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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-01-18
CITY BRIEFLETS.

c. A. Schimmel was in Juneau
Thursday.
Ice men started yesterday to har-
vest their crop
Arthur Kuenzi was a business visi-
tor at Oconomowoc Friday.
s. J. Model was visiting in Milwau-
kee three days last week
Augustus Cushman transacted bust
ness in Rochester, Mimi.
Justice SchmutZler transacted bust
ness in Jefferson Thursday.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. John Lutov-
SKY, Ocnomowoc avenue, a daughter.
Mrs. E. ]. Vokes entertained her
neice, Mrs Martha Hogans of Beloit
Mrs. Fred Keck went to Milwaukee
Friday to visit relatives and friends.
Mrs. H. S. Wheeler of Delafeild
visited friends in Watertown, Wednes-
day.
If you will let us know what you
want we can help you to get it. The
Central Trading Co.-Adv.
Attorney Charles Skinner was in
Jefferson last Wednesday on legal
business.
e. A. Travis of Waukesha will be in
the city Thursday circulating among
his friends.
Mayor Kading transacted business
in Waukesha, Thursday, and in Madi-
son Friday.
Good organ, in perfect condition for
sale. Inquire at COZ Jefferson street
Phone 250-x. 22-tf
Miss Laura Bogler of Waterloo was
guest at the home of r. w. Lueck
one day last week.
A fine assortment of gold fish at
W. F. GruetZmacher. 212t
Miss Katherine Green had as guests
a few days last week Joseph and He
len Yahne of Fergus, N. D.
Miss Margaret Schraven has re-
turned to her home in Fond du Lac
after visiting with her aunt, Mrs Rose
Kioes.
Mrs. F. w. Guertzmacher left Friday
morning for Milwaukee, where she in
mother.
e. S. Shakshesky and wife 301
Dewey avenue, entertained Mrs W. A
Christians of Johnson Creek one day
last week
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children. she gave them Castoria
Miss Gertrude Haine of Geneva, ILL.,,
is to be the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Gorder, Jr., and will remain for
at least week
Miss Louise Guetzlaff, who had been
shall, returned to her home in this
city, Thursday.
We are in line for promotion; you
can help us get the front, if you buy
your goods of us. The Central Trad
ing Co.-Adv.
The Young Mems Bible Glass of the
First M. E. church will give an oyster
supper at the church on the evening of
Tuesday, February LIST.
Miss Flea Wipoanhorn danartad
Thursday morning for North Manches-
ter, Ind, to resume her duties in the
city schools in that city.
Miss Mollie Rohr was entertained
Friday evening at OcOnOmowoc at a
6 o'clock dinner by Gustave Meiss-
ner of that city, to whom she is soon
to be married.
Children Cry
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-01-18
BrOennimam Co. Incorporates.

Edward and Leonard Broennimann,
two former Watertown boys who have
made good in the east, have recently
organized a produce company and in
corporated under the laws of New
York The company is under the
name of The Broennimann Company
Inc, and their office is at 45S Produce
Exchange, New York. The capital
stock is 100000.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-01-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Man proposes don't go in 1916.
What is so rare as day in Januar

Man proposes don't go in 1916
What is so rare as day in January
In time of Ford, prepare for Hobson
This is the open season for saving
wood.
No objection is heard to the Pan
American hyphen.
t. r. seems to be the autocrat of the
Gary dinner table.
Pretty soon it will be time to wake,
up to the grounding.
The Fordster couldn't find the dove
but at least they had a lark.
Mr.. Ford, however, had to cough up
long before he got the grip.
Life in Washington is getting to be
just one note after another.
Ford is no sailor, but he appears
to have qualified as skipper.
When a fat woman is rich, she isn't
fat. She has a becoming embonpoint
According to medical reports, the
Kaiser has a cold everywhere but his
feet
Leap year has only academic inter-
ests for the capable modern young wo-
man.
All the heroes aren't in the trenches
Here's Doc Cook turning up in Copen-
hagen.
Even an approximation o. the New
Years ideal of virtue would be great
reform.
False Teeth Kill Him." says a Chi
cago headline. They are rather hard
to digest.
Cost of removing Panama slides
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-01-18
HELP YOUR LIVER-IT PAYS

When your liver gets torpid and
your stomach acts queer, take DR..
Kings New Life Pills and you will
find yourself feeling better They
purify the blood, give you freedom
from constipation, biliousness, dizzi-
ness and indigestion. You feel fine
just like you want to feel. Clear the
complexion too. Csc at druggists
Adv.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-08-09
CHAuTAuoUA TICKETS
Season Tickets on Sale Tonight For
Last Time.

