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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-25
THE OwOSSO TIMES
EDMUND o. DEWEY. PROP.
OWOSSO, MICH. JAN. 25. 1918.
WAR PREPAREDNESS BOARD

Lansing, Mich, Jan. 24.-One mil
lion American soldiers and sailors are
preparing to go over the top without
taking care of their families. If they
are killed or rendered helpless by
wounds, their dependents must rely
. upon charity for daily bread.
The last day on which men in Fed
eral service can take out the insurance
that the government provides is Tues
day, February IL. After that, appli-
cations are refused.
The Michigan War Preparedness
Board estimates that there are fully
10000 Michigan men with the colors
who have been negligent in this re-
spect. In statement issued today the
Board urges wives, mothers and chill
dren to write or even wire their rela-
tives in the service to take out an in
surance policy before it is too late.
Premiums may be paid out of the
mans wages monthly. The average
cost is only 70 cents per $1,000 per
month. Policies are written from
$1,000 to $4,000. In case of death or
injury, policies are paid in monthly
installments for twenty years.
eff your husband, father or son has
not insured himself in your favor,
urge him to do so says the Board.
eff he does not do so, you may face
starvation because of his carelessness.
Should he come home helpless Grip
pie and he is not insured, you must
support yourself and him, too.
"Don't let false pride keep you ST.
lent. Remind him he has not done his
duty"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-25
United States Robe Co.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the United States Robe
Co. was held at the offices of the COM
pany on Saturday last. A large por-
tion of the stock of the concern was
represented at the meeting and it was
considered about the most satisfactory
session ever held by the stockholders.
Directors were chosen for the ensu-
ing year as follows:
C. M. Bilhimer, w. E. Jacobs, Elon
Pond, Erwin Eveleth, w. j. Simeon,
Thos. Lawcock and A. j. Augsburg.
The above represents the last year g
board and following that meeting the
board elected officers as follows:
President-Elon Pond.
Vice President-W. E. Jacobs.
Secretary, c. M. Bilhimer.
Treasurer Lawcock.
Gen. Mgr.-W. j. Simeon.
The past year has been one of the
best in the history of the company,
and the year 1918 gives every promise
of being a banner one. The statesmen
for the company were started out at
the beginning of the year, and with
out exception all are turning in more
orders than ever before. At the pres
ent time the output of the factory
is practically entirely sold for the
full capacity for the entire twelve
months.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-25

According to records of the selec-
tive service country boys do not
show much. physical superiority over
those of the cities. For purpose of
comparison selection was made of
cities of 10000 to 100000 population,
and corresponding set of counties of
the same total size. In the physical
examinations 28.47 per cent of the city
boys were rejected, as against 27.96
per cent of the country boys.
Boys and girls clubs in northern
and western States pledged for war
service in gardening, canning, poultry
raising, and other emergency enter
prises have more than 100000 men,
bers.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-25
Up. A. Elects Officers.

At business meeting of the Young
Peoples Alliance of Zion Evangelical
church held recently at the home of
Leon Willoughby. Clinton street, the
following officers we're elected for the
ensuing six months:
President-Leon Willoughby.
Vice President-InezZ ulhke.
Recording Sec'y.-Clsrapce Perry.
Missionary Sec'y - Mrs. A. Butz.
bach.
Corresponding secretary Mrs. A.
Butzbach.
Treasurer-RoyY eiter.
Pianist Emma Schultz.
Choirister-Essie Yeiter.
Ushers-Simon Etterbeck AMI Wal
ter Schultz.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-25
Walton haIker.

Robert 8. Walton, of Owosso, and
Miss Leah e. Chalker. Of Bancroft, old
est daughter Of Glenn Chslker, were
united in marriage by Rev Wellington
Hoag. Of the Woodward Ave. Baptist
church. Detroit, Saturday afternoon
Jan 9Th. The bride wore q dark
blue serge suit. The happy couple
made short visit with relatives In the
city and then returned to the bride e
fathers home at Bancroft,,w They
will later reside In Owosso. where the
groom is employed as coppersmith by
the Ann Arbor railroad.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-25
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Always bears ~ -
s,sa. sss Of &1%zgzXx

Rundrll Brothers. mfrs Of creamery
, butter. need your butterfat. Try ne.
We pay SOC this week. Open Saturdsy
nights.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-25
Pu bile Health Notice.

Whooping cough Is unusually prevs-
lent In Owosso this winter. All cases
must be reported to the health officer.
Parents are hereby warned that chill
dren having 1t must be kept strictly at
home and not allowed to be on the pub.
lie walks. w. r WARD,
Health Officer.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-25
Ancient Olives.

