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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-05
Odd Fellows.
LODGES,

LODGES,
Monday-Cnion, No. IL, and LAngdon,
No. 20. business.
Tuesday-Amity. No. q. degree: WASH
ington. No. 9, and Golden Rule, No.
81. business. and Mount Pleasant,
No. %. social.
Wednesday-Eastern, No. 4; Harmony,
No. 8, and Federal City, No. 20, de-
gree.
Thursday-Covenant, No. IL, and Salem,
No. %, degree; Excelsior, No. IT.
and Phoenix, No. %. business.
Friday-Centrai, No. l. degree.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-05

Shot, but failed to make team: J. Fl. Rob-
erts9n' psI.19.1.8; G. B. cornweli. s0-sa-17s;
80 159: r. T. J. Barber, ss-s3-171.
Shoot ending Julv "a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-05

shot. but failed to make team: G. b. Corn
We'll. 93-so-11s: r. Alderman. 9ss2-17s: W. C.
Robertson, 93-s2177; X. q. Fletcher, 95-77-172
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-05

Covenant Lodge. No. u. wiii confer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-05

strenuous work in the lodges. chapters
Ind cummanderies has been laid aside for
q temporary warm weather rest During
the comfnr week but three lodges sched-
uled to meet have made announcements as
to their work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-05

strasburg, va.-The third annual
convention Of the Shenandoah County
Sunday School Association will be held
in the Disciples Church, Edinburg, Va,
Tuesday. and promises to be better
than its predecessors
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-11
Desert Of Sahara.

At one time some twoscore years
ago. some Englishmen proposed to dig
a canal on the northwest coast Of AT
RIGA, south of Morocco, to admit the
waters of the Atlantic into the Sahara
desert. 1t was argued that a great
inland sea would thus be created and
that ocean vessels might steam into
Africa and pick up cargoes along the
western Sudan. This fine idea was
based upon the prevalent notion that
most OF the desert surface was much
below sea level. 1t was discovered
later that most of the desert stands
high above the sea. The French. who
have been the greatest explorers of the
desert, have corrected other false ideas
about the desert. The most c0nspic-
uous and persistent of these errors has
been the notion that the desert is a
vast area Of sand. The French have
proved that this is not so. In fact, only
about One-fifth of the Sahara is COW
cred with sand
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-11
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Tok
Briefly for Busy Readers

Rain coats reduced one third at Joe
Leyin's. ADV.
Merritt Burgess of West Main
street is convalescent after his re
cent illness.
Arthur Shepherd. who is i'll with
scarlet fever at his home on Mccall
street, Is improving.
Save money and buy good shoes for
lowest prices at the New York store
shoe department Adv,
Mrs. John S. Holden is expected to
return today from st. Petersburg, Fla,
where she spent the winter
Week end specials, reductions on
our complete stock of mems, ladies'
and childron's footwear at Joe
Levin's. ADV.
President Wilson's war message in
book form is on sale at the Free H.
brary for 20 cents The proceeds are
10 90 to the Red Cross.
Miss Catherine Coan was a recent
visitor of Miss Mary Healy. She has
returned to New York, where she is in
training in St. Vineents hospital.
Miss Marion Coclilin of Rutland is
expected to come to Bennington Sat.
urday to spend the week end at the
home of Mrs Mary Healy in Browning
Place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip b. Jennings ar
rived today from New York city and
viii spend the summer at Old Ben
nington. Their daughter Miss Eliza
beth Jennings, has been in town for
The past few days.
Mrs. Julia b. Parker, who was TAX
en- i'll on the train Monday while on
her way to Albany, is still in st.
Peters hospital in that city. An OPP
Grafton will be performed Saturday
morning. Her sister, Mrs. Conrad
Schwartz and her son, William Park
er, will 80 to Albany tonight
Everett Vance, a deaf mute who
has been employed at the Charles
Cooper Estate machine shop. has been
sentenced to 80 days in Jail in Troy
on the charge of stealing flag.
Vance was arrested on technical
charge of vacancy on the complaint of
a Troy resident who had lost flag,
Vance. the complaint claimed, was
in the vicinity when the flag disap-
peared No trace of the flag could be
found and none of the mute's friends
in Bennington believe that he appro-
priated the emblem. Vance has a
habit of leaving home for days at a
time, but he has never before expert
enced any serious trouble Naturally, !
because of his afiliction he appears
peculiar, but to even imagine that he
would so to Troy and steal flag. his |
friends, declare is ridiculous.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-11
Rain After Thunder.

