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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
784YOUNG MEN
REGISTERED IN
BENNINGTON
Number Exceeds All But
Most Optimistic Estimates
WORK QUIETLY DONE
Summary Of County to Be TeIe-
graphed to Washington by
Sheriff Godfrey Tonight.

Bennington registrations yesterday,
including the cards that were received
by mail this forenoon, totaled 1884 AS
there are already hundred Benning-
ton young men enlisted in the regular
army, the navy or state troops regi-
ments, the town has made an excel
lent showing. Hardly anyone about
headquarters yesterday morning es-
timated that the registration would
be so large Moderator +. H. Holden
of the registration board stated in the
morning that Bennington would enroll
a thousand but the majority of the es-
timates were nearer five hundred.
There we're not nearly so many reg
istrations in the evening as had been
expected and the work was practically
completed before o'clock, the closing
hour The members of the registra-
tion board worked until 1 o'clock this
morning making the copies and tabula-
tions required by the selective draft
Law.
The summarization of the blanks in
cludes the number of men, divided in
to ages, who are exempt from various
causes such as the holding of legisla
lative Offices, judicial Offices, persons
totally disabled, dependant relatives
and because Of occupation. These are
answered for whites and blacks.
All the summarized blanks from the
different towns in the county are sup
posed to be in the hands OF the county
clerk this afternoon and at q o'clock
this evening Sheriff Godfrey must
telegraph a summary to Washington.
There was nothing novel in the pro-
ceedings yesterday for the members
of the registration board and the as
sistants, as nearly all, if not all of
them. had ofIiciated at village and
town elections. To the young women
stenographers. however. the expert
ence was entirely new and they
thoroughly enjoyed the day. To the
names PUBLISHED in yesterdays Banner
should be added those of Mrs. George
L. Donnely. Mrs. Bertha Kohn. Miss
Susie Rogers, Miss Jane Burgess, Miss
Irene Berard and Miss Donalda Ber-
ard.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY

Farmers are planting between show
er:.
John Waite was in Bennington
Monday
Ishmael Waite was in Bennington
Saturday.
Gabriel Monette was in the place
Decoration day.
Henry Harrington was in Benning-
ton Saturday.
Schuyler Harrington was in Ben
nington Saturday.
Ezra Harrington has purchased sew
eral acres Of farming land.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Smith visited
relatives in Adams last week.
Mrs. O. b. Pierce visited her son j.
w. Pierce in Bennington last week.
Newman Elwell and A. ]. Elwell
are doing their farm work in Green
Mountain Valley.
For Sale-An extra fresh milking
COW. Mr.. and Mrs ID. p. Mattison,
Green Mountain Valley Adv
A. A. Collins decorated the soldiers
graves in the three cemeteries through
Green Mountain Valley. as his custom
for years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Harvey have
q little daughter They are with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Stratton.
Although a rainy day last Friday,
June 1st. the four teachers and pupils
held their picnic at the Maple Hill
school house with good success.
Much sympathy is extended to
Hawkins and Eva Patten in the loss
OF their devoted loving mother. Yet
they have the sweet peace of knowing
that they were untiring night and day
in administering in every way to re-
lieye and soothe the last days OF
mother
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
A|RPLANES
RA|NBOMbSON
ENGLISH COAST
British Aviators Bring Down
Two Invaders
TWO KILLED; 20 HURT
Raiders Were. Engaged BY Gunflre
and Driven Off BY British
Aircraft.

London, June 5.-A raid by a squad
| ron of German airplanes late yester-
day over the counties of Essex, and
Kent. England, serves for the
moment to distract a'tention from the
maneuyers on the battle fronts. where
for the most part artillery engage
| ments are still in progress.
Some sixteen of the German aircraft
were engaged in the attack. during
which bombs were dropped and mater
ial damage resulted in residential sec
tions and two persons were killed
and twenty-nine injured. Taking the
air British aviators succeeded in driv-
ing off the invaders, who lost two of
their machines.
The official statement of the British
war Office describing the raid, states:
AN airplane raid was carried out
by squadron OF about sixteen air
planes. They crossed the Essex coast
at about els and dropped some bombs
in the country and on small towns in
Essex. and proceeded to attack the
naval establishments in Midway. a
considerable number OF bombs were
dropped and a certain amount of dam
age was done to public property, but
the damage done naval and military
establishments was practically neglig
ible.
The raiding airplanes were en-
gagged by gunfire and pursued by air
craft After having lost two machines
they made off seawards.
The casualties so far reported are
two killed. two dangerously wounded
and twenty-seyen injured
The British and Germans near
Wytschaete in Belgium are still en-
gagged in violent artillery duel.
which probably is the forerunner of
great infantry action at an early
date. Already. according to Berlin,
the British after having hurled great
quantities of steel against the German
defenses, advanced to see the result
of the work of their guns but were
forced by the German fire to return
to their positions. where their rain of
shells again was resumed.
During Tuesday eighteen German
airplanes were accounted for by Brit
ish aviators on the western battle |
front, twelve of them having been
brought down in air fighting. The
British themselves lost five machines
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
RECRUITING FOR co M.
New York National Guard Seeking
Men in Bennington.

