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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-04-12

ltal OF $zUO, UOO, OOU, greater than
that of any single corporation in the
whole trust group. The trusts
properties are widely diversified
and not only make all kinds of steel
work, but builds ships, operates
railroads, etc. The old Minnesota
Iron Co. is one of the members Of
this concern. as are about 25 or &c
other companies. The National
Steel Co. of New Jersey has CAPT
tai stock of $50, 900, 900. and controls
vastamount Of tin plate bar out
put. The Pressed Steel Car Co.
has $25, 100000 capital stock, and
has a practical monopoly Of the
pressed steel business. With it is
closely allied the American Car &
Foundry Co. with the 100000, 0OO
capital stock and organized from all
of the big manufacturers of freight
and passenger cars. The Ameri-
can Tin Plate Co. is the Tin Plate
trust, and has an opposition at the
present time in the National Enan-
cling and Stamping Co., but it is
likely that these rivals will get
together, increase their capital
stock, and continue their cinch on
the output which they manufacture.
The Glucose Sugar Refining Co.
has score or more of smaller COM
panies in it's trust list. while the
American Sugar Refining Co. bobs
up with s75, 1000, 600 capital stock,
and the American Beet Sugar Co.
with $4,000, 900, the two concerns
practically controlling the sugar
output of this continent. The
American Spirits Manufacturing Co.
has the whiskey business corraled
effectually, and the American Malt
ing Co. takes in some of the
biggest malt plants in the Union.
The American Tobacco Co., the Con-
tinental Tobacco Co. and the Union
Tobacco Co. have the tobacco bust
ness Of the United States pretty
effectually corraled, while the
National Linseed Oil Co. and the
American Cotton Oil Co. have the
linseed and cotton oil business
effectually cornered right up the
small factories in the smaller towns,
which they open and close at pleas
ure. The Standard Oil Co. has the
capital of nearly a hundred millions
and controls 65 per cent. of the out
put of Oil in this country. The
United States Leather Co. has a
capital of 1923, 900, 600 and includes
every leather house of any impor-
lance. The United States Rubber
Co. has the rubber business cor
nered, and the International Paper
Co., the United States Envelope Co.
and the National Wall Paper Co.
have gathered in every factory in
those different lines and now die
tate prices to suit the officers taste.
Last week the Royal Baking Pow
der Co. gathered in four or five of
the leading baking powder indus
tries Of the company under a capt.
talization of 81 100000. The chem
lists, heating apparatus makers,
electrical designers, lead and starch
makers, straw board, soda concerns,
type foundries, typewriter COM
panies, match companies, brass
companies, have all merged into
trusts representing fabulous sums
of capital stock.
A number of organizations with a
purely municipal field, such as fur
gas or electricity, or power.
have sprung into being and are
turning out dollars for the share
holders to the detriment of the indie
pendent business men who have
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-04-12
THE REDWOOD GAZETTE.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL II, 1899.
GAZETTE BUILDING DIRECTORY.
ADVERTISING RATES.

Commencing July /, 1898, the following
rates will be strictly enforced on all new
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Less than 20 inches Il col) per inch 80. zoe.
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1900 to 1000, .......25
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1900 or over, .......33h"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-04-12

Average weekly circulation, 14'OOcopies
For convenience, a full year of SO weeks
will be allowed at SO insertions thus:
The Owosso times., 1899-12-15
Death Of Mrs. Wellington White.

Lucy Rebecca White died at half past
two o'clock Monday morning at her
home 513 West Main street after ling
ering illness of nearly two years of
spinal sclerosis. Since over two years
ago Mrs. White has been In poor health
which grew gradually worse until for
the last year she has been able to walk
but very little. Tho it became evident
that the end of her earthly life was near,
she bravely and resolutely held out,
and not until about ten days before her
death did she give up to confinement to
bed. For the last two days she re.
NAMED in ccmatose condition nearly
all the time. The funeral services were
held at the house and at the vault in
Oakhill cemetery Wednesday afternoon,
Rev. E. w. White, of jackson, ofliciat-
ing.
Lucy Rebecca Pierce was born in
Royalston, Mass, December 10, 1889.
In that tiny country settlement she
spent her girlhood days. There among
the high Massachusetts hills she attend
ed the country school and the little
Baptist church where her early educa-
ton was so well begun. There she had,
too, for one of her schoolmates the boy
to whom later, after the civil war was
ended, she entrusted her life to become
an helpmate for him The Massachu
setts girl was however an apt pupil and
was the teacher of school herself when
but fourteen years of age.
She was married to Mr.. Wellington
White September 6. 1865 and in 1876
they returned to Owosso where Mr..
White had been for several years before
their marriage and where both had lived
for brief time after that event. Owos.
so has been their home ever since.
Mrs. White became at once an active
worker in the Baptist church and was
treasurer of the Ladies' Aid Society
from the time of her connection with
the church until compelled to relinquish
the work by the final illness. During
this Illness the patience, the CHEEKY
thotfulness for others and forgetfulness
of self were the most striking features
to every observing friend. The lessons
of her early life were we'll learned and
her trust in her God was never shaken
but sustained her to the end. The com.
munity has lost from its midst one
whose interests were always allied with
its best and highest interests and who
always did what she could to better
things. The sympathy of the COM
munity is extended to Mr.. White in his
bereavement.
The Owosso times., 1899-12-15
The nrnod Red Ranner

