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The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-04-12
st. Louis. April 2, 1917.

letter to the newspapers OF tne
State:
st. Louis. April 2. 1917.
Dear Governor am making 4
A. Joss, whom | have not seen in
twenty-six years; and / am in hopes
that some time l will get the right
clew So am writing to you today,
Looping that you will publish this
leettr. BY some chance he may see
it. He was messenger boy here
when IA years old. left here AM
was gone four years, then returned
stayed one week and lert again
have not seen him since. | have
prayed every day that God would op
en- the way for me to find him, ant
know that If my boy is living, Go'
will hear my prayers. l have read o
others coming home after years 0
absence, 80 I am writing to ever.
governor in the United States. Thi
is sowing the seed broadcast, IL
hopes it will catch his eye. Please
sir, do not cast this aside as worth
less. but be so kind and publish
for me. By so doing you will cas-
a poor mothers heart Of years Q
sorrow and anxiety.
Respectfully,
MRS. NJ. FOSS.
4217 Washington Avenue.
st. Louis. Mo.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-04-12
PLANS MADE LARGE
SCALE FOR HIGHWAYS

Oinclai notlce has been received
by the state road department of Flor.
ida to the effect that the American
Association of State Highway Offic-
ials has rendered its erviees to the
secretary of war
This association is composed of the
state highway engineers. state high
way commissioners and officials of the
state road departments and high
way commissions of the various
states. Florida's road department is
a member of the association and the
state road commissioner and engi.
neers of the department are heartily
in accord with the action of the as
sociation.
Mr.. Joseph Hyde Pratt. secretary
Of the state highway commission of
North Carolina. is secretary Of the
association and in letter to the state
road commissioner VIM. F. Cooke, OF
Florida. asks that the newspaper be
furnished with the information con
cerning the associations action. He
says that the executive committee oI
the association held meeting witt
Colonel Winslow, Of the war depart
ment, and worked out plan whereof!
the association can serve the war de
partment by furnishing engineers
making available road machinery
and cooperating in the construction
of roads that will be of strategic val
| ue as military roads
| Carrying out the plans agreed upol
the state road department of Florid
has sent out to the proper official
OF every county and a number of ci
les and towns in Florida, and ais
to number Of contracting firms,
blank form upon which they are r.
quested to list all of the availabl
road building machinery owned an
| which could be turned over to tn
| war department.
II Included in the articles covered b
this list are the following stea
shovels, trench machines, steam an
gasoline rollers. tractors, trucks. co
crete mixers. graders, rock crusher
wagons. water wagon portable pump
drills dericks, coal wagons, hoisur
engines, asphalt mixing plants. q
phalt distributors, scoops, scraper
! industrial railroads with portab
equipment for road building, indu
trial locomotives. motorcycles, whe'
barrows. horses, mules, etc
accompanying the list is lett
urging that this information be II
mshed the state road department
quickly as possible. The inform
tion will be tabulated and forward
ia the American Association OF sta
- Highway Officials for TRANSMISSION
- the war department
DR.. Joseph Hyde Pratt the see
= tary OF the association, advises u
the executive committee decided
on Richmond, Va, as the piace
holding the 1917 meeting OF the as
citation. The dates selected are
II cember 4th to 7th. The invitation
Jacksonville, Fla. was given care
consideration, but 1t was deemed u
Richmond. Va. was the proper pla
other cities extending invitauc
were Chicago. Grand Rapids. Tole
Buffalo. New York City New nav
Asburk Park. Washington, d.
Raleigh. N. c.. and Pinehurst' y.
The invitation from Jacksonvilie
endorsed by the Chamber OF "
merce of Jacksonville and also oy
state department of Florida as
A. Florida Engineering soClet'
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-04-12

and in court said they had found
Mrs. Reisinger's engagement ring
under a stair carpet in his home.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-04-12
LOCATION OF FIRE BOXES

