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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-28
PERU

Do not forget to license your dog
on or before April first
Several have been suffering from
severe colds the past week.
The measles have about run their
course. The last family to have them
is c. A. Prouty's and they are all re-
covering at present
Snow is going fast for few days
Sugaring is well under way. Robins
and blue birds have arrived. Roads
are pretty soft.
Mrs. John Russell and daughter
and her sister, Miss Addie Lakin have
returned from their home in Water
Vile. Maine where they have spent
several months
Friends of Mrs. D. X Millington
will be glad to know that her mother,
Mrs Jones, who has been very i'll at
her home in Chicago, is improving
and Mrs. Millington expects to return
to her home here soon.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-28
donderry for a few days.

donderry for few days
Ralph DEMO and two children of
Bristol are visiting relatives here.
Miss Hazel Brooks of the Castleton
Normal school is home for her Easter
vacation.
Mrs. Clara Paddock is stopping at
the home of Charles Phillips for
few days.
Farmers have tapped their sugar
orchards and report good quality OF
syrup this year
Mrs. Elizabeth Wildwood has gone
to Pawlet to visit her daughter, Mrs.
George Gallup.
Mr. and Mrs. Simon Adams were
Sunday guests in Pawlet at the home
of Ned Haskins.
Mrs. f. P. Lewis and daughters
we're Sunday guests of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Towslee, of
Pawlet
School opens here April End after
two weeks vacation. The teacher,
Miss Jane Williams, is passing her
vacation with her parents In Rutland.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-28
WEST SALISBURY

Wendal Mattison was weekend
guest OF his parents.
Truman Amidon was in Albany
on business Monday.
]. G. Huntington attended an auc-
ton in Pownal Tuesday
Mrs. Eliza Millington was recent
visitor of Mrs. II. A. Niles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Reed spent
Sunday at Charles Braytons.
Miss Bessie Amidon is spending a
weeks vacation with her parents.
Miss Nellie Hunton of Williams
town spent the week end with Miss
Bessie Niles.
MIR. and Mrs. Harlow Tinkham and
Ruth Brown we're Sunday visitors at
II. N. Dyer's.
Ethel Montgomery and Elsie Har-
rington were Sunday visitors of Mrs.
Rollin Mattison.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Madison are re-
joicing over the birth of a son
Laurence Elmer born March 22
Mrs. Andrew Niles has returned
from the Samaritan hospital for a
few days, she will return Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bronson and
son spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Raymond Elwell OF East Arlington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merritt Hewitt and
daughter spent Sunday at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hewitt of
Hoosick.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-28
NORTH BENNINGTON

Hugh Mattison is i'll with measles
Arthur Stewart is sick with the
grip
Miss Florence White has the
measles.
Mrs. F. T. Burgess has returned to
her home in Burlington.
Mrs r. II. Mattison has been CON
fined to the house by illness.
Mrs. F. L, Houghton of Bennington
visited friends in town Monday.
Burt Colvin has returned from
spending a week in New York city.
Edward Austin attended 1.-THE funer-
al OF his brother. Seymour Austin in
Hoosick Falls, Saturday.
Mrs. Frank Hart Of North Adams is
spending a week with her husband
who is employed in town
Mr. and Mrs James Kelley and son
Frank and Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
LaFlamme and two children of Ben
nington were Sunday guests of Mr.
and Mrs. William Colvin
The annual meeting of the North
Bennington free library association
will be held at the library Wednesday
evening March %, at O'clock TO
transact the following business: To
hear and dispose OF the reports of the
officers for the past Year. and to elect
officers for the ensuing year. presi-
dent, treasurer and secretary and two
ladies and one gentleman TO serve as
trustees for three years. To transact
any other proper and necessary bust
ness. Mrs. F. d. Ranney, secretary.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-28
EAST ARLINGTON

