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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-04-20
La Won ]. Fatal, Oph. D.
Eyesisht Specialist and
Optometerist
Order For Appearance.
Second Floor-II2 S. Washington ST

State OF Michigan, the 35th Judicial Circuit
In Chancery.
County OF Shiawassee, in the City OF Corunna
on the 10th day OF January, 1917.
Herman J. Crate, and
Carrie l.. Crate.
plaintiffs
VS.
Mosey Stoddard, ct al,
nAln
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-04-20

Humphreys Homeo. Medicine Company,
l56 William Street. New York.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10
By A. EDWIN LONG.

He tipped a penny to decide
whether to go to Chicago or come to
Omaha. That is how Frank Ken
nedy, editor and publisher of the
Western Laborer, came to Omaha.
Heads, Omaha; tails, Chicago" he
said as he tossed one of his last pen
nies on a stone table in printing
office in Burlington, la.
Heads" he said, as he picked up
the penny after it had stopped spin
ming. And so Omaha acquired Frank
Kennedy.
As a boy, Kennedy was more ambi-
tious to be base ball player than an
editor. The Kennedy nine was ia
nous in Burlington. There were nine
boys in the family and all were bali
players. They organized their own
team, beat all the amateur teams in
the municipality, and even plotted
and schemed for a game with the
league team, but couldn't get it.
There were John, and Jim, and
Frank, and George, and Bart-but no
matter what their names were-the
nine was full from shortstop to catch
er behind the bat.
Frank dug his toes into the pitch
er's box and hurled at the bat for
some years, until his brother John re-
turned from Chicago, where he had
worked and played ball short time.
Then Franks pitching days ended,
except that he was pitched bodily out
of the box when John took charge.
John had learned to pitch a curve in
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10

SOCIAL CASTE IN TIE; EARLY DAYS
evening function to one OF the other
leaders.
"Oh, how lovely" the other would
reply. "Our sow had litter OF ten
week ago"
Sometimes this would occasion So
cial jealousies just as they are caused
today from other causes. But not
often.
This devotion OF the inhabitants to
agriculture gave rise to a demand for
county fair. So they organized one
in 1858.
1t was a great success. A man by
the name OF Griffin exhibited thirty
different varieties of vegetables. jesse
Lowe had some fine watermelons on
view.
J.. Tousley showed some fine hogs
and gained quite a social prestige in
the community by carrying off the
first prize Of S.. which, while small
sum in our eyes, carried with it an
honor not to be sneered at.
They had numerous side shows at
the fair. There was the Wild Man
of Borneo, who, even at that day, had
risked the dangers and hardships Of
the frontier in order to gladden. the
hardy pioneers with the wonders OF
seeing him.
There was also two-headed cali,
which was a product of farm near
Omaha. As there was no advantage
in having two heads on a calf, except
as curiosity, this breed was never
developed.
The bearded woman was also on
view at the small price of 10 cents,
with S cents for children under 7
years of age. The merry-go-round
and moving pictures completed the
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10
Omaha's ThorougJwes Farnam Street
Port III The Chapter from Ed Mooy Recent Book

hands a number of times since The
build;ng was erected ali Of which now
belong TO w Farnam smith Thev
are an evesore and sbould he renjaced
hv more substantial ones on nrpnertu
as yaIuable as tb;s The lid 9p Patter,
sou hiocL on the southeast corner
az Seventeentb street a three.storv
brick i another eyesore wb;cb | an,
;nforn,sd H. tbe recent o,vner Ca roe
a Al Insin, | I @ soon 10 he reni,ced 5v
q a s,,hstsnt;,i ; store tore and of;ce % hm;ld;rs
" 0n ,ho so,,Sw.st % 81 corner ] nf SIS
s,tearth street stands tha Do,aI,o
cn,n,v cour, house @ ,n,sn;seent
Svestorv Z % stone hm;ld;,a ,nh;sh occn
Mes ouehsif T hlocL IN sS;dth n and IINu one
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10

w. Scott, the photographer, not
only shoots with camera, but he
shoots like Daniel Boone with
rife. Rifle shooting is his hobby. No,
he belongs to no rifle or gun club. He
takes no part in state shoots, and
never goes trap shooting with the
crowd. If he did he would show his
companions something they are not
looking for. But quietly he slips away
once or twice week, armed with his
beautiful little hammerless rifle of
blue steel, and with whole knapsack
full Of cartridges. Into the hills about
Florence or into the wilds of Childs
Point he wanders, and then the sharp
crack, crack of the rife begins. He
tosses up clods of dirt as large as
walnuts and breaks them in midair,
one after the other, in a marvellous
succession of hits. He has been
known to break thirty of these little
flying marks in succession. If he
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10
Gro1hss History of0maha
All the truth and untruth that's fit to know

