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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-29
P llR0AOS TAKEN
FOR TRANSPORT
OF SUPPLIES
US. Acts To Protect Our Troops
In Mexico
SEVERAL SOLDIERS ARE INJURED
Not by the Enemy But Through a
Railroad Accident-vilIa Again
EIudes His Pursuers.

San Antonio, Tex, March 30.-Confir
nation Of reports that Gen Pershing al
ready has been using portion of the
Mexican Northwestern railroad for
transportation of troops was secured
by Gen Funston yesterday from what
was said to be an unofficial source.
This informa tion included report of
the oyerturning of two cars and the
injuring Of 10 troopers Of the 10th cav
airy and several horses. Three of
the men were reported seriously in
jured The accident occurred while
the cars we're being taken over a tenn
porary track that had been built
around the Cumbre tunnel south of
Casas Grandes. One of the rails gave
way and the cars rolled down an em-
bankment.
Exactly where Col. Dodd's cavalry is
now, or into how many detachments
1t has been divided, was unknown at
Gen. Funston's headquarters yester-
day. The exact whereabouts of Gen
Pershing also remained unreported,
but this lack of information created no
ulltdbiutbs, lOi bch 4 cl SuiuS oliii Hdo
orders to work out his own problems.
Full realization the danger into
which some OF the advanced detach-
ments must be moving was acknow-
lodged. Villas known ability as d.
rector of ambuscades has aroused
frank expressions of fear among army
officers that he may catch some of the
American troops in a mountain trap.
More automobile trucks have been
asked for by Gen. Funston and when
they are placed in service there will
be A few more than 800 on the lines of
communication. This increased num-
ber of automobile trucks will not solve
the problem of distributing supplies to
the advanced troops, however, since
large part of the troops are operating
far away from trails over which the
cars can be run.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-29
I'd Few Hours In North Adams or Hoosck Falls
FOR BENNINGTON COUNTY
DEVELOPMENT AND
b{TTERMENT
This Department Edited by Secretary
Willard w. Bartlett Of the County
improvement Association

Begin the fight against the apple
tree tent caterpillar.
What is that boy doing out in the
.a,d?'
81 don't know
'.Well go and find out and tell him
to stop"
One of the Bennington ladies dis
covered the other day that several
boys were picking something from the
tips of the branches of her apple trees.
She hurried to the yard in order to
catch them red-handed, and was not a
little surprised when they made no ef-
fort to escape. The boys, however,
were sent away with the Injunction,
do not pick any more"
1t is the season to collect all of the
egg masses of the apple tree tent cat
erpillar. 1t is the last chance this sea-
son also as the foliage will soon ap-
pear and then the worms. Boys and
girls in Bennington are collecting
them under the inspiration of several
prizes which have been offered and
are incidentally saving hundreds OF
dollars worth of damage to apple
trees in the town.
f. S. Buss has raised money and
is conducting the contest. Many Of
the boys and girls are already busy,
particularly in the village. The coun-
try boys have the better chance to col
lect the egg masses but they will need
to look out or the village boys will
get ahead of them.
In few weeks more these eggs will
hatch and nests will be formed, it will
then be much more difficult to get rid
of the pests. Gather and burn these
egg masses now.
And why not have similar contests
in every other town in the county?
The county association assisted Mr.
Buss in raising the money for prizes
and will assist those in other towns
who will do the same. Make list of
prizes and secure the money, place
notice in a store window, with many
OF egg masses.
In the meantime expect to see boys
and girls breaking and gathering twigs
with peculiar swollen rings on them,
from your trees.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-29
ROAD MEETING IS
SCHtDUL { D FOR
NEXT TUESDAY
Special Train Will Bring People
From Up County
DINNER AT THE PUTNAM HOUSE
Board of Trade Has Arranged to Make
Meeting Easy for all
Interested.