12 Main and Kentucky
10 Pine and Kentucky
IA Main and Tennessee
is Main and Missouri
21 Bay and Iowa
% Oak and Kentucky
"a Magnolia and Iowa
IS Plum and kentuey
81 Say and Florida
80 Peachtree and Florida
"a Magnolia and Dakota
IS Parker and Florida
~ Main and Dakota
az Lemon and Ohio
43 Orange and New York
as Lime and Florida
ST Palmetto and Florida
So Mcdonald and Florida
So Lime and Indiana
81 Orange and Massachusetts
is Lemon and Florida
26 North st. and N. Vermont Ave.
SO North St. and Florida Ave-.
81 North st. and Lincoln Ave.
as Lemon and Lincoln
AZ W. Prospect st. and A. G. 1. Shop
81 Lake Morton and s. Kentucky
81 New school house, Lake Morton
81 Palmetto and Ingram
63 East Morton and r. r. crossing
GA New Llqht and Water Plant
n Mcdonald and Mississippi
| II Patterson and South Florida
FIRE OUT SIGNAL No. 22
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-25
Surplus Flesh increases Your Chances
OF Death.

In the February American Maya
zine there is an ARTICLE on reducing
and gaining weight The author
says
Between forty and fifty q man who
allows his weight to remain high is
running more danger Of an early de.
mise than he would run ii he contract
ed typhoid fever. What is more, II
he were stricken with that disease his
chance Of recovery would be ten per
cent less than normal A man who is
thinner than the average, on the other
hand has less danger of dying IN this
decade than q man who tips the
scales at the normal figure.
when a man is in his twenties a
deficiency of twenty pounds in weight
makes him twelve per cent more H.
able to fall before the scythe Of the
implaoable reaper 4 slight surplus
of flesh seems TO assist one IN escap-
ing diseases that cause death In this
period principally tuberculosis and
typhoid fever
"A man in his flfties who IS twenty
pounds over normal weight has fif.
teen per cent mortality handicap TO
face Should he be forty sounds over
weight his chances Of dying are in
creased forty-fye per cent thereby"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-25
Hons Lure mInks to Destruction.

Hons Lure Minks to Destruction.
If you want a mink fur set, read
what Farm and Fireside says in the
January issue about catching minks.
Put a hen in a box about tw6 feet
square and having one side covered
with fine screen. so mink can see
the hen but cannot get past the
screen, Then lean a board against
the box with just enough room to set
a small trap between the box and the
board.
Set the trap firmly on the ground
SO that it viii not tip up when the
mink steps on it. as he IS likely to do
The mink gets excited when he sees
the hen SO near, and forgets his usual
caution. This has never failed when
ether trap sets have been unsuccess-
Jul"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-25
OBJECT LES SON

To giUe an idea of some of the companies
tUhich haze wifhin the past fwelUe months
entirely discontinued business or limited
their activities, following is partial list
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-25
USE 0RRINE
DRINK IiABl GOES

Don't wait for the drink habit TO get
too strong hold upon your husband,
son, or father, for it can be broken up
quickly If Orrine is given him. This
scientific treatment can be given in
the home secretly and without loss OF
time from work
You have nothing to risk and every
thing to gain, as Orrine is sold under
this guarantee. If, after trial you
fail to get any benefit from its use,
your money viii be refunded.
Orrine is prepared in two forms;
No. 1, secret treatment; Orrine No. 2,
the voluntary treatment. Costs only
S1.00 box. ASK us for booklet B.
A. Quinlan North ST., Bennington, Vt
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-25


The annual report of the National
Life Insurance company which was
printed in The Banner a few days
ago shows remarkable progress by
this great company. The new presl-
dent of the company, Fred A. How
land who succeeded the late Joseph
A. DeBoer year ago, has proved his
ability to maintain the standard set
by his predecessor. Vermonters have
special reason TO be proud of the Ma
tional Life Up here in a small town
in a small state it has been built up
to proud place in service and stand
ing. Looking at il from the Vermont
viewpoint II is pleasing to know that
the men who have been in control OF
its destinies have always been loyal
and patriotic Vermonters from the
days OF DR.. Julius Y. Dewey down TO
Mr.. Rowland and his present associ.
ates. To I'll the vacancy on the
board Of directors j. Gray Estey OF
Brattleboro was chosen to succeed tho
late Clarke c. Fits. Mr. Estey is one
Of the two grandsons of Deacon Jacob
Estey the founder of the Estey organ
company They took the business at
time when 1t had been on the down
grade for half q generation and have
rebuilt 1t along new lines into great
and successful industry. The Nation
al Life has made a wise choice in
its selection of new director. There
is no business organization in Yer
mont that stands higher in the con-
iidence and esteem Of the people Of
the state than the National Life.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-25
PERU

