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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-01
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

WANTED-At once a strictly tenn.
perant married man for farm work.
Good eight room tenement house. Ap
ply Geo e. Davis, near Haynes Cor
ners, Tel. 221--3 este
FOR SALE-Farm, or If not sold
by April LIST house and one barn with
plot of land If desred) will be for
rent. Farm location at top of Har
wood Hill. For particulars phone
3S3-M or call at Winslow's Hardware
Store. A. II. Winslow, Adm. EFT
WANTED--A young or middle aged
Christian woman for general house
work, by American family of two. No
laundry work, good home and wages.
Address d, care Of Hale Company, Ar
lington, VT. 27t3
FOUND-Ring on postoffice steps.
Owner may have same by calling at
Banner Office proving property and
paying for this adv. 27t1
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-01
As OUT Of DATE
As HORSE CARS
Says corn rings, plasters, razor and
eating salVes are taboo
Now.

Good things should be passed along.
It is now said that few drops of q
drug called freezone applied directly
upon a tender aching corn relieves
the soreness and soon the entire corn,
root and all can be lifted out without
pain.
For little cost quarter of an
ounce OF freezone can be obtained
from any drug store which is claimed
to be- sufficient to remove every hard
or soft corn or callus from ones feet.
This is a drug recently announced
from Cincinnati. 1t is gummy but
dries the moment it is applied and
simply shrivels up the corn without
infaming or even irritating the heal
thy tissue or skin.
Cut this out and lay it on your
wife's dresser.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-01
GERMAN PLOT LETTER TO ALLY
MEXICO AND JAPAN AGAINST
AMERICA DID NOT REACH
EsTINATlON.
CONTINUED from First Page)

sion was making its futile effort to
adjust the difficulties between the
two countries, the Austro- Hungarian
Ambassador at Mexico City, Count
Kayman Kama Votkanya, made trip
to the United States on what he de-
scribed as secret mission"
The full extent OF the evidence Of
Germany's plotting against the United
States gathered by the American Sc
cret Service, may become known
only according to the course of the
future relations between the two
countries. 1t is known that much
evidence of the operations of the Ger
man Embassy and persons who were
responsible to it never has been per-
mitted to come out because officials
preferred to guard against inhaming
the public mind in the tense situation
with Germany.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-01
NORTH HOOSlcK

James Monroe has moved into the
Holmes tenement.
Mrs Mary l.. Hall is visiting rela-
tiyes in Schenectady.
Miss Margaret Fox is the guest of
Mrs Segel of New York.
Albert Surdam has been confined TO
his room for the past two weeks
Edward Mela has returned to work
after an illness of several weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Baker visited
relatives in Eagle Bridge on Sunday.
A stocking social" was held in the
church parlors Friday evening. About
s23 was realized.
Patriotic exercises by the pupils
were given at the district school on
Wednesday afternoon.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-01
CITIZENS CAUCUS
Village Voters Win Meet at Apollo
Hall Saturday Night

The citizen voters OF the Village of
Bennington are hereby notified and
warned of meeting to be held in
Apollo Hall in the said village on Sat
urday March third at 730 p. m, for
the following purpose:
First: TO nominate officers to be
voted for at the annual meeting of the
village of Bennington to be held
March goth, 1917.
Second; TO transact such further
business as may be found proper
when met.
This is union caucus in which all
legal voters Of the village are entitled
to voice ana vote. og
ba9uiE IT. Griswold.
80 &C. W. soule,
odrJ. G. rPellerin,
Citizens Committee.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-01
LEGISLATIVE REUNION
Members Of 1910 Hold Meeting and
Banquet at Montreller.