Why does a heavy downpour of rain
often follow a clap Of thunder? asks
the Popular Science Monthly, and gives
this answer: Not as is popularity be-
lieyed, because the thunder jostles the
cloud particles together into raindrops,
In the violent turmoil between the pos
tive and negative electricity in n
thundercloud there viii be places
where the production of drops by con
densation and their subsequent break
ing up proceeds more rapidly than else
where. Hence in these places there
will be more drops to fall as rain and
also more clectrification, the rainfall
occurring about the same time as the
flash.
We have, then. starting toward the
earth ut the same time. light. sound and
raindrops. The light. travelling at Il
speed of about $4,000 miles per sec
ond, reaches us almost instantly. The
sound travels far more Slowly-about
1000 feet per second-but the rain falls
much more slowly still. Thus we oh
serve, first the lightning. then the thun
der and then the rain.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-11
F r EC,kLES
Don't Hide Them With a Veil; Re-
move Them with the Othine
Presentation.

This prescription for the removal Of
freckles was written by a prominent
in removing freckles and giving a
clear beautiful complexion that it is
sold by any druggist under guarantee
to refund the money if it fails.
Don't hide your freckles under a
veil; get an ounce of othine and re-
move them. Even the first few appli-
cations should show wonderful i'm
provement, some of the ligher freckles
vanishing entirely.
BE sure to ask the druggist for the
double strength othine; it is this that
is sold on the money-back guarantee.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-11
NORTH BENNINGTON

The young people OF the Baptist
church give a cordial invitation TO
their meeting on Sunday night, at
$50 o'clock Miss Pratt was a speak
err at the Baptist State convention last
fell and is a leader in community
work in Bennington. She and sever.
al other young people who come with
her will tell you how to get the most
pleasure and the most profit out OF
your vacation
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-11
Little Thinns.

1t surely is the little things that
cause the most worry in this old vale
of tears. ana when some mere tribe,
Ike shoestrins or Il garter, gives
way at an especially inopportune mo
nent one doesn't give much thought
for the time being to our international
relations-Ohio State journal.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-11
Just a Suuaestion.

1T would save us much needed floor
space and considerable money if more
of our women customers would use
the stairway when going up only one
tlight' said the department store man
ager. Il wish l knew OF some way TO
make them do it,
why not take the mirrors out OF
the elevators and put them on the
stairs:' suggested his bright assistant.
Buffalo Express.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-11
CompaTinq Notes.

MY wife was so angry with me that
she stopped speaking to me for two
days
you're i'm luck Mine was so angry
with me that she's never stopped
speaking to me- Baltimore American.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-02
FREED IN POLYGAMY CASE.
James A. NORM Held, However, on Lar
Ceny Complaint

James \. NORM, held in Greenfield the
past several days on charge Of poyg
amy, was discharged in district court
yesterday, when the court found no prob
able cause. The complaint against NORM
alleged that in 1914 he married Mary
Haley in Pontiac, Mich, and that in july
OF this year he married a Greenfield girl
at Brattleboro. The inability of the
Haley woman to satisfactorily account
for several marriages in which she had
been one of the contracting parties, re.
suited in Morins freedom on the charge
lhc woman testified that she was first
married to Norm in Rhode Island when
she was II years OF age Between that
time and her second marriage to Norm
she testified that she had been married
two or three times No records of di
vorccs granted her were available Al
though NORM was released on the polyg
amy charge, he was last night awaiting
the arrival of an officer from Nortl
Rrookteld, where iie was wanted on
charge OF larceny.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-02
TWO MEN DROWNED IN CANAL.
Polish Workmen Both Had Families in
Austria

