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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01

TOR sALE-Modern room house, slate
roof, piazz,, city water and toilet; prop
erty in iine repair, located in good resident al
section, S minutes from Main ST. and trolley.
Price 81 TOO. Nash 4 Hutchlns. l2tf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01

TOR SALE Cheap. rs we have no use for it
our |. II. C. AulO Truck, or what have you
to exchange for IL? Go)d running condit on.
Capacity fifteen TO twenty hundred pou, DIS.
Chas, Il. Fowler & Sons, Lanesboro, Mn q. Tel.
1915 W, 'ittsfl cid Exchange. lttl2t
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01

she had been offered an engagement
by film company at very alluring
salary, but had decided not to accept
it,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01

FOR sALE-I offer, subject to sale, all or
l any part of one $1,000. bonds and six 500,
bonds Of the Remington Graded School Dis
trict. Interest rate 4per cent, payable April
and October st. and free from all taxes.
Homer II, Webster 9it25
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01

I OSr From North Adams car, raincoat, Sat
- ucday afternoon, between Wiiamstown
u I'd Bennington. hinder please leave at Ban.
uer Office. 15t6t
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01

For SiLE-One four cylinder five passe ger
IS hone power Interstate touring car
This car is in excellent condition and viii be
sold at very low figure. Il. w. Williams
The enuington Garage. Att
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01

FOR SALE - Farm of one hundred and
twenty acres, situated one hail mile from
Fast Arlington, ana one mile from Depot.
Water at house and barns, Will keep twenty
five cows and two horses. Twelve room house,
good barns and ttntment house. Sugar orch
ard aud plenty OF wood. Will be sod at rea-
sonable price. II. N Williams, TEL l39-W. 5tf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01

EOR SALE Chestnut Morgan mare with
i foal weight 100. good worker or driver SAFE
for ladies. Cheap, no reasonable fffer re. used
also harness and top buggy. z. 0. FOX 9S in
Quire at F'S. Howard. South SALISBURY W.
1861
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01

EOR BALE-Tbe Worthngtou nom stead
IN North Bennington, VT, consisting Of 2
story house, porch across entire front and part
Of each SIDE hot air furnace, Kcwance water
system, bath room and aoetylne gas plant
Large, roOmy barn. suitable for garage. cement
wIslise nice lawn, gravel drlveways; also gar.
den. Lot has frontage of over leo feet. An
ideal place for yone desiI ing a home with all
modern improvements. Will be sold reasona-
bic. Inquire of X. A. Jones, First National
Bank, or Of Mrs. W. II. Worthington. on
premises, North Bennington. Vt. 56tf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01

I-OR SALE-Dinirg rom table, chairs and
buffet of quartz ed osk, also bookcase and
refrigerator. l22 Union ST. 1910
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01

EOR siLE-Good home made brown breao
delivered Wednesdays and Saturdays
Mrs. Robert Cakes, Tel. li5-X. l0Ot6
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01

FOR SALE Ono new farm wagon, 3 inch
i tire double reaches with spring scat and
double box. VIII sell with or without box.
One tecon, hand two inch tire farm wagon.
One second hand light two horss or heavy one
riage. One new piano stick seat runabout.
One cold hand piano bod carriagc. One
second hand Corning bJdv csrriaxe. Inquire
or phone G f. & X. A. Moon, South shafts
bury Phone l8i-ll l5t6
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01

E)R SALE Small place with one acre of
l. good land. good room house, barn l6xzO.
9 poultry houses. 16 fine bearing apple tres,
variety OF small fruit and berries; cistern ana
good well at house. Located betwe. n North
Bennington and ), nth Sha tsbury. Price $500
Nash & Huichins. lotf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01

Two RENT Small house. Apply p. B. Gard
u ner Tel. 32T-M. 17t6'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01
TO RENT

ITO RENT-Nicely furnished rooms to rent
Il Apply 30l North st. lStf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01

