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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-10
FOOD AT LOW COST
FOR BELGIAN FAMILIES

Through the combined efforts Of the
American Red Cross and the Belgian
Government, food is now supplied at
low cost to the families Of those Bel
gian soldiers who are AZ the front or
have hcen killed or taken prisoner
The Commissioner for Belgium OF the
Red Cross recently advised the Bel
gian Government that the American
neOple were ready 10 undertake this
work and that the Red Cross would
provide 10000 francs month for IT,
The Belgian Minister OF Supplies
has chain of slxty-fye stores in
France and AT the front. which sell
goods TO the families Of Belgian sol
diers working in nunition plants or
other places in the rear.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-10
THE RED CROSS COMES
BY JEANNE JUDSON.

Lest we forget the simple joys,
The kindly thoughts, the human tears,
The harmless laughter and the song
We knew in other happier years,
Lest we grow hard, and cruel and cold,
And being young, our hearts are old,
Held in the grasp o. death undied,
The Red Cross comes to fill again,
The cup of mercy long since spilledj
Bid in our hearts the birds to sing,
Reviving JOY that anger killed.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-10
RED CROSS MARTYR
KILLED BY SHELL

The grave OF Lieut.. Edward NJ. Nc
Key. who was killed last June while on
duly on the Italian front. where he had
charge of an American Red Cross roll.
ing canteen, lies about mile and a
half behind the battle line on the lower
Pave. II is simple soldiers grave.
and only the American flag with which
IL IS decorated distinguishes ii from
those Of his Italian comrades in arms.
The fine qualities displayed by the
Italian soldiers So aroused Lieutenant
Mckey'S admiration that he gave free
vent 10 his enthusiasm. How splen-
didly The Italians are fightingl" were
the last words he uttered. for Just then
an Austrian shell. exploding at their
side. ended his life at the same time
seriously woundng Captain Colabattis-
a. The latter. who has since received
q decoration FOR val q. paid the highest
tribute 10 the devotion of Lieutenant
Mickey, his enthusiasm and thc tactful
manner In which he performed his
charitable mission among the soldiers.
To quote his own words: Let rs rem.
der homage to tn memory OF this
valiant American iIcd Cross officer
who died with word7 Of enthusiasm for
our soldiers on his ps The Austrian
shell which cut short his career has
not Silenced his vol q On the contra
rs. the sacrifice of his life has immo;-
tallzed his words al praise FOR Ilaly's
fighting men. 1t has also forged one
more link between our country and his
own"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-10
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told .
Briefly for Busy Readers.

Miss Mary Tirren of Spring street
is Ill.,
Eugene Graham is confined to the
house by illness.
Miss Minnie G. Levin. bookkeeper
at the Bennington Garage, is visiting
friends in Boston for a week.
Frank Casey OF the western part of
the town, who has been i'll since Fri
day with influenza, is improving.
Miss Anna Leahy. teacher of the
school at Old Bennington is confined
to her home on Spring street by ill
nes..
Chief William f. Sears of the Ben
nington Fire department is confined
to his home ON Depot street with in
fiuenza
James H. Martin. wno is employed
at the Office OF the Bennington Scale
Works is again able to be out of doors
after an illness of IL weeks.
Webster Temple. who recently re-
turned from Camp Devens. expects to
resume his position at the Bennington
County National bank January l.
Branch No. of St Mary's Guild
will meet with Mrs. Arthur Rock
wood Wednesday afternoon at 3
O'Clock Every member is requested
to be present.
Johnson Matteson mas returned
from Rutland where he has been serv-
ing as petit Juror at the present SEES
sion of the United States district
court.
information has been received here
to the effect that the boys from Yer
mont, who have been stationed at
Fort Slocum will receive their dis
charges from the service during the
present week
Lieut.. j. Edward Woodman of the
aviation corps has been granted his
discharge and has arrived at the home
of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. II. p.
Woodman He is, however. on the
reserve list and may be recalled to
the service at any time during the
next five years.
benjamin Waldron and Francis
Morrissey were mustered out Of serv-
ice Monday from the Clarkson Techni-
cal college at Potsdam, n Y. They
have been students of the auto-me
chanic training school for the past
seven weeks. The boys returned
home late Monday evening
List of letters remaining uncalled
for at the post Office for the week end
ing December ., 1918: Mr. Joseph
Albanese, Harry Barber, Mr. Chas. A.
Beae. s Brousso. Mr. John F. Can
non. Mr. Harry Ferruccion, Mr.
Arthur Lamb. Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Reynolds. Mr. and lrs. o, Strauder
Mrs. Sarah f. burlington, Mrs o. b
Cooper, Mrs. Margaret Collins, Miss
Anna Tanning. IS Linden St, care OF
Mrs Cardin. Mrs. Mary Fillmore, Mrs
J. S. Hail. Mrs. Lewis w. Moon (2)
Mrs. Arthur Nalleti, Mrs. Lorraine
Smith, Mrs. S. W. TAYLOR. Mrs
Thomas Warren These letters viii
be sent to the Dead Letter Office Dec
T6. If not delivered before In calling
for above, please say advertised
giving date of list.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-10
FAITH IN THE RED CROSS.

