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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-18
RAPID MOVEMENT
IN MASSACHUSETTS
Bay State Republicans Busy
Keeping Pace With Their
Party Politics.
TWO LISTS OF ASPIRANTS
FOR CONVENTION HON0RS
Candidates for Delegates at Large to
Chicago-Four Pledge Votes
to Roosevelt.

Massachusetts republicans in Wash
ington are kept busy these days trying
to keep up with the swift Developments
in Bay state republican politics. The
latest sensation is the announcement
Of the candidacy of Senator weeks,
Senator Lodge. Gov. Mccall and former
Senator W. Murray Crane as delegates
al large to the republican national con-
vention.
They have agreed to go to the con-
vention unpledged. although Senator
Weeks is an avowed candidate for the
presidential nomination and Gov. Nc
Call is being urged by some of his
friends to become a candidate.
Opposing their candidacy will be Rep
resentative Gardner, who is son-in law
of Senator Lodge; Grafton D. Gushing.
Charles Sumner Bird and Robert Wash
burn, who have announced their can
didacy as delegates at large, pledging
themselves to vote for Theodore Roose-
welt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-18
At Mercy Of Shippers.

IF the board were given power mere
mp in harbors. it would be practically
in the hands of the shippers."
The willingness with which national
banks Joined the federal reserve sys-
TEN. despite the government operation
feature. assured Inn, Mr. McAdoo said
Of the successful operation of the ship
ping bill as it stands.
The present congested state Of ship
ping would have been greatly relieved
ed greatly financially If the shipping
bill had been passed in the last Con-
gress. he declared.
Some very copious offerings of ship.
We're made to US from English and
French sources last year that cannot
he duplicated now. he said. We were
offered vessels 70: as low as from $40 TO
go ton. / am quite sure that If the
bill had passed could now be in DOS
session Of a fleet Of from 500 900 to 700
no tons. which would have greatly re-
Eeved the present shipping situation.
To-day many Of these vessels that we
might have purchased cheapIy have been
comma ndeered by their respective gov
slhments and the prices OF ships gem
orally have advanced greatly
Pay Cost in One Trip.
old tubs are being bought up and
put into service that make more than
their original cost in a one-way trip
and then come home loaded with bal
last. If we had bought these ships
last year 1 am certain that the extor-
tionate and fabulous rates that now
are being charged would be from SO
10 10 per cent cheaper in many cases
The vessels could have earned their
cost in one year, and the government
probably could have sold them for
twice the amount they cost"
Some one spoke of a report that Rob-
ert Dollar Of the Dollar line refused
Sf.00c,eO0 for ship in the foreign sery,
ice because he could make $3.50 900 on
one shipment Of goods in It to the
orient.\
Il thought he went out of, business
on account of the seaman's act" Mr.
McAdoo said.
He was in here the other day and I
rever saw any one looking happier"
Chairman Alexander remarked.
Mr.. McAdoo suggested later that un-
der present profitable shipping condi-
lions vessel owners OF this country
should be patriotic enough to keep
,heir ships under the American flag
Ir. McAdoo denied that the admins
tration ever thought of buying in
termed German vessels for use in com
merce,, as has been repored frequently
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-18
Questions Under Discussion.

The first thought that occurred to
Massachusetts republicans here was
what effect the latest combination will
have upon Senator Weeks presidential
prospects, and does it foreshadow the
withdrawal of Senator Weeks from the
presidential race? The following state
ment has been issued in behalf of Sem
ator Weeks:
Senator Weeks friends here said that
the candidacy of the senator and his
collea CUES in opposition to the ticket
filed by Mr.. Gardner is not to be inter-
preted as even remotely tending to Sen
ator Weeks withdrawal from the presi-
Dental race. The action in Massa-
chusetts. the senator's friends contend.
was taken merely to prevent the dis
ruption of the republican forces in that
state at a time when the state has just
been relieved from five years of demo-
cratic control. The Weeks movement
throughout the country is in the hands
of men who are earnestly devoted to
the senator's cause and they will not
relax their efforts in the slightest de-
gree"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-18
Prospective Delegates Explain.

The explanation of the four new can
didates for delegates at large of their
action is as follows:
We have decided to stand as candi-
dates for delegates at large TO the re-
publican national convention which is
to meet in Chicago on the eth of June
Whatever committal any one of us may
have been under to any particular can
didate for the presidency has been
wholly released and Cancelled. II the
republicans of the commonwealth shall
see fit to commission us to represent
them We shall endeavor to the best of
our ability to secure such action by the
convention as shall seem at the time
most likely to unity the party and to
restore the country to republican con-
troll We stand absolutely unpledged
either for or against any candidate"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-18
Their Real Worth.

