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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-26
COM@IssIoNERs' NOTICE.
~ Estate Of ROLAND J. TAYLOR

-, The UNDERSIGNED. having been appointed by
the HonoraDle Probate Court for the District
of bennington. COMMISSIONERS, to receive.
examine, and adjust the claims and demands
of all persons against the estate of Roland j.
Taylor late OF Bennington in said District,
TO, hereby give notica that we will meet for the
purpose aforesaid, at the office of Collins M.
Graves In the Y ilage OF tenninVton. in
from O'Clock y. IN until o. clock u M. on said
day and that six months from the 9th day
of October A. d 1916, is the time limited by
laid Court for said creditors to prese;t their
claims to us for examination an5 allowances.
Dated at Bennington, VT. this TN. day of
October A. n 1918.
GILBERT ~. RANSOM,
JAMES WOOD
Commissioners.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-26

''They say old Closefst has still got
the first dollar he ever made"
Yes, and III bet he has still got the
first umbrella he ever borrowed. st.
Louis Post Dispatch.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-26
GERMAN WARsHIP WRECKED
Large Quantities of Debris Washed
Up on Danish Island.

Copenhagen, via London, Oct 26.-
Large quantities of wreckage were
washed up ON Revshale Island, near
Copenhagen Wednesday.
According to the Esktrabladet an
investigation showed that the wreck
age was from German warship. 1t
included large sections OF the after
part of the ship.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-26
HIGHEST SINCE CIVIL WAR
Flour Has Gone Up 80 Cents Whole
sale in Two Days.

Chicago. Oct 26.-The wholesale
price of high grade family -four was
advanced to SO a barrel here yester-
day, the highest price since the civil
war. This is an increase of 80 cents
within two days.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-26

and Uzul valleys, on the western Ru
manian front. Russian counter Of
lensive had. some success today and
270 prisoners were taken South of
Red Tower Pass the Rumanians had
another slight success, but nothing
can overbalance the crushing defeat
in the Dobrudja or the loss of Vulcan
Pass.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-26
About.

"Whot did your baby cry about last
nishtT' asked the man next door.
about five hours" replied Mr.
Youngpop.-- Exchange
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-26
An EKectual Cure.

"she wants to be n sister to me-"
"You can easily get her out of that
notion
"HOw?"
"Trcat her as you would a sister,
Kansas City Journal.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-26
WEATHER FORECAST

For eastern New York and western
Vermont fair and colder tonight Fri
day fair
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-26
R0UMAN|ANS BLEW
UP GREAT BRIDGE
OVER DANUBE
Was Biggest Public Work IN Their
tntire Country
BRIDGE WAS "a MILES LONG
Invaders Hold East End Of Bridge
and Are Pursuing the Fleeing Frag-
ments Of the Roumanian Army.

London, Oct. 26.-The Rumanians
have blown up the big bridge at Ger
nevada and have abandoned the city
to the Austro-German and Bulgarian
forces.
The bridge is the largest in Europe
and the only structure of its kind on
the lower Danube 1t was built in
1896 at cost OF several million dol
lars.
Berlin, Oct 26-The destruction of
the bridge over the Danube at Ger
nevada is confirmed in an official an.
nouncement by the war Office today.
London, Oct 25-From three
points the Teutonic Allies are work
ing with feyerish haste in all attempt
to encompass Rumania, from the
northeastern and eastern borders of
Transylvanit and through Dobrudja.
In the Dobrudja region and on the
eastern Pennsylvania front. further
progress in their inroads into King
Ferdinands territory has been made.
On the northeastern Pennsylvania
front. however, in engagements with
the Russians. they have been driven
from the heights south OF Dorna
Watra.
Keeping up his drive in Dobrudja,
No hpI - "a
brought his line well above the Con-
stanza-Tchernavoda railway his right
wing resting approximately On
Tachaul. near the Black sea, twelve
miles north OF Constanza. and the left
north of Tchernayoda, whence runs
the only bridge across the Danube in
this region.
Whether the Rumanians in their
evacuation of Tchernavoda left intact
the fourteen mile bridge, which would
be of immense strategic value of the
Teutonic allies in a diversion toward
Bucharest. has not been made known
but following military precedent, de-
spite the rapidity of Won Mackensen's
forward push, it probably was blown
up or otherwise badly damaged
Further ground on the eastern Tran
sylyania front on the Rumanian side
of the Vulcan and Predal passes has
been given up to the Austro-Germans
by the RuHnanians. but according to
Bucharest the TeutCns east of the
River Aluta in Pennsylvania, have
been driven northward, while in the
Uzul and Oiytuzal valleys the Italians
have made advances.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-26
WEIRD WIRELESS
STATION TALE
FROM LONDON
6terned German Steamship Said
to Hafb0r Secret Outfit
NOW D0CKeD AT NEW LONDON
Story Based on Letters Alleged tc
Have Been Written by German
Seamen.

