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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-06-04


w. E. Collins, G. w. Detwiler, f.
B. Stewart, George Ferris and Mr.. and
Mrs N. E. Mckenzie were Detroit visi
tors, Wednesday.
Married. Tuesday at the German
Luthern parsonage by Rev, T. G. Hahn
Roy Slawson and Miss Marion Howard
both of Owosso They will reside here,
Mr.. Slawson being a fireman on the Ann
Arbor railroad.
w. II. Launstein has unloaded cal
loads of seed beans at Owosso and
Oakley this week and has one at Len
non now. They are from seed farm
at Leroy, New York.
Mis-, Mabel Ferry leaves next week
to fill a summer engagement with the
Boston Fadette Orchestra in New York,
Boston and Philadelphia.
City Clerk Dumund is in Detroit to
attend the annual meeting OF the
National Association of Clerks and
Comptrollers.
Charles Cook will have an examina-
ton before Municipal Justice Fregel,
June Is on a charge of assault and bat
terry.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Shuster of Rush township, died
at their home Monday of pneumonia.
Funeral services were conducted at the
home Tuesday by Elder j. w. Borden.
Burial at Henderson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Hawcroft re-
turned from Ypsilanti Monday where
they attended the funeral of relative
Saturday.
The Owosso Ministerial Association
will meet Monday, June 18th in the Y
M. G. A. rooms at 10 a. m. to discuss
"A Union Evangelistic Meeting; Is 1t
worth while in Owosso." Rev. c. b.
Hoyt will lead the discussion. Rev.
Geo. Laughton will read paper on
"Some Recent Changes in Theological
Thought" All Shiawassee county
ministers are invited.
L. II. Retain was in Detroit, Monday,
inspecting cars for the Ann Arbor.
Frank and Fred Lawrence have been
in the city part of the week. Fred has
completed his work in settling the af.
fairs of the First National bank at
Durand They expect to enter business
together within a short. time.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-06-04

together vanished from sandy soils.
For this reason, soils consisting largely
of clay or clay loan are commonly
known as Strong" soils. In case such
soils are too compact to permit the most
profitable amount of humus decomposi-
ton their texture is usually improved
in such way as to result in increasing
the growth of the proper bacteria; for
example, by under drainage or by ap-
plying lime.
Drainage, through removing the un-
foreground water, admits greater sup
ply of air, so that these associations of
bacteria may find suitable conditions in
the soil. Lining not only neutralizes
deleterious soil acidity, but focculates
or graduates the soil particles where
previously they had tendency to run
together and form heavy, putty. like
mass.
After the soil has been properly drain
ed and lined the application of barn
yard manure becomes the next step in
the treatment. The good results of the
manure follow from two.fold action.
In the first place, it introduces organic
and inorganic materials, which are
we'll suited to promote bacterial growth
and, in the second place, it introduces
large numbers of bacteria suitable for
accomplishing the transformation of
soil humus.
THE FIRST STEP.
The first step, and perhaps the mo-
beneficial one accomplished by bacteria,
is the formation of ammonia from the
nitrogen compounds in the soil humus.
The bacteria which accomplish this
may be said to comprise the association
of the ammonifers. They serve as a
splendid illustration of specialization in
the work of soil bacteria. In the course
of countless centuries there has been
established this division of labor, which
requires the adaptation of certain bac-
terra to one special kind of labor, form
ing as it were, a well-defined labor
union, with very well-defined rules as
to raw material and finished product1
This miscrobial labor union differs,
however, from the imperfect organiza-
tions among mankindin having no rules
restricting the amount of labor to be
done by the individual or by the union.
Whenever there is soil humus the am
monifiers union begins to work, and no
one of the myriads of members cease
until the last molecule is transformed
into ammonia. While this process is
going on another union which we may
call the nitric producers, has been
transforming the ammonia produced
by the ammonifiers into nitrites, and
finally third union takes up the nitric 8
and transforms them into nitrates.
These last two classes of bacteria work
in wonderful unison and harmony, and
transform the nitrites into nitrates
' almost as fast as they are formed. The
sum total of the activities of the three
: associations of bacteria results there
fore in forming quantities of the val
liable nitrates from the humus nitrogen
introduced into the soil by the introduce
ton of manures. The artificial produc.
ton of similar amount of nitrates
would be more or less expensive opera
ton. 1t may be produced, however, at
little expense by the Industrious soil bac.
terra working in different associations if
the farmer will merely supply them
with suitable environment.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-06-04

