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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-06-18
ORDINANCE.

An Ordinance for the care. preservation and
con troll OF the water works OF the city OF
Owosso, and all the fixtures appurtenances
apparatus. building and machinery connected
herewith, OF belonging and governing the
construction, management and control OF said
wAterworkS.
The city Of Owosso ordains:
Section l. That this ordinance shall be q
part of the contract with every person, com
pany or corporation supplied with water
through the water system OF the oity OF
Owosso; and every such person, company or
corporation. by taking wafer, shall ne con.
Sdered to express his or their consent to be
bound thereby; and whenever any OF the terms
OF this ordinance are violated or such as the
city commission or commissioner or pubic
utilities may hereafter adopt. the water shall
be cut off from the building or place OF such
VIC at on, although two or more parties may
receive water through the same pipe. and
shall only be turned on again by order of the
commissioners OF public utilities and on the
payment OF the expense OF shutting 1t off and
turning it on, and such other terms as the
commissioner OF public utilities shall de.
termine and as hereinafter provided.
Section 2. Any plumber wishing to do
business in connection with the Owosso
City Water Works before peing permitted
to do so, must procure a license and fur
nish the Commissioner of Public Utilities
evidence that he is a regularly
plumber, and that he is master
of his trade and willing to be governed
in all respects by the ordinances, rules
and regulations which are or may be adj
opted by the City Commission. The
amount to be paid for such license shall be
$500. Said plumber shall also be respon-
sible for all damage the Water Works may
sustain at his hands; he shall also give
a surety company bond in the sum of $1,000,
subject to the approval of the City Com
to indemnify and save harmless
the City of OwoSso of and from all acct
dents, damages and losses which said Wat
er Works may sustain by reason of his
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-06-18
ConkIirq and Peyton.

Henry f. Peyton was for long time
executive clerk OF the United States
senate. when that body was Demo
cratic. One day in executive session
Senator Conkling was making speech.
Peyton thought he had IN opportunity
for correcting one Of the statements
made by the senator. He ventured to
interrupt Mr.. Conkling. much to the
latter's astonishment. Conkling listen.
ed to what Peyton had to say. and
when the executive clerk had finished.
simply said: IF the gentleman from
Virginia has concluded the senator
from New York will proceed. "-Argo-
naut
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-06-18
NEW COURTHOUSE PROPOSED
Sullivan, ind, People Fear Repetition
Of s1,ooo,coo Fire in 1852.

Sullivan, Ind, June 1.-THE ques.
ton of a new Sullivan County Court
Louise is being agitated and, accord
Ing to a county commissioner, the
question will come up in the near fu.
ture. 1t is declared that the present
building is a fire trap. The court
house fire in 1852 is said to have cost
the tax payers about $1,000,000 The
new building will cost about $250,O0O.
The county council will be asked
to make the appropriation at the July
meeting If the board Of county COM
missioners approves the plan.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-06-18
Its Only Meaning.

Uncle Roger had been poly for some
time and had tried with alacrity every
sort Of patent medicine he could Sc
cure.
An old acquaintance hailed him with:
Hello. uncle! How are you-all now
adays?"
How is /? wy, bawSs, TO- mostly
six hunts a meals vittles amt mean
muffin t me, 'scusin' somepin tub take
medicine atter!"-Judge.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-06-18
To Stop PurIoinino Sand.

Lansing, Mich, June 17-Glen Nun.
shaw, state supervisor of trespass, is
planning proceedings to demand an
accounting from a number of firms
engaged in taking sand and gravel
from the great lakes. A bill passed
by the last legislature requires these
companies to obtain leases from the
public domain commission.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-06-18
Woman Said to Be 1906 Dies.

Lafayette, Ind, June 17-Mrs. Mary
Ryan, one of the oldest residents Of
Lafayette, died here. She was said
to be 106 years old and had been an
inmate of the county infirmary for
fifteen years.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-06-18
GERMANS DRIVE
RUSS over Line
Ailpgrad Admits Army Has
gecrOSSed Own Frontier.


