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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-15
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News OF the Town and Village and
Advertisements.

Mrs Fannie Carrier is confined to
her home on School street by illness.
Last showing Of "Tho Rosary the
grand new symphony of human emo
ton. Opera house tonight
Mr.. and Mrs. e. N. Forcier leave
tomorrow for Brighton Mass taking
Their small daughter to ST. Eliza.
beth's hospital in that city for treat.
men;.
Miss Elizabeth lockwood, a stud
ent at st, Agnes school, Albany, is
spending the Easter vacation with
her parents Mr.. and Mrs. A, w.
lockwood
Betty Compson in THE Law and
the Woman a Paramount picture,
from THE Woman in the Case" the
brilliant play by Clyde Fitch. Harte
Theatre today.
The Baptist Young Peoples So
ciety viii have a sunrise service al
1880 Sunday morning. The Carey
Group will have charge. All are urg
ed to be present
Osborne Hutchinson, patrolman be
tween Bennington and North Adams
for the New England power company,
VIII spend Sunday at his home in
Greenfield, Mass.
Mrs. Edward Jones and baby have
returned to Utica after spending
three weeks with Mrs Jones mother.
Mrs. Il. +. Taylor They were ac-
companed by Mrs. Grace Ford and
daughte'.
Miss NJ Edna Waldron. formerly a
member Of the staff Of the Evening
Banner but at present secretary to
the superintendent o. tie Thomp.
sons Island farm and trades school in
Boston harbor, Is at home for Easter.
The Second Congregational church
bell Will ring at Z o'clock tomorrow in
warning for the early morning service
at 1880. This IS a service for young
people and any others who wish to
have the inspiration Of greeting Eas
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-15
SOUTH sHAFTssURY

Levi Hill is on the sick list
Fred Sticllie Is in town for a few
days
Mrs Charles Monroe was in Ben
ningtcn Wednesday,
Mrs S. f. Gllusha was IN Bennng.
ton Wednesday afternoon shopping
Albert Madison and Gertrude Mat
tisun were in Bennington Thursday
afternoon
Mrs. II. II. Mlrneld is spending
some time in Pawlet with relatives
who are H.
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WANTED--A live dealer for an ex-
elusive sales franchise boo this territory
Because of increased facilities an eN-
elusive sales franchise for an electric
tuNahtuges over AN others can be Sc
cured
Either an established organization or
..'u c.sirods of starting "a new eXclu-
slve light plant business will be con-
sidered Sales ability and initiative In
tppuodut Us OF greater Importance than
financial worth.
with this franchise comes wonderful
selling advantages 10 includes close
factory cooperation and real service
Priced attractivcly it holds tNcep-
uoual possibilities Of profit aAd assures
permaneucy of growth Territory linn
tied only by the effort put forth.
Further particulars and personal
interview can be had by addressing
Dealer T. O. Box iio Bennington Vt
S6t6'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-15
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village and
Advertisements.

Heinz Little sweet gherkins IN bulk
at the Cheakerline
Fine fitting oxfords Tor men just
in at Harris, Price $500, $500 and
800. S5t2
Miss Elizabeth Crun,n, who
teaches in the public schools Of
Greenfield, Mass is home to spend
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-15

WANTED-SuIcsmen and distributors
sell simplex stop signal 10 dealers and
car owners. Does not work on battery.
1etals 500. Big comm ission. Simplex
TIL Inmp Signal Co, 1913 North Craw-
FORA, chicago. 66tie
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-15

Sometimes the after effects of mea.
sizes are worse than the disease itself
This is particularly true of the con-
dition in which the disease often
leayej the eyes. Measles patients
must be protected from light, other
wise blindness may result
OF course those who suffered from
IN under supply of nerve impulses
to the eyes We're In position to suffer
most from an attack of this disease
When the eyes are weakened by sub.
normal nerve supply, the only correc.
ton is to restore a ,ull degree of nerve
freedom by chiropractic spinal adjust
meuts Thoea who suffer IN this way
from measles after effects can do
nothing better than to arrange for chi
roplactic spinal adjustments
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-15

FOR SALE-75 600 second hand red
bricks, cleaned. ready for shipment.
Attractive price per thousand The
Eobie y Wood Machine CO.. Hooslck
Falls g. Y S6tt
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WANTED-Mau with car and sales
ability salary and extra commission
with exclusive contract. The Mauufar-
.urer HOS Michigan Ave, Chicago m.
SGtlf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-15
MEASLES BLINDNESS rs NOW
OVERCOME

