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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-02-02
Notice of Proposed Closing of
Street,

TO All Whom 1t May Concern:-
Take notice, that pursuant to a reso-
luton certified under my hand and the
seal Of the City of Owosso, the Conf
mission of the said city will meet up
on Monday the Goth dav of January
A. ID. 1917, at 1880 O'Clock in the
afternoon of said day for the purpose
of hearing objections to the proposed
discontinuancc, vacation and abolish
ing of Second Street form the south
side of Oliver Street south to the Shi-
awassee river in the City of
Owosso. Objections may be filed in
my Office in writing by any person
interested up until the day and hour
above mentioned. The annexed resO-
luton was passed by the Commission
of said City on the end day of Jan larry.
A. D. 1917, and in pursuance of
said resolution this notice is given:
Resolution No. 99i.
Resolved, BY the Commission of the City
of OwossO, that Ii Is hereby deemed adj
visable to vacate, discontinue and abolish
the following parts and portions of a GER
tain street described as follows: Second
south side of Oliver street south to the
Shiawassee river. BE It further
Resolved, That this Commission appoint
Monday, the Goth day of January, A ID.
1917, at 80 o'clock in the afternoon of
said date as the time when this Commits
sion will meet at the Office of the City
Clerk of said City, and hear objections to
the vacating, disseminating and abolishing
of said street.
The City Clery Is hereby directed to give
notice according to the terms of the Char
ter of the City Of Owosso of such meeting
which said notice shall be published once
week for not less than two weeks before
the time appointed for such meeting in one
gof the newspapers circulated and published
In the City of Owosso.
Dated January 18th, 1917.
ARTHUR III. DUMOND,
City Clerk.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-02-02
A Mild Threat

The following story is told of the late
DR.. Timothy Dwight. In his early
days, when he was tutor in charge
Of student discipline at Yale-a sort of
proctor, apparently-he was called out
Of his room by some midnight escapade.
He was obliged as a matter of duty
to pursue the disturbers, and with his
long legs he soon found himself gain
ing rapidly upon them. Thereupon a
solemn voice rang out suddenly into
the night:
Gentlemen, If you don't run little
faster shall be obliged to overtake
YOU"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-02-02
PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT.
Open the Windows.

+ Statistics show that the death
+ rate for pneumonia. bronchitis,
+ colds and grip is highest in
+ January, February and March.
= These are the window shut
+ months. The rate is lowest in
= July. August and September,
+ when the windows are wide
4 open. The rate rises again in
+ October, November and Deem
= Der, when the windows are clos
+ ing. 1t does not drop again un-
+ til April, May and June, when
+ the windows are again opening.
= The death rate for the four
+ diseases in winter cannot he re-
i duced to that prevailing In sum-
+ mer, but 1t can be materially
4 lessened by more general use
4 of fresh air.
+ No air that ever blew out Of
= doors is as dangerous or so poi
= sonous as that inside n bedroom 4
= with tightly closed windows.
= Night air Is just as pure and :
= wholesome as day air. Fogs and
= rains are only injurious in so far I
= as they brighten you into clos
= ing your windows.
= Open the windows and lower :
= the death rate.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-02-02
Huntinu a Penny,

More than year ago the balance in
the Bank Of England showed the loss
Of a penny. The working force was
told to find it and has been working
since without success. Governments
are exact in their small financial deal
ings, and even in this country a post
master has received a check for a cent.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-02-02
NOTICE OF ROAD LETTING
Mat riot M

