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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-20
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

Dance in Hawks hall, Friday night
Music by Reynolds orchestra of Hoo
sick Falls. Adv.
Norma Talmadge in "She Loves
and Lies" q acts)-L]brary Theatre
today Read our big ad ADV.
Ba for lake and pond fishing, pearl
and wooden spoons, plugs, etc. a. Nc
Gurks, SAP Main street. Adv.
Bryant Washburn gets laugh after
laugh in 1T Pays to Advertise" Par
amount-Artcraft picture at Harte The
atre today. Adv
"'Oh, say, can you see?'-"lf you
can't-hard luck. For this is one
grand sweet picture" ut Pays to AID
verJise' starring Bryant Washburn,
Iarte Theatre today. ADV.
Paramount-&rtcraf5 Day Bryant
Washburn in 1T Pays to Advertise"
and Paramount comedy, Harte's or
chestra. Evening shows 1880 and g.
Adm. II and lie. Harte Theatre to.
day. ADV.
The check lis to be, used at the
September primary has been posted
and The board of civil authority Will
hold its first meeting to make correc-
tions and additions on August 81. The
primary this year will be held at
Apollo hall on South street,
Mrs. Edgar Holden and two children
who have been spending the summer
with her parents Mr. and Mrs. w. j.
Doyle Of Jefferson street, left Thurs
day for their home, Detroit. They
were accompanied to Detroit by Mrs.
1 Holden's aunt, Miss Nellie Murphy.
The annual auo ride for the chill
dren Of the playground will take pace
Thursday. August 20, at 1880 o'clock,
All the children who have enjoyed the
playground this summer are invited.
Tickets will he given out according
20 attendance on Monday and Tues
day, August 23rd and oath.
Professor A. " Williams Jackson OF
Columbia college, who is spending the
summer at the home OF Mrs. Stevens
on the South stream road has recently
presented two books to the Free Ii
brary-one Early Persian Poetry OF
which he himself is the au hor, and
''The Eastern Question and its Solu
tor by Morris Jastrow, Jr.
New fiction recently added to the
Free Library include he following;
Harriet and he Piper by Kathleen
Norris; "Leerie' by Ruth Sawyer
"Kndred of the Dust by Peter Kyne
"Duds' by Henry Rowland; "Endlcod
and r by Frances Warner; I've Mar
ried Marjorie by Margaret Wilde
mer and "All-Wool Morrison" by Hol
man Day
Mrs. H. Petersen of West Main
stree received a telegram this morn
ing announcing the death of her father
William Oslund, at New Bri- ain, Conn
Mrs. Petersen accompanied by hel
little niece, June Oslund left for New
Britain this afternoon. Oscar and Ed
win Oslund, who have 1heen IN bust
ness here for several months viii
leave Saturday.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-20

has expressed itself officially in favor
OF the restoration of the old drafting
agreement with the majors.
Bo.h San Antonio and Fort Worth
have offered their players $4,000 il
they succeed in winning the second
half of the split Texas league season.
The prediction is made thai the in.
crease in railroad fares will bring
about shortening CT circuits in a
number of the smaller leagues next
season.
Harry Greb of Pittsburgh and Tony
lMelcho.r of Chicago may furnish the
lsemifinal to the Dempsey-Miske title
tilt at Benton Harbor, Mich, on Labor
Day.
The veteran Al Bridwell has quit
the Rocky Mount team Of the Virginia
league as a result dispute over his
right to share in the sale of players.
/ Joe Ccsgrove is certainly the class
of the Waterbury Eastern league
team In addition to managing the
outfit, he is leading his team in bat
ting, base running and fielding.
The Veteran Pat Ryan, who went
out to Oakland from the National
league in the hopes of prolonging his
pitching life, failed to make good and
has been given his release by the Oak
land management,
Joe Lynch, the hardhitting New
Yorker, is going to fight Pete Herman,
tantamweght champion, again. The
two have been matched for an eight
round 20 to take place at St Louis on
Labor Day.
ST joseph, champions Of the West
ern league last season and with good
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-20
Sporting Notes.

