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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-30
Medicines Used BY Monks

II is claimed that Monks OF ancient
days knew of more than three hun
dred species of medicinal plants used
in general for medicines by these re-
ligious orders. While centuries have
passed. with all the advance made
in medical science many of our most
successful remedies are today made
from the roots and herbs of the field,
like that good, old fashioned remedy
Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, which for more than forty
years has been relieving women from
some OF the worst forms of female
Ills, and is now considered the stan
dard remedy
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-30
Legislature Three Weeks Behind
BELIEVE ME xANTIPPE"
Up-to-Date Comedy VIII Be Given
BY Welfare Players.

BY Welfare Players.
The Welfare Players viii offer the
public on Thursday evening Feb
ruary twentieth, the play entitled
Believe Me Xantippe', in which Mr..
John Barrymore appeared at the
Thirty Ninth Street Theatre, New
York City The cast has been re-
hearsing for about month under the
direction OF Mrs. Arthur Elliot, who
That she considers this
piece far superior in every way to
THE Fortune Hunter, in which the
Welfare Players appeared to such ad'
vantage last spring.
The play itself is an up-to.date
comedy jam full Of funny situations.
It starts with a friendly wager OF
$4,000 that a young man with moth.
ing better to do can commit a crime
and elude the authorities for one
year The chase leads 70 the Colo.
RADIO mountains where he fugitive is
finally trapped by young woman.
What happens thereafter is a success
sion OF farcial scenes in wild west
Jail In the end the young man wins
his bet and the sheriff's daughter
The local cast has been very care
fully chosen, and much of the seem
cry and properties are being made
especially for this production, the
smallest details being assidiously
worked out with the idea of portray
ing the real thing
Seats will probably be on sale in
about q week.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-30
NOTICE

Agreeable to the amended bylaws
of the Village of Bennington the
members of the Bennington Fire De.
partment, are hereby notified and
warned to meet at Stark Hose Com
pany's rooms IN the Villago of BEN
nington on Friday the Slst of January
A. D. 1919 at seven thirty o'clock in
the evening, to transact tho following
business
Article lst To hear and consider
the reports of the officers of said de-
partment for year last past.
Article End. To nominate u presi'
dent. a vice-presidont. clerk, pa
treasurer, a chief engineer first
and second assisting engineers for
the ensuing year
Article Ord. To transact any other
business found necessary and proper
when met.
wM. p. HOGAN. Village Clerk
Bennington VI, January 9th, 1919.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-30
SUICIDE CONFIRMED
Further News Of Tragic End Of crom-
we'll Sisters.

New York Jan 29.--Any doubt as
TO the double suicide OF Dorothea and
Gladys Cromwell, twins. prominent
in New York society. who had been
serving in France with 'he American
Red Cross. was removed yesterday
on the arrival of the French line
steamship La Lorraine
Passengers aboard the liner con
nrmed the cable reports from Bor
deaux that the girls jumped to their
dedeatth from the rail OF the French
liner while she was passing out OF
the mouth of the Garonne River Jan,
10. e
They were seen to AXE the leap
by an American soldier on sentry
duty who gave the alarm Passeng
ers said il was nearly 10 minutes
before the ship could be stopped and
efforts made to recover the bodies
failed
The girls left four notes in their
staterooms Oae was addressed to
Mai James G shornau OF Chicago,
Il, ehrrs O. sonfaao.. o. Red
Cross workers. returning on the ship
Another was addressed ius Seymour
Cromwell of this city, the girls broth
or; third TO his wife, and fourth
to q woman friend of the girls.
The notes swere not made public
but after they had been delivered tc
the girls sbrother by Maj. Sherman
,Mr. Cromwell. stated that the con
tents, show that both were physically
and mentally broken down" 81
n According to the purser the girls
, went aboard Jan. Is and were as
signed TO a stateroom with u Young
Woman's Christian Association work
er, who declined to discuss the girls
suicide
The ship sailed early the mex
morning. At o'clock that night tn,
sisters were observed walking arm
and arm along the promenade deck
few minutes later the sentry re
ported seeing them step to the raj
on the port side forward.
According to the sentry, one climb
ed over and leapd into the river
The other followed almost before The
fret struck the water Hearing tn
guards cry. two Young Mems Chris
tian. Association workers ran to HI
RAD. and saw the two forms in 1h'
water These were fast left .astern
Mrs Edward Shearson, membe
Of the Committee for Relief of ih
Fatherless Children of France pas
senger on the La Lorraine. speakinl
of American women workers now 4
France, said:
1T is my private belief that al
American women should come HON
rs soon as possible. Conditions ar
such that they can be released, an
all, especially the young womeI
should be brought back Their wor
finished. they are tired and nervou
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-30
VERMONT ITEMS
News Paragraphs from Various Parts
O; State,

