The Owosso times., June 11, 1920, Image 4

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i;: STATE
SAVINGS BANK
Capital,
Barplns and Undivided
Proflta,
Owosio, Michigan
$50,000
35,000
Officers and Directors.
W. F. Gallagher, President
A. L. Arnold, Yica President , .
T. M. Euler, Vica PresldeJj
W. A. Rosenkrftft, Cifthlef '
,P. N. Cllne, Ass't Cashier
, K. F. Crawford, Ass't Cashier
L, C. Hall. n. B. Sturtevant,
A. E. Foster.
THE OWOSSO TIME!
ElDVlUND O. DEWEY. Prop.
OVTOSSO. MICH.. JUNE 11, 1920.
Senator Charles E. Townsend, as
chairman of the Committee on Post
Offices and Post Roads, has been ap
r,Aint pViairman of a Senatorial com
mission to investigate the handling of
mail by the Post Office Department.
The president of the benate was di
rected to appoint the commission from
members of the Committee on Post
Officers and Post Roads by a provi-
gion' in the Post Office appropriation
act provided April 24. Senators
Thomas Sterling, of Seuth Dakota,
George H. Moses, of New Hampshire,
Republicans; Charles B. Henderson,
of Nevada, and David I. Walsh, of
Massachusetts, Democrats, -are the
other members of the commission.
The commission -will report its find
ings to Congress.
And once in awhile we have to stop
and laugh when we recall how Pres
ident Wilson was elected in 1912 on
a solemn pledge to reduce the cost
of living. Gee! wouldn't 1912 prices
sound good today! Beaver Springs
(Pai) -Herald.
Trie White House patent on the
Peace , treaty will run out next March
and there won't be anybody to renew
it.-4Minneapolis Tribune.
It'Xvas a wise student who, when
asked to name the President's cabinet
retorted, "I haven't read the newspa
pers today." Burlington (Vt.) News.
I$j is said that administration dem
ocrats fearing an open break at San
Francisco, are setting out to try to
bring Bryan and Wilson into accord.
This ' can be easily enough .: accom
plished if Bryan wil go back on whai
he said about the treaty, the covenant
and a , number .of other issues and
adopt the "willingly go along" habit
of rairid. Martinex (Calif.) Gazette.
' PERRY
t ,
Perry, June 4. Manley H. Sher
man?, 77, a prominent resident here
for. 21 years, died suddenly of heart
trouble last night. He had been in
poor health for some months. Mr.
Sherman was the second prominent
Perry man to die suddenly in two
days, John Blanchard expiring unex
pectedly Wednesday night.
Suit has been started by summons
in circuit court by Mrs. Flora Estey
Woodard, administrator of the estat
of !her daughter, Frances Woodard,
deceased, against Hugh Woodard for
$5,000. The defendant is a cousin of
the plaintiff's husband, Frank Wood
ard, of Owosso.
In the Saginaw Valley high school
track meet held in Bay City last Sat
urday Owosso gained ten points
through the efforts of Bill Melchers
who won second in the high jump and
shot-put and Rodesiler who won sec
ond in the half mile and Sternaman
who won fourth in the 100 yard dash.
This is a good showing made by the
boys and with the succeeding years
they hope to' do better with experience
an" with more practice.
TURN FIREFLY TO ACCOUNT
Hoy the Natural Light of the Insect
ls Utilized by Indians of the
Antilles.
In Cuba and other Islands of the
Caribbean region there Is a species
of firefly so brilliantly luminous that
pre-Columbian Imllans used tlu-in for
lantern lights, Imprisoning tliera for
the? purpo.se In perforated gourds.
Cuban negroes ntlll utilize? Uiem In
the, same way, confining a few of the
Insects In an ordinary glass lantern,
which may be conveniently hung up In
the hut or carried about on dark
nights.
The Indians of the, Antilles, long
ago, made another Use of the firefly
lanterns, employing them for signaling,-
One great advantage they had
was that their light could not be blown
out by wind oruPdut'ttf rain; and,
with a sort of (Morpecode,,tlie;plinto
telegraphy was aA lixcbedlriify etiit leht
means of sending mpxtfJ ilbut
lag warnings of dKrtgrHir imJj1de.
On occasions of nocturnal outdoor
festirlty In Cuba It Is a comman thing
for ladles to adorn their gowns' with
these brilliant fireflies, which glow
more brightly thsn any gems..