Harold Blair spent Monday in Ben
nington-
Mrs. Hiram Brown spent Tuesday
in Bennington.
Mrs. Nellie Bromley spent Monday
in Bennington
NJ. Cole and daughter, Dora, spent
Tuesday in Bennington.
Mrs. Robert Parkinson left Tuesday
evening for the Samaritan hospital.
Mrs. Sara Budro and Miss Stella
Shevelyn visited in Bennington Mon
day.
Miss Mabel T. Winch and Mrs. H..
R. Lawrence spent Monday in Ben
nington.
Myron Cole, who has been spending
q few days in South SALISBURY, re-
turned home Monday.
The pupils from here who attend
the North Bennington high school
are having their Easter vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Stafford of Auburn,
Maine, are visiting the formers par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. George Stafford.
Miss Lura Dennison of Castleton
Normal school is spending her vaca-
ton with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest .Dennison.
Miss Mary Hard, who has been
spending few days in South Shafts
bury with her brother, William Hard
returned home Monday.
several clubs. Among the important
ones are the poultry, canning. sewing
corn and potato club. Mr.. Whittier
and Miss Preo are directing the work
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-28
CLERK RUN DOWN
Restored To Health BY vinoI

Shelbyville, Ind.-"l am clerk in
a hotel and was all run down, no
energy, my blood was poor and my
face covered with pimples. got so
weak | had to put up an awful fight
to keep at work. After taking many
other remedies without benefit Vinol
has restored my health and strength
Roy f. Bird,
For all rundown, weak, nervous
conditions of men and women, moth
ing equals Vinol which contains beef
and cod liver peptones, iron and man
ganese peptonates and glycerophos-
plates Try it on our guarantee.--W.
l.. Gokay. Druggist. Bennington, also
at the Leading Drug Stores in all Yer
mont towns.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-28

tint, eyes heavy and dull, twitching
eyelids, itching of the nose, itching Of
the rectum, short dry cough, grinding
of the teeth, little red points sticking
out on tongue, starting during sleep,
slow fever.
For over SO years Dr. True's Elixir,
the Family Laxative and Worm Elk.
peller, has heen the standard remedy
for worms, stomach disorders and
constipation, both for children and
adults. Mr.. VIM. l.. Wylie of Hous-
ton Texas, writes: Il want to say
that DR.. True's Elixir is certainly a
fine medicine At all dealers, Soc,
Soc and $1.00.
3 $ Il: : ! ''i 81 ay}f &~D'.
Auburn, Maine.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-28
He Saw Il.

There was a terrible accident at our
house last night" said a wag. "As was
citing in the dining room happened TO
ooS out, and saw the kitchen sink
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-28
Diseases of Children

find worms one of the most com
mon of children's diseases-either pin.
worms or stomach worms. These
parasites make their presence felt
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-28

through deranged stom-
ach, swollen upper lip,
sour stomach, offensive
breath, hard and full belly
with occasional gripings
and pains about the ma
val, pale face of leaden
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-28

Let us not burden our remembrance
with a heaviness that's gone
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-28
NORTH RUPERT

Miss Rosa Brooks was home over
Francis Leach is visiting in Lon
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-28
Is Bennington
Patriotic :?

Fifty calls for tenements in two days received by
single real estate agent Bennington recently and
cry one Of them had to be refused
manufacturing plant that wanted to locate in Ben
nngon last fall and which would have employed sixty
at the start obliged &C elsewhere because there
houses here for the employees.
If Bennington is to go ahead in business; if property
values here are to increase if the grow and ad
vance, advantage be taken Of opportunity We need
houses Are you willing to do your share?
The committee whose signed to this adver-
tement represent the Board Of Trade effort to sell
shares SIS each in local stock company build houses
in Bennington Every fairly prosperous citizen Of the vii
lage of Bennington ought to take at least share and
those who should take
The investment will be absolutely Renting
property in Bennington pays profit moderate but
The money invested is just safe though were in
government bonds and the thing that will appeal that it
is for the benefit of our town Of Bennington
Be ready to subscribe when you called on by 9.
member Of this committee:
W. J. RANDLES
JOHN NASH,
FRED C. MARTINI
w. H. NICHOLS
Patriotism means TO support and upbuild
your home tOWn just as much as ID means
TO fight for il
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-17

take charge Of the advertising col.
umns Of the press, and this Is only
beginning. The worst 10 yet to come
and the press OF the country may Is
we'll prepare for 1t. The abject sur
render OF the news columns of the
press to these propa gandists led as
naturally as night follows day to the
assumption that with that surrender
went kind Of proprietary interest In
the advertising columns also.
The surrender In the first instance
had been SO extremely abject, the
spirit OF toadyism 20 servilc. that II
10 not strange II the regulators pre-
sumed that no demand they might
make would be refused. Under al the
circumstances this presumption was
both natural and justified. Now that
the hand out OF which the great Amer
lean press has been feeding It's news
and editorial columns takes q vigorous
slap at the business ofllce. there 10
"wailing and gnashipg OF teeth"
throughout all the land.-Ohio Valley
Times.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-17
FANATlClSM

