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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-26
The U. S. Supreme court holds

The U. s. Supreme court holds
that under the Elkins law express
companies cannot carry goods for it's
employees or the employees of other
companies under u frank.
In the March issue OF Woman's
Home Companion is begun a series
of articles telling "What the EN-
manuel Movement Really Is"
Many fragmentary articles have APP
peared on this subject, but this SER
les is the first complete story of this
worldwide movement.
President c. r. Catton~of the Ben
Zonia Academy, spent Tuesday
morning in Owosso. He reports that
funds are being subscribed quite lib
orally for the rebuilding OF the dor
mitory destroyed by fire some weeks
ago and that work will be commenc-
ed early in the spring. 1t is hoped
that sufficient money will be pro-
cured to allow the construction of
two dormitories with an outside
heating plant.
Following is the list of advertised
letters in the Owosso postoffice for
the week ending Feb. TO- Mrs. Bell
Bentley, Frances Bernard, George c.
Berry, Mrs. Loretta Boyhman, l.. d.
Gould, Harry Haley, Dan Hopkins,
S. j. Miller, Miss Hazel Pond, Clair
Stark, Ralph Stevens.
Friday afternoon, February 10,
Justice of the Peace Clarence M.
Russell, united in marriage Miss
Ruth Banghart Of Owosso and VIII
liam Allen of Jackson. Mrs. Allen
formerly resided at Owosso and is a
popular young lady there. Mr.. AL
len is employed as news agent by the
Union news company on the M. c.
railroad. Both have large circle of
friends who extend congratulations.
They will reside at 127 1a West
Washington street.-Jackson Patriot
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-26
Tariff Tinkering is Criminal.
From the New York herald.

From the New York Herald.
ITO NEEDLE with the tariff now
that prosperity is beginning to smile
on the country, is not only foolish,
but almost criminal" said Mr.. AM
brose Adams, of the firm OF Shreve
81 Adams, yesterday, at No. sc Leon
ard street, where the firm does an
extensive commission business In
hosiery when the Herald says
let the tariff alone l am with it,,
heart and soul. think it will be
found that nearly all business men
have gone to Washington in connec-
tion with tariff revision favor an adj
vance instead of a reduction. The
safest policy is to let well enough
alone.
ITO reduce the tariff on woolens,
the frightful conditions which pre-
vailed under Grover Cleveland, when
our mills stopped running and at
Bradford, England, British mills
started up and were kept running
day and night manufacturing goods
prices fell, but wages also went down
Then working men began to realize
the meaning of Free-Trade, for while
they were able to buy cheaper cloth
ing they had no money to pay for IL,
being out of employment because
English competition had forced our
mills to shut down.
"To repeat the former conditions
under President Cleveland in knit
goods would be disastrous. OF
course we would like an increase,
but considering what the Republican
party has promised we could not ask
it however beneficial it might he to
the knit goods industry of America.
Any reduction would at once make
competition with Chemnitz, the great
manufacturing center of SaXony al
most impossible, and the wages paid
labor would be greatly reduced. We
now pay five times as much wages as
are paid in Germany, where hosiery
is manufactured for the markets of
the world"
Mr.. A. C. Houghton, president OF
the Arnold Print Works, of North
Adams, Mass, holds the same view.
"I am strong Protectionist and al
ways have been" said Mr.. Houghton
yesterday, land I agree with the
Herald that the less the tariff is
disturbed the better it will be for
the country, the laboring man and
the manufacturers. | am opposed
to any changes except where real
injustice is DONE
Mr.. Houghton was a delegate at
large to the Democratic convention
in Chicago in the last Cleveland
campaign, and was invited before
the tariff committee in Congress and
conferred with the Democratic men,
bers on the cotton schedules. Mr..
Wilson adopted many of his sugges-
tions and made them part of the
Wilson bill. The Arnold Print Works
of which Mr.. Houghton is president,
distributes more than $1,300,000 in
wages annually among it's 5000 en-
ployes. With its 10000 spindles
the concern handles $4,000 pounds
OF cotton a week,
''The putting of wool on the free
list under Mr.. Cleveland's admins
tration paralyzed the wool industry,
closing down our mills" Mr.. Hough-
ton continued. 1.-THE result was that
English mills were started up. rum
ming on extra times to the ruin OF
our American enterprises.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-26
Earle Fights Whe!an Bill.

