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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-12-29
RECORD OF ASSASSINATION"
Berlin Report of Russian Invasion OF
East Prussia.

"The number of civilians assassin.
ated in East Prussia in 1914 during
the Russian invasion has now been Of
ficially made public by the Koenigs-.
burg statistical office and totals 604S,
of whom SO were women" says
statement at Berlin yesterday by the
semi-ofiicial Overseas news agency.
Among these" adds the statement,
1888 men and So women were shot, As
men and one woman stabbed, q men
and one woman beaten to death, six
men and five women burned and one
man choked to death, and two men
killed during the hold-up Of a train.
or 107 men and four women only
murder is given as the cause OF
death"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-12-29
ARE TO ENTERTAIN
CHILDREN WITH
FRtE PLAY
To Be Given Saturday Afternoon
at Library Hall
ALL CHILDREN ARE INVITED
Play Master skylark Will Be Given
Under Auspices of Welfare
Association.

OdluIudy Ut D u ClOCk llt Il uDllC
Welfare Association will entertain all
the children of Bennington at Library
hall, where a play, Master Skylark"
viii be given by cast of thirty-four
children. The High school orchestra
will render selections before and after
the play and eight girls of the High
school Glee Club will sing.
Last year, at the announcement of
a free play for children, there was a
line of three or four hundred waiting
outside the building long before the
doors opened, and visitor in town
would have thought some sort of
stampede was in progress. Tomorrow
the doors will not be opened until a
quarter before three, and as the
weather is cold, mothers should not
let their children start for the hall too
early.
Ushers will show the boys and girls
seats, and there will probably be
plenty, as no grown-ups are admitted
Is is the age limit for the free play
Mothers who wish to see the Flay
or having children too young to at
tend unacoompanied, will have a
chance a week later, when the play
will be repeated before the Fortnight
ly. At that time children under six
years old may have free admission if
they are with their mothers and have
not seem the play before. All others
attending the Fortnightly play. who
are not members, will be charged
twenty-five cents admission.
Children taking part in Master
Skylark" are asked to be at the hall
tomorrow afternoon promptly at two.
At two fifteen the doors will be
closed.
Below is the program with the
cast of characters There will be no
other printed programs, so cut this
out and bring with you.
Herald Doris Harbour
Nicholas Atwood, master Skylark)
Sam Weichman
Nick's school-mates in Stratford:
Robin John Cole
John Edward Fitzgerald
Walter Theodore Cook
Gerald Woodruff Hall, Clovis Annis
Nicholas Atwood Senior. Nick's
father David Shimlintzky
Mrs. Atwood, Nick's mother
Harley Armstrong
Travelling players of the Lord High
Admirals Company:
CASTOR Carew, Master Player
Jacob Weichman
(Understudy) Halsey Cushmap
Master Haywood Richard Hall
Player Robert Holden
Player William Wishart
Player Catherine Coyne
Player Agnes Jackson
Player Cecile Jackson
Cecile Carew, daughter of the Master
player Emma Cartwright
Understudy) Elizabeth Thomas
William Shakespeare
Richard Holden
Ben Johnson Charles Bennett
Susan Shakespeare
Sylvia Shimlintzky
Queen Elizabeth Philomena Royce
l-ady-in-waiting Agnes Jackson
Lady-in-waiting Cecile Jackson
Lady in-waiting Marian Clisbee
Boys of the Cathedral School of
Music and Acting in London, Colley:
Catherine Coyne. Rafe Fullerton,
Arthur Hall, Ralph Torrance, Wood
hull Hail.
Prompter Halsey Cushman
Hall, Alfred Bottum,
Lawrence Wood, Oakley Cham
beau.
Peasants-William Wishart, Daisey
Loveland, Mildred Beecher, Eliz-
abeth Dewey.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-12-29
MILLION FIRE LOSS
Car Barns and Cars at Toronto Were
Destroyed

Toronto Dec. 29.-The King street
car barns of the Toronto street rail-
way company were destroyed by fire
early this morning. The loss is
around a million dollars.
over 300 cars were burned but a
part of these were old type cars of
no considerable value.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-12-29
GET U. S. ARMY APPOINTMENT
w. r. Adams of Bellows Falls Is Made
Second Lieutenant

Bellows Falls, Dec. 27.-Lieut, Wal
ter F. Adams, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Adams of Atkinson street, has
been appointed second lieutenant in
the 18th United States Infantry. He
will leave Friday or Saturday for Fort
Leavenworth, Ka., where he will at
tend an officers training school with
400 of the recently appointed officers.
From Fort Leayenworth he will go to
Douglas, Aiz., to take up his duties
with the 18th regiment.
Lieut.. Adams graduated from the
Bellows Falls high school with the
class OF 1908 and from Norwich uni
versity with the class of 1912. He was
n first lieutenant on his graduation
from the university.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-12-29
SMALL COASTERS HIT TRUCK
Brothers Will Probably Die After
Accident with Christmas Sled.


