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The Newark journal., 1921-10-06
PROGRESSING
 ON POWER PLANT
Expected That Hydro-Electric Plant on Red River Will be
 Finished July 1

Little Rock, Oct. 5.-Two years of investigation and preparation will eliminate July 1st, next, with the pro- duction of electricity from Arkansas first big hydro-elec- trict proposition, according to the plans announced today by the Arkansas Hydro-Electric Development Company, of which Virgil c. Petite of Lit tie Rock is president.
 MT. Petite, who is vice pres ident of the England National Bank and president of the Arkansas Advancement Asso. citation, declares that compile tion of Dam No. 1, on the Lit tie Red River nine miles above Judsonia, will be the greatest business factor in stimulating Arkansas industrial develop ment and with the successful financing of the construction program, will place Arkansas securities on the highest grade in the money markets of the country.
 The company's project is inc largest construction job now under way in the entire State of Arkansas. 1t will in- volve the expenditure of al. most S2,000,000 and is pro. viding employment for a small army of men.
 The salient features of what is called Dam No. 1 will in volve the construction of a re inforeed concrete dam across the Little Red river, nine miles above Judsonia, creating 8 lake Is miles long. As part of the dam will be the power. house, with capacity of 22,- GOO H. P, the dam itself will be 80 feet high and approxi- mately $50 feet long.
 It will store three billion, eight hundred million cubic feet of usable water, ample to insure continuous production of electric current. The lake will cover 10,300 acres of land.
The Newark journal., 1921-10-06
BIG YIELD OF COTTON

Walnut Ridge, Oct. 1.-Os- car Decker has gathered 1882 pounds of cotton off a piece of ground that measured a half an acre on the Ponder farm here, and expects to gather that much more. This yield is equal to three bales per acre.
The Newark journal., 1921-10-06
40 CENTS FOR COTTON

Newport, Sept. 30.-Rex McCuistion, local cotton buy CT, today bought three bales of long staple cotton from Clay Roberts of Diaz for 40 cents a pound. He also bought six bales from Ed Plant of Bengel, paying 39 cents a pound.
The Newark journal., 1921-10-06
 BUY NEWSPAPER PLANT

James L. Bland, connected with the Newport Daily Inde- pendent for two years, and A. c. Wilkerson, editor and owner of the Independent, have bought the Walnut-Ridge Times Dispatch, formerly owned by Walter Smith. Bland will edit and publish the Walnut Ridge paper.
The Newark journal., 1921-10-06

The date of the Baby Con- test at the Independence coun- ty fair has been changed, and the contest will be held on Thursday, October 20.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-18
HON FRANK CANNON SPEAKS
TONIGHT
Will Give Address at tho Baptist
Church

Hon. Frank ]. Cannon, former
United States senator from Utah,
will address an evening meeting at
the First Baptist church, this eve
ming, at 1880 o'clock.
1t has been the lot of Senator
Cannon to fight various evils since
his early childhood, when he found
himself in a polygamous home, and
rebelled against the social customs
by which he was surrounded. While
in the United States senate, he
made a reputation as a fearless ad-
vocate of righteousness.
In later years Mr.. Cannon has
been the editor of the Rocky Noun
tain Daily News and the Salt Lake
Tribune, through which he has con-
Quoted campaigns against social evils.
"Food for Powder" is the subject
Of the address which Mr.. Cannon is
to deliver here.
Mr.. Cannon is speaking under the
auspices of the National Reform as
sociation, of whose publication, the
Christian Statesman, he is one of
the editors.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-18
Has Held Many Important Posi-.
tiOns in State

Geo. N. Dewey assumed his duties
Monday as postmaster of the City OF
'Owosso under appointment by Presi
dent Harding, having been certified by
the Civil Service Commission as one
who passed satisfactory examination
for the position and having received the
endorsement Of Congressman j. W.
Fordney of this district.
Mr.. Dewey has lived In Owosso forty
years, and since early manhood has been
active in public sffairs. serving the city,
the county, the state and the U. s.
Government in official capacities The
confidence of the people in his ability
and the satisfaction in the service
shown by his repeated election by votes
is a guarantee that he will fulfill the
duties of the new position ably.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-18
FREE CLINIC THIS WEEK AT
LIBRARY
Many Patients Have Consultation N
and are Given Advice

