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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-09

the first German soldier to cross the
frontier into France in the last-named
conflict. Serving in the German cav
airy for thre decades, he rose to the
rank of general at the age of Az He
retired 10 years later a distinguished
soldier, to devote all his time to the
problem of aeronauties.
He began to study and experiment
soon after arriving in Germany from
the American civil war and spent the
remainder of his life in building fly
ing contrivances that for the most
part, refused to fly
From wealthy nobleman owning
vast estates, Count Zeppelin was grad
ually reduced to an aristocratic me-
chanic living in a humble cottage On
an allowance supplied by his friends.
Then in day the tide turned. He
electrified a skeptical world in 1908
by staying aloft for 81 hours in the
fifth airship he had built and by sail
ing ii in a straight course for a dis
ance of nearly 900 miles. Emperor
William, all Germany, in fact, hailed
him as the conqueror of the air"
At the close of his remarkable ca
reer, Count Zeppelin had retrieved
large part of the fortune spent
in his conquest of the air He trained
his son, also an army officer, in the
science of aeronautics and especially
in his methods of building drigible
balloons. He also made an accom-
plished aeronaut of his daughter. who
has made more than 100 flights in the
airships her father fashioned.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-09
D0CT0RA SAY COLDS
ARE CONTAGIOUS
Specialists Declare Germs of
Common Colds Scattered
by sufferers Are Real
Da ger

Doctors have recently declared posi-
lively that our common colds are
really just as contagious" as pneu-
monia or scarlet fever and that suffer
ers from colds should be isolated as
carefully as victims of the latter dis
eases. They say that in sneezing the
victim of a cold scatters millions of
germs into the air which all of us
breathe and when these germs lodge
in the nose or throat of anyone who
is weakened or run down they find
another victim and another cold is
started. 1t is important, therefore
to keep yourself build up by using
Father Johns Medicine which is n
pure and wholesome body builder, and
you will be able to ward off this dan
ger because the cold germs cannot
live in the nose or throat of person
in normal health. Remember too that
Father Johns Medicine treats colds
and throat troubles without the use
OF alcohol or dangerous drugs so it is
a safe family medicine, fine for the
children as well as older folks.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-09
3 SUlPH|DE PLANT
WORKERS KILLED
BY CHLORINE
Five Others Overcome and One
May Not Live
Ar WILMINGTON THIS NOON
Plant Chemist Killed by Experiment
and TWO others Died Trying
To Save Him

Wilmington, March 9.-Three men
were killed and five others overcome
by chlorine gas at the sulphide plant
of the Deerdeld Pulp company at the
Mountain mills this noon.
The dead are DR.. Jeffers, chemist
for the Du Pont Powder Co., of VIII
mington, Delaware, Donald w. Cook
of Wilmington and Newton Carpenter
OF Readsboro.
The injured are Frank l.. Bond, w.
A. Reed, Walter Rodowski, Charles
Rose and Alexander Oliphant, all
said to be from Readsboro. 1t is
feared that Rodowski will die.
The accident was the result of an
experiment in using "nitrecake" in
place of 'saltcake" in making sui
phide. Dr. Jeffers opened tank of
prepared liquid and dropped in
quantity of "nitrecake."
Chlorine gas generated instantly
and DR.. Jeffers dropped in his tracks.
Thinking he was merely overcome,
Cook and Carpenter crawled in and
tried to drag Dr. LETTERS out and were
killed almost instantly
Rodowski then tried to get Cook
and Carpenter out. By this time the
gas had scattered some and Rodowski
reached Carpenter and fell beside
him but was able TO roll back to the
door. His condition is considered
serious.
Bond, Reed, Rose and Oliphant
were in neighboring room. The gas
came through the partiticn and they
were overcome but able to get out be-
fore its effects were fatal
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-09
FOOD PRICES SHOW
SOME SLIGHT
REDUCTIONS
Consumers Money Goes a Lite
Further in Purchase of Staples
BUTTER AND EGGS NOT SO HIGH
Potatoes Selling at From rs to 90
Cents Peck With Prospects of
Lower Figures.

