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The Pulaskian., 1917-03-30

Sam Watson, farmer who lives in Montgomery county, 40 miles west of Hot Springs. killed a large bear and brought the bruin to Hot Springs, which he sold at good price.
The Ozark spectator., 1917-03-07

We are not boastful, but would like to know if anybody can show a better bunch of corres- pondents than the Ozark Spec tator has. It is our chief aim to give the news from over the county and by their help we are doing this. And have you mo- ticed how well the n ews is told, good style, interesting to every one in the country and much more so to people who have once lived here and have moved to some other state This week we are introducing a reporter from Webb City and Greenwood. The ueiGhborhood happenings, the news items is what we want. Just between ourselves long drawn out editorials are not in good taste. Make your paper the popular paper, the one that is carried home, the paper that is read.
The Ozark spectator., 1917-03-07
Local and Personal

RUBMY -TISM -Antisepict Relieves Rheumatism, Sprains. Neuralgia. etc. Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Conatser have returned from Hot Springs One horse for sale.
 Lee West. Mrs. w. J. LeRoy returned from Van Buren Friday.
 John Aston returned to his home at Morrilton Sunday.
 M. V. Waterfeld is able to be up. and down about the mines, after several days illness.
 Miss Pauline Clayton expects to leave the latter part of the week, for a visit with, relatives at Wagoner and Muskogee. When we consider how much the Mexican trouble has cost the United States, we do not care if Villa is ailing.
 Break your Cold or LaGrippe with a few doses of 666.
The Ozark spectator., 1917-03-07
Get af The Source of Your ''Skir Diseases''

building and tonic properties in. thou- sands of cases arising from disorders of the blood. It washes the poisons from the system and aids the blood in its work of cleansing and invigorating the body organs, throwing off waste matter. and keeping the body in a nor- nal, healthy condition.
 Prove these facts for yourself by taking bottle of s. s. s. and write to our Medical Department for infor- nation about your case. Swift Specific Co.,, 304 Swift Building, Atlanta, Ga
The Ozark spectator., 1917-03-07

Don't be misled by this term, for the appearance of pimples, boils or rashes indicate something more se- rious than a mere breaking out" of the skin. These eruptions are, in reality. signals from nature that the blood is impoverished, debilitated and in need of help. Of course you can sometimes drive away the infected places by applying a salve or lotion, but unless you treat them through the medium of the llead, they will occur again and again.
 $. S. s. has proven its wonderful
The Ozark spectator., 1917-03-07

Mir. and Mrs. Daniel Jeffers have returned from a pleasant visit at Ft. Smith.
 Mrs. Partain of the Altus high school has enrolled nearly enough to enter.
 The Thursday Club held a busi- ness meeting at Mrs. R. M, Wildman's Tuesday.
 J. P.Clayton went to Little Rock Monday night and will re- turn by Perryville to attend to legal business.
 Manitou and Oak Hill schools, with Prof. Lee West and Prof. J. K. Failing enter cup contest in the boys and girls club.
 Mrs. E. w. Blackburn returned from Fort Smith Friday. Mrs. Claud Boozman and baby of Dallas, Texas came with her for a months visit.
 Miss. Bert Jeffers went up to Fit. Smith Saturday for a weeks visit with her sisters, Mesdames Demus Huggins and J. H. Caches.
 Mrs. F. M. Tolleson stopped off Friday and visited between trains with her sister. Mrs. A. D. Reynolds. She was on her way home at Jonesboro from the mis- sionary conference at Van Buren.
 Mrs. Eichenberger has sold her bakery and cafe to Mr. A. F. Mcdonald of Texas and he has moved in and taken charge. Mrs. Eichenberger and Miss Hallie are visiting Mrs. J. B. Paine in Van Buren. Crawford Co. News.
 Do not complain of the high prices in the summer if you have vacant lot or a back yard patch of weeds. Every one should raise enough potatoes for his family,
 Flags were hung up every where in all patriotic towns on Washington's birthday and in a Kansas town a German Janltor made a mistake and hung the flag upside down at the high school. The mistake was recti- fled.
 Here s a question which sev. eral persons seem to be puzzled over: If man happens to take drink across the state line, will he have to hire a doctor with a stomach pump before coming back to b-d-Arkansas?
 Mrs. Flora Eichenberger came down from Van Buren yesterday to visit few days.
 Clyde Smith, who formerly lived here but for the past five years has been working in the Missouri Pacific hospital at St. Louis, is spending a week or so with friends here.
 Little Miss Thelma Stiles left for Stigler Saturday morning, where she will accompany her aunt, Mrs. Fitzgerald. to Santa Paula, California, MT. Fitzgerald went with them, They will be gone about two months.
 Hiram Burrow went to Alma Saturday to help get out the Crawford County News. He dined at the Rogers Hotel. His belief, so he told the other guests was that the Rogers were surely millionaires judging by the way they served Irish pOtatOes.
The Ozark spectator., 1917-03-07

