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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-03
BIGGEST SLAB
Of GRANITE CUT
IN VERMONT
One of the Roof Stones of Ed.
ward H. Everett MausOleum.
WEIGHS FORTY-TWO TONS
Dimensions Taxed Railroad Transpor'
tation Facilities to the Limit--38
Feet Long.

A slab of Barre granite, weighing AZ
tons and reported to be the biggest
stone Of its kind taken from the Barre
quarries, passed over the village
streets this morning on its way to
Park Lawn cemetery. The slab is 80
feet long and less than 20 inches
thick and its quarry constituted a
record in the Washington county
granite belt Heavier pieces OF gran
tie have been taken from the quarries
and shipped TO their destination but
they have been In the shape of blocks
and the transportation problems were
not nearly so great Granite is more
brittle than marble and slab less
than two feet in thickness would
break OF its own weight unless
handled with extreme care.
The big slab constitutes one of the
roof stones Of the mausoleum being
built for Edward H. Everett at the
Park Lawn cemetery. It is being
haulded to its final destination on a
trailer which itself weighs ten tons
making the combined load 81 tons. A
big auto truck with tackle and wind
lass constitute the motive power The
load was taken from the siding OF the
old Glastonbury railroad on County
street and made its journey over
School. Main and South streets. Be-
fore the trip could be undertaken il
was necessary TO temporarily streng-
then the School street bridge. Consd-
cradle difficulty was experienced in
making the School and Main street
corner but before noon the trucks
reached South street and this after
noon are making the climb Of South
street hill
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-03
ne Second Fever With the cbl
GETTING READY
FOR REGISTRATION
Town Clerks Realize That Big Task
Is Confronting Them on
September 70.

Montpelier. Sept Adj Gen II.
r. Johnson is receiving the details
relative to the manner in which the
new registration is to take place
Sept Y persuant to the proclama.
ton OF President Wilson issued Satur-
day Every agency that can be used
to give the matter publicity are being
used Newspapers are giving lots of
space to il while advertising agencies
are preparing the copy to be used
from their agencies. Letters giving
general information to banks to be
used by their patrons have been
mailed: carriers on rural free deliver
les and star routes are being sent
posters that will be placed in suitable
locations These include the state
ments relative to the penalties for
failure to register Big shipments Of
publicity have been made to railroads
Red Cross chambers Of commerce to
be distributed wherever the informa
ton can be read. The postmasters are
asked to give general information to
their patrons upon the draft and will
he asked to post placards literally in
their Offices Speeches have been
sent to the four minute speakers and
clergymen will be asked to call at
tention to the draft in their sermons
next Sunday
Not only have all of the above
mediums of publicity been used but
the movies and other theaters are to
ptva an ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS pf fba data of
the registration with each production.
Labor Union secretaries have been
sent letters calling the matter to the
attention of the members of every
union The American Association of
Foreign Languages newspapers will
give literally of their space to the
registration.
Some of the mayors In the state
have already indicated they are going
to make proclamation relative to the
registrations while prominent persons
in the several towns have taken it up
on themselves through the public
safety committee TO give wide publici
/ ty 10 the matter which interested
every person in this country in whose
/ veins run the red blood of American
i Patriotism. Town clerks are all
ready commencing to select their Is
Z sistants for they realize that the
work OF registering will be much
I greater than when it took place in
/ June 1917 Many state officers will
be asked to help in different ways in
| the registration
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-03
4 Real Remed Y
for Failing Hair

Here's good news for men and wo-
men whose hair is falling out, who
are getting bald and have scalps GOV
cred with dandruff that itch like mad.
w. l.. Gokay or any good druggist
can now supply you with the genuine
Partisan sage (liquid form, which is
guaranteed to quickly, surely and safe
ly abolish every sign of dandruff
stop itching scalp and falling hair and
promote new growth, or money re.
funded
Thousands can testify to the excel
lent results from its use; some who
feared badness. now glory in their
abundant hair, while others who suf
fered for years with dandruff and itch
ing head got a clean. cool scalp after
just a few days use of this simple
home treatment
No matter whether bothered viii
falling hair. gray hair. matted. stringl
hair. dandruff or itching scalp tr,
Partisan sage-you will not be disap
pointed It's scientific prepara
tlon that supplies all hair needs.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-03
CAPT. ROOSEVELT
At HOSPITAL IN
SOUTHERN US.
'COIoners Son Brought from
France for Treatment
PHONES TO HIS FATHER
Did Not Stand Voyage We'll. But Hop
es to Be Able to Go to Oyster
Bay Soon.