There has been but little change in
the local situation regarding potatoes
during the past week Different local
merchants today quoted prices of IS,
80 and 80 cents peck. The mer-
chant who quoted the high figure said
that he had to pay 50 barrel OF 1S0
pounds and that he was selling the
spuds accordingly The dealer who
put the figure at IS cents a peck said
he was paying $3.50 a barrel and
wouldn't pay any more. why" he
said farmer was in here yesterday
and was real put out when / wouldn't
give him barrel of flour which we
sell for $40 for a barrel of potatoes.
The price for potatoes has got TO
come down. We will go without them
before we will pay what some OF
them want"
Onions, too, can be had at several
prices, the figures run all the way
from 10 to 20 cents quart for ma
tive stock. The imported varieties,
Bermudas and Spanish, are selling
for 10 cents as they have for some
timc.
One household commodity that is go
ing up in price all the time is lard.
The scarcity of pork products OF all
kinds continues TO push up the figures.
Lard can not today be bought at
wholesale at less than 81 cents which
means a retail price of at least "a
cents.
Prices for butter are a little lower
than they were a week ago Cream
cry today is selling at As cents a
pound and dairy at 45, which is re-
duction of about two cents. Fresh
eggs can be bought for 40 cents. Hen
merry stock is selling at 45.
Several Of the local grocers have
been entirely out of sugar for one or
more days this week but today it is
possible to buy five pounds at ten
cents a pound at nearly every store.
Because residents of tile village
have discovered that the grocer with
whom they have regularly traded has
run entirely out of sugar there has
more needless anxiety during the past
week There is no denying that it
is difficult for the retailer to secure
sugar in any quantity but it is safe to
state that some one of the grocers
in town will have supply on hand
at all times. Twelve barrels came in
TO the village from North Adams
Thursday afternoon by the trolley ex-
press and was distributed to different
grocers. two barrels at a store.
The shortage is due to the strike
among the refinery workers in New
York and the congestion on the rail-
roads. but primarily to the strike
which has created a temporary short
age of stock When Bennington
merchant sends in an order for five
barrels of sugar the Wholesaler sends
him one and the grocer has TO keep
hustling to supply mis- trade.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-09
INDOOR ATHLETIC MEET
Close of Season for Grammar School
Bows


With the indoor athletic season
nearing its close the last big event
for the boys will be an indoor gram
mar school athletic meet which will
be held before spring vacation under
the auspices of the physical Dept. Of
the Y NJ. c. A. in the gymnasium.
This will be an intra.class meet with
the following events: pull ups (chin-
ning), running board jump. rope climb
potato race, 90 yard dash. running
high jump and the pole snap or vault.
The point system will be used in
scoring the meet which will make
it really a contest of individual SUI
premacy and at the same time indi-
vidualty will be the means of the f.
nal score for each teams final aver
age. Each division in the three up
per grades viii enter a team and for
each boy that enters his division will
score one point,
Each event will be scored as fol-
lows
Pull ups-One point will be given
for each boy that chins himself three
times. For each additional chin up
one point will be given.
Running board iump-To score a
point in this event a boy must jump
seven feet. For each additional six
inches one point will be given.
Rope clmb--To score a point in the
rope climb boy must climb the rope
in ten seconds. For each second less
than that one point will be given.
Potato race-To score point in
this a boy must complete the race in
forty seconds. For each second less
than that one point will be given.
20 yard dash-To score a point in
this event a boy must complete the
race in four seconds. For each sec
ond less one point will be given.
Running high jump-To score one
point in this event boy must jump
two feet For additional inch one
point will be given.
Pole vault-To score one point a
boy must vault over the pole at three
feet. For each additional three in
ches one point will be given.
The team having the most number
of points at the close of the meet will
be the winners.
Entry blanks for this meet will be
sent to each division in the three up
per grades. A boy may enter in any
four events. The boy scoring the
most number of points for his divi;
sion will be the individual champion
of his class Practice for this meet
started this week at the Y. NJ. c. A.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-09
MEAT CAUSE OF
KIDNEY TROUBLE
Take a glass of Salts If your Back
hurts or Bladder bothers-
Meat forms uric acid.

