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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-11-01
Hear Congressman Fordney
at the New Armory, Water ST.,
Owosso, Saturday evening.

Owosso, Saturday evening.
Mrs. Laura Gerow went to Flint
Saturday for short stay.
Lee III. Retain went to Grand Rap
Ids Saturday to be a guest of his
brother, Ray Retain.
Glen Blair and family are remov-
ing from the corner of Oak and Main
streets to CIT East Main street.
A new electric sign is being in
stalled in front of the M. U. T. sta
tion on South Washington street.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Smith of
Shepardsville visited the latter's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Chapel in
this city Sunday.
Mrs. George Craft and her sister,
Mrs. F. e. Seelhoff visited the for
mer's daughter, Mrs. A. Burgess in
Lansing Sunday.
Mrs. +. j. Doerr and daughter,
Miss Catherine, and Mrs. Fred WEIGH
of Pontiac are guests at the home of
&C. A. Lawrence in this city.
George Youngs and son, Edward,
who have been spending the past few
months in Saskatchewan will arrive
at their home in this city Saturday.
Justice Mcbride, Saturday evening
united in marriage Miss Minnie
Simpson, "a, Rochester, N. Y, and
Edison Van Amberg of Corunna.
Mn. and Mrs. Robert Hyde and
three children reached Owosso Sun
day from an extended stay in Italy
and are guests of Mrs. Hyde's sister,
Mrs. C. w. Gale.
Friends in this city have received
a message from Mr.. and Mrs. Caleb
Amos of New Haven, who have been
visiting relatives in Germany for the
past few months, saying that they are
enroute home and will arrive here
the first of next week.
Deputy Sheriff and Mrs. Joseph
Sproule, are entertaining Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Sproule of Chicago, who
were married last week. Robert
Sproule is assistant chief of the Chi
cago fire department.
Mrs. Nellie Collard OF Owosso has
begun suit for divorce against her
husband, Myron j., alleging cruelty
and non-support She says she was
married to Collard when she was but
Is years old.
Mrs. II. ID. Hanes has returned
home from three weeks visit wlrh
relatives in Lapeer, Cass City and
other places. She was accompanied
home from Lapeer by Mr.. aa1 Mrs.
William Lamond, who returned to
their home Tuesday.
VIM. l.. CAME left for San Anton
ia, Tex, Saturday, after being a
guest for the last two weeks, of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Freeman
of New Haven. l.. S. Goodale of
Owosso accompanied. him as far as
st. Louis, Mo. easaf4&sSV
On, November 26 Miss Mae Everitt
of this city in company with Detroit
relatives will leave for trip abroad.
The party will tour through Eng
land, Ireland and Scotland and will
return home via the southern
route through France and Italy. Miss
Everitt expects to be gone about five
'onths.
Warren Leatherman, drug clerk
employed by w. ID. Whitehead & Co.,
probably saved the life OF John Pur-
cell, of Frankfort, Ind. when the lat
ter attempted to swallow carbolic
acid, in the drug store Sunday even
ing. Leatherman succeeded in pre-
venting the fellow from drinking the
acid which he had dropped into a
glass partially filed with water.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-11-01
Sunday Excursion to Toledo.

The Ann Arbor Railroad will give a
Sunday excursion to Toledo on Sunday,
Nov. 10th, 1919.
Special train will leave Owosso at
sos A. M. Fare for the round trip,
$1.20 Returning special train will
leave Toledo at o p. nj. a-..
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05
Dates VIII Not Conflict

PORTLAND. Ore. Jan. ). Through
the efforts of John p. Sullivan, Grand
Exalted Ruler Of the Elks, conflicts in
the dates of the important conventions
of 1912 will be avoided.
As soon as 1t was decided that the
Elks would hold their annual reunion
in Portland during the week of JuIv
s, Mr.. Sullivan conferred with Of.
ficials of the Grand Army and the
Shriners with the result that the con.
yentions of those organizations will
be held in Los Angeles in September
and May respectively. BY urging the
subject on members of the Republican
national committee he succeeded In
having the date for the Republican
convention in Chicago set for the week
OF June 8. He has started similar
negotiations with the Democratic ma.
tional committee and IT Is probable
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05
keokuk, Iowa ........... Jan. 5, 1912
SING A HOME SONG.