Beautiful models with short Jackets and the new wide
haring skirts. Fautessly tailored from fine tahetas,
serges checks combinations of serge and taeta novelty
fabrics mems serges, gabardnes and popins New
spring colors also navy blue and black Own one of
these excellent models and be first with the new stves
All sizes for women and misses
kann's-Second Floor.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-02-09
BuaMA's COLOSSAL BUDDHA
This Statue Is Said TO Sc the larss~
In the World.

The largest monument sc the hun'd'
form existing In the east to-day, Il not
in the world. is the great reclining
statue of Buddha near pe-u. Va Bur.
ma, around which ihc government
erected a building with la.iirc steel
pillars TO protect it from the elements.
This colossus was brought To light dgr-
ing the construction Of the rail'vus
that runs northeast fron Rangoon 90
Mandalay.
While the permanent way was being
banked up 20 protect the lines rom
occasional foods the engineer in CLaTre
required for the purpose OF his 0oIA
harder ballast than The alluvial dc.
post over which the line WINS runEins
could give him. Less than mic away
swas a tree ckld mound. and hire. Il
WAS thougliS, suitable material 1islst
be found. The task OF clearing away
some Of the trees took bnt an hour o.
SO. and then shafts Were sunk % liDd
the needed stone Before the diggers
had gone down more than a yard they
stru'. an enormous aud fairy pre-
ser e. li,,ure of Gautama.
In II, length the statue Is isO
feet and ATTY feet high at the shoul.
der The & ire and its pedestal are
of brick, o.A gcd with plaster Since
its discovery The plaster has been re-
moved and painted over. the box al
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-02-09
DORSET

Dorset Inn will be closed tomorrow
Thursday for the balance of the win
ter. when Mrs. " r. Pratt and daugh-
ter will spend several days in Ben
nington with relatives, after which
they will be in Boston and Washing
ton until spring.
The special meeting that was called
by Clerk Of the congregational church
to consider the relations of the church
with it's pastor. Rev. w. l.. Haven,
was held in the vestry, Tuesday even
ing, Feb. LIST. A resolution was
adopted, that the church with reluc-
lance sewers it's relations with its
pastor on account Of continued i'll
ness. The supply committee was au-
thorized to engage minister for a
period of one year. Owing to the alb
sence of T. K. Coma. the church clerk
for short period, George III. Gilbert,
was elected clerk pro TEN. Upon
motion Of Deacon w. w. Fahenstock
vote of thanks was extended Rev.
c. Fl. Gilbert for his services as act
ing pastor during the past year AT
meeting of the Congregational So
ciety of Dorset and East Rupert the
action of the above meeting was con-
formed Immediately after the first
meeting was called
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-02-09
EAST ARLINGTON

Mrs n l.. Schutt was in Rutland
Saturday
Vernon Fields is in New York city
on business.
Robert Boun was in Troy on bust
ness Tuesday.
Mrs Flora Fields is in South Shafts
bury nursing
Miss Mabel Winch is not improving
from her illness as fast as her friends
could wish.
George Mcdonald of South Shafts.
bury passed Sunday in town with his
mother, Mrs. e. A. Mcdonald
Robert Buck, who has been confined
to the house for the past week with
the grip, is able to be out again.
Miss Marguerite Carol of Fair
Haven arrived in town last week, she
expects TO spend a few weeks with
her brother, Glen Carroll.
Mrs. Forrest Jepson and her daugh.
ter Ruth, left Friday for Goshen, IND.
Mr.. Jepson has employment there and
they expect to make their home there
for the present.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Squires of Ben
nington We're the Sunday guests of
their son. Everett Squires OF this
place. They We're accompanied b
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-02-09
OZ.JO
S3.45
S2.95
$1.45
SIPS
$50
Mr.. and Mrs. Saunders and made Til,
trip in an automobile. ~ M