London, October 26.-The following
two letters, intercepted on their way
to Germany, were made public yes
terday. The first one, from Max -,
461 East Eighth street, South Boston,
addressed to his brother. said Dear
Gustav: The Willehad sailed today.
am to stay here till the end of the
war. The Willehad will act within
the American three-mile limit as a
telegraph station for submarines. She
has four-months' provisions aboard. =
The second letter was from the cap
tain to the Willehad. named Jachena
who wrote from New London to his
sister in Germany, saying. Il rejoice
| am now here as captain of the Willie
had. The Koln still lies at Boston
| am here with the Willehad on a
special mission. Later you will hear
more from me | rejoice that | have
done something for the fatherland
and that | still have more to do"
ne .NOTlH l-lO9u
Willehad, which took refuge in Bos-
ton soon after the beginning of the
war, was taken to New London on
August 20 last under command of
Capt. Jachens and was tied up at the
pier OF the Eastern forwarding com.
pany, the American agent For the Ger
man submarine merchantmen. The
Willehad was said to carry fun crew
of German sailors, some of whom
were declared at the time to have
been recruited from other ships. The
wireless on the Willehad, as we'll as
on all other German and belligerent
vessels in American ports, was dis
mantled and sealed by customs Off
GERS soon after the beginning of the
war
The Willehad at New London was
taken to a prepared dock on which
the Eastern forwarding company had
erected under rush orders. after the
arrival OF the submersible Deutsch-
and at Baltimore a corrugated iron
shed about 400 feet long by twenty
five feet wide, with the end of the pier
enclosed by high fence joined on to
the office Of the company.
Captain Hinsch, former master of
the North German Lloyd lines Neck
ar, was brought from Baltimore and
placed in charge Of the property.
Fast to cluster piling, fifty feet
away from the dock, its stern hard
against the bank of the Thames river
the steamships wireless is sealed.
Washington, Oct. 25.-There have
been various rumors about the mis-
sion of the Willehad at New London,
but government officials here, after
investigation, have accepted as true
the story that it ventured to sea from
Boston and braved the allied cruiser
patrol off the coast for fifty miles to
act as mother ship" for German sub
H.. 1
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-26

Don't ever worry about what you
cannot iep.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-26

h Cernavoda was most valuable
prize. becouse it is the eastern end Of
a great bridge eleven miles long that
spans the Danube and its marshes
and ends on the Rumanian plain eigh
ty-five miles from Bucharest The
Danube is about 1000 yards wide
eThe capture of the town completed
the Teuton control of the railroad
from CONSTANT It is not yet known
whether or not the Russo-Rumanian
forces destroyed the bridge in their
retreat.
An aspect of the situation favor
able TO Won Mackensen's plan Is that
the armies of Zaichtchkoysky and
Averescu apparently did not make
good their escape across the bridge,
These armies, or at least considerable
parts of them, are still in the Dobrud-
ia and in fight, access to the only
bridge across the Danube cut off.
They have been forced out Of posi-
tions at Tachaul Lake, twelve miles
north of Constanza near the Black
Sea coast, Petrograd admits
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-26

London Oct. 25.-Cernavoda the
eastern entrance TO the. Rumanian
plain and to Bucharest fell this morn
ing to VonMackensen army sweep
ing through the Dobrudia. The Rus
sian and Rumanian armies, driven
still further north, are in danger of
being trapped between the Teuton
army and the loop of the Danube and
annihilated or forced to surrender.
Vulcan Pass, in the Pennsylvania
Alps, has been stormed by Won Falk-
enhaynes army hammering at Ru-
mania's onrthern frontier His troops
have pushed nearer the railroad Of
Kimpolung in Rumania, only seventy
FIVE miles northwest OF Bucharest.
Austrian troops on Rumanias west.
en frontier have stormed strong
mountain height killing or capturing
all the garrison.
From east, north and west the Teu-
ton ring is pressing more tightly
around the heart of Rumania. Brave
resistance is being made, but the Teu-
ton advance seems only to be delayed
never really stopped. In the Oitoz
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-26

Berlin, Oct. 26.-The destruction of
the bridge over the Danube at Ger
nevada is confirmed in an official an
nouncement by the war Office today.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-15
The Answer.

