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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1919-01-17

!
the Persian looks at the rising SUM-"
! FLUSHED and Mary and her mother
and the boy John looked at me and
laughed.
"Puer pulchcrrime" Mr.. Hacket
exclaimed with n kindly smile
Uncle Peabody would have called it
d "StnuI enag." The Schoolmaster h9d
hauled il out of his brain very deity
and chuckod il Gown before me in
kind Of challenge.
"What does that Inean?' ! asked.
"YOu shall know in a week my son"
he answered. 81 shall put You into
the Latin class Wednesday morning.
and God help you to like it as well as
you like Sally"
Again they laughed and again l
bluShed.
Hold up yer head, my brave lad
he went on. "Ye've perfect right to
like Sally if we've heart TO.
"A lad in his teens
viii never know beans
II ne lldSn an eye LOT tne RlIIS,
1t was a merry supper, and when ii
ended Mr.. Hacket rose and took the
green chair from the table, exclaim-
ing:
"Michael Henry, God bless YOU"
Then he kissed his wife and said:
maggie, you wild rose of Erin I've
been all day in the study. | must take
"A walk or ! shall get an exalted abdO-
men. One is badly beaten in the race
o. life when his abdomen gets ahead
of his toes. Children, keep our young
friend happy here until l come back,
and mind you, don't forget the good
fellow in the green chair"
Mary helped her mother with the
dishes, while sat with book by the
freside. Soon Mrs. Hacket and the
children came and sat down with me.
Lets play backgammon, Mary pro-
posed
81 don't want to-" said John.
"DOn't forget Michael Henry" she
reminded.
"Who is Michael Henry?" l asked.
"Sure, he's the boy that has never
been born" said Mrs Hacket. "He
was to be the biggest and nOblest of
them-kind an helpful an CHEEKY
hearted an beloved O. God above all
the others. We try to live up to him."
He seemed to me very strange and
wonderful creature-this invisible Oc-
cupant of the green chair.
know now what knew not then
that Michael Henry was the spirit of
their home-an ideal of which the
empty green chair was a constant re-
hinder
We played backgammon and "Old
maid" and Everlasting" until Mr..
Hacket returned.
The sealed envelope which Mr..
Wright had left at our home, long
time before that day, was in my pocket.
At last the hour had come when
could open it and read the message
Of which l had thought much and
with a growing interest.
rose and said that should like to
go to my room. Mr.. Hacket lighted
a candle and took me upstairs to a
little room where my chest had been
deposited. There were in the room
bed. a chair, a portrait of Napoleon
Bonaparte and a small table on which
were a dictionary, Bible and num-
Der of schoOlbOokS.
"These were Mary's books" said Mr..
Hacket. 81 told your uncle that ye
could use them an welcome"
1 sat down and opened the sealed
envelope with trembling hands and
found in 1t this brief note:
Dear Partner: l want you to ask
the wlsest man you know to explain
these words to you. / suggest that
you commit them to memory and think
often Of their meaning. They re ION
Job:
"'His bones are full of - sins -
his youth, hlch shat lie down 18th
him In the dust
II believe that they are the most
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1919-01-17
FLEET Cher s

ing the following SpeClal Prices
in order to reduce the stock
before taking our An
nual Inventory
75c Cans Union Leader Cut Plug
Tobacco for GOc
25c Cans Corn and Peas for zoe
25c Cans Raspberries and Blue
berries for I5c
10 ID Cans Karo Syrup for 75c
1 gal Pure Cane Syrup Drips in
bulk for 75c
$3.50 Overalls for $500
$500 Flannel Over Shirts for $I.S7
Heavy Wool Horse Blankets at
a reduction of $1.OO to
$3.50 per Blanket.
Mems $375 4-buckle Arctics
at $2.75 to 1925
Mems So. so 1-buckle Leggin Rub
bers at 1925
Mems 49, 90 2-buckle Leggin Rub
bers at $I.75
Mems 81. 90 Leather Top Rub
bers at $2.75
Mixed Nuts at csc 10
35c Percales and Outings at csc
Mems Sweaters from $3.50 up
Send US your orders for groceries and
other merchandise by Parcel Post. We
are now allowed to send 70 pounds in
one package. We will prepay charges
on all orders If $500 or more.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1919-01-17
lis ACRE FARM
Near Lake DunmOre