The eggs laid by the- Inserts are
luminous, the firefly's light being thus
handed down without extinguishment
from generation to generation, each
one .passing the; torch along, as It
were, to the next Pittsburgh Dis
patch. ...... . . - .
CHATTERTON'S
SLIDE
By WILL T. AMES
(. 1120, by McClurs Newspaper Syndicate.)
"We're to pick up four more lengths
at the Red Barn," announced Peltier,
the train boss, to McNlder, the engi
neer of the log train.
"Who said so?" demanded McNlder,
halting In his task of tinkering the
leaky cycllnder of the queer little loco
motive.
"His Mfes," replied Peltier with
shrug of his shoulders that confirmed
the Indication of French descent pro
vlded., by his name.
"I thought his sister was going out
with us." Evidently McNlder could:i't
reconcile the presence of a woman on
the log train with the gratuitous
perils, of a nine-length load, over the
tortuous curves and breathless gradi
ents of the Burke company's road.
"So she Is," corroborated the train
boss. ",,- .'
"Well, I'll be d d!
"What are you going to do with a
fellow like Greener?" exclaimed Pel
tier. "I asked him If lie had for
Kmen mac ms Janice was going on
the train, and he bawled me out; ask
ed me who I thought I was; said they
often hauled eleven and twelve on the
Nicknmaug's road."
"Sure! I'd rather haul twenty
there than six hero," commented the
engineer.
"Well, there you are! We haul the
nine, and Miss Greener goes and like
enough she'll get smashed flat between
a couple of twelve-Inch butts!" And
the train boss took himself somberly
off to see that the five "lengths" of
great spruce logs were stowed as safe
on their trucks as human care could
make them.
Dave Peltier, middle-sized, strong.
lithe, had been born to he woods like
his father before him. But he had
yielded to the pet desire of the father
and had, goijie ;to school and college.
For Pcltfei Senior, wns making a little
money as a woods Jobber and wns pos
sessed to spend It on an education for
the boy ;, which Is often the way with
men who have had no schooling them
selves. The war came when Dave
was in 'his sophomore year at Tech
and he had gone over with the first
contingent of foresters.
When he got back it was to find his
father dying, the little business melted
away and the task of getting a f living
before him, , Tie had been train boss
for the Burke outfit when the new
manager, Greener, came; and he had
at once.attracjed.the attention of Miss
Janice Greener when that yorfng wohih
an arrived, a month ago, to visit her
brother and, principally, to get new
material for the paintings of winter
woods and lumber camps which had
already brought her some measure of
success.
The girl, pluming herself on an art
ist's contempt for the conventionali
ties, had permitted herself and per
mitted Peltier a degree of intimacy in
their friendship that led, as the down
hill flow of water, to a frank confes
sion of regard by the young woods
man; for Dave Peltier had never
thought of himself as the inferior of
any being on earth.
The consequences had been calami
tous. Janice Greener suddenly, discov
ered that her artist colony democracy
was only skin deep and she had
stung Peltier as a woman can sting
a man only when she realizes that It
Is the difference In their social posi
tions which alone makes his proffered
love Impossible of acceptance. This
was two days before Janice's depar
ture from the camp, , '
Miss Greener should have traveled
In the cab. Instead she had insisted
In riding,' somehow, on the logs. So
Peltier, obeying an order of the man
ager, had built an Ingenious little plat
form of planks over the rear truck of
the fifth length, above the logs. Here,
nestled among half a dozen old fur
coats, the headstrong girl was snugly
perched as the lurching train bumped
along on its twenty-mile Journey to the
mills. At the Bed Barn came to her
Peltier, urged on by visible worry.
"Miss Greener," he said, "won't you
please ride the rest of the way In the
cab. It's really dangerous among the
logs. We're going to take on four
more lengths here; they'll be behind
you. If anything happens you'll be
right In the middle of It."
"Mr, Peltier,", returned Miss Green
er, "I do not wish you to concern your
self with my safety at all. I don't un
derstand why my brother keeps In a
position where a little nerve Is neces
sary a person so- so extremely ap
prehensive." What could a man do after thflt but
turn on his heel and stalk away? And
what could a girl do after saying It
hut look as pert and u noon eerned as
possible and wish she had bitten her
tongue off before she did say It?
It was half way down the long
"slide" on Chatterton's ridge that It
happened. McNlder had been easing
the ponderous, ever-threatening nine
lengths down the ghastly grade by
inches and feeling his little engine
grow lighter and weaker under his
hand each Instant
The train crew was running beside
the train, nqueezlng the brake shoes
with tW ridiculous hand cranks that
must be operated from the ground.