Highway Commissioner Earle has
prepared a statement to be sent to
the members of the legislature de-
Tending the system of state reward
highways. The points made are in
brief:
Twenty-sixsstates have the system.
New York, New Jersey, Vermont
and Massachusetts have retained it
for 10 years.
New York's annual road building
appropriation is 100000 and
other states also give millions, while
Michigan's last annual appropriation
was only $329,S00.
Some states pay las high as 100
per cent. of sum expended on roads,
while i'm Michigan amount has reach
ed only rs per cent.
Michigan stands seventh in num-
Der miles built by state aid last year
with 1926.
Michigan is seventh in amount of
mileage of roads-67,97 miles.
The highway commissioner in
Michigan receives. $4,000; eleven
other states pay their commissioner
more.
The friends of the present law
will make determined fight to de-
feat the bill introduced by Rep. Whe-
Ian repeating certain features of the
law including the doing away with
the office of commissioner.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-26

w. f. Curtis, the versatile correspon-
dent of the Chicago Record Herald,
writes that mo man ever retired from
public life witha higher degree of re:
spect and confidence or more genuine
popularity from all sorts and conditions
Of men than Charles Warren Fairbanks. "
During the four years that he has been
vice president, he has been absent from
the senate but th,ee days, 3 record prob
ably never eQuslLed or never will be
His fairness as q presiding officer is at
tested by the fact that Democratic sena-
tors are to present him With beautiful
loving cup
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-26
Celebrated Washington's Brit

Mr.. and Mrs. Julian butcher, n.
Mulberry street, invited the W. r. C..
and Post to their home to celebrate
Washington birthday, Feb. 22.
Seventy-five responded and 'Old
Glory" waved welcome over each
one upon entering the house.
After bountiful dinner was serv-
ed, the afternoon was spent listening
to music by Chas. butcher and his
sister Flossie also singing by Mrs.
Snyder.
For several years this home has
been open to these orders for the
observance of the anniversary of our
nations first president and the hos
pitality and loyalty Oh Comrade
butcher and his estimable wife are
greatly appreciated. May the true
spirit of patriotism and love of coun-
try ever be with us.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-26
The OWOSSO TIMES
EDMUND o. DEWEY. EDITOR.
oWOsSO. FRIDAY. FEB. 20, 1909
The Republican State Ticket.

For Justices of the Supreme Court
CHARLES A. BLAIR, of jackson.
JOHN w. STONE. of Marquette.
For Supt. of Public Instruction
LUTHER L. WRIGHT. of Ironwood.
For Member State Board of Education
w. j. McKONE, of Albion.
For Regents of State University
: W. L. CLEMENTS, of Bay City.
GEORGE P. CODD, of Detroit.
For Members Board of Agriculture
Six-year terms.
W. RI. WALLACE, Of Saginaw and
I.R. WATERBURY. OF Highland.
Four-year terms
ALFRED J. DOHERTY. of Clare and
ROBERT D. GRAHAM, Of Grand
Rapids.
Two.year terms
w. L. CARPENTER, Of Detroit. and
WILLIAM J. OBERDORFFER, of
Stephenson.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-26

The executive committee of the State
Grange at an all-nigbt session held in
Lansing, Monday, voted to vigorously
oppose the Ormsbee mll repeating
county local option and substituting a
snaller district, as townships, cities or
wards; reaffirmed demand for COM
p0Jsory interchange of telephone SER
vice in the state and urging the passage
Of the bill making telephone companies
common carriers again urged free
uniform text books for all schools and
tie use of primary school money to
purchase same; Endorsed the TOrrens
system of land transfers and the present
highway law
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-26
Commissioners Notice.

In the matter OF the estate of Ada L.
Sessions, deceased
We, the undersigned. having been appointed
by the Hon. Matthew Bush Judge Of Probate
in and for the County of Shiawassee, state OF
Michigan, Commissioners TO receive, examine
and adjust all claims and demands OF all per-
that we will meet at the Exchange Bank
OF Vernon In the Village of Vernon,
in said County, on Monday, the 10Th day
2lst day OF June, A. D., 1902 at ten O'Clock in
the forenoon OF each OF said days for the
pu pose OF receiving ana adjusting all claims
the 18th lay OF February, A. ID. 1909, are allowed
to creditors TO present their claims to said
Commissioners for adjustment and allowance
Dated, the nth day of February, A. D. 1909
FLOYD OWEN,
j. G. CURTIS,
Commissioners.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-26
Commissioners Notice.

