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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-03-12
CITY SECURES VERDICT
Barber Asphalt Company Must Garry
Out Agreement With OwOSSO.

Corunna, March 10-The suit Of
the City of Owosso against the Barb
er Asphalt company, started in cir
cult court Tuesday morning, came to
an abrupt ending Tuesday afternoon
when Judge Gilday took, the
case from the Jury and : di-
reeted a verdict of $1,S42-54 i for.
the plaintiff. This was substantially
the amount sued for.
The case grew out of the laying Of
the West Main street pavement In
1903 by the Barber people. Shortly
before work was constructed, the
Warren Brothers Paving company
notified this city that the Barber peo-
pie were infringing upon their patent
by using the bituminous macadam
which their contract called for. The
Barber company, however, gave
bond to protect the city against any
costs or damages which might result
to the city from the use of this pave
ment. The pavement was laid, and
later the Warren company sued the
city Of Owosso. The Barber people
took up the defense of the case, and
the city won in the United States
circuit court in Detroit. An appeal
to the United States Court of Appeals
at Cincinnati, o., was taken and the
city lost and was ordered to pay the
damages and royalties that should
have accrued to the Warren company
to that concern. The amount was not
aIt nl, i'm Iun
the city was entered. There were no
more developments in the case until
in November 1913, when costs of ST.
42O were assessed against the city.
The city brought the suit against the
Barber Asphalt company under the
bond given at the time the pavement
was laid.
The Barber people fought the suit,
claiming that settlement had been
reached with the city, after the city
had secured a verdict of $1,000
against the company in the federal
court at Bay City, as the result Of the
pavement failing to stand up under
wear
Only one witness was sworn. He
was City Assessor SanderhoH OF
Owosso. The defense tried to intro
duce the agreement as evidence, but
the court held that it was irrelevant.
! After the bond had been introduced,
Judge Gilday directed the verdict
Miss Nellie Turner has returned
from stay of several weeks with
friends in Bancroft.
Rev. S. Porterfeld has purchased
residence in the city and will come
here from Davidson to reside.
AT a meeting of the Federation of
Women s Clubs at the Y. w. G.. A.
rooms Wednesday afternoon, Secre-
tary Seegmiller talked on civic inn
provements, advocating the planting
tof shrubs in the parkings at the inter
sections of streets, and that the city
be given thorough cleaning up as
early as possible this spring during
three or four days to be set apart as
"clean up days. From the loads of
rubbish already being drawn through
the streets to the dump it looks as
though this work had commenced in
earnest.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-03-12
Wants SIS, 900 Damages.

Mrs. Alfred DeFrenn has begun suit
against Wilbur Pierce for $4,000 dam
ages, claiming slanderous statements
were made by Pierce while testifying
recently in the divorce case of Mrs
DeFrenn against her husband. Pierce
stated that he had seen Mrs. DeFrenn
and Kohimeyer riding in an automobile,
the latter hugging the woman. Kohl
meyer it is said can Prove he was in
Detroit on another day when Pierce
claims to have seen them together.
DeFrsnn has suit pending against
Kohlmeyer for $40. 900 for alienation OF
his wife's affections.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-03-12
viii Occupy Burke Store.

Nutsou & Wright will move about
April from their present location to
1l5 East Main street, recently vacated
by Grinnell Bros. The building is
much larger than the present location
and the firm needs more room.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-03-12
Given Second Sentence.

Ralph Donaho. 90 years CT age, was
sent to the Detroit house of correction
by Judge Miner, Friday, for go DAYS for
forgery. This is the second sentence of
the young man. having served 30 days
last year. A similar case against the lad
In Indiana has been settled by his
father.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-03-12
Owosso Girls Win.