Interest is steadily increasing in the
annual meeting of the Bennington
county road commissioners which is
to be held at the county court house on
Tuesday, April 4. ."Good Roads Day.
as the date of this annual gathering
has come to be known, has apparently
become fixture in this and other
counties of the state, and is each year
attracting larger attendance and
wider interest.
Special effort has been made by the
committees in charge to make the
gathering next Tuesday even more sue
cessful than its predecessors. 1t Is of
course understood that the state high
way commissioner, Stoddard b. Bates
of Orleans, will 5e present. conduct
the meetings and give an illustrated
talk. James l.. Davis, county super
visor of highways, is also on the pro-
gram for an address and it is hoped
that James p. Taylor, president Of the
Greater Vermont association and of
the Green Mountain club, will be on
hand to give one Of those inspiring
speeches for which the Burlington man
is acquiring a considerable reputa-
tion.
Dinner will be served at the Putnam
house at ] o'clock and the afternoon
meeting will be called Immediately af-
terward The committees were Of the
opinion that greater sociability could
be secured by arranging the afternoon
exercises to take the form of the post
prandial feature at banquet The
hotel management has an excellent
bill of fare in preparation and the COM
mittees VIII see to it that the events
to follow win be of interest to every
one who attends. -
In order to secure larger attend
ance at the forenoon exercises arrange
ments have been made with the Rut-a
land railroad company to run special 8
train which will leave North Dorset
at $50 o'clock arriving at Benning- q.
ton at $50. BY taking advantage Of
the special residents of the up-countyQ q
town will be able to pass the entire :
day in town. returning on the regular
train leaving Bennington at els. ~
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-29
NORTH BENNINGTON

Miss Laura Rutan of Cleveland Ohio
who is spending some time with her
sister, Mrs. Guy Farnsworth, has gone
to Fitchburg, Mass, to visit another
sister for two weeks.
The Woman's Foreign missionary
society of the Methodist church Will
meet with Mrs. w. r. White Friday
afternoon at o'clock. Mrs. r. A.
Vim will have the program in charge
The union Lenten prayer meeting to-
morrow, Thursday. evening will be
held in the Congregational vestry at
730 o'clock. Rev. c. w. Turner will
lead the meeting and everyone is
asked to bring in some helpful
thoughts to the meeting. After the
service hymns will be rehearsed by the
chorus. Everyone is urged to be
present at these important meetings.
The last supper of the Ladies' Aid
society of the Congregational church
was given Tuesday night with large
attendance. The program following
was especially enjoyable and inspiring
1t consisted of piano solo by Miss
Ruth Hall, duets by Mrs c. W. White
son Payne. reading by Miss Ruth
Hall and solos by Mrs. Wells w White
A missionary pageant, "Filgrims on
the Highway" was very effectively
given by the young ladies, members of
the Howe Benning' Junior auxiliary
1t was introduced by Mrs. G. s. Mills
The program was prepared by Miss
Amy Surdam and Mrs. J. S. Clark.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-29
WILLARD STANDS ALONE
No One in Sight Now Who Gould Give
Him a Battle.
Yours very truly,
Horace +. Graham.


Those who make close study of the
pugilistic situation asserted yesterday
that there is no heavyweight in sight
who would have a chance of beating
Jess Willard. If the champion does
not decide to quit the ring, it is not
likely that any one could be developed
within the next few years who could
defeat him. Willard found 1t diff
cult task to get down to 259 pounds
after training for five weeks, and those
close to him say that it would be diff
cult for him to make this weight again
it is likely that Willard will have to
retire undefeated. If he does, he can
present his title to any one whom he
considers qualified to take it. in
1895 Jim Jeffries did this, when he de-
cided to retire. He refereed bout
between Marvin Hart and Jack Root
at Reno and presented his heavy
weight title to Hart. the winner of the
bout. philadelphia Jack" OBrien al
so claimed it. but his claim was ig-
nored, and the championship went to
Hart. who was later defeated by Tom
my Burns. Jack Johnson got the title
when he defeated Burns. Jack Nc
Auliffe also retired undefeated as
lightweight champion, his title going
to Kid Lavigne, who he thought was
best qualified to take it.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-29
TINKER BUTMAN's HENS
Difference Between Vermont and Con
necticut Yankees