Royal and national colors vary with
nations and times: but since Cain slew
Abel blood red has been the sign Of re-
volt. In the earliest revolt known to
history, when the Persians rose against
their king 1000 years ago. they were
led by blood red banner. and during
the riots which took place In Paris the
men in the blood red caps were follow
ed by the mob.
A blood red flag waved over Bunker
Hill when the Americans fought us for
liberty. and 1t was the emblem Of the
German peasants In their great upris-
ings in 1924. 1902 and 1925. Blood red
was the color OF the trade union flags
during the middle ages, and 1t formed
the background of the emblem Of the
Swiss confederacy in 1915.
Through the whole of French and
every other national history those
striking In their own ways for liberty
have worn the blood her cap and hail
ed the blood red banner as their leader.
1t Is curious fact that never has a
monarch chosen it as his color. 1t has
been left sacred to revolutionists.-
don Answers.
The Owosso times., 1899-12-15
Take Care OF Your Ears.

Men and women have much to do to
keep straight. a hundred nerves and
muscles are at work all through the
waking hours, giving warning or re-
ceiving orders that the body, with its
many joints and natural instability,
shall preserve its equilibrium, shall not
stagger or double up in n hopeless
heap. These nerves and muscles are a
highly organized signal service, the
chief offices of which are in the semi
circular canals buried in the stony
homework that protects the inner ear.
Were it not for these canals a human
being would find 1t difficult, often i'm
possible, to maintain proper balance
either while walking or standing still.
? So long as these canals are in healthy
working order their reports are trust
worthy, but when any undue force has
shocked them or any agency, such as
sickness, has interfered with their
workings their messages are incoher-
ent, and the brain, like the engineer Of
a battleship in action, when the men
above are blinded and bewildered, has
nothing to do hut let things go.-Ber-
lin (Ido Herald.
The Owosso times., 1899-12-15
Probate Order.

At a session of the Probate Court for said
county, held at tfe Probate ONCE, In the city oi
Corunna. on Thursday, the i4th day Of Decem
Der in the year one thousand eight hundred and
ninety nine.
Present, Matthew Bush, Judge of Probate.
In The matter of the estate of Joseph
Bilhimer, deceased. on reading and filing the
petition OF Eli w. Bilhimer as administrator
praying for license to sell the real estate OF said
deceased to pay debts.
1t is ordered that the 9Th day of January, next
at ten o'clock in the forenoon, AT said Probate
ONCE. be assigned for hearing said petition.
And IL is further ordered, that q copy OF this
order be published three successive weeks
previous to said day Of hearing, in THE Owosso
TIMES, a newspaper printed and circulating In
said county OF Shiawassee.
MATTHEW BUSH.
Judge Of Probate.
The Owosso times., 1899-12-15
Annual Elections.