Good location, large sugar orchard,
some wood and timber, abundance of
water; smooth meadow land with var
iety Of soil, in fact some of The finest
garden soil in Vermont, some fruit. A
good ~ story house with piazza ;
plenty of shade trees; a fair tenement
house fair barns. This farm is only
d mile to school; Z mile to cream
cry and less than one mile to Lake
Dunmore where good market can be
had for milk, garden truck, etc.
Price for a quick sale $4,000.
N. S. FOOTE co.
Battell Block
Phone 30-2 MIDDLEBURY, VT.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-14
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

10y 'h~~NS
w j, Holly of Dorset is the week
end guest of his sister, Mrs. w. b.
Sheldon
Mrs. L. j. Eddington has returned
from an extended visit with her sis
Ter in New York.
Basket ball tonight: B. H. S. VS. d.
U. Of Williams; tickets Csc, dancing;
game called at 8 o'clock.
Mrs. Guy Harbour OF Gage street
is able TO get OFT Of doors again. She
has been i'll for several weeks.
Levi B. Peck, who was called to Es-
sex Junction by the death of his wife
has rctvrned to the Soldiers home.
Mrs. James Lalley and son
Thomas have returned from a two
weeks visit in New York and Phila-
delphia
Do net miss the sale Of suits at $40
and SIS. worth $25 to sS5 at Multi
gan and Roches. The best value Of
fered Adv.
Clarence Wheple mas been spend
ing several days with friends in Troy
and Albany. lie returned Thursday
to Bennington.
What does Ireland want? What IS
Sinn-Feiner? These questions will
be answered by Father Cahill Opera
House Monday night Adv
Mr.. ana Mrs. William SCHNEIDER Of
North street viii leave this evening
for Schenectady, where they will re.
main with relatives over the week
end.
Songs, Drills, Solos, Choruses,
Tableaux Opera House. ST Pat
rick's night Tickets now on sale
Admission, so cents; reserved seats,
GO cents. Adv
Don't fail to see the basketball
game this evening 4; Library hall be.
tween h. II. S. and D. u. Frat OF
Williams. Game at and dancing
afte: 25c admission
The high school will play the Delta
Epsilon team of Williams tonight at
Library hall. Both are championship
teams in their respective places.
Dancing after the game which is
called at s for quarter
Mrs. Frank Delaurier of North
street fell while down cellar the first
of the week and in the fall her weight
was brought down on one hand which
landed on stone. No serious injury
resulted, but Oh wrist was badly
sprained.
In addition 10 the regular socees
games held by the Graded School ath.
letic association al the Y Vi. G. A.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-14

gymnasium tomorrow afternoon there
will be basketball game between
team representing the Junior Gym.
class and one representing the recent
ly organized Junior Employed Boys
class. The soccer games will begin
at 4 p, m.
In the High School boys gymnas-
ium class the Tanks beat the Whip
pets 81 to 43 in the three potato
race, making the total score lis to IS
in favor of the Tanks The best time
for the event was Is 3-5 sec, made
by Willard Sumner, Ernest llamil'
ton was second with 20 is sec. and
Charles Slime was close third with
20 2.5 sec. as score TWO events,
tn fence vault and the standing
broad jump will he held Monday,
March l., starting at 4.i5 p. m.
Al the gymnasium class TO, work
ing fellows held in the \ NJ. { A.
the Bulldogs gained n substantial
lead over the llotd9gs last evenins
WNtl lHcN H'ultu lfV lltNn NhitN Wv
hitter team only scored So, making
the total to date Bulldogs 4l0, Hot
dogs 345. The event contested was
the standing broad jump and was
won by Floyd Walker who broke last
years record of IT, by leap Of 8 #
| IA ln Wilfred Fleming did moi
appear to defend his record Of last
year. George Newoomb was second
with n jump OF It. aud Frank III
deck third with Z It. II in. to his
credit The next contest will be helt
on Monday, March 10 and win be tn,
L. lb. shot put The running high
dive 22O yd.. potato race aud th'
spring board high jump will follow il
heir order Two new members were
chosen on teams last evening Ken
meth ellison for the Bulldogs and Ar
mold Harris for the TIotdogs.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-14
the ofleers for the year past.

