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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-02-18
Y. M. G. a. Notes.

The Parlor Male Quartette made
good hit with the men.
Elsea with his bones is very popular
just now.
Leslie Bailey, our violin soloist, is in
much demand. AS an association we
are proud of bim and his loyalty.
Secretary g. A. Young will address
the mems meeting next Sunday after
noon at three o'clock. The orchestra is
preparing a special musical program
and there will be some solo work.
These meetings are attracting group
of men many of whom are away from
home. They find the rooms good place
to spend a Sunday afternoon, and the
program while distinctively religious, is
made interesting to them.
Geo. Osborne and Harold Hume have
been added to the physical work com.
The social evening given to launch
the membership campaign, was very
successful. Over hundred men were
present and seven men took out mem.
berships during the evening. The
launching of this contest was in mark
ed contrast to the meeting called for the
same purpose just three months ago.
At that time one small room held all
the men present and fully half of them
were skeptical as to the success of the
movement. But the movement launch
ed that night was successsul whether
the one set in motion under such aus
picious circumstances last Tuesday
evening succeeds or not, is yet to be
seen, but it was thoroughly enthused
confident bunch Of men that set 1t in
motion.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-02-18
REAL ESTATE ACTIVITY.
Owosso and Shiawassee County Show
Fine Signs of Prosperity.

Real estate movements in Owosso and
Sniawassee county furnish fair indi-
cation of the development that is occur
ring in this city and county. Men who
put money into property. certainly have
confidence in the city or locality in
which they invest their money.
In Owosso there has been no large
deals consumated in several weeks, but
there is steady average of small sales
each week. There sales are mainly to
laboring men or men of medium means
who are buying homes for themselves
Such sales have averaged from ten to
twenty per week since September 1st of
last year.
In farm properties the sales run even
better and of much larger volumes.
Farm values are certainly increasing
and are at present fully ten per cent
higher than they were year ago. Of
those who are buying Shiawassee coun-
ty farms, about one-third came from
Ohio and Indiana. The latter are all
experienced farmers who sold farms in
the former states at values from $50 to
5000 per acre and have bought farms
here at half those prices. Thus each OF
the new corners brings good sized
bank roll with him, which fact will
eventually increase the average Of
wealth per capita in this county.
The outlook for the future is the best
of the whole affair. City property is
positively bound to increase rapidly in
value in the near future and its very
increase means corresponding in.
crease in farm values. Before another
winter the expansion of the Reliance
Truck factory will have brought sew
eral hundred more men to Owosso and
the real boom will be here.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-02-18
ElkS HAVE FINE TIME
Entertain Mt. Pleasant Visi itors in
Many Ways.

Owosso Lodge of Elks met delega-
tion of Mt. Pleasant Elks at the train
Tuesday evening with band and hust-
led every minute until some time We'd
nesday making their visit one to be
remembered. At $50 two hundred sat
down at the first banquet table in the
temple and enjoyed as good dinner as
has ever been served in lodge room
here, and a second table of one hundred
brothers found plenty of everything to
keep them busy until the Mt. Pleasant
lodge officers called to order at o'clock.
The visiting team conferred the de-
gree on four candidates, two from each
city in most excellent style, in fact in a
wonderful manner considering that the
lodge is but few months old and the
officers were installed but two weeks
ago.
At II o'clock the banquet room was
again filled and after lunch had been
served M. J. Phillips called for order
and excellent talks were made by w.
d. Burke, g. B. McCaughna, d. II.
Lamb, J. H. Collins of Owosso, Frank
Mcnamara, Exalted Ruler Mcintyre,
DR.. Richmond, j. H. Dusenberry, Harry
Miller and others.
During the evening the card, billiard
and pool tables were crowded with
players and on the whole the evenin G
was one long to be remembered by the
three hundred and fifty brothers who
enjoyed the Elk hospitality.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-02-18
WILL NOW CARRY PASSENGERS
New Haven Coal Mine Railroad Put
on Passenger Service Monday.

