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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-05-26
Honored Students.

The announcement of the winners
or honors among the members of the
Owosso high school graduating
class and the awarding of letters to
the schools athletes featured the
chapel exercises at the high school
Monday morning.
Miss Lillian Flickinger was an
nounced to be the valedictorian
while Robert Burhans is salutatorian
Members of the high school facul-
ty have been at work for several
days past to figure the standings Of
the students during the four-year
course and thereby determine who
had won the class honors.
Elmer Marvin was found to be the
only student of the school who was
privileged to wear the letter 80" for
his work in the three branches of
high school athletics. He won his
letter in football, baseball and bas-
ket ball. The following were award
ed letters:
Football-Wellington Chapman,
captain; Wesley Youngs, Roscoe
Wise, Gerald Fauth, James Cummin,
George Weideman, Elmer Marvin,
Donald Brittson, William Martin,
Ralph Corey, Gail Craig and Joseph
Robbins.
Basket ball-Colon Mccormick,
captain; Arthur Cansfield, Robert
Marshall, Ralph Tate, Elmer Marvin.
Raymond Stuart; Mildred Donigan,
captain; Maxine Stevens, Neva Doni-
gan, Vivian Hopson, Dorothy Harri-
son. Vera Stebbins, Helen Cudney
and Helen Cansfield.
Base ball-Arthur Cansfield, CAP
tain; Carl Giffei, Joseph Robbins,
Elmer Marvin, Elwyn Harryman,
George Rubelman, Loren Ross, Ray
mond Kaulitz and Cecil Waters.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-05-26
Knights Templer Ascension Services.

Owosso Commandery No. 40, X.
T. attended Ascension Day services
at the First M. E, church, Sunday
morning and listened to- strong,
uplifting sermon by Rev. Hartley
Cansfield upon 1.-THE Symbolism OF
the Cross" Special music by the
choir and solo by Harry johnson
added to the impressiveness of the
service. >t
=" Headed by Eminent Commander
Silas M. Campbell and staff, the COM
mandery, with about fifty swords in
line, marched from the asylum, under
the direct command of Captain Gen
eral Wade B. Camburn, to the
church. Returning to the asylum,
vote of appreciation was extended
to Rev Cansfield and the singers for
the inspiring service.
Mr.. Cansfield took for his text
words found in 1st Corinthians. 1922,
23, "a: For the Jews require a sign
and the Greeks seek after Wisdom,
But we preach Christ Crucified,
unto the Jews a stumbling block,
and unto the Greeks foolishness;
"But unto them that are called,
both Jews and Greeks, the Power of
God, and the Wisdom of Cod
In introducing his subject he spoke
as follows:
I'VE are glad.to have with us this
so large a representation Of
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-05-26
PROGRAM FOR cORUNNA Al.
UMNi BANRUET.
Isaac Derr Toastmaster for Event to
be Held at Casino on june 22.

Isaac Derr Toastmaster for Event to
be Held at Casino on juno 22.
The following program has been ar
ranged for the Corunna high school
alumni banquet to be held in the casino
June 90:
Toastmaster-Isaac Derr.
Presidents Address-Arch w. Bur-
nett, '02.
"Life"-Adella Jackson, 70.
Music-Irene Duffey, '16, and Jose.
phine Wilson, 10
But Day and the World Has
Changed"-Walter Almendinger.
THE Glass of 1916"-Omer Williams
'16.
Solo-Mrs. Earl Kay.
"Memories'-Mary EIDE.
."The Days That Wear"-J. Il. Col
lins, 81.
These Good Things Being Given,
He Goes On and Gives One More
Howard Slocum, '95
.Music-Mrs. F. F. Hoyer and Miss
Ruth Mitchell.
Election of officers.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-05-26

