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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
WINTER CHECKS ARMIES ARDoR
Cold Restricts Operations OF Euro
pean Armies.


London, Jan 30.-With the wintry
weather prevailing on nearly all the
battle fronts, military operations
have been held to very small engage
ments. when compared with the bat
ties that have taken place under more
favorable conditions.
Snowstorms have brought the op-
erations southwest of Riga, where ap-
parently a great general engagement
was in the making, almost TO a halt
To the south. in Volhynia and across
the line in Galicia, somewhat spirited
isolated fights have taken place, but
with only the capture of trench ele-
ments respectively by the Russians
and Teutonic allies reported. In Ru-
mania only minor operations are
chronicled.
On the front in France and Belgium
except on the sector of hill 304, near
Verdun, artillery bombardments on
both sides have been rather severe
and grenade fighting also has taken
place. Several French attacks against
the German defenses in this region
Sunday broke down with heavy casu-
alties, according to Berlin
While Berlin says the British in
their attacks against the Turks on the
Irak front in Asiatic Turkey last
week suffered heavy losses and in ad-
dition met with repulse, London Of
fetal communication asserts that
Saturday and Sunday the Britishers
in attacks gained complete posses
sion of Turkish first and second line
trenches southwest of Kut-el-Amara
on a front of 1900 yards, and also took
third and fourth line trenches on a
front of 600 yards. A large number
of casualties were suffered by the
Turks.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
MRS. SIDNEY ]. WILKINS
Died at Home on Main Street After
Ten Days illness

The death of Mrs. Sidney ]. wilkins
occurred Monday noon at her late resi-
dence on West Main street after a
short illness from bronchial pneumo-
mia. She had been in poor health for
over four years.
Mrs. Wilkins was fromerly Miss
Mary A. Whittemore and was born
in Mohawk. N. Y, So years ago. She
came to Bennington when she was
twenty years of age and was married
in 1884 She was always active in
the affairs of the Seventh Day Ad-
ventist congregation, of which she
was faithful member and was well
known for her generosity in assisting
missionary work Of all kinds.
Besides the husband, the deceased
leaves two daughters. Mrs. Claiming
e. Fletcher and Mrs. John Allard and
one son, Waldo j. Wilkins. The fu-
neral will be held Wednesday after
noon at o'clock. The remains will
be placed in the vault in Park Lawn
cemetery.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
NE EDFUl KNOWLEDGE
Bennington People Should Learn to
Detect the Approach of Kidney
Disease

The symptoms of kidney trouble
are many. Disordered kidneys often
excrete a thick, cloudy, offensive
urine, full of sediment, irregular OF
passage or attended by sensation of
scalding. The back may ache, head
aches and dizzy spells may occur and
the victim is often weighted down by
a feeling of languor and fatigue. Neg.
lect these warnings and there is dan.
ger. Delay often proves fatal.
You can use no better endorsed kid
ney remedy than Doan's Kidney
Pills. Here's Bennington proof of
their merit
Mrs. NJ. A. Barber, 612 Gage ST.,
Bennington, says: "The action of
my kidneys was irregular and had
backache. ! also had dizzy spells and
black spots and fiery flashes came be-
fore my eyes. Mornings | felt tired,
worn-out and miserable. / read of
Doans Kidney Pills and several boxes
of this medicine gave me relief. |
have had but very little kidney trouble
since"
Price soc. at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Barber had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Props, Buffalo. N. Y.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
PHYSICIAN CLAIMS
BENSON GIRL WAS
NOT MUROERLO
Hospital Head Denies Story of
MLVie A tTess' Mother
EVIDENCES OF AN OPERATION
Rutland County States Attorney
Wires California Officials for
Definite information.

