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Arizona republican., 1918-07-01
Rome Reports Battle

IohI-. Ju uift IOt 0tS sup ported by allied troops attacked Aus tro Hungarian positions on the Italian mountain front Saturday and captured Monte di Valbella after bitter strug gle. The Italian was office announces that more than 500 Austro- -Hungarians were taken prisoner.
 Strong enemy ccfnter attacks throughout the day and night were repulsed by the fire of the Italian in fantry. artillery and machine guns The text of the official statement reads:
 "On the Asiago plateau, where our heroic resistance on June 19 crushed the impetus of preponderant enemy forces and where in daily acts of bray cry Italian troops have become united in action and in glory with the Brit ish and French allies, fighting yester day began anew.
 At dawn our troops sustained by an intense artillery fire and supported by sorties resolutely carried out by their allies. attacked Monte di Valbella and succeeded after a bitter struggle. in wrestling it from the enemy. During the day and night large enemy masses were launched to counter attacks an6
 to slaughter, but were repulsed by oul
 infantry and decimated by concentra- l tions of artillery and machine gun firt | from airplapes. The position carried was victoriously held by us. Twenty one enemy officers and 7S' | soldiers of other ranks. belonging t, | four different divisions, were mad, | prisoner. Cannon, trench mortars ant | numerous machine guns were cap l tured
 l
 l Further east between the Frenzel; valley and the Brenta river, one o
 our parties took by assault a well for
 tified observation point on the south
 eTn slopes of Sasso Rosso, capturin,
 two officers and 31 men. On the remainder of our front ou artillery carried out effective and har
 rassing bombardments. At Capo Sil
 patrol operations brought us som
 prisoners. In the Lagarina and Sugan valleys enemy railway establishment
 were bombarded by our airmen."
Arizona republican., 1918-07-01
ANERICANSMAKE ADVANCE; STAND
 ARTILLERY FIRE
Pcrshing Reports Positions
 Improved With Gain of One Mile of Battle Front; Hun Attacks Repulsed
TRepubIican A. p. Leased Wirel

WASHINGTON, June 30.--Marked raiding and patrolllng Saturday at sev- eral points held by the American troops were reported in General Pershing's s eommunique for yesterday which was received today at the war department. In Picardy d small detachment of Americans captured 36 prisoners, in cluding one officer and inflicted severe losses on the enemy, while in the Nos- gcs a German raiding party was re- pulsed.
 Increased activity by the enemy ar tillery and airplanes in the Marne sec- ton on June 26 and 27 and the heavy smelling of the American positions in the Chateau Thierry region on the same days when the American troops advanced their line ont-third of mile also reported
 The statement follows
Arizona republican., 1918-07-01
HostiIe Batteries Active

"The hostile batteries were observed to be especially active from the vicinity of Torcy. Givry and Petret, at all or which points they are able 10 find cov- or in patches of woods. The German machine gun fire was directed as for mcrly on the Beleau wood and hill 20f.
 It originated mainly in the vicinity of the La Roche wood. and the out skirts of Torcy. The German air fore es were extremely active but per- formed only reconnaissance work. In the enemys rear areas movements were mainly confined to small groups, although detachments numbering up to about 100 men were more than once ob- served. There was also considerable traffic of wagons and trucks
Arizona republican., 1918-07-01

Western Front
 The French are continuing their 'nibbling' north of the Marne. Friday they swept the Germans from the en- virons of Nillers- -Cotterets forest, southwest of Soissons. Saturday night they attacked the German lines a lit tie to the north of the Clignan river and just to the left of psitions held by Americans. A long ridge between the villages of Mosloy and Passy en- Valois was occupied and 265 prisoners taken. Near St. Pierre Aigle, the French positions were improved by a local attack.
 British Repuise Enemy
 The British rePHlsed an enemy as sault near Morris, near where the Ger mans were driven back east of Nieppe forest on Friday.
 The British official statement men tions heavy German artillery fire be- fore Amiens, near Albert; north of the Scarpe near Arras, and in the region of Festubert. northwest of Lens. The official statement issued at Berlin says that artillery firing has increased be- tween the Yser and the Marne. which includes virtually all of the active bat tie zone.
 There is a report that Alexis Roma noff, son of the former Russian en- peror is alive, notwithstanding dis patches telling of his recent death.
Arizona republican., 1918-07-01

[Republcan A. p. Leased Wirel
 WASHINGTON, June 30.-Casual- ties in the American eXpeditionary forces thus far reported total 10,3S3, summaries issued today by the war department and marine corps show. Of this number 9,131 were in the army and 1,252 in the marine corps.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-10
WHALE PAYING FOR ITS SINS
Descendants Of Big Fish Are Now
Being Swallowed by the Descend
ants Of Jonah.

