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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-13

sentlal to success, and grains which
are in poor condition should not be
fed. Old grains which are hard are
better than new soft grains. especially
for pigeons with squads, Good wheat
screenings are otter fed with success.
Clear drinking water, grit, broken
oyster shell and charcoal should be
kept before the pigeons all the time.
Salt is fed in various forms. and n
supply of this material is generally
considered essential. Salt may be fed
in lump form, such as rock salt or
fine salt mostened and baked into n
hard lump, without danger of the
pigeons eating too much.
Pans of water should be provided
daily except during the winter. They
should be used only about twice a
week during the winter.
Age for Marketing.
Squads are fed by their parents
until they are marketed, which Is usu-
ally at from three and half to four
and half weeks Of age. They must
be sold about this age as the period
during which they are ready for mar
ket rarely exceeds one week. Squads
are in good market condition when full
ly feathered under the wings, which is
usually about the time they begin to
leave their nests, and if not killed at
this time they soon lose their baby fat
and their flesh begins to get hard.
Catch the squads to be marketed
in the morning before they are fed by
their parents, 50 that their crops will
be empty. Squads are usually killed
in the same manner as poultry by cut
ting the arteries in the back part of
the roof OF the mouth and piercing the
brain, but If sent to market without
plucking they are usually killed by
wringing or breaking the neck The
latter is done by pressing the thumb
against the place where the bones of
HE neck Join the head, until the head
IS dislocated. In sticking, the squads
are hung By their legs on nails or
hooks, with their wings double-loeked.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-13
THE EVENING BANNER
BENNINGTON VERMONT
Thursday, December 10, 1917.
BENNINGTON ekIEFS
News OF the Town and Village Tesa
Briefly for Busy Readsrs

Mrs, Henry Tabor OF Dandy was the
guest Wednesday of her mother, Mrs.
Mary Allen of Pleasant street m
Ethel Barrymore in The Lifted
Veil' and Burton Holmes Traye-
logue at Harte theatre tomorrow.
Adv
The older girls Bowling Club viii
meet at the Y. NJ. c. A. tonight from
7 till 81 80 Please use the side en-
trance.
Mrs. Robert knight left last week
for Flatbush, Brooklyn, where she
will spend the winter with her cou-
sin, Miss p. j. M. Pierce.
Philip Harris and George Hathaway
left for Pittsfield this morning where
they will take an examination pre-
paratory to enlistment in the avia-
ton corps.
The friends of Mr. and Mrs. T. L.
Thomas will be interested to hear
that their son, Theodore. underwent
a successful operation for strangula-
ed hernia in the Mercy Hospital,
Trenton, n. j.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Payne are con
vinced that their son Nelson who
was attached to Headquarters at Fort
Ethan Allen has crossed TO France
with some contingent of army Rec
emily he was transferred to a post
on Long Island. 1t is known that he
has left his last post but that is all
the Information that has been receiy-
ed 88s
Mrs, Joseph Levin was in Troy
Wednesday to visit hsr husband who
has been at one Of the hospitals
for, some time undergoing treatment
for neuralgia. The patients condi-
ton has been such as TO seriously
alarm his family but Wednesday the
attending physicians informed Mrs,
Levin that the condition OF the pat
lent was much more hopeful.
County Warden S. b. Hawks was
called to the White Oaks district
near the Williamstown line Monday
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-13
poa on operatlnu Table.

Mack. a bulldog owned by Mrs
Charles Wright. teacher at the Rulo
school, says Walla Walla (Wash.)
exchange, got so many porcupine
quilts in its mouth and throat during
fight with that animal that 1t had to
be chloroformed and hundreds of
quilts were taken out with pincers.
The dog was protecting chickens
owned by its mistress. Mack has snc-
c.:cssfully fought off badgers, snakes
aud coyotes which have sought to steal
the chickens, and when the porcupinv
appeared it charged it, Even with its
mouth filed with quilts it continued
the attack.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-13
Cut This Quit is Worth None,

