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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30

A determined effort will be made by
President Root evelt and the administers
ton chiefs to jam through ship sub
sidy bill at the coming session of con
gress. Indeed. it is even asserted that
an attempt will be made to enact the
law before the Christmas vacation.
That the Republican majority will
stand behind the measure almost solidly
is not to be doubted, and the passage OF
he measure by both branches is virtual
Iy assured. Whether it can be rail
oaded" through before Christmas, is,
Il course, not 80 certain.
Hitherto the administration has not
AIKEN up the question of ship subsidy
sriously, but now all that is changed.
President Roosevelt will recommend
& in his message. Postmaster General
jortelyou in his annual report, will
lrge it from the standpoint of the ex-
ension of the postal service. Secretary
1etcalf, of the commerce department,
will advocate it in his report. on the
round of the upbuilding Of the mer-
liant marine. Secretary Root. ever
since his return from South America,
has been industriously advocating it as
a means of strengthening foreign rela-
lions.
The bill has been hanging fire for
five years Once Senators Hanna and
Frye succeeded in gettingit through the
senate, but it was killed in the house.
The house has been the stumbling
block. The senate would willingly have
passed it at almost any session since the
Hanna-Payne bill was passed, had it
not been certain that it would be
slaughtered in the house
Western representatives have been
opposed to it, and Speaker Cannon has
stood by them. Now the speaker is
understood to have been converted.
Many of the westerners have been won
over, and the influence Of the admins
tration is relied on to do the rest
Washington Dispatch to Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
Congressman Fordney as a member of
the committee on merchant marine and
fisheries may become an important
factor in the decision of the committee
on this bill. 1t is we'll known that he
does not favor the bill in its present
form and that he will not vote to report
if favorably unless some important
changes are made.
This question is one of the most i'm
portant to come before congress at this
session and THE TIMES hopes the right
kind of bill may be passed.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30

fications of its own members and ma
jority Of each constitute quorum to
do business
Section 10 article v, of the consti-
tuition of the state of Michigan reads:
No person elected governor or lieuten-
ant.governor shall be eligible to any
Office or any appointment. from the leg
islature of either house thereof during
the time for which he was elected. All
votes for either of them for any such
Office shall be void
1T must be apparent to anyone,
without any reference to myself, that
the constitution of the United States
has and will govern in all cases whether
the question arises in this or any other
state in the union"
In another statement Gov. Warner
said: II never have been candidate
for United States senator. am not a
candidate now, and l shall not be a
candidate before the next legislature.
HaFo HoNol SoiiClteu any supporI lIOHi
any one directly or indirectly. have
not heard and do not believe that any
of my friends have ever solicited any
support for me. Any statement to the
contrary of what have stated is abso-
lutely without any authority from me.
Il desire, following my nomination
and election as governor to be in a
position to be governor of Michigan
for the ensuing two years, to be in har-
mony with the legislature and the other
officers of the state administration,
that my service as governor may be
most acceptable and to the best advant-
age of the state and of the people"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30
Makina Peter Pay For Paul.

Whether a public utility be admin
istered by the government itself or by
private corporation, we hold that
every person who uses it should be held
to pay the cost of the service which
he receives and that no man should be
compelled by taxation or otherwise to
bear any part of his neighbours ex-
penses for light and power, for tele-
phone service or for transportation of
himself or of his goods.
Every proposal that municipality
assume operation of all public utilities
and reduce rates to persons using
them, regardless of what the service
may actually cost, Is an attempt to
force some mon to bear the expenses
of others, because where the outlay for
operation exceeds earnings the deficit
must be made up by taxation, and this
we denounce as socialistic and there
fore hostile to justice and subversive
Of democratic government. - Bourke
Cochran
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30
LONG LIVE THE BOSS!
Municipal Ownership Would Make His
Position lmpregnabIe.

Municipal Ownership Would Make His
Position lmpregnabIe.
Referring to the recent announcement
that 51,146 persons are on the payroll
Of New York city, the Newark Adver-
tiser declares that in the event of mu-
nicipal ownership of street railways,
electric light and gas plants, ferries and
other public utilities the city employees
would constitute a political army that
would make n change of administra-
ton impossible.
1t recalls the fact that 25,000 city
employees in Philadelphia kept Phila-
delphia in the hands of the corrupt
Durham machine for years, and only
a great popular uprising overthrow the
grafters.
IF Durham had had control of the
street railroads and other public utili
tics in Philadelphia through municipal
ownership" it observes, she could have
laughed at popular uprisings. He
would have been an absolute in his au-
thority as the car"
The point is well taken.
In other cities the political situation
under public ownership would be as it
would in Philadelphia and New York.
Bosses may be overthrown and
grafters turned out whenever the pub
lie will it at present. Public ownership
of all public utilities would end this.
1t would bind the people hand and
foot and deliver them into the hands
of political grafters. = Long Branch
Record.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30
S nat orial Gossip.