The Owosso high school girls basket
ball team defeated Flint at Flint,
Saturday, 81 to 81 and having defeated
all other teams will go to Pontiac. Fri
day. to play game which, il they win
will give them a right to claim the
championship of the state. The boys
were beaten at Flint, Saturday, 23 to
20
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-03-12

Members and friends of the Y. w.
G. A. are invited to a little girls "
mid-winter picnic Monday evening,
March Is. The picnicers will leave
the Y. w. c. A. parlors for the woods
at 1880 p. m. to enjoy the fun. You
must come dressed as a little girl.
Bring a well filled lunch basket.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
SUBMARINES IN RAID
Lone German Craft Sinks Five
Ships in "a Hours.
Undersea Raider Operated in British
Channel and Gave Each Crew Ten
Minutes to Leave Their Ship
Before Using Bombs.

Berlin.-The German submarine,
U-29, made a recent raid on British
shipping off the Scilly islands and
within "a hours sunk five ships and
damaged two merchantmen so badly
that they were abandoned by their
crews. The commander of the subma-
rine gave the crews of most of the
and in, some cases towed the ships
lifeboats with the crew to passing
steamers by which they were carried
to port.
Members of the crew of the Auguste
Consul, who were landed at Falmouth,
stated that the German commander
informed them that he had been away
from his base at Cuxhaven six days
and was planning to return after com
pleting the work of destruction near
Scilly islands. He declared his boat
would be replaced by another under
sea raider.
The British steamship Adenwen was
torpedoed by the U-29 in the British
channel, 25 miles off Casquets. Next
came the torpedoing of the Auguste
Consul On the next day the U-29
claimed three victims in short order.
They were the Indian City, the Head
lands and the Andalusian. The Flor
izan and Hartdale were wrecked SO
badly that they were abandoned by
their crews an sank later. When last
seen the craft was pursuing a steam,
er out to sea. 1t is believed the sub.
marine continued on it's journey for
Cuxhaven.
In the destruction of the British
ships il is believed bombs were used,
especially on crafts from which the
crews were taken by the Germans.
The bombs are far smaller than the
regular torpedoes and a far greater
number can be carried.
The work of the U-29 was watched
by. , scores of people off Biddeford,
within sight of Hughtown, on St
Marys island. Immediately after the
craft was sighted patrol boats were
sent out, but as they approached the
submarine the latter submerged it.
self and was seen a few minutes
later more than two miles away. In
this manner it proceeded in it's work
of destruction, outmaneuvering the
slow merchantmen as they sought to
zig-zag out of the course of the speedy
raider.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
Wisconsin Directory
THOUGHT OF NONE BUT HUBBY
Jealous Woman Unable to Imagine
That Any Other Man Would FIirt
With Her.

Twas at the masked BALI
Smilax and battleax were the chief
note in tho decorative scheme.
Mrs. Mulliger Tawne, the jealous
est woman of our set, turned green
underneath her mask.
That man in the mauve domino is
nv husband" she Kissed to her
self. "Oh, IL l catch him actually
f1irting!"
Just then the man in the mauve
domino strolled over TO her.
"Ah, beauteous one-for I know you
are beauteous cen though your fea-
lures are hidden" he began with a
low, but not common bow.
IF he but knew!" she thought
greedily, "Oh, but will make him
rue this day!"
"You do not answer" continued the
man in mauve. And he leaned sud
denly over and kissed one of her two
cheeks. A wild, baleful light sprang
into her eyes.
Il will divorce you for this!" she
muttered. And just then the bell rang
for unmasking The man in mauve
slipped his mask off, and Mrs. Multi
ger Tawne started back fainting from
disappointment.
1t was not her Observation-Disclosures
Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08

bones to be cooked free of charge.
Two hundred workrooms where wom-
en- thrown out of work by war are
abba to earn their living are also
maintained by the commission.
Besides these enterprises the COM
mittee is running an employment
agency for the benefit of the 5000
coo Belgian and French refugees and
distributing individual relief in all
cases that are not provided for by the
regular government allowance.
The commission presided over by
NJ. Paul Appel, dean Of the faculty
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
SOME HARD KNOCKS
Woman Gets Rid of "Coffee Habit