of the Officers for the year past
Article 3. To see what sum if any,
the village will appropriate to pay the
Bennington Fire Department.
Article 4. To see what sum, il any,
the village will appropriate to the
Public Welfare Association for play.
ground and recreation purposes.
Article 3. To see what sum, IL any,
the village will appropriate toward
assisting the Board of Trade in carry
ing on the work planned by said
Board for the ensuing year.
Article 6. To SEQ what sum, il any,
the village will appropriate for mu.
steal concerts and how such sums
shall be expended.
Article T. To see what sum, if any,
the village win appropriate TO the
Bennington Improvement Society, to
be used by it for the care of the Gem.
etery grounds in the village and for
other village improvements.
Article s. To see what sum, if any,
the village Will appropriate for the
building and construction OF curb,
gutter and sidewalks in and upon the
streets for tho ensuing year.
Articles 10 see what sum, II any,
the village will appropriate for the
extension Il the village sewer sys'
tenn.
Article 80. To see what sum, il
any, the village will vote to pay It's
President and Trustees for their serv.
ices for tho ensuing year.
Article H. To see what sum, II
any. the village will vote to pay its
clerk in addition to the sum Pre-
scribed by the bylaws oi said village
for services as such clcrA during tho
ensuing year
Article ~. To see what sum, II
any, the village will vote to pay the
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-14

chief and two assistant engineers OF
its fire department for services dur.
ing the ensuing year
Article IS. To see what sum, If
any. the village will appropriate for
the purpose OF permanent highway
construction work in said village.
Article IA. To see ii the village
will vote TO appropriate and expend
a sum Of not more than $500 or any
part thereof for the purchase and in
stallation OF modern 4 circuit stor-
age battery fire alarm system with
switchboard and protector board, au-
tomato repeater and manual trans
mitter, and will authorize, empower
and instruct its Board of Trustees to
purchase aud install the same.
Article Is. To see il the village
viii authorize it's officers to make ap.
plication TO tho War Department for
cannon, ordnance or relics used in
the late war that is to be distributed
by the War Department to the towns
and cities throughout the United
States.
Article l6 To see what tax the vii.
lagc will raise upon Its grand list TO
delray tho expenses OF the village for
the year ensuing and to pay It's In
debtedncss, and to fix the time for the
collection OF such tax.
Article H. TO see il the Village
will vote TO have the provisions of
Chapters IL aud 10 of the General
Laws of Vermont and amendments
thereto, apply to the next annual
meeting OF the Village and to any
special meetings intervening.
Article Is To transact any other
business found necessary when met
Dated March 6. 1919.
EDWARD II. HOLDEN,
WM. p. HOGAN. Village President
Village Clerk
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-14

