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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-05
SPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS
It viii Be Called by President Wilson
About June I.

Washington. May elimination
that special session of congress
would be called by President Wilson
to meet about June /, is contained in
confidential dispatches received in
Washington today from Paris. It
was said in authoritative administra-
tion circles that it was quite possible
that if the situation in Paris should
develop rapidly, a special session
might even meet before June /. In
that case the call would be
made by cable.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-05
BELG|ANS HAVE
DECIDED To SIGN
PEACE TREATY
000
Their Milf Seems to Have Been
Somewhat Appeased
900
ITALIANS MAY RETURN
@@@
overtures Have Been Sent to Rome
couched in Friendliest Terms
Acceptance Is Expected
ITALIANS MAY RETURN
6lAD6)

Brussels, May 5.-The Belgian gov
ernment has decided TO sign the peace
treaty, which was discussed at the
Crown Council here last night, it is
announced. Paul Hymans, foreign
affairs minister and head peace dele
gate expressed the opinion that the
treaty gave honorable and satisfactory
terms to Belgium and recommended
that ii be signed.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-05
WANT LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Twelve Million Farmers Favor II FOL
United States,

New York, May ga over.whelm.
ing majority of twelve million farm.
ers Of America favor entrance of the
United States into the league of ma.
tions" says an announcement by the
league to enforce peace Resolutions
have been adopted by nearly two hun.
dreds organizations, including the ma.
tional grange
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-05
cLEMENcEAu's STATEMENT
Says He Has Done His Best, And II
is Good Peace

Paris, May ST. have done my
best / think it is good peace" This
declaration was made by Premier
Clemenceau last night to the Flgaro's
editor The Premier expressed the
hope that Italy eventually would re-
turn to the Allies side.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-05
GERMAN ASSEMBLY TO CONVENE
To Discuss Peace Terms at Special
Session

Berlin, Sunday.-The German ma
tional assembly will convene Thurs
day in Berlin to discuss peace terms,
says a despatch from Weimar, The
assembly sessions in a fortnight.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-05

Paris, May 5.--Italian Premier Or
lando and foreign minister Sonnino
are to return to Paris, it is officially
announced They will leave Rome
tonight, reaching here Wednesday
morning. The information came from
the Italian ambassador here. He
transmitted it to the French foreign
ministry. which informed the heads
of allied and associated governments
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-05

Brussels, May 4.-Publc opinion in
Belgium has been upset by the news
from. Paris concerning what is de-
scribed as the unsatisfactory decis-
ions reached by the peace conference
respecting Belgium.
Newspapers of all shades of opinion
express their disappointment and it is
said the Belgium government might
appeal directly to public opinion in
the United States and in Great Brit
ain, recalling the formal promises
made to Belgium by the responsible
heads Of both those countries.
The Belgian government unanimous
ly considers the conditions unaccept-
able and has so told the Belgian dele
gates at Paris
Brussels, May 3.-The petition pre-
sented'to King Albert by the national
political committee urging him to re-
fuse to sigh thp peace treaty, declares
the nation would gain prestige in the
eyes of the world II her sovereign de
clined to attach his signature to. a
document which did not guaranteed
her rights.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-05
U. V. N. S; MlppLEBURY I
Vermont Wins Third Straight Game
at Baseball

Burlington, May 5. The University
of Vermont won her third straight
game of baseball this season by de-
feating Middlebury college at Middle
bury, Saturday, by the score of to l.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-05

Paris, May 4.--President Wilson,
Premier Clemenceau and Premier
LloydrGeorge, composing the council
of three, today sent a communication
TO the Italian government inviting it
to resume It's place at the peace con-
ference.
The councils invitation is of such a
nature that 1t is believed Italy will ac-
cept 1t and that the relations tempor-
arily broken br the recent departure
from Paris of Premier Orlando and
Foreign Minister Sonnino will be re-
stored by the presence of Italian
delegates at the conference before the
traty is delivered to the German dele
gate,.
The council of three considered the
Italian situation in its deliberations
during the past two days and finally
determined upon an initiative Of the
friendliest nature. The terms of the
communication to the Italian govern
ment have not been disclosed but it is
believed they seek to remove the per
sonal element of the controversy and
to pave the way for a territorial ad
justment when the relations are re-
sumed
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-05
WEATHER FORECAST

