The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-02-04


When Miss Cecilia Cary come to this
western country from back east to
teach music she was regarded as
rank outsider.
Old man Seeberger, whose word amt
worth 10 cents, but whose signature
Is worth all Of $4,000, said the
first Sunday she sung before preachin'
that when she got up on them high
notes she put him in mind of a bronc
when it's been throwed and gifts to
gaspin' and wheezin' as the rope is
frightened.
But old man Seeberger's opinion was
not shared by all the male population
Of CANADIANS, for them boys shore
swarmed, and, rattle the palmer and
boiler her vocal singin' as she would.
she couldn't git 'em to settle.
She went to boardin' with the Wild
ow Hughes when she first come Bill
Hughes was gittin' up some horses one
day and was dom fast piece Of ridin'
when his mount turned over with him.
Gopher hole. you know, Bill under the
whole works.
Never spoke afterward, and in two
hours his pretty young wife was known
as the Widow Hughes, and in spite Of
much persistent courtin' she's known
as that yet.
1t looked once like her and Red Mar
tin was goin' to make a hitch up Of 1t,
but that seemed to fizzle out, and he
was one Of the leaders with Miss Cary
when she first come. for Red Is the
leadin' kind.
He done in this case same as he had
with several women before-hit the
trail to Arizona with herd, right
when he seemed to have a walkOver,
and Hick Fuller and Sam Hartman took
his place so complete he never was
missed.
Now, maybe you've noticed how a
woman does about a solitary diamond
ring. If her folks give it to her or she
buys 1t herself she'll always try to let
on like It come from her beau.
If Teller gives It to her she'll init
mate that it's present from her pa.
So nobody knew where nor just when
\ very little was said or thought about
VT, as Bill had a accident policy, until
Ne raised a great hue and cry about 1t
VI stole.
hRnces are few for robbery here,
Everybody knows everybody else
Acre amt no suspicious charac-
= such as crooks, hoboes, promoters
d the like, so It shore looked plumb
odd when Miss Cecilia Cary moved
/over to the Citizens hotel to board and
simultaneous begun to wear a dia-
mond the size as the one the widow
Hughes had lost, only in a woman's
ring instead Of a heavy settin' like
Minnie Hughes had wore.
This would not have looked so bad
10y itself. but Adolph Warner, who was
the postmaster and express agent,
knew that Miss Cecilia had sent Off a
small registered package one day just
before she changed her boardin' place.
He said he remembered 1t particular,
because while she was waitin' for her
receipt at the postoffice window Red
Martin got up from of the cracker box
he was settin' on back by the stove and
told her II she was ready to go he
would walk home with her, as he was
leavin' as soon as the rest of the outfit
come by.
Adolph said she told Red all right
and that she was goin' to be on the
move that day too.
Red says, where to?"
And she tells him the Citizens hotel,
and he says, "Good," and then Adolph
handed the receipt to her. and they
walked out together.
Some days later she gifts q express
package about the size of the one she
sent off by mail, and then she comes
out in that diamond ring.
Well. Minnie Hughes never accused
nobody, but she limited powerful. and
folks come to cool of on Miss Cecilia.
She never seemed to notice it. but
Just played her hand with Sam and
Hick, who stood by her manful and
knocked the whey out Of Teller or
two apiece who merely related the
facts in the case concernin' Minnie
Hughes ring.
There was some talk Of takin' pupils
away from Miss Cecilia, but as her pa
irons had paid six months In advance
I'm order to git her to come they didn't
quite give way to their feelin's to that
extent
The kids she gives lessons to all was
crazy about her anyhow. and they was
all learnin' fast
In the store one day the little Har-
man girl, Sans sister, was holdin' her
teachers hand, and she says. Miss
Cary, where did that pretty ring come
from?'
Miss Cary looked around like she was
SEEM who'd heard, and her face got
awful red.
81 haven't got any change with me"
she says to the Hartman muchacha,
.but let's see If my credit is good for n
dimes worth Of peanut candy and n
dozen apples"
And she shuts the kids mouth by
stuffin' It full of trash to eat
Things rocked along until Christmas,
with more talk of that ring than any
thing else, and then folks begun to try