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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-12-13

In 1917 as In 1900, but this was Sc
cured at the expense of our European
neighbors. Our exports practically
ceased; we had no surplus left to send
abroad.
But the question is, toward what
are we headedY Shall we have to
continue to reduce our meat ration un-
til eventually we come to the plan of
cereal-eating China? This is the
natural trend In every highly populat-
ed country. Where people and live
stock must compete for the same
grain, live stock Is pretty apt to get
left.
But there is no real need for perma-
nent meat shortage in America. Our
farm and particularly our pastures are
not producing anything like full ca
pacity. Following the close Of the war
fertilizer will undoubtedly be used
more extensively than ever before to
boost live stock production. Many
live stock farms could actually double
their carrying capacity by making use
of commercial fertilizer. Fertilizer
to Keep More Live Stock" bids fair to
be popular slogan on the American
livestock farm.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-12-13
THE IRISH POTATO THE FOOD
OF THE PEOPLE

The Irish potato is staple Of
American diet. Enough potatoes were
consumed In the United States In 1915
to allow one eight-ounce potato day
throughout the whole year for each
man, woman and child.
Truly, the potato Is the food Of the
people. The portion Of the American
meal made up by this vegetable, alone.
consumes over 800. 0O0, 900 bushels an
nually.
Intensive methods make It possible
to grow crops yielding from 250 to 400
bushels per acre. and at the same time
to decrease the cost of raising each
bushel. The big expense In potato
growing comes In the preparation Of
the land, the purchase Of the seed and
the attention given the crop through
out the season. But 1t costs no more
to prepare ground, plant, cultivate and
spray a 300-bushel crop than 1t does a
15O-bushel crop. Harvesting will cost
more, but the big overhead expenses
are practically the same. Obviously
the thing to do is to Insure large
yields by supplying an abundance Of
available plant food that will give the
crop good start and force 1t to early
maturity.
Fertilizers should be applied at the
time Of planting, and In order to make
certain that this material may be on
hand when needed 1t is especially Inn
portant to order early this year.
The man who has his fertilizer
stored In his own barn Is the only one
who can be certain Of a supply when
needed. A big potato crop will be
needed next year whether peace comes
or not.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-12-13
why FOOD PRICES ARE IN
CREASlNG

During the last fifty or seventy-fve
years principally since 1840), while
the large cities In this country and
Europe have been growing, the estab-
lished agricultural areas that produced
food were supplemented by the OPEN
ing up Of new lands In the middle
West, Canada, Brazil. Argentina. South
and Central Africa. Australia and 81
IBERIA.
"Food products, chiefly grains and
meats. were produced on virgin, UNI
fertilized lands. Emigrant labor was
employed and subsequently there was
cheap railroad and steamship transpor-
tatton. so until recently the people In
cities have been fed on food produced
and sold at price which did not take
into consideration the cost Of produc>
ton and the value Of plant food con-
tained In crops which must be returned
to the soil to maintain productivity. -
Report Of the Food Problem Commit
tee, the Merchants' Association Of New
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-12-13
Cut Out the Jumps!

Have you ''the Jumps -or other
manifestations of nervousness Are
you easilyeonfused or startled at un-
expected noises or sounds1 Do you
worry or fret over trivialtiesf Then
look to your nerves. Something is
radically wrong with them.
Upset nervous conditions usually re-
suit from some exhausted or impaired
bodily organ, which does not properly
give It's allotted service. Go after the
offender through that great recupera-
tory center of the body. --your stomach.
Ask your druggist for DIR. CHARLES
TONIC TABLETS. They are the
very best of preparations to soothe
and smooth the racked and exhausted
nerves of nervous prostration victims.
Those who are debilitated; those who
suffer from the groaning burden OF
liver and kidney trouble, will once
more turn toward health, by using this
splendid formula.
The great wreckers of women's DEL
icately balanced nervous systems as
exemplifed in the special ills peculiar
to their sex-wiIl be quickly relieved
by DIR. CHARLES TONIC TAB
LETS, which also present the gift Of
rich red blood to the anaemic. The
TONIC will also 60 far to arrest and
vanish dyspepsia and many wasting
diseases that lead to consumption.
DR.. CHARLES TONIC TABLETS = and
fhev will achieve marvellous recuperative re-
suits. where other tonics and reconstructives;
such a. iron, strychnine, arsenic, cod liver OIL
ETC., often fail. Sale and pleasant to take.
PRICE so CENTS a BOX
II your druggists does not carry them, send
50 CENTS and We will send . box By mail.
Or. CHARLES FLESH FOOD COMPANY
sRookLYh. Ne Y,
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-12-13
1900 New York Doctors
Fighting Poison Gas.