wen IN bennlH9ton'
Lieut.. c. r. Whipple of Co. NJ, End
N. Y, Inf. now on recruiting duty at
Hoosick Falls, N. Y, was in town to-
day to look over the prospects for OBJ
tanning recruits here for Co. NJ. His
company is now in Federal service
doing guard duty in the vicinity of
Cohoes, n. Y, and since receiving or
ders to recruit to war strength. every
effort has been made to fill the com
pany with men from Hoosick Falls
and neighboring towns in preference
to accepting men from the cities so
that practically all the men in the
company know one another and all
come FROM the same section of the
country.
The boys of Co. NJ, and the boys of
Bennington are well acquainted and
it is with the idea that good number
of the young men from here had rath-
er be in bunch with fellows they
know Lieut.. Whipple plans to open
a short campaign here for recruits. An
Office will be opened at the Putnam
house tomorrow, where men may ap-
ply for information, examination and
enlistment.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

WANTED-Kitchen girl at Cottage
Hotel 9t6
FOR SALE--Estey organ in good
condition, $500. Apply Banner Of
flee. 9tf
WANTED-Good second hand piano
to purchase, or rent for summer.
Camp Avalon, Shaftsbury. 9t2*
WANTED-Two or three furnished
rooms for light house keeping Two
adults, one child. Mrs. II. L. Barnes,
ia Union st. 9t1*
LOST-On Union or Valentine Sts.,
a pair of eye glasses with chain. Find
er please return to SIS Main st. 9t2
FOR SALE-Furniture and house
hold goods. Parties leaving town.
Most of the goods brand new Call at
3O3 South st. zone week only.) 9t6*
FOR SALE-Light spring wagon.
good condition. Bottum and Torrance
Co. 9t3
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
VALUE OF THE P0RPOlSE.
Oil From lts Jaw Keeps Clocks and
Watches Running Smoothly.

Watches Running Smoothly.
In this Fastening age of ours, when
even seconds count in business life, ii
may sound paradoXical to say that we
owe our punctuaity and time saving
to the playful porpoise. And yet such,
indeed, Is the fact, for watches, clocks
and the still more dignitied chronometer
would not run month IN and month out
with regularity but for the lubricant
obtained from its jaws. This oil has
the unique property of being able to
retain its fuidity summer and winter,
and there is an authentic record Of the
lubricant doing its work at tempera-
ture of quite 100 degrees below the
freezing point
A variety of other oils have been
tried for the same service, but all of
them have proved far less reliable. In
a watch or chronometer the oil must
stay where putt must not "creep"
over the mechanism and thus steal
away from its proper post of duty.
Therefore, 1t ought not to run away in
the presence of considerable heat. Nei-
ther should the oil oxidizc, evaporate
or grow rancid. These eXacting re-
quirements are met in their entirety
only by porpoise jaw oil, and it is no
wonder that the stuff when refined sells
wholesale in the neighborhood Of $25
gallon. There are many other mechan-
isms that are best cared for by using
porpoise jaw oil, such, for instance, as
talking machines, delicate recording APP
paratus, etc.-Scientific American.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
STUDY YOUR BUSINESS.
Learn a Lesson Out of Ono Big Mans
Cook of Success.