Gov. Warner made the following
statement the first Of the week concern
ing his position in regard to the sena-
torship: II certainly think it would
not appear right for me within few
days after election to plan defeat of
any of these gentlemen, all of whom
are friends of mine.
If conditions should develop which
would convince me that it would be
for the best interests of the party that
1 should actively support some one for
United States senator, may do so.
81 desire to see clean, honorable con-
lest free from any warranted charge of
the use of money or undue influence,
with result reached in the end that
will not only leave our party in the
best possible position and condition for
the future; but will give our state a
United States senator of whom our
people may feel proud
ITO no one have l stated that I am
to be a candidate in the senatorial con-
test. To friends who have talked with
me saying that thew hoped that in the
end l would be chosen as the result of
this contest have stated that 1 was
not candidate ard had no idea that
conditions should arise that would
bring about that result.
Regarding my eligibility to become
United States senator, in view of the
fact that am governor, desire to say
for the benefit of those who have been
reading the recent discussions in the
newspapers, bearing upon this ques-
ton, that the governor takes an oath to
support the constitution of the United
States as we'll as the constitution of the
state, and section of article 1, of the
constitution of the United States is as
follows:
"'No person shall be a senator who
shall not have attained to the age of 30
years, and been nine years a citizen of
the United States and who shall not
when elected be an inhabitant of the
state for which he shall be chosen
""Section 5. of the same article also
provides: Each house shall be the
Judge of the election returns and quail
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30
Machine Voting a Great Success at
Ind annapolis
From the indianapolis News.

From the indianapolis News.
The local use of voting machines yes
terday was surprise and delight. 1t
was counted confidently, and by the
! carefullest men, that the machine or
machinery would confuse people and
delay voting 1t did nothing of the
kind in any case. All of the celebrity
claimed for the operation of the device
was demonstrated in practice yesterday.
1t was lamented-from the same causes
that there would not be much
scratching, because men would fear to
lose their vote. On the contrary, there
was scratching, and much to the point.
We do not know of any to make COM
parsons as to the amount of scratching,
but it defeated two Republican candi-
dates in the face of an overwhelming
party majority and greatly cut the mar
gin of others. The machine indeed
facilitates scratching 1t is so much
easier to throw lever down and raise
one up than it is to hunt down a long
paper ballot and make marks.
There is this fact that many people
do not take into account. The vast
mass of men are not used to handling
pencils; their fingers are unaccustomed
to it; their hands are trained to larger
or different grasps. But most men are
deft with anything in the nature of
tools. They can do things with all
orts of mechanical appliances. Thus
it is easier for the average man to use
the voting machine than the ballot. 1t
is easier for him to throw down lever
than to use pencil and mark with it in
a spare place on paper. So the great
point on which machine voting must
stand CT fall was clearly demonstrated
in its favor in Marion county yesterday;
that point is the adaptability of the
machine to popular use. AS for all that
goes with the machine, the CELEBRITY, the
certainty, the absolute surety against
fraud, ballot box stuffing," false
counts and all the familiar faults and
fears that attend the use of the ballot
down to the human element of error
that may wrongly throw ballot out
all is done away with by machine vot-
ing. With the long list of candidates
voted on yesterday the figures for every
one were completed and reported with
in twenty and twenty five minutes after
voting ceased.
We assume that machine voting will
become general The next legislature
ought to make it compulsory for In
diana. 1t will soon pay for itself-in
money cost-in the saving of printing
bills, the reduction or election officers
and the reduction of the number of
voting places. Furthermore, with such
a reform the law could likely be modi.
fed so as to simplify the after processes
of the election. When a machine has
registered the votes and shown the
totals there should be very little more
demanded of election officers-simple
tabulation for the canvassing board
and reduction of duplicate and un-
necessary red tape" processes should
be the order of the time.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30

Tho light vote in the recent election
has brought suggestions from number
OF sources that voting should be made
compulsory and that all failing to vote
should be punished in some manner.
Apparently large number of citizens
caro- little for the privilege given them
Of taking even this small part in the
affairs of the government. Why not
disqualify this class from voting for a
term OF years2
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30

IL is said that the Saginaw river and
the Shiawassee near where it joins the
Saginaw are 80 full of fish nets that it
is impossible to get up the river in a
row boat One fisherman (9) has forty.
three nets and has already taken $4,000
. worth of fish out of the river. Is it any
wonder that the fishing is poor in the
Shiawassee and that sportsmen here
abouts are most decidedly in favor of
the passage Of the law prohibiting net
fishing in both TIE Saginaw and Shia-
wassoe2
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30