10 you know tnas you ,o''S a. nome
as well as the brave Boys over .a6,s
are menaeeo ~ po'so" - nv, Nv
'ns,olous klna .'a' s'ea.s away ns
ana the Joy 81 n,'''s' - u1' ~, 49, s
recurring ols'u'Da''os' 'sH 49,
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-12-13

Editor Collingwood of the Rurar
New Yorker says:
Gasoline leaves no organic matter
behind 1t. We have come to the time,
and we are rapidly going further into
It when there will be practically no
stable manure for people to buy and
put on their ground. And then people
win suddenly wake and realize that all
these years they have been giving to
stable manure value 1t did not carry,
and that. with fertilizers properly ham
died and with cover crops, they will
be able, to get the same results with
less labor, with more profit and with
far greater satisfaction"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-12-13

STATE OF MICHIGAN
CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY or
SHIAwAssEn, IN tHANckHx
George Hall.
Plaintiff,
Esther III Han,
Dafendant
TIE OF MICHIGAN

Suit pending IN the Circuit Court for the
County OF Shiawast ee--In Chancery.
At The City Of Coruppa. In said County Of
Shiawassee. on the 9TH day of Nov. A D, 1873
In this cause IL appearing from the amdavtt
On die that the defendant, Esther Hall. Ia not
resident Of this state but resides at Louisi.
ana In the State OF missouri.
On motion of George e. Psrdee, attorney
for plaintiff IT IL ORDERED that the appear
ance Of the said defendant, Father HALL
be entered In this cause within three
months from the date Of this order; and that
In case OF her appearances that she cause her
answer to the Bill OF Complaint to be nIed
ano copy thereof served upon the attorney
for the plaintiff within fifteen days after ser.
Woe on her. or her attorney. Of copy OF the
said bill, and In default thereof that said bill
be taken As confessed By the said defendant
Esther Hall.
And IL IL further ordered that the said plain.
TN cause this order N be published IN THE
OwOssO TIMES, Newspaper printed. published
and circulated Ia said county and that such
publication bc commenced within twenty DAVIS
from the date OF thie order and that such
publication be continued therein once IN each
week for six weeks ia succession. or that the
said plaintiff cause copy Of this order 10 be
personally served and . copy 10 be sent by
regiktcred mail on and 70 the said defendant
Esther Hail. at least twontv days before
the time above proscri Cd for h9y oppearanoo.
JOSEPH H. COLLINS,
SIS y; ss|;::: : s' IS
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-12-13

The Probate Court for the County of shia.
wassee.
At session of the Probate Court for said
County, held at the Probate office. ia the
City of Uorunna, on Friday the 18th day Of
November In the year one thousand nine hun.
dred and eighteen.
Present Matthew Bush. Judge of Probate.
In the matter OF the estate OF Robert B.
Grub, deceased.
On reading ana fling the petition CT Ne tie
Grubb, pray ing that administration q sai 1
estate NAV be granted 10 the petitioner or
some cther suitable person.
II Is ordered that the 10th day of December
next, at ten O'Clock in the forenoon, 1t said
Probate ONCE be assigned for hearing said Pc
titi0n.
And 1t is further ordered, that copy OF this
order be published three successive weeks,
previous to said day OF hearing, In the Owosso
TIMES newspaper printed and circulating In
said County Of Shiswassee.
81 MATTHEW BUSH,
By Judge Of Probate.
CLARIBEL GALLOWAY.
Probate kegttter.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-12-13
OUR DWINDLING MEAT SUPPLY

You have no doubt become accus-
toned to meatless days, but secretly
you are probably waiting and hoping
for the day when you can again eat
good steak without feeling unpa-
triotic.
But do you realize that the average
meat supply per individual, even be-
fore the war, had fallen Off nearly one
fourth since 1900? To be sure, each
Of us had nearly as much meat to eat
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-12-13
National Iron and Metal Co.
DEALERS IN
Rags. Rubber. Paper. Iron, Metal.
Hides, Pelts and Furs
Order Of Publication.
Union Phone $40
204 Comstock Street WOSi