OwOSSO LODGE NO. 81. f. AND A. NJ.
Worshipful Master-B. S. Stratton.
Senior Warden-Van Il. Pond.
Junior Warden-H f. Southworth.
Senior Deacon-W. f. Aten.
Junior Deacon-E. f. Conant.
Tyler-John L. Wolverton.
CAMP ALGER NO. 6, N Lv.
'Colonel-John H. Moyses.
Lieut.. Col.-W. M. Case.
Major-Willard Knapp.
Quartermaster-G. l.. Van Dyne.
Chaplain-W. S. Carson.
Adjutant-Leroy Taylor.
Sergeant Major. w. Turner.
Officer of Day-Walter jackson.
Officer of Guard-W. johnson.
AsBURY LADIES AID SOCIETY.
President-Mrs. Cora Hughes.
1st Vice Pres.-Mrs. Staplin.
end Vice Pres.-Mrs. A. N. Goodwin.
Secretary-Mrs. G. S. Ogden.
Assistant-Mrs. H. McNulty.
Treasurer-Mrs. j. G. Walton.
DEGREE OF HONOR, A. o u. w.
Chief of honor--Mrs Frank Westren
Lady of Honor-Mrs. III. Oliver.
Chief of Ceremonies--Mrs A. Cole.
Recorder Frances Rood.
Financier--Mrs. Grace Cole.
Receiver-Mrs. ID. Duff.
Usher--Mrs. l.. Burch.
Inside Watch Mrs. Chas Byerly.
Outside Watch-Mrs. j. VauDusen.
Trustee--Mrs. II L. Galusha.
Delegate to Grand Lodge-Mrs. ID.
Moss; alternate--Mrs. Frances Rood.
CoRUNNA LODGE f. AND A. NJ.
Worshipful Master-I. o. Derr, Jr.
Senior Warden--Hugh M. Nichols.
Junior Warden-W. A. McMullen.
Senior Deacon-Howard Slocum.
Junior Deacon-J G. Thomas.
Secretary--C. NJ Peacock.
Treasurer-W. A Rosenkrans.
ATLAS LIFE ASSOCIATION.
President--M. Mcmahon.
1st Vice-Lloyd Webb
End Vice-Mrs Rollin Pond.
Recording Sec'y-Mrs Robt. Buckley.
Financial Sec'y-John Cook.
Treasurer-H. b. Deal.
Lecturer-Mrs. Jennie Alyea.
Chaplain-Mrs. ID. Olmstead.
Marshal--Mrs. H. B. Deal
Inside Watch--L. ID. Snyder.
Outside Watch-G. j.. Comstock.
COURT owossoI OF.
Past Chief Ranger-William Jopling.
Chief Ranger-A. ID. Willoughby.
Vice Chief Ranger-H. s. Powers.
Recording Seoretary-J. Van Hoten.
Financial Sec'y-E. E. Henderson.
Treasurer--John T. Walsh.
Court Deputy-F. M. Chapman.
Chaplain--G. Mclean.
Senior Woodward--Sam'l Russell.
Junior Woodward--F w. Ross.
Senior Beadle--Robin Rust.
Junior Beadle--R Richard Costrell.
Trustees--J. G. Walton, M. l.. Parker,
A. ID. Willohghby, j. Van Hoten, +. L.
Henderson.
The Owosso times., 1899-12-15
Not a BIT Of n Popular Hero.

Nobody seems to know much about
that man in uniform who slipped out
OF the carriage while the crowd was
cheering the general and went back 10
the hotel"
"Bless You, no. He isn't one of the
heroes. While the brave fellows were
fighting at the front. he was nursing
yellow fever patients in the hospital"
Chicago Tribune.
The Owosso times., 1899-12-15
NJ. w. OF A.

Venerable Consul-Thomas +. Ker-
win.
Adviser--J. w. Gassman.
Banker William Rood.
Clerk--H. X. White.
Escort-Herman Miesen.
Watchman--A. Root.
Sentinel-Ed. Rourke.
Manager-E. H. Jacobs.
Camp Physicians--Drs. A. M. Hume
and E. L. Wilson.
The Owosso times., 1899-12-15
Didn't Object to M, Greed.

The English language reminds me OF
some Of these typewriters and the
game Of whist. 1t looks mighty sim
pie, but the further you go along the
more complicated and swear provok-
ing 1t Is. We have all heard of the man
who told his sweetheart that before
marrying her he must confess that be
was a somnambulist.
"Oh, ] don't mind that" said the
dear, sweet girl, 1--WE are Presbyterlans
ourselves, but we are not bit mar
row."-LouisviIle Times.
The Owosso times., 1899-12-15
mrs. Drev's Opinion of Edwin Bootr,

Edwin Booth had very sweet char
acter and a charming manner at re-
hearsals, which he detested. | think,
after Hamlet, his Bertucc!o in the
Fools Revenge" was his finest rep
resentation. He threw his whole soul
into it. and it was indeed perform
anca 70 be remembered. Mrs. John
Drew in Scribner'E.
The Owosso times., 1899-12-15
Twelve pages are printed again this week
Elsie.