@8ENACA az WOUtbCiiCF.
Montpelier, March about 20
members of the 1910 General Assemb-
~ attended the reunion and banquet
held here Tuesday evening Frank
r. Howe of Bennington. speaker of
that Legislature. presided at the ex-
ercises in Representatives hall.
The legislators afterwards held a
banquet at the Montpelier House Mr..
Howe presided az toastmaster and
speeches We're made by Lieut.. Gov.
Roger w. Hulburd, Hale X. Darling
II. S. Peck of Burlington, Speaker
Stanley c. Wilson, Harry A. Daniels
of East Montpelier, DR.. G. Fl. Branch
of Grand Isle, the Hon NJ. NJ. Taplin
OF Barton and the Rev. Fraser Metz
ger of Randolph
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-01

At regular meeting OF Local Union
No. 4S3 of Painters. Paper Hangers
and Decorators and after fully dis
cussing the high cost of living it was
resolved to notify all painting contrac.
tors through the public press that on
and after April LIST, 1917 the minimum
wage for union painters shall be
$500 per day.
(Signed)
Local Union No. 493 of p. P. II. and D.
Bennington. VT, Feb 21st 1917.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-01
TAFT AT ST. JoHNs5URY
Former President is to Address Peace
Meeting In That Town.

Final arrangements have been made
for the big peace meeting to be held
in st. Johnsbury March 10 when for
mer President William II. Taft will
speak representing the League to En-
force Peace This is one of the two
big peace meetings to be held in Yer
mont.
Four St. Johnsbury men are vice
presidents OF the Vermont branch of
the league. They are Joseph Fair
banks, Alexander Dunnett, Judge Har-
land B. Howe and Rev Paul Dwight
Moody.
This will be Mr.. Taft's second visit
to st. Johnsbury. He will be enter
tanned at the home of Joseph Fair
banks. Mr. Fairbanks is, like Presi-
dent Taft, Yale man.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-01
Cut This Quit is Worth Money

DON'T MISS THIS. Cut ont this
slip enclose with sc and mail it to
Foley & Co., 1886 Sheffield Ave,
Chicago, H., writing your name and
address clearly. You will receive in
return a trial package containing
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, for
coughs, colds, and Group; Foley Kid
ney Pills, for pain in sides and back.
rheumatism, backache, kidney and
bladder ailments; and Foley Cathartic
Tablets, wholesome and throughly
cleansing cathartic, for constipation,
headache and sluggish
bowels. Sold Everywhere
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-01
NOTICE

The board Of Civil authority will
meet Saturday afternoon and evening,
March 3, to revise the check list. BE
sure your name is on the list.
Francis f. Rice,
Town Clerk.
South Salisbury, Feb. IA, 1917.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-01-20
Map Has CoIored Roads.

South Carolina is one of the states
which have marked the poles and sign
boards along the main roads by col
ored bands indicating the various
routes of which the roads form parts.
There are nine of these through
routes in all, crossing the state In
every direction. In order to make it
as easy as possible for the traveller
to follow any Of them, the state COM
missioner Of agriculture, commerce
and industries has issued a map of
South Carolina in which the routes
are indicated by the same colors used
in the wayside marking. This is car
rying the. idea of marking roads of
maximum convenience further than
has been done by many other states,
and is particularly interesting because
South Carolina has no state highway
department
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-01-20
LIKED bible GUY"
MAN WHO CARRIED THE WORD
POPULAR WITH SOLDIERS.
Boys in Blue Stationed Along the Rio
Grande Unanimously of Opinion
That Visitor Was Strictly
All Right.

1t was pretty close to taps when a
small car puffed up to the little border
station on the Rio Grande, satisfied the
sentry and came inside the earthworks
fertilization. Its driver, a tall, ruddy-
checked young man, who looked as
though he might be fresh out of col
lege, brought the mail-he'd succeeded
in crossing swollen creek in his car
when the Mexican mail man didn't
care to try it, and he brought also a
carload of Bibles.
The soldiers in the border station
called him 'the Bible guy" and the
opinion was expressed more than once
that "the Bible guy was all right"
There are number of him on the
Mexican border. They are representa-
tives of the American Bible society.
and their business is giving away
Bibles and Testaments to the soldiers
who are doing border patrol duty. This
particular one had come east from Ell
Paso, matter of 450 miles, and did
not expect to stop until he reached the
Gulf. He found considerable demand
for his little olive-drab-bound Tesla
ments and Bibles, as well as real
friendliness for himself.
He was modest young man, but he
admitted that a good many interesting
things happened to fellow who car
ried the Word along the border. Some
times one miscalculated or found the
roads worse than he expected and had
to camp out overnight-he carried a
few provisions and skillet always to
be prepared for that emergency. And,
of course, one did have to know how
to pull an automobile out of a mud
hole by one-man power and quite a
lot more outdoor things.
DO the Mexicans ever bother YOU p
someone asked him.
The Bible guy laughed as though
that were the best joke in the world.
mo, indeed" he said. "Why should
they bother me? Besides, you know
I'm prepared for Mexicans as we'll as
soldiers. carry copies of the Bible in
Spanish and find lot of people who
are glad to. get them. And now-it
you'll excuse me-I've got lot to dc
to this carr
Whereupon the Bible guy, clad in
brown overalls, disappeared under the
mud-crusted machine. 1t shows how
good Christian he really is that in
the half-hour he stayed there nobody
heard him swear.-Kansas City Star
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-01-20
STOP! CALOMEL
IS QUICKSILVER
It's mercury! Attacks the bones,
salivates and makes
you sick.

