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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-25
BIG LINER SUNK
Devonlan Probably Torpedocd by |
Submarine.

Boston, Aug. % The Leyland
liner Devonian, which left an Atlantic
port on July 2S has been sunk, pre-
sumably by German submarine
Officers of the line today confirmed
the report that the vessel was lost
but stated that they had received nc
word as to the safety of the crew.
Cable advices from England to the
company here did not indicate wheth
er the Devonian had departed for this
side, although It was assumed that
she was on west bound voyage
when sunk.
The Devonian, a vessel of 1O,i3t
tons gross was built at Belfast II
1909.
The Devonian carried crew of 6(
and on her last trip to a foreign por
there were 60 American horse tenders
aboard. Records at the British con
sulate here showed that there wer,
no Americans In the crew.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-25
167,78O TAKEN
PRISONERS BY
ALLIED ARMY
Results of IL Months Oper-
ationS Are Announced
BRITISH GOT MOST
Captured 46, 1856 While the French
Took 43,723-Germans Have Taken
$500 British In Whole War.

The British, French, Italians and
Russians have captured 167,7sO war
prisoners since April 9, when the
1917 campaign opened, according to a
statement issued by the British wal
department at London last evening
The text of the statement follows.
"The number of prisoners captured
by the entente allies since April 8
when the 1917 campaign opened with
the battle of Arras, up to August %
is
German war prisoners captured by
British 1916.
German war prisoners captured by
French, 43.723.
Chiefly Austrian war prisoners
captured by Italians, 40,6S1.
Chiefly Austrians captured by Rus
SLAMS, 1921.
Total, 167,7SO.
"The total number of German war
prisoners captured by US since the
beginning of the war is 102,2lS.
THE total number of British pris
oners, including Indians, captured by
the Germans is approximately $4,000
but exact information as to small CAP
lures made by the enemy i'll recent
fighting cannot be given until the
necessary information is received
from Germany.
The total number of prisoners caT
tured by us in all the war theaters
since the beginning of the war, ex
elusive OF African Tatiyes, is 131,1776
'The total number OF prisoners lost
by us since tho 5eglnnsag OF the war
exclusive of African natives, but In
cluding Indians, is approximately
$500"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-25
EDWARD 3. M'MiLLAN
Former Resident Of Bennington Died
Tuesday In Quebec, Canada.

'1SSNdy wv &tNbSSt OaHabcs
Edward B. Mcmillan. formerly OF
this city. died this morning at the
home of his sister, Mrs. Joseph Win
field at Quebec, Canada. He had
been in ill-health some time and went
to Quebec about two months ago. Mr..
Mcmillan resided in Troy practically
all his life with the exception of
few years he lived at Bennington,
VT Mr.. Mcmillan was the son of
the late Alexander Mcmillan. Besides
Mrs. Winfield he is survived by an
other sister and three brothers,
Charles, a prominent alumnus of the
Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute,
who was afterwards member of the
Institute faculty and is now profes-
sor at Princeton University; Rev.
Alexander Mcmillan of Carlisle,.
Penn, and George Mcmillan, who re-
sides in the West. Mr. Mcmillan
was an attendant at the Church of
the Holy Cross when he resided In
this city and for many years was a
member of the choir He was also
member of the Troy Vocal society.
Trojan Wheelman, Apollo Lodge, +.
and A. NJ. and the Masonic Club. Mr.,
Mcmillan was born at Moscow, Rus
sia, while his parents we're tempor-
arily residing there. The body will
be brought to this city for burial at
Oakwood cemetery.-Troy Times Of
August 20.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-25
Or. MARSH ACCEPTS
viii Be Surgeon in Chief OF New
Hospital

hospital
DR.. James p. Marsh of Troy, well
known to hundreds of Bennington
people, has accepted the appointment
of surgeonin-chief for the new Put
nam Memorial hospital.
Or Marsh has been for years the
chief surgeon at the Samaritan hospt
tai at Troy and of the Leonard hospi.
tai at North Troy and the directors
Of the Putnam hospital believe the
town Is very fortunate in securing his
services here.
This does not mean that he will
perform all the operations here or
control the institution, any physician
or surgeon in good standing can be
called to treat patients at the hospit-
al. Dr Marsh will have general su.
pervision of major operations, but
will not perform all of them himself.
Work at the hospital is proceeding
steadily and the directors feel that
the institution will soon be ready to
begin career OF usefulness.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-25
THOMAS MEARs DEAD
Announcement Is Made Of the Death
Of Manchester Resident.

