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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
OWES LIFE TO BAD SERVICE
Englishman Willing to Die, but Re-
fused to Wait for Starvation
to Do the Work.

Owen Wister, the author, was talk,
ing in Philadelphia about England's
dlsorganlzed train service.
''They told me strange tale in Bir-
mlngham," he said. ut seems that a
young Birmingham broker was disap-
pointed in love, and went out on the
railroad and laid his. head on rail,
intending to end it all.
"The London express was due in
three minutes, and the broker closed
his eyes.
'He waited, very pale, eyes closed.
Now and then he gulped. The three
minutes seemed long time passing
A long, long time. The rail got very
uncomfortable. The broker twisted
and turned his neck a little. Finally
he looked at his watch. The train was
late--10 minutes late. With sigh he
laid his hoad down on the rail again.
'Well, to make long story short,
the broker waited and waited for that
Internal London express till--if he
hadn't gone away at last for bite 20
eat--he'd surely have died of starva-
ton"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
DELAWARE FIGHT
FOR SUFFRAGE
Be CAN TODAY
Indications That Ratification
May Not Prevail
HOPE FOR VOTE ON FRIDAY
All Party Lines Broken and Leaders
of Both Parties Decline to Be
Bound by caucuses

Dover, Del March 23.-With the
possibilities of the defeat of the ratifi-
cation of the suff. age amendment,
the Delaware Legislature during its
session today prepared to have the
ratification measure presented to both
Houses tomorrow morn ng. Argu.
ments for and against suffrage vii.
be heard on Thu. sday and leaders of
the anti-suffragists are working hard
to have the measure acted upon by
Friday afternoon. All party lines
dropped today when republican and
democratic legislators refused to be
bound by caucuses on the suffrage
question. At meetings this mo ming,
States leaders of both parties appear
ed before the members OF the Assemb
ly and pleaded with them for an early
ratificat on. When caucus was asked
only few members we're willing to
tie themselves down to the dictates
of their party and the motion was de
feated.
Following close on tie heels Of the
attempt at caucuses and Immediately
after an attack on national. leaders for
interfering in the affairs of Delaware
by Representative Edward r. McNabb
Governor John G. Townsend read his
message to the Legislature.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
America owns Two Embassies.

American headquarters in Constan.
tinople is located at our embassy.
Eleanor Franklin Egan writes in the
Saturday Evening Post. We have an
embassy in Constantinople. Oh, yes
And of course everybody knows we
have because it is such a rar thing
for us to have anything of our own
anywhere that we have talked about
1t great deal
IL and our old wooden and mil
dewed firetrap in Tokyo are the only
embassies we have In the world that
| know of. In comparison with the
British embassy and the Italian and
the German and good many others.
it is poor thing, but it is our own.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
klnderaarten in Smaller Towns.

Statistics just compiled by the kin
dergarten division of the bureau OF
education show that approximately
.21,0S5 children were enrolled in kin
dergartens in towns under $500 popu-
lation during the year 1918. in charge
of 500 kindergarten teachers.
The banner states for kindergartens
in smaller places appear to be Michi-
gan and Wisconsin, the former state
with 40 kindergarten teachers and
4,015 pupils, and the latter state with
rs teachers and 1900 children in at
tendance at kindergartens In smaller
towns. California has 81 kindergarten
teachers and 2,03T pupils in cities un-
der $500 population; Iowa, 80 teach
ers and 1,750 children; New Jersey.
40 teachers and 1912 pupils; and Ne
braska, 60 teachers and 1.746 children.
The Nebraska figures indicate spe-
cial effort to reach the smaller towns
with kindergarten facilities.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
FOUR BENNINGTON
MEN ARRAICNED
IN U. S COURT
Charged with Violating VoIstead
Enforcement Act
FIRST CASES IN VERMONT
Barney Cantor, Nathan satter, George
Alexander and Isaac satter Given
Hearings in Rutland

