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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-21
NO. BENNINGTON HIGH SCHOOL
Program for Graduating Exercises at
2 O'clock Friday Afternoon.

Following is the program for the
graduating exercises of the North
Bennington high school to be held al
the Congregational church at
o'clock Friday afternoon:
Music
Invocation Rev. +. NJ. Derwacter
Salutatory
Florence Samalva Harrington
Essay-"The Art of Music"
Sabina Mary Howe
Marion Louise Phillips
Essay-"Motion Pictures"
Lena Beatrice Smith
Prophecy Prudie Efiie Hulet
Music
Essay
Education Through the Playground"
Leola May Spencer
Llewellyn Edward Bells
Music
Essay History of the Telephone"
Louise Marie Ciocca
President Wilson's Message
Carolyn Wales Hard
Essay and Valedictory
Marjorie Mann
Music
Awarding of Diplomas
Supt. j, ID. Whittier
Song Class of II
Glass Motto-Non Palma Sine Lahore
Class Roll
English Course--Llewelly Edward
Bells, Louise Marie Ciocca, Charles
Elmer Harrington, Florence Samalva
Leslie Clarence Harring-
ton, Walton Fred Harrington, Sabina
Mary Howe, Carolyn Wales Hard.
Bliss Almon Hulet. Prudie Efie Hulet,
Richmond Fisk Galusha, Nellie May
Marguerite Agnes Mooney,
Lena Beatrice Smith.
Latin Course-Bessle May Land
fear, Marjorie Helen Mann, Marion
Louist Phillips, Leola May Spencer,
First Honor-Marjorie Helen
Mann
Second Honor-Florence Samalya
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-21
u l7lf7N 2
ARGENTINA MAY JOIN US
impression Grows That the Govern
ment Will Abandon Neutrality

Buenos Aires, June 20.-The i'm
preston that the government party
intends to bring about abandonment
of Argentinas neutrality in the war,
created by the article yesterday in
El niario, which always has upheld
President lrigoyen, is strengthened
by the fact that several members of
the presidents party have taken a
stand in favor of adhesion to the
policy of the United States.
1t is probable that bill dealing with
the question of Argentina's neutrality
will be introduced in parliament.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-21
ESCAPED DEER CAUGHT
Buck Left Corral at Soldiers Home
Three Weeks Ago. ,..gssS

HIcc Wccke ago f.segfP
The buck deer that escaped from
the corral at aiVermoHta soldiers
home three weeks ago was reca ptured
Wednesday at the farm of Allen Strat
ton in the Chapel district
During the time that it has been at
large the buck had invaded the gard
ems in the eastern section of the town
and there had been numerous com
plants of damage. The animal had
visited the Stratton farm several
times and Mr.. Stratton finally sue
ceeded in capturing it by running
rope attached to barn door into the
house The deer entered the barn
and a pull on the rope closed the
door.
Once the deer was under restraint,
Mr.. Stratton telephoned Warden f. S.
Higgins to come and get the buck
The warden answered the summons
and was on his way to the Stratton
farm when he encountered Game
Warden A. M. Nichols of North Ad-
ans who had come to Bennington on
fishing trip. Acting upon the sug-
gestion of the Vermont warden the
Massachusetts, game protector gave
up his fishing trip to help bring in the
deer. When the two wardens with an
automobile arrived at the farm they
found the deer crazy with fright At
ter a strenuou half-hour the deer was
finally thrown, tied and loaded into
the automobile, but not before the
two wardens had been tossed about
the barn until they looked as though
they had been in a rough house.
The deer was returned to the corral
none the worse for its experience ex-
cept that one of its horns, now in the
velvet, was slightly cut.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-21
DESTROYER SINKS SUBMARINE
First Success of the Kind Scored by
American FIotiIIa.

London, June 21.-A German sub
marine. first sighted by German-born
jackie on board one of the American
destroyers, was sunk, according to an
official announcement made today.
The sinking of the undersea boat is
the first activity of the kind reported
by the American fotilla.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-21
McRE AMERICANS IN FRANCE
w. X. Vanderbilt Arrives With New
Ambulance Unit.