"Mr. Interlocutor," said the end
mar at the Communicable Amateur
Minstrel show, Il want to ask you a
question"
Very we'll, Mr.. Bones, what is your
question:"
why does the railroad company al.
ways pick out single men for con.
ductors and brakemen?"
Before I answer your question, Mr.
Bones" replied the i~nterlocutor, I'D
like to ask you one. How do you
know that the railway company al
ways selects single men for conductors
and brakemen?"
Because no married man would
ever dare to slam a door the way
those fellows do"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-15
"his Own Lawxern

Over and ver again, the wisdom
of the adage, "A man who is his w
lawyer has a fool for a Client" and
the understanding that inspired the
Injunction, physician, heal myself"
are established in the courts. Every
lawyer is familiar with many instances
in which the wills of distinguished
jurists have been set aside because
they were improperly drawn, and it is
a matter of pretty common knowledge
that few doctors can diagnose their
own ailments.
Another exemplifcation now ap-
pears in the conflict about the will
of the late DR.. Austin Flint. He was,
perhaps, more frequently employed as
an expert witness as to testamentary
capacity than any other alienist in
the country. Questions of mental fit
ness, of intent, of motive and of the
other attributes of a "sound-disposing
mind were before him constantly.
Yet he drew his own will so ambigu-
ously, so ~obscurely, that his executors
have been compelled to invoke the aid
Of the court to determine what the
learned testator meant.-Richmond
Times-Dispatch.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-15
GLIMPSE OF PARADISE.

From the National Geographic Society.
Alden is the unhappy gateway into happy
Araby, and, moreover, it is one of the
foremost strategic points on Eigland's
trade route through the Red sea to India
and the far east. One Arabian author
says of the country behind Alden, that
rountry known as Arabia Felix. Its in
habitants are all hale and strong. sickness
IS nIan unh or Rnima nef na are fod there nar b1}nd neos
ole. and the women are ever young; the
climate is like paradise and one wears the
same garments summer and winter Ad-
en-, however, where the British and Turk
tsh forces are opposing one another, en-
Joys none of these advantages catalogued
as inherent in Arabia Felix.
Spread over its ragged hills of sun,nade
ash and cinder. swelterinS, gloomy and
AnrelieVed by vegetation, Alden invites
little attention in peace times. Alden is
is so had that it turns wine into vinegar
in the space of 10 days" complained one
disappointed Arab traveller of the middle
ages. And in the centuries since his visit
the climate has not improved. In spite,
nevertheless. of the terrible heat that
gathers over Aden's valley aad clings to
its low hills and its lack of a good water
supply. the place maintains a reputation
as a healthy one.
The town is built on desolate volcanic
entrance to the Red sea. The Strait of
Babel-Mandeb lies 100 miles away. and
Alden is the British Gibraltar toward the
llulan ocean lldI Keeps an etltSTIlai Nl9l~
lance over the safety of the rich english
that goes this way. The British
captured and annexed the place on Janu-
airy Is, 1899, since which time they have
made the place a most emphatic fortress,
one of the strongest anywhere in southern
Asia. Money and labor without stint have
been expended there to make the city alb
solutely i~mpregnable from land and sea.
Massive lines of defense. strengthened by
q broad moat, guard thu neck of the 18TH
mus. and these defenses conceal powerful
batteries. Turrets. hidden forts. mined
approaches. bastionS, towers, batteries.
magazines. mole batteries toward the sea.
mined harbors, great naval guns, obstruc-
ton piers. barracks. redoubts in solid
rock, all are elements in the British plan
to guard this southern end of their i'm
portant trade route beyond all possible
chance Of failure against superior and
sustained attack. Alden may be last in
matters of climate but it is among the
first in matters of fertilization.
| queen of southern fortresses rears itself
is only about Is miles in circumference
1t is the bowl of ar extinct volcano. The
lofty hills around are the remains of the
crater sides, and of these, Shem Shem has
has an altitude of nearly 1900 feet. All
food and water for use on the peninsula
has to be brought in from the outside.
| Much of the water is supplied from the
government condensers. which We're de-
signed to make the fortress independent in
case Of wars necessities. The population
of $4,000 is a mixture of all the elements of
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-15

