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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-08-10
HEOWOSSO TINES
KDMUND O. DEWEY. PROP.
OWOssO, MICH. AUG. 20. 1917.
Tho Liberty Loan Cycle.

Through the sale of Liberty Loan
Bonds the United States is borrowing
large sums of money from it's citizens,
its business men, farmers. bankers,
wage earners, merchants, manufactur-
ers. The government collects this
money and disburses it in two ways.
Part it expends itself and part it loans
our allies. The United States and these
other governments spend it for Ameri-
can products and American labor and
1t goes back directly into the hands of
the people, the American business man,
farmer, banker, wage Garner, merchant
and manufacturer;
This is the cycle. John Smith the
farmer and Thomas Brown the wage
Garner each has purchased a Liberty
Loan Bond paying down the initial
payment of 2 per cent On, June 2Sth
they made the IS per cent payment,
depositing the amount in their banks
and sending checks to the Federal Re
serve Bank of their district. The Fed
ersl Reserve Bank collects the check
and redeposits the money with the
local banks. Later the Treasury De.
partment draws against 1t and tie
money is again lodged with the Federal
Reserve Bank. 1t is almost immedi-
ately withdrawn from the Federal Re.
serve Bank either by the United States
or by some foreign government engaged
in war with Germany to which the
United States has advanced money and
is paid out for. .American products or
labor. Some of it is spent for farm
products and raw material, and some
of it for manufactured products, thus
going back into the hands of American
citizens.
Therefore the money paid in by the
above mentioned John Smith anc
Thomas. Brown on June 2Sth in part
payment of their Liberty Loan Bonds
may have gotten back into their hands
in time to make up part of their pay.
ments made July 30th.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-08-10
Courtesy.

I am Courtesy, the gentle power that
creates good will Since I came to
dwell among the sons of men I have
been the powerful servant of those who
cared to lean upon me. have builded
great business organizations: to some /
have brought great wealth beyond the
dreams. of avarice. and I have never
failed those who made wise use of me.
] smooth the way of life for those
serve. lead their feet In the restful
ways Of happiness and peace. Those
who know me we'll, love me, and would
not do without me. / do not enter into
the lives Of those who invite me not
and who strive not to attain me. Hard
battles must sometimes be fought be-
fore am won. Habits must be con.
trolIed Hastily to be spoken words
must die upon the lips, unsaid. Al.
though intangible, yet am I very real,
for am composed of thought for 9TH
ers and the Golden Rule In equal parts.
Yes. I, Courtesy. would gladly dwell
with thee and become one OF thy life
habits. Test mel-Selected.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-08-10
Weaver Stevenson.

The marriage of Miss Celia Weaver,
daughter of Mrs. Thomas Doyle OF this
city. to Alfred Stevenson of Detroit,
was solemnized August 2 at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Upham, John
street. They were unattended. Rev.
G. II. Hanks, pastor of the First Con
gregational church of Calumet, per-
formed the ceremony. They will reside
in Detroit, where the groom is employed
In the Ford plant. Mrs. Stevenson was
formerly employed ss bookkeeper at the
D. M. Christian store and lately at the
Siegel store In Detroit.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-08-10