The Owosso TIMES is again advocat-
ing non partisan ticket for the city
election. Press American.
Tho only reference to the question by
THE TIMES has been to say, in speak
ing of the matter, that already talk is
FAVORABLE to non partisan ticket" 1t
is we'll known that the Press American
has wonderful imagination at times
and the quotation from its columns is an
illustration.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30

The fact that about half of the re-
Gently elected members of the state leg
islature are farmers. and that some 9TH
or members not directly connected
with the work of the hoe and the pillow
are yot from the smaller villages and
communities wholly dependent upon
tho farm, would seem to insure to the
farmers of Michigan fair hearing and
strong voting representation upon
every question that will be discussed
and acted upon by the coming legisla-
ture. The farmers of Michigan have
always been strong and sure in the sup.
portAof republican principles. national
and state, and they in turn have usu-
ally welded the influence and possessed
tho power which directed and con-
trolled: theirepsrty. 1t is. therefore,
fortunate for state and party that the
next session of our lawmakers will be
directed by svmpathies which have
thor foundation in the life of the farm
and the atmosphere of the home.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30

The railroads of the state have made
a small concession to the public by re-
ducing from $40 to $40 the deposit re-
quired in purchasing mileage books.
Now if they will take off the other S.
and then make the books good for the
nse Of the buyer and his family long
step in advance will have been taken by
the roads.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30
Seventh Annual International Live
Stock Exposition, Chicago

The Michigan Central will sell round
trip tickets on Nov. so, Dec. /, 2, 3 and
for Sf35. Good returning until Dec,
10th inclusive and will also sell on Dec.
9Th round trip tickets for $500. Good
returning until Dec 9Th inclusive. For
further information call No. 8, both
phones.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30
Senator Sorghum In Doubt.

"Do you think that municipal own
ership would eliminate graftT
II am not quite sure" answered Sen
ator Sorghum, whether it would elmi-
natc 1t or simply originate new kind"
Washington Star.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30

Judge North of thei Calhoun circuit
has decided that the list of marriage Ii
censes issued by the county clerk is pub
lie property and that the clerk has no
right TO refuse anyone access to the
same. The courts should now go a
little further and make the same rule
andy in divorce cases.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30

Saginaw business and professional
men gave Hon. Arthur Hill strong
non-partisan endorsement for United
States Senator at a public meeting
Monday evening. Resolutions We're
adopted setting forth the many qualifi-
cations of Mr. Hill for the position and
plegding him hearty support.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30

The council has finally done the right
fixing by paying the Interests on the
Carriage Company bonds. Now keep it
paid right on date hereafter. The Com
pany will do its part.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30

Taxes will he due December LIST. We
can all be thankful that the amounts
called for are smaller than usual.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30

q When you pay your school tax recall
the fact that Hazen 8. Pingree was
once Governor of Michigan.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30

= If the claims of all the senatorial
candidates are correct there must hav,
been a great increase in the number OF
members in the Legislature.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30

WANTED:-Seversl good cabinet
makers and hand carvers, good wagee,
steady work. Address Carrollton
Furniture Mfg Co.. Csrrolltop, Ken
lucky.
WANTED Lady solicitors for profit
able aud paying business, calling on
retail merchants. physicians and other
business and professional men, If you
are hustler and desire to earn good
salary, lose no time in answering this
advertisement Address, l.. G G. A.,
Association Bldg, La Crosse, Wis.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-30
owosso FRIDAY, NOV. 80. 1906.

Gov. Warner. at least, seems to have
all the senatorial aspirants guessing.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-01-17

n Our old TREND Davie Lamber.
son Of Hustontowu, was q well
come caller yesterday.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-01-17
NUMBER II
The WORK ROAD TAX.
How Township May Proceed TO AboI-
ish II, and Get the Benefit of the
State Aid.
TOO LATE TO DO ANYTHING THIS YEAR

Under the new law providing
for three supervisors, townships
desiring so to do, may abolish the
work tax, and by so doing, re-
ceive fifteen per cent. of the a.
mount of road tax collected in
said township from the State.
The method of procedure is as
follows
A petition of not less than twen-
ty-five taxpayers of the township
must be presented to the court.
The Court then authorizes that
the matter shall be submitted to
the voters of the township at The
next February election. Thirty
days public notice prior to said
election must be given.
lnasmuch as nothing has been
done to secure the change, 1T. Is
too lite for this year, and town
ships desiring the change must
get IN shape to submit it at the
February election OF 1907.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-01-17
FORMER TAYLOR TOWNSHIP BOY.
Writes From Benedict, Nebraska Under
Date OF January 9th.