Rutland, March 24-Four merchants
of Bennington were arraigned before
United States Commissioner James
p. Leamy of this city yesterday after
noon, charged with violation Of the
recently effective 18th amendment.
Barney Cantor and Nathan Satter,
after pleading guilty and going
through preliminary examination in
which two or three government rev.
enue officers testified, were held for
the next federal grand jury, while
George Alexander waived examination
and was held for the 6. and jury, and
the case of the United States against
Isaac Satter was held open for a
week and he was placed under bonds
of $4,000 for his future appearance.
The hearings were held in this city
following the arrival of the morning
train, the arrests having been made
by United States Ma shal A. P. Car
penter Of Brattleboro Attorney Y. A.
Bullard of Burlington.
The was some secrecy about the
proceedings, possibly because Of the
fact that the government agents are
operating incog, absolutely without
brass buttons or badges, except on
special request 1t is understood
that some of the evidence was obtain
ed directly by the agents who bought
the liquid containing the alcoholic con
tent and which the government claims
was sold for beverage purposes al
though a patent medicine.
As far as Is known these are th>
first arrests in Vermont fos the al
legged violation of the volstead en-
forcement act of the 18th amendment.
The government claims that the pat
ent medicine was sold in quantities,
which substantiated the assertion that
II was sold for beverage rather than
for medicinal purposes. 1T has been
held that the goods known as Bosak's
Horke-Vino is sufficiently camouiaged
TO be sold as a medicine, but not by
the quantity such as number of bot
ties. 1t is said to contain is per
cent alcohol.
II is claimed by the government that
Cantor and Satter have been selling
quantities of the stuff and that on
one occasion two agents had not trou-
BILE in obtaining some of the goods in
volume.
Attorney Robert Z. Healy of the
firm OF Holden & Heaiy of Bennington
for the respondents in the
GASES. In each case sufficient bonds
were furnished.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
War crirplsd 400. 900 Rrltons.

More than eight hundred thousand
Englishmen are permanently disabled
as a result of war. according to the
official estimate just given out This
figure represents about per cent of
the total number of workers In the
entire country.
request has been sent broadcast
to every employer who has work for
more than ten men asking him to en-
ploy partly disabled soldiers to num-
ber not less than per cent OF his
total force. Already approximately
seven-eighths have found employment.
but there remain 100000 who still are
searching for employment.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24

HANDLE READY-MADE HOUSES
Norwegian Company Anticipates Good
Business In Selling Them for
Erection in England.

Many houses are for sale In Norway,
the present owners of which are hope
full of selling them to Englishmen. Not
that they expect the English to emil
CRATE for Norwegian homes, but that
they hope TO persuade them to import
homes from Norway. The ready-to-
inhabit house, like the ready-to-wear
suit of clothes. is modern invention,
which has developed with marked sue
cess in Norway since the first ready
to-inhabit houses were made some 30
odd years ago. The ready-to-inhabit
house. to be sure, Is less Immediately
usable than the ready-to-wear suit. for
il must be put up and fastened to-
gether. The chief factory for the man.
iifacture and export of Norwegian
seady-made houses is near Christianla,
and the houses are usually of six
rooms with variations that include
considerable range of styles and
prices. and they have all the modern
conyeniences, Naturally the factory
is just now hoping to contribute
good many houses to the solution Of
the housing problem in other coun-
tries. "As regards durability" says
Il Norwegian correspondent, wooden
houses can be fairly said, after
rentury's experience in Norway, TO
last as long as brick, If kept prop
erly in repair. The wooden house in
dustry In Norway after 35 years ex-
perience has now developed to great
perfection, and the wooden dwelling
offers satisfactory solution of the
housing problem" The factory will
deliver house in six weeks after it
has been ordered, but one of the
recognized elements in the British
housing situation is that your real
Briton wants at least part of his house
made with bricks.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
Queer Road Mirage.

