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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-08-16
EXTRA

The Red Cross workers of this city
made a strenuous attack on muslin
and outing flannel Monday at the
workroom, the Christian Science
church which has been fitted up with
all the necessities, and while the work
has been called off for the rest of
this week on account of Chautauqua,
which started Wednesday afternoon,
it will commence again next Monday
in dead earnest and each day will be
a busy one for some time to come.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Bintner Sr.,
went to Carroll Saturday where they
visited friends until Monday when
they came to Audubon, and DR.. and
Mrs. w. H. Halloran brought them
on to their home here and they spent
a few hours with Mrs. Halloran' S
mother, Mrs. Alice Commardy and
enjoyed dinner with her.
DR.. C. ]. Graf, wife and little
daughter, went to Harlan Sunday aft
ernoon to visit his people over Sun
day. They expect to leave for Colo
RADIO in about week or ten days
where they will make their future
home.
Merle Owens had the misfortune
to have his little finger taken OH
between the second and middle joint
Friday in the planning mill. He is
getting along as well as can be eX-
pected, but suffers quite a bit OF
pain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Worth Hartzall au.
toed to Indianola Tuesday to spend 9
few days looking for a suitable house
to rent. They expect to move at the
opening of the college year so theil
sons can attend the Simpson college
Wylie has been there the past year.
George Voss has received call to
report at Des Moines for duty Aug. %
and is busy this week getting ready
to leave, getting his business affair:
settled up and preparations made fol
the finishing of his contracting work
Mrs Chester Houch and little
daughter of Dexter, Iowa, and Ms
Edith .--..-..-.----....-- and two little
daughters of Arrapahoe, Oklahoma
spent several days here this weel
visiting old friends and neighbors.
The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs
w. E. Varney was brought home one
day last week from the Atlantic hes
ment for skin disease.
Mrs. Ben Voss went out in Audubon
township Saturday and visited ovel
Sunday with her relatives.
j. B. Lohner stepped on a rust!
nail last week that gave him quite /;
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-08-16
WILKERSON SPOKE IN GRISWOLD

j. n. Wilkerson, of Villisca MUIR
der fame, spoke in the opera house
in this city Thursday last to quite a
number of people who learned that
he was 10 be here earlier in the day.
lie delivered the same scathing re-
Duke of the Jones family and certain
state officials as he has done at many
other meetings held in different parts
OF southwestern Iowa. Just what he
expects to gain by his line of talk
and the questions he asks one is left
to guess. To one who has no inter-
est III the case it looks as if he was
grand standing. Could he run down
the guilty parties by his talk people
would have faith in him, but to many
II looks as if he had run his course
or usefulness and was now in the
same class as the average |. w. W.
an agitator.-Griswold American.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-08-16

lot of trouble and he had to have the
aid of crutches to get around, but is
now able to wear his shoe.
Mrs. J. G. Miller, who has been a
guest of her relatives, Ed Jayne and
Worth Hartzell the past three weeks,
returned to her home in Washington
County Wednesday,
Miss Mary Basham, one of the
nurses at the Atlantic hospital was
here Saturday and Sunday visiting
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. f. f. Bas-
ham and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Worth Hartzell and
Mrs. j. G. Miller and Mrs. Core Nc
Nary spent Sunday in Kirkman visit
ing their relatives, Rev. Robert Buch-
anon and family.
Jim Rendleman has been hobbing
around on the crutches the past week
with rheumatism in his left foot. He
has had seige of tonsilitis.
George Martin of Wyoming, arrived
here Saturday to visit his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Martin and other
relatives for a while.
Bert Sankey of Atlantic was a
business caller in this city Monday
looking after some of the c. X. |. &
p. railway business.
Hans Hansen, Jr, who has enlisted
in the army at Omaha, was home over
Sunday visiting his parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Hans Hansen.
DR.. j. II. Bishop is here from St.
Charles, having a well dug and new
barn built on his farm where Ed
Bailey resides.
Mr.. and Mrs. Free Anders and Mrs.
Alice Connrardy were entertained at
the Mrs. William Baylor home for
dinner Sunday.
Mrs. Cora McNary of Wichita,
spent the week here with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Jayne and other rel
/ atives.
Mrs. George Fiechtemeyer came
| home from Atlantic last Saturday
where she had been visiting her rela-
tives.
4 Jake Lansten has closed his black
smith shop and gone to Wisconsin to
look after his land interests there.
Mrs. c. C. Christensen is entertain
/ ing her friend Miss Geneva Heath OF
| Massena this week.
/ Mr. Victor Jansen of Lamonte. Mo-.
| is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Nick
Merles and family.
Mrs Ida Moffett of Eldora is here
visiting her mother, Mrs. W. c. Stur.
geon this week.
The Extra Chautauqua started this
week Wednesday, and lasts until Sun.
day evening.
Miss Clara Tillen went out to hei
parents home Sunday to spend an
other week.
Earl Griffin, Jerry Hoover and Fred
Bartlett went to Omaha on business
| Friday.
Miss Ina Montgomery visited hel
mother in Kirkman over Sunday.
Luther Hensley traded his Ford cal
for an Oakland six last week.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-08-16
U-BOAT LOSS is
Low FOR A WEEK