We are not progressing, but turn
ing backward. when congress under.
takes to say whether man shall
read q newspaper In which an adver.
tissment OF liquor Ia published, and TO
cay that a man must go to the peni'
ssntiary II he fails to live up 10 the
prescribed code Of morality. A long
time ago In England there were laws
under which many petty offenses
we're punishable by death. Shall we
have In the future law under which
. man may be hanged, drawn and
CHARTERED for smoking cigarette
And in . period In which few persons
actually are punished, and fewer ade
auatsly punished, for murder? A diff
iersnce In the form Of government
not TO be overlooked. Is that In thii
country and In this age the people
0ovsrn. The people may be. occa
aiOuxlly. fanatical. but there Is hop,
tor the same In the fact that fanati
oism 10 not permanent condition
Louisvills Courier Journal.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-17
the "BONE.DRY" LAW WILL
MAKE ALABAMA
:" "WET"
SAYS 4 LEGISLATOR
Representative Henry Merritt
Is Sure Reaction will Fol.
low Plan For Turning State
I Into a Desert - Declares
Congress Is "hog Wild

III bone dry law Is enacted In
Alabama. good bye prohibition said
Henry Merritt, representative from
Macon county In the Legislature and
chairman of the temperance commit.
10 In that body.
Mr.. Merritt reached Montgomery by
automobile from Tuskegee Thursday
afternoon and the chilling freezes en-.
eountered on the way made him think
about the times when one could find
something more warming than a
oteam radiator at the Gay league
hotel where he is staying.
Enough Dry Laws.
I'VE have enough prohibition laws"
eaid the gentleman from Macon.
"What we now need is more law en-.
Sorcement. To pass a law shutting
out the importation OF liquor entirely
from Alabama would bring about re-
action. sure. that would have the same
effect as the prohibition amendment
voted on In 1909. It was that word
forever In that amendment that
helped to defeat II.
"There are great many prohibi
lionists In this state who do not wish
90 see Alabama bone dry am not
one OF those prohibtionists that drink
one way and vote the other, but there
are enough Of that kind to make abso
lute prohibition politically unpopular
here.
Congress hog-Wlld.
Congress seems to have gone NOR,
'Aog-wild' on the subject than thu
latest Alabama legislature was eve
accused OF being. We could not have
been induced to go as far as thu
senate went today when that bod!
made II q crime to even order whisk!
20 be shipped into dry state
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-17
QUOTES BISHOP
|. ON PROHIBITION
LAWYER Takes Issue with
Preacher Who Voices DRY"
Views In Lenten Sermon

+ Attorney Henry Probsaco has sens
shs following letter to the hev'
oeerss w. Gunnell, who is deliver
aas MONDAY addresses at the LYRIC
lhis week:
I hoard you at the Lyric Theater ..
the MONDAY services. and touchins
vhat you have to say In relation 10
srohibition, ] want 70 offer very can
hid criticism. A few mouths ago i
wrote a letter to 3ishop feths' IN
which expressed generai'; my cri.f
aisu OF prohibition, to which TaceiV'
Cd the reply In which he said:
"Yss, entirely az. Sc with you
abou. prohibition temperance
Nv all means support 1t yourself ahd
urge II upon others. It Is SELF con-
troll But prohibition is exterior con-
tro, and Liberty cries aloud, have less
and less of that entreat, rather tnah
more and more Of 1t, as civiiizsuoh
and progress advance"
I was surprised to hear you advo-
cate tho use of force" to obtain pro-
hibition. For everyone who believes
In the Golden Rule repudiatss the at
tempt TO make good. honest or sober
By force"
p. ST. and my family are Episco'
psiisns.-Cincinnati CO., Timss'G'ar.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-17

