The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-01-11
Business Mems banquet, Jan. II.

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Mahaney Is taking his annual inventory
Rumors of society wedding in the neal
future.
| Sleighing for the first time this winter
yesterday.
The schools opened Monday with Il full
attendance.
During the year 1888, County Clerk Welcl
issued 2s2 marriage licenses.
The Laingsburg News has enlarged TO IN
eight page paper.
Patronize our job department for all kinds
of commercial printing.
The new train on the NJ. G.. road is a
great convenience to the travelling public.
Mrs. A. T.. Stanhope has removed her
dressmaking rooms three doors east of the
city hall.
A fair share of Laingsburg was in Owes
so to attend law suit before Justic Bald
win on Tuesday.
The r., A. A. & n. NJ. road earned
SOS, 107 in December. an increase over the
same month of 1887 of S2O,564.
The smoke stacks at the cooperage shop
and Frieseke Bros. brick yard were blown
down by the gale Wednesday afternoon.
Col. Fred Farnsworth hopes to secure
Warner Miller, Chauncey NJ. Depew, Gen.
Nathan Golf. Senator Spooner, Senator
Frye and Thomas b. Reed, as speakers at
the Michigan Club banquet, Feb. %.
Letters advertised at Owosso postoffice
for week ending Saturday, Jan. 5, 1889:
VIM. Il. Mead, Mrs. Eta Lingo, Frank
Armstrong, Elias Coleman, Harry Leslie,
John Serose, A. j. Tickner. Drops, Phelix
Steele, l.. K Fitch.
The officers of the Congregational Sunday
School, elected last Sunday, are: Supt., II.
r. Davies; Sec, Rena Smith; Treas, May
Howe; chorister, +. III. Banister; Organist,
Minnie Finch; librarians, VIII Parker,
Daney Seelye.
The record in the county clerks Office
shows that during 1888, there were COM
menced IT'S law suits, classified as follows:
Chancery II (of which SO were divorce j;
law 20; appeal 10; certeorarl A. criminal II.
There were 81 divorces granted.
Geo. Il. Swimm, who was struck on the
head with an axe in the hands of John L.
Miller, while assaulting Miller with an axe
recently, was convicted at Chesaning yes
terday of threatening the life of Miller, and
put under 81, 900 bonds to keep the peace
for six months.
Yes, Bramwell, Rats" Such state
ment as you published last week is nearer
the product of rat" than anything we have
lately seen. The statement too is utterly
without foundation. But we will say that
we do not consider the Independent entitled
to dollars worth of printing from the new
county officials.
At the meeting of the Business Mems
Association on Friday evening last the sub
ject of insurance was discussed. A project
is on foot to organize State Business
Mems Insurance Company, with capital
stock of 500, 600 in shares of $50 each. 1t
is thought rates would be reduced 40 per
cent.
The way the Interstate Commerce Law
looks from the side of the rail-
roads will be shown in the February ''Pop-
ular Science Monthly" by Mr.. Appleton
Morgan, in vigorous article entitled "The
Political Control of Railroads; is it Confis-
cation?" Mr. Morgan maintains that this
act, by prohibiting pools, nullifies its other
prohibition of discrimination, when the
whole people is regarded.
On Saturday last Geo. F. Williams &
Bros, of Saginaw City, sold their salt mill,
salt block and lumber yard to A. L. Bliss
for SAT, 900. This business was established
in 1884 by Gardner ID. and Ephraim s.
Williams, (brothers OF the late A. L. and
Il. o. Williams) and has been the property
of the family every since. For many years
this firm has employed from 10 to rs men
and during that time the average pay has
been so per day.
The Rector of Christ's Church, Rev. DIR.
COnOver, will begin next Sunday night, Jan.
13, course of special sermons that will
command popular interest and will be of q
practical character The first will be on
''The Boy in PERIL" to be followed each
Sunday by 1.-The Girl in Peril" ''Breach of
Trust" 'Lawlessness," '.Divorce" 'Intem-
perance," SANITARY Reform 1.-THE Labor
Problem" etc. The public will he welcome
at all these services.
Among our exchanges we observe the
following swindle, which is being worked
to advantage by q number of ladies who
claim to hail from Chicago and are engaged
i'm canvassing for q new kind of soap: They
call at houses and leave a cake of soap as Il
sample, asking that it he tried and the re-
suit noted. In u couple of days the party
will return and ask the lady of the house to
sign u printed ''testimOnal' of its excel
lence, which is to be presented to grocers
to induce them to handle the soap. These
testimonials" have been turning up as
orders for from SO to $40 worth of soap at
big prices.
The officers of tho e., II Post ReIiaf