A falling of in British tonnage
sunk last week by mines or subma-
rines, is indicated in the weekly ad-
! statement made public.
Fourteen vessels of 1000 tons and
over were sent to the bottom, as
against twenty-one the previous week.
TWO vessels of less than 1000 tons
were sunk last week, the same num-
Der reported the previous week.
Three fishing boats met with dis
aster lest week, against none the
week before.
Deutschland Now Warship.
The German commercial submarine
Deutschland, which visited the United
States, has been converted into war
submarine according to German fleet
| gossip reaching the Associated Press.
| The Deutschland has a great radius
OF action and has been fitted with six
torpedo tubes.
The submarine, it is said, may soon
leave for the Pacific to operate
| against traffic from San Francisco.
The U boat was to have started ac-
tlvity some time ago, but an explo-
sion on board while the vessel was
on trial trip, delayed it,
The German losses in submarines
according TO the informant of the AS
ISOLATED Press who recently had been
at Wilhelmshaven and with the Ger
man fleet, has been twenty to TWEEN
ty-two boats, this figure apparently
covering the losses since the start
OF the unrestricted submarine war
fare campaign. Four additional boats
are said to have been lost in the Med
iterranean.
Has Now 300 Submarines.
Germany now has almost 300 sub
marines, the newest boats being of
the big seagoing type and armed
with siX-inch gun. This armament
appeared on boats commissioned in
the middle of June, the earlier boats
OF this latest, or ID. E. E. type and the
preceding c. Z. E. type being armed
with pair of los millimettre guns,
with pair of 105 milimetre guns,
and aft
The 300 submarines, however, in
clude large number of the so-called
canal boat type, built for passage
through the Belgian canals to Zee
brugge and which are of inferior
armament and smaller radius of ac-
ton.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-08-16

The fair is a democratic institution,
where the people of the county meet
upon a common plane.
Tuesday is Children's Day, and on
that day all school children in the
county will be admitted free. Old
Soldiers and their wives are admitted
free this year.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-08-16
HOTEL FOR SALE

Have for sale the Arlington hotel
in Audubon, has 26 rooms. Also six
acres with good house near Atlantic.
II interested write the owner, T. j.
Holahan, Dixon, Ill. If
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-08-16

Miss Cora McIllvaine and Dorothy
Beason went to the lakes yesterday
morning where they will spend a
week enjoying the pleasures of camp
life and out door exercise.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-01
FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT
Connecticut Woman Killed Near
BrattIeboro.

Brattleboro, Aug. 31.-One person
was killed instantly and another in.
jured in an automobile accident three
miles north OF Brattleboro village
late this afternoon. Miss Agnes Dal
ligan. 81, daughter of Joseph DALI
gan of Stafford Springs. Conn, sus
tanned a fracture of the skull and a
fracture of the jaw, dying instantly
and her sisters husband. Walter II
Tobin of Holyoke, Mass. sustained
cuts On his nose and over one eye
and an injury to one hip which is not
serious.
Mr.. Tobin is a member of the Koef
ler.Tobin Construction company Of
Holyoke and has been in Springfield
erecting large number of dwelling
house. He and Miss Dalligan started
soon after | o'clock in an Overland
runabout for Holyoke, intending t
return tomorrow.
Near the Crosby pond in Dummers
ton Just as they were to descend {
hill, they met a Cadillac car carrying
two men and turned out. The high
way Is narrow and runs along a higl
steep embankment and the edge o
the road caved off, pitching their ca
down the bank II made four turns
landing badly wrecked but right sid'
up in another road at the foot of tn,
embankment. The car went dow
about 40 feet.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-01
IloREN J. BARTON
Long Time Resident of South Shafts
bury Died Aug. "a