A free clinic for tuberculosis and
children's diseases, conducted by Drs
M. d. Cambell and F. L. Rose, OF
the state department of health open
ed Monday morning at the public H.
brary, and continued until Wednes-
day night. DR.. Cambell made the
examinations for tuberculosis and DR..
Rose handled the children's cases.
Two nurses, Misses Lillian Bailey and
Edna Shane, also of the department
of health, assisted the officers.
The clinic was brought here
through the efforts of the Kings
Daughters. The members of the
Kings Daughters committee on tuber-
culosis who were in attendance at
the clinics were Mrs. James Ketcham,
Mrs. G. A. Mckenzie, Mrs. L. L.
Conn and Mrs. James G. Rigley.
The hours of the clinic were from
9 to IL a. m. and 2 to p. m. The
hour from A to each afternoon was
devoted to the examination of form
er service men.
Speaking of his work among child
rem, DR.. Rose said that he looks for
the unusual symptoms among the lit
tie folks. About 20 per cent of all
children he said, whether living in the
Continued on page
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-18
REP. 7 LENNON ADVOCATES
STATE INCOME TAX
Begins Campaign to Relieve Taxes
on Real Estate and Place
Tax on tho Incomes

Unless she finds some new source
of revenue, Michigan must abandon
her constructive programs in road
building, institutional expansion and
other lines, Peter B. Lennon, Genesee
County's state legislature represent
ative told the Chamber of Commerce
at the last weekly meeting.
According to Mr.. Lennon, some
plan must be formed to relieve the
heavily burdened property now car
rying 80 per cent of the tax load
and in the minds of students of this
problem, the state income tax is the
remedy.
The state legislature has submit
ted a constitutional amendment to
be balloted on at the election in No
vember, 1922, which would enable
but not compel them to enact an, in
come tax law, providing for a grad
uated and progressive income tax
varying from one-half to four per
cent on all incomes. Such a tax
would produce about $20, 100000 in
revenue annually, and would relieve
real estate Of state taxes.
Mr.. Lennon declares that taxation
is the result of evolution. He says
that the poll tax was the first. form of
(Continued on page four)
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-18
PlOWATY.DOWNS co. OPEN
BRANCH STORE
Enos Norris, n Former Owosso Boy
fs Branch Manager

sqThe Piowatty-Downs Co. of Ian
sing, wholesale distributors of fruit
and vegetables, has opened branch
store at 115 East Comstock street
with Enos Norris as branch man.
ager. The Piowatty company has
numerous branches throughout the
state and this is the second branch
house to be opened by the Piowat.
ty-Downs Co. The other is al
Lansing.
Mr.. Norris is former Owosso boy
and is we'll known to Owosso people
He has been with the Piowatty com.
pany for ten years and has made
good, a fact that is evidenced by
the fact that he is placed in charge
of the Owosso branch.
Mr.. Norris expects to move his
family here from Lansing about De.
cember 1.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-18
GROVE IMPLEMENT co. UN.
DER NEW MANAGEMENT
w. L. Grove Signs Over His
interests

Fred E. Hartshorn, Karl J. Welte
and Oliver Elliott, of the Hartshorn
Auto Co., who for the past two
years have held one-half the stock
of the Grove Implement Co., have
acquired the balance of the stock,
held up to this time by w. Lee Grove
and E. M. Hart, according to an an
nouncement by Mr.. Welte, presi-
dent of the company, Saturday
morning.
Under the reorganization Of the
company, the only change in the
officers is the election of Mr.. Elliott
as vice-president to succeed Mrs.
w. L. Grove. Mr.. Welte continues
as president and Mr.. Grove will con-
tinue as secretary and treasurer, as
well as remaining in the store, tenn
porarily. The corporation name will
be unchanged.
The company plans to make some
changes in the buildings occupied by
the Grove and the Hartshorn COM
panies, utilizing parts Of both for the
implement business and offering
the two stores at Park and Main
streets for rent.
Mr.. Grove expects to refine in the
near future and may go to Cali
fornia.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-18
MAYOR WRIGHT
PLANS CITY
MARKET
SITE HAS BEEN DONATED
FOR PLACE TO BUILD
BY X. G. OSBORN
FREE EMPLOYMENT FOR MEN
Mayor Organizes a Bureau to Helm
Men Get Jobs or Work
from Day to Day