We rise to defense Of Jonah. He
was not bad sort In fact, he hre
always been a good citizen and
friend OF the poor; but because he
baked at going on political mission
TO a bum town the political machine
hired a gang OF pirates 70 pitch him
from the hurricane deck and compel
him TO swallow whale-or was Il the
other way round? 1t was mean trick
and Jonahfknew 1t, and he made II so
hot for the whale that the latter
spewed him out at Long Beach, In
which city. for his own safety. he
felgned repentance and delivered the
message with which he had been in.
trusted. However. ever since that time
the sons Of the prophet have had II
in for the whale and at last the time
has come TO get even. Today whale
steak IA being sold in great quantities
at the butcher shops II IS cheap meat
and is almost as good as mutton or
veal. Take n whale steak half an inch
thick. drop It In boiling water for a
minute, ndding n pinch Of soda, then
take ii ont and place ii in hot,
creased pan, scar It quickly on both
sides, fry Il for three minutes, add but.
ter. pepper and salt. and you have u
dish fit for king. Verify the sins of
the whales are visited upon their chill
dren---Los Angeles Times.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-10
Peanut Bread a Success.

A baking company in GAINESVILLE,
fla. working In cooperation with Il.
=. Williamson. a chemist of that city.
has put peanut bread upon the market
and Is securing wide distribution for
II In that locality. The peanut -four
used is made from peanut cake left
sitter oil extraction. II contains sat
isfactory percentage Of fat and Is said
TO have almost twice the heterogeneous
food value OF dried beef-I4 per cent
for peanut flour, against % per cen;
for dried beef.
Oncfifth peanut -four TO four.hfths
wheat flour produces a balanced rR
ton, supplying necessary ingredients
furnished by bread and meat In huma.
diet. Peanut -four is said to be read
lily digeStlble. wholesome and paiat.
able, and the Florida concern believes
II win be able to market II at price
below that of wheat -four, pound for
pound.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-10
A Thinu OF Beauty.

The plume Of the ostrich is like moth
Ing else In nature The nearest
resemblance is to hc found In an
ephenieral thlng-the foam Of break.
lng wave. 1t must be unthinkable
ages since the wings of this bird sub.
served any use but that OF beauty {;
their function in the matter OF Gov
erine the eggs during incubation is
quite secondary and could easily be
dispensed with The perfectly even
barbs are soft as gossamer and, con.
trary to the rule among birds that fly,
qiite disconnected and independent one
OF The other. The quilts. from their
point Of emergence from the socket,
income Increasingly flexible and little,
The plumes convey suggetions OF luxu.
rant ductilty, Of offortless grace. 81
sumptuousness and above NIL, of pur.
William c. Scully, In Atlantic.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-10
KILLING MEN SAVES BIRDS
On Account Of the War In Europe,
Wild Animals Are Enjoying a
Respite From Slaughter.

While men are destroying each 9TH
or in Europe, they are giving the
Wild creatures respite. This Is not
philanthropy but Businessman BUSH
ness. Anyone who can point gun
must aim 1t at the enemy. But the
effect on the birds is all that the
most ardent Audubon society could
desire.
France has prohibited all hunting
and the sale OF native game. Ordi-
narily. more than one thousand tons
of such game, nearly all birds, are
sold in French markets, not to men
ton the quantity consumed by the
hunters.
Two million pounds of birds rep
resent a pretty heavy slaughter and
tho absence Of this destruction will
help 10 rereopIe the woods and fields
with feathered folk Belgium, in nor
NAL times. exports more than fifty
thousand skyIarks for food Since
most of these are trapped 1T may BIO
that the destruction is not greatly
lessened in some parts OF the coun-
try, but in or near the war zone birds
Tre immune.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-10
900 COOKS READY
TO GO OVERSEAS
Graduated From Government School
At Camp Bowie in Classes
o, 3Oc