Loren ], Barton,' longtime and
highly esteemed resident of South
SALISBURY died at his home Friday
evening, August "a. The funeral was
held from his late residence at 2.SO
o'clock Monday afternoon. Rev. Peter
Heller, pastor of the Methodist church
oiiiciated
Mr.. Barton had been a member OF
the Masonic fraternity for many
years and was laid in the narrow
house of rest in the South SALISBURY
cemetery with Masonic honors. Tue
ker lodge of North Bennington of
which body deceased was a member
being in attendance.
The deceased is survived by son,
a daughter and a sister.
Loren j. Barton was born in North
Londonderry, April 5, lS49. With his
parents he moved to Manchester
when but II years of age. Attending
school until young manhood, he then
engaged a short time in farming
Later he was employed in what was
known as "Wate's Stone Mill" at
Manchester. Subsequently Mr.. Bar
ton became associated with the late
Warren NJ Marshall in the manu-
facture OF chair stock. They began
business first in Clarendon, then on
account of better facilities they oper
ated chair factory in Petersburg, N
Y. Later because Of a more abun,
dant timber supply, what was know
as the Stephen Whipple Mill proper
ty" in Salisbury, was purchased and
for o number OF years an extensive
business in the manufacture of chair
stock was conducted. Following the
burning of this factory, Marshall &
Barton resumed business at Wood
ford. Eventually Mr.. Barton severed
his business connection with MIR
Marshall. With the exception OF a
brief period of residence in Arlington
and in Manchester, Mr.. Barton has
since resided in South SALISBURY
where for a number of years he was
in the employ Of the Eagle Square
Manufacturing company During the
past seven years of his life, Mr. Bar
ton had not been active on account
Of i'll health. Mr.. Barton married
Miss Helen j. Wright of Manchester
in 1868. Mrs. Barton died in Janu
airy 1916.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-01
TROUT SEASON OVER
Now Unlawful to Take That Variety
OF Fish.

After this week Vermont anglers
will have to be content with fishing
for bass, pike, pickerel and some Of
the other common pan fish as the
season for catching the various kinds
of trout closed yesterday. Other
kinds of fishing is permitted until
mid.winter. however.
The hunting season In Vermont
does not begin until mid-September.
The close season on certain varieties
OF shore birds ends September /, but
the nature Of the country is such that
few are killed In this county. IL is
lawful to shoot ruffed grouse and
grey squirrels on and after Sept. l5
but the open season for ducks and
geese does not begin until Sept. 16
the date having been changed to com
ply with the federal migratory bird
law A change for similar reason
has been made In the woodoock sea
son and Il Is unlawful TO snoot these
birds until October |.
The sportsman, like everyone else
will have to help pay the cost of the
war this year Ammunition has
reached a record price shotgun shells
selling at 30 cents to $110 for a bo,
OF %.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-01
APPOINTMENTS BY GOVERNOR
Judges of Five Municipal Courts
Announced.

Judges Of Five Municipal Courts
Announced.
Montpelier Sept 1-Governor
Graham has announced the following
appointments:
Daniel A. Guiltinan of Bennington,
judge of the Bennington municipal
court
George c. Frye of st. Johnsbury
Judge of the Caledonia county munich
pal court.
Joseph T. Stearns of Burlington
Judge of the Burlington city court.
Leo E. Pratt of Fair Haven, judge
Of the Fair Haven municipal court.
r G. Swinnerton of Rutland, Judge
OF the municipal court for the city OF
Rutland.
Ben a. Eastman Of Barre, member
Of the Vermont committee OF publit
safety, vice Guy r. Varnum resigned
Guy II. Varnum resigned as a mem
Der of the Vermont committee OF
public safety, as he is at the reserve
officers training camp at Plattsburg
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-01
WAR SUM MARY
Germans Begin Concerted Movement
for the Capture OF Riga.