O; State,
Wilson s. Lowell. al one time super.
intendent OF the Vermont state prison,
died at his home IN Windsor Jan l6
Mrs. Abby b. Haskell celebrated
her 99th birthday anniversary at the
home of her niece, Mrs Alice Lawton,
in Chester Jan H. During the day
she received many callers and gifts,
After finding one Of his ducks dead
In the poultry yard h. G Trumbull Of
Hartford set a trap, expecting to catch
skunk, which he suspected caused
the depreciation. but instead fround
the next morning a great horned owl
in the trap that measurer Al inches
across with spreading wings and was
% inches in height.
Fred O. Gage, son Of Fred w Gage.
a veterinary surgeon Of Brattieboro.
was badly hurt recently by u kick. in
the head by q horse, causing concus-
sion OF the brain. Mr. Gage. who is %
years old. also has severe cuts about
the fact and head made by the calks
on the horses shoe and is in scri
GUS condition at the Memorial hospi
tai. He had just recovered from an
attack Of influenza
President John NJ. Thomas Of Mid
dlebnry college. who has been chap
lain in charge az Camp Merritt, n. j.,
has been assigned 10 the transport
Leviathan as transport chaplain and
sailed from Hoboken last week for
France His duties will be confined
largely TO the wants OF returning
troops, as he must conduct religious
services. supervise the activities Of
the welfare agencies, advise the men
as 10 their transfer, discharge, draw
ing back pay ana act as authority on
AL military subjects
Nine of the men living IN North
Walpole. who work in Bellows Falls
and who were arrested short time
ago, charged with trespassing on rail
road property. were given hearing
in the North Walpole municipal court
last week. and each was fined 81 and
costs. The fines were afterwards
suspended, and the men paid the costs
amounting in each case TO little
/ over IS. This case was the outcome
CT the railroad company's attempt to
prevent the crossing of the bridge
owned by the company by men who
live in North Walpole and work IN
! Bellows Falls.
There is increased activity at the
Vermont marble mill In MiddleburS
and % gang saws are worked day and
night cutting the marble into specified
sizes for building and monumental
work Very little finishing has beer
done at the mill for several years and
as result the men proficient IN cary
ing went elsewhere, until only ont
man. William Turrill an expert IL
that line, was left in that department
with the company. which for som'
time has confined its work largely t'
cutting the RoXbury dark greer
marble and saving It into strip
which are used for trimming, particu
larly in bank buildings. Orders have
now been given to start the finishing
mill again and a number OF the OLE
cutters are coming back AZ one tim
the plant employed il0 men and It 4
likely that the number Of workmei
will again reach those proportions
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-30
IMPORTANT POINT SETTLED
No Intention Of Calling Upon Germany
to Pay Costs OF War.