Ohio State will open its gridiron
season on Oct, 2 with Ohio Wesleyan
at Columbus.
Grand Rapids appears to have every
thing its cwn way in the race for the
Central league pennant.
Ten rounds has been fixed as the
limit for boxing bouts in Ontario by
he new Provincial Athletic Commits
sion.
Charles White Of Chicago and Paul
Moran of New Orleans are booked for
another meeting, this time at East
Chicago, Ind, on the afternoon Of
Aug. 81.
The Pacific International league
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-20

81 am just so happy over the way
Tanlac has restored my health that |
can't keep from telling people about
it," said Mrs. Lucy Doucette, of rs
Stark street, Manchester, New Hamp-
shire, few days ago. 81 suffered so
long with chornic indigestion that
didn't know what it was to sit down
and enjoy single meal My stom-
ach was so badly disordered | had to
live on the strictest diet and. nothing
seemed to agree with me. AT times
my breath seemed to be cut off, and
| would suffer terribly for hours at a
time.
q lost my strength completely and
became so weak and rundown |
would give out several times during
the day and would have to stop and
rest. was extremely nervous and
irritable, and just felt like | would
break down completely.
"One day saw a statement from
. friend OF mine who said Tanlac had
helped her wonderfully, so | was con.
WINGED it was a dependable medicine
and | am more than pleased at the
splendid results. My appetite i'm
proved right from the first, and the
horrible indigestion from which
suffered so long has entirely disap
peared.
81 have now finished my fourth bot
tie, and can eat just anything | wish
without any bad after-effects. | also
sleep better and have more strength
and energy. 1t is a pleasure to tell
others what Tanlac has done in my
case"
Tanlac is sold in Bennington by w
L. Gokay, in Manchester Depot by w.
w. Pratt. in Arlington by G. G. Culli-
nan & Co., and in East Arlington by
Victor l.. Advertisement.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-20
ARLINGTON

If you need glasses, see Slader, the
Rutland 0ptometrist. at Arlington ho-
tel. Sa mrddy, August 21-Ady. S2tS
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-08-20
DON 7 F D R GE 7

that | am still prepared to repair that
tire or tube and guarantee satisfaction
IN every case. No tread cut too small
or blowout too large
Bring them in and let me look them
over Examination win cost you Moth
ing and ] viii tell YOU honestly whcth-
er ! think repair is worth while and
a close estimate as TO cost
You can save many dollars in your
tire cost
Arlington people can leave work at
the Arlington Garage.
w. II. PELSUE, Prop.
Vermont Vulcanizing Works.
Works ~ school st. Phone aSi-W
Room ZIG Pleasant st.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-07-30
SCHOOL CHILDREN SEE PRAC-
TICAL AGRICULTURAL TEST

Practical tests in agriculture are
being conducted under the auspices of
the county agent at the consolidated
school at New Point, Holt county.
Last fall small lots Of wheat Of the
Michigan, Red Rock, Kanred, Fulcas-
ter, and Poole varieties were planted
on the consolidated school grounds.
Early in July a striking difference in
the plots could be observed. The
Michigan, Red Rock, and Kanred
seemed to show up the best. On the
same grounds, tests of cleaned and
treated oats versus uncleaned and un-
treated oats are being carried on.
There was a noticeable difference be-
tween the plots in percentage of smut.
The agricultural class of the CONSOLE
dated school did virtually all the work
in preparing the plots and sowing the
seed. Last year they had corn va
riety test and soybean variety test
and soybeans with corn versus corn
alone. These tests afforded excellent
field work for the agricultural class as
well as valuable demonstrations to the
community.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-07-30
THE RAILROADS AND
THE COUNTRY BOY

Where is the farmer boy who used
to dream of breaking" or firing on a
railroad?
Gone!
The day was when railroad work.
ers were largely recruited from the
farming communities. To the boy
who stood behind pillow and watched
train go by, railroading was ro-
nance. And so it was easy for the
railroads to get him at a compare
timely low wage.
But the railroads were slow. They
thought they could keep the wages at
low tide, even when the tide was set,
ting high on other shores. The coun-
try boy soon found he could earn
twice as much in the automobile
plant, in the steel mills, as motorman
or conductor on city street cars, and
in many other lines, and with less risk
to life and limb. They took him from
that which, to youth, is routine ano
humdrum, and satisfied his longings
for a change and to see what was be-
yond the horizon.
But it was fatal to the railroads.
From first-class recruit at low wag-
es, they had to take more or less
cheap and unintelligent recruits from
the big cities. These, as soon as they
became somewhat skilled, revolted at
the low wages. They struck, or they
loafed on the job, or they quit it for
something better.
The railroads are now feeling the
oaF The capa n,ip1har of man don't
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-07-30