line of amusements at the county fair.
One great feature OF this fair, which
we must not omit from our history,
was the horse race in which promi-
nent society women OF Omaha were
the riders of the steeds
Miss Augusta Estabrook, Mrs. Boyd
and Mrs, Z. V. Smith were the
equestriennes in this race. The course
was but 200 feet square 600 ft.),
which made it all the more dangerous
for the fair ones, especially as they
rode sidesaddles and not in the astride
fashion, which in these times has
come to be considered to be all right
for ladies.
Miss Estabrook rode little pony
and Mrs. Smith a white pony. The
records do not state what kind OF
steed Mrs. Boyd rode. But she is
mentioned because she fell from her
flying steed near the end of the race,
which was a cause for regret by all,
though it resulted, fortunately, in no
injury to Mrs. Boyd.
The prize, a beautiful side saddle,
was awarded to Miss Estabrook, who
proved herself cool little rider even
when flying along at full speed on her
feet steed.
The county fair, starting in small
beginnings, led up finally to the great
Transmississippi exposition at Oma-
ha in 1893, which brought people from
all over the world and was certainly
grand affair, well worth the so cents
admission charged. Children were ad-
mitted for rs cents and ministers free
The present historian (then boy),
visited the exposition frequently. i'm
proving his mind and incidentally
gaining considerable skill in climbing
high-board fences. Lack of money
could not keep him from enjoyment Of
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10

Chicago, and he came back to show
Burlington touch of high altitude in
base ball circles.
John Kennedy still bears the reputa-
tion of having brought the first curve
ball to Burlington. He also enjoys
the distinction OF having curved his
brother Frank out of the box by the
neck.
AS youth Frank was left at home
to guard his younger brother George.
George was but years old, and want
ed to go swimming in the Mississippi
river
To be put in girls clothing was the
worst punishments of the age in Bur-
lington among the boys, so big
brother Frank put a girls dress on
George. He felt sure George would
not have the heart to go upon the
street or to the river under the deep
disgrace OF wearing a girls dress. But
young George was determined. He
tried repeatedly to get away, dress
and all.
Frank cut down the clothes line and
securely lashed his brother, dress and
all, to the gate post. There, | guess
you won't 60 swimming today" exult-
ed Frank, and he went away to play
ball in the alley.
When he looked at the gate post
again, George was gone. The clothes
line lay in tangled mass at the foot
of the post,
Frank ran to the river, found the
kid brother in the dress, threw him
into the river in his rage, apd then
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10
(Continued)


1t was the first building OF that
magnitude erected west of Chicago.
Mr.. White who was murdered by
Thaw in New York some years
ago, drew the plans of the building.
This property in 1912 was purchased
by the Omaha National bank, to
which 1t moved that year, leaving
Joseph Millard, its president in his
declining years to do business upon
the same lot upon which he lived
while raising his family from the early
COS to 1887.
On the southwest corner of Six
teenth street in 1881 stood a fire en-
CINE house, the lot being owned by
the city Of Omaha, which in 1884
sold it to the Omaha Board of Trade
for $l2,000--I was present at the time
the deed was signed and delivered
by Acting Mayor Murphy to Mr..
Ames, member of the board. This
was in the mayors Office about S
p. m. of the day on which it was
signed In 1885 the Board Of Trade
erected on the lotla six-story brick,
part Of which was for Offices, the main
floor being used as grain exchange.
The city council occupied part of the
second floor from 1888 to 1891. 1t
was also the home of the Commercial
club for years. The building was
destroyed by fire on February 10,
1915, and the property sold to the
First National bank, which intends
erecting on the lot sixteen-story
frcproof bank, office and store build
ing, which is to be finished by 1917.
tNow erected and oecupied) The one
story stores west of this were erected
in 1888. This property has changed
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10