Ancient olives.
Eight Of the olive trees In the his.
toric Garden Of Olives, near Jerusalem.
are believed to be over 1000 years old.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-01-25

All important county nows In The
TIMES atei per year.
The Winslow mail., 1918-11-15
How Language Grows.

"Cad" and "fad" were at first only
localisms, struggling for existence and
getting slowly into use sporadically in
England, until at last they achieved a
peaceful penetration into the United
States; then they ceased to be mere
Criticisms; they won recognition into
standard English. A like fate has be-
fallen 'boss' and ''boom," the first a
localism of New York descended
from the days when the Empire city
was New Amsterdam), and the second
spontaneous creation of the lumber
camps of Michigan. In time these
two words were in common use all
over the United States; they were
then merely AmericaniSps and after
a while they made theiT way into the
British empire. until now they bid
fair to be lifted into standard Eng
liSh
The Winslow mail., 1918-11-15
BUILT FOR SHALLOW WATER
Peculiar Marine Institution on New
England Coast Was Known in
1912 as the Camel.

In the year 1912 a queer marine in
stitution made it's appearance in Nan.
tucket and bore the name of camel.
These camels were really huge floating
dry docks for carrying ships over the
bar, where the depth of water had
been gradually decreasing since 1880.
Being fiat-bOttOmed the camels could
float In water very much shallower
than a loaded ship required. They
were Hike two long, large boxes float
ing side by side and held together at
the ends by large iron chains.
The outer sides were almost. straight
up and down, but the inner sides were
curved, making when the two sections
were drawn together, an interior basin
just the shape of the bottom of a
shin. s- .&sa
The plan was for the camels to be
separated far enough to allow the
ships Go be hauled into the basin be-
tween the two sections, then to be
drawn and held fastened together by
the chains, holding the ship between
them, 80 that the camels and the ship
could then be tOwed over the shallow
places In the channel to the wharf.
The Winslow mail., 1918-11-15
DIRECT ANCESTOR or HEN
From the Jungle Fowl Are Descended
the Feathered Creatures of the
Barnyard of Today.

Although there were no houses with
IN half mile of the camp, we were
surprised on our first night to hear
cocks growing in the jungle (Yunan
province, tropical China), Roy Chap
man Andrews writes in Harper's Mag
azlne. The note was like that of the
ordinary barnyard fowl, except that it
ended somewhat more abruptly. The
next morning we discovered Chanti-
cleer and all his harem In deserted
rice field, and he flew toward the jun
gle in a flash of red and gold.
I dropped him and one of his hens
with a right anG left of ''sixes" and
found that they were jungle fowl (Gal-
lus gallus) In full plumage. The cock
was a splendid bird. The long neck
feathers (hackles) spread over his
back and wings like shimmering
golden mantle but were hardly more
beautiful than the black of his under
parts and green CLOSED tail. Picture
to yourself a "black-breasted red game
cock, and you will have him In all his
glory except that his tail is dropping
and he is more pheasantlike In his
general bearing. The female was a
trim little bird, with lilac sheen to
her brown feathers, and looked exact
ly like @ well-kept "game bantam"
hen.
The jungle fowl is the direct ances-
tor of our barnyard hens and roosters,
which were probably first domesticat-
ed in Burma and adjacent countries
long before the dawn Of authentic
history. According to tradition, the
Chinese received their poultry from
the West about 400 B. c., and they
are figured in Babylon cylinders be-
tween the sixth and seventh centuries
B. G. Although they were probably
introduced in Greece through Persia,
there is no direct evidence as to how
and when they reached Europe
The Winslow mail., 1918-11-15
SOMETHING MORE THAN "TOY"
Quaint Old Legend Having to Do With
Plow Is Peculiarly Appropriate
Just Now.

There is a quaint old legend of AL
SAGE, recalls the Christian Science
Monitor, concerning family of giants
who, once upon time, lived in a GER
tain castle in the old country. The
moral of the story seems appropriate
at a time when the French minister
of agriculture is making special eff
fort to encourage the cultivation of
land.
The giants lived, says the legend,
far from the peasants of the plain and
one day the daughter of the house,
who though quite child, was already
thirty feet high, strolled toward a
plain and saw a laborer peacefully
blowing his fields. She picked up the
peasant, the horse and the plow and
put them in her pinafore and returned
to the castle to show what she had
found to her father
"What you think is but toy" said
the giant, "is what produces the food
which enables us to live. Put back
the laborer and his horse where you
found them" From that time onward,
adds the tale, the peasants were never
molested by the giants.
The Winslow mail., 1918-11-15
Cherish Your Friends,

