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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-27
TIE H.
"A Young Bird Lover Tells Some I'm
terestinx Facts bout IL.

-
terestinx Facts About ii.
The ~fish-hawk, or ospray, is a bird with
which many of the young readers of the
Times are more or less familiar, for they
cannot have failed to see it when they
have visited the seashore. 1t makes its
home during the spring and summer very
near the ocean or its tributaries, md very
rarely strays more than a few miles in
land. 1t arrives on the Jersey coast early
in may, and its coming is hailed as a good
omen by the fishermen, for with it come
the fish.
1t is interesting to watch the fish hawk
catching It's food. Sailing along from
fifty to a hundred feet above the water,
it can easily see with its sharp eyes the
hsh that swim just beneath the surface.
The hawk stops in its flight and appears
to be suspended motionless in air for a
moment; then closing its wings it darts
downward like sn arrow. 1t disappears
under the water for about twenty seconds,
and when 1t again takes wing, a shining,
wrlggling fish can plainly be seen fastened
in It's talons 1t then aies OIL TO devCur
lis prey at home.
1t is a curious fact that the bird will
never carry the fish with the tail to the
front. Many times | have seen a hawk
turn his fish around ia mid air.
The nest of the ospray is a strange
structure, built of sticks and bark. Some
OF the sticks are from eight TO ten inches
n diameter, and | have seen nests that
were larger than an ordinary washtub.
The eggs, which are laid late in May, are
from TWO to four in number, and are very
pretty, reminding one of an Easter egg.
They are of "A creamy white, spotted and
blotched with lumber and dark browns,
and are about the size of u hen's egg.
The ospray selects some very curious
nesting places, one of which has become
famous in ornithology. They generally
build on the limb of a dead tree, but a
farmer within a mile of Cape May court
house, desiring a pair of them to make
their home on his place, and there being
no trees there, took an Old wagon wheel,
and driving a pos. through the hub,
planted the post in the ground. A pair
Of osprays soon built their nest there,
and every year since then have raised
their young ones in that curious spot.
Let me tell you about q happy bird
family that ! found on Sever Mile beach
last May. On the top of an old cedar
tree | saw an ospray's nest containing
eggs, while firmly embedded in the loose
material of the nest was another nest,
that of the common b~lackbird, which also
contained eggs. Not three feet away
from these two nests was a third one
belonging to a tree swallow, and this one
had seven eggs in it. Here were The
three families occupying the same tree
and living in perfect harmony, the smaller
and weaker birds looking TO the noble
fishing eagle for protection.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-27
A Lovely Flower.

Macon, Ga, Telegraph: In Dougherty
county, thickly covering the old fields and
by the roadside, q lovely flower has
sprung up. 1t is called by the children a
rice lily. 1t closes by night and opens
by day. 1t possesses the singular prop.
erty Of aensitively feeling or seeing light.
At night, while the lovely white blossoms
are closely EMBODIED in their purple Gov
ering and the flowers asleep, if a lamp is
placed near them they will gradually
open and turn toward it. II q strong
hight 10 placed on one side Of the vase
containing them, the half OF the bouquet
that faces the lamp will be unfolded,
while the other half that is in the shadow
will remain tightly closed. The flower
is the hepatica or liver vert, and belongs
to the m family. They grow
throughout the county, but ore much
more plentiful in southwest Georgia thsD
elsewhere. 1t is not known whether
those growing in other sections have the
singular property OF such extreme
sensitiveness to light.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-27
COmmendabIe Goodness.

Omaha Herald: Several attempted
burglaries have been reported from the
southern part Of the city. Some of them
were partially successful, but in one in
stance, at least, the attempt was an ig.
nominious failure. The interesting part
OF the performance was the bravery dis.
the house. She was alone when she
made by the burglars. They had first
com to the door and asked for her
father, who is a physician. The door,
as good fortune had it, was locked, and
the girl was too sensible to open the door
without asking some questions. In re-
spouse to her queries the men
stated that the doctor was wanted
at the corner of Ninth and Tenth
streets. This betrayed them at
once and they were told that they could
not get the doctor there. Shortly after
ward they came to the window. The
girl, who is about II years Old, went to
the window and could plainly see the
rascals al work trying 10 pry up the
sash. The young lady on the inside took
the affair very coolly and told the would
be robbers that n window was well
fastened, and that they could not get in.
For some time they worked and she
watched. At last they gave up the job
in disgust and went away. The young
lady say she was not scared, and only
wishes there had been a little more light
SO that she might be able to identify the
men on the outside. She also says that
if she had had a revolver or a gun there
would have been a dead robber on the
outside of the window.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-27
Social Reform From the Kitchen.