a young American soldier recently
arrived in France tried 10 locate his
brother. who was also in the army
and who had preceded him over
there" 1t was like hunting for a
needle in Il haystack After many DIFF
hculties and long waiting, however, he
at last located the company 10 which
his brother belonged
Then he learned that his brother
had been wounded and was in some
hospital That was all he could find
ont. with the faith OF a little child
in his eyes lie told this to a hospital
searcher belonging TO the AmeHaan
Red Cross and then with the faith 0f
a little child he added But the Red
Cross will find him" And the Red
Cross did.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-10
HOME SERVICE IN EVERY
NOOK AND CORNER

The work OF The Home Service
reaches into every nook and corner
of the country, and although money
Is certainly the least valuable contri-
button of Home Service to the welfare
of communities, by January /, 1919
the Red Cross Will have spent through
it II total of six million dollars and
will then be carrying Il burden of one
million dollars a month.
But Home Service gives more far
reaching and subtle things than can
be measured in dollars and cents. 1t
IL binding the nation together into
one organic whole as 1t has never been
bound before.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-10
His Own Grandfather.

The Aitonbadet Of Stockholm, tells
an interesting story of man who, by
force of a strange series of circum-
stances, is now his own grandfather.
He tells his tragic experience In this
wise Il married a widow with
grown daughter. Ny father. who often
visited r.. fell IN love with my step
daughter and married her. Because
II that marriage my father t"camc
ny son.;n-law and my stepdaughter
my mother-inlaw. Some time after
my wife gaze birth TO son, who ne
came my tno.lrr'S brother-ln.law ami
my un5ie. Then the wife of my father
'hal is. my stepdnushtor-also gave
hirh 20 son. Thereby md broth
er and also a nephew. Summed up.
my wife IS my grandmother, as she
Is HE mother Of my mother. am the
husband OF my wife and al The same
time her step-nephew--in other words,
] am my own grandfather. Really II
is too mnch for one man TO tear
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-10
thin PEOPLE
SHOULD TAKE
PHOSPHATE
Nothing Like plain .Bitro-Prosphate to
Put on Firm, Healthy Flesh and
to Increase Strength, Vigor and
Nerve Force. g

Judging from the countless prepara
tions and treatments which are con
tinually being advertised for the pur-
pose of making thin people tieshy, de
veloping arms, neck and bust. and re-
placing ugly hollows and angles by
the soft curved lines of health and
beauty, there are evidently thousands
of men and women who keenly feel
their excessive thinness.
Thinness and weakness are usually
due to starved nerves. Our bodies
need more phosphate than is contain
ed in modern foods Physicians claim
there is nothing that will supply this
deficiency so we'll as the organic
phosphate known among druggists as
bitro-phosphate which is inexpensive
and is sold by Gokay and most all
druggists under a guarantee of salts
faction or money back. BY feeding
the nerves directly and by supplying
the body cells with the necessary
phosphoric food elements, bitro- phos-
phate quickly produces welcome
transformation in the appearance; the
increase in weight frequently being
astonishing.
This increase in weight also carries
with it general improvement in the
health. Nervousness. sleeplessness
and lack of energy, which nearly al
ways accompany excessive thinness
soon disappear. dull eyes become
bright, and pale cheeks glow with the
bloom of perfect health.
CAUTION Although bitro-p hos
plate is unsurpassed for relieving
nervousness, sleeplessness and gener
al weakness, it should not, owing tc
its remarkable flesh-growing proper
ties, be used by anyone who does not
desire to put on flesh.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-10

