.
George I. whitney of Bellows Falls
Is Elected ulustriOus POtentntc.

Montpelier. Dec. 1O.-Gcorge l.. Whitney
of Bellows Falls was elected illustrious
potcntate of Noun Sinai Temple at the
annud meeting held this afternoon in the
city hall. Covers We're laid for 400 mem
bers at the banquet which was held fol-
lowing the business session in .irmory
hall. At the ceremonial session follow
ing seven candidates We're initiated. 1t
was unanimously voted to have a COM
mittce appointed by the potentate to
draw up resolutions of sympathy for the
Hon. Joseph \. DeBoer, who has been
i'll for several months and whose condi-
ton fails to improve.
Following Is the list of officers elected:
lllustrious potentate, George |. Whitney.
Bellows Falls; chief rabban, Fred G..
ellison, St. Johnsbury: assistant rabban,
Franklin Barney, Jr., Springfield; high
priest and prophet, Collins Blakely;
oriental guide, Charles e, Grossarth, Bur-
%lington; treasurer, David \. Elliott,
White River Junction; recorder. Charles
IL. I~ieaton. Montpelier: representatives
to the imperial council to be held at
Buffalo, y. y, Illustrious Potentate
George |. Whitney, Otto V. Green of
Bethel, William j. Tindall of Montpelier
and Joseph NJ. Bullock of Northfeld,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-12-16
REALISM OF THE MOVIES
Thrills Sometimes Constitute the Actors
Last Appearance.

Plunging overheard from a burning
yacht which had been soaked with tur-
pentine and charged with dynamite,
struggling on life RATS in a rough sea,
racing ar automobile over the edg of A
dock-diving with it and taking a chance
on getting out-such things put realism
into the movies, give thousands their an
ticipated thrills and sometimes constitute
the actors last appearance. For often
just as real as the actual destruction OF
a ship is the fight for life portrayed be-
fore the lens Of the camera, as may be
judged from a number Of pictures appear-
ing in the Popular Mechanics Maya
zine.
The staging of a photoplay which in
cluded the burning and sinking of n small
craft and the battle OF those aboard it
to save themselves recently was UNDER
taken by Il producer. Without flames.
explosions and the loss of the vessel.
the picture would lack realism. Unless
men fought for their lives while the
fire ate its way to the dynamite which
would break the boat amidship, reality
again would be sacrificed. When the
picture was run on the screen IL lacked
none of these qualities. Large quantities
of turpentinc saturated the ship after it
had been stripped of its interior fittings.
Explosives We're placed aboard. 1t then
had to be fired while those who did the
work took "A chance. As the flames ana
smoke shot mast high. the men jumped
into the sea, were picked up by boats
and carried to a safe distance away be-
fore the terrific blast tore the craft
apart and sent it to the bottom
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-12-16
WILSON
TELLS NEEDS Of
COUNTRY CHURCH

Columbus. Dec. 1O--In his evening
address before the closing session of
the National Conference of the Com
mission on Church and Country Life,
President Wilson emphasized the need
of making country churches more use
Ill. He spoke before 1000 persons,
including many clergymen and agri-
culturists from all parts OF the coun-
try.
The President n his party left
Columbus for Washington tonight at
1880 p. m. on a special train.
The Presidents evening address in part
follows:
The most vitalizing thing in the world
IS Christianity. The VIOLA has advanced,
advanced in what we regard as real civili-
zation, not by material but by spiritual
means. and one nation is distin-
guished from another nation by its
ideals, not by its possessions; by what il
believes in; by what it lives by; by what
it intends; by the visions which its young
men dream and the achievements which
its men of maturity attempt.
when I think of the rural church, I
wonder how far the rural church is
vitalizing the lives OF the communities
in which it exists. We have had a
great deal to say recently and it has
been very profitably said, about the
school as a social center. for my
part believe in making the school the
social center. the place hat the COM
munity can Use for any kind of co-or-
dinating that 1t wants to do in its life.
But l believe that where the school
house Is Inadequate, and even where it
is adequate. the most vital social center
should be the church itself: and that
not by way of organizing the church
for social service, but of making the
community realize that the congregation
and particularly the pastor is Interested
in everything that is important for that
community, and that the member of
the church are ready to cooperate and
the pastor ready to lend his time and
his energy to the kind of organization
which is necessary outside the church
as we'll as in, for the benefit of the
community"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-12-16
BETHLEHEM STEEL
PLANT EXPLOSION
KILLS |, |NJUaES1 IS