Cut This Quilt is Worth Money
DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out 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
Kidney Pills. for pain in sides and
back, rheumatism, backache, kidney
and bladder ailments; and Foley Ca
thartic Tablets. a wholesome and
thoroughly cleansing cathartic for
constipation, biliousness, headache
and sluggish bowels Sold Every
where,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-13
AFTER SICKNESS
THEY GAVE
HER VINOL
And She Soon Got Back
Her Strength

New Castle, Ind.-"The measles
left me run down, no appetite, could
not rest at night, and | took severe
cold which settled on my lungs, so I
was unable to keep about my house
work. My doctor advised me to take
vinol, and six bottles restored my
health so do all my housework, in
GLIDING washing. Vinol is the best
medicine / ever used" Alice Record,
437 So. nth ST., New Castle, Ind.
We guarantee this wonderful cod
liver and iron tonic, TinoI. for all
weak, rundown, nervous conditions.
VIM L. Gokey, druggist, Benning.
ton, Vt, and at the best drug stores
in every town ana city in the coun
try
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-13

The annual meeting of the Stock
holders of the Bennington County
National Bank, OF Bennington, Vt,
will be held in their banking rooms
on Tuesday the 1st day Of January,
1918. at 10 o'clock a. M, for. the pur-
pose of electing Board Of Directors
for the ensuing year and to transact
such other business as may property
come before it.aoI vgsY ) IG iar
hQgayqd, 4, W;;iisgn, r,
- s''iSn Cashier
December !, 1917.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-13
No1.ssfxlEl.'
Bennington County Savings Bank

Bennington Gounty SAVINGS Sank
The annual meeting Of the corpor
ators of the Bennington6County saw
ings bank will, 'be2 held atfthe Office
of said bank i4aitYI baplkk, lbqiilldflipns iip
Bennington, VT, on the first Wed
nesday, 2ndi day Of 'Jafaaryi. a. d!
1918 at oeloehlpom m, rforo the pur
pose of eledting q board Of trustees
for the year. ensuing and the transac
ton of any, other business found
necessary when met especially to fill
vacancies I'M the number of corpora
tors and to latter and revise the by.
laws
Charles II. Dewey, Secretary.
Dated at Bennington, VT, Nov. 80,
1917
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-13

If The new law is passed in England
women over thirty are 70 be given the
vote. And yet they say Englishmen
have no sense of humor.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-13
{ Be Sure Of Your aEats.m

III there's certain food that you
are uncertain about don't eat it, at
vises physician. There are too many
good things in the world TO eat that
you know are good for you.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-13
Appropriate Howl.

A homeless dog strayed into Pitts
field (Mass.) theater and started to
howl just as the movie film read: LET
he dogs of war howl" -.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-13

The German people are said to want
peace. and the chances are that the
German people never wanted the war
In the first place.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-13
Their Position.

do you so in for society, BangsT
"Wel. Johnny has a gang my wlfs
has set, and | have Il crowc."
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-13
Amber.

Amber is considered to be the solid
fled resin of extinct conofercus trees,
sometimes inclosing insects, pine
needles, etc.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-13

(By A. r. LEE. United States Department
of Agricuture)
The hen pigeon usually lays two
eggs in three days before she starts
TO sit If more than two eggs are laid
1t Is advisable to remove the extra
ones, as n pair Of pigeons can raise
only two good squads at one time. The
period of incubation of pigeon eggs Is
about seventeen days. Both the male
and female pigeon sit on the eggs the
male usually relieving the female dur
ing part or most of the day. Pigeon
eggs are usually fertile If the pigeons
are healthy and properly fed espe-
e!ally when they have free range. One
sqlab Casually the male) frequently
matches first, and where there are sew
eral cases where one squad outgrows
its nest mate, it may be advisable to
sort the squubs in the nests, making
the pairs as uniform as possible in
size and age. They should usually be
changed in the nest, however, before
they are ten days old, at which time
their parents stop feeding them on
pigeon milk
Fed by Parents.
Squads are reared and fed by both
IF the parent birds OIL thick, creamy
mixture called pigeon milk, produced
In the crop Of the pigeons. 1t is very
essential that the pigeons have a plen-
tifl supply Of grain while they are
rearing squads If rapid growth Of the
young is to be secured. Pigeons usu-
ally feed the squads shortly after they
themselves are fed and should net be
disturbed at that time thus making
it advisable to water them before they
are fed. Care should always be taken
not TO brighten or disturb pigeons or
squads any more than is absolutely
If the parent birds die the
squads may sometimes be removed to
Il nest where there is only one squad,
or they may be fed artiiicially, al
though This process takes considerable !
time.
A variety Of good, hard grains is es-
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-13