The funeral of Thomas Mcars was
held from the Baptist church In Man.
chester Center. Four grandsons of
the deceased, Loran and Roy Barber
OF Greenwich, Merle Mears of Sche.
nectady and Henry Ripley of North
Bennington acted as bearers.
MIR Mears, aged SS, died at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Fred Wy
man in Manchester The sons and
daughters surviving are Mrs. Frank
lockwood of North Adams. Mrs
Lucy Summer of Shelburne Falls
Mrs. Herbert Barber OF Greenwich
Mrs. Frank Ripley of North Bennng
ton. Mrs. l.. A. Fleming Of Bennng
ton and Mrs Fred Wyman of Man
chester Eugene Mears of Greenwich
Merle Mears of Schenectady Henry
Mears Of Sunderland and Percy
Mears OF Dorset.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-25
HAVE CAPTURED OVER 10000
Italians Success In Isonzo Offensive
still In Progress

The Italian war Office reports that
the battle on the lsonzo front con
tinuos, and that about GO guns have
been captured Gen. Cadorna an
nouncod that the Italians yesterday
stormed new Austrian positions,
broke up violent counter.attacks
made by the enemy and took a large
number of Austro.Hungarian prison.l
erG.
More than 10000 prisoners, the wal
office statement says, have been re
moved from the Austro-ltalian from
by the Italians.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-25
TWO NEW PARALYSIS CASES
Develop in Montpelier and Water
bury; Death in Latter Place

Montpelier, Aug, pa new case
of infantile paralysis has developed
here in the family of Fred Somers.
At Waterbury the 13 year old son of
w. G. Shattuck died last night This
is the third death in Waterbury since
the epidemic started
DR., j. w. Stewart of Barre city has
authorized the opening of the church
es next Sunday as we'll as the moving
picture houses next Monday. A new
case has also developed in Waterbury
in the family of Floyd Fuller.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-25

VERMONT SENATORS OPPOSED
Would Not Vote to Increase the In
come Taxes.

Washington, Aug. 23.-After anoth-
er days debate, embittered by charg
es that those desiring to make the
war unpopular and embarrass the ad
ministration were behind the move
ment to greatly increase tax rates in
the war tax bill, the Senate late to
day rejected, 5S to q, Senator La
Follette's amendment to raise $65S,
$4,000 from individual incomes in
stead of $500 ,164 900 as proposed in
the bill Senators Dillingham; and
Page of Vermont were among the SIS
voting against the amendment.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-25
TEXAS GOVERNOR SUSPENDED
impeachment Charges Sent to Sen
ate. Trial Wednesday

Austin, Texas. Aug 24.--James T..
Ferguson was suspended from the
office of governor of Texas tonight
when the board of nine managers
named by the house of representa-
tiyes presented to the senate twenty
one articles Of impeachment alleging
official misconduct.
w. p Hobby, lieutenant governor
automatically succeeded to the gov
ernorship, pending disposition of the
charges in the senate. The senate
formally designated next Wednesday
as the time for beginning the trial.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-25
FoRD,s SON PUTS IN CLAIM
Says He Should Be Exempted Of
Industrial Grounds

Edso Ford, son of Henry Ford. the
multimillionaire manufacturer was
examined by local draft board at
Detroit yesterday and Il was an
nouncod he passed the physical test
Ford claimed exemption on Industrial
grounds Ford is one OF the officers
OF his fathers automobile company
which is now working on orders for
the Red Cross.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-25
WEATHER FORECAST

For eastern New York and western
Vermont fair tonight and Sunday.
Cooler tonight and In north portion
Sunday.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-25
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

FOR SALE--New milch COW five
years old. Price reasonable. Adel
bert Woodard, SALISBURY Valley.
Telephone, White Creek, 1t.A. 76t6'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-25
GERMANS TAKE 2t TANKS
kaiser's staff Claims British Lose
War Machines During Battle

Berlin, Aug. 24--The German gen.
eral stan reports that the British lost
twenty.ons tanks during futile fight.
ing on Wednesday, Some OF the oc-
cupants of the tanks were made pris.
onerc
The Brinkley argus., 1917-06-08
PROFEA WAY ID
 JAN VEGETABLES
Follow Directions in the Following Article and You Will Have
 No Trouble.

