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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-31
AMBASSADOR GOES
10 MtXICO CITY
I'M MEOIAIELY
Diplomatic Relations with pepub-
lie to Be Resumed
CARRlkzA TO Be RECOG IzEO
United States Has Not Been Repre-
sented Since Huerta Dismissed
'shauehnessy in 1914.

Washington, Jan. 30.-President
Wilson and his Cabinet today decided
to send Ambassador Henry p. Fetch
er to Mexico City at once. When Mr..
Fletcher presents his credentials com
plete diplomatic intercourse between
the two Governments, who was sew
cred in April, 1914, will be restored.
Captain Frank r. Mccoy, Third Cav
airy, has been designated as Military
Attache to the embassy. He will sail
with Ambassador Fletcher.
With the presentation OF Mr.. Fletch
er's credentials, this Government viii
formally recognize the Carranza au-
thority as the de jure Government Of
Mexico. at present the Carranza Ad-
ministration has been recognized only
as the de facto government. This
will be the first recognition given by
the United States to any Government
in Mexico since the Madero regime
was recognized in the Taft Admins
tration.
There has been no American Am
bassador at Mexico City since Henry
Lane Wilson was recalled after the
killing of Madero and Huerta's as
sumption OF power. Formal diploma
tic intercourse has not existed since.
Huerta handed Charge Nelson o.
Shaughnessy his passports April %,
1914. on tie landing of American ma
Iines at Vera Cruz. The Brazilian
Minister cared for the interests Of
the United States for long time, var
ious unofficial agents have been sent
to Mexico on special missions, and
since the recognition of the de facto
Constitutionalist Government subordi-
nate officials have been in charge of
the embassy.
Ambassador Fletcher will carry
with him complete instructions on
questions now pending which Presi-
dent Wilson and Secretary Lansing
desire taken up with the Carranza
Government. These include strong
protests already made against pro-
visions of the proposed new Mexican
Constitution discriminating against
foreigners and their interests.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-31
cHAuNcEY TODD IN JAIL
Young Negro Admits Breaking into
E. e. Braman & Co.'S. Store.

Chauncey Todd, young negro, was
arrested this forenoon on the charge
of breaking into the +. E. Braman
store on Main street Sunday fore
noon. He was taken before Edward
c. Bennett, who acted in the case in
the absence of States Attorney Frank
C. Archibald, and after some ques-
tioning admitted the charge.
The break at the store was made
Sunday forenoon about o'clock and
was effected by twisting away the
lock on the cellar door with the fur
mace shaker.
No good money was left in the cash
drawer Saturday night, but Todd
found few pieces of counterfeit coin
that had been on hand for months
and which had been laid one side
when found in the cash. Tood took
the coins and used them at a grocery
store and other places of business on
Main street. The coins led to the
suspicion that he was responsible for
the break and this forenoon he was
arrested by Officers Brazil and Hur-
ley.
About three years ago Todd sudden
ly disappeared from Bennington af-
ter passing some forged checks. He
was later arrested for stealing per-
sonal effects Of Yale university pro-
fessor at whose home he was en-
ployed in New Haven and underwent
a sentence in Connecticut institu-
ton.
Upon his return to Bennington the
convicted and sentenced to the state
prison at Windsor The sentence was
commuted and Todd was placed on
probation. 1t is probable that he will
now be taken to Windsor to serve
out his sentence for forgery.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-31
THE FoRTNloHTLY
Miss Mary Gates Cone to Read Paper
at Saturday Meetina.

at Saturday Meeting.
The next meeting Of the Fortnight
ly will be held Saturday, Feb. 3rd at
the Second Congreg gational chapel at
3 o'clock. The annual musicale was
to have occurred on that date, but it
has been necessarily postponed until
later in the season and a home after
noon, which always proves popular
with the club has been arranged by
the program committee.
Miss Mary Gates Cone will read a
paper on Illustrations from Nature
in the Hebrew Prophets" Miss Cone
read this paper before the Mount An
thony country club last summer and
also in North Adams before a group
OF women's organizations.
The committee in charge feels that
the Fortnightly is especially privi-
legged in having this paper read be-
fore them.
Miss Cone is thoughtful Bible
student and will present her subject
in such manner that each member
Of the club may gain an added pleas
ure in and appreciation of the beauty
of the prophetic writings of the old
Testament.
Mrs Arthur j. Holden, whose play
ing is always delight, will furnish
music playing Beethoyen's Moonlight
Sonata.
Miss Hilda Pratt will read a short
paper THE Significance of the Sunday
School Institute" which was recently
held here.
A request was made at the last
meeting that each member Of the club
hand treasurer ten cents to be used
toward the state scholarship fund
those who have not already done so,
may make their contribution at this
time if they so desire.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-31
AMI : $40 e.. VIII
Be WAkn,. IF
armed SHIPS
Germany Considering Message to
US. State Department
ARMED MERCHANTMEN PROBLEM
Ships Of Allied Nations Have Been
Using Guns to Attack
Submarines.