Have you a good friend? Of course
you have, every one has friends, but
every one does not hold the friend
ships they. make. Friendship is too
rare and sacred treasure lightly to
be thrown away. And yet many peo-
pie are not careful to retain their
friends. Some lose them through in.
attention, failing to maintain those lit
tie amenities, cOurtesies and kind
nesses which cost SO little, and yet
are hooks of steel to grapple and hold
our friends. Some drop old friends
for new ones. Some take Offense cas-
lily at imagined Sights or neglects and
ruthleSsly cut the most sacred ties.
Some become impatient of little
faults, and discard even truest friend
ships. Some are incapable of any
deep or permanent affection, and fly
from friendship to friendship like
birds from bough to bough, but make
no nest for their hearts in any. There
are great many ways of losing
friends. But when we have once
taken them into our lives we should
cherish them as rarest jewels. If
Sights are given, let them be over
looked. Ii misunderstanding arise,
let them be quickly set right.
The Winslow mail., 1918-11-15
HoMlNG INSTINCT OF ToADs
Like Pigeons, They May Yet Be Made
Useful Bearers of Messages,
Says Naturalist.

Armies may yet use toads as mes
sage bearers in place of carrier pi-
geons If this incident related in a let
ter to the editor of Every Week is
found to have general application:
Dallas Lore Sharp, the naturalist
and writer of nature books, told me
that hoptoads possess the homing in
stinct. Take one away from the spot
where 1t has always lived and he will
return, even though you have carried
him ten miles, said Mr.. Sharp.
II resolved, then, to try an expert
ment with Teddy, the big toad who
has made his home in my garden in
Wakefield for the past five years.
Writing my name on tag, tied it to
Teddy's hind leg and took a train to
Boston. Then / transferred to an ele
waited train which carried me to
Charlestown, on the outskirts of the
city. At the corner of Perkins and
Haverhill streets, Charlestown, near
the b. and M. signal tower where I
am employed on night duty, let Ted
dy out of the box. He blinked at the
arc lights a second or so, darted out
his tongue and gobbled few Charles
town mosquitoes, and began straight
way to hop along the side of the street
to Mystic avenue. When he reached
the corner he made a bee line for
Wakefield, hopping off in the darkness
at lively pace.
'It was just II :15 p. m. when went
on duty at the tower and 8 30 when l
reached home the next morning. I'm
agine my surprise and pleasure when,
on entering the yard, l discovered Ted
dy in his accustomed place, under the
sill cock, against the side of the house,
taking a bath-I presume-after his
long, dry and dusty hop of nine miles.
The tag with my name was still tied
to his leg"
The Winslow mail., 1918-11-15
Women Soldiers.

Advertisements of Molly Pitcher of
Revolutionary fame as the first femi-
nine soldier in the United States have
appeared. Perhaps she was the first,
but certainly she wasn't the only one
or the last.
There was Nancy Hart of Georgia,
who took ten Tories prisoners; Debo-
rah Sampson of Massa achusetts, who en-
listed in the Continental army, fought
In battle after battle, her sex unsus-
pected, and headed military expedi-
tions; Frances Hook of Illinois, who
served in the Union army during the
Civil war; Frances Wilson of New
Jersey, Mary Owens of Pennsylvania,
Major Belle Reynolds of Illinois.
Most famous of our Joans of Arc
were Major Pauline Cushman, a Fed
eral scout, and Capt. Belle Boyd, a
Confederate spy, who saved Stonewall
Jackson's army from destruction.
All the women who won regulations
as soldiers proved themselves as
brave, efficient and hardy as any man
could be. Here's wishing more power
to their elbow spokane Spokesman
Review.
The Winslow mail., 1918-11-15
Medicinal Literature.

The London Lancet departs for a
moment from the austere halls of sci
ence to adventure into the fields and
gardens of literature, though keeping
one foot safe within the accustomed
medical precincts. The Lancet dis
cusses nothing less worthy than the
works, writings, theories, maxims and
pleasantries of Master Francois Ra-
belais, the point being that his diver
sions into letters were simply part of
his days work as practical medico.
He wrote, the Lancet assures us, not
for the untold generations of the fu-
ture, not for the delectation of our
own selves, but solely and strictly to
amuse, hearten and brace up the spir-
It's of his patients during the tedium
of their illness, thereby aiding his
cures and adding to his stature as a
member of the faculty.
Master Francois was a great believ-
er in the therapeutic value of litera-
ture.
The Winslow mail., 1918-11-15
Various Kinds of Food,