By Miss Emma Archer, State Home Demonstration Agent, Extension
 Division, University of Arkansas.
The Brinkley argus., 1917-06-08
PROF. MORRIS HAS
 GAINED "A POUNDS
Tennessee School Teacher Says Ills Has Found Tam lac to be the Best Medi- cine He Has Ever
 Tried

Of the thousands of letters that have recently been received at the Tanlac office from we'll known men and women, who have been benefited by this med icine, none are more interesting than the one received from s. R. Luton at Bumpus Mills, Tenn. This letter, which was addressed to c. F. Willis, Atlanta, Ga., reads as follows:
 Dear Sir: You will find in- closed a testimonial from Pro- lessor Elmer Morris, who is one of my customers. Professor Morris had a delicacy in express ing himself and granted me the right to give you the particulars in his case.
 He tells me that he has been a great sufferer from chronic stomach and bowel trouble, and never had been able to get any thing to give him any relief. He l fell off in weight from 225 pounds to TO pounds. He went to Dawson Springs, Ky, and when he came back he said he was no better.
 I persuaded him to try Tanlac. He weighed on my scales at the time he began taking it and only weighed ITO pounds. After taking three bottles of Tanlac he had gainedE20 pounds. When he brought this testimonial to me he had gained 4 pounds more and weighed 194. He did not want to get back to 225 pounds and decided to quit taking Tan lac.
 This man is a teacher in the public schools in Stewart County, Tenn. He lives here in one mile of my store and bought the Tan lac from me. His true postoffice is Dover, Tenn, R, F. D. No. |. Professor Morris Statement is as follows:
 '.Ihave finished my third bottle of Tanlac and have gained 20 pounds. 1 just weighed ITO pounds and now I weigh 19O, and never felt better in my life.
 II have been a great sufferer from1F 1Fstomach trouble for about one year. 1 tried every doctor l could get to, and went to health
The Brinkley argus., 1917-06-08
Plant Is a Fly Trap.

It has long been known that such plants as "Venus' f1y-trap" actually catch and squeeze to death flies and other insects alighting on their leaves, but the discovery is comparatively re- cent that the plants digest the softer parts of their prey by means of a pep tic ferment secreted by the leaves.
The Brinkley argus., 1917-06-08
Yours very truly. PROF. ELMER MORRIS.

Tanlac is fsold in Brinkley ex- cfusively by NJ. B. Converse; in Clarendon by ". E. Everett; in Holly Grove by the Holly Grove Drug Co.,; in Hunter by Hunter Drug & Mercantile Co.,; and in Zent by P. R. Anderson, and in Duncan by C. R. Gordon.
The Brinkley argus., 1917-06-08
Greeks Knew Tin,

The Greeks in the Homeric times were familiar with the metal tin. Cop per, tin and gold were used by He phaestus in welding the famous shield of Achilles. Twenty layers of tin were In the cuirass of Agamemnon. No allusion to tin is found in the odyssey"
The Brinkley argus., 1917-06-08
Grabbed by Old ocean.

An average of % tons of soil and loose rock is washed into the ocean every year from every square mile of the United States This estimate does not include the great basin. The i'm mensity of this contribution may be better comprehended when it is real ized that the surface of this country covers S,OS8,500 square miles.
The Brinkley argus., 1917-06-08
Invented Ransom Cab.

The inventor of the "hansom cab" was Joseph Aloysius Hanson, who was born in New York in 1903 and died in London in 1882 He registered his patent safety cab'' in 1884, and, it is said, received only S1,500 for his in- vention. aseeese i,
The Brinkley argus., 1917-06-08
= Harmony Above All.

aaeo should not be considered
 ide5 2 ol wild nature, nor plants eae o', as architectural ornaments. | ato as' not do violence to the ]. o,se ose all must there be har- 2 h ta, sr~lse the builder has la- eu,e ,a qiu' for he has not made mat artists care to repro
The Brinkley argus., 1917-06-08
Yes, Indeed.

A friend in need is the one we're pretty apt to take the other side of the street in passing.
The Brinkley argus., 1917-06-08

resort at Dawson Springs. but nothing did me any good. l de- decided to take Tanlac and found it to be the best medicine l ever tried.
The Brinkley argus., 1917-06-08
His Little Joke.