SING A HOME SONG.
Let us sing home-song, hush the
songs of war;
Sing the melting melody our hearts
are longing for
Let the falser ballads into stiffness
die,
Coarse and crude OF cadence, Hitting
with lie
Let them be forgotten-sing Of trees
and loan,
Sing Of bees and blossoms, sing song
of home
Ho. well sing homesong; sing It
softly, so,
While the dying embers fling gentle
glow.
Wen sit close together, clinging hand
to hand,
Murmuring the measures home-hearts
understand
Chanting words that whisper over
land and foam,
While the twilight folds us-sing a
song Of home.
Thus we make a home-song, of the
rose and rue,
OF the snow-hid meadows, clover
rinsed in dew,
Pathways through the pastures, COWS
beside the bars
Silver CLINT of dawnings wonder-light
of stars
Blent into longing everywhere we
roam
Breathe them in a chorus; sing a
song of home.
Come and sing a home-song; sing 1t
low and sweet
Till its marvel measures halt the
truant feet
Hand in hand together in the creep
ing dusk,
Sing of nodding flowers, sing of fall
ing husk,
And the roof that shields us messed
from caves to comb
Time it to our heart beats-sing
song of home.
w. D. Nesbit.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05
LIABILITY FOR FIRE.

| An interesting decision involving
the liability of railroad for fires
along its right of way, possibly caus-
state of Washington. While 1t may
safely be presumed that the jury will
award damages to one suing rail
road, yet it does not follow that the
mere passing of railroad engine fol-
lowed by fire creates the presump-
ton that the railroad company was
guilty of negligence in starting the
fire. 1t is making it pretty strong to
allow the presumption to be that the
fire was even started by the railroad
engine, but this rule is allowed, says
the supreme court OF Washington, on
the ground OF necessity. so that the
ends of justice may not be defeated;
but to go further than that, and make
the mere fact of the fire evidence of
the railroads negligence, is stretching
the old family stocking little too far
for future use. Prescriptions must
stand on their own legs, and not on top
of each other. After it has been
proven that the railroad caused the
fire, the burden of proof then, and not
until then, falls on the railroad to ex-
plain the situation and to clear It's
skirts of negligence. In the present
case the plant Of a certain roofing
company was located some eighty feet
from the tracks Of the Northern Pa
cifc Ry. company in the state of
Washington About midnight a train,
laboring rather hard and throwing
sparks as usual, passed up the grade
by the plant, and three quarters OF an
hour later the night Waterman dis.
covered the platform between two of
the buildings on FIRE. There was no
evidence that the engine caused the
fire, SO the question of defendants
negligence was correctly taken from
the jury.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05
PROTECTION FROM FLIES AND
DUST.


The healthful city of st. Paul pass
ed an ordinance providing that all
fruits and candies exposed for sale
outside of a building, or in any wag-
on or cart, shall be protected from
both flies and dust. An Italian fruit
yender was arrested for violating
this ordinance and appealed from an
order of the district court denying a
writ of habeas corpus. In decision
recently rendered Judge Lewis of the
supreme court of Minnesota affirms
the lower court decision and holds that
the ordinance is not an unnecessary
interference with private rights, is
not an unreasonable requirement, or
impossible of performance, and is not
in restraint of trade, or contrary to
the provisions of the state or federal
constitution. The ordinance was bit
terly criticised because its provisions
include all fruits, such as oranges and
bananas, which it was claimed requir-
ed no protection. The Judge holds
that while. no doubt, q distinction may
oe uldmh pStnccH suSH iIuilS anu
others, such as berries, it is not for
the courts to say that even oranges
and bananas should not be protected
against the accumulation of dust and
the approach of flies. Surely says
the judge, even those fruits are
much more wholesome and less dan
gerous in scattering germs when kept
free from flies and dust Wholesale
Or commission houses come within
the ordinance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05
HOLDEN FOR GOVERNOR.