An unusual and curious modifica-
tion of the familiar highway mirage,
caused by a layer of heated air. is
reported from the Sacramento valley,
where the Pacific highway is of glisl
tening cement. At nine o'clock on a
recent night the lights Of an auto
mobile were seen to rise over a dis
tant hilltop, and Immediately anoth-
er pair Of lights, nearer but less
bright, seemed to be turned on. The
more distant lights gradually over
took the nearer, and merged with
them, and an instant later a single
car passed the observers.-Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24

STAMFORD

L. e. Reed is about the same, yer.
poorly.
Irene Whitney spent the week enc
at home.
Miss Grace Bishop visited friends
here last Tuesday.
! Norman Sanford of Williamstown
was at r. ]. Sanfords Sunday.
Solomon Cole, who works in Pitts
field spent the week end at home.
Earle Crosier of North Adams spent
the week end with his parents here.
William Davis has moved his family
Ito the Richmond place in Clarksburg.
Paul Sanford has finished working
in the Hagar mill and is now at home.
The line storm cleared off very sat
isfactory and an early spring is pre-
dicted.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Wardwell have
returned from visit to their daugh.
ter, Mrs. Elsie Boomer who lives in
Brocton, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Lesures have
hoved back to their home on West
Hill for the spring and summer. They
expect to make maple sugar this
spring.
Mrs. Eugene Brown, who has been
quite sick with the "flu' is now get
ting better and able to ride out. Her
sister Gertrude Bishop of Bellows
Falls is now with her
The funeral of Mrs. Hiram Taylor,
a former resident, who d ed of heart
failu4e in Elkhorn, Wis, March II,
was held from the Baptist church at
North Adams, Sunday afternoon,
Rev. Claire officiating. The body was
placed in the vault. Mrs Taylor was
60 years old and had spent most of
her life in this vicinity. Last Noyem-
ber she went to visit her daughter,
Mrs. Samuel Coulter, at whose home
She died Besides her husband she
su. vived by two daughters, Mrs. VIII
liam Norman OF Michigan and Mrs
Samuel Coulter of Elkhorn, Wis, also
TWO sons, Mark and Albert of Clarks-
burg.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
Oak. Shoot GERMANY.

The latest German postage stamp
shows four young oak-shoots springing
from the stump Of dead,and-gone
tree, to signify the resurrection of the
new Germany from the old. The de.
signer of the stamp evidently over
looked the fact that while shoots may
spring from an old stump and flourish
in small way, yet the stump itself
never grows into great tree again.
The oak-shoots fill an oval frame or
scroll, on which appears the words
"D cuts he MISUNDERSTANDING"
German federation), The part within
the oval is blue; without, the corners
showing the figures of value, are
brown.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
WOOD BY NARROW
MARGIN LEADS
IN So. DAKOTA
johnson and Lowden Giving
General a Race
LARGE VOTE, SLOW COUNT
Little Interest Manifested In Demo-
cratic Candidates, Gerard of New
York and Monroe Of Illinois
LARGE VOTE, SLOW COUNT

Sioux City, S. D., March 24.-Major
Gen. Leonard Wood was leading the
Republican candidates for President
Iial Endorsement in the primary re
turns of 143 of the 1,710 precincts OF
the State received late tonight, Sen
ator Hiram Johnson (Cal.) was sec
ond and Gov. Frank o. Lowden OF IL
hnois was a close third.
The figures in the 14S precincts
gave Gen. Wood 1857; Senator John
son, 1870, and Gov. Lowden, 7,43O
Senator Poindexte.'s vote compiled
from about fifty precincts was fewer
than 500.
Managers of the various candidates
declared the vote apparently was
heavy and that it was impossible to
arrive at an early conclusion. Earlier
IN the evening the figures showed Sen
Iator Johnson leading the field by a
wide ma gin, and as other precincts
were heard from his lead was cut
down, until at one time he and Gen.
Wood were running neck to neck.
The fight for the Republican Presi-
dentiai Endorsement overshadowed
the local election features. All of the
Republican aspirants have toured the
State and Gen. Wood received the pro
posal convention Endorsement on De-
cember 2. Little interest centeTed in
the Democratic candidates, James w
Gerard OF New York and James O.
Monroe of haywood Ill.,, as President
Wilson was indorsed for a third term
by the State proposal convention, but
has not flied his formal acceptance OF
Endorsement, and his name was ac
cordingly not printed on the ballot.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
Trench Logs uosd for seesaws.

