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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-11-03
G.V S. QUACKENBUSn & CO., TROY, NJ. Y.
crutches.
Dallas P. Madison was in Benning.

crutches. M
Dallas P. Mattison was in Benning-
ton on business the past week.
Mrs. Lucina Burt OF Bennington is
with her brother, Abel Harrington.
Miss Emeline Stratton is assisting
Mrs. Herbert Stratton at the farm.
Truman Mattison and wife of Ben
nington were in Green Mountain Val
ley Sunday. ~
William Mallory and wife of Wood
ford visited their son Roberts family
the past week.
Mr. Rock has moved his family to
Herbert Stratton's home near the
White Chapel
Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Mattison en-
tertained guests from Bennington
the past week.
Benona Harrington has moved his
family to South SALISBURY into one
Of n. Hawkins tenements
Mrs Arminda Buck, who is Sc
years old, visited her grandson,
Douglas Montgomery recently
Norris Levin, Jr, was through
Green Mountain Valley the past
week with full cart in his line He
said the people had saved their rags,
rubbers copper, brass, iron for which
he pays the highest price, Look for
his coming next month.
There will be a service at the Red
school house next Sunday November
at 8 p. m. Rev Thornton F. Tur-
ner will be present. He wishes to
see you all. Mr. Turner's talks and
explanations are very uplifting. |
think we would miss them very much
if we We're deprived of his coming.
Come all and bring a friend.
George Patten, whose funeral was
held at his home Sunday. married
Miss Rhcda Hawkins. They have re-
sided on the Sylvester Hawkins
farm, the father of Mrs. Patten. They
have one son, Hawkins Patten, one
daughter, Miss Eva Patten Mrs. Pat
ten is confined TO the bed by lines.
Their neighbors and friends are deep
ly sorry for their sad Affections.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-11-03
READS oRo


Highley Scott has gone to Brattle-
boro to work.
Mrs. Allie Taintor of Charlemont,
Mass, was in town Sunday.
r. B. Fay of Essex has been a
guest at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
H. f. Jewell the past week.
Mrs. C. r. Carpenter has returned
home from a weeks visit with friends
in North Adams.
William Berard has new span OF
black horses which he purchased
from Shapiro in North Adams.
Quite a number from here attended
the auction Of Dexter Dalrymples in
Nottingham Saturday. Mr.. Berard
purchased one of the COWS.
Mrs. Walter Sturgiss returned to
her home in Brattleboro Monday al
ter brief visit with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. o. Reed.
Ernest Barre, who is attending the
High school in Brattleboro spent
several days at his home here, re-
turning to Brattleboro Monday
Mrs w. H. Lane and little son of
Brattleboro have been guests OF Mrs.
j. S. Faulkner several days the past
week and also called on many old
friends here.
Dir. and Mrs. Z. H. Blanchard re-
turned home Saturday from two
weeks trip through New Hampshire,
also visiting in White River Junction
and Springfield, Mass
Charles Wellman and Fred King
went to Camden, n Y, last week
Tuesday to visit Mr., Wellman's sis
ter, Mrs. Arthur Hawks. Mr.. King
returned home Saturday and Mr..
Wellman remained for q longer visit.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-11-03
GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY

Apples are very scarce through
town.
George Mattison was in Benning-
ton Monday
Alfred Green was in Bennington
Tuesday
Albert Harwood and wife were in
Bennington Tuesday.
Ernest Harrington and wife spent
Sunday in SALISBURY Valley.
Miss Edna Hall was week end
guest of Miss Inez Montgomery.
Miss Helen Bronson of Gloversville
visited her mother over Sunday.
Arthur Russell and wife were driv.
ing in Green Mountain Valley.
Miss Ruth Lyons received a letter
from her brother, Walter, who is
teaching at Wells, VI, that he had
sprained his ankle and was on
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-11-03
EAST ARLINGTON