POULTRY WANTED-At all times
and in any quantity, at q. M. D.
LEGGs, South Water St., Owosso.
w. J. Hall, Manager.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-06-04

WANTED Statesmen to represent
"HN'ID us in the sale Of our
High Grade Goods. Don't delay, apply
at once. Steady employment; liberal
terms. Experience not necessary.
Allen Nursery Co., Rochester, MY.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-06-04

DIFFERENCE IN CLASSES
The difference does not stop here.
Great differences in the classes of bac-
terra are also found, Under these con-
ditions the air.loving bacteria are dis
placed by other bacteria which are able
to grow and work in the absence of air.
Under such conditions it is to be expect
ed that the decomposition process will
be quite different Instead of having a
decay which results in the formation OF
sweet humus, we have putrefactive
decomposition, in which the organic
material of the manures is only partly
broken down, with the result that sour
humus is produced in the soil.
Under the best conditions when the
soil moisture is neither excessive nor
deficient the soils allow the decay of the
humus, but the rate of decay is quite
slow. On properly cultivated clay or
clay loan the effects of the barnyard
manure or of the green manure may
usually be noted several years after the
effects of similar applications have al
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-07

Say, you've heard that gag about
How can you tell a man from Bos
ton?' The answer is, 6You can't tell
him anything" Well, that was Lam
bert. But it wa n t his complete de-
scription. He's all that and more. If
there was anything he didn t know be-
fore, he was dead sure it wa mt worth
KNOWN and as for pointin out new
sights, what was the use? Hadn' he
been in Londona The bright spots along
our main street don t get even "Bah
Jovet' out of Lambert.
For dinner I takes him to one of the
SWEETEST joints on the avenue, and what
do you think he consumes? Cold NUT
ton, marmalade-and tea! Even the
most advanced vaudeville show on
Broadway-and in some acts they 60
as far as they dare-don t wake him
up. He just yawns when it's through,
and says he wouldn t mind taking a
tramp before he turns in
So that s how we come to be strollin
around through the Red Light district
at that time of night; for | leads him
down one cross street and back another,
not gettin far from headquarters at
any time, but GOVERN a good deal of
ground. And all the time I was prod
dim him with this question and that,
tryin to make out just what he thought
of things in general.
1t was worth the trouble. too. Say
some of his ideas about life was the
weirdest thoughts I ever listenef to.
He'd picked EN- all up IN college, ror
he hadn't lived anywhere else since
he was kid; but he was as cocksure
! of everything as if he d been the Oldest
inhabitant.
Once Lambert sees IN just yearnin
! to accumulate the kind of wisdom he s
got such surplus of, he begins unload
in as free as if he was pass1n' out
| handbills. A lot of it I forget, but
the thing that struck me the hardest
was what he had to say about the peo
| pie we sees on the street.
every interesting to watch them,
says he. "I've done it in London, and
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-07

they seem to be much the same here
The animal instincts prevail. They eat,
they sleep, they enjoy crude pleasures;
but they have only rudimentary souls =
kind of two-legged animals that s
almost human, ehg'' says [.
"Precisely,'' says he, some surprised
that I've followed him so close.
Do you get view of him2 For a
pasty faced featherweight he s the most
dissatisfied party l ever run across.
Accordin to his dope it was only high
brows like him that really had any
feelin s worth botherin about. Com
mon folks didn t count They only
knew whether they was hot or cold,
and if they was hungry or full
You must have had a lot of ex-
perience, says I, E'to frame things up
so fne.''
cit s the scientific view says he.
Could You beat that? He'd read
about people in books, and he knew all
about it. Honest, he had me stunned.
I starts to take him back to Mr. Cor
don, thinkin it over as 7 goes along,
but not fndin' any words that would
give Lambert a glimmer of just what
was maxim me ache to get him by the
back of the neck and shake his liver
loose
We was erossin' Seventh avenue,
when Lambert eollides with a female
party that was carryin home a large
sized bun. There wa n t anything spe-
cially curious about her. She was just
lady souse, with a frowzy feather
lid tilted over one ear, her hair down
, over her shoulders, and a breath like
a Whit of sewer gas.
:" 'Scuse me, deary,'' says she, tryin
| to pat Lambert on the arm
"Ugh!' says Lambert, brushin' of
| his coat sleeve.
We got clear of her and made the
| sidewalk, when we hears a couple OF
quick honk-honks. and turns about just
in time to see big green tourin cal
swing around the corner and hit heI
with one of them dull. punkv biffs thai
| gets an echo from the pit of youl
stomach. The lady souse goes dowr
under the chain tires like a bag OF
meal dropped from a truck. There s E
scream from some one back under tht
hood. and the man at the steering whee
| jams on his brakes.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-07

