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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-17
Homework This Month.

Housework is trying at any season
Of the year but particularly so in Au.
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matte pains, or other symptoms CT kid
ney trouble will find relief in Foley
Kidney Pills Mrs. l.. Gibson, 18th
and Edison SIS. La Junta Colo,
writes: MY kidneys gave me Il great
deal of trouble for some time. took
Foley Kidney pills and they helped me
right away" They give relief from
irritating bladder SOLD Everywhere.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-17
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requires constitutional treatment Hall s
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to cure. Send for list OF testimonials.
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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-17
BENNING TON BRIEFS
News Of the Towr ard Village Tol,
Briefly for BIsy Readers

George Wheeler Of Troy passed the
10th with friends in town
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Haynes spent
the weekend in East Poutney.
Mrs. George Fleming, jr, recently
underwent an operation at the Troy
City hospital
Misses Beulah Whitley and Helen
Lalley spent the weekend in Water
ford, N. Y. ~
Mrs. Edward Cutler CT Pttsfield is
a guest of Mrs. Walter Townsend Of
Union street.
Mr. and Mrs l.. f. Macomber mo-
tored to Nahant Mass, for short
stay, Sunday.
Peter Savas has given up his en-
ployment in the Savas candy kitchen
He leaves Friday for Chicago.
Charming Billie Burke scandalizes
a village by falling in love with her
husband in "The Misleading Widow
at Harte Theatre today. ADV.
Coming to the Opera Houst to NOR
row the new Mark Twain Paramount
Aircraft production "Huckleberry
Finn" with special music. Adv.
"Huckleberry Finn a big Para
mountArccraft special production al
Opera House tomorrow night. Regu-
lar admission II and % cents Adv.
Tomorrow-Dcrothy Dalton in "The
Market Of Souls" and a Paramount
comedy THE Night of the Dub" a
Paramount show. Harte Theatre
Adv.
See Georges Carpenter in four
rounds of the fastest fighting you
have ever seen in The Wonder MAN.
at Opera House tonight Last show
ing Ady@ IN
There VIII be a Requiem Mass sung
Wednesday. morning a. 1880 at ST
Francis de Sales church for the late
James Lee. by the request of the
Knights OF Columbus.
Georges Carpenter the man who
will face Dempsey this fall can be
seen at his best in the ring in four
rounds Of fast fgh ing with n knock
out at Opera house tonight. Adv.
Mr. and Mrs. William r. Lowe and
Mr. and Mrs c. S. Gates of Bellows
Falls returned Sunday evening from
an auto trip through the White Mts.
to Portland and Boston. Mr.. and Mrs
i Gates left for their home Monday
night.
Michael Mcmahon, an employee Of
The H. c. White company at North
Bennington Is at the Pu nam Memoir
ial hospital under treatment for iniur-
les received in an accident Saturday.
Mr. Mcmahon was cut by the spring
ing Of a power saw. The wound is on
the abdomen but it is reported this
morning that his injuries were no. as
serious as was feared.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-17
PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT

=
% That we have this day formed a
llmited partnership;
1913 That the name of the firm under
which said partnership is to be con
Quoted is Bennington Wholesale
Company"
CD That the general partner is John
n. Leonard Of Hillside St Bennington.
VI, that the special partners are. A..
j. Cooper Of Hillside St. Bennington.
vermont and Warren A. Leonard Of
2lO1 Seventh Avenue, New York, n. Y.
(fl That the amount of the capital
which each special partner has con-
ulbuted 10 the common stock of said
partnership is as follows. A. j. Cooper.
Twenty thousand Geo 000) Dollars.
Warren A. Leonard, Five thousand
(5.000) Dollars.
(5) That the general nature of the
business to be transacted is that Of
wholesale selling Of flour sugar and
general groceries
60 That said partnership begins to
day and is to terminate June 5th, 1925.
Dated at Bennington, VT, this 2gth
Yday of June 1920
A. J Cooper.
John n. Leonard
Warren \. Leonard,
Witness --Ransom II. Wilcox,
as to w. A. L.
state Of Vermont,
Bennington County, SIS.
AT Bennington in said County this
18TH day of June 1920 personally an
peared John n. Leonard and A. j..
Cooper aud acknowledged the fore
going instrument by them subscribed
To be their free act and deed
Before melt. r. IIutchins
Justice of the Peace.
State Of New York,
New York County S.
At New York in said County this 2Sth
day of June 1920 personally appeared
warren A. Leonard and acknowledged
the foregoing instrument by him sub
scribed to be his free act and deed.
Before me Ransom II. Wilcox
2l07 seventh Ave. New York. n. Y.
Notary Public Westchester Co.
Certificate filed in n. Y Co.
N, Y. County No. 1922 Register No 2295.
No, 32972 Series b.
state of New York
County of New York, S.
WILLIAM T.. SCHNEIDER. Clerk Of
! theCounty of New York. and also
Clerk of the Supreme Court in and for
said county.
DO Hereby Certify That said Court is
a Court of Record having by law a
seal; that Ransom e Wilcox whose
/ name Is subscribed to the annexed GER
! tificate or proof Of acknowledgements of
! the annexed instrument was at the
time Of taking the same a NOTARY
Z PUBllC acting in and for said county
duly commissioned ana sworn. and
/ qualified to act as such: that he has
! filed in the Clerks ONCE of the COUNTY
of New York a certified copy of this
| ppointment and qualification as Notary
/ Public for the County of Westchestei
with his autograph signature: that as
such Notary Public, he was duly au-
, thori2ed by the laws of the State OF
New York to protest notes; to take anC
certify depositions to administer oaths
and aiiirmations; to take aflidavits and
certify the acknowledgment aud proof
of deeds and other written instruments
for lands. tenements and hereditaments
to be read in evidence or recorded IN
this state; and further. that | am well
acquainted with the handwriting OF
such Notary Public and verify believe
THAT his signature to such proof or ac-
owledgement is genuine.
in TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said Court at the city Of New
York, in the County of New York, this
18th day Of July, 1920.
VIM. II. Schneider.
Clerk
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-17

ring experience he has gained in
fourteen years Of fighting, and his
natural speed and ability, Carpenter
should bea, Dempsey, lewis says.
And listen to McAulitfe:
Don't forget that when Dempsey
faces Carpenter he is going to look
the fastest fighter of the generation
squarely in the eye Carpenter
makes the fastest fighter look slow.
And with his speed he carries a
wallop that is a haymaker When
he hits 'em he hits 'em hard. What's
more Georges is fast thinker
think he's causing Dempsey worry
right now"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-17
PICK CARPENTER TO WIN
Famous Boxers Claim viii Defeat
Jack DempseY.

Georges Carpenter, the European
champion heavyweight boxer, who
was seen in moving pictures at the
opera house last evening and who can
be seen again tonight, is picked by
such authorities as James ]. Corbett
Willie Lewis and Jack McAuliffe as
the coming worlds champion
After waching Carpenter fight four
fast rounds in the movies any specta-
tor with any knowledge of the ring
game will be forced to conclude that
the Frenchman has more than a China
mans chance to cap.ure the title.
Lewis, who ought to know some
thing about it. having given Carpen-
ter the most sensational fight of his
career. does not stop at discussing
the possibilities of the outcome Of
a Carpenter Dempsey meeting. He
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-17
Active. Anyway

Paul went with his mother TO the
country. Fresh N9atercress flom the
brook was served on the table and up.
on venturing to try some for the first
time, he exclaimed; "0h, It's alive"
why do you think soT asked his
mother. "BecGuse It bites my tongue"
he answered
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-17

declares with positive assurance that
Carpenter will knockout Dempsey
and he is willing to bet money on his
dope
He points out that the French
boxer was fighting Klaus, Papke,
Dixie Kid and jeanette when he was
in his teens. With the wealth of
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-17
NU'TICE!
TO the Taxpayers al the Remington
C.,d.d Eahnol nistripts
No'rrcE,

Graded School Dtstricti
A rate bill has been placed In my
hands for collection as follows:
Sl95 on the dollar on the Grand List
If 1920.
| hereby demand payment of said
taxes and notify you that ! will at
TEND at the Bennington County Savings
Bank from o'clock a. m. until o'clock
p. m
There will be discount of per
ger cent on above Tax if paid within
80 days.
c. II. DEWEY. Treasurer.
Bennington, VI. July 10. 1920,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-17
1.-THE Misleading Widow"
SHOCKING! WHAT A FIX TO BE IN!