Mr.. and Mrs. Saunders and made the
trip in an automobile. e 9
County Warden Il. +. Higgins OF
Bennington was in town Saturday to
see about disposing of an injured
deer. The deer was attacted by dogs
and Frank Woodland, who was chop
ping near by drove them away and
brought the deer to the village It's
shoulder was broken.
Revival services are still in progress
at the M. E. church. Rev. .Kelton OF
Manchester will speak each evening
this week with the exception presum.
ably of Saturday evening He will al.
so remain over Sunday and in the
morning will administer the Sacra.
ments. In the afternoon at O'Clock
he will address mems meeting on
the subject "A Mans Religion. Every
man in the town is invited to attend
and hear what Mr.. Kelton has to say
along this line. Come any time and
you will be welcome. The ladies OF
the church held a thimble party at
the home of Mrs. Tynell on Wednes
day afternoon. The Sandgate church
will hold box social at the home OF
w. j. Hamilton on the evening of tile
18th. akl HNs3
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-02-09
Obituary

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Wilcox, died at
her home Sunday after several
months illness, being cared for by
Mrs. Nancy Hemenway She was
born to Gaylard Nichols and wife,
Pclly tDayton) June LIST. 1880. She
was married June 8th 1851 to J, F.
Wilcox, who died May 25th 1899. To
them We're born six children, five of
whom are living She is also sur
viyed by - grandchildren and 20
great grandchildren, most of them iiv-
ing near enough so they have been
to see her. She lived most Of her use
ftl life in Sandgate and Arlington ex-
cepting a few years in Michigan and
Dorset. She was direct descendent
OF James Nichols, pastor OF the Epis-
copal church in Arlington. good
many years ago. She joined the NJ.
p. church when young girl and has
always been regular attendent when
health permitted. She also leaves two
brothers, one in Dorset, who is sc
Years old, the other brother in Cam
bridge, N. y, who is little younger.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-02-09
ESTATE OF pENNEr S. COLE.

STATE or VERMONT, me Honor.
oDhirict OF BENNINGTON. s.. able Probate
Court for the Distric. aforesaid
10 all persons interested In the eotate ~
Dersett :. C.le, late of stamford In sail
District deceased GREETING
WHEREAS. said Cours has assigned The sob
dan " feu next for examining aha th'fg ins
ihs account of executor Ut tue etate o. s.il
dectgpei and FIR e decree of the csidu'
pf said estate TO the lawful claimants
Of the - me, auu ordeiSd that puelte notice
thereof la given to al persons interested II
said estate by Publishing this order three
Eeclls s,oCessivcly pecvions TO the da: asste net
bi the Remington Evening Tanner. y news
paper published at bennington IN said DIS
iriet.
ThEitEFORE. you are hereby notified 70 ap-
llcar az the Probate Office In Bennington "
said District on the dry assigned. then nni
there To contest the allowance II said account
" you see eau g. ,snd TO establish ycur right 9.
hem. II. aces and lawnil c!aimansts u said
rssiruc.
Given Under Ny Hand thi ''h day oil
AMY II. HARBOUR,
Rests'Dr.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-02-09

raised on the hillsides OF Vermont
comes In this nclass. Many things
that we should be selling large quaint.
tiles of TO the world we at present do
not produce sufficient for our own
consumption,
( Many also are of so inferior quail
ty as not to find a market at all.
Just a little knowledge of the fun
damental principles OF producing quail
ty goods will reyolutionize ones
whole business
Immediately after attaining the in.
tensive system you will discover the
gold mine right on the old farm.
The gold mine may be found in the
truck garden, by breaking down the
pig pen and giving the pigs the same
free range and grass pasture as you
give your other stock. in the poultry
yard. in intensive dairying or chang
ing from scrub stock to blooded-the
very best attainable. be it horses. cat
tie, sheep. swine, or poultry.
There is an almost unlimited mark
ct right at yolr door in each OF these
lines wher YOU produce quality.
Competition Is rife only in inferior
grades
Twenty million people right about
you are demanding something better,
and they want it quick, you alone are
located where sou can make quick,
fresh shipments daily How few
realize this enormous advantage
which Is yours alone.
We give Just an illustration. But
few years ago the farm of c. T. Hol-
mes of Charlotte could have been
bought for few thousand dollars.
Mr.. Holmes has on his farm one hun
dred acres OF old orchard set out by
his father, but it had never proven
paying investment even.
He got the, idea OF giving that or
chard modern treatment, and took a
few acres on which to experiment.
The results were so gratifying that he
is now extending this culture to the
whole orchard
Last year with but part of the or
chard reclaimed, the yield was SO
great. and the quality so improved
that he was offered 100000 for the
one hundred acres of orchard. This
possibly was ten times its value FIVE
years before. What Mr.. Holmes did
is perfectly possible for nearly every
old orchard in Vermont This is a
gold mine on that fran.
How many dormant but great oppor
tunities are waiting an intensive man
to develop them. ONE of these are
on your farm.
Windsor County Committee.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-02-09
A GREAT PREHISTORIC SEA
II Reached From the Gulf Of Mexico
Far Up Into New York.