IOT hHC OdFhbfC W niSas
London. Sept. 1.-Having failed in
all their direct attacks by land to
break the Russian front and capture
Riga, Russia's principal naval base
and arsenal on the Baltic, the posi-
bilitiy that the Germans are now pre-
pairing for an offensive by land and
sea is forecast in the manoeuvres of
their torpedo boat destroyers. sub
marines and mine sweeping trawlers
in adjacent waters and in aerial at
tacks in the gulf of Riga itself.
Forty Teuton airplanes during the
last twenty-four hours descended on
various islands in the gulf of the big
Russian Baltic port, throwing bombs
promiscuously. At the same time, ac
cording to official word from Petro-
grad, German mosquito notillas,
submarines and armed trawlers. made
their appearance near the Riga bay.
The Teuton air raiders hurled ninety
bombs on Russian shipping and har-
Dor Notifications. Russian machines
ascended to engage the raiders, final.
ly driving them off. None of the
Russian machines was harmed.
A pause has set in on the Austro-
Italian front. General Cadorna today
reported only consolidating actions
on the Bainsizza plateau and the Car
so front. and some advantages gained
by the Italians on the northern
slopes of Monte San Gabrielle and in
| the Brestovizza valley. The Austrian
resistance is officially characterized
as still stubborn by the Rome official
account. Twelve officers and 62i
men as well as FIVE machine guns
were netted by the latest Italian ad
vance.
| On the Anglo-German front there
| were signs of German plans to regain
the initiative The Teutons unlooseC
n heavy gun fire on the British posi-
| tions five miles southeast of Lens
near Arleux-En-Gohelle, and attempt
ed raiding operations. The British
fire stopped all these efforts, accord
ing to the war office report.
Berlin reported today officially th'
recapture OF ground to the south o
La Catelet recently won by the Brit
ish
The French beat off minor German
attacks at Verdun and north of tn
Alsne, Paris reported.
The German war office assertel
that in a large scale raid the Gel
mans on the Rumanian front, nea
Skala, penetrated the Russian line
after crossing the Zburucz river
They returned with prisoners afte
destroying Russo-Rumanian defens
works. Russia nattacks near Nal
oocz lake. sixty miles south @
Dwinsk were without success, Be
lin declares.
The British scored new gain o
the Palestine front, advancing on
line of 500 yards to the southwest {
GAIA
The total British casualties durin
August we're 6O,373, It was oniciall
announced today. The figure Il
! cludes 1881 killed, of whom 1,3l
were officers.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-01
VERMONT BOYS
AMONG FIRST
Off TO FRANCE
cts
New England Troops May
Precede Rainbow Division
REVIEW AT WESTFlElO
Green Mountain Troops Among Those
To Be Inspected by Rhode Island
Governor.
REVIEW AT WESTFIELD

Boston, Aug. 91.-The transcripts
Washington correspondent sends the
following dispatch:
Washington, Aug 31.-To the
New England National Guardsmen
may go the honor of being the first
National Guardsmen in the country
to be sent to France 1t was learned
on the highest authority at the War
Department this afternoon that seri-
Gus consideration was being given
to the advisability of sending the
New England men abroad ahead OF
the Rainbow Division" composed
of guardsmen from 27 States, which
we're scheduled originally to be the
first to cross the Atlantic. Emphasis
was laid on the fact that the matter
has not been finally decided, but 1t
was said that it was very possible
the contemplated change would be
made. The change was advised be-
cause the New England men are
easier to assemble, are we'll equipped
and are better trained than the men
in the Rainbow Division"
More men continue to arrive at
Westileld, Mass, the latest were
those of the first New Hampshire III
fantry who had been in camp at Con-
cord, N. II.
Gen. Cole announced last night lib
eral leaves OF absence would be
granted to all enlisted men over Sun
day and Monday. Notices were sent
to regimental and company commana-
ers that 25 per cent of the men of
each unit would be given SO hours OF
liberty beginning tomorrow noon. The
men who leave Saturday will be re-
auired to report back to camp Sunday
night at 10 o'clock. Sunday. after
noon at o'clock second 25 per
cent. will be given liberty, being re-
quired to report back to their organi'
cations at 10 o'clock Monday night
Sunday and Monday both will be
recognized as holidays at the mobili
zation camp. Tuesday will be a bic
day for the men from Rhode Island
when Gov. Beeckman aud members
of his staff will visit Camp Bartlett
for formal review Of the Rhode Is
land men.
Maj. Gatchell, in command of the
1O3d machine gun battalion Of the
52d brigade, will not sift out the
Rhode Island men from his command
but will march the entire battalion
composed of Rhode Island, New
Hampshire and Vermont men before
the Governor. The company from
Rhode Island forming the first outfit
in theudiyisional supply train will al
so pass in review
The camp will be thrown open tC
visitors Sunday and also on Monda!
after ~ o'clock noon. They will bC
allowed the freedom Of the regiment
al, but not the company streets
These will be closed to visitors at al
times. Rest stations have been es
tablished on various parts of tn,
field, where relatives may see th
men during the visiting hours.
There will be the usual features 4
Sunday In camp. More men will b
under canvas, for the Sixth and Fift
Massachusetts as well as the remain
der of the First Vermont Infantry ar
expected at almost any momel
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-01

MORE ExEMefio9s
County Board Completing Its Work
for First E'faft Call.

