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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
With Other Peoples Money Even Tghwad Often Thinks
ASST. Y. SECRETARY RESIGNS
oscar Elwell Will Become Student al
Springfield College.

Oscar Elwell left the employ of the
local Young Mems Christian associa-
tion Saturday, after a term of service
covering four years. He will enter
Springfield college this week. Spring
field college is one of the training
schools for Y. NJ. c. A. secretaries,
and Mr. Elwell intends to supplement
his experience with a few years OF
study along association lines.
He entered the association in Ben
nington as janitor, and had worked
his way up during the last season he
was responsible for the physical work
and a great deal of detail, While he
had no training as physical director,
it is conceded that the gymnasium
classes were successfully conducted.
The Boy Scouts, who were led by
Mr.. Elwell, presented him with a res
olution of appreciation and regret up.
on his going, and he will be missed
about the building.
Chauncey Il. Mann who has had
charge of the playground work this
summer, and who is a trained and ex.
perienced physical director, will take
the physical work at the association
this season.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
SMALL VOTE Being
POLLED TODAY IN
PRIMARY
According to indications at Local
Polling Place
NO GREAT INTEREST SHOWN
Big Vote in Some Parts of the State
Where There are Contests Over
Local Nominations.

Vermont's first test of the new di-
rect primary law is in progress. The
polls opened at Il o'clock and win
close this evening at 8. This will en-
able those who cannot vote during
the day to cast their ballots after sup
PEI.
There was no great rush to vote at
the opening of the polls and the cleo
tion officers had to wait for the ar
rival Of most of the assistants at
Library hall this noon. The officials
in charge are Selectman Frank Gro
mack and Justice ii. l.. Hutchins.
At 2.30 less than 400 votes had been
cast and the total Bennington vote
was guessed around the polling place
at from 500 to 1000,
The supporters of Page and Fletch-
er both had automobiles and plenty of
workers, but the mills are all busy and
and the workers found it hard work
to get the men to come to the polls.
Reports from up the state indicate
a big vote where there are local con
tests but no great enthusiasm over
the senatorship.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
RILEY WAS SENSITIVE.
Why He Stopped Reoitins One of His
Poems In Public.

"As an illustration OF Riley's sensi-
tive nature" said Melville f. stone,
Jim and | went alone to the theater
to see Sol Smith Russell. who also be-
longed to the Saints and Sinners Cor
ner He was playing The loor Rela-
ton In the play was a scene where
Russell took young boy and put him
ia a barrel while he removed his trou-
SerS TO mend them. The audience
reared with laughter at the comic sit
uation. Next to me in the box sat
James Whitcomb Riley. Sobbing us if
his heart would break. He saw no
humor in the plight of the little hoy.
To him it was pathoS.
"lle, like Eugene Field, was devoted
to children. He loved them. but he
loved them artistically. am not sure
that personally-that Is. mind you,
hanging to mans coattails-they eli
ther of them wanted children around.
They lacked the patience necessary for
daily contact with children. Riley and
Field could write heartbreaking verse
In respect of children and put into
them IN inordinate amount of human
sympathy. but so far MS | know this
was at arms length from The young
stcrs themselves, especially In Fields
ease. Riley was ever exceedingly SYM
pathetic. One evening Jim was recit.
ing his poem, a Happy Little Cripple,
before large audience lie had scarce,
ly begun the lines
I'm hist little crippled boy an never
goin 20 grow
An sit great big man at an, 'caus,
aunty told me So
When | was thist a baby onc't / failed
out OF the bed
An got the curvture ~ the spino'-at''
what the doctor said
when he noticed man ana woman
in the audience leaving the hall. lie
made inquiry and found out that they
had a little lame child OF their own
much like the one he was describing
lie resolved never To rcci,c that poem
in public again. New York Post
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
ToDAY's PRIMARY
Forecast This Morning From the
Rutland Herald.