Fort Worth, Texas, Sept 5.-Nine
hundred skilled cooks, trained for
overseas duty. have been graduated
in classes OF 800 from the govern
ment school for cooks and bakers,
the largest school OF its kind in the
country. which is being conducted at
Camp Bowie here under command of
Captain Fred H. Morrel.
Students graduating must reach the
following standard: Practical work.
20 per cent recitation and theory, 90
per cent; care of kitchen. Is per
cent; discipline 10 per cent The
marjority of those graduated have
been taken from the course for sec
ond cook, with fruit cooks next in
number and mess sergeants third
The course includes lectures and in
struction on rations bills of fare, com
ponent parts, field specifications, pre-.
paration. sanitation, temperatures,
mess management, stock sheets. field
cooking, recipes and visits to the
packing house here. An understand.
ing of food values most needed to suit
conditions existing in various places
is being drilled into the students.
Great attention also is given to food
conservation. The army must not
waste and cooks are taught to throw
all particles OF meat and bone into a
20.gallon pot where the mixture is
] boiled and the fat rendered. The
stock is then used for gravies and
soup.
Some companies here require The
men to weigh what is left on their
plates and the am nunt is deducted
from the next meal, thus adjusting
the food needed to their appetites
The sanitation Course requires the
mess officers to keep kitchen, mes,
hall refrigerators, ovens and cookinl
utensils hygienically ciean This ap
plies to tables and floors. How to pei
the tables is an important part Of the
study.
Experiments are conducted to dc
wise means of using substitutes To-
-four such as oatmeal, cornmeal an'
rice -four, Use the syrup instead o
sugar wherever possible is encour
aged
Food wastage," said Captain Mon
rell Els not always the fault of tn,
soldier at the mess table The cool
is often to.blame II he doesn't cool
the food right, itewin be distastefu
TO the men anddhey win refuse to en-
all set before them The we'll cookeu
meal puts the men in good spirits a
we'll as helping them physically"
A record of food conservation wa
kept at the detention camp where IN
recruits are chartered and fed unde
the direction Of Captain Morrell. O
72,1T9 pounds Of -four allowed III
camp in fourteen days only 1915
pounds were used and yet every ma
had all The bread he desired
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-10
DESTROYER SAL 1RS
ENTERTAIN Til SELVES
Americans ststto1ta q. es-e N
British Water So. Forcsd 70 Pro
vide Their { m hr1userT mt.


An Irish ] seit correspond
ence of the Il "a p,essl The
thousands Of Amel.,a ailors station
ed at the destroyer be in British
waters rs been forced - provided
their ow- c rairment TO while
away liberty 1.ug in the small
town
One OF Is CHEZ .s, ures of the
Mems club Is DO heater which will
seat about l.00n o~trns and where
there is something soing on free
every night. Aside rom the moving
picture plays all the entertainment is
produced by the sailors. Some Of the
scenery for the stage was obtained in
London but some OF il was produced
right here at the base
The talent uncovered has resulted
in a brass band of 81 pieces. an or
ohestra as large, an acrobat. several
vocal soloists, yodler, half dozen
blackface comedians, quartet, sever
al piano players and enough good
voices to stage minstrel show.
Here is an average Saturday night
program: A one-reel comedy, seven
concert selections by the band, four
reel feature film, half a dozen songs
by the quartet, the yodler and popular
songs by all hands" with the words
thrown onto the picture screen.
The last feature is what the sailors
like the best, as they all seem to
want to get in the show. They put
real enthusiasm into songs about win
ming the war and getting" the Ger.
man feet, but when they sing some.
thing about home, the sunny south or
a girl left behind they fairly raise
the roof and sing the choruses over
and oves
The" never ire of one feature. al
th0le 70 participated in II
s. los. With the house dark
( for an instant, a curtain showing the
New York skyline is dropped As
/ the first faint light dimly outlines the
picture the orchestra starts to play
! New York Town" and everyone be.
/ gins to sing. Before the song is end
+ ed many of the men break into cheers
and throw their white hats into the
ali.
81 amt from New York" said a
trim specimen of middle.western
young manhood one night. but that
skyline was the last thing saw in
the good old U. s. A., and that picture
with the orchestra playing that song
lust naturally makes fellow want
TO sins"
But even with such expressions OF
sentiment there is little home-sicls
ness here The sailors, many of them
mere Youngsters, are glad they are in
the thick of the war, but many Of
them have said that the more they
see of foreign shores the better they
like home.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-10
Lamb Steaks Recommended.

one item Of waste in the meat trade
n this country has been In the slaugh-
Ter of lightweight lambs for fancy con.
sumlng demand, and the Butchers Ad
vocate calls attention to the fact that
heavy lambs are the staple In England
and Canada. and that butchers there
make practice of reducing hind quar-.
ters FOR leg Of lamb TO the size desired
by the average family, cutting on
lamb steaks for separate sale. II re-.
tail butchers In this country would
handle heavy lambs In that way. build.
Ing M trade Tor limb steaks, which
are considered hne meat says the
butchers Advocate. II would be posi-.
bile to raise market lambs IN greater
weights. increase the meat supply, and
probably bring better profits 10 The
grower
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-10
WANDERING sird.

