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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-16
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

Mrs. George T. Albro has gone to
Schenectady for a visit.
Theodore l.. Thomas has bought q
Hudson Super Six of Il. w. Williams
Miss Mary L. White returned yes
terday from three weeks visit in
Schenectady.
There will be a regular meeting of
the Foresters Monday evening with
election of officers.
1.-THE Prima Donnas Husband" a
five act Globe feature at the Harte
Theatre today. Adv.
ST. Peters church, the Rev. Thorn
ton f.. Turner, rector. Services for
the second Sunday after Trinity. Holy
Communion, 730 a. M. Morning
Prayer and sermon. 1890 a. IN. Even
ing Prayer, o p. m.
The subject of Rev. p. l.. Dow's
sermon Sunday morning at the Metho
dist church will be Resurrection -
Sunday school at II. Epworth League
$50, Evening service 730. Pastors
subject Bags Without Holes. Strang
ers welcome, seats free.
A special business meeting of the
Woman's Voters league will be held in
the library on Wednesday evening
June 30, for the purpose of electing
delegates to the annual convention of
the Vermont Equal Suffrage associa-
ton and to contract other important
business. A large attendance is de.
sired
C. III. Dewey has bought a Saxon
Six car from the Bennington garage
for his daughter Miss Maratha Dewey.
The price of the Saxon car has been
advanced from $685. to $685., T. o. b.
Detroit. OF the 25 Saxon cars of this
years style bought by Mr. Williams
of the Bennington Garage, he has sold
all but two.
The public are cordially invited to
the services of the First Baptist
church, Rev. w. G.. Towart. pastor.
Morning worship at 1890. "Elijah's
Vision will be the theme of the SER
mon. "A chat about Flowers" will be
the subject of the Junior sermon.
School of Religion at II noon. Even
ing worship at 73O "Life's Detour"
will be the theme of the evening ser
vice. Beginning tomorrow the Junior
Department of the School of Religion
will meet at 9.15 instead of II noon
Parents are requested to cooperate
with the children in making this
change as successful as possible.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-16
100000 FOR ARMY CAMPS
Knights of Columbus Appropriate
Sum for Recreation Centres.

Knights of Columbus Appropriate
Sum for Recreation Centres.
New Haven, June 1.-THE Supreme
Board of Directors of the Knights OF
Columbus announced today the ap.
preparation of $1,O0O,00O by the order
for the establishment and mainten-
ance of recreation centres at all of
the principal army concentration
camps. This action it is said, is the
result of general appeal from mem
bers throughout the country urging
that the work inaugurated along the
Mexican border last year be continued
and enlarged to meet present condi-
tons.
"Of the million men soon to be in
concentration camps preparing for
war;" says the statement, thirty or
forty per cent. will be Catholics, many
of them members of our order
Plainly, then, our society is confronted
with the proposition of opening up
recreation centres at all of the prin-
cipal concentration camps and of fur
nishing moral and material aid, com
fort and support to our soldiers. Our
centres, of course, will be open to all,
regardless of creed or membership in
tho order.
THE Supreme Board of Directors
has appropriated $1,000,000 for the
purpose, and has issued a nationwide
appeal to our membership for contri-
buttons to this war camp fund
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-16
RUTH LAW NEAR DEATH
Airplane Takes Fire at 1000 Feet
Escapes with Slight Burns


st. Louis, June Truth Law hat
a narrow escape from death early this
evening when her gasoline tank ex
ploded and enveloped her aeroplane in
danes, 1000 feet in the air above Lex
ington, H., while en- route from st
Louis to Chicago. She saved her life
only by consummate GOODNESS and
quickness of wit.
Without a moments hesitation she
pointed the nose of her machine
straight down and descended with
such velocity that the wind blew out
the blaze. When a few hundred feet
from the ground she Strengthened the
machine out and made a safe landing
on the outskirts of Lexington. She
was uninjured, save for burns about
her face.
She decided to spend the night at
Lexington and to continue her voyage
to Chicago in the morning, If repairs
to her biplanes were completed in
tins.
The accident was witnessed by
large crowds assembled at Lexington
Scores of automobiles raced to the
spot where she landed with offers of
assistance.
Earlier in the afternoon Miss Law
had performed an audacious feat by
flying at very low altitude over the
skyscrapers of downtown st. Louis.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-16
Milk, Sweet and Eour.

