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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-11-19
To the Cranberry.

let others praise in fervent lays
The plump Thanksgiving bird,
And let them sing of leg and wing,
With old Pegasus spurred
Until his speed is great indeed
And all is blithe and merry,
But let me sing that splendid thing,
The succulent cranberry.
D humble fruit. we've long been mute
Upon thy many charms!
With nipping zest you do your best
To ward dyspepsia's harms.
Both sour and sweet you sauce the meat.
Your flavor does not vary.
Retiring, coy, yet full of JOY
marvellous cranberry!
About you hangs a taste that tangs
The food that would be harsh.
Your plump skins filled with dew, dis
titled
Above the sun kissed marsh
No grape, I'll say, of old Tokay
Or from Oporto airy
Drips with a wine as rich as thine,
o excellent cranberry!
Of ruby hue n jewel, too,
To grace the festal board.
With lavish heart you give your part
Give all your spicy hoard.
When eager Tipped we've sat and slipped
The juice that vies with sherry.
All, of the feast you're not the least
Mellihuous cranberry!
So let them praise in lifting lays
The turkey and the pie,
But let me sing that splendid thing
That makes the heart beat high.
| would not waste one shade of taste
I'd drain the dictionary
TO find more ways to sing the praise
Or thee, . rare cranberry!
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-11-19

would have returned home sorely dis
appointed had he not encountered at
least one deep drift experience.
At breakfast it was arranged that
Lawrence, with old Jacob, should I'M
dertake the breaking through of the
gully road as far as the Widow Ben
nett's. At that point they would I'M
doubtedly meet the Pearson boys from
mile beyond.
Now, Lawrence had pleasant recol-
iections Of Widow Benefits hospita-
BILE home. AS boy it had opened its
arms to him, and it was there he had
spent many an hour with Mrs. Bennett
and her granddaughter, the brightest,
black eyed, alert little girl that ever
wore short skirts, rode on snowplows,
called him "Uncle Law" and insisted
on his own grownupness and his fit
ness to advise her on her reading, her
studies and even her ambitions. Ger
trude, however, had been away at
school these later winters and Law
renee had caught no glimpse Of her,
although his aunt and even his uncle
had much to say of her attractiveness
and loneliness as evidenced in the sum-
mer life of the place.
1--WE ought to make Benefits by
noon and get back here by chore time"
was the schedule announced by old
Jacob.
eff It gets any worse later in the
day don't try to get back tonight Just
bed at the Bennett farm and dig to-
ward us in the morning." was the I'M
cle's parting advice.
The storm did grow worse and grew
worse so rapidly that by the time they
had covered three-quarters of the dis
tance to the Widow BENEFITS Law
renee and old Jacob considered it adj
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-11-19

! greet the loved ones who've gone be-
fore
And take my seat
At a banquet sweet
Where the fruits and viands of life we
eat.
IT'S not afar,
Like a distant star,
The kingdom in which the eternaIs are.
IT'S here-its light
To an inward sight
>. sIeaming-for heaven is mine to-
night.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-11-19

snowplow and, mounted one on each
. horse. make their way to the Bennett
farm.
Worst storm everw said the widow
as she welcomed the two. 1T doesn't
look as If we should get out for days.
| was telling Gertrude it was mighty
lucky for her that she came yesterday,
for she couldn't possibly have escaped
a snow blockade had she taken train
later"
Lawrence was all attention. IL say,
little Gertrude isn't here, is she?" he
asked.
"Well. don't know as she is" quiz
ideally replied the grandmother Lit
tie Gertrude hasn't been in evidence
for some years, but Miss Gertrude isn't
far away"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-11-19
Notice of Special Assessment No. II
for tho Trimming Of Trees and
Cutting Noxious Weeds.

To X Neuman, Sarah j Andrus " & NJ
Fisher, f w Pearce and to all other persons
interested, take notice:
That the roll of the special assessment here
tofore made by the board OF assessors for the
purpose OF defraying that part OF the cost
which the council decided should be paid and
borne by special assessment for the trimming
OF trees and cutting OF noxious weeds is now on
file in my ONCE for public inspection Notice
is also hereby given that the Council and
Board OF Assessors will meet at the council
room in said city on Monday, the sixth day OF
Decem Der, 1909 at go O'Clock In the afternoon,
10 review said assessment, at which time and
place opportunity will be given all persons
interested to be heard.
Dated November 18th. 1909.
ARTHUR ii. DUMOND,
City Clerk
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-11-19
In the Dime Museum.