London, Jan. 30.-Peace conference
has settled the important point re-
garding indemnites, Paris cor
respondent of the Evening Mail says
he has reasons for reporting.
The conference, he declared, elm.
ated any intention of calling upon Ger
many and her associates to pay to the
allied countries the cost of the war
or to impose heavy lndemnties onem-
emv nations
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-30
DEATH PENALTY FOR lNEsRlETs
Soviet Decree Would Lessen Drunk
enness Anon Officials.

Stockholm, Sweden Wednesday
The threat to punish inebriety among
Bolshevik officials by death is con-
tanned in soviet decree printed in
a late issue of the Petrograd newspap-
ers. The decree points out that
drunkenness among officials is in
creased and proposes curative meas
ures. If these prove ineffective, the
ofrense will bring infliction of the
death penalty
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-30
To Ward or illness

It does not take long for sluggish
bowels and torpid liver to put the
system In such condition that It does
aot ward off sickness as a well body
should II you are hloatcd languid or
lazy. have "the blues" headaches.
palpi,ation, biiousness, bad breath,
gas. constipation or Indigestion, YOU
will feel better In the morning II you
take Foley Cathartic Tablet tonight
This Wholesome and cleansing
physic acts without gripping or nausea,
Sold ENnryMhere.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-30
DoINGs OF LEGISLATURE
Some OF the Work Accomplished b,
Vermcnt Soions.

Montpelier, Jan. 30-'rhe House
has ordered to a third reading, after
a lengthy debate, the BellInap resol.
ution favoring league to enforce
peace. Mr.. Bond Of Searsburg op.
posed It,
Mr. Potter of Pownal carried a
point In opposing House bill to in.
crease the minimum appropriation by
towns for highway purposes. The
bin was killed 110 to 100.
The House passed the bill amend.
ing the Wilmington village charter
The House ordered to a third read
ing the bill giving women the right
10 deed property without the consent
of the husband. This bill was killed
in 1917.
The muskrat law in Addison county
is repealed.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-30
BELGIAN soclALlsra osmuR

Paris. Jan. 30--Bclginn Socialists
of the Emole Vandervelde socialist
peace delegation again refused 70
take part In international labor and
socialist conference assemblage at
Berne. .L
NJ. Troklee for the Helglans stated
that the Belgian Socialists would not
sit In conference at which Germans
were present.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-30
HALF MILLION
RAIL " AY MEN
ARE ORGANIZED
They Have Effected 0rganiza-
tion in Recent Months
ONE-FOURTH OF FORCE
Most Of Them Are Clerks, Malnten-
ance of Way Men, and Pullman
Car Employees.
ONE-FOURTH OF FORCE

Washington. Jan. 30--Nearly half q
million railway employees, or one
fourth of the entire number OF rail
road men. have effected some sort OF
an organization in recent months, ac
cording to reports reaching labor
leaders lNre
Most Of these had been wholly un
organized previously, or had belonged
70 trades which were only partially
organized.
A large proportion are clerks, main
tenance OF way men, shop men and
dining car employees.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-30
nd Previous Sessions Does Spending Money
TO AMERICAN womANHooD"
Movement Started TO Erect .Monu.
ment In Washington.

With American Occupation Army
Jan. S0-A movement TO erect in
Washington . monument to "Ameri
can Womanhood in commemoration
OF her loyalty, sacrifice and devotion
to American expeditionary forces,
has been started by the American
third army.
It is proposed to have Gen. Perish
ing appointed a committee to take NJ
the work and that only members OF
the expeditionary forces, navy and
merchant marine be permitted 70 con
tribute to the fund.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-30
A Moman,s EsperIenee wIth erIppe

When a cough or cold rhauss on"
and YOU have aches and pains In your
joints and muscles, II Is likely that
grippe Is taking bold OF your systen.
Mrs. ]. A. Rodgers. SwltEer. s.. 9,
says: 81 am susceptible to colds; OF
ten ending in grippe. IN this case |
have found Toley's Honuy aud Tar 70
prevent doctor bills." This sterling
family remedy looseus the phlsgp,
stops irritation, allays soreness and
Inflammation and frees the air pas
sages. Good 70 children. Sold
everywhere.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-30
NO FOOD FROM GERMANS
Americans arc Prohibited From
Making Such Purchases.