disputes him. Nor we don t kick any
when we re all ordered out.
"Here, you!" says the cop, as we
starts off. t'Whose fur coatf''
Hers" says Flick. s'See that fe
goes with her, too
Then, as we gets out into the air, he
turns to me. "McCabe, says he, 81 IN
much obliged. You saw how it was
one I'd known and all thats I acted
rather yellow, / suppose; but and
he mods at the woman waitin' in tkc
tourin ear
'tOh, / we seen worse, says ]. You
didn t show up so bad. ="
"Thanks, old man" says he, givin'
me the grip "Thanks. od-night, -
/ bic, jumps in and starts off up the
avenue.
"Come, Lambert, - says ]. cts
gettin along toward a. m. l Il pilot
You back to the hotei.'
But say, had job Of it. His knees
are so wabbly be can hardly walk until
We can pick up a nighthawk cab, and
all the way to the Reggie he acts like
a man in a ft Even after / We helped
him out he = tremblin' all over.
"Oh, OH" he groans. 1T was
awful, awful"
''Whati That" says I. "Where
does your scientific view come in9 How
! about the animal instincts and
"Please don 40 he whispers. 81 II
never think Of human beings in that
way again. Neveri"
"So2" saws T. fHere's your eleva~
| tor. Pleasant dreams, Lambert" and
| shoves him in.
About noon today Mr.. Gordon calls
me up and wants to know what / did
to his nephew last night.
"Why.'' says /, "hOw S he actin ~
GAS meek as a sick cat, - says ne
F." Why. he g q changed man. What dId
You have him up against, anyway?'
"Nothin but a little chunk of real
life like it amt found in books.'' SAYS
T. "Glad it done him good But say.
Mr. Gordon. you'd better drop him of
the dock just the same -
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-07