The Loyal Temperance Legion
gave their first social at the home OF
Mrs. NJ A. Bentleys Friday evening
Oct Goth. Witches ghosts, brownies
and fairies we're every where to be
seen. A reading and musical pro
gram was rendered, games, fortune
telling, etc. The Legion thanks the
people for the good attendance and
announcement in their cause.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-11-03
Wives And Mothers


Have you ever stopped to realize
how much the health Of your family
depends upon you? For instance,
diet is great factor in health, and
you are responsible for it, then again
when any member of your family
gets into rundown condition, when
the children are delicate, cross and
ailing, when somebody takes cold and
develops a cough, they look to you
for help. Do YOU know that our local
druggist, w. l.. Gokay,has a non-sec-
ret constitutional remedy known as
Vinol which he guarantees for just
such conditions. Many families i'll
this vicinity have found it so reliable
they are never without it.
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Why Tolerate (,ataIrh?

You have noticed, no doubt, that any
cold aggravates nasal catarrh, and the
flow of mucous amazes you that such
Objectionable matter could find lodg-
ment in your head. To ignore this
catarrh when the cold subsidies is
wrong because it continues 10 slowly
injure the delicate Innings Of the nasal
passages and clog them up.
To correct catarlh, cleanse the nos
trils frequently with solution of warm
water and salt, insert vaseline on re-
firing, and take a spoonful of SCOTS
Emulsion after meals for one month.
SCOTS acts through the blood to feed
the tissues, and contains soothing
glycerinc to check the inflammation
and l.eal the sensitive membranes.
SCOTS is pleasant to take.
Scott s Bovine, Bloomfield Nj. 1876
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-11-03
DIZZINESS, CONSTIPATION

bad taste in the mouth, dependency
or "the blues" and other miserable
ailments call attention to the liver. 1t
is torpid. Take Hoods Pills-they
rouse the liver and relieve all liver ills.
They are the old and favorite family
cathartic. Purely vegetable. Gentle
and thorough. 25c. All druggists.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-04
BUSY DAYS COMING
Period of Stress Ahead of the
American Worker.
Labor Day an Excellent Time to
Think Of the Future That Must
Be the Result Of the War
In Europe.

Every American, whether he works
with his hands or with his head, will
take full advantage of Labor day, the
last of the summer holidays; every
one will appreciate the fact that there
is long period of work ahead of him.
This fall and winter is sure to be
time of readjustment In many lines
Of American commerce and labor, due
to the European war, which not only
shuts of some of the things we buy,
but Is filling our warehouses with
many Of the things we sell. How to
manage without the particular things
we have always imported and how to
get market for the things Europe
cannot buy must engage our serious
attention for months, perhaps for
years. There may be some failures In
the effort to readjust. but there will
be more successes, and great ones.
The best thing about the whole sit
uation is the stout heart of the busi-
ness world and the people in general.
They enter upon combat with un-
certainties with the old Yankee con-
tidence. backed by the knowledge that
in the fundamental items of physical
life we are safe. We can feed our
selves, clothe ourselves, warm our
selve. The rest is only a matter of
time and adjustment. There will be
no hard times II the hard work is
well tackled.
Business must not wait until the
war is over" for nobody knows when
that blessed day will be. If we are
prepared for a long war. SO much the
more prosperity If the war is brief.
1t is a splendid time for every
American. from the housewife to the
capitalist, to study American econo-
mics and get better knowledge of
values.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-04
Making the Rock Garden,

The rock garden, to be successful,
must be along the lines approved by
nature. 1t must not, in any point,
resemble a piece of masonry or other
formal construction, says a writer in
the Minneapolis Journal. The most
satisfactory location for it is at the
foot Of a gentle slope, where it can
climb tho declivity and tho rocks be
given tho appearance CT jutting out
from tho hillside. But very excellent
results may bo achieved on fiat sur
faces If 1t is remembered to let the
rocks appear to crop out on the sur.
face rather than appear to be placed
there for a purpose. The rock garden
should have its highest point or be-
ginning at some natural or artificial
boundary wall, or better still, a
clump Of trees and shrubbery which
wiil serve to mask its origin. From
this vantage point it may extend in
a natural way to the limits marked
out for It; here an isolated bowlder,
here a group Of less pretentious stones
and again a group Of large stones
may find room in their pockets for a
small tree. The extent may be two
or three rods in width at one end and
gradually narrow until at the other It
becomes an occasional rock on the
lawn.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-04
New Idea In Gymnastics.