Those who have failed to pass the
physical examination are:
1732-Arthur E. Hammond, Owosso.
1237-Edward w. Bottle, Durand.
1913-Harold Peters, Owosso.
2195-Roscoe j. Crane, Owosso.
2494-Joseph Perrone, Owosso.
1S58-Chas. VIM. Gardner, Owosso.
11S5--Clarence R. Parlette, Corunna.
755-Alvis Zelenka, Owosso, R.
1563-John Holleran, Durand.
1S-Clifford LaVerne Johns, Ban
81 craft ''l1 a0 ap4shH-r Z M 900
|2181--Oren l.. Bensinger, Owosso.
1066AArthur Ernest German, Ban
croft.
2455-Alfred c. Killiam, Owosso.
Joe Rolando, Owosso.
1548-Joseph M. Dumond, Durand.
1045-William 7. Conrad, Bancroft.
373-Roy l.. Ritzel, Henderson.
6O4-Joseph Minarik, Corunna, R.
514-Harry E. Hunton, Ovid.
10-Wilbur E. Huck, Perry, r.
1O14-Elmer L. Piatt, Laingsburg, R.
1O31-Ward F. Slocum, Laingsburg,
r.
797-Edward M. Kellogg, Perry.
2479-William o. Naacke, Owosso.
1146-Chester w. Dorcus, Corunna.
6O6-F. B. McCaffery, Owosso, R.
14S4-Clyde M. Young, Durand.
1S4S-George M. Fairman, Owosso.
1334-Milton d. Kitridge, Durand.
22O9-Nelson C. Clark, Owosso.
645-Perry R. Wardwell, Owosso, r.
42O-Alfred w. Hart, New Lothrop.
452-Libor Ach, New Lothrop.
2331-Frank Spagnuolo, Owosso.
355-Andy H. Moors, Chaplin.
15-Herbert Hankinson, Morrice, R
Fred Luther Good, Owosso. I
1614-Earl A. Saxton, Durand.
2OOS-Clarence E. Clapp, Owosso.
19O6-Robert L. Powers, Owosso.
29S-Fred M. Albaugh, Elsie.
o'o oohh Ohoh, IleuueISOu.
S74-Roy M. Allen, Henderson.
219-Cyrus r. Rathbun, Owosso.
SS2-Floyd Bacon, Henderson.
2592-Ernest G. Hurd, Corunna.
269-Ralph Maybaugh, Owosso, r.
2454-Charles w. yKuester, Owosso.
711-Bert H. Keys, Owosso, r.
2316-Benjamin Smith, Owosso.
741-Michael j. Torney,. Owosso, R.
S7O-Beeman w. Appleman, Oakley.
1714-Charles w. Carr, Owosso.
54-Joseph Byrnes, Laingsburg, r.
15SO-Ralph l.. Lurie, Durand.
76O-Michael E. Burns, Perry.
353-Percy Mitchell, Garland.
135S-Elwyn J. Mills, Durand.
637-Barney Smigura, Owosso, r.
1896-Joseph L. Mcintosh, Owosso.
147-Thomas L. Waddell, Durand.
1419-Joe Schilling, Durand.
1771-7Frank E. Oesterle, Owosso.
1636-Frank j. Williams, Durand.
l020-Earl o. Peters, Laingsburg.
2066-Charles Lyon, Owosso.
1S1S-Richard Louis Barrie, Owosso.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-08-10
200, 900 Men Called Tor Service
September First
(Coutinued from page one.l

12S7-Floyd Flemming, Durand.
l2167-Charles j. Wietzke, Owosso.
9OO-Lloyd Hughes, Henderson.
23O3-Benjamin F. Price, Owosso.
2421-Frank ID. Green, Owosso.
128-James A. Appleton, Byron.
11-John Winkley Hall, Byron, II.
1617-Walter R. Struble, Durand.
259O-Carl J. Geney, Corunna.
8O5-Otto C. Martin, Perry.
2116-Asahel d. Rust, Owosso.
|17O9-Steven Chrenko, Owosso.
1O67-Thomas Coward, Bancroft.
923-Charles Rourke, Henderson.
25O3-Edward Reid, Owosso.
13O5-Ward A. Grove, Durand, r.
2OO5-George N. Chilikos, Owosso.
21OS-George w. Putnam, Owosso.
244S-George Juhl, Owosso.
493-Lewis Alfred Austin, Burton.
1448-David Streeter, Durand.
1557-Frank A. Griffin, Durand.
345-Leroy E. Howell, Garland.
2462-William Liner, OwossO.
327-Herman j. >ustin, Garland.
957-Earl Asher, Laingsburg.
93-Richard T. l. ""rs, Laings-
burg. R.
1595-George F. Peck, Gaines.
356-Charles l.. Messler, Elsie.
7O4-Joel r. Haines, Ovid.
112+E. Lynn Thomas, Owosso, R.
72-Joseph Howe, Owosso, R.
1543-Howard Dodge, Durand.
21O2-Walter S. Patterson, Owosso.
1S73-Clarence G. Harris, Owosso.
4SS-L. G. White, Lennon.
1657-Raymond Poland, Laingsburg.
36O-Clayton M. Nethaway, Garland
571-Frank Faltys, Chesaning, R.
1744EHarry Gibbs Johnson, Owosso.
1675-Reuben E. Moline, Laingsburg.
2O24-Guy C. Elliott, Owosso.
2517-Raymond E. Signs, Owosso.
2532-Abraham Silverman, Owosso.
1366-Hugh H. Miller, Durand.
391-Elzie w. Somers, Elsie.
Clifford Chant.
Clark G. Weethee.
Bert 81. Reyes.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-08-10