Dlstrct NO. III.
Open bids will be received until two o'cl ok
p. m, beginning at nine o'clock a. m, on
February Bird, A. d. 1917, by the Shiawassee
at the Supervisors room in the court
house in the City OF Corunna, Shiawas
see County, Michigan, for the construction
Of three and one-half miles of nine foot
gravel road, Class Il, which will be nine
feet wide and located as follows: Com
mencing on the State road on the quarter
line between sections 2S and 33, New Haven
Township, thence east between sections %
and 81, % and a. 26 and 49, % and &c
to town line between New Haven and Haz-
elton Townships.
The road will be built under the drec-
ton of the Board of County Road Commits
sioners Of Shiawassee County, funds be-
ing secured by the sale Of bonds based on
and on the township of New Haven and on
the County Of Shiawassee at large
Bids will be received In d lump sum for
the complete road (but price for the separ-
ate sections Of the construction must be
givenl or separately for grading, culverts
the plans and specifications.
Plans and specifications and proposal
blanks may be examined at the Office of
tho County Clerk at COrunna, Michigan.
said plans and specifications may be re-
moved from the County Clerks Office by
prospective bidders.
a certified check of $4,000 Is required
with each accepted bid until the bond of
the contractor Is filed and accepted.
The right is reserved to reject any or all
bids.
Dated January 10, 1917.
ROY C: BAILEY,
AMOS PARMENTER,
Board Of County Road Commissioners,
Shiawassee County.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-02-02
Poor Business.

"The milliner, as usual, is six weeks
behind with my hat"
"Serves you right" growled her hus-
band, the eminent magnate. "You
women will deliberately place a big
construction order without a sign of
penalty clause"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-02-02
Very Likely.

Saturn has eight moons"
81 wonder if moon songs are eight
times as numerous with them as with
us."-Louisville Courier-J ournal.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-02-02
Keeps IL There.

He-You're always wanting money!
My hands in my pocket all the time.
She--Yes, and 1t never comes out.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-28
MILLIONS. \ TAX. !.
g. LEV|ES FOR. ROADS
LARGEST SUM IN STATES HIS
TORY AVAILABLE FOR HIGH
WAYS THIS YEAR..
TOTAL is NEARLY 100000
Local Assessments to Increase Esti-
mate Of $s,85o,o0o Compiled in
Auditors Office-Further High
Records Assured,

ST. Paul. -, Taxes of more than
$S,850,000 for good roads and bridges
In the current levy will provide Min.
nesota with the largest sum in it's his,
tory for that purpose. The last tax
levy for road and bridges was $685..
100. The totals are from an abstract
OF county tax lists, as compiled by
NJ. J. Desmond, chief clerk in the of.
flee of State Auditor Preus.
The foregoing figures are exclusive
OF local paving assessments, automo.
bile license revenue and other like
revenue which, it is estimated, will
increase the total to be paid this
year by Minnesota taxpayers for road
and bridge purposes to more than
$10,000,000. Also, another new high
record is assured next year when the
tax levy proceeds will be increased
and operation of the new automobile
license law placing a fee of IS on
every machine will add materially to
the good roads funds.
The current tax levy for good roads
includes the amounts to be raised for
the state, county, city and town and
township roads and bridge funds.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-28
CROP IMPROVEMENT '> T.. ..-z ~.
:-:> T Il AIM OF CONVENTION
. :
Minnesota Society Holds Thirteenth
Annual Meeting at Fairmont-..7@
ID" 7 8 State Officials Present.

Fairmo1t. - Minnesota's Crop I'm.
provement association dedicated the
opening day of the thirteenth annual
convention, which came to climax
here with an address on Community
Development" by Judge Frank S. Viii.
son of Saltwater, to educational rath-
er than to crop interests.
Dean l.. D. Coffman and George w.
Howard Of the University of Minne.
sofa sounded the basis for the begin.
ming of all improvements in any state,
the education Of the youth and his
part in bringing about beneficial
changes in Minnesota.
Judge Wilson represented the farm
er and business man as big brothers
in the community, cooperating for a
common good, and aiding in develop,
ment of their communities. He ap-
peared on the program instead of
Governor Burnquist, who was unable
to be present because of official du.
ties.
Improvement is impossible in a
rural district if the right attitude be,
tween the farmer and storekeeper is
lacking" Judge Wilson declared.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-28
STATE PRINTER RECEIVERS
Joe Mannix Wins Long Fiqht-Re.
turns to Office at Capitol.

