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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-20
COUNTY SHEEP MEN MEET
Annual Meeting Held at Arlington
Tuesday Evening.


The postponed annual meeting Of
the Bennington County Sheep Breed
ers association was held at Airing
ton. Tuesdoy evening, May 18TH The
bylaws were changed reducing the
membership from $500 to $1.0O with
an initial fee of $100. All present
members are to have their member
ship continued through this coming
year The time of the meetings was
changed; the annual meeting to come
tae last Saturday in November in the
Southern part of the county, probab-
ly at Bennington; a spring meeting
the second Saturday in May at Ar
lington and mid summer meeting sub
ject to call by the president at some
sheep farm.
A marketing investigation commit
tee was appointed to look after the
prospects cf marketing wool collec-
lively this season for the members Of
the association. The committee con
sists of c. T. Brettell, Bennington,
chairman; A. II. Smith, Arlington and
r S. Gilbert, Dorset. 1t is felt that
perhaps the wool situation does not
lcok very bright at present and con.
sequently the farmer should have all
the information possible relative to
the most efficient method of market
ing their wool. The officers elected
for the ensuing year are as follows:
o. p. Black, North Rupert, presi-
dent; II. Merle Bottum, SALISBURY,
vice president: r. S. Gilbert, Dorset,
secretary and treasurer.
1t was voted to cooperate with the
Battenkill Valley Fair association in
offering prizes for a sheep show at
the fair this season.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-20
RE EVOLUTI0NISTS
CLOSE ON TRAIL
OF CARRANZA
Capture of Fleeing President Be-
fore Night Predicted
TRYING TO REACH COAST
Mexico's Deposed Chief Executive
Being Pursued by Three Columns
of Troops.
TRYING TO REACH COAST

San Antonio, Tex, May 2O.-Presi-
dent Carranza is attempting to escape
from Mexico through the port Of
Naulta, state of Vera Cruz, according
to dispatches received here from
Mexico City and credited to Gen.
Trevino
Gen. Treyino is said to have des.
patches declare that it will be impos-
sibfe for Carranza to escape and it is
predicted that his capture is but mat
ter Of hours.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-20
SUGAR MUST COME DOWN
Jam and Jelly Makers Won't Buy Un-
til II Does.

New York, May 2O.--The National
Preserves and Fruit Products associa-
tion announced today that members
will stay out of the market until the
price Of sugar comes down from it's
present high level.
The association claims to represent
IS per cent of the manufacturers max
ing jams and jellies in the country.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-20
NE W.Y0RK SHORT
Of MILK BECAUSE
DRIVERS STRIKE
Few Deliveries in Manhattan
and Long Island City
ONLY HOSPITALS SERVED
Leaders of Movement Threaten to
Extend Strike to Bronx
and Harlem Sections.

New York May 2O.-Milk deliveries
in Manhattan and Long Island city
were almost completely shut off to-
day by the strike of the milk wagon
drivers which threatens to spread to
the Bronx and Harlem sections.
The strike leaders declare that 5000
drivers are out. Union officials who
are opposing the strike say that not
more than eight hundred have quit.
Police dispersed one crowd of
strikers that was doing picket duty
and menacing loyal workers. One
driver was assaulted. No arrests
were made.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-20
WAR ON RUM sMUeoLERs
Governor MiIliken Win Try to Stop
Their Operations in Maine.

Augusta, Me, May 19.-War on the
Rum Runners" who have been snug
Cling large quantities of liquor into
Maine from Canada was declared today
by Governor Milliken as a result of
conference of sheriffs and federal Off
cials. The governor announced that
active measures would be taken al
once to stop the Illegal traffic.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-20
POETRY DISCUSSION GROUP
May Meeting Will Be Held at Home
of Mrs. Putnam.

The May meeting of the Poetry Dis
cussion group will be held Saturday
afternoon at three o'clock at the
home of Mrs. Anna Hawks Putnam,
South street.
Prof, Madison Bates of Burr and
Burton Seminary will lead the discus
sion and read from the poems of
Edwin Arlington Robinson. Mrs. Mat
tison Of North Bennington will report
on Current Events for the month.
These meetings are open and every
one interested in poetry is most cor
daily invited to be present.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-20
PALMER BEATEN IN GEORGIA
Smith and Watson Control Democratic
State Convention.

