The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-10-31
His friends expect to elect him too and


missioner The Office is an important
one, making something less than fifty
thousand a year for each of the COM
missioners Corunna and Owosso al
most always divide up these offices be-
tween them being afraid to let so much
money get out around the county. Cor
unna's candidate is Will j. Parker, who
is at present holding down the Office
in that city. 1t is not stated how near
he has come to getting his share of the
| fifty thousand dollars year salary out
of the Office this year but it is known
that he wants the Office again and his
| friends think that he should. have it.
All joking aside he is one of the rising
young lawyers of the county just the
same and has made a good circuit court
commissioner His experience in the
office will help him be still more val
uable officer during the next two years.
The Owosso republicans elected Neil R.
Walsh justice of the peace last spring
and decided that they had done such a
good job that they wanted to make him
their circuit court commissioner too.
Besides it was argued that after a GER
tain gentlemanly democrat who had
held the other Office of justice of the
peace for several years in Owosso had
got through with his cases there wasn't
more than four or five thousand dollars
year in the Office of justice in Owosso
for new man anyway. The result
was they gave Mr.. Walsh the nomina-
| tion. Now as matter of fact there is
not cleaner cut, more business-like
lawyer in the county than Neil r.
Walsh and even if there isn't as much
money in the office as the above figures
would indicate there is lot of response
bility connected with it and Mr.. Walsh
is one of the best men to whom this re-
! sponsibility could be delegated. He
Will make a good circuit court com
missioner and both he and Mr.. Parker
are going to be elected.
There are good reasons why the next
two nominees should be mentioned in a
grave rather than in any light manner
but it goes without saying that Hiram
Monroe, of this city, has made good
coroner DR.. Robert F. Bruce, of New
Haven, is another man who will make
a good official. Both add rather than
detract strength from an already strong
ticket Both will make excellent cor.
oners during the next two years.
1 The last man on the ticket is the sur.
yeyor He came from Byron too
though his home is in Owosso now
The people down at Byron seem glad tc
see him every little while when he goe:
back down there too, but every time q
republican convention comes around
they send that same delegation up tC
Corunna asking that the republicans Of
the county keep him where he is little
longer 1t is suspected that the enmity
of Norm X. Potter is partly to blame
for this When Joslin was. still {
rather young man he sent Mr.. Potte
out on frozen duck pond on the lat
ter's farm. The ice wasn't very thicl
and the water wasn't very warm bu
Mr. Potter trusted to a canvas cano
and went ahead where the surveyo
told him to go. Then he leaned over t.
stick the leveling rod down into tn
water so that MIR. Joslin could sigh
through his level and determine hov
deep ditch would have to be dug t
drain the pond. Mr.. Joslin did not tel
Mr. Potter to get into the water him
self He didn't even want him to. HI
could tell lots better by the rod alone
but Mr. Potter with the same determin
alton to do things his own way tina
every member Of farmers club an,
every republican in Shiawassee count
knows him for, had to do things hi
own way this time too. He dove on
of the canvas canoe head first right int
the icy water, down until his bald pat
stuck into the muddy bottom and MI
Joslin had to sight at the soles of hi
cowhide boots to get the level He ha
to do it quick too because Mr.. Potte
pulled his head out of the mud, found
cred through the icy water and wen
back to the house madder than he eve
was before in his life. Mr. Joslin onl
laughed but nowadaysit is noticed tina
Mr.. Potter always asks the republican
of the county to keep Mr.. Joslin in tn
office of county surveyor and-awa
from Byron. Those who have had an
surveying done during the years sine
Mr.. Joslin has been working in tn
county, and they compose large mum
ber, know that he is one Of the mos
accurate and careful surveyors VIII
} ever worked in the county but that
not why Mr. Potter wants him to cor
, time to live in Owosso.
Taking the whole ticket togethe
therefore there is abundant reason fo
} the election of every republican nomin
| ated. Some of the nominees have nc
vet given their consent to the publics
ton of these recommendations in tn
form they are here presented but the
) are true and they are good ones and tn
, republicans and few remaining voter
, of the county have right to kno,
whom they are voting for before the