Paris, June 19.--An American am
bulance detachment of 250 persons
has arrived at French port.
w. X. Vanderbilt of New York
crossed on the same steamer.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-21
GERMANS RETIRE
Have Evacuated Territory West of
the River Lys

Paris, June 21.-The Germans have
evacuated the territory west of the
river Lys, it was officially announced
today.
British patrols have been unable to
find a single German in the section.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-21
PERsHINe oRDERs GUARDED
His Instructions, Now Locked in Safe
May Be Published Later.

Washington, June 19.-The in.
structions to General Pershing are re.
garded at the War Department as be.
ing very confidential, so much so that
they are locked in the safe of General
Bliss, acting chief of staff of the
army.
1t is possible that Secretary Baker
will later authorize their publication,
but no decision in that direction has
yet been reached.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-21
PERSHING SEES JoFFRE
Holds Conference with French Mar.
shaI-General Plans Visits.

Paris, June 20.-Major General
Pershing, the American commander,
had a long conference today with
Marshal Joffre in regard to American
affairs.
General Pershing will visit an army
engineering depot tomorrow and later
large airdrome and a school at
which instruction is given in the use
OF armed motorcars.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-21
$35,ooo,ooo MORE
Britain Gets Another War Loan From
This Country.

This Country.
Washington, June 19.-Another loan
of $35,000,000 was made today to
Great Britain by the treasury
The Belgian minister also received
today $7,500,000, the second monthly
instalment of the s45,0O0,0O0 credit
given to Belgium. Today's loan to
Great Britain brings the total ad
vanced to the allies UP to 1888 00O, 900,
of which Great Britain has received
$535 900, 900.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-21
WEATHER FORECAST

For eastern New YORK and western
Vermont. fair tonight. Friday partly
overcast and probably followed by
showers.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-21
KILLED WIFE, SON AND BABY
Richard Barrett Commits Suicide Fol
lowing Triple Murder.

New York, June 21-Following
quarrel over household expenses
today, Richard Barrett killed his wife,
his son and 1S-months old baby, at
tempted to kill a daughter and son,
aged and 1S respectively and COM
D-itted suicide.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-21
DESTROY "sUFF" BANNER
Pulled Down by Two Men at White
House Gate.

Washington, June 21.-Amid the
cheers of small crowd a suffraget
banner denouncing President Wilson
was pulled down at the northeast gate
Of the white house by two men today.
The banner was similar in word
ing to the one displayed yesterday.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-24
DAISIES
BY L. M. BENNINGTON.

No flower in all the garden series is
more beloved than the star-eyed daisy,
or marguerite. And, perhaps no flower
has undergone a more decided i'm
provement than this same flower, which
fills the meadow spaces with it's nod
ding white and in better soil looks
stately from the garden path.
The daisy should have place in the
garden. They make delightful bor-
ders to beds Of taller growing ANNALS
and can be used very effectively in
beds of spring blooming bulbs.
Daisies may be sown in March, and
later for succession, in shallow boxes
of light, rich soil. Cover the seed to
about three times their own thickness
and press the soil firmly over them.
Keep the box in warm window,
greenhouse or hotbed.
Transplant to new boxes and set out
in the open ground when danger from
frost is past. Daisies can be sown in
beds outside in August or September
They must be protected with straw OF
litter through the winter and trans
planted to their permanent position in
the spring.
The South African orange daisy has
become a great favorite. It was intro
duced few years ago and has beer
made much of at the flower shows an6
is used largely on big estates. 1t Is
excellent for borders and as a poi
| plant.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-24
CHAPTER XIX.
A Little Ieaven.

The summer-night stars served only
to make the darkness visible along the
road down the Timanyoni river and
across to the mining camp of Red
Butte. Smith twisted the gray road
ster sharply to the left out of the road
and four miles from the turn, shut off
the power and got down to continue
his journey afoot. The mine workings
were tunnel-driven in the mountain
side, and q crooked ore track led out
to them. Smith followed the ore track
until he came to the entrance, and to
the lock of a small door framed in
the bulkheading he applied key.
1t was pitch dark beyond the door,
and the silence was like that of the
grave. Smith had brought a candle on
his food-carrying visit of the day be-
fore, and, cropping in its hiding place
just outside of the door, he found and
lighted 1t. There was no sign of occu-
pancy save Jibbey's suitcase lying
where it had been flung on the night
of the assisted disappearance.
Smith stumbled forward into the
black depths and the chill of the place
laid hold upon him and shook him
like the premonitory shiver of an ap
proaching ague. Insensibly he quick
ened his pace until he was Fastening
blindly through a maze of tunnels ant
cross driftings, deeper and still deeper
into the bowels of the mountain. Com
ing suddenly at the last into the cham
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-24
The Truth Will Out.

