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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-05-18
GENERAL PRIMARY LAW PASSES
In The HOUSE

Tallahassee, Fla, May IA, 1917.
Special to the Ocala Banner:
The house this morning refused to
pass Hardees' bill authorizing the
railroads to exchange transportation
for advertising after heated debate
but passed Hardee's and Best's bills
allowing the railroads to take at re-
duced rates delegates to religious, ed
vocational and other associations, and
an act providing for the adoption of a
uniform affidavit of the publication of
legal notices, and the libel law amend
ment endorsed by the press associa-
ton.
At the afternoon session the house
passed the amendment to the Davis
package law, prohibiting the sale of
liquor in service clubs in wet coun-
ties. only nine members voting against
it. Only one more prohibition bill is
now on the caledar
The house passed the general pri-
mary law after a half day of debate
and much amending The law pro-
vides for the holding of two primaries
and direct vote for all officials from
the president down.
The governor today signed many
bills, among them the Slater Smith
bill, placing a prohibitive license on
immigration agents and bill provid
ing for the monthly payment of pen
sions
SARAH GROOM LITCH.
Tallahassee, Fla. May II, 1917.
Special to the Ocala Banner:
The senate road bills all passed the
house without very material amend
ment except one bill, which came over
this morning, and was advanced to
third reading and afterwards put back
to second reading for amendment.
Cartons county official salary bill
will come up in the house Tuesday,
when an interesting fight is expected.
The primary election bill, which en-
gagged the attention of the house on
Thursday and the greater part of Fri
day. will be before the house again
as a special order Monday morning.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-05-18

a head for every living soul in this
state, and, added to the SIG of taxes
that each person in Florida will pay,
will make an average of $34 to be paid
by every person in Florida. They will
tax everything on earth to raise that
money. This house has already ap-
propriated nearly million dollars
more than the last legislature. The
comptroller has given me some fig
ures today that show that the state
is paying $40 year for office rent
AS sure as you live you are going back
to the tax payers, and you will have
to answer to the tax payers"
SARAH GROOM BITCH.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-05-18

Every Floridian who believes this
war should be prosecuted with unre-
lenting vigor will be proud of Senator
Fletcher's stand. He stood with the
president in his plan to get an army
and get it quick Palatka News.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-05-18

Mrs. M. o. Lewis and Miss Alice
Lynne Lewis have returned to Ocala
from a short visit with Miss Jessie
Owens at Rutland, near Spar.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-05-18

Tallahassee, Fla, May II, 1917.
Special to the Ocala Banner:
The senate this morning killed
Cartons libel law bill, also Roland S
bill to establish an electric chair at
Raiford for the execution of the death
penaty.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-05-18

The Turnbull county bill will be be-
fore the-senate Tuesday. 1t is under
stood that special car full of prom
inent Volusia county men will be here
Monday In the interest of the proposed
new county.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-05-18
The house passed the Jones bill es-
.ablishing a state library

The house ras sed the Jones bill es-
tablishing a state library.
Fogarty's bill providing that ap-
pointments requiring confirmation of
the senate shall not be effective until
confirmed, was reported adversely by
the house judiciary by vote of to 2.
Igou's bill holding up the fees of sus-
pended officials, etc, is expected to
receive the same treatment at the
hands of the committee.
The senate today confirmed the ap-
pointment of Bitch and Patterson as
tax commissioners, and sustained the
governor in suspending from office c.
b. King, the county school superin-
tendent of Jackson county, who disap-
peared some time ago
The new city charter bill for Ocala
passed the house last night as did
also TerrelPs road bills.
1t has developed that the innocent
looking measure which passed early
in the session and was signed by the
governor providing for leaves of alb
sence of state or county officials, eth
er elective or appointive, for military
service, will have toe effect of contin-
uing DR.. G. Y. Porter in office another
four years as state health officer The
law provides that such official shall
leave the office in charge of compe-
tent deputy, during his absense. There
is no provision for removal of a depu-
ty DR.. Porter has already named his
deputy, and is now on his way to Par.
is for service in the Red Cross. He
holds a commission in the United
States army.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-05-18

and will probably be passed without
further amendment.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-05-18