oyster, Bay. l.. l., Sept. Captain
Archibald Roosevelt son of Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt, who was wound
ed last April during the capture OF
Cantigny in the first offensive carried
ont by General Pershing's men, tele
eraphed today to the home of hi
father at Sycamore Hill from hos
pita in the South.
tie was not feeling well after his
voyage from France, he said, but de
Jared that he hoped in week o.
ten days to be at Oyster Bay Mrs
Archibald Roosevelt, formerly Miss
Mary S Lockwood Of Boston, and
thoir 5-month-old son, whom Captain
Roosevelt has never seen, are now al
Oyster Bay, where they went from
BOSTON after news had arrived thai
Captain Roosevelt would soon be in
this country.
Captain Rooseyelt's left arm Is
palalyzed. The wound in his lef
kneecap has healed but the wound il
his arm has so far failed to RESPOND
TO treatment The elbow was shat
tered by machine gun bullet while
The Captain was leading his men il
charge, and several nerves were in
/ ured The wounded elbow was oper
ated on twice in Paris, without appar
/ ent success, and the surgeons whC
have been treating his reported tha
eight months might pass before /
would be possible to determine whet
her the paralyzed arm would be use
iul again. Captain Roosevelt is ais,
'ufiering from what he described as I
bad case of nerves.
Archie did not want to CONF
back Colonel Roosevelt said yestei
day but desired to remain in France
because he thought that, if inyaHdel
home, he would not get an opportunl
" to return to the front. He Tough
t7at.4a7d 4E' Aain there.
/ Colonel Roosevelt said that h
! hoped his sons condition would b
such that he might come to Oyste
/ Bay and receive treatment here.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-03

Madrid, Aug 81, (Associatcd Press
The Spanish Government tonight
decided to take over all the German
steamships interned in Spanish ports
in accordance with SPANS recent
note to Berlin, because of the torpe-
doing OF Spanish vessels by German
submarines
Foreign Minister Dato announced
at the meeting of the Cabinet tonight
that the Spanish steamship Ataz
Mendi, carrying cargo of coal from
England to Suain, had been torpedoed
and sunk by a German submarine
The crew OF the vessel was saved
Spains decision to seize German
shipping lying in Spanish harbors
means an enemy loss of ninety YES
sells and marks another German diplo-
matte fiasco. Recent cable dispatches
on the U.boat situation with regard to
Spain have shown that the Dato Min
istry, after displaying great reluctance
has been compelled to take action by
a tremendous anti-German sentiment
, which has grown steadily in Spain.
On Aug. Minister Dato briefly an
nounced the dispatch of another note
of protest to Germany, and three days
later the question Of retailiatory meas
ures was again before the Council of
Ministers presided over by King Al
fonso. A long session occupied prin.
cipally with discussion of the sink.
ings ended with a note to Berlin de.
manding satisfaction. Through Lon
don sjtliswas aznersained that Spain
lfzd Threatened 10 seize ali ifterned
German ships, thus making the sec.
ond note practically an ultimatum.
The Dato Cabinet then gave out a
resume Of German activities against
Spanish shipping, reading in part:
In the course of the recent meet.
ings held at Madrid the Government
considered the International question
AS a consequence of the submarine
campaign more than 90 per cent OF
our merchant marine has been sunk
more than 100 Spanish sailors have
perished, a considerable number OF
Spanish sailors have been wounded
and numbers have been shipwreeked
and abandoned. Ships needed exclu
siyely for Spanish use have been tor
pedoed without the slightest pretext
serious difficulties resulting to nayi
CATION
The German Foreign Office ther
addressed several nots of "reassur
ance" 10 spain, and followed these
with what was in effect a Diplomatic
ally worded threat Ia break relation,
with Madrid If Spain carried out he
intention of taking over German
steamships.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-03
LEVINE H. WOODWARD
Life Long Resident OF Bennington
Died Monday.