what did you do with my Their.
mometer?" demanded the doctor who
had been called in to attend one of the
freaks.
81 swallowed it, doc" answered the
glass eater. Thought it was my med
tcine. "-Pittsburg Press.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-11-19
Our Nohlast Bird

The noblest of birds is the turkey.
AS the baldheaded eagle is king.
And now when the weather grows murlky
With politics out of the fling,
Other goods we may look at and long for
While our hearts are with thankfulness
puffed.
But the bird of our hearts Is all ready
And waiting poor dear, to get stuffed.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-11-19
Money Makes Euotists.

Money is a sort of creation and gives
the acquirer even more than the pos
SCISSOR an imagination of his own pow
er and tends to make him idolize self,
Cardinal Newman.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-11-19
4 SNOWED-IN
THANKSGIVING
By EFF HATCH
Copyright. 1909. by American Press
Association

n AWRENCE GREER, looking from
his bedroom window, could see
nothing but snow as far as his
eye Travelled. 1t was snow on the
window panes, snow on shrub and tree
and hill, snow everywhere in all sorts
of fantastic shapes and with yet more
coming. The first big storm Of the sea-
son was descending on the region
whittier he had come but two days be-
fore to spend his Thanksgiving vaca-
ton from city Office duties In his uncle's
home. Already roads and even fences
were obliterated.
Hello, Lawrence came the voice
of his uncle from below. Guess We'll
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-11-19

That is imitIesa
And glow of faith ! cannot express.
could almost dream,
Past the things that seem,
] can see country eternal CLEAN
AS ! raptIy stand
On the borderIand
And feel about me an angel band.
Ny soul awake
Its thirst would Stake
At fcunt immortal; it's bread would
break
At feast sublime
In fairer CLINE
This hailowed and happy Thanksgiving
time.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-11-19
Notice Of Special Assessment No. Is
for tho Construction and Cleaning
Of Vaults as Ordered by the
Board of Health.

To Lyle and Frank Weidman and all other
persons interested, take notice:
That the roll OF the special assessment here
tofore made Dy the board OF assessors for the
purpose OF defraying that part OF the cost
which the council decided should be paid and
borne by special assessment for the construc-
tion and cleaning OF vaults as ordered by the
board OF health is now on file in my Office for
public inspection. Notice is also hereby given
that tho Council and Board OF Assessors OF the
city of Owosso will meet at the council room in
said city on Monday. December 9th. 1909 at
1880 o'clock in the afternoon, to review said
assessment at which time and place oppor.
tunity will be given all persons interested to
be heard
Dated November nth. 1909.
ARTHUR H. DUMOND.
City, Clerk.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-11-19

nave 10 ulS out
our end of the
gully road this
morning. Break
fast ready in ten
minutes. Get on
our heaviest
toys. It's a sniff
ter this time"
II h is wasn't
the first ii m e
t h a t Lawrence
had lent a hand
in snow blowing
a n d shovellng
out the showed
ms of his uncle's
district. T. V err
since he was a
boy Of fifteen,
ten years before,
he had b e Ell
making annual
winter visits to
this best Of all
his uncles and
nuntS and ha
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-11-19

Il was just thinking that ship fast
in the mud ought to be record break
er on the open sea."-Pick-Me-Up.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-11-19
THE NIGHT BEFORE
THANKSGIVING
By JAMES A. EDGERTON.

Copyright. 1909. by American Press
Association
COULD dream tonight
- That a world of light
Is round about me; a presence bright
Is poised above,
lie b-aodipc
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-11-19
Coafusinn Ennlish

II see one Of our battleships reported
fast in the mud"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-11-19

dove, ~
From, VIII O Sc
wings rain
oV err m @
peace and
love.
Like a breath
of balm
Is the nameless
calm,
A NJ my soul
would sing
an eternal
psalm
In a happiness
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-28

Dispositions and other legal work a
specially.
Private office and deposition room
Hattiesburg Trust &Bsnking Company
Building.
Phones: Office Cumb. 29S; Resi-
dence Cumb 351.
Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
My fees are low, consistent with
high-class work and prompt delivery
of same.
P. 81 will go to any point in South
east Mississippi on Deposition work
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-28
good neighborhood, for a few months
Address Furnished House." sare Of
News.