Every ounce of skimmilk or whole
milk contains valuable nourishment
Use every drop of milk to drink or to
add nourishment to cereals, soups.
sauces and other foods. Remember,
too. that sour milk, buttermilk and
sour cream are valuable In cookery, so
do not waste any. Sour milk and but
termilk can be used with soda in max
ing hot breads. or sour milk can be
turned easily into cottage cheese,
cream cheese or clabber. Sour cream
is good shortening in making cakes
and cookies and useful for salad dress
;ngs and gravies for meat.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-16
Village Life In China.

Chinese village life is essentially
democratic, almost communisitc. There
are not today-have not been for CEN
turies-feudal lords or even great land
lords. 1t is country of peasant pro-
prietors, clan government, with practi-
cally all the men of middle age and
over in community having equal voice
and authority in local affairs, with land
split up smaller and more equally than
in any other country in the world.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-16
Just What She Needed

When women complain of weari-
ness. loss of strength and vitality
backache, pains in sides and hips
dull headaches, dizziness, floating
specks, and similar ailments, they too
often accept these troubles as their
lot because they are women, when the
ailments may be the results of dis
ordered kidneys. Mrs Mary V. Bunk
er. Milton-on-the-Hudson, N. Y,
writes: Il am now on my second
bottle of Foley Kidney Pills. They
seem to be just what / needed Try
them. Sold Everywhere.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-16
Revising an Old Saying.

The old saying that where there's
a will there's way still holds good.
with certain restrictions, but the mod
ern way Of doing things demands both
will and skill. The individual who pos
sesses both these virtues viii find the
road to success comparatively thorn
less.-Bakers' Weekly.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-16
Antiquity of Tennis.

Tennis is as old as the hills, basic.
ally speaking, though it has undergone
many changes for the better. 1t was
played by the Greeks and Romans un
der the names of "sphairisis" and
''pila." AS ''paume" it is mentioned in
the Arthurian romances and in the
earlier records of the dark ages. In
the fifteenth century it enjoyed great
favor in France and in England from
the sixteenth century to the present
time.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-16
poina Your Duty.

Those who do it always would as
soon think of being conceited of eating
their dinner as of doing their duty.
What honest boy would pride himself
on not picking a pocket? A thief who
was trying to reform would.-George
Macdonald.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-16
Contradictory.

what did Blank say about me-"
THAT you owed him SO"
"Why the lying scoundrel! Well, he
can just whistle for his money now. /
won't pay him one cent till get good
and ready.-Boston Transcript.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-16
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

FOR SALE-Several pieces of fur.
niture including an antique sofa, bed
and bed room furniture, extension
table. carpet, etc. Apply George
Grant, SO West Main street. 1867
FOR SALE-2O, 900 Danish and Sue
cession cabbage plants. j. H. Peters,
North Bennington. 1St.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-16
A HousehoId Jewel.

SIS your new maid competent?"
VERY. She can even fool agents
and peddlers into believing that she's
mistress of the house" = Pittsburgh
Press
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-16
January Wheat Crops.

Only two countries, Chile and New
Zealand, usually harvest their wheat
crops III January.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-16

What profiteth it man If he corner
all the gold ON earth but lose the love
Of his own brother?
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-16

Tho man with one single idea isn't so
bad IL the idea is big enough.--Phila-
delphia Record.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-16

Life doesn't consist in playing good
hand, but in playing poor hand well.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-16
Activity of the Tongue.

Nobody's tongue is still for moment
at all events, in waking hours. The
tongue is the most necessarily active Of
all the body's members.
We think OF the tongue as an organ
of speech, but it is also an organ Of
feeling When one cats it is constantly
feeling about In the mouth and deciding
out of its own mind" what particles
of food are small enough or too big to
swallow.
Yes, indeed, the tongue has mind OF
its own-a ganglion or minor brain
that is busy at mealtimcs in regulating
the supply Of food to the stomach. But
for its unceasing guardianship we
should suffer much oftener than we do
from the distresses Of indigestion.
We think of the finger ends as our
most sensitive organs Of feeling. They
are not such at all. The end of the
tongue is incomparably more deli
cate and discriminating Philadelphia
Ledger.
Forethought Is the best accident In
surance.
He makes a great gain who loses
bad habit.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-16
Forethought is the best accident In
sllrance,