FOR SALE-Broilers, roasting chickens and
fowl, dressed to order and delivered Also
fresh eggs Mountain View Poultry Farm.
Tel. i7l-W 92tf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01

vTNO RENT Sec md floor room flat. Bath
Z room and electric lights. Inquire at H25
Pleasant 1t. lSt6t
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01
LOW PRICED ADVERTISING
FOR SALE

ROR SALE To RENT use on North
RraDch st in good repair Formerly owned
by the lato John G. RIckert. Inquire a. X.
X exert. 40 Gage ST. lS6
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01
At $3.50

The shirt par excellence
The Manhattan. It's the shirt all
prosperous N. Y. City use. Col
ors will wear longer than the shirt
even. Soft or stiff cuffs.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01
At$7.OO

The Wauchusett percale, a shirt
with reputation Of being the
finest $1.OO shirt made. Fifty
dozen just in mostly quiet, gen.
teel stripes, hair lines, etc.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01

A Garner percale that we have
had put into a shirt with bodies
cut exactly same size as $lO0
shirt.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01

Hand tailored by David Marks
& Sons. They are conservalively
cut so that you can get several
seasons wear from them. Easily
washed in soap and water and as
the flower catalogs read !: "Any
woman can easily do it,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01

A few very choice materials for!
those who appreciate the persona
satisfaction Of luxury.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-01

ITO RENT Five room cottage at G02 Pleas
l. ant st. Adults only. Also a five room
rear tenement on Union St., suitable for small
family. Apply 2C6 Pleasant st. tt.a IOl7
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-04-15
Eats az Raw Eggs

Phil Hill of Montpelier, broke al
local records by eating AZ raw eggs
on a recent night, He was in Far,
rar's restaurant and offered to give ar
exhibition if someone would buy the
eggs. Two Montpelier men each pur-
chased a dozen which Hill sono swal-
lowed.
Some Barre men said that a Scotch
man in that town had surrounded &c
eggs at one sitting and claimed to
be the state champion egg DISORDER.
Hill had an ambition to secure the
title and rather than see the cham
pionship stay in Barre, one of the
Montpelier men purchased another
dozen and Hill soon devoured them.
After a breath of fresh air he ate six
more, and was not very sick until
later. He was slightly under the
weather all the next day and eggs do
not appeal to him very strongly yet.
At special meeting Of the Gale
donia County Bar Association TO con-
slider at matter of endorsing candi-
date for municipal judge, TO succeed
Judge David Porter, two informal bal
lots brought out the names of Melvin
G. Morse, of Hardwick, James B.
Campbell. Harry Blodgett, and G.
Clinton Frye of ST. Johnsbury. In
formal ballot, Il votes were cast for
Nr. Frye and four for Mr.. Blodgett. A
committee consisting Of f. A. Cook,
# Lyndonville, Arthur L. Graves and
iuy w. Hill, Of St. Johnsbury, was
lpointed TO present certified copy Of
to Governor Gates.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-04-15
". 4 II. STUDENT DEBATING
AND DECLAIMING CONTEST

What promises to be an attraction
of more than usual interest to the
people Of this town as well as of sur
rounding towns interested in Burr and
Burton Seminary, will take place
Thursday evening in the gymnasium
under the auspices of the Burr and
Burton Student Debating and Prize
Speaking Associations.
A debating team of four speakers
and a group Of four declaimers select
ed, first by popular vote and secondly
by competition in semi-hnals will rep
resent the school A selected musical
program will relieve the monotony of
continuous speaking. The program
follows.
Piano selection.
Male quartette; Draw Near to Thee
Debating question: Resolved That
the Government Shuld Own and oper-
ate the Railroads Of the United States.
lst speaker on the affirmative, Mr..
Lathrop.
LIST speaker on the negative, Mr..
Harrington.
2nd speaker on the affirmative, Miss
Benson.
End speaker on the negative, Miss
Hall.
Male quartette: Carmena.
Defamation: Hiawatha and Nude
keewis, Miss Stone.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-04-15
MEN AND JUNK