La. Folly yet.-Clearwater Sun
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-05-18

Mr.. Light OF Marion. who had just
been reading his daily paper, said:
THE Times-Union today says that the
United States congress has just pass
ed, without a dissenting vote, to raise
by taxation $500, 600, O0O-more than
half as much as the entire indebted
ness of the United States at the close
of the civil war. That will mean s1S
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-05-18

Governor Cats issued a proclama
ton offering reward of one hundred
dollars for the apprehension or cap
ture Of William Blackwell, who es-
capped from the Escambia Jail charged
with the murder of Bud Davis and
wife.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-05-18

A measure Of interest to women is
the house bill which passed the sem
ate providing that in all counties with
a population of ninety thousand or
over, and having two or more circuit
court Judges, the governor shall,
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-05-18

The house spent the entire day
Thursday on the primary election bill
Crews secured the adoption of an
amendment binding candidates to
pledge themselves to appoint none but
party nominees.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-05-18

The senate permitted the house to
recall the no fence law for Lee coun-
ty which had passed. and come to the
senate.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-05-18

Senator Moore introduced and pass
ed in the senate a bill authorizing the
forming of county home guards for
protection during the war. when reg
ular militia companies will be away
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-12
PROFIT BY THIS
Don't Waste Another Day.

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ache;
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Don't experiment with an untried
medicine.
Follow Bennington peoples ex-
ample.
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Here's Bennington testimony.
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Bennington, says: my back was
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me in the small of my back. The ac-
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friends advice, | used Doan's Kidney
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removed the trouble. ! have had no
kidney complaint since"
Price SOC, at all dealers. Don't
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Doans Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Butler had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-12
OFFERS PEACE TO RUSSIA
Germany Proposes Armistice and
Lays Trap for Her Enemy.

London, June lot was after
General Dragomiroff had curtly re-
jected the peace proposals made to
him by German military emissaries
about the middle OF May, according
to Reuter- dispatch from Petrograd
that the German comander-in-chief
on the western front sent wireless
messages to all Russian troops pro-
posing an armistice by which, as he
naively suggested, Russo-German
military operations could be suspend
ed without Russian detection from
her allies.
The German commander declared
in his message that his country, with
he rallies, was ready to meet the fire.
quently expressed desire of the Rus
sian soldiers delegates and end the
bloodshed by concluding a peace hon
orable to both sides, thereby rees-
tablishing the former neighborly re-
lations and giving economic support
for Russia. The message invited Rus
sia to send plenipotentiaries if she
wished to know the German condi-
tions, but at the same time to abstain
from demanding the publication of
these conditions so long as she con
sidered herself bound by the secret
treaties made by former governments
for the purpose of destroying Ger
many and her allies"
The message then specified the OBJ
jects for which Germany's enemies
were declared to be fighting. These
were said to include the possession of
the German colonies, Alsace and Lor-
raine, Triest, Constantinople, the par
tition of Asia Minor and the levying
of q heavy indemnity upon the central
powers.
The radiogram closed by affirming
Germany's continued ability to fight
on all fronts, instancing previous
simultaneous operations in Volhynia,
Rumania, on the Isonzo and the
Somme. Consequently it was declared,
she need not denude the eastern
front of troops and threatened that if
the central powers were forced to
continue war with the consequent
vast military outlay their military OBJ
iects inevitably would become more
extensive.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-12
.:.!!!IANSSTART y!
Mr.; I'VE ON
TREN1|NOFR0NT
Rome Reports 500 Captured
Prisoners In Advance
BRITISH GAIN A MILE
Bio Guns Rain Shells on German
Lines Around Ypres in Prepara-
tion for Drive.