Washington, Jan. Authorization
has reached Washington that Ger
many and her allies are considering
communicating to the State Depart
ment a virtual warning that Ameri-
cans should keep off armed merchant
ships of belligerent nations.
This became known today following
the intimation in official circles yes
terday that the United States might
issue a new memorandum setting
forth its additude toward armed mer-
chantmen.
1t is not known just when or in
what manner the warning may be
conveyed, but Germany apparently
has been paving the way for such
step for several weeks by submitting
to the State Department series of
statements alleging specific instances
in which merchant craft OF the Enten-
to Powers have used extensively
against submarines guns carried os-
tensibly for defense.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-31
ALBANY BOXER KILLED
Ring Opponent Held on Charge Of
Manslaughter.

Albany, Jan. 31.-Stephen T. Nc
Donald, twenty-five years old, is dead
and William (Toddy) Hicks, twenty
seven years old, is charger with man
slaughter, second degree. as a result
of one of the boxing bouts in connec-
ton with the weekly show OF the Ma
tional Athletic club in German hall
last night. Club officials, seconds and
the referee also were arrested on the
same charge at the order OF Coroner
Warren s. Hastings. These men were
released in $500 bail, pending their
examination in coroner's court Fri
day afternoon.
Mcdonald, the dead boxer, was the
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. James ]. Nc
Donald Of 81 Central avenue, Albany.
His father, who had pleaded with him
at the dinner table not to engage in
the boxing bout, attended the show
and saw the blows that caused his
sons death.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-31
$50 IN PRIZES
Offered by Bennington County I'm
rrovement Association.


provement Association.
The Bennington County Vermont
Improvement Association offers $50
to pay expenses of five club members
one each in corn, potatoes, sewing
canning and poultry-to the fourth
annual Vermont State Boys and
Girls Agricultural and Industrial Elk
position in October, 1917.
Any boy or girl in Bennington
County, between the ages of ten and
eighteen years. inclusive, can com
pete for the prize trip. Those desir.
ing to compete should signify their
desire by writing f. l.. ingalls,, State
Club Leader. Burlington, Vermont, or
request their teacher or superinten-
dent to have them enrolled with Mr..
ingalls, as club member.
Prize trips will be awarded to boys
and girls scoring the highest in the
following projects:
l. Corn-open to boys only-Best
All-round Half Acre of Corn. Basis
of award: Greatest Yield, 80 points:
greatest net income, 80 points; best
exhibit, ten ears, 20 points; best story
How | Did my Corn Club Work." 20
points.
2. Potatoes-open to boys only
Best All-round Fourth Acre OF Pota-
toes. Basis of award: Greatest yield,
40 points: largest net income, 80
points; best exhibit, ten potatoes, Is
points; best story-"How | Did my
Potato Club Work." is points.
3. Sewing-open to girls only
Best All-round Exhibit from follow
ing; Dress, waist, MILDLY blouse,
cooking apron, nightdress, combina-
ton or corset cover, laundry bag,
towel and each exhibit must include
one darned stocking and one patched
garment, profit account and story
How | Did My Sewing Club Work. =
Basis of award: Structure. 40 points;
stitches, 90 points; finishing, 25
points; gneral appearance, Is points.
4. Canning-open 10 girls only
Largest and Best Collection of Veg
etables, Greens. and Fruit by any one
contestant. One quart jar only Of
each variety, profit account and
story-"How Did My Canning Club
Work Basis of Award; Variety,
80 points; quality. 80 points; Contain
ers, 20 points; appearance in jar.
20 points.
5. Poultry-open to boys and girls.
Basis of award: Trios consisting of
two pullets and one cockerel-stand-
ard breeds, so points.
Best exhibits of one dozen eggs (all
white of all brown from standard
breeds, 25 points.
Best story-"How | Raised my
Chickens" or How | Made My Hens
Lay" 15 points.
Boys and girls competing for the
prize trips will be expected to exhibit
their fullexhibit at the Battenkill
Valley Fair at Manchester Center,
Vermont. at which time prize winners
will be announced.
Note: In the Sewing and the Can.
ming Projects, the exhibit of profit ac-
count and story will be considered in
their general bearing upon the ex-
hibit and work as a whole.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-31
MAY CARRY THREE GUNS
British Talk of Increasing Armament
for Transatlantic Liners.

