The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-01-03
LOCAL NEWS
Heavy rain New Years morning.
Read McKeand's adj in this issue.
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Heavy rain New Years morning.
Read McKeand's adj in this issue.
The "inhuenza" has struck Owosso.
The Ovid Register issued a fine holiday
supplement.
Lowell Bros. have sold their draying bust
ness TO A. j. Bush.
Commercial job printing of all kinds
done promptly a. this Office.
Leland Il. Powers at the Opera House on
Friday evening of next week.
The Wildermuth House provided its
guests with an excellent New Years dinner
The insurance company settled with l..
p. Gould by paying him 81, 700 for his loss
Petitions are flying fast all over the
county for appointments as census enume-
rators.
Part of Owosso tennis club celebrated the
departure of 1889 by playing tennis on
Tuesday.
Regular meeting of the Owosso Business
Mems Association at the Y. M. c. A. hall
this evening.
L.
day evening Jan. Sth. All comrades are
requested to be present.
Mrs. Eli Drain, living south of the city,
tried to commit suicide Friday morning by
taking morphine. Prompt help saved her.
ii. M. Billings, of Bancroft, is to be APP
pointed special agent to gather court
statistics in the southern states for the CEN
sus.
Have all the liquor licenses been paid for?
Is there not one saloon in the city being run
by party who has given no bonds and
paid no license?
The prospects are that the entire block
west from the building occupied by Good
year & Flanagan will be built up with
brick stores in the spring.
City treasurer KOhler reports the taxes
paid in for December to be little ahead of
previous years. The banner day was Tues
day when little over S14, 900 was paid in
A chicken-pie supper will be given by
the w. X. c. at G. A. r. hall Wednesday
evening Jan. 8, for the benefit of sick COM
rades. Come and lend a helping hand.
Supper served from to p. IN. Price ID cts.
The officers Of the M. f. Sunday School
for 1890 are: Superintendent-G. II. Hicks;
Asst. Suppl. F. Flickinger; Secretary
Lydia Goodwin; Treasurer-Anna Bartrem;
Librarian-H. III. Daniels; Organist-Ella
Smith.
Mr.. +. Z. Walton, of the Durand Express
L,,,II q no
High School, were married at the home of
Mrs. NJ. p. Malcomson, the brides mother,
at Elsie, Christmas Eve, G. M. Reynolds
officiating.
All applications for relief from the soldiers
relief commission of Shiawassee county
living in the first district will apply to COM
missioner Hiram johnson. p. o. address
Venice Shiawssaee county. Second district
to commissioner G. w. Loring, p. o.
address, OwOsso City.
The officers elect of the Congregational
Sunday School for 1890 are: Superintend-
snt-E. o. Dewey; Asst. Supt.-E. W.
Woodward; Secretaiy-Miss Rena Smith;
Treasurer-Miss May Howe; Chorister-
F. II. Banister; Organist-Miss Minnie
Finch: Superintendent of chapel school
Mrs. o. Wells.
The farmers of Shiawassee county certain
ly reap a big reward from having as exten-
sive a pork packing establishment in the
city as that Of Copas & Son. With the
weather as 1t has been for some time our
local shippers could not handle the pork
brought in. This firm, however can handle
a large amount no matter what the weather
is.
In answer to our inquiry last week con-
corning the keys to the fire alarm boxes,
Aid. Gould informs US that the fire alarm
system has never been accepted by the city
and that its owner has the keys. This ex-
PLANTATION will explain to many why the
system was not used to give alarm on the
night of the fire.
Tuesday was ''red letter day" for the
porlx BUYERS of Owosso. The streets of the
city were thronged with teams from all
parts of the county loaded with dressed
hogs weighing from $50 to 500 pounds, all
Of which found ready sale at prices ranging
from 81 to $3.50 per hundred. }. IL. Copas
IL Son bought 22O hogs weighing in the
aggregate forty-six thousand lbs. Lewis q
Son purchased 40, +. II. Banister 20 and
other local buyers about S5 hogs. The ag-
gregate amount paid out to the farmers
could not have been much short of $1,000.