Children are playing on seesaws i'm
lprovlsed from logs remaining from the
bombardment in Reiins and the play
grounds have been made by filling in
shell holes in open plots of ground.
German prisoners have furnished the
labor of preparing them. But the chill
.dren are playing again, and growing
healthy and strong. -
The American Y. W. C. a. maintains
two such Fairgrounds in Relms In dis
tant parts of the city Both are in the
center of populous regions and the
children play in them from until IL
In the morning. They are safely out
of the way, then. while their parents
work at rebuilding their homes, or their
mothers are making clothes and cur
tains on the sewing machines at the
Y. ". c. a. Foyer des Alliees.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
SHAlE ACCEPTABLE AS FUEL
Satisfactorily Used Now IN Esthonia,
It kl.y Be Taken Up by Other
Countries.

Railroads in Esthonia seem in a fair
way to discard coal in favor of bitu-
minous shale, a substance common
enough In geological formations to
make the Esthonian experiment widely
interesting. Lacking coal, the Estho-
nian provisional government has been
investigating the possibilities of shale,
and, as the report comes by way of
Helsingf0rs. shaIe is now being used
for good many purposes. The gas
factory at Reval, for example, is using
shale exclusively for making gas. But,
so far shale has not been adopted
as fuel, and wood is being burnet
in the fire-boxes. The factory prob
ably waits to see how completely shale
can be used TO run railway trains,
and the railway factory in Reval is
now experimenting with fire-boxes
suitable to using shale in locomotive.
That it can be successfully used, how.
ever, seems to have been proved. Cost
is strong argument for the use of
shale, and marks for a pood, or
some 80 or 10 pounds, of shale, as
against 80 marks for the same meas
ure of coal makes it very much cheap
er. it would be odd, but not impos-
sible. If later events should show that
in using shale for fuel the little-known
country of Esthonia is leading the
world.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
SOUTH DORSET

Mass was celebrated In school hall
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Johnston have
moved to the Sanford house.
Miss Jane e. Tully was weekend
guest of relatives in Rutland.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Monroe of Paw
let have moved to the Phelps farm.
Miss Gertrude c. Tully of North
Dorset spent the week end at her
home here.
Mr. and Mrs. James Bowen have
moved to their own home from the
Phelps farm.
John Mofloy returned last Thursday
to Cavendish after spending few days
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Law
renee Molloy.
Miss Helena McDevitt, who teaches
in Dorset, is spending two weeks va
cation with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. F. McDeyitt.
Mr.. Ambrose Snow had the misfor-
tune to lose his house and contents
by fire Sunday morning. Very little
of the furniture was saved. He is oc-
cupying the .Tobin house in the hollow
at present.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
DORSET HOLLOW

Mrs. John Dalton is seriously iii
with tonisilitis.
William and Edward Kelley were In
Manchester Tuesday on business
John Burns of South Dorset was a
caller at Valley View Farm Sunday.
Miss Wilma Walsh who has closed
her school for three weeks is at her
home in Rupert.
Edward Lanpher, who has had en-
ployment at Glen Farm has resigned
and has taken similar position in
Manchester.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolf Funke and son.
Herbert, who have resided here for
three years are going to leave Fri
day for Richmond, Long Island
where they are going to board.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
Ruslness Activity.

81 tell you whatw exclaimed Gabe
Gosnell of Grudge, who was just back
from trip to the Big Burg. "Busl-
ness up there in Kay See is just A.
'roaringl Why, at the Union station,
while I was waiting to take the train
for home, six fellers rushed up and
wanted me to cash checks for 'em,
b'cuz they actually couldn't get to the
windows in the banks before closing
time, there was such crowds !'-Kan-
sas City Star.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
Coal of polana

Next to the textiles, mining is the
principal industry in Poland, especial
ly that of coal, which was consider
able in the year before the war. The
quality of coal mined in Austrian Po-
land is better than in the German por-
tion. Before the war Russia started
to open some mines in Poland, but
the work was never completed.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
canker Worms Eeared.