Some patrons of Chautauqua, ex-
pecting to attend less than meet
ings, plan to buy their tickets at the
gate. They forget that subscribers
tickets are transferable and that their
sisters, cousins and aunts may use
them But aside from this unseliish
service there is another reason why
they should purchase subscription
tickets instead of buying admission
tickets. BY purchasing subscrip-
tion ticket you not only show the prop
or community spirit but you are help
ing the guarantors whose confidence
in you makes Chautauqua possible
Upon your patronage vii depend fu-
ture Chautauqua in Bennington
There is no question as to the ad-
vantage of Chautauqua as an advertis
ing agency for any town.
Some uncalled for subscribers
tickets are on sale this evening at
VIM. H. Wills Office over Woolworth
store. If you have already purchased
a ticket for yourself, buy another for
a friend. a Chautauqua ticket is an
acceptable gift and a lasting joy.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-08-09
SOLDIERS SHOW FORESIGHT
Guard More Property That Any Other
Reament at EAGLE Pass.

A dispatch from Eagle Pass, Texas,
to the Boston Post contains the follow
ing reference to the Vermont regi-
ment:
"The worst sand storm of the sea-
son visited the camp this evening. The
storm lasted about 40 minutes. The
Vermonters' tents are up to stay. Not
so the tents of some of the other regi-
ments, which came toppling to the
ground-the tents, not the regiments.
The mess tents of Col. Reeves men
have been all screened in. The sand
sprinkled the food of the men of the
neighboring regiments, but here again
the foresight of the northerners prov.
ed saving to them.
Everybody is in fine health. Col
onel Reeves has sunburned hand
that seems to be about the extent OF
the casualties.
"The Vermonters have the distinc
tion Of guarding more property than
any other regiment at Eagle Pass
The territory which they are defend
ing covers more than 81 miles. II
certainly looks as If the military au
thorities had every faith in them ant
the follows are rekarding this faitf
with good service"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-08-09
PANEs OF POSTAGE STAMPS.
And the Plate Numbers. Letters or
Symbols They Carry.

All our postage stamps are printed
in large sheets of 400 stamps each.
These are then cut into four "panes"
of 100 stamps each and sent to the
various posto1ices in that shape.
If you were TO so to any United
States postotiice and buy q complete
sheet or, more correctly speaking.
complete pane" of 100 stamps you
would find that it had on two sides IN
outer margin, and on each of these
margins would be number. This is
the number of the plate from which
that pane was printed. Under this
number the authorities keep record
Of the plate, the date of its making,
on what days it was in use, the guam
titles of stamps printed from it and all
such data.
These plate numbers are usually OK.
pressed in figures or letters or combi
nations Of both, but sometimes other
symbols are used, such as the "star"
plates. of recent date Many stamp
lovers form what are called plate
number collections is. collec.
tion in which every stamp still has at.
tached to 1t the outer margin bearing
the plate number. The object is. OF
course, to get every plate number that
was ever issued.
1t is interesting and curious, too, be.
cause the stamps are arranged with
the plate numbers in sequence. making
them look very different from an ordi.
nary collection. For instance. plate
No. 253 is five cent postage stamp,
while the next three. 25i. 255 and 25G,
are postage due stamps. Plate 25T is
a special delivery, and 25S a newspa-
per stamp. SO a collection Of these il'
sequence is very varied and interest
ing.
And, again. many Of the plates were
in use Mt time when the color of the
stamp was changed. and the same
plate number may be found upon both
colors. as the one cent blue and TIC
one cent green, or the ten cent greer
and the ten cent brown, the ffteer
cent blue and the fifteen cent olive
Such a collection shows n wide range
of shades that Is of great interest tC
a collcetor.-St. Nicholas
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-08-09
CHILD LABOR BILL
PASSES SENATE
BY 81 TO12
Excludes Product of Their Work
from Interstate Commerce
ENDORSED BY THE PRESIDENT
Creates Age Limit of 16 for Mines
and Quarries and IA for
Factories.

