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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-31
BRITAIN T|GHTtN N S
GRIP ON NEUTRAL
SHIPPING
More SuingentBIoCkade Measures
Put in Force
INNOCENCE MUST BE- PROVED
Vessels and carsoes Subject to Seiz'
ure While on Way to NonbIockaded
Port

London, March 31.--A British order
in council was issued last night where
by neither vessel nor her cargo
shall be immune from capture for a
breach of blockade upon the sole
ground that she at the moment is on
her way to a nonblockaded port" The
order sets forth that, subject, to GER
tain notifications and omissions, the
government has put in froce the dec
laration of London respecting the
capture OF mere hant craft during the
war.
Certain doubts, however, have aris-
en- concerning the right to effect the
capture of conditional contraband on
board a vessel bound to a neutral
port" which it is ''expedient to put
an end to-" and it has been decided no
longer to adopt article 10 of the dec
laration, which provides that what
ever may be the ultimate destination
of vessel or of her cargo she cannot
be captured for breach of blockade, if
at the moment she is on her way to
nOnblockaded port.
1t is therefore ordered that the pro-
visions of the declaration of London
shall not be deemed to limit, or to
have limited, in any way the right of
his majesty. in accordance with the
law of nations, to capture goods upon
the ground that they are conditional
contraband nor to affect, or to have
affected, the liability of conditional
contraband to capture, whether the
carriage of the goods to their destina-
tion be direct of entail transshipment
or subsequent transport by land al
This provision is made applicable
also to absolute contraband. Another
clause says that enemy destination
may be esumed to exist if the
goods are consigned to a person who,
during the present hostilit,e,, has for
warded imported contraband goods to
territories belonging to.or occupied by
the enemy" The order further says
that "it shall lie upon the owners Of
goods to prove that their destination
was innocent" The order in council
is to be effective from yesterday.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-31
COAL PRICES WILL.
NOT Be REDUCED
APRIL FIRST
Present Quotations to Remain in
Force During Summer
MINERS ASKING FOR MORE PAY
Prospect that Figures VIII Go to Sc
For Ese and s8.25 for Stove and
Chestnut September I.
MINERS ASKING FOR MORE PAY

There is little prospect that the u.s.
ual reduction in prices of so cents a
ton on coal will be announced on Sat
urday, April /. The operators and
miners are now in consultation in New
York over demand for increased
wages and changes in working sched-
ules and the outlook for an immediate
settlement Is not promising.
Ever since the big strike in the coal
regions in 1902 it has been the, policy
of the operators to establish a mini
mum price which should go into effect
on April j. Beginning May l there has
been monthly increase OF ten cents
a ton. This addition of ten cents ton
was continued each month until Sep
tember /, five months, and the price
was then established for the coming
six months.
This plan was adopted for the pur.
pose of keeping the coal business, both
at the mines and in the Offices of the
retail dealers, in continuous operations
through the summer months. A say
ing of so cents ton was a sufficient
lOi many PCt tnOlio w PuA
in their supplies of coal during the per
iod of low prices. But for this induce
ment the mines could not operate to
anywhere near full capacity in summer
and the dealers would have period OF
comparative idleness.
The present cash prices for coal in
Bennington are $7.75 for stove and
chestnut and $3.50 for egg. If the
operators and the miners reach ar
agreement there may be reduction
from these prices but the prospect is
not promising. Indications are that
the present quotations are bottom fig
ures and that on May l coal in Ben.
nington will cost $7.S5 and $7.60 and
that the buyer who waits until after
September will have to pay SS.25 and
SS for his winters supply.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-31
HOSPITAL FUND GROWING
Water System Earned S16,33762 Dur
ina Past Year.