Don't let the wind make bridge
for moths over tanglefoot bands on
trees, Prof. f. l.. Washburn warns.
Leaves are likely to be blown against
the sticky bands and remain there,
Prof. Washburn said, in which case
the canker worm moths which now are
due, could find their way across. Old
bands should be made sticky again, he
urged
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
Clock Problem.

There are IL steps around the face
of the watch, 1, 2, 3, etc. The hour
hand makes the circuit once while the
minute hand makes it u times. 1t is
true that the minute hand makes IL
more steps on the dial than the hour
hand does, but it also makes the same
step that the hour hand takes, thus
making IL to the hour hands one.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
And Then the GUESSING Starts.

81 don't believe everything l read
in the newspapers" remarked Senator
Sorghum.
"Don't they try to tell the tsIthf"
"Of course they try. But there are
times when some of us who are max
ing history feel that public policy as
well as personal ambitions prevent us
from supplying all tue facts at our
command"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
New EertlIizer.

A Kennebec river farmer tried the
experiment of mixing eight cords OF
seaweed with barn dressing as fertil-
izer for his potato crop the last sea-
son and had the satisfaction Of seeing
the potato patch yield the largest crop
in years.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24

threatened that if they fail to comply
their food rations will be cut off.
The communist military equipment
is complete for modern warfare. The
troops are mainly in uniform but some
Of the men in the ranks are wear ng
civilian clothes.
Reports received here are that
many women are fighting in the ranks
of the communists.
Hamburg, Monday, March 22.-Or-
der is being maintained here by pa
tros Of wo kmen and security police
and It is announced that the strike
will cease as soon as the bodies of the
victims of the fighting have been
buried.
Admiral Meurer, who has been un.
der arrest for several days, has been
released. Non-eommissioned officers
and sailors who arrested the higher
officers of the fleet, it was announced
later, will be held until the navaf per.
sonnel can choose its own officers.
In the mean time the feet has been
placed at the disposal Of the Ebert
government to fight the revolt of the
extreme left, if found necessary.
Wesle, Germany, Wis Berne, March
24.-Six thousand government troops
reinforced by armed countrymen had
a skirmish with communist guard
numbering about fifteen thousand last
night 1t is reported that SO were
killed and upwards of a hundred were
wounded during the fighting.
Copenhagen, March 24.-The forma
ton of new German cabinet is a
matter of only few hours and the in.
dependent socialists are sure of OBJ
tanning several important portfolios.
according to kilograms from Berlin.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
Treasure Recovered From Sea

The treasure that modern salvage
ships are raising from the sea might
well make those old adventurers who
used to search for sunken galleons
turn in their graves with envy. In
one day the salvage ship Racer got
$350,0O0 worth of gold from the White
Star liner Iaurentic, which was sunk
in 1917 off one of the northern head
lands of ireland.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
Not Reduolnn

Mrs. Bascom was buying some lard
at the meat counter. Her little boy
was outside waiting for her. A neigh
bor lady came by and asked the boy
where's your maw?"
"She's in tn store gettin' fat."--
Philadelnhia Ledger.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
WORKMEN MUST
ENTER ARMY Or GO
WITHOUT FOOD
Communist Head Issues Rigor-
Gus Order in Ruhr Basin
ARREST FLEET OFFICERS
Sailors Intend to Make Their Own
Selections of Men to Command
Warshlps
ARREST FLEET OFFICERS

Coblenz, March 24-Otto Meindorf,
who is in charge of the communist
movement in the Ruhr basin, has or
dered ALI workmen OF military exper-
fence to report for duty and has
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
rrnnhIesnnne Weed.

The hawkwecd, introduced from Eu-
aope into Canada and the New Eng
land states, has become one of the
uost troublesome weeds in grass
lands.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24

FOR SALE-Sixroom house, 2
acres of good tillable land, two hen
houses, spring of good water and a
number of fruit trees. For price.
terms, etc. tel 1858 or inquire of
Slocum Baker. 59t12%
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-24
WEATHER FORECAST

Fair tonight. Warmer interior
south portion. Thursday probably
showers.