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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-09-10
Where To Seek Farms.

Il isn't necessary for the homeseekers
sogo the semi arid part of the western
country for farms. Irrigation is at best
a costly experiment, and an arid local
ity, even If irrigated to the extent OF
making the soil fertile, has other dis
advantages.
Northwestern Michigan offers better
opportunities to homeseekers who take
an intelligent view of the situation and
the trouble to investigate.
The farmer who locates in north
eastern Michigan will find ample mois-
tuye from the clouds to freshen his
crops. 1t is very seldom that there is
hack of rainfall. There are numerous
springs, streams and lakes all through
hat section, furnishing an abundance
Of wholesome water.
The homeseeker who locates on
farm in northeastern Michigan isn't
compelled to build cyclone cellar to
protect his family from disastrous ele-
mental disturbances in summer and
Slizzards are an unknown quantity.
There is always market at the
DIOR for everything the farmer produc-
Us at big prices. There are ample trans.
portation facilities for moving the
crops.
This section is especially fine not only
for agricultural development, but for
stock raising. There are about two
score ranches between Bay City and
Cheboygan devoted to cattle and
goats. Some of these ranches are stock
I'd with several thousand sheep each.
Cattle do finely and carloads are ship
ped to the Buffalo market nearly every
day.
The homeseeker who locates in north
eastern Mich is not compelled to haul
his fuel one or two thousand miles and
pay big freight rates. His fuel is right
Mt the door and an abundance OF it at
low prices.
1t is one of the most productive pota-
10 growing sections in the United
States. Corn, barley, peas, oats, wheat,
hay and vegetables of all kinds are
easily grown, and better prices obtain
I'd than is possible in the semi. arid
regions of the far west.
This region is attracting the atten-
ton of the people. During the last two
r three years large numbers of people
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-09-10
Americas Greatest Weekly
TOLEDO BLADE
TOLEDO, OHIO
The Best Known Newspaper
in the United States
CIRCULATION 100000
Popular in Every State

The seventy-fourth year of its exist
ence finds the Toledo Blade more pop
ular than at any period of its remark
able career. 1t is now read each week
by more than million people. It's
field is not circumscribed by State
boundaries, bat involves the length and
breadth of the United States, giving it
an unquestionable right of claiming to
be the greatest national weekly news.
paper in the country.
The Weekly Blade is distinctly a
family newspaper. The one object of
its publishers has always been to make
it fit for the American home, for the
fireside, and of interest to every mem
Der of the family. To fulfil this pur-
pose is is kept clean and wholesome.
The news of the world is handled in a
comprehensive manner, and the various
departments of The Blade are edited
with painstaking care. The Household
page is a delight to the women and
children; current affairs are treated
editorially without prejudice; the serial
stories are selected with the idea of
pleasing the greatest number of fiction
lovers; the Question Bureau is a scrap
book of information; the Farmstead
columns are conducted with the pur-
pose of giving the patrons a medium
for the exchange of ideas and infor.
nation on farm topics. No department
is neglected, but every feature is taken
care of with the idea of making The
Blade worth many times the price OF
subscription-one dollar year.
Sample copies mailed free. Address,
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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-09-10

three in five, for purse of $4,000 in
gold to the winner, $1,000 In gold to
the loser.
Both Mr.. Knabenshue and Mr..
Beechey have made hundreds Of sue
cessful flights, and each one claims
superiority over the other. The meet
ing at the West Michigan Fair will,
however, be the first opportunity that
has been afforded them to settle the
matter in actual races, and their meet
ing on this occasion is looked forward
to with interest, not only by the fair
management and visitors, but by those
interested in the latest and most fasci-
mating problem of the present day
the navigation Of the air. The results
of these daily races will be chronicled
the world over, and every visitor to
the West Michigan Fair will have an
opportunity to witness an epoch-msk-
ing feature Of worldwide import.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-09-10

OUCH an event will be the startling
d feature at the West Michigan
State Fair, in Grand Rapids, Sept.
Is to II, The fair management has
succeeded in securing the entries of
Roy Knabenshue, famed aeronaut
of Toledo o., and Lincoln Beechey,
equally well known, OF Buffalo, N. Y,
for a series of daily races for the
aerial championship and a purse Of
$4,000, $4,000 to the winner and 81 900
to the loser.
The rivalry between Knabenshue
and Beechey is intense.
These airships are of the same gen.
eral type as that constructed for Wal
ter Wellman for use in his flight to
the pole. These will be raced every
day, weather conditions permitting,
over a prescribed course above the
fair grounds, the contests to be best
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-09-10
Don't Take Our Word.