Perhaps the most wonderful memory
in the United States is owned by James
A. Farrell. president of the United
States Steel corporation, whose meth
ods and successes are described in an
article by b. c. Forbes in the American
Magazine.
"Mr. Farrell could rattle or the exact
location of every sizable iron plant, not
only in America, but in England. Ger
many, Belgium. France. Austria. Rus
sia, China. lndia-in short, all over the
world. He knew the charges made by
the railroads for carrying iron and
steel from all these works to seaboard
and the ocean freight rates from any
one point to any other point on the
map.
Distances, too, he had at his finger
tips and could always explain exactly
the cheapest way to ship material from
anywhere to everywhere. Straight Off
the bat he told the exact percentage.
even to the decimal point, of how
much of America total production
was exported in every recent year. One
lawyer wanted light on how many
wheels were made in the United
States. and Mr. Farrell obllgingly in
formed him that the annual total was
100000.
81 could conceive no more humiliat-
ing experience he replied, than to be
asked some question concerning our
operations and to be obliged to send
for a subordinate to answer it. would
not consider myself fit for the job un-
less knew the ins and outs of the
business and how each detail OF it is
conducted.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
Card of Thanks.

The Neighborhood Club wish to ex-
tend their thanks to all who so kindly
assisted in the Memorial Day exer-
cises. The clergy, teachers, pupils,
singers and the Boy Scouts of Ameri-
ca, all who donated the use of auto
mobiles and those who furnished for
the dinner also the towns people who
helped SO much by their presence and
joined so heartily and patrioticcally
inNthe exercises.
Mrs. George Howard,
President.
Chairman of Committee
Mrs. Walter c. Vault,
Arlington, VT, June 6, 1917.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
Or. w. Montmarquet, chiropodist,
will be at the Colonial Thursday.
BONNEVILLE

Miss Marion Burbank is on the sick
lis;.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cobb are i'll with
the grip
Mrs. Lydia French, who is i'll with
measles, is gaining.
Mr.. and Mrs Daniel Lyons of Gull
ford were guests at S. b. Castle S
Tuesday
Miss Olivia Burbank went to West
Brattleboro Monday where she has
employment.
DR.. A. w. Thomas was called Sat
urday to attend Zadoc Haywood. who
is i'll with grip and pleurisy.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Taylor of
Florence, Mass, were guests at the
Morgan house Saturday and Sunday.
Jacob Ellenburg was home over
Sunday. Earl Benson and two chill
dren of Manchester Depot came with
him.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Stone of Good
elville visited at Mrs. Sarah Burbee's S
Friday. They were accompanied by
Mr. Stones sister.
Mrs. Frank Crossman and two chill
dren of Dummerston were guests at
ID. A. Leonard's last week. Mr.. Cross
man came Sunday and they returned
home with him.
Catherine Coleman, aged 8 years,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Alden Cole
man, died Friday night. The funeral
was held at the house Sunday at 2
o'clock. The burial was at the Raw
sonville cemetery.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
Record Fishing.

correspondent asks for the record
tuna taken on light tackle in Santa
Catalina island waters. He requests
further enlightenment on what light
tackle means.
Light tackle of the Tuna club con
sists of wood rod, butt and tip, not
shorter than six feet over all. Butt to
be not over fourteen inches in length,
tip not less than five feet in length and
not to weigh more than six ounces.
Line not to exceed standard nine
thread
On this tackle r. Rochester. Jr., of
Los Angeles, in the waters of San Gle
monte on Aug. 2S. 1913. fought a sew
enty seven and threefourths pound
tuna for seven hours before subduing
the fish.-New York Sun.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
NEW BANK RECORD
Aggregate Assets of Banks Reach
S16,144 ,oO0, 600.

Washington, June 4.-Resources of
the country's national banks have
reached another high record. Currency
Comptroller Williams announced to-
night that on May !, the date Of the
last bank call, the assets of the banks
aggregated $16,144 100000 an increase
of one hundred and sixty-fve million
since the last call March 5 and of
nearly two billion since year ago.
Reserves Of $94S, ,000,000 with re-
serve agents, $762 100000 with reserve
banks and $76S, 100000 in their own
vaults were reported by the banks, the
combined total with reserve banks
and in vault exceeding legal require
ments by $26,O00,000
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
GIRLS SERVED SUPPER
Cooking Class Entertained the Board
of Trustees