PrOI. 7. u. Holden OF the State Col
lege at Ames has announced himself
as candidate for the Republican
nomination for governor and will is
sue formal statement OF his candi-
dacy in the near future. This state
ment, he has let it be known, will
explain his platform He was in Des
Moines when he made the announce
ment and he is quoted in the papers
there as saying that he believes it TO
be his duty to attempt to translate
into positive and definite accomplish
ment the things which he has been
preaching in Iowa for all these years
These things have az their keynote
Greater Iowa. He takes the posi-
ton that it is no use to preach these
things and then sit back and wait for
someone to take aggressive action to
bring them about. He believes that
since no one has undertaken to do the
work that it is his duty to make the
undertaking. More specifically he is
represented as saying:
j believe that more can be done
than is being done for the betterment
of conditions on the farm, for in
creasing the efficiency OF the rural
schools, for increasing the number Of
manufacturing enterprises in the state.
for solving the traffic problems.
i think the time is ripe for the en-
trance of a new kind of politics into
Iowa-a politics that is for the best
interests of the state at large without.
reference to factions or parties. There
is big principle behind my resolve
to become an active candidate
Following his announcement as q
candidate Professor Holden put it up
squarely to the state board of educa-
ton to say whether he should resign
at once or continue his duties at the
college and in short course work until
the campaign became active in the
spring. He declared that if the board
wanted him to resign he was willing
to do so. Immediately the board
passed a resolution accepting Profess
sor Hclden's resignation, but the res
ignation will not become effective un.
I'll the faculty committee of the edu-
Ieational board and the executive com.
mittee Of the college have decided
upon his successor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05
THE TARIFF.

People who think that President
Taft's tariff troubles are something
exceptional should disabuse their
minds of the idea. Here is a report
of the first tariff bill ever enacted in
this country. written by John Spencer
Bassett, professor of American his
| tory in Smith college:
No sooner had Madison proposed his
scheme of taxation than there ap-
peared division of sentiment which
was destined to play great part in
the future debates of congress. 1t was
desired by him and many others that
a revenue bill suitable to the present
year should be passed quickly, so that
It might be made to apply to the spring
importations. Such an act, it seemed.
ought to be passed in few days. But
the trading classes of New York, Phil
adelphia. Baltimore and other places
rallied against the measure, for in
participation of such tariff. they had
already ordered large quantities of
goods from Europe, and strove to de-
lay the bill till their ships had come
to port. They fought so well that the
first tariff bill was not approved until
July 4. and it contained clause to
defer Its operation till August /. Some
people considered this sheer trickery.
and later remembered it as the first
instance of series in which the gov
eminent turned in favor OF the new
tariff. so that, while the delay cost the
treasury the benefit of taxes, the peo-
pie were, nevertheless. forced to pay
them to the merchants. One OF the
critics declared that by this means
and quarter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05
The Eternal Feminine

me original caveman was no fool
A man doesn't carry woman
off unless he is crazy about her in the
first place. II he's got sufficient force
OF character to dare her daddy's
stone club and enough physical
strength to hold her to him with one
arm and fight off pursuit and rivals
with the other it--well. it doesn't mat.
ter what the girl thinks of him in the
beginning; she'll die for him in the
end. Mary Roberts Rinellart in THE
Amazing Adventures of Letitia Car
berry"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05

Hannibal Journal: Foolish people
the CAPITALISTS who are putting their
millions into the big water power plant
at keokuk under the delusion that
they can furnish power cheaper than
steam! Had thcr taken the trouble
to come to Hannibal ard consulted a
power expert they certainly would
have never thought OF throwins their
money awaF on such . Mid schcmc.
But probably they had not heard or
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05
lowA,s PER cAPlTA WEALTH.

Y :
According to statistics complied by
Secretary Bolton OF the Greater Des
Moines committee, the farms OF Iowa
increased in vadue 1903 per cent be-
tween the years 1900 and 1910. The
census of 1900 gave the farms in the
state valuation of s1,S34,346.U00. The
average per capita valuation in the
same year In the state was $1,S2S. In
1910 the statistics show, the farms In
Iowa had valuation OF $3,72S,S 600,
or an increase of about 10S per cent
Judging from these figures, Secretary
Bolton takes exception to figures CIV
en- out at the state house giving the
per capita valuation in Iowa at the
present time at s1,12o46. The figures
in his possession do not include the
valuation of property within the limits
of the cities of Iowa. They repre-
implements and stock. Yet, figuring
from them and allowing the same per-
centage of increase in the per capita
valuation as in the increase In the
valuation OF farms. the per capita
worth in 1910 was more than $4,000.
The 1910 census shows that there
were 216,S07 farms in Iowa at that
time. The average value of these
farms was s17,10o Mr., Bolton holds
that the valuation of city property
had increased proportionately with
the increase in valuation of the farm
lands. No definite figures are avail
able to show whether or not this is
true. If it is, the average per capita
wealth in the state is about $4,000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05

