The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-02-20

progress upon villages and inland
cities. Without the aid OF local news
papers, local towrs are, as a rule,
thriflless and dead. Ii is common
for small great men 10 speak with
contempt of local nespapers, but the
village newspaper makes more. great
men out of less material more bricks
without straw-than any other factor
in politics, and it is the one ladder
on which men climb to distinction as
the beginning of wider fame. The
advent Of the local newspaper has
always dated the increased thrift of
the community. The local news
paper is the life Of the locality, and
the measure of its support, as rule,
measures the advancement OF The
people"
The Allegan Journal and Tribune
favors the nomination of Hon. ID. J.
Arnold, present Circuit Judge in the
goth Judicial district, for Justice of
the Supreme Court. 1t would be a
nomination fit 10 be made, and yet it
may not be expedient at the present
time, as the Republican majority in
the State is in the northern counties,
! and these counties will name two
men for that position, that is, if
Chief Justice Cooley declines a re-
nomination, either of when would
honor any Judicial position in the
nation. Hon. Benton Hanchett, Of
Saginaw, and Hon. Claudus B. Grant
of Houghton, Judge in the 2sth Ju-
dicial district. The favorite of the
Republicans Of Shiawassee is beyond
| doubt MIR. Hanchett, and THE TINES
expects 10 see the IS votes OF Shia
wassee cast for him against any other
man. Judge Cooley excepted. And
yet we doubt not Judge Grant, or
| Judge Arnold would, either of them,
poll the full Republican vote of this
county.
The New York Tribune estimates
the value of the local press as follows:
"rhe local paper is the best paper in
the world. All the city papers can
not SUPPLY the place of home paper.
No other contains the marriages and
deaths to say nothing of divorces and
births. No other paper gives the
time of the next ball, picnic or poiti.
cal meeting; no other publishes TIE
roll OF honor, for the public schools;
no other discusses the affairs of the
town and county, or gives in detail
the local news, which can be obtained
from no other source. Everybody
reads it, and this is why the local pa.
per is the best ~ the world, and tie
best advertising medium for its cir.
culation extent" This is as true as
the gospel, but there are many peo-
pie who subscribe literally for other
papers, and give the local paper the
cold shoulder, and wonder why it
does not succeed better than it does.
The patronage given 10 outside par.
ties in the way of subscription and
job work is just what keeps local pa
pers from improving and being what
they should be.
The Chicago Lumberman notes
what Mr.. Ashley said about making
Cadillac the northern terminus Of the
Il. A. A. & N. r. r., and comments:
The proposition now is to make
Cadillac the northern terminus Of the
line, bat if it reaches so far north as
that it will probably put out feeleis
for Lake Michigan ports. If the com
pany is wise it will have three termini
on Lake Michigan, one at Frankfort,
one at Traverse City, and one at
Charlevoix, while branch to Elk
Rapids would not hurt the main line.
These terinini would all be important
on account Of summer travel TO the
growing resorts of the region, and be-
cause they would penetrate remark
ably fine hardwood country, which is
already becoming productive farm.
ing and fruit region, and will be in
creasingly SO as the lands continue to
| be cleared.
The Toledo, Ann Arbor & North
ern railroad, if completed to Cadillac,
will be one of the most important in
Michigan to the lumber interest. The
building of it will be watched with
ANXIETY. not ONLY by the peODle along