Suddenly McNlder turned to Joe Kylle.
his ioreman. , ( .
-.lASout here la where we get off.
Joe. Everything's set up and she's In
rtrtrse, ,bat,tht damned -welxhfs
Ing t push old Betsy right up Into the
air. Well hit the bottom at'a'hun
dred an hour and pile up sky high In
the river. Jump."
: They made It safely enough, and
watched the train, gaining momentum
at every yard, speed past to Its doom.
f'My God ! The girl 1" McNlder,
helpless on the ground, had caught
sight of Janice, white-faced and now
desperately frightened, clinging to. her
pitiful seat of state. "Not a chance In
the world for her 1" breathed the engi
neer.
But whether there was a chance or
not, someone was trying to get to her,
Running over the lurching, shifting
logs from the rear of the long train
Dave Peltier was risking death at ev
ery step.
He had been tending the tail end
bmke when the runaway began. At
the moment when the engine crew
Jumped Dave swung himself onto the
logs of the lust length and began his
breakneck race.
Janice saw him coming; watched
the hazardous approach of the oncom
ing figure with unreasoning hope If
he could only get to her! He was
racing , along the logs of the sixth
length now, keeping his footing some
how, like a chamois. A great, peril
ous, seemingly Impossible leap from
length to length he was with her,
held her in his arms.
"The only chancer" he shouted
above the grinding roar of the train
"Leave It to me. Don't try to move!'
He picked her up like a child, bal
ancing himself and making his way
with cautious shuffling steps to the
edge of the platform. There, with
the girl tight-clasped to his breast, he
waited; wuited for the one chance.
Then all at once he kissed her and
the next instant they were In the air
Peltier had Jumped.
A contractor from Boston had
bought, cut and piled some hundreds
of Christmas trees that he was to
have shipped out over the log road
The market had broken. The trees
rere still there. Peltier remembered.
And as he leaped for them he threw
himself en his back and -Janice
Greener escaped without a scratch.
Peltier left the hospital in two weeks
When he did It was with a warm Joy
In his heart, for Janice had written
him: "Come to me as soon as they
will let you. Because, Dave dear, you
are such a wonderful, valorous one
that you are always going to be my
buffer."
SEEMS FLAW IN ARGUMENT
Matter of Food and Latitude, at First
Plausible, Will Hardly Bear
Analysis.
Someone who does not. seem to hnwe
much regular work to do hs evolved
an argument proving that n"person
StiOtikPeat only those' foods which are
produced In t ho -latitude in which he
fiVes, remarks the Ohio State Journal.
That Is to say, a citizen of this gar
den spot of the world ought never t
eat a lobster or.n banana, a mackerel
or a prune, but, Instead and for In
stance, a pork chop and a puwpaw, a
catfish and a plate of boiled cabLnge.
The basis of this reasoning Is that the
proper feeding of the human race was
carefully planned In the first place
and things which It would be good for
people to eat under certain climatic
conditions were placed right to their
hand. The orange, for example, is a
fine food for persons In warm cli
mates, where It grows, cooling their
blood and keeping their vital forces
up to their work, but here, where It
does not grow and therefore Is not
the natural food of those who live
here, It causes all sorts of distem
pers in the rash physical structure
that takes it In. The theory has been
elaborated and set forth In a rather
plausible way, but, If the good Lord
Intended to limit us so, why were we
given that sort of Intelligence which
ins enabled s to develop our trans
portation facilities to the point where
we can get codfish as easily as pork
hops and oranges as readily as boiled
cabbage?
HOB8E BADLY -
OUT BY FALL
Specialist's Prescription Prevent
Complioatiom.
In telling of the accident to his horse,
Mr. Luther Carmen of Valley Park,
Mo., stated: "My horse fell down and
cnt his knees all np. I dressed them
with Dr. LeGear's Antlseptio Healing
Powderjand they are healing fine. It is
a wonderful (remedy for healing sores
on horees."
Mr. Carmen is simply voicing the
sentiments of hundreds of others who
feel that having Dr. LeGear's personal
prescriptions on hand at all times is
nearly as good as having Dr. LeGear
where they could reach him in a few
minutes
Wounds and sores must be taken care
of immediately. Get a can of Dr. Le
Gear's Antiseptic Healing Powder from
yonr dealer. Dast on enough of it to
coyer the wound or sore. It forms a
protection against insects and infection
and promotes healthy healing. Dr. L.