Fair and cooler In south and central
portions tonight and Tuesday.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-05-05
roo LATE no CLASSIFY

FOR SALE new milch holstoin
COW, years old, extra good mixer
Mrs. y. ". Turner North Branch st
extension, Bennington, VI g2t6'
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-05-01
AID FROM FARM WOMEN

The women of one of the rural dis
tricts of Tennessee organized during
the Fourth Loan and pledged the
State Chairman of the Woman's Lib
erty Loan Committee the profits from
the sale Of one days butter and eggs
each week to buy Liberty Bonds. The
State Publicity Chairman passed on
this plan to each county in the State
and asked each Sunday School in the
rural districts to adopt this method.
In this way thousands CT dollars were
invested in bonds.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-05-01
situate, lying and being in the County of

situate, lying and being in the County of
Iron and State of Missouri, to wit:
All of lot numbered FIVE (5) in block num-
bered one % in the Town Of Bethlehem, as
the same appears on the plat of said Town
now on file in the Recorders Office at
Ironton, Missouri;
Which conveyance was made in trust to
the said W.T.. Stevenson to secure the pay
mem of FIVE certain promissory notes de-
scribed therein;
And, whereas, default has been made in
the payment of said notes and interest, now
past due and unpaid;
And, whereas, it is provided in said deed
of trust, that in case of the absence, death,
refusal to act, or disability in anywise, of
said w. T. Stevenson as trustee, the then
acting Sheriff of Iron County, Missouri,
shall act in his stead, and sell the forego-
ng described property in case of default;
And, whereas, w. T. Stevenson, trustee
in said deed Of trust, has refused 70 act as
such trustee and foreclose the property con-
veyed by said deed of trust;
And, whereas, the undersigned Sheriff of
Iron County, Missouri, has been requested
by the legal owner and holder of said notes
" eAetCiSe tue power Oh SAFE IN MIN vested
by said deed of trust;
Now, therefore, at the request of the legal
owner and holder of said notes, and in.
pursuance of the conditions in said deed Of
trust contained, |, the undersigned, the du-
y elected, qualified and acting Sheriff Of
Iron County, Missouri, will sell the real es-
tate above described, at public vendue, to
the highest bidder for cash, at the east front
door OF the Court House in the City Of Iron
ton, in the County Of Iron, and State of
Missouri, on
SATURDAY, The roth day Of May, 1919,
between the hours Of nine o'clock in the.
forenoon and FIVE O'Clock i in the afternoons.
for the purpose of satisfying said indebt-
edness and the cost Of executing this trust.
w. H. BLUE, Sheriff and Trustee.
I~ronton, Mo-, April is, 1910.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-05-01
T BY CARLOAD
Advertising Matter to Take Victory
Loan Message to the
People

More than $50 tons, or 100000
pounds, Of Victory Liberty Loan post
ers, pennants, window cards and but
'tons-hve or six car loads-have been
received by the Wal Loan Organiza-
ton for the Eighth District. They
are being prepared for shipment by
express and parcel post to every coun-
tv organization in the seven states
and parts of states which comprise
this district.
On April Is these posters and other
forms Of Victory Loan advertising ap-
pear simultaneously in every section
Of the district. From that date until
May 10, these advertising papers and
buttons will drive home to the Ameri
can people the message of the Victory
Liberty Loan
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-05-01
WIN. R. EDGAR. WIN. R. EDGAR, JR.
EDGAR s EDGAR
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
IR0NT0N. Wo.
Practice in all the Courts of the State
BIDS FOR DEPOSITARY COUNTY FUNDS.
~