Washington, Aug. S.--The Senate TO-
day passed the bill to exclude from
the channels of interstate commerce
the products OF the labor Of children
under the age of II years, and under
l6 if the child be worked more than
eight hours a day.
The measure is one OF the bills
espoused by the President who made a
demanQ upon his party followers III
the Senate few weeks ago that they
pass IT, At that time several South.
en Senators had determined that the
dent wishes prevailed and the bill
bill should not be passed The Presi
went through. 81 to u.
The bill as passed would prohibit in
terstate commerce in the product Of
any mine quarry in which children
under 16 years OF age have been em.
ployed or in the product Of any mill,
cannery Workshop factory or manu-.
facturing establishment in which chill
dfen under II have been employed, or
in which children between IA and 16
have been employed more than eight
homs day. more han six days a
week. before o'clock in the morning
or later than O'Clock in the evening,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-08-09
PARADE WILL Open
OUR CRAuVauQUA
TOMORROW
Line Will Form on Park Street at
las O'clock
WILL BE LED BY THE BAND
Exercises at the Tent VIII Begin at
2.3o With an Address and
Concera.

A. W. Braisted, the village presi-
ade at 2 o'clock tomorrow. He will be
accompanied by John T. McRoy, and
other officers of the Chautauqua as
sociation,
A part Of the Bennington City
band will furnish music during the
march
The Grand Army veterans under
commander Albert Downs will occupy
the leading automobiles.
Oscar Elwell is getting together the
boy scouts for the occasion, while Mrs.
G. A. Swan is decorating an automo-
bile for the Camp Fire girls.
Automobile owners are urged to be
on hand with their machines at the
Graded school at 1.45. The route is
very short and the parade will last on
ly a quarter Of an hour. The route Is
as follows: Park street to Pleasant,
to Main, to North, to County, to School
and the tent.
After the parade arrives at the tent
the afternoon program begins at 23O.
John Mcltoy VIII introduce DR.. Jesse
II. Holmes, the platform superinten-
dent After a short address by DR..
Holmes. the Folk Song Quintet will
take the platform and give an hour of
music, readings, folk songs and
dances. Arthur Meyers, possesses a
tenor voice which in many ways re-
sembles that OF John Mccormick, and
his audiences call him back repeatedly
for encores. Ruth Garland is the lead
er OF the quintet and is charming
reader and impersonator.
The evening program opens tomor
row at 1870 with musical program by
the Folk song quintet Following this.
Ross Crane. funniest of artists, will de
light his audience with an hour and ff
teen minutes OF painting and clay
modelling.
The pictures taken of the parade
will form the closing feature of the
opening days program.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-08-09
Summer in the Churches.

Commenting on the common sight
OF church doors closed in vacation
with the pastors at cool summer re-
sorts, it is often remarked that the
devil never takes vacation. At the
same time, the youngster who is held
rigidly down to Sunday school at a
period when the day schools are rest
ing, does not feel any more friendly
toward the ideas the church stands
for.
When q boy remarked ave have
n very kind minister at our church,
who breaches short sermons on hot
Sundays" the old folks laughed, but
felt that he had hit real truth.
The Roman Catholic, Episcopal,
and many other churches still keep
open doors in the summer, without
teasing people to go If they don't feel
like it. Thereby they show their
readiness to serve without ofilcious-
ness. To many the cool silence and
peace of the sanctuary Is more pleas
ant and more restful than the speed
of the motor or the tumult of the
Observation-Disclosures News.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-08-09
STATE FAIR PREPARATIONS
Secretary Davis and Assistants Ener-
eetieally Engaged In the Work.

White River Junction. Aug. S.
Despite the excessively warm weather
Secretary Davis and his assistants are
putting in full days in preparation for
the Vermont State Fair to he held
here on the State grounds Tuesday.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Sept. IL, H. IA and 10.
Investigation with contractors
shows Il would he impractical to pro.
vide the large grand stand with re-
served seats this season, as this would
mean an entire remodeling of the
stand. but several aisles will be made
with steps added, so that the conyen-
fence In reaching seats will be greatly
increased
Turnstilcs are to he placed at the
stands and an extra ticket Office added
at the further end of the large grand
stand The reduction made in the
price for automobiles 20 80 conts IL
meeting with the approval of the auto
mobile driving public.
one of the features Of the advertis.
ing Is specially designed hanger
which Is being widely distributed.
Railroad station lean-tos are also n
now advertising feature this season.
1t viii be OF interest to the horse.
men to announce that the track is In
excellent condition Several horses
are being worked" out at the present
time and the drivers state that fast
time will be made on the track this
season The services OF Chester Pike
the popular starter. have been engaged
TO give the world "go" I'm all the races.
The executive committee of the
state Fair commission cautions ship
pcrs OF stock TO the fair to inquire re-
garding railroad rates at their shin.
ping point and TO be sure to take nd
vantage OF the free return rate ON the
! stock.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-08-09
Eye Of the Gun.