We provide guardians for inanimate
things which happen to be collected in
a factory-machinery, raw and i'm
ished products, Office equipment, ETC.
but we leave entirely unguarded the
buildings where human beings are col
lected for their nightly sleep and re-
pose. Why shouldn't school dptmi-
tory, a hotel, big tenerdeny building
be as thoroughly protected from the
outbreak of fire as factory which
fashions pig iron? Aren't the human
products just as valuable as pig irony
Do we estimate the worth of boys and
young men in a lower standard than
a lump of metal? 1t would seem so,
else we would provide watchmen for
buildings where scores Of human be-
ings lie down to rest at night, trust
ing in luck against the outbreak of
fire when they are in sunderland.
East night of the year this practice in
relation Of human beings cooped in the
four walls of building is carried out.
To be sure, luck is with them as
rule; but so is luck with the owner Of
pig iron as a rule. However, there are
exceptions to the rule, and every now
and then one, two, three, score, per-
haps hundreds of lives are sacrificed
to the inexplicable disregard Of the
value of human life as compared with
inanimate things. Another exception
to the rule was furnished in the fire
at Cushing Academy in Ashburnham,
Mass, on Monday morning, when a
member Of the teaching force Of the
school lost his life in fire, which de-
stroyed dormitory, and scores Of
youths were driven out in the dead Of
the night after tardy warning as
smoke permeated the structure. Had
there been a fire watchman protecting
the building with its many human
lives just as there is watchman for
a factory building, there would have
been little occasion for loss Of life.
And 50 il goes through an intermin-
able list Of cases throughout the coun-
lives are not safeguarded
n dormitories, hotels, tenement hous-
IS, etc, while chunks Of inanimate
things are guarded as II they are
greatest treasures the world ever has
II is a gross misconceptions
Barre Times.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-04-15
BRAZIL TO TRY
AMERICAN MATCH WOOD
supply Of Russian Aspen Stopped by
War, Samples Of Substitutes Being
Arranged by Forest Service.

Washington, April l0-American
manufacturers of match wood may
find a market for their product in
Brazil, il sample shipment now be-
ing arranged by the U. S. Forest Ser
vice proves suitable to the Brazilian
match manufacturers whose ordinary
supply of Russian aspen has been cut
off by the European war. As it is
regarded an excellent opportunity for
the introduction Of North American
forest products into South America,
the Forest Service is trying to enlist
the cooperation of private lumber
concerns who are reaching out for ex-
port business.
The Brazilian match factories, ac-
cording to a cablegram from travel
ing agent of the Department Of CON-
merce, have been using annually about
100000 feet of Russian aspen, and
have been forced by the war to seek
substitute On the agents recommen-
dation of American match woods, a
request has been made to the Forest
Service for samples of western white
pine, sugar pine, cottonwood, and bass
wood, eight bolts of each, 7 feet 3
inches long and 12 to 20 inches in di-
Ex
The National Forests contain large
supplies of both sugar and western
white pine suitable for the manufac-
ture of matches, and used for this pur-
pose in the United States. 1t has been
however, to make up samples
of these woods for the reason that the
Forest Service has no funds which can
De used to pay railroad transporta-
ion charges from the west to New
ork or to prepay ocean freight as re-
luired by the steamship companies.
rhe necessity to transport the samples
across the continent, instead of send
ng them direct to Rio Janeiro from
San Francisco or Portland, is due to
present shipping conditions on the
vest coast.
That the Brazilian manufacturers
AVE agreed to pay freight and Gus
oms charges, however, has encourag-
d Memphis concern to promise to
urnish cottonwood samples. The For
st Service is trying to get into touch
nth other firms which could furnish {
he pine and Eastwood
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-04-15

Defamation: Sparticus 10 the Glad.
iators, Mr.. Mclaughlin.
Defamation: The Vision OF Sir
Launfal. Miss Lawler.
Defamation: Toussant L'0uverture,
Mr.. Nelson.
Male qnartette; Women.
Report Of judges and awarding Of
prizes.
The prizes will be divided as fol-
lows: $3.50 to each member Of the
winning side Of the debate; $3.50 to
the best adjudged boy declaimer; $3.50
to the best adjudged girl declaimer.
Tickets have been placed at 15
cents in order that every person may
have an opportunity TO attend. If the
event proves decided success, as ev-
erything seems to presage it will, it
will become one of the annual institu-
tions Of the Seminary. The doors will
be open at 80 and the entertainment
will begin sharply at o'clock.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-04-15
MRS. DEAN SO YEARS OLD