Representative Asa Brown was
home over the week end
Miss Evelyn Burroughs OF Rutland
is al her grandfathers, w. b. ST..
monds' for a few days,
J. r. Wilder is still very i'll and
several others around town are suf-
fering with grip colds
MI and Mrs. NJ. J. Hapsood went
to Boston last week Mr.. Hapgood
expects to hear Billy Sunday and Mrs.
Hapgood will open their home in
Somerville
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-25
lnaotIvIty Causes conotIpatIon

Lack Of exercise in the winter is a
frequent cause OF constipation. You
feel heavy, dull and listless, your
complexion is sallow and pimply, and
energy at low ebb. Clean up this
condition at once witL Or. Kings
New Life Pills, a mild laxative that
relieves the congested intestines
without gripping. A dose before retir-
ing will assure you a full and easy
movement in the morning Csc. at
your Druggist.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-25
July IL, 1915.
Letter to
Or. Kilmer e. Co.,
II ~
Mlstakea and excuses

are the easiest things In the world to
make. 4 good life insurance policy
is safeguard against mistakes and
excuses. Insure and be sure Ma
tional Life ms. Co., OF VT. (Mutual)
Earle S. Kinsley, General Agent
Mead Building, Rutland, Vermont.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-25
State of Ohio, CITY OF Toledo, :.
ftrne County SS.

senior partner oe the firm OF r. J. Cheney
q Co, doing business Ia the City OF To-
ledo, County ami State aforesaid, and
that said firm VIII pay thn eum OF ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and ev-
cry case OF Cainrrh that oannut he cured
by the use CT HALLS CATAKHf CURE.
FRAME j. CHENEY
Sworn 10 before mo ana subscribed IN
my presence, this 9th day OF December.
A. ID. 1886.
(SeaD A.. w GLEASON,
Notary Public
Halls catarrh Cure Is taken internally
and acts directly upon the blood and me-
cous surfaces Of this system Send for
testimonials. free
F. J. CHERRY & Co Toledo, Q.
Sole by all Druggists. nc,
Take Halle Family Pills for constipntion,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-25
Thursday, January IS, 1917

There is said to be a proposition to
have J. Pierpont Morgan Co. take
hold of the New Haven road and when
and reorganize it. 1t will be re-
membered that Morgan & Co. had
hold OF the New Have road and when
they let go the property was reduced
one half in value and on the verge of
ruin. Ii worst comes to worst better
turn the Boston and Maine over to
the inmates of Sing Sing. They
cant do much worse.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-25
GLAD To RECOMMEND
FIVE KIDNEY REMEDY

Ever since Dr. kilmer's Swamp
Root has been placed on the market
it has found O splendid sale over my
counter. take pleasure in selling
Swamp-Root because ] know it pro-
duces beneficial results to my Gus
toners according to the grateful
words OF praise offered by them.
always take pride in recommending
and selling a remedy that know
pleases the customer.
Very truly yours,
NJ s. Whitman,
Druggist.
July IL, 1915 Nashua, n. II.
Letter to
Or. Kilmer & Co.,
Einghamton, N. Y.
Prove What swamp-Root viii Do
For You.
Send ten cents to DR.. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton. N. Y, for sample size
bottle. 1t Will convince anyone. You
will also receive a booklet of valuable
information. telling about the kidneys
and bladder When writing. be sure
and mention the Bennington Evening
Banner. Regular fifty-cent and one
dollar size bottles for sale at all drug
stores
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-25
NOTICE 2

70 the Ladies' and Gentlemen OF Ben
nlnston and Vicinity.
Call and see my new Fall and
winter samples, and you will surely
leave your oroer. p-lces very rea
sonable. Clean:ss. pressing and al
terations . speciality.
Nathan levin,
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-25
THE GERMAN CRY FOR PEACE.

The whole --orid desires peace now, but g peace which will make life and happiness m-re secure for the na- tions. not a peace which will gratify and strengthen barbaric hosts and keep alive the ambition to make any one nation or potsntate supreme ruler of the earth.
 Germany began an offensive war for conquest three years ago and seized British ships and in, Fned British sailors as prisoners of war three days before she was at war with England; and she landed q mill lion fighting men in the north of France twenty-four hours before her ultimatum to that nation had ex- pired-
 Germany now is fighting a defen- sive war because her original pur- pose failed; and she is trying to com pei a peace which will leave her em- pire greater and her influence for evil broader than # TaG ir July 1914.
 The entente could not yield tc Ger man demands nov without confess ing defeat and losing all that the Y opposing nations have hoped for and prayed for
 A German peace today would mean g German victory, and the world is not ready to submit yet to German tyranny
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-25
AMERICAS ANSWER.