is pulled the mechanism and the signal goes the
general alarm apparatus just the same as though the box
pulled
We understand in great many cities and towns that
private citizens have wheel numbered of their that
when they have fire and the signal is received from that
number through the transmtter the eephoneOfce the
Department know exactly the location of the freA this
in opinion to be wonderful help the citizens
large and wonder that this has been taken up
before it is in opinion improving the efficiency of
fire alarm system at least 100 per cent in fact get
ting service of extra boxes by the installation of this trans
mitter
We are informed that the present cost of maintaining
the old gravity battery has been excessive in the past
years. due the high cost Of vo and zines and "copper"
and there does not to be much chance of being any
lower for some time to come AS near as ascertain
the lowest estimate for the maintenance of gravity battery
has been about 100000 year to say nothing Of the unrel
ability of such central energy outfit We also informed
that by the installation of the storage battery and SWITCH
boards outlined to be installed by the Fire Commissions
ers it will be less expensive Judging from the reports of
the towns who storage battery installed the
necessary will not exceed $500 This is quite dropping
from the 100000 that costs under the present sys
temA
From the financial standpoint it seems that it would be
the proper thing to make the investment of $350000
whereby obtaining three circuits throughout the
Village instead of one quicker of getting signal to
the Fire Department reliable energy current, and
increasing the efficiency of such important matter the
Fire Alarm.
When we stop TO think that life and property depend
upon the quick response of the Department that
the best thing the Village do in the matter when every
thing favorable to the results it will produce that
the should act unanimously and provide the Village
with this up date and modern equipment We also are
informed that Bennington is the only town in New Eng
land of its maintaining its fire alarm under the out Of
date gravity battery and the citizens should take pride in
providing suitable and up to date equipment called for
in the Warrant.
Bennington has been very fortunate in the past few
years having any disastrous fires and would be too
bad if it up in not providing the best we could in
case we should have large fire and not get the alarm in
time nor have said that the citizens did not proper
and up to date methods whereby quick and reliable signal
could not be obtained by not having installed the best that
obtain.
We have in the past endeavored to provide the Depart
ment with quick modes of responding to fire by the nsaa
ton of auto apparatus and that should now be
sure that signal service date that nothing can
be found wanting in the way Of of getting to the fire.
at the earliest possible moment, all fires the same
when they start and hope the citizens will act favor
ably on such an important matter this article calls for
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-14
Village Meeting Warning

The legal voters OF the Village Of
Bennington are Hereby notified aud
warned to meet at Free Library Hall
IN the Village of Bennington on Tues.
day, March 18TH, 1919. at nine o'clock
in tho forenoon to transact the fol.
lowing business:
Article 1. To elect n president Of
tho village, clerk, treasurer, q col.
lector OF taxes, corporation attor.
ney. three auditors. CD two CD trus.
tees and two (2) water commission.
ers.
Article .. To consider the reports
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-14
wanted

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
W00D L0Gs-wE DO CUSTOM saw
ING OF LOGS-SAWDUST $500 PER
CORD. For snle--Cord wood and
slab wood cut 20 stove lengths. De-
hvered' II. II. CUsHMAN MFG. co.,
North Remington, Vermont.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
The Barring Of Berger

Ip 1909 Brigham Roberts, an un-
abashed upholder of polygamy, sought to
take the seat in Congress to which he
had been duly elected. A motion against
permitting this open defer Of the act
under which Utah became a member Of
the Union was made, entertained and
passed. Later, committee of the House
reported against the admission of Rob-
erts, and he never became member.
The Roberts procedure is to be IN
voked against Berger, elected by the
Fifth Wisconsin District, but now under
sentence for seditious utterances. Under
the Constitution the House judges it's
membership. Its right to exclude is
absolute and non-revewable elsewhere
1t may exclude with or without reason.
It's discretion is plenary 1t can follow
old precedents or make new ones.
Yet public opinion, as we'll as the
temper of the House, sustains the doc
trine that not for light or frivolous rea-
sons shall the House take away from
Congressional district it's privilege of
electing any one pleasing to it. blot
from the spangled banner of the Union
the bright star that glitters for the name
Of Mississippi exclaimed Sergeant
Prentiss, when about to be unseated,
but leave the stripe behind, fit emblem
of her degradation" The fervd orator
was enforcing the point that a whim of
the House might not justly be subst-
tuted for the return of duly held cleo
ton.
Should Berger be excluded? Is his
status such that decency demands he be
not accepted as lawmaker for others?
The general judgment is that he may be
and should be excluded. This is not only
because he is convicted of a specific
crime, but because he has co0perated
with those who would have government
by force rather than by law, who say
it is permissible to seize power, and that
democracy based on consent and free
elections should be overthrown.
1t is difficult to see how any one in
sympathy with general outlawry and
who would destroy all peaceabe social
bonds should want to be associated with
a system repudiated as wicked. For
merly Mr. Berger was an evolutionary
Socialist, and as such, served in the
House of Representatives, but his pro
Germanism and other influences have
seemingly led him into the revolutionary
ranks.
Brigham Roberts objected merely to
one law. The revolutionary or Bolshevik
Socialist objects to all laws enacted
under the democratic plan. He would
seem untitled for any part in demo-
cratic lawmaking.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Hindenburg's Testimony