hits of the evening. They sang un-
der the direction of Chris Rentschler.
Sec. Seegmiller Speaks.
The POSTMASTER introduced w. A.
Seegmiller, secretary of the associa-
tion as "our live wire secretary,
whose only fault is that he is a Dem
ocrat." The speaker lived uN to his
reputation of hitting on all twelve
cylinders without miss, Mr.. Seeg-
miller's speech was a report of the
activities Of the association since
January /, 1915, and INSTALLATION
of what the future holds for Owosso.
He stated that on that date, there
was $3362.77 on hand and that to-
day there is balance of $38.08. He
gave a rapid fire account of the var
ious ways in which the money was
expended, and enumerated what the
association had done since then.
Dropping into the retrospective, he
went back four years and read list
prepared then by him, of the i'm
provements desired in Owosso. They
were the Ann Arbor car shops, whole
sale bakery, appropriation for Nc
Curdy park maintenance, parks for
city, poles removed from streets,
boulevard lights installed, new lib
rary. new hospital, street paving,
good roads in county, new armory,
new hotel, commission form of gov
erment, i dams in river and banks
beautified new opera house, summer
chautauqua, winter lecture course,
free choral union concerts, band
supported by city, county fair, new
bridge over river north of city, in
terurban line to Flint, and cement
curbs on all streets.
"Of these desired improvements
we now have fourteen and the rest
are coming declared the secretary
in his characteristically optimistic
manner.
Taking up the industrial progress
of the city, the speaker declared that
the less of the Reliance Truck Co.
employing 120 men had been far
more than offset by the acquisition
of the American Malleables Co., en-
ploying $40 men. Extended ap-
plause followed when Mr.. Seegmll-
Ter acknowledged the most import
ant part that A. NJ. Bentley played
in obtaining the new industry for the
city.
Mr.. Seegmiller declared that the
Improvement association assumed
obligations of $4,000 in connection
with the new Ann Arbor shops that
the city is to get, and obligations Of
$4,000 in the purchase of land for
the Malleables plant. The latter is
paid off, he announced. 1t assumed
and has partially paid something like
$1,000 toward the new armory, and
only recently assumed and will soon
pay nearly $4,000 for the furnish
ings of that building. Besides it's
members have contributed nearly
$4,000 toward the proposed new Y
w. c. A. building.
He stated that the Owosso I'm
provement association was one OF a
very few similar organizations i'm the
United States that meets every week.
Speaking Of the Ann Arbor shops
project. he asserted that the shops
would be built, that the people of
Owosso could rest assured of that.
He declared that whereas 90 per
cent of Owossos bread supply was
being shipped into Owosso three
years ago, not loaf comes in now.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-05-26
Memorial Sermon.

Orders have been issued by Com
mander H. C. Everetts and Adjutant
w. r. Smith of the G.. A. R., in this
city, to comrades to attend the Me-
mortal day service at the First M. E.
church, Sunday morning and the ex-
ercises Memorial Day at the new
armory.
The comrades have been asked to
assemble in the G.. A. r. hall, at $3.50
o'clock, Sunday morning. The march
to the church will be made from
there. Rev. Hartley Cansfield will
deliver the sermon.
The veterans will assemble In
their hall at 1890, Tuesday, Memoir
ial Day, for the annual observance
Memorial badges and white gloves
will be worn.
The G.. A. r. headquarters for
Michigan has sent out appropriate
orders for the day.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-05-26
Eiremen's Memorial.

Residents of Owosso VINO have at
any time served as city firemen will
pay their tribute to those of their
number who have died in past years
at 3 o'clock Sunday morning. AT
that time all of those who have been
firemen will gather at the city hall,
go to Oak Hill cemetery, and decor
ate the graves of the dead firemen.
The older members of the organi-
zation will ride in automobiles while
the younger members will go in the
fire department supply wagon behind
team of fire horses.
The decorating of the graves OF
the former firemen by the visitors in
a body Is an innovation introduced
by Fire Chief Craig, who is president
of the organization.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-05-26
Want Assess ment Ordered.

A motion was fled in the circuit
cout and argued Monday, to reinstate
the case of Gaffney vs. the defunct
Owosso Motor company, which was
dismissed recently under the judicature
act because no progress had been made
in it in more than year. The suit is
brought to compel an assessment of
$50, 900 against the stockholders in the
bankrupt company.
The company's liabilities at the time
it failed were $4,000 while its assets
were $108, 900. Its assets were not avail
able, however; for the reason that they
consisted almost entirely of the patent,
designs and other things that could not
be converted into money. Gaffney was
the referee in bankruptcy.
The motor company was organized a
number of years ago among Owosso
men, to manufacture small commer-
cial truck. Only one or two trucks
were made, and the company went into
bankruptcy before long.
They claim that they haye been un.
able to get personal service on some of
the many defendants They recently
secured an order for publication how.
ever, and will get service in this man
ner.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-05-26
Removes Bows Eye.

Perry, May GA specialist from De-
troit came Monday and removed the
left eve of Arthur Schedules, injured
when he accidentally struck two ham
mers together Friday afternoon. The
operation was performed in an Owosso
hospital wnere the lad was hurried as
soon as the accident occurred. The
operation was to have been performed
Saturday morning. but when it was
found necessary to remove the optic a
specialist was summoned from Detroit.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-05-26
SUGAR Beet Seed Being Planted.