New Haven Coal Mine Railroad Put
on Passenger Service Monday.
Monday the New Haven Coal Mine
railroad operated by the Ann Arbor Ry
Co., by contract began running a
passenger car. The car goes out to the
mine every morning carrying the
miners to their work and returns at
night to Owosso. This will enable the
miners to live in Owosso and go to and
from their work at the mine every day.
The mines are about six and ne-half
miles from sOwosso. This road was
opened last November and since then
has proven big boon to the farm ter.
ritory between Owosso and the mine.
Farm products are loaded at the mine
siding and brought direct to Owosso
either for local use or to be shipped to
outside points. During the campaign
just closed the Owosso and Mt. Clemens
sugar factories utilized the road tc
bring out beets raised in New Haver
and Rush townships. And in many
other ways the road has answered as
freight artery into and from that sec
tion of Shiawassee county.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-02-18
AFTER GOOD ROADS.
Business Men of Cadillac Believe
Good Roads Bring Trade.

The business men of Cadillac recently
banded together on the good roads
proposition to stimulate the building of
good roads in Wexford county where
they have just taken up with the good
roads system offered by the state.
These business men have arranged to
pay $1,000 cash for every mile of good
roads constructed within the county
limits. With this bonus in sight and
that offered by the state, it is believed
that good roads will surely come in
Wexford county.
But beyond all else, this proposition
coming as it does from hard headed
business men, tends to prove, more
than anything else, that good roads
have everything to do with the busi-
ness development of city. In speak
ing of this proposition the Hon. Perry
F. Powers cf Cadillac, editor and pub.
Usher of the Cadillac News and Ex-
press, says: This, more than any
other thing is bringing the farmers of
Wexford county to Cadillac and in di-
rect touch with Cadillac business men"
IT it pays in Wexford why will it not
pay in Shiawassee county? Will any
one venture that Cadillac has more to
gain in farmers trade than Owosso?
We doubt if there is any disposition
anywhere to say it don't pay. The
thing is to get together.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-02-18
BIG LEASE OF COAL LANDS.
Announced Today by New Haven
Coal Mining Company.

The news became public today that
the New Haven Coal Mining company
has taken mining leases on between 1900
and 1000 acres of land lying west and
north and adjoining the city of Owosso.
The announcement comes as a complete
surprise. The securing of these leases
has been done in quiet. thorough bus
mess like way that speaks well for the
management of the company.
| 1t is the intention of the coal com.
pany to begin drilling and exploratory
work as soon as the weather permits.
Judging from all surface indications it
is reasonable to suppose that coal in
paying quantities and superior quality
lies below these lands. The land leased
lies in sections 2, B, 10, II, II, l5, % and
90 of Owosso township. In referring to
the coal deposits close to Owosso on the
west, DR.. Lane of the state geological
department says the best coal in Shia-
wassee county is found here. 1t lies in
vein averaging about three feet in
thickness and at depth of from 1856
to 225 feet.
The three big railroads entering
Owosso all pass through these sections
or close to them and it was this ready
access to shipping facilities that first
drew the attention of the men behind
the New Haven company to the value
of coal in this vicinity.
General Manager M. J. Harrington
says he and his associates are very opti-
mistic of getting good coal in this terri
tory. II coal of the thickness of three
feet is found on these lands he says it
will take at least twenty ,ears to mine
the coal that would underlie said
lands.
What the success of this proposed en-
terprise means to Owosso, can readily
be seen by all. A large coal mine at
the western side of the city would sure
ly mean big gain for Owosso because
of the men it would bring to this city.
Mr.. Harrington and the men behind
the New Haven company are practical
coal men of long experience in mining
and it is warranted assumption that
they are confident of finding the body
of coal they seek beneath these lands.
Otherwise they would hardly be found
going to the expense of so great num-
Der of leases and exploratory work.
They have already shown the public
that the coal mines at Six Mile Creek
and New Haven township are paying
proposition. These properties as will
be the case with the Owosso township
properties, were developed with their
own money.
The company sells coal direct to the
consumer. Many of the people of
Owosso and several of the factories in
this city are now using New Haven
coal with pleasing success. Doing bus
mess on the straight line, thus elimin-
ating the middle man, appeals to many
people. At present the output of the
New Haven mine is consumed mostly
by Owosso people and farmers of this
county. With successful develop
ment of these new lines, the company
plans to extend its retail business to
outside cities and towns, selling direct
to the consumer everywhere.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-02-18
New lothrop.

