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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-06-16
SHORE BUNGALOW
COLONY SUFFERS
HE IA! lvI| Y RY F|RF'
Between 600 and 700 Buildings
at Averne Destroyed
COSTLY RESIDENCES BURN
Firemen Hurt While Dynamit-
ing Houses to Check
Spread of Flames n

New York, June 16.-Fire swept
through the seashore bungalow col.
ony at Arverne, between Rockaway
and Far Rockaway last night and de-
stroyed between 600 and TOO build.
ings. More than score OF colonists,
hovercome by smoke while fighting TO
save their effects, were rescued by
firemen and policemen.
Aryerne lies in narrow part OF
1.-The Rockaway peninsula anV
stretches across from Jamaica bay
to the sea. The blaze, believed to
have started in Hotel Worthless,
quickly spread to the light wooden
bungalows on the bay side. Fire.
boats, sent from New York, fought
the fire from the bay.
Every structure in fve-bock
area was destroyed. In Beach So.
60 and 61 streets, the private rss-
idential section, 80 residences, valued
at from $4,000 to $25,000 eaca, rs
bungalows, valued at $4,000 each, and
l5 hotels and boarding houses, val
ued at $4,000 to $4,000 each were
destroyed.
Seven engine companies, sent from
New York, aided the volunteer fire
fighting companies from beach re-
sorts, and FIVE lines were stretched
around the fire area. After three
hours the blaze was reported under
control
The blaze presented a spectacle
that attracted thousands and many
these assisted the firemen and the
residents in removing household
goods. An entire section OF small
bungalows was dynamited in an at
tempt to arrest the flames, and sew
eral firemen were hurt in this opera
.tion.
Many women and men risked their
lives to save valuable prcrerty. =
number OF these, overcome by smoke.
were rescued by fremen and police
and taken TO hospitals. Thirty fire.
men suffered burns and slight injur-
les.
Tents and improvised shelters
were pitched on the beach and occup-
ied for the night by the hundreds
whose homes were burned.
Service wires from the lighting
plant that furnished power for Ar.
verne and nearby resorts we're burn.
ed and the section was without light.
One hundred and fifty children in
Israel Orphan asylum were marched
from the building as flames licked its
walls, They were housed in a hotel
outside the fire area. The orphanage
was destroyed.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-06-16
COALITION PANEL
BEING OPPOSED IN
IRISH ELECTION
Voters in Southern Section
Selecting Parliament Today
INDEPENDENTS FIGHTING
Enter a Number of Candidates in
Effort to Overturn Agree
ment BY Two Factions

Dublin, June 16 (By the Associated
Press THE voters in southern Ire
land went to the polls today to elect
an Irish Parliament, as provided UNI
der the terms of the Angio-lrish
treaty. Under an agreement recent
ly reached between factions favoring
and opposing the treaty Goa ition
panel of candidates was presented TO
the apportioning the representation
in parliament at approximately the
same ratio as has been shown In past
tests OF strength in the Dali Eireann.
A number of independents entered
the field in an attempt to overturn
the panel on the treaty issue.
The day opened quietly with little
excitement reported in any district.
London, June 16.--The draft OF the
inew Irish constitution, made public
last night on the eve of the Irish
elections, gives, as the document IT.
self states, force Of law to the Anglo
Irish treaty and expressly declares
that any provision of the constitu-
ton or any amendment thereto, or
any law enacted under the consti-
tuition which Is in any respect repug-
nant to the treaty, shall be void and
imperative.
The constitution thus embodies
connection with the British crown,
as already established in the treaty,
and generally places the relations
between Ireland and the empire on
the same basis as Canada and the
other Dominions.
The constitution requires every
member Of the Free State parliament
to subscribe faith and allegiance to
the constitution and swear to be faith
full to the king in virtue of the COM
mon citizenship OF Ireland and Great
Britain and Ireland's membership In
the British commonwealth Of nations.
The document contains 79 articles
and is considered an up to date in.
strument, not only granting women
suffrage, proportional representation
and referendum to the people, but
also empowering the people them
selves to initiate legislation. 1t gives
TO the Chamber great power with re.
spect to money bills, without control
from the Senate, thus duplicating
tie position as between the British
House OF Commons and the House Of
Lords.
1t exempts the Free State from ac-
tive participation in war without the
consent of Parliament, except in the
case of actual invas. .on, and gives the
irish supreme court the fullest
powers, only stipulating for the right
OF citizens to appeal to the king in
council against the supreme courts
decision.
II provides for freedom of religion
and conscience, gives Free State citi.
zens full protection against the arbi-
:trary power OF court martial, and ex.
tends to Parliament exclusive control
over the armed forces, as stipulated
iD the treaty
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-06-16
PRICES AFFECTIONS
OF WIFE AT $4,000
w. {. Palmer Of Montpelier Sues M.
Thompson Of shelburne for
Alienation.