When | was six.
measles LEFT me blind
lu both eyes for
about a year. then ]
began Go sec OUT OF
my right eye. but
was stlll blind iu the
left This was my
condition when ! be-
gan chiropractic spi-
ual adjustments AZ
ter about "a week Of
adjustments ] could
see again with tho
left eve. Today ]
have discarded my
glasses and can read
fine print without
strain. ! certainly
feel grateful Go Chi
ropractic as it has
done for me what
could not have been
done hy amy other
kind OF doctor o.
Roy H. poughcrty
@ d fro practic Re-
sohrch Bureau State
fs1nuf Nn 1874
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WANTED-A position firing boilers
or ass night Waterman Have had ~
years experience. References If ueccs-
sorry Charles Buckley. 3S Fourth st.
Hoosick Falls, y. y. s6t6'
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WANTED Help Worlds fastest
accessory. "a repeater long profits new.
hey am want 3d. Write Fred j Barn
ard, Newport VI SGt6s
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-15

FOR SALE Main street dwelling
property with good street frontage. lo-
Gated I'm the business section Inquire
William II wills. Phone 500. Hawks
block SGtG
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TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

FOR SALE Village property of ".
b. sheldon. Colonial house. "a rooms
about ll0N22O feet Apply at S07 Main
street. S6t6
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FOR SALE-Bui,diug lots on upper
Main street Branch street Gage street.
silver street and Dewey street. Low
prices and good locations Inuuire
william II wills Phone 500 sets
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-04-15
Sometimes After Effects
Of Measles Are Worse

Graduate Of the Palmer
S.nOnI of DhIrouraetIc
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-01-06

WHITING. TNp- Jan. 6-oae St t6e
most daring robberics in the history s.
Whiting occurred here early last ese-
ming when . masked bandit entered the
store Of John Kucaski, 1soth street and
Berry avenue. stcslitz Pass. aAd fore
ing the owner TO open the cash register.
tapped the till for $3.50 lie escaped IN
q Ford sedan.
kuhashi VINO was waiting uaon a
couple of customers in his eroesfg store
failed 70 note the entrance of tire hold
M msn until ono OF the women scream
Cd. Tho bandit Hou7tshed HIS sun and
ordered silence under penalty og death.
Nubss4i WAS commanded - omen the
cash register. Tire bandit threu large
red haHakerohief upou tie counter and
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-01-06

Has More Cash in Banks Than
Any Other Human Being
in World
FORD FIRST u. S.
BILLIONAIR
LINrEFNArIoNAL NEws sERvIcEI

INTERNATIONAL NEWS sERYIcEI
Henry Ford Il the first American
bfIIionaire. His revelation from
Detroit today show that he and not
John %. Rockefeller, is the richest
man in the United states. The ell
der Rockefeller was credited with
being a Millionaire in n recent bull
lettn of the concentration of Amert-
can wealth. After the appearance
OF the book John ID. Rockefeller. Jr.
wrote letter 10 the New York
press denying that his father was
worth a billion dollars. EFr. Rookie
feIIer said his fathers fortune had
been kept down by the vast chari-
table contributions and donations to
science
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-01-06

George Dallas Eggers. ged years.
living with his parents at 699 Coium-
bia avenue. is i'll with chickeu-poN.
This is the only case Of conta gious d.
sease reported to The office Of the city
health director since the first of soc
year. still some people insist that
there are cases of grippe and small pos
la town
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-01-06
- " 800 II a q
s-LATESI BUl.L .E1,I'TNS Y
- 4 - - u u & y Q

OF J Beiton Kennedy. attempted to
commit suicide at the County jafl
late YESTERDAY. according to a re-
port by Deputy Sheriff Patton. his
guard g Sheriff Traeger today.
Patton said that Burch while re-
turniRr e the JAN from the court
room tried % throw himself from
bridge forty feet 70 the floor be-
low
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-01-06

INTERNATIONAL news sERHeEI
Los ANGELES. Jan Arthur
G. Burch. on trial for the murder
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-01-06
THE WEATHER

GENERALLY fair tonight and saeur-
~ rising temperature Saturday.
80 80 eo py Carr era n Hammond
ana w Hammond soc per rnontb on
sTeets and news stands, &C per copy.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-01-06