Mrs. Geo Poyer and son, Wyman,,
are spending some time in Saginaw
visiting relatives-Harold Bullock of
Holly is spending few days with his
parents, MIR and Mrs Geo Bullock
Mrs Graham of New York state, who
has been spending some time with her
nephew, Prof o D Hoag, has returned
to her home-John Haffner and Geo
Lapworth of Flint, were called here to
attend the funeral of Oscar Shoup-
Mr. and Mrs. John Hawkins of Reece,
are visiting Mr. and Mrs Alex Bailey
and other relatives-Miss Josephine
Bailey spent Wednesday in Flint
Cyril Bullock of Ann Arbor, spent a
few days of last week at his home
A number from this place attended the
Holiness convention at Durand, Mon
dav-Mr E Confer has been spending
q week in Crump-Mrs VIM Vernon
is on the sick st-John Confer and
VIM Sharp of Crump, are spending
few days in town-Mr and Mrs New
ton Flowers and son, Laverne, of Len
non, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs
John Walworth--Oscar Delbridge of
Flint, has returned to his home Chas
Speers and Geo Thompson spent Tues.
day near Flushing-Alex Bailey was
in Flint on business, Wednesday,
Last Sabbath fourteen were baptised by
Rev N Norton Clark, at the Nj E
church; more are to be baptised next
Sabbath, and quite number received
into the church-Next Sabbath even
ing, the Goth, there will be union tenn
perance meeting at the NJ E church,
when the pastor will give an address on
local option; this will be followed by
one at the M p church in the near fu.
ture-The ladies of the English set
tlement will give New England din
ner at the Nj E parsonage next week
Wednesday. Feb. 23d; all are cordially
invited. These royal ladies will take
good care of you-The subjects next
Sunday at the M p church will as fol-
lows: Morning, Christian Projections
Evening, Profit and Loss-Mrs French
of Hillsdale, gave temperance lecture
at the M E church last Wednesday
evening.
OBITUARY.
Oscar Shoup was born In Maple Grove
March 20. 1891. He was instantly kill
cd Thursday morning, Feb. 10, at seven
o'clock by mill explosion at place
called Crump, in Bay county, Mich.
He was "a good boy, very kind and
affectionate, and always had kind
word for father and mother.
The 7th of June, :1906 he passed the
9Th grade examination and received his
diploma.
He leaves to mourn his death a father
and mother and two brothers, besides
many friends.
The funeral services were conducted
from the house ON Sunday afternoon at
two o'clock, by Rev. Geo. Bedell, and
interment was made in the Elmwood
cemetery.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-02-18
Boys Own careIessness.

A coroner's inquest conducted by
Guy Cole in the municipal court room
as to the death of Clayton Kelly by be-
ing run over by an o. & G. E. Co. car
last week Thursday resulted in a ver-
dict, Tuesday, that the boy came to his
death by his own carelessness. The in
quest lasted three days having been
postponed from Saturday because that
day was legal holiday Twenty eight
witnesses were sworn.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-02-18
PAYS BIG JUDGMENT.
Ann Arbor Railway Co. Loses Nib
lock Case.

Odell Chapman has won the hard
fight in the Niblock VS. Ann Arbor Ry.
Co.. case in which he secured a iudg-
ment for $4, 600 and which was contest
ed to the last possible point in the
supreme court. The company has paid
the plaintiff the full amount of the
claim and the costs. Niblock was in
jured by the breaking of a crane at the
shops in this city and the judgment was
given in 1908.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-02-18
Improvement Association Noon-Day
Luncheon.

The Improvement association held its
first noon day luncheon in the Y. M. c.
A. rooms Tuesday and discussed mat
ters of interest to the people of the city
Among the things talked over were the
franchises asked by the Commonwealth
Power Co., and Lansing q Northeastern
Ry Co., union depot and the unsani-
tary condition of the Grand Trunk de-
pot. 1t is the plan of the association to
hold similar meeting every week, and
hopes to thus help along every good
cause by getting facts and needs of
everything of public interest before the
public in correct and concise form.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-02-18
Receivers Statement

G. R. Mclaughlin, receiver for the
Vernon bank of Sergeant & Co. has
made his report to the court showing
the assets to be $11 3l2 of which 1921. :
40 is cash. the balance real estate, in
GLIDING the store building OF Vernon
The total liabilities are $21, ,776 80. Iti
expected that about $4,000 will be ad-
ded by F. E. sargeant to the assets
within short time.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-02-18
BEET GROWERS ASSOCIATION
Monday, February a. at Court House
in Corunna.