But go at once to your druggist and
purchase box of DR.. Herrick's Sugar
Coated Pills. They are a positive cure
for all disorders of the stomach. liver
and bowels. It ia not a new remedy,
but one that has stood the test for over
sixty years, and their ever increasing
sale attests their merit Try box, take
one or two before retiring and we are
sure you will feel better tomorrow.
Everywhere 25c per box. Ask for a
free sample Sold by Johnson & Son
and Sprague q Co.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-09-10

Make a Note Now to get Ely's
Cream Balm if you are troubled with
nasal catarrh, hay fever or cold in the
head. 1t is purifying and soothing to
the sensitive membrane that lines the
air-passages. 1t is made to overcome
the disease, not to fool the patient by a
short, deceptive relief. There is no
cocain nor mercury in it. Do not be
talked into taking substitute for Ely's
Cream Balm. All druggists sell it.
Price SOC. Mailed by Ely Bros, 56
Warren Street, New York
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-09-10
How to Pay Your Grocery Bills.

You can easily if you will,
Pay all your grocery bill.
You ask, How can l Pray2"
The answer is, "By making your hens
lay"
And to hear them cackle louder,
Use Harvells Condition Powders.
The best egg producer on the market.
A standard for over seventy years. No
waste and full weight Everywhere 25c
a package. Sold by Johnson & Son and
Sprague 81 Co.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-09-10
A Peculiar Wrench.

OF the foot or ankle may produce very
serious sprain. A sprain is more pain
full than break. In all sprains, cuts,
burns. bruises and scalds Renne's Pain
Killing Oil is the best thing to use. Re-
lieves the pain instantly, reduces swell.
ing. is a perfect antiseptic and heals
rapidly. Price 25c, SOC and $1.00. Sold
by johnson e. Son and Sprague e. Co.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-09-10
LIN. IN. 1.nrner ,l....

at must be very NICE" said the call
er to the authors wife, ito have your
husband ut home so much of the
time"
"Yes." replied Mrs. Richard Darling
ton Spriggles. ut gives me chance
to go out."-Harper's Weekly.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-09-10
Heavy Drains on Nations Forests.

1.-THE total yearly drain upon our
forests, not counting losses from fires,
storms and insects, is some twenty bill
lion cubic feet" says R. s. Kellogg,
assistant forester in charge of the Office
of forest statistics, in a publication just
issued by the Forest Service on "The
Timber Supply of the United States. !"
"Our present forest area of $50 mil
lion acres may be roughly estimated to
consist of 200 million acres of mature
forests, in which the annual growth is
balanced by death and decay, of $50
million acres partially cut or burned
over, on which, with reasonable care,
there is sufficient young growth to pro-
duce in the course of time merchant
able, but not full crop of timber, and
lOO million acres of more severely cut
and burned over forests, on which there
is not sufficient young growth to produce
another crop of much value.
Taken as a whole, the annual
growth of our forests under these con-
ditions does not exceed twelve cubic
feet per acre, total of less than seven
billion cubic feet. That is, we are
cutting our forests three times as fast
as they are growing. There is menace
In the continuance of such conditions.
While we might never reach absolute
timber exhaustion, the unrestricted ex.
ploitation of our forests in the past has
already had serious effects, and it will
have much worse if it is allowed to
continue unchecked.
white pine. for instance, which
was once considered inexhaustible, has
fallen off seventy per cent in cut since
1890, and more than forty.five per cent
since 1900. The cut of oak, our most
valuable hardwood lumber, has de-
creased sixteen per cent since 1900, and
that of yellow poplar twenty-five per
cent. The same story will be told of
other woods if they are not conserved.
1.-The fact that timber has been cheap
and abundant has made us careless of
its production and reckless in its use.
We take $50 cubic feet of wood per
capita annually from our forests, while
Germany uses only thirty seven cubic
feet and France but twenty-five. On
the other hand, Germany, who has
learned her lesson, makes her state
forests produce an average of forty.
eight cubic feet of wood per acre. We
have as fast growing species as Ger
many, or faster, and as good or better
forest soil if we protect it.
THE necessity for more farm land
may eventually reduce our total forest
area to 100 million acres less than it is
at present. 1t is entirely possible how
ever, to produce on $50 million acres as
much wood as a population much great.
er than we have now will really need
if all the forest land is brought to its
highest producing capacity and if the
product is economically and completely
utilized But to reach the necessary
condition of equilibrium between
timber production and consumption
will take many years of vigorous effort
by individual forest owners, by the
States, and by the National Govern
ment. None of them can solve the
problem alone; all must work together"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-09-10
ANNUAL SUMMER VACATION OFFERS

