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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
pdmpkihI. 'ls AmerIcan.

The native country Of the pumpkin
Is disputed, but there is good reason
to believe that It Is indigenous to
America. The common field pumpkin
was much used for food in New Eng
land before the introduction Of i'm
proved varieties or of the more edible
squashes, being made into pies, or
baked, the seeds and stringy matter
having been removed. For winter use
it was cut into strips and dried In the
sun or in warm room. At present
II Is mainly used to feed farm animals,
which eat 1t with avidity, though the
seeds, being diuretic In their action,
need first to be removed. This variety
is of a rich, orange yellow color, shap-
ed round with flattened ends, aver
aging about fourteen inches long by
twelve inches wide. The flesh is yell
low. generally coarse grained, and Of
ten stringy, yet still esteemed by many
above the improved varieties for max
ing the favorite pumpkin pie.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
Decided by Ancient Law.

A decision which depended on a law
1,400 years old was given in the coun-
ty court at Bath. England, when Judge
James had to rule whether or not the
owner OF bees which leave their hive
and swarm some distance away Is en-
titled to regard them as his property.
James Barstone claimed damages from
Herbert RUNNING, neighbor, for a
swarm Of bees which RUNNING is al
legged to have seized. The judge said
1t had been clear for hundreds of
years, under law laid down by the
Emperor Jusinlan, that swarm of
bees belonged to man as long as they
were in his sight, and could easily
be pursued. Otherwise they became
the property of the first person who
saw them. The law, he said, was just
as 1t was hundreds OF years ago and
he decided for the defendant.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
NORTH BENNINGTON

Miss Grace Hathaway spent the
week end with Miss Ruth Bromley.
Little Perry Murphy, Jr., is report
led to be rallying from his critical i'll.
ness.
The "Five Hundred" card club met
last evening with Miss Marion Elmer
lat her apartment on Bank street.
Mrs. c. W. Burgess of New York
city is the guest of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. H. S. Walbridge for few
weeks.
Mrs. F. L. Houghton and son Teddy
returned to Bennington Monday after
spending a few days with Mr.. and
Mrs. S. o. Tefft. VA
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Elwell OF
SALISBURY have come to North Ben
nington to reside and are stopping
at present with their son, Peter Ell
well of Prospect street.
Mrs. Agnes H. Burgess arrived Sun
day from New York City, where she
has been spending the winter with
her daughter, Mrs. A. T. Collie, and
is the guest of her sister, Mrs. r. B.
Garter. Mrs. Burgess is en- route to
her home in Burlington.
The March meeting of the Woman 8
Missionary society of the Baptist
church will be held at the parsonage
with Mrs. Derwacter, Thursday after
noon at $3.50. The topic for consid
GRAFTON is the Harvest Fields of In.
dia." The meeting will be led by the
president of the society. Mrs. Fl. F.
Lamb. Every member who has the
Survey" is requested to bring 1t to
this meeting.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
LAST FRAGMENTS OF EMPIRE
Romance In Disappearance of Red
Dots From the Map of West
ern Canada.

A map of western Canada kept in
the offices of the Hudson Bay COM
pany in Winnipeg is sprinkled with
tiny red dots. Two centuries. and a
half of romance and history focus in
these little red dots.
When the Hudson Bay company in
1870 surrendered TO Canada the vast
territory granted to 1t by Charles III
of England, 1t retained one-twentieth
of all the land in the fertile belt" of
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta
between the North saskatchewan
river and the international boundary.
This One-twentieth was distributed
throughout every township and each
of these red dots on the map repre-
sents an area of from 160 to $40
acres.
These lands are today just as they
were when the company's first forts
were erected on Hudson bay. They
are just as they were when the buff
falo pastured upon them and Indians
and trappers SHARED or shot fur-bear-
ing animals In this domain half a
century ago.
Though now surrounded by farms,
they have never been touched by a
pillow. They are still islands OF
primevaI soil in the midst Of rich
farming districts.
The li,tle red dots are disappearing
one by one from the map. Each one
that disappears means that the land
it represents has become settlers
farm. All the dots represent 3,000,-
600 acres.
The company is rapidly disposing of
all its remaining land to settlers.
When the last dot disappears from
the map, the last fragment of Hudson
Bay company's old empire will have
disappeared from the North Ameri-
can continent.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
Her Name a Hyword.