PROGRAM.
1000 a. m.-Address of Welcome
Mayor McMullen.
Response by Clayton Cook,
Growing Sugar Beets at Profit,
S. w. Oviatt.
"Mending Our Ways" Hon. Town.
send Ely, State Highway Commissioner.
Dinner, 1900 o'clock.
1:30-"Practical Points in Sugar Beet
Growing" S. w. Oviatt.
1.-THE Trend of Prices of Agricultural
Products" J. N. Mcbride.
THE Sugar Beet the Dairyman's s
Friend" G. G. Lille.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-02-18
Evanselistic Meetings.

Rev. Geo. Laughton, assisted by Rev.
E. Babcock of Eau Claire, will begin a
series of evangelistic meetings at the
First Baptist church next Sunday even
ing.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-02-18
A Wrong Report.

Contrary to press reports circulated
recently, the American Farm Products
company has not closed it's plant and
has no intention Of doing So The pro-
cess department has been closed for a
few days, but will soon be in operation
again. 1t is customary to close down
this department several times a year
for few days.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-02-18

Thomas P. Phillips, formerly of this
city, has been promoted to the position
of assistant travelling representative of
the Detroit News. He will do part of
the work done now by the well known
writer, John Fitzgibbon.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-02-18
SHE KNEW.
Popular Owosso Young Lady An
Enthusiastic FootbalIist.

One of the popular young ladies of
the Owosso high school was recently re-
lating with much enthusiasm the story
of football game played last fall in
which the Owosso team came off vic
torious. Referring in particular to an
Owosso boy who had STARED in the
game she exclaimed, "and he never got
hurt once" An interested friend re-
marked, well, he must have been inn
mune." mo, indeed" exclaimed the
fair defender Of the game, "he was
quarterback.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-02-18

A decree of divorce has been granted
by Judge Miner to Minnie o. Good
from f. L. Good, on the ground of
cruelty.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-05-04
NO, JOHN, THERE ARE
NO CANNIBALS THERE

John Atkins, Of Honolulu, is either
somewhat OF 4 Joker or is so ignorant
that ne : incapable Of comprehendino
the greatness Of the State of Califor.
ma without being shown - In A let
ter to state Horticultural Commissioner
}. ". Jeffrey, he asks if they raise
fru1t III California as they do in Los
Angeles, and if the country north Of
San Francisco is inhabited or still wild
and what the tribes inhabiting othe,
sections Of the State besides Los An.
geles are called
Atkins says he intends coming hers
and wants a little advance information
on what Is over here. He asks about
other places besides Los Angeles anC
II they are Of any Importance, further
more, II the land on the map not desig
mated as the southern metropolis is al
pasture land or not. If the country
northwest Of San Francisco is not too
wild he would ike 20 90 there.
The correspondent wants Iiteratur,
on California and especially Los An
geles. which he believes is the only set
tied part Of the >tate-Los Angelo.
EXch.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-05-04
MARsTON CAMPBELL
GOES To HAWAII

Land Commissioner Narston Camp
bell left yesterday on the Mauna kea
for Hawaii, en- route to Waiahinu
where he may preside at the sale OF
the kamaoa lots. The sale, however
may not come off as per schedule. Mr.
Campbell stated before he left that he
would put the lots mp at auction if tn,
Wajahinu people insisted, but if they
were willing to wait until the bill for
the amendment Of the Organic Ac'
passes congress, it would be to their
advantage, as under he provisions o
the amendments those who nave Live,
on their lots since 1900 vii! he able t,
get them without having to enter int,
competition with others.
Governor Frear and Marston Camp
bell may 60 to Waiahinu next month.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-05-04

,n1.lo5 King st. and 96O-97O Maunakea.
~ phone l4O. ?, 0. Box 755.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-29
ASK MORE POWER
OVER RAILROADS
Iowa Commissioners Would Ex-
tend Work in That State.