TURNER'S FALLS. Mass. August .
\ double drowning accident occurred i'll
the canal just above the large pond be
tween Turner's Falls and Montague City
Tuesday night at about $50. the victims
being Charles Strusoki and John Boar
ton, both middle aged Polish men With
two other, they were bathing and evi-
IDENTIFY got too far away from the shore
Neither was able to swim Their com
panions apparently became bewildercd
and the police were not notified of the
drowning until two and one half hours
,afterward, at midnight Graphing irons
were Immediately secured and the police
18th {. | Hosmer, engineer of the Tur-
lners Falls power and electric company
and some other men, succeeded in getting
both bodies from the water after few
hours. They were removed TO McCar-
thy's undertaking parlors, where they
We're viewed yesterday by Medical EX
aminer Twitchell of Greenfield Boil
| the drowned men had families in Austria
They boarded at the south end
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-02
HEAT SLIGHTLY
MORE BEARABLE
South Breeze Helps Out Little This
Forenoon - Young Women I n
ployes Dismissed Early.

Officially yesterday the mercury reached
100 about 230 o'clock in the afternoon
Last night was five degrees more comfort
able than Tuesday night, as a south
breeze helped out materially and the ther-
mometers Indicated low mark of 20. the
south breeze was in evidence this morning
and conditions on the streets were slight
ly more bearable up to noon than on
either Of the two preceding days.
The young women employees in the Of
fees Of the Dunham Brothers Co. and the
iolstein-Friesian Association of America
were sent home early yesterday because
Of the heat and today the Holstein-F Fries
ian employees worked from to l O'Clock
and were sent home for the rest Of the
day.
Last evening when the O'Clock train
pulled III from the south every member OF
the train crew was without a uniform
coat, an indication that even railroad
rules can be broken under excessive wealth
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-02
TRUST COMPANIES NOT EXEMPT.
Frank c. Williams Makes Ruling on
Law Relative to Town Loans.

MONTPELIER, August , State Bank
Commissioner Frank c. Williams has
made a ruling that the new law enacted
by the last legislature relating to cxcmp-
tlons for savings banks and savings insti-
tutions does not affect trust companies.
Lieut.. Gov. Roger Ilulburd OF Hyde Park
was in the city III conference with the
local bankers regarding the law
The now law leaves ont the words
and trust companies in relation to the
exemptions from taxation on loans made
to towns 1t is Mr. Williams contention
that il trust companies were intended to
be exempted the words savings banks
and trust companies would have been
used instead of savings banks" while
Mr.. llulburd and prominent banker,
claim that his ruling is against the spirit
of the law. Those interested in the mat
ter are not yet ready to say whether ;
test east will be made
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-02
Farmers Making Most of
Excellent Weather of
This Week
NOT MUCH PRODUCE
WILL GO TO WASTE
Help Is Scarce, However, Which Re
quires Speeding Up to Last Notch
Raspberry Crop.

The farmers who are busily engaged in
getting in one of the biggest hay crops
that has come their way in some years
have little or no fault to find with exist
ing weather conditions. The total lack
of rain and the extreme dry, hot wealth
er make ideal conditions for cutting, cur
ing and storing this crop.
A hav vfield is not exactly a comfortable
place to put in 10 or II hours with the
mercury crOwding the tops of the ther-
mometers, but good hay weather is the
kind that keeps the Ferspiratin run
ming in streams and for the last week
person has not been forced to bayfield,
to appreciate the fact that this is hay
weather
The housing Of the hay crop is little
slower than the owners would wish and
slower than would be the case if there
were to be found plenty of men willing
to earn good money for hard work. Many
| of the farmers have taken on boys to do
what they can and by the end of this
week the great bulk of the hay will be
under cover and well cured.
The farmers round about Brattleboro
are not so badly hit for lack of help a.
are the big market gardeners further
south in the Connecticut valley. In this
locality not many farmers planted more
THAN they were sure they could cultivate
and harvest with ordinary luck, and
while they are driven to the last notch
iof speed and endurance to keep pace
with the ripenng crops, with reasonable
luck they will pull through in most cases
without much of the produce going to
waste.
This should not be taken to indicate
that there is not plenty OF work waiting
for any man or large boy who feels the
call Of nature to return to the fields
He can find job so quickly that he does
not want to start out looking for one
with no intention of taking it, for once
he applies there will be no backing out
In the case of George ID. Aiken of Put
ney. whose speciality is growing berrie:
: and small fruits, there will be big
waste of raspberries in the next foul
DAYS unless he is able to double hi
working force for few days of about 2
girls He prefers girls to boys, as they
do better work He was asked toda!
how his fruit crop compared with las
0 year The early crop this year was no
as large, but the berries ripening now, !
ihe can harvest them all, will be much II
excess of the late crops of year ago
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-02
j. s. WILL SEIZE
MERCHANTSH|PS
In Connection with British
Government Will Control
Worlds Shipping
CHARTERS WILL BE
REQUISITIONED
Recent Act of Congress Authorized the
President to Commander Tonnage
for Government Uses International
Rate Schedule