Notice is hereby given that sealed
proposals will be received by the
County Court of Iron County, Mis-
souri,, until noon of the first day of the
May Term, 1919, of said Court, to wit:
Mag 9Th, 1919,
from the banking corporations, asso-
Citations and individual bankers in said
county for the deposit of the County
Funds, District School Finds and Cap
ital School Funds of said County for
the two years nexJ ensuing.
In compliance with section 1903, r.
s. of Missouri, 1909, the county mon
les have been divided into two funds:
Fund No. l and Fund No. q, and pro-
posals from the same bidder may be
made for the custody of both funds, or
he may bid for either fund. Such pro-
posals or bids must state the largest
rate of interest that eaid banking COR
poration, association or individual
banker will pay on daily balances to
the credit of said County with said de-
positary on said funds as provided by
law, for the privilege of being made
the depositary of such funds.
Such proposals, must further specify
the rate Of exchange, if any, said
banking corporation, association or
individual banker will charge, and
said proposals must be accompanied
by a duly certified check on some SOL
vent bank for not less than one-half
of one per cent. of the county revenue
Of said County for the preceding year,
to wit: a certified check for 800. 90,
payable to the Treasurer of said Coun-
ty, as a guarantee of good faith on the
part Of the bidder, and that If his bid
should be accepted he will enter into
a bond as the law provides. No bid
will be considered unless said certified
check accompanies the same.
The Court reserves the right to re-
ject any and all bids.
I%rontoD, Mo-, April LIST, 1919.
ARTHUR HUFF, Clerk
County Court, Iron County {, Missouri
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-05-01
A Debt of Honor

THE war was won six months or a year ahead
of schedule because the Germans realized that
the tremendous preparations being made in this
country would absolutely a~nnihilate the German
army when the full force of America was thrown
into the fight.
In asking us to- subscribe to the Victory Lib
erty Loan our Government is only asking us to
loan our money SO that the bills of victory can be
paid, 1t is a debt of honor which every individual
American must do his part to pay.
This nation-your country and mine-owes
approximately $1o,oOooo0,o0o in unpaid war bills
for a Victory that we are now enjoying.
The nation must pay this debit it is to con-
tinue to exist as a nation among the nations OF the
world.
There are only two ways that the nation can
secure the money-by bonds and by taxes.
Taxes are already high and yet insufficient to
meet our outstanding war obligations.
Therefore bonds must be sold.
Again, there are only two ways that several
billions of dollars Of bonds can be sold-to the
banks or to the people.
If they are placed with the banks, industry,
commerce, your business will suffer. The banks
would be unable to purchase several billion dol
lars of Liberty Bonds and continue to loan money
in sufficient quantities and at a fair rate to the
business man You camothave your pudding and
eat it, too.
1t is, therefore, YOUR BUSINESS and MY
BUSINESS to prepare for the Victory Liberty
Loan, that we may then invest as largely as each
of us individually cantor. Americas welfare and
for our own.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-05-01
Sheriff Sale Under Deed
Of Trust.

Whereas, !. B. Sipes and c. I. Deboard,
both single and unmarried, by their certain
deed %oftrust, dated the 9Th day Of Septem-
Der, 1916, and duly recorded in the Office
Of the Recorder Of Deeds for the County Of
Iron, and State Of Missouri, in Book III, at
page 2oI, did convey to w. T Stevenson,
trustee, the following described real estate,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-05-01
MILITARY INSURANCE

In the first year Of its existence the
Division of Military and Naval Insur-
ance issued over seven and a half mil.
lion checks. Checks have gone each
month to every city and hamlet in the
United States. The total payment of
allotments and allowances made dur
ing that year amounted to $225, O00,-
900. Back up our fighters insurance
with Victory hottest
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-05-01
Notice of Final Settlement.

Notice is hereby given, that the under
Katherine Turner, Administrative OF
estate of John Turner, deceased,
will make Final Settlement Of her accounts
with said estate as such Administrators at
the next term of the Probate Court of Iron
County, Missouri, to be holden at Ironton,
said County on the r2th day Of MAJ,
A. d. 1919. =
KATHERINE TURNER, Administrators
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-05-01
Notice Of Final Settlement.

Notice is hereby given that the UNDER
signed, E. H. Vallances Administrator of
the estate of Samuel Valance, deceased, will
make final settlement Of his accounts with
said estate as such Administrator at the
next term of the Probate Court of Iron
County, Missouri, to be holden at Ironton,
in said County, on the Iath day of May,
A. ID. 1919.
E. H. VALANCE, Administrator.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-05-01

We may speak Of the Fifth Liberty
Loan as the Victory Loan, a Peace
Loan or o Thanksgiving Loan, but in
a sense It is a Memorial Loan to u
brave boys who died on the field Of
hattie.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-05-01

