The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-09-12
Hon. VIM. M. Fitzpatrick was at
Ithaca on Monday.

"A. W SIoLlcI ucliVcIcu prom
ton party speech on the street Sat-
urday evening.
We have been crowded with job
work this week. Low prices and the
best work is our motto.
Mrs. J. A. Swayze is spending a
few weeks on the shore of Lake
Huron, at the home of D. c. Swayze.
We understand that w. S. Jones of
this city is to be the judge in the
poultry department at the State fair.
We are requested to say that a
Prohibition meeting will be held at
the Carson school house on the 18th
inst.
VIM. M. Clark, Esq, of the Free
Press, was in Owosso on Wednesday
afternoon and gave ye editor pleas
ant call. rsav
The September term of the Circuit
Court has been held this week. No
jury was drawn, and but little bust
ness done.
We are under obligations to Hon.
T. D. Dewey for copy of the re-
port of the Michigan Board of Agri-
culture for 1883.
The date of the Republican con-
vention in the first Representative
district has been changed to the 10Th,
a week from to-day.
The Bancroft Advertiser says that
"George and Ed Carpenter, of Owes
so, the champion shot gun Dangers
paid Bancroft visit on Monday"
Gen'l Alger. our next Governor,
took supper at the Junction house,
Tuesday evening, enroute for St.
Johns to address political meeting.
The Republican meetings adver.
tised to have been held at Morrice
and Bancroft have been postponed
temporarily to accommodate Mr..
Horr.
The Hon. julius H. Seelye is pre-.
pairing an article on "Moral Charac-
ter in Politics." to appear in the
next issue of the North American
Review.
We note with peculiar interest the
determination to organize a vigorous
campaign in this county, which means
a Republican majority of several
hundred.
The editor of THE TIMES returned
early Monday morning from his cam
paign work in the east, fully satisfied
that every state that was free before
the war, east of Ohio, is sure for
Blaine and Logan.
Mr.. l. L. Croker, of Seneca Falls.
N. Y, was welcome caller at THE
TINES Office Monday. Blaine and
Logan stock is booming everywhere
in the east, is the way he reports it.
On Bert Dennis place in the north
part of the city, we saw the first Of
this week an apple tree with fruit on
1t nearly ripe and all over it were a
number of blossoms just out. Apple
blossoms in September are quite a
curiosity.
Lucius E. Gould, of Owosso has
leased and assumed control of the
Bancroft Advertiser. The last issue
was issued by him, and was de-
cidedly better paper than it had pre-
viously been.
Speaking Of meeting held Aug.
goth at Windsor, Vermont, addressed
by the editor of The Times, the Yer
mont Journal says, "Mr. Dewey gave
one OF the most effective campaign
speeches ever heard in Windsor. He
clothed the tariff question with new
interest, and with practical illustra-
tons brought the matter home to
every person in the audience"
THE TIMES is in receipt of copy
of "The Eclectic Physiology" pub
lished by Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co.
Of Cincinnati, Ohio, that has been
selected as text book, to be used
in the Michigan public schools. by
the State Board of Health and the
State Board OF Education. 1t has
the appearance of being well adapted
to the work for which il has been