Rutland, Sept. 12.-The Rutland
Herald today has the following fore
cast of todays primary:
Montpelier, Sept 11-Political
scouts from the various camps who
have returned from the field within
the past q hours arc making claims
that their candidates are to be nomi-
mated tomorrow when Vermont voters
will hold their first primary, .Adyices
tonight from Northfeld the headquar
ters Of the Allen NJ. Fletcher Sena-
torial club, were to the effect that
there was no reason to. be pessimistie
so lar as reports had been received.
From Hyde Park, home of Senator
Carroll S Page, came by telephone
this evening the unqualified statement
that Page will get the nomination to-
morrow When asked how the other
candidates would stand in the final
count friends of Senator Page ac-
knowledged that Fletcher would be
close second
Though GOV. Charles w. Gates of
Franklin has not made much noise in
campaigning for the seat of Senator
Page the Franklin county candidates
friends this evening" especially in
Washington and Nindham counties.
were offering to gamble that he would
not be in cellar position when the
votes are counted tomorrow night
Adyices from Middlebury, home of
Judge John h. Weeks. are that the
present speaker of the House of Rep
resentatiyes has gained ground fast
the past week and that he has the
better hold on the lieutenant COVER
norshir.
Hyde Park friends of Roger HUI
hurd, Lamoille county's candidate for
the second place on the republican
ticket, are making claims that we'll
informed students of politics consider
highly extravagant. Capital City
friends of Judge Weeks say that HUI
burd people will find their man out
side the breastworks tomorrow night.
The authorship concerns Washing
ton county politicians fully as much
as any OF the contests as Ben Gates.
secretary Of civil and military affairs,
who has served long apprenticeship
on the states payroll, and Thomas
Cave, jr.. OF Barre, at present an as
sistant in the office of the state treas
urer. are making fight for the Office
now held by Horace f. Graham. The
political scouts are divided in their
opinion as to the outcome Of the fight
but reports from various parts of the
state would indicate that Cave has
| tho poll.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
IMPORTS INCREASE
Amount in August Was So, 1892
Falling off In Duties Collected.

st. Adams, Sept 1O.-There was a
big increase over the preceding month
in the amount of imports during the
month just past in the Vermont Gus.
toms district according to the report
just issued by Collector II. c. Com.
ings. There was slight increase in
the exports, and the increase over the
corresponding month last year was
large.
The imports for the month OF Aug.
ust amounted to S3,l39.322 as com.
pared with s2,379,562 for the cores.
pending month last year and the TX
ports were $500. .i3i as compared
with S3,S9O, ,iS5 for August last year.
There was a falling of. however. in
the duties collected the past month
from last year as well as for July this
year. The amount collected was
S277l310 as compared with S2S,i6S..
rs during July and q decrease of
Sl59.GS from August last year, when
the amount collected was $2S,17273.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
TWO PROBABLY DROWNED
No Trace of Burlington Men Who
Were Last Seen in a RoWboat

Burlington, Sept. 11.-No trace has
been found of the bodies of James
Francis and Louis Potyin, who were
drowned, it is thought sometime
Thursday while on their way to Juni.
per island in a rowboat
The men, in more or less intoxi-
Gated condition, it is stated left the
boat house of Edgar Chiott on King
street Thursday morning and the last
words they spoke were to Clarence
Chiott, son of the boat house owner.
A colored man who keeps his boat
at Oak Ledge claims he saw them
half way between the breakwater and
the island. He was not however.
near enough to speak to them. They
never reached the island
The theory that the men quarreled
and finally came to blows which
caused the boat to oyerturn, is likely
as both showed a quarrelsome dis
position when last seen.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
Baseball Brains.

Speaking Of picked baseball teams, n
writer In the New York World says:
There have been teams picked for
their batting aud teams picked for
their fielding, but Il we were to pick a
team for sheer baseball brains aud
could have all the men h. their prime
we would take Hal Chase nt first
Johnny Evcrs At second. tlonus Wng
ncr at short. John McGnw ot third
Ty Cobb, Iris Speaker aud Fielder
Jones In the outhcld, Mike Kelly sbe
hind the bat aud Chrlsty Mathewsor
ON the mound"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
PLAGUE is UP TO MOSQUITO
It is Blamed as Carrier by New York
Medical Journal.

