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Rioting near the plant, where 500
workers quit six weeks ago over the
question of closed shop, began to-
day when the strikers attempted to
prevent imported strikebreakers from
going to work Quiet was restored
after yoley of shots had been fired
Trouble started afresh when a
truckload of strkebreakers was TAX
en- to the plant under the protection
OF deputy sheritfs The strikers had
piled Instructions before the gates
OF the plant. causing the truck to
come to halt. and a mob of nearly
thousand men and women rushed
forward with stones and clubs.
The crowd was again driven off
and quiet prevailed until woman
passerby received a Aslieht wound
from a stray bullet said TO have been
fired by 4 fsnfper. More shots We're
fred and when the time came for Of
ficials 10 leave the plant the distur-
hance became serious.
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ESTATE OF THORNTON f. TURNER
STATE OF VERMONT

District of Bennington SIS.
The Honorable Probate Court for the
DistricS Aforesaid:
TO all persons interested in the es-
tate of Thornton +. Turner late of
Be- ninPton ir said District, deceased.
Greeting: Whereas, said Court has
assigned the Sth day of September next
for examining and allowing the account
of the Executrix of the estate of
said deceased and for a decree of the
residue of said estate to the lawful
claimants of the same and ordered
that public notice thereots be given
to all persons interested In said estate
by publishing this order three weeks
successfully previous TO the day as
signed, in the Bennington Evening
3auner, a newspaper published at
Bennington in said District
Therefore, you are hereby notified to
appear at the Probate Office in Benning-
ton in said District on the day assign
ed then and there TO contest the all
lowance OF said account If YOU see
cause, and to establish your right as
heirs legatees and lawful claimants
to said residue.
Given under my hand. this 18th day
of August, 1919.
EDWARD G. BENNETT
Judge
Holden& Healey Attorneys for
ExecutriX.
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HENRY FORD'S $1,OOO,OOO
LIBEL SUIT REACHES END
Defendants Counsel contended That
Ford Was Anarchist in June

Mt Clemens. Mich, Aug. 12,-The
evidence and the final arguments in
Henry Ford's 100000 libel suit
against the Chicago Daily Tribune
are all in. The last word was spoken
by Alfred Lucking, senior counsel for
the plaintiff today Tomorrow Judge
Tucker will formulate his instruct
ions and on Thursday he will deliver
them to the jury. The final appeal
on the behalf of the defendant was
by Elliot G. Stevenson, preceding Mr..
Lucking.
The issue was squarely Joined. Mr..
Stevenson contending that Mr. Ford
was an anarchist in June, 1916. when
the Tribune so characterized him,
and Mr. Lucking asserting that there
was no man in the United States
farther removed from anarchy.
Mr. Stevenson read statement az
ter statement from the Ford peace
propaganda and similar ones from
the writings of Emma Goldman. and
declared that the jury could not tell
which was Goldman and which was
Ford.
Mr. Lucking. to whom fell the priv
ilege of making the final appeal to
the jury, characterized the address of
Mr.. Stevenson as a powerful appeal
to the passions and prejudices of the
iur:.
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LEADING GOLF PLAYERS
AFTER CHAMPIONSHIP
Revived Nationals Amateur Tourna-
men: to Be- Played a oakmen;
Country Club Thi. Yea.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Aug. l4.-After a
lapse of two years the United State $
Golf Association will revive the Ma
tional Amateur Championship tour
nament at the Oakmont Country
Club, Allegheny County, next Satur-
day. All OF the leading American
golfers, including the title holder
Charles Evans, Jr., of the Edgewater.
G. c., Chicago. and some Canadian
PLAYERS have entered for this year s
contest. In fact the field of aspir-
ants is so large that ii has been
found necessary to begin with weed
ing out or preliminary qualifying
round of Is holes medal play on Sat
urday, which VIII reduce the big field
Of entrants to Ga players who viii
take part in the regular qualifying
round of &c holes medal play which
will start at nine oco next Mon.
day morning.
This years tournament will be the
twenty-third held under the iurisdic
-tion of the United States Golf Associ
alton which became the governing
body of the game in America in 1895.
During 1894 two amateur champions
ship tournaments were held, one of
them at Newport r. l.. in Septem-
her and the other at the ST. Andrews
Golf Club, New York, the following
month
The first Championship of the
United States Golf Association was
decided over the Newport Golf Clubs
course in 1895 and won by c. b. Mac
Donald, C. Il. Sands of St Andrews
being the other finalist. AT SHINE
cock Hills. Long Island. H. j. Whig-
ham. a foreign bred golfer represent
Ing the Onwentsia Club, Chicago. was
the winner of the 1896 title and by
winning again at Wheaton, ILL.,, in
1897 Whigham was the first golfer to
earn two successive championship
brackets in America, Walter j. Ira
Wis the Garden City veteran won it
three times, 1900, 1901 and 1903. II,
Chandler Egan of the EXmoor Coun-
try Club, Chicago, was a double win
ner in 1904, 1905 and Il. A. Gardner
another Chicagoan and member of
the Hinsdale Club, won at Wheaton,
H.. in 1909 and again at Detroit in
1915.
JeTUlHe ~ lIdNSlS, VI MOutSldlli AZ,
j., has the unique record, however,
of winning the national title four
times. In 1907 at the Euclid Club.
Cleveland, o., Travers won his first
national defeating another Jersey
man, Archibald Graham, in the final
round Over the Garden City course
one year later, Travers successfully
defended his title, the runner up be-
ing Max Behr, also of New Jersey.
After lapse of three years Travers
came to the front again winning the
1912 Championship at Wheaton, m
the other finalist being Chick"
Evans the present champion. At
Garden City in 1913, Evans was put
out in the semifnals by John G. An
derson, then playing from Brae Burn.
Mass, and Travers won his fourth
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ARLINGTON