Passaic, N, j., Dec. 2S.-Frank Post,
who lives at 83 Main Avenue, gave his
eight.year-old son Roy sled for
Christmas, and this afternoon Roy
and his younger brother Francis, 5
years old, started down the Penning-
ton Avenue hill on 1t. Near the bot
tom of the hill stood motor truck.
Roy lost control of the sled and 1t
crushed into the front OF the truck.
Francis head hit the crank handle
which pierced his skull. The older
lads head struck the axle of the ma
chine, and he, too, was knocked sense
less.
Russell r. Dechert. the chauffeur,
picked the boys up and carried them
TO ST. Mary's Hospital. There 1t was
said tonight both boys probably would
die.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-12-29

800 PERSONS DROWNED
Steamship Samoa Maru Wrecked on
Chinese Coast.

Toxic, Dec 29.-The steamship,
Sanca Maru is reported lost ON the
Chinese coast and 800 persons were
drowned The ship ran ashore in
dense fog.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-12-29
WEATHER FORECAST

For eastern New York and western
Vermont fair and colder tonight. Sat
urday fair.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-12-29
Il. E. EDDY SUCCEEDS Fits.

Chosen a Director and Vice President
of Connecticut River Co.
Brattleboro, Dec. 27.-At a special
meeting of the Connecticut River Pow
er company this afternoon Attorney
Hermon e. Eddy. who had been asso-
ciated for several years with the late
Clarke c. Fits, was elected a direc-
tor and vicepresident OF the company
to succeed Mr.. Fits.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-12-29

The latest official communice-
ton from Berlin records fresh ad-
vances for the Teutonic allies against
the Russians and Rumanians in Walla
CHA. The invaders are now well be
yond Rimnik Sarat, advancing along
the railway toward Fokshani. Three
thousand more prisoners and 22 ma
chine guns have been captured by the
invaders, bringing the number of men
taken in the Rimnik-Sarat maneuver
UP to 1920.
Although the Berlin war office re
ports that the Teutonic allies in Do
brudja are keeping up their pressure
against the Russians and Rumanians
and have driven the Russians from
fortified high positions east of Mat
chin, on the east bank of the Danube
opposite Braila. Petrograd announces
that the invaders south of the Danube
have been repulsed with heavy losses,
except at the village of Rakel. which
has been occupied by them. British
armed motor cars, says Petrograd,
did great execution in this fighting
Considerable fighting has again
ldhGu ptdtt vi lHt NtIuuD hGtlOI
around lie Mort Homme. and on the
eastern slopes of hill 304. where the
Germans made an attack but were re-
pulsed. and where later the French
began bombardment of the German
positions.
Unofficial advices received in Lon
don from Salonica says the Greeks
who surrendered to the Bulgarians at
Kavala have been ordered by King
Constantine to proceed to the Mace
donian front to fight against the en-
tente allies.
From Athens comes an unofficial
dispatch announcing that Greece is
addressing another note to the enten-
te declaring that unless there is a
change in the entente blockade,
Greece may be forced to seek the
advice of the nation concerning the
course to be followed.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-12-29
MORE RUMAAIANS
ARE PRISONERS
Of GERMANS
Russians tgain Defeated and
Driven Back
BRITISH EXTEND THEIR LINE
Have Taken Over the Defence of
Another Section Of the Front In
France.

Berlin, Dec. 29.-This mornings re-
port from the Carpathian front states
that 400 more Russians and Ruman-
ian prisoners have been brought in.
In Dobrudja the Bulgarians have cap
tured the village of Rachel.
Along the Carpathlan front the
Russians have failed to gain in spite
of the sacrifice they have made and
there has been slackening of their
attack.
The Russian losses here are said to
have been the bloodest of the whole
war In their effort to divert the Ger
man advance in Rumania the Rus
slams sent their new and only partly
trained army against the veteran Aus
trian and German lines on the Car
pathian front. Whole divisions were
wiped out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-25
FIGHT CENTERS ON EBY
Republicans Arc Lining Up Against a
Fifth Term in Office.