Minneapolis. - Joseph T. Mannix,
state expert printer, who has been
confined in the Eitel hospital, Minne-
apolis, for the past three months, has
sufficiently recovered to be able to
resume his duties at the State Capitol
He has been a sufferer from PERM
cious anaemia.
"Joe" Mannix, as he is known
throughout Minnesota and the North
west, learned the printers trade In
New York state. He came to Mime
sofa in the eighties and for twenty
years was engaged in reportorial and
other capacities on Twin City dailies.
He served as a state representative
during the 1905 legislative session and
in 1907 was chosen state expert print
er, which position he has held con-
tinuously up to the present time.
Mr.. Mannix has hosts of friends
among the state officials and the
newspaper fraternity, as we'll as 9TH
ers who will be glad to know Of his
recovery.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-28
FINLAND.

Since January thousands of Films
have been sent away from their homes,
They are herded together at railway
stations, crowded into trains and
Whisked off into the Russian interior,
From the time they pass out of Fin.
land their whereabouts Is entirely
mysterious. It is wholly comparable
to German deportations from Belgium,
The anguish in Finland is extreme,
The deportations are directly opposed
to promises Russia has made. Finland
nominally is autonomous. It's people
are not supposed to be subject to the
CONSUMPTION laws of Russia.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-28
MOWER TO BUILD BRIDGES
To Spend 100000 on 1902 Structures
This Year,

Austin.-Mowe county is entering
on one of the biggest bodybuilding
projects ever taken by any one coun-
ty in the West, according to word re-
ceived by the State Highway commits
sion, and will spend 100000 on 102
new bridges. All the old and worm
out wooden structures which are a
danger to traffic and which cost large
sums for repairs and when washed
out in the spring, will be replaced by
reinforced concrete bridges. A bond
issue of $175,000 was voted recently
in a close county election, committing
the county to the project.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-28
GREAT ROAD BUILDING ERA
State Engineer Outlines Minnesota's
1917 Program.

Minneapolis. - With federal state
and county officials laying out pro-
grams of road building, Minnesota has
in prospect the biggest highway de-
velopment in it's history, George W.
Cooley, state engineer and secretary
Of the State Highway commission,
says. The program includes starting
the work for which the government
has allotted Minnesota $2,135,910 to
be spent in five years; county work
near Shakopee and use of big state
appropriation, much of which will go
into the St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Duluth highway.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-28

4 Thirty thousand regular +, ana N;ltion;li
Guard troops stationed at Ell faso,
Tex, have been quarantined in their
camps there because of an epidemic of
pneumonia among the troops r.
Governor Whitman directed the
state athletic commission at Albany,
N. T., to- prohibit the boxing bout at
New York between Les Darcy and
Jack Dillon, on the ground that Darcy
is a Stacker"
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-28
SCHOOLS TO RECEIVE
$2.10 FOR EACH PUPIL
semi-Annual Apportionment Of 1901,
427 Of Current Funds Announced
Based on Attendance.

st. Paul. - Minnesota schools will
receive $2.10 for each pupil, the same
as last year, under the March semi
annual apportionment of $9O1,427.1O
of current school funds, announced
by c. G. Schulz, state superintendent
Of education. The fund represents the
proceeds of the state one mill tax and
the income on permanent school
funds. Schools conducted for six
months minimum are given the al
lowance for every pupil in attendance
forty days or longer
The current apportionment is based
on total attendance of 429,251 pu-
pills.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-28
Indians Wed Following Warning.

