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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-07-16
PREACHER SLAIN
FOR OLD GRUDGE
Town Loafer Shoots Man Who as
City Recorder Punish
ed Him.

METUCHEN, July 16.-Infuriated be-
cause the prisoner had shot and killed
former Recorder +. B. D. Prickett. a
retired Methodist preacher and editor
of the Metuchen Recorder. and barricad-
ing himself in his house, pistol In hand,
had held the entire town at bay. a mob
yesterday afternoon made repeated ef-
forts to wrest Archibald Heron from
the policemen who were taking the
slayer TO the county jail at New Bruins
wick. Those who wished to dispose sum-
rnarily Of the slayer were beaten back.
however. and he was hustled out Of
town and placed IN jail.
The fury of the mob was increased by
the knowledge that Heron had shot
and killed Prickett because the editor,
when he was recorder, had sent Heron
to prison for ten days on q conviction
Of drunkenness and disorderly conduct
II was recalled that Heron often mad
threatened to get even by killing Prick
EFT. When those threast were made,
however. little attention was cs.I 10
them. because, although Heron was a
town loafer, It was not thought he
would resort TO murder. Prickett knew
CT the threats and seemingly he re-
garded them as lightly as dtd others.
for he made no effort TO protect himself
against the man who in the end took
his life.
Heron for two years had brooded
over his Imprisonment, but not until
yesterday did he work himself to a
pitch to do the shooting. The killing
was done in front of the home OF the
vlctiI1's son, who saw the tragedy, but
was powerless TO prevent II. Then The
slayer, frightened by seeing his victim
faIl dead, turned and ran three-quarters
of mile to his home. It was not until
he had been informed the townsmen
would have him, dead or alive. that he
consented 10 permit Chief Of Police
Fouratt, at whom he fired several shots,
70 enter the house Fouratt seized him
quickly and snapped the handcuffs on
him.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-07-16
CRANFORDS GIVEN
$150,0OO CONTRACT

Tho commissioners today awarded
contract for street paving work. in
volving an expenditure Of approximate
y $4,000, to the Crawford Paving Com
pany. 1t was the division Of a similar
contract last year between the Gran
ford Paving Company and the Brennan
Construction Company which LED TO the
charge Of favOTitiSm by the latter.
A contract for asphalt block paving
OF approximately $4,000 was awarded
TO the Washington Asphalt Block and
Tile Company. Contracts for street
grading were awarded as follows:
Albemarle street, Forty-first street
Rittenhouse street, and Western avenue
to @. 3. Mullin.
Minnesota avenue to the W. r.
Brenizer Company
Kearney street 20 Stutler & Ready.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-07-16

Lot OF fine wash Suits for boys:
all Russian style, with square sailor
collars: some trimmed with blind
embroidery Plain white and colOrs.
Values worth up 10 ST no
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-07-16

Lot OF baseball suits for boys. OF
gray domet flannel. Sizes s, s, u,
and Il years. Sold regII- IT,
larry for 500. Remnant ~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-07-16
THE NEXT MEAL.

"Can't you help me, STRIP asked the
beggar on the street to the passerby:
II don't know where my next meal is
coming 'front.'
Neither do T." said the man adj
dressed, passing on; "our girl left this
morning. toor--Yonkers Statesman.
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1908-06-12
Human Life in the Future.

"The bath of the next century,
saws T. Baron Russell in his book, "A
Hundred Years Hence, will lave the
BODY speedily with oxygenatee water
delivered with a force that will rem
der rubbing unnecessary. and beside
il will stand the drying cupboard,
lined with some quickly moving ar.
rangement of soft brushes, and fed
with a highly desiccated air. from
which. almost in a moment, the
bather will emerge, dried, and with a
skin gently stimulated, and perhaps
electrified. to clothe himself quickly
and pass down the lift to his break
fast which he will eat to the accom-
paniment of a summary of the morn
ing's news read out for the benefit
of the family. or whispered into his
ears by a talking machine
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1908-06-12
The Badge of Honesty