pose the congressional committee for
each congressional district. The next
stop in perfecting this organization is
the meeting of the Congressional Com
mittee to time and place to be call
ed by the chairman of the Congress
sional Committee, and of which no.
tice will be given. At this latter
meeting or convention the Women's
Congressional Committee for each
district will elect its own chairman,
secretary and treasurer and also Sc
lect two women to serve as members
of the Women's Democratic State
Committee.
Then the members of the State
Committee so selected will meet in
jefferson City and organize by the
election Of a chairman, vice chairman,
secretary and treasurer, thus COM
pleting its organization and be in read
mess for the work of the campaign
just ahead.
Kindly give this organization work
the widest publicity and interest the
Democratic women of your commun-
ity so they will take an active part in
helping organize.
Yours very truly,
BEN NJ. NEALE, Chairman.
MRS. j. w. McNlGHT, Chairman.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-07-30

in case two are voted upon, and two
receiving the greatest number of
votes shall be declared elected men,
bers of the county committee.
On August 10th, at p. M, all town
ship committeewomen of each county
shall meet at their respective county
seats and perfect their county COM
mittee organization by the selection
of chairman, secretary and treas
urer, and transact such other business,
if any, as may come before them. The
mems county committee will also be
organized on this date and thus the
two committees will be ready to work
hard in hand to carry forward the
campaign.
As you know, the law provides that
the chairmen of the county commit
tees, by virtue of their offices, COM
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-07-30
WOMEN SHOULD ORGANIZE
Kansas City, Mo-, July 81, 1920.

Kansas City, Mo, July II, 1920.
By authority Of the State Commit
tee, we are calling on the Democratic
women Of the State to organize and
have adopted for the present, at least,
the same plan of organization now in
force, which, in brief, is as follows:
The Democratic women of each pre-
cinct to have mass meeting at their
usual voting place on the afternoon of
August Bird, at 2 o'clock, and after
electing officers to preside over such
meeting they shall vote for one wo-
man for county committeewoman. or
two, when so authorized by their
chairman. The woman receiving the
greatest number of votes in such
township shall be declared elected, or
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-07-30

Carthage.-Three- story building adj
joining Hotel Drake purchased for an
mex, making 100-room hotel. First
floor of annex to be remodeled for
store room.
st. Joseph.-Berry Realty Co. in
creases capital from $4,000 to $780,
900.
Our country had 1874 strikes in
1919, involving 100000 workers in
idleness against the highest wages in
history.
st. Joseph.-5O,OOO gallon tank to
hold water from new artesian well
completed.
Kansas City.-Contract let for paw
ing Main street from 9th to 31st.
Cost, $98,636.
Fayette.-Howard county farm bu-
rear has Al ,152 pounds wool in storage
awaiting normal prices.
Carthage.-Ground broken for new
100000 hotel. W.
Kansas City.-Park Gate addition
sold 918 lots in 3 1-2 days for home
sites.
Pleasant Hill.-New rock road COM
pleted and bus line established be-
tween here and Harrisonville.
st. Joseph.-New Methodist church
for negroes dedicated.
Joplin.--Two new concrete bath
houses completed at Witmar park.
Cost, $4,000.
Carthage.-Four local banks install
circuit electric burglar alarm system
for $4,000, said to be infallible.
Kansas City.-Construction work
begun on new Federal Reserve Bank
building.
>Dearborn.-Work progressing on
new lumber yards and office building;
more than dozen new residences
planned to be built this summer.
Joplin.-Sufficient lumber donated
to complete cabin for permanent head
quarters of Ozark Fairgrounds As
ISOLATION.
Kansas City.-Plans projected to
build $5,000,000 court house.
Joplin Water Co. granted temporary
rate raise of so per cent which was
shown to be necessary to continue OPP
erations under present high operating
expense.
Point Peasant.-Two bales South
eastern Missouri cotton grown in 1918
sell at $1.00 per pound.
st. Joseph.-City disbursements for
June were the largest of any month
this year, amounting to S100,581.77.
We have known people, states the
Fulton Gazette, who wanted to amend
the constitution every time they
couldn't have their own way,
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-07-30

it taxes provided most of the funds,
bringing in $3,927 100000 up to June
1st. Miscellaneous taxes netted ST.
442, 900, miscellaneous sources of rev.
enue added $602,611 900.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-07-30
MILK PRODUCERS BUY
DISTRIBUTING PLANT