A darky in Louisville who had gone
broke in a crap game turned to a
friend and requested the temporary ac-
commodation of a small loan.
Gus" said the person thus impor-
tuned, I'D lax nightly to let you have
some money, but I'm out of luck my
ownself Dis yere dollar Use about to
shoot is de last dollar 1 got in de
world
He shot and lost. while Gus looked
forlornly on. He reached into his
vest pocket and hauled out a crum-
pied bill.
''W'y, sho huff, yere is another dol
lar!" he said in tones of .astonish-
ment.
Again he shot-and lost Still hold
ing fast to the dice, he unearthed a
third bill from the swaziland of his
hat.
'Now dis yere is absolutely de last
dollar l owns on dis earth ~ he
stated for the benefit of the company
at large and his chum Gus in particu-
lar gwen hits gone Use through
He risked it and lost it. AS he slid
his free hand toward an inner recess
in the waistband of his trousers the
bankrupt Gus spoke up.
keep on shootin' nigger!' ~ bade Gus
'Jes' keep on shOotin'. Dem bonesI
mex you tell de trufe yit."-Saturday
Evening Post.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-24

the head with the pistol butt and the
forty-eight hours of sharp hardship
and privation had cut deeply into his
scanty reserves.
"Did-did Verda send you to do it?"
he queried.
mo; she doesn't know where you
are. She thinks you stopped over some
where on your way west. Come along,
if you want to go back with me-"
Jibbey stumbled away a step or two
and fiattened himself against the cav
ern wall. His eyes were still staring
and his lips were drawn back to show
his teeth.
Hold on minute" he jerked out.
you're not-not going to wipe it all
out as easy as that. You've taken
my gun away from me, but I've got
my two hands yet. Stick that candle
in hole in the wall and look out fol
yourself. I'm telling you, right now
that one or the other of us is going
to stay here-and stay dead!"
Don't be a fool" Smith broke in
81 didn't come here to scrap with you
you'd better-and you'd better
make a job of it while you're about
it," shrielzed the castaway, lost now
to everything save the biting sense OF
his wrongs. you've put it all Ovel
me-knocked my chances with Verdf
Richlander and shut me up here in thi:
hell-hole to go mad-dog crazy! If yor
let me get out of here alive I'll pa!
you back, if it's the last thing 1 eve
do! You'll go back to Lawrencevill,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-24
Chicken Had Unusual Dressing.

A roasted chicken enabled two pris-
oners to escape from the county Jail
at New Brunswick, n. j., despite the
inspection of their cells every ten
minutes and the armed guards who
surrounded the building. To outward
appearances the fowl, which was sent
to the prison by brother of the men,
was brown, appetiZing and innocent. 1t
was learned later that, instead of
bread crumbs and spices, its interior
held saws and files. When a keeper
made one of his inspections the men
were snoring loudly on their cots.
Ten minutes later he found that they
had disappeared by way of the win
dow from which they had wrenched
the bars. Still later the brother who
brought the chicken, and his high pow
cred automobile, were also found to
be gone.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-24
Would Use Water for Fuel.

Recently an inventor attracted con-
siderable attention by claiming to have
isolated a certain green chemical the
addition of which to water would make
the water a substitute for gasoline in
initial-combustion engines. Now comes
another inventor with a process for
utilizing water as an automobile fuel.
He points to the well-known fact that
water is decomposed into it's elements,
hydrogen and oxygen, when current
of electricity passes through it. Hy-
drogen mixed with air is more explo-
sive than gasoline vapor. In his pat
ented device the inventor would con-
vert part of the power generated by
the automobile engine into electrical
energy, which he would use to decom-
pose water. The hydrogen of the de-
composed water he proposes to use to
run the engine, securing enough sur
plus power in the cycle to drive the
car
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-24
CARRY A SIX-TON BUILDING
Squad of $50 Soldiers Move Structure,
~ by "a Feet, Without Aid OF
Any Machinery.