The most substantial heritage you
can give your children 10 Liberty
Bonds.
The sun., 1919-03-30

menia as compared with the scanty and
insufficient chapters on Georgia and
Azerbaijan. Arabia is treated In a very
sketehy fashion, It hardly being precise to
set down that "Mehammed appeared moro
than thirteen centuries ago"
When It comes to history il Is well to
remember SteEensoo's ,adage lOthervise
applied) @people prefer definition to any
quantity Of grapes" Again in the ease Of
the chapter On Palestine, the text is de-
voted to \ very thin historical sketch Of the
Jews. The chapter on Finland Is much
better than any other in the book and IL
this model had been followed throughout
all the others the work might have come
up to the expectations awakened by its de-
scription on the jacket To describe it as
"a popular history" as the author does, u
to put it mildly, overstating the ease
THE RESURRECfED NATIONS. BIZ
ISAAC DON LEVINE Frederick A. Ssokes
Company. $l.60.
The sun., 1919-03-30

Q real woman; the life Of the sheep rangs
Is put picturesquely On paper; lesser
characters arouse the readers active
liking or detestation- Just what keeps the
book from being . topnotcher is o little
hard to say: The explanation Of Rates
parentase Is unconyincing. to be sure, and
her lover doesn't seem half big enough TO
get her; but the hardness Of all the out
lines is probably the main trouble. There's
such g thing as making the reader feel
he knows year people too well; q least,
lingering doubt, an abiding touch of mys-
terry, Little play for the lively magma
tion-it's better to leave room for these.
But the story is sure full Of chucklesi
THE FIGHTING SHEPHERDESS. BIZ
CAROLINE LOcKHaEr. Boston: Small, May
nard & Co. $50.
The sun., 1919-03-30
A "Fighting Shepherdess"
NHEN tho publizheB remark Of
" Caroline Lockharfs Yk Fieht-


N|HEN tho Publishers remark Of
w Caroline Lockharts Yke Fight
ing Shepherdess that athis is . story Of
the West, but by no means another West
ern story" they are strictly speaking the
truth; In fact, they are no more than
doing the book justice. The detail Of this
story-the background, the lesser people,
the Glocal color" and the sharp, half-hs-
morous, half-saiirical eye Of the authors
so extraordinarily good as to make it Ger
tain that the book viii be much enjoyed
by people to whom the main story is not
important Not since reading Owen
Wfster's The Frginia., which is classic
or ought TO be, have we struck q story of
tho West in which there were 90 many IN
expected laughs Before you are through
you know everybody in the God forsaken
little town of Prouty, inside and out, mp
and down, crisscross and sideways. You
know how they look, how they talk, what
they think and just how mean they are.
They are described in a terse, dry way
that is witty without being subtle. Thus
Mn. Taylor, at a social function:
~nrA Taylor Tor the even
ing had removed the string which she COM
monty wore around her tvs large and
widely separated front teeth and which
were being drawn together by this means
ct about the rate the earth is cooling of"
The first automobile In Prouty:
"The machine was Of type which gave
the driver the appearance OF taking 4 sitz
bath in public. Mrs. Pantin when driy-
ing sat up 50 straight that she looked Ike
. prairie dog. Mrs. Toomey uncon-
sciously initiated her, so they looked like
two prairie dogs out for IN airing"
The book simply drips things like that.
The main story has to do with a strong,
courageous girl named Kate Prentice,
known rs the daughter Of a roadhouse
woman, looked after, until his murder, by
. sheep herder and becoming q sheep
queen" by sheer grit and long, hard work.
Kate Prentice is splendidly draEn-she's
The sun., 1919-03-30
"The Vinegar Saint"

THE VINEGAR SAINT by Hughes
L Mearns, is interesting in . chaotis
way The book is lacking in unity ofef-
feet but its amorphous material has 1t
times certain queer charm. The author
is evidently interested in methods Of edu-
cation, for he has much to say concerning
pedagogy of various conventional and
unconventional kinds. His suggestions
should have some value Tor those engaged
in teaching the young.
"The Williams boy, vel built little
man of IL, was healthy, riotous animal,
keen, fluent and rightminded-but he had
not been promoted Blynn 1.-THE profes-
sor who makes educational experimental
found this out in an accidental meeting
with the lad. The result was q regular
Wednesday afternoon visit at the boys
home with . new sort Of lessons, and
many tramps down the Cresheim Creek
and up The Wissahiekon-the core Of the
The sun., 1919-03-30