Furthermore IT appears that the Jones
ard Laughlin Seople have gone too far
with the Hanfuond deal to back out.
70 all intents and purposes the land
has been bought and paid for. ADr
senator or congressman from this
triet who would not obtain the
facility for them need not
90 back to Washington. Tbr
good Viii and oo-operatioy
of Hammond, East Chieag
ing. The board of works o
this morning entered into II
CONTINUED on Page Fiv. %y
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OF affair about nine feet in diameter and
twenty feet deep. Into 1t were thrown the
bones Of the victims after the feast was
over, and above these gruesome remnants
the priests performed certain ceremonies
calculated to protect the living from the
spirits of the outraged dead.
""Cutting around the rim Of this hole
with our cutlasses, we managed, after an
hour of tuggng and hauling, to dislodge
and remove a great mass of creepefs, dis.
closing a huge pile OF human bones. A
couple of pieces of mahogany, which must
have been taken from some ship, were
lying near the top of the heap, and led us
to wonder how many OF the bones mouldar.
ing in the pile beneath were those of white
men.
"'AftCr the keen edges Of their appctites
had worn off. the feastCrs adjourned to the
dance hail." a rectangular subterranCan
chamber of about thirty by fifty feet. The
most OF this great room was natural cave
which pierced the mountain immediately
under the feast ground, but to seaward
considerable extension of masonry had
been added to give more space.
1.-The latter had been destroyed in
freshet and hurricane which occurred about
two years previous to our visit, but the
cave portion was still in, fair state of
preservation. This had been roughly
squared with walls of fitted boulders, AMI
off from il opened numerous little retiring
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Louis Stevenson, the novelist, who had
heard of this celebrated spot.
In his extremely interesting book, "In
the Tracks of the Trades" Mr.. Freeman
gives this account of his visit to the can.
nibal banquet grove on the island Of Nuka-
hiva:
THE great cannibal feast grounds Of
Nukahiva and Hiva.oa are so strictly tabu
that no native can be found who will ven.
ture within their forbidden confines.
Stevenson writes Of visiting the Hatihen
high. place in company with a French
priest and native boy; but on the occa.
sion of our visit we held out every conceiv-
able inducement in an endeavor to secure
native guides TO the same feast ground
and quite in vain.
Not even among the converts of tn ,
Catholic Fathers could be found one who
held the tabu lightly enough 10 dare 10
violate It. The best we could do was 20
persuade several of them to accompany us
to the line of the tabu, and there to awai.
our return, while we went over the ruins
with McGrath.
THE following description is from note :
taken by Claribe on this occasion, apd sub
Sequenliy ampllhed under the direction OF
McGrath. who. IN the fifteen years he has
maintained trading store at Hatiheu, has
missed no opportunity to push inquiries
among the natives regarding what is TN.
uuestionably the most interesting spot
Of its kind in The South Pacific.
Ion the seaward side Of a spur of the
mountain a level spa"9. oval in general
shape, had been partly excavated partly
built up, so that there was smooth foor
about 300 feet long by 200 feet wide In
semi.circle, with the chiefs house in the
centre. were the little feast houses" of the
court dignitaries and the special guests.
Beneath the posts of each house ex.
cavations have disclosed a number of. hu
man bones which bear witness 10 the sacri.
fee which accompanied the setting ot every
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plenty or some especially great event was
to be celebrated. lasted over week. Each
guest brought some contribution to the
feast, and when it was over he was
privileged to gather up and carry home
any fragments that he liked.
THE dining room was the space in
front of the houses, and there, spread on
the huge leaves of the banana and taro,
the feast was laid. Meat was handled with
big four-tined forks of wood; poi and other
qoft dishes in calabashes of coco shell and
shallow wooden platters. The drinking
cups. in which was served fiery wine
made from the juice of the tender shoots
of the cocoanut, were the hollow shells OF
nuts.
THE food, in addition to human fesh,
or "long.pg," included the meat of the
wild cattle goats and pigs. roasted, boiled
fried and sailed raw, and served with miti.
hali a most piquant sauce still in use ard
which Is composed of a mixture of lime
Juice and the pressed.out milk of grated
cocoanuts. Bananas and plantains, cooked
and uncooked. were served: also ,aro in
balls which looked like mud and tasted
like sago and brown sugar; breadrruit,
avocados, seaweed, sQuid, prawns and
shrimps and an endless variety of indgen
ous tropical fruits.
1.-The general plan OF the place was,
roughly, as follows Beginning at the right
and running in a seaward direction, there
was first the private stairway for an Off.
cial who might be designated as the Cap.
tain of the Guard, a curving four.foot pass.
age, the steps of which were cut into the
earth and faced with stones. This stair.
way led up to the box where the Captain
presided during the festivities, and was for
his private use.
Next came the main approach to the
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FARTHER on was the stairway Tor the
cooks, provision bearers and the human
victims. This led to the Kitchen where
the irestones and/ chopplng blocks were
located. The frestones lined circular
depressio in the earth, and after this had
been thoroughly heated, the meat and trun'
all wrapped in Il leaves, we're laid soclaolY
together to cook The blackened stones OF
this old cannibal oven are still In place,
and halfhours work with an axe and
cutlass would put it in shape for service.
Back OF the kitchen was the "larder.
a round, deep hole where the "longpig'
was kept until ready for the oven. Directly
over the mouth of this hole and about
forty feet above IL, was the horizontally
projecting limb of the sacred banyan, tho
only tree, by the way, which was permit
ted to grow within tho walls
lover the limb hung a stout rope
braided of the 1brous bark Of the bau tree.
When the call for more meat came from
the Kitchen" the noosed end Of this rope
was lowered over the head of the victim
next in order, and he was pushed over tho
brink Of the hole, the fall usually breaking
his neck. Dismemberment, according to
prescribed rules followed, the choice bits
such as the hands and eyes and ears oeinc
laid aside for the chiefs.
Beyond the oven, and not far from the
chiefs house, was what might be called
the "bone.hole," rock.lined, well.like sort
pc Gr,a, Er,i,tn Rtrht. Reserved
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rooms which connected by private stair.
ways with the group Of guest houses above.
The hall was lighted with torches OF
kukui nuts, the sooty stains of which on
the walls the seepages OF years have no;
entirely effaced. Fantastic indeed must
have been the barbaric assemblage as re-
vealed in their fickering light; the hid.
eously tattooed dancers in head.dressss
fashioned in initiation of the forms of birds
and animals and fishes; the musicians
drumming on the hollow trunks OF burao
and hau, shaking shell and bone rattles,
footing conches and blowing shrl cane
whistles.
"'Hour after hour the dancers rceled In
the delirious abandon of the Maruuca1r
hula; now gliding, with a sinuous. snaiv
motion, their oil.glistening bodies hent al.
most TO the floor; now leapng wildly Into
the air, with SHOUTS and shrill screams.
lunging with their war clubs al ina sinary
foes; now seated on long woven mats Of
pandanus fibre before the dais where roy
atty reclined, bending and swayinE their
supple forms In series OF graceful, rhyth.
mic motions, accompanied only Ly song,
the clapping Of hands or the bes arg OF the
wooden drums. The boom OF the drums,
the shrilling OF the whistles, the shouts
Of the spectators, the shrieks of the dan.
GERS and the swishings Of their bare feet
upon the foor-how il all must have
stirred and amazed even those roistering
old pirate and whaling captains when 1t
struck upon their ears for the first timer"
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The Famous Cd,anibnl
Feast Ground of
the Most Primitive
South Sea Island
SaUages Where
<*Long-Pig''' (Human
Sacrfces) Are :
Served Up Nth /
Careful Etiquette !