Cooking Glass Entertained the Board
of Trustees
The high school girls of the junior
division who are in the cooking class
entertained Supt. Varney and the
school trustees at supper served in
the sewing room at the schoolhouse at
$50 Tuesday night The supper was
well cooked and we'll served and cred
table to the school and the class.
The cost per plate was 26 IL cents
and the menu was as follows:
Ham baked in milk
Baked Macaroni with Tomatoes
Boiled Asparagus
Grape Jelley Pepper Relish
Baking Powder Biscuits
Lemon Sherbet Waters
Coffee
The girls. who served the supper.
were Misses Julia BrazZell. Helen
Denley, Anastasia Fitzgerald, Iris
Farnum, Hazel Kelley, and Elsa Wahl-
quist Their teacher, Miss Margaret
Mclean, supervised the affair, but
the girls did the cooking and other
food preparation
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
PAY OF POLICE
RAISED TO 40
CENTSAN HOUR
Action Taken BY Trustees at
Meeting Last Night
WANT ELECTRIC SIGNS
Company Seeks Modification of Ordin-
ance Prohibiting Signs Hang.
ing over Sidewalks.

The board of village trustees at its
regular monthly meeting last evening
raised the pay of the village police
from 25 to 40 cents an hour for actual
time.
Village President Braisted presided,
Clerk Hogan and Corporation Attor-
ney Bennett were in attendance and
Trustees North, McGurn, Morrissey,
Burt, Harbour and Wills were pres
EN-;
Considerable time was taken up
with an informal discussion of the
street problems and it was decided to
hold a special meeting later in the
week to take up the matter of the
contract for concrete sidewalks and
curbne
Chairman Burt also brought up the
matter of the yearly budget, but no
definite action was taken.
r. h. Larrabee, superintendent of
the Twin State Gas and Electric COM
pany, appeared before the board and
requested that merchants who so de-
sire be given permission to erect cleo
trio signs over the sidewalk. Some
years ago the board passed an ordin-
ance prohibiting the erection of any
signs extending over the sidewalks
and the company is desirous that the
restrictions be modified. The matter
was referred to the light committee
for investigation.
Building permits were granted to
the +. L. Sibley company for its pro-
posed new building and TO George NJ.
Hawks for the erection of an exten-
sion in the rear of the building on
Main street now occupied by Pappas
& Violas.
William Friedman, who recently
built house at the corner of Dewey
and Weeks street appeared before the
board and complained that the high
way at that point was so high that
surface water overflowed his land.
The matter was referred to the street
committee.
The clerk was instructed to draw
his orders for the following bills.
4. ...I.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
CONFEDERATE REUNION
Note of Patriotism in Gathering at
Washington.

Washington, June 5.-A strong note
of patriotism marked the opening to-
day of the twenty-seventh annual re-
union of the United Confederate Vet
Grams. who were welcomed by mem
bers of the Grand Army OF the Repub-
lie on the occasion of their first meet
ing north of the Potomac River.
A group of Daughters of the Con
federacy clad in gray jackets formed
a pleasing figure among the sponsors
and maids of honor and the other wo-
men of the South.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
NorWaY,s Maelstrom.

The greatest whirlpool in the world
is the maelstrom Off the coast of Nor
way. 1t is an eddy between the main
land and an island, and when the cur
rent is in one direction and the wind
in another 10 ship can withstand the
fury of the waves. Whales and sharks
have been cast ashore and killed. The
current is estimated TO run thirty miles
an hour.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
KILLS SELF AND TWO CHILDREN
Mrs. w. VanWaters Turns on Gas in
Watertown Home

Watertown, June 5.-Despondent
over family matters. Mrs. w. Van
Waters. twenty-seven, killed herself
and two children, George, four, and
Virginia, three, tonight by shutting
them in the kitchen and turning on
the gas from small range.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06

FIRST BAND CONCERT
Program for Musical Entertainment to
Be Given This Evening

The first band concert of the season
will be given from the piazza of the
Cottage Hotel this evening with the
following program:
March-"De Backers Triumphant
Greenwald
Waltz-"Mo-ana" Olsen
Selection-"The Princess Pat"
Herbert
Barber of Seville"
Rossini
Medley Remlck's Hits
lib" Lampe
Russian Mazurka-"La Czarine"
Came
Hawaiian Lake
Supremacy" Crosby
American
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
WE SINK A SUBMARINE
Armed American Liner Sends U-Boat
to the Bottun1

Washington. June 6.-In a running
fight with an enemy submarine an
armed American merchantmen sunk
the U-boat, according to an announce
ment by the state department today.
No names, dates or locations are
given out By the department.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
kEET BABY STILL MISSING
Child Of Wealthy Missouri Banker
Held by kidnapers.