The letter Of Hindenburg showing that
On September %, 1918, forty-threc davs
before the signing of the armistice, he
requested Prince Max Of Baden to make
an Immediate peace offer sets q r.st al
controversy as to how the was
brought to close.
Not propaganda, not revolutionary
uprising IN Germany, brought the war to
an end, but military defeat. With great
explicitness Hindcnburg gave the rea.
sonH for his request The Macedonian
front had collapsed, and there were no
more reserves to sustain the Western
Inc. No hint is given Of trouble at home
or mention made Of any break In army
morale. The German Qencralissino. II
niay be assumed, would not have neglect
ed bringing forward e@cuecs IL there had
been basis for them. The toll Of casual
ties during the last weeks shows that tho
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

German armies were hopelessly defeated,
as their leaders saw and declared in con.
fdential documents.
Those interested in some pet idea
have sought to establish that the war
was won by the circulation of their
favorite pamphlets Propaganda. the
scattering of leaflets promising good
treatment to prisoners and advertising
the uselessness of further struggle
these methods, which are as old as war
itself, had some influence, but the condi-
tions that made them influential were
created by the fighting men.
Effort continues in various quarters to
diminish the glory Of the Allied armies
by representing that tao German army
had become so weak Of heart by perusing
printed words and was so abandoned by
the home folks as to offer but nominal
resistance. This is not only perversion
of the facts but verges on insult to our
soldiers. II was doers, not takers, who
won. The orator, the journalist, the
pamphleteer, has his use, but in time Of
crisis it is secondary. Those whose bust
ness it is to string together words should
never forget this and never seek to tilch
credit elsewhere belonging.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
A Neglected Business
trom 1he Yhrift Maoa~inc>

TI'' THTVT WUJN~iNCl
in emphasizing the business Importance of
the home the late Colonel Roosevelt once
observed that more than three-fourths of all
the money that is spent in this country goes
Tor the upkeep of our homes and is paid over
the counters by women. Whether we think
this estimate is too large or too small, there
can be no doubt that housekeeping is our
greatest business.
1t is also unfortunately true that, of all
forms of business, housekeeping has received
least attention at the hands of business
systematists. Not one home in a hundred
is organized on any kind of business plan
worthy of the name
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Whe re Work rs
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: l am connected with two machine
tool builders at Springfield Vt, and one
textile machinery plant All are very busy.
They cannot get sufficient men. Some of
them have telephoned down here and have
been to the employment bureau, but they
tell me that they cannot get men to go into
the country. The superintendent of the
apartment house where ! live saws he can
not get men. The manager Of the garage
where I keep my says he cannot get
men or keep them.
| hear this everywhere. l understand
that men who have been in the great out
doors dislike to 90 back into shops and
factories, but somebody has to- MANY of
these discharged men have never been in
great city before and are attracted bv the
bright lights and do not wish to leave This
does not mean but what there is work for
everybody if they Will go where the work u.s.
The incident you mention regarding a
commissioned officer is TYPICAL | have met
similar cases personally. These men have
been in command of troops. T.ey have
taken part in great big game, and they
have an exalted idea of their worth in bust
ness. These men have to come down to
earth. 1t requires business training to
successfully hold important business posi-
tions.
The outlook for the next year rs very
promising. Business is improving rapidly
in all lines, except steel and its products,
which show a small but steady improve
ment, and which from now on will move
rapidly. If the men who want work are
willing to 20 where the work is there
should be no difficulty in taking care of
them WALTER WOOLSON BROWN.
New York, May Ia. 1919.