A prehistoric sea or arm of the ocean
which extended from the gulf of Mex
leo far up into New York state is de-
scribed by the United States geological
survey in reporting to correspondent
on rock sample:
"The rock was formed very long ago,
many millions years ago, in what ge-
ologIsts cali the Devonian period AT
that time large part of the eastern
United States was occupied by an
arm Of the sea which extended north
eastward from the gulf of Mexico re-
gion into New York state. The east
ern shore of the sea was not far east
of the present line of the Blue Ridge
and the Highlands Of New Jersey and
southeastern New York, and still far
Their east lay Il great continent whicn
extended All unknown distance into
the area now occupied by the north
Atlantic. The northern shore Of the
sea was somewhere near line drawn
from Albany through Syracuse. Roch'
astcr md Buffalo The present site
of the Catskills was thus near the
northeast end or head Of this sea or
gulf, with land not far away on the
east and north.
THE sea teemcd with life. almost
wholly invertebratc animals, and ma
rine plants, and the larger part of the
life appears to have inhabited the sea
bottom. Brachiopods, though rare now,
were very abundant then. and many
other forms Of animals crawled about
or grew upon the sea floof AS the
streams washed in sand and mud from
the ncighboring lands the sea grad
unlly filed up. and the shells Of many
brachiopods and other shell bearing
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-02-09
WEST ARLINGTON

Rev Mr., Clark OF shushan, N. Y,
preached for Rev. Mr. Hall.
Mrs cgcha Kent, OF East Arlington
IS cafiiig for Mrs Thomas Lyman.
M7s. j. Il. EIill Of Sunderland is Wis
it3ng at her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D.
r. Harrington
ms. Robert Haskin, who has been
Very III with grip and complications,
is some better
Ara. Robert Mckee is visiting at
her sons, II. G. McKee's and attended
theI donation there last FRIDAY even
me. II vas 4 success socially and
financially. About $50 was cleared.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-02-09

Continued from Page u
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BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News OF the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

The rooms OF the local Odd Fellows
are being repainted and decorated.
.'The Diamond from the Sky opera
house today. Chapter 16, The Path
of PERIL Adv.
Prin. f. ID. Mabrey has resumed his
classes at the high school after two
weeks absence on account of Illness
Ralph McKechnie of Adams has re-
turned home after assisting at the H.
s. Loomis grocery during the illness
of Peter Vanchon.
Mrs Ida Bassett has returned from
Springfield, Mass, where she has
been visiting her son. Percy T.. Bas-
sett and wife the past two weeks
The popular Broadway dramatic
star Gladys Hanson in a superb film
version of the famous Broadway sue
cess, THE Primrose Path, five parts,
opera house tomorrow. Adv.
Ralph Haynes received severe
cut over his right eye while playing
basketball in the Y. VI. c. \. gym last
evening which necessitated several
stitches by surgeon to close the
wound.
The funeral of Miss Mary Herlihy
who died at her home on County
street Saturday evening, following a
long illness, was held in st. Francis
de Sales church this morning, Father
Cahill officiating. Burial was in
Park Lawn cemetery.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-02-09

animals were taus hurried la tie vans
ard their forms pre- ersel tlil msv.
by SLOW upward movement n The
earth's crust the sea WAS drained frcni
the region, and the beds OF sand and
mud that had been hardened into sand
stone and shale were lifted thousand
Of feet above sea level 70 form a sress
new land. The CatsAlll mountain
have since been carved from this M
lifted mass of rock through the crt
ting of valleys by the streaiH.'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-02-09

Wemsns Clolh Top patent leather and gun metal calf
button Shoes Regularly $3.50 and Price close
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-02-09

lae heaa aial 'he finger na,. si.egi
anG ihc hcad4ress decorated with
glass Jewels. yhe stagHc - thought 20
be ab1at -ee, Gears oil. ha, 40 Van
knsws It's his Srs 100 rvfercnrc what
ever being m4do 10 q "a IiuiTneSc log.
ends or ,taditiLns. Wide World Mag
nzine
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-02-09
WooDFoRp HOLLOW

2 A lantern lecture on sThe Negro
will be given at the Ferndale church
on Tuesday evening, Feb. 10th at z
o'clock. Everybody invited
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-02-09
GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY.