FULTON COUNTY NEWS IL
send herewith one dollar to keep
the NEWS coming another year.
L still see so many Items of inter
est to me III your columns that |
do not think | can do without the
paper. Besides the news from
the old home friends in Taylor
township and elsewhere in the
county. L often see correspond
ence from former residents who
are scattered over the great West,
and although | am unacquainted
with the writer's, in most cases,
yet read with interest what they
have to say. For instance, | am
always pleased to see a letter
from Rev. Geo. B. Shoemaker, of
Eldora, Iowa. Again, saw last
week a letter from John I'll. Win
tero somewhere in the Sunflc wer
State. | presume he is the same
Mr.. Winter who was county su-
perintendent when was school
boy 35 or 40 years ago. If so, he
will no doubt remember Forest
Grove school IN Taylor township,
and can perhaps recall some of
it's teachers: although, Of course,
he will not rememb ber any of the
boys and girls who were pupils.
These are only examples of the
many features that make the
NEWS a welcome visitor in The
homes of its widely separated
readers.
l can safely say without flattery
that the News is as good paper,
in every way, as county papers
usually are in counties of many
tunes the size of old Fulton.
We are having a fine winter here
in Nebraska, but there is ample
time yet for all the cold weather
we care to see. We had few
cold days In the beginning of De
cember, but had not one storm in
the month.
We had plentiful crops of every
thing except fruit, and had
moderate amount of that except
peaches.
You are at liberty to throw tins
10 the waste basket (all but the
dollar) if it does not entirely sult
you-I would always rather read
letters than write them.
Yours truly
ID. w. BAKER.
The j. II. Winter mentioned
above is a brother of Hiram, the
superintendent. -EDIToR. |
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-01-17

vaccination universal should be
seconded and supported by all
who are now in any way connect
ed with the public schools. T"
He adds, however, that "the
excitement caused by the drastic
enforcement OF the vacr nation
law has obscured for many minds
the real purpose for which schools
are established aud maintained
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-01-17
my brother and his wife.


Corn Is not as good crop here
as In the eastern part of the stale,
yet the farm RS are not bad of
for corn They do not build lit.
tie corn crib Mt the side of the
wagonshed IN which to store
their corn crop, like they do in
some places that | have lived
Here 1t is hauled to convenient
place on the farm and thrown in
pile on The ground, frequently
as much as tive on SIX Thousand
bushels in pile. After it is thus
gathered together, they get big
steam cornsheller, and run the
big pie through it, allowing the
shellei corn to lie IN a great heap
on the ground. l have seen
thousands of bushels of shelled
corn lying in heaps on the ground
without any kind of protection,
whatever, from the weather.
From this statement you will
easily infer that they do not have
the wet weather they have in the
East. A rain IN August and one
the latter part of Novem Der are
the only rains since the last of
JuLe, although that seemed a
plenty.
Having fall of about four inch
es of snow New Years night, the
boys decided to nave a rabbit
hunt. Being a nonresident, l
took no part in 1T other than to
drive ono of the wagons. I will
tell you how they hunt rabbits
out here.
On Wednesday morning, the
3D. inst, the men gathered at Fl.
h. Palmer s, and he and a man
named Frank Wilson chose sides
six men on side. l went
along, put am not included in the
twelve.
They had three men to wagon
and four wagons, in the hunt.
They went through pastures,
stubble fields, corn stalks, and
even through fields of corn that
are not husked yet and the side
that killed the least mum Der had
to give an oyster-supper for the
men IN the hunt, including their
families. They will have their
supper this friday evening.
The winning side had in ;he
first wagon 11S RABBITS; in the
second 146. The other side had
In one wagon 106; and IN the 9TH
er, making 264 on one eide,
and 239 on the other-a a total of
SOB in all
Palmer's side came out WIN
ners, and theirs were the last |
teams getting started. His team
was in mole than an hour ahead
OF those of the other side, and yet
they lost in the game. There was
one skunk killed, and / do not
know how many quall-as they
are not allowed to kill quail nor
prairie chickens.
They killed mostly small rab.
bits, or cottontalls, as they call
Them them here, while there was
quite number of Jack rabbits.
J hey will weigh seven or eight
bs. each Those Jacks are fine
sport for any one that is good
shot with rifle. They are about
5he size of a large cat, or a little
Dit larger.
1 have seen two coyotes. They
ooked to me like gray fox.
The pralrie-dog, from what they
ell me, is a little larger than
ok squirrel,
S.B.P.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-01-17
P.

Mrs. Catherine Hockensmith,
widow of Samuel Hockensmith,
deceased, died January 11th, and
was buried Saturday, Janu ary
18th. 1t Is thought she died as
the result of a stroke. She was
a consistent memb ber of the M. E.
church for the pastseventy years.
She died in the faith she embrac-
ed In her youth. She chose as
her funeral text III Tim. Az.
Thefunerai sermon was preach.
ed by Rev. S. j. Pittlnger, of the
M. K. church. Funeral services
were held vt the honse at 10 o..
clock and interment In the fami.
ly cemetery near Andover.
Had she lived until March II,
1908, she would have been eighty.
nine years old
S. J.P.