Low Summer Excursion Fares
Via
Grand Trunk Railway System
Daily until Sept. 80. 1909, to Boston.
Montreal, Quebec, Atlantic City, New
York City, New England Resorts and
Canada. All tickets valid via Niagara
Falls. Thirty days limit. For full
particulars apply to
p. n. Moore,
o. D. W. V'oo' Agent.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-09-10
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
Q a 8 ORA
a Convenient Ta~,~>

81 wonder what persuaded Mr.. Big
gins to believe in reincarnation?
''The fact" replied Miss Cayenne,
"that so few people know anything
about it. 1t enables him to have the
conversation almost entirely to him
self."-Washington Star.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-09-10
The Drawback.

''The unlucky in love are said to be
lucky at cards."
what good does It do 'em? They
can't get out nights to play."-Ex-
change
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-09-10

"Do you know OF any woman who received any
benefit from taking Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Com
pound?"
If any who is suffering with any ament peculiar
to her will ask her neghbors this question: she will be
surprised at the result There is hardly community in
this country where cannot be found who have been
restored to health by this famous old remedy, made
exclusively from simple formula of and herbs.
During the past 80 years have published thousands
of letters from these grateful who have been cured
by Lydia E. Pnkhams Vegetable Compound, and never
in all that time have published testimonial without
the writer's special permission Never have we knowingly
published testimonial that truthful and genuine
Here just received few days ago. anyone doubts
that this true and honest statement of womans expert
with Lydia E. Pnkhams Vegetable Compound write
and ask her.
Texas" When began taking Lydia f. Pink
sick for three with female
and liver trouble had
nothing did me good
"FOr three lived medicines
get WELL when read e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, and advised
"NIy husband got bottle Compound and il did
much 1 continued / a well woman
enjoy the best of health.
advise all suffering troubles to give
Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound trial They won't
it, for it will surely L. Hicks
$40 Cleveland ST, Houston
Any who is sick and suffering is foolish surely
give such medicine this trial Whv should 4
not do her as much good as it did Mrs. Hicks
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-09-10
:. ...-..: .l..nsay.

We do not know whence man comes
nor whittier he goes. yet we choose his
birth or death day to celebrate his re-
curing century We should choose
his day of Observation-Disclosures Sat-
urday Review
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-09-10
Or. G. MCCORMICK,
Physician, Surgeon, Etc,

special attention given to the treatment OF
ulsease py means OF Electricity. Rheumatism
Neuraigla, Lumbago Scatica and a number OF
NERVOUS Diseases readily yield to this form Of
ONCE and Residence No. 900 East Exchanges.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-09-10

A healthy man is a king in his own
right; an unhealthy man is an unhappy
slave Burdock Blood Bitters builds up
sound health-keeps you well.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-09-10

Suffered day and night the torment
of itching piles. Nothing helped me
until used Doan's Ointment. II cured
me permanently. Hon. John II. Gar.
rett, Mayor, Glrard, Ala.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-09-10
Children Cry
FOR FLETcHER'S
Q a 8 TO RI a

Wit should be used as a shield for
Aefense rather than as sword to
wound others.-Fuller.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-24
Care In Preparing Food.