Springfield, Mo- June 5.--No trace
of the missing fourteen months old
son of j. Holland Keet, wealthy Spring
field banker, has been found early to-
Gay nor could ii be learned whether
the father had made second trip dur
ing the night into the wilds of the
Ozarks with the ransom demanded by
the abductors for the child's return.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
NEW COUNTERFEIT DISCOVERED
Treasury Department Announces Ex
stence of False $1,000 Note.

Washington, June 4.-Discovery of
new counterfeit $40 certificate of the
1907 series was announced today by
the secret service. 1t is not as. finely
executed as the genuine note. but is
likely to prove very deceptive, it was
stated
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
3. & NJ. MEN TO STRIKE

railroad Station Employees Receive
Official Orders to Stop Work
Boston, June Am official order
for strike on Thursday morning of
the 2,SOO members of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Station Employees con-
nected with the Boston and Maine sys
TEN, was issued by General Chairman
p. J. Coyle today. The strike, if it
goes into effect will call out freight
handlers freight clerks, crossing tend
ers and station workers of all kinds,
including baggage men. ianitors and
watchmen.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
MISS LAssoR's CONCERT
To Be Given June 1e for Benefit Of
Red Cross.

A concert will be given by Miss
Eva Lassor and pupils assisted by To-
cal talent and Mrs. Harry Francis
Marshall. vioIinist and Miss Stella
Vadnais, soprano, at High school hall
Tuesday. June 19, for the benefit of
the American Red Cross at p. m.
Tickets are S5c and are for sale at
Gokay's Drug store or by Camp Fire
girls and pupils.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
MORE TORNADO VICTIMS
Section of Kansas and Missouri Storm
Swept Last Night.

Kansas City Mo, June 6.-Meagre
returns from the storm swept area in
Kansas and Missouri place the death
toll of last nights tornado at nine.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
WEATHER FORECAST

For eastern New York and western
Vermont, probably showers and thun-
der storms tonight. Thursday warm.
er.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-06
REGISTRATION IN STATE
Returns to Date From Some of the
Leading Towns.

The following table gives only a
fnw of the nrincinal towns in the state.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-18

January another application for a
rehearing was made and held over.
The results of the meeting yester-
day as announced last night were as
follows
Recommended - Alfred Doty, Lu-
Zerne. assault with intent to rob;
George Hawkins, Lackawanna rob-
berry: Riggi Stelli, Luzerne, man
slaughter.
Refused-Patrick Gallery, North
ampton, first degree murder; Jerry
Nicholson, Philadelphia, rape; George
f. Fox, Beaver, sodomy; Frank F.
Donahue, Philadelphia, embezzlement;
Amos Hassler, Lebanon, making false
entries in books of trust company;
Harry Zamsky, Allegheny, larceny;
Charles Conzoneri and Nicola Bon
figlio. Carbon, assault and battery with
intent to kill, breaking and entering.
Stricken From List-Thomas Har-
ris. Luzerne, embezzlement Z. NJ Let
teri, Lackawanna, embezzlement;
John Dayton, Philadelphia. receiving
stolen goods.
All petitions for rehearing were
held under advisement and other
cases listed were continued including
John Nelson. Wyoming, first degree
murder; C. c. Meredith. Allegheny,
abortion: Mike Jovanozi. Crawford,
burglary and escape; George Ormsby.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-18

There is more Catarrn ais section OF the
country than all other diseases put together, ana
until the last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For q greut many years doctors
pronounced It a local disease Hnd prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly falling to cure with
local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science
has proven Catarrh to be constitutional disease.
and therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Halls catarrh Cure manufactured By #. =.
tionai cure on the market. 1t Is taken internally
In doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces o.
the system. They offer one hundred dollars for
any case 1t fails to cure. Send for circulars and
testimonials.
Address: +. ]. CHENEY CO., Toledo. ohias
Sold by Druggists, 75c
Take Halls Family PILLS for eonstipstiaa~
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-18
STATE AIDS MANY
TO SECURE JOBS
Employment Bureaus Report
Shows What Has Been Ac-
complished by Lightner

The State of Pennsylvania succeeded
in placing 1880 persons in jobs dur
ing to summary of the operations of
the bureau for that month made by
Director Lightner. This is the largest
number placed in a single month since
the bureau began work last January.
The summary also shows that 43
per cent. of the 2.545 requests of en-
ployers for workers were for labor.
while 24.4 per cent. of the applicants
were laborers. Thirty-eight per cent.
of the women who applied for State
aid to find places were for domestic
and personal employment. The num-