New York, Sept. 9.-Tho mosquito
is blamed as Il carrier of infantile par.
alysis In a letter published In the New
York Medical Journal by Dr. Charles
$. Braddock, ir. formerly chief medi.
cal inspector for the Siamese govern,
mont. \ similarity is pointed out IN
the spread of the plague and in the
spread of yellow fever.
Both diseases flourish IN hot
weather and cease in cold" Dr. Brad.
dock explains, owing to the fact that
the mosquito being the carrier OF vel.
low fever perishes In cold weather
and believe the same will be found
In nientile paralysis. The season
has been very favorable for the pro.
pagation of mosquitoes
The Womans Supply league an.
nounced last night that funds collect.
ed by the organization will be used to
equipt emergency ambulancos to
transport crippled paralysis victims
from their homes to hospitals. for
treatment.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
Is Easy nIg Generous In Imagination With Other Pc
MARTIN /. Rlees
Civil War Veteran Died Monday at
Soldiers Home.

Martin !. Biggs, aged 72, died Mon
day at the Vermont soldiers home
here. He was taken to the institu'
ton about three months ago. The re-
mains were taken to the home OF his
son, William II. Biggs, on Division
street and the funeral will be held
from st. Francis de Sales church
Wednesday morning at o'clock. Bur
ial will be in the Park Lawn cem-
etery.
The deceased was a native of Ken
lucky, born in Louisville in 1874. He
was a veteran of the civil war, a men,
ber of Company A, 93d New York regi
ment of volunteers. When mustered
out of the service he located in Troy
and it was from that city that he came
to Bennington % years ago. He was
a teamster by occupation, his last EN-
ployment being with the Tuttle com
pany.
Forty years ago he married Mary
Fitzgerald of Troy who died nearly
two years ago. He is survived by one
son and one daughter, William II. and
Alice Biggs of this village.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
Raiains az Food.

AZ a producer Of energy the raisln In
marvel. One pound of rnisins In this
respect, according TO n doctor, will
more than equal "a pound of beef or
five pounds of fish, two pounds Of eggs,
four pounds Of potatoes, two quarts OF
milk, half II peek of apples or dozen
bananas" And the advantage Of the
sugar In the raisin Is that II is almost
Immediately dlgested assimilated and
transformed into energy.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
Standing OF the Clubs
KANSAS MEN QUIT EAGLE PASS
Looks as u Vermonters Were About
Only 6uardsmen Left There.

From press dispatches It appears
that the First Vermont Infantry is
about the only National Guard or.
ganization that has been left In
Eagle Pass. Tex. by the war depart.
ment. A recent Washington dispatch
told of the ordering home to be mus.
tered out of the Maryland outfits. and
from San Antonio comes the word
that the First and Second Kansas
regiments with their equipment have
been transferred from Eagle Pass to
San Antonio where they will take TN
place of the Illinois regiments re.
Gently ordered home The Kansas
regiments made the trip of 175 miles
in 100 motor trucks. The Vermont
and Kansas regiments were brigaded
together and took part in the Satur'
day maneuvers as provisional bri'
gade under the command of Colonel
iloisington of the Second Kansas.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
BARRIERS BREAK
|. BETWEEN GREECE
AND OPEN WAR
Premier zaimiS Tenders Pesig-
nations Of His Cabinet
NATION Will JOIN ALLIES
Some Opposition on the Part OF Rus
sia and Italy Has Been
Reported.

London, Sept 12,-Greece moved
nearer to the verge of war today.
The report that Premier Zaimis had
rendered the resignation of his cabi-
net is confirmed by dispatches from
Athens
King Constantine is endeayoring to
induce the premier to reconsider his
decision.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
CANADIANS IN THE FIGHTING
Issuance OF New Casualty Lists In
forms the Home Public.

Ottawa. Sept. 1.-THE issuing of
new casualty lists by the Government
today brought the news to the Cana
dian public that the Dominion troops
have again figured in big battle,
this time on the Somme front.
The lists indicate that the losses
will run up to several hundred in a
serious engagement which took place
Friday. No details of the fighting can
he Cleaned from the reports thus far
given out.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
From eenoral L. par,ienl,r

"lIas Miss oldgirl lost any Of her
animosity for many"
None at nh. she has merely trans.
terrcd II from the sex to the ind.
'ldual."
what do you mcanf'
"Shc Is going to be- married" Rich.
nond Times Dispatch.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12