Americas answer to Pope Bene- diets appeal for peace is looked fer with interest by all the nations. be- cause America is regarded as a just foe without selfish ambitions
 President Wilson is showing nc haste 10 reply. but when he does answer the nations have a right to expect 2 state paper which will rank with Washington's Farewell Address, with Sfo2ros's great speech announc- N-g the Monroe doctrine, and Lin Loln's address at Gettysburg. He will not only speak for tn American peo- pie, but fer the people Of all the earth
 The attempt to mentally trick the nations by Germany through Pope Se-edict's Intervention is not going to succeed The fight is tyranny against freedom. and America means that ''the ploT shall go through to the end of the furrov." as the Brooklyn Eagle has declared
 The Kaiser sees the handwriting upon the wall and America will in terp-et it for him
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-25
eovERNM ENTAL POWER.

At last the Ameriscan government has been able to check the tyranny of greed to protect the people, and while the politicians refer to it's ac- tion as being only temporary the peo- pie should see that such legal force in their behalf is made permanent.
 The leading papers of America are calling attention to the fact that a revolution has quietly taken place which 50 years of agitation could not accomplish; and that the protection of the people from extortionists in trade-from the injustices practiced by industrial and trade combinations combinations which rob the small manufacturer and trader of his rights as well as the people of their money, should be maintained for all time.
 There Is no reason why flour should be SIS a barrel. coal s25 a ton. onions sS and potatoes s6 a bushei. pork 40 and 50 cents a pound. butter 50 cents and eggs 65 cents a dozen.
 The producers do not realize any thing like these prices, neither do the transportation companies; but the manfpulators of life's necessaries rake off their millions. They should be free to do it no longer. Government con- trol is protection. not tyranny.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-25
THE MAILED FIST IN CHINA.

The Kaiser's mailed fist in China Is a fist of gold Not being in a po- sition to employ force of arms he is financing the Manchu dynasty and doing all he can 10 support imperial Ism
 The Pekin correspondent of the London Times points out: that Ger many had large sums of money at her disposal in China The German share of the Boxer indemnity and of the interest on the two big Anglo O-German loans. together with other receipts, amounted to about S15,0OO.009 annual ty. and China was paying this money until recently into the local branches Hf the Deutsche-As AsiatisChe Bank. Germany responded by using the mon ey to stir up internal strife"
 China with it's changing fortunes seems to be quite as uncertain in it's power to strike a blow against Ger many as does Russia, but the repub- ucans are in charge of affairs now, and Tuah Chi-jui is premier.
 Germany is striving hard to retain her influence in the heather world and Is willing to pay any price to ac- eomplish her purpose; but she has
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-25
WHAT IS FoREsHADoWED.

Have you thought these great mili- tary air raids forerun airline bUsi- ness upon the declaration of peace.
 Thirty-two German airplanes fly over to. bomb London. They could just as conveniently carry passen- gers, mail or freight.
 One hundred and eleven English and French machines raid Germany, and it is evident that it will be pleas anter when such 9 fleet carries friendly letters and Christmas pres ents.
 The dependable sources of violence will become dependable sources of business when the war, is over, and the millions invested in them is not likely to be wasted.
 AerOpianes will not be stored away to rust out as many of our naval yes sels are, but will be called into the business of peaceful life, and air lines in the near future will be as correctly charted as sea-lanes, and our business air-lines will be true air lines for business and pleasure.
 Air traffic is to become a joy in stead of a menace
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-25
STORIES OF THE WAR
THE KING OF ENGLAND IN THE
 FIELD.