South Bethlehem, Pa, Dec. 10.-An eX-
Bethlehem Steel company at Redington.
six miles from here, killed one workman
and injured 10 others. several of them
seriously. The accident occurred in the
pellet department of the plant and result
ed. it was said. from a spark at a die COM
municating with quantities of powder in
the room.
Philip Adams of Easton. Pa. was the
man killed. The injured We're brought to
this city. They are residents of Allen
town, Easton. south Bethlehem and other
neighboring towns. Their injuries consist
mainly of burns and all are expected to
recover.
The room In which the explosion oc-
Cured was badly damaged. All the en-
ployes who We're at work in adjoining de-
paTtments and buildings were sent home
for the remainder of the day.
Information regarding the explosion
was for a time difficult to obtain. officials
of the bethlehem Steel company in this
city maintaining their usual silence as to
what occurs within it's plants.
The fuse plant employs several hundred
men who are at present employed chiefly
in making shell fuses for the entente al
lies.
This is the second explosion that has oc-
CURED at the Redington plant within four
months. On August 20 ten men were
burned by a powder flash.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-12-16
TWO NJ
French Cruiser stops an American
Shin.

San Juan, Porto Rico. Dec. PA wire
less warning directing her to come within
the three-mile limit was received bv the
steamer San Juan of the New York and
Porto Rico Steamship company a short
time before she was stopped by the French
cruiser rescartes It is reported here. Tho
warship also picked NJ the message while
steaming to meet the liner which was
stopped near Arecibo, 10 miles from here.
Tho young French officer who boarded the
san Juan knew William Guntnerodt and
Fritsch
CAPTAIN Evan told the following
story:
The officer asked for the passen-
ger lists. and pointed out tho names
of Guntherodt and Lothian. asking ia
to produce them. one other man. 9.
l.. Schifferdccker. among several pas-
scngers with German names was
questioned by the Frenchman, but not
taken off when he asserted he was
an American citizen"
Upon leaving the ship Guntherodt
directed that a valuable package in
the purse-'s safe be delivered to the
German consul here and asked that
his trunk be held to await instruc-
tons from him. Both the Germans,
vino were travelling second class, APP
peared like ordinary mechanics ac-
cording to the other passengers who
knew nothing of their business
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-12-16
GREAT BRITAIN
CANCELS ORDERS
OF REQUISITE N
In Cases of American Ships
Hooking and Genesee Will
Determine Ownership
in Prize Court.

Washington. Dec. Great Britain ad-
vised the United States to-day that in
response to the state departments pro-
test in the case Of the steamship Eocking
and other vessels of the American Trans
Atlantic company orders requisitioning
the Hooking and Genesee would be cam
celled and test cases would be tried
promptly in a prize court to dispose of
the charge that that company is partly
German owned.
Two of the steamers seized by British
cruisers. the Winncbago and the kanka-
kee, will be released under bond. The
Hooking and Genesee cases will be made
the basis of the test. TO accelerate dis
position of the issue, these cases will he
transferred from Halifax and st. Lucia
to London. thus avoiding delay by APP
peals from subordinate courts.
Notice of Great Britain's action came
to Secretary Lansing through Sir Cecil
Spring-Fice, the British ambassador here,
and Ambassador Page at London.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-12-16
Is $13,000,00 More
Than Was Paid the Year Be-
fOre-174 Pay on Income of
100000 or More.
32,754 MORTAL TAXPAYERS
127,44S Report Incomes of Be-
tween $4,000 and $1,000
Returns for Corporation In
come Taxes Drop off Owing to
Bad Business Condition.

Washington, Dee. 1.-THE personal
income tax was paid during the last
fiscal year by 357.515 individuals. who
turned in to the government $41,O4G.-
1872 moro by nearly $13,Oo0.0 900 than
the total paid by the 357,59S making
returns the Year before. according TO
the annual report of the commissioner
Of internal revenue, made public to-
night.
The greatest increase shown was
in the amounts paid by those subject
to the normal tax. a jump from about
$12.72S.00 in 1914 to about $3.50. 900
in 1915.
Incomes exceeding 10000 pad this
year about 81. $1,000 compared with about
S.. i37,0 900 last year. There We're S2.75i in
dividuals subject to the normal tax; 127,
AZ who reported incomes between $500
and $1,000 and IA whose returns We're
made on a basis Of incomes of 10000
or more.
Under the corporation income tax 300,
AS returns We're made. a decrease of
1854 from the previous year as described
by the report to various conditions, in
Guiding disturbed business conditions in
cident to the war in Europe and the
trouble IN Mexico. The corporations
paid *3S, 9S6, g52. or about sG,627.co less
than in 1914. The report says eXamina-
ton showed that but few corporations
had purposely fals!tod their returns or
sought to evade the tax.
Frauds upon the government through
the use of artihcially colored oleomar-
sarine are said to have reached the
,o+oI ar e. COO IN of v.li,A nrI, Q 81 AKA