There s no reason why person should
take sickening, salivating calomel when
so cents buys large bottle of Dodson IS
Liver Tone-a perfect substitute for
calomel.
1t is a pleasant, vegetable liquid
which will start your liver just as
surely as calomel, but it doesn't make
yon sick and can not salivate
Children and grown folks can take
Dodson's Liver Tone because it is per-
fectly harmless.
Calomel is dangerous drug. 1t is
mercury and attacks your bones. Take
a dose of nasty calomel today and you
will feel weak, sick and nauseated to-
morrow. Don It lose days work. Take
a spoonful of Dodson IS Liver Tone in
stead and you will wake up feeling
great. No more biliousness, constipa.
ton, sluggishness, headache, coated
tongue or sour stomach. Your druggist
says if you don't find Dodson's Liver
Tone acts better than horrible calomel
your money is waiting for you-Adv.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-01-20
Troubles Never Come Sinaiy.

A resident of Boothbay, Me-, was
told by neighbor that his sons COW
was. out in another pasture, and start
ed to bring her in. He found COW
loose and set out in chase.
For an hour or two he chased one
Of the most obstinate and disgusting
animals ever born into the COW breed.
And at last he caught her and brought
her out to the road and was leading her
triumphantly home, when he met a
neighbor who asked him what he was
doing with another neighbours cow.
And so it proved. For the original
stray COW was still in the wrong pas
ture, but tied securely to tree. The
other COW had had perfect right to
it grazing ground.
The exasperated gentleman then set
out again and this time found the right
strayed COW and took her home.
When he arrived at his sons place
with his sons COW he found one of his
own cows in his sons field and eating
up the sons cabbages.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-01-20
Kings Who Reigned Briefly.

Sixty-eight years is long time to
wear n crown. Many other monarchs
have hardly had time to get comfort
ably settled upon their thrones, be-
fore death or abdication overlook
them.
John l of France has to his
credit a reign of only five days.
For brevity that is hard to match.
Napoleon was emperor the second
time, for 100 days, and then started for
ST. Helena. Louis XVIII. whom he so
rudely deposed in March, 1915, had oc-
cupied his throne less than one year.
Francis ii ruled but year. Louis
X two years and Louis VIII three
years.
Russia has also witnessed some
lightning changes in the house of Ro-
manoff. Katharine 1 was czarina but
two years and Ivan VI for year. Pc
ter II was car of all Russias for only
three years.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-01-20
French Game Laws SUSPENDED.

The poor people Of France, as well
as the wealthy, are taking advantage
of the privilege recently granted by NJ.
Meline, the minister Of agriculture, to
all sportsmen, of high or low degree,
to shoot the wild game that. since the
war, has become superintendent, doing
great damage to crops.
,Hares, pheasants and wild ducks
have been the chief offenders, and
these are being killed in great num-
bers, thus not only saving growing
vegetation, but furnishing food for
the people.
It was thought at first that the min
ister's instructions included only rich
sportsmenl and owners of game pre-
serves, but he made 1T clear In a sub
sequent statement that, In the Inter-
est of agriculture, the shooting priv
1lege was extsnded'to' everybody in all
departments.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-01-20
Shutting Up the Shop.