London, June 12.-Following up the
Allies determination to batter un
ceasingly at the German lines in the
west, the British and the Italians yes
terday struck simultaneously on wide
ly separated fronts. The British big
guns are once more deluging steel
over the Teuton line in Belgium and
another blow by the infantry is ex-
pected, most likely against Lille.
The Italians this time have struck
on the Trentino front in an effort TO
keep Teuton reinforcements from be-
ing thrown into the breech torn by
the British. In cooperation with this
double offensive, General Sarrail is
preparing new drive in Macedonia,
for the Bulgarian report tells of 'huri-
ricane fire" all along the line.
Not satisfied with the capture OF the
famous Messines ridge last week, Field
Marshal Haigs men continue here and
there to dig further into the territory
held by the Germans. Sunday night
and Monday again witnessed thrusts
by the British south and southeast of
Messines, in both of which appreciable
gains were made, especially in the
neighborhood OF LaPaterie farm,
Early Monday morning in this region
q trench system over front OF about
a mile was captured and later in the
day the gain was considerably enlarg-
ed, bringing the British front to within
a short distance of Warneton, the cap
ture Of which would give them domin-
alton of the road leading eastward
about three miles to the town of Com
ines.
The days operations added to the
number of prisoners taken by the Brit
ish and also gave them seven more
German field guns.
Comparative quiet reigns on the
front held by the French. except for
artillery duels ON various sectors,
especially in the region of Mont Car
nillet. The Berlin war Office asserts
that on the Chemin des Danes Sunday
night the Germans in a surprise attack
killed the occupants of French tren-
ches and returned to their own lines
later with prisoners.
On the Russian front quietude still
prevails. In Macedonia artillery bonn
bardments are in progress, particularly
in the Cerna bend region.
On the Trentino front the Italians
have captured several important posi-
tions, notably the greater portion of
Monte Artigara. which rises to a
height of 1924 feet, and the Agnello
pass, from which there is comparative
Iv JavaJ trrolIud toward the town of
Borgo and the Brenta river
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-12
THE IRISH CONVENTION
Will Be Composed of 1o1 Representa-
tives of Different Factions

London, June 11.-John Redmond,
the Nationalist leader, will be invited
to nominate five members to the Irish
convention, Premier Lloyd-George an
nounced in the House of Commons to-
day. Sir John Lonsdale will be invit-
ed also to nominate five members, the
premier added, and William O'Brien
two members. There would be ten
Irish representatives peers, five mem
bers of the Irish Unionist Alliance,
five Sim Feiners and fifteen members
nominated by the government. The
Premier said the government would
prefer that the convention nominate
its own Chairman. but it was prepar-
ed to nominate a chairman and submit
his name to the king.
Mr.. Lloyd-George said the Irish con-
vention would be composed of 101 rep
resentatives.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-12
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

WANTED-Quantity of dry bass
wood lumber. Inch boards preferred.
Apply to H. E. Richmond at the Bull
shop. 14t6
FOR SALE-Several vacuum wash
ers at less than cost, so cents each
Only a few days to clean them out.
If you want one, come quick. Also
3-burner blue flame oil stove with
cabinet and oven. SIS stove for $40.
Used only one year. 103 Dewey st.
14t6
WANTED-A good secondhand
farm wagon, with thre or four inch
tire, wood axle preferred, give descrip-
tion and price. Lester H. Woodard,
Arlington. VT. 14t6*
FOR SALE-A one ton Little Giant
Motor Truck A l condition. Newly
painted and overhauled. Brand new
engine. Just the thing for farm use
or city trucking. A rare bargain. j.
II. Eitapence. Rutland. Vt. 14t6"
FOR SALE-Early cabbage plants,
so cents per hundred, early tomato
plants 35 cents dozen. caulifower 10
cents dozen. George f. Davis, tel.
221-3. 14tf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-12
Be an Agent for Something
COUNTY COURT
June Term Opened at Manchester
This Forenoon.