EVERYBODY who has read Robinson
- Crusoe" carries through life more or
49, less curiosity as to cannibals and
what really happens at a cannibal feast of
South Sea savages. Information of def
mite character of the proceedings at these
ceremonials is not easy to get because
strangers are not welcome, and most white
men who have been present were there to
be cooked, served up on the savages'
wooden plates and eaten.
Mr. Louis A. Freeman, the English
traveller, explorer and vachtsman, has re.
Gently returned from a 14,0O0.mile yacht
ing cruise among the islands OF the Soutn
Pacific Ocean. In the little Marquesas
group of islands he had opportunity for
very interesting study of csnnibalism.
The Marquesas are small islands just
south Of the tropics and about half way
between Australia and the coast Of South
America. These islands are not large, are
not In any OF the regular lanes OF ships,
the natives are too lazy and worthless to
collect anything of value TO traders, and.
therefore, offered perhaps the best objects
OF primitive savagery which the explorer
could have studied.
The natives of the Marquesas Islands are
tall. wellbuilt blacks, but are not kinky.
haired negroes They belong to the same
racial group as the Hawaiians, but. OF
course, these remote islanders are utterly
uncivilized, run naked among the tropical
vegetation of the islands, use spears and
war clubs as their weapons, subsist chiefly
upon the fruits which grow in abundance
without any effort on their part, and now
and then brew a vile sort Of liquor made
out of the tender shoots of the cocoanut.
and start out in their canoes to collect
some victims from neighboring islands to
provide the meat course for a cannibal
feast
The carefully made drawing printed
above on this page was constructed by Mr..
A. Forester from sketches, photographs
and material supplied to him by Mr.. Free.
man. II happens that this particular feast
ground which has been in existence FOR
years and years, was Cnce visited by Robert
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OkctCu iFOfn SdTCiu DcSStsPtsoA
by Explorer Freeman Of the
Marquesas Islands High Place"
with Various Important Spots,
Marked by the Artist.
A-Cannibal Kings House, Showing
His Besstly Majesty Reclining on the
Royal Divan Out in Front of the Hut.
B-Pit Full Of Human Skull. and
Bones. (Shown in Photograph Elsewhere
on the Page.)
C-Hum.n Victims Are Made TO Put
Their Heads in the Moose and Are Then
Pushed OF to Drop Into the Pit, Where
They Remain Until Called for by the
Cook.
D-The Sacred Banyan Tree.
E-Unfortunate Captives Bound with
Rope, Waiting for the Call Of the Cook.
F-Cook's Helpers Preparing Food ON
the Choppins Stones.
G-Baek Staircase for Cooks and
Helpers.
H-Hot Fire-Stones Where the Food
Is. Cooked.
Guard Towers with Guards on
Duty, and Announcer with Horn An
nouncing Guests Who Are Coming Up
the Staircase.
Paved Avenue Under Shaded Palm
Trees Where Guests Arrive.
k-Hut of the Chief of the Guard
with Private Stone Staircase.
Paved Path and Stone Steps Lead.
ing to Dancing Cave.
M-Guest Houses.
N-The B.nqueters Being Served at
the Csnnibal Feast.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-11-17
SOCIAL F S:',s: a9S