If you must have your meat every
day, eat it, but flush your kidneys
with salts occasionally, says noted
authority who tells us that meat
forms uric acid which almost par
alyzes the kidneys in their efforts to
expel it from the blood. They become
sluggish and weaken, then you suffer
with a dull misery in the kidney re-
gion, sharp pains in the back or sick
headache, dizziness, your stomach
sours, tongue is coated and when the
weather is bad you have rheumatic
twinges. The urine gets cloudy, full
of sediment, the channels often get
sore and irritated, obliging you to
seek relief two or three times during
tho night.
To neutralize these irritating acids,
to cleanse the kidneys and flush off
the body's urinous waste get four
ounces of Jad Salts from any phar-
macy here; take a tablespoonful in a
glass of water before breakfast for a
few days and your kidneys will then
act fine. This famous salts is made
from the acid Of grapes and lemon
Juice, combined with lithia, and has
been used for generations to flush and
stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to
neutralize the acids in urine, so it no
longer irritates, thus ending bladder
weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot
injure, and makes a delightful effer-
vescent lithia-water drink.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-09
COMMUNITY CHORUS
Tenor solost From Pittsfied to be
Here March 27


Here March 27
On March 9th the Community
chorus expects to give concert in
high school hall. This is going to be
an event of unusual interest and mer-
it, and the hall should be filled to ca
pacity on that night. The choruses
which have been taken up under the
leadership of Prof. Chambers are ex-
ceptionally attractive, and a good,
strong chorus of between forty and
fifty voices are rehearsing them each
week.
The additional attraction of the
evening be a tenor soloist, James C..
Morton, of Pittsheld, Mass, who
comes to us with fine recommends
tions from musical critics.
This is the first public concert to
be given by the Community chorus,
and the program as planned is one
that will be sure to give great plea
sure to everyone who attends, wheth-
er musicians or not.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-09
SHARING RATS
Ten Year Old Girl lnvents New
indoor Sport.


indoor Sport.
An unusual method OF catching rats
has been used successfully at Haynes
Corners.
The hen-house of Mrs. E. f. c.
Mosher was over-run with rats. Var
ious kinds of poisons and traps had
been tried without success.
Yesterday morning Mrs. Mosher's
ten year old granddaughter, Ella c.
Winn, announced that she was going
to snare the rats.
The family had quiet laugh over
it, but Ella proved the truth of the
saying that who laughs last, laughs
best"
She tied a slip-noose in one end of
long string and arranged it around
one of the holes through which the
rats had been seen to enter the hem
house She placed some cheese near
1t, took the other end of the string in
her hand and waited
In few minutes the family were
surprised to see Ella running from the
hen-house. holding UP the string with
a monstrous rat kicking at the end.
Elias pet dog, Tower, quickly
killed the rat and Ella returned to her
post Altogether three rats were
caught and killed by this method.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-09
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

WANTED-ON or before AprE
1st. refined and intelligent young lady
to learn negative retouching and gen.
eral studio work, To an ambitious
girl desirous of learning this line of
work, an especially attractive offer
is open. Job seekers, not wanted.
Small salary paid while learning. Call
mornings, 10 to 1880 at The Cone
Studio. 34t6
in Packing Department. Good wages.
Apply at once. Hale Company, Ar
lington. 34t3
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-09
SCHOOL FOR LISTERS
Annual Meeting with Tax Commits
sioner to ee Held March 90


State Tax Commissioner c. A.
Plumley has sent out his notifica-
tions for the annual meetings of list
ers for instruction in the laws per-
tanning to the listing of property. The
meeting in Bennington is to be held
at the county courthouse on Tuesday,
March 90.
According to the provisions of the
acts of 1910 as amended, listers are
required to attend the meeting which
will be the least expensive and most
convenient. Nearly all of the Ben
nington county listers have been ac-
customed to attend the meeting in
this village although some from the
northern towns have gone to the
Rutland meeting
The tax commissioner is to hold II
meetings, beginning at Brattleboro on
the 14th and closing at Guildhall on
the goth.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-09
LICENSE COMMISSIONERS
Appointed in Rutland 19 Hours After
Election

In order to be ready for eventuali
ties County Judges Edwin Horton of
Chittenden and Samuel r. Hitchcock
of West Haven on Wednesday made
the appointment of license commits
sioners for the city of Rutland for the
year beginning April l within Is hours
of the time that the vote of Tuesday
was counted
The men to serve are: Charles II.
Harrison, cashier of the Clement Ma
tional bank, chairman of the present
board; George NJ. Costello, Rutland
railroad freight house employee Lu.
Glen j. Trudel, druggist.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-09
WARNED" TOO LATE
Wiliston Could Not Have Town Meet.
ina Because Selectmen Delayed