When Major General Sir John Ne
Neili, :. c.. was badly wounded at Es-
samnn in the Ashanti. war he emerged
from the bush cXclalmlng IN angry
and indignant tones as II some one
had deeply insultcd him, "An infer
nal scoundrcl out there has shot me
through the nrm."
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12

All the books in the great libraries
nre yours IT you can read them. All
the naintlngs in the great galleries are
Yours IL YOU can enjoy them Legal
ownership could only enable you to
prevent others from using them or cm.
power YOU to give them up FOR money.
Youths Companion.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
COMMI asIONERs' NOTICE

The Undersigned having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the district
OF Benningt m. COMMISSIONERS 20 receive.
examine, and adjust the claims and demands
Nl persons against the estate OF Bridget Shan
ahau, late OF Bennington IN said District, de-
ceased and all claims exhibited In on ct there
10. hereby give notitN that we will meet for the
purpose morsaid, at the Office OF A. \. Hatha-
way 4 % IN the village OF North Remington
IN said District, on the Goth dav OF April
aud 4sth day OF October next, from o'clocK X
a. m. until O'Clock y. IN, on each OF said
days and that elr months from tho 18th day : (
April A. ID. 1910. Is the time limited by said
Court for said creditors o. present their claims
10 us for examination aud allowa nee.
Dated at Bennington, VI, this 2lst day OF
April A. ID. 1915.
WIN. Q. MEAGHER,
A. N. SHEPARD.
Commissioners
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12

Portland. Me, Sept 1l.-At y
o'clock tonight the indications based
on a tabulation of the vote from lit
tie more than half the precincts were
that the republicans had won the state
election today by safe pluralities.
If the ratio of the republican mar
Gin is maintained Carl Il. Milliken
will be elected governor by about 49,
600 plurality. Bert NJ. Eernald, re-
publican, seems to have been elected
for the short term in the United
States Senate and the same ratio Of
gain would give him plurality OF
950c
United States Senator Charles F.
Johnson, demomcrat, apparently has
been defeated by Frederick Hale, by
an indicated plurality of 1900.
If the republican congressional can
didates hold the lead they had at the
above hour three-Louis B. Goodall,
in the first district, Congressman
! John A. Peters in the third and Ira G.
Hersey in the fouIth-will be elected.
Congressman Daniel j. McGillicuddy,
democrat, appeared to have been de-
feated in the second district by Wal
lace H. White, but the fight was close.
The election was the elimination of
one of the hottest fights ever Waged
in the state and marked the reunion
of the republican and progressive
parties which differences in 1912 gave
the electoral vote OF Maine to Presi-
dent Wilson and two years later re-
suited in the election of Gov. Oakley
c. Curtis, a democrat by a plurality
OF 31S9.
Tonights figures indicate that the
larger percentage Of the progressive
vote which two years ago was 1926
was cast today for the republican
ticket.
Throughout the campaign In which
a great number Of men from all parts
of the country and drawn from repub
licans, democrats and progressiyes
participated. National issues were
kept to the front
The interest aroused together with
perfect election weather brought out
one of the biggest votes ever cast in
| the state.
For the first time the two United
States senators were elected by popu
lar vote and the republicans made q
determined effort to win the one seat
in the House OF Representatives held
by Maine democrats. The democrats
had claimed the state by 5000 and the
republicans by $4,000.
The indications early tonight were
that the state Legislature had been
won by the republicans who now con
troll the Senate. The lower House is
democratic. Early figures showed q
republican gain of five seats in the
House and two in the Senate.
Later figures showed that the re
publicans had won all four seats in
the national House OF Representa-
tives. With the vote of a half dozen
small towns that could not change the
result. missing w. II. White, ir, had
n plurality over Congressman d. j
| MCCillicuddV. democrat of l73 votes
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
Unreasonable Woman.

Mrs, rlckloton with newSpaperl-
Here's writer who figures out that in
flfty years we mdrcss for bed over
$4,000 times. picNcton-And yet You
kick IL break the monotony once in
awhile by going TO bed with my clothes
on.-Boston Transcript.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
REPUBLICANS Win
IN MAINE BY SAFE
PLURALITIES
Elect Governor, Two US. Senators
and Four CongreSmen
PLURALITY CLOSE TO $4,000
Most of the Progressive Vote, 1925,
of Two Years Ago Went to
Republican Candidates.

