The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-12-12
owosso, FRIDAY. DEC. IL, 1890.

The TIMES acknowledges the receipt of
an invitation to be present at the opening
ceremonies Of the new ''World' building at
New York.
The Sixth Michigan Cavalry will hold
their annual reunion at jackson, Tuesday,
Dec. IS. Gen. II. A. Alger will deliver the
address. Those who wish to attend should
notify Don Mccall, Jackson, Mich.
Shiawassee county will have but one rep
resentative in the legislature In 1892. The
legislature will apportion the representa-
tives and the board of supervisors will
make the county legislative district divis-
ions. A legislative district will contain on
the whole about 1000 more inhabitants
than after the apportionment Of 1880.
Half a million families are reading this
week the Christmas double number of 1.-The
Youths Companion" This favOrite family
paper gives its readers the very best that
the world can supply. Those families who
do not receive the weekly visits of 1.-The
Companion" lose the benefits which come
from admitting to their homes an influence
which is entirely for good.
Martin Van Buren, Wixom, attorney at
law at Bancroft, has made known his de-
sires to Gov-elect Winans that he would be
n proper man to appoint as State Oil In
spect0r. AS Mats ambition runs counter
TO that Of another man i'm Shawassee county
and Just across the county line Chas COwan,
OF Ovid, is said to be candidate, and all
the returns are not yet in, It would seem
that disappointment is awaiting somebody.
However Mats got good fund of stories
and is said to be backed by Don Nj. DiclSin-
son he may get the plum.
TIE PATRONS COMMERCIAL UNION is
the name OF the incorporation OF Patrons
with a capital stock of 100000 to establish
and manage a wholesale jobbing house at
lansing. The directors are A. S. Partridge,
Ghas. IL. Morse. ID. Conklin and ID. A.
Reynolds. Stock will be sold in IS shares
at first and afterward shares will be reduced
to S1O0. The plan is to establish branch
stores i'm different portions of the state and
control trade in every line. The outcome
of the scheme is doubtful. not because of
the theory. but the practice. The gentle
men named have no experience in business
practices and will he compelled either to
rely on their own judgment or some one
elses in the matter of trade. They are in
every way liable to deceptions. The grange
which TOOK the same steps was obliged to
abandon the commercial part of the organ
ization. From the fact that business
houses in the large cities do not establish
branch houses in the smaller towns, testifes
to the close margins upon which business is
conducted in the retail stores. The colec-
ton of damaged or unstable produce or
material at the branch houses with the eX-
pectatiOn of unloading at the central house,
will re one of the natural results. A close
study OF the markets which marks the
course of the individual dealer will not be
impossible but improbable. While the ex-
pertinent has not succeeded before it may
with judicial management achieve success.
But with states-prison record for Rey-
nolds, one of the directors, as stated In
Grand Rapids journal, the stock holders
should watch every movement of the en-
tcrprisc.