Coblenz. Jan. rs. A new order has
been issued by Headquarters prohib.
itng American mess officers from
buying any food from Germans, ex-
cept cabbage and a few other yege.
tablees This is to meet any conten-
ton which may be made by the Ger
mans as to food supplies,
A few Germans continue to re-
quest food from the Americans some
OF them claiming that the latter buy
articles IN stores and from farmers
at prices too high for Germans tc
pay.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-30
TO PURCHASE SMALL FARMS
Parliament viii Have Bill Granting
Million Pounds Subsidies,

London. Jan 2S. Plans have been
made for the introduction in Parlia-
meut OF Il bill granting subsidies
amounting to millions OF pounds ster.
ling, for the purchase of small farms
for men discharged from the British
army according to announcement
here
The measure will be given preced.
ence IN Parliament, Il is said While
the government will bear the cost of
the work, Il is said, local authorities
will be asked to assist In carrying
ont the details.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-30
NO REPLY FROM sovIErs
Peace Conference still Awaits Word
From Russians.

Paris, Jan. 30--As yet the peace
conference has not RECEIVED q formal
reply from the Russian Soviet goyl
ernment regarding the invitation
sent TO all Russian governments 10
meet the conference representatives
at Princes Island; but the Russian
committee in Paris VIII probably
make response on behalf of various
other Russian governments. ers
The committee now is considering
proposals but the prospects seem to
be it will decline to sit In conferences
with any Bolshevlki representatives.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-30

San Diego Jan. 29.--Lieutenant
George Phelps Leggett, an army av'a'
tor stationed at Ream field, near herc.
was killed today when his scout plane
collided with big two-seater plane.
Both planes we're badly damaged, but
tho two occupants Of the second plane
escaped injury. Legget's home was
In Fairfield, Iowa. R~
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-30
AvIAToRs KILLED
Collision or Two AirpIanea Causes
Ona Death.

Stithton, Ky, Jan. 29.-Second Lieu
tenant William 7. Morgan Of the 2sth
Aero Squadron, was killed, and Sec
ond Lieutenant Harold Edward Rice
OF the 72d regiment Geld artillery, was
probably fatally injured when an artil.
lery observation airplane in which
they were flying, fell in a nose dive
from an altitude OF thousand feet
at the Camp Knox hying field here
late today
No cause FOR the accident could be
assigned by officers at Camp Knox
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-30
WEATHER.

Fair tonight and Friday. Not much
change in temperature.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-01-30
PROMINENT EDUCATOR DEAD
Dr. Brown Ayres, President Of Uni
Versity Of Tennessee.

Knoxville, Tenn. Jan 2S-Dr
Brown Ayres. president OF the Uni
vorsity of Tennessee since 1904, ant
widely known in southern educationa
circles. died here today after brie
illness lie was 90 years Of age
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-08

incentive to buy. though the obligation
is as great as in any OF the previous
drives.
The three shift plan of operation
"a hours a day-at the plant of the
Goodyear mills continues to work out
satisfactorily and it is a possibility Of
the next few months that the entire
plant will be operated on that basis.
the trout fishermen, as a whole, re-
port a bad week for the opening of the
season. The big ones have not been
biting-this being charged to the cold
weather. Some good strings have
been caught, though, and these are
what encourage those who feel that
they will get 'em later
Coroner Arthur G. Bill has received
a communica ton from the secretary Of
the state board of health, notifying him
Of a meeting of the corcners Of Con
necticut to be held at the state CAPT
tol on Wednesday.
With the increase of the automobile
traffic that has come about with the
opening OF spring there is renewed de-
mand for a traffic ruling prohibiting
the parking Of cars in the space be-
tween the Danielson Trust company
building and the Exchange block. Con-
geStion there causes blockages from
time to time. especially when cars arc
left standing in the comparatively mar
row way.
Nh and Mrs. Alex Lariviere and
family have been called to Spencer
where Mr.. Lariviere's father, Joseph is
dead
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-08
DAN,ELSON