A letter from Vermont contributor
to the New York Sun indicates that the
writer has working knowledge of the
Yankee character. The letter is as fol-
lows:
To the Editor of The Sun-Sir: We
were waiting in the Town Hall in
Windsor, VT, for the selectmen and
others of the board of civil authority
to count the ballots on Town Meeting
day, when Roswell Conant civil war
veteran and just elected to the office
of lister, told this story:
Remember or Man Draper? Waal,
he lived down to the South End on
Bridge street, next door to Tinker But
mans. One day Tinker Butman was
workin' in his gardin an he see OF
Man Draper jest comm outer the house
an says to him, Mr.. Draper, ef ketch
any o. your hens in my gardin III kill
-em an, throw 'em over the fence.
r "Waal OF Man Draper, he speaks
up kinder gentle like an says; Mr..
Butman, eff you ketch any o my hens
in your gardin you can kill EN-; but |
hev jest one suggestion to make: amt
boarding to home; board at the wild
der leddy's jest the other side o your
place, an eff you'll jest throw them
hens over into the widder leddy's yard
Ill tell her to pick 'em up an dress
en-
WAL, Tinker Butman said that was
all agreeable to him. Waal, next day
there was a couple O. dead hens in the
widder leddy's yard, an she come out
an fetched 'em into the house an
dressed 'em. Next day there was an
ether an the widder Teddy she fetched
that one into the house an dressed it.
"Waal, the next day Tinker Butman
he see OF Man Draper again an up an
says, Mr.. Draper, I've killed three O.
your hens, an throwed 'em over into
the widder leddy's yard, an I give you
to know that eff ketch any more O.
your hens in my gardin I'll do the same
by en- ..-4
'Waal, OF Man Draper, he speaks up
kinder gentle like, an says, Mr.. But
man, that's all right; but in friendly
sperrit | hev jest tew suggestions to
make; fust, / don't keep hens, an, sec
ondly, eff you'll take the trouble to
count yourn you'll find 'em three
short
My friend Gordon S. Griswold of
New London. to whom l repeated this
story, says it would not ring true in
Connecticut, because no Connecticut
Yankee in Draper's place would have
"let on before all of Butman's hens
were dead. On the other hand, Ethan
A. Chittenden of Brattleboro assures
me that it fits the Vermont Yankee per-
fectly, because the latter would have
yielded to the earliest opportunity to
rub 1t into his neighbor.
New York, March 23
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-29
WOULD ROB CATHOLICS
carranza Scheme To Float More Mexi
can Bonds.

Mexico City. March 27.-The pub
lished announcement that the Mexican
government was considering the ad
sonal and realty holdings of the Ca
tholic clergy throughout the republic
created somewhat of sensation here
this morning. In special dispatch
from Quaretaro, El Democratic, the
official government organ, quotes both
Secretary of the Treasury Cabrera
md Dr. Siurob, governor of the state
of Guiana Juato, as saying that the
measure would be made effective un-
der the old law dating back more than
Aalf a century when church edifices
we're seized during the administration
Of Benito Juarez.
The clergy in the states OF Michoa-
AN, Pebla, Quaretaro and Jalisco are
'eputed to be immensely wealthy in
Jewels, lands and works of art which
are held in trust for the church. 1t is
said that the appropriation of these
by the government for their conver
sion into gold with which to swell the
reserve to be accumulated for the re
demption of the paper money issue
made necessary by the revolution
would solve MeXico's present economic
difficulties. Government official de
;larations place the present paper is
sue at 500,000,000 pesos with an in
iigniticant metallic reserve for it's re-
demption.
The government is making every eff.
fort possible at this time to accumu
late as rapidly as possible the neces
sary reserve in order that the new is.
sue of 250000.000 pesos which it pur.
poses to put forth some time in April
may be sufficiently guaranteed tc
stabilize exchange without the neces-
sity of resorting to a foreign loan.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-29
| IH|R1Y-StvEN DIE
IN WR[CKAGE Of
THREE TRAINS
fory-Three Injured, Many Of
Whom Will Not Live
20 CENTURY LIMITED INVOLVED
Worlds Fastest Train Crashes Into
Dout,e Wreck 80 Miles West of
Cleveland, o.

Cleveland, o., March 29.--Thirty-
seven lives were lost and 43 persons
were hurt, many of them fatally, in a
triple-headed collision of New York
Central trains at Amherst, 32 miles
west of Cleveland, at 315 this morn.
ing.
All of the dead and injured were pas
sengers on the east bound train which
was running in two sections. The sec
ond section crashed into the first and
Immediately afterward the Goth Cen
tury limited, one of the fastest trains
in the world and running at rate of
so miles an hour, ran into the wreck.
age.
Twenty coaches and baggage cars
were overturned as were two of the
three locomotives involved in the
wreck.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-29
To Appreciate the Superiority Of Bennington All Needs Do
hooL EXHIBITION
Publ INVITED to See the Work of
!. School Pupils.