Mrs. D. L. Ford and two chil- dren and Mrs. William Weaver went to Charleston yesterday to spend a few days.
 Auto Service. Reasonable rates, Phone, 210. G. T. Reaves
 Rev. George McGlumphey stopped in Ozark Monday be- tween trains and visited a num- Der of his friends. He was on his way to Danville.
The Ozark spectator., 1917-03-07
$l00 Reward, SlOO

The readers Of this paper will be neasea to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in ni! it's stages. and that is catarrh Catarrn being greatly inriuenced by constitutional conditions requires constitutional treatment Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the system thereby de- giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting na. tGre in doing it's work. The proprie- tors have so much faith in the curative powers of Halls Catarrh Cure that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails 10 cure. Send for li6t of testimonials
 ohto- Snid hY all pruss1sts. 7sc.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-20
ALFRED MARcEAu
Aged Veteran Cied Today at Vermont
Soldiers Home.

Alfred Marceau died at the Soldiers
home, Wednesday, June 20, aged near
ly SO years. He was born in the
province of Quebec, Nov. 5, 1884 of
French parentage. When young man
he learned the shoemaker's trade and
went to Waterbury, VT, and became
an expert workman. Later he went
to Montpelier and worked in Joe
Pages large boot making shop. While
there he enlisted in Co. F. I'd. Yer
mont, and served three years, being
wounded at the battle of Fredericks-
burg, Dec. 13, 1862.
After the war he worked at his
trade in various places in New York
and Massachusetts. He came to the
home s years ago. Besides daugh-
ter, Mrs. George |, Carter in Hudson,
Mass, where he will be buried, he
leaves a wife, sister, older than
and several other relatives in
Troy, n. Y. and st. Johns, p. Q. He
was an Odd Fellow and a member of
the Grand Army of the Republic.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-20
COCTOR HELD FOR MURDER
Captain Condor, v. S. A., Held for
Death of Student

New Brunswick, ~ j.. June 10
A warrant for the arrest of DR.. VIII
liam J. Condor, a captain in the
United States Army Medical corps at
Chattanooga, Tenn. was issued here
today in connection with the murder
of John v Piper, a University of
Vermont graduate, whose body was
found with a bullet wound in the
breast near Spotswood, n. j., last
Saturday.
Information reaching the authori-
ties here is that Dr. Condor is being
held by the military authorities to
await the arrival of New Jersey de-
tectives He has been an active
practicing physician here for several
years. He left here last Thursday
under orders to go into training for
active service. He is about 3S years
old
Piper, who was working his way
through Rutgers college by doing
odd jobs, including that of attending
to the furnace of DR.. Condor, ac-
cording to the authorities here, dis
appeared on the night of February
II. On Saturday he was found dead
by the roadside between Spotswood
and Englishtown. Apparently the
body had been tossed from an auto
mobile or wagon into the bushes.
The coroner said it was his opinion
that Piper met death about the time
of his disappearance.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-20

MRS o. B. PIERCE
Life Long Resident Of SALISBURY
Died Tuesday Morning.