Leading papers are remarking on
the striking similarity between the
present political views of Senator La
Toilette, as expressed in his recent
speeches in Ohio, and the views of Mr..
Bryan. The Springfield Republican.
an Independent paper, observes that
these two men, one Republican
and the other a Democrat, seem near
er together at present than either is
TO any other leader of the front rank
In his own party The logical thing
would seem to be for them to flock to.
gether in party of their own.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05
College Girl Suggestion.

Popularity is like some OF the 9th.
er good things Of life. the one who
seeks 1t seldom fnds 1t. However.
hint is that it follows respect. Col
lege study is more deceptive than
school work. The first few months
often seem easy. That is why many
girls join the social whirl. When tho
midyears come they pay the penalty,
unless temporary. artificial fitting
examining" comes to their aid.
Therefore, at the very beginning DO
the necessary work each day.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05

Des Moines travelling men, 700
strong, have organized to fight the
tipping evil. They regard the tip as
a hold-up, pure and simple, which it
is. Here's hoping their efforts will be
crowned with success.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05
TELEGRAPH TABLcIDs ,

Limited Press Leased Wire Service.
NEW YORK, Jan. 5--For eighteen
years the lions roared and the mon.
keys screamed at John ". Smith. And
now. when Central Parks menagerie
Keeper is on vacation. he says he
cannot get used to the silence.
cussin' is Barred.
. ATLANTIC CITY, n. ]. Jan. 5. At
lahtlc CITY is to become chaste. Under
Mssor Rachrach. cussin, risque enter
tainrnents, boardwalk Washers, slot
machines and gambling are TO be
barred.
Dog Funeral.
PHILADELPHIA, Ian s.. John
caJwalader. Jr., an attorney. thought
go much of his ST. Bernard dog. he
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05

The supreme court has decided that
the relations between dentist and his
patient are not confidential. This
however, will not prevent people from
showing their teeth to the dental
surgeons.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05

Kenyon's bill to stop the jug trade
In the bum booze from jag centers
across the Mississippi and Missouri
rivers seems to the Marshalltown
Times Republican to be taken by some
Democratic newspapers as direct as
sault on Thomas Jefferson and the
declaration. The T.-R. is clearly dis
posed to be unkind.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05
Roosevelt is a Candidate.

For the first time, too, Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt's position was
made known tonight by personal
friends in legislative life in this CITY.
They declared Colonel Roosevelt is in
the fight for the nomination, and
added that they personally waited on
Colonel Roosevelt several months ago
for the purpose of ascertaining his
'sishes il the mater. They state thai.
they then Occurred to Roosevelt that
in theiT oIjnion Taft would not be re.
elected il nominated. They went
over the ground with Roosevelt re.
marking that the Presidents rect
proclty measure had been very in
furious to the Republican party. es.
pecially to the farmers in the states
from Maine to California on the Canad.
ian border. These friends of Colonel
Roosevelt declared further tonight that
they left the ex-President with as.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05

FoIey's Honey and Tar Compound.
is q reliable family medicine. Give it
to your children and take it yourself
when You feel cold coming on. It
checks and cures cough and colds ana
Group and prevents bronchitis and
pneumonia wilkinson & Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05
Extend Electric Lines.