In the matter OF the estate OF Levi Cornish
deceased
We the undersigned, havrg been appointed
by the Hon. Matthew Bush. Judge OF Probate
in and for the County OF Shiawassee, State OF
Michigan, Commissioners to receive, examine
sons against said estate, do hereby give notice
that we will meet at the office OF Seth ID. Terry
in the Village of Durand in said County, on
Monday, the 10Th day OF April, A. ID. 1909, and
ten o'clock In the forenoon OF each OF said
days, for the purpose of receiving and adjust
Ing all claims against said estate, and that four
months from the 10th day of February, A. D.1eOs,
are allowed TO creditors to present their claims
to said Commissioners for adjustment aud al
lowance.
Dated, the 10th day OF February A. ID 1909.
SETH b. TERRY.
X j. CHICK.
Commissioners.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-26

Ingham county owns up to an over
draft of something like $4,000. with
losns-notes--of $4,000. every dollar
Of which is illegal under the decision
Of the supreme court in the Shiawassee
csse Yet the Lansing Republican re-
fers to the same Is b good thing for
losners." That's what some people in
this county formerly considered loans
of this kind
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-26

Gratiot county farmers at a meet
ing hello in st. Louis on Tuesday
passed resolution favoring the pres
ent system Of road making and asked
the legislature to pass a, laws prohib-
iting the carrying OF more than ?
two and half ton load on a three
mon fire. -. -
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-26

While President-elect Taft has made
DO announcement of his selections for
cabinet positions except for secretary
of state and postmaster general, it is
generally believed the list will be as
follows: Secretary Of State, Philander
G. Knox of Pennsylvania; attorney
general, George Wickersham of New
York; secretary Of the navy, George
Won l.. Meyer of Massachusetts; secre-
tary of, war, J. M Dickinsoh Of Ten
pessee, democrat; secretary of the
interior, II. A BalIinger of, Washing
ton; postmaster general, Frank II.
Hitchcock OF Massachusetts, secretary
OF commerce and labor. Charles Nagel
OF Missouri; secretary Of agriculture,
JONES Wilson of Iowa; secretary of the
treasury, Franklin McVeagb Of Illinois
prof. Marx Bailey. will occupy the
Baptist pulpit, again next Sunday; Rev,
Gen, sLaughton, tfrg. nsw pastor will
r,ir IN; TIE first Sunday " March.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-26
Highest Price Paid

For cattle, sheep, lambs, hogs and
dressed veal. Veal calves a specially.
When you are ready to'sell call VIM.
TELLER. Owosso Bell phone 212.
Union phone II. 1926
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-26

an county saloonists and drug
ID fines last week in the cir.
amounting to over $1,000 for
the liquor law. In addition
payment Of costs was added
p, ONE case Jail sentence was
lso. onk druggist receiving ninety DAYS
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-26

The famous SEC, 900, 900 Standard Oil
case is again being heard in the U. S.
court at Chicago
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-26

Judge Miner has cleared up most of
the divorce troubles that have gotten
into the circuit court. Tuesday DEGREES
were given Minnie White against
Hubert White. She has the custody of
the two children and White must pay
$500 a week toward their support.
Oren Shuster secured decree against
Fanny Shuster, Rush township, aud
William against Anna Getze. The
January term was concluded Tuesday.
The next term opens April 6.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. E. Ridenour, left for
st. Johns, Tuesday where Mr. Ridenour
will engage in business.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-26

q The U. s. supreme court seems to
believe that railroads have no right to
rant rebates and afirms fine of
5000 imposed en- the New York
al railroad
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-26

Hereafter liquor cannot be prescribed
by physician or sold by druggist in
the state of Kansas. 1t is said public
sentiment will compel the enforcement
of the law.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-26

Miss Inez Cramer of Traverse City,
left Monday to resume her work in the
schools after visiting DR.. G. l.. Cramer
and relatives in Owosso township.
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1909-03-26

a week or so AFTER mat l was
second out again behind Archie Dunn.
An it was Just such foggy night as
the one | was speakin of before She
rock Holmes himself couldn't pene-
trate the density Of that mist.
4 was moyin along again under two
speeds forward, keepin my weather
goggles trimmed for trouble ahead.
Just as sure as you're born there
came to me again that 40-sawmill-pow-
er snore of Archie Dunn's rear guard.
$50 I says to myself: My little heart
to-heart talk with that fagman bore no
fruit, Ell? Well. I'll just give him a lit
tie bump this time n see what little
scare will do him
You can just imagine I was pretty
warm under the collar, comm up on
that Teller snoozin on the breastworks
twice in two weeks. | kept getting
closer N closer to the snore, but
there didn't come along any hind end
for me 10 bump into.
Il got a little scared myself, then,
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1909-03-26
"The Lowest Order Of Mind"