Clerk w. p. Hogan of the board of
water commissioners today turned
over to Treasurer Charles II. Dewey
he sum of s9,29450, the net earning
Of the water system for the six months
ending March 81. This makes total
Of ,16,337.62 for the past year.
With the addition made today the
water system has turned over to the
hospital association total of S4S-
l1705 during the three years that have
elapsed since the system came into
possession of the village through the
yift of the late Henry w. Putnam of
San Diego who organized the company
hat built the system.
1t was provided by the deed of gift
from Mr.. Putnam that the sum of
$500 should be diverted each year in
to sinking fund for permanent im-
provement of the system, that $500
should annually be allowed for the
cost of extensions and that the net
revenue should semi-annually be
turned over to the treasurer of the
Henry w. Putnam Memorial Hospital
association.
The association has already pur
chased lot upon which some improve
ments have been made and has se
cured plans for the building. Some
time ago movement was inaugurated
for the immediate construction of the
hospital through bond issue to be
guaranteed by the village of Benning
ton but judging from present indica-
tions has deemed 1t best to delay ac-
tual work until the fund has assumed
larger proportions.
The water commissioners and the
clerk feel that they have good reason
to be pleased with the manner in
which the system has so far been con-
Quoted as a public utility.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-31
JAIL MERclER's SECRETARY
M. Loncin Is Accused of Communi-
eating with Teutons' Foes.

Berlin, March 30. (by Wireless to
Tuckerton, N. J0-M. Loncin private
secretary to Cardinal Mercier, the Bel
gian primate, has been arrested, ac-
cording to a dispatch from Brussels,
given out today by the Overseas
News Agency
"An investigation was begun some
time ago. says the News Agency.
"of NJ. Loncin, who was suspected of
maintaining forbidden intercourse
with the enemy. A search of his house
proved that he had intimate relations
with an organization that secretly
carried letters between Belgium and
the enemy's front"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-31

London, March 30.-Great aerial
activity is reported in the official COM
munication issued tonight by the
French war Office. Five German aero
planes were brought down in the reg
ion of Verdun, two In the Champagne
district and one west of Nouvion in the
Somme district.
The French machines were hit many
times but all returned safely the war
office says
Heavy German attacks were deliv-
cred around Douaumont. Liquid flame
vas employed in these assaults, but
The Germans were repulsed with con-
siderable losses.
West of the Meuse, whore much fight
ing has taken place recently infantry
actions ceased temporarily, but artil-
cry fire continued in the region Of
Malapcourt.
Fighting is still going on between
the British and Germans along the
British end of the French line, ,particu-
larly near St Eloi where German grep
ade throwers have succeeded in reach
ing part of q mine crater held by the
British. Near Boesinghe the British
PUT down an attempted attack by the
iermans.
Strong forces ofoAustrians and Ital-
ans are aligned against each other in
he Gorizia sector of the Austro-Ital.
ian, front. On the heights of Seilz
spirited figbting is taking place. Else
where artillery duels continue.
Berlin says the big offensive of The
Russians in the region of Postavy has
ceased and that Russians have given
up their attacks around Lake Narocz
Artillery diiels are going on around
Jacobstadt and to the north of Vidzy
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-31
TURKS AGAIN DEFEATED
Russian Success in the Black Sea
Coast Region Continues.

Petrograd, March 29-The follow
ing bulletin was issued by the War Of
flee tonight: g."
In the caucasus on the coast section,
our detachments. which had occupied
the heights of the left bank of the
River Oghen Dere, sustained during
Monday night series of desperate
enemy counterattacks. All of them
were repulsed and the Turks, having
suffered terrible losses, beat a retreat,
leaving behind prisoners and a gun.
We also took prisoners in the direc-
tion OF Erzengan.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-31
They To With Question Forgng
SCIENTIFIC CITIZEN FARM.
ING.

Nowadays, in scientific farm
Ing, when We want TO learn
whether one soil is better. than
another or whether one kind OF
fertilizer succeeds better than
another, we take good seed and
plant it in different sections of
our farm and with different fer
tilizers and try out what con
ditions and what soil produce the
best results. We've been doing
this for many years in our cit
les with our citizen seed, the
only difference being that the
scientific vegetable farmer pro-
ceeds according to the results of
his experiment, while our un-
scientific citizen growers, as a
rule, pay no attention whatever
to the results and continue to
waste more seed. farming along
the old lineS.-American City.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-31
Learning From TumbIes.