In recent years scientists have
proved that the value of food is meas.
ured largely by its purity; the re-
suit is the most stringent pure food
laws that have ever been known.
One food that has stood out promi-
nently as a perfectly clean and pure
food and which was as pure before
the enactment of these laws as it
could possibly be is Quaker Oats;
conceded by the experts to be the ideal
food for making strength Of muscle
and brain. The best and cheapest Of
all foods. The Quaker Oats Company
is the only manufacturer of oatmeal
that has satisfactorily solved the prob
lem of removing the husks and black
specks which are so annoying when
other brands are eaten.
For hot climates Quaker Oats is
packed in Theoretically sealed tins.
keeps fresh and sweet anywhere. l
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-24
COURT PROCEEDINGS

Lexington, Sept. l4-The regular
September term of the court of
general sessions convened on Mon
day morning promptly at 10 o'clock
with the Hon. John S. Wilson of
Manning. presiding. Clerk of Court
Frank w. Shealy, as usual had cv-
erything in readiness, and there was
no delay. Solicitor Zimmerman,
Stenographer O. B. Anderson, Sher-
iff Corley and other court officials
were at their posts.
i The first case called for trial was
I that of Jesse c. c romer, a young
white man OF Saluda, charged with
obtaining goods under false pretence
from the +. Jones Co.. of Batesburg
There was much testimony offer
ed by both sides and the case did
not go to the jury until yesterday.
The jury brought in a verdict of
not guilty.
The defendant was ably repre-
sented by Messrs. Graham & Stur-
kie, while Solicitor Zimmerman
with his usual earnestness and vigor
represented the State.
Rufus Reeves, a negro. was ac-
quilted in short order upon the
charge of privily stealing from the
person. He was represented BY
Graham & Sturkie.
Eli Spires, white, was next pu
on trial for obtaining goods unde,
false pretence from CAN'T & Rast
of Swansea. The case was conclu
; ded last night, the jury returning :
verdict of not guilty. Spires wa
, defended by Mr.. A. d. Martin.
The case against A. II. Goodwin
w. P. Goodwin. c. c. Goodwin. AL
bert Hartley. George Ellison anc
Cres Hutto was settled late yester
. day afternoon by the consent of a.
parties. the defendants agreeing t,
plead guilty to assault and batter,
of high and aggravated nature
and paying all costs. including at
, torney's fees. etc Each of tn
young men appe9red before jude
Wilson and were sentenced to pay
fine of $40 or serve four months il
jail. The fines were paid. Judg,
Wilson. in passing sentence tool
occasion to give the young men ;
good lecture" telling them tina
this should be warning. and urgec
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-24
RIDGE SPRING Me- s.

Summerland was the mecca of a
very joyous picnic crowd from Ii 'ee
Spring recently. Notable among
those making up the congenial en-
tourage were Mesdames M w Wat
son. w Thrailkill, Homer Th~ai-
kill and d B Fronts, chaperones.
Misses Grace Fronts, Daisy and
Pansy Watson, Grace ThrailkiN
Maude and Lula Edwards. Elizabeth
Thomas and Mayme Jones in their
exhuberant youth and beauty insrr-
ed joyous occasion.
A social by the Ridge Spring w
M S at Col r B Watson's some
days agone was a pleasurable event
at which delicate refreshments were
served and much enjoyed
Col r B Watson has endured
much suffering from the painful
wound of a nail in his foot but is
improving now.
Mr. Cal Watson attended the WEI
ford College opening.
MesSrs VIM Sawyer, Thomas
Carson, Lawrence and James Trial
kill left Tuesday for Furman Uni
versity.
Mr. Raymond d Paget stopped
Monday in Columbia with Rev A c
Baker en- route to Greenville S c.
Mrs Francis Holstein the aged
mother of Mr. Y S and A L Holstein
sustained serious injury resulting in
broken limb from an insignificant
ly considered fall latelg.
The rainy season of several days
duration has occssioned the farm
ers considerable loss in that much
hay is ruined.
+. ID. 2.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-24
them to be better citizens.