Compound made her well, so l took it and
now am just as well as | ever was. I
cannot understand why rome don'y
see how much pain and suffering they
would escape by taking your medicine.
! cannot praise it enough for it saved
my life and kept me from the Insane
Aospital.'-Mrs E. SHELDON, 5657 s..
Halsted ST., Englewood, III.
Physicians undoubtedly did their best,
battled with this case steadily and could
do no more, but often the most scientific
treatment is surpassed by the medicinal
properties of the good old fashioned
roots and herbs contained in Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
If any complication exists il
pays to write the Lydia e. Pink
ham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass,
for special free advice.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-15
PLEASED THE WooDPEckER
Bird Takes Kindly to Tin Harricade
Erected Against Its
Peckings.


Mrs. John Pozer of Main street,
Newton, N. j., feared that a me shade
tree on her lawn would be killed by a
w~oodpecker that appeared there every
day and pecked away at a hole which
ne was making larger and larger.
Therefore she had her husband tack
a sheet of tin W the hole when the
bird was absent.
Refusing to be discouraged and pre-
tending he does not know the differ
ence, the woodpecker now goes to the
tree every day and pecks away like
a trip hammer on the tin sheet. Tie
n%eighbors are nearly crazy with the
noise, and there is a law against kill
ing w~oodpeckers.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-15
Remarkable Interview
With Henry Ford
BY Henry Wise Wood.

Henry A. Wise Wood, chairman OF the
conference committee on national pre-
speak on preparedness and to interview
Henry Fore. He wrote the following let
ter to the editor of the New York Times
To the Editor of the New York Times:
On May s, while in Detroit for the pur-
pose of speaking on preparedness. I spent
several hours with Henry Ford. I found
Mr.. Ford eager to talk about national de-
Tense. blu unwilling to discuss 1t. While
v~olleyiEg his assertions with great rapid
ity, he refused to pause long enough to
permit any one of them to be examined
and dealt with. To facts which I sub
mitted he responded with q brief word of
dismissal or with a sweeping denial that
they were facts: sometimes with the re-
mark that he could not consider them be-
cause he himself did not know them to
be facts.
In dealing with naval and military SUBJ
jects his position seemed to be that they
We're to be tossed aside, because a civilian
In presenting them was not to be credited,
nor a professional to be trusted. There
fore they were not open to discussion. BY
this simple mental operation Mr.. Ford
shut ont of the conversation all naval and
military affairs.
Ford Does Not Believe In History.
The suggestion that. because of the re-
suits of this war or the situation in
Mexico, We might eventually find our
selves in international difficulties from
which owing to our weakness, we might
be unable easily to e%Ntricate ourselves,
Mr.. Ford pooh-poohed. saying 1 was full
of eastern scare gas"
When in our discussion of a nations
need for defensive strength history was
appealed to, Mr.. Ford replied that he did
not believe in history, that history was of
the past and had no bearing upon the
present. and that, there being nothing to
be learned from it, history need not be
studied nor considered. The American
revolution he refused to have touched
upon, saying that the revolution was
tradition that he did not believe in ira
dition.
Coming to Mr.. Ford's beliefs, which
We're given in fragments, with always his
refusal to support them with evidence or
to permit their analytical examination,
these seemed to gather about a single
thought. Mr.. Ford's theory of wars-he
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-15