The injurious action of coffee on the
hearts of many persons is well known
by physicians to be caused by caffeine.
This is the drug found by chemists in
coffee and tea.
A woman suffered a long time with
severe heart trouble and finally her
doctor told her she must give up cof-
fee, as that was the principal cause Of
the trouble. She writes:
my heart was so weak it could not
do it's work properly. My husband
would sometimes have to carry me
from the table, and it would seem that
1 would never breathe again.
''The doctor told me that coffee was
causing the weakness Of my heart. He
said I must stop It, but it seemed 1
could not give it up until was down
in bed with nervous prostration.
"For eleven weeks I lay there and
suffered Finally husband brought
home some Postum and quit coffee
and started new and right. Slowly |
got well. Now I do not have any head
aches, nor those spells with weak
heart. We know 1t is Postum that
helped me. The Dr. said the ether
day: T never thought you would be
what you are I used to weigh 90
pounds and now I weigh 1873.
Postum has done much for me and
I would not go back to coffee again,
for I believe 1t would kill me If I kept
at IT. Postum must be prepared &C
cording to directions on pkg, then it
has a rich favor and with cream is
fine"
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well
VILE" IN pkgs.
Postum comes in two forms:
Regular Postum must be weu
boiled. 15c and Csc packages.
instant Postunn--is soluble pow
der. A teaspoonful dissolyes quickly
in cup of hot water and, with cream
and sugar, makes delicious beverage
instantly. 30c and SOC tins.
Both kinds are equally delicious and
cost per cup about the same.
There's a Reason for Postum.
sold by Grocers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
GIRLS GlGGLE AT HANDS UPY
HiqhWaYman's Command Strikes
Young Ladies as Being Excruciat-
ingIy Funny.

Spokane, Wash.-The command of
a highwayman to throw up their
hands was so excruciatingly funny to
the Misses Elsie and Emily Bergman
that they giggled and passed on. They
were going north on Hamilton street,
near Mission avenue, when confront.
ed by the man with the gun at Ills
o'clock at night.
4 mean it, he declared.
'T'n dump it in your hand" said
Emily, emptying her purse. He re.
fused to take the two cents that com.
prised Elsie's resources. The girls
were still giggling when visited by
Chester Edwards, city detective, at
their residence, No. 1405 Hamilton
street.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08

An indianapolis man has sister, in
Canadian town, he had long ago
placed in the list of old maids, who,
largely if not wholly from flial devo-
ton, are content to remain at home
to comfort the parents. She was
climbing rapidly to forty. He was
dumfounded the other day to get a
letter from her announcing that she
had consented to tie up for the rest
of her days with a man of high repute
in her community. He wrote her
thus:
Dear Sister:
ID Well!
(2) He's lucky.
He has her answer:
Dear Brother:
% Sure!
(2) So am /.
-IndialaDCis News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
CHICKEN WEARS WOODEN LEG
Hen Supplied by Its Owner With Good
Working Substitute for Broken
Member.

Sandusky, GA Milan hen, accord,
ing to information coming from what
is considered a reliable source in the
town east of here, famed as the birth,
place of Thomas A. Edison, the in.
ventor, finds wooden leg every bit
as useful as the genuine article.
The hen is owned by Leonard O'Deu,
Lake Shore Electric conductor, who
carved the leg out of a piece of hick,
DRY with pocketknife and fastened it
with plaster of paris and bicycle tape
The hen broke her leg trying to
scratch gravel while the mercury was
ten degrees below zero.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
On September 20, 1870. Hindenburg

On September &c, 1870, Hindenburg
wrote:
1--WE are still before Paris in our old
position, from which we can hardly
move forward on account of the forts.
The decisive attack, to my mind, must
come from the west, from Versailles
toward the Bots de Boulogne. Today
the good defenders of Paris are shoot
ing salvos of bombs-of course with
out hitting anyone or anything. The
good people at least want to have done
everything to defend themselves. II
had not so much to do life would be
quite comfortable in the trenches.
The only thing we are in need of is
candles"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
PARTISAN MEALS AT 2 CENTS
Poor People May Eat in French Cap
itaI at MarVeIousIy Low
Price

Paris.-Sixty popular restaurants in
Paris are now subsidized by the ma
tional relief commission organized by
the government. In these restaurants
meals are served at prices ranging
from two cents up. Sixty kitchens
are also maintained where poor fam
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
MO0NSHINER OF 9 CAUGHT
Grating Mountain Whisky Still
in West Virginia.

