The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-04-10
A BOOMING CITY.

and will run until 1000 copies are issued.
Twelve bundles of paper are used in this
edition and upon these 1900 sheets are
stamped the illustrations of the growth of
wonderful city. Into the remotest part of
the United States and Canada goes THE
TINES with the plain statements of the
business magnitude of this city. Its social.
educational and religious standard is also
sketched. Wherever there is mill wheel
turned or an engine shaft moved in the
manufacture of furniture or wherever a
reputable dealer in this line of goods is
ments of the greatest feat of modern fumi-
ture making portrayed. 1t is but a pardon
able pride that THE TINES takes in being
the paper that makes the enterprise or the
Inland City known. The architects plans
are not made as foundations for sketches,
but every building is just as represent
ed. The constant growth of the city does
not depend upon the precarous dip Of an
ore lead, or the possibility of railroad COM
munication.
| The demand for goods manufactured in
Owosso is a steady one, insuring the con-
tinued extension of all its factories and the
prosperity of its wage-earners.
Owosso is one of the rapid growing cities
in Michigan. With population in 1880 of
2,501, in 1890 there was 1854 or an increase
of l62 per cent in one decade, with rail-
roads radiating in different directions.
Owosso has been made the distributing
point and manufacturing center of large
section of the country. The Toledo & Ann
Arbor R'y has made Owosso the division of
| its system, and located the car shops at
this point This road brings Owosso into
direct communication with the coal and oil
fields of Ohio and Pennsylvania. The De-
troit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee R'y is a
branch of the Grand Trunk system and
brings OwOsso into communication with
Detroit and points east and west, while the
Bay City branch of the Michigan Central
provides all the shipping facilities of that
great system AS shipping point Owosso
is unsurpassed. Last year there were en-
ployed in the factories of this city 1,5OO men
and over half million dollars paid out in
wages.
! Ow0sso manufactures AK handles, pick
handles, whiffletrees, neck yokes, wagons,
road carts, carriages, barrels, hogsheads,
center tables, extension tables, bed steads.
bureaus, chiffoniers, side boards, window
screens, door screens, rakes, scythe snaths,
snow shovels, sash, blinds, doors, mattress
es, caskets, coffins, burial robes, casket lin
ings, brick, tile, mops, cigars, cigar boxes
and many other articles.
Owosso manufactures one and a half
million dollars worth products per annum.
Owosso merchants carry immense stocks
of goods.
Owosso has eight hotels
Owosso is lighted by electric light and
gas.
| Owosso has good system of water works,
the mains being well distributed about the
| city.
Owosso is noted as center for breeding
trotting horses, many thousand dollars
worth having been bred and sold.
The schools are in the most excellent con-
dition, the central school building costing
100000. There are three ward buildings
in addition and still more room is demanded
to accommodate the increasing growth of
the city. The High School is upon the
University grade so that its graduates enter
the State University without further ex-
animation. Thirty teachers are employed in
the city schools.
With the material growth of the city there
has been no neglect in the educational and
religious interests. The Baptist denomina-
| tion occupy large brick church on the
corner of Ball and Mason streets. Christ's
Church (Episcopalian) situated on Fayette
square is fine brick structure. The new
Congregational and Methodist churches will
cost when completed. $40, 600 to $500
each. The Lutheran, Evangelical (German)
and Disciples denominations each have
church edifices. On the West Side are st.
Paul's (Catholic) church, Asbury M. K.
church and the Union chapel.
There has never been strike in Owosso.
There has never been clash of interests
between any classes. This has been largely
the result of the mutual endeavors of all
and particularly the result of the Shiawassee
Savings Society. Workmen own their
homes and home owners are the best citi-
zens. Enthusiasm for saving becomes con-
tagious and the desire to own home is
controlling ambition. The actual and ideal
cooperation of labor and capital is realized,
and social, commercial and governmental
interests are cemented. Within the short
time the ASSOCIATION has been organized
S75, 900 has been saved and homes have
arisen. The result of the plan i'm brief is
that in nine years man owns home with
but a slight addition over the amount re-.
quired for payment of rent within the same
time.
No city In Michigan can offer the induce
ment to manufacturers, no city in Michigan
can offer the prospects for homes and for
emplovment that OWOsso presents