1t is rather surprising to the foreign
er visiting South American countries
for the first time to find most of the
best and prettiest shops almost Her
metically sealed at night. If the build
ing is of the older style of construc-
ton the heavy shutters are closed and
locked by iron bars; if more modern
building, the flexible sliding doors and
windows are completely drawn, and
the passerby can see nothing within
the shop.
All is darkness save the light of the
street lamps; no brilliantly lighted
windows help to add cheer and bright
ness to the street.
In European and American cities the
average merchant is willing to spend
money freely for nightly display OF
his wares and merchandise. He real.
ICES and appreciates the publicity
The evening crowds upon our streets
are highly entertained and even in
structed by window displays of the
busy streets.
Herein lies the difference; for, as
n rule, the South American streets,
busy and attractive during the day,
are quite the reverse at night. Even
in some of the larger cities the old
custom of Theoretically sealing the
shop at night prevails.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-01-20
Venice Has Electrical Ears.

According to a newspaper CORE
spondent who recently visited Venice,
the Austrian airmen have made more
than thirty raids on that famous city.
The observation station there is pro-
vided with sensitive electrical micro
phones, which are said to detect the
noise Of the motors on the Austrian
planes the moment they leave Triest,
some sixty miles away. Electric ST.
rens are Immediately sounded to warn
everyone of the approach of hostile air.
craft, which cover the distance be-
tween the cities in, something like forty
minutes. Thus ample time is afforded
for completing the antiaircraft ar
tillery preparations before the first Aus
TRAN airman heaves in sight.-Scien-
tihc American.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-01-20
Bicycle BaIancer.

An apparatus has been invented by
Eugene Tourtier Of Paris, France,
which gives bicycles, motorcycles
and every other similar vehicle YER
teal equilibrium regardless of whether
or not the road is level. 1t is merely
necessary to support the machine in an
upright position by operating lever
attached to the handlebar, according to
the Popular Science Monthly.
The lever can be operated while the
bicycle is moving, making 1t possible
for rider to remain in his seat as
the wheel comes to stop and to start
again without .dismounting. The steel
rod supports are strong enough to sus-
tain a combined weight of 800 pounds.
Bicycles fitted with the balancer have
been used by the Swiss police for some
time.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-01-20
Dog Helps Man Make Living.

A dog named Rover, owned. by a
gentleman in Carpenteria, Cal, has
been taught to turn the wheel that
furnishes the power for his masters
scissors-grinding machine. Rover gets
on the wheel of his own accord and
merrily treads, treads, while his mas
ter sharpens scissors and knives. The
dog seems to think it game devised
for his special amusement. and when
business is slack he will run to the
wheel and bark reproachfully at his
master until the good man feels
obliged to attach the rope which turns
the wheel. Rover never seems so
happy as when business is brisk, and
he can send his large wheel around
and around for whole morning. He
win then sleep for half an hour after
he has had his dinner, and be ready
for work again with his master in the
afternoon.--The American Boy.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-01-20
AwE Elk Gs BREAK UP A COLD
tN]FoR COLDS An Ia GRIPPE C.....-l
S<EA g gcod you can afford 70 insist and 60
INV genuine like package shown sasaszqev
TWisssSs'say s sSS best druggists Csc =
oIiveIess Days.

British Consul Nugent said at a
banquet In Chicago:
They tell a good story about a
Greek army corps that surrendered to
the Germans and was taken into food
stripped Germany to be the guest Of
the nation.
"At Chemnitz, the story runs, com.
mittee of .famished Greek soldiers
waited on the German commandant
and said:
They told as that here in Chem
nitz, commandant, the government
would at least give us some rations.'
"'Yes, and that's right, too,' said
the German commandant genially, as
he took a huge packet of cards from
his desk. Here are your Greek ra-
ton cards specially got up by us for
our revered Greek guests. They entitle
every Greek soldier to six olives day
hVe days per week, and, furthermore,
on the two "oliveless days." they en-
title each and every one Of you to a
cracker and a. half-pint of coffee sub
stitute.'" b tFI
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-01-20
SWISS HOTELS WONDROUS
Stand in Solitary Grandeur, But Lack
Nothing That Makes for Comfort
of Traveller.