B1uefeld, W. Va.-Thomas Hurt,
deputy United States marshal, with a
posse, captured the youngest moon
sinner On record, 20 miles from Nor
ton, in the person of Willie Hubbard,
nine years of age. The posses found
the Hubbard boy, with a cousin, eight
cen years old, operating a still with a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
Blessed Is the Ash Man.

while on EARTH" queried st. Peter,
did you leave footprints on the sands
of time?"
NO" replied the candidate for adj
mission, "but 1 always scattered ashes
on my icy sidewalks"
Come right in," interrupted the
keeper of the keys, as he threw the
pear1y gates wide open, land here is
a ticket that entities you to your
choice of harps and halos."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
FILMS LOCATE LOST WIFE
Distressed Husband Sees Her Picture
on Screen With Company of
War Nurses.

Cincinnati. O.-One Of the strange
life dramas that occasionally build
themselves from the dramas of the
films was enacted in the offices of a
flm exchange in this city, when A. a
Campbell, efficiency engineer for the
Union Gas and Electric company, sat
and watched a woman whom he iden-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08

trio company, he and his wife lived in
New York. She objected to coming to
Cincinnati. Campbell wrote letters,
pleading with her to join him here. In
her last letter to him she announced
that he would not hear from her again.
and she kept her word. Campbell
hopes to have her give UP her task of
nursing wounded soldiers and come
back to him in Cincinnati.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08

titled as his wife step from the steam
er La Lorraine at Havre, France. She
was with company of war nurses.
The wife is the daughter of Mrs. W. f.
Campbell of Butler, Pa.
Until he viewed her on the film.
Campbell had not seen his wife for
more than a year. It was his first in
timation of her whereabouts since she
had joined the Red Cross. She is a
graduate of the Middleton Conn
Medical Hospital School for Nurses
When Campbell became efficiency
engineer for the Union Gas and Elec-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
SUES WIFE FOR HER SAVINGS
He Wants Half of $4,000 She Has
Laid BY in Thirty-Six Years of
Married Lie.

Jersey City.-James W. Donnelly,
one of the oldest engineers on the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad, appeared as
complainant before Vice-Chancellor
Stevenson to compel his wife to turn
over to him half of the $4,000 she
has saved during their Sc years of mar
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
Sounds Like Building Work

New York.-A correspondent writes
that ordinary firing at the front sounds
like a piece of big construction work
in New York, blasting being like the
cannon fire, hammer striking a girder
like a rife shot, and the hydraulic
hammer like a machine gun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
capacity of 80 gallons.

capacity OF 81 g2llohS.
The father Of the youngest moon
sinner has been convicted twice on
charges of illicit distilling, and at the
last trial it was shown that Willie, the
son, had spent many weeks with his
father at the moonshine stills.
Little Willie Hubbard knows the
business thoroughly, and when ar
rested said that he had played around
whisky stills since he could walk
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
The Whole Truth.

Magistrate-Why did you beat your
wife so numerically?
Prisoner-Well, yer honor, she az.
gravated me by sayin' she'd have me
up before that baldheaded old fool,
meanin' you, yer honor
Magistrate-You're discharged.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08

mastifs to draw machine guns, the
animals lying down when they reach
their position until their harness is re-
leased, when they go to the rear and
remain with heads between their DAVIS
until the gun is to be moved again.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
First Ride Is Fatal.

New York--On the first ride on
the motorcycle for which he had been
saving for years Samuel Leechman
was killed when he tried to avoid
striking z pedestrian The wheels
skidded and Leechman was throwa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
Students in the Army,

London-Premier AsqUith reports
that two-thirds of the undergraduates
of Oxford and Cambridge universities
about 6,000-have joined the army.
These include so of the IS members of
the athletic teams Of the universities.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
Saved $4,000 on $3.50 Per.