Free will and conscience reside In
every human being, older than the tab
lets of Sinai. The gorgeous Messalina
chose the path that leads to the abyss.
She was the third wife of the weak
Emperor Claudius (A.iD. Al. having
been his concubine before her marriage
TO him. She ruled the fiaccid creature.
Profigate, licentious, smooth checked
and cruel. she obliterated whole FAM
lilies of noble Romans. Her charms,
arts and threats disposed of whole
provinces, nay of legions, the Roman
legionsl az am the senate" said Mes
salina. But the climax came. Caught
in lawless intrigue with a Roman
youth. she was dispatched by the knife
of tribune of the guard in the gar
dens of Lucullus.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
Additions to Gulf Stream.

The gulf stream would be little felt
on the coast of Europe did it not re-
ceive great addition to its volume of
heat when en- route. This is by means
of a gentle flow from the northeast
trade wind current that passes out
side the Caribbean islands and the
Bahamas. The surface temperature of
this outside current is about the same
in its passage along the West Indian
Islands as the gulf stream, in the
Straits of Florida, but it is less vio-
lent in its movement and there is less
intermihgling of its upper and lower
waters, so that it arrives off Cape Hat
teras with much higher temperature
than that of the more turbulent gulf
stream.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
The American Cent.

A Constant reader asks the ques-
ton: "Is 1t proper to call the Ameri-
can cent a penny, and If so, why?'
The Century and Standard dictionaries
both admit that cent is sometimes
called a penny, but both classify that
usage as "colloquial." Usage, even if
colloquial-and usage roots In CONVEX
sation--is a valid authority in forms
of language. Nobody can say that to
call cent penny is misleading. but
since the word cent is exact. It is al
ways preferable to the word penny,
which is an analogy, and thus inferior
to the real name of the thing in mind,
New York Evening Sun.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
GETS AZ NEW HEEL
FROM HIS OWN BODY
John I. Hennessey Recovering After
Remarkable Grating Operation
in Naval HospitaL

Boston, March 9.-Surgeons at the
United States naval hospital at Chel-
sea have succeeded in making new
and natural heel for John |. Hennes-
sey, former service man of this
city, by grating skin and flesh from
his right leg. Hennessey crushed
his heel in street car accident while
serving at bingham and surgeons at
a private hospital and at the naval
hospital, where he was later removed
ordered an amputation of the foot to
save the remainder of the limb.
Preparations for the operation were
interrupted by DR.. w L. Cowles, a
lieutenant in the naval reserve. and
chief visiting surgeon, who proposed
that a grating experiment should be
made Hennessey consented and for
several weeks lay with the left heel
bone imbedded under flap OF flesh
on the under side of his right leg
above the knee. His complete recov-
cry has been announced.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
HIGHEST COURT GETS
WET AND DRY PLEAS
Rhode island Attacks 18th Amend
ment Through Its Attorney
General

Washington, March S.-Rhode Is
lands legal attack on the prohibition
amendment to the Federal Constitution
was a.gued in Supreme Court today
assailed by the complainant as revolu
tioliary and an invasion of States
rights, and defended by the Govern
ment as a legitimate addition to the
nations basic law over which the
court held no jurisdiction.
Throngs attended the session Of the
court TO hear the arguments. Many
persons waited outside the doors
throughout the morning to obtain ad
mittance.
Herbert A. Rice, Acknowledgement
of Rhode Island, opened for the oppo
sition and William l.. Frierson, Assis
tant Acknowledgement of the United
States, replied for the Government
Other a. guments viii be heard tomor
row, as we'll as appeals from Kentucky
and Massachusetts involving the same
questions.
Mr.. Rice charged there was in pro
gress a constitutional revolution
Il see more danger in the doctrine
urged by the Cove. nment than any
doctrine urged by the demagogues dur
ing the world war" he said. The
rights assured the people under the
Tenth Amendment were never intend
ed to be taken away"
MIR. Rice argued that the prohibition
, 4. ,,,t
ton of the law by Congress- and that
the Federal Government had no author
ity to make such change in the con.
stitution as the amendment provides
Declaring that amendment" means a
correction, he said the terms of the
prohibition amendment are clearly
outside the purview of the CONSTITUTE
ion.
What about the Thirteenth Amend
ment abol' fishing slavey?" inquired
Justice Pitney.
THAT was compromise amendment
and corrected an error in the Consti-
tuition" answered Mr.. Rice.
Justice Brandeis asked what power
could bring about the conditions inn
posed by the eighteenth Amendment,
There is no power in the United
States Constitution to make such a
change unless it could be done by
unanimous consent of the States and
the pepole of the United States Mr..
Rice said. There is no power, and
there was never intended to be such
power for encroachment by the FEEDER.
al Government upon the powers of the
States"
Wasn't slavery supported by the
police power of the States?'t Justice
McReynolds asked
Yes replied Mr. Rice, "but it was
a police power to regulate"
Mr.. Rice told the Court that the
Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendments were written into the
Constitution by force" and not with
The voluntary assent Of the Southern
States.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