Through some mistake OF the VIII
liston seiectmen the warning for the
town meeting Tuesday was not post
ed until five or six days ago con-
sequently according to law there was
no town meeting Tuesday.-pt HAS
not been decided when there win be
a meeting to vote for town officers.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-09
WIRELESS BERLIN TO MEXICO
Washington Worried over Reported
Long Distance Connection

Long Distance Connection
Washington, March Information
has reached the United States govern
ment from q semiofficial source that
through the perfection of a powerful
wireless telegraph plant in Mexico
City direct communication between
the Mexican capital and Germany has
been established.
From other semiofiicial sources in
formation has reached Washington
that secret meetings are being held
by Germans in Vera Cruz and in Mon
terey, to determine upon uniform ac-
ton by Germans in Mexico in the
event of an outbreak of war between
the United States and Germany.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-09
GEORGE w. GUTHRIE DEAD
Pittsbura Man ambassador Il
japan

Japan
Washington. March 9.-George w.
Guthrie of Pittsburg, American em-
bassador at Toxic. is dead. Word Of
the ambassadors death reached the
state department yesterday from To-
kio in dispatch from the embassy.
Post Wheeler, secretary of the embas-
sy at Toxic, informed the state de-
partment that Mr.. Guthrie died at 8
p. m. yesterday q a. m. eastern Uni
ted States time) of apoplexy. Mrs.
Guthrie was at Toxic with the en-
bassador.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-09
WEATHER FORECAST

For eastern New York and western
Vermont, cloudy and somewhat colder
tonight. Saturday fair.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-17
Bankers Declare Better Farming
Necessary for Regions Progress

Copies of the minutes of the pro-
ceedings of the meeting of Group I,
Florida Bankers Association, have
just been received by R. W. Goodhart,
president of the Bank of Commerce,
and vice president of the State Asso-
citation. The meeting is considered
of particular Importance in that it
brought up the discussion of the well
fare of the negro, and the making of
him useful citizen.
The meeting was called by Mr..
Goodhart, who also called it to or
der. Shortly after converting, the
chairman introduced Ernest Amos,
state comptroller, who spoke on CO.
operation between the comptroller
and the banks of the state, and as
sured the bankers of the cooperation
and assistance always to be found in
that office.
j. c. Luning state treasurer, next
addressed the body, and dwelt chiefly
on the growth and development of
West Florida. Mr.. Luning said that
this section of the state is Just pass
ing through change, leaving behind
lumber and naval stores as its chief
assets, and beginning to realize the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-17
BREAK A CHILD'S
COLD BY GIVING
SYRUP OF FIGS
LOOK, MOTHERi is TONGUE
COATED, BREATH FEVERISH
AND STOMACH SOUR7
CLEANSE THE LITTLE LIVER
AND BOWELS AND THEY GET
WELL QUICKLY.

When your child suffers from a
cold don't wait; give the little stom-
ach, liver and bowels a gentle, thor
ough cleansing at once. When cross.
peevish, listless, pale, doesn't sleep.
eat or act naturally; if breath is bad,
stomach sour, give a teaspoonful of
California Syrup of Figs" and in
a few hours all the clogged-up waste
sour bile and undigested food will
gently move out of the bowels. and
you have a well, playful child again
If your child coughs, snuffles and
has caught cold or is feverish or has
a sore throat give a good dose of
California Syrup Of Figs" to evac-
uate the bowels no difference what
other treatment is given.
Sick children needn't be coaxed to
take this harmless ''fruit laxative. /"
Millions of mothers keep it handy be-
cause they know its action is prompt
and sure. They also know little
given today saves sick child to-
morrow.
Ask your druggist for a 50-cent
bottle of California Syrup of Figs"
which contains directions for babies,
children of all ages and for grown
ups plainly on the bottle. Beware
of counterfeits sold here. Get the
genuine, made by California Fig
Syrup Company.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-17
HIGH SCHOOL GOES
To D FUN|AK FOR
4 DOUBLE HEADER.