Mrs. Kate Taft has returned to Nor
wich. after spending few weeks here
with Mrs. George @. Brown of Furnace
street.
Mrs. Marinda c. 3. Robinson was in
Boston Monday attending the New En-
gland conference Oi suIragists with
headquarters at the Veudome.
The final game in the Danielson-
Taftville series viii he played Friday
evening of this week at Willimantic.
Chairman Alfred l.. Reed, of the
Victory loan drive in the town OF Kill
iiRgly, is appointing subcommittee
chairmen and perfccting his organiza-
ton so as 70 give promise of getting
the best results.
Captain r. o. Arlington of C COM
pany, State guard, is ready TO receive
new cnlistments. Captain Arlington
said Monday that there are vacancies
that can he filed by enlistments, and
il a sufficient number of young men
come forward DanielSon may have two
companies of the state guard, though
that is not a prospect at present
Private Truman Woodward of At
tawaugan, who has been overseas with
the l03d trench mortar battery, is ex-
pected to arrive at his home i'll Alta
:.
son OF Rev. and Mrs. W. G. Woodward
and reached this country a few day.
ago.
Albert T. Ralston has been named a:
publicity chairman for the Victory loar
drive in Killingly.
William McDermott returned t.
Hartford, where he il associated witt
an automobile tire company, after
visit at his home here.
The King Musical Revue compan,
was well received al the shows at tn,
Drpheum theater on Monday. Tn
1ompany introduced a number 0
pleasing singing and dancing numbers
AT meeting of the Mothers club {,
he held Thursday afternoon. Mrs. N
e. B Robinson will address the mem
hers speaking on the Physical Educa
ton Of Children.
What 1t will mean to be without
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-08

sufficient supply Of ice this warm
weather season was indicated Monday
afternoon, when the temperature as
cended to mld-spring heights.
How satisfactory conditions here
abouts are for labO, is indicated by the
fact that the ma iority OF the men who
have returned from service during the
past two months are again at work,
many of them in. their old positions.
Judge Sahin S Russell, engrossing
clerk, will return to Hartford today for
one Of the closing weeks of the 1919
session of the legislature. 1t is eX-
pected that final adjournment will be
taken late this month.
In letter received by a friend here,
Lieut.. John +. Casey, formerly of the
local company of the 56th Coast Ar
tillery, tells of being at a university
overseas, taking a course in electrical
engineering. 1t is understood from
other sources that Lieut.. Casey was
one of a small number out Of many
candidates 10 be assigned to the
school. While at Kiilingly High
school here Lieut.. Casey vas an hon
or student.
Practically all the state roads here
abouts are much broken down after
the hard wear Of the winter and the
hammering they have received from
the heavy truck traffic, which has in
creased tremendously during the past
! year. The state roads are full of lit
| tie holes and rough places and the cos
of putting them in proper repair will
! be heavy.
Mrs. Ernest r. Warren, secretary O
! the DanicsCn chapter of the ReC
Cross, announced Monday Afternoon
| that there is to be a Red Cross Con.
| ference at New London next Satur.
gay, April u, and that the addresse,
/ to be made there win be OF very spe
cial interest. Mrs. Warren will re
ceivo the names of any person from
this section who desires to attend, thi
! that provision may be made for tn
luncheon, though the conference i
open, without previous expression O
intention to attend, to all who are in
terested
! That the work of the Victory LOAF
organization will be made much cas-
Ter here if a higher rate of interest o.
the bonds is fixed than was the rule il
previous loans is the impression on
gets from conversations with the pub
lie ir this section. The spirit to Wi
/ the war will be lacking this time as al