Montpelier, June 16.-Suit for $40.
600 damages for alienation Of affec.
tions has been entered in Washing.
ton county court by William E. Pal.
mer OF the city against Michael
Thompson Of Shelburne, a former
member of the state legislature.
Palmer claims that Thompson allie.
mated the affections of his wife.
Alma Il. Palmer, depriving him of
lher companionship and causing him
distress of mind and body so that he
was unable to carry on his business
in his ordinary manner.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-06-16
NORTH BENNINGTON

The Baccalaureate service OF the
graduating class of the North Ben.
nington High school viii be held at
the Baptist church, Sunday evening
at 1880, daylight saving time. Rev.
John Leonard Cole, pastor OF the
Methodist church OF Bennington, will
deliver the address.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-06-16
E. z. Waist

EARNED runs, Merchants 8, b. u.
waist 2; 2 base hits, Russell (2), Har
lyey, Walker, o. osland; stolen bases.
S. Levin, Walker. Sumner. E. Osland.
Moore CD; Millington. White. Walsh.
Dockum; sacrifice Hit, Russell. struck
out by Dockum s, by White G, by
Sumner II; bases on balls. off Dock.
um l, off Sumner /; passed ball.
Russell, Percy; wild pitch, Sumner:
umpires, w. Lonergan and w.
Brooks.
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RAISING "5ULLPLUGSJ
Massachusetts, Sends to Vermont for
Horned Pouts.

Montpelier June 16.-An order
has been received at the office of the
State fish and game commissioners
for a consignment of hornpout finger
lings from Lake Champlan. Special
Deputy Warden II. A. Booth OF Yer
gennes is in charge of preparing the
for shipment.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-06-16
Standing Of the Clubs.
MERCHANTS DEFEAT
EZ WAIST BY ONE RUN
Went to the Front In Final Innino of
Twilight League Game Last
Evening.

The Twilight league is developing
some real baseball. Last evening the
Merchants defeated the f. Z. Waist
company by the score of to G. The
score was tied In the seventh inning
and an extra period was needed TO
decide the game. Two good pitchers
struck out more than half the batters
but there were enough runners on
bases to make the game interesting
from start to finish. The score
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-06-16
The event which causes

probate expense, Inheritance and 9th
er forms OF taxation, should create
means to pay these death duties. ;
Lille insurance Is the economic answ.
err National Life ms. Co., Of vt.
tMutual) Earle S. Kinsley, General
Agent, Mead Building, Rutland VT
Advertisement.
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REV. J. H. WILLS DIES
Chaplain In Legislature for Three
Successive Terms,

UndeThill, June 16.-The Rev. J..
II. Wills died Tuesday morning at
his home here very suddenly of blood
poisoning. lie was born at Hines.
burg 67 years ago.
He had been preacher IN the
Methodist church for about 35 years,
retiring year ago at the parish at
Binghamvllle He was chaplain OF
the Legislature for three sessions
preceding the last one.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-06-16
Bluff Self Esteem
STIFF SENTENCE FOR WHEELER
Stowe Farmer Who Abused Girl Co.
ing to Prison.

Hyde Park, June 16.--Charles
Wheeler, As, the Stowe farmer, who
was convicted in federal court in AL.
bany on a statutory offense follow
ing the virtual rescue from his
house by doctor Of woman who
had answered his ad. for house.
keeper, has been sentenced in La
noble county court to serve eight to
IL years at Windsor
The girl in the case had to be treat
ed by physician, and she appealed
to him to get her out of the house.
Wheeler was thereupon arrested
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-06-16

Geoffrey chaucer is usually given
this title. He was the first to use the
seyen'llne stanza and ten.syhable
eouplct In English verse.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-06-16
BIG LEAGUE BASEBALL
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Yesterdays Results

Boston 8, Cleveland 3.
Detroit 2, New York /.
st. Louis 3, Washington 2.
Philadelphia 10, Chicago 8.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-06-16
LIQUOR BUSINESS eoop
Quebec Commission Reports Bia Sur.
plus After Paylnu Debts.