A petition has been fled for the sp.
poirtment Of an administrator of the
estate Of the late Clarence Wsldie of
Hszelton. which amounts to $2.150
The heirs are four brothers and three
sisters. Mr.. Waldie was q bachelor,
and his death occurred at the Miller
hospital In Owosso. where he was taken
from the county jail where he was
being detained pending q petition to
have him sent to state hospital.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-08-10

A daughter was born August to
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Sanford, 207 East
Oliver street.
Mrs. Frank Beehler, 1112 River
street, fell on her front porch Wednes
day morning and broke her ankle.
Miss Nellie Green went to Detroit
Thursday, accompanied by Mabel and
Eleanor Troy. who have been her guests
for q month. She will remain several
months.
Mrs. Chas. Fauth and son, OF
Washington, d. c., went to Detroit,
Wednesday, after a visit with her
mother, Mrs. Ellen Simmington, west
of the city.
DR.. Lowell Bush, son Of Judge
Matthew Bush of Corunna, has been
offered commission as an officer in
the Grace hospital unit of the medical
corps. The doctor will accept and
hopes soon to be in the active service
somewhere In france.
Mr. and Mrs. n. o. Clark, of Toledo,
announce the engagement of their
daughter. Miss Irene, to Mr.. J. H.
Rocker. of Toledo. The marriage will
take place in the early spring. Mr..
Rocker is druggist, and young man
of excellent character and ability.
The annual reunion of the Cooks,
Coopers. Waughs and Bartletts will
bs held at McCurdy park Wednesday,
August ID. This reunion is usually
attended by 100 or more descendants
o. pioneers of the Maple River neigh
borhood.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. p. Bigelow have re.
ceived interesting letters from their
sons, Chester and Eugene. both of
whom are in the employ of the govern
ment. Chester is stationed on board
the patrol ship, Remik, which patrols
the Atlantic coast in search of SUBJ
marines. Eugene is in charge of large
gang of men who are building large
government docks for the storage of
munitions, near Philadelphia.
LAlNGSBURG.
Charles Sergeant passed away at his
home in this village Tuesday evening
last, following several months illness.
He was about n years of age, and
veteran of the civil war. He is sur
vived by his wife. one son, Guy of
Ithaca, and five grandchildren. Fun
era services were held at his late home
Thursday afternoon conducted by Rev.
w. E. Hall of the Baptist church, of
which he was a member. Interment
was made in the Laingsburg cemetery
while swimming at Round Lake
Wednesday, Warren Throop was seri-
ously injured when he dove from the
pier, striking on his head, causing par.
alysis of his whole body. Vernon
Letter, who has been working in Char.
leyoix for several weeks, was home
over Sunday.-Miss Katherine Losey
of st. Johns, was the guest of her cousin,
Florence Mock, last Week.-Mrs.. Eu.
retta Morgan has gone to Harrison to
spend few weeks with relatives.
Misses Floy Parker, Blanche Walker,
Bertha Karker and Helen Austin are
home from the summer school at Ypsi-
lsnti, and Annie Rowley from Mt
Pleasant. -Mrs. III. r. Sheffield re.
turned home Saturday from the Miller
hospital, Owosso, where she underwent
an operation. g. w. Wright
and guest, Mrs. Luce of Albion, at.
tended camp meeting at Eaton Rapids
over Sunday.-Dr. and Mrs. Thos.
w. Nadsl and children of Olivet, are
guests in the J. V. D. Wyckoff home.
100 Everbearing Strawberry plants,
95c, post paid. Order now, pay next
fall. IL Cherry, Pear or Plum trees
81. 40, grown at Gobleyille, Mich, nur-
series, to set this fall, the very best
time. Save the address do n nou
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-08-10