The fifth meeting of the Poetry Dis
cussion class was held at Mrs. Gill
christ's on Thursday, August 7th
Forty-six were present The discuss
ion was continuation CT last weeks
talk Wilfred Wilson Gibson as a
maker Of poems his methods, his SON
net formation, ct cetra was handled
Mrs Gilchrist read excellent selections
from his shorter poems. his war lyrics
dramatic monologues, swift Impress
lomistic pictures being especia ly en-
phasiZcd Miss Jessie B. Ritten-
house read several of Gibson's latest
yrics from his last book Hell
Tracks Then by request Miss Rit
tenhouse read a series of her own
singing verse. The next meeting will
English war poets, some of whom
GAGE their lives in the wsr. Preemin-
ent among them being Rupert Brooks
Robert Nichols, Seigfried Sasscn and
Robert Graves will be discussed and
some of their poems read. L will be
remembered that Rupert Brooks left
in his will legacies TO Wi fred Wilson
Gibson, Walter de Ia Mare and Las
celia Abercrombie sufficient to enable
these poets to pursue the vocation of
poetry without dread of poverty. The
guest of honor for the afternc on was
Mrs. Joyce. Kilmer. who read some CT
her own poems written to her child
ren. Mrs. Kiimer is a poet of great
prominence whose verses have rare
lyric quality and strong human ap-
peal. The next meeting win be held
at Camp Avalon on Friday afternoon.
August 18th at 2:30 o'clock please
note the change of day. On that eve
ming for the benefit of the SALISBURY
church. Camp Ava on gives an enter
tainment, an amateur circus. The
members of the Poetry Discussion
class are invited to bring picnic sup
pers and stay on after the class is over
and patronize the entertainment.
Mrs. Joyce Kilmer spoke to a
crowded and appreciative audience at
the Town hall last Wednesday even-'
ing on women poets whom she knows
personally, with reading from their
poems Seldom is a lecture so fresh
ly interesting, so piquant in detail and
81 nee hiOitl lOl liadLlAys Nhi NliiiSi
referred frankly to her friends by their
first names. telling characteristic bits
of their history, and throwing side
lights on their personalities. Her
audience were palaby enjoying them
selves and feeling as much entertained
as instructed Mrs. Kilmer's humor
is exceedingly natural. The poems
selected embraced considerable variety
though not including any with a soc
ial theme. They were well suited to
show a characteristic vein of each
author Among those which seemed
to be particularly enjoyed were Mrs,
Anna Hampstead Branch's "Grieve No
More Ladies'" and MY Mothers
Hands" and Mrs. Kilmers own
short tender ones on her children. Els
pecially the ones ca led Ambition"
and THE Mothers Helper"
On Tuesday Mrs. Gilchrist and Miss
Rittenhouse motored to Lake George
whore they were guests of Lady
Leonora Spyer
Mr. and Mrs. c. X. Gardner spent
the weekend with Mr. and airs
Clarence Gilchrist.
Mr.. and Mrs st. John McCrae have
returned from Boston where they mo-
tored last week.
Mrs, William rockingham Smith is
home from New York.
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You'll 20 Better a. Homo