1t does not matter how many tnmbles
you have in this life so long as you do
not get dirty when you tumble. There
is the greatest practical benefit in
making few failures in life. You learn
that which is of inestimable impor.
tance-that there are great many peo-
pie in the world who are just as clever
as you are, and you very soon
find out, if you have not found it out
before, that patience and tenacity OF
purpose are worth more than twice
their weight in cleverness. ss.-Huxley.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-31
WAITE is INDICTED

New York, March 31.-Dr Arthur
Warren Waite was indicted for murder
in the first degree today, charged with
the poisoning of his millionaire father
in-law, John e. Peck of Grand Rapids,
Mich
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-31
.sssstsisisssists.s&s&sssss
|. EXTENSIVE TOWN PLANNING. :

In the consideration OF the
}. sufticiency Of city or town plan
g we may say that ns commu-
: 4 or group of communities is
. an entity in itself. The increas-
ed Interchange OF business activ-
tiles, the development of the
broad lines of social and busi-
> ness intercourse made possible
!. by the telephone, the telegraph,
the automobile and the many
transit lines which are penetrat-
ing into the remotest sections
. of our country, are making nee
. essary the development Of
broader community conscious
ness that should include not only
our cities and their environs,
: but large units Of territory
which may not even stop on the
boundary lines of the states.--
Town Development Magazine.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-31
GERMANS CAPTURE
NAL AN c OURT
BY STORM
Crown Princes Army Begins Gen.
eraI Attack on verdun
CITY BURNED IN THREE PLACES
Grenade ThroWers Dent British End
of French Line Near St.
Eloi.

Berlin, March 31.-The village of
Malancourt has been stormed and cap
turned by German troops, according to
the statement of the war Office today.
rhe Germans took 800 prisoners.
The Crown Princes army has now
begun its concerted attack upon Ver-
dun. The city is ablaze in three
places. The village of Bellyille is al
SO on fire.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-31
NORTH BENNINGTON

Walter l.. Hurd, who is attending
Norwich university will spend the
Easter vacation with Prof. Williams
at Westerdale, Woodstock.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-31
MISSING BOY FOUND
John Paul King Of WiIIamstown Was
on SALISBURY Farm.

John Paul King, jr., aged IA. who
disappeared from his home in Will
Jamestown over a week ago, through
the article which appeared in the Ban
ner on Monday. was located Thursday
at the farm of Bert Olin in SALISBURY
The boy, who is large for his years,
is possessed of the idea that he wants
to work on a farm and when he left
home his parents began searching for
the youngster in the rural districts
He was traced to North Bennington
early in the week and to Walloomsac
where the trail disappeared.
The publicity given to the boys dis
appearance through the Banner ar
ticle attracted attention to young
Kings presence at the Olin farm and
the ultimate return of the youngster
to Williamstown. The boy went home
Thursday, saying that he would remain
there for year but instituting that he
would eventually become farmer.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-31

WANTED-Elderly woman as house
keeper. Apply A, d. Bruso, Tel
369-M. 47t6*
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-31
WEATHER FORECAST

For eastern New York and western
Vermont, fair tonight. Saturday partly
cloudy.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-31
CLASSIFIED.

WANTED-Lady wishes position as
for good man. Address
box 5S East Arlington, Vt. 47t3*
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-31

TO RENT-Furnished front rooms.
steam heat, lights, bath, hot and cold
water Apply 301 North st. Tel. 199-X.
Att
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-24
Mount Joy Will Build
Modern Pumping Station

Mount JOY, Pa, June 24.-The Mis-
sionary Society of the Lutheran
church will hold their annual picnic
at Longs park, Lancaster, next Thurs
day.-Clarence Campbell of Hershey,
spent Sunday with his father, Albert
Campbell.-Alvin Shank, John Long
and d. Mason Long, of this place,
graduated at Lebanon Valley College.
The Rev. c. D. Rishel was at Phil
adelphia on Thursday and delivered
his lecture of Bottles and Rags" at
the Church of God.-Mount Joy bor-
ough council on Monday opened bids
for the reconstruction of the pumping
station of the borough. Bids were re-
ceived from but one contractor. j. Mil
awarded the work. The price stipulat-
ed is S2,94S.7S. The building will be OF
concrete fireproof construction
throughout.-Miss Lucy Saylor, a
trained nurse of Lancaster, was in
town on Saturday, the guest of Mrs.
Paul l.. Getz.-Mrs. Schmidt and niece
of Philadelphia, came here on Satur-
day to spend the summer here with
merMrs. Anna McGirl.-Samuel Mis-
semer Good, of Bellaire, was the guest
of his brother, Amaziah Good, on Sun
day-Mrs. Mary A. Eberle and daugh-
ter, Miss Irene Eberle, left for Mount
Gretna, where they will spend the
summer.-Witmer Eberle is spending
two weeks at Mount Gretna with his
graz. dmother, Mrs. Mary Eberle.-
James Marnaugh, a former resident of
this place, died at South Whitley. In
diana. aged so years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-24
Boy Scouts Catch Big
Carp in Juniata River