A most delightful afternoon was
passed at the home of j. C. Dean on
Saturday, the occasion being the SD
birthday of his mother, Mrs. Fannie
Dean. Short devotional exercises were
conducted by her pastor, Rev. j. S.
Brown. Cards from many friends and
a letter from former pastor, Rev. E.
NJ. Fuller, were read and poem writ
ten for Mrs. Dean by Miss Celia Rey-
nolds.
Dainty refreshments were served by
the ladies. The committee in charge
consisted of Mrs. A. F. Smith, Mrs.
Minnie Storrs and Mrs. r. B. Gleason.
The following was the poem read:
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-04-15
At Eighty-two

Warblers mid the summer foliage,
Songsters lingering in the Fall,
Little brown winged chirpers fitting
Where the snow is over all;
Birds of Springtime,-blithely sing
they
Year by year our whole lives
through,
And their music falls still sweetly
On our ears at Eighty-two.
Flowers of field and flowers of garden
Gather we with hands of youth,
And in middle-age we seek them
And we love them more, in truth,
But most eagerly we grasp them
When our hands less work can do,
And are resting, oft-times idly,
On the lap of Eighty-two.
Ties of home and love of dear ones
Fer enriching all our days,
Making joy and hope and beauty
Grow and bloom along our ways,
Growing toll and easing trouble
To right efforts hold us true;
And they clasp us yet more firmly
When our feet reach Eighty-two.
Love of God and Hope Of Heaven
Cheer our souls in many a storm,
For our fellows in the struggle
Keep our hearts both soft and warm,
In our glad or saddened present
Bring rich future joys to view.
Love Of God and Hope Of Heaven
Are our wealth at Eighty-two.
Celia NJ. Reynolds
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-04-15

slightest bearing on the outcome Of
the war, nor it there any good reason
TO suppose that the losses Of the Allies,
including the ravages Of the submar-
ines operating Oft the British and
Irish coasts, will have any bearing on
the outcome Of the present war. They
have served, no doubt, to encourage
the German public, but that it ALL
New York Tribune.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-04-15
THE LAST OF THE GERMAN
COMMERCE DESTROYERS

With the Kronprinz Wilhelm ir
Hampton Roads, apparently for the
purpose of interning, as the Prin2
Eitel Friedrich did, the German cam
paign of commerce destruction on the
high seas virtually comes to an end
| The cruiser Karlsruhe is still unac-
counted for, but no sign of activity has
come from her for several months
past. In all probability she was
wrecked or foundered.
The Kronprinz Wilhelm left this
port on August 3, 1914, and has kept
the sea a little more than eight
months. In that time she captured
and destroyed Is merchantmen, most
of them British. Her chief sphere of
operation was the South Atlantic, and
speed, combined with good luck and
good generalship, enabled her to elude
the hostile cruisers set on her trail.
Her career, like the career of the
Prinz Eitel Friedrich, is tribute to
German seamanship.
But, taken all in all, the exploits of
the German commerce destroyers on
the high seas have been of very little
military value. The shipping destroy
ed is only a tiny percentage of the
strength of the allied merchant fleets.
The Allies have retained complete con-
troll of the seas, and their military op-
erations have never been interfered
with. Great Britain's communications
with South Africa, India, Australia
and Canada have been kept absolutely
intact, and her sea-borne trade with
all neutral nations has continued with
out serious hindrance.
In these days of wireless communi-
cation the task Of the commerce de-
stroyer 1.-THE limited activity Of the
submarine excepted) has become ex-
tremely difficult. The Alabama alone
in the Civil War did vastly more dam
age than all the German cruisers to-
gether have done in this war They
have captured perhaps so or 70 yes
sells. But Great Britain alone has
launched more than GOO new merchant
ships within the last IL months.
1t may safely be affirmed that in no
,ther naval war has Great Britain suf-
fered so little from attacks on her
commerce. In the four years 1856 go,
'or instance, she lost more than $500
merchantmen, and even in 1861, when
he commerce of the enemy had been
Iwept from the sea almost as complet-
,ly as German commerce to-day, the
French priyateers sue ,
,eeded in capturing at least 500 Brit !
ish vessels. These losses had not the |
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-04-15
PRESIDENT SPo0NFR
TO LEAVE NORWICH
Trustees Accepted on Saturday His
Resignation. Which was rendered
Last November.