Deer River. - This village was Wis
tied by large delegation of young
Chippewa Indian couples from the
Bowstring country, who came here to
be married by Justice Cah1ll in &C.
cordance with the ruling that he would
give them a week in which to get
married, following wholesale arrests
made by Sheriff Gunderson of Itasca
county on complaint of Agent Warren
at Bena that the young male and f.
male Indians were living togstbs,
without being married, i,
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-28
Foreign

The following official announcement
was made at London: "a prisoner
charged with espionage was tried by
the general court-martial III London in
February and was found guilty and
sentence of death was passed. The
finding was confirmed, but the SEN
tence was committed to penal servi-
tude for life"
The Swedish ministry resigned, &C.
cording to dispatch to London from
Stockholm. At the request of King
Gustave, however, the ministers con-
scented to remain in Office in the hope
Of composing the crisis.
President Menocal of Cuba sent
message to congress at Havana re-
questing authority to suspend the con-
stitutional guarantee and asking for
appropriations necessary to Quell the
rebellion. The bill was passed by con-
gress after tWo-hour session.
4
Immediate suspension Of hOstilities
by the Cuban revolutionists in the
province of Oriente, to be effected by
proclamation signed by representa-
tives of the Liberal party and the COM
mander of the American naval squad
ron at Santiago, and followed by an
armistice throughout the entire repub-
lie, is forecast in cablegrams received
at New York.
Car Ferdinand of Bulgaria is dan
gerously i'll at an Austrian health re-
sort, according to advices received at
Geneva from Rome
The German emperor is suffering
from severe chill, says a dispatch
from Berlin. It is stated that the en-
peror is compelled to remain indoors.
but receives the ministers and commu-
nicates daily with headquarters.
=
The sale of all spirits and other alco-
holic liquors has been prohibited in
Denmark, says a dispatch to London.
The order is temporary and calls for
returns to be made on all stocks of
spirits in the country
Z
Hoyt Thayer, American school-tea CHI
er, convicted by Japanese prelimi-
nary court at Tokyo of trespassing on
a fortified place, was released on bond
pending retrial later by higher
court. He was arrested following the
destruction by an explosion of the
Japanese warship Tsukuba.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-28
European War News

German hydroplanes dropped p
bombs on merchant vessels anchoring
in the Downs and on the railroad at
Ramsgate March 1, it was officially
announced at Berlin
One of Germany's newest Zeppelins
blew up while making trial trip over
Belgium, and ten Of its crew we're
burned alive, says a London dispatch.
Two Belgians, who witnessed the dis
aster, were arrested by the Germans.
An armed transport steamer Of 3d.
1874 tons, with about 500 colonial
troops, artillery and horses on board,
was sunk by a German submarine in
the Mediterranean on February "a, the
admiralty announced at Berlin. Some
of the troops on board were lost.
A British destroyer was sunk with
all hands in the North sea, the British
admiralty announced at London. It is
believed she struck mine, the an
nOuncement states.
Charging five times, the Russians at
tempted to recapture heights taken by
the Germans north of the Valputno
road on the northern Roumanian front,
but were repulsed With considerable
losses, says the Berlin war Office.
What may be termed the first stage
of the German retirement plan on the
Arras- Somme sector seems to have
been about completed, says a dispatch
from London, and the Germans are
making definite stand. Their line
runs from Essarts through Achiet-Le-
Petit to about 1000 yards southeast of
Bapaume.
Germany has fleet of 100 battle
ship submarines, heavily armed and
capable of bombarding seacoast cities
and Notifications. It is said that the
disclosure was made by Admiral De-
gouy Of the French navy at Paris.
A German air raid was made on the
seaside resort of Broadstairs on the
Kentish coast, the London war office
announced.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-28

The German minister TO Sweden mas
informed the Swedish foreign minister
that the Swedish steamer Edda was
sunk as a result Of a mistake on the
part Of submarine commander and
that the German government regrets
the occurrence and is prepared to pay
indemnity. The Edda was torpedoed
January 20 while on her way to Swe-
den with coal.
The export to the United States of
cellulose or technical wood pulp, has
been prohibited by the Swedish gov
eminent unless the American importer
signs an affidavit declaring that the
wood pulp will be used exclusively for
manufacturing and is not intended for
re-export. The importer must further
declare that he will impose the same
restrictions upon buyers of the raw
material. The affidavit must be fled
directly with the Swedish government
or with the Swedish consular official;
It Is said that this is a new phase of
sSWeden's retaliation against the Britt
ish blockade.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-28
FLOOD MENACE IS SERIOUS
Sudden Thaw May Cause High Water
Engineer States.