MiIIerstown, Pa, June 24-Miss
Minnie Beaver, who has been visiting
her sister, Mrs. Harvey Ulsh, of Saint
Samuels, and two nieces, Misses Eliz-
abeth and Florence Ulsh and nephew.
Leonard Ulsh, of st. Samuels, spent
Sunday with their uncle, d. M. Ricka-
baugh and family.-Miss Mary Buch-
anan, of Cornwalls, Pa, is visiting at
the home of Mrs S. c. Alexander
Mrs. Mary CARRIER, of New Bloomfield,
is the guest of Mrs. j. c. Hall.-Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Griffith, of West
Mont, n. j., and Mrs. Mary Lounnan,
of Harrisburg, visited at the home of
Harry Hopple this week.-Mrs.. Irwin
Crane is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
George Lent, at Parkersburg, w. Va.
Miss Sara Kipp was the guest of her
sister, Mrs. j. B. Parson at Port Roy
al on Tuesday.-Misses Laura Alice
Kipp, Hannah Lou Kipp, of McAllis-
tersville, and Calvin Dinen and James
Kipp, of Harrisburg, are visiting their
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. c. Kipp.
d. H. Lohr was the guest of his
brother, Charles Lohr at Newport
Sunday.-Miss Cora Cofrode, of Dau-
phin, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Branyan.-Mrs. David Steinberger, of
Harrisburg, is visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Wagner.-Mrs. Will
liam Rounsley, who had been visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Edward Rumple,
at Cardiff, Md, returned home. We'd
nesday. Sunday afternoon the
Knights of the Golden Eagle decorated
the graves of their deceased brothers.
The Rev. c. f. Hines and James
Rounsley, Sr., made addresses.--Mr
John Myers and Miss Margaret Hines,
of Thompsontown, were guests of Rev.
G. L. Hines on Sunday.-Mr and Mrs
o. O. Wagner and son returned home
Saturday from an extended trip to
the Pacific coast.-The Boy Scouts
caught twenty-five large carp in the
river on Monday, which they sold at
far prices; the proceeds are for the
benefit OF the organization.---Mrs. Hall
Slatterback and daughter, Dorothy, of
Lewistown, and Mrs. Josiah Rowe and
son, Kenneth, of Newport, spent sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Josiah Rowe
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Kepner and chill
dren and Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Hertzler,
of Port Royal, called at the home of
ID. Nj. Rickabaugh, on Sundays. G.
Beaver and children and Mr. and Mrs.
]. b. Parson, of Port Royal spent
Sunday afternoon with William Kipp.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-24
Montandon Girl Was Best
Latin Scholar at BucknelI

Montandon, Pa, July 24.-Members
of the P. o. S. of A. will hold a lawn
festival Saturday evening, July 8th.-
Miss Olive Park, a member of the
graduating class of Bucknell univer-
sity, and one of the speakers at the
commencement exercises on Wednes-
day morning, was awarded the prize
for the best scholar in Latin.-Miss
Merrill Johnson and daughter, Anna,
are visiting friends at Elizabethville.
Miss Alma Dieffenderfer has re-
turned to her home at Williamsport
after spending several days at Elmer
Shaffer' r's.-Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Short
ess left Monday 70" Oak Heights
Miss Emma Beaver, of Mifflinburg,
spent Tuesday at the home of Mrs.
Alice Garber.-Mr. and Mrs Jesse
Parks, of Hazelton, and Clarence Bern
hart, of Windber were here to wit
ness the graduation of Martha, Olive
and Lewis Park, at Bucknell univer-
sity on Wednesday.-Mr and Mrs.
Charles Sanders, of New Colum bia,
spent Tuesday at James Stivers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-24
S1O6 PAID FOR
FINE OLD CLOCK
Many Unique Articles at Sale of
Levi Zimmerman Estate
at Derry Church
WAR TAX BRINGS $12O
Hershey Chocolate Plant Adds
Many New Machines to AL
ready Large Equipment
By Special correseomdenee