At this season of the year, suffer
ers from hay fever and asthma who
can afford to travel are seeking re-
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others do not. Hay fever and asth-
ma victims compelled to remain at
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Honey and Tar Compound. This
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STATE or VERMONT

District of Bennington SIS.
The Honorable Probate Court for the
District Afore said:
To all persons interested in the es--
state of Jacob Hanna late of
Bennington IN said District. deceased,
Greeting: Whereas, said Court has
assigned the Sth day of September next
for examining and allowing the account
Of the Administrators of the estate OF
said deceased and for a decree of the
residue of said estate TO the lawful
claimants of the same, and ordered
that public notice thereof be given
to all persons interested In said estate
by publishing this order three weeks
successively previous to the day as
signed in the Bennington Evening
Banner newspaper published at
Bennington in said District.
Therefore. you are hereby notified TO
appear at the Probate Office in Benning-
ton i'm said District. on the day assign
ed then and there to contest the al
Iowanee of said account ii you see
cause and to establish your right as
heirs legatees and lawful claimants
to said residue.
4 Given under my hand, this 18th day
2 Nus'S'' 10 EDWARD c. BENNETT
N @- 49, Judge.
Holden& Healey, Attorneys for
Administrators.
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PRICES CUT IN ARMY'S
SURPLUS FOODSTUFFS
War Department Prices to be Kept
Below Prices Charged by Retailers
for Same Quality


Washington, Aug. IA revision
downward in the prices tc be charged
for several kinds of the army's surplus
foodstuffs was authorized today by the
War Department. and the official an
nouncement was made thu Secretary
of War Baker had approved the policy
of making reduction frC IN time to
time to keep the War Department
prices be ow the prices charged by re-
tailers for similar commodities of like
grade.
The new schedule of prices shows
thai corned beef has fallen from $193
for six-pound can to $175, and that
roast beef in six-pound cans is brought
down from $2.l3 to $3.50 Bacon
dropped from 35 cents a pound to 81
cents. and sugar cured hams from
81 cents to 20 cents.
These are a few examples OF the re-
auctions which the department says
are brought about by the distribution
IF its surplus stock.
The quotations, like those formerly
announced eFe f. o. b. storage points,
They are the prices at which the com
modities quoted will be sold in case
lots or original packages to municipal.
tiles and through the parcel post. L.
was stated further that the prices to
be charged municapa tiles and Post
masters will be the prices ruling at
he time of shipment. irrespective of
the prices embodied in the orders.
Orders to sell in accordance with this
policy have been issued to excess pro
perty officers throughout the country.
Here is tn list of price reductions
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NOTICE

To the Taxpayers of the Town of
BenninEton:-A Rate Bill of the Town
Taxes of 1919 has been placed in my
cents on tne dollar tor the Town Tax,
20 cents on the dollar for the Town
Highway Tax. so cents on the dollar
for the Town District School Tax.
l hereby demand payment of said
taxes. and notify you that I will attend
at the Bennington County Savings
Bank from 3 o'clock 81. M, until
of 4 per cent on Town Tax If paid
within 90 days.
c. II. DEWEY, Treasurer.
Bennington, VT, July 10. 1919.
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FEDERATION Or LABOR
MEETS AT MONTPELIER
Committees Recommend Several Radi-
cal Demands and Criticise Hand
ling of State Affairs