Clifr-climbing has become tame
sport for the students of the Philadel.
phia College Of Pharmacy. Signing for
a new method Of testing the condition
of the nerves, the physical instructor,
w. Ward Beam. hit upon a decided
novelty-crossing a river on a rope
bridge.
The idea possessed one charm: the
outfit was cheap and easily portable,
for it consisted of two stout ropes and
nothing more. One rope, according to
the plan broached to the eager stu.
dents and co-eds by the physical in.
structor, was to serve as a support for
the foot, the other to balance the one
who essayed to cross a river on this
precarious foothold.
According to Mr.. Beam, the object
of the rope-walking is simply to
harden the nerves of the students. We
lack nerve. he says, chiefly because
we never do anything to cultivate
strength in that direction.
This novel form of gymnastics is
now a part OF the college curriculum
and the women students are as expert
at 1t as the men.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-04
DEMAND is FOR SERVICE
Public Ideas Have Had a Significant
Change in a Comparatively
Few Years.

When the French aristocrat before
the great revolution was asked as to
his chief service to society, he replied,
ITO have been born" He felt that his
mere presence in the world conferred
an honor on his country.
That has been the attitude Of privi-
legged classes of all time. But a new
ideal has come into mems minds-the
ideal OF labor. of service to the COM
munity. Today the public is constant
ly asking men to justify their income.
What have you done to deserve it?" is
the question. "By what service to So
ciety have you earned your money!"
1t used to be considered perfectly
proper to water the stock of great pub
lie service corporations. But now peo-
pie have come to see this means to
get an income without working for it,
and public sentiment is shutting of
the practice.
Melon cutting in connection with
franchise grabs was once popular. But
1t became apparent that this was mere
ly one way Of getting something for
nothing, and the day OF melon cutting
Is done.
So, all up and down the line the de-
mand has come for service in return
for income. Society is willing to write
its note for pretty nearly any amount
to the energetic man. but it insists that
the payment shall be for value re-
ceived.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-04
Show Noteworthy ealns.

The gains In membership of the
unions which form the American Fed.
GRAFTON Of Labor aggregated 224,75s,
on total of 1,7OS,749 at the begin
ming of 1914. The rate Of increase
was over 12 per cent. 1t is true that
in the same twelve months the num-
ber of workers in the United States
who we're eligible to membership in
the American Federation Of Labor in
creased more than 224,O00. 1t may
have been augmented by 100000 or
even by 100000, but the fact remains
beyond dispute that the gains Of the
trade unions have been remarkable,
fEpm any reasonable point Of ViaW.d
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-04
SEEING LIFE WiM
f7NaJOHN HENRY
GSh Geo1geVHobart
E4N< .1WST9 John Henry on the Street Car
John Henry on the Street Car