Is on every wrapper OF Doctor Pierce'S
Golden Medical Discovery because full
list of the ingredients composing it is
printed there in plain English. Forty
years of experience has proven its superior
worth as blood purifier and invigorat-
ing tonic for the cure of stomach disorders
and all liver ills. 1t builds up the run
down system as no other tonic can in
which alcohol is used The active medic
inal principles of native roots such as
Golden Seal and Queens root, Stone and
Mandrake root, Bloodroot and Black
Gherrybark are extracted and preserved
by the use of chemically pure, triple
refined glycerine. Send to DIR. r. V. Pierce
at Buffalo, n. Y, for free booklet which
quotes extracts from well-recognized med
Zeal authorities such as Drs. Barth0ow.
King, Scudder, Coe, Ellingwood and a
host of others, showing that these roots
can be dopended upon for their curative
action il all weak states OF the stomach,
accomplished by indigestion or dyspepsia
ms well IS ipall bilious or liver complaints
and in Hl/wasting diseases where there
Is losSlTflesh and gradual running down
OF tNcStrength and system.
The eGolden Medical Discovery makes
rich, pure blood and SO InviSoIates and
regulates the stomach LIVER ana BOWELS,
aud. through them.-ihe whole system;
Thus all skin affections, blotches, pimples
and eruptions as well as scrofulous swell
lings and old open running sores or ulcers
are cured and healed. In treating old
running sores, or ulcers, it is well to In
sure their healing to apply to them DIR.
Pierce's All-Healing Salve. II your drug
gist don't happen to have this Salve in
stock, send fifty-four cents in postage
stamps to DIR. r. v. Pierce, Invalids' Hotel
and Surgical Institute, Buffalo N Y, and
large box of the rAll- Healing Salve "
will reach you by return post
You can't afford 10 accept a secret nos
trum as substitute for this non alcoholic,
medicine OF KNOWN COMPOSITION, not
even though the urgent dealer may
thereby make little bigger profit.
DR. Pierces Pleasant Pellets regulate
and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels.
Eugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take
IS candy.
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1908-06-12
and sincere character.

sound and sincere character.
He is a self-made man who is well
made-who has done a good JOB III
the making of himself As to his
general attitude toward the questions
Of the day, it is enough to say tAat
he is not a man who believes in burn.
ing the barn to kill tie rats
He is exactly the kind of man tiat
what Mr.. Bryan calls tie plain p2o-
ME- are glad to see come FORWARD
for high Office. They recognize him
as one of themselves and are PROUD
of him with good reason.
John A. Johnson of Minnesota Is
doing what he can. More power te
him and to all Ike him. The republic
needs the help Of all of them.-chi
cago Inter Ocean.
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1908-06-12
How q sldewise Doq Trots.

The place was the porch of the
store, the time was about 10 o'clock in
the morning of summer day, the
people were the amiable loafers-and
Old Baumgartner. The person he was
discoursing about was his son Sepheni-
jah. ! am not sure that the name
was not the ripe fruit of his fathers
fancy-with. perhaps, the Scriptural
suggestion which is likely to be pres
ent In the affairs of a Pennsylvania
German-whether a communicate or
not--even If he live in Maryland.
"Yas-always last; especial at ftr
nerals and weddings. Except his own
he's sure to be on time at his own
funeral. Right out in front! Hah?
But sometimes he misses his wedding.
Why. | knowed a feller-yous all
knowed him, begoshens,-thatd didn't
git there tell another fellerd married
her-bout morn'n a year afterward.
Wasn't it more'n year, boys? Vas
Bill Eisenkrout. Or, now, was it his
brother-Baltzer n-Cabbage? Seems
to me now like it was Baltz Some
sing wiss a B at the front end, any
how
Henry Wasserman efficiently init
mated that there was a curious but
satisfactory element Of safety in being
last-a "fastnaeht" in their language,
in fact Those in front were the ones
usually hurt in railroad accidents, Al
exander Althoff remembered.
Safer" cried the speaker. "Of
course. But fer why-say, for why?'
Old Baumgartner challenged defiantly.
No one answered and he let several
impressive minutes intervene.
You don't know, Hang you, none
of yous knows Well-beeause he
amt there when anysing oceurs-al
ways a little latei'
They all agreed with him by series
of sage mods
But, fellers, the worst is about
counting. It's no way TO be always
late. Everybody else gifts there first
and it's Messing for the fastnacht bui
weeping and wailing and gnashing o.
the teeth And mebby the other fellel
gifts considerable happiness-and &
good farm
There was complaint in the old
mans voice. and they knew that he
meant his own son Seffy. To add to
their embarrassment, this same son
was now appearing over the Lustich
lillian opportune moment for a
pleasing depression For you must be
told early concerning Old Baumgart.
ners longing for certain lands, tene-
ments and hereditaments-usin his
own phrase-which were not his own,
but which adjoined his. 1t had passed
into proverb of the vicinage: indeed,
though the property In question be-
longed to one Sarah Pressed, it was
known colloquially as "Baumgartner' s
Yearn."
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1908-06-12
MORE POWER TO JOHNSON.
He Is Man Who Has Risen on His
Merits.