Edward Atkinson in the April Forum:
1t is a well ascertain3 cd fact that, with re.
spect to about 80 per cent. of the com
munity, the price paid for food comes TO
one.half the income or more. After this
food is bought, how much Of it is wasted
in bad ~cooking2 How much human
force is wasted in consequence OF bad
cooking? How much does dyspepsia or
indigestion, caused by bad cooking, i'm
pair the working capacity OF the people
OF the United States and diminish their
product? Can 3 cents worth per day be
saved2 Is not that "a very insufficient meas
IRE Of the difference between a poor, waste
full cook and a good, economical me? If
5 cents a day can be saved on food
and fuel, while at the same time that
which is bought and cooked may be con-
verted into more nutritious and appetiZ-
ing food. the difference in each COM
munity Of 9 200 people would be 800, 500
a year, or about 0 per cent. of the tokai
product Of the typical community, which
we have assumed to be 81, POO, 600 a year
in gross. When the attention of the
labor reformer is brought down from
grand schemes for altering the whole
constitution of society, by act of congress
or of the state Legislature, to the simple
question of how each person, each family
or each community may better itself I'M
der existing conditions, great progress
will have been made in solving all the
problems which are how pending.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-27

There is a yellow-hai'ed ~tatlless CO, that
haunts the White House corridors. They
call 1t Dan, and maay regard 1t as the preti
dents mascot. There WAS a yellow dog that
used to follow General Garfield wherever he
went, out Of gratitude for q bone that the
presid mt once threw him WHEN he was Cd he
v.rAe VI s:Arva Ion In the street.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-27
Struck Them Dun b.

Kansas City Star: A Wichita preacher
delivered q discourse last Sunday on
Lying" and when he went down town
Monday morning not more than half Of
the people would speak to him.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09
Beuuiuqtou.

The shrill whistle of the threshing engine
awakes we correspondent in the early morn.
j. II. Walsh andwife attended the base
ball game at Owosso Wednesday. John
says ''The girls were immense"
Miss Lena and Annie Merlxle are attend
ing the Teachers Institute at OwOssO.
Mrs. w. p. Harryman is entertaining
her mother, Mrs. Austin, of Hartland.
Quarterly meeting at the NJ. E. church
next Sunday.
The wheat crop is generally good in this
vicinity. Some farms yielding thirty-five
to forty bushels per acre.
Rev. j. b. Oliver has brother from
Gaines, also % brother and his wife from
Oregon visiting at the parsonage this week.
The Misses Ida, Alice and Stella Gillett
went to Lansing Tuesday to visit their
brother, Albert Gillett. a.
j. Il. Walsh and G. Friegel are the grain
dealers in Bennington. They pay the high
est price for all kinds of grain.
Luther Ryan and wife, also their daugh-
ter Bertha, visited friends in Bennington
Sunday.
A. j. Andrus, manager of the Andrus
and McConkey show, was in town Tuesday.
Reports doing good business.
XLCR.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09
WHOLE NO. 4S3


Harvest dance at the Williams House next
Friday evening.
j. Close is home from his northern trip
feeling much improved in health and spirits.
Another meat market is soon to be in our
village.
Mrs. Almond Harrington has gone to Red
wood, Minnesota, to visit Ther brother and
a son living there.
S. Burlingame has harvested and threshed
1S9 bushels of wheat off from seven acres
Ed. Welch is building an addition to his
residence.
Robert Coats and G. II. Brandt are travel
ing in Wisconsin as book agents.
VIM. WolfOrd and wife visited friends in
Flint last week.
Some of our Byron people went to OwOsso
Wednesday to attend the ball game.
Extensive preparations are being made
for the reunion of 10th, 14th and 22d reg't.
of Mich. Cavalry here the 27th of August.
''CoNARD."
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09
Eastou.
XLCR.