Montreal, June 16.-The surplus
OF the Quebec liquor commission for
the first year of its operatlonal insti.
tutions and redemption of $1,000 900
of the provincial debt, probably viii
amount to more than s5,5OO,OO0.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-06-16
Standing Of the Clubs.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Yesterdays Results.

New York 4, Pittsburg 2.
st. Louis 4, Brooklyn 3.
Philadelphia 7, Cincinnati 0.
Chicago-Boston, rain.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-06-16
WEATHER FORECAST

Showers late tonight or Saturday
Warmer tonight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-11

''Too many persons in Topeka are
dying. and too many are dying too
young" DR.. Earle G. Brown, city
health officer. declared. He bases his
charge that Topekans are committing
wholesale suicide, on a comparison of
the number of deaths which have &C
Cured from all causes in Topeka dur
ing the past four years, and the deaths
which have occurred from communi-
cable-and therefore preventable-
diseases.
The two charts reproduced herewith
show graphically, the relation. The
curve which represents the total
death rate for the four years, averaged
by months. is closely followed by the
curve which represents the deaths
from communicable disease.
DIR. Brown uses the phrases acute
communicable Diseases
and ''preventable diseases" almost in
terchangea bly, An acute infection, he
points out, may be a communicable
disease in itself. or the resulting COM
pIication of a communicable disease,
and therefore a preventable disease in
either case.
Urges More PrecautiOn.
proper precautions of isolation,
quarantine, innOculatiOn, vaccination,
or at least early consultation of a
and resulting medical treat
ment, would prevent preventable
deaths and lower the death rate from
them and in general" is the conclu-
sion drawn by the city health officer.
Coming down to actual figures, DIR.
Brown shows that there have oc-
Cured, from all causes. 1922 deaths
in Topeka during 1918, 1919. 1920
and 1921. OF this number there were
100 due to communica BILE diseases or
PSI per cent of the total. The re-
naming 2.S32 deaths occurred from
all other causes.
Pneumonia Holds Lead.
Pneumonia has led all other dis
eases with SOC deaths, or 9.S per cent
of all deaths which have occurred
during the four-year period. Pneu-
monia is communicable and prevent
able disease in that it has occurred
probably 80 per cent of
the cases-as a complication of flu.
Now flu has been of abnormal promi-
nence during the five-year period. Alb
normal in that the flu cycle comes
around every thirty years or so.
tuberculosis has had a low death
rate in Topeka for the past four years.
but nevertheless there is a vast room
for Improvement. Under normal con-
ditions, other than the recurrence of
the influenza cycle, tuberculosis would
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-11

traceab1e, to errors in diet. especially
in the feeding of babies, and most
prevalent in summer time.
Arterio- sclerosis. hardening of the
arteries, may be traced to alcoholism
to a too-rich and heavy diet, and to
overwork.
Peritonitis is frequently caused by
neglect or delay in a case of appen-
dicitis.
The number of deaths occurring
from cancer has been steadily on the
increase during the four years. In
1918, there were thirty-seven deaths
from this cause; in 1919, forty-six; in
1920, fifty-five and in 1921, sixty.
THE element of preventability, with
proper precautions and attention, en-
ters into every one of these ten main
causes of DEATH" DR.. Brown points
out.
Death Rate Here Decreasing.
The general death rate for the city,
during the past four years. has been
steadily decreasing, the health depart
1913 per thousand population in 1918;
14.7 per thousand in 1919; 14.6 per
thousand in 1920, and IA per thousand
in 1921.
The actual numbers of deaths show
a decrease also, with the exception
of the number reported in 1920 In
1918, the heaviest flu year there
were 945 deaths reported. Flu was
responsible for an extraordinarily high
percentage of them. In 1919 there
were 7S0 deaths reported, and in 1920,
there We're 733. In 1921 there were
reported only TIA deaths.
October Holds Record.
BY months, October, 1918, the
heighth of the flu epidemic, leads all
other months with 161 deaths De-
cember of the same year is second
with 102 deaths; February, 1920 an
other flu month is third with r,i1a+x,
two deaths; November, 1918, had
eighty-nine-more flu; April, 1918
was fifth with eighty-six deaths.
The month with the lowest death
record reported at any time during
the seven years covered by health de-
partment statistics, was June, 1921,
with only thirty-nine deaths. August
1919, was second with forty-two
deaths June and October of 1919 had
forty-four deaths each.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-11
BIBLE STUDY
Y. w. c. A.-Menninger Course
Published Every Saturday in The Topeka State Journa
a State Journal.
DIVISION III.