"This is the ladies' department" "Well, we are both bachelors and should have wives. Let's go in and look over stock" .es
Arizona republican., 1917-07-20
IDENTIFICATION
 TAGS PROVIDED

Every Arizona young man who en- lists in the United States navy will be provided with a metal Identification tag for him always to wear, which will bear the wearer's name. date of birth and enlistment and in the case of an officer his rank and date of appoint ment. On the reverse side will be etched the finger print of his right in- dex finger. This is part of what na 1ai officers regard as the best system of identification known superior to that in use in European armies and navies.
 The identification tag for officers and enlisted men of the navy consists Of an oval plate of monel stone, 1.25 by 1.50 mich, perforated at one end and sus pended from the neck by a monel wire incased in a cotton sleeve.
 Monel which is the alloy used as the material for battleship propellers, was chosen in preference to brass or any other metal because it is unaffected by heat, not melting until it has reach ed a temperature of 2,4S0 degrees Fahrenheit; it will not corrode and is not affected by salt water. On each ship and at each naval station hos pital corps officer has charge of the preparations of the tag. The finger print is taken in ink on the metal, the name and date written on the tag, which is sprinkled with powdered as- phaltum and held over an alcohol lamp until the asphaltum melts into the ink. The tag is then placed for an hour in a nitric acid bath, which etches the fin
Arizona republican., 1917-07-20
PRICE OFFICIAL
 VISITS PHOENIX

Henry Zeuner, postmaster, mayor, judge and whatever else there is in official life at Price station, is in the city. The multifarious duties of MT. Zeuner in the past have kept him pretty closely confined at Price; the postoffice could not be trusted to just anybody, but now he has an assistant, MT. Schofield. and he will therefore be allowed little more leeway. It is complimentary to the management of the postoffice at Price that in the seven years he has been in charge he has never been officially visited by an inspector. The government has seemed to take it for granted that everything was all right at Price.
 MT. Zeuner is 7S years of age and has seen most of the world. He has been in every state of the Union except one, Minnesota, and he expects to make the list of visited states complete.
 He served in the Union army during the civil war for four years and there was not better American in the army and there is not better American in the United States today. There is not bone native born American in a hundred who appreciates so well what Amer ican citizenship means.
 MT. Zeuner became an American in formally before he crossed the Atlantic. He was born in Germany and when a young man became an American in London. He pinned a small American flag to his coat there and sailed for this country. Of course, he had to go through the form of naturalization but
 that didn't make a better American of him than he already was.
 His father, too, though he remained in the old country, was an American and proved it by the display of the pho tographs of Washington, Lincoln and Grant at his home.
Arizona republican., 1917-07-20

 INSUFFICIENT

Failure of the preparedness plan of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Mickey was demonstrated in court yesterday, where the couple, who had the pre- caution to draw up pre- -nuptlal con- tract relating to division of the prop erty in case of a separation. held a stormy session as to payment of the temporary alimony and attorney fees. Mrs. Mickey brought suit against her husband for divorce a few days since, charging that he threatened to kill her.
 The marriage was an event of a year ago. but according to the testimony the honeymoon was short lived. The de- tails, on objection of Mrs. Wickey's at torney, were not forthcoming, but will furnish spicy morsels of gossip when the case comes to trial, especially since in her complaint the plaintiff alleges that her husband took $40 from the counter of the National Bank of Ari zona which he failed to return. While these features did not develop there were other matters that interested the court house habitues.
 Miss Helen Clouse, daughter of the plaintiff by a former marriage, was closely questioned as to her mothers disposition.
 | Didn't she go into regular tant rums?" asked counsel for Mickey.
 'I do not see how she could restrain herself, living with him. was the re- ply.
 Everyone could get along with Mickey but his wife" was another statement by counsel
 "No one else was his wife, however, was offered by the court The Wickeys recorded an agreement recently in which it was stated that when the couple married, Mrs. Mickey contributed s1015 to the general funC and Mickey $2,000 It was agreed that i in case of separation each should get the share donated at the time and the | earnings from this fund should be di | vided equally.
 Mrs Mickey contends that Mickey i! systematically decreasing the persona property and she asks that she be pro- tecteds through the courts. In thu meantime she wished alimony in tn sum of $50 a month and s100 attorney: 1 fees.
 Judge Stanford has taken the matte under advisement until Saturday.
Arizona republican., 1917-07-20
NATURE RESTS
 MERE BULLETS