At Commission meeting Monday
night, Mayor A. T. Wright said that
he had under consideration the
forming of City Market for Owt
osso and that he was looking for
place which would be suitable. He
informed City Attorney Pond that
as soon as he found desirable place
he would draft the incorporation ar
ticle for the market and submit it for
approval. The market will provide a
place for consumers to buy direct
from the producer and it will prove
an inducement for the farmer to
bring his produce to the city. Natu-
rally, if the farmer comes to town
with his produce, he will buy his
weeks supply in the city where he
can sell his produce to the best ad-
vantage, and it will be to the interests
of the citizens of Owosso to back this
movement Fundamentally.
Several sites are under considera-
tion by the mayor, one of which is
the vacant lot at, Park. and Mason
streets, owned by E. G. Osburn. Mr..
Osburn has offered this lot gratis to
the city for that use. stJs
The mayor also announced that he
lis opening free employment bureau
at his office. There are hundreds of
people, out of work and the mayor
said that almost steady stream of
people come in and out of his Office
daily.
1t is. the desire Of the mayor to
have any person or pc cons who wish
the services of either a man o. wa
man of any kind, apply at his cdice.
He will keep record of all applica-
tions and as soon as a suitable per-
son calls, he will be sent out on the
job.
The commission amended the water
ordinance to provide for the division
of the city into three districts for the
collection of water taxes. Cedar
street and all of the district west
thereof, and north to the river is dis
trict No. 1. Washington street and
all west to Cedar street is district
No. 2 and all east of Washington
street is in district No. 3. The com
mission announced that water service
will be cut off if the rates are not
paid by the goth of the month fol-
lowing the date on which they are
due. A fee of $1.00 will be charged
for turning the water on again if
it is necessary to have it cut off.
A report by N. l. Raymond, city
engineer, showed that at present
there is total Of $7,127.45 out
standing for curb and sidewalk con-
struction for the season of 1921.
81 ,028.61 is for curbs.
Commissioner Stebbins submitted
a report of $3,O62.32 which was the
total cost of replacing and repairing
broken curbs in the business district
this fall. The city will pay SO per-
cent of this and the property owners
will pay the balance.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-18
Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
BY the Governor

IN ACCORDANCE ch tie custom long estaJbhsd y fathers
entirely fitting that the oud
Thanksgiving manifold
merces and blessings that
There old
bear from earth the One the Request
flies place place. listening prayer The angel
has his baskets filled Nth uppHcotons
but the Thanksgicng all his
little hymns Of gratitude IN the bottom of his basket
Perhaps this than People
much than rejoice
the hare abundant Ihanksgg
oidual Nces State and Nation sufficient harrt has
has hghy fagOred We hare still problems
but the experience OF tie
hope confidence guided and blessed By the Providence Of God
Therefore, By rtue Of the authority rested
State Michigan the President Of TIE United
ignating THURSDAY NOVEMBER day Of Thanksgiving
and Prayer.
Gi0an under and the Of he
[sEAL tenth day Nocem6er an the
and nine hundred and t'centyOne and the Common
weahh the eghyffh
ALEX. H. GROESBECR,
By the Governor:
CHARLES j. DeLAND
Secretary State.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-18
SHlAWASSEE COUNTY
MEDICAL SOCIETY CONVENES
Many Important QUESTIONS Dis
cussed this Week at Clinic.

! About so doctors from Clinton,
GeneseeT and Shiawassee counties
held district meeting in the Ar
mory Wednesday. afternoon. They
discussed medical cases, infantile par
alysis and skin diseases.
DR.. McKeene, DR.. Varney and DR.
Ridner, of Detroit, were the chief
clinicians present. DR.. varney spoke
on bone surgery, and DR.. Mexican on
internal medicines.
DR.. Mckay, president of the State
Medical society of Lapeer, was pres
ent. DR.. H. A. Hume of this city
is the president of the Shiawassee
society, and DR.. H. H. E. Randall
of Flint, is the district counselor.
At the close of the afternoons
session, the doctors enjoyed ban
quet in the basement dining room,
served by the American Legion aux.
iliary.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-18
PATTERSON DAWSON POST TO GEORGE NJ DEWEY TAKES
ON 81 PLAY FOOT BArROq 81 FVo OVER pOsIoFfICEo7 7
Some OF Cwosso's Old Stars Will
Play Thanksgiving

Prospects Wednesday were that
Owosso football fans would have an
opportunity to see game here on
Thanksgiving day. The Patterson
Dawson Post is making arrangements
to form an eleven to meet the Ow-
osso high school team in game at
Athletic Park on Thanksgiving after
noon. -o,.,
1t is probable that the high school
lineup will be the same as has been
used in other games this season.
Several old high school and college
stars will appear in the Legion line
up. Among the candidates who are
expected to find berths on\ the vet
erans' eleven are the Robbins broth
ers, Joe and George, the Mccall
brothers, McNally and Cummins.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-18
MERLE SHEPHERD
MURDERED
BY NEICnB0R
SNOW BALL ROW CAUSE OF
THE DISPUTE WHICH
ENDS IN MURDER
MURDERER SENT TO JACKSON
Less Than pa Hours After Crime
Phyllnire was Sentenced to
Life imprisonment