tncm 10 De better citizens.
Mr.. c. S. Goodwin. the prosecu-
tor, is being commended on all sides
for the manly stand he has taken
throughout the whole proceedings.
1t is sincerely hoped that the matter
is settled for all time, and that peace
and quie; will forever hereafter
reign supreme in the little town of
CASTOR.
TRUE BILLS.
The grand jury returned the fol-
lowing true bills: HACK Hill. charg-
ed with assault and batse.y With in
tent to XII and carrying concealed
weapons; Doc White, charged with
placirg an obstruction upon the
railroad track; Jesse Coleman, a
negro boy, charged with assault anc
battery with intent TO ravish; Bel
Stuckman, charged with murder
Wis !. Brown, violation OF liquo,
law; Jesse Robinson, Sr.. and Jesse
Robinson, Jr., violation of liquor
law; Preston Sharpe and Mary Stur,
key. adultery r. w. Wise. obtain
ing money under false pretence.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-24
CONVICTION OF NEGd0 S In LEX.
IEGT0N FOR ILLlCii SALES OF
WhISKEY-M FOR A
NV TRIAL.

Lexington, Sept. 22-In the sess.
ions court today Jesse Robinson. Sr.
and Jesse Robinson. Jr., negroes,
were convicted of the charge of vio-
lating the liquor law. Jesse Robinson
Jr.. is alleged to be blind, but he
was found guilty on two charges in
the indictment. that OF storing liquor
and the sale of liquor. Counsel for
the defendants entered a motion for
new trial and the sentence Of the
court was passed.
The trial of Eldridge Hutto, a
white man, for the killing of negro
in the lower part of the county sew
eral months ago, is set for tommor-
row.
Ex-Gov. Jno. c. Sheppard and
attorney Tompkins Of Edgeteld and
J. B. Hunter Esq, member of the
law firm OF Hunt, Hunt & Hunter of
Newberry, were visitors here today
on business before Judge Wilson.
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1909-09-24

School books and school sup
plies now ready. Books sold for
cash only.
+. V. Cullum Co.
The Washington herald., 1909-04-13
WEST POINT OF SOUTH.
Distinction Won by Graduates Of
Virginia Military Institute.

n : Parker. m National 31aeazi-e-
On the anniversary Of the conflict. now
known as New Market Day" al the IN
stitute. the names OF the cadets who feI
IN battle az thar time are inserted in the
company rolls as they are called By the
sergeant, a cad7t of the first class steps
10 the front. salutes. and reports Died
on the deId or honor, sir" Their names
VIII ever LCe in Ire memory OF The insti-
tute and Of the Commonws salth OF Vir-
ginia- Five OF the killed are buried in
the cadet cemetery on the institute
grounds and on New Market Dav~ the
battalion marches 10 this beautiful and
secluded spot and there fires three vol
leys over the graves OF the young he
roes. One cannot leave this little GENE
tery without feelings OF deepest emotion
as he contemplates the sacrifices 20 gal
laHtly mace years ago by the youthful
soldiers OF Virginia A more beautiful
spot for a last resting place was never
seen than this-in the quiet and peaceful
valley OF the Shenandoah.
IN all the professions and vOcatfons or
lie the men trained at the Virginia mill
tary institute have won for themselves
honorable distinction THE fllustrious rec
ord Of services rendered by her sons in
civil, spanish. and Philippine wars has
established the reputation OF the Virginia
Military Institute upon an enduring fOun-
datiOn- In the regular army her gradu-
ates are found in numbers. second only 70
those OF West Point The Marine Corps
and the navy also claim a large number
OF these educated and disciplined young
men The institute has been officially rec
Ognized by the imperial government OF
China, number Of student CADETS from
the Flowery Kingdom having been sent
10 the institute TO acquire academic and
military training OF the highest order.
One graduate, OF the class of 1877, IS az the
present time a colonel in the Chinese i'm
perial army. At the commencement ex-
ercises in June. 1905. the guest OF honor.
Mai. Gen. J. Franklin Bell. Chief OF stan
OF the United States army, addressing the
cadets, referred 70 the school as ''an insti-
tuition. which. OF its kind. Is second 20
none other IN the world" In practically
every state throughout the Union her
graduates are busy. honoring tnemsefVe es
and their alma mater by applying 70 ev-
eryoay lie the lessons Of self-c0ntrol
concentration of thought OF chivalry.
and OF honor acquired within the walls
OF this most honored and historic college.
the West Point OF the South