Des Moines, Aug. 29.-The Iowa
board of railroad commissioners has
submitted to Governor Carroll it's thir.
ty-second annual report, in which sug-
gestions are made for legislation and
improvement of the board by extend
ing its powers
The board suggests that by legisla-
tive enactment it be given definite
rights with regard to the drainage OF
farm lands, city property and public
highways, wherever such drainage is
obstructed by railway companies II
also asks a law defining what consti.
tutes a safe and adequate railroad
crossing An amendment to the long
and short haul clause is asked to con
form with objections that have been
made by the business interests of the
state.
The board suggests that the time
has come when the state of Iowa
should not be backward in thorough
investigation Of local conditions and
that the board should be furnished au
thority and funds with which to make
careful research into railroad and
express conditions, with a view of de
termining what the Just and reasonable
charges should be for services per
formed locally within Iowa
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-29
FIRE FIGHTERS DIE IN CAVE
Suffocated While Seeking Protection
From Flames.

Spokane. Wash, Aug 29.-Walter
Hess, homeseeker who was a men,
ber of a fire fighting crew on Big
creek, told how a dozen of his party
were burned to death.
Thirty of us were stationed about
twelve miles up Big creek, under War
den Christy," he said. Below us,
about two miles, was another small
crew, and together We were working
to control a small fire We had worked
for some days in this and had the
fire pretty well surrounded. Then we
heard a terrible roaring up on the
ledge just south of us and before we
realized it the fire had cut off our es-
cape.
The thirty men at the upper end
of the fire all escaped, but all the poor
fellows below We're killed. Five of
the men were killed by falling trees
and seven were suffocated and burned
in a small cave where they sought pro-
lection"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-29
ROOSEVELT ON RIGHT TRACK
Watterson Declares Graft Is the Para.
mount Issue.

Louisville, Aug 29.-Under the cap
tion What Is the Colonel Up To?"
Henry Watterson, editor of the Cou-
rier-Journal, says:
mo man in our political history, not
even James G. Blaine, has shown him
self quicker to catch the rising tide
and trend of the popular thought than
Theodore Roosevelt. 1t used to be
said of William Mckinley that habit
ually he kept his ear to the ground.
Roosevelt does not need to do this.
His knowledge is instructive. 1t is
evolved out of his consciousness and
reaches him through flashes of preset
ence.
"He has the right pig by the ear.
Graft is the paramount issue of the
hour. In girding his loins, after the
manner of Jack the Giant Killer, and
going out in quest of crooks and ad
venturers the colonel maintains the
picturesque and interesting character
of the African hunter at the same
time that he commends himself to his
countrymen as an American reformer.''
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-29
SEEK SMUGGLED DIAMONDS
Customs Officers Search Staterooms
of the Mauretania.

New York, Aug 29.-Beginning
when the Cunarder Mauretania docked
and continuing twenty-four hours a
special treasury agent and six Gus
toms inspectors searched 440 first
cabin staterooms of the great ship
for evidence of smuggling
Collector Loeb had instructed his
men not to pay any regard to the
wealth or greatness of the passengers
and the staterooms of former Mayor
Seth Low, Mrs Potter Palmer, Mr.
and Mrs. Honore Palmer, Maude
Adams. Kyrle Bellew, Paul Morton
Judge Edward p Coyne, Lord and
Lady Northcliffe and Daniel f. Car
stairs were as thoroughly ransacked
as the more humble suites of less
noted passengers Several were routed
out of their beds to permit the search
one of these being Mrs. Potter Pal
mer.
1t is the new theory of Mr.. Loci
that frequently the smugglers leave
evidence OF their smuggling behind
them, a bill of sale, a memorandum
and sometimes the smuggled article
itself.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-08-29
MANY EMPLOYERS SIGNING UP
Striking Garment Makers Gaining
Steadily in New York.

New York, Aug 29.-Secret settle
ments are the order of the day now
in the great strike of $4,000 makers of
women's cloaks and suits.
Every day manufacturers are APP.
pearing at settlement headquarters
on Thirty-fourth street and signing
the agreement on condition that moth
ing be given out for publication. It's
a case of grabbing off as many orders
as possible before the other fellow
knows it and capitulates also. The old
jealousy between the manufacturers
is working their undoing.
Nineteen members of the big EN-.
ployers' association-the bosses union
have capitulated More are signing
up every day OF the 1900 shops af.
fected 9I5 are now running again as
strictly union shops. OF $4,000 men
and women who struck early In July,
only 10000 are still jobless.