The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-08-12
PENNINGTON AND FRED WARMER
Town and Man are Inseparably Con-
nected.

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| nected.
Pennington, Mich, Aug. 11.-Fred
M. Warner, candidate for governor,
cheesemaker, farmer, merchant, secre-
tary of state and politician, resides at
Pennington. He is the genius of the
quaint old village, and is the biggest"
man in town.
| Pennington is in Oakland county,
but it doesn't "nestle among the hills,
because it is located on the fiat lands.
Seen on hot, sunny day in July, Farm
ingtcn is a modern sleepy hollow"
without any hollow in sight. There is
a long shady street along which are
scattered irregularly houses, stores,
blacksmith shop, town. hall, Touring
mill. churches and cheese factories.
Cherry trees extend their branches over
high board fences bordering the walks;
grass grows in the streets and goes to
seed, small boys lazily make their way
to the town pump after water for the
family, chickens walk across the street
in which several dogs are sleeping un-
disturbed by hurrying crowds. There
is no street sprinkler on the long, dry
avenue, and a drug store clerk explains
that the town isn't hardly big enough
to support soda fountain.
WARMERS NAME EVERYWHERE.
Pennington is good name for the
place; but Warnerville would be equal
ly as appropriate. p. d. Warner, fos-
ter father of the republican nominee
for governor, is president of the village
bank. Fred M. Warmers name is seen
on grocery wagon, on the cheese fac
tory, on the front of big general store,
in the columns of the village newspaper,
and on big banner across the front of
the livery stable. He gets more mail
at the post Office than any other five
men in the village, not excepting Alex.
H. Smith, editor of the Pennington En-
terprise, who is known to many as the
reading clerk of the house of represent
atives. The first two columns on the
front page of the Enterprise contain an
'ad' of Fred M. Warner, general mer-
chant, who is this week offering extra
inducements to purchasers of overalls,
cottonade pants work shirts, shoes and
straw hats for the harvest season. The
editorials in the Enterprise are all about
Warner, and Warmers name and War
ner's cheese is in everybody's mouth.
PRETTY GOOD TELLER"
The drug store clerk, the groom at
the livery stable, the man ON the dry
| goods box, the fellow who is learning
the BARRIERS trade, and the chap who
runs the dray will tell you that they
worked for Fred M. Warner once, and
that he's pretty good Teller" They
will point down the street past the town
hall and tell you that Fred M. Warner
lives down there little ways in a big
brick house, but that che amt to home
now" and they guess he's purity busy
these days. Every man in the town
knows when Fred M. Warner is at
home and when he is away. They keep
track of Lis movements as they do of
the moon. The village cynic will tell
you that eff it hadn't. been for Warmers
father Fred Warner wouldn't" but,
then, he has, so what is the use listen
ing to the cynic, and the critical-mind-
ed. Listen to the livery stable man and
learn that Erred Warner is a mighty
smart Teller and long-headed, too"
HIS PICTURE PROMINENT.
The Enterprise has had "a dandy cut"
made of Warner, and every loyal citi-
zen of Pennington has the picture in
his parlor if he has one. The Warner
button is seen on every lapel, and farm
hands are using them on their overalls
in place of nails. Conductors on the
United Railway, which connects War
ner's residence in Pennington with w.
Z. 'McMillan's Office in Detroit, wear
the Warner button on their coats and
Heinz pickle watch charm, while every
man has pocketful of Warner buttons
for distribution.