Last year at this time ten thousand
or more acres of lard had been planted
with beet seed for the Owosso Sugar
Co., while up to the first of this week
only about one thousand acres of seed
was in the ground. The weather con-
ditious 80 far this week have been good
and by the end of the week probably
three quarters of the acreage will be
cared for With continued warm wealth
er the crop will be as far advanced a
month hence as usual
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-05-26

ton, and asserted that if all would
help, the association would grow to
size and usefulness. He
said that the association is not in
tended for the business men alone,
but urged everyone with the welfare
of Owosso at heart to become an ac-
tive member, to work for a bigger
and better Owosso, in every way.
Maennerchor Sings.
Mr.. Whitehead then called upon
the Owosso Maennerchor for a selec-
ton. The German singers respond
ed in manner that elected hearty
and prolonged applause. They were
in excellent voice, and the harmony
was splendid. They were forced to
respond to an encore. They inter-
spersed the program with selections
and their singing was one of the big
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-05-26
Corunna Graduates.

The graduating class of the Corunna
high school this year consists Of the
following:s President, Omar Williams;
vice president, Wilma Strauch; secre.
tary, Mildred Mattoon; treasurer, Guy
Holloway; Frances Cornell, Irene
Duffey. Bernice Neff, Maude Hughes,
Leta Brands, Lena Wilcox, Ruby Mil
ler, Gertrude Eiler, Donabel Morris,
William Beagin, Joseph Fields, James
Cole, Wendell Bush Arthur Martin,
Mabel Savage and Ethel Moss.
The class colors are blue and white,
the class flower, the American Beauty,
and the motto "One Stroke Against
the Untried Current"
The commencement exercises will be
held on the night of June 20 at the
casino. The Junior reception will take
place on the following night.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-05-26
Given Naval Cadetship.

S Gerald w. Fauth member Of the
junior class of the high school, and
son of Mr.. and Mrs. George r. Fauth
who reside just west of the city lim-
it's, received word Thursday morn
ing from Congressman Fordney, OF
his recommendation for appoint
ment to the u. S. Naval Academy at
Annapolis, Md.
Gerald plans to go to Washington
d. C., the first week in June, to at
tend a preparatory school for few
weeks before taking examinations In
July for entrance to the academy.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-05-26

A. w. Hickman leaves for Lansing
today, having closed up his work on
several building jobs about the city,
including the armory. The Hickman
firm recently secured school house
contract In Lansing and Mr.. Hickman
expects to be busy on it for some time.
E. o. Dewey accepted the invitation
Of the American Day committee to be
its guest st a luncheon rendered Col.
Theodore Roosevelt at the Detroit Ath.
letic Club on Friday last. Col. Roose-
welt as usual drew a great crowd while
in Detroit and hit straight from the
shoulder in his adde's on preparedness
The Baptist Brotherhood held an
informal reception in the Sunday
School room of the church Monday
evening at the close of the lecture, in
honor OF Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Wilkin-
son, who were recently married.
They were presented with some cut
glass.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-05-26

The struggle for the appointment of
postmaster of this city was practically
ended last week when the name of H.
X. White was submitted by E. o. Wood
and E G. Shields, national committee
man and chairman of the State Demo
cratic committee respectively, to Post
master General Burleson for the posi-.
ton. The appointment will undoubt-
edly be sent to the senate by President
Wilson shortly and confirmation will
doubtless follow within few days.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-05-26


The board of review will probably
complete its labors today.
Prof. T. W. Nadall of Olivet College,
shook hands with number of Owosso
friends Saturday afternoon.
G. II. Maliskey & Son of this city,
have secured the contract for the cree
tiou Of $50. 100 school house in Fest
Lansing.
The post Office will be open Memorial
Day from to 10 a. IN. The city car
riers will make one complete delivery,
while the rural carriers are given day
off,
Tubbs & Cooper. owners of the Col.
ouial theatre. have purchased the Vau-
dette at st. Johns, which they will
operate in connection with their tn ca
tres in this city and Ovid.
Arthur Gillespie, son of Mr.. and Mrs
G. w. Gillespie former residents OF
Durand, has been appointed to the q.
8. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md,
by Congressman Smith of the third dis
trict, having successfully passed both
the mental and physical examination.
He is brother of Lieut. Geo. s. Giles
pie, U. s. Navy, who was appointed by
Cong Fordney when the family resided
at Durand. Lieut.. Gillespie has already
made fine record in the navy.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-05-26
Improvement Association Officers.