FOR RENT-One furnished room-no
board. All Forest street, Phone 173
Cumberland. 6-25-tf
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-28
New Orleans & Northeastern
GULF G. SHIP ISLAND RAILROAD
COMPANY.

GULF & SHIP ISLAND RAILROAD
COMPANY.
General Passenger Department.
Passenger Service.
MAIN LINE.
No. 5. No. 3.
Lv. Jackson. $500 a. m. 1886 o. m.
Lv. Hattiesburg 9:43 a. m. -7:15 pm.
Ar. Gulfport. 1880 p. m. 1000 pm.
No. 4. No. 6.
Lv. Gulfport. ....7:40 a. N. 4:I5pm
Lv. Hattiesburg 1890 a. m. 1888 m
Ar. Jackson. i; SIS p. m. 1880 p. m.
Columbia Division (via. Silver Creek
and Columbia.
No. 101. No. 1872.
1920 a. m. Lv Mendenhall Ar. 9:25 D. m.
1880 p. m. Ar Gulfport Lv. 2:45 p. m.
No. 1O9. No. 10.
$3.50 p m. LIZ. Jackson Ar 1905 a. m.
500 p. m. Ar. Columbia Lv. 600 a. m.
Connections at Jackson, Hattfesburg
and Gulfport with all lines.
For further information, apply to,
THOS. P. HALO,
Second Vice-Pres., Gulrport, Miss.
Effective April II, 90.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-28

If you want all the news subscribe
for the Daily News.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-28
RAWLs SPRINGS WATER

Use Rawls Springs Lithia =
and avoid all danger to your b
Delivered once or twce a we,
your home. Phone the Rawls 81
Hotel. 81
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-28
JAIL A SURPRISE.
For Sellers of Sulphurated Beef and
Adulterated Candy.

X, June 2S.-The first
fences ever imposed il.
upon wholesale food deal
ling adulterated foodstuffs
ed out recently by Justice
e court Of special sessions,
II jeremiah. general mana
Manhattan Beef Company,
tn avenue, and Louis VALID
andy jobber, at 2015 Third
ere sent to Jail for ten days
: the New York Sun.
e had been deferred to give
ed time to make affidavits,
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-28
LOST.

LOST-Elgin. gold filled, hunting case
watch, size IS. Movement No.
177641S, case No. 502493. Initial on
case ~. v. T." Return to Mississip-
pi Bottling Works and get reward.
6-2S-ti
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-28
FRATERNAi-.
WANTED-LAW STUDENT;

There is class forming he,
study law, would you like to
Address X. Y. 2, P. o. Box SO g..
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-28
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-Cheap, $4,000 gas stove,
nearly new. Inquire $50 West 4th
street. 6-26-3t-p
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-06-28

tomary to impose small fines.
1t was alleged that the beef sold
was preserved with sulphurous acid,
while the candy was adulterated. AS
sistant Supervising Inspector Philip
Holz, of the Board of Health, who
prosecuted the cases, asked for the
prison sentences. He said that small
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-10

'ow usually to meet the sharks
bills and with every new debt
contracted they sink lower into
the mire, from which many nev.
er escape.
The Times today prints a SAM
pie agreement which the Shy
locks require their victims 'ro
sign when loan is finally made.
The signing of this paper, how
ever, is the easiest part of the or
deal which the borrower must gt
through before he gets the SO or
$40 for which he agrees to pay
back SIS or :42 in four monthly
installments.
Before he is offered the bond
to sign the borrower must an.
swer questions covering his whole
life. He must reveal his family
affairs and explain his method OF
living, and then after the shark S
detective" has Investigated the
borrowers story he is given q
loan providing the shark thinks
he is safe, safe to pay back into
the Shylock's Golfers the original
loan plus the 200 or 260 per
cent interest.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-10