At a recent meeting of New Eng
land college presidents, one of the
nest important of them all remarked
that mental arithmetic did not train
. ehild's mind. and that a mathemaJi-
clan per Sc was incapable of moral
reasoning. Mathemdticians might
take notice. remarks Harper's Weekly
1T reminds one" says the writer, of
Stiles, the greatest of the Yale mathe=
maticians of his time. He, indeed,
had virtues as we'll as mathematics,
and was the graceful and learned
editor of Garden and Forest, horti-
culturist editor of the New York Trib-
une, and president of the New York
park commission. Once he was i'll
for a long time-a very long time
and he used to say that when he be-
came eonyalescent he discovered that
the mathematical was the lowest
order of mind He wanted 10 read:
he tried poetry, and that would not
do; nor would fiction or philosophy or
history-but when he at last tried
mathematics he found that his en-
feebled mind could master that"
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1909-03-26
What to Teach the Boys.

A philosopher has said that true
education to boys is to teach them
what they should know when they
become men"
l. To be true and to be genuine.
No education is worth anything that
does not include this.
.. To be pure in thought language
and life-pure in mind and in body.
3. To be unselfish To care for the
feelings and comforts of others. To
be generous, noble and manly. This
viii include a genuine reverence for
the aged and for things sacred.
4 To be selfreliant and self-help-
full, even from childhood To be in
dustrious always, and self supporting
at the earliest proper age. Teach
them that all honest work in honor.
able, that an idle life of dependen e
On others is disgraceful.
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1909-03-26
Near Death In Big Pond

IL was thrilling experience to Mrs.
loa Soper to face death. For years
severe lung trouble gave me intense
suffering, . she writes, land several
Itnes nearly caused my death All
remedies failed and doctors said I was
hcurable. Then DIR, Kings New Dis
co7ery brought quick relief and cure
so permanent that / have not been
troubled in twelve years. . Mrs. Soper
llyes IN Big Pond, Pa. 1t works won.
ders IN coughs and cold, sore lungs
hemorrhages, lagrippe, asthma, Group
whooplng cough and all bronchial
affections. soc and s100. Trial bottl,
Tree. Guaranteed by j. l. Sturdivant
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1909-03-26
Parable of the Foolish Citizen.

Once there was a good man who
labored hard on the farm, and on
each Sunday went religiously to
church. In time he gained sufficient
wealth to move into nearby town,
where all his children were afforded a
chance for acquiring an education.
For all his supplies he sent to a dis
tant city. He opposed every PROPOSE
ton to pave the streets of the place,
to improve the very schools his chill
dren attended, and when the assessor
visited him he was verify a pauper
for taxation purposes. This man was
a highly moral man, pillar in the
church, and even worked a soap-club
deal in order to secure for the Sun
day school an organ. At last he died.
1t is recorded that he entered the
pearly gates for which he long hoped
and prayed The streets were golden,
and there was beauty on every side.
He marVeled; became enraptured
with all he saw To some angels
standing by he spoke: This place
must have cost a pile of money!
Yes" replied one of the white-winged
attendants, but it has been paid for
below. Each one coming here must
help bear the burden of taxes" Just
then saintly-looking man approached
with a book, and the new arrival from
the farm took one look at him, and
believing him to be the assessor, bolt
ed out through the gate-and then
woke up.
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1909-03-26

thinkin' mebbe might hit EN- too hard,
so | sot up in the air n we swung
under the lee of that warnin' snore.
Well, now, mebbe I hadn't made up
my mind to write up round robin on
that careless fagman Of Archie
Dunn's.
You bet what I would say in my
report would end his usefulness to the
railroad. I hadn't reported him the
first time, thin31in' he was young n
new to the business, relyin' on my lit
tie talk to reform him. But it was all
off now. Discipline required that l
must make written report.
I'VE laid there a few minutes, with
that Teller snorin', me jawin' to myself
n mebbe envyin' him just a little Of
his sound sleep, when all at once the
fog cleared away as if it had been sent
for You could have bowled me over
with a toothpick Scan that track
ahead of me as far as / could see,
could detect no tail lights of train
ahead. But off to the right in the
fields was a really truly saWmil, prob.
ably workin' overtime on some little
extra job.
Now, say, mebbe I didn't feel as
cheap as a pair of ice skates in the
summer time. l nearly got laid off
for ten days myself for delayin' that
fast freight"
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1909-03-26
s ia OR 6 q ND
SAWMIl-I-
How tho Fat Engineer Was Fooled
by the unmusical Fiagman