method-where instruction was part Of
the game.
"Blynn had the gift of presenting IN
known regions of knowledge with all the
aliurements Of advertisements Of seaside
estates. he aroused interest, a desire to
explore, q proper pride in achievement
and, above all, hope. He never COM
planned Of stupidity, nor expressed the
least impotence with slowness- i.
Within . few months the Williams boy
was ready TO pass into the next grade
and do himself credit; unless the well
intentioned danes of the Hall should
petnfy his interest and with daily croak-
ings cut of all communications"
Some Of the characters IN the book are
entertainingly hfelike, while others are
wooden The young girl, Gorgas Lever
ing, who is the surprising heroine of the
story, is an astonishing combination Of
youngster and sophisticated woman. She
is interested in the problems of Ibsen's
Dolls House, when she should be merely
playing with dolls of her own. She is un-
able to spell in English, but she speaks
French, German and Spanish with
fuency, having learned them in casual
conversation with linguistic gypsy, one
Barriek. The young professor, who in
ciades her In his laboratory schemes Of
instruction, Mt first thinks her q grown
woman instead of the thirteen-year-
she really Is. We could not love her.
THE VINEGAR SAINT. By HUGHES
hEAENs. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing
Company. $50.
The sun., 1919-03-30
The Resurrected Nations

N The Resn,7ected Nations Isaac Don
Il Levine purports to give short his
tories Of the peoples set free by the col
lapse Of the Russian, German, Austro-
Hungarian and Turkish empires" an adj
mirable intention which is indiferently
carried out. LIZ Mr.. Levine had such n
definite plan In mind in beginning his
work be must have grown weary Of il, for
there is very great variety in the amount
of information as TO each of the countries
he describes as well as in its plan An in
stance in point may be found in the ex-
cellent and comprehensive chapter on Ar
The sun., 1919-03-30
"Hurnoresque"

THE eight stories in Fannie Hursfs
= HH~oresqse are SO many tentacles
reaching out TO wiring your heart. 1t is
impossible to put them into class with
any other short stories of the day except
those Of Miss Hurst's which have pre-
eeded them. Her humor is of that in
fictitious, genuine quality which cannot
leave you unaffected and of her tragedy
Kathleen Norris says: "There are certain
stories upon which her astonishing repu-
tation rests that 1 never can read with
dry eyes A rhyming hunaorist has Ae-
cused Miss Hurst of wearing as q gar
ment q large part of o. Henry's mantle.
1t is certain that she must by this time
have grown tired Of being hkened to
o. Henry however pleasing it may once
have been The penalty of being great
short story writer Is that comparisons are
inevitable and monotonous. Every one
feels the necessity of comparing them 10
some one and so they say, Show very Like
o. Henyr and let it 60 nj that.
From the Ghetto to the Snug homes of
St. Louis clothing merchants and back to
Coney Island this astonishing genius
leads us. We are stimulated. We are
afraid that we are almost intoxicated. 1t
has been suggested that such highly
charged writing as Miss Hurst's be regu-
lated by Law after july 1t is agony to
think Of Fannie Hurst reduced TO one
half OF one per cent solution, and yet it
is to be expected. While all her dan
gerous inspiration is allowed, let US reyeL
As invitation we shall touch briefly upon
one or two Of her characters There is
Sadie Barnet, white goods salesgirl IN
the bargain basement of the Titanic store,
far below the Level of the mole, $50 crazy
tor luxury that she could forget the devil
had horns II he hid EN- under an auto
cap" And Miss Luella Hoag, absolutely
the heaviest woman In captivity, who,
seen in the Palace of Freaks, was all that
she was raueously purported to be. She
inspires sharp sympathy for other 'Fats"
and professional freaks by q sad, sad
storr..
Why, I know a Fat in t.is business,
Aggie Lamont We'll, that girl In her day
was one Of the biggest tips to the scale
this business ever seen. What happensf
Ali Of q sudden, just like that-pneu-
moniai Gets up out of bed eight weeks
later, skin and bones-down to 365 pounds
and not q penny saved L clipped In
what I could to keep her going, but she
just down and died one night. Job gone.
No weight. In the exhibit business, ike
any other line, you got to have q long
head. A Fats got to look ahead for .
thin day. Strong for a weak day. That's
why I wish, Mr.. Jastruw, you'd cut out
that glass eating feature of yours"
HUMORESQUE. By FANNIE HURST. Har-
per & Brothers. $150.