The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-10-21
EVERYBODY TRUSTS HIM !

Richard F. Kay, the Confidential Friend
and Adviser of his Neighbors for Years
"a Broad Minded Man-Skilled IN
Handling Large Accounts Life Long,
Hard Working Republican to be Re-
warded.
LII Shiawassee county has anywhere with
in her bounds a man who occupies a big
place in the hearts of his neighbors and
assocates-big all out of proportion to his
avolrdupois- man is Richard F. Kay,
of Woodruff. And IL any person in the
county should be disposed to doubt whether
Dick Kay would make one of the most
obliging and absolutely honest county treas
urers that any county eyer had or can have,
he should not intimate anything of the
kind within hearing Of Dick Kay's neigh
b0rs and friends.
Mr.. Kay has been resident of the coun-
ty for over forty years, during all of which
time he has lived on his farm in Woodruff,
and 1t was not many years after coming to
the county before he began to be noticed by
his neighbOrs as painstaking young man
of the strictest integrity.
Little by little they began to get in the
habit of getting him to do odd jobs of writ
ing for them, habit which grew upon the
people apparently until 1t became the usual
thing if anyone had legal paper to be
made out to take it to Mr.. Kay. He has thus
made out hundreds of legal papers for his
ownsmen-contracts, deeds, affidavits, wills,
etc. This habit of looking to him as a
friend and adviser naturally grew continu-
ally stronger as is we'll shown by the fact
that in the last twenty-five years there has
been but one short period during which he
was not engaged in settling some estate,
acting as commissioner, executor, or ad-
ministrator, sometimes in several estates at
the same time.
During this period he sought no public
Office, but, nevertheless, was sent to the
county seat to represent his townsmen on
the board of supervisors six different years.
He also acted as town clerk for number OF
years. While perfectly familiar with both
county and township clerical work how
ever, Mr.. Kay has always remained farm
er, but one of those farmers-happily
numerous in Shiawassee county-who be-
lieve In progress. He has always been In
favor of township improvements-good
bridges, roads, school houses, etc., though
he has been extravagent In none OF his
ideas.
In church work he has also made his in
fuence felt, and here he has shown the
broad spirit for which his friends honor
him by limiting his assistance to no one
denomination, and though Presbyterian
himself, 1t would have been hard to believe
that he was not member of one of the
other denominations, whenever one of them
needed assistance, for no member of them
worked more earnestly than he when such
work was needed.
Such is q brief and wholly inadequate
sketch of the man for whom the republican
county convention unanimously asked the
support of the voters of this county on No
vember 8. A mans record Is best known
at home and among his neighbors, and the
republicans who voted unanimously at the
county convention for Richard +. Kay, Of
Woodruff, for county treasurer, knew what
his home record was, and acted accordingly.
There never has been more appropriate
nomination for county Office, and the
many republicans about the county who
have run for Office within the past thirty
or forty years now have q chance to partly
repay the hard work which he has done In
Woodruff for their ticket year after year by
seeing that every republican goes to the
polls on election day, and that every re-
publican vote is cast for Richard +. Kay, ol
Woodruff, for county treasurer.