With their business badly
wrecked by the expose of their
methods made by the Times, the
loan sharks are making desperate
|efforts to keep the flow of money
coming and the fewer victims are
now being gouged to the limit.
Interest rates have been al
most doubled by some of the local
lShylocks since the number OF
borrowers havk decreased. and
only those who must have money
at any cost are now being caught
by the grabbers.
The money lenders know the
intending borrower must be in
dire straits when he enters their
offices now and they propose to
stick him for the last penny he
will stand under the circum-
stances.
In some instances brought Ia
the attention of the Times the
sharks have exacted as high as
260 per cent interest on Short
time loans. Old borrowers al
ready in the clutches of the YAM
Ipires are not exempt from these
boosted rates. They must Dor.
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cut by moonlight after his ten
Ihours at the mill and two more
hours spent in going and return.
ling.
He was SO anxious not to miss
a days work." say the neighbors.
So often late at night Joe Hol-
|sted could be seen saving wood
and otherwise improving the
place, which he hoped some day
would be his.
But through II all Joe Holsted
was happy. He loved life de-
spite the grinding twelve hours OF
walking and working every day.
He was young and strong and
eager to get ahead, so three
months ago he allowed his insur-
ance policy to lapse. The money
was needed more. he thought, to
help pay off that mortgage.
So Joe Holsted. when caught on
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-10
A WHACK
At UNITED
STATES
REPRESENTATIVES, OF GEN.
TRIAL AMERICAN COLONIES
DENOUNCE NATION FOR AC-
T1ON CONCERNING EXECU-
TION OF AMERICANS.
(By United Press Leased Wira. }

(By United Press Leased Wira.)
MEXICO CITY. Dec. 1O.-The
action of a committee composed
of fifty members of the varioIs
Central American colonies here
in adopting caustic resolutions
arraigning the United States gov-
ernment for Its action concerniug e
the execution of two of its citi-
zens in Nicaragua, is causing
much excitement in this city to-
day.
The resolutions declared that
the action of the United States
government, with the attending
rebuking note from Secretary of
State Knox and the Nicaraguan
clause In President Taft's mess
age, established precedent
whereby no Central American
country could punish North
American criminal without fear
of summary retaliation on the
part of the United States.
Almost every resident of The
local colonies of Central Amer.-
cans approve the resolutions.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-10
Motorman Reported That Headlight Was
Not Burning When Car Killed Holsted
CORONER STARTS
|NVEST|GAT|0 N
into ACCIDENT

A further investigation into
the death of Joseph Holsted, who
was run down and killed by a T.
R. & P. car Wednesday night on
the Fern Hill trestle, is being con-
Quoted by Coroner G. d. Shaver
today. Fern Hill residents are
convinced that Holsted's death
may be traced to other than his
own responsibility, and demand
an investigation. Coroner Shaver
expects to order an inquest If the
investigation develops features to
warrant it.
Headlight Not Burning?
In spite of the persistent denial
Of the street railway company
that the headlight of the cal
which struck Holsted was burn.
ing, it is asserted in Fern Hill
that this was not the case. c.. o.
Brown, Fern Hill groceryman,
from whose home Motorman Sny-
der telephoned the news of the
accident to the T. r. & P. Co.,
says that Snyder reported that his
light went out before the car
struck Holsted.
"The mOtOrman came to
my house and asked to use
the telephone" said Brown
this morning. ''I heard him
say that he saw an object on
the track, but that the head
light on the car went out, and
when it came on again it was
too late to avoid the acci-
dent"
1t is also said by Fern Hill resi-
dents that a young woman on the
car at the time of the accident
had been seen talking to the mo,
torman on other trips, and they
intimate that his attention had
been distracted by her.
The contention of the T. R. &
p. company that the Fern Hill
trestle is the private right-of-way
of the company is denied by
George w. Byrd, an old Fern Hill
resident. Byrd states that the
railway track is in the street, and
that it is forty feet from the line
of the right-of-way granted year.
|ago.
There is no danger sign or eau,
tion at the trestle, and it has beer
the habit of many persons living
beyond Midway, the "five-cent
limit" to walk the rest of the
distance, and some always crossed
the trestle.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-10

The Quotations.
1t is asserted that French gicls
are quoted in Chicago and Omaha
at from $500 to $1,400 each.
japanese girls at Seattle. for
eastern shipment, are quoted as
low as 5000 each where several
are bought at time, while Chin
ese girls at the same port bring
from $4,000 to $4,000 each.
These girls, It is claimed, are
lured from their homes to this
country and then held in a conil-
tion of abject slavery, in the most
barbarous and revolving sense of
the word.
They are held by debts, threats
of arrest, exposure to parents aud
even death.
Although this investigation has
been going on since 1907, 1t has
been only recently that the Of
ficials have been able to secure
Information of a definite char
acter.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-10