supl Ynvited to See the Work OIL
He School Pupils.
The public schools are engaged in
putting in place on the third floor OF
the Graded School building on School
street the most pretentious exhibition
of school work ever attempted in Ben
nington. 1t consists of penmanship,
shop wood work. sewing, basketry,
cane seating, weaving, fancy work,
paper cutting, knitting, mat making,
and many other lines of work.
The exhibition will be all in place to-
night and the judges will go over the
various classes tomorrow morning
placing the blue, red and yellow rib
bons for the prize winners.
1t will be open to the public Thurs
day afternoon and evening and all day
Friday and evening. Entertaining
programs will be given by the pupils at
3 o'clock and s o'clock each day. The
public is invited to inspect the exhibit
tion at any time after Thursday noon
no charge is made for admission. The
expense incurred including the cash
prizes will be met by voluntary
contribution. Collections will be tax.
en- up at each performance
Teachers ask the support of the par.
ents in this effort to give the public
A better conception of some OF the
newer phases Of school work. The pro-
grams consist almost entirely of real
school activities.
The program for Thursday afternoon
is as follows: Grafonola music, intro
ductory remarks, spelling contest, sec
ond grade; singing, sixth grade; arith.
metic games, third grade; singing, sec
ond grade; dance, the minuet, first
grade; dance steps, William Wander.
burg; home geography. fourth grade
singing, sixth grade. Thursday even
ing program will consist of music. re
marks, spelling match, fifth grade; the
minuet, first grade; Vermont geogra-
ply fifth grade: dramatic reading
sixth grade; boys glee club, eighth
grade; arithmetic contest. seventh
grade; singing, sixth grade
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-29
TEuToNs TAP OIL FIELDS
Announce Completion of Forty-MiIs
Pipe Line in Galicia.

Berlin, March 81. (by Wireless to
Sayville )--Completion of the CON
struction of pipe line about forty
miles in length between Drohobycz
and Chyrow in Galicia is announced
from Vienna today. The line, which is
intended for the carrying of kerosene
and was built by the Army Administra
tion, will be put into use shortly.
The line will admit of the movement
of about 700 tons of oil daily, thereby
relieving the railroads of consider
able burden of freight.
Drohobycz, about forty miles south
west of Lemberg. has important oil
fields in the immediate vicinity and nu
merous refineries. A trunk railroad
line passes through the city running
northwest of Chyrow and beyond. Oil
for Austria and Germany would natur-
ally pass over this route.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-29
NEW PRIMARY LAW
To Be Discussed by Y. M. C. A. Forum
Thursday Evening.

Tomorrow night the new direct pri-
mary law comes up for discussion at
the Y. NJ. C. A. Forum and Robert E.
Healy will open the meeting with a
presentation of the letter of the law,
its operation, and its difference from
the convention system.
This meeting is of unusual import
ance, because it will be OF educational
value to those who are not fully ac-
quainted with the operation of the
new law, as well as give those pres
ent an opportunity to be heard.
At the last Forum meeting practical
ly everybody present had something to
say, and all men are cordially invited
to be present tomorrow night and par
ticipate. The attendance is not re-
stricted to members.
difference of opinion as to the util
ity of the new law is expected. and
while it's adoption cannot be forestall
ed at this late date. an interesting de-
bate as to its practical value is likely.
The meeting begins at S15
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-29
GREAT DAMAGE AT HULL
Claimed by Germany as Result o
Zeppelin Raid

Berlin, March 2S-Details regarding
the last Zeppelin air raid on England
on the night of March Sc are publish
ed in the German papers, says the
Overseas news agency. "At Hull on
the Humber" says the agency, "a mag
azine filled with ammunition and a
building with provisions belonging to
the government were completely de-
stroyed The dock walls were heavily
damaged in several places. notably
those of one of the new docks. Nu-
merous hosting cranes, big steam
ships and a tank steamer also were
badly damaged and two men of war
were struck, one forward and the
other aft OF the city of Hull large
section was completely burned out,
two blocks being totally destroyed and
the railroad station badly damaged.
The colliery road is said to be mass
OF ruins"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-29
DRIVE AT vtROG',.
SECTOR SI0PP(D
BY french
Germans Have Made No Progress
Against Light Artillery
RusSl Ms SUFFER HEAVY l0SSE
Berlin Reports 10000 sIavs Have Been
Killed In Recent Attacks on Won
HIndenburg's Forces.

