The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-08-01

IN. ". fnlillps new DOCK I'D bancroi
is nearly ready for use.' I
1t is said the Bancroft Blaine and Lo
gan club now numbers 200.
Alderman Matlock went on bushes.
trip to Durand o. Tuesday.
Mr.. Angel left on the d. g. M. train
Monday noon, for points east on that line.
DIR. r. A. Balcome. late of Bancroft
has opened dental rooms In North Ian
sing. 4
Mr.. John Stitt, of Clinton county, has
sold his running horse, Richard A., Jr.. "
for $3.50.
There was very large number of pas.
sengsrs north. on the n. c., on Saturday
evening.
Forty dollars pays for full business
course In Parsons East Saginaw Business
College.
The Clinton Independent says that 20.
f. Sevy, will move to Owosso soon with
his family"
Come to THE TIMES Job printing rooms
for the finest styles of job printing at rock
bottom prices.
Stanley e. Parkill came home Friday
night and spent Saturday with his friend
c. A. Towne, at Lansing.
Hon. Witter j.. Baxter, Secretary OF
the State Board of Charities end Correc-
tons. spent Friday night Of last week at
the Junction House.
The st. Charles Independent says:
"Owosso's base ball nine has "house"
they ought to donate to some charitable
institution with wind mill attached"
Potter, of the Vermontville Hawk, says,
1.-THE latest fashion for trousers Is to melt
a dude and pour him in hot" Guess that
was the way the National Dudes" got
the trousers which they wore at the late
ball game in this city.
Owosso increased in population in four
years 1879, equal to 50 per cent, as the
population in 1880 was only 2,501, the
second largest per cent. gain in any city of
the state Big Rapids was first, where
the gain was 81 per cent.
Mr.. G. G.. Whitcomb. of ST. Johns, has
sold his Monarch colt to Mark Hopkins,
Of st. Clair, for So, 500. The colt is three
years old, was bred by George Griffith, of
Greenbush, and made 2:51 recently on the
Clinton fair ground track, without train.
ing.
The people should remember that Off
GERS chosen for their especial fitness for
public duties, and themselves interested in
the proper performance of those duties,
are entitled to consideration and respect
at the hands of the people whose servants
they are.
Hon. r. B. Caruss. of Clinton county,
is out in letter urging the selection of
Hon. VIM. Ball, of Livingstone county,
for Lieut.. Governor. 1t would be pop
ular nomination, and no better officer
than Mr.. Ball would make could be found
in Michigan.
From.the Detroit Evening Journal we
learn that ut costs more for half shave
at Corunna than for a whole. VIM. Mar.
shall gets $40 or 80 days at Ionia for shaw.
ing half of Chas. Peters face and trim
ming out the easiest spots on Charley's
head with pair of sheep shears
The members of the I. o. G. T., lodges
in Shiawassee and adjacent counties
should remember the District Lodge
meeting to be held in Owosso, one week
from to-day. 1t ought to be a meeting
that will give much needed new life to
the temperance work in this city.
The wheat harvest is completed in this
section of the state, and the crop is an av-
erage one, all secured in good order. Oats
promise to be an unusually large crop, and
corn was never doing better. The early
potatoes will be about an average crop;
later ones are doing finely since the late
rains.
The Evening Journal says the perry
people have been at Corunna in force to
try to find out by means of Justice
Court out whether or no it was SANDER for
Mrs. Thompson to cay that some four
years ago DIR. Cobb was seen sitting on a
bed with Mrs. Summers. The Jury
found it wasn't.
We respectfully ask of some of the
men who are continually grumbling about
the appropriations of money by the Com
mon Council, If it ever occurred to them
that if the voters are to dictate the actions
of the Board of Alderman, that there
would be no need Of such board-the
whole business might just as well be done
by citizens meeting.
The st. Charles Independent tells us
that" the ball game between the Owosso
and st. Charles clubs, which came off in
this village on Tuesday. was not very ex-