The Independence local, Jackson
county, of the Cooperative Milk Pro-
ducers' Association is closing deal
for the purchase Of one of the largest
milk distributing plants in Kansas
City. The cost, depending upon the
inventory, will approximate $165,000.
The association is planning the ac-
tual operation Of the plant Immediate
ly.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-07-30

Where is the farmer boy who used
to dream of breaking" or firing on
railroad?
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-07-30
Democrats, Vote for
sen. II. S. McCLINTlC
For Lieutenant Governor

FIRST AND FOREMOST,
Because it is conceded by all that
he is man of integrity and
ability and in every way quail
fled for the office.
SECOND, Because his only
opponent has yet two years of
an unexpired term to serve in
the state senate and his forced
resignation might let the Re-
publicans in control Of the sem
ate at time when the state
must be redistricted.
THIRD, Because nominees for
four Of the seven political Off
ces will be chosen from territory
South Of the Missouri River as
all candidates for U. S. Senator,
Secretary of State, Attorney
General and Treasurer now live
in that territory. GOOD POLL
TICS and FAIR PLAY would
accord at least one nominee to
Northeast Missouri with it's
BIG DEMOCRATIC MAORI
TIES.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-07-30
MISSOURI WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW

Showing activities in all parts of the
State that increase employment and
put money in circulation through la
bor-new enterprises and payrolls
show one hundred per cent activity all
over the State.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-07-16
KNOW LITTLE ABOUT EARTH
Dwelers on This Globe Have Shown
No Curiosity Concerning Possible
Wonders of Its Interior.

The earths crust is compared TO
the skin of an apple by the writer OF
a leading article in the Scientlnc
American Monthly. Our knowledge of
the globe on which we live, he says,
is not even skin deep; for an apple
as large as the earth would have
skin twenty miles thick; and no one
has been much more than a mile in
to the crust, or has bored into it with
tools more than a mile and half. 1t
is rather humiliating to think that
we know more about the sun, ninety
millions of miles away, than we DO
Of the solid earth under our feet. we
think nothing of dispatching exploring
expeditions to unknown regions thou
sands of miles away; how about
little expedition to points only few
miles distant-vertically downward!
Such explorations have been proposed,
although the boldest explorer has not
dared to suggest going further than
twelve miles-a trip that would take
him on the surface of the earth only
from one end of Manhattan island
to the other.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-07-16
STONES KEEP THEIR SECRET
Restoration of Stonehcnge Has Re-
vealed Nothing New OF interest
to the Antiquarian.

The restoration of Stonehenge has
revealed fresh evidence as to the orig
inal building of the famous circle
There are indications that the entire
monument was surrounded by cir
Gle of at least 40 stones, not one OF
which remains today,
The office of works, In conjunction
with the society Of antiquarles is
overhauling the monument, replacing
the fallen stones and exploring the
site. Excavations have revealed SOCK
cts for number Of stones that are
no longer in existence, but history
cannot account for their absence.
During the excavations number
l.of hammer stones, chisels and burnt
bones were found, also many articles
of more modern origin, scraps OF Ro-
man remains, pennies and farthings of
varying date even up to the present
time. The places where these coins
were found are problem in them
selves. Why, for example, should
half-penny of George III be found
deeper in the earth than a farthing
of James /?
A new map of the monument is to
be drawn and preserved in the Anti
uuaries museum, but the object of the
excavations, the discovery of the orr
gin and purpose of the famous monu-
ment, is still unsolved by the recent
work.-London Times.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-07-16
CENTER OF HUN WAR POWER
Ruhrort, With Its Splendid River Har-
Dor, Really the Most Important
City of Germany.