He makes great gain who loses a
bad habit.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-11-29

SENATOR Georges Clemenceau, who
has been the greatest critic Of the
war, and the most feared editor in
France, has become premier. He is
the most interesting of the many men
to have held the position during the
war, and the world is anxious to learn
If he can handle the French situation.
He is seventy-six years of age, but as
vigorous as most men Of less than
sixty. This is due to his care Of him
self.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-11-29

has decided to parley with the Ger
mans on peace. Krylenko announced
his ENJOYS have returned from the
German lines bearing the German
commander in chiefs official consent
to negotiate an armistice over the en-
tire front. The envOys entered the
German lines on the fifth army front.
Immediately after the opening of ne
gotiations Krylenko ordered an i'm
mediate cessation Of all fighting. He
proclaimed General Dukhonin peo-
pies enemy. Dukhonin and all his
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-11-29

ing back of saVagery and the result
OF a cog slipped in the plan Of civ
llization will be developed in picture
sque photopIay "Bluebird Day at
the Pastime theatre today when Ruth
Clifford arrives to present rupert
Julian's production '"The Savage
There is abundant evidence in these
five acts Of drama that civilization
may not he absolutely depended upon
to run true to its mission. There IS
a big question advanced and solved
in THE Savage''-and mighty good
photoplay entertainment. as well.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-11-29
RUSS QUIT FIGHT
ON ALL FRONTS
(ContInued from Page IL
ParIcying over Peace.

PETROGRAD, Nov 29.-Gt is re-
ported the entire Russian fifth army
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-11-29

ARMY. She did not see Secretary
Baker to-day. and he would not say
how he views the proposal to commits
sion her.
She is very much in earnest, and
after filing her application she said
IF I am successful and am order
ed to France, ! will take my husband
tCharies Oliver,l who is experienced
in the construction and repair of air
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-11-29

flight record and has participated in
Liberty Loan drives by dropping
bombs in many cities. she wore
to-day a regulation officers uniform
UNDER special permission said to have
been granted by the War Department.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-11-29

planes. and two expert mechanics.
was in France for six months and
made numerous flights over the
trenches and observation flights with
British and French officers. l have
teen flying since 1912 SO there can
q no doubt as to my %perience.
She holds the American nonstop
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-11-29

Starting with a surprise attack
Tuesday, Nov. %, the third British
army. in a two day battle. plunged
forward toward Cambria for the big
gest gain of any single action on the
western front. More than dozen
towns and villages and many thou
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-11-29
CHAIRMAN NAMED
FOR RED CROSS WORK
CONTINUED from Page 1.)

part of the burden, but it is now plan
ned to enlist the services of a great
many others.
The auXiliaries over the county will
he organized in the same way that
the chapter is so that each branch of
the work will have definite heads in
each community.
Through Postmaster Tweedy a mes
sage was sent to Federal Judge VOL
Verton last night asking for the use of
the federal court room during the
winter as Red Cross headquarters, the
present quarters in the library being
too cold. Secretary r. w Ritner will
have his headquarters in the front Of
flee of the American National Bank.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-11-29
RUTH LAW WANTS
To Fly FOR L.
Asks for Army Commission and Her
Wish is to he sent to
rance.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 29-Ruth
Law. the aviatriX, is here seeking "a
commission as a flyer in the American
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-11-29

sands of prisoners have already been
taken, with the British still pressing
on. The insert map shows (l) the
British drive at Cambria, CD scene OF
rretentious French attack at Car
onne, and go the Nerdun sector,
where lively fighting is also reported.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11
News Ads Gets Results.
Try it and be onvinced
Administrators Sale