The first real fight in the Shawnee
county political campaign among the
Republican candidates opened today
with a bang. John F. Eby, county
superintendent of schools, who it was
said today on good authority would
SOON declare his candidacy for a fifth
term in his present capacity, is the
brunt of the row. The fight is staged
on the time honored anti-third term
Republican plank
When Ebys present term expires he
will have finished his fourth consecu-
tive term Republicans in county
politics who standpat against a third
term in any public office as a Repub-
lican custom pointed this out. That
wasn't all. They also pointed out that
Eby made an ironclad promise 10
teachers and voters over the county
that if they would work for him at
the last election he would not again
ask for the office. Ely this morning
admitted he was not sure whether he
would stay out of the race but stated
he had reached no stage of the game
where he would make an announce
ment.
William VanordeI of Oakland is one
of Eby's opponents in the fight Van
orsdel stated today that he did not like
to make any statement of his attitude
toward Eby's expected candidacy as
he was an opposing candidate but
did state that Ely made the general
promise that he would not run again.
Eby said he wanted a chance at
the increased salary of 5000 a year
which was given his office by the last
legislature, and then he was through. )"
Mr. Nanorsdel said It is known that
several candidates for offices other
than Eby's are opposed to his run
ming for a fifth term. Although the
county superintendent election is
wholly confined to rural precincts this
year. Topeka politicians will take a
prominent part in the row to override
Eby.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-25
An Easy Way To Get
Fat And Be Strong

The trouble with most thin folks who
wish to gain weight is that they insist
ON drugGing their stomach or stuffinG
it with greasy foods: rubbing on useless
flesh creams" or following some foolish
physical culture stunt, while the real
cause eli thinness goes untouched. You
cannot get fat until your digestive tract
assimilates the food you eat
There is Il preparation known to re-
liable druggists almost everywhere which
seemingly embodies the missing elements
needed by the digestive organs to help
them convert food into rich. fat-laden
blood. This modern treatment is called
Sargol and has been termed the greatest
of flesh builders. Sargol aims through
regenerative, re-constructive powers to
coax tie stomach and intestines to liter
ally soak up the fattening elements of
your food and pass them into the blood,
where they carried TO the starved.
broken-down cells and tissues of your
body. You can readily picture what re-
suit this amazing transformation should
produce as with increased weight the
checks fill out. hollows about neck
shoulders and bust disappear and from 10
to 20 pounds of solid. healthy flesh is
added TO the body. Sargol is absolutely
harmless, inexpensive. efficient. Arnold
Drug Co. and other leading druggists of
this vicinity have it and will refund your
money If you not satisfied. as per
the guarantee found in every package.
NOTE:-Sargol is recommended only
as flesh builder and while excellent
results in cases of nervous indigestion.
etc. have been reported care should be
taken about using it unless gain of
weight is desired--Advertiseme
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-25
zARWANTSSHIPS
Russia Would Buy Vessels
Japan Captured From Her.
Negotiations for Purchase Re-
ported To Be Under Way.

Toxic. Feb. 25.-Russian negotia-
tio1s for the purchase from Japan Of
warships which we're captured in the
be proceeding satisfactorily. The Soya.
the Tango and Sagami are stated to he
the vessels which Russia desires 70
purchase. Russia would have bought
warships from Japan at the outbreak
of the war in order to take part IN
the bombardment of TsipT' Tao, the
seaport on the Chinese coast III the
German territory OF kiao-Chau, put
the negotiations which were then I'M
dertaken fell through
The Tango and the Sagami are Ia
panese battleships and the Soya pro-
tected cruiser.
the Tango. formerly the Russian
warship Pollava, was sunk at Port
Arthur and afterwards raised ana re
paired. She is of 1000 tons. is 39O
feet long, So feet beam and has COM
Dlcment of $50 men. Her armament
includes four IL inch guns, tweiVe
inch guns and sixteen 3 FOUNDERS she
has two IS inch submerged torpedo
tubes.
built at Petrograd and is of 13,5Oo
tons with complement of 1872 men.
She is 424 feet long and - feet beam
and is armed with four 10 inch guns
ten inch guns. sixteen Il FOUNDERS
and number of small guns:
The Soya was built at Philadelphia
in 1901, was sunk at Chemulpo IN
1904 ana raised and repaired in 1909.
she has n displacement of $500 tons.
is 416 feet long and - feet wide; Sh >
carries twelve inch guns. twelve Il
founders and six ? Founders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-25