On Saturday, July '. King George continued the review of his armies in the Vin1v Ridge field, not a formal re- view, bat a long journey with many halts through country behind the bat tie lines, where hundreds of thousands of British soldiers are billeted in French cottages and barns, camped Tn wayside fields amidst the ripening har- vest. and carrying on the vast labor upon which all fghting-no more than one episode of war-utterly depends.
 Tn a sunIlen field, very smooth and long, between two high wooded banks, there was great surprise and a great sensation. For just as the king step per out of his car young tree in full foliage on the left of the field up the high bank toppled forward slowly and then fell with crash into the under growth. Something was moving in the undergrowth, something monstrous. It came heaving and tearing it's way through the bushes, snapping off low saplings like an elephant on the stam- pede. Then it came into sight on the top of the bank a big gray beast with a blunt snout nosing it's way forward. and all tangled in green leaves and twigS. like a brutal Bacchus with wine leaves in his hair. It was old brother Tank doing his stunt before the king.
 King and Prince Inside a Tank.
 From the far end of the long, smooth field came two other twin beasts of this ilk, crawling forward in hurry IS front of their track at the other end of the field were two breastworlzs built of sandbags covering some tim bered dugouts and protected from sudden attack by two belts of barbed wire. The two tanks came along like
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-25
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
How She Loves Cats.

Mir. Editor: Everybody doesn't like cats in the same way. Some people like them in their laps and in their gardens, but I like them so far away that they do not help me to cultivate my garden, keep me awake of nights, or kill birds on my premises.
 The trouble is there are too many cats straying away from those who really love them close by, to among those who love them good ways off. do not know how this can be regula ted, but if I had a cat I should try to keep it so well fed that the back door would be a magnet that would hold it true.
 I do not like to hurt cats: but am really afraid I shall if they are per mitted to annoy me much more!
 MARIA. Norwich, Aug A, 1917.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-25

CWritten Specially for The Bulletin.) During the recent interest. in the opening of the Mohegan trail reference was frequeRtly made to Miantonomo which attracts the attention of travel CTS along the Greenviile road
 In his account of the towns quarter millenn!al celebration G909) MT. Gil man writes of this stone: The monumental stone which for 63 years had marked the spot where Un- cas, chief of the Mohegans, captured Miantonomo, chief of the Narrag gan setts, was moved in 1904 to a little cliff 15o feet from it's original site.
 The change came about through the purchase for building purposes of the land on which the monument stood. According to the layout, the stone was on the dividing line between two lots. By prompt action, Miss Marie Perit Gilman and Mrs. Louisa Gilman Lane purchased the two lots and the stone, also the plot, 120 by 160 feet, to which the monument was afterwards re- moved
 They then appealed to the Society of Colonial Wars, and Major Bela Peck Learned and Jonathan Trumbull were appointed a committee and given funds for the purchase of the land and the removal and preservation Of the stone, which thus became the property of an incorporated society.
 The original inscription was Milan tonomo, 1643." To this was added Erected in 1S41. Placed here by Con- necticut Society of Colonial Wars, 19G4''
 The history of the monument is then sketched by Mir. Gilman. During 1S41 a year before the Uncas monument on Sachem street was completed, the late William c. Gilman and his associates, '' with the view to the erection of a simple memorial to Miantonomo, invit- ed the venera bIe Judge Nathaniel Ship man to go with them to Sachem's Plain and pont out the spot where he re- nembered to have seen in his early boyhood the great pile of rough stones heaped up in ren1em brance of their great chieftain by the Narragansetts. in their wanderings through the coun- try.
 As they were entering the field one of the party said to the judge: Plea ase try to remember a shady place, if you can!" The cid gentleman surveyed the ground and advancing strai ightway to the shadow of a convenient tree. planted in the earth his silver headed cane-"the ancient cane" Of Lieuten- = ant Thomas Leffingwell friend of Un- cas. and said: '.As nearly as I can re- member. it was not ten feet from this spoti"
 The company of men ard women .JrlS oo1- Of t,n
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-25

When one complains of reckless driving of automobiles many people toke the easy going view that s5 per cent. of motorists are cautious driv- CTS and it is not worth while to take severe measures. It is probably true that not more than per cent. could be called reckless. Yet five people can make things mighty uncomfortable and perilous for the other 95.-Cheshire- Hamden Times.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-25

been hard hit and seems to be weak ening in power.
 Peace declared now would be mis- fortune to all the earth.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-25

At the very commencement of the war the Kaiser told Ambassador Ger ard there was no international law. He doubtless would deny there were Ten Commandments since they were not made in Germany
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-25

In Tennessee the courts have de- cided that baseball is not a nuisance, and cannot be legally enjoined on Sunday. By and by it will be ranked as a divine game!