Il was asleep in the bunk shanty
over in Delray.e said the fat engi,
neer, when J awolle suddenly with
a start l could hear sawmill goin'
TO beat the band.
Now that's a fine layout, | says
to Hank Simms in the next bunk.
How under the canopy do they ex-
pect man to sleep, b0ildin bunk
shanty RIGHT near a sawmill2
. .Sawmill nethin'! says Hank.
That's Jerry Day. the new fagman
for Archie Dunn, snorin over in the
trainmen's bunk room. Amt he a
pippin2
If that anti-noise society gets next
to him / saws they'll hotfoot hlm out
Of this community instanter.
There was no more sleep for us
that afternoon. so We got up and sat
in q hot game Of pinochle.
Jerry Day was first out with Archie
Dunn that evenin' on the first 70 n
was second out on second 70, freight
runuin SO heavy them days that they
We're runnin the fast freights in two
or three sections.
when it came time for us to leave
the freight yards the fog was so thick
you couldn't shoot holes into it with a
machine gun. ] tell you 1 was mighty
cautious. movin' along on only about
notches Of steam on the throttle.
Pretty soon on the heavy air
heard a sawmiH goin full blast
ha4
they're running sawmin in these
parts this time of the night
There was peculiar sound to that
sawmili that I'd heard before All of a
sudden it came over me like a fash
what it was. That's that green flag
man of Archie Dunns, it came to me !;
hes just hidin his red lantern under
a bushel of snores while his train is
stalled on the main track.
so quicker'n a deaf n dumb mar
can say Jack Robinson | got my engine
in back motion. | couldn't see a thing
but from the sound of that foghorr
ahead we'd stopped about a caboost
length this side of that warnin' snere
The fog shifted for minute n
there was the tail lights of Archie
Dunn's caboose almost restin' on tn
right of my coweatcher. 1t was
lucky thing for me that | had recoe
nized the deep snora of that fagmar
"Mebbe ! didn't climb onto that ca
boose n give that new hand brie
m pointed speech on the rules n regt
lations of sleepin' on duty, especiall
dwellin' on the necessity of the fae
man totin his red n white lights l
telegraph poles back when his trail
stopped on the main track.
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1909-03-26

1872. Good three room house ana
two lots, only two blocks from busl-
ness portion Of town; will be SOFA
cheap and on easy terms.
II. al acres fine cane and timber
land on Black river 3 miles north OF
Paroquet; on river front.
l01. 160 acre creek bottom farm 6i
miles from Newark, l mile from post
Office and school; loo acres in cultlYa-
tion, balance good timber; four room
frame house and small tenant house,
barn and other outbuildings; cystern
and spring Of good water; land in cul-
tivation is good creek bottom land
and produces well.
lob. 120 acres fine Oil Trough bot
tom land, all in timber except twenty
acres which has been cut off; } miles
from postoffice; s miles from Newark
land laws well and when put in Guilt
walton will be worth $40 per acre; land
adjoining grows bale of cotton OF 90 to
IS bushels corn per acre, and will also
grow alfalfa; land is inside of fencing
district and has good timber ON it.
l25. Fine White river farm Of 220
acres: 175 acres in cultivation; only 2
miles from Newark; will grow bale Of
cotton per acre, and is extra fine for
clover and timothy.
11S. Farm of 10 acres tine White
river land, four miles from Newark ;
good four room house, barn and other
outbuilding; good orchard, garden
and good water; IS acres in cultiva-
ton. This is fine White river cane
lard, only 30 acres subject to
overflow \ bargain.
20. 250 acres fine eut-oyer timber
land in Black river bottom. Fine for
stock pasturage.
80. 81 acres creek bottom farm
miles from Newark; p acres in cult
walton; good Broom log house; good
creek bottom land and a bargain at S.
per acre.
I26. Good 50 acre creek bottom
farm miles from Newark; % acres in
cultivation; good log house and small
barn; extra. fine creek bottom land.
102. Good upland farm OF 125 acres
six miles north Of Newark, 70 acres in
cultivation, two houses, two wells,
spring and running creek on place;
some good creek bottom land on this
farm; located only one mile from post
Office and school.
1877. 100 acres cut-oyer timber land
four miles northeast Of Newark; al
level bottom land, with considerable
marketable oak, hickory and elm tim
Der; would make good farm. Price
$40 per acre.