And now Prohibitionists. in confer
sncs in Chicago, in addition to not
liking John Barleycorn. don't approve
C The scant garb of the Goddess Of
Liberty on Uncle Sans new silver
quarters. Frances Beauchamp. secre
tary of the party's national commit
tee, declares: There is plenty OF
room for more clothes on the figure.
I DO not approve Of its nudity" Mrs.
Virgil Hinshaw, wife OF the national
chairman, said the government evil
IDENTIFY wished to have the figure "in
style by putting SO few clothes on
hsr."e
oh me! oh my!
And we'll bet a big red apple
against last years birds nest that
not one person in fifty who has re
ceived or seen this new coin has even
noticed whether it bears the figure oi
Liberty or of an eagle, or whether
Liberty Is clothed and in her righ
mind, dressed for the ballroom, OF
In the altogether.
Some folks are so intent upon be
ing shocked that they remind one o
the fastidious females who objected
to the col swimmin' hole" being 81
near their home, and who continues
to object to II after It had been re
moved half mile further dow
stream because they could still Sc
it-with spy glasses. Mansfield %.
News.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-17

1T LOSES LIQUOR ADS
Many Papers, Through Fear Surrendered News Columns
To Prohibition, But Now the Business Office
Is Being Hit, and-It Hurts

-he howl going up from the press
all over the country because OF the
move to deprive them Of wet" adver-
Using Is both amusing and instructive.
The proposed Russianizing OF the
press is merely the coming home to
roost OF that fine large fowl OF fanati'
cism which the press at the dictation
Of the Anti-Saloon League has helped
to raise.
This chicken of magnificent proper
tions seems to be crowding the cash
register on the press home roost,
hence the frantic howls from the bust
ness office. The press Of the country
has been and still 10 subsidized
through fear, and added to this lack
OF courage, this cowardics, has been
the base and ignoble idea that hypo.
critical pandering to- this element
would be profitable.
Censorship 10 Coming.
The press has catered to that cam
paign. to that spirit which has made
possible and inevitable this move TO
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-17
WEST vlRolnIA NAY va,

The statement was mad. }
ItlcIans, recortIy, that WI
ginia and Iowa already ~
Of prohibition. This Ia bo,l
by the following dispateA|
Wheeling to the clnclon,,
quirer:
Senator B. J. Rosenblo,
Ohio county, who Is at HON
during a recess Of the leols
will ask during the present
that the wet and dry ques,lo,
be suomitted to the peopIs
next election, two years |
"The two years OF prohlbnld
been farees, declared the 4
and I believe the psopls
have the right to vote on n
ter again."
Fellow. in an Associated
dispatch from Charleston \
reason why West Virginia |
Of IL:
"a bill aimed to etop thd
tatlon Of Intoxicating lluvl
the State was todcy irtrsd
the West Virginia seri
House Of Delegates. The bI
make Il a misdemesnor for
sen TO bring into the Sta
than ore quart Of intoSics
uor during a period Of thl'
Common carriers KNOWN
mittlng a violation of the :
be table to a f,nc CT not
s2cO. since West Virginia
prohibition State, large Q
Of ltoaors have been hroI
the State from Maryland
tucty, special trains hay
run for that purpose on
ths, railroads"
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-17
OUR coNGREssioNAL FAL.
STAFFS.

The day may yet arrive when any
actor daring to appear ~ Falstam
or any other blbulous character on
an American stage will bs hailed to
court In short order and lnearesrat-
cd In q Federal prison on the charge
Of cerruptins the public morale.
A. Congress has passsd . law pro-
hIbItIns circulation through the
malls Of any publication containing
an Advertisement of alcoholic
liquors the next step, logically. will
be for u TO pin the white ribbon
on the thsatsr.
And of course Demon Rum Will
bs chased on the movie screen. No
moro will the comedians, se-eaiisd.
In basgy brssehss and slapstIek
shoes bssmsar each other with the
wedding cake astsr having drained
the nuptlai wine straight from the
bottle. Those thrilling scenes from
the Wild West nlms In which Red
Ness Pete and Deexy elil sheet up
the Palace Dance HALL astsr I'm.
blbIno freely % 10 warse will b
dsletsd carefully BY the esneere.
And vlsws ef the mountain moon.
shIner In his romantic habitat will
b barred absolutely. -
out while oil thls rsvlslne % the
morale o. the country 10 going On
will the blsek bettiee IN ne Cen.
erssslonai aNtsreems - dralRed
"bons dry~ rhst's the lmoertant
eusstleH.-Nsw verk gveniaO ova.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-28