..xutures Since June t2-Situation
IN. srsieved More Serious Than An.
a~znced After Przemysi FaII-Pe.
rxqrad, Claims Successes.
zufias June lit is officially an.
7Bnesd that General Mackensen's
zscrys operating in Galicia, has taken
s2,sxs Russians prisoners since June
IL additional Germany successes all
EsE4aEs che southeastern front are
sfSasssNk
Aanren. June 18.-Oficial dispatch
W. 8vm Petrograd announce that the
2assan army operating near Czerno.
wtzE, enc capital of Bukowina, has
ssasE driven across the frontier into
EEcSzsayn territory for the first time
sxrmr che drive upon Warsaw from
tss1 general direction was halted ear.
" last spring and the general Rus.
aEsE-, offensive undertaken against
A1z%sia-
Give Ground on San.
IS@ Officiat statement says also
'Sna;. after three days of desperate
Htr1lgs the Russians have been COM
5sstess 20 give ground on the right
sanx. cs the San, retreating on the
G2nfzazowka and Wusznia rivers.
TISsse Russian defeats, following
:aar Serlin announcement that Mos.
ssssn had been, captured and three
ssnzsas were moving forward toward
NszHtsarg, is taken to indicate that
aee Russian situation is even more
sz~Tis than was believed after the
ALL nj Przemysl
setroqrad Claims Successes.
THsengrad, however, declares that
~ ife remainder of the eastern front
e. Russians have been successful.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-06-18
gEaMEf ELECTED TRUSTEES
N& Students Association of Earlham
College Also Organized.

Richmond, Ind, June 17.-At the
zes11af meeting of the Earlham Col
ICY Alumni association announce
zss0S; was made of the election of
EsErrhers Of that organization to serve
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-07
New Idea in Gymnastics.

Cliff-climbing has become tame
sport for the students Of the Philadel-
phia College of Pharmacy. Signing for
a new method of testing the condition
of the nerves, the physical instructor,
w. Ward Beam, hit upon a decided
novelty-crossing river on rope
bridge.
The idea possessed one charm: the
outfit was cheap and easily portable,
for it consisted of two stout ropes and
nothing more. One rope, according to
the plan preached to the eager stu
dents and goods by the physical in
structor, was to serve as a support for
the foot, the other to balance the one
who essayed to cross a river on this
precarious foothold.
According to Mr.. Beam, the object
of the rope-walking is simply to
harden the nerves of the students. We
lack nerve, he says. chiefly because
we never do anything to cultivate
strength in that direction.
This novel form of gymnastics is
now a part of the college curriculum
and the women students are as expert
at it as the men,
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-07
England's First Scientist.

The first great English scientist was
Re. Bacon, who died 621 years ago
The exact date of his birth is un-
known, but it is believed that this
year marks the Tooth anniversary. He
was prosecuted and condemned and
much of his work destroyed, so that
the extent of his discoveries cannot
be definitely known. 1t is certain
that he was centuries ahead of his
ignorant and credulous times in chem
1stry, mathematics and mechanics
Branded as magician, he was thrown
into prison. From 1877 until short
time before his death Bacon was i'm
INJURED in a filthy CELL He is said to
have invented the camera obscura
the air pump and the diving bell, and
he was acquainted with the uses of
optical lenses and the nature of gun
powder, although the projectile power
of gunpowder appears not to have
been discovered until the following
century. 1t is said that during a war
Bacon set fire to the chief buildings
In town by using burning lenses.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-07
SEEING LIFE Wh
f1N7 JOHN HENRY
R&SSs ~ Geo1geVHobart
E1N14AN1I John Henry on the Street Car
John Henry on the Street Car