PITTSBURGH. Jan. 5.-The New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail.
road will extend its electric lines IS
miles at the cost OF sf2,00o,0oo. The
Westinghouse interests here will get
the contract.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05

The "progressiyes, so called, are
evidently disposed to regard La Fol-
lette as an academic abstraction. AS
a substitute for delegates this is far
from satisfying to the Wisconsin sen
ator.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05

the head of the Hannibal Board Of
Public Works. 1t is absolutely dis
snsting for anybody to talk abort
hannibal being able to furnish electric
current as cheaply with steam DOW.
err as the Keokuk people viii be able
TO furnish with water power
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05

Some of the papers are comparing
f. e. Hart of Council Bluffs to the
late j. W. Blythe of Burlington. The
Gate City agrees with the Waterloo
Reporter that the comparison is very
complimentary to Mr.. Hart
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05

Sun Vat Sen, the president of the
new Chinese republic, may be great
man, but the world would be more
deeply impressed If his name sounded
less like that OF new brand of
chewing gum
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05
POLITICAL PROBABILITIES.

January 4 to 8. About this time
look out for announcements of can
didacies for the Republican nomina-
ton for governor of Iowa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05

The Stockport News has been reviv-
ed again. And still some people find
1t difficult to believe in the trans
migration of souls!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05

1t is predicted that within five years
the women of Iowa Will be voting at
all elections on every subject, And
when that occurs the Knoxville Ex-
press is betting that the women VIII
know more about politics, business and
world affairs and that fancy work and
gossip will suffer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05
Kids Getting Married.

CHICAGO, Jan. Mary Brislow,
is, was arrested as she was getting
married to Martin DOGGY, II. The girl
was clad in male attire and with her
husband was going on honeymoon
tramp to seek work.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05
Merry Widow Author.

BERLIN, Jan. 5.-Franz Lehar, com
poser of the world famous Merry
Widow has accepted a proposition to
conduct 100 concerts in New York at
81 900 per
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05

books, 20 holy pictures, go casts Of
saints and 500 rosaries, said to have
been taken from the Roman Catholic
cathedral here.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05
Chamberlain 5
Cough Remedy

"a na s never been known to fall In any case and
lt has been In use for over on,-thirl IN 4, t.pu-
.ury There Is none bertcr. Il i-al be Dc
pended .l,, upon Wing experiment. ltispicasans
20 ,ake ana contains no harmful drug. Price,
- cents; largo size, 90 ccnts.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05
Picture Defeat for Colonel.

rtStuTc OeIedt Tor Colonel,
1t may be added that these friends
with whom Colonel Roosevelt consult.
ed hse no hesitation in declaring to-
hight thai as time progresses sturdy
Roosevelt organizations will be built
up in all states, and that the Roosevelt
people are especially relying upon the
states i when Presidential prefer
ence primaries are to be held-Ncw
Jersey. Nebraska, North Dakota, Ore.
gon, Texas and Wyoming.
Will foreknowIedge now thai the
Roosevelt tendency is living politi-
cal fact, many Republicans were con-
suited today as to its outcome. OHM
ion was about evenly divided. One
set OF Republicans declared it to be
their positive belief that should Colo
mel Roosevelt and his friends succee.
in elbowing President Taft out of a
denomination and name Roosevelt in
his place, Roosevelt would receive at
the hands OF the Republican party
such drubbing as has seldom beer
recorded in the political history OF the
country. The Republicans who talked
this way We're not exactly Taft men
Neither were they Roosevelt men
they were dispaEsionate in their juag.
ment, and are men of experience
They pointed out that beneath the
surface Taft is very strong with the
Republican rank and file. They be-
lieve that Taft made tactical error
IN insisting upon his reciprocity
measure, measure which angered
Republican farmers, and one which
mad no mention whatever in the plat.
form OF the National Convention Of
1908, on which Taft was nominated
and elected
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05
Mayor Won Race.

sANDUSKY, OHIO Jan. 5. Mayor
and Mrs Thomas B. Alexander, Of
Putin-Bay, walked ten miles in four
hours on Lake Erie ice from, the Is.
land to mainland understanding a large
entry in the annual contest.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05
shrewd susinesa Woman,

CHICAGO, jan, o. When A. E. Ma.
gel made his wife sign check to
cover his loss at a home poker party
Mrs. Nagel telephoned the bank and
stopped payment The court said she
IS a shrewd business woman
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05

had it embalmed when it died. The
funeral will be strictly private at
his New York home.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05

The Burlington Gazette predicts
that at an early date the colonel will
get that famous rough rider hat from
out of the closet, don it and do some
strenuous campaigning for the hero of
Kettle hill