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the First National Bank OF
North Bennington, VT, will be held at
their banking house on Tuesday. the
seventh day OF January, 1919, at ten
o'clock, A. NJ. for the purpose of elect
ing Board OF Directors for the ensu-
ing year and for any other proper and
necessary business.
Ralph A. Jones, Cashier
Dated North Bennington, VT, Dec
ember, 9Th, 1918.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-10
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the County National bank
will be held at their banking rooms.
Bennington, Vt, on Tuesday, January
Z. 1919, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon
for the election of directors for the
ensuing year and for the transaction
of such other business as may prop
erly come before the meeting.
Homer II. Webster, Cashier.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-10
MAKING AMERICA
1000 RED CROSS

BY It's Christmas Roll Call. TO bc
held IN the week beginning Decem-
her 10, the American Red Cross
aims to enroll the entire available
population in the ranks OF the
organization In order to make
America 100 per cent. Red Cross,
SO that the world may know that
the country stands solldly and UNI
compromisngly for the principles
Of honor. mercy and good fufth
among the nations.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-10
TRUCKING

have bought the Ryan Trucking
business of Mrs. Ellen Ryan
and ann prepared to do all kinds or
light and heavy trucking. Roth tenn
and motor.
F. NJ. HARRINGTON.
Tel. 293-W.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-10
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

LOST--On Deerview Mountain, a
black and white dog with brown and
black head and ears Any information
relative TO the whereabouts of this dog
viii be greatly appreciated. Please
notify The Banner Office or tel CIV.
69ti+
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-10
Announcement

Having sold my trucking business
TO Il. NJ. Harrington. any fayOrs you
could turn his way would he npprecia-
ted. Thanking the Public for past
patronage. Telephone .33-W.
MRS. ELLEN RYAN.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-10

TO RENT-Furnished rooms steam
heated gas, electric lights, hot water
and bath. also storage for automobiles.
Apply Cut Price Market. North street.
tel 43s-M. 69t6s
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-10

FOR SALE pigs, 2 IL months old
T. Wheeler Rice, 464-W 69t6s
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-10

TO RENTAL once. four room tene-
ment on Mckinley street. Apply Clar-
ence Chandler. tel 372-11 69tf.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-03-22

Tillage in raspberry fields should be
thorough and regular in order to con-
serve moisture. Except in rainy
weather, cultivator or harrow should
be used at least once each week up to
picking time. Some growers consider
II profitable to use 1t as often as twice
each week, and this is sometimes nee
essary during periods of extended
drought, The cultivation should stir
the soil to depth of two to three
inches only, as part of the raspberry
roots are shallow. Many growers short
en- the cultivator or harrow teeth which
run next to the plants, SO as to disturb
the young feeding roots near the sur
face as little as possible.
Maintenance of Fertility.
The use of fertilizers in raspberry.
plantations is governed by the same
principles that apply to their use with
other fruits. AS soils vary in the guam
fifty and availability of the plant food
they contain, the fertilizer problem is
local one which each grower must
solve for himself. BY using varying
amounts of the different elements OF
plant food on different plats and keep
ing a record of the yields, each grower
can determine readily what kinds ana
quantities of fertilizer to apply.
Use Of Fertilizers.
In many sections no fertilizers are
used on bearing plantations. In the
older raspberry sections, however,
some commercial fertilizer and stable
manure are used, and it is considered
profitable to use them. Stable manure,
however, usually has given the best re-
suits and experiments have shown that,
where obtainable, it furnishes the best
means Of enriching the soils on which
the experiments have been tried. Stable
manure not only furnishes some plant
food but supplies large quantities OF
humus. If an annual application OF
about ten tons per acre is made, the
humus supply should be maintained,
and with proper treatment In other
ways the field should be kept at high
state of productiveness. Some soils
and some sections will need larger
quantity and some less than ten tons
per acre. A heavier application, how
ever, should not be made unless it has
been found by actual trial to be de-
sirable, as it is possible to stimulate
the growth of canes and leaves to such
an extent as to reduce productiveness.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-03-22