Berwick cakes at Estes Market
ADV.
Nucoa nut butter at Estes Market.
ADV.
Buried looming Library
Theatre. Adv.
Andrew Hummer is assisting Her
bert Horst on his milk route.
Mrs. Joseph Hathaway, who has been
visiting in Orange, N. j., has returned
home.
John Murphy who has been i'll for
several weeks was able to sit up for
a while Monday
Mss Helena Downs, who is pre-
pairing to move to South Bend, Ind,
later in the month, has moved from
Main street to rooms in the Scott
house on Pleasant street.
Miss A. Nolan recently returned
from an extensive business trip to
New York and is prepared to greet
her customers with full line Of
spring millinery Her new stock in
cludes hats at all prices.-Adv.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
wild Section In southern France,

An almost forgotten region lately
pointed out by Samuel Wells to the
Liverpool Geographical society is
southern and midland France, with
the desert lands on the Mediterranean.
Here the wild horse and breed Of
buffaloes are still extant, and great
rocks, gorges and caverns are features
of the country. The immense caves
abound in remains of the stone and
bronze ages. while wonderful stalac,
tites hang from the roofs. The build
lngs show architecture centuries old,
especially that of the Roman period.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
AMERICAS FRUIT, THE APPLE
People Are Beginning TO Show Il
Proper Appreciation, and Crop
Should Be Increased.

Americans are coming to treat APP
pies more as a food and less as a
between-mcals superhuity than they
used to do. yet when the north wind
blows and the Preside glows they
can't refrain from paying especial at
tention to the question whether there
is a plenty of them. This year. the
farm reports tells US. there is not
There are, in the whole country,
100000 barrels fewer than there
were in 1918, and almost the same
shortage from the crop of 1916,
though we are considerably better Off
than we were in 1917. That is, we
have 24OO0,0o0 barrels this year.
That's about one for each family in
the country, and each family, not each
member thereof, might, il they We're
evenly distributed, have one apple a
day The true lover OF apples viii
never admit this to be sufficient, and
he should not.
1t is not especially cheering to
learn that the country's crop of ap-
pies does not tend to increase. Our
record crop was in 1912, but we had
almost as many in 1896, and the crop
In 1895 was greater than that in
either of tile past four years. But
the apple is Americas fruit. the most
satisfactory, the most dependable. the
most healthful fruit in the world.
Hartford Times.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
High Priest Was Slow.

Probably it annoys you, too, to hear
some ones telephone ringing and no
body making any move toward an
swering It. In the opera, "Aida," re.
Gently, one Of the scenes was laid "in
front of the temple of Isis" At the
close of the scene the curtain signal
was given with a bell buzzer which
was heard all over the house. The
operator of the curtain was evidently
slow in answering for the bell con-
tinued to ring, and woman in the
audience said: The telephone in the
temple is ringing-why in the world
doesn't the high priest go in and an
swer itT"--Kansas City Star.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
HANLEY TRIAL NOT FIRST
Case of Former State Purchasing
AGENT Delayed by Archlbald's Illness.

Montpelier, March S.-The case OF
State vs.. Dewey T. Hanley, alleged
larceny, ETC., will not be the hrst
case tried in Washington county
court which convened this morning
with Judge Harrie B. Chase OF Brat
|tleboro presiding.
Attorney General Frank Q. Archi-
bald, who has been preparing the
case is i'll, while NJ. G. Leary, attor-
ney for Mr.. Hanley, will be occupied
elsewhere at that time so that the
case will go to a latter date in the
term and the jury calendar work
commenced as usual it is understood
now.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
A Friend Recommended Thorn.