That birds, field mice and other small creatures of nature can survive the terrible flames of war On the west ern front of the European battlefield is one of the strange things noted in a letter received from an officer who is at the front in France. The letter in part is as follows:
 q am writing this in a dugout, where l have been for a few days. I believe there are birds nests on the top of this humble dwelling; anyhow, I often hear the birds twittering away and every morning a lark gets up just outside and sings away merrily. The weather is beautiful and everyone is fit and well.
 q remember remarking in one of my letters home how the effect of our in- tense bombardment is so tremendous that one wonders whether anything in the earth is left alive. That was in the winter. Now that spring is here one sees that practically eSerything in old Mother Earth is as vigorously alive as ever.
 Mans work goes to pieces, but even l the most intense shelling is but mere scratch on the surface of the earth. The birds live their life just the same
 
 lures make their homes and play about in shell holes. Swallows are flying overhead; magpies hop about on trees and ruined shanties as cheekily as pos sible. The other day I was startled by whirr of wings, and a couple of cartridges got up from some hiding place and whizzed across the broken up ground.
 Everywhere the green grass is shooting up through the earth even trees which seem to have been stripped l to mere bare poles are now sending out | twigS and leaves. Mine craters and ! huge shell holes are full of tiny plant i life; over buildings, now mere heaps of | stone. one can see the ivy and other creepers sprouting afresh and gradual 1 ly covering the ruined heap. So the normal life of natural things goes on, practically normally, in spite of high explosive and poisoned gas and other | devilish inventions. l think that this ! big fact is one of the things that keep men sane under trying conditions the fact that the face of Nature hasn't altered.
 T remember some while ago sitting in shell hole; it was the place I had chosen for my work, and I was some dayS ana nlgntS there. The show, during which the earth seemed little more than a chaos of flame and burst l ing shells, was over-that is to say, the strafing had become no more than 1 the usual continuous but intermittent booming. l was resting, feeling very done up with excitement and fatigue. | Presently l heard small sound, and saw little spot of earth being pushed Up from beneath. I watched, and a little field mouse appeared his tiny beady eyes looking at me alertly. kept still, and he hopped out and played about and presently the little beggar was frisking about at the bot tom of the shell hole doubtless intent on stealing my rations. When he found i that he was not interfered with he grew Gyite tame helped himself to odds and ends of food, and crawled around the collar of a man who was asleep much to the amusement of the others who were with me I blessed that little field mouse; I think he made l everyone feel cheerful, playing about In the early morning after our hard days work
Arizona republican., 1917-07-20
GLENDALE SEWER
 WORK |S RUSHED

GLENDALE. July 2O-Glendale is particularly active for this season of the year. The work on the new sewer system is being rusled and an attempt will be made to get the work well under way by fall. Fred Holmquist, who is doing the preliminary work is at pres ent working in the western part of town
 A fine baby girl arrived at the home of MT and Mrs. E. $. Miller yesterday.
 Mrs. Jay Kear1s, who was so seri- ously ill that the doctors thought an operation wouil be necessary, is so far recovered that the operation will be postponed until cooler weather
 Ed Walters has moved into the Gre land cottage in West Glendale. MT. Walters has sent back to Kansas for his household goods and expects to re- n*jn here indefinitely.
 MT. ard Mrs. r. l.; Bradshaw VII leave Saturday for San Francisco TT ey expect to meet Mrs. Bradshaw s sister, Mrs Susan E. ClelanG and w J. Lemp )f St. Louis The party will ass the remainder Of the summer tour iis California.
 J. w. Sullivan has purchased lots II and 12 in block g on the avenue ]olGing his other properties there.
Arizona republican., 1917-07-20
LAND CLAIMS

United States Land office in the federal building reported the following land claims allowed: The state of Ari- zona, parts of sections 13. 19, S., range A E., 160 acres; certain lots and parts of sections 13, 34, 35, T. IS in townships and south, ranges and east; 636 acres: certain lots 31, 20, IS and in township 6, $40 acres.
 Mary E. N. Taylor, homestead al lowed, 160 acres.
 Sterling V. Gillett-the Sterling tract of iand on Heigher creek, described by metes and bounds, 160 acres more or less.
 Robert Lee Connolly, Vernon, Arizo- ma, parts of Sec. 25 and 26, T. 10 N, Range 25. $40 acres. grazing claim.