Carrying a six-ton building, without
the aid of machinery, or other equip
ment, was one of the unusual tasks per-
formed by 25O North Dakota soldiers
when they were on the Mexican bor-
der, according to the Popular Mechan-
les Magazine The frame structure
that was moved housed the army Y.
NJ. c. A. at Mercedes, Tex, and meas
ured y by "a feet.
Because its site was undesirable, it
was proposed to hire a contractor to
move the structure to a new location,
but the army engineers devised plan
by which the men themselves could
perform the task and so save money.
They estimated that with 250 soldiers
helping, each would have to carry less
than so pounds. Accordingly the build
ing was well braced and its walls pro-
vided with runners. Since there was
no floor the men were stationed along
all four walls, inside as well as out,
each soldier standing next to a beam
| inserted beneath. At the word OF
command they lifted the building from
the ground and marched away with it.
to site 200 yards distant.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-24

ber of the dripping water, he found
what he was searching for, and again
the ague chill shook him. There were
no apparent signs of life in the sodden,
muck-begrimed figure lying in a crum-
pied heap among the water pools.
"Jibbey!" he called: and then again.
ignoring the unnerving, awe-inspiring
echoes rustiing like flying bats in the
cavernous overspaces: "Jibbey!"
The sodden heap bestirred itself
slowly and became n man sitting up
to blink helplessly at the light and
supporting himself on one hand.
'Is that you, Monty?" said a voice
tremulous and broken; and then: Il
can see. The light blinds me. Have
you come to finnish the job?'
81 have come to take you out of
this; to take you back with me to
Brewster. Get up and come on"
The victim of Smiths ruthlessness
struggled stifly to his feet. Never
much more than a physical weallling
and with his natural strength wasted
by life Of dissipation, the blow OIL
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-24
PREPARATORY WORK FOR
FALL AND WINTER

What. about the winter window gar
den?
Now is the time for much work that
cannot be delayed.
One Of the best winter blooming
geraniums is the Mrs. e. G. Hill.
Many old plants should be discarded
and new ones started.
Do not let the geraniums get leggy.
Pinch into shape.
Pinch out all buds from plants in
tended for the window garden.
Late started plants are not satisfac-
tory. Begin now.
Get your soil, sand, manures and
potting materials together.
Clean, scour, sun and put in place
the pots for winter. Have every YES
sci clean.
Use charcoal in your drainage.
Dead Goals from wood ashes are as
good as any.
Repot all plants needing it, cutting
back severely. Don't try to keep
everything.
Try to have your plants at their
best when it is time to take them in
doors. Pinch and prune into good
shape.
Drops Of water must not stand on
leaves Of the gloxinia, as water will
rot it.
Get seeding primroses from the
florist now. Keep them growing and
thrifty for winter blooming.
The peristrophe variegata is gooc
bracket plant and free bloomer.
For winter blooming get dormant tu
berous-rooted begonias. Give each tn
ber pot by itself.
If one has no plants, and cannot af
ford to buy, the seedlings Of many gar
den plants are easily cared for. Man.
are very satisfactory.
The Zanzibar balsam-impatiens sui
tana is always in bloom, always beau
tiful, easily cared for. A fine window
plant.
Slips Of fuchsias, heliotropes, petu
MAS, coleus and other soft-woode'
plants root readily in moist sand. Sill
now,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-24

out for good and all. Why didn't you
do it?"
Because 1 promised somebody that
I would bring you back to Brewster
tonight, alive and well, and able to
send telegram"
Jibbey tried to get upon his rect,
couldn't quite compass it, and sat
down again.
Il don't believe a word of it, he
mumbled. lOose-lipped. "You did 1t
because you're not so DANCED tough
and hard-hearted as you thought you
were" And then: "Give me a lift,
Monty, and get me into the auto. ]
guess-Im about-all in."
Smith half led, half carried his
charge up to the road. A final heave
lifted him into his place, and it Is safe
to say that Colonel Dexter Baldwin's
roadster never made better time than
it did on the race which finally brought
the glow of the Brewster town lights
reddening against the eastern sky.
At the hotel Smith helped his drip
ping passenger out of the car, made
quick rush with him to an elevator
and so up to his own rooms on the
fourth floor.
"Strip!" he commanded; "get out Of
those wet rags and tumble into the
| bath. Make it as hot as you can stanC
! it. I'll go down and register you anC
have your trunk sent up from the sta
ton. You have a trunk, haven't your
Jibbey fished a soaked card baggage
check out of his pocket and passed
it over.
you're as bad off as I am, Monty,
he protested. "Wait and get some dr.
things on before you CO."
"Tll be up again before you're ou
of the tub. suppose you'd like to pu
yourself outside Of a big drink o
whisky, just about now, but that
one thing 1 won't buy for you. How
would a pot of hot coffee from tn
cafe strike your"
"You could make it baby food an
I'd drink it if you said So" chattere'
the drowned one from the inside o
the wet undershirt he was trying t
pull off over his head.
CTO BE CONTINUED.)
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-24
American Beauty.