This may or may not be a story
of human interest. That depends,
maybe, upon the humanity of the
reader. 1t is just some facts about
the toiling life and the tragic
death Of Joe Holsted. aged "a,
who left O wife and two children,
a mortgaged home and cancelled
life insurance policy.
1t is the "other side' of the
story, the side which newspaper
reporters usually overlook when
writing up an accident which has
cost the life of father and a
husband.
A visit to the little country
home that Holsted, by working
ten hours a day in the mill and by
the most careful thrift had partly
paid for, reveals this "other side. {"
Here the young widow, now silent
In her awful agony. sits dazed a.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-10

Of her, poor woman. It will be a
hard struggle for her to save the
home and keep those two little
children. Yes, Mrs. Hanson sees
the tragedy in it. "And Joe had
worked SO hard to pay off that
mortgage. He walked all the
way home from the Bismarck mill
might after night to save the ten
cents car fare. and now, because
he was walking, he is dead.
guess he was anxious to get home
that's why he took the short
lcut over the trestie instead of fol-
lowing the road
Everywhere about the little
rnortgaged home are evidences Of
Joe Hoisted's thrift, yet despite
|it all and his ten hours of work
every day he left 1t encumbered.
I'm the shed cords of wood are
stacked. wood which Joe Holstead
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-10
DEMAND FOR
MONEY MADE
BY K|DNAPERS
LITTLE COLORED GIRL DE-
IAVERS STRANGE MESSAGE
10 RICH PARENTS OF KEN
TUCKY CHILD WHO is ne
ING HELD FOlt RANSOM.
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire
LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 10
II the story told by Katie Martin,
oolored girl, Is true, the police
are sure that a man and woman,
Of whom they have a fair de-
scription, are implicated in the
kidnapping of pretty S-year-old
Alma Katherine Kellner, VINO
mysteriously disappeared Sunday
when she left her home to go to
church.
Yesterday afternoon the color
ed girl was accosted by two
strangers dressed in women s
clothes. One of them was a man.
They whispered a few instruc-
tions to her.
Mysterious Message.
The girl was then sent to Mrs
Kellner with a mysterious mess
age. She is supposed to have de-
livered a demand for money.
When the girl delivered the
message, Mrs. Kellner was over
joyed to learn that her daughter
was alive and that only a pri &c
stood between her and the child
instead of death, as many feared
Mrs. Kellner stated to the
newspapermen that Katie had
worked for her as a domestic be-
fore Alma was born.
They told her where we were
to meet" said Mrs. Kellner, "but
threatened both her life and mine
II we dared to disclose either the
time or the place of meeting"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-10
|WOMAN'S CLUB
| DISRUPTED BY
| RACIAL FIGHT

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. To-
Because two Jewish women were
,denied admission to membership
in the San Francisco Musical
club. the entire Jewish member
ship of the organization is indig-
nant today.
Upon receipt of their applica-
tions, the board of directors an
nounced, through the secretary,
that no more Jewish associate
members could be received until
some of those already members
dropped out.
Unless the action of the board
is rescinded and some sort of an
apology is forthcoming, it is likely
that all of the Jewish women in
the organization will file their
resignations
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the horror-picture of her husband
being borne down upon by the
death-dealing car courses through
and through her grief-sick brain.
A thousand times has Mrs. Hol-
sted suffered the same terror
which seized her husband when
only too late he realized his peril
on the Fern Hill trestle Wednes-
day night. Over and over she is
living the tragedy every hour of
the day and the night, and the
fatherless five-month-old babe and
the three-year-o1d toddler are her
only companions.
And the neighbors-some OF
them--see this "other side."
Kind-hearted Mrs. Hanson, the
first to try to aid the grieving
woman when the shock came. sees
II In all its reality.
II don't know what will become
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-10
Sharks Boost
Rates Higher
WHICH ONE OF THE TACOMA "sHY.
LOCKS" MAKES VICTIMS

hereby agree Ion good to me
rendered by the eipt whereof
edge that sold and SELL
fer and set to --, all of salary
become the amount of - from employer,
-, and which of
paid day of each and
labor services being
said to
by whom employed,
myself might
salary would become payable
- and do hereby hold harmless by
reason of either and all Of such
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-10
Gives a Farewell Party;
Then Goes to Her Death
On the Operating Table

The following morning she un-
derwent the operation. Before
taking an anaesthetic she decla =
ed that the party of the night be-
fore was planned to repay her so -.
cial debts before she departed this
world.
Mrs. Dodson failed to survive
the operation. In spite of the
efforts Of the surgeons, she did
not come out from under the in
iuenee of the sther and died late
last evening.