WASHINGTON, August plans for
taking over for operation all American
ocean going merchantships soon will be
announced by the shipping board. Char
ters will be requisitioned under a re-
cent act Of congress, authorizing the
President to commander tonnage for
government uses The program is pre-
liminary to putting into operation an
agreement between the American and
British government for joint control OF
the world s shipping.
1t will give the shipping board con
troll of ocean freight rates, charged by
American shirs, and a rate basis being
worked out Will be used for building al
international rate schedule.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-02
SOLDIERS PASSES
FOR SUNDAY HELD UP
Hoped Co. Men May Be in Brattleboro
Sunday-Six Sets of Brothers in
Brattleboro Company.
Especial to The Reformer.)


The 1st Vermont showed up well at
the review held Tuesday. After passing
in review with the three cavalry regi-
ments, the lst Vermont again passed
the reviewing officer, Gen. Edwards, at
double time. The heat was terrific, yet
the men made the mile on the run with
out losing a man by exhaustion. Yes
tcrday General Dickman, commanding
the brigade at Fort Ethan Allen, sent for
Col. Thomas aud complimented the men
Of the regiment on their endurance and
fine spirit.
Some uncertainty exists as to what
will he required to comply with the for
mality of the draft, which ends the exis
tcncc of the 1st Vermont as national
guard unit. This uncertainty has caused
headquarters to hold up all passes for
over Sunday 1t is hoped that the sit
uation viii clear up SO that the Company
! men can be i'll Brattleboro Sunday.
Company | can boast of six sets of
brothers. They are as follows: Lieut.
K. +. Miner and Corp. H. r. Miner;
George Lane, Chester Lane and Harold
Lane; Francis A. Dunlevy and Bernard
Dunlevy; Hermon Smith and Kenneth
.. Smith; Lyndon Colby and Earl Col
by; George Marshall and Joseph Mar
shall. Two more sets of brothers made
application, but in each case one of the
brothers failed to pass the physical eX-
animation.
It is understood that detachment
will be sent ahead of the regiment to
make the camp at Charlotte, \. c. This
may mean that the third battalion may
he sent for that uurnnS.,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-02
NO MEETING OF
GUARANTORS HELD
Director Peirson of Chautauqua Unable
to Come Last Night so Expense
Question Is Undecided.

When Managing Director Pierson of
the Swarthmore Chautauqua association
left here Tuesday he had decided that
he would not be able to return last
evening 50 no meeting of the Brattle-
boro guarantors of Chautauqua was held
last night Whether the matter Will be
dropped where il is or whether DR. Peir-
son viii want to come here later to dis
cuss with the guarantorS the matter OF
their paying IA part of the expense in
CURED before the board of health pro
hibited the entertainments from being
given is not known
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-02
SHIPS For FOOD.
Norway Ready to Help United States in
Exchange for Supplies.

WASHINGTON, August Norway,
facing starvation if the United States
cuts off exports of food, is ready to re-
lease million tons of her shipping in
return for the privilege of importing
food, principally from the United States.
Dir Nansen, head of the Norwegian mis-
sion to the United States, declared here
today unreservedlv that Norway faced
privation if the United States enforced
an export embargo against her Anxious
to maintain their place in the world as a
seafaring nation, a common carrier oil
world commerce, and i'll order to get
food stutfs for themselves and keep theil
maritime flag ahoat, he said they are
willing to barter ships for food
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-02
ANOTHER RESTRAINING ORDER.
Barre Health Board Mustn't Bother
Soft Drink Men.