Montpelier Aug. 12.-The 18th an
nual convention OF Vermont branch
CT the American Federation of Labo r
convened at 10 O'clock this morning.
Today was occupied by routine bust
ness but severa very drastic resolu-
tions were introduced and there was
ccnsid arable criticism in the report of
the executive and legislative commit
tees upon the manner in which the
state affairs had been handled.
The executive committee made sew
cral recommendation which are very
interesting to the political status in
Vermont. They include demand
that representatives of labor be made
members of the board of control, state
board of health, the board of trustees
of the state university and all other
appointive state commissions where
labor is net now represented. They
demand that the eight hour day be es-
tabiished. further that a system of
land taxation be inaugurated so that
land selling for speculative purposes
wi bear larger share of the burden,
They stand firmly for public owner
ship of public utilities and demand
the retention by the federal govern
mont of he railroads, express and tele
graph companies.
They insist that there shall be no
curtailment in the progressive and
humanitarian work OF our state gov
eminent and that reactionary meas
urcs will not be permitted TO become
laws on the statute book
The resolution committee this after
noon considered several matters CT
that nature. They include asking Gov,
Clement to appoint commission to
investigate the high cost of living;
asking Gov. Clement to convene a re-
construction convention to determine
the relation between the employers
and employees; favoring the League of
Nations and protest to the members
high cost of living
of Congress from Vermont agains- the
John S. Buttles, commissioner of in
dustries. spoke to the convention for
few moments this afternoon, telling
them that he did not believe all the
employees understand their rights un-
der the workingmen's compensation
act and urged them to pest themselves
on the matter He told them that his
door was open to them to discuss their
matters at any time.
Alexander lrCnside urged the com
missioners to appoint woman inspec.
tor of factories. Alderman Waiter
German of Rutland ca led the commits
sioner's attention to building in Rut-
land in which girls had been employed
in the third floor before suitable fire
escape were attached.
During the report of the delegates
the Milk Chocolate company at Bur
lngton received considerable criticism
from the Burlington delegation. the
statement of one of the delegates be-
ing to the effect that it was reported
to the carpenters union that the per-
sons were employed there a few nights
ago with all doors locked.
Mr.. Mason of Burlington gave a de-
tailed account of the organization of
tue men who recently struck demand
ing more pay from the traction com
pany
There were about 80 delegates pre-
sent representing $4,000 union men in
Vermont
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RENNINCrOlV eRlht ;
News At ems Town ano Viilsse Va.
Strictly fer Busy @@Asee9

Coming to the Harte Theatre Sat
urday The Great Gamble" Adv.
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Wills
have returned from a stay of week
in Boston
Saturday. Aug 16, being holiday,
the library will be closed during the
entire day.
John L. Eddington, who has been
living at Palmer Fails, N Y, is in
Bennington this week.
Mrs Charles A. Carpenter ana sons
Kenneth and Lewis motored to Al
bany with friends for the day We'd
nesda.'.
The distinguished vitagraph star,
Harry T. Morey in Beauty Proof
and Ford weekly at Harte Theatre
today Adv
Sunday morning Rev. George S
Mills of the Congregational church
and Rev. Mr.. Perry of the Methodist
church will exchange pulpits.
There will be a regular meeting of
the Loyal Comrades tonight in the
M. w. A. rooms. Refreshments will
be served. e. Keller, secretary
Rev. Mr.. Perry will be in charge of
the mid-week meeting at the Metho.
dist church this evening Also will
lead the Epworth League meeting at
$50 Sunday evening.
Attendants at the mid-week service
of the Second Congregational church
will he interested in the topic Tor to-
night. THE Christian Life as an Ad-
venture" The hour is 1880. vel
come for all.
Francis W. Smith, former Ben
nington resident. was on duty for
twelve days in the black belt and the
stockyards district of Chicago dur
ing the recent race riots He is a
ergeant in Co G. second infantry. IL
linois Reserve Militia. .a ~
Rev. j. A. Perry. pastor Z OF the
Methodist Episcopal church returned
Monday from his vacation. Mr.
Perry spent two weeks in Round
Lake in experimenting the Round
Lake school for Christian Workers,
and two weeks at the Mooers Camp
meeting, Mooers, N. Y. These two
institutions are wide apart in their
schedule and program-the former
educational, thorough-going in train
ing. modern in method; while the lat
ter is one of the few remaining old
fashioned camp-meetings. In both of
these there was employed the serv-
ices of high-grade men and women as
workers and teachers and preacher,
Bishop f. II. Hughes of Boston was
the leading fi7ure at the Round Lake
Institute; Rev. Will Hulf Of Sioux
City Iowa. the first attract on at
Mooers; both of whom are among
Americas most illustrious pulpit
figures. In the school the devotional
element was fostered by a daily yes
per service on the hillside. though
the prevailing note was instruction;
} in Mooers the educational side was
stimulated by Bible studies though
the main emphasis given was eyenge
lism The country today is sorely in
need of both of these until the relig-
ious life thoroughly pervades the
whole fabric OF American life, and
moreover, although contrary to pre-
vailing opinion, there is no antagon-
ism in these two extreme elements
Mr.. Perry gave two addresses at the
camp, and preached morning and eve
ming Sunday the Sd in the NJ. e.
church at Burlington.
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NOTICE