Everybody went to camp-meeting Sunday
last. 1t was sufficiently lively to suit the
most fastidious, but some ''Hit the wrong
time"-so they say.
The p. of LIS convention at Flushing,
Saturday, called out many of our citizens.
They report pleasant time and large at
tendance.
Mrs. Clark, of Hazelton, is visiting her
mother, Mrs. Reynolds.
Mr. and Mrs. II. A. Haughton called in
town last Sunday.
Miss Cora Forley is visiting in OwossO.
Mrs. Augustin has returned from heI
visit to Canada. A sister accompanies her.
A happy family is said to consist of q
husband, wife, son, daughter and dog
Mr.. M. Augustin's ought nearly to have
reached perfection since it has at least the
first four.
Mr.. j. w. Getson passed through here
Monday on his way to Cleveland
Mr.. NJ. A. Taylor's family have located
on east Main street.
The fishing party consisted of sixteen,
caught one fish and had three bites. The
fish ought to be preserved as perpetual
trophy of brilliant success.
Mrs. 1. Morrison, of Saginaw, is visiting
in town.
Never mind Frank and Calvin, you know
all people are liable to an accidental tip
over in the ditch.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09
Election Of School Examiner.

The Board of School Inspectors met in
Corunna, Tuesday, Aug. 9th, to elect an ex-
aminer to succeed f. l.. Griffith. Clerk
Kenney called the meeting to order. Organ
ization was effected by electing w. S. Van
derkarr Chairman. The afternoon roll call
showed present Messrs. Allen of Fairfield
tp.; Pierce, Rush tp.; OFT, New Haven;
Clark, Hazelton; Howard, Middleburry;
Wilbur, Owosso; Vanderkarr, Caledonia;
Phelps, Venice; Benson, Sciota; Thomas,
Bennington;P Parmenter, Shiawassee; Dutton
Woodhull; Ellsworth, Antrim Wimple,
Perry; Smith, Burns; Hume, Owosso City;
Nichols, Corunna. Hudson Sheldon, of
Shiawassee township, was unanimously
elected as member of board of Examiners
for the ensuing two years. After speeches
by Messrs. Sheldon and Griffith, Sec'y.
McBride's report was read and approved.
The Secretary was authorized to procure 200
maps of Michigan for use in the schools.
also recommend the placing of an American
flag in every school room.
Board adjourned sine die.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09
iainshurR.

Al ThroOp will open market in the Nc
Carther building this week.
The Baptist society are painting their
church outside and in. They will also pa
per and decorate the walls. A much need
ed improvement.
The ladies of the w. G. Il. U. held me-
mortal service i'm honor of Mrs. ex-President
II. Il. Hayes at the M. f. church Sunday
evening.
B. w. Dennis has assigned his hardware
stock to w. ii. Hunt and will close up his
business here, preparatory to going west.
He has sold his fine residence to l. Foland,
of Woodruff.
The jury in the the Cooper case disagreed
last Saturday. We understand the case will
have a re-hearing on the 14th.
Tunie, the 13-year-old daughter Of A.
Hansburger, lost the thumb and forefinger
of her right hand by falling upon the cutter
bar of moving machine last Friday. She
was following behind the machine and
stumbled and fell into the machine.
Mr.. Bradford and wife, of near Grand
Ledge, visited the family of j. F. Lee over
Sunday.
Lew Murray was in town Monday and
Tuesday.
J. Brayson, the Ovid clothier, occupies
the room lately occupied by the bakery with
stock of clothing.
II. Il. Lowery has his new residence un.
der way.
Farmers are BUSY cutting oats, which are
q very heavy crop. Wheat is turning out
better than was expected. ZIscA.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09
Burton.