100 Everbearing Strawberry plants,
95c, post paid. Order now, pay next
fall. IL Cherry, Pear or Plum trees
80. 40, grown at Gobleyille, Mich, nur-
series, to set this fall, the very best
time. Save the address. do it now.
Shade trees. Catalpa and Ashleay Maple
25c to 35c. Norway Spruce same price.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-08-10
LOOK! LOOK!
Parker'S Greatest Sh

Greatest Collection of Attractions of the Tme 80 Carloads Of Fun!
Running Days and Nsh $50 Peope 20 Separate Attractions!
Grounds Illuminated Each Night by the Big PARKER LIGHT PLANTS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-19

Ohio, when that company was Tn bad shape. Almost immediately after wards he was appointed co-receiver of the road. In the latter position he showed remarkable ability of the all- round kind.
 His capacity for work was pro- digious and under his direction the road was brought out of it's financial difficulties and put on sound basis. In 1904 MT. Murray was elected it's president, and six years later was ad- vanced to the chairmanship.
 His record furnishes another ex- ample of the fact that large oppor- tunities are still open to young men. MT. Murray was a big-hearted man and was one of the best of comrades. Although he worked ten or twelve hours day up to the time his health broke down, he found time for social pleasures and the confpanionship of old friends. Such men as Oscar Mur- ray, when they pass away, are all ways missed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-19
Th@ra Will Be No Strike

that the threatened railroad strike has been averted will be received with much satisfaction throughout the length breadth of the land Regardless of the details of reached between the of the rail roads and those of the broherhood the fact that they have adjusted their differences at this time of the nations stamps them big broad gauged and patriotic
 Great difference between the officials of the rail roads and their employees and difficult adjustment seemed yet they responded the nations ca and i'll reach ing agreement demonstrated the fact that with them it was America first
 It another striking indication that the entire country behind President Wilson in this period of the tons history and that all classes ready give him loyal aid in upholdng it. honor and dignity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-19
KINGDOM OF THE HEGAZ

