The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-08-08
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until Z, and their ruddy cheeks, healthy
appetites and steady nerves induces 'em
to persevere.
OF the $50 people-who sought the classic
shades of the st. Clair county
at public expense, during the past year,
ffty-two had not yet reached the age OF IL
years.
Michigan bankers will assemble at Sag
nav Sept. lO-ll, and talk over monetary
matters.
More'n 10000, 600 feet of lumber has
been shipped from Alpena this season,
and still there is more to follow.
Saginaw Masons are preparing to build
the slickest temple in all Michigan at a
cost of $50, 900.
Manistee county equines are having a
tustle with a fatal form of horse distem-
per, and many an animal has already
passed to the final account.
j. F. King, a Charlotte farmer of some
| prominence, fell to his death through a
treacherous hole in his haymow.
One of Bay City's prosperous banking
institutions has more'n 81, 000,0 600 in its
loan and discount item, and the officials
are gratifed at the excellent showing.
Grand Rapids street car employees struck
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their demands in short order. They now
for such wages.
e. G.. Jones, a Benton Harbor man of Is
| summers, took a tumble from a G. Wash
ington fruit tree and broke his neck.
The largest raft ever towed into the
Saginaw valley was fioated into Bay City
'tother day. The logs, 1928 in number,
were cut in Canada.
Prof. William C. Dabney, late of the
University of Virginia, has been chosen to
fill the vacancy at Michigan University
caused by the resignation of DIR. Leyster.
Mrs. G. A. Parker, an addison lady, has
worked 70) roses, containing $500 pieces,
into a rug. They were artificial roses, of
course.
Cedar Springs people were quite in
clined to think that their water works
plant was a sort of expensive luxury, but
since their $4,000 grist mill was saved
from destruction by this same plant, it
has been voted a good investment.
Company ID, First Michigan cavalry,
will hold it's fifth annual reunion at Ovid
on Aug. 90, in the same room in which
the company was recruited Twenty-Five
summers ago.
Worthwhile folks are trying to induce a
$50 600 scale company to locate in that
town, and the concern is now engaged in
weighing the chances of success for the
proposed venture.
A Sanilac Centre citizen has been fined
for selling drugs without the necessary
permit.
A horse thief captured a span of Pontiac
roadsters I'M drove them over to Dundee
where he traded 'em to a deputy sheriff,
and then went on his way rejoicing. But
the deputy hasn't been particularly happy
since learning how easily he was taken in.
The homing pigeon Dusky, owned by
Fred Bowers, of Fall River, Mass, reached
the latter place from Owosso, Mich, Fri
day evening, $50 miles, in 2% days, beat
ing all previous records.
An ~artesian well that flows $4,000 bar
rels per hour has been opened at Grand
Rapids. Probably no town in the state
stands in greater need of pure water than
does the second city.
A couple of Michigan inventors, II. M.
Ockford, of Jackson, and Luther Russell,
of Evart, are trying to get Uncle Samuel
to adopt their deqices for fastening mail
pouches.
Saginaw lumber shipments show a fall
ing of for July as compared with last
year, and yet more'n 100000 0 feet were
floated or rolled away last month.
Sayers & Sons heading factory at Sher-
wood turns ont one-third of the nail keg
heading used in this country.
Equine owners at Adrian are being re-
lieved steadily of their possessions by the
horsethief gang, and a vigilance commit
tee is being talked of.
James Connors, the fellow who ran
sacked the Calumet postofice last July,
gets five years at the Detroit house of cor
rection in addition to being taxed with a
500 fine.
The Saper cooper shop at Flint was
wiped out by fire on the 1st. Loss $40, 900,
insured for one-half that amount.
A Concord boy of A years fed a dose of
carbolic acid to his 2-year-old brother,
and the little lad is dead.
A Concord man was fined $50 because
he SHE'D a stone at a fellow workman's
head, hitting the mark.
The patent office has been in commission
for 100 years, n Michigan inventors are
numerously represented iu the grand total
of 433, 432 patents issued up to the first of
the present month.
AdWtou udu q SbO,VVV HIc Oh tne OUCn,
destroying the Michigan Central pas
senger house and several business build
ing. Insurance slight.
Mrs. Margaret Fisher, n Port Huron
lady, wants to deplete Marine City's
municipal exchequer $40, 600 worth because
a t~reacherous sidewalk of the latter town
played her a mean trick.
An Ingham county cat devoured "a
chickens for a neighbor of its owner,
~whereupon the chicken man retaliated by
attempting to murder the cat. This made
the cats owner mad and he got in his
work by finishing the chicken destruction
the cat had commenced. A fat job for the
lawyers will likely be the outcome.
Hon. Grant Decker, Flint's first mayor
and one of the leading citizens of that
city, died July 80, aged rs years.
A commandery of knights Templar has
been organized at Grand Traverse, and
the Masonic fraternity of that portion Of
the state is well pleased.
Lansing people who enjoy a good show
and a decent place in which to see one,
are just a bit pleased because the local
opera house is to be fitted up lin ship-shape
style.