County Board Completing Its Work
b. for First Efaft Call.
The Bennington county exemption
board Is completing its work under
the first call for men for the con
scriptive army. There are some
claims for exemption that have not
yet been decided. The board an
nounced today the granting OF the fol
lowing exemptions:
Lewis Lee Allen, North Bennington
Harry Boynton Nelson, Landgroye.
Louis Nicholas Knapp, Bennington
Robert Curtis Tobin, Dorset.
Francis Patrick 0'Toole, Benning-
ton.
Alfred Capen, Bondville.
Thomas Francis Maher, Benning-
ton.
Richard Henry Conan, Bennington.
Fred Babson, North Bennington
Ellis A. Bouplon, North Bennington.
Jay Grafton Beebe, West Rupert.
Sanford l.. Percy, North Benning.
ton.
Alexander Cross Gemmell, Man
chester Center.
Samuel c. Haynes, North Benning-
ton
Ernest Ira Bentley, Bennington.
Walter j. Main. North Bennington.
Rufus S. Gilbert, Dorset.
Adolph Mercier, Manchester Depot.
Clyde Young. SALISBURY.
Henry Joseph Shepardson, Reads
bore.
Thomas Ramon Sexton, Benning-
ton
George Washington Neary, Ben
nington.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-01
TWENTY-E|GHT
FAIL TO GET
EXEMPTION
.sl7'S---
Board Completes Bennington
County Quota
CERTlFIES 139 MEN
Adds IL to Quota to Provide for Va
cancles When Men Are Called
to Service. =
cERTlFIEs 1ae MEN

Bennington county's quota Of 1877
men for the conscriptive army has
been filed. Under the two calls is
sued by the Bennington county ex.'
emption board there were secured
Ill men who passed the physical ex'
animation and who did not put in
claims for exemption. This left 16
to be secured from among those who
made claims for exemption or who
made claims or failed to file proofs
within the period allowed by the law.
From among the registrants who
made claims but failed to file proofs
the board has reported on 2S who are
called into the service of the United
States not exempted or discharged"
Twenty-eight names are so reported
in order that there may be suffici-
ent number to fill the quota In case
some of those who have passed the
physical examination are thrown out
later. The names of the 28 are as
follows
Rudd Lyman White, Bennington.
Frank William Benedict, East Dor
set.
francesca Risattite, Readsboro.
Lewis Sumner White, North Ben
nington.
Joseph Charles Antonio, Benning-
ton
Marco Cole, Readsboro.
Emanuel A. Kcffatos, Manchester.
|. Frederick B. Cushman, North Ben.
nington.
Walter E. Bingham, Bennington.
Albert A. Mattison, South Shafts
bury.
vigilio Zecchini, Readsboro.
Elmer Dickerson Mitchell Ben.
nington.
Victor Luther Brophy, East Dorset.
Edward Charles Kelley Dorset.
George B. Thompson, Manchester
Depo.
Fred Weichman. Bennington.
Howard Atkins Wilson, Benning-
ton.
Walter Mould, Bennington.
Nicholas j. Morrissey, Bennington.
Merrill Murray Cutler, Woodford.
Burton r. Cross, South SALISBURY.
Albert Russell Bixby, Readsboro.
Giuseppe ID. Cellani, Readsboro.
Robert Kelley Edgerton, Manches.
ter.
Ralph Raymond Haynes, North Ben
nington. siunioi banlal ehodl
Daniel Frederick. Lille, Po~nal.
Millard Dunbar, South Dorset.
Amos A. Lacroix, Bennington.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-01

buted. Il. T. Griswold's balloons as
tensions will be the first feature. Six
strong men and a special expert have
been engaged to direct the flights,
will take place early in the evening
At 1880 the Home Guards will drill
on the baseball diamond. According
to reports, the members are, toward
the anticipating public, in the posi-.
tion of the father spanking his small
boy; they're doing It for our own
good, and not for their pleasure. This
will not be the drill advertized, how.
ever Il was to have been a gunless
affair, but the rifles have arrived at
last, and as the uniforms are here,
and the guards have been here all the
time, there'll be nothing lacking. but
the enemy.
At eight o'clock, II. b. Clarke OF
North Adams, member Of the board
OF education, director of the Y NJ c.
A., land one of the city's most promi
nent and experienced men, will speab
to the people on the subject Of La
bor."
Lantern. slides with the words Of
such songs as "Old Black joe
Dixie" way Down upon the Swanet
River" "Iail Columbia" "AnniC
Laurie Battle Hymn OF the Repub
lie" and "Old Kentucky Home" have
been procured and as Prof. Chambers
Of North Adams, choral director o.
the Community Glee club, with IN,
aid OF two cornetists, conduct tn,
words Of these familiar songs will b,
flashed on the screen, to enable ever,
ono to join. The community singinl
' will close the evening events.