Hon. John A, Johnson has risen
from the ranks on his merits. He has
won fair degree of material prosper
lty not by the reckless arts of a dema.
sogue, but by the constructive WORK Of
citizen who grows up in and with
his country.
he has political power because he
mas deserved public confidence How
ever any OF US may disagree with some
OF MS political ideas, he is recognized
oy all who have taken the trouble to
learn anything about him as a man OF
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1908-06-12
There's a Way

To defeat the mail order mans CUB
throat methods in this community.
The way Is publicity for your business
- it's the same way he uses. Ou1
columrs will give your business the
publicity you need.
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1908-06-12

head was nodding, her tail swaylnS,
and Seffy. propped by his elbow on
her broad back, one leg swung be-
tween the names, the other keeping
time on her ribs, was singing:
Il want to be an angel
And with the angels stand,
A crown upon my forehead
A harp within my hand
His adoring father ehuckled. i
wonder what for kind of anehel he'd
make, anyhow? And Betz-theyl Il
have to go together. Say, | wonder if
it is horse-anehels?"
No one knew; no one offered sug-
gestion.
well. it ought to be- Say-he ken
perform circus wiss oil Betz!"
They expressed their polite sur
prise at this for perhaps the hun
dredth time.
"Yas-they have a kind of circus
ring in the barnyard. He stands on
one foot then ON another and on his
hands wiss his feet kicking. and then
he says words--like holey-pokey-
and Betz she kicks up behind and
throws him off in the dung and we all
laugh-happy efer after-Betz most of
ALL"
After the applause he said
81 guess Ed better wake EN- up!
What you sink?"
They one and all thought he had.
They knew he would do IT, no matter
what they thought. His method, as
usual. was his own. He stepped to
the adjoining field. and, selecting
clod with the steely polish of the plow-
share upon it, threw il at the mare.
It struck her on the Hank She gather
ed her feet under her in sudden alarm,
then slowly relaxed looked slyly for
the old man. found him. and under
standing, suddenly wheeled and am
bled off home, leaving Seffy prone on
the ground as her part of the joke.
The old man brought Seffy in tri-
umph to the store-porch.
"Chuste stopped you afore you got
to be a anchell" he was saying. I'VE
couldn't bear to siak about you being
a anchel-an wiss the anchels stand
"a harp upon your forehead crown
within your hand, / expect-when it's
complaining time"
Seffy grinned cheerfully, brushed of
the dust and contemplated his fathers
watch-held aceusingly against him.
4
About an inch and half apast
ten! Seffy, I'm glad you amt break
ing your reputation for being fast
nachich. Chust about a quarter of an
inch too late for the prize wiss flour
on its hair and arms and its frock
pinned up to show its new petticoat
Thu, If | had such a nice petit
coat" he initiated the lady in ques-
ton, to the tremendous delight of the
gentle loafers.
Seffy stared little and rubbed
some dust out of his eyes He was
pleasant but dull.
"Yassir Sef, if you'd a-got we're at a
inch and quarter apast. Now Sans
got her Down in the cellar a-licking
molasses together. Doggone if Sam
don't git eferysing his due
bills. He don't want to be no anchel
tell he dies. He's got fun enough yere
but Seffy-you're like the flow of
molasses in January-at counting"
This oblique suasion made no i'm
preston on Seffy 1t is doubtful if he
understood it at all. The loafers be-
gan to smile. One laughed The old
man checked him with threat of per-
sonal harm.
Hold On there. Jefferson Dafis Bus
by he child Il don't allow no one
to laugh at my Seffy-except chust me
account I'm his daddy. It's fight
word the next time you do it,"
(To be continued.l
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1908-06-12

wise dog of hot summers day! Anu
he showed the company, up and down
the store porch just how sidewlse
dog would be likely to trot on a not
summer day-and then laughed JOY
ously.
Ii there, had been an artist eye 10
see they would have been well worth
its while--Sefy and the mare SO al
fectionately disparaged And, AFTER
all, | am not sure that the speaker
himself had not an artists eye. FOR
spring pasture, or fallow upland,
or a drove of goodly cows deep in MS
clover. | know he had. perhaps you
too, haye?) And this was his best
mare and his only son.
The big bay, clad in broad-banded
harness, soft with oil and glitterlns
with brasses, was shambling INDECENT,
ly down the hill, resisting her own
momentum by the diagonal motion
the old mcn had likened to a dog s
sidewise trot. The looped trace-chains
were jingling a merry dithyramb, her
head was nodding, her tail swaying,
and Seffy. propped by his elbow on
her broad back. one leg swung be
tween the names, the other keeping
time on her ribs, was singing:
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-06-19
Howey.Motte