Magazine. What wag, what droll fell
low ever thought of choosing the name
Babylon for south shore, Long Is
land, clam and tiattish village, the
chronicles fail to relate. Its gardens
hang right side up, and bear potatoes
in a highly respectable and patriotic
manner, and the once justly famous
daughters of Babylon are as scarce as
hanging gardens, for they simply do
not exist. The moment the Babylon
ian female attains that age when a
single swift glance at a male of the
genus suffices to tell her the precise
figure of his income, she takes the
IL :04 to the better husband stalking
preserves 40 miles to the west-and
she does not return.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-24

"Alone In that horrible place-and
without food?"
"Alone, yes but 1 went out yester-
day and put basket of food where he
could get it."
"What are you going to do with
himY'
Il am going to leave him there until
after l have put Stanton and Kinzie
and the other buccaneers safely out of
business. When that is done, he can
go; and I'll go, too"
She had risen, and at the summing
up she turned from him and went aside
TO the one window to stand for a long
lighted street. When she came back
her lips were pressed together and she
was very pale.
when l was in school, our old
psychology professor used to try to tell
us about the underman; the brute that
lies dormant inside of us and is kept
down only by reason and the super
man. / never believed itlwas anything
more than fine-spun theory-until
now. But now 1 know it is true"
He spread his hands.
IL can't help it, can II"
"The man that you are now can't
help it; no. But the man that you
could be-if he would only come
back" she stopped with a little un-
controllable shudder and sat down
again, covering her face with her
hands.
I'm going to turn Jibbey loose
after I'm through" he vouchsafed.
She took her hands away and blazed
up at him suddenly, with her face
aflame.
"Yes after you are safe; after there
is no longer any risk in it for you
That is worse thap if you had killed
him-worse for you, mean. Oh, can't
you see? It's the very depth of coward
ly infamyl"
He smiled sourly. "You think I'm
a coward? They've been calling me
everything else but that in the pas
few days"
"YOu are a coward!" she flashed
back. "You have proved it. You
daren't go out to Little Butte tonight
and get that man and bring him tC
Brewster while there is yet time fol
him to do whatever it is that you are
afraid he will do!''
Was 1t the quintessence of feminine
subtlety, or only honest rage and in
dignation, that told her how to ain
the armOr-piercing arrow? God, whit
alone knews the secret workings O
the woman heart and brain, can tell
But the arrow sped true and found it
mark. Smith got up stifily out of tn
big swing chair and stood gloomini
, down at her.
/. "You think 1 did 1t for myself?-
just to save my own worthless hide
I'll show you; show you all the thing
that you say are now impossible. Di
, YOU bring the gray roadster?"
She nodded briefly.
'Your father is coming back hea
. the elevator bell. 1 am going to TAX
the car, and don't want to meet hin
VIII you say what is needful?"
She nodded again, and he went ou
quickly. 1t was only few steps dow
the corridor to the elevator landing
and the stair circled the Gagged elevate
shaft to the ground floor. Smith hal
ed in the darkened corner of the stail
> way long enough to make sure tbs
the colonel, with Stillings and won
an in an automobile coat and veil
woman who figured for him in t1
passing glance as Corona's mother
got off at the office floor. Then b
e ran down to the street level, cranke
h the gray roadster and sprang in
o send the car rocketing westward.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-24
SaIesmanship in Schools.

Boston has a director of salesman
ship in it's public schools. The place
is filled by Isabel c. Bacon, who, at a
session of the National Retail Dry
Goods association, presented the ques-
ton of cooperative courses in sales
manship in high schools and stores.
She reported that her classes had in
creased in the last four years and that
store executives were cooperating to
make the work a success. In teaching
salesmanship there is actual demon
stration of the processes, a teacher act
ing as q customer and another as a
saleSgirl.