did! Here charming
home uchaoed tool Unspeabe But who
And other did? Words
cntde scribe the it! Dol
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-17

Georges Carpenter the man who
will face Dempsey this fall can be
seen at his best in the ring in four
rounds Of fast figh ing with knock
out at Opera house tonight ADV.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-21
RED CROSS LAYS PLANS
 FOR 1920 Substantial Sum Is be Kept in Reserve in Case of Sudden Disaster

$3OO0OO0O available it's this the American Red Cross has aside for European relief $1 75000 and completing its Siberia
 In making public plans for forward time activities Dr. of the declared that considerable must be held for calls ncen such possible the of Russia with the United States This deter minaion Dr. Faand sad reached after long and full with representatives in this country and Europe
 With appeals infinitely beyond it's and unable to count on additions total fund during the the executive committee Dr. oh necessary considerable application
 the soundest possible proportion might
 obligations soldiers sailors their families must be provided while the Red Cross must be ready the time to meet relief demands due to disasters
 pledged" establishment for which will be made available In sderng be kept clearly mind that while expenditures country arising directly out of the remain high they should diminish while for establishment of peactme undertakings this will be compared with the reduction of items"
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-21
Minister Was inventor of First Percussion Lock for
 Fire Arms: First Used 1925

The first percussion lock for fire arms was invented and patented in 1907 by the Rev. Alexander J. For syth, Scottish clergyman, who was born Dec. 28, 176S. Firearms were first made in Italy in the fourteenth cen tury, and were employed in war by the Burgundians at Arras in 1414. These first small arms were really small can non, and were borne by two men. In 1471 Edward ". had 300 Flemings armed with hand-guns in his army, and a little later the Swiss armed 10000 men with arquebuses. The musket was employed in the army of Emperor Charles V. early in the sixteenth cen tury. These rude firearms were at first discharged by the application of a flaming torch. About 1517 the wheel lock method came into use, and after ward the flint was used, from 1892 un- til the Scottish clergyman invented the percussion principle of lighting gun. powder in muskets, by means of det- onating powder. The iint-lock guns were used by all the European armies during the early period of the Napo- leonic wars, and only a few guns en- bodying Forsythe's invention were in use a century ago.
 Percussion caps were first generally used about 1925.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-21
Idaho Miner, Two Weeks Buried, ls Brought to the Surface to Well
 come NeW-Born Baby.

Mullan, Idaho.-While Emil Sayko, miner, was buried 60 feet in the Gold Hunter mine, near Occur dAlene, he became the father of a baby girl. Sayko was released alive from his un- derground prison after more than two weeks confinement, along with fel- low worker, Pete Grant.
 Hope for the rescue of the two men was given up on the fourth day after the cave-in at the mine, the belief be- ing that both men were dead. It could not be conceived that the men were alive and well.
 It so chanced that the cave-in did not catch the men during the slide of the earth, but merely filled the aper- ture to the surface. A spacious under ground cave, to which air found it's way from a small crevice in another part of the mine, served to save the mems lives.
 A four-inch diamond drill aperture was bored into the 6O-foot-deep cave and gave the men better air. Food was let down to them as well as blan- kets.
 Mrs. Emil Sayko, on the day of the cave-in, was confined to the Occur d'Alene hospital and there became the mother of little girl. She believed at
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-21
DECIDING ON THE BREED OF FOWL

SPrepared by the United States Depart
 ment of Agriculture.)
 A small flock of hens can be kept with profit by many city dwellers who have back yard. Even as few as eight or ten hens should produce eggs enough, when used economically, for a family of four or five persons throughout the year, except the molt- ing period of the fall and early winter.
 Householders usually desire not only eggs for the table and for cook ing, but also an occasional chicken to eat. For this reason one of the gen. eral-purpose breeds, such as Plymouth Rock, Wyandotte, Rhode Island Red. or Orpington, is preferable to the smaller egg breeds, such as the Leg horns. Not only do the mature fowls of these breeds, because of their large size, make better table fowls than the Leghorns. but the young chickens for the same reason make. better flyers and roasters. whereas chickens of the egg breeds are suitable only for the smaller broilers.
 The general-purpose breeds are also "broody" breeds, the hens making good sitters and mothers, which is a decided advantage when it is desired
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-21
Scout Naturalist Advises
 Boys Not to Limit Walks to Roads and Beaten Paths