I've been up and down and over
and across in the surface cars and
my experience is ornamented by
ripped trousers and discolored shins,
but my intellect blows out fuse every
time try to dope out the real way
not to be an End-Seat Hog.
Last Monday / jumped at an early
bird Open-face car and it seemed that
all the world was filled with joy and
good wishes.
was smoking one of those Bad
Boy cigars. call 1t a Bad Boy
cigar because as soon as 1t goes out it
gets awful noisy.
The car was empty with the excep-
tion of couple Of benches.
Two blocks farther on the car
stopped and a stout lady looked over
the situation.
think she must have been color
blind. because she didn't see the
empty seats and decided to cast her
lot with me.
1t was terrific moment
John" said to myself, don't be
a Hog-move over!"
And virtue triumphed.
l moved over, and the stout lady
settled squashfully into the end seat.
Her displacement was about fifteen
cents worth of bench.
After we had gone about ten blocks
more every seat in the car in front
and behind US was crowded, but no
body could get in our section because
the fat lady held them at bay like Ho-
ratius held the bridge in the brave
days of old.
People would rush up to the car
when 1t stopped, balance carelessly fore
and aft until their eyes rested on the
vacant seats in our direction, and then
they would see the stout lady sitting
there, as gracefully IS a concrete
Sphinx.
The people would look at the stout
lady with no hope in their eyes, and
then, with a sigh, they would retire
and wait for the next car.
No one was brave enough to climb
the mountain which grew up between
him and the promised land.
After a while began to get tooth
ache in my conscience.
John" said to myself in a hoarse
whisper. perhaps after all you were
the Hog because you moved over
After the lady had climbed over you
she would have kept ON to the othel
end Of the bench where now there Ii
nothing but a sullen space"
began to insult myself.
John" exclaimed inwardly, "what
do you know about the etiquette of the
street car? According to the newspa
pers it is only a Man who can be {
Hog on the street cars, and since yol
are the original cause Of blockadinI
the port when you moved over, yol
must be the Hog!"
Then got SO mad at myself that
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-04
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CLEAN MINDS; CLEAN CITIES
People Must Be Educated to the
Necessity Of Proper Appearance
Of Municipality.

"I'm as good as you are" said the
dirty man to the well-dressed gentle
man in the street car who had drawn
away from him a bit.
"You may be right" answered the
clean one, "but you certainly don't
smell as good"
Lord" exclaimed a visitor to one
Of the most populous sections of Bos-
ton. What smells there are here"
YES" agreed the social worker of
the party. we've got to clean out a
lot Of minds before we'll get rid of
this dirt"
"You have to clean minds!"
Surely. Dirty minds make dirty
people, and dirty people make a dirty
town. The idea of cleanliness must
be put in the minds Of those whose
present standards of cleanliness are
elemental.
THE woman who will tolerate cob
webs in the corner of her ceiling has
cobwebs in the corners of her mind.
Disorder in a home is evidence of the
presence of minds that are disorderly.
Our surroundings always reflect what
we are within. To make these streets
clean we must create in the people
who live here a desire for clean
Streets"
DO you mean to say that the peo-
pie here are content with all this dirt
around them?" the visitor asked with
surprise.
THE majority of them are. What
the majority really and truly wants,
the majority can have" The speaker
was silent for few moments. When
they reached the next corner. he said,
''If there was on this street one man
or woman who wanted more than any
thing else to have this street cleaned
and made sweet-smelling, the work
would be DONE"
'The old story of Sodom and Gomor.
rah, chi" observed the cynic.-Ford
Hall Folks.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-04

of us may not be Hogs, but there Is
a moment in the life Of every man
when he gets near enough to it to be
called Ham Sandwich"
Just then the Disinfecti brothers.
Microbeini and Germicide, walked
over me and had a short but excit-
ing visit to the slums.
Since that eventful day have
moved over thirty-six times, and out
of the thirty-six people gave the end
seat to all but three of them belonged
to the Mucilage family. and stayed
there.
Therefore / made myself a severe
promise not to worry any more about
my Hog qualifications when movable
or immovable on an Openface car.
will do as my conscience dictates,
and walk downtown as much as DOS
sible.
And, speaking of street cars, was
in one of those cities recently where
some of the cars stop on the near side
of some Of the streets and some stop
on the far side of some of the streets.
Honestly. they had me in the air.
left the hotel to attend to some
business downtown and went over to
the near side of the street to wait for
car
When the car came along ! held
my thumb up in the atmosphere warn
ingly, but the motorman kept on to
the far side and stopped.
By the time ran over to the far
side he was gone again. and another
car had stopped at the near side.
When rushed back to the near side
the car passed me going to the far
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-04