Merle Shepherd, a rural mail car
rier of West Owosso, was shot and
killed Tuesday evening at o'clock
by Louis Phyllaire at Shepherds IS
home. The cause of the shooting
was said to be due to the defeat of
Phyllaire's children in a SNOWFALL
battle with Shepherds children.
Phyllaire admits killing Shepherd,
but claims that he shot in self de-
fense.
1t is alleged that the Shepherd
children on their way home from
school Tuesday evening engaged in
a snow ball battle with the Phyl-
laire children with the result that
the Phyllaire children retreated, and
Immediately went to their father and
told him about the losing fight.
Phyllaire Immediately became en-
ragged, and told his wife, as she tes-
titled before the officers, that, he
was going over and kill Shepherd.
1t is said he loaded his revolver
and went to the Shepherd home
where he found Shepherd bending
over a Ford machine cleaning the
spark plugs, and 1t is alleged BY %it-
nesses that he shot Shepherd without
any warning, using the entire maga-
zine of six shots. Then, it is said
he grabbed the young boy, Frank
Shepherd and snapped the gun in
his face but seeing that there were
no more shells struck him over the
head with the butt of the revolver.
Phyllaire has confessed to the
officers that he shot Shepherd but
he claims self defense.
eyes, I shot him. I shot him six
times, but I shot in self Defense"
he said. d.
Less than "a hours after he COM
mitted the crime, Lewis Phyllaire
was sentenced by Judge Joseph H.
Collins in circuit court Wednesday
afternoon to life imprisonment at
Jackson prison. Phyllaire pleaded
guilty to a charge Of first degree
murder.
The sentence was pronounced at
2:23 p. m. The prisoner took it very
calmly Sheriff J.. w. Sproule took
Phyllsire to Jackson Wednesday night.
Before the sentence Sheriff J. W..
Sproule was called to the stand to
testify regarding the murder. This
was done to establish the degree OF
murder.
Following his plea Phyllaire was
questioned regarding the crime. He
told practically the same story as
that he related Tuesday night.
After sentence was imposed,
Phyllaire was handcuffed to Sheriff
Sproule and led back to the Jail.
AS he entered the Jail door, ,-he told
the officers that if they would per-
nit him to do so, he would go to
Jackson alone and give himself up
at the prison there.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-18

Work of laying gas main on
Woodlawn is expected to be COM
pdeted this week, it was said at the
Office of the Owosso Gas Light COM
pany Tuesday morning. All SER
vices probably will be installed next
week.
With the completion of these SER
vices on Woodlawn the total number
Of service installations Of this sea-
son will be approximately $50.
IL the weather remains as open
as it is now, it will be possible to
make service taps where mains are
already installed.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-18

son, and thy daughter, and
thy manservaat, and thy maid
servant, and the Levite that
IS ,oithin thy gates, and the
stranger, and the tatherless, and
the Didoao, that are among you,
in the place ,ohich the Lord thy
God has chosen to place has name
there.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-18

SEVEN days shalt thou keep
a solemn feast unto the Lord thy
God, IN the place ,chich the Lord
shall choose; because the Lord
TIM God shall bless thee an all
hy increase, and IN all the aoorks
Of thine hands, therefore thou
shalt surely rejoice.
DEUTERONOMY. CHI. 10. " 1915
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-18
o ankHgtutn

that thou Wdst o. bondn,dn an
Egypt;; and thou shalt observe
and do these statutes.
THOU shalt observe the feast
of tabernacles Seuen days, after
that thou hast gathered in thy
corn and thy ,oi',e,
AND thou shalt rejoice IN thy
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-18

AND THOU shall keep the
feast of ,oeeks INTO the Lord thy
God aoith q tribute of q .free,oiU
Offering of thine hand, eohich tho"
shalt giye unto the Lord hy God,
according as the Lord thy God
hath blessed thee.
AND thou shalt remember
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-18

feast, thou, and thy son, and thy
daughter, and thy manserpant,
and thy maidsercant, and the
Levite, the stranger, and the
.fatherless, and the ,Oido,D, that
are within thy gate"
AND thou shalt rejoice before
the Lord, thy God, thou, and thy
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-18