A person often does more good than
he realizes when he tells suffering
friend how to get we'll. ]. N. Tohill
clerk Lottie Hotel, Evansville, Ind
writes For weeks l suffered con.
stantly with pains in the muscles OF
my thigh. l was treated by the doc
tor for rheumatism but found no re-
lief. Upon recommendation of a
friend. tried Foley Kidney
Pills and began to get relief almost
Immediately Good for backache,
rheumatic pains stiff joints Sold
Everywhere.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
sAPTlsTs SEEK s1oo,ooo,ooo
$2a ,sos,o71 viii Be Used in Foreign
Mission Fields. g

Northern Baptists are planning to
raise 500 100000 this spring, OF
which amount $23,SOs,O71 win be used
in the foreign mission fields. sl1,646,-
$50 will be put into permanent equip
ment, such as churches, schools and
hospitals, and $12,161,415 will be used
to cover operating budgets. In the
home mission fields, which include
Americanization work, $l6,5oS,So4
will be needed for operating expenses
during the five years period ending
April 30, 1924.
In New Jersey alone they are plan
ming to raise $5,341,000, OF which
amount $1,5O9,256 will be spent in the
State.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
GERMANY REGRETS
Regulates Conduct Of Army Officers
In Berlin Hotel Saturday.

Berlin, March S.--Closely following
upon the incident Saturday night at
Hotel Adlon when Prince Joachim Al
brecht of Prussia led demonstration
against French officers in the dining
room, another anti-allied incident is
reported from Bremen.
When the French officers entered
the barracks to conduct negotiations
with German officers, the German
soldiers ang "Deuthland Uber
Allies attracting large crowd. The
French officers were roughly handled
before the police succeeded in dis
persing the crowd.
1t was officially announced that the
government had expressed regret for
the incident. Foreign Minister Muel-
Ter personally visited De Marchiily.
the French charge, and begged that
the regrets of the government be for
warded to Paris.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

News of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers
Strictly fresh eggs at Estes Market.
ADV.
La Touraine coffee at Estes Mar
ket.-Adv.
Mrs. Peter Green of Maple street,
who has been quite i'll is on the gain.
Coming to the Opera House Doro-
thy Phillips in "a Right to Happi-
ness. Adv.
Miss Mary Horst left today for
Hoosick Falls, where she will visit
relatives and friends for a week.
Born Sunday at the Putnam Mem
orial hospital, a daughter to Mr.. and
Mrs. Guy Hazleton of Coewmans, N.
Y.
Big special picture-"For Better,
For Worse" come! It's too great a
pleasure to miss Harte Theatre to.
day. Adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. H. Goefey of Branch
street have returned from Springfield
where they passed the weekend with
relatives.
Miss Helen Reinfurt, who has been
visiting relatives and friends in town
for the past week, returned to Hoosick
Falls today.
There will be regular meeting of
the Woman's Relief Corps on Wednes-
day evening. A large attendance of
members is desired
William H. Myers has withdrawn
his name as auditor from the ticket
recently filed by the nonpartisan vot-
ers for the annual village election
next Tuesday.
Little Women" the big Paramount
Aircraft special attraction. lnterna-
tional News-Lyons-Mora copedy-
Library Theatre today. Regular ad-
mission. Adv
F. Clifford Shaw, the county farm
bureau agent who has been ill for
over a month, left Monday for Hyde
Park where he will remain for some
time to recuperate.
'For Better, For Worse" the big
Cecil B. DeDMille Picture is in town
and will be shown at the Harte Thea
tire tonight. This is the famous pic
ture for which many have been wait
ing. Adv.
Phillip T. H. Pierson has returned
from a few days stay in Montpelier
and Burlington. The train on which
he left Burlington was IS hours in get
ting to North Bennington as the re-
suit of the severe storm of Friday.
The Baptist Missionary meeting will
be held in the social rooms of the
church Wednesday afternoon at 8
o'clock. Mrs. A. S. Davis viii entertain.
An interesting program has been pre-
pared and all the ladies are invited.
Ladies night tonight at the meeting
of the Methodist Brotherhood Ran
dies orchestra will be in attendance
and Prof. Long with quartette. Fred
Hancox of Troy will give program
of reading. Light refreshments will
be served under the direction of Mrs.
Paulson.
The funeral of Mrs. Howard P.
Fem, formerly Miss Jessie Burgess,
will be held from the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Bur
CESS, Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Rev. w. G. Towart will officiate. The
body will be placed in the vault at
. Park Lawn cemetery.
Cecil B. DeMille's latest Aircraft
production For Better For Worse"
showing at Harte Theatre today Ed
gar Selwyn the famous playwright,
wrote this story originally for stage
production, but was induced by Mr..
DeMille to put it on the screen. The
combination of DeMille and Selwyn
has made wonderful picture. Adm.
and IL cents. Harte Theatre. ADV.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
LANDLORD is FINED $3.50
Owner of Apartment Block overrun
by Rats Is Punished