On the excursion train which leaves
at 7:30 o'clock this morning for De-
Funiak, the Pensacola high school
baseball team will 20, prepared to
do battle with two different teams.
The locals will cross bats with the
excellent team from the Walton
county high school, and later in the
day will have q game with team
from Chipley, which will be there in
line with previous arrangement.
A week ago the locals made trip
to DeFuniak, defeating the team at
Palmer College, in score of 6 to 8.
It will be their purpose today to
duplicate last Saturdays score in
each game.
Hirschkovitz and Hartman will
twirl, while Bell will be on the re-
ceiying line. The same infield as
used last Saturday viii appear in
both games today.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-17

value and necessity of development
and cultivation of the soil, and ex-
pansion along agricultural lines.
j. A. Ormand, of the Citizens State
Bank of Mariana, touched the key
note of the discussion in his state
ment on the development of the ne
gro in the south. He said that the
negro should be better taken care of
and made more productive, for he was
one of the assets of the south which
the south had overlooked.
Continuing, Mr.. Ormand said that
If the negro is to be used for agri-
cultural work, he should and must be
taught to farm along modern scien-
tific lines.
Permanent organization was eff
fected with the election of George
E. Lewis, of the Lewis State Bank,
Tallahassee president, and J. H.
Fears, of the Central State Bank,
Campbellton, secretary.
A committee was appointed to en-
courage the distribution of FLOODED
livestock, to secure a soil expert and
have soil analysis made, and to or
ganize a method by which all prod
ucts of a community could be mar
keted.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-17

about the church, you'd have a bridge
party at one end of it, a. dance hall
at the other and circus ring in the
middle.
It's sight you need. If you get
sight, then your old mothers religion
will be good enough. Show me a
church that is perfect, and I'll join it.
No, won't, because they wouldn't
let me in. And if you found one, you
couldn't get it. If you want a per-
feet church go to the South Sea ISL
ands and build one-and even then it
wouldn't be perfect with you in it.
1t would be imperfect just as soon as
you put on the first brick. I praise
God that although thmere are no per-
feet churches, there is a perfect
Christ.
"You say there are hypocrites in
the church. Why, God bless you, they
are in our own crowd and l wouldn't
talk about them so much if | were
you. We do not put hypocrite out
of the church; we try to win him
back. Just as long as the United
States manufactures these good dol
lars somebody's going to counterfeit
them. And there are persons who
are going to counterfeit the genuine
Christian. But have you ever seen a
counterfeit hypocrite? No, and you
won't see one.
Sermon on the Mount.
There are persons who say, THE
sermon on the mount is good enough
for me- but they don't live the SER
mon on the mount. To live it, you've
got to live on the mount instead of
in that filthy pig sty you now live in.
My dear brother, if you live that ser
mon you'll be saved forever and
eternally. Don't talk to me about a
hypocrite. If l never had seen a
horse, you would bring me out the
finest you knew, and saw This is a
horse But when asked you to show
me Christian, you bring me out +he
most weakened, homeless old thing
you can find.
Doubters.
"A man has written me here and
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-17

stumble and fall. but when / fall, l
fall with my face towards what l
want to be. / can hear God telling
Samuel, Saul has turned back from
following Me- And Samuel cried all
night. His crying was not the last
time a preacher has cried all night
over his congregation It isn't work
that kills the preacher, its the incon-
sistency of his followers. If you are
the member of a church you are
either making it hard or making it
easy for the preacher.
''There is a religious whine nova
days that is just like the one Saul
assumed when he saw Samuel ap-
preaching. And as Saul was telling
Samuel of the conquest, the sheep
bleated and the oxed lowed. There
is one thing you may be sure of:
BE sure your sins will find you out. ;
Then Samuel blamed it on the peo-
pie. It was human nature. The last
person you will blame your sin on is
your wife's husband.
you'll say, 4 was born with the
devil in me- But let me tell you
that you can be born again with the
devil outs A'e of you. God Almighty
doesn't ask person about the start
he had. He asks about the finish.
"Some say environment causes
them to be unregenerate. If you be-
come Christian, you change the en-
vironment. If you quit drinking and
quit going to saloons, then you will
change environment. You will meet
people who don't drink. You put a
pig in the parlor and see which will
change first, and it won't be the pig.
You say environment keeps you from
being Christian, then change your
environment. Man makes his own en-
vironment.
Hypocrites in Church.
Then you say there are hypocrites
in the church. know it. Any man
with a bank roll and two or three
suits of clothes can get into the
church. But the width of the doors
of the real church, the church of
Christ, is the same as the cross of
Calvary. The doors were set on Cal
vary. If some of you had your ideas