lOT
Washington, Jan. 2s.-Further in
ternational complications over sub
marine warfare and the status of
armed merchant vessels loomed up
tonight with the receipt in Washing
ton of unofficial advices that Great
Britain plans heavier armament for
transatlantic liners. The British plan
contemplates the mounting of three
guns on all transatlantic merchant
ships. To meet the neutrality regula-
tions of the United States, it was re-
ported, these ships will proceed from
British ports to Halifax, N. s., two of
the guns will be dismantled and left
there and the liners will proceed to
the United States ports carrying only
the single stern gun "for defense"
which the state department has held
to be proper The same procedure
would be followed, according to re-
ports. on the return trip, and the mer-
chantmen would be conveyed by En-
tente warships, between Halifax and
their destination in the United States.
According to advices reaching the
United States, the plan is devised to
give transatlantic liners power to
combat German submarines and raid
ers.
Vigorous aggressive submarine tac-
tics will meet this move, if it is made,
Teutonic diplomats declared tonight.
They asserted that any merchant ves-
sci carrying more than single stern
gun would be looked upon as an auxil-
iary cruiser and would be held subject
to all rules OF warfare.
The state department has ruled
that a vessel carrying single gun for
defense" is a peaceful merchantmen
and cannot be sunk without the for
mality of visit and search.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-31
How to Remove Clothes From Boiler
With q Forked Stick.

II is much ensier to take clothes out
OF boiler if a forked stick Is used in
stead of the usual round one One can
be Whitfield ont at home. Take piece
Of wood four inches wide and thirty
inches long. That will make a handle
twenty-four inches in length and forks
Of six inches. Whea shaped the han
die should be two inches vile. If one
has access to trees such stick can
be found ready made. All that you
will have to do TO prepare it will be to
peel the bark off and clean Il.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-31

MONTPELIER WOMAN KILLED
Mrs. Henry L. E. Smith Victim OF
Automobile Accident

Montpelier, Jan. 2S.--Mrs. Henry l..
Il. Smith, practically a lifelong resi-
dent of Montpelier, was killed in an
automobile accident at Pasadena, Cal,
last night, a telegram conveying the
news being received in the city this
morning by Mrs. Marshall l.. Wood.
The telegram failed to tell the details,
but stated that her husband, cashier
at the Hotel Raymond at Pasadena,
will start with the remains for Mont
pelier Immediately.
Mr.. Smith has been cashier at the
Hotel Raymond during the winter sea-
son for many years. having similar
position in hotel at the white noun
tains during the summer. Mr.. and
Mrs. Smith left for California Decem-
ber 81
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-31
STRANGE ALIENATION SUIT
Father Of 20 Children Is Seeking Heart
Balm OF $4,000

Admitting that he is the father of
2S children, Honroe Drapeau, 63, ap-
peared Tuesday in superior court in
Manchester. ~ H., bringing charges
Of alienation of his wife's affections
against j. B. Blanchard. formerly a
well-known coal and wood dealer in
that city. He asks heart balm in the
sum of $4,000.
Drapeau declares that he had con-
sidered Blanchard friend. that he
had opened his home to him freely,
and that for several years the defen-
dant has been taking undue advantage
of the confidence imposed in him.
He asserts that he has been mar
ried three times. His first two wives,
he says, died after bearing him 19
children. In 1904, when he was so
years old, he went to Canada and
married for the third time. His wife
was a girl of 90 They have had four
children. The oldest, a boy of 10
years, occupied a seat beside his faith
er in the court room.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-31
Ennlisl, Surnames.