eminent historian with the assertion that our notions of Mecca must be drawn from the Arabans; as no unbe- liever is permitted to enter the city, our travellers are silent
 Yet Gibbon was in error. Varthelma, a Bolognese explorer, was there as early as the sixteenth century; and so accurate were his observations that they still serve for archaeologists as do those of Pausanias for excavations in Greece. Some POO years later Joseph Pitts. an English lad from Exeter, impressed by the Barbary Corsairs, was taken to the holy city, whence he escaped to write a quaint record of his experiences. But it remained for Sir Richard Burton, that English embodiment of all the talents, in the middle of the last century, to set down for English readers the whole story of the great shrines of Arabia
 Yet none have been able to set the line where myth and tradition end and true history begins. The Moslem legend is that when the primal pair fell from their state of bliss in Eden, Adam fell  Jiddah After a hundred years wan dering they met near Mecca, where Allah built for them a tabernacle, said to stand upon a spot exactly beneath Gods throne in heaven, and where was set into the foundation a stone, then white as snow but now ravenblack and made so by the sins of the pilgrims who have kissed 1t.
 Some scholars have identified the ancient people of the Hejaz with the Amalekites of the scripture; and all agree that, whatever their descent, their blood is pure. Their religion, however, has not passed so cleanly through the centuries; though at Medina the faith is held much more primitively and fanatically than at Mecca, where gen. erations trained in procuring their live lihood from the pious pilgrims have had a corrupting influence upon doctrine as well as practice. The present revolt of the Shareef, however, will doubtless claim to have it's real origin in an en- deavor to reclaim Islam from it's inn purities; and from Medina and elsewhere there will, without question, be large accessions to Hussein's following.
 "The revolt of the Hejaz destroys the essential value of the Hejaz railway. line protected from Damascus to the holy cities and designed to bring the population of the Hejaz into touch with the empire without the necessity of pass k ing over foreign territory as was the case in using the Suez canal. This road originated in the fertile mind of Von der Goltz the German organizer of the Turkish armies, whose plans for de- fense of the Ottoman empire included the construction of great startegical lines which would enable the Turkish forces to be mobilized and concentrated with great rapidity. In the troubled days preceding the downfall of Abdul Hanid, and in the months of the war with Italy, this road demonstrated it's military value; and whatever success attended the finally futile invasion of Egypt in the present war was due in no small regard to it's lines. All this, however, was with the railroad a loyal and eager territory; whereas now the Damascus railroad is in hostile hands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-19

WS( ' ASHINGTON, March B-(Spe- 1 wv oialo-rhe department of rur-
 key in Europe has progressed
 rapidly in the past four years, and the ldismemberment of Asiatic Turkey has
 now begun-if the recent erection of the
 Kingdom of the Hejaz shall stand as
 permanent result of the present war.
 The statements which follow have been
 prepared by the National Geographic so-
 ciety and issued as a war geography b-5.- | letin from its headquarters in Washing 1 ton.
 l 'The Hejaz was a province of Arabia
 Its western boundary extends along the the Gulf of Akaba to a point about GO
 miles south of Mecca; it's eastern limits
 arc elusive, and it's northern frontier is
 even more shadowy, because nobody can | tell with certainty where the great Arab
 far desert merges with that of Syria. tractive; numerically it can count less
 than 100000 souls; but from 8 religious point of view it Is most important be- cause it contains the two most venerated shrines of Islam Mecca, the birthplace | of Mahomet and Medina, where the place of sepulchre, though less revered, 1 is at. Jiddah--Mecca's seaport, thous some 60 miles away-where Eyes tomb is
 exhibited to the credulous.
 "The possession of these holy places has given the Hejaz a position in the Moslem world where the Shareef of Mecca has frequently not hestated to challenge the claim of the Sultan at Constantinople to be- the commander of 1 the faithful-and during the Turco-Itali- | ian war of 1911-1s12 repeated though fu- | tile efforts were made by Italian agents | to induce the Meccan ruler to rise against the Osmanli pretender. The allies have now succeeded where the Italian failed; but II Is doubtful if their arguments were os potent as the inn pression produced in the Shareefs mind | by the repeated insults which the Young Turks had launched against his people and which eliminated in a campaign of perSeCutlOn aBaiu5C lHo <AIdDS, Soupiou with the humiliating statement that the present rulers of Turky did not deem the inhabitants of the Hejaz endowed with any qualities beyond those pos sessed by the meanest people of the waste deserts and that Constantinople was tired of hearing from the Hejaz about Its fallen worth
 '.Shareef Hussein Ibn Ali looked upon this as a mean return for his loyalty to the Young Turk party, although he had been an imperially favored resident of the Turkish capital in the days Of the old regime and he lost little time in proclaiming the independence of his land and his own royal state. Hussein is reputed as a man of force and intel ligence and few doubt his ability to maintain himself and his land in their
 new position.
 "The Hejas. though best known of all Arabia, Is still far from open to the Knowledge of traveller or student Mecca. it's largest and most holy city, has al- ways been held as forbidden ground for the foreign foot; and as late as Gibbons time 1t was lightly dismissed by that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-19
-----------sos-- s--------------- LUKE NI'LUKE SAYS

