The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-12-17
Big PLANT NEARLY READY
Construction Company HustIing to
Save $50 a Day Forfeit

CONSTRUCTION Company Hustling to
Save $50 a Day Forfeit.
The Worden Allen construction COM
psny Is making every possible effort to
complete the big new plant of the
American Malleables Co., in this city IA
the latter is rushed with orders and
needs the building badly. The con-
tract specified Dec : as the time for
completion and proviIed $50 day
forfeit for failure 80 the building com.
pany is also hurrying on that account.
Monument For Pine Tree Cemetery.
The money received by the Corunna
w. r. G. for a soldiers and sailors
monument will be used for monu.
ment to be placed in Pine Tree GENE.
terry at Corunna and not on the court
house square as at first planned. The
order has been given to the Parker
Monument Co, of Owosso and the
memorial will be shaft ten feet high
OF Vermont granite of sarcophagus de-
sign, with flags, guns and sabers, and
will be unveiled next Memorial day.
Sees Sweeping Republican Victory
in 10.
Coy, elect s. w. Mccall of Massa-
chusetts, just returning from trip to
the Pacific coast, stopped in Grand
Rapids to visit Sen. VIM. Alden Smith,
who took very prominent part in the
speech making in Massachusetts, during
the campaign. As the result of his
observations in the west-where bust.
ness Is practically at standstill Gov.
Mccall predicts that the Democratic
party will be overwhelmingly defeated
in the presidential race next year and
that the Republicans will win an old.
time sweeping victory. To the Grand
Rapids Herald he said:
1.-THE Republican party. I am con.
fident, will sweep the nation next year,
just as it has swept Massachusetts and
most of the other state. this year We
would be in dire straits this minute
under the Democratic tariff or rather
the Democratic free trade bill if it were
not for the European war.
THE Democratic administration ia
inclined to lay onr, present depression
to the war. l want to say to you that
whatever measure of prosperity we now
have is due to the war and that il it
were not for the war this country
would be suffering as it did in 1892.
mo sooner had the Underwood tariff
law gone into effect than the men of
Massachusetts, began to lose worn.
Mills were seriously handicapped.
Many of them were working only part
time. The market was flooded with
the goods of foreign countries. We
absolutely could not compete and pay
the wages we do. We were in bad
way. The war broke out. Immediate
ly the foreign goods was cut off and our
mills had another chance to supply our
own people with their needs. Then
when the war assumed the proportions
it has and foreign industry was Grip.
pied we commenced to secure war
orders.
To-day our wooden mills and our
shoe factories and our iron and steel in
dustries are all working "a hours day
turning out war orders. We are sup.
plying Europe with cloth for clothing,
blankets and all those things, with
shoes and with the products of our iron
and steel industries. These mills Of
ours. which are now working "a hours
day. were 1S months ago threat ened
with shutdown. The war is not re-.
sponsible for our depression. 1t is re-
sponsible for whatever measure of pros
perity we have In those localities.
where they have industries which can
take war orders"