Mrs Shirley Tate, who was
Miss Willie Benton and who has
lived with her mother, Mrs.
Linda Benton, in Oklahoma, since
Mr.. Tate's death, has joined the
Red Cross a, a nurse and expects
to 60 TO France soon.
Mrs. Arthur WalIin died at her
home III Cclum bus. Ohio, Tuesday
from cancer. She had been Suf
fering from this for some months
aud had several operations with
out a cure. The husband, who is
a Rock castle county Goy, and the
family, have the deepest sympa-
thy of host of friends and rela-
tives in this county.
Mis-. NJ {. Williams and son,
John Hig of Somerset, and sis
ter, Mrs. Sam Hooker, of Russell
vile, who used to be Miss Nan
Kennedy came Wednesday to
spend a few days with Mt. Yer
non relatives and friends. John
HIg Williams expects to leave In
next month for France as mem
Der Of the Hospital Corps.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-28

Willis Mckenzie and party re-
turning from Lexington last
night must evidently found the
grade between here and Brod-
head rough sailing. At s O'Clock
last night they reached the Shafer
hill ) miles west of town, where
they ibung up. At ii O'Clock
Herbert Cox, Hyatt Crawford
and Lige CumminS started in a
Ford to pull .them in. They got
a little beyond Gus Staverson's
when the "jitney'' sank to the
axle in the grade and there the
relief corps had to stop. Leaving
the car the boys walked the rest
of the way. On reaching the
belated party they found Messrs
Mckenzie and Thompson occu-
plying both seats of the car
peacefully sleeping while Mrs.
Mckenzie was performing senti
mel duty. Fred McFerron and
Wilburn Miller had walked to
town earlier in the might to bring
the message and seud the relief
crew. The party reached Mt.
Vernon in safety at $50 A. M.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-28
EXPERIENCE THE BEST
TEACHER.

1t is generally admitted that
experience is the best teacher,
but should we not make use of
the experience of othert as well
as our OWL? The experience of
a thousand persons is more to
be depended upon than that of
one individual. Many thousands
of persons have used Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy for coughs
with the best results, which
shows it to be thoroughly re-
liable preparation for those di-
seases. Try it. 1t is prompt
and effectual and pleasant to
take.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-28
=. Red Cross Notes T.

The people of Disputanta say
they will support1our chap
ter with work and money. The
people in this vicinity are
patriotic, and Rockcastle 81 Guild
be proud that this vicinity is with
in her borders.
The Wilde aud Conway section
are willing to do their mite and
the Knitting Club is showing
good work.
The knitting Club of Mt. YER
non meet each Monday night and
talk. Many new hands are now
plying the needles.
Every body who has work com
pleted is asked to bring or send
same in before MOnday evening,
October 1st, as the Chapter wishes
to make a shipment some time
during next week.
Livingston people tell US they
are ready to do their mite in Red
Cross work and We hope to be
able 10 oblige them with call
October 1st. These people always
do things with might and main
We think knitting needles have
already been brought from the
garnet and placed on the mantle
to be ready for the call to arms
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-28
OIL NEWS.

George P. MuIrin and Lee
Shafer, of Parker Sburg, Va, are
getting ready to sink we'll in the
vicinity of Johnetta.
Mr.. Rowland, who has been do.
ing the drilling for H. S. Shafer
will either move his machinery to
Bowling Green or Winchester
just as Soon as he completes the
well he is now drilling. He eX-
poets to be able to go by the last
of next week.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-28

For SALE: The splendid build,
ing lot belonging to J. M. Craig
and joining w. G. McBee's prop
erty. This is the most desirable
vacant lot on Main street and as
Mr.. Craig has recently bought
farm, he will offer this lot at
bargain if sold at once. If you
want the best building lot in the
town and for less money than
you will ever be able to bay at
in the future, now is the time Ito
speak. For further information
call at the Signal office.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-28
PEOPLE SPEAK WELL OF
CHAMBERLAIN'S TABLETS,

81 have been selling Cham
berlain's Tablets for about two
years and heard such good re-
ports srom my customers that l
concluded to give them a trial
myself, and can say that l do
not believe there is another pre-.
paration of the kind equal to
them" writes G A Mcbride.
Headford, Ont. If you ere trou.
bled With indigestion or con-
stipation give them a trial. They
will do You food.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-28

Rev. J. w. Riddle will preach
at Pine Hill Sunday morning at
IL o'clock.