This IL called the telemeter and IL
s-ed by all artillorsts In some shape
6 other. The teiemetcr is really
t-sc with two tclescopic lenses, one on
each end. The "oblcctivcs' of the
TWO lenses are placed inside the in,
sirument and toward the end OF the
tube. Prisms with five faces act as re-
lectorS, so that the person looking in
has mechanically spread his eyes to
the two ends OF the tube, with ire
mendous range of vision.
or course the ends are so arranged
that they may he directed Mt single
object at the same time, thus making
1t possible for the observer to see
what would otherwise hc beyond the
power OK the huunn eye and TO know
by the angle at which II is viewed the
distance awry.
It requires a little practice to use
this wonderful Instrument. but In n
few dnys the operator asccrtams how
easily he can determine the precise
distance nc is from the object he Is
looking Mt. and by a quick calculation
he directs the pointing of the gun so
that It cannot fail TO strike - '--'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-08-09
ITALIANS CAPTURE
BRIDGEHEAD AND
SHELL GORIzIA
Victory Opens Way to Advance on
Trieste
TEUTONS LOSE 5000 PRISONERS
Vienna Admits Teutonic Army Has
Been Withdrawn Into City But
Declares Battle Continues.

Milan, Aug. S.-The Gorilla bridge
head key to an advance on Triest, oy-
er which the Austrians and Italians
have fought many notable battles, at
last has fallen into the hands OF the
Italians and the city of Gorizia is be-
ing shelled by them.
The taking of the bridgehead
came with the capture of Monte Sa'
botino and Monte San Michele. In
the fighting the Italians took more
than 5000 prisoners and large mum
ber of guns, machine guns and much
waf material.
Vienna admits that the Austrian
troops defending the bridgehead were
withdrawn to the eastern isonzo in or
der to avoid severe losses, but says
the fighting in the Gorilla region con
tinues with unahated stubborrnness
and that the Austrians have repulsed
severe Italian attacks.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-08-09
GAINING Ground.

There are encouraging signs that
the idea. for which the Standard has
long contended, that different pol
icy is needed in the construction and
upkeep of Vermont highways, Is gain
ing ground.
From all over the state come re
ports of the unsatisfactory results
under a system OF loose local control
and unscientifc methods and this is
bringing about a demand for
change that will recognize the prin-
ciple of complete state control and
the fundamental fact that road
building, under the conditions of
modern traffic, is an engineering prob
lem of the first magnitude.
Under the recent federal aid act
which provides Tor the distribution
OF government funds among the
states for road building. the first
appOrtionment of funds has been
made. Vermont,s share OF this fund
is small but IL affords an opportunity
TO consider the question OF q now
policy in the expenditure of Yer
monts highway money.
The Rutland Herald, in an odio-
rial discussion OF the federal aid law
and Vermonts share of the annual
appropriation which it estimates will
amount in iyeyear period, with
the required state appropriation, TO
100000 says:
The expenditure OF 100000 on a
continuous stretch of highway. a
trunk line route. certainly will give
Vermont n claim to having some
thing resembling the state roads
TO be found in other states. To be
sure we have state roads" in Yer
mont-roads built largely from an
appropriation received from the high.
way department but the varying
qualities and kinds of material used,
with connecting stretches OF poor
roads, spoil the general effect.
For years there has ben talked
the need of well.built and we'll
cared for trunk line highway on each
side Of the Green mountain range
1t would seem that there is to come
the opportunity to begin the con,
structiCn foonc OF these arterial high
roads.
q is announced In Washington that
the construction work and labor IN
each state is to be done In accordance
with state laws under immediate
supervision of the state highway de
partmeut, subject to inspection and
approval by the government en-
ginoers. The selection OF road routes
is to be left to state highway dc
parimcnts. subject to the approval
OF the secretary of state. Thus, II
appears, Vermont can say where il
will extend its share OF the federal
appropriation
Wherever We spend the fedora
aid money let 1t be done with a view
to constructing continuous stretcl
OF Substantial" road Ii we use thi,
money to build sample roads al
over the state federal aid will no
avail Us much. Here's the oppor
tmity to discontinue the patchwork
policy In road building" Enosburi
Standard.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-08-09

The first periscope, crude affair en-
bodying an arrangement of fiat mir
rors, was invented by Dutchman,
Telar van Elven, who in 1850 built Il
semisubmcrsiblc boat at Amsterdam
The modern perlscope. with parabolic
mirrors, was described in magazine
article by French university profeS-
s0r just before an American inventor,
sailor and writer Of sea tales applied
for a patent on the same idea. They
worked independently, but the Amer.
lean, Morgan Robertson. is generally
recognized 0s the inventor because he
invented the machine for grinding the
lenses
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-08-09
When Trouble Gomez.