The following list of surnames actu-
ally extant in England today was COM
posed by an official in Doctors Com
mons who had his own name changed
by law;
Asse, Bub, Boots, Bones, Beast,
Cheese, Cod, Cookies. Dune Demon,
Dam. Drinkmilk, Fatt, E'rogge, Goose,
Ginger, Ghost, Gimlet, Gready, Hugg,
Hump, Headach, jug, Jelly, Kneebone,
Kidney, Leaky, Lazy, Mug, Monkey.
Plghead, Poker, Radish. Rottengoose,
Snags, Swine and Vittles.--L London
Mail. ~
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-31
$4,000 FOR SINKING U-BoAT
British Freighter Fired Fatal Shot at
Submarine,

Boston. Jan. 30.--A reward of
$4,000 of sinking a German submarine
in the Bay of Biscay some months ago
has been paid to Captain W. r. Miller
of the British freighter Clan Robert
son, in port here from Liverpool, it
became known today. At the time of
the encounter Captain Miller was in
command of the British steamer Clan
Macfadyen, bound from India for
London.
AS the submarine approached and
prepared to make an attack, the
steamer fired gun mounted on her
forward deck. The submarine, it
was said, lurched heavily and plunged
to the bottom, bow first.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-31
usn of Mans.

A board inspector having few min
utes to spare after examining the
school. put n few questions to the low.
or form boys on the common objects
in the schoolroom.
what is the use OF the map?" he
asked, pointing to one stretched across
the corner of the room. and half n
dozen shrlli voices answered in meas
ured artculatlons:
please. sir. it's to hide masters BIZ
rycle. - London Tit. Bits.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-31
EAST ARLINGTON

The fourth entertainment in the
Lyceum Course will be given Thurs
day evening, February l, at Foresters
hall, East Arlington. This is very
different from any we have ever had.
The Ongawas come very highly
recommended and we hope to have a
good full house to hear them. Dancing
25c. Refreshments 10c. 101t2
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-31
Careleas sraech.

II hear the Grabcoins have hired a
tutor for young Reginald Grabcoln."
YES; but whenever Mr. Grabcoin
mentions the new member of the house.
bold Mrs. Grabcoin is greatly humili-
ated."
why soY
MIR. Grabcoin has way of pro-
nouncing tutor as II the person re-
fcrred to did exercises on the from
bone. cornet or some other kind of
horn. st Louis Post Dispatch.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-31
DEER MANeLED BY DOG
Victim of Canine Ferocity Found In
Goshen

Middlebury, Jan. 2S-Fish and game
Warden George II. Chaffee called to
Goshen Thursday to look after a
wounded deer found the animal had
a broken leg and had also been injured
by a dog. The skin had been torn
from the right side of its body for
space nearly foot square and it had
also been badly bitten on other parts
OF its body and legs. Mr. Chaffee To-
Gated the dog, which was owned by
Robert Hayes, living in the northern
part OF Goshen. After receiving some
advice from the warden he agreed to
dispose of the dog.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-31
(SoMMIs :IovRas' NOTICE.
~ Fatatt of sAkY PRATT WOr

the Honnrah q Pr b t. Court for ne Uistr OF
OF Benninpton COwMIs'oNERS 70 reoe We.
exam ne a. d a 'st the clei ms and .remends ~
Wood Ia 0 ~ ReDningto In i'd Di.tric', de-
cea ed. aid al clnims exhibit N n, there.
to- hereby i've noise that ~e v III meet r the
pui u } q AFR eaid / IN b-rningt Gu ~
iav pgs "a k in he To N o Penning'nn .aii
Dit 'ct q he eth d ~ o July 1911 mex from
10 clock m. until 'ci Q, p. m, 90"
fr m the 2sth If Jan ary, A. .. 1877.
Ia the ,n- iinted by said Q uit tor seid cred
ifors o preseut h ir claims to us or exsnina-
tiop aud sl owance.
Dated at Den,i gt,n, Vermont, this % b day
OF Ja.uary, A. ID 1911
O. II DEWEY
h. r. kAWnON
Commissioners
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-31

Mrs. Bacon-Don't you think I'm en-
titled to pension, John? Mr.. Bacon
Why no. A pension is something you
get after you are through fighting..-
Yonkers Statesman.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-31
EAST ARLINGTON