Atlanta, May 19.-Attorney-General
Palmer lost the first battle in
the Georgia state Democratic conven-
ton yesterday. In spite of the fact
that Mr.. Palmer, running on straight
administration platform, won the re-
cent preferential primary and theoret-
ically controls the convention, the com
bined forces of United States Senator
Hoke Smith and Thomas E. Watson
succeeded in electing Zebulon Vance
Peacock OF Hawkinsville, Smith dele.
gate. as temporary chairman of the
convention over the Palmer candidate.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-20
NO DECISION ON PROHIBITION
Court Failed to Render Long Expected
Decision.

Washington, d. c., May 19-The
supreme court failed again Monday
to decide the validity Of the prohibition
and the enforcement act
and recessed until June /.
With the courts failure to act in the
prohibition cases only two more deci-
sion days remain before adjournment,
June 7, for the term While the court
has given no indication when it will
act, decision before adjournment gen
orally is expected.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-20
CUT WEEKS TO THREE DAYS
Andrews Mill Near Woonsocket En-
ploys 15o Persons.

Woonsocket, r. l., May 19.--The
Andrews mill, Branch Village, employ
ing $50 persons in the manufacture of
women's woolen dress goods, today
posted notices announcing a cut in
working time to three days a week.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-20
SUSTAIN GOVERNORS VETO
Massachusetts Senate Fails to Pass
2.75 Beer Bill.

Boston May 19.-The state Senate
yesterday failed to pass over the gov
ernor's veto the bill fixing the alco-
holic content of beer at not over 2.75
per cert, The vote was yes "a, no %
Before the measure went to the gov
ernor, the Senate was recorded 26 too
in It's favor.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-20
Headaches from sIInht COLDS

LAXATIVE BROMo QUININE Tab
lets relieve the Headache by curing
the Cold. A tonic laxative and germ
destroyer. Look for signature e. w.
GROVE on box. soc.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-20
DAYLIGHT SAVING STANDS
Fowler Bill Vetoed by Governor ot
New York.

Albany, May Ex-Governor Smith,
today vetoed the Fowler bill designed
to repeal the daylight saving law.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-20
BIG LEAGUE BASEBALL
Results of Games in Both of the
Major Leagues.
NATIONAL LEAGUE

New York II, Chicago 2.
Cincinnati-Brooklyn, postponed
Pittsburg 2, Boston /.
st. Louis 6, Philadelphia 2.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-20
Stand lnn OF the clubs.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Cleveland 5, New York 0.
Philadelphia 7, Detroit 4.
Boston 3, Chicago 2.
Other teams not scheduled.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-20
IIINK DEALER

Highest cash prices paid for old
papers, magazines brass, copper, rub
Der, etc. VIII pay extra for stuff
brought to me. open evenings and all
day Saturday
JOE coNNEL
200 River st. Tel. &O-M.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-20
GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA BOLTS
viii Not Ask Legislature to Ratify
Woman Suffrage Amendment.

Baton Rouge. La, May 19.-Governor
Parker has declined to accede to the
request of President Wilson that
he ask the Louisiana legislature to rat
ify the federal suffrage amendment.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-10
CLOTHES BASKET Frederick H. Uhof