Rutland, Jan. 31.-Mystery still sur
rounds the sudden death in Los An
geles, Calf. of Miss Nora Betty
Benson of Fair Haven andt he subse-
quent shipping of the badly bruised
body of the pretty 26-year-old movie
actress to Rutland county for burial.
Elements contributing to the mystery
are the insistent reiteration of the
girls mother that the body con-
tanned four bullet holes, and the tele-
graphic denial of the mothers charge
by DR.. C. II. Whitman, superintendent
of the county hospital, Los Angeles,
where the girl died.
Mrs. Chauncey Benson is now on
her way to California carrying with
her photographs OF her daughters
body taken in Fair Haven and show
ing the wounds, none OF which was
caused by a bullet, according to the
undertaken and the physician who ex-
amined the body at the latter place.
In an effort to throw light on any
possible local end of the mystery,
States Attorney c. V. Poulin has
wired the Los Angeles officials, de-
manding definite information concern
ing the case.
Features developing yesterday
we're:
The man who- accompanied the
body to Chicago from the West hand
ed over the necessary credentials to
Mrs. Benson and disappeared while
the woman turned around to ask a
question of the ticket agent.
The lower ext.emities OF the body
were badly diseolored. while the alb
domen shows serious operation,
not in keeping with the cause of death
given on the health certificate of the
state of California.
The young woman's mother report
ed that the body was only partially
clothed while both undertaken and
physician say that the clothing was
complete and extravagant.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
SCHOOL DISTRICT
CHI ARIER Will
Be RETAINED
Continued Meeting Debated Three
Hours and adjourned
OPPOSITION HAD MAORI YcFtI
Decision Would Have Been Closer
Had Vote Been Taken Earlier
in the Evening.

! The adjourned village school meet.
ing Monday evening on the question
of combining the graded district with
the ttown district spent an enjoyable
evening chewing over the question
and adjourned at II o'clock without
action.
The adjournment in effect disposc9
of the question fer the present or ur<
til another meeting is called. Tho
vote on the question of adjournment
was So to So but that did not repre-
sent the full attendance at the meet
ing as at one time there were nearly
200 voters present.
AS the long drawn out debate pro-
ceeded many people got tired and
went home. Had it been possible to
get vote on the merits of the ques-
tion in reasonable season the decision
would doubtless have been close,
judging from the manifestations of
approval of what was said by the
various speakers.
For the first time in history the
women took an interested part and
voted in school meeting to the num-
ber of about % or thirty. Not all the
women present voted but of those
who did all but one went on record In
favor of the proposed change through
opposition to the motion to adjourn.
Those who spoke in favor of the
change were Earl w. Williams, H. H.
Webster and Frank E. Howe. Those
who opposed were E. ]. Hall, Frank
4. Vail, Harry J. Cole, Fred c.
Martin, Charles A. Maurer and
w. B. Sheldon. Supt. A., w. Varney
explained what the effect would be on
the schools and told of the progress
that is being made in school methods
He stated that the change to one or
ganization would be good one for
the pupils and particularly to those
outside the graded schools, but did
not think that the financial part of
the situation was very important.
Those who spoke in favor took the
ground that the change was step in
advance and advised by the school
men who knew the most about school
affairs in the state of Vermont. They
thought it would equalize taxation
and benefit the schools.
Inc opponents VI tue pldu uTSeu
the possible dangers of litigation, the
fear that the admission to the rural
voters to the district might in some
way cripple the schools and advised
that the reduction in taxes which
would result did not warrant taking
the risk.
During the course Of the discussion
a request was made that the trustees
individually express their opinions OF
the proposed change and the six mem
bers present were found to be equally
divided. Trustees H. H. Webster, G.
S. Perry and Frank E. Howe favored
the cnaiIsc and Trustees C. 2. Durt,
H. d. Fillmore and c. G. Phillips were
opposed. Trustee f. NJ Crawford who
has been i'll for the past two weeks.
was not present.
Moderator w. d. 5leldon called the
meeting to order, but the most of the
evening was spent in committee OF
the whole with e. C.. Bennett as
chairman.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
FISHING FOR sMELTs
Interesting Article in outing by Clay
ton J. kinsIey.

tOT Js NtnSicys
Among articles by such distin.
guished writer's as Edgar Macmechen,
Frederick l.. Coe and Karl Moon,
there is in the current issue of Out
ing an illustrated narration by Clay
ton J. Kinsley of the Banner staff of
the inside facts of the sport of catch
ing smelts through the ice, entitled,
Smelling for Fun
Cleverly combining an interest
ing bit of story of his winter in and
about Essex Junction with clear
and vivid exposition of the correct
method to hook smelts, the author
pictures the sport as one of the most
fascinating in the annals of out
doors.
On Lake Champlain the fishermen
cut holes through the floor of the
shanties which are dotted over the
surface. They use fine silk line
with a heavy sinker, as the water Is
sometimes seventy feet deep. The
hook is baited with bits of beef liver
The fish get such slight purchase on
the hook that it takes practised
hand to realize that one is caught and
the writer tells of the difficulty he
had in keeping the fish on the hook
after he felt the line tug.
The description OF the meal which
followed the fishing is so appetizing
that 1t makes one wish Essex juno
ton. with all its profane connections,
were nearer home.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
PRIMARY LAW WAS
SUSTAINED BY
LAWMAKERS
Bill to pepeal Primary aw Defeat :
ed By Vote Of III 10 46
~ The HOUSE THIS MORNING
Legislature Resumed Setting Last
Night and Issue This Week Is the
Fate of Governors Bills.