Binghamton, n. Y-Peter Burke.
who conducted a trucking business
for 50 years at which he had never
made more than s1.50 day, died at
the age of sixty-five. Now it is dis
covered he had saved $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
Gnnn C0EEEE

If you want a good, rich coffee buy
Godfreys
Gold Buckle Nothing Better
Silver Buckle TITS Fine
Broadway IT'S Good
The best for the money. For sale by
all frst-class Grocers. e. r. Godfrey
e. Sons Co., Milwaukee, Wis.-AdV.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08

of sciences, and of which M. Poin-
care is honorary president, is com
posed of leading men from all depart
ments of life, including archbishops,
politicians, educators, professional
men and labor leaders.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
One ExceDtion-

Nearly all country sites are desir-
able, are they not?"
mo; not the summer parasites"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08

An eccentric woman is one who
prefers comfort to style
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08


of
making
aeopane that
Sites of
The
Before struck the completely
taken by Whppe
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08

Locality Without Microbes.
Not a microbe exists in mountain
air above the height Of 1900 feet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
Bows PLAY With Mine,

LOnQon.-LlttIe boys tampered with
a mine washed ashore at Katschoek.
North Beveland Island, and it ex-
ploded, killing five persons.
~--~-~-~~~~~@---0~o~~---~--
Donnelly- Just because we lived IN
der the same roof don't think the dove
of peace always perched on the peak -
Mrs. Donnelly said he had given her
the money to do with as she saw fit
Decision was reserved.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08

Cied life. Donnelly says that sum was
stored up by Mrs. DonnelIy out of
money he gave her, and, according to
an agreement made on their wedding
day, he is entitled to one-haIf.
The old engineer said he would
never have started the suit had not
his wife kept him in ignorance about
her savings. He was asked if it were
not a fact that he and his wife often
talked about their nest egg at the
supper table.
mo, I never got much of a chance
to talk at our supper table," said
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08

Mrs. Urquehart Lee has adopted a
rather unique vocation for a woman,
but one that seems to yield rather
large returns and performs a service
that is in demand. She teaches par
liamentary procedure and renders first
aid to the distracted chairmen, or
"chairladies," of feminine organiza-
tons. Miss Anne Morgan retains her
services as parliamentary adviser by
the year, but just at present she is
teaching some of the most prominent
Washington women how to run
things" Mrs. stephen B. EIkins, Mrs
T. Dewitt Talmadge, Mrs. Edward
Douglas White, Mrs. Joseph Rucker
Lamar, Mrs. James Hamilton Lewis
and Mrs. Charles Sumner Hamlin are
among her pupils at present and a list
of the students at her classe; reads
like a page from the social register.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
Mastiffs Draw Guns.

Amsterdam-The Dutch army uses
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
Biz Crops Expected This Year.

is being worked up in the same man.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
No War Tax On Homestead Land IN Csnsds
To the Point.

w. N. u. MILWAUKEE, NO. 15-1e15
Evening star., 1915-06-05

Adams OF Washington was announced
as honor man at the head OF the grad
uating class of midshipmen from the
Naval Academy at Annapolis Frank
H. Walker. celebrating his birthday
was host to the Association of Oldest
Inhabitants at clam bake. Com
mencement exercises for the gradual
ing class of Howard University were
held. Announcement Ms made that
the force of employees of the pension
Office will be cut after June so. The
Riggs National Bank. in a public
statement. reiterated that the officers
of the bank and not the bank conduct
ed stock transactions with stock deal
ers. The Citizens Loan Company and
the Security Loan Company. following
disclosures OF loans made at excessive
cost, to the borrowers. were ordered
closed by the board of Comm issioners
Men and women were captured in
raid by police and Department of Jus
ttce inspectors on alleged hand book
makers. Among those who died during
the week were Edward s. York. real
estate broker: Charles Mades, thirty
three years hotel man: DIR. Joseph A
Thompson, advocate OF snake venom
treatment for tuberculosis: Thomas Y
Smith. lifelong resident and business
man.