street, Philadelphia, one recent Sunday
afternoon. Father was quite handsome in a
SIS Palm Beach suit, while mother looked
stunning in a rather NOR, expensive ging-
ham gown. Between them they carried their
son and almost hairless heir in a small sire
clothes basket. Once il had been an ordinary
clothes basket, but they had painted Ii
white and knotted pink bow or two onto Il.
They live in a West Philadelphia four
room apartment, which they rented for $50,
unfurnished. and they aren't going to buy
a baby carriage for junior until father gets
a raise" In the meantime, they aren't
ashamed of the clothes basket
In appearance and quality clothes basket,
still are pretty much the same bomely srticl.
they were when we were children. The
price, of course, has gone up from fifty
cents to about 81. At that they are cheaper
than Morris chairs or chsise tongues, and
that brings US back to where we started
from-the provocstion of this dissertation.
After dinner was over in the well
appointed apartment Of a cliff dweIer On
upper Riverside drive, the clothes basket
in the sitting room was lined with pillows,
bottom, fore and aft. To the amszemept az
his guests, the head of the house proceeded
to ensconce himself therein. His head a.
shoulders rested against the wall; his fest
were draped over the bow and lightly touched
the floor.
For solid comfort there is nothing like 4,
clothes basket" he explained to his be.
wlldsred guests. There is not a piece of
furniture in the world that can give IN,
same satisfaction. You see, Il distribute,
the weight of the body evenly. There is no
pressure anywhere, and you can't help but
relax. Yep, discovered this myself and n,
taking pretty well, / understand. / tell
all my friends about it. No, don't ret
cent from the clothes basket trust, didn't
even know there was one. But IL you Ar,
going TO write piece about 1t, think tb.
leading clothes basket manufacturer uisbt
send me one free, so wouldn't have "a so
without this one on Mondays. Tn. d.y /,
coming. when clothes baskets will be seen 4
tie sitting rooms Of our best homes. A..
sizes and shapes, you know, to ft the vsrios
styles Of anatomy"
The idea isn't altogether new, tbousA.
Diogenes lived in q tub.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-10

kittens. Then you get new clothes basket
The old one is lined with cast t-of garments
and placed behind the kitchen range, where
the mother cat rears her young.
Cats and kittens are not very hard
on old clothes baskets, and the ricketiest
of them may be used as nurseries through
numerous feline generations. We were not
little shocked one time at a piece of ex-
travagance in a home on the Pennsylvania
Main Line, reputed to be one of the
Wealthiest sections in the United States. A
splnster's new clothes basket was being
occupied by a family of cats. But then,
tney were PURE bred Angoras and that may
make difference. In ordinary families,
though, when a mother cat is so thought
less as to have kittens while the clothes
basket is still new, she deserves no better
tate than second hand soap box
1t may not be amiss to recall here the
nicely of detail with which our neighbor's
mother cat and bull terrier "Pansy" ar
ranged their respective family AFFAIRS.
Tabby's" kittens were no more than
fairly grown, when Pansy occupied the
basket with litter of puppies Clothes
baskets have an especial appeal for cats
and small dogs. Besides, it is very con-
venient receptacle in which to carry the
young ones from one place to another when
1t becomes necessary.
Clothes baskets sometimes come into
families under delightful circumstances. For
instance, young couple in very moderate
circumstances-or, say a poor young couple
don't always feel that they can afford
clothes basket when first they start in
housekeeping. About a year of so later,
though, father goes over to the store and
buys a clothes basket. And if you don't
know what an amazing lot of babies spent
part of their infancy in clothes baskets you
haven't been around much. 1t isn't always
the poor babies, either, whose first impress
sion of the world is that it is made Of
twigs and reeds. Many babies in the gold
spoon in mouth class revel in a clothes
basket until the parents can look over
the latest styles in baby carriages and
cribs.
DROUD young married folk, whose hnsn-
i cial status isn't what they would like
it to be, may take a lesson from the young
couple who promenaded down Chestnut
The Washington herald., 1920-10-10

around for an executive capable Of handling
all its complex ramihcanons. He bethoulht
himself of the wonderful young woman who
had seemed to know not only everything
pertaining to the currency reform league in
general, but even the details of which those
in charge of the various departments were
ignorant. He sent her a letter request
ing her to see him with view TO becon-
ing his assistant.
Miss Ried was still in Europe at that
time, and the letter remained unopened for
many weeks until her return. Mr.. Brsh
had almost despaired of hearing from her
when one day she called upon him. The
salary Miss Ried demanded struck him
exorbitant, but be did not want her to
main free to give her services to any rival
concern, and so made her an offer for half
her time, leaving her free to dispose Of the
other half as she saw ft. She accepted, and
was immediately installed as assistant TO
the president"
So indispensable did her services be-
come that Mr.. Bush soon contracted for her
entire time, and, Of his own accord, is
said to have agreed TO pay her even more
than the original salary which she had
demanded 1t was not long before she
became, in addition to assistant to the
president, the secretary of the corporation
Miss Ried's diversions, might be eI-
pected, are on a scale comparable to the
magnitude of her business activities. She
owns and operates a model farm in New
Jersey and makes it pay. She is a member
Of the American Rose Society and has de-
veloped several notable new roses. Unde-
the enphonious name of ROsefeld Gardens,
she owns and operates rather extensive
nurseries where she specializes in climbing
roses.
She is a member Of the Japan Society, and
Is collector of rare japanese prints. She
is bibliophile and has large and note
worthy collection Of rare books.
Not long ego when rents were rising in
New York, hers with the rest, she bought an
apartment building, which she remOdeied to
suit her taste and ideas.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-10
Copyright, 1920. by Public Ledger Coz