To the Taxpayers Of the Village of
Bennington:-A Rate Bill has been
placed in my hands for collection as
follows 80 cents on the dollar for the
Village Tax, 20 cents on the dollar for
the Highway Tax on the Grand List of
1919
| hereby demand payment of said
taxes, and notify you that / will attend
at the Bennington County Savings
Bank from O'Clock a. m, until 3
o'clock p. m. There will be a discount
of per cent on Village tax If paid
within 90 days.
c. II. DEWEY, Treasurer.
Bennington, VI. July 10. 1919.
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NOTICE

To the Taxpayers of the Bennington
Graded school District;--A Rate Bill
has been placed in my hands for col
lection as follows: s1.S5 cents on the
dollar on the Grand List of 1919.
/ hereby demand payment of SAID
taxes. and notify you that ! viii attend
at the Bennington County Savings
Bank from 8 o'clock a. M, until .
o'clock u. m. There will be discount
of per cent on above tax II paid
within 30 days.
Bennington. VT. July Is. 1919.
C. II. DEWEY, Treasurer.
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No salt Exhaustion.

Fuel eventually will be exhausted,
as also will many other necessities, but
not so with salt Drillers for oil in
Texas and Louisiana recently found
great salt deposits n few hundred feet
below the surface. Some of these
beds We're 1000 feet thick.
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championship by defeating Anderson
up and in the final. The record
of having won the national four
times, repeating twice in successive
years, made by Travers. is likely to
stand as a mark for other players to
shoot at for many years to come.
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PEORIA STRIKERS USE
FIREARMS ON WORKERS
Sons Of Plant Chemist and Ass slant
General Superintendent Shot When
Leaving Plant.

Peoria, H.. Aug. 13.-After day of
rioting and firing OF one plant OF The
keystone Wire and Steel Company by
strikers, Sheriff Hines, his deputies
asserting they had despaired OF keep
ing peace, conferred tonight with
Major G. w. Russell of Governor Low
dens staff with regard to summoning
State troops to preserve order.
Reuben Sommers, son of the plant
chemist, and his cousin Alvin Som
mers, son of the assistant general SUI
perintendent were shot and seriously
injured as they we're leaving the
plant tonight.
Frank Rudolph. a Waterman, accus-
ed by the strikers OF. being a strike
breaker, was shot in the back by a
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Carries Many seapIanes.

An Italian scaplanc ship carries n
large number of planes suspended from
the sides of the vessel, where they
may be readily and quickly dropped
into the sea when occasion occurs to
make flight.
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W. arc trying hard

to induce people to know the real
value and service of life insurance.
Let us tell you the story. National
Life ms. Co.. of VT, (Mutual) Earle
S. Kinsley General Agent Mead
Building, Rutland, VT. Adv.
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PUTTING the Clock Ahead.

How times have changed. The old
fashioned girl who used never TO sit
UP later than nine o'clock has a daugh-
ter now who just starts out at nine
o'clock for the evening.
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towards BulteJmik
The Buy Bring Cream
Keeps, Skin Soft Clear and PIisb'e

To prove this to your complete sat
is faction, get package at your us
ual toilet goods counter. The direc-
tions are simple and 1t costs so little
that any girl or woman can afford it.
We guarantee it to satisfy you in
every way or the purchase price will
be refunded.
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Eun sALr

New and second hand household
furnishings of all kinds. bought and
sold.
Large assortment always to choose
from.
POTTERs SECOND HAND STORE
River st. Tel. 503-w.
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Pickles have been added to the COM
modities listed at the following quota
tons: Pickles. 16 gallon kegs 25 cents
fagallon; $40 keg.
In an order issued to local Postmas-
ters, the Postmaster General gives in
structions in detail as to how the or
ders are to be taken from customers,
the toodstuffs requisitioned from the
army stations, and then distribu ed
to purchasers
I'm order to secure the best results
Mr.. Burleson says, "and to BE- certain
that the foodstuffs get in O. the hands
Ct bona fida consumers, it is necessary
TO utilize Post Offices as distributing
agencies and to leave to the individual
Postmaster some measure Of discretion
as to the actual consumers to whom
sales should be made and in what
quantities.
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Daily Thought.

Great men too often have greater
faults than little men can find room
for.--LandOr