The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-05-02


Our merchants are filling their stores
with lots of new and seasonablc goods
A. +. Westcott. of Vernon. was in
Owosso on business Saturday.
j. A. Armstrong has added two Scotch
Colllies-purchascd in Mississippi--to his
breeding kennels.
The summer schools in most Of the dis
tricis have opened with an attendance
larger than usual.
We are warned of the approach of sum-
mer by the fact that the average small boy
getting his kite ready to fly.
The stone work OIL the new grist mill at
Vernon is completed and brick laying has
commenced
Hon. Josiah Turner, U. s. Consul at
Amherstburg. Canada, spent Sunday with
his family 10 Owosso.
Prof. 4. Barnes. experimenting Prin.
ciple Of one of the Chicago schools, is
spending the week with his parents in
Owosso.
II some more Of our capitalists would
come to the front and build some houses
to rent they would find plenty of good
tenants.
We are in receipt of the Academy News,
n, at monthly publication issued by the
students at Orchard Lake, Oakland county.
1t is an attractive sheet, ably edited, well
printed and deserves liberal patronage.
We have several thousand exchange
papers for sale cheap. Just the thing to
put under carpets or on shelves.
j. E. Carr, general agent for the Con.
necticut Mutual Life ms. Co., has been
looking after the interests of the company
il Owosso this week.
The May term of the Shiawassee county
Circuit Court will open on Tuesday next,
at 8 a. m. at the Court House in Corunna.
The calendar is being printed ut TIE
TIMES Office.
Pomologists report the prospects good
for large crop of apples in all parts of
the State, and that all the smaller fruits
promise well; but that the prospects are
not so good for peaches and pears.
An editor says if as many people knew
how to pay their subscriptions as well as
they think they know how to run news
paper, editors would have an easier time.
1t is said. judging from orders already
received. that Mr.. Blaine's new book will
have wider circulation than any book
ever before printed in this country, the
Bible alone excepted.
Prof. Brandt reports largo attendance
of foreign scholars in attendance this
spring at the Byron Union School, An
accomplished educator told the editor of
THE TINES the other day that the Byron
School was second to no other in this
county.
Shall we celebrate the coming 4th of
July is a question we often hear asked.
We believe first-class national celebra-
ton would attract thousands of people to
the city and leave with our business men
a large amount of money, that if not
spent in Owosso will be somewhere else.
We vote for a celebration.
There is pretty general feeling among
the tax payers of the city that as little as
possible-just enough to keep them in re-
pair-be done upon the streets this season
and the amount of taxes reduced as far as
possible until the times improve. 1t is
suggested that the Council consider this
view of the situation before laying out the
years street work.
Mr.. 1. M. Chapman is engaged in setting
ting out $500 Cuthbert red and choice
varieties of black raspberries and black.
berries on his land near the crossing Of
Main street west by the t., A. A. U N.
railway. He has there 10 acres, part OF
which it is his purpose to make into as
fine a small fruit farm as there is in the
State, and another part he has plated,
laid out anG recorded streets and will sell
to those desiring to build. His lands are
pleasantly situated, and will be sold at
prices that will enable our working men
to secure homes of their own, a very de.
sirable ultimatum.
On the 1902 a. m. train on Saturday
morning about 40 of the Odd Fellows
with their wives left for Ovid to join in a
union celebration of the 65th anniversary
of the organization of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows in America. The
day was beautiful and the occasion one
long to be remembered by all participants
Representatives were present from nine
lodges The parade was fine, the music
by the Ovid Comet Band superb, and the
attendance Of the populace much larger
than was anticipated. The literary exer-
cises were held al Opera Hall, r. G. Van
Dusen, p. G. of Elsie lodge presiding.
The opening ode was sung, the band dis
coursed some fine selections, the religious