Crom the United States Department OF
Agricultural
From the time raspberry plants are
set, they need an ample supply OF mos
ture and they are affected more quick
ly and seriously when 1t is denclent
than most other fruit plants. In the
sections where the highest average
Yields of red raspberries are obtained,
often G,OOO quarts Of fruit per acre
are secured. The average Tor the
whole country however, is not more
than 1900 quarts, and this difference Is
due almost wholly to difference Ia
the moisture supply. In the sections
referred to as giving the highest yiel0s,
deep soil furnishes uniform ana
ample supply of moisture at all times
To secure the best results, therefore,
the grower should, by tillage ana by
supplying humuS, maintain uniform
and ample moisture content in his soil,
not only during the growing and rlpen-
ing of the fruit but also while the
canes are developing. Some growers
make it a regular practice each year
to mulch their fields to depth OF sew
eral inches with straw, leaves or green
hay. When this practice is followed,
the cost is great, but the moisture sup
ply is retained well.
In semiarid and arid regions where
irrigation is practiced, the fruiting sea-
son is longer than in most humid or
nonirrigated sections. The use OF 1rrl-
cation in the Eastern states also has
extended the picking season and made
the plants thriftier. Larger yields OF
fruit of the Ranere raspberry in the
summer and fall have followed the ir-
rigation of that variety and made 1t
profitable in some sections of the East.
Intercropping.
In order to reduce the cost of inten-
sive cultivation of raspberry planta-
ton during the first year after setting
other crops that need cultivation dur
ing the spring and early summer
months may be grown between the
rows. Among the crops best suited to
this use are the tomato, cabbage, caul1-
flower, bean, pea, summer squash ana
potato. Grain chops should not De
used. as they are not cultivated and
will take moisture and plant food
needed by the raspberry plants. The
second season no other crop should be
grown, as the raspberry roots should
occupy all the ground.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-03-22
Anticipate unfavoraBIe Report.

Washington.-Naval experts antlcl-
pate an unfavorable report from the
board headed by Rear Admiral Albert
G. Winterhalter, who has just com
pleted tests of the former Austrian
steamer Lucia, which has been equip
ped with interior .'buoyancy boxes" de-
signed to make her unsuitable. That
the ship will remain afloat after re-
ceiying injuries which would sink a
craft of ordinary construction is con-
coded, but constructors are of the
opinion that the "buoyancy boxes"
would not prevent a torpedo damaging
the vessel to such an extent that she
would be of no further value as a sup
ply ship or cargo carrier.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-03-22
STOP HORNS FROM GROWING
caustic Potash Treatment Must Be
Applied When Calf Is Two or
Three Days Old.

The caustic potash treatment OF
calves horns to stop horns from grow
ing must be applied when the calf is
two or three days old, just as the
horns are starting. Clip the hair from
the spots where the coming horns can
be felt, moisten the end of a stick of
wrapped caustic potash and rub on the
slipped spots. Don't turn the calf out
In the rain right away or the stuff
will be washed into the Calls eyes and
will injure them. And don't get 1t on
your hands, because 1t sure burns.
Keep the stuff In an air-tlght can or
Jar or II will absorb water and melt.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-03-22
Paris Aoain Raided.