Mrs. Ii. Cooley is seriously ill--George
Craddock is visiting friends In Ingbam
county--Mesdame II. and A. Hankins
spent Monday in Owosso--Charlie Smell
ing was in Saginaw Monday and Ashley
Thursday--John Oberin and family, of
Ovid. spent Sunday with friends In Elsie
john White has moved to Vassar wheie
be will make his future home--Nellie
Dennis, of Ovid, has been spending few
days with Miss Eva Tutt.e--B. NJ Wooley
was quite i'll the latter part Of the wesk, but
at present is much better---Mrs. Robert
Miller, who has been i'll in OwossO for
several weeks, was brought home last Mon
day, but is in critical conditlon--JacOb
Arthur, who has been i'll with consumption
for some time, died Saturday--Mrs.
Aaron Sickels has exchanged her laod west
of the village, for the house and lot owned
by Charles Clark, and will soon take posses
sion. Mr. Clark intends building during
the winter months.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-31

Prince Edward County, Virginia,
has decided that wood roads are nc
longer advisable, and will build the
first rock road in this section of the
State this summer-a road of seven
miles, connecting Farmville, one OF
the largest tobacco markets in the
State, with Hampden Sidney College,
one of the four Oldest colleges in
America.
1t has been decided that this road
shall be the pioneer in the construc
ton of system of roads that will EN-
brace the whole county and that shall
be built in the very near future
There will be some hundred miles o
road, and the topography of tn,
county is such that no farm will be
more than two miles from a good road
when the system is completed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-31

In paper on good roads, read re-
Gently before the Alabama Industrial
and Scientific Society, Mr.. Il. Hard
ing says: ANY soil composed OF
clay, mixed with sand or gravel, can
be rolled to a good surface that, with
wide tires, can be maintained. Pure
clay should be given coating of
sand or sandy material, for though it
might give good wheel track, the
horse track would be tramped into
mud in wet weather, un'oss sven
some protective COATING A sand-bed
should be give i top dressing OF
cIov and ~ - Fooled. If, in any case,
the Gay cannot be conveniently APP
Leu, the road should not be ditched.
1t should rather be depressed to re-
tain moisture, for moist sand offers a
frmer bed to q wheel than dry sand. "
All the suggestions offered are good,
but the last one is calculated to pro-
woke some bitter reflections and re-
grets in the minds of most of the
country road supervisors in this part
Of the country They have been care
fully ditching and drofnlhg the sandy
roads all these years
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-31
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
FAN FRANCISCO. Cal
,LeUIsvILLE. Ky. LEW YORK. N. X.

Most people are of opinion that feed
ing bottles for babies must be an in
vention of modern times. According
to Prof. ]. N. Mosby, noted English an
tiquary, however. this Is not the case.
This gentleman, who was lecturing re-
Gently before an antiquarian society,
stated that 1t was the custom among
the Greeks for the nurses to carry a
sponge full of honey In a small pot to
stop the children from crying. The
professor went on to say that there are
two Greek vases in the British Mu-
scum, dating from 700 B. c., which
closely resemble the feeding bottles
used subsequently by the Romans. In
the old Roman cemetery of st. sepul-
chre. Canterbury. England, a feeding
bottle of bright rcd polished ware was
dug up in 1861, and Prof. Mosby came
to the conclusion that this bottle must
have been buried with the little Roman
child to whose waats 1t had ministered
during lifetime.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-31
GOOD ROADS NOTES,
aIA0lA9k9Aea+ zlIkEN2EESsNlHsNNlAEl9sIesII
Great Road Projected.


The good roads movement in Con.
iecticut has developed a gigantic
scheme. 1t is to construct an avenue
one hundred feet wide the entire
length of the State, from east to west.
This avenue is to be laid out in four
roadways, two for carriages, horse
and horseless, and two for bicycles.
The avenue is to be built in line
as nearly straight as possible, and il
will be put through with the idea OF
avoiding the cities of the State. The
right of way would thus be easier to
obtain. BY avoiding the cities it is
not meant that the avenue would not
be constru cted within two or three
miles of a city's limits.
The route of the proposed roadway
is from point snvit distance north
If Greenwich " one in the northeast.
srn part of the State. In construct.
ing it grades are to eliminated as far
rs possible.
This scheme has been approved by
\ large number of the members of the
State Legislature, who are greatly in
;erested in the good roads movement.
These legislators have had engineers
estimate the cost of such road. The
engineers place the cost at $40, 900,
boo. Their plan calls for four separ,
ate bridges over the Connecticut
River, one for each division of the
road. The drlveways are to be mac
adam and the wheelways OF broken
stone.
The men who have framed this gil
yantic scheme propose to present their
plans to the next Legislature. Their
idea is to fence in the road and make
it toll road. If the State will not
take up the scheme the men who hays
framed the plan propose to ask for a
,harter and form a syndicate.
1t is said that similar plan has
been mapped ont in Massachusetts, for
continuing the road to Boston and
ihus connecting New York and Boston
oy one grand highway. 1t has been
proposed to use the old Boston post
road from the New York State line
into New York.
The whole scheme is one Of the
results of horseless carriages. The
men who worked out the idea believe
that the horseless carriage will re-
luire such q road. The scheme by
.ome is regarded as chimerical, but
many good roads advocates believe
that some day this great roadway will
become a reality.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-31
THE CRADLE OF coEDUcATIoN.
Some of the Prim Rules That Governed
the Early Girl Graduate.