Announcements have been receiy-
ed of the marriage of Miss Matte
Marie Brown, formerly of this city.
to Herbert H. Mitson of Detroit.
The ceremony took place in Detroit,
Saturday, November 18th, and was
performed by Rev. H. H. Rice, in
the presence of close relatives Of
the bride and groom. The young
people will make their home in De-
troit
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-11-18


The Owosso Times Newspaper
Book and job Printing business,
established in 1879 by George M.
Dewey and conducted by him and
his s,ns, Edmund O., Henry B.
and George M. Jr., since that
time, has this week been rented
to M. d. Orr. who will continue
the business in The Timess block.
To the thousands who have
patronized the establishment, l
wish to extend heartfelt. thanks
and ask for a continuance Of the
very liberal support of the news.
paper and the job printing bust.
ness which has made 1t profitable
and exceedingly pleasant.
Sincerely,
GEO. M. DEWEY.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-12-09
FEW DIVERSIONS IN JAPAN
Youngsters Work Hard in School, and
That ls Probably Their Lies
Happlest Period.

Almost all forms of recreation
known to boys In America and Europe
are forbidden to the Japanese school
boy. He is under social or economic
bans that restrict his play for long
periods to such dull pastimes as keep
ing a diary, writing and collecting
postal cards ana attending a young
mems cluh-which has far less in
tereSting functions than a club IN
America, remarks the Detroit News.
Some of the more fortunate Japa-
nese schoolboys may be permitted to
make a walking trip during vacation.
For them the trip is a memorable ad-
velture. The annual Opening of the
River festival gives opportunity to
watch the fireworks and lighted boats
on the Sumida. In the evening he sits
in his room, gazing from a window
Or playing on a flute that costs 10 or
Is cents. Lantern professions, by
which the japanese celebrate their
many special days. are another diver,
sion.
This has resulted in calling school
days the period Of bitter learning
regarded in later life as the students
happiest time, because when he leaves
school he marries a girl in whose Sc
lection he has no word, and must earn
his living with whatever tools are Civ.
en- to him.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-12-09
CITES EARTH'S Ia MOVEMENTS
Flammarlon, French Astronomer, Emu
merates Various Activities of Globe
During Its Travels.

The fact that our earth in its voyage
through space has no fewer than four
teen distinct movements has been
pointed out by the French astronomer
and scientist, Camille Flammarion, ac-
cording to an article in the Paris
Temps. These are as follows:
DAILY rotation, annual revolution,
fluctuation or rocking due to the pre-
cession of the equinoXes in a period Of
26,765 years, monthly movement Of the
earth around the center Of gravity
of the earth-moon couple; mutation
caused by the attraction Of the moon
every eighteen and half years; vara-
ton, coming once every century, of
the obl1quity of the ecliptic variations
every century of the eccentricty of the
terrestrial orbit; displacement Of the
line Of apses every 1900 years; dis
turbances caused by the constantly
changing attraction of the planets; dis
placement of the center Of gravity of
the solar system around which the
earth travels annually, this center be-
ing determined by the variable posi-
lions Of the planets; perpetual varia-
ton Of ATTITUDES; daily tides of the
continental soil; displacement of the.
whole Milky Way, of which our sun
is one star, toward the constellation
of Capricorn, at the formidable speed
of 375 miles per second, Or 100000
miles per hour"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-12-09
SAW STEAMBOAT AS ENEMY
sailors and Fishermen Alike Dreaded
Power Of Which They Had No
Comprehension.

When Fulton's steamboat the Cler-
mont. made her maiden trip on the
hudson river in 1907, it frightened
more persons than it interested. Fish.
ermen and small boatmen to a man
believed it to be some horrible mon.
ster, and headed for shore as fast as
they could go, and once on land ran
AT top speed into woods and fields
to hide. Crews of larger sailing ships
we're no better, and many a schooner
was deserted and left to drift down
stream as the snorting, canking.
smoke-tossing Clermont appeared.
Later it was made known along the
river what the thing was and there
at once arose great wave of hate
instigated by boatmen who saw their
business ruined, and by fishermen who
were sure the noise of the steamboat
would drive the fish to sea. Added to
them were hundreds of religious ia.
natics who declared the boat was the
work Of the devil and flying in the
face Of God" So acute did this dis
like grow that attempt after attemp
was made by large sailing ships to
run the Clermont down. The state
legislature had to pass special law
making 1t criminal offense to At
tempt to injure the boat.