I've been up and down and over
and across in the surface cars and
my experience is ornamented by
ripped trousers and discolored shins,
but my intellect blows out fuse every
time l try to dope out the real way
not to be an End-Seat Hog:
Last Monday I jumped at an early
bird open-face car and it seemed that
all the world was filed with joy and
good wishes.
l was smoking one of those Bad
Boy cigars. l call it Bad Boy
cigar because as soon as it goes out 1t
gets awful noisy.
The car was empty with the excep-
ton of a couple of benches
Two blocks farther on the car
stopped and a stout lady looked over
the situation.
think she must have been color
blind, because she didn't see the
empty seats and decided to cast her
lot with me.
1t was terrific moment.
John" 1 said to myself, don't be
a Hog-move over!"
And virtue triumphed
I moved over, and the stout lady
settled squashfully into the end seat
Her displacement was about fifteen
cents worth of bench.
After we had gone about ten blocks
more every seat in the car in front
and behind us was crowded, but no.
body could get in our section because
the fat lady held them at bay like Ho-
ratius held the bridge in the brave
days of old.
People would rush up to the car
when it stopped, balance carelessly fore
and aft until their eyes rested on the
vacant seats in our direction, and then
they would see the stout lady sitting
there, as gracefully IS a concrete
Sphinx.
lady with no hope in their eyes, and
then, with sigh, they would retire
and wait for the next car.
No one was brave enough to climb
the mountain which grew up between
him and the promised land.
After while began to get a tooth
ache in my conscience.
John" I said to myself in a hoarse
whisper, perhaps after all you were
the Hog because you moved over
After the lady had climbed over you
she would have kept on to the other
end of the bench where now there is
nothing but sullen space"
l began to insult myself
John" exclaimed inwardly, what
do you know about the etiquette of the
street car? According to the newspa-
pers it is only Man who can be a
Hog on the street cars, and since you
are the original cause of blockading
the port when you moved over, you
must be the Hog"
Then l got SO mad at myself that I
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-07
SOME HINTS FOR BUILDERS
Great Care Should Be Taken in SeIec-
ton of the Most Substantial
Roofing Material.

If you were without preparation or
plan, rudely placed in a wilderness,
your first thought would be of food
supply and your next of shelter, for
these are the two most vital necessi-
ties of mankind. 1t is therefore
natural that the best thought, and
study are put upon these two essen
tials.
More forward steps have been
taken in the building industry in the
past fifteen years, as regards comfort,
service and architectural beauty than
in the fifty years previous.
Only in recent years has the hand
ling of cement in building work been
understood properly, and progress is
still constantly being made with it.
Modern hotels and office buildings
are being equipped with sheet metal
mouldings and steel veenered doors.
Nearly every important change in
building construction is away from
the fire hazard of wood.
One of the most significant develop
ments Of recent years is the crushed
slate surfaced asphalt shingle which
Is, on new construction and old, rapid
ly supplanting the wooden article.
There are many reasons for this. The
slate surfaced shingles add beauty to
any building-in fact, there is really
no comparison from an architectural
standpoint. Crushed slate of pleasing
tints of red or green, is employed as
surfacing. The shingles are uniform
ly eight inches wide and are exposed
four inches to the weather. No paint
ing is necessary as the red or green
crushed slate is natural and therefore
cannot fade.
The purchaser, however, should
guard himself against buying q slate
surfaced shingle that is not guaran-
teed by a reliable and responsible
manufacturer. There are SO many
kinds of roofing and shingles on the
market today each claiming to be the
best that it becomes necessary for the
buyer to get some satisfactory assur-
ance that the roofing or shingles are
represented honestly.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-07