The great albatross deserves to be
called the wandering albatross. A
mounted specimen is preserved in one
of our museums of bird which, when
captured OFF the coast of Chile on De.
cember 20, 1S47. had small vial hung
on a string about its'neck. This vial
contained a piece OF paper, from which
1t was learned that the bottle had been
attached to the bird on December IL,
1877, by the captain OF a whaling yes.
sci when 1t was about 500 miles off
the coast OF New Zealand. The bird,
therefore, travelled at least S,4oo
miles in eight days.-Frank Chapman
In ST. Nicholas.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-10
NEW ENGLAND TOO LITERARY
Newspaper Asserts Too Little Atter
ton Is Paid 10 Manual and Tech
nieal Education.

New England. with al its water
power tumbling from a thousand hills
and its mill windows shining through
the night, is FESTIVE and dissatisfied
with programs Of manual and tech
nieal education. Edmund Burke long
ago discovered and proclaimed in the
British parliament the fierce ambition
Of every northern colonist to be his
own lawyer: and the forefathers
stood in greater fear OF having an
illiterate ministry than OF hearing the
Indian warwhoops from the surround
ing forest. The director of university
extension work in Massachusetts, finds
the people still in love With book
learning as compared with tho grim
utilities. The popularity OF the Low
ell institute courses rcfutes the the
DRY % these who hold that the day of
the "lyceum lecture" is gone to return
no more.
Vocational. training seems to be hav-
ing hard shedding ON its road from
Beacon Hill to Pittsfield, from Prov
incetown to Williamstown. Every
body wants to be litterateur. and
seeks TO break into the goldfish aris-
tocracy Of bellies lettres whose capital
is Beantown. Though interest is still
maintained in the applied science Of
baseball, the philosophers and theo-
( logfans still outnumber the pinchh hit
tiers and moundsmen. But nobody
seems to have any ambition TO be a
master plumber or a irst-ciass brick
layer or an electrical engineer. Little
Rollos budding hope is TO be cura-
tor in the fine arts museum or libra.
/ rian at Harvard Can nothing be
done to rescue the "highbrows" OF
/ New England from their infatuation
with cold print and restore the abo-
riginai illiteracy of the happy days OF
Massachusetts when |: was folly 10 be
Philadelphia Ledger
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-10
OIL WELL IN ENGLISH TOWN.
Undoubtedly Fluid Is There, but From
Whence II Came Seems to Be
Matter OF Mystery.

Polluted we'll water Of long standing
at the market town Of Ramsey near
Peterborough, England. prompted one
well owner 10 dig for the cause, says
an exchange. he struck oil in short
order and created a boom and a mys-
terry Another well also Yielded oil.
Pumpings from both. averaging 5os
gallons a day, sold on the spot for =
shilllngs the gallon and burned in
lambs like ordinary Illuminating oil.
Spectators jumped at the find rath-
er cautiously. They lacked the sport
ing spirit of KANSAS and oklahoma
boomers. One ventured a Is note for
share in wen and asked 81 900 for
his Interest next morning Nothing
doing. The game wasn't ripe enough
for plungers.
Official tests Of the oil deeponed the
mystery. They showed the oil was al
ready refined, carrying specific gray
~ of so, which is the gravity OF re-
ined oiI. One of the testers, whose
opinion was fiouted, offered bet of
$500 that the oil was not natural oil.
No takers.
The present conclusion seems TO be
that the oil is due to leakage from
some unknown source. There are nc
OF! tanks In Ramsey or Peterborough
town and the source of the leak. II
such 1t Is, must be at greater dts
lance. Lucky well owners nre not wor
rying about the source. With all the
zeal of COLE dIggers they stick to the
pumps and rake in the shilllngs from
eager buyers of the fluid.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-10
oertlnea,e nee1tendins Charter
Trensurv Denartment.