A lantern lecture on "The Negro"
will be given at the Red School
House, on Friday evening Feb 18th at
z O'Clock. Everybody invited.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-20
DlRDS BILL NOT
BEFORE: CONVENTION

Unfolding the policy Of the State
Highway Commissioner and speaking
against decentralization in the iistribu-
ton of state funds for road work. j. T.
Penny hacker. chief OF road economies
At the United States Office of Public
Roads and Rural Engineering. read Il
paper on Economics of Road Main
tenarce and Construction"
After Senator Byrd had read his
paper. T. T.. shelton. Of Hanover. moved
that the Byrd bin pending before the
Senate receive the approval OF the
convention. Chairman Charles T. Las
sitter. however, ruled that the rnotio..
WAS out of order, AS the next business
before the convention was the report
of the committee on resolutions. 1t
was voted to hear the report. and the
last vestigc Of real opposition TO the
policy OF the State Highway Commits
sioner was removed. because the eleven
recommendations adopted upheld him
The members or the committee on
resolutions were:
w. c. Saunders. chairman Board of
Supervisors, IIcurico County: q. TAILOR
wathmcy. Norfolk County: q. l.. Lup-
ton. Frederick: w. r. Ruttin. Danville:
Harden lIairston Henry; W. p Moore,
Bedford: j. Thomas Smith. Russell: c.
l.. Scott, Assistant State Highway Com
missioner; r. & BOX ley. Orange: W. H.
Aston Washington; e. &. Luck. Han
over; w. A. Reed, Eotetourt: Otto r..
Evans. Amherst. and \. }. Johnson,
James City.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-20
RUSSIANS LAUNCH -FOUR
ATTACKS ON AUsTR|ANS
After Only Slight Pause. Begin
Strong Offensive on Bessa-
rabinn Frontier.
VIENNA CLAIMS
REP
King of Montenegro Is Reported on
Way To Italy, and Effort to Crush
His Country Probably Will BE
Resumed.

After only u slight pause since the
conclusion Of the New Years" battle
On the EASTERN front the Russians
again have begun strong offensive
against the .Aus:ro- hungarian forces
on the Bessarabian frontier. east OF
Czernowitz, capital OF Bukowina.
Vienna had forecast this action by
the announcement that the Russians
were throwing strong re-enforcements
into East tialicia
LII the initial offensive of what prob
ably will be termed the second bat
tie" the Russians launched with num-
erous columns four attacks near Topor-
outZ and Boyan. but according to
Vienna they were everywhere re
pulsed,
The Germans have attacked Russian
bases at Tarnopol. East Galicia. with
an air squadron.
While the Turkish War Office asserts
that the Russians in the Caucasus have
abandoned their oeffnsive along the en-
tire front of nearly 100 miles, owing
to the endorsements of the Otto
mans and their assumption Of n violent
offensive, the latest Russian official
communication describes the Turk ish
army in this region rs having been dis
position extending over sixty-six miles.
the Turkish retreat taking on the char
actcr OF panic stricken flight. Sew
eral Turkish units. the communication
adds. were almost annihilatcd. hundreds
of bodies covering tho field OF battle.
KING OF MONTENEGRO
On WAY TO Ir.AI.Y
With the announcement that Monte
negro had broken off negotiations for
peace with Austria hungary comes the
official statement in n Paris newspaper
that King Nicholas and his family and
suite already are on their way to Italy
1t is presumed that with the sevcring
OF the peace pourparlcns the Austrians
again will take mp where they left of
the campaign Of crushing the little
kingdom rs Serbia was crushed.
Although artillery bomba rdments
mining and countcr-mininG opera tions
aud aerial attacks continue almost ex-
clusivcly on the western line in France
the Germans report the capture OF
trenches along the User River. En-
tente allied airmcn have dropped bombs
on Metz and Arnavillc. doing some ma
tcrial damage.
Several attempts Of the .hustrians to
approach Italian positions on the Toll
mino sector and near Oslavis were re
pulsed, iomhardments have prevailed
elsewhere.
Another war council OF the entente
allies. attended by the British and
French members. has been held in Lon
don. Nothing is known concerning the
council except that II was held for the
discussion OF plans for further prose-
cutting the war.
s Great Britain has informed the United
states through Ambassador Page that
Innocent mail taken from steamers
by the british authorities is not being
unnecessarily delayed. but forwarded to
tho addresses Immediately. Mail and
parcel post matter which is not classed
as innocent is being held for the
prize court.