The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-05-25
CORuNNA.

| he contract LOT pdintinB thS ni
+. church has been let to Mr.. Thomp.
son for $50.
Mr.. VIM. Hughes, living a mile
and half south of Corunna, is max.
| ing preparations for building fine
brick house this spring.
DIR. f. f. Hayes mas not yet re-
turned from his visit with friends at
Kalamazoo.
VIM. Cole, oar popular under sher-
if, deserves great credit for his cap
ture of Frank Dayton about a week
ago. Dayton, who is noted crimi-
nal, admits that it Was as good a
piece of detective work as he ever
saw; claiming 10 have been followed
for years by officers, but that MIR.
Cole was the first to outwit him.
Dayton will be remembered here as
the man who hired 4 livery rig last
fall, and failed to come back with it.
Judging from the number of avn
ings being put up, our merchants in
tend to take little comfort this sum-
mer whether they do any business or
not.
Notwithstanding the fact that Shia
wassee county has always been Re-
publican, it was left for the Demo
Gratis and Greenbackers to put the
first colored man, we believe, on the
jury. This was done Yesterday in
the case of Mr.. Alex. Johnson, of
Owosso.
James +. Sloan has covered the
sidewalk in front OF his building with
a fine lot of plows, and has COM
menced selling them.
J. H. Shick is getting all the loose
hands he can to work on the brick
yard and is verify making the bust
ness boom.
Some of our young folks intend to
attend the social at Prof. Plunkett's,
at Vernon, distance OF seven miles.
There is something very attractive
about that Plunkett and family and
We predict for all jolly time.
An Episcopal social was held last
week at the residence of A. +. Mich
OILS.
Mrs. Chas. Wilcox, of Buchanan,
has been visiting Corunna friends the
past week.
Court adjourned Friday.
Some Of the tax payers would like
to know how it is that the Circuit
CouIt Calendar increased at nearly
every Office in the county. Seems it
has been going the rounds.
The Universalist church in this city
was struck by lightning and slightly
injured, Monday afternoon.
The school house grounds are be.
ing improved to considerable ex
tent this spring; the fence will be
taken down, new sidewalks laid from
the corners of the grounds TO the
school building, shade trees set out
and taken all IN all, when completed,
will present very neat and attrac-
tive appearance. The work is being
done under the Supervision Of &. ].
Gale.
The suit of Wesley Hiltz, Admins
trntor of the Jones estate against the
Chicago & Grand Trunk railroad, to
recover damage for the killing OF
Jones last fall, at Hamilton, excited
considerable interest at this term oil
Court. Mcbride, Miper and Lyon
appeared for the plaintiff, and Nc
Curdy and Stanley for the defend
ants. The jury disagreed.
Mine host NTH had $50 guests at
dinner one day last week, and il
wasn't much of day either.
All the Shiawassee county editors
have received deadhead tickets fol
the big excursion from Chicago tc
Denver, and we understand that the
most of them will go. 1t is a pity
we are not all editors, but as we are
not, we will have to stay behiud, anc
be satisfied with reading some of the
desperate attempts they will make tC
describe the country.
| The smoke of the battle over the
city printing, has cleared away ano
the wounded are being cared fo
as rapidly as possible.
Considerable ado is being made