The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-12-19
Bancroft.

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John Marks, who Is living Just South OF
here, is very sick with pneumonia.
On Friday evening OF last week as Fred
Wood, who resides i'm Fremont, was return
ing home from Bancroft he was run into by
one Thomas, turning over his buggy and
throwing him and his wife both out. Fred
had his face and head bruised, spine hurt,
and his wife's right arm was broken near
the wrist. Mrs. Wood was brought back to
her brothers. John Wager, when Dr. Fox
was called and the fracture was set and the
arm very nicely and quickly dressed, but
the injury being in such close proximity to
the joints of the wrist, 1t will be long time
before she will fully recover.
Clarence RedsOn. whe has been suffering
rom drOpsy for some time, expired on Mon
day last, the funeral taking place from the
Congregational church on the Wednesday
following, Rev. A. Il. Waterman officiating.
The remains were deposited I'm the Fremont
| cemetery. During his last sickness he was
with his sister, Mrs. Edward Hutchings.
Tom McEwing visited John j. Atherton
at his home near Duf1ield on Monday last
This is the farm that John exchanged his
business building in this place for early in
the fall, and ii being very good 60 acres of
land, it is said that John made quite good
bargain.
Seymour, Turner & Foster, of New York
state, have Just closed their evapOrating
business for the season. They came here
as strangers. but they have done quite an
extensive business and have made very many
warm friends among farmers and Others,
who understand have urged and have also
secured the promise that they will return in
the fall of 1891.
The Chicago & Grand Trunk R'y compan-
les have had several new gangs of men here
of late, all operating in different branches of
the railroad business, however, and the
result is q new side track nearly a mile
long.
There will be masquerade party at the
opera house on Wednesday, New Years
eve, and Wager and Roberts will furnish
the music, but Sol Smith will be general
manager. An experienced costumer, | am
informed, will be present with suits to rent.
Geo. Smith, who has recently bought
timber on the ground from A. &. Warren,
A. Wilcox and others, having received per-
mission from Mrs. N. G. Philips, will put
sawmill en- the north side of the railroad,
just east of the Grand River road, where
the said timber will be converted into lum-
Der suitable for building and other purposes.
w. E. Watson was in Corunna Monday
by special invitation from Judge Newton to
attend court as witness.
Theodore Euler and Roger Sherman
were i'm Ann Arbor on business Monday of |
this week.
The secretary of the Bancroft Union |
Market Fair being subpoenaed to attend |
court at Corunna Monday last and the pres
dent and treasurer being in Ann ArbOr on |
business, the annual election |
Of officers and such other business as should |
properly come before an annual meeting of |
this kind was adjourned to Tuesday, the |
23d instant.
S. Blake, who was once proprietor of the |
Corner Restaurant here, was i'm town over |
Monday night.
If the tram had not come along just when |
he boys were unloading straw Tom Cud-
ley's team would not have run away and
iled tine streets with pieces of hay rack,
Jaled hay, etc., and neither would Edd Ellis
worth have had chance to display his
courage and good judgment in putting them
inder control before any serious damage
vas done.
Bert Hunt is having the measles, and if / |
I'm rightly informed, the reason there is no
more measles is want of room, every availa-
JIG space DelllU Ulleu.
Report from j. 5. WheelOLk last Thurs
lay made him not as well and Edith went
here again to care for him, but since then
he is reported as better, with prospects
favorable.
All is not yet quiet at Union Plains. Two
# the school officers, Conrad Fry and Will
lam Waits, having resigned. A special
Meeting has been called for the election of
,fficers, but lust when this special meeting
will occur l am not informed.
One of Antrim's honest farmers visited
Bancroft on Saturday evening, evidently
Oming here from some place where
bulge" is not only kept, but sold. Just
ow pleasant his visit may have been l
ave not ascertained, but l am informed
hat he got pepper sauce bath, hair cut
nth assaf9tida shampoo, and several other
Ovel and expensive Injuries, free of charge,
nd he was not here very long, either
The Maccabees are still alive and very
ctive and it is now a fixed fact, l am
Horned, that their great day here will be
an. %, at which time they will appear i'm
ew uniforms and greet their visiting BROTH
rs from other localities.
Mrs. Alice Il. Symes, formerly of Ban
roft but recently of Washington Territory,
here she has spent the last two years, was
ere last week, calling OH her many friends.
he is quite taken up with the West, espec-
lily for money making, but as she will
'main in Michigan this winter she says she
Ill call later and say why. KIRKwooD.
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