Next minute | m helping a gent wear.
ing mink-lined broadcloth coat to pun
the wreck out from under the machine,
while an excited peaeherino in an err
mlne-trimmed opera cloak is leanin out
of the car door and begin her George
to do the getaway act before the 20,
lice show up.
"Shut up, will you!" says George.
A Familiar Voice.
Hello!" says I, gettin' the light
on his face. sit s Flick Borden, is it9
Thought that voice was familiar -
Did you?' says he, keepin right
on the job. "Well. you re mistaken
Got hold on your side there? Come
on, take her into that doorwayl'
AS we gets to the sidewalk [ notices
Lambert, standin just where I'd left
him.
eli, you," says I. "Push that door
open. Go on! Novel, and | gives
him dig with my elbow that stirs
him up.
The door leads into six-foot hall
wav with gasiet burnin in a dirty
globe; but 7 could see well enough to
tell | hadn t made any mistake about
Flick. Ten years ago he was one of
the hottest sports in town, something
of an amateur boxer, too; so / knew
all about him. Maybe you remember
some of the cafe scraps he figured in,
or the big divorce trial he was mixed
up with. stFlick'' and "Handsome
George" the papers used to call him.
and the last [ knew was that he d
, married Denver widow with all kinds
of dough. Just now he s bendin down
over the wreck to see how bad she Is
damaged
els it case of all day?" says l.
Looks 500 says he. "This is a
fine mess for me. -
"Oh, you can get ball. says I. "It
wa n It your fault, I guess. And may
be she ain t hurt so bad, after all. -
Stares Hard at Him for a Minute.
He was taking another look, whe1
the lady lush opens her eyes. She
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stares hard at him for minute, his
face bein' within two feet of hers. and
then she gasps.
"Flick!" says she. ''Oh, you We
come back, haven t you, Flick?''
Handsome George starts as though
some one had jabbed a knife into him.
He stares down at the booty face and
pushes back the stringy hair. She s
sober enough now, and it was easy to
see she'd been a good locker in her
day. Mr.. Flick Borden seems to have
rush of memory to the head.
You2"
Sure" says she. "whht's left or
me. m hurt bad though It S in my
back and head But ] don t care, so
long as you re here. Wen make it all
up, won't we?'
Accordin to rule, this was the time
for him to bat his brow and heave in
few 'EMe Gords!'i for here s a clear
case of past that needs the disinfec-
TIN fluid, bobbin up at the wrong time
Just like it does in the melodramas. But
he don t seem to know the lines.
Sorry | hit you, old girl, - says he;
but you tackled right into the ma
chine. -
"Oh' 1t was your bubble, was it9'
says Nellie. "Never mind. You won 7
leave me again; eh, Flick? You won t
will you?''
Why-why-hang it all, Nell, say:
he, - don't you know? II m mar
ried .
Straight and proper2' says she.
Yes, says he. ell m not the
/ sort of man I was when-when-'
q see,' says Nellie. 81 m differ
ent. too, only we gone the other way
down the toboggan. Guess I've
struck bottom. 1t 5 time, though Give
me q grip on your hand, will you
/ That's it, Flick. Good old Flickl''
Say, that kind of conversation wa'
gettin' too tender and personal to lister
TO comfortable. / feels a lump gather
| in in my throat
Hadn t / better ring up an ambu
lancet says l.
. As quick as you cam says Flick
Course, there ain t copper in sight
! though ] runs three blocks loekin fo1
one, but I finds a drug store open anC
gets hospital on the phone. When
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tells 'em it s a private ward case they
says they'll send the ding wagon on
the jump.
The view I sees there in the hall
way as l comes back was one to make
the gallery howl at a Bowery thriller.
Flick Borden has shed his thousand
dollar coat to wrap the wreck in; and
there he is, in his evenin clothes, kneel
in down on the dirty floor and holdin
her paw, while Lambert, with his eyes
bugged and his face sickly greenish
white, is leanin up against the wall.
I gets into the picture, and then we
waits for the ambulance, dom nothin
much but listen to the hard time Nellie
was having tryin to breathe. Course.
the foxy thing for me and Lambert to
do was slide out, but I don t feel like
comm the sneak on Flick Borden when
he 8 likely to be up against it any
minute. As for Lambert, he seems too
dazed to move.
When the Ambulance Came.
Probably it want more n ten or
fifteen minutes. but it drags like so
many hours before we hears the gong,
| goes out and beckons the young doc
to hop off the wagon and come in. The
three of US stands one side while he
goes over Nellie with his fingers and
runs across the place where the skull s
cracked.
She s all in, = says he. "Won t
last long enough to get her on cot.
What did it?"
''Why," says Flick, startin to speak
up. "you see, -
'sCut it Quit" says Nellie. proppin
herself up on her elbow. You-you
wa n there. I was loaded, and-and
l fell against the curb, sect Cracked
my nut. did IL Well. II did it all
myself. Good-good radiance, eh?"
And that was Nellie's finish. She
slumps after that, makes a wild grab
for Flick 5 hand. gets it and eashes in
easy. Just about minute before the
copper shows up. When the ambulance
surgeon explains to Mr.. Officer how il
was a curbstone jag accident, nobody
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21
ISSUES STATEMENT
MRS. RIDLEY EXPLAINS ABOUT
 HAND BAG.
Atlanta Woman Tells How She Ob- tained Possession of Bag and What Were Her Intentions
 Regarding It.

