Show honor for owney the postoffice Post office dog 0 MA A 1101 it IA I A my som a PAY 11 Is about to come into his bla OWNEY J own owney was wag a tog lie ire still Is but hv he la Js n dead JOR HIS mounted rem tins will be on exhibit at the ohio valley exposition to lo be held at cincinnati next autumn postmaster beneral hua has also arranged to send a postal exhibition to the show the chief clerk of the apartment has haa notified thi the exposition management that ho he has selected the leading features or of the niu seimi which will be forwarded lit in ample time for the opening hut owney will get the place penca of 0 prominence the dora dogs story makes for pity almost 24 years ngo ago the little scotch terrier will found folind curled up asleep on top of some mill mail bags in the at albany llo ile had bad taken refuge from the cold the mall mail clerks adopted him lafin they at length named him owney because of the bo frequent question who la Is your owner one day lie be followed the mall mail wagon to the station and boarded or ar car while the the mall mail was being loaded ile he was unobserved till after the train had started then the clerks sent him back to albany after that he made fro frequent quent trips in addition to covering tile th united states and canada ho he via cited Eu euralio lind ind asia tho the mikado of 0 japan presented him with a silver mcdail upon which was engraved the national coat of arms owney met a death not in keep ing with hla his honored life at toledo en one of hla his journeys jour neya he was chained in the basement of the post postoffice office A attempted to take his hi picture owney barked his objections A clerk cleric sought to sooth him and was wag bitten the clerk spread the th report leport that the dog was anad and a policeman froot him |