It Is now about sixty-five years since
for the first time in the history of our
country young ladies studied the high
er branches in the same classroom
with young men and publicly received
the degree of Bachelor OF Arts from
Oberlin college, the cradle OF co-educa-
ton. In the year 1871 three women
graduated and were the first young
women to receive a degree in arts"
and in 1874 two women applied for ad-
mission to the theological seminary,
admitted and finished the course,
'HeJ -i~ not receive a de-
gree. One coveted r .,vilaga thees
young ladies were not pel--,i,+ad -
enjoy-that of reading their essays :.
commencement day. The professor OF
rhetoric was their proxy Such an
ardent woman's rights advocate as
Lucy Stone had to suffer under this
humiliating discrimination. but not
without vigorous protest. Her essay
was not read by the professor of rhet-
oric for the simple reason that 1t was
never written. In 1859 that barrier was
broken down by the pent-up energies
of many generations of irate female
students, who here as everywhere OBJ
tained their rights il they wanted them.
The living of the young ladies must
have been very plain, for they paid
only rs cents a week for board, and
they paid that by work at the rate Of
cents an hour. l find nowhere a
record of class parties and not trace
of class picture, and l know that
there existed no such frivolous thing
as . chocolate drop There were four
women to enter the first regular fresh
man class. Though the frivolities OF
modern college life were not per-
mitted, love could not be kept out, and
Mary F. Kellogg, one Of the four, aft
erward became the wife of ex-Presi-
dent Fairchild. The mother OF DR..
Barrows, the recently elected presi-
dent, was also one Of those pioneers OF
coeducation, and she certainly did not
dream that at crisis in the history OF
her alma mater she would give her
beloved son to be the leader OF that
noble institution. - Woman's Home
Companion.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-31
DON'T Use Narrow Tires.

The roads of this country, generally
speaking, are certainly very bad, and
the chief reason is the use of narrow
tires, which cannot be too strongly
condemned. They cut and grind the
road as well as pillow and upheave it
Wide tires, on the contrary, are ben
eft rather than an injury to the roads
as they act as rollers and help keel
the road smooth and with hard sur
face.
Some farmers claim that the wide
tires increase the draft required tt
move the load, but If wide tires wer'
used this objection would be over
ruled, as the draft upon horses IL
moving load is regulated to very
large extent by the number OF rut'
and mud caused by the narrow tires
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-31

Very thin persons, the anaerlic, con-
valescents from severe illness, and es-
pecially persons with weak or dis
eased hearts, are not apt to be bene-
flied by sea-baths, and should as q
rule avoid them. The effect Of the cold
water is to drive the blood from the
surface to the internal organs, and the
resulting disturbances OF circulation
may be dangerous in those with heart
disorders or weakened blood-vessels,
for this reason the aged, especially,
should be very careful.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-31
A Parting shot.

Perhaps 1t is best after ALL" re-
marked the rejected sutton as he lin
gered in the hall "a man Of rs would
soon tire of wife who lowered
round the 80 mark" why, Mr.. Ar
dent" said the woman in the case.
"how very ungallant Of you to insin-
uate that l am 49," We'll. perhaps
you are not" he replied. "but 1t GER
tainly struck me that you were some
where near the freezing point"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-08-31
Progress of tho Telephone.

Mr.. w. II. Preece, president Of the
British Institution Of Civil Engineers,
in a recent address, said that speech Is
now practically possible between any
two postofflces in the United King
dom. Theoretically it is possible to
talk between London and every capital
in Europe, and the British postofflce
authorities are considering the sub
version OF special telephone cables to
Belgium, Holland and Germany.