Anyone can knock. But do you sup pose if you had as many critics as an actor that you could give as good gen. eral satisfaction?
 Some men are so hard to please that If they copped out a wealthy heiress as a bride they would have 2 kick com ing because she wasn't deaf and dumb.
 When girl in a small town marriea a brakeman she likes to write to her relatives in the city and inform them that her husband Is employed in the
 transportation department of great railroad.
 Fortune doesn't do much flirting. You have to give her 2 whole lot of encour-
 agement if you want her to smile on you.
 Men are mean cusses. We feel bad when the other fellow gets what we want and we never stop to realize how good Il makes him feel About the only reason why friend hus- friend wife agrees with friend husband | is because friend husband has to. Our idea of an egotist is lad who doesn't want to know any more than he knows because he knows that it isn't worth knowing.
 Despite the general impression that they have their thinking done for them
 married men are greater thinkers thar single men.
 man never realizes how much furni ture he has in his house until he comes home about 2 a. m. and tries to find
 his way upstairs without turning on thu 1 light
 A lot of men who never saw the in' side of jail are serving life sentencea at hard labor.
 What has become of the old-fashionec doctor who smoked cubeb ciearett> when he entered home if3nwhich thert
 was contagious diseAse7
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-19
HOTEL LOBBIES
Special Music for Picture

Persons who remember Che special music that accompanied the presentation of Griffith's "A Birth of a Nation" will departure will be witnessed in Birming- ham with the presentation of 'Intoler- aace, said Browne Parks. This will be the only picture that has ever been shown in Birmingham. having with It chorus. In addition to the orchestra of 20 pieces eight men that sing while the picture is being shown. This is something entirely new in moving picture circles and will, l am sure, appeal greatly to Birmingham art lovers,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-19
N THE DEMISE OF OLD BALDY

THE DEMISE OF OLD BALDY From the St. Louis Republic.
 From somewhere in the Maumee county near Lake Erie comes the story that Old Baldy is dead of old age Old Baldy. we learn. was an eagle that for 5o years had been familiar figure along the shore of the lake, where he piled his unroman- tic trade of patrolling the waters edge for fish, which forms the principal food of our national bird.
 We never enjoyed Old Baldy's acquaint- ance, but anyone who has spent much time around the great lakes knows that they are one of the strongholds of the eagles, and knows what a beautiful sight the big bords are. Fifty years seems long while for one bird to have held forth in one place, but eagles are long lived. and perhaps Old Baldy was real bird and not succession of birds.
 If he was, 1t speaks wonders for the forbearance of that class of indiscrimi- nate slaughterers who call themselves hunters. About all one hears of eagles in the greater part of the country is an occasional story setting forth tho extra ordinary wing spread of one that has just been shot. It would be better if they were cherished as Old Baldy seems to have been cherished in his chosen hunting ground.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-19
Germ1anay to Pursue
 Policy to the End

THE sinking of three American
 H vessels in one day by German submarines is evidence that those in authority in Berlin have made up their minds to pursue the policy of fright fitness to the bitter end. It means that Germany meant what she said and it puts the United States in still stronger position to pursue heroic means for the protection of her com merce.
 Last nights dispatches also indicate that the submarine warfare has been much more successful than has been indicated in the dispatches from Lon don. Berlin claims that during Feb ruary a total tonnage of 781, 300 was sent to the bottom of the ocean by submarines. When the campaign be- gan Germany fixed 100000 tons month as a goal and she was confi- dent that Britain could not long stand such drain on her shipping.
 Evidence accumulates, however, that the present Teutonic endeavors are the acts of desperate nation a nation which has decided it is best to stake everything on the one big throw. The United States is already practically at war with Germany. The sinking of the vessels yesterday makes little actual change in the situation between the two nations.