Resignation. Which was rendered
Last November.
Northfeld, April l2-The trustees
Of Norwich University announced to-
day that they had accepted at a meet
ing Saturday the resignation of Presi-
dent c. II. Spooner, rendered last
November.
President and Mrs. Spooner have
made no plans for the future, but ex-
pect to leave Mortified about May /.
The president is now very i'll with
pleurisy.
President Spooner, who has had one
Of the longest terms on record as pres
ident of Norwich, was graduated at
that university in 1878, completing his
arts course in 1879, and receiving his
A. M. degree in 1895. The University
Of Vermont gave him the degree of
Ii. d., in 1904. He taught English
and military tactics at St. Augustin's
College, Benicia, Cal, from 1879 to
1881. For the next eight years he
was instructor of mathematics and
tactics at Vermont Academy, |
Saxton's River. Then he taught in
schools at Fitchburg, Mass, for two
year and for three years was instruc-
or in mathematics at the training
school of Washington University. He
vas made president of Norwich in
.9O4.
Dean Herbert r. Roberts, professor
# modern languages, will act tempor-
lrily as president of Norwich Univer-
ity, it is expected
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-04-15
VOLUNTEERS AND THE
VALUE OF TIME

Mr.. Harold Tenant, British Parlia
mentary Under Secretary for War, il
a recent statement would seem to i'm
ply that the volunteer army, in the
cases of Great Britain and America
is sufficient safeguard. Mr.. Ten.
nant dwells on the celerity with which
material offering itself to Lord Kitch-
ener's drillmasters has been whipped
into fighting trim, on the proven value
of the territorials and the great prom
ise of the so-called Kitchener army
He ascribes this success to the high
average Of intelligence which the rank
and file Of a volunteer force repre-
sents.
THE new armies are cross section
Of the population" he remarks. "They
contain the best men from every stra-
tum, from the laborer to those who
used to be called the idle rich. All
these men have gone in voluntarily.
And because Of that, because from
each layer of the population we have
got educated men and men who have
enlisted because they are enthusiastic
for the vindication of our cause, these
armies have been trained much more
rapidly than would otherwise have
been possible"
But, granted the high grade of ma
terial attracted by volunteer service,
the element of time still remains the
all important factor in the success of
the system. In the present war the
British volunteers to all intents and
purposes have been drilling behind the
French lines, shielded by conscripts
while they trained Had the French
failed them, they would
still have had the British navy to in
terpose between them and the ami
nilation while they learned their duties
and waited for their equipment. Just
how dependable dixie against the in
pouring of a Continental flood of con-
scripts this would have proved is by
10 means certain. 1t is conceivable
hat with the coast of France, as we'll
Is of Belgium, to operate from, the
Germans might have found means of
'ushing sufficient troops across the
.hannel to put the United Kingdom
It their mercy.
For Uncle Sam the military lesson
f this war seems clearly defined. 1t
5 that without navy competent not
My to hold off an invading force
yhile he trained and organized his vol
ntere army, but to keep open the
anes of commerce for the importation p
arms and ammunition needed in its
he becomes almost COM !
letely defenceless. Have we such a
avy? If not, then we should either q
it to the requisite degree
r prepare our army beforehand. The Z
lherent intelligence of our volunteers v
,uld not save us. New York Trib- II
ne.