is composed of Mr.. Bush, the president OF
the corporation, who is the mayor" Of the
immense plant, of 132 great warehouses, six
teen loft buildings and many machinery
holding structures furnishing power as well
as floor space to hundreds of large manufac-
turing concerns R. G. Simonds, who is the
treasurer, and Miss Ried, who is everything
else. Moreover when the president is away,
Miss Ried is the mayor" When some
fundamental policy of the corporation is to
be considered, the "Big Three" convene. and
the matter is settled by a majority vote.
MISS RIED is said to be the highest
A'A salaried woman executive in the world.
She was a disappointment to her father
The Washington herald., 1920-10-10

was being looked over "And just look at
the whiskers it is sprouting all over the
deck" she added, pointing to big turfs of
oakum protruding from seams which had
been calked 'imperfectly.
Other defects, not so visible and glaring,
she also pointed out; and the result was
such concerted attack by the newspapers
that the government promptly abandoned the
wooden ship plan. No other argument had
been able to head off the movement until Miss
Reds classic allusion to the "bewhiskered
deck" demonstrated dts absurdity.
1t was during the trip in the tug that the
writer became acquainted with her.
The general demeanor of Miss Ried was
one of thoughtfulness and almost sadness.
The Washington herald., 1920-10-10

fruit jars, her best china and other fragile
articles that could not be intrusted to the
unsympathetic moving man. Then you and
your brother had to make about IL 900 trips
back and forth with the clothes basket.
Your conversation turned largely to the pro-
voking habit parents have of moving on Sat
urdays or during vacation time You
couldn't understand why your mother
thought you were slow just because you
The Washington herald., 1920-10-10

stopped occasionally to watch the ball game
on the corner lot.
When the clothes basket was new it was
a beautiful bright yellow color, something
like your little sisters hair but clothes
baskets are by no means immune to age. In
the fullness of their days they become dingy,
the edges unravel and the handles pull off
But the clothes basket seldom is thrown
away. 1t nearly always happens that about
The Washington herald., 1920-10-10
THE HIGHEST SALARIED WOMAN IN BIG BUSINESS
At the Center of Gigantic Enterprise She Sits and Directs the Activities of
Thousands and Making the Man Fit the Job Her caAs Phillips

struction Of each ship would necessarily have
been SO short that not much good could have
been expected from the workmanship. The
first of these ships lay in New York harbor
ready for its mission of transporting men
and goods across the submarine teeminu
The Washington herald., 1920-10-10

NEITHER too short nor too tall, but Of
~ just the right stature to correspond with
Der avoirdupoisi big, friendly blue eyes,
usually twinkling with merriment; mouth
fashioned seemingly for only amiable utter
ances; chin beautifully ovaled, get conveying
The Washington herald., 1920-10-10

ocean. Miss Ried sent to the newspaper
offices a request that they assign reporters
TO take a look at this ship. Her company
placed a tug at the disposal of the papers,
and she herself accompanied the reporters
down the bay to the new ship.
Crude and rather primitive, isn't it?'
said Miss Ried, when the vessel in question
The Washington herald., 1920-10-10

which she felt she ought to begin to
demonstrate that Shakespeare might, after
ALL have been right in questioning What's
In a name?" and that Henrits was as able
to achieve all or even more than Henry,
she went to Chicago and embarked upon
a journalistic career. She took charge Of
an electrical ''house organ" and in an in
credibly short time brosdened its scope and
converted it into a trade journal.
In 1914 she sold out her interest in her
trade journal for $50, 900, and went to
Europe. There she bought a great many
advertising agency rights, but before she
could make these available in the United
States the world war was begun.
Mr. Bush, whose storage business had
expanded prodiaously by this time, looked
The Washington herald., 1920-10-10