NEY friend, Hep Hardy, presented
kv1 me with a neat little gold ham
mer day before yesterday. Why, l
don't know
But now that l have it I might as
well use it.
Every time l hop into one of those
roomys comfortable street cars in a
city of the second, third or even
fourth class l Immediately contrast it
with the wood boxes we use in New
York, and l find myself growing red
in the face and biting my nails.
Those Squeezer cars that prowl the
streets of New York are surely the
breathless limit, aren't they?
The Squeezer car is the best genteel
imitation of rough-house that has
ever been invented
They are called Squeezers because
the conductor has to let the passen-
gers out with can opener.
Brave and strong men climb into
a street car, and they are full of health
and life and vigor, but a few blocks
of the road they fall out backward and
inquire feebly for sanitarium.
To ride on a Broadway street car,
for instance, about eight o'clock of an
evening brings out all that is in a
man, including lot of loud words he
didn't know he had.
The last census shows US that the
street cars in the city of New York
have more ways of producing nervous
prostration and palpitation of the
brain to the square inch than the
combined population of Amsterdam,
Rotterdam, Tinkerdam and Gotterdam-
merung.
To get in some of the street cars
about six o'clock is a problem, and to
get out again is an assassination
One evening recently l rode from
Forty-secopd street to Fifty-ninth
street without once touching the floor
with my feet.
Some of the New York street cars
lead double life, because they are
used all winter to act the part of re-
frigerators.
1t is cold day when we cannot
find it colder in the street cars.
The germs in our street cars are ex-
tremely sociable and will follow a
stranger all the way home
Often while riding in the New York
street cars / have felt a germ rubbing
against my ankle like kitten. Being
gentleman, at least specifically, l
did not reach down and kick 1t away,
because the law says we must not be
disrespectful to dumb brutes.
Many of these street cars are built
on the same general plan as a can
of condensed milk
When you get out you cannot get in,
and when you get in you cannot get
out, because you hate to disturb the
strange gentleman that is using your
knee to lean over.
Between the seats there is a space
of two feet, but in that space you
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-07

side, and now the near side looked so
back to the other side, which should
have been the near side, but how
could 1t be the near side when the car
was on the far side, and l could not
get near the side in time to catch the
car before 1t was far away on the far
side!
Just as I rushed back again to the
far side the near side became the
nearer side to catch the car, and
when rushed over again from the far
side to the near side the nearer got
to the near side the clearer l could
see that while the far side was far
away it was nearer than the near side,
which was always on the far side
when I hoped to take car ON the
near side.
Then / began to grit my teeth and
made up my mind to anticipate the ac-
ton Of the next car by standing half
way between the near side and the far
side, so that could run to either side
the emergency called for.
l was standing there about a min
ute, much pleased with the idea, be-
cause the near side was about as
far away as the far side, when just
then an automobile sneaked up behind
me and one of the forward turrets
struck me on my personal far side
and hoisted me over to the near side
just as a car left for the far side.
reached out my hand to grasp the
far side step, but / missed it and
caught the near side, and by this
time the car was on the far side and
the motorman grabbed the near side
1t over to the far side, whereupon the
car started for Ell Paso, Tex, at a
speed of about 5000 miles a minute,
and there | was with the near side
of four fingers holding on to the far
side of the step and the rest of my
body sticking straight out in space
like a pair of trousers on clothes
line in a gale of wind
Then suddenly the near side of my
fingers refused to hold on to the far
side Of the step, and with the near
side Of my face I struck the far side
Of the tracks, and the near side of
my brain saw every individual star on
the far side of the Universe.
Then | went back to the hotel and
crawled into the far side of the bed
while friend wife sent for a near-side
doctor who lived on the far side of the
block
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-07
Women's Wooden Dresses.

Dress goods made from wood is an
invention in England. In appearance
the cloth is said to closely resemble
silk and to be inexpensive.
The fabric is made by cutting wood
into thin sheets and treating it chem
ically so that it is converted into a
thick fluid. When this is passed
through a series of heated pipes the
moisture is evaporated rapidly and
the product changed into a solid
which passes through a fine-mesh
screen in the form of thread.
A chemical bath is then given the
hair-like strings, they are thoroughly
dried and woven into fabrics.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-07