Treasury Department,
ONCE of Comptroller OF the Currency
Washington, ID. G., August. g. 1918.
Whereas. by satisfactory evidence
presented to the undersigned. IL has
been made to appear that The Ben
nington County National Bank of Ben
ningtOn located in the village OF Ben
nington IN the County of Bennington
and state of Vermont, has complied
with all the provisions of the Act of
Congress ito enable National Banking
Associations 10 extend their corporate
existence. and for other purposes ap-
proved July ~, 1882 as amended by
the Act, approved April ~. 1902;
Now, therefore. l. Thomas p. Kane.
Acting. Comptroller of the Currency,
do hereby certify that The Benning-
ton County National Bank Of Benning-
ton" located in the village of Benning-
ton in the County of Bennington and
state of Vermont is authorized to have
succession for the period specied in its
amended articles OF accociation: name
~, until close of business on August
o. 1888.
In testimony whereof wit
ness my hand and Seal of Of
flee this sixth day of August,
1918.
#. p. KANE,
Acting Comptroller of the Currency.
Extension No 1898.
Charter No 1895.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-10

The totem poles tire going. These
quaint monuments of vanishing race
that have made the coast OF British
Columbia and southern Alaska famous
are fast wasting under the influence
of wind and weather.
Once the designing and constructing
of totem poles flourished among the
Haldas and to lesser extent among
the Tsimpsean Indians. This was long
before the white man invaded the Pa.
cific Northwest. Real totem poles with
the history of tribes and families
carved into their odd structures are
no longer made and each year sees
some Of the older ones disappear.
Some are still standing in their origi'
nal positions n the village of Kitwan
"a, on the Skeena river. Some of
these are said to be two hundred years
old.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-10
AMERIcANs REAcA STOCKHOLM
Report That Russia Is on Verge Of
Starvation.

Stockholm, Saturday, Sept. 7 (By
the Associated Press THE American
refugees from Moscow reached Stock
holm today IL days after their de-
parture from the Bolsheviki capital.
They were met by sheldon White
house, the American charge of DAT
fairies, and party of Americans and
EurOpenans who we're anxious to learn
the lot of friends and relatives in
Russia.
When the Americans left Russia
they say -four sold at Sl.25 a pound
and that il was seldom obtainable at
any price. The price of sugar was
$500 pound-and the staple was
scarce at that
The refugees say that starvation
had become so prevalent in Moscow
that late in August the food commits
sion was forced to remove all regula-
tons on citizens and permitted them
to enter the city with go pounds of
food each. This step. II was asserted,
was an admission of the absolute fail
ure of the food commission. which
had no bread and was forced through
the pressure of the rebelling citizens
to let the people take the food supply
into their own hands.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-10
COLLEGE HEAD RETURNS
President of University of Vermont Ar
rlVes After Extended Trip 10 France.


riVes After Extended Trip TO France.
Burlington, Sept. president Guy
Potter Benton of the University of
Vermont arrived in Burlington, Friday,
after having spent the last year and
a half in France, where he has had
personal charge OF the Y. NJ, c. A.
work. DR.. Benton lost ffty-seven
pounds since he left. but is in the
ping of condition. When he asked
what the French think OF the length of
he war, he said that they were very
hopeful and look to the spring Of 1919
TO finally bring the struggle 10 sue
cessful end It is the general opinion
of all Allied soldiers that July II Of
this year was the turning point in
the great tital wave of successful vic
tories towards the end for the Allies.
A meeting of the Trustees will be held
soon to determine whether they shall
give President Benton another years
absence to permit him 10 continue war
work, or whether they shall ask him
TO retire in favor of another candi-
date
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-10
Trees Witnesses in Lawsuit.

Trees were used as Witnesses In de-
tcrminng the state line between Mis-.
sssippi and Arkansas, during hear
ing before o. X. Jewell, special COM
missioner OF the United States Su.
preme court.
Arkansas brought action against
Mississippi for a great island in the
Mississippi in 1913. Aged trees on the
Arkansas side proved that part OF the
island 10 be the Oldest. The trees on
the Mississippi side were all young, in
dicating 1t to be made land" Timber
experts estimated some of the trees are
from 100 to l75 years old. Before.the-
war steamboat pilots were among the
Witnesses
II the Supreme court decides the
case'in favor of Arkansas big lumber
company will have possession OF 900
acres OF valuable timber II the court
decides in favor OF Mississippi, numer.
Gus persons. mostly negroes, will gain
possession Of the land and timber.