side, and now the near side looked so
much like the far side that l went
back to the other side, which should
have been the near side, but how
could 1t be the near side when the car
was on the far side, and could not
get near the side in tipe to catch the
car before 1t was far away on the far
side?
Just as rushed back again to the
far side the near side became the
nearer side to catch the car, and
when l rushed over again from the far
side to the near side the nearer got
to the near side the clearer l could
see that while the fai side was far
away it was nearer than the near side,
which was always on the far side
when I hoped to take a car on the
near side.
Then began to grit my teeth and
made up my mind to anticipate the ac-
tion Of the next car by standing half
way between the near side and the far
side, so that could run to either side
the emergency called for.
! was standing there about a min
ute, much pleased with the idea, be-
cause the near side was about as
far away as the far side, when Just
then an automobile sneaked up behind
me and one of the forward turrets
struck me on my personal far side
and hoisted me over to the near side
Just as a car left for the far side.
reached out my hand to grasp the
far side step. but missed 1t and
caught the near side, and by this
time the car was on the far side and
the motorman grabbed the near side
of the electric controller and pushed
1t over to the far side, whereupon the
car started for Ell Paso, Tex, at a
speed Of about 5000 miles a minute,
and there l was with the near side
of four fingers holding on to the far
side Of the rtep and the rest Of my
body sticking straight out in space
like a pair Of trousers on a clothes
line in a gale of wind.
Then suddenly the near side of my
fingers refused to hold on to the far
side of the step, and with the near
side Of my face l struck the far side
of the tracks. and the near side OF
my brain saw every individual star on
the far side of the Universe.
Then went back to the hotel and
crawled into the far side of the bed
while friend wife sent for a near-side
doctor who lived on the far side of the
block.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-04

refused to talk to myself any fur.
ther.
The nek kt day was riding downtown
on the end seat with my mind made
up to stay there and keep the harbor
open for commerce.
Never,r l said to myself, never
will anyone become a human Merri-
mac to bottle up the seating capacity
OF this particular bench while the
blood flow s through these veins and
the nag of freedom waves above me"
At the next corner a very thin little
gentleman squeezed by me with a
look Of reproach on his face, the like
OF which I hope never to see again,
but was Charles ]. Glue and firm in
the end seat.
Then a couple OF Italy's sunny sons
OF the name of Microbeini and Germi-
eide crawled over me and kicked
their initials on my kneecap and then
sat down to enjoy smoke OF domes.
tic rope. whi ch fell across my nostrils
and remained there in bitterness.
After had been stepped on, sat
on, clawed at and scowled at for
twenty minu tes, l began to discuss
myself to myself.
John" l vi whispered, do you really
think that the general public appre.
ciates your effort to keep the Harbor
open?"
And then myself replied to myself
with a sigh of exhaustion, Il don't
think"
John" said to myself, no mat
ter what your motives may be the
other fellow will always believe vo,
are trying to get the best OF 1t. II
you move over and give the end sea,
to another gent Aeman, he will consider
1t only as his right. II you don't move
over he will thi nix you are a Hog fol
keeping that which is as much yours
as 1t is his"
l began to grow confidential with
myself
Civilization iA q fine idea, but Hu
man Nature can give 1t cards and
spades and then beat it out!" | TOLD
myself. THE Human Hog was In
vented long befoIfe the openface street
car began to stop for him, and there
isn't anybody living who should stoI
to throw stoneA at him, because
selhshness is like the measles-it
breaks out in und expected places. AL
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-04
MANY Eactors Affect Cost.

Certain preliminary estimates given
in connection with this series of house
plans are necessarily subject to
change. For instance, digging cellar
in rocky, hilly ground would cost more
than the same job might cost else
where. Materials vary in cost as in
cividual tastes differ Most Of the
houses shown in this series have
been built about Boston. The esti-
mates given, therefore, are of actual
costs. Do not neglect, however, to
allow for the inevitable extras" that
crop up in the course of any building
operation.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-04

forced concrete post
also offers a con.
venient place for
displaying sire e t
signs. At the top
of the pole is a 12-
in h frosted-glass
globe in which there
is a high-candlepow-
er electric lamp.
Surrounding the
globe is a square
framework in which
four strips of blue
glass, carrying the
street names In
white letters, are
held. During either
the day or night,
the name Of the
street and its inter-
secting thorough
fare are thus plainly
visible when the
pole is placed at a
Mechanics.