The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-01-24

oVoOC lNOuuu- Up fdTlueTS' luSUllutC,
!. and w. #. Alexander to represent
them in the State Anti-Saloon League
Convention.
The following resolution was unan.
imously adopted Tuesday, Jan. 81,
Resolve1, That IL is the sentiment
or Owosso Township Grange No 1866
that Geo. b. Horton would make a
number one governor of the State
Of Michigan.
Each grange and farmers club In
the county ought to comply with the
request in the call for the State Anti
Saloon League Convention, and send
delegate to the meeting to be held
in Lansing, Feb. 10, and IL.
Would 1t not tend to increase our
membership and thereby the useful
ness OF the grange to hold an all day
meeting with good picnic dinner,
better program, and invite to enjoy
the good things with us our friends
and neighbors, to whom we can say,
"Come thou with us and we will do
thee good"
He who sees in the grange only a
purchasing agency and forms his
opinion tLerefrom is like one who
passes Judgment upon the Bartholdi
statue from the sand and pebbles that
lead up to it from Bedloes's Island,
or one who would judge of lovely
and fruitful valley by the silt cast up
at his feet from the stream ms by which
it is watered and made beautiful.
II in the words of Washington,
Agriculture is the most useful, the
most healthful, and the most noble
employment Of man." Mr.. and Mrs.
Farmer must be considered of more
consequence than the farm, and the
girls and boys its most important pro-
duct.
Something for the little grangers.
WHEN I'M MAN
"a good piece for little boys to recite at public
entertainments
When am grown TO be man
I'll be like papa il can.
I'll have mustache, stiff and brown,
And when I'm thinking will frown
Three little wrinkles tween my eyes,
To make me look so old aud WISE
I'll have some gold.framed glisses too,
To make my eyes as good as new,
And when go down town each day
FL read the paper all the way.
l won't have very bushy hair.
Like Mozariski such a scare!
But in the middle of the head
I'll have round BALI spot instead.
When am grown to be man
I'll be good one, IL can.
] Will not smc Ike nor drink, nor swear,
And I'll be honest, kind and fair,
And II have some boys like me,
You'll see what good pa I'll be
I'll give my children lots OF fun
And buy them peanuts by the ton.
Mamma says, though, that IL plan
To be so good when I'm a man,
must begin now, right away,
And be a good boy every day,
So, when grown man am quite,
1t will be easier to do right
ga like to know, though, just FORUM,
How old pa was when he begun.
Francis p. Carson, in Trained Motherhood.
ARMOR.PLAT BOYS.
One of the chief means Of protection
to our great battleships are huge
armor plates. 1t is important in
these days that there should be
armor. plated boys. A boy needs to
be ironclad on:
His lips-against the first taste of
liquor.
His ears-against impure words.
His hands-against wrong doing.
His feet-against going with bad
company.
His eyes-against dangerous books
and pictures.
His pocket-against dist onest mon-
ey.
His tongue-against evil speaking.
The Christian armor on her citizens
gives more security to the nation
than all the armor plates that are on
her ships, Advocate.
PRoMPTNEss.
Promptness in opening the grange
at the hour designated in the bylaws
is a matter of vital importar CO to the
life and prosperity OF the grange.
There is no one thing so prolific Of evil
results, so ruinous to. life and well be-
ing, SC calculated TO produce lethargy
and indifference, as failure to be
prompt in the opening of the grange.
know some oranges that seldom
call TO order before S o'clock and
sometimes 8 O'clock D. m. The BUSH
ness OF the grange must then neces-
tarily be forced through in hurried
manner No time for elaboration or
mature thought; no time for that in
telleetual training which the Grange.
when properly managed, gives to all
its members. The would-be active
and energetic members are dis
couragod, and spend their time else
where than in the grange room. The
grange is too slow for them, they want
to work on time and keep abreast Of
the times.
Then, again, hardness in opening
often obliges the grange to omit in
the exercises the most interesting part