Miss Bessie, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fl. G. Motto and John G.. Howey,
of Detroit, were married at the home
of the bride Sunday evening and have
gone to Detroit, where they will reside,
Mr.. Howey being an M. G. railroad
official there. Rev. G.. w. Jennings
performed the ceremony. A large
number of frinds of the bride extend
hearty congratulations.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-06-19
LOCAL NEWS.

Lyman II. Dunning will not return
to the west, but has taken up carpenter
work at Durand.
Clemens Gabriel and family have re-
turned from Saginaw and reside at 1872
South Water street.
A standpipe will be put in at the
corner of King and Adams street for
sprinkling purposes.
Mrs. c. E. Shepard and daughter, of
Portland, Oregon, are guests at j, H.
Sproule's, Grand avenue.
Geo. T. Campbell has been in Chicago
this week attending a meeting of the
Inland Daily Press Association.
Miss Margaret Kreher, of ST. Joseph,
is a guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. W. L. FRS
bic and other relatives this week.
A sewer will be put in soon on
Clinton street from Shiawassee street
east half block at cost of 1898.
Mccall & Co., New York, makers of
patterns, have begun suit against f. B.
Stewart g. Co., of Owosso, for 81, 600.
DIR. A. NJ. Hume was in Battle Creek
to attend the laying of the corner stone
of a new shool house under Masonic
auspices.
Cassus J. Ockerman has been APP
pointed driver for the fire department
to take the place of VIM. Beresford, Jr.,
resigned.
E. o. Dewey is in Chicago this week
attending the Republican national con-
vention as one of the delegates from
the Sth district.
Frank Conner is here from the U. Of
NJ to spend part of the vacation. He
will spend most of the summer in the
Green mountains
The annual meeting of the Owosso
Sugar Co. is to be held at its offices in
this city on the 23rd of this month
Heretofore the meeting has been held
in Pittsburg, Pa.
Mrs. Silas Sadlers pocketbook, taken
from the First M. E. church while a
social was being held there last week,
has been returned together with the
pension check it contained but without
the $l1.37 in money.
A. Hennecker. of Lafayette, Ind,
has been a guest for the past week at
the home of T. J. Tubbs East Mason
street. Mr.. Hennecker is a circuit
court commissioner for one of the Indi
ana U. s. judicial districts.
Fifteen of Mrs. A. M. Hume's Sunday
school class joined the Congregational
church last Easter, fourteen of them
have graduated from school this spring
seven from the Normal department,
seven from the regular high. school
course. The class consists of twenty
three members.
Mrs. M. Warren was knocked down
by lawbreaking bicyclist Monday and
although she escaped injury, china
that she was carrying was broken and
she was i'll from the shock. Bicyclists
are again becoming unmindful of the
rights of pedestrians and few arrests
and fines should be made.
Judge Miner dissolved the Injunction
against the County Treasurer, Monday,
which prevented the issuing of a liquor
license to John Hidks of Perry. but
Immediately the antisaloon people Of
the village secured another injunction
which prevents the use of the liquor
bond granted to Hicks by the village
council before the village presidency
was changed. The bond will be re-
turned to the council declared null and
void on the ground of insufficiency and
further hearing had on June 20.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-06-19

Miss Vera Haskell entertained last
evening in honor of Miss Lucille Bailey.
Miss Falice Parker is visiting in Mt.
Pleasant.
Chas. S Williams Jr,, left yesterday
for Pasadena, Calf, to spend the
summer with his aunt Mrs. B. o. Will.
Jams Jr. and family.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-06-19