A bulletin issued by the New YoFA
Museum of Natural History SEATED
that one tribe of North American Iga-
dians regarded mixture of puRveT>
lied ants, grasshoppers, and fOCustS
dried in the sun, as a relish. AmothGs
tribe preferred grasshoppers aEd
crickets with roasted ants as % vGG'
RANT. Moths, the bulletin added, aFe
q favorite dish in Africa, and lumber
men in Maine are said to enjoy am CO.
casional meal of large black vv0ea
ants. The beetle is eaten in Turnkey,
the Nile valley, Lombardy, M0lGSavaa,
Java, Peru, and Valachia, and ls GGaG
to be very nutritious and fattenfnG.
In Central America the eggs of three
aquatic bugs are served as "caRaS. J"
In Nyasaland paste of mayf1ies aafS
mosquitoes is considered a delicaGy.
The Mexicans manufacture @ GgaMA
as strong as their pulque by inf@gf@G
a tiger beetle in alcohol.
The Winslow mail., 1918-11-15
Concerninu Fas4lFeeg.

1t is impossible to stop eating GE&
not feel the pangs of hunger, according
to the Popular Science MonGaly. III
you have been led to believe dtfRer0@ssy
by the stories of men who have unasss>
gone fasting tests, listen to the wCsS2a
of a professor of the University Ga
Chicago. He found as a result OG GSS'
servation on man during prolonged Ea'
territorial starvation that the view taR9t
hunger mechanism fails early does RGa
hold as a general rule. The DP0fNR'
sional faster, he points out, may ignore
the pangs of hunger in spirit OF Baar
vado.
Indian takers who have been RRa@.
ticing the trick of fasting until the MGGA
NAL cravings of the body have g1bEn9G-
ted to will power are said TO be abba
to go without food for incredible pGr
riods of time. But probably the rGal
truth of the matter is known only es
them.
The Winslow mail., 1918-11-15
ROMANCE IN RUSKIN's L.lFE
Divergent Religious Views for Long
Time Separated Him From the
Woman He Loved.

In 1866 Ruskin declared his love for
Rosie La Touche and told her parents
of his hope to make her his wife, sayg
J. Howard Whitehouse in ScribneT'@o
There was a great difference of years
between them. Ruskin was forty-sev-
en-; Rosie was in her eighteenth year.
There was some natural hesitation ON
the part of the parents, and it was ar
ranged that the matter should.be post
poned for three years.
But when the period of probation
was ended new difficulties arose.
There was hesitation not only on the
part of the parents, but also by Rosie.
Miss La Touche was of a deeply re-
ligious nature, but her views were or
thodox and she did not share the wider
views on spiritual questions in which
Ruskin increasingly believed
Her love for him had never wav-
cred since the days of her childhood; =;
but she doubted if, holding the views
she did, she could marry him. Both
she and Ruskin suffered the deepest
distress.
For a little time there was es-
arrangement, and there is moving en-
try in Ruskin's diary in the year 1870:
last Friday about twelve O'Clock at
noon my mistress passed me and
would not speak" In the following
year there was reconciliation.
The end of Ruskin's dream came In
1875. Miss La Touches health never
strong, began to fail, and she died I'm
May Of that year.
The Winslow mail., 1918-11-15
..s.,..s-s5asss S5s4E2
FINDS HER POSITION CHANGED
Mother of Young Girl Explains How
She Is Being "Mothered" by
Her Daughter.

In an article in the Woman's Home
Companion on 'The Girl of Seven
teen this mother says:
"She is just past seventeen years of
age, is sweetly pretty, innocent re-
fined, intelligent, talented and lS
blessed with an open mind, particular
ly receptive, just now, to all up-tO-daGe
ideas in the way of dress fads, social
stunts, ragtime melodies, jazz bands,
new dances and late coiffures. She La,
in two words, my daughter, lovely
child of the period just arrived at the
know it all age, and represents the
average daughter of this day, replica
of the daughters of other mothera.
"As for me, l am her mother, neces-
sary to her as a housekeeper and
pursekeeper, also an admiring audi
ence of one for this very independent
young person. A few years ago add
ed to these titles those of mentor,
guide, teacher and comforter, but, to
be bit slangy, within the past year
l have lost my job and have fallen
from my high estate as leader and
manager to the second in command.
In fact, the tables have swung COM
pletely around and where, only a short
time ago, / mothered my baby girl, it
is | who am now being daughtered,
who am being trained to look upon life,
not as sedate mother person twice
and a little more the years OF my
daughter, but with the eyes of youth
full seventeen, who am being skillfully
and tactfully imbued, by my very own
child, with the latest ideas in regard
to living. am being lovingly re-
quired, nay, sweetly compelled, to
change by ideas and opinions so that
they may conform to hers"
The Winslow mail., 1918-11-15
Beat Method of Memorizinu.