June Term Opened at Manchester
This Forenoon.
The June term of Bennington coun-
ty court, postponed from last Tues
day, because OF registration, opened
at Manchester at 10 o'clock this fore
noon. Judge Leighton p. Slack of
st. Johnsbury Is presiding assisted by
Judge Herbert N. Shaw of Manchester
and Edmund LaFranchise of Benning-
ton.
The session opened at 10 o'clock
but the members of the jury were not
called until O'Clock this afternoon.
Among the attorneys who left for
Manchester during the day, some by
automobile, some by the Dorset Ben
nington auto bus line and some by
train were Collins NJ. Graves, w. b.
Sheldon. John V. ID. S. Merrill, Robert
f. Healy, Henry Chase, William j.
Meagher, e. II. Holden and Charles
A. Maurer.
Five members of the petit jury
were drawn from Bennington, Shirley
Williams, Claire w. Soule, +. H.
Ferguson, Wills T. White and Louis
Bergeron, Jr
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-12
|A[L SLACKERS
| TO Be BROUGHT
T0EAR[Y TRIAL
Period of Leniency Ended
for EIigibIes
GOVERNORS NOTIFIED
Years Imprisonment and Enforced
Registration is the Penalty for
Law Evaders.
GOVERNORS NOTIFIED

Washington, June 1.-THE period
of leniency ended tonight for men be
tween the ages of u and 80, inclusive
who failed to register for the wal
army last Tuesday.
Provost Marshal-General Crowder
sent to the governors of all the States
message asking them ito inaugu'
rate from tomorrow a vigorous, ag-
gressive and effective enforcement of
the penal cluase of the selectiye ser.
vice law against all who have by
their failure to register brought
themselves under these provisions"
The penalty for failure to register
on June is Imprisonment for year,
and enforced registration, but Gener-
al Crowder Immediately after regis
tration day recommended that local
registration boards provide further op
portunity for delinquents.
The department of justice today
notified u. S. attorneys to release
those already arrested for failure to
register providing they have now
registered.
General Crowder has nearly COM
pleted draft of regulations to gov
ern exemption and exemption board
and expects to lay it before Secretary
Baker in few days for approval. The
general believes no class should be
exempted as such, but that local
boards should decide on the circum-
stances in each individual case. He
favors use OF some device such as
jury wheel for drawing the names OF
those to be examined by the exemp-
ton boards. The regulations will be
made public in detail after Secretary
Baker and President Wilson approve
them.
A few more States reported regis
tration totals to the provost marshal
generals office today, but indications
were that all would not be completed
for nearly a week.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-12
CAMPS TO BE PROTECTED
Organizations to Offer Reward for De.
lection of Vandalism

Within a few days there will be
posted on the doors of the camps and
cabins in the mountains to the east
of this village. cloth placards stating
that a reward of $50 will be paid for
information that will lead to the con-
viction of any person or persons on
the charge of breaking into the build
ings.
A fund has been raised by the Ben
nington County Forest, Fish and Game
association, the Bennington section
of the Green Mountain club and the
camp owners who are not members of
either organization for the purpose of
protection.
At meeting of the officers and di-
rectors of the Bennington County
Forest, Fish and Game association at
the Office of DR.. r. ID. Jenney Monday
evening arrangements were made for
the printing of the posters The pos
ters will be printed on cloth and fur
nished to the camp owners.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-12
MOTOR CAR FOR 1ST. VT.
John N. Woodfin of Rutland Gives
Seven PASSENGER Peerless.

Rutland, June 9.-John N. Woodfin
of Pleasant street. this city, has pre-
sented the First Vermont regiment a
seven-passenger Peerless automobile
The military organization is in need
of several vehicles of this character.
Lieut. Ray e. Smith was IN this city
yesterday and in a conversation with
Mr.. Woodfin mentioned the need of
motor driven vehicles in the regi
ment. AS the result Of this MIR.
Woodfin decided to make the gift.
DR.. Smith will drive tae car to
Fort Ethan Allen aud turn it over 10
Colonel Thomas. The Peerless,
while not a very recent model, is in
fairly good condition and will prob
ably be used by the staff officers who
have to cover a great amount of ter
ritory in performance of their duties.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-12
JOHNSON TO HEAD GUARDS
Bradford Man to Command Proposed
Vermont Regiment.