London.-German airplanes raided
Paris. The first alarm was given
when seven squadrons Of German air
planes were reported on their way to
Paris. One of the German raiders over
Paris was brought down in flames and
the crew was taken prisoners, a Havas
dispatch from Paris says. About SO
afrplanes crossed the French lines.
Numerous bombs were thrown on
Paris and the suburbs. Several build-
mFs we're demolished or set on ire
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-03-22
TO ROOT OUT GERMAN
COMMERCIAL INTEREST.
LEGISLATION AUTHORIZING SALE
OF ALL ENEMY PROPERTY
IN THIS COUNTRY.
Vote on Provision For Action unan-
Irnous, Coming After Hours OF At
tacks on kultur--President May Ac'
ouire Title to Enemy Docks.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. author1z-
Ing the sale of all enemy property IN
this country, requested ,by the alien
property custodian permanently TO up
root German commercial influence,
was approved by the Senate and ADDED
to the urgent deficiency Appropriation
bill. An amendment empowering the
President to acquire title to the Ger
man steamship companies docks and
wharves at Hoboken, N. j., also was
accepted. The vote on the provision
for sale of enemy property was unan-
imous, GA to 0. and came after several
hours of scathing, denunciatlon OF
German kultur and intrigues for world
dominion. Enemy property within the
meaning of the law is property owned
in an enemy country, and official as
surances have been given that there
is no intention to interfere with the
property or money of Germans or
Americans living in this country.
The purpose is to sever forever the
hold of Germans in Germany on vast
commercial and Industrial enterprises
in the United States, which have been
connected closely with the Kalser,s
Government, serving as outposts OF
the Teutonic movement for world do
minion. Under the trading with the
enemy act the alien property custo'
dian takes possession of and admins
tiers these properties, but is without
authority finally to dispose of them.
The new legislation will empower him
to place them in American hands.
Virtually the only questions raised In
debate were the possibility OF violat'
ing the treaty of 1893 between Prussia
and the United States and of too hasty
action by the Congress. Expected ops
position to the provision for purchase
of the Hamburg-American and North
German Lloyd docks at Hoboken fall
ed to materialize.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-03-22
Exempt Aliens Working in shlpyards.

Exempt AIIGNS VOTNiu9 ~ SipPJ - 49,
Washington.-Neg otiations are in
progress between the United States
and the allies for the exemption from
draft of the allies nationals who are
working in shipyards of this country
but who are subject to draft under
treaties now being negotiated. The
United States desires to have the al
lies to recognize shipbuilding as
vital war service, as the Unit States
has recognized it, in exempting Amer
leans who are doing such work. ON
Gals said the negotiations affect
good many thousand workers, trained
in shipbuilding, whose loss would
prove a serious handicap to the build
ing program and might possibly en-
tail delays in special lines OF work
that would be disastrous to the effort
to provide tonnage for supplying a
great American army in France.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-03-22
Tax of $124,5oo,o 900 From 80 Persons

New York.-John D. Rockefeller will
pay this year to the Government ap-
proximately $3S, 100000 income tax il
the estimate made recently by finan-
cial authority is correct. This is with
in 100000 of the amount collected
in personal income taxes from the en-
tire country in 1915. The 80 wealth
lest persons Of the country will pay
about s124,50O, coo, which is nearly
four-ffths of the total income tax re-
ceipts for 1917. These figures are
reached by use of the fact that all in
comes of more than $2,9O0,O00 must
pay a surtax of 63 per cent
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-03-22
GROW CROPS AND LIVE STOCK
Fertility Is Conserved and More Food
Produced on Given Area-Sure
General Plan.

Live stock raising IN connection with
general farming conserves fertility ele-
ments and makes 1t possible to pro-
duce more food on a given area Of
land. Growing crops and breeding ami.
mails should be practiced on every
farm of any considerable size If pos
sible, as this kind Of farming is surer
as a general plan and it saves the farm
for future crops.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-03-22
HELP MAKE EGGS AND MEAT
Certain Amount Of Table Scraps and
Kitchen Waste Which Has Feed
ING Value for Fowls.

Let the table scraps help make eggs
and meat. In every household no mat
ter how economical the housewife.
there is a certain amount of table
scraps and kitchen waste which has
feeding value, but which. II not fed
ADDS It's way into the garbage pail
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-03-22
Chicken Feed Is High.

Chicken feed this year is abnormally
high; we must economic but economy
does not mean so much limiting the
amount spent, as expanding money in
such a way that It wiz bring in the
largest returns.