st. Paul.-Minnesota this spring is
threatened with flood conditions more
serious than ever experienced and the
longer winter holds on and the spring
breakup is delayed, the greater the
danger, E. V. Willard, assistant state
drainage engineer says. If the break
up comes quickly, dissolving the snow
blanket in a week or 10 days, moth
Ing can prevent serious conditions, es-
pecially in the southern and southwest
ern part Of the state, Mr.. Willard as
serted.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-28
Students May Get Commissions

Minneapolis. - Announcement in
Chicago that students attending the
Universities Of Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Illinois and several other institutions
will be offered commissions as second
l1eutenants in the United States Ma
rlne corps, has been confirmed by
Major c. w. Moses, commandant. The
Chicago statement said that the stu
dent applicants may receive their
commissions about July and then en-
ter q marine corps officers training
school for instruction. They will ra,
eeiya :ull pay.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-28
Lambert RESIGNS as Colonel.

st. Paul. - After 81 years of SER
Vice in the Minnesota National Guard,
Col. George c. Lander, St. Paul, has
announced. his resignation. He was
mustered out of federal service last
July, following a decision by federal
medical officers, and has nominally
remained in state service since.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-28
Washington

The federal trade commission at
Washington accepted a proposal by
newsprint paper manufacturers that it
fix a price for their product, and
named $3.50 per 100 pounds as a rea-
sonable charge. Higher prices were
set for paper in less than carload lots
and for sheet paper.
Provision for $500, 900 for the federal
trade commissions investigation of the
food crisis was stricken from the sun
dry civil bill by the senate appropri-
ations committee at Washington. AS
ordered reported the bill carries $139,
O2S,5l3.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-28
Happenings
of heW;orld
1ersely Told
u. S.-Te1f0r1ic Break

With the arrest at Hoboken, N. J.,
of Fritz Kolb, German -reservist, the
authorities expressed the belief that
they had frustrated well-developed
plot to aid Germany by blowing up mu-
milton plants in this country engaged
in turning out contracts for the en-
tente allies.
That the Zimmerman letter prOpOs-
Ing that Mexico and Japan make war
on the U. S. was intercepted on it's way
to Mexico by U. S. agents at San An
tonic was limited by Mexican in New
York
Prior to the sailing from Halifax, N.
S., of the steamship Frederik VIII,
with Count Won Bernstorff and his
party on board, $4,000 in gold was
taken from the Countess Manfred Ma
tuschka. Gold is contraband.
Paul Dreher, a German subject,
known as an intimate friend of Jose
Miguel Gomez, was arrested at Ha-
vana on federal order and was held
without bail.
New York manufacturers and mer-
chants are rushing to supply the gov
eminent with war equipment. They
are working under a committee of the
chamber of commerce of the United
States, headed in that city by Edward
D. Page.
The news of the German intrigue in
Mexico caused a sensation at The
Hague. It is regarded as a stroke Of
great good fortune for the cause of the
entente and as strengthening the hands
of Wilson.
a sensation has been caused in Lon
don by the news that the American
Eonsular agent at Malmoe, Sweden,
Joseph Westenberg, has been fined
$4,000 for exporting forbidden goods
to Germany. Suit was brought by the
Forenade Dampskible Selskab of Co.
penhagen.
COaStWiSc steamers of the Mallory
and Southern Pacific lines are pre-
pared to be converted into scout cruis-
ers at short notice, it was learned at
Houston, Tex. The Mallory liner
Concho has just been measured by the
government to carry large caliber
guns.
The American hospital unit from
of Ell Paso, Prick Of New York and
hamburg, including Doctors Sauer,
Nurses Bertha Becht, Mary Cannard
and Aida Meyer are on their way
home, says Copenhagen dispatch.
The American freighter Rochester
has arrived at Bordeaux. The Roches-
ter and the Orleans were the first
American vessels to leave the United
States for Europe after the breach of
diplomatic relations with Germany.