Montpelier, JAN 30.-The bill to re-
peal the primary law was before the
House this morning and after a short
debate the bill was killed by vote Of
III to as on yea and nay vote.
Mr.. Williams of Pawlet urged the
repeal of the primary and it's reten-
tion was favored by Mr.. Phelps of
Fair Haven and Mr.. Puffer Of Rich
ford. The only member from Ben
nington county to vote for 3he repeal
of the primary was Raymond Higgins
of Woodford.
The legislature resumed its sitting
Monday evening after the over Sun
day recess and the principal interest
this week is expected to be the con-
test over the bills advocated by Gov
ernor Graham.
The bill to consolidate the several
departments in the department OF ag
riculture is special order for this
afternoon. The governors insurance
department bill is to be reported fav-
orably by the committee
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
I'M MIGRANT BILL
FAILS TO WIN
WILSON 0. K.
President Oisapproves Of literacy
Test for Foreigners
KIS SECOND VETO OF MEASURE
Says Men Of Other Lands Come to
America Because of Educational
Opportunities.

Washington, Jan. 29.-President
immigration bill today. In the state
ment of his reasons for refusing for
the second time in his administration
to give his approval to the measure.
the President stated that the provis-
ion incorporated in the bill to admit
illiterateS who may come to the Unit
ed States seeking a refuge from re-
ligious persecution involved the re-
sponsibility on the part of United
States immigration officials to pass
on the laws and practices of foreign
Governments, and this he regarded as
an invidious function for any admins
trative officer of this Government to
perform.
Singularly this feature of the bill
was inserted to meet the objections
raised by President Wilson in his first
veto of the bill
In his veto message the president
said
I'm most of the provisions of the
bill l should be very glad to concur
but ! cannot rid myself of the convic-
tion that the literacy test constitutes
radical change in the policy of the
nation which is not justified in princi-
pie. 1t is not a test of character. of
quality. or of personal fitness (but
would operate in most cases merely
as a penalty for lack of opportunity
in the country from which the alien
seeking admission came. The op-
portunity to gain an education is in
many cases one of the chief opportuni-
ties sought by the immigrant in COM
ing to the United States and our ex-
perience in the past has not been that
the illiterate immigrant is as such an
undesirable immigrant"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
What a Chance Since Thenl

Apropos of the present high cost oil
living, u resident of Boston recently
found a letter dated Sept. 8, 1851, in
which the writer lists the prevailing
prices of food, complaining that 1.-The
cost of living is going up" Flour, $3.15
per barrel; potatoes, 80 cents bushel;
butter, 121a cents a pound; eggs, cents
a dozen, and cheese, S cents pound
Osteopathic Magazine.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30

The Freeman team of the North
Adams grammar school basketball
league, holders of first place in that
league, will play the championship
team of the Bennington league at the
Y NJ. C. A. here on February at 4.30
O'Clock. The Freeman team has not
been defeated this season, and a fast
game is expected. Admission to this
game to grammar school pupils will
be five cents. to the public ten cents.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
CHISHOLM WILL SUSTAINED
Town of WlnhaII and Church Were
Benefciaries.

Manchester. Jan. 29.-After being
out for about twenty minutes jury
returned verdict against the con-
testants of the will of VIM. F. CHS
holm in county court this afternoon.
The case had occupied the attention
of the court for a full week as there
were great number of witnesses to
be heard. BY the will the town OF
Winhall and the Methodist church of
that town are benehciaries along with
many of the relatives of the deceased
but some of the relatives received but
nominal mention.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
inactivity Causes CONSTIPATION

Lack of exercise in the winter is a
frequent cause of constipation. You
feel heavy, dull and listless, your
complexion is sallow and pimply, and
energy at low ebb. Clean up this
condition at once with DR.. Kings
New Life Pills, a mild laxative that
relieves the congested intestines
without gripping. A dose before retir.
ing Will assure you full and easy
movement in the morning. 25c. at
your Druggist
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
Worth Attention Of Women.