from this building, the plant being
in the basement. West OF it, on the
northeast corner, is the city hall, a
six-story stone building, erected in
1890 during the administration of
Mayor Gushing at cost OF $250,000, a
monument to the memory of that ad-
ministration. Its original foundation,
which cost $4,000, was laid by Bren-
nan & Whelan. On my entrance into
theecity council i'll 1890 caused an
investigation to be made as to the
durability and strength OF this work
and a committee consisting of Dan
Wheeler, w. G. Shriver and myself
was appointed and reported its de-
fccts and recommended it being torn
down, Our report was accepted and
the present foundation was put in its
place The building, while in good
condition, is sadly in need of up-to-
date remodeling, In 1880 w. A. Pax
ton resided on that lot.
On the northwest corner now
stands the Dayidge block, two-story
brick used for stores and a rooming
house. In 1880 7. w. T. Richards,
an attorney and owner OF the Omaha
foundry and machine shop--now the
Paxton & Vierling iron works
lived there, He was one of the suf-
ferers from the grading of this street,
he being left some thirty feet on a
high embankment.
On the southwest corner of Sew
enteenth street lived for years Oma-
has first police judge, Judge Porter,
His son-in-law, Ed Haney, owned and
occupied the house from 1881 to 1906,
when 1t was sold to F. d. Wear, who
erected on it the present three-story
brick Tor store and office purposes. 1t
is known as the Wead building.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10
IntenSltg

Work rooms usually occupy costly
space. Every cubic foot is a golden
vacuum-as it were. How much
product per cubic foot comes from
each of your departments?
Intensihcation is the order of the
day. To obtain a greater product per
man, per minute, per foot. These
comprise true units of measurement.
We are speaking of space. All men
prefer roomy quarters. But roomy
quarters are economically wasteful.
Experience and analysis have taught
that compact force, working at close
quarters, with no feet to spare, yields
the maximum of effect.
Steps waste time and effort. Men
stimulate each other The presence
of others to the right and left, before
and behind, accelerates production.
This is psychological truth which
may be turned TO account. Do not
spread your working forces through
out vast spaces, but harness them
comfortably together in close work.
ing contact.
It's team play that counts and team
play based on this truth.-News OF
the Woods,
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10
had swim in and him once up

had to swim in and rescue him to
avoid funeral.
"He can't do it today" says George,
who is now big athletic fellow en-
ployed in the county judges Office in
the Douglas county court house.
Very early Frank learned the print
ing trade in Burlington. When the
secretary of the union absconded with
funds, the union wanted to- imprison
him, and Kennedy alone stood out
for giving the fellow chance to pay
back the money. For this stand he
was looked down upon and repeatedly
refused jobs in the printing shops.
In the Burlington Hawkeye office,
just after he had again been refused a
job, he drew cent from his pocket,
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10

tossed it once, picked it up, and tool
the train for Omaha.
Thirty years ago last February h
arrived. He worked in the newspape
Offices for eight years and bought til,
Western Laborer.
Last week, June l, he celebrated hi.
twenty-second year as editor and pub
Usher of the Western Laborer. He
has been active in the affairs of Oma-
ha for many years, is now a member
of the Welfare board, has been in the
thick of many strike fights for years,
and still has regiment of friends OIL
both sides of all strike controversies.
Next in This series-"How Omaha Got j.
MichaeIseno
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10

fant delight to see the performance
and an educational subject was being
shown on the screen, and the follow
ing intelligent conversation was ovei
heard:
Mother-Look, Harold, see the bi.
turtle with his armored hide.
Little Harold-Oh, isn't he whol
per; an what is that funny lookint
animal?
M.-That, dear, is an ostrich.
L. H.-Gee, look at the periscop.
he's got.
Sam Goldberg has a brother going
to school in the east and in letter
short time ago asked him if he was
learning much. He just received an
answer from said young brother and
this is it:
Not so very much. Today we had
two reels in history, a travelogue in
geography and a split reeler nature
study. Teacher said she was going
to put on serial on physical culture
next week"
Now Sam wonders il he is spending
all his time in deep study.
Tailor Beck has taken unto himself
a new gas bus" After purchasing
book called "How to Run an Automo-
bile fors Fifteen Cents" and then
studying said book diligently for
weeks, he finally admitted to himself
that he new all the different "holts"
by their first name Then he took the
"critter" out before host OF ad-
mirers and jumped in the saddle for
trial spin. After several unsuccess-
full starts he complained the engine
was cold. One of the crowd sug-
gested that he make it feece-lined
vest, but Beck said he wasn't that kind
of tailor. From later reports he is
even able to Beck" his car.
One of the few homes at Carter
Lake club last Tuesday morning
that didn't have water either in 'em or
under 'em was William Holzman's,
and he hadn't moved down yet Oh
well, such is life.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10
By A. r. GROH. q.
CHAPTER XVIII-County Fairs.