, granting no exception-is, or was on May
., that they are created artincially by
bankers. At the moment there are two
bankers. but two, he believes, who are re-
sponsible for modern wars. If these be
plncked then wars in our day will cease.
MI. Ford asserts he knows who these
bankers are, and that he, personally, Is
going to see that the tooth is pulled
He would not reveal the names of these
bankers, nor explain the method by which
ne is to pull the tooth.
Doesn't Believe In Patriotism.
Mr.. Ford asserted that he has found a
permanent remedy for warfare, which he
refused to reveal, saying that in due time
l should learn what it Is. This he said he
would put into effect, but seemed unable
to say when. When I sought to follow up
these and other assertions equally vague
l was invariably met by his refusal to
divulge what he had in mind; 1 was alb
Jured to wait and see.
One clew to his thought may be got
from his reply to my likening the external
need for a defensive military force to the
internal need for an armed police, which
vas that the police needed neither their
clubs nor Their reNolverS; that the law
could be enforced without any arms.
Then, in the same breath, he asked II .
was a deputy sheriff. saying that he a,Gf
all of his men We're deputy sheriffs and
e1i"e ~ was my NulS also 10 ne one.
When the word patriotism was touched
upon Mr.. Ford burst out with the asser-
ton that he did not believe in patriotism,
that no man is patriotic, and that the
word patriotism is always the last resort
of a To my inquiry as to wha.
he would do in the event Of war he re-
piled that even If we were to be invaded
he would not make a dollars worth Of
arms for the United States. AS / wished
that there should be no mistake as to his
meaning, | put the question three times
and three times got the same answer.
Finally, l said: Mr.. Ford, on your roof
are three American flags. On seeing them
1T hurt me to think that beneath them
there was a man who is spending vast
sums, amassed under their protection, to
ruin the defenses Of his country, and lay
1T open to a possibly hostile world" To
this he replied: when the war is over
those fiags shall come down, never to go
up again. | don't believe in the flag; it
! 1t something to rally around.'
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-15
Dickens, Poor Taste il, frees

When Charles Dickens was to make
his first appearance in America as a
reader an immense crowd awaited him
at u public hall in Boston. The en-
thusiasm OF tho people had risen to
fever heat. Cine Of his most ardent
admirers atterward told this little in
cident of the evening:
with a few gentlemen, who wished
to welcome him and TO show him at.
teGtion, | was in the little room bac.S
Of the platform whom Dickens entered
it. He was a rather stout man, with a
somewhat red face. and | saw. to my
surprise, that he was dressed in an
exaggerated servility TO the extreme
OF fashion. More than this, lie wore a
~boutonniere III each buttonhole. and
two watches, the chains OF which were
strung aggressively across his chest.
There was a gaudy bad taste in his
appearance which his friends regret
ted, knowing how distastcful it would
be 10 his admirers, who appreciated
his genius and enjoyed his writings
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-15
Cost of Popularity.
From the WASHINGTON Star

IT "sfIllIENVII SIdT.
David Lloyd George. the British min
ister OF munitions, was the lido! of the
trade union classes before the war, and
he Will probably be their idol again after
the war: but Just now on account of his
cloud. ~ "
Henry TAYLOR, the British consul to Du-
intn, sad Of Mr.. Lloyd George the other
gay. III mes unpopular now, It's because
ne was SO very, popular before. His case
is like that of the young lady.
-. what makes Marie so disliked?' one
Why, don't you know the other an
swered: She got the most votes at thn
bazaar for being ..opular.'" -
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-15
Corvicts as Road Builders.

From the Kansas City Star.
The splendid roads about Denver and
through the now Colorado National Park.
are due to convict labor. The state peni-
Tertiary has found tho convicts make good
Workmen and that they are trustworthy.
Convict camps are 50 numerous that they
hardly attract the attention of Colorado
tourists.
Missouri could nave one of the greatest
road systems in the country if it would
use its motor car license fund and its CON
Victs to build permanent highways.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-15
T0RTuRING SKIN TROUBLES
That Itch, Burn and D~isfisure Healed
by Cuticura. Trial Free.

Battle with plenty of Cuticura Soap
and hot water to cleanse and purify.
Dry lightly and apply Cuticura Oint-
ment to soothe and heal. This stops
itching instantly, clears away pimples,
removes dandruff and scalp irritations,
and heals red, rough, sore hands.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-15
As 1t Usually Turns Out.

From the Birmingham Age-Herald
"~Asphodelia Twobble says she will never
marry a MAJ who doesn't own at least
two houses-a town house and a country
house"
Let her dream"
'Yes?'
1T would be cruel to suggest that what
fate has In store for her is a grocery
clerk for a husband and two light house,
keeping rooms for a domestic establish
ment.'