The Owosso times., 1881-12-16

tnal meSsrs. Alien az oons tue entcrprislng
bee men, OF Four Towns. Oakland Co.
have bought farm in this county and
will move here in the spring and continue
the honey business
Tho 3lst annual meeting of the Michi-
gan Teachers Association will be held at
Lansing, Dec. 81, 90 and 30. The pro-
grammc is an extended one, and every
teacher in Shiawassee county who posi-
bly, can, should attend.
Everybody should be on their guard,
and as far as possible be prepared to de-
fend themselves and eirproperty against
burglars, band of whom seem to be
roaming over the State committing depre-
dations first in one place and then in an
other.
The Press says, the sermon Of Rev.
Mr.. Matrau at the Episcopal church next
Sunday evening will be "Procra stination,
or the Gospel according to Satan" We
wish we could hear the sermon, as we
know it will be both interesting and in
structive.
We desire, again, to call the attention
Of our subscribers to the fact that on and
after January 1st 1882. no paper will be
sent from this Office not paid for in ad.
vance. and that after that date all papers
will be stopped when the time expires for
which they are paid.
The burglars who blew open the safe in
Mr.. Holmes store, at Vernon. about two
weeks since. plead guilty in the circuit
court, now in session ut Corunna, on
Tuesday, and were each sentenced to be
imprisoned in the State prison at Jackson
for the period of seven years.
AS we go to press, pork is worth from
SO. IS to $7.OOa hundred; beef. from "a
to 80 by the side; turkeys, z to cts per
h.. chickens, A to cts. wheat, 81 "a;
oats. AZ cts. corn in the ear 30 cts. per
basket; barley, 81 70 per centum; and
clover seed "a. 65 per bushel.
Mrs @. w. Clapp is canvassing Owosso
and vicinity for Ridpath's life of Presi.
dent Garfield. This is one of the best
OF the many biographies of the life and
public services of the late Pres ident, and
we take pleasure in commencing it to the
favorable attention of our readers.
Owosso girls are so homely they can't
make mash on potatoes. Register.
If the Editor of that journal should
happen down here he might find they
could mash" something else, even If it
was softer than a potatoe and resembled,
in general appearance, green pumpkin
The American says that John L. Mar
tin, of Vernon, has recently purchased Of
]. H. Thompson, of Grand Blanc, a
registered yearling merino RAM" All i'm
portations of thoroughbred stock into the
county are of interest and profit to every
agriculturist, and we note them with great
pleasure
The rails of the Detroit, Mackinaw and
Marquette railroad are all laid and the
road ballasted except at the points where
the rails have recently been laid. The
The road will soon be open for business,
and will do much to advance the interest
of people all along the route from Mar
quette to Detroit.
An interest in the Ovid Union has been
sold to 8. d. Tillotson, late of Oneida,
N. Y, and it will hereafter be published
by Fitzgerald & Til;otson. Under the
management of Mr.. Fitzgerald the Union
has been one of the liveliest local papers
in the State, and bids fair to be improved
under the new management.
The common council have ordered a
sidewalk to be constructed on the north
side of Goodhue street from the east line
of lots owned by B. F. Smith, east to
Saginaw street and north on the cast side
of Saginaw street to lot six block B of
Goodhue's subdivision Of out.lot No. 3
within ten days from Dec 9th inst.
One of the most useful papers in the
country, to practical farmers, is the
Farmers Review, 10 page weekly pub
lished at Chicago 1t is the only paper
in the country presenting regularly sys-
tematizcd crop reports from all the north
west. Up to Dec 26th we will furnish it
and THE TINES from the date of subscrlp-
ton to Dec. 31st 1882, for 81 .35.
A Union of the cigar makers of this
city has been organized with a large
membership. and the following officers
elected: Pres, Charles Hoyer; Vice
Pres A. Gierchike; Financial Sec., w.
Ii. MUMMY; Recording Sec.. II. O. Mel
son; Cor. Sec., A. w. Giles; Treas, H.
A. Schilling; Sergeant-at-Arms. VIM.
Morrisce; Trustees, Chas. Beebe. Louis
Morton, Frank Krieschmier.
That old stand by, Arthur's Home
Magazine is again a candidate for public
favor. 1t has for many years been elected
by as many thinkers as any Philadelphia
magazine and ought to be this year. We
print the prospectus in another column to
which we direct attention. We will Sc nd
IL aud THE TIMES for 1882 to any one re-
hitting $500. Specimen copies may be
seen at this Office
The Chicago and Western Michigan
railroad company have put their winter
time card in operation; the train that has
heretofore left Grand Rapids for Chicago
at 9:4S q. m. will not leave until 10:45,
and the o'clock p m. fast train is taken
Of. This is popular route for people
living west Of this point. whs go to and
from Chicago, and Its managers are doing
all they can for the accommodation of