The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-10-13

fathers residence, on Clinton st. Rev. T.
S. Leonard, Pastor of the Baptist Church
in this city ofiiciated. The remains were
taken to Flint for burial.
Rev. james Hamilton, pastor of the nj.
e. church at Ionia, will speak in Opera
Hall, this, Friday, evening in favor of po.
litical prohibition. We sincerely hope he
may be greeted with a full house. We do
not in the least fear free discussion.
The official list OF the premiums award
cd at the County Fair will be found in
another place in this issue, and we ask
for it the attention of all of our citizens
who are interested In the growth and gen.
eral prosperity of the producing classes.
The brief extract from the speech of
MI. G. A. Towne. of Lansing. which is
published In another column. on the finan-
cial questions, is Of so much moment in
the present political contest. that we ask
for it the most careful attention Of every
reader of THE TIMES.
VIII Andrus. through our advertising
column ms, calls the attention of the public
to his extensive stock of door knobs,
latches, which he sells at low prices, and
of which he has the exclusive sale in the
counties Of Shiawassee. Clinton, and Gen.
esee. Give him call.
On Saturday night Mrs. William Blood
worth, of Bancroft. lady SO years old,
was attacked by vicious ram and butted
to death. We understand that when found
in the lot she had been dead several hours.
and that the precise time that the assault
was made is not known.
The new turn table for use at the juno
ton has arrived and will soon be placed in
position, and the track to the round
house is already nearly completed Look
out for some other valuable improvements
to be made by the D.. g. H. & M. Ry
near this city at no distant day.
The Board of Supervisors are now in
session at Corunna but up to Wednesday
noon had perfected but little business,
most of the time being given to the sew
eral committees. AT an early date as
possible we shall place before our readers
full report of their proceedings
The attention of the citizens is called to
the necessity of cleaning up all the alleys
and back lots about their premises Diph-
iberia is Speeding in various parts of the
State and is epidemic, and every possible
precaution should be taken to guard
against it by all classes of our citizens.
Rev. It. s. Leonard went to Chicago
Wednesday evening to attend the Christian
Convention in session Oct 18th to 18th, at
which Rev. c. Sturgeon, Jr.. Marcus
Rainsford ana others from England, as
well as the most celebrated Christian
workers of this country, deliver addresses
Mr.. Dawes and daughters desire us to
tender their friends and the public their
sincere thanks for the kindly ministrations
during the sickness and death of his be-
loved wife and their mother, and to assure
them that such manifestations of unalloy.
ed friendship will ever be remembered
with gratitude.
Rev. b. F. Matrau informs us that he
has sent letter, declining the call to the
Rectorship of the parishes at Idaho Springs
and Georgetown. Col. This is certainly
very patriotic act on the part of Mr..
Matrau, who was rendered in those places
in Colorado salary of 81, 900 year, pay
able quarterly in advance. while he re-
mains here for 5000 a year.
To the special attention of every tenn
perance Republican in Shiawassee county
we commend the letter of Rev. F. f..
York, prominent temperance Methodist
minister stationed at Grand Blanc, Gene
see county, printed in another column
To political Prohibitionists, too, the letter
may be Of value in suggesting the true
duty of total abstinence men in the pres.
ent political emergency.
Mrs. Aggie Sinclair, wife of Henry
Newton of Saginaw, a former teacher in
the city schools in Owosso. died at the
residence of her mother in Joncsville, on
Sunday last of congestion of the brain
She had been sick about two weeks with
gastric fever, but the fever had been broken
and she was supposed to be recovering,
when she was attacked with congestion of
the brain and soon passed away.
The d.. G.. II. g. M. Railway Company
will sell excursion tickets from Owosso to
Detroit and return on Saturday, Oct 14th,
going east by the mail train and returning
on night train after the close of the cele-
brated comic opera at Whitney's Opera
House. The play is entitled, "The Mer-
ry War;" by the N. Y. Comic Opera Co,
Carl Herman, Manager. Tickets which
include an admission ticket to the Opera
House, only $3.40.
The Editor of THE TIMES has accented