DIVISION III
VI Jericho. Verse 16. VII. Achan- Verse
20. VIII. Al. Verse /.
1. What was TO be done in the taking Of
Jericho?
2 What alone was to be saved from its
5. What was Joshua's prophecy for the
man who should rebuild the city?
4. What words begin with j. in chap
5. What interest attaches to the number
seven
6 why was Israers first advance in the
land a failure2
6. What was the tribe. manner Of dis
covery, and punishment for Achan?
Q. How Al finally captured2
10 Outline events in eonnection with h, the
DIVISION ".
TX. Gibeonites. Verse II.
NJ. Northern Campaign. Verse Is.
" Southern Campaign. Verse 25.
MI 81 Kings. Verse 6.
l. In what way did the inhabitants OF the
land prepare for joshua
= What people deceived Joshua and why
could they do it2
3. What place were the Gibeonites to fill
4. How did the truce with the Gibeonites
get Israel into troubled
3. What great battle was the result?
O. How was Joshua helped to win the
battle?
4. What territory was won and how was
It doneg
5. What did the northern tribes do. and
who led thems
O. What is said of the equipment OF the
northern kings2
10. What assurance came to Joshua2
IL Outline the work Of Joshua in the
Northern Campaign III s 8; IL; Is; Il
1920
II, What is catalogued in the twelfth
chapter Of Joshua
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-11
Fiye-Day Meeting To Be Held
Here Next Week.
To Lay Cornerstone of New
Methodist Church in Topeka.
TO ENTERTAIN 65O VISITORS
Bishop w. A. Quayle of st.
Louis VIII Attend.
Laymen's Association TO.Be in
Session Friday Evening.

One of the features of the program
of the annual meeting of the Kansas
conference of Methodist Episcopal
churches, which will be held in Topeka.
from Tuesday to Saturday, March IA
to IS, will be the laying of the cor
nerstone of the new First Methodist
church edifice. The dedicatory serv
ices will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday
afternoon. Bishop E. L. Waldorf, of
Wichita, and Bishop Homer Suntz, of
Omaha will officiate at the services.
Two hundred and fifty laymen and
400 ministers are expected to attend
the conference. All sessions will be
held at the First Presbyterian church.
Bishop Quayle to Speak.
Bishop w. A. Quayle. of st. Louis,
former president of Baker university.
will address the opening meeting of
the conference Tuesday evening. The
Wednesday morning session will open
lat $3.50 o'clock. Music will be pro-
vided by the quartet of the Kansas
City Training school for deaconnesses
at all morning services DR.. w. c.
Hanson, of Chicago, will speak at the
anniversary banquet of the Sunday
school board, Wednesday evening. DR..
George B. Dean, of Philadelphia, and
DR.. I. Garland Penn, of Chicago, will
speak at the banquets of the home
missionary and education-for-negro
board Thursday evening.
Friday night DR.. w. R. Wether-
spoon, of Chicago, pastor of st. James
Methodist church, will give lecture
on Jean Vatican"
The Methodist church of Topeka
will hold joint morning services, Sun
day, March 10, at the city auditorium.
Bishop Waldorf will deliver the ser
mon.
Bishop Waldorf will ordain the new
ministers at the ordinations services
Sunday afternoon. DR.. G. Franklin
Ream, of Kansas City, Kan, will also
speak at the Sunday afternoon service
DR.. Dan Brummit, of Chicago, edi-
tor of the Epworth Herald, will speak
at meeting of the Epworth league at
Z o'clock Sunday evening at the First
church.
The laynen's association of the con-
ference will convene Friday evening
and will close Sunday evening.
The graduates of Baker university
will hold a banquet at o'clock Fri
day evening at the First Presbyterian
church. The graduates of Boston uni
versity will hold banquet at 6 o'clock
Saturday evening at the same place
A boys conference, of which the
program has not been arranged, will
be held in connection with the reg
ular conference. Each church will be
permitted one delegate at these meet |
ings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-11