Newark. N. J.. March 20.--Mrs. Fran els J. Ridley, of Atlanta. Ga, who was arrested on Thursday. charged with having retained hand bag containing jewelry belinging to Mrs. Andrew AL bright, which she found on a train. issued statement today. showing how she came into possession of the bag and what were her intentions regard ing 1t.
 Mrs. Ridley states that she saw the bag hanging from a hook in the la dies retiring room shortly before the train reached Washington. Her at tention was called to 1t by some la dies and she informed them that 1t did not belong to her.
 T cannot furnish the names of these ladies'" Mrs. Ridley said "but one of them stated that she intended to stop in Washington to see a rela- tive. who had married a Congressman. I think she stated she was from North ern New York. The other lady stated that she resided in Syracuse. The train was two hours in Washington. and when I again entered the retiring room. three hours after had seen the bag. 1t was still hanging there. I put 1t on my arm, walked back to my seat an placed it in my portmanteau I have been asked why I did not i'm mediately report the find. It wss be- cause I once lost jewelry on a train which was turned over to the porter and never recovered About two hours after I found the bag. I casually asked the porter If anything had been lost on the train. An hour later I asked the conductor where missing articles were usually reported. He said at the information bureau in Jersey City
 I made up my mind to report to Jer- sey City"
 Mrs. Ridley states that she cannot Understand how her berth check came to be In the bag as alleged, and she calls attention to the fact that, no one told her who had lost the bag until she reached Newark. though her baggage was searched in her absence
 Of the reported loss of a diamond ring she says:
 The fact that I was thoroughly searched should convince anyone that I did not retain the diamond ring'which Mrs. Albright may have left elsewhere or which may have been taken by any of a large number of people who had access to the baggage during the pe- riod of ten or twelve hours while 1t was hanging in the retiring room"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21
THE FAIR" SALE
The Special Sale at the Montgomery Fair Presents Many Interesting
 Items This Week.

As usual, there are some special do- ings at the Montgomery Fair for this week that will prove of great interest to Montgomery women. This Is the store of many departments. and In some of them there Is always some special sale going on, as the acute bargain hunters have learned long ago.
 For this week there will be among others, the great sale of ladies white serge suits that are easily worth $3o, to be sold Monday at s19.9S. This Is an offering that Is sure to attract large crowds, so if you wish to be able to pick and choose. come early.
 Then. ~too, there Is the sale of foul ard dresses that were originally in- tended to sell for $20. These will be sold Monday for s13.9S.
 Another of their rare purchases, of which they will give their customers full advantage is lot of fine silk petticoats of quality that sells the country over for $6, but the Fair is of fering them Monday at the special price of $3.9S. This Is most certainly 2 great bargain and you should not fail to take advantage of 1t.
 The millinery department of the Fair has received many more late style hats which are now on display for the first time. You are invited to call and in- spect them so that you may be sure of getting the utmost for your money in style, exclusiveness and quality.
 Adv.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21
JaaE ~. A Lively Campaign Is
 ForecaSted. BOTH CITY JUDGES <
 TO HAVE OPPOSITION Goodwin and Gunter May Oppose
 Judge Thomas. Judge Brown VIII Make His Fight Aaxainst Screws, Troy and El- more, Who % Far are in
 The Race.
 

Without formal announcement through the press by any candidate. the campaign for the two places as Judge of the City Court of Montgomery has actively begun. The candidates officeis attracting more attention than any prospective race in 1910
 Judge w, H. Thomas will of course make the race for his present place as Judge of the City Court. Judge Thomas has almost served two terms as Associate Judge of City Court. He was recently promoted by appoint ment from Governor Judge of the City Court to succeed Judge A. D. Sayre who was moved up to the Supreme Court bench. While he has made no public announcement of his candidacy 1t is regarded IS an absolute certainty that he will ask an endorsement
 No announced opposition to Judge Thomas is yet discernibie, but political rumors have 1t that he may have to make the race against two well known lawyers of Montgomery, one or both. They are Captain Tyler Goodwin and Mayor Elect Gaston Gun ter. Neither of these gentlemen have announced, nor has either said posi- lively that he would be a candidate. But their friends have discussed their prospects and it is known that they have each considered the advisability of making the race
 It is hardly probable that both will run. But 1t is regarded as probable that one of them will enter the contest. When approached on the subject of their prospective candidacy they do not, care to discuss 1t beyond admitt- ing the fact that friends of theirs have preached the subject to them.
 The situation as regards Associate Judge is quite different. There are several active candidates. They have gone among their friends and have be gun an active canvas of the county. Judge Armstead Brown who was nam ed to succeed Judge Thomas will make the race for election to the place to which he was appointed. He will be opposed by Alexander Troy, John A. Elmore and M.s H Screws. Messrs FL more and Troy have been in the race some time. They have conducted at least a partial canvass of the city and the county. MT. Screws definitely de- cided to enter the race within the past two days. In the meanwhile he had sounded sentiment throughout the city and the county. His formal announce ment will be made in due time. And in the meanwhile he and his friends will be actively at work.
 The two places will be awarded by the Democratic primary of next year. The contests for the two places will attract more attention in Montgomery County. probably than any other race in the general primary.