By virtue of an order of the court
of Ordinary of Mitchell county, Geor-
gia, will be sold at public cutlery on
the first Tuesday in January, 1918,
at the court house in said county of
Mitchell, between the usual hours of
sale the following real estate, to wit:
All that four hundred and three
and one-half acres of land, more or
less, lying in one body in the Fourth
(4th) land district of Terrell county,
Georgia, described in the plan of
said district as follows: all of lot of
land No 294, containing 2021z acres,
more or less; also all that POI acres
of land lot No. 293, the same being
all of said lot except that one and
one-half acres in the shape of an ell,
on which is located the NJ. E. Grove
colored church in or near the south
east corner of said lot. Terms cash
This December 4, 1917.
MRS. M. L. BRIM, Administrative
of A. L. Brim.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11

cies OF reinsurance are exempt.
A tax of cents is levied on each
original issue of certificates of stock,
either on organization or re-organi-
zatlon of face value of 500 or frac-
tion. To meet the practice in some
states of issuing stock without face
value, it is specified that the tax shall
De lad on the actual value if there
is no face value.
For drafts of checks payable other
than at sight or on demand. and for
promlssory notes and their renewal,
the tax Is 2 cents for each 500 or
traction. Ordinary bank checks are
not taxable.
neatly conveyance and deeds are
taxed 80 cents where the value of
the interest conveyed is between
SIOO and $500, and so cents for
each additional $500 or fraction.
Before any parcel post packages
may be accepted by postoffice it
must bear, in addition to the regular
postage, revenue stamps amounting
to l cent for % cents postage or
fraction.
The entry of goods at customs
house for consumption or warehouse
ing is taxable 25 cents when the val
ue IS not more than 800; SO cents
when the value is between 500 and
5000, and 81 when the value ex-
ceeds $500.
Passage tickets to transatlantic,
South American or other ports not in
the United States, Canada or Mexi-
co are taxed according to a sliding
scale running from 81 on tickets
costing between $40 and $50, to SIS
for tickets costing more than $50.
Proxies for voting at any meeting
except of religious, charitable, fra
ternal, educational or literary organ
izations, must bear ten cent revenue
stamps. For power of attorney
the tax is 25 cents. In addition to
the old tax of cents on playing
cards, a new levy of 5 cents a pack
is imposed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11
New Stamp Taxes to Help
Fay for Licking the Germans

Onder the documentary war stamp
tax, to which reference has already
been made in The News, and which
has just gone into effect. revenue
stamps must be affixed to bonds of
indemnity or Indebtedness, capital
stock issues stock transfers. nro-
duce sales on exchanges, drafts.
promissory notes conveyances and
deeds, customs house entries, steam
ship tickets, proxies, assignments of
power of attorney, playing cards and
parcel post packages. None is reouir-
ed on checks.
All stamps are sold by postofRces
except those for stock transfers and
produce sales which are distributed
through revenue collectors. Millions
or dollars In receipts are expected to
reach the treasury from this source.
On capital stock transfers. from
which the government expects to
drive a large revenue, and which will
fall heavily on stock exchanges, the
tax is cents for each $1OO or frac-
ton of the face value. Stamps are
to be affixed to the stock books, not
to the certificate of sale or exchange.
For produce sales on exchanges the
tax is 2 cents for $1OO of value of
the merchandise covered by the
agreement and stamps are to be affix-
ed to the memorandum or bill of sale.
Bonds of indebtedness are taxed S
cents for each 500 of face value or
fraction and renewals are taxed as
new issues.
Indemnity and surety bonds are
subject to tax of so cents or / per
cent. of the premium charged for the
execution of the bond. Bonds or poll
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11
EXPLOSION KILLED
FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE
AWFUL DESTRUCTION OF LIFE
AND PROPERTY WHEN MU-
NITIONS SHIP EXPLODED.