Vegetables, hogs and other prod
ucts of the soil began TO flourish in
Omaha at an early day. Many of the
first families Of the city kept pen
Of pigs in the back yard and a IA
vorite topic of conversation at some
of the social affairs of the city was
the health and welfare Of the family
pigs. That was before the days when
a false modesty had crept into our
life.
Our SOW has litter of nine pigs"
the society leader would say at some
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10

like the stories of Harold McGrath
and Peter B. Kyne and E. P. Open
helm. For twelve years l have been
doing office work for the army, and
have acquired the habit of resorting
to a novel whenever time permits.
which is not for long during these
days"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10

of whether it is by the ocean side, in
the fastness of the Rocky mountains,
along the trout streams, or on the
shores OF some lake, you ask Roach
about it and he will tell you just what
you will see, what you will find when
ycu get there and what the cost of the
outing will be. He has made study
of the west and on anything pertain
ing to it, is sort of a walking
encyclopedia. 1t is this that makes
him valuable to the Union Pacific and
at the same time causes him to be
looked upon as one of the good fell
lows.
Judge Sears of district court ad-
mires "hosses"-race horses. 1t is no
secret that he follows the ponies. He
even owns a nag that can step it off
in something like mile a minute,
more or less. That is what he calls
his avocation, not bis hobby.
The judge has hobby, an honest
to-goodness hobby-that of writing
poetry. Beneath a rough exterior
turks a deep spring of human SYM
pathy and sentiment. As juvenile
court Judge he touched the soul of
the child ard in that judicial capacity
he was slow to send boy or girl to
a state institution.
His emotional nature has found ex-
preston in verses filled with deep
feeling. He has broad point of view
OF the frailities Of human nature.
His verses square with the golden
rule and with "A mans man for a
that"
A. S. Borglum, manager of the Dar-
low Advertising company, is man
OF much pep and several hobbies. His
chief hobby is years old and her
name is Jean. But aside from her, he
has two other hobbies, hiking and tar
get shooting.
Every Sunday morning at an early
hour, he fits himself into khaki uni
form, and with knap-sack over his
shoulder, filled with kitchen utensils
and grub, he hits the road for day
OF it. He does not have any definite
camping place beforehand, but goes
whithersoever and as far as the spirit
is willing. He claim that dull care
can always be outdistanced on a long
hike.
lie spends part OF each evening
target shooting. He has thirty-foot
range rigged up in his basement, and
contends against his wife and daugh-
ter, Jean, for craftsmanship. Seven
bull eyes out of ten tries has become
a habit with him. At that, he insists
he finishes bad last in this trio of
shooters, but there's a bulls eye for
gallantry,
Collecting guns is the hobby of
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10


register for these odd nickels to sell
to Druesedow.
Police Detective Pete Jolly's hobby
is fancy skating. For many years
he was one of the fastest ice skaters
i'll the northwest. He could jump over
six barrels and was one of the fast
est relay skaters. He gave many ex-
hibtions on artificial ice in many Of
the large cities.
Mr.. jolly says, "Ice skating is the
most exhilarating exercise in the
world"
Mr.. jolly is still skillful skater.
Prosecuting violations of the Nc
braska dry law is one of the hobbies
OF City Prosecutor T. J. Mcclure.
Mcclure not only works i'll court dur
ing the day to prosecute cases, but
clings around the police station at
night helping the officers to ferret out
violations. Then MCGUIRE has another
hobby. He likes thoroughbred live
stock, particularly cattle. He owns
no cattle ranch, but he wishes he did.
When he can get away he runs to the
stock yards and attends the sales OF
thoroughbred cattle, just to feast his
eyes on the beautiful lines of thor
oughbreds.
Drinking coffee is the hobby of
Fritz Sandwall, the jeweler. Mr..
Sandwall likes his coffee better than
anything else in the world outside his
family, his church, and his business.
Every afternoon at $50 sharp, no
matter how much business is waiting
for him in the shop, he turns the de-
tails over to the clerks and speeds to
the nearest coffee house There he
relaxes his nerves and sips his coffee
quietly and slowly. He then returns
to his work with much more enthusi-
asm and vigor.
Noah Webster, who some years ago
acquired something of reputation as
4 writer of dictionaries, refers to
hobby as "a topic, theme, or the like,
unduly occupying ones attention, or
interest" And if there is one man
more than another who has one of
these hobbies that he thrusts upon
the attention of himself and those
with whom he talks, that man is
Frank Roach, advertising agent for
the Union Pacific.
Frank Roach is good fellow and
though comparatively young in years,
he is old in the railroad advertising
game. While he knows it from A to
z, his strong card is working OH peo-
pie who desire to go on summer
iaunts and don't know just where they
ought to land.
Although he has not visited all of
them, Roach has read up on those that
he has not seen and as result there
is not western summer resort with
which he is not familiar. Regardless
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10