The electisn of officers of the Owosso
Improvement Association last Tuesday
evening resulted as follows: President,
Fred w. Smith; vice presidents, l.. B.
Allison. s. Q. Pulver, DR.. A. M. Hume,
w. E. Hall. w. d. Whitehead; treas
urer. q. L. Taylor; directors for three
years, E. O. Dewey, r. l.. Chase, 1. G.
Curry.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-05-26
Class of 1917 Q. n. s.

Aside from Miss Lillian Flickin-
ger and Robert Burhans, winners of
first and second honors among the
Owosso high school graduates, the
following have average standings OF
ninety per cent or more:
Dorothy Kerwin, Mabel Ashton,
Nellie Leatherman, Margaret Holmes
Leona Goodwill, Lydia LeCureux,
Jeune Bunting, Bernice Haughton,
Mabelle Harle, Gladys Burkhardt,
Joy Cord, Lucille Kelly, Raymond
Stewart, Ruth AFFORD, Colin McCor-
mick, Roy Runden and Avah Fuller.
At present the senior class enrolls
fifty-eight students who have COM
pleted such a part of the work as to
make it probable that they will re-
ceive the coveted diplomas in June.
Final examinations may possibly
eliminate a name or two from this
list, while on the other hand an ex-
traordinary effort may make it pos
si5le for others to pass the required
sixteen units and graduate with the
class.
Mabel Ashton, Ruth AFFORD, Bloc
ma Barrows, Fern Bartlett, Jeune
Bunting, Gladys Burkhardt, Vera
Carmody, Mildred Conley, JOY Cord.
Nina Grove, Amanda Dansby, Mild
red Donigan, Lillian Flickinger, Av-
ah Fuller, Leona Goodwill, Mabelle
Harle, Bernice Haughton, Margaret
Holmes, Burmese Honecker, Pauline
Honecker, Marie Hook, Pauline
Johnson, Lucille Kelly, Dorothy Ker-
win, Nellie Leatherman, Lydia Le-
Cureux, Josephine Lee, Grace Love-
Anna Mason, Frances Nichols, lola
Rundell, Hazel Schmid, Vera Steb-
bins, Ruth Sullivan, Adelaide Thomp-
son, Catherine Weber, Robert Bur.
hans, Arthur Cansfeld, Harold Car
son, Wellington Chapman, Wayne
Champion, Edward Foess, Carlos
Hanks. Colin Mccormick, Cecil Nc
Lean, Alba Myers, Donald Rhodes,
LuRoy Rhodes, George Rubelr1an,
Roy Rundell, Raymond Stewart, Har-
old Taber, Gale Tannehill, Sam
Voight, Cecil Waters, George Wied-
mann, Kenneth Willoughby, Roscoe
Wise.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-05-26
Memorial Day OF Odd Fellows June II.

The annual memorial services of the
Owosso Odd Fellows will be held on the
second Sunday in June. On that date
they will attend special services at the
First M. E church, and will later march
to Oak Hill cemetery to decorate the
graves of their deceased brothers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20

East, who are an island in the sea of
Polish Slavs and a barrier between Poland
and her natural expansion to the sea.
Even if Russia is for long time un-
able to take up the fight there will be a
Polish problem. A state of l7000,O0O
people, occupying well defined and homo
geneous country, will inevitably tend to
seek absolute freedom. They will also
look over the German frontiers to The
millions of Poles still separated from the
mass of their fellow countrymen and find
in their wrongs new ground for hatred of
the Prussians. Further, the tendency Of
the Savs to push west and drive the Ger
mans before them, thoroughly peaceful
form Of invasion, will be redoubled when
Poland has all become a German pro-
tectorate and only imaginary frontiers d.
vide them from the Silesian and Posen
districts.
Il is clear, then, that the freeing Of
Poland will at once bring grave dangers
to Germany; it may easily be the first
step in the series which will thrust back
the German in the East and raise new
Slav state in the valleys of the Oder, the
Vistula and the Bug and along the Baltic
from Pomerania TO the Niemen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20