State Of Michigan The. Probate Court for
he County Of Shiawassee.
At q session of the Probate Court for SAID
County. held at the Probate once. in the City
OF ,Corunpa. on Tuesday, the 10Th day of Nov
ember IN the year one thousand nine hundred
and eighteen.
Present, Matthew Bush. Judge of Probate
In the matter OF the estate OF George l..
Schlaack. deceased. W
On readidg and fling the petition Of Margaret
Setback praying that atministra ion OF said
estate NAV be granted to Gust hackDort or
some other suitable person
1t Is ordered, that the 2sid day of DE- cember,
next. at ten o'clock in the forenoon at said
Probate ONCE. be assigned for hearing SAID
petition. a.e rs o
And It is further ordered, That a copy of
this order be published three successive
weeks. previous to the said day Of hearing, ia
the Owosso Times. y newspaper printed and
circulating in said County Of Shiawassee.
MATTHEW BUSH,
Judge Of Probate.
BY
CLARIBEL GALLOWAY,
Probate Register. -.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-12-13
TOOLMAKERS AND
MACHINISTS

We have an excellent proposition to
offer you. Steady work at the highest
rate of wages under ideal working con-
ditions. Advancement assured to those
who are qualified If you are now on
Government work, stay where you are
and make good. If not, call for an in-
terview and help our Government, at
the same time helping yourself to q
good position.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-12-13

HAIRDRESSING PARLORS - Re-
IN ember the old reliable firm of Stone
& Mix are still doing business at 401 N.
Park street. Switches made to order
on short notice Shampooing and hair
dressing. Union phone 27l.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-12-13
SICK STOCK

BOOK on treatment of Horses, Cows,
Sheep, Dogs and other animals, sent
free. Humphrey Homeopathic Vet
Urinary Medicines, 1856 William ST., N. Y.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-12-13
FR EE COUPON

= FREE COUPON N
This coupon with 10 cents stamps or coin
90 pay postage and packing is good for FREE
TRIAL PROS-TONE. Only ono to each person
II you desire full sized bottle Of PRO6-TONE
you may enclose $i0Owith this coupon and Il
will be sent you postpaid. CROSS-WHYTE
Write your name and address plainly and
Ms 10 an tnx Sxsv lote<
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-12-13

SALE OR EXCHANGE 9, $50 acres cua
over hardwood land, gravelly clay loan
soil. Good productive farms adjoining
near Rose City, Ogemaw county, Mich.
Address, John York, 1O2 Belmont Ave.
Detroit, Mich, -Ady
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-13
THE PROHIBITION ISSUE

Senator Sproul sees the signs of
the times and links his candidacy for
the Republican nomination with the
cause of prohibition. He believes
that the sentiment of the country is
in favor of the prohibition amend
ment and he approves it. His COM
petitor, Highway Commissioner
O'Neil, is also for prohibition. 1t
looks as though the oppents of pho
hibition will have to make their
fight in the legislative district, be-
cause of the difficulty of making it q
State issue.
1t is of the first importance that
the next Legislature shall have a
majority favoring the prohibition
amendment. The decision on that
question rests on the members of
the Legislature and not on the Gov
ernor though his influence for or
against the amendment would no
doubt have influence on the deci-
sion. The politicians as a class are
shy about taking a positive stand
though the more progressive element
in each party is striving for such at
titude, and in each case are fighting
for an open and unqualified support
for the amendment.
Both parties believe the question
will be decided in the cities. They
recognize that in the rural districts
the voters will favor prohibition, and
that the fight will come in the
larger cities, where not only are
there large bodies OF labor voters,
considered unfavorable to prohibi-
ton. but well-organized associations
OF retail liquor dealers. The church
people as a class will be for this
amendment.
There is no doubt Philadelphia s.
example will be followed up every
where by the church forces-a great
movement Independent of PARTISAN
ship 10 to be brought behind the pro-
position that prohibition, is the is
sue Of the hour.-From the Phila-
dclphia Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-13
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Charles B. Stevens, former leg
islative correspondent, may be chos-
en- as clerk of district court for the
Scranton district
r. M. bravo, big Pittsburgh
contractor, has taken charge of some
of Uncle Sans work in that district
Isaac Newton Camp, appointed
Governor of Bethlehem by the RritN
ish commander, is a son-in-law of
the Rev. DR.. McClenahan, of Pitts
burgh.
S. D. Warriner, the Lehigh coal
man, has been placed in charge of
coal distribution in eastern penn
sylvania by the fuel administration
He will act with w. J. Richards, of
the Reading.
Guy II. Trip, formerly of the
Westinghouse, and widely known in
Pennsylvania affairs, has been made
a colonel in the ordnance corps.
Major James Crosby Brown
former Philadelphia banker. who
has been connected with the Red
Cross work in France, is home from
abroad. -
Alba B. Johnson. head OF the
Baldwin locomotive Works. Is At
Camp Hancock.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-13
ALL FOR AMENDMENT