Died Monday.
Levine r. Woodward. a well.known
and highly respected farmer. residing
on Beech street extension passed
away Monday morning. MIR Wood
ward has been in poor health for a
number OF months but had been about
his home each day. Monday morning
his condition appeared unchanged and
he died very suddenly
Mr. Woodward aged So years, was
a native OF Bennington and had spent
his entire life here having always
lived in the house in which he was
born
Surviving are one sister. Mrs. Rich
mond Burgess and one brother, Judge
Myron II. Woodward. both of Bennine
ton Mr. Woodward's wife. who was
Miss Minnie Elwell before marriage
died last March.
The funeral will be held from the
late home Wednesday afternoon at
o'clock. Rev W. c. Toward will of
nciate and intcrment will be in the
family lot in the village cemetery.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-03
wAreRvLleT 7; BLACK CATS d.
Manager Hogan's Ball Tossers Lose
TO Fast Team.

Manager Hogan's Ball Tossers Lose
TO Fast Team.
Waterylict sent the snappiest team
here Saturday that the Black Cats
had faced this season For six in
nmgs they held The home players run
less: but in the seventh Mahar start
ed rally by driving out clean home
ran. Mllington then got life on
one of the only two errors made by
tho visitors during The game. Then
after two were out Miner drove out
tho longest hit made ON the grounds
this season, making The entire circuit
of the bases on the clOut llarte made
two fine catches in center field,
plady's baserunning an dthe fielding
of Mclaughlin and paulis, featured
Waterylets work. Bcyis had shade
the better Of Wallingiord in the pitch
Ing department, but his support was
ragged. there being nine errors
charged 10 the home team.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-03

We hereby wish to express our sin
ere appreciation to the neighbors
md friends who so kindly assisted
during our recent bereavement, the
Illness and death Of our little daught'
az and granddaughter also to the lit.
10 children for the beautiful floral
tributes.
Mr.. aud Mrs, Harry n. Waters,
MIR. and Mrs. Alvan Waters
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-03
DRourH lessons COTTON CROP
New York Market Goes Up Sti Per
Bale.

Washington, Sept. 3.--August was
the most disastrous month to the cot
ton crop that ever has been recorded
The loss is prospective production
amounting to nearly two and half mi .
lion bales results from the drouth
The agriculture department today
forecast the crop at eleven million,
one hundred thrty.scyen bales. New
York market went up eleven dollars
per bale
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-03
LENlNE's CONDITION IMPROVES
Poisoned Cigarettes Were Found on
His Assailant.

Copenhagen Sept. 3.-The condi
Ion Of Nlkolai Lenine, Bolshevik lead
-, has so improved that physicians
consider all danger passed Dora
Kapan, the revolutionary who at
tackled him, has refused to disclose
The names of her accomplices or give
away any information regarding the
attack. Poisoned cigarettes were
found on her.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-03
WORLD SERIES BEGINS SEPT.
Chicago Nationals and Boston
Americans Battle.
Boston

Chicago, Sept, S.--Chicago nationals
returned from Pittsburgh today and
began the preliminary practice for
The opening game of the worlds series
here tomorrow with the Red Sox,
champions of the American League
Ideal weather is predicted for the
opening game.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-03

Hack Cats.
.Maekey out, not touching base.
NOrth ADAMS Q 2 0 0 0 0 2 =
BLACK cats o 0 2 0 0 0 0 . o.

BLACK cats 0 0 2 0 O--6
9 base hits. Mackey, johnson. Muller.
Mahar. Fisher. stolen base. O'Brien,
Pcllerin ?. Paulis: struck out by
Brooks Z. by Demers 8: base on balls
by Demers 3 wild pitches, Brooks 3
umpire, kervin; time of game, hr
Is M.
The afternoon game between the
Mack Cats and the Berlin team
o'med TO be what all were waiting
TO u was hard game to lose. as
The Black Cats outplayed the visiting
ulno in all departments except base
running. Two umpires were used
during most of the game; but much
dissatisfaction developing over tho
decisions Of the Berlin man, the lat
ter retired at the end of the 9Th in.
niug, Ray Fisher, former pitcher OF
the New York Americans and now
stationed at Fort Slocum did the
pitching for the Black Cats II was
not his fault that the local team did
not win as he struck out l6 men aud
allowed hut 3 hits. Coomer hand cd
Fishers delivery in nice shape. Only
one error was made by the Black
Cats, while Berlin made six Miner
made a star running catch of high
foul n.y. The best hitting was done
by Mahar Miner and Brannigan. The
base running of G.. Hull and l.. Green
featured, the latter making clean
steal home in the 5th l.. Green &C
cepled eleven out OF thirteen chances
40 third.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-03

LOST -nn Main street SATURDAY mint
nair of hi-torni eve glHHscH Please rct
turn 10 Mra Mutch S0l Main street and
receive reward NNtlF
Nn-WAtch with fob attached
which was lost sunday night owner
may have same by proving property
and paying for this advertisement at
1912 Main street NNtl
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-03
WEATHER FORECAST