Montpelier, June 10.-Col II. I.
Johnson of Bradford has been appoint
ed commander of the proposed new
Vermont state regiment by Gov, Gra-
ham. Col. thomson was formerly com
mander of the First Vermont regi-
ment w. w. Russell of this city,
formerly adjutant of the First Yer
mont regiment, has been appointed to
serve in a similar capacity in the new
organization.
Work of recruiting the 600 men
needed for the regiment will begin
Monday.
The organization will do guard
duty within the state. relieving mem
bers of the First regiment.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-12
Morning

Devotional Service
Philip T. II. Pierson
Organization and Business
Reports from the Churches
a. Things Accomplished
b. Things planned for
1t is preferable that these reports
be written. and not exceed five
minutes in reading. They are in
tended TO be brief outline history
of the Churches during the year.
A Review of "a Student in Arms"
Sec. II. A. Wilkinson of Bennington
Discussion
Noon. Dinner
Afternoon
Devotional Service
Rev. c. E. Hitchcock
Unfinished Business
Address, Like a Mighty Army Moves
the Church of God"
Rev C. C. Merrill. State Sec'y
Address, Mrs. Ida Vose Woodbury.,
Field Sec'y of the A. NJ. A.
Collection for Association Expenses
Sermon Rev w. A. McIntire
The Lords Supper
Rev. Geo, s. Mills
Rev. j. Duke King
Woman's Missionary Meeting and
Meeting of Bennington Co. Minis
ters' Association
Supper
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-12
EITHER SYP OR TRAITOR
Someone Has Been Giving Away
Confidential Naval Matter

someone 1aS seen GIVING away
Confidential Naval Matter
Washington. June 11.-Either a spy
or traitor has been divulging confden-
tial information of the Bureau of Ord
nance, Secretary Daniels today told the
Senate Naval Affairs Committee.
When the committe today resumed
investigation of the mongolia acci-
dent Senator Frelinghuysen produced
some letters which Secretary Daniels
said contained information which only
could have been obtained from the
confidential files of the Ordnance Bu-
reau. He asked to have them turned
over to the Secret Service. Senator
Frelinghuysen said he had no desire
to shield anyone and that he had at
tempted to find out something about
the author and could not.
Secretary Daniels said il was abso-
lutely necessary to run down traitors
or spies in the Navy department He
urged the committee to uncover the
author of the letters and make him
disclose everything, Secretary Dan
iels contended that charges of incom-
potency were made in the letters
against inspectors and contained grave
reflections upon the basic defenses of
the country One of the letters was
postmarked Detroit, Mich.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-12
CANTONMENT SITES
Approval of Petersburg, Va, Revoked
War Department

Washington, June 11.--Little Rock,
Ark, Louisville, Ky, Battle Creek
Mich, and San Antonio, Tex, have
been approved by the War department
as additional cantonment sites for the
new army.
Additional camps for National Guard
mobilization will be located at Fort
Worth. Waco, Houston, Tex, Fort
Sill. Okla. Deming, N. NJ, and Linda
Vista, Cal.
The approval of Petersburg, Va, as
a cantonment site was today revoked
by the department
Today's announcement bring the list
of cantonments sites determined up to
ten, it having been previously an
nounced that cantonment camps would
be located at Aver. Mass, Wrights-
town, N. j., Atlanta, Ga, American
Lake Wash, Columbia, S. c., and Chill
licothe. tlkk
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-06-12
BOY SCOUTS FOR BONDS
viii Begin a Four-Days' Campaign
Throughout Country.

New York, June 10.-Twenty mil
lion calls will be paid at American
homes during the four days beginning
tomorrow by 23S,0O0 boys who, not old
enough to be called to the colors un-
der the conscription act, will solicit
people to purchase bonds of the Liber
ty loan of 1917.
These youngsters, working under
the direction Of 1000 men, are mem
bers of the Boy Scouts of America and
their campaign is their response to
President Wilson's appeal to them on
May 10 to lend their aid to the sec
retary of the treasury in distributing
applications and securing popular sub
scriptions" to the loan. The president
wrote to the boys that theirs was "a
wonderful opportunity for every scout
to do his share for his country under
the slogan Every Scout to Save a
Soldier"