If all the parties in the state shall
declare in favor of the ratification of
the prohibition amendment to the
Federal Constitution, and if all the
candidates for Governor shall be
pledged to support of the amend
ment. it might be assumed that the
VeXed question would thereby be re-
moved from the coming political
campaign in Pennsylvania con-
summation devoutly to be wished.
But that assumption, it is to be
feared, would be too hasty. For
politicians sometimes do protest too
much, and voters will have to decide
what party and what candidate can
best be trusted to speak fairly and
To act in accord with their promises.
Words before election have a differ
ent value from action afterward.
Hence not only is there little pros
pect of the elimination of prohibi-
ton from the coming campaign,
even so far as the governorship is
concerned, but it is certain that it
is bound to become of necessity the
leading issue in the selection of the
Senators and Representatives who
will have to vote on ratification.
1t is important, therefore. that
candidates shall be precise and def
mite in their declarations of policy.
Friends of prohibition are not going
to take anything for granted, nor will
they be satisfied with anything short
of specific pledges, not only of ZAP
provap' of the principle, but of in
tention to labor to secure its adop-
tion. For this reason State Senator
Sproul, who aspires to succeed
Brumbaugh, will have to be a good
deal more specific on the subject
than he has been before he shall dis
arm suspicion of the depth and sin
cerity of his conversion to prohibi-
ton, or disarm the openly expressed
skepticism of his chief opponent
Highway Commissioner O'Neil. 1t
is hardly enough to say that penn
sylvania may be depended upon to
act promptly and favorably on this
question" What voters want to
learn from Mr.. Sproul is, whether he
has finally cut loose from that
hitherto dominant element in the
party management which has long
been in close alliance with the LIQUOR
interests, and whether he not only
''favors" the amendment, but is pre-
pared to work for it's ratification
from the Philadelphia Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-13
Enemy Aliens in Camps?

If we understand a recent decision
by Judge Tuttle in the local Federal
Court, a situation exists in the
American Army that calls for imme-
diate correction.
In the first draft Austrians were
conscripted, proceeding entirely
proper at the time, as they were not
then enemy aliens. But their status
has changed since, war having been
declared on the country of their ma
tionality, and there appears to be no
machinery for removing them from
our forces. The courts are impotent,
we gather from the decision, because
the subject is one for the legislative
branch of the government, and Con-
gress has, apparently, neglected to
make provision for these cases.
If this is the situation, 1t should
be rectified. This nation cannot af-
ford to set an example of barbarism
by compelling men to fight against
their fellow w-countrymen, even If
there were any necessity for doing
so, while the manpower of the
United States remains adequate.
To draft Austrians and send them
to our trenches will, Furthermore,
invite reprisals by the Teutonic Pow
ers. and it would be a vivid illumi-
nation of our .course if we should
find Americans in German and Aus
trian armies opposed to our own
sons and their brothers.-Detroit
Free Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-13
Over he 1oh
IL Pexna.