Ruhrort, which had the largest riv-
er harbor in Europe, and which In
cluded the Ruhr basin, was the power
plant of Germany's former Industrial
machine and mighty war engine.
Between the Rhine and Ruhr is
Duisburg, city of rolling mills, found
ries and factories. This beehive of in
dustry was once a university town,
but the school was supplanted by fac
tories. Duisburg is connected with the
Ruhr by a canal.
Farther up the Ruhr is Witten, i'm
portant not only for its steel, but also
for beer, soap and chemicals. The
Ruhr basin coal fields not only were
important to Germany because of their
heavy production, but because they
alone were accessible for water i'm
portation of ores. A canal connected
Dortmund, "A city of the Ruhr basin,
with the Ems river, thus affording an
outlet to the North sea at Emden. The
Ruhr was made navigable from the
Rhine to Witten, some 35 miles, by
means of locks.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-07-16

r AAIES ABRAM GARFIELD was the
q latest and, it is fairly safe to say,
the last of the presidents born and
bred in log cabins. Notwithstanding
that humble state, he was one Of the
half-dozen scholarly men who have sat
in the presidential chair.
Garfield is the only president who
was present at his own nomination.
The presidential lightning struck him
as he sat in his seat in that most eX-
traordinary and exciting national con-
vention which met at Chicago in 1880.
All the "Stalwart" clans, believing with
a st. Louis editor that there was zone
more president in the bloody Shirt"
seized upon the great name of Grant,
and under the banner of the "Hero Of
I tAppomattox" they rallied against the
"Half Breeds" who followed "the
Plumed Knight" James G. Blaine Of
Maine.
The rival champions in that remark
able tournament at Chicago were Ros-
soc Conkling, chieftain Of the "Stal-
warts" and James A. Garfield of Ohio.
the spokesman Of the "Half Breeds"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-07-16

although he was restrained from di-
rectly supporting Blaine by the instruc-
tions of his state in favor of the nomi-
nation of John Sherman. Conkling,
handsome fop, carefully studied the
right moment to make his theatrical
entry upon the stage the first day,
drawing the applause as he advanced
down the aisle with his "grandiloquent
swell, his majestic supereminent, over
powering. turkey gobbler strut" which
Blaine had held up to the laughter OF
congress years before in a never-to-be-
forgiven. speech. The next day Gar
field took his revenge by entering while
Conkling was speaking, and the well
coming cheers drowned the voice OF
the indignant speaker. On the third
day the two came to grips in de-
bate and the Ohioan scored on the New
Yorker
While the gallery still was cheer
ing the victor in that round, ConkIing
wrote on the margin Of a newspaper
and sent to Garfield a mocking sugges-
tion that he was playing to the gal
lery in his own interest: 81 congrat-
ulate you on being a dark horse!"
In truth Garfield could not rise in
the convention without helping him
self more than he helped Sherman,
who never had a chance to win. AS
ballot after ballot was taken, 1t be-
came plain that neither the Immortal
9O6" who followed Grant nor the deaf
ening cheers which his name evoked
could overcome the prejudice against
a third term in the White House, and it
was made equally plain that this "Old
Guard" never would surrender to
! Blaine.
A new candidate was necessary II
| the convention was not to fall to
pieces In factions. Que solitary vote
for Garfield on most Of the ballots had
continued to point the finger Of des-
tiny at him. Wisconsin pointed all her
fingers in his direction when her dele
CATION broke to him on the thirty
fourth ballot.
Garfield rose with pallid face and
dry lips to a point of order. But Sen
ator Hoar of Massachusetts,, who was
in the chair, raped him down. In two
more ballots he was nominated by a
combination Of tie Blaine and Sher-
man men.
In the midst of the uproar the nomi-
nee sat limp and porspiring in his seat.
sect me out of here" he family whis-
pered to his seatmate, Ex-Governor
Foster of Ohio.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-07-16
Deadly Weanon of Warfare.

An invention by French wireless
engineer, NJ. Dunoyer, will completely
change the character of naval war
fare, if its claims are fulfilled, says
the London Mail. 1t consists Of what
he calls an "eectric safety lock-" The
mechanism to direct the course of a
torpedo and secure its explosion
against an enemy warship can be
worked not only by wireless waves
of the right length. but also by q
proper sequence OF Morse signals. Any
error in the. right sequence of dots
and dashes would run the mechanism
down to- zero again and render the
torpedo harmless. Each torpedo
launched would have its own key Sc
uuencc Of dots ana dasEes, and so the
enemy would be unable to tamper
with It,.