ure at least. seek to redeem the promises
made to the Poles at the outset of the war.
He will unquestionably take from the Aus
TRANS not merely Polish Galicia. but all
Galicia, which he has once held in MS
hands and only lost after many months
Of occupation. 1t is reasonable to expect
that the Polish districts west Of the San
will be added to the present Russian Po-
land. So far Russia will follow the Ger
man plans.
But what of the Poles in Posen, in
East and West Prussia in Silesia? There
can be no mistaking the answer. If
5000. 900 Poles are now held under Prus-
sian tyranny, and it is tyranny quite as
severe as the Russian, then is there any
reason why, given a Slav victory, the hap
piness of 100000 Germans should not
be subordinated TO the unity Of the whole
Polish race?
If the Central Powers are completely
beaten. if the Allies impose their will upon
the German and Austrian nations, then it
i. a safe guess that East and West Prus-
STA. Posen and considerable districts in
Silesa will be added to the present Rus
sian Kingdom Of Poland, TO which there
will be also added the Austrian province
OF West Galica. This would make state
Of nearly 100000 square miles and having
population OF close TO 25,000,0 900, more
tran four-fifths of whom would be Poles
Such state would face the Baltic from
the shores west Of Danzig to the mouth
Of the Niemen, east Of koenigsberg. and
both the cities would be included in its
boundaries.
At most some 3,000.000 Germans woui !
be included in this Slav state, if they were
not swept out during the Russian advance,
as the inhabitants of East Prussia were
driven before the Russian invasions of
1914 and 1915. Actually the Germans
would be forced back from the Nistula
and the work of the Teutonic Knights IN
the districts Of East Prussia WOULD be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20

region and much Russian territory be-
yond the Bug. BY her aid Austria has
won the victory she hoped for in the Bal
kans. and Serbia and Montenegro are at
her mercy. and the hegemony Of the Bal
kans will be assured to the Hapsburgs,
unless the fortune OF war materially
changes.
Germany accordingly plans to ask Aus
tria to cede the Polish districts of Galicia
10 the new Polish state; she means to take
the Polish districts of Russia. So far the
problem is simple. But what is she going
to do with her own Poles? No one knows,
and no answer to the question is at pres
ont possible But it is safe TO forecast
that victorious Germany will not con-
sent to restore, even to protected Poland,
the Netze district or any considerable por-
ton of Posen or Silesia.
Yet the creation of this Polish kingdom
will bring its own perils. The real safety
for Prussia has lain heretofore in the fact
that both her neighbors, who shared IN the
work of destroying Poland, have had the
same reasons as she has had for laborng
To prevent the Poles from realizing their
aspirations. Russian, Prussian and Aus
trian armies have more than once CO.
operated to subdue Polish instructions,
and the three robber states have been
united by a common self-interest IN
thwarting Polish patriotism.
But once Russia and Austria have lost
their Polish provinces neither will be con-
cerned to help Germany retain hers. Rus
STA most certainly will henceforth be pre-
rared TO take advantage Of any Polish
classification to intervene, either TO replace
Germany as the protector of Poland or
else TO complete the work of Polish liberia
ton by freeing the Prussian Poles and
rounding out the Polish kingdom by add
ing TO il the 100000 Of Germans in the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20

Southern Slavs of the Adriatic, the East
ern Slavs of Bohemia and the Carpathlan
regions of Hungary Pan-Slavism is on the
march and despite all the talk about Brit
ish rivalry and French desire for revenge,
every German knows that the real issue
Of the war lies between the Slav and the
Teuton. The world is at war because Rus
STA insisted upon her right to uphold the
Serbian Slav against the Austrian Ger
ran and the Hungarian Magyar.
If Germany can now detach the Poles
from the Slavonic block, if Austria can
add the Serb to her other Southern Slavs
and bind them to the Hapsburg throne, as
the Poles are to be bound to the Hohen-
zollern car and the Bulgarians are already
united to the Central Powers. then Pan
Slavism will cease TO be a potent force and
p permanent menace to the Teutons. Be-
tween the Germans and the main mass Of
the Slavs will lie the Polish state, bound
to the German Empire by bonds of eco
nomic and political character On her
oren frontier Germany will have buffer
state, whose armies will be at her service.
Such is the German conception; it has
its strong points; it has its obvious perils.
German efforts in Alsace-Lorraine have
not demonstrated that the German pos
sesses any great genius for dealing with
subject races the Poles of Posen have
rever borne willing testimony on behalf
of their Prussian masters. In raising up
a semi-independent Poland Germany may
raise up a ward whose own ambitions a
few years hence will imperil German
unity. But this risk the Germans seem
prepared to take. They see the Russian
menace in the near future and they are
content to believe that they will be able
to transform Poland into useful and
obedient servant.