NJ. Cole will sell all ladies' winter
coats and suits at one third off regu-
lar price. A few 1915 STYLES left will
be sold at less than half price. Mems
over coats also at reduced prices.
Adv.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-31
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
FOR SALE-Snali pigs IL weeks
old. Good clover hay. Tel 394-W.

old, Good clover hay. Tel S94-W.
.4s.~s.asa-asas.as 1921
FOR SALE-One grey Morgan
mare true double and single, good
free driver also one enclosed mail
wagon with heater Elmer Stanley.
North Bennington, VT. 02t10s
FOR SALE-Regal Coupe, first
class running order. Bargain $500.
Phone 273-W. 1921
TO RENT-Six room tenement on
Silver street. Procession given i'm
mediately. Inquire Ward Lyons.
Agent. lott
LOST-Between Maple and Grove
streets an oriental green enamel
brooch with amethyst in center and
small pearls. Reward given If re-
turned to Banner Office. 102t6
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-31
WEATHER FORECAST

For eastern New York and western
Vermont probably rain tonight and
Thursday. Thursday much colder.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-04-25
Outside the House,

How many beautiful homes on which
money has been spent lavishly to make
them complete are married by some de-
feet in the landscape work! A few
hours motor trip through the suburbs
OF almost any city in the country will
reveal many such cases. The most fire.
qucnt jar the trained eye receives is
from the poorly laid out, walks and
driveways in which badly arranged
curves are used or walks made to curve
around an oval grass plot placed in the
center for no other reason than to
make pedestrians take time to circle
about that particular grass plot. Post
men, messenger boys and others take
a short cut, and soon path in the
proper direction is worn across the sod.
When curve is used in a walk or
driveway there should be a reason for
it. If there is no other reason plant
one; place a tree or two or shrubs in a
position SO the curve will seem neces-
sary. People then will keep on the
walk, and the plan will seem reason
able.-New York Sun.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-04-25
Falling Up Out Of a Balloon.

If man falls out Of q rising aero,
plane or balloon he will not go toward
the earth, but will continue rising into
the air, for an appreciable time. II
the air machine were stopped in it:
ascent at the time It could catch the
man rs he came down. If the airship
were ascending at the rate Of thirty
two feet second the man would rise
sixteen feet before beginning to fall
toward the earth. Thus, by reducing
the speed Of its ascent, the vessel
might keep by the side Of the man and
rescue him. The reason why the man
rises is the same as the reason for a
bullets rising when shot from gun
into the air-both the man and the
bullet are given a velocity upward, and
1t takes some time for gravity to mega
tive that velocity. q -
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-04-25
Shotguns In War;.

That shotguns should be largely uti.
lized in modern warfare is the conten:
ton Of number Of military experts.
1t is pointed out that such guns would
be particularly useful to sentries at
night time, as an intruder might more
easily be crippled and captured by a
spreading charge Of heavy shot than by
single bullet. Moreover, a person
moving quickly might often be missed
by shot from rifle, whereas snap
shot from shotgun in semidarkness
could hardly fail to find its object.
In the trenches shotguns could be
used with success. \ shotgun loaded
With about forty-eight grains of pow,
der and one and hah ounces of big
shot, with about twenty-five pellets,
would be of much more value than the
rife, as during night attack, either
for attack or. defense in 'semidarkness,
a single charge would hardly fail:to In
f1ict serious wounds on one or, more OF
the enemy. Exchange. a*@s 4 SIIft
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-04-25
Making q Magnet.

The simplest way of magnetizing a
bar Of steel is. that known as "single
touch" The bar to be magnetized is
laid on the table, and the pole Of a
powerful magnet is rubbed from ten to
twenty times along its length, always
in the same direction. If the north pole
Of the magnet is employed the end Of
the bar first touched will also become
a north pole, while the opposite end, at
which the magnet is lifted before re-
turning, will be a south pole. .,
There are other and more complicat-
ed methods, known as divided touch
and double touch" In which two and
even four magnets are employed. :
A steel bar can also be magnetized
by placing 1t within coil Of insulated
wire, through which a galvanic current
is circulating. The magnetism induced
in this way, however, is weak COM
pared with that which can be procured
If the same strength Of: current is en-
ployed through the Intervention Of an
electromagnetic.