Joy a Dirt hday dinner with her. At
six o'clock dinner or ? splendid ma
ture was served in buffet style in
the dining room tastefUlly decorated
with autumn colors and dainty how-
ers. Each guest was delighted with
a basket fashioned Of the orange.
green and yellow leaves of crepe pa
per as a favor to keep. Following
| dinner a pleasant evening was en-
| 5oyed with games and music OF the
jolliest sort. Miss Marjorie was
remembered in lovely way by
many of her friends who were help
Ing her celebrate this eleventh birth
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Steven r. Quick Of
| Springfield. Missouri. and niece. Mrs.
Helen MCGOWAN and daughter. Pa
trleia Ann are in Hammond as the
guests OF Mrs r. A Goddard OF
Ingraham avenue on their way from
Mayo Brothers TO White sulphur
Springs. where they will spend the
/ winter.
The Baptist woman's Union met
pleasantly with Mrs. W. A. Hill on
Thursday afternoon at her home on
IS Highland street for their regular
meeting. The topic for discus
sion was India which was talked OF
most interestingly. Mrs. n. Apon
then delighted the ladies with a solo
following which lovely refreshments
were served.
Little Miss Rosalyn Jesse OF Dyer
boulevard is in the Auhustana hos
pital where she has been undergo
ton. Miss Rosalyn is said to be
getting along nicely at present.
Occasioned BY the birthday Of
Raymond Orr OF 10 Elizabeth street
was the gathering OF about fourteen
OF his friends last evening Games
and music and dancing were heartily
enjoyed throughout the evening In
tho spacious rooms so adapted for
the occasion. At a late hour a
splendidly attractive luncheon was
served in the dining room to the
fourteen friends who were helping
Mr.. Orr celebrate his birthday.
Friends OF Mfr. J. Guss OF 236
East state street Will be Interested
TO know that Mr.. Guss who has
been in the Presbyterian hospital for
the past seven weeks under DR..
sippts care. is able to home again
and at work IN his tailoring and
haberdas sherry establishment.
Miss Gertrude Miller Of Drackert
street was tho hostess of the d. d.
3. Club last evening. Bunco was
the form OF enjoyment for tho even
ing with Miss kathryn and Miss
Jane Larsen winning the prizes.
Following tho games the guests
danced to good music until a lovely
luncheon was ready for them In the
dining room so attractive with its
table garnished with a huge bowl
OF fruit. Mrs. Margaret Mccarthy
OF Lyman avenue is to welcome the
p. 3. B. girls TO her home in two
weeks.
This evening at the First Baptist
church the I. B. L. viii hold their
contest party in the gymnasium of