"Ef seen trouble comm" said
Brother Williams. "Id hit de grit fer
de tall timber"
Well" said the dubious brother.
"s'pose hongry tlger WIZ waitIn Ter
you dar?'
In dat case ia skin up tree"
But s'pose harricane bowcd you
an de tree down.
MY fr'en',' replied Brother WI.
fans, Providence allus looks after de
righteous. Ef dat come ter pass de
tree would fail on dc tiger an mash de
life outen him. an bout time you come
long I'd he gwine home wild his hidew
Atlanta Constitution.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-08-09
RUSSIANS STRIKE
WITHIN I MILES
OF STAN|SLAU
Teutons Forced to Surrender Vii
Iage of ThysmienlCa
SLAV ARMY MOVES RAPIDLY
Unofficially Reported That Austro-
Germans Have Decided to Abandon
Lenberg.

Petrograd, Aug. 9.-In Galicia the
Russians have taken the village OF
Thysmienica, seven miles east OF
Stanislau, the war Office announces to-
day. With the village the Russians
captured 74OO prisoners, $500 of whom
were Germans.
The Russians have advanced six
miles in the direction of Stanislau dur
ing the past "a hours.
An official report is to the effect
that the evacuation of Lemberg has
already been ordered.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-08-09
CoMMI lsIoNERs' NOTICE

y Eatato Of MANGAKETF Y. LUWHIE
The Undersigned having been appointed by
the Honoinhle Probate Court Tor the district
OF lenningt N. COMM SSlO NERS, 90 receive,
examine, and adjust the clslms and demands nt
AL persons against the estate OF Margaret y.
bowrie late of Bennington In said District, de-
ceased, and all olalma exhibited In otfot there.
to, hereby give notice that we will meet for the
purpose aforsaid. at the Remington County M.
tioual Rank In the town OF Bennington In said
District, on the a3rd dav OF Octohc T
aud 2jrd day OF January next, from 3o'ciock
y. M. until o'clock.p. m, on each OF salt
daye and that elx months from the 2lrd day {
July A, ID. 1916, |, the time limited by said
Court for said creditors 10 present their claims
TO us for examination and allowance.
Dated at bennington, VI, this 3lst day Of
July A. ID. 1915.
n, AIRY SHARPE
LESTER II. NICHOLS
Com m isslourrs
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-08-09
a New One on Him.

II was after the stone laying ccre-
mony. and wire was sent to the
builder with the news. "Stonc laid
with great cclat." Thu builder. smo;h.
crlng an awful oath. muttcrcd. AN.
other new foreign cement aud dung
the misslvc from him IN passionate
disgust. Globe.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-08-09
Card OF Thanks

Mr. and Mrs. Barlow Thomas wish
to express their gratitude to the
friends and neighbors who were so
kind during the illness and death of
their little son and to thank the 10y.
al Order of Moose and all others who
expressed their sympathy by sending
beautiful flowers
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-08-09
JOHN M. THuRsToN DEAD
Former Senator from Nebraska and
Native of Vermont.

tato naha, Neb., Aug. 9.-John NJ.
T.. Lh n, 60, former United States
senat, e n Nebraska, died today.
He was ! tied by heat July 16
and had sine steadily failed.
He was a member of the senate
from 1895 to 1901. His speech in the
senate in 1898 in which he advocated
war with Spain gave him an interna-
tional reputation.
Senator Thurston was native of
Vermont, born at Montpelier. He be-
gan life as a farm boy and grocery
clerk.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-08-09

BRANDEIs is CHAIRMAN
Heads Commission to Confer with
Carranza's REPRESENTATIVES

Washington, Aug. 9-Louis d. Bran
deis has been appointed by President
Wilson chairman of the commission
which will confer with the representa-
tives of the Caranza government in a
consideration of our troubles in MeXi-
co. Secretary Lane has accepted an
appointment on the commission and
the president is awaiting the accept
ance of appointment by the third mem
be-.