Harriet Snow Pierce, wife of Orimel
b. Pierce, died at her home in Green
Mountain Valley Tuesday morning at
3 o'clock. Death was caused by tu-
berculosis of the kidneys from which
she had suffered severely for the past
six months.
Mrs. Pierce was born in SALISBURY
October 8, 1S4S, the daughter OF Mar.
tina and Cephus Snow.
In 1864 she married Orimel b. Pierce
of SALISBURY, who survives her, with
seven sons, Orimel h., Jesse NJ, and
George j., of SALISBURY, Martin r..
Joel W., and Christopher A., of Ben
nington and Leroy f., of Manchester
The funeral will be held at the
Methodist Episcopal church at South
at o'clock Thursday af-
ternoon. Burial on the family lot in
South SALISBURY. Rev. Peter Heller
will ofiiciate.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-20

Washington, June 20.-incomplete
reports to American Red Cross head
quarters last night showed more than
S35 100000 subscribed during the
first two days of the weeks campaign
to raise $100,000,000 for war relief.
Hundreds of communities had not
been heard from, but from others re-
turns poured in so rapidly that tabula-
tors could not keep pace with them
Several great individual gifts helped
to swell the total yesterday, but the
Red Cross war council expects later
reports to include great multitude
of smaller gifts by people of moderate
means, whose subscriptions went far
toward the 11th.hour oversubscription
of the Liberty lean last week.
Last nights total did not include
the contributions of many small city
or town communities, particularly in
the West, where II is said local cam
paign committees plan to withhold
their totals until late in the week in
hope of avoiding too optimistic spirit,
New York city's total was nearing the
$2O000,000 mark. with $1,000000 con
tributions from J. p. Morgan and G.
F. Baker.
A single pledge of $10,000,000 has
been given the war council tentative
ly for use in fighting tuberculosis in
France. The name of the contributor
was not made public.
A feature of yesterdays reports was
the generous subscriptions from Gin
81 Miluottlran nrffatn and Oth-
er cities having large German popula-
tions.
A number of senator's and other
public officials yesterday appealed to
citizens of their home states to open
their pOcketbooks for the Red Cross
fund. Cardinal Gibbons gave his ap-
proval to the movement in letter to
Henry p. Davidson, chairman of the
war council, saying
81 am in hearty accord with the
vast work of the Red Cross war coun-
Gil. | have confident hope that these
worldwide plans of charity and mercy
will be largely realized, bringing the
grateful appreciation of the suffering
millions as a partial recompense.'
A suggestion which may open the
way for gifts by national banks came
from Controller of the Currency Will
Jams. He explained that national
banks may not legally give bank funds
to any charitable cause, but may de-
clare a special dividend out of the un-
divided profits.
Checks for such a dividend can be
mailed to stockholders" he said, with
a circular letter suggesting but not re-
Quiring that the proceeds be given the
Red Cross If all national banks
should declare an extra dividend of
1-2 of l per cent and shareholders
should turn the sum over to the Red
Cross, Mr.. Williams explained, S5,OOO,-
900 would be produced.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-20
BIG BATTLE ON
FRFNC',,@ = ;:!S.Q|0NT
EXPECTEDS,.. I
Heavy Fighting May Have
Already Started
MANY POINTS ACTIVE
Germans Fail to Reoapture French
Positions In Champagne Taken
;, ,t BY Allies Monday

London, June 20.--lndications point
to an early resumption of eprations on
a grand scale in Belgium and France,
il, indeed they have not already be,
gun in Flanders and Champagne. A
significant statement in the latest Ber-
lin official communication says that in
Flanders and Champagne the fight
ing activity has been revived at sew
eral points
In Champagne the Germans have
made an attempt to recapture posi-
tions between Mont Blond and Mont
Carnillet, taken by the French Mon
day, but met with repulse, suffering
heavy casualties. To the northwest,
around Craonne. heavy artillery duels
are being fought.
The situation in Flanders Is even
more obscure, as neither the British
nor French statements tend to clarity
the German report of the resumption
OF hostilties. Artillery duels of great
intensity are known to have been in
progress between Bossinghe and Ere
lnghein and in the regions of Steen-
straete and Het Sas, while to the
south in France, in the neighborhood
OF the Bapaume- -Cambrai road, the
British troops have resumed their
trench raiding operations, destroying
German dugouts and taking prisoners.
The Macedonian theater also still
holds forth the promise of early de-
velopments on a large scale. While
along the line where Gen. Sarrail's
forces are. facing the Teutonic allies,
near the Greco-Servian border, the re-
ports show only artillery duels to be
in progress, the entente commander is
still pouring men into Thessaly and
occupying important localities An
Othe indication that the Greeks are
turning toward the entente cause is
shown by the fact that considerable
quantities Of arms and ammunition
have been surrendered by the popula-
tion Of the invested towns and viii
lagos.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-20
WHERE WAS THE FIRE
Nobody Knew Until After 1t Was Put
i+, lAittNt, Out