Most gratifying Is the demonstrated
fact that vast majority OF Our for
eign-born citizens are Americans first,
last and all the time.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-13

Horizontal stripes will be much worn
IDS year by young men who did not
register for military service.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-13

Women who can wear furs under h
summer sun are equal r. any sacrifice
that may be asked o. them.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-10-04
NEW ASSOCIATION
 FOR POLK COUNTY
American Investment and Develop ment Company Takes Over Mena Cattle Association and Applies
 for Charter-Its Plans.

At a meeting of the stockholders of the Mena Cattle Association held on September 20 an amendment to the charter was agreed upon and filed with the Secretary of State, changing the title to the American Investment Company and increasing the capital stock from SiO0,000 to .si000,000 The shares are S5 each.
 c. c. Mills will continue as pres ident; l.. c. Bell first vice presi- dent; Clyde Cunningham, second vice president; L. G. Finch, secre- tary and Walter Nance, treasurer.
 R. Nj. Wiers X Co, ii5 Broadway, New York City and the Midwest Se- curties Corporation of New York, Boston and Pittsburgh, will act as fiscal agents in handling the stock.
 The primary purpose of the com pany is to drill for oil and gas and mine any minerals on lands owned and leased or Co be owned and leased by the corporation; the man. ufacture and selling of lumber and articles manufactured from lumber and forest products; buying and sell ing, feeding and breeding livestock :; buying and selling land or other property and other kindred activi- ties.
 The main office will be maintained in Mena, and while no especial eff fort has or will be made to sell stock in Mena, a number of prominent business men already have sub scribed and those closest to the in side details are enthusiastic as to the future of the concern. as well as seeing for Mena a bright outlook thru the development of the cor pOration's plans.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-10-04
POLK COUNTY BOY SENT HOME
Henry L. Baker Failed to Pass Final
 Test at Camp Pike.


 Henry l.. Baker, one of the SIX Polk county registrants who report ed to Camp Pike on September 3, was discharged from service for failure to pass the final physical ex- animation. Soon after arrival those who had defects were sent to the base hospital for further examina- ton. Such defects as were found temporary OF eurabIe were remedied by treatment. and recommendations for discharge were made after the careful re-examination established that the defects were permanent. There were nineteen others in the rejected list, and of these eight were from Arkansas. The rejected men will be paid Si per day from the time they reported to the local boards to the date of their discharge, and will be allowed transportation at the rate of 315 cents per mile and an allowance of $50 for subsistence for each 24 hours enroute nome.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-10-04
\ REAL OPPORTUNITY TO
 SHOW YOUR PATRIOTISM

There are farmer boys now in training at Camp Pike, preparing themselves to fight our battles across the waters, who were called away without making arrangements for the gathering of their crops. There are two cases of the kind near the city of Mena, and more no doubt will develop later. This we think is real opportunity for the eiti- zens of Mena to demonstrate their patriotism in getting together and taking care of the products the boys have left behind.
 It will be a small matter to care for each one who is able to go, and of those who are not physically able. many are financially able to send along a man and never miss the cash. If you are willing to help-to do your bit" leave your name or cash at the Star office, and ar engagements will be made to use both time and money for this good cause.
 w. B. Thomas,
 For Committed
The Mena weekly star., 1917-10-04
BUSY DAY IN POLICE COURT.
Three Cases, Ali for Violation O
 Traffic Ordinance, Tried.