'Do not limit your winter walks to the roads and the beaten paths," ad- vises Edward F. Bigelow, the scout naturalist, in Boys Life. "That may be necessary in the marshland of the summer, but when the freezing weath- CT has been prolonged take to the swamps. But be careful. Even the cold est weather sometimes leaves treach- erous places in the underbrush and in other sheltered spots. Sometimes the frost Is only superficial even when ice on the open ponds is thick. A little good, plain common sense will dis cover the riches and avoid the danger. One never can see the best parts or a brook bank, from the opposite bank. They must be seen from the middle of the stream. l never thoroughly realized that until I started out with camera and rubber boots so that could safely go into water about a foot and a half or two feet in depth. The ice fringes, the ornate palaces, the wonderful recesses, the strings of jewels, the fairyland caves are all be- yond our most vivid dreams. cannot SuHlc1enLly eIupudSlZ0 tu1S, USSduo0 know that there are scouts who will not believe, no matter how often l reiterate. I did not believe it myself until I tried it, and the trial was al- most by chance. But when l discover this foreign fairyland, hold it in my possession and frequently explore 1t. There are many puzzles in that icy region. One cannot even imagine how some of those formations could have been made, but some of them may be puzzled out, and solving the problem is always entertaining and more so than finding the answer to word rid dies. Things are more interesting than words"
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-21
THE EGYPTIAN LOTUS
(In an artificial pond.)

Qn an artificial pond) A'roud, languid lily of the sacred Nile, Iris strange to see thee on our western wave, Far from those sandy shores. that mile on Papyrus- -plumed. stretch silent as the grave. Ger dark. mysterious pool and sheltered bay,
 And round deep dreaming isles thy leaves expand, Where Alexandrian barges blow their way, Full freighted, to the ancient Theban land. on Karnak's lofty columns thou were And spacious Luxor's temple-palace
 walls, Zach royal Pharaoh's emeralded queen \ Chose thee to deck her glittering ban quet halls; Yet thou art bloscoming on this fair lake As regally, amidst these common things, As on the shores where Niles soft ripples
 break,
 As in the halls of old Egyptian kings. Thy grace charms. day by day. mems curious eyes, But he whose outer senses thought hath probed, Looking at thee, sees stately temples rise About him, and the long lines of priests. white-robed, That chant strange music as they slowly pace
 Dim-columned aisles: hears, trembling, overhead, Echoes that lose themselves in that vast space,
 Of Egypt's solemn ritual for the dead. Aye, deeper thoughts than these, though undef1ned, ''- Wake in the Quickened soul at sight of thee, GTor this majestic orient faith enshrined Mans yearning hope for immortality. And thou vert Egypt's symbol of the power That under all decaying form lies hid: The old world worshiped thee, O Lotus flower,
 Then carved it's sphinx and reared its pyramid.
 Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-21
WELL-CALLED DEATH TRAINS
Red Cross Commissioner in Siberia Describes Horrors Common on
 Russian Railroads.

Tokyo.-The death trains consti- tute fearful feature of the Siberian railroad, says Col. R. B. Teusler, American Red Cross commissioner to Siberia.
 Into these trains are packed at the front, say, 800 refugees, most of them suffering from typhus or some other disease and infested with vermin.
 The trains are sent eastward to Vladivostok. None of the towns along the way wants the refugees added to its own troubles, so the trains are passed along, the refugees dying on the way.
 By the time the train raches Vlad- ivostok frequently more than half the sufferers have died. AS the bodies are fresh passengers are likely to be thrust in in their places.
 Another feature of the suffering of the inhabitants, according to Col. Teus- Ter, is the towns composed of dugouts which are to be found in many places. They consist of hundreds of holes dug in the ground, in which the inhabitants are herded. Smallpox is frequently among them.
 Colonel Teusler said that underwear is one of the greatest needs of the Siberian people.
 Many girls of people formerly well to do are now clothed in rags. If they could have ribbons and simple faces, he said, 1t would help to support the morale of the people.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-21