HALIFAX.-More than 5000 per-
sons persisted in the explosion and
fire which followed the collision yes
terday morning in Halifax harbor
between a munitions-laden French
ship and another vessel loaded with
supplies for the Belgian relief COM
mission.
Residents of Halifax and thou
sands of volunteer relief workers
who have come into the city have
been almost dazed at the extent Of
the horror.
Temporary morgues have been es-
tablished in many buildings, to which
a steady procession of vehicles of
of all kinds have been carrying for
hours the bodies of men, women and
children. Most of them were so CHAIR
ed that they were unrecognizabie.
Thousands of persons seeking
trace of relatives and friends have
passed by the long, silent rows, at
tempting, by the Pickering lights of
lamps and lanterns, to identify the
ones they sought
Doctors Work BY Light of Fires.
The city was in darkness tonight
except for the flames from the fires
still burning in the wrecked build
;ngs in the north end. The electric
light and gas plants have been viz
tually DESTROYED and the only lights
available are kerosene lamps.
The fame-swept area covers ap-
proximately two and a half square
miles.
The Richmond school that housed
hundreds of children was demolished,
and it is reported only three escap-
ed. Canadian officers who have seen
long service in France characterize
the catastrophe as the most fearful
which has befallen any city in the
world"
Virtually all the north end of the
city was laid waste, and the proper
ty damage will run far into the mil
lions. A part of the town of Dart
mouth, across the harbor from Hall
fax, also was wrecked. Nearly all
the buildings in the dock yard there
are in ruins.
Felt IS Miles Away.
The force of the explosion was
felt at Truro, seventy-five miles
away, where windows were shatter-
ed. All telegraph and telephone wires
were torn down and for several hours
Halifax was completely isolated from
the outside world.
The munition ship was bound from
New York for Bedford basin when
the relief ship Iona, bound for sea,
crashed into her.
The Mont Blanc was pierced or
the port side almost to the engine
room. The other ship, which was
only slightly damaged, backed away
when flames burst out of the NUM-
tons ship, and was abandoned by
the crew.
It's harbor, one of the most spacl-
Gus in the world, is large enough to
float the entire British navy and is
strongly fortified. In addition to the
Notifications, there is a government
dock yard containing an immense
drydock
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11
MOST ANCIENT JOKE
CREDITED TO ADAM
AND IT'S STILL WITH US, IN VA
RIOUS DISCUSSES. IT'S A
UNSTABLE OLD THING.

We believe that in the Garden of
Eden Adam gave Eve a rose in ex-
change for kiss. And she shudder-
ed and said: Ugh! There's a spider
on the rosep And he answered:
We'll, what do you expect for one
stingy little kiss-an ichthyosaurus? ?"
We believe that to be the oldest
joke in the world-older than the
goat, the mother-in-law or any that
are supposed to be included in the
original seven, says well-known
vaudeville comedian. In varying
forms one finds it in the Talmud, in
Plautus, in Aesop, in Rabelais, in Joe
Miller, in all the almanacs and comic
papers.
When we were boy it was told in
a minstrel show thus: A man buys a
suit of clothes at a second hand store
He comes back and complains that
the coat is inhabited by unpleasant
insects. And the dealer says: "Vell,
vot do you exbect fer Swimming
berds?"
Vaudeville knows it in this form :
Tenant-"LOok here, you'll have to
make some repairs in this house. The
cellar is full of water" Landlord
well, what do you expect for SIS
month-champagne?"
And just recently we ran across
our old friend again in weekly
comic paper This time a passenger
on a street car calls down the con-
ductor for not calling the names OF
the streets distinctly. And the con-
ductor replies: "Well, what do you
expect for $14 a week-a tenor
solo?"
Lastly: A few days ago we ran
version of the old thing in this col
umn. We cut its hair, trimmed its
whiskers and fitted it with a new suit,
but we could not disguise it complete
ly. When you run across it in any
of its costumes send US clipping
will you? We are making collection
of that Joke.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11
WOULD USE PRISON LABOR
TO MAKE WAR SUPPLIES
SenatorSmith Has Bill Along Line of
England and Canada.

WASHINGTON, d. CA bill in
PRODUCED by Senator Hoke Smith, of
Georgia, has for its purpose to make
possible the utilization of prison la
Dor in the manufacture of war sup
plies and for other public work de-
barred by law
The plan proposed is along the
lines of those already developed by
Great Britain and Canada under
which prisoners are LONG their hit
to help win the wa.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11
For Administration.

Georgia, Terrell County.-To all
whom it may concern: Mrs. Florence
Grimes having. in proper form APP
piled to me for permanent letters of
administration on the estate Of j. P.
Grimes, late of said county, this is
to cite all and singular the creditors
and next of kin of ]. P. Grimes to
be and appear at my Office within
the time allowed by law, and show
cause, if any they can, why perma-
nent administration should not be
granted to Mrs. Florence Grimes on
J. P. Crimes estate. Witness my
hand and official signature, this 26th
day of November, 1917.
L. C. HOYL, Ordinary.