The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-09-05

Asuh, hop, step anu jump IIlzcS, p
and $1-Brewer, 80 feet 2 inches
Blanchard, 35 feet.
70 yard dash for boys.) Prizes, 81
and 50 cents-Olsbury, first; Willie
Cadman, of Owosso, second.
Climbing CREASED pole. Prize So.
Pole too we'll creased; no one climbed
it.
Bicycle race. Prizes, 80 and So.
Start on Exchange street east to Dewey,
to Oliver, to Washington, to Mason
Frank E. Evans, first; E. e. Figg, sec
ond, both of Owosso.
THE TRAP SHOOT.
The trap shoot was held at the Water
Works grounds under the direction of
George Carpenter and Merrick Blair
Distance, 16 yards; Blue rocks, money
divided 40, 30 90, and 10 per cent. The
scores: Fifteen bird sweepstakes, Whit
tey, of Fenton, 12; Leal of Fenton, j.
Waters of Laingsburg; Fisher of Byron,
each II; G. S. Parker of Fenton, 10.
Total prize, SIT.
Ten Bird Sweepstakes-Knapp of Fen
ton, Reed of Ovid, Whitley of Fenton,
each, 4; Stowell of Byron, Waters of
Laingsburg Leal and Beadle of Fenton,
and Eddy of Ovid, each six. Total
prize, $40.
Ten Bird Consolation-March of Nor
rice won on shoot-off of tie. Prize, $40.
Lee of Laingsburg was the only man
not satisfied with the shoot. He got
into an alteration with Mr.. Carpenter
and finally bet So he could out shoot the
latter. Carpenter beat him to Z. Lee
had one dollar left and put that up on
another string. Carpenter beat him
again in four shots. He was satisfied
then.
THE WATER BATTLE.
The water battle was pulled off about
five o'clock on the Woodard property.
Two st. Charles teams of five men each
contested for the $15 prize and No.
team won, driving No. 2 back and cap
turing the nozzle. About 10, 900 people
sawthe battle from both river banks,
and some'of them got pretty wet.
The Owosso fire department did some
exhibition work, climbing the front of
Hall Bros. store, and running the teams
up Main street. A burlesque West side
department, composed of decrepit old
horse and wagon, and manned by Will
liam Ross, William Robertson, james
Brown and Nelson Perica proved quite
a fun maker.
THE SPECIAL PRIZES.
G. L. Taylor, August Stephan and d.
H. Moss, the committee on special
prizes, made the following awards.
For the most attractive float in the
parade, prize of s. was given TO the
Dorcas Home. For the largest number
of men in line, two prizes, SO and 81:
Painters Union, of Ann Arbor AZ; Car
penters' Union, of Owosso, 40 For the
best comic makeup: George Wilder
muth's and Fred Menshardt's ''automo-
bubble, "a horse behind the cart affair,
50.
THE SPEECHES.
The speeches of the day took place at
the stand on north Washington street
at two o'clock. Owing to the number
of attractions elsewhere as we'll as to
the difficulty in hearing at this place
the crowd was not large. The speakers
were S. D. Williams, of Battle Greek,
business man and sympathizer with or
ganized labor, and Peter Witt, of Cleve-
land, who has been with Tom L. John
son as secretary, has been an iron molder
and an organizer Of labor.
The first speaker was Nj. Williams.
He spoke at the outset of the nobility of
labor, saying that a man must labor in
some avenue of useful business if he.
would maintain the dignity Of true
man. The world needs the products of
every form Of honest labor and it is al
most equally important to society that
the benefits of these products be equit-
ably distributed Capital and labor to-
gether enter into production and today
it is these two elements which are con-
tending with each other for larger
share in the benefits of the common pro-
duct of the two. All that the dignifed
man desires is simple justice
and the honest capitalist is ready to
grant that. Still the question re-
mains, How shall the just distribution
Of the products of labor be secured?
The question is far more complex under
the new system when great combina-
tions of corporate wealth enter in from
the capitalists side of the producing
pair and the forms which injustice takes
are more varied. Every time corpora
ton evades its taxes, every time when a
cent is added to the price per pound of
any corporation produced commodity
beyond the price which a fair return on
the money invested would demand, new
seeds of discord are sown. The coal
strike was touched upon and quotations
made freely from President Roosevelt's
Providence speech. The needs of strong,
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