When you feel too tired to work,
when dark puffs appear under your
eyes, when you wake up weary. with
backache or pains in sides and loins,
when muscles and bones ache, when
you suffer rheumatic twinges, when
lumbago puts you down, then you
know the kidneys are weakened or
disordered. Mrs. T. ]. Bucknell.
Route /, Hardy, Neb.. writes: 81 am
recovering from an attack of lumba-
go, by the aid of Foley Kidney Pills.
They surely have helped me. e."--Sold
everywhere.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
Grandmother, the Pioneer Physician

In the good old pioneer days of
this country when drug stores were
few, grandmothers root and herb rem
edies were what were always depend
ed upon to bring relief for family all
ments, and some of grandmother's root
and herb remedies are now found up
on the shelves of the modern drug
store, and are among the best and
most widely used prepared medicines.
Such is Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound, botanic remedy, orr
ginally prepared by Lydia f. Pinkham
of Lynn, Mass, over forty years ago,
and which has brought health and
happiness to more women in America
than any other medicine.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
RUMANlAN TRAIN DISASTER
100 Men of High Rank Killed, Ac.
cording to Berlin Story

Berlin, Jan. 27, (by Wireless to
Sayville, Jan. 2S)-More than 100
Rumanians of high rank lost their
lives in train wreck near the Ru-
manian station of Tshura. according
to dispatch said by the Overseas
News Agency to have been printed
in the Russky Slovo. The locomo-
tive of a train carrying the Ruman-
ians to Russia jumped the track. and
the cars took fire.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
INDOOR BASEBALL GAMES
Season Of Grammar School League is
in Its Second Week.

In the grammar school indoor base
ball league, Division V got revenge
from their defeat in basketball from
Division A by defeating them in base
ball 17-l2. Division F had streak of
luck and won from Division 1921.
Division d with well balanced team
defeated Division e 1874.
At the end of the first week of the
league four teams are tied for first
place.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
wARsHIPs OFF NEW YORK
British Cruisers Believed to Be in
Search of German Raider.

New York, Jan. 31.-British war
ships are cruising off this port today
in search, 1t is believed, of a German
raider that has been seen about 700
miles off the coast.
All shipping today was warned not
to send wireless messages that would
give locations.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
TROOPS FREEZE TO DEATH
Austria Reports Temperature on Her
Fronts Lowest In Years

Vienna, Jan. 2S. (via London.)-
Heavy SHOWS and intense cold have
resulted in q slackening, of the mill
tary operations on all the war fronts
where Austro-Hungarian troops are
engaged. The temperature is the
lowest known in years.
II is almost impossible to use artil-
lery, owing to the great cold, while
cases of men frozen to death are plen-
tiful.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
GallipoIi.

Athens colonized the peninsula Of
Gallipoli more than $500 years ago.
It's inhabitants, the DolonlSian Thra-
clans, asked Athenian aid against saw
age neIghbors, and Mitiades walled
of the isthmus near Bulair.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
RoscH PUTS OUT KID CASEY
Bennington Boxer Ends Bout In Pitts
field in Fifth Round.


"Kid' Rosch of Bennington won his
bout with kid" Casey before the
Twentieth Century club of Pittsfield
Monday evening. Casey, who comes
from Hoosick Falls and who is much
the heavier man Of the two, went
down for the count in the fifth round
of what was to have been an eighth
stanza "go".
According to the newspaper reports
Casey had the better Of the first
round but in the second Rosch cut
loose and had his opponent groggy
during the remainder of the bout.
Casey was on one knee when he
was counted out by Referee Shana-
han. He left the ring, went to his
dressing room and then came back in
the ring and announced that he was
ready to continue the bout. The
referee refused to believe him.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
RATION SYSTEM IN BRITAIN
To Be Instituted Soon and Apply to
Entente United kinqdom.