Business in the police court was very lively last week. Wednesday Frank Courtney, porter at the An tiers Hotel was brought before Police Judge w. B. Thomas on the charge of running a horse on the streets, in violation of the traffic or dinance. A plea of guilty was en- tered, and fine of Si0 assessed, which, with the costs made total Of sI2. A0
 Thursday morning Olin Wood was brought before the court on charge of speeding, being preferred by D. A. Hazel, the offense said to have been committed Sunday about dusk, At the trial it was brought out that Ralph Vandiver, and not Wood, was driving the car, and further evidence was introduced in statement by w. II. Clawson, manager of the Overland Service Garage, which owned the ear, to the effect that it was not capable of exceeding the speed limit, and on the showing made, the ease was dismissed.
 Thursday morning II. Nj. Willard was brought before the court by Chief of Police Alley Duncan on a charge of violating Section 6 of the traffic ordinance, which requires that all vehicles keep to the right. Mr. Willard requested trial, which is set for o'clock in the morning.
The Mena weekly star., 1917-10-04
Presbyterians Held an Auction Salt
 at Home of Mr. and Mrs. Golf.

The members of the Presbyterian church held one of their delightful meetings Friday night at the home of Mir. and Mrs R. Golf. This gathering was unique in that the strong feature was the auction sale of articles brought in by mem- hers of the church to be sold for tine benefit of the church. Col c. NJ. Latimer, as auctioneer, was at his best, and the bidding was so brisk that war prices were put to shame on many articles that were offered for sale The social spirit of the gathering was not neglected, how ever. Indeed, fl reached it's high- est point during the auction sale. Refreshments were served by the ladies of the church. the committee in charge being Mesdames F. w. Tomlinson. l., $. Watson and Will MacLaiferty
The Mena weekly star., 1917-10-04
NOTICE REGARDING PRICE. In 0nr Customers:

Since the beginning of the Euro pean war three years ago there has been an ever increasing scarcity of foreign drugs and chemicals. Some of these imported drugs we use in the manufacture of priekly Ash Biliers. As a result of this great scarcity prices have advanced enor- mously We have paid these high prices up to this time without mak- ing any change in the price of our remedy and we had hoped to con- lnue to do so until the situation im- proved; but. advance has followed upon advance so rapidly in the last few months, and prices have now reached such a high point that at our present selling price, we are confronted with loss on every bottle we sell
 We don't like to ask more from our customers: that is why we have been putting it on. neither do we like to lose money, and we could not consider for an instant reducing the fine quality of our remedy by sub sbtutrng cheaper materials, We feel sure the people who know prickly Ash Bitters would rather pay little more for the genuine ar ticle than the old price for some thing not as good. In these circum- stances we are constrained to ask the users of prickly Ash Bitters to share this extra cost with us and we take this means of notifying our price of PPicklv Ash Bitters from Friends and customers that the now on will be
 SIPS Per Bottle.
 We regret exceedingly the cOndi- lions which make it necessary to do this and trust to your fairminded- ness that we may continue to be favored with your patronage.
 Yours truly,
 Priekly Ash Bitters Co. Ally k0 of
The Mena weekly star., 1917-10-04
Macfonaale,s Mother There.

Paris, Sept 26- Behind the bare official announcement that Sergeant MaeMonagle of San Francisco has been killed in aerial encounter with two German machines, lies one of the most poignant tragedies of the war, says the Herald Almost at the mament lhe sergeant met his fate, his mother, widow of Dr. Beverly MacMonagIe, an eminent Pacific Coast physician was completing the journey of 5000 miles from San Francisco to visit her only son.
 Sergeant MacMonagle. who was in Paris a few days before he was killed. seemed to have a presentment of his fate. He said to his friends:
 Well, fellows, if they get me you may bank on it mother will have the consolation of knowing I passed out fighting and doing my best, as she would wish it.