In committing a text to memory by
consecutive readings better results can
be obtained by allowing a fair period
Of time between readings. If a text
be read number of times on a given
day, and another the same number of
times on consecutive days, much more
OF the latter will have been memor-
isoa.
The Winslow mail., 1918-11-15
The Quarrel.

Mrs. Willis-What did Mr.. and Mrs.
Bump quarrel about?
Mrs. Gillis-ReligiOn.
Mrs. Willis--You don't sayl
Mrs. Gillis-Yes; she wanted 10 at
tend a church that has an unmarried
preacher and he wanted to attend enc
that has lot of pretty girls I'm tina
choir.-Judge. ----.-....-......
The Winslow mail., 1918-11-15
The LADY, or the Tiuer?

George" she said. "before I give
you a final answer you must tell me
something. Do you drink anything?"
A smile of relief lighted his hand
some countenance-was that all she
wanted to know? Proudly, triumph
antly he clasped her in his arms and
whispered in her shell-like ear:
Anything gr'-Gargoyle.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-03
OFFICER EMPLOYED TO
ENFORCE HEALTH RULES
IN THE MEADOW CITY

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS TO MORNING JOURNAL
East Las Vegas, n. M, Nov, -
special officer has been employed by
he CITY council to enforce the health
regulations put in force some time ago
70 prevent the spread of Spanish in
fluenza. 1t had been reported to
Mayor Blood that several of the stores
and other places where the public
congrcrates had allowed more than
five persons to enter at the same
time. Five is the limit. and places
that continue to allow more than that
NUMBER inside will he closed and their
proprietors or managers prosecuted.
The city of East Las Vegas har a
good record in its dealing with the
influenza. During the month of Oc-
tober 236 cases of the disease were
reported. There were only eight
deaths. On the west side the figures
are not available, but it is known that
the number of deaths has been much
larger, However the spread of the
disease on both sides of the Gallinas
river seems to be checked to a large
extent
In the country districts of San
Miguel and Mora counties conditions
are reported to be much worse than
in the cities, Nearly 100 deaths have
been reported from the territory in
Guiding the West side and the New
Mexico hospital for the insane. At
La Cueva, small hamlet in Mora
county, l3 deaths occurred on one
day,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-03
2S0,773 MEN To
REPORT To CAMP
BY NOVEMBER Il
New Mexico viii Send 2,123
Registrars to Camp Cody
and 1906 10 Fort ROSecrans}
New Registrars Called,

MORktNS
Washington Nov. 3.--Draft calls
for the mobilization Of 290.773 addi-
tional men at arr training cam0s
refore Noyempor y were announced
tonight h., Provost General Grow nr.
Between Novembc!' II end | : was
announced, GA white men phys
ically qualified fog general military
service will entrain. making The
largest single call issued under the
selective service act.
The remainder O. the Novorlhor
total, as far as announced, WI he
made ~ OF negroes for enrichment
November 10 to q.
with the resembling Of the men
nrovided in these calls at camp the
total number of men indicted into
military service under the draft will
have passed the 3 600 600 mark, AMI
the number of men in the United
States army. IN the field or in train
ing will total more than 100000.
Men who registered SEPTEMBER .
under the act extending draft age
limits will make IN the largest pro-
portion of the Nnvcmher mobilization
as the eligible list remaining from
previous registrations laNgel" vas eN-
! hausted by the October calls, Though
the october calls were suspended be-
cause of the Influenza epidemic. near
| " all have been reissued during the
| last three weeks. In states where
/ the calls have not heen re!ssued men
called for camp IN October will leave
| with the men called for this month
| Calls for additional rren To entrain
| later this month are in preparation.
| 1t was said today at the office of the
| provost marshal general. Entrain-
ment b. states and camps of the
! 253,S35 white rogistrants will include
| the following:
Arizona-257, Camp Cod" n. M;
/ GA Kelly field. Tex. Total III.
| California. 900 Camp Lewis,
Wash; 1909 Kelly field. Total,15,-
! 049.
Colorado-2,9 Camp Pike.
! New Mexco--2,123 Camp Cody.
| New Mexico---105 Fort Rosecrans,
| Calf
Texas, 600 Camp Bowie, Tex;
i $500 Camp Travis Tex.
Texas, 202 Fort Crockett. Tex.
| Colored registrants include:
| CALIFORNIA; Camp Lewis.
Colorado-10 Camp Funston