+ .tt. Out.
An alarm for fire i'm the rear OF
Chris Savas'i candy kitchen on Main
street was rung in from box 4S at the
corner of North and Main streets
about O'Clock this afternoon. The
fact that the alarm was rung from
4S didn't give any information regard
ing the location of the fire. The bell
responded with an alarm from box Al
in the Guideboard district and the
register at the Stark hose room mere
ly wobbled up and down indefinitely.
Some of the other registers are said
to have been on the job but the fire
was put out before any of the mem
bers of the department found out
where they we're at or where the fire
was at or what the alarm was ringing
for, anyhow.
The fire was presumably started by
some children at play in the rear of
the store 1t originated in some hay
in large barrel and there was good
blaze going before the fire was dis
covered. Some extinguishers, pals of
water and stream from hose run
out from the store put out the blaze
before any damage was done.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-20
TRENCH LIFE AT PLATTSBURG
Students viii Build Dugouts and Live
as at the Front

Plattsburg, N. Y, June 17-Believ
ing that men can be trained on this
side OF the Atlantic so as to be 10(
per cent efficient on entering the bat
tie zone in Europe, the military au
thorities announced today that every
phase of modern trench warfare would
be reproduced here to accustom the
students to meeting instantaneOusly
every emergency.
Before its close, the Plattsburg camp
will have adopted every feature OF
camp Borden in Canada. Not only
will an elaborate system Of trenches
be constructed indentical with sec.
tor on the French front, but the men
will be required to live in them under
actual war conditions.
Not the least part of this novel fea.
ture is the fact that the students,
many of them totally unaccustOmed to
any form of manual labor, will be
obliged to dig their trenches them
selves for the double purpose of Civ
ing them firsthand knowledge of con-
struction problems and strength of
muscles and lungs for the arduous
overseas. With the trenches com
pleted the camp will be declared a
base camp in the war zone
Thereafter the men will conduct
themselves with the same regard to
personal safety as though shells were
whistling overhead and an enemy at
tack imminent. Equipping themselves
with the bare essentials carried to the
firing line, they will be sent forward
in regular forty-eight hours shifts to
the second line trenches and from
there to the first line. Part of this
equipment will be the emergency ra-
ito and first-aid packet, which will be
sewn into the coat after the Canadian
fashion.
In the second .lire they will be held
in constant readiness to dash through
the communicating trenches to sup
port attacks on the first line. Two
separate and opposing trench systems
will be in operation, the camp being di-
vided in two warning factions to man
them. Instead of aiming through loop
holes at painted targets or charging a
row of bushes or manikins, the men
will fire blank cartridges at living tar
gets and charge with wooden bayonets
to fence with men similarly armed.
A maze of barbed wire entangle-
ments will be thrown out and, under
cover OF darkness, scouts will be sent
out to cut through them and prepare
the way for an advance To detect
night operations both sides will be
equipped with flares to illuminate the
no mans land between trenches should
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-20

their suspicious be aroused. Should
scouts be discovered referee will de-
termine by the fash of rifles whether
the party has effectually been dis
posed Of.
Regardless of the weather, which
may fill the trenches with several in
ches of water, the men will be obliged
to serve their full time without once
coming up for stroll about the reser-
vation. Field telephone and telegraph
instruments will be installed and all
orders will be delivered through these.
A ruling which went into effect to-
day brings the rigOrs of trench life
closer to some of the men. For the
last month many who have disliked
rough camp fare have marched direct
ly through the mess halls at meal time
and out the other side to privately con-
Quoted restaurants. By order of the
commandant the men hereafter, will
be required to take their regular
places at meal time whether they eat
or not and to march back with the
rest to the barracks before being dis
missed Strict adherence to this or
der will leave only ten minutes to eat
outside.
The order. it is believed, is the re-
suit of misunderstanding on the part
of the wives of certain Regular Army
officers that they had been treated
with lack of respect. The women
we're seated in an automobile near
the New England mess shack when
one of the companies emerged singing
and laughing. The demonstration
was directed toward it and reported
the incident to Colonel Wolf.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-20
MISS COLGATE
MARRIED TODAY
AT BEN VENUE
Bride of DR.. Mather CIeve-
land of New York
A SIMPLE CEREMONY
Bridegroom a Lieutenant in Officers
Reserve Corps and Subject to
Call at Any Time.