Mrs. Z. w. Mason, while with her sister
and child was out riding last Thursday north
of Glars Corners, when they saw runaway
horse attached to hay-rake approaching
Mrs. Mason sprang from the carriage (not
to run as some would have done) and caught
the horse by the bits and succeeded in get
ting the horse partly out of the road, but
not far enough to escape collision, throw
ing Mrs. Mason's sister and child from The
carriage, freeing the horse from the car
riage and smashing it up. Mrs. Mason held
to the horse and escaped without any serious
injuries. If Shiawassee has any better
pluck please bring it out.
G. L. Van Dypes social netted eighteen
dollars.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09
SECRETARY McBRIDE's REPORT.


Owosso, Mich, Aug. 6, 1889.
TO the Honorable Board Of School IN
spectOrs and Board Of Examiners Of
SIlidlCdssee COunty:
The secretary Of the County Board of
School Examiners would respectfully submit
the following report and recommendations:
OF the 1913 schools in Shiawassee county
under the jurisdiction of the County Board
of School Examiners, the secretary has Wis
tied them each once, some twice and three
times, making in all 1s5 separate visits. 1t
being impossible to visit all the schools dur
ing the spring term l adopted the plan of
visiting those schools where teachers were
beginning for their first term, believing that
to be more advantageous, as all the ground
had previously been gone over and the ex-
act letter of the law carried out. In this
way the county was mostly again revisited
during the spring term. The time ordi-
narily spent in each school was from two
and a half hours to one day, often taking
charge of the classes.
The city schools of OwOsso and Corunna
have also been visited with desire to COM
pare the methods of the country and city
schools and to improve the former where
possible and practicable.
On the whole the country schools have
been well managed. There are some ex-
ceptons, where advice and remonstrance
was necessary and where certificates cannot
be again granted.
The weak part of the system of teaching
now in use is the primary instruction
and teaching penmanship. The attempt to
remedy this is now in successful operation
at the teachers institute.
The weak part of the system of district
school management is the part patterning
after the city schools in division of school
year into winter, spring and fall terms with
out the security of tenure of position to the
teacher in the district schools that is given
in the cities and villages, and without the
careful scrutiny of applicants qualifications
and recommendations.
In the secretary's Office is system OF
triplicate reports obtained from as many
districts as possble:by the cooperation of
directors and ladies within their districts.
The reports are: First, the secretary's re-
port of schools based ON visitation. Second,
directors report, which is based on vista
ton or observation, which is supposed to
reflect the popular judgment of the district.
Third, ladies' report, based on the vista
ton of three ladies' who either separately or
as committee visit each term. There are
ladies in each district whose judgment and
past experience as teachers render them es-
pecially fitted for such purposes; besides it
acts as a mutual stimulant to patrons and
teachers to thus visit.
Now to go back to the subject of hiring
teachers. Were the directors to require of
each teacher statement based on these
three reports compiled by the secretary and
have not more than two individuals as
teachers during the year, great advance
would be made. Circumstances may some
times make IL necessary that more expert.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09
S. B. FULLER & CO.,
THE COFFEE ROASTERS.
Probate Order.


STATE OF MICHIGAN, )ss
COUNTY OF SHIAwAssEE, ss
AT a session of the Probate Court for the County
of Shiavassee, holden at the Probate Office, in the
city of Corunna, on Wednesday, the seventh day
of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred
Present, Hon MATHEW BUSH, Judge of Probate
In the matter of the Estate of CHARLES T. II Ar
RIs deceased late of Seneca County, State of New
York. On reading and filing the petition. duly
verified, of Franklin A. Weidman. alleging that
duly authenticated copies Of the last Will and
testament of said deceased, and the Probate there
of have been filed in said Court, showing that
said will has been duly admitted to Probate In
the County of Seneca and State Of New York.
and praying that time and place for hearing said
petition be fixed and due notice thereof be given
TO ali persons Interested, and that such copy of
said will be allowed, filed and recorded in said
Court as and for the last will and testament of
said deceased and that William Weidman be grant
ed letters of administration in the County OF Shia
wassee and State Of Michigan.
Thereupon It is ordered, that Monday, the Sec
ond day of September, at ten O'Clock In the fore
noon be assigned for the hearing of said petition,
and that the heirs at law of said deceased. and
ali other persons interested in said estate, re-
qured to appear at a session OF said Court, then
te be holden at the Probate Office, In the city OF
Corunna, and show cause, IL any there be, why
the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted.
And 1t Is further ordered that said petitioner give
notice to the persons interested in said estate o
the pendency Of said petition, and the hearing
lished in the Owosso TIMES. a newspaper printed
and circulated in said County OF Shiawassee three
successive weeks previous to said day of hearing.
MATTHEW BUSH. Judge of Probate
II. E. HARPER, Register.
"a true copy)
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-09
Deputy Com. of Rd'