] Register of Deeds Cole has been at
Linden this week fishing.
Thomas Kerwin has been home from
McBain part of the week,
Mr. and Mrs. w A. Rosenkrans of
Corunna, spent the first of the week in
Flint.
K. N. Parshall is in ~Winona, Mimi.
to start merry-go-round with carni-
val company.
Mrs. Harriet Conant, of Lansing,
left for Ovid Monday, after a visit at
E. F. Conants.
H. K. White was in Ann Arbor
Wednesday to attend reunion of the
class of 1888 U. of M.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Setback are in
Warren, Pa, to attend the wedding of
Mr. Schlaacks brother.
The Travellers club were entertained
at f. B. Holman's, North Hickory
street, Yesterday afternoon.
Miss Mile Moulton entertained
Wednesday and Miss Nettie Wood
Thursday in honor Of Miss Mary Lyon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Osburn are spend
ing the week on the AuSable river
with Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Armstrong, of
Detroit.
Mrs, E. F. Dudley entertained,
Wednesday, in honor of Mrs. A. S.
Emery and daughter of London, Ont,
and Mrs. Keene of Omaha, Neb.
Rev. G.. w. Jennings was in Pontiac
Monday to attend the funeral of Fred
Giddings, who was killed last Friday
in street car accident in Detroit.
Mrs J. O. Parker and Mrs. J. B.
Sullivan very pleasantly entertained
the Congregational Social Union at the
home of the former, Tuesday afternoon.
W. E Collins and son are at Star
Island this week, the former attending
a meeting of the State Board of
Pharmacy and conducting an exami-
nation
Alice Bowles has begun suit for de.
vorce from Robert Rowles, Owosso,
claiming cruelty. She asks alimony,
being represented in court by W. j.
Parker.
D. c. Cooper, w. R. Smith. C. H.
Cossitt Chas. Jackson, Nj. c. Dawes
and j. Frieseke are among the veterans
who have attended the State reunion
in Detroit this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. w. Farmhouse and
Miss Mildred Terry drove to Fowler
Vile Sunday and returned with Miss
Addie Farmhouse who has been receiv-
ing treatment there.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. o. Loring were hosts
for the Quingenti club Wednesday
evening Mrs. G. S. Allison entertained
the Thursday bridge club and some
out-of'town guests yesterday,
The Owosso lodge of Eagles made a
good showing at the state meeting at
Saginaw, capturing $50 prize for the
third largest band in line. J. Johnson
was awarded prize as the thinnest
man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Freeman Libby, of
Saginaw, the former deputy and lectur-
er for Ohio and Michigan of the
Modern Woodmen of America, the lat
ter supervising deputy supreme oracle
of the Royal Neighbors of America,
spent Sunday at F. L. Browns, Cedar
street
Mrs. Eta Persons, who Abandoned
her two weeks old baby at Sutterby's
barn in this city few months ago and
was arrested but afterwards released,
was married in Corunna Wednesday to
Mahlon Baker, a farmer of Vernon
township, 60 years of age Mrs. Persons
is 30 years old. Her child has been
adopted by family in this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-31
Building a Convenient Clothes Closet.

There are clothes that should never be
folded but hung. Boys coats and girls
skirts. for instance. Here are the dlrec-
lions for building very SerViceable ana
neat clothes closet at a very small ex-
pense; also a cut showing plan OF closet
accompanies. -,
Procure two boards-soft pine will an
swer nicely-about fourteen to sixteen
inches wide by five feet long. Two boards
the same width about four feet long. The
two longer boards are to form the sides
of the closet and the two shorter ones the
bottom and top. After the four have been
nailed together in the form of box
with two open sides-narrow wood Stats
are to be nailed across one of the sides,
placing them about five inches apart.
These Stats are to hold the clothes hooks.
The number of Stats should not be over
four nor less than three, and the top one
board.
When the frame of the closet is COM
plete stand it in the corner of your room
or against the windowless side where
your trunk has taken up so much room
and been of so little use-and proceed to
stain it with a nice dark furniture stain.
It is well to follow the color of the wood
in your room; or a clear white is very
good, though it soils easily. After the
stain is dry put in the hooks: then across
the front stretch a curtain of cretonne or
figured in pretty colors. II you wish to
use a pole and rings for the curtain you
may do so, but you will find it better
to run the curtain on a wire, as it pre-
vents q particle of dust from getting in
the closet. whereas. a curtain on pole
and rings hangs SO loosely that dust is
liable to be found annoying.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-31
A Priests Dilemma.

A Catholic bishop gave to one of his
priests fine horse. and the recip-
lent of the gift was so grateful that ne
named the horse in honor OF the good
bishop THE Bishop the animal was
called by both priest and groom. and
many of the folk of the countryside. One
very hot day the bishop had some bust
ness to attend to in that part of his do
cese where the young priest had charge,
and was invited most cordially by the
priest to dine with him and some other
church dignitaries. During the meal the
priests groom came to the dining room
door and spoke to his master in a loud
and distinct whisper so that all at the
table overheard: Father it's such hot
day: wouldn't better throw bucket of
cold water over the Bishop"