avenue: Ira w Baker, 631 Lane
street; B. O. Simpson, 1911 West Fifth
street: w. J. Handley, 316 West Lau-
rent street: George H. Brayles, 1918
West street: c. A. Neiswender, 1900
Kansas avenue; J. F. Doane. Topeka :;
Frank Kresie. Dover: ]. c. Brown.
1925 North Van Buren, street; John
Rains, Topeka; p. H. Sayre, 1411 West
Eighth street; Lawrence Ellis. 1920
Washington street; J. NJ. Newell, 400
East Locust street; w. n. Breen, 613
West Eighth street: E. c. Warped, 1875
Lincoln street: J. E. Morris, 729 JEFF
ferson street; G. F. Penfield. 400 Hun
toon street; J. w. Shoemate, Dover F.;
Fred Oberer. 1908 East Sixth street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-25
Flying Squadron of State Lead
ers to Visit Cities.
Claim Capper Does Not Speak
Kansas Language.
STATE IS FOR PREPAREDNESS
Trickett, Harvey and Allen Or
ganizerS of Movement.
Mass Meeting at Kansas City,
KAN, March 4.

Major A. NJ Harvey of Topeka. is
one Of the chief actors in the organiza-
ton of a flying squadron to visit the
larger cities of Kansas in the interest
OF peace at the price of preparedness.
The leaders of the state are eager 20
send the word back east that Cover
nor Capper and the pacifists do not
speak the Kansas language on the cur
rent national issue. The organization
of the flying squadron is practically
assured
c. w. Trickett, a Kansas City, Kan,
attorney is the father of the move
ment, the suggestion coming % him
after he had written a communication
to "A newspaper, bitterly assailinS he
pacifists' talk as foreign to Kansas. y
letter from Henry j. Allen states he is
willing to join any movement 20 let
the east know Kansas is solid for "a -
paredness and to crystalline the sen
timent OF the people back home for
the benefit of any WaVerine congress
man from the eight Kansas districts
Major Harvey has written the follow
ing letter to Mr.. Trickett assuring him
of his corporations
Harvey's Letter.
IF the next generation should bring
n war. our boys are sure to be il IL.
! want them to have the best guns
and equipment and to be supported
by the best artillery and the best navy
the greatest nation on earth can pro-
about by a training of all our citizen
ship, including men and women, so our
Young men may know how to handle
firearms. to live in camp, to take care
of themselves in the open. and 70 do
those things that a soldier might have
to do.
by the same token young women
should be trained in physical develop
ment for rugged life. They should he
taught sometime Of the use of medi-
cine, care of the sick and wounded
and the many other services .hSy
might render if needed
Organi- by April I.
The plan is for organization of the
flying squadron by April l. 1t will
visit any city in Kansas where a cit
izen or group of citizens, church, ON
mercial club or any body desires to
undertake arrangements for a meet
ing. The members of the squadron
will pay their own expense.
A preliminary mass meeting is plan
ned for Kansas City, Kan, March A.
All the state leaders interested viii
be invited to attend.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-25

has a ravenous appetite for Swiss
cheese. A young man answering that
description broke into a grocery store
the night of February 2. The young
man, besides stealing about S25 worth
of merchandise, consumed large
quantity of cheese while in the store.
The young man had first bitten a soft
piece of cream cheese, thinking it was
Swiss. He discovered his mistake, but
the print of his teeth was left in the
soft cheese. The two front ones were
missing.
Working from this clew, the detec-
tives started out. They also got a
description of the young man from
persons who had seen him near the
place earlier in the evening.
Late today they found him. He was
in a restaurant on East Independence
avenue and he was eating-a Swiss
cheese sandwich. When he paid the
cashier for the meal he smiled. The
two front teeth were gone. The de-
/ tectives arrested him. At police head
quarters he confessed to the robbery.
He gave the name of Lester w.
Shawen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-25
PAPE'S D|APEPS|N
FOR DYSPEPSIA, GAS, !.
OR UPSET STOMACH
Indigestion Goes Instantly! Ends Sourness, Acidty
and all Stomach MseyNo Waiting-Get Some!

Do some foods you eat hit back
taste good, but work badly; ferment
into stubborn Jumps and cause a sick,
sour gassy stomach? Now, Mr.. or
Mrs. Dyspeptic. iot this down; Pape's
Diapepsin digests everything. leaving
nothing to sour and upset you. There
never was anything so safely quick. so
certainly effective. No difference how
badly your stomach is disordered you
will get happy relief in five minutes,
but what pleases you most is that it
strengthens and regulates your stom-
ach. so you can eat your faVorite
foods without fear.
Most remedies give you relief some
times-they are slow, but not sure.
"Papes Diapepsin' is quick, positive
and puts your stomach in a healthy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-25
JURY FOR APRIL Term
One Woman Is Included in the Venire
Drawn.