London, Jan. 2S-William c. Ander-
son, Labor Member of Parliament
speaking today at Leicester, said he
was giving away no secret in stating
that the population of the United
Kingdom would at very early date be
put under ration system.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
UNKNOWN STEAMER ASHORE
Craft on Rocks Near Wreck of Trans
port Sumner

New York, Jan. 31.--The United
States patrol boat stationed at Sandy
Hook put to sea this morning to go to
the assistance of an unknown steamer
ashore near the wreck of the trans
port Sumner.
The identity of the steamer could
not be ascertained because of the fog.
She went ashore about midnight and
her whistle has since been giving sig
nails of distress.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
Five minutes time

is sufficient to render a man uninsur-
able Every insurable man in time
becomes uninsurable. Insure now and
be sure. 6Sth year. National Life
Ins. Co, of VT. (Mutual) Earle S.
S. Kinsley, General Agent, Mead
Building, Rutland, VT. ADV.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
Proven Guilty But Most People Promptly Suppose Something And
POISON KILLS FIVE
Wife of Illinois Farmer Mistakes
Arsenic for Pancake, Flour.

Danforth, H.. Jan. 31--Mrs o. J.
Meints, the wife of a farmer acci-
dentally killed her four sons and
grandson today by mistaking arsenic
for pancake -four
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
WEATHER FORECAST

For eastern New York and western
Vermont fair and colder tonight.
Wednesday increasing cloudiness fol.
lowed by rain or snow Wednesday
night.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
The Bennington Garage
E.w. WILLIAMS. Prop.
F0RD, DODGE q HUDSON CAR )
Full Line of Highrs' Grade Supply
and Tres
Main Street and North Street

ESTATE OF JOSEPH PEPPER
ST ATE OF ERsONT, Tbs Homer.
District of Remington. So. ( able Probate
Court for the District OF Benninstua:
TO the cirs and al persons infere ted in the
estate OF Jos ph epper late II tie n'ng' on in
said district, dacease GREE TING:
WoEREAS, apol cation hath been mae @
this Co lrt in r ing. by the Anm is ratf
prayii or lice s a authority H. al OF
rea' e tae'f al dseas, or he pa me o.
debit AID charg o adminisfra o setting
forth therein Tue amou't of deb ue ir IN
tad dtceas =, the char G, of a m'ri "a 10 p,
and tn am Il tot perso al estate and situa IN
Of the rea es ATE.
wHEREOPOs v the ga Cur arp inted and
assiyne, the 49, day of Feb 10 7, az the Proba Q
Once in BeDniugt q ia aid Di trici. TO hear
and decide upon aid ap lie tion aud pc It'll n
ordei ed pub /, notice til ie TO oe piye Co all
perp ms interested ereia. by pulls 1 said
order. iogei her ith tho time AND ace nf
hearing, three weeks su rt rtssivrly H. be Ben.
ningron BanOer, ewspaper VIII ch C rtu y es
In the n& iGhborho d of those so sinte r-sts d
In aid esia Q, al VIII cl yu lica, ons sha be
pr ytous u the ay assigned Z r hea ins
THkHEFOnh. yo1 are hereb, notined to
appe <r before Id 0urt, at the time and place
asslsned. then and there la said Court, make
your dbje ,tions to the granting of such license
ny ,eAc use
GIVEN UNDER VT HAND at Bennington, in
said District. this "a b cay of January 1917.
AMY h. ARhUUR. Regis er
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-30
Card of Thanks.

We wish to thank our many friend
for their floral offerings, words o
kindness and deeds in our hour o
trouble.
Geo. H. Cook and children,
Simon Green,
Walter S. Wright.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-05
LABOR T0F|CHT
ALL PROP ACANDh
TO HINDER war
Complete Loyalty to u, S, Is
Conference Slogan,

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. s.--samuel
Gompers, president OF the American
Federation Of Labor, and chairman OF
the American Alliance for Labor and
Democracy, opened its national confer
ence here today, outlining its purpose as
assembling for the support OF the gov
ernment "of all the moral and material
power of the working class OF the ma %
tion."
Plan to Combat Propaganda.
1T shall be our task he said, 10
interpret Americas democratic spirit
and purpose in this conflict to our fel-
low workers, especially those of foreign
birth, and to combat every form OF
propaganda, no matter by whom it may
be carried on, which tends to weaken
the loyalty and devotion of the masses
and their willingness to strive and sac
riiicc for the nation and its purpose
The complete declaration of prinoi-
Piles, as announced by Mr. Gompers, is
as follows
Unqualified Loyalty Asserted.
"As deliverers in the great and splen-
did vision OF democracy and interna-
tionalism, the fraternalism and solid
CONTINUED on PAGE Q Column a.