refused to talk to myself any fur
Their.
The next day was riding downtown
on the end seat with my mind made
up to stay there and keep the harbor
open for commerce.
Never" l said to myself, never
will anyone become a human Merri-
mac to bottle up the seating capacity
of this particular bench while the
blood flows through these veins and
the flag of freedom waves above me-"
At the next corner very thin little
gentleman squeezed by me with
look Of reproach on his face, the like
of which l hope never to see again,
but l was Charles j. Glue and firm in
the end seat.
Then couple of Italy's sunny sons
of the name Of Microbeini and Germi-
eide crawled over me and kicked
their initials on my kneecap and then
sat down to enjoy a smoke of domes-
tic rope, which fell across my nostrils
and remained there in bitterness.
After l had been stepped on, sat
O1I, dW GU DIT dl1u SCOHlSO at
twenty minutes, l began to discuss
myself to myself.
John" l whispered, do you really
think that the general public appre-
ciates your effort to keep the Harbor
open?"
And then myself replied to myself
with a sigh of exhaustion, 81 don't
Think
john l said to myself, no mat
ter what your motives may be the
other fellow will always believe you
are trying to get the best of it. If
you move over and give the end seat
to another gentleman, he will consider
it only as his right. If you don't move
over he will think you are a Hog for
keeping that which is as much yours
as it is his
L began to grow confidential with
myself.
Civilization is fine idea, but HUI
man Nature can give it cards and
spades and then beat it out!'' l told
myself 1.-The Human Hog was in
vented long before the openface street
car began to stop for him, and there
isn't anybody living who should stop
to throw stones at him. because
selfishness is like the measles-it
breaks out in unexpected places. All
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-07
FACT TO BE CONSIDERED
Evidence That 1t Makes a Great Deal
of Difference as to Where a
Person Lives.

Joseph e. Widener, the millionaire
sportsman, was talking In Newport
about homes.
philadelphia is the city of homes"
he said, "but If your home is north
of Market street you are considered.
socially speaking, out of it. Your
home must be south of Market street
you must live downtown-if you
would be a social personality in Phila-
delphia.
"And yet, after all" said an Eng
lishman, what difference does it
make where a man lives?"
at makes all the difference in the
world" said Mr. Widener "a fact
that is well remembered about Do
genes today is that he lived in a tub"
Philadelphia Telegraph.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-07
The Revival of ShipbuiIdinq.

Prosperity for the American ship
building industry is assured during a
period of several years to come, what
ever may be the future of the mer-
chant marine under the American flag
and regardless even of the new sea-
mems act. For ships may be built in
this country for owners who prefer to
place them under foreign registry on
account of American laws; in any
event, the demand for new vessels
from the neutral countries of Europe,
which have hitherto placed their or
ders in British yards, is sure to be
heavy, while the belligerent countries
themselves, overtaxed in the construc-
ton and reconstruction of warships,
must fill the gaps in their merchant
shipping to degree by placing orders
in America.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-07
FIGHTING THE WHITE PLAGUE
Discovery of tuberculosis Germ by
Doctor Koch 90 Years Ago In
augurated a Campaign.

The germ of tuberculosis was dis
covered 80 years ago by DR.. Robert
Koch of Germany, who spent two
years in laboratory work in search of
it. The discovery changed the whole
worlds attitude toward tuberculosis
Since the days of the ancient Assy-
rians the destroying germ has ravaged
humanity, and in all the successive
generations at least every sixth hui
man being was at some time affected
by it's presence in the blood. Less
than half century ago the disease
was regarded as fatal and hopeless
Some people looked on it as a divine
aff1ictfon of the human race, and an
indication of mankind's degeneration.
Thirty years ago Europe was report
ing 100000 deaths every year from
tuberculosis and the United States
was reporting at the rate of $50 every
day.
Today the civilized nations of the
world are conducting a general war
against the tubercle bacillus. In the
United States more than $4,000, 0OO
Is Delng expended annually Tor this
purpose. The death rate in 20 years
has fallen from a ratio of 2454 to 1853
to the 100000
Physicians have long known that
the bacilli Turk in everyone's system
waiting for the vitality to sink to a
low ebb when they can begin their
fearful scourge. Consequently, the
universal campaign is to make every
one strong enough to resist the de-
stroyers. The world has thrown open
It's windows to let in sunlight and
fresh air, knowing that these are
fatal to the bacilli. The old fear of
night air. has given way to the prac-
tice of living, sleeping and working
out Of doors where the bacilli cannot
follow and live.