Shouting Down with the Kaiser"
Kill the KAISER" more than 200
women in Scranton, including many
school teachers, and headed by the
Rev. G. w. Wellburn, pastor of the
Second Presbyterian Church, ex-
pressed their sentiments in court
room the other day in approval OF
Judge Edwards decision. He dis
charged from the Insane Asylum the
wife of Louis Breswitz, German
and alien enemy. They had quar-
relied over war topics and Breswitz
had enough influence to have bis
wife declared insane.
Dealers in Pottstown sold more
than zoo safety razors within a few
days because of rise by BARRIERS
of shaving prices.
"I sure~ am the patriotic kid
writes a Camp Meade boy who is
in the hospital with a broken leg.
II am so patriotic that even my
broken bone is knitting"
Little grains of powder,
Little dabs of paint,
Make a girl of forty
Look like what she amt.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-13
ONE REASON
VXTHY are we fighting the Kaiser?
w Here's one reason.

VTTHY are we fighting the Kaiser?
wv Here's one reason.
The Associated Press dis
patches from Holland the other day
brought the story of the death of
Adolph Friedrich, a German noble
man, Grandduke of Mecklenburg-
Strelitz.
1t is a pretty story-the first chap
ter. The Duke chose to foresake his
title and married for love. He and
his wife lived on one of the ducal
estates very happily together, until
the war brought such deaths and
changes in the family as made it
desirable, in the estimation of the
ruling powers, that the Duke wed a
Royal Princess.
So the Kaiser ordered him to put
away the woman who had been his
sweetheart and who was his beloved
wife and take unto himself a bride
he had never seen. This the Duke,
who by some strange chance seems
to have escaped the virus of beast
| liness with which most German
mobiles of the present day appear to
have been most generously innocu-
lated, in most manly fashion refused
to do.
To give the tale a pleasant end
ing the King should have praised
the Duke for his courage and good
ness of heart and rewarded him with
high office and jewels of great price.
But that is not the Kaiser's way.
oh, no! What this self-pronounced
Lord of All Creation and paragon
of all the virtues did was to Danish
the Duke in disgrace. What other
punishments were held in store for
him one may only imagine, for a
few days ago the good Duke bade
farewell to his dear ones, walked
into the woods and killed himself.
This is what the Kaiser did to one
of his own friends and kinsmen.
What do you suppose he would
do to US, his enemies?
Here is one reason why we are
fighting the Potsdam murderer. 1t
is only one of many, but it is a very
personal reason and it comes home
to each of us.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-13
MISTRESS OF THE SKIES

The War Department has asked
Congress for a further appropriation
of $45O,000,000 for the air navy. OF
this sum $500, 100000 is said to be
required for completing the program
undertaken under the original ap-
preparation of $640,000, 900. largely
because of the high cost of materi-
ais. The rest of the new amount is
for the extension of the construc-
ton program.
We used to be shocked at "billion-
dollar" Congresses. but new occa-
sions breed new needs. We are will
Ing now to spend billions upon bill
lions for victory over the Hun, and
not one cent for tribute. The 'coun-
try where the airplane originated is
building machines to-day on a quail
ity basis that will give America the
leadership once more in the con-
quest of the air.
The war is getting back to first
principles-air. land and water. Su-
premacy on the seas. supremacy on
the land. supremacy in the vair:
these are the, conditions of victory.
Philadelphia Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-13

win the war; says Mr.. Hoover, and
evidently those in charge of the
draft believe it to be true, for they
have been careful TO eliminate as far
as possible the farmer from military
duty, at least during the coming
summer and fall. But going even
farther, the regulations call for the
taking both from the new quotas
and from the ranks of the armies
already in training, men skilled in
particular lines who can be more
useful to the army back of the
trenches than in the fighting forces.
This is wisdom. We are avoiding
the pitfalls into which all the war
ring nations, not emitting even WELL
organized Germany, fell at the be-
ginning of the war. No matter how
much a young man may want to get
into the fighting, if he be better suit
ed to another branch of the service,
the needs of the nation should be
put above individual desire. and he
should be assigned to the place
where he can accomplish most,
The war has become a great en-
gineering enterprise. We shall win
it only as we apply to it the intel
ligence, force. ingenuity and enter
prise that have made America a
leader in the world of industry and
business. Having realized this the
War Department is adjusting its
draft machinery to meet the condi-
tions, and this is precisely what the
people would have. The result
promises to be an army of special
lists and experts. from rifle fire to
the manufacture of those compli-
Gated engines of war, the tank and
the submarine killer. Brains and
brawn, the old combination that has
made America successful on every
field upon which she has taken up
arms, will do the trick again. The
revised methods of the draft board
bid fair to put each in its allotted
place.