Lots for sale, good location. We will sell
choice of second, fourth and sixth from
street corner for one hundred dollars to par
ties who will build. Money advanced for
building purposes. KELLER Il KELLER,
Brewer Block
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-12-08
SHE WORKSHOPS HIS MEMORY
And Decorates Her Residence with Grape
Red. White and Red.
nv ,oiogranh fo tho DispatrhJ

fHy telegraph w tho Di'bn|~o'l
W.sH1yGroy. December There Is nj
least one woman in this city who worships
the memory of jefferson DAVIS. ana VINO
has tho courage of her convictions. she
lives M 235 Second street. southeast. and her
name is Mrs. Frederick Fairfax. The shut
ters are closed to-day, and if the bell-pull
was only secured by Grape 1t would be
easv for an obseryant passer-by TO imagine
that death had visited some one whose
residence had been within. Draped IRON
three windows Of the upper story Is n vide
strip of black stuff. the evidence OF mourn
inr of a high order In the centre OF each
of the window-sills just where the black -
fastened is a rosette. If the rOsettes were
also black they would have excited less
comment, but they are not black. Two OF
thcm-Oue ut each end-are red, wnue the
one in the middle IS white. The hues ana
manner Of their arrangement combine TO
form the cOlors OF the dead Contederacy,
and their display az this time made u cyl
dent that some ono was sorry because Jeher-
son DAVIS was no more. 1oa S'0r reporter
who called upon the lady she Described
herself as Washington born, and SAID sne
nut mourning on her house because OF the
death of Jefferson Davis, whom she al
mired and loved. Tho S'Gr says
Mrs. Fairfax is the wife Of Frederlck
| Fairfax. said to he a gentleman OF wealth..
The City Directory gives him no occupa-
| ton. Mrs. Fairfax IS the daughter OF the
| late Lieutenant Cooke, of the United
| States army. who died a great many years
| ago, leaving to his daughter the house IN
which she and her husband reside. Mr..
! Fairfax was not actively engaged IN the Con-
! federacy, but Mrs. Fairfaxs relatives we're
I all Confederates, so she said this morning.
IL was suggested TO her by one OF the news
paper-men who called on her this morning
/ that some one might try to tear the mourn
inc emblems down. If any one entertalns
any such idea he only needs first to Sc,
Mrs. Fairfax as she appeared when thai
suggestion was made no will at once
abandon his project.
A Number of colored people gathered on
the sidewalk opposite the house this morn
ing and loudly criticised the action OF the
inmates, but they went no further, and a
late hour this afternoon the dlsma
draperv and red, white, and red rosette'
were still IN place flutterlng IN tho coo
breezes and rejecting their eolors IN th'
windows of the Lincoln School building
which happens, curiOusly enough, 10 b'
precisely opposite No. 235
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-12-08
Other Points.

The Confederate Veterans Association
of Selma met yesterday and passed suita-
BILE resolutions.
nah. Ga. was draped in mourning and the
veterans of the city will send tribute TO
New Orleans. General Henry K. Jackson
ex-AIinister to Mexico, and who was pro-
ther officer of Mr.. Davis in the Mexican
war. as vice-presideut Of the association
delivered brief address.
The Ladies' Memorial ASSOCIATION OF
Wilmington held meeting and passed
resolutions expressive of their sorrow Mt
the old heros death. The Wilmington
Light Infantry will hold memorial services.
Governor Seay. of Alabama, has issued q
proclamation calling upon the people OK
that state to hold memorial services we'd
nesday at noon.
The New York Southern Society has sent
a message of coincidence to Mrs. DAVIS.
The General Assembly of South Carolina
passed resolutions providing for memorMi
services in the House hall Wednesday