Hershey, Pa, June 24.-To keep up
with the increase in it's business the
Hershey Chocolate Company has in
stalled twenty-six new longitudinal
machines in it's factory. 1t has more
OF these machines than any other
chocolate plant in the world. In the
cocoa powder department new tenn
perature controls have been placed.
Fhis is the busiest year in the COM
pany's history.-Thursday the beauti-
ful weather was enjoyed by the Park
Street, Harris Street and Westminster
evangelical Sunday schools and
Camp Curtin Heights, all of Harris
burg. Yesterday Zion Lutheran Sun
day school, of Harrisburg, sent a
large delegation, and to-day the Sew
enth Street Lutheran church of Leba-
non brought 600 members to Her.
shey. The Federation of Mems Bible
classes of Oberlin, Bressler and En-
haut came in eight special cars this
afternoon.-The Hershey freight Of
flee handled 10000 bills of lading
during May and as each carried a
one-cent revenue stamp the Govern
ment received $120.-The public sale
of the estate of Levi Zimmerman at
his late residence at Derry Church
was interesting on account of the
many antique articles. There was
some valuable chinaware which
spirited bidding centered about the
Grandfather's clock, which A. C. Zim-
norman obtained for S106.-William
A. Curtis spent week at Old Ferry,
along the Juniata river.-Victor Cling
rich visited friends in Philadelphia
and Willow Grove.-Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Evans and daughter, of Har-
risburg, were the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Aaron Sleeser.-Jacob Nissley,
one of Hershey's oldest residents, is
recovering from a long illness.-Miss
Lille Viola Gipe and Samuel Roth
rock were married in Hagerstown, Md.
Ira and Roy Mumma were visitors
to Allentown.-E. f. Shirk, of Cincin-
natl, spent several days with his un-
Gle, DR.. NJ. l.. Hershey.-Mr. and Mrs.
r. E. Sternberger and son are the
guests of friends at New Bloomfield
P. n. Kasson returned from a three
weeks stay with his family at Denver,
Col.-Howard II. Hinkle, of York, Wis
tied his son, Maurice Hinkle.-Miss
Jessie, Neibert, Miss Helen Spahr.
Miss Blanche Cooper and Miss Ethel
Burrage left to-day to attend the In
dustrial Girls Club council at Camp
Nepahwin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-24
Census of School Children
to Be Taken by Teachers
By SbccfaI CORRESPONDENCE


Mcchanicsburg, Pa, June 24.-The
census of the schoolchildren in Me-
chanicsburg will be taken by the fol-
lowing teachers: First ward, Miss NJ.
Emma Sours; Second ward, Miss Bes-
sic NJ. Bear; Third ward, Miss Esther
V. Farence; Fourth ward. Miss Sarah
A. Eckels; Fifth ward. Miss Carrie
Anderson.--A successful strawberry
festival was held at the home of Mr..
anu Mrs. D. S. Walters, North York
street, on Tuesday evening under the
direction of the Trinity Lutheran
Mite society.-On Saturday afternoon
and evening. July 1. food sale will
be held by the Ladies' Aid society of
the Presbyterian church.-Miss Mil
dred Mccullough. of Chicago, Ill, is
visiting Miss Matilda Mumper.-F. K.
Ployer was in Harrisburg on Mon
day attending the banquet of the
Central PENNSYLVANIA Association of
Life nderwriters.-Mrs. John Free
burn and daughters. Misses Helen and
Louise, of Lykens, are visiting at the
home of the formers parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. B. Schroeder.-Mr.a and Mrs.
Houseknecht. of Harrisburg, spent
Tuesday at Trinity Lutheran parson-
age. the guests of the Rev. Mr.. and
Mrs. II. Hall Sharp.-Elmer Myers, of
baseball famef with the Athletics,
spent the early part of the week at
his home in East Main street.-F. c.
Stehle, a member of the Eighth regi-
ment band, left with that organiza-
tion for Mt. Gretna.-John Fahs is
Il visitor in Bainbridge.--Miss Min
ME Vale, of Carlisle. was the guest of
Mrs. r. Wilson Hurst.-Mr. and Mrs.
Morris Jacobson and family, of Har-
risburg, spent Tuesday with the for
mer's brothers. A. S. and David Jacob
SON