Only one woman was drawn as a
Juror for the April term of the ShaW-
nee county district court when Nenlre-
men for the two divisions were drawn
H. Zehner. Monmouth; Mrs. j. W;
Bigger. Topeka Robert carr, 80
Klein street: w. H. Niccum, Topeka
Charles H. Buck, APO Sumner street :
H. L. Vesper, 1920 Washington street
c. l.. Markley,, 1893 Lincoln street; n.
A. Kingsley 1900 Taylor street; .. w w
Bayne. 1912 North Kansas avenue; w
A. Archer, 2O1 Fillmore street; {. II.
Seen. Soldier; j. A. Hercules. 12OS
Quincy street: ]. D. Phillips, Mission
G. c. Booher. 1918 Jackson street; l.
c. Hammond, 4O7 Madison street;
Harry Harmed, Mission; Fred Kelley.
416 West Second street; A. Hokanson,
go North Kansas avenue: George
Bomhoff, Sal y North Kansas avenue;
J. d. Diehl, 613 Buchanan street: h.
B. Lantz. 1247 Fillmore street; John
Sargent, 225 Clay street; j. w Reames,
silver Lake: George Aldridge. 50
Kansas avenue; S. H. Tarbeu, 2Ol
Jackson street; c. A. Alder. zoos West
Fourth street: Theo. Stockmor. Ross
Vile; ]. J. Pate, 1871 Lake street: G.
L. Seybold, 1915 Kansas avenue; II. >
Halterman, 1927 Polk street; J. W.
L. F. Gleen, 1903 Harrison; L. F.
Detlor, 913 North Jackson street;
stewart Boyd, s1S Madison street; H.
F. Markham, 1851 Lincoln street.
Mrs. ]. w. Bigger's husband is a
dairyman, living east of Topeka
Those drawn for the jury panel in
the second division are: George Ty-
son. 400 Lake street; G.. T. Lawrence,
S34 Fillmore street: A. F. Tuer. 21O
Clay street. Matt Burghart, 1905 North
Monroe street; John Bradbury, Memo
ken; ]. L. Combs, 610 West Fourth
street: Hester Schlegel. 422 Lane
street; ]. H. Calvin, 1892 Western ave
nue.; J. B. Armstrong, 521 Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-25
CALL MARRIED men, TOO
British ScInmcnt to Enlist Bcnc-
diets Beginning April 20.

Lonuon, Feb. 25.-AH the groups
of married men who attested for serv-
ice in the army under Lord Derbv's
scheme will be called for service in
patches according to the Central
News
Beginning April % with the young
or groups the men of "a to 80 years
of age, will be called out and sub
sequently the men will be summoned
as follows: May 1 3, men of "a to Sc
years; May 81 men 81 to SO; June 10.
men 40 to -, and June "a, men aged
43 to As. The oldest group men as
years Of age. Will be called on July 8.
These arrangements are provisional.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-25
NOSTRILS AND HEAD STOPPED UP
FROM COLD? TRY MY CATARRH BALM

balm dissolves by the heat of the
nostrils; penetrates and heals the in
famed, swollen membrane which
lines the nose, head and throat; clears
the air passages. stops nasty dis
charges and a feeling of cleansing.
soothing relief comes Immediately.
Don't lay awake tonight struggling
for breath, with head stuffed: nostrils
closed, hawking and blowing. Ca
tarrh or cold, with its running nose.
foul mucuous dropping into the
throat, and raw dryness is distressing
but truly needless.
Put your faith-just once=fn
"Ely's Cream Balm and your cold or
catarrh will surely disa ppear.-Ad-
Vertisement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-25

condition SO the misery won't come
back.
You feel different as soon as "Papes
Diapepsin' comes in contact with the
stomach-distress just vanishes-your
stomach gets sweet, no gases, no
belching, no quotations of undigested
food, your head clears and you feel
fine.
Go now, make the best investment
you ever made, by getting a large
fifty-cent case of Pape's Diapepsin
from any drug store. You realize in
five minutes how needless it is to suf-
fer from indigestion, dyspepsia or any
stomach disorder. Don't be talked in
to something else Just as good
vertisement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-25
Socialists Want Mediation Congress

Washington, Feb. 25.-Representa-
tives of Socialists. labor unions, So
ciety of Friends. the w.glsn's peace
party and of many Municipalities, spoke
today before the house for eign affairs
committee for Representative Lon
don's resolution calling on the presi-
dent to convene a congress of neutral
nations to offer mediation to the Eys-
ropean belligerents. Morris Hillquft
of New York told the committee there
was not the slightest indication of a
break in the war. THE attitude of the
United States" he said. lis that of
vultures. fattening on corpses. The
war means many millions to the
wealthy classes of the United States
and jobs to the poor classssI"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-25

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