BARRE, August >. - Judge Stanley
G Wilson has signed a restraining order
upon the petition of Cummings & Lewis
against the local board of health for
bidding il to interfere with the petit
TONERS sale of soft drinks, ice cream
and other things to be consumed on
the premises A hearing will be held
Wednesday, August s, to ascertain why
the temperory injunction should not be
made permanent. The petitioners
claim that eating ice cream or drinking
soft drinks on the premises does not
interfere with the regulations relative
to the infantile paralysis existing in
Barre
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-02
HEAT CLAIMS BURLINGTON MAN
Joseph Forant Dies at the End of a
Hard Days Work

BURLINGTON, August ?. = Joseph
Forant, 50, was overcome by the heat
last night and died at his camp at Ethan
Allen park. He had worked hard all
day, having employment in the lumber
yard, and last evening was engaged in
loading logs and drift wood onto a
wagon to bring into the city Just as
the last pieces Of wood were loaded he
fell backwards unconscious and died in
Il few minutes.
He was the foster father of Frank
Baldwin, one of the victims of the
drowning accident in the Winooski riv
er near Ethan Allen park the night OF
July s.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-02
RATTIEBORO VERMONT, EVENING, AUGUST
STRENUOUS LIFE
SHOWN BY PERSHING
American Commander Sweeps Through
Dozen Villages Where u. S.
Troops Are Living.

AMERICAN TRAINING CAMP IN
FRANCE, August Gen Pershing gave
the American expedtionary force an ex-
ample Of the strenuous life by sweeping
through nearly a dozen villages where
nlted States soldiers are living in
France and visiting nearly all training
'centcrs which have been established from
Americas first contribution to the war
for democracy. it was not cursory in
spection that the general made He went
into minute details all along the line,
questioned private soldiers, company
cooks and various other ranks as to how
things were going with them and what,
ii anything could be done to improve
the situation.
The general also is inspecting various
places suggested for his field headQuar-
tiers, for he expects before very long to
lrcmove from Paris to be near the troops
IN training
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-02
SHOWING UP SLACKERS.
Hundreds of Letters Reach Department
of Justice

WASHINGTON, August 2.-Lettars
pouring into the department OF justice
from every section of the country at
the rate Of 100 to 200 a day, are report
ing men who failed to register for the
draft. y special corps of Investigators
aud clerks is handling the reports, for
wardlng them to the proper officials
throughout the country and recording
the results.
Thus far it has been found that the
information IN a large percentage of
the letter, has been correct and as a
result Of such voluntary aid to the gov
ernmcnt hundreds of slackcrs have been
placed on the registration roll. The
letters come from all classes of persons
some of them anonymous and large
| percentage being from women.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-02
MOTHER COON AND
LITTLE ONES CAUGHT
Results in Arrest of Peter Smart in
Newfane Hearing This After
noon in Municipal Court.

Peter Smart of Newfane wis arrested
last night by Sheriff c. Z. Mann
charged with having in his posses
sion three young coons He will be given
q hearing at Newfane late this afternoon
before Judge A. +. Cudworth States
Attorney William K. Daley will appear
for the state and Attorney \. Y. d.
Piper for the respondent
1t IS understood that young sons of
Smart cut down tree in which was the
mother coon and the thee young ones.
The boys captured the young animals
and took them home. 1t is claimed by
the state that Smart sold one of them III
| Williamsyile and two in Greenfield
Mass.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-02
BONE DRY MEASURE
WILL BE HELD UP
Prohibition Leaders of the House Will
Not Try to Get Action Until
Next December.

WASHINGTON, August ,. - National
prohibition by constitutional amendment
was hung up in the house today by the
prohibition leaders themselves The reso-
luton to submit the proposal to the states
passed yesterday 10y the senate, was put
out Of the program Tor the present ses
sion and will not come until the regular
section in December
Plans to reconvenc the Democratic eau
Gus and reverse its decision to consider
only war legislation were abandoned be
cause it was believed delaying action un
til the next session will help the pro
hlbtIon cause