For eastern New York and western
Vermont, showers tonight, Wednes.
day fair and cooler.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-03

base nit. Brady. home runs Mahar
Miner. stolen bases Dillon paulis
Brady 3 base ON balls by Wnllnford
a. hy Bowls & struck out by Walling.
ford. b. hy Bowls Z; umpire. kervin
time mr. 90 min.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-03
SPAIN SEIZES
' GE ERMAN SHIPS
/ NOW |NTERNED D
Cabinet Orders Nine Vessels
Taken Over.
sPURRED BY sINKINGS
The Spanish Ship, Ataz-Mindi, Garry.
ing Coal, Is Torpedoed Despite
Madrids Warming.

London, Monday, Sept 2.-The
Spanish Government, after a Cabinet
meeting Saturday night, seized one of
the interned German steamers. accord
ing to Madrid dispatch to The Daily
Main. This action was taken because
OF the torpedoing of the Ataz.Mendi.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-03

ncriin
RInck cats

. base hlt Miner 3 hase hit Mnhar;
stolen bases q Hull 2, Green 2, Bran.
.niran 4. base ON balls by Fisher b by
Miiilmnn 1 struck out by Fisher i6. hy
Miliman o. passed balls Butler 2; Wild
.pitch. Milliman ! umpires, kervin and
s. HUI time or game, hours.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-03
BRITISH SMASH
QUE ANT LINE
FOR SIX MILES
Enemy's Resistance Broken
/ Along Whole Front.
RETREAT ON LYS FRONT
American Troops Captured Voorme'
zeele in Their First Battle in
Flanders.

London Sept. 2.-Englisb, Scot
tish. and Canadian troops, aided by
tanks, today carried the famous
Queant-Drocourt switch line on a
front OF approximately six miles.
The enemy, who was strongly de
tending this powerfully fortified
stretch of trenches was forced back
with great loss, including several
thousand prisoners.
The Canadians, whose attack was
astride the road from Arras to Cam
brai. captured the villages Of Dury
Cagnicourt. and Nillers-les-Cagni
court, The last named Of which is
four miles beyond the line from which
the attack started,
The left wing of the assaultine
forces. composed of English troops
pierced the German delenses north
east Of EterpiesnY, and the right
made up OF English and Scottish
pushed forward from liencourt II
the direction Of Queant and captured
many strongly fortified positions in
Guiding the village OF N0reuil
The lighting extended southwark
to a point beyond perome, the Brit
ish taking many enemy positions, in
cmding several villages
On the Lys front the British con
tinue to gain ground, closely TO-
lowing the retreating enemy They
have captured NeuWe Eglise and have
advanced to the eat OF Estaires
American troops who captured
Voormezeele yesterday, in their frs
battle in Flanders. advanced eat
ward from that village today, co
operating with the British in clos'
pursuit OF the enemys rearguards.
Today's official reports from Ber
lin admit the loss of peronne ant
certain gains by the British in th'
attacks upon the opeantDrocour
line
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-03

With the british Army in Flanders,
Sept /, (Associated Press. lin their
first fighting in Belgium the Ameri-
cans captured Yoormezeele and sever
a strong German positions in that
immediate vicinity On their entrance
into Voormezeele the invaders found
that all that remained OF the town
were piles Of debris, for the shelldre
had been so intense that hardly one
brick was left standing upon an.
Cthe'
As the Americans advanced. the
German rearguards. from what little
cover remained. opened up with their
machine guns, but these were quickly
silenced without much trouble Else
where in the same lcality the Ameri
cans also advanced the line, keeping
in contact with the retreating enemy
Counterattacks by the Germans re
suited in their gaining a little more
than a slight foothold, which in every
case was quickly loosened by British
and American re-atiacks. In most
places the Germans did not even get
foothold, for the advancing forma
ticns were met with hurricans OF fire
under which they melted away.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-03
F. E. HOWE LEAVES HOSPITAL

VIII BE Able to Return to His Home
This Week.
Montpelier. Sept Frank f..
Howe. candidate for governor, left
ileaton hospital Saturday afternoon
and is stopping at the home of Willis
Cummings Mir Howe expects to
leave The latter part of This week for
his home in Bennington.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-03
BIG LEAGUE BASEBALL
Chicago Nationals and Red sox Are
Champions.