You may climb up the heights by
the aid of railways, funiculars, racks
and-pinions, diligences and sledges,
and when nothing but your own feet
will take you any further you will see
in Switzerland a grand hotel, magic
ally and incredibly raised aloft In the
mountains
1t is solitary-no town, no houses.
nothing but this hotel hemmed in on
all sides by snowy crags and made
impregnable by precipices and treach-
erous snow and ice.
At the great redrawing Of the map
of Europe, when the lesser national
tiles are to disappear the Switzers
will take armed refuge in their far
thest grand hotels and there defy the
mandates of the concert.
For the hotel no matter how remote
1t be, lacks nothing that is mentioned
in the dictionary of comfort. Beyond
its walls your life is not worth twelve
hours purchase.
You would not die of hunger be-
cause you would perish of cold
At best you might hit on some
PEASANTS cottage in which the stand
ards of existence had not changed for
century. ~
But once pass within the portals of
the grand hotel and you become the
spoiled darling of an intricate organi-
zation that laughs at mountains, ava
lanches and frost.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-01-20
The Moral life

Moral principle is not thinking the
right thing, but doing it. 1t is giving
Is ounces to the pound and SO inches
to the yard. 1t is treating your neigh
Dor kindly. 1t isAnot worrying others.
There are some people who pride
themselves on holding to high moral
principle, who are an exceeding, great
annoyance to the people they meet. OF
all the unprincipled things in this
world, making people unhappy is the
meanest. Yet there are many people
who are sticklers to moral duty, doing
that very thing every day. He is a
mean thief who will take from another
his peace of mind. One man told us
he didn't sleep a whole night because
of a needless remark a thoughtless
friend made to him. There are many
people who are such confirmed mate
rialists that they think you can only
do harm to a man by hitting him with
club or stealing his chickens. They
don't seem to know there is mental
and spiritual world, where all real
feeling dwells and where the deepest
torture may be infiicted.-Ohio State
Journal
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-01-20
Dying VILLAGES.

1t is the American village that
most betrays the impulse of ou
civilization-a civilization that perpet-
ually overreaches itself only to be
obliged to surrender again and again
to nature everything it has gained.
How many thousands of villages, frost
bitten, palsied, full of the morbid,
bloodless death-in-life-villages that
have lost, If they ever possessed, the
secret of self-perpetuation, lie scat
tered across the continent! Even in
California I used to find them on long
cross-country walks, villages often
enough not half a century old, but in
a state of essential decay. Commune
ties that have come into being on the
flood tide of an enterprise too rapidly
worked out, they all signify some lost
cause of material kind that has left
high and dry-like the neutral areas
in an old painting where the colors, in
completely mixed and of perishable
quality, have evaporated with time
Van Wyck Brooks, in Seven Arts.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-01-20
LENDING A HELPING HAND
Teamster Gave Handcart PUsher a
Lift" That Was Something to
Be Appreciated.

Here is an interesting street scene,
drawn by a writer:
The handcart was of a familiar sort
"a pair of high wheels with long
platform OF Stats resting on the axle
and a crossbar at one end for ham
die. A man stands behind the cross
bar and breasts it to propel the We
hicle.
The handcart was piled high with
big bags filed with waste paper-a
cumbersome, heavy load that would
have been hard to handle anywhere,
and was doubly troublesome going up
the. slope from Nassau street to Broad
way. The handcart man had to bend
over the bar and push with all his
might to keep the load moving at ali.
Coming up behind him was driver
with an empty truck, drawn by a pair
of big horses When the driver saw
what was ahead, he started up his
team little and skillfuly set the end
of the pole square in the middle of
the rearmost bag on the handcart,
where he could push to the greatest
purpose without disturbing the load.
Thus the horses began to push the
handcart up the hill.
All the handcart man had to do was
to stand up, hold on to the handlebar,
and keep the handcart straight The
big horses, guided by the friendly
driver, were doing the pushing; and
SO, easily enough, the man got his load
up the rest of the slope and round to
the. easy level of Broadway.-New
York Sun.