Topeka may be Sout in the sticks.
by the standards of some of the effete
fasteners, but Topeka. by gum, ain
so slow. Attest = letter received by
The State Journal from Sanford Jar
rell. formerly a reporter on The State
Journal now on the editorial staff of
the New York Globe.
Some time ago there appeared on
the horizon of those given to the con-
sumption of such dainties, a new con-
lection Eskimo Pie" The delicacy
was invented, connected, produced and
featured, by the Beatrice Creamery
company of Topeka. 1t consists of a
hunk of Ice cream with a toothsome
chocolate covering frozen to it.
The new cCnfection took instant
". The question Have you eaten an
Eskimo Pie yet?' took rank in the
cultural catechism, with Have you
read The Sheik?'' The Juror of its
arrival has passed in Topeka.
Like the concentric ripples caused
by the stone thrown into the center
of a still pond. the waves of interest
in it have reached New York. at last
Jarrells letter says in part:
The Eskimo Pie, which, to my
knowledge, has been commonplace in
Topeka and elsewhere in the west for
several months. rrived in New York
this week 1t is all the rage, I laugh
when I think that once in a while,
Broadway is nine laps behind"
Who leads?
TODekat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-11

hand while he clutched the pistol in
the other
When the madWan bent his gaze
upon the Bible for a fraction OF a
momant-'I saw what I shall always
think was my only escape from a final
shot, in spite of all the Biblical proof,
and with a sudden turn of the electric
switch. which was fortunately close
enough for me to touch il, I turned
out the electric light and, not stopping
to say goodbye, I made a dash for
the Primary room, opened and shut
it. and thru that room. out of doors;
and once out Of doors, 1 am frank
to say that I ran down the alley that
bounds the church on the rear
Il was a good runner in college,
and once held the record for the 400
yard dash. But 1 shall always regret
that no one was present to take my
time down the alley, where I am quite
sure a. worlds record was broken that
night.
when I reached home telephoned
the state hospital that I thought one
of the inmates was at large, and with
out going into details, gave my rea-
sons. I found that my suspicious
were correct. The man was caught
next day thirty miles from the
church, and so I gathered he must
have made almost as good time get
ting away as I did
I have not mentioped this because
it was in itself any more remarkable
than scores Of human stories that
were acted out in that little study. And
I surely hope that the relation of il
in connection with this narrative of
the open Door will not brighten any
other minister away from the estab-
lishment of like custom with his
Protestant folk"
In a reca pitulation of the expert
ences OF maintaining a protestant
Confessional" DR.. Sheldon says: The
stream of human sin and sorrow
seemed at times TO be dark and deep,
as the Sunday afternoons went by.
An astonishing revelation of the in
ner life of the parish. never apparent
to the man in the pulpit as he looked
out into the faces of the decorous con-
gregadon, but revealed in the little
study. with the agony of the cry for
help or the struggle of those who had
yielded to defeat. and were ready to
sink in the slough of their own cow
ardly admission that they had failed
to put TO the test the faith they had
claimed to have at the Communion
table or the marriage altar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-11
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.

They fail. and they alone, who have not
striven.-Aldrich.
God watches each man as if he were the
only man TO be watched: He will keep
the feet Of His saints, and the wicked shall
be silent in darkness. John Parker.
Be nobel And the nobleness that lies
in other men, sleeping but never dead, will
rise in majesty to meet thine own
Lowell.
No man is a free man who has a vice
for his Inaster-SOcrates-
Be strong and work, for I am with you,
saith the Lord Of hOsts--Haggai Pa.
j am but one,
But 1 one;
i cannot do everything.
But 1 can do something:
What can do ought to do,
And what 1 ought to do
God helping me. l will do.
Edward Everett Hale.
No man ever sank under the burden of
today: il is when tomorrOw's burden is
added to tOday's that the weight is more
than a man can bear.-G. Macdonald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-11
LESSON XXX.


Joshua 1-12. The Conquest of the
Land
This Book is a delight to warrior
saints determined TO reign thru
Christ"
DIVISION I.
Commit 81 10.
I. Coed Courage. Verse 9. II Rahab
Verse ..
/ What was Gods command to Joshua !?
> How much OF the land would be Is
raeIss
made to Joshuaf
a. For what two reasons was Joshua to
be strong and courageOusF
D. What three things are necessary for
good" courage?
G. Where and how did Rahab hide the
{. What two reasons did Rahab give
for believing in Israels God
s. What was the sign OF the covenant
between Rahab and the spiesG
DIVISION II.
III. Jordan. Verse Il. " Memorial.
Verse q Circumcision Verse If.
!. What preparations were made for
2. What was to be the fate of the in
habltants OF the land?
:. What was the significant title for
4 How was the great miracle accom-
s How was its completion commem-
orateds
s what was the first thing Joshua did
In the land. and why2
Z. What effect had the crossing of the
Jordan on the heather nations?
8. Name the four great events recorded
in chapter nvef.