Boston, March S.-A landlords neg
lect to provide properly for the Sc
curity and health OF his tenants. was
penalized strongly today in the
Brighton district court.
Judge Thomas H. Connolly of that
court imposed a fine of $3.50 on
Gabe Rosen, owner of an apartment
block which was overrum by rats and
in which the refuse was not adequate
ly disposed Of
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
NEW DE MILE PICTURE
Miss Swanson Finely CARRIED In "For
Better, For Worse"

Cecil B. DeMille, direct-general of
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation,
always gives his personal attention
to the selection of the gowns worn by
the leading women in his pictures.
Before starting work on For Better,
For Worse which is to be shown al
the Harte Theatre, today, he made
trip to New York, and visited all
the Fashionable modiste shops, pick
ing out the latest creations with
which to garb Gloria Swanson, who
has the leading female role in this
production.
Mr.. DeMille has selected an excel
lent cast for his new Aircraft special
Elliott Devter is the leading man;
others in the cast are Tom Forman,
Gloria Swanson, Wanda Hawley,
Theodore Roberts, Raymond Hatton,
and Sylvia Ashton.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
Buck Had REVENGE.

Tpmah, Wis.-Timothy Donovan. ar
attorney, saved Ed Page of MinoQuf
from possible death. Page shot large
buck and laying his rife down. wen,
up to the animal. The deer attacked
him and threw him in the air. Dono-
van, returned soldier, killed the
buck before 1t completely put Page
out of business.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
STORAGE BATTERY
Distributors WANTED

Territory open for EXCLUSIVE agency
in high grade, popular priced battery
made in New England, having excellent
sales prospects. Live individuals or or
CARNATIONS will be allotted territory
in accordance with investment and abii
ity to handle. Full assistance and CO.
operation assured. For particulars
write Boston Storage Battery Co.
3s6 Columbus Ave. Boston, Mass.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
CLEMENT AFTER COAL
Governor Seeing That Institutions
Are Being Supplied

Montpelier, March S.-Governor p.
w. Clement is looking after the supply
of coal in Vermont very closely. He
has ordered car to be taken to the
industrial school in Vergennes be-
cause the supply was getting little
short there He has also been keeping
close tabs on the other institutions,
but at the present there is sufficient
supply on hand.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
Rattlesnakes Prove
Menace to Stock

Portsmouth, Tex. - Rattle
snakes in large numbers recent
ly have been seen swimming in
the Gulf of Mexico near the Half
Moon lighthouse, seven miles
from the mainland and four
miles from the peninsula to the
south. according to the two men
who keep the light. 1t is said
three rattlers were killed on the
lighthouse platform by the keep
ers. Tenants on property which
formerly constituted the Rancho
Grande here report a pestilence
of rattlesnakes, which, they say,
are a menace to live stock. How
ever. 1t is reported by a number
of farmers that fat cattle, bitten
by rattlers, do not die, the poi
son from the bite of one snake
being insufficient to kill them.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
POSTPONED AUCTION.

On his premises at Breese Hollow on
Wednesday, March "a, at noon. Charles
A. Breese will hold big auction sale
of twenty high-class horses; Is head
of cattle, besides cows, sheep, tractor
engine, harness. wagons, utenHTIs, etc.
A team will meet all trains at Peters,
burgh Junction. j. r. Barker will BIO
auctioneer g.Nsss5
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
Accidents XIII More Than War

The United States had bigger cas-.
ualty list during 1919 than its army
suffered in nineteen months of war.
There were $4,000 men. women, and
children killed last year through acci-
dents, and more than 100000 serious.
ly injured, according to Sidney ]. VIII
liams, secretary of the National Safety
council.