only Snlfted ana Sald SOlHtlHlHS aDO"N
YOU couldn't done it before" when he
proudly bore his offering from the
woodshed where he had made it OF
willow twigs. So is genius often
rewarded. Remember the case of the
man who invented the sewing machine.
Now it appears that clothes baskets
soon will be made to fit both lean and
distinguished anatomies. What for!
Why to sit in, to be sure.
In our childhood we saw much OF
the homeIy clothes basket, never
dreaming that we would live to the
day when it would occupy a position
of state beside the grand piano. 1t
was used as a repository for soiled
clothes when the laundry bag was full
after the Saturday night bathing
tournament was over, for instance.
Then Monday morning it was swab-
bed out, preparatory to carrying the
rejuvenated clothes out to the line in
the back yard. Just in passing, 1t may
be remarked that in many sections OF
the country the backyard still bloomed,
filed with hollyhocks and sun
flowers.
Sometimes <the clothes bas- "a
ket just hung from a nail on w.
the back porch. Some people Xl
keep the clothes basket in the -
cellar, but it was believed that Is
the back porch was the better. ~
Whenever your family -
moved into the next block or Nd
around the corner, mother
filed the clothes basket with
The Washington herald., 1920-10-10

MOT to change the subject. but it's tact'
~ clothes baskets are beginning to appear
in the living rooms of our better homes.
That is, if apartment houses on upper River
side Drive, New York, may be called homes.
Clothes baskets have been put to various
uses since the ingenious and indolent husband
of the ambitious washerwoman invented the
article one day when it was too rainy to go
fishing. Since then clothes baskets have
been a fixed institution, but no marble SHAFT
marks the spot where the ingenious husband
lies. 1t is not known that any one ever
eulogized him in print. He probably died in
oblivion and obscurity. Perhaps his wife
only sniffed and said something about pity
The Washington herald., 1920-10-10

DROUD young married folk, whose hnsn
L cial status isn't what they would like
it to be, may take a lesson from the young
couple who promenaded down Chestnut
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-09-14
PROTECTION IS

ever protection is necessary by the
proper use of tariff regulation.
"The time has come when we are
ceasing to be food exporting nation,
and must look well to guaranteeing
that we shall be self-sustaining. A
failure to be self-sustaining in agri-
culture, in our food supply, will mean
the weakness which afflicted and
threatened one or more of our great
allies in the World war. Failure to
be self-sustaining would be menace
to us in war, and menace to us in
peace.
1--WE have adequate ma tional and in
ternational reasons for keeping alive
our necessary agricultural industries
when they are threatened by compe-
ton from lands of cheap labor or new
and exploited soil, by protective
duty upon our imports of food. And,
of course, l use the word agriculture
in it's broader sense, including borti-
culture
Il think case in point Is your own
citrus and other fruit industries of
California. America mus ask her
self If she will allow these industries
to be threatened in their very exis-
tence by the invasion Of foreign
grown fruits cultivated, in some
cases, under a subsidy given by a
foreign government, by labor which
knows nothing of our own American
standards of living.
my answer is that just as the
fruit growers of California are will
ing to put America first, so must
America be first in upholding their
efforts, and that If to save this or
any other worthy and developing ag-
rfcultural industry of America, tariff
protection is necessary, then tariff
protection must be given.
Reaffirming his support of the Cum
mings-Esch act restoring the railways
to their owners. Senator Harding
charged, in a speech to delegation of
railroad workers here Monday, that by
assuming control of the roads at all
the Wilson administration had sought
to promote policy based on perman.
eDt government operations.
Had the experiment proved a sue.
cess, the Republican nominee declar
ed, the administration would have
favored retention of the transportation
lines and other public utilities under
government control. The war, he said
had offered an opportunity to try out
the scheme only because 1t permitted
administration officials to take advant
age of the anXieties of the people, in
asking authority to take over the prop
critics.
The senator also assaulted as Social