Miss Susan Everett Colgate, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. James c. Colgate
was married at noon today to DR.
Mather Cleveland of New York. The
ceremony, which took place at Ben
Venue. the Old Bennington home OF
the brides parents. was performed by
Rev. Edward Dudley Tibbitts. uncle
of the bride and rector of All Saints
church, HoOsick. n. Y.
Owing to the war the wedding was
exceedingly simple. Invitations were
sent only to relatives of the bride and
bridegroom and few intimate friends.
There was no reception, but after the
wedding breakfast the employees on
the pace and their families came to
offer their congratulations and good
wishes.
The wedding took place on the piaz-
"a, which was decorated with ever
green's. ferns and wild flowers. The
brides dress was ivory white satin
with pearl trimmings. The long court
train was covered with rose point lace
belonging to her grandmother. The
lace was caught to a simple tulle cap
banded with pearls from which hung
the tulle veil to the end Of the train
The bride was attended by her sister,
Mrs. James S. Dennis, as matron of
honor Newcomb Cleveland of Den
yer, Col, father of the bridegroom, act
ed as best man.
DR.. Cleveland, who is house surgeon
at the Presbyterian hospital, New
York holds a commission as first lieu
tenant in the officers reserve corps and
is subject to call at any time.
Mrs. Cleveland has been actively
identified with the social activities of
the summer colony at Old Bennington.
As Ben Venu is the family residence
for the larger portion of the year she
has been brought in contact with many
Bennington people and her never fail
ing courtesy, consideration and though
fulness of others has given her place
in the affections of all who know her.
While rejoicing with her in the great
day of her young life it is their hope
that the ceremony today does not mean
the complete severing of the ties that
have bound her to this community.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-20
PERsHINes FROM ALsAcE
Generals Ancestors Came From Pro
vince he VIII Fight TO Free.

Pittsburg. June 1S.-When BLACK
Jack" Pershing fights with the French
to help regain the province of Alsace
he will strike to free the home of his
ancestors. General Pershing's fore
fathers came from Alsace.
Frederick and John Pershing came
to America from Alsace in 1749. They
landed at Baltimore on October 2.
Records show that these two broth
ers lived near where Greensburg now
stands. John Pershing was also one
of the "a patriots who took the oath
of fidelity and allegiance" to form a
regiment, which was the nucleus of
Colonel Proctor's Westmoreland Pro
vincials, whose standard was the rat
tleSnake flag.
General Pershing is a descendant of
Frederick Pershing and is the fifth in
line. Both his father and grandfather
were born in Bradenville, Wesmore-
land county, is now located, II miles
east of Greenburg.
In 1855 the generals father went
west and settled in Laclede, Mo-,
where the general was born.
A public road in Alsace leading
from the little town of Beauman is
called the Pershing road.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-20
THAT TROUT DINNER
Distinguished Guests to Be in Atten-
dance Next Monday Evening,

1t is expected that some of the
pominent sportsmen and conserva-
tionists in Vermont and adjoining
states will be present at the annual
trout dinner of the Bennington County
Forest, Fish and Game association to
he held at the Putnam house, next
Monday evening. bio sl69y
Invitations have been sent and some
acceptances have been received from
State Commissioner Linus Leavens
of Cambridge, John w. Titcomb of
Albany, superintendent of hatcheries
of the state of New York and former
commissioner for Vermont, Warden
A. NJ. Nichols of North Adams, Divis
ion Chief Cassius A. Johnson of Hoo
sick Falls, Government Hatchery Sup
erintendent A. H. Dinsmore of st.
Johnsbury. Assistant Commissioner
Edward Connell of Cambridge and e.
S. Casselman. the well-known fish
culturist of Dorset