D. LeGear Med Co., 8r. Louis, Mo.
Good farms and bnildings with live
stock, tools and machinery, for sale in
Kent and Ionia conn ties, on good roads,
near markets, at $75 to 1C0 per acre;
Easy terms. Frank C Alger, Lowell,
Mich. 4 7
Union phone 297 will reach the beBt
place to market, yonr poultry, egga and
cream. Swift & Co Adv
All important county news in THE
Times $ 1 per year.
WANTED FARM Wanted, to bear
from owner of farm or eood land for
sale. Price and description. Fall de
livery. L. Jones, box 531, Oloey, 111.
AGENTS WANTED Ladv or irent-
leman airent in Owohho lor Wmkins
Famous -Products. Watkine iroods
bnown everywhere. Big profit. Write
today. Watkins Company, 53 W inona,
Minn.
Avoid Mental Excitement.
Anger, fear and other forms of men
tal excitement, it has been learned.
may stop digestion entirely and cause !
serious kidney diseases.
Sunday Excursion to Toledo, Ohio.
The Ann Arbor Railroad is now op
erating weekly Sunday excursions from
Owosso to Toledo, Ohio, and return,
and will continue to do so nntil further
notice. Train will leave Owosso at 8:50
a in. Returning, train will leave To
ledo 5:00 p. m. Fare for round trio.
2 50
WANTED Help. Married man for
farm work. House furnished. Must
be Experienced in cuttiBgtimber." Ap
ply to tL E. Hart wan, Ashley, Mich, i
CLERKS, nifrn, women, for Railway
Mail and (iovernment Clerkships. Age.
18 upward; fllO monthly. Experience
nnutcessarv. Examinations June 10.
Kor free pHitlcuUrs, write J. Leonard,
(former Ciil Servc Examiner) 212
Equitable lild .Washington, I). C. 10
Sociology in Spanish America.
A controversy has recently been go
ing on In Spanish-American newspa
per columns as to where sociology was
first tnught in Spanish America. One
of the claimants was D. Antonio
Delleplane, who In the well-known
liuenos Aires magazine "Nosotros"
(We) wrote that In 1800 he inaugu
rated, by official request, the teaching
of sociology In Argentina and all
Spanish America. The honor, how
ever, has been proved by Pedro Ilen
rlquez Urena, a scholar from Santo
Domingo who has taught at the Uni
versity of Minnesota, to belong to
Eugenlo Maria Hostos. nostos, a
Porto Illcan, deserving of a far wider
public than he has, preceded the
IJuenos Aires claimant by 19 years,
having Included sociology In the cur
riculum of the Santo Domingo Normal
school in 18S0; Hostos wrote the text
hook and gave the fwst course In 1883-1884.
Freedom of the Matrimonial Seas.
Young llarley was home for a few
days from a cruise with the merchant
marine.
"Well," said the man from the home
town, genially, "how have you been en
joying maritime life?"
' "I haven't been enjoying It at all,
slrj.'. answered the. youngster, blushing,
"she broke the engagement Car
toonp Magazine.
What He ForooL . ,
:' "Wore you not taught in school to be
polite, TommleV .-, ., . ;.. ...
"Yes. mother, I. was; but Ik was
taught so many things I cajDJkjefliein-
tax 'em til, (1 , .,.Vi,; . ..
After you eat always use
)(F0R YOUR STOMACH'S sTRiD
one or two tablets eat like candy.
Inatantlvrelieveslleartburn, Bloated
Gassy Feehng. Stops indigestion,
food souring, repeating, headacheand
the many miseries caused by .
Acid-Stomach
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tbabody and, of course, you get
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See the Display!
AN Ingersoll display in
a window shows a
store where you can bo
"fitted" to one of the dozen
or more Ingersolls ac
cording to your own spe
cial needs.
Call on an Ingersoll
dealer today and let him
help you select.
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Jessie Isabel Christian, noprano, but In America when in 1917 ah vm
formerly with the Chicago Opera Co., calred upon to take Galll-Cnrcl'a part
a unown io American opera lovers i in "'ine liueuencta. Her ' aueewu
kn a einger whose name la linked with
those of Melba and Oalli-Curci, la ap-
immedlately made hfr fame.' secure, f
Mis Christian, althourh 4 -toittv w
pearint; this summer., in concert work Iowa, has receited her munical educ4v'
on .the Chautauqua program.. . ItJon in Prance. She haa auna In thi
Miss CBristlan, who is recopited as Paris Opera, Opera Comlaue, and
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