The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-23
WHOLE NO. 200
On "Wednesday EVENING March .8,

benefit of Rev. c. w. Austin at the
residence of M. ID. Ducher. Benning-
ton. Go, everyone, go.
Rev. DR.. Jacokes, of Pontiac, will
lecture next Tuesday at the M. E.
church, in Owosso, on the "Cata-
combs of Rome" Admission, az
cents. There should be full house,
for the lecture will be one Of interest.
Do not forget the meeting of the
Shiawassee County Teachers Asso.
citation, to be held this Friday even
ing and tomorrow, at Bancroft.
Let every teacher attend.
Sabbath morning next there will be
an Easter service at Bennington NJ
f. church by the pastor. Also in
the evening an Easter service led by
the Sunday School.
After many years of continuous
service Mr.. H. B. Gregory recently
resigned the position of Express
Agent in this city, and Mr.. John M.
Beckwith has been appointed as his
successor. Mr.. Beckwith has been for
some time an assistant in the express
office, and telegraph operator at the
down town station, and is an ener-
geuc, accurate, prompt and perfectly
reliable young man, who will beyond
question prove to be as an efficient an
agent for the express company as his
predecessor, and more could not
be asked.
Circumstances beyond our contr
prevented our being present at the
meeting of the Press Association for
the 9th Congressional district, held
at Flint, on Monday. We know we
regretted our enforced absence more
than any one else did, but were
obliged 10 yield inclination to stern
necessity, and stay away.
The Thermometer was a degrees
below zero in this city at sunrise,
March goth inst.
Mr.. +. Z. Smith, son Of DR.. N. S
Smith, former resident of and drug.
gist in Owosso, and now Govern
ment physician on an Indian Reser-
walton in Dakota, and Miss Charles
worth, of Chicago, are visiting this
week at the residence of ex-Alder.
man Smith in the 4th Ward.
The TIMES is not much given to
manufacturing candidates in advance
OF caucuses and convention for its
own or other parties, but we venture
to say that J. A. Armstrong has made
an excellent Treasurer, prompt, gen
tlemanly and efficient in the dis
charge of every trust, and if re-nOm-
mated, he would simply have walk.
away, no matter who the opposing
candidate may be.
Miss Clara Van Ness, Of Ovid, was
a guest of Belle Carpenter, Monday
and Tuesday of this week.
There will be three services ap.
propriate for the occasion, on Easter
at the M. E. church in this city.
Programme too late for insertion.
Remember the donation to be Civ
en- Rev. Seth Reed at Opera Hall,
this, Friday evening. II there is a
true worker anywhere, that man is
Mr.. Reed, and we trust the people
will turn out and show their appre.
citation OF his valuable service in the
cause Of moral and christian pro.
gress.
The lecture on Nineveh given or
Tuesday evening by Rev. Mr.. ia
cokes, at the M. E. church, was :
rich literary and historical treat
which was highly appreciated by al
present.
, Messrs Scotford and Merell, o
| Kansas City, have taken an advance
, step in Photography and now exc
cute fine pictures by aid of the elec
| trio light. A fine specimen of thei
work, cabinet-sized photograph o
Walker Merell, can be seen at th'
residence of his father in this city
and is certainly afnely executed, lif'
ike phofopraph.