Augusta, Me. Sept, 12.-The latest
returns obtainable today from yester
days elections indicate that Carl E
Milliken, the republican candidate fol
governor, has plurality OF 13,4O0 oy
er his democratic opponent.
The republicans have been victor
ious in all four congressional districts
The contest in the second district was
close but the latest figures today give
Wallace II. White, republican, l9,l51
and Daniel j. McGillicuddy, democrat
1S,77C.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12

Ajax dcncd the lightning"
"Ycs. That was before they had
electricity tanned and hamesscd in
wires. II Ajax were around today he
wouldn't have the nerve TO tall, bacl;
to telephone exchange" Washing.
ton Star.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
FRED T, cAsWELL DEAD
Represented Derby In Legislature and
Was Candidate for Senator"

Derby Line, SEPT. lO.--Ffed,r Gas
we'll. SO Years old. died at shisv lIome
here Yesterday morning after a Years
illness Me was n member OF the
House OF Representatives and WIS
candidate for the republican, hoBina.
ton Tor state senator fromg ORPHANS
county at the primaries neNAl TIpBday.
Mr. Caswell has been in business In
Derby for many years
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
PnMnr Of tho Prnns.

The productions Of the press, fast as
steam can make and carry them. 20
abroad through all the land silent as
snowtlakes, but potent IA thunder II
N nm additional tongue of steam and
lightning by which n man speaks his
first thought. his instant argument OF
grievance 20 millions IN a day. Chaplin
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
Those Queer Girls.

He why didn't you answer my let
ter2 Shc-l never received IT, He
You dldn'tg She No. and, besides,
didn't like something YOU soi1 In it,
Boston Transcript.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
TWENTY-FIVE NEW CASES
Total Of t72 Stricken with Paralysis
in Massachusetts.

Boston, Sept ll-Twenty.hve
cases Of infantile paralysis develop.
ing over Saturday and Sunday were
reported today at the state depart.
ment of health, making a total of 179
in the month Of September.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
WEATHER FORECAST

For eastern New York and western
Vermont generally fair tonight and
Wednesday. Wednesday warmer.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-12
BULGARs DRIVEN
FROM 4 VILLAGES
IN MACEDONIA
British Advance Across River
Struma Continues
RUSSIANS STOPPED IN GAlICIA
Attempts to Capture Halicz, Key to
Lembere, Checked by Won Gen.
Bothmer.

London, Sept. 1.-THE British
troops in their advance across the
struma, in the region of Lake Tahinos
have driven the Bulgarians from four
villages, says War Office statement
on the operations in Macedonia is
sued tonight. The British also re-
pulsed strong Bulgarian counterat-
tacks.
The Serbians are advancing against
the Bulgarians who some time ago
crossed the Greek frontier near Lake
Ostrovo and made a quick advance
southwark. Since that time the Bull
garians have retired considerably un-
der pressure. The French also are
forcing the fight, attacking from the
Vardar to Lake Doiran.
Berlin, Sept. IL, (via London.)-
Russian attempts to capture the town
of Halicz on the Dniester in Galicia, re
garded as the key to the defenses OF
Lemberg from the southeast, have
been frustrated by the Teutonic
forces, according to todays official
War Office announcement. Troops
under General Count Won Bothmer
brought the Russian efforts to naught,
the statement declares. Russian at
tacks in the vicinity of Stare-Czerwiz-
cze, on the Stokhod forty miles north
east of Kovel, also were repulsed, ac-
cording to the official announcement,
which follows:
Army group of Prince Leopold: On
both sides of Stare-C -CzerwizsZe, the
Russians, who again attacked in
strong force, suffered a sanguinary
repulse, as on Saturday.
Front OF Archduke Charles Francis
The battle between the Zlota Lipa and
the Dniester on Sept. and 8 proved
to be an attempt by the Russians
exploiting their gain of territory on
the 9th, to break through by quick
subsequent assault on Bursztyr
twelve miles north OF Halcz) and al
the same time put themselves in pos
session of HalicZ. General Count
Won Bothmer, with a defense cleverly
conceived and carried out with equa
cleverness, frustrated this plan. the
Russians suffering extraordinarily
heavy losses.
In the Carpathians the situation
generally is unchanged.