been active in propaganda at home and in France.
 The French writer, Alberic Cahuet, in L1llustration puts the case for the French Mauritians as follows:
 -"The elite of the population of the Island of Mauritius is made up of the descendants of the former French col onists, having piously preserved the integrity of their souls and their na- tional culture and who, in spite of all the immigration, have remained the exclusive possessors of the soil and the agricultural riches. In vain has been the influx of indigenous races negroes, Hindus, Mongols and Arabs which has swelled the figure of the general population. The little primi- tive kernel, 10000 to SO,OOOI inhabi- tants in 375.oO0, has kept it's yrepon- derance."
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-21
EXPRESS LOVE
 FOR TRICOLOR

four times their number and have got into control of most of the business of the capital, Port-Louis. But the old French families, who have gone on with their own language, laws and GUS toms, thanks to the kindly British rule, still consider the island as theirs, and not the Hindus'.
 . All Very Much in Earnest.
 At once, after the signing of the armistice, demonstration was held before the French consulate in the capital, where the chief speakers de manded that the island be turned back to France, and in January of last year a banquet was held in the city hall in honor of France, where the chief ob- ject of interest was a statue of the immortal lovers, Paul and Virginia, the work of the Mauritian sculptor, Pros per d'Epinay, draped in the tricolor of France. The guests at the banquet sang the "Marseillaise," which was taken up by the crowds outside. Af- ter the banquet a delegation was named to take up the matter Of the transfer with the British and French governments, and this commission, headed by Dr. Joseph Riviere, has
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-21
AvIators Roosted in Trees.

New York.-After they had been up in the air in a testing balloon from the Rockaway naval aviation station a night and a day Ensigns Kloor. Blackwell and Fleidner landed in the top of a tree on the Rogers brothers farm in Wheeler Farms district Mil ford, Conn. They were picked off the tree by men from the Askam Rubber company plant, who had followed them for a mile in their descent.
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-21

6S,OOO was reached. From that time until 1913 the rate declined until it reached IT per thousand In 1913 the population of the city was 2,9oe, 900. During the war the number of births decreased. there being 3O,OOO in 1915 and 2s.OOO in 1916, which equaled the number a century before when the city's population was 100000.
 Poorer quarters of the city show a higher percentage than sections con- taining the homes of the wealthier citizens
The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-21
French inhabitants of Mauritius Ask That Island Be Re-
 turned to France.
IS NOW UNDER BRITISH RULE
Possibility That Their Request Will Be Granted as Matter of Senti- ment-Spot Made Famous by
 "Paul and Virginia"

Washington.-News from the peace conference has told nothing of the nationalistic movement in the little half-forgotten island in the Indian ocean known as Mauritius. But the movement there is something new in the realm of international complica- tions. The inhabitants have asked to be restored by the British empire to France and the French are anxious to have the island back because 1t is the scene of Paul ct Virginie," pub hshed in 1787, by Jacques Henri Der hardin de Saint-Pierre. The islanders have new claim in that they say they belong to the domaine sentimental of France.
 Mauritius since 1910 has been Brit ish colony. Before that for a century 1t had been French and known as He de France. The name it now bears is in honor of the Dutch Maurice, giv- en to 1t by his faithful subjects in the seventeenth century. It was, however, discovered by the Portuguese. It has thus passed through the cycle of col onization and exploitation. And now a committee of delegates in Paris has addressed a double memorial to Gle menceau and Lloyd George saying that they wish to return to the French fam fly.
 Tribute to British Rule.
 And here again Is a new note. For the Mauritians have not drawn up a bill of complaints against England nor organized a Mauritian Sim Fein. On the contrary. they say that they have only gratitude and respect for Great Britain for her generous treatment of them and their island.
 Objections to this transfer there would certainly be. The government of century is not easily switched. And under the English, who under stand better than any other nation how to govern colonies (since the lesson of 1776), the island has prospered steadily. The most striking feature of the development has been the great influx of East Indians where there were formerly only French settlers and their black slaves. Now the white inhabitants, descendants mostly of the French colonists, number between TO- GOO and 5000, while the Indians are