Park avenue. He is said to have the
most remarkable collection Of guns
in the central west.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10

Sergeant Donovan is a foot ball
player "of the past" he says, but is
getting too old for that sport. Fish
ing for trout is his favorite sport.
He says all forms of athletics except
golf are common in the army.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10

Colonel William E. Baehr of the
Fourth Nebraska plays tennis.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10

r. D. Shirley cities funny instance
that happened at one of his children's
motion picture performances a few
Saturday mornings ago. A fond and
loving mother had brought her in
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10

were stationed in the bow of a mer-
chant ship in the war zone with his
22-caliber rifle, he would shoot the
mirror out OF the periscopes and thus
render the U-boats helpless.
Collecting nickels of the issue of
1888 is the hobby of Robert c.
Druesedow. By mistake the first is
sue of that year omitted the word
cents beneath the figure ~" This
makes this issue an oddity and
Druesedow has for years been look
ing these UP. He now has $50 of
them in sack at his home on Geor-
gia avenue. Several street car con-
ductors, friends of his, keep on the
lookout for these nickels to sell to
Druesedow. One morning when
Druesedow was walking to Leaven-
worth street conductor on the Leav-
enworth line saw him coming. He
stopped the car for one and a half
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10

minutes while he Searched his nickel
register for these odd nickels to sell
to Druesedow.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10

Speaking of gardens and flowers
why not plant few water lilies.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10
Questions on Chapter XVIII.

Questions on Chapter XVIII.
|. What was leading topic of con-
versation in society circles in early
daysr
2. Mention some sideshows at the
county fair.
3. What was the admission price to
the Transmississippi exposition?
4. How did the historian (then a
bow enterl WhY?
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10

Behold Fred Hoover, amateur gar
dener. He ariseth in the A. NJ. and
goeth forth to his patch full of hope;
he spades and digs around, throws out
his chest and comes downtown to
tell us his radishes are foot high,
tomatoes as big as pumpkins and the
fence around his garden is only the
onion tops.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10

Captain Mckinley is reported to be
especially interested in helping en-
listed men in getting appointments
as officers. His troop in the Elev-
enth cavalry is said to have held the
record, when he left it, for the pro-
portion of its members who received
commissions. He may tell of the
school he is reported to have organ
ized for enlisted men in his troop.
Lieutenant w. w. Waddell of the
navy recruiting Office, who was grad
uated from Annapolis in 1909, is said
to be an expert on torpedoes, though
he is too modest to accept that ver-
dict, according to men in his office.
He has a habit of walking ten miles
for exercise whenever he can find
time, it is reported.
Reading novels is my hobby"
says Sergeant Hansen at the army re-
cruting station. Il learned the En-
glish language by reading novels,
Danish being my native tongue. |
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10
Don't Stop.

Don't Stop.
When someone stops advertising,
Someone stops buying.
When someone stops buying,
Someone stops selling,
When someone stops selling
Someone stops making.
When someone stops making,
Someone stops earning.
When someone stops earning,
Everyone stops buying.
Keep going-Don't be Stacker.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-10

A few little rays of sunshine
Falling in Omaha,
Would make glad hearts for the
dealers
With hats from Panama. ny
If all the advertising men in the
world had Bob" Rosensweig's dis
position the life of an ad solicitor
would be one glad, sweet glorious
song.
While motoring down town the
other evening Louis Lepke noticed
the car ahead had no tail light. When
he sailed past he hollered: Your tail
light is out" Imagine his chagrin
when the other guy opened 'er up and,
on passing him, shouted, so is
yours" And it was.