Chicago Nationals and Red sox Are
Champions.
Both the National and the American
league wound up the season for rcgu
lar scheduled games yesterday. It
remains now for the Chicago and Bos
ton champions to play the worlds
series which will begin tomorrow
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston, - New York, =.
tFirst Cameo
New York, O. BOstOn, ,.
tScCond gamC.l
phllndclphin, >, Washington, =.
tMorniug game)
Washington, ~ philadelphia, =.
tAftVruOOn gamel
Drtroit, IL; Chicago. ..
tFirst gamc)
Detroit, 2; Chicago, ..
tSccund gamc)
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New work, 6; noston. =.
Oflrgt Cameo
Huston. . New York, 1.
tSccoud gamcl
Vhicnro, I PittsburEh, ..
Morning gumcl
Pittsburgh, 81 Chicago, ..
tAftorroon gamcl
Philadelphia. {; brooklyn, =.
tfirsi gnmcl
urookiyn, 81 Philadelphia, ..
lSUcoud gnmcl
Cincinnati, o. ~. Louis, u.
CHRIST gamc)
Cincinnati, ~ NJ. Louis, q
tSccond gamo)
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-10
Are You a nannIer7

A dangler Is one who bangles, that
Is one who awaits the decisions Of
other people instead of choosing his
own course and making circumstances
conform to it. The dangler may be
found any day in the open market,
complaining because nobody hires him,
or her as the case may be. Our most
celebrated and successful laborers
asked no odds of anybody. They sim
ply went to work, somewhere. any
where that offered opportunity. and
then they helped to build up the com
munity that supported them and so
became in time "grand old men," who
to undiscerning minds seemed to have
been wonderfully favored by fortune.
They did not dangle, but became the
strong supports upon which folk Of a
weaker sort leaned, and not in vain,
that virtue would come out Of them.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-10
PLANTS PURIFIERS OF AIR
Their Consumption of carbonie Acid
Gas, Always Going On, Is OF
Great Benefit.

Plants do not breathe or have any
action corresponding to the breathing
Of animals Oxygen Is essential to the
sustaining of life in animals, includ-
Ing human beings, and In breathing
air they consume or appropriate the
oxygen Ii contains and give out car
bonlc acid gas, which is poisonous.
Plants do not consume oxygen, but
they consume carbonic acid thus help
ing to purify the atmosphere, which Is
to some extent rendered impure by
the breathing of animals. They do not
generate oxygen, but they release it
by consuming the carbonic acid. Tyn-
dali, a celebrated scientist. says: "Con-
slider all the fires in the world and all
the animals in the world continually
pouring their carbonic acid into the
atmosphere. Would 1t not be fair to
conclude that our air must become
more and more contaminated and unfit
to support. either combustion or life?
This seems inevitable, but # would be
a conclusion founded upon half knowl-
edge, and therefore wrong. A proyi-
sion exists for continually purifying
the atmosphere Of It's excess of car
bonic acid By the leaves of plants
this gas is absorbed, and within the
leaves It is decomposed by the solar
rays. The carbon is stored up in the
tree, while the pure oxygen is restored
to the atmosphere. Carhonic acid, in
fact, is to a great extent the nutriment
of plants, and inasmuch as animals In
the long run, derive their food from
the vegetable world, this very gas,
which at FIRST sight might be regarded
as a deadly constituent Of the atmos-
phere, is the main sustainer, both of
vegetable and animal life."
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-10
WEATHER IN TROPICS
Climate SO Delightful That the Aver.
age Person Would Soon Tire
of the Monotony.

The days were wonderful, and the
alterations of sun and wind were as
exciting as the discovery Of ths
strange Malayan beasts and birds. The
sun rose softIy-no breeze moved
cloud or leaf, and even the light came
at first moderately, indirectly, reflect
ed from the higher peaks, or hello
graphed from the mirror Of half-hfd-
den, distant waterfall. In early after
noon--one never knew Just when-the
faintest of breezes sifted down and
blurred the lacery of tree-fern shad-
ows. The wind was cool and soon
strengthened, and by night the air was
surging violently through the gap, ST
phoned from the cold submits down
to the hot, humid valleys. Day after
day one reawakened to the sense OF
tropical surroundings from a convic-
ton Of a northern autumn, with the
wind full of swirling leaves and the
fronds soughing with the same sad
cadence as the needles of scented
pines of the orthland.-William Bee
be, In The Atlantic.