London, March 28.-German infantry
in successive wave formation attacked
French positions northwest of Verdun
this afternoon, after preparatory
bombardment of great slaughter. The
French artillery and rifle fire was re-
sponsible for the checking of this as.
sault, which extended from Avocourt
to Bethincourt. The French second
lines of defense east of the Meuse were
bombarded by the Germans, and the
French shelled German positions in the
Woevre.
South of Ypres the British troops
maintained their gains OF yesterday in
the face OF German counterattacks.
Today's official report from Berlin
as follows:
Lively fighting at close quarters de-
veloped south Of st. Eloi, around mine
craters formed the explosions of Brit
ish mines, The action has extended to
adjacent lines.
On both sides of the Meuse. where
fighting is taking place, there is moth
ing new to report.
Berlin, March 29.-Russian casualt-
l6o Ill Lue pTSSeut OlleuSiNc d5dluSl
Field Marshal von Hindenburg's army
are estimated in an Overseas news
agency statement yesterday to have
been not less than $4,000 along the 70
mile front where engagements have
been in progress. The statement
says:
THE fruitless attacks of the Rus
SLAMS In which 60 OF their divisions
have participated against Field Mar
shal Won Hindenburg's front is still
continuing The Russian casualties are
so far estimated to have been not less
than 10000 on front of 100 kilo
meters. .a
ION March 10 seven Russian regi-
ments attacked German cavalry
brigade. In this fighting the Russians
lost 5000, while the Germans lost two
killed and six wounded. Later on one
cavalry detachment counter-attacked
and captured 100 Russians.
"The German positions are so excel
lently fortified and provided with such
number of machine guns and cannon
that it is considered the Russian at
tacks are doomed to failure. The Ger.
man lines have not been shaken
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-29
ESTATE OF DAVID ROBINSON
STATE OF VERMONT

CTATE OF VERMONT I The Honora
- District OF Benz ,ngtou. So. { bic Pro Q
O,urt for the rj'trict afo eaaid
To the heirs an ell per ons inter 'sted in he
ostaC. IT pav d Robin+cn, late of Ten, inv on
In So District, dec ssei. GREETING:
WHEREAS, -.ppIicati IN hs,h been mae 70
this court 10 writing, by r bert X. Healey and
Collins n. Hraves, Adm nj ira ORE, c. a. d. b
n, prav ing for license ana authority to sell II
Of real estate ~ sad deceased, for the payment
Of debts ant charaes Of dmini trait n, setting
forth therein he amount OF debts due from
said decepe'. the charges of ad mi t. alton,
and the -ornt Of par-onatestate aud the ait
uAtion o. the real estate.
W1EREUPON. T. Q said g 'uit ap cinted aud
assign the 9Th day Of A pril, 1919. at the Pro
bate Office in ennington, In said Districs, to
b ar decide upou said appli alton a "a petit
ton, AID ord. red publ notice thereof TO he
given TO a | persons interes, ed t er,in, by pub.
fishing said or.ier, together with the time and
place Of hearing thr,e weeks succe seive y In
the Benninatop Evening tar' er. a ne 50 per
which ci' cua fes in tn nevhborhnOd OF those
persous int rested Ia sa es' ate, al of Va hch
PUB icsi,ons all be previous to the day as
sign d for hearing.
THERE ORE, ou ere hereby notified to ap-
pesr before said rourt, at the me and ple 90
assigned. then and ther, in sa d ciurt TO make
your j. stO.tne granting of such lic-n -nse
II y u q e cause.
Given under ny hand OF Bennington, In sal
District, this llth day OF March. 1915.
AMY II. HARBOUR, Register.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-29
NEWS PRINT PAPER is HIGH
Resolution introduced in House Asks
Investigation of Situation.

Washington, Marcn PA resolu.
tion for an investigation of the news
print paper situation by the depart
ment of commerce was introduced in
the House today by Representative
Copley of Illinois Much of the supply
of raw material for print paper that
came from Germany, Norway and
Sweden was cut off by the war and
other material is being shipped from
this country to Europe for use in the
manufacture of munitions, the resolu-
tion says. An opinion is asked on the
advisability of placing an embargo or
raw material. sns,g
According to Mr.. Copley, the price
of paper has advanced so far that the
lives of many small newspapers are
threatened.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-29
To tho Patrons Of the Harte Theatre

Essanay is presenting Henry B. Wal.
thai in what we consider the most pre-.
tentious and artistic photodrama ever
offered to the public.
Director Charles J. Brobin, with the
assistance Of the author, George C.
Hazelton, has spent many months in
the production of this masterpiece
1.-THE Raven" is known the world over
as the greatest work of Edgar Allan
Poe. Mr.. Walthal has portrayed the
character Of Poe with that consumate
skill for which he Is noted throughout
the world of photoplays. 1t remains
only for you to pass Judgment.
Essanay Film Mig. Co.
George. X. Spoor,
President.
(Harte Theatre Tomorrow